skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I just noticed I typed "SMS 2FA". My bad! In that case, you are correct, but in my particular case I lost all data related to Google Authenticator, including the shared secret. Customer service refused to help, despite having had the same phone number, because it was not SMS-based 2FA. Sorry! I should not get on HN when so mentally exhausted. :(
If you don't dislike videos then these "Foundations of Programming Languages" videos seems nice: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpSoGwyH5yHHvQut3x6c_2g/pla...
I am not a lawyer or financial advisor. But I’ve heard that you can’t be sent to collections if you make a good faith attempt to pay your (medical) bill. Which in practice might mean you just pay $5 while you wait for the itemization
I resisted. Management insisted.

Good thing it was a non public app instead of a blog
> That's the tie-in with prisoner's dilemma, you see?

I feel like I should point out that the example I posted differs from the classic prisoner's dilemma by making the differential utility of moving to the defect, defect state negative for both parties. Normally, defection improves the defector's utility, so that space would be something like (3,3).

Still game theory though.
Did you try paying a taxi? Well that's the "real" cost.
Or "The Army will pay you for ..."
Oh, and not to forget, they are also implicated in bribing doctors to overprescribe their opioids to people.
Also Microsoft is working on Age of Empires IV which will be huge.
> In the no policy baseline temperature rises by 3.66°C by 2100, resulting in global GDP loss of 2.6% (5-95% percentile range 0.5–8.2%), as compared with 0.3% (0.1–0.5%) by 2100 in the 1.5°C scenario and 0.5% (0.1–1.0%) in the 2°C scenario.

https://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_chapter3.pdf
The likely reason they're using phones, not keycards, is because students would be more likely to let their buddy hold onto their keycard than their phone. A phone is more personal/sensitive and the stress of being without it for even a short period of time doubtlessly reduces the incidence rate of 'fraud.'
Disclosure: I work for Microsoft but not on OneDrive or Office or any of that stuff.

I love Dropbox (well, OLD Dropbox, I do not like the new desktop app at all) and have been a paying user basically since you could pay to use it (and a general user since it launched in what, 2007? 2008?), but Steve Jobs wasn't wrong. The original service Dropbox offered has indeed become a commodity. Dropbox (like Box before it), has had to pivot into other areas like "collaboration" and has had to change its focus from consumers to small business/enterprise in order to grow, and even then, it's struggling.

I don't actually think MoviePass and Dropbox are that analogous though. Sure, both are middlemen (or "features") and reliant on their potential competitors, but Dropbox's value prop strikes me as better.

MoviePass could have licensed its technology around geo-fencing/ticket-buying to theater chains so they could do their own subscriptions -- the impact wouldn't be as big, but there is a services story there. But MoviePass is always tied directly to the theater chains and the margins there aren't negotiable and won't change. Whereas Dropbox might be reliant to an extent by the OS makers it supports -- and Apple/Google/Microsoft might be able to theoretically build in better native integration with their services vs Dropbox -- but Dropbox can still come up with solutions and be elegant and cross-platform in a way that is better than the platform options. Whereas MoviePass can't do anything unless it wanted to try to start its own theater chain.
When I first heard that states were looking to confiscate $5B from the Sackler family, I was pleasantly surprised, only to find out that they’re worth more than $13B.

As long as the financial punishment don’t outpace this kind of behavior among the wealthy, it’s really just a tax on them.
There is an art to navigating specialist care at Kaiser for sure. Personally I don't think you are likely to have a significantly worse experience at Kaiser than you would with the average Dr, but you will also never have the _best_ experience. You do have to know when to be pushy and when to demand a different specialist.

That said, a lot of the reason the specialists costs are lower at Kaiser than other offices is because they don't all have their own little office and staff. Many specialists in the US are expensive because they have to have a secretary and an accountant, etc. At Kaiser they are just part of the system, so the costs look a lot lower.
Frictionless systems run open-loop.

Lacking feedback, they go unstable.

