skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both wearing masks, obviously. But that isn't what the title says. It is saying that a mask with a valve doesn't slow the spread of covid.

Obviously, one of us wearing a mask is better than neither of us wearing a mask.

I think maybe the implication is that if the person wearing the mask already has covid, it isn't going to slow the spread to others. Which makes sense. But if you at least wear a valved mask, you will be less likely to catch covid in the first place.
I would be eternally grateful to a bio-chem person to explain two facets of DNA sequencing I've never understood. To motivate the question a short quote from Wikipedia:

"For longer targets such as chromosomes, common approaches consist of cutting (with restriction enzymes) or shearing (with mechanical forces) large DNA fragments into shorter DNA fragments. The fragmented DNA may then be cloned into a DNA vector and amplified in a bacterial host such as Escherichia coli. "

Two questions:

1) OK, we cut up the DNA and replicate it. How in the heck do we assemble the pieces together to restore the original ordering? I've got three pieces A,B,C. How do I know it was originally ABC or CBA or BAC etc? I can correctly sequence a piece ... but what I want is the sequence of all base-pairs in their original order. How on earth do they do that?

2) DNA spends most of its time wrapped up around histones. How do does one get it off the histones for access to sequencing?

3) Less interesting: unless we sequence the whole chromosome researches must pick off a piece ... how do we know which piece to pick off and how do we know where it's crammed around the histones?
So what does the average Amazon seller need to do to get set up? I'm assuming they're not paying the Alibaba price.
The fact that Robinhood routed to these wholesalers was always easy to see... it’s in their SEC rule 606 reports. This info was buried deep on their site, but you can alway use a search engine to find it. You just had to know where to look.

They took payment for order flow (PFOF). So do many of the cheap brokerages on the street.

To me, the funny part is that the old school wall st institutions Robinhood is supposedly disrupting do not take payment for order flow. Morgan Stanley and Merrill will not take it. They go for the best execution quality always.

Although, I do not agree that this practice is necessarily illegal... there’s a simple argument to make: by taking payment over price improvement the broker is able to provide a lower commission. The all in price could still be better for the customer. Robinhood is not skilled enough to navigate this issue though.

From a guy that used to run best ex at a wall st firm...
Are you saying that the attacker's skill with AD indicates that they were able to plant code in AD? Steal the source and learn vulnerabilities from it? Or just that, given that MS uses AD, they were vulnerable too?
> I don't get it, if Twitter denied it what information could the Dutch police have to prove otherwise?

Anything that would establish the hack occurred even if Twitter didn't deny it, such as network logs of the attack.

They are saying essentially that they had evidence to prosecute for the hack except that they also had sufficient evidence that the attacker met the requirements to be exempt from prosecution under an ethical hacking rule. It seems a lot less likely that they’d lie than Twitter, perhaps at the behest of the Office of the President regarding security of an account that has legally been deemed an official outlet of the Presidency, would lie to cover up a breach of the account’s security.
If you find this interesting, I would recommend checking out the book Objectivism by Leonard Piekoff. It takes a more systematic approach to come to similar conclusions.
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I looked around on the site and couldn't find any explanation about how it works, a diagram of the auth flow, or even a gif showing how the flow works.
I’m not a hardware engineer, but my understanding is that a USB device isn’t supposed to draw that much current without performing either negotiation or sensing. Including a note that the user must use a 1A charger suggests that the device is violating the USB spec and will try to pull 1A no matter what. It then makes me worry about what other power safety systems are absent, since it’s a device with a lithium battery that gets strapped directly to a body part.
True, but based on reporting the one common issue for all of the victims was that they agreed to make private videos for the private viewing of wealthy one-off clients in a far-away country and were not aware that the videos would be made available to the general public in their home country.

Rape by fraud is a form of rape in some states and many countries.
Let's hope it will improve at least when searching on a single repo. That I can easily emulate locally though by using ripgrep. Yes, ripgrep gives better results than Github's search :).

Emulating the "which projects use my library" feature of Github is harder though.
I've got a Mac laptop that refuses to update to Catalina via the app store. It starts downloading and just fails along the way somewhere. Presumably in the downloading stages. I'd suuuure like to be able to download the Catalina installer manually to eliminate network as a dependency. Likewise for all the following incremental updates.
Have you tried melatonin? I had something similar to this and taking melatonin 1h before my desired bedtime has changed my life.
Until mid 2021 several other things also count for the travel credit such as gas and grocery stores. Chase probably did not want a wave of card cancellations over the $300 credit being mostly useless during the pandemic.
Interesting. Thanks for letting me know about this. I'll get it fixed this evening.
Honestly piracy is something that most people with jobs don’t have time for. Keeping up with where to get what is a chore. Netflix and Spotify do it for me thanks
How does that work? Is it like an ACH transfer between bank accounts? And what about fraud, are customers able to charge back? If those customers get their account stolen, who eats the loss?
I made something similar but a bit more random.

https://randomdomain.benbristow.co.uk

Keeps taking a random word from an English dictionary and a random popular domain extension (com/net/org etc.), pings it and returns the first one that responds.

