skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After the recent disclosures about Apple vulnerabilities, I've seen a lot of (unwarranted, in my opinion) criticism from HN of Project Zero, specifically the accusation of non-Google bias. For those who hold this position, does this affect your stance?
Thinking of moving from Fidelity to Etrade/TD Ameritrade but hanging around a bit and seeing if (when) Fidelity would follow suit with implementing 0 commission trades.
Android’s built in permission system didn’t work too well with the Fortnite installer

https://www.pcmag.com/news/363357/google-irks-epic-games-by-...
> for a basic white-collar job.

What are some basic white-collar jobs other than "go to meetings" and "Excel"?
I don't know - I can't, maybe Google/other researchers can. But true, my comment was a bit needlessly glib.

It also seems like you could discover the bug from public sources - it had been created and fixed in the kernel. Apparently at the time not registered as a security issue, but review could discover the link and check for Android's not having the fix.

In the case of Android, "just tell the vendor" is also kind of awkward: There's dozens, if not hundreds of those. If there's an active threat, it's kind of hard to justify not to inform all of them, but could you trust an embargo over so many parties?
no cheques do not exist anymore in many countries
I don't doubt Tesla wants its own battery operation (vertical integration seems to be a big thing in Musk's book), but I don't really see how Maxwell fits with that. They're a capacitor company. Sure sticking big ole caps next to batteries is great for instant power but it's not like the skill set of manufacturing one really translates to manufacturing the other.
That's why it's not done. However that means something disastrous happens every few years. On average the company is better off, the increased profit in good years outweighs the losses in the possible bad year. It's where black swan theory comes in. How do you calculate the probability of a rare event?
Let's consider two types of constraints: incidental constraints, and necessary constraints that would also exist when latently-typed. Having much of the former is a design smell. The latter force you to address problems at compile time that might otherwise be hidden crashes, security flaws, logic bugs... I think the trade-off is that designing with types is hard, and without a lot of experience in a statically-typed language types can create more problems than they solve, as in the original code this blog post corrects.
I don’t understand the comment “if American had invested in a social safety net”. Half of govt expenditures are for the social safety net.

Would be more accurate to say “if America had expanded the social safety net”.
When I was a professor (natural sciences) I decided to play around with different learning systems to see what worked best. I discovered the obvious that learning depth is negatively correlated with the student evaluation of their lecturer during the course and positively correlated a year later (students hate learning when they do it, but love the subject so much later that they choose your next course the following year because they learnt so much).

The more useful thing I discovered was getting the students to read the lecture notes before a lecture boosted the class average by 10% points. 10 minutes spent reading the lecture notes before the lecture and answering a few simple online multiple choice questions about the lecture was surprisingly effectively at improving learning. My assumption is it cut down on the novelty overload effect where the student’s brains shut down mid-lecture and so they were able to get more out of the lectures.
Well first and foremost the French government.
That is only true for some model S and model X parts due to low production volume and large number of oddball parts. Model 3, which is by far the most numerous Tesla, is far more repairable. I've had computer unit and front axle undercarriage panel installed same day.
No, writing throwaway code is a waste of time.
I'll note as well that you've been on plenty of threads that contradict the account 'nullc provided here, but appear happy to let it go in the service of whatever weird point you're trying to make here. Gross.
But a good deal if you can fix stuff yourself.
> I have measured a planned switchover on a lightly loaded system (100tx/s) at 500ms from commit to commit.

What does that switchover look like?

You have services that resolve the database DNS on startup and create a connection pool. While they are doing 100tx/s, how do you get them pointed to another instance without forcing them to restart?

Also, how exactly is a Postgres commit streamed to a DR instance? I'm not interested in all of the possible configurations of master/slaver as much as I am just trying to understand... you've got a hot master receiving 100tx/s... what is mirroring the commit log / write ahead log to the DR master?
No, just cash or cheque
If a corporation ever admits doing something wrong, it's admissible evidence in a lawsuit against them. That's why corporations never admit any wrongdoing regardless of how obvious it is that they did.

(And before anyone post the usual "corporations suck" rant, the exact same principle applies to individuals. Anybody who ever watched James Duane's "Never talk to the police" video knows why. Why would it be any different for a corporation?)
Their desktop one isn’t too great either, it took me awhile to figure out how to do basic stuff - they have way too much stuff going on and it doesn’t seem very well logically separated to me.
But no free breakfast and no free rental car!!!
>I had to pay some fee that was only payable by check. Took me a month and cost me $30 to convince my bank to help me with it

FYI a money order is basically equal to a check and you can buy one for 88 cents at Walmart.
I'm a bit confused by your post.

What did you think the moderators signed? What did you think they had re-signed?
Pure and Simple, They are the most Stubborn people on the planet.

