skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what's the best way to generate "safe" license keys?

In the library (like the kind with books) field where I work, one identifier standard was devised that intentionally has alternating letters and digits, with never more than two letters in a row. Explicitly for the intention of avoiding the possibility of any meaningful words (that might end up being offensive or just off-putting in an undesirable way.)

It does make the identifiers longer for the same entropy/byte width, compared to a more normal BASE-X with an alphabet. Which mattered to me when they were going to be used in a URL, although probably doesn't for a license key. I personally in my projects stopped using this system for a more straightforward "Ascii-85" like encoding (which can contain coincidental meaningful words), because it was more convenient.

The particular system the library community was using [https://n2t.net/e/noid.html] was, I still think, over-complicated for at least my needs, but the alternating letter/number schema seems attractive to me now and perhaps worth slightly more characters in identifiers and slightly more complex algorithm for creation than a simple base-x encoding.
That's silly. I don't know what kind of phone you have, but on my android phone you can specify which types of notifications you want to opt out of. It takes like 2 clicks to opt out of promotional messages but leave important notifications active.
Yes. Apple's changes have reduced tracking in both modalities but webapps are far more constricted by Safari than native apps.
I'm talking about Taiwan. If China attacks Taiwan, it will be as obvious as Russia attacking Ukraine.

And the USA should support Taiwan. Not only because we get AMD, Apple, NVidia, Qualcomm, automobile chips, and F35 RADAR chips from that island... But also because Taiwan is our ally from WW2 days and we have a long history of friendship with them.

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Let me be clear, once again. Taiwan manufactures Xilinx FPGAs that are in direct support to the F35 project.

There is a geopolitical reality here that cannot be ignored.
I am not a lawyer, and I am unsure, but I am under the impression there are limits on which variables health insurance companies can vary their prices on. I think health insurance is another example of classic price discrimination costing normal people money. Hospitals will charge different amounts of money for the same medical procedure and the same level of car depending on which insurance is getting billed, or if no insurance is billed. This is caused by thousands of accountants negotiating in advanced.

I am actually not worried about Surveillance Capitalism powered Price Discrimination in it's current state. It is probably happening already, but not to a wide degree. A few things would make me worry, and they are also mostly things that are opportunities for price discrimination.

* There is no cash option. There is no resell option. There are no advertised prices.

* I must disclose personal information to do business, before the prices are revealed. You can link your travel agent website with social media, but you can also guest checkout from a public library.

* Comparative shopping is hard/impossible. Ideally the information age actually empowers consumers on this one. This doesn't stop companies from varying prices based on individuals, but it does put downward pressure on prices. Cartels and price collusion can negate this.
Virtue signalling is only for show. They don't give a shit in reality
Ask HN: Where do net neutrality advocates stand on the TikTok potential ban?
FTX took customer deposits and invested them in their failing hedge fund which lost tons of money. That was not childish incompetence, that was malicious and calculated fraud.
Actually know your customers. Like real banks do. Relying on a free text description on the payment is completely useless.
How did China even managed to run out of foreign cash?

This is huge news for me. They were always swimming in export profits / probably still are / travel limits since COVID means that obvious leak of travelling and spending abroad is plugged.

How could they run out of cash?
Writing a Linux executable from scratch with x86_64-unknown-none and Rust
Aren't you describing forwards compatibility? The Web is "backwards compatible" in the sense that old sites render on new browsers. But it sounds like you're describing new sites failing to render on old browsers (in the case of Discourse). For your stylus issue, that is slightly different since it's about input devices, but it still sounds like a forward compatibility issue to me, but I guess you could argue it either way.
https://archive.is/7nsMF
If there is a security issue with the airline better that the intermediary has your payment information rather than the airline. When Cathay Pacific got hacked I was glad I had booked with (RIP) Vayama. Of course if this is an airline like Thai Airways that has you present the payment card at check in this might be pointless (and of course Apple Pay has obviated it too)
> but as a consumer we can no longer trust them, and probably never should have.

