skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work for a web hosting company in the US and at least in our case, it's quite common for remote management to be enabled on pretty much all of our dedicated hardware. However, because of the inherent dangers in opening this up to the public internet, unless explicitly requested by the customer (or Managed Colocation), the NIC used for Dell iDRAC or HP iLO is on an isolated network unique to the physical datacenter. Remote access for our techs is managed through a secured bridge that requires all sorts of security hoops on our company intranet, and remote access for general internet traffic is not available due to the firewall restrictions. While it's plausible for remote access to be gained this way, it is extremely unlikely and would require several exploits at different points along the path.

I cannot speak for the industry as a whole, but remote management systems like this are bound to be common; any large enough physical datacenter is going to need a more efficient way to access a misbehaving system than sending a tech physically running to the box to plug in a keyboard and mouse. It should be extremely uncommon to have these management interfaces open to the public though, and I'll bet that's what NordVPN is surprised by. Generally these systems should be private and isolated due to the power that an attacker can wield through them.
I found the terms confusing so looked them up. Does this look right to you?

Glacier: Large ice masses created by snowfall that has transformed into ice and compressed over the course of many years. Ice sheets, ice streams, and ice shelves are a few types of glaciers. [2]

Ice Sheets: Freaking huge glaciers

Ice Cliffs: the vertical edges of an ice sheet. Like a rock cliff but made of ice.

Ice Shelf: the "hanging chad" of the ice world. Chunk of an ice sheet that extends out over the ocean (nice diagram in source below) [1]

Sea ice: Frozen seawater, floating on the ocean. Not made from snowfall.

Iceberg: Ice floating on the ocean, chunk of an ice sheet/ice shelf

[1] Helpful:
http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glacier-processes/glacier-t...

[2] https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2018/02/05/glaciers-ice-sheets...
"So if not talent, what other factor causes this skewed wealth distribution? "Our simulation clearly shows that such a factor is just pure luck," say Pluchino and co.

"The team shows this by ranking individuals according to the number of lucky and unlucky events they experience throughout their 40-year careers. "It is evident that the most successful individuals are also the luckiest ones," they say. "And the less successful individuals are also the unluckiest ones."

This article kind of assumes everyone wants to be rich, or makes that a primary goal in their life. That's not really the case.

Some people are more career-driven, more ambitious, more interested in making money. Others have various psychological issues that prevent them from working effectively or sometimes getting or keeping a job at all. Is that just bad luck?

I grew up despising money and looking down on people who chased after money. I didn't want to be that guy. I did reluctantly get work, but I never tried to climb the corporate ladder, refused offers of promotion to management, took many years off work and lived off my savings instead, and I've burnt out many times, my career suffered as a result. Is that just bad luck?

I had a chance to work at Google early on, pre-IPO, but I decided not to. I worked at a small financial company for a year, was offered a big promotion and turned it down and quit instead, because I was burnt out and just not interested in that job. That company wound up becoming one of the largest financial companies in the world.

Being depressed much of my life, I didn't really care to plan for or save for my long term future, because I thought I wouldn't have one. This has become a self-fulfiling prophecy in some sense, though not how I expected. I didn't think I'd live, but I did live, just not with as much financial security had I pursued money money more and saved for the long-term.

In many ways I've been lucky. I grew up mostly in safe suburbs when I was young. I went to some great schools, some of the best in the country, but also dropped out of those. I'm not ambitious. I get bored easily. I like to follow my own interests rather do boring work other people tell me to do. I suffer from depression and just generally don't feel I fit well in this world, but also consider that I'm not rich (actually close to becoming homeless at this point) due in large measure to my own choices rather than pure luck.

Now, you could argue that we really have no free will. If that's so, then yes, where you are could be said to be "just chance". But to the degree we could make good or bad choices, we bear some responsibility for where we end up, though clearly luck plays some role, and it's good to be in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing.
> but it was popping the sidebar up in circumstances where i didnt want it

Ok so the core issue was that the sidebar was popping up in places you didn't want to? Or was it also that the keyboard shortcuts were firing the sidebar to appear in places you didn't want?

> Text search is hard, I know that from mere experiments and demos; adding the "be a browser plugin" to that must make life fun indeed.

Yes, it was/is quite painful, especially in the browser. With its changing APIs, and websites constantly changing and using different technologies, makes browsers a very hostile environment to work with.
We can't even do test releases with the chrome/firefox store. So we have to roll out all updates to all users at once. Crazy.

Before we focused on building something to show how our vision could work at the expense of stability.
It was in a lot of ways not a good move because we probably could have been financially independent with a little less features that were more stable and better worked out. However our approach also allowed us to show the vision and get bigger amounts of funding. Now is the time to make the current feature set nice to use and people feel like it is worth financially supporting.
What off-by-one on crashing instructions are you referring to? Some stack walkers intentionally do off-by-one byte offsets when doing symbol/source lookup on parent functions, but not on the crashing instruction.

