skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another benefit of regularly cut lawns is that they keep critters away. Having tall grass, shrubs, bushes, or other cover grow right up to your house means that mice, snakes, squirrels, and other wild animals will find their way into your home.
So, basically what you're saying is that it's centralized, just not at the protocol level?
> Attackers would loop through giant lists of leaked username / passwords using a different ips for every attempt

Mny password attempts for 1 username, isn't it easier to slow down attempts to authenticate the username after x tries, regardless of the IP? Just the fact that multiple IPs are being used for 1 username in a loop is enough of a red flag.

> Blocking passwords at signup that existed in haveibeenpwned's database worked fairly well

That's half a billion passwords to disallow?
It is very strange it is stored on chain, however. THAT aspect makes no sense.
Every single issue… are you certain about that?

To my knowledge Android doesn’t censor the Taiwanese flag emoji at the request of the Chinese communist party, if the locale is mainland China.

But maybe you consider that a pro and not a con.
Gunmaker subpoenas school records of 9 slain Sandy Hook students and educators
The conventions for formal messaging and informal messaging are different, and punctuation is a contextual marker for formality. Receiving a reply to a physical letter that read, on company letterhead and with a physical signature

Taxcoder, regarding your proposed changes,

Ok.

Sincerely, Jim Bossman

would be a bit alarming, because it's clear that the letter is a very formal one, but it deliberately omits everything you'd normally put in a letter. If you instead found your proposal mailed back to you with

OK - Jim Bossman

written on the bottom in red pen, you wouldn't be at all worried, although depending on the context you might be insulted by the informality.

I think if a message without punctuation seems sloppy, the situation is formal enough to write a full sentence or paragraph. The combination of little to no feedback and attention to detail is what worries people.
How secure memory is implemented? Ordinary SRAM is easy to crack for someone with good tools.
Oh nice, good thing my kindle is reaching its end of life then
COVID-19 Long-Haulers Are Fighting for Their Future
Not if you have a firearm in your luggage.
> A lot of the excess deaths were because of the measures against COVID, such as cancer cases that went undiagnosed while they were treatable because people had to cancel their checkups, or methanol poisoning because everyone was suddenly manufacturing their own hand sanitizer, often unsafely.

Such a claim simply beggars belief. Please cite some figures that back up your assertions.
Logging is the most deadly occupation in North America, on a death per capita basis. (111 deaths per 100,000 workers)
Indeed, though in a language designed for this style of programming, the idea behind that final example in the GP comment works fine. A Haskell version might look something like this:

iterate (/2) 5.0
& takeWhile (>0.1)
& map do_stuff

The `iterate` generates the infinite sequence, the `takeWhile` specifies how much of it to use, and then we do stuff with each element.

This is arguably a little nicer than the while loop since it exposes the real sequence of values you’re working with more explicitly, but at the very least it is comparably simple in its appearance. The Python version in the GP comment looks bad mostly because of the clumsy lambda syntax.
It's not anywhere near as stupid as it seems on the surface. It's just a way to do:

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

Basically, allow some people to pay less. One way you can do it is somehow make the product/service less convenient for those paying less so some/most people will pay more.
Yeah I mean addiction has a pretty concrete definition despite your enthusiasm that every use of 'substance' lies on a 'spectrum' and therefore you can't say anything at all about addiction because 'everyones addicted' to something to some degree? c'mon
It is not endemic in many states in Australia.

But please, continue looking on in horror at us from (I'm assuming) America. Your post is a wonderful mix of condescending tone and factual inaccuracy, with the added cherry-on-top that you have absolutely moronic states like Florida "fighting for their freedoms" by banning mask mandates. This would be infuriating if it wasn't so painfully stupid.
> Up until recently SMS 2FA could be broken for $10 because one VOIP provider allowed number registration on any number.

Surely not?
One Day, 2050 – Well-Being, 2050 – Resilience Program
*Sigh*

...Telstra in Australia called the transition from its 3G network to 4G "Next-G".

Why is this suddenly so depressing lol ._.
Maybe you're right, although 'Stockholm syndrome' feels a bit strong.

Agreed that stuff like CLZ/popcount/rotate etc should not be tucked away in a weird extension. I'm a bit alarmed at RISC-V's tendency to fragment into a gazillion subsets (the argument is that it's better to at least define the subsets rather than have a nightmare of incompatible and overlapping extensions, but still).
People have nothing to hide.
People love inertia and convenience.
People don't believe in privacy, they care about status and virtue signaling.
People are consumers first, everything else is second or third.
There is no "alternative".
Less privacy is better than no privacy, right?
Right.
People love Apple. I repeat. Love.
So to summarize:
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.
Just watch Apple breaking another iPhone sells record.
Reminds me of Intel Management Engine (IME) [1] in “ring -3”, except that, unlike IME, the ones in iPhone cannot be “turned off” in the BIOS.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
>The thing is, HOAs tend to have little to no power over people like that.