This doesn't follow. I'm not a fan of the mainstream media by any means, but trust is not an all or nothing thing. It is entirely possible to develop a relatively sophisticated relationship with news media and to assign different levels of trust to different elements of what is encountered. Indeed, one might even vary their level of trust on a sentence by sentence basis!

The idea that the media must be entirely correct and entirely unbiased is jejune. It isn't the world we live in, has never been the world we live in. Take a little epistemological responsibility.
Not wage financial war?
Most of the content is in video form, and meat is often dealt with more directly on older videos, which are catalogued thus:
* https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/meat/page/3/
* https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/meat/page/4/

e.g.
How Much Does Meat Affect Longevity? - https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-much-does-meat-affect-l...
The Health Risks vs. Benefits of Meat Consumption - https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-health-risks-vs-benefit...
Paypal also has massive costumer trust outside of HN. Many people would not dare enter their credit card info on a website but will happily click the buy with paypal button. It also has incredibly low friction, which makes you more money.

In europe, the UX flow for someone ordering with a credit card goes:
Enter cc info -> wait for 3d-secure notification -> click it -> enter passcode and possibly fingerprint as well -> click approve -> wait for the site to send you back from 3d-secure page -> order confirmed

With paypal, this flow, that happens everytime someone buys from your site, even repeat costumers, is reduced to:
Click buy with paypal -> possibly login to paypal again -> click "yes i want to pay this" -> order confirmed.

Some sites even make use of paypal's delivery address API and don't even require you to enter it.

It's really a no-contest that costumers using paypal will drop out of the flow at a significantly lower rate than costumers using a card. In some markets, your busines is dead in the water if you decide to not accept paypal.
It's not a forum if it doesn't have (broken) PHP plugins. (:

But yeah, article gives some glimpse of hope for communities.
I don't think they set one. Its better for them if its vague.
But the number of files you're allowed to store is a pretty basic feature. You know cars are made of materials which will break down at 1450C. You have absolutely no way to know whether Google's file limit is 100k, 1M, 5M, 100M, 1T, or what. How are you supposed to know if Google Drive fits your use-case when they don't document their limits?
To think of a totally different possible trajectory of a technology is a bit like reading counterhistorical fiction. The interesting part isn’t just the assertion of something different but in considering the various second order effects.
A perfect shot of refreshment, the silver bullet.

I guess it's a good way to ensure that you are awake in the morning.
Could you clarify the meaning of your comment?
The Sherman Antitrust Act is authoritarian policy? Nobody is saying to blindly copy China.
> "This is going to affect a lot of people in a lot of creative fields" - That is legit where things might be going. The fantasy of AI for centuries was that robots will start doing our menial work so that we can have more time to be creative. The reality is shaping up to be AI taking over all creative jobs so that we can all start working menial ones lmao.
if selling your gun was illegal, sure, you could still sell it. but would you choose to sell it to a loner, mentally unstable 18 year old knowing you'd be in serious trouble if that gun were used in a crime and they named you as the source of the gun? If the kid isn't killed in the mass shooting, and he says "I got the gun from..." seems not worth the risk
Show me where The People voted for the CCP, if your social credit score can take the hit
Jack was back to mainland today, he was reported visiting a middle school and talked about education and ChatGPT.
Apple Music Classical is here
I dont use Bear Blog, but i love the blogs on that platform.
It is what the old internet used to be.

Example - https://tiramisu.bearblog.dev/2022-11-13/
Yes, but i would like it to summarise the different things I like.

I'm in the UK and a lot of the best services are US centric, i'd also like to be able to add in a few topics that I like, for example a sport that I follow.

GPT provides great summarises, so i suppose there will be a lot of tools doing this soon, i've not found anything I like yet.

Heck this would be a great service, where I could feed it even things like my youtube channels and it would summarise the new videos and link to them, news sources from practiular intrease sources and general news, perhaps even summarises of the latest hot posts on particuar subreddits to monitor trends.

