skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linux phones can't come soon enough. I don't need many features, I just need calls, texts, a web browser, and an SSH utility. I'm willing to give up a lot of features just to have control over my phone.

Is it too much to ask for me to have exclusive control over my devices?
Yes, which confirms the parent comment's point. Note the title refers to encrypted email, and not email in general.
fail2ban has some defaults. Definitely not for all those ports though. But 80, 443, 22 have them

Regarding DNS, the query string is encrypted on HTTPS. It can still be cached on logs on their side for example. It can be seen on the script, but the credentials would still have to be there somewhere.
This one is picked very carefully to be as safe as reasonably possible with this number of characters. As was pointed out elsewhere, it is actually safe for filenames.
I suppose that, in part, it's exactly what you say it is.

If it's a feel-good story, I think that must be because I feel good to have had the opportunity to meet and work with Larry Tesler. He impressed me with his intelligence, his generosity, and his compassion. I feel that I'm better for having known him, and I suppose that comes through in my account.

You're right: Newton was a pressure cooker. Larry didn't put that pressure on us, though. We put it on ourselves. We got the idea that there was an outside chance of making something great, and we pursued that dream as hard as we could. Some of us--I include myself--were intemperate in that pursuit, and it cost us.

Now, the pursuit of greatness is a species of vanity, and vanity is a cruel and fickle master. But in Newton's case, at least, I think those of us who were seduced by that vanity have only ourselves to blame.
Ask HN: Does your company offer commission for engineers?
I have worked at multiple consulting service companies that offered engineers commission for bringing in new business. Now that I'm at a product company I'm being told this is not industry standard, but am still expected to leverage my personal contacts to aide the sales team. Are there other notable product companies that offer commissions outside the sales department?
Everything in the leak could be faked and nothing about it makes it definitionally due to a Russian hack either.

But the evidence certainly seems to indicate a local copy done by somebody who wasn't trying to cover their tracks:

https://theforensicator.wordpress.com/guccifer-2-ngp-van-met...

The only evidence pointing to Russians is the CIA says so. The NSA gave it about a 50% chance before joining the other agencies to parrot what the CIA said.
Iirc they tried to create a mixed breed with africanized bees which are supposed to be much more hearty. But I think the problem was that they don't mix well the stronger just takes over the weaker.
Government props up equity values again, especially since everyone is invested in them. People with savings in cash lose via loss of value of currency, just like last time.
Exploiting Jira for Host Discovery
Yeah, had a college professor that hunt & pecked on the keyboard. He was smart and good at teaching, just terrible at typing.
My google ads profile correctly identifies me as male: https://adssettings.google.com/

I imagine the high level business use cases for these machine learning APIs are similar. For example, analyze shopping mall camera footage to figure out demographics shopping there and coordinate the (socially accepted and segregated) men/women department stores accordingly.

This is such an profitable use case I cynically can't see why they would cripple their API like this, regardless of their ethical stance.
has the disadvantage of needing the SSD (which is probably more expensive than the pi?). here is something I ran across a while back, that if I understand correctly, uses a ramdisk + overlayfs to make the whole thing faster: https://github.com/cattlepi/cattlepi
People do recommend switching between serif and sans serif typefaces, depending on the size of the text. Admittedly, it often goes the other way—-sans serif at bigger sizes—-but the idea is the same: some things look better at a particular size.
I fell for the ECC myth as well when using ZFS on XigmaNAS, but got schooled here on HN a while back: https://jrs-s.net/2015/02/03/will-zfs-and-non-ecc-ram-kill-y...
This is a tempting idea, but as was already pointed out, the problem is not the character set, but that similar images will encode to the same string.

Anyway, chances are you are already storing a filename in your database, so you would need a second field for the blurhash string.
Doesn't that make it fail to maintain the self hosting property that is most likely behind the introduction of this define?
`:` is disallowed on MacOS and several of those characters are disallowed on Windows. Generally I view images on a frontend, not on my servers.
Tech built their companies on the idea that they didn't need people-facing people. It shows in lousy customer support, click-away liability, and so on.

In the early days Google had a press conference where one of the founders (Larry, IIRC) was challenged about the availability of all the personal information available in the search results. The reporter apparently made him uncomfortable by bringing up his data. Those details disappeared from the search results the next day.

