skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In things which are supply constrained? Yes. Think bay area houses or gold or bitcoin.

In things where supply is near-infinite? No. Think digital entertainment, cheap calories or cheap clothes.
Also, better persevering in your own mania.. at least the wound is self inflicted. When you have to persevere for what society considers important, if that leads to nothing the grief is heavy.
About abusing its monopoly power to prevent users from linking to a competitor.
Out of curiosity:

1. Why ECDSA?

2. Why a 512-bit prime for the curve?
What you propose is illegal in most 1st/2nd world countries. In mine, the company could thank you and then put you straight to jail for 30 years.
Unfortunately very few small businesses run sade reporting programs and often react with attack.
Thank you for this. What is the difference between their measure of grit and their measure of conscientiousness?
I'm not the least bit surprised after what happened with A. glabripennis.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_long-horned_beetle
Written simplified Chinese already mostly replaced the traditional Chinese way of writing - mainly Taiwan still keeps traditional Chinese alive.

A few decades in the future written Chinese will probably be unused or extremly further simplified, or more converge with English in some way. Traditional writing you can study in school as elective.
Thanks appreciate the response. Wasn’t aware of proxmox gonna do some more research!
Would you feel the same way if someone burned your house down if you left the door unlocked? Would you support the idea of people walking through a neighborhood and checking every door in a similar way? Does your opinion change if it happened in a business district?

I think it is fine to argue that doors should be locked but that doesn't mean that a crime hasn't been committed when someone takes advantage of a situation.
If you want to make one, and you know C++ and Direct3D 11, you can fork this and implement one more effect: https://github.com/Const-me/vis_avs_dx

It’s a plugin for old winamp so the music part is handled quite well there. The code already uses non-trivial amount of compute shaders, e.g. gaussian blur effect: https://github.com/Const-me/vis_avs_dx/tree/master/avs_dx/Dx...
Great headphones would never require an app or updating of the firmware. They should play music as engineered and intended from day one of the purchase of said heaphones, until they no longer work.
Where did your parents live? In mid-west or in suburbs or in Manhattan? Where are young people living today and are those similar locations as their parents?
It's worth noting that there is also the hilarious PonyOS which is based on ToaruOS. The main website[1] seems to be down right now, but you can check it out on GitHub[2].

[1] http://www.ponyos.org/

[2] https://github.com/klange/ponyos
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I never said the US is a perfect meritocracy. I said it's not a low merit society. For example if you are good enough you can get an entire free ride to the best education the world has to offer just because you are good. If you make a product that significantly better the competition it will most likely out compete it. If you are significantly better then your peers you can command a higher salary etc.

Compare that to India where if you are born into a low caste you can't do anything. Even if you are the most competent person that has ever walked the earth.

Not everyone in the US has the exact some opportunities but that is orthogonal to merit. To call it the US a low merit society seems completely bonkers to me.
Goals seem pointless after one achieves them. They also seem pointless when you need to devote mental energy for self protection from psychological and physical violence.
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With a pocketsize amp yes.

When at my desk, I plug in through a Mont Blanc FiiO for my Beyerdynamic headphones. Makes a big difference with some audio. Wireless buds are obviously already a step down from wired, and one step further from amplified cans. And yeah, I'm an outlier and want to be.
Java applets are largely dead at this point but they do still exist in small corners of the IE world. Signing those jars is paramount and the signature is validated by the browser.
This is quite the gauntlet throw! And to be clear, this corresponds to a published paper by the same author.

I'm still reading this, in MLSub thesis Stephen Dolan argued that all the traditional attempts were mathematically illerate syntax mashing, and one has to get at the core of the semantics first. This paper seems to be saying all the math Stephen Dolan did was self-important overkill, at least in hindsight.

Very odd that the new algorithm has been studied empirically but doesn't have a proof. Whether or not it is actually correct, the theory implications are fascinating and need further study.
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Just because it's understandable for Mom & Pop to not care about the privacy of the people whose data they've collected doesn't make it a good idea. They should care. If the buck doesn't stop with business owners, with whom does it stop?

IMO we specialize too much and miss important things that we mentally outsource to other people. I'm equally disturbed how often I meet people in tech who are unable to do basic home repairs or cook for themselves. Something, like say, a few weeks of quarantine, and people's anxiety goes through the roof because they've relied on other people for basic life skills.
I was in a meeting once and a VP used the term "give back component" in a way that made me realize that the actually giving back was irrelevant, it was now just a marketing gimmick.

"Radical transparency" seems the same
Agreed. Pricing transparency in healthcare has been wonderful for pricing (see The Atlantic's Fallow's article).

My point was that pricing transparency is not a panacea. It seemed that some people were reacting as though pricing transparency is a magical salve.

