skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry people keep recommending vanilla Ubuntu to you. Unity is awful, and Ubuntu will be rid of it soon anyway. Until then, use Kubuntu, or Ubuntu GNOME.
Would prefer Mastodon/GNUSocial over that.
I am OK with this as well. If you put up a script on github and email an org, asking for help debugging and your script drops an ssh key, then daemonize a reverse tunnel running as that user to a VM you control, then I would blame companies and the maintainers of ssh for allowing this to work. If their board members are unaware of the risk, then shame on any human layers that hid these capabilities or were too inept to fix it. It is their fiduciary responsibility to their investors to take security and privacy seriously to protect their investments. Companies that are cavalier in this regard need not survive.
I'm just another rando on the internet, but I concur with bradleyjg. Consider reading some of John Bogle's books or reading the Bogleheads wiki page. You cannot go too wrong with (VT / (VTI+VXUS) ) + BND.
And also, if someone was murdered a few blocks down and then you refuse to say anything and say that you want your lawyer, won't that just needlessly make them suspect you for the murder? I'm all for encryption and a right to privacy and so on but I mean when it's obvious they just want to solve a crime and they are looking for info from you as a witness, well I don't see any reason not to be helpful.
Do you use ZFS? If no then you should use ECC memory.

Now the half truth becomes full-truth.
Longhorn – Open-Source Microservices-Based Distributed Block Storage
I have, I wasn't saying it's a great idea - just that there are alternatives to coal that are more renewable and readily available.
Capslock as Ctrl? That's a regedit.

Copying putty settings from one host to another? That's a regedit.

(Semi-) permanently disabling live scans from Windows Defender? That's a regedit.
Thank you for your feedback! I tried to keep the article as simple as possible, so I have left out some details on purpose. Like WorldMaker pointed out, headers in HTTP/2 are compressed using HPACK which negates the issue you mention. More information: https://blog.cloudflare.com/hpack-the-silent-killer-feature-...
There's a reason why Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" starts with a protagonist who's healthy, adult, fully educated and credentialed, and also a straight white dude.

It sells a fantasy that lots of people find palatable, like one of those "get skinny with no effort!" device or drug commercials.
> Well, the obvious way to "preserve the core principles of net neutrality, such as the idea that blocking or slowing traffic should be off-limits" is to not get rid of the regulation that prohibits blocking or slowing traffic.

Yeah, and hopefully as much energy (and more) as was mobilized against the previous FCC for not being as vigorous as some wanted in the last round of Open Internet rulemaking will be directed into the public comments for the FCC actually reversing direction. But I don't expect it will matter as much; with Wheeler's FCC, the goals were clearly for neutrality and the debate was over the means; with Pai's FCC, despite lip service to the principles of neutrality, the real overwhelming goal seems to be to free ISPs to do what they want, so I'm not sure any contrary comment will have much weight.
I am a structural EIT. Industry focus on safety is paramount. Seniority is very much respected so there are almost no young MBAs and they exist almost exclusively at the corporate level. Only a full engineer can legally stamp off on the final drawings and the accompanying calculations and I've never really seen a business type ever try to interfere in that.
OpenEBS – Containerized Open-Source Block Storage
Trump Administration Proposes 'Massive' Tax Overhaul and Tax Cut Plan
Do you really think we don't have the human capital to do science? From what I can see, it's more that we have a shortage of plain old capital, and there are plenty of would-be scientists who take jobs in Wall St or at Twitter clones because there's no money for the science.
Well, sure, that's because this industry has spent the last thirty years growing like gangbusters. Give it some time to settle down and you'll see the mix of newbies to veterans balance back out again.
In the second paragraph of the article, they explain what they consider the ties between Trump and Palantir:

> The $20bn data-analytics company, co-founded by Peter Thiel, one of the president’s advisers,
Also, the limit of one agent's intelligence is kind of missing the point. Humans are powerful because of societies of people loosely working together. AI agents will be able to communicate and interact at speeds that are we cannot imagine. A network of near human IQ AI agents would be much more powerful than a single super smart AI agent.
I do, it turned from being a niche for creatives into a porn site. I was following some people in an attempt to curate the content but knew I was only a click away from some NSFW imagery from whatever recommendation algo was implemented, so it stopped being a destination. Then Tumblr came along where there was more control and a better quality community so I made that my inspiration feed instead.
I manage original content for a global telco so I am your target customer, but I really don't want to have to sign up just to try it out.
A floating pin on a CMOS device is absolutely real.
http://designspiration.net
The chances of return are higher than 0%. They are just causally disconnected.

Consider that muggers are likely to be people in desperate need of money. Investing in kids now reduces you chance of being mugged later.

