skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may be an area where government regulation is needed, because otherwise service providers have the wrong incentives. Many service providers save a lot of staff costs (for staff who would otherwise be working on any aspect of recovery from account takeover attacks) by requiring a 2FA technology that's acceptable to a huge fraction of their user base. They have no economic incentive for allowing anyone to opt out of 2FA. Regulation might, for example, consider these three factors, among many others:

1. If users rely on the app for basic needs of existing in society, then 2FA must not be mandatory. A user who remembers their password, but has absolutely no continuity of any physical possessions or physical location, must be allowed to login (unless there has already been an account takeover that caused damage to the service provider). Some level of government subsidy might be available to service providers who can meet this requirement.

2. Apps that are more specialized or recreational in nature can make 2FA mandatory.

3. 2FA can be mandatory if the service provider does not obtain any revenue by offering the app.

(These are just initial thoughts, not a complete specification of what regulations would be reasonable.)
The first git command to be taught to beginners should be reflog.
Did you look at TablePlus? Curious where it landed in your evaluation since I've tried pretty much every desktop SQL client and have landed on TablePlus as my goto.

Also, if you're looking for a spreadsheet UI for MySQL, Wax [0] makes it easy to interact with your database from Google Sheets. I'm the founder, happy to answer any questions.

0 - https://www.wax.run/
Whatsapp is owned by facebook, not by apple. I don't think Apple wants to share a backdoor with facebook.

I don't know any detail of the whatsapp vulnerability that NSO exploited.
With VDF you cannot rebuild the 100 minutes worth of blocks in less than 100 minutes, because with the VDF logging, you just proved that you would need at least 100 minutes to go from block n to n+(100 minutes). You can check in 10 seconds, but can only produce in 100 minutes, just like you can check in an instant that a bitcoin block starts with enough zeroes. So it defines the rate of generating blocks.

Of course, nothing can stop anyone from creating parallel 100-minute long branches if that was the only thing, as, unlike PoW, it does not cost anything (except time) to create branches.

So you still need a consensus mechanism, a way to, as an agent of the network, decide what is the right branch. On bitcoin, it is very simple: go to the longest chain, it's where the majority of mining power went, so that is clearly the consensus (with 1 joule = 1 vote).

On ethereum, it's much more complex, involving promises with money at stake locked somewhere, so that anyone can detect cheaters, automatically unlock and take their money as punishment, and reward the whistle-blower with it. So, unless everyone is foolish enough to watch their money seized by the network, it does not happen.

The exact way the correct branch is decided is by random election of one staker, where the randomness is proved to be actually random. After all, using a VDF, you can now prove that its output won't be known until x seconds have passed, if you put the most recent block hash as input. So during that time, you can agree on an fair pseudo-random election algorithm that will take this VDF output as a seed when it becomes available.
Scalping is just meeting an ineffeciency in supply and demand. I don't know why we feel the need to regulate one of the basic principles of a market.

If you truly want to stop scalping, you should become more comfortable with dramatically increased MSRP and remove competitive moats around certain products. Nintendo should be able to sell the NES Classic for 13k if they want. I should be able to produce my own home-console that plays 20 year old games if I want. Those are the actual solutions to scalping.
PC-MOS/386 v5.01
Oh wow. I fondly remember DesqView (no /X) and being completely amazed. I think around that time the larger buzz was around SCO Unix.
Exactly. It was at that moment I understand why most successful and rich people tends to be wary.

I wasn't even rich or successful, I only got promoted to a senior position, and their faces changed the next day. Those a-hole faces still makes me want to puke.

That was a long time ago. But I still have vivid memory of it.
Ask HN: How does one do it all?
Or to elaborate: how does one make time for it all? I understand that this might sound trite and a 'normal' existential crisis in a cliched way but I am genuinely interested in figuring out how people go about deciding what to do with their time? Is it all about one's job or family? How does one balance the pleasures and stimulation of good art in the way of books, movies, tv, music, games, etc alongside more rigorous dives into subjects that might interest one (and potentially not be related much or altogether to one's profession fortunately/unfortunately) such as psychology, philosophy, anthropology, literary theory, etc as well as producing one's own 'art' whatever that might be? Add to this concerns such as volunteering, a social life, taking care of one's physical and mental well being, fulfilling obligations to those around us, paying at least some attention to world events, etc. As a person with eclectic tastes/interests, limited time to pursue them and a finite (atleast last time I checked) lifespan, I have found it increasingly difficult to figure out how to spend my time and seem to end up with an overall feeling of being overwhelmed and settling for the easiest activity at the time. Is it just a question of time management and prioritization?

