skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"No. It's vast because it's vast. Complexity + interconnectedness."

Firstly, thats not an argument, its a tautology.

Secondly Attack surface is vast because we have shipped several billion locked down phones with known vulnerabilities and priprietary binary blob drivers, meaning they can't be updated. We could fix the problem overnight by voiding copyright protection on all software where vendor has abandoned uodates for a year or more.

It's not american companies, its the entire shithead industry.

"You, on the other hand, have not assigned an iota of culpability to the actual criminals"

Mate, they are criminals, they are culpable by definition, its in the Oxford dictionary. They have always existed and always will.

Whats the point of banging on about them like a broken record?

Even if Russia and China magically dissapear tomorrow, the problem will remain: if you have vulnerable systems someone will hack them.

Ita like if someone is always stealing stuff from your house, and I tell you maybe you should try locking the door.
AWS Lambda end of support for Node.js 10
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Hello,
Q. What is happening?
A. We are ending support for Node.js 10 in AWS Lambda on July 30, 2021. This follows the Node.js language governing body declaring Node.js 10 end of life as of April 30, 2021 [1].

Q. What does end of support for Node.js 10 in Lambda mean?
A: As described in the Lambda runtime support policy [2], end of support for language runtimes in Lambda happens in two stages. Starting July 30, 2021, Lambda will no longer apply security patches and other updates to the Node.js 10 runtime used by Lambda functions, and functions using Node.js 10 will no longer be eligible for technical support. In addition, you will no longer be able to create new Lambda functions using the Node.js 10 runtime. Starting Aug 30, 2021, you will no longer be able to update existing functions using the Node.js 10 runtime.

End of support does not impact function execution. Your functions will continue to run. However, they will be running on an unsupported runtime which is no longer maintained or patched by the AWS Lambda team.

...
Q. How do I know if I have any functions using Node.js 10?
aws lambda list-functions --function-version ALL --output text --query "Functions[?Runtime=='nodejs10.x'].FunctionArn"

Q. What do I need to do?
A. You should migrate your existing Node.js 10 Lambda functions to Node.js 14, which is the latest supported Node.js version in Lambda [4]. Node.js 14 is not yet supported by Lambda@Edge, so Lambda@Edge functions should be upgraded to Node.js 12. By moving to a supported runtime version you will continue to benefit from important ... enhancements offered by more recent releases.

Q. What if I need additional help?
A. Please contact us through AWS Support [5], the AWS Lambda Developer Forum [6], or your AWS account team should you have any questions or concerns.

Sincerely,
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The risks are lower, not miniscule. Some are also vulnerable to MIS-C. Masks do not stop covid for adults either, should adults stop wearing masks? (No.) Children are also potentially infectious.
Masks are critical for dampening the potential for spread. The goal is not entirely to mitigate risk for the kid themselves, but of spread to their household that leads to increased likelihood of deaths.
Stocks do not need buybacks or dividends. They are rights to control a share of a company, which earns (or potentially earns) money. That’s inherently valuable even without a stock market to determine a price. You control a machine, which makes things and earns money.

Crypto is only valuable, because others think so, too. You control a place inside a distributed list. Others think a place in exactly this list is valuable, while all the other lists are shitcoins.
What’s interesting is that this is NOT a hybrid model, as Google has done[1]. As i understand this _everyone_ is in an office Mon, Tue, Thu. This is a better situation IMO then some people always being remote and others being in person.

1 - Google lets up to 20% of employees permanently work from home: https://www.npr.org/2021/05/06/994123311/google-adapts-to-lo...
Power Automate. We tried Zapier as well and it's much better, but the business people were already burned out when we tried it.
Turn it into residential units.
Can you work really hard? Do you want to save the world? Do medicine.

Median? Probably software. Where I live, a mid-skill software developer makes as much money as a manager in accounting or the owner of a small indie cafe. A software manager in a good (not great) company makes top 10% of income.

High risk, high returns? Software & startups. The risk isn't that bad - in terms of returns/failure ratio, you'd probably make more off a million dollar startup than you would trying to get a job at Netflix. It's just a question of what you enjoy.

What kind of software? In my experience, they all pay as well, unless you do something easy like WordPress or something dumb like Cordova. So just pick something.

Don't like learning new frameworks? Do law. It's the same thing as programming but your frameworks are hundreds of years old.

If you can't hit median, then aim for something you can be the best at. Not top 10%, but best. It can be a mix of skills. Something like busking+omegle+YouTube can pay well.
I do think expecting every employee to sit in an office for 8 hours a day every day is almost certainly unnecessary. That said, I also think it's unfair and disingenuous to suggest that there's absolutely no value whatsoever to colocation. It's possible that we can replicate much of the physical interaction's value through fully remote work, but my experience is that we're not there yet.

