skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Sorry if I'm a security noob but I have a genuine question. Why at the beginning I need to use 2FA if I can remember secure enough passwords (or use password managers) and I'll not stupid enough to give the passwords away easily?"

Glad you asked ...

... and your comments children are not just wrong, but completely misunderstand the ecosystem they are discussing.

Mobile telephone 2FA is not for you. It's not to help you - it's not for your security. All of that is bullshit - and demonstrably so[1][2].

What is actually happening is that FAANGs, etc., have a brutal, unrelenting spam/scam problem which they have no idea how to solve.

Forcing every user to burn a phone number tied to a physical SIM card is their last-ditch attempt to throw enough sand in the gears and stay above water.

It sort of works.

It's very painful for end users, introduces all kinds of strange inconveniences and probably doesn't stop determined abusers ... but it seems to work better than anything else they've come up with thus far.

But make no mistake: It's not for you. It is not for your security or safety.

[1] Post-signup challenge to user - help us prove your identity by entering in a phone number you've never shown us before.

[2] Interestingly, very high value logins like brokerage and banking typically allow other forms of 2FA that don't involve burning a mobile number because those firms already have many other routes of identification and verification.
Won’t they just appeal and almost certainly find a “friendlier” judge?
People have been doing that in football in Europe forever. I remember a number of old world cup games completely ruined by people running the clock.
Definitely agree on lenses being one of the more mind blowing things I've encountered and eventually grokked in programming. I would also recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZy4Yml3LTY as a good video on lenses in part because the latter portion has some pretty far-out examples of that deep well you mentioned.
How does that move even work? He takes the longest path around the turn, while dragging along the side of the wall.
god dammit. thank you.
I think people should have the right to enjoy something that's unrelated to politics without bringing politics into the mix
> The costs are next to nothing

Ads are certainly profitable - the cost is damage to the user experience.

Historically Apple has prioritized user experience, which is probably why many Apple users (Gruber et al.) hate this.
It does feel like that but I also have noticed breaking news sources being posted from Wechat, FB and tiktok recently. Some of that is through twitter though, so you might be right.
I am trying to remember what happened with the switch between myspace and facebook, that felt like nothing could change where the attention was until all of the sudden it felt inevitable.
Thanks! just yesterday I tried to find https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8tonxd_9_lY&list=PLUXSZMIiUfFS... and spent several minutes in vain before I gave up. Now you're posting the playlist hours later!
Most likely scratched by a Norwegian Blue Parrot... blown far off his normal migratory route... the sad text recounts extreme pining for the fjords...
As part of a 2019 review of its ongoing decrees, the Department of Justice issued a two-year sunsetting notice for the Paramount Decree in August 2020, believing the antitrust restriction was no longer necessary as the old model could never be recreated in contemporary settings. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pic....
Do you mean timesheets (I do those for some stands of work) or writing-up (I maintain a 'blog' for a couple of other strands)?
We should really inform Phil of our disappointment. It's not like he needs more money after all. ;-)
Yeah, for game exploits "haha I can't believe you can do that, that's hilarious, now let's patch it out" is the norm. Exploits that make the game richer and gain wide acceptance are very much the exception.
I'd argue this take falls into the "all social media is interchangeable" fallacy. Each of those platforms facebook acquired has a different usecase. I've got family in South America and friends in Europe, Whatsapp overlaps in uses with Facebook but it'd be wrong to call it a competitor in the sense of claiming them to be similar products. The same I'd argue extends to Instagram as well. The cross-platform interoperability is a feature for users of course but that's because the modern reality is that if you're not (nearly) every platform then you're probably not one of the people who's overly social digitally. Because on top of those three I also use Twitter, TikTok, and Discord.
We've banned this account for posting ideological flamewar comments and ignoring our request to stop. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You offer some part of the product behind an always online portion that requires account creation. The premium users will pay for access to it.

