skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the article talks about a setting to lock down a child’s ability to charge the credit card on file. Anyone else wondering why this ‘setting’ is opt-in instead of opt-out?
i like this - it still shows someone cares. It feels genuine to me. At least it makes your day a little bit more pleasant
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'ICE' was a big deal back in the day! Especially before refrigeration. If I remember right, One Hundred Years of Solitude (book) starts with a quip about that.
Yes, the far left is pushing for a centralized web. One where all websites are controlled, censored, and belong to a government.

To quote one in the USA.

"The right of the worker to have access to information is one of the most important of human rights. All information and technology should be held by the state whereas the state should proffer all information to all workers."

Well, we know how that works out. The person controlling the information is in control.
Have you watched "A most wanted man". It's a really good film, and even less happens in it than, Tinkor Tailor Soldier Spy.
Not that nothing happens, it's just at the end you normally expect there to be a conclusion, but it feel very much like just the beginning of something.
I would argue that oil came at the same time. Harold Ickes was trying to make sure we had enough while the war was still raging. [0].

[0] - https://www.e-education.psu.edu/egee120/node/254
They tested Tesla in 2017 and Camaro don’t seem replaced. Perhaps those were too slow at high speeds.
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I would love to get back to you, I'm just a little busy the next couple of days. I made the above daftponk because I'm thinking about the reaction to such. I don't suppose you have a real name or email that we could connect over and continue or discussion there? I just feel that would be more enlightening than doing it here.
I always assumed it was a way to sidestep discussing whether certain contested territories were legitimately "countries" in their own right. By which I mean places like Palestine, Taiwan, and the way North and South Korea each kinda claim the other as part of their territory.
Dpaster – command-line client interface for the dpaste.com pastebin
Since I spend a lot of time on IRC and I often need to share something in a pastebin, I wrote a little script to help me with that process and lift some of the burdens from my back. It's called dpaster, and it's actually a command-line client interface for the dpaste.com pastebin. It's configurable and easy to use. It reads from stdin by default if no file argument is passed, which means you can use it as a part of some UNIX pipeline. It can even guess syntax to highlight (limited to pygments' guessing ability ¯_(ツ)_/¯).

Check it out and let me know what you think:

https://github.com/adder46/dpaster
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feralimal, I cannot upvote you more than once, pity.

Lol, someone once commented that I was mentally unwell, when I suggested that most people around us are nuts.
Yep, NG-PON2 or any other higher speed standard would be just fine as well :)
By the same logic anyone with cashflow to service debt should get as much debt as possible, and buy Bitcoin (and nothing else??).
Firstly, again, I don't think it matters. A BA/BSc is a tick-box what needs a tickin' in quite a few situations in life where the subject is completely by-the-by.

Secondly, though, to pick up on your "I suppose one could tailor a particular Open Studies degree to be quite vocational", I think you can actually take that further. With reference to the link below, I think you could create a curriculum that was far more relevant for the roles most people do than most degrees are? I feel like I could pick out courses there that would make a university a far more useful developer than most compsci courses?

[0] http://www.openuniversity.edu/courses/qualifications/qd
Australia is much kinder to its users, I mean citizens. There are grocery stores where you can walk in and pay nothing to get food, and many social services that would be the envy of many "capitalist" nations' welfare systems, if it ever got talked about.
The UBNT UDM Pro is $380 and virtually silent, does 8Gbps routing w/o security features. My 10G switch also basically silent.
That's not what "controlling for income" means. So let's make this clear, you would rather make $843/month (median) in Mexico vs $3714/month (median) in America?
technocratic liberal, as in Communists? The word for them are Communists.

Liberals are a dying breed.
Straw man.

I believe we each make our own choices. I've been poor. I didn't spend my money on gambling or lottery tickets.
This is conspiracy theory nonsense. Consider what percentage of video cameras in public spaces function at all.
Ask HN: Does truly private DNS hosting exist?
I've spent a long time attempting to find any managed DNS/DNS hosting providers that also guarantee privacy.

