skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The threat actors are SOC employees or visitors who might (maliciously or unwittingly) use their smartphones to record sensitive data.

The risk is data exfiltration. A selfie in front of the SOCs giant screen wall; a compromised phone that keeps recording audio.

The problem is that a third-party SOC will generally need a way to connect to their customers' systems. Sometimes that gets properly implemented as a site-to-site VPN with isolated jump hosts and session recording. In other instances, the SOC gets to use normal employee VPN access, and usually a handful of VPN tokens.

And now you have a fun conflict: One customer insists that no mobile phones are carried inside the secure SOC area. Another uses a VPN solution that requires a smartphone (and, e.g. Duo Push) as the second factor. How do you satisfy both? You take a set of mobile phones, possibly add some measures to stop them from being used as recording devices, and bolt them to a table so they can't leave the secure area.
More details in the Bleeping Computer article: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/uhs-hospitals...
Likewise, where does that tree in your backyard come from? It is the product of carbon dioxide and water.

edit: The significance of this thought is when a child is asked where a tree or plant comes from, at least in the US, they inevitably answer the ground when the answer should be rain that falls from the sky and air. With the naive notion a tree comes from the ground we miss the obvious which is the ground doesn't sink when a tree grows from it.
Victim attitude won't make you millionaire
There is a block list you can get for pi-hole for these smart TVs. My samsung TV is the highest blocked device on my home network currently.
"The wood is then penetrated with a synthetic polymer called polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), creating a product that is virtually transparent."

Not as exciting as the headline suggested ... plastics with wood fibers as mesh.
Yep, and pandering to the lowest common denominator means that complex things are probably impossible.

Making a complex thing simple is the goal we should strive for.

Edit: I forgot where I was going. Here it is: I don't understand why HAVING TO LEARN HOW TO USE A PROGRAM is such a terrible thing. I remember when there were books for things like Lotus 1-2-3. People learned.

Besides, a blank GUI with 10 kinds of swipe gesture isn't exactly "user friendly" lol.
Now they are reporting he's being sent to Walter Reed Hospital
Windowed aggregation is a common problem in feature engineering. We use segment trees to solve it.
https://youtu.be/0HttRa2cXig
What do you mean by "available"?

Fire was an important technology because it allows us to predigest food, getting more out of eating the same amount of stuff. This certainly does increase the calories available in the ordinary usage of the phrase -- but so does the blender example.
No, read his books. He says repeatedly: you cannot model the probability of these events, his strategy is to increase robustness to Black Swan events.
> "under [psychedelic mushroom's] influence I realized that most of my consciousness was unknown to me. It was as if I had spent my life in a garden until then, and now I suddenly discovered that this garden has a gate through which I can enter a strange and wonderful forest, that was largely unknown to me."

Arguably some similar mind opening processes might be going on while dreaming.

Is it just me, or does it seem that our understanding of the full chemistry of life is still in the very early parts of its evolution?
came here to say just that !
I was about to say, excreting water and CO2 leaves you no way at all to get rid of nitrogen.
I've been trying to exercise more (now that my foot is healed and it's easy to sit at home for way too long) ... now I'm sad to hear that I'm causing global warming.
President Trump Being Taken to Walter Reed Military Medical Center
This reminded me of the book: "Big Fat Myths: When You Lose Weight, where Does the Fat Go?" by Ruben Meerman.

Then I noticed he was one of the authors.
I think it’s more that our sober human perception of time and space is a filter we all share and reason about. All clocks tick at more or less the same rate, but a second is meaningless without the “human standard” filter.
Jeez the clickbait at the bottom gave me eye cancer. Really goes to show how much the advertising model is failing the journalism industry
Wait, melatonin can help with covid-19 treatment?
Problem is not that these people are not working. They never enter into adulthood. They do not have purpose/responsibility in theirs life. No spouse, children or anything to care. They will quickly develop mental problems and become homeless once parents die. They will become bigger problem than NEET generation in UK.
Almost certainly.

I know of people who run Windows 10 in a Qubes VM. It is dizzying to think of what they are really doing: running a Hyper-V system, with its own VMs, in a VM on a Xen hypervisor.
That video is required viewing for my team.
I know the full analysis isn't online but I have a problem with this part...

> This was done out of an abundance of caution, after we received one (1) user report of being logged in as someone else.

This _seems_ like a knee-jerk reaction to one data point.

There could be other causes for a user to report that, like a change to the cache key used for serving a users profile giving the _appearance_ that you're logged in as someone else, even though you're not really.

Forcing everyone to re-login could potentially make the system worse, in that you're now overloading parts of the system that has to handle those logins, plus causing all kinds of cache expiry...

