skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disagree. Watching ads pays for nothing. People buying stuff with some ad budget included in the price is what pays for that content. The entire thing is essentially like a tax collected with everything you buy, then part of the money gets spend to produce ads and run the entire ad industry, the rest is distributed among everyone displaying the ads. Even if I block every ad, I am still paying for them, I am still paying for the content.

And if you are getting a subscription to get rid of the ads, then you are actually paying twice - not only directly with your subscription but you are also still paying into all the ad budgets when you buy stuff.
I live in a mid-sized Canadian city, and the collection of DVDs and Blurays available from the city library system is impressive. A fair bit of obscure/older films, as well as new releases, and you can always request that they add titles to their collection if they are missing something.

For me it's super convenient as I can request that they send a copy (found anywhere in their system) to my local library, and I can bike over to pick it up a few days later.
Channel News Asia produced a really good documentary about Singapore prison: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/watch/inside-maximum-securit....
Free speech doesn’t protect people from causing harm. Advertising is inherently unethical and harmful.
That's an incorrect oversimplification.

It takes control away from the owner of networks, even when we're the owner of those networks. Should DoH start to become more common, blocking it will become a Sisyphean task.

It takes control away from the owner of endpoints. Sure, you can go and change the settings in Firefox to turn off DoH after they've turned it on without asking and without telling us, but what happens when applications and Trojans start doing DoH lookups, skipping our system's configured DNS? So yes, your statement about control residing with the endpoints is correct, but DoH removes control, doesn't add it.

For the case of "can't, because even if you change the setting, $evil_isp will hijack the queries anyway", that's FUD. There are many, many better ways to deal with evil ISPs.

Encouraging the world to send all of their DNS lookups to a centralized entity like Cloudflare (who, by every right, are precisely in a position to be an evil ISP) is such an incredibly shortsighted idea that I have to think that you haven't thought out the implications of a world where DoH is dominant.

If you care to learn, consider things without DoH: you can edit your hosts file. You can choose your DNS servers. You can run a local recursive resolving DNS server. You can block ads and advertisingware using your DNS server and/or something like Pihole. You can block all DNS queries to the outside world on your network so that they all go through your own resolvers.

Next, consider a world where DoH is commonplace: you have no control over DNS lookups on your own system. Your only choice is to not run binaries that might do things you don't like. Want to block ads or adware, or adult sites, or conspiracy sites, or any of a number of other things on the Windows system that your child uses? Now Edge doesn't let you. Want to block the Trojans and phishing sites that Google serves through their ad network? Chrome doesn't let you. "Just don't run binaries that do that" is one heck of an ask for people who don't know how to set their own DNS or who have an evil ISP.

You can block common DoH servers, until Cloudflare puts them on the same address as the endpoints for their millions of hosting customers. But what happens when apps do DoH lookups using random Amazon AWS or Google Cloud servers? How do you block them? Do you block ALL https?

You see, you'd give up freedom, and have everyone else give up their freedom, for some abstract "safety" from ISPs that use your DNS data. You'd apply a shitty fix for 1% of the people to 100% of the people, rather than create tools for the 1% to circumvent their evil ISPs.

The fact that you'd choose this makes me think that either you want big, evil companies like Cloudflare to win, or you really don't understand the issues.

Just like this article above does a good job explaining the lack of security in the cloud, we really could use a good article explaining how completely inane the idea of DoH is.
Right. I think it all comes down to the fact that with Google, maybe 2/3rds of any product is software running on servers they control. You can never see that software, let alone modify it. Even the decision to keep running that software on Google’s hardware is totally out of your hands - Google could turn it off literally any day, for any reason.

