skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can track sync changes, or really almost anything, crc errors, traffic, whatever we want really, although we only do it on demand.

You put a customer ID in the tracking system an it queries and stores results. It also performs analysis automatically, but most cases just puts the result in a frontend for analysis.
And the lesson is - you can't buy privacy but you can sell it.
> How does the bad guy get a foot in the door?

If you were using Ubuntu Linux in 2007-2008 you will remember the compiz/beryl craze. Everybody and their dog wanted the latest version of compiz.

Adding random repositories was not a problem if that got you the latest version of compiz/beryl.

Until a guy, one of the maintainers of a popular repository, tricked everybody: in the install scripts he added code to change the desktop background to an image with a text reading: don't add random repositories from the internet.

Think about all the random repositories and PPAs that people add to their systems without thinking. That is an example of how you get a foot in the door.
The bulk commodities which have futures markets will likely be fine. Grains are mechanically harvested, so they don't need much in the way of labour. Meat might be a little more in short supply, but not due to labour shortages so much as problems in China. The problems are with fresh food like fruit and vegetables that aren't well suited to futures trading.
I've to admit Q-AC doesn't ring a bell? A quick duck duck go doesn't bring up anything meaningful.
The dev trusted a regexp to 'validate' user input for a _privileged_ command execution, a function which fails at validating a constant-sized, colon-separated sequence of hex numbers in a string, everything about the input screams structure, and yet it was still half-assed!

Although this requires you to authenticate at the web portal, so 'some' sort of trust is necessary to gain this level of access. I believe they even have some plan of letting authenticated users update the pi-hole code from the web interface by the wording on this issue: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-do-i-update-pi-hole/249.

A funny thought: you can create a script (that uses the default password) to inject a code to schedule an update to the pi-hole (and revert the changed permissions) which fixes the vulnerability and leaves no trace! These possibilities reminds me of a hacker series!
Why not just make it a loan?
Thanks for the links. Having a part number on something is frankly meaningless unless the inside story is presented (as is done in the link that I mentioned, even though there is an element of promotion from Nikon). I don't know if you're familiar with Imaging Resource and Dave Etchells but they are hardcore geeks who have been reporting objectively on cameras for over two decades. They stay clear of the usual click-bait that camera gear websites have become. I've gone down this rabbit-hole when I was researching imaging sensor tech a few months ago, and that is why its fresh on my mind. I too don't work in semiconductors, I work in biotech. If you care to learn more about this, IISW workshops are a great resource.
Russia even had North Koreans logging.
And you've lost the point. If these FAANG tests are meant to be IQ tests and you can rote learn them they are NOT a good measure of intelligence unlike some people claim them to be.

Edit: Also, good IQ testing involves a 2-3year break in between IQ tests. The thing is, you can leetcode continuously to game these tests.
Too bad that the owner/maintainer doesn't really like an open API. The only way to interact with the backend seems to be using the cli or trying to figure out the API yourself.
To Grade or Not to Grade, That Is the Education in the Time of Covid-19 Question
Exactly. You don't want your planes MCU to be "probably" or "mostly" bugfree.
There is no discussion if electric cars release “more smog than gasoline cars” just due to the fact that “smog” isn’t any specific substance. It’s a phenomenon that depends just as much on the wind direction as on air quality.

In less literal terms, there might be a debate about relative amounts of CO2. But that is mostly a debate that happens online instigated by ideological opponents of electrification. Electric cars use less energy even including production and even if the energy mix consists mostly of fossile fuels. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_aspects_of_the_e....

The advantages are even starker for other emissions such NOX or particulates: even without renewables and nuclear energy in the mix, electric cars need less energy because the efficiency of one large power plant is higher than thousands of engines. And that energy is generated with fewer emissions because, again, centralized generation allows more investment into clean technology.
That article does not conclusively show the taxpayer benefited from the bailout. All it shows is that the stock price went up. If the money is then used to subsidize airlines, telecom companies, etc. and ultimately used for stock buybacks, exec bonuses, etc. then the taxpayer is never seeing any of that money.
ennnnnnnnt. That's the buzzer, signaling that this is some bullshit. No one wants to die period. full stop. Greedy to the very end.
You actually need to ask other people if you should care about more than money when looking at a job? Weird.
$50/month here for me in southern Mississippi for gigabit fiber from AT&T. I'm not sure what dirt cheap is for internet in the US but I think I'm there.
I've seen very little coverage that really uses the term exponential in a way that suggests those reporting know the implications of that. I've seen one plot with a logarithmic y-axis, and that was in the Guardian some time ago. From it, it appeared a crude heuristic could be drawn that from the point that lockdown is implemented, the cumulative deaths appear to grow between two and three orders of magnitude.

