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Microsoft Patches Exploited Internet Explorer Flaw
New to us (US). Very common in EU.
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I had one early century about the size of a car key. Googling for something similar now I find nothing. Not necessarily weird given the current state of telephony, but kind of a bummer.
Agreed. The quarantined cruise ship is, sadly, an excellent inadvertent experiment for us.

It won't help much with the R0 calculation, but it will give us a good idea for mortality, though it might take 3 weeks to get that number.
Shooting 8K Videos on the Galaxy S20 Requires 600MB per Minute
You're right. Not sure how I fell into that trap so easily.
Be the burden you wish to see in the world. https://getsession.org/
Sorry I misunderstood your previous comment. I assumed you meant that they should include safety features for no extra cost, which they do, not that they shouldn't charge anything at all for safety features, which is such a weird and extreme take that I'm not sure what to even say...
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As well as being reproducible, or even deterministic builds.
I am loath to use my real name on absolutely anything I put online. ...and frankly, I do not understand people that do.

There are crazy people on the internet, and many of them love to hold a grudge.
I don’t know if I believe that 3 / 10,000 people are born blind, in addition to the arithmetic errors
I have a car (Honda Pilot) where the company decided to make the lift gate window too high, probably to accommodate mounting the spare tire inside the cabin. This design makes you dependent on the rear camera for most reverse use cases.

It probably made a lot of sense in the Southern California design center. In Upstate New York, that camera is covered in road spray and salt, and my brain cannot see anything or act effectively without cleaning it. Even after doing that, it will get dirty again after a few minutes of driving.

I’d guess that a least a few dozen people will hurt by this decision.

Take this problem to the self-driving car and things get even worse. You’re going to have a lot of problems with sensor effectiveness that cannot be magically fixed with software.
I love reading ESR, and it's such a pleasure to see how great his writing is in 2020. This made me hark back to The Cathedral and the Bazaar - and also echoed my usage.

I do however find that when you have a python project that is heavily dependent on third party libraries - these things get significantly larger and more problematic. That's not really a commentary on Go, inasmuch that it's a byproduct of the longevity of Python.
It's too short for communication. I think it's burst of particles that are released when spaceship goes out of warp.

https://www.universetoday.com/93882/warp-drives-may-come-wit...

16 day regular cycle is because it's regular transfer between two planets. Other FRBs are random because they are just random ships on random research routes.
I keep a regular schedule. Wake up, get kids to school, work out, eat, get to work.

I maintain lists of things to think about and to do. My style of bulllet journeling.

I usually stick to the rule of threes. Three things I need to do this am, or today,or this week, this sprint...

If I don't need to read something now, it goes in my list and the tab is closed.

The biggest problem for me is that I am a morning person and there is not enough morning. I am most productive from around 5 or 6am til somewhere between 10am or noon. During that time, I need to get kids off to school, work out, and eat. I could shift working out, but if I skip it in the morning, I'm very likely to skip it over lunch or in the evening.
It can be distress which is missed by the doctor.

I think it's far more acceptable for us to "mishear" something and think nothing of it. The seeing also have the backup sense, sight to verify much of what we hear.

"I heard the sound of an elephant stomping around in my living room."

This statement made by a seeing person could be made by nobody thinking much of it. I wouldn't immediately ask if they actually thought an elephant were in the living room at the time.

The same statement made by a (blind) schizophrenic person could have implied that the person actually believed there was an elephant in the living room, but the clinician might have missed the significance and not asked follow up questions.

A bit of a contrived example, but you get the gist.

To a seeing person it might
I grew up in North America (where 911 is the emergency number), so when I moved to Germany and wanted to remember 112, I noticed that it spells out:

1 + 1 = 2
3x3 pixels in a CNN isn't just 3x3 pixels though. As the layers get pooled together even though the sliding window stays the same size (3x3) it's moving over images that are getting compressed 2x every time you pool. So in that last layer you're looking quite farther than "3 pixels".
I've always heard the explanation as: it's a strategy to commoditize complementary products and a complement to search is browsers (Chrome) and a compliment to browsers are devices (Android). By getting to the devices and browsers first, they saved themselves millions in fees to seed chrome and google as defaults.

Maybe this explanation is more hindsight than foresight.
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> It was actually from an office of a company I worked for before. About 5 people, modern, spacious, 15 minutes walking distance from my home. Literally not a single con. I just paid for my old desk space and that was it.

