skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software engineers could help fight Covid-19
Both computers have access to both sensor's data. The computers are networked together.

This is how they implement the AoA disagree function (the one which was broken in 90% of MAXes for unrelated reasons). It's also how they managed to implement a software update which makes MCAS take data from both sensors.

The logic for not implementing both sensors is much more insidious.

If you implement both sensors, then you have to deal with the case that infomation from sensors might disagree. The computer has no idea sensor is providing correct data, so the only thing it can really do is disable itself when the sensors disagree.

If MCAS has the ability to disable itself, then it must provide feedback to pilots it has done so, and have pilots follow some procedures. If there were procedures, then Boeing would have to add pilot training about what MCAS was and how things would be different when it disabled itself.

Boeing made it rely on only a single sensor to bypass training requirements.
Is there any apt repo software that permits multiple parties to upload to a repo but also enforces that people can't upload new versions of other people's packages?

As it happens, Debian itself kinda does this (Debian "maintainers" can only upload to specific package names), but I don't think anyone else runs that software. The usual third-party repo tools like reprepro and aptly don't support it, as far as I know. And sites like Launchpad or OBS just set up a separate apt repo per account (or even multiple apt repos per account), because doing that is very easy.

In other words - yes, the trust model you propose is coherent, but I don't think anyone actually does that, because there's a more straightforward option already.
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As long as you have unit tests!
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yep, altho i will caveat we've basically never seen how mature FAANG act in a recession, given the long growth we've had since before they become the megacorps they are today.

but its a near certainty if FAANG is laying off folks then the smaller co's will be bleeding heavier. so the ordinal ranking of impact holds.

also i expect ex-FAANG folks have an easier go of picking up contract/freelance work given the multiple agencies focused on connecting ex-FAANG devs.
Offtopic question : I went through their website, and I have no idea about blockchain. I have gone through the documentation and almost everything they are doing is possible without it as well. Cryptoproofs for storing data, smart contracts et al - not sure if it is different from regular encrypted deduplication done regularly with standard per hour/ per minute billing. Also, Siacoin for payment, not sure if it is the most optimal way.
I think I am missing something, would be glad if someone can point me in the right direction.
It's not about blame. It's about recognizing where to fix the problem.
Lol, "fans". This is computer architecture design, not the NFL. We judge the quality of the product, not jump on bandwagons (or we SHOULD). Both Intel and AMD do amazing, extraordinarily complicated and difficult work, and we all benefit from it, at the price of making those companies wealthy. I'm very glad those two companies have different products, different approaches to computer design. It gives us room to maneuver and compare. For a time, Intel did better work. Now AMD is pushing the boundaries. Being a fanperson about them is just ridiculous. They make each other better by having differing approaches. Please don't encourage bandwagonism, or introduce it as a topic. It makes us all look just a little bit dumber, and it's an overused rhetorical tactic.
There is no end of this shortage in sight. In fact, the shortages in Europe are only about to start - the last batch of pre-lockdown container ships from China arrived to Europe earlier this week.
Who is the greatest leader in world history?
Brave ads are off by default, enabled per user. It gives no legitimacy to "ads on the web".

Perhaps you heard some false claim we "replace ads" on pages -- this is usually asserted without skepticism. We've never done this, we talked about doing it again only with both user and publisher opt-in, via private matching and anonymous confirmation so no remote tracking at all.

Anyway, if you don't like ads on the Web, use Brave. If you want to try Brave Ads to get tokens to give back to your top sites and channels, rather than free-ride, cool. If you'd rather not try Brave Ads but want to give back, you can do that too (you have to sign up with Uphold, though; regulators do not make this easy but it's doable).
That was also my assumption before clicking the link
every other author (which support the "myth")

Which are?
those are probably all signed binaries.

what would be more telling is if other anti virus tools reported the same thing about the test binary in question.
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My Saas product "Management software for Janitorial services companies" is launching soon.
I'm confused about how can I get early adopters for my product. any help?
Then don't use them -- they are off by default.
I used to work in genetics.

