skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of the article is that many common attacks work just as well against completely random, unique passwords as they do against weak/reused ones. If you get phished, it doesn't matter if your password is strong. If your machine has a keylogger on it, it doesn't matter if your password is strong. Etc.

Lots of attacks boil down to the attacker convincing you to unknowingly divulge your password, and if that password is the only thing securing your account, you're boned no matter how strong it is.
The market would exist, but it's value wouldn't be anywhere near valuable for online advertising.

Without a government the only way of maintaining your wealth is being a warring faction. Those rarely require advertising online.
Same here - Sacramento, CA
Not really.

I’m not into politics and I don’t take the time to do proper research into who said what and I only take info from the mainstream news so I understand they’re biased and I disclosed that to cover myself in case what I heard ends up wrong. I’m against him but I’m also open to the basis of my opinion being incorrect.
Am guessing you did not click the link, it's a riot!
I'm a little confused on what they mean by "fail". The key sentence seems to be, "We can’t chastise an artist when a piece or project does not work out."

If an artist can't take chastisement, they're not prepared to do art. They are putting themselves out there: if nobody sees it, it's not art. If there wasn't a risk to it, there would be no point in the success. People not liking it is one of those risks.

That's referring to artistic rather than commercial failure, but the skill set is related. The money spent on the project is part of the artistic process.

It's a permanent problem that there is never enough money to fund all of the arts projects worth doing, and no way of knowing beforehand either artistic or commercial successes. The article is correct that people with money, who wish to fund art with it, will have to take risks and suffer commercial losses, just as the artist will suffer artistic failures.

So to the degree that the article says "Let's put more money into art that might fail," absolutely, yes. But that's not solving the ancient problem of finding that money, and we already knew that one of the problems is that a lot of people don't want their money going into any art except the most broadly appealing.
> Nobody ever got a grant or a paper published for revising towards a younger date.

Really? Is there a published paper with evidence supporting this claim?
Can you provide a reference for where Amazon &/or google say that, specifically? Bc another comment mentinos that they sort weasel around that claim and dont actually clearly state it.

From my own perspective (and certainly dont mean this in a way that's dismissive towards you/your comment), given that those companies lie constantly, I'm not sure why I would trust their own PR about their products as a reliable source of information.
Call Me ‘They’
They don't always kick owners out by force. Search for "nail house". Sometimes they just go on about their development as though the holdouts are not there. Sometimes they cut the water and power in the middle of the night.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/apr/15/china...
The strict focus on income and wealth when discussing class is peculiar to my European perspective. To me, there are large overlaps of working class and middle class, as well as of middle class and upper class, if one is only concerned about income and wealth. Culture and values are part of class and I can't understand the discussion where it is completely left out. Passing as something else than what you were brought up as is very hard. People trying to pass is an eternal source of drama and worry. Spending beyond your means in order to pass is a common reason for financial ruin.
People would notice the battery drain though.
You can replace your `integers` function with `itertools.count` (same signature but defaults to starting at 0), and `take` with `itertools.islice`.
Elasticsearch Stack Scripts and Snippets
That's what happens now. You you check the "use my data to improve xyz services" box.
Not the same thing, but I still find it amazing that Django was created by the Lawrence Journal-World.
Same from the UK
How big is the decision tree for tech? About ~100 nodes total? This is quite small and handling that is not so impressive. That's roughly one move in a mid game chess position (and you'd need to think two or three moves ahead to be moderately successful at that game).
In amateur and pro sportscar racing, all cars are required to have a prominent kill switch that cuts the main power from the electrical system, and this is just with 12V ignition and accessory systems.

