skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Native apps don't usually remain authenticated"

Thanks for the correction, I admit I have limited knowledge of production ready native app development! As with the UI issue, a PWA developer could still use the JS crypto APIs to roll their own secure store for credentials, or store something similar to an API key issued on successful authentication? Handling this kind of data correctly has a lot of pitfalls, which is likely why most PWAs still use standard authentication processes.

There are APIs and specs [0] [1] [2] that have been floating about for at least the last couple of years which aim to solve credential and authentication management in a more formal way in the browser, but as with many of these features, they're slower moving than the native SDKs. I still don't believe that makes it impossible to achieve a similar flow in a PWA but I certainly concede it's much harder to get right (secure and convenient).

"Can you tell me how?"

As a disclaimer, I jumped ship to 1Password before I jumped ship to iOS, so I've never actually done this with LastPass. But this article[3] appears to offer a similar experience to what I have with 1Password:

- I go to an app or website

- A prompt above the keyboard offers to autofill with credentials

- I tap it and authenticate with 1Password (it normally pre-filters the list by app or website I'm using)

- When I make a selection it autofills everything it can

In 1Password, there is also the option to keep your OTP seed stored too, in which case it will copy the OTP to your clipboard for a short time (and slightly invalidate the purpose of 2FA...).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16801858

[1] https://github.com/WebKit/explainers/tree/master/IsLoggedIn

[2] https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-credential-management/

[3] https://blog.lastpass.com/2018/09/get-in-app-autofill-with-l...
Anyone else see the similarity to Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death
A different way of looking at this is that MessagePack is a worse way to compress JSON than gzip or Brotli, at least under some circumstances.
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That is same with anything else you suppose to do but not explained why.

The moment I know good reason for why I should be doing something, my resistance to doing so drops to near zero.

But most people/authorities only parrot the thing we should be doing, mostly because they don't really understand why.
Cut down a tree perfectly, and you maximise the yield of lumber you get from it. I think that is somewhat obvious. But I'm being pedantic, you make a good point.
The great grandmama system is BRLcad. And she’s still dancing.

https://brlcad.org/
The Brain Learns in Unexpected Ways
> Right, but what is the purpose of statistics like this? The purpose is for them to inform our understanding of what might happen in the future. As mentioned above, since market movements follow a power law rather than normal distribution, the average gives us absolutely no information about what might happen. Thus this statistic fails at the goal of having a purpose; it is just a meaningless number, like those meme baseball statistics about who is the third-best thrower of fastballs on a rainy friday or whatever.

Thanks for restating using almost the same words and using an apparently non-applicable analogy (i.e., the 42% covers all bursts effect on indexes, your sports example covers individual performance). My experience is people who provide such poor explanations usually don't actually know what they are talking about.

Your claim on its usefulness makes assumptions about where to apply the information. The perma-bears use these kinds of numbers to demonstrate why being in stocks during a bubble is a bad idea.
Time to set the VPN exit to an Italian city.
AirBNB is like the Michael Jordan of getting sued
More charitably, a toilet paper run is a pleasing, simple, humorous and yet correct metaphor for general preparedness. People are buying cans too, but that's not as funny.
So here’s my question. China seems to have done a good job locking down Beijing and preventing an outbreak there. They did not do a good job in Wuhan. Per what you have described above, doesn’t it seem probable that Beijing will see a resurfacing given that relatively few people were exposed to it in the first bout?
Likely, they don't really care to stop it. Real people still use it enough that the advertisers don't really mind.

I'd suppose that they cannot really tell the difference between a bot and a real person, at least at scale.

I follow a few non-English speaking hashtags that act as local news sources for their areas. These hashtags have been active for a few years. Though Twitter has a lot of policies for English twitter, these languages really have no policies. By that I mean they live-stream executions, have drug sales, solicit sex-work, etc. Illegal isn't really a thing in these places to begin with. That said, these cases are somewhat rare and these hashtags are mostly used as genuine news sources. Granted, these are 'edge case' languages, but still, it's a free for all that Twitter doesn't care to dive into.

Based on the 'extreme' cases and their long lived incoherence to Twitter policy, it's not hard to conclude that Twitter really does not care to enforce policies unless forced to.
More proof that it is unlawful to continue holding her, as the Grumbles motion her team submitted last month stated. Further imprisonment will not cause her to talk, so it is unlawful to imprison her.

Hope she recovers quickly.
Chinese cyberattack against Mongolia takes advantage of Covid-19 to lure victims
It depends. They can help prevent "artificial" crashes caused by liquidity issues and/or algo-driven feedback loops, and, maybe, to some extent, FOMO feedback loops (everyone is selling so I should too!).