Quite fun once you sift through the parking pages. I need to work on something to detect those.
That snippet is a great idea, thanks!
I dedicate one ('headless': no display or keyboard) to being a HTTPS website server, as well as being a UPS controller.
Can you try now? I modified the client side regex to make it much more permissive. I was able to successfully submit a few with .network, .land, and .live.
That's not really the point. Having companies remove paying customer reviews because they [3rd parties] don't like low start reviews just feels shady and a terrible format for any kind of ecosystem.
The reviews are Rigged.
I’m having a great time with it. To each their own I guess.
Yeah I'm not talking about the world I currently live in. I'm talking about what I would like. I'm not going to buy a new iphone of course but that doesn't mean I wouldn't like to under different circumstances. Obviously they don't have to care about that.
That's a preposterous overreaction to what I said.

No, I'm not claiming that---but you're doing a good job of making it look that way!!!

It would be nice for you to respond thoughtfully and rationally to what I said instead of merely launching a defensive attack. I wasn't trying to put you on the defensive.
The image linked is at the very end of the article, and the comment simply mentioned that it would be nice if it was at the beginning...
Inevitable unless its not. Providing the infrastructure for say, facebook's primary needs is relatively cheap, but nobody can compete due to the network effect + them buying up any large competitor.

Its because everyone is already there that this stuff is allowed to fester. Nobody who's not crazy right wing is going on Parler - that is the way it should be. It should be totally self-selected which grouping you use, and there shouldn't be one thing that has "everyone" that prevents all others from starting. White supremacist websites existed well before this stuff, but in a decade they didn't get the traffic that one popular FB post gets.

Where's "Apolotical" Facebook? Where's "only share photos of your kids and vacation" Facebook? They can sell ads for baby clothes and cheap flights. There's more of a market need for that sort of thing than what it is that Facebook provides.

Here's a solution - a bunch of competing "profile" companies that you can choose to manage your online profiles that would work on any social network. They get kickbacks from those social networks running ads. Some of those profile companies might be incredibly private, some might give out a ton of info about you for targeted advertising. Regulate it so companies must have X and Y user access controls on your user profile, and also so sites must use those sites.

I don't even think the above is actually a workable solution. But the idea that things are inevitable is a lack of imagination.
I think the best case scenario for AI ethics is that those researchers work to develop processing & metrics to ensure AI systems are fair. The current model seems overwhelmingly adversarial where AI researches do X and then the ethics researches come in an indicate problems P, Q, R. I'm curious how much internal communication there is between the ethics department and the AI departments. Instead of doing research on how the datasets are biased or something of that sort, it seems more fruitful to help researches develop balanced and fair datasets. AI is going to develop yes or yes. The best case scenario is that AI ethics is a first class concern for those researchers and is factored into their development rather than being a case of "look at this gross, unethical behavior in this model!"
Of course he does. Newspapers around the world are trying to hold these universities to account for what happened here.

The anonymous donations issue is a HUGE part of this. Trust me.

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/7/10/20689134/jeffrey-eps...

https://www.insider.com/epstein-riyadh-saudi-arabia-private-...

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/8/18/dubin-epstein-u...

https://columbusfreepress.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-there%...

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/if-epstein-stole-fro....

https://dealbreaker.com/2019/08/les-wexner-writes-foundation...

https://www.queerty.com/jeffrey-epsteins-chilling-remarks-ho...

https://www.businessinsider.com/investigation-of-jeffrey-eps...

... and more and more to come for sure as criminal prosecution of Mr. Epstein's most famous "recruiter" gets underway, the daughter of disgraced publishing magnate Robert Maxwell.
I think you're still missing the point: the freedom bits are not there for "idealogical purity", they're there because they provide practical benefits: the ability to inspect and modify the program's source code, and to build and run modified versions, without getting anyone's permission to do so. The FSF does believe that there ethical components as well, but you need not subscribe to them to see the benefits of free software.

I think you overestimate how helpful a paid support option is. I've spent time working with the vendor of closed source software to get issues resolved; it's often incredibly painful and time consuming, and meanwhile the business is not able to realize the full benefit of the software they've paid for. Meanwhile, I have never run into an issue in open source software that I wasn't able to fix on my own (absent help/response from upstream) or at least figure out a workaround, often one that would not be possible to figure out without source access. (Note that I'm explicitly ignoring the kind of "fit for purpose" issues that you're never going to resolve, period, whether it's closed or open.)

