skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nobody even talks about it, but the fact that I can "sign in" to my "brokerage account" simply by visiting dydx or unisawp and authenticating securely with my browser is pretty incredible.

There's an experimental browser that provides this functionality for all kinds of websites, not just financial ones. You set up an account once when you install the browser, and then you can use it for one-click logins.

It's made by Alphabet Inc, but I can't seem to remember what it's called. Vanadium? Manganese? Ultron? Something like that anyway...
This is good news to hear. Last year I helped set up Android phones with Burmese immigrants in Thailand and they gave me confused looks when I switched the script to Unicode, especially since all their friends on social media would be using Zawgyi, so I ended up switching the phones to English and Zawgyi on a per-app (e.g. Facebook) basis.

However, it may be toughest to make this switch for casual users since the "broken" Unicode essentially stops them from being able to communicate with others.
> The people who I know that use Gentoo are addicted to constant updates (they apply them more than once a day).

Quite the opposite for me. I struggle to do it once a month. I would often go months without it, but that turned out to be a really bad idea.

No - it's the USE flags that make it awesome. And the ability to apply custom patches, etc as needed.
Small research companies or small contracting firms
In some states you don't need a law degree to be a lawyer, either: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/education/edlife/how-to-l...
Metal Gear Solid 5 remains one of the most fun games I played this generation. The storyline is dumb even by MGS standards, but the gameplay is absolutely phenomenal. Every feature just clicks together.

It also manages to avoid, for the most part, the pitfalls open world games fall in to (huge spans to cross with nothing happening, fetch missions, collect missions etc).

Infiltrating and exfiltrating a compound, whichever way you can think of, in the Afghan desert with none of the fancy SONAR or gadgetry of other MGS titles is what the series has clearly wished it was since day one.
I did this some years ago. The problem nowadays is that I don’t have much time to fiddle with my phone OS. My second issue is that Google systematically designed Play services so that Google free devices are basically neutered. You’ll miss out on a lot of features.
Creating something out of nothing: The Banach - Tarski Paradox

https://youtu.be/s86-Z-CbaHA
Connection resilience. You mean when Telegram's EU server had an issue last time, it was down from Ireland to Egypt to Israel to Finland :D That resilience?
Do we need more concentration of power? Let‘s avoid for as long as we can manage.
We've already had billions of dollars worth of ICOs. How much more money is needed?
> Am I just getting lucky with a race condition?

Probably this is buffering, either from dd or from the kernel.

$ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1M count=1 of=test.bin 2>/dev/null
$ cp test.bin test2.bin
$ cat < test2.bin | tee test2.bin >/dev/null
$ diff test.bin test2.bin
Binary files test.bin and test2.bin differ
$ wc -c test{2,}.bin
131072 test2.bin
1048576 test.bin

Notice the file got truncated at exactly 128k; a nice round size for a write cache.
Sounds like you're throwing a challenge to the Hackaday types out there.

And amusingly enough, using cheap hardware to mess with RF devices around you reminds of Steve Lord's hilarious/informative/vicious "Cider Kill-chain" talk.[0] Since attacks only improve over time, the code golf to make the devices more effective could prove quite entertaining to watch - from a safe distance.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIRlFSIngfE
You often don't have to put in the email again, thanks to eg. the username hint.

And then, if you're already logged in according to the auth provider, you don't have to type your password either.

A good thing about tgis is that the providers can require different kinds of MFA at their discretion though.

But, what would happen to that poor app if I have a live account associated with my gmail and a google account associated with my o365 mail? ....

Come to think of it, I have an email account to which I have associated an ms live account AND an o365 corporate account, and a google account ... Very confusing ...
and Atom actually is well defined (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287 etc.), while RSS is just a mess. There's many of them and no RFC or similar.
A cursory Google search says yes. Not as a public repo or anything, but if you ask them, you'll get it. Examples here: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/mikrotik-gpl-source/6750/10
> Since E2E encryption is not enabled by default in Telegram, I believe it's used by 2% of their users at most.

