skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Step 1 is to buy a reader, any reader which is ISO 7816 compliant is fine.

Next, buy a smart card. The most famous brand I can think of right now is Gemalto, but there are lots of options. You can buy them in quantities of 1 extremely cheaply from AliExpress, but I'm not sure of the quality.

Smartcards are just little computers which run Java Applets (GlobalCard), and they come either blank or with software already loaded on them.

If they are blank you have to load software onto them. One open source option is CoolKey.

In either case you will need software on your computer to talk to the software on the card to ask it to do things, like sign an arbitrary piece of data. This software is called middleware (the stack looks like Application -> Middleware -> PC/SC subsystem -> smartcard reader driver (usually CCID compliant) -> smartcard software, so why it's called middleware I don't know).

For Windows, I only know for sure that PIV (US Government, NIST SP 800-73) card applets are supported, but there is a whole "minidriver" thing. I suspect you'll have to read the applet (or card, if preloaded) documentation to know for sure. macOS used to have a cryptographic layer called tokend, but it's deprecated and replaced with something else. For other things, PKCS#11 is the standard mechanism for talking to the card's application.

Feel free to reach out with further questions.
You’re right, my definition was too broad; intention should matter. But DRM would still count; it intentionally does something which the user or device owner would rather it did not do.
Are they there for punishment or for rehabilitation? These two things seem opposite to me, to the point of almost being incompatible.
Apple gave Zoom access to a private API to use the iPad camera in multitasking
> I'm, too, more convinced by the Rare Earth hypothesis,

I think you are misinterpreting the conclusion of the paper. The conclusion is that there is "a substantial probability that we are alone in our galaxy". This extra probability is because of the extra uncertainty within our estimates of the parameters in the Drake equation.
But "substantial probability" is something entirely different than being sure.
One common US prison job is seasonal firefighter, for forest fire season in California. The irony is that as soon as prisoners are released, being convicted felons, they can never work as firefighters. US prison labor is about money while incarcerated, never about life after release.
I do see an increasing number of projects being posted on my little website too

https://www.sideprojectors.com

The original premise of SideProjectors was to buy and sell small indie projects. Over the years, I've seen many many of these small projects (often ecommerce shops, dropshipping businesses, but at times quite interesting ones too) being submitted.

As a side note (pun intended) - I've been also watching out for off-the-shelf template softwares that are being posted and making sure they are filtered out. As an example, you can buy a "Privacy respecting Google Analytics Alternative, launch your own SaaS" from themeforest for $49, repackaged and being sold in many places. Their pitches are usually similar.. "hey, I developed this, but haven't had time to do marketing, it has so much potential, just need someone to take over and start making that passive income".
The stock market dropping 30% in a week is a major world catastrophe and makes the history books. Bitcoin dropping 30% in a week is a fun week.
Don't know about the US, but in the UK ownership of farmland is used as an inheritance tax dodge. Because of land rich but money poor farmers as a voting constituency, farmland is not counted for inheritance tax. The predictable result of this is people like Dyson owning most of the farmland in Lincolnshire (https://whoownsengland.org/2017/09/19/why-is-james-dyson-hoo...)
Sure, we make all sorts of trade offs. The other poster is arguing that people should people able to choose for themselves whether they risk infection, which isn't the point of these passes, they are a community health measure.
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Touching the mask could be a potential vector for spreading the infection to surfaces, and could also compromise the seal.
It's typically best to fit it well once and not touch it afterwards if possible.

It's kind of related to touching face or eyes in terms of spreading diseases.
Kubevirt is just another way to showcase how flexible kubernetes scheduling is via crio.

One of the things I am excited about is microvm orchestration with kubernetes. Weavework has a really cool project in that realm [1].

[1] https://github.com/weaveworks/ignite
Yes. Because Israel is the aggressor, they have a right to defend themselves against any protest against their aggression and that protest is an act of terror, because the aggressor is Israel.
Cars don't infect other cars on the road.
They already had a touch bar free 13" MBP in that chassis. In fact they put in extra effort to add the touch bar to the 2 port 13" MBP.
If I'm getting a physical security key, I might as well pick something that has rudimentary PGP support. The cheapest Yubikeys do not, and the ones further up the range that do support it, are definitely outside the impulse/curious buy range.
Such a great story, well written too.
That would be unreasonable, why would Israel compromise if they don't have any pressure whatsoever, international or internal. Especially with the current right wing dominance of politics in Israel and the foolish attempts at slow annexation of the West Bank.

