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Ask HN: Best practices blocking an estranged son from accessing illicit material
Background, I have an 18 year old old stepson that has been estranged for 2 years. A few months ago, he came back into our lives. He's in college, but on winter break. Tonight, he was visiting his grandparents and left hos computer in my (and wife)'s home unlocked with, well, questionable porn on his desktop. It was anime, but definitely depictions of minors. Without scouring his computer, it does leave me as concerned.

I have no control over his computer (he's an 18 ur old emancipated minor, but back livong at home).

I do have control over the network to the outside world. I've been thinking a Pi Hole to sink his perversions into oblivion, but this will obviosly be a reactionary.

I thought about backdooring his PC, but it's Win10 home, so doesn't support remote access without tools I dont want to get into (was hoping Pro and enabling RDP, but, no).

I can easily change the Wi-Fi password, but my wife insists I dont as she doesnt want to alert her son that we know.

We dont care as such if he has normal porn proclivities, but given his mental history and actions, we want to be able to block him from illegal activities, especially on our network.

Any suggestions?
The rent thing is a bad argument against UBI, because you can make the same argument about any program that benefits the poor - even if all the UBI money goes back into rent, UBI would equalise housing spend along the way, from rich to poor and from worker to non-worker, vastly reducing poverty.

Even for people not in poverty it would help even out their income over their life cycle - more money when they have kids, find themselves temporarily unemployed, or in retirement.

Certainly land rents are totally unjust and a huge problem, and land value tax/public housing/public land ownership would be great, but the case for UBI is compelling even without any of that.
Sure, if the smaller triangles are allowed to overlap.
Interesting. So is Japan even more wasteful when their whole society uses so much human and material resources classifying their rubbish?
Do you think your opinion will change at all as time goes by and you’re left with a large debt to pay off, and a degree that you know will likely not have any impact on your earning potential? It’s great that you’re satisfying your intellectual needs. But a lot of people in your exact position eventually end up wanting other people to foot the bill.
As someone "fully fluent" in both, for many workflows that can be properly implemented in SAS, you would expect on a technical level the SAS program could be faster. It's a fully compiled language, it's a "simple" compilation model (compared to R), and the interaction between incremental compilation and the macro system allows you to do some really good blurring between run-time and compilation when performance matters. Plus, by abusing the fact you can define both sql and data step views to further minimise disk read/write, database pass through on certain procedures, and allowimg for in-memory operations (like R) with the sasfile command, from a purely technical point of view, an experienced user of both should be able to beat R in SAS.

But... and here's the big but...I almost never actually meet anyone capable of putting all these steps together in SAS these days that actually understands the SAS computation model end to end.

And SAS's strength, a computation model not being limited by memory by default, becomes a performance weakness when everyone reads/writes every step out to disk and programs without understanding all those little intricacies. SAS hasn't helped any of this by trying to move its eco system away from "programmer" to "application users", so now "programmers" can pick up an interpreted language like R with in-memory default vectorised operations and beat SAS.

Course, I'd still recommend places move to python/R these days because of the broader ecosystems, university talent pool, and avoiding the extensive lock in of proprietary software, but I still feel I have to reflexively respond to "R faster than SAS" claims :p
On a tangent: Why hasn't Tata (India) tried to enter the American markets? They're a huge shop (they've got a ton of engineering branches just like GE or LG), and I realize a lot of their car production is tied up domestically or to Africa where their industrial their vehicles are big, but surely they've have to had considered selling cars in Europe/the US? They have a US engineering/consulting presence already and even do large scale government contracts (although they require US citizens for those .. which is .. a weird hybrid when you think about it), but we don't see any of their cars in the US.
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I think you are taking an excellent route, but don't think you can't have both: a philosophy degree (spectacular!) and a decent living.

Analytic philosophy is very STEMish. Majoring in the logically rigorous courses sets you up for many monied disciplines (besides programming). Even better if you can minor in something like coding, accounting, or even a trade.

Doing ROTC can get you a scholarship, guaranteed job out of college, many opportunities beyond, and serving in the military is in itself a worthwhile endeavor.
Do you know what qualifies as ‘active’?
I really don't understand what you're talking about. The OP is saying that you wouldn't need to care about retirement at all if you invest instead of going to college, and if you can teach yourself a valuable skill like programming, you could likely get most of the benefits of going to college.

The question is, will a degree give you a better return than putting the money in the market? Maybe a degree would get you a better job, but you get a later start.

