skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better authentication practices.

I've been writing auth for the web since 2005 and it hasn't gotten easier or more convenient as a programmer or as an end user. The problem is so bad that email/password combos need to be managed by 3rd party services.

Migrating away from Google Authenticator was a massive pain for me this year and as we continue to use more services, this problem will grow.

Some apps on my phone started using biometrics (face id) for authentication and it's extremely convenient.
Nice, by the way i just took a look at your website and i just wanna say it looks great
I do this but include the symlink command in the document. That way all the links become one copy and paste.
I am not an expert in Ansible, or any other software of the kind, but I think this is one of the easier use-cases of such a program. I wrote an ansible script to compile emacs from source, after some initial configuration, and it serves me pretty well.
Don’t Trust SetInterval()
Cognitive losses may be caused by a kind of reversible physiological “blockage”
Again, that is a distinction without a difference. A photographer certainly can compensate for skin tone versus how the final result will be rendering, for instance, by using lighting, provided the scene is under the photographer's control. (Edit: see my comment further upthread where I pasted in a link about this very thing.) But, some of those methods have the disadvantage that by color correcting for skin tone, one automatically distorts the color in other parts of the image.

This is less true in digital photography, given the level of control over post processing one has. However, the end result is the same: it take more effort to produce a faithful photo of a black person than a white person, for reasons completely out of the control of either the photographer or the subject.

That is all that is meant by the statement I made. Indeed, it is literally the entire content of the statement I made. I would defy you to quote where I blamed black people, or even implied there was even anything any black person could do about this unfortunate reality.

Edit: Incidentally, literally everything I've said here about the difficulties of faithfully photographing people applies to darker skinned people of any ethnicity, such as Indians or Afro-Arab people. None of this is racist in the sense that it implies anyone is lesser than anyone else, just that that's the way current technology works.
And most people don’t understand Bayes’ rule and the impact of false positives.
Agreed, I think personal freedom is great, but it should be closely tied to how much your actions limit the freedoms of others. One persons right to fly a noisy helicopter around using a smartphone is not worth 20+ peoples right to read, walk and enjoy nature.

I find a loud buzzing totally pulls me out of any reverie and makes me angry. I was watching the birds last week near a drone also and they were rerouting or turning away from the area it was flying in. Totally not worth it to disturb people, and even worse, what little wildlife still remains in the open space we have pushed them into.
Coinbase to Suspend XRP Trading Following SEC Suit Against Ripple
Great idea, I hope it won't get swarmed by fake reviews.
Small nitpick: site navigation is a bit clunky on desktop (Firefox) , it is not possible to open categories in new tab, scroll wheel click doesn't work as well.
I love this thought, but have some doubts.

So far, storage is still following something resembling Moores law, but it will probably hit physical limits way before a year of youtube (probably 30 of these new tapes or so) fits into your hand.
CUPS is the closest where you could accuse Apple of doing that I guess.
oh if you can that would be really cool to see how you did that... I'd love to retrofit something like this to my drone... I did buy my kids a drone and the issue there was they flew it into a very tall tree... needless say it's still in the very tall tree
I didn't think the goal was "truth and relevancy" but... just to apportion payment for the services used (reading articles).
Presumably the predominant portion of the energy used to raise an elevator is for the mass of the elevator itself
I think my Garmin smartwatch shows distance rounded up, but plays alerts based on the actual value. So you can have run a watch that says you've run 10.00 km on the display... but have to go a bit further to trigger the 10 km vibration alarm. And crucially if you stopped before the alarm it wouldn't register as a 10 km for your records!
Looking again, it's 8 cores at 1.5 GHz which is probably equivalent to 1 GHz out-of-order cores. I'd guess similar single-thread performance to a Pentium III.
Setting up servers in the EU and using them in the US would introduce a ton of latency.