Crashing is (with the exception of floating-point exceptions) precise. A particular instruction crashes, the exception record points there, the instructions afterwards are discarded with no side effects. This is necessary to support things like restarting execution.

Sampling, on the other hand, is not even well defined. There are hundreds of instructions in flight, many completing simultaneously, and when an external interrupt happens the CPU has to decide which ones to commit and which to discard. The linked article gives many more thoughts about how the CPU draws the line in the silicon.
Mentions of Government as Top U.S. Problem Near Record High
> The complaints were that all the claims were WIPs, and none of them were implemented

Completely false.

Only a small part of the features was WIP.
User used same credentials for multiple sites. User did not use multi-factor authentication. Another site was hacked and the credentials exposed. Someone used those credentials to log into user's Nest account and access the speaker. User is upset at Google for some reason.
Teens find circumventing Apple’s parental controls is child’s play
Perhaps people will now realize corporations only act woke to the extent it is to their benefit, and not a millimeter further. Profit consumes all. Corporations will never choose morality.
"Too dumb" feels overly emotive. But yes, I'm saying there is a significant gulf between the average user's current setup (a Roku, Apple TV, whatever) and a server that costs several hundred dollars (if you want anything approaching plug and play) and has to be on all the time, both financial and tech knowledge wise. It's not that users are "too dumb" to do it, it's that it is an inconvenience people are more than willing to pay to avoid.

"You use your remote to choose the show you want to watch, and you watch it" is worth $10-15 a month to people when it's compared to "You buy a server, plug it in and leave it on all the time, maybe be responsible for software updates on a regular basis, and also set up some kind of torrenting system to request the shows you want in advance".
IQ tests are also a bad example because they have a normal distribution by design. It's like saying grades fall into a normal distribution when you're graded on a normal distribution curve
His proposal has been consistent since day 1. He sees "Medicare for All" as the desired end state. "Medical for All who want it" is the glide path to get there.
Gave it a whirl online, tried to change WebGL import to Webgl, thinking it wouldn't do anything helpful.

It told me the lib import was prob a typo, with suggestions, and WebGL at the top:

You are trying to import a `Webgl` module:

11| import Webgl

^^^^^
I checked the "dependencies" and "source-directories" listed in your elm.json,
but I cannot find it! Maybe it is a typo for one of these names?

WebGL
Set
Svg
Array

Hint: If it is not a typo, check the "dependencies" and "source-directories" of
your elm.json to make sure all the packages you need are listed there!
Questions You Should Be Asking about Your Home Insurance
Yeah just like 4chan. Except instead of anonymous it's public and instead of a message board it's real life. But other than that exactly like 4chan.
Considering that a train can require 2 km to break, I'm sure they keep enough space between trains that there's plenty of space for both 258 or 2 axles trains. Knowing a train is there seems much more important than its lengths (up until they decide that 2 axles trains can be much closer to another trains).
There's a cottage industry of this in HN, where someone posts a blog complainings about BigCo destroying their small business, getting hundreds of upvotes and comments, and then it turns out, every time, that oops their software developement was outsourced to a developer who is a known serial spammer or scammer, and it's "not fair" because mom&pop can't know that they hired a criminal so BigCo shouldn't blame them.
User root, password calvin. That's the default. And, if I had a dime for every time I've seen one of these in a data center, I'd be a rich man. I have literally begged sys admins to change the default password, but they say, "Why... we're behind a firewall using RFC 1918 addresses. No one can get to these." The rest, as they say, is history.
You are looking at cancer deaths, which indeed have gone down from better treatments and better screening. This does not imply less incidence of cancer.
You just described most of the Midwest. That geographic structure is just the product of the large agricultural sector. But on many objective measures (home ownership rates, homelessness rates, poverty rates, median purchasing power, school quality, homicide rates), Iowa, Nebraska, Idaho, Minnesota, etc., significantly outperform California or New York.

Bleak is a relative term. I’d call it “bleak” if young people have to leave the place where they grew up just to be able to afford a house in a decent school district. Where people are tied together by little more than what industry they work in or maybe the fancy gym they go to.
> piece of mind

... said Bruce Dickinson!
Commingling is bad, but does commingling mean they can't trace it back to which seller sent it to them for FBA?

If they can, they can penalize that seller, not the other seller (who won the sale).

