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Show HN: Hackers: Superheroes of the Digital Age. The world’s first hacker comic
Hi HN! We’re VRN Comics (https://www.vrncomics.com/), creator of Hackers: Superheroes of the Digital Age, the world’s first hacker comic.

In a nutshell:

- Hackers are depicted negatively in mainstream media, with lots of misinformation and stereotypes. It’s common to see hackers cast as hoodie-wearing criminals or misanthropes, who execute hacks unrealistically. A classic example is the movie Swordfish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Ds9CeG-VY

- This comic was created with the infosec community in mind, to break down such stereotypes. The storyline features a hacker vigilante as the hero, and all hacking scenes — from social engineering and firmware hacking — are portrayed as they’d happen in the real world.

- Another aim is to bring hacks to life and show the world how ethical hackers really work, so that folks can be inspired and enjoy the story regardless of cybersecurity experience.

You can download the full debut issue free on our website (https://www.vrncomics.com/, email required). We’d love to hear what the HN community thinks. Are there any hacks or concepts we should cover in future issues?
In the States that seems to be the case. I surmise that's due to our strong sense of individualism in our culture. Hard to see whether prosperity causes individualism or the other way around.
Not your parent commenter but likely they at least partially meant that, yes.

Though that alone can't reduce LoC by 90%. Elixir is just incredibly terse and no-bullshit language in general. All the shorter code idioms together make for a readable and to-the-point code.
So a mutton shunter is not a sheep shagger.
Doing exercise for exercise's sake is difficult for me too. I'm lucky that my work is a half hour bike ride, and this is faster than catching public transport (though not quite as fast as driving). That's enough to motivate me to ride to and from work most days. Plus for me it's the most enjoyable mode of transport - the speed combined with the immediacy of your surroundings, being able to hear and smell everything. And it's mostly free (barring initial purchase and maintenance costs, which are minimal).

It gets my heartrate up, though I don't ride every day, so I'm not sure if I'm reaching the threshold for the recommended amount of exercise. But it's better than nothing.
It is great to hear about your work in the space!

Several years ago I looked at implementing a custom component for k8s which would exchange nix store paths instead of containers, substitute, and bind mount them in at run time. It was an interesting experiment, but was Quite Difficult to pull off for someone who wasn't already familiar with k8s.

I've seen some projects similar to what you're describing though: the lightning-fast substitutions. It was incredible! They had the benefit of a fabulously fat network connection, though, and I'm not sure the experience translates very well. We will see!
Hello, dangoodmanUT. I have responded to this directly above in a couple different ways. We want to begin with accurate data. We have two customers so far and we are talking to others. We are patient and have a long runway if we need. Lets look in six months. Thanks for weighing in.Richard
Although, not a user granted permission, sandboxed macOS apps have an entitlement[1] for network access. And Apple mandates sandboxing for all apps sold on the Mac App Store.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/en...
When I was writing this book I set an e-mail bounceback with the subject line “In Monk Mode.” The e-mail said: “Dear Friends, I am currently working on a new book which has put enormous burdens on my time. Unfortunately, I am unable to respond in the manner I would like. For this, I apologize.—Greg.”

If one of my friends did this -- actually, my real friends would never do this.

But if by "friend" here is meant in the fairweather / outer social orbit sense -- I guess it could sort of work. Most of the other techniques here (like the humorous "Nope!") strike me as off-base, somehow. And a sign that that person probably isn't worth having as a high-value friend.
Strangely, iPhones sold in China have that option to block internet access for each app on Wi-Fi
Cube houses were radical back in the day and they are still there in Rotterdam more than 50 years later.

A more recent experiment in Amsterdam is also worth mentioning: http://www.tempohousing.com/projects/keetwonen/

This is basically a project where they built cheap student housing using pre-fabricated container sized units for a 1000+ students.

Apparently, the company behind this, Tempohousing, has been running projects around the world building temporary housing using shipping containers for refugees, homeless people, and other use cases, etc. There are a few more companies doing similar things at this point.
Google do offer Android app developers guidance in this regard:

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/blue...
That Starlink estimate must be low, they currently have 1.5 million customers and a significant percentage of total bandwidth is over ocean and thus mostly wasted.

If you assume a pessimistic 100x over subscription and 50% waste over oceans and non serviced countries * 50mbps (upload + download) * 1.5 million customers that’s well over 1.5 TBPs current capacity for customers which then doubles when you include their base stations. And they that’s today when the current 3887 Satilites which mostly v1.0 and v1.5 which have dramatically less individual bandwidth than v2.0.