As a person who is moving from the 'conventional studies' portion of their life to that portion which consists more of 'work' and when people increasingly enter into more serious relationships and make important life decisions such as marriage,children,etc, and is also increasingly aware of the paucity of time and what one can possibly do with it, I wanted to hear people's take on how they manage it all or have learned to manage it over time. I understand that making the most of one's life is a relatively common concern and that answers to this question can be wide ranging and often verge on the abstract but I am open to all manner of answers ranging from the practical to the philosophical. Keeping in mind the typical audience on here, it seemed like a question worth asking.
> that the non-democratic features of the American system are a major reason for that

It's unfortunately unpopular to point out that we have ample evidence, from history and contemporaneously, that democracy per se doesn't work. It devolves into a populist, majoritarian and often authoritarian mess as reliably as (non-monarchical) dictators fall into chaos.

The men who founded our Republic understood this, which is why they explicitly created a system that balances the strengths and weaknesses of monarchy, oligarchy and democracy. (Hint: they're our three branches of government.) At some point, we wrote that balance out of our cultural history, and we're partly paying the price now.
Everyone quick, Amazon now wants us to pay to help build out its cellular infra. Jump on the inflated prices, quick!
I agree, I always got a kick out of that. Always interesting to see when someone thought it was interesting enough to check out last.
Cool points, coolgeek and ogwh. Totally agree on paying attention to detail. I think that we go too far from understanding the fundamentals, and that cripples us.

Being there is the first step. If you aren't "there", paying attention, everything is way, way harder.

If you don't focus on what your tongue, mouth and the air is doing, how are you going to learn to pronounce better? We just try a bunch of things and see what sticks -- not very efficient.

Thanks for the comments, they made me reflect a lot.
> if you have something to hide

Most people don't realize that most people have something to hide. The USA has so many laws on its books. Many of which are outright bizarre[0] and some of which normal people might normally break[1].

And that's only counting current/past laws. It wasn't that long ago a US President was suggesting all Muslims should be forced to carry special IDs[2]. If you have a documented history being a Muslim, it could be harder to fight a non-compliance charge.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-a-law-where-you-can-t-put...

[1] https://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2008/05/weird-kentucky-...

[2] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-muslims-id/
OpenAI Residency
I don't buy it. Bitcoin has much higher volatility than other currencies and much higher costs to use it. If your problem is lack of confidence in your nation's money supply, you're better off getting some more stable currency, like any one of these: https://fxssi.com/top-10-world-most-stable-currencies
I agree with point 1 and point 2 should really be to the end of the original author's lifetime, or 40 years if it's the work of a corporation i.e. a work for hire.

Additionally, the renewal should cost (2 * i)^n dollars for each year beyond that, where i is the inflation adjustment and n is the number of years. You want to preserve your copyright for 10 years? Fine, it'll only cost you ~$2k. You want to extend it for 30 years? That'll be a billion dollars, please. The original author no longer cares, and their offspring have had their chance to profit from it and start to create something new. Having an idea first shouldn't grant you and your bloodline (or shareholders) exclusive right to it forever.
It can't. Anyone credible is using an age adjusted metric of some sort. YPLL or something like that. Of course none of the activists, journalists or editors use those numbers because they are boring and don't grab headlines like "a bajillion deaths" does.
From the conversation I had, you don't need a spectrum license and Amazon ships you the equipment. The killer app is that there is no per device costs and you pay based on your usage.

Unfortunately, no mention of actual pricing.
was mentioned in the comments of the DESQview thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29396561
Well, ads and information are at direct competition, and we all know who's winning the battle. It seems Bing is better for most searches now, even technical ones because they seem to index more of github and stackoverflow than Google.

Man, ads really are the devil.
Actually, we are both wrong.

SCOTUS did explicitly address the apartment buildings and gave what to many contemporary eyes would be an absurd judgement:

"With particular reference to apartment houses, it is pointed out that the development of detached house sections is greatly retarded by the coming of apartment houses, which has sometimes resulted in destroying the entire section for private house purposes; that in such sections very often the apartment house is a mere parasite, constructed in order to take advantage of the open spaces and attractive surroundings created by the residential character of the district. Moreover, the coming of one apartment house is followed by others, interfering by their height and bulk with the free circulation of air and monopolizing the rays of the sun which otherwise would fall upon the smaller homes, and bringing, as their necessary accompaniments, the disturbing noises incident to increased traffic and business, and the occupation, by means of moving and parked automobiles, of larger portions of the streets, thus detracting from their safety and depriving children of the privilege of quiet and open spaces for play, enjoyed by those in more favored localities-until, finally, the residential character of the neighborhood and its desirability as a place of detached residences are utterly destroyed. Under these circumstances, apartment houses, which in a different environment would be not only entirely unobjectionable but highly desirable, come very near to being nuisances."
Maybe title would have to be The Math Party Math Trick.
It's incredibly disheartening how difficult it is to get most people to care about digital privacy.
to be a Telco at scale you need dedicated spectrum allocation which is seldom auctioned by the government at super high price so this is definitively what this is. it uses CBRS Spectrum which is dynamically allocated per site and the government can yank the CBRS spectrum you were temporary allocated at their discretion.
If bots are hosted in China (or any non-US country), and purchase products to be delivered to China does this law prevent any scalping of product at all in that case?

