skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The conditions are exotic for a planetary atmosphere, trivial for a physics or chemistry lab. If such particles existed, they would have been discovered long ago.
Apple AR/VR Headset to Feature Iris Scanning for Authentication and Payments
2 years Vanlifer here.

I am surprised he didn't mention once asking the locals. That is my key to knowing how people live in different countries. Also you get tons of inside information and it is an easy step to connect to people. Often times you get 'adopted'. You find yourself as a special guest on a private family garden party. Or on parties in locations that only the 'cool people' know it is open because Corona regulations mixed things up.

I am currently recording hundreds of videos to share all knowledge on YT.
While this is true, the company could just pay you $18,500 less and put that in your pension. Benefits are fungible.
Hire the most capable people for the job, period.

I sympathize a bit with things like Affirmative Action, but at the end of the day, a person (disregarding gender, physical condition, race, etc...) who earned it doesn't deserve to be displaced by others who didn't.
And yet my brain functions at least 100x faster than I can speak, leaving me to unsnarl the proverbial traffic jam in my head as the rate at which speech can communicate ideas lags behind the vast decision trees quickly generated in my thoughts.

It's much more effective for me to write something that's both clear and persuasive than trying to express the same idea with synchronous, expository speech. For full disclosure, I was trained as a writer.

Whenever the interview process includes a writing component, I invariably ace them. I'm a software engineer.
For the more adventurous, there is also r/zerobag!

Lots of interesting little posts and articles, but few enough to read them in an afternoon.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Zerobag/
How do you classify the difference (in problem/scope, etc) of type ahead versus full blown search? It feels like these systems can be grown almost completely differently -- you could hack together completely in-browser "search" with datalists[0] and just prune it actively (and fool most users, depending on how varied searches were).

I do wonder how much deep search really matters when people only really expect to look at the first page.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/da...
There's a subreddit devoted to the topic of working multiple jobs: https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/. It has 101k members.
The nudity is the least-relevant part of the story. The target could’ve been the victims’ private love letters or recordings of singing practice and the violation would’ve been the same.
> And why not?

Because I'm the owner of the machine and I decide what informarion the applications running on it can obtain. If I want them to believe they're running on an unmodified operating system, then that's what they should believe.

> it could have been tampered with by a malicious actor who can now lift your bank keys from the device

Then give me the keys to the machine and let me use them to sign my own software. People who don't care can use the easy corporation attestation but I still get to maintain control.

> You modified your OS to do something you couldn't do on an OS that wasn't tampered with.

> If instead, the thing you wanted to do was available behind an appropriate permission, you wouldn't have had to modify your OS to begin with.

And what if what I want to do goes against some corporation's terms of service or whatever? What if I want to monitor what apps send over the network? Reverse engineer an app? Copy and manipulate their data? Automate tasks? Fake the personal information returned by system calls? Block advertising? Block surveillance?

Essentially, what if I want to do anything that harms their bottom line? These are not things that corporations will ever give me permission to do. It's an affront to my freedom as a computer user.
I agree with you, but in many areas (of the US, at least) you are stuck with 1 or 2 ISPs at the most. They'll tell you to upgrade to a business account or GTFO.
I seriously doubt this will cause HIPAA problems.
Yeah, not sure why this commenter is rushing to their defense. Out of all PR fumbles, this one is the fumblest.
My degree was in CS. I graduated a LONG time ago.

I took courses on Cryptography, Networking (with a unit on DoS/DDoS mitigation), Operating Systems (with a TON of systems programming that got me intimately familiar with buffer overflows and memory models), and a Software Engineering course that included some discussion of injection attacks.

As term or course projects I implemented or was part of team that implemented: a virus scanner, an intrusion detection system (back before they were common -- we called in 'dynamic iptables' or something like that), portions of an operating system with a bunch of security and permissions relevant stuff, a password cracker, and a bunch of crypto algorithms.

Aside from all of this, a basic understanding of how to program and build software systems is already important background.

But no CS is totally unrelated to infosec and I'm a sexist dick for saying that people in leadership should know about the work they are managing. /s
Interesting. Another approach could be to build a USB-C cable that has both a USB-C plug and a male barrel plug in a Y on one end. The USB-C plug is what you expect, but the barrel jack is fed USB-PD 12V/3A.

(Benson Leung is probably having a bad dream right now.)
It's definitely scummy journalism, but there's also a little misunderstanding in how social media reps work in Germany vs elsewhere.

