skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2. accounts that are unhackable because users log in with private keys instead of user/pass

There's nothing magical about private keys that prevents them from being lost or stolen.

The average person doesn't want to manage private key files. The average person wants to be able to recover their account if they forget or lose their password. Moving to private keys isn't a realistic solution for logins for the average person.
> We (humans) are selecting variants that are worse for us

I believe this to be a very common misconception. Evolution selects variants that are better at replicating. It does not follow that those are the worse for our health.

Imagine a variant that would effectively be very lethal to us: wouldn't it go extinct if the bearers die or even stay home sick before it can spread?

Successful viruses fly below the radar, I guess.
lol yes I’m not sure what I was thinking. Thank you.
My favorite explanation for this came from David Bowie (I think?). To paraphrase:

“Religion is for people that believe in hell. Spirituality is for people that have been there.”
They don't look very accessible to me, but yes, they are pretty.
Issue should be resolved now. Apologies!
I understand that point. However at least in the UK there are many things that could make a big difference to current or future quality of life -- including several you mentioned that are definitely still relevant here -- that someone would find a lot easier to achieve if they were earning more than most of our age 35+ software developers will have made for most of their careers.

In other words, the ability to increase how much you are making at work and how much you can improve your quality of life are still going to be significantly correlated for plenty of age 35+ devs here. An increase of say 20% or 50% in TC could make a big difference to things like whether you can afford to live in a nice area, take your family on a nice holiday, pay for private healthcare or education if you have a reason to, or retire early. I suspect that kind of marginal difference in income is much less relevant to those things, except possibly for healthcare, for a typical age 35+ dev working for a FAANG in a US tech hub, whose TC might have been so high for so long that the idea of not being able to afford any of those things might not even occur to them.
Fortunately, that's not something the current company Meta would allow to happen. That sounds like something that only Facebook would let fall through the cracks.
The best thing you could ever possibly do is to block all facebook products in your household. It's really quite easy these days
Creature Mixer
It’s funny that we are still a society powered mostly by steam. We just convert it’s power into electricity now. Even fusion power plants will presumably still just be boiling water for a turbine.
Anyone like me who can ‘see’ images in dreams and in near sleep, but almost no voluntary ability to visually imagine when fully awake?

Sometimes I sleep deprevate on purpose if I need an extra kick of creativity…
It would be nice if Linux at least could see the Recycle or Trash folder and use what’s already there. Even better if both macos and Windows started doing the same.
Show HN: A search engine that lets you refine your queries
Hi,
I have been working on this search engine for the last few months. After you search for something, you can select up to 4 tags to further refine your search.

Feedback please :)
This feels a lot like what node did for js when it comes to client/server.
I took a class in Zen Buddhism while I was a student at the Claremont Colleges and there was a field trip to the Mt Baldy Zen Center (where Cohen was living as a monk at the time). Unfortunately, I was sick and was unable to join the field trip, but I also didn't know Cohen's music yet at that time.

I did later play in a band which performed a rendition of Everybody Knows by Cohen and his frequent collaborator Sharon Robinson https://don.dream-in-color.net/music/mp3/01%20Everybody%20Kn...

I never had the chance to see him perform live or meet him (although again, later in my life, I lived about a mile away from him in Los Angeles and didn't know it at the time). The Live in London concert video is a must-watch. Cohen just exudes charisma in his performance. Even though I'd heard the audio dozens of time from owning the corresponding album, when I finally saw the video performance I was drawn in like nothing else.
Omicron: Israel bans all foreigners, uses 'counter-terrorism' phone-tracking
how would 'counter-terrorism' phone-tracking strategies be employed for containment?...

are they actively recording all phones GPS movements so that later when someone tests positive for Omicron, they work back through that GPS database to see who else might have been exposed?

or perhaps screening text messages from telcos to identify symptomatic hotspots that will be pursued with 'random testing'?

or... ?

there must be countless ways to such tracking but I'm curious what methods are most likely, how broad is the scope (looking to identify individuals vs broader trends), and finally, what actions might they take? (forced quarantine, etc.)
One of my fundamental questions with anything I read is where the writer is coming from, what motivates the writing. That not only helps with interpreting the work, it helps me decide whether it's worth my time at all.

I don't think that's ad hom, in that the characteristics I'm raising are relevant. For example, if I am reading an article about a company's stock, I'm not going to care whether the author's eye color is blue or green. But I will care whether they hold that stock or something related, as that's relevant to how I read the article and weigh its claims.
They're still around, just not as fashionable these days. I was under the impression that they get the same MPG that SUVs get, so they're equally inefficient in my mind.
Universal LPC Spritesheet Generator
I see dreams but have no visualization in any state of wakefulness
Is it just me or do other people struggle to read these kinds of very technical books?