It's always seemed like a great idea , and I expect that the only reason it isn't done in ordinary street cars is that the companies never liked reminding people of the potential of accidents (with some exception by Volvo & occasional others selling superior safety).
Cities from scratch: what lies behind the global new cities epidemic?
I mean we don't really understand creativity. Maybe that AI will evolve to invent new physics - after all it spends all its time analyzing inventions for new ideas. /s
Unconfirmed reports suggest Apple killed AR glasses project
Crunching the numbers, it was much much cheaper for me getting this phone on contract then any other route. I did look at buying a phone separately and having SIM-only or PAYGo. (UK, about 3 years ago, low-mid range). With 18 month contract I basically got a 'free' phone with 13MP camera.

I actually use a SIM only by swapping sims with my wife whose phone we bought outright (but it's low end - camera and screen are poor).
Please don't. It sounds awful, like you are more than one person.
GM declined to use a dry clutch DCT in their performance vehicles for this very reason. GM was able to anticipate this problem, you need to have a wet DCT to avoid these problems. When you have a dry clutch manual transmission the human leg compensates for the variability in the driving conditions that ford wants the computer to handle. A torque converter is much more reliable in these types of vehicles.
>It was prompted, it's just that the match for the activation phrase was incorrectly identified.

Yes, so it recorded and sent audio when the user did not want it to. That's not any better. It'd be like if your gun went off while holstered, and you said that it was prompted to fire because the hammer hit the bullet despite the trigger not being pulled. It's very clearly not the intended functionality, so to trying to argue that that conversation recording/sending was prompted when there was no intent from the user to activate the device is a major stretch
Yes, but that's the programming. There aren't any penguin references in the DNA that we know of yet.
The PIN is used to unlock a private key in the hardware TPM module. The private key is then used unlock the account. The PIN is more secure because it's really just an unlock code for a hardware private key. It's the private key doing the hard work of unlocking the local account (and even unlocking secure access to the cloud account without password entry). The PIN is only sent to the TPM on that device (and the TPM is built so that it only accepts PINs physically entered on that device, lock outs after bad attempts, etc) and only used to unlock that private key and not stored anywhere else or sent over wire to any other machine.

It changes the threat model from "knows password" to "knows PIN and has physical access to user's device".

ETA: Something the article should probably have better underscored was Microsoft was specifically talking about "Windows Hello" PIN entry rather than PIN usage in general.
I work on software without having access to customers data. Where I can access them, it is with their consent and NDA signed.

Wtf. Of course software can be made without listening to private data of customers.
There’s already a PowerLisp, it’s the original version of Corman Lisp for Macintosh.
> This was the first task I ever received and it flickered my curiosity. In the problem set, the dataset contained survey and demographic attributes like race, age, computer proficiency, immigration status….etc.. to predict actual work performance.

> I completed the survey which was asking me workplace situational questions testing my unconscious biases and then quickly rejected the dispute.

This sounds like the "consulting company" was someone running a scientific experiment to see who is willing to create racist/ageist/otherwise unethical models.
When learning to program, Racket was immensely useful to me. The concepts behind Lisp are simple, so I found Lisp to be a good language family to study in order to grasp how programming languages work. These days I prefer Python though.
Very solid advice.

Working as a consultant will also let you build a network that you can use when you want to go independent. Obviously you have to be careful not to poach from your old company, but often there are side projects and jobs too small for a large consultancy that are a good fit for an independent contractor.

When I was a consultant I considered it a slight failure if I didn't get a job offer from the client at the conclusion of each engagement. I never took any of them up on it, but if I'd been in the market it would have been a hell of a way to basically get paid for an extended job interview... and lots of people I know who decided to get out of consulting went over to the client side. That's a pretty standard path, really.
If it works, it's great. There are a lot of companies doing similar things that duplicate lots of effort building similar applications.

However, in my experience, internal software development is often tailored very tightly to specific environments and other tools that are used in this particular situation, and the pressure from higher-ups is to build something faster rather than generic (and even if it's built to be generic, that usually doesn't work well unless there are real use cases exercising it).

