skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only a small percentage of church’s budget goes to charity.

https://galileounchained.com/2012/05/14/are-churches-more-li...

The church is in only interested in keeping its own institution alive. If you ask the majority of Christians - who overwhelmingly went for a candidate who does not display Christian values - it’s because he furthered their agenda.

The church has hidden and continues to hide child molestation by their leaders.

They are pushing to reopen during Covid putting their congregations in danger - who are statistically older.

Churches are also one of the most segregated parts of society.

They consistently oppose universal healthcare.

One survey showed that 22% of Christians still believe that interracial marriage is a sin.
The integrity of this being a project to "collect awesome readmes" is somewhat undone by people adding their own readme. It's made worse as it seems each submission is accepted as long as it meets formatting criteria, without any standard for quality. I could see this being a great resource if it were actually a collection of readmes for various projects (and sure, profiles as well) deemed excellent and worth sharing by a single, objective person or group. But as it is, this project is not worth our note.
Why would you argue that point with him? He always wanted Java (and Solaris) to be open source, it was the Sun execs who took more than a decade to finally agree.
Programming rules to develop secure applications with Rust [pdf]
There's also this, if you are interested in downloading timeseries as a whole: https://github.com/cmla/tsd

It supports sentinel 1/2/5p, landsat 8 and a few other satellites if you have the required API access identifiers. The idea is to fetch data not from buckets but from the actual sources, so the underlying philosophy is a bit different.
Although the parent's analogy is arguably flawed, there's a very good point in the fact that there are users who are not involved in the implementation of the service - "People with IoT apps for their home". They're not drivers, to follow the driving analogy.

It's unrealistic to expect that the population at large starts to pay a significant attention, in particular because the services/gadgets are a black box. How does one know if a device is safe? A layman surely can't; even somebody who's "just a dev" likely can't.

Given the large-scale nature, probably some form of regulation would be the most realistic mitigation. Following the analogy, such users are taxi clients, and for similar reasons, taxis are regulated.

With that in mind, certainly the engineering side of the equation should be held accountable. But it seems that the market is not punishing it at all.
Cells Communicate by Doing the 'Wave'
So, for your use, Go is good for back-end web applications, while Rust is good for everything else?
> I can see "why" they would want all that, in order to optimize their sound output of their buds to the kind of music and environments for which they are used.

I can't see why they would need so many samples. Wouldn't using the data from (say) 100 Bose employees be sufficient to cover most noisy environments these buds are used in?
These are research findings, not my own ideas: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-best-language-for-math-1410...
> reports every instance to HIBP

no, that doesn't make sense if its only meow who found it. And since there is no way to know that, it does not make sense to mail a copy to hibp
"“a real moon camera” which was on loan to the Omega Museum from NASA. "
I would expect an attitude towards efficiency, driven by measurements and objectivity, engineering and professionalism, not a reckless, for fun, why-not, hype-based one.
Typical US domestic service is 24kW (120V/200A nominal at the main breaker).
Why do my headphones need firmware updates? Presumably they work fine at purchase.
Is there some kind of diode for AC signals?
Agreed. I'll be honest that I am not a fan of Oracle as a company with their actions. But I'm more than willing to take advantage of their 2 free VMs with a total of 10TB of free egress traffic.
Ask HN: Personal privacy vs. other people's smartphones
Most resources I find on smartphone privacy regard person-on-self privacy. But what about the effects of other people's smartphones behaviour on our privacy? For example, our guests' smartphone GPS giving away a correlate for our home router location?

Where can I find resources and tools for fending off this particular kind of threats?
The plutonium in an RTG is the wrong type from a weapons perspective.

The casing on RTGs have typically been designed to survive reentry. One example is Nimbus B - the rocket failed late in flight. The RTG was recovered from the ocean, refurbished, and flown again on Nimbus 3.
I’d say it’s closer to leaving your wallet on the street. If you don’t care to protect it you should assume someone will fuck with it.
> the phones got thinner

No. They didn't.

iPhone 5: 7.6 mm thin, 6: 7 mm

iPhone 7: 7.1 mm

> While Apple could likely have gotten their water resistance even with the headphone jack, they couldn’t have made the phones as thin.