This is the downside of relying on someone else’s cloud software: ultimately if it’s not your code and not your computer, its fate is out of your hands. I think its healthy that our industry is finally coming to understand that.
The article does not claim the keys are still in use. It specifically says "missing containment actions". Everything is tainted because you don't know what secondary actions were executed using the compromised keys.
I hope it works as well as their tires.
(2) is not a particular issue with low-code, it's just a problem for everyone. I'm in a "high-code" environment and they still managed to fuck up data access controls. You have to bring on people (or give them authority) who understand how to secure your data. Afterwards, high-code or low-code you're going to be ok (maybe not great, but ok).
I, for one, am thankful that throughout the whole of history the good side has always won.
Working on a list of reasons you shouldn't use observability. #4
Full Title: "Working on a list of ten reasons you shouldn't use observability. #4: it's not wasting money on unused infra, it's a donation to AWS. "
It was very profitable to trade AGAINST his recommendations. Because he would use his Twitter followers as exit liquidity. When he was praising bitcoin he was secretly selling, and when when he was saying crypto is done, time to get a McDonalds job you knew he was loading up.
Merkle trees, yes! That was just an example of a technique that can be well hidden vs in the user's face.

Newer techniques like Verkle trees, SNARKs, STARKs, &c are.... well, new.
> This jamming isn’t from the sky though.

In that particular instance, but:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic-warfare_aircraft

Waiting for drones:

* https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA508909
And not just theirs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

Before you say "whataboutism": yes, I do know of this word you use to shut down your critical thinking.
Buenos Aires Releases Blockchain Identity Powered by ZkSync's ZK Proofs
It's definitely $4.99/£4.99 on iOS...
Some really interesting things with this - it looks like a proper rewrite of photoshop, starting it truly from scratch. Given the absence of bit depth and color spaces, it seems like they're heavily focusing on the exploratory/fun side of Photoshop rather than the professional aspects of it. Given the product differences, I wonder if this will converge with the desktop product over time, or will it diverge into its own product?
> One man in the Senate is responsible for this one.

One man bears special responsibility, but as the recent confirmation of 3 top appointments shows, there are mechanisms that could be brought to bear. My (limited) understanding is that Senate holds can be ended with a cloture vote, so any 60 Senators could agree to move the nominations to consideration.
Fully automated luxury communism in a post scarcity world in our natural lifetime is technologically feasible! Imagine!
Financial companies should have higher regulator standards since if they fail, our taxpayer money is on the line and any malfeasance affects people’s lives.

Google is just an adTech company masquerading as a search engine? Who cares?
no one can do what you suggest. it's nonsense.
A lot of shared hosting providers would also be able to implement this. Bringing the benefits of ECH's anti-snooping to many end-users outside of CloudFlare.

Individual servers hosting one single website won't benefit much though. Unless you do encrypted split-DNS, I guess.
Even now, it seems it may be up to interpretation. In searching for those numbers, I saw a post in a amateur high altitude balloon forum asking which modules were "or". (Presumably since it's a little more likely your balloon will exceed the altitude restriction and not the speed one.)
They must charge a spread or fees?
I like the commitment to this comment - you signed up for a handle "the-dude."
Seems very fixable with a Ukrainian 50cal round.
Shitty. I wonder what kind of profit they make per successful scam.
i don't think the car analogy is good because cars are expensive to build and maintain, usually are used more than once, and it's very bad if they crash. these properties are true of some software but not the kind of software i'm talking about.

maybe a better analogy would be if you travel to new cities a lot, and have to navigate, you don't want to memorize a map of all the city streets and learn in detail the transit schedules on each rail and bus line, you just care about a few routes a few times. and Google Maps can make your life a lot easier. on the other hand if you lived in that city, it would quickly become pointless to take out your phone all the time to plan a commute to work.
You have to find the right communities.
> I agree fully, but Amazon is still the "cheapest" when you consider the all in price of cost_of_goods+cost_of_delivery|want_goods_in_fewer_than_two_days.

Why say you agree when you only go on to disagree with me?

I've bought plenty of things cheaper on other sites. Delivery included. There have been things that were cheaper on Amazon as well. This is why I said it's about average. But there are so many variables at play here (location, items you're looking to purchase, etc) that it might just be easier to agree to disagree.

