skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PCoIP. Zero clients. Workflows for teams in virtual environments. It's analogous to netflix, zoom, and stadia. But for distributed remote-first enterprises.

Imagine a big budget Hollywood movie production, shooting in locations around the world, with post-production all working from a single data source, editing in a single multiplexed workstation.
I talked to Ron about that. For some years the rumour had circulated that he and Steve worked on it, but that Ron actually did the final inventing, but Ron convinced me that while they did work on it together, they only had a "half" version, and it was Steve who put together the "final" version.
> Jeff hoped not only that he would get that dream job with Nasa, but that the organisation would start to work with the USSR rather than competing with it.

> "Even when I was fairly young, I could see the potential for collaboration between the US and Soviet Union," he says. "It just never made sense to me that we were pointing nuclear weapons at each other, when we could be collaborating to do extraordinary things in space."

Oh, kids. Nasa's raison d'etre was to research how the US can watch the soviets from space or shoot them from space. That's why its budget peaked in '66. Doing "extraordinary things in space" was just a means to that end. But I do appreciate the sentiment.
> If I want to avoid this sort of thing, I'm thinking / hoping it's sufficient to simply avoid headphones that require an app.

Or just get one with a good old 3.5mm jack.

Beyer Dynamic, AKG and Shure have several options much cheaper than these Bose or Sony headsets which still give you at least 10x the audio-performance.

For headsets, if you care about usability, portability, longevity and performance, wired is still the no-brainer choice.
Conscientiousness was measured by the "The Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI)"

> a 10-item measure of the Big Five (or five-factor model) dimensions of personality: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability
“I had no emotion about it whatsoever. Maturity.”
Doesn’t sit right with me. Wanting to share shouldn’t be condemned as immature. Besides, some of us want to read tech drama :)
The kid isn’t learning to not act up at swimming, it’s learning not to act up in front of you.
Point 14 is a very good one. If any account gets compromised, you might as well request a new IP as your previous IP will be in the dog house for a long time.

Almost more important than monitoring failed logons, monitor successful logons, for instance by country. If it is a small mail server, chances are your users are in a handful of countries. If you suddenly see a successful logon from vietnam or brazil, you probably want to be notified ASAP.
CO2 is used in greenhouse farming to increase produce yield. The CO2 gets turned into vegetables. Unfortunately the CO2 will eventually be released again, after the vegetables are eaten.
I don't know about Bose, but you can connect the Sony headphones with the normal bluetooth pairing, there's no app required
Copying a 12GB file and sharing it publicly on S3 (how does AWS make money with S3, anyone care to answer?). I agree it’s expensive, maybe outreagously expensive. It’s great he got a refund! Not so many would be that lucky. And we can all learn
With GDPR in place, "unnecessary harvesting of data" should in theory be a thing in the past (unless the user explicitly makes a voluntary choice to opt-in after being informed of the options).

Reality is different, but NGOs can in theory sue to make reality align better with the intent of GDPR. NOYB (https://noyb.eu) is supposed to be such an NGO, and they seem to be doing a decent job so far, although they're limited in what they can do with their resources, facing a never-ending wall of vendors that blatantly violate GDPR.
Might be a stupid question, but can we skip the random walk and just pick the middle?
So no regulation at all then? Just allow companies to use and abuse their "users" however they please?

This is a return to the era of robber barons. We must try to ensure that companies have incentives to do better, otherwise we have seen time and time again that they will do anything they please as long as it is profitable. Consumers will not "just choose the ethical option" because they either cannot afford to, they don't realise the consequences, or they just don't care.
Me, too! I use the $1 ones from Dollar Tree. They are easy to replace, come with microphones if desired, and work just as well on calls as expensive solutions. They don't always last as long, but purchasing 10 at a time fixes that.

These little earbuds are commodity items.
No, I think that there are just too many spammers, so big players have no choice except to make it hard to own your mail server until your server gains positive reputation.
> In retrospect it's fairly typical behaviour for less literate types to adopt a word that sounds sophisticated beyond their standard repertoire

This seems an excessively negative take on it.

How do we learn new words? Sure, we COULD look up the definitions, but (1) who bothers, and (2) we have plenty of evidence that definitions are so vague as to be useless. (I recall arguing with my high school english teacher about "moot", which we had as aa vocab word with a definition that didn't match my colloquial understanding).

So as adults, as teens, tweens, and before, most of our language is learned from contextual usage. Which is a terrible way to maintain accuracy. When I get stumped with newer terminology, my friends that USE the new words are often at a loss to explain them (one spent 30 mins trying to explain "kappa") because they don't know a formal definition, they know it when they see it.

We can be smug and superior about the "less literate" trying to be impressive, but honestly, that applies to all of us, we are just mocking those that get caught.
Should you enter a game jam?
I made this comment on an earlier post about Ron, but it seems relevant.

