skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they did sanction such things, they'd never admit it. If they didn't, it does them no good to comment on this, or anything, one way or the other. There's no benefit to asking them and no benefit to answering.

We know Epstein was a genuine pedophile. It's not impossible that his actions were his (and Ghislaine's) own. Maybe he was trying to blackmail people for his personal profit, or maybe blackmail wasn't part of it. Maybe he saw it as a way of sharing his "hobby" with people he liked and wanted to get to know more, partly to acquire clout and connections and partly because pedophilia was his passion and something he considered worth doing with others, just like some rich people invite other rich people to go golfing.

There are so many possibilities. Maybe the above is true but he was also an intelligence asset. Maybe he was an asset but the agency/agencies involved weren't aware actual underaged people were involved and dropped him after his 2008 arrest and he then just continued for his own pleasure. Maybe he really was working for one the whole time and the people responsible thought the ends justified the means. Maybe he wasn't and essentially was trying to run his own private intelligence agency, perhaps to sell information to other intelligence agencies, and companies and people who would pay a lot for that dirt.

There's no evidence of anything concrete either way. The prosecutor saying he was told to back off and that he belonged to intelligence is what really sparked all of this, but the meaning of this is still unclear. If the person who told him this wasn't lying, it definitely could mean he was an asset all along, or it could mean that intelligence agencies weren't aware of him until his arrest and realized the potential of the information he might have and promised him leniency if he informed them about every important individual involved, then stopped dealing with him after he was sentenced.

If this is true, this sort of thing isn't uncommon with mass murderers - look at Sammy the Bull. The fact that he kept doing it for a decade when he got out, the unknown sources of his money, and other weird factors certainly could be seen as additional evidence of his actions being sanctioned by some sort of intelligence, but it could mean other things, too.

It's all just speculation.
We also honestly don't know if he was murdered or killed himself; or if he killed himself, if he was permitted or encouraged to do so or if it really was just an ordinary suicide (he'd certainly have strong motive to kill himself). Maybe the base rate of incompetence is so high in that prison that this could happen; maybe 1/3 of the other cameras weren't working then, either, and maybe a lot of guards were slacking off and faking data for years.

Most people seem to jump to the most extreme version of all of these possibilities, but we have almost nothing to go on. Maybe we'll learn the answers someday, but who knows.
FWIW, as a customer of Wacom's products they very much do not view themselves as

> [having] an obligation to make their hardware work with any software the user might want to use.

They update drivers for 4 or 5 years then tell you to buy a new product if you expect it to work with current-gen software. Despite the fact that none of their tablets have had a substantial new feature in 20 years beyond the wireless connection kit, somehow a driver for a "Intuos Pro 4" cannot be used with a functionally-identical "Intuos Pro 3".
Last time I tried, a few years ago admittedly, Google Docs didn't perform well when you have large numbers of people trying to access a single document. It obviously scales great for total number of users, but I don't think having everybody hit one document is a mainstream use case that's necessarily well-supported.
>- In theory, secured creditors should be ahead in line and always get paid ahead of unsecured creditors.

Some classes of unsecured creditors that are paid out before others are employees, pensioners or people with support claims.

These people often have what's known as 'super priority' status. So not only are 'some' unsecured creditors afforded more security; they're often the ones society deems at risk, with the least leverage and the most need for the money.
A potential silver lining then.
And? The west is currently in the process of dismantling a lot of it's culture to accommodate minorities so I don't see why china gets a free pass for cultural reasons.
Yes, there was a famous incident a couple of weeks ago. [1]

I remember reading in the local paper that you have to register with the pharmacy in order to buy fever medicine but I can't find an online source now and I haven't been into a pharmacy to observe it myself.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-woman-avoi...
Right. They have also just admitted to BBC that they will not use the test kits on dead people, and their deaths are not counted towards the nCov count.

