skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really not.

Professional engineers in disciplines have to sign their name to their designs in fields such as electrical, mechanical, structural and civil engineering, and can be held personally liable, monetarily, losing their license, and perhaps at the extreme end, criminally liable.

Software "engineers" are not.

Licensed Professional Engineers are also bound by a code of ethics by the appropriate industrial organization. e.g. for electrical engineers, you're bound by the IEEE code of ethics, even if you dont practice in the field.

I'm a licensed electrical engineering intern (I've been a licensed EE intern for 16 years now), but work entirely with software; I've never worked as an EE, nor have I met the professional requirements to take the PE exam. I'm still professionally bound by the IEEE code of ethics. I have objected to certain "projects" over the years because of potential violations. I almost quit one job because I was being pressured to violate the code, but my boss was fired and the pressure disappeared.

Such a licensing and accountability doesn't exist in software "engineering".

That said, I do refer to myself as an engineer and not a developer, because, well, I am an engineer. I follow different practices than web developers because I work in finance and theres billions of dollars on the line if I fuck up. I also work at a firm that requires disclosure of any professional licenses and an attestation that you are in good standing with the governing body (which I am). Professional Engineer (Intern) its not on the list of options, so I always have to type it in, they're mostly looking for CPA types.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless
Still using mine. It's great. I'm gonna be really sad when it falls out of the supported lineup.
This is not a better solution overall and there's no reason we can't have both, other than manufacturer design choices. How often are you looking directly at your camera? Even if you are, once the camera comes on unexpectedly, it's too late.
how to handle 18g of highly active neutron source

https://twitter.com/i/status/1147464052869718018
Founders Should Use “Founder Preferred” Stock
A thread from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7768465
Googling on the Google Assistant is pretty great. I shout random questions at mine all the time and it dutifully responds correctly most of the time. It's impressive.
Filestore is also really expensive for what is basically just NFS.
Nevermind, my brain wasn't working.
We probably underestimate how much worse the evolutionary pressure we're exerting on bacteria will make the lives of future generations.
I think the fn keys are the only ones I havent memorized - because I havent needed to for any applications.

If I played a game requiring something like that I'd learn it quick.

I previously bought an all-black mech keyboard with no key labels which looked sleek but I didn't like it, swaped the keycaps out two days later. Switching to a new keyboard is probably a good time to keep them until you get used to it!
NASA Maps Surface Changes from California Quakes
Not according to rfc1035 they’re not
I find it funny that the number of tags per bookmark has been falling. I've also increasingly given up tagging things in favor of relying on global search.
EFS generally only falls down when you hit your IOPs limit for the measurement period -have seen this soooo many times. Buy more storage/IOPS, and monitor that puppy.
That's a super cool anecdote, thanks for sharing! Feels like meeting the needs of each customer in finance can be like writing bespoke code for each! Using:

- existing 'data structures' like "loans"

- 'infrastructure' such as "positioning that allows carrying the paper"

... and so forth =)
A browser doesn't need to connect to the certificate authority to validate a cert; only the server hosting the app 'needs' to be online (at least long enough to obtain a signed certificate every so often).

The bigger problem is that there has to be a single server hosting the app in the first place, which IMO is a severe flaw in the Web's architecture. But this change doesn't really make the situation worse.
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Farmers-say-wet-spri...

Some areas in the US already have a short growing season as it is. If excessive rains in say, Montana, push back the planting times of wheat and other grains the plants might not be ready to harvest before Fall and Winter weather kills them.
No problem; your question made me curious. Too late to edit, but I wrote it up on my blog for posterity: http://www.kmjn.org/notes/car_hoare_bank.html
RingCentral Meetings still vulnerable:

lsof -i :19424

https://www.ringcentral.com/whyringcentral/company/pressrele...
Uranium (even enriched) seems like on a different level than Californium.
A user on Reddit suggested the image url hack was a way to bypass mixed content blocking from the zoom https site to the local http server: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cavblo/zoom_ze...

> One potential hiccup I encountered was that Firefox blocked my XHR request due to a policy against "mixed active content". This was because my origin site was accessed through an HTTPS connection and the localhost server was only HTTP. That's one potential reason Zoom might have opted to use their <img> garbage; since <img> elements are passive not active content, they could avoid using HTTPS on the localhost webserver. That's not a good excuse, but clearly they weren't interested in finding a good solution -- whatever the problem that prompted the <img> hack was.
Still has the unreliable keyboard

Still has the annoying Touch Bar

Still doesn't have a physical ESC key

Still has an annoying port situation requiring a half dozen dongles

Still is no user serviceable RAM / SSD / battery

= Still not a "Pro" laptop
Trains are usually most expensive. They are also often delayed. Exceptions are some subway systems (Boston, New York) and the Acela Express.

