skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? Of course NSA spent a lot of time and effort analyzing algorithms without making their findings public. That is their literal job. The peer review NIST is refereeing happened in the open. When people broke SIDH, they didn't whisper it anyone's ear: they published a paper. That's how this stuff works. Bernstein doesn't have a paper to show you; all he has is innuendo. How you know his argument is as limp as a cooked spaghetti noodle is that he actually stoops to suggesting that NSA might have bribed one of the members of the PQC teams.

If he had something real to say, he wouldn't have embarrassed himself like that. How I think I know that is, I think any reasonable person would go way out of their way to avoid such an embarrassing claim, absent extraordinary evidence, of which he's presented none.
>The thing is, no one can explain to me how it's better than just requiring 2+ passwords on each user account.

Really? It seems pretty straightforward. In one case I have a physical object that must be physically stolen from me to access my account. In the other case, if I make 2 poor passwords, my account can be accessed from anywhere in the world, no physical access required. The pool of people who can realistically compromise my account drops exponentially.

>You can't authenticate if you lose the Yubi when tech support is not available without circumventing the very process it was based upon.

Perfect is the enemy of good. Some people sometimes losing their Yubi and having to authenticate in a different way one time is not a good reason to argue for not having them at all.
Obsession with keeping skin white has been a major trend in Korea for a long time, have you seen all the weird hats and face masks that ajummas wear in order to reduce sun exposure?
"The questionnaire we used measured romantic passion, rather than physiological/sexual passion, due to institutional review board (IRB) ethical concerns regarding sensitive sexually oriented questions."

Curious about this. I understand ethical boards for psychological blind studies and such, but for questionaires?
NYC releases a nuke PSA, Emergency Alert may be broken. Whats next? Air traffic control systems fail?
a multicore machine? perhaps realized across physical cpus and os instances, or tons of memory with a high core count cpu?
Speaking to some people from India, and my own readings what combined their society was a couple of things : a deep connection to the traditions such as the vedas, sanskrit, gods, brahmanism. And even if there was divergence, it was usually with a deep respect for what had gone before. So surely while there was a lot of cultural divergence, there was also a lot of things that made it into the India we see today. Some empires also endured a long time to make more of cultural unity. I am not sure in how far Bharat was used for the whole subcontinent and where.
Obviously it's not strictly essential at all, given how many 10s of 1000s of years humanity survived without it - but once invented among a particular population I would think its usefulness (for various purposes) would be obvious enough that unless the raw materials become impossible to obtain, production would continue.
When LL Bean started, 90% of his boots were returned, and the purchases refunded - which gave Bean the opportunity to analyze how the boots had failed, redesign them, and send new boots to his dissatisfied customers. Apparent MVP failure becomes better engineering becomes marketing and research. Find out what your users/customers want. sources: posted on the store wall in Freeport, and
https://www.ecmag.com/section/your-business/lessons-learned-...
And a bunch of kernel patches to:

* disable access to various /proc/sys that reveal various kernel addresses
* randomize TCP ICN

* disable hibernate/sleep

* no container, Docker, LXR, nor KVM support; just the QEMU without direct machine code execute.

That’s is just scratching the surface.
At least in Australia I gather it it somewhat common for FOI offices to work with an FOI applicant to ask them to narrow the request if it is so broad as to cost too much or take too long to process, or is likely to just to be returned as hundreds of black pages.

Previous FOI responses show more savvy FOI applicants in the past have also (when they don't get the outcome they desired):

1. Formally requested review of decisions to withhold information from release. This almost always lead to more information being released.

2. Waited and tried requesting the same or similar information again in a later year when different people are involved.

3. Sent a follow up FOIA request for correspondence relating to how a previous (or unanswered) request was or is being processed by the FOI office and other parties responding to the request. This has previously shown somewhat humorous interactions with FOI offices such as "We're not going to provide that information because {lame excuse}" vs FOI office "You have to. CC:Executives" vs "No" vs Executives "It's not your information" etc etc.

