skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to describe, without advocating, an alternative model, not claiming it's better than the 'exec pay is at the market value' model but maybe worth thinking about. Even though it's clearly wrong in lots of ways, I think under the surface it drives a lot of people's thinking.

You might call-it a lottery-winner model. If you took the view that company executives are jumped-up middle managers who find themselves in a position to screw the shareholders and other employees and drive their compensation into the stratosphere, then a given exec is like a lottery-winner, and not necessarily possessing employable skills that translate on the open market. Their pay would be structured something like {10% more than the layer below them, for the added senior responsibility} + {enormous multiples more, because they're in a position to take it}.

Of course, skilled executives can and do find other similarly-well-paid positions. But this model works on the thinking of observers, and other people in the distressed organisation, in two ways. (1) Thinking of a company in distress as no longer being able to fund lottery-winners. (2) Thinking that such jobs could be filled on promoted-middle-manager sort of pay. As in, why wouldn't the financial controller take on the CFO role for a 10% or 20% (or 100%) pay rise? Why wouldn't an operations manager become CEO for 10% or 20% or 100% more?

My take on this is that (1) is false, executive compensation is a small part of company finances and would particularly be small beans compared to the impact of turning a distressed company around. And (2) is... somewhat based in truth? I do think that growth in executive pay is in some sense wrestling value away that belongs to the owners of the capital. But shareholders and boards of companies in distress will always be looking for a miracle, it's a lousy time to be seen as settling for second-best or dealing with people at the top jumping ship.
Well, it could also be that they downloaded the DMs of the other accounts through the web, and not through "Download your data" tool.

Nowhere they say DMs of the celebrities were not accessed.
Some sort of lying by omission.
Was this linked to the coming changes of the new API?

https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tools/2020/i...
When following the case at the time most ppl had the impression that the plea deal was excellent for Flynn and he didn't get charged with the heavy stuff (turkey..) because he cooperated in several investigations.
Many commentators also said that in such cases getting charged and pleading to a lesser process crime (lying to the FBI..) is pretty standard.
Flynns tactic in fighting this process crime and winning seems somewhat strange.
If Trump loses in November, there will be new charges the next day and the first piece of evidence will be Flynns written testimony admitting to them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNZSwafPAFc&list=PL35erRp2I3...
This solves a bunch of my initial problems. Like Windows vs Linux. How will I distribute it. Etc. I like the idea a lot. I just don't know how I feel about "2d". What do they mean by that? Can I not make a RTS game or a 3rd person shooter? OR animations in general?
Tinkerbell is an open-source, bare metal provisioning engine
This is exactly what I mean. The immediate response is often one of dismissal, and it takes quite a lot of effort to move beyond it.
Seems like a fairly straight forward application of the law against the landlords. Are you implying those landlords should not be bound by the law?
You're right, but it's also normal for people to be ashamed of getting scammed and not come forward. I have a friend who got scammed by altcoiners and lost most of his BTC even though I warned him many times. He didn't tell me this for many years because he was ashamed. At this time he doesn't have any chance of buying so many Bitcoins again ever in his life.

Leaving those messages up for so much time (at least an hour) was unacceptable anyways. When I was holding a pager for a product that impacted millions of people, my job was to mitigate all problems that could affect them as soon as I could.
That's what is being reported, e.g.: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/technology/twitter-hacker...
CBP does end run around warrants, simply buys license plate-reader data
looks like Tesuto was a good buy

https://investors.fastly.com/news/news-details/2020/Fastly-A...:

> By emulating networks at scale, Tesuto’s technology can be used to create sandbox environments that simulate the entire Fastly network, providing a view into the potential impact of a deployment cycle before it is put into production.
It isn’t relevant, and hasn’t been since almost the beginning of the pandemic. We’ve known since March that the earliest retroactively identified case of the disease in China was from October and had no connection with the Wuhan wet market. The wet market may be the the earliest identified widespread outbreak, but it is clear that the crossover event happened earlier and the virus had been circulating at low levels prior to that.
A proprietary security product. That's always funny.
You mean the same way that vegans never act against animal cruelty?

If you want to work against drug trafficking empires (by decriminalizing or otherwise) I'd say it makes perfect sense to also not give them your money.
Just from the number of shootings per day you can count the U.S. in.
Analyst Mind vs. Analyst Job
Alternatively there is the pulseaudio module: module-echo-cancel (https://askubuntu.com/questions/18958/realtime-noise-removal...), which I have been using so far.

I haven't tried NoiseTorch yet. How do the two compare?
Are vacation apartments included? And if they are not how can officials know whether someone visits a few weeks a year? Or will this target company owned apt complexes?
Why move beyond? I've just had 350g of juicy flat iron steak, produced 7 kilos of co2 and happy about it.