I'm assuming Amazon has a unique id for every individual item in their warehouses. I'm not sure this is the case, but it seems likely given how their warehouses are organized and the location of stuff is very mixed up and only known to computers. (It would also be sufficient if they have unique ids for lots. If one seller sends 10 identical perishable items and Amazon groups those on a shelf together, they can still trace it back to the right seller.)
Good point. Thanks for the patient explanation.

To partly redeem myself, I followed the links to the first two articles prefixed by "P". They were https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29725476 and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29268055

The first didn't have a conclusion and the results were just the measured RF power in an apartment.

The conclusion of the second is, "A total of 900-MHz EMF applied in middle and late adolescence may cause changes in the morphology and biochemistry of the rat ovarium.", which makes no sense. "A total of 900-MHz EMF" is gibberish. The complete text is not freely available.
I understand your point; but I don't think Blizzard actions would had been this strong on any other similar situation (Say, Blitzchung supporting the Catalonian separatists).

All evidence seems to indicate Blizzard acted this way because China.
> How much time needs to pass before the British aren’t blamed for the Middle East’s problems?

The Saudis (and other Middle Easterners) should own up to the issues challenging them, and work hard to overcome the colonialist past. That being said, colonialism continues to this day, just not in the outright visible way that happened previously. Just look at the West's interference in Middle Eastern politics.
I’m in the same boat as the person you replied to. In the past I’ve read arguments for and against anthropogenic climate change. Both were compelling to me when I read them. I’ve come to the conclusion that I just won’t understand the climate models enough to evaluate them on my own without spending months or years studying the topic. If my opinion on climate change ever matters, I will side with the vast majority of climate scientists, but I will always have my doubts.
They can go out of business tomorrow, you just need to stop buying their products. So telling Blizzard to go out of business is useless, you need to tell all the people buying Blizzard products to stop doing so.

Directing messages at these companies is like speaking English to a Senegalese kid who only speaks Wolof and maybe a bit of French. The kid is just not even gonna make out what you're talking about. You affect their quarterly results, that's when you're speaking the language these companies understand.
Granted.

But here's the engineering counterbalance: What is the utility of atrocity memories, for those who were subjected to them?

How does recounting an injustice help build a better future?

There are concrete steps: colonial injustice means there should be international financial renumeration.

There are emotional steps: reconciliation councils provide a place for telling, listening, acceptance, and forgiveness on all sides without violence.

There are... maybe policy steps: people were traumatized in this way, ergo this is the best way to incorporate that into where we want to go.

Past that, not so much.

I absolutely own my first world, non-minority entitlement here. But my point is that it's not productive to anyone (including those who suffered) to simply relive trauma. And that it's easy, especially on the internet, to get trapped in a narrative of retelling, expression of sympathy, and then nothing gets done.

Stories should be told to move people forward. And if they don't do that, then aren't they themselves tools of oppression?
I remember another study that looked at people who had made it very rich, and they saw that luck was something like 'being educated in a field just when that field is about to make a huge impact in the world' - in other words, great timing in addition to raw talent. I don't have the link to hand now though.
Well, this kind of RTFM bravado mindset is one of the reasons every compiler has garbage errors and why manpages are more hassle than just googling "how to unzip with tar" and why so many projects can't even be fucked to flesh out a README. ("Just read the tests!")

So, if that's what you want, you already have every other programming language to pick from. Let the rest of us have our fun. I've been programming for 20 years and appreciate Elm's errors every time.

Why should I need to do any more work than read a compiler error when I accidentally write "import Webgl" instead of "import WebGL"?
One thing to remember about ProcessPoolExecutor is that parameters and return values are pickled (serialized/deserialized) in order to communicate with other Python processes. Subinterpreters (PEP 554) aims to alleviate this.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0554/
If you really care to spend the time, here's how.

(1) read the research published by climate research

(2) ignore the press which tries to report the climate research, and bloggers, and youtube videos.

You might ask, why believe the climate researchers? I'll point out that even the climate change deniers who claim that climate researchers are in the pocket of Soros (or something equally crazy) have no problem taking climate research as fact if they think it supports their claims. Eg, they'll point out that there have been various earlier epochs of high CO2, or high temps or low temps, etc, all facts which are based on the work of the same climate researchers they disagree with.
They are forced to due to this landmark supreme court decision which landed in Google's favor. https://itlaw.wikia.org/wiki/GEICO_v._Google
Spain is trying to block github.com
What's wrong with babyfood that must be consumed within 2 months. (And note that it doesn't turn toxic after it's expiration date, shelf-life for canned goods is far longer than stamped date.)
> I have nothing better to do

I think I get your message... Wouldn't you consider finding something better to strive for a win for you? It all depends on what we do for living, there is a difference when working for a faceless corporation du jour and for example in an NGO saving lives / company properly building a better future (ie SpaceX). Unfortunately most of us including me fall into the first category of that corp.