What I'd really like to see is several municipalities joining their forces and writing common open source software that works for their use cases. Would be soooo much cheaper in the long run than each procuring on their own.
Hackiest way - pick the wordpress VPS options for $3.50, then sub out the wordpress homepage with your static site

Poor Man's Netlify identity - Apache or nginx password rules.

Poor Man's Netlify Large Media Management - Upload some files over sftp.

Poor Man's Netlify Lambda functions - crontab -e, 0 * * * * LynxDumpWeatherToHomepage.sh.

Poor Man's Netlify Teams - Create a new user with access to that site.

Poor Man's Netlify Forms - A php form.

Poor Man's Netlify Analytics - Less +F (or tail -f) web.log file.

^^ This is isn't tax, legal, or sysadmin advice. SanchoPanda doesn't offer tax, legal, or sysadmin advice. Please consult your tax, legal, or sysadmin advisor before making any tax, legal, or web infrastructure related decisions.
It's 5 hours but it's absolute gold if you like stuff like that (like me)

YouTube remembers where you left off now so it's not a huge issue in 2019
Some clientside APIs (embedded timelines, for example) still seem to be working.
Why does it matter if it's Americans listening to it vs third world contractors?

Also Google and Amazon are a large American companies that mostly try to do the right thing in terms of user privacy. I'd be more concerned about the random IoT microwaves and fridges made by a small company in China or Japan with their own assistant features built in sending audio to god knows where. Atleast I can reasonably trust the wakeword implementations for Alexa and Home, you can't even trust than with other h/w.

It again comes back to, yes, researchers listen to a carefully chosen random selection of audio clips and they're not really targeting a single user. It's impossible to explain that nuance in marketing material.
Ah, ok, thanks for clarifying.

It is possible to genuinely enjoy scoping the problems out though, evaluating their complexities, etc. It's also possible to say "I don't have time to evaluate the thing, so I'm not going to conclude anything about it" (although the latter irritates lots of friends, haha)
If the point is to train speech to text analysis, just sending the transcript doesn't help.
Feeding People with Science: Soon the World Will Require Twice as Much Food
Companies providing services in France typically pay VAT, corporate income taxes or similar.

This tax is specifically on revenue that doesn't do that.

(Not that I am a proponent of this tax)
Looks like api.twitterstat.us hasn't reflected the outage; currently showing "All Systems Operational" https://api.twitterstat.us/
I've been using https://github.com/fatedier/frp to expose UDP endpoints for a while. Works pretty well.
hackernews is built on top of racket
yep - the post-mortems on these things are always interesting
Down from Brazil.
I'm aware of it but haven't got a copy myself
Same from India, the status page [1] is holding it up though, saying "All systems operational. Updated a few seconds ago".

[1] https://status.twitterstat.us/
Fleeing Norway: An International Crisis over a Little Girl
I wish I had 100 upvotes to give you.

I'm currently converting a homegrown multi-million dollar eccommerce platform to Shopify and it's been a dream. Most of the significant lifting was done in less than 2 weeks.

Their graphql api has just been amazing, not to mention all the other developer services they provide.

OFC, I do feel like I'm coding myself out of a job, as I've spent the last 7 years building and maintaining that system.
Why not put an expiration token inside of the key? Reselling a key takes time.
>A group of researchers listening to a random sample of audio clip with no way to identify actual speakers

Actually the journalists who obtained those audio clips identified several people. Those who were willing to talk on camera confirmed it was indeed their voices.
The title was enough for me... Did the user just get banned? Getting error now. hah
A non-profit can certainly show altruism. It can also be a vehicle for legal tax evasion, PR, and power. Why create a new foundation when there are certainly existing and efficient organizations that could deploy your money better?
That’s really cool! I got more than a few new ideas for SHCL by browsing through that list. Thanks for sharing!
Five Basic Facts About Boeing Missing from Coverage of the 737 Max Story
Oh, man. I guess we have to start going outside to yell at strangers again?
American help was dependent on decolonisation. Yet many of those smaller islands quietly became American air bases, fuelling ports and what have you. In some regions, such as Japan, you see a continuing US military presence that was a post war rebuilding, but also what is sometimes called "soft empire".

