skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What happens when one of the "personal" devices gets lost? How do you authenticate to the device in the first place?

The device you initially register on is the one that has access. Subsequent devices could chain off of that one.

If you lose a single device and have others on the same account, it's trivial to recover. If you lose all devices on the account, it's the same scenario as forgetting your gmail password. You go to some recovery page and follow steps to prove your identity again.
Hm. I meant to reply to the parent, not you, so that's my bad; but I probably fat-fingered it.

If they are in control of digital currency then they have a ledger of transactions, maybe? and if you have a 1:1 record of every single ledger then it's a bit harder to obfuscate?

Banks & businesses keep ledgers like these, but you have to 1. get your hands on it and 2. in case of multiple sets of books, you need to find the correct one. And then you have to connect all the dots.

Chinese capital and lending controls are very strict but this hasn't stopped Chinese and others to try and move money out of China. China has had repeated issues with things happening beyond regulators' reach until they become too big to hide and then have to be unwound, like excessive use of shadow banks for lending.
The consensus seems to be that these are unlikely to have been Roman artifacts: http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/2004/02/08.html

AFAIK, it hasn't been definitively debunked but no solid evidence has ever come out either.
Point to point communications platforms are different than social media / publishing platforms.
Interesting. I can't imagine it being so sensitive. Someone can look at satellite imagery and figure out what those crops are, even on a country wide scale.
> I think the unappreciated advantage of python is that I have to abandon all pretense of caring about speed and just get stuff working. It basically solves the pre-mature optimization problem for me

I feel the same way. With Python I just write the simplest algorithm that first comes to my mind, even though I know that it is not the most optimized way of doing things. But most of the time I am surprised that it works so fast that I realize I actually don't need to optimize it.

And being able to create and easily manipulate dictionaries and tuples also allows me to create efficient data structures very quickly.
I already checked the website. I'd say that some of the countries' tv channels are not working. Is there any workaround for the tv channels that are not currently working?
This is one of the significant turn-offs, you're expecting to go in and watch some countries' television shows, only to find out that some of them are working. I found out that some USA, Japanese and Chinese Television shows are working.
But still, I can watch my late-night Japanese television shows with ease.
I'm sure a few of these could have been backported but weren't severe enough to warrant an immediate push when 88 was right around the corner: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-1...

And this apparently happens quite a lot [no security patches in between versions]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities...
There's been plenty of resolution.

The "artifacts" were never authenticated by anyone responsible, and were almost certainly modern reproductions dumped in the bay to gain a patina and then lost.
It wouldn't surprise me if this were a regulation requirement, since most very large companies I've worked with all have pretty much identical password expiration policies.
It's a shame that most manuals have evolved to web pages that you can't download as PDFs or eBooks. Now you usually have to go online to find that keyword, and as you're online already, might as well google for the whole answer.

One of the most productive times in my career was programming for the IBM i in the 90s. There were manuals online, but you could also download indexed PDFs versions. IBM did a superb job with their documentation, there was hardly any need to look up anything in the Internet, whatever you needed was in the manuals, examples included.

Of course you still used the Internet at work, but mostly for mingling with your peers and having technical discussions, although too many people still blindly copied/pasted from the forums.
Me too.

I anticipate many products will return to powder form.

eg I intend to try powder shampoos next time I have to restock.
Wanting to do interesting work and not caring about money is the perfect environment to start your own project/service/company. If you want to work for others (especially on a contract basis), don't expect groundbreaking work to fall in your lap.
There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing
> An old credit union I was part of in NY (SEFCU) mandated passwords with exactly 6 characters. When I complained about this I was told it was secure because they forced one of the characters to be a symbol.