Dual licensing the code itself requires an honor system which is fine, but has an upper limit on growth if that's what you're optimizing for.
Stolen from 4chan. Not malicious, just prints out a string, but in terms of code density is simultaneously some of the smartest and dumbest code I've ever seen. Bonus points if you can actually figure out exactly how it works.

#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
//the following code should be self-explanatory
int format = 684837;
uint64_t freqs[16] = {4557704611105873944,6293041952211349568,7232032755832676440,9836271091686599272,11342418091143829394,7666925796986299039,8289648};
uint64_t phases[16] = {2745812699376323861,4477710776532278558,4107622644641439798,4062343665106426382,4257685111635071841,2598073413584315427,1713226};
uint64_t composite[32] = {0};
int i = 0;
unsigned char frequency = i[(char*)(freqs)];
unsigned char phase = i[(char*)(phases)];
while (frequency > 0){
for (int j=phase;j<2048;j+=frequency){
(j/64)[composite] |= ((uint64_t)1 << j%64);
}
frequency = (i%64)[(char*)(freqs+i/64)];
phase = (i%64)[(char*)(phases+i/64)];
i++;
}
printf((char*)&format, composite);
return 0;
}
No I'm not saying that. I'm saying what I said (although I did edit it a couple of times, I never included anything that should have remotely given you that impression).

If speech is not intolerant that does not mean it's tolerant. It's not one or the other, and they are entirely independent concepts.

> Does that mean someone can be an open bigot and still be considered tolerant if they don't act on that bigotry or incite anyone else to act on it?\

It's possible they could be that and still be tolerant of other people voicing different opinions. It does get pretty complicated with what exactly constitutes bigotry, and where the line is from robust opinions and disagreements to assault, harrassment, intimidation, etc.

Let's take the Clintons and Obamas for example -- they are homophobic bigots who disagreed with the rights of gay people to get married and campaigned on hateful platforms of marriage being between a man and a woman, and yet they (as far as I know) did not censor or attack or intimidate those who disagreed with them on that issue, so we could say they were tolerant of different opinions being voiced, despite their bigotry and intolerance for gay marriage rights itself. Did they attract hateful supporters emboldened by their speech? Perhaps. Were their voters and supporters complicit in resulting discrimination and attacks on LGBTQI+ peoples? Maybe. It's a pretty tough problem though isn't it. Should they have been silenced, barred from office, imprisoned for what they said? No I don't think so.

I don't pretend there is a simple formula for it that everybody can follow without disagreement. There are no alternatives where that is the case though, except for the old "everybody who disagrees with sig will be punished" dictatorship.

Is there any objective evidence that censorship and intolerance would have better outcomes?
You would build a wire wrapped 68000 board in 1992? Isn’t that a tiny bit late to expend that much effort on a 68000?
Unfortunately Apple seems to be happy with selling off the goodwill that it has built up over decades.

I suppose that's OK, since it opens up opportunities for other companies.
You can also order in the app from the comfort of your home, car, bus, sidewalk, thereby skipping the "standing and huffing at the kiosk" scene entirely.
I looked at the "mooring stone" example in your stone bank link. I had heard of these stones being possible mooring stones a long time ago but had never seen one.

From memory, they were linked to Vikings as mooring stones due to the similarity between the holes found in the rocks here in the US and similar holes in rocks present in Scandinavia that are known to have been used as mooring stones back in the day. I had never seen an example from either place though.

Recognizing the obvious glacial history of the region and the present absence of any large body of water in the region and after seeing this example, I wonder if the hole in that rock is a natural hole formed by weathering of one of the less-resistant minerals from the boulder.

I ask because the boulder appears to be a granite pegmatite and there is a natural mineral that forms large roughly triangular cross-section minerals in granite pegmatites. That mineral is tourmaline. I think if you check that boulder and others like it you could rule out a natural origin if you find no evidence of tourmaline in the boulders.

The lichens could also be used to date the weathered surface of the boulder since they have a fairly well-known growth rate and you could calculate the time since a fresh surface from that.

