skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who picks a lock to break in? Common thieves have no need to pick locks.. totally dumb for a couple reasons.

Contrary to popular nerd belief... door locks in the US are not that easy to pick. Many have anti pick features like reverse sidebars that while not impenetrable increase time or skill required. While the lockpickinglawyer has videos, note that he is extremely skilled with tons of practice, it still can take more time than breaking, and those aren’t field conditions.
Just break the door in... stealing might as well use forcible entry.

Where picking is useful is covert spying, and if that is your threat model the addition of the second or third lock doesn’t really mean much.
That's the idea.
So, is this the REAL reason for Libra coin?

Create a virtual world that completely mirrors the real world, and that world will need currency and economics at scale too, why not use an alt coin as it's base?
Richard Feynman on “Why?” Questions
One expects flawless experience every time, not 97% of the time. A steak house is not that critical, but would you fly if the success rate of an airliner is 97%? Would you go to a steak house where you get a food poisoning every 3% of the time? Where do you draw the line?
I go to the park nearby for two to three hours the first thing in the morning, where I exercise [1] and meditate. It's been three months. It has changed my life: I get a boost of highest-quality time every morning. I sleep better, I move better, I am in mostly great mood all day because of such a start. I had troubles keeping a habit of exercise and meditation and the switch to this morning routine solved it greatly.

The first 28 days of forming the habit were a bit of a struggle, but together with my wife, we supported each other and eventually went through the whole month. After that I cannot imagine my morning without at least an hour in the park.

The time of waking up varies and depends on the morning temperature and amount of light. In summer we woke at 5-6am (it was warm and light), now it's ~7am (it's getting colder and darker outside).

The book The Willpower instinct [2] influenced me a lot regarding willpower in the morning.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJDz7qHBGQg

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Willpower-Instinct-Self-Control-Works...
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There is a huge difference between "research" and "here's another idea" — I would personally love to hear about some research backing any estimation methodology.

FWIW, I "feel" the big issue is with loosely defined requirements which shift as development progresses.
SaaS Model vs. Asp Model
Show HN: Bash-end – clean back end written in bash
in most countries you don't get billed your quarterly wage when an ambulance picks you up for a 10 min drive to the hospital.
Introducing AltStore
That's great, but large portions of the population live in apartments in those areas of Europe.
Completely agree - but as a counter point too, this for me also led to anorexia (not going vegan, but a restricted, over-analysed diet). I changed my diet and started monitoring and analysing everything, combined with what must've been a vulnerable mental state, meant I couldn't rationalise eating anything. I'm talking under 700 calories a day for months on end.

One minute you're being mindful about your intake, the next you're stood paralysed in the chilled aisle physically unable to choose a meal as they're all "so bad".

If you're in tip-top mental health, then restricted diets can work. But for anyone reading who's dealing with proper body image or any other food related issues - just be careful please.
What decides how good a slingshot something is isn't its density or mass (provided the mass >> than that of the object being slingshot), but rather its velocity relative to the sun. Planet 9 travels very slowly relative to the sun, and so is a poor slingshot, regardless of its density.
You're 100% right.

> Vegan is not always healthy. Plant based, unprocessed food does the trick. Fatty and salty french fries are technically vegan. There is a lot of junk food on the vegan side, which is also highly processed and features lots of sugar. It is not enough to stop eating dead animals, drinking milk or eggs.

