skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we all know that it's basically impossible to attack a modern well configured system

Where in the world did this fantastic idea come from?

https://events.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/1...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn2Own#Summary_of_successful_...

https://threatpost.com/baseband-zero-day-exposes-millions-of...
Fake influencer follower fraud to cost companies $1.3B in 2019
Nice, thank you! And thank you to The Information for sharing quality journalism with the HN community.
How is random string not a password?
>NYC mesh gets free resaleable backhaul and it's a key thing for them.

I feel like this is the key differentiator between community mesh projects that succeed and those that don't.

At the end of the day, without backhaul you're just saturating a few donors' residential bandwidth.
Massless particles can’t be stopped
1) "Breach of contract" isn't illegal. It's a civil violation. Also, they may have "wholesale" internet connections that allow for re-sale.

2) They're using unlicensed spectrum, not amateur radio.
It only does this if you have location services turned on. You actually told Google it was ok to use your location to provide location specific services. That's not what I would call "tracking", which implies something clandestine.
Wow, I had no idea! "[they] were on the right track" is an understatement.

... on what he referred to as the "gradual process of creation." He stated that the Earth began with abiotic components such as "minerals." Slowly, primitive stages of plants such as "herbs and seedless plants" developed and eventually "palms and vines." Khaldun connects the later stages of plant development to the first stages of animal development. Finally, he claims that the greater thought capabilities of human beings was "reached from the world of the monkeys."
This shows up nicely in Japan's ubiquitous review site Tabelog, where ratings above 3.5 are very good and above 4.0 are unobtainium.

https://www.eater.com/2017/2/21/14686118/tokyo-tabelog-resta...
I spent a solid minute thinking this headline was about Electron the app shell and Rocket the rustlang web framework...
Mine is currently in this state. I want aware it ever stopped.
The scrolljacking on that site makes it unusable
All the time, current plan is to cash out in a few years and open a Brewery or Brewpub. Making beer makes me happy and is way less stress.
> From Wikipedia: Arabs are a population inhabiting the Arab world.

Also from Wikipedia: Persia, present day Iran, is not part of the Arab world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_world
I guess the responsible thing to do is to redirect www to vvvvvv
Would I need `sudo` for this chown command?
As someone who wears hearing aids and suffers from tinnitus, I can say this: the sound generators do help in one way that is not placebo oriented, but also is not a cure like this study seems to be trying to disprove: masking. Masking is quite different than what they were studying.

The sound generators were only ever presented to me as a way to temporarily "soften the blow" of the annoying irritant that tinnitus presents. And it works very well for that. If you don't have tinnitus, you won't understand how incredibly aggravating and discouraging it is to hear that racket all the time - especially when you're in a situation where the ambient sounds would be typically quite pleasant for those without tinnitus. Mask it out during an episode, and you don't end up nearly as anxious and distracted.

Tinnitus isn't just the high pitched sound people talk about. It can also be clicks and static sounds - like out-of-band radio, or damn near exact replicas of cicada (June bugs). These effects are really super common. But after my ear surgery what shocked me most was that I discovered sometimes tinnitus is this almost subsonic throbbing rumble that can actually be felt - like being near an idling transport truck.

Masking helps get through that a LOT.

Obviously I still have tinnitus, so it's not a cure. And I don't think anyone has ever told me it could be a cure. My surgeon suggested it only as relief during the episodes. And for that, it definitely works.

This study would be better if it studied that. Anyone claiming it is a cure is misrepresenting the purpose and practicality of using augmented sounds to get by.

The author may have sorta-kinda hinted at that when pointing out they weren't looking at the quality of life aspects. If this study was aimed at disproving that sound therapy is a cure, then of course... it was doomed from the start.
I suspect the battery packs cost basically nothing in comparison to the rest of the stage. (I'm also not sure that the batteries are even reusable - if there's ever a time to sacrifice rechargeability for performance, it's here)
Quit IT a few months back. Now work at a startup serving lattes for the barista
in the parent comment, though, you were complaining about the price. transferring your bags would save you $50 if not more.
I wonder about the noise aspect of this when you've got 20 cars nearby also using lidar. Is there a point where these kinds of active sensors begin interfering with eachother? I know that it isn't lidar but the xbox kinect's used to interfere with each other if you had multiple in one room
(and I'm pretty sure it's the upper stage batteries that they drop)
Try "X open now".
Ah memories. Twenty years ago I worked a few cubicles away from the guy who runs this site. He had a handmade Rube Goldberg machine made from cardboard perched on the edge of his cube wall that accepted coins as payment for candy he kept in a dish.
Ignoring the symbols is exactly what is meant by "the grammar" of a sentence. Two things are grammatically the same if they use the same grammar productions when parsing/producing.

