skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People freaking out about port scans are pretty much part of the problem, not the solution. They are who block ICMP making P-MTU discovery broken, etc.

Making people jump through hoops to get a port scan also seems to be part of the problem.

The network operator community is slowly progressing on building out the necessary infrastructure (both institutional and technical) to deal with DDoSes in a kind of automated way. (Initially BGP null route / blackhole propagation, now some extra computation - so just drop certain percentage of packets, that match this trivial bitmask, etc.)

All this is because people forget how easy it was to get your unpatched Win XP machine owned by Blaster/MyDoom. And it's not much harder today with IoT devices, countless unpatched WordPress, phpMyAdmin, Django, RoR sites.

Of course, I'm not particularly happy about this state of things, but I have no issue with scanning, I have a lot more problem with real malware left unchecked, opportunists mistaken for real abusers.
As Stephen Colbert observed, reality has a well-known liberal bias.
> Rasmus Lerdorf (creator of PHP)

I assume that is a picture of PHP while it is being designed.
Supplements for Weight Loss, Sexual Function and Muscle Building May Be Deadly
PowerBI wants to be Tableau based on the number of times Microsoft sales has demoed and whatnot.

But I haven’t met databiz people who switched from tableau to PBI. I’m not sure why as they look pretty similar on paper.

I think Tableau’s mental model is about exporting and storytelling while PBI is about reporting.

Personally, I find it harder to work with PBI because it’s the only license model more confusing that Tableau. And there’s no Tableau Public equivalent.
I guess the same way as VAT: below a threshold (35k or 100k EUR of distance sales/year, set by the destination country), the seller's country VAT applies.

https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/individuals/buying-goo...
Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google should suffice.
Ask HN: Is it worth learning Vim/Emacs if you're doing well with VSCode already?
You mention foreign-language browsers. Interested to know which ones in particular you are dealing with.
That’s an unehlpful principle, imho. It might be more practical to “tax up”, which is the traditional approach we have followed throughout the ages. We could build a g20 organism that accumulates revenue from all global companies and redistributes it on projects that make a difference on an equivalent scale, in things like energy, transportation, health, environment preservation, space exploration and so on. Obviously there would be issues of governance to sort out, as it’s always the case, but we’d be inching forward towards global cooperation on “humanity scale” - something that we will need, eventually, if we really want global peace under democratic rule.
I was going through a QuickSight presentation and looks like it's up to 90% cheaper than Tableau!
Although it’s purely anecdotal, I know people for whom their Hackintosh served as a gateway drug for switching to a real Mac.

They’ve been sticking to Macs since.
How to Find the Length of a Variable?
I built a retro system a few years ago for old games. It's more for late 90s/2000 (Windows 98) era games, but it can do DOS, too.
> If, when dereferenced, the kernel issues an order to Amazon for more RAM and waits for it to be installed to resume the execution, that's none of the C standard's business.

We're not, and we never were, debating the situation where dereferencing the non-null pointer returned by malloc succeeds but takes long time due to your Amazon order. We've been talking about the situation where it fails. malloc is not allowed to return a non-null pointer to a memory block that cannot be written to. Linux does it anyway, and in doing so blatantly violates the standard.
Official lotteries are usually heavily regulated and audited to ensure they comply with their published rules. These are state lotteries we're talking here, not random gambling websites.
It's very likely that anybody that you know that uses microservices even before working there is using them wrongly.
Paper on which NYT article is based: Taking Stock of Dietary Supplements' Harmful Effects on Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(19)30163-6/full...
Case Study: Property Company Increase Revenue 25% with Data-Driven Software
In my experience, Firefox with the Bitwarden addon installed syncs well without requiring you to install any Google services. The obvious downside being that you need to open Firefox to copy your password, but that can probably be worked around by adding a shortcut to the Bitwarden addon page to the home screen.

