skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got a yubikey a few weeks ago and enabled U2F wherever I could. You can also get yubico authenticator, which replaces google authenticator, but stores all your TOTP codes on the yubikey instead. I was always afraid of losing my phone with all my TOTP codes on it, since I wasn't very consistent about saving backup codes. Now all my TOTP codes are on two yubikeys and they are only visible if I swipe the key near my phone.

tl;dr: You can use the yubikey to replace google authenticator wherever you're using standard TOTP codes.
One difference between the Kochs, Adelson, et al and Soros is that for the former there is a very obvious link between the causes they fund and benefits to their own business empires (this is particularly stark with Adelson). Soros is harder to pin down and seems to be genuinely interested in the causes he supports, not just out of personal interest.
"And wildlife": Seems to me this matches the timeframe of the extinction of several North American megafauna species. Those extinctions have been blamed on the arrival of humans; maybe there's another explanation here.
> But he had no idea of the technologies and IT in general.

Leaders must have the respect of the team in order to be effective. With no knowledge or experience, earning this respect from the team is a tall order.
UK and US at the moment
On the other hand most of CEOs that "kind of" manage to perform or totally flop typically don't have any in depth knowledge of what their company actually does.

Compare the CEO of Verizon who built it into what it is today - Ivan G. Seidenberg against a CEO of Sprint or Global Crossing at the time. Notice that the CEO of GlobalCrossing at the time is the current CEO of T-Mobile. It is well known that he had no clue about products of GlobalCrossing or technology behind it and therefore could not realize its competitive advantages. On the other hand he clearly understands the mobile phones which is how he managed to take a T-Mobile from a pissant company that no one cared about to a company that forces ATT and Verizon to respond.
Here's a counterpoint: Lou Gerstner. He saved[1] IBM 25 years ago and had no relevant tech experience. I've also had personal experience with non-techie managers who were exceptional.

Moral of the story is I don't think it's wise to automatically overlook non-techies in the available pool of candidates who might do better at the job.

[1] - Arguably ruined it as well by turning it into a services company, but hopefully everyone agrees he exhibited competence in the turn-around despite the direction chosen.
This is pretty interesting as an examination of long polling on the browser as an alternative to websockets. Most of my experience was with it on the backend, e.g. SQS[1] and hadn't thought much about it beyond, "sit in a loop and check for tasks on a queue." One of the advantages of that approach, I think, was that the queue service is dedicated to just that task so the complexity on that server is all in one place.

It would be great if they went into some of the additional architecture they've had to implement to, e.g., prevent denial of service.

[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQS...
U2F does not work with LastPass, sadly.

Edit: here https://lastpass.com/support.php?cmd=showfaq&id=8126

U2F works with dashlane I think?
The property of finding their complaints hilarious would make me deeply question your technical judgment & maturity while also being certain you lack leadership skills. I’d also worry you would dismiss ideas of junior team members regarding how adopting new tools could better solve business problems, which is critical even in situations where you’re constrained by stability requirements of a legacy system.
With new technology? I see no inherent reason that a downed power line needs to cause several giant arcs. I don’t know exactly how big an arc is needed to start a fire, but ISTM it should be possible to make line-to-ground faults only arc a tiny bit and line-to-line faults make much smaller arcs.

CA has a big head start here over the rest of the country: in CA, utilities cannot have current-carrying wires that are grounded at multiple points. That practice is widespread elsewhere and is rather dangerous for several reasons. And I think it would interfere with several potential technologies to reduce arcs.

(I don’t really know, but I assume CA’s rule is related to the dairy industry. Utility-induced ground current turns out to be hazardous to cows being milked with metallic equipment.)
What I meant is that if there's no consensus and the third, the fourth, the fifth... also either have a different proposition/idea or are divided somewhat equally into both sides.
Thought this would be a link to a white-paper...
Prelinkers are dying, but 20 years ago they were the normal way of doing things. 30 years ago, Cfront had to use them because it was relying on existing unix linkers that did not have weak symbol support.
> If the only recourse for a defrauded buyer is either to simply eat the loss or lose even more money, that's not what I'd consider an acceptable solution that's competitive with other, non-crypto means of payment.

In the existing payment market you have a seller with no stake and have to correct for it by drafting the payment processor to post a stake instead. Then if the seller doesn't send the product (or sometimes even if they do), the buyer makes a claim with the payment processor and the payment processor is stuck refunding it because the alternative is having a larger cost imposed on them by the government. Then they try to mitigate the loss by not paying the seller, if they can.

This is just unnecessary indirection when the seller posts a stake instead. If the seller has $200 on the line over a $100 value item, they're going to deliver it because the alternative is a $100 net loss. It's the same reason the payment processor refunds your money -- because the alternative is worse for them.

