skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back when I had to secure software using hardware dongles, I came up with my most evil idea.

For those who don't know, dongles are hardware tokens that represent your license to use the software, and the dongle had to be attached to the computer so the software could check for its presence. Using dongles required you to either add code to your program to test for the presence of the dongle, or you could encrypt the executable using a key stored on the dongle and a program launcher would retrieve the key from the dongle to decrypt your program. In either case, if the dongle wasn't present a dialog would appear telling you the software was unlicensed and then terminate the application.

My evil idea was to tell people up front that the dongle was required for the software to work, but rather than terminate the application when the dongle wasn't present I would introduce subtle errors into the data manipulated by the program.

* CAD program missing the dongle? Each second, a random vertex is moved by 1 pixel
* Statistics program missing the dongle? Random numbers are added to data sets during aggregate calculations
* Video game missing the dongle? Game stutters at random intervals.

Oh sure you could use the software without the dongle, but it would be super-annoying to do so.

I never got the opportunity to implement this because people realized that dongles are dumb.
Cryptocurrencies might not answer to all of these questions. However there is one question where it gives an answer. It is how to create more efficient financial system. And part of this answer might lead to rebalancing some of distribution of the wealth, mostly by reducing operating costs and profit margins of the current Wall St and other local oligopolic financial institutions.

Blockchains do create fundamental value, not just speculative value. Tech people often dismiss this claim and do not want to analyse further. To demostrate this, I wrote a post where I am comparing stock and cryptocurrency trading venues and showing that a decentralised system is the most cost efficient choice at least with some data points and why it is so:

https://tradingstrategy.ai/blog/most-efficient-market-is-on-...
You seem pretty focused on this idea of "blind trust" of the government which nobody is advocating. So perhaps you should take your own advice?

I didn't assume you supported crypto. I was pointing out that crypto has all the problems you specified as bad or worse.
I personally switched search engines and it has made coding, general searches, and overall just browsing the internet 10x smoother. I tried a couple like DDG, Brave Search, and Kagi. I started using You.com and find the search results just better than Google's. Less SEO sites bogging down search results, website filtering, and optimized results layout.
I guess somebody has to believe 2+2=5 or there wouldn’t be enough ‘free thought” going on.

I think Chomsky has been right frequently in the past particularly when it comes to the US support for authoritarian states with a secondary theme of failed efforts to create democracies in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.

Ukraine is an democracy emerging from the cesspool of authoritarianism and corruption (they want democracy) and it is a very different thing to support Ukraine than to support (say) the Contras or the Sandinistas.

From the viewpoint of realpoltik it is tempting to just let it slide, keep burning Russian gas, buying Russian rocket motors, etc. There is a strong feeling that wells up from the people in democratic states, however, that compels action to defend Ukraine.

Note how in Germany members of the Green Party are much more inclined to send heavy weapons to Ukraine than other major parties. If you want peace sometimes you have to fight for it.
Indeed: cinst pwsh

Also set it as default in terminal/conemu.
FWIW, I haven’t seen one “Web3” application. All I ever see is folks singing its potential from the rafters. Loudly.

Perhaps the “web 3” evangelists can switch to show more of these apps, and the real world value they provide.
The local-part before the @ can be case-sensitive, yes. I've never heard of a mail server that treats it as such, but the RFC says it's case sensitive.
Elon Musks take on why Netflix is tanking
> the tool that will randomly prevent you from opening any 3rd party app if Apple's signature checking service goes down

You mean the Mac needs an internet connection to "work" - there is no "airgapped Mac"?

And that they have an execution blocker you cannot disable? How could you code - make your software run on it?
Stardog Optimizer: Arch and Cardinality Estimates for Graph Queries [video]
Crypto has addressed real problems for Ukraine's military.

> “In a situation like this, where the national bank is not fully operating, crypto is helping to perform fast transfers, to make it very quick and get results almost immediately,”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/technology/bitcoin-ukrain...

Is this BS and marketing?
Where Is Juno Now
BTW, here is my profile.d for PowerShell:

https://github.com/majkinetor/powershell_profile.d
Can everyone that has spent at least one month using Linux on an M1 as a daily driver please respond with their experiences, so we know that this "Linux on an M1" recommendation is valid?
Please flag this account, this is AI generated nonsense.
That's all the movie quote is saying. Do you interpret it differently?
It appears zidansec runs xploit.my.id. The api subdomain is not currently responding.

https://www.xploit.my.id/2021/07/crimeflare-bypass-tools-clo...
Yeah, how often do you work in different places? Like you need a lot of other gear that is not portable, Roof / walls / window / desk / chair / paper / pens / books etc. Basically a nice office you are comfortable in and used to working in.

Desktops last pretty much forever. Almost every desktop component I've had worked perfectly until it was extremely obsolete and sold or given away.