To "explore some of the towns", you really need a car. Our fuel is cheap if you avoid the west coast. Right now fuel is $2 to $3 per gallon, which is about 0.5 to 0.7 €/L and about 36 to 54 ₹/L

Flights are cheap to hubs and to some tourist places. You could fly to one of those places, then rent a car to drive out and see some towns. Choices might be Las Vegas, Orlando, Atlanta, Phoenix, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Dallas.

To see the country, I suggest driving on the US highways. Those are the ones marked with colorless shield logos. (the ones with red and blue shield logos are high-speed interstates) For a modest extra fee, you can drive a rental car from one airport to a different airport. For example, you could drive from Las Vegas to Atlanta.

Note that the hub airports tend to be in hot places. Be sure you know what you are getting into if you fly into a place like Phoenix. The seat belts in your car can become hot enough to cause blisters.
It's not even that thin, there are thinner PC laptops with better specs, and ports, and great (and reliable) keyboards.
Won't there always be somewhere though? Until we have a fully developed planet with no empty land, there's going to be swamps, tar pits, decomposition in nature and a plethora of other strange things on Earth that could give bacteria places to grow. Not to mention space-bacteria!

If all of our countries with health systems designed for our bacteria aren't equipped to handle more advanced bacteria, wouldn't it take just one explorer to bring back a species-threatening disease?
> Apple’s palm rejection tech just isn’t good enough

Must be something wrong with your palms ;)
I have never thought about this issue, but reading these comments I tried it out. I can't move the mouse cursor with my palms, it is virtually impossible. The "Apple palm rejection tech" is really good. Data point from a Mac Book Pro, 2017.
This is why no researcher should sign an NDA after to doing volunteer work for a for-profit Corp.

If the reporter had agreed to the NDA required for the bug bounty, Zoom could have - and based on their earlier responses, would have - continued to ship this malware. But now because of the researcher signed an NDA they wouldn’t be able to inform the at risk public.
Exactly. My company is actively shopping for a conferencing tool, and Zoom just ensured that it's eliminated.
Good to see that they’ve turned around and fixed this issue the right way. I was gonna stop using Zoom otherwise.
Parsing JSON Using SIMD Instructions on the Apple A12 Processor
One thing they were right about was this being "Standard Practice". Even spotify is doing it https://twitter.com/braintube/status/1148645026936827905.

So how does one remove these from their machine ? I can kill the process but it will just start again when I restart the machine. Also how do they do this ? I thought all startup items will be shown under Login Items in System Preferences.
I'm starting to think Apple is being subverted by high level employees who are carrying out directives from someone else, possibly a competing company.
This isn't scientific, it's speculation. People have speculated the world will end "soon" for millennia. Is there anything new to add?
I mean, they are life-changing projects. This is not my lifestyle, but my life. What more do you want?
I'm not saying I can't picture it. Just saying it doesn't seem likely to happen on a large scale basis.
Y'all have fun with that. France is at the bottom of the places in the developed world I'd actually want to visit.
Sure, but that somewhere would be very unlikely to have antibiotics, making the development of further antibiotic resistance unlikely. Non-antibiotic resistant bacteria is very easy to treat and is essentially a solved problem.

The space thing is irrelevant. You can't develop pharmaceuticals meant to kill things you don't know anything about
Don’t forget search...
Snark isn't ok here and personal attacks will get you banned. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to those rules when posting to HN? We'd be grateful.
How likely? Who knows? It could be an intern that implemented it for all we know. I've seen more critical things implemented by interns at a medical device company I was previously at. Do you sincerely think Apple is more concerned with secure operation of a camera (that people are going to put tape over anyways if they are that concerned with security) than a full fledged (successful) medical device company is with medical devices?

Moreover, even if it wasn't an intern, how experienced do you think the engineer is at understanding human behavior in response to hacks? Many engineers I have met have difficulty conversing with other people and have even more difficulty in actually understanding their behavior. I can almost guarentee you that even switching it on and off at slow rates will convince most people that there are electrical issues.

Also do you honestly think the average electrical engineer is that well-versed with hacking paradigms? I would conjecture that software engineering is one of the leading fields to be a gateway to understanding hacking and during my electrical engineering degree, most of them acted like writing software was a nuisance they had to do to get through the degree. Hell, even most of the lab instructors we had from JPL looked down on software engineering and talked the same way to bad EE students that a cliche high school instructor would talk to bad high school students; instead of telling them, you better like asking, "do you want fries with that" they would say (in the same tone), "you better be good at writing software."

How do you even know what the budget for the department the engineer is in? How do you know they have the budget to spend weeks on securing a camera most security minded people are going to put tape over anyways? How do you know it wasnt some off the cuff, in a meeting comment, saying I can implement this feature in an hour and everyone was like that's nice, you should do that and the thought of security never went further than that?