The buyer doesn't actually lose the extra $50, they just sit on it until the seller makes good, which happens eventually because the seller's alternative is worse. The end result of MAD isn't that everybody gets nuked, it's that nobody does.
had a major hand in a (legal) monetary speculation that produced a currency crisis in the UK

He did not produce the crisis. He observed, rightly, that the pound was massively overvalued and that this was not sustainable.

He bet the bank on this fact and won.

He certainly didn't produce the crisis.
Not trolling, but pouring more oil on the fire...

TLDR yes, biometrics are the closest thing to a user ID

> Are you seriously arguing a fingerprint is an aesthetic symbolic pointer in the way a name is?
Absolutely. A given name is non-unique, and not chosen by you. Yet everyone refers you by it, if only by convention.

> That you are going to just refer to other people (whether IRL or online) by "fingerprint"?
No but computers might as well do, much as you identify someone by their face.
You might refer to someone by their public key fingerprint too (also similarly non-collision resistant)

> That people choose their fingerprints based on what they think will be a good one?
People rarely choose their names, nicknames, or usernames. Why is choice an issue here?

> That there can just be a simple process to arbitrarily change their fingerprint if they later decide they'd prefer another one?
People find it difficult to arbitrarily change their face, most are reluctant to change their given names - and indeed there's significant pressure from 'the system' to make it difficult for you, and also what about the many who find it annoying when their preferred username is unavailable, etc. I can't see what your point is here?

> Because all of those apply to user IDs.
A user id, isn't a primary key in the real world - only when it comes to a particular computer system.

Finally your fingerprints do change over time, though not necessarily in a manner which will confuse current matching techniques
Never be on it, nor on Fb, LinkedIn etc. Only in G+ at the time when it's born and I used GMail.

IMO webdevs should be take story lesson rediscover non-web technologies, there are many things outside webservers and browsers. Far more advanced, free, pleasant to use, effective etc.
The comments in social media related to the issue get repeatedly stuck into the term monopoly usually in the title in the article. This happens again and again. Please everyone. Get over it.

The context is monopoly power, market failures, unfair competition and antitrust law.

Networked plaform technologies are very different from traditional monopolies: zero price, increasing returns, imperfect competition, spillovers everything is very different
Suneung: The day silence falls over South Korea
Are you saying that it is physically impossible for the Israeli government to collaborate with antisemites?
Well, the selection of someone who never has used a computer does speak pretty loudly of how important the post is considered, so I expect the best interests of the people was never a big concern.
> It is totally possible for a non-technical person manage a technical team well. There are even certain downfalls (trying to make technical decisions that they are not knowledgeable enough to make) that a manager with a technical background is MORE likely to make.

We will see it play out in front of us again:

AMD v Intel
Yes. Thanks. Well, these indeed don't look particularly inspiring...
To take this critique to an even lower order of problems, economics as a field is strictly centered on capitalism and the base assumption that markets are the only efficient distribution of resources. By this nature professionals researching economics will be captured by corporate interests at every level.
How to install a device driver on Linux
How about a bus? Or a train? Or a van?

Do you suppose that there is really a Japanese minister today that has never used a computer? A smart phone? A microwave? A TV? An MP3 player? A network-connected device?

They probably use a computer to enter their home or office. Their desk phone is probably a computer. Their car radio is a computer.

It would be quite a challenge to find a living person in Japan today who has not used a computer. I suppose nothing is impossible, but some claims are so hyperbolic as to be ignored.
The problem is not a lack of funds. The problem is bureaucracy and a lack of startup infrastructure. My feeling is that the people in charge have absolutely no effing clue about how to most efficiently deploy this money so they will do what sounds good on paper but will have 0 effect in reality.

If it goes how it usually goes the largest part of this money will likely to to universities and other research institutions where it will be spent financing open-ended research projects that, in virtually all cases, go exactly nowhere, due to lack of proper incentives to produce something that works.

The rest of the money will be "up for grabs" by companies who have perfected the crafts and arts of getting grant money from the German or EU government. The bureaucratic hurdles and time frames are typically way too large for most capital constrained nimble startups who need to move fast. So it's mostly established and/or zombie companies that take advantage of this.
Better than that: in Slack, it changes when you type triple-grave to open a code block. I see the logic, but it's nuts from a UX perspective.

I wouldn't mind so much if Slack and other offenders had a delayed send option so I could undo my f*ups.
I think you are on to something. Steve Jobs was like a "curator" from top to bottom and beginning to end. Though he could not code, draw, or design he certainly could lead (albeit in a quasi-abusive fashion at times) and his vision was shaped by Vitruvian theory.