The same disconnected causality is at work in a ton of other ways. Chronically poor people will not invent a product you are likely to buy. Chronically poor people contribute less tax money, increasing your relative tax burden. Chronically poor people <contribute more> to <bad thing> and <contribute less> to <good thing>.

This is extremely hard to measure with something like single study, but the mechanism is clear and easy to understand. And data does bear this out. Educated and wealthier areas have less of the problems I touched on here.
The crime has already been committed. The question of safety is now resolved; you were not safe at that time, and likely exactly as safe now as you were before the crime. However, if you speak with the cops without council, you could endanger your freedom by saying the wrong thing to the wrong guy having a bad day. In the interest of safety, you have nothing to gain and everything to lose by speaking to the police without a lawyer.
> VMs sharing hardware could talk to each other using the CPU cache

That sounds similar to a paper I read ~20 years ago that described a way to move data from a high privilege process, bypassing mandatory access control (>= TCSEC B), using page faults as a covert channel.

> it happens to run on the same soc as feature y that talk to the can bus

I wonder how many people will have to die to teach car manufacturers the lesson that there shouldn't be any electrical connection at all from the internet to the breaks.
"It's simply difficult to secure devices. It's hard the same way engineering is hard."

Put OpenBSD and OpenSSH on them with configuration explained in a good book on the subject. Write your apps in memory-safe language that validates external input. The End [for vast majority of attacks in IoT space]. It's not as hard as you detractors claim. They just don't care.
Github integration?
In chrome dev tools, delete the first 2 div's under the <body> tag, then highlight <body> and in the css pane disable the element style for overflow-y: hidden;

YMMV depending on platform :)
> Conservatism typically comes down to some enormous misconception about how the world works.

No, it just uses those as sales pitches. Conservatism has always been about reinforcing the position of existing elites, but you can't really market it to non-elites on that basis.
Wow. I'm not sure it's possible for me to imagine what it would be like to have 12 million dollars and then lose it all plus three million more. I guess.. maybe not a huge deal if you have unwavering confidence that you'll just make it back again?
For Language Log or Geoffrey Pullum fans, here's a more fun link:

http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/grammar/sing_they_sli.pdf
It's hard to tell where this author is coming from. The three main assumptions you have to make for AGI are (via Sam Harris):

1. Intelligence is information processing.

2. We will continue to improve our intelligent machines.

3. We are not near the peak of intelligence.

The author's first counterpoint is:

> Intelligence is not a single dimension, so “smarter than humans” is a meaningless concept.

Intelligence is information processing so "smarter than humans" just means better information processing: higher rate, volume, and quality of input and output. Aren't some humans smarter than others? And isn't that a power that can be abused or used for good? We don't have to worry about it being like us and smarter; it just has to be smart enough to outsmart any human.

He then talks about generality like it's a structural component that no one has been able to locate. It's a property and just means transferrable learning across domains. We're so young in our understanding of our own intelligence architecture, it's ridiculous to build a claim around there being no chance of implementing generality.

This statement is also incredibly weak:

> There is no other physical dimension in the universe that is infinite, as far as science knows so far...There is finite space and time.

There is evidence that matter might be able to be created out of nothing which would mean space can go on forever. We might only be able to interact with finite space, but that isn't to say all of nature is constrained to finite dimensions.

Even still, he doesn't make sense of why we need infinite domains. You only need to reach a point where a programmer AI is marginally better at programming AIs than any human or team of humans. Then we would no longer be in the pilot's seat.
I thought Matt Levine's daily had a good take:

"The deep message is that if you define criminality based on your negative perception of some disliked group, then your criminals are going to look like that group. If you assume that rural white people with guns are hunters and urban minorities with guns are gang members, then your predictive policing efforts will look for guns in cities rather than forests. If you assume that Wall Street is an industry whose business model is fraud, then your predictive policing efforts will look for fraud in midtown Manhattan. In both cases, it is at least plausible that the group perception leads to the definition of criminality, rather than the reverse. What makes you a criminal is not doing a certain objectively defined sort of act; it's being a certain sort of person."

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-26/bank-meet...
Attending Conferences as an Introvert
Ah! I was going to write water pump reservoirs or at some price point electrolysis + fuel cells, but making cheap water in the daytime is also good.
I especially love the shots of seemingly boring city architecture like this: http://ffffound.com/image/913174394559f0f170e9af85417302ce83...

I didn't know I want this site until now, I suppose this kind of stuff is on artsy Tumblr blogs but I don't know where to find those.
Angular 4.1.0 Released
Elements of Usability
Amazing Acceleration of Porsche Carrera S Cabriolet – POV Video
Pintrest comes to mind as the most well-known Ffffound copycat, but the interface isn't as clean and they gate their site.
The app Hydra does this. It's not specifically meant for super dark photos so I don't think they extend exposures to the max.
While theoretically the case... perhaps if real security people reporting real issues were to use GPG, there'd be an incentive to set it up properly. In practice, if 99% of emails you get via GPG are no better than spam - and in fact worse, since they require that you waste your time figuring out whether there is actually a bug - then GPG mostly just makes for a pretty good spam filter.