I've been grabbing the data put out by Johns Hopkins [0] for the last few days to update some plots in a very hacky Jupyter notebook.

Crucially, the plots are normalized to (estimated) populations and the y-scale is logarithmic. I've put them on github in case anyone else is interested [1].

[0] https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19

[1] https://github.com/dpwm/covid19-analysis/blob/master/Coronav...

edit: Clarified that though exponential growth is widely used, the implications of that are not followed up. It's past my bedtime!
> Why let that one thing stop other advances?

Is somebody suggesting that we stop replacing coal fired power plants because we could replace ICE cars with electric cars instead? The entire point is that we have to do both.

They don't both have to be in the same bill (though a carbon tax would do both), but they have to be done in parallel rather than sequentially because we don't have time to entirely solve one of them before starting any work on the others.
Viruses are nanomachines held together with fairly weak bonds. Rough surfaces interact with and literally pull viruses apart. Very interesting thread here:

https://twitter.com/PalliThordarson/status/12365493051895971...
There was some controversy with its primary maintainer a while ago, not sure how it's progressed since. I can't speak of the technical side, however.

https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go/pull/1137

http://www.florinpatan.ro/2016/10/why-you-should-not-use-iri...
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A "low" (LEO) orbit doesn't necessarily mean that satellites burn up within 25 years if they fail and are unable to do a deorbit burn. Of the proposed constellations, the lowest orbit so far is Starlink. OneWeb is much higher but supposedly the satellites are more guaranteed to be reliable.
How so? They said they computed the second derivative. What more is there to say?
You can't call non-volatile methods of volatile objects (just as you can't call non-const methods of const objects), and you can overload methods on volatility like constness. It may not have the "don't cache this in a register" semantics it did in the single-core C era, but it can't just be discarded.
Better comparison:

http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
That logic is good when the farm is next door and you can pay cash $ for a bushel of feed grade corn or whatever. But it starts to fall short when you're still relying on the normal supply chain to get food in a city center.

Desperate and hungry people will be resourceful, but it likely won't be as simple as a lower grade of corn in the produce section of the grocery store.
I did a browser based Boids version that simulated galactic colonization: https://coldwar.io/deepspace and a simpler variant with predators: https://coldwar.io/predators
I want a HUD speedometer for my Model 3. This may be the cheapest solution.
Rate of change of rate of change.

They explain this in the paper: a constant (flat line across the graph) would correspond to exponential growth. The actual graphs drop (mostly), indicating sub-exponential growth, which is a good thing.
It's all changing within the system (USB drive), so to an outside observer there is no change in mass.
I linked Thordarson's Twitter thread on the subject above. Didn't know he'd written an article too. Nice!
I wonder if it'll ever become a good idea to preemptively deep fake yourself saying outrageous things and release them.

Saw something like this in a Neal Stephenson book I believe.
You are right; I didn’t factor in RPi boot time to that figure. I’d guess maybe 60-90 seconds total? By the time I’ve turned the ignition, backed out of the driveway, and put it in drive I have a GPS lock.
There are many people who can work. Will they though? It is hard labor. If you can get enough to live on without working why would you take that job? I wouldn't take farm labor of the type they need if I had any other options. Driving a tractor I could do, but there are plenty of those people already.
One thing you learn over time is many of those code horrors are there for a good reason, put there by someone solving a real problem, in the best possible way given time constraints. It is just the reason is lost to history. This is one reason the "big re-write" almost always fails. You are throwing away all those hard learned lessons just because they aren't apparent on reading of the code.

That is also true (perhaps less often) for byzantine process related procedures.
Even fewer people understand logarithms than exponential growth. If you publish graphs with a log scale you will certainly confuse some people into thinking that the illness is tapering off.
Hmm...I see the term exponential everywhere, but based on comments I read on public Facebook posts, almost nobody in the general public has any clue what it means or implies. But this site is widely referenced. It has a log scale option: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
The bit in my comment about the period of the solar cycle being 11 years was a quote. The sun also oscillates in intensity over hundreds and thousands of years. The sun was (allegedly) slightly less active the Europe's colonial age, which motivated a lot of people to leave Europe. The sun was slightly more active during most of the 20th century, leading to the observations behind the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

Some scientists, who aren't wedded to the anthropogenic theory, have looked at all the solar numbers and concluded we're due for a couple decades of weak solar cycles (global cooling) before the warming resumes.

I don't know who to believe, I just wanted to point out that there might be a reason behind this alleged "warmest winter ever" other than "it's the CO2". I'm not particularly interested in debating with someone with convictions of hot-earth environmental catastrophe being more reasonable than cold-earth environmental catastrophe, so feel free to have the last word.
> Another major challenge is to automate device drivers and hardware platform tests because they require the hardware to be tested.