"...Vitruvius believed that an architect should focus on three central themes when preparing a design for a building: firmitas (strength), utilitas (functionality), and venustas (beauty)..."
Add a Custom Domain to Your Glitch Project
I tested the new iPad Pro and it still can't replace my laptop
"Microsoft spent more than a decade, investing tens of billions of dollars and absorbing an astonishing $12.4 billion in cumulative losses, to establish Bing as a credible competitor. It is cheaper and easier to build a manned space program than it is to build a modern search engine."

- Matthew Hindman, "The Internet Trap", 2018 (p. 174)
Health costs of ageism calculated at $63B annually, study finds
Is anyone aside from beach-front property owners in favor of bailing them out? Even the degree to which PG&E should be liable is clearly controversial just based on the comments on this post alone.
"...each one of them never truly felt they are at any blame till their last breadth"

That's not accurate, even based on the link that you provided. That page explicitly states that 5 of the 24 in that table "expressed repentance" in the notes.
>When you start putting the pieces together, it all makes sense.

Ah yes, the exceedingly more common dog whistle for “I have no idea what I’m talking about, and I have no claims to back up my bullshit, but if you do the research for me it will prove me right”
This is one too many missteps in my eyes. I deleted my facebook, now it's time to delete my Instagram.
> And then it's not long before you have a huge list of Facebook "friends" which include actual friends, family, extended family, bosses, ex-bosses, co-workers, etc. Now, imagine putting all of those groups of people at your dinner table and try to think of topics you'd be open to discussing among all of those disparate groups.

Incidentally, this was exactly one of the problems that Google+ was trying to solve with its "Circles" concept.
By the looks of your self description, seems you're my long lost (evil?) twin.

I didn't hate school though. I hated some people in it.
Are there any groups that are actually in favor of “open borders”? It seems like that term has become co-opted to mean any border enforcement that’s anything short of what the extremists want.
Open Source as a Business: Strategy, Struggle and Success [video]
Think you might not be encoding the language filters correctly. I'm seeing a lot of C when filtering by C#
Agreed 100%.

> If you’re not a lawyer, don’t run a law firm.

Fun fact: the ethics rules of most state bars prohibit lawyers from becoming partners with non-lawyers in a business whose business model involves providing legal advice.

See ABA Model Rule of Professional Responsibility 5.4(b). https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibili...
Could be a way to advertise that you like collecting money for dubious causes.
Did you read the article? She hasn't worked at Instagram since 2014.
let's also not forget that the reason Thiel had a vendetta against Gawker is that they outed him publicly. They were a horrible gossip rag and I have very little sympathy for them given their actions (which extend far beyond what they did to Thiel and Hogan).
Hey pkulak- you can access the whitepaper through this channel: https://www.quorumcontrol.com/documentation/
It would be great if sites had an option to remove reset support for your account permanently. One that is literally impossible to reset. But I'm not sure how to do that without implementing complete user data encryption.
Why would they need to understand any technical aspects? Ultimately it comes down to making a decision between several alternatives, those alternatives have tradeoffs. If the technical people can't explain what those tradeoffs are in terms the non-technical decision maker can understand, then either they don't understand them themselves, or they aren't worth being concerned about.
Money and power have a way of seeing past such trivialities as prejudice and/or principles.
There are a bunch of CI plugins and bots for Trac, and part of the point of sr.ht is that it's modular, too.
Touching kids?!
Google Science Journal - Transform your phone into a pocket-size science lab
That can’t really be the philosophy - even red states love their highways.
> I don't understand what you're so skeptical about. What is the standard of evidence for antisemitism you're seeking?

I suppose a good counter example would be liberal jewish billionaires being attacked despite not contributing to liberal philanthropic endeavors. Or non-jewish liberal billionaire philanthropists NOT being attacked despite contributing on the same scale as George Soros.

I'm just saying that the "George Soros is only being targeted because he's jewish" argument is a shitty cop out.
The Four Burners Theory: The Downside of Work-Life Balance
> Anyone can index the web

Most, if not all, websites will block your bot after a couple of request even if it respects robots.txt.

Also they seem to have different rules for GoogleBot and different for yours.
Let's equate this to sales for a second.

For success in sales, some would argue that salesmanship is vastly more important than nature of the salesman to the product.

iow, A great salesman is someone who can sell ice to eskimos.

Perhaps there is an equivalent argument to be made in management. A great manager is someone who can manage anyone.
Why aren’t chip credit cards stopping “card present” fraud in the US?
> Why would you need to join the lycra crowd without an eBike?

Because you get very sweaty trying to ride a bike any distance in 90 degree weather.
I think you're right about antisemitism not being that big of a factor outside of the more extreme right wing corners. But I do think the nature of the Soros attacks highlight the mainstream right's propensity for believing in, or knowingly disseminating, false conspiracy theories.
Thanks for the great advice!