What's crazy is that although their performance remains the same over years, their prices depreciate like crazy for no reason. I am never gonna buy new computers again. I've gotten a few 2nd hand gaming desktops recently on buy and sell websites for around €300 each (often including monitor / peripherals) and they perform perfectly, they can run AAA games fine even.
I wouldn’t say the energy use of non-proof of work chains is millions of times worse than existing traditional finance and web2 solutions. Probably comparable. There is much energy wasted in the products themselves and knock-on effects. Machine learning for ads and analytics, for example. Banks using thousands of warm bodies to push around excel spreadsheets.

Google might build some of their data centers up in Iceland, but that’s not the full picture.
It is a question for doctors to solve, not lawyers, definitely not politicians, and absolutely not you and me.
Is that playbook open source? I would love to see it.
I think the way to go about it is read some books gradually on history of computing & the various designs and rationale that evolved over time. Consider these sources:

1. The Annotated Turing.

2. A History of Modern Computing 3ed

3. The ACM Turing award lectures

4. Theory of computation - Dexter Kozen

5. Coders at Work

6. Hackers: Heroes of the computer revolution

Additionally, you could subscribe to Communications of ACM, which is a computing oriented monthly magazine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aedes_aegypti

The targeted species of mosquito is not native to the USA. It was introduced by Europeans inadvertently.
I can't vouch from personal experience but the framework is so good that one of my friends is just giving away his old laptop to me, which I think says a lot
Education of girls and young women. That's it. That's the biggest ROI.
I have to say, I like your product thinking. I agree with you.
Last week’s WHO emergency announcement of the same issue: https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/a...

Top suspects are both viruses: Sars-Cov-2 (COVID-19) and adenovirus 41. But the real cause could just as easily be something else that hadn’t been detected yet. It’s just too early to be certain.
Gotcha. I didn't see it as shutting down all debate, I saw it as exactly what you said: considering merits and risks.
you already studied in college
>For $900, you can buy an M1 MacBook Air. It is the sexiest dumb terminal I’ve ever used.

There's something ironic and wonderful about a laptop with more processing power than an i7 desktop being called a dumb terminal.
Colorado based lover of marmite here. Vegemite is off, maybe tangy enough. Anyhow, I was looking in to this a while back and there are many competitors and some people lump “beef spreads” in with them. Bovrite is one, Bovril is another that is illegal in the US (not sure if it’s illegal dangerous or illegal like fireworks) Promite, MightyMite, AussieMite, OzMite are some of the popular ones and there seem to be “organic” kind of more artisanal *mites in parts of the world.

The illegality of Bovril spooked me some and so I haven’t forked out the cash to do the grand taste test challenge as I am happy with marmite and actually able to procure it; it’d be terrible to find a better one that is unobtainable. Hearing about these others makes me think I should do it though.
There are many stories about people dying in the waiting room because they had to wait for their covid test to come back negative before ERs in Shanghai were allowed to treat them.
AWS free tier: what is it, and is it free?
Yes, except that if the last digit is not 0 then it only tells you "this is on the stable branch that started at the x.y.0 tag", and says nothing about year or month. Stable branch releases usually happen about 4 months after the .0, but there's no regular cadence to them, nor any rule about whether there is none, one, or more from any particular mainline release. (The entire release process for them is largely separate from the main releases.)
The same argument can be made about Ponzi or MLM schemes...
I think the cutoff is the invention of photography. The only way painters could remain relevant is by doing something original rather than beautiful. Then the other arts followed. Modern classical music is impossible to listen to most ears. And architects followed too, more interested in creating an original shape of glass or concrete rather than building anything beautiful and pleasing. There is hardly any piece of modern architecture that will resist the test of time (and the materials used won’t anyway).

For a long list of examples, I defer to the twitter account architects against humanity.
Like banks being too big to fail, these execs are too privileged to jail.
Burnt teflon flakes off into food.

Grab a pan and wipe a tissue around the inside a few times... See the dirt that comes off... That's probably carbon and teflon deposits.
In the aforementioned rest of the world, most people have another first language.
I got an old X series thinkpad for 120USD. upgraded ram, and HDD to SSD. Does its work.
I've barely given it any thought, but I am more likely to click into submissions from particular domains already. That said, it's more of a secondary influence to the title.
This is a wild argument. You're comparing apples and anteaters.

No-one is proposing that contemporary art is some sort of technological breakthrough that will completely revamp society, make everyone rich and change finance for the rest of time.

(Also, I'm sorry, but I do NOT believe that contemporary art consume even a tiny fraction of the power that cryptocurrencies do when nearly all of it sits in a handful of warehouses and never moves, just changes ownership abstractly. You would really need to prove this claim.)
Best laptop i ever had
Wait a minute, they decided just to kill that insects? Not just to modify them for being not virus-carrying? And nobody is afraid of Chinese-sparrow problem or Australian problem with frogs or cats?