I've been a junk food vegan for long enough (in a city that makes it easy) to prove to just about anyone that being vegan won't automatically make you healthier. It's way too easy to scarf half a bag of oreos in a day.
Also, DLSS was received rather poorly. The performance impact doesn't justify the increase in perceived quality, and the artifacts when it fails are pretty jarring.
C is a very complicated language with very complex compilers. The translation from C to assembly (under modern compilers) is hard to understand, even for "boring automatically-generated C code". Languages like LLVM-IR or Gimple are designed to be simple and translate more directly into assembly. I'd have the same complaint about javascript to a certain extent, but even though it's a full programming language it's a much simpler language than C and easier to introspect at runtime.
I usually don't go out of my way to pay with bitcoin, but recently needed to buy a PSN prepaid card and every website I tried either declined my 2 credit cards and paypal outright or requested some ridiculous verification (record myself on camera holding a passport to my face? To buy a $10 prepaid card? No thanks)

In the end I stumbled upon a shop that accepted bitcoin and got my PSN card in the time it took to get one network confirmation.
It certainly helps that the North Sea is very shallow. Lots of it is only 25 or 30 metres deep.
And then there are countries like Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, where hydro will never be enough, solar and wind will require ridiculous levels of storage and even nuclear is difficult to justify.
/e/ is not as "un-googled" as they claim to be:
https://ewwlo.xyz/evil https://infosec-handbook.eu/blog/e-foundation-first-look/

PS: These posts _may_ be outdated
Hey there, I've built this clean serverless app. To test it out you don't even need to login, try for example https://weather.marketing/new-flow let me know your thoughts!
Just because information is out there and accessible doesn’t mean it has much mainstream penetration. Locks are a very niche hobby. Most of my friends and family don’t know shit about locks any more than 30 years ago even though the technology is clearly documented and explained on YouTube.

YouTube has made pretty much everything widely accessible. Doesn’t necessarily change the market.
> The truth is most (and I mean nearly all) residential door frames in Murica snap like a match stick

FTFY
Security by obfuscation, anyone?

He's being flippant. If the logo wasn't there, it would just be a case of measuring N cm to know where to drill.
They also didn't honor their free extra months for users who didn't find a match the first six months. The whole site is a scam and shouldn't be operating.
So, firstly - huge thanks for taking the time to list the problems :) I'm the project lead for Matrix & Riot hence my interest.

Totally agreed that the lack of cross-signing for key verification is our single biggest problem. It turns out that this is not an easy problem to solve, but after a few rethinks we finally have a design (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/1756) and an implementation (https://scitech.video/videos/watch/d1ef04a8-397a-4570-a9a9-c...) which works. The only bit that remains is wiring it into the Riot's UI itself, which we started a few weeks ago and is looking promising. The TL;DR is that it optimises the number of verifications to the absolute bare minimum. You verify your new device once when you log into it (a bit like WhatsApp), and then everyone else will transitively trust the new device.

In terms of the unreliability of the matrix.org server: we added encrypted key backup about a year ago to solve the whole "if you get logged out you lose your keys" problem, but agreed it used to be a massive problem. And yes, the matrix.org security breach was a nightmare - apologies.

For the i18n bug: if the request to load the i18n file for your language fails for whatever reason, you get that ugly error - it's similar to getting an ugly page if the CSS didn't load. We can make the i18n req retry, though - i just filed https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/10965 for this.

In terms of the number of bugs - yes, we have 3775 open, and 5871 closed. This is because we deliberately try to track each and every possible suggestion & feature request & bug of every severity in the issue tacker; trying to use it as the main knowledge store for the project. I wouldn't judge the quality of a project by the number of bugs - it's like judging the quality of a book by the number of pages. It doesn't tell you much beyond how big a book it is.

Search should work, but delegates straight through to postgres's FTS engine. We need to tune it better, for sure.

> So basically, it's a mess right now

Hopefully key verification will fix the biggest issue here. Thanks for persevering with it in the interim.
I read a fiction book about a tiny black hole getting caught in the planets gravity well then falling threw Earth back and forth just fucking stuff up every time. Scary stuff.
The Easiest way ever to make an invoice
Also the cheapest 1oz DDU rate is $1.62 and I can buy a generic mug with free shipping for less than that on aliexpress.