Adopting open source is not without its own risks, but it does give you many more options than any closed alternative ever will. If your business does not value that difference, then that's fine, as long as you've made that decision with open eyes.
How will this even begin to be remediated (the broader hack that is coming to light right now)?

It seems like malicious actors had unrestricted access to almost every major computer system in the US Government, and now possibly microsoft itself as well?

How are these people ever going to be able to trust any of this equipment ever again? This just seems unbelievably catastrophic.
Yes, this is called “not being a jerk”.

Doing something which is technically legal, benefits you, but causes other players to “hate playing” is not a good long term strategy. This normally ends with either the person being rejected, or, if the rest of people are nice, the group itself disbanding.

Nothing silly about this.
When building a hackintosh I've always downloaded the installer from the App Store.
Eh, I got an insert in a product I purchased offering me a set of magnetized screwdrivers if I sent their social media a screenshot of my positive review. Not exactly paid but it incentivized me to take a picture of my already positive review and send it to the company.
Kempt is also used in isolation.
I've bought USB cables on their recommendation only to find their top pick had quality issues. The most frustrating part was the way they ignored feedback in the review's comment section. My critical (but calm and reasoned) comment was even deleted. I do look at their reviews, but they are not decisive for me.
If someone has the time, they should make a more general version of this and post it to HN.
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The changing ips were ok, it just made diagnosing the issue difficult in the logs. The duplicate requests (not at the packet level as TCP ignores duplicate packets) were the root cause of the issue.
Gosh I shudder thinking about how many countless malicious websites I visited in high school using StumbleUpon...
I posted about that here. They recommend the .14 release.

https://stackoverflow.com/q/65345789/220997
Hey, just wanted to say the first site I got was https://www.the-odin.com, and I thought it was particularly random and cool. "Genetically Engineer Any Brewing or Baking Yeast to Fluoresce" was not at the top of my list for cool presents, but I thought it was super cool!
The reason you are provided many free services is because you ARE tracked / analyzed and marketed to. That is the CORE of the business. The popup will say, do you accept this cookie and being tracked to use this free service. Everyone literally clicks yes. I can't believe the billions of wasted clicks and manhours that have gone into this charade.
Getting _a_ signing key is not equal to having access to SolarWind's signing key. It is interesting because it shows the extent of the breach.
> That said, for me personally, nil punning is uncomfortably close to the kind of weak typing (like in traditional JS) that can be catastrophic in large code bases.

I think it would be totally fine and safe if “nil” is identical to an empty list in every scenario. In other words, nil is just a shorthand/synonym for an empty list.

Go kind of does that, for example. The only time it’s actually handled differently in my experience is in JSON serialization (which I personally believe was a terrible decision)
Sure thing and thanks for bringing back good StumbleUpon memories!
In my experience "right away" has a significant amount of flex to it. I've started new jobs anywhere from 2-6 weeks after getting an offer, with no problems or pushback whatsoever.
Except that is a misconception because no one paid anywhere close to that 87% rate back in the day. The rich will always find loopholes and deductions to lower their tax rates.
He's done an awesome job.. kudos to him.
> When asked for more clarity on which policies Dissenter did not comply with, Mozilla said that they received abuse reports for this extension. It further added that the platform is being used for promoting violence, hate speech, and discrimination, but they failed to show any examples to add any credibility to their claims.

Wow, thanks for sharing the post.
A lot of software work these days is dirty money. If you’re not building a porn site then you’re working on a social network that erodes the privacy of users until they’re basically stripped naked or building some mobile app that keeps eye balls glued to a screen and cued for the next hit of dopamine from some random notification.
A store of value is something 'real', like gold or real estate or copper ore or cotton, that actually has an existence in the 'real world'.
Are you serious? If any girl makes a post on her social media asking for sex, she will have multiple messages with serious intent within minutes but if it was a dude doing the same, nope. I conducted a few experiments back in the day on tinder and another app for fun posing as both genders. The social network dating games are rigged. Women will always have the upper hand in the dating game no matter who says what.
Ah, now that really is random! One idea for sifting parking pages that comes to my mind is using image recognition. I can easily tell when something is a parking page by looking at it, I bet you could get an ML model to do so with pretty good accuracy too.

There is a class called fast.ai [1] which I personally found to be an amazing introduction to machine learning / deep learning. The first hour and a half course gets you using their library to make an image classifier that can differentiate dog and cat breeds. I bet by simply gathering training data (sites that are and are not parking pages) and reusing the same architecture used in that first class you could train a model that does a pretty good job of it.

