skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exfiltration of data from air-gapped computers kept in a Faraday cage!

"In this paper, we show that attackers can leak data from isolated, air-gapped computers to nearby smartphones via covert magnetic signals.

The proposed covert channel works even if a smartphone is kept inside a Faraday shielding case, which aims to block any type of inbound and outbound wireless communication (Wi-Fi, cellular, Bluetooth, etc.). The channel also works if the smartphone is set in airplane mode in order to block any communication with the device. We implement a malware that controls the magnetic fields emanating from the computer by regulating workloads on the CPU cores. Sensitive data such as encryption keys, passwords, or keylogging data is encoded and transmitted over the magnetic signals. A smartphone located near the computer receives the covert signals with its magnetic sensor. We present technical background, and discuss signal generation, data encoding, and signal reception. We show that the proposed covert channel works from a user-level process, without requiring special privileges, and can successfully operate from within an isolated virtual machine (VM"
Useless to you does not mean useless to other people and unless you somehow are the person who has an ultimate mandate over valuing things throughout the universe, then it's just your opinion.

If you for some reason have that mandate, you might as well look at other "useless" industries such as christmas lights, mechanical watch production (very demanding and "useless", right? since quartz watches are much cheaper and more accurate anyway?), vinyl records (think of all that plastic!!!), road lighting during the night (most roads don't have any visitors for hours!), jewelry, public webcams (all that energy and data transfer!). How about heating in far up north? How much energy is "wasted" there, "why don't all those people just move"? Or expensive motherboards which have thousands of components, of which only a small part will realistically be used by the owner... Or gaming consoles which can in fact be used for other calculations, but damn uselessly stuck there to just produce some 3d simulations... Or gaming in general, how much does that "waste"?

Basically what I'm trying to say is that your line of reasoning is extremely selfish and short-sighted, and there are people who would very much like to have some blockchains working, and they will keep doing so, just like they will keep setting up and powering christmas lights and paying for their gaming rigs and buying expensive watches that take a fortune to manufacture.
Coronavirus: Newborn becomes youngest person diagnosed with virus
I'm on the Netflix SD service. It's never bothered me at all and I don't see a particular reason to upgrade.

I enjoy watching the BBC on HD, however for stuff like the Attenborough films.
Microsoft Office's native format is OOXML (Office Open XML). The ODF (OpenDocument Format) is the native format of LibreOffice, and the UK decided to go with this one (despite Microsoft's lobbying).

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240225262/Microsoft-att...

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/using-open-document-formats-odf-...
A four-day workweek (in exchange for a lower salary) is very appealing to many programmers.
Nobody is conflating these two things, you are interpreting it that way.
Equatorial Guinea donates $2m to China to help combat coronavirus
A few days back, HN saw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22193451 which told us not everyone uses an internal monologue for their thinking process.

Now this article hints evolution favored the internal monologue design of thinking process, over alternatives.
You can analyse traffic to provide a probabilistic view of web or app hits and conversions driven by TV. This works by identifying spikes of traffic within a 5 minute window following a TV ad.

Source: https://tvsquared.com/
Oh, I must have missed that. They seem a bit too expensive for what I'm saying, I imagine these things have to cost cents to be worthwhile (50-70 cents or so).
Is it just me or does the non-4k digital version look better. The 4K one just looks kinda fake.
Normal Distribution (Gaussian Distribution)
> I'm not sure what would even differentiate them

Distance from carbon-neutrality per dollar of revenue sounds like a good start.
On a smaller scale, the highest hill in Berlin is man-made[0](out of leftover rubble) and was recently superseded by another hill which grew because waste was added to it.[1]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teufelsberg

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkenberge
Quality improvement from the first video to the second is impressive, but from the second to the third is not.
> Familiarity breeds contempt.

This is actually encoded into a common expression in Nothern Sotho. In the infinitive go tlwaela the meaning is to get use to or to grow accustomed to something. But when you say O a ntlwaela, as in: "You are getting used to me," you are actually telling the person that they are being contemptuous.

In fact, this principle is so well developed in the Northern Sotho language that you can even use the phrase for someone that is not in fact accustomed to you. For example, I was at the recycling site the other day and this guy came up to me and was pissed that I came in and didn't do what he wanted me to do (which could have been a fair objection) but he also as a side remark called me racist. To which I responded, "O a ntlwaela." In context, what I am really saying would be that he is stereotyping me. His response, realising he made a mistake, was to just deny it without substantiation, as in "Ke go tlwaela bjang?" Essentially he was saying: "How am I being familiar with you?"

