skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tools like Loom are amazing for recording video-in-video. But when they fail mid-roast recording it's horrible. When it happens 3 times in a row, you consider leaving your job, hiring a small dependable car, packing up your possessions and moving to a remote farm far away from everything and everyone you know.

Any particular reason for choosing Loom over, say, OBS? I know OBS is primarily for game streamers, but it would get the job done just as well and might be more stable since it's incredibly popular.

Or why not record your screen and webcam separately, and then edit the two together in post?

Or am I misunderstanding the issue?
A pump and dump is approximately the least likely explanation.
Interesting that there's apparently no way to update databases. That's unfortunate, because otherwise this might be a useful Jamstack data API.
Respectfully, the most tech-literate politician is without a doubt Thomas Massie, who went to MIT for both his undergrad in electrical engineering and his masters in mechanical engineering, who formed a decently successful startup working on novel computer input mechanisms.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Massie#Early_life,_educ...
Tether publishes ... two pie charts of its reserves
This is my surprised face.
Bird to go public via SPAC, at an implied value of $2.3B
Trace seabed plutonium points to stellar forges of heavy elements
Sure, this is understandable wisdom. However, outsourcing has its risks too, as you need to trust who you are outsourcing to, often with your critical data, and your user’s data. Not only that, but you hard-depend on someone who does auth. Will these companies all be around in 5 years? Do they meet your security and compliance needs? etc.

I know why people are against building custom solutions. I’m just gonna say that I personally felt safer running third party Django apps that handled authentication but on a server I controlled, vs for example, Auth0. Not to mention the pricing model. The disadvantage is that you may have to put some effort into helping maintain it if it’s part of your critical path, but that seems like a good tradeoff to me. The point is to get an MVP out quickly, right? If things work out, having the resources to maintain an auth system seems reasonable.

This is not to pick on Auth0 so much; it seemed cool when I tried it out. It’s just scary to me to have my user database out of my control.
I remember doubling estimated development time if the site needed to support IE5.
> How does anyone justify these obscure tokens and coins being worth billions.

The Greater Fool Theory. This stops working when you run out of fools, but the notion of "there's another sucker born every minute" probably keeps the ball rolling for a while.
Maybe I am just a huge dummy, but I have yet to find examples of metaprogramming in the wild that aren't just mind-meltingly hard to grok. (Most of what I have seen is Python and Rust).

I have no doubt about how powerful metaprogramming is, but it makes me feel that understanding and contributing to libraries that use it is out of my reach.
It's also a symptom of a wasteful greed driven system. By abandoning old hardware the industry at large can quietly force people into 'regular' upgrade cycles. That's two years for their ideal consumers who trade in their old phones and get the latest. At most it's like 6-8 years before the hardware is simply too old to possibly keep running. Many frugal people run a cycle or two behind, eg they're on iPhones (or model year equivalents) 8-11 currently depending on their cycle timeline. There's no way out of the cycle. I had a few coworkers get dropped by their cell providers over the last few years as the carriers dropped support for cell phones they bought in the 20xxs.

Essentially this planned obsolescence is manufactured consent in the population wide crowd funding of cellular technologies by for profit (mainly public) companies providing essential communication services.

I'll leave the moralizing of this to philosophers, but all these dynamics and their externalities undeniably bear further scrutiny.
We? You helped with this? You guys rock!

Now there's a repairable, upgradable choice, it's going to be hard to get me to do anything else.
This is not the role of langage designers to prevent bad programmers to write bad code.

But it is better to avoid giving them too many ways to shoot themselves in the foot.

Forcing the code to be explicit is good design, in my opinion, simply because it is much easier to write code than to read it, we have to put more weight on the clarity side.
Or better yet, did they move into Dogecoin, which apparently uses a lot less energy. Setting up the inevitable 'use Doge instead, it's better for the environment'
> Never outsource Auth. Maintain control over user accounts.

