skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been both harmed and helped by this at different times - in both cases by HugeDomains.

The domain for a brand name of a product line of my father's small business lapsed when I forgot to renew it, and it was registered by HugeDomains with an asking price of US $2600. The business unit had mostly wound down and it's not important enough to spend that kind of money on; it's just a bad look when people browse directly to that address. I registered the .net, and I'm hoping they'll quit renewing the .com some time and we'll be able to get it back for an ordinary price. It's quite obscure so no legitimate buyer will want it. I'm happy for them to keep wasting their money in the meantime.

Another time, I was starting a new company, and had an idea for a name that had personal significance, but involved common-enough words that you would expect it to be taken already. It turned out HugeDomains was squatting it, and asking about $2500. In this case it was worth spending that money to buy it off them, so I did, and have been a happy owner of that domain ever since.

I'm not happy about supporting domain squatting, and I've wondered about how it could be prevented, and even considered starting some kind of "benevolent" squatting service to beat the extortionate practices that HugeDomains seems to be undertaking in cases where people just forget to renew, but maybe the way they do it is the only way to do that kind of thing economically, and that only a complete overhaul of the domain name market could open the way for better practices.
It won't be long until these type of systems are mandated. Combined with a hardware root of trust it's not inconceivable that modifying your hardware not to report home will also be made a crime. It never stops with CSAM either, pretty soon it's terrorism and whatever vague new definition they use.

The focus on CSAM seems extremely hypocritical when authorities make such little effort to stop ongoing CSA. I would encourage everyone to research the Sophie Long case. Unless there is image or video evidence the police make little effort to investigate CSA because it's resource intensive.
In addition to the reason already mentioned, one of the most important reasons privacy is necessary is how people - especially children - discover new aspects of their own identity, personality, and interests.

Children will experiment when they think their parents aren't watching. Freedom to experiment and explore their interaction with the world is obviously very important for children, but this use of privacy never really goes away. Consider if you wanted to learn an instrument but have never played music before (or any other difficult skill). You probably want the freedom to practice badly for a while. If you had to practice knowing people were watching you, would you feel as free to experiment learning this type of skill?

Problems of abuse and power are obviously very important concerns. However, I believe the chilling effect surveillance has on people will cause a major shift away from people experimenting with learning new things and exploring their hobbies will become an insidious, system damage to culture and social liberty.
Being an addict seems more social than anything. It’s possible to go through a party phase and then years later go through an unrelated tough patch, having not touched drugs for years, and then hear whispers of addiction to explain the unrelated issue. Nobody dares broach the subject, and so a person clean for years and never really an addict can have their life ruined by others calling them one. Maybe they have real pictures from the phase or similar to circulate. It is slander even if the photos are real, and there’s no recourse. That can happen to a non-addict who experimented; can only imagine how likely a true addict would be to relapse in such a hopeless situation. Addiction is a destructive habit or system that needs to be replaced.
There are serious differences between food prices around the world. They may change with gas prices, but that does not make them the same.
Recently someone asked me what I liked most about living in Japan. I thought for a minute, and then answered “convenience stores”.

It was a bit of a joke answer - there are plenty of other things I could say, but I didn’t really want to get into the cultural differences between Japan and the United States or anything like that.

But there is some truth to it, too. Convenience stores in Japan are better than the US in just about every way. And I visit them so frequently (twice today, for example) that they really do have a pretty significant impact on my life.

Usually I go in with a specific purpose in mind and I can be in and out in under a minute. But other times I’ll go in with a more vague idea of what I want (“snacks for a road trip” or “booze”) and I’m always surprised and delighted to find something new and interesting on the shelf.

An example of something interesting that my son picked out today is this “colorful ice cream shop” snack [1]. It comes with various trays and powders that you mix with water to make “ice cream” (it’s not actually frozen, though) - complete with 3 flavors of ice cream, chocolate sauce, sprinkles, and 4 cones that you shape yourself and cook in the microwave. I was expecting my son to choose a lollipop or something, but this turned out to be surprisingly fun and tasty.

[1] https://www.kracie.co.jp/products/foods/10162929_21123.html
The main selling point of Apple is how well integrated the ecosystem is, they could make it super simple to backup the private key on your different devices like watch, tablet and laptop.
Literally for almost every other big cloud provider. (Facebook, Instagram, Discord, Reddit, Twitter and so on.) Granting that you have access by phone.
In Chicago, the 7-11 on my corner doesn't just have beer and wine, it has whiskey and vodka.
Shit! They found me!
> But yes, the US 7-11s are now owned by a Japanese company.