I have always felt like there is a market here. I work remotely, but want somewhere to work from consistently for a few days a week. I've tried coffee shops, coworking spaces, etc, but none of them replicate the social aspect of working in an office (which is something I somewhat miss). I'd love to find a local company that has some extra space that would rent me a desk, but I'm not really sure how to approach it short of cold calling a bunch of places.
I didn't know that. At least it's extremely easy to cancel my Pandora subscription and they don't hound you like XM does. XM sends me a letter a month even though I never signed up. I'm curious how long they'll keep it up.
I'm not too bothered about ublock - I already run blokada so the worst adverts are already blocked at the network level - but being in Europe I can't manage without the I don't care about cookies add-on.

Whenever I've tried other browsers - Chrome, Brave, DDG - having to click "I accept" on every single webpage to remove the "This site uses cookies!" pop-up is really tedious. I hope the Firefox on Mobile add-ons support doesn't just start and end at ublock origin.
Apple has deprecated kernel extensions [1], but I'm sure the Hackintosh community will soon find a way around it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22251076
That's a very accurate definition in the mechanical world. Every junior engineer with an overly complicated, cutting edge, unproven idea gets shot down pretty quickly. In our shipyard safety is more important than anything else. After that is cost.
An odd side effect of that was that in New Zealand, where phone dials are arranged 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-0 instead of 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0, the emergency number was indeed 111, with nine pulses for the 1 digit. British-made exchange equipment was extensively used there, so no modification was needed to make 111 the emergency number.

The reverse dial was a result of the design of early Rotary exchanges built in Antwerp around 1921. Similar Rotary exchanges were installed in Oslo as well in 1914, and Oslo also used the reverse dial (but nowhere else in Norway).
Why on earth am I getting downed so hard? It was a genuine question.
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Ask HN: What do you do with your Old Android Phones?
Just a general question about old Android phones, especially the ones which can't be updated anymore (i.e. manufacturer dropped support after 2 or 3 years, and has no support from LineageOS project either)? I know about PostMarketOS, but it looks like most devices have partial support at best. Since such phones have almost no market value, what is the best use for such devices? Curious to hear what you have tried.
The drop from 2018 to 2019 might be due to Visa and other rolling out contact-less cards. I haven't used apple pay since I received new cards
Given Bitcoin has failed miserably as a currency, being almost universally abandoned for this purpose for various reasons, I don't see how you can present it as the future of money.

Also, game theory is a very limited model of human behavior. That you choose to invoke it, and you choose to believe that humans are simple rational game-theoretic "players" is not in any way proof that they actually are any of these. There is a lot of observable human behavior which contradicts rational and game-theoretic models - just look at some observations from behavioral economics.
Except beacons of some sort. I could imagine practical benefits to not put a lot of information in there.
Here's my go-to example about the challenges of driving in a Canadian winter.

I was waiting for my bus to work one morning after a large snowfall. The snow clearing crews were hard at work, but the street was effectively blocked by piles of snow, men, and machines.

Yet, my bus arrived on time *driving down the sidewalk".

I am not sure how any self-driving system could have figured that out :)
Ask HN: Can we expect Flutter to stick around?
I am currently wondering which tech is worth investing time in to build cross-platform mobile apps. Flutter seems to have been around for a while now. However, given Google's track record of r.i.p.-ing services/products I wonder if it's worth my time.
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‘We Knew They Had Cooked the Books’ – The US Tailpipe Standards Rollback
Complains about autopilot.

Plays video game in the car with hands off the wheel.

Well, okay.
This isn't even the bad part. Apple have a massive batch of faulty macbook pro 2019 16" machines and aren't admitting it.
I'm on my 3rd $7000 replacement 2 months after purchase, this third still faulty so now swapping for an early 2020 model when it comes out. I'm lucky if it lasts longer than an hour without restarting. Terrible during renders.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250905859

Funny thing is, when I do eventually get a machine that isn't faulty, I still have to deal with Catalina, since the new macbooks can't be downgraded and Catalina has a lot of sleep bugs that restart also:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250826263

Every single 2019 16" macbook owner has also experienced the speaker popping issue, which after 2 system updates has simply lowered in volume instead of being loud and noticeable.

PopGate. GPUgate. KernelGate. T2Gate. It is actually far beyond a joke, this was the true cost of apple become the world's first 'trillion dollar company'. They cut so many corners all they can produce are lemons now.
Wow, I couldn't believe it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_for_iOS
Why do you hate working from home?
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China: Brutal post-coronavirus economic reset
I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at here. Leave won the first try. If anybody could be accused of trying for do-overs, it's Remain. In the last snap elections, one party talked about a possible new referendum, and the other outright promised to throw out the first referendum. The latter party got destroyed, and the former was merely trounced, largely on the basis of being wishy-washy.

Even in the ill-considered first snap election, the pro-Brexit Tory party was still the dominant party, despite losing seats. They came roaring back after getting new leadership that was more confidently pro-Brexit.