AWS: In my experience, AWS pricing has been transparent and great and they generally take steps to keep you from foot-gunning yourself. This article discusses a case in which the author foot-guns himself using a predictable mechanism AWS can't really prevent. I'm unsure of what else AWS could do to protect him from himself... (Anyone can throw out simple solutions without understanding S3's implementation complexity: they could seriously throttle their own product! ... but that might be seriously complicated and might hamper the value of the product to others. Besides, if you buy a M1A1 tank, you should be very careful about using it: it could use tons of fuel... He bought an M1A1, left the keys on the dash and then was surprised when he found got a huge fuel bill...).
The fact that the cloud allows hobbyists, small businesses, and massive enterprises ~equal access to services is amazing.

However it means sometimes things like this happen where a product’s incentives (serve any content at any cost) are wildly misaligned with a huge percentage of users needs (I’d rather my site, or preferably just the costly resource, be down than pay $2k).

There’s endless tuning non-enterprises can do to get our ideal behavior: but that’s the difference between pre-cloud and post-cloud computing. It used to take monumental effort to build high scale high availability systems. Your $5/mo Dreamhost site would just die under load instead of charging you thousands. Now enterprise use cases are supported by default and it takes careful tuning to opt out.
As one data point, the headphone jack-having iPhone would drive 26.39 mW into 33 ohms, which means that at max volume you'd be damaging your ears at a volume of around 100dB with the 300ohm impedance and 105dB/mW SPL.

So yes, the previous poster could conceivably be doing the thing that they said they were doing.
My LG phones can drive monster planar magnetic headphones easily, HD600 are nothing as long as you buy a phone with a good amp.
I am thinking more about the clients of the mom and pop shop who are better off not having their personal details exposed.
My parent's late 70s house has something like this. There are heating elements sandwiched between two layers of drywall in the ceiling. It actually works really well, because it heats objects rather than the air--sort of like the sun on a cool, cloudless day--but electricity is like 4x the cost of natural gas so it never gets used. Also, the attic has insufficient insulation, so half the heat would go the wrong way.
Methane is a greenhouse gas[1] - much more potent than CO2, in fact. The objective is to be environmentally friendly as well as economical and safe.

[1] https://www.edf.org/climate/methane-other-important-greenhou...
I really like question 12:

> What might I put in place to allow me to go off the grid for 4 to 8 weeks, with no phone or email?

This echoes a sentiment I recently read in Turn the Ship Around: managers are frequently recognised and praised for things that happen while they are actively leading a team.

This sounds obvious, but it skews their leadership toward shorttermism. We should be better at recognising great leaders by how smoothly things run when they aren't present.

It's definitely worth keeping in mind for individual contributors without direct reports too. Would something grind to a halt or progress very slowly if you unexpectedly go offline? At least for me, probably more than I'd like.
The possibility of someone stealing your identity (or worse) far outweighs the damages from losing some coupons.

Deleting exposed databases is genious, there need to be real repercussions for companies if they leak user data.
Is it legal to access them if they are unsecured?
I agree, looking at the questions they seem to penalize changing your goal which I view as a vital part of success. Work hard towards your goal but stop if you realize your goal is wrong. Then work hard at whatever you consider the better goal.
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The explanation/excuse I recall seeing, was about space, not thickness. The headphone jack takes up space inside the phone that they’d rather put to other uses, like more battery for example. At least, that seems to make a bit more sense.
Oh, so it's typical to go from bachelor's to either master's or PhD, then?

Sounds a bit odd from a Norwegian perspective - our former (German modelled) cand.mag + cand.scient was a bit like integrated master's + PhD - although we also had a PhD which was more like a post doc (depending a bit on subject - a medical doctor had a pretty "conventional" path without much research). The old cand.scient. was 2 years of mostly research.

We do, of course, generally not pay for college over here, so it's a bit difficult to compare in terms of "cost" - but PhD is generally a salaried position.

These days it's normally bachelor's > master's > PhD - which are 3.5, 2 and 2 years respectively iirc.

Ed: it's not uncommon for an employer to fund a master's degree though - especially one based on experience rather than a straight bachelor degree. Eg you might write a compiler for a custom language, or do some machine learning or ux research as a masters while an employer pay for the work.
No, they procure high wages at the expense of corporate profits. There’s a direct link between union busting and a booming market for super yachts. So if you enjoy doing coke off a stripper’s backside on your private island then you probably don’t like unions very much.

Source: https://i.redd.it/r6wy0dcb09d01.jpg
This is why we are refactoring our database to be able to migrate to Amazon documentdb from MongoDB. Encryption at rest.... Pay up!
I don't think the parent suggests it exonerates the hackers. Just that the clients are better off.
I feel like we need a complete rewrite of terminal emulators/bash/whatever. It should be super easy to make a CLI with nice colors, good loading icons, etc. without having to deal with all kinds of color codes and cursor movement. When I press "enter" while a script is showing some progress bar, or resize the terminal window, it should handle it nicely like every other application.