Fast forward ten years and my friend is falsely accused of violence against one of his students. She was caught with bruises she got from having sex (she was 15 yo or so) and blamed this guy saying they were from a violent outburst. The story is all over the newspapers. They go to court, turns out the girl is lying, he's cleared. Of course during the wait he was let go. So guess what happened whenever he tried to find a job? They "Googled" him of course, all this came up, and he was turned down everywhere he went. Do you think Google would respond to his pleas to get these results dropped? Nope.

I think I'm ok with this. It's certainly going to change things if it gets to the point where Amazon is responsible for slanderous reviews and such. Such speech has never been "free" (as in legal). But today, it's all anonymous and people can say anything. This will turn things back a bit.

It probably won't go that far, though. But it might make those tech co.s rethink things a little. (I also submitted this article but came to yours.)
Africanized bees are more hearty to mites and disease.
That man is always so on point.
I've been enjoying Mike Meyer's Security+ course, though professor Messer's course is a good and free alternative.
I doubt it has anything to do with the conceptual meaning of .cc and more with the practical consideration that uxdesign.cc was available and much cheaper than the alternatives.
The constant sales are annoying but the few courses I took were quite good and helpful especially if it’s something you know nothing about.
That will always be the case though
I don't understand what you are saying. I see it only working if citizens couldn't live without it, because if they can government can just forbid Google from operating in their jurisdiction, e.g. by simply blocking them. On the contrary, if it's necessary, it's Google who has leverage in the case of the conflict with the foreign government.
In Bayesian optimization, the next guess is chosen according to a non-brute force equation that takes all previous information into account.

Does it appear more intelligent than repeated slight shifts more or less toward the first order gradient?

The second seems to be more similar to how humans learn, but the former more similar to how we rationalize after learning.

Still, the first is still repeated, relatively simple applied math. I’m not sure either case jumps out as being qualitatively different in a meaningful way when it comes to intelligence.
Dropbox launches new eSign feature for enterprises
> So it might be a relatively easy problem for cars, if all the cars could be made to follow a common set of rules.

Yes, one way to make a problem easier to solve is to make the problem easier. (But how...)

I admit that if people acted exactly like birds, self-driving cars would be easier to implement.
Didi uses AI facial recognition to ensure its drivers wear masks
When opening this website, i instantly remembered that music band that made this website (and probably hitted the HN front page) :

> https://www.windows93.net/
Heh. Interesting. The meme of 'owning the libs' is clearly a strong one and happily repeated by left leaning talk show/radio hosts. Are you talking with 'representatives' of the population? I try. The sense I am getting is the frustration of not being heard, being ignored.. or having their voices simplified into a sound bite along the lines of 'owning the libs'. It can get annoying.

Trump is a symptom of that. A big giant scream that says simply 'can you hear me now?'.

I even disagree with you about it not being a game. It is. It has real life stakes and consequences, and scary ones at that, but it is a game.

As for liberals just trying to fix the country, while saying equivalent of 'we r gonna nix insurance companies, coal factories and big coke' may simply not be perceived as such. It needs to be addressed and not shoved down people's throats.

You have to be willingly blind to your own side propaganda to not see this big emergent picture.
I agree with the principle of what you're saying. A striking example from Windows XP is that is that folder icons are at a jaunty angle at 32x32 and higher but flat on at 16x16.

But what if you're looking at 48x48 icon on a screen with triple the pixel density in each direction? Surely you'd still want an image with with the same amount of detail as you'd normally get in a 16x16 icon, even those few details are rendered with a high pixel count – basically you're running into the resolution limit of your eyeball. And this is a very common situation now because of course phones have a far higher pixel density than most traditional monitors.

So there is potentially benefit in vector icons even though, as you say, you still need two or more versions with different levels of detail.
RSA was already incapable of maintaining those standards.
Does PE do the VC thing where they buy 10 or 20 things expecting 1 or 2 to hit big and the rest to fail? If so, they're placing a bet, but if it's not promising they'll let it die on the vine.
Yeah, some times it does go well. But the managers make money either ways, since they pay themselves back immediately using leverage.
Fair! I would not expect the image be saved to a Windows path when displaying a blurred image in the example use cases (mobile apps and web pages). You're thinking Electron, perhaps?