Also, for the "mooring stone" hypothesis to hold any water one would probably need to know where each known example is in relation to known present-day waterways and to remnant erosional features and ancient shorelines. If they all can be established to have been located along a known ancestral shoreline, especially if you could do a geomorphological reconstruction similar to a palinspastic reconstruction and they all came out on a shoreline that would lend credence to the theory.

From the things on your links, I'm not sure that any of them could be contemporaneous even within a few hundred years of the recent past when we know Vikings were in N America and free to travel and explore.

Cool story though.
Do Nascar drivers develop neck problems? I know it's a joke that all they do is turn left and that racing is in general tough on the neck, but it does seem like they'd almost always been veering their head to the left over hours long races.
Monitoring your application as a solo founder
> it has to be absolutely immune to arbitrarily complex confounding factors in observation.

> Occams Razor

Pick one.

My goal is not making you believe my cosmology. So your argument about what I believe to know doesn't matter. My goal is to bust the cosmology everybody is being told. I'm using examples from mine to invalidate the standard, because all I know is the truth, why would I make this up?

You think the cosmology in question satisfies Occam's Razor because it's simple to you based on what you have learned and been told. Sure the model does some neat things, and all of them down here on Earth. Yet the system is clearly anything but simple, it's AN INFINITELY OPEN SYSTEM allowing for a lot of "things that need to be explained". Occam's Razor is precisely why you should be suspicious.

If my cosmology is simpler you won't believe me still. You can't believe anything else until you you cease believing that any real science has ever been done on the cosmos. Observation alone not 'nuff.

FWIW, my cosmology explains "dark matter" and the appearance of an expanding universe, in very simple terms. The missing energy source is gain from feedback, simple as. Expansion is a mirage of light convolution, all the way until it's noise, and noise points in every direction; that also explains background radiation, it's the noise floor. (NOTE: The standard model does not prove "everything in the universe is moving away from each other", it extrapolates that from the appearance of redshift in all directions; expansion is not "observed").

A new cosmology doesn't have to explain everything that the standard model does, because most of that is black hole fiction.

The funny thing about my mention of marxism is that most of the cosmological pushback I got came under that comment rather than my first one. It was the marxism that that did it lmao.
Have you actually tried doing this? It's an absolute nightmare. I tried creating SSL test certs for my websockets implementation and just gave up because I just couldn't get them working with my libraries SSL stream implementation.
It's always paid off for me to question that assumption - to try extracting the essentials of the app without the framework, as a weekend project or whatever. Often I can cut thousands of lines of code overall and get a faster more maintainable result.
I don't remember exactly when, but 15 or 20 years ago there was the first vawe of Virtual Reality that failed big time. Lots of businesses and investors lost lots of cash by investing in VR.

Now we are seeing the second big vawe of VR dieing and with it the Metaverse.
Ocaml also has `@@` which gives `'a -> ('a -> 'b) -> 'b = <fun>` and `|>` for `('a -> 'b) -> 'a -> 'b = <fun>` so you can also do:

```ocaml

type point = { x: float; y: float};;

let euclidean a a' =
let xd = (a'.x -. a.x) in
let yd = (a'.y -. a.y) in
sqrt ((xd*.xd) +. (yd*.yd))
;;

let is_in_unit_circle x =
x <= 1.

let quadsolve iterations hits =
((4. *. hits) /. Float.of_int iterations)

let estimate iters =
let origin = { x = 0.; y = 0. } in
Array.init iters (fun _ -> { x = (Random.float 1.); y = (Random.float 1.) })
|> Array.map (euclidean origin)
|> Array.map is_in_unit_circle
|> Array.fold_left (fun x y -> if y then x +. 1. else x ) 0.
|> quadsolve iters

;;

```

utop # estimate 1000000;;
- : float = 3.141432

Edit: formatting
Yes, because you don't have the right to force others to work for you at whatever you consider a 'fair price' and thank fuck for that.
Neural Correlates of Consciousness
To me it seems shortsighted and self-sabotaging to damage your OS by embedding ads, but I guess we'll see how it turns out.
Actually we even don't understand time. Therefore space-time. Therefore the "stage" on which everything happens.

