skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you know anything about Amazon, if you know what commingling means, or if you spend 5 minutes reading about this company you will steer well clear for baby formula, food, electronics, or anything else safety related. Stick to using Amazon for books, DVDs, and knickknacks. Target.com or Walmart.com will give you the same price as Amazon, with slightly slower shipping, and no Russian Roulette with counterfeiters.
> There are dozens of natural cycles that control the climate (AMO, PDO, ENSO, solar cycles, to name a few)

You don't think scientists are aware of these? You don't think they're already tracking solar cycles and the like?

For example, see this graph:

https://climate.nasa.gov/internal_resources/1896/

from this NASA article:

https://climate.nasa.gov/causes

showing how solar input does not explain climate change.
Of course you have to worry about all of that! When you don't self host you have to assume whoever you are renting from hirers the lowest paid employees they can get to manage infrastructure for you. That's how they get profitable. You are not outsourcing expertise.
DNSCurve is specifically designed to look like UDP DNS. The problem isn't that the packets don't validate as DNS, it's that some of the middleboxes modify them, or don't send them to the appropriate server at all and try to answer the query themselves. The protocol then detects that MitM attack and rejects the response -- as well it should, but detecting the attack doesn't get you to working DNS.

HTTPS can't save you from that, though, because the same networks that modify DNS queries to third party DNS servers also do things like require you to install a root certificate and then MitM your TLS connections, and drop connections that don't accept their root certificate.

In both cases it's the same thing. You can detect the attack but that doesn't get you through.
How do you backup OneNote?

The link to where you explain it is broken: http://protips.maxmasnick.com/backing-up-onenote-notebooks

You mentioned it as being a critical feature but from what I've been reading, it's pretty complex and tricky due to it's weird syncing rules and relationship with OneDrive. The only decent solution requires a Windows version. See: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/good-...
Have you ever Googled "interactive climate model"?

Thanks to your post, now I have. Looks like interesting stuff, and could be far better. Now I'm interested in building that better version. Thanks!

https://www.google.com/search?ei=CMmtXdKDMvjG0PEPwJSakA4&q=i...
Dr. Robert O. Becker as early as 1985 published significant proof of low power electromagnetic radiation causing DNA mutation and exponential increase in cellular mitosis. Read his book Body Electric.
Linked article says:

> “The server itself did not contain any user activity logs; none of our applications send user-created credentials for authentication, so usernames and passwords couldn’t have been intercepted either,” said the spokesperson. “On the same note, the only possible way to abuse the website traffic was by performing a personalized and complicated man-in-the-middle attack to intercept a single connection that tried to access NordVPN.”

> According to the spokesperson, the expired private key could not have been used to decrypt the VPN traffic on any other server.

> NordVPN said it found out about the breach a “few months ago,” but the spokesperson said the breach was not disclosed until today because the company wanted to be “100% sure that each component within our infrastructure is secure.”
If you're reading this and wondering which VPN service you should use to stay safe, start reading here: https://faq.dhol.es/@Soatok/cryptography/which-vpn-service-w...

(Spoiler: You're asking yourself the wrong question.)
Yeah been on PIA myself for 5 years. Amazing speeds and service. No issues at all and they have been in court twice where they showed they have no logs.
I plan offer paid services in the future but I'm focused on the product for now to make it awesome. Most people only use a fraction of the available space so the average is much less. Bandwidth costs are also manageable as the max file size limit of the system is 10MB. You can't host huge videos on it, for example.

That said, it won't affect the current offering.

EDIT: added 2nd paragraph
At a certain point, it doesn't matter in a practical aspect. It's like trying to figure out who gave you syphilis. You already got it. You need to deal with that first before caring about the "from who". Once the encrypted data is sold off, it's passed around more than a cheap hooker with VD.

Encryption is just the sedative they give you before they do execution by lethal injection. There should be no data collection, by anyone. Don't pretend that "Oh, we encrypt your data that we take from you, for your benefit. Because we care."

They all need to stop collecting data and selling it off. FAANG and more. All of them. I'm fine with collecting anonymous view count/length of programs. That technically can benefit the consumer since it helps justify producers on what shows/movies to fund. Beyond that, there's no reason a single bit of voice data or transcript should go over the internet. No searches or anything IDing at all. No matter how secret squirrel they go about it.
Elm was my favorite tree back before Unix became a thing. It's unfortunate that projects appropriate commmon English words.
If you don't want to be called a quack, don't associate with quacks.
That's criticizing a weak interpretation of my point and seems to conclude I'm rejecting the use of meta-analyses entirely, which is not the case. The point I make is in the context of the suggestion that a meta-analysis of an inconclusive body of studies is sufficient to yield substantially stronger conclusions.
I know that public cloud providers like Rackspace and Azure insert their own accounts and services into cloud servers and VMs mostly under the guise of being able to support said servers and monitor them and their health.