I don't know what you mean with "one tap away from losing all your tabs" though, perhaps you have an issue I haven't encountered yet. I personally never lose any Firefox tabs, even if I manage to make it crash somehow; I suppose what I'm trying to say is you might want to try Firefox again to see if the situation has improved.

As for maps and navigation, you might try Maps [0] or Here Maps [1] (if that runs without play services, I assume so with Microsoft behind it). Of course, an old copy of GMaps works fine, but Maps [0] is open source, which one might likely favour on a Google-less phone.

[0]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.maps/
[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.here.app.m...
I think many people understand this is as a figure of speech, not as literal goosebumps.

edit: Yes, some people get literal goosebumps! Just highlighting there are two groups here.
Will give that a go, thanks for the info!
Association Between Micro and Macronutrient Intake and Various Sleep Variables
Agree. Boards of Canada are easily on my top 10 of best bands ever. Top of the list is Mazzy Star, the absolute best of goose bump dream pop.
The FAA let Boeing do the certification of its own plane. The system is broken.
Yandex does, and they're known for very long multi-stage interviews too. Instead of transferring, I left and doubled my salary.
I was curious, so I looked. BrowserStack charges $29/month for live (not-automated) mobile testing, boasting "2000+ Real iOS and Android devices". They also have a "freelance" plan for $19/month for those on a smaller budget.
Is it still FOSS if it's paid?
This seems really high for a company without earnings and a weird growth curve. Their ticker is cool and maybe sales force wants to be DATA on nasdaq.

Otherwise, it will be hard to justify this high markup for a tool company.

It will be awesome if Salesforce can adjust their model and make Tableau spit out D3. Their desktop tool is nice for designing, but their server components seem frequently unnecessary for running the visualization. The catch is that creating serverless dynamic visualizations isn’t all that money-making and the cool UI/UX design tool is outside of OSS’ wheelhouse.
Likelihood of Injury in CrossFit and Traditional Weightlifting Participants [pdf]
A centralized VPN solution for all users is a terrible idea, and what is "secure cloud storage" going to offer that Dropbox doesn't?

I understand that developing a browser is expensive work and Mozilla need money to do it. I support them in this effort. But honestly no ones gonna buy this
Hacker Video Games Are Experiencing a Renaissance
Of a sample of 20 people, 10 participants self-reported experiencing goosebumps when listening to music, 10 didn't; the DTI brain machine finds they have different connectivity between certain regions of the brain.

Who gets to be _the special_ out of two sets with an equal number of members? :)
Russian newspaper: “The police have declared war on journalists”
It’s a toss up, I think: actual results depend on the task at hand. 64-bit has the benefit of more, wider registers, which can speed up certain tasks.
Most white collar workers have very weak “core” muscles from sitting all day. This is basically everything between the bottom of your ribs to your thighs — abs, obliques, and everything in the pelvic area. It’s pretty obvious how changing from a life that requires us to stand / walk / run to one where we sit for long periods of time would work those muscles FAR less than sitting at a desk.

Weakness in your core leads other muscles — like those in your back — to overcompensate. For me, it started as hip pain, for others it’s knee pain (yup, weak core muscles can cause knee issues too!) But back pain is probably the most common, and is usually caused by weakness in the obliques putting the weight of stabilizing your head / torso almost entirely on your back muscles.

Fortunately treatment is easy. Bridge poses, crunches, kettlebell workouts (particularly good for the obliques) and yoga are probably the best exercises to work your core. Consider your PT a personal trainer: one your health insurance carrier is more than happy to pay for given the link between physical fitness and overall health.
I'd be happy to pay for Firefox, but I have a few points that are important to me. They are probably not very realistic but here they are anyway:

1. I would like my money to go into Firefox development and nowhere else.

I certainly don't want my money spent on their content business, even if it is used as a leverage to generate more money for Firefox development. I'm torn about Rust development because I certainly would love to see Rust flourish, but if we allow the money go into personally preferred projects it becomes hard to draw the line.

2. I would like a Firefox with absolutely no strings attached.

- No Pocket, not even a trace of it. The proper place for Pocket is a plugin.