Besides that, I forgot where it came out about the amount of money Amazon retail makes on it’s dedicated Apple store. Also, Apple and Amazon Video have special deals where you can do in app purchases of video within the app on iOS devices and the purchases are charged directly to your Prime account. No one else can do that for physical goods.

Apple and Amazon have been chummy since Jobs licensed the “one click patent” when the iTunes Music Store opened in 2003.
It's already an 8bit grayscale image - significantly less than a 4 colour palette.

And whilst the server might use state of the art compression... There's still no way a much larger image is going to fit in the proposed 1-2K limit.
Geothermal Energy.

Extremely simplified, all you need to do is drill a hole deep enough for a high temperature difference. Then stick in two pipes, on for sending water down, one for steam to come up. Run a turbine, add a valve to regulate how much water you want to converted into steam to be able to regulate output, enjoy your first mover advantage and price the competition out of the market.

... It's not that I do not understand that it's a lot more complicated than that - but I'm puzzled that noone is doing it on a much bigger scale.

Oil companies are the ones at the forefront of deep drilling technology,

They know that "Oil is bad" and that oil is going to run out. I'd like them to stop drilling for oil completely - but even if they keep pumping oil, why do they not cash in on this additional front and enjoy money and good PR.
Have you tested deploying the parachute?
> Once in game graphics become literally indistinguishable from real life then we'll start to plateau in terms of complexity of "tricks" and raw computing power will be able to catch up.

Maybe. Alternatively games won't actually want to render photorealistic and will want to render with varying types of stylized graphics. Is that easier or harder? Probably a little bit of both.

We actually are at a point where we can real-time render photorealistic scenes... for certain types of objects. Primarily static environments. Photogrammetry is basically cheating, but it is highly effective! Mandalorian is famously filmed on a virtual set and it's cool as fuck.

Graphics is moving rapidly into physics. We might be soon be able to render photorealistic scene descriptions. However simulating the virtual world we still have a long, long ways to go. By simulation I mean everything from the environment (ocean, snow, etc) to characters. We most definitely can not synthesize arbitrary virtual humans.

Will we someday see a movie that _looks_ like a live action movie but is completely virtual? Oof. Maybe? But even if we could, would we want to? I'm not sure.
I am not an advertising expert, nor do I know much about monetizing static media (in this case I mean newspapers). But regarding Spotify, the business model roughly breaks down to the top 2% of artists get 98% of the profits. So...it's basically impossible for anyone smaller than NYT or WaPo to ever make money from this model.

Likewise, most artists don't make any meaningful money from Spotify.

https://qz.com/1660465/the-way-spotify-and-apple-music-pays-...
Repetition is no substitute for argument.
Are the creators of these algorithms penalized for their false positives?
I think the confidence levels returned by these algorithms would be quickly calibrated if there was some strict penalty for high-confidence false positives.
What people think they're looking for and what they're actually selecting for can be two different things.

Often the interview process is based on an expectation that, for example, you will exaggerate your previous achievements. Every past project you describe has to sound amazing, your cv has to seem like a carefully thought out career path that will culminate in the final fulfillment of some great life goal.

You can't just say that you took some job for the money or just to be in the same town as your girlfriend etc., you have to pretend it was some significant step on a path. Otherwise you sound like you're unmotivated, not serious about your career etc.
I built a similar tool to the OP that implements the same rounding behavior if you’re in the iOS ecosystem — https://apps.apple.com/us/app/synctimer-by-practice/id152297...

One of the main benefits is that it doesn’t require the internet and can synchronize iPhones, iPads, and Apple TV’s using either peer-to-peer WiFi or Bluetooth with no manual pairing.

Also had an interval timer for exercises, group activities, etc...
Every year you buy a new HD and yet the cost is basically zero?
> This surprised me.

When I read the intro, I was like „They want to teach beginners with Corewars? That‘s brave...“

I really like the idea of Corewars (and programmning games in general), but I never managed to get into it because the whole concept of assembly language was too foreign for me. I would have had to invest too much time up front, just understanding the basics.

