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Based on experience with Pingbacks, the Webmention specification requires the sending site to have a mentioning URL on a publicly available web page. This requirement by itself cuts down significantly on spam as it increases the cost of sending it. (Pingbacks/Trackbacks didn't have this requirement so it was easy to programmatically spew spam in all directions.) In addition to this, there's no requirement to show the received Webmention, so there's less benefit to some spammers in these cases.

Many people who do receive and display them have separate mechanisms to moderate them before display, which also tends to minimize spam. Other sites that support Webmentions also dovetail with anti-spam services like Akismet which can help filter out spam out as well.

And this is all without anyone adding the Vouch extension to the Webmention spec.

Keep in mind that webmention.io is just a third party service to allow sites to use and leverage Webmention notifications without needing to write any code. Many major CMSes like WordPress, Drupal, Craft, WithKnown, et al. either support the spec out of the box or with plugins/modules. Each of these can also leverage anti-spam methods they have available separately. As an example of this, the WordPress plugin has an allow list for automatically approving webmentions from sites one regularly communicates with.

The idea of Webmentions has been around for almost a decade, and the spec has been a W3C recommendation since 2017. Only one suspected case of Webmention spam has been reported in the wild in that time. I'd conservatively estimate that with 10,000+ independent websites sending/receiving over 2 million Webmentions in the past several years, it's not a bad start. For more details, ideas, and brainstorming for your potential use-cases see also: https://indieweb.org/spam
I’m not particularly familiar with FCC law, but don’t they tend to... not approve things like this? Not being sarcastic, honest question.
It’s actually the hardest one of the three, being outside the grasp of formal methods.
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I had the same policy but now I just let them spend their allowance money on it if they want to. As long as it’s their money.
Notice that this year, they halved the time allocated for the projects to only 10 weeks, among other changes. [1]

1: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2021-Febru...
Networking, just like a real-world side gig.
Maybe this is the sort of thing you're looking for? https://github.com/PlaidWeb/webmention.js/
Even a much more modest goal of provisioning a single day of storage would entail 11.5TWh of storage. Dozens of 100 MWh facilities is still in the single digit GWh range. That's six orders of magnitude. And this isn't even taking into account handling heating, industrial use, and all the other forms of tapping into fossil fuel energy besides electricity.
> I'm not sure what your point is. I agree that all of your examples are just further cases where being sloppy about innate vs. learned differences results in bad policy.

My point is that there is a pretty clear tendency for people to attribute sex/gender discrepancies to societal factors when it benefits men, but less so when it benefits women. The reasons for this are likely varied, but you can draw your own conclusions on that.

> The statement "men do worse here because of patriarchal social norms that ultimately end up hurting them" doesn't imply men are responsible for their own misfortune

I think it does in some cases, but I suppose it depends on the speaker's definition and characterization of this nebulous term, "the patriarchy". I think some people do indeed feel that all men are complicit in "the patriarchy" and so if the system ends up hurting them, they are at least partially responsible.

Perhaps that's all the more reason that characterizing all gender issues as "our society is a patriarchy unconditionally, in which women are always oppressed and men are always the oppressors" is not all that great.
A device-independent protocol for more efficient random number generation
Minor quibble, it should be the three hardest problems.
Is that true though? In the Bay Area the cost of new construction keeps going up ($400-500/sq ft for the most basic).

If it costs more to replace a house than it cost to originally construct it I could see the value of the house appreciating.
Doesn't this only apply to short selling?
How does that apply if you are just buying stock to hold long term?
>Ok, so solar and wind are great, but now you're building massive batteries to store the energy at night.

Also production of solar panels is quite far from being "green" as well. Luckily most of solar production is handled by China, a country with quite lax environmental standards, so most of the HN crowd does not feel the environmental impact from it.
What I didn’t say that. I said those are meme stock arguments, which they are. Surface level factors that may or may not matter but don’t give the whole picture of cash flow which is ultimately what matters.
Sounds like a great dream they have there. Why would anyone produce chips there? I don't see any reason to do that.
well played. I think that just got added to my standard vocabulary. Caching has caused more errors and bugs that I've had to deal with than I can recall. My favorite was an off by one error where we returned nicely cached info -- just for the previous user who came through our system! :facepalm: That was a bad one.
Absolutely not.

At the moment, he has some containers full of rocks with paper work that says "copper".

Put it on the blockchain, and you'd have some containers full of rocks with paper work on the blockchain that says "copper".

That's not really any worse, but it's sure not better...

What would help is better physical security and a really thorough chain of custody. Unfortunately, those are hard; that's the solution the trader tried to use and got burned. And blockchains aren't going to be any help here. Cryptographically verifiable claims that your container is meant to contain copper don't help if someone took an angle grinder to the lock and swapped it for rocks, and a chain of cryptographically verifiable claims showing it was meant to contain copper at every step of it's journey don't tell you where the thieves struck.

