skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree it reads like a spy novel.

Is there any reason to believe the project would not have been approved without the alleged favors?
This comes 3 days after a leak that alleged that iPhone 13 will bring back Touch ID via in-screen fingerprinting https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/move-over-iphone-12-apples...
Sure works when you have only one computer in your life (aka almost nobody). It’s especially bad with Apple with 3 different usb standards. Contactless is the future.
Oh man, I HATE that discord ties everything to the same email. I have personal discords, work discords, side project-based discords, and community discords.

I want different handles for them, I want DMs to be grouped by discord - not into a single giant bucket, I want notification emails to go to different emails.

The biggest blocker to me enjoying discord is that it assumes I'm the same person across all the groups.
Don't go looking for your first open source contribution
is it? if I think chokeholds are an inappropriate tactic for police, it's much easier for me to persuade my local government to ban the practice than it would be to get the federal government to ban it nationally.
I really like this article, and especially the calling into question that smaller/decentralized is always better. I've had the intuition for a while that decentralization is sort of a hope of end-running around power structures, but as the article hints at, the power structures don't really go away, they just becoming less legible. Think about the failings of holocracy, or tyranny of structurelessness, or even the way framework-less software projects tend to end up with ad-hoc, buggy frameworks implemented in them. In other words, the structure is there, you've just reduced your ability to influence it.
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Well one issue as a user is trying to remember which third-party auth was used when I first created the account (did I use Facebook? Google? Twitter?).
It is however useful to know the difference, and in some cases you actually need to write POSIX (code meant to be sourced for example).
Great advice all around. I'll add that the fitness tracker has the added bonus of making you want to meet your "goals" on the tracker, which can sometimes be the difference between me taking a healthy walk or not.

As for choosing a supportive partner, I've found that it gets easier as I get older. Age matures people and gives them patience. I'm also lucky to have a partner who has also experienced serious health issues, so he truly understands at a deep level.

Finding him took time, probably more time than a healthy person would spend looking for a partner. But I am grateful every day that I didn't give up the search.
Part of me wonders if another thing that helped Discord do well was the fact the communities on it were invite only and private by default.

Yeah, I don't like this walled garden aspect of most sites either. But let me explain:

Basically, on sites like Reddit, if a community gets controversial, it almost certainly will get media attention, and potentially get banned or censored because of that. Similarly, if someone says something controversial on Twitter, that could mean losing their job or what not too.

That can't happen as easily on Discord, since you need the invite link to join, and can more easily keep out snooping journalists, moral guardians, etc.
And yet I know far more about their scandals and failings than I do of the keystone cops running my local police. And activists in my city have been in the streets for months, and there has been very little reform of the local police.
Unaccountable Chinese Retailers: Outdated Laws Not Keeping Pace with Technology
A more realistic setup is Stockfish on a 4+ core CPU desktop, or maybe on a modern smartphone. GPU chess engines aren't as useful to the majority of machines without a high-end card.
Dash is the Almquist shell.

Most shells needed updates to fully-conform with the POSIX standard. The wiki mentions that the Almquist shell did not implement a "test" program that fully conformed.

The sh-posix on HP-UX also had subtle changes to the ksh88 source to bring it into compliance (but this shell still supported arrays and coprocesses).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almquist_shell
Ok, we've replaced "without code" with "visually" in the title above.
It's common in gaming discords, mainly for hi-res streaming. For other communities I suspect the status of boosting and the feeling of "supporting the community" is popular, in a patreon-like way.
Most people in the US/Canada have no information on what was done a few hundred years ago. This is archaeological evidence that before Europeans came the natives were farmers, but disease (large numbers died) and introduction of horses most of the old knowledge of farming was lost even before the old farms were force-ably taken away.
Agreed. Liquidity is good. The pocket listings may not be optimizing price for the seller, though they may minimize hassle.

It seems like it is healthiest for homes to be on the market for about two weeks. Part of the trouble with short-duration listings is that it is a high-stakes version of the optimal-stopping problem. I think a little more holistic visibility into the market's offerings might yield better matches between buyers and homes.

Choosing an abode for the next few decades amidst weekly auto-escalation bidding wars just doesn't seem healthy for the future dwellers.
He is the best.
That's a lot of words to say you think vaccines cause autism.
Are posts like this used to "boost" twitter accounts? seems like it is.
This is the second edition of my new weekly newsletter with tips and projects from the ecosystem that's growing up around my Datasette project.
"make it clear you don’t want to have a discussion on the issues"

You literally chopped off the last three words to try to make it sound like it said something different. Saying that when you pay more taxes it just blanketly disappears is both demonstrably false and clearly an exaggeration to the point of no longer being a discussion on the issues.

