skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others pointed out, the difference is that the local connection to the phone, together with the Webauthn+FIDO protocols make this resistant to phishing.

That comes at the cost of needing Bluetooth, which isn't available on all computers. I.e. it's more secure than the prompt you have now, but that will at least work everywhere.

The right tradeoff between the security and the convenience/availability is something that is very context-dependent, and different for each user. Hence the multiple options.
Ah, so that’s why I’ve been getting so many robocalls that start with “You’ve been qualified to receive a medical-grade brace”.
It was close. His firm acquired Continental just before the 2008 crash and got clobbered. But it worked out OK in the end.[1]

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/6c5fab52-1337-11e5-ad26-00144feab...
Jack Cole: The 'scary' dancer who made Marilyn Monroe sparkle
> I'm not exactly claiming Carmack-level jQuery proficiency, but comments like yours make me wonder (optimistically) whether you've forgotten all of the amazingly useful things that jQuery can do. Ajax, selectors and CSS transitions are the Nickelback of creative possibility.

It's been several years since I last used jQuery, but what are those other useful things that are hard using Vanilla.js? (Legitimate question, not being sarcastic here)
Chinese spies stole secrets from chip equipment maker ASML
IIRC in Utah the public schools still receive funding for charter school students.

In either case, why should "easy" students be held back to the level of the "expensive" ones when instead they could go to a tech- or arts-focused charter school and contribute far more back to society?

Leveling the playing field would mean that no matter where you happen live your kids have access to well funded high quality primary education.

This seems...highly unlikely. Instead you will see everything reduced to the lowest common denominator, metal detectors at the doors, prison schools.
OCaml, Oberon, Java, Lisp and Scheme manage just fine.
I'm starting to understand why medicare is going bankrupt... Glad these guys got caught and taken down.
Are those fonts a special journalist joke? They are 100% unreadable, I just don't understand why a reputable newspaper/journal would use such font selection.
I am looking forward to their English language release. I supported the crowdfunded effort. My wife raves about the Dutch version. I hope the English one can live up to the expectations.

Otherwise I tend to read the Economist, mostly on paper, to get a broad international analysis.
The Case for Formal Methods: Hillel Wayne – Future of Coding
Bing also preloads AMP pages, so this work would add value for Bing users. https://blogs.bing.com/Webmaster-Blog/September-2018/Introdu...

Same with Baidu. https://9to5google.com/2017/03/07/accelerated-mobile-pages-e...
Turing's Pre-War Analog Computers
>> compare HN to mainstream media news

HN is a aggregator of (mainstream) media news. It is in a position where it should be able to achieve a better ratio between clickbait and non-clickbait than others. Parent suggested it doesn't. I agree. Huston, we have a problem.

Am I outraged over the fact? Not at all. Because I do not expect HN to be better than mainstream. And in fact it isn't. HN is just a different pie.
Japanese study uncovers protein that keeps skin youthful
> (one required a lens-lock! remember those?) :) This is going to bug me now

That would probably be Tomahawk by Digital Integration

Hmm, ACE - Air Combat Emulator was apparently lenslok'ed too.
Don't ask, don't tell. Editors on Wikipedia can be anonymous.
Mozilla should give up on Firefox and go with Chromium too
Not OP, but for me it's an economist subscription. I've also dropped most of my news app usage (I feel disconnecting from the news altogether is a little too drastic) but I definitely feel less irritated without missing too much.
> And what's wrong with loops anyway?

Millions of unnecessary instructions for what is often easily accomplished with a single assignment makes things slow and increases complexity.
Original article:

https://fd.nl/ondernemen/1296245/chinese-spionnen-stelen-kos...

Corrupt R&D employees with connections to the chinese ministry of science & technology

In 2014 they stole tech for XTAL.

They had access through the San Jose branch to the source code, software, pricing strategy and secret manuals.
It might be the case that how I use javascript is Nickelback-level coding; however, it pays the bills and to be frank, I don't miss using jQuery. I don't need my day job to validate my creativity.

I don't use React/Vue/Flavor-of-the-month UI library for my day job; however I don't use jQuery either.

I am not trying to shit on what can be accomplished with it; however, I debug a lot of code that adds it in where ES6/vanilla javascript does the same thing. I guess I prefer verbose javascript over using jQuery... not trying to knock on it, but it might be worth looking at other tools for the long term.

Edit: To be clear, I am not advocating to rip out jQuery fron existing apps. In a lot of cases, jQuery and jQuery plugins are helpful, but most of the code that I am paid to debug ends up being rewritten in vanilla js because I feel comfortable using that. I stopped using jQuery a while back because I opted to use a UI library a while back and worked hard to avoid jQuery ever since even though I don't use UI libraries at my current job.

