skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the most part, surveillance is irrelevant to catching terrorists or other bad actors. The track record of catching terrorists using surveillance is pitiful.

The reason is simple: terrorists and bad actors assume they're being surveiled, and take countermeasures, and those countermeasures are far more effective than the surveillance. Anyone with moderate technical knowledge can use GPG and Tor. It's not rocket surgery.

The people caught by surveillance are for the most part uneducated young men of color who are driven into low-level drug dealing by poverty, and anyone who thinks that putting these people in jail is an effective measure against drug addiction is willfully ignoring the evidence.
Just to clarify, if a large quantity of PTFE particles was introduced into your blood stream are you stating that wouldn't deprive your cells of oxygen? I think you're making some health related claims and assumptions that may be correct in limited circumstances but haven't been sufficiently studied to come to a good conclusion on.
Surveillance sometimes fails != surveillance never works... obviously.
I found this statement interesting:

“If you see the document I sent to @SafaricomLtd you will understand that. All they did was code!”
I took a ride in plenty of Model Ss and Model Xs - here in Amsterdam they are often used as taxis. And compared to the highend Mercedes it just felt so ruggedy, rattly bumpy ride. When I close the door it felt like the window is going to fall out. 2 of the Ss had this wheezing sound when they accelerated and I asked one of the taxi drivers why is that - apparently fixing it would cost about the same as the car itself.

Disclaimer: I don't drive myself and I was trained to close the doors on grandpas Skoda so I might be doing it too assertively
"Who deserves a corporation's taxes?" is still an unanswered question globally.

A company pays employees who pay income taxes in jurisdictions where they live and work.

It pays payroll taxes in the regions it operates and employs people.

It pays sales taxes on the materials it purchases and collects and transfers sales taxes for stuff it sells, to the state/jurisdiction where the sale takes place.

It pays property taxes on buildings it owns.

All of this is obvious, but then the company as a whole likely has some revenue and (maybe) profit - who taxes those? The country where it is registered? Where it has the most employees? Every country and jurisdiction it operates in or has sales in, with some agreed-upon split?

This last question is the cause of every single "company XYZ paid nothing in taxes" or "company XYZ uses a tax haven" article out there.
> People will accept some level of risk in order to have comfort

That's a pretty evil argument, when poisoned people for the most part have no clue they are being poisoned, or even that many are being poisoned due to spread of these chemicals.

"Accept" implies they know the consequences. Those who profit on this, benefit from obscurity.
1-wire is pretty slow (kbps max in normal mode) and very tolerant of devices with a wide range of timing skew.
Do you understand how portfolio management works? You run the risk of losses with any investment you make. If the size of your short position is less than 5% of your portfolio, you still have the other 95% that you can use to cover any temporary losses.
Is this the new Zawinski law? No programming language is complete until someone builds a web framework with it.
>create a list of source email addresses and counts

WhyTF isnt this an actual out-of-the-box dashboard on every single email client??
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Funny to see Bend pop up, since I was just looking at houses there on Zillow today and I came away pretty shocked. I work in Silicon Valley but I already own a house in South Central Oregon because I'll never be able to afford one in California. The only problem is that it's rural enough that I can't get any kind of internet other than satellite.

I've been half-seriously looking at houses in Bend or Klamath Falls where I could work full-time remote, but there aren't a lot of houses that I could afford in Bend! It's nothing like the Bay Area, but the percentage of $1m+ houses was really surprising to me, and when you look at the price history, it's a very recent phenomenon.
This is a great suggestion; the Zero has enough oomph to run the JVM, which gives you access to Clojure!

I had the most luck installing the Zulu Embedded version of Java, and I've had a Clojure webapp running on my Pi Zero for over a week now without any hiccups.

I'm a post or two behind on chronicling my adventures, but I did at least capture how I got Clojure running on the Zero here: https://ajpierce.com/2020-01-08_safe-to-wake-pt4/
I remember hearing about these around 2008 and then the application being pushed was no cables to your fancy flat screen TV. Blu-ray player uses UWB RF so no cables are necessary. I don't think anyone saw then the end of physical media and the rise of streaming on the horizon.

I also remember in 2008 hearing about how RFID would soon be ubiquitous on consumer products like UPCs and you could just load up a cart with groceries and walk out the door without scanning anything. That one may actually pan out, but it is much later than it was supposed to be.
> Most of the Islamist incidents are thwarted plots, indicating a significant investment of law enforcement resources. Most of the others are successful acts in which attackers damaged property or inflicted human casualties.