> Amazon has the most efficient business, which allows them to survive on lower margins and attract buyers because of the vertically integrated pipeline they've created.

Those vertically integrated pipelines come with significant cost savings though. That's why they do it. And because it saves them $$$, it then also increases their margins.

> Your example of other companies selling the same product at cheaper prices helps to illuminate the fact that there isn't any real impact from the supposed anti-competitive behavior to the consumer. Cheaper prices still exist! Amazon hasn't become the sole provider.

Those two arguments aren't mutually inclusive. Other companies might be offering cheaper prices but making a loss in the hope that loyalty will win customers in the long run. Or other corners might get cut that could ultimately lead to that businesses demise, such as not hiring skilled staff, not following health and safety or other local laws, etc. And even if none of the aforementioned is true, it still doesn't mean that Amazon aren't being anti-competitive.

Also "anti-competitive behaviour" applies to how they block other businesses from competing. You cannot be "anti-competitive to the consumer"
Yea I read the Sovereign Citizen too
I can confirm that. We must have the same friend.
Sounds like they're still being paid then. There's zero pay when blocking ads.
I mean, if they didn't have such political and economic sway, I'd be fine with it. One would hope meritocracy and fundamental economics as they relate to competency would apply but its just a whole other fucking planet these psychos inhabit
50 Unknown Facts About Star Wars
I haven't cut off all "digital streaming" but I personally definitely bucket things into "things I may want to see later" versus things I don't. Some things are just intrinsically disposable content, e.g., once you've seen Survivor Season X, you're probably not going to watch it again. (And, if you are one of the people for whom that is not the case, well, by all means, change your personal categorization, rather than arguing with me.)

I still buy things I may want to see again. And since I'm still using DVDs I bought 20 years ago, I know that that can happen. Many of them are simply not available on streaming. Others are, but would involving chasing subscriptions hither and yon, and more than once I've done that, only for the content to not actually be there when I finally got to wanting it.

Also, I will say, music I am still buying. Purchasing MP3s is acceptable, if anyone will sell them to me, but I want to own anything I really care about. For any given CD I have no real confidence that anything but my physical possession (converted to MP3 and backed up) will still be there in 20 years.
Clearly not necessarily if so many humans disagree.
Not sure if accurate, but according to this https://movies.mxdwn.com/feature/is-buying-dvds-and-blu-rays....

"DVDs still conquer the market within those sales, and at their peak, DVD sales were over $18 billion, while Blu-Rays made just over $2 billion in a year."
> can Tesla shareholders really say with confidence

Well, 13% of shareholders are Elon himself
Why do you need your eyes dilated? It isn't something that is done in the UK.
To be fair, "era" usually means "hundreds or thousands" of years ago, or millions.

Not just a year or two.

Justice, especially for complex things, which require investigation, is seldom fast. It probably wouldn't be fair otherwise.
Show HN: Dolce – Get notified if something (bad) happens to your containers
Hi HN,

while I was on vacation this year the shop of my wife was suddenly down and we only noticed once the emails of customers rolled in. After fixing it on my phone I thought there has to be a better way to notice when your docker container die or are in a restart loop for whatever reason.

Now I know there are lots of tools like healthcheck.io and monocker, however none seemed to match my simple use case of getting notified _via email_ when the running– or health-status of any docker container changes. So I did what every SE would do in that case and hacked another solution but this one is mine :).

I also always wanted to do a project with deno and get up to speed on typescript. This was also a great reason to finally look into using GitHub Actions to automate some of the tedious tasks. Fun fact: After reading on here about Deno Queues, I rewrote the message buffering and backoff completely and could greatly simplify the code.

TL;DR - What is this:
Get notification via

- EMail (BYOSMTP)
- Discord
- Telegram
if any (or only selected) containers on your host die or change their health status.

