skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to state the obvious...

Biometric data must always stay on your personal device in order to be secure from replay attacks, not to mention finding out more about you.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/04/smile-to-pay-c...

Of course, in Apple’s implementation, the data never leaves the device. Which is far better than, say, how facial recognition is used in China for payment where the merchant is the one operating the machine which scans your face.
Which is either evidence in favor of lockdowns or evidence that the lockdown was useless - one of the two.
Perl 6 actually got released in December 2015. Meanwhile it got renamed to Raku (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media). You don't have to wait anymore to be able to use it on a pet, or even a business project. Check out the Rakudo Weekly News if you want to stay up-to-date: https://rakudoweekly.blog
This is planned.
To me, this reads as so much Chinese nationalism. Feels super consistent with Communist propaganda of an indolent West. Also, seems very suspect to criticize a lack of intellectual freedom by comparing it to a system without freedom of information. I also thought that Western education was widely considered much less about rote memorization and more about intellectual creativity and freedom, even to the detriment of western folks' technical skills. Even just the concept of a "liberal education" or a "liberal arts school" is a western concept AFAIK; I do think there is a lot of rote memorization, but I would think this would only be exacerbated in a Chinese institution.
> Security experts have long noted that this is an impossible request.

You know, this could be a total political cover move. Pass some bill that makes it seem like tech companies will open comms to law enforcement, but make sure it doesn't actually work. Then, you can campaign on being tough on crime in November, and if somebody ever brings up the topic later, you can blame the biased big-tech firms for not wanting to work with Republicans.

So encryption tech can't deliver permanent rainbows, but the politicians get them anyway.
yes! and have you thought about working in politics?
You're sure it was not a storage condition or age issue?

I think you might be right in your theory that it was made by the correct company but intended for a different market and was made with a different formulation. Perhaps there's some arbitrage opportunity there.

I guess I don't understand why someone would try to counterfeit something like cereal. Seems like it would be hard to get enough scale to make it worth the effort, given the low per-unit profit.
> What incentive do parking and venue apps have to implement this?

Because Apple is known to kick apps out if they don't like them?
A criminal could use a service provider which isn't located in the U.S. or peer-to-peer communications. Only stupid criminals and the general public will be hit by this.

Is this a last ditch effort for a Law & Order Bill prior to the election?
I would rather have a native UX versus Bitwarden, especially if there’s no additional cost (I have to pay for Bitwarden annually or spend time running a server) and an easy way to share creds with my partner (for delegation in the event of my passing).

Competition and a free market has perils. May the best solution win.
Native apps have long been able to use TouchID/FaceID and have never been able to access the actual finger/face print data. There's no way that iOS exposes your actual finger or face print to websites.
I understand the impulse to reveal truths selectively in order to guide people to the correct short-term action. I think it's incredibly dangerous, though. That's basically what policymakers did early in the pandemic when they advised Americans that masks were ineffective. Perhaps they got their short-term action, conserving scarce masks for medical workers; but now the shortage is over, and people (a) still aren't wearing masks, and (b) have lost considerable faith in the public health authorities in general. Hard to judge, but I suspect their noble lie saved hundreds of medical workers or patients at most, and will kill tens of thousands of Americans over the next year.

Those policymakers were trained professionals, so I doubt I'm any better at picking and choosing what truths should be spoken. So especially in a forum of moderately sophisticated readers, I'm not inclined to limit myself. I understand that may sometimes superficially look like things people often say in bad faith, but I hope readers expend the effort to distinguish.

In any case, I certainly agree that the coronavirus has tremendous societal and economic cost independent of the mitigations. That doesn't mean we still can't make it worse, though. I'm perhaps more optimistic than you are that Americans can do the right thing after exhausting all other possibilities, and actually wear masks properly and cooperate with other mitigations short of lockdown, with the right (perhaps coercive) guidance. I hope you weren't too close to the earthquake, continuing the apocalypse bingo.
Agreed. Regex is a “part of the language” not a bolt on library like you have in Python. It’s one of those cases where you don’t even know how crap regex is in another language if you’ve never used Perl.
You assume that Microsoft has the presumption of good will. They do not.
had to vouch for this. there is a lot of truth here in what looks at first sight hyperbolic or inflammatory which isn't maybe immediately obvious.

corporations are legally treated like a person. the problem here is (over and over again) that a person might do insane or criminal things that they are then held accountable for, while a company (not a "natural" person) acts as a collective and hence can be as psychopathic in its acts (on behalf of multiple people who get together for that act). e.g. imagine an individual acting as a company: they would always be considered a psychopath (or at least if not criminally insane would be suffering from a mental illness).

it's the group that is allowed to hide behind the singular entity that allows problematic behavior almost by design.
Whats wrong with that though? There are plenty of other distributions to use.
All of that is managed by the Secure Enclave in exactly the same way that it is for all over auth on Apple devices. The browser doesn't touch it at all.
I have two major heart breaks here. WebOS dying first. Then like you and a responder, having (I think) Lucia 920 die what would’ve been a slow death but I got some water on it as well after a shower and with the end of Windows in sight and nothing else but the big two left, resigned my self to iOS.
Wow that's pretty cool insight to a writer's process. I'm not sure that ever would have occurred to me
decide what kind of agriculture you want to do and check what is time and money requirements and seasonality is. Next step could be doing internship to see what it it feels like. There are many options from wwoofing to more job like situations.