I am not a real scientist to have something to say about it, but from history no experiment like that has a successful result.

edit I understood it is an invasible specie exactly as Australian cats and frogs.
Ironically, the best way to prove your own point is to open the source code.
The other thing is overengineering. Spending a week to implement email validation? Maybe, if it is REALLY important and results in lost revenue.

Otherwise I don't know what common typos are. I would have to do research on that. Then I have popular local email providers where I may come up with typos. but then again, it is only in my region - I would have to get some list of popular email providers in every country. Come up with a way to update that list after few years when new email providers come out. Or maybe develop a solution that matches "close enough" entries in my pre-defined list.

UX effort could be spent in an area which is used more often than only once. If there is a library for that, yeah, then slap it in, UX has been upgraded in no time. And again, only if revenue is on the other side of consideration, the development effort pays off.
>I still disagree. Those other systems are not the web. If i can look at a url and get your secret data, that’s on you. I think the other reply who gave the analogy of leaving the blinds open was a better one than mine

With you so far...

>[ and just off-topic slightly, yes, I think RCE and SQL injection are perfectly fine. ]

WTF?! Seriously? There's a huge difference by tweaking the content in a query string of a URL vs injecting known malicious code/content.
Our Failed Attempt at Saving $100k of Crypto from Hackers
That's the worst. Case in Point https://quick-adviser.com/how-do-i-use-google-calendar-in-dj...
Sigh..another program that requires you to maintain your certificate by doing PDUs. This is like a 90s dark pattern that still creeps up from time to time. I can't get behind any organization that threatens to take education away from you.
How would the api be different if it was targeting 2022 gpus?
Rooms and mazes: A procedural dungeon generator (2014)
I'm the same. I'm literally cathartic that someone had this same experience. I never, ever heard complete silence - there was always this whirr.
I'm a musician so it's easy for everybody to dismiss my problems, but I remember exactly the same things. I always knew if someone turned the TV on. I always heard the TV noise even when it was off. There's also some certain upper-mid frequencies which completely destroy my sanity - bad PA systems and wall reflections are particular banes of my existence.

I've always asked myself - how could I get this if I always had good hearing? Is this even anyone's fault? How could a child have tinnitus when it had no real chance to get it?
This entire post+comments has me almost in tears - my tinnitus gets unbearable e.g. when I'm stressed, panicking or overstimulated. It helps to know someone shares my pain, even if this treatment won't become available in my lifetime. I'm used to having stuff playing in the background anyway, it's just the times when I can't drown it out when it's the worst.

PS: BTW, something interesting happened to me recently: I recently visited a retro game museum while on vacation. Being obviously filled with old TVs, the noise was nigh-insufferable for me, but I pushed through because retro games is my thing. We spent ~1hr there and after we left, I felt like my own TV noise was somehow better for the day. Weird.
How about something like https://kv.build8.io/ ?
I would not use scoop for any sort of build environment.

I have used Chocolatey in the past. I would often run into problems where the commands would leave an application in an inconsistent state - could no longer upgrade, uninstall, or install without some manual intervention. I also ended up having to manually install packages and frameworks because the chocolatey version was way behind the latest version. Basically I always felt like I was fighting against chocolatey rather than it being a tool of convenience.

Maybe it has gotten better in the past few years, but I have completely soured on it by those experiences.
This is a great way to leak HN reading to various sites and ad trackers.

I'd prefer to only share that information with sites I click on, and HN itself, of course.
Second a Purism librem 14. It is a really high quality design, the SW support is fantastic, and it is easy to repair.
I want to improve this briliant article with another one https://medium.com/@meohoh/twelve-reasons-why-russia-sucks-9...
What solutions to content moderation would be better than Elon Musk’s?
It seems a lot of people in tech believe the ability for anybody to share largely unmoderated content on large social media platforms is very important for free/open online communication. At the same time you could argue there is a desire/need to combat spam, disinformation campaigns, propaganda, hate speech, AI generated content, etc.

Much of the discussion around content moderation is about the many challenges, sometimes suggesting it is an impossible problem to solve. A lot of discussion also suggests content moderation is inherently bad because “free speech”. However, lots of problems are technically challenging and/or ethically challenging (e.g., self driving cars), but are not discussed the same way.

A perfect solution to content moderation likely does not exist, but I am curious what companies are working solely on providing content moderation as a service and what innovative solutions are being proposed. Also, what is the state of the art in content moderation research assuming such a thing exists?
Hi HN. Would love to know how we could have done better here and increased our chances of successfully saving the crypto!
With Cloudflare's tunnels, there's no longer even a need to allow direct connections from the outside world.