Not entirely true as you outlined, since HOAs can put liens on your property and they can end up foreclosing. The HOA will absolutely get it's money and enforcement, either through a foreclosure or court order.
Just because a highly skilled professional lock picker can pick a lock doesn't mean you can nor the parent's coworkers.
Leaving aside the matter of privacy for a moment, there's the significant issue that not everyone has a mobile telephone. This seems like a big hole in the system (or it's using technology for its own sake).

The fact that many do not have a mobile smartphone telephone (or often they've only a dumb/non-internet feature phone) and some have no internet connection at all is no exaggeration. This is borne out/demonstrated by the fact that next to stores' entry QR code signs there always a clipboard with a stack of forms that have been manually filled out by hand.

Clearly, not only this is inefficient, but not owing a smartphone may prove an advantage to those who wish to beat the system/not play by the rules.
Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa test cross-border crypto-payments
Bunnie did a super neat talk about something similar

https://youtu.be/ruEn7TE4YMM
> Everything is certainly more affordable for the average American

I am not sure that the average is the appropriate measure to use when looking at societies and well-being.

Can the poorest live respectably and participate meaningfully in their local communities? How are we doing on that?
The part you're missing is : firearm means they shouldn't (legally can't) try to open the case without you.
What part? That liberalism assumes more statelessness than reality? Or that this is it's fundamental issue?

For the former, we have tons of evidence:

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2018/12/11/...

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28979/w289...

I recall something also about the persistence of Roman settlement patterns in France vs Britain proving to be a disadvantage in the early modern era when ocean-based commerce became so important.

Whether it's "equal opportunity vs equal outcome", liberalism assumes that the system will converge and the two will be brought into alignment mertiocratically. When there's an emphasis on rules-based systems, it assumes there is some sort of quorum of those playing by the rules and others will have to join the fold. When there's a belief that competition could sustain itself, we're simply requirements the needs of equilibrium theory back into our assumptions.

Rather than being elastic and in balance, the world is much more plastic and constantly rebalancing, with the former masking the latter. There is still much of liberalism to be admired, but it should be saved for the "victory lap". Perhaps liberalism works for worlds that are fixed, it does not work for worlds that need fixing.
I spent 2017-2019 posting/arguing with people on /r/korea almost every day, and I was really... inflammatory sometimes. Never got banned. As someone else points out, you probably deserved at least a temp ban for the "moonies" thing. It's a bit different than your average political sneer word.

The shadowban sucks, though. Usually, the trick is to come back on a new account, and keep your head down for a while (and, if appropriate, try not to do the things you were banned for). That goes for all the subreddits I've been on. People will notice if you're a single-purpose commenter, back on a new account.

Also... (oh god, this is like smoking a cigarette after years off them)... it has always been so funny to me that this flag of "censorship" has suddenly been taken up by certain elements/people in the Korean political discourse, in light of the fact that there has never been a time when there was no censorship of Korean media. Lee Myung-bak? The removal of all those Daum comments? Every Korean administration has used the KCSC and attendant powers like a cudgel.

Your comments in that thread show either an unintentional or deliberate ignorance of the history of this stuff in the ROK.

"Free speech" type arguments currently being levelled at the Moon administration are a joke in the Korean political context. There is no free speech in the ROK and there never has been. Remember PGH's blacklists of artists etc for being pro-North? Remember that guy who had his house raided for using NK propaganda posters in memes? There has never been any free speech, freedom from censorship, etc, in the ROK. And most people there actually don't seem to mind. Or else they do mind, but it depends on who's in power. That's their business. They're the polity. But these claims of sudden "censorship" are lies by omission, because there is literally no time in the history of the ROK state at which the press has been anything like "free" in the western sense. It's all political ebb and flow.

Unless Moon Jae-in's critics would be willing to join me in calling for the KCSC to remove the internet blocks on North Korean content (or the ones on porn for that matter), any claims of censorship/free access to information/free speech will just look like political opportunism. It's "do as I say, not as I do" stuff. The election of every new president brings legal trials for the previous one, or at least for members of the previous president's administration. And so it goes...
Your examples are quite strange.

I’m not sure about the permit, but for the most part, permits are needed in many non western countries as well. In fact, in most of those countries the laws are even more egregious. The difference is that they usually have corrupt or inadequate enforcement mechanisms which allow you to do things illegally or by paying a bribe.

The neighborhood group stuff is ridiculous but it’s something people have voluntarily agreed to as a group. And the individuals have voluntarily chosen to live there.

