skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try listening to Pivot podcast, might change your mind? I’d suggest it’s just a journalistic style of trying to ask the uncomfortable questions. Walt was often seen as maybe too deferential, particularly later on as books and other things entered the mix.
Not enough people understand this. It blew my mind when I first learned about illiteracy rates among Americans. And once you understand innumeracy you begin to understand just how vulnerable people are to coercion. And how people think that 1% fatality rates are no big deal.
There have been rumors that people are being permanently held in Corecivic prisons, where all their communications are monitored via Securus Technologies. Of course the guards don't know, they're good people...they are just told so-and-so "is crazy and thinks he discovered a conspiracy".

No comment on this, although I posted to show what the farthest extent postulated is for the question you asked. But Corecivic.com is not a good company certainly and likes to pretend it is the Bureau of Prisons (which has real authority from a legal sovereign state), and lol has previous hosted on Huawei Cloud of all places.
Prenda Law
Leverage buyouts are evil. KKR bought out TXU and saddled it with $45 billion in debt. The financiers walked away with huge paydays. In less than ten years the company declared bankruptcy. Moody's called the company “a financially distressed company with an untenable capital structure.”
Yes, western or more correctly, international companies are keen to take advantage of slave labor even in 2020, this isn't even slightly controversial.
Link? :-)
Contact me? vixie@12security.com. I assume you're in the US. If not best not contact probably not that safe...
Nah it exists because an endless stream of security bugs is a headache.
Commercial system - www.shotspotter.com

(In Baghdad prior to 2009) https://venturebeat.com/2009/04/29/shotspotter-refines-gunsh...

(2013 Washington, DC article with tech overview) https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/shotspotter-de...

(Baltimore, MD 2018 installation) https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-shotspotter...

Recent DC news https://wtop.com/dc/2020/07/court-docs-officer-was-called-aw...

"The D.C. police’s Shotspotter system was turned off for the [Fourth of July, 2020] holiday, presumably because fireworks would have set it off constantly."
I'm luckily one of the people that isn't suffering from this rattling issue and I own both the AirPods and AirPods Pro and I think both of them are fantastic. Based on what I'm seeing online, it's gotta be a small percentage of people that are experiencing this. My family and friends have about 6 pairs of the Pros between us and none of us are having this issue.
This project reminds me of one comment by Walter Bright regarding the use of 40 ICs for a DIY digital clock but never got it working correctly [1].This really shows how far the IC technology has changed for the better from it's early days.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22081463
It applies to technology organizations though. I think being a smart engineer is very important when making architectural decisions -- but this is not always the bulk of the actual work. Lazy people tend to want to minimize total effort of the organization too.
> Steganography is still security through obscurity.

It doesn't have to be. Maybe that's where our misunderstanding is coming from.

The method I'm suggesting is this:

1) Generate a good passphrase and memorize it.

2) Use a strong key-stretching algorithm like pbkdf2 to generate a symmetric encryption key from the passphrase.

3) Use a strong encryption algorithm like aes-256 to encrypt your bitcoin wallet using the key from step 2.

4) Use steganographic techniques to hide the ciphertext from step 3 in an image, email, executable, pdf, etc.

5) Walk across the border carrying the hidden ciphertext on a computer or a disk, and with the passphrase in your brain.

This is not security through obscurity, this is hiding the fact that you're carrying a bitcoin wallet across a border through obscurity.

The actual wallet is still protected using strong cryptography. You'd be perfectly safe publishing the ciphertext from step 3 online, or mailing a copy to the White House, because the protection comes from the computational guarantees provided by strong cryptography, and by your knowledge that nothing derived from key material was ever published or transmitted.

It's safer to rely on strong cryptography as your fallback in case the steganography is discovered than to assume that the NSA can't figure out why you capitalized every third word in your last twenty emails to yourself. If they're going to do that anyway, let them discover your ciphertext, not your key.
A german blogger likes to call it 'hold up murder downloads' (Raubmordkopie) to show the absurdity (the German word 'Raubkopie' literally translates to 'heist copy').
> add 3 disconnected parts to your phone/headphones setup

This is a pro in my experience. I think they were intentionally designed so that they earpieces would only ever be in 2 places: in your ear or in the case.
It’s Porsche not Honda.
My old AirPods went through the washer on accident and wouldn't power on. After dunking them in some rubbing alcohol and charging them, they still work flawlessly to this day.
Tell us why we should..

Is that a referral link?
Nice work here. There is a bug on the map where the pins aren't accurately placed until you are zoomed in entirely. If I watch the pin in Kodiak Alaska for example, every level I zoom out, it drifts further out to sea.
The 'fwd: fwd: lucky pitch deck' that's reached over 500 investors
> I don't really think the Flash decision had anything to do with "better products," and simply ecosystem control.

