skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of resources on the Moon, including resources with great economic value. There are also many scientific benefits in having a permanent outpost there.

It is not really an issue whether the Moon is relatively more hostile. It is a minuscule complication, if one at all, compared to the issues with going to Mars, of which fuel is also a small issue that we know how to overcome.

As mentioned this is not a technical/scientific issue. It is simply that Mars is more 'exiting' and creates more buzz because it is the 'next frontier' while humans have already been to the Moon.
I don’t understand your comment. When would taking 1 seconds to switch tabs ever feel normal? Are you saying all computers should be that slow?
>Unfalsifiable non-insights by people trying to apply arbitrary deep learning algorithms to a brain which is definitely not using any of them. DLcentrism? We don't even know how the brain does almost anything and you think you can use trendy AI topics to explain something as complex and mysterious as dreams?

Mistaking analogies for models.

Analogies (e.g., "machine learning" and "neural network") can help introduce ideas in a discussion. And if the analogy sparks new questions, that's also fine. One just needs to come up with a valid model and run experiments.

But some people try to harvest new insights without leaving the analogy. This is worsened when they do experiments to find supporting evidence instead of trying to disprove the hypotheses.
Portland protesters use leaf blowers to clear tear gas
Oh yes, there are plans to integrate Sentinel images as well, but the data fetch layer has to be worked on to handle auth/AWS config to fetch data from buckets.

So released with Landsat 8 first, and I think sentinel 2 has better resolution, up to 10m, if I am not wrong. So it'd be a lot better if Sentinel 2 integration were in-place.
Story of the most loved Indian beverage brand – Rooh Afza
If I didn't know the context I'd think the visualization was some kabbalistic symbolism rather than scientific imagery.
https://github.com/plant99/felicette/wiki/Sample-images-gene...
Thanks for trying it out. ^^
Pretty fancy description. I was taught that racism was treating someone wrong because they didn't look like myself.
The repression of innate urges certainly causes a lot of individual and social problems.

> All kinds of personality disorders also come into play, and especially women go on to develop the very irrational, unpredictable, unstable and emotional behavior that they’ve become known for.

I think the inclusion of that sentence will dominate any discussion of the article; alas.
Software should be optimized for weaker machines so that it's not this slow even on machines this cheap.
No. The bot targets only unsecured Elastic databases, i.e. ones where no credentials are necessary to execute queries.
This is not true. It is the choice of the local jurisdiction (or sometimes the company so chooses) to abide. The US does exert leverage in many situations as one might expect the EU to do. But acting as if every country is 100% beholden to US law with no sovereignty is wrong and just excuse-making. There are many places that don't respect DMCA making your statement very false.
Apple and Microsoft collect the same data (with the same ability to opt out of app usage reporting). Apple is the worst of the three because there is no supported way to install an app on iOS without telling Apple.
> What you want is billing alerts, so you can be notified if usage is suddenly (say) 2x usual.

While billing alerts can help you against this kind of (semi) accidental overage, it won't do anything if the account gets pwned. The first thing the pwner is going to do is turn off the billing alerts.

A hard quota that required manual reentering of the credit card number (preferably in conjunction with 2fa) would help prevent that.
Anything remote for US people?
“Strange metals,” a new state of matter
This design was exemplary of Jobs' aesthetics-over-usability designs.

I remember trying to use one in my college's lab. The lab assistant and I spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to turn it on.

Finally we discovered the power button was hidden on the bottom of the machine.

I still bump into Jobs' philosophy, that simplicity means hiding everything from the user. "Clean" and "minimal" is not always good and often not the most usable.
> there was a global pandemic caused by pig farming just 11 short years ago

This is disingenuous. That was nothing like this pandemic.
bookmarks and branches.

Coming from git to hg, it was a step back in time to branches that can’t ever actually be deleted and bookmarks are... not obvious.

Can you actually create two bookmarks on your current commit and then move forward on just one? who knows? I never figured it out.
He Was Charged with 4 Bank Heists, and Freed. Then He Struck Again, Police Say
Don't expose MySQL databases to the internet. Just don't. Stick an API layer in at the very least with key based auth, and only the bare minimum capabilities allowed for the user.

That said, if you'd read the article you'd see that so far only unsecured MongoDB, Elasticsearch and Redis installations are being attacked so far.
The difference between Spanish and Mandarin is that Mandarin is much more information dense. In fact, it's the only widely spoken language more information dense than English.

Aside from that, english is just such a meh language. Asian kids get higher math scores in part because mandarin's numbering system actually makes sense ('eleven, twelve, thirteen' don't include the words one, two, or three, while the numerical representations include 1, 2, 3). You can consistently memorize a phone number in mandarin, but you can't in english because the syllables are too long. Thinking about money in mandarin biases people towards long term saving, while thinking about money in English biases people towards short term spending.

