skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was in High School (early 90's) we got a new computer system that nobody was using yet. I discovered there was an email system of some kind and that every student had an email address that we were not told about. I also discovered Tetris installed in a directory on the server. I was able to play Tetris and I could show other students how to access it, but it was inconvenient to get to.

Therefore I decided I would email Tetris to every student (I emailed the executable, not a link to Tetris), making it easier for everyone to play also. As soon as I did this the entire system got very slow...apparently the server had no quotas or partitioning and the hundreds of copies of Tetris filled up 100% of the hard drive space. It was a disaster. The computer "specialist" had no idea how to fix the system and she was teaching an adult education class that evening that required the system to work. She was furious and wanted me to get suspended. It didn't happen though because I spoke up about the problem right when I knew there was a problem and also some other teachers intervened on my behalf.

The woman who was responsible for the computer system back then is now the superintendent of the school system. I wonder if she remembers me.
> The spill and subsequent port closures will disrupt maritime transport across the Red Sea, rerouting many shipments around Africa

I assume this means another mess for the Suez Canal.
"The only service provided is over-the-air security updates."

Connectivity check / time servers

https://grapheneos.org/articles/grapheneos-servers#grapheneo...

Amongst others.
Also in my typing class circa 2004 the teacher was about to kick me out because he thought I was on a chat room during his class. I was actually viewing page source on an HTML document
Calling them "editorial anti-patterns" because they don't frame the discussion how you would like it to be framed is... well, an antipattern in itself.

Let me be clear: Your goal of improving road safety is laudable, and the aspects your tool highlights are conceivably a way to achieve that. But priming visitors to expect "editorial anti-patterns" and then instead presenting "insufficiently biased-to-the-pedestrian" snippets is dishonest.

While there are recommendations in there I fully support (e.g. "highlight systematic problems"), I am particularly put off by repeated suggestions like "the driver hit the cyclist": Unless the driver itself physically made contact with the cyclist, this is between inaccurate and confusing. It sounds like a fist fight broke out when the fundamental happening was someone being injured by sudden contact with a vehicle.

You can still involve the driver in the sentence if needed, but please don't advocate for confusing reporting in the name of unconditionally blaming individuals.

Also, suggestion for an addition: If you want to improve road safety, you could also recommend report on the maintenance status of the vehicle (e.g. were the brakes well-serviced?).
Seminal.
The s in IoT stands for security.
Basically every party that is contributing to the global warming can defend like this.
Flash being dead, and yet many enterprises still relying on it, opens the opportunity for Adobe to sell a pricey contract that allows an enterprise servicing company to provide Flash support.
It isn't really a Triad these days. It's more like a hexaiad when you consider the various forms that nuclear weapons can take.

But as to your question, silos benefit from very reliable coms. It's possible to communicate to subs, but it is slow and unreliable. Airpower suffers from jamming and signs of strike, since the planes need to be put in the air and that is observable. There is also a limit to the size of the missiles and therefore immediate range. If you want to strike anywhere on command with little notice, silos are best. If you want to hit foreign target with absolutely minimal response time, submarines usually win out, since most major capitals are by the ocean. But even beyond this consideration, it is good to have a diversity of options to reduce the risk of a catastrophic vulnerability existing. For example, some hypothetical weapon that could eliminate all your submarines without warning.
My understanding is that this project is more of a way for established researchers in a very theoretical field to start thinking about climate while using their existing skill sets to contribute.
Better math and even computation doesn't necessarily help in some cases. Take for instance the problem of making better solar cells and batteries.

We can't necessarily make a mathematical model useful for understanding the processes that happen during the manufacturing and operation of solar cells/batteries. In fact in many cases determining just what processes are happening is a problem in and of itself. We don't necessarily understand how batteries degrade or why adding a certain component or using a certain process makes batteries degrade less. Determining this often can only be done with real world experimentation.

One problem relevant to making organic solar cells is determining how organic constituents crystallize. A talk I saw looked into doing this computationally, but claimed it to be intractable. The problem was that the same compound, but with a different isotopic composition crystallized completely differently. This meant that nuclear motion mattered and that the already computationally expensive crystallization sim being done needed to be made orders of magnitude more computationally expensive to get useful results.

