skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can you go to prison for obstruction of justice when files are encrypted with passwords you dont know?

In the 90's I had a Visual Basic addon which was an AI that monitored the keyboard typing pattern. It could identify who was typing at the keyboard, so you could use it as a backup to lock the system if someone had discovered the password. That app could also be used to encrypt files independently, and only decrypt files when the typing pattern matched the username and password.

Not the only thing which could be used to decide if someone is the genuine user, some users might have tic's like tourettes, but involve unusual mouse movements or clicks. Or they could be things like having to switch on the NumLock on a keyboard in order to type in a numerical password. These are all very subtle behaviours which might not be spotted by someone after the password to get into a system.

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So windows has had AI built into its gui since at least Windows 200, really noticeable in XP, its the benign sounding Mouse Properties "Enhance pointer precision", but this can also be used to work out who is using the windows GUI by comparing the operation of the GUI, things like do windows get resized or maximmised, do some programs tend to be use on a particular monitor (if a multimonitor setup), and how on target is the user when closing a window, ie where do they consistently hit the big red X close button in the top right of a window and how quickly do they do this. All this is meta data to further workout who is actually using the computer or not. Linux AFAIK doesnt have this so you have more privacy with Linux in some respects.
Amen to that. Plus I erred in saying 0-day. Actually, if not using any kind of AV, you're vulnerable to everything ever made if you're trusting your "intuition" alone.
I find it disheartening so many people are willing to gloat over fellow humans' deaths, regardless of the reason, some notion of "karma", "Darwinism", etc.

(I am triple vaccinated, for the record)
> However, when what Cloudflare is fundamentally providing is a more open, private, and secure Internet, we believe that shutting down Cloudflare's services entirely in Russia would be a mistake.

Good. Seems like Cloudflare is taking the sensible approach by targeting the sanctions at certain individuals rather than a blanket ban and still staying on the side of ICANN, RIPE, EFF on not revoking all services within Russia as they 'need more internet access, not less'.
If this is true, why didn’t flash takeoff on android devices?
Another "Russia could nuke"-clickbait article, sigh. Yeah, so could anyone else. I guess North Korea just isn't hip enough anymore.
I see some dozen.
I dunno, I like to keep up to date with worldly events and developments still. I don't want to be sticking my head in the sand.
Sure, there are lots of differences between OpenGL and OpenGL ES, but the fundamental logic and architecture is pretty much the same.
Sure, but we're talking about C.
Another reminder: The Flash Player sucked pretty hard on macOS. It was slow, buggy, the fans would go nuts and Adobe didn't care. If they didn't care about Apple users, why would they care about a new thing?
I love to read propganda news. Can you provide news from Non Democractic countries such as China & Russia?
That’s a site that identifies computers and not the code. For code see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MovieCode or the YouTube channel linked above.
Yet it's all over the news and a billion Catholics around the world pay attention to it.

Perhaps you failed your history?
Look, I do live in the real world - Russia doesn't want Ukraine in NATO, meanwhile, America wants it (and has been wanting it for decades) to degrade Russia from a global to a regional power. One have to be a complete idiot to believe that Russia want infiltrate Ukraine - the same way America has, for example. By the way, the treatment of these people and purposely putting them on display harmed would have been reacted to differently if those were, let's say, Ukrainian spies caught in Russia.
Probably not.

Putin painted himself in a corner: he can't accept defeat, as it would weaken his position in Russia. He needs a victory, and there's simply no way he can win this conflict on short notice. And from what I understand, Russia can't maintain this conflict long term.

The only possible "win" (using the term very loosely) for him is probably to utterly destroy Ukraine. Or at least scare everybody to the point that they believe he will utterly destroy Ukraine.

Will it lift sanctions? Probably not, but it might save his position in Russia, and without the expense of an ongoing war, Russia might be able to persevere through the sanctions. Keep in mind that the sanctions are hurting the West too. Will they maintain them even after the war has ended? Putin might hope they won't.

