skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Regarding storing parts of the secret here and there: it's basically and "m out of n" scheme AFAICT. There are many variations of this but the overall idea is that you can afford to lose (n - m) parts and yet you'll be able to recover the secret. And if a thief were to steal parts, he'd need m parts to be able to recover the secret.

The difference between a Shamir scheme and a true multi-signature scheme is that the former requires combining the m-of-n pieces to reveal the single private key to sign a transaction, which is a huge vulnerability and single point of failure.

Bitcoin script allows the m-of-n signatures to remain geographically dispersed, each signing the transaction with only their own key, so no single party ever needs to possess the full private key.
Having children with multiple partners has always been and will always be the quickest way to spread genetic material. That is true regardless if women are having 2 kids or 5. Speculating that lower birth rates will somehow increase absentee fathers is baseless, that evolutionary pressure has been present since before we were human.
"But I've worked on teams that advocated for microservices needlessly, and it was 100% cargo cult behavior: "Netflix does it, so we should too."

I've seen this too, and in fact I got laid off because I pushed back against this silliness for what should have been a simple lift and shift.
I too loved "A Subtle Knife" :)

https://hisdarkmaterials.fandom.com/wiki/Mulefa

> The most notable feature of the mulefa was their use of seed pods as wheels. Once a zalif reached puberty, they were able to fit their spurs into the disc-shaped pods, and propelled themselves along "roads" of solidified lava with their side legs.
A really interesting video by Isaac Arthur discussing the potential population ceiling of earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lJJ_QqIVnc&t=711s
Apple's default web browser is Safari on iOS and no one ever sued Apple over it.

At some point, you have to just recognize that the world is different today. The general market has accepted walled garden OSes with anti-competitive behavior towards common applications.
Linux Desktop feeling extra good today, my sound often doesn't work but I don't have to deal with Microsoft nonsense.
Mainly wslg, which has vgpu support for consumer gpus.

That's about it.
it's a link buried inside a lot of the bundled utilities in Windows. It forces URLs to use Edge as the browser instead of your chosen default one.

Windows 11 has a news & weather popup widget that sits down by the clock, in which you can click on the live tiles shown to take you to more info on the web. This widget uses microsoft-edge:// URI scheme so Edge is ALWAYS invoked.

Mozilla tried to hack their way around it, and it's been a few weeks of cat and mouse on it. At the moment, MS are winning.

It's like they've totally forgotten the events of the IE anti-trust stuff.
What's ironic is that there is (or... was. I've not been as active recently to see if it's still there) a marked difference even between the Rails community and the core Ruby community. The closer to Matz you get, the nicer people tend to be.
This probably is the solution - as cryptocurrency advocates like to say, "not your keys, not your coins", but for certain people an IOU from a bank saying that the bank owes them some coins is preferable to having the actual coins and the benefits+risks associated with that.

It's similar to stocks and bonds - you could own them yourself, but for not-huge private investment it's often simpler to have a financial institution hold them on your behalf.
Yowzers. I've not seen any TELEX equipment in over 30 years. Even then it was outdated.
That's the core semantic confusion at the heart of this issue. Cryptocurrency protocols eliminated the need for trust for cryptocurrency transactions. So you can exchange BTC or ETH all day and night and always know who you're paying and no one can get in the middle and mess that up.

But it does nothing for transactions outside of that world. The core idea behind the "DeFi economy" is making things happen in the real world (by financing business ideas, buying 230 year old documents, etc...). And that part requires that the crypto resources be given to some kind of real actor in the real world who's going to do something real with them.