PS: Also your port estimate overstates total bandwidth as each point to point link requires a port on each side, and packets generally make multiple hops through the internet.
Reddit breaks the law to quell protests [video][15 mins]
You don't need a special app to stream games. Whether they originate on PC, Playstation, or Xbox, all the major streaming services can stream directly to a browser tab. Right now, for example, you can play hundreds of Steam games from the GeForce Now website without downloading any apps. Or Xbox Cloud Streaming.

I'm sure it wouldn't have been a big lift to integrate Stadia into YouTube, Google just didn't care enough to do anything about it.

Stadia was the worst in terms of compatibility. They required devs to go through special effort to port games over (instead of integrating directly with Steam like Geforce Now does, or streaming Windows itself like Shadow does). And you'd have to rebuy all the games on Stadia even if you already had it on a different platform. And there was no crossplay and usually no cross progression. It was dead for arrival for any serious gamer and way too expensive, plus terribly marketed, for any casual gamer.

But the underlying tech was decent. It was only recently surpassed, in terms of quality and performance, by GeForce Now. And even now the integration still isn't as seamless; in GFN you still go through Steam, whereas in Stadia the game just launches straight in.

Maybe a rebrand and repositioning into YouTube, combined with marketing or subscription sharing with paid YouTube or Google One, could bring it back to life... we'll see.

At this point, even Google is at a strong disadvantage compared to Nvidia's first party access to new RTX cards (for raytracing) and excellent AI features (upsampling, frame sampling, noise cancelation, etc.) Not sure if they can still catch up. More importantly, not sure if they care to...
Well, sure. IBM's Jeopardy PR stunt with Watson is an instance of that: it was definitely "buzzer doping."

At the same time, included in that "win" was a big technical feat. So it would be with winning a 5k race.

(Not to mention that right now nothing we have capable of bipedal or even quadripedal locomotion is capable of the feat, so if we rule out the RC car it's quite the mechanical accomplishment, too--- even if we're throwing a ridiculous amount of power density and big actuators at the problem).
I found the article somewhat misleading.

Burnout is not classified as a clinical disease per the latest International Classification of Diseases. It is clumped together with other environmental factors such as poverty, and thus does not as such qualify as a reason for paid leave - though national qualifications differ.

"Burn-out is included in the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) as an occupational phenomenon. It is _not_ classified as a medical condition.

It is described in the chapter: ‘Factors influencing health status or contact with health services’ – which includes reasons for which people contact health services but that are not classed as illnesses or health conditions."

Please see the press release by the WHO: https://www.who.int/news/item/28-05-2019-burn-out-an-occupat...

I personally do know the condition called nowadays as burnout does exist, but as current medical consensus, it is a cluster of symptoms caused by systemic faults.

See e.g. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2207252
How often do people actually go to concerts or events? Why do I need specialized stores if I have the internet? Eating out is expensive and generally not good for you, calorie-wise.

Cities are fun, but people fail to realize that rural places are also pretty great. You just need to make your own fun, but you actually have the room (and money) to do so. I can go out in my yard and do archery, target shooting, etc. I live surrounded by woods and can go for a walk or just sit in there whenever I want...mosquitoes permitting. My house has room for any new hobby I want.

I will say that suburbs are probably the worst of both worlds, but I suppose you're closer to those concerts and better restaurants if you want.
Never. Never. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAImzF2fYOs
Domain-Oriented Microservice Architecture (2020)
> "This year marks the 570th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire, on 29 May 1453."

Always kind of amazed to think how recent this was. Columbus did his discovering only about 40 years later.
Honestly a wave of non-profit software companies would be a fantastic boon for the world. However my current work arrangement is tough to top so for fairly selfish reasons I probably wouldn't consider it for a few more years.
Are there any California business lawyers here that can verify what Louis Rossmann is stating is correct?
Do you have links to any good documentation on self-signing everything necessary to run linux properly with secure boot?
One of the exciting things I see in store for GPT is the ability for it to decipher messages like this one day if it can’t already
Yeah, kudos to Google for how they handled that. Classy!

But you can't count on that to happen. It's a huge risk to invest into a game ecosystem that hasn't already proven itself. Even gaming companies (Epic, GOG) struggle to gain that kind of trust, much less Google with their poor history.
Excellent work.

And this is why we should never stop fighting for digital privacy and the laws that protect it. It's not a matter of "we have nothing to hide", it's a matter of not letting 3rd parties spy on you and sell your personal data without your overt knowledge and consent.

Makes no mistake, we're in the middle of an all-out data war now. Fight hard.
Can you help us beta test our MVP DeTask?
Hi everyone,

After interacting with more than 100 users and building our MVP, I am reaching out for some assistance with testing!

DeTask is a blockchain solution created to recognize top talent by paying for value, rather than just hours worked. Our methodology allows for rewarding efficient and timely project/task deliveries by providing extra incentives.

To facilitate communication with users, I have set up a scheduling link on our website, where you can directly book a call with me.

