skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is something I struggle the opposite of. When I dive into something, I get super focused, to the point of it severely disrupting my life. I had a few projects in grad school that kept me up for like 2 days straight even though they weren't due for a few weeks. I think the author has that same level of manic focus. It's honestly why I can't be a programmer, it's not that I can't write good code, it's my head space. I can't achieve a level of Zen that all the great programmers seem to have, I get super super focused, and then too emotional.
There's something odd going on. I'm getting an NXDOMAIN error. It looks like I get different results depending on which DNS server I try:

$ dig @8.8.8.8 www.privacytools.io
(No results.)

$ dig @8.8.4.4 www.privacytools.io
www.privacytools.io. 3158 IN A 135.181.7.217

$ dig @75.75.75.75 www.privacytools.io
(No result.)

$ dig @1.1.1.1 www.privacytools.io
www.privacytools.io. 1395 IN A 135.181.7.217
Wow. I once wondered about building a wifi card with an SDR but quickly got discouraged when figuring out how much IEEE charges for the specifications.
This isn't "the US" subsidizing rural communities, though. This is private enterprises effectively doing the same, for the sake of providing a flat rate shipping service. Although I too think that rural living is bad for the environment, this is not a particular case of the government subsidizing it.
Read the article. You may be surprised.
The US and EU countries have processes, checks and balances on those powers (though not always enough, I think they need more). These checks keep abuse low and keep mass surveillance limited to national security domains. This is in stark contrast to China where this power can be used/abused with almost no oversight or limitations.
> In Canada key disclosure is covered under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms section 11(c) which states "any person charged with an offence has the right not to be compelled to be a witness in proceedings against that person in respect of the offence;"[10] and protects the rights of individuals that are both citizens and non-citizens of Canada as long as they are physically present in Canada.[11]

>In a 2010 Quebec Court of Appeal case the court stated that a password compelled from an individual by law enforcement "is inadmissible and that renders the subsequent seizure of the data unreasonable. In short, even had the seizure been preceded by judicial authorization, the law will not allow an order to be joined compelling the respondent to self-incriminate."[12]

>In a 2019 Ontario court case (R v. Shergill), the defendant was initially ordered to provide the password to unlock his phone. However, the judge concluded that providing a password would be tantamount to self-incrimination by testifying against oneself. As a result, the defendant was not compelled to provide his password.

According to the Wikipedia article cited when "Canada" is clicked, key disclosure laws don't apply which is the opposite of what the site claims.

Or am I misunderstanding something here?
Firefox can now be set as the default system PDF viewer.

The name reported by accessibility tools for items in multi-tiered tree controls no longer incorrectly includes information from items at deeper levels, providing users with the correct level of content when using a screen reader.

I kinda expected more from an x.0 release.
Tweakable – Visual Programming Environment
One might say you have the duty to violate illegal developer agreements.
After writing the PuffinBASIC interpreter and a game, here are my initial comments on the BASIC language:
1. Drop line numbers and use Labels
2. Needs multi-line IF-THEN
3. Needs switch
4. Needs named subroutines with local scope, much like functions
5. Needs references (not pointers)
6. Drop variable suffix
They were going to be.
But if you just consider equal size strips, with the larger cylinder just having more of them, then the force on each will be the same... unless you're saying the imaginary tape have to deal with forces from other strips. I don't see why
Achieving Code Execution on the Triangle MicroWorks Scada Data Gateway
> Whether this is willfully malicious, or stupid to the point of maliciousness seems like splitting hairs.

Honestly, I feel differently about those two situations, especially since it affects the outcome. It looks like the Scots speakers who engaged with him have managed to work him into a fix. Good for them.
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I am actually building a self-hosted application and this is a really big question/problem. In a perfect world, you could go to any hosting platform and with one click you should be able to install any software you want (as you do on mobile with apps).

I am trying to find a solution for this, but so far most of my clients have at least some technical knowledge, the rest are a bit afraid, as you mentioned, to waste too much time on trying to install something.

I also talked to some folks at DigitalOcean to ask on an easier way for a developer to install the software for the clients, on the clients own DO account. Unforunately all the solutions they provided were either really complicated or involved access to the clients account, thus imposing a high security risk. I told them it would be really cool if I could send a link to the client that automatically create the server with all the configuration needed, without them having to press any other buttons or run any commands.

Slightly off-topic: What self-hosted analytics app did you install? You could also check out the one I built[0], I focused a lot on making installation as easy as possible.

[0]: https://www.usertrack.net
*Cohen (or כֹּהֵן if you're feeling particularly pedantic.) :-)
This was also posted to the DDG subreddit a few days back, with little response:

https://old.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/i6ktu4/search_a...
I'm sure the holiday and other demand spikes are also extremely expensive. By handling the steady-state deliveries, Amazon is again draining away all the profitable, predictable deliveries, and outsourcing the expensive spikes. It's … brilliant?
Yes, but the grammar doesn't lend itself to it quite as nicely (any more, compared to earlier forms of English, IIRC).