If there is sudden mass sell-off, the buy side of the order book can run thin. The order book is supposed to be a representation of people's intentions to buy or sell, but it's no a true representation because people don't necessarily bother putting in limit orders far away from the current price. The halt gives time for people to put in their buy orders and put some back-pressure on the sell-off.

It also gives time for traders to tweak or turn off their algos if they are behaving badly.

If the crash is a "true" crash caused by fundamentals, in other words the economy is going to shit, I don't see how halting can help much.
I'm equally amazed; perhaps even more so.

And I've felt the same way about other presidents, so we've been in the same boat.
Rust is excellent for this. You can define:

struct PositiveInteger(u32);

Then give it a constructor (which in rust is just a regular static function) that checks the non-zero variant. You can define method on this type, and make it implement traits (which are kind of like interfaces).

The best bit: there is zero runtime cost to this, the memory-representation of this type is identical to that of the underlying u32.

Rust-style enums which can contain data, and also have method implemented on them are even better. Doesn't mean classes (structs in Rust) aren't useful, but once you use a language that allows you to define other kinds of custom types, they seem very restrictive when they're the only available tool.
I am incredibly close to getting rid of my twitter account. Already most of my meaningful interactions have moved to private group chats on Slack (etc).
I believe you're looking for dependent types: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_type
At least they aren't in the ad selling business. Leaks are always a threat, but I can't see them selling it to advertisers.
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Many people use fake avatars, names and locations. Those are not good indicators for bots.

Presumably it is more obvious by the stuff being posted.

However, the whole question is mostly irrelevant. If you don't care what an account tweets about, don't follow it.

The big issue with the whole bot manipulation narrative is that while it is easy to create fake accounts, it is not easy to also get followers for those accounts. Without followers (with voting rights, not some other bots you bought on the dark net), the bot accounts are irrelevant.
>A billion years pass, the Universe is rich with intelligent life. And they can still detect the echoes of the ones who were first, crying out across the universe in search of companionship.

Or what if the window of time in which life can exist on a planet is so short compared to how long it takes for life to appear on that planet, that it is extremely unlikely for two planets to have life at the same time?

A lot of questions, and a lot of possible answers
I'm quoting the news article linked.
Who pays the crypto media piper?
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I'm estimating 7 millions of deaths, so it's definitively not good news. The 10% is only for people that is old or have previous respiratory problems, and it's hopefully inflated because mostly only the people with strong symptoms get tested.

Hopefully we can make some measures to reduce the number of death, specially when the hospital are expecting a big spike of case instead of a surprise.

Anyway, in a year this will be old news, and in 10-20 years we will probably have another similar pandemic.
Yeah they are definitely not up to speed in Europe.

Even that blog page gives you no choice but to either accept their cookies (whatever they're used for) or not read it.

I don't think that GDPR compliant. Really they should be offering an opt-out.
Crypto media is the most wild west part of the media landscape. As a media owner who strives for clarity on two key fronts - transparency on who owns the business and strict separation of church and state (editorial and advertising) - I decided to take a look at the nearly 200 crypto blogs tracked by Feedspot.
To an outside reader, you haven't presented any research and are making unfounded claims. I don't see why you're in any sense credible.
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Elegantly deriving the optimal path, which also happens to be what reality usually does? (Because many problems are "easily" transformed into energy minimization problems [principle of least action].)

Conservation laws (and/or the associated symmetries) might be more fascinating, but that all builds on Lagrangian mechanics.
Piper was actually a big source of frustration for me. Yeah it's dead simple, but once you have a CL chain, you're entering a world of pain. I've switched to Fig a while ago and haven't looked back. Beyond a tiny fix I'll start editing from CS or a throwaway citc client, it's just simpler to use fig. I've been able to juggle 4-5 CL chains easily and it makes my workflow much easier. Also splitting CLs before review is much simpler with Fig.
Thanks!.
I just tried to come up with a definition and I feel like I'm almost there but not quite.

A chair is something you can sit on (but you can also sit on a rock)

&& it has a backrest (but the foot of a tree serves as a backrest)

&& it elevates you off the floor (but not all chairs take you above floor level very much)

&& it is manmade.
Coronavirus: Mortuary is over capacity in small Italian city
opengrok is the best I have used so far, java-based, can search _huge_ code base (e.g. android source code, linux kernel, whatever you throw at it)

https://oracle.github.io/opengrok/
It's insane to demand somebody should be given the authority to determine what is disinformation and what is not. That is a totalitarian approach.

Those few Twitter bots don't hurt anybody, because nobody listens to them anyway.

