skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I kinda wish there was an imaginary "real person with an honest identity" type system that did exist where we could interact without the land of bots and dishonest users and so forth. But that obviously brings its own issues.

That sounds like it could be done in a way that isnt terrible. As a user, you sign up with an identity provider by submitting personal documents and/or an interview to prove that you’re a real person.

Then, when you sign up to an app/service, you login with the ID provider and come up with a username for that service.

The ID provider does not give the website provider any of your personal information; they just verify that you exist (and you login their their secure portal)

The identity providers could further protect privacy by automatically deleting all of your personal documents from their databases as soon as the verification process is complete. They could also have a policy to not store any logs, such as the list of services you’ve signed up for.

This could still be gamed (ex: a phone scammer tricking someone into getting verified with a provider to get a valid ID), but itd make things much harder and costlier.

Am I missing anything obvious that would make this a terrible idea?
What do ISPs consider an acceptable rate?
What is “22 million”? I don’t understand. Is it length? Thousandths? An ion grinder? An exotic big cat? A tiny On?

“People don’t understand”, none of those were at all plausible even without the context of scanning the entire IPv4 address space.
If you bookmark articles, they'll likely eventually go offline or your links will break because websites change and die. This is known as link rot.

There are services, of which Pocket is not the only one, that save you personal hard copies of content so you can have it available offline and keep things even if they're gone. Like a personal Wayback Machine. It's a very sensible thing to integrate into a browser in my opinion, although a lot of the Firefox fanbase, being idiots in love with the idea of FOSS donationware, are hostile to. I used to be one of those idiots.
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Oh I'm sure motivated kids will find hacks and workarounds. If anything it might end up being even easier to fake your age; especially when dealing with businesses that are totally apathetic or unknowledgeable about technology.
> Low cost: Less than 1000 USD for the robot hardware.

I'm not sure where this figure comes from. In inflation-adjusted dollars, the Apple ][ cost ~ $6,000.

> Previously shown off to a few thousand rabid fans at the West Coast Computer Faire, the Apple II’s arrival means the masses can finally get their hands on the breakthrough machine. A base unit costs $1,298 — the equivalent of $5,810 in 2021 money.

https://www.cultofmac.com/484382/tiah-apple-ii-goes-on-sale/

Maybe all it takes is a good, but overpriced robot selling for around $6,000. The high cost of Apple's first computers was a major driver for a work-alike computer market that included Atari, Commodore, TI, Coleco, and Tandy.

If the Marketplace Disruption view of PC history is any guide, I suspect the first wildly successful robotic product will cause professionals to turn up their noses in disgust at the triviality of it all. They'll bemoan the lack of practical applications. They'll cluck at all of the things it can't do. Meanwhile, a small group of buyers will find the toy-like things irresistible. This product might have already been introduced.

Also, it's instructive to consider all of the things that were predicted for home computers vs. how things ended up turning out. Many of the concepts were sound (games, recipes), but few thought of the role a ubiquitous, worldwide, fast network infrastructure would play in creating entirely new classes of uses for small computers. And almost nobody predicted the astonishing rate of miniaturization/performance increases that would occur and which continues to this day.
i think maybe you can do it with userfaultfd, performance won't be as good as using a signal handler because of the context switch but you aren't restricted in what you can do in in the handler thread like you are with a signal handler.
A good starting point is this Congressional report on hypersonic weapons, updated one month ago:

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/weapons/R45811.pdf
I suspect the story is a bit more complicated.

They seem to learn a lot by centralizing a lot of the internet's traffic through their core. Perhaps it makes their ddos-protection more robust when they can train on "what normal usage" looks like "for the longer tail".

Perhaps they are building moats around that business and expecting a future when Fortune1000 requires their cdn.
What if I told you that you can have a modern site without the bloat? You can improve accessibility without making it more difficult for the user to tweak things.

So many people here on HN think it's all or nothing. But that couldn't be further from the truth. You're basically using the worst of the worst sites as an example for how modern sites look and function.

All that is required to build a good modern site, is the will to do so. Even small tweaks to the existing site would improve it a lot. For example, the click targets are extremely small on mobile. Comments get grayed out to the level of them almost being invisible. There is no way to collapse comment threads. And the list goes on and on. All of this can be fixed without rewriting the whole site.
Interesting that they got in touch with the miner by tracing their transaction history and having their preferred exchange look up their account.

The blog post suggests that the miner voluntarily returned the funds, but I do wonder if there were hints of legal or other pressure after they managed to identify the miner.

