skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drake owns a 767 [1], and the founders of Google own one [2]. A couple members of the Saudi Arabian royal family are reported to own 777s [3]. It's not inconceivable that an individual could own a 787, though I can't find any reference to one yet.

I think, though, that the sort of person who owns one doesn't tend to want to tinker with it. You just hire someone to fly it, and know that it's always available. The difference between owning and renting, at that level, is mostly financials. Besides, even if you own the aircraft, it's likely you don't own the engines [4], and they're kind of an important component of the overall system.

Likewise, I don't know anyone who owns a car who has loaned it to a researcher to analyze it for design flaws. A couple people have done it [5], but for the vast majority of owners, you just use it normally, and if something breaks, you deal with the problem then. Airplanes are loaded with redundancies for critical systems so a lot of things have to go wrong for it to crash.

[1]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/inside-air-drake-rapper-unveils...
[2]: https://searchengineland.com/your-guide-to-the-google-jet-12...
[3]: https://www.private-jet-fan.com/private-jet-owners-register....
[4]: https://www.quora.com/Do-some-airlines-not-own-the-engines-o...
[5]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/2...
Word is deeply frustrating, buggy and prone to formatting glitches, but has the network effect.

A specialist contract markup language with a nice lawyer-friendly IDE would be ideal, but would need serious marketing $$$ and lots of patience to achieve broad adoption.
Every exploit payload is comprised entirely of data, so I think you’re even giving them too much credit there...

The thing that triggered me the most was that they got the engineers who wrote the code to test it, and report back that their own code was fine. From the sound of it they didn’t even test the vulnerability, they just did an external test, without specifically testing the segmentation controls or the components in question.
> The consequences / or better the probability would be the same.

No, they wouldn't, because the astronomers who would be predicting the asteroid impact have a track record of decades of extremely accurate predictions of the future trajectories of asteroids, checked in detail against actual observations. So if they ever were to predict an asteroid impact at some time in the future, that prediction would have extremely high credibility and would indeed warrant drastic action.

Climate science, by contrast, has no track record of accurate predictions. The climate model predictions are falsified by the data. Plus, the actual impact of climate change requires not only predicting the climate, but predicting the economic and other consequences of changes in the climate, and we have even less predictive ability in those disciplines than we have in climate science. So when climate scientists squawk about future catastrophes, their predictions have extremely low credibility, and combined with their obvious self-interest, this is more than sufficient reason to ignore them.
Precedent... we have precedent for enslavement and pillory. That doesn't make it OK.

In terms of the guy sitting in jail for 3 years. I've heard of that. I strongly feel he should be released or tried on existing evidence (no need to violate the 5th). Two wrongs don't make a right.

The original comment we are answering seems to be correct:

> This shows the whole world how hopeless the US injustice system is. None of this would be possible in a civilized country.

Civilized being defined as the rule of law... it seems he is correct, as the proceedings against manning seem to violate the laws (both the 5th as well as double jeopardy)

Precedent, other things being worse... those don't address the original argument: this is America's barbarism. The example of the guy sitting in jail in-definitively seems to only support this perception, not detract from it. Of course, you are free to perceive it as you like. Some things we'll never agree on. :)
> Knowing how to operate equipment and understanding how to troubleshoot it are very different things.

While that's certainly true, there's plenty of stories out there (and I've experienced a few myself) of people who just refused to use basic common sense, reading comprehension, or understanding of physics 101 when dealing with computers.
You see that everywhere. In my field unless a dedicated statistican was a coauthor, chances are they picked the wrong test to use for significance. And if you look through their past papers you might find that they only use that one test that they always run, despite whether or not its relevant for their data.

In any field you can find people putting blind trust in tooling without knowing how the tool works or what its even intended for.
I see what you mean. I've been using flexbox for a while now and still get muddled up if align- or justify- is vertical or horizontal

Thankfully with modern browsers nowadays you can open up their dev tools and use them as a 'scratchpad' to play about with CSS.
No one said they were silver bullets. No one.
How about side channel attack (such as meltdown and spectre) from ads? Is it possible?
iOS doesn't even have an Estonian translation after all these years.
I don't think you've honestly tried to understand what I'm saying, and I don't think your attitude reflects the maturity I expect of someone seriously attempting to discuss ethics.
It can't double its market share, but the market itself can grow, and that translates to the bottom line as well.
A 787 will be harder to come by, but if someone here wants to buy a cheap 737 with an interesting backstory, here's one https://www.controller.com/listings/aircraft/for-sale/203487...

Previous owner was this guy https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2018/10/1... https://uk.flightaware.com/resources/registration/N912NB

I can't help but wonder what he planned to do with the plane, any insurance fraud scheme involving a passenger jet would probably invite interesting consequences.
Anything that can create the proper incentives for keeping code at all levels secure enough. (Indeed, perhaps open source is the only realistic one, for newly written code at least).

