skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having a bridge or wireguard interface and following suggestions in system logs is not really a complex corner case. At least I don't think so.

I like systemd and use it everywhere (I use Arch Linux / Arch Linux ARM mostly). I just don't think it needs to be painted all pink as "Just Works[tm]" software.
Samsung to Invest $11B in QD-OLED Panel Production
Doesn’t brooks say that adding manpower to an already late project makes the project later?
I had the same response from Google when my mom got hacked and she paid off hackers $6000 in Google Play cards. Why does Google allow people to be scammed via their gift cards when they could easily fix this by putting in basic checks? Crickets.

Its easy to say 'my mom should know better', but like most users in the world she is not technical. She grew up on a farm, how is she supposed to understand this stuff. It should be on these companies that make enormous profits to protect all users. This includes users who are not technical.
unless, of course, you skipped that critical networking event because you were at the gym. Unlucky.
A Powerful California Fault Line Is Moving for the First Time on Record
My (very limited) understanding is that tumours need glucose to survive and grow, so presumably a keto diet or fasting could potentially stop a tumour from growing.
Amazon is returning a 404 on this item for me, when this post is 6 hours old. Googling for the book and following amazon.com links gives similar 404 errors.
I've been going through the Signal Processing one[1] and I have found it valuable so far. Take that FWIW.

[1]: https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-dsp/
The thing that concerns me about millimeter wave tech and 5G is that it seems like a solution looking for a problem. My city just had a wave of poles dropped in a few neighborhoods, and they seem to me to be an expensive boondoggle. IMO, we would be better served by the heavy hand of the FCC allowing fiber providers to run telephone poles and trenches without any accountability (as the wireless carriers can with 5G).

These radio bands have been in military use for a long time. I’m surprised that no health studies have been done or released to the public.
A rose by any other name ...

Blizzard appeases the SJW when twitter makes a shitstorm not to lose money. Blizzard appeases China when Beijing makes a sting not to lose money. Both the SJW and CCP sincerely believe that history is on their side and they are the future. Both think of due process (as in some title IX cases) as an inconvenience. Both think that ideological conformity is paramount.

I think I can see a vague overlap between the two.
Can Pretrained Language Models Replace Knowledge Bases?
There's not much competition because of enormous lockin effects. Once a cloud provider is chosen, you're pretty wedded to it.

Inside your dev team, every institutional bit of knowledge about how AWS works, how to configure it, how to work around their mostly bad docs, and how to navigate their hot garbage UI.

Every line of code that touches an AWS api.

If you need data centers in certain regions for eg localization laws, AWS is afaik the only choice.
What about the data-mining and selling infrastructure of NordVPN, known as Tesonet? Are those intact? Also interesting to know how their legal departments are doing, such as the Panamanian shell and the Lithuanian headquarters.

http://vpnscam.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2018-08-24-09_...

http://vpnscam.com/hola-vpn-and-nordvpn-partners-in-data-min...

http://vpnscam.com/nordvpn-protonvpn-proton-mail-owned-by-te...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13221379-what-money-can-...
How to Make 300 Dollars a Day with Nothing but Pen and Paper
Ok, fair enough. I have enough other reasons to be against roundup without needing to cling to believing it's carcinogenic. Thanks!

For the record, the other reasons are to do with the larger ecological impact of roundup-based practices, such as harm to soil fungi and bacteria, and collateral damage from runoff or wind. Plus, there were some studies finding it may cause harm to intestinal lining and such, even if it's not actually a carcinogen.
if that were the case, all hotels would have evolved to be capsule hotels. certainly hoteliers know their business better than that, and don't simply maximize for space. a hotel's biggest challenge (after financing) is occupancy, which is a 4P's marketing problem[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_mix
San Francisco’s Busiest Street Is Going Car-Free
And the Asian immigrants. People from south of the border are bringing the average down hard.
> The results are something of an eye-opener. Their simulations accurately reproduce the wealth distribution in the real world... They then repeat the simulation many times to check the robustness of the outcome.

I'm not familiar with the process and rigor that goes into a study like this, but it seems to me that for experiments like this it would be hard to prevent researchers from adjusting parameters until they get the answer they are looking for (which multiple runs doesn't really address).
That's a heck of a bubble then! Usually the choice isn't the bottleneck for mere mortals like the people I went to undergrad with.
So these would be targets if someone wanted to physically take down the internet?
Something bothers me when they talk about fear of change. Some changes are consensual, some are mostly agreed upon organically and then you have cases like systemd who fueled lengthy debates. I don't like to ignore this as "fear of change".
The title isn't bad: "ignoring" implies they were never on AWS and just went their own way.
Should that absolve them of writing deceptive articles that feed in to a type of paranoia that is fairly harmful to society[0]?

