skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tl;dr email isn't needed, people are just used to it.

It's a fair point, and perhaps its one that the likes of Apple SignIn should solve. On the one hand, even Microsoft and Apple send me heaps of spam under the guise of "communication" and I don't want them to have my email address if I can avoid it. The OP says they have trouble with support, but they can (and it sounds like do) tell people to just check their Apple email. Most places that I contact for support require me to put in a contact email for that ticket because people use throw-aways anyway. As for security problems, well I'm glad you're one of the few companies to actually disclose security breaches. But if the information on the website is actually sensitive, then there should be additional checks to begin with. If it's CC info, you should contact the CC company, there should be 2FA, there should be more than an SSO service, which already prevents the biggest and worst security breach of leaked passwords. In short, I doubt the need to contact a customer unsolicited is so great, common, or difficult as to require that a user disclose a non-obfuscated email address, which people already commonly have throwaways for. And the reason they have throwaway accounts is because 99% of the time, when I give someone a ...@spamgourmet account or whatever, that address gets spammed, even though I told them not to put them on the mailing list (because they share the email with third parties, or just plain ignore it).

The tradeoff is a bad one. I do not have sensitive information on Reddit that is not public. A private investigator could probably deduce who I am by looking at my Reddit posts, figuring out where I live, where I went to school, what family members I have, what my job is. They don't need to contact me urgently about a security breach. You can say when I sign on and lock my account until I acknowledge it, but it's not urgent. Even a website that might need sensitive information and, for some reason, doesn't want to require I actually verify my identity for real to upload that sensitive information, that doesn't mean I'm using the website in that capacity and should give up identifying information in case I need to give up identifying information later and you need to contact me that my information has been leaked.

The perspective is worth thinking about, but I'm unmoved that it amounts to pushing the needle to "you need my real, primary email address." I believe the tiny, tiny minority of companies that actually need that and shouldn't just rejigger their system to better security and privacy practices to start with can find reasonable workarounds or resort to mild inconveniences like requiring a callback number on support.
That would make sense, except the unit is 'Fatalities per million hours'. Maybe they mean "fatalities from residential fire per million hours of living in a residence"?
Impressive, but I doubt even FRL can overcome this design limitations.
Digilens tried to do that since forever, and when you introduce more colors you will face the same kind of problems seen in Hololens 2.
Urban Design Can Make or Break a Protest
Do you have any arguments that would be persuasive to people who don't believe that HN is morally obligated to host spirited defenses of child pornography? ("No" is a fine answer!)
What if all the hacking actually originated from America?

They just compromised a bunch of random computers in China and Russia, running an old copy of Windows XP, and built themselves a botnet.

What further evidence do you have, other than an IP address?
The system incentives are based on outcomes, not inputs. People are not benefiting from pointing out flaws in the system. They are benefiting from exploiting the flaws.
Yeah, IBM has been all in on VHDL for decades.

And complexity-wise it's a lot better than quite a few HDL codebases I've seen, just very modular, and probably missing some high level design docs to ease getting your feet wet.
The expanded view of my argument is meant to be more productive, not to soften. As I said in the expansion 'almost like good versus evil'.

It is certainly true that any individual or group of people may be happy to do some thing (spend money and do something). Whether it is rob a bank, get drunk and drive a car, or cure cancer people will always be happy to do some thing (referring to your point 'someone always happy to pay for a thing) as if this is the signal of some thing is OK). Just because the sensation of novelty happens doesn't mean we are doing well (see: basically any shitty thing humans do for a while and regret being assigned value through this mechanism).

I'm trying to look at this from a higher altitude and say that with the levels of intellect and passion I'm aware of (and apologies for the lack of hard evidence or citations) I believe we are capable of better things.

I believe in capitalism. I believe in the motivation to better ourselves to improve our circumstances through effort and education followed by returns due to providing things that people need or want. The sunglasses example in my view is a kind of prostitution of what the intention of capitalism is. In other words the hackers approach to capitalism. (I professionally and academically identify with and appreciate a hackers mentality, except in an economic social organizational sense due to it's regular self serving at any cost cultural grey areas). The mentality to circumvent standards and the creativity required to see pathways through a system is critically valuable to our species, but how in this case. In an attempt to open to you knowing/or having better view and resources on this than I do, please share a read, or whatever you expected me to provide?

It feels like a waste of time, a waste of materials, a waste of human thinking, a pure waste of a reason to do anything when something is done just to synthesize value.

For a light hearted 'citation': I see that the more pervasive this kind of behavior becomes in our world the closer to a scenario like the film Idiocracy we will become.
Apparently the 80% number includes hospitals and fee-for-service revenues (think Medicare or Medicaid) which isn’t quite what I’m getting at. I’ve edited the able to refer to the 65% of government funding for “human services” non-profits as reported here: https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/default/files/docu...
> My Daughter: "<so and so from school> has TikTok!"