Seems to say that surveillance does work, but that we're perhaps surveilling the wrong people/in the wrong proportions. It could be consequence of homegrown terrorism being, errr, homegrown, which therefore entails the much more legally tricky surveillance of American citizens. Islamic terrorism tends to be funded/trained/orchestrated abroad, where collaborators don't enjoy the same freedoms from surveillance.
Is there any signs that this data is actually out in the wild? From the article, it was found, reporter and fixed within 24 hours, and they claim there's no sign of other unauthorized access.
Thanks! About erlport/export I just didn’t want to use a library for something that is relatively simple.
"insidious straw-man."

really?

"Do not pretend your only options in life are either working for Facebook or your children starve to death on the street."

did you even bother to read my comment and understand where i was coming from?
There isn't any, but that doesn't mean I appreciate the USA PATRIOT Act or other likewise extra-Constitutional, domestic surveillance BS.
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You win the internet for today. Brilliant.
Good call, I think you hit it right on the money. We have all seen these problems (basically Google attempting to MITM the entire Internet) getting worse for years along with all of the very real malvertising threats. We have partnered with the Privoxy project to do exactly what you are doing with Proxomitron but a system that will scale to enterprise environments. We have it running in corporate and educational environments already w/out SSL inspection. What we will be able to do with SSL inspection will be a game changer. Check out the virtual appliance! Any feedback or ideas are appreciated. https://www.nextvectorsecurity.com
>However, if you heat that nonstick pan above 600 deg F, the decomposition products can easily injure you, and sometimes worse.

If you have birds the fumes will kill them. It's that whole canary in the coal mine.
I actually go an opposite approach. I am buying old cars - the market is great here in the US.

I got a 47k mileage 1991 Mazda Miata for 4500$! And the girlfriend loves how cool it is and shifting stick. You should try to snag something from the 90s before people realize how nice they are.

Modern cars are spy machines needing constant software updates and nonsense features like "push button start" which is probably just a ploy to no longer have to make complicated ignition switches.
Both of you are wrong. Appealing to fallacies doesn't make a good argument, but neither does pointing that out knock down an argument. That'd be the “fallacy fallacy”.

Appealing to "accepted norms" is another case of appealing to authority – except a less verifiable authority, in that case. Ironically, I am currently listing fallacies, which itself does not a good argument make – so I will add to it that that's not what “informal” means; the adjective is merely specifying that it is not a logical flaw, but instead falls into a broader category (such as implying stronger evidence than exists, or something).

Your original argument is flawed, however; it neglects that organisations cannot increase the talent available to ethical companies and decrease the talent available to unethical ones by participating in the job market, and invokes an argument similar to the tu quoque fallacy by implying that Mozilla's actions have any bearing on how good its advice is.

Merely calling out that you used a fallacy (and misidentified at that!) is not a sufficient counterargument alone.
It's an interesting thought experiment.

We've seen a shift of preferences towards externalizing the risks of asset ownership to third parties. Many people today prefer to purchase a stake in a real estate conglomerate, and contract out the maintenance and labor, rather than own an apartment building outright and operate it themselves. It's an attractive option for the owners, but carries the risk of creating bureaucracy for the renters.

I think if we continue in this direction, we'll see a resurgence of co-op style ownership, where no individual can afford to purchase the 4 story brownstone in Brooklyn, but a board of 4 shareholders can.

If you want to buy a house for yourself to live in, you might be purchasing a vanishingly-small set of "living-rights" shares from a conglomerate. You won't have to pay for your hot water heater, but you won't have the right to repair or fix it yourself.
That won't stop pollution of the water sources, so it will come to you either way.
Unless you really saturate cotton in wax/oil so it has no breath-ability, it only holds up against showers. It becomes sodden and little use in persistent rain. PU coated polyester rainwear can perform on a different level in persistent rain. I've not found natural materials which perform as well, although some expensive tweeds are reportedly exceptionally good.
You're conveniently ignoring the fact that the US has historically ruined entire countries for multiple generations just to benefit itself. Maybe if we'd stop carpet bombing other countries we'd have fewer people that hate us.

Most of the problems in the Middle East, at least with regards to them hating the US, are because the US did something to directly make them hate the US. Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan - at least in their current iterations - are all problems the US created. This is barely even beginning to describe the list of atrocities the US has committed against other countries.

The US has terrorists because the US creates terrorists, sometimes from us terrorizing other countries that are too insignificant for the world to take notice.

If you think I'm being hyperbolic, look into the history of US drone strikes just for a very recent example of the US leveraging its military superiority to decimate other countries. What's interesting is it gets worse regardless of the president.
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I have wondered this too.

Maxim have documentation about the fact you can get device IDs but I've never actually worked out how to get some. I guess people didn't want to be reliant on Maxim as the numbers authority?

It's pretty popular for simple serial number / "Number In A Can" applications tho'.
> Over I2C, you can interact with 127 devices with just 2 pins.

