skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely locking down a physical device and making it unhackable is downright impossible. If the attacker has physical access to the device and the ability to regulate network access, then it's only a matter of time before the device gets hacked.

Right now they are using USB to gain access to the device. There is nothing stopping an attacker from actually prying open the device and fitting alternative components that can bypass security. Consoles are cited as an example of an unhackable device, which is not true. Consoles were designed to be unhackable by cheap mass-market methods but a determined hacker can still do it, just that he will have to spend more to do it than the cost of a new console. The hacker in this scenario is FBI with a lot of money and resources with the physical device in their custody. I doubt if FBI is going to lose the ability to hack devices anytime soon.
The main reason I wouldn't retire early on a very minimal income is that I think there might be expensive anti-aging treatments on the horizon in the coming 40 years. I would like to be situated to take advantage of those.
Love that :)
Why is that valuable ? Would you pay double to deplane 5 minutes sooner ?
I think the point of their comment is that they had exposure to Science, which is almost as important as being a good scientist, because it alters how you think.
I don't see a reasonable definition by which the Apple app store is not open to anyone to publish in.
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Adaptive IIR would be more interesting, as automatically controlling and designing those filters in a stable way is rather hard. And they're both differentiable and power efficient.
Especially anything that is not a biquad series, and because they have recursion related computational noise, which the ANN should be able to optimize out.
A fairly large number of managers have been laid off too.
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Isn’t it like cutting off the nose to spite the face?
I think you've misunderstood my comment. LDAP gives you an extremely well supported back end from which to easily extend to virtually any form of authZ, including oauth.
This is a paper largely about academic influences. Given the 1943 BRUSA Agreement [1] during the war, I wonder how much transfer of practical knowledge there was, eg about Tommy Flowers' Colossus machines at Bletchley Park, which were undoubtedly 'universal', and 10 of which were built with increasing sophistication by 1945.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943_BRUSA_Agreement
Titan has a darn thick atmosphere, and it's a moon of Saturn. I don't see any reason the planet from the article couldn't have an atmosphere.
It is extremely unrealistic within the next few decades.
Apple's updates often improve performance, and very rarely degrade it.
Lots of iPhone decryption kits, specifically kits which reset the time or limit on unlocks worked and do work by unsoldering chips and processing them externally.
I have a personal theory that Really Bad Things (TM) usually tend to happen during the response to other, relatively minor, problems.

So whatever is done cannot risk the running process. So personally I'd be loathed to try anything that touches the running process - even if they seem low risk.

Edit: One thing I would do is make it clear that building a replacement and keeping this thing running are different responsibilities and if you are doing the former then you really shouldn't be held responsible for the latter (politics I know).
I got a prototype of the Lulzbot mini, which I used to print it (and I still have that printer!).

I designed it in a ruby thing that translates things into openscad (crystalscad was the name, but I deprecated it for multiple reasons. There's jenncad in my github repository as its successor, but I didn't have the chance to get it anywhere to stable)

Other software I used were printrun and slic3r.
I can't believe how popular that channel is. 3.2 million subscribers...for ant videos!
Doesn't Hofstadter have a rap about ant colony consciousness?
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> However, being on stimulants is very exhaustive for your body, and it temporarily stops the racing thoughts many people struggle with, even some time after taking it.

Exhaustion is not the mechanism by which stimulants calm people with ADHD, as far as we understand it. Very approximately their internal world is less stimulating than that find restful so they’re constantly looking for more stimulation to reach a pleasant level. The stimulants let them reach that level without more environmental stimulation. One of my friends doesn’t drink anything with caffeine in it because it puts him to sleep.
May I ask about the business you are in? What happens to the world if your service goes down? It's just curiosity. Hopefully not related to breathing machines like importance. :)
So remove DFT but use Fourier still?

No, real wave maths is continuous wavelets and those are not as useful in processing. (DFT is a kind of wavelet transform, just limited.)

And then you have the advanced tensor wave math which is used in physics but rarely in sound processing. I bet you didn't have evaluating Schrodinger's and symmetric solutions was what you had in mind.

You'll get much more mileage out of statistics and discrete mathematics, plus control theory and optimization theory.
There is also Google's own library for that: https://github.com/FirebaseExtended/reactfire
>it's just that it aligns with a value we share to not, ever, be a problem for other people

It’s a bit late for that; you’ve already gone through infanthood, toddlerhood, and childhood and benefitted from the patience and generosity of more strangers than you will ever know. Now you imply that perhaps parents and their children should try to not affect others negatively. I think by and large they do, but to the extent they do affect others this way, you owe some debt of patience, and are you so sure it’s paid off?
Treemaps as tool to visualise software projects
Kotlin is a good transition language from Ruby. Concise with a nice balance between FP and OOP and all the scaling benefits of the JVM.
"He broke the law a bunch of times"

Kowing if he did that is dependent on there being a court decision.