In German, the word order "I believe you not" is the proper way to phrase that sentiment, without being pithy about it.
Yes, and it is an enormously appreciated breath of fresh air. But you're not every PhD advisor!
> Now the world needs to go after malaria in Africa.

They are. Take a moment to celebrate this victory :)
You might be interested in "The Mutiny of the Bounty" by Sir John Barrow for what went on between sailing ships and indigenous peoples of the islands they visited. I.e. quite a lot of sexual congress went on. In fact, one of the reasons for the mutiny was the sailors' unhappiness at being separated from their partners. When the mutineers returned, many of the indigenous women chose to accompany them on their trip to exile on Pitcairn Island.
Of course the "risk" is primarily to Apple's own business interests - competition with Apple's own apps and services.
I don't know about 'for a long time' but for a certain time frame this is true[0].

However we are talking about there being 21 cases of this occurring compared to pre-eradication infection levels in the 100's of thousands per year. So whilst your statement is sort of true, it is willfully misleading.

[0]https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/06/28/5344030...
Rural communities used to have industry and manufacturing and were able to contribute to our nation as a whole.
Protip: its not just Russians playing around with sentiment in other countries for their own gains, and it is extremely easy to deflect all attention towards Russia. It can be long time allies that you harbor the least feelings about.
>I do not see a nightmare, that is the thing - why do you see one?

There's a $20 billion/year cryptlocker industry that excludes iPhones thanks to the difference.
> In fact many appreciate that there is a gate keeper.

People also want to pay no taxes until the police doesn't show up when somebody breaks into their home. Same with health insurance.
This isn't universally true - Dan Luu's computer latency page[1] lists three Kindles, all below 900 ms of latency. And, since some devices have latency as low as 570 ms, it makes sense that they would use this optimization.

[1] https://danluu.com/input-lag/
Many poorer countries have relied on cheaper forms of the polio vaccine with a weakened virus, which can sometimes cause small outbreaks.

Ironically this fact is often used the anti-vaxxers as an argument against vaccines.. when it's only been true because polio vaccination has been so successful at eradicating the real virus which was causing considerably more problems.
AT&T Long Lines – A Forgotten System
I am an emergency physician without any formal software training and for the last three months I’ve been trying to build a program that segments the wall of the heart from an ultrasound video and then identifies regions that aren’t moving (an early sign of heart attack).

There are many similarities between this man’s project and mine. And if I had his knowledge I may have cracked my problem by now and would have new way to detect heart attacks early.
If you consider three years a long time... [1] Or are you speaking of a particular area with poor sanitation and low vaccination rates in the world?

And to be clear about it, children are not getting it by getting vaccinated, unvaccinated people can get it from recently vaccinated ones.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine#Vaccine-induced_...
Why are they shipping a PDF viewer in the first place? Seems like a massive security problem tbh.
No, but you might buy that $1200 iPhone instead of the $400 model.
Complete sets of reasonable fancy china can be cheaper at a thrift shop than buying a few every day place settings at crate & barrel. Eat on fancy china every day, put it in the dish washer. When you tire of it, dispose of it (thrift shop again, or throw away).
> HyScale hopes to provide higher-level entities to deal with, as well as providing ways to do higher-level ops & deployment introspection.

That's exactly why the operator pattern exists!

Kubernetes stands out from other container orchestration tools for one reason only: it's portable. I can apply my templates to any cluster -empty or not- and my services will be running with the same topology. I can make them work with an existing installation, if I need to. To this end, I need to be able to inspect, modify and understand how everything is fitting together. An abstraction layer will always complicate things.

As said before, Helm is great because it doesn't hide Kubernetes' insides.
> Traditional carriers break even or even take a small loss on a percentage of deliveries because it's important to their business model to have consistent prices and deliver everywhere.

Maybe that's the case for the average walk-in, but at scale all of these terms are subject to negotiation.
there's no easy way to disable javascript on site viewing. brave got ir right with brave shield.

add disable image on the ff shield then it's even more useful.

brave suffers chrome's always forced refresh when stale tab is reopened or when page is scrolled up to induce reload wheel

sometimes users do not want the freshest page. there's a reload button for that. sometimes we just want to save the stale page.
Russia Releases Test Footage of Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Blast Ever
Cloudflare Warp Beta for macOS and Windows
I think you meant “are NOT transparent”.

You can see their calculating ways if you look carefully —can’t have too many fart apps you know, too many fart apps are bad for the user. Nevermind if you have the best fart app ever —you can’t even load it on your friends’ phones or show it to the guy deciding whether or not to give you a scholarship because, you know, a prick in Cupertino who has his own reality that’s pretty far removed from the rest if the world thinks that too many fart apps are an unpleasant experience for all one billion potential fart app users.

