skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wanted to find out how secure people think this is

It depends on what do you compare this with. PKCS/OpenPGP smartcard is protected by a PIN (6 digits min, 3 tries and it locks itself out) and then touch on each use (with Yubikey).

U2F on the other hand it just protected by touch so anyone having the token can authorize themselves. (Sites usually use it in conjunction with username/password that is "something you know").

On the yet another hand I didn't review the implementation and would welcome corrections here.
Emperor Bezos from Elysium will instruct Count Musk from Mars to finally reinvigorate the barren wastelands of old Earth by laying hyperloops of chinese provenance across. The mutated apes will scream with joy.

(editypo)
We already get them: Whiplash, Baby Driver, Inception, Arrival, The Martian... Those are just a few of my favourites from the last decade or so but the list goes on!
Not having to support the OpenSSH / OpenSC / GPG stack is a big one for me. The built-in support shipped on MacOS just works[1], Putty-CAC just works on Windows, but the OpenSC + GPG setup is semi-stable and will randomly fail in ways which require you to stop what you're working on to kill daemons or unplug/replug the device to get it working again. I would not want to support anything involving that stack.

1. The Yubikey docs describe the pre-Sierra process — https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208372 has what most people will want to use after 2016. See https://github.com/Yubico/developers.yubico.com/issues/197.
Yeah yeah we've all read Taleb - no virtue without sacrifice and all that. I basically disagree with your premise that you can only question corporate power while not working for a corporation (strong "yet you participate in society, curious" energy [0]). Let's be clear here: humans banding together to accomplish goals greater than that which they are individually capable is a good thing. Now we just have to decide the governance model. Currently we have the unchallenged shareholder/executive system. Why not create a parallel power structure representing employees?

[0] https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha
I suspect we'll see companies starting to avoid hiring people who've made politics their religion. I'd be surprised if Google isn't already trying to take steps in that direction.
USA

"Good" Public Elementary School (ages 6-11): Little to no bullying

Small Catholic Middle School (ages 12-14): a decent amount of physical/verbal bullying. I escaped most of it by being a bigger kid. But it definitely seemed like an issue in the Catholic schools in the area (I saw the same pattern at a summer school at another school).

"Progressive" Private high school (ages 15-18): Little to no bullying. But lots of pressure to succeed. We had a pretty bad suicide problem, considering the size of the school.
Looks like it is was a fairly popular term, with strong growth by the late 90s.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&year_e...
> Security is defined with respect to certain threats, and blockchain is rarely the most secure with respect to the threats in a monetary system.

Wow, this is a great way to frame this! What do you see as the largest threats to the effective operation of a monetary system?
Windows POS Ready 2009 is the Windows-7 based product that we still use here. Supported until 2023 by contractual obligations. No wonder they are offering ESUs to businesses and maybe even consumers - gotta write the updates anyways, might as well push em out to a few other skus?
The aircraft featured in the article is powered by electricicty, so it doesn't emit any greenhouse gas.
A company that builds almost exclusively products designed to murder people also profits from patent trolling? Why am I not surprised
I just went to google and searched ycombinator. This is copy/pasted from the first result (Copy Link Address):

--> https://www.ycombinator.com/

What am I missing?
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Very cool! This is a feature I've partially added to AlgoDaily[1], but your implementation is a much more clean and intuitive IMO.

I assume this works the same as pythontutor.com by executing a code snippet through a debugger and playing back the execution trace. Is each code snippet custom created, or do you have a tool that generates these visuals?

[1] https://algodaily.com/challenges/reverse-a-linked-list
I wish superior innovation were more responsible for the bulk of profits. Weighted by volume, in more cases it is simple market power.

(Fun fact: Statistics was invented many times throughout history. Minus the last time, it was always hidden to make someone money.)

Even when you've got awesome secrets, you've still got other parts of the business. Open research moves faster. Libraries of books have been written about investment, or running a business, or writing software, or other profitable things. Granted, some of that comes from people teaching without acting -- but a lot of it too comes from actors with serious skin in the game.
That's really cool! I would have never thought of that.