Does anyone on here know of any DNS hosting provider that can meet the following criteria?

Mandatory:

- The provider allows for the creation of all, standard DNS records

- The provider can guarantee no logging of DNS queries or a short retention period for those logs (or, if logs are kept, then they must not include the IP address from which the request originated)

- The provider allows DNS hosting for domains not necessarily registered through that same provider

Bonus Points:

- The provider has a large network of fast servers (potentially anycast DNS)

- The provider allows for some advanced options (for example "POOL Records," "Round Robin" DNS, or "Geo" DNS)

- The provider is relatively cost effective

Note: I'm not looking for private DNS providers. There are plenty of providers who offer DNS services for free or cheap, and have great privacy guarantees. I'm specifically looking for providers that will host your custom DNS records, and guarantee that all queries to those records are not logged. The few providers that I found who ran private DNS services and allowed for managed DNS still collected analytics when you hosted custom records, and did not allow for those analytics to be disabled.

If you know of any such services, I'd be super grateful if you could link them below, and/or share any experience you have with them. Thanks!
Been in their shoes. Didn't make those choices.
- Phone, Laptop, and iPad per person

- Work Phones, work laptops

- Smart TV, Media Players, Game Consoles

- Smart Home devices, hubs, thermostats, Amazon Echo's, etc.
Damn, this seems extremely sophisticated. Someone or a team went through a ton of thought and work on this.

It be would interesting to know how it was originally detected/discovered.

The knowledge of how it works and the level detailed shared in this particular case is also interesting. It’s almost like they are burning this one on purpose.
While I don't think it should be possible to spend so much on a mobile game, I believe some responsibility lands on the parents.

I'm sure my kids would have done this already, just by the sheer number of pop-ups and garbage in some games. But purchases require a password each time, so nothing happens.
> Its impossible to use the nvidia proprietary drivers on a prerelease kernel

I managed to on 5.10-rc6? Had to upgrade to the "shortlived" version of the driver, but that went smoothly.
Interesting. Are you on the west side of town? I was stationed on Ramstein and lived in downtown Kaiserslautern. My place was about 15 km from the main base, which is pretty far to pick up sounds. I don't recall hearing many aircraft, even though we were only 12km from the east end of the runway.
The other top post on HN right now is full of commenters making fun of the attribution to “sophisticated” and “with resources of a nation-state.” Oops.

As for the write-up itself, I honestly can’t believe they published this much detail. The feds and FireEye must be very concerned that folks are exposed to this right now and those folks don’t know it.
Can you back up? Dude, pull your head out of the ground. Liberals are a dying breed. Liberalism is dying.
Wow; good job, dang! mchurch is a poison to the tech community; sucks since he’s such a good writer :(
it would be more fun without the annual reinvent death march
Is there someone who has extensively used MicroStrategy that would be able to explain what/how they compete with Tableau or even the old Crystal Reports?

Seeing this bitcoin buying set off some weird red flags. When I look into the company's G2 reviews[1], it just looks like a lot of buzzword bingo with limited specifics around what exactly the product is so highly rated for. Just curious since it looks like they have built a really great and profitable company. I was expecting much more concrete info on how they are outcompeting in this space.

[1] https://www.g2.com/products/microstrategy/reviews#reviews
> SolarWinds.Orion.Core.BusinessLayer.dll is signed by SolarWinds, using the certificate with serial number 0f:e9:73:75:20:22:a6:06:ad:f2:a3:6e:34:5d:c0:ed. The file was signed on March 24, 2020.

The “Delivery and Installation” section covers this. It’s a very short section, the subtext of which is that there’s basically no defense for malware delivered with a valid signature from a trusted vendor.

It’ll be pretty interesting to find out what happened at SolarWinds in the coming days: whether this malware was smuggled into the update via employee collusion with attackers or a hack of SolarWinds itself.
I told Sen. Feinstein she was the most disappointing politician to ever represent me and the first I regretted voting for, after pointing out she's been in the Senate longer than I have been alive. She actually did what I asked and stepped down from the minority leadership in the Senate Judiciary committee. I wasn't the only one who said something.