Well and then you are ready to decide. Being small farmer is tough: not a lot of money and a lot of work, but it is rewarding by many means.

I personally decided to be in more play farm: few acres of vineyards, small wine production. It is still professional operation but I don't expect to be making full living off it.
You don't need any physical infrastructure for using App Clips. Ultimately they are launched via URL - that can be by physical NFC tags or QR codes, or just via Safari, a SMS/iMessage, etc.
The US has 50 states, and each of those states have counties, and each of those counties is further subdivided, and each of those subdivisions is again subdivided, and sometimes even once more.

And each of those jurisdictions is full of people, some quite wealthy, who can make decisions with the wealth that they generate in their own lifetime. And even beyond their own lifetime, by donating generously to churches and hospitals and schools and universities and parks and so on.

There's plenty of parallelism, and even plenty of ways to invest one's wealth in meaningful pursuits posthumously without passing it to your offspring. I don't see why third generation aristocrats are needed to achieve the diversity and parallelism you seek.
I was struck by that too. Somehow the feds obtained WhatsApp messages from Apple. Maybe WhatsApp was getting backed up to iCloud, and that message store isn’t part of the e2e encryption.
I have had the same experience. I accidentally drank another person's water bottle at the gym after a set, a few weeks later I had Mono. I have never had the same energy level that I used to have. I used to love working out and had so much energy, that is all gone.
Well you're right on all counts. The marketing was tacky, desperate, and effective, as much of "growth hacking" is.
Let’s see how far that gets. We see how little it did for Microsoft. Microsoft is still just as dominant in PC operating systems and Office software as it was in 2000 and is still one of the top 5 most valuable companies - as it was 20 years ago.
"We scan by sending an IPP Get-Printer-Attributes request to TCP port 631. We started regular scanning of all 4 billion routable IPv4 addresses on the 5th of June 2020 and added Open IPP reporting as part of our daily public benefit remediation network reports on the 8th of June 2020. Our IPP scans uncover around 80,000 open devices (printers) per day."

That number is lower than I thought it might be. For some reason South Korea has about 36k of that 80k. I don't see any guesses as to why on the report page.
I used to work at Climate. Always fun seeing ag tech come up in articles. The wealth of knowledge available to farmers in the US, as the article points out, is staggering. We're very efficient here on the production end of things.
I definitely agree that all externalities should be paid for but the co2 emissions from shipping are very low compared to producing aluminium from coal. This comment puts it at 3%

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23632148
The whole article rings false to me. Although I get that it's Zhang's personal experience, but the reasoning makes zero sense, and it feels like he just wanted to vent.

Some of the points seemingly have nothing to do with studying abroad, but the nature of the university he attended, for example,

> First, you have no time. You read a lot but there’s no time to think.

This is has nothing to do with being a foreigner, or being in any specific country. It's a university culture, and every university has its own pace of teaching, in China or US.

And then,

> Of course, it makes no difference if you don’t go
> to bookstores in the US, but if you bring this habit
> back with you, it means that you don’t go to bookstores
> in China

Seriously? How hard it is to consciously decide to go to a book store when you are in need of a book? This also seems to imply that China has no good libraries, which is untrue. I'm from a small city in China, and I borrowed so many books from the city library. That was how I got into programming as well, borrowing a book about Turbo Pascal.

Personally, I think the biggest difficulty for a Chinese in studying abroad in the US, is the difficulty of being accepted into the circle. You could make friends and acquaintances with Americans, but you're never part of "them". I constantly feel like I'm on the wrong side of a aquarium glass pane, being observed and judged.

There are two real choices: 1) pretend to be a white person and be extremely amiable, or 2) fallback to the smaller circle of Chinese people in US.
Cognitive Dimensions of UX
They're not giving your fingerprint or face image to the browser. They're simply providing the ability to authenticate using iOS hardware.
It also doesn't add any security. Your password can still be guessed or phished. When authenticating with a cryptographic token (U2F/WebAuthn), that vector goes away. (Even OTP can be phished... the phishing site can just ask you for the code.)

