skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Im not familiar with this Cambridge researcher, but they seem very far off the mark and I do not think the original article passes the smell test.

Let's make multiple very serious and not reasonable assumptions and jump to the end: a compromised bmc on the network.

It is still non-trivial to get anything accomplished. Either you pass traffic through the likely sinkholed DNS (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDNS) or make hard coded calls likely to be flagged by ips/ids. Even if you don't get caught immediately, the number of firewalls with access rules to wan to lan traffic back to your ilo/idrac has got to be effectively 0. Even if the access rules are in place, I'd bet Nat isn't - even reverse ssh tunnels require Nat. There are file integrity solutions to check for OS compromises (
https://www.tripwire.com/solutions/file-integrity-and-change...)

The idea that these were shipped randomly globally to Enterprise environments and no one ever figured it out is basically impossible. Maybe there is some grey area and the CTOs and CISOs just never got told what the Frontline admins didn't think was a big deal.

Something else is going on. Maybe this is FUD with China in the title to fuel some political economic maneuvering. Maybe everything about the attack is real except Russia did it to hurt China.
Air space over international waters can be controlled by a government?
The topic is the F-22. Are you thinking of the F-35?
There's something to say for boring politics.
I agree.

I think the lack of new operating systems since late-90s can be (partially) attributed to the simple fact that modern computing world is so fully-developed, we have the computers for everything, and enjoy all the state-of-art features and functionalities. You already have, well, all the things you have on your personal computer. Although desktop apps are getting crappier and crappier as always (which is another story), but some parts of underlying infrastructure are created and only understood by the best developers in the world (high-performance TCP stack, 802.11n, multimedia, 3D graphics, TLSv1.3, PCI-e, USB 3.0, virtualization, exploit mitigation, web browser engines, C10K-free web server). By creating a new system, you lost everything immediately and render the computer less useful, making it less attractive for both hackers and academic/industrial researchers alike.

Back in the early days, not too many things were being done on computers, and you had fewer things to lose.

Want to play Space War on PDP-7, but don't even have an OS? Then Unix!

Want to do some real work on 80s home computers? BASIC! Micro-Soft!

When Linus purchased his computer, he found that the computer only runs DOS and was effectively useless for him. So he ordered a copy of Minix, meanwhile playing a DOS game to kill his time. After Minix arrived he eventually got a usable programming environment, was able to got online to Usenet with a modem, and also got the Minix filesystem which was suffering from performance issues at that time.

This is everything he had for his computing.

Then he decided to create his own operating system. He wrote the kernel, ported glibc, bash, gcc, and the system boots, later he added modem support. Now he could do everything he was able to do on Minix. That's it! Naturally, a few years later, it became a community project and gained huge momentum.

Perhaps the early-90s was the last era, when hackers can "just" create a operating system in a tinker's way.

On the other hand, new OS are still being constantly created on platforms which don't have the burdens of workstations/servers, we still see many hobbyist/research/practical systems on microcontrollers every year. As they became more and more powerful, then it also runs Linux and the story ends there...

I think this is also one reason that retrocomputing is getting more and more popular, it brings back the "playground" nature of early computer systems, unlike the "factory" nature of modern ones.
I'm in Northern Europe and experience the opposite thing: I spent seven years of studying (I have two undergraduate and two graduate STEM degrees), but it doesn't really help me in the hunt for a job. I have never had an algorithmic question in a job interview.

I saw you commenting on one of my posts yesterday, and I checked out your projects. They look very good, and I can't really put my finger on the problem. Maybe you should put more emphasis on your projects on your resume? If I remember correctly you're in Canada and looking for a job in the US. It might just be the added overhead of finding a job in another country.

It's also a possibility to market your products more. If you have friends who would be good at this, they can help you. You have quite a fancy product, and I bet many people would love to start a journey to build something with you. Find someone with more experience in looking for investors and you might have something on your hands (and you wouldn't even need to do an interview).

I think the tech job market is a hard one because there are so many niches. That said, have you tried an interview training? It is hard for people to point out the problem via the internet. No offense, but maybe there is a simple thing you're doing wrong. I know I have a tendency to undersell myself, and I don't always share my excitement with others, which might come across as a lack of enthusiasm.

Last but not least: It can't hurt to study some academic subjects.

Anyway, I wish you the best of luck. Your projects look cool, and I don't understand why you're having a hard time finding a job.
>but to bail out investments by German and French banks. So, basically a transfer from the European tax payer to some banks.

