skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Encrypted backups: age + a Reed-Solomon encoder for catching flipped bits

I fear that I might of caused this idea. I have as a result added the following footnote to the article that I suspect is the cause[1]:

>Please note that the single flipped bit here is not a realistic example and that in practice damage tends to encompass one or more media blocks. Such blocks tend to be multiples of 512 bytes.

I am afraid that someone might actually implement this...

[1] https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:agevspgp
There’s lots of trig. But as far as I’m aware those have also been identical in SSE.

Edit: SSE actually do transcendentals at all so it’s possible I’m saved by stable software defined transcendentals in .net (effectively then the Windows x64 implementations)
"Developing countries" with an axe to grind on USA already have dozens of research, or power reactors. This is my point.

If somebody will bomb your cities with nukes, killing millions in the process, you will not need Mariano Grossi, he will be useless to USA. You will need capable military allies.

So far, the US does everything to turn away any potential ally, including by denying them access to powerful weapons, with thermonuclear weapons being the biggest one.
It never occurred to me to use nicotine pills as an appetite suppressant, though I don't doubt at all that it works. I wonder what other side effects it might have, aside from being potentially habit forming. Does it increase blood pressure? That's the main thing that keeps me from ever indulging in tobacco use.
> If I can move my eSIM to a new phone, so can an attacker.

No, they can't - there is (at least for modern SIM cards and eSIM modules, see [1]) no way short of decapping the chip to extract the secret keys once they are on the chip, and even de-capping is something that the chip industry has gotten pretty good on defending against.

An attacker would have to request a new eSIM profile (aka, new keys) from your provider to hijack your number, which is an entirely different threat model.

[1]: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/sim-card-history-clone-wars/1...
Your situation is apparently common nowadays with OG usernames and can get very dangerous. I had no idea this was a thing until I listened to an episode on Darknet Diaries [0] recently.

In the old days, I remember people going after short domains in the same manner. ICANN ended up adding locking (auth codes) - perhaps IG and other social sites can learn from it.

Be safe!

[0]https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/106/
In NYC: until recently we didn't need masks in my office and you were allowed to eat lunch together normally (you were required to be vaccinated, though enforcement was just an attestation). With omicron my company (not the city) has decided to add back masking for now.

At HQ in the Bay masking indoors was still required by the county, I believe. Though people are still able to eat lunch together.
Making sounds using SDL and visualizing them on a simulated oscilloscope
Speaking of which, there's a comment today about SICM in Clojure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29714267
You are not arguing the point. Billboard advertisers do not transact with you for your attention. They are trampling all over your property without consent. The argument is that you have a right to prevent that from happening. That doesn't extend to a moral right to burn the building down, I obviously have no moral right to go no further than what is necessary to reverse that.
TIL there is a whole story behind the "ta-dum" sound (which is also its name, btw) and that the core of it is a wedding ring rapping on a cabinet:

https://www.news24.com/channel/tv/news/the-story-behind-the-...
I can understand the company pulling usernames from an automated name squatter... but I wonder if this happens to fully established accounts too?
"Grant Applications:

Very specific academic "skill" which is intimately tied to the bureaucracy of the university system of your particular country or region. It also has a lot to do with things that aren't even in the application: who you know and what ? they think of you. Whatever org you join later will have some other way for funding to come down, and there are so many varieties of org that you'll just have to learn on that job."

I think the country/region part you mention is most relevant here, but I disagree with the overall assessment of grant writing being irrelevant. If you work in a start-up or the R&D division of a company, there's still grant money to be had. This lets companies pursue high risk projects while not jeopardizing overall revenue.
Deeper in geological history we can see what happened at 4 degrees warmer. The result was mass extinction and much less life on the planet, mostly clustered around the poles. Equatorial regions were uninhabitable. Sea levels were quite a bit higher.
‘Hard’ skills from our PhDs remain relevant beyond academia

Experience in grant-writing, data analysis and presentation will serve you well, say Samantha Baggott and Jonathan McGuire.

You can say that about anything. My version (which I firmly believe):

‘Hard’ skills from McDonald's remain relevant beyond foodservice

Experience in showing up on time, being trained and prepared, caring about customers, and getting done what must be done will serve you well, says edw519

Edit: Oops, I just noticed a similar (and much more insightful) McDonald's reference in this thread from temporalparts. :-)
How I feel (e.g. sick) / What I'm trying (e.g. some new exercise, medication) / Anything noteworthy that happened.

It's intentionally non-machine-readable. Just to see the past weeks at a glance.
Nigel Farage is though.
Wow that's a shitty thing to do
What devices are you using the account on? If it's on a desktop browser, my assumption would be that you've got malware. That allows them to trivially steal the session cookies, steal the passwords the next time you log in, steal any device identification cookies that are used to control not using 2FA on logins from trusted devices / sending new device notifcations, and also hijack your recovery and notification email address.

