skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And if I run a guest wifi in one of the many countries where I have legal obligations to take steps to block illegal traffic because I am ultimately responsible for the emissions of my network, what would you suggest I do?

This is an oft overlooked part of these discussions. I manage a public network at a library (which is still the only access point for many people, unfortunately). DNS blacklisting certainly isn't the only tool in the toolkit, but it is one that DoH takes out. I'm genuinely conflicted on DoH because on one hand, I am a privacy advocate, but on the other I run a public network and that comes with certain obligations, both legal (we need to block filesharing) and to customers (we do traffic shaping because the budget it limited and bandwidth isn't cheap).
How exactly do you guys connect to the locks?
> I hate YouTube ads and do my best to block them where I can, but let’s not forget that YouTube is serving a billion hours of video a day, which costs.

You understand the costs involved to serve billions of hours of video a day yet still block the ads used to help sustain the site?

Why not pay for premium?
I also use example.com, and unfortunately https://example.com/ also works, so if you just type "example.com" in to your browser, you are likely to hit the https:// URL first and get an error. And you have to type the entire "http://example.com" out, or your browser's auto-complete will go for "https://example" first. And even when it's http://, a captive portal may redirect you to an internal https:// site without a valid cert. And sometimes it caches so you need to remember to Shift+Reload.

The most infuriating thing about technology is how it reminds me how incompetent we are as a species. Here we are, the global collective of Information Technology workers, captains of industry, cutting-edge entrepreneurs, and white beard pros, and we cannot make a god damn computer just connect to a coffee shop's network without jumping through a bunch of annoying hoops, like the whole system was constructed by an intern on summer break. (No offense to interns)
Not a Verizon customer I take it?
Yeah exactly, this is glossed over. The UK govt and many CEOs have been erring on the side of wanting "work from work" to come back. The choice for workers then is: continue restrictions and get remote working or end restrictions and be forced back into commuting etc. In this light 18% doesn't seem as high.
> Truth must be verifiable

On the contrary, truth must be falsifiable [1]. The value of a theory is not in how easy it is to verify, but in how easily it could possibly be refuted.

[1] https://science.jrank.org/pages/9302/Falsifiability-Popper-s...
Assange chose to remain in an embassy for years rather than face questioning (not even a trial) for the offenses alleged against him. Snowden and Manning's leaks endangered the lives of US and foreign military and intelligence personnel, and a number of foreign intelligence personnel were killed after being identified in those leaks.

Yet somehow Epstein and Harvey Weinstein run rampant among our own soil, all with open secrets.

Do you expect the police to just magically know that people are committing crime? The criminal investigation process usually begins with a police report (of someone reporting a crime). In the absence of a police report (as with the Epstein and Weinstein cases) the police have "no cause" to investigate absent some other mechanism that publicly reveals alleged crimes (like a news report). And on that note, in both of the cases you cited, prosecutors did try to investigate the rumors, but couldn't find anyone wiling to testify against those men until the scale of their crimes became public.

Epstein was arrested and awaiting trial once his crimes became publicly known, and before he committed suicide was expected to face charges in multiple states and countries. Epstein became so toxic that multiple men known to have gone to Epstein's parties have faced social and financial repercussions for it. Melinda Gates famously divorced Bill because of his friendship with Epstein. Similarly, Weinstein was also arrested once his crimes became public and is facing charges in multiple states, was kicked out of every industry group, and essentially banished from his former life.
What's the difference between #ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide and #StopTheSteal from a free speech perspective?
I don't think this is an extremely important thing to worry about, but I do think you have a point and I like the term "Africa Major."
The Discrete Charm of the Machine: Why the World Became Digital
This has nothing to do with tax avoidance and everything to do with an outdated exchange control rule that is fairly unique to South Africa.
> A quarter say nightclubs and casinos should never reopen; almost two in ten would support an indefinite ban on leaving home after 10pm “without good reason”.

Would it really be that surprising that there's that many people who don't go to nightclubs or casinos? If it doesn't affect you after all.

https://archive.is/emQBV
Just found Intel leaks and Gwent on github without any effort. Intel has a few repositories in different formats, plain copy of .svn directory or converted to git. TF2/Portal leak is there as well. All but 2 I found were made by throwaway accounts.
> Our government, however, stopped funding research on the health effects of radiofrequency radiation in the 1990s

Regulatory capture?
> Chromecast was already bypassing local DNS for years before DoH was even conceived.

Before DoH though, my understanding is a good gateway appliance could just overwrite those DNS requests as it sees them. Now they'll be encrypted, and you'll have no way to tell the Chromecast where to connect (or even to where it is connecting).
Bull... Nightclubs, casinos and dark streets harbour all sorts of wrongdoers.