Don't try to boss people around because I'm not buying. Thanks to people like you, I can finally enjoy beef without guilt. Keep up the good work.
Why is this being downvoted. It's true, I don't think non vegetarian pay higher health insurance premiums, so society as a whole will foot the bill of both health and environmental impact.
Captain Bligh was actually notable for an unorthodox management style. He was doing his best to be an enlightened and humane captain of the ship and, for a long time on the way to Tahiti, managed to entirely avoid floggings. He gradually reverted to a more traditional naval flogging policy as five months in Tahiti led to dereliction of duty, but his main morale problems were more around Tahiti being a tropical paradise, while life on board a ship is miserable. Taking away the rum because someone stole his private coconuts probably hurt more than the beatings.

(However, he is easily conflated with Edward Edwards, who was sent to hunt down the mutineers and bring them to England to be tried and hung. Cruelty was in the job description.)
The 'mass' in mass media is not one of the properties. The only mass media you need is a couple newspapers.
Interesting, I am really really bad at css but knew all of this. Long ago, someone gave me 7 euros an hour to do some of this (and html/js/php; I never designed anything, I just edited an existing site to specifications, but css was still my least favorite part). Aren't these just things you run into and pick up on in the first webdev projects you do?!
It's also possible that the attackers were unsophisticated and they downloaded data for real-life acquaintances for emotional reasons.

It seems like a sophisticated attacker running a targeted attack such as a government agency would presumably have avoided doing anything noticeable like the public tweets in the hope of being able to avoid detection and target additional people in the future.
See my comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23880582
They posted yesterday that it was not linked. but they delayed the release because of the incident.
If you're interested on a more visual/animated explanation for this and other gamedev topics, I highly recommend Yahtzee's Dev Diary series (starting with episode 1 and going forward chronologically): https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/category/yahtzees-dev-di...
He sets out to make 12 games in 12 months, so he experiments with many different themes and mechanics, while showing what makes a game a game.
Hey everyone author here! Awesome to see this on HN.

I'm happy to answer any questions, but this is a slightly inopportune moment to hit HN for me as I need to leave soon :)
Some responses might be delayed by a day or so!
"Western society" (which is diverse and fragmented) started to eat a lot of meat when it became wealthy. There are plenty of low/no meat dishes in Western culture. The often cited Southern European/Mediterranean diet does not include that much meat.

Cereals (expecially in the form of bread and pasta) and vegetables used to be staples that accounted for most of our food intake.

While we probably eat too much meat in general, going vegetarian/vegan is going from an extreme to the other. I'm sure most 'normal' people can cut their meat consumption by half without noticing it too much.

Globally the issue is that people are starting to be wealthy enough and we are probably too many.

Also, relying on ready-meals in general is not a good idea for both health and environment.
Thanks for the summary. It feels a bit like the intelligent design argument for God. It has these features, we can’t imagine them randomly coming together, so it must have been designed. Add that humans really want to ascribe motive and reason to events, when sometimes it really is jus chance.
Makes me think if social engineering is easier to do when employees are working from home.
I don't care that much for my own health, but I do care about my ecological footprint. Not because of X units of satisfaction I'll take from glaciers thirty years from now, but because I don't treat the world as my property. We're guests here and should behave accordingly.
Identification of protein protecting germ cells from damage in developing embryo
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Why has no one considered the possibility that Twitter is lying about this part?

The only reason someone wouldn't do this is if they didn't want the heat and if they didn't want the heat they wouldn't have hijacked high profile accounts to begin with.
I'm not saying this tool is bad but I would be really careful about using tools like this in an environment where audio quality really matters (Youtube videos, podcasts, etc.).

Noise reduction tools work by removing specific frequencies from the source, some of which overlap with your natural voice.

This is why you start to sound robotic and get weird cutouts if you try to use tools to remove too much noise or background sounds. It's one of those things where, if you're not used to hearing your entire vocal range, you might not be aware at how much is getting cut out from tools that reduce noise.

