skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand the arrangement. From a Comcast user’s perspective, very little has changed, depending on how much trust you assign to a “we promise” privacy agreement. Are Comcast users better off than default? Yes. But decoupling DNS from ISPs which sit in such a privileged position is, for me, 85% of the threat model.

I’d like to read more about how the choice will be presented to users, beyond about:config. I’d also like to understand more the community’s reaction to Cloudflare default.

What if there was a round robin setup between neutral operators? Pairing Comcast users to Comcast just seems like a wtf move.
It's hard to phrase this in a way that doesn't sound snarky, but I mean it sincerely: Would you rather they become more like Twitter instead? Promoting virality is promoting outrage content, full-stop.
The first few paragraphs on the first part explains it?

Executables have been fascinating to me ever since I discovered, as a kid, that they were just files. If you renamed a .exe to something else, you could open it in notepad! And if you renamed something else to a .exe, you'd get a neat error dialog.

Clearly, something was different about these files. Seen from notepad, they were mostly gibberish, but there had to be order in that chaos. 12-year-old me knew that, although he didn't quite know how or where to dig to make sense of it all.

So, this series is dedicated to my past self. In it we'll attempt to understand how Linux executables are organized, how they are executed, and how to make a program that takes an executable fresh off the linker and compresses it - just because we can.
I can confirm the "s k e t c h return" -> skechers behavior.

"s k e t c h SPACE return" got me the google search results.
Oh yeah. Lens snobbery is definitely a thing.
Criminals prefer Western Union and Apple store gift cards.
What would Hillary have done that would have avoided this situation? This is a dispute between two private companies, and there's not a clear piece of legislation that would prevent this, especially one that would be approved by Congress.
> The latter is protected by the Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination, in the same way as sharing knowledge verbally. ... If the latter, however, then there is no legal way for law enforcement to force you to decrypt the device.

Not exactly. Yes, revealing the combination requires the person to implicitly admit that they know the what the combination is. But if the government can prove that they already know this "testimony" -- which they can in most cases -- then the "foregone conclusion" doctrine applies and the 5th Amendment privilege cannot be asserted. See, for example, the Massachusetts Supreme Court's decision in Commonwealth v. Jones. [1]

There is also conflicting 11th Circuit precedent that further requires the government to establish with "reasonable particularity" what is on the encrypted device. [2] In my opinion this is not correct; the contents of the drive have nothing to do with the testimonial value of the combination. In any event, this issue will eventually need to be resolved at the Supreme Court.

> I think it is unreasonable because it's asking companies to willfully violate their user's privacy and trust, and to severely undermine encryption as a whole. There is zero chance that this does not get abused.

I don't see how it violates user privacy or trust. In general, you don't have the right to keep records secure from law enforcement if they have a warrant. If this law is passed, these companies should simply disclose to their customers that they will provide law enforcement with the means to decrypt their data, as many already do.

I also don't see how it severely undermines encryption. Yes, end-to-end encryption is more secure, but it's not the industry norm. Security is relative, but I wouldn't call Gmail "insecure" just because Google allows law enforcement to read emails with a warrant.

[1] https://www.socialaw.com/services/slip-opinions/slip-opinion...

[2] https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/opiniondoe22312.pdf
> I was living LA and realized it didn't matter what I did there, it sucked. So I started focusing on where I'd like to live.

Your whole comment is the most beautiful and wise I've read in HN in a long time. Thank you!
Json.org has a very nice diagram on how JSON numbers are interpreted. It's fairly comprehensive (accepts scientific notation), but...

That treats all numbers as decimals (double) as Javascript treats all numbers that way. If you need to parse integers only, or even only positive integers, bit shifting is the only way to fly (bonus points for SIMD).

One detail the author didn't go into was cache latency and branching. I can't find the numbers right now, but to get sub nanosecond is impressive. I can't find the numbers right now, off the top of my head: L1 is ~1ns, L2 ~4ns, L3 ~8ns (the L3 cache on Ryzen 3900x & 3950x is 64MB! in 8MB clusters with 3-4 cores), and main memory is around 80ns (let's not get into memory ranking). So to get down to those speeds you cannot afford ANY branching, and have to do operations in parallel.

And I didn't mention localisation with some Europeans using commas instead of periods and periods instead of commas - madness!
Peter Attia talks about metformin (https://peterattiamd.com/) also in the context of exercise and I've heard Dave Asprey (https://daveasprey.com/)talking about it.
Coinbase has 30M+ users. Extrapolating from that I'd say roughly 100M people use Bitcoin to some extent, and it's growing pretty rapidly (20% growth on /r/bitcoin subscribers this year). Using means storing or transferring value in Bitcoin.
I fired up my Armbook to write this comment. It's just an original Pinebook with a special SD card to boot into RiscOS, but it's quite neat and very fast.