You are probably answering another post here. I don't think it is intentional.

> Messages of the rest can be read by Telegram team.

Well, there are a number of ways to prevent that from happening easily.

I cannot verify this, but Telegram said years ago that they solved certain problems by routing keys and messages through different datacenters in different jurisdictions.

That said: the big question is if their solutions work and if it works that way? I don't know, they seem remarkable competent at certain aspects of what they do and other times I feel they suffer from the same thing that Elon Musk sometimes suffer from where they publicly state things that sound immediately unreasonable.

But that would be meaningful criticism so probably off topic in a Telegram bashing contest ;-)
Done properly, are you sure about that? Sounds like a security risk to me...
What potential customers, though? You wouldn't know whether they are 1% mobile games or 99% mobile games. Given that any company wouldn't "just make a game", this statistic isn't useful.

Similarly "all people eat food" isn't really helpful if you're wondering how large the market for artificial meat is.
Perhaps watch a few Samurai films by Akira Kurosawa with your son and discuss the violence that happens on film in the context it arises?

It's also worth watching a couple of YouTube reviews of Ghost of Tsushima. I recommend the ACG and SkillUp reviews.

I think if you do this you'll be better placed to judge if he's emotionally ready or not.
https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/ ..? I put a note that I’m donating because of X when I do.
This bug is not generally a significant cause of disk space utilisation, unless you’re running a server the size of matrix.org (which is the only reason it’s marked P1).

I strongly suspect you’re thinking of a separate issue: the need to automatically expire old history and reclaim disk space in general, which was fixed a while back, as per https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/messa...
It doesn’t say it at the top or anywhere else.

I assumed “near the sun” the meant between us and the sun, which would have blown my mind having taken just a few undergrad courses in astronomy and physics.
I wish I'd known about this six months ago. I never had time to sort out Windows boot USBs in my last role (always other priorities), but if this made it easy enough I could have snuck it on.
Thanks for the explanation! I've been rereading the LOTR series over COVID shelter in place and it's been so enjoyable taking me back remembering what a great story it is and experiencing it again! I ended up ordering the LOTR ATLAS with maps drawn by Tolkein's son which looks exciting to explore. Dunno if I have the mental fortitude to tackle the Silmarilion though!
What is the use case? Why boot from many distros?
This is their second (or third?) attempt to go public. The S1 from 2012:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1486183/000119312512...
Show HN: An Inspirational Twitter Account for motivation
Been trying to help myself & others and realized that there are moments when we all need that extra push of motivation.

So I made a twitter account dedicated to helping with motivation & inspiration during these confusing times.

Hope it helps you & everyone who sees this :)
https://twitter.com/cosmicsoulforge
Use the Lightning network.
This is the kind of content that makes me visit hn, long & insightful
Nitpick, OIDC is built on OAuth
Unfortunately, it's probably quite wrong.

He uses the analogy of 'too clever by half' to exemplify his idea that 'financial innovation is always wrong'.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Insurance products have changed the world just as much as any technical innovation.

Mortgaged backed securities are not a bad thing, far from it, they allow more efficient use of capital by having 'saving Germans and Japanese' invest their money where they otherwise would not be able to.

The problem in the 2008 crash was soft systematic corruption and un-ironically a lack of fragility (ie one bank goes down it takes the rest down like dominos) - not necessarily the securities themselves for which he didn't actually even provide any basis of his negative assertion.

Efficiency is usually how we gain productivity and it's borderline absurd to say there is inherently something wrong with it on the whole. Like anything 'it depends'.