We're not sure if the viruses are actually dormant or not. They may be the active ingredients for a lot of biological processes. In other words, viruses and junk DNA are probably essential parts of modern man.

If you're squeamish, I suggest you just take what I said at face value, and move on with your life.

If you're not, then you can google for some more info, but you won't like what you find. How sausage is made, and all that.
If you try to install libc++-dev and that package doesn't exist for whatever reason, you probably want an error message, not a regex match to libc-dev. Interpreting the argument as a regex violates the principle of least astonishment.
I don't trust any repository, but I still need to install packages to get things done.
Seems like that could be done by paying people, even if they don't show up.

"Paying people" seems like a good way to define "crewed"
The amount of work required from AWS engineers to set up security groups, routing, etc is not proportional to the amount of traffic your server produces, but is charged as if it were.

This requires every egress gigabyte to generate a lot of money to be worth it. If you serve high-traffic applications, like video, you have to be Netflix.
Depends heavily on where you were.

For myself, I was at a startup that was clearly failing (for reasons utterly unrelated to the economy), and jumped ship.

I found a solid dev position in under 30 days in the fall of 2008, right at the peak of the crash, and then moved to a better one at the end of 2010.

Some companies instituted hiring freezes and others had layoffs. Many companies terminated all of their engineering contractors.

Overall, it was a time where you had to be able to demonstrate your usefulness, and you could still lose your job to unluckiness, if your whole division was tossed.

2008-2010 was not a time for "rest and vest" to be a viable strategy. Folks who looked like they were doing that were always the in the first round of layoffs.
The apps that have been the worst about sharing my private data or telemetry seem to be the same ones that are ad-supported. Apple’s App Store generally doesn’t make money if an app is paid for by ads.

Where Apple traditionally gets profit is in selling more devices, and they do that through controlling apps on the platform.

Alternative approaches could be just as successful. But their approach does differentiate them from other market leaders, while equally (as here) allowing them to play catch-up and advertise themselves alongside Google, Facebook, and other logins.

Apple does marketing, it’s true, but they also try to back up their security and privacy work with white papers: https://www.apple.com/privacy/features/
Yes, we get a lot of value out of version history. It is a good tool to evaluate existing code. We also have experience with leaving the history behind from migrating to git.

Our case was a tooling policy issue but it should be possible to migrate from SVN to git and keep the change history. You should investigate this option.
Or because there are no competitors. Allocating parking slots based only on bidding has the potential for one company to become a monopoly by purchasing all the slots, allowing them to charge ridiculous prices while providing bad service.
It’s a complex lisp macro then?
I'm sure I will eventually
True, but...

every company of more than about 100 people has some dead weight. Often, low level managers know who they are. In good times, it might not be worth doing anything much about it. In bad times, the rest-and-vesters are out.

Well... at a well-run company, it works that way. At a less-well-run company, they instead squeeze everyone with more work and more hours and less benefits and no raises, figuring that some folks will leave and do the downsizing for them. This is a losing strategy, though, because you lose the best people first that way.
Ignoring Onyva's misstatements, please note that Mozilla does depend for most of its revenue on Google's ad system (people don't use "ad networks" much any longer, but as a loose term for a platform such as Google's Authorized Buyers and AdSense programs, it'll do).

Brave does not have such a data-breaching ad "network" or "real-time bid" platform. Instead the Brave browser downloads a fixed-per-day-for-large-N-population ads/offers catalog of URLs with metadata for each URL, including the first level text-y search-like ad call to action, only if that browser's user opts in. This catalog compresses well and delta-updates, similar in scale to anti-malware/anti-phishing lists. For ad confirmations we use a blind signature protocol (Privacy Pass variant).
Developers should of course close vulnerabilities when found, but I bears remembering its just as easy to make a human driver stop or crash, for example by shining a laser into their eyes.
I hope you mean uBlock Origin!
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I don’t personally think it is helpful to make a distinction between physical and non-physical violence. Harm is severe in either case, and there is an obvious victim and and obvious perpetrator that needs to be brought to justice in either case.