This is what gets me. What is an "investment" after all? Some amount of potential profit with some amount of risk. If the risk just gets eliminated (win: keep the money, lose: taxpayers cover your losses) then what the fuck kind of game are we playing?

I want in too! I want to go to the casino, if I win I keep the money, if I lose people I will pick everyone's pockets until I'm in the green again.
Except no one has said those F-22s are damaged beyond economical repair. That's just speculation at this point.
I wrote the following in 2015:

"...people who can afford to pay for content are people with money, or people with buying power, in other words, the exact same people advertisers look to target. The more buying power you demonstrate, the more advertisers will target you. So the more you pay to keep ads away, the more advertisers will pay to put them back in. With the way the world currently works, selling ads, it seems, will always be more profitable than selling content."

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9935803
In the case of firearms it might be 3 or more rules you'd have to break simultaneously to experience a negligent injurious discharge: Don't point the gun at something you don't intend to shoot, don't keep a gun loaded unless necessary, don't put your finger on the trigger until preparing to shoot, and use the gun's manual safety if it has one.
> It wasn't as if the Air Force was of any use whatsoever on that day seventeen years ago when action stations was actually needed.

It’s deeply insulting both as an American and as a thinking human being to say the USAF did nothing on 9/11.
Second link I've seen from threader. All the images are broken on mobile (Android, Firefox). Can we link to the original?
Britain in 1976, I think it was the first bailout by the IMF and was controversial at the time.
they don't make 'em like they used to
UK 1976, Mexico 1980's, India and Kenya in the 1980's too.

It's a pretty dire record though. I think that it's easy to argue that where there have been positive results that's mostly by accident. The UK is the best example of this - there was an IMF rescue and liberalisation but also an oil discovery which recapitalised the commercial base of the country and allowed an infrastructure building program.
Background: I worked in a social networking startup Jaiku (acquired by Google) in the early days of social media boom (2006-2007) and have thought about these things since.

Trying to monetize social network service through subscriptions or other type of payments from users have been tried several times since the dawn of digital social networks, and I think there is quite much evidence that it doesn't work for generic social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

I think pg himself once said that "Information wants to be free". There is a certain truth to it that also applies to social networks.

Social networks that have been able to monetize by subscription model mainly deal with some kind of exclusivity. For example, three types of social networks that people are willing to pay for:

1) networks in which people share information that can be used to gain financial benefit. An example: ValueInvestorsClub.

2) exclusive networks that offer an access to hard-to-reach people. There are digital versions of these, but good examples from physical world are invite-only social clubs popular in London, New York, and other cosmopolitan cities.

3) Social networks targeted as internal communication tools to companies and other organizations. These usually monetize explicitly by offering a better controls who you can invite, remove and how you can restrict access in finer granularity. Examples: Yammer, Slack.

Fourth kind of successful monetization strategy involving payments from users is mostly seen in games and other types of virtual worlds. People buy digital outfits, avatars or other digital goods that help them to express themselves or stand out from other users. I haven't seen this model working very well in social networks in which users use their real identities: dating sites are an exception, but they usually are not considered social networks, even if there are elements of social networking in Tinder, OkCupid, Match.com etc.

If I were you, I would study history of failed and successful social networks and community tools both deeply (try to understand the details of mechanisms that the services were using) and broadly (don't restrict your study just to what we currently consider social networking platforms like FB).

Understand what has been tried, what works, what didn't work. It will be very enlightening.
The UK government boxed themselves into a corner by designing their new aircraft carrier to only handle STOVL aircraft. And the only such aircraft available is the F-35B. If they had designed their carrier with catapults like the French did then they would have had a couple other aircraft options, and thus more negotiating power.
I think major hurdles of being enterprenuer is achieving strong resilience to external changing factors. Problems will keep coming at every stage, a good one should expect and/or anticipate it and should not get tired by it. Not everyone's cup of tea. Some people are happy with good times and noodle salad.
Is short selling banned in australia?
>All this means is that their yields will go up

This isn't a small thing for Argentina.
Most real businesses sell real products and they really do not want adverts for rival products showing on their website. Not having 'ads' is a bonus.

If you live in a Silicon Valley bubble where the 'customer is the product' and all you have to sell is advertising space then you might not understand this.

Adding images to this website does not necessarily undermine the 'audit' metrics. Clearly this has to be done with sensibly sized images otherwise those metrics will be affected negatively.