If you can have a software algorithm outperform 100 analysts on weather predictions for your fleet of drivers ... that's probably efficient. But cutting down operating margins so that any bump in the economy will leave you flat is maybe 'over optimisation'.
A blind review process is great! I'm just wondering if this was truly the case here as there were disproportionately more women and people of the LGBT community than white cisgender males.
A big part of it is does your ingame motion match your real world motion. In games like Beat Saber the only movements are from you physically moving. I've had a VR headset for maybe 4 years now and can still only play racing games for about an hour before motion sickness starts to settle in. I bet the roller coaster demo would be much less disorienting if one sat in a motion simulator. I'd love to own one eventually for my sim-racing setup.
I saw "cool" developers in nice glasses hacking on sticker-encrusted laptops at conferences as a discrete subset back in 2007 or earlier. When was this written?
Go install Brave and visit https://trade.dydx.exchange/. Congratulations, you can now trade leveraged derivatives. No signup required.

Seriously, go see what the process looks like. Just by not being full of A/B tested bullshit and free of regulation, you can get a glimpse of the future.

It feels powerful in a way that registering a Google account doesn't.
There is a functional arbitration platform called Kleros. It could be tied in with any contract to have some human “legal” input. In fact, any contract can be admin‘d by one person or a group. See DAO’s - curve.fi and aave are 2 examples, they are both community run where ppl vote on proposals with their shares.

As I think you were getting at, there’s enormous systemic risk with hacks and bugs. Now the contract ecosystem is so intertwined that a bug in one can cause a cascading effect. E.g a price feed which powers a DeFi platform could be hacked/attacked. Even a bug in a simple erc20 could have massive consequences since a lot of the contracts are intertwined
It's one of the reasons I like using the nnn file manager. It
has a batch rename feature with exactly that functionality.
Kind of like CCTV - can be great to help prevent crime, an invasion of privacy if abused or in the wrong hands. Not necessarily evil, depends on the user.
Facebook is also filled with great features, but since they're not private we don't really consider those features but tasty baits for stealing our personal data. The question is, why should Telegram whose author is literally called the Mark Zuckerberg of Russia, be exempt and handed all that data. Of course he wants to make the app that gives him all that valuable data easy and fun to use. The real engineering starts when you want to achieve those fun features in a secure way -- people should ask WHY is it that it takes a bit of time from Signal developers to implement same features. That's precisely why. They're actual features with painstaking security design with clear rationale and security proofs, not a dish of spyware served with the side plate of bullshit that is damage control.

I guess it's because Durov attended the St. Petersburg military academy and studied propaganda and information warfware that makes him such a chef when it comes to the latter.
Is this not the rationale behind the death penalty?
> and no one is running nodes except for the company itself

What you're talking about doesn't seem to be an ICO but an IBO (Initial Blockchain Offering?). Most ICOs use a token on an already-established blockchain (e.g. ETH), so then there's no need to run a new network of nodes for it.
I'm pretty sure they used to require uniform pricing. I remember Spotify getting in trouble for having different prices in the app. But that was several years ago.

B2B apps are exempt from the the IAP requirements.
People in different parts of the world differ HUGELY in what instant-messaging communications platform they use.

For instance people in the US still use text-messaging to a significant percentage. That's hard for me to believe as well.

It's no use looking at Telegram's world usage, that's for sure.
I worked for company that created one of top 10 crypto currencies.

We were fully remote scaterred around the globe. On january 2018 (crypto peak) we organized company meeting to get together. Most employees shared rooms to reduce cost.

Dont believe everything you read in newspapers.
> The $40 SoC isn't $40 after you the drive, power supply, enclosure, etc.

That's true, but we can break cost down easily. Right now there are RPi4 packs with power supply, enclosure, and both passive and active coolers for less than 15$. Storage depends on your taste, but you can buy 64GB USB pen drives or micro SD cards for less than 10$, or 1TB external HDD for less than 50$. Thus for a total less than 100$ you can have a brand new server up and running.

I'm talking about stuff you can simply add to your shopping cart and get it shipped to your doorstep in a few days with zero research. These prices were literally taken from the first search result that popped into amazon.

