skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think almost nobody would argue that depression should qualify you for assisted suicide

Did I understand this wrong? Because if not, at least I'm sure I don't agree with that. Depression is the most fixable problem an human-being can fix and is as seasonal as happiness and cheerfulness. Every person that suicides because of depression is an idiot that most of the times leave lots of people hurt.
They could do an entire 10 seasons on just 1% of that series.
Very cool looking, but the marketing is a bit misleading because I feel like you'd have to go back 10 years to find a 15" laptop that big.
There's that, too. (Well, we don't have to predict anything. We have to show that halting or not is a decidable condition, and we've shown it isn't. Even if we had shown it was decidable, there still might be programs where we practically can't figure out it halts. So is the beauty of math - it gives us the gestalt of the world without caring about the world :)
I didn't like it, but I don't recall it having gags or a laugh track.
A new Youtube channel by a complete beginner. Please help me.
Or, someone could take a week to learn Erlang and make whatever change is needed. You won't be an Erlang expert in a week, but it's a pretty small language, so editing existing code isn't that hard. And that existing code can't be that bad, since it's still working.
No, tf32 has the same size exponent field as f32 but the mantissa size of f16, 10 bits.
Season 2 was so overly dark and broody that it was boring.
Yes, but other important parts of iCloud are not, like all your Photos (which almost always includes EXIF GPS data, which can approximate a track log), Notes, Safari history and bookmarks, Contacts, Find My (locations for both devices and people), iCloud Drive files, reminders, voice memos, and wallet passes (which can include flight or ticket information, and loyalty cards, et c). If you don't have 2FA turned on (most people), your Health data (such as timestamped heart rate history) is available to Apple (and by extension the FBI/military/et c) as well.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

If you're using iCloud (which happens automatically), they can see your nudes and read your private notes.
...[Burr claimed] that he "relied solely on public news reports" when making a decision on the trades.

quote of him from another article:

https://www.newsweek.com/fbi-apple-warrant-richard-burr-iclo...
Some of the finger strain can be alleviated by using a Gray code.
The series I really want is a Baroque Cycle series. With Virtual Backgrounds, I think it could be really really immersive.
Why is this exclusive to Max? Seems like they’re just diluting their brand to me—I don’t know which product to purchase to get their new content.
> Cyberpunk was thinly-veiled xenophobia about the Japanese

I'm surprised by this point of view since, in my opinion, Japanese cyberpunk media is easily the best.
I'm confused by why they are calling this cable system "transformative" as the periphery of Africa is already well served by existing submarine cable:

https://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/

It seems like getting terrestrial fiber into the interior of the continent would be much more impactful. For instance SEACOM was completed in 2008 with landing stations in Tanzania and Kenya but it took 2 years to lay the terrestrial cable to get places like Rwanda and Uganda connected to it:

https://www.reuters.com/article/ozabs-rwanda-telecoms-idAFJO...
> it feels like slogging through Leviticus

I genuinely laughed out loud when the article called the book "accessible". I enjoyed the book much more than you did, but it is nearly 500 pages long and full of long, in depth, and dry discussions about a variety of obscure topics like linguistics and ancient Sumerian mythology. That isn't for everyone.
I would be curious to know how many networks use macsec/.1ae for their transocean fiber. It makes a big difference in detering surveillance.
My biggest problem with Snow Crash was at the end of the book. The author has done this in other books too, where you have a very detailed story but then it feels like the end gets rushed. Kind of like another 200 pages of novel get squeezed down to 12 pages.
It is easier, at least in the short term, because it gets right away to that tracking sweetness. It might be regretted in the long term, although global companies don't seem to be taking GDPR seriously yet, probably because they don't sufficiently fear the enforcing bodies. (Let's see those consent walls come down first.) In the meantime, who knows how much Google made off the tracking information that they got this way?
And car companies comply with California's emissions laws rather than miss out on California sales, so it seems like "pulling out" is unlikely.
It was clearly a joke response to a joke question.

Reporting Edward Snowden for timecard fraud, while technically it could be a valid infraction, misses the scope of the crimes he is already known to have committed.

Also, the penalty would be on the company that has the agreement with the US Government and not Edward Snowden himself (which could include being barred with doing business with the US Government for 1 year).
The experience is always changing. If you cross the same bridge twice, at the second time the experience is not the same, as you are not doing it for the first time.

So if the experience is changing and you are equally suffering, you are not learning with life, that's a mistake that lots of people do. Suicide is not a solution.
Amazon picked up the Ringworld franchise too for a series.
I implemented a physical port-knocking daemon, once. I lived in a block of flats — you needed an expensive fob to open the outer gate, and it didn’t even work reliably.

