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What would you consider to be a decent config file format?
Does Continuous Improvement and Delivery Make You Agile?
Walmart and Costco come to mind for a lot of the sort of shopping I do. Single category retailers often provide better experiences (think Zara, Home Depot). Aliexpress has way wider selection across the board and very cheap prices (though with very long delivery times).

I tend to use Amazon more for the intersection of things that are somewhat niche and that I'd like fast delivery on.
People who would subscribe to OnlyFans creators. Yeah it's a small set of people but those people are willing to throw down _massive_ amounts of money for that kind of stuff.
I mean if it floats his boat then why not.

But it looks like a lot (all?) of the work here was just to get pi-hole functioning well - and that now needs him to deploy pi-hole, cloudflared, caddy plus all the surrounding tools of Docker, Docker Compose, Ansible etc.

You're spot on that if he'd have applied some thought outside of simply 'fixing pihole' he might have seen there are more modern and elegant solutions to configure network-wide adblocking.

e.g. AdGuard Home is an opensource single-binary precompiled for most architectures and OSes. Self-updating with an HTTPS multi-user GUI; supports DoH, DoT, dnscrypt out-of-the-box. Has a single yml config file to backup/sync; supports adblock lists based on regex as well as hosts file format.

Downloading and running that one little binary gives him the endgame he wants a lot more elegantly.
While shining a laser at an airplane is serious, laser pointing at anyone I belive should carry the same weight. Try to blind a driver, person you don't like, cop, firefighter, or anyone period the same penalty should apply. We don't need a class system and should punish them all equally. Maybe, if it is a vehicle driver while the vehicle is in motion it should be attempted murder charge for each person in the vehicle.
> Biometric authentication using Face ID and Touch ID ensures that only the person who added the ID to the device can view or present their ID or license in Wallet.

This is addressed in the press release
In fairness, crowd funding and or altruistic consumers could theoretically sustain content production.
Core Java eTrading
https://transficc.com/hiring
Robocop ED-209
Appropriate? Maybe, in some cases. But certainly not "safe". There's no non-cynical explanation for banning marijuana at the federal level (an effective and non-addictive pain mangement tool), while allowing addictive opioids. The cynical explanation is that this is done specifically to let the Sacklers of the world (rather than some farm hippies in WA) take the profits (and then offer the former government officials do-nothing jobs paying millions of dollars a year).

As an aside, I wonder why, in spite of abundant and blindingly obvious evidence, people in the US have a hard time believing that deep seated corruption exists in US government. When something gets done (or, as the case may be, not done) by e.g. Russian government everyone in Russia knows money is changing hands under the table, in 100% of the cases. What makes anyone in the US think it's any different here? This case in particular is an obvious mockery of justice, and yet we have people on this forum rejecting this reality and substituting it with their own.
And the hype begins. We've heard this story before -- anyone remember General Magic?
I'm not sure if this comparison really works at all. Virgin risks real human lives every flight. Guy risks maybe a little weight gain for his fans. Shows aren't rocket launches and have little in common.

Guy plays a sort of reality tv fictional persona which is a vamped up version of his own personality. His show is entertainment and not a documentary. Of course, he's not driving through the continental USA constantly to get to restaurants. He's a normal middle-aged man who needs rest and vacation and time off. He sleeps in decent hotels with his staff and they fly to their next destination. Workers deserve, at least, basic amenities and asking people to live a real life cartoony character is a bit silly. He's not hotrodding around everywhere (which would be risky to him and put a lot of miles on a classic car). His production is probably two dozen people. Its a business and should be respected as one from a worker's perspective. All 'reality' tv shows are heavily scripted. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
So it's basically Patreon/OnlyFans but for Twitter. I can't imagine anyone will want this for non-porn purposes, but I guess maybe they're hoping they can scrape off a bit of OnlyFans' market share.
The issue isn't whether this number is precisely correct, it's that there is simply no concerted effort by the activists to pursue it. Just like how advocates for the invasion of Iraq were perfectly happy to allow Americans in 2002 to dramatically inflate their own sense of danger from terrorism, activists have an "ends justify the means" mentality of not being concerned with data unless it supports their cause, independent of whether said data reflects truth.

The article links to the Washington Post's database, but a separate project that is run by activists who are relatively data literate is this one:
https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/

I've dug through their dataset, and it's not bad. They tend to be a little too biased in the sense where they default to assuming unarmed or "allegedly armed", assuming that police reports of suspects having a weapon aren't trustworthy, which is understandable, but unscientific.

