skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An End to End Introduction to GANs
I had been a Wikipedia administrator in a similar timeframe (--2007), albeit in a different language edition. While some items show the "community" norm that is not necessarily backed by concrete evidences (that's why some got annoyed by the first statement), the entire list is generally an excellent description for any kind of community moderation and matches my personal experience. The problem here is, of course, that most people is not an administrator and it would be difficult to justify the very difficulty of moderation to them. And it cannot be eliminated at all; I've seen the namuwiki, the biggest Korean encyclopedic wiki [1] besides from Wikipedia, falling into this trap and turning itself into a slew of toxic contents.

I had been long against a single big wiki model like Wikipedia. It unbelievably works, and it seems that it will thrive even with the insurmountable amount of cracks, but we need alternatives (plural)---fully accountable, easy-to-fork and community-free. And we don't yet have a single alternative taking off (for example I really wanted Infinithree/Thunkpedia to thrive [2]). Every time I ponder about this, I come back to the circle and find myself searching for the Shii's great piece [3]. I don't exactly agree to the suggestion to simply make a personal "wiki", for the lack of forking mechanism, but the entire essay is still surpringly true, and possibly the only viable alternative to Wikipedia because it clearly lacks the community. I'm still waiting for others.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namuwiki (I reluctantly describe it as encyclopedic, but it only became encyclopedic after it became popular and has tons of issues as a true encyclopedia.)

[2] http://en.thunkpedia.org/ (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2597881)

[3] http://shii.bibanon.org/shii.org/knows/Shii%27s_Solution_to_...
Sounds like something I would need my work to pay for...
Calibra – Digital Wallet for Libra
Kudos to the creators!
It always amazes me when people create their own operating systems. Where do you even start?
> Is there an attack vector that doesn't require privileged access or physical access to the machine without bitlocker/tpm?

In the past, RDMA over Firewire used to be such an attack vector, see the Inception tool that could unlock Windows machines reliably. Presently, there seem to be openly described solutions for using an FPGA hooked up to the TPM to grab keys from the wire. Both types of attacks require physical access and somewhat specialized tools, but AFAIK both work even when Bitlocker and TPM is present.

I don't understand why anyone who actually cares about security uses Bitlocker, and not one of the systems that ask for a password before booting Windows. The latter reduces the attack surface by such a large amount, it's a no-brainer.
This might help you:

https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder/issues/1832
In Europe, people have started purchasing so-called public displays instead of Smart TVs and just hook up a Chromecast/Pi/Fire TV Stick to it. This is especially common in countries where one can avoid public broadcasting fees by doing so.
US has a lot of rich old gullible people speaking the same language. Central Europe doesn't, so it's not as cost effective to target. It doesn't help that you can hire a lot of English speaking people for pennies in India to staff the call centers.
Ghostsigns
https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/dell-43-ultra-hd-4k-multi-cl...

Yes, that's a computer screen. But it's 43". That's what you want. (I have it in my living room and you couldn't tell the difference).
This decade has something slightly twisted. Was there a time where technology was so subtly obnoxious to our state of mind ?
Right, but without this feature, you could NOT perform that attack even with physical access and no FDE.

Now that this feature exists, DPAPI is essentially bypassed and must be supplanted with FDE.
I am confused by your use of quotation marks. That phrase is not contained in the article. You might be referring to this sentence?

> In addition to tracking the time spent on social media apps, we needed to implement the feature to block those apps when the user reached the configured time limit.

But "block those apps" is a perfectly sensible description of "blocking tcp certain connections at VPN level" and thus a very different statement to "stop you from opening an app".

Please actually check what was said before you pretend to quote someone.
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I agree on the "inelegant" and "verbose", but the tradeoff is that every block became "obvious", so manteinance is much much easier than ever before.
That's a different bug: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/25/bitlocker_suspensio...
Remember hi-fi separates? The true music audiophiles would have half a dozen boxes for their hifi. Kind of need the same where everything just does one job well. So the screen is a screen, not some screen with built in set top box. Ideally it doesn't even have speakers built in, again separates for that. It should also not have a remote but just wake up to a signal and play it.

Is this a monitor? Maybe. Monitors are not designed to show the football. You turn your computer on and they turn on. You can plug a Chromecast in and get whatever you want beamed to them.