I loved Robocode, but then that uses Java ;-)
> COVID means they need these spaces by themselves, not shared with other people.

Definitely curious to see data to back that up. I’ve seen a couple friends who used to live alone move into shared housing during the pandemic because they craved more social contact than they could get living alone. I don’t know anyone who’s moved from shared housing to solo housing in this time. Movement away from single-person housing lines up with the price pressure you’re seeing, too: small apartments losing value; houses not losing as much.
TBH that can already work quite well with Zapier and the like (in cloud-based businesses). I know businesses where almost every department from operations to HR has one or two Zapier accounts and connecting their dots, no IT or Software Engineering involved. It just needs a bit of oversight from compliance and security.
Yeah what does a new HD cost? Like £100 max for a big high quality one? Compared to buying a £5k tape drive and expensive tapes... yeah that's basically zero.
He said it was a pain. Not that it can’t be done. If you are running on a Mac, you can set up a VM for an older version of MacOS on it. It’s allowed in the EULA.
Ask HN: How long did it take you to get your first customer?
I thought it'd be interesting to know what does your product do and how long did it take you to get your first customer? This can be for either side projects or startups.

Ideally you'd give the total amount of time you spent developing until you got your first payment from someone.
That didn’t add up. 1GB per second for a month is 2.6PB. Do you have a source of 40TB disk drives?
Sure, the probability is 1.0 given infinite time. It took 4.5 billion years for us to get here, and we didn't get started until 5 million years ago. That means Earth went through 99.89% of its existence with no intelligent life.

Also, Earth has had numerous extinction events that killed off at least 3/4 of land-based life (and 96% of marine life). We have no way of knowing whether extinction events are more, or less common on other habitable planets, or whether such events might even be necessary for the evolution of intelligent life.
You assume they wanted truth when in reality they only want confession.
The way you put it non copyleft licenses are just there for bait and switch. I don’t know any case where that happened where there was outside contributions.
Is it really so uncommon for suspects of a crime to spend time in jail? I think I have read such stories without computers having anything to do with it.

It's just a sensationalist spin trying to ride the AI scare.
+1 That is an amazing book.
I have also observed this. We had a custom thing over Wasabi : https://github.com/intuit/wasabi which was quite difficult to maintain, but compared to the paid solutions out there was still cheaper to do. I wonder why aren’t there more products in this area.
Do you think it's perhaps worth looking at places that have tried wealth taxes? I think it possible that there might be some lessons to be learned from the well-intentioned and sincerely tried efforts of others. Perhaps our basic assumption that what works for real property will surely work for everything might not be trivially true, for example.
And then you need to have everyone install the runtime. And update it.

And we're back in Java-land, but with HTML instead of Swing :-)

It's nice from a developer point of view but I wonder how many application creators/vendors will actually use it. Most want to control as much of the stack as possible.
I was just watching the documentary Alive Inside and one of the doctors talked about how the system allows him to charge $1k/mo. prescriptions almost without a thought but makes it nearly impossible to get a $40 iPod that significantly improved their quality of life.

It seems like the system works really need to change to get your dream to a reality
just got myself a remarKable. I love it!!
https://remarkable.com/
Why do you do this manual checksumming thing instead of e.g. setting up a ZFS mirror once every n years?
You don't have to do it this way, you can just use encryption at rest with a different key for each user and throw the key when a user ask for deletion of their data. No need to get all the backup back to scrub them one by one.
At 5:30 in this Bloomberg video there's a discussion between expats, some talking about how they were hit by the new system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydPqKhgh9Mg
hard to see how this could be legal. you don't get to destroy other people's stuff just because they are annoying you with it. even if what they are doing is not quite legal, you would probably end up on the wrong side of the law yourself.
Xiaomi Mi 11 Features World’s First AI-Powered ‘Night Mode’ for Video
You may be dismayed by the fact that hovering outside someone’s window, at least in Canada, is not a crime unless the individual was naked or engaging in sexual activity. The drones laws were left vague for now and have not caught up to the technology. Here are the rules for Canada: https://tc.canada.ca/en/aviation/drone-safety/flying-your-dr...
On an intellectual level not distracting and crashing a Boeing is more important.

