skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sigint agencies hoard 0days and know they get "burned" by using them against a serious opponent that records traffic and can analyze and reverse engineer malware. If the 0day is useful against your own systems, you would hesitate to use it before your systems are patched. I think electronic warfare and ECCM systems can have similar dynamics.

I always assumed (without any evidence) there is secret firmware or settings for these systems that will only be used in time of war and not used during training.

I guess Israeli Air Force knows countries like Iran have the Russian hardware and personnel/training for dealing with the Elta gear that Israel exports, but I also guess the Israeli Air Force has secret sauce, maybe using the same hardware, that they don't export and use only for striking strategic targets, knowing each strike teaches the opponent something.
Do these jets even have radar and other equipment necessary to actually employ weapons? IIRC most aggressor jets have some hardpoints and avionics removed.
That kind of depends, there is not a "this many or it fails / succeeds" number. I believe Figure 3 in https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/09/scie... suggests a minimum of about 60%
I think this article is interesting, but I think it is mistaken on focusing on the mechanism (stock buybacks) vs the attitude, which is a general focus on value extraction rather than value creation.

I think that in this era of American business, companies are so efficient at extracting value that they've basically forgotten how to innovate. Innovation is delegated to startups, and incumbents focus on financial engineering and extraction. It's foolish to think that one rule change caused this attitude shift and that one rule change will change it back.
Are any mind maps sequential? Most I’ve seen are static trees, usually without secondary connections and no clear start and end.
Good for these python GPU libraries. You don't have to do that in Clojure too.
Wow I don't think I've ever seen marketing that bad that wasn't satire.

It is literally shit-talking their own product.

> Isn’t IDA an aging software?

> Doesn’t it have shortcomings?

> Or structural limitations?

> Also… It’s closed source, right?

> And how about its high price tag?

> Well sure [...]

I didn't have half of these preconceptions before reading this page.... but now I do.
i think it's less a threat to democracy and more that it's already ended democracy (what little was implemented in the first place) in the u.s. (i'm just repeating your use of the word democracy, as there's an implicit assumption there that democracy is a cherished thing being destroyed.)

adam curtis' other documentaries build upon similar ideas, converging to the (relatively) recent hypernormalization.
Maybe we shouldn't start calling it a depression before it actually is one? If that becomes the media narrative, it will be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Data on 53 Patients Treated With Investigational Antiviral Remdesivir
A Cornucopia of nREPL Updates
Each patient creates a new key per day. Only those keys are uploaded. So everyone who is positive in the app needs their keys to be uploaded. At least this would be a reasonable design choice of the app. Maybe the designers of the app assume you actually follow the quarantine that infected people should do and don't leave your home. In that case, the app can stop uploading of those daily keys.
Thanks for that. One path to greater longevity is to explore the idea of what else you could do with it besides contact tracing for disease that users might find useful. For example, what if users with a common interest had the ability to identify themselves to each other but not those who don't share that interest? If it's useful for something else besides coronavirus mitigation, you'll have the rare opportunity to reach almost everyone at once.
Oldest ever piece of string was made by Neanderthals 50k years ago
Most UAVs are highly susceptible to ECM. The smaller your UAV the less likely it is going to be well equipped against ECM. Inertial navigation systems can be exceedingly expensive so a cheap drone will be reliant upon GPS. Something that should be obvious but is always skipped is that the operational range of quadrocopters is incredibly low and they cannot carry any significant payloads.

When you consider these reasons it becomes obvious why missiles cost $100k each. Once you actually start building a UAV that is actually useful in the roles that you describe you will exceed the cost of a single missile. The costs aren't going down. The MQ-1 cost $4 million. The MQ-9 which replaced the MQ-1 has a greater payload and costs around $16 million. The strategy clearly isn't to increase the number of drones.
Yes, they should investigate. But they should investigate before reaching a conclusion.
I'm worried about security implications of this technology.

First of all how reliable this technology will be since its results will or can be used in courts.

Secondly how contact tracing logs will be secured since they can be stolen or sniffed in a real time.

I didn't read technology documentation drafts and I used Bluetooth last time on old generation of phones way before smart phones and I'm interested for how long this tracing sessions will last since you can map devices that have turned on bluetooth in any given area(Tran stations,libraries etc.)
You can do something similar to Wardriving (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardriving).
Xilinx Appoints New CFO
Although proprietary, I find Thinlinc Just Works and the server is free for less than 6 simultaneous connections and supports opengl natively in applications (and is based on TurboVNC iirc). It's very much a drop-in replacement. Clients are on all OSes. They give money upstream.
By not having a crew?
Say a newly identified case is assumed to have been infectious for the preceding week. My reading of the spec is that they’d upload 7 diagnosis keys (which all devices would have to download).
No, you weren't really missing anything, default zoom is very recent. I don't remember which version it was, but it was within the last 3. It's a big deal for accessibility.
Janus is easier to deploy and scales well.
This seems interesting, but I cannot upload proprietary information.
I can't relate to much of the criticism but can say that the inspector has gotten awesome. I switched all of my development to it. There are a couple of things that _require_ chrome, like Slack calls, otherwise I'm Firefox only and would recommend it.
Show HN: We made a web app so that our parents can keep reading to our daughter
Sorry I couldn't read the article, could someone post where to buy those shirts, I'll use them for sure.
How about making one for Congress?

