skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Swede here - I get the feeling we trust our citizen and government response enough to not generally call for a hard lockdown. Some wanted elementary schools closed. Almost nobody is happy about how the elderly care works - but almost everyone were unhappy about the elderly care in general even BEFORE this.
Happy to see one of my very favorite papers in this list, in which a genetic algorithm running on an FPGA finds an exploit in the physical world in order to "cheat" at success: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.50....
Valve has no control over user-owned servers, only the listings for the server browser. Valve was informed of this leak years ago. All of this talk of an RCE is pure speculation; the leak hasn't even been out for a day.

It's good to be informed and take steps toward being safe, but we're talking about a leak where any meaningful security flaws have had multiple years to be patched.
However, when asked, Toshiba was explicit about which models do and do not use SMR: https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/16/toshiba-desktop-disk-d...
Confidentiality is most of what people are thinking about when they consider the security of cloud storage systems.
I would be surprised if the antibody test had a 100% specificity. The sensitivity also seems to be problematic as well.
The title to this post caught my eye because I have always found it amusing that so many companies have a class of employees who have the job of dreaming up ways to squeeze more work out of employees. Or at least, that is how some people tend to operate in that role. I find the advice in the article to be generic, creepy, and patronizing.

Patronizing:

> As a manager, you are in charge of handling millennials’ emotions and ensuring that they are motivated to contribute their best effort to the organization.

So, millennials can't handle their own emotions or be managers themselves? Gen-Xers and Boomers promoted to management by virtue of the fact that they are not millennials? Why even make this about millennials?

Creepy:

> An employee’s happiness quotient depends upon 4 factors – supervisor, recognition, job, company. Ask them to rate these factors on a scale to 10 and if their score is less than 28, you have a disengaged and unmotivated employee.

Pro tip: Play mind games with your employees to find out if they are motivated or not and then keep a score of the results that you can use to track their motivation score behind their back.

Seriously, don't do this at all. This is terrible advice. Best case scenario is the employee is oblivious to the objective and worse case is this becomes a new metric to game. Human metrics will be gamed. It is inevitable. This type of shenanigan will make people resent you.

Generic:

> A simple question about their health and personal life will help them find a connection with you. A light-hearted banter would help them in understanding you better.

This sounds like advice you would give an alien who is about to meet a human for the first time. That is to say, this is obvious advice.

> Discuss the performance blockers and challenges

More obvious and generic advice.

> Start with a check-in about their general well-being

Extend common platitudes to your employees. Ground breaking.

This is a marketing piece meant to sell software for tracking one on one meetings. However, in case any managers are reading and think this sounds like great advice, here is some alternative advice.

I have had managers who inspired me to do my best work, managers who inspired me to walk out the door, and managers who did not inspire me at all. I have been a good leader and a bad leader. When I was a bad leader I thought human metrics mattered and that I could control outcomes by using the metrics guide my decision making. This caused friction and resentment. When I was a good leader, I was genuine with the people I was working with and the rest flowed effortlessly. The managers I appreciated the most were also genuine. Genuine is a state of being and there is no formula to create that state. If there was, it would not longer be genuine. It would be synthetic.
When you plug your iPhone into a computer a button appears in iTunes labeled "Restore iPhone..."

In years past, you could use this to download a fresh copy of the OS and install. But I don't know if that's still what it does.
Not the greatest choice of name: Moloch[a] (also Molech, Mollok, Milcom, or Malcam) is the biblical name of a Canaanite god associated with child sacrifice, through fire or war.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch
> A great deal
How much in % ?
Rokr had nothing to do with Apple. Motorola just licensed iTunes compatibility. That was not Apple's device.
Sorry to hear.

Everybody probably goes through that and to be honest: the first 5+ or so years out of Uni may be really non-inspirational...

8 months at 25 GBP isn’t the world.

The stress, anxiety and frustration searching for jobs (Brexit, anyone? CoVid anyone?) is magnitudes bigger...

In the first couple of years, learn what you are good at, what you hate and what people pay good money for. But that implies you will have many “not very inspirational moments”...

Keep things in perspective but keep a job that pays your bills: if you work 40h per week you can still work 40-60h on stuff you love. If you are good you can squeeze 80-120h/week of actual value add out of it (assuming you get things done more effectively than other entrepreneurs that surf tech crunch a lot).

Don’t limit yourself to the notion that you can’t build great things on the side.