I lost my fob. So I took my intercom apart and wired a band pass filter circuit between the buzzer input and actuator output. If you pressed my buzzer with the right steady pattern, it would automatically let you in.

It worked great and I didn’t buy a replacement fob.

A few months later I started getting woken up by someone buzzing my buzzer. They would always scurry in before I could open my door to see who it was.

Turns out my upstairs neighbor saw my shenanigans a few times and started freeloading off my invention. Honestly amazed he/she reverse engineered what was going on!

Needless to say, I bought a new fob.
Oh man, the tone of that movie is excellent. Really sorry Valerian ended up such a dud. Snow Crash with a high quality 5th element vibe would be pretty amazing.
Endings aren’t Stephenson’s thing - except for Baroque Cycle which absolutely nailed it.
PrintDemon: Print Spooler Privilege Escalation Persistence Stealth CVE-2020-1048
CVE-2020-1048
Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Published: 05/12/2020

‘An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Print Spooler service improperly allows arbitrary writing to the file system. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code with elevated system privileges. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.’

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/ad...

MITRE reserved for now
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-1048

Original title was too long. It was:

PrintDemon: Print Spooler Privilege Escalation, Persistence & Stealth (CVE-2020-1048 & more)
> for the simple reason that that means you probably loaded 2GB of data over the internet

No, web pages can access local storage.
But will it fit traditional VC model? :)
There is a GitHub project I've used as reference a couple of times, written in JS.

https://github.com/jamiebuilds/the-super-tiny-compiler
Quite a few caveats in there though, based on the method of commute plus the location involved.
YAY!1!!

/me summersaults to 'Vitalic - Poison Lips (Live)'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBgHSJg7oKc 4min48sec
I always viewed it as a critique of capitalism—sure you can get a bionic arm, but you had to sell it in the first place. All inherent value has been exploited and resold, including at times reality itself.
I was tremendously surprised recently by some of the clever work on making cement without CO2 emissions, starting exactly 60 minutes into this talk:

https://youtu.be/E76q-9q7ZDg

Standard hydrolysis for making (green) hydrogen from water using electricity also creates excellent chemistry for the cement process.

We must anticipate an era where there are periods of zero-marginal-cost energy so plentiful we can't use it all, followed by periods of undersupply. Storing electrical energy in hydrogen may seem completelt uneconomical right now, but combining that process with cement production could result in fantastic efficiency of process. We are going to need carbon-neutral cement somehow, and if we get hydrogen with it, and CO2 feedstock for other purposes, we may be in a really good position for all sorts of processes.

Industrial processes have been under examined as we try to become carbon neutral. That means that there's tremendous opportunity, not that it's impossible. Humans are clever when we are allowed to be, we just haven't put much innovative thought into our industrial processes in a long time, much less resigned then from the ground up!
Altered Carbon actually disappoints me, a bit. I loved cyberpunk back in the '90s, but watching something like that now feels almost... dated? The Asian fetishism, the cartoonishly evil corporate overlords, the pageantry of making everything so deliberately cool, in a sort of '80s way. At least Snow Crash had interesting and contemporaneous things to say about anarcho-feudalist suburbia.

I love the heck out of Snow Crash, but I think it was one of the last hurrahs of Cyberpunk, and part of its success was that it described a future that was disgustingly uncool. It wasn't a world of chrome skyscrapers bedazzled in holograms and surrounded by sexy cyborgs in Italian three-piece suits. It was trashy - a world of ugly walled-village box-cutout suburbs full of minivans and roided-up teenagers and pizza-delivery vehicles.

Snow Crash is a product of its time, since the characters all exude the excessive coolness of the '80s (which came from its origins as a comic, I imagine) but it also created the more modern setting. Modern dystopian lit wallows in the banality of evil.
What conditions do you need to get an Erlang process that you can't kill? Brutal kill, or load the executing module twice always worked for me (except for a couple deadlock bugs my company added to our locally patched BEAM)
But can you acknowledge that these people are probably reinforcing the miserable experience by their own? And that's why it looks like it is permanent?
Well, the quote is that the plan, competently carried out, STILL didn't work, and had never worked in the past.
One-time knocking via changing the ports for every connection / every X seconds with a OTP is something else you can do to further contribute to the defense-in-depth idea. Port knocking is great on it's own, but curious to hear from those who have set it up this way. Love the 'honey port' idea mentioned elsewhere in the thread.
Avatar sequel to include aquatic theme; +SET PHOTOS
Alternatively, check out "single packet authorization"
Kind of a pointless article, not really anything new info since Cornish was announced as the director back in 2012 and HBO took over from Paramount
Any recommendations? I have only seen “ghost in a shell”.
Ralph W. McGehee, Agent Who Exposed the CIA, Dies at 92
Everything becomes surveillance at some point.
Absolutely, yes

-Hari
Are you under the impression that Taiwan wouldn’t welcome US sanctions on China with dancing in the streets? Taiwan was bitterly opposed to detente.
Yeah, Heroku performance on shared dynos is really not great. The variability is very high also, so you'll get some requests seemingly randomly timing out. The dedicated performance dynos are better, but even more expensive. We were on Heroku for a long time but as the scale got too much we migrated to Google Kubernetes Engine which has been great.
This is absolutely par for the course for Stephenson. He's written at least 4 books like this, as far as I can tell.