> Combine this with the fact that Ledger hardware wallets may sometimes display fees in a non-human readable manner, could have removed a key human safety check

This seems like a huge issue, especially given the fact that it led to someone sending a transaction with a $24 million fee without apparently being to see the fee before hitting send.
There's a possibility that they're going to Bing, in which case they'd truly be a non-Google player. Not a non-Big Tech one, but a real anti-Google system.
If it's in any way reliant on a central database, or even PGP, I fail to see how you could fake an ID besides finding someone that looks like you and sending that in your place.
... wow. Talk about going from 0-100 entirely too fast.

I was talking specifically about sites such as Silk Road and others being taken offline (which is exactly what you were talking about, too), not once did I mention his arrest nor did I allude to it. Glancing at your username, I seem to recall previous comments from you in threads about drug use being legalized. On the broad topic of drug legalization - again - you and I agree, but you would do well to prevent your biases from creeping in and causing you to misunderstand posts and/or lash out at others.
What was/is #1? I know Streamlabs OBS is sometimes cited as a popular alternative, but that's more or less a distribution of OBS.
I'm not using a WhatsApp bridge so I can't comment on that bridge specifically. Few of my contacts are on that so I was able to drop it.

I am self-hosting a Facebook bridge and Hangouts/Google Chat bridge amd using a hosted Telegram bridge.
Yeah, I appreciate his willingness to share "inconvenient truths" that may run counter to the running narrative of whatever tech/security story of the moment. Lots of interesting perspectives, even if maybe I didn't "want" to hear it ;)
Also, it's important to differentiate "fleet" from "personal" work trucks.

Fleet work trucks are Tacomas with tiny tires, no options, and maybe an extra toolbox in the back.

Personal work trucks are however much profit someone needs to offset from operations this year.
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That’s a very nice changelog. I hope they have the time to link to individual PRs/commits in the future, so it’s possible to see what changed in detail.
It's inevitable that these folks would show up pretty quickly, but your very first user? Extremely impressive!
In my country, you're not even legally required to give your driving license when stopped by a police officer for DUI.
They reject the vast majority of gov requests, even some from law enforcement.

China doesn't even ask before taking said data. That's the difference.
Its in so many older city water pipes that you cannot see, only to be let out when the water chemistry changes a bit.
Every time I hear about Dropbox I think of VisiCalc [0].

They (Dropbox) made sharing data so easy and gave it a native feel, at least on MacOS. And eventually OSes rolled out the same features (iCloud, OneDrive), the same way VisiCalc was steamrolled by other spreadsheet software.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalc
Those appliances are perhaps robots in the broad sense sometimes used in the field of robots, with a definition something like "any machine which can replace or assist any physical task ordinarily done by humans." But most of them are not robots in the sense generally used by laypeople, which is a definition more like "a machine which can accomplish some general class of physical tasks normally done my humans by moving around in and manipulating objects in an environment which has not been heavily modified for the robot."
Would be nice if these standards were open. Can't audit it until it's introduced in iOS 15.x, I guess.

Edit for reference: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso-iec:18013:-5:dis:ed-...
OBS uses FFmpeg for media source playback, some audio encoders, and specific video output contexts. Usually FFmpeg isn't used for video encoding, though -- that's handled by either a direct hardware encoder implementation or by a native x264 encoder (i.e. not FFmpeg's x264 implementation). OBS supports FFmpeg output in Advanced mode, but it's by no means the default.
What makes you say that he has one foot out the door? I'm not arguing, I just don't follow Oculus news very much.
I am personally very jaded with the United States' version of capitalism and regulation. This is a country with for-profit healthcare who also run ads. To say the least.

Your voting record, vehicle ownership, and household income, depending on what state you live in, are sold by your state government itself! We have a long way to go when it comes to ethical capitalism in the United States. Too far, actually.
Someone needs to build an open version of one of these. Same quality hardware but with something like Home Assistant as the software platform.

No way I’m having one of these in my apartment with a live link up to Amazon’s servers. I even stopped buying Sonos speakers when they started embedding Alexa in them.

I’m probably in the minority though.
except that the small grocery stores have poor selection, expensive prices, and are more inconvenient since you have to spend more time every day to get your things instead of shopping for the month. Some of us work long hours and don't have a wife who can spend the time to do things like that.

Some of us know about both options, and a car is much better. People like cars because they are freedom; you are free to go where you want without relying on public transit schedules or the realization you have maybe a five mile radius of places you can walk to in an hour.
If you relate to most of the entries, then you should definitely consider talking to a professional.

There are many resources available to help with ADHD, first and foremost being understanding what works and what doesn't work with your ADHD brain.

Regarding medication, there is a lot of unnecessary stigma around it. Please consider my experience with it: [1] to understand what I'm about to say.