Point of order though: I don't think that's right for MacOS, though you're certainly right for Windows. HFS+ lets you use any Unicode symbol including NUL (because the filenames are encoded Pascal-style). I don't know the details how how APFS does it, but it also appears to support any Unicode code point, though it additionally mandates UTF-8. [0]

[0] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Fi... grep "filenames"
I'm not blind to the flaws of private equity, but just wanted to make a point here: there's very little likelihood that the business sold in 2020 is the same that was acquired in 2006. Companies change and the private equity sponsor may have:

1. Spun off businesses that made a profit
2. Paid out dividends that reduced their cost basis

Again, I don't know the specifics of the EMC deal and maybe very well they destroyed value, my point is that this is not as simple as comparing numbers at two points in time.
I don't think either are good options. I was reading on here recently about the $2.1M that the US gov paid (indirectly) to Signal, with the implication of the associated compromise of integrity. And PGP is so labyrinthine that most of the mail tools implementing it had been compromised for more than a decade. [1]

Whatsapp? It's owned by Facebook, as we know, and I wonder if we can believe that we put on there is actually safe. I think that would be naive.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/06/decad...
Cool. Related: the venerable WPT (https://webpagetest.org) is well-documented, and it's straightforward to set up a private instance (eg via AWS AMI) that supports scripting and a robust set of testing tools.
When I drive, essentially only use turn signals to restrict my behaviour vs the default assumption. For example, if a car is indicating to turn right, I will assume it is likely to either go right or go straight and wait accordingly.

Reason for this is too many times I've just narrowly avoided a collision because someone forgot to cancel their signal, or they were signalling ridiculously early for a turn they were going to make further up, or even that they just activated the signal accidentally.

Not to suggest prediction is bad, but just that also not treating turn signals with too much authority is safer.
Opensuse also provides 64bit images for RaspberryPi

https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Raspberry_Pi4
> Signal is for secure, end to end encrypted communication. Ideally that would be all communication, but that isn’t realistic in today’s world.

Do you seriously believe that ALL communication working through a single proprietary non-federated service would be a good thing? !
load balances the tears between both cheeks
':' works fine in MacOS file names for me.
Your second point may be one reason why, whenever I think of Larry, I also think of Steve Jobs.

Steve was infamous for riding roughshod over employees in pursuit of making something great.

Larry's example shows that such treatment is not necessary to get people's best work. If you can't get great work out of people without abuse, that's your own limitations showing; it's not a law of nature.

I suppose I also think of Steve because I met and worked for Larry and Steve in the same fairly short period of time, and because both projects were high-risk, low-percentage attempts to create something great. Also, perhaps, because Steve was opinionated about Larry and I argued with him about it.
That happened to a non-profit I help as well.

We were attacked by someone using different IP addresses testing out credit cards. Stripe caught a lot of these but surprisingly it seemed several went through that we had to refund & pay the transaction fee for. A lot of these didn't even require the CVC check it seemed.

We were able to get fairly good support, 100 times better than most places I deal with.

Unfortunately we had to switch to Radar for Teams to put in fairly basic checks such as making sure CVC verification happens before accepting the card. This costs a bit extra per transaction.

At the end of the day we were able to get it solved. Stripe puts plenty of human resources on helping & they have fairly good documentation. It does really stink that we need to purchase Radar for Teams just to add a few basic rules in place to prevent scammers like this. We lost around $100 that could have went to helping families whose kids have cancer which always sucks. We also had to implement an "invisible" Google Captcha which I wasn't a fan of. This could have been a lot worse though which is what troubled me the most.
From my experience most corporate classes are pretty bad. It seems to sell these the main skill is to sell to execs and make them feel good, not to have good classes. Pretty much like enterprise software is sold not to actual users but to execs who will never use it.
It depends on the jurisdiction. In the US, you can run a business as a sole proprietor.[1]

[1]https://www.sba.gov/content/sole-proprietorship.
Having a good enough signal to make a call is not the same as having good enough signal to push data, and if the car expected to move a megabyte of json over LTE to get started, it would explain the behavior just fine.
My other holdings are on there now...I started on Capital One then went to Robinhood. More about consolidation for me
Classic bait and switch.
And it didn't stop Trump or Bill Clinton from winning. We'll see if it hurts Bloomberg.
Why do they become brittle? Because they have to be fixed every time code changes?
You are incorrect.

A) There's no point in quibbling over what "temporary" or "permanent" means because the definition varies from policy to policy. There is no other source of truth unless it's in a legal statute.

B) With respect to the scenario I'm talking about, you are both factually and legally wrong. Again, I know this because I work on property damage lawsuits for a living. If my rent-controlled apartment is damaged in a fire and I have to temporarily relocate to another more expensive one for 3 years while I wait for mine to be rebuilt, the additional living expense I pay in the form of increased rent during that period is absolutely something ALE is intended to, and does in fact, cover.
I hope I helped some and I appreciate the feedback, and apologize, for the leaps I made. If your professionalism is beyond reproach and they are calling people 'cowards' and not paying the full amount, a few things are true.