In 2011, "60 Minutes" reported that members of Congress could legally trade stock based on non-public information from Capitol Hill. video [0], write-up [1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zh30lm7aSQ

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/congress-trading-stock-on-insid...
Since so many companies have it, why not take it back and make it a public commons?
In my uneducated opinion, Google's hazing interview is not to establish whether one can write a for loop or not but to establish how dedicated one is to working at Google. An anecdote: I interviewed at Google ~10 years ago and failed. They did not ask anything complicated (I don't know if it was because the polices were different or they actually needed someone with my expertise) but I had a complete brain freeze for some reason. Anyways, ever since then a Google recruiter reaches out every year or so. I always tell them to get lost because I already failed and they always respond that most of their employees pass on second or third time only.

Now, recruiters could have been lying about that but on the other hand, they obviously know that I applied before yet want me to apply again. I'd imagine a regular company would have done something about their recruitment process if they had that many false negatives. However, if I wanted to get dedicated employees, that would be exactly how I hired.
They're a scenario where people have willingly given away privacy to corporations in exchange for pretty minor benefits (largely, discounts that just bring the prices back to where they'd have originally been).
Yeah nobody knows how to do that. To the degree that anybody's figured any amount of it out, it's much more likely and lucrative to point that code at changing your vote than your brand of toilet paper (wink wink).
Until the VR headset comes integrated into contact lenses (my personal dream since I started needing glasses for reading passing 40).
De-paywalled: https://archive.is/6TUbs
Low usage because Python makes it annoying to use…
Android differentiates between user processes and root processes. I'm pretty sure iOS does as well, although maybe they've coded it as something weird.

I'm not seeing people here arguing that Linux could get by with only supporting 1 user account. I'm seeing people argue that the biggest reason they avoid running as root is just because userland applications complain about it. It's very difficult to do sandboxing if there isn't some kind of differentiation between a privileged and unprivileged process.

Regardless, Linux also doesn't really have good sandboxing by default, so I'm not completely sure what you're getting at. It's still a bad idea for people to run a Linux system as root.
There is also another idea floating - let the phones emit an ultrasound - then the other phone can estimate proximity, by the volume or delays.
How am I supposed to know that corrcoef is slow and I should rewrite it? I didn't know before, now thanks to this article I do.
Here's one chart I found showing the relationship between disability and unemployment statistics: http://www.mybudget360.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/trimta...
6 trillion USD is about $30,000 per US tax payer. People should think about where that is going as they get their $1000 checks in the mail.
From the comic, you only need ~60% of contacts for it to be effective [1].

[1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/09/scie...
Are masks effective against coronavirus?
My Nightly 77 shows the full URL and https and I also haven't changed about:config settings.
This happens when the system is swapping and most processes are swapped out. Then in theory each context switch would need to swap in some pages first.

Not having given this much thought, I think some solutions could be: (a) Favor processes that are already swapped and keep them swapped in a bit longer before swapping in other processes. I.e. trade fairness for higher throughput. (b) Kill the worst offenders, EarlyOOM, etc, comes to mind. (c) Simply do not swap :)

I realize it's not a solution... But on my systems I simply have swapping disabled.
Yeah, those who produce patchers (i.e. cracks) and keygens for proprietary software, which is quite a big scene.
I'm sure this was always a bit tongue-in-cheek and/or just non-technical salespeople drumming up some hype. Here we are talking about it many decades later. The 1950s reactor designers certainly were not that stupid. In fact, a 1955 textbook on nuclear technology says this in its intro:

"The [statement] that the heat released by the complete fission of one pound of nuclear fuel is equivalent to that obtainable by 1400 tons of coal (or 300,000 gallons of fuel oil), has led to some erroneous conclusions. The fantastic possibility has been envisaged of including in an automobile enough fissionable material, about the size of a pea, to last the life of the vehicle. In order to realize why this is not within the bounds of reality, it is necessary to understand something about the fission process."

Glasstone -- Principles of Nuclear Reactor Engineering (1955) [1]

[1] https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015003994194&vi...
How do you open doorknobs? That's the one I have an issue with.
I don't think most American citizens are claiming that corporations should provide zero value to their investors.