Yea silly, but the type of app doesn’t matter when considering questions of “arbitrary” consideration.
You said the treadmill stops when you change public attitude, and you imply the terms Black and African American used to refer to black people are acceptable designations for groups of people as of now. I'm making the point that that is completely subjective, as in my case I don't like being referred to as an African American, because I'm not, and black is basically a synonym for "Not african american", yet these are the default terms and you say that there is "no further replacement". My point is that words change meaning all the time, we are not heading into some inevitable singularity where all of these words over here are objectively good in all situations and all of those words are objectively bad in all situations and this will remain so for eternity - language is not that stagnant nor black and white, and for me that is a good thing. It is 100% your personal opinion that you find the terms Black and African American acceptable designations for groups for the foreseeable future, but don't project your personal opinion onto others - I personally look forward to the day where people refer to me as Jamaican and not just "black" or mistakenly, African American, and in the same way there are those who hold the opposite opinion and those who don't want to be generalized at all. That you personally like or dont like a particular label has no bearing on whether or not everyone else agrees with your opinion.

Tl;dr your statement "The [euphemism] treadmill stops when you actually change public attitudes" actually means "The euphemism treadmill stops when you actually change public attitudes in such a way that I am personally comfortable with it's final state", because in reality the treadmill will never stop, someone will always push to keep it going, it's the reason why language shifts and changes over time.
By having 8 tabs.
And they shall rise again.
I take it something that Google Docs is doing makes those inline screenshots (like the year long todo) unreadable? Would love to be able to read those.

And love the paper algorithm btw.

I haven’t been through this journey myself but (to the author, who is here, not the poster) reading through how you have laid things out so clearly, your students are lucky to have you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_syphilis

> Until that time, as Fracastoro notes, syphilis had been called the "French disease" (Italian: mal francese) in Italy, Malta, Poland and Germany, and the "Italian disease" in France. In addition, the Dutch called it the "Spanish disease", the Russians called it the "Polish disease", and the Turks called it the "Christian disease" or "Frank (Western European) disease" (frengi).
So, sapphire.
Mini PET – Build a Commodore PET from all new parts
Hydroxychloroquine also directly inhibits heme breakdown, a weak point in malaria parasites' blood digestion.

Beyond its standard antiviral and immunomodulatory activity, it's thought that hydroxychloroquine protects red blood cells' heme molecules from having their iron ripped out by Covid.
I’m not saying that it doesn’t result in a saving but that the fact that industry has to exist to keep costs constrained is a net loss.

Imagine if pricing was transparent, calculable and easy to rationalise the cost of a change. But it isn’t unless you pull a third party in.
Diesel vs. electric powertrains for heavy duty applications
That doesn’t seem right. Let’s consider the screen refresh to be like a subway station, where the train shows up every few seconds. We need the text we want to show to the user to be at the stop waiting when the train arrives. If we miss the train, we need to wait for the next train to get our text on the screen. The network latency delays when we show up to wait at the station.

If the refresh rate is 5 seconds, and the network response time is 500ms, than eliminating the 500ms response time means we are 10% less likely to miss the train. On average, the time for the text to appear on the screen decreases by 500ms.

All this assumes the refreshes happening on a static schedule. If the software can trigger the refresh, then it’s a lot simpler. The 500ms improvement in latency would apply equally to every engagement with the translate feature.
What do you mean by "profile"? I'm at least familiar with the word container....
Swiss team claims first jump, free fall from solar plane
A third world country controlled Covid-19 pandemic using Smart Lockdown and AI
I had looked at ventoy, but given the host needed to be able to boot from usb, that limited me for some older machines I have. Plus, if I did not trust the machine, I was out of luck. I ended up getting this: http://iodd.kr/wordpress/product/iodd-mini/

Got mine with 256gb ssd, usb3 support and it's booted old macs, servers, laptops and more. Can act as a USB key, CD-ROM, hdd and all can be read only. Very handy bit of kit!
One thing that rocked me to the core and changed my stance on privacy recently is how child porn/abuse/trafficking/grooming/etc is simply swept under the rug by the Tech Giants. Safe Harbor laws have been used to push the problem elsewhere, and the issue is accruing exponentially. These images are absolutely everywhere; Facebook removes millions every year from their platform. And these are just the ones posted in plain sight.

