skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this actually in reach for realistic attackers?

Like let's say you're a network admin of a college with conservative religious views, and you want to see if anyone in the dorms is watching "immoral" content. You probably can just intercept an entire unencrypted session and replay it on your machine and see what it was. But you don't really have the funding or access to expertise to develop a side channel attack yourself, and there are no off-the-shelf devices that will do this for you, are there?

Encryption is likely the difference between your management saying "Show me what the kids are watching" and "This isn't worth assigning our network admin to spend half a year on effectively a cryptography research problem."

(Incidentally, encryption may also be what allows a sympathetic network admin to refuse an order from their management, which is also worth considering in your threat model.)

I think it's true that if you had either the resources of one of the richest handful of countries in the world or access to some talented grad students etc., you could do it. But if you're even a non-rich country (like one of the many small countries with moralistic governments that censor the internet) it seems harder, and if the goal is spying on what people watch, it's unlikely that people talented enough to do it will find this a problem they're happy to volunteer their time to solve.

(This is a genuine question - the attack might be much easier than I think!)
Juno maps water ice across northern Ganymede
I don't think he should be immune to prosecution or above laws in any extraordinary way, to clarify. It seems from the article that due to covid there have been delays, but I assume he will face trial or settlement from the US sooner or later. I just think this particular set of charges seems to be lacking the level of evidence and merit we would want for something of their magnitude.
Lovely - now when you get in a car accident, your teammates get to be upset by losing you and have to reverse engineer the mess you left. Hope you don't plan to ever take vacations either - you're too important to leave.
Also, some parts of switzerland are geography more south Europe than others,: depending on which side of the Alps you are, things can be quite different climatically. I grew up in Ticino; for all intents and purposes climatically it's like the rest of northern italy.
We have been on a different timeline since 2009.
Building something in 100 hours that satisfies a class of problems but will only see use once is definitely not smart. It's called taking advantage of your employer to satisfy your own curiosity. Do that in your free time of your job is not one where that solution will see millions of uses (meaning you are not working for - depending on decade we are talking - Bell Labs, IBM, Microsoft, Amazon etc.).

If you are that good but work at a regular company, build an awesomely good script that is maintainable by even a mediocre programmer that comes after you and spend the other 55 minutes of that hour doing the next task. Then go home when everyone else goes for lunch without anyone noticing because you did the work of 2 people already anyway. If you have a good boss they won't care and give you awesome life work balance that you definitely would not get at Bell Lab, IBM, Microsoft or Amazon because they know how to exploit your drive and passion for their own good. No you don't make enough money to get that time of your life back.
Transparent Wood Composites [1] "are novel wood materials which have up to 90% transparency and higher mechanical properties than wood itself". This latest paper Solar-assisted fabrication of large-scale, patternable transparent wood [2] describes a technique that brings this material one step closer to production scale:

> Here, we report a method to produce optically transparent wood by modifying the wood’s lignin structure using a solar-assisted chemical brushing approach. This method preserves most of the lignin to act as a binder, providing a robust wood scaffold for polymer infiltration while greatly reducing the chemical and energy consumption as well as processing time. The obtained transparent wood (~1 mm in thickness) demonstrates a high transmittance (>90%), high haze (>60%), and excellent light-guiding effect over visible wavelength. Furthermore, we can achieve diverse patterns directly on wood surfaces using this approach, which endows transparent wood with excellent patternability. Combining its efficient, patternable, and scalable production, this transparent wood is a promising candidate for applications in energy-efficient buildings.

This same group has previously described A Clear, Strong, and Thermally Insulated Transparent Wood for Energy Efficient Windows [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_wood_composites

[2] https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/5/eabd7342

[3] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adfm.2019075...
In my case, I was generally happy with how my parents raised us, looking back as an adult, and with the differences in how they approached my adolescent years and my sister's. I saw that my parents' relationship was challenged and ultimately strengthened by the challenge of raising both boys and girls. That strengthened my confidence in my ability to raise children with my wife while preserving and strengthening our marriage, and some small challenges have been eased by observing some of my parents' specific successes and failures. I don't know if I would have divorced had I been an only child, of course.
https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Monthly-Counts-of-Deaths-by-Select...

Right now, covid is the leading cause of death. It wasn't the case in 2020, but now, it is.

For the "roughly doubles", it is, as I said a rough idea in a high income country, something I forgot to mention. It is probably less overall but not by a huge amount. It is relatively consistent with a 1% IFR. It is age dependent but surprisingly not by that much, simply because older people are more likely to die of any cause.

> How many people even knows what chance it is they will die this year?

