skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nutritional science is far from a solved case and doesn't have a lot to lean on yet. Not only is there a lot of misinformation, money, and lying involved but the science itself is pretty poor as well. Most nutritional studies are based on p values in uncontrolled environments with self reporting. While the few more rigorous studies do control for confounding variables and attempt to control the environment more - they tend to be smaller.

It's not like you can lock thousands of humans (let alone one) in a controlled environment for 50 years and study long term effects of diets which even then wouldn't be perfect.

I'm not saying it's impossible, and science is the only way forward. I'm just that it is a mess and we know less than we think.

FWIW I have been on a keto-genic diet for coming up on a decade now and feel fantastic as well. But like I said before, that's not worth much. I do it for the "brain" high I get on the diet and also it totally gets rid of my acid reflux issues.
Cartel drone, maybe?
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NewsBlur's founder here. I'll attempt to explain what's happening.

This situation is more of a script kiddie than a hacker. I'm in the process of moving everything on NewsBlur over to Docker containers in prep for the big redesign launching next week. It's been a great year of maintenance and I've enjoyed the fruits of Ansible + Docker for NewsBlur's 5 database servers (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, and soon ML models).

About two hours before this happened, I switched the MongoDB cluster over to the new servers. When I did that, I shut down the original primary in order to delete it in a few days when all was well. (Thank goodness I did that! It'll come in handy a few hours from now).

Turns out the ufw firewall I enabled and diligently kept on a strict allowlist with only my internal servers didn't work on a new server because of Docker. When I containerized MongoDB, Docker helpfully inserted an allow rule into iptables, opening up MongoDB to the world. So while my firewall was "active", doing a `sudo iptables -L | grep 27017` showed that MongoDB was open the world. More info on SO[1].

To be honest, I'm a bit surprised it took over 3 hours from when I flipped the switch to when a script kiddie dropped NewsBlur's MongoDB collections, and ransomed about 250GB of data. I am now running a snapshot on that old primary, just in case it reconnects to a network and deletes everything. Once done, I'll boot it up, secondary it out, and be back in business. Let's hope my assumptions hold.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30383845/what-is-the-bes...
Sure. Have fun. Myself I can no longer imbibe. Why? Crushing headaches, stomach upset and other digestive issues. I did love every kind of coffee back in the day though. Shame.
Could you tell whether it was a quad or some other form factor?
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The point is that "murder" and "civil law" don't go together. Murder as a concept is always a criminal law issue.
While most of the black friday deals are shams, but when it comes to VPS they are actually good.

If you're looking for such deals cyber monday / black friday is when you will often find such deals.
Companies get around that by hiring a security 'consultant' or other firm to pay the ransom. Conveniently the cost of the consultant is exactly the ransom. It's enough legal cover for the company to release statements like "XYZ corp is not negotiating or paying the ransom."
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On iOS it could not be backed up or transferred to another device. I think it can now, but I moved to another app forever ago because of that.
Stuff like that is so soul crushing to me. It's caste systems in another guise.
You’re right. 4-5 “cups” of 8 ounces is 2 - 2.5 pint beer glasses (they are 16 oz each).
This actually got me a while ago but with redis and some script kiddy turning my dev server into a bitcoin miner.

Anyone else running docker and using iptables really needs to read this https://docs.docker.com/network/iptables/
Even the NBA avoids "perfect meritocracy" at the margins of the league; there's a player's association, the NBA has had a pension since the 60's, there are salary caps and luxury taxes (to prevent super-teams from forming on the coasts), top draft picks often end up on the worst performing teams in prior yeas, each team has to contribute players to new rosters whenever the league expands, etc.
I can't speak for the whole of DOD but there is serious consideration that goes into training flights, with respect to not violating any local laws and especially not fucking with local agencies. It would be unfathomable for this kind of thing to happen in a military training or testing exercise without a serious cascade of errors. Also, I would have to imagine that any supervisor involved would have immediately contacted the civilian agency involved to say "it's us, please back off."
Is it too soon to ask whether their mongo instance was publicly available without password protection?
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Yep, I missed it until your comment prompted me to read more carefully and again.
IIRC the half-life of caffeine is approx 12 hours. So if you put caffeine in your body at 2:00 PM, half of it is still there at 2:00 AM.
There's no evidence that things for the first year students have improved.
It wouldn't be funnier, it would have the exact same effect as a prohibition law.
People metabolize caffeine at wildly different rates depending on their genes. One cup every other day in the morning is my limit until I see significant effects on deep sleep (as measured by a Dreem 2.) :/
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There are search engines for services exposed to the internet, like https://www.shodan.io/

If your mongoDB server is exposed to the Internet it will show up there. When that happens, it's only a matter of time until someone targets you.