And those actors are people, and they cheat. Hence the new term of art "rugging". You can cheat people in the crypto world, in some sense, more easily than you can regular consumers precisely because they got fooled into thinking they didn't need to trust you.
It's not worth it to trade simplicity for performance or efficiency. Especially if the energy that is being wasted on simpler things is coming from fossil fuels.
I would actually disagree - to me you can have "decent separation of concerns in your code" but still have only built the app to support a single entry point. "Modular monolith" to me is a system that is built with the view of being able to support multiple entry points, which is a bit more complex than just "separating concerns"
Americans who are under the watchful eye of a hostile SEC and face serious prison time if they get caught are much less likely to be scammers than some anonymous group from the Bahamas.
Translation: “We won’t really try very hard at enforcing laws because you said mean things about us and we’d have to file paper work. Stop wanting us to hold officers accountable when they abuse people and we might start caring again” -police unions and officers
logback is *gpl, I think that scares folks away.
Huge fan sir. Following your blog since a long time.

Thanks for pointing out this awesome stats.
Monoliths don’t actually look like that at scale. For example you can easily have multiple different data stores for different reasons, including multiple different kinds of databases. Here’s this tiny little internal relational database used internally, and there’s the giant tape library that’s archiving all this scientific data we actually care about. Here’s the hard real time system, and over there’s the billing data etc etc.

The value of a monolith is it looks like a single thing from outside that does something comprehensible, internally it still needs to actually work.
This is Conway's Law.

It is why the Reverse Conway is preached. Define your desired architecture, and fit your organization to fit it. At that point your code base will reflect the organization of people working on it, and the output will reflect the desired architecture.
I remember the first time I saw a BAT file that had a conditional in it. Mother of god. I needed eye bleach.

If your BAT file has a conditional, you are using the wrong tool. BAT files should be completely top to bottom with no branching. Anything else is madness.
> That there are people suffering while others are well-off?

See, you got it in just a single guess. Good job!
> you think companies are choosing to write their entire stack in python just because ml tools are in python?

Going with the masses (e.g Java/Node/Python) is the easy thing to do. It feels "safe". But who knows where Python/Node will be 10 years from now, people are restless and will come up with new things (Deno?) and it could be they will start declining.
Java is pretty much unavoidable though.
So the cost of being able to zoom is data communication and storage consumption?
According to the article, education (particularly for women) seems to be the biggest factor:

> The strikingly different fertility rates in different regions of India reflect the role of education, says EM Sreejit of the International Planned Parenthood Federation in South Asia. Kerala in the south, which has the country’s highest literacy rate, achieved replacement fertility back in 1988. Bihar in the east, with the lowest literacy rate, won’t get there until 2039
> People were sure a lot safer before meth and heroin were decriminalized.

I'd love to see some actual data on this.

> No other country allows people to just sit on the sidewalk and smoke meth and shoot heroin and break into cars and shoplift to support their habit.

No other country puts addiction treatment behind a huge financial wall either. America is broken and that's just a symptom of it.

> It’s all woke virtue signaling

Just as an aside, people who use 'woke' and 'virtue signal' really discredit themselves by using those terms. It telephones the reality that you probably consume a lot of conservative 'sky-is-falling' media that is designed to make you scared and reactionary.

> Sadly it’s the drug addicts and mentally ill who suffer since they are just constantly let to spiral further downward

Is your thought that being locked in a jail is somehow better for them? You don't need to pretend that you actually care what happens to them.
Or you can use another operating system you actually like. That way you are contributing to the solution and not the problem.
I'm an indie developer, and the $7.99 lifetime license purchase sustains Batteries' development.
Isn’t this the default behaviour on clicking the Bluetooth icon when a device is connected to a Mac?

I am on macOS Monterey (12.0.1) and this is what I see: https://imgur.com/a/SAKj3Cs
They can.

Do you not understand the difference between a rule for employees, and the law?
I've heard a rumour that the Microsoft anti trust actions in the states were more a proxy war to get Microsoft to play nice with the federal government wrt 'lawful intercept'.
Turkish lira collapsing: now at 17.7 vs. Euro
The fix from that article has to do with how one would go about setting a different default browser. Earlier, they had to do this by associating the browser with filetypes, so, someone would have to make multiple changes to fully set their browser default. Now, you can just set the browser like you would think.

