skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author seems to have missed the true root cause here here. Which was exposing VNC and NoMachine to the internet in the first place. These services should have been accessed through ssh port forwarding (or using a VPN). Password auth should always be disabled on ssh and keys should be used.

Very few daemons are secure enough to expose to the open internet. OpenSSH is one of the few.

(And, if possible, even network access to ssh should be blocked by the cloud provider's firewall. Access should only be permitted from the user's public IP)
The term can be overused. But we need a way to describe the very real underlying phenomenon, of expectations that everyone ought to endorse and actively promote promote a particular moral stance. Trying to talk about modern activism without the term "virtue signaling" would be like trying to talk about churches without the term "religion".
It's almost completely dependent on the masks construction. I never had problems with my n95 from 3m, but the kn95 I have is impossible to wear with glasses no matter how I fit it.

The surgical mask a friend got for me in March looks near identical to the pack of masks I got recently besides the color but the one she got me fogs up my glasses while the pack I have now never does.
Sure you can nitpick, but the point still stands. This movement isn't about equality or inclusion. It's an opportunistic power grab that exploits people's sense of good will. Read the Evergreen University story or listen to Bret Weinstein, a former evolutionary biology professor at Evergreen, on his recent appearance on Joe Rogan.

This is a movement that operates on fear, paranoia, and coercion under the guise of equality. Without fear and coercion, it has no legs whatsoever.
> Just so we're clear: you've never linked to research to support any of your points, because you're not able to, are you?

I did. 28 days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23434255

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23434053

> Here's what low certainty grade results mean: "low certainty (our confidence in the effect estimate is limited; the true effect could be substantially different from the estimate of the effect);".

You're acting like its definition is "it's probably the opposite, and thus is evidence for my argument".
I saw a pasta recipe[0] the other day that said ~
Wet ingredients:
“2 eggs, 3 yolks, plus water to bring it to 185g”

[0] https://youtu.be/m_fu5RaXMVk?t=246
TRISO sounds like another example of solving the wrong problem. Nuclear's big problem isn't safety, it's cost.

TRISO will also make dealing with spent fuel more difficult, as the dry casks are going to have to be much larger.
You may want to learn what "low certainty" means, because it's not "silly bullshit".

"low certainty (our confidence in the effect estimate is limited; the true effect could be substantially different from the estimate of the effect);"

Here's the bit you need to pay more attention to: "the true effect could be substantially different from the estimate of the effect);"

But, again, feel free to link to any of your preferred research.
"That website" is the freaking New Yorker, probably the most prestigious and highest-quality literary magazine of all time. The article is free, not behind a paywall. Simply don't visit if it's too much for you, but don't come here and complain.
I think the above implies that it is different, because it is a subset?
As you said, they're registered to off-shore nations, so that gives them a jurisdiction.
Here is a boilerplate you can copy/paste to email to the above ID:

Hi
Please do not use my information for any marketing purposes, and do not sell my information. I want to opt out of all the data sharing involving my data.

I am sending you this email based on your documented policy referred below:

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Discrete Mathematics with Applications by Susanna S. Epp. is one of my favorite textbooks. Discrete math is considered a sophomore-level college subject, but it's really not that challenging, and the textbook is extremely thorough and understandable.

Discrete math is also orthogonal to typical math curricula so it's unlikely to be redundant to anything they've already learned or will learn.
i don't know, I think the new criticism didn't deny that books were written by specific authors, the authors had intentions in their minds, wrote in a historical context, and so on -- they just felt it was not interesting or fruitful to consider those things when trying to make sense of how a text worked.

at the same time, it's not like they just thought you could make up whatever bizarre misreading you wanted about the text -- you had to present some kind of convincing internal evidence for your reading. even the standards of new criticism rule out a lot of interpretations.

as an outsider it seems like there's a lot of debates in humanities fields that are like that -- what perspective gives the best view of things? what is worth talking about? what kind of evidence and argument is acceptable and convincing?

but it's almost always the case that there are standards, even if people within disagree on them and even if there's no hope of getting to one objective truth.

(there's a lot of very dubious and poorly-done literary criticism, but the same is true of every STEM field.)
Good luck trying to do this with every single participating entity. The "problem", if there is one to be defined, is not the "silence" of the user, but the default behavior to not surface the access of the data in question to others who are accessing or discussing the data. Basically servers need to divulge all meta data about an endpoint, including access and times.

Its a "security flaw" of the Internet and web services, as they are currently defined. If someone would get around to integrating Lightning with the 402 HTTP error code, it might make it a bit better. Then again, someone has to convince all the users to use new browsers and technology, which will take forever.

In the meantime, a service which shows who and where the content is being accessed, and a revenue model that fits with that viewing would be interesting.