It's all a ridiculous long shot, though. Putin is in serious trouble. He has to win this, and there are no good ways to accomplish that. So that might bring terrible ways to accomplish it on the table.
wgpu has a wgpu-native component which is a native library that exposes a C API. I use it in D for my 3D projects and it's quite nice.
The Case for Portable Reputation
From memory 40% of people in the UK construction industry admit to offering or receiving a bribe. [0] Western countries are not immune to this. I’m aware of situations where large cash bribes were paid or holidays were given by subcontractors to the bid managers at a large construction company to fix tenders to secure work.

[0] Construction Project Manager’s Pocket Book (Routledge Pocket Books) (it’s research reffered to in the ethics section somewhere, you can use look inside to view on Amazon)
The downtube is mostly subjected to stretching forces. But maybe it does lose some stiffness compared to a normal bike.
Stealing bikes is illegal too, but it's never enforced either!
Sounds like that particular use-case is not a good fit for any existing database. You may want to look at raw n-quad stores like Badger and write your own meta-graph query engine on top of that.
> How can we create a video platform with high-quality discovery, personalization, subscriptions, comments, voting, and more

Ideally, by decoupling these things from one another. There's no reason they'd have to be part of a single platform - for instance, a client (app or web) could fetch public 'likes' and/or comments referencing (or "annotating", per the relevant Web standards) a PeerTube video from Mastodon. This is already superior to what YT does.
The bigger picture is world technology can be used by china but china can refuse the world.

Dump TikTok and save the world.
I always just tip once early on, but I make it fat, they’ll remember you.
Nothing would surprise me, but clues are given out like the cocaine & morphine mix given to one the British Royals on the throne at the time.

This is where education, schools are used to monitor behaviours because if someone later expresses an interest to become a GP or Dentist, their behaviour will be used as part of an evaluation to see if they can be trusted. The educational system is just part of the state's intelligence estate.
Japanese Zoning (2014)
What a spectacularly bad idea.

1. If they can do it for Russia, they can do it for others too.

2. A car is not a service, it's a product. Bricking it after it's purchased for cold, hard cash amounts to vandalism of personal property, not an embargo.
> Many vaccines aren't vegan-friendly (they're often grown in eggs)

Do these vegan anti-vaxxers have an issue with aborting humans still in the “egg-stage”?
Thanks, miswrote that.
As if parents are sitting around at home talking to their babies with masks on...
> They are anagrams

Being an anagram has no value: not only switching the order of sounds is not a mechanism in the evolution of terms (at least, I cannot think of a single example), but more relevantly the sounds do not overlap with their symbols - terms are in general transliterations (so the "character" has little importance, being a mostly referencing simplification).
The point about security doesn't strike me as a lie. Flash had an atrocious security track-record, and it was a proprietary black-box, so no one else was able to build a stronger implementation.

> The web is unable to deliver an experience like Flash could, and likely will never be able to.

Plenty of Flash content can be converted over to HTML5. As an example, this old website: https://www.homestarrunner.com/
Well Schopenhauer is an idealist, which confuses the issue. The world as will and representation is quite different than "the world as stuff with will" -- the latter is panpsychism.

To address "world as will", i'd just say it more-or-less doesnt matter what the world is in this sense. There's a distinction between my asking you "please turn the light off" and my rehearsing sounds "alexa, light off" -- and that difference "leaves open" the question of to what degree theyre both grounded in "the nature of the world". Since everything is "will", distinctions then just become distinctions in will.

As for panpsychism, which is really "materialism + the-material-is-conscious", this threatens to confuse the issue more -- since it isnt saying everything is "grounded in x" which allows you to ignore x, really -- as "everything-grounding" theories rarely disable your ability just to ignore them.

In misattributing the properties we are looking to create/find/etc. in things, panpsychism runs the risk of creating a false picture of continuity which impairs our ability to see genuine difference.