Let alone how moving up one step in granularity to the more realistic DSCF pricing, where you go to the closest of 350 facilities instead of the closest of 30000, is already $2.52 for 13oz...
The "separated" issue makes sense because on Planet Dating "separated" can mean anything from "The divorce papers have arrived and I haven't updated my status yet" to "I'm still living in the same house as my spouse and we have sex in between rows, but I'm not sure where this is going" to "I didn't mention I was married? Oh. Well. Sorry."

But I suspect incompetence rather than malice. They simply didn't care enough - or weren't self-aware enough - to do a basic sanity check on status before onboarding. Or perhaps decided to add the check later and didn't have the spare braincells required to rearrange the onboarding sequence.
Ask HN: Examples of reverse engineering efforts documented in scientific papers?
I'm currently writing my master thesis, where I'm reverse engineering a proprietary network protocol, and is looking for some inspiration on how to present my research.

Does anyone know "good" papers where the author(s) have done something similar?
The point stands, it's not any more dangerous than an earth sized object of the same mass, in fact it's less. It isn't any easier to divert from it's orbit, it is not any more likely to collide with the earth if diverted (in fact less so on account of its small size), and it would be no more destructive on collision.
What makes you think Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP are not scams? That's the entire point of this argument: Bitcoin is a scam. I showed you an article about how there are no legit usages (aside from those that include it out of hype but could be implemented just as well without) and another which shows you it is a digital version of the chain distributor scheme.
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NVMe defines compare and atomic compare-and-write operations, but I'm not sure if there are any notable users of them. They certainly aren't exposed by typical file IO abstractions. There's nothing like a fetch-and-add in any typical storage protocol that I know of.
Second Life 2.0
I don't like Trump, he is mostly wrong, but pretending absolutely everything he says is wrong, is a dangerous proposition.

I still think these wind farms are vastly positive, but we should recognize the problem with bird populations, and find clever ways to mitigate it, instead of putting the question aside just because "the bad orange men" said this was happening.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10344-018-1192-z
It is, but you should use a new name/profile pic combo to get around the algorithm re-slotting you into your old position. Ideally you'd only use your first name, a couple of new pics and don't link any other account so they can't track you(if you must - make a new instagram/spotify to link)
That is not just the US. Over here in the EU if you go through the ingredient list of prepared meat products, you will discover that 98% of those have some sugar added.

That is not to say there is no difference. When I travel to the US I find most if the food really unbearably sweet. Strange exception is fresh fruit, which seems to be a lot less flavorful in the US than over here.
Elixir for Python programmers, part 2
> you can get mouseless search with ctrl+t and f6

You can get "very mouseless" with vim vixen add-on
OK, WTF Is Google's 'Quantum Supremacy'?
It FEELS like a shadow ban, no matter how many people you superlike or swipe right on you'll never get a match.

Current time to shadowban seems to be around 3 months
Cryptocurrencies are fiat currencies: They have no intrinsic value except what people collectively agree to pretend they do. It's paper money on a computer.

At least gold has real uses in jewellery and industrial applications to put a floor under its value.
A phone can be left at the door in social meetings. Real prescription glasses can not.
Read this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_rape

(see Romeo and Juliet clause)

Stallman being a defender of freedom has, obviously, a very powerful definition of consent ('cos consent is a form of freedom). It's far of ours, and in a dangerous territory. But that doesn't make it wrong.
Hearing aids are actually quite complicated little machines compared to a pair of lenses.
From a quick web search, these seem to be more about foreign nationals being detained in China for political reasons or to compel compliance. Not great, but also not really relevant to what I thought we were talking about (ie. Chinese businesses having to make concessions to the government in order to operate).
I've discovered a foolproof way to make billions of dollars and take
controlling interest in the major corporation of your choice. I'll share my
secret with you, since I'm all done using my system (hint: if you want to
buy any corporation known by three capital letters... forget it.).

Step 1:

Find somebody you trust to work with you as your partner. Your wife is a
good choice, although in a pinch your pet hamster will suffice.