There has to be a market for a generic display panel that doesn't do much apart from show the picture. But when a SoC costs little and might as well have the wifi then it isn't going to happen.
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Would you call someone an enemy just because he told his kids not to play with your kids?
If someone creates an adBlock/uBlock for phones (s)he will get rich.

Imagine having a community-curated whitelist of numbers (plus the ones from your friends/family).
Our experience in developing a music marketplace
Iran switches from dollar to euro for official reporting currency (2018)
The supervisor can still be right! Scientific relevance and societal relevance are at odds all the time. Just look at cosmology or any other field with very very long term, slim, payoff and huge costs. As much as we curiosity oriented people dislike it, satifsying our curiosity about the origin of the universe has very low impact. The most impact probably comes
from the theoretical understanding that results in new engineering capabilities to build new weapons, industrial machines or energy sources. |But then the question can be asked "why not fund that research direction directly ?"
> Politically, the timing of the crisis works quite well for the nationalist Tsai,

Err... Tsai is not in the 'nationalist' camp (KMT), she is from the DPP (Pan-Green coalition).

The rest of the article on Taiwan history is equally poor and confusing.
Voter turnout figures suggest that being a miniscule influence isn't exactly what people consider having a good time.
I tend to disagree — although I thought the same one or two years ago. Data oriented design doesn’t automatically mean you have to sacrifice useful abstractions on the altar of performance. You’ll have to find different abstractions and ways of composing them together to get a maintainable, flexible result.

In fact I find good data driven designs easier to maintain than good OOP ones..
Teens/Childs quickly loose interest in something. Find out what they find "hip" or cool, don't expect it to be what you find cool. I would rather support them to program their own Instagram app then to propose them to some hardware programming environment (thinking of educational boards) if they don't like it.

Also, learning programming was applied autodidactics for most of us, isn't it? My feeling is that this is the only really working way of learning programming (have worked 10y in university, teaching programming: Doesn't work well).

It really depends on your kids and on your relationship to them. Maybe you should present them a vast amount of programmable devices and interfaces to explore together interesting projects.
How would the adBlock-like software obtain the real phone number of the caller?

Serious question.
That whole article section is delicious. It has many examples of clear-headed people looking at a situation, figuring out a logical approach, and demonstrating that it worked well.

The specific story of armoring an aircraft would be best completed by "...and the loss rate per mission was cut from x% to y% on the new planes". Unfortunately, that's one of the few examples that the section doesn't explicitly say demonstrated improvement.
from https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/releases :

"Running on real hardware:
The hybrid image can be burned to a CD or dd'd onto a USB drive, and booted directly.
It requires a 64-bit x86 machine, 2GB of RAM, and a PS/2 keyboard and mouse."
In part of my preparation, I dug up MongoDB's old blog post on why they chose the AGPL.

It came across like it was part of the pattern of dual licensing - use the least profit-friendly license to get people to pay for a commercial license. It didn't come across like they wanted to support freedom.

This practice seems a bit shady, in that I get the impression that many people use AGPL for FUD purposes. (Rather like how MySQL used GPL FUD to sell commercial licenses.)

But I am also reminded that there seems to be this view that big companies should be able to do whatever they want, including making money, while little "open source" companies and independent developers must remain poor - I mean, "pure".

I think both perceptions contributed to the backlash.

I honestly think that something like the SSPL is our best chance to have free software remain free as systems move to the cloud.
> Depression is a first-world problem because we have the time and luxury for introspection and contemplation.

That's a myth unfortunately:

> Now, for the first time, researchers went beyond deaths to examine the global causes of illness and disability. They found that the single largest cause of disability worldwide was mental disorders – largely, the common illnesses of depression and anxiety. They caused a seventh of all the disability in the world. In the poorest countries as well as the richest, and at every socioeconomic level in between, mental disorders were the greatest thief of productive life.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/30/busting-the-...
I think the caller would care. I never got a robocall. I think it is because B2C cold calls without customer consent are illegal in Germany.
I think you forget just how old Quake is. I remember playing it on a 486DX 66Mhz, a P2 would have been total over kill for that game.
It was released in January. Version 11.1 should be released soon, with some new stuff ("more new" than in most updates) :)
Egypt's ONLY democratically elected president. May he Rest in peace.

