skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there are some much smaller BERT models available on tf-hub and elsewhere if you wish.

most people also actually distill BERT to reduce the computation cost
Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot
I don't speak Russian, but the article (and Google Translate) claims that Sputnik is just Russian for "satellite".

I couldn't find out if the word had that meaning before the Sputnik program (besides the original "companion"), or if this is a case of genericization (think how we now say "to Google something").
Without knowing too much about emacs (vi user.. just kidding), but I imagine the interface is either
a proprietary C interface or a Unix Domain Socket with an Language Server behind it.

Both do not scale up to the needs of today (Windows support, Remote Support, solving the n x m problem, ...).
> saying "Postfix is worse because it had a security vulnerability in a component that qmail doesn't even support" is unfair to postfix.

Ok, well that's your opinion, and hopefully now you at least know why I have mine.

I can't imagine forgiving Microsoft for all those AD/SMB and explorer CVE just because Linux doesn't support those things, but it's not really that important to me.

> In every enterprise setup I have seen, local relay was still protected using SMTP-AUTH for accounting purposes.

I have no idea what you mean by "accounting purposes" -- it sounds like you're talking about users relaying and not machines relaying.

There is no way you'd get a SOC2 (or SSAE/SOC1) if you used SMTP auth to protect local relays, so perhaps we are talking about different things when we say "enterprise".

> If you are running qmail with a custom patch then that custom patch will for sure have been exposed to less scrutiny than Postfix proper.

I'm still not sure you can have it both ways. Why is it when Debian patches postfix that it's still (in your mind) "postfix proper" but when I download a well-distributed and discussed patch from a mailing list, and read it myself, that you somehow think I'm at higher risk?
You can get a developer account, build and sign your own executables, and run whatever you want on your iPhone.

I don’t think those flashed ROMs give you appreciably more “control” over your iPhone than stock iOS provides, because actual control requires usable control surfaces. More likely, you are replacing the control surfaces provided by an accountable entity (Apple) who has prioritized your security and privacy and provides a constant stream of updates to maintain that, with what exactly?

The entire iOS feature set is designed to protect your personal data, from outside attackers who would seek to compromise it, to insider threats like apps trying to siphon off more than you might expect, to end-users inadvertently giving away their own (or your) data without a care in the world.

The security that a modern iPhone provides to its owner is truly a remarkable and commendable experience overall. I am extremely happy we as consumers have the choice to purchase exactly such a device.
Thanks we will change this!
Seems obvious, I think we've all worked with that one person who's been writing software for 20 years and still sucks, making the same mistakes over and over again.
Isn't that the whole VC model? 1 big success pays for 99 failures? I think it's more about what could happen if one blows up, than about how big the chance is that it will.
not for American market. average car tanks takes 30-50 dollars of gas. markup on gas prices is really small around 15%. if sold at market prices profit from each delivery will be 4-6 dollars. cost of delivery will be around $20-30 dollars when you count driver salary, truck lease, fuel, etc.
Fuel delivery has been done in US profitably for very long time. its delivery of heating oil to houses but during every delivery they sell a few hundred gallons of oil and thats when the low margins start adding up, $40 delivery won't cut it.
> How weird to argue about the connotations of a word like extremist in response to a comment about calling Apple malware.

That seems like an ad hominem to me. The linked article presents clear arguments for why the FSF consider Apple software to be malware:

- backdoors

- disabling features when non-Apple hardware is installed or attached

I think that those are compelling, and can be termed malware. The extremism isn't the FSF's for calling Apple out: it's Apple's, for … producing, selling and advertising malware.

Other stuff, like forbidding users to run software from third parties on their devices or censorship, doesn't fall under the category of malware IMHO, but it is a kind of evil nonetheless. One might claim labelling that stuff as malware is extreme, I suppose.
The chip is nearly 100% reliable (absent any manufacturing defects). It's the network in the U.S. that is stuck in the 1970s. Even with the supposed requirement to move to chip terminals, I still come across so many merchants who either (1) don't even have a chip reader, or (2) have a little sticky note on the payment terminal that says "chip broken".

What's really surprising is when a new store opens (restaurant, typically), and they don't have a chip reader on day one. They still swipe.

I've had my card skimmed more times than I can count over the decades. That we're still dealing with this problem in 2019 is maddening.
100% this!

For reference, I didn't try any of the more obscure email address features, such as comments or quotation. My address simply has the form firstname@lastname.email
Alex Jones is also popular.
Does this actually matter much?

There are studies where doctors got to view MRI data under different color maps when screening for cancer. Using the 'right' map (which was different from their preferred choice) improved both the speed and accuracy of the diagnosis.

Basically changing color maps can radically change how you interpret the data being displayed.
Google Finds 20-Year-Old Microsoft Windows Vulnerability
> hope to go live in 2020

CURRENT_YEAR + 1
Azure web apps can run kestrel instead of IIS when you select linux as the OS at creation. I just went in to re-confirm.