Why do you ask? are you building a service?
Qualys [1] does not appear to see any issues. Do you see the same fingerprint? ruling out MitM

openssl s_client -connect blog.josefsson.org:443 < /dev/null 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -fingerprint -sha256 -noout -in /dev/stdin
sha256 Fingerprint=AC:6A:41:71:DE:1C:B6:93:F0:63:56:D6:12:72:B3:27:B2:A7:C9:3F:86:4D:D9:55:63:B9:CB:CA:F6:38:83:70

This [2] may also be related. If you go to about:config and search for "security.ssl.enable_ocsp_must_staple" is it set to true?

OCSP stapling offered, not revoked
OCSP must staple extension supported

[1] - https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=blog.josefsso...

[2] - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1149911
Mandatory In-Car Breathalyzers Are Only a Few Years Away
You have to run a version of iOS compatible with jailbreaking, and know how to jailbreak. And then you have to maintain your likely tethered jailbreak that doesn't persist through reboots. And accept that you'll never get any security updates, even for major vulnerabilities.

Sounds like a lot of hoop jumping and a lot of caveats. Even I, a pretty tech-savvy individual, wouldn't want to bother with that on my primary phone. Let alone ask a non-technical friend or family member to do so.
He also wrote his thoughts out longform.

https://www.gatesnotes.com/The-Age-of-AI-Has-Begun
Subscription pricing. No thanks, I'll keep using Notepad++ with two panes, one for writing and one for todos.
Stupid TikTok/social media challenges?
> Be ware that cold booting isn't actually cold booting anymore, but more like the suspend feature of old. You need to restart the computer (or pull the plug) to shut it down for real.

Not on Linux, which is what the parent poster is using. This "shut down means hibernate, you have to press restart to actually shut down" behavior is a Windows-only novelty.
> Tencent’s market cap is 10x more than Alibaba’s

It's not. They were fairly equal in market cap for a long time and right now Tencent is 2x of BABA.
Counterargument: As a customer, I much prefer PayPal (or Google Pay, or Apple Pay) over some random integration where I need to enter my credit card.

It's not a dealbreaker for me, but if the PayPal integration exists, I'm using it 100% of the time. I'm already logged in, it has my payment instrument saved, and I don't have to worry about security as much.
In a democracy, the public has the authority to decide (directly or otherwise) legislation before the fact. This is a bit like discussing as a group what to have for dinner.

What happened in China was that the government passed extremely authoritative legislation, then felt threatened and changed course to avoid the prospect of major civil unrest. This is like force-feeding your friends with ramen every day and stopping just before it seems like they're going to beat you up.
Drowning, if it's not covered elsewhere, would be my guess. Possibly infants with improper bedding and smothering hazards in their bed.
The difference is that unlike an FBI agent, you can just tell them to fuck off if you are not a chinese citizen.

They only have power over chinese people because of their families back in China and their chinese citizenship that they may not want to lose.
I've met with maybe a half a dozen recruiters in my career and the only bad one was Facebook. The guy just flat out, lied to me. For a counterpoint for anyone interested, recruiters looking to hire away government folks have been exceedingly professional.
SBF charged with bribing Chinese government officials with $40M
Carbon emissions from cattle comes from their feed. They're not fed petroleum. There is some incidental fossil fuel consumption involved particularly in producing industrial feed (corn), but that doesn't really apply for pasture-fed cattle. All that carbon was just captured by the grass or otherwise corn used to feed them.

CH4 is another issue, but again, unless I'm missing something, total CH4 from cattle in the atmosphere should be proportional to the average number of heads alive. If we don't increase herd size, it won't go up — unlike CO2 from fossil fuel use.
> I guess the idea is, why would you long tail when you can Pareto Principle?

IMO, that's not a great point. The music is already made - that's the hard part. It just needs to be licensed.

Maybe there are other channels that are more profitable than streaming, but I'm guessing that a lot of older/niche music is just locked away for no good reason.