Because yes, it seems the problem is with incentives. If attacks on such things happen seldom enough, that will never trickle down into incentives for managers at all levels to prioritize security high enough.

Then, somebody could argue that if it happens seldom enough, that is reason to not prioritize it that highly. But I don't think the actual risk translates into actual incentives for managers in a very linear, nor fact-based manner, especially when the number of occurances is very low, while still with catastrophic consequences.
The data visualizations look really cool.
Firstly I have a bit of issue about how to browse between different charts. Then I got it, but I find it still complicated. The navigation elements could be more clear.
I am an economist and I didn't get the ECI ranking at first sight. Now I understand the more complex the better, but it could be explained better. I would also welcome the possibility to compare two countries in some basic metrics.
Anyways, great job. Keep up the good work!
Probably forgot his password.
> ...if we require every paper to beat state-of-the-art, we'd (collectively, as the entire discipline) be lucky to publish one paper a year.

That's the case if there's just one baseline to beat. It would be a bad thing if everyone were working on beating today's single state of the art model. It would be great to incentivize more work along varied lines.

Either way, we absolutely don't want papers that claim their innovation is an improvement on a metric they don't really improve.
Even imagining a world in which all the major browser vendors had agreed to constrain browsers to a pure HTML+CSS+flash-like-extension-free web, someone would've eventually come out with a heavily funded 'next gen' browser with their flash/silverlight equivalent, and we'd either be in proprietary-land, or right back here with an open JS equivalent, post-backlash. Ship sailed and always would have.
> To be clear, neither Savage nor Koscher believe that, based on Santamarta's findings alone, a hacker could cause any immediate danger to an aircraft or its passengers. "This is a long way from an imminent safety threat. Based on what they have now, I think you could let the IOActive guys run amok on a 787 and I'd still be comfortable flying on it," Savage says. "But Boeing has work to do."
Half of this exists: in Android you hit "Screen Call" and the google bot picks up for you. It says something like "this user is screening your call, please state your name and the reason you're calling" and their response gets transcribed live onto your screen. From there you can either pick up the call or hang up + spam mark it.

It's honestly pretty great, I use it all the time.
I used to work for an airline as a software engineer (different from a company that makes airplanes, but you brought up airlines, so I think it's valid).

We definitely attempted to write the best code as we could given the circumstances, but we had issues doing so:

* airline margins are razor thin, so salaries are comparatively low, which means

* the best employees frequently left for other opportunities, causing

* management to institute an over-reliance on process and tech debt from poor engineers to build up like crazy, and then

* management's priority was always "keep the lights on" rather than repay any tech debt or start new ventures.

Eventually we were working on an unmaintainable codebase, spending way too long to ship each feature, and the situation was not improving.

It was not a wonderful environment to work in (hence my departure).
Also: https://github.com/rmc-team/macos-patcher
Probably depends entirely on how annoyed Boeing are.
I think focus on sustainability matter and even circular economy.

Find how your skills and your passion can help a startup or a community, or social movements

3-4 years ago I had the same feeling, and finally decided to work on an idea which soon will become a startup which will help societies all around the world manage their buildings, especially in building Operation & Maintenance - O&M area which will help global warming and sustainability (SDGs) movements
just use sci-hub
The point is that we don't know and we cannot check.
When I was on android, I could type a message in one language, change who I was talking to, and start typing in another, and the autocomplete would immediately know I had changed language. iOS constantly corrects my first few words before realising. And sometimes the keyboard sets itself to a non-multilingual keyboard.
Not the same. Two companies make x86 processors, and in the very specific case of this article/comment thread, more than one company supports OpenCL. Nvidia/cuda is a one-pony show, no matter how you look at it.
Trade secret. Sorry, can't say any more.
Uh, it's not like PHP and jQuery don't exist anymore. Use the right tools for the job.
You missed the multi-page forms part. As soon as you have state of some fields affect how other fields or parts of the page display it becomes complex really quickly. There is an explosion of possible states. If you've ever seen code like this, you know why more modern js frameworks were invented:

onSomethingChanged() {
$('#foo').prop('disabled', true);
$('#spinner').removeClass('invisible');
$('#error-1').prop('hidden', true);
$('.buttons').hide();
if (value) {
$('#btn-2').show();
} else {
$('#btn-2').hide();
$('#btn-3').show();
}
// etc ...
}
> There's lots of faulty reasoning going around society

Yes, indeed. But you forgot some key items:

* We have the ability to predict future climate change with enough accuracy to justify multi-trillion-dollar policy decisions.

* We have the ability to predict the economic and social consequences of future climate change with enough accuracy to justify multi-trillion-dollar policy decisions.