The French colonial subjects had a little extra in terms of rights. If I remember right, a citizen of a French colony had as much right to go to and live in France as a Frenchwoman born in Paris. It wouldn't therefore be that surprising to think they saw Algeria as part of France, to be resisted as much as the independence of Cherbourg.

The British experience was a little more separated, but there was a era of decolonialisation during the 50s and 60s. They not only relinquished the colonies but had a clear policy of local majority rule in place before independence. At the same time the citizens were resenting the waves of immigrants arriving to help in the NHS, post-war rebuilding, and driving buses and trains - leading to today's Windrush scandal. Yet some immigrants had been in the UK, without too much problem, for centuries.

There's a certain consistency to the inconsistencies. If you follow me. :)
Tesla vehicles disengage the high voltage contactors when an accident is detected. You still don't want to cut through parts that can't be de-energized (ie do not push through the floor pan into your energy storage system). There is also a "first responder cut loop" which does the same, similar to the mentioned "RESCUE" lever on an aircraft cockpit.
Looks impressive, I may have to try it out.

Too bad it's LGPL. I expected MIT because QuickJS was, and hoped for it because GPL is unethical[1].

[1] https://sdegutis.com/2019-06-26-why-the-gpl-is-unethical
perl6 -e 'my $integers := gather for 0..Inf { take $_ }; say $integers[2]'
Cyberspace Revisited: A Radial Reading of William Gibson's “Burning Chrome”
Same from Dallas. The landing page is up, but when you try to view tweets you get the error.
I'd love to see this tactic played out in divorce proceedings. - "I wasn't having a secret affair. You just never asked if I was sleeping around."
Maybe the fact that rich, educated people drive Teslas, and poor, uneducated drivers don't accounts for it (my hypothesis is that rich, educated drivers have fewer accidents on average since they are less likely to DWI, etc)?

To control I would want to see what % of Tesla crashes catch fire compared to ICE crashes.
That was gold, thanks for sharing
The problem with that analysis, as pointed out in the reddit comments https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/bg2rib/are_tes...

> This is misleading, the average vehicle on the road is much older than a tesla. You should represent the data showing in rate of fires per model year
But also, as I mentioned, Oracle is not in the lead on any of those. Much fewer job offers for Oracle than MySQL.
Which goes away when Mozilla takes that about:config option away.
If you look closely, it appears the Model 3 they used in the dash displacement later on in the video had some damage on the sides — it may have already been salvaged or totaled.

At least they made good use of a basically dead vehicle assuming that's true.
Block Breakers – block cipher cryptanalysis
Finding Your Superpowers: An Engineer Turned Founder Origin Story
This is perfect... You've given me a multitude of Google-able rabbit holes to dive down into! Thanks!
Oh, I see now that my "eliminate emissions" above could be read as "eliminate all emissions". That's not what I meant, but it's my fault for not putting it clearly (and the typos as well, I was typing only half-awake). Anyway, let's eliminate a lot of emissions, including pretty much all from land vehicles, as soon as possible. And also sequester carbon.
I've been tracking BlockStack for a time, and love the technology. I particularly like how you have supported Decentralized Identifiers by specifying a DID method for use with BlockStack. I think decentralized data and identity is one of the killer blockchain apps, or at least I hope so.
Down in Toronto, NY, and DC
Further underscores how much of an immense scam the HQ2 sweepstakes / city talent show was. It should always be brought up the next time a company, sports franchise, or other organization tries to get sweetheart deals to build somewhere. Amazon should be forced to wear this millstone around its neck every time it tries to extort a community for land.
Twitter Is Down
Ask HN: Twitter is down. Favorite Mastodon instances?
I'm partial to cybre.space and snouts.online. The former is run by a dragon and the latter by various animals. What's not to love?
Yup. I've taken some MBA classes, and one (in retrospect obvious) thing I latched onto is the idea of opportunity cost: you can never do everything you are capable of doing, and each thing you do comes at the expense of something else. So, focus on doing the things that (depending on your goal) are most fulfilling and/or most profitable.