Look, I don't like that some probably innocent plane guy is in jail more than anyone else but judging people just because they are rich is also wrong.

Also I'm pretty sure it wasn't Gosn that threatened him but rather the security guy that put together the plan.
By that time, maybe we’ll have high-res holo lens available, and eink will have missed the boat
In the US. I fly Ryanair fairly regularly, and European flights are fully boarded within 20 minutes often.
The idea that airplanes fly themselves is spectacularly overstated in the public consciousness. The reality is closer to multidimensional cruise control than the pilots are just there for decoration.
At some point you will either have to escalate or give up. Some people won't be convinced, and can't be badgered into obeying you, and they know that you have no recourse at all as long as they remain seated and ignore you.

If the local authority (flight attendants) won't back you up, you are at the discretion of whoever is hogging your seat. Any display of power over the other usually amounts to potentially being able to resort to violence if necessary to back up your power. The person in the seat know full well that you cannot do that without being forced to leave the plane, so they have effectively nothing to fear from you.
A CEO in an employee obituary though, isn't their job at that time to laud the good rather than make it sound like "good riddance"?

>Eventually Gerv felt called to live his faith by publicly judging others in politely stated but damning terms. //

So Mitchell's response is to publicly judge him in politely stated but damning terms, whilst simultaneously making an employee's obituary about how they - the obituary writer - were the only thing that moderated the person's overly judgemental nature.

Wowser.

It's like Mitchell realised people would be applauding his work at Mozilla and decided that couldn't be allowed.

It sounds like you're saying his actions at work were abhorrent; or was it that his beliefs were incompatible with yours?
Does the guy just completely miss the very obvious part part where blue states tend to have higher population density among their voters and tend to be more urbanised hence referenced things core to his argument like "housing cost" and "zoning" are obviously impacted.
Also how the effect this urbanisation has on voting behaviour[1]

It's this population spread that probably also contributed (among other things obviously) to red states more often running a deficit. One could argue conservatives are hypocrits and need democrat subsidies or one can also look at the cost of providing infrastructure, services and the like for a more spread out population that earns less.

It's so obviously a huge factor that it must either be intentional (which would not be too far fetched given the institution he's part of) or he must be seriously blind to any internalized biases.

[1] https://medium.com/@davetroy/is-population-density-the-key-t...
If i remember right when there was a 'scandal' last year - where journalist worked with transcribing voice data from google assistant recordings. They found out that it activated plenty of times without the key phrase(it is easy to see why it happens), and it did contain PII occasionally.

Probably by sheer 'coincidence', when google was being investigated - apple, samsung and few others shut down similar initiatives.

And with how hostile and profitable the advertising world is, I'll stay with 'guilty until proven innocent' mindset.
Around 20-40 kwh or so for a single journey assuming a maximum capacity of 100-150kwh and assuming it would be rare to use more than 20-30% of it on a single journey or fly the maximum range. At 5-10 cents per kwh (i.e. 20-40kwh/$) we're not even talking some fancy barista doing their thing. Grid prices can be higher of course but I'm assuming a bulk consumer of energy would invest in turning this in a fixed cost by e.g. installing solar panels & batteries to lower the cost.

By the time these things start flying at scale, the coffee will be way more expensive than the energy cost. That's why most of these companies are investing in autonomous flight as well because short term that is going to be the cost bottleneck (that and training the army of pilots that they'd need).
Kobo is still the most open e-ink device ya? And yes, reading is so different from programming - for long hours reading, I still think e-ink is the best, but depends on ambient lighting.
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I do not have a security background but I would love to study with you!
> actually having conflicting results:

"Conflicting" only if you want to ignore a significant part of the text behind the very link you give:

"A more recent multi-model study estimated that primary production would decline by 2-20% by 2100 A.D.[12] Despite substantial variation in both the magnitude and spatial pattern of change, the majority of published studies predict that phytoplankton biomass and/or primary production will decline over the next century.[11][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47]"

(Note the majority and how many of them are cited (all the numbers in brackets) and could be checked. It's surely not "one says yes, one says no".)
I was going to say you can also look at a country like this, with roads as veins, military as white blood cells, scientists/universities for brains, etc.

But my theory falls apart with the reproduction system. We don't really reproduce other 'countries'. While with ant colonies, a single entity produces all the "cells", and also all the "embryos" to start their own ant colonies.

In that sense an ant colony uses asexual reproduction if looked at as a whole.