It's via Ron that I have my Erdos number (of the first kind) of 2. He was warm, welcoming, kind, enthusiastic, engaging, and a wonderful person to be with, let alone work with.

I wrote[0] about how I first met him, and while we didn't meet often, it was always a pleasure, and he always greeted me warmly. I'm sad to think I won't see him again. I'll miss him.

[0] https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/MeetingRonGraham.html?tg26hn
Good luck when internal settings get changed (as in internal volume)
Ask HN: Examples of young people who did hard things?
Looking to do some research on the common traits, attitudes, struggles, techniques etc that very young people had throughout history.

Could be historic, scientific, personal etc. Anything which makes you reflect about the unlikeliness of you being able to do it yourself fits the bill.
IMO, it's not so much that they overcharge as that the service was created and priced for a different purpose. It's possible to serve huge files to tens of thousands of people, but it's not really what it's meant for. Naturally, the pricing isn't really optimized for that, and a service that's designed for that can be an order of magnitude cheaper.

Seems to me S3 is more designed for highly reliable data storage. If you wanna store a bunch of data in a way that's highly reliable and resilient to hardware failures and also not have to worry about managing RAIDs and clusters of servers for the data size, S3 is just the thing, and probably priced pretty fairly.

It's also a capable and flexible service. It's possible to use it for things it isn't really designed for and have it behave pretty well. Well enough that you can mostly ignore that the other thing isn't really what it's designed around. The "mostly" is important, though. If you start hitting any extremes while using it in a different way, then you certainly can run into some pathological cases in the pricing structure and pay way too much for something that would have been cheaper in a service dedicated to that.
I treated myself a deep dive into how CLIs work some time ago and features like:

* marking output from stderr different color (and don't interfere with commands's own formatting much);

* passing more involved keyboard shortcuts to the shell or a tui program, etc.;

* making last line of last command usable in next command or putting it to clipboard without mouse;

* general awareness of shell/terminal emulator of what's displayed (prompt, edited line, commands printing in parallel, stdout vs stderr, messages of shell (jobs))

are very tricky to achieve without reorganizing the whole stack of terminal emulator, shell, line discipline/readline and even kernel.

[0] http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/index.php

[1] https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/TTYLineDiscipl...

[2] https://github.com/sickill/stderred

[3] http://www.leonerd.org.uk/hacks/fixterms

[4] https://domterm.org/Wire-byte-protocol.html
> Surely the attacker can serve up an SSH server implementation that forwards the connection to the intended server while recording and/or modifying the decrypted traffic as desired? To the user everything would appear as normal (expect perhaps for some additional latency) but their data would be exposed to the attacker

The attacker can’t do this because the attacker does not have your private key. If the attacker proxies your authentication to the remote server, they’ll only be back to square one as the connection is now encrypted with keys the attacker does not hold.

This is only possible if you use password auth.

> If there were no way to perform a MITM attack because you would notice that you were connected to the wrong server, the whole system of keys and fingerprints would be pointless. So would the CA system for HTTPS.

It’s much easier for an attacker to create a malicious copy of a website they have access to than a server they don’t.

The phishing opportunities offered by a SSH mitm attack like this are rather limited.
This is cool, it's a tool to transpile it at build time so you are two steps removed from running PHP on the browser. I dissected this tool a while back and built another that lets you write and run PHP straight in the browser by doing the transformation on-the-fly. Wrote a blog post and all around it:

https://francisco.io/blog/running-php-in-javascript/

Incidentally it's the #3 when you google "Run PHP in Javascript"
Zo from Ameelio.org is doing an AMA on Reddit
Option 1: 10,500 if you were to pay for it in one go. Otherwise it is 1750 per module of which there are 6. You run the risk of price increases from time to time.

Option 2: 12,000 paid in two installments (6,000 at the beginning of each academic year).

They are both part time. Should be done in two years thereabouts.
If you have ever used Mongo Atlas, you would understand why people use mongo. The administration ease that the platform provides is unmatched by any other DBaaS I am aware of.
Running various distributions and having mainline support was part of Pinebook Pro's value proposition, so while it's worth pointing out I wouldn't blame the author for it that much. There are plenty of people who got or considered getting Pinebook Pro to run things like "stock Debian" on it and aren't interested much in such "Debiansteins".
Awesome, considered KubOS?
> These are not hacked databases.

Yes they are. The method of the hack was 'simple' to you, but that doesn't mean it's just magically not a hack any more. These are hacked databases.

> The system said welcome what do you want to do? You can read everything or delete everything or add anything.

I don't understand this. Are you suggesting that the attackers were greeted by the database with an English-language legal directive of what legal permissions they had in the database? What do you mean by this statement? Surely the databases said no such thing.

