skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don’t have a smartphone, or your phone cannot connect to a service, why is authentication a problem? If you don’t network access you lose access to the network, this isn’t exactly a surprise.
Is there really a meaningful distinction between Harvard the private university offering an education and education “offered by the government”? I don’t see a practical difference between Harvard and Berkeley for example, other than class rankings and maybe tuition cost. Same courses and curriculum, big government research grants and funding, same accreditation bodies, both are NCAA members, both are AAU members, etc.
I thought (though apparently with these comments I'm in the minority) the most recent conventional wisdom has reverted to agreeing that yes, starting on self-hosted / managed servers is the best path. Seems like naysayers in here don't know how to set up a server with NGINX / SSL / whatever else you need. IMO these are _required_ experiences before trying to do it on a much more complex platform like AWS. These self managed server setup tasks are more than manageable for a small team, or even a solo dev, in a matter of a day or two.

My go to 'cloud' path is just a digital ocean droplet, using docker containers to spool up whatever you need and connect it all on a docker network.

A single server (2-4 cores) running quite literally ANY modern backend framework (node, go, C#) should be able to handle _thousands_ of requests per second, I'm not sure where or when this idea has disappeared, it seems like everyone automatically assumes their small SaaS or webshop needs an autoscaling kubernetes 20 rack workhorse of a server. Not the case at all!!!!

Scale when you need to - if you're getting the kind of traffic where you need to, by then you won't need to worry about the added cost to do the actual scaling / upgrading.

Sorry for the winded / ranty answer, I've done this like 20+ times at this point and always had to battle against the "let's put it on AWS with kubectl and 2349023 redundant instances!", when in the long run it was never needed...
At a wedding I met a photographer from the far east who had learnt perfect English in his late teens with (to my native ears) a perfect northern accent. So it is possible.

I suspect that even a tin-eared adult learner could master those phonemes with enough obsessive repetition, both listening and speaking. I'm reminded of Liam Neeson's character in 'Taken' spending a transatlantic journey listening over and over again to the voice of his daughter's kidnapper just so he could recognise him later on.

That level of obsession requires motivation which I think is highly under-appreciated where learning is concerned.

We often think of small children as possessing magic learning brains without considering how highly motivated they must be. The ability to speak means they can more easily make their basic preferences and problems known to parents and so on. It's hard to imagine what it was like for us back in early childhood.

However, children do have one natural advantage: if you learnt a language when young then it must be harder to forget it, due to Ribot's Law:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYPTzw3iN5Q
Here you are making assumptions this was somebody's valid GA ID and not dummy data...
Ah yes, but I am not complaining about that, and I can understand that the author doesn't want to work anymore on the project.

What I am complaining about is the assumption that people using open source software have to contribute to the authors, expecially if they have plenty of money. Open source is not about that. If that is the expectation, a different type of license is probably better suited.
Marketplace is so horrible on so many fronts that it's unimaginable that it's successful, but it is. Most likely thanks to the network effect. It's a good target for disruption IMHO.
Interesting. I thought Google had built the tooling needed to keep European data in EU servers ages ago for compliance on this topic. Maybe I'm thinking of just Google Cloud?
Improving the accuracy of image classification model with synthetic data
Education is pretty firmly in the public good camp. Educated workforce means skilled labor and better economic productivity, etc.
Being a 501c3 educational institution requires that “the services provided by the organization are available to the general public.”

It’s a private institution as you say, but it’s a private institution that benefits from a particular tax status in exchange for serving the public good.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/501#k
Because they figure there's a bigger opportunity cost in the possibility of the big clients using cheaper tiers than in the possible lost customers who won't go for tiers at the current prices if an alternative is available.
Haha, thanks. I actually have one of those. I roll faster without it :)
On many Israeli sites, like insurance providers and credit cards, 2FA texts are used for authentication without a password. i.e. instead of typing in a password, you type in your phone number and then type the 6-number code you got as an SMS message to your phone. I hate it so much.
There's a saying: You'll never get rich harvesting in someone else's garden. It's not just Google Analytics, all Google products can be killed off at Google's whim any time, and it's not just google. That's why it's so important to work with tools you could own.
> YouTube: search interface cleanups

Ah, finally someone has done it. YouTube search without the 'For you' and 'from your history' guff.
They can essentially strike down laws as unconstitutional. But that’s a legal basis - they cant just say they think its bad and strike it down.