I spent over a decade living in California. I'm well aware what its like.
Thank you! That's another bit of consistent user feedback! :)

And I agree. I'm rebranding it for the move from MVP hack -> v1.0 product.
What do you mean "is drawn from"? Isn't the previous condition a reasonable characterization of "you know what distribution it's drawn from"?
This is a non-default per-server setting, the admins chose to enable this
My dad left me his tools. One day the garage door was left open too long and somebody stole some drills. They only took the cordless ones, leaving the two with cords.

It gave me some idea of what things were worth at the pawn shop.
Evo wanted to be one. The new president is hand picked by him.
>>Deliberately hiding the origin of funds is itself criminal conduct, though.

No, money laundering is deliberately hiding the origins of the proceeds of crime. Making an effort to maintain financial privacy is not in itself illegal.

>>It's saying that "Mixing is probably money laundering on its face, no matter where the money came from."

No, money laundering is by definition hiding the origins of illegally obtained money. If the money is not the proceeds of criminal enterprise, then hiding its origins is not, by definition, money laundering.

Exercising privacy-protection with respect to legally obtained money may be illegal, or with new laws be made illegal, but it does not and will not ever fall under the definition of money laundering, as that is not the definition of money laundering.
> It falls short, because biometrics <> passwords. As I said, biometrics == identity.

This is just dogma, it's not based on the actual implementation details.

TouchID for the web requires: Something you are (biometric), and something you have (Your phone/ computer).

If someone "Discovers" my fingerprints, they are worthless without the phone/ computer which has the Secure Enclave I've matched them to. If my phone is stolen, I can invalidate the entire device as a method of authentication.
Getting your face (and it has to be a high resolution 3D model of your face, not just a photograph) or your fingerprint is not enough. They also have to have physical access to one of your devices.
@vsri, yes, exactly! Paraphrasing is stating your interpretation of what you've heard and mirroring is reflecting back exactly what the speaker said. I didn't break down the two interpretations in this post to keep it simple, but from what I've learned and read, mirroring is especially useful in more vulnerable / emotional conversations. You want to help the speaker feel seen as they are, without placing any judgment on them (and your interpretation is a form of judgment of what they're saying). Paraphrasing helps in making the speaker feel heard, but it's more useful in driving clarity.
Agreed, mostly. For some investors, it's just a check box item, and they won't look into it any more. But they are competent. It's just not a high priority for them.
here's the rest of them : https://archive.assembly.org/2020/online-1k-intro
I'm very sorry to hear that. As someone who has arthritis my advice to you is to eat healthily, manage your stress, and don't forget about physical activity: therapy, walking, biking - listen to your body, and see what works for you. All the doctors I've been to said that the key thing to prevent the illness develop further is the activity.
Did you ever know that you’re my hero?

(I had no idea. Thank you. That’s a nice shortcut.)
Is there a reason why they can't implement anticheats? Cheating in videogames is as old as videogames themselves.
The thing with discord is, its communities are offspring of other communities. The parent communities are either some subreddit , or some gaming group somewhere, or some forum , or some crypto community etc. The communities centers are elsewhere, not on discord. Most of them can move between chat apps like nomads.
It doesn't matter since your fingerprint isn't secret. It's not enough to have a picture of my fingerprint, you have to produce a convincing enough fake of a real human with the right fingerprint.

Take this to meatspace for a second. If you had a security guard sitting at a desk inspecting your hands and taking fingerprints you couldn't trick them with pictures. You can't hold up a picture of my face to a guard and expect that they'll suddenly think you're me. Biometric auth systems are trying to the same thing but without the human.

> They are famously defeatable.

And most locks in wide-use today are also defeatable by amateur locksmiths, that's not really the point. There are sophisticated biometric auth systems that aren't fooled by pictures. FaceID is one example.
or this one https://github.com/copremesis/endoh1
https://archive.is/nARhl
If passwords are the original sin, then Face ID and Touch ID are Sodom and Gomorrah.

Authentication is something you KNOW. Strong authentication is something you KNOW, and something you HAVE.

Something you ARE is great for identification, but terrible for authentication. Something you are cannot be changed like a password.
Yeah the author created this post pointing to his own tweet saying thank you in relation to a different post already on HN.
The fact that it didn't make software developers obsolete. Instead it created a whole new breed of 'specialized' software developers - ones that knew Fortran.

This is the fundamental problem with "they are going to automate our jobs!" thing people seemingly fear. Sure automation may make old jobs obsolete, but it also spawns new jobs in their place.

Before the invention of cars - there were no auto mechanics.
Before the invention of telephones - there were no telephone operators.
Before the invention of the internet - there were no web developers.
Before ATMs - there were surely more teller jobs in existence. But with ATMs, someone is now needed to go around and stock these ATMs with money periodically, as well as someone to repair them occasionally - both of which can be viewed as a new kind of "teller".