4. Sent a follow up FOIA request for documentation, policies, training material and the likes for how FOI requests are assessed as well as how and by whom decisions are made to release or withhold information.

5. Sent a follow up FOIA request for documentation, policies, staffing levels, budgets, training material and the likes for how a typical event that the original FOIA request referred to would be handled (if details of a specific event are not being provided).

Responses to (2), (3) and (4) are probably more interesting to applicants than responses to (1), (2) and original requests, particularly when it is clear the applicant currently or previously has knowledge of what they're requesting.
It’s shocking how incongruent your views are with the text from the book (see sibling comment). Do you just selectively choose which parts of the book to believe or do you not believe peasants were any substantial part of the population and are therefore not worth caring about?
That’d show up in the Total Harmonic Distortion figure for the amp, and for any halfway hifi quality oriented amp it’ll be well below 0.1%. Perhaps “golden ears” can hear that? I’m not convinced. Most hifi audio amps typically run at well down into the single digit percentage of their rated output at ordinary listening levels in most systems, so they’re an order of magnitude or two away from clipping. If the feedback circuit and the output devices (transistors or tubes) can’t keep the response perfectly linear the thd down under 0.1% across the entire audio frequency band in that power range, it’s just badly designed.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5OshYCOieXk
I think if you could undergo a perfect and reversible sex change operation as easily as changing your clothes, it would become simply a matter of fashion - but with that kind of technology, changing your sex would be one of the least interesting things you could do, and new controversies would arise: for example, is it ethical to modify your body to look exactly like someone else’s body? And how far can you go with body modification before it stretches credulity to identify as a human, and what does that mean for the concept of human rights?
> We are already at the point where people go on tech cleanses, your technology gives you screen time reports so you can make sure you are not using it too much, people are abandoning social networks. We are literally trying to use computers less.

That's just it though, those screen time reports are because people are forced to consume things through tech that forces them to be immobile and looking at a small screen next to them, and people go on tech cleanses not because of the problems of microchips and the conveniences of instant coffee from cheap appliances, but because constant bombardment of the thoughts and opinions of everyone, everywhere, all at once becomes problematic and draining very quickly, even as it's addictive.

Transhumanist doesn't have to mean jacked into the internet in new and horrible ways. The GP comment itself notes how a simple magnet exposed a new sense they did not have previously. Nothing about magnet under the skin seems to be like something someone would necessarily look to be free from in a tech cleanse. Some people would likely think it brings them closer to nature.
Ask HN: What are the ways you go about getting comfortable with a new codebase?
Tools like Eclipse's Java Browsing Perspective(https://querix.com/go/beginner/Content/05_workbench/01_ls/02_interface/01_perspectives/java_browsing.htm), Visual Studio's Object Browser make it easier to browse the codebase by components.

What are the ways you do it? Is there anything similar available for functional programming?
The Old Norse word for Saturday, laugardagr, literally means "washing day". This custom still survives here in countryside Eastern Europe where many people routinely go to sauna (banya) every Saturday (or Sunday like my family). Before the 20th century, a lot of Eastern Europe (especially Russia) still lived like they lived in the middle ages: 95% of the country were serfs on feudal property living in traditional wooden houses with no modern benefits of civilization, and the bathing culture was pervasive: there were saunas (banyas) everywhere, and most villages were close to a river so water access was not a problem. Saunas were also a place where people gave birth. I find it hard to believe that Russian peasants were living the same lifestyle for centuries and only recently decided to start bathing. My family comes from Old Believers, a religous group which rejected church reforms of the 1600's and went into hiding in taiga, they preserved pretty ancient customs and their bathing culture was pretty intricate: for example, there always must be a separate towel/bucket of water for head, body, feet - this wouldn't have developed without a rich bathing culture before. Those villagers who could not afford their own sauna bathed in... ovens (inside the house). It's one of the older customs still preserved in some places. The traditional oven was pretty large and a whole person could fit in it. My mother was bathed like that when she was a child in their Old Believer village. However, I don't know if this was specific to Eastern/Northern Europe or common in Western Europe, too. I remember reading that due to overpopulation and deforestation it was harder for West Europeans to have frequent bathing every week. But here, population wasn't dense and forests were abundant.
I think the reason why academia is trying so hard to demonize meat is because they have pushed grains so hard for so many decades and now the truth about grains and blood sugar is coming out...which makes them look bad
they’re just self joins on views of the query.
Recently my credit card has been validating my purchases via SMS OTPs. I'm not thrilled by that, but after reading the article it sounds like an effective way to cut back on a lot of the credit card fraud.
I did get very technical support in the forums, down to the level of tracking latencies and detailed package inspection. But that was way too low-level and over my head for something that worked out of the box on several previous OpenWRT installs on much weaker hardware.

