skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Am I freaking out unnecessarily? Is my reasoning flawed?

Yes, very much so. I don't know about Apple's thing specifically, but WebAuthn is decentralized and open.

Basically how it works is that you have a private key and use that to log in to a site, no other servers or anything else required. I don't know what Apple's implementation specifically has changed, but if it's based on WebAuthn, it can't be much.

Overall, though, if WebAuthn becomes more widespread through this, it's a huge win for everyone involved, as it's more secure than passwords, easier to use, faster, more usable, and more private.
I built an AI that uses two computer vision programs. One is object detection to detect when I’m encountering a distraction. And two is face tracking that tracks my face using a webcam attached to a dart blaster attached to pan/tilt servo motors that use coordinates sent through an Arduino to aim at my face, and shoot me (with darts).
Way better than declaring victory and staying for sure.
That’s an… interesting usage of a switch block…
Ah yes this looks more correct, I was mistaken. Apparently TedK was subjected to these experiments by a professor who also happened to have been employed by US intelligence but it’s unclear whether the experiment was part of MKULTRA itself. Thanks for the correction!
I've seen Sybase being used by a product sold to telecom operators. If I understand correctly it's most important feature was doing distributed in memory analytics before stuff like Spark or Presto existed.
Show HN: Twofer Goofer, Wordle-inspired rhyme game built with Stable Diffusion
Loved the daily shareable results of wordle but felt the game was a bit random. Wanted to build a version of a game I learned from my high school English teacher. Most fun part by far is using Midjourney and Stable Diffusion to make each day’s art!
Really? Nearly everyone I know is somewhat against the monarchy and think it should be abolished, but my parents are very pro-monarchy. The only thing my dad said was, "Did you hear the news? Very sad", and I said, "Yeah, very sad" and that was it.

Is it really hard to have a bit of empathy for people who are sad that someone they loved/admired/respected has died?

A nursery closing is odd, but again, their choice. Talking about bereavement sounds very healthy to me, whatever the excuse for it.
I feel like the timing is important in that story, and often underemphasized. Edward was pressured not to marry a married (and arguably not separated) American woman he was in some form of relationship with, who was willing to divorce her current husband in order to marry him. Simpson didn't file for divorce until after George died, and the cause of divorce is widely understood as having been orchestrated to allow her to marry Edward. The divorce was not finalized until well after the abdication.

While, technically, the constitutional crisis would have been caused by him marrying a divorcee and being the head of a state religion that didn't approve of remarriage with living ex-spouses, the circumstances were likely important in motivating a hard stance on the policy: it involved the sort of situation that an apologist might have given as an example of why remarriage should not be allowed. Even current Church of England rules would not allow the marriage.

It is interesting that the story is often simply portrayed as him wanting to marry a American divorcee, likely leading to the sense in many readers unfamiliar with the circumstances that he wanted to marry someone who simply had had prior marriages, quite possibly with ex-husbands who were still in the US.
Not a joke; the Screwtape Letters is a seminal piece of literature, forget the written story, the story is the context of the novel, it's intention, it's composition, and it's ultimate weakness as a intellectual milepost. It practically destroys itself. It's a masterpiece of self deception.
If India is anything like South America, the ketchup is much more watery. Even Heinz. At first I thought it was a different recipe but they do it to make it cheaper by adding extra water. Same with packaging, lots of stuff in plastic bags instead of plastic bottles.
Yeah, that's necessary, but I think there are cultures and situations where it's not sufficient, unfortunately.
If we agree to measure political stability as world bank does, the only countries more politically stable in the world than Finland in 2015 were Switzerland and New Zealand.

https://govdata360.worldbank.org/indicators/hd8f5d509?indica...

I fail to see how making Finland more stable would improve anything, or that adding a monarch would achieve this goal.