Basically in Germany, they tend to operate with considerably more autonomy. It is not uncommon to see official Twitter accounts arguing with customers, where in the US you'd probably just get a canned response or ignored if you're sufficiently rude. So I'm not surprised that someone like this decided to interpret policy by themselves, and failed.
Cars were exactly the other example I was going to use but cut my comment short.

Anyone who has looked in the engine bay of a car from 50s/80s/00s/now can observe how tightly packed & compartmentalized everything is now. Early cars had a lot of room under the hood cuz mechanics were constantly in there tinkering, adjusting or replacing bits and pieces. It's incredible how long a car from a reliable brand lasts now, with minimal maintenance.

EVs are another step function in this change as theres even fewer mechanical moving parts and fluid lines to worry about.
The capital class will never allow for the elimination of police.

If they do, the result will be worse, because it will have been because they realized they could hire private security for cheaper than funding public protection.

If you don't like the unaccountability of cops, look forward to the accountability of Pinkerton private investigators.
i could use a beer right now! haha. thank you for the well wishes.

i am not a big fan of rollercoasters but i guess i'll ride this one XD
It's an ideology in favor of the European Union
dpdk is not general purpose networking. It's passing a device to a process and forgetting about it; the process itself needs to decode what is sent on the wire and make sense of it.

It's basically the kernel giving up on trying to do anything with the hardware, thus it's not available to any other process except the one that takes the hardware.

To have general purpose networking in user space you will end up with some other IPC which does not rely on sockets (because sockets are kernel) or shared memory which is dangerous as hell.
Why is this NATO’s responsibility?

Is NATO the global democracy enforcer?
> If, like me, you're working for a Fortune 200 company and it takes multiple ServiceNow tickets to get on-prem hardware

What's stopping them, after they "embrace the Cloud," from making it take multiple ServiceNow tickets and several months to change an IAM policy? This has been my experience in very large corps that do use AWS. Typically it's also made a violation of policy to use a team-specific cloud account.

P.S. After having helped a mid-sized company migrate some core functions from DC to cloud, I agree with your startup advice.
I agree in principle, but in the mean time we need triage. The current system has reached a breaking point.

> Do you really think lowering the bar is a good idea?

How much lower can the bar go? The "ethical and self regulation" you describe is all too often nonexistent. If my experiences - and many others I've read about - are any indication, the situation couldn't be much worse. There are certified professionals doing everything from actively pushing religion to making a cynical game out of how fast they can pigeonhole your 'symptoms' into a checklist so they can prescribe the currently most marketed drug for that DSM entry. Then they tell you to report back in two months.

Just having someone to talk your shit out with regularly who doesn't judge too much and has knowledge of practical solutions for common stressors would be a vast improvement over the 'care' all too many are currently receiving. The guidelines for providing simpler care like this can be clear & concise, and we have better tools now for filtering out bad actors. I see more reasons to continue advocating for such an approach than not at this point.
I interpreted the post you replied to be directed towards the part about extortion, and not contrary to what you are writing. I agree with both.
Just identify the AI as your obligatory diversity if questioned.
What's weird to me is that this seems like a totally implausible accidental misspelling, which just shows how differently people type, I guess.

I can see that 'i' and 'u' are adjacent on the keyboard, but if you touch-type, they belong to different fingers, and I can't see how I'd transpose them while getting all the other letters right. If my right hand were shifted over by a key, I might get 'gutguv' or 'gotjim', I guess.
No, it's really about material science and biology, just read further in the ad:

Responsibilities

• Follow the latest progress in computational science such as material and biology.

• Solve real-world problems in material and biology, with computational approaches such as molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry, and machine learning.

• Optimize and speed up classical molecular dynamics and quantum chemistry algorithms with artificial intelligence and high-throughput computational methods.
Doubt. You don't need access to Accurint to pay some hacker to hack an account. What that access gave him as quicker access to information you'd otherwise need more time (and money, presumably) to obtain.

From the Accurint website: "Find out why more than 400,000 public and private organizations of all sizes rely on powerful, industry leading LexisNexis Accurint® to support their business goals.", mentioning Collections, Government, Healthcare, Insurance, Law Enforcement, Legal, Private Investigations.

It very much sounds like a generic database that millions of Americans have access to. Are they all just one bad day away from hacking everything and everyone with all that access to this super advanced hacking technology? Probably not.