Use whatever tool floats your boat and doesn't piss off the rest of your team. It's possible to ship spaghetti code in any flavor you want. I happen to (currently) work on things where the level of complexity of the UI is simple enough to use vanilla JS and not need a UI framework.
Why are the criminals not named?
What would you sue for in a startup that doesn't yet have value? Later on, if the company became worth something then yea you could sue but how do you work with the people to build something successful when you know that they are screwing you?

It sucks because you sign on to something and change your whole career but once you do that they kind of have you trapped in a way. They can change the deal arbitrarily once you don't have a job to go back to and you don't have a lot of recourse until the company becomes profitable.
Piper Jaffray: Apple Owns GenZ
> he could sell his share of the company to a buyer and he would then become liquid.

What buyer? At the time of the article, he's #79 on Forbes, so there's only 78 potential individual buyers here and they're probably all in the same pickle so far as getting liquidity.

Maybe you're thinking of a merger with some other company. How many companies had 7 billion dollars in liquid assets in 2007 and also thought owning FEV would be the best use of that money? I'm thinking not many, but I really don't have any idea.
Medicare is notorious for being rife with fraud and waste. This ring is far from the only one.

This includes mom-and-pop doctors who “upcode” certain procedure codes so that they get paid more. There’s obviously very little the govt can do to check or know. That kind of stuff happens all the time. Like I wonder if the govt is even doing basic anomaly detection on claims data to catch these things...if a ring is getting away with $1bil it makes me think no.

Also...there got to be so much opportunity to build a company around selling a DS tool to the government or insurance companies to help detect and stop medical fraud.
> I wonder what it would take for the compiler to understand this algebraic structure? Is this something feasible with more developer resources?

Possible, but not feasible. Map-reduce fusion in particular is difficult when the reduction is expressed non-primitively, because the compiler has to be careful not to duplicate work. The tree reduction is particularly challenging because of the sequential loop that obscures the producer-consumer relationship, but even the chunked reduction would require index analysis to ensure that inlining the map does not duplicate work.

It gets even worse for more complex optimisations. For example, there is no realistic chance that the compiler will be able to efficiently sequentialise any of the hand-written reductions, in those cases where they are nested inside other parallel constructs and their own parallelism is not necessary.
Anybody can do it. You better have a good reason though. https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/native-hardwa...
You can't have a policeman in every house, but you can have an Amazon Alexa.

I think the privatization of surveillance is much scarier than the privatization of censorship. To escape the latter, I can just visit my local library, whereas the former is growing at such alarming rates that it might just make that impossible very soon. The chilling effects are real.
I've stopped follwing the news cycle 4 years ago. I realized it wasn't a proper source of information. News needs to be published fast, so there is no time to do a proper source check. It it short, so there is no room for other views. It needs to be simple, easily understood, so it uses the dominant world view as a frame. News needs to get attention/clicks, so it is focussed on negative events, creating a skewed view of the world.

I only read analysis, long reads, investigative articles and news sites that do not focus on news, but on (global) developments. A good example is https://thecorrespondent.com (english version not active yet), I'm a member of the dutch version and I really enjoy reading investigative pieces about our tax system, healthcare, forgotten dutch histories and so on.

All in all I can say that when I stopped following the news cycle, the mental clutter really reduced and it made me feel better.
From the article:

>... the position on Google’s results that can literally mean the difference between a failed business and one that makes millions of dollars

looks to me like your business is the tail, and here you are trying to wag the dog.
This article is interesting, it seems Wikipedia has changed a lot. 10+y ago we wrote a Wiki software (SnipSnap) and had been to several Wiki conferences with Wikipedia side tracks, and Wikipedians seemed very diverse.

As a side note I'm discouraged because of the labyrinth of arcane rules (which I assume have all a reason to be there) around Wikipedia, and when adding something it goes into weird modes sand needs to be reviewed which last time took several weeks.
Sounds like it’s unconfigured, otherwise it would join its local network.
My governor famously ran one!
What's your phone maker?
The US students who want to pay slavery descendants
The accused. A fine distinction to make in conversation perhaps, but an important one.
They were charged, not convicted yet.
Please use the author's page directly: https://sakamoto.pl/weblog/07-windows-3-flash-edition/
Would you invest in an ISA for a person that is intending to become a teacher?

Arguably a very important job with high impact, sadly it’s not well paid.
You can frequently skip (1) because the actionable options are clear, or you can trust the news/charities have identified the cause that requires the least resources to fix/mitigate the problem.

The term 'root cause' is problematic because it assumes a simplistic cause-effect model. However, a problem may be the consequence of a complex 'chain reaction' of events. Most charities identify a single event leading up to a problem and focus on eliminating/mitigating that.