1. You are in a toxic environment.

2. You are not paid to change or fix that environment.

3. You are not the problem.

There are so many great companies out there who treat people well; you would thrive at one. This is a great example of why the culture fit is so important in a job. If you do interview around make sure to ask things like "What does it feel like to work here?" or "What is the day to day like?" If you get far enough in an interview ask to speak to some peers and get their take on the stuff that is not specifically tech related.

Look around and find a good job where people who are friendly. You spent way too much time learning your craft to deal with bullshit.

Honestly it sounds like you just work with a bunch of dicks.

:)
> we work fine on both Linux and Mac. There’s no need for a top end mac to do dev work

Absolutely agreed.

> frankly no one does a MacBook quality PC in terms of battery optimization (auto graphics switching, battery optimized web browser), ease of use (still top of the line trackpad), whole-disk-encryption, seamless sleep and wake while preserving whole disk encryption

I haven't had anything else for a while, but I agree. My ideal would be smooth-sailing Linux on macbook hardware. Unfortunately while it used to work, it's only gotten worse, and the pretty much deal breaker is WiFi:

https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux

> Many people who don't get it are using their macbooks as desktop replacement, at which point you should probably just get a mac mini and backpack that around.

What? No! If I was going to do that it'd be a similar SFF device, running Linux. (And more powerful for the same budget, probably.)
You're welcome to do your own risk scoring on any signals you want prior to directing us to charge a credit card for you. You're also welcome to do post-charge processing using our risk scores. Some companies will e.g. do post-transaction reviews prior to shipping; some write their own workflow SaaS into their admins to do this.

If you don't choose to write your own software using your own data, that's cool; you can buy that software from us, for two cents a transaction (or less).

We're a software company selling to software developers. We're cool with you writing your own software with your own data if you think your engineers are sufficiently efficient at this to make that the best possible use of their time. (The businessman in me suggests that it is extremely unlikely you can profitably employ engineers to write this software at most likely scales of your business and, contingent on being able to do that, it is quite likely there are a hundred better projects not upper bounded at 2 cents a transaction, but you are a project away from constructively disproving this if you strongly disagree.)
Huh. I think I created this independently about a year ago. My implementation also works in streaming fashion, so you can compute proofs without holding all of the data in memory. I didn't think it was novel enough to write a paper about. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe I should publish a paper about the "diff proofs" I also came up with, for proving arbitrary modifications to a Merkle tree?

https://gitlab.com/NebulousLabs/merkletree/-/commit/bae5b547...
Yeah, dedicated raster 16x16 and 32x32 versions and then a vector version if larger icons are required seems like the best approach.

I understand what they're trying to do with including the icon as metadata, but since they control the filesystem format as well, couldn't they just increase the storage available so they could store an extra kb or so? I'd expect that on modern hardware, reducing the number of reads by stuffing bytes into odd corners of each file's metadata is far less effective than just arranging a block of data to be read all at once.
We as a team also did a four hour course on TLS and PKI and it was a game changer. It was much better than reading up stuff.
> I hate it that Chromecast only has a wireless option.

They're a little pricier, but the Chromecast "Ultra" supports ethernet out of the box. For the base model, you can get an adapter.
The Quest for the Holy Grail of 'Git for Data'
Matrix is too dependent on it's only vendor in existence, their only server in existence has performance issues. Also, a monolith standard is hardly viable for federated networks, where all nodes can't upgrade all at once.
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Ugh, another "structure, sequence, and organization" copyright claim. So stupid.
Forgot to mention one important detail: How big is the JavaScript source to the BlurHash decoding algorithm?

I'm guessing that it's approximately the size of a single image, possibly quite a bit more.
The power plant of the future could run on nuclear waste – Grist
I understand your feelings about taking things that are waste for a corporation (R&D is a very wasteful process) and giving them to local schools.

As a contrast, the team I was on (Making and Science) purchased an enormous number of safety glasses, which we gave away at Maker Faire. We often gave whole boxes to teachers who asked (like, 144 glasses). You see them all over the place, and the teachers were always thrilled to get them.
I never worked at a company (in the CATV industry) that paid commissions to engineers ... even when the engineer was enlisted to help with the sales process. Leveraging your personal contacts seems like a good way for those "friendships" to dry up. You're not an Amway distributor right?