skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some backdoors can be almost impossible to detect with any kind of traditional wafer inspection tools. E.g., it might be possible to transparently cripple something like Intel's RdRand instruction by changing only the doping on some of the gates inside the hardware RNG circuit. It would look completely identical under the best microscope and looking at the output wouldn't give you a good indication of whether or not you had a broken RNG or a good one. The design of Intel's RNG involved passing the output of the RNG through some whitening and IIRC AES so it might look completely random and pass every statistical test but the hardware entropy source might only realistically have 10 bits per second of real entropy.

I still think it's unlikely that someone would go through the effort to insert a super secret backdoor by surreptitiously modifying the masks but there are some interesting techniques that can make finding a backdoor almost impossible if you don't already know about it.
Please don't take threads into even deeper circles of hell. The community is already incapable of discussing this issue civilly, and upping the ideological ante makes the flamewar worse.
Reading it now, from the EU. I had to scroll to the bottom of an opt-out pop-up and click okay, which wasn't too onerous.
Or pay for a service that shouldn’t be free, as in free beer, because running a server costs money and companies have to keep the lights on.
Thanks, that does answer the question.
Yes, it’s still picosat (wrapped in a python library called pycosat). At some point it may be switched out with an alternate SAT implementation, but I suspect SAT in general is very much destined to stay an integral part of conda.
Python is an excellent first language to learn. Many universities around the world now use it as the language by which to introducing programming both for CS and non-CS students.

Depending on how you learn best, the following are 3 effective ways to learn:

From a book - one of the best books is Learning Python (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028154.do)

From videos - you could search YouTube for a trainer who communicates in a way that resonates for you.

By playing (and writing) games - PyGame is an excellent resource (https://www.pygame.org/docs/tut/PygameIntro.html)

Well written Python programs are like structured English, so they are not that hard to read. Personally I would suggest PyGame as the most effectively way to learn, but it really is a personal taste and preferences thing.
There’s a reason offices are air conditioned the way they are, trust me. While some of you lucky people can tolerate these temperatures comfortably, a significant percentage of the population sweats profusely in anything beyond 70 degrees Fahrenheit (I’m one of them).

Those of us who suffer from this would LOVE to trade places with the people who complain of the terrible effort of “putting on a sweater in the summer time” when it’s a bit too cool inside.

Unfortunately, we do not have the luxury of peeling off our skin when we are sweating uncontrollably in a 78F room, that some say is “not too hot”.

It’s important to recognize that humans are very diverse creatures, and office environments have to deal with the complex task of accommodating a wide range of physiologies.
Who knew paperclip maximization could be distopian...
This is similar to the method used for generating random numbers using Box-Muller transform.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box%E2%80%93Muller_transform
On the flip side, there is only so much clothes I can take off before it becomes illegal where as it is easy for people to put on more clothes if they are cold. Granted, there are ways I can help cool myself down such as having a fan which I do have at my desk but it would be ridiculous to bring that with me to meetings and stuff.

To flip back around to your point though, I definitely understand it as my girlfriend has raynaud's so I'll be in my apartment with the fan on still hot while my girlfriend will be next to me freezing with her hands turning white because she is cold. We are hoping our future kids will even out our weird temperature imbalances and be normal.
Its an interesting article. Though, I kinda feel like we're missing a good chunk of the story. As dominate as AWS is now, it was probably even more dominate in the time period we're talking about due to really haven gotten a big head start. And every time that AWS rolled out some new proprietary feature, it tied users even more tightly to the AWS platform.

IMO, what Google realized they needed was a technology prevent people from getting more dependent on AWS. Being open source is key to that goal - if they just offer another proprietary service, its hard to go to someone and tell them not to use an AWS proprietary service but to instead use a GCP one. However, with Kubernetes being open, it means that users can host their own cluster and make it easy for them to move between cloud providers. For customers on AWS, I feel like this provides a bit of an incentive not to use too many AWS proprietary services or otherwise they lose the advantage of mobility. For everyone else, GCP gets to offer the strongest Kubernetes implementation and draw customers in that way.

Its pretty win-win for Google. The article talks about the decision to open source Kubernetes as some sort of decision for the betterment of the world. But if that were really the only reason, why not open source Spanner of BigTable? And that's not to say that Google did anything wrong - corporations are designed to make decisions that are in their own best interests. What I think is interesting, is that this is a really powerful example of how sometimes things that are generally beneficial to the world AND business interests line up together, and when that does, kinda cool things can happen.
Average-case constant. Worst case? Never halts.

