skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took down an assembly plant by clicking on a Network status icon from a particular hardware supplier.

Over the weekend, firmware patches were applied, and the server rebooted. After reboot, everything worked fine, so the tech marked the change successful and went home.

Well, apparently the NICs would work just fine, but not all settings were applied until you opened the UI provided by the vendor. When you opened the UI, the final settings would be applied, and the NICs would reboot, just long enough to kill TCP connections.

That loss of TCP connection killed the parent system, and then all the other children systems also died when the parent died.

So who would you even blame there? The guy who set the tripwire? The guy who tripped on the tripwire? The guy who designed a system that could be brought down by a momentary loss of connection?

I'm lucky that my boss wasn't the type to point fingers, because I was the guy who was there when it happened, and it sure got a lot of attention.
Same guy said the DNC emails were an inside job instead of a state actor.

Make with that what you will...
He's an ex ambassador to such regions and his explanation is completely coherent. What do you mean it makes no sense?
How easy is this to extend to other sites? LinkedIn and Google, specifically?
I bet if one looks hard enough he would find links between these judges and moneyed interests tracing back to Oracle.
>"the Russian-American psychologist Aleksandr Kogan, who built his own personality quiz app for Facebook"

Didn't hear that he was a Russian American, is it possible that Kogan is one of the academic spies?
Has there ever been any back-stabbing after the engineers "cooperate" and volunteer potentially self-incriminating information?
Synopsis:

95% of U.S. soldiers addicted to heroin during the Vietnam War broke their addiction nearly overnight, when they returned home to the states. Only 5% relapsed back into addiction. Apparently, relapse rates for heroin clinics are normally around 90%.

When the soldiers changed environments to a place that contained none of the stimuli-triggers for heroin usage that they had overseas, they found it far easier to quit. In typical cases, people return home from a clinic to a place that contains all of the old, familiar triggers for usage, and thus have a very difficult time quitting.

These individuals return to their prior routines, like a hand fitting back into a glove. The soldiers, however, left their gloves overseas, and instead returned to the addiction-free routines they had before the war, or they developed new ones.

The environment directly plays a huge role in driving behavior.

By consciously changing our environment, we can reduce or eliminate factors linked to undesired behaviors, replacing with new environmental features that we can more easily associate with desired behaviors.
Certificate pinning is also a secure way of protecting against MITM attacks, mis-issued certs, and enterprise proxies.
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We have put a rule that made our system very strong over the years: We don’t care if you broke the site, just fix it quickly and more importantly write a test that will catch the same problem if it happens again.

Every time someone breaks something, we get harder to break.
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Car makers aren't exactly lining up to work with waymo. I wouldn't interpret this as waymo "choosing" to work with anybody.
There was someone on page 6/31 who said the barrier was there at 5:30 pm on the previous day. That theory is over if he is correct.

edit: correction this photo evidence from the day before shows the barrier not replaced.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-knows-fatal-model-x-030...
The reason for this is primarily to protect against MITM attacks by a hostile network and rogue CA, enterprise proxies, etc.
Aphyr needs more upvotes :)

EDIT: never mind - on the three year view he's in the top 10
The answer is compilers.

The WASM compilers are still being optimized. Most of what you see in the wild is compiled using LLVM, even the Rust project. The WASM target is still under development so you can expect a lot of improvement there.

One day we will see a language that compiles natively to WASM. Maybe even exclusively to WASM, with crazy optimizations akin to GCC's tricks with x86. I just hope it won't have objects.
I can't say when, but you might be happy to know that graphics card availability has been improving throughout March, albeit at expensive, but no longer insane prices. I was monitoring availability of various AMD and Nvidia cards since January (using nowinstock.com): previously cards would be available for a few hours at a time at an outlet - now we're up to weeks and the prices have been going down a bit - they are still above MRSP. The the ongoing cryptocoin downward spiral persists for a few more months, GPU prices ought to come down.
And that’s why you use Common Voice and Deep Speech from Mozilla.

https://research.mozilla.org/machine-learning/
If Uber were to enter into this market, they'd probably also offer a 'refueling service' with 400% markup.

Sure, every regulator would bark, but that's kind of exactly how Uber did it for ridesharing!
Why... do you have that?
Yeah, there's something to be said for the bonding value of fake/play aggression. It reinforces feelings like "We must be close because we can call each other an asshole without actually damaging the relationship" and "I can say what's on my mind immediately without having to stop and filter and worry about whether this will ruin our relationship"

I've never worked in this, but I would imagine cooks have to work very closely together, be fast and honest with no time to sugercoat things (other than pastries perhaps) so it's important to bond strongly as a team and to have a culture of saying what you think quickly so the work can get done quickly and mistakes dealt with quickly.