Better yet, this option involves zero time wasted betting on whether end-of-life hardware still has a few months left in them.
I've always thought about this being possible! Thank god it exists now and I know its name, I'm going to have a cosy weekend with this.
There's a few programs I wish were standard on all Unix systems by now:

* tree - print directory structure

* bat - cat, but actually designed for reading files. Syntax highlighting, line numbers, automatic paging.

* rg - better grep

* direnv - local environment variables
So long as FPS remains the most popular genre in console gaming nobody is going to deviate from existing controller designs, they are ideally suited for shooters.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24238229
This seems too extreme to be real.
Instead of using multiple USB drives, each dedicated to one OS install image, a sysadmin only needs to have one large USB drive that olds all ISO images they need.
Supposedly its available by request (which is all that is required by GPL). An old-ish copy is here: https://github.com/robimarko/routeros-GPL
The clients wouldn't feature E2EE for groups even if you'd write your own server from scratch so no, nobody should use Telegram for anything.
Not unconstructive at all, just uncomfortable. Awareness to what is happening to our planet is key!

Taking down forests is unconstructive. :)
Blockchain, the solution for getting funding from ignorant investors.
> If the DNC and the RNC decided that they really wanted it to be passed, they have to power to solely elect judges to the Supreme Court which would uphold it.

That's a bit of a stretch. First off, SCOTUS justices are appointed (through a nomination and confirmation process), not elected.

In order for either the DNC or RNC, or both of them surprisingly working together, to pull this off, it'd wouldn't be trivial. Let's assume for a moment the "easy" case: out of 9 justices, 4 of them are in favor of this thing, 5 against. The DNC+RNC then have to get one of those 5 justices to retire, or they have to get lucky, and one of them dies. Then they have to get that appointee to the president. Next we have to assume that the president agrees with this thing they want. If so, cool, the president makes the nomination. Then it goes to the Senate. Does the DNC+RNC have 51 senators that agree? Ok, cool, justice gets confirmed.

Issue goes to court, makes its way up to SCOTUS, and the ruling is 5-4 in favor of whatever the DNC+RNC wants... unless someone has changed their mind and switched sides during all this. I feel like that's already happened! If you believe that the RNC alone has managed to get Gorsuch and Kavanaugh on the court in order to do nefarious things, they've largely failed. Both justices have been reasonably moderate (so far, at least), when compared to what Trump and McConnell wanted.

Now, this isn't a completely implausible scenario. I'll grant you that, certainly. But: if the DNC+RNC really want something this much, then they presumably have the support of a bunch of constituents and, critically, state legislatures. It would seem to maybe be a better idea to go for a constitutional amendment. In reality, I'd say that's crazy; the three-fourths of the states agreeing on something of constitutional importance is pretty unlikely. But if we're in this bizarro world where the DNC and RNC agree that something unconstitutional really needs to get passed, this is probably a better path to take than trying to engineer some light judicial subversion.

So while I think your hypothetical is an interesting thought experiment, it's not really important in practice. SCOTUS is independent in the ways that actually matter. If there's bi-partisan support among government and citizens for something, it probably should be law. Yes, there's the possibility that this hypothetical unconstitutional thing they want to make into law is tyranny of the majority of the worst sort. But at the end of the day you can only make the system so robust, and I think our system is decently ok in that regard, the past 3.5 years notwithstanding.
This is all about perspective and how you write your headlines.

As a consumer I’m on apple’s side which is not all about top slicing cash. I want one place to manage my subscriptions rather than having to sign into 50 different accounts with different cancellation and billing policies. Some of them even make it difficult to understand on purpose.

The main objectors to all of this are businesses who want to set their own policies and rates. I suspect that the rate is less of an issue considering Apple’s infrastructure taking a lot of cost away but it is being used to leverage policies which might not be good for the consumer.
>noise

There's no way you can do much on the rPi4 without active cooling - mine gets uncomfortable hot doing some basic web scraping, never mind server duties.
DRC was my first thought when I saw the parent comment! An aside, if you want one of the most amazing and thoughtfully written travel stories of recent conditions in DRC, check out this overlanding thread by a couple who went from
Lubumbashi to Kinshasa. https://expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/democratic-republ...