Sure different forms of violence do vary in severity, but finding a new name for a type of violence that is done remotely and causes a different kind of harm both undermines and complicates the term “violence” and gives discount to some forms of violence by not labeling them as such.
No way in hell I'm clicking that link.
The problem with society is not that people can be sued for a loan.

The problem with the legal system is that if you get sued, for pretty much anything, you'll need to spend several thousands of dollars, regardless if you are actually liable or not.

And if you want to sue someone, it will cost you several thousand too.

40% of people in the US cannot afford a $400 unexpected expense. That means that a huge portion of the population, is extremely susceptible to any legal issues, as they won't be able to properly use the legal system to fairly represent them and seek proper justice/relief. Ie. If those people get sued, they'll most likely not be able to afford defending the lawsuit - or if someone did something to them, they won't have the money to sue them.

A proper legal system should not discriminate by level of wealth and should represent everyone equally.
In principle it could be installed as a system/default app on Android and iOS by Google and Apple respectively. Even more reach for people that haven't installed Facebook.
I can't speak for iOS 13, but it's been reset to "off" for me (as in "don't limit tracking") both times I factory reset my phone. I've never heard of it being set to on by default. If that's some new change then they only made a mockery of their claims to support privacy for the last decade or so. Hardly impressive since they never should have had it by default anyway.
LPL's recent videos are quite interesting, but the RFID cards he targets are one the 'low hanging fruit's side of the spectrum: very old systems with no encryption that only transmit an ID. The system he demonstrates harkens back to the 1980s. [1]

There are literally hundreds of other protocols and systems that are much better: the DesFire EV2, etc [2] for similar costs (ie 80c vs 70c) [3][4]

Just wanted to point out that the systems that you hypothesize exist already, and are not orders "Significantly" more expensive.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiegand_interface

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIFARE#MIFARE_DESFire_EV2

[3] https://www.idcardsdirect.co.uk/nxp-mifare-desfire-ev2-4k-bl...

[4] https://www.amazon.com/100pcs-Proximity-ISOProx-26-Bit-H1030...
Why not use a virtual terminal? That seems like a pretty standard machine interface to use if the machine is virtualized.
My accountant gets upset if I don't expense stuff like that. If you go on a business trip and don't buy the kinds of stuff the government expects you to buy, then they start to question whether or not you actually went on the business trip. It's not so difficult to book a room somewhere and then change the booking or get a refund. But if you are saying that you went to SomeCity and you buy Dunkin Doughnuts in SomeCity, it keeps the auditors happy. I'm always getting in trouble for that (especially for things like local train tickets, bus tickets, etc, etc).
Well here's literally the entirety of it

>Abstract
This study evaluated the rape fantasies of female undergraduates (N = 355) using a fantasy checklist that reflected the legal definition of rape and a sexual fantasy log that included systematic prompts and self-ratings. Results indicated that 62% of women have had a rape fantasy, which is somewhat higher than previous estimates. For women who have had rape fantasies, the median frequency of these fantasies was about 4 times per year, with 14% of participants reporting that they had rape fantasies at least once a week. In contrast to previous research, which suggested that rape fantasies were either entirely aversive or entirely erotic, rape fantasies were found to exist on an erotic-aversive continuum, with 9% completely aversive, 45% completely erotic, and 46% both erotic and aversive
It's true that only retroviruses actually get into your genome, and that the bulk of viral-derived sequences in your genome are from distant ancestors, but the key argument of the article (that the human genome is full of viruses) is certainly true.
It appears that the API is unversioned, which concerns me as my company is very future-looking and will need to support numbers as they modernize. How will you handle version migrations?
Make your simple language and translate it to sql
Only covers events in city buildings

> Effective as of Saturday, March 7, no City-owned facility can allow any non-essential group events from occurring.
This is definitely a good brute force strategy

I ... think there’s another technique that relies a bit on trusting the printing drivers to do the right thing, where you can tell Ghostscript to print your document, and target another PDF. This should at least remove interactive components in a PDF
I had to deal with this in the first recession.