Or in shorter form: You can't put copper on the blockchain; all you can do is put peper work on the blockchain, which is vastly less useful.
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The dangers of flying aren't theoretical either. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is still missing 7 years later.
ok, lets see what the Israeli government says

https://mfa.gov.il/MFA/AboutIsrael/Maps/Pages/Israeli-Agricu...

looks like the country being 55% desert factoid is irrelevant
man... every time i label images i think to myself "why cant i use the model to guess ahead the regions and then just correct them"... such a no brainer. but your implementation based on the video is so much more elegant than i ever thought of. well done!
Yeah but the speed.
> Within the Israeli cyberweapons industry, the totemic name is NSO Group. Its Pegasus technology can purportedly hack a phone without the target even clicking a link. It’s been used to track dissidents, activists, and journalists from Mexico to Morocco. Most infamously, according to a 2018 lawsuit, the Saudi government is alleged to have used Pegasus to hack the phone of a friend of Jamal Khashoggi’s in order to monitor the journalist before his murder.

> Behind NSO Group, there are many more. Cellebrite offers services to reconstruct data deleted from devices. NSO’s sister company Circles sells the ability to locate a person’s physical location using only their phone number.

Terrifying stuff. All this makes me wonder: nowadays, how are citizens living under oppressive governments ever to conceivably organise any kind of resistance? Such pervasive and all-encompassing surveillance makes it impossible that any kind of opposition can ever be mounted, if citizens can be monitored everywhere at all times. Absolutely depressing stuff.
I don’t have any background is psychology. This information you provided increases my skepticism of ADHD as being a thing at all. In short, I’ve felt since becoming an adult that ADHD is simply the result of forcing people into situations that are poorly suited to their brains, implemented by people who happened to fair well in those situations. That is, the humans themselves aren’t broken, just a different neuro-variant.
It's hardly baiting when I submitted the article myself and actually respond to comments.

My girlfriend isn't technical, and she trusts me more than she trusts big businesses, shockingly. Her messages are Signal backups so I couldn't read them even if I wanted to, and she happily shares her millions of photos of animals with me anyway. She's the emergency contact for my offsite backup service if anything should happen to me, and they'll ship her a drive with our data on it.

This is hardly a low quality submission but it's even more ridiculous to assume me a low quality person.
Do you not see the difference between willingly sharing and implicitly sharing?
$10 isn't a bad price for the item in question, but that really depends on how much they're going to charge for shipping, which I couldn't find information on. If they charge $10 more for shipping, $20 for this product seems a bit high.
I think you're spot on. I also think the real spot for innovation here is exactly what you're alluding to. Don't touch the real-time feed, but give an alternate "catch-up" view so someone can ask for a formatted review of the last half hour of conversation. Or maybe even a replay mode to see the chat as it happened with a speed modifier to play back at 1x, 1.25x, etc.
The "buy on Amazon!" button gives the impression of this being a retail product at first glance. I tried pressing it a couple of times because my brain wanted to know how much was it without having to read the whole page.
You should avoid attempting RSA key exchange because it's too hard to safely do this correctly and even if you do that loses forward secrecy in protocols where that means something.

If you're just doing signatures (so e.g. modern TLS or SSH) then any of the elliptic curve signature schemes are nicer than RSA. However, whether that's practical for you to rely on will depend on whether it's important to let random peers from the public Internet connect with whatever mouldy garbage they're running which may only do RSA.
I asked my dad who was a drug cop and he says that the 13 tons would indeed be incinerated.
Thank you for your kind words, but it's actually just habit from the way my parents raised me.
Does anyone have a tool to convert video of scrolling text to a text file?
It should be, but the increments were run in parallel on nonvolatile memory.
We are moving from a high trust to low trust society.
The dystopian future is towers of sleep boxes that the poor rent to sleep 8 hours a day (so 3 persons per day). Something in the Matrix style. The sleep boxes are poorly built, but thanks to the laws limiting the supply, the workers have to pay thru the nose to rent those boxes. These towers are built on compact lots of land and around it there are 1 sq mi lots with proper houses for the rich 0.01%. This is essentially the exponential growth turning inwards.
> there's very little hype behind it

This isn't a knock against Elixir or the Erlang ecosystem but I would definitely say that Elixir gets a decent amount of hype. Each time a new release comes out it invariably shoots to the front page of HN.
Wait, 2.5 hours per day?? In the US I barely had 30 minutes outside / PE per day.
Currently the most subsidized energy is fossil fuels. My own government is a very vocal about climate change, but they still pay millions in order for fossil fuel plants to stand ready in case demand exceeds that of the production from wind.