If you're only using this via the app from a mobile device, then malware is an unlikely explanation though.

(Why are you regularly changing the password anyway? What's the threat model you're trying to guard against?)
Both the incumbent tobacco companies and the state have a huge financial interest in ensuring that a) competition stays out or b) they get the right sized cut from any competitor.

The states scrambled to delay and regulate ecigs just enough to figure out how to tax it because they were afraid of losing revenue from cigarette taxes. They were not just haplessly corrupt but active in that effort.
Android here. Not much of a sim hacker here - but I once suffered an over the air sim hack. Phone ceased to work, gmail accessed, PW changed and phone was changed to another number. Freedom advised there was no human engineering involved - they reverted the phone reverted to my control and I selected a 7 digit PIN and my file was locked so it needs me in person as well as that new PIN. gmail was recovered and a USB dongle was added at home to secure that. No problems since. Police and Federal(RCMP) police investigated. I could not figure why me? - apparently it was a hack aimed at the Australian ambassador to Canada, whose gmail ID was the same as mine with a 1 digit numeric suffix on his. Was this - Chinese?? They got nothing from me or him as he had a secure embassy hardware secured and encrypted message system he used for all embassy business. Gmail was just for online shopping, friends etc. He has since retired and I often get, in error, emails intended for him, which I dutifully forward and erase and we occasionally chat.
They are saying it’s just a credential stuffing attack and being that my master passphrase is only used for LastPass I’m hoping that is all that is going on. Their statement does say “It’s important to note that, at this time, we do not have any indication that accounts were successfully accessed” but I would still like confirmation the emails were sent even on invalid attempts.
Atmospheric Oxygen Level Project
> SponsorBlock

This is free.
Oh this is true. Rereading your point that an error should be present is something I agree with.

It feels more domain to the browser. Have some sort of required flag.
I've never been too interested in working for HFT/traditional finance, but depending on how office trends continue I might change my mind (especially living in NYC, though I'm also considering moving).
Edits on OpenStreetMap are not moderated, any edit goes live immediately.

Do you remember your account name?
Resolution is only a single spec. Other things like viewing angles, response time, refresh rate,brightness, HDR, etc. have been getting better and better for less. A premium 1080p monitor from 15 years ago will not be nearly as good as a modern reasoanbly priced one.
Should be easy enough to post a list of stolen accounts someplace public.
On Linux at least, it is
> non-repudiability nature of PGP messages

Huh? Unless you're signing it (in which case of course it's not deniable, it's a signature) it has no such nature.

Do you care to elaborate on those good reasons that the web of trust "failed"?
>working on my own eSIM implementation

Please tell me you are serious about this. Tried looking into this earlier and found out that eSIM is extra proprietary, which means no hobby devices, like those 3G/4G/GSM connectivity Arduino modules.
Try at companies developing military devices. You can’t do this from home (I hope).
That sounds quite a bit safer than the NA and even the other European ones.

How practical is that I wonder? Does every appliance have a ground wire? That's certainly not the case in NA, even in the EU.
Interesting but firstly the shuttle would be more comparable to the starship regarding payload size.
Secondly the shuttle could have been unmanned hence massively reducing cost and security paranoid costs.
Thirdly it's not just that the shuttle navets had higher capacity, in practice their payloads and missions were more complex than routine satellite launch AKA remote repairing hubble and building the ISS
Finally had the shuttle been ran by a private company.. Economic efficiency would have been more aligned.
The US plugs that have a sideways T are the lower amperage compatible style, but everything over 20A has a plug that is circular in arrangement. You can put a 10A in the one with a sideways T, but not the converse, because the hot leg is rotated 90°.

To be fair I've never seen that plug in the wild, but I don't go out much.
I have more or less the same requirements and the Fairphone 3+ did it for me. Only downside is that spare parts take a long time (3+ months) to be back in stock.
Please don't use any real-time chat as the main community channel. Use a discussion forum instead. FOSS projects last many years while rarely needing real-time collaboration -- using a "slower", more focused and more searchable communication platform makes better sense.

Also, and this is very subjective, from my experience real-time chat (Discord especially) allows toxic community members to be toxic without much fear of punishment since the interactions are ephemeral. Moreover, toxic people often lurk the channels 24/7 and thus are the first to respond to questions. Questions that happen to be "stupid" since the same question is asked often -- even though the last instance has already been drowned out by a half-kilometre of memes and off-topic talk.
You're right! Despite their weird custom protocol, their E2E chats are still considered completely safe to use.