Generating a single point doesn’t depend at all on our choice of n (the number of points generated). But yeah, complexity analysis of stochastic algorithms is fairly advanced stuff.
Just change your OS?
All: I don't know what makes HN lose its mind on this topic, other than that the internet has been doing so for years. But since it's clear that the discussion will never land anywhere but endless repetition and flamewar hell—spiralling downward with invocations of people's children getting sick, demands for prison time, and you name it, I'm going to do what we basically never do and kill this thread outright.
Meanwhile you have people like me. I'm are already uncomfortably hot no matter how I'm dressed (or not) at 78. Even in shorts and a tshirt, most offices are warmer than I'd prefer.

This may be my own biases at play here, but it's really not that hard to warm up by dressing warmer. You don't have that option for cooling down unless you want to wear a vest full of icepacks or something. If the goal is to maximize comfort, it seems like the thermostat should be set lower rather than higher.
Coffee. Anyone can make a cup of coffee. Making a good and properly prepared cup of coffee, espresso, etc. is surprisingly complex.

I wanted to make myself a simple cappuccino at home. I now have several pieces of prosumer gear, gadgets, fancy beans, and spend my free time reading up on things like coffee grind distribution methods, hacking my machine to add a PID, and other such ephemera. On the plus side, I'm saving several hundred dollars a year on my coffee habit despite all the toys, so there's that.
Unrelenting Heat and Humidity will soon make regions uninhabitable [video]
Austen, you are a fucking awesome human! I love what you & the Lambda School are doing. You give me hope for America.

Good luck, pdxHomelessDev.
While not a programmer/dev, I work in IT as a system admin and have been homeless myself. It is a hard thing to pick yourself up out of.
>>> The AFP reports that the rental contract on Ai's studio expired last fall,

> I’ve had rental contracts expire in NYC and you just pay month to month after that.

The reason that works in NYC is because by law rental contracts that expire (without specific language to the contrary) become month to month leases. That may or may not be the case in China.
> Women, of course work as doctors for more that a single year, but on average they do work less over their lifetimes than male physicians.

What data supports this statement, or is it good old fashion common sense and gut instinct?
And for some of us (myself, for example) 68 without a breeze is my threshold of constant idle sweating. I have to set up a tower fan under my monitor at work to be comfortable (this is with office AC set to low 70s, which is way too hot for me), and at home I have AC set to 65-68 pretty much all the time.

People who complain about having to put on a sweater have no idea how miserable it is for those of us who have to sit for 8+ hours in an environment sweating profusely when it gets too hot.

This is why office AC is the way it is. You can put on a sweater. I cannot take off my skin.
Those ads are how they could publish a 500 page monthly magazine for $2.50.

And at the time, the ads were to some extent also useful information about the industry, in a period where there wasn't much available.
It's worth noting that this person posted to /r/Google[0] before writing the blog post. One thing that doesn't make any sense to me is this comment:

> When I login it always redirect to my @yourdomain.com with no gmail, drive, etc. Even if I clean the browser history. I do not understand this even.

So it sounds like this person can still log into their Gmail account, but it redirects to the deleted gsuite account. That definitely doesn't seem right, but it seems like the Gmail account could still be there?

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/94gl4k/gsuite_cance...
Ming the Merciless must be at it again. The last time he tried hot hail was in 1980.
Were you able to make another Amazon account after that or do they ban you entirely?
Generally, the journalist does not owe you to follow you instructions, just as any other person. They might do it if they want to be nice, or cooperative with you, or like you, or owe you loyalty somehow, or count on repeated cooperation in the future. So I guess the question one needs to ask oneself is - does this particular person, acting as a journalist, owes me any loyalty or has a special reason to feel they have to be nice to me? If not, expect nothing - anything you say can and will be used however they see fit, just as in any other conversation with a total stranger. Just because somebody calls themselves "journalist" doesn't make them any different.
I wanted to see how people were being convinced to link their Gmail accounts with a G Suite account, so I tried hunting for the option to sign up for this "Gmail for Work" service.

The links keep sending me to either G Suite's standard landing page, or to admin.google.com, which only works with G Suite domains.

I did find the help pages for the service: https://support.google.com/work/mail/answer/6236599
For me, yes. Even at 65 I'm very happy wearing shorts and tshirts.
That's a bit of a false dichotomy. There's no reason this place with no AC doesn't also pride itself on being dog friendly or have issues with spending money on the wrong things.
Spot on ! Running a mail server, correctly, isn’t “easy” either.
The downside is that you need to regularly update your server software and OS. Otherwise you will eventually get hacked via an old vulnerability.
.47 is not reasonable by any measure.

You can't compare being in prison with signing up with an ISP.

Prisoners also have basically no income. They are often charged per day on their accounts as well and are charged high mark up for basic commissary items and outrageous mark up for phone calls (even more than email).