I understand people dislike when nuclear get subsidies, but its nowhere as bad as the amount of subsidies we pay right now to fossil fuels. We need to stop throwing money at fossil fuels. I rather have my tax money go to batteries or nuclear than fossil fuels disguised as "reserve energy".
You probably aren't going to like this, but have you considered having the user select some roads and intersections in advance, and then only keep track of those roads? That should make the problem with storage manageable. Don't know if there's a better way.

Another thought: I see you're basically using histograms for visualization, you should try switching to displaying estimates of probability density functions. The estimation is done with "kernel density estimation" (KDE), and it's basically a much improved histogram. You will probably want to enable the user to select the KDE bandwidth (which is one positive real number), AFAIK different bandwidths may show patterns that exist on different time scales. In addition to the KDE, you may also want to display the estimate of the cumulative distribution function: the empirical distribution function (eCDF).

The eCDF is a really simple concept, KDE also isn't too bad. See here for KDE and eCDF intuition: https://mathisonian.github.io/kde/ (the former requires a desktop computer for viewing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_distribution_functio...

Implementing KDE isn't straightforward, several completely different approaches to it exist, but worst case you should be able to find a library for that.

Also, I should probably point you towards Vega and Vega Lite, it seems like they may be of use: https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/

Vega (and Vega Lite) are for interactive data visualization in the browser, I don't know if that suits your game, but they can give you the estimates that describe probability distributions from samples that I wrote about above.
If it's only a few weird drug people you met then it's not "the standard".
I'm sympathetic to Stallman's goals, but for some applications this presents a huge problem: if anyone can modify their car's auto emissions software, everyone can play Volkswagen and make their car high-performance and dirty as hell. Or people can extend the range of their WiFi by exceeding the legal power levels for unlicensed bands and making a frequency band unusable by their whole neighborhood. Or, modify someone's medical device's software to provide a very sneaky way of killing them. Now, there may be a way to solve these problems, but it would probably involve adding some unchangeable mechanism to limit the behavior of the device to keep it safe. But that's very difficult to do. Certifying that a fixed program has certain safety properties is difficult but possible; certifying that a new kind of design that allows users more freedom to tinker, but not too much, is much harder.
Frankly, no. Sharpen your skills via YouTube and Udemy for a fraction of the cost and time commitment. Get an entry level job, hone your skills more, and you,, be off to the races.

We just hired a fresh graduate for 80k a year.
Trust me, it's not always about convenience for some of us remote camera users.

In my case, I've got a camera in my elderly parent's back yard as there have been a few falls in the back yard, and one break-in some years back.
Granted, the pricing assumptions assume 100% utilization at all times and not taking advantage of scaling-to-zero, which is where Cloud Run excels.

Given that, it seems like WebSockets/persistent connections is a weird use case.
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Right, but you don't accidentally shadow-ban someone, you first have to create the whole system to do so... So they weren't 'stupid'.

It obviously was intentional to lie to the user. We're just discussing the line at which intentional lies for selfish reasons can be called malicious.
History of the ranch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald_Ranch_House
I'm pretty sure it's:

1) naming

4) concurr2) cache invalidationency

...

3) off-by-one errors
For anything small, the local drives are obvious theft targets.

For anything large or distributed, you’re probably going to spend less for better security with a cloud system.

It’s sensitive data, but probably in a second tier of sensitivity. The integrity of the on-prem system depends in your remote access security and operational practices. Solutions like this often really suck.
That's nice but it can't work in every circumstance. Perhaps the abusive spouse is a cop, for example, or someone with connections to the local government who would be likely to find out if the police were involved. Perhaps the victim simply isn't convinced that they would be taken seriously or receive sufficient (and timely) protection against retaliation. It's good that there is a system in place which should help the majority of victims, but sometimes unique circumstances call for unique solutions.
>You've asserted without evidence over and over again that Israel is somehow dependent on the UK for military support, and that this was true around the time of Israel's founding as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartite_Declaration_of_1950
> Putting surveillance video on the cloud is... kinda dumb

It's a necessity for some cases. I commented on this elsewhere, but for me it's having an eye on my elderly parents back yard in case of falls. Past history of not knowing is precisely why we got the camera.
Well, that looks bad. Thank goodness, though, that after a security lapse this awful, corporate and government bureaucracies will come to their senses and stop outsourcing critical functions to cloud companies they don't know all that much about. Oh, wait...
What to own for, really ?

For wasting time reproducing the mistakes of the makers risking noise for signal ?

For fixing rules to be the king of a kingdom of one risking blood for throne ?

For protecting secrets to dangerous to share, having risking life ?

For the gut feeling sake of owning, missing common culture as a much more powerful nudge than Google & Co ?

Or just properly for the need of justice ? Just in math, just in time, just for men !

Don’t want to own, but to get proper : one small step in mind, one giant leap in mind kind ;))
Also, convenience: Buy this camera, get access to recordings anywhere over the internet with nearly zero setup time.

