skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Host based firewalls are fantastic for improving security, and allow rapid blocking of malware. Excluding a service from firewall rules is just begging for disaster.

It's rubbish decisions like this (and app telemetry like the OCSP borking), the similar (ad driven) madness on android and the extreme telemetry on Windows, that makes Linux so important. It's the only platform which doesn't actively seek to control how you use your own computer.
Unless those tracks are covered and sound proof, elevated highways cause a ton of noise.

Even if they were, they block a lot of sunlight.

I’d elevate the city instead. That’s essentially Manhattan.
Milk contains 100 IU vitamin D per cup in the US. A typical supplement dose is 2000 IU.
And they don't know because the hidden source of the binaries their overpriced hardware is running. So users can't inspect the source and look for hidden "gems" like this one, let alone fix those intentional bugs themselves - not just due to not having the source, but the hardware refusing to boot anything not signed by the blessed key of Apple.
The connection would run over tor, but the app you're running and any other PII could/would still be sent regardless.
(I'm still mad about systemd though.)
I was involved in the Gnome project with fond memories from 1999-2004.

I'm amazed to see Matthias Clasen still involved 20 years later.

This guy is a hero! True he is paid by Red Hat. But the Linux desktop needs people like this.

More info: https://blogs.gnome.org/engagement/2019/06/11/meet-matthias-...
The thing is 70,000 wouldn’t get launched because both sides would be targeting nuclear facilities in a first strike.
On the other hand I was gifted a 2015 MacBook Pro 15 and I can't run away screaming fast enough from it. I know people rave about the touch pad, but when I use it I find apps get minimized, or don't launch or some other weird gesture causing behavior. I guarantee that this is classic PEBKAC. The other day a family member with a MacBook Pro asked me to assist them with Safari which on launch wouldn't appear. I was able to get it to appear by using the Finder or something which allowed me to pin/size Safari to one side of the screen, but on appearing the window simply displayed a single pixel frame with a black interior. I liked the process, launched it again but it did the same thing. I told them they would have more success with Google than me. I have never had those experiences with Windows. Yes I've had other lame experiences, but I can always solve them, it at least find a solution online. Again probably PEBCAK so no fan boy retorts please. In the end all programs and operating systems suck.
won’t this eat into your revenue since you won’t make money on the exchange ?
> The most recent Amendment took 202 years to ratify, and that was nearly 30 years ago

This is a deceptive picture to paint. That amendment was an outlier in respect. There are only 3/27 amendments that took more than 3 years to pass and 2 of them were passed faster than 4 years. The mean is 8.94 years and if you remove the 27th the average was 1.44 years. We also have an average of 8.2 years between the amendments (counting from 1789).
It's explained right there in the text: it's via iCloud Backup, which Apple makes no secrets about:

- backing up your iMessages: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207428

- not being end to end encrypted: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

It's listed as being "encrypted in storage" and "encrypted in transit", which is a fancy way of saying "we use encrypted disks and TLS, all of which we have the keys for".

Further down on the page, they have a list of things that are end-to-end encrypted. iCloud Backups are not in that list.

It's not a secret.
Their SSL certificate revocation server (the default for macOS) goes down an you try to tie it to Apple Silicon being created to lock-in users? I understand the feelings people have about this but today's failure seems orthogonal.
Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars
> While there is ~500m km2 of land on the planet, only about 60m km2 is habitable (less desert, poles, mountains etc). Not inhabited, habitable. So yes that's not only sufficient to wipe out all population centers, it's double the amount needed to wipe out all locations on earth capable of sustaining human life.

You also have to consider how connected that area is. I.E. How many nukes do you need to kill each valley in Switzerland, each oasis in the desert, etc,
Exercise is good for you but not for the reasons you think.
That's the first idea from Tabeb I've ever heard that makes sense.

I had to fact check and he did say it -

https://medium.com/incerto/surgeons-should-notlook-like-surg...
I didn't attempt to answer any of those questions, but instead simply tried to illustrate that Bannon went beyond metaphor in his words.

I don't like censorship and I don't like public speech that encourages violence. Unfortunately, those two stances are at odds sometimes and there are warnings from history on both sides.
I was pretty amazed to Discover that Spirit Airlines is doing round trip flights for $75 to Orlando from my local airport. If you’re in the Midwest in a midsized city that’s cold and dreary in winter there’s a good chance you can find a similar deal.
So what exactly does Epic want here? To force Apple to sell iOS (with configurable/multiple stores) as separate software that you might install on a separately iOS-less bought iPhone? To force Apple to sell iOS-less/unlocked iPhones?