If you're implying that a private door with no lock is not private but actually shared property that can be destroyed or added to in any way, then I think you're wrong. None of this comment makes sense to me. An unsecured database holding private data, or an unlocked door to a private business or building, is not an open legal invitation for vandalism.
Again, is there evidence that any of those is less heritable than intelligence? Replacing the words with synonyms doesn't change the fundamentals of the claim.
The book The Case For Mars does a good job arguing against the value of the moon and for the value of Mars. Mars has substantially more valuable resources, and more crucially, has many resources needed to sustain a colony. The moon is quite barren and would require enormous costs with little upside.
Modern software is soooo terrible. It's not just bloated, the animation of every action, "smooth" opening a menu or a window are so slow. Everything is so slow these days. When you'r just in an office and click a bit around it is all nice, fine and shiny. But as soon as you are in a hurry, these animations feel like hours .. you click 20 times on the wrong place because animations are so slow .. one day I will bend my pretty fast ZBook on work over my knee because I'm f*ing angry.
> Unfortunately, you can't just magic something from a waste product into a resource

That's a semantics game... First thing that comes to mind is manure, turned from literally waste into fertilizser. It may not be a high demand resource, but with a utility nevertheless.
Can I veer horribly into my favourite tangent - I love the presentation style, the look-and-feel. It's a blog version of what he did at A18Z - a sort of sophisticated corporate but with the look of something that could be knocked up from Markdown.

I could steal the CSS, but that's is only 20% of the battle - getting graphs that match the snazz, getting everything just right, but with this off handed vibe.

As I get older this stuff matters.
Fair enough!!
I agree. Nushell (https://github.com/nushell/nushell) is the best I have seen so far. It still lives in a standard terminal from the 80s - basically no graphics, limited mouse support, etc. But I guess you can't change everything at once. It's an enormous improvement on Bash at least!
I think the partido pirata can help with this issue. contact them :

http://partidopirata.org
This is an impressive waste of time
I glanced at their latest code push a few days back, and some of the bugfixes/updates were related to presentation on mobile, so it's definitely something they're paying attention to and improving over time. (They're not blazing-fast, since the ratio of codebase-size to programmer-time is high, but they're persistent.)
Peter Thiel gets a lot of shit on HN (my comments mentioning him usually get downvoted) I think because of his politics, but there are few people who have more non-consensus views that end up being correct. It's easy to be non-consensus and wrong most of the time, or conformist and correct most of the time, but hard to be non-consensus and often correct, which is what makes Thiel worth listening to in my opinion.
The link to the website was posted recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22683158 . Reposting my earlier comment on it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22695866 :

> This wave of computer-literacy programming was actually started by a series from the BBC's commercially-funded rival ITV, Christoper Evans' The Mighty Micro. http://www.retro-now.com/the-mighty-micro-itvs-forgotten-com... (Wayback: https://web.archive.org/web/20191224064630/http://www.retro-...) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqrLFTwrYemNYgb-hPXd3... (Evans also appears as a guest in the CLP's The Silicon Factor. https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/b5047fb21312089c95fdf482cda3c697)

> I wonder if anyone has chased down people who remember Dick Brodner's circa-1980 home-automation setup in his Chicago house https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/e0417b82d1c1a84345852bf21916073e , or found out what became of it or if anything remains of it?
Imagine if Facebook or Google started doing this.

"Oh, you're friends with someone who says X? Welp, you must be a Bad User and your posts will receive a lot less visibility and the validation that you desire. But if you were to stop interacting with your Bad Friend, you could become a Good User again."

And oops, "Bad Friend" no longer gets invited to real-life parties because most people still consider FB the most convenient way to organize them and people only rarely remember to forward the invites.
In the US, yes, one of my friends did it. He was already working in a lab during high school and had published papers with them before he applied. They were first author at the top conference and he was ridiculously smart and focused on his work. But it's definitely possible. Bit different from your case but should give you some hope.
I think the list is interesting in a cultural sense, but I agree that the way it works is disturbing to say the least. Consider the discussion post for Phillip Mountbatten[0] for the kind of enlightened discussion the site hosts...

0: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8107-1-prince-philip-duke...
Good job, sir!
These progress reports are good idea, I remember watching prison architect dev updates and I liked them more than the actual game.
Not sure why you are focusing on the PII scenario. The original report seems to say it is just "unsecured databases" and not databases that have PII information posted.

You are also making an subtle assumption that the service is being administered by a 3rd party. Could be that the service is being administered by the owner of the data.

In any case it is still wrong to delete the data.
Yeah, same. I can't tell with the Russian posts, but the ones in English were a mixture of journal updates and fanfic.
That seems a reasonable thing to ask for location sharing. Probably really used for the timeline though.