I think I do have found this 'better' stuff for myself, in form of adventures, travel and slightly extreme sports. It brings sense of accomplishment that no software developed would, refills my batteries over weekend like nothing in the city can. But that's me (and my wife).

Life is so damn short. If you don't feel like it, just wait a bit more.
cancer incidence rising strongly correlates with our ability to detect as well as the push to look for it.

I also believe many of the cancers we successfully treat would be non issues if left alone. (all the young women who found lumps and become breast cancer survivors)
There's a huge opportunity to be curious about the changing climate. The HN community is naturally curious. I encourage everyone here to get curious about ice sheets, shelves, sea ice mentioned in this article.

Take the opportunity to read up on it!
> For example, intelligence, as measured by IQ tests, follows this pattern. Average IQ is 100, but nobody has an IQ of 1,000 or 10,000.

True, but can IQ be, say 210? If yes, then standard deviation cannot be applied here, right? Because for that you would need someone with opposite IQ, i.e. -10?

> The same is true of effort, as measured by hours worked. Some people work more hours than average and some work less, but nobody works a billion times more hours than anybody else.

Same here. If average work hours is 8 hours per day, and someone works 17 hours, then again, standard deviation cannot be applied? Am I right or making some error here?

Edit: thanks for clarifications on IQ, I got it, my bad for not doing a research. The question of working hours stands, however.
> Even Microsoft doesn't try to build on NTFS.

Citation needed. I haven't worked at Microsoft for a while but when I did we built on Windows using NTFS. When I found a correctness bug in NTFS last year I was told that it had been affecting Windows builds, which means they were using NTFS as recently as February 2018.

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/02/25/compiler-bug-li...

The biggest problem I usually encounter with building on Windows is slow process creation.
“One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.” seems appropriate here...
that is wrong. https://itlaw.wikia.org/wiki/GEICO_v._Google Google has been doing this since forever.
That's a spot on point about the various types of luck. The common derogatory saying about smart / rich (referenced in the title) reveals more about the person saying it, than it does the person that it is directed toward. It's the surface assessment equivalent of thinking someone is rich based on the car they drive (or watch they wear etc.). It's a shallow & easy appraisal that someone runs because they're either incapable of deeper analysis or are too lazy to bother. In my experience it tends to reveal that the speaker knows absolutely nothing about money or wealth.
It absolutely ignores government's censorship, though. I use NordVPN simply because I want to access resources that would be otherwise banned for me.
However, 2, 3 and 4 can be reduced to 1.

You don't choose your genes or where you are born. Those factors, which are blind luck, determine all of the other lucks for your whole life.

In the end, everything is just blind luck, but our egos want to feel like they are in control somehow.
I think that is pretty criminal already.

Basically:

1- Nord falsely blames its server provider.

2- Nord hides it from their users.

3- Nord claims all will be well with an “audit” (again, since they were already “audited”)

This is either criminal negligence, “security theater”, or both.
I'm being totally serious: The more I learn about riches & fame, the less I want them.

I'll be honest: I'm not quite to the point where if someone tried to thrust a million dollars into my hand, I'd say no. (That isn't even necessarily enough to take you out of "middle class" anymore as a one-off payment, honestly.) But I think I'd say no to 10 million and I'm fairly certain I'd say no to 100 million. Or really wish I had about a year later. (In "reality" I might try to do something where I take it but dump it into causes I approve of really quickly; for the sake of this argument I'm assuming that I'd have to actually step into that level of wealth permanently.)

That level of wealth forcibly inserts you into a class of games that I don't want to have to play.
You can see it as a sort of tax. For certain categories it certainly makes sense, like young women (that will likely get pregnant and take time off) because society absolutely needs people to have children. For people with various mental issues it is less clear that the burden should be put on each individual company. Perhaps better to have programs that help them find work that fits them?
There's a large contingent of people who don't want corporations at Pride. But there's also the reasonable view that 'woke for the money' corporations are still better than not woke corporations. It's challenging to work through what's best, especially when the employees of a business might hold stronger views than their employer.
The inverse square law totally applies in the case of phased array beamforming, you just have a much higher gain to start with.
It's the consequence of a design flaw on IP, because every information for consumption only of the final host should have been encrypted.

Nobody knew better at the time, but this time we know. Fortunately, it will end at HTTPS, and it's just a matter of optimizing it well enough (in HTTPS4, or 5, or how many it takes) to make it behave like an internet-level protocol and replace IP.
3D Printer Can Print Half a Yard in an Hour
I for one stopped playing any Blizzard games long ago and had not even heard about Blizzard for years expect during the "Do you guys not have phones?" fiasco and now this.

Memes about their incompetence seem to be the only way they get any publicity anymore.