In practice, I don't see that many chips offering 7 bits of address configuration. You buy a chip, it has a hardwired address. Maybe a pin or two for selecting another address.
Between TLS and DNS over HTTPS, the number of things an ISP can reliably discern from your traffic is becoming vanishingly small. Once the TLS SNI plaintext hole is closed, it becomes smaller still.

One can argue that IPs and ports matter, but if all the IPs you visit are in AWS (and their ilk) over 443 (including real time communication protocols), it becomes meaningless.
I've seen a number of comments like this here today. I stopped liking source level debuggers when optimizers got decent in the second half of the '90s. Go has an unusual usage of the stack but mdb has support for it https://www.joyent.com/blog/mdb-support-for-go
CSP doesn’t work at night. I don’t think it really works in space. It’s not solid state.
I don't think that's sensible. The burden for crime prevention follows that rule (preventing someone from leaving their home because they may rob someone else requires a heavy burden of proof) but there isn't any assumption of harmlessness encoded anywhere in the legal system.

Back in ye olde founders day these sorts of harmful chemicals weren't a consideration that warranted any specific inclusion in the foundation of our laws so I think it's a bit disingenuous to take the lack of any precedent as acceptance.
And Ads look like Normal result.

Journey of Google Ads from Being Ads to Being Normal Search Result: https://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2019/06...

Source: https://searchengineland.com/search-ad-labeling-history-goog...
They meant "why _military_ conscription, because that's a _military_ context".
No. Because 1) X itself may enable Y which might not otherwise have occurred and 2) since resources are finite doing X to yield Y means that you couldn't do Z instead which you might value more than whatever utility you got from Y.
If the GFC was any indicator, it won't ever really crash. The US government will always backstop this market. Too much of people's lives depends on this asset
The community edition is relatively new. Before that, there was some watered down version for $199 (if I'm remembering correctly). Back when I looked into it there was no way I could afford or justify spending that kind of money on a language that I may not even like or want to continue learning.
> Your own analogy argues strongly against your point. Cloudflare's shutdown count is very small.

The Daily Stormer went on to be banned by Google Domains, and a number of other registrars (all of whom had previously not banned customers for political speech). So yes, the "anti-biotic" had to be repeatedly prescribed—just not by CloudFlare. In the end, it was all for not: The Daily Stormer is still up and running today.[0]

It gets worse. After CloudFlare's actions on The Daily Stormer, they were pressured to follow it up with another political speech ban, this time on 8chan. It ABSOLUTELY had a follow on effect, and not just for CloudFlare. 8chan (of course) is still running.[1]

CloudFlare's censorship actions were then followed up by censorship of political speech across huge platforms including Facebook, Google/YouTube, Apple, and Twitter (supposedly "the free speech wing of the free speech party"[2]). For instance, Alex Jones was banned by all of them almost one year after the failed attempt to erase The Daily Stormer off of the Internet. At the time, he had an audience estimated at 20 million and had been on the air since the 90s.

Internet censorship is at all time highs and CloudFlare was at the forefront of making that happen.

[0] https://dailystormer.name/

[1] https://8kun.top/index.html

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/mar/22/twitter-tony-w...
That's true, thinking from that angle it does seem more troublesome then, in cases where the URI goes down, or changes, or you need a personal fork.
Here's an I2C to RS-232 serial converter for long term monitoring of an I2C bus. I needed this at one point, and made it with the cheapest FPGA board available on eBay:

https://github.com/jhallen/i2cmon
not to mention bugs in the micros themselves. I lost a few weeks of my life to one that would corrupt the stack in certain situations in an interrupt. The only way to debug it was with a logic anaylzer on all the memory / data lines / interrupts and decode it into opcodes and see what it was doing in the interrupts. Then when found, get bacck to the manufacturer who eventually gets back and says they already knew about it, but hadn't done and errata for it.... so yeah.... these days I mainly do backend/front end stuff :)
The threat of terror gives power to the State. Power seeks more power. The State does not erode freedoms in support of safety. The State erodes freedoms to achieve more power. Terror is the excuse. It is the State's greatest tool.
I disagree. Plenty of man pages have very excellent examples that serve as a beginner tutorial. Ones that are just as good (and easy to understand) if not better than what I've seen from TLDR. There's no reason manpages can't be both.
As a young person living in the Bay Area with bills to pay and a lower-middle-class upbringing, the things that I consider when taking a tech job are:

1.) Money
2.) Money
3.) Quality of life (work/life balance, time spent commuting)
4.) Ethical issues
5.) How Fun/interesting the job is

I imagine that most young people have the same outlook as me.
Yes, and the GP's sentence:

> Neither my friend nor my other classmates see the problem with the precise tracking of the every move of every employee - that scares me a lot.

makes me think the criticism is probably valid. These sorts of classes or even trainings are exactly as you say, you're told "this is a problem" and you publicly say "yes it is" to avoid trouble, while privately you believe anything, yes or no or it's not a big deal or whatever. If you have reservations or qualifications you're not encouraged, and maybe actively discouraged, to bring them up for discussion.