It's not that I don't comprehend, it's that my brain finds it boring and hard to focus. I think I have trained my brain so much on rapid skimming of websites for useful info, while throwing away most of the content, that I tend to do the same with books, which really doesn't work well.

Has anyone found alternative ways to consume this information for brains that work like mine?
I don’t believe in anything divine, because my equations do not require it. Also, yours don’t either. You are like a child drawing happy suns in blue skies because that’s what you like. It’s not required.

I have no need of “Truth.” I just notice and make use of persistent, reliable patterns to make safe conjectures that will have consequences for people who disregard them. I call that the truth. That’s good enough.
Aphantasic here. This is an odd subject for me because growing up I was always "the kid who could draw." I can paint surprisingly good portraits from life, and my sketchbooks and old canvases have lots of gems. And... a ton of crap, which now I realize was me struggling with my lack of mental imagery.

If I try to conjure an image in my mind's eye, I get zilch. Just a scramble of shapes that won't hold still, not for one moment.

So ask me to draw Obama, whose face I've seen a thousand times, and it'll be a miserable failure. Ask me to draw a hand, and (because I know how to "construct" it) and it will be expressive and fluid.

But at the same time, I have excellent musical memory. I can recall music from 20 years ago, and pick out the exact synth line that comes in at the 2-minute mark. I can easily separate the winds and the strings and the brass in my head from whatever symphonies I'm familiar with. And I hear them back as near-perfect recordings. Only thing is: I can't play back the lyrics accurately. They'll be muddy usually and mostly indiscernible.

The brain, huh?
apt remove typora
apt install typora=0.11.18-1
apt hold typora

(:
Certainly a number of valid concerns here. Like any tool, polis is as good as its context, usage, data inputs.

I can offer a specific case study with data, that deals with the discovery of the specific values of a specific population in the context of highly contested issue that has played out over a multi-decade period:

A debrief: https://pep.org.nz/2020/12/01/doc-tries-to-restore-e-democra...

The professional facilitators who work at nation scale in NZ: https://pep.org.nz/

The convo: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1908/S00014/scoop-hivemind...

The reporting: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1911/S00063/biodiversity-h...

Raw data: https://github.com/compdemocracy/openData/tree/master/scoop-...

Direct link to PEP's report to the Ministry of Conservation: https://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/1911/Biodiversity_HiveMin...

This is an ideal use case, but it is encouraging to us (and has motivated me over the course of the past decade) that given some combination of factors, there can be real progress, and while yes, it takes a bit of work, we do spend an enormous amount of time and money on worse outcomes than this. So, we can "save one starfish" https://raycenter.wp.drake.edu/2018/06/29/the-starfish-story... and put some lights on the horizon of other possible systems, should we inspire some millions, then tens of millions, then hundreds of millions to be spent on other political activities than driving wedges.
>You transfer the money to them, and then they send a transfer directly from the bank of recipient

Since few years banks also provide APIs for redirecting to transfer form prefilled with payment processor details, so you don't have to enter them manually.
Does anyone know if Typora is an Electron-based application?
Past related threads:

Not spooked by Halloween ghost stories? You may have aphantasia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29049356 - Oct 2021 (10 comments)

Picture This? Some Just Can’t (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28997320 - Oct 2021 (1 comment)

Aphantasia: How It Feels to Be Blind in Your Mind (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27588905 - June 2021 (1 comment)

Seeing things a different way; simple test for aphantasia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24532946 - Sept 2020 (1 comment)

Picture This? Some Just Can’t (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22800815 - April 2020 (103 comments)

Aphantasia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20267445 - June 2019 (72 comments)

Aphantasia: 'My mind's eye is blind' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19618927 - April 2019 (422 comments)

Aphantasia: Ex-Pixar chief Ed Catmull says 'my mind's eye is blind' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19612122 - April 2019 (2 comments)

The blind mind: No sensory visual imagery in aphantasia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18799550 - Jan 2019 (100 comments)

What it’s like to be unable to visualize anything - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11730505 - May 2016 (11 comments)

Aphantasia: How It Feels to Be Blind in Your Mind - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11554894 - April 2016 (202 comments)

Aphantasia: A life without mental images - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10148792 - Aug 2015 (73 comments)

Aphantasia: A Life Without Mental Images - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10121678 - Aug 2015 (2 comments)
A lot of this is from institutional investors fleeing the bond market.
Density =/= color resolution. High DPI displays are great for text, but the amount of colors you need for highlighting is very small.
I love the Mythical Man-Month, but it’s one of those books that only software engineers seem to read, and they already know what’s in it.
Communism Destroyed Russian Cooking
No, sorry, I meant that your "doubts" about his article don't gain any power from the "sincerely" modifier.

