skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FIDO is a subset of 2FA, and it's one of the protocols that yubikeys etc. implement. While it won't protect you from all attacks, it does make the standard MITM harder.

To take the OP's example, if by mistake you are tricked into visting githud.com or something, they can get your password (bad!) but if they try and MITM the FIDO, they'll send a digitally signed message for githud.com on to github.com. This will not work as intended (except for the user, because their github account isn't compromised yet.)

Indeed the point of FIDO as I see it is that it's less security critical for the end user to validate the identity of the site, which optimistically speaking about 95% of users will fail at anyway.
> China and to some extent Russia

This is why there's so much propaganda blaming George Soros for everything; his funding of the anti-totalitarian Open Society Foundation has supported all sorts of opposition and human rights NGOs which threaten the power of the Russian one-party state.

The transition of the 90s succeeded in making Russia "capitalist", but not in making it democratic. Installing democracy from the outside has turned out to be a much more complicated and fraught project than first thought, partly because people can be surprisingly comfortable with totalitarianism so long as it's aimed at someone else.
If the population was homogenously vulnerable this might be the case, but with a millionfold difference in mortality between the aged and young and healthy prioritizing a second dose is the ethical choice.
> Was the news industry broken by Facebook and Google, or was it broken by the lack of regulation?

I think there's a good case that it was broken by Facebook and Google. Specifically them taking away all the ad revenue that used to go to newspapers. That's what led to traditional media outlets going out of business and/or turning to clickbait to make money.
> add them to LLVM soon

I’m not sure what “them” is. Apple has AMX, a Neural Engine, and a GPU which are abstracted through the Core ML and Accelerate libraries.

AMX is not exposed as an instruction set like NEON. I guess this question applies to all of the numerical analysis tool chains: will they be able to leverage Apple silicon coprocessors/accelerators?
What app are they using for the amplitude-v-time plots?
Yes and compare with a healthy diet. Control as many variables as possible (eating time, exercise time and duration, etc)
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In general "conservatives" seem to have a harder time following TOS on hate speech, bullying, racism, sexism etc.
I also enjoyed that.
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If we need regulation, the question then becomes: who does the regulating? Tech firms in Silicon Valley? Big government in Washington? Big business on Wall Street? Putting that editorial power in any one group's hands is going to lead to a different sort of trouble aside from the trouble that arises from misinformation and extremism. I'm not sure what the right balance here is and it really does seem to be one of the defining problems of our time.
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Oh it's older than that, even. IE was always fine without the space. It was for Netscape.

So, sure, maybe there's a good reason to want XML-compatible syntax. But Netscape 4 users? Let's hope not!
> Twitter and Facebook have privatized the public square.

Yes, but they couldn't have done it without all the users who saw value in their services.

Frankly, I find it difficult to take seriously the people who act as though banning someone from one of these platforms is such an egregious restriction of their ability to communicate that it needs to be regulated by law. Of course, I don't actually use these services and, outside of a brief window in the 2010s, never have.
So is Buzz Aldrin gonna be posthumously indicted?
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17519138 (2018)
I think France are trying to model of taxing ISPs and splitting the money among publishers.

I actually like that. A extra 10£/$/€ a month isn't that much and would be quite a lot for news organisations.

The issue is how to split the money. I'd want to only support investigative journalism, but that's a hard thing to define or measure...
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I made a similar proxy using Go in 2019:
https://github.com/alexrsagen/alexproxy

It's got a couple more features than OP, check out the README.
E2E means that I need to trust exactly one person / device, the receiver. With iCloud backups, I also need to trust an intermediary, Apple. That is a dealbreaker. They may as well remove encryption completely at rest.
> once any of those services has reached the kind of maturity that a non-techie is willing to sign up and start building their network

Has the fediverse reached that level of maturity?

A single distributed network is more like twitter, instagram, or telegram. A federated network necessitates teaching about home servers, blacklists, server outages, etc.

