skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After having spent plenty of time in multiple environments, any kind of absolute statements one way or the other are bound to be incorrect. IMO it's highly person and situation specific. For me the best order of productivity is:

1. In office but not surrounded by co-workers i.e. can focus for long hours without distractions.

2. At Home and not distracted by family members or other "temptations/errands" at home.

3. Office with co-workers

4. Home with family members/errands to take care of, which there can be plenty of during these Covid days.

Some people don't like to be alone and for them Option (1) isn't going to work. They like to be surrounded by other working people to have that sense of group work which helps power them through. For them Option (3) will clearly be the best.

Beyond that it also comes down to individual habits. Do you have a system to work at home? Without that one can be pretty ineffective. What's your "sustained focus" mechanism or algorithm? It can be a mix of:

- Micro goals system that works intra-day not just inter-day.

- Shutting off distractions by keeping the phone in a separate room (if the job allows, since computer can still relay most of the information)

- Clever use of headphones with the right kind of music or background noise that works for you.

- Some notion and measure of self-accountability.

- many others

The current environment is a pretty good time (and test) to strengthen any of the productivity habits. It takes practice but I don't see what the alternative is.
You just gave me flashbacks to renting my first Audi and not being able to leave the lot for a good 15 minutes before I could figure out what the hell was going on. Audi sponsored the whole thing but it backfired because I would NEVER drive one again after that, or recommend to anyone - what happened to cars?

Newer Suburus are almost as bad. Tesla is too but at least it's all located on one panel.
Ok, maybe that was my slight misreading of the situation. It definitely involved use of the webcam without user consent, however. And an attacker could make you join a meeting that they control, effectively being able to watch and hear you.
I don't think so, the criticism seems well-deserved. It just seems like a natural effect of being thrust into mainstream consciousness due to more people using it while working from home.
Most regimes you mention are dictatorships, not socialistic. Also quite a few of them were actively fought against by the capitalistic United states, contributing to social unrest and even downright organizing coups.

These are complicated systems which cannot be reduced just to "Socialism death toll" or "Capitalism death toll".
You seem to define all cold outreach whatsoever as 'spam', so of course you can choose to fit anything into that category. If people contacted you cold via other communications channels, it seems like you would define that as spam as well.

Seeing as you don't manage sales people, I would gently suggest that at your old firms they were reaching out to people, cold, one way or another. That's literally what the job is
DNS isn't appropriate for filtering porn or ads. It's easy to get around and not fine-grained enough. In fact, the largest porn site in the world is unblocked.

$ dig @1.1.1.3 reddit.com
reddit.com. 298 IN A 151.101.65.140

And the largest advertising and tracking site.

$ dig @1.1.1.3 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
pagead2.googlesyndication.com. 262 IN CNAME pagead46.l.doubleclick.net.
pagead46.l.doubleclick.net. 262 IN A 172.217.7.2
Ok I thought the hiding was the point, but maybe there’s a use case.
I'm reporting observed behavior.

They must be using a blocklist they never vetted properly.

Also, I'm not the only one to notice this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200401164820/https://news.ycom...
I don't live in Germany, but they started doing 160,000 per week and now they've ramped up to 500,000 tests per week.

That's extensive testing. Not sure about your situation, but from official numbers at least, they are doing more tests than everyone else in Europe.
A read into a character type.

From 6.2.6.1¶5:

>Certain object representations need not represent a value of the object type. If the stored value of an object has such a representation and is read by an lvalue expression that does not have character type, the behavior is undefined. ... Such a representation is called a trap representation.

A read from uninitialized memory is not always UB.
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I used to work infosec at a financial institution and I can explain why this is: the online banking systems have historically been extensions of the phone system. When bank-by-phone was popular, you’d have a four digit PIN to authenticate yourself. When they moved online, they used the same backend system but just doubled the required length of the PIN.

So 8 digits or maybe 12 or 16 indicates the system runs on a modified bank by phone system. That also means they have to restrict password characters to things that would work on a phone keypad.