Royalism sounds like the hunt for a silver bullet that would fix complex problems and institutions in a society. I don't think there is any evidence quasi-religion by itself improves institutions.
As a matter of interest, what's it being replaced with?
That's ok, it can be hard sometimes for all of us. You too!
surprisingly works for my old Dell monitor
Not exactly. Because a quick grep of _ = gives you the variables which are needed to be checked before whether used or unused
At least we’re paid decent amounts of money to crash the bus into the wall…
Even some English speakers omit the H, 'appiness. Give it a little inflection and you've got yourself a penis. I did watch a French burlesque show that had a comedy bit based in on this very mispronunciation, but that may well have been contrived.
Using SQLite from Python
Good suggestion. Adding...

It's tough to fight habit and culture. As the article points out, it's *all* about comms. That's a 101 statement. Having to explain the value of comms (and documentation) isn't something you should have to do. So if you are, chances are good they won't get it.
Cunningham's Law before scale
As much of a fan of SpaceX's vision as I am, the only ballistic point to point passengers I can envisage any time soon would be military operatives in a dire emergency.

I just can't see the likelihood of ballistic weapo..er.. projecti..er.. vehicles being allowed anywhere near major population centres, by tens of decamiles, therefore mooting the purpose of such extreme point to point passenger journeys.

Never mind the sonic booms and general noise. Even having regular scheduled passenger landings on water seems ... not entirely environmentally friendly.
It is possible:

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Poor English skills? New AIs help researchers to write better
True. And I guess you need to be prepared to favor sync at first for newer problems and colleagues. Once you understand each other better, the ambiguity of content and tone in async lessens.
https://docs.modernxmpp.org/
Same here, all the hip trends of the day, and then back to the same Java, .NET and C++ that I have been touching for several decades, Boring Technology™.
Neither does democracy. Life is mostly gray. Also I don't feel like explaining all the possible meanings of 'sometimes'.
Odds heavily against Scottish independence in the next 20 years.

Bookmakers price a referendum before 2025 at about 10% probability. I think that's too big a number - I'd say 10% chance by 2030.

Let's suppose it happens in 2025, though. At that point, the UK and EU will still be at loggerheads over the border with NI meaning the SNP's central premise - that Scotland should be able to rejoin the EU - will look more and more like a dangerous and economically calamitous poison pill. Even pro-independence financial analysts will warn of a deep recession with house prices falling off a cliff. That'll make independence about as popular as mouldy bread.

In addition, the EU will be quite feckless and tone deaf to what that SNP promise of independence is centred on, and during any campaign will confirm confidently that yes, Scotland could rejoin the EU, all it'll take is adoption of the Euro (non-negotiable), and a complete adoption of all protocols and laws that the UK - including Scotland - will have mostly dismantled by that point (for better or worse). The timeline will be a decade or more, and the estimated costs will be in the billions, but the EU think it's still value. Meanwhile Scottish voters will wonder if a generation of being out of the UK _and_ the EU is worth the candle.

The idea that against that backdrop the SNP think their argument for independence is stronger, not weaker, is strange.

I think you'll also see a slight shift in polls in coming days and weeks because of the death of the Queen. Operation Unicorn is designed in a small way to allow Scottish unionists to show what the United Kingdom is all about. Sentimentality has been proven time, and time again, to be incredibly powerful in changing people's minds quite irrationally.

Coupled with Charles' political will - as you note, towards radical environmentalism and architectural protectionism that aligns neatly with a decent proportion of the Scottish populace - you might find Sturgeon and the SNP looks more and more marginal as time goes by.

The Queen oversaw a decline in Empire and a rise in the British believing in - and committing to - a people's right to self-determination. And so it will be in Scotland, just as it has been for so many countries that have gained independence from British rule in the last 75 years. But the backdrop right now is firmly that the SNP is about to slide, independence will become less popular to many, and Scotland will either be part of the renaissance we are all hoping for, or is coming down with the rest of us.
When I was a kid in Sweden in the early '80s I watched an educational film on TV about tomato ketchup containing carmine - red food colouring (E-120, natural red 4) made from crushed cochineal bugs.