The issue at hand though has to do with other links within windows that open web pages. Microsoft had used a different protocol (not https, but, something like microsoft-edge://). I think these links are like news items that show up in the start menu, etc. There was no way to set Firefox to open these links with what Windows provided, it only opened in Edge. A program was written that listens for these protocols, and would let the user customize what program opened with those links were clicked. Microsoft has now shut that option down.
> It's an american company, with real people behind it. It's not some scammy thing in the Bahamas.

Enron would like a word!
Same boat as both of you guys I find myself in this weird world of loving Go's simplicity, loving Rails get shit done mentality + community and Java reliability (but SpringBoot makes me sad).

I'm glad I ventured out of my Java only mindset however. Lots of interesting things going on but decision paralysis sucks.
Yea, I'm really glad they dropped Webpacker. It was the worst "Webpack abstraction" I've had to deal with, and the only documentation was always out of date and confusing.
It's a solved problem in Canada. Everything goes into a Blind Trust.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-blin...
It's also very, very easy to run into compute limits on the free tiers of Wolfram Cloud and even Wolfram Alpha.
Doesn't anyone write proper conclusions/abstracts any more?
> an era of HFT, 45 days might as well be 10 years

Sorry, I thought the problem was corruption. Not market makers getting run over. If it’s the former, the delay is irrelevant. If it’s the latter…why?
> This is the law, and has been since 2012

It was the law for approximately 1 year.

I suggest you read the amendment [0] to the STOCK Act that was quietly passed the following year, 2013. It largely rendered the STOCK Act useless.

[0] (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20140419032033/http://www.gpo.go...
If you're using the HTTP protocol, add `async_insert=1` to your connection string. You can tune the batching here: https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/operations/settings/settings/...
The claim is that civil servants are the bad guys and yet somehow people we make into civil servants would somehow "fight for us" - its the same line of bullshit that politicians have been hawking for decades in America.

I'm an outsider! They yell, as they have private meetings for billions.

Pelosi has been in office for 18 terms... so how hasn't she been able to "fix the system"?
The "innovation" here would be the ease in which communities can take over projects if they coordinate.

But upon a second reading, I don't think you get my point that there are categories of things called "rug pulls" and the chainanalysis article does not distinguish well. I also think distinguishing is not possible to reach consensus, right now, but attempts should be made.
Why couldn’t they upgrade any of the hardware?
Also: any of the BSDs.
It sounds to me like GP wants to stay on Windows 10. I agree Linux is better, but if you want that, you can move to it whenever you want completely independent of Windows 11.
What's the hospitalization rate of delta in the vaccinated? It's pretty low.

At this point, the vast majority of the unvaxxed are younger, lower risk people. The high risk people who aren't vaxxed (fucking idiots) are now highly treatable. We've got at least two, but a third coming soon, potent treatment options that radically reduce hospitalization. The new Pfizer pill is a true game changer, and we already have the monoclonal ABs.

It doesn't appear that the public health authorities or the media are updating their policies based on these new realities. 90% of the people most at risk are vaxxed, and for those who are hospitalized (vaxxed or not) we now have treatments shown in clinical trials to further reduce hospitalization rates by roughly 88-90%. Translation: the hospitals aren't going to get overwhelmed anymore.

Science won, even with a sizable chunk of the populace not wanting the vaccine. People can debate the moral hazard of treating unvaxxed with these new therapeutics, but that's a moral argument, not a practical one. Give them the pill or the infusion, keep them out of an ICU bed, and wag your finger at them later. This pandemic is over, and the fear needs to go with it.
> US military’s budget is 10 times more than its closest rival

Ten times more than China's budget? Source, please.
Neither Germany or France have a conscript army. So neither can field any big numbers and it also inflates the cost of the armed forces for the comparison.
As far as I know, this was rectified in 2012 (or at least made explicit, some claim Congress was never exempt).