Worked for me many years and paid off nicely.
Show HN: CLI tool for testing personal backups
I hope this approach to launching a blockchain project becomes the standard in 2020. No hype, lots of interesting integrations:
- Remote attestation primitives,
- Tools for building and signing enclaves
- Support for Intel Software Guard

Haven't tried the testnet yet (just signed up) but looking forward to taking this for a spin.
https://github.com/mobilecoinofficial/mobilecoin
Still kind of confused with the jargon (what then does commoditizing demand versus supply mean?)

But to be honest, what I think this all boils down to is that GM created a service that was not high in demand. IMO car sharing just isn't that high in demand as ride sharing.
> consumer driven health care from non medical professionals is responsible for overuse of antibiotics

That sounds like there are no medical professionals involved, but aren't medical professionals prescribing the antibiotics?
When you believe that all humans will act in an honest and moral way, this is certainly the solution that appears to work best. Full disclosure: I'm with you, I think this is probably what will need to be seriously considered in the future.

Counter argument: Won't this just encourage fuckery from the citizenry? Won't they just be encouraged to game the system (have more kids, take care of people to intercept their checks, etc)?
You can sign modules using these instructions:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f31/system-admin...

Though it's definitely a faff, and it's required every time there's kernel upgrade.
Age is a just a number. John Carmack created Doom in his early 20s.
Hi Jared, I found another field that might be worth updating. There is a question in the Founder's profile asking if you are willing to relocate to the bay area, which doesn't feel applicable for this batch.
I would expect that anyone who is caught willfully disclosing that information today to be harshly disciplined and likely terminated.
It's actually possible to implement calling in such a way that TCO is compatible with Java's security architecture (or at least as it was back in the late 90s when I cared about this). IIRC you'd have a finite state machine along with your calls, which would transit when you're making a tail call of the sort which would matter to the security checks. In other words, the amount of security state needed by a tail-call chain was bounded, if you implemented the spec in a tail-call conscious way.

I thought stack inspection was a bad idea anyway, but you could implement it together with TCO.

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Wouldn't a lockdown translate to limiting the nursing homes' exposure to the virus?
The Magic Leap device at least worked and had a wow factor even though it didn't have a market fit. I prefer Juicero. That's really a prime example of overhyped and overpriced tech investments.
This is cool, thanks for sharing! I'll be honest, I didn't think AOL did anything...interesting...but this is interesting to me! What are some open-source alternatives / analogues to this product?
Not sure how an Out-of-Bounds write (used in this exploit) could happen in Swift.
I have to believe given the sheer size of these communities, that the source code being available only helped to confirm what was already known. The panic seen here hearkens back to the days when companies made similar ridiculous security claims about open source software compared to proprietary software.
Agree with this. There's the whole DevOps nowdays as well, which basically just shifts what used to be an entirely separate, full-time, role onto the developer. Adding DBA to that sounds like it would benefit noone, except perhaps business owners looking for short-term savings at the expense of productivity, ala open-office floor plans.
One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974)
Most of what you've described was the core material in my undergraduate program. It's certainly enough to cover several years of study. This is enough to make me wonder if my undergrad experience was, in essence, the certification process you're thinking about.
Allegedly there's already an exploit in the wild that lets you open a popup in game to all other players in a server. You can find screenshots if you look around the /r/tf2 subreddit.
I was a couple of years out of college, having been an sdr at a tech company > managed sdr’s > moved into business and sales ops.

I was hitting snags trying to do analysis with excel and couldn’t vlookup or pivot on a table with a million rows. A friend mentioned in passing that python would make this pretty simple.

I started there and tried to solve problems I was facing with code instead of excel.

Fast forward a year or two having built a few projects on the side, quit my job and started selling software I built from scratch.

I found having a project to work on that solved problems I faced made the learning effort so much easier. I struggled early on trying to solve fizz buzz-type problems because I couldn’t see them solving problems I faced day to day.

I don’t code much anymore but having that arrow in my quiver changed my career trajectory significantly. I recommend learning as soon as possible!
The difference between "loophole" and "carveout" here is basically intent.

Occam's razor suggests that, of course, members of a corrupt and self-interested Federal government would intend for their allies at megacorps to have a safe landing, and they would prioritize their wellbeing over others. They look after the people who pay their bills, of course.
An odd way to summarize a career, especially because amazon reviews are notoriously low quality and almost everything has 4-4.5 stars. It definitely under-sells his achievements.
This will only work with fine-grained energy pricing (on the scale of minutes) and smart meters.

Does this exist anywhere in the world?
I think this is much more useful to a cloud provider than to a customer.