The Palestinian's interests is into keeping and nurturing a strong resistance until there is a real support from the USA for a reasonable peace process.
Now that's a good analogy with the orchestra being like a big-co! My thoughts exactly.
Most of isn't "retro-next" computing. There are a _very_ small number of projects of that kind, most notably the X16, the Mega65, and the Spectrum Next. The Maximites might fall into that, as might the MiST and MiSTer boards, but that's debatable. What _most_ people do are extensions to existing hardware (like the Amiga Vampire), replacements for failing chips (which might also include extra features because there's space still left on the FPGA), &c. Arguably, I wouldn't include the Mega65 in the list because it's meant to be more or less what was intended to be released as the Commodore 65, which basically leaves the X16 and Spectrum Next. The X16 and Spectrum Next are meant to be idealised forms of the respective machines they're based on, with the Next maintaining compatibility.

What most people build are things like Z80-based SBCs that behave like the CP/M machines of the past, but can take advantage of things like CompactFlash and higher clock speeds, but are essentially period accurate otherwise. Personally, I'd love to build a Jupiter Ace with all the random glue logic reduced down to a PLD, expanded enough to support an ~80-column display.
Yellow fever is debilitating at a very high rate...
Hiring an Intern – Things to keep in mind
I'm going to ask a naive but honest question: what is the security benefit of a piece of "key-hardware" over a passphrase protected key stored on a "normal" storage device?

I understand that for someone that moves between multiple physical machines it may be a benefit of convenience, but what threat vector does a physical key eliminate that exists for passphrased "normal" SSH keys?
Most definitely. Not all people are made of money. $100 can buy a lot of things, so if I can't justify it for professional use, there's not much of an incentive to spend that much.
I find that bit crazy. It is local society's wish to imprison them, and thus deprive them from opportunity to earn money to pay those things on open market. Thus it should be up to them to provide them with that, that is if they want them to be imprisoned. They could just let them go free, or excommunicate them...
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Tip: All the people engaging in ad hominem based arguments against people wearings masks are under the thrall of normalcy bias. What annoys them about people wearing masks is it's hard in their face that other people don't believe things are normal.
We don't know if the baby is seeing the full 3d effect, but my understanding of how light-field displays work is that it isn't based on eye-tracking.
Faster Python: Mark Shannon, author of newly endorsed plan, interviewed
How do I build an artificial intelligence app in 2022?
You only need a single Elon Musk and a bit of tech infra slightly better than ours for a civilization to Von Neumann its local galaxy (and possibly its affectable universe).
Again we see similar issues that motivated RMS to create the free software movement. The buy bought a program but did not had the ability to read or edit it, today you will get a DRM on top of the program and some TOS that would say it is illegal to even attempt to get pass the DRM. Video game crackers show this DRMs will eventually get broken so the industry switch to services instead, now you are really screwed , you can't flip a bit to fix an issue or you can wake up and the software is now updated with nice new bugs or pointless UX changes.
Covid is highly lethal for some category of people..
For rehabilitation and protecting the public, there is not really a punishment-thinking in w.-europe prison-systems (not counting the UK)
I really liked this story. Im much too young to have been around for it, but I feel like this era of computing must have been kind of magical where there was a lot of access and no walled garden nearly to the scale of a google or apple where the obfuscation just requires a flipped bit.
When and how did things change, if I may ask?
The SID's major difficulties are due to it being an analogue-digitial hybrid. That's why most of the efforts have went down the emulation route, though there's apparently an FPGA SID replacement in development that's pretty close. The original 6581 is super impractical as each of those is different, but the later 8580 is much more practical to rebuild in FPGA form, even if emulating the analogue side is still awkward.
It's already illegal for them to take the extra information they don't need into account. That's not really the problem here I think.
Ok so the actual alternative is a non-functioning healthcare system and routine procedures suddenly becoming an issue.

So perhaps it's not death, but definitely economical stagnation.
Someone made a beer tracker for France
...and then, there's spending 27 years, working for a conservative Japanese corporation, where they don't know the jargon (but are seriously good engineers). I learned to make things fairly clear, without jargon, and deliver very maintainable code (I'd have been fired, otherwise).

Listen, I understand that researching people before we insult them is passé, but I'm a really good co-worker. I wrote the above in a manner that was all focused on me, not anyone else. I am sad that you saw it as an opportunity to attack.

Maybe we would not get along IRL, and that's fine (but sad). I've spent my entire adult life, working with some of the most difficult folks on Earth (not in the tech industry). I have learned that we all have a story, and we all have value.

If the only way that we can measure our personal worth is to compare it favorably against others, I can't help, there, except to say that it didn't work for me.

YMMV
> If your belief is that everyone should be perfect [...]

Well, you seem to believe there's such a thing as a perfect process. How is a non-perfect employee (or a group of non-perfect employees) supposed to come up with a perfect process?

> [...] because you've chosen the no-safety route [...]