Password managers do make it more difficult to get phished, since they will not know what password to autofill on phishing.example.com... but on the other hand, password manager users are used to having to force-fill a password. I have to take my password out of LastPass to log into Battle.net or Fusion 360, and websites like the Wall Street Journal create your account on dowjones.com but require you to log in on wsj.com (or maybe it's the opposite, I forget).

With WebAuthn, more care is required for both the site operator and the user (have more than one way of logging in in case you lose your phone, make sure the enrollment and login origins are the same), but you are then open to fewer attacks.
If you think that a smartphone should be supported for much longer than 5 years, consider Librem 5 [0] or Pinephone [1].

[0] https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

[1] https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
TIMTOWTDI="There is more than one way to do it"
Hey! :) I wanted to edit my post, saying something like "one could argue over the (CO2-)economics of shipping large volumes back and forth", but then i mentally shrugged, seeing that this is how the world (currently) works. So i canceled the edit.
They had a dongle which had the Mac plug as well! It really was a very simple/elegant solution in a time before Plug and Play/USB/etc. They even included a "Y" cable so you could keep your keyboard plugged in if you used the same computer to transfer to.

This is what it looked like: https://www.theultracomputer.com/images/20190118_032444.jpg
Soy is crushed into what Americans call vegetable oil, and meal. The meal is the protein source for pork and chicken production. If you get a piece of fried chicken from KFC, the chicken was raised on soy meal and corn, battered in milled wheat, and fried in soybean oil.
That's not how this works on apple. Basically your fingerprint scan is not sent to the browser, just the authenticated result of the scan (ie, yes, the fingerprint was so and so's).

There have been some past complaints here about how Apple used to tie their fingerprint sensor into the secure element (third party folks couldn't substitute them). I actually liked that rule from a security standpoint, but obviously unpopular here. Same approach with faceid / touchID for the web.
If you use a standard QR code, you can link to a web URL which does device based redirection to either the Apple app clip or the Google instant app, so basically anyone with a smart phone can use it. You could even have a mobile web fallback if you’re not on a supported device. If you use this Apple code thing, you’re cutting off the majority of your potential market (outside of the bay area bubble, android phones are used by the majority of people). I really don’t understand why anyone would use a proprietary code that only works on iPhones (and only on the latest version of the operating system at that).

And even the argument of “iPhone users spend more money and are more valuable to developers“ misses the point: these are supposed to be deployed on things in the real world, you want any person who sees it to be able to use/buy it.

To the extent that all of the app clip functionality seems to work equally well via QR code, using an Apple proprietary code really only adds friction to android users, it doesn’t decrease friction to iOS users. There’s no reason to use it that I can see. Of course it’s still early days, maybe Apple has some trick up its sleeve we haven’t seen yet.
It is technically not AI, but it used to be called AI.

AI today is the study of optimizing NP problems through a series of educated guesses.
I loved it so much too. As well as webOS. Once in a while I’ll day dream geek of either webOS or Windows Phone having a steady 15-20% world wide market share.

Getting into far too deep say dreaming...even though it basically couldn’t have happened, webOS being consumed by Microsoft or some Microsoft and another company JV with a webOS Windows Phone hybrid with similar market share.

OR something where somehow webOS would’ve remained on tablet as the Touchpad was pretty good. And it being a much better and viable tablet competitor. This would have to involve other things to work and stuff otherwise too small of an ecosystem, but yeah.
Red Hat Upgrades Ansible DevOps and New Certified Ansible Content Collections
wouldn't "Unequivocally safe" imply risk free? ..or at least health risk free?
What’s a paranoid child to do during Covid-19?
Show HN: Remember anything with your voice. Quiz Me AI
Remember anything you learn with spaced repetition and your voice via your Google Assistant and Alexa.
The author mentions switching to hey for email. Given all the press it's gotten recently, I decided to check it out.

I don't get the hype. This is how my gmail already works. I use priority inbox. New senders get high priority until I mark them as low priority, and then they don't. Gmail already has a snooze button so I can reply later (and also I have a reply-later tag that's easy to do with keyboard shortcuts).

You can do this search in gmail to replicate their sorted inbox: [is:updates in:inbox -l:important]. I just have a bookmark for that.

Finding attachments is easy. You just do [has:attachment]. I don't want all the attachments without their emails. The email provides context. Also, I can usually find it faster because I usually know who sent it or at least some words that were in the email.

What am I missing about hey.com? Why do people love it so much?
I have a beater iphone 5s around to stream podcast and music while I'm doing yard work. Works great! pretty smooth OS UI..

Can't say the same about any Andorid phones from the same era.

Looking forward to this new era of Apple ARM chips in desktops!
You mean like they stopped Sprint and T-Mobile?
If the token is signed you could validate it with Apple (or the vendor that implemented the face recognition on the device, eg Samsung, Nokia, pinephone etc).