True data centers where you own the hardware shouldn't... they give you an ethernet cord and everything is on you.
This is so well timed, I just bought a 3-year subscription to NordVPN and they have a 30 day refund policy.
Get a bunch of runners, hand them random shoes. Have em run and time it. Repeat over the course of a couple days, having a randomised distribution of shoes each day. For bonus points use covers on the shoes so people don't know which shoes they are wearing.
Well, I'm with you on sea level rise. I live in The Netherlands. Big part of our country is below sea level, millions of people actually. Recently Deltares, the body that advises the government on the height of our dikes released a 187-page report on sea level rise. Using the newest methods, they found that sea level has been rising at a constant rate (1.8mm/yr) for > 125 years now, and the sea level rise is NOT accelerating. I trust these people, since they are responsible for millions of lives.

Of course IPCC climate models are projecting acceleration, but those are just models. And past sea level rise acceleration projections have obviously been wrong so far.

I clearly remember over the course of my life reading about climate catastrophes, scientists being in consensus about it, it never came true, and I don't believe it now.
Truth is - if hackers did a MIM attack and collected a bunch user traffic (for how long?) they could have everything.. banking info, emails, logins...

at this point if i was a user of that VPN service - i'd be replacing all of my sensitive passwords, secret questions/answers to key accounts.
Note that climate science is only really controversial in the US, and as I understand it, it wasn't even controversial there 30 years ago. The current political situation has arisen when the oil industry took issue with findings coming out of climate science which was not at that time politicised.

Of course, predicting the climate it tricky business. But the underlying processes (e.g. the greenhouse) are simple physics that a high-school student can understand, and are completely beyond reasonable doubt.

How much more evidence do you need?
So did you get hit by a car before learning to look both ways when crossing the street? Or did someone tell you?
This is the difficulty with Aspergers/ADD. They seem to not recognize that it's healthy and normal to call them on their bad behavior.
They wrote:

> We […] started creating a process to move all of our servers to RAM, which is to be completed next year.

What does "RAM" mean here?
> In other words, Amazon knows about the sellers who ship expired goods yet lets them continue to operate. It has the data and it still fails to take one of the easiest steps to address the problem, removing bad actors from the marketplace

I have anecdata contrary to this. We used to buy gluten free bread from Amazon because of my son’s gluten allergy. It was a pain to buy locally so we would buy 4 loaves at a time from Amazon. We started getting expired loaves from some seller. It happened multiple times, to about 50% of the orders. This bread has a long shelf life so these loaves were months old.

We got reimbursed multiple times through the automated return system but it continued. Finally my wife called to complain. They apologized, gave us some credit, and said they look into it. The next time we got expired bread again. She called again and they promised they’d remove the seller. Indeed they did something this time. The bread was unavailable for about a month and when it came back we never had another expired loaf delivered.

I think Amazon does listen. What they don’t seem to do is listen to people who complain in reviews. Reach out to Amazon directly if you want to complain about a real issue with a seller.
Oooh! Can I copy the body of your comment into a post on my little project and credit you with a link back to this thread?! It should be seen and discussed by more people! I can do the same as a reddit post if you'd like, too.

If you wanted to set up a little blog beforehand in case people want to follow you, I can wait. whistles
hmm… I wonder if they plan to slowly merge Waze functionalities into Maps.
They did already: https://nordvpn.com/blog/official-response-datacenter-breach...
Soundcloud.com Is Experiencing Problems
Playback and Search don't work most of the time; Tracks are inactive with "This track is being processed" message
You make a fair point but I think it raises a more general question that has come up before plenty of times and that is whether classical computer science is good training for 95% of students.

Take civil engineers. Yes they will do some physics but usually only basic stuff in first year. After that they focus more on the higher level systems they will be working with because most working civil engineers will never need anything more advanced than first year physics.

So if the person who posted this Ask HN is not going to do CS research (or the like) then Domain Driven Design might be as fundamental to their education as structural engineering is to a civil engineer. The fact is that nearly all systems that we work with are composed of services/models of some kind. DDD deals with these but more importantly deals with the domain where you can make the most impact as a working engineer (as opposed to a scientist who is like a force multiplier but we need a lot less of them).