Thanks for the new insights! :)
90% of iPhone users with a passcode probably use the (default) 6 digit passcode option, but I would be surprised if that many people set that up.
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Yeah, tech workers aren’t going to tolerate doing everything except admin consoles in a VM or RDP session. Maybe on a special purpose workstation but not the daily driver company Macbook.
A remote work revolution would happen as a necessity in a world where fossil fuel availability would suddenly and drastically get reduced. I think that transformation would be relatively uncontroversial, and would probably lead to an increase in production because people wouldn't be forced to sit in open office spaces anymore. However, we have to realize that this is only viable for the relatively small subset of us who work in offices.
It would be very interesting if someone starts a project on 3DSP, Differentiable D Digital Signal Processing.

Swift community is currently trying to come up with their own differentiable programming initiative [1]

https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/Differentiab...
Yeah, we've already reached planets that are billions of kilometers away. Pluto is never closer than around 4.3 billion km.
Same here ... this is actually my first comment. Planning on being more active if I have something worthwhile to contribute with.
I know that in Germany those security measures are only in place at large public airports. Small airports where private jets are coming and going don't check luggage. I think this problem exists in most countries. This is possibly how Kashoggi's body got flown out or how sheiks return fled daughters and wifes.

(https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/sicherheitsluecken-...)
>Also I'm pretty sure it wasn't Ghosn that threatened him but rather the security guy that put together the plan.

Is this the reverse of "I just followed orders"? Can the cartel bosses in Mexico not being guilty of the actions of their security guys? Maybe all they wanted was to do a trade but these pesky security guys keep killing people brutally.
Rather than focus on a replacement they should focus on reading the systems memory out and creating a replacement virtual machine or perhaps even trying to decipher the config structure from memory.

My experience with migration projects is that they can drag on in time, and all the while this system is just itching to go down due to a power failure or some other issue.
> I'm not sure that 55 months of up-time indicates it's more or less likely to go down in the next month, but I'd guess more likely.

If 'going down' is an event governed by chance (e.g. power failure), then it does not matter if it has been up for 55 months or 55 minutes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy
True, Hydrogen has a far higher energy density than li-ion batteries (~150x). But that doesn't show the entire picture. To store and use that hydrogen, you also need a very strong tank (cause of the high pressure it has to be stored in a vehicle) and a fuel cell stack to generate electrical energy. Taking the example of Toyota's Mirai, the hydrogen tank weighs 90kg to just store 5kg of Hydrogen (at 700bar). And this is despite being made of very expensive carbon fibre. If it was made of cheaper but heavier materials like steel, it would weigh much more. And the fuel cell in Mirai weighs 60kg just to output 114kw (155hp). Add all this up and it is a much more even (~2x, not ~150x) comparison with Li-ion battery (for reference Model 3 battery weighs 480kg). And given all this, not surprising the Mirai weighs (1850kg) more than a Model 3 long range (1725kg) despite having similar range and being far less powerful.
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"I sometimes think, 'What if some creepo is looking in the window?' It could be a corporate creepo... It's wrong. We need to put a stop to it."

Respect others as you would want to be respected.

Don't be a #corporatecreepo
Yes, Marissa Mayer being an excellent example!
Attaching a debugger potentially disrupts the service. I would suggest trying to live-image it with some other technique first.
Given the context, I take ideological diversity to mean inclusion of people who are sexist, homophobic, and transphobic.

The identity characteristic here revolves around the exclusion of others, how in any sense does that make it reasonable to include them in the name of diversity? You're asking people to tolerate intolerance in the name of tolerance. I can't see such a request as anything less than insincere.
> I'm not sure that 55 months of up-time indicates it's more or less likely to go down in the next month, but I'd guess more likely.

Less likely

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Effect

> The Lindy effect is a theory that the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things like a technology or an idea is proportional to their current age, so that every additional period of survival implies a longer remaining life expectancy. Where the Lindy effect applies, mortality rate decreases with time. In contrast, living creatures and mechanical things follow a bathtub curve where, after "childhood", the mortality rate increases with time. Because life expectancy is probabilistically derived, a thing may become extinct before its "expected" survival. In other words, one needs to gauge both the age and "health" of the thing to determine continued survival.
Unlikely; you'd have to find the directive to check.
Japan, like the (irrelvant whatabout) US, uses process as punishment. Google 'Hostage Justice'
IMHO Kinect and Wii motion games are really perfect for young kids as they solve most of the problems that parents usually have with computer games: there's a physical activity, there're complex body motions that develop the balance and motor skills, and also the distance from the screen is changing all the time so there's less strain on eyes. Too bad it seems to be too small niche for the cost of it.
This notion of the 'self' is "standard" in Dharmic traditions, and has been for over two millennia.