- No experiments, labs or whatever they call it (see Mr. Robot for an example)

- No network connections to third party hosts as long I haven't explicitly opted in.

- Safe search off by default

- No predefined search engines

- No predefined start page

3. I would like Mozilla (as a whole and not only the Firefox branch) to be more careful with the selection of their businesses partners.

I'm am not aiming at their co-operations with Google, Yandex and the like, which are OK for me. At least as long as my points from above are respected. Specifically I'm OK if the free version of Firefox continues to be sponsored mainly by Google. I'm not OK with business deals of the kind they had with Cliqz for example.

4. I would like to be able to pay without having to be logged into a Firefox account.

This is actually davidhyde's idea from another thread [1] but I added it here because I fully agree.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20144726
Have you recently tried to get Apple to hand out a kext signing certificate?

Convincing Donald Trump of climate change being real seems easier than that.
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https://d.tube/ ?
All of them complete between themselves, that's a bad example.
I can’t even use a dark theme on a matte laptop in a bright room
Is there somewhere to read about how rust is tackling this problem?
I get literal goosebumps for certain songs, and it is kind of all over the place (music wise). If someone puts on Adele's Rolling in the Deep, the part where she belts out in the chorus, I always get physical goosebumps.

I never realized not everyone can do this, but I also can wiggle my ears, another useless genetic trait.
The article mentions it in passing but they still need to fix the Macbook Pro: the keyboard sucks, it doesn't have enough ports of any kind (and I hate carrying dongles - they eventually always get lost), it's not upgradeable[1], the battery is too weak to sustain heavy workloads for long when running unplugged. They do at least seem to be introducing models with more horsepower.

I'm still "surviving" on a late-2015 15" MBP, which is making me twitchy because I'm down to one machine after my late-2011 17" MBP - which I used as my studio machine (built-in Firewire FTW) - died last week due to the somewhat infamous discrete GPU overheating issue (and Apple will no longer repair it; possibly fair enough after 8 years trouble-free use). I've resorted to buying a heatgun and some thermal paste to try fixing it, and will probably source a spare machine from that era for scavenging parts in future. I'm also considering a used 27" iMac from a similar era for the studio, although it's not so convenient to tote around.

Other options include buying a Windows laptop (probably Lenovo, which seem decent), although I hate Windows so would prefer to avoid it. Linux, although perfectly fine for a lot of what I do (and would I think be fine on many Lenovo models), will only run Ableton Live via Wine, which is not a prospect that fills me with joyful anticipation (ditto, Microsoft Office, I believe).

[1] A lot of people love the 2015 models and, I agree, they're not bad, but the rot had already set it. For me, peak MBP occurred a few years earlier, back in 2011: HDD and memory are both upgradeable, battery is easily replaced, and in fact the modular design of the interior makes it fairly straightforward to pull out and replace or clean most internal components (motherboard, optical drive, fans, etc.). The GPU overheating design flaw is, however, a big fail, so these machines are still far from perfect.
Who gets to rank the videos?
Musical goosebumps are also called frisson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisson
Well yeah. Or probably even more importantly, a tax that most people wouldn't be paying.

Efficient taxes tend to 1) be broad based and 2) be very hard to avoid by changing behaviour. And that means they will impact a lot of voters, and voters don't like paying taxes. :)
I wonder how much of this is actually about how we take care (or don't take care) of our body and just expect it to take care of itself.

For example, I work in an office job. Over 50% of us either have serious injuries (like joint replacements) or are pending surgery.
Even the EU does not have the power to tax. It’s practically impossible that a rather informal forum like the G20 would be granted such authority.
Are you reading what I'm writing? No?

Let me repeat again. PII is a crutch used for matching, because current matching/segmenting technologies are crude.

Advertisers don't want PII. What they want is target audiences with predictive power, which means data sets where the central limit theorem holds sway. (I.e., thousands and millions of people lumped together.)

