skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Consumers would go to the US Post Office or DMV and purchase a Yubi key from them.

> The additional value they add, is they can verify the identity of the consumers who is purchasing the Yubi key and replace the key if it is lost/stolen.

This is exactly how digital signatures work in my country. A government institution vouches for digital certificate companies which verify and certify people's identities. It can be used to file taxes and lawsuits, for example. To most people this is just yet another layer of bureaucracy.
There always are, for any drug.

There is the person that uses amphetamines to get high SAT scores, high college grades and stops after landing a FAANG job.

There is the person using alcohol as "social lube". Never drinks alone, never gets wasted.

There is the person using LSD and other party drugs few times per year or less in a controlled setting

And then there are the extremely addicted people. And everything in between. It's a sliding scale. People need to be educated to learn the risks and recognize harmful behavioral patterns.

Simply telling people "drugs are bad for you" might be the abridged version of the truth. But is as effective as the "war on drugs" in reducing drug abuse.
Transformers's Scaling Laws, for Vision
I think you're confusing things. A difference between the number of written characters and the number of phonemes doesn't make a language "non-phonetic" if you mean consistency between spelling and pronunciation.

What matters is that a sequence of symbols _consistently_ matches a phoneme. For example, you'll find that the "u" phoneme is often written as "ou" in French. Same thing for the "o" sound and "eau" (you misspelt "beaucoup").

What I would consider "non-phonetic" is the set "though", "through", "thorough", and "thought" in English, where "ough" has four different sounds.
macOS Monterey features won’t work on Intel Macs
Keyword is "immediate needs," another community that only focused on "immediate needs"? Easter Island.
I worked netsec for a small regional bank. They absolutely did this.

Ive always been more of a credit union type of person. But working in that sector made me feel predatory and like a carpetbagger, event though I wasn’t directly interfacing with these people.. I left the banking sector after a couple years.
This is an incredibly ironic headline, given that Cloudflare’s raison d'être is to expand its own overlay network on top of the Internet. By this point it must be more than 10% of Internet traffic going through Cloudflare hardware.

I love Cloudflare, but this is not a fight where they’re defending the moral high ground.

(Granted, they didn’t write the headline.)
Every country in the EU can choose one language as the national language. Ireland chose Irish.
Startups and smaller companies we work with are paying $500/month. Our pricing then goes up from there depending on number of end customer groups.

We are definitely hoping to launch self serve in the near future but have decided not to while we iterate on the core features and ensure things work with a qualified and controlled set of customers. However, it is helpful to understand how important self serve is to developers.

Adding in monitoring and alerts is something we are working on and has been requested previously. With regards to monitoring your system status specifically, we would likely need to investigate a means to connect Explo to where this data is generated or being collected. Explo would need to query this source on a certain cadence (probably pretty frequently) to have high fidelity monitoring. Currently we pull the data via queries and data isn't pushed to us (doesn't make sense in the current model, but is something we've chatted internally about).

Would love to chat more about the push model to better understand how Explo can plug into your system status. Is there a way that we could connect to the system status and pull the necessary information? Or can you push the system status data somewhere that we can then process?
Ok, I've consed an 'evaluating' onto the title above in the hope of communicating this.
Be careful using this formula too naively. Predicting tomorrow's expected return is quite difficult, though predicting tomorrow's expected volatility is doable.
Of course I never said anything was “unacceptable” by virtue of its age.
Yep, this is why "boofing" (intrarectal) dosing has found rising popularity in the 'research chemical' scene over the past couple decades.

The liver's effects on drugs is really fascinating. Grapefruit has a chemical that can inactive liver enzymes, so some drug addicts regularly drink grapefruit juice to 'get more bang for their buck'. Plain old black pepper (in large doses) inactivates a different enzyme IIRC.

There are also some interesting anecdotal cases of people who claim to have found regimens of essential oils, which when consumed at the right schedule saturate liver enzymes to the extent that otherwise inert substances can produce recreationally psychoactive effects.