I've never come across an actual tomato ketchup brand that contained food colouring. Did that even exist anywhere?
>I lived a somewhat similar life basically enjoying living outdoors and odd jobs and travelling and volunteering until I had a kid

You could have just continued that life on a cash basis...
A large portion of my (non-lisp) time is taken up because someone changed a language. What used to compile no longer does. Take, for example, Python. A large codebase in 2.7 needs to be ported to Python3 because a customer has a Python3 library. The original problem now needs to be re-coded by people who did not write the original code, achieving nothing of value. Of course, some of the Python 2.7 libraries need to be re-written without access to the source.

The goal for a 'standard' is not ossifying a language. Don't pretend that Python3 is in any way related to Python. Call it Snake or something else. Then 'python' code continues to work and 'snake' continues to work.

The confusion, especially evident in C++, is that 'C++' is at least half-a-dozen languages related by chance. When asked if you know C++, you really should reply with the 'standard' that you claim to know. There are 6 C++ "standards" that I'm aware of. I understand there is a 7th due to arrive in 2023. I wonder if 'concepts' will be in the new 'standard'. If so, do you know what it means to inherit 'up the add chain' versus regular inheritance? If not, can you still claim to 'know C++'?

It takes a LONG time to get "command of a language". Reading other people's code is a great way to see how much you don't know. For example, did you know that in C++ you can dynamically create a class and an instance IN THE ARGUMENT LIST OF A FUNCTION? It can take years to really "know" a language, much longer than the change time of languages.
It is listed in their policies
Using a Commodore 64 on the modern internet [video]
TRW Inc
I’m not sure this answer is as true as you imagine. You extract money via a sale to then invest it and create a revenue stream. Which you potentially already have in the original business. It’s just it was invested in your business v someone else’s.

The question of whether to sell it is a function of how much money you need in a lump sum, how precarious or stable your business is and how much cash it’s throwing off. And of course of diversification.

It’s not defacto true that you need to sell it to realise its value though
I hate it how UX is so much more important than actual funtionality. I blame Instagram, Apple and consumer apps in general for that.
In a similar vein, here's the UK Parliament API directory: https://developer.parliament.uk
The purchase of MySQL by Oracle makes a lot of sense in this light.
Ask HN: Why do we need central bank digital currency (CBDC)?
Many countries', including the United States, central banks are trying to figure out Central Bank Digital Currency (CDBC). This move has accelerated after China introduced its digital currency (e-CNY).

But why do we need a digital currency when most of my transactions (presumably true for most people in a modern economy) is digital? I receive my salary via a bank transfer, make payments in grocery stores via credit cards, deposit checks via my phone by taking pictures of them, and split restaurant bills via Zelle. All that is digital - no cash is involved.
Explain to me like I am 5 - What problem does a digital currency solve that is not solved by electronic (digital) transfer mechanisms of existing fiat money?

Links
- US Federal Reserve working paper on CDBC https://www.federalreserve.gov/central-bank-digital-currency.htm
- European Central Bank on digital currency https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/digital_euro/html/index.en.html
- Details on Chinese e-CNY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_renminbi
Here in Norway the most common ketchup, Idun Tomatketchup, is made especially for sausages like Vienna sausage. It's OK for its purpose, but is lacking for other uses, especially with more flavorful foods.

I preferred Heinz for some things, I quite like vinegar so, until I found a jar of some Country Ketchup from Stonewall Kitchen[1]. That's something else entirely, and I love it, especially for burgers and bratwursts.

So yeah, ketchup ain't just ketchup... not entirely unlike mustards.

[1]: https://www.stonewallkitchen.com/country-ketchup-261607.html
Just today, I finally had the hardware in place to fire up my 10-year-old ZFS array.

It used to be my daily driver, but three moves across country and small living spaces pushed this storage box down in urgency; I regressed back to my old bad habits of haphazard disks and flash drives and usb "thumb" drives... all over...