* "Renewable" energy does not include nuclear power.

* Renewable energy (not including nuclear power) can totally supply the required base load power for a first world standard of living for billions of people.
So this is less of a 0day and more of a 1300day :)
There are pros and cons to this. One con is that the next developer might have to spend considerable time buying into your ecosystem to be productive. A pro is that it is easily maintainable by you since you built it; which is also a con since it's not generally feasible for a single developer to cover all the in's and out's of a web ecosystem. Lets say you pass away tomorrow, and a week from now a major security vulnerability is announced that affects your system. If you had used a mature framework (Such as Laravel) with a auto update system in place, the issue might be patched in 1-2 weeks. Whereas in this hypothetical the company has to hire a developer that now has to ramp up on your software, be familiar with the security vulnerability, know how to patch it, and have some guarantee that your system will behave as expected. This puts the burden on both the employer who might not know how to screen the applicants because it's not their domain, and the developer.

Saying software is clean because it is untangled from a larger code base is misleading for most use cases, but especially so for web development. It is also not fair to treat front end and backend code in the same context as you can easily decouple both without (since you didn't mention if the backend itself is custom built by you or not, but it seems implied)
Most/all international flights I've been on are really terrible at providing an accurate flight plan or ETA to the passengers via the entertainment system. I would not be surprised if it is already a manual update done when convenient by a member of the flight crew.
Well I'm not primarily a web developer, but I've worked alongside many. This neither describes any of them, nor would it be tolerated (or even possible to pull off) in any workpace I've seen. Self-puffery is admittedly endemic to contemporary tech/con-preneurism, but this is a quite ludicrous 'explanation' of a complex reality.
This is obvious a case of "be careful what you wish for" the music industry has itself to blame for this. I hope it will get more ridiculous over time.
Neither are the 'problem' with frontend development, but the reason why it has become a harder thing to do; that, IMO, is not necessarily a problem or a bad thing.

FED is now about solving harder, 'more real' problems, and performance is one of those problems. Writing performant code for -potentially- old machines, mobile devices of various kinds and in the end different browsers, requires a different level of expertise. This is why I'm a bit triggered by the 'wandering pixels' and 'cant do css' comments, and I do apologize for getting a bit intense.
Except to run Electron applications you need to distribute the open source Electron runtime.

Just so happens that it's shipped with every application.
> If renewable energy catches on, the values of their oil reserves will plummet.

Not when everyone realizes all the other alternative uses for petroleum besides burning it, many of which are more valuable than burning it.
Scopes made out of modified TV boxes are slower because TV CRTs use magnetic deflection (through those big coils on its back) which is slower compared to electrostatic deflection used in "real" scopes CRTs. That is, even adding high quality input circuitry, the frequencies used and TV CRTs nature won't allow much beyond audio frequencies. That shouldn't discourage experimenters though, as even a 5 bucks ex flea market portable b/w CRT mini TV could still make for example a really nifty curve tracer once paired to a cheap MCU generating the necessary signals.
How did it not survive the toilet? Unless the screen was badly cracked or something, it shouldn’t admit any water for a very long time at that depth.
Indeed. They were also a reduced population in comparison with other city-states. They weren't that richer also, because their fascists system of the state is everything. To me they did some quite nice battles, but aside from that, there are few little things to admire from spartans.
I use uMatrix on Linux and am continuously surprised how many blog-like websites could be plain HTML/CSS, since they just have text and images, but don't show any content at all with Javascript disabled. More and more often I'll just go back where I came from and don't bother with these sites anymore.
This comment makes me realize, I need to get back to my RoR roots and build a server side rendered site again to see what I've forgotten with building React sites for a while.
> there's no reason to use GIF for any still image - PNG will be superior in all situations

For small icons with few colors, I find GIFs to be consistently smaller than PNGs.

For example, my website's favicon:

http://alexvh.me/favicon.gif 216 bytes

http://alexvh.me/favicon.png 1041 bytes
Well in 100 years do you want to be remembered as a partner who helped out or an archnemesis who tried everything to abort progress?

Lee Kwan Yew has a pretty good book on the subject, it's worth considering.
Blaming him does not change the likelihood of this continuing to happen, or at least the rate at which it happens
I got scammed once, in the early days of the crypto craze. I was selling a video card on Reddit, and the person sent me a forged btc escrow email. I was naive enough not to pay attention while in a rush, and promptly shipped the card. Days later, he messages me throwing it in my face how stupid I was, even posted images of the card in his computer.

Probably thinking I was too stupid to follow up, I began the manhunt. He used a lot of very similar aliases on Reddit, and the identical email around the internet tied to publicly displayed IP addresses while scamming others. Tracerouting those IPs all zeroed in on the same exact town. He also foolishly used a real mailing address(his friends). The images he posted showed the serial number of the card I had on file. During this time, he continued to berate and taunt me from all of his aliases, even asking me tech support questions on how to fix the undervolting mod I had done to the card. I remained silent.