This isn't to say that math isn't useful, it's just that math isn't necessarily as useful when real world experimentation is necessary. That being said, math can still be quite effective in the natural sciences.
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Stripe already had native Bitcoin support back in 2014. It's such a shame they terminated that for unknown (but predictable) reasons. Stripe could have had an amazing opportunity to champion and push open payment standards such as the Lightning Network, and yet they just gave up on it.

Better late then never.
total non-sequitur
God, America is weird.
Powershell is actually good though.
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To understand Monads, we have to first understand Functors, Monoids and the Applicative type classes (type classes are more or less the same as interfaces in Java, C++ and the like).

A Functor is something that implements a `map` function. You can think of a Functor as anything that can encapsulate/surround something else. The map function applies a function to the encapsulated element without modifying the outer structure.
For example, a List is a Functor, that has this map function implemented in most languages. It indeed surrounds a given type (zero or more item of that type to be more correct), and it indeed applies the same function over each element of the map.
Several languages have a “Result/Maybe/Optional” type, that can either contain one instance of a type, or Nothing.
Some languages allow you to modify the inner element, when it exists, that is, it is also a Functor that encapsulates an element and has a map function to change that.

Let’s dissect this Monoid word next (which is not a Monad!). Before the definition, let’s look at an example: summing numbers. Let’s say we have a list of numbers, and we want to calculate the sum of it. We can start from the beginning and go through the list one by one, or sum the first half and the second half first, and then add them together. These are possible because the add operation is a Monoid over the numbers. What that means as an interface (type class) is, that it implements an `empty` function, a so called neutral element (0 for addition), and a `concat` one (which is + itself).

These names make us think of Lists, and indeed, Lists are Monoids as well, not only Functors. They have an empty method returning [], and they have a concat function that concats two lists together. Do note that concating an empty list to a list doesn’t change it.

Is a Return type a Monoid? We could make the case for empty being Nothing, where concating Nothing changes nothing, but what about concating two Results both containing an integer? Should we sum them or give the product, or write them next to each other?

It turns out that (in Haskell at least) you can do specify something like, this is only a Monoid if the embedded type it has is a Monoid. So for example that way a concat(Just [1,2], Just [3,4]) will return the concatenated list inside a result type.
They are in an all out war. Yemen is a war zone on par with where Syria was during the Obama regime.
"Person with bachelors degree if they took summers off unpaid"

> In this context "off" refers to time not spent in paid employment.

I don't see an appreciable difference between the two statements. Is your assertion that seasonal unemployment should be treated as a paid vacation?

Maybe it would be more accurate to describe teaching as a seasonal occupation rather than having "summers off." There are some similarities to seasonal labor underemployment in that the periods in which a seasonal firm doesn't operate are "A period of time where one is not required to work." Seasonal labor would fit that definition and also goes beyond in that work in that field is largely not available. I write "largely" since teacher acquaintances are able to find some work when schools are closed by teaching summer school, grading AP exams and various other work that requires a professional teacher but occurs outside the school year.

The critical part of separating "seasonal employment" from "paid vacation" is the employee's volition in setting the time period and duration of the time away from work. In many non-seasonal occupations a vacation may be scheduled by the employee and it is generally important for not all employees to be not working at the same time.

In the case of teaching, there are summer and other work closure periods which more closely resemble seasonal employment or maybe some manufacturing jobs that have periodic furloughs because the individual worker cannot choose when those periods occur.

> What if the people who are left are those who don't care about doing more than the bare minimum their job is worth

Performing to the required standard and not getting burned out seems like a positive vision for a workforce. It is especially important for one with little in the way promotional hierarchy to incentivize going above the standard in order to achieve higher renumeration.
Yep. GitHub is saying they would block an object that looked like it was crafted to produce a collision using SHAttered, and hasn't seen it, intentionally or otherwise, in the wild.
Waiting for the James Webb telescope to take a peek!
Putting the considerations of the State Department aside, the Houthis are a proxy for Iran which US isn't too happy to capitulate to.
The newest policy is to charge minors as adults unless there's a compelling and beneficial reason not to. I think that was a DOJ change around 2009. Not sure how many states followed suit. But in general, its increasingly likely that minors are being charged as adults.
Story time, I guess.

I went to a small private Christian school back in the late 200X's, and not the type of private school that had gobs of money. For two years, our desktop computers in the computer lab and the English classroom ran Ubuntu Linux (presumably because Windows licenses were >$0). The only students with Linux experience were myself and a friend that I introduced to Linux (who is also now an IT professional).