This is some of the worst advice I've ever seen on HN. Don't take on risk you don't understand and cannot afford to mitigate. Don't be the next Equifax.
Using the same authentication algorithm doesn't seem like a particularly big price to pay, assuming they started with a sensible one. And there's nothing stopping one from making it support the old style but add a more up-to-date algorithm for new password sets, either.
Show HN: Activo: fake Keyboard input, keep PC/Skype/Teams active
Activo simulates keyboard input every minute to keep your PC/Skype/Teams active.
companies like google needed to be spilt up and made as smaller entities. These companies are a threat to humanity.
It comes from cyberpunk literature, where a "deck" is whatever portable device someone uses to access cyberspace/hack stuff/..., and has recently become somewhat of a catchall for DIY/customized/unusual "cool" portable computing devices that don't fit in the common laptop/tablet/... categories.
There are many erroneous claims made regarding Zig allocators. Contrary to what is claimed, the fact that you pass an explicit allocator does not affect:

- That an out-of-memory condition is elegantly handled or not.
- That an out-of-memory condition is properly reported to the caller.
- That is simplifies WebAssembly support; whatver you put in the allocator your could put into malloc.
- That it easily allows arena allocators; you can only use an arena allocator if you intimately know every single uses of the passed in allocator, allo the implementation details of the libraries you call and of *all* its dependencies. If a dependency, for example, implements a cache, the arena allocator will corrupt it when deallocated.
Yeah, I found that later. Still seems odd there isn't a direct API for it.
The average person can expect to be in three to four car accidents during their lifetime. I'm still driving around (vaxxed, not belligerent, happy to mask for the time being).
The page does not specify the license, so people will be afraid of using it.

You should read all the possible licenses to ensure that people can use it as intended, but can not use in unexpected ways.

For example sometimes people choose CC0, and then get angry when other people redistribute it without attribution.

I suggest to take a look at https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/ and once you have a rough ideas ask here for advice.
But did he jeapordize the value of his Tesla stock? At all? The price of Tesla stock is entirely disconnected from the worth of the company, and seems to be doing just fine.
No, they didn’t.

The CDC explained that we didn’t know if people could be contagious after being vaccinated. Not sure where this stands.

Now most people who want the vaccine will soon have it but it looks like lots of holdouts.

So, now we have a carrot and stick. No mask required and people are now on their own if they choose to skip it
Its not black and white - we're not going for 100% security. Masks never did that anyway, and it wasn't the point in wearing them. The point was to change 'R0' to less than 1, so the epidemic wouldn't grow geometrically and swamp the healthcare system.

It's quite reasonable to say that vaccinated people are less likely to spread the disease than say, an at-risk person wearing a mask. If those two are commensurate, then sure vaccinated people can go maskless.

There are social reasons to keep wearing a mask of course. To reduce confusion about who's safe and who's just being negligent. I still wear one in public, and I've been vaccinated.

It's popular to back-seat drive during difficult times, and point out gleefully when somebody isn't 100% in line with one's own understanding. It's largely not constructive, and causes more upset and confusion. The best advice is, do your part to reduce infection risk. And stop stirring the pot.
HP LX series was a big one. The AlphaSmart Dana almost fits, too - it was a Palm device rather than just the dedicated word processor and keyboard functions.
This is pretty awesome! If anyone wants something similar but for documentation check this out: https://github.com/nytimes/library
The book content is basically on their website: https://threedots.tech/series/modern-business-software-in-go...
Yeah I don't get it either. Git and ssh client need support. I wouldn't think the server would even know that your private key is backed by a hardware security key.
Keep your state in Kea and your views in React
That's his job: doing amoral things so investors could keep their reputations clean.
he is for HTML(/XML) encoding.

It's kinda dumb that fast-xml-parser doesn't full parse the XML and leave content+attribute values in raw forms.

The docs for fast-xml-parser show how to combine it and he.