No idea what the solution might be, or if it's even possible to be solved. It's a depressing topic, and you have to have really good opsec to do any journalism on the matter without landing in serious legal trouble.

https://samharris.org/podcasts/213-worst-epidemic/
Part of the problem is that Apple makes a number of choices in its approval process that are either 1. arbitrary, 2. preferential, or 3. actively counterproductive to security/privacy. And when asked about it, they lie in front of Congress. So perhaps this would be less of an issue if they didn't do that?
I've never seen one that has the bang for the buck of a basic paperwhite. I got my last one for under $100 and I never use the amazon nonsense. I just keep it in airplane mode and load my own books.
verroq -- can you tell me which browser you use that doesn't suffer from any feature you don't like? Or is it a philosophical problem where a non-profit adding a small feature to raise revenue means it should be abandoned and died, but if a for profit company building a browser can incorporate all manner of devious and privacy harming features but that is acceptable because you expect so little from for-profit companies?
You are correct - he responded in the thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24275188
Does Tesla receive taxpayer funding? Because the only reason why they are profitable is because of government credits that they sell to other companies.
That just got a post COVID doomsday scenario playing out in my head, I had never considered being contagious due to being vaccinated.
I think that's called regulatory capture when politicians task experts to come up with legislation.
Pocket's backend remains closed-source in spite of Mozilla claiming they'd open it, which spits in the face of the moral position they're supposed to hold. It's also set up so that by default it displays ads on the new tab page. While obviously I can disable this, the fact that I have to fight Firefox at all to make it not show me ads and not push me towards a proprietary service rather sacrifices their whole "fights for the user" position. Also on a pragmatic note, I go through enough profiles that disabling it is actually a reoccurring irritation.

> I often hear people with savage opinions about Pocket. Can you state what hardship this has caused you? Did it violate your privacy? Does it impose extra layers of clicking to get work done or occupy valuable screen space? Is it helping to fund child slave labor?

It does in fact impose extra clicks and occupy screen space. People are in fact allowed to care about ethical issues short of child slave labor.

> when someone online reports how this molehill is a mountain to them

I'm so sorry; I didn't realize that your priorities were the universal standard.

> I also wonder where they place their mouths while browsing that they experience it as being shoved down their throats.

And I wonder whether you're incapable of understanding a metaphor or simply revel in dismissing legitimate concerns.
Cool idea for a sci-fi story.
I had an insurance salesman tell me stories of how farmers/speculators insure crop against loss and how some people buy policies for the explicit expectation of profiting on bad weather years because the policies are quite inexpensive.

That's why I argue and can debate #3. I'm not an expect, I don't know how it works, this was a waaaaay ago (2015.)

So, you know, my personal anecdote changes perspective and that sort of mindthink.
Not necessarily 80% of companies, rather 80% of devops <> machine learning workflows in a given company.
But I can't short-circuit those, so I have to read all of them just in case multiple apply.
Google bundles a complete platform and a lot of proprietary features for Google products with Chrome, most people don't bat an eye.

Opera bundles some features more than a browser (VPN, et al.) with the browser, similarly people don't get rubbed by it.

Mozilla puts a button which is just a scriptlet to the UI and people got tipped off.

It just sits there and can be turned off [1]. I've never experienced any aggressive marketing for Pocket by Firefox (in app or out of band). I only get a weekly articles digest which, I subscribed and, that's all.

I wish we were living in an era where free and high quality software just survive without any revenue stream and web is not a mess of standards, bombardment of adverts and analytics frameworks and other sinister stuff but, that ship has unfortunately sailed and, I personally still angry about it.

[1]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-or-re-enable-po...
Pocket was extremely popular. The problem was that Pocket was a 3rd party extension that Mozilla, in a hurry to match the Instapaper like capabilities Chrome and Safari added, integrated into Firefox.

The deep integration of a 3rd party extension quite rightly did not sit well with many people.

However, since then, Mozilla has bought Pocket and there really is no reason to complain about Pocket integration anymore than complaining about Read It Later integration In Safari, or bookmarks.

There may be complaints about it from the perspective that I believe that Pocket is still closed source, which would be valid, but not Fromm browser users perspective.
Yes very much so. And you notice it the minute you enter an old growth redwood forest - suddenly the forest floor becomes largely barren of shrubbery and small trees, because the redwoods are soaking up the sunlight and nutrients.
While Mozilla has to beg for scraps we're all being sold up the river.
It seems to me a little bit contradictory that modern Scots is often not considered a language but rather a dialect, when at the same time it supposedly is so different from English that merely translating the words with English grammar intact does it a great injustice. As far as I can tell, the grammatical differences are very minor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Scots#Grammar

Seems more like somebody is upset that no true Scotsman is the chief contributor to Scots Wikipedia. Either the true Scotsmen must be finding that this guy has done an adequate job, or they can blame themselves for not correcting it.
That was in 2009 apparently. Maybe it made sense then.
> but is the US that much better in terms of authoritarianism or surveillance?

Who knows? The last guy who touched upon it had to hide in freedom-loving Russia afterwards.

The PRC has it easy. They don't have to hide their actions behind contortions of "national security", which makes it difficult to compare the extent and pervasiveness of US and PRC surveillance.