skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Their messenger doesn’t offer any server-side protection. In their case, a server-side party can directly access your data in cleartext—this is trivial.

I'm gonna need names.
Opinions comments welcomed and appreciated.
When I started it,i thought was a thing. Now I doubt. Opinions and comments appreciated,msg me in case you need units for free.
We keep reading this but Intel is not just CPUs... and the CPU are currentky not the best but not that bad either.
And leaking a mail (with real names) is much better?
Because one cannot compute that in a generally applicable way. It depends on details of ststems that vary from place to place. Levelized cost of energy is more constant, although not entirely so.
Ask HN: Are we ready to take our lives back?
I am privileged enough to work from home. I have isolated for a year now, wearing masks and not meeting anyone.

My day consists of making a coffee, joining the morning stand up call at 7:30 and then grinding through the day until it’s 17:00.
I leave the apartment to buy couple of beers not enough to get me wasted but enough to get me numb.

This repeats every single day. I cant get rest. At all. I am a prisoner in my apartment.Every little noise makes me realize that there is no way I can rest at home.

I have not met my parents for a year now. They say I should.That this pandemic is fake and they are not scared.

They do know this pandemic is real but dont care anymore. Staying at home all day and not meeting with anyone is not life worth living.

I had been tested for covid 20 times already. Some cheap AGs some expensive PCRs. I had to do it because the government said I had to. I never had any symptoms. Never met with anyone at all.For some tests I had to pay myself.I can still afford it. Still. But for how long?

I keep hearing how we just have to wait a little longer. How a bunch of private corporations will make this go away.

Unless maybe it wont go away because there is a new strain because we have waited too long to roll out the vaccines.

I am ready to take my life back. No matter what happens next I am not, nor my parents are,going to live like this.

Whatever it takes I am taking my life back.
> partitions inherently overlap the parent block device. You would need to carefully track exactly which portions of the device are in use, or your solution is useless (it doesn't protect /dev/sda when /dev/sda1 is in use)

I think this could be addressed by the idea of a "parent block device". So /dev/sda1 is mounted, then its parent /dev/sda would be classified as mounted, but /dev/sda2 would not be (assuming there is no partition mounted there.)

I'm sure one could work something out that would work for device-mapper, LVM, etc as well

> Secondly, the Linux kernel has a very strong backwards compatibility guarantee

What about a sysctl knob? Turn it on, you get this new behaviour, turn it off, you get the backwards compatible behaviour. Each distribution can decide what to default it to. If it defaults to off in Linus' tree, that should satisfy his backwards compatibility concerns.

> With your idea, many disk management programs will be broken.

There would need to be some escape hatch, e.g. an ioctl, to allow unsafe writes. And disk management programs would have to be patched to invoke that escape hatch. A distribution wouldn't ship the sysctl as defaulting to on until it had patched all the disk management programs in that distribution. And, if you download a third-party tool, either its developers have patched it to use that ioctl, or else you can just temporarily turn off the sysctl knob while you use it.
!important should've been --force. I remember struggling to understand what important is and why it was everywhere I looked, back in the day.
Do you realize WhatsApp privacy hasn't changed?
What do you think of this fellow's resume:

https://pjreddie.com/static/Redmon%20Resume.pdf
> a nice wrapper

Are Linux device drivers not nice enough? Hell, why couldn’t one think, for that matter, of a minimal Linux kernel as some kind of BIOS. Incidentally, we already use it as a hypervisor, so you could probably even include support for the devices you want in the hypervisor itself.
I worked briefly on a similar idea last year. The problem was to collect parallel data for translation without requiring the annotators to be bilingual. We achieved it by selecting a set of universal pictures (e.g., dog running on grass) and asking the native speakers of Hindi and English to caption it. Since the concepts in the pictures we selected were common across the languages, we were able to collect high quality data.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.11954