Basically, it's like a less drastic version of the movie 'Arrival'. I think not long after the idea that language can actively be designed to our benefit becomes more popular, we might be speaking an entirely language altogether. Language design is unlike city design or technology design in that there are no technological or budgetary constraints, no 'real world' tradeoffs to make. You can theoretically invent the perfect language tomorrow and it wouldn't cost you anything except time. One of the only things that can improve humans for basically free.
“Applications” were a subset of “Programs” and generally covered productivity type software like image editors, word processors, etc. Then you had “games”, “system software” and I think possibly “tools” or “utilities” too (the latter which were single purpose software like a clock or calculator).

It’s more of a recent trend to call all software “applications” (or “apps”) irrespective of their utility. This is something Apple popularised on the iPhone.
You don’t understand the very rational reasons Mars is so much more attractive and easier to colonize than the moon.

• Mars requires less fuel to reach and land on, and you can land far larger cargo and crew on Mars.

• Its far easier to make fuel for return trips on Mars. This is an enormous force multiplier, enabling landing even larger cargo and crews.

• The moon is a barren desert with far less scientific value and far fewer usable resources.

• the moon is far more hostile to human life. It’s temperature extremes are about four times as great, and last two weeks vs a single day. Mars is awash in water at every location, the moon is virtually devoid of water. Having an atmosphere,,even a thin one makes Mars much more habitable.
No other bad actors can get it, but we don't know if it's already been found, and now that it's gone we have no idea what data is out in the wild. And as you note, we can't trust the companies to accurately report it themselves.
Some companies care about their brand and how a breach can negatively impact that, add this to your list and now you have four things.
Nope. Well, a crash might have happened, not hundred percent sure, but it definitely stops responding a lot, for a good while.
The limitation might be there, but bans are usually not surgical. If you have a thousand subdomains of some domain hosting spam, you'll likely block the domain if it's not a major player like wordpress.com.

Transparency would be nice indeed. The argument I keep hearing against it is that they believe it would help the spammers.
>Linear resistivity and Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) spin liquid behavior in a quantum critical metal with spin-1/2 fermions

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/07/21/2003179117
Only a slightly related tangent, but most headphones and other loudspeakers can be very effective microphones when wired into the right circuit.

While speakers are often wired directly to a one-way DAC, that's not always the case. Sometimes the analog lines are all fed into a multiplexer and it can be routed to a ADC. Sometimes it's wired to a general purpose IO pin.

In such cases, reprogramming could turn that speaker into a microphone. I wonder if anyone has exploited this in the wild yet.
The courts would have jurisdiction on the recipient though. The recipent has to evidence a valid reason according to GDPR to process a subject's data.
But closures still hold references to variables, even if they are numbers.

let counter = () => {
let i = 0
return () => { ++i; return i }
}

let x = counter()
console.log(x(), x(), x()) // 1 2 3

If you reimplement the OP's for (let i...) loop with a loop where the i variable is declared before the loop, you will get the behavior OP mentioned.
https://sandspiel.club/ Uses fluid dynamics to simulate air flow
Search engines like shodan.io make it trivial to discover unsecured databases exposed to the Internet.
If governments made it illegal to pay ransoms, this sort of thing would happen 100x less often. What did they always say in 90s action movies: “the policy of this administration is to never give in to terrorist demands”?
I imagine* an RTG has a well enough encased piece of radioactive metal that will survive falling through the atmosphere without disintegrating.

Which makes the main danger that the Plutonium may get into the wrong hands.

* Happy to learn if that's wrong :)
I wonder if the toxins have been screened for usefulness for humans, either as pesticides or medicines etc?
I don’t know but on a site like a Hacker News I would expect an attitude where people like to hack on this kind of stuff, and not everyone wants “the most boring” type of setup.

The problem is that, at least in the case of public clouds, there’s a real risk of your bill exploding. I guess the author learned a lesson here, but I don’t think it’s the right attitude to start blaming the guy for “it makes no sense to tinker with AWS services” over here. Learning is probably one of his goals.
True, but the reason why would be carrying "a pet bird" vs. "a bag of dead birds", not the person being European vs. Chinese as you're trying to imply.
Appreciate the technical knowledge in your comment, but simply put, OP’s response to Facebook ought to be: “Not my problem; get your shit together.”

We should collectively start holding platforms to higher expectations; they certainly have the resources to do a better job.
What on earth do you need 20 kilowatts continuous for? That's a huge amount of power for domestic use.
>Does not include gas base

But...how do I get the gas base for my headphone jack adapter then? Well, at least it has an adjustable flame.
That's when gnuplot carried me [video]
You are right, and that's a big problem. I don't get this obsession with the founding fathers. Those guys are not around anymore. The US is a completely different country now with completely different people. We need to stop going back to the founding fathers for reference, especially when their views only serve to further entrench the people in power and keep it away from the people they are supposed to represent.