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

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203711104577199...

https://www.congressionalinstitute.org/2018/08/16/can-member...
For all the people down voting: I urge you to consider a different perspective where the hoarding of resources is a bad thing for humanity and life at large. The US, along with other countries, have done this for too long. We should have "having lots of money and resources" as a primary goal. Resources are tools to accomplish other things, not an end in itself. This is why I say its lame and shortsighted.
No, you don't need a perfect RNG. You need anything that's not completely horrible.

Remember, we're not trying to read a whole password from the device, just one matching byte at a time. So, even if our password character set is a single character (pass will let you do that, but obviously you should not use such passwords in real life) we're talking about statistically 1 out of 256 bytes matches or else our PRNG is useless.

You correctly observe that the PRNG has finite state, but its state isn't so tiny that it only emits a handful of the 256 possible bytes before getting back to where it started, nobody would use such a busted algorithm.

RC4 is considered broken and unusable because the keystream is biased and thus distinguishable from random - to the extent that if you read a few million bytes from it you can detect the bias, but you're asking us to imagine that the random device has a PRNG many orders of magnitude worse in order for this to have any effect at all.
Microsoft is making me seriously reconsider using Windows for my Alienware gaming PC.

Does anyone know if there's a version of the Alienware, Steelseries, and Razer control software for Linux?
What does "1X" mean in this context?
See @matthewaveryusa's comment above[0]. Looks like it already exists and is supported by GoDaddy, Google, CloudFlare, 1and1, and others. Still reading the spec but it looks pretty good.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29575264
Not a company per say, but last week after going through the terminal 2 security checkpoint at San Diego Airport, I passed by a shelf holding a Windows laptop - probably 7-8 years old - open, running an application, with a sign taped to the shelf reading 'DO NOT CLOSE OR UNPLUG THIS LAPTOP!!!'.

I really, really, really wanted to close it to see what happened but I didn't want to spend the holidays in jail so I just chuckled and moved on.
You might enjoy this Andy Weir short story:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49661162-randomize
Show HN: I made a voice activated golf bag that shoots your clubs
What he liked was Scheme, not Java. You can catch a whiff of it every now and then. He got told to give it a Java-like syntax by a PHB so they could ride on Sun's marketing coat-tails.

And that's part of the problem: if what we'd started with was Java--, we might not have quite such a mess today.
The birthrate started crashing long before Japanese animation became "anime," let alone the sort you're worrying about: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/JPN/japan/birth-rate (although Go Nagai isn't exactly a model of rectitude).

As for the history of anime and what you're worried about Dragon Maid normalizing, let me just point out as an extreme example that Kodomo no Jikan was aired in 2007 a full decade before Dragon Maid.

And I find it curious that you don't seriously consider the arsonist's claim it was for revenge from his perception that the studio had ripped off material in a novel he submitted to them in the light novel competitions they'd started running (no good deed goes unpunished).
Its also being used as the currency for now ousted Myanmar govt https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/12/14/myanmar-shadow-...
I grew up golfing and I love to make things, so I thought it’d be pretty funny and ridiculous if I made a voice activated golf bag that shoots out your clubs. Like a robotic caddy of sorts.

The video explains some parts of how I built it and shows it off more (I even got to bring it to England to show Rick Shiels, a popular golf YouTuber), but I’ll highlight a few other key points.

- Getting this thing to rotate and finding the right motor took me a lot of time. A bunch of stepper motors I tried initially were too weak and would “skip”. I did some MOI calculations and talked with some engineers (this math was new to me) and I eventually found a motor that was just barely strong enough. I threw a 10:1 gearbox on it to solidify the torque requirements and called it a day.

- The motor didn’t rotate very accurately in terms of degrees. So trying to rotate 30 degrees would actually rotate 30 degrees +- 4 degrees. Over time, there was a lot of drift and rotating a certain number of degrees became completely inaccurate. I came up with a solution where a microswitch was clicked every time a club went by. That way, the motor rotated until a certain number of clicks happened instead of X number of degrees. The video breaks this solution down more.