Slides: https://madaan.github.io/res/artifacts/pml4dc-practical-data...
Too bad the dogs sometimes get injured and are put to sleep. I've read about rats trained to sniff landmines. Probably their training is more expensive?
The Pan American Highway
I remember reading a blog post about a fake conversation between two developers about web development and one way telling the other about how "easy" it is and goes through a 5 step process of how to build their 1 page website. That was written at least 5 years ago and things have only gotten worse since then.
Non-Turing-completeness is a plausible goal if and only if you enumerate and hold up all use cases against their realization for weighing idioms vs idiosyncrasies. However, if you just can't stop extending CSS' basic mechanism of property-value assertions with ever more layout model magic, exceptions, and microsyntax, then you get the clusterfuck that is CSS today, where any semblance of intent, locality, or other cognitive aid whatsoever is lost in the written code artifact.

Drunken or not, I can't also really fathom the primordial mindset of looking at HTML (eg. SGML's already heavy attribute and element syntax infrastructure), then come up
with a completely redundant syntax out of nowhere for holding the exact same thing that went into attributes yet with weaker type checks.

The result is the write-only mess that is CSS today, unusable without CSS debuggers, inaccessible to most devs and traditional graphic designers let alone laymen, yet always insufficient for innovators, seemingly perpetuated only by folks who mistake their huge effort into learning CSS with its merit (aka Stockholm syndrome).
Poland Is Removing Flashy Ads and Banners from the Streets
If we are cherrypicking examples, here's one from the time when Cisco reluctantly opensourced a router's firmware because GPL, "Linksys continues to earn millions of dollars per year selling an 11-year-old product without ever changing its specs or design... That product really is what made the company." https://thenewstack.io/the-open-source-lesson-of-the-linksys...
For me, it started as more of a reverse-Christmas situation - if I go to sleep, the next thing I know I'll be having to got to work and I really don't want that!

Which sometimes lead to the strange situation of going to bed earlier on weekends.
I see it as an attempt at self reflection...
How well/fast does ffmpeg's x11grab work? I've got a hand-rolled solution for Linux screen recording that can do 120+fps, but it's very brittle.
Perhaps the most annoying thing about this article is the built-in defense that "if you don't get it, you're a Micheal." I see many people in the comments making comments like this.
SBCL is an implementation of Common Lisp, to be precise. There is also CCL, or Clozure Common Lisp, which has the best support for macOS.
This would kind of weaken the argument, because there's no way that Michael Scott would ever come up with a codified analysis of human class and interaction and put it on the internet. (It seems like a thoroughly Dwight move, though?)
So basically what we needed was a different email client?
That I can see. Or he would fixate on the fact that someone else does know how to use them and get competitive about it, trying and failing hard to show that he's also worldly.
Have you tried more traditional textbooks? I understand there's a desire for an easy-to-use interactive app, but I've never come across anything remotely as good as a textbook like Minna no Nihongo (I used this book 20 years ago when I started learning Japanese - maybe I'm biased?).

You can see sample pages here:
https://omgjapan.com/products/minna-no-nihongo-shokyu-1-hons...

It is 100% in Japanese, but it has a companion book with translated grammar notes if needed. The majority of the book is excellent content in the form of dialogs and readings designed for beginners. I suppose the exercises work better in a classroom setting...
This is a really good point. However, there are still successes that I'd never have expected. Jetbrains is a good example. Who would have thought that an IDE could be sold when there are adequate ones for free?

There are also many many smaller niches where software can be sold because there isn't adequate developer interest to create OSS. One example is this: https://querix.com/products/lycia (not a customer, just ran across their product).
New Horizons Spacecraft Answers Question: How Dark Is Space?
I've seen a few developers get pushed into a management due to their leadership on engineering teams, and do an okay job in that role, but return to development after a year or less. One of them told me he recognized he had reached the level of his incompetence and did not want to be That Guy. I suspect that was true for some of the others as well, and I wish it was more common.
How are the touch pads on system76 laptops?