This lawsuit is like saying that Google should be forced to allow for other browser than Chrome to be used on Chromebook devices. The whole device is a tightly integrated top to bottom solution and when you buy the device you buy the entire solution, not pieces of it. It's not an open system where you buy separate hardware/software components and some of those components aren't playing fair with the others or something.
Another logo generator: https://www.tinygraphs.com/#?name=test&shape=labs%2Fisogrids...
Even a youtube machine can become a big deal if the walled garden prevents you from installing an ad blocker or third party client & forces you to watch mandatory adds to see any videos - that might very well happens (and happens) in walled gardens.
Whether or not humans end up totally extinct is irrelevant to the questions like whether nuclear war is bad and whether we should work to prevent it.

However, the question whether or not humans end up totally extinct is relevant when comparing nuclear war with other very horrible risks, some of which do threaten total extinction. To discuss, prioritize and act on very serious (though, hopefully, unlikely to materialize) risks, we need a scale of "horribleness" that doesn't just give every serious problem a 10 out of 10. We need to reasonably prioritize our actions among many potentially dystopian risks - if consider a single one of them an negative infinity, a literal "AVOID AT ALL COSTS", then those "all costs" include increased vulnerability to other risks, and that's not appropriate.
I also don't get about this complaint about Windows. I had as much problems with as my Macbook...which is almost always never.
It's probably better to have the factual statement in people's immediate memory before they read the falsehood.
Identified possible source of the WOW Signal
It wasn't just diabetes or being overweight, the article mentions heart disease, lung disease, and dementia. Half of them were 88 years or older. They died either in their homes or in hospice.

If you look at the official statistics for the whole country right now, 26% of all dead where 90 years or older, and 41% 80-89 years old. Most of them weren't just a bit out of shape, they were already sick.
The article and related HN posts are quite our of date.

Here's what's happening today:

- China only has 200 nukes now, but it doubling that. The CCP has been in an undeclared war with the US since the Korean War, so most are pointed at the US:

Mao, "Hide our strength, bide our time."

- We will have nuclear explosions resulting in war in the next 20 years. Both North Korea and the Islamic world are motivated to get them.

- the Islamic community has a weird sense of victimhood (losing the science race, resulting in the loss of their caliphate) and superiority (read the Koran) that guarantees the use of nukes against the West. To them, the more chaos, the better. It's like 1.2 billion chess players, who can only think 1 move deep.

- Russia has a military doomsday SkyNet program "Dead Hand" that will automatically launch nukes after it detects launches from other countries, intentional or not.

Moscow is protected by a ring of ABM rockets, so they believe their leaders can protect themselves.

- China has monopolized the Himalayan headwaters, diverting water from several other countries, including Pakistan. This is an age-old reason for war. With 8+ billion people, add in overpopulation, too.

- nuclear arms control experts are very concerned about what's happening, likely the most since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The West's secular liberalism is under attack by two powerful ideologies, the CCP and Islam (the #1 baby name in the capitals of Europe is Mohammed.) As we've seen in Europe, our tolerance loses to their intolerance. Hopefully the US can learn from Europe and HK and take action to protect ourselves before it's too late.
This sounds like you would actually _like_ the incompleteness of most linux window managers. On i3 you don't get update notifications, because by default notifications don't work!
> Do I think hate speech in private should be restricted? I think _probably_ not, but I think this is for the elected legislature to decide, not an idea that is edict from several hundred years ago.

So you _probably_ agree with me? This is the exact point. Many people that might agree that some public speech should be outlawed would recoil at the idea of private speech being similarly restricted. Yet this has been the case in Norway for 40 years. Now you might reply that it has caused no harm yet. And I admit I don't know the number of convictions for this type of private speech, but this is the very definition of chilling effect. Criminalization of private speech has been normalized. When the ratchet is tightened there will be no room to complain.
oh, really
I don’t see security flaws with closed source software that prints backup paper ballots. If anything, it’s better than an open source machine that doesn’t print a paper backup. Those paper backups can be even audited by the voter at the moment they vote. You’re not going to be dumping the source code from a voting machine that is in use.
This is antitrust shenanigans. Google takes a loss on many of its products just to avoid antitrust. The big tech companies are an oligarchy. Move on.
I do think there’s a bit of absurdity to this, though. I have a smart fridge. Is LG unethical for not letting me run Android apps on the little LCD? I have a right to that, don’t I?

The answer seems to become, I own the fridge, I can change it how I want, it I can figure out how, I can put whatever software I want on it.

Same with an iPhone—it’s my device, I can use it as a paperweight if I want, if I want, I can run Doom directly on it if I can figure out how.