Corporate 7-11 is owned by a Japanese company, most 7-11s in the states are franchises owned very locally.
Previous 1Password user here. Switched to KeePass, still figuring out the ins and outs, but looks quite nice in the options it provides.
"You don't need a clipper chip to trace nuisance calls. You need an authenticated network that records the origin of calls,"

So where is this magical solution you speak of? We're all products that the phone company sells to telemarketers, there is no incentive for them to give us these tools now.

Again, the clipper chip would have made it difficult for anyone to pretend to be someone they are not, cryptographic signature is part of the deal to ensure you are talking to who you think you are talking to.
Agreed. Even simple things like your hunger level are under hormonal control.

Calories out is equally suspect. Your body has mechanisms to adjust his many calories you burn, and those are not under conscious control.
Well I take 'monopoly' to be a pretheoretical concept tied
to the moral concequentialist justification of markets: aggregate social benefits.

Ie., a monopoly is whatever situation gives rise to a situation where a company can set prices without regards to legitimate competitive market processes. Where 'legitimate' is effectively a concequentialist constraint
concerning aggregate consumer benefit.

There are many theories of /when/ a company is a monopoly; including very narrow case law definitions around pricing.

The pretheoretical use of the term however is taken to permit a broader scope.

And lets be clear: a 30pc surcharge on all our economic activity (whether that be a mastercard or an apple) given no market justification has no justification.

Let there be many app stores on the iphone-- and we shall see what the market price on an app store. If
it ends up being 30% then theres no objection.
I don't think they are targeted only to them. The short attention span can be a thing, although I'm not sure it's generational. For example, the usual newspaper has a lot of small articles).

On the other hand, part of the candies is to reassure your audience and try to bring them to you with something else than your content. That part applies to everyone, regardless of their age. For example, if you do a blog post on a programming technique, you could try to brand it (and yourself) as "software craftsmanship", insert a few references to people in that space, add a few paragraphs talking mostly about this ideology and not the content. Or you could use a lot of examples, references and jokes from something cultural (the current popular thing on netflix for example). These "candies" aren't targeted at people with short attention span.
Are you saying there is as standalone version of 1Password 7? Does it support vault sync via iCloud?
You are currently downvoted but I think there is something to homeostasis.

My favorite counter point to calories in/out crowd is that the body is a dynamic system. The calories out portion doesn't stay constant. I have lost weight while eating more because my base metabolism increased. In "That Sugar Film," the guy eats the same amount of calories and same activity level but starts to include "daily recommended sugar" and increased his weight. The body is a dynamic system and will change how it stores and processes energy. Yes, you can't violate thermodynamics and eating a calorie deficit will cause weight loss (and possibly other issues), but the system tries to adapt.
But then you can't read computer screens and annoy people with the sun blinding them.
The upgoing issues people have with wheats could be linked to the pesticides and not the wheat itself. (According to a recent documentation from Arte) I personally believe the reason I can't drink beer today is glyphosat. The more I can be sure it's glyphosate free the less likely I get a headache.

Honestly one of the worst things we face these days in my opinion
It's worth noting that it won't be as simple as plugging in Swarms' payload - there will be singificant necessary engineering work to validate the RF and power characteristics of the integration.

Interesting work I'm sure.
Not everybody, but probably enough people. Actually you could even build your career around it. Some guy got into office at night time to fire estinguish the problem his buggy code created. Got appraisal from management for such extra effort. Everybody else's not so buggy code didn't get that appraisal...
I think the limits for appropriation in art production are defined by intentions. We fairly assume that Soderburgs intentions were good. The contemporary British artist Glen Brown makes exact copies of paintings that he admires, yet they sell as original Glen Brown artworks.
Apple has gotten a ton of heat over this and they haven't once mentioned that e2e on iCloud is something they're working on or that this technology would make possible, so can people stop spreading this narrative that this is their goal? It's completely baseless.
Standard Oil
Google Maps Goes Crazy on Android Auto, Waze Now the Better Option
No, and I don't have plans to add it, though a contribution would be welcome.

It's a matter of writing a rule. Best follow Jay Conrod's "awesome bazel", IMO that gives enough in terms of documentation to make it happen.
airplanes exist, and theyre owned by a baron too
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/1/21203630/apple-amazon-prim... They do have a special arrangement, and iirc there was a case of an email company being taken down due to them handling payments outside of the app, on a website.
Apple’s ability and dedication to over-engineer products amazes me (in both positive and negative way. But mostly positive..). I wonder what was the estimated MSRP on this one. $299?
That’s interesting, but it only applies to the Crown Estate organisation particular to the UK, so only 0.06 billion acres. The other organisations linked to the Crown are separate legal bodies with other rules (and often just equivalent to the national government).
I think this is overlooked far too often. Through various programs, my mom went crazy on the insulation and energy efficiency in her old ranch style house but didn’t add an air exchanger. We realized we felt like crap there and measured the CO2 and it was hitting over 3000 ppm!

https://www.kane.co.uk/knowledge-centre/what-are-safe-levels...