But I dont mean that is a bad way, even with all its downside, I still view it as a good thing.

It is their stubbornness to not give in to crap and sloppiness. Always over engineering it, and made it uncompetitive again all other product in pricing. Not willing to adopt to market situation, as they believe in their design and system being better or "right".

Most of the Japanese companies manage to remain competitive only after they moved the production out of Japan. But while they say they have the same QA in place, in reality none of the product make outside of Japan of the same brand are anywhere as good as if they were Made in Japan.
What’s wrong with fidelity or why are you thinking of moving?
at some point, statistical proof is proof.

that's how DNA evidence works, after all.
and eat your greens! Was talking to an older lady the other day about someone I knew who seems to be "getting old" to me, the first thing she asked was "does he eat his greens?", and no he doesn't. Lots of evidence for helpful brain things in eating your greens, the darker green the better.
I feel like my examples are just as convincing as the boat over boat: they're all theoretically unsound lines that no winning player would take unless they had x-ray vision, and if you claim you would x/f TPTK on the flop because of your sick live reads I'd like to play with you. But whatever, glad you saw the light I guess.
The screenshot is from classic Mac OS, which means it’s at least 15 years old. I love the classic Mac OS, but a product being actively sold for much newer OSes needs up-to-date screenshots.
Again, here[1] a process is demonstrated that generates CO and H directly out of CO2 and H2O with a specialized catalyst using only heat from direct sunlight on a large scale. No electrolysis necessary.

[1]: https://www.dlr.de/content/en/articles/news/2019/02/20190613...
Euro banks do not issue checks. Maybe bill service could work, can they forward the cheque along with documents like birth certificate originals?
One reason is that a lot of European countries have been moving away from socialism and freeing up markets due to their recognition of how stagnant their economies become in the 1970s.

Socialism sounds great if you make the mistake of assuming there are no downsides.
I'm not an expert. But a lot of quantum mechanics has to do with things being unknown or completely different until they are measured or observed.

It's possible that there is no way to get useful data from quantum phenomena as anything happening on that level is unknowable by it's very nature.
Wouldn't it be a meme pool?
Yes, fixed upstream near start of 2018, but apparently never merged back to various “stable” kernels.

See for example:

https://mobile.twitter.com/grsecurity/status/118005953923380...
> Right now the margins on gasoline vehicles are much better than electric vehicles, partially due to the technology being relatively immature. The internal combustion engine has more than 100 years and hundreds of billions of dollars in R&D behind its infrastructure.

American automakers make all their profits on pickup trucks, because they have no foreign competition in the giant gas-guzzling family-mover-with-a-vestigial-tail market. They have little incentive to innovate, and haven't got around to electric pickups yet. There may also be technical reasons EVs would currently be less profitable, but for now in America crony-caplitalism and cultural decay alone would suffice to maintain that dynamic.
Possible explains this https://www.teoalida.com/world/india/
Thank HN: You guys are the reason I made it through the SAT today
I’m a 17 year old high school student living in California, and while I’m no hacker, I find interesting articles on HN every day, and have been doing so for over a year now.

So anyways, I took the SAT today, and midway through the test I realized that out of the ten or so texts and references I was made to read, three or four of them were news outlets’ covers of scientific papers on various topics. While reading these, I noticed it came significantly easier to me than I would have suspected, and then I realized why.

Those articles are the exact type of thing I browse through every day on this site. Over the past year, this community has taught me how to read and interpret scientific literature, and I just wanted to say thank you for that, because now you might be the reason I get into my college of choice.

Cheers!
Math + liberal arts (literature of death). Once you learn embedded systems programming, it’s a killer combo!
For whatever reason unions in Europe seem much more on board with “what’s good for the company” versus “what good for the union”. Apparently union reps sit on the board which I’m sure helps.
Demographics are a huge deal, and combines in very concerning ways with:

1) Humanities general inability to foresee the future.

2) The surprising resistance of political bodies to trying new things when the current method 'seems to be working'.

I've come around to the idea that China's 1 Child Policy was a a very responsible idea. It was probably executed with the characteristic horrors of an authoritarian government - but the idea that population is just going to sort itself out is imprudent.

There are 3 futures. One where population naturally levels off and finds a sustainable level, one where growth turns out to be truly exponential in defiance of physical limits and one where a lot of people discover they can't be supported by what is on offer and die of starvation or violence.

The good news is that is 2 happy endings to 1 bad one. But humanity has a very long history of need-resource-access-driven violence and evolutionary factors will push us back there if it isn't politically resisted at a grand scale.
The Sanskrit tradition is uniquely centered around language itself, starting with its origins in the preservation of the Veda. There is an ancient tradition of Śikṣā (≈phonetics) for the correct pronunciation thereof, and there are further detailed descriptions of sounds given by Pāṇini and Patañjali. Most importantly, there is still a robust oral tradition of reciting the Śruti (Veda), which has often been compared to a tape-recorder from at least 2500 years ago.