As so, software developers will never become obsolete. It's just the way in which we execute our jobs, which may become obsolete...
Here are the numbers that Jeremy Reimer has for thousands of units sold in 1978[0]:

TRS-80: 150
Commodore Pet: 30
Apple II: 7.6
Altair: 4
Others: 100

It lists a total of 258 thousand, which seems to omit Apples and Altairs. His 2005 article[1] talked about 4000 Pets sold in 1978 (the number you gave as well), which is an order of magnitude less.

[0] https://jeremyreimer.com/rockets-item.lsp?p=137
[1] https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/3/
“Companies will fire employees who end up not being a good fit, but let customers that aren’t a good fit wreak havoc.”

“We therefore created a series of trigger phrases that, when they showed up in support tickets, emails, or via our onboarding form, flagged a company as a bad fit. If they’re a customer, we then automatically refund and lock their accounts. If they’re not a customer, we simply block their domain from ever signing up.” “To get off our block list, companies have to...”

And using the above as their not-so-secret sauce for developing a great product, for reasons given in the article.
> genetically lucky

Genetic modification will be the next frontier in cheating.
Material found in house paint may spur technology revolution
There is a good book about the evolution of written communication as the Internet evolved. "Because Internet" by Gretchen McCulloch goes into some of the subtle implications of using punctuation such as periods ending sentences, capitalization, etc. Text makes it difficult to convey emotions and subtlety so even using punctuation can add signal to the communication channel. It turns out there is relatively powerful tonal communication through those deviations on "standard" English grammar rules. Similarly, Emoji also acts as a replacement for gesturing.

Very interesting book and worth reading to understand how to tailor communication for the medium.
Does any project of that size get approved in Moscow without favors?
https://github.com/copremesis/quinesnake
I've had an issue with sign-in with Apple where using an autogenerated emails ruins certain support interactions. One of them was cancelling a subscription service that was eventually resolved (they required me to email their customer support, which I couldn't figure out how to do using the autogenerated email address created by "sign-in with Apple").
Completely agree. Amazing what was unthinkable in the early days and optimism of the net, has been replaced by near dystopia.

It seems that New tech has an advantage over the incumbents when

1) The early population of users is all experts or hackers of some sort (so diversity of use cases is low)

2) the regulators, are in no way or form able to project force, because they simply cannot recruit people as fast as new tech firms.

Eventually, the tech firms start hitting various frontiers, either slowing down, or failing and ejecting workers. New classes of workers catch up, and government projects start getting built.

Once the Frontier advantages disappear - the extra degrees of freedom new firms enjoyed get captured or shared with other powers, and become common place. Unless you find new degrees of freedom (With market/rule disrupting power) are found, the new dominant firms and the old political powers will start acting on each other.

This is where we are. The thought of a centralized net is pretty troubling, especially where it will end up as tech develops. It has only been 20 years since 2000 and web 2.0. There are countries which don't know that Facebook isn't the internet.
I run a small mentorship program for students. We use Facebook Messenger for all of our communication. This is despite quite a few valid complaints (privacy, not everybody has Facebook, lack of custom rooms, etc). Why? Well currently the onboarding process is this: person expresses interest, person gets added to Messenger group. With another platform, it becomes person expresses interest, we give person a form to create an account. The difference is push versus pull.

Facebook is nobody's favorite platform and yet it's the one most people have.
Agree. Paraphrasing and mirroring are two different ways of reflecting what the speaker is saying. Some situations call for both. In imago therapy (meant for couples), the script calls first for mirroring (repeating word for word), followed by a summary (to demonstrate understanding, and to seek clarification).
> Since I have zero need to deliberately violate Apple's App Story policy, I don't worry about this overmuch.

That may be true today, but their policies are a moving target. Who knows what they'll be like in a year's time?
Pendatic: LUTs are not transistors and at best they can do a cycle accurate reimplementation (which would be almost indistinguishable from the original). However it is a reimplementation and as such there's no guarantee that it's identical to the original (notably might not emulate bugs and idiosyncrasies).
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The Post story is a bad example for being an outlier. The same story was rejected by numerous other press outlets for being a likely fraud. It is only remarkable in the the Post, over the objections of several of their own journalists, decided to print an extraordinarily dubious story that has crumbled under scrutiny.

The article is disingenuous: "One wonders why Twitter staff didn’t respect the traditional privileges of journalists." No, one does not wonder. The story collapsed as quickly as every news outlet, including Fox News, that rejected it had supposed it would.

This is not a story of journalism being manhandled by big bad tech. This is the story of Twitter going along with journalistic standards and not allowing a false story to propagate.
Not if they're 'secured' by biometrics. Then they are almost trivially subvertable.
> or the headache of managing yet another web account.

Honestly, I find this to be the distant second behind no account. I treat my password manager as my SSO provider in some sense.
> I think the author of the article has not sufficiently considered this aspect.