Except that's a pretty obvious lie. Not just that the phones did not get thinner (or lighter), they stayed around the same thickness (+- 0.5 mm), while getting larger, much heavier and much more expensive. But also the thinnest Android phone with a 3.5 mm jack is just 5.1 mm thick, for example. Sony even made a waterproof phone that's 6.5 mm thin and still has a 3.5 mm jack, which is thinner than any iPhone ever.

Everything about this argumentation is wrong or an outright lie. The only reason they did this is because they could moneygrab through accessoires better when they eliminate standardized I/O.
> > Alt-tabbing between Firefox and a terminal takes one second, as does switching between Firefox tabs.

> This is not my experience at all. I do not notice undue delays switching between applications (do not use slack).

I do wonder how much of his experience might be slack + gnome or KDE, some desktop apps are just horribly bloated because they can get away with it. Also modern DEs are just massive, most people don't realise how much resources they take up because compared to 25 years ago we all have x86 super computers.

I find slack to be absurdly slow for what is fundamentally just a text based web app and yet I'm using a 1yr old XPS with an 8th gen intel CPU... i run i3wm and keep things very minimal, yet I still find myself waiting seconds for slack to do stuff.
I’d feel bad if someone’s hobby project was deleted. Small businesses losing customer data is only slightly more sympathetic than people getting sick because they didn’t think the health code applied to them.

If you collect it, you need to be responsible for keeping it safe. Anything affected by this is already exposed and has to be assumed to have been breached.
Fees, limited operating hours when you can get IDs, limited operating locations, limited utility of the ID (if you can't afford a car, paying money to get a driver's license is a bit of a harder sell, while offices issuing non-DL IDs may be hours away from you...)
I'm not sure, but I think the OP meant that Google pointed out "we already have this DB, so you're really not worth that much to us" in negotiations with location data vendors.
I always remembered the other way around: applications being composed by one or more programs (e.g. a lot of software had more than one executables, especially on DOS). Also i highly doubt there was any specific target for "applications", otherwise, e.g., Windows SDK wouldn't use the term to describe, well, all applications (for example the Win32 Programmer's Reference that came with many compilers in the 90s starts with "The Microsoft Win32 Programmer's Reference contains the application programming interface (API) set needed to write applications for Windows® 95 and Windows NT." - and the entire reference uses the term application instead of program)
Just did a Google. From my napkin calculations, spanish has 66% the information density that mandarin has.
If I recall correctly, the RTG that was on Apollo 13's Lunar Module also survived reentry (since they dumped it into Earth's atmosphere after using it as a life boat). It's intact somewhere on the bottom of the ocean.
I’d guess photosynthesis shuts down if CO2 falls far enough. At 180ppm, we’d be looking at an ice age:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_...
Livescript was not a successor of CoffeeScript.
> The curve has more than been flattened.

Maaaaybe, but it sure has 'flattened' at a very high number of cases and the death curve seems to be rising still

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/corona...
People make new unsecured servers.
No it won't, because mainland China has limited Internet access and nothing can be published without State approval. Locals consume CCP-approved content because there's no other content available.

Would you learn a language knowing you'd use it to consume mostly Fake News?
> Whether your attacker used a nation-state toolkit if so then they don’t have to pay.

Definitely seen that one.

I'm curious as to why an insurer wouldn't look at a bottom-tier pen-test for signs of gross negligence. They'll readily turn up things like failing to have authentication on key file shares, no access controls on the network, or no MFA in use. The sort of stuff that's easily exploited and shows utter neglect on the part of the insured.