Once you could classify pages you could just pre-compute a large list, classify, throwaway all the parking pages, and make the remainder available to your user.

1 - https://www.fast.ai/
Great article. If Boeing won't install them and flight crews can't use them, is there anything stopping normal passengers from bringing detection equipment in their carry on luggage?
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I don't know what letter "uh" is. Wouldn't it be better to have a voice that uses correct pronunciation? I can barely understand some of what it's saying in the letter and number quizzes. I'm sure it works, but I'd find a better voice for it.
Our solar system is called Sol. "The Sol System".

Our residence and office of the leader of our country is The White House.

"Air Force" only sounds more normal than "Space Force" because most of us weren't around when it was the "US Army Air Corp".

Admittedly they could've called it something slightly cooler based off other names, like the US Cyber Command.
Aside from what other people have mentioned already, there's one more trick. The Chase Freedom Unlimited gives 1.5 points per dollar on all purchases, which can be transferred to the Reserve and spent at 1.5 cents per point. Effectively a 2.25% cash back card if you don't mind using Chase to book travel, which is among the very best.
I think we're mostly in agreement. The only thing I disagree with is that, based on the article, we are de facto in a system where paying $20 for a 5 star review is one of the rules. I base this on the fact that it's happening.
Sure. I'm a developer and also do our devops. We're baremetal. Setting up an ELK stack, log ingestion, openresty, gitlab, CI, rabbitmq, etc: no problem. Making our applications hot-deploy and HA: no problem.

When we ran PostgreSQL, I was using barman for PITR and that was fine. But getting PostgreSQL in HA? My confidence in relation to how critical that piece is? Nope. Even just trying to handle upgrades with no downtime scared me. If I had to do it, I'd look at repmgr.

The story is completely different with CockroachDB. We have 3 instances and taking down an instance (or the server it's on) for maintenance is no problem. The setup also probably couldn't be easier. Most importantly, if an instance goes down in the middle of the night: our app keeps working.
Programmers accommodating this is a deep problem, although I agree it’s one worth solving.
I definitely agree about your point and disagree that the logical conclusion of FOSS is communism, whatever even that means, but I think there is something to be said about the connection between radical leftism (anarchism, socialism, communism, etc...) and free software.

A way of understanding free software, IMO, is that working with software for which freedoms are socially limited (so-called proprietary software) towards someone else, the proprietor, robs the user of the software of freedom and creates some kind of social hierarchy that is undesirable.

Meanwhile, the basic idea of radical leftism is that working using capital for which freedoms are socially limited to the benefit of someone else robs the worker (really, if you think about it, user-of-capital) of freedom and creates an undesirable social hierarchy.

I think that there is some kind of parallel between both, and it's pretty interesting. That isn't to say that companies should use free software or develop free software from their self-interested point of view - as a company using free software you're almost in the same case as a worker, and as a company developing software it can align incentives to lead to better outcomes.
Would RHEL fall into that category?
None of it is necessary. A 20 year old LAMP stack with a few hosts will get your business to $1 billion dollars ARR. People pushing the complexity are trying to fleece big corporations and executives that don't know better.
"slide deck" seems Apple term, so I think they are more into Keynote
they are an annoyance because they are redundant, out of band, and pass the burden onto individuals who have no authority.

They are like CA Prop 65 lead warnings: useless spam that everyone ignores.
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I don't think most people consider having a reputable seller a secondary consideration. Take a look at Prime, for instance. There's literally no reason to have a Prime membership other than getting free shipping from a reputable seller.
Why don’t you tell that to everyone running Apache.
MXroute has a blogpost where he digs into this a bit. IIRC it actually gets accepted by Google immediately - but then spends 5mins in the ether inside Google before it hits a Gmail inbox. No way to tell what the delay is coming from, other than it appears to be out of our hands.

Edit: https://mxroute.com/delayed-delivery-to-gmail/
Nothing would stop them from trying it, but I think it would ultimately be a lot less effective. I think your average consumer would write a 5 star review for $20 back. I don't think your average consumer would write a 1 star review for a competitor for $20 back. Some would, but I think it would be far fewer.
Poshmark files S-1 to go public
I guess I should ask what is the smart thing to do with that money to make it more
Well, it's not all that illuminating to imagine the arbitrarily bad UX you can build with something. Why not attempt the exercise of pondering good UX you could build with it?

Native applications lack this kind of polish because all software lacks polish, not because it's a bad idea. "Can the application be improved in any way if it were to query battery life, connection strength, metered vs unmetered bandwidth, remaining disk space?" are thoughtful questions for any developer to ask, even if the answer is ultimately "No."