Not sure why LG or Apple have an obligation to make sure their devices can run arbitrary programs.
Good point! A fourth thing that affluent people spend their income on is protecting what they have. So, insurance of all kinds, security, lawsuits, ...
It's just one of many recent actions that they've taken that have made people wary. The changes to app signing in recent OS X versions was another example of this
Hi GarethX, would you ping me re: head of eng? I might be interested, but had a few questions about where ya'll are wanting to head as a company! snickell __at__ alumni.stanford.edu
> We also have an average of 8.2 years between the amendments (counting from 1789).

This reinforces my point. The last meaningful amendment (the 27th affecting only a couple hundred people, after all) was in 1971, and I suspect quite a few of the amendments in the 60s/70s would have a tremendously uphill battle if on the table in today's political climate.
Yes, my objection was lazy. Thanks for pulling me up on it.
Today I was late to join a corporate conference call. It took like 5 mins to start conferencing software.

First time ever I'm genuinely frustrated with apple - macs are not those unicorn tools anymore that work reliable
My favourite American author by a long shot. He never took himself too seriously which lent his works a sense of whimsy which I felt was very engaging. And then while you were engaged, he would sneak in something profound which shook you to the core. Quite a genius
California is pretty expensive. PG&E is .24/.31/.38 per kwh - (punitively?) tiered depending on monthly usage.

I think the tiers are ~ 0-300kwh / 300-1200kwh / 1200kwh+ per month
You all seriously should have spent the last 20 years helping us make Linux better. What a waste.
Do you mean to imply that a person should have similar relationships to their job and significant other? If so, can't say that I agree.
Yeah, a modern Linux distro can satisfy the needs of a "regular" user just fine - an up to date web browser and maybe an email client and all is fine.

Yet at the same time it makes it possible for the user to "grow" and make use of more advanced features of the system for creative endeavors.

On the other hand on a locked down mobile device or chromebook, there is not really any room to grow and be creative, it's only good for consuming content.
I'd rather have someone hack 1700 local elections than one 'national standard' quite frankly. The inefficiency delights me
It will be interesting to see how much longer CISA Rumor Control exists in its current form given that the head of the department was recently asked to resign[1].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-officials-exclu...
In the spirit of discussion, why do you say this?
It doesn't use fork() on macOS anymore, because some of Apple's own APIs get broken by its use.

Pretty much any app that uses both fork and threads, has to jump through many hoops to make the two work together well. And this applies to all the libraries that it uses, directly or indirectly - if any library spawns a thread and does some locking in it, you get all kinds of hard-to-debug deadlocks if you try to fork.

So unless you have very good perf reasons to need fork, I would strongly recommend multiprocessing.set_start_method("spawn") on all platforms. No obscure bugs, and it'll also behave the same everywhere, so things will be more portable. Code using multiprocessing that's written to rely on fork semantics can be very difficult to port later.
Same but more like five for me.
One difference is that blank CDs cost money. In the Betamax case the cost of blank tapes was one reason why time-shifting was not seen as a serious threat to the market that copyright laws are intended to support, because it made it hard to build up a big library. But in any case, I think the RIAA would say that both the CD dude and the Funkwhale dude are infringing copyright, and U.S. courts would agree.

It’s true that enforcement is a practical challenge. However, the developers of the Funkwhale software are probably not as decentralised as the operators of Funkwhale pods. Copyright holders could potentially get future development shut down on the basis that the service implicitly authorises or encourages copyright infringement, as they are trying to do to youtube-dl. The details depend on where the developers live, but this strategy has worked for some tools like Napster, KaZaA, and some BitTorrent trackers, while failing for BitTorrent clients. Which side of the line will Funkwhale fall on?
Good eye! I had never noticed those before. Yes I think those are centred to j and f. on the Macbook Pro I'm using right now, if you look carefully, the touchpad is centred relative to the body but it is slightly off centre relative to the home row.
Why are you defending Bannon?
I think healthy optimism is good. I am with you that tech advancement is awesome. That wrist watch is very impressive. Yet its benefits over a 1900 pocket watch are not exactly on par with the benefits of a 1970s airplane over the benefits of a 1870s horse. (Intentional Hyperbole)

I am not saying the author of the book is right, but I do buy a partial stagnation argument. I’d call it “hard physics”, or “large scale physics”. Maybe it’s interminent. Fusion could be around the corner. Maybe physics isn’t this never-ending tree of useful knowledge - maybe the science method allowed us to quickly exhaust the low hanging fruit.
A set of a few hundred tabs, spread across a few windows, is like the bubbling organic head of a stream of temporal bookmarks. It would be great if there were some kind of time-based decay -- or ripening, depending on your perspective -- of open tabs into a more permanent bookmark-like arrangement, with spatial/proximity and window affinity cues. These could easily rehydrate to their live versions, or become fixed as "organic bookmarks" living alongside "affirmative" bookmarks and the normal, more ephemeral, uncurated browsing history.
The head of CISA will likely be forced out for this.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/12/cyber-official-chri...
Food, sanitation, refrigeration, anti-biotics, etc. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK219173/

So many things we take for granted, would simply not exist.
Ben speaks like each word is a Magic the Gathering card - that's what he's good at. So, when the opponent plays "bring up embarrassing quote," he plays "claim it was out of context."
How was this quantified? If there are numbers to demonstrate it's the most secure compared to previous years, why not show them? Qualitative statements with no foundation only draw speculation.
Hard question!