Students just aren't taught to figure this sort of stuff out before going to college and getting into debt. College just isn't the right fit for many people and it often just puts them behind.
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From the thread in that tweet:

"To add insult to injury, there are complaints on Sonos' support forums from people who've managed to accidentally put their devices into recycling mode, and been told by Sonos support that there's no way to stop the countdown, forcing them to buy new devices after 21 days."

and

"From what our eBay guy can tell, the bricking isn't even in hardware; you can't recover it if you're good with JTAG, because it's blacklisted as "recycled" on their servers. There's nothing stopping these things from working except Sonos says they can't."

Madness.
Not sure if this answers your question but you can send pears to other using their email. Recipients will receive your purchased “idea of a pear” as an emoji.
This submission might as well be a 'bump' for the discussion thread referenced in it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21868022
Yeah it's not great!

There's fairly decent financial aid available to cover your living costs if you're from a low income family, but that cuts off pretty quickly, and unlike the US, there isn't really a culture of paying for your children's education, so there's a lot of kids (like me) who grew up upper-middle class but didn't get much help through university.

Overall, I'd equate the USD = NZD as realtively equivalent, even though there is a currency difference. The average American is graduating into a job paying $51k USD, whereas NZ grads are often starting at $50-55k NZD.

[1] https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/compensatio...
Pride I'd guess. Or possibly coming from a background where they don't realize that skilled labor is an option. Many people seem to think that doing physical labor is "below" them. Nevermind the fact that being a barista / waiting tables / etc. is no walk in the park either.
What about non-violent protests?

Seems like they often exist to expose systemic violence that is underappreciated, undocumented, forgotten, etc. That is, show what the violent are really willing to do to get them to alienate themselves.
Calling to criminalize anything you even mildly oppose is reckless at best. You think if you noticed that two pizza places shared a kitchen, you’d feel the correct response was calling the cops?
Tata owns Jaguar Land Rover so they're already in the US and Europe.
I doubt it.

Jailing Trump would be counterproductive. Taking such an extreme step would be destabilizing and make it more difficult to bury the whole affair of the Trump presidency. Would you really want a slow drip of Wikileaks about how compromised a US President was going public?

If I were a victorious president-elect, I would offer to pardon him with the condition that he STFU, and appoint a special counsel to investigate his crooked family if he failed to remain silent, or some kid decided to run for Congress.

With that kind of figure, it’s better to have him sell out and take away the mystique than to get a conviction and make him a martyr. The more you directly persecute him, the longer you’ll have people wearing Trump hats, etc.
Hiring a product team is expensive What if we can productize their commitment
Imagine Subscribing for a service schedule, instead of hiring a product tea.

Discuss
It was around 6:45pm pacific time when I called my 15 year old son to look at the star flickering he said you trippin! Mine I tell you I just finished smoking a dubbie lol I was not tripping tho went inside to check on dinner when I came back out boom just like that gone never to be seen again!!! I kissed it fuck how!!!!
Sounds about right.

When I was living in France, I had a house cleaner coming every other week.

(IIRC half of what you pay your house cleaner can be deduced from your taxes, making this service relatively cheap)

Their first task was always to iron my shirts ... a chore I was very happy to do not have to do anymore.

I don't mind at all washing them myself but ironing feels like it takes way too much time.
Very good call-out. Trust is inherent here. Amazon would call it earns trust and ownership. The role there is Principal Engineer (or really senior sde3).
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Wait what, excuse me?

I don't mean to insult you or anything but how did you came up with that idea?
I also find the analysis strange because it depends heavily on whether you're profit focused.

If you are, then the average outcome probably doesn't matter to you, because you're going to select for profitability in your degree choice, you're going to move around for work, continuously study and train in adult life, and generally you're gonna be fine financially (if perhaps not emotionally, oho).

If you're not profit focused - if you're doing the degree primarily and substantially because you love X and want to do X - then what do you care if it doesn't pay back? You got to be an X! The question is almost irrelevant.

I think a lot of analysis suffers from this averaging effect whereby actually that average person doesn't exist.

There is no realistic path that would have lead to me making the average income for my cohort, for example, because I'm just not that sort of person - I'd rather just go relatively all out, or else work for a non-profit or scrappy startup or whatever, so I either bin high or low.
While power signatures are repeatable on a single-chip basis, from chip-to-chip the variation in individual transistor performance will require a tolerance to be applied on the threshold criteria for determining if a given power signature is correct or not across a population of chips. Furthermore, power consumption is also dependent upon temperature and voltage so that will need to be carefully controlled for the measurement. The wider the tolerance on the power measurement, the larger the implant that can be buried.

Unfortunately transistor performance can vary quite widely for a single design; recall that a single CPU mask design is often sold in several speed grades. These aren't different designs, they are all the exact same design but then tested to pass at a given frequency and power profile.