For a bank?! And here I am complaining that Chase doesn't support application-based OTP. I hope you ran far far away from that CU.
How to sell a mobile app in 2021?
Gray matter changes in the brain may explain how childhood trauma trigger (cont)
What a joke considering the damage is already done. Big tech coordinated to censor a major communication channel based on politics they didn't like.....during a presidential election season. This should be used as ammunition to break up Apple's monopoly on the app store.
one brand (rigid) offers a lifetime warranty on batteries, but in practice from what I've seen on the 'net, they try to do everything possible to deny warranty claims.
Yeah I generally agree with this. Forget the camera stuff the other commenter mentioned, the seats have a weight sensor already for other stuff like making sure you don't get out of the car when it's not in park. I can't believe AP doesn't use that, unless the owner here bypassed that by shorting the circuit or something.
Your description of the frame grab software output is consistent with the proposed degree of cleverness.
May be, for now.
Good to know, thanks! The price is a bit more than I can justify at the moment though, you weren't kidding about the high-end part. That's worth more than my car!
I store a 32 char random string on a yubikey and have it setup so a “long press” on it enters it, works pretty well...
The Level 4 Huawei Autonomous Driving in Shanghai, China
i don't like gnome*, that's why i am using tinywm.
Excellent, 100% functional
So what is "real work"? What does it do, or produce, or involve? Is sex work just one of the many things that aren't "real work" to you, or is it just sex work? Is providing a service not real work? do you have to produce a tangible object? Is giving someone a massage real work? Does it become not real when using one's genitals instead of hands or back?
I'm not primarily a financially motivated person. And I would prefer to spend my time doing something interesting. But in my experience, taking on some one else's projects that are interesting but not well paid has always gone badly.

Positions are usually low paid for one of two reasons: either there isn't a budget for it, or there is but they're being cheap and cutting corners. If there isn't a budget, that's a sign of a failing organization or a bad startup idea, so probably not a job you should take. If they're being cheap, that's a sign that they don't respect or value the people doing the work, which is a huge red flag.

I've taken jobs that were essentially volunteer work because I got to work on projects that were interesting to me. I've also taken jobs that weren't that interesting to me which paid generously. In the end, much of my volunteer work wasn't valued, and seen as disposable. The more highly paid work never got interesting, but having a decent amount of money took off a lot of the financial stress and ultimately made me happier and enabled me to spend more of my free time on things that interested me.

At this point, no matter how interesting, there are only two people I would do underpaid work for: myself, and my grandmother.
I don’t think KK is quite as pricey as Starbucks. A Starbucks brewed coffee is about 2x the price by volume of McDs. As long as we’re talking about standard kk-sized donuts I think it would be difficult to find them for less than $6/dozen.
Disappointed. There is so much low hanging fruit in the GUI department:

- have bookmarks/history stay on the page you open it on (and no other)

- have bookmarks and history occupy a full page, instead of shoveled into a GUI element, dialog style

- option to collapse tabs into a page (tab)

- make the "tabs window" (the downward arrow after +) a tab, so the tabs can be sorted, searched in, or copied from, as html, to a file (I now get a rather useless list of 100 tabs)

- have navigation to all of these pages, along with recent Downloads and options like Help and New Private Tab, right from the New Tab page, and leave the hamburger menu for page specific actions.

And more. But even without Firefox is a great browser.
That text is unreadable on low-brightness monitors. The contrast between the background gray and the text gray is quite low.
Stack Overflow answers are licensed under a CC BY-SA license.[0] If you copy and paste a function without (at least) linking to the question, isn't that copyright infringement?

[0] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333089/
They're not liable when the componets are used outside of their reasonable limits. You don't see recalls for shocks that fail after 200,000 miles, and leaving the driver's seat entirely should fall under that bucket too.
I still like snowflakes for this: https://levien.com/snowflake-explain.html is a half-finished blog post explaining the motivation and algorithm I came up with. I never did careful user testing, but suspect that the answer would be that some people can reliably distinguish the patterns, others won't be able to.

In any case, there are a lot of variations on this "visual hash" idea, including the original fractal one, and I heard of more recent work to use the hash to seed StyleGAN face generation.
Yeah, I was in college at the time - banks often seem to have really old and not very good systems.

I use Fidelity now and while it has issues, it's much better.
No. I think it's a perfectly fine technology ... but it isn't a panacea and it doesn't make sense for everything that people are trying to cram it into. Case in point, attaching solar panels to a smart phone or a laptop screen. I've conceded (somewhat) that if you really want to, it makes far more sense to get external panels and just plug them in.
If water shortage is an issue, Space Pirate may be the way to go, though. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087451/
Kumbh mela is going to be probably the single largest super spreader event in the entire world. About 10-12% of people returning from there are testing positive.
If your viewport is so small that there's nowhere to position the popup without overlapping, there's not much that can be done... But I think in those cases, it's supposed to be switching to popins, so if you're still getting popups, that may be a bug. You'll need to be more specific with dimensions and screenshots.