The website continues: "Accurint® for Law Enforcement is a cutting-edge investigative technology that can expedite the identification of people and their assets, addresses, relatives and business associates by providing instant access to a comprehensive database of public records that would ordinarily take days to collect."
Gotta say I’ve met plenty of interesting people in NYC and plenty of dull people in Wilmington Delaware, so this doesn’t check out to me. Interesting people are interesting partially because they’re inspired
Do you have any more details/stories you could share on that? Sounds fascinating. What clues emerged when one of these employees left?
The current systems definitely have problems. There are parallels with content moderation and government in general. How do you attract the right people to do the job, limit the damage from the wrong ones, and reform the system to be better for everyone?
Same way illegal drugs are banned, pass everything through a scanner that detects the illegal thing. In this case, it would a UWB (and/or BLE and/or NFC, AirTags seems to use all three technologies) detector that flags any bags for manual inspection.

Not saying banning it is right/wrong, just that there definitely is a way of detecting them if you really want to.
Of course. But it's common enough lingo to use phrases like "civilian oversight" to refer to non police community members.

The intent is to suggest unarmed, non law enforcement organizations.
Yes, that's true - those products are definitely more of trying to displace the open source tech by borrowing the interface. I still think it is a plain admission to the fact of the popularity of the original tech (e.g. MySQL and Postgres). For sure, credit due where it is due for implementing entirely new implementations - but it's such a common pattern to "borrow" the open source interfaces and reimplement the core engine.

That said, you didn't mention things like RDS or Google Cloud SQL, which are cloud-based versions of standard open source dbs.
Microsoft is one of the least careless companies about security in the entire industry, and particularly so when it comes to cryptography. It's just a very big company, and they don't (or didn't, last I checked) have a cryptography review board the way Google does, to make sure people like Niels Ferguson get their eyes on all their crypto-bearing features.
>the one time I did go overseas, I way overpacked.

For urban/semi-urban travel (i.e. don't require a lot of specialized gear/just in case supplies) carry-on is pretty doable for most people--though I wouldn't go as far as tiny backpack. It requires a certain mindset. You're not going to have a lot of outfits and may be dressed on the downscale side if you go to nice restaurants, etc. Make a lot of things do double/triple duty. You may be washing some clothes in the hotel sink. You're prepared to buy something you need in a pinch.

I'm not fanatical about it and do carry enough stuff to want to drop off a bag wherever I'm staying but rarely check luggage either.
That's not really the point. Any individual person will have their own biases and shortsightednesses, and basic assumptions about the world. People with similar backgrounds will tend to have similar biases.
If you download the linux version of Firefox from mozilla.org you get a tarball that you can extract and run Firefox from without needing to do anything to install it. When I've run it this way it self updates the same way as it does on macos or windows.
You're speaking from a position of privilege. I'd like everyone to have this safety. Not just people like me having a well-paid job.
It's pretty universally accepted that investing in public transport and trains 40 years ago would have led to an awesome economic boon, while dramatically lowering emissions. As mentioned, planning could have been much better. And every poor decision there has some car or oil corporation's fingerprints on it.

We could have spent much more on solar, nuclear, and other cleaner power.

We could have punished media and politicians that helped sell out our planets future for some slimy oil dollars.

There's a lot we could have done. But instead we have takes like yours; a direct result of 40 years of FUD and misinformation. Do you have the faintest idea what those cars, those cows, those oil spills and methane leaks cost us?

And they're going to cost much much more.
And the comment thread were in is in reference to the title being clickbaity and misleading.

And trained to use this tool? It doesn't take training to type a person's name into a textfield. Try going to Google and typing in a full name and city. Chances are you'll find the address, past addresses, phone numbers and roommates and family members. Probably not for yourself because most people on this site understand tech, but try it for some of your less tech/privacy aware friends.
> Are ferroelectric diodes more sensitive to external tampering than a “typical” memory circuit?

Possibly? But the solution would be to put a Faraday cage around the memory. Something that effectively already happens when you have a heat sink on your memory. But further, you also have steal case surrounding your memory that helps there.
I gave up and installed the app. Still holding out on Facebook even though the web version on mobile is pretty bad.
> Yes, unintended side effects. Yes, expensive. Yes, not guaranteed to work. That's what's on the table.

I think I see your point, but you are missing the elephant in the room. And you are not alone in missing it, so don't panic about being blind.

> Without some drastic step, global temperatures will rise by more than 2 degrees...

This, we know it for sure. Why not just accepting it (as the fact we know it is) and start to plan accordingly?

More and more land around the equator will become inhabitable, and people will be forced to emigrate en masse? Let's help them to start emigrate today!

Those tiny islands in the Indian Ocean that will be submerged by the rising water? Stop building there, and teach the children that their future will be somewhere else.

Widespread viruses? Learn from Covid 19, cooperate world-wide to have express vaccines and so on.

Sure, I'm talking about very, very sad scenarios, but so are you. But my proposals:

1- are based on what we know today;

2- we know that they can work;

3- we can estimate the amount of pain they will cause.