That question is meaningless. The nature of probabilities is that you don't know. For example, if you are playing Russian roulette, just before you press the trigger, you can estimate your chances of death quite accurately to be 1/6. But there is no intrinsic value to that number. To someone who can see the bullet in front of the hammer, it is closer to 100%, and to someone who knows the gun is jammed, it is closer to 0%.
That's because of some lobbying by the meat industry, not out of a concern for the consumer.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/16/eu-ban-v...
It's good enough for a time until a competitor comes in with better software and you go bankrupt due to unable to compete on price and usability.
Golden Era are (were? I do hope they are still around) doing something with tofu and wheat gluten.

The preparation is more involved than your basic 'throw it in a blender' seitan steak, but the result is totally worth it. You can get really fulfilling textures and flavours, and quite a variety, to boot.
Not only this, but very few people even ask the simple question, how do I become a better software engineer.

The four quadrants of competence applies.

Q1. Unconscious Incompetence.
Q2. Conscious Incompetence.
Q3. Conscious competence.
Q4. Unconscious Competence.

Most people never leave Q1 phase, just muddling through their career and stagnate or burn out.

It takes lot of effort to jump from Q1 to Q2 and become aware how difficult things are in reality. Some take effort to become better and these types will usually succeed over time.

Lot of senior level people end up in Q3 and it's comfortable zone to be in. But, it takes more significant effort to jump to Q4, where they can gain additional pull to be able to lead and make significant more money.

It's significant journey and the timescale is not linear, it's logarithmic in some situations and extremely long in other situations.
Unless the car is intended to be completely autonomous, it presumably supports non-autonomous driving, and therefore should have a freaking physical turn signal control.

If it's intended to be totally autonomous, why does it even have a steering wheel?
Canada. Thank you, and have a great weekend!
Scrum doesn't matter. Are you working for someone that can do your job better than you? Are you learning new things? If not, go somewhere else.
But procreation-related-statistics only tell the story of one aspect of a persons life.

A divorce can be new start, and life has much more to offer than ‘choosing your mate’
I appreciate the compliment, but your analysis makes me worry! The pesky complications that make things complicated is part of moral reasoning, abstracting them away to simplicity can be a dangerous recipe for immoral and instrumentalizing reasoning!

I think of it instead like SF can give us an "alien anthropologist's" view of ourselves, seeing ourselves from a different perspective for a momentary forgetting of assumptions that may not be serving us or... maybe we were over-simplfying abstracting away the complexities when we shouldn't have been! Then like in a planet of the apes moment, "But it's our planet after all!" SF can be complexifying as much as simplifying!
There was a long period of time after I “learned to code” where everything still seemed like magic. Working through this book for 10 weeks in my OS course at school was when the magic finally become real and concrete.

Edit: Just noticed my professor for that class contributed some new chapters! Cool!
explain how killing plants is the solution to the subsidized bovine industry's continued production of meats
meanwhile python be out here like:

[(m.group(1), len(m.group()))
for m in re.finditer(r"([a-z])\1*", “aaaabbbcca")
How to Make a DIY LED Clock with Arduino
This is an Arduino tutorial for starters: Getting Started with Arduino, learn how to control a LED light, we will make a DIY LED clock.
You can guesstimate the average service life of a car using Little's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%27s_law

Share of new cars was 6.9% in 2019, ~5.0% in 2020, and scrappage rate was 5.1% in 2019 (source: https://news.ihsmarkit.com/prviewer/release_only/slug/bizwir...).

If the average in/out flow per year is ~5%, average life is 20 years. If 6%, ~17 years.
Our car is from 2004. 20 years is a bit of a stretch, but i hope it makes it.
Thanks for the info. I stopped using Spyder over the annoying and distracting promotions. This confirms my feelings about it.

It is also time consuming to properly install from source, via GitHub, versus Anaconda. It does have a learning curve in that sense, even for someone pretty experienced.

I am currently using Atom. I may switch to Sublime Text and add extensions to make it a Python IDE.
Yes, I am no saint.

I accept that I'm a dumb dirty primate.

The problem now feels that we have a minority of very loud people that cause expensive problems.

I can't wait until I have AI to amplify myself.
Calibre has a plugin the allows the converter to work with DRM
I think a huge issue is that Impossible Foods has a patent on yeast produced heme. Hard to create something of comparable quality without that.
You can't read while you dream (2017)
This. In conversations about vegetarianism, it's pretty common for people to give their distaste of fake meat as their primary reason for not reducing their meat consumption. I really wish that wasn't the default counter-argument, but there seem to be a lot of people who truly believe vegetarians need soymeat to survive.

I've noticed the vegan foods I enjoy most are the ones that aren't trying to be something else. They just use tasty vegan ingredients like potatoes or avocados. I think more people would consider reductarian diets if they were aware of this.
It's not like he was trying to keep masks for the rich. While may would say nurses are in a noble profession, few would say they're nobility in America.
>1997 Dodge Ram pickup ... still works perfectly

How many times did you replace the dashboard before ending up with a dash blanket?
I was making a normative statement, not a descriptive one (although I didn't communicate that effectively).