In other terms: whilst idealism borders on a dissociative paranoia, pansychism borders on schizophrenia -- whilst dissociation is your problem, schizophrenia might be our problem too.

Here the schiozphrenia of panpsychism is thinking that "Alexa is talking back" -- it isnt.
Did you know Wikipedia has a "current events" page? It's surprisingly good, containing only particularly notable events and therefore not constantly updated in real time. Which I think is a positive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
I've never heard of this site and I have to say its making me scratch my head, the article/analysis is written in a amateurish way for the expertise it proclaim.

With that said, it's 100% certain they won't escalate to nuclear threat level: full (or Defcon 4) nor that they will assassinate putin, at the very best they will force putin to retire, why would they kill someone they prop up which has now an 70% approval rating.
I followed the instructions in the post (git clone repo, open Main.swf in Flash Player Projector. You really do need the repo, the swf file won't work by itself) and the game worked fine. (I did get stuck on level one, but I reckon that's a "user problem" ;)
https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box

3.45 EUR/month for 1 TB, plenty of protocols (including borg and rsync), no bandwidth limit, 10 snapshots.
The endless attempts to cast Russia as the victim in any way are ridiculous. Nobody in NATO really wants Georgia or Kosovo or Ukraine in the alliance. NATO was ambivalent about many of the Eastern European countries and many in the West wondered (even up until the invasion of Ukraine) whether NATO still had a purpose.

No, they begged to be let into the castle because they feared that Russia would invade them, a fear validated over and over and over and over by how Russia treats its militarily weaker neighbors. Under both Trump and Biden (and probably even before that), Poland has been offering the United States billions of dollars if it would be willing to build a military base there. Nobody is pressuring former Soviet nations into NATO. They are desperate to get in to avoid getting mauled and membership in NATO is the difference between enjoying peace and prosperity or Russian tanks rolling in.
Sadly I think those words have died, as victims of semantic pollution, through no fault of their own. Even though no dictionary will attest to an offensive meaning, they share enough phonemic material with malwords to trigger an immune response, which is not something you generally want to do to your readers.
I had the same issue, turns out you have to clone the whole repo first, swf won't work by itself.
> Browse HN on "Past": https://news.ycombinator.com/front

Thank you, that's a good hidden feature.

I like this also for a similar purpose: https://hckrnews.com/
The line has to be drawn somewhere. My main point is that it should be much further than where it is now.
I have no idea and I don't work on that bit but there are lots of troubleshooting guides on "what to do if Defender is slow in situation X" in our docs - in 99% of cases it's interference (another program scanning) or specific programs acting in ways that trigger scanning often.

In all cases there are workarounds - I'm not using the Windows version (I'm on a mac) but when I had a performance issue it ended up being a script that created and deleted thousands of files quickly and tweaking it was fairly simple.
For those of you who are new to clickbait, clickbait is language used to bait you into clicking on it.

For those of you already following clickbait for a while, you know that it is language that gets you to click on things.

Is clickbait really as bad as it seems?

Ok, enough beating around the bush, yes clickbait is really as bad as it seems.

Even a month ago, we wouldn't have said such clickbait could appear on hacker news.

But something has changed.

Someone actually linked to clickbait on hacker news.

... I'm not sure if I should be appalled or if I should be taking notes. :-/
My ex had the same issue while on a vegan diet - and she was an adult. Random dizzy spells and faintness to the point of almost passing out.

It boggles my mind anyone would ascribe to a diet that literally requires vitamin supplements through artificial means in order to be complete. And those are just the obvious deficiencies.
I was going to say the same.

I actually find it’s a good idea not to take a lock with me so that I’m not tempted to leave mine outside anywhere.

A Brompton will fit nicely under a desk or table.

I’ve had people object to seeing a bike indoors but if you put it in a bag before you go in they magically stop noticing it.

Bromptons are expensive but mine paid for itself in less than a year in parking fees. That was 10 years ago.
And some weird Oprah Winfrey quote in the middle? And a list of people born and died on this date? I was expecting five headlines I could quickly scan to keep up with important events, not this.
Second this.