Edit: (no reply button below) please clarify what you don’t understand. I dont see any disagreement between us despite your oppositional stance and fear of bigotry.
Might be the first step into evaluating this course of action. Who knows?
Are you really advocating for the plight of these poor scammers?
Well first off, the focus shifts on identity, not productivity or merit. This "justifies" lower salaries based on equal pay. Most of DEI means equity (of outcome), not equality, which is often achieved by pushing higher-achievers down, not lifting everyone up. Needless to say how this affects compensation.

Second, if you are a DEI hire, you are made to feel that you only got the role for who you are, so you will most likely not ask for a raise due to the fear of reprisal or dismissal.

Third, weakens the belonging amongst coworkers since everyone is really careful in social interactions to not give the leadership a (mostly fabricated) opportunity to fire them for breaching DEI policies. Obviously, when coworkers are suspicious of each other, it's much easier to use divide-and-conquer tactics and underpay everyone.

Fourth, those companies recruit immigrants specifically, so they can underpay them under the threat of firing them (and making them lose their visa).
Would the ferret's hair and dander nullify their cleaning efforts?
You misunderstand my argument. I realize how Ozempic and semaglutide works. It dupes you. It does not treat the cause, but the symptom. I hold that discipline, not drugs, are needed. Discipline can be built where it is weak. That is common sense. The drugs short circuit the reality causing you to skip the step where you build up your own healthy lifestyle to beat the problem. It is not a long-term or healthy solution by any means. Sagging and aging face as a side effect for one. Common sense - it takes work to get things done in physics and physiology. It is clear from the opioid and mental health epidemics that treating the symptom and not the cause with all sorts of pills does not end well. You need to do some work - exercise, diet, get proper sleep. No course of drugs will replace those basic and normal tasks. Any long-term results on Ozempic? I already see warnings that they may increase the risk of thyroid cancer, acute pancreatitis, gallbladder disease among other things. I think old fashioned and common sense were more synonymous in my generation than they are nowadays. A pill for everything is today's mantra.
I assume he is talking about SMS. Maybe a virtual SMS inbox is the solution.
It is really about people not knowing epistemology?

In order to be anything other than a big distraction, information on the internet needs to be true. Which means, it needs to be from real humans, about real life, the real world, providing real useful knowledge.

Epistemology intends to explain how that works. In particular, you need the information to take a trustworthy channel from its source to recipients. Anonymity is one principal contradiction there.
"No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race...be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."

That "Federal financial assistance" part puts it in scope. And "program or activity" specifically includes "(2)(A) a college, university, or other postsecondary institution".
There was wvdialconf I can recall it right.

On using old software because of inertia or better features:

- MPlayer/MPV. Simple keys, click on the file and it just plays it. That's it.

- Pidgin with plugins.

- Mutt+lynx (for HTML email) with mbsync and msmtp. Batched email for important stuff when you must preserve your data against inferior solutions such as Discord.

- Lynx on gopher/http heavy sites calling external video and audio viewers. Good when bw is scarce, and gopher://gopherddit.com, gopher://hngopher.com and gopher://magical.fish have tons of services to use.

- wpa_passphrase+wpa_supplicant daemon+wpa_gui if you are in love with mice.