Nothing about the Information Age makes it immune.

The sun also rises on the east.
Yeah, I imagine it would be hard to do _unless_ the hiring org explicitely wanted to and put effort into figuring out how to make it (outside of acquhire). Honestly I would rather have the individuals pick the people they want to work with over the company picking a team. Not sure about you but I've only wanted to work with part of every team I've been on (or managed for that matter)
> Or maybe you think selecting actually copies text? It only causes the program to tell the X server that it holds the PRIMARY selection. No text is actually copied until you paste it.

It's not copied to a clipboard? So if the text I selected goes away before I paste, I can no longer paste? Great.

> I really don't see the benefit of requiring an extra step to indicate that you want to copy, much less from a different device. Do you often find it a problem that it's done automatically? Like do you often select foo, then select bar, and want to paste foo? That's probably the only benefit Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V has over PRIMARY selection.

Sometimes I just select things, and don't want them etched into my clipboard. Sometimes I want to paste over existing text, like you said. Sometimes I want to copy non-text things. Sometimes I'm dragging things around and don't want that messing with my clipboard. And I don't want an errant click, or a click intending to menu/scroll, to cause me to paste whatever happens to be on my clipboard.

And I almost never copy and paste text without using the keyboard to do other things too, so I don't really see why you think it's a benefit that the copy/paste itself only needs one device.
I respect Snowden's ability to clearly articulate his position. I look forward to his book. And unlike the somewhat polarizing discussions of others, I found his statement on the difference to between intelligence and the actions of covert action, propaganda, and influence to be quite reasonable. In much the same way that accounting systems suggest you firewall the people who can sign checks from the people who can enter legitimate expenses to prevent embezzlement, the 'rules' in an intelligence agency have to firewall the collection and analysis of intelligence from the operational abilities on the other side.

We see this is civil intelligence agencies where police officers (who are the operational end of law enforcement) are given direct access to intelligence sources (from places like Palintir) and then abuse that relationship to collect intelligence on enemies (like ex spouses) in order to inform how they can operate against them.

A more effective system is to put a strong firewall between the intelligence and the operator so that there is always documentation when operations requests intelligence information and the justification given for that collection. It creates an auditable paper trail that allows for a prosecutorial effort to be mounted against bad actors.

As one person put it, watching the watchers only works if you have a record of everything they have done that can be authenticated. Such a system would log every piece of intelligence an analyst received, and with a check in place to validate a 'need to know' for things like a target's spouses nude photos, your auditors could weed out bad actors in the pipeline. That is the sort of structure that makes institutions stable and more difficult to corrupt. Processes that survive execution with a number of bad actors.
yeah this is their business model I would guess. It's actually pretty smart and might work.
Originally the State's Attornies were fighting for a significant portion of the settlement to come from their personal wealth and not the company. Family's offer was just company assets and none of their personal wealth.
I use to do this (with an "EOM" on the end) but gmail doesn't lend itself well to this.
Regulations criminalizing "product substitution" for healthcare products and foods are also in order.
The brain is more like SIMD than multicore processing, but I think a better analogy is a FPGA; it can do heterogenous instructions, but switching from one task to another is a crushingly expensive stop-the-world affair.
A friend says the healthiest he ever was, was delivering mail during his PhD.

- Wake up early -- not too many chances for late-night drinking then feeling bad about it.

- Walk a long way, whatever the weather. The post office supplied excellent waterproofs (this is Denmark).

- Walk up so many stairs. Many apartment buildings have the letter boxes in each apartment's door.

- Occasionally run away from a dog.
Is it usual to play US billiards on a pool-sized table?

I've played a fair bit of snooker and billiards (English billiards in US terms), and it's always been played on a full size snooker table. That's 12ft by 6ft.
This is confusing as hell.

So they are using financial records to claim that they are hiding assets...their evidence for this is...the financial records...that they have...already. How does that work?