Basically, it's been my experience that a tick-box pen-test exercise does a reasonable amount to check if the supposed controls are actually there.
3D is hard to do in real time as you have many more grid points. The method I linked to is much faster than properly solving the fluid equations, so is suitable for a 3D interactive simulation.
Wondering whether robot theft is going to be a thing.
Personally I hope this becomes so common place that it doesnt even make the news.

Like the old days with slammer or codered

It took 13 seconds for a freshly installed windows box to be owned when it was put online. Let those days return.
> you’ve reached 80% of your specified quota and are about to be shut off

Because that might be very quick. Maybe you've got a 100x sign up boost in your SaaS app and you're missing out on the profit of your live?

Also, what do you want to shut down? EC2 instances, which might loose you data? Maybe no new instances, but your SaaS app needs those? Shut down all traffic? Delete your S3 files? All of those could be the possible reason for exploding cost and suddenly cutting any of those could be fatal.
which is why bose for example only let you configure noise cancelling through the app.
An Interesting 401
Your city trash is free? We pay like $350-$450/year for city trash.
How is that any different than America where preachers tell their poorest congregants that they should give 10% of their income before they pay their bills? If they come up short on their bills are short, “God will provide”?

Some are even willing to use credit cards to pay their tithes if they come up short.
Covid-19 and the Science of Soap [video]
Maybe this?

Z80 Explorer – a Zilog Z80 netlist-level simulator from 6 days ago.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23896816
> Human brains can trivially digest the correct meaning of “irregardless”.

It can also understand the meaning of "iregardles", "ireggardless" and "irregardlless". Is that really
a sufficient condition for the word to be considered correct?
I'm ambivalent about this action in most cases, but in some specific cases there can be a clear reason to have an exposed database: namely when the database is a guest-accessible, read-only repository of public data, i.e. the self-hosted equivalent of publishing a Google BigQuery dataset.

As someone who runs such a "public-access data library" myself, I would be slightly annoyed if someone came along and burned it down, just because it has an unpatched vulnerability.

...but if it got deleted because I left default admin creds on it, though, that'd be my own fault.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of insurance companies, but they seem pretty up front with the fact that deductibles are based on date of service rendered.
They could easily setup a threshold capped plan.
The Russians used RTGs in various Siberian lighthouses too[1]. Unfortunately after the fall of the USSR they were looted, RTGs and all.

[1] https://englishrussia.com/2009/01/06/abandoned-russian-polar...
No, but broadcasting cctv pointing to the skies above my home would not be a huge issue.

"Within 38 hours of resuming transmission, the flag was located by a collaboration of 4chan users, who used airplane contrails, flight tracking, celestial navigation, and other techniques to determine that it was located in Greeneville, Tennessee.... after a field at the location was set on fire, the artists were again forced to relocate the project." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaBeouf,_R%C3%B6nkk%C3%B6_%26_...

And it gets better (at another location): "In the early hours of October 25, 2017, vandals unsuccessfully attempted to set fire to the flag using a flaming drone, before crashing the remotely-piloted aircraft."

Never underestimate how much can be gleaned from leaked information, or the extent to which harm can be done with very little information.
You walk under construction without observing it?
You're right about the script, it's not optimal for computer input.
Proposed spacecraft could be the solution to INTERSTELLAR travel
Incredibly vague article. And the featured company's website is equally vague [1].

No mention of any technology they use, or effectiveness. Just some buzzwords about 'chemical free' and 'regenerative' farming.

[1] https://www.greenfieldrobotics.com/
I racked up a $120K+ Google Cloud bill via an unsupervised and poorly-coded script which used the geo coding API. It didn’t take much to get Google to waive it. This happens all the time I’m sure
Why do you think they made a new app to begin with? the piracy policy is the same, its just after the media hype died down they saw no reason to add the opt out
It does mention it — groups of males will corner a female and force themselves on her.
Databases that are read only would be unaffected by this attack.
Dave also has recorded countless fake video testimonials pushing other people's products. He's everywhere and uses different names. It seems likely that at one point he was selling fake testimonials on something like fiverr
It also doesn't cost AWS anywhere near $3k to actually move that data. Data transfer charges have to be a massive profit center for them.
Yes, they're called amplifiers. Directional coupling circuits would apply in theory, but not in practice; they're good enough to do full-duplex audio over two wires, but not nearly good enough to deal with the sensitivity of analog inputs if you want to prevent a signal from being read.
Why would he learn a language knowing that what he has to say may not be able to reach the audience?