Had they done that, they wouldn't have this bug that completely breaks the SQS client for me.
I recently got actually burned by this. I was implementing the redesign for a friend’s website. I was working in Firefox, cause that’s the browser I want to support. The page seemed pixel perfect to me. Then my friend told me there was a subscription form he didn’t want at the bottom of the page. What was my suprise when I found out that there was an entire partial with an html error in it, that I missed in code, which was rendered in Chrome, but it was not rendered at all in Firefox.
I feel like your personality is probably so unoriginal that I could draw a caricature of you without ever seeing your picture.
There were, and still are, many gateway providers with APIs for payments. Authorize.net, NMI, USAePay, BrainTree, Payeezy, even Paypal was common enough once upon a time. And those are just a handful that I can list off the top of my head. (I know that some of those I listed have acquired each other recently as well.)
Why do people need gold?
Remember this guy tweeted "funds secured to make Tesla private at 420$ per share" to take revenge on Tesla shorters blaming him for smoking marijuana on TV
I used to love Notion, but I switch to org-roam and emacs for privacy. The transition took a lot of work, but the cross referencing notation is just as good.
The Matrix has one huge plot hole: There is nothing sacred or special about the way humans extract energy from food. You can do the ATP cycle in a vat and get the same results but you never break even or get a net energy gain. If a post-singularity AI needed to assure a continuous energy supply, that has to be among the worst possible ways to do it.
this will be great, people will make notion clients for terminal, i like terminal todo list or terminal apps and having a great productivity tool in terminal which will sync all the device is good idea. LIke there is spotify on terminal.
I can imagine this will end up creating more problems than it solves, for example depending on where you're from you might use various colloquialisms in speech which no AI will ever really get.

For example if I said something like hey I want all the NBA players but they got to be like a little bit taller than 6 ft 2. What's a little bit, once you get into any edge cases, or even have to clarify what you mean, you might as well just program it out.
Bird to Go Public on NYSE to Further Mission of Clean Mobility Access
And a Cloudera project: https://www.cloudera.com/products/cdf.html

And an Azure feature: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/control-...

And a Spring feature: https://spring.io/projects/spring-cloud-dataflow
Big fan of notion. Not a fan of the data lock-in or haphazard security. For tools like this, SaaS will almost always beat open source just by virtue of elbow grease and a product direction. So I’m willing to forego the open source alternatives. But I really wish Notion gave me more options for how to host my data. AFAICT they offer no “dedicated storage” or “on premise” plan, even if you want to pay for it.

In fact I heard a rumor that the entirety of Notion runs on a single unsharded database. If true, combined with the fact that this API took so long to ship, I have to assume that there is a crippling amount of tech debt in their stack. Hopefully it’s growing pains and they’re sorting it out, but it doesn’t make me feel confident about the security of my (most sensitive) data.

It’s maybe also a cautionary tale about what happens when you dismiss too many early decisions as “premature optimization.” You ship fast in the beginning but a few years later you’re buried in all the debt you generated.

Granted, it’s a good problem to have. If the choice is between a profitable, popular company buried in tech debt, or the perfect stack with no customers, I’ll take the debt.
Missing the obvious - rolling your own crypto
In case you didn't already get it, this is a good and readable summary:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...
Great read! I also hadn't heard of TheStoryGraph before, so double points.

I'm also very interested in owning my own data (particularly when it comes to things like book lists) and I'm thinking about how to incorporate something like ActivityPub into my CLI book-list application. I'd love to live in a world with an indieweb version of g*dreads.
You just strung together some meaningless words.
What’s wrong with basic auth over https...
He's one of the very few politicians I support with little to no reservations about him getting stuff really wrong. We are indeed extremely proud to have him.

I know enough people wired into local politics that if he had some huge hidden dark side, it'd be out there. He really is pretty much what he puts out there.
99% of marketERS are bad.