I expected less bias from The Economist.
Firefox's primary sponsor is still Google. And whether they are pushing it because of malice or just incompetence, DoH was designed and built by Google to protect ad companies from network security. Implementing it by default is a hostile act, and one Mozilla should reconsider.
More interestingly, if we can trick it into regurgitating a leaked copy of the windows source code, Microsoft apparently says that’s fair use.
What monopoly?

I could buy the search monopoly position, but not video.
Mexican drug cartels have set up complete private cell phone networks.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-telecoms-cartels-s...
Nobody seems to have touched on this so I'll go.

Since trying rust's ans zig's error system I have avoided using python exception and replaced them with [1].
Basically functions return Ok(value) or Err(msg). callers can then get the result with `a = fn(a,b).unroll()`. For Ok it will unwrap and for Err it will return early (with a decorator to catch the virtual exception). The only overhead is the decorator, apart from this the ergonomics are the same as rust.

It's so nice I hope it becomes a part of the language some day.

[1] https://pypi.org/project/result/
The only thing i can truly say about that is there's a reason biden tapped gary. I have faith in Gary. But there needs to be a light hand here, cause it's getting weird.
On a similar note, real estate agents need to be knocked down a level.

Their job is to unlock a door.

Why they can make a hundred thousand dollars a year is criminal.
We have been trying to get it changed for DECADES, there has been numerous court cases.
When the recent Github v. youtube-dl fiasco happened, I remember reading similarly strongly-worded but dismissive comments regarding fair use, stating how it is quite obvious that youtube-dl's test code could never be fair use and how fair use itself is a vague, shaky, underspecified provision of the copyright law which cannot ever be relied on.

To me, seeing youtube-dl's case as fair use is so much easier than using hundreds of thousands source code files without permission in order to build a proprietary product.
It's amazing to me to see how many people run out the tropes that intelligent people don't commit crimes. More accurately, intelligent people don't get caught committing crimes.
I also thought that, but given the birth rates I see in my social circles full of very high earners (and worldwide data), I have come to question the assumption that women would want to have sufficient children to be able to support our large proportions of old age people.

While lack of parental support and high volatility is a cause for not having children, I also think there might be a decent portion of women that given the financial freedom of not having to do anything they do not want to do, will choose to not have children at numbers previously seen.

I think it is playing out before us in real time, especially as ACA introduce cost free birth control, and technological advances such as IUDs introduced convenient birth control.

I often wonder if the explosive population (and resulting economic) growth of the post WW2 era would have happened if women had been financially independent and had access to the same birth control we have now.
Yeah, so it's basically a lexer with an extremely simplistic parser.

Compiler parsers aren't a great fit for difftastic. They discard comments, they may not give you output if there are syntax errors, and they're usually tied to a specific language version.

Since this format works well for Comby (Rijnard's talk is excellent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMZLBB_BFNg ) I'm hopeful it's an adequate solution for Difftastic.

It will also users to add their own custom syntax/config formats.

That said, using tree-sitter might be an option. It's more forgiving than compiler parsers.
"""Then commenters posit that "if non-ionizing radiation isn't strong enough to cause genetic perturbations, it can't be responsible for sources of cancer"."""

The commenters are factually wrong. This is based on a assumption made by physicists about biology which is completely unsupported. It happened back when people claimed living near power lines caused cancer (they don't- people who live near power lines tend to be poorer and have worse health outcomes) and the physicists "proved" it was impossible.

Unfortunately for the physicists, they didn't actually understand medical biology and now research indicates there are other mechanisms which lead to cancer that don't require ionizing radiation.
Lizardman's Constant: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
It seems that HTTPS is available which made my browser (in HTTPS-only mode) connect to the HTTPS site. I suppose that if HTTPS was blocked it would allow me to fall back to HTTP but it gives a much less clear error than something like http://neverssl.com/ does.
I've also found lockdown suits my temperament! And yeah, if you have common cold, I agree that it's courteous to wear a mask indoors (which mainly protects others from your effusions, more than you from theirs).

And yeah, I'm in favour of social distancing, regardless of disease. I appreciate people I don't know respecting my space. How much space you prefer seems to be a social construct; I feel a bit invaded if a stranger comes closer than about 1m.