At a certain point, I have to imagine that most artists would prefer their music be listened to if they aren't going to make money either way.
Yea until the next Vault7 leaks and the "state level work" is accessible to all.
talking about vscode without its plugins or langue servers does not make sense. They provide 99% of the functionality. The plugins can create new views, from pdf-viewers to interactive coding environments with 3d plots ala plotly. Done in electron. The python language server provides all you can think of with python.

Emulators are not native to IDEs, there's always glue code, you can write a plugin for it. I don't know about GUI-Builders, but in principle you can do anything. It's just a web view after all. Vscode is incredibly flexible. I have written a paper with it including live preview of the pdf. But I don't care about GUI-Builders. You only need them for apps and then you are stuck with each walled garden anyway and forced to use e.g. Xcode. Except ios/android apps, who's native anyway in the 21st century? ;)
Yes, but in a world of information overload, I think you need tools to give you a summary of what is out there, so you can choose what to read and what to follow up more effectively, it would be a tool to help you curate.
well to be pedantic, "classical" isn't even a style, its a time-period

if you want to be nitpicky, this app should be called Apple Symphonic

most of the symphonic music I prefer (late 19th century) would be considered from the romantic era

i.e. I don't consider Wagner to be "classical"

like...Philip Glass is not "classical" music...but he's a symphonic composer
Why are unrealistic preferences a problem for anyone but the person with the unrealistic preferences?

The only way someone else’s standards become a problem for you is when you feel entitled to that person’s attraction (“I’m a 7 and she’s a 6, therefore she should give me a chance. But she only talks to 9s, the nerve!”). But you’re not actually entitled to anyone’s attraction, so that’s on you, not on them.
What Killed Penmanship?
Ask HN: Left Smiley or Right Smiley?
I've been writing right smileys (ie the 'smile' goes on the right) since first running across them in the heady days of trial-AOL-on-floppy-disk in the early 90s

First saw a left smiley from a Brazilian coworker about 15 years ago (however, none of the other Brazilians I worked with (about 10 overall) used the left smiley)

Since then, I've noticed probably about a 15:85 ratio of left:right smileys in various forms of electronic communication

Does the direction of the smiley mostly depend on nationality/ethnicity of the typer? So far, I have not noticed an overt alignment of smiley direction based on any particular factor, but maybe it's there :)

Which is your preference, and why (if you have a `why`)?

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Right smiley example:

:)

Left smiley example:

(:
"Secondly, they can literally print money."

It is important, even very important, to realize that this merely changes the laws of economics to which they are subject, at least as people generally imagine them. It does not immunize them against the laws of economics. It does not mean they can just do anything without consequence, or with the full power to select the consequences.

This is in the class of "things that sound obvious when I say them", but I can see that a lot of people seem to throw an exception here and terminate all execution. Having negative equity matters, even if you can print money. It just may matter differently.

"or am I totally misunderstanding something?"

I would say, you're not so much "misunderstanding" something as not realizing that there's a whole complex of interacting systems hiding behind your "but they can just print money" that needs understanding. Whether those systems are deliberately obscured is a matter of some debate, but they certainly don't go out of their way to educate you about these systems. Everything is far more complicated and interconnected then you appear to be seeing.
Ugh now I feel old, because my first Linux was a Red Hat on floppies that came tied to a RH 4.X book or something. It was so cool to install on an old Gateway 2000 I had come across, and have my own computer. Hard to believe that for as lost as I was in that shell on day one, I now spend so much time in one, sometimes from a computer that fits in my pocket.
A lot of online credit fraud schemes involve sending things to an unwitting 3rd party.
If US regulators were reluctant to split FAANG because of chinese competition, this may be the signal that accelerates the effort.
Support? It doesn't need any action to let a 13 years old timer run on it. But removing the applications from the AppStore, it does need action, and investment of money and time. Keeping the support would be easier for Apple... but they don't want.