Step 2:

Create a dot.com company. Building a company with strong technical
underpinnings and lead by a passionate and visionary leader is best.
However, you can also cycle through e-<word>.com, choosing <word>'s from the
dictionary until you find one which isn't used. Whatever.

If you find all the names are used, try the dictionary of a foreign
language.

Step 3:

Go public! Issue 1,000,000,000 shares of stock. Keep 999,999,999 shares
for yourself, and sell the other share.

Step 4:

Have your partner buy that share for $100.

Step 5:

Party!!!!! You now have a $100 billion market cap. Make sure you give
interviews to Time, WSJ, and so forth. (If you don't understand why you
have a $100 billion market cap, please close your AOL account and go back to
your day job; this system isn't for you.)

Step 6:

Buy the company of your choice, using your $100 billion in stock. (Note:
avoid companies created using this system.)

Step 7:

Retire. You've worked hard, and you deserve it.

(edit: source unknown, found on r.h.f a long time ago)
One thing I found whatsapp app does is that, if it detects that notification is disabled for a notification group like, say group chats, it deletes and recreates the permission group and android automatically enables it again as `enabled` is the default setting. I'm pretty sure Facebook's all apps does it but I dont have any of their other apps in my phone.
what's unique is that juul goes at 50mg of nic, where most small operators would stop at 20mg. with step downs all the way to 0mg. juul only offers 50mg. (20mg in Europe as that is the legal max)
There's a little bit of a disconnect on the definitions people use. Usually when people talk about ketosis, they are implying the body has some kind of "fat burning" mode where you will burn the fat you have stored, and that you can trigger this mode without changing the number of calories you eat just by getting rid of carbs. This is for all intents and purposes a myth.

Of course you're right, in the other sense, that if you don't eat any carbs your body will be burning the fat you ingest instead, and that this will show up in your bloodstream. You also won't burn any weight this way unless you have a calorie deficit (as you note, it's "temporary").

Note that when OP said that "it doesn't happen", they didn't mean ketosis doesn't happen. They meant that meat-heavy diets don't result in weight loss because of ketosis.
I read this book once.
I suspect by "while the black hole was inside the earth" he meant at the centre of the Earth
Well, it's very good for still images, problem is, it doesn't work well on videos, since the way it works is not temporally consistent.
I’m genuinely asking, is that what you have to do if you’re not part of this postal union or is there some other state you find yourself in as an outsider? Do packages stop getting routed via your country? I don’t know!
The typical website fits on a small number of pages.
Reddit and other anonymous social media sites have "profile rates" where you can just submit your profile and have people point out issues.

Lots of people are told they have no problem with their profile and that they should just recreate their account to get around their shadow ban.

The house of cards that Tinder built is falling down
For comparison, that's a bit more than the electric consumption of all fourteen 90 years old houses on our street combined. Would cost roughly 650 USD a month over here.

Unless you are running an extremely energy intensive commercial operation at home, there's a lot of low hanging fruit to be picked. Get an energy audit yesterday. That could hugely benefit all of your comfort, your wallet and the environment.
Where I live, the smart locks I saw are mounted in from the inside and go over the existing screw bolt thing that unlocks the door. From outside you would have no idea that it's a smart lock. But yeah, they don't have something outside you could touch an NFC tag on to unlock
CEO raised the minimum salary of his employees to $70k
We should talk bugs and vulnerabilities. There won’t be enough prisons.
> He did not say Minsky was legally innocent of sexual assault (he in fact gave no opinion of guilt).

That part of my comment was overly sarcastic. I have to apologize for that.

> He said that sexual assault is a poor term, for reasons of broadness and vagueness, and that we should avoid using such terms in order to avoid ambiguity.

I would say that the term is intentionally broad and vague precisely because violence is only one of many ways to force an unwilling participant and how it was done is mostly irrelevant to the end result.

> he just (tl;dr) said it sucks and we shouldn't use it (and instead should use something more specific).

