skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is always my issue with things in this space. There's a list of bad things to be fixed or good things to achieve. And then there's a technology like [jazz hands] blockchain. But when you ask how they relate, it gets very handwavey.

When I was at Code for America in 2015, somebody dropped by one of our events to buttonhole me about [jazz hands] blockchain for governments. I listened politely for a while and then asked, "Why would something that is definitionally a central authority need a trustless, distributed system?" They blathered and huffed for a while, but could never answer the question. They walked away thinking I was clearly not bright enough to see how it was all going to change.

A couple years later a friend asked me to set down with somebody who wanted to launch a startup. Their customers were companies who wanted employees to be able to safely report sexual harassment and other misbehavior. They had a few existing competitors, so I asked what made this new company different. The would-be founder explained that they would use [jazz hands] blockchain. I asked further, and it turned out that they would use [jazz hands] blockchain internally. So basically a database with extra steps. I pointed out that assault reporters wouldn't be able to see any difference; from the user perspective, all the companies in the market were just saying, "trust us, we definitely won't tell the people paying us anything". The entrepreneur was convinced that it really was different, but if so they couldn't make it clear to me.

So now we've had, what, 6 or 7 years where [jazz hands] blockchain was going to revolutionize things and it hasn't made a practical dent in any real industry. Originally I too was willing to call that naive, but it seems an awfully long time to accidentally maintain such perfect innocence.
Yes, it can. You can find Apple's lawyers explanation in the complaint under the "JURISDICTION AND VENUE" heading https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/Apple_v_NSO_Complaint_11...
I remember a DevOps engineer at my last job telling me about a "cheat code" where we could type 'push' into the VPN 2FA prompt to have it pushed as a notification to the enrolled device. I've been typing the same command into every 2FA prompt I encounter since then with no luck. I wish that was a standard convention.
Not just non-technical. It’s a huge burden.

Not to mention the pain when said factor is lost. I just replaced a broken phone, and having to login in everywhere that previously required an Authenticator has not been fun.
How about you allow me to turn off the second factor if I have a password manager, because I'm way more concerned about loosing my second factor and getting locked out of my account than someone somehow getting into my password manager.
I'm perpetually perplexed at why some people seem to think that lowering the standards is going to help anyone. Do they not realise the source of all scientific and technical advancement is really the result of a minority of high achievers, and that by trying to "flatten" this inequality and effectively make everyone equally stupid, they are also going to be affected negatively?

applies social justice principles to math lessons

The inmates aren't running the asylum anymore; they're running the government. All I hope is that this cancerous ideology (I'll resist the prop65 joke...) doesn't grow any further than it already has. The decline is certainly sad to see and already rather visible.
Researcher makes rats play Doom in VR ( Dutch)
> While the system verifies that your definition is sufficiently accurate, please report to campus police, where you’ll undergo a very brief body cavity search. For security reasons, we cannot tell you what we’re looking for. This is about digital safety.

This was a fantastic read. Kudos to whoever put it together.
>Another was a book called Seeing like a state

I think you'll find James Scott has a strong HN fanbase
In theaters next summer: Decafactor. This time, Auth is taking it personally.
Link to the youtube video: https://youtu.be/9hESdc3fC5c
I've never been in an American church that required any particular form of support, for what it's worth.

Most churches did give sermons on the subject, but there was never a direct consequence for ignoring that teaching.
I enjoy this author's podcasts and newsletters, and an interesting angle they've covered recently is that Facebook, ostensibly trying to "clean up their act" with regard to being seen as a platform for disinformation and radicalization, has been tweaking their algorithm to not promote so much alt-right and similar content.

But the problem is, once they exclude all that stuff, there's just not a lot left. So you end up with inane garbage like this account being the most popular content on the platform. Like the whole platform is just Ben Shapiro and drop-shipping scammers. Really paints an "emperor has no clothes" picture of what's going on on Facebook these days.
Your poetic invocation of the theoretical glorious potential of crypto aside, what country do you live in?
Good to see you can adjust by intervals like 0.10, YouTube's default increments of strictly 0.25 make it impossible to watch most videos at a reasonable pace.
my bank insisted that i add a phone number to my account when i called them today. i declined and when pressed briefly explained sim swapping and declined again. a glaring and obvious flaw in the integrity of using a phone number for id verification was not even in the lexicon of this establishment that safeguards nothing less than all of my literal fucking money. they then went on to find that i actually did have a phone number on record and that it is authorized for identity verification and also that i have never even heard of this phone number! im still dealing with it.

its amazing to think that not just this but the entire mountain of bullshit could be avoided with simple passwords. it should be an option offered by every service for a user to deactivate all authorization methods besides one very strong password and perhaps a backup password. we should at least have the option.
I hear you, it is obnoxious, and probably not the best solution. That said the employees absolutely are weak spots in the armor.
Ask HN: What bugs do you workaround every day?
There are many unfixed bugs in the proprietary and open source software that we use every day. Most of them have workarounds. What is the most frequent workaround you use and for what bug?
Vercel might end up becoming the open source gig economy, the Uber of open source. With that investors money coming in, there has to be a winner takes it all market strategy that they are after.

