skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Giving the login application its own copy of these services...

It’s much easier to have a lock/login screen that ties closely with the rest if the OS, but that’s not an actual requirement. As an extreme example Windows could split things so you have the login screen and the rest of windows as effectively two completely different VM’s that get swapped between.

I am not saying that’s a good idea, but Microsoft is building the OS from the ground up they have a lot of options.
How much of this is affected just by "cloud weather"? It seems like network latency and some of these other measures would be influenced by adjacent workloads that happen to be running in your region, zone, facility, rack, or machine.
It's almost like something interesting was happening in early 2020...

The same graph for the rest of the year.
http://www.cipa.jp/stats/documents/e/dw-202011_e.pdf

Camera sales are lower than previous years. AI pictures look unnerving; but it's definitely the way things will go.
> Krypton is built on top of an end-to-end verified and encrypted architecture. This means zero trust. We, Krypt.co, cannot access your keys or see where you're authenticating. The keys only live in the Krypton app on your phone.

Sounds great, except one of the "ends" is likely the Secure Enclave (iOS) or Keystore (Android), over which the user has basically no control. So while the architecture might require "zero trust" of Krypt.co, it still requires complete trust of Apple or Google.

Perhaps completely trusting one of those companies is already the reality for nearly everyone, in terms of using a mobile device to access online data, but hopefully WebAuthn-supporting sites don't put extra restrictions on the devices you can use, via the "feature" of attestation:

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2019/01/01/zkattestation.html
nice read!
Naah, not really. I've done that emacs exercise countless of times over a few decades and now I use vscode. I don't feel like I'm missing much.
You should take a look at her previous run-ins with the law. Definitely an unstable individual who has a history of victimizing others.
when I pay taxes it's not on my profits but on my income. should be the same here.
Rock Pi X (x86) vs. Raspberry Pi 4 (ARM)
I don't think the degrees you've cited necessarily make one a data scientist. I think doing data scientist work makes you a data scientist. So it may well be best to consider her a data scientist based on her current work or even if it is more of a hobby, even if your degree argument isn't the one I'd use.

Nevertheless, Ms. Jones was paid as a web developer by the state, not as a data scientist, and if she was publishing data she thought was important at the expense of data the state's paid data-scientists thought were important, she had to be fired.

What if Ms. Jones was taking advantage of her position as a web developer and publishing her work as a hobbyist data scientist that showed masks are ineffective at the expense of the data science work of official state data scientists who were saying they are likely to be helpful? I'd still consider her a data scientist, I just would want the state to be able to fire her.
GCP is also far easier to use than the others. Everything from the organization/project hierarchy, g-suite user IAM permissions, simple primitives that can be assembled to your specifications, and web-based console access to everything makes it much simpler to deal with.

The performance is a nice bonus.
Yeah; some sibling comments here say Covid stats are difficult to interpret, but cite phenomena (non random samples, false positives, conflation of population and sample statistics, etc) that should be covered by any reasonable introductory statistics course.

In the US, that’s first or second year undergrad territory. Overseas, it’s often covered in high school.

It’s particularly depressing that science reporters regularly get these things wrong.

I can’t imagine what (lack of) credentials are necessary to land such a job, but I often wonder if a basic understanding of statistics is a disqualifying credential.
Actually, Xscreensaver doesn't fail safe either. If it crashes, the same issue will occur. I don't know why the post implies otherwise. Jwz says it himself in the linked article:

> But if xscreensaver crashes, the screen is unlocked, and our attacker is now logged in as the person who locked their screen.

EDIT: To clarify I meant that jwz' blog post is the one which implies otherwise.
If a cop willfully lies on a warrant they are generally civilly liable. I am by no means saying that no one in the criminal justice systems acts unethically. But if a judge signs a warrant for someone's arrest there is almost always good reason to suspect they committed a crime.
He can be very weaselly on these things. It's nice that he hasn't lost his general support for free speech -- as some people have done all too willingly. But the disemvoweling is definitely born of fascist impulses.
I think income is a proxy for something like "financial freedom" (which is presumably the eventual goal for why we want higher incomes).

Having an income of $60k while having a dependent is very different than when not having a dependent. I seems correct to say that without a dependent, you're in the top 1% of the world's wage earners (with respect to your financial freedom); while if you have a dependent, your income is no longer fully yours - and you are no longer in the top 1% of the world's wage earners.
Gitui is a fast terminal Git interface
Els Keynote: This old Lisp (2018)
Funny, it was the exact reason why I switched to duckduckgo for 99% of my searches. The day they did it, I switched because I had enough. I remember some intensively discussed post on HN.
> My suggestion would be to have a license that makes the software free to use for anyone and companies with a maximum net profit of (say) $1M.