I use the command line whenever possible over a GUI application, but sometimes I wish it wasn't still stuck in the 80s. Keep the speed an simplicity (I don't want images or anything), but make it easy to make robust applications with a clean text based UI. I shouldn't still have ghosting in my Vim setup, it's 2020.
> Doesn’t shallow dismissive posting violate comment rules here?

Despite being aware of this, you went on to create a posting that's largely assumptions, projections and some salty ad-hominem.

> Sorry you haven’t been able to cope with, really, such a trivial change in 5 years.

I haven't upgraded my phone in a number of years, so it actually still has a headphone jack, which I virtually never use since I don't listen to music on the go.
The Bose 700 recently patched in EQ support, I'd say that's a reason.
> Like you said with today's and maybe the last 1-2 decades technology, there is no excuse for not going with more direct democracy like voting.

The average American isn't remotely qualified to make these types of decisions. That's why direct democracy has never, ever, in the history of humanity, worked in a society above a few dozen people.

> I understand the extreme examples, sure, but we're not even trying to involve the populace more for even minor things.

Let's try a non-extreme example - naming a post-office. The lefties want to name it after Rosa Parks and the righties want to name it after Stonewall Jackson. The vote ends up 51/49 in either direction - how do you feel that type of conflict would resolve itself in 2020? It's much, much better for the stability of the government to keep passionate people away from the majority of the mundane work of government. Plebiscites should be reserved only for massive issues, like changes to the Constitution.

> On a side note, with my conspiracy hat on, this is why "electronic" voting is opposed so heavily.

It's because security experts have repeatedly exposed how flawed these systems are, and how cheaply and effectively voting is done with paper and pencil.
And what about the responsibility to not destroy someone's property?

Do you have the same opinion about shoplifters walking away with merchandise? Would your argument be that there should be armed guards and searches in every retail store? Isn't it reasonable that a thief be criticized and penalized for their actions even if the theft was "easy" to commit and is it OK to blame the victim for not being prepared?
This is pretty much what the Azure Visual Studio subscription does for you. It sets up a playground with $150 monthly credit and automatic spending limit of $0. Hard lock here is a credit card being supplied, which is optional. I wish more cloud providers would offer such plans.
Right. The parent comment I was replaying to stated “if intelligence is fixed” and I was attempting to cast doubt on the clause. I wouldn’t want to take position that intelligence is fixed in an argument.
I like my grados, but my old sennheisers were perhaps a bit more comfortable.
I think they decided it was unnecessary.

They slurp up contacts, emails, location data, search, pictures. Everything you would get from a social network they already have, just from disparate sources.
Combustion of biofuels still produces CO2, which is one of the outputs these projects are trying to eliminate.
Bose also added the in-device EQ to the Bose 700 via patch a few months ago.
I recently came across EmberGen which seems to offer real-time volumetric fluid simulation [1] and I wonder what's driving it and whether it's down to the hardware, algorithm or something else?

1. https://youtu.be/iDqWLwYhd9Y
Better ANC is the usual reason.
Where is the source code for v2.beta? It’s not on your GitHub.
I used 'allow' as in, "take into consideration", not "allowed to do something."

You're not wrong, but the huge difference is knowing about specific attacks versus constantly assuming your data is always compromised. Changing your password daily, and canceling your credit card for a new number daily, regardless of breach, is basically what you're suggesting.

Further, we still don't even know if it is in fact a hack, which is the point. If they simply came out and said that their production line got ransomware, but user databases were unaffected but taken offline as precaution, that would go a long way to suggesting what level of mitigation is necessary
You clearly didn't read this paper because it literally says there's low certainty of mask usage being effective in table 2 and in the findings section.
>PS: I don't know exactly what you mean by "Stick an API layer in at the very least with key based auth" because I never used an API before and didn't know I would need something like this

Don't allow access to `mysql -h hostname` from WWW. Instead, keep your MySQL server accessible only by machines you control in the same security group/network/etc. To get access to the database from the public, create an API that allows predefined queries only to users you've authorized. This API would also be hosted within the same security group/network/etc. The public never gets direct access to the database, yet gets the predefined access they need.
There's a button on the Bose 700 to toggle between 10/5/0
I suppose it's maybe a matter of understanding what will get you a decent return on your investment.

To the car example, I've done a moderate amount of work on my car in the past year. When I started, I had a junk set of sockets and wrenches from Walmart. I had a socket split in half when I was trying to loosen a bolt. Obviously the tools I had weren't up to the task. So I went to the hardware store and bought Crescent brand tools. They work great for a hobbyist like me. I don't do nearly enough mechanical work to require SnapOn or similar professional-grade tooling.