[0]: Not that the anti-wireless people are particularly influential right now, but they're fairly close to antivacciene people in how they perceive the world with an almost complete absence of rational thought.
>either do whatever Torbrowser does or use the most popular iPhone.

Using a iPhone does not preclude you from being blindsided, as illustrated by a NordVPN bug, which was exposed a couple of weeks ago.

Here's how it works:

The user first connects to 1.1.1.1 with Warp, then disables the app without turning off Warp. Then, when connecting to a NordVPN server with ikev2 protocol, the iOS device will report as being connected to NordVPN and secured, without actually being connected. In other words, you're connected and protected, but you're not.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/05/security_roundup_oc...
I want to access them on my iPhone 6. iA Writer is my favorite app and it supports Dropbox in addition to iCloud.
I see this idea being proposed in an early design meeting. Then I see a product manager seriously consider it and then veto it. Why? Because their product's goal is to be the easiest to use camera system, and this makes using it much harder.

But let's say the PM and the rest of management was convinced. So they make it require pairing and send it out for field testing. Field tests come back: "it's really annoying that I have to pair all of my phones individually with each camera." Management tells engineering to fix that.

But let's say that the engineers once again convince management that this is a good idea. The product is launched. The review from CNET or Wirecutter or something comes back: "it's crazy in this day in age that I need to get a ladder and go around to all of my cameras to introduce them all to my new phones every time I do my yearly iPhone upgrade." CEO now has a crisis and demands this be fixed. Engineer pushes back again and is probably fired this time. Feature is removed.

A few years later, this article comes out and it causes much, much less damage to the brand than the bad usability reviews. Everyone learns the wrong lesson.
Sounds perfectly sensible to me. If I'm setting up security cameras in my own home then requiring physical interaction with the device to pair sounds like a great idea
I am impressed. Whenever I try to build a tree of thoughts, I run into the problem that I want things to fall under multiple categories. I might start by classifying them according to subject area (as you have done), but then I might want a collection of those notes to also fall under "could help with project X" or "would be of interest to person Y" or "can be learned from reference Z" or any number of things.
This was an extremely good friend of the family whom I called "tante" (German for aunt) from the age of seven, though she wasn't related to me.

You could more charitably think of it as a compliment and an attempt at awkward social critique of how life works. An attempt to ask someone whose intelligence she admired to try to explain why life doesn't work like she thought it was supposed to.
I would expect it being even simpler, once you are paired to the network of connected devices you are connected to any future devices added to the same.

next time your app connects it simply indicates a new device has been added and asks if you accept it.
DDG is more neutral in political themes. You usually see some results that you wouldn't see on the first page on google.
Google still has a slight advantage when searching for technical info, but most of times DDG is good enough for them too.
Blaming the user alone is crazy.

If I login to my gmail account using a different PC, google won't let me in without sending a text to my phone or a code to my email. Sometimes, even using a different browser on the same PC I typically use triggers this security check. Even after letting me in, Gmail will send a notice of the strange login to my backup email - the mail will contain the time and ip of the event.

Same with telegram. Loging to a new app/device and Telegram will sends the notification to the two apps I use on my main PC, my secondary pc, and my phones. Deleting the notification on one client app won't remove it from the rest. This way, an intruder can't erase the evidence.

Also, almost almost every other email service I own badgers me to set up 2factor - either another email, a phone, back up codes or 2-factor authenticator apps.

If Google/Nest isn't doing this - then, part of the blame lies with them. These basic, obvious, common sense security/password practices you know is breaking news to "NORMAL" people.
A big problem is that software organization success largely depends on "soft sciences" like psychology and physiology. Science may find ways to make faster machines, but being that the actual bottlenecks are the cost of humans reading code and designs and managing changes to systems, the human grokkability factor is usually the largest.

Software should be written mostly with humans (code readers) in mind, and not machines. The soft sciences are much harder to study; it's expensive to use trial and error on real projects in order to compare outcomes. Equations on a blackboard or chips in a lab are probably not where most real IT revelations will come from.

There are pet theories that focus on overly-narrow factors. For example, those who focus on linguistic parsonomy (less code) may conclude that functional programming is "better" because it usually can be made the most compact. However, a good many coders have a hard time working well with functional programming. Some take a Darwinian view and say "fire them all and hire elite functional coders". But so far that has rarely paid off in the market-place, barring a few grow-fast-at-all-costs startups. Short code is not always legible code to the majority of coders.
Good thing people are doing both. I am pretty sure Blizzard saw the myriad of messages attached to account deletions.
> if sea level rise is accelerating somewhere on the planet, it should be accelerating everywhere.

If you mean "accelerating upwards" then it is completely wrong. Sea level gets lower near large icebergs (e.g. the arctic). As the ice from the pole melts, the gravitational pull of the ice mass decreases and water is displaced to areas further from the pole.