I sort of miss shaking hands with people I've just met. Elbow-bumps are absurd; nobody does it without irony.
Plenty of democracies have stricter stances on libel, which such a hashtag could be argued to be
This isn't really true IME. The best contractors will understand the goals and motivations for your project, and make suggestions based on their vastly greater experience of ways to improve upon the project.
Donations are made with a purpose in mind. If I donate to a charity that promised to buy mosquito nets with my money, I’d be dismayed if it turned out all the money was spent on hookers and blackjack. So yes, while you might not expect to tell anyone how to use your donation, I do. Most people do.

Unless they managed to sneak the hooker clause into the fine print and I missed it. In which case, well done, carry on.
I'm guessing that the first person who owned the phone could potentially be a character who doesn't want global attention on their burner phone.
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I really hope software will replace realtors.

In my country at least, the ratio of professionalism, accountability, value-added to fees/earnings is the lowest of any occupation I can think of. It would be really low-hanging fruit for tech to disrupt, but unfortunately the real estate boards recognize this, and hold the critical data with an iron fist (from what I understand).

It would probably take some serious legal battles to pry that industry open.
>The F.B.I.’s operation, according to court documents that the Justice Department unsealed on Monday, had its origins in early 2018 after the bureau dismantled a Canadian-based encryption service called Phantom Secure. That company, officials said, supplied encrypted cellphones to drug gangs, like Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, and other criminal groups.

>Seeing a void in the underground market, the F.B.I. recruited a former Phantom Secure distributor who had been developing a new encrypted communications system called Anom. The informant agreed to work for the F.B.I. and let the bureau control the network for the possibility of a reduced prison sentence, according to the court documents. The F.B.I. paid the informant $120,000, the documents said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/world/australia/operation... (from when it was first revealed to the public last month)
A New Digital Life, Same Old Problems
I suspect the author is misapplying the more direct expression:

"I'm being kept in the dark and fed shit"

Which applies to a lot of dis-functional workplaces.
More importantly, most 911 emergency calls (and subsequent saved lives) are now done on cell phones presumably in situations where there are no land lines. This increase in saved lives massively outweights any tiny effects from RF.
The Lie of “Expired” Food
Worth noting is that the CIRA is a Canadian organization and so will be restricted by Canadian court orders and regulator rulings.

So this rollout of DoH to Canadians isn't nearly as disruptive as it could be.
> We always come to decision. There is no "semi" here.

That's not really how I understand the "semi" in the terminology. For a decidable question, you can recognize when the answer is yes, and you can recognize when the answer is no. For a semidecidable question, you can recognize when the answer is yes.

It doesn't take much of a stretch to describe that as cutting your capabilities in "half".

The way I usually think about this is that with full decidability, you can rule something in or out. With semidecidability, you can rule something in, but you can't rule things out.

That framework extends well to the situation described above, where if the compiler chooses to compile a program, then the typing in that program was valid, and if the compiler chooses to complain about the typing, we can't draw any conclusions. It doesn't match your example; you can't rule anything in or out.
Jai Alai
18% doesn't seem all that high. Wouldn't be surprised if you'd find a similar percentage that would support it in the US.
Coopers are very valuable. How else could we make barrels?
Elon Musk’s Tunnels Never Go Anywhere
Wifi with captive portals work by redirecting all of your outgoing traffic to a specific host - send a packet to 12.34.56.78 and it gets natted to 10.0.0.1 (or wherever the captive portal is).

When you connect to wifi, many (most?) OSes and/or browsers issue requests to http servers run by apple/firefox/microsoft. If the response is a portal, a popup is shown to allow the user to login (typically logging in would authorise the IP and/or mac address in a database and allow traffic to pass).

However some (poorly implemented) hotspots have specific holes to allow these pages to load without the portal (whitelisting the domains), then when you try to visit http://othersite.com, you will be redirected. Other portals may timeout after X minutes or X MB of use and require reauthentication, which the OS/browser may not detect.

As more and more sites use https, while the connection can be stopped (by stopping traffic going to port 443), a correctly behaving browser should ignore any traffic coming from a redirected https connection, as it wouldn't have a valid certificate - it's the whole point.

Many sites also implement headers which tell a browser "you will always connect to me on http", and the browser will refuse to downgrade to http://othersite.com, even if port 443 (https) is blocked but port 80 is open.

By visiting neverssl.com or similar sites, you can in those situations trigger the captive portal login page.
I don't need to be a meterologist or climate scientist to know that higher average temperatures mean more water vapor production (see high school physics vapor pressure is a function of temperature) and since what goes up must come down more vapor means more percipation on a global scale. So we can categorically say climate change does not cause drought on a global scale. It may cause regional droughts.

Increased percipitation as snow in polar regions increases the albedo of the earth. Clouds may increas the albedo of the earth depending on their altitude and composition.