This is how you get a million pointless subsidiaries and/or Holloywood accounting.
Yes, lowest cost is a value. But there are probably 5 or 6 cereals at the lowest price point at your local grocery store. Which one do you pick, and why? Whatever the answer is, reveals your values. (Even "the one at eye level" reveals the value of minimum energy expenditure)

> If I can afford it (free is better!) and it does the job, I use it.

OK so one value is clear. But there are literally tens of software options that fit into those requirements. So why do you pick gdocs over libreoffice, or your workplace MS365 subscription?

Every choice you make is determined by your values, whether you're conscious of it or not. Very often, people think they hold one set of values (eg "i'm a vegetarian because I value animal life") but that is belied by their actions (eg wearing leather soled shoes). You can guess which one is a better indicator of their real values.
Yeah, that sounds like an excellent idea. I would also add punishments (social media bans to start with, perhaps fines and even prison time for extremely serious cases) for spreading obvious lies.
I always laugh at people who press issues like this. It's as if they never prodded authority in high school. In high school, typically the worst case scenario is you get detention or suspension. In the real world, you get sued or go to jail.

It makes me glad I did bureaucratic rebellion then. I learned quickly that the powers that be will never concede to you, people quickly disperse or disown you the moment you need help fighting something, and ideals are worthless things fighting for short of endless mass mobs demanding it.
Fidonet operated exactly the way you describe. I recall in 90th I used to run quite a large Fidonet node. I was responsible for my points' (users) behaviour - when someone violated rules by misbehaving in an echo conference it effected me as a boss node in first place, I had to execute the ban and brainwash negligent user. What's more, I had to introduce new and old users to fidonet policy and its updates regularily to make sure they understand the rules. This all worked pretty well and was widely accepted. Fidonet was incredibly popular in 90th.

I think we may create a similar network basing on same old ESMTP, what we need is just to agree on rules and their enforcement. Also we need to secure inter-node communications.
> Now they let them out on social media where they can find other ill-informed people and reinforce one another.

People have been able to share incredibly stupid ideas with high efficiency even before the social media.
(also, the flagging of nix23’s comment is way out of line.)
Compared to many I am a relatively new emacs user, back when I began programming I let myself get intimidated by the scary stories told about Emacs and Vim configuration. Turns out a huge emacs configuration is not needed, in fact I notice my emacs config actually started to become smaller over the recent times. It's hard to express how much I value emacs now and the only regret I have is that I did not give it a chance earlier when I still exclusively used "modern" editors and IDEs.

Another aspect I see rarely mentioned is the emacs evil[1], it basicelly provides a full vi layer, it's much more than your average "vi keybindings" plugin.
Emacs vs Vim? Not a question I have to give any thought when I can use both and switch between them without much effort.

[1]: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
No mention of user swappable batteries or repairability. :(
What a coincidence to see this here! I decided just this week to try to get back into listening to audiobooks, and this morning I was sitting here having my usual angst about the Amazon ecosystem and looking at the options. I can’t help wondering if this is one of those things where I think about an old song I haven’t heard in years and suddenly they’re playing everywhere, making me feel I somehow manifested it, but the truth is that the reason I thought of it in the first place is that they had started playing it everywhere because of a wave of zeitgeist. In this case, I can’t help wondering if something about lockdown or current-events burnout is causing folks to want to switch from podcasts to longer form media less filled with hot takes, which is sort of where I’m at.

Another interesting thing on this topic is that Audible now allows signing up within the iOS app, which I don’t believe was possible before. Im not sure if the reason for that has been reported anywhere, but I assume that means one of a couple of things: They have struck a deal to reduce Apple’s cut (seems unlikely), they’re taking a loss to try to solidify their domination of the market, or maybe some combination of taking a loss plus their new business model which involves a lot of cheap “Amazon Originals” content. There seems to be a rush right now between Spotify and Amazon to become the next Netflix of podcasting (which is to say, a closed, subscription-based ecosystem of exclusive content). I don’t think that’s going to be a great situation, but I don’t get the sense they’re super interested in my opinion on that.
https://www.khou.com/mobile/article/news/nation-world/trump-...

Read the transcript. He actively exhorts his supporters to fight for the Constitution "today", exhorts Mike Pence to "do the right thing", telling them to fuck the media in general and in general inciting hatred against everything, with direct calls for encouraging them to "stop the steal" and put the pressure on Congress and Mike Pence - actively encouraging them to force Pence to use his power to call for a recertification.
There are many legitimate situations in which a login domain is changed and a password manager no longer works. So then you manually open the password manager, look for the password, copy+paste, and save the new entry.

How can you be completely confident that this isn't an attacker?
Because the burden is on the State and we're under no obligation to help them. They're job is not supposed to be easy.
Do you really believe most people don’t use USB-A devices anymore? Even the iPhone 11 is USB-A and that was the newest until like three months ago lol
I had one twenty years ago, a Java Ring. Apparently they are still being made today.
No it isn't. She was paid as a web developer by the state. Simultaneously, the state has actual data scientists it was paying to look at this data and provide analysis.

