skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My snarky answer is use an MVNO that will both show up as the base carrier to any searching online/number lookups, and has completely useless clueless terrible support that either couldn't or wouldn't redirect like this.

Assuming you even have to use SMS, get some weird walmart mobile service that you can't even really call for support.

It's security through obscurity but they often literally wont let you port your number out without absurd gymnastics, the support people don't know how, their crappy web based management system the CSRs use doesn't have a button, etc.
Reading the post title, my first reaction was "Wow, Euler must have been really stumped if it took him until 2006 to solve the problem."
Congrats, hard not to be jaded at this point though.
Does this address the Nickel/Cobalt cathode issue at all?
In many of those places in Europe, stipend is really a loan you have to pay back. The terms are regulated but still ain't free money.
Granted my source for this is The Newsroom, but IIRC contempt of court is a tool that can only be used coercively, and not punitively. In other words, if you refuse to give your password, you could be detained indefinitely for contempt. But if you forget your password, you should be released immediately. Obviously that's open to interpretation and abuse, I'm just saying contempt would only be correctly applied here if there was reason to believe a witness/suspect was withholding the information, not when they're not able to provide the information.
SMS is 2FA.

I'm sure you mean TOTP, but it's an important distinction to make. All 2FA isn't created equal.
Except colleges won't make people more intelligent. For the most part, it won't even make people more informed. For many people (especially the incremental people that would go to college if it were free), college is an extended 4-year vacation, during which they immediately forget everything they learned, because they never need to use it on the job.
Hahah I love this! Glad you were able to track it down and share.
Could you please not post like this? It's not what we're here for and we ban accounts that carry on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
When stealing a pineapple got you seven years
Ask HN: How do you track your domains for expiration?
Self Actualization and Life Changing Affirmations for Millennials
in 70 years, i will have paid for my property 3 times over in texas property taxes. So the US sense is more like a 20-40 year lease depending on the tax rate.
Fair points, all. However, this quote:

> The goverment has strong control of their citizens, controlling how many children they can have, which city they can live in, etc.

is specifically talking about the totalitarian nature of their government.
James Damore was not fired for signing a letter of protest. James Damore was fired for using junk science and wildly misinterpreting other studies to fit his conclusion that half of his coworkers didn't belong at Google.
3 years is a far cry from 30 days.
i wonder if companies will start doing this right from their ipo, and just list the holding companies instead of the whole company.
This argument is fascinating, because you are in effect arguing that people should be rewarded according to their lack of privilege: "we should give these subsidies to students from 'lower-tier schools' rather than students from 'top-tier schools' who are already well on their way to success".

This is the "social justice" argument.

Now let me ask you this:

If you get sick and require surgery, would you rather be treated by the smart, skilled, hard-working doctor who succeeded in everything he tried, including being accepted into a top school?

Or maybe you'd prefer the under-privileged doctor, who never did well academically, and only got into a lower-tier school, but managed to graduate thanks to your social justice subsidy?

Your argument seems to make society more just and equal, but you support it because it is convenient to appear as just person, and you are isolated from the repercussions of your proposal. In reality, your policy will prefer and encourage mediocre doctors over excellent ones, you just hope it won't affect you.

Thankfully, American society is structured in such a way that a top school like NYU can muster the funds required for the subsidy, and thus we will have more excellent doctors, instead of more poor ones.
The world really would literally grind to a halt, you are severely under-estimating how common this particular OS is. It has been the embedded system of choice for a very large variety of applications, it is anything but obscure it is just obscure to those who spend their time working on web stuff but in industry you would come across it (and RTOS: https://rtos.com/) very often.

Neither of those names will ring a bell for people who spend their days with your usual web toolsets.
My Clojure take on a* was kinda of a journey. I thought I understood the algorithm several times while implementing it. It took me a few passes, now I'm quite happy about the results. Impressive how concise it is compared to the imperative version in other languages. Here if you want to see https://gist.github.com/reborg/c3372428c6ccd7d93289fb7a3a9ec...
I cringed a little at "many of our formalisms". The maths of thermodynamics is so useful yet it took and takes substantial effort to pry the useful maths away from the thermodynamics gobbledigook that surrounds it.

But it's certainly true that Deep Learning with its combination of mathy underpinnings and poorly understood behaviour is something that fits very well with a physicist's skillset.
False, censorship is done by states. Otherwise would you say that removing spam links from this comment section is "censorship"?
Yeah, I don't think high fees are the answer either. Costly and free are both extreme and probably won't do what we want them to do.

We need something just right, something that both the schools, and students still have some skin in the game so they are obligated / motivated to perform their best.

I think a free market mostly can cover do this, and it seemed to work out fine for many many years in the US until we started giving crazy loans out to everybody.