- find/xargs/rsync/moreutils/vidir/rclone: editing zillions of filenames in place with an editor and vidir, sync them, rename them... hell in Explorer, a piece of cake under Unix where you can use your favourite editor in a folder tree mounted with rclone and then batch-replace your whole remote directory subtree as if it was a text file. Old concept, science fiction for today's youngsters:

rclone mount yourcloudremoteshare: ./here

EDITOR=gedit vidir ./here/foo/bar/

And that's the simplest method. With find you don't even need to spawn an editor, with a command after exec you can run for instance

find ./here -type f -iname "*.pdf" -exec evince {} \;

to open the evince PDF viewer on all the PDF filenames you find in your remote.
What I find increasingly annoying is third parties (i.e. those whose primary service isn't to provide authentication or MFA, specifically) trying to route me through their mobile apps for a second factor.

For example, GitHub and Google (via their Gmail mobile app) are constantly nagging me to open their apps for certain actions such as modifying security settings on a GitHub repository or even just logging in to Google Workspace.

While certainly more secure than SMS, I'd like to use an authenticator app of my own choosing for that process (e.g., 1Password or Authy). While that's still possible, UX-wise that requires an additional step and possibly also brings about the risk of being flagged by some internal fraud detection system.

To me, this feels like they're trying to promote their apps and increase user retention and interaction by means of what superficially looks like a beneficial security feature.
Synapse Protocol will release the Synapse Chain soon
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Bathed in an aura of discreet silence, the Synapse Protocol team emerges as an enigmatic force, their reticence serving as a testament to the immense potential that lies within. This shroud of secrecy casts a bullish glow upon the project, as astute observers recognize that the absence of noise heralds the advent of something extraordinary.

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Deloitte wins £100M deal for UK border platform
a solid-state battery with a range of 1,200km (745 miles) that could charge in 10 minutes or less

For that range I assume the battery holds 150 Wh/km * 1200 km = 180 kWh. Charging it in 10 minutes would require about 1.1 MW. That's a lot of Watts.
I don't think any KVM supports Bluetooth. You either need to use software like Barrier or get devices that can switch between multiple. The other option is wireless peripherals that use a USB dongle can work fine with KVMs like the ones Logitech sells.
VTS (VTI in the US)
I've tried finding out if they still offer the free tier now that the OSS is gone, because one of their employees mentioned it on Github, but failed to find anything. I can see they have a free trial. Their own website is full of broken links and contradicting information due to the frequent licensing/product changes.

I've even found a page still mentioning the OSS version and telling you how easy it is to fire it up.
if you have to resort to archaic writing to prove a point about the latest and most advanced piece of technology, ... you're practicing religion, not science.
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You didn’t mention creativity (or lack of it). Is it ironic that the overall lesson is “human judgment and intervention” are important, or maybe it just lifted that from the original movie.
It is social media. The information is in the open already. If you are concerned, don't post on a public site.

The concerns were about them seeing your messages. Well, they can scrape or use RSS anyway to get your info. Threads isn't eveb needed for this.
> But you can favor people for other reasons, which may result in more people of a certain race

No, that is mainly the point of the civil rights act.EEOCs entire purpose is to sue/prosecute orgs that discriminate without being direct about it. If you only interview white sounding names for example, there is no proof of direct discrimination or if a policy you have has the effect of excluding a protected class.

The bar for proving malice, as with all things legal is if a "reasonable person" can recognize the indirect effect of those actions as harming protected people because then intent to discriminate can be proven.
With a corporation the size of Meta, it's not at all a given that:

- Team putting together EU policy is in any way related to the team that needs to deal with any kind of fines.

- That anyone actually made this concious decision as a tradeoff (as in, if it ever bubbled up to a VP or similar strategic lead.

So many behaviours of megacorps are emergent and not deliberate.
Show HN: Customize Google Forms and embed to your website
Firefox doesn't use mozjpeg, it just uses libjpeg-turbo: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/media/libjpeg

Mozilla has sponsored libjpeg-turbo in the past: https://libjpeg-turbo.org/About/Sponsors
Show HN: Webpod – deploy Next.js to your own server
Well, no.