- The voice assistant software is Rhasspy, an open source offline voice assistant. It had to be offline since I wouldn’t have internet connection on the course. That runs on a raspberry pi and also has the microphone and speaker hooked up to it.

- Originally I was going to use a fancy microphone that has lights and that took up all the pins on the pi, so I planned to use I2C to send commands to an Arduino to control the motor (and solenoid valves which controlled the airflow to the air cylinders that actually shot out the club). I set all that up then changed the microphone at the last minute. If I had more time, I would have removed I2C and just used the Pi. Since I didn’t have time, the current implementation is a Pi and Arduino talking over I2C.

- The video shows how I 3D printed some parts to make the clubs stay aligned in one direction so they don’t smash into each other when they eject from the bag. Just wanted to call out I’m really proud of this solution :)
Considering the state of security in modern computing devices and the various OS's that power them, security updates mean less and less to me over time. Nothing is secure and likely won't ever be. I'd argue we're collectively less secure in 2021 than in 1995 despite massive advances in all other areas of the field.
I'm pretty sure there will be some community programs that will fix this again. Just takes some time I guess. Currently I'm still waiting until I get the feeling that win11 is "finished".
Have you never considered this or do you actually have a valid argument as to why it isn't true? I thought this was something that was agreed upon by most engineers.
> That's 4 good years to see if the grass is greener on the Unix side

There, I fixed it
The problem with tether is not the amount minted/in circulation. The problem is that they definitely lied previously about their backing and are probably lying now. If you claim to be one of the worlds largest commercial paper holders yet no one knows whose commercial paper you are holding then that is suspicious. It’s unimaginable that a new large player entered the market and nobody noticed.
It's pretty easy to do: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/21/how-to-use-google-assistant-...
San Francisco exodus isn’t over, according to new migration data
Show HN: I wrote a book on pipeline as code
If more people are able to have healthier lives and be productive in their chosen niche (if they choose to), there might be other benefits, too. For example, many fields benefit from long expertise, like mathematics.
Guide How to Mint NFTs
Here are some differences with the bluetooth menu:

- Batteries also shows non-bluetooth devices (iPhone/iPad and AirPods/AirPods case even when not connected via bluetooth).

- Batteries shows your devices in the Menu Bar, Touch Bar and Notification Center.

- Batteries sends you notifications when any of your devices are low on battery.
Taking this as an opportunity to plug the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT). Pay no attention to the tongue-in-cheek name, it has nothing to do with mass suicide or genocide, and merely advocates for us to stop breeding.

From https://www.vhemt.org/:

> Phasing out the human species by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth's biosphere to return to good health. Crowded conditions and resource shortages will improve as we become less dense.
Well, it'd certainly reduce the amount of time spent by politicians on getting re-elected.
I could easily do that if it weren’t for the maps and Spotify apps. They really got me there.
Yeah, that gives me 4 more years to investigate Linux.
Urbanization and education have been among the two greatest downward pressures on population growth.
TL;DR: Their neighbor was hit by a Waymo car being manually piloted by a human. Also, it might have been raining out, and the person who got hit might have been jaywalking? Either way, seems like an unfortunate case where a person got hit by a driver, who just happened to be driving a car with some fancy sensors on top.
ACH transfers. And, everyone in the US depends on them.
And shameless given her rhetoric around the presidential emoluments clause, which is valid, but then apparently for Congress people this concern is dismissed…
Really? I see a lot of pro-crypto statements on here as well.

If anything, I'd say the corner is turning and the previously pro-crypto HN is just now becoming more anti-crypto.
I got XP, skipped Vista, got 7, skipped 8, got 10...I think I will skip 11
Good news, in four years I run out of reasons not to go back to Windows 7, an OS that doesn't treat me with naked contempt.