I am of the belief that the federal government having to make up programs on a whim in a very short time span is not preferable to corporations having a rainy day fund of at least a couple months.

Federal regulations should be placed on all traded corporations to have savings to cover themselves in the event of a disaster, to the order of being able to weather two months of zero income. When these funds get exhausted it is time to consider a federal level program to help everyone out.

The only alternative I see to this kind of measure is to let companies fail and then hold the leadership of those organizations accountable for their failure. This will literally never happen in our crony capitalism government.
We don't know a lot about the pathology of COVID, like why is it so much worse than the coronaviruses that already circulate around the world and cause mild flu-like symptoms. We know a ton about coronaviruses in general, especially basic issues about how they replicate. Herpes viruses use a number of different genes to regulate latent infections. These genes are simply not found in COVID or any coronaviruses. This is not something we could be misunderstanding/missing. It's possible, but would be HIGHLY unlikely, that COVID has some, as yet undiscovered and never before seen in any other coronavirus studied to date, method of achieving latent infection and reactivation.
1) Covid19 was largely dangerous for old people cumulatting other comorbidities, mostly retired people. 2) Old people don't move that much and don't meet that many other people.

It leads me to believe that the proposed loss of privacy isn't the best way to fight a virus such as a flu
Have you read the spec (or even only the crypto sub spec [1]) before making your comment?

[1] https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/cu...
Repeal or at least disincorporate the 2nd amendment. It's kinda ludicrous that conservative justices claim to be strict constructionists yet decided states and municipalities can't make their own rules. And yes, we should be addressing mental health regardless.

And if guns don't kill people, what vital purpose do they serve? Defend your home with a bow and arrow because it's exactly as effective as an AR-15 with 100-round clip according your reductive assertion.
Which makes the flu look comparatively worse than COVID since the flu stats include widespread vaccination campaigns. For what it's worth the flu vaccine efficacy ranges from 19-60% (unlike or instance an MMR which will get you 88-97%) because there are a lot of strains of the flu (and which one is dominant in a given season varies) and it mutates regularly. COVID has shown no mutation so far (I believe the delta between viruses across the world is 15 base pairs) so a herd immunity or immunization strategy will be much, much more effective.
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The one thing I wish this tool had is the ability to tap on touch screens - coffee shop cash register screens, grocery stores, mail lockers, etc.
> The product is great. But you pay with your personal data, I guess...

I doubt it's any worse than what you give out to Google or Microsoft for their solutions. After all, those are targeted advertising companies. Zoom had bundled the Facebook SDK to enable their social login, but removed it after the discovery that it phones home.
68% Improvement in Covid 19 Patients Treated with Remdesivir
Yeah sure. a month, a year, a decade. How much of my life are you willing to steal?

The fatality rate for octogenarians is 15%. Octogenarians also have a 10% chance of dying every year anyway. At 18 months of lockdown 15% of them are dead anyway and you took a single digit percentage of my life away
Style is how you stitch the thefts together.
The license plate dress has the added benefit that buggy self driving cars may actually notice the pedestrian wearing it.
The Daily Tracing Key cannot be "easily fingerprinted" since it does not leave the device (see page 5). Your LE threat model seems like grasping at straws, the majority of users already have location services enabled anyway, people breaking the law would have to change exactly nothing from the common practice of not bringing your phone when committing crimes.
Thanks for the link, but I'm pretty sure this wouldn't really solve my (C++) issues. MSVC does quite a lot of caching, and still runs into a looot of compilation times (and also, link times, which I initially forgot to mention ;))
One thing I prefer about whiteboard coding interview exams is that the do require an investment of time from the interviewing company. Take-homes allow them to externalize the horrendous inefficiency of the interviewing process.

Beyond that, I think articles like this are important to read and circulate widely. Young people need to know that if they become doctors, lawyers, nurses, actuaries, licensed processional engineers, dentists, or financial planners, they will indeed need to take a test. However, the test will be managed by a central authority, with predictable content, with a clear study path, and once you take the entrance exam, you won't have to take it over and over during job interviews for the rest of your life. There may be refresher exams, but again, they will be managed by the licensing body and will provide a clear preparation path, and will be graded consistently. It won't all be left to the whims of whoever thought up a question.

If you become a dev, you will deal with interview exams, often conducted by people who are not really qualified to conduct exams, every time you interview, even if you have decades of experience. If you are a senior actuary, you will not need to integrate by parts every time you interview, but if you are a developer, you may very well have to find all matching subtrees in a binary tree every time you interview. You are signing up for a lifetime of retaking your intro to algorithms midterm.

You may be able to avoid this by starting a consulting company, or going into management, but at this point, if you plan to be a "knowledge worker", I would highly recommend taking a look at other fields.
> only

So... 200 million americans?
> I don't see how you could have a real argument against this unless you are a privacy extremist.