And if people do listen to them, they will eventually catch on and their information immune system will have been strengthened.
How Fast Can We Design and Deploy an Open Source Ventilator?
I mean, yeah, it's not very warm, but it, xxl and APLX are pretty much the newest dead APLs.
Does anyone have details of how much IBM is trying to extract from Airbnb? I see the settlement with Groupon but surely they cannot be aiming that high? (of course I could be too optimistic here)
Chelsea should be out, enjoying herself under the sun.

Hers is a generation that will inherit the debt of American war crimes, and it is an utter tragedy that things are going down like this.

It is a real modern travesty; to consider how extremely dire the situation is, the dead public silence vis a vis military war-crimes, versus what Chelsea is going through.

By what righteous metric can a society that allows such an injustice to happen be allowed to continue to keep its secrets?

Challenge the narrative and either you get justification for mass-murder, downright hostility from folks who cannot brook a challenge to the military hegemony, or outright ignorance and pleas of victim-hood.

So-called western moral authority is torn to shreds - but the interesting thing is, if the West is to step back from the precipice and face the truth, then Chelsea is going to be a part of that, too.

Her pardon is the only appropriate way forward, followed by proper justice for the real crimes against humanity that were committed by her colleagues, in the name of their families.

Chelsea's release, as well as Julian's, would most definitely be the only way for things to turn around, for the generation that will inherit these debts is not easily going to forgive these deeds.

The leaks will continue.

Especially since the very real, extraordinarily catastrophic war crimes have continued to happen, and there is still not an appropriate level of responsibility for the situation. There is ZERO Justice for the victims.

Just how long we are going to be distracted by puppets until we start jailing our very real war criminals? Assange and Manning being pardoned has to happen.
ASN.1 is enormously more complex than JSON or even MsgPack, very bug-prone, has much worse tooling, is much less widely supported, and, surprisingly, most implementations are not even that efficient. Basically you pay a lot more in bugs and get a lot less in functionality.

I've spent a lot of hours poring over hex dumps of BER messages and CBOR messages (which are basically MsgPack) and I vastly prefer CBOR. But I prefer JSON way more.
Overcoming competition and the installation funnel is more of a marketing/bizdev issue than development. Being able to navigate to a web page and be using "the thing" is also a better experience of installation for the end user.

But for the actual using of the app, we're in total agreement.
Ask HN: Open Covid-19 Patient Database
Hello everyone,

I am wondering why don't people create a database where COVID-19 patients themselves can upload their data to help finding the answers. The dimensions I am thinking about is beyond basic "severeness" and "time to recover" but also nutrition/supplement informations or health condition informations, fitness, being too exhausted for a longer time / lack of sleep before sympthoms arise.

I know many of this is personal information and I also know it is hard to verify these pieces of information, but I think there are many people who are willing to help with their data, but there is no platform for that.

I don't know how to do this this is just the idea.

Edit:
South Korea has already tested more than 140.000 people, (https://www.google.hu/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/south-korea-coronavirus-testing-death-rate-2020-3%3famp )
it would be really interesting to see their data.
Brb, just going to check my pocket cesium-133 so I can calculate how many days till my dentist appointment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_data_type
One would think after years of getting trolled by SCO IBM would be over this.
There are plans in the works for several next generation telescopes: https://www.universetoday.com/139461/what-comes-after-james-...
With a lot of these that is what I want to know.

I don't want to know why it failed, honestly for most of these you can look at their product and see how there's just not demand and etc.

What I want to know is what investors and everyone THOUGHT would change about the product, use case, how the world would react to this new thing ...
It would be nice to group all the functions that operate on a piece of state together in the same place.

It would also be nice to prevent functions that are not in this group to make changes to that part of the state.

Then you could prefix all those functions with a name, so it's clear what's their scope.

Finally, in some cases it would be great if you could create multiple independent "instances" of the state, so you could manage more than one at a time without risking conflicts between the various copies.
Shocking: some people believe they should rule the world forever.

What a novel play by entitled aristocrats.
We should do that but the effects of that on the global economy scare me to be frank. Anyone who says that there's nothing to be worried about here simply hasn't thought through all the consequences we're facing.
Have you heard of the LSST? I'm actually more excited for that. Right now if a probe flew through our solar system we'd have almost no chance of detecting it. LSST is going to open our eyes to so many more smaller objects. Enrico Fermi famously wondered where is everybody. Well maybe they're small and they've been flying through our system all the time but we never noticed.
Sadly, ASN.1 is widely used — both TLS and SNMP use it, which means that we're using ASN.1 every time we read or post on HN.
I went out to grab some food last night and while I was just standing there waiting to be served I looked around at people. Everyone is close, who know who is making the food. We are all going to get it, its just that simple. It will just go into circulation like the flu. We cant shut down society over this and live in hermetically sealed chambers.

Schools are cancelled, offices are closed and people that work in any form of travel related industry are going to be unemployed with essentially no welfare net.