SOPA is an older example, politicians do actually listen. Defeatism will not get you anything you want.
I had a problem like this a while back. My son was making purchases on an ipod game without knowing what he was doing. They kept putting popups on the screen. He wanted to keep playing, so he closed the popup. What he didn't realize was that it was costing an average of $25 every time he closed the popup. It took about 30 minutes to rack up $200 in charges.

It's impossible to put together a reasonable defense for this. What really pissed me off was that even though Apple eventually refunded the money, they kept making it sound like it was my fault. "You need to turn on this setting in this menu." Nope. Not my fault at all. The setting was turned on but it failed. And even if I hadn't turned it on, why on earth should you need to opt out rather than opt in?

Maybe it doesn't have much of an impact on the industry as a whole. My response has been simple. I've not given my credit card number to any device since. I just don't buy that stuff from anyone.
How is anyone surprised? Parent bought iPad, parent linked card, child uses payment method they are not authorised to use, app or not doesn't make a difference.
Your analogy with Chess and Go is flawed though. In these games you try to predict the best opponent move responding to yours, the worst case basically, and then try to find the best response you have to it, and so on, until you cannot spend any more time on that line or reach your horizon. You are not "hoping things do not happen". If you did that, you would be a bad chess or go player. You make sure things do not happen.

So that analogy works against your point.
ah, thanks for the clarification, that make more sense. I guess that can somewhat excuse the Southwest airlines goof if not American makers, but doesn't excuse showing different jets as the same plane
Once they find the software, they can reverse-engineer it. Finding it the first time is the difficult part. That can happen based on a tip-off (e.g. every security team in the world will be checking their network for these processes, domain names etc. now), a lucky find (e.g. if the backdoor triggered weird crashes and someone took a look), or because it's linked to some other bad activity (e.g. someone finds some form of known malware and investigates how it got there).

In this case, it's likely that they somehow found the backdoor in SolarWinds' network and realized what was happening that way.
> "what grown-up would spend $100 on a chest of virtual gold coins?"

Oh, man, sad to say that they are certainly out there. And it just seems terribly unlikely for an app developer to put resources into applying the brakes on in app purchases. Not a horrible idea if Apple put in some smarts to this, though. Comparing against previous months/weeks could probably reveal problematic purchases. They could call you like the credit card company does when they suspect fraud.
Isn't total addressable market size an annual figure while market cap is not time bound?
You mean like putting a lot of money into opposing legalization efforts? Yeah, I expect that.
Because most iPads are used by adults, not children?
More than half of Americans have less than $5,000 in savings. HN is a place where most of the participants are wealthy, and your worldview is skewed by that. An unexpected $16,000 cost would totally blindside most families, and they shouldn't have to "manage their finances" to avoid predatory businesses.

That it's even possible to spend $16K on predatory micro-transactions - for a child OR an adult - is absolutely sickening. I hope Apple gets their ass handed to them in the current round of antitrust lawsuits.
How can you blame software engineers when they are given literally 0 credit for developing software with security in mind and 100 percent credit for simply shipping as quickly as possible. Developing with security in mind will take longer and is literally the opposite of what companies ask for.
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Well that's market segmentation. Some people want it to come quick. Others care about other things. I doubt 100% of people place 100% priority on delivery speed.

In particular, I personally don't use Amazon much. Granted not in the US so maybe the site is different etc. But to me they are like an 'ebay' in terms of my trust in what they deliver, when sometimes I want a 'department store'. Now not everyone is like me but I suspect enough people are that Amazon isn't going to take over all shopping.
> However, the one or two times people messed up and alerted the local Japanese government, it was a HUGE deal. Heads rolled, people got punished, and apologies had to be written.

That's absolutely correct in my experience. The cover-ups extend to things like accidents involving nuclear weapons, of which there have been many.