Back in the real world, most security-minded people realise there's little chance that anything particularly awful is going to happen as a result of sending the report as an unencrypted email, and GPG is pretty dreadful to use so next to nobody uses it except for hobbyists.
Before the invention of money some 10,000 years ago people lived in small communities that collectively owned what they needed to survive, and there was no concept of ownership giving exclusive rights - families would own a herd, not the individuals within it.
If you can afford it, sure. That's one reason why I'm so happy Ryzen supports it on consumer processors: It makes ECC cheap.
There are peat moss power plants in Ireland.

I agree it's destructive, but it is actually classified as semi-renewable because it takes "only" a thousand years or so to develop (where oil is millions). In the case at hand, we were discussing a "dark ages" scenario where we end up regressing a bit. I was just bringing up that there are alternatives to coal (also destructive).

FYI peat covers approximately 2% of the earths surface, and around 7% of it is used in agriculture, gardening, and energy[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peat
There are a few cases with 2 or 3 points. 5 points is strange, but this is probably a fluke.
As the other commenter noted, "letting a bunch of molecules sit around" was precisely where we got intelligence from in the first place.

So it is possible that we reach AI just by randomly permuting connections and weights. Of course it's more likely we intelligently set (or "evolve") these connections and weights, but this allows us to set an upper bound on computation/time needed.
Similar service here:

https://www.mail-tester.com/

(I am likewise unaffiliated.)
"Are you a cop? Because if you're a cop, I decline to continue this transaction without a lawyer. You have to tell me!"
If you want brutalist architecture, @brutgroup on IG is pretty good: https://www.instagram.com/brutgroup/
Ah, but that only works if we keep net neutrality as is! With Pai's changes, why would they spend money improving their pipes to handle more traffic, when instead they can just throttle their competitors' traffic down to the point where their existing pipes are sufficient?
If I'm not much of a coder, is this app okay for regular documentation/notes?
The suggested date for this puts it the other side of a genetic bottleneck [1]. Whatever was the cause for this, there is evidence that human population numbers reduced at some point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
I wouldn't bother on a desktop or laptop. Servers absolutely.
> Intelligence is information processing

That's a claim. What is your support for this? Computers in the 1940s could process information. Were they intelligent?

> just means better information processing: higher rate, volume, and quality of input and output.

Computers have been able to perform information processing better than humans from the beginning, thus the reason for their creation. Information processors are tools to extend human intelligence.
I don't see this as activism per se. I see this as similar to a virus or bacterium coming into existence, forcing us toward better hygiene practices. You don't blame a virus or bacteria for existing; it's just sort of... there, part of the ecosystem. Instead, you blame things for being vulnerable to it and therefore spreading it. You try to kill it not by eliminating its "source", but by eliminating the spread.

Right now, we're beginning to treat DDoSes in that "infectious
agent"/"your responsibility if you don't act to protect yourself" way. So many people do them, so often and so easily, that "shutting down the botters" one-by-one will never make DDoSes go away. So we have to just figure out how to deal with them. (Which will, coincidentally, make DDoSes actually go away, if everyone ends up immune to them such that it's no longer useful to do one.)

But, annoyingly, we still handle bots programmed to scan for and exploit software vulnerabilities (worms, ransomware, what-have-you) as only intentional malicious action on the part of their original author, to be solved by catching the author. (Not that you can't catch the author—but that won't stop a worm, and especially won't stop someone else from just slightly-modifying and then re-releasing the worm.) We haven't bothered nearly at all with the "how do we make software vulnerabilities, as a class, less exploitable" part of the equation.

Personally, I'm hoping that this decade sees "A-Life" computer worms, that self-modify using (machine-readable?) 0days they discover by spidering the web from their infected hosts. Computers would be being attacked with novel exploits, even with no new malware authors to do the attacking! Then we'd really have to treat vulnerabilities as a fact of life to secure around, rather than something we can stop by just stopping people from bothering to exploit them.
I feel like you're asking me to understand where you live, what your skills are, and how you can leverage your abilities to help people. I obviously can't and it's not always obvious for people to understand how to figure that stuff out on their own. This is part of the problem with service being an inconsequential part of American culture - there's no "social infrastructure" to identify who needs help and set them up with people who can help them (that aren't, explicitly, social services).

I'm less concerned that teenagers are "inspired with empathy" than I am that we as a country have a large group of young people to put to positive social use. A good friend of mine is German. His 'voluntary social year' was to drive an ambulance. I don't care if they are trail building or helping immigrants learn English - having them to engage in social service will help build a culture of service and get some important (but perhaps, unprofitable) work done.