I like the idea of Mikrotik and understand that they are pretty powerful for the price, but as you said, they require a certain level of experience and knowledge to wrangle them to the users liking.
Thanks! Not quite there yet still unfortunately :(

Ah well, maybe I just need to give a few of them a try and see what they're like. I'm increasingly uncomfortable with having Google be such critical part of my life.
SQL opens up when used with OLAP schemas. Most devs are experienced in querying "object mapped" schemas where cube, roll up, etc. are not useful. Nothing bad per se, but it can give an impression that SQL is a bad language, when actually it clicks well with a proper data schema.
Wasn't it predictable, though?

Take a look at that issue of BYTE entirely dedicated to LOGO that was referenced multiple times in this discussion.

A dozen articles about the language, with listings. The screenshots? All the same, showing recursive pictures of rectangles and circles. Great. LOGO can do that. But what else? Big empty void there.

Contrast that with what BASIC could do at the time... Is it any wonder LOGO died out and BASIC thrived?
If you read translations of early medieval Arabic language travelers that visited Europe, they were almost all universally appalled by the state of hygiene and sewage/waste in major cities in general.

Not saying people didn't bathe at all but it clearly didn't meet societally acceptable standards of an educated person from Cairo or Baghdad.
People have been working white-collar jobs indoors behind UV-reflective windows for 50+ years now. Birth-rate decline — especially to below-replacement levels — begins much more recently than that; and is only happening in certain countries.

The set of countries experiencing birth-rate decline is not 1:1 correlated with the set of countries with high/increasing white-collar employment; but, AFAICT, it is 1:1 correlated with the set of countries that have strong avoidance of tanning / strong interest in skin-whitening.
None of my tweets ever got a bot reply.

Now that is most likely because they are all about very local topics or things related to my specific field of work.

They are also not very popular (a handful of retweets) and mostly cater to people I know in real life.

I know at least 10 people who regularly use Twitter through the app (aka being shown ads) but never ever tweeted a single thing.

They would be counted as real users by Twitter but 1000 bots who never viewed an ad wouldn't. That is all that Twitter claims in their SEC fillings.

That there are roughly 200 million active daily users who are being shown ads and that of those 200 million (very roughly) 5% are bots but "who knows it's a guess", says Twitter.

If there were an additional 50 Billion bots who never saw an ad, Twitters statement would still be true.
> Water didn't come easily unless you happened to live next to a river or have a well next to your house.

I'm pretty sure that "existence of village" almost always implies "next to a river" in Europe/Americas up until the 1800s. I'm trying to think of a notable exception and failing spectacularly. Long distance goods transport via roads basically didn't exist. Not being next to a river would be a horrible handicap in almost every way possible.