Also we don't understand mater fully. So we don't understand "the thing" that happens on said stage.

At the fundamental level we know shit. There's still plenty to figure out. Funny enough most of the fundamental things…

By finding out about those fundamental things it's quite possible that we discover completely unexpected aspects of our universe.

Not long ago we even didn't have the slightest clue how our sun works. A phenomenon that is central to our existence since inception.

We should be really more humble in what we assume to know about how the things around us work.
Can a user turn off the DMs? Pretty much every woman who writes publicly on the internet gets unsolicited hate-DMs.
I keep a google doc for the year and create a heading for each day where I write down a small sentence explaining each task along with the rough time (15 min increments or so) to be submitted by EOD and also track the time and write out detailed descriptions in our project management system (currently monday.com). Do not recommend. Minimum happiness levels will be quickly attained, and no one will ever look at all these notes more than once.
Say you have N + M users and you offer feature A to N users and B to M users and collect data like churn rate on them. If N or M is too small to be statistically significant (meaning either the average is too small in either segment, or the t-test is too close to either average) then the benefit of A/B testing N vs M users was a waste of resources.

So when user count is small you need to be story driven. That is to say, you have to actually speak to users (current, future, potential) about why they are using the product, why they walked away, and why they stayed.

Basically A/B testing is only useful if you have a large enough user base to be confident in its success. That can be hundreds or thousands of users. A lot of products don't have that critical mass, so you can't effectively be data driven.
For anyone playing along at home, a "check" is the bill.

It took me quite a while to work out who was checking on the QR code.
One can always communicate with their water brother.
You should try Vivaldi, way more customizable than Brave or Edge, let alone Chrome.
If you want your phone that is capable of running apps to last for weeks on battery, the big trick is to make sure it doesn't actually run apps for the most part. The second part is to make sure it has good reception. Also, disable any radios you don't need, etc.

If you took a random Android, put in a sim, uninstalled or disabled as many apps as possible, and left it screen off where it had a good view of local towers, you'd have pretty good battery life. It wouldn't be very exciting... but if it just needs to sit in a drawer (hopefully not a metal drawer, see reception issue) and forward a couple sms a week, it'd probably make it through at least one week.

If you go for a model that has a higher capacity battery as a feature, that'll help too.
stock price being down 70% is not the same thing as losing dominance
(doesn't list or use the package manager most likely to already be reproducibile)
I wish. News is just so addicting and entertaining. Like I can read endless articles on NYT about Ukraine, catastrophe of the week, and it's more captivating than HBO. I literally can't focus on TV programs now because I'm on my phone doomscrolling. I wish I could stop.
Do more with less. This release already shows well-thought-out design layer shared ABI code for backends .. and optimized generated wasm looks like a killer. Small binary size than Rust, easier to optimize, "proof|correctness" can't help you here!
The apple $3+ trillion Apple and Android store duopoly seems like a way bigger problem. At least authors have more choices compared to app developers.
DRS is a bit more of a parallel since when you're allowed to use it is completely artificial to create competition. But still in that case it's at least all decided on the track. Having drivers get a boost based on fan voting is stupid and does indeed cost the sport credibility.
both Vivaldi and Brave claim to keep supporting MV2 extensions
> In most (all?) societies that I am aware of you can forfeit your right to personal autonomy and/or life by committing a crime.

Criminals still have rights, some specifically regarding the criminal justice system. Society has agreed after a conviction to not allow criminals to exercise some of their rights to protect the rights of their victims. For example, in order to protect others' right to life we have decided to infringe a murderer's right to liberty.

> Is your argument that we should not punish crimes with imprisonment or is it that people do not have a right to personal autonomy?