Anyone have any thoughts on how to automate testing of coupled hardware-software systems? This is really hard; we've attacked it in the past by writing hardware simulators in accordance with the ICD. This falls flat once you find that the hardware doesn't precisely match the ICD, and usually it's much cheaper to change the software than the hardware. And at that point, the simulator hasn't actually helped you at all.

I recently built a system which involved several tightly coupled hardware components and we fought many bugs on a tight schedule. It would have been nice to find a good way to think about this beyond the basic hardware-in-the-loop manual testing.
Wow that would be so illegal her in NZ. Nice to know some countries give you the freedom to do stuff like that. Here a spot of rust will take your car off the road. A broken spedo would never be allowed. Even if replaced with GPS.
Covid-19 57% more likely to kill patients in French-speaking Switzerland
Do you have a blog? I love your writing style.

These are great tips. This year I also started some seedlings early — I used some left over egg cartons as containers, and put them on top of my clothes dryer which is next a window and often warm.

My sugar snap peas shot up the fastest so those are already in the ground. Thinking of putting the rest of my seedlings in the ground this weekend and starting some more sprouts in egg cartons.
It's fake. Bezos/team realized Amazon was good at web tech and so built a version for sale. Amazon didn't eat its own dogfood until years later.

They did the same thing for logistics too, building a service for each logistical task they do (warehousing and delivery)
I’ve heard several times from experts that I should only wear a mask when I show symptoms, to protect others. But what about the incubation period? Could I not spread the disease before I start showing symptoms?
> straight man: the person in a comedy duo who speaks lines which give a comedian the opportunity to make jokes

All you have to do is change "comedy duo" to "coworker pair" and "jokes" to "explanation of architecture."

> devils advocate: the popular title of the person appointed by the Roman Catholic Church to challenge a proposed beatification or canonization, or the verification of a miracle

All you have to do is change "person appointed by the Roman Catholic Church" to "coworker" and "challenge a proposed beatification or canonization" to "challenge another person's ideas."

> purposefully obtuse

Is that worse than being unintentionally obtuse, like you're doing?

By the way, have you tried just looking up the word "metaphor?"

> a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

Do you see the words at the end? "Not literally applicable."
They're perfect for a startup with lots of funding and little traction. So much busywork to keep the team churning!
Apparmor is easier to understand, learn and use. Selinux is definitely more powerful but the learning curve is so deep. It is not just the security model that is complex. The documentation surrounding it isn’t that good, and avc logging is not enabled by default (you need to install some package) so when something goes wrong I always struggle to figure out how to debug it. Finally, there’s also this library of existing selinux settings provided by the operating system that you need to integrate with. That one is largely undocumented, and what little documentation exists is scattered.heck it took me a week just to find its source code (hint: it is separated in two different repos, not obvious st all).

In contrast, apparmor made sense and worked the first time I used it.

So yeah, selinux is more powerful, but by being so difficult to use it encourages people to go ‘hey something is broken, fsck this I’ll disable selinux’.
Man, any story about masks seems to rapidly get flagged off the home page today.
In the United States, where we seem to have a shortage of masks, all of this discussion goes out the window though. We need to ensure we have enough masks for health care workers and the sick, before we encourage the healthy to wear them.

(My understanding is that it’s not just N95 masks that are lacking, but simple surgical masks too.)
Modern digital camera sensors are good enough they're somewhat limited by the lenses. So if you have several times the size of a "full frame" digital camera, you can achieve better results with 1940s technology than Sony A7 + 16-35mm wide lens. See this stunning 1942 photo from a large format camera: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Adams_Th...
California once had mobile hospitals, ventilator stockpile but dismantled them
Everyone should be wearing a mask, even if it's a DIY mask [1]. Perfection is the enemy of good. We don't all need medical grade masks!

If everyone wears masks, then transmissibility of any virus is dramatically reduced.

Don't fall for the myths that you don't need a mask, don't fall for the arguments against masks. Don't think you're so damn smart.

The key here is to create a culture of mask wearing. The advantages are worth it!

[1] https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/best-materials-make-diy-...
I think the argument is that static analyzers don't have to work on completely unchanged code, but rather rely on humans to structure the code in a way to avoid issues.

Many years ago people regularly wrote things like "if (retval = f())" but after compilers started to complain about it people changed to write "if ((retval = f()))" instead, if they want an assignment and truthfulness testing at the same time.
DIY masks are available however. Or non-medical grade masks.
Even a simple cloth mask - not N95, not surgical - has some benefit. The Czech Republic has made them mandatory.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/would-everyone-weari...