It's also the first true ARM/RiscOS laptop that has been made since the original Acorn A4. That machine was the first portable ARM device ever made.

Operating systems have been born and died between the arrival of these 2 machines.
Draft of my perf book is ready – Easyperf
We do realize that's a downside and are very careful about documentation. We only have 2 admins on the system, and both of us are well aware of everything that has been done.

Our experience was Ansible was amazing until it isn't. It worked for a while, then any failures would leave systems in an unknown state that had to be verified via adhoc testing like this anyway.

Then, when Ansible ran into errors, it was just a pain to get working again. Granted we haven't tried in a couple years.

Funny, because to us, Ansible just feels like reinventing the wheel. It's a more complicated tool for pushing text based changes to a group of servers.
I wonder what it does in other localities. Is "realtor" even a word, outside of the US?
There's an insightful series of comments from Sid, CEO of Gitlab about why this is not likely to work over the long term:

https://twitter.com/sytses/status/1264341436138270720

It might be different for Quora given that their CEO and SLT will be remote.

But I still believe that whenever you have an office you are creating a community of employees who will have a different relationship to those who are working remotely.
It is pretty small, especially when you look at lenses. When I go on short vacations, I can fit my M43 Olympus and three lenses into the same carry-on backpack I simultaneously pack all my clothing, electronics and bathroom accessories in. I've owned an APS-C before, and realistically speaking you'll have to pay extra for check-in luggage and wait at baggage claim if you're going to bring such a camera.

This is obviously all nonsense if you're enthusiastic (or professional) enough, but I struggle to bring my camera along as it is.
They are adding graphics to the game! And it will be on Steam. It's exciting to see where they are taking it.
> or building stuff that directly impacts humanity

Does this have to be on a grand scale like the example, or would making something of great value for a specific/niche audience, and thus revenue generating be of interest?

Maybe work at a small startup company where you have influence not only on building but also shaping the product to solve identified problems.
Positively, perhaps. If you don't need a car to commute, you're more likely not to own one and use ridesharing when you do need to go somewhere by car.

Most people don't use Uber/Lyft for their daily commute (yes, no doubt some on HN do). It can't make economic sense compared to driving yourself.
I don't fault Verizon for cutting budget. It's absolutely the right thing to do. But if we weren't in the situation we're in they probably wouldn't be doing this.

The nuance between "we're going to stop doing business with Facebook because Facebook is bad" and "we have to cut budget from advertising and we chose to cut it from Facebook because Facebook is bad" is important.

It's convenient to do this now, but hard to believe that any of these companies would have done this at this kind of scale if they weren't backed into making cuts.
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I think that's a mistake in terminology. The dog is not suffering, others are suffering. Normally when I hear reports of dogs being killed due to aggression, the word I hear is "killed" or "destroyed".

I think it does actually matter. Killing because of aggressive behaviour is execution, not euthanasia.
Could we prefer they no longer exist? Examples: there’s nothing an oil company can turn into that continues to sell oil in a non harmful manner. Altria tried to adopt vaping (still harmful) to move away from cigarettes (very harmful!).

Some businesses and their products should simply not exist due to the harm they cause. I apologize upfront if this doesn’t seem genuine and instead, unnecessarily controversial.
The key design principle overlooked here is Progressive Disclosure[1], which modals and dialogs can be very good at delivering.

Progressive disclosure retains user focus on a single task as opposed to showing everything at once. Accordions have similar function to modals and dialogs but adding further task controls to an already complex interface isn't always the best solution.

The author goes on to state that even full screen modals are bad, but what difference does the user see? If done well the user should still be able to use the browser back button, escape key, etc to navigate out. In modern applications, pages can transition from one to the next without a "full page load" -is that also bad for some reason?

Think of many popular mobile apps like Instacart, Doordash, etc that allow a user to dive into categories that slide on top of the existing content to give further controls; is that not ok?

Every element in the DOM can be applied inappropriately but that doesn't shift the blame to the elements themselves. One could argue an entire dedicated site that only uses modals based on the misuse of illegible fonts would be about as apropros.

[1] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/progressive-disclosure/
> SSH internally as well and are just as susceptible to network errors, except they tend to fail with less feedback than the raw ssh command.

Maybe some. Puppet, for example, fetches a manifest and applies it on the server. Failure to apply a manifest triggers re-running the manifest. In small installations it will be asking puppetmater(s). Large installation run masterless, where they fetch the repo and run it. I would be highly surprised if Ansible did not have this mode even if it is not a popular way of doing it.