As for your Sweden comment, I don't see how it is relevant. Please explain
> A single non elected ruler is going to make decisions on whim not process.

power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely
Like I said, I disagree with this. I suspect this is either because you're very experienced with Python and relatively inexperienced with Go, or perhaps you're simply an outlier. I think if you surveyed developers who are very experienced with Python and have at least a few months of experience with Go, you'll find people say that it's easier to identify issues in Go code--and I think this largely comes down to the role the boilerplate has in visually "framing" or "structuring" (i.e., providing "shape" to) the code.

Have a look at Haskell which goes to great lengths to eliminate boilerplate and I think you'll experience the opposite--Haskell becomes very difficult to read precisely because the code is so dense. Similarly, take the indentation, newlines, etc out of a JavaScript file or JSON blob (minify it, more or less) and see if it's more or less readable as a result. I think you'll find that visual structure is actually important.
I love this. Here is a tree modeling tool created by someone who really loves trees. There's no other way to describe it.

Anyone else would have been happy to stop at "good enough" trees, but here the attention to detail with light, gravity, wind, and relentless comparison to nature creates a result that it beautiful and "right" on a subtle level that's hard to describe. I feel happier knowing that people like this creator exist in the world. We should all aspire to such dedication in our craft!
> Wealth and privilege buy you (and your children) a lot of safety nets and a lot of second chances. People without those advantages are often in an incredibly precarious situation, just one tough break or one bad decision away from total ruin.

People without those advantages have to build them. That is what smart people do. That is what I (a poor black kid) did with an old used computer that my father left behind after leaving my mother alone with 3 kids to raise. That is what I tell the young-lings from my poor neighborhood (that I don't live anymore so to not be hold by past circumstances). They get much more motivated by that than by reading that they are going to be stuck there forever because circumstances. Most of them will.
Doh; and here I completely misunderstood the underlying message... thx for setting me straight! :-)
Or maybe it's CBP business. If a foreign regime is turning the trade taps on and off to impose their values, then the counter to that is to turn those taps off yourself and sever that influence.
We have United Nations to handle the issues like this, and from their point of view you are wrong.
How is this not the top comment?

Nobody should be using a VPN provider, full-stop. It is structurally impossible for anyone to verify their claims, they have more incentive to lie than your ISP does, and they're cheap and easy to set up, so the industry is a cesspool.

You should assume that all of them are behaving badly.
> military action against China

What rational scenario would involve taking direct military action against a nuclear armed superpower?
I'm always seeking to understand new/different ways of making smallish amounts of money in uncomplicated ways... The more uncomplicated, the better... This video gets somewhat close to that ideal, but I'm sure there are even better ways.

Perhaps that should be an Ask HN discussion, "What are some of the least complicated ways to make smallish amounts of money?".

Anyway, comments welcome.
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You make is sound like they are struggling. Some of those dudes are rich. I wouldn't worry about them. And they have enough fans they could stream other games and still be okay.
> It’s an HK company with questionable relationships and owners.

That seems to be ExpressVPN[1], the main competitor of NordVPN.

[1] https://vpnscam.com/expressvpn-really-based-in-hong-kong/
What Is Net Promoter Score?
This speaks so well to my thoughts. Thank you for saying it better than I could!
Operating at a minimum? How do you come to that conclusion? From a pure cost of infrastructure perspective (ignoring all the human elements), the cloud is always more expensive than any other option. It’s got some of the most ridiculous margins and price gouging of any business out there.

I think the opposite will happen. Cloud providers are becoming commoditized. Kubernetes, blah blah. Developers hate lock-in, and on a long time scale, developers drive tech decisions. Nowadays new software is cloud agnostic, and it will continue to be that way. This is commoditization, which generally drives down prices.

That said, buying commodities from a market with four participants is more like buying from a cartel than a marketplace. I definitely worry about the consolidation of the world’s IT spending going into the coffers of three or four massively profitable and morally corrupt corporations.
Web service for 3D visualization of C code
All respect to the author of that talk.. but "just get over it" and "embrace change" is not compelling to those who have very searing issues with systemd.

I do not consider this to be a good talk because it paints dissenters as "not embracing change" because.. they are stupid?

It also makes the argument that the only thing that exists outside of systemd is sysvinit.

He also seeks to make Lennart a martyr because of death threats. (which, btw, seriously it shouldn't even be said that that is unacceptable, some people are fucked up).

Oh, and systemd definitely didn't invent cgroups, an engineer at google did and they don't even use systemd to run GCP compute hypervisors.

Benno so thoroughly misrepresents those that have issues with systemd that I can't help but feel it was intentional.
But that article mentions that lemons can only be stored a limited amount of time, thus requiring restocking during long voyages. However the infrastructure for that wasnt there yet, only those 200 years later it is mentioned that "Spain's large empire and many ports of call made it easier to acquire fresh fruit" and enabling the first long distance expedition without scurvy.