That being said, I think speculating about "the real number" is quite useless at the moment, as China is still being actively quarantined (i.e. Hangzhou which is a "Tier-1.5 city" and home to Alibaba and is kind of a China's SV has closed down yesterday).

PS: I live and currently in Shanghai.
It could be this is done by MacOS itself, in a similar manner to Hyper-V on Windows, where you can no longer use VMWare/VirtualBox/etc. Virtualisation is critical to Win 10 security, wouldn't be surprised to see MacOS going in that direction.
Yeah, I was going by Tuxera's website FAQ that has an answer for "I'm Getting A System Extension Blocked Message During Installation". Didn't actually check for the kexts myself, so thanks for verifying.

A macOS without Tuxera NTFS and Parallels Desktop is going to be really problematic for me, but presumably Apple will find workarounds for them. I already switched back to Windows a year ago anyway.
This makes me so happy.
Odds are against it in the short term, I'd agree. But cultures do change, albeit reluctantly. There are Chinese animal rights movements. And there's a huge growth in tertiary science education, which 'traditional Chinese medicine' (really a misnomer) falls foul of
Security bugs are certainly among those thousands of logged issues, which means they are a problem for you and your users.
It's about the expected value of a customer. It's probably thousands recurring per year for the wealth management stuff, and people don't switch often.

So the customer acquisition cost can be super high -> lots of commercials even with small market compared to other products/services.
This lines up with my own experience and with advice I've read about "being successful." Essentially that, until you're at the top of the food chain, credit should always be deflected upward. Personally I bump up against the idea that it is good to do that in all situations, however, I have yet to find myself in one.
This is not a partisan issue. This goes well beyond those lines.
Make no mistake — Android isn't memory hungry because of Java alone. Android 4 used to comfortably fit in 1Gb of RAM, but Android 10 no longer can run on such devices. Both old and new versions use JVM, but newer Android has a lot of "helpful" system services, such as "Usage Statistics" service [1] and "Autofill Servide" [2].

Google's spyware is becoming more invasive and thus more memory-hungry.

1: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/usage/Us...

2: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/service/auto...
They'll probably say something about requiring to port your virtualization software to the macOS Hypervisor framework. It has already been the only option for apps distributed via the App Store which want to provide virtualization. Qemu already supports it as the "hvf" backend. I can't speak to what the performance is like.

(there's a bit of history there - a company developed it for a commercial product, Google ended up forking the open source parts for the android emulator which eventually resulted in them contributing it back to qemu upstream).
Make an app and track sick people to avoid /s
That would have to be 100k concurrent users all streaming data at to 100kbps to saturate a 10gbps connection. Which are not hard to find these days. At least I came across several offerings when browsing bare metal server options recently. And they were not that expensive either.

And as a side note, anyone who is using up that kind of data is not going to be able to afford cloud egress prices unless they are making a mint on those users. Saturating a 10gbps connection would cost you around $450 an hour at AWS rates.
Nice reference to being seen as a bozo, presumably a la "Don't flip the bozo bit" from Jim McCarthy’s rule No. 4 in Dynamics of Software Development, explained well here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2018/08/13/th...
This page[1] seems to indicate licensing SQL Server (Standard Ed) for 32 cores would cost $59,472 ($3,717 per 2 cores). Where do you get $700 from?

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-2017-p...
> I'm still gonna want the President to respond in kind.

Probably shouldn't take it upon myself to speak for all humanity but I think that's a universal response. Everyone wants revenge. But are they going to get it immediately? No need to guess, we already know what the US government will do when a foreign actor commits mass murder on US soil.

"We will respond at a time, place and manner of our own choosing and not be forced into knee-jerk responses."

An attack will precipitate a meticulously planned response where the US has considered all the angles and stacked the deck to ensure that it achieves the best possible outcome. I don't think the mechanism used for the attack (nuclear) makes a difference.
Apple now sells more watches than the entire Swiss watch industry
> With the UN hamstrung ever since by these voting rules, the world continues to struggle over how to contain Russian territorial ambitions such as their recent occupation of the Crimea ...