Small to medium sized real businesses do not necessarily need Google Analytics with people on the payroll to troll the rest of the company with petty 'SEO demands'. If a company has established relationships with distributors or if products are supplied on an 'OEM' basis to a handful of partners then the website need be no more than a glorified 'contact us' page.

Server side analytics are fine for such an internet presence. In some ways better as there is no need to have a silly 'cookie' notice.

You have a very narrow idea of business value if it is all about stalking your potential customers and ramming adverts that they did not want down their eyeballs, wasting their time and bandwidth in the process.
I think AUS housing bubble has much more to do with Chinese buying it all up than those money government gave out.
Many of those "gun cleaning accidents" are actually suicides. When there's any doubt the authorities often record the incident as an accident to spare the family some pain and make it easier for them to collect life insurance.
Some people confuse boundaries with bubbles.

When they tell me I'm living in a bubble because I use an instance with rules and instance blocks, what they want is for the street preacher to be able to chase me down the sidewalk yelling fire and brimstone at me. "I wouldn't personally do that," they insist, "but people should be able to!"

They want to be able to harass people online the way they do offline, and on less advanced social networks. It's as ideological as all the opinions they reject as ideology.
This is awesome! I hope they get a nice bump in membership numbers after being featured on HN.

Does anyone know if there a way to get more involved in the project (eg as a volunteer of any kind)? I couldn't find anything on the website.
You can read Dawkins' response to it here http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/edward-wilson-soc...

This part is worth noting:

I would not venture such strong criticism of a great scientist were I not in good company. The Wilson thesis is based on a 2010 paper that he published jointly with two mathematicians, Martin Nowak and Corina Tarnita. When this paper appeared in Nature it provoked very strong criticism from more than 140 evolutionary biologists, including a majority of the most distinguished workers in the field. They include Alan Grafen, David Queller, Jerry Coyne, Richard Michod, Eric Charnov, Nick Barton, Alex Kacelnik, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, Geoffrey Parker, Steven Pinker, Paul Sherman, Tim Clutton-Brock, Paul Harvey, Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Stephen Emlen, Malte Andersson, Stuart West, Richard Wrangham, Bernard Crespi, Robert Trivers and many others. These may not all be household names but let me assure you they know what they are talking about in the relevant fields.
Wilson's approach is widely rejected.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/03/researchers-challeng...
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I was about to post a similar point, that he's possibly comparing unequal demographics, and without controlling for that his numbers are probably not meaningful.

Still, he makes plenty of other good points. And as for meetings in sex clubs, I have no doubt that this still occurs in plenty of other fields, even ones that aren't male dominated.

The fact that Chang's book appears long on rumour and short on data is what should disqualify it from being taken seriously.
The trouble with their limited influence has mainly to do with the fact that the political capital to lead european parties take the lead (instead of national ones) is something which is currently political suicide among many politicians.

This is a chicken and egg problem, national politicians can always blame the EU for their problems, and the European political parties are not able to prove their worth because they are being held down by national politics of member states.

One solutions would be a completely seperate system, but that would require some form of federalisation, which is politically and culturally not feasable at the moment.
I would very much like to see some data that explore how much business is conducted outside of offices per industry sector and where. To me it seems about as common as merger deals being done while the people involved are stone drunk, which I assume must happen somewhere but can't possible be the norm.
Air cargo is 1% of worldwide frieght volume but 35% of revenue
To be fair, women generally have a better knack at finding partners (see the distribution on how many matches an average woman gets on Tinder vs. an average man). So those social problems man be alleviated easier by autistic women.
The Fiat 500 is a cheap car for the masses. It competes with the Ford Fiesta, Renault Clio and other B class hatchbacks. A Fiat 500 can be had from £10,900 to £15,000 in the U.K. while the Ford Fiesta starts at just over £13,000 and can be optioned up to £20,000.

The Abarth 595 is also competitive with B class hot hatches such as the Fiesta ST, Polo GTI, Renault Clio Sport, etc.
The Novak et al. paper was heavily rebutted.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/03/researchers-challeng...

http://ped.fas.harvard.edu/files/ped/files/nature09836.pdf
Freight mass would be more meaningful than freight volume…
I agree with you ,and I also share your opinion.
Same experience
I'd love to see this type of investigation done on a US model of their phones, for example an Honor 8 pro.
Modeling Authorization with PERM in Casbin
Which part of web are you learning?
You probably read a lot about that 90% of the start-ups fail.
So consider your options and propabilities of success.

a) Try to legally migrate to a first world country. Given your background the chances are very slim. Your best chance is probably to find a western partner willing to marry you.