All of this is to say, we know very well (except for some much-debated rare words) what the correct pronunciation of Sanskrit is: it is what the Śikṣā śāstra says, what the grammarians elaborated, what is still heard at every Veda-pāṭhaśāla, and what is still spoken by at least tens of thousands of paṇḍits whenever they want to debate anything technical, or even just as a link language to make chit-chat across (other-)language barriers.

Sanskrit is as alive as it has ever been. It is “dead” only in a very restricted sense of the word — e.g. if you only consider usage as a mother tongue rather than as a language for poetry, technical topics, debate, etc — a sense that is irrelevant in the context of Sanskrit, because by this definition (classical, as opposed to the older Vedic) Sanskrit has been “dead” since the moment of its birth (its codification by Pāṇini, which was so exhaustive that it has become, for millenia, a de facto definition of correct Sanskrit), and you'd have to say that everything of value written in it was written after this moment of death/birth (including, according to scholars, most of the Bhagavad Gita itself). Oh and also, I personally know at least a few dozen people who can and do speak in Sanskrit routinely, and at least three families where Sanskrit is the children's mother tongue, and the primary language spoken at home. So the claim of “Nobody has used it as a spoken language for nearly a thousand years” is hard to take seriously.

In any case, the two kinds of Ts and Ds (retroflex and dental) are contrasting phonemes in Sanskrit, meaning that if you mix them up you'll get different words with unintended meanings — it would be hard to consider the outcome “correct”.
Wasn't this a case where members of the Project Zero team were individually commenting in a Chromium bug thread and not a Project Zero public facing blog post?

Was there a Project Zero blog post before those comments went public that I missed?
Would suggest using two cameras for stereo photogrammetry.
Using mini-projector to highlight clues would also be cool.

I see a micro-projector with two cameras just 10 cm apart on a single tripod.
With stereo the tripod does not need to be that big for reliable detection.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson with Lawrence Krauss – The Origins Podcast
As an American in Europe, I honestly think this is uniquely American.
SHOULD desktop apps be like this? :D
I have a toaster just about 6 years old now. It wasn't a spectacular one, just not the cheapest one from Walmart. It cost £50, still works as well as when I got it. The toaster in my rental property is now 10 years old and still going strong too.

Fridges on the other hand... I've had 3 die over the same period.
Related to that, reliability is way up. Back in the 1980’s it wasn’t unusual at all to have your car breakdown every year or so and leave you stranded on the side of the road.

Nowadays I’ll go months before seeing someone stranded on the side of the road.

It’s actually quite amazing.
The Early Discipline of Remote Startups
HK fears internet shutdown after emergency powers are used to ban face masks
Bless your heart. To anyone who would like to know more, I recommend reading https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_status, and of course the scholarship they link to.
Did something happen to this post on HN? I swear I read these comments like a day ago. And now they're all 1 or 7 hours old. I'm honestly having a bit of sanity questioning going on here.
The Kim family, hailing from North Korea, cares very much how others refer to them. Fail to call the current boss "Great Leader", and you'll find yourself, and possibly your family, a social pariah, sent to the work camps for reeducation. That is the only other instance of policing third party speech that I am aware of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_cult_of_personali...
I have a valid Apple Developer account logged in and it doesn't seem to work for me :(
People need to look at the larger picture. Decades ago it became clear it was urgent for the human race to move off of fossil fuels, and this included automobiles. The problem was the technology was not at all ready, especially the batteries.

So Musk went to work developing li-ion battery cars that would be up to the job, and cheap enough to buy. Over the years Tesla has made great progress, and so did many other companies, and in addition many governments have been pushing ev's. As a consequence the ev industry is taking off, and that will do an enormous amount to help save the climate.

Why do so many people ignore all this and focus on criticizing Tesla? Some of them are climate change deniers, or people invested in the fossil fuel industry. Some are shorters who just want to make money. And some are haters who are not happy unless they are busy hating something, and happened to have picked Tesla and Musk.

So yes, there are things Tesla does wrong. But everyone needs to be focusing on the larger picture, and the role that Tesla is playing in it.
I have to give the "flipped classroom" model some credit: doing the "homework" IN "lecture", collaboratively and interactively, and having free time at home sure feels better than the conventional model.

The conventional one always seemed absurd to me: I have to go to school and then continue being in school, mentally, AFTER school? Disassociation aside, it seems like that's training you for a 16-hour workday. How oppressive.