And they went to the trouble of briefing against the Sacklers but don't explain what information they don't have already or aren't being given (i.e. why they believe something is being hidden). They just say: we have the records, boy there is a lot of them, we haven't gone through them all...but we know they aren't complete...the bois working hard there.

And why is the punishment related to individual wealth at all? Are limited liability companies not really limited when a state govt laywer changes their mind? If someone breaks the law then charge the person who breaks the law (the point here is a headline for a politican...which is unfortunate given that some people at the company were clearly acting improperly).

Also, transferring money to a Swiss bank account is not against the law. The lawyer quoted says it was moved offshore to "conceal" the source of money...that isn't how money laundering works. You need to move it to an account that won't report to the US authorities..this doesn't exist in Switzerland or anywhere in the world (a disadvantage of weak libel laws, I am pretty sure this would be actionable in Commonwealth law systems given how obviously erroneous and misleading the statement is).

The whole lawyer/politician thing in the US is entertaining as an outsider. It is utterly bizarre when considered using any kind of logic.
Very interesting! Where could I learn more about this, in particular how to run my own experiments growing plants with the 17 elements and so on? Also, have you looked into aeroponics as well?
I have very good insurance by US standards through my FAANG employer. My son recently got a full body reaction to poison oak exposure. No hospitalization, just a couple dermatologist visits, 30 minutes each.

After insurance paid its portion, I got a bill for $800 in out-of-pocket charges.
I wish more news site articles would practice this. So many times I'm scanning the damn thing for the bottom line to decide if I want to read all the waffle or not.
They should be absolutely bankrupted. And criminally prosecuted.
Energy (and LOTS OF IT!) is what is required to ship something from the Earth to the Moon. These articles blithely mention 'solar energy' except that they very carefully don't examine just how much energy would be required.

We'd need hundreds of square miles of solar collectors to get anywhere near the amount of energy required. If that was easy we'd already have that happening today.
> It's not a standard, it's the same as TLDR

It is a standard, see elsewhere on this discussion.
I found this on supplements that can cause kidney harm. Seems it can happen even absent kidney disease.

https://www.consumerlab.com/amp/answers/can-taking-a-lot-of-...
Same experience here: routine care is ok, emergency care is great, hospital also pretty good, but trying to get them to refer you to proper specialist and figure out what's wrong when you yourself don't know it (e.g. not a cold or broken leg when it's obvious but kinds of conditions where you may need to ask several specialists to figure it out) is a long uphill battle and they are very reluctant to cooperate. It's a bureaucracy which likes doing what they know and hates complex cases and exceptions.
I second this. It can be played with a very modest laptop, also.
They tried that before the nineteenth century and it stymied progress. Imagine multiplying just two-digit numbers without any notation.
Do You Micromanage Your Team? Reasons to Break the Habit
I thought about that as well. I guess there are any number of answers and maybe they did check the ponds and couldn't see anything -- it was visible on google maps for 12 years and nobody spotted it so it couldn't have been that easy to see from the shore.
If artisanal, hand-crafted, built-to-spec, lacquered organizers became a big enough business, there will be, before the year is out, a school in Vietnam that will train thousands of people how to build them, by hand, to-spec, artisanally for <$1/hour.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)
Machine Learning Will Revolutionize Software Development
> If there is something specific you would like people to do, please do go ahead and advocate for it.

Asking someone to tell you what you're supposed to do defeats the purpose of participating, which was kind of the point the OP was making.
Bloons, despite the goofy aesthetic, is probably the most balanced and polished tower-defense game I've ever played, and mobile/tablet is its primary platform
Zero-K would be my RTS recommendation (it's open source!): https://zero-k.info/

For ARPGs, the elephant in the room is Path of Exile: https://www.pathofexile.com/

Neither is really viable for mobile, but I didn't quite catch whether that was a major criterion for you.
> She's a woman, she's young, she's autistic. She faces a triple-whammy of discrimination because of that.