I reiterate that I think that this is all an incredibly bad idea, and I believe it represents a failure of democracy. But Remain had multiple chances, and lost all of them, the last time resoundingly.
A hostile invasion that follows will be the ultimate proof.
They also used the 2 in 10,000 figure when picking out the comparison syndromes. I believe Retts is ~1 in 10,000. It's definitely not 1 in a million.
Not at all.

If its taking 100 lines to do something and I can rewrite in 10, then that's a lot less places for bugs to hide. That's less than one screen of code for the next person to read / comprehend. In most cases its a win (though I will admit that sometimes comprehension is easier with less concise code).
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What’s Next for NeoBanks?
More like "powerful radio emissions from deep space". The paper doesn't use the term "signal" at all, and a website dedicated to science probably shouldn't have either (although it did help bait my click).
Have you seen the roads in Alabama? They have this weird, red asphalt and rarely any edge lines. In Louisiana they have these elevated roads over the bayou that don't seem to have break-down lanes. In Tennessee they have roads that go through mountains with shocking curves and gradients. Pot holes, broken lights & signs, weird parking lots, new construction, and seeing a small ball roll near the road and knowing that a kid might be coming after it soon.

It seems like it would take an endless list to cover every new edge case. Our technology is a amazing, but I almost think the edge case is places where autonomous driving makes sense.

The thing I trust the least is the operators they want to put in these cars. They better be completely autonomous, self-maintaining, and somehow tamper-proof. It's a really tall order, which I hope we do fulfill one day. But maybe I'm a pessimist, and they have it all figured out already.
This just goes to show that censorship is usually wrong, even if it has some small benefits here and there (like making people feel better), because in the long run, when the information is critical, you need information to flow freely. True, this information could cause a panic, or be a false alarm, but it seems like knowing this earlier and responding accordingly would have been a better use of resources. Not only that, but if information flows freely, those other scenarios can be mitigated with _more_ freedom of speech / information.

Free speech issues aside, I don't blame the officials that did this though, because they are in a prisoners dilemma, and I'm sure something like this could and does happen in the US too. There is likely no cost to ignoring it (likely false alarm and nothing will come of it 99% of the time), but if you make a big deal and are wrong, you get punished. Not sure how you fix this one -- its like that in most organizations too. The best strategy is usually to do nothing, maybe someone else will report, and at worst, the blame is distributed to the whole group and people can say "we had no idea this was an issue".

People hesitate to report issues because of all the costs socially and to their social/career prospects. If you're a "troublemaker" you don't get selected for promotion, social engagements, leadership, etc. And usually in the "best" case your reports result in some temporary words about how "we need to change the culture", meanwhile the momentum of culture / bureaucracy / process reverts things to their normal state pretty shortly (see Snowden or virtually any whistleblower story).

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Psychology/Social psychology exercises at school are the way to go.

More awareness = better outcomes.

How people handle Trump and his base is a good marker of the populations mental health/self-awareness levels.
In a previous implementation of Contextualise I included the ability to timestamp topics allowing for a straight-forward temporal navigation of topics using a timeline component. It was somewhat naive, but it did allow you to navigate a knowledge graph from a time perspective. This time around I probably wouldn't add the timestamp directly to the topic but instead tackle this by means of temporal relationships using, obviously, associations. The outcome would be (regardless of how it is actually modeled in the topic map) is that a timeline component could be appropriately populated allowing for temporal navigation of a knowledge graph.
I think it's pretty absurd that we don't have automated trains and light rails but somehow we think self driving cars are in the near future. Compared to cars on roads it should be trivial to automate trains on tracks. Why don't we go for the lower hanging fruit first?
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This might actually be the one case where this limitation is not entirely artificial. :-)

The SiriusXM sattelites are in an inclined eliptical orbit with the highes point being over the norther hemisphere. This is the so called Molniya orbit, named after the first Soviet sattelites using it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molniya_orbit

(Soviet Union had a lot of territory in higher latitudes where geostationary sattelites do not work well & the Molniya orbit needs less energy to achieve.)

So in the SiriusXM case, the sattelite would be much too low to provide useful coverage when over the southern hemisphere. And even when. As for not covering EU/Asia - this could be due to either the highest point of the orbit being always over US (guessing there) or due to ground station coverage when the sattelite is not over US.
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I still don't understand. Is it that you think HS2 has higher margins for contractors than other projects? Otherwise spending an equivalent amount on large infrastructure elsewhere in the country would end up benefitting exactly the same contractors.
Window-Openers vs. Door-Knockers
Tis a shame web browsers are only able to use Kerberos to authenticate connections and not additionally to provide confidentiality and protect the integrity of the communications channel.