I guess there's more to the story and someone who knows the system deeply knew this was the right choice but just reading the reports it seems knee-jerkish.
You wind up driving it underground, but it will still have value because you'll still be able to buy things with it on the black market. Given our past experience with the war on drugs, I'd expect this to make the situation even worse, e.g. by creating a whole new class of criminals.
I prefer using a Logitech Harmony 665, program it once and good to go for all devices.
You can also look at 1080p projectors, although they are expensive.
Well, almost. Your right America was created by the powers that be, when they told Christopher Columb as to take them lands no matter the cost (95% of the people killed).

England has Ben owned and controlled for 100's of years by these people in a war that's well, 2020 years old.

Follow the money, follow who owns, controls everything either directly, or indirectly through 'criminal goyhim'.

This one world order you talk about wasn't thought of or created in America, it dominates the whole world and that's why nations (which is what goyhim translates to) can't fight back or defend themselves against this world power. Those you are not allowed to critise!

Developed country = indoctrinated country
UN-developed country = un-indoctrinated country

You'll find that all white countries are indoctrinated and had forced foreigners In them to disperse and destroy white and Christian beliefs.

Alot don't even understand Christianity is just another form of Judaism when jesus, king of the isralites, sent out 12 opposiles to teach the gentiles (non jew) teaching they kept to themselves ruling with an iron fist from pre 2000bc to 0AD.

Hell,its illegal to be Christian!

And by 2060 most white countries will be minorities in their own country which is when all our women will be nothing more than cum buckets for the powers that be.

Yup, literally all the world's problems are caused by these sick fucks who have been manipulating everything for 100's of years lol

Reason they been kicked out of 200+ countries in the past!

America was always created for its purpose today, degeneracy, and these fucks are pushing gay/trans mental illness. 85% suicide attempt rape in trans and murder rate by trans are insane!!but apparently they are OK!

Every fucking time!

Hell, modern Jews arnt even isralites, they are Turkish lol. Explains their obsession over currency had they and the Chinese came up with it!
Are you saying it displays even when the input source is selected for your external device/computer? That does not happen for me. And when I turn off/on the TV, it remembers the last selected input source -- so the external device/computer displays right away.
I was surprised about the famotidine, I had not heard much about that being used:

https://hartfordhealthcare.org/about-us/news-press/news-deta...
It really depends on what you want to do, but to a first approximation (speaking very broadly and without much attention to detail)... Most things that would be considered "web apps" or even "web site development" require a lot of thought.

The single biggest impedance mismatch is that HTML is still fundamentally a declarative language where the rendering agent is left as an exercise for the reader, while the things people want to do with it make more and more sense as imperative tasks. The declarative approach is a great idea---semantics separated from presentation! Pages load regardless of details of the device loading them!---but it's groaning under the strain of the rendering people want to do with it. The HTML abstraction is far divorced from the end result people want, and in that gap implementation nuances (and errors) creep in.

Had a situation years ago where I was fighting multiple error reports from Firefox users because our UI was unusable. It was a scrolling list of data that used flexgrid to organize the columns (because we can't use <table> tags anymore; that's of course heresy ;) ). Something, somewhere changed in the Firefox implementation, and every scroll operation was triggering a reflow of the whole table (full recomputation of the height of every cell). Chrome? No problem at all. Chrome had some heuristic somewhere in the render engine that could tell the underlying HTML hadn't changed and was short-cutting the reflow calculation.

One could claim it's our fault for using flex grid, but I mean... It's in the standard. Should work right. Not my team's fault Firefox's renderer has a bug that makes it supported but shitty (or that they don't have a testing benchmark shaped like our site to realize their performance had regressed).

We chased that problem for half a week before product management pulled us off of pursuing it, on the calculation that it impacted <10% of our userbase and was way too inside-ball to keep burning company time on it (and in a sense, they were right; one major Firefox revision later, the bug was fixed and performance under Chrome and FF was comparable again).
The mingw package (libz-mingw-w64) also has it backwards. As far as I can tell, that upstream gets it right ('mingw-w64-x86_64-zlib' I believe.)

Also, putting version number suffixes on package names when the package system already has a concept of version numbers never sat right with me. It seems like a hack around tooling deficiencies.
Where does a ball go when you drop it off a cliff? It turns in to energy, of course! No, it goes to the bottom of the cliff. The process releases energy, but the ball did not turn into energy.
But the number of your customers who want unbounded complexity is very, very low.

This is part of the reason why iTunes beat WinAmp and that other player from Panic. It's why 99% of people buy cars to drive them, not to tinker under the hood on weekends. It's why people will pay for Photoshop and Windows, instead of using GIMP and Linux for free.
Problem is Japan culture that make difficult to re-enter workspace and find partner unless employed for life.
Wow, fantastic resource. Thanks for sharing!
What's the advantage of enroot over charliecloud, which is unprivileged in the sense of being installable in your home directory (given user namespaces)? https://hpc.github.io/charliecloud/
Yup. For example (which I calculated because I was curious), the direct mass conversion equivalent for 2000 food calories of energy is about 93 nanograms. Compare that to the typical value that 1lb of fat is about 3500 calories of usable energy.
> I think I was in my late 20s when it dawned on me that I was exhaling the food I ate. But I came to that realization in a matter of seconds based on first principles--principles learned in middle and high school.