...No she does not. In this context, one would argue that, on the contrary she benefits from these. Would she have had the same journey, had she been a 50 year old "regular" (non autistic) man?
No one would have cared.
I think about this a lot, and I call it "atomic messaging" in my head. You need to be able to address the message in full as if it were a pop up. (As messages often are via notifications) If the message requires follow up for clarity it's not atomic enough.

Example:

Did you ask him if what the results were? -> Did you ask Jim what the results of the 2019 Survey are?

It's really helped me avoid being that person, and I've asked it of others with varying results.
Generally, these excessive bills are, to put it mildly, of questionable legality. If you complain, they assume you're the type with enough savvy to maybe sue them, so they'll give in to placate you. And yet they do this anyway, knowing that some people will not properly contest the bill.

See also the US unemployment benefits situation, where many employers will contest an unemployment insurance claim by default even when the worker is actually eligible, in the hopes that some workers will not navigate the bureaucracy well enough to fight back. Because of the weakness of their case, however, they will then back down as soon as their denial is challenged.
I once worked at a place full of Agile cultists, including a bunch of "certified" "coaches." They spent about 1/4th of the time in planning meetings, retros, grooming sessions, sending emails about updating percentage complete on jira tickets, etc.

They made some of the dumbest technical decisions I have ever seen, were perpetually rewriting things, changing core APIs, breaking other parts of the system. The stuff barely worked, and this was after 5 years and dozens and dozens of developers.

The place was so dysfunctional, you could not even create your own branch in source control. You had to request it from the IT group that maintained the "enterprise" SCM server. The IT groups were doing their own form of Agile, so these requests could take weeks.

Truly awful.
I think Starcraft was actually part of what pushed people away from the RTS genre and into MOBAs. Blizzard deliberately made WC3 and then SC2 much faster-paced and more micro-based variants of their predecessors. Then they started pushing the e-sports angle, which in my opinion made it even less about the traditional strategy elements of RTS and more about APS, multi-tasking, ability matching, etc.

MOBAs are then the natural step from fast-paced micro-heavy RTS - strip out the base building part and make it 100% about micro, abilities, and squad control. It's the evolution of what happens when RTS gets ADD. In a way, I think Blizzard basically gave kids candy instead of vegetables and now the mainstream player attention span isn't there for traditional RTS games anymore.
This is literally the opposite of the agile manifesto and the original intent and the origins from Lean manufacturing.

Take a look at original agile folks who discuss this extensively on twitter.

Look at John Cutler's incredible blog posts: https://medium.com/@johnpcutler
I think the evolution is Waterfall to Agile to DevOps.

1. Waterfall is a cycle time of weeks

2. Agile is a cycle time of days

3. DevOps is the same cycle time as agile but delivering the the user instead of just showing a demo at the end of a sprint.
Coming from Physics to Medicine this was one of my main frustrations: how could they possibly know the mechanisms so well in advance of the experiment?! These cells are soup! Now that I am in this world, I think the problem is implicitly acknowledged from top to bottom and whats really amazing is how much they, we, really have figured out by persistently, billions of times over, asking dumb, binary questions.
I feel like the difference is that Vale actively destroys forests, and Salgado wanted to rebuild a forest, the damage and the good are related. Epstein and Media Lab don't share that same relation.
HyperRogue 11.2: Thurston Geometries
Woman's DNA test identifies her anonymous cord-blood cell donor
That's interesting. I haven't read any of the yellow vest comment threads on HN.

Are there people posting in this thread who were active in the Yellow vest threads?
I play older games, the ones without a forced online requirement or telemetry.

I wonder if this colors the author's statistics, because he is getting his statistics from games that collect them.

I have a library of steam games I downloaded then have been playing in offline mode for quite some time.

free to play? (grind or pay) bah.

I would love to hear people's suggestions for favorite offline games.
I think buying swag from startups to sell after they fail would be a better business model than the moviepass model.