I reread this, and I did not, at all, get the impression that he was "pinning all the troubles of the Mbuti and so forth on green technology." That is your misreading of it. He says that the pygmies have been horribly persecuted, and that the Green movement will make it much worse. Are you doubting that?

Secondly, your statement about how the WWF is not solely responsible for various evils is pretty disingenuous. Who cares if it's "solely"? They're a huge charitable organization that covers itself in virtue, and here they are committing an evil.

Lastly, the Web has given people, including you apparently, the impression that everything has to have a "source." How many publications do you think there are about the pygmy tribes deep in the Congo?

There's a legitimate question about whether this guy is credible, and we'd resolve that by looking at this publication and its reputation for probity, as well as the author's. Saying it's "unsourced" is something the Wikipedia pedants would do.
I think this is the kind of content I need. One that presents a problem and allows me to figure out a solution.

Can you recommend any other content like that?
I often encounter foundational or complex issues (incorrect memory management, deep complexity) when trying to diagnose crashes in open-source apps. And I get frustrated trying to understand deep complexity is frustrating, and maintainers (who haven't looked into the crashes so far, and in one case fixed an earlier crash based on me debugging it for them) don't take it kindly when I complain about the unmanageable complexity and poor stability of these apps. What should I do in this case? Take a break then keep trying? Slow down debugging and spend more time reading and taking notes? Abandon the project, and switch to using/contributing to codebases I find simpler/more cohesive and easier to understand?
I have a ridiculously completist collection of Cohen-related material (although far from complete). Another roughly contemporaneous tribute album is Tower of Song. It's not as good, perhaps because it features more mainstream artists (I go to I'm Your Fan a lot more than Tower of Song), although Don Henley's version of "Everybody Knows" is a great version of that song.
It's quicker to fix a run-on sentence comma with a semicolon rather than a full stop; you don't have to capitalise a letter.
Yes, I am very familiar with the name CCCP because of the space stuff.

All their propaganda posters featuring rockets would contain those letters.
So you won't have a problem with people commenting this under everything you write?

"I havent heard of William Pietri before, he seems to be a San Fransisco liberal, LGBT affirming atheist and leading figure for the ADL's Online Hate Index."
Most of the time once you get execution, you jump to the end credits, without a lot of other setup. At worst, you have two phases. Phase 1 is before abritrary code execution, where your inputs are limited by the original program, which usually samples the controllers once per frame; phase 2 would start once you get code execution and could count cycles if need be.

Both of these are bounded by existing solutions. We know how many frames, and how many cycles, so you can stop when you get there. Still a very large search space, though.
And a dollar put into an ETF means the ETF spent a dollar on other equities. ie. A switch from direct holding to ETFs.
On 3: ',' and '.' go backwards/forwards by a single frame when paused.
For what it's worth, DocuSign is actually free to sign your own documents. You only have to pay to send it to someone else.
The UI around the free versionis absolutely terrible.
This makes it sound like the restrictions are happening everywhere which is not the case. Not every place has a kneejerk reaction towards lockdown.
Writeup details etc in a medium post & repost here to HN? Not much, but at least a little extra bad publicity for IG & Mrbeast/associates
> blame the law (DMCA), not those forced to abide by the law (Github)

What about those abusing [a misrepresentation of] the law (the RIAA) and the members who pay their dues (Microsoft)?
But your drawing of a helicopter would be better if you were looking at one. That's what I'm trying to get at - you aren't looking at a helicopter if you don't have a picture in front of you, otherwise your drawing wouldn't get better.

Are you visualizing a weird looking helicopter or do you think you're visualizing while actually not?
The way Australia is going, it seems clear they just want to be able to stifle all dissent.
The majority of comments here seem to be critical of the author's thesis, with one even questioning the cultural-political motives behind this media outlet.

FWIW, I agree with the author.

I found myself thinking about this last night as I finished the first 10-episode season of Netflix's Cowboy Bebop live-adaptation[0]. There were many changes to the original story in the live adaptation, and I feel that part of these changes involves building up a rubber-ducky story for a plot twist at the end. I'm opposed to it not just because it's a change to the source material, but also because it created a needless sense of moral ambiguity.

SPOILER ALERT

In the original, the protagonist Spike seeks justice in the final episode for the death of his loyal love interest Julia, who dies at the hands of Spike's arch-nemesis and evil syndicate leader Viscous. With the Netflix live-action, in addition to a number of story changes that allegedly made it more appealing to modern audiences, the love interest Julia lives, exacts her revenge on Viscous after years of abuse, becomes the leader of the evil syndicate, and also... shoots the protagonist?