Unless you were there, you dont have the slightest clue as to how well thought out the whole thing is.
Singapore Airlines relaunched that flight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Airlines_Flights_21_...
$2/month * 50,000 users = $1.2M per year. Where exactly do you live where that's a year's pay?
Aren't all those things GPL?

Can they not be forked in the case of a sudden change of direction that Debian, or anyone else disagrees with?

What do you mean by "control"?
If you want that as an additional safeguard, set the noindex header on that path at your edge so you’re not calling attention to it:

https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_meta_t...

I’d also strongly recommend pairing this with outside monitoring which alerts if something accidentally becomes reachable since it’s really easy not to notice something working from more places than intended.
Can you please not post like this so we don't have to ban you? If instead you'd read the guidelines and take the spirit of this site to heart, we'd be grateful.

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Will shenanigans like this (declaring a security breach as not a security breach) be caught and fined under GDPR? According to the regulation, companies need to declare breaches in under 72 hours without any unduly delay, but Zoom left this unpatched for months!
Using Twitter as a build log is frankly genius. It would have saved hours of work on my website.
I still can't see cast button in the Prime Video app, maybe this will come in time?
Look like there is a concerted effort between Mozilla and google to remove efficient adblocker (mainly ublock) from their browser.

How to resist that sweet money coming from ads networks ?
Please don't take HN threads on flamey tangents.

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> This is clearly more complicated than ideal, but it should work.

Exactly.

Imagine you're someone who just wants to play around with cool web technologies. Maybe you're fairly new to web dev; maybe you're fairly new to the world of programming in general and you're using the web to learn it, which has historically been one of the huge strengths of the web. You suddenly encounter a brick wall, where you figure out that programming isn't enough; you have to fork over money for a domain and learn how SSL works and how to set up let's encrypt and how to make root certs and how to install them on your phone, just because you wanted to play with something you found interesting.

The web looks like it's going away from being a good platform to learn and play with programming in the name of security. It will be annoying but workable for most professional programmers who can just do whatever hacks they need to get by, but we're erecting some monumental barriers to learn this stuff. You already can't even include a fucking javascript module file from an html file without learning how to set up and configure a web server because Chrome blocks modules when using file://.
Yes, we replaced the baity title with the less baity subtitle. Standard moderation move here.

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Subnet IPs are always different tho. Can I really get a cert for all subnet addresses? That'd be awesome! Please please educate me.

I want to be clear though, I need it so that the user doesn't have to install the cert themselves, or have to be online to approve.

Previously, a user would connect to the local wireless network, then the router would open them up to a directory listing of the local apps available on the network (like the video/audio call), they click the link (just points to the dynamic subnet IP of a static file server) to load the offline HTML page which then connects to call anyone in the network, including users on neighbor and neighbor-of-neighbors routers.

Basically our own decentralized telecom!
They are gearing up for the upcoming fight with Disney's streaming service.
I was considering taking a trip on magic mushrooms, but a friend mentioned they had an acquaintance have a bad trip where they hallucinated spiders crawling all over their arms and they did significant physical damage to the arms in the process.

I'm not against growing from a bad trip, but I don't want lasting physical damage from the experience. Would love to hear any advice or suggestions experienced users have in how to mitigate a bad trip.
Amazon pullout continues, setting Seattle up for devastation
Yes, hence my second statement and use of "space" in the first.
You can probably just create your own root CA and install it on your mobile device for testing. I've done this for my internal stuff at home and it works well.

I use xca[0] to create/manage the root CA and the certificates, but there are other tools to do this.

[0] https://hohnstaedt.de/xca/
I'm working as a remote engineer and it sucks. So many things are happening in the office that I'm missing out on. MAYBE if all you do is code and someone else write clear spec for you, and you're not a fan of bonding with teammates, then it can work fine. But if you really care and want to optimize for winning and making an impact, remote isn't the way to go.
Can you please not post unsubstantive comments so we don't have to ban you? If instead you'd read the guidelines and take the spirit of this site to heart, we'd be grateful.

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> It takes fast reflexes ...

No, most Bonanza owners are mid-career doctors, dentists and lawyers. Never seen a teen fly one.

Also, you generally have a second or two at least to deal with issues. Hence the old saw about "winding your watch before reacting to an airliner emergency."

> There is a reason the air force trains 20 year old's to fly jet fighters.

I talked to an ex-Air Force, now civilian flight school owner about that.

He said the problem with 30 year-old military aviation students is that they talk back when fed b.s., unlike kids. So it's a general discipline issue, not an age one.
Yes, very rich clickbait. This one by Ars Technica [1] is much better, giving details on the sub and even listing the officers who lost their lives in the accident, many of them very senior Russian military officials.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/death-at-1000-fa...
Quoting the source of that story:

"According to Monday's NTV article, the suspects were reportedly in possession of a cache of Californium weighing 1.441 kilograms that they planned to sell for $72 million on the black market."