In my own testing it wasn't too terrible to setup firewall rules and mutual TLS-based authentication of origin pulls, but it is certainly something where you have to do everything right to be as secure as you think you are. Versus just closing off inbound connections entirely and running cloudflared
+1 for Framework laptop. On the road and typing from one now.
Faster than what? It takes a handful of years for a non-profit or government housing agency to build new affordable housing. At the current pace of market rate construction, it’ll take many many decades before newly built “luxury” housing filters down enough for low income households to afford it. Even if there was a massive YIMBY housing boom we’re still probably looking at 10-20 years before market rents fall enough to be affordable to low income folks
Maybe they’re a parent. :)

Telling people to do things they tell you they don’t want to do becomes almost automatic if you live with a toddler or teenager.

All kidding aside, It seems that this general observation applies to half of the comments here today, many of which are talking about pro Mac, anti Mac, or but what about windows?

It would have been nice if it just said up front “want recommendation for best non apple Linux machine.”
The decisions these execs are making are clearly idiotic, even to the layman.

They are trying to extract maximum shareholder value, when they really need to leave their magic money making machine alone.
Well, thing is, despite he utter ugliness of his designs in mass, one of his high-rises, a tad smaller, could be a nice piece of architecture. One, not a whole city of those...
It's the main factor for a developer, actually. We're talking about Apple so it makes sense to discuss their products. It doesn't make sense to talk about Microsoft products.
I was raised on NZ marmite and love the stuff.

However, it's easier to find the UK stuff worldwide. I only recently tried the UK stuff. I agree that the NZ one is much weaker in comparison.
A MacBook with M1 processor. Air, Pro, I don't know. Just max it out with RAM or storage or whatever until you reach 2000
Is there an indication that these kids got COVID?
You don't have to insult people to get your argument across.

Could just say, for example, you don't think it's a disrespect to oneself to attend Hacker Rank tests and explain why.
> Okay, provide some evidence for that claim. Because again, that's the claim of "Well crypto is doing amazing things" but it needs actual evidence. I know it theoretically could happen if you ignore all the glaring problems in practice. But does it actually happen?

Which part of the claim are you refuting here? It is a fact that one can send very large sums of value between two addresses for a trivial transaction fee. This value can be swapped across other tokens with low slippage in the millions (denominated in USD).

> What has cyrpto provided that you can't provide via Paypal or bank transfer? Hell - here's a paypal address for a bunch of guys who want to buy Ukraine a fighter jet - info@buymeafighterjet.com . Here's the donation page for the Kyiv school of economics https://kse.ua/support/donation - you may notice a small bit of text right above the crypto addresses for you donation - that small bit of text is a form for card transactions, 8 different ways of doing a bank transfer and a paypal address.

I spoke with someone yesterday who lives in Nigeria, they were moving to Rwanda and needed to pay a deposit in advance. They were unable to pay via MoneyGram, Western Union etc. - one provider offered to handle the payment and requested many documents for a few days and in the end rejected the transfer. This person then had to send money to a friend who lived in the US who then forwarded it to Rwanda. This experience made the person feel isolated and outside of the system. This is an anecdote however my guess is if you think PayPal is "good enough" you don't live in a country that is marginalized by the status quo payment system.

> So what has Cryptocurrency acheived here? You donate crypto to these charities, and then what happens? They convert it back into fiat currency to actually spend it. You've literally just added more steps to something that was already solved.

So that's your take, global finance is a solved problem? No todos? No improvements needed we can pack it up? This is a stunning poverty of imagination in my estimation and a denial of the very real struggle many people face day to day in transacting.
But hey, at least they banned knives. They really know how to destroy crime there.
First off I want to make it clear that this isn't intended as criticism. I recognize the QEMU devs are busy, do incredible work, and don't owe me anything.

That said, I started a project recently that I'm very excited about. It wouldn't be possible without QEMU. I've had to get deeper into somewhat lower-level features, and it's likely I'll have to implement some new devices and interfaces for QEMU itself eventually.

Honestly I'm struggling to get my foot in the door. My questions on the user mailing list go mostly unanswered. I'm not aware of any QEMU book. Documentation feels sparse and is fragmented across multiple locations and often requires hoping someone has written a blog post about the specific piece you're interested in. I wish there were more descriptions of architecture and design decisions.

I hesitate to use the development mailing list since it appears dominated by patches (a ton of them; QEMU is very active), and my requests don't quite seem to be development-level (yet).

Any suggestions for how to get help learning QEMU as a "power user" hoping to eventually contribute as a dev? I'd happily pay for consulting if I knew the right people to ask.
Today's equivalent would be if sony silently rooted your phone so their software could monitor and disable unauthorized music playing on your device, still very very wrong
But even the ancient Greeks often confused the two.
They should tear it down and rewrite it all in Rust.