"Domain work is messy and demands a lot of complicated new knowledge that doesn’t seem to add to a computer scientist’s capabilities. Instead, the technical talent goes to work on elaborate frameworks, trying to solve domain problems with technology. Learning about and modeling the domain is left to others. Complexity in the heart of software has to be tackled head-on. To do otherwise is to risk irrelevance" - Eric Evans
The Purpose of the Entrpreneur
> I have yet to see an academic model of climate change that under predicted the actual warming

Well, here's one under prediction:

Hansen made 3 scenarios in 1988 (A, B and C), of which A over-estimated the warming, B was almost spot-on and C was under-estimating the warming.

[1] https://skepticalscience.com/Hansen-1988-prediction.htm
A lot of things in western[ized] societies have become professionalized over the last few decades, and are now taxed and regulated. Caring for small children is one of the biggest example of this.

It's no wonder that many people see caring for their children as just another job when it's something that is increasingly contracted out to third parties, and children's expectations are no doubt being shaped as consumers of a pasteurized, homogenized service that's delivered by graduates and subject to metrics and KPIs. I wouldn't be surprised if these sentiments, exacerbated by feelings of guilt (eg. overcompensation for perceived neglect), were to spill out into the rest of family life.
IMO, Blizzards actions have been borderline incompetent.

I completely understand them not wanting their platform to be used to make political statements. This isn't like the NBA situation where Morey used a private social media account to show support for his private political opiniona. This was a platform owned by Blizzard with a very specific content focus.

But banning Blitzchung for any amount of time was just dumb. They have the right to respond that way, but it's still a dumb response.

They should have made a public statement following the incident that went something like this:

"We encourage players and community members to express themselves. However, our tournament coverage is a platform for Blizzard e-sports content only. Any future use of the platform to express personal political opinions on sensitive subject matter without Blizzard's express conscent will be met with punative action."

Follow that up with a description of what that punative action would look like.

I can't imagine any backlash to that. Many people would be unhappy, but I doubt there would be protests or letters from congress.

Blizzard made a mistake and they are refusing to learn from it. Now they get to deal with the fallout.
Not very common though.
Sure, but that doesn't really affect the silliness of the assertion that shipping doesn't contribute at all.
> NordVPN said it found out about the breach a “few months ago,” but the spokesperson said the breach was not disclosed until today because the company wanted to be “100% sure that each component within our infrastructure is secure.”

Not acceptable.
Yeah, I grabbed a bunch of images from various sources for the slides. Unfortunately, I was in a hurry and didn't record all the places I got them originally.

I'll try to find time to go through and attribute things. Thanks for the heads-up!
So long as US companies (like Blizzard) have strong financial and supply chain ties to China, the US has no incentive to move against China.

If we want the US to move against China, those ties must be cut, not ignored or grown. As such, Blizzard’s actions only helps to prolong China’s dominance.

If you really want China to be challenged, supporting Blizzard doesn’t further that goal.
> Acid rain was mitigated via extensive

Likely story to try and hide being wrong when the scientists have so much money on the lines and can't risk giving up the BILLIONS they're making and getting rich/profiting off of. I've never received acid burns from the rain!

/s
This doesn’t help if a single bad actor is co-mingling with multiple good sellers.
Disclaimer: This will be a wildly unpopular opinion.

I do not believe that DoH was created first and foremost to protect the privacy of people. I believe that it was created to use the frog in boiling water methodology of silently pushing millions of people into centralized logged DNS that can be used for whatever purpose those companies see appropriate, in my personal opinion.

I do not believe this opinion is far fetched. No company is going to just provide a large amount of infrastructure out of the kindness of their hearts. I am not saying that philanthropists do not exist. They do, but not here. This is a data grab first and foremost, in my opinion.

Another factor in my opinion is the lack of support for a corporate infrastructure. Some companies may manage some facets of user settings in Chrome and Firefox via AD policies, but I believe that is the exception rather than the norm. Companies will be leaking even more internal infrastructure topology than they do today. It isn't like ISP's manage browser settings, nor would they want to.

Nation states? DoH will not affect them at all. They will simply null route all of the DoH hosts like they do with existing proxies and VPN providers. This is what I had to do in my home network so that I could maintain control of my DNS.
And yet Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon Prime all work on my Linux desktop just fine...
Not if there's a cell tower every 100 yards putting out 30dB more power than your phone. The inverse square law also doesn't apply when you have phased arrays doing beamforming if you're directly in the path.
I've had fantastic experience with airvpn. They're cheap, fast, reliable, and support all the configuration types you could want. I'm not affiliated with them but I'm surprised nobody here has mentioned them yet. By far the best VPN provider IMO.
The climate world needs more curiosity. Ask questions and go find answers. Share what you find along the way.