> Are you implying that if I switch my iPhone keyboard to Mandarin, my speech will automatically get censored by the firewall?

Depending on what you key in and where you're located, it might.
define illegal.

and no, those aggregators don't process PII / Personal Data.
What on earth do you need more than 640k of memory for? That's a huge amount of memory for domestic use.

Nobody knows what kind of innovations a huge readily available sustainable energy supply would allow, but I bet they'd be cool.
New 5G Exemption May Jam GPS Devices
Marketing: https://www.yourtrainingedge.com/the-29-costly-implications-...
It doesn't run GNU, or at least not much of it.
>N-95 masks can be with or without valves.

I didn't say they necessarily have valves, but all the ones I've seen do. I had one intended for painting, gave it to a local hospital.
It's not necessarily 'deleted', these Script Kitties just replaced some data with more valuable stuff. You can never have enough meows!

But seriously, these guys are doing us a favour. You can bet the affected companies will not expose customer data again.
I have friends with kids on all side of this coin:

Group A is tech parents with screen time control ( uses parental controls)

Group B non tech parents with physical screen time ( takes phones away)

Group C parents that let the child decide ( kids have full control over own devices)

And without a doubt one can notice developmental diviations in the children av group c. They are not very active, hard to socialize etc.

Group bs children are usually way more phydicsl about things.

But bottom line is that tech is negatively impacting children if left unsupervised.

And i honestly think much of that comes down to design patterns in apps. We make stupid apps be addictive to adults to optimize engagement and these same physiological hooks work on children except way more potent.
Initially I tried to set up something as simple as when I got near the limit for free tier, it shut off to keep me at zero. Couldn’t do that with built in. And billing data isn’t real-time so I couldn’t even figure out a script a shut off.

I would lime quotas for individual services like “only spend $100 for EC2 and shut everything off when I hit it.”

My point is that I would rather have my stuff nuked than get a $1000 or $10k or $100k bill.

Setting up notifications and triggers is sort of possible but 1) that requires a lot of work for something that should be built in, I think; and 2) notifications aren’t in real-time so by the time I get a notification that I’ve gone over my $100 threshold I might already be at $1000.

I can compensate for this with scripts and third party services, but this would be so much easier if built in.

Unix has had disk quotas for decades right? Imagine if sysadmins left it up to users to monitor and control their usage and just charged overages. It’s so much more work for the user than when the system does it, or at least offers it.

My Linux host offers bandwidth quotas with similar cutoffs. I would never want an “unlimited “ quota where I got billed by the transfer and it was up to me to turn off. Some may want that, but not me.
How to Structure Your TAM Slide in Your Pitch Deck
"Dethaw" - to unfreeze something prior to cooking. It's something my ex imprinted on my kids.

The court was quick to give me custody, once I brought that up.
Pico-8: Wind Waker demo
You act as if the time they were ‘hit’ isn’t a matter of policy in and of itself.
Everything spies on you. There's money in it.

I've come to believe that this can only be fixed with legislation and regulation. There are no technical fixes that could practically be deployed as there is far too much "attack surface" and anyway there is zero incentive to deploy them.

In the meantime: install as few apps as possible on phones, be careful about IoT and personal assistance devices, and use Apple or Linux (not Android) based systems as they seem to have the best record for security and privacy.
Read-only in practice, not inherently read-only in the way that e.g. CD-ROM is. Such systems still need to have their otherwise-static dataset updated "online" by an ETL pipeline agent-user. Which often means, in the DBMSes with less fine-grained security models, that such users need to have full DML (and even DDL) capabilities, rather than only insert capability.
DigitalOcean's S3 offering probably would've kept this bill down a bit. Probably about $300 versus $2000.

https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/spaces/#bandwidth

Digital Ocean may not be the best cloud platform but it's fairly cost effective.
A dream is the brain coming back online after being shut down for maintenance.