Personal use doesn't free you the obligations GPL brings, for example.
Amusing comment there: https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2023/07/04/deloitte...
I think you're confusing websites. Pornhub requires verification of consent and removed all unverified/not professional videos.
Nobody finding it strange that wp is slamming Amazon?
Five kelvins. Just like five metres, no capital letters or funny symbols.

The reason you can do it for Celsius or Fahrenheit is that those are scales but not units. The energy in two bodies (with constant heat capacity) at 100° is not the same as in a single body at 200°, but if you use kelvins then it works out.
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Did you find that after reading https://labs.hakaioffsec.com/nginx-alias-traversal/ by any chance?

Semgrep has a nginx ruleset too https://semgrep.dev/p/nginx
This is almost like U.S. high schools, which almost exclusively require students to have Texas Instruments TI-84 series calculators in math class.
No, it became a Ponzi scheme in May/June 2022 when Alameda Research lost all their money and instead of letting Alameda die SBF (mis)used FTX's client's money to bail our Alameda. Who then lost even more money leaving nothing.

There is no evidence of fraud etc before then. There is no evidence of significant, unexplained transfers out of FTX before then either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alameda_Research

We've known this for a while. Try to keep up!

Also:

>One of the most popular ways to run a Ponzi scheme is to run a cryptocurrency exchange.

This is simply untrue. Even if all crypto exchanges were always Ponzi schemes, that would be a few dozen making it one of the LEAST popular covers for Ponzi schemes...

And:

>It is not far-fetched to assume that many of the deposits on FTX were transferred directly to Alameda, and used to pay off Alameda's debt. With $50M in customer deposits, and $8M in seed money, it would have been possible for Alameda to pay back the remainder of its high interest loan - and settle all of the outstanding interest.

It IS far fetched actually. Per the Authors own numbers, they borrowed 117m at 43% interest. Even if 50M a day in trading volume means 50mil in deposits (Hugely questionable), how can you pay off 117m, plus interest plus buying back shares, with only 50mil?! And the simple act of paying back anything sort of indicates it was NOT a ponzi scheme at that point right? A Ponzi scheme never pays anyone back, it just borrows more. Let alone buying back shares.

IMHO, FTX (and most other crypto exchanges) are created for a simple reason: the fees are huge right now. Stock trading fees are usually less than 1bps (1 bps = 0.01% of the value of the trade). Coinbase charges 40bps for retail users.

SBF ran the Kimchi arbitrage when it was profitable, he ran FTX for the same reason. The crazy thing here is how much money he LOST by not stopping things that were loss making or where risk>>reward... He killed a golden goose to save a mangy terminally ill budgerigar.
I’ve had a few consulting calls with companies where they (or their VCs) want to call their software open source but have no interest in community development and want to block competitors from taking any advantage of it.
> Nginx, a versatile web server pivotal to numerous internet infrastructures, has held a dominant market share since its inception in 2004

Horse pucky. In those days, Apache httpd held dominant market share. Nice historical hijacking.
It's great that people are realising that SQLite is a solid tool to use everywhere. But it amusing that this article reads like: I tried a 25 year old database developed by an elite team in the fastest and best supported systems level programming language and it was good!
I had to double-check if it's April 1st.

The eyes look into slightly different directions and have different glares, the lighting of the skin is completely different, the angle is different. And the third photo is even more different than the first two and doesn't match at all.

It's frankly amusing how when people decide to look for something, they eventually find it, whether it's there or not. Obviously if you align these photos and then SLOWLY FADE them one into the other, they'll look similar. You see the same effect when training deepfake models from real movie footage of actors. It sorts them by angle and expression, and aligns them by facial features, and you see it's essentially the same exact face in countless photos, because... that's how taking photos of faces works.

I made a version which switches between the two photos with alignment, but without fading and it's blindingly obvious those are two distinct photos of the same woman, and nothing really matches pixel by pixel at all:

https://i.imgur.com/Iv2u0K8.gif
Security with the cost of convenience comes with the cost of security.