Source: i have a morbid fascination with the 'frontier non-medical drug use' communities and follow their subreddits (/r/researchchemicals and /r/peptides being among the most interesting). There a lot of people who choose to make themselves guinea pigs quite recklessly and, thankfully for scientific advancement and future harm reduction, post in-depth reports of how these novel chemicals or preparations effected them. Recently, broad cheap availability of novel benzos have led many posters to deep addictions of such great magnitude that they struggle to convince doctors assisting with detox that they've actually been consuming equivalents of 1000x typical prescribed doses... until the doctor gives them massive doses of valium to detox and they still have severe seizures.
Also: The Mom Test, by robfitz
Oil being less convenient and more expensive is a win if you are a green energy absolutist (like me). It makes other energy sources that much more enticing.
Interesting. Doesn't Apple disallow porn?

Also Patreon does gate content behind payment, with different tiers even.

And I've seen Patreons sell one-time services/products for a fee, like this random Patreon: https://i.imgur.com/qKpOwpq.png

All these subtle differentiations to justify one service paying 30% while Patreon doesn't seem arbitrary to say the least. It makes no sense.
Governments should only be allowed to revoke permits in narrowly defined circumstances laid out in the permit at the time it is granted. Governments should have as much (I would say even more) of an obligation to keep their word as any other party doing business in the economy.
Forall A:
add(A, 0) == A

Forall A B C:
add(add(A,B), C) == add(A, add(B, C))

I think that’s sufficient. Rule 101 of useful testing is understanding the actual constraints you rely on.

Maybe throw in add(A, B) == add(B, A) if you’re angling for a promotion…
> The choice that people want is the ability to have other App Stores, or direct installation.

Who do you want to pay for building and supporting this functionality? Apple presumably?
Maybe it's been grandfathered in? But isn't it already the status quo for Apple to selectively give favorable treatment to bigger operators? Prime Video's app previously disabled in-app buying, but at some point in the past year they made a deal with Apple:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/3/21206400/apple-tax-amazon-...

> Apple and Amazon very, very quietly unveiled a monumental app deal this week, without fanfare or, sadly, much in the way of transparency. Out of nowhere, buttons to buy or rent movies appeared in the Amazon Prime Video app. It’s difficult to express how strange this is: for over a decade, Apple has stuck to the rule that all digital goods sold in iOS apps must use Apple’s payment methods, including Apple’s 30 percent cut.
In that case it seems like the headline reads wrong based on a colloquial and imprecise but often correct heuristic. Should read more like "non-necessity of C19 vaccination for previously infected..."
Apple brought the sideloading back, it seems to have been removed by mistake.

You can use a third party app like iMazing to backup the .ipa file from your iPhone/iPad, and install them on your Mac. It works for apps not whitelisted for Mac in the App Store.
The fact that all devices have to be signed in and connected to same icloud account … makes this not quite as seemless IMO.

For example work based or education based managed apple ID’s cannot use the universal control functionality.

https://support.apple.com/guide/apple-school-manager/service...
I dont disagree with you. I never said they dont have a monopoly, my reply was in reference to the OP comment around this post that Apple does not have monopoly or majority position in any market. The same thing utter out of Tim Cook month which is a spin or lying by omission.
Sorry. My point was it was a lot of money precisely because it cannot legally exist. If it could collect donations via a commercial payment processor, it could raise that much money from end users easily. Or grants from institutions. But in this case it seems like it has to be self-funded.
Fanhouse is explicitly supposed to be PG-13 and a family-friendly equivalent to other similar platforms. It wouldn't have even been listed on the App Store if it wasn't.
Passkeys: Webauthn credentials stored in iCloud Keychain in iOS 15
Today apple put out the following presentation entitled ‘move beyond passwords’: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc21/10106?time=913

What’s buried in this presentation is Passkey - here’s an excerpt:

> This new feature stores a new type of credential, called a "passkey", in your iCloud Keychain. Passkeys are WebAuthn credentials with the amazing security that the standard provides combined with the usability of being backed up, synced, and working on all of your devices. We’re storing them in iCloud Keychain. Just like everything else in your iCloud Keychain, they’re end-to-end encrypted, so not even Apple can read them.
That people don't like the UX of Android, I totally understand (I did not like iOS' last time I tried, so it makes sense to me that someone that likes it doesn't like Android's).