You can write an alert that probes for sensitive services exposed to the Internet. In that way, if this happens again, you get an alert that you can use to detect the problem early.

Also... use authentication for your database, it doesn't take much effort to do. With a secure password.
I created a python module leveraging fasttext to train text classifiers with just a labeled dataset

https://github.com/banjtheman/instatext
If you ever made it to Google, you'd immediately see the stratification within. The elites with their lake houses... the people operating at levels you never will be able to... the people bailing to start startups because Google got boring.

Fuck it and be happy. And while you're working on it, you should consider no longer voicing your negative thoughts. It definitely doesn't help, and there's a good chance it makes it worse. (Or don't, I'm not telling you what to do obviously)
Can we have a "Report HN" feature which allows people to open tickets to popular services which don't have proper support or are unwilling to solve the most pressing issues of their clients?
100% chance it's made up since there's no video evidence. These days nothing happens w/o someone filming.
My phone once entered permanent lockout because I left it upside down on a surface that registered a passcode button press every few minutes.
There have been many attempts to get this book banned at booksellers. The author, Abigail Shriner, wrote about her experience through all this censorship at her Substack:
https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/has-censorship-become-o...
I mean generally the penalty for violating your privacy is nothing actually. If they discover evidence by violating your privacy you may exclude it from consideration. since it was obtained illegally. But there isn't really a penalty for a police officer reading your diary or whatever as you are not able to show damages.

Because there isn't really a penalty, I'd assume some officers might not mind peeking into your device just to have a look.
Is it too soon to ask whether the mongo instance in question was available publicly to connect to with perhaps the default installation password?
> two 16 oz cups a day

Put another way, That’s two pints of beer. That’s a lot of coffee to me.
T-35 or so :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27613632
I'll turn this around a little:

I don't understand how people are so upset about people disliking it when others respond coercively, threaten legal action, cause job loss, or enact excommunication from society (if you're a celebrity) when somebody demands that you call them something unconventional in the grander scheme of societal norms.

I don't think it's all that abnormal, at all, for a grand majority to push back on a vocal, disruptive, abusive, coercive, entitled group of activists sprinkled throughout the world who represent a slightly larger group of otherwise peaceful, passive people who have embraced a chosen (or inert) identity (or fad, for many) that flies in the face of society as a whole.

Disclaimer: this next paragraph is wholly and entirely satirical, and I, with full sincerity, do not intend to take any of the actions portrayed in the following example:

Dan, if you don't remember that I like my coffee with milk and agave nectar tomorrow, I'm unfortunately going to have you lose your job. Sorry man. That's just how I feel. You must remember, or I will continue to lose respect for you. I'm not going to just leave you alone and get over the fact that you won't remember -- I'm going to use social media to destroy your life and complicate your relationships at work, with your friends, family, and revel in any other damage I can do because you didn't remember the way I like my coffee. You must be my friend, but if you forget my coffee preference once, you're fully subject to my verbal and emotional abuse.

See how that works? This is the reality. And people wouldn't be calling this out in droves if the news headlines, TV show skits mocking it, the endless reports & anecdotes of people's lives destroyed, etc. didn't already prove this phenomenon. Irrefutable. And it has to stop dominating everyone's minds. It is psychological torture on an unimaginable scale, to hold most of society hostage to an unmerited stigma for the sake of "respect" demanded of it. And what good is respect if it is not earned by demonstrating positive intent and action in everyday conversation?

Activists on this front would do well to understand this, lest they continually fail in their mission to create a unified and equal society. Animosity, labels, and threats endorsed -- by proxy -- by the media, government institutions, and major corporations are the last thing that will unify people.
Lost a job for not using pronouns. Tried very hard to stay out it, but kept being cornered o the topic.
I would expect to see Intel pushing P4 heavily over the next year. P4 will almost certainly be involved in the roadmap for their recently released IPU (a SmartNIC needs some type of programmable substrate). Also, their data platforms group had been recruiting heavily around the Barefoot Networks / P4 angle. AND, just this morning, Pat Gelsinger announced the data platforms group is being split into two groups —- one of which (the Network and Edge group) to be headed by Nick McKeown, former chairman and cofounder of Barefoot Networks, as senior vice president [0].

[0] https://www.lightreading.com/5g/intels-reorg-puts-nick-mckeo...
If what you're saying is true, then why did the school system say this would fix education?
I don't know what your monitoring setup is like, but I'd recommend something like Prometheus' blackbox-exporter to help alarm when your network "changes".

I setup alerting rules so that certain subnets or servers suddenly being exposed to certain instances of blackbox will wake people up!
uBlock Origin > disable JavaScript

Problem solved.
TIL! I thought federal was required even with no income.

