skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Esc is often a half height key and is placed in the Function key row. This is quite a stretch if you are touch typing and want to hit Esc while still keeping your index finger on the F key. But you have the same problem with Ctrl. It's sometimes placed under the left shift key, which is a really awkward pinky reach (I think Mac keyboards have the Command key in a slightly better place, but I haven't used a Mac keyboard extensively, so I'm not sure). For me, since I have a Japanese keyboard with a short space bar and an extra key on either side of it, I make the extra key on the left a Tab key, which I hit with my thumb. Then I make the Caps Lock a control key (to match the old place it used to be) and the Tab key becomes the Esc key. The nice thing about that is that it's usually oversized so easy to hit. It's also an easy reach.

But sometimes I hit the real Esc key out of habit :-)
in addition to demonstrating harm, regulators really hate it if you defy them. Repeat offenses carry a significant penalty as you're seen to be thumbing your nose at them.

That's what's frustrating about most of Elon's crap. Don't test the patience of the SEC with _tweeting_. Put your phone away and save that social capital for when you actually need it.

FB is more strategic but still repeatedly misleads congress, the FCC, etc. After a while, they're sick of being made to look a fool. Notice that FB isn't getting the "trust us" benefit of the doubt with Libra (nor should they.)
This. I pole vaulted to a bigger company which was more stable where decisions have long term consequences and not short term reactions. My free time is more important as I get older. I'm happy I made the decision to pursue the new job.
To enable enforcement of amateurism.
Rust aside, this is a well done little puzzle game and worth the few bucks. It's on Steam, also.
Assuming I buy your argument, to me, it just implies that the prudent man rule is inadequate here. Intent doesn't secure my data. As far as I'm concerned, they can intend in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first. When the consequences of failure are the compromise of the financial lives of virtually every American adult, you need to be more than prudent about it.
> they auto play previous with audio

This. I cannot explain in words how much ire that "feature" gives me.

I literally will end up just pressing arrow keys on my remote to move to the next suggestion to avoid the auto play feature.

I often resort to blog articles of "Top 10 new Netflix show" to find new content rather than use Netflix itself.
It's actually completely opposite from my experience. The kids on the low-rise neighborhoods and burbs are stuck in the house unless there's a parent present whose full time job to haul them around. My nephews are growing up in the burbs, and they can barely walk to a gas station without the risk of being hit by a fast moving vehicle, and cannot reach even e.g. a park without driving. Sure, they can play baseball in the backyard. How exciting is that?
I grew up in a major city... I was walking to play soccer on my own starting perhaps at 7yo (short walk to a field on streets with tons of foot traffic and hence slow cars), went to school on my own since around the same time, took the subway by myself starting perhaps at around 10; around the same time (very short, and safe walk), or a little later when I could be trusted with money I could go buy bread or whatever, all by myself. A friend of mine transferred to a specialized middle/high school around 8th grade and took a subway for 40 minutes every day to get there, by himself; if one of my nephews in the low-rise neighborhood wants to do that, that will throw his parents' day in complete disarray.
There are a lot of digital interconnect systems operating on HAM bands. Personally for me I've been part of the ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Services) network for a while.

A lot of that volunteer work is getting communication up and running to people in places that have been hit by natural disasters. Normally this involves HAM with mobile rigs driving into the affected areas and acting as a hub to get messages out.

Currently this is a voice service "Hey WXXX, I've got a message for the Adam Smith at phone number 555-555-1234. Jane and her family made out of the flood and are unharmed. They're going to try and find a ride to your home in the next couple of days." This is very error prone and would likely benefit from having a reliable digital service available.

It would be valuable at least IMHO to have repeaters that operate as part of the ARES network be vetted and given a tunnel to a public address like this. It's not much but having a recognized digital presence that could be used as an identifier not only for contacting loved ones in distress but also by organizations such as FEMA to distinguish random emails from volunteers on the ground trying to get specific assistance might be useful.

This was kinda just my first wish list item when I thought of how I could use some public space so maybe there are better ideas out there.
Explain to me how anybody besides myself can use info about my leaked account for something good or useful.

I can’t think of an example.

Therefore, having that info cost more is better. Having it cost a lot more is a lot better. (I’m assuming I can still get access for free by having provided directly to my email address.)
sure, but how much of what you think is product placement actually is, and how much of it is just things being used in their natural context because it would be weird put something fake there.
I agree with you; the fines are much too small. But the point is that they're too small for both Equifax and Facebook. Facebook's stock even went up because it was only a $5B fine!