Chesterton's fence, man. Human psychology isn't simple.
Orgasm and women's waist circumference. (U.S. NIH)
I wonder how long the actual devs fixing it had? From what I hear from friends who work there, Microsoft is a sprawling bureaucracy with many layers of management, where decisions are far from quick. I'd imagine that after Intel/whoever let Microsoft know about the exploits, it went through many levels of prioritization, negotiation about which team would work on it, not being brought into sprints because of other features already being worked on, etc. Most likely there were people with minimal knowledge of the relevant tech making all these prioritization decisions.

Wouldn't shock me at all if there was very little actual dev work done for the first few months, and then it was all super rushed at the end. Quite possibly the devs with the required knowledge didn't even know this was in the pipeline for months. That's par for the course at every decently large company I've worked at (i.e. 100+ devs), and at a beast like Microsoft I imagine it'd be way worse.
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>Ahh, so you don't trust the operating system itself, rather than the apps running on it.

The argument against any of these devices is that they are compromised either by a third party or by the actual device maker. Google and Apple make the OSes installed on almost every mobile device. If you don't trust Google's or Apple's smart speaker why do you trust their OS?

>In this case, you're free to physically turn off cellular data on your phone (e.g. by removing the SIM) and connect it to Wi-Fi.

That isn't a valid solution became it is hindering a device in such a way that it can't perform its most basic duty. Real people don't put a SIM into their phone only when they are expecting a call and take it out as soon as the call is over.

>Sure, but you don't need a whole lot of processor power. What you need is a reliable power source, which is something that a smart speaker has.

What do you think the average smartphone uptime is per day? I am willing to bet it is approaching 24/7. A majority of phones probably are hooked up to chargers a couple hours a day and they all have access to the battery any time they aren't/

>While smart speakers don't have to even be within a few feet of the owner to work.

And neither do phones. The range of smart speaker microphones is likely within an order of magnitude of the range of smartphone speakers but the average distance between a smart speaker and its owner is going to be several orders of magnitude higher than the average distance between a smartphone and its owner.
I have to strongly disagree.

You're writing off people in "the spotlight" as if it is incapable of shining on people who convey rational ideas.

To be frank, you also assert your opinion on the competence of thinkers as if it's factual.
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Thank you, sometimes I feel like I’m nuts for seeing all these people run to install always on mics in their house.

I don’t like the 1 second of buffer the iPhone has for Siri with Hey Siri disabled - but LOL if I’m going to install a single purpose always listening microphone for gimmick reasons.
Yea, it is probably the biggest change to the Windows kernel in a security update.
Gasoline under normal conditions doesn’t explode, it burns. I’m not denying that a fire was the likely outcome in either case, but neither gasoline nor batteries detonate, they deflagrate. Gasoline in particular, despite what Hollywood would have you believe, isn’t like nitroglycerin.
It's not about whats broken, its about what you DO when it is broken.

This my favorite interview question to ask candidates:

"What is your all time biggest screw up, and how did you come back from it" - I then tell them the story of me loosing several hundred thousand dollars and the funny things that happened around it to set the tone. If you have been in tech for any length of time you have one of these stories (if not a few). I have heard some great ones by simply asking and it gives great insight into a candidate (humor, stress response, the things you have seen).
No clue where to report this: created date on profiles broken
Rendering like "October days () ago".

Example
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MaxLeiter
Nobody on this thread, has accounted for the value of the time, that self driving cars or cabs, free up for you !
Just because you may doesn't mean you should.

It's absurd to outlaw everything before it becomes a problem.

A lot of the data that Facebook gathers in their dragnet, another purpose-built company could ethically use to solve a problem for you.
It sounds like you might just be allergic to certain types of oil. No need for wooey explanations.

Also but not likely to be the reason for your symptoms - cooking with vegetable oils releases toxic chemicals linked to cancer and other diseases,
> That's a practical consequence of giving up privacy and decentralization.

(Most) cryptocurrencies don't have privacy (quite the opposite). The reason why the government couldn't stop cryptocurrency transactions is that they were decentralised.

However, I also believe you're wrong in this case. Anybody can set up a mint, and so it would be entirely possible for a Bitcoin mint to exist (in fact I believe several already do). People could buy Taler tokens from the mint and then send them to Wikileaks. When Wikileaks cashes in the tokens, they are sent (using Bitcoin) to Wikileaks. While the government would be able to tell how much money Wikileaks received, they would not be able to stop the underlying funds transfer (through Bitcoin). Yes, they may be able to try to punish the mint for permitting such transactions, but this would be the same as punishing Coinbase for allowing people to send those transactions as well.