So, back in 2018, suspects were trying to sell 1.4 kg of a substance claimed to be Californium for $72 million.

Now, in 2019, suspects were trying to sell a mere 18.1 grams of a substance claimed to be Californium, again, for $72 million.

I am trying to imagine a gang of schmucks still trying to sell baking soda as Californium but now they adjusted the price to be more realistic.
> The mouse has an impressive history of playing Chess while everyone else thinks they are playing Checkers.

I wonder how the Mouse's recent company-wide conversion to Google Ad Manager for all ad revenue across online properties and channels is working out. I mean, who's playing chess and who's playing 5 dimensional chess in that match?
He had a head injury as mentioned above. Hence the past tense regarding his exceptional engineering ability.
Please don't cross into personal attack here. We ban accounts that do that, as you know, but we don't want to ban you.

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I was hoping this would be about putting an orphan path in your robots.txt and then black-listing clients who tried to fetch it -- nobody should know about it except robots who are told not to go there, so anyone who visits the link is an adversary.
Your risk of seeing site news on @pinboard is low.
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Hey shitty fag, get raped and contract AIDS.

Let's enumerate why ur a faggy little bitch.

1. cody had the feds show up
and they confiscated a
tritium sample.

2. there were no faults
against cody's radiological or
chemical hygiene.
(proven by his continued activity)

3. he still has the yellow
cake. it's in a marked
container, as per a
recent video.

4. kanyon was kind of a
butter face. who fucking
cares what she does? the
channel predates her
appearance, and now she's
making cat videos. big deal.

5. it's summer. cody has a
few months to cool off,
and square his shit away.
college is like this.

So fuck off with your gossipy, cunty bullshit.

Who the fuck is Ryan Mercer? Some dipshit posting faggoty comments on HN like a little bitch.

Have a nice life, you fucking nobody.
Which gives us products like Cipro and the other quinolones, which destroy tendons. It only took 20 years and how many degraded lives and ended careers before the FDA issued a warning: https://www.webmd.com/osteoarthritis/news/20080708/fda-warni...

Obviously antibiotics save lives, but let's hope the next generation is used judiciously. There are doctors out there prescribing Cipro as the first line of defense for trivial infections, and there's no excuse for it.
I subscribe to the blog via RSS, but it no longer updates with new posts it seems.
From what I've read, they turn to their parents first.
Ah, TIL.

Though it doesn't work on iOS Chrome, and you want to test on iOS too obviously.
I still don't understand why the use of AirDrop is necessary. These Chinese tourists have already crossed into Hong Kong, a land that currently enjoys freedom of speech. Why aren't traditional methods like banners or brochures or flyers be distributed to tourists from the mainland? Is AirDrop faster and more effective?
Dear user, we'll tell you what you want. --Apple
Can anyone comment on how this compares to CitusDB? Probably is a lot more expensive?

How about things like support for PostGIS, etc? Is that moot since Aurora is mostly at the storage layer?
So I love the quotes at the top of the article, and evidence bears out on those. HOWEVER, is it really that big a problem that the Search Index goes out of sync with the Database? I suppose it depends on the use-case, but without that spec info we can't make a judgement. Additionally, deploying a beefier task queue and increasing the size of the search cluster might have also helped... I feel it's a bad example.
To be honest most of us in China don't believe in the protesters value. And we think the protesters should be punished. The censorship is actually a good thing for HongKong. If Chinese public sees what's going on, most likely it will just hurt Hong Kong. Business will start to cut ties with HK, no more shopping, public anger towards HK people...etc. The young good citizens of HK simply don't know what they are tampering with.
We're in the same boat. I'm using the last 2012 pre-retina unibody 15". With maxed out RAM and SSD it's adequate for nearly everything I've thrown at it.

It's also had an admirable run, so I'd be happy to buy again at some point... but a matte screen matters to me. As does a good keyboard. And being able to swap out the drive. All more than any spec or form factor improvements that have happened subsequently.

So while I'd be happy to have replaced this laptop by now, maybe even more than once... Apple simply does not sell replacements for this laptop. They sell laptops which have a mix of regressions and somewhat improved performance (and they're thinner!). And past a point of meeting certain demands, the regressions matter more than performance gains or ounces lost.

Maybe when it finally dies, I'll see if I can find a serviceable 2015 model. Or maybe by then WSL will be an acceptable alternative and this will be the last of half a dozen Apple machines I bought.

And they'll be as happy about it as I will, because as many pundits, product managers, and fans like to say: maybe people like me just aren't part of their target market anymore.