E.g. a problem is: people in country X dying unnaturally every year. The immediate cause is starvation, which is indirectly caused by famine as a result of multiple factors like poor farming technology and government policy. There is no 'root cause', and attempting to solve the farming problem might be much less resource efficient harder than just providing emergency rations every year.

Another problem with your wording is 'change for the good'. If famine death is reduced by 100 deaths for each 1000USD donated, is this a 'change'? Or would Alfred only take action if it would possibly result in entirely stopping the deaths 100%?
The difference is that you have to find a buyer for your switch if you want to eat, while the supermarket is required to take your cash.

This becomes even more difficult for owner large amounts of shares in the same company since you selling could have a negative effect on the shares. The reason they have the value could be that the market thinks you are in it for a long time and will provide additional value, once you start selling it could trigger a larger sell-off.

Or there could be a financial crash and the value could be cut in half.

So cash and cash-equivalent assets are special and worth more if you need to eat right now.
There are people who come into your life and change it for the better. Elwyn did that for me as a mentor, an investor and a teacher. We regularly had lunch near his office in Rockridge to discuss math and clinical trials, a particular shared interest of ours.

Elwyn spent a lot of time at MSRI and this Numberphile video captures him doing something he loved: playing mathematical games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KboGyIilP6k

Elwyn came from Kentucky and KET, the PBS affiliate there, did a really nice retrospective on his life and work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHotBRJW4-0

Thanks for everything Elwyn.
The "all preorders" was a generalization for "the peak of a steep Gauss curve was in one month". At least that was my explanation. What would be yours? Most people in Switzerland suddenly bought Model3s instead of VM Golfs in February?
I get his point, but it's not purely theoretical. He moved into a $6M house, he surely never has to work again, never has to worry about medical insurance, about paying the bills, and can do basically anything he wants. All without liquidating any meaningful amount of those assets and without hurting a single person's job.

I think it's nice that he's laying low, trying to find something he's passionate about, is willing to work hard, isn't a playboy, etc. He has a humble attitude. But his wealth is real, not theoretical, and he's still too detached to realize that.
Is rippling copying Uber's design ?
Ironically I just got one of these calls yesterday saying it was my "final chance" to receive my medical-grade brace.

Final chance indeed.
If you own your house outright, you can put it up as collateral on a loan. As long as your luck holds you can make money off of that asset without selling it.

(However houses, as assets, leak a lot of worth in the form of upkeep and property taxes. Most times it’s better than rent, but not in all scenarios. And getting a cheaper house and investing the rest often gets better returns, once all costs and inflation are accounted for.)
1) You don't need to personally maintain your local resolver.
The OS can do this for you. Linux+systemd and OpenBSD already come with this out-of-the-box, and macOS and Windows could feasible do this as well. (IIRC some macOS services already rely on an internal caching resolver, anyhow.) OpenBSD 6.5 almost shipped with DNSSEC verification enabled by default but they decided at the last moment that it still caused a few too many headaches.

2) DNSSEC isn't a panacea and there are absolutely problems with depending on it. And of course it doesn't directly address the confidentiality issue, either. My point is simply that too many technically-oriented people are willing to throw up their hands; they'll give centralized DoH/DoT to Google and Cloudflare a pass as a fait accompli but endlessly bikeshed the downsides to DNSSEC.

In truth DNS confidentiality is a fundamentally difficult problem because DNS is fundamentally centralized, as would be any system reliant on recognizable identifiers for its namespacing. And while we can maybe trust Cloudflare and Google today that can easily change, and there's no going back once we centralize even further--as described by another poster who described how 8.8.8.8 is ubiquitous enough at this point that it has set expectations for actual resolution behavior. It's not DoH or DoT that is the problem, per se, it's the fact that it will be enabled by default and be performed by the browser directly to Google and Cloudflare.

Authentication is solvable, however, and while more difficult to orchestrate DNSSEC usage, the result would be preferable long-term compared to making Google and Cloudflare yet another point of centralization. Even if you think DNSSEC sucks it represents at this very moment a stark choice between a whole universe of sucky options in the future versus vs the preservation of our ability to pursue better options down the road, independent of its specific merits. Would you prefer DNSCurve over DNSSEC? Once they broker most DNS traffic both Google and Cloudflare will have an even stronger incentive to promote the most baroque alternatives because additional complexity favors the large incumbents, just as large corporations, once regulation becomes inevitable, will lobby for particularly complex regulations requiring particularly costly compliance as a barrier to competition.

And, again, it doesn't require you to necessarily do anything. You don't need to be a mechanic to understand the value in preserving the viability of being a mechanic.
This is the most readable webpage I have seen for a while. The combination of background colour, black font, font face and line height make for an extremely readable page. Far better than the popular but varyingly unreadable white background and gray text.