Still, you're probably leaving money on the table if you don't file with no income, especially this last year with all the stimulus.

About whether McAfee could prove no income, I guess he would've had his day in court to show it.
This is hugely important when you need to do a migration of your data store.
docker has so many of these footguns.
I wasn't specific enough in what I said.

To be sure, I think people's opinions about things (and any sense of identity they have in those opinions) are sacred and inviolate as far as social structure and society are concerned. It's morally and civilly wrong to treat people badly on the basis of their opinions.

I was just pointing out how some people take it so far that one can't even have a thoughtful discussion with them in which one is taking up a contrary position without them feeling offended (and perhaps even angry/combative). Some people even try to shut down contrarians. To such people I'd say: calm down and discuss your point of view civilly. The truth is strong enough to stand on its own without your non-discursive help.
You’re not wrong. If you don’t have a business need to talk to some IP blocks and AS’, by all means, black hole traffic from jurisdictions who aren’t going to do diddly when someone causes you harm. I see this often with client WAF configurations depending on the endpoint use case and who is expected to be hitting that endpoint. “You’re blocking everyone outside of North America?” “Yes, we’re comfortable with that as a business decision.” (fintech)

It doesn’t solve the problem, but it’s low hanging fruit, and a few checkboxes (or lines of Terraform) if you’re at a cloud provider and using the usual primitives.
This is extremely misleading, because you need a constant supply of vitamin C regardless of how much sugar you consume, and because you can get both vitamin C and fiber from meat. I’ve read that polar bear livers have so much vitamin C in them that you can actually poison yourself with them if you eat too many (personally I regard it as a rather remote circumstance).
Could it have been a spot from a green laser pointer traversing the clouds, or something like that?
"One drop" is not and was never federal law in the US[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule
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> It takes decades for any society scale effect to become evident.

"Just give us the billions, and don't expect any results."

So ok, then what's the plan? If there is a plan (no evidence of one) then are the goals? any timeline? any place where something can be measured?

I know, this is all highly unreasonable of me to expect any sort of accountability for billions spent.
Oooph, good luck. And when you have time please make Docker aware that this well known foot-gun has finally done serious harm. They have known and ignored for years that iptables/ufw on Linux is totally broken and wide open when using Docker: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/4737
I wouldn't take the claims of suicide at face value when McAfee has literally stated that if he dies of suicide it's probably a setup.

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/131680121508322509...

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/120086428376625152...
Keep in mind that transgender individuals are almost certainly, in general, and by regulation if they are transgender and an athlete, undergoing hormone therapies. In the case of estrogen treatment, that implies a reduction in muscle strength in addition to the other physical changes caused by the addition of estrogen and the removal of testosterone.

This is a factor in why there are regulations requiring testosterone levels below a certain amount in order to qualify in the women’s section of certain sporting programs.
In case anybody's interested, here's what the "hack" looks like:

nbset:PRIMARY> show dbs
READ__ME_TO_RECOVER_YOUR_DATA 0.000GB
admin 0.000GB
local 16.471GB
newsblur 0.718GB

nbset:PRIMARY> use READ__ME_TO_RECOVER_YOUR_DATA
switched to db READ__ME_TO_RECOVER_YOUR_DATA

nbset:PRIMARY> show collections
README
system.profile

nbset:PRIMARY> db.README.find()
{ "_id" : ObjectId("60d3e112ac48d82047aab95d"), "content" : "All your data is a backed up. You must pay 0.03 BTC to XXXXXXFTHISGUYXXXXXXX 48 hours for recover it. After 48 hours expiration we will leaked and exposed all your data. In case of refusal to pay, we will contact the General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR and notify them that you store user data in an open form and is not safe. Under the rules of the law, you face a heavy fine or arrest and your base dump will be dropped from our server! You can buy bitcoin here, does not take much time to buy https://localbitcoins.com or https://buy.moonpay.io/ After paying write to me in the mail with your DB IP: FTHISGUY@recoverme.one and you will receive a link to download your database dump." }
When diet & nutrient comes in to discussion even level-headed people seems to get very heated and emotional. I hypothesize that it is because:

1. there seems to not be any hard scientific consensus

2. diet is very integrated to culture, and therefore saying "diet X is good/bad" is often taken as a personal/tribal attack.

3. There's always special-interest groups that *heavily* benefit from any preferential diet. (Farmer, stores, marketing group you name it) And they often do have strong influence to actually push through an agenda (see any overarching farmer subsidies/regulation in any country)

The first two being a reason it get heated, and the last one being the one adding the fuel.