It's fair to say that the host countries play along in most cases. If there's no public disclosure of problems the host country government does not have to do anything about them.
Thanks. This is voodoo magic to me. I understand the basic of computer programming but this is way more fascinating than the stuffs that I know and touch. I doubt this stuff is taught in schools, maybe the basic like network programming etc., but definitely this is highly sophiscated. Kudos to whoever designed the scheme and who found it!
In the USA, liberals are those that support the Bill of Rights. The Democratic Party is made up of Liberals, and those that call themselves Progressives. I'm a Liberal, the Progressives scare me, as they are for complete Government bureaucratic control of everything. Biden won as a moderate, not a Progressive, but if he picks up that torch, I don't know what happens.
Tesla from Sept. 20, 2019 to Sept. 20, 2020 revenue is $28.17 B. Ford revenue in the same period was $130.9 B and GM was $115.8 B. 28.17 * 1.5^5 = 213.9. That doesn't even include the inevitable decrease in sales for F and GM if Tesla grows that much.
My Urologist told me three was a great number when I went in for my pre-snip consult.

IMO: Two if you aren't into kids and have just a boy and a girl. After that, it's all about you and your spouse's personal preference.

If you want more kids, start young.
Waymo has self driving cars with a tiny amount of paying customers in a tiny are losing 10s of millions of dollars every year.

Tesla on the other-hand is MAKING money with self driving technology already.

What something is called doesn't really matter, I bet on the company that has 100ks to millions of cars with advanced self-driving computers and hardware on the road in daily use over a company that has a couple 100 cars in Arizona any day.

The complexity of self driving is in the complexity of the road network in the real world. The only way to solve it is to have millions of cars learning all the complexity and finding the corner cases.

The real money in self driving is not offering ride-share in small geo-locked areas.
You're... supporting my point?

The more closed it gets, the more customers they will lose. Right now macs aren't closed at all, so honestly the customers they've lost so far (yourself included) are... faint-of-heart? Excessively sensitive? Not sure what the best way to phrase this is. You've effectively stopped buying macs for something that could happen, not something that has actually happened. I would find it incredibly surprising if you install enough unsigned GUI apps for that whole warning + have-to-open-it-with-right-clicking thing to be a dealbreaker for you on its own. And if it was, they could've lost you at any time because that seems like incredibly fickle consumer behavior.

An actual closing of the platform though will be a watershed moment.
I picked up on that too. I guess that means SolarWinds is a good target for nation-state level hacking
I agree that the poor contrast etc of EPDs hurt them, including in this area. I'm questioning what you think are better alternatives for this use; I don't think there are any that don't have flaws worth weighing.
Nature's 'Brita Filter' Is Dying and Nobody Knows Why (2019)
Sad news, but the reality is that most modern cars are mostly not really repairable by the average owner. Even finding basic info about replacing something like a headlamp bulb is ... "not forthcoming".

Now if you'd like to see a real "solid state" vehicle get rebuilt, check out Geoffrey Croker's 1978 Series 3 Land Rover Restoration:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNR9e5gIAR0ep6TiEuqNJ...

I think there's even mention of the Haynes Manual in there.
Yeah, I get that. It's all wiki based, so I guess folks aren't filling in that data.

There's not an API directly, but https://www.howlongtobeatsteam.com looks promising. It's got an API that you can use to cache your (or all) games. Zapier might be able to do it as well w/ this scraper: https://www.npmjs.com/package/howlongtobeat (disclosure, I work at Zapier).

I used to have a CLI that would trigger a Zapier webhook that would use [this CLI app](https://github.com/xavdid/zapier-igdb) to populate data into Airtable, but I actually moved the whole process to [Airtable Apps](https://airtable.com/marketplace) since I could customize the UI a little more. I've been meaning to open source it, but it's pretty customized so I'm not sure if it'd be widely useful.