We also have data now, and for what we don't have data we should be running experiments and collecting data to make better decisions.
If anything dreamwidth is closer to livejournal. Livejournal predates tubmlr by years and years, but there was a migration from livejournal to dreamwidth for reasons I don't fully remember.
So making an argument that “isn’t really addressing (your point)” is how you define “shut down”?
I use the small glesys.com and pay for the box with a capped bandwidth.

If my blog or apps are slashdotted (or HNed or whatever we should call it nowadays) they just load slower, degrading gracefully, and never stop or return an error.
Thanks for sharing this, I was considering using Facebook for OAuth login, but now I'm not.
Show HN: A simple website monitor with email and IRC notifications
> I'd be shocked if they ever admit it was ransomware.

Won't they have to since they will need to report it for shareholders?
+1

Any entity this irresponsible shouldn’t hold data.
Yes, pain actually is even gone as long until long-term side-effects of addiction kick in. Some mild addictions are even sustainable for quite a while.

Taking the argument to the mild side of the extreme I wonder if there are even cases where it's the best choice. I could totally endorse binge-watching TV series for a few weeks after a breakup. Might be a coping strategy that just does its job :).
Weird units like that are usually inertia from the pre SI days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_server_(cryptographic)
Happy to get the initial feature set complete and launched. I wrote about my motivation and technology choices on my blog: https://prophitt.me/i-built-a-monitoring-service
So why is the attack being called Meow?
You’d want to do as a collaboration with a journalist, make sure they’re documenting all the details and guiding the narrative.
Bartosz is always doing great stuff. Check out is Category Theory lectures for people who know Haskell: https://www.youtube.com/user/DrBartosz
The point is Mars is far more attractive than the moon on that same scale. A self sustaining settlement on Mars is possible, it never will be on the Moon.
I didn’t say cases I said deaths - both countries have adopted the same guidelines for counting deaths. I would also argue that it is outcomes that matter here - deaths. You can argue as to why Belgium policy failed worse than other countries (population density) but at the end of the day it is outcomes that matter.

Additionally, yes the US has some very sparsely populated areas but the thing is they don’t affect the numbers that much because they are just that - sparsely populated.
> Degrees seem ridiculous if you're doing trig

Degrees are ridiculous if you're doing calculus. They don't really pose any problems if you're doing trig.

> but working with irrational fractions of pi is ridiculous if you're trying to measure with a protractor.

Sure, that's true, but that's only because irrational numbers are by definition infinitely precise. It's no more difficult to use a protractor labeled in increments of 0.02 radians than one labeled in increments of one degree.
What does that have to do with 3D versus 2D?
No, my complaint is about churches and their lack of transparency with regards to how they process their income and the fact that they don't pay taxes. The should never receive taxpayer funds.
That is a great question!
> with Chinese characters on it.

Very curious what are those characters. If you could kindly post a picture of the package, I can help translate what's written on it.
This needs to be done. Also, it would allow individuals to buy the credits and destroy them, which would further increase the cost of emitting CO2. The trick is to set the number of credits decades in advance.
This is not the consensus.

https://climate.nasa.gov/blog/2910/what-is-the-suns-role-in-...
The psychiatric equivalent is overprescribing antipsychotics because it makes people easier to manage. The general medical example was meant to be an impactful current example (though overprescription of antipsychotics is still happening).
Behind the Scenes with Buffett’s Biographer, Alice Schroeder
Taxes are different in France and in Spain, and all the prices in every place will show you the price of what you're doing, tax-included. One can move freely between the countries, use the same currency, and settle down in either place (given you're in the EU). This works despite the languages being different, and the governments being different. It also happens to work in quite a few more countries too.

I think I'm missing something when people use the excuse of "taxes are different in different places" to say "we don't show taxes out of habit, or because it requires us to change our signs".
Their apps require weird/unnecessary permissions. Google Maps now requires access to monitor Physical Activity if you use Location Sharing.
An article complaining about the collecting and sharing of users personal data from a blog site that connects to facebook, google analytics and other third-party services to collect and share their users data? Oh the irony...
I believe they rewrite the records in the unsecured DBs with "meow".
This reminded me of a great game called Plasma Pong.

It was successful but unfortunately it was killed via a Cease and Desist letter from the Pong people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_Pong

There's a web clone of it here: http://anirudhjoshi.github.io/fluid_table_tennis/
I lived there for a few years in total, I'm well aware of all this and it is a sad thing to see this raise its ugly head again. The church was instrumental in getting rid of the communists but they are a huge problem by themselves as well.
Frequent, fast, and cheap is better than sensitive
The Jutla patent would apply to any AEAD scheme, and I haven't heard about IBM hunting AES-GCM users.

