skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s even a program called oathtool which you can use to generate TOTP and HOTP (counter-based and much more prone to skew) codes. You just need the random seed that’s generated when you create a device. I’m not sure how easy it is to extract from the qrcode that web services generate, though. Some identity providers will show the raw random seed.
It's also used to grow alfalfa in the middle of a desert region where alfalfa shouldn't grow to begin with. And the alfalfa is exported internationally. We are essentially exporting water out of the US.
Although Vietnam keeps its head down and is welcoming and nice to US, they're still a single party system named the Communist Party dabbling in marxist and modern state capital systems. They still predictably squash dissent and put them in gulags/reducation camps, and the lack of this news only points to them being too small and insignificant for us to care.

Do we really care if two Communist Parties attack each other?
Ray Dalio is fucked. Bridgewater has been expanding and expanding their Chinese assets. Dalio moved his Home Office to Singapore to really manage the assets from diversifying between America and China.

He is still defending his position. (He can't talk negatively about Cina anyways) 'Billionaire investor Ray Dalio said investors are misconstruing China's regulatory clampdown on tech companies as "anti-capitalist."' https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/25/ray-dalio-wrong-about-china-...

Already in 2018 someone asked: "Ray Dalio Needs China.
Does China Need Ray Dalio?" https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1936rrvltbzc1...
So when is the western world going to wake up and realize that China is a cutthroat competitor that does not respect western law or traditions, cannot be trusted, and intends to dominate the world? This seems especially troubling for the tech world as IP is easily copied and the only thing that really protects it is the legal system, which China has shown over and over they don't care about.
I think there are two mindsets here. Russia is a gangster, brutal and clumsy, yet rational. However Russia is also barely hanging on to first world status, they are not a global balance of power threat. China is a threat to shifting the balance of power decisively towards China and away from America and the West. They mean it when they say this will be the China century.
"dehumanization of political opponents"
20 Years Of Privacy – brief history of I2P
Yeah, that's mentioned in the article. But in a way it's worse:

> A majority of the water used by farms — and thus much of the river — goes to growing nonessential crops like alfalfa and other grasses that feed cattle for meat production. Much of those grasses are also exported to feed animals in the Middle East and Asia.
Just tax it like we do cigarettes.
Most of New Orleans can happily drain what would put Houston under 6 feet of water.

And no amount of drainage can do much when you are on the east side of a powerful storm. You can have pipes from here to the moon but there's nowhere for that water to go. Storm surge is concerning to the people in the know for a reason.
Without paywall: https://archive.is/Mmggu
Ask HN: How do you go from an L1/H1 to starting a startup in the USA?
1. Can you tell me more about your journey? What route did you use? Can all co-founders be previous H1/L1 holders?

2. In the UK it seem pretty straight forward, raise a seed, transition to a Tier 1 visa, start building. What would the Tier 1 equivalent in the States be?
If you're calling 1500 a day a crash diet, making up numbers, and think education is a pointless endeavor, then I can't continue this conversation.
Why not play games that don't suck?

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I'm dislike the not-so-recent trend of companies/projects/libraries that co-opt common words as their name. "Rust" and "elm" and "iced" wouldn't normally have anything to do with computing, but it still feels like a small intrusion on our language.
Hi. Good question. Revolut, Wise, etc, doesn't support native african currencies, nor do they support the flow of funds from Africa to NA or Europe.
Yeah it is potentially a really bad situation right now in Louisiana. We have been getting our vax numbers up recently and the hospitalizations have started to come down in the past week or so, but not by much.

With catastrophic hurricanes, though, what I've noticed is that we have lots of refugees (and deaths, in the case of Katrina) compared to hospitalizations. New Orleans can also turn the large arena areas (e.g. Superdome, Zephyr Field) into mass casualty and refugee areas immediately following the storm, which should help with keeping the hospitals from getting overrun.
The whole argument of this article seems misplaced.

There is enormous demand for both temporary and permanent housing in many places, and to some degree it is fungible. If it wasn't Airbnb, some other agency or company would be servicing the need.

The only solution to the underlying problem is to allow construction to meet the underlying demand.

And the author's premise that short-term housing is more ethical than long-term housing just makes me think he has an axe to grind.
The fact that they are more than capable of innovation and shrewd business is the entire reason that casually stealing whatever they want on top of things is problematic.
More that their Commonwealth status means Britain would intervene, which means the US probably would too, and at that point it's about 90% of the way to being a NATO action even if no-one else joins.
I propose we kick Florida out of the union and give their spot to one of the unrepresented us territories.