Another place I worked had the same problem with passwords because any password that you use might have to be entered into a handheld scanner in the warehouse. And those handhelds didn’t have full keyboards so you could only use characters that exist on the handheld’s keyboard.
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Adding spaces to a jumble of characters is probably uncommon, but using something like a sentence as a password is very common, and also the main reason you want to support long passwords.
Or, you could avoid a meaningless term and be more specific. Conspiracy is a common class of crime, significant sections of US law are written to deal with them.

Your use if it is classic; applying to a broad class, specifically anyone who you percieve as not believing the same stuff you do. It's possible you know more or less about any specific subject.

It's an excellent way to shut down a conversation on the other hand, nobody wants to be labeled a "conspiracy theorist".

Here's an example, I mentioned confirmation bias hacks below, if you made a list of every use of "planar earth" on this forum, what would you find? It's not people trying to convince others that earth is a 2D surface is it?
> I can't fathom how anyone puts up with X.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
Pessimistic interpretation: employees can work harder than ever before, non-stop. Optimistic interpretation: employees have more freedom to focus. Realistic interpretation: it works for some employees but not for everyone.

My anecdotal opinion. I personally am working harder than ever.
I think directing the Eye of Sauron upon any company-required software is a modern form of collective bargaining. Individually, at many companies around the world, one engineer's concerns about Zoom or w/e will not reach or convince HR. But that same number of engineers all finding and publishing vulns in unison will convince the same number of admin people to not use Zoom. Because it gives a sense of "technical consensus" - the engineering-decision version of solidarity - I guess??
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> But before you install, you have to give Microsoft a copy of
> your DNA

To be fair, Mircosoft has been bending its customers over and leaving DNA samples in dark places since at least the mid nineties.
Interesting fact

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I'm not sure if these results will hold in the long term. Richard Hamming makes the case better than I can:

> I notice that if you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But 10 years later somehow you don't know quite know what problems are worth working on; all the hard work you do is sort of tangential in importance. He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.

(from http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html )
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tl;dr? Skip to the photoacoustic stuff at the end, which is amazing.

I feel like I didn't do MRI justice there, as it's really a family of techniques. You can tune the pulse sequences to image a lot of different things: a T1 scan of the brain, for example, emphasizes white vs. grey matter; T2* highlights fluids. fMRI uses slight changes in the properties of oxygenated vs. deoxygenated blood to infer brain activity, rather that structure. You can even find the distribution of other chemicals via Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. People use this to see if levels of neurotransmitters vary in the brain. However, you need some water/protons to image, which is why this works poorly for bone.

PET uses radioactive tracers that either bind to or replace other substances in the body. For example, in a cancer studies you're given a sugar analog called Fludeoxyglucose, or FDG. Different tissues take up glucose at different rates, and metastatic tumors are particularly hungry for it, so a lot of FDG ends up near the tumor. As it decays into oxygen and sugar, it emits positrons, the antiparticle of electrons. When the positron interacts with an electron in body's own matter, it gives off two photons that fly in opposite directions. By measuring coincidences across a set of detectors, you can figure out where the positron came from and the tracer and the tumor must be near by. FDG is the most common, but you can radiolabel lots of other things too, including drugs.

SPECT is similar, in that it uses a radioactive tracer. The SPECT tracers usually emit gamma radiation directly though, and the detector is a bit different--it doesn't rely on coincidences, which makes it cheaper but a bit lower resolution. An even simpler option is a gamma camera, where you get a single 2D image (like an X-ray vs a CT scan); not sure if this is still used much.

Ultrasound you undoubtedly know from people having babies. It gets used to look at other soft tissue too, especially knees. Ultrasound of the heart are often called echocardiograms.

Photoacoustic techniques are absolutely wild. You shine a light (usually a laser) into the subject. The wavelength of this light is carefully chosen so that it a) passes through stuff that's in the way and b) is absorbed by whatever you want to image. When a substance absorbs light, it heats up and when things heats up, they expand. Rapidly expanding things make pressure waves (i.e., sounds). By detecting those sounds from multiple locations, you can figure out where things of that color are. The color of blood varies slightly depending on how oxygenated it is, so you could potentially use this to figure out what parts of the brain are using more oxygen--and thus more active, just like fMRI. (This sounds terrifying, but the temperature changes are minuscule).
> The two bugs, Wardle said, can be launched by a local attacker — that’s where someone has physical control of a vulnerable computer.