But as noted elsewhere in the thread, you mostly aren't exhaling your food. Respiration is a reaction that takes in O2 and produces CO2. The only thing you can get rid of by breathing is carbon. But you need to excrete a mixture of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. (Plus trace elements.)
Worth noting, this research is n=590. It is disappointing to see 10 months into this there’s still research conducted that's super local (likely a single strain) and low N count.
I would expect we have diagnosis and symptom data for at least hundreds of thousands of cases just in the US at this point?
The "ripple" of the graphene is described as thermal, i.e. brownian motion, so presumably this is not a closed system - i.e. the work dissipates a bit of heat from the graphene, which is replenished from the surrounding environment. I think the abstract confirms this, in that it claims the power dissipated by the load resistor equalled "power supplied by the thermal bath".

I'm no expert and this article is clickbaity, but I think the basic claim here does not sound crazy. If regular freestanding graphene does have a natural "ripple" of current caused by thermal energy[0], it seems reasonable to place an electrode very close to it and harvest the work done when charges move relative to each other. The circuit described in the youtube video[1] does seem like it would work, if the "ripple" is predictable and slow enough to switch the circuit in phase with.

It's not "limitless" obviously; it's just converting heat energy to electricity. But if this principle works, and if it can be implemented in the real world (which seems like a big if - I can imagine it being fouled up by temperature fluctuations, physical effects on the graphene like sound vibrations, etc) it sounds like it might be very useful for things like sensors with very low power needs.

0: The same team claimed to describe this in a 2014 paper - see https://phys.org/news/2014-04-track-ripples-freestanding-gra...

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiLTEjm8zLw
Segment trees are my favorite data structure. I wrote a library with them: https://crates.io/crates/segment-tree
It seems adequately explained in the next sentence.

> Said report coincided with the deployment of a new MediaWiki release which
caused other problems around User session objects;
Yep, I would think a carbon tax + tariff model would be perfect.
Yes, I agree we should collectively work on real solutions to real problems. Clearly you understand that we need to encourage more tech workers to think deeper about it. Why not do this more positively? Being negative about how this forum can work hard to improve social tech is unproductive.
That's a good point, though these folks do specifically call this a "Streaming Processor", so I'm not sure that using anything besides a batch size of 1 for inference is entirely fair, but perhaps I'm misunderstanding what they mean by streaming. I was also thinking that the A100 comparison would be very interesting.
Also relevant if you've ever looked into what a modern "condensing" boiler/furnace is:

https://www.ernstheating.com/blog/condensing-furnaces/

A consequence of the secondary heat exchanger is that a bunch of the steam from the exhaust condenses back into water, and unfortunately it's water containing a bunch of heavy metals and other nasty stuff, which usually ends up flushed into the municipal sanitary sewer. Probably still better than it going up the chimney and into the atmosphere, but it would be nice if there was a way to capture and isolate those pollutants in that relatively concentrated state, before they end up mixed in with everyone's bathtub water.
Yes, this is a real time platform. I spend some of my dev time optimising performance.
You're not going to get 65" or 70" monitors at anywhere near the cost of a 65" or 70" TV.
The Deep Anthropocene
This isn't by any means a solution, but I've found I can reduce the annoyance of being on hold by hooking up my phone to a bluetooth speaker and then just going about my work like I normally would (sans listening to music) until I hear someone pick up. This might not work if you have other people around making noise, but it reduces the hassle a decent amount if you're alone or in a separate room.
It appears the mistake you made was not going to your boss's boss. As someone who came up in the political mines I feel you on this.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201002212004/https://insidesex...

Hugged to death
I suspect this is as much about profiling users (who will normally predict the outcome they subconsciously favour) than it is about effective predictions.
He hasn't derived 3 dimensions from this framework yet... The whole program is very interesting, it might find general laws not only for Physics but for many phenomena, but I feel like Wolfram has jumped the gun on connecting Physics to it...
Particularly, I think that quantum non-locality might be evidence that fundamentally 3 dimensions is just an emergent property, but that has yet to be derived from this hypergraph framework...
NileRed on youtube has a cool video detailing the steps to create transparent wood. His result isn’t quite as clear as in the article but the process seems similar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1H-323d838
I wonder how it will handle direct sunlight for a prolonged period then
Ok, we'll change to that from https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-malware-software-1.... Thanks!
"Just make water not wet."
Bitcoin is money, and there will always be people willing to trade it for something else, like candy, other money, gaming tokens or even non-virtual things.
Several of these things are enabled by technologies like DEX's and Cross Chain Swaps. OTC trade desks are not going away either.
The problem is equivalent to shutting down any and all trade/commerce between anyone at any time.
Good Luck with that!
How is this an American problem? Seems like that’s just life to me. And having lived in Germany, I’m certain there are worse bureaucracies out there.
Tegmark's theory says exactly that - the particles are ultimately mathematics. Not that they can be modeled with mathematical methods, but that they are actually constructed from mathematical structures.