Vote me down, but no discussion is just more of the same meta problem. Users vs. hidden/unknown corporate control.
> He's pretty widely regarded as a crank.

So did the devil bury all the evidence of a meteor impact in order to trick us?
There's also something to be said for owning your disliked comments, for better or worse.
> Here's the bit you need to pay more attention to: "the true effect could be substantially different from the estimate of the effect);"

"We have a low confidence finding that masks work" is not the "high confidence finding masks don't work!" you seem to think it is.

> But, again, feel free to link to any of your preferred research.

I mean, I'd probably just link the one you did, as it supports my point here.
I understand that, and all of the stations I listed are broadcast FM, so my point stands: There are plenty of great FM stations, if you bother to look for them instead of wallowing in your already-selected music.

Just because they also stream doesn't mean it's not useful to know about.
I have a watch with cell service and AirPods. I leave my phone at home when running and biking. Works fine for music and emergency comms, with negligible weight to bounce around. Also stops me leaving my phone behind in the gym.
Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?
If we have a deal that's going to include freedom of movement; if we don't have a deal we're going to be forced to include freedom of movement to get trading.

There's no version of the UK in 2022 that doesn't have freedom of movement for EU citizens.
Disclaimer: The parent comment is by an anonymous person who has not provided credentials or identity and yet posits that they have authority to uniformly condemn someone without any reason, other than providing a label for this person, "crank". We are supposed to reel in horror at the terrible person he is, since he was labeled as such without a single source or specific example about how this person is wrong.
what a doofus.

> Me trying to extract video from this body cam like: OHHHH please work!

more like: "me putting my head in a lion's mouth"
Clickbait. Mods, please change the title.

This has nothing to do with Google Password Manager.

You leak your password storage master password, you're going to have a bad day..
Small correction - it asks for your device password (try it yourself if you use the chrome password manager).

In this case something with NoMachine exposed/disabled the device password as well.

Essentially the OP's configuration allowed an attacker unfettered access to the machine while a "blessed" chrome session was still active and had their master password stored in Safari.
Relevant performance details:

A Titan V GPU, using the 4x4 upsampling, at a target resolution of 1080p takes 24.42ms or 18.25ms for "fast" mode. This blows out the 11ms budget you have to render at 90hz (6.9ms for 144hz), and it doesn't appear to include rendering costs at all...that time is purely in upsampling.

Cool tech but a ways to go in order to make it useful for VR.
I did get the email, fwiw. Thought it was pretty transparent, and clearly flagged how to opt-out. Email included link to their research paper on how they're doing it all.
> If you have an opinion that's not popular - valid or not - it can get down voted. That doesn't mean the voice shouldn't be heard.

HN does have the "vouch" mechanism to compensate at least somewhat for this. Someone with enough karma to vouch can give a downvoted post that they think deserves to be heard a second chance.
Also, Montreal has its "Underground City" (La Ville Souterraine) which is claimed to be the largest such network in the world.
I intentionally don't have a sync passphrase set because I'm guessing that it makes passwords.google.com unusable. Is that true?
> This article made me realize, part of the quality of the conversation on HN comes from the ability to downvote.

It’s a little more nuanced than that. The downvote alone gave rise to the “Bury Brigades” and the ensuing Groupthink that killed Digg. HN used to suffer the same problem, though not fatally so, and I think @dang has made some code mods to curtail that. Plus his awesome efforts as our moderator.
American Consumers have even more power, look at the human rights records of the countries you are buying products from rather than just looking at the lowest sticker price.
These kinds of links have been posted on HN for quite a while now. Take a look for yourself:
https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=bloomberg.com&res...
Interfaces, Mixins and Building Powerful Custom Data Structures in Python
You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you.

It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

-Marcus Aurelius
I won a WM-701C from WIQB in Ann Arbor, MI when I was a kid! Mine was the 10th Anniversary silver edition which was amazing.
And last time you posted those links I pointed out that they were for the same paper and the paper doesn't support your point.

Here's someone explaining what GRADE means:

https://twitter.com/dnunan79/status/1269014574478626819

"I teach GRADE

If something has “low quality” evidence, it means the observed estimate is highly likely to be different from the truth.

Face masks = low quality evidence.

So what’s the point of GRADE if we can conclude “evidence shows”?"

EDIT: Your link even says this

> Further high-quality research, including randomised trials of the optimum physical distance and the effectiveness of different types of masks in the general population and for health-care workers' protection, is urgently needed
Not everyone is in a position to do it. And I don't know what the position of universities in deferring will be at this point. And obviously gap year options that are constructive/interesting are way limited at the moment.

But I'd have to seriously consider if it makes sense to enter a university as a freshman in September. Especially given a non-trivial possibility of things blowing up mid-semester with all sorts of attendant costs.