Nothing but trouble comes from Florida.
Cycle Time Breakdown: Reducing Pull Request Pickup Time
I met a US California man who made a lot, a lot of money selling western tech in China, and I believe he had exactly this intention, from anecdotal evidence.
the oldest trick in the book..
Research reveals universal equation for the shape of an egg
If it's still true, then why do the tests get harder and harder?
It's the red queen effect though, as soon as you make the IAP, you quickly advance, but then you will soon hit the next plateau. So you're stuck again unless you keep making IAPs. If a game is pay-to-win, you have to keep paying and paying and paying. It's not like you can pay once and then you're good.
> the attacking force had to go against a heavily fortified position.

It mostly wasn’t. The Atlantic wall was mainly a fevered Hitler dream. Parts were impressive and incredibly strong. However even strong parts were mostly taken in a few hours.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Wall
Got me! I’m indeed not a native speaker, but I didn’t want that to stop me from giving it a try.
I'm talking about inalienable human rights. You're talking about legal rights. There's a distinction here.

And for what it's worth, I'm not concerned with legality: lawyers can and will legally justify anything they want to. I'm 100% sure that your claim about the law is correct. I'm sure that various inhuman authoritarian laws are going to be tried in America over Covid-19 and legally upheld. Politicians, businesses trying to make big bucks, and moral busybodies will never let a good crisis go to waste.

I'm concerned about morality. It is utterly reprehensible to force a human to inject something into his body against his will. No judge, law, legislature, vote, or disease changes that fact.
Back in the day it was the best-known and most reliably available cross-platform (iOS, android) code generator - so many sites just assume it as a de facto standard. It also reduces support burden to tell people this is the officially supported code generator, that way you don’t need to struggle understanding why a random app might be having trouble with codes.

These days it’s much less of an issue as there are many more clients - the IdP I manage now mentions authy, tofu and 1password as also supported.
That's not so easy. For example Elon said that SpaceX could send people to Mars for $500k, and that he wanted to send 1 million people to colonise Mars. But also, using 1000 SpaceShips @ 100 people each, doing 10 travels. Well, if SpaceX makes 10% profit on that, that's a nice profit of $50 billion profit for SpaceX, (half a trillion of turnover), but over a period of 35 years, so $1.4 billion a year of profit. Is that enough to make it a multi-trillion dollar company? Is that soon?

IMO, 1 million people is not enough to make a self-sustennable colony on Mars, because it'll need to reproduce a whole industrial system to maintain itself. Perhaps with AI and robots it could be done, but will AI and robots be sufficiently advanced in 35 years to maintain themselves, and go mining and milling and repairing themselves and building their replacement, let alone doing all that is needed to sustain the life of 1 million people, even with their help? And how does this makes SpaceX a $trillion company?

IMO the real 4- and 5-comma companies won't be the companies that will take stuff off Earth, and probably not companies that will bring stuff from space down to Earth (because this market will be the limited Earth market, which is billion-sized). No, it will come from companies that will take raw stuff from space, and refine it and produce end-products in space, notably big stuff, like big space ships, and space-stations (habitats). Eventually they will compete with all industry and agriculture on Earth, and eat that market, but it will be but a drop in the ocean of the market in space. And their valuation will be automatically in the 4-comma, because of the cost to bring stuff to LEO from Earth, if we had to do it, even if Elon could bring the cost of that to very cheap. (give the mass of a space habitat, or of space farms able to feed the Earthlings and the Spacemen).

But people at SpaceX are smart, they're already doing money "in-space" (with the StarLink satellites), and they'll be sufficiently advanced to be amongst the first companies to fork pure space companies. And with headquarters on Mars, they won't have to pay taxes to Earth ;-)
Because this is coming from nim and nim design goals are to be efficient and elegant I can not help but notice the excessive bloat. The main forum page is 4MB of data (~700kb compressed) to basically communicate 3KB of information (plus avatar images which should not be more than few kb total anyway).

This is still better than original Discourse which for this same thing needs 6MB of data (1.2MB compressed). However Discourse does not claim to be efficient or elegant.

This kind of web performance engineering attention to detail will go a long way. The benefits for users on slower connections are particularly important. And as an engineer, showing few KBs of information with few MBs of data should bother you. Your information to data ratio is less than 1%. Excessive reliance on JS does not help. The best way to think about JS is as a feature enhancer not a feature requirement.

See also: https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

Having said that I think it is absolutely great that you are doing this and I hope we can get efficient and elegant forum software. This will certainly help nim adoption if executed in the way that is true to your values.