I suspect that VC money will be used to acquire and influence key open source contributors, and commercialize their work after giving them fixed salaries to work on their projects.

I'm hoping to see them hiring more people to work on open source as oppose as acquiring the already well sponsored ones.

Anyway, congrats to the team and their success thus far! and I hope they keep the healthy spirit of open source.
The op mentioned "$100 is plenty to afford groceries at a grocery store." Surely some of that could go into things like: salt and garlic, no?
You also talk about "the average person" which makes me seriously wonder what you mean by this? What is an average person in your world view? I've had the opportunity to live in 3 different continents and I'd be hard pressed to describe an average person to you. Perhaps you are right and my views are a bit utilitarian, but I can assure you that my soul is not crushed whenever I sit down to eat a plate of moros y cristianos.
2FA is by definition an additional burden.
Volvo wagons start at about $51k CAD, MB C-Class starts at $57k CAD and an E-Class starts at $81k CAD. This is out of reach of Jonny Everyman (including me).

I purchased a base Golf Sportwagen with 4Motion back in 2017 for around $29k which was surprisingly nicely equipped (DSG, tunable engine, decent soundsystem). A similarly equipped Suburu would have been mid-to-high $30s.

If I had freedom to "flex", I would have gone for the Volvo because of the safety street cred.
I personally use 1password for authenticator codes - highly recommend if you haven't seen it:
https://support.1password.com/one-time-passwords/

Edit: Didn't answer the actual question - it's something we can look into. My instinct is that offering this wouldn't drastically change the security model, as long as we can be confident your password actually came from a secure password manager. Since some password managers (like 1password) are very strongly tied to devices, I think your ability to retrieve a password from it is a reasonable proxy for a possession factor.

It's definitely something I'd want to read more literature on before building. That's just my instinct, and I'm half expecting someone on HN to share the attack I'm forgetting :)
I explicitly said can't use roles (groups). :)

But yeah, that's the cleanest way to go, if you can.
Caltech has decided not to stock textbooks in its bookstore anymore, sadly (when I was there they still did)
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern - Simon Winchester
how do you type sign language
I watched a video about EVs and it mentioned aerodynamics. It compared a new EV to a Tesla the EV discussed had a drag coefficient of 0.2 the Tesla was 0.2008. That tiny difference meant the non-Tesla had 50km more range all things equal (except the drag coefficient).
If the law not applied stupidly why the EULA is binding the client in the first place? We can't tell whether they clicked "I Agree" or it was just saved in the database as such. I think those EULA should be applicable to remove liability from Apple since they declare what they responsible for, but not to enforce rules on the clients which don't even read those EULAs and you can't prove they have "signed" it.

Regarding the lawsuit itself, it is just politics, they want to pretend as if they are on the good side of whatever the woke culture is right now and bashing Israel always gives some good points among the extreme progressives of silicon valley. NSO haven't done anything different to any other company dealing with hacking and spying and used by almost every government around the world. It is just that Apple is racist and coward so they will never sue the actual countries who use such tools or companies from "stronger" countries. Israeli company is a perfect scapegoat while they themselves will keep spying on their own users.
> Schools are understaffed and underfunded

Please stop parroting this talking point. It's just not true. California schools are funded at record levels--$18k p.a. per pupil[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27563357
The idea that "if the company makes money" is taken as a universal here is false. In the real world it is entirely contentious, and the source these sorts of conflicts. The fact is no one knows for sure the future prospects of a company, but people with power can surely ram through their ideas even in the face of economic pain.

Wrangling that sort of power maneuver is the responsibility of the founder; that is if they wish to retain their control.
You mean luck of copying wordperfect and visicalc? Or maybe the purchased OS and the IBM deal?
I meant the combination of 2D, 3D and hand drawn elements.
I think a whole lot of kids can get algebraic ideas early.

They may not be able to have the attention span and accuracy to factor some 6th degree polynomial in 2 variables with mixed signs.

But the idea of an equation; of invertible operations; of doing things to both sides of an equation... If you word the questions right and make it interesting, most 7-8 year olds can do this stuff no problem.

I think a whole lot of the math whizs who post on HN grew up around people who loved math and figured out how to share interesting tidbits with them very young.