Seveneves in particular is 700 pages of incredible, next-level worldbuilding, then the potential for 3 more 300+ page volumes compressed into 180 pages. It's like at the 700 page mark the "wrap it up" light comes on, and he hastily bookends it.
The South was afraid the North would enact tariffs on cotton, thus crippling the only significant product of the Southern economy - cotton. It was about tariffs on cotton. Not anything else.

> there is a difference between "pushing other people off their lands" and systematic racial genocide under the age of capitalism.

The reservations and Indian nations within the US suggests the former, not the latter.

> the greeks, romans, mongols, ottomans

They didn't give their conquered territories back. They installed puppet governments that obeyed the conquerors. Japan and Germany are not puppets of the US.

> race based genocide only occurred during the age of capitalism

"By 1650, hereditary enslavement based upon color, not upon religion, was a bitter reality in the older Catholic colonies of the New World."

https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/05/peter-h-wood-strang...

Also, the slave economy collapsed during the Civil War, while the northern free economy thrived. The reason Lee was even at Gettysburg was because the Confederate army was shoeless and nearby Harrisburg had a shoe factory.
And for good reason:

https://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1965...

https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/martin-luther-king-jr...

> We see nothing like that today.

True, but knowing why that is the case is hard to do. Are modern day Americans more supportive of military adventures in far away lands that kill thousands of innocent people, or is it that we hardly see anything about it on the news, especially images of dead bodies?

Similarly, are Americans now satisfied with the level of equality and justice currently enjoyed by the African American community, or are they occupied by other distractions?

Riots in the streets seem to have been largely replaced by arguments in internet forums, particularly Reddit, where you will find not only large amounts of "unrest", but also a significant amount of mental illness - people who have completely lost touch with reality.
Which tracing jit would you recommend for production work?

The implication is, of course, that there isn’t a good one. This isn’t ruby the language’s fault, it’s just weird that after like 15 years being the go-to tool for VCs there’s no substantial investment in the core infrastructure.

We just gotta wait for banking software to be written in it, I guess, so there’s a vested interest in it over the long term.

Edit: I’d like to further note that other languages use similar features (string-keyed functions) but they aren’t typically put into high performance code/are seen as a hack around formally definitions (possible exception: common lisp, although I would expect a macro). This is inherently a readability improvement over manually defining the methods you use.
reminds me of this screenshot I took when Google had their own neural-net-recognizing-drawings: https://imgur.com/a/PqLpTJy
A gas plant can be ramped up and down quite fast, so they can be used as a so-called "peaker" plant, only producing when there's a shortage of solar/wind power. Coal takes a while to get hot and to cool down, so it's only worth using it if you need a constant stream of energy.
Give okular a try!
They should also read Judge Dallet's dissent which makes the same points I've been making.
I wonder how this plays out with the community. Twitch wants them involved, but I wonder if the larger community share the same interests as the top folks.
It is time.

China invasion may come and in fact hot up so much the guy who responsible for the unlimited war in pla come up to say that is not the right timing. But military invasion is the only choice given Taiwan is going in its political aspiration. (Thanks for the demo of Hong Kong the last election ..) Suicidal is so western thinking. What do you think the North Korea war. What do you think anyone in the Hans mentality afford he has lost Taiwan. Unless the chinese gone multi- ... the oneness cannot he stopped until it controlled. The Middle Kingdom is middle of everything.

If they can get in ... or at least ... or a threat like anti-bio.

It is just in the us interest.

It is time ... it is time ...
so helpful, good initiative.
I was not disparaging it. Indeed I commended its theatrics and suggested it may help to make logs less cluttered. As for its supposed security benefits, this is something that needs to be proven by actual security research. Not by anecdotes on the internet.
And yet this chip wasn't designed to drive a speaker. The reference designs I've seen show using external transistors to actually drive the speaker.
hell ya. love the positivity. keep featherin' brother.
There are 2 to 3 years that I've not been finding HN as interesting as before.
Wait what? I wish people would make up their minds on this. They have gotten a warrant. That's how law enforcement is supposed to work.

Being against warrantless tapping is not the same thing.
> I bogged down in the second chapter or so. I know if I really focused, I could get through it. But would anyone care?