If so, how is it enforced?
> * For the simple case, they seem like they are as good as a simple backend service, albeit easier to set up.

Agreed.

> * For more complex cases (e.g. external dependencies, complex business logic), they seem so much more difficult to make work that I can't imagine anyone _not_ setting up a separate service to handle those scenarios. Maybe you can do everything with stored procedures, but Hasura, Postgraphile, et al. all seem to suggest that you should stand up a separate service for this.

You should stand up a separate service for this regardless of your choice of web server.

A web server should not be handling complex business logic cases, for many reasons but one obvious one is synchronous wait times. PostgREST or not, bigger job should go into a work queue, which should take just a few milliseconds.

The second reason a work queue is better is that it is more secure. Your web process can be given the absolute minimal privileges, say INSERT only on the queue table. The queue worker can have more privileges. The important upside is that user facing systems cannot take "complex business logic" actions by way of security enforcement.

> * Once you've got a separate service where your complexity lives, that's going to be the meat of your project.

I agree, but that will happen regardless of your web server.

> * Is it really worth it to introduce a separate dependency & pattern just to scaffold the easy parts more quickly?

Quickness is only one tiny advantage of PostgREST. Native security on database objects, streaming responses without buffering, using every available postgres feature that no other database supports without third-party plugins to your web framework, that's just the beginning, but yeah it's a hell of a lot quick and easier to use too.
Blue checks are mostly reserved for some specific categories of users: celebrities, mainstream media journalists, and politicians. It's not absolute but my experience is that being only reasonably well known (thousands of followers) in, say, tech circles isn't enough to get a blue check. So it's not so much being liked but being in a category which Twitter has determined is important to avoid people faking identity.

I had someone spoof my profile a while back. (Chose hard to tell apart user name and used my profile pic etc. to do some crypto spamming.) Twitter promptly nuked their account but wouldn't verify me afterwards.
Scalping increases MSRP. Removing it would cause it to decrease.
Is thei FAQ in line with your understanding? You might be more capable than me at parsing it for all I can understand is: "You will receive all the AWS Private 5G hardware (including SIM cards) and software you need to deploy your private cellular network and connect devices to your applications."

I translate that to: we sell 5G access points as an alternative to wifi access points. Am I wrong? Cause if I am right I fail to see the bigness of it. I just see it as something reasonable.

https://aws.amazon.com/private5g/faqs/
> "...unless you need something only VS can do..."

Yea, you just want to argue.
Blue check used to mean "identity objectively verified", useful to confirm the twiterati using the name is the actual person/group others think they are.

Then came the Great Bluecheck Purge, where anyone exhibiting opinions not preferred by Twitter management had their blue check revoked/denied - which in practice was applied generally to Republicans, who constitute about half the USA. (We're talking mainstream views, not just weirdos.)

Ergo, anyone with a blue check is, by Twitter decree, not a Republican. For Republicans, blue check now amounts to a "badge of shame" indicating Twitter-approved opposition.

Blue checks were changed from "identity confirmed" to "one of us, not them".
Good quantitative data is hard to find in this space. I'd welcome it, both as a user and out of interest in the data science. How would you quantify things? What search corpus bearing in mind the algorithm is possibly influenced by what terms are being used worldwide, weighting caches and the like.
How does them reading my messages keep me safe, though?
I had a manager offer to put on a work hackathon. It was going to be 24 hours of design and code. I figured it would be fun, even if we were building something for the company, free reign micro project would be cool..
We ended up spending the time building something management wanted, and then playing poker. (I don't gamble so I was rather miffed)
In the end, I think we spent about 4 hours coding up something the bosses wanted.
That's because nix is not a docker alternative.

I'd love a nix-like docker alternative to be fair but that'd be a massive undertaking.
Good point for buying a new laptop ;)
twitter would be a lot more fun if they just accepted what they're actually useful for, an attention game. they should hire a large team of writers and ban links to the real world- turn the whole thing into a giant fantasy larp game and charge people to play.
me too! Running BBS for several lines on one pc was awesome at that time.
Twitter bans sharing of private media without permission
Since the Fibonacci sequence preserves limits, the adjoint functor theorem says there must be some function G such that n divides F(m) if and only if G(n) divides m. This is called the sequence of entry points for the Fibonacci sequence, because G(n) is given by the first m such that n divides F(m) [https://oeis.org/A001177].