It really depends on the work you're doing. And even for a single employee, it can change from one month to the next. But highly collaborative work can benefit from spontaneous interactions, more ambiguous work can benefit from live whiteboarding sessions, and more generally, teams can develop greater cohesion and stronger relationships through shared experience. Not every person needs this, and certainly not all the time, but to suggest that it's unimaginable that anyone could ever derive greater value (or that a collective organization could ever derive greater value) from in-person work is disappointing.

Remote work has its place. In-person work has its place. Neither is the solution 100% of the time.
seatbelts don't stop people dying in car crashes, hospitals don't stop people dying from injuries,
Maybe you could propose the improvements in nixpkgs so we can all benefit from them?
"Cook wrapped up the memo by saying that he's looking forward to seeing employee faces. "I know I'm not alone in missing the hum of activity, the energy, creativity and collaboration of our in-person meetings and the sense of community we've all built," he wrote."

CEO's all spout the same nonsense. The majority of people work because they need to earn money. They're not working to make a new 'family' or change the world or be around 'creative people'. It's generally the leadership teams at companies that think it's great to be in the office but that's because they've sacrificed a lot to get where they are and they care deeply about their job and the company. The majority of people just want to earn some money and do it as easily as possible. I think companies not offering full remote work options will see a lot of employee turnover and will have to change their policy very quickly.
There is basically no community spread of measles currently due to good herd immunity (via widespread vaccination). When there are outbreaks it is usually very serious and stuff gets closed and people isolated.
The odds of being fired randomly isn't that high in most jobs really. Nobody wants to go through the hassle of hiring and training new people.

It's not a very realistic risk for most people.
> Because of the size?

It's huge and because of that, it's not in the same category as a normal phone. If it had been sold as that, that would be one thing, but it wasn't.

I bought an MNT Reform laptop knowing it won't look like a normal laptop- that's fine. But if they had shown something that looked like a Dell XPS 13 and then shipped something that looks like the MNT Reform does, I'd be just as upset.

> usable kill switches

Physical kill switches, not usable. I believe the Pinephone also has software kill switches which function much the same way.

> running fully free software

Yes, no binary blobs is good, but that doesn't change the issue of the form factor making it unusable.
Higher performance, much smaller compressed and uncompressed, accepted by a wide range of tools, e.g. Pandas, and often more convenient to parse from statically typed languages.
Women fart. (Something I thought I'd never have to say.)
I believe that jokes/humor is way older than human language.

Totally non-scientific, but my dog seems to be "happy" when something that she thinks is one way is actually the other. Like when I am totally silent, not looking at her, and then all of the sudden make a noise at her or look at her. She loves it.

I think that's the essence of humor, it's when your brain experiences something it didn't expect in a low-stakes way.
The full list of 10: https://www.insider.com/historians-10-oldest-jokes-in-histor...
The new york times target audience is not likely to understand a reference to metasploit, let alone digital forensic techniques. They wouldn't go into chemistry when writing a mass market article on batteries either, they'd just say "new breakthrough in battery technology".
Not sure, but IIRC the last I saw from Moltex Energy also had some mention of intermediate heat storage, for similar reasons.
I am a COMPLETE amateur. That being said, I’ve been using blender for 3D print modeling. There’s a thing I’ve been working on for a few months that was almost impossible in 2.92 and prior. App would crash all the time. Someone more experienced was able to use the new geometry nodes in 2.93 and was able to super efficiently create the same effect. I’m really glad it’s now out of beta.
This is correct, but I wonder how many people also consider the banks often price the IPO so they get a better deal than the public markets. Somewhere, everyone is always getting a cut.
Google was a miracle in 2001. By 2008, ExpertSexChange and others had SEOd the blogs and phpBBs off the first page.
lol

you're totally right, let's just never trust any vaccine or medical developments due to anomalous chance of failure. in accordance to this, i pledge to never leave my home until i leave this barren earth.
Venus is so nice, NASA is going there twice
Just seems like a somewhat arbitrary point to draw the line - I assumed there was some logical justification for it that I was missing.
Yikes. Why not get a little usdt while you're at it.
Then you go out of business. That's what is supposed to happen in capitalism when you run your business badly.
The popular vaccines (Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca) are known to significantly reduce asymptomatic infections as well [1].

[1] Table 1b. Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccination Against Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection in https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...
I've been using this in nightly builds for the last many weeks, and I have to say, I am impressed.

The new UI feels great. Dark mode is well done. Speed is finally on par with Chrome. And compatibility is as good as it's ever been. Only very occasionally do I run into a bug caused by Firefox's shortcomings.