And don't get me started, on the bs that we need free school because low income kids won't be able to go. Harvard has a fund for low income students that goes untapped every year, they even make a effort to get low income kids (from my understanding mostly underprivileged minorities) to take advantage of the funding available, but yet, hardly anybody does.
LEO are not stupid. If you are using tech with this feature then they'll ask for both passwords.
Yes, phone autocorrected Fi fiber...edited it but soon enough it seems. Google Fi is available in the US with certain phones. I got the Pixel 2 specifically for it... otherwise I'd probably have the Huawei P20
College is expensive because so much money is available in the forms of subsidies and loans. If the federal government stopped guaranteeing loans, and cut back on other subsidies, the cost of college would be much much lower.
Just out of curiosity, would you(r family) have been able to afford medical school anyway?

This isn't just for the poor, it's also for the well-educated, solidly middle-class people who still can't afford med school, or have to go deep in debt, thus leading to them being forced to prioritize high-earning careers over those they might otherwise be inclined towards, medical careers that might have a more positive social impact.
"Researchers rediscover non-cooperative radar, news at 11"

It's really, really, really hard to do this with cooperative RF sources and way way more bandwidth. This is horseshit.
I couldn't find the original study that these articles are based off of..

"Canadian doctors still make dramatically less than U.S. counterparts: study"
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-doctors-still-...

US doctors earn much more than peers, study says
https://bangordailynews.com/2011/09/09/health/us-doctors-ear...
Tampering with evidence, which includes destroying evidence is also a crime. IANAL so I'm not sure at what point a phone becomes evidence, i.e. once there is a indictment, once there is a warrant, t=0, etc. John Carmack got in trouble for deleting emails in that IP case if I recall. A better privacy feature might be that the phone stores no history.
> Maybe an option to 'lock' the account to changes, that can only be unlocked by the user when logged in, or by visiting a store?

AT&T sorta offers this - there's an enhanced security option that lets you provide a password or PIN if you want to make account changes. This is allowed in lieu of ID.

My AT&T account is technically still tied to my father-in-law, because my wife and I took it over over a decade ago, when we were still in college. They no longer have AT&T phones and I consider it my account, but whenever I visit a store I have to provide the password before I can upgrade my phone or change the service plan. To move the account into my name would require me and my FIL to visit a store together, which is inconvenient enough that we've not bothered.
If LEO find you're using Truecrypt, do you think they'll not realize that you might have a hidden drive and ask for that password too??
And then somebody says "how about we abstract this into some kind of markup language?" and we've come full circle.
> The concept here is to exploit WiFi gear's usages of many different frequencies. Measuring the amplitude and phase shift on each channel provides some info about what each channel bounced off of and diffracted around.

This exists. They're just reimplemented non-cooperative SFCW radar. It's not new.
I scrolled some paragraphs without reading and read "Unfocused Reading is a Terrible Thing to Do". Oops.
This is so incredibly entertaining to use. Although you have to have a fair number of active daily contributors for it to actually be interesting to watch.
Comunism means worker countrol of the means of production.

Or in other words, all private capital ownership and private business ownership is illegal.

Lots of people own businesses in China. Therefore, by definition, it isn't communist.
But it is possible to say that you have Truecrypt installed. Then the LEO just asks for the second password.
I have some bad news for you: graduate programs are usually fully funded and some PhD students even get a stipend for attending.
I think this is the third time in as many months I'm reading about Google employees protesting their employer's behavior.

One the one hand, it's clearly a good sign that employees are comfortable doing this, as it could guide an enormous company to do better things for the world, and the lack of a contractual Sword of Damocles over their continued employment encourages the free flow of information and conversation.

On the other...were the first two times that your employer was found to be engaged in behavior you found to be morally bankrupt not enough? At some point, it's the rule, not the exception.
Scala for beginners
The insulator in common aluminum electrolytic capacitors is also a ceramic -- aluminum oxide. The positive plate is aluminum, and the oxide grows on it because when the capacitor is charged, the positive plate attracts free oxygen atoms from the electrolyte (and hydrogen atoms are released at the cathode).

While it is brittle, it's also self-healing. When it cracks and exposes the aluminum underneath, a new layer of oxide is plated immediately, as long as the capacitor is charged.

Equipment that's been left powered off for a long time and then turned on can sometimes have caps explode because there's a lot of leakage current from holes in the ceramic until it heals (minutes to hours). Lithium batteries are usually completely ruined if they ever discharge down to zero.
Impressive that you went "Android first" even though you were already familiar with iOS development! Kudos for that.

I often click to read the HN comments first, because they are often full of insight and interesting links. (This is also why I read HN from a custom #newsyc channel in our work Slack that posts links once they hit 20 points: it allows time for initial comments to accumulate, and Slack helpfully keeps track of "new" posts.)