(Alternately, you may be doing something weird which is not our fault. At this point, I can't rule that out since we've fixed most of the common bugs. A recent example: one person was complaining about how many clicks it took on his laptop... we were baffled how popups could require 3 clicks to open a link when it is carefully designed to let you click once as normal; and it turned out he failed to mention he was actually in mobile popin mode, because his browser reported no pointing devices, because when he unplugged and plugged back in his mouse during a desktop session, his Chrome somehow fails to register the replug and continues to claim to the CSS media-queries that he had no pointer device even as he's busy clicking on links! A bizarre scenario I would never have thought of, but true.)

> FWIW, I also didn't realize about clicking on "the obvious thing in the popup", possibly because this is never a thing that you click on in websites.

It totally is. Titles/headlines and section headings are self-hyperlinked all the time on the Internet (including WP), it's standard, and the links are further bolded, then underlined and get link icons in case that wasn't clear (just like all the other links on gwern.net).

> What's the motivation for this being a hover effect? Seems like clicking on the link to open it is a pretty well-tested paradigm.

Reduces friction, of course. How do you know if you want to see the whole thing? Every additional step or bit of friction greatly cuts down on use. It's the 1% law of UI. I'd make it eyetracking gaze-based if only I could...

> One big difference between what I saw on your site and Wikipedia is that Wikipedia's are only previews and (AFAICT) feature no internal interactions.

Yes, the logged-out WP previews are terrible. I'm glad we've been able to improve on them with internal links & recursive popups, although it took a ridiculous amount of work to get them right. (I still haven't figured out why they went for such limited hobbled previews, when the feature was modeled off Lupin's popups going all the way back to like 2004, which offered so much more and are invaluable to any WP editor. Like... why deliberately erase all of the links in the text? They aren't even available as an API option for that feature!)
Yeah, what I mean (and has been better put elsewhere) is that the consumption of your average calculator is so low as to be practically negligible (<1mW?), otherwise capable of running for years on a depleted battery. Which is why they may work from such a small solar panel, but at the same time it says nothing about the solar panel itself.
The source I provided has the following:

* 80 unarmed.

* 65 "armed" with a vehicle.

* 180 armed with a knife or other sharp object.

* 59 armed with "another object".

* 670 armed with a gun.

* 73 undetermined.

So sure, let's just handwave that all those armed with a gun and also undetermined were justified self-defense, with whatever definition that carries. That still leaves 384 deaths.

See my other response here regarding my thoughts around "justified" killings:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26865592
Sure but those are also like 1/4 the size. Totally different product.
In a similar venue, I'd really like to get some 4-6h work done per week as freelance projects, but it is very hard to find the kind of work that fit short, weekly hours like this
I've only seen it in the Los Angeles area. I'll remember that in the future.
Fired asking for a raise?? What sort of company is this?

Was there shouting or name calling involved?
I wonder how easy and cheap i could make these? Would be neat to slowly grow a stack of these on the wall with some Pi controller and feed Wifi messages to it.

Not sure why i like it, but i do.
It would require a major iOS re-write though. Designing for e-ink is a really different paradigm, both statically and in relation to UX interactions. I just returned an onyx boox note because although the hardware was quite nice, the UI was just garbage. I'm sure Apple could do it, but it does't seem very on-brand for them. I'm waiting of a delivery of an RM2, but I'm still not that hopeful that they have solved the problem of reading an A4 academic PDF. Yet another reason to kill off the commercial academic publishing industry — we can get proper epubs of papers!
Even if UK banks were covered by FDIC (which covers only US banks), the limit is $250k (less the 200k GBP I mentioned in my comment).

The UK equivalent is capped at 170k GBP per account-holder: https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/savings/safe-savings/
My main advice is: Be wary of choosing large and/or cheap registrars.

Big registrars can’t afford any support costs since they prefer to squeeze the price down as far as possible, and therefore they prefer to simply lose or outright drop any customer in case of any and all problems. Conversely, small registrars may charge more, but have better (i.e. actually existing, and sometimes even dedicated and personal) support for when things go wrong, and have a vested interest in keeping you as a customer.

A small registrar might also be so small as to know you personally, which will help monumentally against any social engineering attacks.

(I work at a rather small registrar, with lots of small clients, including lots of private individuals, but also some very big customers; i.e. company names you might recognize. We aren’t cheap, but our support is worth it to our customers.)
As a prof seeings students waste time scanning their homework, one gadget I want to build is a easy to use scanner, with a Rpi Zero and a cheap camera.