I’m pleased with just about every aspect of running Ubuntu on a dell XPS except that one.
> The goal of open source is to create a market for the product that is 10x or 100x bigger than a proprietary product would have. You won't ever capture 100% of the market. But if you capture a fraction of that larger market you still come out far ahead of the proprietary product in which you capture close to 100% of the market.

The point of the post is that even if you capture a huge portion of the market, monetising it is very difficult, and profitability potential is the main reason you invest.

While open source databases struggle to be profitable, MS SQL Server and Oracle are both very profitable. Why? Strong product-market fit - these products are heavily targeted at enterprise who are willing to pay money, and there is no 'free roll your own' solution to avoid paying the licence fees.
This is amazing. I've been wanting to run this for years.

Fantastic piece of computing history.
So did FTP over e-mail. The tech evolves. UUENcode sucked, btw. And the NZB-based file aggregation and directories served up were pure trash.
I was hoping for some payoff, like if it was possible for me to somehow hop over to the elite ladder and ascend to the level of barbarian.
prolonged season

Greece
I love OpenBSD but it's not very good for professional work, especially involving ml/scientific computing. No CUDA, and performance is pretty bad all around. It is superbly designed and probably the highest quality Unix around. It's unfortunate that Linux ever gained traction.
You’ll probably find that these kind of systems don’t have just a single ‘New Bot Account’ detector, but a tangle of multiple subsystems that automatically temp-lock accounts based on various heuristics written by different people at different times.

A new account might incorrectly trigger an account lock due to signals for proxy detection, another lock for a specific 2017 bot wave with Romanian IP addresses and a third generic fake account lock. That, in turn, triggers a recidivism threshold that sets off a permanent disable.

Working ‘at scale’ means that developers who unravel old code to fix a use-blocking problem for 5000 users can be considered astronomically less productive than someone who fixes a minor problem for 100,000+.
Australian Pinot Noir sometimes benefits, not always. I avoid french wines because the ones I can afford here in OZ either have bred, which I hate or, are simply disappointing.

Chilled Gamay is a great way to end a hot day.
WAITS is a great name for an OS.
> The biggest benefit was being able to show people the code when they suspected shenanigans.

This is very interesting to me. How was that a benefit?
yes, but you said
> intolerance to any deviation is inherent to any society or organization.

While I agree that there is a certain amount of homogenity inherent to any grouping (after all, a group has to have something in common to be a group), I don't think that implies that it must be intolerant to deviation.

Historically, I'd agree that societies, etc have been more homogenous, but I don't agree that it is an inherent quality.
Possibly but would bonuses be adjusted too?

I do think the down payment is more difficult for many people today. The solution to this was to allow less than 20% down. But then the borrower has to pay PMI until they have 20% equity. There are tax rebates for first time buyers too.

People need more discipline in saving and investing and looking for smaller places in areas with less demand. Get into the market and build equity and scale up over time.
I bet you could write a translator to convert PDP-10 code to x86 code or something.

You could also probably rewrite it manually.
This (the OP) is absolutely not a joke.
But they (almost) are! They just have a more involved review process, requiring sign offs from many more people (from a diverse group of representative stakeholders) given what’s at stake. A lot of the process/bureaucracy comes from the scale & scope of what’s being managed.
Yes well-being rises with income, yes it's past $75,000 per year.

Yes it still rises at a significant rate past $75,000.

Yes this was already known before this study.

Yes our intuition was always correct, before scientists said it wasn't, than said it was to a level, then corrected themselves, then now gaslight us into thinking they haven't already corrected themselves.
And I've seen it for the first time. I think it's beneficial if it gets reposted (as long as there is sufficient time in between) as it will reach more readers.

Through the short lifetime of entries on the first page, only a small part of HN readers will likely see it.
If I had to guess, no, barrier is much like VNC in that it's expected you have a ssh wrapper set up with public/private key authentication.