This is doubtful. From what I recall of that era, Flash was a memory hog, and sometimes a CPU hog. Why is my tab/browser hanging? Flash. Also, at the time of the Flash ban, Jobs pushed HTML5, H.264, and native as alternatives (only the latter really gives control).
> An experienced player could tell by the feel and sound

This claim has been made about other instruments, for example people have claimed a Stradivarius violin can be identified by a professional who knows what to look for. When tested in a blind study, the professionals preferred newer instruments more often than not. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/04/elite-violinists-fai...
I don't think your death rate analogies match the data. Here's the current day by day COVID death rates going back to Feb 1st.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
> we reach a tipping point and an outright ban around 2035

Zero chance of this happening in the U.S., U.K. or Germany. I imagine the Gulf, India and China will similarly retain sport driving cultures.

Mass-manufactured ICE vehicles are past their nadir. But mechanical engines will have a long life thereafter.
>they’re $400 earbuds.

You do realize that the price of these is listed on their website. They're not $400.
Interesting. Keep seeing a lot of new independent distributions use musl as there libc implementation. Hopefully this brings musl into the mainstream.
The cool thing about hints is you can quickly drop in a hint to confirm your suspicions and narrow down the problem, rather than trying to do this sort of diagnosis in a vacuum. But because some people use hints for evil, nobody is allowed to use them.
I’ve recently been doing it. We use Dapper ORM. It’s super light weight and easiest to make classes that map 1-1 with database columns since Dapper does reflection to match up property names and column headers.

I’ve found the best way to add some extra view data to a class that is directly backed from a DB table is to inherit from the 1-1 class that Dapper uses, and just add the extra data in the child class.

That way dapper doesn’t get confused by properties not mapped to the database table, but I get to use the extra data properties in my view.
there is also a natural cliff where gas stations lose profitability. Considering many today only profit due to convenience store items, and consumer patterns have radically changed involving less random spending as well as less miles driven, this may be even sooner than we think.
Ha, good response!
They used to say people going the speed limit on the New Jersey turnpike was a tell. I guess it was/is? a major drug trafficking artery.
Likewise, this says I downloaded 3 movies I've never heard of.
Very impressive. Too bad they take 10 hours to yield. I'm excited to see how far they can take this in F1.
I haven't explored Toyota's offering but Tesla's OTA updated will always give them an edge.

With all Toyota's data, you will have to buy a brand new car to get whatever improvements your data contributed to the system.

With Tesla, you get those improvements while you're asleep and maybe your car drives a bit better. For a tech-centric space where people are used to software improving overtime, Tesla will have an edge.
Well that depends on 'how far do they want to take this' i.e. where do they draw the line on what should be replaced or not.

Does Mastercard apply to this change? Perhaps being a blacksmith is 'offensive' as well. Maybe having a 'Masters' degree from Yale is just as bad as saying Headmaster or 'Dark mode' and the list goes on. As soon as you remove the context and start racializing everything, it doesn't make any sense to immediately associate it as 'racist'.

It will get to the point where someone will eventually reject such changes and will risk of being called a racist for not supporting it.
It has to be taken with context, partially. “Craftsman” is gendered and therefore its usage is sometimes problematic. “Headmaster” also. The word “mastery” is not at fault, but “master” to denote male gender or indeed relationships, that’s a problem. In this case though, it was a default GitHub had established or continued... so they’ve tweaked the language to make people feel a bit more comfortable. Change is annoying but in this case, I see it as inconsequential and unrelated to words like “masterclass” or “masterpiece”... for now, at least. Word usage and meaning can change over time...
Hacking with environment variables
> In tech you're pretty sure you can build something, you're just not sure if anyone will buy it. In biotech you're pretty sure people will buy it, just not sure you can build it.

Beautifully stated. There are countless brilliant founders in biotech who toiled for 5+ years to only find out their drug which had a credible mechanism of action failed phase 2 clinicals and now isn't worth a damn. In software, founders of this caliber would have since pivoted and more than likely created a product of some value.

In my opinion, the most important driver to unlock a revolution in biotech is enabling technologies that can create a rapid feedback loop from disease model -> drug hypothesis -> verification of safety & efficacy in humans. Right now, this is a 10 year process. Getting this process down to 1 year and <$50M would be a revolution worthy of several Nobel Prizes.
> We expect a girl making minimum wage at Kroger to accept that she is an essential worker. Why do we not expect the same from school staff?

I wish that as a society we could decide that anyone we're going to call an "essential worker" and draft to the biohazardous front lines should bloody well be paid at least as much as the rest of us who can be gone for a week with little ill effect to society at large.