We love azure at our company. For one project One dev running Windows, a few running MacOS, one running Linux all coding our .net Core web application. Simple check-in to github kicks off a QA branch build of our app hosted on Azure web apps.
Considering quite a few people here browse with Javascript disabled, and how angry they get when an adblocker becomes worse. It's pretty obvious that the people who are likely to be most knowledgeable on the topic (as tech people on a SV news aggregator website), that Google/Facebook/whatever aren't enabling "friendly neighbors".

Running enough ads with your own tracking on SV platforms, will get you the data you want about your targets.
k8s is like a big OS
>And it is not even 20 years since the end of the 90's

it's 2019 mate, the original matrix movie actually is 20 years old as of last month, doesn't feel like it to me either but here we are.

But of course the point isn't to haggle about a year or two, really this cultural stagnation in mainstream fiction has been going on since I'd say at least the mid 2000s. The wave of marvel movie reproductions has been happening for a while, the first Iron Man came out in 2008 and ever since then it seems mainstream cinema has moved more and more to generic, established aesthetics and stories.
ServiceStack is one of the best pieces of software I have ever used and saved me from WCF/WSDL hell back many years ago. Just the breadth of detail in the release notes shows that Mythz puts a lot of thought and effort into designing features. I just wish instead of Aspnet core MVC they would have just made SS the web framework.
libsimpng?
I have never felt more like an out of touch middle-age white dude like I do just now....I know nothing about Joe Rogan. Of course I heard about the Musk interview...but I never knew the host was someone popular. I don't recognize his picture (I Googled him) from any movies or TV shows, and I have never heard him being discussed by any of my friends, relatives, or acquaintances.
Joe Rogan is so popular because he let's other people be themselves. Live and let live. He doesn't try to enforce an opinion upon others. He sits back, enjoys himself and explores the depths of his guest by asking interesting and critical questions without giving much judgement.

People love watching the Joe Rogan Experience because they know that they will get to see the true self of the guest on the podcast.

In one moment Joe might say something which makes the audience think that he agrees with his guest's opinion, and in the very next sentence he might throw in something which might challenge the same thing they just said before. He's good at giving people a safe place to just talk freely and that is what people love.

He's done no harm to anyone, he's not using his platform to spread left/right wing views. He has guests from all corners of life and just let's them talk about their lives, experiences and views.

I love it.
Paragon also sell a proprietary HFS+ driver for Linux which AFAIK r/w. For forensics, r/o is enough though.
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Cause he’s a very smart, tough guy who is a champion fighter.

He’s very left wing but doesn’t agree with all left wing policies.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eFjX0W_urvo

Ref: “Joe Rogan: I'm Not Right Wing, So Stop Saying It

People just don’t know what to make of the above combination. He doesn’t fit our modern polarized stereotypes.

He’s a renaissance man interested in many diverse topics and people.

He listens in his interviews and does not speak over people.
You can setup Windows to be secure, just make sure to not give your parents admin accounts. Install the apps they use and give them normal user accounts.

Provide the password for elevation and educate to only type that in when they are installing something they know is secure. Likely they will forget the password and have to check with their "IT helper" anyway, and sanity check there actions then.

I have a Windows 7 machine setup like this for my parents and they have never had a problem with malware. The stuff that lives in the user profile gets caught by AV, and I have to install something for them maybe twice a year.

I would rather put in a little extra work setting up a Windows laptop than send metrics for the entire system to Google. Their Android phones take care of that invasion of privacy.
There are trade-offs with every library, libspng is safe to use with arbitrary data, with stb_image that isn't clear yet and lodepng is significantly slower.
Still, it enabled features that others have a hard time replicating to this day. E.g. MS OFfice exposes a ton of its functionality via COM for remote control and embedding.
A 127-year-old physics riddle regarding the Kelvinangle in boat wakes solved
I remember the same arguments in the 90's, everything was a remake of something from the 70's.
The saddest thing about this is the article presents jailbreaking as an entirely negative thing, while the comments offer a more balanced opinion.
To me it's not about Joe Rogan himself, but his guests. He gets great people on his show and lets them talk, and that's why I like his podcast so much. I don't listen to it because I especially like Joe (although I find him to be a rational human being), but because he has a big variety of interesting guests.

Most of the discussions on his podcasts sound healthy and sane, but sometimes he gets more wild/controversial ones which is always entertaining.

He just doesn't go to the extremes. No clickbait, no outrage, no suspicious promotions, he just feels down to earth which is refreshing in this day and age on the internet. It doesn't mean that he's always right, but he realizes this and doesn't try to push his opinions too hard.