That ECT is still around after all this time, speaks to its effectiveness, despite some of the vehement comments on this page.
Most forms of treatment, in terms of therapy, psychiatric medication, or more invasive options, cease to be effective when they're removed, eventually.

ECT and ketamine, for example, are sometimes found to be effective for O(months) after initial more frequent treatment, while most of the psychiatric meds you run through earlier if you're pursuing that type of treatment take weeks to become effective (or not), weeks to stop, and the beneficial effects often stop much sooner than the side effects after taking them (...if they stop at all, in some cases).

ECT can and often does do lasting damage. It should not be used lightly. But singling out ECT for being a recurring treatment seems unreasonable when the other avenues of treatment, both behavioral and otherwise, have the same caveat.
How to Maintain Your Work-Life Balance as an Entrepreneur
It does look promising, but it also seems like it has yet to get to the point of working "just about as well as Alexa/Echo/etc." – which means it's an open question whether it will be able to.
To explain: My wife founded a startup and owns it. But we both worked really hard in the beginning, and I've lost quite some income as an opportunity. So the value of Amazon if this is the same rightfully to some part belongs to his wife and that part not "his" to lose.
Xkcd: M87 Black Hole Size Comparison
> Does Amazon clearly says that everything you say to Alexa will be recorded and reviewed by its employees?

Thing is, they can't possibly review everything. Tagging is hard. The taggers can accomplish 1000 data points per day, as the article says. They can only cover a tiny portion of the Alexa data, and probably they use some algorithm to select which part would benefit the model most.
But the new startup wouldn't yet or might not ever be worth anything and so you just gave up your steady paycheck for a chance to sue for a small percentage of possibly nothing.
And from which CDN?
This makes sense to me. There are over 10,000 open bugs on Core and over 10,000 open bugs on Firefox, not to mention Dev tools and mobile versions.

If switching to Chromium, Mozilla could focus on

* standards

* Mozilla accounts integration instead of Google (including extensions store)

* important features such as enabling extensions on mobile
> Have you ever had someone close to you commit suicide?

Yes. My girlfriend who lived with me for several years.

> If so, is that truly a better outcome than undergoing ECT?

Yes, absolutely, for the reasons imperio59 and others have already described. You don't solve mental issues by injuring the brain until they the symptoms are no longer obvious to outside observers.

Also, using this type of emotional manipulation that presupposes the false dichotomy of "ECT or suicide" is highly offensive. There are many potential options, and you do not know what someone will do with or without any particular "treatment".
As a German, so would I. Because thats news to me.
The algo that made the black hole image was led by MIT grad student Katie Bouman
Katie Bouman's 2017 TED video explaining how the image was taken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIvezCVcsYs
When all the major parties have completely stopped serving your interests, following big media is pointless as it neglects the minor parties. You need to research it yourself or subscribe to fringe media, and you have more time to do that and are better informed if you don't waste your time with big media.
Implementing and maintaining the code in the browser that manages the local BLE channel to a FIDO authenticator is unfortunately a significant undertaking.

We (the team behind this at Google) work actively with FIDO and the W3C on the open standards behind this so that other browsers can support this as well in the future.
youmightnotneedjquery.com is often held up as an example of why jQuery is obsolete, but if you look at the examples a bit more closely, you'll notice problems.

I spent all of five minutes glancing through the example list and noticed their `replaceWith` doesn't provide the functionality that jQuery offers -- it doesn't take into account event handlers bound to DOM elements. Also, their `extend` does a shallow merge, not a deep merge. Furthermore, the YMNNJ examples are often far more verbose and less expressive than the jQuery examples.

I don't particularly understand the rush to rip jQuery out of everything. It seems like a lot of people are doing it just because it's the trending thing to do. There are some things that jQuery does very well -- even in today's world where modern web dev is dominated by SPA components.

I'm the maintainer of https://github.com/elliotnb/observable-slim and https://github.com/elliotnb/nimbly -- the latter of which is an SPA component framework whose core requires jQuery. It uses jQuery to update DOM nodes with `replaceWith`, merge deeply nested objects with `extend`, among other things. Nimbly components are not required to use jQuery -- only the framework core uses it. Aside from the eliminating the extra 69KB footprint from adding jQuery slim min, I don't see any reason to rush to rip jQuery out of the Nimbly core. On the contrary, using jQuery helped us get the framework built faster and helped us keep the code expressive and easy-to-follow.
I like it! Can definitely see myself using it.

The only issue I am having inputting some test data is that the category scrolling doesn't seem to be working properly for me. If I go above 3 categories, things aren't properly visible/scrollable (13" MBP).
i'll do you one better - when will google's broken AI accidentally shut down YOUR infrastructure?

Remediation? That's a cost center that google has automated away

https://www.programmableweb.com/news/google-clouds-threat-to...
Website looks like classic old-school macOS