For a month or two we systematically changed the remote desktop preferences to automatically accept new connections and not to display any messages saying that there is a connection. We tried to never sit at the same computer twice so that we could "adjust" as many computers as possible and to make a secret map of where each computer was by hostname.

If we were in the computer lab and feeling mischievous (always), we'd poll around English classroom hostnames to see if any were in use, or vice versa. We'd "help" people write their papers (very creatively, I might add), speedrun through other students' typing lessons, open a terminal and run "telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl", or whatever else we could come up with.

Well, wouldn't you know it, word gets around this is happening and we naturally get called in to the principal's office (because who else?). While expecting the worst, we were told "we know what you're doing, we don't know how to stop you, but we encourage you to stop and use your technical abilities productively instead" and were let off without punishment. We both came out of it with great respect for the administration because they showed us respect we didn't deserve, and we stopped.
Coal plants runs on heat as coal isn't explosive enough to run turbines directly. If they are affordable then so is fusion heat. So the question is if we can generate fusion heat at low enough cost.
What? They have a yaml example for their platform near the end.

Certainly not going to trade yaml for CLI flags in scripts. Ever heard of IaC?
Thank you for the suggestions, especially that last one - I may be "paranoid" considering the target audience are professionals, I really should focus on the product rather than the fence (besides some basic defense so the points aren't in plain JSON).
Navies have the technology to make this a non issue. U.S. navy could stymie the minefield and tow it to where it can be decommissioned trivially. I wonder what geopolitics at play are preventing this sort of intervention?
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The students were extremely lucky.

The advice given to me in high school (I was working on tech projects after school for several teachers and groups) was to not even try or explore poking around the IT networks it no matter how good my intentions were. All it takes is one grumpy school administrator to feel undermined or to misunderstand your report and you could be expelled.

When you're in a position like a student, you're still working your way up and building credibility. No need to risk it all for an IT group that doesn't want your security advice and didn't ask for your help.
He addresses this pretty well in the post imo. His co-conspiritors remained unnamed while he alone revealed himself because he wanted to publish this post and it's highly likely he would've been blamed anyway.
So much attention to detail that I can't help but think that the kids parents were helping along the way.
There's a few really busy streets in my neighborhood where people regularly go 10-20 MPH over the speed limit.

Not surprisingly, there are quite a few hit-and-runs on those streets.

While it's probably the case that the folks who are speeding are just being selfish ("I want to minimize my time on the road") but they are doing so at the cost of safety. The equivalent w/r/t guns might be that someone was firing their gun willy-nilly, with little regard to their surroundings. If someone died in such a scenario, yes, it would have been an "accident" but we would also assign fault to the shooter (gross negligence, manslaughter, I am not a lawyer so I don't know the exact terminology).

The reality is that cars are EXTREMELY dangerous and yet Americans don't tend to think of them that way, and we definitely don't drive them (as a society) with that mindset.
The US has 2 Militia's under federal law, the organized Militia aka the national guard, and the unorganized militia which is 10 U.S. Code § 246 which states "The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and,... under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard."
> E.g. from using GPL projects.

Interesting — I just checked the standalone flash player I still have (and use sometimes), the "about" window doesn't list any free software. So either they aren't using any, or... But I find it unlikely that a company with this many lawyers would not read every letter of the license of every library they include in any of their projects.
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Ooh, I don't think I've ever visited a Flash site with HTTPS.
In many areas nowadays, solar is the cheapest source of energy bar none.

Now, suppose you live in one of those areas. Two questions:

1) What year was solar first ready for commercialization?
2) Would you ever consider that year's solar tech outside of extremely niche applications?
I have it running right now. My old school LaserJet 1320 is wireless on my home network. It's connected to a Raspberry Pi Zero W.

As someone mentioned, it's basically CUPS and Avahi. I've set it up years ago and it just runs.