Who said anything about no safety net? Maybe there was a process, or a safety net, but it wasn't perfect and didn't catch those mistakes?
It's very funny: "figured you needed a commit from a chad" — A Chad and a gentleman.

https://github.com/skullchap/chadstr/pull/5
The roles of sentencing in a criminal justice system are:

* Prevention
* Deterrence
* Veangance

The least-useful of these is veangance. Legislators think it is needed to forestall private acts of veangance. But in itself it serves no purpose.

To deter crime, people have to believe that the likelihood of their being caught and punished is high; without that belief, it doesn't matter how severe the penalties are set.

Prevention by detention is an extreme sanction, and extremely costly. It's only appropriate for incorrigible psychopaths. "Prevention" by court-ordered medical treatment (e.g. rehab, chemical castration) is a human-rights violation. Prevention by supervision, harm-reduction, or education are evidence-based responses that actually have a chance of improving things.
An IT ticketing system that had a disaster recovery solution inclusive of DB failover, load-balancing, etc. all to another data center in another time zone.

Some medium critical business systems didn't have that so if a disaster struck, that stupid ticketing system would fail over and be up. I guess so they could put tickets in for all the other systems that didn't make it?

I think this was borne out of one of those "use it or lose it" budget scenarios that happens in big companies at the end of a fiscal year.
That's a succinct way to sum up the US prison system. Why would the two be incompatible?
Terraforming an Early Stage Startup (Part 1)
I love it. It's literally just a barrage of math, separated into little bite-sized chunks.

Modern textbooks can have a so much fluff with all the flashy pictures and icons and the text on the page being brightly colored or having bubbles drawn around it to be more "engaging" etc.

I found it super annoying as a kid, wish I had something like this.
The luck and the postscript really resonated with me. For more than 30 years now, I've been telling people I hit the jackpot: Computer programming is something I'm really good at, that I enjoy doing and that pays really well. Very few people get all three.

I had to work summer jobs though, starting at 15: road crew, pounding spikes on the railway, lumberjack. I'm not sure I would have been better off for not having those jobs though. I learned a lot about what the average person does to get by and about how much alcohol gives me minor alcohol poisoning.
Recordings have to be specially recorded and processed for that. There are however many older recordings that were made without the use of such technology and are expected to be played on speakers in 5.0.
And it's not just Linux. A little known fact is that during startup, before running a single instruction of Linux kernel code, the Pi spends the first several seconds booting the closed source OS that runs the weird Broadcom "VideoCore". Only then does it initialize the ARM processor and start the Linux kernel.
If people think it's a good idea for prison inmates to work then they should at least pay them minimum wage and prisoners should be given an opportunity to not work if they so choose.

I have no respect for someone who thinks forcing people to work as slaves is ok, and I will take the hardest stance possible on this. There is no wiggle room, there can be no compromise. Slavery is morally repugnant.

Here you can buy some products made by American slaves.
https://unicor.gov/SopAlphaList.aspx

And here is an advert for slaves you can hire to run your call center.
https://unicor.gov/ContactCenterVideo.aspx

Bill and Hillary Clinton had house slaves in the Arkansas governors mansion.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/06/the-clintons-had-slav...

I understand this is common practice in many state governors' mansions to have house slaves.
Nitpicking: couple of months, not “month”.
Great story. Two things:

1. Would this still be possible today? It's a certain timeframe (for software) where this was possible. Today it's things like SAP, integrated systems and DMCA on top of it (or Excel).

2. I did the menial route and am still happy for it. Flipping burgers, cleaning dishes, repairing truck tires and cleaning office buildings. It's a different sort of grit and stamina than the one that gets you far in your office career, but I still look back fondly on the lessons about hard work. It was also an introduction into diversity. I've met people on those jobs the 16-year old me never met before, and since. For me the lesson is: whatever my kids will do in jobs on the side, it pleases somebody enough to give them money and them enough to do the job it's a worthwhile lesson.
I don't see why being a felon should keep you from fighting forest fires
Malware shouldn't be able to silently copy the key. Usually you have to touch the device to confirm usage.

Even if the malware got your one time password when you thought you confirmed a legitimate operation, the attacker wouldn't get persistent access.

Edit: Also, most people don't use them, so some attackers won't bother with more complex target.
If you see it up close and personal the devastation that COVID can bring , you would probably also be over-cautions too.
Readability formulas should not be used as a guide for editing as doing so results in only gaming the metric rather than actual improvement in readability which requires the text to be rewritten rather than simply edited.

See Limitations of readability formulas in guiding adaptations of texts https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/18026
Yup, even Denmark has recently announced plans to phase out the vaccine pass in a matter of months.
One obvious thing would be keyloggers?
The "ID" for this credential. For residential credentials, that lives on the Security Key, but without them the Security Key just mints a new random ID, plus a key pair each time it is told to enroll.

