skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you can exchange USD with oil, goods, services everywhere.
P2P payments can be successfully done in USD for few cents (eg. Venmo, Paypal etc..).
Anonymity is not a point because all transaction are public in the blockchain.I could pay in Monero to my fellow drug dealer but it's difficult to exchange it for a Ferrari without going through KYC.
well I hope there will always be that 5% left that you can't answer yet, and that you find interesting enough to learn more about. At the end of the day, that's probably the best way to learn more maths and get a deeper understanding of how computer programs work, at least that was the case for me who's, so far, been pretty bad at learning theory without having applied it first.
This reminds me of a great film on crafting quartz crystals for use in radios:
https://youtu.be/wHenisSTUQY
It is only a bit more exothermic, about 20% more (again from my rusty enthalpy calculations). The downside of course is making the peroxide in the first place.

Also, peroxide is relatively safe (compared to gaseous hydrogen) to handle up to ~150C.
Perhaps better would be to say that traditional math studies structures constructed from countable building blocks (and we don't care so much whether the result is countable or uncountable).

In contrast with CS, where the building blocks are finite, and the resulting structures can be large finite or infinite, which in practice only matters a little.
This is why I love bugs, especially the sporadic ones--often you grow in understanding of the underlying system or code as you solve them.
Mechanical TV does exist, so you could still reduce the amount of electronics along those lines.
I think it's a good way to reassign a non-functional ZX Spectrum.
> Every time PGP for the masses is suggested as a solution it gets dismissed as being to complex or difficult to wrap your head around, but all these scams would not work in a world where authors and publishers only trust signed e-mails.

No, that's not why it's dismissed. Security experts don't advocate for PGP for two reasons:

1. It requires constant vigilance. If humans en masse were capable of constant vigilance in a security context, we wouldn't really have a problem with phishing in the first place.

2. PGP uses relatively old cryptography which is easily misimplemented and doesn't feature forward secrecy. So again to maximize security you have to rely on your users doing something manual: in this case, generating and sharing new keys at some interval, which then need to be verified on the other end etc.

Speaking to the more general point on phishing: people on HN are usually very overconfident in their ability to spot phishing emails. It's easy to spot simple ones reliably. It's fairly easy to spot pretty good ones when you're expecting it. It's functionally impossible to consistently spot very good phishing emails. I say this as someone who has run simulated phishing email campaigns on software engineers in a large tech company. Even many security engineers would get caught out by the best phishing emails, and what's worse: the set of engineers who would be fooled would change depending on the day you ran it.

Humans are fallible. Attackers do not need to compromise most people in your org. They need just one person with privileged credentials to have an off day and not run through an unrealistic checklist, in an organization with hundreds to tens of thousands of people. The best phishing emails will combine excellent social engineering with a legitimate technical break that privileges them to send email on behalf of a domain. You will not spot this reliably, no matter how technically savvy you are. It will pass the technical checks you have.

The best approach to mitigating phishing campaigns is endpoint security. You should obviate the need for employees to even use passwords in a corporate context, and you should use authentication systems which aren't phishable.
The lack of transparency around this transfer process is weird.

It’s also aggravating that the device to device transfer acts like an iCloud Backup and doesn’t bring over files tagged to not cloud backup.

As far as I know, the only way to get a mirror of your original device that includes these configuration or data files from things like 2FA or wallets is still lighting cabled encrypted backup / restore.
How about "steampunk" click bait?
Indeed they have. Joe Biden called Boris Johnson on 10 November and reminded him to respect the Good Friday Agreement.

For background, see https://www.politico.eu/article/on-brexit-boris-johnson-is-n....
Always telling people, if you’re looking for massive returns on an investment, you should be picking up Palantir stock. This company will be huge. Posting this now so I can link it later in a year.
>How is Genode better/easier for the common user than Qubes-Os ?

Qubes-OS is a tool for letting you run your digital life in a series of boxes which are separate from each other. So, if one gets infected, the others aren't. It is similar to the trend of using Virtual Machines to separate areas of concern to try to limit the damage of a rogue process.

Genode takes a different approach entirely. Instead of dividing your computer into a few boxes, each of which is subject to any rogue process, it gives each and every process NO access to anything else, except for those things explicitly provided.

The analogy I like to use is that of a wallet.

The Windows, MacOS, Unix, Linux, etc.. approach is to hand over the users wallet to any program that is running, and hope the program doesn't misuse it. Anything in the wallet (your system) is at risk.

The Qubes-OS approach is to do the above, but to have the ability to have more than one wallet, to divide up the risk a tiny bit.

The Genode approach is much like a human uses a wallet, you decide what resources are required, and ONLY those resources are at risk.