If advertisers could get at these segments directly without PII, they'd do it in a second.
Safety risks of supplements containing vinpocetine in women of childbearing age
This has been coming for a while. We attempted to create a push-based notification system based on MQTT. It worked well, then the notifications started getting lost. Turns out, the receiver service was getting killed in the background. We found out the best way to get reliable notification was through Google's own GCM (which has now moved to Firebase Cloud Messaging.

We learned its incredibly difficult, if not impossible to build an app (with reliable notifications) that do not use Google services.

You can say its in an effort to maximize battery resources, which I totally understand, but by requiring a Google service (and now library) you are truly tied in to and reliant on their systems.

BTW, as others have pointed out, there are open source Firebase libraries (https://firebaseopensource.com/projects/firebase/firebase-an...)
I think PowerBI compares with Tableau quite favorably. For the most part PowerBI is a clone of Tableau, but it goes farther and adds in much more powerful scripting(M, Python, R), a library of custom visuals, Power Query which is a nice GUI for data transformation, and deep formula language (DAX). I think it's easy for an Excel or Tableau user to pick up in a day, but it scales much more as you have more data analysis expertise.

Also MS has been improving it like crazy over the past few years. They clearly want to maintain their dominance in the data analysis space, but see the winds shifting away from Excel and are not waiting to become irrelevant.
This is excellent advice. I may make another go at it.

Like you, I've tried before. After a day or two of trying to remember alt-command-blah-blah-blah every time I wanted to do something simple, I gave up. Then I started mousing around which totally defeated the purpose of trying to pick it up.

I also found (at least 7-8 years ago) the windows Emacs to be terribly slow. Hopefully that's not still true. That also effectively kills the learning experience after a while.
I bet most get that feeling of intense excitement, but only few get actual, legit goosebumps.
It’s easy; evaluate based on the results. Since the 1970s the US government and other public health organizations has attempted tell Americans what to eat more of, and what to eat less of. Nearly 50 years later we can take a step back and realize that Americans are fatter, sicker, and weaker than they were before then.

There have been some successes, we are now very good at catching CVD early, and should you have a heart attack you are now much more likely to survive than before. But on the food front, what we’re talking about here, it has been a complete and unmitigated disaster.

Because of that, I don’t trust public health officials one iota when it comes to food and diet. That doesn’t mean I’m right, but I know that they have a track record of failure and unintended consequences.
As far as I can tell, health insurance in the UK is generally cheaper than it is in the US.

That's partly because they don't really do primary care, and anything difficult or complicated will be sent straight back to the public system.
Yes. "Free as in freedom".
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> exclusivity

This is expressed in The Case Against Education, which strengthens it's argument by convincing the reader that university is really only useful as a finishing school.

Are there any more extensive writings on the game mechanics of education and successfully joining the workforce?
It's interesting that this was sufficient to entertain the troops. There were enough GIs who played and enough who could sing and a book of songs they all knew from memory.

I was raised that way, but many people my age and younger can't carry a tune, let alone agree on common songs. My parents were musicians, though, so there's that. Momm played the piano and even sold pianos at one point, including a lot of Steinways. Their best market was in the Midwest 25 years ago when she was selling them.
I remember a clueless boss fucking around with some kind of SQL variant in Tableu, not having a clue what he was doing then asking me for help.
>You seem to be confused, developers work with text. What more can computing power bring to text? The only thing all that CPU and GPU power brought to the desktop is useless power wasting eye candy like beryl or whatever it's called now.

Yes, we work in text. Yes, text is quick easy and powerful. That does mean it is the right tool for every job.

Not everyone works somewhere taking down all your machines in some region for 30min because you typo'd -a when you meant -s when invoking some automation script is no big deal. Some of us work places where having normal operations carry the risk of that kind of thing isn't ok. GUIs when designed at least half-assedly make it significantly harder for people to enter dumb, dangerous or erroneous inputs while working at the same speed.