I'd say this: if you feel like this is something you want to do then just start trying some things.

Organizations that work with youth are super familiar with people showing up all jazzed to do something, then dropping out after a few weeks. Just get out there and try some different things. Sure, it's kinda crappy to do that - but if you don't get yourself into a few different rooms with a few different kinds of people then it's going to be hard to find something that works for you.

Second, your presence and effort and compassion will matter more than your wealth. In fact, I don't even know why your wealth should be relevant. Dress down, buy a Casio, downplay your job - whatever. Say "I do boring computer stuff; nothing fancy like Facebook or Google" even if that's true. If you're working with kids they are going to want to know stuff about you, but you should always choose how (and how much) you share.

Finally, I work in a service oriented job and there are a regularly days that I drive home feeling burned out/abused/ignored. People can be ungrateful and greedy, but - that's not the point of doing this kind of work. I do it because I believe it matters and makes the lives of young people better. Find your reason that doesn't rely on gratitude (because you're guaranteed not to always get it).
Or people plugging in USB drives they found outside on ground. Or CD's before that. Or floppy discs before that. ;)
Believe it or not, buying a very expensive home with poor understanding of the market and finance mostly through debt can be seen as analogous to un-collateralized leveraged investing....
With respect, do you have any expert knowledge or personal expertise to base this on?
Would appreciate a title if you run across it again and remember this request.

The term of art in the West is "anthroponics". A related subreddit [1] seems to currently focus upon using human urine in agriculture (with some really fascinating results of using watermelon seeds to sterilize the urine). Human feces given to black soldier flies and feeding their larvae to chickens and tilapia as a high-protein supplement might be more workable and timely than turning then feces into compost, and if scalable it could add a lot of new capacity to developed world sewer systems.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthroponics/
> But then feature x needed an ongoing net connection, and it happens to run on the same soc as feature y that talk to the can bus, and boom.

So then the question becomes: How are we going to educate engineers about this class of problems?
CFPB’s ‘project catalyst’ failed. Fintech deserves better
Ken White would say the exact same thing about talking to the police. I think there's an unspoken subtext to this, which is especially painful on nerd message boards where we contest the existence of unspoken subtext, that you'll still help the police do their job when it makes sense to do so.
There is a hidden cost of ECC with regards to the chipset. None of the cheap chipsets support it, so on any home build, it's going to be expensive.
(Creator here) ugh that's such a bummer. I didn't know that I don't see that in my browsers.

Anyone have a suggestion for a better cert I could get? Starcom was so nice and simple but seems like it's causing issues for users now that Mozilla and Google are going to distrust the cert.
Reprehensible and newsworthy, for sure.

But "pure politics" (per HN guidelines), unfortunately.
Brian from Backblaze here.

> It doesn't provide an additional layer of security to use asymmetric crypto the way they are using it.

I disagree. Here are some examples of where I think it has been useful to us (and our customers):

1) Backblaze encrypts the data with pub/priv keys and then sends the completely encrypted data over HTTPS. When OpenSSL had the Heartbleed bug, the HTTPS was not enough, and our encryption kept us safer for the few days until we had everything patched and fixed. So from time to time when SSL/HTTPS has zero day vulnerabilities, the extra layer of encryption helps.

2) If you set a private passphrase, it is literally a zero knowledge system until the first time you ever request a restore. Let's say you don't need a restore for two years. If a hacker penetrates our systems at any time during that two years, your backup is completely impossible to read, because you literally have never supplied the private pass phrase. Ok, so then after two years let's say you need one of your files back. At this point you hand us the private passphrase (which we do NOT write to a disk, it is stored in RAM only). Yes, at this moment there is a short window (maybe 60 seconds long) of decreased security until your backup is prepared and when you download it. Then we delete the plain text version of your files (all completely automated on a secure computer in our datacenter) and we purge the passphrase from RAM. Then after that window if at any point AFTER that our systems are compromised then you are totally safe because the hacker cannot roll back time and gain access to the past. Is this perfect? No. But 60 seconds of slightly decreased security on one computer in our datacenter is better than leaving your files laying around in original unencrypted form in our data center for YEARS.
Because it's obvious. Business model 2 involves significant capital expenditure. Business model 1 involves the same profit without the risk; all they have to do is cut deals and act as rent-seekers on their existing infrastructure. They'd have to be fools to go for model 2.
I haven't really thought about that. I dunno, would people pay for this? What's a right monthly price for something like that? $3/month? $5/month?

Edit: I know that if I create a SaaS out of this, you'll have me as a direct competition. But can I know more about how you got yours running, what the range the net revenue is in (like, is it over $100/month? Over $1000?)?
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