skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heidi, the classic tale of the Swiss girl living in the mountains. The story is very popular in Asia and there was a kids' cartoon adaptation in 1974 by a Japanese animation studio. I thought the 2015 3d series also involved Japanese animators, though it turns out that one was produced in and for European TV.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070968/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4346362/
Was thinking about this the other day, when I heard the assistant trigger when there was _zero_ sound to prompt it. And was thinking of an attack where someone can literrally trigger a listen from outside your house. Especially dangerous because the default on a new Google Home (max hub nest truck whatever they call it) is to not have an audible prompt on a trigger.

So an attacker can literally just listen in with a press of a button. Probably gonna have to turn off this feature altogether for the immediate future.
Multiple people saw those numbers as mentioned in the article, I would trust regular people over CCP
> Considering that colonoscopies are not urgent you'll likely elect to have your butt probed at the clinic that doesn't have a massive price discrepancy between removing something and not.

For most people they have insurance and for them to get any kind of help paying they need to be working with an in-network provider. There is no meaningful market here even for elective/non-acute procedures.
Maybe congress should actually focus on privacy legislations than being obsessed with orange man.
Nah. Just introduce 'modern software development methodologies'. Put in a CI/CD pipeline and Blue/Green with Canary. Roll back the release on hull loss. /s
This isn't just phones.
This is a followup to " Deanonymizing Tor Circuits".[0] I added a comment there,[1] but I doubt that it'll get seen, unless someone searches.

From TFA:

> Vanguards help guard you from getting vanned...

> Even after deployment of the new v3 onion service protocol, the attacks facing onion services are wide-ranging, and still require more extensive modifications to fix in Tor-core itself.

> Because of this, we have decided to rapid-prototype these defenses in a controller addon in order to make them available ahead of their official Tor-core release, for onion services that require high security as soon as possible.

There's some informative discussion in this tor-dev thread.[2] And in particular, Mike Perry comments about the vanguards hack:[3]

> Yes, specifically vanguards always uses two guards and disables all path
restrictions to mitigate info-leak route disclosure attacks like the above.

0) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22212001

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22253183

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

3) https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2020-February...
By "being trained" do you really mean that we are thinking more critically about the information fed to us?
From Russia with Blood (2017)
Wouldn't that lead to the opposite effect? If you take an above average subset, you will have less upward mobility in their children because of mean reversion. If your parents are top decile already then there is a lot more room below you than above you.
While a pain, it isn't impossible. There will be an FCC ID that it has (due to transmitting receiving). Based on that device, you at least know what to look for (a PCI card? An entire board? an Antenna?).

Since FCC testing is expensive, I would not doubt that many manufacturers just make one card to install into multiple cars (to lower the FCC testing cost). That would be the best case, as all you need to do is find and remove that card.
Zero-days in Cisco Discovery Protocol
I like how it’s discussed as a surprise side effect. Collaboration and productivity are inversely related. Adding collaboration can rarely ever increase productivity and the fact that we needed years of open office plans and a Harvard study to tell us this is insane.
The people walking in and out, rinsing out their coffee cups, overhearing discussions that are occasionally useful but usually not is the problem for those of us distracted and stressed out by open-plan offices.

As far as preferences go, though, if you get even a small part of the external stimulus you want, it's already started wearing on us. Perhaps larger companies could try offering quiet floors with lots of barriers vs "social" open-plan floors.
A misrepresentation. The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, not to the members of the panel (like this scientist).
I started doing astrophotography ~5 years ago because I found the mysterious beauty of the incomprehensibly large cosmos a rejuvenating, wondrous thing. In the course of my fun I built a star tracking mount that people seemed to like, so I refined the design, built 10 and sold them on Etsy to test the waters of entrepreneurship. Today, I sell 20-30/mth via a dedicated store.

How often do I do astrophotography these days? Never. In fact my camera broke and I haven't bothered to replace it. I don't have the time.

Has the entrepreneurship been worth it? Probably. But I do miss looking at the stars.
How many families have an emergency fund that can cope with: rent/mortgage, car, utilities, and $2,000+/mo healthcare in the event of unemployment?
Want to Keep Your Kids Safe Online? Then Remember Children Lie
I've taken a more recent version of this course and it seems that concepts were explained pretty well - particularly, the graphics in the slides were good at explaining the various algorithms step by step.
Ah, that's right. I forgot we cannot edit comments the same way you can on Reddit.
Yeah, I really don’t like anything newer than 2009 in terms of the electronics integrations.

My next purchase, I am considering either a 2008 Lexus GX470 or a Tesla Model Y.
I actually enjoy Instagram's ads. I just wish there were higher quality providers in the things I find interesting.
My highest self-complexity is in my work and main goals. Like composing an orchestra there any many moving parts that need to come together. Hobbies and sports are generally less complex and more simple.