This is exploitation, plain and simple.
The comment was problematic, but please don't react to a problematic comment with full-out ideological snark war. That virus only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: this is the third warning in a few weeks. We ban accounts that continue to post uncivilly after we ask them not to. Please review the guidelines and use this site as intended.
As long as we self-identify as "consumers," and believe our only lever for change is to "choose brands," we will have no power whatsoever.
Based on jsnells comments on the other subthread, it seems like sleepsorting is the intended end result/mechanism of the game. So it is not really killjoy or game-breaking strategy
Does the quickstart apply to MacOS? I follow the instructions and can't get past `wireguard-go wg0`.
Machinery: an asynchronous task/job queue based on distributed message passing
Their support ticket has some more info in subsequent posts from both them and others: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/apps/RIHSJ4LI...
US propaganda machine - in a story on China, the king of propaganda. The irony is thick. There's no central spin on US media. Certainly trump would love to have that power, because the media is endlessly critical of him. China on the other hand has a very well developed central propaganda machine.
In my office, I have a lot of hardware. With my door shut, it gets to be an oven even with air conditioning, with the door open it’s still hot, even though the hallway temp is 68. I actually like it cold inside. You can always wear more clothes, but there is a limit to how much you can take off. It’s pretty unfair to impose hot temperatures on people since there isn’t much that can be done after you’ve stripped down to the bare essentials of clothing. But colder temperatures — it’s easy to wear a light sweater.

78 in the building along with hot computers means you are quickly going to have a rather uncomfortable situation.

The fact this company has to adjust work hours to accommodate their “progressiveness” means they actually haven’t solved anything. It’s just virtue signaling. They could just as easily have their team work nights to get the same effect — but then they wouldn’t get media attention for just how innovative they are. Windows open in California means you also subject yourself to wildfire particulates, smog and other pollutants that HVAC systems mitigate. “Fresh air” is nice — when it’s actually fresh, and in most cities, it isn’t. Even Paris has had serious air quality situations. City air just isn’t all that clean. In Beijing, “fresh air” is downright toxic. I am not sure how eliminating air conditioning is considered an innovation. Air conditioning was one of the most important inventions, anyone that says otherwise never spent any time in an un-air-conditioned New Orleans house with box fans creating a cross breeze of 100% humidity. The nostalgia for the good old days is felt by those that never had to live through those days.

This story reads to me like nonsense. Seattle, while it can get “hot” is positively frigid when compared to much of the rest of the country. Try that in Atlanta, Houston or Arizona. This story is the equivalent of a Miami building being built without heating — it isn’t any kind of groundbreaking innovation. When a building in Minnesota is built without heat, then I might be interested.

What’s really innovative is how Apple Park handles fresh air and HVAC. Apple Park isn’t 78 degrees inside — it’s much cooler; they went far beyond the “innovation” in this Seattle building. This sort of innovation can be done, but being proud of a 78 degree internal temperature is like being proud when someone’s kid stops wetting the bed at age 12. It’s only a big deal to those who are experiencing it, but to the rest of us, it’s just self-congratulatory bullshit of the most mundane sort: big deal, you designed a building that isn’t quite at hot as the outdoors using groundbreaking technology that is equivalent to an open window.
I would argue that sleep sort requires communication before the game play starts, which seems to be a violation of the rules, and a way to keep time synchronized during play, which I doubt most groups of people are able to do without a shared clock.
What exactly is the point, other than you just calling the author insufficiently advanced by way of some creaky analogy? One of the many things that distinguishes programming from skiing is that it's fairly easy for people at all levels of expertise to make their own tools. And that's what this person did.
TBH this just sounds like a bug, if google support weren't so incompetent they would make this right and the story would be forgotten. But they are so this will be another black stain on Google's name.
It can ofc, but the question is always what do you do with the content :)

But in any case anything that is too sensitive to send from your own IP should not be sent over a medium that you have no ability to verify if it's being logged and by whom.

Open proxy operators aren't charities most of them are dubious at best.

If you want anonymity cryptocurrency VPS in data heaven jurisdiction or TOR is the best way to go, if you don't need that much anonymity than "proven" no-logging VPN providers are also better since they guarantee higher privacy than unauthenticated open proxies.
Squeaky wheel gets the grease.

The more this story is upvoted, retweeted, and spread, the likelier that Google will be forced to deal with a potential PR backlash.

Customer service via viral outrage is an unfortunate consequence of these mass scale services (and companies unwilling to properly invest in human support staff to improve the quality of customer success). It's slightly similar to human flesh search engines in China [0]. Maybe there's a way to organize crowdsourced feedback whenever these tech giants fail to address particularly bad customer issues.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_flesh_search_engine
> If products and services from companies like Apple and Google are not available ...