I also tried to handle unexpected restarts of the container the tool is running in gracefully without loosing any events that happened before and even while the service was down. To make sure you are not spammed by notifications if a container goes into a restart loop, there is also a configurable exponential backoff function.

I tried to make using the tool as easy as possible (by getting inspired on how monocker is set up). I would love to get some feedback and hear what you think (also if I just missed the perfect tool for the job: let me know, however the journey was quite fun).
Map Men: Undersea Cables
An authoritative source on this Inventing the Alphabet by Johnanna Drucker. She covers not only the modern evidence but also attempts to classify alphabets throughout history, with particular focus on the Middle Ages. The first half is a bit dry -- how much do we really care what various scholars in the 16th Century made up about the history of the alphabet? -- (a lot was made up), but the second half looks at the modern archaeological contribution to the study of alphabetic origins and is very interesting.

There are also lots of scans of really interesting Medieval manuscripts cataloging alphabets in the book.
UTM is pretty cool

QEMU's x86 emulation is outrageously slow compared to Rosetta2. Is it theoretically be possible to hook Rosetta2 for full x86 machine emulation (like oldschool vmware did before VT)?
How do you feel about reports that misinformation and hate speech is on the rise on this platform? Such as [0] ?

And do you think it's hypocritical for a "proponent of free speech" to threaten to sue entities that quantify and observe such a rise? [1]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/26/eu-warns-...

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/31/tech/twitter-lawsuit-hate-spe...
I would like to see some law in the EU along the lines: if you stop supporting any HW, you have to open source all, so that the HW has a chance of not ending in a dump.

I think should not be a lot of trouble, because like in this case for google, they will ahut down everything, and will not be making any more money with it.
If you're interested in fascinating deep dives into the history of a few odd letters, the jan Misali channel on Youtube has a video on the letter W (which, along the way, covers F and Y) and another one on the letter C.

w: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2j7mZ9-2Y
c: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chpT0TzietQ
It's a pretty common procedure worldwide; an ophthalmologist dilates the patient's pupils with eyedrops to be able to look inside them with a bright light and inspect for problems. Then afterwords the patient is sensitive to light for a few hours which impacts driving and everything else. Sunglasses work but the people most likely to see an eye doctor are those with glasses, and corrective sunglasses are pretty rare. Some eye doctors give out dark tinted face shield type things. The pupil-dilating drug is an anticholinergic like belladonna which has been known about for thousands of years (cf. name "belladonna" from the plant's use to dilate pupils as a cosmetic for "pretty ladies")

(typically an anticholinergic like beladonna which has been known about for thousands of years)
I won’t comment on the wisdom of the business decision here, but more on the fact that I don’t see a great solution to the in-person + remote whiteboarding collaboration problem on the market.

Unless your company is 100% remote and is forced into fully digital whiteboarding, my experience is there will sometimes just be a critical mass of people “in the room”, and there’s nothing the remote participants can do to stop them from drawing on a whiteboard. And once that starts happening, the remote participants become second class citizens. This fundamentally limits the remote folks from being part of ideation, design, and decision-making. It’s a handicap that would require executive buy-in to remedy, which you mostly won’t get because execs favor in-person work anyway.

People buy these smart boards thinking it’ll help - they go totally untouched. The barrier to use is too high and nobody wants to look like a fool fumbling around with some proprietary interface, eating into valuable meeting time.

Short of a major revolution in touchscreens + conferencing tech, the only way to keep the playing field even is for remote people to assert that they will do diagramming and visual notes on e.g. Lucidchart on their end, and you’d better be quick at it.
In large part because with the iPhone Pro (Max) you can run 10 Gps data rates with the proper USB 4 or Thunderbolt 4 cable.