> Me: "<so and so> is a Chinese asset!"

I cannot believe this is allowed on this forum.

IIRC, you are suggesting some individual in your daughter's school, presumably a Chinese ethnic, is a "Chinese asset"? What do you mean by "Chinese asset"?

Edit: It seems I read the asset wrong. See replies below.
Russian Arctic sets 'fantastical' heat records: weather chief
> Instead, the judicial commission and Hayes reached a deal. The former Eagle Scout would serve an 11-month unpaid suspension.

Do these articles not get reviewed before publication? How is being an Eagle Scout relevant to this story?
Consistency is a big part of fairness, maybe the biggest part. Outsourcing "cancellation" decisions to the SPLC/ADL ensures that people are being consistently banned across all of the major social networks, after a full investigation by non-profits whose entire reason for existence is to do these kinds of investigations. They have, collectively, centuries of experience (and began long before the Internet existed).

Delegating also ensures that cancellations aren't done willy-nilly—the SPLC/ADL are not like a Twitter mob. They have (combined) over a billion in funds to investigate hate speech on the Internet, and to then advise the social networks that they are hosting hate speech—who then make the actual decisions to ban or not ban. Typically, they coordinate and all ban in unison, to avoid weird situations where someone is banned on one (or a few networks), but not all.

Obviously, none of this will feel "fair" to racist Whites, but there are places online (e.g. Gab, Bitchute, etc.) for them to speak freely to other racists where they won't be banned.
> "How the public in the US or anywhere else feels about it, will have no bearing on it whatsoever."

Public opinion is what translates into political support (or lack of support) for military action. I don't agree that these things are as independent as you suggest. In fact, the reason the CCP cares so much about suppressing speech and censoring their citizens is because they deeply understand this power.

> "This would be a good argument, if any action of Apple's directly facilitated the oppression of the Uiger or anybody else in China."

Isn't giving them iCloud access to messages effectively enabling the surveillance? This and the other smaller things suggest a precedent that Apple will do whatever is asked of them and figure out some way to rationalize it.

> "But no matter what Apple decides to do, the outcome will be the same: People living in China will not have access to apps which are illegal in China."

This flavor of argument leads to good people doing bad things and telling themselves it's okay. I think it's just a way to rationalize bad behavior (https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/06/13/zoom-in-china.html).

The outcome doesn't have to be the same, just because you refuse to enable authoritarian governments doesn't mean you have to do nothing. Even if you do do nothing, at least you're not directly enabling the bad behavior.

> "I think it's crucial to distinguish between those companies who are actively aiding authoritarian regimes by selling them instruments of oppression, and those who are simply not doing anything to thwart those regimes."

I think this is a fair distinction and there is definitely a spectrum of wrongness, but I think companies often use this to rationalize bad behavior. Usually with similar "operating within the legal framework of the country" type of arguments. I don't find it very compelling. I'd also argue Apple specifically is enabling oppression of citizens by suppressing speech, and by handing over iCloud access to the CCP.
My old Mac Mini is getting left behind here.

I dread the thought of buying a newer one but everyday it's getting closer to a necessity.
You don’t own any of these things, you own a license to the content and the physical disc.

It’s completely different to owning something.

Steams provisions are helpful in practice but ultimately meaningless because you don’t own any of the actual games, you merely have a license to run the code under their terms.
Unfortunately auto resizing iframe without the opt-in of the embedded page could be used to snoop on private data using frame extents as a side channel. Imagine a page that is 10 times longer if you are signed into it-- a third party site you visit could use this fact to determine if you are signed into the embedded website, for instance, and they could make the frame invisible and you wouldn't even know it happened. While the embedding site can of course opt out of iframe embedding with X-Frame-Options, we can't assume that sites are built that way, and there may be legitimate use cases for iframing where you still don't want to expose the size of the underlying page.

Things like pym.js and iframe-resizer are probably the best bet security wise as it requires opt-in by the underlying page.
FWIW an option I use at my home/office is a 2u 12bay supermicro box running freenas with extra hard drives as the backup DST (Destination).

Using periodic replication on the source (also freenas/ZFS) and some Scripts I wrote using ipmi to start up the DST box-

I have the DST machine downstairs at my house And once a week for about 12 hours it auto powers up, the auto application starts and after about 12 hours shut down. (10g uplink)

So outside of 12 hours a week the machine is powered off. Not the best solution and it does have Some sec holes, but it was something cheap to backup alot of data.
This is probably an area where I wouldn't just trust statistics. During pandemic I've tried out many new running routes and one particular stretch of road i have had 4 incidents of me having to move to not be hit by a car that didn't see me wheras on other routes its happened 5 times in 6 years.( The cause is its people coming out of a neighborhood with lots of stop signs then they get to main road that is busy and are impatient and looking for a hole to slip into). It really makes each persons situation different as traffic patterns also changes throughout the day.
I'm mostly worried about Termux. I can't imagine a phone without a decent terminal and I feel my options are going to be severely limited.
What is the clear use case for "accessing the clipboard"?
> It's so much worse and it didn't need doing.