Relatedly, someone made a Braille printing robot out of a Lego one a while ago, too, and apparently went even further- https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/01/20/braille-lego-...
I have great internet and like it - sometimes I think I had a cache hit - but it’s just amp. For some reason it usually is also less bogged down w ads - any idea why?
I am curious if there are people who don't have experience of some sort of school bullying.
Exactly. It's kind of amazing how so many people can't conceive that others may have different moral codes than them. Or who think that recognizing those differences must mean one has to defend them all.
Your comment is essentially "How can we care about A when someone's suffering from B in Kolechia?" which is a emotionally manipulative argument, actually.

You still can, and should pay attention to issues one step away from you.
Anybody familiar with how the military creates stealth choppers that aren't as noisy? I'm assuming it has to do with blade design, but would these changes be applicable at smaller scale and would it be enough of a sound reduction?
Your timeline is not correct. "Touring" as a replacement for Randonee did happen around then (in the US anyway) but the term backcountry to denote any terrain outside of normal ski area boundaries and the practice of skiing such terrain has been along at least since the 80's and I'd imagine much longer.
I think even the boxes you bought in the grocery store had a note about microwaving them for 8 secs to mimic the hot and fresh donuts available at the franchise locations.
I experienced lots of bullying. It messed me up real good emotionally. It also greatly informed my worldview (for better or for worse).

So the details about the bullying:

public north-eastern grade & middle school: physical bullying during school hours (punched, shoved, tripped etc). The occasionally roughing up outside (never anything truly violent, just some bruises and black eyes). Teachers always took the "punish both sides". Later on I was lucky to both join a group and endear myself to one of the scariest kids around. This protected me from 80% of instances and things got much better.

private all-boys school: more emotional, getting called lots of names, people ignoring you, calling you weird, laughing at you, etc. It made it very tough to be confident and as a result, I spent the first 2 years by myself.

What can be learned from these experiences? Confidence and patience are necessary in developing and managing relationships. I heavily discount the ideology of truly being an "individual" when it comes to the perception of your peers. I'd rather have them think of me as your average nice person, and then we can build our relationship past that if the opportunities arise. The current kids have it rough with Social Media, and I would imagine it adds complexity making it more difficult. You are effectively making a bet with your public-facing persona, and some of us bite off more than we can chew.
So it is in the US too, under the DMCA (17 USC § 1201 (f)(1-4))... not that I would actually try pushing that claim in court.

See too the Oracle v Google case, currently pending certiorari before the Supreme Court, where CAFC has held that API is copyrighted, and you're therefore not allowed to independently implement it, even under fair use claims.
Personally, I think the overpopulation argument is weak. The places that have overpopulation issues are the places where people don't listen to people talking about overpopulation. It's the same problem with plastic use, non-green electricity generation, etc. Most policies are just going to negatively impact the minority without actually solving anything.

I firmly believe that necessity is the mother of innovation, so we should be encouraging those who feel a need to cut back to reproduce, because those are the people who will innovate for the rest of the world. If you have the means to make positive changes, you have the means to raise children to continue that effort. If food starts to become scarce (globally, not just regional distribution issues), we'll innovate new ways to produce food. If water starts to become scarce generally, we'll innovate ways to conserve it and/or desalinate. If pollution gets out of hand, we'll innovate solutions there too.

So I think all of the talk about overpopulation is counterproductive. We should be discussing the problems overpopulation causes and solve those since there's no way to force another individual or group to stop reproducing, but you can make living more sustainably more cost effective.
Yes, we all did. That's why it didn't need to be said.
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Yeah, it's pretty silly to protest indirect involvement in a commodity you use every day instead of your direct engineering decisions.
As a sibling comment mentions, non-profits aren't always "above board" in reality, e.g. the NFLs or Susan G. Komens of the world.

The position that I'm coming from is that a newspaper isn't always meant to be particularly profitable, e.g. in my small city our major paper is owned and underwritten by a wealthy real-estate family.

While the paper does good reporting in other areas, including having won a recent Pulitzer, they never publish anything negative about the local real-estate and development. You will never find a piece critical of development or developer mistakes in this paper.