> for i in {000..199}; do ssh machine$i "echo new_setting > /file"; done
> for i in {000..199}; do ssh machine$i "grep new_setting > /file"; done
> for i in {000..199}; do ssh machine$i "reload service"; done
> for i in {000..199}; do ssh machine$i "verify reload"; done

You are running this sequentially and by hand?! What happens when the server is dead and you need a new one? You provision it by hand and go through the stages to get it into the state where it can accept the same cattle command?
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Check again what started this dispute and you’ll have your answer.
I'm not American, I'm not in Facebook either. I've read TFA and still don't have a clue what is Facebook criticized for. What's that hate speech and who's doing it?
Keep politics out of business. Stop caving into activist pressure (whether internal or external) and online outrage. That isn't representative of what customers care about or want. Companies entering cultural/ideological wars (like Verizon) are doing so based on the voices of a small vocal minority of people.

By adopting such stances, these companies are doing the silent majority of their customers a huge disservice and alienating them. As an example, I don't think Facebook is wrong to operate neutrally (unlike Twitter), and I am not supportive of this campaign to get advertisers off Facebook. However, my opinion on the matter is invisible to Verizon. Verizon doesn't have any idea that numerous customers might be okay with them advertising on Facebook, because most customers are not willing to sacrifice their life to engage in activism. My opinion still should matter to Verizon. They should poll a large and diverse sample of their customers before committing to political actions like this.

Put another way, companies like Verizon are likely being misled by sophisticated organization, campaigning, and manufactured outrage. In the absence of knowing their entire customer base intimately, they should stay out of political issues, operate neutrally, and just do what maximizes their own value. Leave the rest to the public theater of politics (meaning elections, legislation, etc.).
I think that tech/dock/office/factory workers unionizing won't result in an increase of civilian deaths.
Selling lemonade, running a bike shop, etc.
I had a Galago from 2013 or so. It was very cheaply built.

It shipped with an infamously bad keyboard that was basically unusable due to unregistered key strokes. They eventually replaced them, but they still weren't perfect.

The screen was very flimsy and pressed into the keys when it was closed and any sort of pressure was applied (for instance being in a bag), leaving an unsightly mark across the middle. I ended up sticking felt pads around the bezel to create some room to accommodate the flexing.

Once a screw came loose in the screen hinge, preventing it from opening. I had to send it back for repair.

On the base where my wrists laid while typing, the finish wore down through the paint leaving two big brown oval marks.

The battery life eventually went to nearly zero after a few years.

The battery eventually started swelling and, before I realized what was happening, pushed up the trackpad actually fully breaking it away from the surface.

All in all, it was super flimsy. It got me through grad school, but almost no longer and with zero resale value afterwards, and even then I never felt completely confident in it during that time.
Reading through yours and the other comments here...I just can't even understand...who came up with the idea of changing key word searches into autocompleting URLs? Personally, I still find the idea of a URL bar doubling as a search bar a bit disconcerting as it is. I expect specific behaviour from a URL bar. I type in an address and either it takes me to what I type or it can't find it.

This behaviour everyone's describing from safari would fill me with so much rage. That shit would drive me nuts. Having non existent addresses being interpreted as search queries is annoying enough, if my browser started deciding my searches were random web addresses I'd lose my shit.
You can make a modern one of these with the Russian NOS long neon indicator tubes.
Or, why are so many of our current politicians ex-executives or ex-lobbyists?
statistical software never does this.

Almost all statistical models give you probabilities and it is up to the domain to determine the cutoff. You can clearly see this in logistic regression it's giving you a probability not a 1 or 0.

When a clinician gives me a dataset I build the model and leave it to them to do the cut off. It is not my domain or expertise to tell them where the cut off is. Plus it gives away the responsibility. I'm not responsible for it unless they don't know and are asking me for a reasonable cut off.

An example is people opting for artificial in semenation because of problem. I believe the cut off is above 60% because of the trade off.

You can read more about it in Regression Modeling Strategies by Dr. Frank Harrell.
Is this new? I've been meaning to donate but didn't want to do the whole gdpr-questionable bitcoin exchange identification thing, so only when Keybase was taken over I asked a friend to help convert those Lumens into a bitcoin donation to sci-hub. Glancing through the article, it doesn't sound like PayPal was an option for most of the last decade now?

I'm also not too thrilled about supporting this super wasteful currency, a PoS or similar alternative being supported would be quite welcome.
You seem to be confusing small businesses with corporations, as if they have the same economic and power imperatives.
I think the YAML hate is a bit exaggerated. It's not perfect but I would rather write out YAML than JSON or XML.

Besides it seems like this company (Relay) has gone to the effort of making a VScode language extension, which enables autocomplete and syntax checking in the YAML files. Which is cool.
Monero works like that just fine. You just have to actually use it for everything, rather than convert into physical cash. Just get your provider of tangible things to accept Monero.