I'm open to the idea she was and is a data scientist, nevertheless the state was not paying her for that. It was paying her to publish on official state website(s) data and analysis provided by the state's official, paid data scientists.
>I think doing data scientist work makes you a data scientist

Then we just hope you Surgeon is not like that, and has at least a degree in Medicine.
Lots of great discussion here already. My own perspective is that it depends on both your goals and your source of funding. If your goal is to disrupt an existing industry, or create something brand new then speed is more important than frugality. If you are trying to create a business that solves existing problems but in a cheaper / better way (and nothing wrong with that) then frugality is more important as staying power is crucial.

In fact, staying power is IMO the most critical determinant of success. If you can stay in business then you can learn from your mistakes and pivot. In that case the discussion between frugality and speed is all about calculating your staying power, which goes back to your source of funding :)
Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 62% in 2020
PADD is the start trek term, not the word pad. It’s an acronym.

Very different from iPad.
"Designed (and used primarily) in California"
Coding Coach [1] makes this simple: folks who want to be a mentor have posted their contact details, you reach out and see if it’s a match. Do read their mentorship guidelines [2].

[1] https://mentors.codingcoach.io/
[2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zKCxmIh0Sd4aWLiQncICOGm6...
yes, and if a cop murders a civilian they are (supposed to be) liable, but innumerable news stories over the past... long time have shown that not to be the case far too often.
There are so many gotchas in computer security. Isn't there a way to verify that a simple algorithm can have only prespecified valid final states (aka {authenticated && allowed login}, {not authenticated && disallowed login})?
my goodness. I appreciate your personalized take on music theory for its iconoclasm but would never in a million years subject any of my students to learning this beautiful topic in this way. Unless they were perhaps computer scientists / programmers who were having trouble with this material using more conventional, time-tested approaches. But I have yet to see that.

for anyone else reading this just know that music theory in study and application can be approached in a much more intuitive, less “algebraic” manner.

(nothing wrong with algebra...)
Apple tries sneaking in iCloud syncing regularly, Adobe did it to me with their cloud storage as well. Sadly, behavior like that seems ok with product managers.
The primary reason a company usually goes public is to offer a path to liquidity (cash) to its shareholders (mostly employees and investors) via selling shares on an open market. There are other reasons, but this is typically the primary one. As mentioned in another reply, GitLab already has investors and a board.
Wait, didn't HN pronounce GCP as dead in pretty much every content thread about clouds? What's going on?
falcon? to my knowledge nasa has only partially funded cargo and crewed dragon, falcon 1 and 9 were developed through private funding and became profitable and stable before nasa even got their hands in the pot.
Android doesn’t look like this kind of exact knockoff, but somehow it’s usable.
Grammy-winning music producer Phil Spector dies of natural causes
I can't help but think this leak is bad for Apple's Mac business. It will be a while before these potentially superior Macs will be available, cannibalizing the sales of the existing line. I'm looking to replace my laptop soon and these potential features make me comfortable waiting and seeing.

I hope that they would make it chargeable from either the Magsafe or the USB-C, like the Surface.
Unintentional ensemble learning :)
expect them to drop KYC for other transactions as soon as the technology becomes available to do so
Sometimes people do not enjoy things that are safe bets for others. They are not wrong for having those preferences, and shouldn't need an adjustment. Conformity is not a virtue, IMO, and it's not productive to get hung up on it. Networking and developing a rapport with people can be done lots of ways. Everyone can afford to cut the "weirdos" some slack in how they approach it, just as the inverse is true.
Cobalt is used in some colors. Many oil paints are filled with things that can kill you in large doses. Bob Ross likely died from inhaling paint thinner fumes.

It just comes with the territory oddly enough...
I essentially treat them as the same thing and will switch back and forth as one gets a regression or the other fixes an old regression. My config works perfectly in both and frankly I can't tell the difference 99.999% of the time.
Odd headline, that. Like “natural causes” were the last thing anyone expected.
This seems like a really really obvious honeypot. I mean a nuclear power plant with an internet facing PLC??? I mean probably even haX0r bois aren't that stupid? Maybe they are it didn't seem like he got any real hits from a malevolent hacker.
I think scientific journals and other infrastructures that have the potential to greatly impact society need to put defense mechanisms in place for bad actors going forward.
Use a strongly (or stronger-) types language. In C++, use switch blocks instead of if statements, combined with enums (or better yet, enum class) to get exhaustibility checking (warnings at least) from the compiler.