No, my argument is that even when imprisoned criminals' rights don't go anywhere. Society has decided it's better to violate criminals' rights to prevent the infringement of innocents' rights.
Not Guam, but I have been to Saipan and Tinian many times and absolutely loved it.

It's not perfect like you have said and there are problems but that's the place I could totally live.

All islands still have fresh footprints of WW2 horrors.
This palette will fail any automatic palette test. It is not just my personal opinion.
Maybe not the answer you are looking for, but I mostly ignore news as broadcast on social media. I have a personal list of RSS feeds that I depend on for getting news.

Being able to quickly go through a list of headlines and view what interests you might be one way of being generally informed about what is happening without feeling overwhelmed.
Won’t defend Amazon generally, but you need to blame private equity and skyrocketing real estate prices for the end of brick and mortar bookstores. And, for completeness, if we’re saying goodbye to great Silicon Valley bookstores of yore: A Clean Well Lighted Place For Books in Cupertino and the BookBuyers in Mountain View were also around 30 years ago, although they were more general. And strip mall ones like Waldenbooks still existed too.
Person eats (food) in order to be full.

Driver stuns (everyone) in order to quality.

It makes sense to me.
Yeah, the zoom replacement looks really cool. Butt...

The biggest problem I have doing zoom calls with family is an unstable internet connection at their end and I don't think the metaverse is going to be able to solve that. And besides, I'm certainly not going to pay 500$ for a headset just for Awesome VR calls, if i can just use a phone call.

The biggest potential is being able to work remotely. Just imagine all the remote work Metaverse could make possible. And 500$ headset might just be in the budget for a midsized company looking to expand it's workforce.
This is obviously not intended as an informational post or as one that would be likely to be taken as fact by most people. You'll never be able to recover the time you spent typing all that.
Your code calls a library; a framework calls your code.
I love systemd for deploying Golang, especially the security features, that systemd can own the TCP port for zero downtime deployments of the application and restarts of a fail-fast application. It kind of replaced Docker (dockerd) which I've used with deploying Scala and TS.
You care about what you have to say, and this phenomena at scale is why Twitter succeeds. The "important people" came after Twitter succeeded. And I'd argue that "their thoughts" amount to little more than a mixture self promotion, virtue signaling, and an occasional hot take. Twitter is likely more valuable to them than they are to Twitter, which is probably the driving factor behind the recent change.

Validation checkmarks will now cost $20/month. Seems like a reasonable and simple idea that can quickly chip into overhead costs while, itself, having near zero overhead. A million people being verified would be a quarter billion $ gross per year. And while a million may seem like a lot, it just circles back to where we began. They're monetizing narcissism, and that's a very safe bet.
The law moves reasonably fast on criminal cases. The lawsuit against Alex Jones was a civil case, which are inherently less urgent. Many cases were also delayed due to the recent pandemic.
I definitely don't think you want people doing this every race, but you could leave it alone for now and see if that becomes an issue before worrying about it too much. It's possible that now that people know it's a possibility, they'll simply defend the outside line out of the last corner, which could shut it down fairly effectively.
As mentioned in the comments in this thread, it certainly seems useful for non-math-heavy papers. I tried it on a data-structures paper I've been reading: Tree-Independent Dual-Tree Algorithms (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.4327.pdf), and I noticed that it had difficulty interpreting notations. For instance, it got confused between the set of descendant points and the set of points of a node.
Nevertheless, it seems to have a lot of potentials. Thanks for building this!
Meanwhile React got more love from HN while frameworks like Angular have been offering this (a batteries included complete frontend framework) for many years
And HomeKit is a product for IOT. Not 100% logical naming
a completely blind guess: FFT with encoded "hello world"?
Like I mentioned in another comment most of this has been practice for awhile. The big one is discovery, but there have been techniques to fix that (like standard install locations). AU (v2, v3) is a good example.
Scholz and Macron threaten trade retaliation against U.S.