On a dad level, well. Protective emotions can be intense.
When I build my next house, I am doing this for the refrigerator, not for the heat, but for the noise.
>... every year I buy a new HD...

OK, but OP said:

>It's really a pain to keep transferring your old backups every 2-5 years...
I think I find the ceiling method most intuitive. I have noticed that video games with cooldowns tend to agree with me; some ability has a 4 second cooldown, you press it, and the UI says "4", even though 3.999 seconds remain until the ability is back. (This means that you never see "0"; the counter reads "1" for the last second before the cooldown is available again.)
Huawei’s initial Harmony OS 2.0 beta appears to be based on Android after all
Tons of police have drones for video, rescue, etc. Some of them are huge: https://www.dji.com/matrice-300?site=enterprise&from=nav
Playstation 2 games you can play on Playstation 3
Nope. Sorry. I messed up. Thought I saw the same person commenting who he already said they worked at Google.
What you need is a second drone..
Because they're considering options like DVDs.

With a new HD you can just copy it across in one step.
Agreed, to my eyes it seems clear that the display shows both “5” and “0” for half a second, which means the total duration is still 5 seconds, not 5.5 seconds.
I think the email you've posted is someone real email as well.
The official intro video shows four, yes four, Mac Minis sitting in a closet soon to be replaced by EC2 instances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn3miC_tTH0&t=1m10s

"We have to maintain each individual device." There's an effete millennial joke in there somewhere.
Yes. Software companies dictate whether their software has to be run on a dedicate host, the allowed number of cores, etc. all of the time.

Companies have tried to “rent DVDs” digitally by playing the DVD on their hardware and streaming it. It got shot down by the courts.
Erlang: The Programming Language That Quietly Powers WhatsApp and WeChat
> Suppose you heard of... milk?

If milk was a type of water, this comment would make sense.
I can say this is not true for the general case. C++ has - against the odds, in my opinion - been dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. It is not exactly design by committee, because there are a lot of (semi)independent developers driving the design choices. The choice of features for a given release is by committee, however, and reflects a wide variety of opinions and interests. Not the least of which are the people actually providing compiler support. Functional programming in C++ is still not always facilitated by the standard library, but it's miles beyond where it was a decade ago: moving in the right direction.
The Integrated Haskell Platform (IHP) open sourced at GitHub.com/digitallyinduced/ihp is one example of how to do crud in Haskell very efficiently.
Though there was mostly never a need to live in SF for a lot of the tech company jobs. Many/most were people who wanted to live in a city in the Bay Area even if their jobs were in the South Bay. I assume it's an exodus from the Bay Area generally.
I can't tell if your reading comprehension is completely shot, or if you're willfully misrepresenting the drift of the article.
I realize that. It seems like the entire blog post could be summarized as "I thought about doing something this way and when it didn't give me what I and everyone else expects out of a timer, my mental model adjusted to conclude that Apple was doing some weird gymnastics involving adding 500ms to some of their timer code and using Math.floor() but not to the time the timer actually goes off rather than adjusting my mental model to match the simpler way that humans expect rounding to work in a timer using [the equivalent of] Math.round()."
Because simple and manually inspectable is better for backups.
The police did have a no-knock warrant, but they did decide to announce themselves. It was her boyfriend that started shooting first then the law enforcement returned fire. Yes, let's call a spade a spade, her boyfriend was the cause of her death and even tried to blame her after the fact.
Low cost, high density and a low failure rate compared to HDs. That's why it's still used in the enterprise for backup solutions.
Human tissue regeneration. Imagine being able to regrow limbs and organs!

