skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, telling that guy to go away is obviously not giving consent to be tracked.

The problem is mostly impatience with how slow the data protection agencies are with putting a stop to these violating popups, especially the Irish DPA that has jurisdiction on the big FANG. This slowness isn't too surprising given that the industry developed to where it is under the eye of the DPAs in the first place, so they aren't exactly packed with folk that have shown initiative...
>Detergent DRM

The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. (...) The continued development of technology will worsen the situation.
Pirates of the Caribbean Hijacked America's Metric System
I would be a race to the bottom as every job could hirer somebody cheaper who is equally qualified.
Virtual Currencies and Beyond: Initial Considerations [pdf]
Nike’s self-lacing sneakers bricked after faulty firmware update
I feel like our best bet is "Right to Repair" legislation. Claw back ownership to mean real ownership, not veiled rental.

RTR should include access to the software running these products, this way people could modify things, brick their appliances if they really want to, turn off "call home" features, etc.
You're confusing having value to others with having value to yourself.

I can be happy with a nice rock I found on the beach if I really love it and it's important to me. However, what we are taking about here is are assets which have a wider value on an open market.
Plus the whole problem of “the dimensions listed have no relation to real life measurements”.
How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work? (2020)
Maybe that would at least keep people from putting curl | sh in their Readme on Github.
Thanks for sharing the article. I followed it and it was very simple to set up.

In the past, I postponed setting this up after I encountered issues. I tried to run "ykman", but it seemed to fight with "yubioath-desktop". It was tricky to debug and I ended up rebooting. I think the reason was that I installed "yubioath-desktop" using snap, which runs "pcscd" as a snap service, and "ykman" wants to start the "pcscd" system service.

Either case, for this tutorial, I skipped the part running 'ykman'. Basically the only commands were:

ssh-keygen -t ed25519-sk -O resident

ssh-add -K
No. Brave browser hijacks webpages that you view and injects their own adverts onto the webpage.

The webpage you requested is not the webpage you are shown, because of the man-in-the-middle attack.
I love creating these lists in my head. Sometimes when I do a good job, I imagine myself on someone else's good list. Often when I am struggling with something I worry someone is visualizing me on their bad list.

Over time it has made me question if my short list is as good as I think it is. Maybe I am biased and only observed good/bad work for people on either list. Also people change over time and take on new responsibilities that change their work.
That's just called dishonesty. If a millionaire doubles $100 with an investment, I consider that a .01% return.
Tyler Cowen on reading fast, reading well, and reading widely
It costs (a lot) of money to move dollars between people; how would I aquire DumbCoin without physically traveling to you and buying it?
Why hotel NFTs are a terrible idea
hey thats neat! how do you build the iso?
True if You presume new constructions to be done on empty (farm)land.

Somewhat less true if You take into account that specifically solar can (and often is) constructed on residential / industrial rooftops.
Some of the greatest minds of our time asked what were thought to be absurd questions. It's just that others didn't have the intellect to understand the reason behind the question.
There is also a sense in which some people have a strong belief in some ephemeral "the Science" and only want to make decisions based on that. For example, as you say something might make you feel better, but they entirely reject it and want nothing to do with it because it hasn't been "scientifically proven" yet. Obviously science is a very powerful tool (I'm a physicist myself), but we shouldn't expect every corner of our life to need to be accounted for by it to live properly. It has become a new kind of religion for some people, and they don't even realise it.
"not very helpful"? Why?

Do you disagree with what I wrote above, about the situation in Greece?

Because you said that "Corruption and abuse of power is not just a Greek thing".
Not "just" a Greek thing, yes? So you must think that it is a Greek thing.

Note, my comment was not only about "corruption and abuse of power", but also
about incompetence. See in my comment: "a country were rank incompetence runs
rampant". You didn't seem to disagree with that - you only commented about
corruption and abuse of power.

So which parts of all this do you disagree with? Can you clarify?

