skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one who's thinking through how it works, which is by picking up the ambient noise and then modifying the output to include the inverse on top of whatever you're listening to.
That's just victim blaming. The same logic applies to every crime: "lock your doors if you don't want your TV to be stolen!".

It also works at any level of security: "Lock your doors and hire guards if you don't want clever thieves breaking a window..."

But if you require everyone to take adequate measures to physically secure their houses, you don't even need laws and morality!

And while this may provide the sort of negative reinforcement you are hoping for, actual damages in each case are going to be all over the place. That makes this one of the worst possible punishments. Imagine the penalty for speeding is a random outcome somewhere between a stern reminder and the death penality. There would be nothing fair and little useful about that, even though it does follow the same basic principle of do bad -> be harmed.
@jcborro

I think there are many reasonably low hanging fruit in the industry that can and should be solved.

The way that we are still needed to design a schema for things like a simple login system in a simple website, is a nasty smell that there are many reasonably low hanging fruit.

@zffr

Are you thinking of leaving the software industry?
There's a couple of definitions. Formal academia and colloquial definitions have drifted apart.
Now this is progress. If we get anything useful from the Black Lives Matter movement, it will be better cop quality control. A big problem with law enforcement is that it's rare to fire cops even when they commit felonies. That may be changing.

More cops should be fired simply for being in the bottom 5-10% of cops. Camden, NJ essentially did that, except they dumped the bottom 25%. It helped.

Think HR quality control, not punishment. Not everyone who gets hired should stay on as a cop. There's less stigma associated with doing it this way. The Army has "retention control points". If you go into the Army, and don't make sergeant, you'll be out after some number of years. You still get a honorable discharge and the benefits of that number of years of service.
Maybe cops need that kind of arrangement, too.
Do we?

Fresh water isn't unlimited - in fact much farming today is done unsustainably by pumping ground water faster than it can be replenished. Desalination plants are expensive and not necessarily viable.

Oil is obviously limited, and while there are energy alternatives it's not quite that simple. Not to mention the abundant use of petroleum in every day items we take for granted such as plastic. Sure, we can imagine a world without oil, but right now that world does not exist.

Land is limited. Minerals are limited. Medicine can be limited (I'm fairly certainly whoever develops a vaccine will find it used nationally much more densely than internationally until it is ubiquitous).
> The attacker can’t perform an useful MITM attack on the connection no matter what key you accept from the server ... The attacker can’t do this because the attacker does not have your private key.

Why does the attacker need my private key? If he has his own private key and I accept it then he can successfully perform a MITM attack and proxy the connection to the real server.

If not, then what is the purpose of key fingerprints and the web CA system?

There is no need to involve "malicious copies" of servers or sites - you just have to intercept the data in transit between the user and the real server. If the client connects to the attacker (accepting his key) and the attacker connect to the real server, both client and server believe they are talking to each other but they are actually both talking to the attacker, who passes the data on. For HTTPS there is a handy tool[1] available to do this. If there isn't already one for SSH, the same principle still applies.

[1] https://mitmproxy.org/
Will real estate next to their fabs be the next thing to plunge? There are going to be many unemployed engineers in a concentrated area with minimal transferable skills to local companies outside of the fab.
As I age I have become more understanding of the messiness of translating what we do into basic lay speak. Calling sql injection “a common piece of cyber-trickery” still made me chuckle, though. :)
But the careless nature of dismissing the fatality rate of those over 60 or with co-morbidities is really unbelievable.

Exactly the opposite. By pushing the narrative of everybody being roughly equally vulnerable, we've failed to protect those who are most at risk. In a reasonable world, we would have locked down nursing homes immediately, with workers quarantined on site. (And paying them a ton of money in compensation). We also would have said that nobody over 60 or with health complications should be working outside of the home, even in essential businesses. Instead we panicked over young people going to beaches.

So my parents, who are otherwise healthy and I expect to live for DECADES more should die now so you can go out and see your friends?

Your parents, like mine, should take appropriate precautions. I'm not going to visit them or anyone else at elevated risk without a recent negative test, nor should they allow me to. But it's not reasonable to transitively extend the moral blame for infections back to patient zero.

The level of selfishness of such a statement is just off the charts.

Lockdowns cause massive harm to mental health, children's education, and people's livelihoods. And even physical health, as "elective" procedures like cancer screenings are cancelled. I could say that you're selfish for ignoring them, but instead I believe that we're all trying to do the best we can, and we have different conceptions of the costs and benefits of various actions.

Or do you feel you can just unilaterally decide that it’s fine for others to die _unnecessarily_?

Every day everyone does things that indirectly raise risks for other people. Do you quarantine yourself during every flu season? Do you ever take unnecessary car trips, thereby increasing the risk of other drivers and pedestrians suffering a fatal accident? If you want to argue that the current situation requires placing the entire country under house arrest indefinitely, you're going to have to show your work.