This isn't conveniently bending definitions to make myself sound correct. This is the specific technical definition that was worked out by linguists in their empirical examination of language (and later adopted by computer scientists because it happens to work nicely with programming languages too). It might not match with some colloquial uses, but it's a reasonable assumption that an article discussing linguistics would be using the precise linguistic definition.
Chinese Farmers Grow Soybeans in Russia as China Substitutes U.S. Suppliers
We wouldn't need to tell them, they know. The radical elements in Iraq who actually perpetrated the violence in pursuit of extremism are responsible for the violence.

There is a reason why Kurdistan is one of the most peaceful and developed regions in the Middle East: they act the way you must act to be a prosperous modern people. The violent radicals who squandered the post-Saddam opportunity to build a modern Iraq are to blame for the killing and the chaos.
I've been working on a spiritual successor to Unison for a few years called Mutagen [1]. It aims to provide more flexible synchronization and tighter integration with filesystem watching, enabling ~real-time remote editing with your local editor of choice. It also adds SSH-style network forwarding, so you can forward network traffic to/from remote systems to access remote applications without exposing ports. It currently supports SSH and Docker containers, but additional transports are coming.

I'd be really happy to receive feedback if you have a chance to try it out!

[1] https://github.com/mutagen-io/mutagen
https.llwww, you mean?
I haven't read through everything yet, but in the examples video[1] it's stated that they can only read a portion of the sensor to keep a high frame rate and that the camera returns one row at a time. A square image requires reading more rows and takes more time.

[1] https://youtu.be/-gMy8k4nHtw?t=154
The Lawless Way to Disable 8chan
The family didn’t know her date of birth. They had an estimate of her year of birth because she’d said she was x years old when her first child was born.
It doesn’t make sense either way. If I select what is visible only as the domain name, why is some magic text automatically added in front?
Gravitational Wave Calculator
Keep in mind that all these speculative execution exploits rely on being able to already execute code on the target, they can only read data somewhat slowly, and where the data you want to read is in a 64-bit address space is not easy to find.

The media loves to blow things out of proportion, but all the specexec attacks are really not as big a deal as e.g. remote code execution. In some ways, they are the real-world equivalent of "you can sometimes hear things your neighbours say, with a sensitive microphone and lots of patience."
The problem with that is food quality changes with transportation and time. Unless a dish is designed for delivery it can be much lower quality since it is not served properly.
I didn't make it far enough through the article to come to that conclusion.

Perhaps the Internet's proclivity for nonsense and half-cocked opinions masquerading as long-form intellectual discussion has hardened me.
This happens to me all the time in MacOS also. Drives me crazy.
Interesting, thanks for sharing that info! I imagine that is restricted to running code that doesn't really make any calls against the hardware layer much?

Presumably it must also include some sort of compatibility layer rather than merely translating machine instructions, as the syscall payloads vary considerably. But qemu is certainly small and (when used correctly) fast enough that depending on that should not be a dealbreaker if you really have no better options.
We may not be running out of helium after all (2015)
I should clarify that I'm referring to paramedics in the US, where the pay is (generally) pretty terrible, in comparison to other medical professionals (<$20/hr isn't uncommon, especially for private, for-profit ambulance companies).

As far as the job... it's high stress, often variable hours (which results in poor sleep), it can be physically and emotionally difficult, the erratic schedule makes relationships hard, etc...
Hindsight is 20-million. As someone who works in infosec, I see way too many events that only occurred because of the lack of due diligence - or common sense, for that matter.

Once upon a time, all major companies had "Disaster Recovery" plans (DRP). Those got replaced by Business Continuity/Resumption Plans (BCP) which is a nicer term for the same thing, but boiled down to expensive word naggling that forced you to rewrite the entire working framework from scratch because of new paradigms (a word we all learned to hate).

Nowadays, almost none of my customers have anything even similar to a BCP or DRP, and they think I'm trying to "strike it rich" by suggesting it to them. And the ones who have minimal versions never test them. I'm always available (by the hour of course) when disaster does strike, I guess.
Ports get registered? I just assumed we were all picking whatever open ports we could find.
It's a network effect. Readers go to databases with the most data, and creators / reviewers go to the places with the best 'audience'.

Same reason why it's been a very long and hard road to replace craigslist for many things.
I sort of understand why it’s difficult to switch residences, but why is it difficult to switch schools?
That really depends on the modality of the LiDAR. For the record, the Kinect is techically LiDAR since it is using "Light Detection And Ranging."

As for why the Kinect interferes with other units, it's because of the imaging modality (structured light). The sensors interfere with one another because they're largely dependent on detecting a specific pattern of projected dots. If you detect too many dots or if the image gets saturated, you start to have a problem.