The answer was of course that he was calling me racist because I reminded him of someone else; i.e., a steriotype he was used to. In any case, I did not point this out any further and just left.
I'm working on DOME, a game development framework for making games with Wren: https://domeengine.com

It was featured on HN last weekend: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22200739

We've even got a game jam and discord server set up now :)
Just thought about sharing a blog post I’ve written to document how and why I built up a home server. This can be thought of as a guide as well to get started on cheap.
How the Long Tail of the Coronavirus Might Slow Bitcoin’s Hash Power Growth
The topic is audio latency and keeping with the kernel that OS vendor ships.

Only change allowed is installing drivers during user friendly tooling that any random user that just got their first laptop today is able to do.

Failure to understand this, is why we are getting Year of Desktop Linux any day soon.

Naturally there are other areas that BSD/Linux do better out-of-the-box, without requiring customized kernels.
Learn to Build Data Pipeline 101
Shouldn't it be more important how it can grow, and current costumer satisfaction so they don't switch?
Current market only accounts the "now", you need to access possibilities and risk to understand if a stock price is cheap or expensive.
If I'm correctly guessing that you might have worked on Parallels, thank you for one of the best programs I've ever used. So many nice delightful touches, like their autodetection of USB devices and asking if I want to use them with the VM or the native system. Without Parallels I could never have used a Mac as my main machine.

I've since moved back to Windows, but I hope Parallels might make a Windows version. The Windows competitors aren't as good as their Mac versions, and painfully slow compared to Parallels running on my ancient MBP 2012.
I found your idea of recording the screen during work very clever and I plan to replicate.

Some things that have worked for me:

— learning to type programming symbols accurately and with confidence. I realized when pair-programming that I lose a ton of time to backtracking due to typos. This is particularly bad when working in interactive code consoles where the poor editing capabilities mean typos are more costly. There are web applications out there like typing.io that help with this.

— keeping a "dumb mistake log" where I write up any silly errors that cost me too much time so I'll know to double check these things next time (e.g. "space instead of tab in Makefile > make tabs appear differently", "wrong file but with same name > keep an eye on the folder in the editor when switching files")
I've heard from Netflix people that they re-encode their entire library every month. They are continually improving their encoding and storage tools so the streaming bandwidth/quality savings dwarfs the costs of re-encoding.
>area that sorely needs improvement.
the simplest idea would be to improve peer-reviewing with moving it to something similiar to hacker-news discussion board (but possibly not open to everyone), where reviewers would comment, authors could respond to questions or clarify something.
We put everything in Kubernetes to scale. Now large uploads and downloads fail more often than before.
Apple enables universal purchases for Mac and iOS apps
I've read that post. It's still a mistery to me the fact that there are people without internal monologues that can speak without any sort of problem. Chomsky and Berwick hinted that recursive language may have evolved as "an internal monologue" in their "Why Only Us" essay, where they surely can explain their evolutionary point of view better than me.

I guess if that there really are people without "the internal tool of thought", they should volunteer to be studied, especially with brain imaging and functional tests. They could help us understand more about where language comes from.
Follow up question: It would be interesting to see the market share and revenues excluding the use from the own company or different orgs. E.g.: AWS without the Amazon Website use, Azure without the Office use, etc.

Is there any public information about it available?
I don't know about those numbers but I think deaths may be considerably understated due to them only counting people who have been properly tested for coronavirus, found to have it and then died but there are probably many others who have died without being able to get a test such as the grandmother mentioned in the article. It's a bit worrying there are no figures for that - the local officials must have an idea how many extra bodies are turning up at crematoria and the like but it doesn't seem to be public.
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22242478
Thank you for your question. We estimate that our sentiment data predicts market movements correctly in most occasions. Although sentiment is a strong enough factor to judge market movements, we do not recommend relying solely on 1 source. Thus, when making our trading decisions, we form our choice by taking different aspects in mind.
Where should it be counted and why wouldn’t it be counted as Azure revenue just like AWS offers Microsoft AD?
And i imagine nobody wanted to tell everyone not to come home for lunar new year...
My guess would be for having to properly handle and dispose of leaded paint in older homes.
The majority of the bugs I've been resolving take from 30min to a few hours (if I know the codebase) - but they are usually complex distributed systems issues.