The only thing that sucks is that printing from an iPhone takes about 5 minutes because of all the processing on the RPi. I suppose using a higher end RPi would fix that, but I like the small form factor. Printing from a PC is instant.
Their “divine” power comes from belief in such power by the people they rule. Without that, they are the real straw man. And that is what they are, figureheads and cultural tokens. It’s not good for the Japanese people and it is not good for the figureheads themselves. There is one miracle I would fairly attribute to the royal family, though, and that is ending WWII. It was not a supernatural, though, just rarely exercised authority that came from belief. Beyond that, there is no magic involved. I would also argue that the artifacts supposedly from the sun god look about like what you would expect from a good artisan a few thousand years ago. If they were advanced technology, I might give it a second thought. Lacking magic, authority, and power, what is left is a quaint memento of a long-gone past. That is what royal families are—-nothing more.
That would be a declaration of war, which is why ransomware
by some cash-strapped group of hackers is generally not an attack vector, given taking us-east-1 offline being seen as terrorism and the resources the US would dedicate to bringing such actors to justice. It'll always be easier to attack random medium-large companies' office ops, which are likely manned by 0 or underskilled IT security personnel (at least in current_year). Even for some place like Russia, the attackers would either need to be state-sponsored or Russia would avoid war by performing the rare non-treaty-bound extradition.
rsync and scp are two of my top favorite commands.
Nuking it would work.

I’m sure there are other reason not to do that.
Exactly. Where's Che Guevara? Another of the monsters of the 20th century and still quite popular as an icon.
From the linked paper, linked again [0] below, I think this represents Rudins philosophical view, and why it could be practical:

Here is the Rashomon set argument: Consider that the data permit a large set of reasonably accurate predictive models to exist. Because this set of accurate models is large, it often contains at least one model that is interpretable. This model is thus both interpretable and accurate.

Unpacking this argument slightly, for a given data set, we define the Rashomon set as the set of reasonably accurate predictive models (say within a given accuracy from the best model accuracy of boosted decision trees). Because the data are finite, the data could admit many close-to-optimal models that predict differently from each other: a large Rashomon set. I suspect this happens often in practice because sometimes many different machine learning algorithms perform similarly on the same dataset, despite having different functional forms (e.g., random forests, neural networks, support vector machines). As long as the Rashomon set contains a large enough set of models with diverse predictions, it probably contains functions that can be approximated well by simpler functions, and so the Rashomon set can also contain these simpler functions. Said another way, uncertainty arising from the data leads to a Rashomon set, a larger Rashomon set probably contains interpretable models, thus interpretable accurate models often exist.

If this theory holds, we should expect to see interpretable models exist across domains. These interpretable models may be hard to find through optimization, but at least there is a reason we might expect that such models

exist.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.10154.pdf
Next up, set up a site to include a randomly selected word from NSA's Prism trigger list within the pages.
Are you consuming the produce of those 100 corporations? I'm not saying you are personally responsible, of course, but we need to understand our way of life has implications and a price for this planet. This is not something "other, evil people are doing". It's just you and me living our lives.
The Soviets have been building the largest phages base for over 80 years [0] - when the West was flirting with antibiotics and overprescribing them, the Soviets were identifying bacteriophages against different types of bacteria collecting them from the sewers. Now, all this immense work got inherited by Georgia and they treat foreign patients from infections nobody else has success against!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliava_Institute
Nope! Maybe the trend is that a lot of kids these days double major( in the us) and end up with some passable programming skills. It’s still not the primary focus. Like you mentioned the focus is working with physical constraints in a cross functional environment
Yes, you could, but most things are in the noise (where I live at least, don't know about the world generally). You may die 20 years earlier without adding a lot of extra working hours for the hospital that treats your final illness, see? Smoking was the only one that made a significant difference, the rest had too small effects to care (when I looked at it, at the time of the great smoking ban debate here, n years ago).

Corona is different. It's able to swamp the hospitals, and even the intensive care units, where patients need a lot of expensive working hours in addition to a bed and some floor space.
Echoing the other comments, this is a pretty naive understanding of how a general purpose smart contract blockchain works and the incentive models involved that keep the kind of censorship described here from happening. They also don't seem to fully grasp how smart contracts that are in-fact decentralized work, and are cherry-picking the ones that have an authoritarian controller because of the nascency of the technology.

The article isn't really detailed at all, so it's hard to know where to start with why these "services" aren't in fact "centralized."

It's effectively the equivalent of someone saying "you can't keep your password secure from hackers if you store it in a database, if someone hacks it then they can steal it and use every site you used that password on": it's just obviously false to people who know how this works, but now I have to explain how hashing works and such.

I'd just encourage reading up on how Ethereum transaction mining works before just taking the article's claims at face value.
My first thought when I read the headline was "another kid with a felony following them around for a prank that didn't harm anyone". Nice to see they weren't prosecuted.