The only way things will change is if the fines hurt more, but it needs to hurt the huge companies just as much as the small ones, otherwise it ends up just being another factor that helps keep the already-dominant companies at the top.
It’s well worth reading the wiki. The development issues due to the high speeds the plane could achieve and the eventual solution are interesting to read about.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_P-38_Lightning
For me SO has been useful when I search on google and the 1st result is a similar question on the platform. Almost never get the answers on stack overflow, but I find alternate ways to search on google for the answers that I need, which is often found on other sites.
With the focus on questions and phrasing , the site has become an useful resource to find ways to rephrase your questions, but very rarely find the required answers on the site.
> a way to get all the content without having to pay lots of individual companies

Ironic, as a decade ago the complaint was that we need a la cart pricing. Now that it's happening everyone is complaining about it being too expensive. What it seems people really want is the cable all you can eat buffet model, but at a 90% discount.
I'm a bit confused by this (I've only read the summary that is linked to).

As I understand it, the "raw" neural bloom filter is basically a function which you can query "with what certainty can you say that item X is in the set". Unlike a classic bloom filter, it will never be able to say "item X is definitely not in the set". Once you add thresholds, this turns into a function which can say "might be a member" or "might not be a member".

So to avoid having false negatives, it sounds like they have a backup "classic bloom filter". e.g. from the summary, this is the full algorithm:

> 1. If the Neural Bloom Filter predicts membership with probability greater than the chosen threshold, return “(might be a) member”
> 2. Otherwise check the secondary Bloom filter, if it indicates the element might be a member, return “(might be a) member”
> 3. Otherwise return “not a member”

Assuming the secondary (classic) bloom filter is the same size as what they are comparing to, then there can't be any space savings - it is strictly an addition.

If the secondary bloom filter is smaller than it would have otherwise been, then it will introduce more false positives - and since a negative from the neural bloom filter means "listen to the secondary bloom filter", then this just means that the error can only ever be worse than using just the secondary bloom filter (since it is possible that the neural bloom filter might get something wrong that the secondary bloom filter would have got right).
Perhaps in another 20 years we will find out if it really was Roe V. Wade.
> ...in the US, penalties are assessed based on the seriousness of the infraction, not on the ability of the perpetrator to pay.

When the penalty is less than $5 per person affected, how am I expected to take that seriously? A penalty based on the actual seriousness of the infraction would put the company out of business, and that's what should have happened.
The Department of Homeland Security Should Be Dissolved
Is it me or the article grammar is off? Missing words etc
Not only that, the company must not have a single front end dev open up dev tools for 30 days (which should happen at least once a month if anybody is debugging or doing any frontend dev whatsoever), and notice that the usual json payload from the server is encrypted and can't show up in devtools, plus there's this weird outgoing request to a domain they don't recognize? And absolutely no devops or logging notices an request to some weird domain (which must be handling tons of requests and have great uptime and scalability, since every single client has to connect to it to decrypt the database).

Oh, and there must not be a DBA at the company either, since absolutely nobody ran a SQL or analytics query in an entire month and noticed that some of the rows were full of unreadable garbage..

This story must be about someone's single server, single dev LAMP blog from ten years ago if it ever actually happened.
If it is any consolation, as a VSCodeVim maintainer, me too. We had some issues at times, a lot of them have been resolved, but that first impression is impossible to get back. Contributions have dwindled from people and I feel like it needs another kick to make it perfect.
They didn’t become much more useful. I mean that in the same sense that a car from 1950 and a car from today are not that much different. Yes the modern car is much better but the big jump was to be able to move from one point to another quickly which was achieved with cars from 1950 or earlier. Same for cell phones. Having a 3G connection and GPS was a huge step but since then I don’t see much revolutionary change.
Basically when Cylance is enabled - other software dies.

We report problem, customer complains to cylance and cylance people come begging for logs to debug. Some admin volunteer his time to babysit cylance people to give them what they need.

Week or two pass by productively with cylance disabled and then some software dies again. ps aux | grep cylance -- some other admin turned it back on.

Rinse and repeat.

Quickest way to solve any problem for us is to check if cylance running.

We basically charge customer extra to keep them happily married to cylance.

I do realize that it's some exec' reputation on the line for approving this vendor purchase - hence we're being diplomatic by charging extra and being quiet.
Yeah, sorry for the typo, HN doesn't let me edit it now.
> Didn't we beg for the ability to pick and choose what we actually want to pay for?

Yes, and that is slowly disappearing, as everything is becoming isolated again and bundled with extra crap I don't care about.
It's people like this that do such an incredible service to our future generations that really makes a difference in the world.
I'm not sure it is happening though. Can I just say... pay 10$ a month for access to 10 TV shows of my chosing?