My intuition is that a simple implant would probably escape power characterization, and larger implants can be left off until a trigger condition is met. That condition could be made so that fuzzing is highly unlikely to hit it, e.g. a particular 64-bit number pattern has to appear in a given register to power on the implant.

The technique may be suitable to detect gross anomalous execution in a single well-characterized chip but I feel any robust criteria against false positives would also leave a sufficiently large margin for small implants to slip through undetected.
>Otherwise they could have just liquidated the Bitcoin to legal tender before donating thereby relieving the recipient institutions of the challenges associated with it.

Pine's money is likely in a not-fully-legal status. That's why Pine needs to donate bitcoin, and needs to donate it anonymously, and doesn't care about receipts from the charities. If the money is not-fully-legal, it's going to be hard to convert it to dollars.
Arundhati Roy has always been a powerful voice for humanity, diversity, and freedom and this Nation article is no exception. Worth reading and contemplating what is happening, right now, in the second most populated country in the world.

"...a shadow world is creeping up on us in broad daylight. It is becoming more and more difficult to communicate the scale of the crisis even to ourselves."
I think UBI is a step too far. What we really need (in my opinion, obviously) is dramatic restructuring of the healthcare system. There is absolutely no reason that the single largest expense in my life should be insuring against the possibility that my family catches some terrible illness.
I think it relevant to mention Lippmann's statement on Congressional investigations:

"So bad is the contact of legislators with necessary facts that they are forced to rely either on private tips or on that legalized atrocity, the Congressional investigation, where Congressmen, starved of their legitimate food for thought, go on a wild and feverish man-hunt, and do not stop at cannibalism. "

p. 6,
PUBLIC OPINION (1921)
by Walter Lippmann

http://wps.pearsoncustom.com/wps/media/objects/2429/2487430/...
Yeah fair points. I was sick of studying by the time I graduated - I enjoyed my experience at University, but I wanted to get into the private sector (probably worth mentioning that I studied business at the undergrad level, so I think a lot of that 'postgrad research' in marketing for example is suspect at best).
House-wife tank is so much better.
What does solving system id mean?
If your WASM code doesn't change (isn't being downloaded at runtime from the Internet), then you could ahead-of-time compile it to native machine code (ARM/ARM64) and link it into your app.

It doesn't look like anyone's tried to do it for iOS but InNative has a compiler for Windows/Linux.
Thanks for asking. I made this after making the tweet: https://twitter.com/elliottsphone/status/1205912688779501571... recently. I thought it would be interesting to make it a reality and learn how to use the stripe / sendgrid api.
> The way a restaurant handles food is far more likely to make you sick than the ingredients being defective from the supplier

This statement needs support.
Check out Rick Beato on YouTube. He has several videos dedicated to music theory.
Actually illegal. Practically impossible to prove!

Great job wall street! Thanks for all your valuable contributions to humanity.
That is only true if student loan payments are for a lifetime, but mine were only ten year loans if I paid the bare minimum. You're also ignoring her future pay, salary increases are cumulative.
Good luck convincing old school management on this. They measure productivity by how long they see you at your desk. It's sad.
You're not really going to get away from large binary files in game development. They need to be version controlled somehow. Adding more layers of indirection for how that actually happens is just kicking merge vs file locking can down the road.
I didn't say I mildly oppose it, I explicitly said I strongly oppose it.

> "You think if you noticed that two pizza places shared a kitchen, you’d feel the correct response was calling the cops?"

If such a law were passed, I would feel correct in calling the relevant authorities. Such a law does not currently exist, so calling the police would obviously be pointless.
I found it to be very intellectually satisfying and creative! But there were parts to the job which were also very boring, including cleaning data. Cleaning data took up probably about as much time as all the fun analysis and exploration.
This is great. I love the concept. There is just enough UI to play. The 'cat-ducks' makes it fun.

If I could add something, I would make getting an answer right a little more rewarding. A correct answer graphic, or a correct answer counter.

I realize this is probably a proof of concept for a minimum viable game and standard game mechanics did not make the cut.

I will test it out on my 3 year old tomorrow.
Harvard (and similar schools) give very generous aid, not to mention that one can easily transition to consulting or similar no matter their major if they came from Harvard. The considerations for Ivy+ schools are not the same as the considerations that are being discussed in this article/thread. The people that are actually ending up screwed with debt went to mid tier (or worse) private schools for the most part, or possibly mediocre out of state public options.
Oh good idea. Let me know if you come across any good recipes. All I know is sliced pears.
Which, to be clear, is nothing to sneeze at in large parts of the country.
Unicorns
Hiiiii
Do you have any recommended material to study this topic?
"Pollution" is not a synonym for NOx and SOx. Unless you are taking a holistic view of pollution, you shouldn't be making such broad claims about "pollution".