That's funny if to take into account that this is about conference held in just liberated Crimea that was part of Russia (RSFSR) at the time.
Mint looks nice, but I am worried about the tooling. It feels it’s trying to do too many things.

Don’t get me wrong. I really applaud the effort and it’s great. I’m just telling you why I wouldn’t use it. I’ve been building SPA’s for over a decade and have had my lessons. Things are complex for a reason when it comes to large code bases contributed to by a large team.

At a previous workspace we used pug(jade). Great language but it’s just not about the language. The tooling around the language really matters. You want linters, prettifiers, typecheckers, sourcemaps, dependency analyzers, good ide code completion, auto doc generators, etc to work with it.

Making a language with good ecosystem is really hard.

That’s why I prefer to stick to well supported proven basics.

Typescript, prettier, jsx, eslint, webpack, stylint, scss, css modules etc

Small well supported tools that do one thing really well and work with other tools. (Unix philosophy)
None of that let you treat your phone number as anything other than public.
Cool. That means it both prevents nethammer and allows the cpu to check a signature/decrypt/type check as value stream over the network.
This finally hit the tor-dev list.[0] And Mike Perry's post is somewhat alarming.[1]

Some excerpts:

> The "Oddly, sometimes the connection would succeed" sentence is a red flag sentence. If you are inclined to be paranoid, there is indeed a way to hide a real attack in what looks like a simple ntohl() bug here.

> This "sometimes"connection behavior is often seen in tagging attacks, where the adversary abuses Tor's AES-CTR mode stream-cipher-style properties to XOR a tag at one end of a circuit, and undo that tag only if the other endpoint is present. In this way, only the connections that actually succeed are those that the adversary is certain that they are in both positions in the circuit (to perform Guard discovery, or if they are the Guard relay, to confirm deanonymization).

> If you want to hide your tagging attack as what looks like a simple ntohl() bug here, you send your intro2 with the reverse IP address. Then, when your middle node suspects a candidate rend cell (via timing + circuit setup fingerprinting, to have a guess), it can confirm this guess by undoing the tag by XORing the cipherstream with ntohl(ip) XOR ip.

> <snip>

> Aka a correctly performing rend cell tag hidden in what looks like a very common networking bug.

> This cipherstream tagging weakness has had a few proposals to fix, most recently: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/295...

> BUT DON'T PANIC: There is also an alternate explanation for the "sometimes succeed" red flag in this particular case, other than a tagging attack.

> <snip>

> So most likely, this is just a poorly written Tor client, but there still is the possibility that it is an attack cleverly disguised as a poorly written Tor client.. :/

> It may be a good idea for Neal's/our monitoring infrastructure to keep an eye on this behavior too, for this reason, to test for the side channel usage + rend XOR "correction" vs just dumb bug that is sometimes connecting by getting lucky (and thus never properly reverses the rend IP address). If this is indeed just a bug, when these rends do succeed, the IP address should never be correct.

> The way to do that would be to build rend circuits using 3rd hops that you (the service operator) control, so that that 3rd hop can check if the rend succeeds because the TLS connection happened to be open (benign behavior) or because the reversed ntohl() got corrected somehow (attack).

0) https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2020-February...

1) https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2020-February...
Can one add additional network interfaces?
I like the idea in principle, but it raises the bar for the quality of the review that is going to be published, and might thus discourage people from accepting to review papers. It is hard already as it is to find peer reviewers!

We're getting to the point where there really has to be a financial incentive to do a peer review (Springer gives you a free book, which is a start). If that were the case, I wouldn't mind doing it occasionally when I retire.
Other platforms are even worse right now, in different ways. Perhaps that will change, or perhaps Apple will get so bad that they’re no longer the least-worst option.
The current evidence points toward that the wildlife market was not the source of the epidemic. It was introduced there via human contact and spread from there.
Or 'shard' it into 40 sheets of 45 rows each.