But if you're running a business and you don't want the government to know how much revenue you've made (which means you're running an illegal business from a tax perspective) then yes, you wouldn't be able to use GNU Taler. This is a benefit, because creating a system that encourages tax fraud is one of the easiest ways to have the government ban that system's usage.

> but it's a backdoor nonetheless. [...] not a refutation of the fact that this is a backdoor [...] Something doesn't stop being a [negatively associated noun] because you think its effect is positive.

You are using the term "backdoor". The only reasonable definition of this term is "a method (often secret) to allow an entity to bypass authentication or encryption of a particular system" (which is the common usage of the word).

This does not apply to GNU Taler, because no encryption or privacy guarantee is being bypassed. When you use GNU Taler as a merchant you are aware that your transactions are audiable by the government for tax purposes -- if you don't want that to be the case then you can choose not to use it. Almost all legitimate businesses would not have an issue with this, because they have to declare revenue anyway.

A backdoor would be if Monero had a way to deanonymise transactions, so that governments can figure out what people spent money on. In that case, a privacy guarantee of the system has been subverted.
I still feel like curve editing, point selection on Corel Draw is more intuitive than Illustrator. Corel got a lot of things right but didn't manage to get its products seriously considered by the publishing industry.
Thanks! I was working a "real job" from about mid 2013 and am no longer, so my cycles are now all mine again. I was too tired to write most of the time before.

Also, there are many more stories to be told now!
You might want to try replying to the person making that argument. I was simply stating what I believe the poster was saying
Because sexual response is controlled by the brain.

If I imagine myself in a calming forest, I can feel calmer and my heart rate may go down. Does that mean I magically transported my soul to a forest or some other such superstition?
Im going to say this -

When it is all said and done, if you fucked up, you should get some shit for it. However this should be good natured, YOU should be laughing at it and everyone else laughing WITH you.
I'm not advocating zero cost sharing. I'm in favor of percentage based cost sharing (vs. copay), along with prenegotiated fixed rate for costly procedures.
I don't see how this is not "better mousetrap, better mouse". Phrases from "they build a better fool" to "they build a better US Navy crewman" are a hundred a penny, and yes I've experienced the other side of this.

The best programmer vs the worst user, and every mix in between, shall produce situations needing attention this article addresses.

I've been in this situation on both sides. "Of course it should be clear what this phrase means, how could they fuck this up?" ... and ... "I have on idea what this means, both choices could mean what I want but either choice ends me up on the wrong page of this bullshit 'choose my own adventure' that I'll have to repeat if I'm wrong".

I'm interested in finding out if I'm understanding this wrong, and//or other thoughts.
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Genuine question here: How is it not absolutely terrifying that an iOS App Store app can man in the middle HTTPS communications made by other apps? Is there some way in which this isn’t poking a hole in exactly the sort of security sandbox that iOS tends to be good at? (And yes there probably is some part of what’s going on that I don’t understand, that’s why I’m asking the question)
Meat is ok (if you like it).

But cut out all sodas ASAP (even diet sodas). Imagine that all sodas are addictive mild poisons. That would help you to replace sodas with water.

Stopping soda intake would probably allow you to lose another 10 pounds without extra effort.
Unfortunately, when I go on road trips (mostly western US), there are a LOT of areas that only Verizon seems to have coverage. I've used most of the other carriers at one time or another, but I've been with Verizon for about 2 years now as I just got tired of not having connectivity when traveling inside the country.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of babies hurtling down the highway"?
Goto put a new backdoor inb4 the old one is replaced.
I’ve been able to reduce my time on news websites dramatically by developing the habit of opening the kindle app instead. Now I (mostly) continue to read my books instead of reading nonsense.
The google popular hours API.
Eh, I wouldn't go that far. CAFC judges just tend to be appointed (at least a little) for how much of a hard on they have intellectual property rights in general. The whole circuit was setup pretty much only to do patent appeals for the most part. The judges probably just think of themselves as 'principled'. And they are technically allowed to do this, despite it being kind of a dick move.
Curious how they have logs everywhere these days. Maybe they should start keeping these logs in a "black box" - like airplanes have, from which they can retrieve information after a fatal crash.
There's a lot more competition in the photography industry. Adobe has lightroom but there's a trend now for photographers jumping into Capture One. Then there's dxo optics, darktable and for the less high end market Acdsee.
After publishing a new app, it usually takes a couple of days to rise in Google Play search results.

But I agree about the saturation.
> The main issue with smart speakers

And? Your phone is with you 24/7

> they have access to continuous power

I don't know about you but my phone hasn't run out of power in months.