I agree, but are we talking about this because it's the first time it's happened for such a high profile story in the US? Will we still be talking about it the third or fourth time it happens?
Screenshot was perfect, thanks.
Well, the author is talking about the "mainstream internet" that most people think of: we used to have to point out that the internet wasn't the same thing as the world wide web, now we have to point out that it isn't the same thing as facebook, twitter and amazon. There's nothing inevitable about a centralized internet technologically: packet-switched networking is by it's nature decentralized. However, my pipe dream of someday seeing a truly decentralized mesh network that nobody can ever control or censor gets less hopeful every day - not because it's technically infeasible, but because it would require more people to get on board than I believe people have the will for.
Very impressive. Under 1kb. Astonishing.

I love that people keep pushing against the boundaries of what is possible to do. It's important work, and so fun!
It is a problem that people who maintain free extensions with lots of users can get big payoffs from selling those extensions to unscrupulous buyers, and the economic incentives heavily favor that eventual outcome. Thanking people who don't give in isn't enough to solve the problem.
The innovation was building something that anyone would use or even incidentally use. Like you're already in a Discord server to talk about something, and all of those people have global voice chats that they can drop in and out of even just out of curiosity. It's a powerful (and essential) community-building fundamental.

Polar opposite of Ventrilo. Discord is the community, not some chat widget on the side. Kind of like a modern MMORPG vs a MUD's `telnet 107.141.162.82 4500` to point out that World of Warcraft didn't innovate much because you're still just connecting to a server.

For some reason people always make the mistake of thinking that "a UX/experience that the mainstream will use/love" isn't hard nor innovation. In fact, it's the engineering that's the easy part.
It absolutely did, but it was focused practice, so it gave you back what you put into it. I got better over time, so by the end of the class I was much faster at the process of putting the words down and then making multiple passes to clean it up.
One of my co-workers made a fun sort of HTML quine: https://firebase.tools

It's a script you execute using curl | bash but it uses bash comments to contain HTML and CSS to prettyprint itself in the browser.

As far as I know he invented this technique.
Let's suppose biometrics can be made nearly foolproof. Then somebody goes to all the effort to duplicate one. What then? Suicide I guess.
But this is only six people. I'm sure they have hundreds or thousands of people working on "the America project" at the GRU.

We nailed 6 of them. So what? Foreign intelligence agencies weed out a CIA spy every now and then, but that doesn't seem to deter the CIA.
I don’t have login info but the bank definitely collected the necessary personal information.

It all makes sense, they are required to know me for AML reasons, so the account creation step collects this data.

The bank is mobile first, so the account is activated through the app when my card arrives. Why would I have a username and password for the app that is used to create the account in first place? The app can keep it for me without exposing it to me ever. I can’t be phished for something that I don’t know and it is one less password to remember or take care.
For anyone who thinks this is exaggerating they even sell "research product- not for human consumption" fda banned stuff at Walmart https://www.walmart.com/ip/Magnitude-Life-Sciences-Dark-Ener...
> There's a lot of randomness in what happens to get noticed or get traction on HN.

I'm the kind of user that just lurks in the front page, so I don't really have any right to complain if my work doesn't get noticed by others. I'm glad that it did though.

> we allow a small number of reposts if an article hasn't had significant attention yet

Does that apply to Show HN too?
Wait, why would the AC frequency affect the CPU clock? Did it use a multiplier instead of an internal clock?

Update: it sounds[1] like other AC circuits might have been affected, perhaps the motors in the disk drive.

[1] "On the hardware side, there were timing differences on the ITT 2020 motherboard, due to the 50 Hz frequency used with the 220 VAC power standards in the UK and Europe." https://apple2history.org/history/ah12/#01
Similar in ways to a burn notice:

an official statement issued by an intelligence agency to other agencies. It states that an asset or intelligence source is unreliable for one or several reasons, often fabrication, and must be officially disavowed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_notice_(document)

And yes, the video series of the same name is based on the concept.

Here it's effectively a reputational attack which renders its target only viable to, and therefore beholden to, the initiating actor for whom the work/activity triggering the notice was performed.

The notice also tips the issueing agency's hand as to surveillence and intelligence capabilities, and puts on notice others performing similar work, both specifically referenced by USDoJ.

A key aspect of much (not all) state-actor covert ops is impunity. This may be actual legal immunity (e.g., diplomatic cover), or simply the threats of national-level retaliation (across a wide range: sanctions, diplomatic, treaty, counterespionage or ops, military, international courts, UN or other internattional entity sanctions). The impunity is strong but not absolute.

The US DoJ's indictment has little power inside Russia, at least under that country's present leadership, but has significant import elsewhere, including outside the US, or under a possible future Russian government. Say, perhaps, one lead by targets of the present leadership.