None of this point applies to any other proposal I've ever heard about concerning global warming.
Ask HN: Teaching Greybeard IT
I'm finding that I picked up a LOT of IT knowledge over the past 40 years...and that some of our new hires are missing out on that foundation...skills are weak on networking, Bottleneck troubleshooting, understanding what a healthy or unhealthy process looks like.

There's stuff online for mutexes and race conditions and VonNeumann bottlenecks in general, but I'm having a hard time finding the concept in general.

Do you have any suggestions on where I can point people, or should I just start throwing stuff together myself?
To be fair, it can't here, because all strings are delimited.
How do you get PB&J through airport security?

Also, can you somehow turn off your subscription popup on your website just on the "About" page (where I'm not reading any of your content yet)?

You seem to have some nice candid photography.
Well, don't I look like an ass. I haven't even pulled the cable out of the box in years, but I just checked the cable in the box from my iPhone 14 Pro and sure enough, it was USB-C to Lightning.
Snowden said these kinds of pics were passed around at the NSA too..

And here's a case of how California Highway Patrol officers used to pass around pictures from phones they scanned https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Disturbing-texts-in-CHP...

Basically, beyond the general ethics that should restrain individuals from non-consensual distribution of intimate imagery, and the policies on social networks and other institutional environments banning this kind of activity, lies the domain of law enforcement... and if they have the ability to access people's phones like this then they have an obligation to be scrupulous about their behavior
It's surprisingly easy to develop OS-specific code using Zig (the language Bun uses), because of its excellent integrated support for cross compilation and comptime feature. For example, with some zig code I write (a posix layer for node), I build for many platforms in parallel every time I make a change.
I have access to Accurint through my work, it is one of the most powerful lookup services I have ever seen.
This is a most excellent forum
The most famous person to say this was a billionaire who made his wealth selling peoples' personal data.[1] He's famous for having given a $90m golden parachute to a person as his punishment for accusations of sexually harassing Google employees.[2]

1. https://www.computerworld.com/article/2468308/google-ceo--if...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Rubin#Sexual_harassment_a...
This is a major reform, as the politicians who are captured by various interests have STRONG incentives to join that Committee. For example, look at the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee -- there's only two Senators from states east of the Mississippi River, and one is West Virginia (a major energy provider as well). An elected official requesting a spot on the committee from an energy consuming state will have a very hard time.

https://www.energy.senate.gov/members

The Republican party is somewhat better than the Democrats on this-- Committee reform was a major plank of the 1994 Contract With America and the GOP still has term limits for Committee Chairmen.

https://about.bgov.com/news/frustrated-democrats-mount-push-...
Reflections on Project Fugu
We could have started the switch to cleaner power and better planning and quality trains and public transport etc. forty years ago, but we were knowingly lied to.

Fossil fuel companies knew about climate change and deliberately spent decades obfuscating the issue and warping discourse.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/08/exxon-cl...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62225696
Is this the guy who covered Hunts Point in the Bronx? I remember seeing his pictures, feels like a long time ago now.

I found a Flickr album here [0]. I also vaguely recall a long form article, talking about a few different people's lives, but I can't seem to find that one.

[0] - https://www.flickr.com/photos/arnade/albums/7215762646801687...
He just explained why facebook and instagram feeds are just an endless stream of cat videos and scantily clad girls.
Scala had a separate hierarchy of collections as well IIRC (and their entire collection thing seemed like a much better design than what Java did, admittedly with years of learning from Java's mistakes)
Dude, did you really say that? Where's the border?
It is possible for data sources to be so noisy in such unpredictable and pathological ways that there is no practical way to extract signal. I expect this would be one of those cases.

As a simple for instance, out of what would be thousands of interacting and correlated issues, if some new line of RAM is put out that has more errors than before, your detector would have a hard time not seeing that as an increase in cosmic rays. And the real world deals out correlations that are very difficult to deal with. They could creep out slowly, or, AWS might order a whackload of these over the course of weeks and turn them all on at Tuesday at 9am. Trying to filter all those out is not necessarily mathematically possible.
People will throw away about 5.3B phones this year
Of course I don't live in a country that has actual winter, that's the point.

If I buy winter clothes in my home country, the clothes will be ugly, expensive, and I have no way to make sure if they even work for their intended purpose. It's too hot here.

But when I go to countries that have actual winters, especially First World countries, then I can find decent winter clothes even in, say, a Target.

> The clothes aimed at locals are designed to be a 5 to 10 year investment

Not if you shop at Target :)