Also, no flag for "resisting arrest". An unspoken reality in these activist circles is that getting killed by police when NOT resisting arrest is a relatively rare event.

One of the stark things that stands out when looking through these databases is how the media's narrative bias has made non-Black victims of police shootings invisible. Felons with a violent history who are killed by police while resisting arrest get more media attention if their Black than do Latino victims of police shootings that were completely unjustified. The average HN reader looking at this comment can't name a single Latino person killed by police in the last 5 years. This is absurd and unjust, because there's no way that every Latino killed by cops is done so in a just manner, and without media pressure, the cops who killed them won't be brought to justice. Likewise for the single most horrific police killing I've seen (other than Floyd), Daniel Shaver. The cop who killed him got off with an early retirement and full pension.
As far as I can tell, the article is just choosing to use that term.

There’s an origin concept in HTTP/browser security (see link), but the “origin” here appears to be different.

It seems potentially confusing, so maybe they could simply use the term “server” instead of “origin server”. That fits in well with “client” and “proxy”.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6454
You are simply ignorant. The money is deposited into the students' account after tuition is deducted. They can do whatever they want with it.
That seems like putting the cart before the horse. Or at least, logically of course the settlement which protects their billions would need to be destroyed.
String Manipulation of URLs Is an Anti-Pattern
KaiOS supports WhatsApp...

I'm at a point in my life where I can be a bit cranky about stuff like this - and, my views on tech are well enough known that people almost expect me to be a bit cranky about it. I recently asked someone how he'd prefer to be paid, cash or check. His response was along the lines of, "Well, I'd prefer a payment app on the phone, but I know you don't use those, so... check, easier to scan and deposit that way."

If "everyone uses it because everyone uses it," well... great, there lies monopoly and abuses. I can get away with using somewhat less, without any real impact to my social or professional life - so at this point, being that friction point is perfectly fine with me.

But I grew up before cell phones. I grew up before smartphones. The concept of a smartphone beyond a "lol, Crackberry, I'll bet you a beer you can't put it down on the table for half an hour and not touch it!" stage is only a decade old. In that time, it's absolutely transformed the world - and, IMO, not for the better. Our collective response to the "Crackberry" behavior was, "oooh, I want one too!" My daughter has asked for her own phone (no, you're about a decade too young). When asked what people use phones for, her response is, "I don't know... but they look like they're really interesting!" Yeah... how to cut your phone use substantially overnight.

Just because the river is rushing towards "What makes tech companies the most money in the next quarter" doesn't mean we have to be part of it. And at this point, I think coming up with alternatives (technology based or not) is damned near a moral obligation.
> Elon Musk portrays himself as an affable nerd who posts memes on Twitter

Because that's what he is.

> whereas Bezos has forgone a hair transplant and embraced the Lex Luthor look.

I'm not sure how you that makes sense. Are you saying that if Musk were bold he couldn't be an 'affable nerd'.

> In the early days of SpaceX, they filed a lawsuit asking the government to dismantle the company that was their main competitor for EELV[1] and no one blinked an eye.

Because the government was clearly engaging in totally unfair monopolistic behavior (the government having formed ULA and simply handed it all space launch contracts) that was against the rules government has for itself and SpaceX won this lawsuit.

Since then DoD launches have been handed out with a commercial competition.

SpaceX also filed a law-suit against NASA for engaging in highly anti-competitive favor granting to a competitor for the COTS program. This was recognized and since NASA has done a very good job at commercial selection.

The thing is, people (who are knowledgeable) judge you based on the details of what you do not the broad facts (X filed a lawsuit). SpaceX filed lawsuits against unfair competition and most people interested in space were aware of these unfair practices and wanted them change.

BlueOrigin in contrast profited from the progress SpaceX produced and was able to bid for all NASA programs since. There was competition, they lost, complained and lost and the sued the government (and will certainly lose again) based on what everybody understands to be terrible claims, delaying the whole government moon program.

Amazon in turn has engaged in a years long campaign trying to stop or disrupt Starlink while their own project is and was half a decade behind. Their claims are highly questionable and at times just flat nonsense and have been dismissed multiple times. However each opportunity they come back new reasons to complain. This leaves people who are observing this with only one conclusion, Amazon doesn't care about the details of Starlink proposal and their ongoing efforts with FCC, rather they are simply trying to disrupt and slow down competition.

Details and context matter.
I felt the same as you but in a previous discussion here on hn people informed me that you can now get 5000mW handheld lasers. That changes things significantly, that could do eye damage immediately.