Or even better would be to pay by the minute at a rate where it ends up that 1h of TV every month is around 10$. But where the selection of shows is the entire catalogue of all shows ever.
Could the internet, and the idea of things like "bodily consent" training that result in things like antinatalism be a cause for this? Or maybe that sort of reasoning about how we fit into this world is a result of that conditioning?
I feel like I might be in the minority opinion on this, but I don't enjoy any of the Netflix originals they keep pumping out. At least not enough to spend time on them. I don't like the Marvel shows, Stranger Things was okay I guess maybe, but I don't enjoy them enough like for example Game of Thrones or The Fabulous Miss Maisel or some of the others from HBO, Showtime or surprisingly Amazon. Most if not all the Netflix original content is B quality to me at best. Low production, not interesting, bad dialogue, bad stories, etc...

I have limited time. I try to spend it wisely. I'd rather use my wasted time on something far more enjoyable, like playing my NES or reading a book or movie, or even watch something of higher quality and production value (HBO is pretty reliable for that or a movie on my backlog). Or even just get out and go somewhere to see and meet people.

Right now my only subscription service is Funimation ($5/month). I like watching dubbed anime late at night too chill out before bed. Currently (re)watching Black Lagoon (it's so great!) and the Mix Simuldub. With a side of computer science books on my backlog with some related videos or courses as well as a good book which right now is Snow Crash (embarrassingly I have not read this yet).
The obvious solution for Netflix is to create a handful of "channels". Something people can just switch to anytime and just veg.
Source: https://github.com/adamburmister/gitprint.com
Maybe also interesting in this context:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelstein_7-X
> Would you rather use Cloud Formation and JSON, really??

Yes, every time. The "multi cloud" support in TF is just marketing, doesn't work. CloudFormation, no space, btw.
What if the future resides in active transport + mass transit (and not cars)...
A la carte paid to a single provider. Not five different monthly payments, logins, and likely five different apps with slightly different ux and controls.
PUBG Architecture
Hi everyone,

I would like to have a look at PUBG (Player's Unknown Battleground) architecture. Would anyone please kindly direct me towards any web link or PDF doc that might have elucidated on the architecture details?

Thanks.
> What would your reply have been?

You will never know I guess.
All I wanted via my original comment in this thread is the workaround. People like others and you offer a lot of advice, but not the workaround I sought. I don't want to have to read ten pages to find the workaround either.
Could be our first look at an Android-powered feature phone from Nokia
To close an article there is a x button and back swipe is disabled. I agree that flicker is introduced by Javascript. That is what I was saying. Might be ok for an app, but a content driven site seems like it should stick to the concept of pages where navigation is like turning a page. Just seems like server rendering fits that mental model better. Not sure why react even makes sense for a blog.
Kagome Metal: New Exotic Quantum Material Developed by Scientists
Drug cartels use dollar bill serial numbers as random keys for delivery receipts
I prefer to view it as an opportunity to attempt to fill the big shoes that are now sitting empty, and hopefully do good in the world in the process, even if we don't manage to fully fill the big shoes.

And then maybe even inspiring the next generation, thus continuing the cycle.

It feels meaningful to me and doesn't require any big assumptions :)
Installing government regulators on the board would teach their C-levels a lesson.
“We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course, we did.”

- President Nixon’s domestic policy chief, John Ehrlichman, in a 1994 interview with Harpers magazine.
IIRC you had to agree not to join class action suits to take advantage. Seems like a pretty self-serving tactic given that we're the ones who have to deal with their idiocy.
I'd like to see font scrambling and window dimension spoofing to mitigate fingerprinting.
Again?

They did this regularly with the telecoms, too.

At this point it's just a gift to the corporations, no one anywhere believes they'll actually build rural broadband with it.
What do you mean by 75% of Microsoft market cap? Intel’s market cap is tiny compared to Microsoft. It probably barely makes top 20 companies.
Have you got better numbers?
A judicial system is concerned with laws.

We'll always have scumbags who twist the law in ways to profit themselves.

This system is so broken we even have names for sub-categories of scumbags who literally abuse the law - one of them is called patent trolls!

That's why we need democracy - to vote on ex-communicating scumbags that try and do that. Law alone is not enough - I don't know why that's not immediately obvious.

There's also the question of incentives - if you can't spend money you steal without getting caught, you're far less likely to be a scumbag and steal in the first place. These seem like incredibly obvious things.
Why would you possibly think that? It’s not true.
The issue with "buy NBC" or "buy CBS" is that I don't care at all about networks. I care about particular shows. If I could pay $1/mo each for 20 different shows, I'd be fine with that.
Could Insurance Lawsuits Against Big Oil Be the Next Wave in Climate Liability?
And “came to” or “came in to” are equivalent to “attended”
Agreed, though I think there were 2 jumps with cell phones, the original mass produced ones circa the late 1990s, and then smart phones circa 2007-2008.