Throwaway, because shit like this can get arrested/killed in Egypt.
I don't trust Docker since I have to install it from a third party repo, so I always run it on a separate machine and use ssh to send commands.
Interesting thought. Weighing can add an extra level of indirection ! Thinking a bit more... the same can be done in software too ?
Maybe so, but that's not a job I'm interested in :)
Is that a setting?
I think mine gives a popup to say it detected new input but does not switch automatically.

I _think_ so anyway because I almost never have 2 devices attached but seem to recall such a popup. Could be wrong :)
Photograph lays bare reality of melting Greenland sea ice
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https://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page and its forum :)
This is very cool.

That said, the fact that Theranos is in here without any commentary puts me off a bit. That's not a pitch deck, it's a fraud deck.

This is like putting Al Capone in a list of "inspiring stories about hardball entrepreneurs".
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Monkeysphere: Use OpenPGP web of trust to identify servers
And there is nothing wrong with writing generic code like that! Just because you can access the specific representation of the underlying data, that does not mean you have to or would do so routinely. In languages that do tend to expose simple data structures directly, it is still normal to provide standardised tools for accessing and manipulating them, and most of the time that is probably still how you would interact with them.

Regarding your second example, if you are working with an explicit representation then you simply would not make a breaking change like that. Instead you would create a new data structure with the new representation, which other code can then choose to use instead if it wants to. Again, nothing about this prevents both versions from also providing equivalent functions to access them in the same way where that makes sense or writing other code in terms of those functions rather than tied directly to the specific implementation.
Much of the stuff you mentioned is either automated or has physical controls in a Tesla. Also, by law, emergency blinkers need to be a physical button.

I do think that there's a lot of stuff wrong with touch screen for everything, but right now, I think Tesla has the best balance and also adds the most value. For example, the Audis that have everything touch screen, still have 3 buttons for driver seat memory. In the Model 3, you store this in a 'profile', which stores much more information, like ventilation preferences and you can store many of them.
A better reply is: "Saying you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is the same as saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."
If I'm understanding correctly, did the RDMA attack work because it was able to probe arbitrary memory-mapped registers on request?

And for the TPM attack, is the FPGA able to initiate it? or would this have to be some kind of hardware implant? the latter isn't a big deal - plenty of ways to bug a machine given invasive physical access - the former would be a serious TPM breach akin to GrayKey.

also I'm a little clueless, but my secure laptop has a Bitlocker boot password, with autologin disabled even during updates iirc. does that not mitigate?
Each to their own.

I would never trust the judgement of the most important piece of software on my computer to a small group of tinkerers maintaining a fork of someone else's massively complicated and deeply outdated source code. I don't care who they are—if they don't have a big enough reputation on the line, there's no reason to trust them.

I'm sure your cousin is super trustworthy, but that doesn't mean anyone should put him in charge of the armoured vehicles division of a bank.

Besides, it's a lot easier for a microscopically small and individualistic outfit like Pale Moon to never disappoint you compared to a large, managed entity like Mozilla which has disclosure policies and hundreds of employees each with their own priorities and agenda.
The description of the TV watching process is really juicy. And it certainly applies also to modern day video streaming. It’s not the delivery method but the video content itself that it’s dangerous.
>>"Does anyone have any insight into whether artificial housing restrictions could benefit a municipality in the long term?"

I think you can't answer that question without defining what is the intended outcome: what it's a 'benefit'?.

If you define the optimal result, in a tautological way, as "whatever the market decide", then, by definition, any restriction is going to be bad.

Otherwise, you need to decide what do you want to accomplish (by 'you' I mean the residents of the area) and choose a policy that makes sense.
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KeePass

It's cross-platform/FOSS and does not relay on cloud.
Now I can't even use Incognito to surf the WP or I get blocked?
Man, this website may as well die.
I own a Samsung Smart TV, and I'd be interested in removing or disabling the microphone. Any ideas?
"Remelting glass to make more glass is more energy intensive than making new glass."---hdfbdtbcdg

The first source I found on this subject directly contradicts your claim:

"The primary energy consumption totals are 17.0 x 10^6 Btu/ton of bottles with no postconsumer recycling, 14.8
x 10^6 Btu/ton with maximum recycling, and 15.9 x 10^6
Btu/ton for the current mix of recycling. The total primary energy use decreases as the percent of glass recycled rises"