Have you tried Google for "interactive climate model"? I'm reading through the results now, interesting stuff. Needs better software.
https://www.google.com/search?ei=CMmtXdKDMvjG0PEPwJSakA4&q=i...

Here's a nice interactive model I found for Bay Area sea level rise from 2019 - 2100:
https://explorer.adaptingtorisingtides.org/explorer

Also, this isn't a model, but we built CarbonDoomsday, an interactive chart of carbon dioxide levels:
http://carbondoomsday.com
Imagination and the Distribution of Futurity
Sea level rise predictions have the most uncertainty of any climate predictions. We can estimate pretty confidently what the equilibrium level of ice will be from a given temperature from the geologic record, but how quickly we get there depends on a lot we don't fully understand about the physics of ice sheets. One study like this probably shouldn't change your perception of our state of knowledge of this that much, but your baseline should also be that there's huge uncertainty.
That Call of Duty meme has long since been discredited. https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-you-posted-the-boycott-m...
I’m not sure I understand what you mean. What you’re talking about is gameplay ideas that involve the player doing realistic things. What I was talking about is game engines that use scientific research in the construction of game engine features. You’re bringing up an entirely different concept. And I agree, and even said before, that fidelity doesn’t match these film style assets. The whole point is that looking at fidelity is not the way to gauge how deep the underlying techniques are.
Example from 10 years ago: mobile apps are as difficult to create as desktop apps.

Desktop apps aren't difficult, at least no more difficult than a modern web stack.
Google to add eye detection to Pixel 4 after privacy concerns
There is a long running show called the nature of things in Canada that had an ep called 'lights out' discussing this subject in detail. Really interesting if one can see it.

Excessive blue light exposure mucks with our natural sleep cycle which leads to various health issues.
> ProtonMail, which in turn is funded by the European Union

Wait... that doesn’t sound ideal either.
Conspiracy thinking doesn't require, or reward, consistency. It doesn't matter how trivial it is to refute a talking point. They'll just Gish Gallop on to the next one -- including ones that have been refuted for them before.
I did a talk on this phenomenon once. It's a form of Red Queen's Race: admins block stuff, protocols not blocked grow to subsume blocked functionality, repeat.

In the end we will have a virtualized Internet 100% encrypted and tunneled over port 443, rendering the physical IP header worthless legacy baggage.

To IT admins: the more you tighten your grip, the more protocols will slip through your fingers.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elm

First Known Use of elm
before the 12th century
> Either Mark Kern is misleading on purpose or he's a complete moron.

Out of 33 tweets he makes a single mistake/overreach and you want to brand the whole thing as a "ridiculous conspiracy theory"? That seems to be a rather hasty generalization based on the 2nd of 33 tweets...
I wish I had a link, but I recall hearing on Recode/Decode that they would threaten to give their money to competitors if they didn’t accept funding.

Doesn’t really answer your question, but it did sound like not everyone was happy with Softbank rounds.
Its great - i use it on my work PC to reroute my personal traffic, on my families personal devices, when traveling abroad etc. That said, there is a no 100% guarantee so use it responsibly.
Sorry, mobile formatting was not something I was concerned about when I was putting these together. I presented them from my laptop, so that was all that mattered at the time.
1) Units are not given in the original AP article - and your own source shows that temperatures rose 1.5F over the 1950 - 1980 average.

2) Also from your own source of NASA, the end of the last ice age saw a global temperature increase of "4 to 7 degrees C over 5000 years"

Does that not make you wonder if 0.83C in 30(!) years is an extremely accelerated rate?
No mention of KeePass under password managers?!
I switched to an unihertz atom and couldn't be happier. It is too painful to use normally - but you can indeed use if absolutely necessary. Has been a godsend.
There are many jobs that require certain mental characteristics to be employable. A person can't be acrophobic and work as a high-rise construction worker.
You'll find people of all types in all ages. Age is only passingly correlated with an increase in wisdom or intelligence. I promise you that there are elders worth respecting as there are those worth dismissing. I hope you get to meet some eventually.
In my experience, the only advantages LaTeX has over Word are mathematics typesetting and being able to be checked into source control. Word has a fair amount of powerful features for document layout, that are often much more easily discoverable than LaTeX (although there's no indication that "Replace All" means "replace all in selection" if you've selected it).
No, I only gave this as an internal brown bag talk at work.
> incompetent