1) PG&E

2) NorCal/Sierra timeshares

3) NorCal/Sierra municipal districts
At first, I thought that, too. But I think I see the reason they did it the unusual/backwards way. It's to make sure the text with the green checkmark is seen by both careful readers, and those skimming the page.

I can envision someone skimming through the headings and reading the first thing they see in each section, thinking that it's the correct information.
Modern Adobe cracks are note that different in nature
> Ever since they split from Chrome

WOW, talk about revisionism! Chrome/Chromium was based on WebKit!

Unless you mean something else?
I'm fully for a fast electronic count for preliminary results, that are then hand-recounted for the formal validation and final results (up to a month later).
Ok - so it’s complete bullshit. iMessage is end to end encrypted. There is no back door. The article is lying.

On the other hand it’s true that iCloud backups are not encrypted. That’s a major problem. Worse in many ways since all your private documents, tax returns etc, are in there too.

But let’s not lie about iMessage not being end to end encrypted. It certainly is.

The problem is that the end is then backed up to an unencrypted disk.

These two things are not equivalent. In one instance Apple can be compelled to provide access. In the other instance any man in the middle can intercept.

Please - there are real problems to criticize Apple for. Let’s not muddy the water with lies.
Cost-based pricing rarely makes sense for software products, as almost all products are just “sending around a bunch of 1’s and 0’s”. If that were the case, almost all software would cost just pennies a month.

I’m not a fan of Stripe’s price increase for recurring plans either, and I think they could’ve communicated it better, but their pricing is far from unreasonable given the amount of research and engineering effort they put into the product that I don’t have to do myself.
People are always rallying to add blockchain for voting without realizing that the paper ballot is a proof of work that predates it by a significant margin.
What’s your thinking on the “request” process of mail-in ballots?

To me, it’s wild to think all one needs to request a ballot is a name, address and ssn... and on top of all of that, you can get the ballot sent to a different address...
It's a bit of a stretch to be comparing using a different smartphone (you don't even need to use ANY smartphone) and moving the place where you live, work, etc.

Next, we'll see people complaining how google.com should be displaying alternative search engine links on their frontpage because it's too hard for people to type bing.com.
> 40.7% of participants had 25(OH)D levels of less than 20 ng/mL at baseline, and according to current guidelines, all were allowed to take 800 IU/d of supplemental vitamin D outside the study medication.

So, even the controls were given D3 supplements if they were deficient. That kind of throws the whole study into question.
Because Cairo was an attempt to abstract drawing operations over multiple heterogeneous drawing devices. In theory, Cairo should give you accelerated OpenGL rendering, PDF rendering, GDK rendering, PNG rendering, Win32 rendering, etc behind a "convenient" PostScript-like interface. Thus, when these devices gets new features Cairo must also be updated to exploit these new features.

That was the theory behind Cairo. In practice it never worked out and Cairo wasn't able to fully exploit hardware accelerated rendering. Cairo was very complex so it wasn't easy for the maintainers to keep all the various backends up to date.
I’m suspicious of the green checkmarks and red crosses in this context. If the argument is convincing you don’t need it. If it’s bogus the nice design may take your attention away from it.

A convincing design is more important to propaganda while a convincing reasoning is more important to fact checking.

Of course a site may serve as both, propaganda for the ones unable to reason and carefully crafted argument for the interested.
Cone tracing is a thing that exists, but I think most path tracers just just regular rays. (There's also ray differentials, which if I understand correctly, are a way of tracking how a cone of light would spread out after bouncing off of curved surfaces, if the ray were a cone.)

As to why lenses would cause a problem specifically, I don't know the path tracing algorithm well enough to say for sure offhand, but it may have something to do with introducing random sampling before you even hit the first scene object. Usually in ray tracing the first hit is kind of a freebie; you can calculate direct illumination exactly, and it's only indirect illumination that's approximated. (In path tracing, it's approximated by doing a lot of random sampling.) So, not having to approximate the first-hit direct illumination reduces the noise quite a bit right off the bat.