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/10/privacy/chan...
Short answer: cloud images with poor defaults. I've written about this a few times before and the problem hasn't really changed since the article was posted:

https://blog.shodan.io/its-the-data-stupid/
it's probably more about the spam instead of the sexual content
What is 'that' ?
Billing notifications aren't much use if you can run up a $1000 bill between going to bed and waking up.
long time user of the sony wh-1000xm2. never have had any such issue. i have noticed that it seems like the headset and phone have independent volume controls but both phone and headset have physical controls, no app required.
Why is it when you criticize religion then all religious apologists come along? It's even bi-partisan. Criticize Christianity and right wingers come with whataboutism and criticise Islam and left wingers are angry.

If I criticize Nazi white supremacy philosophy of formenting hatred, do you come with a similar excuse of how human tribal nature will find a different means for formenting conflict, or how the British empire was also racist.

Is my point of criticizing religion in any way related to your snark about the Trump administration?
1. I don't think point this is self-evident. At a minimum you could tighten up the M&A rules so that the big guys can't just buy every potential competitor. Legislative solutions are probably too slow, but we could certainly form a regulatory agency that can deal with rule-making as new issues come to the front.

2. I don't think it's self-evident that regulation would disadvantage US and EU companies. Regulation that encourages competition and innovation is an economic advantage - not a disadvantage. Tiktok might be less attractive if there was a vibrant marketplace of federated social media services that don't send your data to the CCP.
> Who is so insecure they need a gun with their croissant.

Maybe these guys:

... four police officers of Lakewood, Washington were fatally shot at the Forza Coffee shop ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Lakewood_shooting
Kotlin’s coroutines are mind-bending to me. They multiply all the spooky fears about threading correctly times a second order of semi-deterministic scheduling logic. The API surface around coroutines is also very complex. Javascript provides one simple API for creating a promise object, and a simple model for how async functions interact. On the other hand, Kotlin suspend funcs need to be “launched” or “run” on a coroutine context which may or may not actually allow async behavior, be backed by a thread pool, and transition between schedulers (?). Kotlin coroutines are very flexible but with that power comes a lot of confusing complexity.
I'm working on a personal project and not at all related to my work. I accidentally kept ports open :facepalm, sorting things out now :)
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Considering that the post you replied to specifically noted that:

(a) H2 is energy-dense but not mass-dense,

(b) wing tanks are not a practical place to carry LH2,

(c) LH2 tankage would rely on recent improvements in insulation,

it makes me wonder what you think this comment adds to the discussion.
So far Shure hasn’t done anything that dumb, but you have (or rather, had. They seem to have to be coming out with over the ear model) to be ok with tethered headphones.

I kind of like the tether. Harder to lose them under a bookcase. And less of a problem if they plop out during exercise.
I agree, but I think it's beside the point.

As engineers we have to assume that there is always someone out there looking to break into our systems. We don't get to blame them for our failure to secure our systems.

For us to be angry at the hackers is as fruitless as it would be for the unhygienic cook to be angry at the bacteria.
Either way, they're a single point of failure for the complete data set.

To me, that sounds non-optimal for getting the data widely used. :(
Discussed 6 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23901448
As an addition to you post: my wired headphones do break, but I can solder things at maybe a .1 mm scale. With wireless headphones repairability is beyond my ability in many cases.
But that's a model of how you think it works. It's not what a dream is.
Most of the "free inquiry" that has been banned from universities is related to sensitive issues like race and gender. I don't see any universities out there restricting free inquiry on say, the sciences. Is there really that much social good that will come out of exploring racism and misogyny?
I wouldn't say that. But doing _something_ isn't automatically better than doing nothing, particularly when the tools are blunt and those wielding them are inexpert in the domain to which they're being applied.

There are no easy solutions here. But I agree strongly with your premise of "incentivizing companies to do better", and I suspect there are other means than regulation to achieve that goal.
> if you look up deaths by energy production method

That's not the only dimension to analyze.

The cost to decommission a nuclear plant is a deal-breaker.
I was under the impression that you couldn't copyright tables of data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....
Those officers were armed?
The "in whole or in part" piece kind of kills that. ;)
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officially a computer engineer and mba. C, Java but no work exp as a coder. ran regional operations (p&l responsibility) for a fashion apparel company with 17 direct reports, 100+ indirect. launched products (suits and blazers) including pricing and gross margin decisions across 7 distribution channels. this is where I developed my communication (and influence) skills, analytical skills and business acumen.
The mechanical turks, is something that shall be regulated ASAP... AT LEAST IN EVOLVED COUNTRIES!!!
You can disable app-usage access for the digital wellbeing app in the system settings. Just search for "wellbeing", click into it, click the menu, then "turn off usage access".

Google doesn't need this tool to track usage statistics for ads. The ads SDK used by app developers is orders of magnitude more useful as a data source.