It's something that we take for granted in modern times, but Bret Deveraux (acoup.blog) talks about how if armies couldn't forage (water, wood, food, and fodder) an army simply couldn't go there. https://acoup.blog/2022/07/29/collections-logistics-how-did-...
Something software engineers came up with to feel exceptional. There’re great people in most professions, but this “10x” concept is completely subjective and not quantifiable.
U2F ("Yubi") doesn't have a "password" that's exposed to the user (you), so the attacker would have to steal it in order to get its password. Meanwhile, two passwords are basically the same as having one long password, and if the attacker gets that, then they're in.

(Yes, if the attacker can factor very large prime numbers, then they can get the "Yubi password", but if they can do that, there's a lot of bitcoin they could steal.)

U2F also signs the auth with the site's domain name, so even if the user tries to log into faceb00k.com (zeros), U2F won't let the attacker reuse the credentials on facebook.com.

This does require that you actually lose access without the second factor. In higher security environments this is enforced - if you lose the U2F device, then you can't log in. Obviously if the site lets you log in without the device then having the device doesn't actually matter.

Lost device flow is a weakness, but typically they're more involved and require the attacker to have more details about the user than a simple phish attack would have access to.
I am not a historian, but I reckon that in the Middle Ages, villages and towns were only built if a river was nearby.

In 1000 A.C. the estimated world population was ~200–300 million people, so it was probably easier than today to settle people near fresh water.
Trouble with navigation? The reviews all praise the navigation...

CNET: "This speaks to how impressive Astro's navigation really is. It moves around the house quickly and efficiently, adjusting to changes in the environment, like shoes left by the front door or doors along one route left closed. And the longer it stays in your house, the better it becomes at navigating."

https://www.cnet.com/home/smart-home/amazon-astro-review/

The Verge: "In the four weeks I tested the Astro in my home, it never backed into a table, tripped on a rug, or mowed down a chair. Contrary to early reports, it never threw itself down the stairs. It did roll right over pet poop (fake) but as most of the bot doesn’t touch the floor this wasn’t the same issue it is with a robot vacuum. Basically, its array of navigation and obstacle sensors seem to disregard anything under a couple of inches high. The Astro is also really fast, able to zip around the house at a top speed of a little over 2mph (1 meter per second), much faster than any robot vac can manage."

https://www.theverge.com/23141966/amazon-astro-robot-review

The notion that Astro has poor navigation came from a VICE article with "leaked" information that turned out to be false.
C came to dominate the world because of Unix. But not directly, because Unix didn't really dominate the world other than some of the institutional and corporate world. GNU and Linux picked up the domination torch and are still working on it.

I strongly suspect Microsoft was the catalyst which propelled C, absent of Unix.

Microsoft had been infatuated with Unix from early on. They had their own version called Xenix, based on AT&T licensed code. Part of the MS-DOS API consists of "Xenix functions", imitating some Unix-like things. MS-DOS, and consequently Windows feature Unixy conventions like .. for the parent directory and . for current, even though the underlying link concept isn't there.

Microsoft produced a C compiler + IDE which I believe highlighted and legitimized C as a viable language in the mass market world of IBM PC compatibles.

According to the Wikipedia page on Microsoft Visual C++, Microsoft already had a C compiler out in 1983.

"Microsoft C 1.0, based on Lattice C, was Microsoft's first C product in 1983. It was not K&R C compliant."

Microsoft picking up Lattice C and running with it is probably what caused the C explosion. Borland joined in the fray in 1987 with Turbo C.

But wait, Microsoft had a Lisp product too: why didn't that help?

[plain HTTP!] http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Microsoft_LISP

Probably they just didn't peddle it hard enough.

Microsoft also used C for developing Windows, and supported C development for Windows:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows#Early_versio...

"Microsoft sold as included Windows Development libraries with the C development environment, which included numerous windows samples."

The rise of MS Windows dragged C with it, with the API's and code samples being expressed in C.