Still on my wish list, though: better echo cancellation in WebRTC; don't hijack ctrl-b and ctrl-i; support backdrop-filter; support <dialog> element...
People said the exact same thing about international trade making war impossible before both world wars.
An F-35 Pilot Explains Why the Jet's Bad Press Misses the Point
His video on Mike Tyson punch-out progression was fantastic. It was such a shock when he super casually starts talking about his own contributions to the record like it was anyone else's.
I maybe in the minority in this comments section but I genuinely enjoy working from office. I enjoy the social aspects. And commute never bothered me, albeit max commute for me was 45 mins (in the bay area). The only downside that I always felt was parking situation. Lot of my friends feel the same about office work.

I believe going forward there will be companies (and employees) in 2 camps -- remote first and hybrid/full in-office. And both types of companies will thrive. There are some people who enjoy going to office. And there are some people who enjoy working from home. And these people self select themselves for their respective jobs. And that choice is a good thing
It’s been a religion from day 1. PCR tests being run at too high of a cycle count was a conspiracy theory until it wasn’t. Hospitals being incentivized to mark any possible patients as COVID cases for extra government money was a conspiracy theory until it wasn’t. Mandatory vaccination with a drug that hasn’t even gotten FDA approval was a theory and yet I see people call for it. People I had had great chats with about the problems in the pharma industry, problems of government overreach.

I was one of the most scientifically literate people in my friend group and now I’m an outcast because I don’t always “trust the science”.

And just 2 years ago we were seeing all manner of stories on HN about experiment reproducibility, the issues with the peer review system, etc.

I have been completely demoralized by the past year.
> learning non verbal communication is very important

You're right. There's absolutely no way kids could learn non-verbal communication if they had to wear a mask for several hours a day. It's not like literally everyone in Japan and China has been wearing face masks for 20 years.
Depending on how you read the specific text of the statute, I think they banned the usage of electronic mug shot databases.

>"Facial recognition" means an automated or semiautomated process that assists in identifying, or verifying the identity of, an individual based on the physical characteristics of an individual's face.

So I have a still from security camera footage. And I have 50,000 mug shots stored in the mug shot data base. I can see that it's a man in the image, he's white, between the ages of 15 - 50. So I go to my computer and put in the filter for the mug shot database to include those criteria. Sounds to me like I just used a semi-automated method to attempt to identify the person in the still image.

This ordinance is dumb. The use of a computer to pattern match, to automate what a person can do, is a lever that makes everyone more efficient. What's the logic in making someone thumb, or click through, every photo in the state's mug shot collection instead of allowing a system to reduce the possible candidates, if any.
Make your own independent website
Is this thorium or uranium?
>I save money by spending less on food, drinks, and electricity.

Compared to commuting (car+gas) and time-to-commute opportunity costs (to use for personal house tasks, side projects, self health)? I seriously doubt it.
Well, it's the oldest writing than can (with some fantasy) be interpreted as a joke. It's not the best one ever told in human history, which I would consider more interesting, but also harder to find.

I'd also guess, depending on the measure, the best joke is yet to come.
The best part is the people who believe UFOs are hyper advanced aliens coming to buzz drunk people in the middle of nowhere will be right no matter what the outcome is:

1. Report says it's aliens. They're right :D

2. Report says it's not. This is a continuation of the government's conspiracy to hide that aliens are visiting us.
Assuming y' = dy/dx, then 0 = 2 y y' + 2 x -> -x/y = y'

I've honestly never understood what exactly implicit differentiation means or what is implicit about it, it seems to just be the normal rules of calculus?

Why would you expect dy/dx to be 2y?

e: ah, didn't see you were referencing a problem from the page
There are also plenty of people who like their coworkers and enjoy spending time with them each day. I don't think everybody finds work to be an unfulfilling drain on their leisure time
Huh? The current behavior of for(in) dates all the way back to the original JS standards (ES1). ES2015 had to use "of" to avoid breaking compatibility with existing ES1 for(in) usage. (Being able to replace/reuse for(in) would have kept JS more in line with Python which is also for/in.) It seems fairly sensible in comparison to some of the other proposed options.

Unless you were hoping for an entirely new keyword such as foreach (like C#'s foreach(in)), and in that case yes they couldn't do that because ES3 settled on a Reserved Keyword list and they didn't want to break ES3 compatibility either. While ES3 attempted forward compatibility by including some keywords related to E4X (and ES4's type system), the list of keywords they came up with in ES3 wasn't "because" of E4X. (It was because of "strict mode" and defining what "strict" meant as rather, er, strictly as possible.)
Your comment might make sense in a completely different context, but this is Apple! Everyone there could be making more money for less stress somewhere else, but they’re at Apple since they believe in or appreciate something else about the company, whether that’s the vision, the colleagues, the hard problems, etc. Apple is probably the number one company where your comment is not true.
>CEO's all spout the same nonsense. The majority of people work because they need to earn money.

And Cook knows it. When he writes the above, it's just performative. The actual message is "come, or be fired".
Calling Zebra a modular synth is a bit of a stretch.