If you're of the mind that papers can and are used as a way of laundering business propaganda for the owner, allowing it a non-profit status would then allow it to be a money-sink. The owning family can now provide donations to the non-profit paper which serves the business interests in the PR sphere. These donations can be written off. This means the tax-payer is now further subsidizing their PR efforts by virtue of a tax write off.
> - The administrator can enforce use of hardware-backed keys [1]

This is also available on PKCS/OpenPGP for some tokens (and not only for auth keys). See: https://developers.yubico.com/PIV/Introduction/PIV_attestati... and https://developers.yubico.com/PGP/Attestation.html
Kitty Hawk, Larry Page's pet-project flying car company, claims to be working on the noise problem:

"The lack of noise while in flight is another thing Kitty Hawk is highlighting about its new aircraft. In a video posted on its site, Kitty Hawk notes that a helicopter hovering at 1,500 feet emits about 80 dBA, while Heaviside only puts out 38 dBA."

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/3/20897336/kitty-hawk-elect...
What percentage of google employees do you estimate fall into the category you mention? From the outside it ALL feels like noise except for the seemingly few ~dozen who actually left their roles over the years for their convictions.
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I can't speak to Google's, but Dragon Professional supports legal and medical jargon out of the box. Pricey, but for powerful offline speech recognition, that's understandable.
At a very high level, Tor relays encrypted TCP traffic through atleast three intermediatories (relays). It is most effective for anonymity if used along with their Firefox based browser distribution. They do not recommend using Tor as a tunnel/proxy.

Here's a neat illustration by the Tor project of the protocol: https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/onion-services.html.en

Here a webpage that describes Tor's v2 design in detail: https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/onion-services.html.en

Here's the v1 (?): https://svn-archive.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper...

You can find some of the onion service addresses from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tor_onion_services

Facebook on Tor kicked off an interesting discussion: https://blog.torproject.org/facebook-hidden-services-and-htt...
That's a fair point. But I mentioned high schoolers in my example because they can't buy from a reputable source since they're not old enough (not that I think they should be vaping at all, but supply and demand...).

But still, the perpetrators here are not technically capable of pulling off a convincing forgery, so if the kids were sensitive to this issue in the first place then I guess there would indeed be no reason to insert a blockchain into the situation.

So let's take a scenario where the middle men are indeed capable of convincing forgeries: sneakers. Cardano is working on a supply chain integration there too:

https://beincrypto.com/new-balance-to-use-cardano-technology...

And my wife's students (she's a teacher) are really into their sneakers. They're also largely unaware that chain/web of trust type measures exist at all for validation of product authenticity--but if Nike started doing this, they'd become experts overnight. And then, after school, when offered a sketchy vape product, they might think twice.

Maybe that's a weak argument too. Still, I like the ability to use the same channels you money would flow through to determine if your upcoming purchase came from where you think it did, and I think that that's a capability that's going to be hard for fiat currency to mimic.
Yes. Went to a Catholic school. Was horrific and life altering.
No doubt Google’s situation is serving as a warning to other employers - don’t hire highly politically ideological job candidates - especially those on the left. They seem to be much more interested in their pet causes than being a good colleague or employee, and have no reservations about being a headache for management.
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> The opaqueness of the interview can lead to bad habits for the interviewer. Most commonly: failing to prepare and therefore not knowing basic background about the candidate,

Hiring Executives/Senior Managers take note.

Don't depend on HR Flunkies and Recruiter Bozos to drive this process.

Be mindful, be present, take this task seriously.

Relative to whether an AI Screening Tool adds value to a Human Connection-- paint me a cynic.

Corporate America will likely buy-in as CYA cover.
A lot of sizable organisations are committed to eliminate all carbon emissions. Yes it's rarely done by starving organisations and people, that doesn't mean others shouldn't do it.
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This. As a user, I think AMP is great.
Agree with your points on tax simplification in general but I think for deductions it depends on the use case. In the examples of a local newspaper or a charity it has the added benefits of (a) introducing a level of competition which presumably would help keep things a little more optimised and (b) giving the citizen the choice on what they can fund.