Just switched from borg to kopia, using a kopia repository server for my family computers backup (890 GB currently).
Containers increase the effort for the attacker to put into escaping that container — provided the developers actually run code that doesn't make that easy right of the bat. I have seen to much code where you can really feel the thought of "let's just use docker, then we don't have to think about complicated linux things like priviledges and permissions".

Using containers as an extra layer of security is perfectly fine. Using it as an excuse to not do any other security measures is not.
Yes. I am actively learning Unity as a hobby.

I was a Flash developer back in the day.

Huge difference in learning curve.
Given what Russia has done so far this is one my fears. They could use a tactical nuclear bomb (for whatever sane or insane reasons) and I don't think that would automatically escalate to nuclear options from the West.

So that's good. Nobody wants WW3.

But then? I guess it would make Russia even more of a pariah but what more could the West do? I think only a change on how China (and maybe India) is issuing pressure on Russia would help. And going nuclear would probably make that happen. So, yay?

Scary when a nuclear option might be the only solution of solving this Gordian knot.
some of us are interested in taking small simple steps to make our users more comfortable.
> These exist and they're made by the government's anti corruption bodies.

I would love to see a source of this. Because as far as I am aware, making special "notes" by any agency, government or not, is just against the minting laws.

You are just confidently incorrect in your answers & resort to downvoting to views you don't like. Anti-corruption agencies (ACB EOW of CBI & ED of audits & account) in India use Potassium permanganate to dust the notes. The handprint of the accused are processed if they touch the notes. Usually recorded as pink stains on paper & dated with a magisterial witness.

Source: https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/epgpdata/uploads/epgp_content/F...
That's absolutely terrible for everyone involved and sorry to hear what's happening to you. Finding out a divorce via FB unfriend is pretty nuts.
Sure wish I could go back and edit these comments to replace steal with "dubiously authorized copying"

Im saying dubiously authorized because I bet no more than 5 out of a 100 windows users are aware this is even happening...
> But for this you need dedicated UX people

Tesler was a computer scientist. He worked on AI and Smalltalk at Xerox, and was a manager at Apple at this time.

What we need to do instead, is bring down the wall between design and development that was built up in the past decade, encourage developers in the UI field to have multi-disciplinary skills, and stop assuming every minute not spent coding or in meetings is wasted.
Smartphones aren't only for social media.
I think the profiling section could benefit from a section describing the sort of profiling noise described in this video: https://youtu.be/r-TLSBdHe1A?t=436

The noise source described is that changes to the code typically alter alignments of code and/or data and that is often the cause of the performance difference measured, not the change to the algorithm. The reason this is noise is because unrelated changes to the code might make it change again.

IIRC, the speaker suggests improving compiler/profiler tools to randomise these alignments and benchmark many times.
Other than this kind of cheat sheet, I wonder could there be a common idiom cheat sheet for situation like … for people who does not develop but have to understand and fix a minor bugs.

Sometimes you just in that hole and it is hard between the gap of knowing or trained on the basic c++ and then need to or try to understand a c++ …

Or JavaScript.
Interestingly, this belief is never shared by people from Europe who've actually experienced communism.

The issue in many cases is _corruption_ which will exist whatever you do (there's always a snake in the garden) so the trick is to implement the right legislation to control it and ensure freedom...

...which admittedly is easier said than done!
My perl5 version 8 code still runs perfectly on version 34, and for all people's (often valid) dislike of perl still helps a lot of companies make a lot of money.

That wasn't the point I was trying to make in that particular comment though.
Quaise's ultra-deep geothermal drilling plans: Your questions answered
True, but it should be the giveaway (if not the open call for regime change in Moscow).

After reading it again I have to say: The thread is remarkably shallow.