There's a TLDR here if you don't have time to follow the entire thread (though highly worth it!!) : https://jalopnik.com/the-first-people-to-drive-across-the-co...

I enjoyed it so much I read Leopold's Ghost to learn more about the tragic history of DRC.
I come from Italy. We call this mafia.
Yes! I hope that one day the vast majority of human written text will be first available online and second OCRed for automatic treatement (search, machine translation, etc).
Those Benin artefacts are impressive. If I could see them all in a fabulous museum in Africa, that would change my understanding and perceptions of African society. It would contribute to me aspiring to emigrate to live and work in Nigeria, instead of, say, Palo Alto, New York, Boston, or London.

Things are the way they are because possession is 9/10ths of the law, and there is no international police force. The only possibility for change is the court of public opinion in the countries that currently possess the artefacts. That court does change over time, so perhaps there is some hope.
Signal is working on V2 groups with moderation right now.
uh, I think "abstracting away concepts" is the base for enduring cluelessness and thus dependencance.

Still the UX has to be excellent. As you wouldn't abstract the fact of a sharp edge off a knife. Still the grip has to be very different from the sharp edge. It's 2 things that have to balance to make sense. The worse limits the result.

No user ever is bothered with Atom spec technicalities, is it?
> I'm really surprised by how uneducated most of HN are about blockchain

I'm really surprised by how uneducated you think HN readers are. My BS alarm goes 100% every time I read about how "Blockchain Technology" is going to solve world peace or whatever.
They kind of seem like a consulting agency like McKinsey but optimized for trendy "big data" and "AI" to pursue biggov contracts.
This is called extortion and those fanboys who blindly and uncrtically support everything this company is doing are just making things worse.
Have you considered Qt?

As a Mac user I prefer native applications if available. But still, I would consider a well-written Qt application.

For example, qBittorrent is quite alright.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)

https://www.qbittorrent.org/
Yes. For an even more extreme experience try following @AuschwitzMuseum. See how it affects your daily life and priorities. Does it make you cry sometimes? Lucky you. There is a very beautiful and important need called mourning. Enjoy.
Also, they have to decide to actually use that second number to cheat in a Telegram poll significantly more often than people of the other party.

Otherwise you can only draw your error bars equally in both ways at once, and then they need to be pretty large before the numbers stop saying what they clearly are saying.
Thanks for the downvotes... They are my medals for trying to be positive in this space!
Track Your Contacts When Someone will be online on WhatsApp You will get Notification
You create a wallet, even offline if you want, and you have instant access to a worldwide, no KYC, pseudo anonymous, financial ecosystem. You can lend and trade all sorts of assets and derivatives. You don’t even need to log in or sign up in the traditional sense. It’s really incredible
But but... I thought Apple's excuse for their 30% tax was that their App Review process and locked down OS etc is supposed to prevent apps from doing such malicious things on iOS? To keep us and our data "safe"? Err... right?
Yep, I remember Might&Magic to have distinctively different feeling than, say, Skyrim. You'd get a task but no map markers about where to go, and pre-Internet me would cross the world three times to find some hideout.

I'm not sure though if I'd have the time and patience any more for this, even if it felt a lot more rewarding.
I’m not a fanboy. But I know the other side of the coin and it’s even more of a shit show. If there isn’t standardisation it turns to a race to the bottom where predatory tactics such as perpetual micro transactions and auto renewing difficult to cancel subscriptions reign.
> rg

Never going to happen because it's written in rust. ag (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher) on the other hand is written in C.
Unfortunately 3rd party software installs are lost on updates, so you need to be local to the router before upgrading (or have a secondary VPN available).

Development of EdgeOS has really slowed down though, there hasnt been a stable firmware update in 6 months (and that was just a small hotfix).