In the case of traditional scanning LiDAR (e.g. terrestrial LiDAR in the sense of a Leica or Faro or Velodyne unit), this isn't necessarily the same case. Sure, if the two lasers point exactly at each other for a given point over their sweep, then at that point the lasers will saturate the measurement and that specific measurement will not be useful. In time-of-flight based, mirrorless systems, this matters less than one might think. I can see this being consistently a problem when scanning with Velodyne tech since they tend to only rotate about one axis, but for other types of LiDAR I don't think it would be as big of a deal. Granted, then you have to worry about scanning speed and how that affects the final results.

Overall, I don't think that unit interference is going to be a significant factor in adoption. LiDAR is a broad technology and it's not easy to make assumptions about the entire industry based on a couple implementations or modalities.
>Farming octopuses is not only unethical but deeply damaging to the environment, scientists say.

Err, isn't the former up to actual ethics, which vary from place to place? Where do these "one size fits all" eating ethics come into place?
Saul Griffith has an old talk entitled "Climate Change Recalculated." The gist is that he converts everyday energy consumption into averaged watts over a day, and then looks at the energy area density of renewables. The resulting picture is rather daunting. If we go 100% renewable--If we even could!--all of our lifestyles would be radically curtailed, and this is after a construction binge of enormous scale.

We absolutely need fission and/or fusion. Of this there is no doubt.
Yes, I agree with you that the additional convenience leads can help with turnout, which is a specially important thing these days.

However, here in Brazil I am convinced that vote-by-mail would only exacerbate the widespread vote-coercion problems we already have in areas that are dominated by drug traffickers or paramilitary groups.

(While we are at it, there are lots of other factors other than vote-by-mail that affect voter turnout and voter disenfranchisement. Certainly one of the biggest ones is that the US elections do not take place on a national holiday, and that there can be a lot of bureaucracy involved in registering as a voter)
How's Babel treating you at scale? (What scale are you running anyway?) Are you upstreaming your changes?
Plastic microfibers from clothing are getting into seafood
Many features of the STL are optional. So the existence of operating systems that are incapable of providing certain features is not a valid argument for leaving out features that are essential to using threads in any meaningful way on others.

Killable threads are not rocket science, either. You're just limited in the kinds of things these threads can do. But there's no need to get all hungup on that particular feature.
Ethics are completely arbitrary.

The article comes from a particular background. From said background, the espousal of "unethical" is understandable.

Whether you consider the ingestion of octopus to be unethical or not depends entirely on your own definition of ethics.
What a fantastic tool!

A long time ago used unison to keep file uploads on 2x primary web servers[1] in sync. It worked like a charm. With IIS on Windows!
Do you have to option of seeing the Eula before the tracking is done?
Automatically tag existing AWS resources to find out who created them
> Ethics are completely arbitrary.

That cannot possibly be true if ethics is based on what causes suffering / well-being.
This title is true even if zero research had been done.
What makes you say it's a "one size fits all" solution? Should the author not write their own opinion from their own ethical context, but rather keep it to themselves, since other cultures might disagree?
Im having a hard time not translating this into US just attacked russian infrastructure.

i could see identifying an exploit and having a
'button' to push, but actually depositing malware into a system is like walking uninvited into a strangers house with a weapon drawn and ready.
>Ethics are completely arbitrary.

Well, I'd say adjusted/evolved culturally/historically to help steer communities, improve/constrain certain societal aspects, but yes, it's not like they are physical laws.
Quotes:"The Mesh maintains a “super node” antenna and 31 hubs throughout lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn that collectively serve about 350 residences."..."“Plus the people are nice,” she said. “It’s a great community.”

Yeah, 350 is less then a block of customers for Comcast or Verizon. When only few people are involved everything is great, try to scale this bigger then you'll the real shit go down. It's human condition, individually we are smart, but when in large groups we're stupid.
Others have addressed most of this, but no one else has called this out specifically: "my" is not a pronoun. Pronouns stand in for nouns. "my" stands in for a determiner. Both replace concrete with relative, but that's a semantic category that doesn't impact syntactic class.
> yep, at least until we get aneutronic fusion going with direct schema of electricity generation bypassing the heat engines, the fusion on Earth has no chances of competing with the most of the existing and especially solar/wind energy sources.

This sounds like unfounded opinion to me. While I agree that ITER derived designs are unlikely to compete economically, that doesn't prevent alternative designs, especially hybrid fusion/fission sub-critical reactor's, from competing.
That's what each of the companies involved claim, but here you additionally have benchmark results from independent researchers who aren't building self-driving cars that say Lidar is good.
$65 a month for a “Dedicated Lawyer”? Is BizCounsel too good to be true?
If I could prevent NK from getting Nukes, or I could prevent NK from stealing billions from banks... seems pretty reasonable that nukes are still the focus
Isn't the restaurant business already hard enough without being charged $8 to answer a customer's question.