It's not about productivity. It's about not feeling pain associated with initiating, finishing, or switching tasks. It's about slowing the thoughts in your brain a bit so that you could find the first step more easily, and have more control over either not initiating other tasks, or switching out of something that you can't stop doing.

You have to understand that most people don't have these issues to begin with. I have no idea what amphetamines do for them.

For people with ADHD, medication is like glasses for the brain. It helps us see better. If somebody takes your glasses, they won't improve their vision - in fact, they will probably mess up their own. That's why both glasses and medication have to be prescribed by a professional.

There is much more than medication though. It's about approaching the things you face in ways that work for you. It's understanding what strengths you have (e.g. acting efficiently in emergencies or under high pressure in critical tasks) vs. things that your brain isn't good at (estimating time, doing the same thing consistently, etc.)

Going into that is way beyond the scope of a comment. There is a lot to learn.

[1] https://romankogan.net/adhd#Medication
I don’t mean to be vulgar, but the net effect is one group of people (those in Bordeaux or those in Ruffec) had to pay the price of a longer commute to Paris. In the prior this advantaged those in Ruffec over those in Bordeaux. Why was that any more fair than this? And, aren’t more people being serviced by this (noting Ruffec’s population is far smaller than that of Bordeaux). As these are situations of symmetry you have to pick a side to bear it?
Yeah the Go is simply no better than a $5 google cardboard setup. Nice for a once off trick.

At work we use some of these with some stupid training app that is more about showing off than actual training. It's designed to pretend we're a hip and modern company while the user clicks through a few popups on a 360 degree photo slideshow.

As someone who's trying to push real VR this really hurts my efforts. When I try to introduce something like Arthur Digital for real interactive VR meetings people are like "oh yeah I saw that VR thing during training, it was cool but useless". They think they've seen all VR can offer. And it's making people sick with imperfect tracking (try leaning forward to look at something...)

3DOF / Cardboard style VR should die. It's holding back the industry now.
Though it means mach 5+ in terms of weapons systems it indicates a capability for a long highly maneuverable period at those speeds.

https://www.gao.gov/blog/faster-speed-sound-u.s.-efforts-dev...
I assume something like Pylance is still off-limits based on how Microsoft has licensed it?
You're absolutely right, but to some extent, that'll be covered by their platforms, who are pledging at least $50,000 to OBS (but I suspect much more). [1]

[1]: https://obsproject.com/contribute
The symptoms reported in the article do not require hospitalization.
Have you heard of Louis Pasteur? He discovered Germ Theory in 1861. This man or his legacy is of course is not what we're talking about, which is why I bring it up. To change the subject.
Why is it so hard to get an Uber or Bolt? We asked the experts
Are they going to gobble up Japan, Australia and Vietnam tho? I'd say nope, doesn't makes sense, for them. What's up with the war fetish? Do you enjoy watching people killing each other? I really don't understand.
Bottled water often comes from the same sources as your tap, so the "no ongoing exposure" is not always guaranteed. Additionally, bottled water companies (at least in the states) is not regulated by the same laws as municipal/city water companies.
The (eventual) goal is not to kill off anonymity, but to better support user control of data and thereby give more anonymity.

You should be able to prove your age to buy liquor, without disclosing any other information (including your name or birth date). That should work without the government or any other party knowing you. But we are still on the road to get there.

There are numerous other efforts for decentralized identity systems where the user 'holds' digitally signed credentials and presents them under consent. While most parties realize that reducing data release and supporting anonymity are important objectives, the different efforts (and participants) have different priorities.

Some efforts, like Smart Health Cards, do not support selective disclosure of information, instead just supporting digital medical documents as signed data. This was a scope reduction to get a system out more quickly for COVID vaccination credentials.

Mobile drivers licenses support selective disclosure, but many privacy controls are really being implemented via certification, where compatible reader devices are being limited to those who certify that they discard data after use.

There are stronger primitives like Anonymous Credentials [1] , which also make the cryptography itself unlinkable, and predicate proofs which let you present answers to questions without presenting the underlying information. However, standardizing and deploying such crypto at scale takes years.

[1] http://cs.brown.edu/people/alysyans/papers/cl01a.pdf
OBS is so great and permissive that entire companies are built around it.
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xsplit used to be popular iirc, and I think there were more too. looking xsplit up now on Wikipedia I see it's had a complicated history since I last used it
By default it's small, but all you need to do is zoom in and it's perfect. For example, on my 1440p monitor I'm at 213% zoom and it's working great for me.
Indeed, all capture functionality is split out into plugins and they are platform-specific. Platform builds are handled by CMake to only include relevant plugins: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/plugins...
I don’t think heat is an issue. I remember a bunch of Middle Eastern countries considered building fabs in order to diversify away from oil about 20 years ago. Of course, they also realized they’d need to import labor as well due to low-skill and unwilling local labor.
Pavement prima donna is absolutely a category, but I'd say in the last 10 years the needle tends to run the other way.