Amusingly, grasping that concept was a big factor in my decision to put my MBA degree on hold...
See Bpftrace for Linux 2018:

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18168137

pzakah asks:

> You've mentioned that we do have BTF now in Linux 4.18. I've tried to find if it was leveraged in bpftrace, but it looks like it isn't yet.

Brendan responds:

> That's the old repo (we should add a note to it pointing people to https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace instead!)

Alastair added struct support for kprobes yesterday, based on the functionality in bcc (which bpftrace uses). That was the final missing piece, and why I'm posting about it now. See the last example here:

https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace/blob/ma

--- ....

I took a look and according to the last example mentioned they have not added full struct support yet.
This is exactly what I'm talking about. You've narrowed down the scope of logic to apply to everything !good, which is some emotional value that exists outside of logic. In reality "good" is a vast trove of information which differs in the minds of every party to the problem.

Logic absolutely applies to this set of information!

Wanna-be technocrats should understand that exploring that vast trove of information (which they can't actually do, in practice) will allow a more widely accepted solution.

Accounting for all these various "goods" logically results in messy compromises which run exactly counter to the technocratic dream.

Democracy is an imperfect attempt to distribute the logical calculation of all these "goods" and come up with a big ugly messy solution.

(Some parallels with capitalism exist here)
Artificial intelligence has now pretty much conquered poker
Downvotes because the NSA isn't magic. We know how the legal boundaries of their power work from the Snowden leaks. It wouldn't be possible for them to force Google or whoever to do this.
> The consumption of sugary drinks was significantly associated with the risk of overall cancer... The consumption of artificially sweetened beverages was not associated with the risk of cancer

According to the study, diet drinks are not associated with cancer
Is Dark intended to be a Lisp? I'm surprised by the fact that the team didn't include language examples (from what I can gather)
So, a "resistive magnet" is basically the same thing as your school science fair "bell wire wound on a nail" electromagnet, except it is made from very precisely manufactured copper plates stacked with insulators and drilled to accommodate flowing water. That's very interesting technology, plus the nesting of the "coils" for multiple "layers" on the magnets.

It's kinda analogous to winding an electromagnet very carefully, but the stacked design (along with the holes) allows for easy and effective liquid cooling. It's a somewhat outside of the box thinking of magnet design.

I find it curious that I'm just learning about this now - I've never, ever have seen this kind of magnet construction discussed anywhere (and it is apparently a long-used technique)? I would expect such a design to be discussed in numerous areas (or even just mentioned), but I've never seen anything about it in popular press magazines or books, or anywhere else except now?

I wonder why that is? Is it only because such magnets are for very specialized use-cases, and fabricating one is outside the capability of most organizations, let alone individuals? Or are the use-cases such that almost no one else needs them (ultra-high current and high Tesla output) - and those that do would be in the circles that know about this construction?

Again, I just find it strange; I mean, in my life, I've found books and other sources that detail how to build STMs, CAT Scanners, and Radio Telescopes - but nothing of the nature of a magnet like this (and overall, it's fairly simple in concept and construction).
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What is it with functional languages and people naming their variables with single letters? If I wrote some python code like that I'd be laughed out of the room
Actually fees have actually been fairly flat in patent prosecution over the recent years. Unlike other legal work, it's very common for the work in patent prosecution to be performed for fixed fees (e.g., $10k/patent application). Thus regardless of the number of hours billed by the attorney, they will not be paid for the hours worked that exceeds the fixed fee they're charging for the task. As such, patent attorneys do have extra incentives to use these emerging AI tools to help them become more efficient because it allows them to stay below the fixed fees they're charging for clients.