TechCrunch got this wrong. "Local" means local privilege escalation, as opposed to "remote" code execution. They do not require physical access.

That being said, local privilege escalation on a single user computer where that user is an admin (most Macs), isn't a massive problem in my mind. It would allow malware, once run by the user, to bypass security prompts usually required to elevate access.
I have a sneaking suspicion that xfinity does this. When signing up they said there were no password restrictions. So I generated ~64 character password using my trusty password manager, and used that. Went to log in and couldn't, wrong password. So I changed my password, again ~64 characters, with the old trusty companion. Again, couldn't log in.

Finally, I just changed my password to a randomly generated password of a commanding ~16 characters and haven't had a problem logging in since. I've spent more time than I care messing with my password on xfinity's site. There was exactly no scientific endeavor, and is purely conjecture. But it really feels as though there is some chicanery happening with passwords.
My wife and I argue [playfully, but still] about who gets to make a grocery run.

I'm the introverted one, so under normal circumstances I take any chance I get to stay at home. But I do get a certain kind of energy just from being around people in public, which is why I like grocery shopping.
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It's not necessarily that people are taking human life lightly, just that priorities may not be the same for everyone.

In the UK we've already had cancer patients who have died because their treatment was cancelled to free-up hospitals for COVID patients. Nine murders have been attributed to people not being able to cope with lockdown in their own homes. Why are the lives of ( primarily ) old people with comorbidities considered of higher priority than them?

Pragmatically one could argue that economically and socially it would be fairer to just let people who contract COVID die. But politics intervenes and forbids that.
I have a topic adjacent question.

If OBS is a good mixer, what’s a good open source video editor? Or can OBS do edit prerecorded files as well?
> Zoom uses a "shady" technique — one that’s also used by Mac malware — to install the Mac app without user interaction

It reminds me of the Dropbox trick they used to get past the accessibility restrictions. The implementation is different, but it's essentially to get around all the limitations that Apple has been building into macos.

I feel like developers shouldn't have to fight the operating system.
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Hi Johnxie, you're here again. :)

To anyone seeing this, don't bother to apply. They post this every month to market their product for applicants to use and not to actually hire developers.
Well I hope its true. The curves have shown 'levelling off' before, only to return to geometric growth when testing increases.

E.g. click on a country on the left, select 'logarithmic' on the lower right and see what you think: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
Multi user security model is real!
I would bet it has become much more common since correct horse battery staple.
Agreed. This seems pretty well targeted to people who are more "indie solo creators".
IPNS is so slow though, that publishing with IPFS is a whole different story.
I'll strengthen the second point of my post:

Rule one of parenting is that you don't get to tell other parents how to do their job. I'll raise my kids the way I see fit - and that includes exposing them to certain things and choosing to not expose them to other things.

Religion or atheism? Personal safety or fuck it, we'll buy more bandages. Vegan or meat eating? There are a myriad of decisions you make day to day but, above all, you as a random internet commenter don't get to make that decision. I do.
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Please share your definition of socialism so we can all agree what we’re talking about...
Just assuming the cost does little to prepare us for the next one. Think of this as a dry run for testing all the strategies for tech and social norms that will help us with the next one.
I've never tried any of them, but [Crowd Supply](https://www.crowdsupply.com) has a lot of SDR projects that look reasonable (like LimeSDR, etc). Maybe others can comment if they've tried any of them.
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Sorta. If you think back to maker schedule and manager schedule - this seems to have opposite effects on me.

I'm getting more stuff done personally, but my ability to manage a team is suffering a fair bit.

Also noticing that the subordinate's disposition matters greatly. If they're not self-starters (to borrow a cliched phrase) then you're in for a bad time managing them. Drip feeding people remotely is just painful