More correctly, model the entire thing as a state machine and use strong typing to prevent inadvertent or undesirable code flow changes that bypass the points of entry you are intended to use. But none of that helps here because they purposely added something that escapes the normal control flow for accessibility reasons, and instead of designing it as a part of the locked-down system, they used an escape to load the regular, unauthenticated accessibility apps for reuse.
This makes sense. When I was reading the history of Intel vs Motorola it seemed like Motorola had better chip architecture but Intel won the market and then of course pivoted from there.

Current state of intel is an entirely different matter.
Auditing PassRole: A Problematic Privilege Escalation Permission
Evil is rarely mentioned? I guess we hang out in different parts of the internet.
It’s just one company.

There's no private Chinese companies, only CCP subsidiaries. Comparisons with e.g. Facebook are moot.

At this point, comments like this are plain disingenuous, or purposefully misleading.
I'm really tired of seeing this stupid argument that SpaceX is government funded. The entire aerospace industry is government funded because the government has huge amounts of money and offers large contracts to many companies. By this measure, Palantir and many younger startups are also government funded. It's a meaningless statement. Bash SpaceX for their work culture and other issues all you want, but their business model is just fine.
Mods this is obviously a nix23 alt account which was already flagged in multiple places by mods for spamming flame bait. Both accounts post in the same places regularly.

But I’ll bite. The point of providing an example is to show how there can be unobvious effects that are specific to the medical field (and isn’t as simple as cases per day). It takes Doctors and statisticians working together to interpret this info correctly. And no not al the effects are covered in stats101 despite how the freshman may protest.
> "Parler had no moderation!" and "Parler wouldn't moderate!" are clearly untrue. If the complaint is "not enough moderation" that could be legit.

Has anyone been saying otherwise? I've always heard it reported that violent/bigoted posts stayed up too long, thus leading to the platform being awash in them. Not that there's literally zero moderation, but just too little.

Parler's own marketing works against their reputation here, since they liked to talk up being a 'free speech app', which implies a more 'anything goes' attitude towards moderation.

> Parler notes 3 times AWS complained about specific messages and Parler removed all of them within 24 hours each time, some within a few hours and each time AWS noted they were satisfied.

I mean c'mon man, that's just not great reasoning. Of course they're going to quickly remove the things AWS specifically points out to them. The real issue is how quick they are to remove rule-breaking content in general.

A better test would be AWS employees or whoever noting rule-breaking content themselves, then seeing how long it takes Parler to remove them. Or simply seeing how common rule-breaking content is to start with.
John Carmack admitted a while back that he's not much of a power user when it comes to text editors.

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1302651878065475584
In app purchases are most likely a result of the deal that Amazon and Apple struck earlier this year[0].

0: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/1/21203294/amazon-prime-vide...
HN seemed to be pro prop 22 (with many dissenting voices), it will be interesting to see the impact this law has over time.

My suspicion is that it won't be good for workers, but there certainly are many who disagreed with me.
So the takeaway from your statement is that entrepreneurial success is akin to playing Roulette? That's awfully cynical, enough to put off even trying.
Blogging – A Critical Part of Your Web Business Strategy
Google, like AWS and Azure, is 'only pay for what you use'. Can anyone tell me if there is a way to put limits in? Or to choose a 20/50/100 dollar per month plan?
I use Emacs, but I like the polish of VSCode too.

Emacs is a portable programming platform and once you learn it, it's so easy to program that it's trivial to create mini applications with a text/keyboard interface to get things done or quickly automate recurring tasks. (Those who can create VScode plugins and don't know emacs, have no idea how convoluted creating a vscode plugin is, and how trivial it is in emacs).

Even if I happen to do something via VSCode, I still use Emacs for Org, Magit, etc. and also as the above mentioned programming platform, because I found these mini apps with key/text interface help a lot with everyday tasks.
I would say frugality is very underrated. It's also not just about saving money. Reducing complexity in your operations (saving time) is arguably more important. Every purchasing decision we make at our 7-person company usually passes through me at some level, and the first question I always ask (in my head) is:

"Would I spend this capital if it were my own money?"

If I answer yes, then it is an automatic approval. Examples of this being petty cash expenditures like one-time licenses for software tools, or very-low-cost on-going services (<$50/m).

If I answer no, then I usually have to engage in a conversation with other stakeholders in the business to build an understanding of how the expense will add value to our business over the long term.

What I like to try and do is push all purchasing decisions into the trivial camp if at all feasible. Outsourcing to 3rd parties is the most obvious way to do this. E.g. instead of hosting your own git repositories on your own servers, look at using Git[Hub/Lab] public/enterprise. This can take a $10k+ capex and diffuse it out into a monthly concern that is lightyears easier to account for and change over time. The challenge is making sure that you aren't outsourcing your key value drivers to 3rd parties. Compliance & industry fit are also a consideration here. Developing some things in house can potentially save you a ridiculous amount of money depending on the specific problem you are trying to solve. And, in-house development will ultimately contribute to a far more important basis of value - your company's intellectual property.