Deputize 40 administrators, give them each the 45 phone numbers for their districts. At the appointed time, have the administrators direct-dial each of the 45 numbers and quickly note the results. Combine the results from the 40 as they come in.

Secure and effective. It'd probably take 3 hours to wrap it all up.
OneDrive does this without requiring a kernel module.
Ask HN: Has anyone taken Google's course on how to use Google?
http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/

Thoughts?

I know it's not https, but it is Google's course. It's linked to by a Google domain:

https://edu.google.com/openonline/course-builder/index.html
I'm surprised more people aren't mentioning RancherOS. It's a great "Docker Only" OS, like many of the other options mentioned. It doesn't have the market that CoreOS did, that's for sure, but still a great tool. It's tiny and being actively updated.

Plus it's got good RPi support for all those serious Big Software Company deployments /s
> cough 64-bit Carbon cough

I'm treading extremely old ground, but fwiw:

I don't fault Apple for pulling 64 bit Carbon from Leopard. It makes sense—the OS had already been delayed and they had to cut stuff in order to ship.

But I find it totally bizarre that they never shipped 64 bit Carbon. Why wasn't it in Snow Leopard? Heck, Lion even.

Catalina's nixing of 32 bit would be a lot less painful if Carbon apps had some kind of upgrade path.
So you are the person that ruins it for everyone (are you emacs user by any chance?). Tabs are more versatile, you can even use proportional fonts with them. Projects end up using tabs because many people end up mixing them together (unknowingly or in your case knowingly using configuration that is unavailable in many IDEs).

BTW when you mix spaces with tabs you eliminate all benefits that tabs give (for example you no longer can dynamically change tab size without ruining formatting.
> Planes were made to fly based on empirical validation of these models, long before we gained a more detailed understanding of how causality

And their success is so repeatable that if they fail once we make a Really Big Deal out of it. I don’t think any ML model is close to that level of engineering rigor, let alone deep learning.

Moving on to aerodynamics, we have a pretty good causal model and can simulate the system given a pattern of boundary conditions. Further, some people (who have studied aero/CFD) can even intuitively predict approximately what happens (otherwise we would have a hard time designing planes!). It just so happens that it’s not as simple as high school physics, and cannot be compressed in to perfect+simple rules (trade off between those two).

Speaking in the context of time reversibility, you are being fast and loose, and using the word “causality” in a sense that is irrelevant to the rest of your comment.
I understand where this sentiment is coming from but I think that it may be a little alarmist. Security has been lagging behind in desktop operating systems for a long time now… it was only a matter of time that they’d catch up because it’s become increasingly clear that unquestionably running code that can steal or destroy user data and especially code with kernel access is a catastrophically bad idea in an always-connected world.

I suspect that even Linux will be adopting a more restrictive (if decentralized and overridable) model for third party binaries sooner than later.
Cool story, didn't happen. There were no retail trading accounts at Knight. In fact, there was no outside money of any kind. The S&P500 fell about 0.75% on the day in question: a non-trivial decline, but not really remarkable. It was up about 0.4% on the week. Also, this is incredibly not how the OCC deals with members in default.
>Can we make them wear signs saying that they’re sick?

Not really, since people with viral infections (e.g. cold, flu, corona virus) are often contagious before showing symptoms.
Cargo handling time at port is a big cost factor, it would be very hard for a sub to provide comparable access for loading/unloading.
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And also for "goddamn geoIP database thinks I'm Canadian even though I'm in the US" reasons.

True story, that one. Threw wrenches in a bunch of random things, like Newegg and Spotify. Apparently I wasn't the only one in my town with that issue.
That depends on how we define "our world".

For each individual, the most important parameter of "our world" is probably how (dis)satisfied we are.