But I don't understand why you would suggest Android is unstable and reliable. I have been using miscellaneous Android devices for some time now, and I don't remember having any stability or reliability issues with the OS.

As for the "boycott", I agree as a user, it's easy. But as a an app developer it's certainly much tougher given their large market share.
Yeah, I guess I somewhat deliberately misinterpreted you. I should know better...

I'm pretty sure you've been lied to about this though.

That Twitter link is mostly unreadable, but what's in human font size is just vague gossip from some angry dude on Twitter.
Imagine if we seized property and gave it to a private company to build wind farms. I'm sure the response would be worse than what happened here.
You could also stretch and call it an indictment of externalizing oil production costs. I'm aware that building and running a refinery is an extremely expensive operation, to the point where it isn't economical to either mobilize a refinery, or base them at the site of extraction.

That said, running a refinery also has local costs that are usually externalized, in terms of local pollution and populace movement. Canada itself though has a fairly large amount of space, but perhaps a surfeit of people. Why doesn't TC energy (or other Canada producers) build a refinery somewhere in Canada and transport to there?
Bitcoin Is Traceable, Pipeline Investigation Shows
I look at it from a pure time perspective. I generally spend something like a 10:1 ratio of writing code vs tests. That is, it takes me 1/10th the time to write testing stuff vs the actual code.

With that perspective, it's beyond silly to prefer the tests. You are saying "Should I throw away 90% of the work or 10% of the work?"

Said another way, you are asking "Should I save the chapter headings of my book or the content?". I can make new chapter headings, but writing the actual chapters is where I spent all my time.
Demand is partly driven by how cheap oil is.

There is demand for energy. Cheap oil is a great source. If oil gets more expensive because it now has to be shipped with more risk in smaller quantities via rail/truck, then renewables can compete even better.

I don't think there's any realistic policy option to reduce energy demand as a whole, but if we can reduce demand for certain types of energy we might have a shot.
Thanks John!!
Can files be taken down off ipfs? There was a fairy widely circulated link that had all the IEC and ANSI standards on there that has since been taken down.
Anyone remembers Teleport?

It was an app for macOS that did the same thing 10 years ago.

They released the source code a couple of years later:

https://github.com/johndbritton/teleport
WARNING!!! This game may be highly addictive! Adult supervision advised!

Super fun game. I had to put it down to focus on an important project. Now that that's done, however, maybe I can pick up where I left off...
Isn't the US already a net exporter of oil at the moment?
I read through the comments he made in the images attached to those tweets, and I don't personally find what he's saying there to be especially problematic. I certainly don't read anything he's saying there as being motivated by racism, hatred, or alt-right political views.

I still really appreciate you backing up your post with a link and the chance to dig into his sources. Thanks for the link.
Citation needed? (For Playstation, XBox)
> there is a pointless weather widget added to my taskbar, and clicking on it opens the news?

I reached the question mark at the end of that sentence… and I felt that single question mark so deep within my soul. Clicking the weather widget opens the news……… "?".
He is a prominent economist, blogger, and pundit who appears regularly on mainstream outlets like NPR.
Yeah, basically. Also need the strike, spot, an estimate of the risk free rate (probably not today).

The implied vol is a useful way to make sense of the actual market prices of options. We also might have some predictions about the market's implied vol changing going forward and we can reverse those errors back into expected price changes (and maybe trade on them).
I do use a similar approach to backup the Symantec secret - but what percentage of users do you think are capable of doing this? 0.1%?