b) Illegally migrate to another country. This is very difficult for the countries you mentioned because you have to cross an ocean. Illegal immigration into Europe is possible but 1,000 USD is not enough. From what I read you would need about 10,000 USD. It also comes with certain risks. About 0.1-3% of the migrants die during the journey depending on the route. Many get abused on the way.
Do you want to play this kind of Russian roulette?
Assuming that you have the money and you are willing to take the risk, your chances are not that bad, probably above 30% to make it within a year. If you make it, a lot of things will be better, but a lot of other things will be much worse than you expect. Your chances to be better off than the median are very slim. Most likely you will be sourended by 90% people being better off than you. If you work hard, chances for your children are much better though.

c) Migrate within your country to a better comunity. This should be feasable, even though you seem to have only about a few month of savings. Maybe you find a better comunity in your own country? This has many advantages over above options. You stay within your own language and culture, you can continue to use your existing network and you can easily reverse your move if the new community turns out worse than expected. I would assume, this option has the highest success rage. If you succeed here another option may open at a later point with higher success probabilities.
> ~2.5 bit/base

Given that there are four bases, i would have thought you could reliably do it in 2. What am i missing?
There's no actual evidence of more storms than before.

This hurricane was about as powerful as one from the 19th century... We're well into the 21st century.

(There have been, according to AccuWeather, 27 other category 4 hurricanes that have made landfall in the US since 1851.)
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I think what's missing from your closed system is some kind of variation to induce change. Earth might not have enjoyed life without the rotation and revolution of the Earth generating conductive (and other) currents in the air and water.

Side note, I think you could make stronger points by not distracting with that kind of off-putting sarcasm.
You don't want to buy a new device, so you can either:

1.) Install Linux

2.) Re-Install Windows

I am not sure what you mean by "replication to ssd is impossible" but in either way I would suggest you replace the HDD with a SSD if the disk is slow, data can always be transfered.
I forgot one approach: Charge content creators. An example: Soundcloud. This was very much touted as the best strategy during the Web 2.0 era by thinkers like Joi Ito. However, I haven't seen it working well for generic social networks. The network has to be build around specific kind of content/audience.
If only we could wind the clock back ...

But we can't so have to deal with what is in front of us right now.
It's somewhat easier to just browse in Firefox's private mode all the time with trakingprotection enabled and no 3rd party cookies. Nothing is shared with the tracking networks and any cookie set by the site itself is deleted at the end of the session. As for the consent and GDPR annoyances themselves, they can be killed easily with uBlock (along with the ads etc.).

Welcome to the smooth, no-tracking surfing experience of circa 2003.
You say "we all know how guys with aspergers" but I'm pretty sure people in general have no idea what the diagnostic criteria are (or were if you want to go that way).

If you consider the low prevalence, most people don't even know anyone with the different behaviors grouped under Asperger syndrome.

(lots more people have social problems from depression and anxiety than autism spectrum disorders...)
Funny, I've been conciously carrying cash for the same reasons. Still i should probably be more disciplined about using it as opposed to contactless.
Ask HN: Is there a OneNote file parser?
How does OneNote file format work? Is there a parser for it? Looking at the wiki page for onenote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_OneNote

It says .one is an open format but if so where can I find a parser for it or create a .one file programmatically?

Is there an open-office or any such other open source equivalent of note taking software?
Jesus man
Indeed - For society to continue to evolve imperfect application of the law is essential.
Ron, both of you are famous in free software and amateur radio communities due to your work, so thanks again.

I have some doubts though regarding the safety of manned launches here. Seems like a serious issue to me and I hope it's not treated lightly.
Is your phone tainted by the misery of the 35,000 children in Congo's mines?
I have also had coca tea, and quite enjoyed it. It was a more euphoric coffee alternative. For me I assume it's a dosage issue: tea is nice but doing a line of extracted cocaine is very excessive for my brain and body. But honestly this is very much an anecdote as I dont do well with any stimulants.
Have some hacking points
I'm you but 6 years later :)

I actually dropped out of Poli and moved to Helsinki, and most of my friends scattered around Europe.

Did you see this thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18045294

Your post has a nice collection of issues, IMO there is one missing: there is absolutely zero interest in investing in research and technology (e.g. afaik there is still no fast internet outside of big cities) and young generations (this is related to the aging population, that makes it convenient for politicians to target retired people to get their votes. Convenient for them in the short term, but not as much for the future of the country)