My favorite quote. "being a scammer dosen't make someone a bad person, it just makes them smart for being able to outwit other people into handing over free money. Thanks for all your help I really appreciate it. Fuck you, and have a nice day. Next time you shouldn't throw your money around like it's a boomerang causes it's not gonna come flying back to you every time something dosen't go your way. i know my morals and taking money from people who have nothing better to do with it than throw it around like it's nothing on the internet dosen't seem like a crime to me."

At this point I was ready to board a plane and confront this punk.

Instead I compiled all of the information I could find on this dude, and created a 20 page document of evidence. That's when I contacted the police in his local hometown. It was met with a luke warm response, so I contacted the local news station and explained everything to a reporter. A day or so went by and I was contacted by a local officer that was friends of the reporter.

Fast forward a few days, the officer had visited the homes of both this kid, and his friend. The kid emails me crying, WHY DID YOU SEND THE COPS, why would you do this to me? Shortly after that I begin getting emails from his 'father', on how it's my fault that I didn't verify his age, and I'm forcing his child without permission to trade money for a video card, and contributing to video game addiction. How it's not their responsibility to pay for people selling "stuffs to child" without parent's knowing. "Are you still trying to finish trade with children?". On and on. So I press full charges with the police.

End of the story, Mom gets involved, apologizes, and sends me the full amount in Paypal + shipping and fees. Best part is I actually got WAY more than the value of the card, because I had set the original MSRP as a starting point. Done.

I wish you guys could read the entire email saga, and all of my documentation. But hopefully that's enough to get the gist :)
Election 2020 is going to be a shit show with deepfakes.
VMware Workstation 15 pixel shader functionality denial of service vulnerability
I sure they have their ways. With online digital currency trading (online games) I know crypto is generally the preferred method of payment. There probably exist unique ways to liquidate it into USD or Bolivars
The Inside Story Of The “Serial Entrepreneur” Who Scammed Boston
How did you go about picking those 220 people? Did you put together user personas based on who your ideal customer is?

What questions did you ask these people? For example; you can't say, "How much would you pay for this?" Your friends will tell you what you want to hear and strangers will, as often as not, say some variation of "It should be free!"

Also, it's really hard for people to understand an idea based on a pitch. You'll have a lot more success if you can put a prototype in their hands and watch how they use it and note what kinds of questions they ask.

My company built a whole service on market validation because we found there are a lot of would-be entrepreneurs as well as existing business owners who are concerned with how to determine if their idea is viable. They're also frustrated with how expensive it can be. One client was told "Write us a check for $400,000 and we'll see how far we can get" without any consideration for whether the idea has merit! We help them determine that for a fraction of the cost, including building the prototype for them.

So, don't give up! Just because you're not getting any responses doesn't necessarily mean your idea is bad. You probably just haven't been asking the right people.
Yea, ships are one of the few areas where hydrogen is actually a very good fit. But, no need for fuel cells as straight up IC engines have similar efficiency at these scales.
zdnet, crapzilla slaves, another crapmedia to my blacklist :)
I have a similar story. I got hired on to replace some PHP web apps, each one written using a different framework. Each one out of date, unpatched, unknown dependencies, no easy way to bring up to date-- tied to specific old PHP versions. A big mess. The IT director was pretty savvy and said he wanted a clean rewrite without frameworks, something I was all too happy to do.
> Web browsers are being used as a run time.

Yes, because that's valuable to the business. My department makes money doing what we do, I'm making my life easier using an SPA framework.
The fundamentals haven't changed. You can teach basic html in an afternoon, eventually making a static site or something in a few weeks. Thats how every web dev today learned to web dev.
That was an entertaining read. Takes me back to a course in IO psychology I took on workplace motivation.

Intriguing as it was in some sense, the "models" that are hypothesized in this field are both hilarious and ridiculous. They are at best ad hoc representations of anecdotal information.

I think the only redeeming portion is relating all of this posturing to some sort of Darwinian understanding of expressed phenotypes with in corporate culture. Instead of reproduction via valued phenotypes. It's task assignment via phenotypes (typically irrespective of gender although that's a different discussion obviously).

The reason these types of classification structures fall apart from my view suggests a form of causality or even a form of determinism I've never been comfortable with. This is shown further with post hoc justification.

All that said I still enjoy reading this kind of stuff, if nothing else then to understand how different people group/classify/model the world around them but group/subgroups.
Can you point to benchmarks of software performing an actual useful task on both a mainstream OS and SeL4 for an apt comparison?
Do these lockers not exist in the US aside from the ones by Amazon? DHL lockers are everywhere in Germany.