I'm sorry but I have to confess, I'm very confused by the way you choose to
communicate. If instead of attacking an opinion I didn't express, you had taken
the time to think carefully about what I acturally wrote, and made a comment
about that, you could have spared us both a lot of wasted effort. If you didn't
have time to think carefully and you just wanted to express your disagreement or
frustration at my comment, you could always just downvote my comment. But if
you're going to put time in a discussion, then put enough time in it to avoid
confusing everyone, including yourself. If I may.
Sorry, but no, I will comment my views as I please, whether they support the status quo or not. As this is a public forum, you'd do well to find a way to cope with differing views.

I was poor. I improved my situation. I didn't spend much time complaining about rich people on the internet, because that would have detracted from the time I taught myself marketable skills for 8 hours a day, every day, for 7 months, while delivering pizzas and living in a shithole with 3 other people. You're right though, complaining would have been much easier, but somehow I don't think I'd still be making a quarter mil if I had taken that route.

"Pathetic" to recommend people work hard and fix their life? That sentiment itself is what's pathetic. The world doesn't owe you shit.
You quoted someone else so I can’t speak to their claim.

But mine is that it’s easier to succeed if you’re focused and it’s easier to focus when you have a simpler life. I was just clarifying an important part of the context of the mortgage argument because you seemed to strawman it to be only about the monetary transaction. For some, renting helps simplify their life. It’s not a difficult through line to follow and I don’t think it’s extraordinarily controversial, despite your consistent mischaracterization. (I never said, for example, that “only” renters can succeed).

Do you think it’s easier to succeed running one business or a dozen? Why?
Ah, the UK story on that would be "fill kettle, plug it in, switch it on and wait for it to boil"

Kettles on stoves are weird to us.
A launchd plist generator online
Sorry, you yourself have given up the idea on fighting for privacy but still get annoyed that others don't care?
Don't know about you, but I personally want Java and the JVM to be boring. It's a foundation for some systems I use like a TI embedded programming IDE based on Eclipse and my use of Clojure. I want it to do its job with as little excitement as possible.
As pragmatic as your "belief" that you own the computing device used to make your post.
Those are probably fine for the Netherlands where the vast majority of bikes are city-bikes with stands. They don't offer much leaning support or multiple points of contact with the frame though, so unlikely to get the approval of the author of that article.
The Lwn.net Linux Distribution List
Yubikeys (and similar hardware tokens) are a blessing for authentication.

I use them for SSH, but also for 2FA on the web, `sudo` and a few other items. Wrote about it recently here:

https://hugo.barrera.io/journal/2022/05/07/how-i-secure-my-s...
There is - this is exactly what Tether is. It's the largest, most liquid of the stable coins with someone like $80bn of coins in circulation [1]. Binance and Coinbase also have their own as well which are also pretty big.

As far as algorithmic stable coins are concerned, I have no idea what the point is. Largely experimental as far as i can tell (but pretty much guaranteed to fail given how they work)

1. In fact so big now that cash managers and corporate treasurers keep an eye on Tether as they have a material impact on the bills and CP markets.
Another way is maintaining the final balance field for the readings. Every new transaction you save it into the transactions table and adjust the balance field as well.

You can have a job to go through the transactions from time to time to save important balances that user would need (e.g: daily, monthly and quarterly balances).
Another reason to repeal DMCA Section 1201.
Another one? It wasn't that long since the last increase.
What are bystanders going to do? If you call the cops about someone stealing a bike they'll show up three hours later and shrug, if they show up at all.
This is pretty much what USDC is.
I see the point of that dishwasher for someone who doesn't have easy access to a sink like a student in a dorm, but I can't fathom why you'd put one in a house or apartment. With such a tiny capacity you're better off hand washing.
Blank page with uBlock Origin.

Because it uses 3rd party JS from orecdn.oraclecloud.com.
Adding 'Show HN' to the title will give you a bit more visibility https://news.ycombinator.com/show

I'm surprised a third of the terms-of-service is about who is allowed to link to the website. It's 2022 and I think impossible to keep anybody from linking.