The ease of use is that it is effectively impossible to limit the resources a process can access in other systems, whereas in Genode, it is almost drag and drop.
The listed tax advantages are incredibly temporal. The conclusion of this article seems like bad long term advice.
Do you have a VPN on the router level? Or a PiHole banning Apple servers? Or have you used Linux to try to log into the new Apple ID? Or disabled location services not only for apps but also for system services? I think Apple uses all of those as a sign of "suspicious" activity. Whoa, a pro user, that's suspicious! Jokes aside, I do all of those and had some problems with Apple ID (not as bad as you described) that went away when I temporarily disconnected the VPN, DNS set to 9.9.9.9 and Apple services where whitelisted in Lulu firewall for macOS. But also possible it was connected to the outage and some caches kept being evicted.

Side note: To me it seems a lot of people rushed to activate their new Apple devices on the Christmas day. I was expecting the pandemic to have people to cut down on purchases that were not strictly necessary. What did I miss?
Why lose the game if you write the rules? Governments create the laws that judges rule on.
“Full of profanity and name calling”

I said shitty. No other swearing and no name calling. What exactly are you reading?
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> especially the sporadic ones

Yes, but there's only a fine line between "sporadic but solvable by analysis" and "too sporadic to be reproduced or solved..." Device driver problems are often from the second category... Nevertheless, it can get interesting if the problem is reproducible like the "500 miles email" or this printer.
The thing they tell me (when I buy in bulk) to worry about is my liver as well as developing a dependency (headaches caused by not taking paracetamol). I don't know at what dosage+frequency either of those occur, though. If you do take it (or any other non-prescribed medicine) weekly or more often, I think it would be wise to do a cursory check on that or ask an apothecary or doctor next time you see one.

(To be clear, I don't even buy it for myself and I know that the person whom I do buy it for doesn't take it weekly, hence my not knowing these details despite buying decent quantities of it. We buy in bulk only because it lasts a long time and we always put off going to the apothecary because why go more than necessary especially in a pandemic)
How old is she? Lauren Ipsum from NoStarch press was a good read if you are interested in the topics. I think they also sell Python flash cards, don’t know how much experience you’d need for them to be useful.
The alt and title text of the first image seems to be AI generated:

"Line, Grey, Black-and-white, Exercise equipment, Monochrome, Machine, Monochrome photography, Barbell, Circle, Gas, "

Other non-car images on the site have text that's really disconnected from the context, such as an Apple logo on a story about the Apple car called "Christmas shopping in the city of Hamburg" which I guess came from the context of the stock photo being a Hamburg Apple store photographed at Christmas time. Pictures of people seem to be labeled with the events they're photographed at, even when it's nothing to do with the article.

Poor blind people having to figure out that "f1 eifel grand prix" means "George Russell".
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Similar story here. The company I worked for provided devices which would create and read a topological map of the back someone's right hand.

There were a couple of instances where users would be missing fingers or had deformities that would throw the machine off. In these cases we would have them put their left hand upside down in the device and map that instead.

In cases where there was issues with the original and alt methods we could remove the check altogether (employ would place their hand and it would go through so nothing was suspicious). This only happened once in the hundreds of thousands of people I'd deployed to.

As an aside, this method of tracking users in and out of work was markedly more digestible than reading someone's fingerprints and increased user adoption.

Working in 1st 2nd and 3rd world we heard all kinds of stories from employees not wanting to provide fingerprints from not wanting to be framed for murder to stealing a part of your soul by extracting sacred finger marks (similar story to photos in some cultures).

https://us.allegion.com/en/home/products/categories/biometri...
Especially since it’s a half-truth. They’re referring to Peter Thiel, but the co-founder and 16 year CEO Alex Karp is a Trump opponent.
Show HN: RobloxBot, bots that execute policy based on Roblox pixel video input
I was once hacked, stalked and targeted by friends of a celebrity who I had just met. I tried pursuing help about it and was threatened with murder. Then, after promising to report the murder threat, I was told by another person in that social circle that if I talked about the previous incidents that my career reputation would be permanently ruined.

The last person told me in the same conversation that Peter Thiel would recognize him. As Mr. Thiel has many interests, there was no reason to believe this person was connected to Palantir. However, Palantir sure came to mind while I processed this last interaction like a deer in headlights.
This is actually old news ~1 week. Would you rather have media that is:

1. Hyped based on marketing or

2. Speculative because of secrecy

Apple has both, Palantir is mostly the 2nd because of the nature of their work
Yes, I have low empathy and a high pain threshold even when I broke a collarbone. I only have harsh words for those with low thresholds for pain.
The explanation, if you get past the 2 minutes of the synchronized motorcycle-riding, is remarkably lucid and to the point. It starts from the most primary considerations and fully explains the concept. It is neither dumbed down nor laden with jargon. I wish more general-audience presentations today strived for the same. What more can you possibly want?