As a customer I think you could configure somethings like you said using spot instances on AWS but that’s it, you’re going to save some small amount of dollars in a year but if you account for the engineering hours needed to set this up maybe is not really worth it.

As a cloud provider you could juggle your client between datacenters depending on the load and price of energy over there. A flat rate for a cloud region means that there’s an opportunity for arbitration between datacenters that could be an increase of thousands in profits on their side.
Components IDs are unique. So once you try to render the same component, we know you simply want to update the current one.

The same happens on the client. If the server emits the same DOM ID, the client just updates it in place too.
I am running gitlab runner on rpi, which consumes only jobs tagged with "rpi3".
> This combination of "Nonprofit" and "Permanent" is an oxymoron.

Nonprofit mainly means that they're not a company beholden to shareholders, and that they can't be sold or acquired.
This is a very one-sided and unsupported (I don't see links to articles) argument. You can do better.
> But I don't know if that's still what it does.

It does. If you don't have a cached .ipsw for the latest iOS version, iTunes will download it for you. Your iPhone also contacts Apple to verify the IPSW iTunes gave it is both "from Apple" and still signed (https://ipsw.me/iPhone12,1) before installing it.
> you can't forget that much of the risk / responsibility should the business do poorly is on their heads

The worst outcome for any employee, exec or lowly serf, is the loss of their job. But it's far more devastating for a rank-and-filer to lose their job than for a highly-paid exec to lose theirs. So...no the majority of the workforce also takes on most of the risk should the business do poorly.
The reason for not doing that has been stated time and again earlier - they worry about endurance. We will have to keep up with modified behaviour for a long time, and overdoing it may compromise endurance.
Jitsi works great for me. Just know that using it with Firefox is not optimal, particularly for > 2 participants due to certain bandwidth optimizations not being available on Firefox. This pains me as a Firefox user.
The car/cancer/heart-disease analogies are inherently flawed because they're not communicable. If my road rage started a chain reaction across the Interstate causing 45K people to die in a month, I think we'd stop driving until we figured out what was going on.
Any email client that attempts to implement displaying rich text messages and multimedia in email bodies constitutes a huge attack surface. Outlook proved this 20 years ago. Apparently we haven't learned much.
Can you cite that 30% number? That doesn't seem correct at all given the actual case count. It would correspond to a asymptommatic undercount of a factor of two hundred, which isn't supported anywhere. Even the Stanford study only guessed up to 60x or whatever.

Note that if Sweden were really approaching herd immunity new infection rates would be dropping, and in fact Sweden's outbreak is still growing. This at a time when it's objective size is very significantly larger than its neighbors' (who are dropping).

> The media that wants to paint this strategy as terrible

Are you sure it's the media's desires that are coloring interpretation? I mean, objectively Sweden's outbreak is the worst in northern Europe, and it's growing faster than pretty much anyone else on the continent. That's not consistent with "herd immunity".
My approach to planning personal projects, tasks, and goals with examples
In the article "Step by step I follow my goal. Planning of personal goals, projects, tasks."( https://ismart.life/articles/planning_goal_project_task ), I want to share the experience of achieving personal goals, project planning, and the sequence of forming up the tasks. Also, I will consider what projects are, their optimal duration, and the number of tasks. There are examples and approaches.

I tried not to write anything superfluous and I hope the article will be interesting and useful for you and will help you build your own process while achieving your goals.

Also, write in the comments if you have a different approach or there is something that can be improved...
Just wait till self sanitizing + self driving cars come out.
On the face of it, the numbers don't look too good for Sweden. Compared to the Los Angeles area (LA county and Orange County) we see 1937 deaths in Sweden vs 697 in the LA Area. The population is also about 18% higher in the LA area vs all of Sweden. We are assuming the numbers reported in the LA area are accurate, which they may not be.
> good books

Unfortunately, I don't know any that I can recommend as being a "good" book (which is again part of the problem).

There are a couple of really dry academic books that you can read if you're sufficiently motivated -

1. The Cholas by K. A. Nilakanta Sastri
https://www.amazon.com/Colas-Most-Comprehensive-Written-Chol...

2. Politics, Kingship and Poetry in Medieval South India by Whitney Cox
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Kingship-Poetry-Medieval-Sou...

3. South India under The Cholas by Y. Subbarayalu
https://www.amazon.com/South-India-Under-Cholas-Subbarayalu/...

4. A History of South India: From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar by K. A Nilakanta Sastri
https://www.amazon.com/History-South-India-Prehistoric-Vijay...
Forth was a cool language when I was a learner programmer, when I was coding for myself, by myself.