Only like...80% of marketing is bad.
It's the 3-letter agencies where the expertise lies. Maybe a new agency needs to be created outside of the intelligence agencies?
100%. I'm old enough that when I started my career we were still storing credit card numbers on our servers (and many companies were unfortunately doing so in the raw...). PCI compliance luckily knocked some sense into the industry. Crazy to me that some people don't realize that PII and secrets like passwords are basically in the same category now.
Suspected, as early as 1986. Confirmed via memo in 2015, exposed in 2020.

Degrees of proof and documentation differ among these.

And this still fails to establish the "well-known" aspect.
Good assessment. I'd disagree that it being an edge-case isn't illustrative also, but that's a moot point. Appreciate you not trying to hammer me into agreement!

If you, or anyone else for that matter, is ever interested in at least understanding this sort of position I highly recommend Robert Nozick's work in response to John Rawls A Theory of Justice entitled Anarchy State and Utopia.
An excellent idea. I sincerely hope you succeed.

1. Would be good to know more about the UEFI on it¹, in particular:

- Whose implementation will you be using? (AMI? Insyde?)

- Will it expose the all the settings to the user?

- Will it be easily flashable (via software)?

- Is there going to be an easily accesible "alt-disable" mode for ME or, if not, an equivalent solution (e.g. the ability to leave it in manufacturing mode on the ordered unit)?

(2. Here I wanted to ask about Thunderbolt compatibility but this question has been answered already², and the answer is: "maybe.")

3. What do you mean by the pre-order being open to the US only? Specifically, can I pay with a non-US issued credit card as long as I provide a shipping address in the US (forwarder's)?

¹) Also asked here by another person: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27143526

²) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27143958
Yeah, you pretty much have to accept that you have this somewhat fantastical scenario simulation computer running your production nuclear missile controls. But if you can get past that, it has a real feeling to it and was a lot of fun besides.
Shameless Plug: I also roasted stuff, in fact over 200 pages, in public - on my YouTube channel: https://lf.gg/youtube/

This started as a side project during the pandemic, I was really bored.

I am not as good looking as Oliver and my English isn't as fluid but I tried...

P.S. If you have ANY suggestion on how to improve my YouTube channel - could you share it?
You can do both. Just use an open source project for auth instead of reinventing a commodity wheel.
Governments and central banks are doing it to try to continue the cash economy, which has been slowly dying for some time now (a death recently sped up by the pandemic). Cash has some unique benefits over numbers in an account, the primary perhaps being that it's independent of banks.
Doesn't that effectively mean that these companies will become further entrenched and nearly impossible to dislodge from their market positions? A prime example is Google Fibre, who tried to dislodge existing cable/internet companies, and failed primarily because of regulatory entrenchment.

Why not allow the market to be more inclusive? This will help create exactly the competitive pressure that we all benefit from.
People claimed BTC power use was overblown. It turns out it wasn’t overblown. We now have amazing alternatives which are safe and clean. https://medium.com/mobilecoin/mobilecoin-saves-on-environmen...
Sounds good...

The hooks for Amazon Dash are likely closed as it was phased out a year after start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Dash

Though, it can be done through Alexa.

There's this :

https://github.com/MarQG/bamazon-cli

But I have no idea what a bamazon database is.

Personally I don't think I'd ever want to build a product on top of a huge company's product. That way lies madness.
I am not judging the goodness of his heart or whatever. I am simply stating that this theorized plan of him using Tesla as a pawn to increase the value of his Bitcoin holdings is both an idiotic plan and one that there is no evidence of actually existing. The only reason anyone would believe it is because they are forsaking critical thinking in favor of their bias against Musk that exists for both legitimate and illegitimate reasons.
Learning Off-by-One Mistakes: An Empirical Study [pdf]
You can also choose to self host. Keycloak and FusionAuth (disclosure, I am an employee) let you self host. You then have the user database in your systems.

> And the only way off without a mass password reset is a silent migration in the background: migrate the user when they login.. but we all know that will take months and you will never get 100% to login during the migration period.