Since Japanese companies moved into the truck market, even the lowest trim domestics are exceedingly capable. And certainly more capable than they were in previous years. (An easy way to date is to see when GM and Ford started putting new engine designs in their trucks, instead of 70s/80s-ancestry powerplants, circa late-90s)

It's a pretty competitive market. And as with muscle cars, competition has raised the level of everyone.
This is really remarkable! How hard do you think it will be to support new models, i.e. does the tooling you’ve built generalize to you being able to serve other large scale models easily?
How to get a fast metabolism permanently?
Thats it! Calculator heaven! Put the humans on wall-e style seats on conveyor belts and circulate them though the laundry station, restaurant, bath house etc, then periodically detour them though more exotic shops and museums to eventually drop them off at their cubical or bed room.
My ISP had a misconfiguration that let all the customers ping each other (Routers usually). The address space was too large to scan any other way except masscan, which worked very well (and fast).

https://medium.com/@captn3m0/i-scanned-all-of-act-bangalore-...
Cool! 7500 words free per month…does anyone have any interesting ideas about what you could do with this?
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The PC Rifts have long been at least open enough to allow SteamVR to support them, and AFAIK that's still the case.
> The tree of the merge commit may contain new blobs not present in any of the parents if conflict resolution was required. Otherwise, the new tree is simply a combination of the parents' trees.

Sure, but for me this is the common case.

> I think most associate squashing with the act of reducing a foreign branch into a single new commit as a merge strategy (as opposed to fast-forward or merge).

I don't. I git rebase -i often to squash commits.

> But each to their own I guess.

Whatever works. However, I find that when people focus on the semantics of merging, they then don't care to understand cherry-picking or rebasing, and they miss out on those very useful concepts. Whereas understanding what the process looks like helps one (me anyways) unify an understanding of all three concepts. I much prefer understanding one thing from which to derive three others than to understand those three things independently.
The map is only a piece of the story too. Depriotitization is a thing you will encounter, mostly on MVNO's. I call it four bars of no data. Just moved from Mint back to AT&T Prepaid because of this situation. Your results will vary wildly regionally, and time of day.
"This is cool, but not super useful in 2021."

Why would someone in marketing think this is cool.

"The next generation of tracking tech relies on the backend transfer of data between a website and the ad platform, which is invisible to your own network."

The transfer of data between the user and a website, Google, Facebook or otherwise, is visible to the user.

"It also shifts the story from "Google and Facebook nonconsensually tracking your every digital move through websites and applications" as described in the article into "websites and applications actively transmitting customer data to Google and Facebook.""

Why would websites transfer data to Google and Facebook. I dont know perhaps every website is different. But if I were a website I would only send data to Google or Facebook if Google and Facebook already had some data of their own.

Users who are actively monitoring the data they send to websites can assume that all websites, including but not limited to Google and Facebook, are sharing user data with each other. That doesnt mean we think they are, but there is no way to verify they are not (or to hold them accountable if they were); thus we know they could be exchanging data, without taking much risk.
California electricity is generally cheap in the sense that you don't need to use much of it (the big metro areas with the most people have very mild climates). I imagine AC is important in a place like Tucson.

The fact that pumping water uphill is so expensive is why most of the water in the mountain west comes from the Rockies (where it flows down hill), though the exhaustion of the rocky mountain glaciers (due to global warming or whatever one believes is the reason) means that all that water built up over millions of years is coming to an end.
I have been following the development of screen capturing under Wayland a little and what I can tell you is that at least for Wayland OBS directly interfaces with pipewire (which is very much platform specific and low level), see: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/4287/files
Can I just note that it is not necessarily an effect of "too much work/responsibility", it is also a reaction to active stressors in your life. Social anxiety around roommates for example. Being unable to recharge yourself emotionally even if little is going on. One does not have to be time crunched to have this effect.
It’s a knee jerk reaction by those that don’t want change or’ worried the changes would go too far

Personally I agree that accessibility needs huge improvement. Not just for those who have disabilities but even other users on a touch screen will benefit
Do you have a car registered with the state, a debit card, and a cell phone? A credit score perhaps?

Do you run every single connection to the internet through a VPN service that keeps no records? Do you use TAILS or Qubes OS? Do you actually own your router?

It's a leaky boat.