Of course since G is a left adjoint it has the dual property that lcm(G(n),G(m)) = G(lcm(n,m)).

Can we do more advanced category theory here? What is the Kan extension of the Fibonacci sequence along the Mersenne numbers?
I have experience doing this and am happy to talk offline as this is a complicated situation - just shoot me an email and I'll make time.

You will need to create organizational accountability for the integration and define what success looks like and how it will be measured. You will also want to avoid an "us vs them" situation inside the two companies.

There are a ton of subtleties in how to do that above that vary with organizational dynamics, but you must ensure that at a senior level you have alignment from both organizations or there will be a lot of shared misery.
Refusing a valid court issued search warrant/order is a criminal offense. I think 180 days for each refusal of a legal order.
This. It is important to remember not everyone works in Tech. Many commodity markets are zero-sum game. Which is often why Tech circle don't understand a thing about other market. You cant apply the same thinking to everything.
Overfishing masks that effects also. There is not reason to think that fish fertility as a global concept would change. Some species would decrease and other increase but jellyfishes would be the real culprits in most cases if you see a big decrease or recruitment when the water is warmer.
Haha! No wonder I have so many issues with:

- though
- through
- rough
- cough
- thought

Thanks for the link, jjgreen. Very interesting, and certainly tricky.
And a screenshot, or another camera, or a rooted phone can easily defeat that.

The analog hole ALWAYS exists. Pretending it doesnt is ridiculous.
Recently my Google suggested search completions has started suggesting that I add "reddit" to a lot of my searches.

I can only presume that so many people have given up on the web as indexed by Google and are just searching for "<whatever> reddit" now as the only way to get any kind of content written by real people on a subject instead of SEOd filler "content".

Presumably it won't be long before Reddit itself is flooded with spam content to take advantage of this - I'm sure it's already happening to high value keywords.
While I also am annoyed how much I need to enquoten to refine search, in most cases I wish it upped the bias further. My default search applies the 'Past year' filter because otherwise I get lots of outdated answers.
WWIV! If you registered they would give you compilable source code and I liked being able to customize it. Before that it was C-Net on the C64. Modifying BBSes is what got me into coding.
Only in theory. Try to buy, as a consumer, a bare Ampere CPU right now. It's impossible.
There are other comments here claiming Telco nonsense. What you say sounds reasonable though :)
Just flag or delete the thread then. The parent commenter didn't say anything egregious or explicit, they were just correctly pointing out that countries have perfectly legitimate reasons for not wanting unvaccinated visitors traveling through them. If we aren't allowed to disagree with OP in the slightest, then what's the point of keeping the thread around?
You've asked ~4 different questions.

Close to none of the replies acknowledge this.

Yes, HN quantifiably is close to useless. They can't even understand the problem/questions let alone the answer.

To answer some

No, Google is not worse, it's just different. But I can't quantify it. I haven't kept old data.

For Dorking check out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shodan_(website) Google Dorking still works fine. Almost by definition it's up to you to find new Dorks as the old ones get closed.

The fact Sal dulu a used to autocomplete to Sal dulu Antasma might have been Personal results, did it work for anyone else? Have you turned this off?
Assuming that Omicron (or the next variant) is more contagious than Delta, then pretty much everybody who's not a hermit will either be vaccinated, recovered/recovering or dead in the next couple of years. Possibly more than one of these categories, unfortunately. That said, why not improve the odds for you and others AND reduce the ability of the virus to spread to naive hosts...

And if you don't like any of the current vaccines, then you're certainly not going to like the disease itself. The goal is to keep people out of hospital and to build up sufficient resistance to (hopefully) turn COVID into a bad flu or better. It seems too variable to go away at this instant - we've not gotten rid of flu but it's been less fatal.
But they have to fake the voice, if I call the other person and say "my emoji sequence is this, this and that" for the other person to verify and vice-versa.
The amount of abusive behaviour that gets normalized in Academia is outlandish. As is the hero-worship that becomes associated with stories of geniuses like Feynman.

> The harsh words stung at first, and caused me to question whether I belonged in theoretical physics. But I couldn’t help noticing that Dick did not seem to take the critical comments as seriously as I did. In the next breath, he would always be encouraging me to try a different approach and inviting me to return when I made progress.

This is survivor bias through and through. Plenty of people faced the same harsh words, and took them personally, and left theoretical physics. You might say "good riddance", they wouldn't have belonged or succeeded in the first place, but I don't believe that's true.

Feynman came up in a different time, so let's look forwards not backwards.

There is a way that you can be 1) direct, 2) precise, 3) honest, 4) efficient without being a dick, being rude, aggressive, and unintentionally demoralizing others.