I find that the "haters" that always criticize him are missing the point of the postcast which is to hear the guests, not Joe.
Drilling could be contributing to climate change by heating Earth from within
> It's amazing to see that a significant percentage (~30%) of ideas they have come up with have been also thought of by others e.g. from the YC list independently to an uncanny extent.

Imho the concept of multiple discovery [0] applies just as much to innovation as it does to scientific discoveries.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery
The codon->amino acid table is not always expressed in the same way within human cells. Mitochondria utilize different codons for the same amino acids compared to the nuclear genome.
In the US, many point of sale terminals are still not converted to use chips. I most frequently encounter stripe readers at gasoline stations. I'm fairly sure that each time my card has been cloned in the last 5 years, it has been via criminals modifying gas pump card readers to harvest card numbers.

I hate gas stations so much that I bought an EV. Ironically, my wife makes me pump gas for her, so my cards are still at risk.
Repeating "memes" is not really a thing on HN.
ESUG 2019 Objective-Smalltalk Demo
There is this: https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/ Not exactly what you asked, but gives some insight
Pcnsc Network Dumps
> They could make it so your mom doesn't get root by accident, but you would still have the right to do so.

How? Serious, genuine question. How can they give you “the right to do so”, but prevent “mom” from accidentally doing so or worse, having someone do it to their phone without them knowing?
How does this relate to and interact with the chrome devtools protocol? The chrome devtools protocol is really quite amazing to me as it provides an extremely thorough and powerful way to “get visibility into and external control over” a “process” — or what I think could very well become the most meaningful abstraction of a process for most application development in near future.

Obviously cdp only applies to the communication mechanisms relevant to control a browser — i guess what I’m musing about is wanting to Suss out - is there anything that will be lost (dx feature support, performance) if one attempts to implement ide features but using debug adapter protocol to adapt CDP? Is CDP one of the target integrations that debug adapter protocol will aim to support?

I think CDP is ridiculously important and likely to become more so ...
> it is not really possible for those whom he wants to "empower" to live like it is 1980s while maintaining life as it is needed in 2019.

You're confusing wants and needs. We need food, shelter and water; we want up-to-the-minute traffic maps in our pockets.

> This is why he rubs people the wrong way when he peddles his philosophy as something that is possible in practice.

He practices it, therefor it is possible in practice! QED

I happen to be like you: I'm willing to put up with a few violations of my freedoms in order to get features I want. But I chafe at them, because I know that they aren't essential: there's no legitimate reason for the DRM in TVs and computers nowadays; there's no legitimate reason for devices I own to refuse my commands.
It's even worse. I have a US card that supports chip+pin, but most terminals in Europe will preferentially use chip+signature if it's also supported. So I still end up signing when I travel.
I've actually begun doing this now, but the company has decided to eliminate all future remote jobs (our department was the experiment I suppose). I would like to pass this journal keeping idea to anyone else remote. It likely would have saved me.
If see a transaction you don't recognise. By looking at it on a map it may remind you of that small shop you bought something from. Or it might be in a town you've never been to.
> open to nearly any idea

The classic example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPJ0AB12h1I
The worst is the "mobile-first" approach which makes the desktop version suffers. Reddit's new redesign looks terrible on a 21:9 screen. Most content is centered on 1/3 on the screen. So much wasted horizontal space.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1894784/
I read the article, thought it was interesting, spent a bit too much time ranting about Alex Jones, when in reality he makes up < 0.01% of JRE's podcast.

Joe Rogan just gets out of the way and let's people say their piece. He's super open, and inviting, that turns interviews into a casual conversation.
I agree. Tedious, sentimental garbage. It makes the original appear even more remarkable.
> Firefox is a fine browser by itself [...] I have the comfort of knowing that my personal information is protected (to the extent possible) – and also that my portal to the web is not custom-built to track me and serve me ads

FF is fantastic, but the uncomfortable question is, will it always be, given Mozilla has to found further development and is financed by Google's money as well? Apple's Safari actually has better standing in terms of alignment of user and developer incentives.

For a sustainable web (what's left of it anyway), it would be more helpful to radically simplify the web such that developers have reasonable and feasible specs to work against, and have diversity in browsers once again. Meanwhile, Google is working hard to lead audiences elsewhere via AMP, a Trojan made possible by JavaScript in the first place.
LogicENN: A Neural Based Knowledge Graphs Embedding Model with Logical Rules
Finance is only complex to those outside of it. It's ridiculously simple after some basic training. I often say I get paid far too much given how simple my work is.

Just like a Python script seems magical to the layman.

Loopholes don't exist because Law is too complex. They either exist on purpose or because lawyers will hack the letter of the law in their favor, not unlike many of us on HN would do.

Your claims are just shallow, I'm sorry to say – you need to understand Finance or Law before you can really have a meaningful opinion on it. Just like Linus doesn't care what a script kiddy thinks of his kernel. Sorry if that seems blunt but hope the analogies show the merit in this reply.
Days old account and little karma?