Anyhow, tried to import the ZFS pool, crashed ZFS, caused a kernel panic. Dang.

Switched to a recent FreeBSD distribution, same crash.

I'm pulling together the various methods of recovery from folks who've seen this type of failure, and all will be well. (Or if not, I've got at least one good snapshot up on Backblaze.)

But user space for something like this sounds like the perfect fit. ZFS already subsumes functions from device driver to blocks and files manager, on up to volumes and snapshots-- the whole storage stack. Those user-facing aspects of storage and volume management could reasonably be taken as a user space process tree, where a crash wouldn't bring down your entire server.

Heck, to triage my problem, it's suggested to re-run the zpool import with other options. If I could iterate and converge on a operational set of recovery steps, without taking my entire server out and back up from cold boot, yeah that would be great!
That shouldn't be the default debug implementation. Plenty of people use `Vec<u8>` to store a list of numbers, not a string.
IT guy for ERP customer here.

This sounds about right to me. In particular, it tends to partiton the organization into (A) the people whose job it is to plug away at the ERP system (orders, invoices, tickets, etc), and (B) the people who actually do whatever it is that the company does.

(C) - License costs can also play into this partitioning.

Then you hope (and work to ensure) that the benefit achieved for B, by having consistent org-wide information systems to work from, is enough to cover the overheads of A and C.
Upvoted for the kindness. Appreciate it.
I think that stealing and cheating—by people who don’t face acute need—is a profound moral defect. In the same way that people saying “boys will be boys” when applied to quite horrible conduct says something bad about our society, normalizing theft as youthful hijinks says something bad. (Not directed at you, I’m aware most Americans anymore just don’t think it’s that big of a deal.)

You have a point about abundance changing the balance compared to earlier eras. I’ll have to think about that.
You’re essentially re-discovering the principles of GNU Hurd.
+1 As someone who never runs into problems with JSX, I have definitely wondered if the criticisms against JSX/React are from people trying to use it in ways that are explicitly counter to its core philosophy.
It’s “stupid” to suggest that hundreds of millions of other people might have a point in how they’ve structured their laws?

Are you just upset because you think corporal punishment for theft should be outside the Overton window and you assume I agree and am just being flippant? (And I’m not sure what the “ideological direction” here is. I’m pretty sure right wing people don’t think sharia gets anything right.)
If you agree that Rust's memory safety is hugely beneficial in cryptography, then I'd love to hear other (sub)domains (e.g., kernel code, networking code, blockchain, ...etc) that necessitate tricky data structures, making Zig a better fit than Rust (which, IIUC, is your main point here).
Yeah, and: if people resist, then let it be. It would've been better, but it's not important enough to sour relationships about, even if just a little bit.
I think OP didn't mean that you can absorb fentanyl through the skin but rather that you'd have trace amounts of fentanyl (or even the more powerful analogues such as carfentanyl) on your hands and then touch your mouth or eyes. That can certainly kill you.
Apple updates its AppleCare+ support service to offer unlimited repairs
We might find out soon I suppose, no shortage of calls for a referendum. I imagine the dilly dallying has just been because the Queen was quite favorable, and didn't meddle. A don't fix what isn't broken situation.
the thing is, it gets executed when enclosed in single quote too. that's what worried me. as i had been quoting urls within single quotes in shell commands and had been feeling relatively safe -- till now.

i noticed the single quote. know how it gets escaped from the quote. the point is : we that work on command line use single quote to enclose urls as parameter to curl/wget. and that's not safe if you don't char-by-char escape the url.
Water as a Refrigerant in Centrifugal Compressor Cooling Systems
What variants do you think should not be included?
This point is explained at length here:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-api-no...
I don't think LiH makes sense in a DT fusion reactor blanket. Neutron economy there is very important, and H will absorb some neutrons.
Yes, that is also my understanding. SAP implements "best practice" solutions, and companies adapt to SAP to get the advantages af that.
>>>So my question is, do you feel this retribution maybe actually comes with a hidden price? White capital somehow can compromise the work and have clauses that hurt the creative output and maybe ends up making the content worse. Do you feel it isn't necessary? Or do you feel it's a good thing that should help support and kickstart better quality non-white content?