It's definitely not a mainstream theory.
Trump to head to Walter Reed hospital following Covid-19 diagnosis
Yep, I worked in finance for years (investing capital) and I have bet on sports profitably for years. My point was actually nothing to do with superforecasting but superforecasting is obvious bullshit. Probabilities aren't computable in any consistent way, and the nature of these events mean that it is often very difficult to work out if someone's track record is actually real (example: the sample size you need for events that occur infrequently is, in practice, much larger than the sample size you need for events that occur more frequently). In the real world, all that matters is information. The idea that there is a group of some super-smart genius forecasters is a rather common mistake of academics...in the real world, the issue is not having information (i.e. the outcome of a vote is not a random event, that is why investment banks/hedge funds pay politicians for information). Btw, I think philosophers in the late 18th century understood this...suggesting that you can sit in your ivory tower and just reason through all these things should seem ludicrous.

Also, you cannot predict black swans. If you think you can, you don't understand what black swan is. The point of a black swan is that it is unpredictable because it has never occurred before.
I could live with slow handshake, but it's ~110ms for every request.
I suppose it is because the colon is used for NTFS alternate data streams, see the example in the introduction here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/stre...
I'd be surprised if there is a significant, unconnected body of established scientists working on Wolfram's TOE stuff.
Instead of comparing it to glass, it might be better to compare it to other plastic materials used for windows.

Here's a glass vs. plastic SE Q/A that might be worth reading for context:

https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/7408/why-do-...
The story is (likely purposefully) ignoring some other ways you can "lose weight/energy" from your body. But I am curious what would the complete list be...

* heat (the most obvious one, not explicitly mentioned I guess?)

* even in healthy humans, some fatty acids are excreted with bile into the gut and subsequently removed via feces

* if you are fasting (or in ketosis, such as via keto diet) you will exhale / sweat ketone bodies, which is a very ineffective way (energy balance wise) to use up fatty acids

* if you are a diabetic, you can excrete glucose in your urine; we have subsequently develop drugs that can help mimic this process as a diabetes treatment

* skin, hair and nails (very insignificant amounts)

* sperm & menses

Anybody got anything else I am not currently thinking about?
Yes, something like (CH2O)n + n O2 → n H2O + n CO2 for sugars and analogous for fats and proteins.
A friend points out that housing developments are often named after what they destroyed to put it there. "Shady Creek", "Deer Run", "Pleasantview"...
Could this be used to lower the repulsion between atoms to make fusion require less energy?
I don't know anything about that world, but it sounds to me like something where the money flow should come from grants. Are there institutions with deep pockets focused on the kind of economic development you're doing? Is it something local chambers of commerce would be interested in? If such things don't exist, could they be created? Are there state or federal agencies that might be interested?
> I didn’t fully understand this as a developer, but it become crystal clear as a product manager. I personally love power tools with countless knobs to adjust, command line options to explore, complex features to learn, and other fun things that stimulate the mind of an engineer.

I'm the opposite: my life as a dev is already so complex that the less knobs I have to adjust on a new piece of software the better I feel (then of course you'll hear me complain a few days later that if only I had the source of this app to implement this missing feature ;)
When we lose fat, we breath it away CO2.
"Wood fibers" might as well be plastic anyway... See also rayon aka "bamboo" or PLA corn-based plastics, etc
The actual important feature of segment trees is range updates.

Having a monoidal function to update interior nodes isn't specific to finger trees -- every tree can do this in its internal nodes, it's a common data structures technique.
But you’ll still not be able to afford a home because it’s $1mil+. You’ll be a renter for life - and not of a nice place either!

I know because I’m living it. Including the BMW.
> What goes around comes around.

Unfortunately, it comes around indiscriminately. The young had nothing to do with USA's earlier crimes.
Show HN: A Python script to find duplicated code
We go from pi-hole to enterprise grade firewalls and proxies and separation of nnetworks. That's my plan anyway.
The technique is not overly new https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoclonal_antibody

Walter Reed has a presidential suite, the staff is likely being overly cautious. There should be a live view of him walking to Marine 1 soon
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Not drinking bleach?
And it doesn't help typosquatting since baeutifulsoup will have a perfectly valid signature.