You just need an open standard, you could even embed the url of the validating api in the token, so anyone could create their own Face ID provider.
Of you're depending on a meme rather than making a valid point, I wonder what you are bringing to this particular table.
From https://academic.oup.com/edrv/article/39/5/629/5060447

"Obesity, once rare in type 1 diabetes (T1D), is now an increasingly frequent problem (3–5). Accumulating evidence on the prevalence and consequences of obesity in T1D shows very clearly that this comorbidity is both underappreciated and poorly understood." .... " The considerable obesity burden in youth with T1D was confirmed, also in the T1DX, where the prevalence of obesity (BMI ≥95th percentile) was 13.5% in adolescents (mean age 15.4 years), with higher prevalences in those of black/African American descent (17.9%) and Hispanic/Latino descent (15.9%) between the years of 2010 and 2012."
TIL Whatsapp had payments... Is Facebook just copying WeChat?
At least one of the inspirations of Moose, was the object system of Perl 6 at the time (now Raku https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media). To create a Point class that has an x and a y attribute, you'd write:

class Point {
has $.x;
has $.y;
}

Object instantiation is then done with:

Point.new(x => 42, y => 666);
The essay reads as satirical to me. Especially the ending line:

> My sole desire is that when future generations come of age, they will inherit a mature academic tradition, and will not have to travel such long distances and endure these various discomforts.
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Fascinating story.

About the project: is it basically a PHP library?
On “banning math” and that “politicians have tried to do that before”: I suspect you are referring at least in part to what the Australian Prime Minister said in 2017:

> The laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can assure you of that. The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.

This particular statement was widely lampooned in tech circles at the time as obvious nonsense. Yet it’s actually perfectly sound: legislation is all about restricting you from doing things that are possible. (Now some of the other stuff Mr. Turnbull said at that time was drivel; he seemed to be under the impression that it was possible to allow law enforcement to access end-to-end encrypted content without it comprising a backdoor, which the industry as a whole considers axiomatically false.)

It’s the government’s prerogative to ban mathematics. And indeed they already have in various areas due to copyright and possibly patent laws (c.f. illegal numbers). Now I personally think they would be unwise to ban any form of encryption, but realise that they’re quite at liberty to not just try to ban it.
And every new release of windows things break for some group of users, people complain about how quality control at microsoft has really gone downhill lately, and microsoft rolls out a bunch of fixes over time for all those users.

Windows users are an ungrateful bunch.
I wonder if the cereals customer support would have been interested enough to try to help you confirm it wasn't legitimate
That all makes complete sense, and the misunderstanding of "tech people" made obvious from your paragraph of questions that farmers have to answer. Computers always do what you tell them to. It sounds like farms do not, even when you give them the "right" instructions.

"No farmers, no food", after all, and yet for some reason the suicide rates stay high. It's the same among American farmers. Dairy farms are shutting down at high rates in Wisconsin, where I'm from.

What can the spoiled children of civilization to do help farmers? What can I do? I didn't even know about this plight until I was out of engineering school.
https://dqydj.com/net-worth-by-age-calculator-united-states/

The median net worth for a 60-64 year old is 225k a far cry from 500k. And 66% of the population have less than 500k at that age.
Take a look at Common Lisp. That's about as close as I think one can get to a seamless melding of FP with OOP (using Common Lisp Object System, CLOS). Mind you, it doesn't look very much like OOP in Java, but it covers the same territory.
I honestly can't tell if this is sarcastic or not. Especially points 4 and 5 - this is when you learn to get out of comfort zone!
I've had red team members in the past do so successfully
If the deaths come to people who are elderly or otherwise close to death anyways and the diabetes comes to a bunch of otherwise healthy 18 year olds the impacts could be different than mere effect sizes would indicate. (Type 1 diabetes is like -10 years to life expectancy).
Yeah I mean you can take it a lot of ways lol. I think some companies are just secretive about their practices and others are open.

Really the thing that convinced me to really dig into haskell was that there were so many things that I wanted to learn but so much of the extra information had roots in haskell topics. So i basically said "to achieve my goals I need to know haskell even if i never use it for anything practical".

Slowly, as I learned more, I realized it is great. I wish I had chosen to learn haskell 10 years ago instead of like two years ago.
My first salary job was reverse engineering page rank. It was a lot of fun. /random
Ooh, I need to get my hands on one of those. The best of both worlds!
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Part of the point of end-to-end encryption is that you explicitly don't trust these companies. Would anyone be willing to trust them if they went around pushing malware on a whim?
I can't believe it's whatever year this is and Google Sheets can't remember that I just told it a particular sort range has a header row, or just figure it out by itself.
You could rename it to "run.c" for "run dot c file." Bash supports many special characters in command names.