It's subjective. I like it.
Yes! https://mobilejazz.com/company-handbook-pdf/ (free to download)
Reader mode is another option on most browsers.

However, it can also be said that a full-screen browser on a landscape widescreen monitor is "doing it wrong."
My armchair theory is that there is a bit of hubris involved: in-house developers are hesitant to admit they've been 'bested' by a stranger on the internet, and so downplay or even just have blinders on against recognizing in the first place the severity of the issue. Though to be far, I think the flipside is also at times true - where the independent security researcher believes the anthill they've found is a mountain.
Show HN: Make money playing online poker with AI
Motorcycles are 4% less likely to be involved in an accident, however motorcyclists are 27 TIMES more likely to die if they are in an accident.

https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-motorcyc...
If anyone here is in the know with the AR/VR scene, could they shed some light on why AR hasn't taken off yet?

VR is cool, but it's seems like such a more useful concept to me to have actual reality with enhanced information.

Imagine wearing glasses and looking at a plate of food then having it estimate + track calories and macros, or paint GPS direction arrows on surfaces realtime, or put people's names you've met before above their head so you can avoid awkwardly admitting you've forgotten it.

Is it technical limitations, or cost?

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Edit: Many people replied with really informative answers to this already. I genuinely appreciate your time and insight, thank you :)
Waited 10 years? Why didn't you just use a yubikey in PIV mode, or the yubikey with gpg, or a smartcard, or…
I've been using a yubikey PIV for, hmm… at least 5 years.

Sure, a FIDO key is cheaper.
When the shoe fits wear it.
If you are physically in front of it and have admin privileges there probably is a non-trivial way to disable those prompts. Disabling SIP and all sorts of protections is involved.
Thanks for the revelation ! Never understood before the love for chains in everything in the US (notably for hotels and restaurants) vs things like stars in France :)
Once I saw the only way to fix this terrible MegaBar was by modifying code that will break later I realized I was no longer the target demographic and switched browsers.
Ok I kinda believe you. But I do not understand why you wouldn't be able to draw perfectly. Why can you not simply overlay what you see with you're minds eye over the real world? I do this when I am drawing, that's why I'm not a bad drawer. And it's also how I know the limitations of my visualisation. As I learn to draw, say, faces better, the detail and accuracy of my visualisation improves.
People instantly think 'non-profit' means 'virtuous charity', but first of all not all charities are doing things you or anyone else would agree are genuinely virtuous, and secondly non-profits aren't necessarily working on any kind of 'charity' as a reasonable person would understand it. People should remember - 'non-profit' is an administrative status, not a comment on the value of what they're doing or their motivations for doing it.
The superstar researcher system (2014)
Transgender icon J Edgar Hoover did the same.

If it was for safety or because he hated lefties is not clear.

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/27/archives/exagent-says-hoo...
Just another transient DOM API abstraction library
>very first production year for Model 2.

Too late to edit but that should have said "Model S."
Wow, that still seems rather weak and reckless.

First they describe what Controlled Digital Lending is - one physical copy == one lend. They cite legal experts that agree. That's fine, no one's disagreeing there.

Then they go on with this:

"Additionally, fair use ultimately asks, 'whether the copyright law’s goal of promoting the Progress of Science and useful Arts would be better served by allowing the use than by preventing it.' In this case we believe it would be. Controlled digital lending as we conceive it is..."

So basically they went off and created the National Emergency Library based on their own interpretation of Fair Use. You better be ready for a huge fight if you're going to that. I don't know how they couldn't have expected this.
As much as I like driving a car into the ground, I think getting a new car every 10 years is the sweet spot between safety upgrades, frugality and shiny new toy.

Here's some highlights and keep in mind there's a lag between the first car with a feature and it becoming a widely adopted standard. And of course each new feature is always being improved.
1959 - First car with 3 point seat belt as standard
1971 - First car with anti-skid brakes (ABS precursor)
1978 - First car with electronic 4 wheel ABS
1983 - First car with anti-skid control (ESC precusor)
1995 - First car with ESC
1997 - Curtain air bags
2002 - Knee air bags
2004 - Lane keeping assist
2009 - First car with emergency pedestrian braking
2009 - Rear-seat center airbags
2010 - Seat belt airbags
2016 - Tesla Autopilot
2018 - Reverse cameras become mandatory
If you enjoyed logic, you might enjoy reading/working through this text[0]. I learned from that book when it was just written, and it remains one of my favorite books/classes. As you say, it was so very different from previous math classes I'd taken, and it opened up a whole new way of thinking for me. Although it was used for a college course, the prerequisites are minimal -- maybe at most elementary algebra?