Those are the three valid purposes that prison should serve, whether or not that happens to be true for a specific instance of a prison system in a specific country.
Yes, sorry, I meant to ask if you knew the labor to replace the entire module so I could compare it to a mechanical part of equivalent cost.

I realize there's anger but I'm trying to understand how much of a leap this is beyond a mechanical failure that people don't like, and view as an engineering failure, but nevertheless expect and endure when owning cars of a certain age and mileage.

If you don't have the information, that's okay. I'm looking for it (unsuccessfully so far.)
Back then i used basic text editor to create personal notes. But over times, i got cluttered folder with a lot of .txt files.

Then i made this as a replacement, a web-based notetaking app. With WYSIWYG editor, support linking to other notes (wikilink), image paste support, basic formatting, autosaves.

https://github.com/altilunium/rtnF
Another example I'll add to my collection of liberal misgivings.

Liberal democracy and the liberal social and economic orders have done so much good for western societies, but this is another great example of how something they have displaced -- coming of age rituals and expectations -- has really had a negative impact on the people living in them.
It's more practical than that.

I have no problem hiring people, but I want to them to do work rather than other shit. However, people need so much care that it is so draining.

The crazy thing is that these problems don't manifest until a business is reasonably successful and the medium growth spurt happens. That's when you need to get HR, and at the moment the business becomes a prison.
Hiragana Listening Practice
"spending 100 hours building a beautifully elegant solution for a class of problem of which there will only ever be a single instance"

That's not an "exceptional" programmer. An exceptional programmer who does mundane stuff has this posted on their cubicle wall: https://xkcd.com/1205/
> The promises that cryptocurrencies want to gift to their users are continually sacrificed in the name of draconian regulatory compliance

The law isn't optional. Crypto doesn't change that.

> It's particularly interesting to watch various cryptocurrency platforms slowly transform into that which they originally detested, not of their own will, but via the strong guiding hands of US agencies.

The reality is that cryptocurrency exchanges aren't actually operated with ideological purity as a goal. They're profit-driven enterprises. They just want to be in the middle of the action and collect a percentage fee of all the money moving back and forth. They're not going to sacrifice profits in the name of arbitrarily resisting governments.
I'm keen on the eccentricity inflation idea. We've all become "eccentric" by the standards of old so we're not quite sure what counts anymore.

The guy down the street cares for a tree that bears many different types of fruits. It's not his specialty, just a hobby. In his day job he works at a museum that specializes in the collection of mummified body parts and at night he likes to role play with random naked women from all over the world. Does that even seem strange anymore‽

If he invented something amazing would we history books of the future describe him as eccentric? I don't think so.
Yeah, the first Impossible Burger I had was prepared extremely well, and it was one of the best burgers I’ve ever had. Not true for many other times I’ve had it.
I think the point is that they are improving the technique. In absolute terms the tuning range and bandwidth aren’t particularly notable compared with current technology. For example Lime Microsystems next generation RFIC under development is targeting a range of 100 GHz and 2 GHz of bandwidth.

https://limemicro.com/technology/
Great choice of subject matter, as usual, Ken! May I direct your attention to a one-bit machine [1] that's already something of a favorite on HN, posted for discussion in 2014 [2], 2016 [3] and 2019 [4].

"This is not a Motorola MC14500 computer, but it was the MC14500 that introduced me to the idea of one-bit computing. Exploring ways to reduce the chip count, a series of pencil & paper designs revealed the MC14500 itself could be omitted!"

-- Jeff

[1]https://laughtonelectronics.com/Arcana/One-bit%20computer/On...

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7616831

[3]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12469790

[4]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20565779
I'm less than convinced that anyone sincerely believed that. It seems more plausible that it's a lie they told themselves to paper over other cultural, profit, or institutional pressure.
I agree. Never underestimate a bad, but determined programmer.

The worst part is he’ll feel extra smart afterward, because he finally figured out enough of the bugs in his horrible implementation to call it “done”, and he’ll likely be re-visiting this code for a long time to come, as issues pop out that he still doesn’t understand fully.
Anyone who think it's not racism, look at this:

> Shen also told the Independent that he had filed a report to Apple in December 2019 pointing out the issue, but that he never received a response.

So Apple ignored the issue for more than a year. This is the real problem. If it were "black" then do you expect people will react the same and say it's just an algorithm problem or a systematic bias?
The intended comparison is presumably not be to all marriages, but to marriages which are strained enough for divorce to become a question. I don’t know what good data on that would look like.

Perhaps ‘Outcomes for children of parents who went to marriage counselling’

Even then, couples that get counselling are probably a healthier subset of all marriages than would make for an ideal reference.
I discovered CodeMirror when I noticed Zapier was using it for their advanced text inputs.