I've heard from people that work on Activity Pub though that they are moving towards making things function in a more distributed way (portable accounts for example). So things seem to be converging in that direction regardless.
I'll try to remember that. You learn something new every day.
In Switzerland there is Pumpipumpe (https://pumpipumpe.ch/en/sticker-en/). They offer stickers to put on your mailbox with tools and sports equipment you have and are willing to share. I believe this could work pretty well in apartment buildings.
It looks like it forwards TCP. Forwarding UDP would be useful also.
I wonder what this "biosensor" is. There are several Glucose monitoring products out there however connecting them and retrieving data (for other purpose) is usually a non trivial task.
After reading about Tulpas, it seems like it's quite an advanced thing, right? It sounds like you need profound experience in meditation etc.
A wristband that tells your boss if you are unhappy
Researchers Demonstrate World’s Fastest Optical Neuromorphic Processor for AI
"Neuromorphic computing, which uses chips that mimic the behavior of the human brain using virtual 'neurons,' is growing in popularity thanks to high-profile efforts from Intel and others. Now, a team of researchers led by the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne is announcing that it has demonstrated what it’s calling 'the world’s fastest and most powerful optical neuromorphic processor for artificial intelligence.'

The processor is capable of achieving 10 trillion operations per second, which the researchers claim is 1,000 times faster than 'any previous processor.' Specifically, the researchers report, the chip excels at processing ultra-large scale images with remarkable speed, achieving full facial image recognition."
> I don't know where people got this idea that Microsoft can't participate positively in Open Source, and do that sincerely, without open sourcing absolutely everything.

I'm not claiming that. Of course there is place for closed and open elements of their offerings. Let me clarify.

In the past, Microsoft was very aggressive about open source. When they realized this strategy of FUD brings little result, they changed their attitude 180 and decided to embrace it putting literal hearts everywhere.

Personally, I find it hypocritical. There is no love/hate, just business. They will use whatever strategy works to get their advantage. What I find strange is that people fell for it.
V8 and the Julia compiler work in quite different ways - because they solve quite different problems. In particular, Julia’s compiler only works well on code that is "type-stable", whereas V8 has no such limitation.
I clicked on this to see what was behind the question. Didn’t expect “fun”. Now, unavoidably having thought about an answer for 30 seconds, I really regret having clicked through. I kind of hope you have a disappointing day, nothing too serious, just, like, making a nice sandwich and taking a bite only to discover the bread is moldy.
I'm so glad someone's written this. I've been arguing this point on individual tickets for quite some time, and have yet to see anyone who agrees with me. I thought I was the only one.
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The “strategic reserve” falsely reported to not exist is stored at the manufactures:

“Pfizer Inc has been holding on to second doses for each of its COVID-19 vaccinations at the request of the federal government and anticipates no problems supplying them to Americans, a spokeswoman said in a statement on Friday.

Pfizer’s comments run counter to a report in the Washington Post that the federal government ran down its vaccine reserve in late December and has no remaining reserves of doses on hand.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccin...
It's verbatim what Belgium 's prime minister recently said."It's not up to Twitter or Facebook to decide what can be said or not. It's up to judges.".
I guess there are some that close issues and others that lock them.

I’ve always thought even the auto close bots suck but for a different reason than your thread locking example. That seems particularly terrible.
I don't believe in these over-engineered 'quanitified self' solutions. Just get yourself a simple step counter and go for one or two walks a day and try to up the step count by a bit every time and don't eat like an asshole. It's worked for me for a long while now.
First, [Redacted, since the parent comment has since been edited].

Second, Facebook and Twitter are banning hundreds of pages every month, extremists pages indeed, but sometimes also journalists or parody pages, most of these bans being done by bots, with a degree of false positive and with often little ways to react.
Makes me hate Angular when I see my old, unsolved, tickets get locked with 100+ upvotes and comments.
The ansible community does that too, and it's a pain. Instead of locking issues, they should be auto-transformed into a forum/community post, letting users discuss them if they want, and coordinate opening a new issue if necessary.
This is like Gresham’s law of GDP growth. I don’t think it measures anything except potential tax revenues, which supports the value of of a central bank’s currency in the same way that revenues support the stock of a company. It’s very similar to how web site companies work in that the product is free to produce, and their equity value is based on the amount it gets used.

But ultimately I’d say no; the value of a web site or an economic system is in its efficiency, not the stickiness of its inefficiency. Imagine an alien comparing Wikipedia to Twitter. Both are information services sourced from user contributions. Twitter is just designed to be massively inefficient, and that is how it derives its equity value. Google has also been downranking the most efficient websites for years now due to this valuation convention.

But it’s really only a convention. Wall St, or the Fed could come up with a different measure of value and it would change everything. A more sustainability-oriented web measure might be ratio of information access to creation, implying robust value. You only need to look at AOL instant messenger or MySpace to realize why this would be important. Wikipedia’s total value is probably greater on a long enough timeline.