If you really need cash, you can also just (physically) go to someone who has cash and tell them "I'll transfer you some Monero coins if you give me some cash and don't record that you did".
Could not disagree more. Documents are props. They exist to help your stage production evoke feelings of gravitas and rigor, but this is driven more by form than substance. It’s a similar story for large officially scheduled meetings. Real communication happens in the hallway outside just after the official document review, and is pretty much independent of what was in the document.
Why is it impossible that Verizon is responding, at least in part, to public pressure against Facebook?
Thats not true - where does he self censor?

> So what should I do? Just shut my mouth and don't say anything? Then the slave trade will continue to operate freely...
All speech besides threats of violence needs to be free, or we can't progress as a society.
It’s basically the same minus the filtering.

Cloudflare are getting all your browsing info from DNS.

Your ISP from SNI.
> Business is political. It’s only can appear apolitical if business activity is so in harmony with the political status-quo that political conflict and negotiation is almost wholly absent.

100% agree.

It's amazing how techy-engineering-types are so unaware of how interdependent systems and institutions in the real world are. Especially given the nature of tech/engineering itself.
Public speech has long been limited by law: slander, libel, sedition, public nuisance, public safety, violation of NDA, violation of gag orders, indecency, and more.

Your argument is only that no amount of hate speech is too much. But I see no principle in civil rights that defends the repercussions that ensue from purely bilious expression, any more than the claim that mercilessly berating some individual unto suicide should be an act of free expression. Verbal misconduct often leads to penalties in civil court. The question here is whether it should also lead to criminal penalties, as speech that is intended only to injure.

It seems to me that a civil society cannot coexist with the unfettered right to speak hate. One of the two must win out. I hope it's civility. So far, I think it's been hate.
> Why does Mozilla need to care about Comcast's opinion on this, and try to work out an "agreement" with them?

Money.
Honestly? I think all political advertising shouldn't be allowed, it gives those with a disproportionate amount of capital a lever of influence that runs counter to the democratic process. If you want to push an issue you should have to organize people who believe in your cause and have them involved. There's been plenty of examples of microtargeting's influence that makes me think it has no place in the political discourse.

No idea if we'll ever get there.
Really good talk about this computer from CCC last year for those who haven't seen yet: https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10703-the_ultimate_acorn_archime....
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Feel like this may be the case. It was redirecting me on every attempt initially.

The second suggestion when typing `realty.com` was `Google search: realty.com`. Clicking on that took me directly to `realty.com`, which is also misleading because I was expecting to be taken to a list of Google results where I’d attempt to click on a link to `realty.com`.

Typing in `realty.com` works every time as expected after that.
Personally, I'm more excited for the myths and magic release that he's been working on for the last couple years. That's going to completely change the game and really make each world feel unique.

I love dwarf fortress, i've played it for years, but I always hit its limits what feels like far too soon after each release.
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This is a great but how does everyone put half the worlds population under "Asian"??! Lol.
Comcast serving everyone. Planned Parenthood not turning away any customer. Airlines allow anybody to fly.
Not really.

Malware could always use some proprietary wrapping in TLS to hide name resolution.

Domain fronting through Azure is still a thing for instance.
> But with that said - my initial thought is that at schools, at least you're forced to interact with people you may not want to interact with. Good or bad, at least it preps you for the professional work, where you can't choose the people you work with.

You're not wrong, but this is a misplaced worry, IMO. Homeschooled students are consistently shown to do just as well at work as non-homeschooled students. It is a myth that homeschooled students don't interact with others. Many take classes at the local college, many take part in homeschool 'co-ops', which are not fully schools, but give that kind of experience.
For more than a decade, I've lived exclusively in modern U.S. buildings (built or fully renovated after 1999). I don't think that I've ever seen a building fitting this description that didn't have a trash chute.
You misconstrue the content to describe it like that. The justification is predicated on the a clear and present danger to others.

What reasoning do you have to support being remorseful for saving others from a clear and present danger?
How would you organize people to your cause without doing anything that would be considered 'advertising'? Unless you narrowly define advertising in a way that is easily worked around..
Too each their own, you could argue the noise and downward force required on a cherry mechanical keyboard is a deal killer for some.
Graphics packs have always existed. But I am glad they are putting it on Steam. Hopefully doing so will make it easier to send money Toady and his brother's way. I know he is struggling with cancer right now... sad stuff..
I suspect COVID-19 is making it easy for a lot of advertisers to drop FaceBook right now. Ad budgets are down and likely to stay down until this blows over.
No not really unfortunately. I'm not great at that kind of thing.
> like to build cool things

Seems there is a clue here. The lack of excitement could be from lack of a feedback loop. When you recognize something as cool, that's the reward. For passionate programmers, learning or executing new techniques could be theirs.

I have one friend that switched to a company/team building internal tools. They're close to their users and get immediate feedback on the impact of every change that's made. There's probably many others ways to close the loop if you figure out what works for you.
The timing is quite suspicious.