As soon as I matured and needed to work in large code bases with a team of people, the very properties that made Forth interesting became major handicaps: the programming model is to grow the language towards your problem. This generally leads to a one off quirky personal language, and worse, one per programmer or group on the team. Without draconian control this quickly becomes a morass of mutually unintelligible code. In many respects, Lisp languages often suffer the same problem.

In OO languages, a weaker version of this can occur, where different groups of people end up with different classes and objects with some mutual redundancy; however in that case, other than code duplication and resulting inefficiencies, the code remains mutually intelligible.
If you want to reduce your risk to these 0days:

1. Go to Settings > Password & Accounts. Set Fetch New Data to "Manual" and disable "Push". This will ensure that new mail is only downloaded when you specifically request it, and it will no longer do so automatically.

and/or

2. Use Safari or different e-mail clients such as GMail and Outlook. These mail clients are unaffected by the currently disclosed 0days.

There's also no word on whether PAC (a new processor security feature available in current model iPhones) affects exploitation of these bugs. You're safer if you're running a device with an A12 CPU or higher (anything newer than an iPhone XS or XR).

You can use the iVerify mobile app to get push notifications when new public exploits for iOS come out. The news feed contains specific instructions to mitigate the impact. See more:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/iverify/id1466120520

https://twitter.com/IsMyPhoneHacked/status/12529544579540090...
That was my immediate thought as well.

Profoundly and deeply unsavory.
I think it's more a continuum than a dichotomy, since there can be more or less regulation. A regulated market is usually considered to be capitalism. For example, the US stock market is regulated by the SEC. But it does get nebulous as you increase the scope and goals of regulation.
Agreed, and a good example of this is implementing search. You can define a view on top of your searchable entities that includes the urls to the entities, as well as searchable metadata (entity descriptions or whatever). So when you add new searchable items, you just update the view to include them and the code to select from the view doesn't change.
Any email client that doesn't attempt to implement displaying rich text messages and multimedia in email bodies isn't going to get very far in the modern world.
discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22944690
> If this can be done with the source, it could have been done before, no?

This analysis is on-point, and something a lot of sources seem to miss. A determined actor can find the exact same exploits with and without access to the source code, though I admit it is much more complicated without ("determined").
Oh dang I stand corrected. My statement could remove the fiduciary part and replace it with human nature and remain correct I think. It’s a basis of economics that the firm seeks to maximize profits where feasible.
It is interesting that you say that because I had huge variations in my test results, dropping from top of my class to the bottom in an instant, then back to the average.

At one point I met a guy who was working on ways for computers to solve math problems. He told me that early college level problems are actually easier to solve than high school problems for his algorithms. The reason is that while college problems have more steps, and are therefore harder for students, you essentially just need to string theorems together. High school level problems are simpler (less steps) but require significantly more intuition.

And that's what I think happened with my grades: I was never good at math, but I had good intuition. And the switch from using intuition to using actual rigorous mathematical thinking killed me. It was like a completely different subject, and it took me years to catch up.

I wouldn't say if was it was different when it comes to applying methods vs constructing models.
> The mental model fallacy is that it’s worth it to read descriptions of mental models, written and aggregated by non-practitioners, in the pursuit of self-improvement and success.

Is this actually something that people believe? I've always assumed that people reading about doing $THING were procrastinating, rather than doing $THING.
This depends on how the company is liquidated/sold. In the cases I mentioned of sale or acquisition, often the corporate entity remains in existence through the transition, so the effect is that nothing changes wrt the binding legal agreement, but a large group of new people gain access to the data. Also while legal agreements are binding, they can usually be changed, it takes some careful planning to prevent a contract from being changeable by the new owner of the contract. Think about the question of who owns the collected data in the first place. If the company owns it, and the investors own the company, the company might have a tough time getting investors to agree to waive their right to sell what they consider to be a valuable asset in the case of bankruptcy. If the company doesn't ask the investors, or can't get them to agree, then whatever they do has grounds for future legal challenge. It's all around better to delete any such data before anything changes hands.
Yup, friend of mine started working there about 2 months ago. He was meant to move to work at their offices but then corona happened, now he has to deal with half his team being purged while working remotely and let's not talk about his morale right now.
As a vegetarian, leaning towards PETA, I say the REAPER has come for those who murder their animal friends and eat their dead flesh . . . repent sinners !
I agree, but I also know people with access to some critical systems who either do their email using mutt, or run their email and other internet-facing things in a sandboxed vnc-over-ssh session to a secondary workstation OS.