Thank you all!
I live in a suburb of a B-tier (at best) city, and have been to half a dozen concerts this year and at least two more coming up. Including several in objectively A-tier cities.

The idea that if you live in a suburb you can no longer go to concerts or events or "specialized stores" whatever that means, is just ridiculous.
This is good for the EU no doubt; but unfortunately they'll just make an EU-only variant just like Apple did with removable SIM cards.
This is the 15th time you've reposted your own article. Nobody ever comments on it. What are you trying to accomplish?

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Sundial%3A%20Fault-Tolerant%20...
Hello, givemeethekeys. You are right on. We received many similar comments and you will start seeing big improvements in the message in the coming weeks. What would you think of a calculator that tells you what you should price your at to have it sold in ___ days? Check us out in six months and see how we're doing. Thanks for chiming in. Richard
She has a cult following, but Taylor Swift's Midnights broke over 1 million vinyl sales (from late October -> late January).

But I mostly agree with you - I get very excited for artists that I really enjoy releasing new work, and "line up" so to speak by listening to it the day it releases on Spotify.
Are you worried about trademark infringement?

https://mofi.com/
When I was 15 my mom's boyfriend wanted to impress me. We went for a ride in his candy cane C5 one evening, hit 118mph on the interstate on ramp.

Really gave me an appreciation for that powertrain...my mom was less appreciative.

Come to think of it, that's probably part of why I loved the thrill of an MR2 when technically driving at legal speeds
The most interesting thing is that a bunch of apparently smart people keep treating LLMs as if they were truly capable of something resembling problem-solving or logical thought, or even "understanding" a question.

It should surprise no one that they're bad at string processing, and yet.
I actually wrote to my representative and warned them that Reddit was playing fast and loose with social responsibility in 2022. I think more people should do this. People should write to their representatives and ask for social media regulation.
Now that I think about it, maybe the spherical or cylindrical shape is actually better suited to an apartment building. The inner units _would_ have typical rectangular angles. For units along the curved surface, some walls will be straight and some will be curved.

Plus, the curvature would be “wider” for a larger building, which would make it a little easier to design or arrange furniture.
Ping me when this also supports kbin.

I'm curious why someone doesn't make a federated 2.0 where there's basically a centralized store for usernames, server lists, taxonomies on servers, etc... like maybe there could be local and global taxonomies, like lemmysub for a Lemmy subreddit, then any server that is part of the Lemmy universe would have to use unique sub names. Kbin which uses different software could also use that taxonomy if it wanted and then it'd tap into all the channels across multiple servers.

The idea is kinda like a hub and spoke, I mean you could do something like Blockchain but a non profit that strictly is setup to be non partisan about the content being stored (except child porn related), all the actual news and feeds would be stored on other servers.

could also be there a microblog thing built in, maybe hashtags are global, for things like channels - it would list every post in the format: title:server:id or have some sort of easy way to merge content across instances by taxonomies.

sure, everybody hates centralization but having a central unmoderated stream that then goes out to servers to moderate how they see fit, seems like the best possible Reddit replacement. The best feature of Reddit is one single group per topic, generally.

on Facebook there's like 500 groups about WordPress, for example. Should you just join all 500? Silod content is better IMHO because it's easier not to miss out on things. It speaks to the FOMO, and is probably what makes Reddit so addictive.
Hi! I really appreciate folks like you conducting and publishing real research. There have been a ton of companies recently which have been very rosily promoting their new models. My criticism was only to push back on overly optimistic marketing, and regret that some of it was directed at you. If you have a link to the v2 paper, would love to take a look!
> the money printing hypothesis champions have more convincing data

they really don't though, that's the point. they've been screaming that all the "money printing" is going to cause hyperinflation any day now for decades. eventually yeah we got some inflation, even a broken clock is right twice a day. their ideas have zero explanatory power. (if they did, how come we didn't get hYpErInFlaTioN decades ago, and STILL don't have it today?)
Unrelated - I'm reminded of the plans for beaming energy from orbital stations gathering sunlight, which instead uses microwaves.

I wonder how much these beams interact with the atmosphere? I can imagine lasers interact little, but wouldn't microwaves heat up water vapor on it's way?
almost trivial to build upward, yet it's prohibited by zoning.

also, people getting surprised by the continuation of urbanization is ridiculous (but also a complete fucking tragedy).
> We have both options in CA, and while full-service is somewhat rare, in most areas you can find it if you want it and are willing to pay more for it.

I haven't seen a full service lane at a gas station in years.
RHEL: Open-Source Drama [video]
Also, the test for lead looks suspicious to me. The shape of the turmeric laying in the bottom of the glass looks absolutely identical between the two glasses. Like they used the same sample, but added some color to the water for the "adulterated" picture.