My first thought was reaching out to former professors by email (can't visit in person), but I wanted to see if there was a more appropriate way, like an online pre-print vetting community or something.

I will definitely tone-down my description of the current state of drag prediction; definitely don't want to offend or be considered a crackpot before anyone even looking at my derivation and results.
Companies are made, overwhelmingly, of people. Managing those people is quite literally the definition of management.

What if I told you that you could be a charismatic influential leader of a tech company without knowing how to program. It's definitely not what the developers on hackernews want to hear but it's true. Yes you can be both. EQ is a thing.
In addition to the point fermienrico made about the fake managers you discussed, I also think this:

> Domain knowledge is great, but it can actually make you less open minded and unbiased

Is a bit strange to say, since it also undermines your position. If someone has domain knowledge in "managing", then your quote would suggest that they could be "less open minded and unbiased", and as such, a person without domain knowledge in managing might be better - in fact, an acorn (without knowledge in any domain) would be least biased. I'd argue that while you will gain biases as you gain knowledge, you will also be more knowledgeable about relevant things, and that's important. Thus, the best person for a managerial position would be someone with knowledge about managing people and with knowledge about what those people are doing.

> hard to get hacked when you don't have a computer

This is true, but it's also hard to understand what's going on or stay in the loop when you don't have a computer
A fingerprint cannot be used as a hash to encrypt keys. All you can do is store some data and compare the fingerprint to see if there are enough matches. That is why secure fingerprint systems always involve some ‘secure’ hardware that stores and compares the fingerprint to the stored data and then releases some key.

Systems that try to do this in software are always trivially circumvented because you can just change the software to allow ‘not enough matches’ instead of ‘enough matches’. The key is necessarily in the device and software can’t protect it.
My company wants to hire around 50 new people, but their pay is only decent and their facilities meh... And they wonder why they're having issues filling the different positions.
> These people defer everything to their subordinates including major technical decisions. Then what the hell is their job!? To "people manage"?

Imo, the idea that the job of a manager is to make decisions is extremely misguided (and old fashioned). It's their jobs to ensure that the right decisions are made. This is a very different thing.
How could he win his case if his claimed damages wern't at least somewhat realistic?
It's one thing to fund "leftist causes" that promote social good. It's another to fund climate change denial groups so you can mine more coal and build more coal plants and utterly destroy everything in the interests of making a few more bucks.
>Ultimately you've got awful forestry management practices that are really to blame for this annual mess.

Agreed, you have to assume forest fires will happen in California eventually (since they have for thousands of years). It's unreasonable to expect there never to be some kind of spark, whether it's an act of god or caused by one of the 40 million humans living in California.
No one can force you to use money either. You can chose not to partake in any financial transactions and starve to death. According to the logic above, we just established that financial system is 100% voluntary.

You can chose not to ever fly on an airplane. According to the logic above, it's just a convenience. Nevertheless, people generally don't dismiss issues with air travel by saying that you can just chose to drive.

In reality, a lot of the systems you think are essential to your day-to-day life are technically opt-in. Except you cannot opt-out without cutting yourself off from the society.

Also, societies are not established by armies. They are established by social conventions with enough clout to become self-sustaining.

The Internet was originally established in a way that was very different from the current version of an offline society with its hyper-centralization and authorities. But the consolidation of services and infrastructure significantly changed that model.
You're probably right, I didn't come into contact with Sparc machines until uni.

edit:

Actually I just followed the wikipedia link and there's even a page on the pizza box form factor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_box_form_factor

> The Data General Aviion Unix server was advertised in 1991 with the tagline "Who just fit mainframe power in a pizza box?",[1] but most computers generally referred to as pizza box systems were high-end desktop systems such as Sun Microsystems workstations sold in the 1990s, most notably the SPARCstation 1 and SPARCstation 5. Other notable examples have been among the highest-performing desktop computers of their generations, including the SGI Indy, the NeXTstation, and the Amiga 1000, but the form factor was also seen in budget and lower-end lines such as the Macintosh LC family.[2]

The Jargon File also specifically refers to Sun machines http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/pizza-box.html
I'm old enough to remember when IBM was the unbreakable monopolist that would rule the computer industry forever.

Then Microsoft was the unbreakable monopolist that would rule the computer industry forever.

Now it's apparently FAANG.

Just the fact that we have five monopolists should be enough to show thinking people that it's not a monopoly situation, if history isn't convincing enough.
Seconded! I "deleted" my account some 5 years ago.

Just to add: I also don't use Whatsapp.

I refuse to touch any property, which is connected in any way with this evil, slimy carbuncle of a company. No matter if I'm slightly inconvenienced in the process.
Facebook Has an Employee Morale Crisis