Cars are a bigger contributor to climate change than ships and in most geographical areas where people live, they are a bigger contributor to poor air quality than ships.
> peak audio

Nah, there are plenty of other things, like positional audio. I remember (through a pleasant haze of nostalgia) my old A3D-based sound card in the 90s as being even better than modern EAX stuff.

Potential improvement in that area can be both through simply adding speakers, and through tuning per-speaker output to forge better audio-cues. (To wit, Head Related Transfer Functions applied to headphones, possibly even with custom parameters for different peoples' heads.)
When I was a kid, this game was an incredibly effective teaching tool! What it taught me was that I was a dumb dumb dummy dumb-head who would never be able to comprehend how electronics worked.

Not sure that was the lesson its developers were aiming for. But if so, job well done :-D
I use them everyday.
Thank you for question! And no, I don't think so. I think the important thing here to note is that studying philosophy―particularly phenomenology, existentialism, and theology―feels all-encompassing true and real compared to that of anything else, at least for me personally, at the moment. And anyways, as I noted on another comment on this thread: I don't mind what happens. I don't mind working a blue collar job to repay my loans or in order to make a living. Even despite stemming from a first-gen, low-income household and sometimes having this strong, finger-aching yearning to take care of my parents financially, I don't mind what happens because things, I hold, work out in their own imperfect perfection. Again, as naive as this all may sound.
These should absolutely be the defaults; I can't think of a single reason why an EC2 instance's IAM role credentials should be used outside of that instance other than perhaps troubleshooting.

To me, IAM is one of the most difficult AWS services to design securely. Every service has 20-50 sub-permissions (so developers simply default to using wildcards instead of carefully tuning each policy), there are 4+ different systems that combine to create each policy (a trust relationship, the permission body, optional conditions, plus managed policies and group policies), IAM roles can now have permission "boundaries" that further complicate their access rights, roles can be assumed by services (EC2, Lambda, etc.) and yet the credentials obtained as part of that role assumption can be used outside of those services (as demonstrated in the Capital One incident), and some services (e.g. S3, ECR) have additional permission policies at the resource level that interact with IAM policies in a two-way trust of sorts.

The entire thing is woefully complicated and it shows when AWS is in the news nearly every week because someone misconfigured yet another service.
When I bought my house 20 years ago, it cost me about 20% more than rent, and now about 30% less than market rents.

In ten years, I’ll own it free and clear, a feat that would have been impossible if I was just flushing money down the toilet in rent.

Ditto with national debt. If I borrow a billion dollars and provide health care, education or defend the state, what value am I allowing to be created?
I think That was actually an example of the benefits one can gain by being around people who are smarter and better educated than you are. That book would not have been intelligible without my smarter and better educated co author.

I mean, I do think I am rather a lot smarter than average, but everything is relative, and I believe I have accomplished so much more because I seek out situations where I am surrounded by people I think are better than I am on those scales.
The museum is actually run by a mime (who did have formal training)!
> because someone's breathing down your neck to get that animation done and won't take "well I'm waiting for Bob to finish recoloring first" as an answer

As it happens, that's exactly the answer you're supposed to give. It's not like game devs have any shortage of things to work on at any particular time.

> All of those cases would've been avoided had we used a version control system that used branches and merges instead of locks and unlocks.

I don't think you're thinking this through all the way. If I have 5 different branches where textureA.png got modified, which one is the right one to end up with after everything is merged? Who is going to have to re-do work? Branches do not solve that problem, and without out of band communication, that problem is made significantly worse than if those changes were done in sequence (which is what file locking enforces).
If they really want to encourage reuse of their devices, why would they incentivize the users to turn their devices into unusable trash by giving them credits for doing that?

> but I also think that's where good recycling programs matter.

However good your recycling program is, it is still going to be _strictly more_ wasteful than simply reusing the device.
Dev setup on OS X: QEMU with shared storage via samba
That would be Lenny: https://shaun.net/notes/introducing-lenny/
Where do they get that 100K to invest from? Most people won't have rich parents to give them the 100K to invest. This means you have to get a job and save up. With college, you have student loans.

For most people, if you go to college, you can get to 2M a lot faster than you can by investing 100K and waiting around for 40+ years.
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Zorlu Enerji (It's a well known Turkish energy company as well as part of the TOGG) already invested 4.5 billion USD to build up a battery factory together with Chinese GSR Capital.

BTW, It is not new, it was some years ago IIRC.
Honestly, sounds like you need a better wireless router or need to add a (few) repeater(s).