To take the explicit example, tracking the location of every employee isn't necessarily a problem. Context matters. (Indeed tracking the location of every moving object on earth bigger than a fist isn't necessarily a problem either, and whether or not it is one should prepare for it being in our world's future as technologies like smart dust advance to counter aggressive technology proliferation.) A class on such topics should be able to discuss different contexts apart from a baseline scenario and leave students with an understanding of why other people might or might not think such-and-such is a problem beyond a juvenile "they're stupid, ugly, and evil" -- even to tolerate not having a class consensus about scenarios with many possible subtitles, qualifications, and complications, which are the only realistically useful scenarios to talk about. A great outcome for a good course is that students may disagree on "X is a problem" or "I see a problem with X" stated without further qualifications, but are able to explain how it could or could not be or be seen as a problem with qualifications.
Great informative article, but at times the posing is naive or supporting a certain narrative.

For instance: The government goes after Islamic terrorists and Mexican illegal immigrants. So what to complain about? Mix cause and effect to pose the illegal immigrants as targeting based on race. Or pose the extremist religious as vulnerable Muslims, targeted on religion. Remove their status as far away from the cold-hard reality, so you can claim racism and prejudice and use that to cripple surveillance. But the suspect is a "citizen"! All weasel words to stay away from the real dirt. Let's go after the atheists for counter terrorism, so we don't discriminate in the eyes of the ACLU...

Then the "ineffective against terrorism"-claim. This can't be supported, because no clear numbers/cases are known. Then conflate laws against terrorism with actual actions against terrorism: Sure, no law directly contributed against countering terrorists, but the surveillance certainly did. Thanks NSA for passing along information to my country many times, so we could capture really dangerous people before they could strike.

Anti-terrorism is also a red herring for surveillance efficiency. Surveillance predominantly used for other national security purposes, such as counter intelligence, foreign intelligence, border safety, crime fighting, and even economic espionage.

Sure, posing any immigrant as a bad hombre, potential MS-13 gang member, selling your children fentanyl-laced drugs, is ridiculous. But the other side of that same coin is posing bad people as vulnerable undocumented citizens who are being targeted on race. It does not do justice to the situation on the ground.
The pricing on some of the higher tier plans looks a little ridiculous. $40 and $79 per user/month O_o.
Look up the salaries given to Mozilla executives. (Really, just the top.) It's scandalous to hear someone preaching about people giving up paying salaries.
Anna Wiener: The tech industry is 'its own best satire'
Most terrorists in the world happen to be brown (and really just because it's the majority race).
Agree. It's easy to talk, but hard to do. Also: in the end, people need money and at least some stability. Even if you consider working at Mozilla to be ethical, if you consider what they just did, it's not necessarily a safe choice...
Should have been called Fortran on Freeways.
> Choosing not to vote is a vote.

Abstaining is not voting. I look forward to the day we have a national election holiday, when the US gets around to being serious about democracy.

> our democracy more democratic than it ever has been. For better or worse.

I agree wholeheartedly. The US public are upset to see changes (as they always have been), but don't seem to understand it's of the population's own making in recent presidential elections.
There are several things you need to be true to make that statement false.

- CEOs having a large impact - we agree here

- It is hard to replace the current CEO with a new one who will be, on average, equal (or better) than the existing one.

It's the second statement which I question. In a few rare cases (e.g. Elon Musk) there is good evidence to support it, but in the case of Mozilla I don't see it.

The research you cite goes both ways. If we can predict who will be a good CEO through an interview CEOs are easier to replace.
Sodium is a precursor to table salt and it’s highly toxic. Would you consider table salt dangerous?
Thanks for the kind words Karl.
Chrome is restricting fingerprinting, but they still ship google analytics in the browser itself so it's harder to block.

They'll only really block fingerprinting in their browser when they have no use for it.
I don’t have the time right now to do this, but someone with it (and probably more technical experience than me in that field) should write up a no BS guise to what these popular VPN services really are offering. It’s been hard, over the last couple months especially it seems, to wade through all the new products these companies are constantly dropping in this space.
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> buying and maintaining rental properties in Ohio unless you have family here or someone to help out on the ground

I have an extended family member that at his peak time owned about 90 homes in NE Ohio. He lived there his entire life, knew everyone and knew their parents too.

A distant landlord from California will get eaten alive, with the help of the local government. You need to move mountains to get things done when you live in a neighboring town, let alone a coastal state.