Obviously a really really tough decision. And this will probably result in a lot of students not entering or completing college which, despite some of the common wisdom in tech, will probably lead to some pretty severe downgrades to lifetime career opportunities and income to many.
* and permitting the civil discussion of differing views.
As in mainland China, Hong Kongers now use code to evade political censorship
Honest version:

> Why it matters:

> Improving NLP allows us to create better, more seamless human-to-machine interactions for tasks ranging from identifying dissidents to querying for desperate laid-off software engineers. TaBERT enables business development executives to improve their accuracy in answering questions like “Which hot app should we buy next?” and “Which politicians will take our bribes?” where the answer can be found in different databases or tables.

> Someday, TaBERT could also be applied toward identifying illegal immigrants and automated fact checking. Third parties often check claims by relying on statistical data from existing knowledge bases. In the future, TaBERT could be used to map Facebook posts to relevant databases, thus not only verifying whether a claim is true, but also rejecting false, divisive and defamatory information before it's shared.
Not denying the history of slavery and discrimination, but [citation needed] for causal link to the modern day, and if there is a statistically significant difference in ascending the "social ladder" between poor, uneducated whites and poor, uneducated blacks.
On what do you base that opinion? I did a MS and PHD at Stanford and was blown away by how good the profs were and how hard they actually tried to teach well. I don't agree at all with your thinking. Perhaps you need to be a bit less general and more specific about what school you are referring to?
This kind of rant is just as boring as any other that would be considered "PC" just for the sake of it and it works by the same logic of first and foremost not being charitable to what was intended/tried to be communicated to then deliberately making up wrong interpretation to try to conjure up ridicule, so yeah, tell me how is it not the same shit on an inverted signal? Seems though that he actually has something else to add rather just acting out butthurt or laying down The New Law, plus he also writes with some humility something which I grew up thinking it's a good thing.

I'm not uncritical of "PC culture" or whatever you wanna call it, I call it left-moralism and I don't like it because it's also a lot of times entirely based on being uncharitable or purposefully misinterpreting others, which is no good for making sense of stuff, I do however care first about if there's truth on statements I may be reading/listening and second about if it brings me or others emotions in one way or another, and that I call: reading/listening.
Well I'd argue this is part of life.

If I'm a muslim who doesn't drink alcohol, and people I'm working with keep talking about having a beer and "what? you really don't drink". Does that mean everyone should stop drinking alcohol?.

Yes different words have different meanings, but once you start tinkering with this, where do you draw a line in the sand?

When I read the tiltle the first thing I thought about was "Man in the middle" attacks which belongs to the security field. How do you rename this? "woman in the middle"? doesn't this sound sexist? wouldn't some guys use this to have sexist jokes with their female colleagues and make matters worse?

I'm genuinly thinking out loud here.
The really annoying thing for me is you can't, as he puts it, "go scrub your Google Password Manager".

There is no way to delete all of your passwords saved by Google other than one. at. a. time.

There are lots of instructions on how to do it ( https://support.google.com/accounts/thread/3509905?hl=en , https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95606?hl=en , https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/5688847?hl=en , https://superuser.com/questions/1106689/how-do-i-delete-all-... )

None work (as of late 2019, the last time I tried).
It works as long as the value created in opening more businesses actually trickles down to creating more decently paid jobs.

The fact that many people are forced to handle more than one job just to survive shows that part of this argument isn't working. These types of businesses are creating precarity, not wealth for the workers for them to pass on to others.
OK, so let's apply these standards to you.

You state here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23728926

> If you have the correct behaviour (hand washing, distancing) the mask provides you no benefit.

Do you have a RCT with a high or at least moderate confidence/certainty finding backing that assertion up?
Thank you for being the best of HN.

The muderation might be awful, but the users are sharp.

Learned something new, and I'm a chem grad.
Please do not post if your site can not handle the traffic the post generates.
I think they're justified to make this clearly flagged (sent out emails), created with some of the leading privacy researchers, and provide an explicit opt-out, and in the service of revealing racism and discrimination on the platform. I got an email, read it, decided I didnt want to be involved, and decided to opt-out. Glad they were transparent and gave advance notice, not sure what else is reasonable to expect.
If one lives in California with the CCPA, cannot one ask them to delete the data?
There's a video on Youtube of some guy blowing vape smoke through various filter types. Pretty much all of them pass it, up to HEPA filter types for vacuums and medical respirators. Some filters I tested will filter particles down to the size of smoke, but Corona-19 is 1/10th of a micron across, which is smaller. It does get filtered by various materials, but those materials need to use static cling to filter. If they don't, the virus will pass through, given the hole size of the material.