If you have an on-site system (like I do) it's way more effort for the average consumer.
It is upsetting, but even more annoying is that I do not see opt-out anywhere. I am basically reliving Arthur Dent's adventure, where company can simply say "It is right over there"( buried under a pile of online forms in a never used obscure platform that requires eye scan to submit a request to respect your information ).
Note that the product is NOT $10. The $10 charge is for a pre-order ticket and a $40 off coupon on the actual product, which retails for $170
Wyze cameras have open source firmware that can be loaded (DaFang Hacks) that works pretty well.

I've never used (or trusted) the Wyze firmware anywhere on my network, but I use a couple of Wyze cameras pointed outwards from my house connected to a a DVR with motion detection.
You can still keep them local and use a VPN. That's what I do.
The word for the former is "authoritarian." Relationships are defined by power imbalances, hierarchy, and superficial displays of conformity, not by outcomes.
I find the Wyze cams great! Cheap. They do have 2 factor auth support for apps like Authy. It doesn't sound like you have enabled the premium features. Person detection is really good for exterior facing cams. Hook it up to Alexa Show and you have person detected notifications also access to any cam. Premium also has longer clips. For the price it's kind of OK to be semi locked down. I believe the reason for not supporting RTSP is because of hardware limitations on V2.
As an American, there's nothing that prepares me for the notion of cops who would give up this much (or anything at all), to avoid harming unarmed protesters.
I think we can involve the time element to make more sense of this without scanning all data, using an advanced AI or chopping the conversation up into multiple screens.

There's the chat in the past that you seldom need to look through and the chat right now. When looking through the past, we're scanning for more specific information as a summary and images and thumbnails tend to get in the way and take more time to scroll past. When we're actually moving with the chat we want to know everything that's happening now, all at once, with high visibility.

Clearly, content takes up too much space in chats, especially when scrolling back. What if all content in a chat collapsed after an interval of say, 5-10 minutes? You can re-expand it if you really want to see it but you're probably more interested in what someone said in text because that's the core medium of communication. If the whole topic of a chat is content, then vice versa, collapse contiguous blocks of messages instead. It would make sense to give moderators some power over collapsibility. The user could have some tools too such as keeping open all posts from friends, or certain individual users, or with certain keywords. Maybe there are some other rules of what to collapse and when that would make some sense, like a continuous chain of replies should generally stay open.
Could you make the same argument for anything: "Why would anyone manufacture chip lithography equipment in Europe?" Without knowing that most of that equipment is made there, I would have asked this question. This is about mostly automated foundries and already expensive high skill low number labor.
If this was $10 this would be the biggest steal ever. That is ridiculously cheap for this device. The device actually costs $129 (with pre-order) or $169. The $10 is just to reserve a pre-order spot/raise money for the company.
> It's rarely viewed outside your network

The majority of real camera systems (100+ cameras, 10+ locations) I have interacted with are monitored by outside vendors.
> And by comparing delay times from different satellites, the receiver can triangulate its position

Argh! It's not triangulating, it's trilaterating.

Good article, though.
I just had an aha moment reading your post. Food safety, drug safety, airline safety, all these regulations were implemented because manufacturers were operating with standards so lax that people suffered actual harm.

Perhaps that's the real reason behind the anti-FDA lobbying we are seeing here. The FDA demonstrates that government-mandated safety standards work. We can't have those in the IT field because they would diminish profits!
This is why I self host all my cameras. https://mitchross09.medium.com/how-i-self-host-my-own-sites-...
The difference here is that the company was already in the middle of chapter 11. So there is no "avoiding bankruptcy", that part has already happened.

One common scenario for exiting chapter 11 is that you wipe out equity holders so that you can pay off your debts. (That's a major reason why stocks tend to get lower returns than bonds: less risk, less reward.) So, selling common stock like this in order to raise money is effectively robbing - or, more accurately, swindling - the poor to give to the rich, who tend to be the carriers of more senior debt. Which Hertz knew they were doing. Technically, they wrote, "We're selling you lots of $0 for the low low price of $2.50," in the prospectus, but they did that in the full knowledge that Robinhood users don't actually read prospectuses, and that Robinhood users were the only ones who would be buying these shares. So there's your deliberate deception.

The spot where they "buy some breathing room and recover" is the bit where you wipe out your equity holders in order to pay off your lenders as well as you can, restructure whatever remaining debt you have, and carry on. That's more-or-less what chapter 11 (as opposed to, say, chapter 7) is.
A 500M-1billion fine. Those fuckers will only behave until one of those shenanigans can make them broke.
Opposing colonization and war crimes is not a complex issue. It’s basic human rights.

I oppose all espionage, especially things like blackmail. If that’s not dirty, I don’t know what is.