The old Julia was perfect in the original story, but the new one cares more about power than anything else. The new version's plot twist for Julia was built up to, with a rubber ducky explanation gradually developed as a side story in each of the new episodes. The director wanted you to see Julia getting her revenge after years of abuse and then cheer for her as she becomes the girl-boss[0] of the most evil crime organization in the galaxy. This ending was... disgusting.

An overwhelming volume of contemporary media sends the message that you can be a bad person if you have sufficient justification, and that coincides with OP's concern of the overused rubber ducky device.

When I was very young and impressionable, I always liked the villains the most. In kids TV shows, villains could never be shown doing anything truly heinous, and so my sense of them was that they were the only ones who actually felt free to do what they wanted. It was the "good guys" who always ruined the party. Like Nietzsche's ubermensch, villains were great because they were not imprisoned by morality. I thought villains were amazing until I matured some. I needed to realize the value of morality and understand what real-life villains were actually capable of. More and more, contemporary entertainment seeks to deconstruct that idea, which seems like a shame to me. Every rubber ducky story strengthens some real-life narcissist's ego - who wants to live is a society where people like that feel empowered?

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1267295/

[1] https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200127-the-advert-tha...
I remember Facebook used to let any dev access the whole production DB as an effort to "remove red tape" and allow quick solutions to problems. That lack of red tape resulted in multiple stories of employees using that privilege to stalk people in real life.
I see digamma is mentioned, but no love for qoppa or sampi?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koppa_%28letter%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampi
> Kind of scary some of these people believe they're actually jumping dimensions or something

Every time I have thoughts like this about <insert whatever> anymore, I find myself coming back to “well, there are actual Nazi wannabes still, so I guess <insert whatever> isn’t too bad” - let them live their life.

Once Nazis are out of the picture… then maybe we can justify cracking down on others things we don’t like :P
Surely it isn't that rare? I can track about 8 digits total while doing mental mul/div, and I don't think of that as anything special.
Self-help books don't work if you're just starting out. This is because the books sound trite and obvious and you haven't experienced enough failure yet.

But they get very helpful once you've been in a few battles and failed miserably. You'll be able to determine where you went wrong, whereas before it escaped you. You'll then find out how to not make those mistakes again, and do it right next time.
You love the fact technical inspection in US comes down to at most someone looking at the car from afar and proclaiming it road legal?

This is ok by you https://youtu.be/ZlwjXhdNd3Y?t=456 ? No instruments, no road legal lights, basically full racecar made legal by briefly looking at it on a parking lot.
Fake Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, and Shiba Inu Giveaways Proliferate on YouTube
Drawing is a technical skill you develop with directed practice like anything else. It has nothing to do with tracing magical images from your head.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3g8wb/hacker-got-my-texts-1...
> Reinforcement learning agents typically perform poorly if provided with inputs that were not clearly defined in training. A new approach enables RL agents to perform well, even when subject to corrupt, incomplete, or shuffled inputs.

I am not a specialist in NN and the article doesn’t even mention it, but shouldn’t input dropout and input corruption help with this?
I think you nailed the important distinction of instability of visualization.

I think people that dont visualize much or at all get the wrong impression on the fidelity and stability of the ability to visualize.
I tried taking their little quiz and couldn't get past the first page. It asks me to imagine somebody I know, then asks which details I can observe. But those details are unobserved until the quiz asks me about them. The color of their clothing? I wasn't thinking about any specific clothing at all, but when prompted to I'm able to imagine that person in many different outfits. Vivid details of those clothes? Sure, I can imagine details, but the details aren't necessarily there in the "image" until I'm prompted to invent them. The possible answers to the question just seem... invalid. The details are neither dim nor vivid; the details are undetermined and flexible.

Maybe the quiz should first ask me to imagine that person in a specific circumstance, where those details are predetermined by my memory of that circumstance? Even then I still don't understand what the quiz really means by half these answers. What does it mean for an image to be "lively"? That it's moving around? Am I meant to be imagining a still image or a moving image? Depending on how I interpret these questions and answers, I could get completely different outcomes from this quiz.
I’m probably just an idiot, but I am absolutely terrible and anything that requires me to retain information in my head for a calculation.
No, I wrote total opposite. Nothing else. Never changed it.

I wrote about the overuse of "lightweight" in the JavaScript community and just that fact that building an OS on top of npm can hardly be classified as "lightweight", thus logically npm is the opposite of lightweight, bloated.

Why would I write total collapse when contrasting lightweight? Doesn’t make any sense.

You misread. That happens, I do that too time to time. But own it when it happens.