Well, I guess restaurants can end their relationship with Yelp and customers can stop using Yelp too.
> Now, if we had found some exotic energy source that didn't exist on Earth at all, that would be a different story.

Which does exist, btw: helium-3 which is deposited by the solar wind and captured in cold traps on the lunar poles. It doesn't exist on Earth in any quantity, except artificially produced in nuclear laboratories. He3 fusion is easier to achieve and less dangerous to operate.
A fungus makes a chemical that neutralizes the stench of skunk spray
At some point, ethics comes down to "whose suffering/well-being do you prioritise when you're presented with a bunch of shitty options", and that's where everyone eventually disagrees.
It's more like in the 90s and 2000s software-exploit based attacks were fairly easy. These days you have to adopt and use logical,social and configuration vulnerabilities that have always been common as well.
Is craigslist unethical?
Does it need to be scaled up beyond a community of neighbors?
Look into Mitch McConnell's record—or rather lack thereof—for allowing House-passed bills onto the Senate floor. He's one man undermining the spirit of our government for his own political agenda.
Counterpoint: Octopus is super delicious, especially when chargrilled. It’s a traditional food in many cultures.
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some context on the primary ISP in NYC: 1 year ago (2018-07-27) Spectrum got "kicked out of NYC": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17628906

then in April 2019, managed to avoid getting kicked out by agreeing to expansion and paying a fine: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/04/charter-avoids-g...
Sloppy opsec is the standard.
I read Beloved when I was in high school. I was so entranced in the world she created, that time passed without me noticing. Truly a visionary author.

Unrelated, but it's kind of scary how many comments have, if not an undertone, just straight up racism.
Would you buy a $50k Kia?
Ask HN: Does your company intercept HTTPS? What are alternatives?
As the title says, I am curious whether this is usual and what are alternatives to HTTPS traffic interception to protect a company and for doing incident response & analysis.
Ask HN: What strategies are there to merge app state across devices?
That is, if someone is using an app on their phone and their computer, how is the app state resolved between the two? Or more concretely, if I were editing a text file on my computer, and I edit line 7 and add a new line (25), how could the app on my phone resolve that state if I had also been editing line 7, and added a new line?
I might blame the monarch (Elizabeth I) for handing them the monopoly of some then unknown far flung region or spice trade at their inception in 1600. The first attempt at regulation was 1773, which would turn out to be the first of many prior to their enforced dissolution. As that Act recognised the already existing political aspects of the company, that's where I do indeed start to blame the government. They weren't conducting wars for 2 centuries with support of government, but quite independently of government until those first attempts at restriction. It still gets to be part of British history, so we can't disown it, if you follow me.

The history is incredibly complex, worthy of many books, but for the period of roughly 1600-1800 the EIC was closer to the independent Nassau privateers turned pirate than to a regulated, and at least somewhat controlled, London plc. At some point early in their existence they remodelled themselves on the VOC (Dutch EIC) model to become more state-like as the VOC was so successful. The VOC was more independent nation state until the very late 18th century too.

They both fielded armies and navies independently and distinct from Britain or the Netherlands, made and enforced treaties in their own, not national, interests, had their own systems of justice etc. Being amongst the very first stock based institutions there were no systems of oversight and control. Stocks were still traded in coffee and tea shops, despite the recently established Royal Exchange - where stockbrokers weren't allowed. It was one of those coffee shops that would eventually became the London Stock Exchange. Any regulation came much later, and slowly, and ultimately led to the disestablishment of the EIC, and the wide range of corporate and stock law.

I might also blame government for not seeking to constrain the company earlier than they did... I can't really blame them for not regulating something that was new and unknown, just as in the current era bitcoin has seen regulation start to come long after its success. Or the talk of regulating Facebook, or no end of others...
Prolog is not just a "(mostly) pure functional language" (nicely put) but as a production system or "logic programming language" will change how you think of what it means to write code.
Once a user called about a floppy drive that was eating up his floppies. Support was perplexed, so they sent someone to look into it.

It turns out that the user did not have a floppy drive, but that his machine had an open drive bay through which he inserted floppies. There was a pile of them at the bottom of the case.
Actually, I think the context he provided is sufficient.

Imagine the responsibility of saving lives like an ER doctor, seeing gruesome injuries and deaths on a daily basis, except you have a lot more deaths on your hands (what I mean to say is transporting/attempting to save those who are beyond saving), you have to go out into the field and travel, and your pay is nothing like that of a doctor. Paramedics have an extremely high burnout rate.
I think we disagree on the meaning of "political". "We should give every woman here a raise because we have historically paid women less". "We should send recruiters to historically black colleges because we don't hire enough black people". Both suggestions have nothing to do with laws or elections but would be identified as "political".