Plus, it was probably not lost on the PC programming population that if they learn and work with C on that platform, their skills will be applicable in Unix and elsewhere.
> the majority of the homepage is a video example

I’m not seeing any videos on the homepage (I’m using safari on iOS).
ECDSA is almost universally used. It's deeply suboptimal in a variety of ways. But that's because it was designed in the 1990s, not because it's backdoored. This isn't a new line of argumentation for Bernstein; he has also implied that AES is Rijndael specifically because it was so commonly implemented with secret-dependent lookups (S-boxes, in the parlance); he's counting on a lay audience not knowing the distinction between an engineering principle mostly unknown at the time something was designed, and a literal backdoor.

What's annoying is that he's usually right, and sometimes even right in important new ways. But he runs the ball way past the end zone. Almost everybody in the field agrees with the core things he's saying, but almost nobody wants to get on board with his wild-eyed theories of how the suboptimal status quo is actually a product of the Lizard People.
Audiophiles sometimes claim they can hear artefacts of the "low" sample rate 44.1 kHz, and only 16 bit samples.

Nowadays there exists audio files recorded in up to 96 kHz with 24 bit samples.
It sounds more like you disagree with taxation, rather than the semantics around subsidization. We can't really continue this line of dialogue if you disagree that taxes are payments for services rendered. It's like saying Burger King is stealing my lunch money when I buy a Whopper. It's a really bad analogy.

Alternatively, here's a definition of subsidy:

> A subsidy is a benefit given to an individual, business, or institution, usually by the government. It can be direct (such as cash payments) or indirect (such as tax breaks).

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/subsidy.asp
I remember using the addon too. The reason for the addon had words to the effect that it enabled you to keep track of sites that did not have an RSS feed which was the more standard way getting new web content.
Flexport is hiring software engineers to streamline global trade
Wasn't aware of that, though multiple other name clashes exists. Thx for pointing it out.
Interestingly enough, Christianity, the Bible (as anything other than a historical text), etc. were systematically stripped from most schools, libraries, gov't buildings over the past 50 years.

The right obviously wasn't pleased about it. But the lawsuits were made, and the courts established the precedents.

And now I don't think the left is going to be happy when they're on the receiving end, and the same courts force them to take down the rainbow flags, remove all the Kendi books, cut out the BLM activism and pride curriculums.

Because at this point, there is little difference between traditional religions and the newer "woke" ones being pushed. They've both got their dogmas, moral codes, icons, rituals, systems of punishments for heretics, etc.
Yeah, this is also what I gathered from speaking to people from India, and my own research. Brahmanism/ belief in the vedas was pretty widespread and sanskrit is with a few local exceptions the “Latin” of India. As far as I know there was relatively little iconoclasm as most follow up empires usually respected what came before. The exception might by in the deep south? Not sure. Ofcourse this changed somewhat with islamism and British rule. Those two things reformed a lot in the identities of people during time up till now.
It's interesting to note that, when water is really scarce, people can take care of themselves without water. Himba people, living nomad life on savannas of Namibia and Angola, practically do not use water for everyday hygiene. Shaving heads (men), making dreads with mud (women), oiling body with liquid butter with ochre pigment from soil. Additionally, women use herbs incense as anti-microbial and fragrance.

Added: As culi points out in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32364340) "(...) ammonia oxidizing bacteria can oxidize our sweat and prevent us from stinking. AOBs are found in soils pretty much everywhere."
User Manual is over here https://github.com/midjourney/docs/blob/main/user-manual.md#...

I never saw this is kinda staff. May be its future.
At least on eBay there's a lot of Nazi memorabilia for sale.
> Personally I prefer to always go lossless

Oh? Why's that?
Sorry, making up what?
It's true the publicized SS7 attacks brought forwards the timeline with which SMS based auth should be deprecated, but "never should have been deployed" is a bit much. There simply wasn't the infrastructure to support anything else. Hardware RSA SecurID keys from the 90's wouldn't have scaled.
For Dreame Z10 (it also has LiDAR and Xiaomi sub brand), I confirmed the same. Moving objects is not a problem.
Cheating on the exam means it wasn't learned.