I still agree with you about the prison time.
IIRC Twitter currently allows explicit content, so my guess is this is exactly Twitter's plan for this service.
Eliminate the "shoulds"! You'll be much happier if you can keep the voice of the foul mouthed Bronx born therapist Albert Ellis in your head: https://youtu.be/u109sVn8zGA?t=1077
Twitter Launches Paid Super Follows, Creators Can Charge Up to $9.99/Month
> In return, they have agreed to pay roughly $4.3 billion. ... by their own reckoning earned more than $10 billion from opioid sales

Who says crime doesn't pay? Kill 100s of 1000s of people, destroy millions of lives, and walk away with a cool 6 Billion dollars.. what's not to like?

When the Law fails to be just, no wonder Vigilantes step in.
There's no risk, Amazon recommends this to customers, see https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/migrate-your-amazon-ebs...

My tool mainly automates the process described in this blog and does it continuously in case you run instances that start with suboptimal configuration. It also detects premium IO1 and IO2 volumes that could be converted to GP3 and changes them for up to 85% in savings, which often amount to hundreds of dollars.

In the future I'll also implement additional functionality such as informing you that there was a suboptimal volume so perhaps you can update your IaC to avoid it going forward, or switching detached volumes to much cheaper magnetic and back to the initial settings when re-attached to instances.

Let me know what you think about this and if you have any further questions I'd love to help you out.
I used Wireguard clients by default and didn't even know Mullvad has a dedicated client!
Can you buy anything high end on Amazon? I wouldn't.
If it's okay to point out they're white, then it's okay to point out they're Jewish, regardless of if you consider Jews to be white.
That may be the case for Hollywood blockbuster movies but it’s not true for TV shows, YouTube videos, or Twitch streams. People would much rather pay Netflix a small monthly fee for unlimited access to all the TV shows they watch than hunt them down online. Nobody at all bothers to download YouTube videos or Twitch streams since the content is free anyway.

Honestly I think even movies could work similarly if the content creators actually made them available. People go crazy for Disney+ because everything is on there for one monthly fee.
> It seems humans need a sense of competition to make progress towards any goal beyond the day-to-day.

No, you're overgeneralizing.

As counter-examples:
- fitness goals
- financial freedom goals (eg the FIRE communities)
- altruistic goals
- romantic goals (impress a potential partner)

are all proof that humans can be motivated by health/desire for physical well-being, kindness, compassion and personal comfort to progress to goals beyond the day-to-day.

Competition motivates some progress, but there are other sources of motivation as well :)
You won’t find a filter that blocks exactly 532nm light and most lasers aren’t that exact, blocking 500-600nm blocks more than a 5th of the visible spectrum and green is used for signaling specifically for landing, take off and taxi.
A great deal of effort is being taken to dissuade people from RSA4096 and PGP. But we do know from the Snowden leaks that system is(was) secure against the NSA if properly implemented. "This destroys the RSA cryptosystem" no doubt is driving adoption of Curve25519 and Signal.

I think we need to talk about layering more. There's no shortage of compute cycles today. Each message should go through encapsulated rounds of encryption, preserving the older standards until it can be definitively proven they are broken, which has not been the case with RSA. At least one of those layers should be multivariate or lattice post quantum scheme. https://github.com/polysome/vane
Face ID will not unlock if you do not look a the the notch. If are looking up/down/sideways even with your face perfectly centered it will not unlock.
> I'm hoping the DOJ appeals.

"Hoping" won't make it happen; but writing to your Representatives just might have an effect.
Life expectancy in the US has a massive drag due to the bottom decile (unlike in other countries) having garbage health care and eating habits. Also, the opioid epidemic (again, something limited to the US) dragged down life expectancy gains BIG TIME.

But fair points.
Judging by yours and the sibling comments it would appear that my research into the subject of mechanical keyboards a couple of years ago was somewhat lacking!
I do not believe the problem is "standards are too high".
It is more about unable to mentally cope with failure properly.

Maybe it also has something to do with the author's world view, where they are who they supposed to be versus who they think they are.
I totally agree. I'm just saying that from the point of view of legal liability the doctor is considered an expert. Purdue would argue that the doctor is getting information from a variety of sources (including the FDA), and so when they prescribe a medication and then the patient gets addicted, the responsibility lies with the doctor.

And I also agree that you can't blame a patient for getting addicted. However, in US law there is something called the "clean hands doctrine", which denies remedies if the accuser has acted in bad faith wrt the subject of the claim. In practice this might translate to arguing that because the patient is breaking the law in misusing opioids, they don't deserve damages.