Furthermore, the CDC just acknowledged it may be as high as 1/3 of those recovered with persistent issues

"Persistent" as defined in that study is 2-3 weeks, which is not an unusual amount of time to recover from the flu.

That’s worth not just saying indoors collectively for a short period to prevent?

If I believed that a strict one month lockdown would eliminate the virus, I'd be all for it. I don't.
Sending email to Google is always a crap shoot and I still find to this day that sometimes when I send email contains logs to my own account using my own account credentials it'll end up being classified as spam.

Right now, Google is refusing to deliver email from logwatch - giving me the "Message rejected. See https://support.google.com/mail/answer/69585 for more information." so those are going to /dev/null with no recourse to fix it because Google literally doesn't like the content of the email.

The fact that I can't hit a button and tell Google that yes indeed I'm not trying to spam myself is ridiculous.
I think “run PHP in the browser” is overstating what this does, it's a naïve source-to-source translator and will not run any non-trivial PHP application, because JS and PHP have very different semantics. There are more sophisticated existing projects that actually try to compile PHP code or the PHP interpreter for the browser.
Nah stack overflow learned their lesson and switched over to free monads.
Yes they did that, but they had scheduled me for 9-5 on the day of the interview, which doesn’t entitle them to waste my time by having one unprofessional interview session followed by me sitting for 45 minutes and being told I can go. I could have scheduled other things or planned my time differently if I had known it would only last ~90 minutes, or even that it lasting less than the full 9-5 based on realtime decisions was a possibility (it was not described as a possibility).
@itsmejeff

What were the critical skills that you made yourself learn for the transition?
The Commerce Clause is quite useful, which is why it was there in the first place. We don't want states to impose tariffs on other states' goods, for example.

That it was appropriated to justify the massive expansion of federal power is another matter, but, well... given how absurd Wickard was, I'm pretty sure that if it weren't the Commerce Clause, it would have been something else.

As for majority voting, all alternatives are strictly worse. The problem, rather, is that there's no meaningful democracy at federal or even state level, because there's no meaningful representation at that scale - the "representatives" are anything but. I'm not sure there's such a thing at any scale, actually - for all the purported benefits of representative democracy wrt preventing mob rule, history has plenty of counter-examples, including US here and now (it's a minority mob rule, which is even worse).

I'd rather have direct democracy, but only so long as it's truly deliberative (i.e. not just people voting on a list of yes/no questions put in front of them, like referendums - think more along the lines of, say, how the Constitutional Convention worked). And scaling that requires some form of council democracy, with enough levels that meaningful deliberation remains possible on every one of them, all the way to the top.
Microrobots. Each robot the size of a grain of salt; disposable (and hence, cheap). They'll be able to: clean your teeth (goodbye toothbrush), cut your hair (you'll have exactly the haircut you want), cut your nails, shave your beard. Clean your face, your ears.

Probably more usages, but all of them related to human hygiene. I just can't imagine a future with: toiler papers, toothbrushes, nail clippers, hair scissors...
I'm in electronic engineering, but most of the experience is from computer science departments.

There are programs like Caltech where students do rotations and aren't admitted into a lab. But for example, at the MIT Media Lab, a professor can explicitly pull in a student for their group (and it's bloody hard to switch, if there's an advisor-advisee conflict).

And some departments are a hybrid, where a professor can pull someone in by writing an appropriate recommendation note to the admissions committee. If a professor says in a rec "I've worked with Alice for the past few months. If you admit Alice, we have a project defined together, and I have funding to pay for it," that's more-or-less an automatic admit, barring exceptional circumstances.
Also, how long are people spending on the toilet that they need Internet? And is hygiene not a concern?
I'm not sure where you got the impression I got that impression. Simply pointing out the obvious: if you follow my advice to leave unhealthy work environments and find yourself facing repeated trouble, it's worth considering whether your own behavior is a factor.

>The actual problem is that nobody wants to be canceled even once, so they're always perpetually on their tippy toes.

This is how professional environments have always been and I don't agree that it's a problem. When a bunch of people with different beliefs get together its important for everyone to invest effort in keeping the peace so the focus can remain on work.

Thankfully there's still plenty of room for sharing personal beliefs with coworkers (even differing opinions) as long as you've put in the work to build a trusting relationship.
If you really believe this action is warranted, as I've read on this thread, I challenge you to tweet under your real name "I will delete your data if you don't secure it", and add it to your resume/CV as one of your strengths.
This is behind a paywall and so I can't read it.