Then again it remains very fashionable to steal ancient ideas from East and market them as "brand new" genius inventions of Westerners. The amount of uncited plagiarism that occurs in this manner is quite simply astonishing.
actually I'm pretty sure that the money goes to the mozilla innovation fund and not directly to mozilla? not sure how easily they can withdraw money from there.
Initially yes. But the way this starts snowballing is some cities showing they are cooler than others by allowing these things and demonstrating it is fine. Then envy will force the issue and regulation will catch up in most places. IMHO autonomous flight will be the drive this. By the time regulation catches up, having a pilot on board is not going to be a thing any more. Also practically speaking, training that many pilots is just not going to happen in time for that to matter. E.g. deploying 10K of these things would require as many pilots (at least) and they simply don't exist right now. Going from a few hundred to a few thousand will happen relatively quickly but from there to e.g. a few hundred K won't happen until autonomous flight is ready to scale. IMHO we're looking at 15-30 years here for this to happen. With autonomous prototypes flying today, that's a conservative estimate. IMHO the biggest bottleneck will indeed be legal & regulations.

Short term, these things will mean helicopters that currently service rooftops in many cities will be replaced by slightly more of these things flown by professional pilots that will have increasingly less to do as these things start flying themselves. I also expect an increase in heliports. E.g. Manhattan only has a few right now.
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Not completely related but does anyone know of an epub reader with the quality that Edge had? The EPUBReader extension in FF works but the rendering and UX is a lot worse. Calibre on the other hand is a great management system but with a horrendous reader.
As a layman: Governments all over are phasing out and closing coal plants in favor of newly built sustainable energy plants. That means sustainable energy companies will be on the rise while coal will be on the decline.
You "don't understand" because you failed to do the reading and thus have zero background for knee-jerk "rich guy" comments. Google 'hostage justice' and learn how to learn.
What a momentous achievement of finding so many qualified females!
9th time submitted in 3 days.

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Ask HN: PhD in Germany
Hello all,
I currently live in Germany. I want to apply for a PhD position (Computer Engineering) here. My problem is that I have done Masters without thesis. Wherever I find a suitable position for myself it's expected to send an abstract of Master Thesis with application. I am even ready to do Research Assistantship under a professor if required to show that I am capable of doing research. How should I proceed with my application ?
Thanks in advance for help.
I agree that setting up OpenVPN for the first time might be quite messy, so such script can be useful - it is quite simple and lets you do standard setup.

What I am wondering - it is using a pregenerated dh param file (I can understsand why - to make the initial process faster). I am not much into crypto, with all the other elements being created during the setup process, how big no-no is having a predefined dh file?
Agreed, but this is HN so of course we need to endlessly argue and overengineer things in order to arrive at the most theoretically optimal solution which completely ignores practical issues.
Great book, highly recommended. Another review of it:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret...
Getting funding from your biggest rival isn't exactly the most stable strat long term...

Mismanagement of funds/personnel not withstanding.
For a few years now I am wondering if ant colonies do something like portfolio optimizing, as in how many ants to send to which food location, depending on risk and reward. I'd guess they do. But I haven't figured out a way to prove/show that yet.
Why don't you read background before knee jerking?

Is it that hard to learn why Japan's 'hostage justice' policy is infamous?
You know how with flu vaccine 1 in a big number get sick and with this it may end up worse.

If it’s vm take a snapshot periodically, I suspect it’s not.

Try a p2v which converts it to a vm on the fly, and leave the vm off and periodically rerun the p2v
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Depends on what the order was. If he said "threaten and kill anyone that gets in the way" then yes Ghosn is guilty.
If the order was "get me out of the country without harming anyone" then the security guy was guilty.
At this point we don't know which it was.
You can control windows with your eyes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mBlgcnqttg
For the same reason that very few "global leaders" trained in the military, but it still matters if they decide to declare war?
How to RiiR
Downvoted?

Sigh
Do you have a specific link one can start digging through?
Just now?
Agreed at Calibre! Ihave the same qualms with EPUBReader in FF, it does not get close to what edge was capable of. I'll take a look at cover at home as I sadly cannot install it at work.
Isn't some of the atmosphere being replenished from its inner geology? Also IIRC Mars lost its atmosphere due to solar winds and lack of good protective magnetic field, unlike earth with its radioactivity-fed one. I would expect Titan has it neither, but is much farther from Sun so solar winds must be a tiny fraction of intensity out there.
> When they got a few key hires who showed they could do a new browser with a much better architecture, and move way faster than cooperating with Mozilla, events were set in motion.

They also bought up a significant fraction of the Firefox core devs -- there's a lot of "crushing the competition" you can do when your money pit is basically bottomless.
It's not an accident: Hofstadter and the translators put a lot of work into preserving the wordplay across translations.
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