A more sustainable measure of a economy might be something like exports per natural resource consumed, including human time. A good example is an IP creator like Charlie Chaplin or Antione de Saint-Expury or any of a host of scientists. I’m not sure that consumptive GDP has much relevance to the competitiveness and sustainability of an economy.
Kind of depends on a lot of things. Do I know for certain I'm the last human?

If I didn't know for sure I would probably spend most of my time looking for other humans. Drive around the continent, set up some radios and send some signals around the world and stuff.

Otherwise, if I knew for a fact that I was the last human? I don't know. I don't think anyone could really predict how they would handle that. It's kind of a horrifying reality to contemplate even for the most introverted among us.

The way I see it is that there is no real meaning to life unless we put it there. Each of us gets to decide what is meaningful and how to pursue that.

In my opinion the only way to live a superficial life is to live it to someone else's standards instead of your own.
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Hey, to all the people downvoting my comment: the article paints a pretty clear picture that this person was staying in the arrivals area which is accessible to passengers, and the reason for his arrest and prosecution was that he was embarrassing airport security. At no point does the article claim or even hint at the possibility that the person used the stolen badge to enter other areas besides the arrivals area. So why are you just "assuming" that the person entered other areas with the badge? We're talking about a person who has already been doxxed and embarrassed for their mental health issues. On top of that you want to add your baseless speculation that he did some crimes? And you don't want to give any explanation why you believe that he did some crimes? You just want to smear the man some more, because hey, let's kick him while he's down?

Furthermore, I find it ironic that the people who downvoted me are giving me less courtesy than I did with my downvote, where I explained the reason for downvoting.
New Signal groups resolve to Google-owned IPs
That was temporary. I think the article means a host going dark permanently.
I can get another if I break it, so a clay cup trumps a grail. - Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, classical Urdu and Persian poet from the Mughal Empire

.. via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup ... point being, sometimes expiring products are superior, it depends upon the use case.
The post solely looks at open source products, and for the author's example case (the Angular repository) it may be valid criticism.

For internal repositories we find this to be really valuable in my company, the odd duplicated branch (when we couldn't get through CI for some reason, but recreating the branch) for whatever reason will be garbage collected, and all those `[CHORE]` branches people quickly hacked up without following our issue tracking process will be GC'ed too, if not handled.

We run our (home made, with GitHub Actions, actually) bot in two stages, 30 days without activity, they get a label and a comment "stale, will be closed in 5 days, remove the stale label to prevent this", and then closure.

This works great, except when people take extended vacation, or happen to switch between teams with WIP branches that are unmerged, but because Git never really loses anything, we've never lost work this way,we just benefit from easier summaries when looking for PRs to review, and having better metrics about mean time to merge, and other factors.
Good read.

My pet peeve showed its face a few times though, in text like "The west should respond" in discussing alleged Russian cyber-attacks. The West includes Europe. European Russia is 40% of Europe and includes 80% of Russians. Russia is part of "The Western Wold". I know many -especially Americans and countries close to Russia with a troubled history with Russia- want to hold Russia at arms length and outside the club, but not only is Russia part of Europe it is also moving closer both politically and culturally, unlike what main stream media headlines seems to state.

"The western world" has become like how Schizophrenic has taken on a meaning of including Multiple personalities. Saying it again and again doesn't make it true (no, schizophrenia does not include multiple personalities).
1/2 an ounce (14 grams) according to that link. Even more nuts!
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Of course I have; I've become increasingly proficient at managing multiple pots on the stove at the same time with experience.

An even better example would be the video game of StarCraft II that I once played frequently that is known for it's high demands of the multitasking ability of the player. If context switching and multitasking could not be trained, players could not become better at that game as they do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bexWuHmV32A#t=7m58

This is most certainly not something one is born with; this comes after years of dedicated training.
In addition to the other objections, the polyurethane would likely disintegrate.
I think an actor successful enough to make that list is likewise far from typical. Maybe some get lucky, but most actors detail years of discipline breaking into the field.
Sure, but there's also a lot of uh mitten in this case, getting progressively denser as more stuff gets trapped in it.
I don't think there's that many ways to trap all the tons of hyperfast shrapnel we've up up there, unless we can get starlink to just sporadically throw small nets around in hopes of catching enough junk on any given throw?
Metrics for Marketplaces
Did they? I should closely follow these trends from now on.
> I know people will complain about speed of execution of language and framework but do you really care if you are not expecting Google like traffic.