The authors of DP-3T (which seems quite similar to this spec) have a huge list of privacy caveats in their whitepaper [1], in section "5.4 Summary of centralised/decentralised design trade-offs".

I haven't seen any analysis on how the Apple/Google spec prevents those problems.

[1] https://github.com/DP-3T/documents/raw/master/DP3T%20White%2...
Dig up a copy of WordPerfect 6 from somewhere, no need to boot a modern OS.

(More to the point - the solution to software bloat isn't to get rid of security protections so that the bloat has room to grow.)
It’s my own pet peeve that basically all mind map software assumes acyclic structure. Makes it pretty useless to me.
The crackers will just crack the full version.

When I was into that stuff many years ago, it was a bit of "rite of passage" to crack IDA yourself.
recession is going to lower rents. airbnb is not even a rounding error.
Not sure I agree. This only works if both ends of a contact have a conforming app. As such, the proportion of contacts you can trace is not linear, but quadratic in adoption.

(If 20% of people adopt it, you’d catch only 4% of contacts).
Talking about a "Bubba" is pure flamebait.

If you switched that up for a "Tyrone" you'd get flagged pretty quickly.

Try not to bring your tired culture-war tropes to Hacker News. The rest of the internet is lousy with it, you might be happier out there.
Sometimes there are ways to guess:

"long illness" - cancer, but can be other things

"short illness" - heart attack, stroke, pneumonia, for instance

"died at home" - polite euphemism for suicide, though can be natural death at home for someone who lived alone
Every Android app runs as a different UID.

I'm not sure what you mean by "concept of multitenancy," but if you want to "sandbox apps," you cannot let side-channel attacks break that sandbox.
dang, thanks for clarifying. I had a friend with a bed company years back with no affiliation do a Show HN and it must have organically trended. I didn't know you guys did that, and it makes sense that you do. I have no idea how you would open it up because then it would be like Product Hunt on steroids with 1,000+ inbound requests a day.
While what you are saying is logically coherent but it does not work in the real world. How are you going to track all the people the infected people has to contact with? How about asymptotic cases?
> The government has trained the private sector to expect to be bailed out when a black swan event occurs, so they no longer worry about black swan events.

Why should they? How are bailouts any better or worse than having companies leverage less and therefore having less growth?
me too!

i'd guess that the per hour operating costs of a super yacht would be similar or higher to the operating costs of an FA-18.

i think people like larry ellison would agree. afaik he has a few ex-military jets, including a MIG-29 (a lot more capable than an FA-18 in many respects).
Also enjoyed reading Bernays and Lippmann.

Please note, though, that recent experimental research has also pushed back a bit on the impact of propaganda and human gullibility [0].

[0]: https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/what-do-you-really-know-ab...
That's not guaranteed. There are number of reasons one of them being by sheer chance.
It seems 98% of all people who get Covid-19 recover.

Some countries like Sweden are doing fine, open for business.

I don't think it's quite as dire as the author thinks.
I know it is about APIs - but no mention of any Free or at least Open Source Software example implementations makes me worry.

I was expecting that people would organize around git repos - but no, just one of the many COVID tracing initiatives published their code.

It is https://github.com/tripleblindmarket/covid-safe-paths by the way.
An you expand the width of the chat streams? That’s what really gets me on Slack: the fixed width of threads makes talking about code impossible. Also, slack doesn’t even try to highlight code.
Again, you are assuming all software engineering jobs are like yours. I’d been on projects where I’d to deeply think about graphs and literally invent variations of algorithms that worked for my scenario. I’d to written code for tree searching, online median finding, distributed minimum tree spanning etc in my various projects. If you are working in things search, AR, DL related products anyone will tell you that 1% of improvement in algo performance often translates to millions of dollars of savings. Unfortunately designing and evaluating algorithms is very hard earned skills and candidates who have internalized tools of this trade do much better than regular full stack folks. CS whiteboarding is precisely for such candidates but unfortunately full stack guys also started adopting them for their jobs. For full stack projects that need little to no algorithms design, take home coding question specific to tech stack works much better.
As with ad blocking, no one really cares until it becomes widespread. CV doesn't account for dazzle because no one's really using it; there are more immediate problems to solve of higher utility.

There's also the non-technical approaches, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_law.
No worries. I apologize for jumping to conclusions like this. I will be going over these soon.
Red team contracts are fun and pay well. Even moreso when you run a red team company
People aren't being forcefully sharing their health status via FB, IG, etc. Imagine if Facebook published if you had an STD to your friends.
True, but the whole reason this worked is that they were a sovereign international personality separate from Italy, not just a private Italian organization.
Adversarial Fashion:

https://adversarialfashion.com/