Frankly, there hasn't been a revolutionary breakthrough in the field of interval timers' technical design in the past decade that would warrant such a ridiculous obsolescence. We are literally talking about "hello world" level applications, that can't run on the device - not because the hardware or software isn't capable.
They didnt. He is just making it up. China has been dumping US treasuries recently. Maybe he is confusing that with China's foreign reserves drying up.

...

In any case, Yuan is the new foreign currency. And China has, well, all of it...
How much money would it take for you to actually work? $200k, $150 million thousand. At a certain points it just becomes sloth.

Do you really want to be a sloth? Want to eat ants all day? I actually quite like lizards. The crunchy kind.
yeah I'll definitely be checking it out
From Poison to Medicine: Healing Your Gut with the Power of Food
> Providers moved away from it because

I would say people moved away from accepting bitcoin for beer because it's wildly fluctuating value made it unsuitable for use as a day to day currency, and because they realized it was a gimmick whose inconvenience (for the vendor) was not worth the limited interest in using it as such.
Personally I sort that under "miscellaneous Safari awfulness" since the Safari browser causes all sorts of seemingly random problems on all kinds of sites. Even more randomness when you add in Safari Extensions, which also randomly break on random sites at random (non-reproducible) times, in my experience.

Alternative browsers on iOS can't come soon enough.
“Aleph who?” asked Ambassador Genscher.

“ALEPH YOU ARE GOING TO DIE.”

Then there was light.

https://unsongbook.com/chapter-34-why-wilt-thou-rend-thyself...
It's interesting how inclined is PayPal to ban users for insignificant reasons, often without any appeal opportunity.
Two years ago when I was 21 I was asked to provide my ID for account verification/AML purposes, I sent everything they requested and then got banned because when I opened my account without lying about my birth date I was under 18. Support just told me to open another account under a different email address.
I didn't say they were. The parent poster's handwaving made them almost sound Democratic. China selectively applies the law to punish political enemies.
I think it is actually worse. I don’t know about Myers Briggs, but other personality tests actually adjust and standardize their metrics in order to find a bell curve. They believe there is something pristine or divine about the normal distribution, and if you find it you have found a holy truth. If you find something else, you should adjust your metrics until you do.
I've turned all notifications (os, app, browser) off on all devices. They're just too distracting. It also helps me be more purposeful about how I interact with the machine.
Yeah because terrorists will definitely not lie when they open a bank account!

Also…how would KYC stop a terrorist from abusing your mothers bank account to transfer money?

This is why you need KYC and also transaction screening (and also X, Y and Z).
Providers moved away from it because it became unstable due to rampant speculation, wash-trading, and market manipulation, combined with the fact that hardly any customers used it.
It's called price discrimination in economics. There's even a section on how it is used within the travel industry on Wikipedia[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination#Travel_in...
Discord is groups > channels > messages but doesn’t use threads (I believe).

MS Teams is groups > channels > threads > messages

But yea this does feel like forum arrangement. Which is really the most useful format for longer term conversations. Discord is great for “today and tomorrow matters yesterday doesn’t (yolo).
I'm not hearing any of the "blindly" stuff. It's more like "China has done to their monopolies what I've wished would happen to ours for a while now".
If you pay $5 per conversion, it doesn't matter if you have 100 impressions per conversion or 10 impressions per conversion. You are pretty conversion rate insensitive.

I mean, obviously it's different at the extremes like 0% vs 100%, but I doubt header-bidding produces that great an effect.
Sure, but the OP point was specifically about Classic Music, not incidental soundscapes.
These kind of issues are mostly because of regulation (KYC laws).
Crypto. Now you know why it's being so heavily regulated, demonized, and lampooned.
As a seller, you are going against paypal TOS if you charge a fee to use it, the same way a credit card carries the risk of chargebacks but you aren't alowed to charge a credit card fee. I agree that this would be an effective risk-management tactic (less the fact that the fee you charge to mitigate the risk still gets processed by the risk factor) but it would also worsen your chances of getting banned.
Police already have plenty of (proven successful) ways to harass or murder and get away with it, I'm not sure they need one more?