I think HN should have a rule that any link that is behind a paywall cannot be posted unless a way around the paywall is provided.
Pandemic threatens dominance of 'superstar' tech cities
I love my 7506s too! Best headphones I ever bought.
Not mine! They are wired, and will always be.
Well duh. Obviously if you buy cheap headphones and constantly replace them that's bad for the environment. The grandparents point was that if you buy good wired headphones and use them for the same amount of time you'd use wireless ones it's far better for the environment.
Show HN: MathLingua – The Language of Mathematics
In my experience, I hear and see "notes" and "footnotes" used interchangeably when referring to financial statement notes. I've also not heard anyone react negatively to someone using footnotes instead of notes. Have you run into many people who insist on using only "notes"?

For reference, I've worked in finance for several years (investment banking and as a professional public markets investor [hedge fund]), and I also have a PhD with a focus on capital markets disclosure.

A quick search finds many examples where "footnotes" is used by the SEC [1], the FASB [2, 3, 4], the CFA Institute [5, 6], KPMG [7], and Investopedia [8], to name a few. I also saw several papers in both The Journal of Finance and The Accounting Review that use the term "footnotes".

[1] https://www.sec.gov/reportspubs/investor-publications/invest...
[2] https://www.fasb.org/jsp/FASB/Page/SectionPage&cid=117616858...
[3] https://www.fasb.org/jsp/FASB/Page/SectionPage&cid=117616372...
[4] https://www.fasb.org/resources/ccurl/599/128/ASU%202014-15.p...
[5] https://www.cfainstitute.org/en/membership/professional-deve...
[6] https://www.cfainstitute.org/-/media/documents/support/progr...
[7] https://www.scribd.com/document/335028195/Disclosure-Overloa...
[8] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/02/050102.asp
@paledot

Where did you first meet each other?

The lack of energy may be due to a lack of a pushing force, such as a boss.

Currently doing something on that topic if you want to discuss more.
I'd suggest not letting your political views get in the way of judging facts and lines of reasoning. No matter what somebody's political stance is, you should be able to judge an argument, a chain of reasoning, based on the data and argument itself. Either it's logical or it isn't.
The part that confuses me here is that everybody seems to take in stride that all these public-facing databases are already tracked and indexed. Like, how does https://www.shodan.io/search?query=meow+indices know all this? What am I missing here?

Is this attack literally "attempt access each database listed on shodan.io and destroy it if that works"?

I might be missing some major aspect (I certainly hope so), but isn't this like wondering why all those fireworks that people keep storing on the streets were eventually set off by some kid with a mask? Why isn't the question "why didn't this happen sooner"?
This is so cool. I hate it.
I am an artist living close to the poverty line, I know absolutely nothing about how “business deductions” work. He still had ~$10.4k of cash or credit on hand all at once to turn into this pile of hardware, right? That sounds pretty real to me.

He mostly linked to manufacturer pages, I did not feel like spending the time to see if there were better deals out there. Feel free to spend an hour or so on that if you want to.
And the only way to reform tax law is to reform speech law to prevent blatant corruption.
If the reverse DNS/MX is configured to allow emails from @domain.name, then you have to send email with an address in @domain.name.

@vmName.srv.domain.name is not configured so it goes to spam.
If they have a master's specifically in vegetarian diets what makes them qualified to talk about meat
I never liked any of the Grados I tried in shops. They do sound offensively colored. I don't get the appeal.

Most headphones do sound colored relative to the HD600, but the key word is 'offensively'.
The fabs will probably keep being used for a long time to come, even if Intel exits. There's a large market even for non-cutting-edge nodes.
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This attack uses public write access, which is how they can delete stuff. I think we can agree that this is not good, and I also think we can agree that a database shouldn't be exposed as-is without an application layer or API on top

Ultimately, companies like MongoDB and Elasticsearch are culpable for selling database technology that is insecure by default, presumably because that's the easiest way to boost their metrics for the VC overlords.
Hello, this is the creator of MathLingua.

MathLingua is still in development, and the documentation still needs work.

However, I wanted to get feedback earlier rather than later to help guide development and the writing of the docs.

Note that MathLingua is the language that powers https://mathlore.org.
Also, as a rule of thumb, a salaried employee cost twice their salary after benefits and other costs are factored in.

What kind of benefits? Total cost for the employer is seriously around $300k? I find that hard to believe.
Alright. I'm back after a brief dive into the site.

My initial impression is that this proves the old adage that even a blind squirrel gets a nut once in a while.

Their maps with the color-coded target areas are spread around the known regions of the globe where one would reasonably expect to be able to keep updating a prediction and eventually have it come true. (Stock market newsletter predictions are probably as accurate.)

I didn't watch videos yet nor did I read any of the papers that might have been linked since it was not obvious how to access any of that. The whole site is geared for believers in that you have to make an account as a predictor to be able to see any of the predictions that have been made and thus it is impossible for an outsider to gauge the accuracy of any of their claims.

If this is not true please correct me.
Please make your software engineering advice more specific
> Fresh water isn't unlimited...

Yep, but we have more than enough for the time being.