---Energy Implications of Glass Container Recycling
Argonne National Laboratory
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/legosti/old/5703.pdf
I'm quite fond of the Everything in Language X projects. In this case, how does Mezzano boot a CL runtime? I'd expect this to be a combination of assembly and C, but if they have CL all the way down somehow that'd be really friggin' cool.
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This is another project.
I started using the Internet some 25 years ago. Maybe things then were more idealist? I was younger then of course and perhaps more idealist by nature? Nowadays I'm afraid that the overall idealism may fade and that other more primitive forces will increase its drive of the net e.g. capitalism, criminality and autocracy.
Good advice! I’d still rather buy a not-so-smart-tv /display.
That's what free/cheap university in Europe managed to achieve.
> A more constructive approach is one that acknowledges that things are getting better but that this progress is neither automatic nor optimal.

Totally agree!
I don't see much point in asking for an office package in a job advert. But a lot of jobs do require use of these packages and the level of skill can be terrible in otherwise highly trained people. If you use the apps a lot you should learn how to use them properly, and a lot of people just can't be bothered.
https://i.imgur.com/EN0ZkXU.png

(sorry)
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In my personal experience the people who use the 'I have nothing to hide' argument, use it because they are unwilling to expend the cognitive effort to delve into the topic in any meaningful way.

Trying to reason with someone about some topic they didn't use reason to get to their position on in the first place is often a losing proposition.

So these days I just say "if you don't want to even think about some problem or issue, you should just come out and say 'I don't want to think about this' instead of saying something so obviously and unambiguously ignorant. That just makes you look bad". Then I move on. I can't make folks think. I can't save them from themselves and their privacy isn't the hill I'm going to die on.
I think if you have Bitlocker set up with a boot password, and you are careful to shut down when you're not using the computer, then you're probably fine. But in my experience most people use Bitlocker just with the Windows login prompt.

As I understand it, the FPGA is able to initiate the TPM key extraction, yes. So it's not a sniffer that has to wait for the user to input the password.

https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/articles/TPM-sniffing
I'll bite. What is DOORS and how can I specialize in it to put my skills in high demand?
What I read somewhere was that part of his flight took him in a sightseeing curve around the place where he was born, as if he was saying goodbye. The article says he "banked around the island of Penang", and other articles say he was born in Penang. It was dark at the time, though, I suppose.

I wonder what he was expecting to happen. The article gives the impression that he can't reasonably have expected to get to the southern Indian Ocean without being intercepted. So, if he'd planned to fly in that direction, was he expecting to be followed there by military aircraft? On the other hand, if he was expecting to be intercepted, why bother with all the trickery to remain undetected, seeing as they couldn't have stopped him anyway? We'll never know, I suppose.
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Phone calls need the equivalent of SPF and DomainKeys.
Don't most countries in Europe offer student loans? If not to the same degree as the US. Even if tuition is free, rent and food isn't.
Isn't this overkill to verify that you don't have any invalid states? Consider the state machine as a directed graph, reverse each edge and run DFS from the end state. if you have any vertices in the graph you didn't visit, they're dead ends. That should be more efficient than the O(n^3) way of finding eigenvectors.
Don’t forget China can also see what you’re typing in wechat, really boggles my mind people continue to use that. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/07/wechat-chinese...
Referenced in the musical Little Shop of Horrors in Somewhere That's Green with the words "Not fancy, like Levittown"
It gets better, but the first weeks are hell. I'm so glad my dog is not a puppy anymore, even though he was really cute.
The perimeter is 40,000 km. You just need to learn pi ;-)
Well,if that’s the case I’m very interested in it. I have been maintaining a private fork of graphene for a while, with a desire to improve performance but I’m stymied by having to go through graphql-core.

All the python graphql libraries are based on it, so your work is going to be very valuable I expect.
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Mazda rejecting touch screens in cars. Consumers rejecting smart phones and smart tvs. Privacy concerns.

Are we turning a corner on tech?
Very slowly, in that case. If you're the only 1 using a messaging service, you're super likely to switch to another one, or just use several.
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This was in the talk. ...and I built these into my cameras that I made at my first startup, Waylens.com. They're super important in convincing people to put a connected camera in their vehicle where sensitive things are mentioned. I wonder why more manufacturers dont do this.
decent

ps: I mean descent
So... do autistic people smell different?
They are probably just sick of having photos in documents that have been stretched horizontally, or documents with bloody manually created tables of contents because the last person didn't know how to use heading styles.

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