Yes they would. But you have to be able to use it to solve real problems.

Alternatively, you could be a dev who supports a science team.
The TV and movie industry continues to ruin the literary integrity of almost everything, despite budgets that allow great production values. Every story gets reduced to one of the conventional formulas. They couldn't even remake decent versions of the "The Andromeda Strain" or "The Day the Earth Stood Still". Did you ever see NBC's "The Martian Chronicles?", or the two versions of "Brave New World" (soon to be joined by a third version)? There are only so many Stanley Kubricks out there (currently out of stock) who are capable of doing these kinds of stories well.
I enjoyed your story, but can you please elaborate on what your intercom is / was for?

I understand the key fob/card concept for access purposes, but have never heard of an “intercom” in the context of home/apartment/etc security.
You mean file:// urls? If you have access to do that... why not just install a real executable as well.

(Can't say I'm terribly up to date on the different ways to store data as a website... but if there's a way to persist multiple gb I would be very surprised)
> Cyberpunk was thinly-veiled xenophobia about the Japanese

This comment might apply to Gibson's works (although I'd dispute even that, Japan is generally presented in a positive light), but Snow Crash doesn't really feature Japan at all. The setting is American through and through, and the main character is part-Japanese mostly just to make "Hiro" a plausible name.
The ones that come to mind first are Akira, Serial Experiments Lain, Patlabor (particularly the first movie), and Paprika.
HBO, Warner, AT&T, or whoever is making the decisions have been absolutely awful at branding. This will now be the third streaming service that has the HBO name on it. I would bet that the number of consumers that could actually describe the differences between the three is extremely small. As it stands now, my initial instinct is to question the quality of this show and the commitment to supporting it if they are making it exclusive to Max rather than airing it on HBO proper.
You are talking about the past when they were radicalized,if this happened online then you are right but I thought it was clear that I meant internet usage for organizing and planning terrorism. Propaganda and radicalization is a dragnet, you will catch many but the one cell that recruits in person and communicates on paper only by code will succeed. It's not a volume game,it's a binary game.
does this lag for anyone else? i can't draw anything because every few seconds it freezes up my browser.
there is also the law of escalation to consider, to get more hits, to stand out above others, these people will perform increasingly more debase or dangerous actions and poses.

I'm not for wholesale censorship but somehow we need to find a way to stop the pressure of anonymous crowd escalation pressure.
Corona-Tracing Apps – Explained
For all practical purposes it is true that classified work will not be done at home for a long period of time -- because doing meaningful classified work over a long period of time requires connectivity to a classified network, which requires a bit of infrastructure and the relevant accrediting authority has stringent requirements for this kind of thing.

I've personally participated in the accreditation of on-site SIPRNET (which operated by DISA at SECRET//NOFORN) enclaves and it is an expensive process that your company will not pay to have done at your house.

In addition, there would need to be daily audits of the security records for things like vaults, rated security room (even without open storage), and a vault for the Type 1 encryption device (which needs its crypto keys updated regularly) -- at the least -- which connects your (or really DISA's leased line) to the peer.
Been studying RE recently, using Cutter and following your blog. Your work is so great!
"But the first example is just unspecific, and attributing the downvotes to some reason is difficult without real replies."

That is hate speech, can you see?
You can't see it because you are privileged.

That is the reason only me as a "protected minority" can relate and say what is or not hate speech against us.

You simply can't understand our life experience.

--> by simple "twist" I can bend your intent and make you a hater

Does the Law have space for replies? Don't think so. Who will decide a reply is good enough?

"Besides true insults and slurs, those are for example the theories that make some minorities the cause of societal problems by blunt reasoning"

I think it is more of "think about the children" slippery slope.

You sell it about a "good excuse" then later abuse it.

The countries that seems to implement it are doing it most in a way to curb criticism to some govt policies than protecting "groups". Then every criticism about govt policy is "hate speech".

E.g: govt decides to give iPhones to X group.

If you complain that will be "hate speech"?

Again this is very lax and prone to abuse.

We as good intended and polite can see it has to be more specific but the "govt" does not.

Are we smart than people that make laws everydays? I don't think so.

Then I rather not have it.

Better hate people for what they think/say than for what they hide.
Frankly this is an idiotic idea. In a nice cafe or lobby you’re going to have a phone on a stand with a USB cord leading to a wall wart with a readout on a 5 inch screen telling people it’s safe to go in?
I was stung when the exhibit in the Tokyo Tower of other famous towers of the world didn’t have the Space Needle, but had other, shorter buildings for scale.
Datasaga – Datashaman
There's a very simple explanation for why most of human history happens in the northern hemisphere.

Take a look at a map.

Notice which hemisphere has 70% of the land.