Perhaps the patience level of audiences of that era was much higher than today? But that's OK, now, thanks to modern media technology, you can randomly access any part of the presentation or speed it up at will.
They recently added support for it, but with the caveat that it will add an id to the end of the line.
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Hello again, namespaces [1]! Hello again, cgroups [2]!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_namespaces

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups
Agree ^. They should have used a domain similar to their corporate email, but not exactly the same domain. I believe the phishing campaign is still relevant if they never offer their workers bonuses at all. If that's valid, then the employees who followed the links didn't really read the email.
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More likely, the people doing the downvoting have low thresholds for pain and do not want to see people with low empathy become normalized, as it would make their pains feel even worse.
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You do not need to use the App Store, you can just distribute software yourself.

The app store being incompatible with the GPL is really the choice of the writers of the GPL and those who use it as their license. Other open source licenses are not incompatible with it, it is just the GPL that chose to be.
Everyone might perceive Tired Eyes or "Killed Eyes" differently. For some it might be a little scratching/dry eyes for others it might make them headaches und blurred vision up to not be able to use screens anymore for the day.

No matter what it is, in COVID times when everyone uses the screen 8h+ / day we should have some better screen tech, which is at least as good as a book. It can't be that this occupational hazard should be accpeted like it is right now.

Other professions like medical radiology imaging are more forward thinking in this: http://europepmc.org/article/PMC/5449879
Numbers don't exist in any real sense, so we're clearly not talking about the actual physical universe. The universes we're talking about are the spaces of possibilities that arise from sets of rules. Examples include number systems and physics models built on them. Newtonian physics, built on Euclidean space; Einsteinian physics, built on space distorted by mass; quantum circuits, where modular arithmetic can show up.
Got partner a new 16” MacBook Pro, which came with Catalina installed. Tried to update and it spent five hours downloading Big Sur then said “the installer.pkg has failed gatekeeper verification” and deleted the installer. Tried again, says “1 day” estimated download time. Left overnight and this morning it has a gibberish error. This is a brand new out-of-box machine.

Half her games no longer work as 32 bit, and constant crashes from video card driver in games that do.

I mean, I like the ecosystem, at least with my Mac still on High Sierra, but have no idea how anyone actually using as a non-technical consumer side manages to deal with stuff like this. It reminds me of obscure setting fiddling in early windows.
Here's a great one by Hitachi from 2005.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb_PyKuI7II
This is suspicious to say the least.

First of all, it's not clear why they'd take the economic hit to provide a service like this for seemingly no reward.

Additionally, for something that advertises anonymity and security, this suffers from a fatal flaw: Why would anyone trust them to deliver when one can simply be in control and thus reduce the number of unknown variables and potential for things to go awry?

Anonymity and security are incongruous with black-box "cloud" services.
+1. It's actually very disturbing to me just how much of an echo chamber it has become.

Not only are slightly conservative ideas met with vitriol -- even the most ass-backwards, ridiculous ideas are showered in praise if they tow the liberal ideological line.

I suspect what we're seeing is a huge dumbing down of the platform by people who don't use it to think or be challenged. They want their garbage memes. What's upvoted is quite indicative, along with the fact that any attempt by moderators to curate content is met with outrage.
Thanks a lot in advance for comments, challenges and suggestions! Much appreciated.
Yet more "grr reeeeeee click bait"? It fits fairly well, and at the end of the title only matters if you didn't read the article.
Rolling your own and having others depend on it is taking on a bit of liability. I am not sure I could defend that action if I was brought into court due to a weakness in a library I wrote or had some developers write. Phrases like "industry best practice", "fiduciary responsibility" and "standard practice" would be used and I doubt I could counter that, especially if the data was for financial transactions. Has anyone tried this and been legally challenged?

Where I've disagreed with Tptacek in the past is on cipher fixation. Making everything in the world use AES and having all hardware offloading only accelerate AES is something I would expect from the military or lazy hardware developers. Rijndael (AES) was not even supposed to win the competition, but NIST made it win. The article on the competition has had some revisions. Either way, I do not like being limited to one or two ciphers. There should be many and we should rank them in strength. There should be annual competitions to break each of them. When one is "broken", it should be deprecated via a scoring system, but not made obsolete, because broken usually has varying degrees of real world feasibility. Each industry should then decide which ciphers are appropriate for their own risk tolerance.

When it's only me talking to me, I "roll my own" and layer it on top of standard encryption libraries. Nobody can complain about that unless their goal was to decrypt my communications to me. It's not really "rolling my own" so to speak, I just make subtle math changes to the standard libraries. This goes back to a lesson I learned some time ago when messing up a friends Rubix Cube. The more subtle changes I made, the longer it took him to solve it. That is just my personal preference for my own things and only affects me.
What we have in this thread is a bunch of IT professionals that will be understanding or demand understanding from others when their systems fail at peak times but when someone else's systems fail under peak they're very damning of the others.
The other big issue with Tylenol is that the active dose is very close to its lethal dose -- far closer than other common over-the-counter drugs. People assume that since it's available without approval it must be pretty safe, so people take more than recommended.