The hallmark of modular is the ability to connect any output to any input, plus the ability to modulate most controls via an input (there modules in both Rack and hardware that don't adhere to the second part).

You can't do that with Zebra. I would say that it's U-he that is using (slightly) misleading marketing by calling Zebra modular, which it is in only a rather weak sense. It's no more modular than an Oberheim Matrix (6 or 12), which nobody would have ever called "modular". "Highly modulatable" would be fair, but that's really a little different.

Eurorack is modular synthesis. Rack uses the term "eurorack" simply because it is more familiar to most people at this point in time.

I'm aware of two debates about the term "virtual analog". The most common one has to do with how (or if) to simulate the non-linearities present in actual analog circuits. The second has been created by a few synth companies that try to use "virtual analog" to describe their synths. What they really mean is "same workflow, same controls, same modulation options as you'd expect in an analog synth from the period 1980-1995".
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yup. thanks.
The corporate-government exploitation of the people is staggering. Corporations do all the spying and then give APIs to the government. No constitutional problems over here.
Nice paper, how did you find it? Assume you posted in response to the recent YouTube video.

The paper shows the math for land and water versions. Says a vehicle was tested in Feb. 1969, got an estimated 15 MPH out of 10 MPH breeze, but they kept having trouble with the chain jumping the sprockets (just like the YouTube video).

One interesting point is that the propeller runs in "windmill" mode up to a certain point, with the prop driving the wheels. Then the blade pitch is adjusted, and the wheels start driving the prop.
What we now call "school" has barely existed for centuries, let alone millennia. Pretty sure kids were much better socialized prior to our current state of primary education.
> As I understand it, it's mostly farm labor that's accused of being "don't want to do".

It's probably more anecdotal at this stage. I have someone building a factory in my Twitter feed, and he's saying a lot of people in his networks are struggling to find willing workers, but he blames that on welfare payments for Covid (which could be just a temporary thing)
Reminds of Omega--you wrote scripts to operate autonomous tanks, and pitted your tanks against others' in an obstacle-filled arena. Omega didn't have the realtime scripting component though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_(video_game)
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I can see why Apple did this. Based on data from internal surveys I know from big tech companies, there has been a split between three cohorts; remote, some days in office and all days in office.

The some/all days cohort in office is the one that is the majority in almost all big tech companies.

So, tech companies have to retain their offices. If they are paying for those spaces, do they not allow the employees who work from home to come office at all? That can reduce cost for them, but a lot of remote employees wish to have the option of being in office on few days they chose as per their wish, that means you need to reserve space for them. There was recently an article which said one of the big tech companies saved $1 billion in office costs(this was despite paying for office space). https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-28/google-is...

Also, if the teams are hybrid (remote/office) with some members of team being remote and some in office. There is extra burden for the team to accomodate the remote members for things like impromptu discussions as a group.

Personally, I like the option of being in office 2-3 days in a week most. Not having the burden of meals and having some bonding with folks in the company is something I like, it has been hard having that as a remote employee.

I think Apple should allow this call to be taken by individual teams though.
FireEye Products business, incl. FireEye name sold to Symphony Technology Group
>There are also plenty of people who like their coworkers and enjoy spending time with them each day

Of course. Especially those that hate their families (or themselves and can't spend time alone).
Since starting to work remote I've discovered the power of shutting down the work laptop (not sleeping) at a set time and not looking back. No Slack or work email on the phone.

When I look back on hallway conversations, I can't think of many that really mattered. Actual important decisions are typically not made by IC engineers. Relevant conversations are usually inside team structures and not spontaneous.
Future systems will be like human genome: a small letter change will lead to the system self destroying after 20 days of flawless operation.
> there are a lot of folks who are quite sure they've settled on a set of good techniques to manage nuclear waste. On the other hand, individual communities that might host nuclear sites keep not being convinced that the selected techniques are 'safe.'

This reminds me of the "legibility" problem in voting. Perhaps in theory it's possible to hold a magic unhackable blockchain-based secret-ballot-preserving cryptographically-secure digital election, but the average voter cannot be convinced of its security without teaching them tons of CS concepts (can you imagine trying to explain trapdoor functions in a voters' pamphlet?). Meanwhile, paper ballots can go into a tamper-proof box with a big lock on it--which has "security" written all over it figuratively, if not literally--and you can record video of every time the box moves and invite observers as you count the ballots. Up until very recently, this was so obviously secure that anyone saying otherwise would be considered a lunatic.
It gets better. Venus' atmosphere superrotates far faster and so an airship city over Venus would have a different day/night cycle too.
Are you sure you aren't being facetious and pretending like you have not heard any mention of the numerous studies that show vaccinated people do not spread the virus in any significant percentage and how herd immunity works?