I've only used it between macos and linux machines, so that's easy. An example of the very tiny shell script that I use for VNC-over-SSH to a remote machine.

In which the VNC daemon on the remote machine only listens on its own localhost, and I use ssh to form the tunnel then use the vnc client on my workstation to connect to localhost:5902 to access it.

ssh -v -L 5902:127.0.0.1:5901 -C -N -f -l myusername -i ~/.ssh/my_ssh_id remotehostname.net

echo "localhost port 5902 for the VNC client to remotehostname.net"

I actually think this is better because for a very small open source project like barrier, that might literally be developed by one person, the workload and time/effort to be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN you've implemented the crypto libraries correctly is a lot of work and worry.

Whereas if you use ssh you can be fairly certain that it's been battle tested by a huge number of people who have a lot more time and resources than yourself.
To be clear, I don't typically have any issue with corporate use of my code. That's why I chose MIT and other permissive licenses.

That said, what I had in mind when I licensed my code were start-ups and small+medium businesses. It didn't occur to me that behemoths like Amazon might stripmine open source and fail to contribute back. Even though the permissive licenses permit this kind of behavior, it seems exploitative.

Additionally, as the GP mentions, we're at the point where it's primarily massive tech companies who can afford to develop ambitious open source projects.

Far more importantly, it also failed to occur to me that tech companies would become the new railroads -- massive monopolies that dominate society, the economy, culture, politics, etc. When I started in open source, Microsoft had recently been slapped down by antitrust regulators, there was no social media, and the tech ecosystem - particularly the open source ecosystem - was much, much different. It was more democratic, egalitarian, and balanced.

Granted, as far as I know, it has been small and medium sized companies that have used my own open source code. I'm not aware of any of the Big 5 using it (my most popular libaries have been superceded by newer/better projects anyway).

Nonetheless, I would have been more wary of philosophically supporting permissive licenses had I fully realized the implications.
Pretty ironic take given that the site you're writing the comment on was founded by pg writing a bunch of essays breaking the world down into "nerds" vs "jocks" with VCs being "high school girls". pg decided to write those down rather than share them over a third beer and it seems to have spawned a bunch of billion dollar companies.

The author refers to michael o church who had much clearer takes on the subject, not-withstanding a lot of other craziness that undermined some of his interesting opinions. He certainly was one of the first people to publicly call out that companies like Google and VC-backed startups spend a LOT of effort on PR that they are "social good" despite being as ruthlessly money-making oriented as any conventional companies they claimed not to be. He coined one of my favorite sayings that "Silicon Valley is just Wall St for people who can't wake up early." Those takes are a little less novel in 2021 now that everyone realizes how morally bankrupt companies like Google are but credit's due where it's due so I'd recommend checking out his old blog posts.
I believe America has 4 Great Games, with 4 traditional city centers: Knowledge (Boston), Money (New York), Fame (Hollywood), Power (DC). (Arguably there is a fifth, Tech (Silicon Valley), which is Knowledge, Money & Power, all rolled together, and in that order).

The Office only takes place inside a small, mundane part of the Money game, and I think the middle ladder in the OP's post muddles Money and Knowledge. Note that all the games are used as backdrops, Power being the more usual pick: all legal/police/crime content inhabits that space.

Its also important to note that the Office takes place in the UK and America, winners of the second world war, and so the ones where the Games have grown in size and complexity monotonically for over 100 years, and the players are fat, rich, and lazy (characteristic of late stage capitalism). The lack of external stressor (e.g. competition, frugal clients, and so on) is what enables the company, and its employees, to be detached from reality and still survive despite these costly distractions. This detachment is the inevitable cost of great wealth and long periods of uninterrupted success, and is the mechanism by which large scale structures, like civilizations, regress to the mean.
> Contrasted with facebook (or a twitter with groups), if you join a group of motorcyclists, there's little to no risk that you'll be excluded from the Scooter group of-which you're already a member because a few bikers got into a spat with scoot-gang, nor will you be excluded from any of the groups that get along well with scoot-gang.