It's too bad they don't have a before / after with a few voice samples in the readme.
I agree, this looks like the most probable real reason for the hack
What I get is even if they had the credentials of internal tools how did they actually access the internal network? Surely the internal tools are not just accessible on the open internet without VPNing into Twitters internal network?
Did anyone else read this as Jan 1, 1970?
I wonder if this is a good point to be made against the paper's claims, given that viruses like MERS-CoV are not exactly proven to be natural in origin and even about HIV a lot of similar claims have been made over the years:

Gunnveig Grødeland, vaccine researcher at the University of Oslo, is one of the scientists voicing their disagreement with Sørensen. She explains that what Sørensen referred to as "inserted sequences" can enable the development of a more serious disease, but this is not unusual in nature: "Examples can be found in other viruses including subtypes of influenza (including "bird flu"), HIV, and several human coronaviruses (MERS, OC43, HKU1)."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2020/06/07/controver...
Please get a VPN. It improved my Internet experience so much. I bought one the moment duckduckgo got blocked.
In the long term, especially for a use-case like Qt, WebGPU native would make more sense. The timing is just a off by a few years:)
It tells the next guy they will try to bribe that they follow through on their promises.
The rage about the murder of Kashoggi was absolutely there. The US government just sat it out and the interest waned after some time.
But to have any chance of getting out of this mess everyone will need to make sacrifices at massive and micro scales. The bit I was trying to draw attention to is whether, when faced with a very small piece of the puzzle, people are able to make a relatively small sacrifice or not, even something as trivial as cutting out beef. At the end of the day, it's only food and there's plenty of other things one could eat.

Because there's a lot worse coming in a few decades.
see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23871593
yea, we have the same setup
Disabling everything would have been quicker, and there's no way they could have been certain which accounts were compromised, certainly not so early. Even now - you have to make do with the traces the attackers leave behind, but it's unlikely you have complete certainty that some traces weren't removed, or fallback backdoors perhaps placed.

Also, disabling everything would have likely been only a very short term solution - just enough to tide you over until you understand roughly what's going on, likely less than an hour.

How many people saw the tweets and transferred bitcoins during the period in which twitter likely could have turned off everthing, but not yet blocked access to the respective accounts? Likely very few, but perhaps not 0. Whether in retrospect that makes twitters choice to stay online reasonable depends a little on how much you think twitter just got lucky that the scope of the attack was small, or that you think they knew what they were doing.
"In cases where an account was taken over by the attacker, they may have been able to view additional information"

They say it but downplay it very much.

Obviously this means the attackers had access to DMs.
Quite a man.
[1} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_pseudofirmus

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideonella_sakaiensis
Color channel specifications are specifically racist since they assign a higher value to white (#ffffff / rgb(28, 128, 128)) than to black (#000000 / rgb(0, 0, 0)).....
The difference in here is that RNNoise does not just remove some specific frequency, it uses neural networks to remove it which results in much higher quality compared to what you were implying.
Yeah, luckily our customers are a little easier to deal with than that, despite the very real impacts to their businesses. You have to know/understand your customers in order to know when you can relax.

But the plan B in this case is switching nameservers, which we could certainly have done (and briefly considered), but it could be error prone and would take longer for those changes to propagate than it would for CF to fix the issue, most likely.

The best option was simply inaction, if that makes sense. There are times when not doing something is a better idea than doing something.
EU Parliament says sensitive data of 1,200 officials left exposed on web
I'm sorry; office liaisons are against company policy.
That was my reaction too. The display property is not, like, some arcane bit of knowledge only the real seasoned pros know. Basic, basic, basic stuff.
Ask HN: How does an individual file a patent? How much would it cost?
If I were to patent something, how would I go about doing so? Has anyone here filed a patent independently? My company can file patents but I would like to file one, unrelated to my work on every single way, (I work in finance and this is electronics, and IoT). However, how would I go about it? How much will it cost?
Vertx 3.9.2
Regular NLP to generate UI.Inspired by "Using GPT-3 to generate user interfaces"
There's PeerTube: it's federated, downloads can be p2p, you can ask for donations (built-in) or write your own plugin for ads.
That's a nice theory, but the majority of power disruptions I've ever faced in data centers came from planned work on UPSs that went bad. If you want the quickly lower the reliability of a system, put it on a UPS.
I simply invited you to ask yourself a question, and suggested that the initial response can be a useful thing to engage with, rather than a hard stopping point. Like I said, an experiment.
Hey (author here)

I have personally not noticed voice quality suffering too much, but you are of course right. And this is not what it was made for. My personal use case is mostly voip where RNNoise (imo) does an amazing job.
Is this a response to the beef question though? You can quit beef and find countless alternatives on menus involving pork, chicken, lamb, etc.

(I eat meat including beef, but try to stay aware of red meat consumption.)
>We're guests here and should behave accordingly.

Guests of who, exactly?
I always feel like I have to point out that something like 80% of soya world wide goes to animal feed(I think the oil may be extracted first as well).
>This may be a bit of an extreme view, but I don't like frameworks at all. In general.