Humans are not solitary animals, but a social species. We should not limit ourselves to solitary risk, but also consider social risk.

Consider listing your N closest loved ones (I will assume 20).

Consider a case fatality rate F (I will use China's average 2.1% which may correspond very well with any health care system that is pathologically overrun by sheer amount of cases, see [1]).

Consider I the fraction of the global population that has been uniformly infected.

What is the probability that not all of your N loved ones survive?

P( not all of my N loved ones survive corona outbreak)

= 1 - P( all of my N loved ones survive corona outbreak )

= 1 - P( a person was not infected or survives infection) ^ N

= 1 - (1 - P( a person is infected and dies from the infection ) ) ^ N

= 1 - (1 - P( a person is infected ) * P( a person dies given he was infected ) )

= 1 - (1 - (I * F) ) ^ N

For example:

Q: "What is the probability not all of my 20 loved ones survive, assuming 80% of the populace will experience infection, and a case fatality rate of 2.1%?"

A: P = 1 - (1 - 0.8 * 0.021) ^ 20 = 28.7% that one or more of these friends will die.

This is remarkably higher than the individual risk of 1.68% (0.8 * 2.1%) which only holds for egoists.

Let no one tell you what probability is acceptable for you, nor how many friends you should have, certainly let no government tell you to think only about yourself, by setting N = 1.

Another example:

Q: "Assume just 10% of the population was infected, with the same case fatality rate of 2.1% but this time you have 100 friends"

A: P = 1 - ( 1 - ( 0.1 * 0.021 ) ) ^ 100 = 18.96 %

And always remember, you may have many friends, but your best friend is statistics, like her or not. And this best friend can not die.

[1] According to [1a] China announced an average national fatality rate of 2.1% (their words not my calculation, us world citizens have no access to the WHO database of anonymized CRF CORE and DAILY forms).

Let us compare with the cases treated outside of China:

According to [1b] at their sum total of international (without Chinese regions) we have:

TOTAL 216 (infected) 1 (dead) 4 serious

Now 2.1% * 216 = 4.536 deaths expected following official China fatality rate.

Well, internationally we see 1 death and 4 individuals in serious condition. The out-of-china hospitals are not currently overrun. If they too at some point get overrun, I would expect those 4 to die as well, and our international numbers match up with China's 2.1%.

[1a] http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3048815/coron...

[1b] https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus...
i am not sure about this course but the fullstack books (i think they changed the name to newline) are top notch. I learnt a bunch of technologies from those books and they served me well.
The enthusiasts focus on the tech and the supply side of the market. They totally forgot about end users, the experience, and IRL.

UX is why adoption sucks, both from a technical and soft perspective. The only reason it had adoption prior was because people want to get rich quick.

Bitcoin is a store of value, not a currency. Stop expecting wide adoption and daily use.
I love these HiSilicon boxes, take a look at the OpenIPC project if you want to secure your device. It's open source firmware for these boxes, I want to give a big shoutout to Igor Zalatov and Flyrouter for all their support when working on these boxes http://openipc.org
The books were hard to get, but directory assistance did exist if you called the operator.
Fun fact: even in Fiji, Vanuatu kava is sold at a premium. The cheaper/stronger varieties are known in pidgin as tudei kava (as in, 2 day) because that's how long the buzz/hangover lasts.
I'm not debating that food safety could be better in China and other developing nations, but saying we should shut down their markets is a big overstep and fails to understand the cultural significance. If a drug-resistant bacteria started in the US and spread to China they could just as easily say "Those supermarkets in the US need to be shut down"

The US is making equally risky decisions, but no one here is clamoring about that. Bush meat is no different than wild-caught meat, yet you use a derogatory term for it simply because it doesn't align with your cultural values.

> Even today, the U.S. is far from a paragon of food-safety regulations gone right. The routine use of antibiotics in factory farming has helped create drug-resistant bacteria that cause foodborne illnesses.