As far as I can tell he never actually brought up a more specific term and just disagreed in a rather non constructive fashion against the use of both sexual assault and rape, even when someone explicitly referred to laws.
I think the surface would just become liquid again.
If it's not moving quickly, we would notice its gravitational interaction with the well-known dynamics of the various large objects already in our solar system. A 9mm black hole's gravitational influence would be fairly subtle though compared to a multiple Earth-mass black hole; the bowling ball sized black hole mentioned in the paper as an upper bound is not the kind of thing that could wander into the inner solar system unnoticed.
You're talking about the low morals of banks vs. cryptocurrencies, but I feel much safer depositing my savings in a regulated bank than I would converting them into any type of cryptocoin. Is my perception wrong?

I understand that in particular cases (e.g., hyperinflation), you may prefer cryptocurrency, but for the vast majority of people, official currencies and regulated banks are much safer and practical.
Ask HN: Can I Control Echo Buds Pings to Amazon?
New echo buds seems like a great tech product at a decent price with noise reduction, ideal for some work calls.
I'm actively not entering the smart assistant world in general except for Siri to set up some alarms and checking weather.
I want to avoid Amazon spying on me as much as possible, so how to control amazon devices not pinging their real home ? (Amz servers)
Technically most email is not encrypted so every single mail server in the middle also has access.
Some people like Bitcoin and some people use it to pay for stuff, and they want to see more people like them, so they can transact in Bitcoin more.

Some critics seem to like making frankly ill conceived semantic arguments about the academic definition of a currency (or on your case, appeals to authority), but it really has no relation to whether Bitcoin is going to succeed or not succeed.
Wouldn't momentum transfer from the consumed mass slow it down?
The new format is (way) easier / simpler and yes, you can use pandoc for markdown processing. If you create an online book than you can just use HTML & CSS e.g. a "standard" website or a webpage is a book. You should ask why the book industry created a new format, that is, EPUB :-).

PS: That's also the direction the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) tries to go (but failed). See the upcoming https://www.w3.org/TR/wpub/ recommendation / standard / spec trying to replace EPUB. Compare the book manifest of manuscripts with the book manifest of wpub to see what format keeps it simple.

PPS: And to keep apple and oranges apart - FYI: pandoc is NOT a book format (it's a text processor), thus, you should compare Manuscripts to EPUB or the new WPUB.
Came here to say that. I am very happy with Zigbee and wish more companies would embrace it
People's reactions to how they are treated is emotional.

The guy apparently received appalling service and was humiliated in front of his girlfriend on Valentine's day by a restaurant he trusted and was attached to.

This was personal betrayal.

This is why cause people to react so strongly. We don't see this as a simple business transaction, this is personal and emotional.
Same with my family members getting google home products. Never switched on. I think people tolerate phones and computers because they are isolatable objects that are meant for work. The further this stuff steps into family life and real life relationships (not just narcissistic projections on facebook/ig pages), the more people don't want it.
I don't know... It's sometimes nice to be able to meet random strangers instead of remaining in your own filtered little bubble. My formative years were spent on IRC like a few of the other commenters here and I would judge that as a strictly positive experience.
There is no going back about cleaning plastics by traditional methods now unfortunately.

The only real solution I see is if we bio-engineer some bacteria/microorganism capable of decomposing it and release it in the environment. It might be a danregous proposition, but (expect the even more advanced and potentially dangerous proposition of nanites) I can't see any other way of getting rid of all the plastic we already put into the environment even if we stop producing it.
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That blog was amazing - one of the best overviews of the realities of dating published anywhere at any time.
You can still do it.
Make it open source too.
i dont give two fucks about match.com, but its called priming the pump. not illegal, I dont think??? :)
Reminds me more of Ready Player One
Where is the scale bar? If the page is not printed in the right dimensions or displayed 1:1 on a screen, the figure is wrong.
And add the problem with plastics with the fact that this marketing stunt with pyramidal tea bags, occupies about 3x more volume and as such take 3x more resources to store and transport than traditional tea bags.