Its length seems overwhelming but upon further inspection makes a lot of detours into individuals then circles back to the "grand scheme of things" and (thus) in each spot takes things out of context (e.g. Putin's "I only have Ivans and Marias in my family" quote - what the Author leaves out: what was said before and thereafter, and why it was said at all: In response to some alledgedly heoric act in this war by a young boy from an ethnic minority).
The difference, in my opinion, is that at least in Western countries people pretend this isn't acceptable behaviour and they go through lengths to make it less obvious. You might view this as hypocritical or a charade - but when corruption becomes a social norm it kills trust in institutions and it spreads to every part of society, etc.
> The only possible "win" (using the term very loosely) for him is probably to utterly destroy Ukraine.

That's not a win insofar as it doesn't guarantee his position at home - it likely further weakens it. For a "win" he'd have to, at the least, actually win the war - Chechnya-style. But I'm not convinced this is possible. I argue it's somewhat more probable that he can pull off a "North Korea" (get defeated in the war, but isolate the country & tighten the screws to insure continuation of his regime in spite of the economic situation at home) - but even this seems iffy to me.

Seems to me like the only reasonable way out for him is if US (or somebody) agrees to "extract" him to somewhere safe & anonymous, where he can live a peaceful life as a retired person. Publicly, they can pretend whatever is more convenient. Sure, it's not _justice_, but it might be the least painful way out of this conflict for everyone. Not sure Putin would agree though/ his ego might get in the way.
Most of us have probably violated all sorts of good UI principles out of either haste or ignorance, but our crimes are mitigated by the fact that for the overwhelming majority of software the number of users, and hence the number cursing the idiot who designed this crappy interface, is extremely low and/or constrained by the bespoke nature of the application; hence the investment in time and money to perform this level of rigour is not justified.

The only time I've seen UI work carried out with this level of care was for an air traffic control system, where of course the consequences of a poor design can have significant and fatal consequences.
Thankfully my monkey brain is stronger than my lizard brain when it comes to things like infinite scroll, modals and other horrible UI features that nobody in their right mind should add to any website. Even just a couple of minutes of twitter usage makes me rage quit the whole website. Why do you pause my video when I scroll down it's just a politician speaking I don't need to see it only listen WHY YOU DO THIS?

I'm also one of those people who randomly clicks and "paints" the text on every website I use. On Reddit this means that I manage to close the thread by accident all the time because someone thought it would be a good idea to open the threads in a modal that closes when you click outside of it. Oh and once I tried to use Quora. It asked me to log in before I even knew what kind of a website it is. Now I hate Quora with a passion even though I'm not even sure what kind of a website it is exactly. I can only imagine it's full of modals, infinite scroll and other features that makes my skin go green and pants purple.

So I only end up getting addicted to websites that are simple and old fashioned enough like HN and wikipedia (as long as I don't click a cursed en.m.wikipedia link by accident). Btw, on youtube each time I click subscriptions it defaults back to the grid view. I want a list. Monkey wants list! YOUTUBE AAAAAAARHGFHGHGHFFG-
Perhaps, but I categorized it as bribery: pay some money to cross this or that hurdle. We did not _have_ to go to Syria, as we are just tourists. But I had no hard feelings; we anticipated something like this, and considering that it was only about a $100, in retrospect, I'm very, very glad I got to see the country before the war.
Can assume a single OS.
> The answer was nothing. I learned nothing and got nothing from it.

I actually now have the inverse issue : now that I blocked "pure sugar content", I consume a lot of more interesting content. Like, HN is interesting to read, I have only subscriptions I like on YT and I feel like they make me learn. I still watch/read a lot of shit but I've also found a lot of gems I'm glad I found.

I'll read Atomics Habits since a lot of people recommended it to me.
Really and if not cost prohibited Noooo central leadership please.
but beware: there are a lot of services by overzealous colleagues who 'check' email addresses and reject '+' (for religious reasons?).

Email addresses can be quite complex (cough), what those may never have come across. See 6.1 in RFC822.
Google being Google: Decides it has the requisite resources to get into an arms race with both adblockers and the open source community.