Edit: A competitor has been mentioned in comments:

https://fluxbb.org/forums/index.php

They are showing similar amount of information in "only" 100KB of total data. And 80% of it is CSS (which does seem excessive for what it does, I am sure 5KB of CSS would do the same job taking that page to amazing 25KB of total data).
The “Next” Effect: When a Better Future Worsens the Present
Since about 70 percent of water delivered from the Colorado River goes to growing crops

Okay, so much for my suggestion of making illegal Las Vegas golf courses and lush Phoenix lawns. But at what point is California told to quit growing alfalfa for export, and to quit with the flooded rice paddies[0]? It's a serious question: does CA just keep growing such things until the tap literally runs dry, or are restrictions put into place before it gets that bad? What's the end game? Because it seems obvious that the situation isn't going to get better.

[0] https://localwiki.org/davis/Rice_Paddies
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Using Enums makes you build a Finite State Machine and therefore all effects/state transitions explicit and concentrated at one place. This enables you to see what this particular piece of code is able to do. Methods could obscure what might happen. Using inline closures would make it hard if not impossible to get an overview what might happen.
"Allen Wu has aggressively taken over the firm and is operating it how he sees fit. One interesting tidbit is that Allen Wu sued Arm China in order to declare his dismissal illegal. He essentially sued himself as he represented both sides in that specific court case. "

Well, Smart.
As someone who used to build f2p games, it's not addicts gambling. It's very rich people who don't even think about the sums of money a f2p game is designed around. At $BigF2PCo we even set up a wire payment system for these players and direct chat with customer support and the development team. They expect a white glove level of service.

Game addicts can exist at any monetization level. Governments have been passing laws to further regulate f2p and protect those players. Total money spent is not a reliable way to identify them.
When Do Investors Freak Out? Machine Learning Predictions of Panic Selling [pdf]
City of Chicago Sues DoorDash, Grubhub for Allegedly Deceiving Customers
>> Many atheist scientists were repulsed by the Big Bang's creationist overtones. According to Hoyle...

> Hmm, I'd really like to know exactly who these atheists supposedly were. And what percentage of the atheist scientists they were. But I'm not going to buy the book in the slim hope that he will actually name these atheists.

You don't have to buy the book to get a name. One was provided in the quote you're responding to: Fred Hoyle. Looking at the relevant Wikipedia articles, Hermann Bondi is likely another.

I wouldn't be surprised if a similar motive isn't also behind a lot of multiverse theories, many of which are basically steady-state theories with any observable phenomenon pushed out of view.
Discourse has always felt to me like standing on a riverbank and watching random things float by. It mostly works for comments on a blog post, but when I need to unearth specific information or want to participate in a discussion that spans weeks or years, I long for a more traditional forum. When faced with it as a tech support channel, I usually end up frustrated.
Octavia Butler's novel The Parable of the Sower is a vividly stark portrayal of what California might be like with massive water shortages.

But as the article points out, there are multiple ways to address the problem.
According to my eyes, it is true. The colors he works with are beautiful and visually different from synthetic dyes.
Another approach China is taking that no one seems to mention here is taking over Taiwan by taking over its internal politics and media. This would allow them to do it legally by persuasion and voting, avoiding bloodshed. Granted, Hong Kong shows that this isn't a smooth process.
Whenever an iOS app presents an out-of-the-blue pop-up asking to review it, I always give it one star with a comment explaining that that is my policy. Don't bother me, or, if you want me to do work for you, give me something in return.
I’d imagine being prepared will be harder and harder to do each year as climate change means longer/worse hurricane seasons.

The reality is there will always be rain/winds/damage from hurricanes, but how is a place supposed to be ready for another Katrina every couple years now?

It sounds like a constant state of disaster-rebuilding-disaster-rebuilding…
In phpBB and other traditional forum software you can just jump straight to the last page.
It'd be a choice of paying a bit more with less hassle (via Apple) and paying a bit less with more hassle (via a 3rd party). But at least there will be a choice.
Have you an example of a western invention not based on existing technology?
I can't imagine any scenario under which a reasonable person of at least median intelligence would perceive MongoDB as "easier to use" than Spanner, unless their entire experience with Mongo was they put one trivial JSON doc into an M0 cluster and got it back out later. Every practical aspect of MongoDB is a complete shitshow, from sharding to backup to failover.
Can someone point me to forum/message board software that doesn't use JS at all? Like Sourcehut but for forums.
Offices Dangle Beehives and Garden Plots to Coax Workers Back
I literally just bought an SN550 last week.

Any suggestions for recourse? Unlikely to be able to return it, since "technically" it's used.
It's off-topic, and complaining about votes is against the HN guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> describing some of China's activities as genocide

How would you describe what’s going on with the Uyghurs (or Tibet for that matter)?
https://github.com/google/google-authenticator/wiki/Key-Uri-...

That's the format that gets encoded into the QR code. If you can decode the QR code you can get the secret key easily.
>including Black Friday SKUs (they are inferior/lower quality product intended for Black Friday/Cyber Monday day).