> this doesn't mean that they aren't less dangerous

No one is saying that they aren't dangerous, you're missing the point. What I'm saying is if you carry a smartphone around, that's just as risky. Therefore, it's hypocritical to warn against smart homes unless you also don't have a smartphone.

> Smart speakers also have better range than smartphones

But smartphones are literally next to you at all time, they don't need better microphones.
This assumes that self-driving cars will be safer. I think this is an unrealistic idea.

Look on the road some time. You see a lot of cars with dented bodywork, running one headlight, often poorly maintained, and depending on the make and model very cheaply made. Many of the cars may be ten years old, or older. They are often sold used, with limited warranty or dealer service.

And you really want to add self-driving to this? You think a 8 year old kia whose operator hasn't updated it because he can't afford the dealer service fees is going to be safer?
The ones I use most are:

https://www.sec.gov/

https://www.ssa.gov/

https://data.bls.gov/

https://dmv.ny.gov/

https://www.irs.gov/

All are useful and well-designed in my opinion.

I don't think they should be judged on "looking outdated" though. Functionality and security are what's important, and if it's too visually polished, I look at that as maybe even a negative indicator of functionality.
Can't say much about the security, but I suspect it's working by pretending to be a VPN provider and then proxying the traffic. It's then able to install a CA root to generate any certs it needs to MITM traffic. Cert pinning will prevent this from working, but that's the only thing that will.
This comment is a perfect example of why I love hn. Article about thing that I know a small amount about but have mild interest in? Go to comments and find guy with big ass laser!
People don't want to invest in expensive equipment to watch the occasional movie on NetFlix. I outsource viewing movies to cinemas.

It's also more convenient to meet friends and experience a movie together in a public space, I don't have to bring people into my home and we can experience a movie and go grab some food afterwards. Let's face it, your kids aren't going to want to have a date night on your lounge in front of you either.
Many commentators on this thread are desperate to come to the opposite conclusion despite the clear case law on this question.
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Yes but my point is: they could've just made money for the next fifteen years or so. Then they could've maybe sold the brand, mapping division and data to the company that kills them, or done some sort of merger. Companies don't have to live forever to make sense. Every apartment building, for instance, will eventually need to be replaced.
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"I travel a lot between the US and Europe; I'm using Fi at the moment even though I shouldn't actually have access to it."

Would you elaborate ?

I am currently traveling in Europe and used the "Orange Holiday Europe" travel SIM which appears to do everything I need it to (tethering, calls to anywhere, etc.) and it "just worked" when I landed.

What alternatives to this would be worth looking into ?
If we see #deletefacebook as a trend. It takes time to propagate. Once it become "uncool" to be on facebook, it ll be gone for good..

If Facebook lose its young users, it is only a matter of time before the older people follow where ever the young is going..
Yikes! We use time series databases, so we simply export the data from them to analytical software or our local machines.

InfluxDB is a simple command to extract what I need and then work with it from there.
Anything sufficiently complex can be broken down into simpler pieces plus the glue holding those pieces together.

In human organizations, that glue itself gets incredibly complex and expensive, as number of pieces grow.
Also this means that any confession evidence can not be trusted.
"the X suffered a direct impact with a narrow slice of concrete."

Does anyone know if that sort of impact would be what the IIHS calls small overlap frontal crash? IIRC when they added that test in 2012, many previously very safe cars were found to do poorly in that specific test because so much energy is concentrated into a very small area.
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The title of this article, while technically accurate, is a little clickbaity and seems to be appealing to the bandwagon of sentiments about Zuckerberg. Land rights in Hawaii can be less cut-and-dry than they are on the mainland. I'm not implying there isn't potential bullying involved here, but aside these suits are mostly by way of figuring out who might have a stake in the land so as to make them an offer for divestment.

> “It is common in Hawaii to have small parcels of land within the boundaries of a larger tract, and for the title to these smaller parcels to have become broken or clouded over time..."

>Zuckerberg has no intention of contesting any co-owner who can prove his or her interest in any of the land parcels.
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This thread should be the poster child for Silicon Valley's problem of only asking "can we?", and not "should we?"

Humanity does not need more powerful weapons.

"If I don't do it, someone else will" is too frequently used as a justification for all sorts of shit that is blatantly wrong. If we continue down that path, we'll deserve our extiction.
what you're referring to is catastrophic coverage, and yes, it's the absolutely minimum one needs.

The problem is that people are now accepting this type of coverage as new normal and also paying arm and leg for it.
So... we can protect tanks and planes from laser weapons by putting scotch tape on them??
>normal clean rooms allow documentation

Uhhh. No. Just no. I don't think you understand the meaning of "clean room" in this context. In this context, clean room means that the person in the room is untainted by any copyrighted information full stop.
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