You are absolutely allowed to have parties past 10pm. What you’re not allowed to do is play loud music that infringes on the persons of others after a certain time.
Not knowing where the line is is itself a line.
No one has knocked down your argument, so they downvote your argument. The NIMBYification of a city happens slowly as more people in the city have wealth, and want to store it in their homes. If a city has a charter, people will simply enact NIMBY laws in a suburb, and due to the wealth accumulated there, it will become the new center of the region. Look at how SF went from hippies and artists on the edge of silicon valley, to being the center of silicon valley.
this is harassment . do these gun lobby never stop at any limit ?
Besides, it’s not even true. You’re allowed to have a party as late as you want. Just keep the music indoors
This sounds like the same point that people bring up about privacy, i.e. "if you have nothing to hide you shouldn't be afraid". While the point is valid the issues are more based in the principal of the matter.
I got into Common Lisp > 9 years ago with being exposed to it in academia, or really even from social/pop-culture influences. I was looking for a language that had relatively good performance that was easy to prototype code interactively for and Common Lisp + SLIME fit that need perfectly.

From there I learned how easy it was to make your own Lisp and learned a lot about how programming languages work and had a lot fun with that for a while.
It's an excellent educational device to introduce people to embedded development.
Sure is pretty plausible that the bigwigs of American media don't make stupid investments. It would be rational, even, if all of them had investments in technology. In fact, it's almost a sure thing that any of them with any investments have large portions of their wealth in technology stocks.
I'm Korean... and I feel perfectly justified in calling people out for cult-like adherence to their party politicians to the extent of accusing a victim of sexual harassment as political agents.

You sound like those people that think weed should be illegal because gov said so.
This is the most remarkable thing about the US as an outsider.

Americans are completely dependent on their cars. Which means that children in the US have no freedom at all.
Really, is it really so hard? I had the impression from seeing those videos of people operating robotic limbs through biofeedback or typing through biofeedback or the write-ups on that AI related work to determine words from brainwave patterns that a lot of this stuff was achieving impressive capabilities.

but maybe the sort of sensory bandwidth like required to operate say a helicopter is just a completely other order of magnitude to think that you could do it through the same channel. What's the main blockers or bottlenecks in this space?
NZ Covid Tracer App Source Code
If you submit a url to an RSS or Atom feed on the account page, the site will generate a page for the channel, take you there, and automatically create a subscription for you.

Or, you can click on the channel name underneath the title of an entry (Published by ___) and there should be a Subscribe/Unsubscribe button near the top of the page.
The following image is a graph that clearly shows a good idea of how far we are behind. For over a decade, the annual number of new housing starts has been in the gutter.

https://dlzx9e7gl8jc4.cloudfront.net/trulia/wp-content/uploa...

A nationwide plan for 100,000 homes over three years is better than nothing, but studies estimate that the US is currently 5.5 million units short and falling further behind every year.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-housing-market-needs-5-5-mi...
Because you couldn't prove ownership of the several hundred thousand dollar piece of art, which is the real point of this whole thing, conspicuous consumption, because when poor people have found a way to make fakes of all your clothes and wear them, and influencers can post pics of their rented Lambourghinis that look like the ones you take with your you bought with cash, having a public digital wallet that proves your unique ownership of an expensive item is the new way to show off status in a way that can't be duplicated.
But you can say all this without resorting to name calling. I can understand why communities reject name callers.
Unfortunately there seems to have been a bit of that on the front page lately. Like the article yesterday about how Australia had decided to implement social credit which unfortunately again was something just like a half year old parliamentary committee proposal that wasn't anywhere near becoming law.
You can improve performance a tremendously by limiting number of files within directories that can be used as volumes under settings
So don’t form the regulation that way… it could be as simple as allowing a write off for a small percentage of buffer inventory.
It's a pretty poor pulse on whats actually interesting to people honestly. Might as well just subscribe to publishers RSS feeds, you will get about the same content. Look at the post histories of these accounts that make these top posts. Very strange post histories, sometimes only making posts to worldnews. It's not exactly rocket science to operate a botnet that posts your articles all over relevant subreddits, even operate a ring of accounts to upvote a post enough to get it rolling in hot and upvoted organically from there on by users who tend to just roll with whats slightly upvoted.
Paxful.com
It will be the end of them.
Thst's just begging the question. We'll need to see some studies on the impact of living "crammed" into an apartment.
You really do have to wonder why Apple are doing it on-device rather than in the cloud. As I don't believe iCloud is encrypted data at rest either.
> liberalism assumes that the system will converge and the two will be brought into alignment mertiocratically.

Liberalism makes no such assumption. It simply makes the assumption that less liberal systems will be even worse at producing human flourishing.

> When there's an emphasis on rules-based systems, it assumes there is some sort of quorum of those playing by the rules and others will have to join the fold.