There's nothing preventing you from using a GUI to generate commands that will be passed as command line args and showing that to the user. In the few cases where you need to do something unsupported just invoke the command from the CLI.

Tossing up a quick web UI to streamline routine tasks while making users go out of their way to do non-routine or dangerous tasks is worthwhile at all but the smallest scale. Yes, it's quicker and easier to write a CLI tool but restricting the amount of rope just laying around to hang yourself with is part of operational maturity. With a GUI people at least have to go out of their way to find the rope.

Edit: Am I being down-voted because my opinion is unreasonable or just because it makes some people uncomfortable? At least tell me why I'm so wrong.
I feel the same way. I went straight into the workforce with 17. Now 5 years later I feel like I absolutely need that degree to advance my career or to simply avoid my resume being thrown out. So I went back to school and I bet you can already guess what happens. Now that I have to spend at least 25 hours a week studying I barely have time to work on my software skills. I used to learn stuff like writing compilers, work with FPGAs, read up on machine learning, etc... You can argue that maybe I focused too much on individual topics and a CS degree covers many more but at the same time the lack of a degree isn't what's hindering me from working in these areas. I'll finally be done with school soon and then I can go to college next year and I definitively am going to specialize in topics that I am unfamiliar with such as robotics. However, I bet the end result will be that I will work on the same trivial web applications as I am doing right now but with a pay bump and more opportunities during the job hunt.
Flat earthers don’t agree with NASA or ESA or SpaceX either. It’s not an appeal to authority when people are replicating experiments on a wide scale.

Anyone can measure Carbonic Acid concentrations in water to see ocean acidification for example.

What we have is people in denial of reality for ideological reasons, because they don’t like the unpleasant fact that it represents a market failure that may require collective action to fix.

When you refuse to accept reality because of ideology, you are essentially acting on faith, not reason.
As long as all of the source is available under FOSS licenses, yes. Free as in speech, not free as in beer, remember?

Question is, will Mozilla actually stick to that? What the paid features also be open-source, at least to whatever extent the concept of source code applies?
2B-Alert Web: Predict the effects of sleep/wake and caffeine on alertness
Business users don't usually have a clue what a join is.
Decoherence – The Problem with Quantum Computers
Compare:

an SQL command
a SQL command
Sleep tweaks boost night owls' wellbeing
>And choose a field that does not require a degree to work

The problem with this is, more and more employers are wanting a 4-year degree for ANY job, even basic office work because 1/3 of the country has at least a 4-year degree.
IRMA has existed for a while, it's a non-profit spinoff from a Dutch university. But to my knowledge it is nowhere as widely known or accepted by relying parties as DigiD[1], this system is run by the government and based on passing the BSN (citizen service number)[2] to the relying party with SAML. It exists since 2005 and has become quite widespread: I can use it to file my taxes, make an appointment at pretty much any municipality town hall, and log in to my health insurance provider to name a couple of things.

Before DigiD, the Netherlands has had a central digital population register since 1994 called the Gemeentelijke Basisadministratie Persoonsgegevens, but before that analogue version of a population register was in use for quite some time as well.

[1]: https://www.digid.nl/en/about-digid/
[2]: https://www.government.nl/topics/personal-data/citizen-servi...
Surely the same can happen for politics? Especially when sources of data are preemptively blacklisted?
Good luck to them, assuming they stick to their principles. But IIRC, experiments with paid browsers have typically not ended well. What makes them think they can pull it off?
G20 to move ahead with plans for digital tax on world’s tech giants
Was that in the article? I didn't see it.
This should be a humbling moment where you realize you should stop talking in the name of society.
The biggest difference is I added git status to my shell prompt sometime between 2002 and 2015.
Tangent, but can I ask what made you choose 9.69.1? I spent hours trying out a bunch of versions and ended up choosing 9.42.3 as it started up fast and was the last version that didn't have the "explore the city" nonsense taking up half the screen on startup. Curious what sweet spot you found in 9.69.1!