It's not about whether you expect Google-like traffic, but about whether you expect a Google-like ratio of traffic/compute to capacity. My day job doesn't deal with "Google-like" traffic (maybe one Google product's worth of traffic), but we also only have about 10 servers to ingest what we do get. My current side project I expect to deal with even fewer orders of magnitude but I also want to be able to run it on a single server to keep costs and operational overhead low.
Best information today flows directly from people present on the scene where events take place, through social networks. Newspapers are just second hand compiling these direct reports. Investigative journalism is useful and I think it should be sponsored by the civil society (people and NGOs). Other forms of journalism (such as opinion columns) will be paid by the various special interests or ads.
I love what you are saying and I fully agree.

I fully support more regulation and draconian taxation of foreign digital companies. The only way to make profit should be linked to a free API to access data so a "facebook client" can be fully hosted and operated here in Europe.
Thank you for the assurance.
Newtonian physics is only coincidentally correct. It’s not “wrong” in the sense that the math isn’t sound or that experiments aren’t reproducible within earth, but it’s not the correct model for what really happens in physical phenomenon regardless of scale.
If that can happen it's clearly an OS bug. Maybe something like an unstable driver?
My first thought was the game Hardspace:Shipbreaker

https://hardspace-shipbreaker.com/
Wouldn't this be a matter of simply getting it to an useful starting position?
I would be curious to know your top 5 list of most democratic countries.
For UI Mockups i use Balsamiq https://balsamiq.com/wireframes/

It's my sweet spot for quick iterations, close to reality and still abstract enough
I mean, but why?! 5 years of Angular seems too much for even anyone closely following the trends, don't you think?
Some may fear of losing their job because they are glad to have a salary higher than the average in their industry and in the place they are.

Your process can work for singles in an area where jobs opportunities are wide.
Thanks, very interesting read!
The article talks about the technical and political issues but not about the content quality. Can I currently find more accurate and interesting content in the decentralized network than in specialized groups in Reddit like /r/netsec?
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In Denmark, and in many other European countries, we have special media laws that are guidelines on what the responsibilities of being an editorial body means.

We also have an independant institution to make sure these are upheld. In Denmark it's called Pressenævnet, and it's members are appointed by our Supreme Court, a "guild" of the editors of the primary medias in our country, a political body for PBS services and journalist unions.

Works perfectly fine, and as far as the EU goes, I think that's the direction we need to take.

I have no idea how you would do it in the US, but I don't think that's really for us to worry about either.
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What, he’s still alive. I was convinced he died a few years ago.
Signal is back after an outage that lasted more than 24 hours
The answer is you make rules that items cannot go viral. If a post reaches 100 views it can no longer be shared with anyone else.
China debuts train prototype that can hit speeds of 620 kilometers per hour
Just want to give a shout out to Alex French Guy Cooking, who does exactly what you're wanting. Particularly videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94d7ZXySplo
The link I posted is to the DSA proposal which will be on the european level. The article discusses a new french law that tries to "backport" (if I understood correctly) the DSA changes into the french legislation to skip the time needed for DSA to be discussed and finalized on the european level.

And doing a quick CTRL+F in the DSA proposal I found a section which I think is similar to "section 230".

The proposal maintains the liability rules for providers of intermediary services set out in the e-Commerce Directive – by now established as a foundation of the digital economy and instrumental to the protection of fundamental rights online. Those rules have been interpreted by the Court of Justice of the European Union, thus providing valuable clarifications and guidance. Nevertheless, to ensure an effective harmonisation across the Union and avoid legal fragmentation, it is necessary to include those rules in a Regulation. It is also appropriate to clarify some aspects of those rules to eliminate existing disincentives towards voluntary own-investigations undertaken by providers of intermediary services to ensure their users’ safety and to clarify their role from the perspective of consumers in certain circumstances. Those clarifications should help smaller, innovative providers scale up and grow by benefitting from greater legal certainty.

So something similar to section 230 already exists in EU legislation.
Indeed. "Conservatives" have for decades been complaining that Christians are being persecuted... meanwhile the vast majority of the house and senate identifies as Christian and no president has ever identified as any other religion.

To them, it seems, not getting everything they want qualifies as persecution.
I'm the one working hard to debunk the misconception that HTML is "sloppy" or XML in any way adds standardization to HTML that wasn't there already with SGML.

[1]: http://sgmljs.net/docs/sgml-html-tutorial.html

[2]: http://sgmljs.net/blog/blog1701.html