This was a classic case of, “we lose money on every sale, so we’re dropping prices to make up for it in volume.” EVERYONE knew this was a bad idea, but enough B.S. thrown into a slide deck convinced enough investors that this was a smart gamble and not a clearly dumb one. Maybe the insiders knew something that everyone else didn’t, or maybe they were pitching a quick exit, or possibly just lying to their investors. Maybe in a parallel universe they pulled it off.

But I’m still thinking how cool it would be to have a collection on vintage/retro T-shirts from failed startups. You could even have a subscription plan if it got big enough, or you could buy “options” from startups to buy their remaining swag for a discount if they ever went under.
But why does rotation work as a model of complex numbers? It's (mathe)magical!
While there are many benefits to unfettered trade, a downside is lack of quality control of the inputs into the system. Garbage in, Garbage out...
That's a huge amount of negative, and highly inaccurate, opinion of someone you claim to have paid very little attention to. Yet you've presented it backwards.

She has made a point of never travelling by air. All her journeys within Europe have been by rail. She went because as the schools strikes spread across Europe, she has been invited. She crossed the Atlantic to next week's UN summit, as a racing yacht which was going to make the journey anyway, offered her a place on board.

Governments around Europe and the EU parliament have again invited her to speak. So she has.

So what to do, tell them all to piss off?
I've been meaning to cash in on this for a while.

Too bad that I overcomplicate everything I try to do and accomplish nothing...

Anyway, great post! This guy is very right, hopefully we start getting good strategy games soon.
I'm in agreement with you.

While they might be rich, reprehensible people who made money by selling legal, but highly addictive drugs - its not as if they tried to pull money out just before a huge liability came up.
It might be that a blunt refusal would look bad in court if the billed party took them there.
Cinépolis Cine Club Standard
Setting an expression equal to 0 is quite standard form.
> Some people from Relic split off to found Blackbird Interactive. They made a prequel to Homeworld which is apparently really good. They’re now also working on Homeworld 3.

Said prequel is Deserts of Kharak, and is indeed quite good. Am replaying it right now, and despite being land-based and 2D rather than space-based and 3D, it still feels like the original Homeworld in terms of pacing and strategy.
Thank you very much for your answers and thoughts about my many questions! I hope you will go on to write more about the subject. Most of my questions relate in some way to my last time setting up a new network about 2 years ago. At the time I found that each question relating to certs seemed to lead me to two more questions or some ambiguity and I kind of forgot how all the problems ended up somewhat interlinked and related to this non-x509 cert format and/or selecting x509 or gpg models of token use.

It looks like there is some support in both keygen and ssh-agent at least for combining a cert file with a pkcs11 key and maybe I can work out how to get custom format in and out of pkcs15 storage. The situation with gpg card applet and gpg-agent ssh support looks like it may be similar..

My general view is that a smartcard with a non-extractable key, corresponding x509 cert, and pin manages the minimal something you have, know, and identity in the only way that everyone at least intended to support at some point. I.e. ssh actually works well with it using the raw public key, as client certs pkcs11 should work with the browsers, some of the vpn implementations have pkcs11 support.. I think even kerberos should be able to bootstrap identity from it with pk-init. All the other applets combined into commercial keys for MFA are all very interesting but tend to each be piecemeal in protocols they could be used for.
I naturally write in an inductive style, data+evidence followed by conclusion. And gosh darn, don't I just feel brilliant when, after I've laid out all my evidence and my deserving reader has been inevitably led to the only possible conclusion, mine, they agree with the only possible conclusion, mine. My reader is so lucky to have me as a writer.

Well, at least I was made aware of this particular conceit by some rhet profs at Berkeley. But really, anyone, myself included, who writes inductively in a professional setting should be fired for having wasted their readers' time. Luckily, HN is not a professional setting.
this was a common msft corp email technique in the 90s. it worked really well<eom>
All of my fishing weights and some lures have these warnings. It’s because of lead. I certainly don’t put them in my mouth and neither should you.

Shower heads are very concerning. Never seen those warnings.