This is news to me. Can you elaborate?
Here's an example snippet from a xib file for an actual iOS project of mine:

<button opaque="NO" contentMode="scaleToFill" contentHorizontalAlignment="center" contentVerticalAlignment="center" buttonType="roundedRect" lineBreakMode="middleTruncation" translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints="NO" id="ykl-6F-b5r">
<rect key="frame" x="0.0" y="0.0" width="375" height="0.0"/>
<state key="normal" title="Done"/>
<connections>
<action selector="doneEditingTitle" destination="POI-12-VR5" eventType="touchUpInside" id="14R-fR-990"/>
</connections>
</button>

A xib is an XML description of a GUI layout. Note the `<connections><action ...>` element inside the `<button>` -- this is defining what happens when the button is tapped. The connection becomes active at runtime when the file is rehydrated into live objects. The `selector` string identifies the name of the method to be called. (This exact mechanism relies on ObjC, but the principle can be applied to other systems.)
To be fair, I check a number of different forecast sites (including Windy) and follow a lot of different weather bloggers but no one knew this storm was a thing until a few days ago. And all of the models had it as a Cat 2 until yesterday.
Really too early to say.
I've replaced "majority" with "many" in the text above, since that's just as good for making the key point. If someone comes with a compelling citation we can change it back :)

(Your comment is great, I just needed a place to hang this moderation announcement!)
PRC doesn't need to occupy TW to destroy it and demonstrate US security commitments are hollow.

TW is an island 5% the size of Yemen off the coast of the PRC military umbrella. Mainland rocket and air forces can glass TW with impunity with assets on the mainland and the US likely wouldn't do shit because hitting PRC territory opens up US CONUS soil as well. Not to mention PRC nuclear forces are entangled with conventional forces, there's no way to hit Chinese assets without risking nuclear escalation, by design.

PRC invading TW with an unprecedented amphib campaign is based on PRC capabilities from before the 90s. Before PLA modernization where Chinese military was weak by even WW2 standards. Times have changed, US blob is finally recognizing the PRC is looking at Desert Storm, not Normandy. Think blockades, and other forms of coercion short of direct invasion. PLA amphib acquisitions in the past 10 years have shown very little investment in sealift capabilities. Almost all resources dedicated to countering USN in blue water theatres. If an invasion were to happen, the island's defenses would already have been crushedand the PLA would be using civilian assets which are built to military standards.
I suppose shareholders also want to maintain ownership of the technology that makes their profits happen in the first place, right?

Wait, who am I kidding? Only a handful of shareholders decide the actions of a company, and even fewer know what the company actually does besides money-in = more-money-out. Most just want as much profit as fast as possible, hence the risks taken with China.
Instead of BetterSnapTool, just use Rectangle (brew install rectangle).

Re: Alfred, I think it's best in class, and I'm personally happy to pay for it. There's free alternatives (Raycast or w/e it's called), but they're years away in features and usability.
I remember bringing a bulb and battery and wire to kindergarten once to show how to do that to the other kids, but I never showed because I realized how childish a thing it was and got embarrassed because everyone would laugh at me for choosing such a simple thing.. should have demonstrated it at MIT instead I guess.
Caches, Modes, and Unstable Systems
Just ask for more time. I just postposed an interview for two months with a large tech firm. They didn't seem phased at all.
Lemmy, assuming it’s not still vaporware, is curated by an actual “I think Castro was good” communist.

If you want a leftist Reddit, then I would advise you to consider Reddit.
It's pretty easy to extract! zbarimg -q -raw <png> will do it.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/zbarimg.1.ht...
> Seems to be a form of victim blaming.

Sorry, but no. The person you're replying to made some spot on points.

If a person wants to maintain some semblance of physical fitness then they are going to have to work for it. It's astounding that this concept gets lost on so many people, as if having a normal-sized physique should come naturally to someone who lives a sedentary yet gluttonous lifestyle.

Also, to their point about being fat having become socially acceptable. Yes, it is true, at least as far as women are concerned. So much that euphemisms are being used all the time: plus size, curvy, thicc, voluptuous, and so on. I've heard people even use the term "athletic" to describe a thicker person's physique.

> If people tried to follow normal dieting advice, and they failed, do we keep telling them to try harder?

Really depends on how hard they "tried". If a person is actually determined to maintain a good physique, then yes they have to work at it AND they need to be honest with themselves about how much food (as well as the type of foods) that they consume. If someone gives up after a week of dieting and exercise because they don't see significant results or because it's just too hard for them to maintain then that's entirely on them. If they want to then view themselves as a victim, then that just shows a lack of accountability.
Not a word about the capacity…
I tried to look into this and as far as I can tell you cannot actually be your own custodian for IRAs. There are of course self-directed IRAs where you can hold non-traditional investments, but they still require a third-party custodian.