I don't think dropshipping chinese tea counts as a passion or method of self-expression for her and she's articulating that across the whole category. She's clearly more interested in consuming and learning about Chinese tea than expressing an inner desire to be a drop-shipping tycoon, that's cool. Responding to money stress by forcing your hobby into a job is not a great idea, I agree.
The biggest example I can think of where Disney gave happy ending to a traditionally sad story is The Little Mermaid. I believe in the fairy tale, she fails in her quest and ends up a foam on the sea, whereas the Disney version has a much happier ending.
I've had this setup in academic environments a few times, and it's wonderful.
>and it's not super surprising that they found some new ones while doing a rigorous testing regimen.
reply

So they did not do enough testing before, just the happy case and never considered sensor failures. I am now wondering if they tested the rest of the software or FAA will just look into MCAS and ignore all the rest.
having used the first three extensively , i’d say intellij is miles beyond them.
If you're born into America to Immigrant parents, doesn't that make you a second generation immigrant?
Neither. I do js,php, java, .net and swift.
Well just reading the headline, I immediately thought that in terms of absolute sales numbers, they were as bad as since the dot com bubble burst...

Only to learn after that it's talking about a percentage drop?
Aside from the obvious problem that the babushka is the grandmother herself, not the clothing she traditionally wears, what on earth do headscarves have to do with coding? How is this metaphor intended to work?
I understand that it's a work in progress, but I could see a polished, native mobile version of this really taking off. I'd be excited to try it, at least.
> They add way too much surface area to the language by allowing too many ways to do a given thing.

Not relevant to most situations, but I'll just add that this also makes it extremely difficult to teach a language.

I have taught Ruby -- a language with quite a sweet tooth -- for almost twenty years, and I feel like it gets worse and worse every year. Students run off to look at example code online (as they should), but discover that I have been teaching them what seems to them like a different language.

It really leaves me with no choice but to spend a lot of time in lectures saying, "You can do it this way . . . or this way . . . or this way . . . and by the way, these are all semantically equivalent."
I lead these budget planning meetings and this is accurate
Back-of-the-envelope math going backwards from the $60,000 the Iowa Democratic Party paid for this app suggest that Shadow put in less than a handful of person-months of work.

(Presume $100,000 base salary, 1.4x overhead for a salaried employee, $0 profit, all employees working on the project are developers, and no code reuse with any other project. Some of these assumptions are clearly false, but I think it gives a reasonable guess at an upper bound).

However, seeing as the developers they hired didn't bother changing the default manifest and forgot to prefix a URL with HTTPS, I hope they Shadow at least wasn't paying them that much?
Funding models differ greatly. Often those sky-high prices-per-student are because the schools are taking care of several meals a day for students, as well as before/after care, extracurriculars, and special needs programs, where all these initiatives are a necessity but unable to be provided by parents. In America, all of these are provided at higher cost and higher quality by wealthier parents themselves; in other countries, more robust social safety nets, more lenient workplace and parental leave policy, and occasionally higher real income/wealth per family allow parents to take on those needs at lower cost.

When combined with the prevalence of social intervention in the lives of poor families - up to and including removal of the children - you see that there is a profound and toxic distrust of these parents and of their ability to take care of their own children. We've allowed a model to grow where, instead of ensuring people make enough to take care of their families, we shift the burden onto the state. This is inefficient in education for a number of reasons, least of which the central conceit as described above, which undermines the effort at its core.
> ... signals you're aiming to perpetuate your anti-Apple fervor, but here's to dissipating said FUD for those of us who use/love Little Snitch.

I have no idea what you mean by

"FUD for those of us who use/love Little Snitch",

as I am explicitly complaining about how Apple's macOS move appears to be directed at CRIPPLING system softwares like Little Snitch, TripMode, Radio Silence etc.

So the fact is that I am actually speaking up and supporting the developers of these softwares as I consider it quite essential to fight "SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM".

And if you love Little Snitch (and other similar softwares too), you should instead contact and ask Apple why it doesn't allow popular softwares like it (and other outbound firewalls) on the macOS App Store? (Hint: Apple deliberately excludes them from App Store by having a rule that softwares that use Kernel Extensions won't be allowed on App Store.) To me, it's just a petty move to ensure that users can't find such useful softwares, that can potentially block Apple's ability to spy on its users, easily.

As for my "anti-Apple fervour", I am replying to you on my mac mini / iPad and voicing my "irritations" as a customer who likes their product. But I've learnt long enough not to trust corporates and be a brainwashed cult fanboy.
I didn’t stop at broadly accusing the media; I listed specific media outlets. You didn’t address any of the failed disinformation campaigns that I mentioned. You simply countered by throwing in a couple terms: republic party, Fox News, and the Rupert Murdoch scam.