It was an hourly position, but they started doing 'required' overtime; 66 hours a week for an hourly person was still 'cheaper' than hiring another person.

And yeah. As a result we had a whole team did 50-60 hour work weeks for 17-23$/hr (lol, being paid 23$ an hour to do C#, LISP, entry level Oracle and SQL server DBA alongside drafting.) Physical and mental health injuries happened across the team.

They also took away our holiday pay, and changed the PTO structure so that 1st year employees didn't even have enough PTO to cover being paid for the holidays.

Yes, they lost most of their good people. I was among the first wave to go when the economy in my area started picking back up (We didn't really start to recover here till 2012-2013.)
Useful tool -- it's trivial to make a RAT bypass chat/email .doc/.PDF attachments.

I don't open any files on my PC from people I don't personally know -- use webviewers.
You're basically saying "I cannot, in any way, imagine a situation where the parent's story is the sensible choice, and therefore I'm entitled to make a pedantic comment about a situation I wasn't in". Instead, you should give them the benefit of the doubt.
Gov't unveils zero-interest loan scheme for firms hit by virus
This article is unavailable in Europe.
I agree -- I would say the government should recognize the utility of the idea and request an emergency technical team from both Apple and Google to join up in a public-health emergency response consortium (to ensure interoperability) and brainstorm this idea. And Microsoft too, if they are still making windows phones.
I don’t care about new bedding or subscription app, I just wish there’s an employer who’d let me take a good 15-30min nap during lunch, without being judged. I secretly sneak into my car to nap and it makes a huge difference in my afternoon productivity.
What you are describing is basically MIFARE, which is commonly used by transport cards. Rather than just being an ID, the card is responsible for storing and deducting the balance, and often stores other things like trip history. The allows them to be used without a internet connection on the ticketing machine (e.g. on a bus).

There have been vulnerabilities found in older versions, but as far as I know, later versions are still considered secure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIFARE
It's not compiling on x86.
Still would be a lot cheaper than scrapping 80 billion dollars worth of planes already built.
I love RamTeX: https://www.ramtex.dk/

Ultra minimal, designed by greybeards. No bullshit, just UI. It's amazing. If you want to build super fast, responsive and pleasure to use embedded devices, look into RamTeX library. It is not free, but its cheap. I've talked to them a few times, they're super cool people.
For the curious or eagle-eyed, David Oswald, one of the co-authors of this paper is also one of the co-creators of the ChameleonMini [1], an open source RFID emulation device which has become the defacto tool for emulation in the penetrating community.

Well done David, and thank you :)

[1] https://github.com/emsec/ChameleonMini/wiki
Yeah I agree web dev has settled imo on React/npm/typescript/webpack. I like the stability. Hooks is there for some excitement though!
"Use it [budget] or lose it." End of the year buying 100 $2500 toilet seats and 1000 $100 spools of wire. Welcome to government!

PS: My mom was a civil service accountant with the Navy, and my dad and both grandfathers were USAF.
I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me
Could progressive mode be used to serve thumbnails by just truncating the image at a suitable point, or does the spec (and so, decoders) expect the whole image to eventually arrive?
You're leaving out their 83 completely successful launches of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy[0] in favor of their R&D efforts.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He...
“Though the list also includes the Tesla S, the researchers reported the DST80 vulnerability to Tesla last year, and the company pushed out a firmware update that blocked the attack.”
https://archive.md/PxTSX
Oh, that's a good news. Just this friday when I first looked into OpenShift install, it looked like it wasn't even in the plans, so I might have hit older docs than I intended.