It sucks but there really is not a long term alternative. Eventually we will have a yearly corona vaccine.
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If you're driving down the road, see an overturned cart in your path, and safely avoid it, was the cart a danger to you? Nothing bad happened, so was the cart a hoax? The Y2K problem was, for a number of organizations, precisely such a cart, and it was successfully avoided to the extent nothing seriously bad happened as a result of the bug (really, an engineering trade-off which lived too long in the wild) so we can either count it as a victory of foresight and disaster aversion, or we can say it was all a hoax and there was never anything to it. Guess which conclusion will best let us avoid the next potential disaster.
We're kinda going around in circles here.

In order to not significantly undercount the number of coronavirus deaths attributed to other causes in the US, there would need to be wide-spread testing here... which there isn't.

Imaging (by the way, you're referencing tests on live patients not dead ones) could be used as another kind of coronavirus test, though an extremely inefficient one, so probably is essentially un-used. Anyway, for pneumonia I believe we're talking about x-rays which is poor at distinguishing coronavirus (see link). Not to mention all of this is brand new. So approximately zero Radiologists are trained and using radiology in a clinical setting to diagnose coronavirus in people who have apparently died of pneumonia.
You've been wooshed, the comment was a joke about computer shells like "sh".

It's the top comment for me, I'm not sure if people are upvoting because they got the joke or upvoting because they missed the joke.
The effects of this will be seen in 4-8 weeks. Revisit this comment then
I get what he's saying, but the majority of the richest people in history were born ~20 years before the early American Industrial/Steel boom or ~20 years before the internet was popularized. Macro is important from a population level perspective.
The version I’ve heard is “equity share of your investments == life expectancy - current age”
> I find the latter easier to read and lends itself to a fluent, lightweight style.

Maybe I'm bikeshedding, but I think this is a nontrivial part of why people like OOP languages. Being able to read right to left, without nested parens, makes code comprehension easier.

I think the mathematical notation for function application has held programming languages back. I realize that there's a huge benefit to uniformity of syntax across languages, and that syntax is ultimately much less important than semantics, but I wish we could settle on something better than f(x). I really appreciate languages that are willing to do something different (e.g. haskell and lisp).
Why would you say that reality "minimizes action" when you could just as easily say it "solves differential equations?" They are two equivalent ways of looking at the same thing, and you can't really tell which one nature does.
I hope your colleague had a paper trail of the alarms he raised when it came time to point fingers.

For executives with limited IT experience I honestly don't know if there is a good solution, other than having them deal with the disaster and having a clear paper trail that points the finger in their direction. They won't make the same mistake twice.
Also applies to a Sofa
I was as well. Agree that the core systems were fine and extremely thoroughly tested, but all of the supporting applications/infrastructure were questionable. I had quit my job a couple months prior to go into contracting. They were one of my first customers, and the contract was contingent on me remaining on full time until after the new year weekend. Win win.
It's not as dramatic to show a picture of a shelf of canned goods only half-stocked instead of fully stocked, as opposed to a an empty shelf of toilet paper.

That's what I've seen at my local Costco. TP is gone, canned goods are running lower than usual but not actually out of stock.
I can think of 11.5 billion reasons why Apple would work to prevent people from developing PWA's and bypassing the App Store. That was reportedly their revenue from the App Store way back in 2017. More reasons now.
What about physical possession before you own it? Will this potentially sour a used/refurbished market?
Yeah the sheer volume of just bad data entry type situations with messed up dates could have been for some companies absolutely enormous.

Whole businesses would be ground to a halt to stem the mess of bad data and if not prepared they would not have quick fix.

In many cases in the age of apps and web apps we can roll out fixes fairly quickly, but in 2000 that was very much not the case for most situations.
Who is the counterparty to these trades? When the market sentiment is negative, the number of these counterparties are narrow and dwindling, surely it's not that easy to find people who will buy a thing for $5? Maybe they would buy at $4.25 or even less?
He said he don't want no laptop that isn't without an absence of numpads.
Fortunately the two events will occur in the order they that they will. Having a reference will help explain the issue.
You can get past the FT paywall by having a google referer. Usually as simple as googling for the headline.
Does anyone have any advice about using REST or RPC against viruses?
>And I've felt the same way about other presidents, so we've been in the same boat.

Let me guess - all of those presidents have been Democrats?
Here it is okay to downvote if you disagree.
You didn't even read through the table of contents, nor the initial summary. Both soaps have their own, named subsection, while in the abstract you'll find a succinct explanation which will make sense once you've read that liquid soap is a detergent.

>Soap is created by mixing fats and oils with a base, as opposed to detergent which is created by combining chemical compounds in a mixer.