I’m horrified to think of all the poor people in these programs that are probably feeling bad but have slightly better energy bills. Good health is the most important quality we have. There need to be energy conserving air exchangers put in with each tight house made. That’s the best of both worlds.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin

Thomas Gold in the “Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels” explores the idea in depth.

It’s not quite a crank theory (I think Gold has a legit academic publication history) but it kind of teeters on the edge. It’s one of those ones I’d like to believe, because it turns much of what we think we know on it’s ear. But a sober look at the evidence makes it seem pretty unlikely.
Letting imagination fly: say there's some critters living by different processes, deeper than the 113 degF level that's currently the maximum temp our life has been observed at. Our efforts so far might have scratched the top of their world and pulled up some of their coldest, slowest microbes.

Would we be able to recognize it? How would we spot the smashed goo of an ameboid as life, after its cooled, exploded from the pressure difference, and congealed into leftovers?

Theses temperatures and pressures are similar to those we use industrially. We have some idea what things do under those conditions, in limited, cleaner contexts.

Further down, things are much more energetic and we have less clue how anything might work.

The barrier between us and the moon is much less than the barriers between us and anything living a mile or two down.
No, the comparison is between a glass roof and a solar roof with LEDs underneath.

And yes, I know the dye doesn't absorb green. It's still a green dye; last I checked we name dyes by their reflected color.
Absolutely, and wars waged without declaration that were equally traumatic. Within the lifetime of the Internet, I think 9/11 is the major inflection
"you are an addict, be addicted to something else" - movie quote
> they are buying out a potential competitor

I think it's pretty clear SpaceX doesn't have any competitors in the satellite constellation business.

SpaceX will spend something like ten billion dollars to build out the full Starlink constellation using their own launch services, which are vastly cheaper than anything anyone else has.

Potential competitors would have to spend an insane amount of money to launch their constellations, which basically means it will never happen.
I think he drank from the pressure of having children and a family. Think about the reasons why he quit, his family, and he never showed much of it to his children. The reasons for quitting are often the reasons for starting.

Sorry for getting all Freudian.
The worse thing with generic tld is that before tld were attributed on a kind of merit or usefulness (countries, com, org), but now it is only based on money considerations.

At the beginning internet was based on a kind of democracy or gentlemen's agreements. Now, the one that has the most cash to spend, like Google or Apple or Amazon or some scammer, ça. Grave what you want. Like if it was their internet.

The example of the ".dev" is good. Google can easily unilaterally decide to take over a domain that was used largely and internationally by individuals. And they are allowed to do that because they can afford it, but you, the individual, you are considered like horse shit in this system. And so you are not allowed to complain.
They often have pimps who run the social media marketing.
Is it really price fixing or just copying strategies? There comes a point where the optimal strategy for a firm is to simply do what every one else is doing. Price fixing requires an element of collusion.
This is the case where the scanning is being moved from iCloud to local devices -- still only for photos that are set to be uploaded to iCloud of course.. for now.

I think overall what bothers people is more anxiety about what comes NEXT. Sure, it's innocuous enough that photos will be scanned locally instead of remotely, in either case they are going to be shared to iCloud therefore scanned.

What about once they get pressure to expand this to all photos, uploaded to iCloud or not? Other kinds of materials, not just CSAM? Add other capabilities to scan other content, not just photos? etc etc etc...
I've just never seen a scenario where the amount of data wasn't too large for the browser to be responsive while doing things this way.
Infrastructure bill could enable government to track drivers’ travel data
Savvy - for me Bitwarden's implementation of self-hosting is the biggest gesture of mutual trust that makes it feel so solid
I think the opinion of a random stranger who never met my late father likely has less merit than my own.
NASA's response, printed as an addendum, contains the sort of non-sequiturs that, contrary to the presumed intention, can only suggest that NASA is doing exactly what is alleged here: hoping a serious issue will go away.

"As shared by NASA's Kathy Lueders and Joel Montalbano in the media telecon following the event, Roscosmos regularly updated NASA and the rest of the international partners on MLM's progress during the approach to station..."

As far as we know, nothing untoward happened during the approach to station. Restricting this comment to this period renders it irrelevant and signals that NASA is trying to avoid the issue.

"When the unexpected thruster firings occurred, flight control teams were able to enact contingency procedures and return the station to normal operations within an hour..."

So there's no need to be concerned over why it happened, how long it took to discover the problem, or the inability of those at NASA who discovered it to counteract it until the ISS was in a position where Roscosmos could intervene? As the article author points out, this "all's well that ends well" attitude is what led to the Challenger and Columbia crashes.

"We would point you to Roscosmos for any specifics on Russian systems/performance/procedures."