> If you are one of the organizations listed in paragraph 2 above and are interested in linking to our website, you must inform us by sending an e-mail to Utopiops. Please include your name, your organization name, contact information as well as the URL of your site, a list of any URLs from which you intend to link to our Utopiops, and a list of the URLs on our site to which you would like to link. Wait 2-3 weeks for a response.
unnecessary DRM like this should be illegal
The best part: all of the utils in the tool chains "evolve" and so your one script has to be regularly modified and kept up to date. A project that "just worked" but has been on ice for several months, will now not even build after you pull updates etc. It's infuriating. I used to work on a front-end team, and a good 20% of our time was spent babying the build chain, I kid you not.
> My notebook, which I use like a Bullet Journal, has no batteries that need recharging, no screen that can crack, no notifications, the pen has an ink capacity of over 2 years of daily writing, with a new recharge costing ~6€, no software updates.

I've always had a stern preference for pen and paper, mostly for the reasons you also outline. Always had Moleskins and they never failed me.

But some time ago, I came across reMarkable (2) that seemed like a very good device for people with a distracted mind like me. And now I don't think I'd like to live without it.

Batteries last weeks between charges, screen feels indestructible (the entire device feel indestructible actually), no notifications or any other distractions, and the nibs are really long lasting. Extra plus is that the screen/pen makes it really nice to write on, something I missed when trying to use any other device for notetaking.

The reMarkable is a bit on the expensive side though, especially for its low amount of use cases. But the cases it's built for, it does it really well, so if you have the cash to spare, maybe look into it and see if it's interesting.

Not affiliated with reMarkable, just a happy user who never thought I'd dump my notebooks for anything else.
Requires 3rd party JS.
I’m working on an educational programming language (pickcode.io) and having something like this to pay off whatever AWS/Netlify stuff isn’t in the free tier would be great.
In that case, I think you'd potentially have a counter-claim for breach of implied warranty.

In your scenario, the buyer wouldn't have a contract other than they bought the clock and it was implied to work as a clock. You could have a claim for breaking the device, but the first-sale doctrine gives you copyright protection regardless of what you do to the clock.

In the article, thieves have no contract, so they have no right to anything to do with the devices.
See prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27013880
Keeping an extra key stored away works well enough.

IF my primary key gets lots, I'd hope the one backup one won't suddenly fail that same day -- if it does, then there's a problem.

The annoying bit is having to add all 2FA tokens to the backup one -- which is tricky if you want to store if off-site, since you need to bring it in every once in a while to add all the new 2FA secrets to it.
You're over indexing.

s/learn/adapt
My argument is that brains are cool, brains do this thing, ergo this thing might be cool.
The smarter ones can deal with chairs pretty well.
This is just a repeat of the .COM bubble. Back then you had cheerleaders like Henry Blodget who were lucky to jump on the bubble at the right time and ride it on the way up. They all blew up when the bubble popped because their previous success was just lucky timing without any understanding.

Being a successful investor during a bubble is not exactly difficult. Getting out at the right time is the hard part.
Observing Attacks Against Hundreds of Exposed Services in Public Clouds
Why are pro-China commenters so often like this? Why can't they just say what they mean, rather than muddying the waters?
That's a nice little utility. A poor man's version would be to use Perl, which is mostly everywhere and comes bundled with List::Util. Missing a fair amount of what you're providing, but would work in a pinch, especially with some aliases to scrub the boilerplate out.

echo "10 9 8" | perl -aMList::Util=/./ -E 'say min @F' # min
echo "10 9 8" | perl -aMList::Util=/./ -E 'say max @F' # max
echo "10 9 8" | perl -aMList::Util=/./ -E 'say sum @F' # sum
echo "10 9 8" | perl -aMList::Util=/./ -E 'say sum(@F)/@F' # average
echo "10 9 8" | perl -aMList::Util=/./ -E 'say reduce {"$a,$b"} @F' # arbitrary ops
> So why isn't there just a DumbCoin(tm) that simply is 1-to-1 backed by the dollars?