I'm curious to see where you end up with this though! It's something I've put a lot of thought into.
The reasons are straightforward enough, it's about cost:

Now the 31 operational U-2s in the USAF fleet are about to undergo a $50m (£37.8m) update and acquire a new mission which could see them fly on for another 30 more years.

$50 million would just get you a few flights of an SR-71 and its special fleet of dedicated tankers.
It’s 2020. Cheap, long lasting cameras are ubiquitous and easily available. A 40 year old CCTV camera in a subway station might be likely to not work, but I don’t see why that’s comparable to a camera for one of the highest profile prisoners in recent years. For $100, they could have even had 2 cameras for redundancy and no excuse.
> “sophisticated” and “with resources of a nation-state.” Oops

I've noticed this since the NK hacks in 2014 and it's bothered me. Why is this the reaction even in technologically savvy quarters?
No, they are "the same crime" (failure to stop for a red light), it is one and the same law that applies to both, therefore the "crime" is the same. Therefore the penalty should be the same amount as long as the same statute applies.

Now, if you prefer the penalty to differ due to the potential for injury, you need to get the politicians to change the laws so they are not the same crime, or so that the penalty scales due to some formula in the law related to the potential for injury.
> The mother then went on to accuse the games of being "completely predatory" in encouraging spending by younger users. "What grown-up would spend $100 on a chest of virtual gold coins?"

Don't know about Sonic Forces but a friend of mine in her early thirties has dumped north of $2k into skins in a mobile game. The difference is she has a lucrative job so she can easily afford that. I'm as baffled as the next guy and personally stay the hell away from microtransactions, but if she's happy and doesn't feel ripped off who am I to stop her. It's no secret that F2P, microtransaction-driven games are mostly funded by whales, and I suspect the vast majority of whales are like my friend here, or at least wasting their parents' money with approval.

IMO the more conservative and likely more effective solution is better parental control, requiring approval for IAP by default (not sure how you implement that on devices not specifically set up as kids’ devices though).
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It doesnt matter that this was a kid. We dont like to admit it, but the mental trickery used on kids works equally well on adults. Should this article be any different if the kid was 16? 26? 68? We are all animals that react to stimulus.
That stimulus-reward trickery is the real evil that needs to be addressed.
I don't really understand the focus on the 20% thing. I have worked at different sized tech companies, from startup to medium sized, to giant. And I have worked in several capacities, from line engineer, to middle manager, to director. In my experience, it is impossible to measure an engineers performance with an error less than +/- 20%. I have worked on side projects that large and my manager never noticed until I demo'd the results.

Generally, if your manager is not shit and not under unusual time pressure, they should have no problem with a project that doesn't significantly impact the primary work and has some chance of benefiting the company.

Google is interesting as they have an explicit 20% policy, but in practice it doesn't really matter one way or another.
19th Century “Gentleman's Directory” Provided a Guide to NYC's Brothels
Some years ago the editor of the New Yorker at the time was interviewed - probably "Fresh Air" on NPR or something like it, maybe a podcast, I don't honestly remember. But I do remember the conversation - the editor was asked what he did to relax away from his duties at the magazine, what did he do to unwind? He replied that he watched the BBC series "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "Smiley's People", over and over again because he thought they were absolute perfection, something that could never be improved with change. I tend to agree, thank you John le Carre' for bringing these stories and characters to life. Thank you Sir Alec Guiness for being - and I mean being - George Smiley.
It could be more like: (1) ten years ago, parent made an icloud account, (2) six years ago, child is born, (3) five years ago, credit card is added to icloud account to buy music or movies, (4) six months ago ipad is purchased, (5) child uses a game ....

I think it's fair for the parent to be surprised. I think it's fair for them to ask apple and/or the app developer to refund it.

Apple's app store monopoly requires that they be a better steward for their users. If regulation leverage were applied, app stores could compete in fraud detection algorithms. Instead, they're motivated to look the other way.
Thanks. I had read that, but I figured I must be missing something. I assumed that if the vendor was genuinely signing malware, that would be headline of the story.