That's my supposition. It's an artifact, not a feature.
That's news to me. Guess I won't be ditching my QC25's soon/or ever
Amazon introduces boxes that can be recycled into cat condos, forts etc.
This is a great point. Also related: garbage disposal isn't as lucrative as the business of making garbage.
Already waiting for meow(two)
There were several redis remote execution holes, not just the config file one, so pretty much anybody with an open redis was going to get trouble.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=redis+remot...
NSW Supreme Court Blocks Sydney Black Lives Matter Protest
My university teaches the intro CS course in Racket (lisp), and I know another that teaches in Haskell. If decades of priority exposure to young programmers is not enough to spur widespread adoption, then I'm not hopeful.
Is Linux good enough for everyday programming?
Just putting a password on a database is more than a 'standard', it's truly common sense. Really, even a beginner should think of this. Otherwise they shouldn't be messing with this stuff.

And if they do get 'meowed', lesson well deserved.
Watt hours are the most widely used unit for energy in science and engineering ...
IIRC one of the biggest factors in whether a game would work under Windows was whether it tried to change the interrupt rate of the timer from the 18.2Hz default.
Clearly fans of "Super Troopers" / BrokenLizard.
Yes, but that's without the container, which is very heavy for the hydrogen, while a plastic bag is already good enough for fossil fuels.
It seems like you are not aware of existing production of hydrogen cars:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Mirai
Yup. My point is some people might not even know that their database is accessible from the web lol. It’s pretty easy to follow a tutorial or get something OOTB that’s not secure, so we shouldn’t be saying we’re glad this happened. Even if it’s big businesses, what if said businesses were storing important data such as health records?

I think the learn by failing is a good mentality but was hoping we can be mindful of the fact that this harms more than just the “big bad man”

Edit: Addendum for a more thoughtful discussion, it would be great if these databases and tools provided some default security OOTB requiring no configuration whatsoever. Example: rather than creating user and password with root, is rather have some CMS site generate a random one!
Writing interpreters in Haskell (which is what some of the lessons seem to be about) is a great way to learn the language. It naturally motivates recursion, algebraic data types, strong types, higher-order functions and later, when effects such as state and errors are needed, monads arise naturally.

The best part? It takes a ridiculously small amount of code to do all that, maybe around a hundred or less. Languages without ADTs and higher-order functions bend over backwards to recover them[0] via design patterns.

[0] http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/jeremy.gibbons/publications/hodgp.pdf
That animation is pretty cool, never seen it on that level before. I knew that soap ate through (destroyed) the lipid layers and that’s why it’s such an effective disinfectant (as almost everything has a fatty lipid layer to protect/contain the internals).
> But I would feel bad if someone's small business had to shut down or lose a bunch of money because they lost all their customer data.

Don't. When businesses of any size cut corners and provide services they aren't qualified to provide, it gives them an advantage compared to businesses that try to do it properly. They make more money or charge less and can often out compete competent owners. They'll also be the first ones to brag about how brilliant they are at business (in my experience).

Small businesses are no exception. Delete away IMO.
>I strongly disagree that only the bourgeoisie would be opposed. Leninist revolutions take place in preindustrialized societies

I made myself very clear that I was not discussing a Leninist system. As I said, that system prioritizes obtaining power over the wellbeing of the people.

Many Leninists thought their seizure of power could then be used to help the people, but prioritizing anything over the wellbeing of the people is going to end in some form of oppression. Plenty of Russian Socialists agreed with this take, it was at least part of the reason for the Bolshevik/Menshevik split.

I don't understand what conversation you're trying to have. You've abandoned your attempted condemnation of Chomsky, and seem to be trying to get me to defend an ideology I oppose.