Those exist (like USDC), but they rely on a trusted entity holding the reserves.
That quote (and the work it is taken from) is becoming more relevant by the day. I am very pessimistic about the future and I don't believe that we can fight against the enormous power that technology gives to those that can use it on a massive scale.

I just hope that the eventual dictator will be a "soft-hearted leftist" and decide to turn the world into a huge human zoo, instead of some sadistic overlord that will turn the world into a huge human cage.

EDIT: soundtrack for today: "1000 eyes" by Death
Yes, it's pretty decent for that.
I raised my sofa for the robot. Now it can steal my precious dropped items without being risking being observed.

Related: License plates have been designed to be machine readable for decades.
This is an awesome idea. When the web was young, getting people to read and comment on your ideas was a great way to get feedback and encouragement for good ideas.

Advertising has distorted and rendered the open web far less useful in this regard.

Funding small one time projects without strings is something that DARPA used to do. It's been missed.

In their application, they offer an option for the funded projects to write up their project as a blog post. I think it would also be good for them to offer funded projects an additional option to to be included in list/post from the funder's side. It would be a nice way to add perspective to outside observers.
The thing about the unsubscribe button that I've found, if you use an alias, hackernews@example.com but your 'real' email is mike@example.com (catch-all email), Gmail unsubscribe will submit the 'real' email, mike@example.com, which doesn't work and can back fire by giving spammers your 'real' email.
My main concern would be other employers would see my Twitter rants and decide not to hire me.

Sometimes it's better to let things go
Broadcom's stated strategy ignores most VMware customers
this question made me realize i didn't write interesting code in a while. that's scary
I keep my backup key in a drawer with a bunch of papers and records and shit. It's also where I keep my 2FA backup codes, and a few other decryption keys.
I personally quite enjoy many of the things that the industrial revolution has brought us, such as cheap and ubiquitous electricity, food safety, the internet and even cheap countertop dishwashing machines. Detergent DRM is a bit much though.
Hmmm...that's a fair point. It would definitely be copyright law, but I'm not sure if it would actually work. I know downloading copyrighted material into RAM still counts as a violation, so the argument would probably be that running the software illegally copies code they have no rights to from storage to RAM.
1Password is super convenient for MFA, but it's really FAKE MFA. You password and the OTP secret are both stored together, in the same vault, guarded by the same password.

If one is leaked or accessed, so is the other.

It only really provide protection against the most basic / passive MITM attacks.
I imagine the idea is "there are plenty of students with more time than money, who are held back from doing really interesting projects by comparatively small amounts of money".

This program isn't interesting to a software engineer working in Silicon Valley, but I know some brilliant 16-24 year olds who have time on their hands but would have problems investing $200 into software tooling or a little hardware.

Sure, those people won't build the next sentient robot, or the next gcc. But innovation often happens by exploring lots of ideas a little, to even figure out which ideas are worth exploring further. An army of hobby projects can be very effective at that.
> Right now, we can theoretically read each other’s letters if we wanted to, but this encryption doesn’t require us trusting each other, the service we host them on, or anything.

Ah, yes, this enables the famous trustless relationship. :)

(I kid, I'm sure you have a lovely relationship, but the clash was too funny for me)
What problem were you trying to solve with your search for something digital when the solution turned out to be physical?
While we're at this - is there anyway for sudo NOT to ask for password when logged in via key authentication?
I miss the C1. I was very happy with it from a technical perspective, less happy about their staff rarely updating the enforced boot script setup, letting them run on old outdated kernels. The official reason for decommissioning them was hardware instabilities, same reason they gave for ending their Arm64 offering. I ran a C1 server for 3.5 years and an Arm64 VPS for 1 year without a single problem.
For some reason my brain was "disputing" the word "Detergent" when reading the title, i thought it was "Deterrent" misspelled :)
I live in quebec, u can have a nice house for less than 1m, and to be honest not looking to buy stuff just to stop working and not worring about the futur
Both sides used Russian interference, Trump was still able to win.
Formation: React-based UI component library
From what I've seen in IRL stores, there's no interest in dumb TVs. Everyone wants smart TVs, and I haven't seen any new TV that was dumb.
Talking about a 20 year old dishwasher in the https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31555629 post I doubt this company will still sell you a cartridge in 20 years making it yet another paper weight although it would still function.
The paper I cited did not ignore depreciation.
You're splitting hairs when you say down ranking is not censorship - you know full well the impact to a websites traffic once it gets out of the top 3 results let along the 1st page of results.