Actually, not true. I can't speak for every auth provider, but FusionAuth and Auth0 both let you have the password hashes. If you know the algo (ask your provider!), you can load the hashes (and other ancillary password data like the salt) and your users will never be the wiser.

Here's a guide I wrote about how to migrate off of Auth0: https://fusionauth.io/docs/v1/tech/guides/auth0-migration/ The end goal of the guide is to move to FusionAuth, but the steps to get your password hashes out of Auth0 (the 'Exporting Users' section) will work no matter where you migrate to.
It's kind of funny that you'd allow someone else to manage money, but you wouldn't let someone else manage something that has the potential to cost you an equal or greater amount of money in GDPR violation fees and lawsuits.
Software is hype at its core. Not everyone understands some problems can be solved with it and some can’t and why that’s a thing even, with different “hardnesses” of problem spaces. See Penrose tilings.

Search can solve lots of problems for people however, and integrating Visual and semantic text search with machine learning networks is probably a good way to explore this frontier better by using humans as the fallback processor for non computable “calculations” (guesses explained in stories?).

General AI is probably the most interesting outcome, but likely doesn’t have a clear path to “development” due to it being highly cross disciplinary, a bit fuzzy with its obvious use case (new friends) and the seeming extensional threat (bad friends).
No, they sold 10% of their holdings to verify liquidity. [1]

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/musk-says-tesla-sold-bitcoin-...
> To get that one, Duffy, who is African American, communicated with the appraiser strictly via email, stripped her home of all signs of her racial and cultural identity and had the white husband of a friend stand in for her during the appraiser's visit.

They gloss over this part. What did they remove exactly? 90% of real estate agents would tell you stage the house before attempting to sell it so you can expand your potential buyer pool and get the most value out of it.

Ninja edit: Anyone else find it crazy the value went from $100k in 2017 to $259k in 3 years? Absolute insanity to go up $160k in three years.
True, the paper is just about bitcoin specifically. I've read through Nano and the spam problem was #1 in my mind. It seemed to me that there was no possible way to prevent spam in Nano without turning it into a strictly-worse form of cryptocurrency than other proof of work systems. So my determination about Nano was that if it maintained its current course, it would flame out (transactions would increase without bound until no one could run Nano nodes) OR that they would have to change course to something like increasing the transaction PoW, which would increase the work done on end-user machines to the point where its very cumbersome (slow and expensive) to create a transaction.

I'm curious to know what "time as a currency" is and how it solves the spam problem. Do you have a good link that explains?
>Yes the senseair S8 is very reliable. Our professional air quality sensor uses the same CO2 sensor

Thanks!
What is currently driving corporate security practices is insurance. As attacks become more common and more devastating insurance becomes both more necessary and harder to get. Insurance companies are demanding ever greater audits and measures in order to get insured.

The market is actually doing what it's supposed to in this case even if it is reactionary. All hope is not lost.
I guess it depends on what counts as handling payments yourself. Stripe can handle just about everything to managing subscriptions and emailing invoices and more. At least nowadays. It’s a lot more advanced than systems that roughly just provide an API to manage payment methods and charge them, like Authorize.net for example.

Also, handling the abstraction between multiple kinds of payment methods (cryptos, different card networks, PayPal, etc.) may also be a considerable amount of complexity that a payment vendor can help with.

I have never directly interacted with the financial system at its lowest levels. I’ve heard it is quite a trip.
i have been hoping for this for a long time: http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/12/blogging-tools
> Are you selling a notification service?

Except when there are none, you have to build it yourself.
He might not have been aware of the full extent of the damage.

This is likely true. He was the only person onboard the plane, so he would not have been able to get up and look. Unlikely he could see the extent of damage from his seat. And as noted, on final approach, he doesn't have time for much to change plans. Even if he knew the extent of the damage, the choices are roughly the same - land as planned, or go around.

That said, he did exactly what he should. Aviate, navigate, communicate. He controlled the plane, made a decision, and communicated that to ATC. Well done.