So, 2021 might be the year!

Edit: I was incorrect about the Jutla patent. It seems to only apply to patents that are CBC- or ECB-like. GCM should be fine.
Funnily enough, they slashed their prices 3 days ago. https://www.netlify.com/blog/2020/07/21/netlify-expands-pric...
This also affected people who use software for things other than businesses. People with IoT apps for their home, researchers, etc.

Our field is vast and there is a large variance in people just using the basics of CS and those who keep up with standards and best practices, etc.

Your statement is basically akin to someone saying that it’s fine for people to get robbed if they went out with their wallet; or worse.. killed.
>I don’t want gas;

Yeah you do. You want airplanes and cheap air travel. You want cargo ships moving goods. You want heating and air conditioning. You want transportation (mass transit or personal). Don't pretend you're not actively involved in consuming a critical good.
Because it deletes data and only leaves records saying "meow".
Explain to me what language has to do with the great firewall. Are you implying that if I switch my iPhone keyboard to Mandarin, my speech will automatically get censored by the firewall?
What? You don't think national space agencies are interested in exploring and settling mars?

AFAIK no private company or individual has ever sent anything to mars while national space agencies have launched or tried to launch 147 missions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_Mars
Seems like all that's left of a database after the attack is some generated indices or other data structures with their names ending with "meow".
I learned the same lesson one day, what struck me was how many car lots had uploaded my data. Literally hundreds of ford lots, from all over the US had my info and had uploaded it. What use a guy from 3000 miles away, was to a car lot, I have no idea.

Delete the list in Facebook and watch how fast it comes back.

I now have no Facebook account because if all this.
Most SAAS db providers provide their database over the internet, but secured with a login/pass. Eg all DB's on Heroku elements marketplace work like this.
We will have SpaceX Starship within two years, and it’s capable of making the Mars trip in 3 months, while landing 100 tons of crew, equipment and supplies.
Sure, you might be liable, but do you think that in practice this will matter? It's not like it's somehow obvious that an advertising company has data on you that they shouldn't have. Somebody needs to actually suspect that for any investigation to happen.
The bandwidth probably costs them $2
> threatened with a lawsuit

I don't understand, who threatened you with a lawsuit? Why did they care about RocketReach?
I prefer this over having data stolen.

Also as a rule of thumb never ever expose anything but port 80 and 443 if hosting a webapp.

If you must expose services other than http/s then be sure to not leak its version, have it secured properly and _always_ up to date. The user running such services should also be a non privileged user, the daemon chrooted, and the OS should have appropriate process and filesystem permissions in place.
It might depend on the country, but Austrian authorities treat GDPR compliance very seriously. Even if the authorities got away, such cases make for embarassing press coverage and can threaten precarious coalitions, especially when elections are close.
> I made a poor decision to distribute a trial Windows 2019 SQL Server virtual machine images (fully patched with all necessary drivers and VM extensions) in the form of a qcow2 file.

The article doesn't use the term "piracy", but I'm curious what Microsoft's license says about public redistribution.
factlet (like piglet)
Student/teacher is more or less the same thing.
We don't know for sure, and that's part of what makes this so concerning.
People need to fly less.
Factarrino if you really wanna go wild with it
You can do the opposite of noise cancellation too: determine the back emf from the speaker compared to the audio input, that will give you the audio in the room. So you can use the same circuit both to drive the speaker and use it as a microphone. As good as undetectable until you trace the circuitry of what looks like an ordinary amplifier. The difference is on the order of a few mV but that's more than enough.

My personal favorite is the laser attack that turns any shiny surface into a microphone. When it's not on it literally isn't there.
The end result is the fracturing of the internet. You'll have the Chinese internet, the EU internet, the Russian internet etc. The internet kind of loses its meaning at that point.

Also, I do remember reading some kind of EU document that this is what they were thinking of.
> But it should be noted that COVID19 is an RNA virus. Its a stray piece of RNA floating around in the air, without any cell walls, cell membranes, or other apparatus for protection

It is not true that a SARS-CoV-2 virion is just a "piece of RNA" with nothing around it: they are enveloped by a lipid membrane with embedded proteins.

See, for example:

https://pdb101.rcsb.org/sci-art/goodsell-gallery/coronavirus

https://pdb101.rcsb.org/learn/videos/fighting-coronavirus-wi...
maybe the authors of meow should "improve" it with a feature that reports every instance to HIBP before deleting it. that is if their intention with this malware was a benevolent one :) but I guess feature iteration in malware that is "supposed to be good" would be tricky
Stop cutting part of my sentence to present it out of context.
The rockets that use it in the first stage all get most of their initial thrust from solid strap on boosters too.