It does assume that it is in people’s general interests to have some kind of trustworthy system of agreements.

As for ‘other people having to join the fold’. Liberalism makes no such assumption. If you’re referring to the US expecting China to liberalize, that has nothing to do with an assumption of liberalism. It was just a misunderstanding of the nature of Maoism and the CCP.

> Perhaps liberalism works for worlds that are fixed, it does not work for worlds that need fixing.

This is a complete non-sequitur from your prior statements.

The notion of “worlds that need fixing” is Utopianism by another name, and is the perennial justification for the authoritarianism.
The buttplug.io project lead posted this article. :3
I read somewhere (I'll dig for the article) that one of the conclusions of Quantum mechanics was that "things don't exist unless you look at them". And the claim was that this actually happened on the macro level.

This is one of many articles that discusses the experiment: https://www.sciencealert.com/reality-doesn-t-exist-until-we-...
Not this one again...

It's not Wi-Fi. The article title is misleading clickbait. They are just using a simple script to exercise the RAM in a way that produces more or less radio noise, and then using a debug feature in an off the shelf Wi-Fi chipset to measure the channel noise and transfer data that way (at an extremely low rate of a few bits per second). At no point are Wi-Fi signals involved. Both sides need to collude to make this work. It only takes a few hours to put together this kind of demo.

He did the same thing with GSM a few years ago - the exact same concept with 800MHz RAM - but he's so bad at it that even though he was using an open source fully documented GSM stack as a base for his receiver (osmocombb), he couldn't get more than a few bits per second out of it, even though you could obviously get a lot more data through with access to the DSP hardware at the receiver like he did.

This guy basically runs a paper mill where every few months he comes up with a new side channel, builds the minimum viable PoC, and produces no research of value. He makes no attempt to measure theoretical maximum channel bandwidths, he doesn't optimize the data coding, nothing. He just picks a new random idea, like using screen brightness or network activity LEDs to encode information, and cranks out a paper. And he's really good at clickbaiting his way through news cycles, which I'm sure keeps the funding going.

You can implement a PoC at the same level of some of his papers in a one line shell script that blinks the camera LED on a machine to transfer a file bit by bit:

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1339156243517095936?s=19
A couple of studies linked in Wikipedia for this use (one retracted):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4049706/

Retracted:
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...

Table with resolution differences between different techniques:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8116487/table/T...
Oh, awesome, thanks! There's been a lot of action on the crate recently, it's been really wonderful getting all of the contributions in and having the system work across multiple OSes.

Hopefully we'll have Android support soon! :D
> What about with realtime NIRS with an (inverse?) scattering matrix?

I've purged a lot of the knowledge from that time from my brain, but from what I recall fNIRS takes a long time (on the order of multiple seconds) to take a single reading.

It also only really shows which regions of the brain are receiving more blood supply. While a huge improvement in spacial precision over EEG, it's still not anywhere near the same level of precision that a directly-wired nerve has.

That doesn't mean it's useless technology, just probably not viable for the low-latency, high-accuracy control you'd want for a military drone.

>Another question: is it possible to do ah molecular identification similar to idk quantum crystallography with photons of any wavelength, such as NIRS? Could that count things in samples?

I have absolutely no idea about molecular identification or quantum crystallography, so probably can't give you a good answer on that one.
PinePhone Without Linux?
Has anybody looked into porting a BSD like openbsd or netbsd to the pinephone. I would really like an open cellular mobile device that does not require me to use a bunch of apps or a bloated gui.

Here is my wish list. basic Xwindows, a modern web browser, normal unix applications like xterm, xcalc, an application to make and receive cell calls, an application for text messages, the ability to take pictures, a OTP authenticator app, etc. I don't want all the linux desktop bloat. I don't want an app store. One if the things that is keeping me from buying a pinephone is supposedly the new phone is slow because it is so ovrbloated.
The article mentions that lots of German and French ISPs are being hit, I guess they're going after @orange.fr address and the like?

Gmail is pretty secure, I seriously doubt you can log in to someone's account using just their password if you don't have their usual IP, Geo location, User Agent etc.

EDIT looks like maybe I'm wrong: “It’s just more difficult to get through the Web interface because on a website you have a plethora of advanced authentication controls at your fingertips, including things like device fingerprinting, scanning for http header anomalies, and so on,” Bill said. “But what are the detection signatures you have available for detecting malicious logins via IMAP?”
Even if subs all had different moderators, reddit's secret removal system [1] gives them more influence over discourse than I think most people realize.

Consider, would you want someone to do this to you? I can't imagine any regular reddit users agreeing to allow everyone to secretly remove each other's content.

[1] https://www.reveddit.com/about/faq/#need
The Shift Left in Mobile Engineering
In fact, I don’t think that a single person in US has died in last decade because he was too poor to afford food.