I have the 15 Pro Max. I yearly upgrade because the modems and RF electronics are substantial annual upgrades. I live in NYC with skyscrapers, subways, underground parking garages, cell tower congestion during certain parts of the day. Also, I attend busy conferences, drive on highways, and take trains. In each of these cases one can encounter weak signals. The X70 Qualcomm modem and RF electronics are a substantial upgrade over the iPhone 14 Pro Max. The iPhone 15 Pro (Max) does better in weak signal conditions than the new 2023 Samsung s23.

"The iPhone 15 Pro Max also performed better in low-signal regions, measuring speeds of 21Mbps down and 14Mbps up compared with the S23 Ultra's 17Mbps down and 9.3Mbps up in the same spot."

"The phone did well when tested at the Wi-Fi network's edge, where it peaked at 8.1Mbps down against the S23's 6.35Mbps."

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/apple-iphone-15-pro-max
Are there any news articles about that? Bob Menendez has taken over all searches for "New Jersey" with "gold bars".
It turns out the vaseline thing is true (or there is an impressive wikipedia trolling going on)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cab...
It can not, they are having to drill wells just to satisfy the cooling needs in shutdown state:

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/update-184-iae...

The cooling pond is slowly draining and the wells are utterly insufficient for the cooling of an operating reactor.
I wonder if the dot above 'i's and 'j's are in some sense a diacritic or like "1/2 of one"
that doesn't address the post you responded to, it's just a deflection
The public have bought stock (a.k.a partial ownership of the company), so the public owns it.

You have bought a Ferrari, so you own it.

Having performed an "Initial Public Offering" (IPO) means explicitly that the public has purchased, at least in part, ownership of your company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_sector
What does this have to do with you being able to upgrade to a different software with the same license? they can just block upgrades to 10/11 or even 11 only
When I switched from colo and managed datacenter services to AWS in its early days, I saved a ton of money. But all of that hardware was much more expensive back then, and the quality of OSS products wasn't quite as good, and all kinds of other temporal realities were at play.

Now, it's flipped. Hardware is pretty cheap. There are high quality OSS products that have easy-to-manage, native HA capabilities. It's no longer impractical to operate a production-ready deployment for a few hundred dollars.

I guess the early cloud folks saw this coming, and now they're reaping the rewards.
China blocks exec at US firm Kroll from leaving China
Both are true. There is more significant DRM on most streaming services than DVD, but also pirates are still consistently beating it. Hard to say if that had much of an impact on this decision though.
Unprecedented? Probably not.
I thought it was some crazy stuff, but seems not to be the case [0] entirely.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8772524/
You should definitely switch to PyTorch. Or even JAX.

TF is not worth it anymore.
In all fairness though they do a much better job than Google. Azure certainly is a gold mine.
I wasn't trying to use it, I was just looking around and came across the "YubiKey Personalization Tool", which doesn't show anything about FIDO2.

Now that FIDO2 has been mentioned as something that solves this issue, it turns out there's another tool called the "YubiKey Manager", which allows you to configure/toggle various "applications" on a key, including Yubico OTP and FIDO2.
https://archive.ph/t90jS
Just like Dropbox is an improvement over FTP with SVN?

I'm only half-joking though. ECH is already being widely enabled in clients, it will exceed Tor's adoption massively. Not as private, but (much more) usable.
1. Humans invented God (and HaShem and the Almighty). God has always been a human creation.

2. Having invented God, humans then assigned to Him their own powers of creation. […]

3. Having projected thought onto a non-human and invented entity, humans then subordinate themselves to it. Endowing their own creation with a specious authority, they take themselves to be lesser than it.

4. People make capital. Everything that counts as capital is a human creation. […]

5. Having created capital, people then assign to it the powers of creation. […]

6. Once the creative powers of work get misassigned to capital, actual workers are made subordinate to it. A created thing that lacks the powers to create is taken to be the all-creative thing and so allowed to lord it over the real creators.
That chart reminds me of Korean chaebols ownership structure right before the big crash of 1997

Asianometry How the Rich Ate South Korea https://youtu.be/hWCcvOE84Ao?t=489