If you are hanging around and talking to someone at a fairly close distance, masks simply won't do anything other than visually signal distance is required to others. And, in the unlikely event someone sneezes or coughs, it probably prevents widespread contamination of the surrounding area.

The Seattle choir episode and some studies out of China in restaurant air handling systems seems to indicate the virus is airborne and can be spread to others within a fairly large area, with time and proper airflow. This will happen with or without a mask in place, in my opinion.

I'm super nervous about sharing indoor space with people I don't know, so I don't. The more time we can buy ourselves, the better the outcome.
I asked them what did they do (projects) and how exactly and what particular parts they were responsible for. After that if I still feel interested I would proceed to delve into details like how they handled this problem/that problem/etc. Sometimes would check references. This would give pretty good picture of what the candidate is capable of. I do not remember being disappointed.
Archive link to the referenced post: https://web.archive.org/web/20200415084132/https://slatestar...
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I think OP approach is very interesting. It's not surprising that particles of food grow as they absorb water. What OP made me realize is that not only particles grow but gaps between them grow too which makes portion of food increase in volume even more.
I said "sometimes". Do not put words in my mouth.
It doesn't matter, since the material is singular and specified. A cup of flour (typical in the US) or 120g flour (everywhere else) is the same amount of flour.

edit: It's the case that in the US recipes are commonly specified by volume, with default packing conditions assumed or specified. Here's the top hit for 'cake recipe' on Google for me, where every ingredient but eggs is specified in volume:

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/17481/simple-white-cake/

edit 2: There are multiple assumptions baked into conventional references. A cup of flour does not mean a cup of sifted flour unless it says so. Similarly, 120g of flour means under one Earth gravity at sea level and not on the surface of a neutron star unless it says so.
Why have there been persons active in the “boogaloo community” who have also murdered police officers?

https://fox5sandiego.com/news/california-news/police-man-sus...
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> Suddenly it was “racist” to take the nuanced view that protests are okay but smashing businesses’ windows and walking out with big screen TVs is not, despite the former looking like activism and the latter looking like a felony.

Aaand that's when I stopped reading this self-aggrandizing tripe. Give me a break, everyone was screaming this exact sentiment on mainstream media and blogs til they were blue in the face. Oh no, some actual radicals think you're an idiot -- that's because to them, you are. It wasn't racist, just stupid and unoriginal to hand-wring over "gosh why can't these fed-up and angry people just be nice? It's distorting the wholesome messages of the protest." There was zero backlash for this kind of namby pamby shit.
FWIW, the mask I was referring to in the GP is the GVS SPR457 Elipse P100 [0].

(As a side note, I haven't tried many masks, but I find this one extremely comfortable and effective.)

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013SIIBFQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
There are places where a "corrupt political and financial system" intersect with China.

I was kind of startled to find out that Chinese companies listed in the US are not held to the same standards as those from the US and other countries,[1] because the Chinese government will not allow auditing in the same way. It seems this is a genuine issue and not about xenophobia, even if it gets muddled with it by people who just don't like China. And it is corruption.

Threatening to move listings out of the US, while of course it is an option, does not seem (or should not be) relevant to the US changing policies which have been corrupted due to Chinese demands based on "national security". It's about the US fixing its problems, not China per se.

It's easy for a casual observer to see the Trump administration saying something and dismiss it, especially as their credibility is so low many news articles are automatically slanted. However, the SEC and PCAOB have some credibility to me.

[1]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-china-exchan...
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Masks do a great deal to reduce transmission of Covid-19. (This isn't true of every disease.) Covid-19 is mostly acquired by inhaling droplets of water+virus exhaled by carriers, so masks work quite well. A large amount of evidence for this is collected at https://masks4all.co/facts/
Weird. That doesn't make any sense to me.

btw, the whitepaper probably used "number of leading zeros" because that's what Hashcash does.
You mean use even slight hint of a chance to bash Russia/China/Whetever other Enemy Du Jour?
Taken from the actual study:

https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(20)30534-8/ful...

* Overall in-hospital mortality was 18.1% (95% CI:16.6%-19.7%);

by treatment:

* hydroxychloroquine + azithromycin, 157/783 (20.1% [95% CI: 17.3%-23.0%]),

* hydroxychloroquine alone, 162/1202 (13.5% [95% CI: 11.6%-15.5%]),

* azithromycin alone, 33/147 (22.4% [95% CI: 16.0%-30.1%]),

* and neither drug, 108/409 (26.4% [95% CI: 22.2%-31.0%]) .

And the conclusion:

> In this multi-hospital assessment, when controlling for COVID-19 risk factors, treatment with hydroxychloroquine alone and in combination with azithromycin was associated with reduction in COVID-19 associated mortality. Prospective trials are needed to examine this impact.