Prefacing any dietary statement with "for me, X works..." with a story might be better than anecdata "I've heard it works.."
The problem is that any time we study populational positive effects of diet on health outcomes it always turns out that the secret ingredient was universal health care. Or at least the diet filters by “rich enough to have good insurance and access”

We seem to have a hard time finding populations following any specific good diet with measurably good or better health outcomes than average that don’t have the compounding variable of access to health care:
That also sounds like a problem.
I remember the crackdown on enterprise certs. And the one week duration of non-developer signing didn't really change things. You can search for third-party app signers in your search engine of choice and find plenty advertising their services for a fee far below what Apple is demanding for the developer fee.

Coming back to my point, Apple still allows side-loading (however limited) while claiming they don't. Claiming otherwise is misspeaking at best, and obfuscation or even deceit at worst. Apple is free to do what it wants with regards to allowing side-loading, but misrepresenting their offerings to the general public should result in the company being taken to task for their statements.
This is also more or less how I talk to other engineers when they find bugs I’ve written :)
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Putting on my early neolithic archaeologist hat, there are a lot of things that don't show up in art. The trend in the past decade has been that better methods and new inquiries are turning up even more evidence for early broad-spectrum plant use everywhere we look.

e.g.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14723-0

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.12.014

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351402155_Diet_of_t...
I think there's more to the winner-take-all economy than the rate of technological change though. In theory technology should democratize information and power, but we've seen the opposite in recent years.

It's probably what PG wrote back in April—starting with the Chicago School of economic thought and the Carter administration, the US federal govt. deregulated the economy and took a more lax approach to policing anti-competitive behavior.
Is there any info on how this would help with estimation and planning of a large number of tasks. E.g. "what can we get done this quarter?"

I have an eye on https://www.openproject.org/ because it seems to have these sort of features. I currently use Excel for this.
Joke's on them. People who use Mongo use it mostly because their data doesn't matter very much, even to them. Deleting it just saves them time cleaning it out.

It's like stealing their garbage off the curb. The only valuable part is the can.
Almost exactly the same thing has happened to me except Selenium and they were trying to log into Playstation Network accounts.
> withdraw my cash to zero

> workaround where I could "Bill Pay" my own credit card

I'm confused on this. When you closed your Simple/BBVA account, did you not have any other checking account to transfer your funds into? Both of these suggestions will drain your account, but neither is the immediately obvious method of simply transferring your money to another checking or savings account.

I closed my account prior to the full BBVA transition, moving to Chime (heartily recommend in concert with YNAB for you folks that miss Simple's savings tools) and had no problem connecting my Chime account and transferring the funds via usual ACH transfer.

Simple was a real bank, backed by BBVA (and before that, Bancorp -- truly Simple's heyday in my opinion) and thus subject to typical banking rules. You could initiate ACH transfers with your Simple account like you could at your local credit union or bank.
> get a few people from Search, Ads, YouTube or Research/DeepMind to say it increased revenue or decreased costs by 10%.

How does that work? Can they genuinely tell that this is the case or do they just give an anecdote or rubber stamp?

I’m sure there are dozens/hundreds of other experiments that are going on too. How do you establish the causality at that scale?
I recognized the username rauchg from when I worked with socket.io over 10 years ago. Super inspiring to see such a talented programmer do so much for the web.
Put passwords on your production databases. Even if it's behind a firewall.
The disappearing lesbian is certainly a trend that is being noticed.

More and more women as coming out as trans instead of lesbian, and the 'lesbian until graduation' phenomenon was well known for decades before this.

The general populace has a very shallow understanding of the distinction between gender vs sex. The academic/popular liberal community makes no attempt to clarify the distinctions and it leads to further confused middle/high schoolers.
In the case of GitHub and any other similar service the lockin is the number of services they added to the plain repository. Pull requests, issues, wiki, API for third party services, etc. You get back some of them if you self host with GitLab but every service supports GitHub, maybe not GitLab.

In this case, I don't even know what they get when they export from Notion but how are they going to collaborate on those data?
Regardless of this new evidence people have been eating carbs for at least 10000+ years. The obesity epidemic has only really started the past 30-50 years. Whatever has caused people to get super-fat, it wasn't carbs.
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Stigler's Law of Eponomy is relevant to this discussion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy
Perhaps, but I don't think there are even elites at my company with lake houses that they can invite me to for team events - even our directors say they can't afford to vacation in the Hamptons or buy Herman Miller chairs (whereas going to the Boss's $10M house for whisky tasting is seemingly common at Google).
I have a script running nightly to backup my playlists
in gcc the shared_ptr is derived from __shared_ptr, where you can pass a lock policy trait that goes without locking. wow. But i am afraid that is implementation specific.
People will never accept that they followed the word of “experts” as if it was religion, and lacked rational thinking and original critical analysis.

It’s 2021, we have the Internet and yet the masses were still as easily manipulated as the people in the 60’s who only had the TV and newspapers.