Currently white capital availability is gatekept by socio-political ideology. If you aren't toeing the party line, your endeavors will not be subsidized. So definitely the type of content produced/amplified will be compromised as a consequence.

>>>but I think it can also be as scholarship, financial aid, talent programs, etc. which can all focus more on non-white artists.

The reality is that this subsidizes mediocrity, and we all suffer as a consequence. Blind meritocracy is preferred, IMO. I'll admit this is much harder to get correct with a subjective field such as creative works/art, compared to something like the military or engineering.

>>> in order to create more job opportunities for non-white actors for example

To what end? Is the objective for the labor ratio of content creators to match the demographic breakdown (i.e. black people should be 15% of comic writers and movie creators)? Why aren't we putting as much effort into balancing other career fields, for example, addressing the massive gender disparity in coal mining (~96% males)? We're not equalizing the parts of the economy that are unpleasant, only the prestigious ones (cultural and economic influence). Why?

>>>Does it suck any more/less than similar non BIPOC/LGBT content though? I personally don't feel like it does.

"90% of everything is crap". IMO the difference is that garbage-tier content from straight white men doesn't get signal-boosted the same way. Perfect example, Bruce Willis movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd1eNS9HtXo . This crap gets shipped overseas for a profit, but almost nobody in the US knows or cares about this low-budget trash, despite the formerly A-List star involved.

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/how-do-you-do-fellow-kids-me...

https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/11/30/dc-comics-introduc...

^If these were crowdfunded from the LGBT community, that might make some sense. But they are showcased content from titans in their industry. Why are businesses greenlighting content like this and expecting a positive ROI? Who is doing their market analysis, because this content doesn't move units. And if they aren't expecting to make money on these product lines, then what is their real goal?

>>>If for any 10 movies, only 1 is actually good, you'd need a lot more attempt at BIPOC/LGPT movies to get some good ones no?

I mean....sure. All I'm saying is that it should grow organically, from within the relevant community, with no external subsidy, funding, handouts, or signal-boosting. The 2nd and 3rd order effects of such are worse than doing nothing, IMO. Good discussion and valid thought-provoking questions, I'm gonna peace out.
Well yeah, the point is not to make _literal_ sense, this whole book is fiction, not technical writing. It's OK in that context to use devices like hyperbole and irony. A previous author, can't remember who and don't feel like googling, wrote a line in a similar spirit: "Hell is empty and the devils are here". He didn't mean that there were actual demons walking around on earth, who had left a physical place named Hell, which was at the moment unpopulated.
People in buttcoin are definitely not short. The only reward they get if bitcoin performs poorly is schadenfreude.
I think it's a combination of the network effect along with the "good enough" element. There is a point where a framework gains inertia regardless of whether or not there are better offerings simply because it's what people are used to. Companies like solutions where there is an substantial pool of developers from which to choose. Etc...

It might actually be popular because it's popular; that isn't necessarily a dishonest argument on it's own. But usually when something is popular because it's popular it's also technically competent to enough of a degree that it's good enough.
I don't see why you'd split the two. Actual good functionality is UX. Lack of good functionality implies the user has a bad experience given the intended goal.

Big players tend to do the minimum, either attracting with shiny red herrings or barely doing anything at all. Both are bad UX.
My answer is the same.
Wait... does anyone believe they have a future? How?

If this was doable and there was a market for it, what on earth would stop Boeing and Airbus from building one with 1000x more experience in designing and above all manufacturing airframes. (Airbus even has the inherited legacy of Concorde through Aerospatiale/Sud Aviation)
Daisyui.com seems to disable scrolling with arrow keys, page up, and page down. Is this a general problem when using Daisy UI, or is there something wrong with the page?
Embracing Imperfection