Simply bookmarking the article itself to read later would not be as useful to me personally, but I bet there are lots of people who would find your approach helpful.
> You prefer an under-educated population

Who is undereducated? We managed to create a civilization that went to the moon back when the vast majority of people never went to college. Germany continues to be a leading industrial power while lagging most of Western Europe in college statistics (especially "academic" college like we have in the U.S.)
"Morally, of course its wrong, but what's the alternative over the long term?"

To not do it. Google has plenty of fucking money; they don't need all the money.

"They would cede the market to a more accommodating competitor (e.g. Baidu), who would then have a strategic advantage."

In China. There are plenty of other people in the world, and most of those people do not want a search engine where the results are chosen by a totalitarian government.

This idea that Google "has to" do this, and that there can be only one winner of anything, ever, is terrible, and I believe is directly responsible for most of the ills of our day.
> Maybe service providers could provide an https endpoint to perform this?

That's a good idea, with one caveat. It needs to be quite hard to revoke a token. Proof of 1-factor is not sufficient; an attacker could then simply revoke your token and then gain access.

So a lost token is quite a challenge, even if there is a revoke URL. This doesn't seem automatable (to revoke all "in a single time" as you say).

> provide such endpoints in the registration email

In addition, the browser should record U2F interactions and know all sites on which a token was registered. Then such a list is very easily accessible, as long as the browser log is available. If it isn't, well you have email as a backup log.

The fact that you can't unilaterally revoke all token registrations is the main weakness of U2F. (besides the cost and the user action required for uptake of it)
The web site [1] shows a much lower level of hype. Listed problems:

- Low-temperature performance

- Density 1.8x to 5x liquid electrolyte

- How to manufacture in quantity?

The increased density is a big problem. The ceramic materials are much heavier than liquids. That seems inherent in using ceramics. This might be a good technology for stationary applications, because of the faster charging and lower fire risk. Depends on cost.

[1] https://sakamoto.engin.umich.edu/
Coding Without Comments (2008)
Bugs Will Actually Make Your Next Phone Better
Show HN: Iceland Vegetation Viewer Using WebGL
We at Visual Perspective just released an open source, web-based, remote sensing viewer (https://iceland.visualperspective.io/). With this viewer, you can explore Iceland’s vegetation over space and time. There is an accompanying blog post which goes over Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and how to use the viewer (https://visualperspective.io/blog/iceland-ndvi-viewer).

Source code is at: https://github.com/VisualPerspective/ndvi-viewer WebGL is used for the display, but also for GPGPU averaging of NDVI in the selected region.
For bricks and mortar businesses Stripe won’t help much, still need a chip and PIN reader on premise.

Square on the other hand does let you outsource the entire problem of physical card payments to them, at the cost of much higher fees, as they are the merchant of record so you don’t need to be PCI compliant at all. Which is a real worry as that doesn’t give me much confidence when buying from a square “seller”.

Their card reader originally didn’t encrypt data, and at least one model that did encrypt could be bypassed via tampering https://www.zdnet.com/article/square-reader-to-card-skimmer-... and while their current hardware may or may not have issues, they display a distinct lack of concern for local device security. Defense in depth is the way to go, but with Square you can put your Android/iOS device onto any WiFi network and without any security on who else is on it. Likewise you can download any random app that may look innocent enough but is full of exploits (eg an app that claims to help you manage a customer mailing list so you can grab signups on the same device as you take payments, or an app that claims to help with inventory levels, etc).
Movie Pass made no sense from the start. It’s the dot-com “lose money on every customer and make it up in volume” model all over again.
>You had me until the second paragraph. Who instigates change in society, if not for the people in it? Sadly, parent’s last question

I think GP was downvoted because he criticized consumer activism and not just what he meant to criticize: Making change by purchasing decisions. I've generally switched to his perspective. For about a decade I felt (and acted) more like you. That experience taught me how poor a strategy it is. The success stories via boycotts are a fairly small minority. Most attempts at change via boycotts fail. It's incredibly hard even to start one.

A lot of shaming is involved, and it rarely works. People don't like to feel ashamed. As he said in his response to you, it does quickly degrade to infighting amongst consumers and a lot of energy is wasted there that could be used in alternative strategies.

It requires people to be very knowledgeable, and I saw mostly failures even amongst highly educated folks. To understand an issue, connect all the dots, etc takes a lot of effort. Most people want someone else (government agency, consumer watchdog, etc) to do all the work.

That's not to say broad media campaigns are a bad idea - I think they are necessary. But much more often than not, companies will win on the purchasing decisions battle.
> For that to stick they would need proof that there was some evidence on the phone.

They can make your life pretty fucking miserable while that's going on though.