All I'm trying to say is that while Purdue is definitely morally responsible, legally it's kinda difficult.
No acceptable punishment, maybe not, however, fear can go a long way! Actual fear of _really_ losing all their family wealth, basically everything but the shirt on their back with a lifetime of hard labor to follow is probably a scarier proposition to these kind of scum then death is. On that note, hanging some of them from the rafters may also help deter this kind of parasitic behavior going forward.
Question: does a pilot even need a window, given that they should be able to fly in all weather conditions including heavy fog?
Just be a reasonable person and go to only one country. There’s enough stuff to see in France, Spain or Germany to last you a lifetime.
Wouldn't someone be able to do that now if they were able to gain access to the DMV/police/state database? You might have a physical ID but if they called it in it could be flagged as revoked or something else.
Note that this is a 2018 flame-bait article of Wired quality.
China, the universal boogieman. Interestingly I dont hear yet you say that we hate your freedoms, the red alarm of near invasion :D
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― Oscar Wilde
While there are some rudimentary frameworks for collaboration in space. It is still free for all.

Sovereignty in space above 50 km is complex and not really well established, countries have differing claims like bogota declaration etc.

Most countries launch satellites they don't necessarily tell each other.

There is nothing stopping a French company from doing the same as spaceX.

Infact OneWeb is owned by UK government partially and a Indian teleco Bharti Airtel. They manufacturer satellites in UK (a lot of satellites are manufactured in UK) and launch in Russia.

France or any other country does regulate and operators do respect who can transmit/use radio frequencies within their geographic areas.
Amusing you quote wikipedia. Now that the "deworming" phrase is quoted in approved wikipedia sources (e.g. NYT), any one of the power editors who control certain wikipedia pages are now justified to change wikipedia to just that.

See https://twitter.com/BrettWooldridge/status/14127683829365022...
There's something called other-directed perfectionism that could be at work. Someone who can't stand to see imperfections around them or tolerate the fact the humans are just imperfect.
How do you feel about some of the other posts and comments from that same community? For example: https://imgur.com/a/wIFDa8G
Can't say I'm exactly surprised, given his dismissive attitudes toward the pandemic in general.
Yes, flying on instruments only is considerably riskier than flying with/on visual.

We ground planes due to poor weather and specifically poor visibility all the time, planes are rerouted due to fog constantly sure they’ll land if it’s their only option but it’s not a decision made lightly.
All middlemen provide "some" value, or else they get eliminated by the market. Sure, some might stick around vestigially for momentum sake, but that gets worked out over the long run.

The question is more one of a value judgement. Is that value "fair" at its price? At the vary least many middle-provide market making functions. Even with your more recent Amazon example, there was nothing stopping smaller e-commerce stores from complying with VATMOSS. If Amazon wasn't there, most of them probably would have been able to hire consultants or other firms to help them comply. They didn't because Amazon was cheaper/easier. Is the loss of control to Amazon worth it? For the vendor? For society? Unclear, but we are only in the position because of the value Amazon provided even it comes with a social cost.
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Facebook wants to monopolise the internet connection - they have no interest in sharing with advertising competitors.

In the Phillipines when you get a phone plan or data plan, it includes free Facebook (I haven’t been there for a few years but I presume it is still the same). Many people use the word Facebook to refer to the Internet.
You are taking things out of context. ULA was a government formed monopoly and the Dod basically wanted to hand them a block contract that would basically give them a monopoly for very long time.

SpaceX would have been excluded from Dod flights for basically a decade or more, even within a few years they had the means to compete.

This was clearly a totally anti-competitive and this is why SpaceX won and since then such large block contracts are no longer done. The Dod still hands out too many launches at once but what they tried with ULA initially was far, far worse.
I like something called littr.me, single community link aggregator (like HN) but federates, so you get the interaction between communities but each community is sovereign, free to isolate itself as it pleases.

https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr

But it isn't about "a replacement for reddit." It is about finding communities online you want to engage in and engaging. Forums, non-federated aggregators (like HN), chatrooms all suffice. The trick is to avoid a one stop shop for communities.
I actually did something similar to this for slightly different use case. I needed to connect to two different VPNs simultaneously that had overlapping cidr ranges. So I created a network namespace for one of them, and used that for any connections that needed that VPN, and used the root network namespace for the other VPN. I did have to create two separate browser profiles though, since both firefox and chrome won't let you run multiple instances of the same profile simultaneously.
But not every skill is useful or good.