For a long time Becker's book was about the only thing out there: "The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life" by Robert O. Becker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_Electric_(book)

Now there's pretty serious progress being made at Levin's lab:
"What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System" talk by Michael Levin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698
It is extremely hypocritical in any form. At the same time that the FAA is asking hobbyists to broadcast identification, they are modifying the rules to allow the rich and famous to change their identifiers at will preventing any sort of public accountability. https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/equipadsb/privacy/
Hi, you’ll be pleased to learn about the AsyncApi initiative! https://www.asyncapi.com/

Haven’t looked into it too closely but it looks promising
$100 is definitely not "basically zero". Not only that, but a $5k tape drive and tapes are designed to last a significantly longer period of time, essentially bringing the cost of long-term storage closer to $0/year than your option of spending $100/year.
Show HN: Visa – Easy third party authentication (OAuth 2.0) for flutter apps
The existence of other, bigger suckers does not prove that anyone else is not a sucker.

Both types of trading (crypto and public market) are gambling. The difference is that some public securities have intrinsic value (dividends and voting rights), whereas crypto mostly doesn't.
I’ll never understand people who use drones like this, even ignoring the obvious moral and ethical issues of voyeurism they’re loud and obnoxious at the altitudes you would need to go peeping through windows.

Every time I try and assuage fears laypeople have about drones and privacy there’s a story or anecdote about some dumbass who does stuff like this anyway...
If the tape was twice as long, it could hold 1.16 petabytes. That would have been a more interesting headline.
I don't think these are home-use concerns.
The NYT Helped a Vindictive Teen Destroy a Classmate Who Uttered a Racial Slur
We have not done poorly. Atall. "no-code" is a whole movement now - it's the modern day COBOL. See:
* Airbase (imagine circa 1998 Microsoft Access but on the web and with integrations)
* Infinityapp.com
* Monday.com (easily recreate your business processes and types of data, and integrate with other systems)
* Asana
* ....dozens more.

Then add the universal integration tools:
* IFTTT
* Zapier
* Tray
* ...and many more

Basically we're now "post-app"... a non-technical user can go to a SaaS product, follow a tutorial, create something representing their business, and link it to other best-in-class products for accounting, warehousing, shipping, e-commerce, etc.

Don't be ashamed. We've a long way to go for sure, but we've come a long way, baby.
I can confirm that I was in Zhongshan last year and saw a very big screen in the middle of a crosswalk island, it "named and shamed" jaywalkers, with pictures of the jaywalking and the face on their Chinese ID as well, although eyes are blurred out. Chinese name had one or two characters replaced with an X. Scary stuff.
I have to disagree with #1, if anything political entities gravitate towards the unquantifiable so that they can be seen to be acting without any real consequences attached to the outcomes.
I thought "there is no shortage if you pay enough" shibboleth is universally applicable. H1b/housing/healthcare ?
Out of line of sight sounds illegal from looking at the FAA. Flying over people is currently illegal too. Flying while drinking is also illegal... Report them to the FAA.
Remote ID Executive Summary: https://www.faa.gov/news/media/attachments/RemoteID_Executiv...

Remote ID Final Ruling: https://www.faa.gov/news/media/attachments/RemoteID_Final_Ru...
you can open the console and see all sorts of logging, its just often not useful or helpful or hard to find what your looking for in the deluge
That’s not strange at all. I use to teach fitness classes part time at Coke’s headquarters. We were told specifically not to bring in drinks or water bottles from competitors.
You’re underestimating the cost and difficulty of scaling that to any meaningful energy output.
The point to having the system is that if someone who is a publisher is being censored, they can move their content to another platform and their entire audience knows they moved because their "location" is in the blockchain. That's why being able to store data alongside an identity is important.
Interesting. What do you envision non-programmers would do with it?
OP explicitly mentioned HDDs in their post; they do not want to be transferring data to a new HDD every year, or two years, or five years.
Airbase.
> But for a countdown timer, this is counterintuitive.

I get the feeling this pun wasn’t intentional, but it’s a good one nonetheless.