> ... in fact much farming today is done unsustainably by pumping ground water faster than it can be replenished.

Yes, however a lot of that is done to produce products that are unnecessary (a single almond requires 1.1 gallons of water to produce), a political exercise (40% of all US corn is grown for Ethanol, which produces more carbon emissions than it saves), or otherwise in support of our largesse (49% of all US corn is grown for animal feed).

> Oil is obviously limited, and while there are energy alternatives it's not quite that simple. Not to mention the abundant use of petroleum in every day items we take for granted such as plastic. Sure, we can imagine a world without oil, but right now that world does not exist.

Substantially less oil would be consumed for power, making it available for plastics, etc, if we actually invested in nuclear, wind and solar. The amount consumed for the manufacture of plastics is pretty limited and plant-based alternatives are coming to the fore.

> Land is limited. Minerals are limited.

The density of the US is 94 people per square mile, with more than enough minerals to go around. There's effectively no limit to how far up you can build in a metropolis if the city council chooses to permit it (see: San Francisco vs. Miami, Houston).

> Medicine can be limited (I'm fairly certainly whoever develops a vaccine will find it used nationally much more densely than internationally until it is ubiquitous).

Medicine is always going to be limited, the question is how we choose to ration it -- based on luck (aka free market capitalism, to whomever can afford it) or based on need (via socialized scheme).

> Food...

Consider that America wastes 40% of all the food it produces -- 80 billion pounds of food per year -- enough to feed the entire rest of the planet. [1]

There is enough to go around, we just choose not to let it.

[1] https://www.rts.com/resources/guides/food-waste-america/
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Would it not be great if instead of a programming language being handed down to us as if made of stone, it was seen as a particular expression of a set of ideas (some good, some bad), much as music is, that we could relate and respond to in the same spirit?
I would rather give up on a smartphone than give up on my wireless headphones. Hell, I was without a phone for a few months a couple of years back and it felt liberating. It’ll be my excuse to be a permanent smartphone luddite.
Completely ignoring some persons that can eat everything they want and don't gain weight.

I lost 25 kg. In 6 months, with counting calories and all. But the amount of effort I had to deliver for a normal weight is almost exponentially more

1 hour strength training per day

1 hour cardio in the morning

No alcohol

6 * eating small portions

8 hours of sleep

1 cheat meal per week

Every day, no exceptions.
Plus, blindly copying a word used by others. "If my geography teacher used it, it must be right."
FWIW I'm regularly able to get ~12 hours on a charge on my PBP with normal terminal and qutebrowser or epiphany sessions running. That's closer to 3W under load, not 5W at idle.

Also, while power usage does go up a bit when the CPU is more fully loaded, it definitely doesn't jump up to 30+ watts like my ThinkPad does.

The Rockchip SoC in the PBP isn't impressive compared to the ARM chips going in current-gen high-end smartphones, but the max TDP isn't anywhere near what an Intel or AMD laptop chip cranks up to.

That also means a truly fanless computer with a monolithic, user-replaceable battery.

There's are certainly workloads where a faster, symmetric multicore x86 chip will win on computer per watt, but it's not as cut-and-dry a win in real-world usage on a laptop as it might be on (say) a heavily-loaded server.
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I've seen enough posts on here talking about the values of writing, so I'm trying to get back into blogging. Feedback is greatly appreciated!
> It’s baffling to me that American workers would cheer an acceleration of this trend that would place downward pressure on their wages.

I see shades of this in a lot of discourse - is it an alien idea to be for progress even if it means potentially more strife on your part?

Further, I'd say, not necessarily. People think that working from home is this grand new frontier, but cultures and subcultures have existed on the web for ages. It isn't going to be a wide open playing field. You're still going to have networks and self-selection into subgroups.

And finally, there's still a ton of money to be made by the few who are actually good at this. I hope everyone here is or has worked with someone of this type - where something they ship quickly actually leaves you speechless.

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As to the rest of this article, it really doesn't resonate. A lot of the problems listed are problems even in the office. The long and short of it is that the world is changing, and so while we can cherry-pick examples of how companies are failing to adapt, rest assured there are organizations out there that are adapting.

I'd say - keep an open mind, and find ways to get what you need - the most important mental shift you can make right now is to be your own advocate, and be proactive.
Societies ban actions, not subconscious thoughts. People can fantasize about polygamy or rape or bestiality as long as they are not realized. Societies that suppress thoughts are called oppressive.
So, you've answered "what good comes of it".

For completeness, would you mind answering, "what bad comes of it?"
@pantaloony

Isnt it interesting:

Economic theory is so incomplete that it is wrong

Currently taking note of economic inconsistencies and compiling them on the side so that we can create a more complete economic theory in a few years' time.
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> The pricing is set up to encourage using the service properly.

Do you believe that little gem applies to all products and services, or do you reserve it to downplay AWS's notorious price gouging?