What kind of bugs are those that could be fixed in 2 minutes?
Stop being a fucking fag!
And kill yourself, maybe others around you too.
It didn't sell in such numbers that I could compare different markets and draw any conclusions. Maybe next time.
Do you actually read whole papers? It's an honest question. I usually scan the introduction, quickly skim through charts/tables and jump directly to conclusions. If I find anything remotely interesting during that process, then and only then I would even consider reading the whole paper.
Reminds me of how Steve Jobs opposed releasing iOS SDK to the public and wanted to replace everything with web apps. Why? In the name of security, of course!

You absolutely do not need kexts to steal user data, it's totally orthogonal to user's data security, and I think (correct me if I'm wrong) even in Catalina this XKCD is still relevant: https://xkcd.com/1200/
Learn how to break information addiction. Just because you _can_ Google it, doesn't mean you should. Embracing ignorance is liberating.
I think the most current version is this one [0]; I submitted a bug report to request the GitHub repository be updated to point to the Savannah repository. Also, the Python bindings are here [1]

[0] https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/recutils/

[1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/recutils.git/tree/python
Cold gas, on wikipedia.. What's the fuss?
The gp probably means public fusion of Christian and national values.

Your guess is plausible but definitely not charitable. It's a great way to start a flame war.
First line in their job application:

"Shadow is a technology company dedicated to building power within the progressive movement."

Can some things remain non political these days? What a weird sentiment.

Are we moving to a future where I need to check the political leanings of software providers before they can agree to do business with me? I'm looking for a professional to do a job, you can keep your politics at home...
Exactly. I can't imagine why anyone would use a web site for drafting text, especially "temporary" drafts, which are probably more in need of privacy than the subsequent text that we publish / send out! What I do is have OneNote open all the time. It's blocked by the firewall from contacting the web and all notebooks are local. As an upside: if the temporary text turns into something substantial, you can use OneNote's organizing features to organize it, too. AKOO: Always Keep OneNote Open :-)
Consultants in Canada are usually friends of the government in power and their contracts are usually narrowly specified to make the selection process converge to their group. We had a useless proprietary educational computer system in the 80's and 90's that failed The ICON - note the last three letters of the name!!!. They appeared visionary to the public in press releases, but they were proprietary Kludges that endured, and froze their state of technology while the field raced ahead. They never worked.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICON_(microcomputer)
But the consultants were all over it, like ticks on a steer, they grew fat.
The Ontario Archives refused to accept the donation of hardware and SW for saving = dead as a doornail
> and two dozen open source frameworks and libraries that can do 90% of the work for you. You have GitHub, Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, and the whole of the Internet.

And this is part of the problem for me - there is simply too much happening to keep track of and to make decisions about what to learn.
I really like Perl, although unfortunately I don't get to use it much. Sometimes when I am learning a language or a framework and I start getting the feel of it, I will try something and sometimes it works or doesn't. Either I didn't understand it right or maybe the API wasn't designed in the best way, but with Perl it would usually do what I thought it would do. All those sigils and context-aware variables really fits my mind and I feel so productive and happy using Perl. Unfortunately the naming issue feels really detrimental so it's good that's now behind us. In my opinion Perl is still valid as a general programming language (the relative lack of built-in OOP is a benefit to me), but for some things it's the best tool for the job. More generally speaking, the variety and quality of modules on CPAN is great. You can easily interface with C (ok maybe not with XS so easily), do some event loop programming, write one liners, non-GIL threading, FastCGI/PSGI web servers (not to mention all the nice frameworks such as Mojolicious, Dancer, et al), even CGI via SlowCGI or fcgiwrap + Nginx/Apache/httpd is still relevant and possible. I don't have any benchmarks to hand but I'm still under the impression that it's faster than Python or Ruby, if that's an important consideration. Sometimes Perl is only used in place of shell scripting itself or as an alternative to awk and that's OK, definitely still worth learning in 2020.

Edit: I also wanted to add that companies still use it, some more famous names include Booking.com and DuckDuckGo. It forms the foundation of a lot of Linux and BSD utilities, Git, it's available out of the box on OpenBSD, 99% of Linux distributions, macOS Catalina (all of these I know for a fact) and if not available by default is easily installed or built.
That’s wrong from the accessibility point of view. Isn’t this more to hinder the usability of printed maps and somehow enforce copyright ?
I use ionos.com aka 1and1.com. Quick cheap and easy.
On page 124 of their 2018 annual report (page 126 of the PDF) Huawei lists their ownership of HiSilicon as 100%: https://www-file.huawei.com/-/media/corporate/pdf/annual-rep...

I don't understand though why you think that's such an inflammatory claim.
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I'm on the other end, the 4k 60fps makes it look alive and more relatable.
> Though steel will probably become more radioactive as neutrons bombard it.