Products from Apple aren't available in China?! Hasn't Apple made billions of dollars in China every year for the last few year?
Lovely explanation. It got the votes to hit the front page so it clearly resonated with some folks. Cheers!
Someone in the support thread[1] links to an official Google page[2] where it says under 'Before you unlock additional G Suite features':

> G Suite: You can continue to use your personal Gmail account. However, if you unlock additional features and then cancel business email powered by G Suite, you can't go back to using your original free Gmail address.

Sounds like a terrible 'feature' though.

[1] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/apps/RIHSJ4LI...

[2] https://support.google.com/work/mail/answer/6243136?hl=en&re...
Polarizing?
They say it isn't really the extreme heat or cold that kills most people though, because you generally either prepare for that or just try and avoid it. Rather it's the less extreme heat/cold that people think isn't going to be a problem that often turns out to be the real problem.
Thanks. Reading that a the help docs[0] explain it better. I wonder if they can restore the business account and then do takeout on it.

[0] https://support.google.com/work/mail/answer/6243136?hl=en&re...
Very interesting take on strontium isotope counting revealing a corpse's pre-death geography. I didn't know they can do that.
And here's an example of free never really being free. It sux but when you pay nothing, expect nothing. That's really the lesson to learn.

I once had a "free" website that was running for years. One day it was all gone, no notice, no warning. Lucky I backed it up. I was back in business in a few hours..
qmail:

Latest Stable release: 1.03 / June 15, 1998
There are various groups that run blacklists, which are checked by various spam filters and email providers. If you went up on one of their blacklists, in theory you can fill out a form with them to be taken off. (This has happened to me in the past I think due to being assigned an IP address that was previously used for spam, and I wasn't able to get off the list; I eventually had to get a new IP instead.)
Not OP, but I use both Spamassassin and DSPAM. It catches most spam but I do see a couple every week.
They’ll have to install it if they ever want to sell the building. People that buy buildings are rarely interested in living someone else’s experiment. I could almost guarantee that given two buildings, the one without proper HVAC is going to be harder to sell.
I understand that inventory is evil but how does supply chain really solve it? I still have to keep X number of unit in inventory (aka "buffer") to deal with fluctuating demand. A top answer says that Apple now keeps only 2 days worth of inventory which is quite impressive. If suppliers somehow can do "on-demand" same-day manufacturing then so can I (no?). I would in fact think coordinating between various parts of supply chain will cause inherent delays which will in turn increase the inventory you will need to keep. The large complex supply chain is kind of anti-thesis of monolithic gigafactory concept by Musk. One may argue that Musk isn't successful but I would say with enough capital he should be able to scale up and might get same results as Apple.
I expected an article about common journalist practices and I from the start I got an attack on Trump because of some (of a countless and never ending variety) beef they had with them instead. Of course, this could also be seen as "explaining some of our journalistic practices". I get it, good work.
Have you considered the rights of the landlord? From the video, it looks like a single large "studio"(aka multi-thousand meter-squared building for one person), and not a multi-tenant dwelling like one might expect in SF, NYC, or BJ/京.

Imagine the landlord wants to sell the property to a large property developer, one who may want to place 100+ units on your previously single unit rental. Is it fair that Ai can just stay there...perpetually - holding up 99 extra units on the market because he can't be bothered to move out?
openssl genrsa 2048? ;)

But in any case drafts for TLS over HTTP (also known as aTLS) exist: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-friel-tls-atls-00 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-friel-tls-over-http-00
Yeap. “Perfect” (imposed and/or theater) security isn’t desirable in an “open” society because of the loss and abuse of individual freedoms.

Back to WW2 barrage balloons, or at least sturdy nets to keep out drone-bombs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrage_balloon
Circuit Cellar is still around. It was owned by a Dutch company for a while but Ciarcia bought it back.
You're saying people using Tor make unmasked DNS requests? Are these users using some non-standard configuration? Because I'm pretty sure the Tor browser protects against that.
Man this is so illiterate :) I am ashamed of myself for writing like this. I was distracted but still...
I'd strongly recommend against it.

In a past life I ran email services for a small business, and then a medium business, it was a full time job, just keeping us out of the spam blacklists, keeping things patched up, ecosystem changes (e.g. new DNS records every few years, new security requirements, etc) and filtering incoming spam/malware/philishing attempts.

If people want to setup email for educational reasons, go ahead, but running one over a longer period isn't wise and frankly many wouldn't put enough time and effort into it to do it well. It is absolutely not set and forget, you'll need to baby it daily indefinitely.

When people ask me what I recommend? I tell them outsource email to a major provider and use your limited time/effort elsewhere. Better rate of return by far.
'yield' is a really impossible measure for this kind of process, because it presupposes full end to end knowledge of fabrication processes.
I was banned without explanation in 2011 from Google. No calendar, no email, no phone contacts! Gone immediately and with no ability to get them back. I only regained access because of a Reddit post.