Makes for higher possibility that $DAYJOB upgrades to OpenShift 4.x, but then, we would rather get rid of our (intra-group) provider and their openshift environments...
Sure. Inter-city electric is a no-go. Autonomous, however, is way past due, and the price of aircraft could easily drop by an order of magnitude. That means an oversupply of planes waiting for passengers. Anything that grows addressable passenger demand above the lowered cost basis will take over the industry.
1. Dietary cholesterol is only weakly correlated to blood cholesterol.

2. Most people eat wayy too much. Calories are calories, consume less calories and run your body in calorie deficit if you wanna lose weight and surplus if you wanna gain weight.

3. LDL aka bad cholesterol might not be that bad. There are some new studies which claim that people who had low LDL suffered more from heart issues. What gives?

4. People who eat more sometimes do so to comfort themselves (they've deeper psychological issues), they'll benefit from eating less.

5. Polysaturated fats are good fats, monosaturated fats are bad fats.

6. Carbs are not bad, consuming too much carb is bad for you. Want to lose weight? Reduce your calorie intake (preferably dinner). Reduce feeding window, do not eat after 7pm, eat only after 10am.

7. Lift weight and perform cardio.

That's your current nutritional knowledge.

Want to increase muscles? Much better to start from skinny state and consume protein, workout and slowly build lean mass through progressive overload. Eat more protein will not build muscle faster, body will only use what it needs, not what's given

Most guys/gals on fitness YouTube channels and magnize have achieved that physique through use of drugs. So do not compare yourself to them and be disappointed.
Uhm, can you post links to those articles/discussions on HN? I'm genuinely curious.
Is there any reason to believe Hamming said this? https://wiki.c2.com/?ShouldersOfGiants kind of implies no.

As far as standing-on-giants jokes go, when Stekel defended himself to Freud with "a dwarf standing on a giant sees a little further", Freud replied "a louse on an astronomer does not".

https://books.google.com/books?id=wmB9AAAAMAAJ&q=louse+intit...
I would assert that -not having a home- is the root cause of a whole lot of stuff. No address, no phone, no toilet, poor rest, poor diet, poor hygiene, poor clothes, constant threats, theft, despair, etc. etc. etc.

Where it has been tried, it works. (Yeah, a few fall off the wagon. So then ... it's either 100% success or a failure? Limp excuse-making)

95% of those who talk about the 'real' problems have no idea. They've never even been close. I've seen all of the condemnations and hang-wringing about costs. 95% of them are simply shitty attempts to create FUD so people will do nothing ... from people who really don't give a damn.

Where it has been tried, it works. Prime examples: Helsinki, HousingFirst. But that would mean actually analyzing the problem. Emoting is so much easier.
Unity is working towards one too
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Of course they will. Because action is painful for them.
They're adding requirements to create an app that hurt competitors of apple in non-appstore contexts. That's anticompetative behavior (at least in some places).
Go look at Helsinki. That's how it works.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/03/its-a-miracle...
Overheard some boomers talking about it yesterday at a cafe. "The chances of getting it are miniscule, we should buy cheap airline tickets while we can!".
> but then, it’s not their phone

And apparently it's not your phone either.
Before webworkers this was how you did things in the browser to not get the "page is not responding" popup on computationally expensive operations. Break each big operation into many small operations and step to the next phase using setTimeout(1,..)
Not familiar with the author. Do they have a track record for predicting things like this, or are they just speculating?
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No, Spectre is always about reading your own memory. Your link is about exploiting MDS aka Zombieload — a separate hyper-threading vulnerability, specific to Intel CPUs.
Can anyone recommend a good widget layout implementation?
Fermat's Library (Annotation/Discussion tool for research)
There's a 2017 writeup from Instagram: https://instagram-engineering.com/dismissing-python-garbage-...