> It's hard to train users to not forward TOTP tokens sent to them to someone else, if the real service will text or push-notifies the user their TOTP token "at random" (i.e. because the attacker tried to log in.) But if the service never does that — if you always have to go and fetch the token from your TOTP app — then you can just tell the user that the only time they are to go do that, is right after they've typed their username and password as part of logging in themselves; and that anything else is a phishing attempt.

A phishing attempt will do precisely this. You get a fake login page, type in your creds, and then you get a fake TOTP page.

> It's hard to train users to not type their username+password into phishing login pages, if the services you use constantly send you emails containing deep links. But if the service never does that — if the service always tells you to go your browser and navigate to the site yourself — then it's easy to teach users to never trust a login initiated through an email.

In a prior life I did some research on phishing. It is embarrassingly easy to fool even professional security researchers. Nobody is capable of consistently preventing phishing by using their own eyes and brain.
Ask HN: Are there any legal issues for commercial emultor software?
here are many emulators for old computer and game console systems (like C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, NES, Sega, etc). But all I know about are free and open-source software. I was not able to find any commercial ones. Are there any legal issues for creating commercial emulation software for old systems?
Clearly great news for Facebook employees. For reference, the previous policy was that only level 5+ could request to work remotely.
The conspiracy, which was not mentioned in this thread, but is all over youtube and twitter, is that the WEF is somehow going to reset everyone's wealth to zero and enact communism.

A video where futurists predict that you'll rent almost everything instead of buying it, isn't the same thing as evidence that the WEF is enacting communism.

Let's try to be clear about the nuance and details of what we're talking about.
I personally define middle class as the people with most of their wealth in the form of their home. So yes traditionally those people would be considered part of the working class as you say. I don't disagree.

(My division is supposed to reflect how those people do behave, whereas the traditional Marxist one is supposed to be how they should behave based on the real relations behind the smoke and mirrors. That's fine, different categorizations for different purposes.)

For the second part, well, we'll need to abolish SFH zoning and related things, which is very unpopular because it would undermine landowner's speculation in the short term!

(It's especially annoying because taller buildings would lead to more valuable land area in the end, just cheaper floor area.)

So nevermind there are efficient market-based things to do, like everyone rents land from the state at auction which pays out universal dividend. Our land markets are popular precisely because they are a speculative mess!
> Except homeowners get price exposure ... you’re stuck in that home until its value climbs again or you earn enough to pay off the loss.

> ... Higher values

Higher values at the time of purchase or at the time of sale? The latter doesn't jive with the idea of being "underwater" on the loan, since you'd have benefited from the price exposure.

Higher values at the time of purchase is relative to what the home was worth in the past, but our efficient market theory tells us that the price today can be considered neither high nor low (yes, Shiller might disagree).

I guess you're pointing out that interest rates are near zero, so that there's really only one way for them to go. I'm not so sure, because in some ways it's a Zeno's Paradox situation. I don't always care about the number of basis points the interest rate has changed, but the percent change of the interest rate. I get more benefit from the rate going from 4% to 3% than I did when it went from 5% to 4%. We can always get closer to 0%, because there's an infinite number of subdivisions we can make.
The track system of course has finite capacity, but how close to that finite capacity are they running, and how much of that capacity is the new oil demand?

If new new oil demand makes the capacity go from 9% to 12% that is one thing, and quite another going from 68% to 98%...
You definitely can, but whether it's necessary to delay simple things like that, I'm not sure.

It's pretty simple to speak things that you've acquired (of course it'll be slow and awkward at first, but that's natural), I just don't think there's much point in trying to speak things you haven't already acquired.
This looks like a lulzworthy honeypot.
Taking people's property and giving it to a private company erodes trust as well.
IIRC, it shifts them half a pixel, regardless of whether it's color or monochrome, and that's why it affects the palette.