Still looks partially like a cost/benefit thing (even though there were indeed many doctors not believing lemons were the cure and instead prescribing "fizzy drinks" with sulpheric acid).
>At the same time, everybody seems to accept that the chance of getting cancer in your lifetime has risen to about one in three for men and one in five for women. And nobody knows why.

There is a clear and well known pair of reasons for this. First people are living longer and the longer you live the more prone to cancer you are. People who died of small pox did not die of cancer.

Second, more controversially, atmospheric bomb testing in the 50's and 60's.
> Health issues are another thing.

If I’m remembering your previous posts correctly, you’re quite aware that mental health is absolutely a part of this. It’s a very big part for some people.

I’ve never felt that I’ve lack “smart”. What I lack is passion, willpower, and consistency. From where I sit, I expect that I’d be much better off both financially and emotionally if my situation were reversed.
> As an illustration, people have used obviously bogus examples like, in the past 100 years, piracy has risen. So has global warming. Therefore, pirates cause global warming.

Actually you got that wrong. This was related to real piracy (i.e. people with eye patches on ships robbing other ships) which went down, not software piracy. So the decline of pirates is related to global warming.

(The example came from Bobby Henderson, the founder of the flying spaghetti monster.)
You’re also neglecting TTM as a consideration. As an example, I’m stuck having to wait 6 weeks to get new hardware provisioned into an available slot in one of my data centers to spin up a new Hadoop cluster, something my team could probably do in a couple of hours in the cloud.

That being said, we control the HW and SW stacks end to end so I don’t have to worry as much about the nightmare scenarios the NordVPN folks went public about today. Critical given we’re in fintech ...
Sometimes it is (unfortunately) necessary to do the computer simulation in order to get people to read/value the article.
This is correct. I mean that having a certain level of wealth throws you into a world where everyone wants a piece of you, friendships become very difficult because are they friends or are they just after some money? Probably the latter. It basically takes you out of the normal run of human affairs into a very isolated environment. It solves a lot of problems that, frankly, I can solve well enough now, in return for handing you a whole lot of problems that are basically unsolvable. And there are other levels that become very easy to accidentally blunder into, like blackmail, and you become the target of some fairly sophisticated actors, possibly even including state actors, looking to influence you, or drain your accounts.

Rich people tend not to talk about it as much from what I've seen, but you can, if you look a bit, find a number of accounts of people who got very famous talking about this, especially if they later fell from grace.

When I was younger, I kinda thought this was sour grapes or rich/famous people trying to feel bad for themselves, but the consistency of the stories, plus my increasing understanding of human nature and group dynamics as I get older and gather more data and think more about the data leads me to believe this is the expected outcome rather than some exceptional surprise. I also thought, eh, that's no big deal, those are the soft problems and money solves the hard problems, but now I rather significantly feel the other way around. (There is a class of money problems that is hard, especially in the medical area, but they are not all that hard.)

I'm sure there's some people who pull it off, but I'm not sure I'd be one of them.

(As a bonus observation, when you are born into and grow up in this environment, I think it produces certain characteristic pathologies that go a long ways towards explaining why elites act so consistently in certain ways throughout history. Same environment -> same result. It is not good to have leadership populated by people who have never really deeply connected with another human being, yet, the very act of being in leadership inhibits those connections, and being born into it effectively destroys them entirely.)
Not "Russel", "Russel and Norvig".
The friction from various IT departments are often beneficial. I’m probably speaking from a point of bias as I’m one of those departments, but we often have to sanity check the implementation of things and review the security implications.

I’ve encountered quite a few devs whose only focus is on achieving the specified goal without considering the full security scope. I don’t blame them, that’s what they are there for. Stepping in for ensuring the customer security and regulation requirements is what I’m here for.
Weird, URL is https://www.amazon.com/dp/1695978552 which loads for me.
The question is, are you the majority or the vocal minority?

The former works, the latter will sound extremely convincing (because you see the comments as being entirely one sided in favor of boycott) and achieve nothing.

Let's wait and see.
IDK man, I only have so many hours in a day. Saying "why weren't you actively engaged in this cause yesterday" isn't really saying much. Some people were pissed with Blizzard before this for <reasons> and this is just the final straw. Other people just found out. Some change is dramatic and immediate, other times it's the slow drip of water cuts the stone.

Most people don't spend their time researching every action and behavior every company has performed ever.

If your point is just that everyone everywhere is terrible and hypocritical, I mean I don't feel like nuking the world or killing myself so I guess I'm just going to try my best to be a good person and do good things?
Interesting, it opened the Amazon page for me without issue...