The fact you started censoring "Russian media outlets" right after the start of the war shows the political nature of your decision, those "limited press freedoms" weren't a concern until Mar 22.

Do you publish the decision making process for how the "non-partisan" decisions on censorship are made - or is this another blackbox? I'm sure Dailymail, New York Post and Al Jazeera are all down-ranked too, considering they meet your "non-partisan factors" right?
Elsewhere in this discussion there's a Reddit posting by a pediatrician https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/uvcijm/a_pediatri.... Under four months, home made formula:

"Often has a dangerously different osmolality. Infants eat whatever they are given and have dumb kidneys, so are prone to hyponatremia or hypernatremia and every pediatrician has seen a baby die this way. Don’t do it."

See that and other discussions here about the differences between infant (above) and toddler formula.
Would that not break your system though? I admit my lack of knowledge in public key infrastructure.
Yeah. Only caring for warranty period Is planned obsolescence
I feel like my full size dishwasher doesn’t hold enough dishes…
Ask HN: What video games do you play during the day?
Sometimes I need a quick break like 5 minutes on a game, or a walk outside.

What games do you play to pass the time while waiting for code to compile / graphics rendering?

I'm trying to find nice quick pick-up-and-play games similar to Stardew Valley / Screeps / Factorio.

What does HN play?
Some aspects of the Newton, such as the database-centric file system, were so much ahead of their time they'd still be ahead of ours.
I am, more and more, deliberately choosing boring technology. Knobs in the car and on appliances. No screen interfaces. Low-tech where possible.

We just replaced our "high tech" Maytag dryer and its "advanced" feature set for a low tech SpeedQueen, the same dryers you find in most Laundromats. Why? Repairability. While we could _technically_ replace the burnt out fuse in the Maytag, it would take at least two hours for a skilled technician (translated to several days for me and my spouse spread across a few weeks) and frankly we want to repair and get back to life. After a few days of looking into the issue and considering the option, we bit the bullet and bought a new one. The old one just had too many fault modes to consider even if we did successfully repair it.

I take the same neo-Luddite view on a lot of recent "technology" improvements. The BoringTechnology.club website has the right idea.
Exactly. And especially considering the costs, which would have been very easy to calculate before purchasing the thing.
AWS not offering multiple 2FA keys is one of my biggest annoyances, its a service that I feel much have 2FA due to its ability to run up extreme bills, but I also cant setup a backup key in case of loss or failure.
Masters of Cinema
Noted. I'll add that.
> I want to be pedantic and point out that water as a substance is not the same thing as water as an ingredient in another substance. It is not water, it is something else which contains water.

It's possible to take that pedantry a step too far. Is seawater not water because it contains a lot of salt, other minerals, fish poo, and whatnot?

> “Water” cooling is most often literally distilled water or possibly distilled water with a fungicide. This is not what is used in datacenters.

I've worked with datacenter equipment cooled by (AFAIK non-distilled) water-glycol, so, well, it does exist and is used.
It feels different than just echo chamber, like it got taken over by a top driven agenda to push the corporate/global narratives the last three years.
It's strange because there are many English -> IPA and some English -> fake-phonetics (like Ehn-gleesh foh-neh-teeks, or something like that)

The only one I found similar to what you want is http://ipa-reader.xyz/
>The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

I'll take detergent DRM any day over being a medieval serf.