This ID is public, for practical reasons an OpenSSH client setup will store it in the same sort of place it would keep a (possibly encrypted) private key for normal public key crypto but it isn't actually private, you could for example put the file on a (HTTPS) web page you copy-paste from to configure every new device you get, if bad guys see it they don't learn how to sign in to GitHub as you.

The Security Key doesn't (without resident credentials) remember what this ID value is. On a web site, that ID value would get squirrelled away somewhere during enrollment by the site's backend together with the associated public key, maybe to a database table, and the site gives you a list of IDs after you tell it your username or whatever - when you try to use a Security Key, your Security Key can look at such a list and (using Authenticated Encryption) it can see it made this one, and from there rediscover the private key and use that to authenticate you.

But unless it is shown the ID it is clueless. No idea how to authenticate. If you've lost the ID, or maybe it's on a device you don't have access to at the moment, your Security Key can't help you.

Edited to add: Behind the scenes, the implementation at enrollment goes something like this, the Security Key mints the random keypair and then it uses its own permanent secret symmetric key (which never leaves the Security Key and is likely very hard to extract even in a lab setup) to encrypt the private key or some seed value and that encrypted value (which only this Security Key can decrypt) is used as the apparently random ID.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, the ID is not small. This is at least 16 bytes. And even devices that don't need to hide something inside that ID are forbidden from just using some boring counter or something that would be distinguishable, it has to look at least mostly "random" in that case (minimum 100 bits of entropy).
Note: I corrected my comment to say "debilitating", although relatively "lethal" is probably not inaccurate.

Is not the vaccine available for anyone who wants it? The point of the Yellow Fever vaccine is to get it when traveling to a country where it is prevalent and you don't have the immunity of the local population, and not to bring it back to an unprotected population.
No, they are saying that fruit picking is not a job that requires training or qualifications. So prison work picking fruit does not help prepare the inmate for life after release.
I've seen a ton of interviews at Google, none of them required fancy algorithms. They did require you to take some fundamental algorithm and change it up a bit, but the end result wasn't fancy algorithms just basic ones with a twist.
> after the first mistake (obviously, because there was a second mistake)

What makes you think those two fuck ups by the same person where the same kind of mistake, or even related?
Let me blow your mind:

If you swipe anywhere from the left edge of the display to the right, you can go to the previous screen, kind of like pages in a book.

(Doesn’t work on all apps, probably from developers than aren’t aware of the convention)
Stay out of jail assholes. Join antifa.
Maybe the Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License ?

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

http://www.wtfpl.net/
If you want to get a taste of some of what Ramanujan seems to have been occupied with, the mathematical physicist John Baez explained "Ramanujan's easiest formula" in an approachable way https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2020/11/18/ramanujans-e...
I've seen this before. Not often, because the companies I have worked at have rarely hired someone from this social strata. But in the cases where we have, I have seen the alienation.

Aside from the obvious "be genuinely friendly", does anyone have suggestions of what to do as a coworker to support someone suffering from this cultural barrier?
Shit. Just shit.
Australia introduces AML mobile phone tracking technology to locate 000 callers
I used to say Google has never done anything really great other than their search engine. And generally speaking this opinions tends to get quite a lot of upvote ( as well as some unsuccessful counter arguments ). That is why when another Google project launch or failed. I wont be surprised.

This is the first time, I felt this is going to be great. Something that should have came from Apple, the humane side of technology, for the first time ever came from Google.

Hopefully this isn't a one off thing or an outliner from Google. Apple desperately need some competition.
> Deficit spending is not the same as QE.

While true, the European Central Bank (ECB) did raise rates at one point. Krugman (a Keynesian) sad this was a bad idea at the time, and that it would cause the recover to stall. And it did.

Because the ECB is generally run by Germans and they have an (anti-)inflation fetish, and so at the first hit of it they 'panic.

Moral of the story: listen to the Keynesian. I've been reading Krugman since ~2008, and he's been pretty right on most of the major monetary/fiscal policy points.
No it's not ok. But the people who didn't add indices maybe even had all the basic training on DS and algos.

But they were simply either incompetent or more likely simply careless and didn't give a sh_t. Because adding indices in the proper places requires a few minutes of PLANNING. Who has few minutes nowadays, when you can read HN? On top of that their management/leadership was careless, and didn't give a sh_t. In the end, the poor database tables were left all alone, in the dark, without indices :).
I'm interested if anyone uses this and for what kinds of applications? For example can it replace an oVirt, OpenStack or VMware installation?
It's still anti-consumer, imagine situation in which self driving car manufacturer hardcodes rules according to which car not drive to certain places because reasons.

Products even if specialized can always be used for general purpose that's the beauty of computers and "hacking" after all.