Not just during an emergency either - they're essential the rest of the time too.
Jonathan Blow: Video Games and the Future of Education
> It is created by The Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (HKPORI) for large-scale electronic polling. It is designed for non-government and unofficial polling as a mean to measure and express public opinions in authoritarian regimes. In consideration of the politically-sensitive nature, the system must guarantee strong privacy to the voters.

This is a great real world tool for democracy. It's a shame it got ignored.

> ### Threat Model

We require PopVote 4.0 to be secure with respect to a highly resourced adversary (e.g., state-sponsored actors) with the following capabilities:

* The adversary may perform passive attacks on internal systems such as monitoring all network traffic, capturing the database's binary log, or saving packets for later inspection.
* The adversary may conduct active attacks on internal systems such as compromising application servers, failing to store data, or corrupting the database. But they may not compromise an air-gapped system.
* The adversary may perform a large-scale distributed denial-of-service attack on the internet-facing servers.
* The adversary has complete knowledge of all resident's identity documents, and hence they may enumerate all valid ID document numbers quickly.
* The adversary may corrupt a threshold of **Polling Authority** or **Tallying Authority** member.
* The adversary may corrupt certain voting station personnel. But the adversary may not control majority personnel in the same voting station.
* The adversary may perform any polynomial-time computation.
Here's a low-tech approach: fill the window with staggered plastic straws. You don't get much of a view, however, and the airflow would be impeded.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Martin_Tenpierik/public...
>> Flash was a memory hog, and sometimes a CPU hog.

It was also a complete and total mess from a security perspective.
I thought it might be about metal matrix composites which are even lighter than traditional forged magnesium pistons

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_matrix_composite
> It's important to remember that no matter how trivial the programming task, you are likely to have made a mistake somewhere and that's why everything should be tested, code reviewed, etc.

A good time to roll out Knuth's "I have only proven this code correct, not tested it", and, less slogan-y but maybe more convincing, "Nearly all binary sorts and merge sorts are broken" (https://ai.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about...).
One thing I do (for better or worse): if I need to patch a system package for an extended period of time (like to use a fork), I rebuild the package with a different name and make it provide the original package. For example, one package I recently did this with is libarchive. I rebuilt it as libarchive-patched and in the RPM spec file, I specified:

Provides: libarchive-%{version}-%{release}

The new package would be able to substitute the old one, but the only way to install it is with dnf shell. Since other things depend on libarchive, I couldn't do:

dnf remove libarchive
dnf install ./libarchive-patched-*.rpm

Instead, if I do:

dnf shell
remove libarchive
install ./libarchive-patched-*.rpm
run

then both the remove and install are done in the same transaction and dnf won't throw any dependency resolution errors.
Rogozin: "Today, relations between Russia and China are very good," he said. "Both on the level of our presidents and on the level of political leadership in general."

Sure, an affection between 2 dictators who kidnap and imprison their opponents at will . . . . .
My limited understanding is that metal parts made by additive processes can end up with poorer lifespans than forged or machined parts. You get different layers which melted and cooled at different times, with weird residual stresses. Parts can fail sooner and just be weaker.

If your prototype only needs to live long enough for you to iterate on it, that might be great. But it might not be suitable for real world use for an extended period?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/shotspotter-de...

....

Wrapped in a weatherproof container roughly the size of a watermelon, each ShotSpotter sensor combines microphones, hardware, software and a clock linked to the Global Positioning System, which uses satellites and radio navigation to pinpoint precise times and locations.

In the cacophonous urban environment, sensors are calibrated to ignore all sounds except for those that most closely match the “impulsive” sound of an explosion, said James Beldock, a senior vice president for ShotSpotter.

“It’s a very, very sharp wave,” Beldock said. “No other sound works that way.”

The blast of a gun is different from other explosive sounds because it is directional, meaning that the noise changes its frequency as the bullet moves through space. A person may hear a gunshot a half-mile away if the gun is fired toward him. But a person 200 yards away may hear nothing if the gun is fired away from him.

Once sensors register a potential gunshot, they transmit the data to the ShotSpotter computer network for analysis. The computer server compares the time that each sensor logged the sound to calculate the likely location of its source, a process of triangulation and multilateration.

“That sound will reach a sensor 100 yards away at a different time than it reaches a sensor 200 yards away,” Beldock explained.

The more sensors that capture the noise, the more accurate the location. A sound detected by 10 sensors can be located to within two feet, he said.

The computer system also classifies the likely source of the sound based on its sharpness, frequency and consistency across sensors. This is critical, because other impulsive sounds — including fireworks, backfires and helicopters — can also trigger the remote sensors.

....
The truth is that Adobe claimed that they could get Flash running well on the original iPhone that had a 400Mhz processor and 128Mb RAM.