The idea is to have the camera with a wide angle lens attached to the top of stack of papers/notebook. Pressing a button takes a picture, and then does a affine transform (?) on it get the perspective right, then uploads it to the LMS.

Just a clean, hassle free experience. No orienting your phone awkwardly, no getting the lighting right, no mini edits on your phone, no compiling pdfs.

Also, very useful for me, as I like to do math by hand.

Edit: Image https://imgur.com/Fb45H7M.png The fact that camera is fixed relative to paper means the transform is also fixed. Multi-colored led (and knowledge of paper color) can also fix lighting.
Eh depends on the language. For elixir I go to the elixirforum not stackoverflow
The notation OP is using is relative to the key of your song. So if your key is C major, the V chord is G. However, if your key is F major, the V chord is Bb. So it's not that there's only a few chords used in popular music, it's that there's a very consonant group of chords for any key your choose.

Also, OP is leaving out lots of ways to modulate these basic chords into more complex ones (adding a seventh step, inversions, power chords, etc.).

Finally, as with a lot of pseudo-Pareto type things, often the few exceptions are what make or break a piece musically.
Facial Recognition Technologies in the Era of Covid-19
> Because companies were embedding Google Analytics into PDFs.

Wow! This is daft. Thank the FLOSS gods for things like Pi-Hole because I never realised this. And if I hadn't blocked Google Analytics there, this would have been a sad state of affairs.
Completely different situation. That doesn't involve the consumer not following instructions.
How about more basic things:

From now on, every ARM processor costs $40 per chip to license. Except, of course, those made by NVidia.

or

From now on, all improvements to the reference ARM architecture will only be available in NVidia chips for the first two years. Afterwards they'll be available for licensing at the current costs.

Those are monopoly issues. And now a national security issue:

From now on, $RANDOM_EUROPEAN_COUNTRY is under embargo wrt to US intellectual property. NVidia being an US company, that includes ARM reference designs. Basically what happened to Huawei with the OS, except now it includes the CPUs too.

And I could go on...
Is it just me or is this also a symptom of Python's documentation being really strange to navigate and generally having a massive impedance mismatch with Google?

When I search on Google for "python reverse list", not a single link is to the official Python documentation. Not even if I search for "python reverse" does the documentation page show up. Searching for "python reverse documentation" leads to the second link to the Build-in Functions page (https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html), which is what I "need".

Excuse the comparison, but "matlab reverse list" has the top three to the official documentation (all of them relevant, but slightly different semantics). Why can't Python be better than that?
To be fair though, if you're targeting a business with marketing (e. g. a website) you probably want to speak to the first-order problems the business is having (e. g. cost savings, safety) not to second-order problems that those outside the business are most concerned with (e. g. climate change, food insecurity), even if your company is _also_ invested in reducing second-order problems.
They usually are (As Thunderf00t shows over and over)
Hence "When zoning doesn't interfere"
Off topic for password rotation, but has anyone tried assigning randomly generated passwords to the users rather than letting them choose their own?

People (including me) _hate_ memorizing things and would probably write an assigned password down, but isn't it better to expose passwords to nosy coworkers than to the whole internet, as is so often the case with weak or reused passwords?
I think the part that needs to be factored into your analysis is the volatility/risk aspect. A mortgage may be relatively low ROI but it’s also relatively low risk compared to the market. E.g., maybe somebody has a certain percentage invested into low risk bonds. Maybe it makes sense to pare back some of that and put it towards their mortgage during a period when bonds are being crushed. Neither bonds or the mortgage return will compete with a general index fund in terms of return over a long period of time, but the index fund is in a different (higher) risk category
Cotton kills, definitely avoid that.

Modern merino wool is a super material, I've moved away from synthetic jerseys entirely. Substantially less stinky, works well in all temps, and not created from plastics.

Eventually we'll understand how to synthesize something as good or better than wool, but for now merino is where it's at.
Irdest: Decentralised ad-hoc wireless mesh communication
Neither was it an attempted coup nor much of an assault. The protesters even dispersed voluntarily - if it has been an actual insurrection, the national guard would have arrested the participants that day. As it is, they're still trying to figure out who was even there.
Our government has more characteristics of private property than the commons, then.