Maybe the flipped model can only support a lower cognitive ceiling though; I've never seen it applied to, say, calculus courses. Maybe hard enough material does require constant, oppressive grinding. D: (Not that young kids should be doing that though.)
Some facts: https://fee.org/articles/5-surprising-scientific-facts-about...
Solar has a good, and continually rising, eroi. But eroi isn't really a particularly useful metric:

http://bountifulenergy.blogspot.com/2018/10/reports-of-low-e...
> buggy drivers union

I read this as "buggy device drivers union" and had a sudden moment of clarity.
I would expect poorer people to do more physical work. I live in a 3rd world country and let me tell you, the people who get the most exercise aren’t doing it in their free time.
I agree. There's nothing wrong with people who do the unconventional and against "conventional wisdom" and "strike gold".

At the same time, don't beat and blame people who do the conventional wisdom and succeed. That's the part that pisses me off. Generally, people don't want to be "poor". Then one wisdom goes, shoot for the stars thus even if you miss, you still reach the moon. Alright, business or banking. Lots of money in both. The hedge their risk by getting degrees and an MBA, etc. And do well. People, even though they hate said field, still throw money at them. That person just shrugs and moves on with doing it, because why not? The only difference is, they got a finance degree instead of an engineering or art degree. Can't blame their choices if they have the mental fortitude to deal with that shit. They made the best decision within their life goals.

You don't take a degree with the mentality of "I want to spend money to make my life worse." If you have that outlook, better off on buying heroin.
They are truly programmable computers.
I really like Etrade's research tools and trading tools. Power Etrade is very useful for deciphering short/medium term trades.
Interesting... or a simpler method is to always use a VPN.

Or will the resolver somehow see the original IP?
Your suggestion would be a horrific fit for a mainstream car in the model 3’s category. Fuel economy, emissions, and long term reliability are why they don’t put an engine like that in a Honda Accord.

In terms of real world preference, EV’s and plug in hybrids low speed handling characteristics are vastly more useful than top speed. So the 200hp Honda Engine is arguably undersized even in a lighter car.
I think it’s an ugly undercurrent lately where everybody has to be super exceptional/motivated/passionate/etc or they’re worthless and deserve to be discarded by society.

Every member of an animal population can’t be exceptional. Are we just doing eugenics rube-goldberg style?
Interesting, thanks! That page doesn't mention anything about nuclear plants; where can I find more information?
Which this vulnerability bypasses, so kinda a moot point.
Anyone want to share the gist of that article?
> So you get: bad education, bad jobs, no upward mobility, low/no healthcare. You get poverty equal to what we'd call 'Third World'.

This is often the situation faced by the poor and working classes on the coasts, also. Even if they have different beliefs from you on, i.e. social issues, on economic fairness there is a lot of agreement.

> We need socialism, especially when policies end up destroying counties, towns, and cities founded in old paradigms we now kill for being bad. We can end dirty jobs - but we should never end the people. But that's what we're doing.

The fleeting, once in a generation chance to turn the country in the direction you propose (cleaner jobs, more support for people and communities) begins in the upcoming primary election. Arguably, how people vote in places like Appalachia and the Midwest will decide if we enter your hopeful future, or continue down the current path toward the greater concentration of wealth in fewer hands.
We also know that Juniper not only used Dual-EC for their VPNs, but that someone at some point got access to their source tree and rekeyed the backdoor to a new secret. It's obviously a backdoor.
> "Actively exploited" by... law enforcement

"Actively exploited" by at least law enforcement. It’s sheer folly to presume that if one motivated group has already discovered this that nonetheless somehow others won’t have as well.
Eating out is considerably more expensive in Europe, even factoring in the tip. Meal prices might be slightly larger in some states, but you’re reliably getting almost twice the food. Personally I’d rather have European portions with the US price/kilo, but my wife and I usually split a meal anyway so it comes out about the same.
Absolutely not. It's an outdated concept from the days where all the software you run was either preinstalled or you created it yourself and the only security consideration was stopping you from messing up another users setup on the shared computer.
Household Bleach Inactivates Chronic Wasting Disease Prions
Yes, but I think I'll do it in Dercuano instead of the comment section here; it'll be a lot more readable that way. I've started a “vulgar misconceptions” category in it, and you've given me a lot of great material here, since it appears you're sincerely misinformed, not trolling.
this has nothing to do with androids permission system at all... epic made the decision to distribute Fortnite themselves while bypassing the Play Store in order to save on the 30% cut google would otherwise get from game sales. This worked by installing an app manually that did download the game and installs or updates it afterwards. This installer had a serious flaw allowing malicious apps to install other software by abusing rights the installer had gained to install or update the game.

You could claim google has been irresponsible for publishing technical details about this flaw in epics installer too early but it still has nothing to do with Androids permission system.
It's not a "Chromium" bug, it's project-zero bug [1]. https://bugs.chromium.org/ is just a bug tracker site to host batch of projects by Google. While most of them are related to Chromium, there are also things like project-zero.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=19...