And the innocence tax is pretty high. Most people on HN can afford good lawyers. What's the going rate for a good criminal defence team for a year?
The way out is for these companies to also educate the public about how to use their autoinjectors. If the half dozen medium-small companies who marketed the EpiPen managed it well before Merck got involved, surely almost anyone else can do the same (if they are not too lazy to do the basic due diligence).
> ...FAFSA still considers you a dependent until you're 24. I was told that only with documentation of leaving an abusive household would a dependency exception grant be applied.

Would you mind saying when and by whom you were told this?

Asking because this was not my experience. While I can't remember if I had to/or was able to finagle my parents' info for FAFSA, I do remember having direct discussions w/my school @ the time so that they weren't trying to factor my parents' assets and income into their aid calculation.
4 year bachelor +

4 year md +

3-7 year residency ( hourly pay is ~ 1/4 a nurses on an hourly basis) +

(optional) 1-4 year fellowship (cardiology, surg-sup specialties like trauma, hand surgery, etc) +

(optional) 4 year PhD (20%+ of rad onc physicians have a PhD too.
That's a vulnerability of Authy's service, not TOTP.

I have some of my more important services tied to an older Yubikey. The only attack vectors for it would be on the server-side and the physical key.
Doesn't SRI require the hashes to be in the __loaded__ html? I believe parent is referring to a page which is the same, but has been compromised on the server side, meaning you can't trust the html, even if the server is who it says it is.
Contempt of court is not a life sentence. It ends the moment the defendant complies. Whereas a sentence for a "10 years in jail for not revealing password" charge would not be vacated when you decide to reveal the password.
Methinks the hardware world is yet another incarnation of what happened in the gpu world, layers of bs folded onto themselves.

A good deal of open hardware, even without sophisticated capabilities would free a lot of time and energy for open source OSes
That is where LEO is screwed. They can't prove if you do or you don't have hidden data. EG. There isn't a /hidden_stuff_here/ directory. Its somehow baked into the encryption blocks.
> Who else makes Music players where you can't even select the music directory?

Apple? The iTunes concept proved to be popular with users.
> In the article, you have the key in an env variable.

Only during the moment of provisioning.

> In particular, if someone prebuilds the keys for you, he/she has you key.

You have a similar weakness. If someone prebuilds the keys, you don't know if they are loading a fixed key. You also have the problem of not knowing if the attestation cert is actually trustworthy, or where else the key for that cert might live.
> Then the LEO just asks for the second password.

But it's entirely _optional_ to use. They cannot prove there is a second password.
"The Trigger" (2000): https://archive.org/details/trigger00clar
Is derm really about prestige? Or is it about a relatively high salary with little to no on call time and mostly 9-5 hours?
Understanding the reasons why a problem exists is only one part of solving it. Knowing will inform your future strategy, but one should not feel overly constrained by the facts of history.

If a problem arises in part because government was too weak, that does not imply that the problem may be fixed by making government stronger. In this specific case, the best solution for consolidation might actually be to weaken IP law, while strengthening FCC licensing restrictions.

As for the other problem, the rich seem to have installed themselves and their hopeful cronies to make governments their tools, so their humbling will probably need to come from another vector. Unless, of course, the government tools may be taken back from them. I think that unlikely, but people surprise you sometimes. Setting a higher marginal tax rate on the richest would certainly be preferable to murdering them and taking their stuff, but that's always on the table. I think unions are also a reasonable counterbalance to corporate barons, but the labor cartels are very weak now.
This sounds like an excuse and maybe it is. This could be rooted in biology. Just like people are right handed or left handed and some are more organized and others less so. People are wired differently.
Whatever medicine I give the school to administer to my child at the appropriate times has to be observed; the school cannot wantonly withhold the medications I provide them, especially when provided a Dr's note.

If I send my child to school with an "off-brand" epipen with a doctor's note and direct the school to use this instead, they have to observe it -- a nurse is in no way capable of making a drug administration decision without the consult of a licensed medical doctor.
All work actually requires servant leadership to be maximally effective. This article does a great job of explaining it in the software domain. My wife works as a school principal and though the specific jargon would be different, the lessons are the same, because other than specific idiosyncracies that engineers have, we're all motivated and burned out by the same fundamental things. That's the good news - people are people.

The bad news is that if you get burned out by software, changing careers isn't going to fix anything. As I get older I care less about the specific problems to be solved by the team, and I care a hell of a lot more about the group of people I solve them with

Thanks for posting this.
I'm kind of surprised how people are complaining how we hear about many battery break throughs yet we do not see any of them come to reality. Bridging science to reality through engineering takes time. Lots of time. Think of LEDs. We had those tiny dome shaped LEDs for the longest time. Yet it took over two decades to get to useful LEDS to consumers we have today (like CREE).
N-passwords it is then.