I would recommend you read the HN guidelines.

Good day!
Only if your 1980s SUV is capable of reaching speeds that might kill you.

I will simply be maimed horribly and die later in the hospital, screaming "AT LEAST MY DEATH WASN'T TRACKED BY ALEXA".

I am, on balance, comfortable with this fate.

Alexa: His death was, in fact, tracked by Alexa
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I mean, we see people in fairly terrible countries not relocate. Why haven't 80% of all Mexican or Central American citizens relocated to the US? Or conversely, why haven't tons of the homeless in the US made their way to Mexico?

If these countries are really significantly worse, and that is the only factor pushing normal people to relocate, then we should be seeing massive population movements all the time. Instead, only the extremely motivated with a sizable risk appetite take the chance. And, one could argue that those two factors combined qualifies that group of people as non-standard.
Great to see healthcare sector innovating in new levels of depravity. These people put the Marquis de Sade to shame.
A bit late on the reply, but here are a couple of places to look – "Time Machine and Backing Up in Catalina". [1] Also see mjtsai.com for Time Machine related posts on Catalina.

[1]: https://eclecticlight.co/2019/11/11/time-machine-and-backing...
Meta response.

There has to be a better way to aggregate than having this same article (effectively) pop up every other week. And then like 30% of all hiring/firing/workplace discussions devolve into the open floor plan discussion.

The responses are always the same and the conversation hasn't moved an inch in five years.

No, its not that hard to just hide the submission and close the comment chains which veer. But my brain constantly says 'what if someone said something new and novel on the subject?!'. So its friction for me because I'm either spending 10 minutes reading a rehash or 5 minutes thinking 'I should just glance at it just in case'

The problem with reddit's solution is discoverability. Also, who would want a feed dedicated to kvetching/discussing open floor plans? Some/lots of people clearly want the articles and discussion, but would anyone actually subscribe to a feed like that?
It is encouraging because these particular children have upward mobility.
Protecting users from insecure downloads in Google Chrome
Makes unruly children appreciate how much better they have it.
Run!

I’m only half joking. Hopefully your company is ‘one of the good ones’ and it will work out, but they are few and far between.

The tech lead job varies a ton from one company to the next, but all too often it comes with high expectations without enough autonomy or authority to deliver on them. Make sure your boss provides clear expectations and work with them to clarify boundaries over time. I’ve been on both sides of this process and it is difficult and necessary.

Too often, tech leads are expected to wear more hats than they are able to wear well. Delegate all that you can and if there is still too much work to do, ask for help.

It’s all about communication so actively work on this skill.
I’ve seen both behaviours in both groups. But the point is worth caring about in any quantitative study.
Really great demo videos on the webpage, fwiw.
I live in the US.

I had a relatively minor injury (wrist) from a car accident. Nevertheless, it needed some interventions and I was advised to start PT right away. Was given a referral and a list of in-network providers (for a large insurer). In my (metropolitan) area, I could not find a provider with a less than 3-4 month waiting period within 30 miles.

My step daughter wants counseling - 2 month wait. All three of my closest options for a PCP are "not accepting new patients".

This isn't a problem of socialized medicine. I grew up in Australia, and I know that much.
Also there's the 'Audio Hotspot Attack' - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8906174

Which uses a parametric speaker, which uses a number of ultrasonic transducers which "emit amplitude-modulated ultrasounds that will be self-demodulated in the air"
This is beautiful/a bit sad and articulates perfectly why sometimes hobbies are better left alone. Thanks for sharing.
Don't know, don't care. If they have a problem with it, they should talk to management. I'd personally be fine with a private office, but I have my doubts about getting one.
don’t forget gradle and jenkins
CelesTrak Orbit Visualization at 30FPS in 3D
As it should, since they have no hard evidence.
Is Vice going to write an article on how international vacations (which release in one shot as much CO2 as an SUV releases all year) are "inherently selfish?"
It's actually extraordinarily difficult to get a DNN model to accurately predict planetary motion over arbitrary time horizons. RNNs have a tendency to either decay or blow-up.

The only way I know to make neural nets work well for this problem is to build in lots of physics into the model architecture, e.g., conservation of energy:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.01563
Isn't Phoenix mostly just a connecting hub? If I'm going to vacation in a ridiculously hot, dry, arid place, it's gonna be Vegas, likely by way of a layover in Phoenix where I don't even leave the comfort of the airport. Although, it has been a few years, so maybe things have changed, unlike Phoenix's climate.
In Coronavirus, China Weighs Benefits of Buffalo Horn and Other Remedies
I mostly agree with you, but also can that it can be nice whenever you have a class that has some state and only a single method. If you have this, you no longer have to pick separate names for the class and the function.