Don't spread misinformation about people, JR is not in any way left wing. He's centrist, libertarian, pushing on the right.
did you just assume my gender?
Beating Guitar Acquisition Syndrome
It does. Unlocking and gaining elevated privileges through rooting trips Google's SafetyNet API which will lock you out of many apps and/or features. It also breaks your device's Widevine certification so you can't watch DRM-protected video from many services.

As for the "We do not control our own devices, we cannot stop certain processes on them, and we do not know where our personal data is sent.", with stock Android provided by an OEM, you have no control over the opaque and invasive monolith that is Google Play Services and there's no way to control what data exits your device, aside from installing a VPN-based firewall. You can't even control when apps have access to your data, just a binary on/off switch.
As someone who doesn't like Joe Rogan's content, but has listened to a fair amount of it, I think this comparison is unfair. Rogan might be a little myopic, and perhaps a little credulous, especially when it comes to drugs, but he's far more rational than Jones.
This is exactly what's happening. More meetings + synchronous chat/calling apps won't solve this either.
Agreed. Joe often provides exposure to remarkable individuals, that often do not get enough coverage in mainstream media. And talk about the diversity of guests
That doesn't solve the problem of porting code that has dependencies on libraries that only work with .NET Framework, and will die the day .NET Framework 4.8 reaches EOL.
Scientists discover stardust in Antarctic snow
Mint+Mattress+Savings+Start
Looks very nice. I would use Trello for this normally as it does the job good enough. This seems like a more specific service. I am curious how many ppl will choose this instead and for what reasons.
You might want an exokernel, not a microkernel?
I opened their website and they show refilling generators. In india electricity is unrelieable even in the best cities(including bangalore.) So every office and apartment has generators.
And potentially why this humorless crowd will struggle to understand why a comedian is popular.
can't be that "literally unusable" since I've been using FF for over 10 years and never had any of these issues
Exactly, the best part about Joe is he gets out of the way and lets his guests do most of the talking and just gently moves the conversation along.
Why do you even spend energy on categorizing Rogan’s politics? It doesn’t matter. This whole need of putting people into a category is ruining public discourse.
You don't need admin access for anything. Without admin privileges I can install new software, sniff your passwords, encrypt your files, participate in a DDoS attack, mine Bitcoin...
Compilation of resources for building CI/CD pipelines for Serverless apps
Over the last few weeks we've been writing about various topics around building CI/CD pipelines for Serverless Framework applications on AWS. You might have come across our guide on CodePipeline and CodeBuild - https://seed.run/blog/how-to-build-a-cicd-pipeline-for-serverless-apps-with-codepipeline-and-codebuild. We've compiled them all into one post. Hopefully, it's a useful resource for people that are looking to build their own production-ready pipeline.

https://seed.run/blog/building-a-cicd-pipeline-for-serverless-apps
I think your criticism is valid, but to me it is still often more informative than comparable interviews in the press. I think the "classic adversarial interview" how you call it often lacks genuine criticism. The framing has become so predictable, that you don't even have to read much.

And interviewers talking down to the audience is especially annoying if you get the impression that they miss the larger picture, or even worse, you know more about the topic.

I think he is popular because standard news media interviews have become that bad.
I started watching his shows a few months ago. I like his long form format. It shows people who the media typically either worships or vilifies as normal, everyday people. His format allows me to ingest more information than the typical sound bite coupled with 5 minutes of predetermined punditry.

I watched an episode last night who was a conservative congressman. I disagreed with some of what he said but he presented his thoughts in a way that made the issues more complex than I had originally considered concerning foreign policy. Fox or NBC would simply take out a piece of what someone says and pundit it to death, omitting most of the nuance. In other words, the traditional media format steers the audience to an opinion while the long format allows a much broader consideration of a topic.

If I were to boil it down, his format allows viewers to consider much more of a topic than traditional news, which seems to try to force an opinion on you. It breaks down issues to the topic rather than the party position. (I lean D on some issues and R on others. I feel it's too simplistic to force my views into a single party's platform.

Anyway, it's something only new media can do today. I think Phil Donahue had a similar format way back when, but I was too young to be interested in it.
Here is Jack Black demoing similar NSA technology in 1998
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EwZQddc3kY
No, the letters are spelled out, the "s" stands for simple.
> My dream of a general purpose OS is definitely an open source microkernel, multiserver RTOS with capabilities and an user experience that builds on those two systems. It is important for it to be an RTOS, as unbounded response times would make the system fail as a general purpose system and as a personal computer system.

This sounds more like a complete version of the Fuchsia Operating System, which has both technical and is more of a user-facing OS. That probably has more of a chance of meeting these requirements at the rate that it is being developed.