In my experience, though, very few people use E2E chats, even in direct chats.
Yeah, domain reputation works more or less just like IP reputation for a lot of email providers. Holding onto the domain for a long time and sending some amount of email from it will help it get "known good" scores with the big providers. I would also recommend setting up DMARC reports because I've heard anecdotes (no evidence here!) that some providers give a positive bump to email from domains they can successfully return DMARC results to... and it'll at least make sure you know if you have an SPF/DKIM setup problem, especially if it's somehow a transient or subtle one (I've had this happen with config mistakes where not all outbound email was being handed to opendkim).
True, I could not figger why attack me?, a retired 82YO geezer, in this way? See above as the only answer I was able to discover
> 1. Private messaging: Signal, WhatsApp, Cwtch

WhatsApp’s record over the last decade does not inspire confidence, and the issues raised this year alone are quite serious:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Reception_and_criticism_of_WhatsA...
Where are the HN chat communities now?
Matrix? Zulip? Discord?
This is an important point. I don't think it's fair to assume today's kids won't play Prince of Persia because they lack perseverance or because the game is hard. It may just as well be because the game is bad.

I played Prince of Persia as a kid, the game is amazing for its time. But game design has evolved in these 30 years, and it shows. When we were kids we didn't have better games to play so we had to persevere with PoP.

Nowadays, if you want hard platforming you can play Super Meat Boy or Celeste and fight with your ability to perform the required movements, not with the clunky controls.

If you want to explore an unknown world you can play Hollow Knight or Ori and enjoy a much larger and more developed setting.

Neither of these games are easy, but they have much more well crafted learning curves for example. PoP simply drops you in a dungeon and you have to die there until you manage to get the timing of the jumps, while Celeste has an "easy" first level and constantly ramps up the difficulty.
eSIMs can be bad or good. I hope eSIMs eventually reduce carriers to a network you can choose to connect to, like your wifi. Choose it, choose a plan set, enter payment, switch plans, done. Hell you could have multi-plans simultaneously.

Travel to a new country? Same thing. No apps should even be required, it should be a native OS functionality.

TBH the entire concept of a SIM isn't needed anymore, cellular networks should become like wifi networks, and should be as easy to switch between too, complete with phone number portability.

People remember the bad old days of CDMA where a phone was bound to a network and there was no way to change it's internal esim. It doesn't have to be that way and most of the world doesn't do phone locking that much or at all anymore, much like your phone's wifi.

When cell networks become like wifi, the government excuses for KYC to buy fucking cell service would be reduced even further.
>what the hell does “cheugier” mean?

I think you're completely missing the point. Cheugier (or "cheugy", it's more commonly used as an adjective) is a zoomer word to refer to outdated millennial interests just as boomer is used by millennials. The fact that you don't understand is the entire point.

>It used to be that senior editors rejected garbage like this…

Huh. So in the 60s, if someone used the word keen or neat (examples given in the article) you would delete it out of hand? Old man shakes fist at cloud.
This doesn’t seem like it’s a matter of being WFH as much as not using chat tools effectively.

It’s very possible to just shoot the juniors a DM asking how they’re doing. or having an active team channel where people can ask for help or offer direction.
Google does this at 10/hour as well. Unsure of others. Both Google and Microsoft match cash donations too up to 15k/year - it's a wonderful perk to have after you've basically covered all your living expenses and savings etc. I can eg fund a minor scholarship at half cost, or direct serious money to a cause I care about.
Starlink's sats are 30-60x closer to earth than other satellite providers (500-1000km vs 35,000km), so their coverage area is lower as well. In that sense they are competing more with mobile telecom (Verizon, T-Mobile, etc).

As Starlink's speed lowers they stop being as competitive with mobile data service, which can have fairly low latency (5G is in the 20ms realm, Starlink in 40-100ms?).

But it always depends on where you are to pick the most performant service.
In my mind the principal reason for the current hierarchy is read/write usage.
With /etc and /usr it is possible after installation and configuration to set one or both as Read Only. With /var and /home you have the directories that should be Read/Write on a running system. This allows you to mount each of those directories on a different partition with different settings or even different filesystems depending on how you want to optimize/secure your application.

Now admittedly actually doing this is pretty rare in these days, but I still like having the option. I believe he does address this talking about "union mounts" and "overlay filesystems". I'm really not too familiar with either or how production ready they are, but it may address my concerns.
Mmmmm.

Only beef I have is the CamelCase of GoboLinux CLIs.

We all can do without shifting the shift keys as much as possible.

Unless the ultimate goal is for 100% GUI mouse-click operation, which it does not appear to be.