Also this: https://www.tnhh.net/posts/google-maps-insane-backward-compa...
lol @ 8 miles per hour for an entire hour after a couple of weeks. I used to run 15 miles a day (7.5 to work 7.5 back) and even then that would've been tough. and I worked up to that over basically 3 years. a
Corporations don't learn lessons, but people do. You want managers arguing for budget to prioritize security, or lawyers arguing for legal stuff, to be able to use this as a compelling example.

Losing $650 million is perhaps not quite as compelling a story as losing billions, or a smoking hole where a company used to be (as in Enron and Arthur Andersen). But it's a pretty big chunk of change. I have no experience making such arguments, but it seems plausible that it will be remembered for a while at Equifax and their competitors, at least?

I'm doubtful that people respond to such incentives rationally. It probably has more to do with how well the storyteller tells the story. And whether the thing they're selling actually works well for improving security seems pretty hit-and-miss, too.
Different Ways to COmbine Arrays in JavaScript
I second this! I'm sure there's lots of people on HN who would find this really useful. There's so little corporate accountability that individual legal action might actually prove significant. And as far as applying economic pressure, a ton of small-claims cases could prove more costly than a single class-action suit (and hence provide more deterrence).
If you understand German I can only recommend you give this interview a listen:
https://alternativlos.org/36/

Edit: I should mention that it is about Wendelstein 7-X.
Oyo valued at $10B after founder purchases $2B in shares
Peak Medium.
Meteorites will be a serious problem. Theres no atmosphere on the moon, which means everything gets through.
I can connect with this. My current situation is not the greatest and I'm frustrated with it daily, but from an outside view (which I develop myself), things are pretty peachy and comfortable. It's a struggle thinking about what could be and what is, especially when you don't have the foresight to know how either will actually pan out.
It's not reliable: https://www.quora.com/Why-shouldnt-I-use-ElasticSearch-as-my...

The v7 upgrade to a new cluster protocol (zen2) has improved things but overall the system has a long history of losing or destroying data. It's better to have a primary OLTP system that's ACID and reliable while using ES as the secondary search source. You can also remove the _source field if you just need matches without the original content.

It's common to see pattern used with a relational database since, as you can see, Mongo doesn't buy you much else as another document-store.
Neither you nor Mr. Ormandy is taking into account realistic threat models.

I also suspect you're lumping traditional AVs with modern EDRs.

If you anticipate targeted attacks you need an EDR solution of some sort (even if that meand cooking up your own with sysmon or auditd).

If you anticipate crimeware, depending on your technical sophistication you need an EDR. If you're confident in yourself,consider the financial and data loss risks and you might be well off with only hardening your system and being careful.

If the security company is considered a possible threat,try and come up with at lesst some sort of aggressive behavioral log monitoring.

I have no idea why your comment is #1 on HN. Does no one here at least occadionally stumble upon malware and threat intelligence write ups?
I thought I saw the post of krebsonsecurity on here last week or so where he exposed a member of Gandcrab after they retired the affiiate network ransomware after supposedly raking in $2B? You think EDRs can't catch that easily?

I suspect you and even possibly Mr. Ormandy might be suffering from availability bias. Just because you don't see the prevalance and dynamic nature of the threat landscape,your threat model(or lack of one) might not be well informed.

Patches and keeping up to date prevents vulnerabilities. Malware and hackers alike do not depend on software vulnerabilities,even if they did you can't defend against a zero by hardening against exploits alone(at least on windows)
I agree but what's the actual seriousness of the infraction? Can the court calculate it? How?
How A 10-Year-Old-Boy Helped Apollo 11 Return to Earth
I don't know, dude. The computer in my pocket changed my life pretty significantly. Don't forget that right now we are teaching cars how to drive themselves. Soon internet will soon be shot at us from satellites in orbit which were put there by rockets which had computers powerful enough guide them to land.
What's up with the low key racism though. . .
Instead of rewriting BoringSSL bit by bit wouldn't it be better to just write a modern and much simpler Noise library?
Yeah... it's mind boggling how terrible it is! The user interface is cluttered and inconsistent, and you have to memorize all sorts of anti-patterns just to be able to use it effectively.
edn's pretty alright. https://github.com/edn-format/edn

Here's a Java parser: https://github.com/bpsm/edn-java
And MIT's SPARC reactor plans:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_fusion_reactor

https://www.psfc.mit.edu/sparc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4
Yeah, it should be at least $100 billion.

The damages should completely wipe out all existing shareholders, and the company should be unable to continue as a going concern.
Ingognito!