When Adobe did finally get it to run on Android, it required a 1Ghz processor and 1GB RAM. An iPhone didn’t come out with those specs until 2011.

The original iPad only had 256MB of RAM and couldn’t even run Safari without crashing by 2011 with iOS 5. It would have never run Flash.
Microsoft Flight Simulator – Pre-Order Launch Trailer
iwantmyname.com sells them
I completely agree with most of your comments. We're not a medical device, and we are developing some patent-able parts of the tech. As far as the "wearable part", in some ways, there is just no getting around an EEG that is worn, at the moment anyway. However, this is one of the challenges, how do you get something that a user wears, that is comfortable, effective, etc, etc.

We're trying to find insight into how Oura has done this. I know my ring does absolutely nothing for me, aside from telling me that I didn't sleep enough. Yet, I still wear it to bed, as do other people I know who have had a similar experience. There is a way to build and market the device so it becomes a desirable product, not something that you have to wear, and that is our target.
Integral of Reciprocal Functions: Why the Modulus Sign?
The Fed is playing off the same dynamics as fractional reserve banking. This has been the standard form of banking for ~2-3k years, and allows a bank operating in its own currency (Bank Notes) to create arbitrary amounts of money. This is the same process by which loans are generated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking
2010 was four years after the iPhone.
Noob here, but doesn't this comment assume stock markets and investments outside the US do not exist?

Surely large investment funds aren't entirely in on US stocks alone and are diversified. So isn't one option to just move some money elsewhere? i.e out of the US market - to a place(s) deemed more stable or with better upside.
Neither the best violinists nor classical music connoisseurs can tell Stradivaris from either other good old violins or good modern violins.

Nobody can tell a $2000 wine from a $20 wine, and people tend to ascribe different values to the same wine poured to multiple glasses.

I suspect a lot of the same here.
Why brilliant products have terrible strategy and professional streaks are rare
Could see them used in top-spec cars. Eg; 911 GT2RS/GT3RS.
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What kind of bankroll would you have needed to avoid getting closed out from halfway to peak?

Genuinely interested.
> how can someone trust a VPN not to sell the details

you can't. but, you could use 2 nested vpn services, which would help if you can know that the 2 aren't affiliated with each other ... which you can't know.

i mean, it's hilarious that VPN services suggest privacy as one of their selling features. lol.
From the user's submissions, I would assume https://www.symbolcrash.com/podcast/ (but I don't know if the episode is released yet)
Thanks for linking to that. Sorry to hear you're going through the CBT-I thing. I can't tell you how disappointed I am that this is the current state of sleep therapy.

I hope it works for you, if not, we've got something on the way :)
Ghislaine Maxwell had a cellphone wrapped in tin foil 'to evade detection'
Correct. As far as I know there aren’t any other tools that do them in tandem. WordPress might be considered an IDE because you can edit the theme/plugins from the dashboard, but I’ve never seen anybody do that for legitimate reasons.
True price is waaaaaaaaaay more than that. Nobody pays retail for an RS spec car nowadays. Not to mention once you add options, that's another $100k+.
How to get real life experience with scalable micro-service architecture
More and more of s.eng jobs are now requiring developers with 5+ years of experience to have demonstrable experience scaling concurrent services. But in all my years of experience I have somehow gotten by without the need to do so since it can be quite the overhead. Just wondering how I can now do so because my current job does not require such an architecture, and in order to apply for new ones, it seems I need it unless I'm willing to start as a junior again...
> A huge chunk of scientific and numerical libraries rely on Fortran, for which 64-bit support is seriously lacking on Windows.

How so? mingw-64 exists, and so does Intel Fortran (with good integration with the VS IDE as well).
Strange public IPv4 address assigned behind NAT (2019)
Apple: Working from Home
Well put. In general, the concerns for "massive scale" manufacturing that manufacturers like Honda and Toyota have are simply not shared by Porsche, who are known over their entire existence to manufacture < 1000 cars for a lot of their models.
Mine did too. Though oddly the wifi in the classrooms was fair-game, but this was before most people had laptops, and even fewer ones that could last more than 2 hours without charging.

I remember downloading some content over IRC to share on the campus network because I knew how to use it and it was slow, but not blocked.
What features are you talking about?
(I was of course being sarcastic and making a joke, in case it wasn't obvious)
At a fortune 100 company I consulted at, developers were rewarded for writing efficient code that was frequently reused. This was literally micro-transaction recognition and rewards a decade prior to anything resembling today's micro-transaction cloud billing.

I wrote the billing/logging system and I am certain the main "method call logger" is by far the most frequently executed code I have ever written. It was called by any method that the author wanted to be compensated for. Alas, I was not allowed to include the call to this method in the compensation pool :-(