I sense a tinge of hostility toward typists in general.
Easily duplicable cultural products? You’re suggesting that you should be able to take something someone else made because it’s easy to do? It would be easy to steal your computer from you — should that make it legal for me to do so? You think movies should become historic cultural relics with free access to all whenever they are popular? If your wish came true, how exactly would the movie’s creation get funded in the first place? Movies often costs tens to hundreds of millions to produce, and they only take on that level of risk because of the financial return of people who pay to watch them. How do you think that would work if movies were free to everyone?

Do you have a job? Do you work for a company that makes money? Would you be okay with the product you’re working on being taken for free by people who insist they shouldn’t have to pay for it?

Your language feels really very hyperbolic to me. There are many real people with real jobs trying to make livings, even if the corporations they work for are greedy. DRM can indeed be shitty and it often oversteps copyright, but we can ignore DRM here because the argument you’re actually making is one against respecting copyright law and against respecting artists.

> is it actually good to anyone in any way to have a business based around forbidding free access to easily duplicable cultural products? Should such a thing even be allowed to thrive?

Yes. The answer is yes, without question. This has been debated by scholars and lawmakers and artists and business people for hundreds of years, and we have a compendium of laws that protect the people who make content precisely because it does, in fact, do them some good.

See Chesterton’s Fence: you don’t get to nuke the existing system until you actually understand why it’s there and how it got there. If you believe it serves zero people but still manages to exist, that means that your belief is wrong and you need to do some research.

The biggest problem with your argument is you’re blindly focused on the execs and profits of only the very largest media conglomerates, and you’re ignoring not only the tens of thousands of artists they employ, but you’re also ignoring all smaller businesses that aren’t making enormous profits and can’t afford to give away their content for free.

> movies lose otherwise hilarious amounts of money all the time and they seem to still exist somehow.

The amount of money someone makes is not any of your business, and it does not justify stealing the things they make without their permission. Copyright law can and does apply even to works that don’t cost money, and it also applies equally when someone’s enjoying handsome profits. You are not legally invited to copy anything based on someone else’s income.

Studios sometimes do lose money on movies and they survive because they make multiple movies. Studios also sometimes report misleading sales figures. I’ve worked in films and games as an artist, and watched studios do “creative accounting”. Reports of losses don’t prove anything, and don’t justify breaking copyright law.
I'm not sure if you linked the correct video, because he's also saying that its going to be the children that will be in trouble.

I really don't see europe failing before 2050, and that was the time horizon i mentioned...
I've seen infosec departments block the entirety of .xyz. I've also seen the same departments use an inappropriate block such that Googling, 'WTF IS .xyz?' would also be blocked, as .xyz would be in the URL query string.
Compared to the XDG directory specification that MSDN link is garbage.

Just my personal opinion.
To clarify: they maintain(ed) own reviewed replica of OSM data and asked about suspicious edits.

Any edits in OSM go live immediately without review.
My experience with the more extreme OSM folks is that as soon as you are working for a large company, you are no longer a member of the community. More generally, there is nothing the big companies could do to make them happy, short of divesting completely from OSM so that they can get their hobby project from 2008 back.
It blows my mind that one could screw up corrugated iron roofing. It lasts a long time and is pretty basic to install. Many old villas here in New Zealand have their roofs replaced and they are about 100 years old. Arthur’s Pass down south has houses entirely clad in an every version of the stuff (it’s thick and heavy) and they are over 100 years old now.
Such as mine you mean? I'm actually not sure how to interpret your comment.

Service work in my country is a 0.25x or 0.1x reduction in income compared to software. Americans are much better off working in tech from a financial perspective.
I'm not sure there's some rigorous ethical justification but it's only available to people who have a Hulu account so they could just watch the movies on hulu.com instead of downloading them anyways. It also makes watching Hulu possible to people who don't want to run an opaque obfuscated library (Widevine) on their computer (also people who use musl libc [like myself] which Widevine doesn't work on). Hulu ripping was happening long before this software so I doubt it will have any impact in the grand scheme of things. It was mostly just written for my own fun.
And to stay on this odd tangent:

Best estimate I have for total cell numbers in mouse brain—about 75 million neurons and 35 million other cell types. This estimate is from a 476 mg brain of a C57BL/6J case—the standard mouse used by many researchers.

Based on much other work with discrete neuron populations the range among different genometypes of mice probable +/- 40%.

for details see: www.nervenet.org/papers/brainrev99.html

Expect many more (and I hope better) estimates soon from Clarity/SHIELD whole brain lighsheet counting with Al Johnson and colleagues at Duke and team at Life Canvas Tech.
Naively, this actually really surprises me. My sense of French working culture is that it's very much "live to work", very strong WLB. What's driving France to be more pro-office than more "work-focused" countries like the US?
New Zealand. Not the windiest place (Wellington is an exception).