The maximum safe dose for Tylenol is 4g per day. The low end of the toxicity range is a daily dose of 7.5g-10g for an adult, ~2.5X the maximum recommended dose - or just 12 grams spread over 2 days. The effects are exacerbated by alcohol use. And worst of all, people take it for hangovers. [1]

So, the toxic dose of Tylenol is only 2.5X the active dose, whereas for ASA it's 8X, for ibuprofen it's roughly 10X, and naproxen is about the same. Tylenol is much more dangerous than Aspirin.

Tylenol leads to 50,000 ER visits per year and 25,000 hospitalizations. It would lead to way more deaths if left untreated.

[1] https://www.uspharmacist.com/article/acetaminophen-toxicity-...
They want us to be compliant, not secure
>> Some of the most rewarding human experiences have zero financial value

The most rewarding human experiences I've felt in my life so far have had financial value attached... In fact, they usually involve me receiving some kind of money. Receiving money is the most valuable human experience, especially if I get it for free (the less work I do, the better). Brings tears of joy to my eyes.

The worst human experiences are related to spending money. Especially on overpriced depreciating assets and consumables. The worst is giving money to other people for free. Nothing makes me feel emptier.

Also, when central banks print units of my hard-earned currency and give it for free to other people (without my consent), that infuriates me. For me, it's the human experiential equivalent of getting raped on a daily basis and everyone else cheering on the perpetrator.
what happens if you try the .st TLD?

.se is Sweden, I was surprised to see that they haven't taken down sci-hub.
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Well, at least it's intentional, unlike the Windows Metafile exploit, or 4chan.jse.
(Intentional by the user, at least; the developer's intention is assumed)
> You should obviate the need for employees to even use passwords in a corporate context, and you should use authentication systems which aren't phishable.

What are best practices or products for this?
One may believe that many bad things in society stem from our instinctive fear of loosing out on valuable resources for our survival.

F.ex I think it’s pretty commonly agreed that a safe environment, where failure is not fatal, may promote creativity and innovation better than an environment where failure gets you ousted.

Some would even argue that the same fear is a powerful force in shaping less desirable behavior. F.ex when used as a tool for manipulation.

UBI, some argue, may address a large source of such fears.

Especially in a highly creative group, such as I imagine the hn-audience to be, this may be a strongly felt belief. I think it’s quite natural that it’s a promise that would trigger a bit of zealotry in that group.
I had a similarly bad experience today. I just wanted to share my iTunes library with my daughter. I have an MBP and she has an iPhone, should be easy right? Nope - since we don't pay the monthly feudal tax for Music, I had to fish out an obscure "sign in" in Settings -> Music, literally the last option on screen. Why do I have to sign in with my Apple ID on her phone, despite her account being defined in my Family already, just to share a few files? The only logical answer is "because you really should pay the monthly submission fee to Lord Apple". And of course I expect this will stop working as soon as she steps out of the house.

Honestly, it didn't use to be like this. Hey Tim, you should at least pretend you're caring about something more than your profit margins.
starting strength app is really bad but i keep on using it because i already have all my lifts recorded there, and i think it's easier to use than a spreadsheet and don't really want to check if all other lifts recording apps are just as bad
They are totally needed in (parallel) hybrid cars. Two engines of possibly varying speed moving a car are very much like one engine moving two wheels of possibly varying speeds. Both need a differential.
> Numbers don't exist in any real sense

I'd argue they do, numbers arise when counting and counting is definitely a part of our reality. It is pretty hard to imagine a universe where you can't count things.
Given the level of dedication of some completely (at least seemingly) non-profit piracy groups make me think it may be a small release group gone just a bit too far.
Virgin Media give you a message for blocked porn, but not the VPNs they stop you accessing.

It's quite insidious - the VPN blocks are textbook government overreach.

If we ever have a written constitution in the UK we need rules stopping the government fucking about with this stuff (As it seems to be the entropic end-state of all policy to protect the children)
Paradoxically, the parts of the UK with the highest exposure to immigrants were in favour of Remain. The parts with the least exposure to immigrants were in favour of Leave.

And in UK, when you talk about "immigrants", you really need to distinguish which historic wave of immigration, in which socioeconomic class, from which region. Especially EU versus non-EU.
What would likely happen to an astronaut’s body if they got lost in space?
Because it's incompetence and malicious neglect – if it required any positive action, they'd find it easier just to fix the system.