In color mode, the on/off pixels form a psuedo-sine wave, and the phase of this wave determines the color: if it's on even pixels you get green, if it's on odd you get purple, if it's on even-and-a-half you get orange, and if it's on odd-and-a-half you get blue (give or take which alignments are even/odd and half/whole, since I can't remember, but that's the basic idea).
I think they exist because in reality, people start parking in driveways (blocking in people that may need to leave home for, say, work/school) or worse - they double-park or loiter in ever more congested circular drives around the neighborhood looking for parking.
this is an obvious trap. avoid big tech companies bearing dubious questionable gifts. there is always a catch.
It doesn't need to be downvoted. You identified yourself with your word choice.

Separately I hate the over usage of the word "fled". No one was chasing anyone. In an age of basically yearly refugee crises in the world it's terrible to see its overuse.
I'm shocked that 20% of devs value tests over working code. This should have been a 99% to 1% thing.
I have confirmation bias here because this is a result I would have expected BUT..

Preprint, non-peer reviewed.
It does cost them money, but I can't wrap my mind on why that's not subsidized by the rest of the Apple machine.

Didn't customers pay a premium for Apple hardware because of the unified ecosystem and superior security to begin with? And developers also pay a premium to be on the App Store ($99+30%) because it costs them money to create the infrastructure and ensure safety?

I'm pretty ignorant on the whole situation, but it does sound nice to be Apple. Raking in hundreds of billions while charging premiums on both sides, convincing them it's for their own good. Meanwhile, customers and developers descend into a feedback loop of even heavier dependence on Apple: the more customers there are, the more devs have a financial necessity to publish apps on the platform, the more value the platform has, the more customers they get.

People are quick to point out Apple is the one providing for developers, who should be honored to be able to get on the App Store for a 30% cut. But, really, how many users would Apple have without those apps? They do deserve their cut, but at some point it went from a symbiotic relationship to "oil the Apple machine." The economies of scale simply work in their favor here.
The loss of trust in the finality of approvals is the key thing we should be shedding tears over. It would obviously have been far better not to permit it in the first place. Suppose a big offshore wind project gets underway now and an opposing government wins the next election - now there's precedent to just pull the plug.

Or at a much smaller scale, suppose you've just won permission to build a house and a new city council is elected and revokes your permit. How much are you going to trust your government after that?

It also widens the door for more forms of corruption. "Shame if that permit were to suddenly evaporate..."

If you don't want carbon emissions, tax them to death. Or don't permit projects that produce them. But don't revoke permits of projects you've approved!
Apparently yes, it's unshutdown for the moment - but the NDP provincial government is still impeding it. It's been up and down so many times now I'd lost track.
How many ways are there to spell the sound ō (as in l’eau) in French? I once read that it was over 30, but it might have been a tongue-in-cheek joke, like "ghoti" as an alternate spelling of "fish"[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti
Most places (where I live, Nevada City, for example) upzoning and reducing parking limits would just create problems. It's the actual central areas where you want to allow much greater density. A denser outlying suburb isn't a win.
The only difference between a handheld magnet, radio waves, inductance, etc. is speed, precision, and magnitude.

So in practice it is highly unlikely a handheld magnet is going to do anything for the same reason a cloud passing overhead is going to break a rock. The difference in air pressure is too low, the energy gradient too gradual, and it’s too far away anyway.

Take the same aggregate amount of energy into a tank of compressed air, and use a jackhammer and that rock is dust in no time.

Same physics principles; radically different impact in practice.

Assuming the magnet you have isn’t the electromagnetic version of a tornado and you aren’t waving it around at several thousand RPM anyway.
I sort of feel like there should be some way to use some kind of construct to get people to seed things so that others seed things for them, but I haven't seen that invented yet.
Covid lab-leak theory shows the ‘fact wars’ are still raging