So I guess my critique is more, does this guy do things that require the top of the line tooling, or is he doing it just to showboat?

From other things I've read here, I'm reasonably convinced that he is probably justified in spending on the things he did. I didn't have any of that background when I read the article and made my initial comment.
> The possibility of someone stealing your identity (or worse) far outweighs the damages from losing some coupons.

That is a very rich person statement.
Mortimer Adler (1902-2001) recounted in his (first) autobiography:

Nonattendance resulted in a series of F’s on my record. At the end of my senior year in 1923, after I had already been awarded a Phi Beta Kappa key and had paid twenty dollars for my diploma, I received a note from Dean Hawkes saying that I might attend the commencement exercises but that I would not get my bachelor’s degree because I had neither passed my swimming test nor fulfilled the physical education requirement for graduation. Having earned 135 points of credit (120 points sufficed for graduation), I was, however, permitted to enter the graduate school without a B.A. degree. Six years later, without having bothered to stop for an M.A. on the way, I received a Ph.D.—I say “received” rather than “earned” because the doctorate fell on me in spite of myself and what I did or failed to do. How that happened is a story to be reserved until later, but that it happened gives me the rare distinction, I believe, of being possibly the only Ph.D. in the country without a master’s degree, a bachelor’s degree, or even a high school diploma.
Because they want a hard guaranteed ceiling on charges, not after-the-fact alerting for spikes in chargeable activity.

AWS does not support a 'pre-pay' model, and to my knowledge there's no water-tight way of capping your costs. Yes, you can build an watchdog to nuke all your instances if you go over-budget, but there's still the risk of missing some unexpected source of costs, or misconfiguring your watchdog, or perhaps not getting there in time, etc.

AWS could support pre-pay, but they don't. I think it's a reasonable criticism. There are plenty of horror stories about surprise AWS bills. [0][1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10921365

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22412869
Yes it does. I think back then teardown pictures made the rounds where the innards of the two generations where virtually the same, except they added some component where the headphone jack used to be. And as far as smartphone components go, a 3.5 mm jack is pretty big; I'd guess about the volume of a camera module.

I don't know who started the thinness-jack meme, I suspect it was an explanation made up by people other than Apple, since Apple is usually more into omitting things instead of lying.
I don't see why Facebook needs to censor "questionable" sexual content. Individual users and groups have adequate tools to control what they themselves see.

The only point of Facebook's censorship is to control what the willing can see.
I've seen hundreds of enterprise networks and you'd be surprised how many of them have passwords in public shares, no configured firewalls or software policies and only file level backups. We obviously can't know right now what Garmin's setup was but I'd wager they were guilty of something.
There are only few nerds geeky enough to attempt such feats for pleasure.

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/ Michal Necasek

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/ neozeed

and https://soylentnews.org NCommander come to mind

Maybe this is what you were thinking of https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/05/10/1753203

Edit: and indeed NCommander guest post on neozeed blog https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2020/05/22/examining-wind... has first comment mentioning http://toastytech.com/guis/misc.html , Nathan Lineback is your nerd. His whole website is a treasure.
(1) Heat. Space is cold. (-100c)

(2) Cooling. Space is hot. (+400c)

(3) Running the computer.

(4) Running the communications gear.

(5) Cooling 4+5.
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I only installed the Bose app when I was going to be on a plane, as the app allows you to pair multiple Bose headphones to one source. Then you can watch the same movie with someone else.

Edit: Bose also had a nice big opt-out button in the app, and asks during setup.
> Happy to learn if that's wrong :)

I’m not sure I’d be happy if you were wrong about this...
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That’s why I was specific about customer data: it’s basically a question of who’s harmed - if the cost is borne by the person cutting corners it’s more of a self-correcting problem.
Somehow I feel good about this.

Frankly anyone who is still using MongoDB is professionally negligent and this was if not deserved then certainly inevitable.
the bose 700 has 3 buttons

one for on/off, hold to pair, hold long to reset bluetooth

one for noise cancellation

one for assistant

in addition it has the transport controls / battery response touch controls on the right earcup
Noticed the other day Canonical and Google teaming up:

https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-enables-linux-desktop-app-...

I have many cli tools that could use front ends ;)
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Except that I didn’t leave the doors open. Someone I trusted with the keys, left them in their safe. Unlocked. So I rather have their whole place burned down and MY keys melted at the same time.
Of note, it's one of the only sites that is really about blogging, but with filters so you can choose who can see your stuff -- and you have almost complete control of the comment section. There's a strong culture of moderation.

I feel like it's one of the last pure corners of the internet, technology wise, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised that FB is blocking it.