[0]: https://www.whitman.edu/mathematics/higher_math_online/
Wow. Right-click on a tab. I didn't even know that menu existed.
I had the same conversation in other forum two days ago and my opinion has not changed.

Not. Not necessarily.

> Hungarian researchers fed...

The team comprises researchers working in Hungary and Spain in fact

As they say, is a preliminary study
It's definitely not an unpopular choice, since SUV sales are skyrocketing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_character_set
I think you are cheating a bit, first the instruction was to picture a pirate, not a bit of one. Second, the exercises purpose is to demonstrate that missing information in an image is obvious whereas missing information in a mental image is not.

And the point is that picturing something to many feels the same as looking at a picture, but in actual fact that feeling is an illusion.

>my perception of my visual thoughts is the same as my perception of the visible world.

If this were true, you would not know when the picture of the pirate was partially off the screen. Or conversely you would know that the mental image of the pirate had no trousers before being asked.
When I was in Tunisia a while back I experienced the low-tech variant of Uber/Lyft.

We wanted to visit another city, and ended up in a kinda bus depot except it was filled with cars. One lane per destination. We paid, got in the first car in "our" lane, and when the car was full the driver headed off.

It was cheap (in local terms) and flexible. Waiting time was reasonable, and the driver stopped when people wanted off.

Meanwhile back here in Norway they're talking about expanding the railroads around the capital. The projected cost is just insane, and I'm 100% confident the estimates are not at all realistic due to difficult terrain, and politicians not being sure about exact placement of certain track segments yet. Should it go through town, or on the outside?
OK, but what if I don't want the main site, but other resources like examples and user troubleshooting of obscure issues?
Mass Tracking COVI-Pass Immunity Passports Slated to Roll Out in 15 Countries
> Yes, we’ve had authors opt out. We anticipated that would happen as well; in fact, we launched with clear instructions on how to opt out because we understand that authors and creators have been impacted by the same global pandemic that has shuttered libraries and left students without access to print books. Our takedowns are completed quickly and the submitter is notified via email.
Here’s the thing: you need both. You need breadth AND focus. Breadth tends to come from the community and focus from a small number of individuals. But both are important.

Keeping both of those balls in the air at once is why being a software coordinator like this is such an exhausting job.
No. https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-new-ransomware-is-targeti...
The car itself can limit speed like they already do in pit lanes
To me that's the main use for bitcoin. Moving money if you're worried about it getting ripped off in transit, not as a permanent store of wealth.
You're upset about them requiring hardware attestation in SafetyNet (I am too) so you move to a platform that is way less flexible and way more closed?

Not a troll, I'm really curious.
So the bossman can’t make distinction between human society lawyers and computer logic lawyers?
I feel remote work is the most viable solution that was listed. It works around the problem of limited housing inventory. In addition, it helps the environment.
Anyone know what this means?

> We fixed bugs in the search results quality composition and improved search result texts based on recommendations by our partners.

It sounds like Firefox has its own search engine? Do they mean the browser history+bookmark search feature? Or the search query suggestions when you have third-party autocomplete turned on? What "partners" (this sounds very markety) is this about?
Not only that, but there's billions of devices out there that don't support it.

I can SSH to my AP, my home router, all routers at basically any ISP. None of those support this. Most of them probably never will, until they're thrown away and new ones bought in 5-10 years.

Bottom line: This can't be your only key. So why bother? Why not use PIV mode/smartcard/other, which does work with every single one of these billions of devices, because they have no server-side requirements like these.
This was abused by several apps to allow locating and identifying users illicitly. One app, say, WeChat, would ask for broad permissions for location and unique identifiers and then leave unique tracking identifiers in a shared file location. Than another app, say, a mobile game, could pick up on those shared identifiers and link you back.

Why this would be a useful benefit worth setting up in an SDK across multiple companies and apps, I'll leave to your own imagination.
Would you mind elaborating on (or provide a link to) some of the problems you mentioned Hololens 2 having? Also, I've never heard of Digilens; do you have a preferred source for learning more about that device and what its limitations are?

Thanks!
It's not the virus directly or other issues.

It's the side effects.

Most of all my kids have been home and my happy working from home world for me, is horrible. Young kids don't understand working from home, and that's 100% understandable... but then I end up working after they go to bed, and before they get up.

My wife has to work from home.

In the meantime it's summer and there's no baseball, no fairs, no other things :(