E.g. why are my kids all terrifically accelerated at mathematics? Is it because of some magical genetic thing (maybe a small part of it is)? Or is it because we, as parents, value and enjoy it?

I want to figure out how to bring more of that magic to ordinary classrooms.
the problem with mcsweeneys is that it's a humor publication that fails at humor. it's like those sitcoms from the 80s where they had to add laugh tracks because no one actually laughed while watching them. at best it's something for young adults to forward around to try and look sophisticated, but like those young adults, it misses the point entirely by trying much too hard.
The argument rests entirely on Sweden having abundant renewable energy, so their use of mining to make their grids more efficient doesn't literally cause emissions. Why would they ban it for themselves, an engineer might ask? The same question is asked every day in different forms in every single climate discussion: why should a state which is ahead of the game in emissions reduction make any further commitment? The answer is so that other states feel pressure to make commitments too. Sweden should ban it and instead focus on selling its apparent excess of renewable energy, because then all the places where cheap fossil fuel is literally getting a full-scale rebirth feel extra guilty. Advanced nations making sacrifices is the only thing that has worked at all so far. I wouldn't expect an engineer to understand that whatsoever.
There was an informal study done in the early 20th century, where a superintendent decided he didn’t think math was that useful and told the 4 poorest elementary schools in his district to stop teaching it. (He chose the poorest schools because he knew the parents wouldn’t put up as much of a fuss as at the wealthier schools.) They still taught how to count, read clocks, and make change, but besides that they had no formal math instruction. They used the extra time to read as a class IIRC.

The result was that, despite lacking 6 years of formal math education, the students in that district were only one year behind the other students when they went to junior high. That is, they were able to recover all six years of missed elementary school math education in one year of junior high. And in the superintendent’s opinion, those students were better at critical thinking and were able to solve some problems their better-educated counterparts were not. I can find the link if anyone is interested.

Basically, it seems like kid’s brains are just not able to efficiently learn math. I know I could learn math concepts now that would have taken me much longer in highschool. I kind of wish we would just let kids be kids for more of their lives
Gold.

The Epstein Drive[1] method of finding a new job.

1. https://expanse.fandom.com/wiki/Epstein_Drive
s/s(ec)uri(t)(y)/\2\1hnolog\3/

FTFY
Ultrashort-pulse lasers kill bacterial superbugs, spores
Another thing that seems dumb about the investigation is that they went to a warehouse district because the background looks like a warehouse door.

A warehouse door THAT SPINS AROUND? Really?

With crack investigators like this on the case, is it any wonder it was never solved?

"You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."

TWO HOURS AFTER MY LAST POST? Up yours, assholes.
Clearly we were better off with Franco, or the red khmers or so many other governments that only stupid, crap spewing people wanted to see collapsing.
If you're going to teach math to kids in a normal school and not an academy for geniuses, before stratification based on level makes sense (and there's evidence doing this too early is harmful), you need to figure out how to do it in a way that works for the majority of students.
We all know what's going on - CCP intentionally released covid to strengthen their military position vis-a-vis other modern nations. China has such a large population that they can field an army even with half the population in bed with covid.

Mao made this clear in a conversation decades ago. Someone suggested that a nuclear war might start. Mao essentially replied he had no fear of nuclear war, since afterwards China would still have more people than the rest of the world and that afterwards China would be the dominant power. Decades later the CCP decided to flip the switch, release covid (which is less destructive than nuclear war but very disruptive) and see what happens.

Its like the Hittite biowarfare:

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3914314&page=1

Who knows what they'll release next.
That is nice, but where is Graviton3? Graviton2 is two years old by now, it can hardly compete on performance and power any longer.
Why do you think it's out of the question to do both? Their legal department aren't software engineers too at the same time.
The question isn't about encoding role information. It's about query / data retrieval optimization.
Yeah the joke/meme is clearly mocking that weird comment.

The narrative that OP has fallen for is so pervasive that I think it's probably misinformation created for damage control.

It's not that it's even a particularly bad lie as far as politicians go, but it is easy to prove it wrong and easy to makes jokes about it. So I think it could easily be considered damaging enough to warrant a specific PR effort.
There shouldn't be a standard convention for a "cheat code" - if the thing can do push, it just should offer it in the UI.
Show HN: I created a tool that notifies you every time that Eminem is mentioned
But doesn't this completely defeat the purpose of the codes, since they're no longer a second factor? I'd rather just not have the codes, as they're still a significant annoyance with next to zero benefit.
A more important limitation for defi loans is that nothing other than blockchain assets can be used as collateral. You can't use the loan to buy anything real without having enough money to buy it already.

A mortgage lets you buy and live in a house even if you don't have enough money to buy the house.
Plus, grandparents, the group notorious for their tech-skill.