I don't think giving an opinion such as "I don't like frameworks" without any concrete source code of non-trivial projects is productive discussion. (My previous comment about "unnamed invisible frameworks" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14172165)

>They are nice for little "hello world" applications that demonstrate how easy it is to create and deploy a new project,

It's the opposite. A good framework that fits the problem domain does a lot of low-level gruntwork that frees the programmer to focus on higher-level tasks.

It's not libraries OR frameworks. Real-world complex applications can use both.
Well how far behind will we be in telling people to not consume sea food or any animal product. However for many diets meat products are there as it is a simple means to satisfy nutritional requirements and depending on meal a little meat and related products can go a long way.
They do heavily invest in WebGPU, which is an open standard for a portable GPU API.
Ask HN: Free Mac Malware Remover?
I downloaded some torrent and now my Mac's default search engine changed and idk what more malware has done to my pc. Do you guys know of any free malware remover toolkit or antivirus which can remove this malware.
I think in cases like this I would rest easier if law enforcement always probed, targetting not the hackers (because I don't think that helps), but the company complicit in victimizing its users. Those companies have an extreme amount of power&knowledge, and should be held to extremely high standards as a result.
Abysmall programming has been compensating for any Moore's Law benefits since a while now, but the present android/npm generation has surpassed so much in that ability that at times, it seems they have actually reversed the Moore's Law with their incompetence!
First: please don't abandon sharing your code on GitHub because of this issue. Other people may find your code useful; some may raise issues that help you further develop the code.

Second: my approach to receiving bad feedback - and, as a poet, I have wide experience of this[1] - is to thank the person for their time, and then move on. For example: "Thank you for taking the time to read and respond to poem X. Best wishes, Rik". Never, ever, argue with the critics! In this case, assume the person raising the issue was having a bad day (which is a better assumption than deciding they're just a jerk/troll/nasty person) - thank them for taking the time to look at your concept and then close the issue as "won't fix".

Hope this helps.

[1] My favourite 'review' of one of my (love) poetry chapbooks was: "Don't buy this book. My friend bought this book and now she's broken up with her boyfriend" ... if only my words had such power!
because being part of the conspiracy he's become a liability ?
oh alright... I thought there was more to it.
Computer architecture and being a good programmer?
https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/music/pdf/SB1.pdf
Thanks for the work.

Is incorporating NoiseTorch into pulseEffects something that could be considered? The interest being to have all filters managed under one app.
Whether that's likely or not can be estimated by extrapolating case numbers from January back in time into 2019 and using a reasonable estimate for the R0 value without any measures against the spreading of the disease. Even if you don't trust the Chinese numbers, the estimate should be roughly in the right ballpark, since we certainly didn't have millions of deaths in Wuhan in January. The initial exponential growth phase is similar in all regions with comparable population density.

I haven't crunched these numbers, but a start in early September seems unlikely to me - call it a hunch, based on looking at the initial growth curves.
Would it be possible to upload a few before / after samples with varying degrees of background noise? Even if it's all the same person that would be a huge help to gauge the quality.
Unfortunately, Amazon S3 and Akamai CDNs will come to their rescue in still making their pages load faster. As a plebeian, all my efforts at keeping my pages light will go in vain as I simply can't afford the CDN infrastructure of these tech giants.
The "let go" is total corporate newspeak. You can't "let" go someone who didn't ask to go nor doesn't want to. You can only force him to go (by firing him).
Wasn't Tor's .onion basically separate from ICANN until 2015?
So you think you know Ada
No consequences so they don't even try to hide it..
Then why the fuck is the average website measured in megabytes
A background check does help though. If a paper written by or on an anti-vaxx site for example, I have some idea what I’m dealing with right away. It makes me less likely to be charitable on any questionable claims.

Also, swamping people with already settled arguments that they have to continue to prove or disprove is a disinformation tactic. A background check helps avoid giving those situations any air.
For me personally, documentation was just a step one, helping me to discover that some feature exists, what options are, etc. - and then "cobbling around", as you said, was the very important 2nd step where I'd really understand how something works and what's the best way to apply it in real life. Everyone learns differently, I guess...
There is no secure authentication method because if you compromise the client (i.e. the desktop PC or phone they are using to perform operations) then you can just take control after the user authenticated regardless of authentication method.

What you need is a secure client, such as a dedicated tablet that is only used to access that service, along with a tamper-proof self-destruction system and a camera and set of sensors that can identify that only the intended person is present.

Even then the user can still be blackmailed to act in the attacker's interest, so you also need to offer the user a secure place to live in and make sure they are fully happy.
Yes! https://github.com/lawl/NoiseTorch/issues/19

I just wont get to it today unfortunately.