Edit: Which I guess is ok, since they're just showing what to look for and they aren't falsifying an actual test.
Probably not. Frantz Fanon is a really big name in some circles. I started the article thinking it was going to be about him too, and scanned the comments to find someone else who had the same false impression.
the spike on the m1 chart is not due to to inflation

the conspiracy theorists and armchair economists have been screaming that all the "money printing" is going to cause hyperinflation any day now for decades. eventually yeah we got some inflation, even a broken clock is right twice a day. their ideas have zero explanatory power. if they did, how come we (and especially Japan) didn't get hYpErInFlaTioN decades ago, and STILL don't have it today?
Speaking of ancestors, I think it is unfortunate that so many are unaware of what they found to be true about happiness, and what happiness is, and what it isn't. I am not impressed by evolutionary psychology and its superficial and half-baked just-so stories. Biology and psychology can give us hints and signs about things which are then folded into any sound account of the human person, but it is just that: information that enters into a fuller account. Very often, we don't even have that. We have unsophisticated intellectual dilettantism and amateur dabbling.

We must first determine what happiness is before it makes sense to talk about how to achieve it. Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, and others in the Western tradition have much to say about it [0]. They also have much to say about how to attain it. It make sense to start there.

[0] https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-and-How-Not-to-Be...
> Nope. It's to make money for the developers.

Sure.

Let's look a simple condo case: Developer pays X for property. Developer spends Y to build a building. Developer sells N units for Z. To make money, NZ has to be greater than XY aka the total value of that parcel is now higher.

> Reversed causation. It's literally just supply and demand. Places with high demand and not enough supply have growing property values. Places that are actually able to build housing to even kinda meet demand are doing much better.

Yeah, short-term, why was that parcel before the condo building worth less? Because there was less demand for what was there before than for what was there after it. Development increase short-term values by providing immediate units with nicer amenities or better condition or more size or whatever. Probably pretty uncontroversial.

But also development increases long-term values by continuing to grow long term demand. Development, residences, businesses, services - in the most successful cities, all that flow of money produces more and more demand and value over time. Not a lot of demand to live on an empty lot in the middle of nowhere where there's not a nice house and there's no nearby jobs...

So flip the causation: if there hadn't been development to allow all the people in [popular city of your choice] in the first place, it wouldn't be so popular and have such high demand today. That's not completely separate from geographical factors like rivers, but it's also got a lot to do with development - take, say, the land where a river meets a train line and compare it to the land downstream without the train.
This is actually "only a side-project" of this interesting recent item: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36472854

Being very familiar with Asm and how small programs can be, and moderately familiar with TLS and some crypto, I'm reasonably confident that 64k of code and 64k of data is sufficient for a client TLS 1.2+1.3 implementation with enough ciphersuites to access 99% of all websites. Each connection will need at least a 16k input record buffer along with the cipher states for both directions, although you don't need to always send full-sized records so the output buffer can be smaller. I haven't looked into the specs in detail to see if a smaller input buffer would be possible even for 16k records, if you're willing to sacrifice some security in the form of delayed record integrity checking (i.e you can stream the data of a record through even without having read the whole thing, but if the record has been modified in transit, you'll only get the error once you've already consumed enough corrupted data to reach the end of the record and thus finish the authenticity comparison.)
As an Oregonian, I wish they'd tax me the same (or more, arguably gas shouldn't be this cheap), skip the pointless attendant jobs, and just give those displaced workers a UBI so they can pursue more useful jobs or educations can instead.

It's fine with me to use my tax dollars to subsidize someone else's income when they have no better alternative. I just wish it wouldn't waste everyone's time while doing so. If you're gonna redistribute wealth at least do it efficiently, lol.
People don't tile well either. Perhaps there's an advantage to unused space
As described in sibling's link, they finally corrected this in Android 12 with fine-grained permissions including a flag for whether you are intending to use the BLE for location purposes or not. iOS is now somewhat behind in granularity.
Ask HN: What are people using virtual assistances for?
Lack of YouTube integration is what I felt weird about Stadia. Having YouTube is a big advantage.
Love btop, it's gotten even better now that it properly compiles on a clang/musl system.
That’s unbelievable to me. If you make around 75000 as a single filer, you’d send about 5800 in income tax in Oregon. Let’s assume we’d have a wildly high sales tax of 10% instead of an income tax: you’d end up having to spend literally all of your take-home earnings on taxable purchases. In other words spending nothing on groceries, rent, or other bills. Just shopping.

Oregon has the highest effective income tax for people earning $75k[1].

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/27/states-with-highest-income-t...
Generally humans are not able to comprehend or foresee all of the consequences of their actions…

Thus saying kids can’t preform superhuman feats isn’t an argument that they should be required to do anything.