Certificates are pain in the arse and it depresses me that we still don't have a way to deal with compromised private keys.
There's more to the cost of using an abstraction than just the cost of learning it. Example: an abstraction that makes a piece of code easier to test may introduce indirections that make it harder to read. That trade-off may be worth it, but not acknowledging that there is a trade-off is the problem I'm getting at.

The religious adherence to "use all abstractions" is as dangerous as the religious adherence to "use no abstractions." My point is we have to get better at quantifying this stuff otherwise we'll forever be stuck in this cycle of arguing which abstractions are appropriate and when but never actually being able to quantify when we are right.
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There is, of course, an app for that:

https://download.cnet.com/Slam-the-Phone/3000-20432_4-780789...
> I just. walk. away.

Though you might want to get in contact with your insurance if they are paying for it, since having it on your record as aborted for no reason could cause issues when convincing them to pay the next one.
You can point the _acme-challenge
record to another domain using a CNAME

Yes. Then you need two domain name servers to serve your domain. And you need to write and maintain code to talk to the API of the second nameserver.

That's what I call a pain in the ass.
Imagine that there was a phone receiver that delivered a zero to nominally painful electric current based on how abruptly the audio from the other speaker cut off... All sorts of reasons that this isn't doable, but the psychological satisfaction of knowing that spam caller just got zapped...
You should meet Holly, who was the main McMurdo sysadmin most of the seasons I was there. I can't remember his last name but that guy was really wonderful. Super competent, friendly, and seemed to love his job.
Do real world https clients actually verify the end entity certificate against the name constraints of all the certificates in the trust chain?
>Could you explain to me how can you trivially combine two apps?

You already have the UI code for mobile and desktop. All you need to do is switch to one or the other when the user connects/disconnects an external monitor.

At the most basic, you could just save the spreadsheet state (staying with the Excel used as an example), and load in the background and switch to show the desktop version of the app with it pre-loaded. Same way as if the user manually saved their spreadsheet, closed the mobile version of the app, and opened the same spreadsheet with the desktop version - but more transparently.

Between this and "sharing UI" there is a big spectrum. If you already have the mobile and desktop version, and the backend is more or less the same (as can be the case with apps like Excel for macOS and iOS), then compared to the work you've already done its trivial to add an intelligent way to switch from one UI to the other keeping all the other state (working spreadsheet, clipboard, current executing action, etc).

>You will need to design a completely different set of interactions, components, layouts etc. for the mobile version compared to the desktop version.

Not necessarily. A sphreadsheet cell is a sphreadsheet cell. Whether you click on it with touch or the mouse pointer doesn't matter. You could easily share the same underlying widget (and e.g. just show more of them). The formula editor that appears can similarly be shared. Other forms might need some extra padding, or some widgets to become larger or smaller etc.

We already have apps that run the same in iOS and macOS, through Apple's translation layer + layout constraints and switches on widgets. The "Voice Memos" apps is basically the exact same thing between iOS and Mac.
The author is confused. The thing he's talking about is actually Wikipedia. Facts, mostly derived from books, is exactly how he describes Wikipedia. And indeed, it was transformative for education, and it did cause us to question parts of education.
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For clarity, I personally mistrust AI driving and wouldn't be comfortable using it, but the question I have is more along the lines of - if you take the incidence of serious driver error (e.g texting and crashing, speeding and sliding off a road, falling asleep etc) does that happen less often than autopilot going nutso for the demographic driving it? Failing hard seems very possible for both, so stats backing up that AI fails hard regularly seem applicable.
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> Can backblaze let me restore my MBP to its state (including firefox/chrome logins, keyring/keychain passwords) as it was on Feb 12, 2018?

The Backblaze consumer product is unlikely to be able to do so, with all the files that they automatically exclude: https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217665388-What-...
We should move this conversation to email (as I will check that more frequently and will be more likely to get back to it). See email in my profile.

Active subspace comes from the uncertainty quantification community. If you assume all your parameters are Gaussian, then the sensitivity matrix is directly correlated to the probability density functions. I find it easier to think in terms of the sensitivity matrix, but useful to realize the sensitivity matrix to approximate (complex) probability distributions.

My though was that if you were optimizing have a huge parameter space theta = [theta1, ... thetam] then you could reduce the parameter space by only looking at theta_reduce = [theta | d loss/d theta > threshold] or you could look at active subspaces and change the parameter space to xi = [xi1, ... xi_m] where x_i = SUM a_j theta_j.

xi_i could be given by the largest eigenvectors of the sensitivity matrix S_ij = d^2 loss/dtheta_i dtheta_j

Wouldn't it be nice if hacker news supported latex.

I haven't done any work here, but I suspect I will be doing some of this towards the end of summer.