The British and Australian governments tested this with Centurion tank #169041. They nuked it, then a few days later had a human crew jump in and drive it away. Most of the crew died of cancer years later.
that's quite cool actually!
I'm working on Muon, a modern low-level programming language: https://github.com/nickmqb/muon
It's a more common origin story than you might think, and not just in tech publishing. I have a friend who wrote a comedy article as a paid guest post. The thing went wildly viral and the publishers came a-knocking to bookify his piece.
6. Name one language, that has no unmaintained libraries, please :)
I use this site for utilising the browsers spell checker :)
> Most of the new development in Java is syntactic sugar, not JVM-level.

That's not true. The javac team is what 5% of all people working on OpenJDK.
I think you read way too much into that person's reply. They are questioning to basis of the article, which is something that should be encouraged, whether you agree it disagree.
For people interested for a link: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor...

"The number of people in employment in the UK is measured by the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and consists of people aged 16 years and over who did one hour or more of paid work per week and those who had a job that they were temporarily away from (for example, because they were on holiday or off sick). The largest two categories within employment are employees and self-employed people; in recent years these two categories have accounted for over 99% of all people in employment."

The "self-employment" rate, which mainly consist of various low-paying gig jobs without the welfare benefits of a full-time job, is growing and growing: it was 12% in 2001 and 15% in 2017. And there's this poignantly beautiful graph about income distribution between full-time employees and self-employed people in Figure 3 in this ORS article: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor.... Ah, I like it when distribution graphs clearly tell more about economic situations than single-number statistics.

One should understand that the overall decreasing quality of jobs (and wealth inequality created by those crappier jobs) are really the main problem. Unemployment rates (in the definition that neoliberal governments use) are more of a propaganda at this point.
I have watched Planet Earth in 4K (Real 4K not Netflix "4K"). on my new Home Cinema and it's the most beautiful digital content I have ever witnessed. Absolutely incredible.
As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, leaded paint can be a major health hazard in older homes.
Our toxic relationship with sticky notes
cloud computing is relatively cheap, could't the universities themselves or labs host their publications? I mean, the contents of the paper should be enough by itself to prompt momentum, otherwise is it worth publishing the paper at all?
You're fine with lead paint nite being properly remediated and instead aerosolized through your neighborhood, then? And asbestos fibers?
I work on UX, coming from an engineering background. It means that everyday I work close to product management and engineering.

The trend over the last 10 years is to collect tons of data to improve the product. Some PMs and UXrs believe that they’ll get a magic insight from the data, and the skeptics do it anyways because is another data point to have. For engineering, services like GA are cheap and easy to integrate.

Nobody has a bad intention. But, we are distracted by the next product release to see the long term consequences for the society.

The reality is that some data is useful, but most of it is BS. To measure adoption and engagement you can do a pilot and then deactivate data collection. Big app errors are reported soon after a release, and you don’t need to continue collecting that for a long time.

To improve the UX you can do research with less data points, and smaller groups. The irony: I wish to have data to prove it, my hypothesis is based on my experience. I got more actionable insights from qualitative research, self-reported metrics, or quantitative data focused in certain aspects (instead of collecting all just in case). Some times having nice reports based on tons of data is more useful as an argument for corporate politics rather than to improve the product, but users doesn’t need to pay the consequences of your company stupidity (I’m looking at you MS telemetry ;-) )

There is a simple thing that we can do to change this trend. Ask yourself: What is the goal of collecting the data? What product hypothesis you want to prove? Can you get insights from a small group?
If you don’t know.... hold on your data collection desires.
Is it me, or the first and second video are totally different shots ? The train, people and station look totally different.
They're fairly common on the Mac, even for average users. A 3G mobile network dongle I got from Virgin Mobile required a kernel extension to run on my Mac.

Of course, years later I'd be much more hesitant to install a required networking Kernel Extension from an organisation called "Huawei".
Is it really not free to do outreach to candidates on LinkedIn? I figured it was free and it was only the weird featured/highlighted messages people were paying for, because for paid outreach the quality of what I get sent is mostly really poor and very rarely seems targeted at all.
There's plenty of small business owners who are perfectly capable of managing the risk of losing staff for whatever reason without it sinking the company. Many business run at a big loss when starting up, never mind razor thin margins. The ones that survive manage their investors, debts, cashflow and staff risk properly.

If you run a business on the assumption that you're going to have all your current employees working for you continuously for the foreseeable future, you're going to have a bad time.
I did my PhD about ultracold matter.