Chances also are that it is inspired by python’s callable (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callable_object#In_Python), which, as far as I know, people don’t complain about much.
Unless the conference room has already been booked by someone wanting a private office for a few hours.
Optional is just signaling to the user that they should check.

You could also do this in Kotlin and boom there goes the safety:

fn nonNull(): String {
val s: String? = null
return !!s
}
> To me, it creates this eerie kind of feeling where everything looks real-ish, but still has that deceptive feeling of actually being fake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
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It only fails to be encouraging if you're ideologically opposed to the theory that "personal efforts matter".
EconTalk recently did an episode on pricing in healthcare that talks about a lot of these issues. Well worth a listen:
http://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-ca...
As a content strategist, I always advise my clients to pursue a hybrid approach. Some posts have to be purely SEO focused with heavily optimized content. Some should be focused on driving social shares. And some should simply talk to people like regular human beings, not search engine crawlers.

Even with minimal backlinking, this strategy has helped grow traffic from 10k to 250k
´...or which will be made in the future and as long as I live,...´
Why? For fun, here is a location to a random house in the bay. 37.351019, -122.035565.

Location alone doesn't mean much.
Gotcha. I've asked myself those questions to probe my feelings. I think things are going to get pretty ugly as the US starts to grapple with this again.
Have you made a bet in a bar that the book could have settled? Maybe they only pull it out when needed, instead of keeping it on display.
Reminds me of the smarter every day video where Destin used lightwaves against smart homes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozIKwGt38LQ
If highly productive people can't keep the fruit of their labor, they'll leave to a place where they can! We have less social programs in the US but the majority of productive people will probably prefer working here since they can take home a significantly higher salary even after taxes.
What amazes me as a huge Swift fan is that crap like callAsFunction gets priority over things like proper async/await.
> I know when it is appropriate or neccessary to check for null

Anyone who thinks they can do better than a compiler for code safety is probably very new to this profession.
I think it's not that software devs don't care about hardware/meatspace issues, they're just not as well qualified to evaluate them. So they tend to focus on what they know. It's not bad to do that - you can't focus on everything.

Also, wouldn't your argument equally imply that mechanical engineers should drop their parochial belief that hardware issues are terrible while ignoring software problems? (Presuming they do that, which seems not unlikely)
Or JIRA and its abuses
Here's another perspective: mercenary-leaning personality types may be able to compartmentalize micromanagement, but highly intrinsically-motivated minds are totally disrupted by it. The anxiety of observation lingers even when the boss isn't looking and all work begins to carry the sting of coercion. Effort for these people grows out of aligning personal agency with meaningful production, so forced conformity to arbitrary management practices (or worst of all, counterproductive ones) actively kills all but the minimal output to remain employed and put food on the table.

But personalities who don't experience the world this way interpret it under the simplistic moral judgment of "laziness", thus perpetuating the very incentive structure that causes it in the first place.

I find it highly dubious that there's a significant fraction of humans who are basically not industrious. That just doesn't seem possible or adaptive in the context of a tribe of hunter-gatherers eeking out survival on the savannah. Rather it seems that we're clinging to unsophisticated organizational structures from the Industrial Revolution, which enabled a highly technical society to emerge in the first place but were never iterated to handle things like psychological diversity or the explosion of highly specialized knowledge work. That’s why we have insanities like software designers working factory shifts, in noisy distracting settings, taking marching orders from people who have no idea what they do.
Allow me to address your grey comment.

By accusing me of “parroting” and saying that the irony in my post is “incredible” might show how you feel, but does nothing to address my post. You provided a lot of emotion, zero facts — and nothing even remotely close to a substantive counter in your reply.

And for that reason, I’m out.
Here's the paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.201...

Roughly, they found two big companies that were about to switch "from assigned seats in cubicles to similarly assigned seats in an open office design, with large rooms of desks and monitors and no dividers between people's desks". Roles included "technology, sales and pricing, HR, finance, and product development, as well as the top leadership". They compared interaction metrics before and after the change.
Yes... thanks to books and subsequent fan fic, all kinds of Harry Potter characters and terms are both all over the web and heavily searched!
Sweden and Germany are no longer homogeneous at all, and anyway isn't diversity supposed to be a strength?

The specific example I gave, DC, simply destroys the argument that local funding is the problem. DC is very well-funded from national sources, and it has horrific schools.
thanks! I’ll try it!
Direct femtosecond laser processing of metals for solar-thermal devices