Another example I came across recently was a corporate tax break for funding vocational education. The rationale being that the corporate looking to maximise their gains would sponsor graduates that could work for them, indirectly aligning curriculums with industry and increasing graduate employment rates.
Ask HN: Any system to store personal email archive?
I would like to change my (very well known) e-mail provider, with 8 GB after cleaning. However the other providers I see offer less storage for a good price or more space with more expensive plans.

I would like keep my emails in a personal storage, local or cloud. Allowing me to search, add new emails, synchronize with other accounts (if possible), etc...

Edit: My idea is to change to another email provider and move all archives to a personal system.
Try UniFi or edgerouter from Ubiquiti and return it if you don’t like. Despite the recent bad press, it’s a wonderful ecosystem. They are like the Apple of pro-sumer network gear and catch as much flack as Apple.

MikroTik is cheap but lacking on the software and UI side. There are lots of complaints about RouterOS and SwitchOS on forums. I will be getting a 10gb switch for my backbone in the near future due to price.

I have top to bottom UniFi gear in my house and a family vacation home. I also use UniFi protect which is their video option. Tons of PoE APs, switches, and cameras available. Setting up dynaDns, home VPN, subnets, and automatic updates are a breeze with UniFi.

If you have specific questions I’d love to answer it.
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This requirment would have many benefits. However, a down side is that not all entities have the resources to build their inventions. If I come up with a new idea for an efficient rocket engine, I would have to license the idea to a SpaceX, etc, to get it built. But it would be difficult to approach a SpaceX and secure a license without first getting a patent.
How does it compare with marv [0]?
[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/marv
Therein lies a problem: there are no facts of nature. The only things that could be said to be a fact in nature is to describe how you observe something to work. The observations may change, how it works may change, and neither of these things force nature to be a certain way.

It would not be impossible for someone to change the observations of the blockchain, manipulate its inputs and outputs, or even change how it operates, as software and hardware are imperfect, along with how we use them. Furthermore, even if the system were technically perfect, political and economic systems do not have to abide by their rules. An oppressive state can simply decide not to deal with them, as the world is in no way bound to being purely rational at all times.

It's like trying to "fix" a painting by using philosophy. One is a series of logical arguments, and the other is paint on canvas; certainly they can influence each other, but they can't solve each other's problems.
"but then they got sued because they didn't have subtitles, and so took them down"

If you, like me, are wondering what happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13768856
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(Convinced into) Not voting for Trump hasn't as much to do with a well functioning of democracy.

>There's been an intense cultural shift towards not making informed decisions in the voting booth; [...]

These latter points ring with me, and I think bolster the argument that higher quality local news will aid our democracy.

Currently, if you scope out the national press, you get a national point of view. Without reporters writing about the affect that the national story will have on the local economy (aka "Me", "Our Community", "Our schools") voters can only be informed on one level.

When the air qualify affects your neighbors due to reduced EPA mandates, or school taxes go up because federal dollars evaporate, or kids are learning to check boxes in standardized tests, or the local banks get bought and sold to multinationals, and everyone mortgage is underwater along with the back yard, I think I might see a lot more value the work of a local reporter making local connections to these national ideas.

A robot can post about the reycling on patch, but can that robot also mention that a federal mandate makes the import tariff on transistors a little higher, and that Genui-Sys Integrations is gonna be underwater on its ECU contract, so possibly Billy's dad will face the pink slip?

Real Example: I didn't know that GM was contracting some electronics manufacturing to a pick and place shop floor in my county until I saw the shutters and asked around: "Hey what did that company even make? Bad market or what?" They made car parts.
Rather different things. The right to own property and do what you want with it, outside of a relatively limited set of prohibitions, is a fundamental right that forms the basis of our economy. Patents are an artificial construct created for a specific purpose with specific limitations. They are meant to encourage technological innovation by providing temporary Government protection for the inventor in exchange for a disclosure of the details of the technology. For an entity that has not invented anything and has no intention to do any research or sell any products to use them to extort rents from companies that actually do those things is a distortion of the purpose of the system.
I certainly wouldn't call them perfect, but again, being able to criticize the leader (whether that be Trump now with the left-leaning media or Obama previously with the right-leaning media) puts them head and shoulders above what China has. Hell, 50 years ago journalist reporting led to the resignation of the president, can you see anything even remotely close to that happening in China?