I've just taken over all my elder family accounts for internet, TV, phone, etc. Much easier. And all the vendors treat me as HVC cause I'm paying for multiple services on their platforms.
Before 1981 car manufacturers just made up their own numbers. Now there’s a global SAE standard.

The NHTSA in the United States has a partnership with SAE.
That's not true. Numerous home video recorders by that time had flying erase heads that could make clean cuts.
That may be true in many companies, but venture capital funded companies almost always have something called a "Voting Agreement". I pulled a random one from my folder of docs, it is below. The upshot, if you are not used to reading these, is that all of the shareholders signed an agreement that says they will vote their shares to elect certain directors. In the absence of an agreement like this you are right, the board could fire the CEO but the majority shareholder could fire the board. But, again, every equity round from a VC that I have seen in the last 25 years (and, I assume, longer, but that's as far back as my personal knowledge goes) has a Voting Agreement in some shape or form.

Actual text from a Voting Agreement:

"NOW, THEREFORE, the parties agree as follows:

1. Voting Provisions Regarding Board of Directors.

1.1 Board Composition. Each Stockholder agrees to vote, or cause to be voted, all securities of the Company the holders of which are entitled to vote for members of the Board, including without limitation, all shares of Common Stock, Series A Preferred Stock, by whatever name called, now owned or subsequently acquired by a Stockholder, however acquired, whether through stock splits, stock dividends, reclassifications, recapitalizations, similar events or otherwise (“Shares”) owned by such Stockholder, or over which such Stockholder has voting control, from time to time and at all times, in whatever manner as shall be necessary to ensure that at each annual or special meeting of stockholders at which an election of directors is held or pursuant to any written consent of the stockholders, the following persons shall be elected to the Board:

(a) For so long as there remain outstanding not less than 200,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock (subject to appropriate adjustment in the event of any stock dividend, stock split, combination or other similar recapitalization with respect to the Series A Preferred Stock), one (1) individual designated by the holders of a majority of the shares of Series A Preferred Stock then outstanding, which individual shall initially be Jerry Neumann (such director being the director defined as the Series A Directors in the Restated Certificate); and

(b) Two (2) individuals designated by the Key Holders who are at such time providing services to the Company as an officer, director, employee, consultant or advisor holding a majority of the Shares then held by such Key Holders (each such director being one of the directors defined as a Common Director in the Restated Certificate);"

etc. etc.
The 11th round involves identifying a correct Nigel Tufnel quote from "This Is Spinal Tap".
I can remember the decent stirrers and always wondered why it's lousy ones everywhere now. Sheesh.
I thought it was a bit strange when my neighbor put up a sign to encourage me. I guess it was all more complicated than I thought.
(Firefox)

- Sidebery: Vertical tabs, personally feels it's better then TreeStyleTabs

- Enhancer For Youtube

- Custom Scrollbars

- Decentraleyes: Use local javascript libs over remote ones

- Dark Reader: Dark mode for pages without dark mode

- To DeepL
Piper – a simple internet protocol focused on simplicity
That was an amazing talk when it first came out. I didn't fully understand the process but I wish the speaker would do more talks. His clear Canadian accent and method of explanation is wonderful!

Has anyone ever hacked DishNetwork/Echostar/Nagravision cards? 10+ years ago I was fascinated to learn about how the new at the time "Nagra3" cards worked so well. I never did find out how those things worked as they seemed impossible to break. I also vaguely remember the story of how Directv owners (owners of FOX networks) secretly commissioned some hackers in Israel to crack their competitors systems while at the same time securing their system further. They eventually got sued but paid a pittance in restitution while their competitors suffered serious financial issues. Really unethical behavior.
What does HVC mean?
Yeah I've built this kind of stuff before, was just hoping for some interesting information on the data access side - when you can't use tags/roles. But I always push for this approach when I can.
The issue isn't about whether an individual's academic performance is affected by genetics.

The question is: are differences in overall (say median) academic performance of broad racial groupings (black, white, asian, hispanic, other) mostly the result of differences in genetics?

Many (most?) people would say the differences are mostly genetic for sports, but not for academics.
We use the same principle on some of the frameworks I have worked on, it pushes you to make the API more explicit and keep the context localized. That makes codemods easier. This can sometimes lead to a more verbose / less magical API, but IMO at scale the tradeoff is worth it.
Forgive me for being skeptical, but I’ve never seen Bitcoin used as a medium of exchange. You could argue it’s a store of value, but that’s also contentious. In the last year, it’s back to its original price. So much for being an inflation hedge.
Adding to the voices here: worked beautifully on my $300 Acer laptop on the latest Chrome.