So, NASA seems to be saying, it is not our problem - but, of course, anything that threatens the integrity of the ISS most definitely is.

That covers the whole of NASA's response so far to IEEE Spectrum, other than the utterly anodyne "We continue to have confidence in our partnership with Roscosmos to operate the International Space Station."

What I would like to know is why public relations spokespersons think it is in the interests of their organizations to make those organizations look clueless, while simultaneously insulting our intelligence by implying we will fall for this nonsense?
Yes NZ is one of the four countries that use this style of full duplex mailbox. It hasn't caught on outside US/CA/AU/NZ, probably because (speculating here) it's not secure against theft and doubles the workload for the mailman.
> Gaming console is the exception, here margins are 0% or less.

For reference: https://www.gamesradar.com/ps5-is-being-sold-at-a-loss-but-h...

For both game consoles and phones (mostly on the iOS side) the post-sale revenue is part of the overall profit scheme - PS5 hardware is sold very near-cost but all the money Sony makes off PSN and their cut of game sales becomes profit. Apple makes up-front margin from the hardware but also expects profit from in app purchases - if that wasn’t guaranteed, they might raise prices to make up the difference. Is it anti-consumer? Probably, for both the game console side and the phone side since the consumer ends up indirectly paying more after purchase.
At this stage, contributing to Mobian is not a matter of writing "apps". It's more of a boring job of hardware enablement and bringup on existing devices, probably best coordinated via postmarketOS (which has a successful history of upstreaming support to the mainline Linux kernel). The differences between pmOS and Mobian are comparatively trivial, so any work done on the former can easily benefit the whole FLOSS ecosystem.
I use it with a vault synced via Dropbox. I'd never given their subscription service a second thought. Didn't realize it was so hard to buy that option.
Well, I didn't take it literally, because it literalyl isn't possible :). It will take some years until the car industry can supply all new cars needed, even at best effort.
Can you expand? I don't understand clock face time vs moment in time. If you have a link, I'm happy to go there.

By reading the doc, it seems tome that timestamp without timezone should be used whenever the entirety of time operations are handled by the application. I'd argue that using timestamptz might actually cause bugs due to the conversion, often overlooked because everything is configured to use UTC.
I just don't want to imagine what a developer that makes a mess out of something built with Django, rails, Laravel, etc would do with custom tied together libraries (node, go, flask, etc...).
Hashes can be of any file.

How long will it take before your hard drives are scanned for matching hashes of copyrighted material?
> Brick and mortar stores take a lot more of a cut than that

But they do not prohibit the producer from selling their goods elsewhere, and they are not a monopoly intermediary, unlike google.

Also, Google has intentionally crippled Android and background app running, so you have to depend on FCM to deliver notifications, and you can't deliver FCM notifications uf app is installed via apk or fdroid or other third-party appstore.
The eventual point of the article's shaggy dog story is even "misuse resistance resistance" in VSCode. There's an API provided which looks exactly like the API you'd provide that resists misuse but in fact it's designed in a way that enables misuse instead. Why?

In this particular case they know you might need to pass a bunch of completely unrelated strings, and they know their underlying primitive can't really do that, and so they... provide code that just concatenates all your strings, as if you're a programmer who doesn't know how to concatenate strings and needs help with that.

The best excuse I can imagine is somebody at VSCode assigned a junior the task of writing the trivial "escape everything properly and concatenate it" function. Except, that function isn't trivial, and the junior lacked confidence to come back with the answer "This isn't trivial after all, I need a grown-up" so they hacked up a solution that doesn't solve anything, checked it in and breathed a sigh of relief when it passed review.
Agree on all points.

I’m pretty sure Starship is going to be more economically viable than Space Shuttle ever was, I didn’t mean to compare them directly. And you’re right, $1k/kg to LEO doesn’t sound unattainable even for F9.

With the ride-sharing Starship is totally going to cannibalize Falcon rockets, but I thought that was the point all along? I wouldn’t be so quick to retire F9 though. Even if Starship adoption is smooth, it’ll take years to certify it for crewed flights. And there’s always market for smaller launch systems (Electron seems to be doing well).
I'm on 1Password 7 and am syncing my local vault through Dropbox. I don't pay any subscription...
It depends on where you live and honestly eating healthy is a little science and takes time these days. However I focus on regional regulations and specific labels. Ex. I know that we (Swiss) do not allow pesticides in late growing phases but the EU does. I know that the region I live in further limits the use and comes with their own label. Organic here does at least quarante no direct use of glyphosat (there are still small traces allowed because neighbors fields might use it). And so on. There is a lot more food I would not buy than there is that I feel ok with, but whatever it's worth it.
The AA perspective on this can come across binary and tautological: if one is an alcoholic, moderation is impossible. But the reality is alcohol dependencies occur across a varied spectrum. Implying there is only one solution is theism.