Like turning special elements in a text input like [code] into a blue css box with [x] button. With copy/paste support in the original [code] format. That sort of thing.

It was great to work with in my own project but I saw 6 was close to coming out but did the 5 implementation anyway. Sad to see it come out so soon. Maybe I'll upgrade it some day.
Scientists Develop Transparent Wood That Is Stronger and Lighter Than Glass
Tesla founders Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning talk about the early days
The fact that many intelligent people are still fat means that they like everyone else don't have perfect self control. So any tips on what people should do if they were in perfect control of their emotions doesn't help, knowing how to think rationally and being capable of acting rationally are two separate things.
This is a neat approach, but I'm not sure I'd expect it to be used in the wild. ~32 consecutive document redirects every time you want to fingerprint a browser would be slow: twelve (?) redirects on my (~fast) internet takes about ten seconds. On 3g, I could imagine this taking much longer.

You'd also likely need to do this at the (root) page level (i.e., it wouldn't work inside an iframe, since iframes don't have favicons), and it breaks the back button really hard. I'm not sure I can think of a practical situation where this could actually be used for tracking. Maybe if it was done in a popup?
I think there seem to be turn signal buttons on the steering wheel.

The lack of drive selector is troubling.

I wonder if tesla will get no more unintended acceleration lawsuits -- or if they will start to lose each one.
It's a weird meat taste, though, in this uncanny valley of meat like flavor. Something is a bit off about the impossible burger and others, and it tastes like they tried to hide it with grease. Cooking this sort of fake meat makes it evident why that is. You won't see high amounts of grease on the box, but you need it to cook, and fake meat absorbs grease like a god damned sponge. I have to use a massive amount of olive oil to brown fake ground meat. And it makes sense because there is nothing in there to render out, so stuff has to work its way in instead like osmosis.
>respectful of animal wellness

Killing the animal is not respectful to its wellness.
This is the first time that I've seen an interview with Martin Eberhard and Tarpenning in over ten years. Sounds like Eberhard is still mad at Elon Musk.
As an experienced media buyer, I would highly suggest avoid direct site buys like this. Most are total scams that may even resort to sending fake or bot traffic to inflate their clicks. Usually prices are 2-10x higher than just using site targeting on Adsense if available.

The way the scam works is churn and burn. Advertiser 1 is sold package for $5k-$25k on popular site X, advertiser realizes it’s total trash and loses all his money with 3 sales. They convince the next advertiser and the process repeats.
It's a trade off. But if you spend ages getting to market because your jumping at shadows. Gold-plated software doesn't mean good software.
I think we should just try and call good software that which fits time, budget and scope. And works!
I guess the challenge is that the recognition that the work was sloppy can have a number of explanations:

- the group was collectively honest but incompetent, including reviewers. So, no way to self identify the problem.

- the group was deliberately leaving errors unfixed to get press and attention. If so, they should be shunned but this seems unlikely in this case.

- the group worked honestly, in good faith, and was competent but made honest errors, which are easier to see once the effort is exposed from a few people to the whole community. Many eyes make all bugs shallow and so on. In that case, it’s important to unpack how it’s possible to say with certainty certain mistakes were “sloppy” and it not being just the kind of thing one says once the mistakes are identified.

In general my point is that criticisms like the one you mention often seem valid but leave me unsatisfied by not offering a fully explanatory theory, or having one but not voicing it.
All meat is plant-based as anyone that understands basic ecology knows.
I agree that the article has not been written in good faith. It cherry-picks facts to portray media, government as incompetent institutions we cannot trust.

Trump has demonstrably lied about COVID 100s of times, and CDC has tried to give best advice science can (while being muzzled by Trump).

Instead of focussing on COVID disinformation campaign waged by Trump, author goes after one statement where Dr. Fauci said something questionable.

What I find interesting was the fact that on COVID:
- 36% of Americans claim to trust the CDC
- 30% of Americans claim to trust Trump

30% Americans are willing to believe demonstrably false things, even when it is a matter of life and death. I did not expect this. But I also did not expect French to be anti-vaxers. This whole experience has been one giant adjustment to my priors.
Off topic -- thanks for your work writing and maintaining JOE. (Assuming you are that same jhallen.) Been my primary editor for about 20 years now.
That would have been fine - if tesla just didn't write so much data. I think they're very attached to the data.
It may have been their intention, after reading the bugzilla report they made[1].

> I also think that it would have been appropriate to notify about the ulterior motive behind this defect report at the latest when the paper got published. This underhanded approach of reporting a defect just leaves a bad taste, really. The behavior may be an actual defect in the classical sense, but I'm just wondering what would have happened, had this been addressed "in time" by the developers. It would seem that the researchers would then have triumphantly proclaimed that all major browsers are prone to their newly found attack. Must be somewhat disappointing that it didn't get fixed "in time" to make it into the paper that way

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1618257