> But some health experts, including the director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, think that’s a mistake. Health authorities in parts of Asia have encouraged all citizens to wear masks in public to prevent the spread of the virus, regardless of whether they have symptoms. And the Czech Republic took the uncommon step last week of making nose and mouth coverings mandatory in public spaces, prompting a grassroots drive to hand make masks.

The entire article is worth a read.
Actually I am about 4% ahead, but next week will change that.

It was the lack of sleep that was important. Also I doubt the bottom has been felt yet.
Yah... When you try to use the on line form, $150 today if it was booked in January or earlier. I've not had much success getting through on the phone yet. Still have a few weeks to sort it.
Java has that "problem" because it is in wide use, and
Java is good at compatibility. Any popular tech is going to have many variations
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> But, in practice most will be 20-200x slower

My A+ answer is "My guess is [x] but instead of speculating we can create a test to discover the performance. [Describes test]."

Koala_man above says:

> I wrote a benchmark and found the difference in this case to be 3x-3.5x.

The actual number depends on a lot of things, of course (language, architecture, test methodology...), but it is possible that your 20-200x A+ answer is incorrect.
No one will pay $5 for an avocado.
Applied Elliot Wave analysis to predict the outbreak of the virus in Italy
> No I’m not. I’m saying FAANG are hiring based on fast pace general problem solving skills that are difficult to game and have very little to do with computer science.

These are very vague words. What are these tests then? Can you give a sample? You're telling me that you get engineers to interview these candidates and they don't give questions that involve computer science? What are they supposed to ask then?

Or are you telling me you have tests that weakly correlate to an IQ test thanks to a number you computed? And therefore that makes it an IQ test?

> How is it detached from reality?

IQ tests are inherently just a number for one's potential, and they don't tell how someone will perform on the job - there are so many other factors involved.
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Not all experts are saying this. CDC organizations in different countries recommend wearing masks.

I think mainly this was to prevent supply problems. But we don't all need to wear medical grade masks to gain the benefits.
This is a cool hack but is it really legal?

In the EU speedometers have to be carefully calibrated, have strict regulations to pass and your car is not allowed to drive with a broken one. Just replacing it with a, sometimes spotty, GPS signal sounds impossible here. Like, what do you do when driving through a tunnel?
Same in the UK - a broken speedo would be an instant illegal get off of the road thing. afterall how do you know you are not breaking the speed limits?

I am not sure what you can get away with for DIY replacements - perhaps a police officer might give you the benefit of the doubt if you were polite and explained it was temporary while you are waiting for the real part, but I really suspect this would force your car off of the road at the next annual safety check/inspection (MOT test in the UK)
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yep. My first thought was why the hell they didn't they use the word acceleration for better readability.
Are you talking about Bitwarden or bitwarden_rs? Because bitwarden_rs is simply a third-party implementation of the Bitwarden API server AFAIU.
What is the main value of link analysis? As far as cause and effect and the larger picture (especially WRT the time domain), a lot of it seems like reading signs in chicken gizzards. The more you put in, the less sense they make.

There's only so much useful information to be gleaned from this kind of geometry. Fingering out and tracing cause and effect is just about impossible.

I wish someone would come up with a half decent top-down timeline creation and analysis tool.
They make esp32 based obd loggers. I have one but I haven’t bothered getting it to work since the obdlink mx+ works well enough for my data logging desires.

https://freematics.com/pages/products/freematics-esprit-obd-...
> Power lines are horrendously ugly.

So is the 20 foot wide expanse of dirty tar next to the power lines. But people have lived with that all their lives, and barely notice it.
> This is the Facebook SDK, from Facebook, and everybody knows what their business is.

Ignorance is a bliss. Talk to some people that still use fb after their scandal and you'll get "who cares, everyone is tracking users and selling data anyway" as an answer.
> Printing an 8x10 from a cellphone is challenging, and the grain and imperfections are magnified.

Have you verified this personally or seen any data on this? I find this claim very hard to believe. I make several 24x36 prints in a year (albeit from APS-C and FF sensors, but sometimes heavily cropped) and 8x10 is a tiny size that should not present a challenge for any modern cellphone's sensor.
> The media needs to be more responsible with fear driven click-bait.

Concur. They've been clamouring for ages for laws to control what's "real news" and what's "fake news"; if they want regulation so badly, they can have some regulation to get them to consider the end impact of their articles, and whether the level of alarm they're extolling for clicks is truly warranted.
With microservices, you lose the ability to use database transactions across services/tables. Later on, when people realize this, it's too late.

It's priceless to see their expressions when senior mgmt. and business owners finally find out.