You also provide no scientific sources and basically appeal to the supposed scientific authority of the media. The media is not a scientific authority. It is propaganda and entertainment. Anyway I don't have time for a flamewar. People should know though that the feedback effects of global warming and increased CO2 are unknown and difficult to model.
I personally didn't feel much like it was a vacation since I still had to go into the office[0], but I will miss the way the default behavior was for people to avoid each other on the street and absolutely no one attempted to start an impromptu conversation with me.

[0] except for the brief period where basically every employee had COVID, gee, how did that happen?
They solve that by legalizing polyandry, but I don't know if Chinese social dynamics would support such an arrangement. Actual red pillers won't like that solution, for sure.
Not sure about Stubhub, but Ticketmaster exists to be the bad guy. Lots of Ticketmaster fees are shared with the promoter and venue operator.
Ah, that's fair. I definitely agree it's a problem when trying to cooperate on a program. I think it's probably more a function of inexperience or poor judgement than passion per se, but overzealousness definitely exacerbates it.
> What about subsidies and support?

One of the reasons for the push is that Catholic institutions (particularly schools) already get subsidies and support.

> Does anyone expect that churches, once taxed, will not, through the work of their members, demand, and get, government funds?

They already do, through the work of their members and supporters. Making it more expensive to support churches at current levels before engaging in additional political activity won't increase their success at doing that.
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I think the case was closed on the vaping sickness, as it was attributed to black-market THC vapes using vitamin E oil to thicken their otherwise diluted distillate to give the illusion of a higher quality product. It's too late for the PR damage to be undone to vapes in general.
Hypothetically speaking, what if the said company acts with ulterior motives, is blatantly anti national, blatantly trying to interfere in elections, cause riots etc. What should a responsible government do then? Hypothetically.
One of the first bits of paid work I did was for a printing company that made business cards among lots of other things. They would manually create a CorelDraw document with a page full of cards for each employee, taking the contact information from an excel spreadsheet. The data entry for making cards for 100 people would take several days.

I was able to automate this for them with a pretty simple VB.net script. Several days of boring mind-numbing work per month were reduced to a couple button clicks and a few seconds of CPU time. It also eliminated all typographical errors on the part of the printing company.

I never touched vb.net again after that. I had no interest in the technology at all and there was nothing particularly interesting about the work itself. However saving people from having to do a bunch of boring work is extremely satisfying. And it saved the owner money which feels great too.

I find that being empathic towards my users not only makes the work more fulfilling but it also allows me to design better products. As a human with human interests you should at least give it a try.
Do you have a recommendation on a quality smart lock for home use? Some ideal mix of security, style, open/compatible software.
Fabrice Bellard is among the very best in the world.
Creating a GUI fort TensorFlow (or MediaPipe) is not a bad thing in itself, yes? For one thing, we need more After-Effects-like tools - particularly if they can be browser based and cheap/free to use.

The ML people don't make it easy to work with the output their models produce. I was playing with TensorFlow/MediaPipe last month, to see if I could get them to play nicely with my canvas library. The results were quite promising[1][2][3]. Still, I think making it easier for devs to use these ML models in various ways needs to be prioritized.

CodePen links (all request access to the device camera):

[1] - TensorFlow body-pix model - hide the background in various ways - https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/ZEeoZaP

[2] - MediaPipe Selfie Segmentation model - hide the background in various ways - https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/PopBxBM

[3] - MediaPipe Facemesh - draw on the face in real time - https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/VwpGrVG
Why that, rather than vaccinated?
After that, we'll hear about the security companies they "own" whose agents and kernel modules are mandated all across corporate America.

Why go through the trouble of running a VPN company yourself? That is sooooo 5-10 years ago.
Isn't that a golf shop? I didn't know it was popular in Russia.
Not quite; some of this is about moving wealth around, changing the captured value to favor the buyer instead of the seller.

But that’s just the “efficient market” part of this. A fee like this could very well be an inefficient rent-capture that has managed to make its removal more expensive in the short-term than the short-term cost of allowing it to remain. Said less charitably, it’s a racket.

I would have thought that on HN of all places, where so many folks are attempting “disruption” (ie finding these unnecessary market inefficiencies and stepping around their cultural/legal/systemic barriers in order to reap some of the otherwise captured value), this would be better understood.
EU used faulty, industry-funded studies to justify authorizing glyphosate
No. LTO is something I've been meaning to look at. Though if I can't violate the ODR intentionally I might not be interested.
Dang, you created this account back in 2015 and your first comment is from 1 hour ago.
Two crank warning signs is a massive number for someone purporting to be a scientist or expert...
Encountering some turbulence on Bitbucket’s journey to a new platform