Are you sure? On Reddit, membership of one subreddit often results in bans from others, and Reddit is centralized.
Netflix delivers 'studio-quality' sound upgrade for Android viewers
I really enjoyed this comment, because it managed to say both, "I take joy from other peoples suffering", and "I'm not a sociopath, you are."
The original EFI spec very much did extend that abstraction. You can do a lot in an EFI environment if the hardware plays ball: network, disk, video etc

UEFI, sadly, added support for raw x86 option ROMs, to some extent casting us back into the "old" world.
See my other comment in this thread for my answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25896907
Cars seem to have a lot in common actually: satellites are "at rest" most of the time, it just that this rest could be a hazard as some point; but a car parked badly, around a sharp turn or in the middle of the highway would be a hazard as well. Cars can collide too, they can leave debris, which can become dangerous themselves for other cars, or pollute the nature around from leaks, ...

The only reason I'd say cars are in a "better" situation is simply because we can clean up. We don't do it yet with satellites.
Intriguing point. I'd add that the "if you don't get it" phrase seems a lot more like a Michael Scott character's take on things (meanwhile--do they really get it? Or is there more than one perspective to get?). :-)
Thanks, I did reply back when I noticed it.
They seem to be collecting other people's posts on the topic at the moment.

My main concern is the misconception that federated protocol provide ambiguous "security" that is:

> Safer social media experience https://joinmastodon.org/

There's noting safe or secure inherent to federated social media.
You’re overlooking a key thing there though. You’re assuming every hack is a targeted one. And that simply isn’t the case.

Whenever a new vulnerability is discovered for WP (or any popular suite, be it a shop like Magento or message board like phpBB) you then get hordes of bots that trawl the internet looking for sites that run out of date versions of said software just for the purpose of hacking it. Even search engines become tools for bots to hunt out these insecure platforms.

I’m not someone who advocates security through obscurity however the vast majority of WP et al hacks are not targeted and thus a home grown CMS technically wouldn’t fall foul in the same way.

HOWEVER please don’t twist my words into saying that home grown CMSs are “more” secure. I’m making no such claim what-so-ever (and nor did I in my previous post when you want off on a soliloquy about how I apparently suggested that — I did no such thing!). My statement is and was only that any popular CMS will be a security nightmare. That point is very much true.

This is why I also brought up the point about WAF and additional policies on your admin path. The former buys you a little more time with updates (assuming you’re with a reputable WAF that supports the CMS platform you’re hiding against) because they can identify suspicious requests (ie ones that look like they’re triggering a known vulnerability) and simply block those requests from your site (technically the WAF is a reverse proxy with some firewalling, request heuristics, etc).

As for the point about admin policies: if you can IP whitelist who gets access to /admin then that saves you a lot of pain early on. But that’s obviously not always practical. However there are plenty of other ways to harden access.

Disclaimer: in a former life I used to repair and harden hacked CMSs, shops like Magento, etc.
I don't think it's true worldwide. I'm not poor but I don't have the money to buy solar panels and all the equipment necessary to make that work.

It's sad because my place (in Brazil) is blessed by the sun 12 months a year and I feel sorry fot not being able to use that energy.
See also by the same professor CFD Python: 12 Steps to Navier-Stokes: https://github.com/barbagroup/CFDPython
WOW this is huge, thanks so much!
Before the advent of modern medicine, not all babies in western societies were not officially named at birth either.

I’m guessing baptisms figured in this too, but maybe who knows more about baptisms can chime in.
Is clubhouse suitable for deaf people? Eg auto transcription?
Why understanding blue flowers is crucial for bees
Tge reason for the common instruments is that early jazz musicians used instruments discardes by marching bands.