skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about us tech users, that "know what it takes" do actually communicate that it takes something like 2FA to properly secure an account?

Instead, we are here looking for ways how Google could fix people's tendency to opt-out of additional security.

Because contrary to your claim, most bigger online services these days absolutely do guide and nudge their users into setting up 2FA, because adding a legit phone number to an account makes that account data that much more valuable for selling ads [0].

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/08/twitter-admits-it-used-two...
Looks like folks that believe they are smart and not rich love to side with such articles.

Successful people might be LUCKIEST, but it's not mostly luck.

If you wish to be successful, you need more than luck, hard work, determination, grit, laser like focus, working on the right stuff, working smart, proper time management, proper project organization, scheduling and prioritization of activities will make you successful.

We can't all be billionaires, but if your come from a family making an annual wage of $40k with a net worth of $0 to $10k and you one day are making $100k+ and have a net worth of $500k or a million, you are successful. Success is relative to where you start from.

It's true that some have a head start, but it is what it is. Anyone in the western hemisphere who is healthy and has their freedom can really move themselves forward if they are willing to work and apply themselves.

It's the uncomfortable truth, but the sooner you embrace it the sooner you can get on the right path if you're not already on it.
No, I walked up to the taxi booth and was in a car faster than I could have pulled out the lyft app.

The theme parks have a horrible ride-share setup and recently Universal moved ride share pickups to their parking garage roof which has made the problem even worse. I literally waited an hour for a ride the night before which is why I decided the next day to just get a taxi.
Wouldn't unions at Google be bad. If unions imposed rules guaranteeing seniority benefits/tenure rules that would make it harder for younger workers.

I am a fan of unions for blue collar work but unions/labor orgs for higher pay organizations seem to be bad because they prevent foreign workers from entering and they make it harder for young people.
This is great! Thank you for sharing!
I just tried this and the first 2 results matched up, but the rest were different. And not just ordering (on the first page at least) — DuckDuckGo had some Bing didn't, and vice versa.
We Never Paid for Journalism
I guess that makes sense, but it strikes me as awfully selfish to try to pressure someone into maintaining a poorer quality of life to fulfill one's own sense of identity. It doesn't say good things about those people, and I would have though they of all people would want the fewest people to suffer what they do.
Torguard is contesting the extent of their breach: https://torguard.net/blog/why-torguards-network-is-secure-af...
Tech companies don't necessarily spend more on computing resources than non-tech companies. The article says they had 200,000 servers in 60 datacenters. That is certainly more than most tech companies, and is not surprising. A large bank probably has more computing needs than someone like Lyft.
No GPU acceleration was a big issue when I tried it.
What tool is this for? Sed?

I've copy pasted it before, but i think you just made the syntax click
Uber/Lyft took off because they were MUCH cheaper than taxis for a while - plus taxi drivers kind of gave themselves a bad reputation. Seems we've come full circle.
Honestly, trust this is bad because we said so is not a logical response. At least hot link to the opinion of why.
Maybe it's one of things where there's hundreds of "dedicated server providers" but really it's all the same thing just rebranded/resold, sometimes under one entity[0]. I've seen this rebrand/resell behavior with proxy services, people search engines, etc. I don't know much about VPN providers but I'm guessing they share or pipe into each other since there's so many of them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_International_Grou...
I will follow, unfortunately :(
He's trying to hide his racism.
In some states tipping is on top of minimum wage.
This use of expensive surplus hw reminds me of the nsa@home project

http://nsa.unaligned.org/
Git Tricks: Avoiding merge when dealing with remote conflicts
I think victimless crimes are kinda dangerous... THE STATE vs SO-AND-SO... Okay, yes, we need traffic laws, but some the people on the receiving end of their traffic violation should have some say. Did they feel endangered? Did they feel wronged? Or, was it justifiable?
The drug was is another example of the state vs so-and-so. The victims are somehow the users, but they're also the defendants. So, can they drop the charges against themselves?
Maybe I'm confused with what you're saying, please correct me where I misinterpret what you mean.

On a global scale, the sea-level is rising [1] and the sea-level increase is itself increasing (i.e. accelerating). This can also be seen in [1]. That does NOT mean that the change is uniform over the globe. You can check your locale here [2] (and confirm that Sweden's sea level is getting lower, the Netherlands slightly rising).

Globally, sea level rise IS accelerating [3].

Coming back to your claim that "if sea level rise is accelerating somewhere on the planet, it should be accelerating everywhere". Please explain why there could not be some (the Netherlands? hypothetical?) place where the the sea level rise does not increase even if more water is added to the system? This IS possible but the water must go somewhere else, i.e. the acceleration will be stronger in other regions (for example, Manilla).

[1] https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/

[2] https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.html

[3] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/new-study-finds-se...
Most of the cloud providers are PCI compliant: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/pci-dss-level-1-faqs/
I immediatly started singing the Spam song in my head but replaced Spam with State. Lovely State! Wonderful State!

I actually prefer the old days: turn the thing off and walk away. Screw state.
Playing devils advocate here: I think the reasoning behind it could be argued that if people dont know which intersections have red light cameras, they are more likely to not run reds at any intersection just in case. Similar to the idea behind [Panopticon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon). If the cameras were clearly labeled people might run reds in unlabeled intersections.
> She grew up on a farm, how is she supposed to understand this stuff.

I'm sure it wasn't your intention but that's quite insulting. Just because someone didn't grow up with technology doesn't mean they can't learn and understand it. Farmers especially since they're very DIY and resourceful.
Note that without significant shielding, the sun will make you very sick or kill you.
Isn't the posting of the article itself in breach of those violations?
Is it impossible to discuss the merit of an article without stating "This is too far right"????
They didn't miss it, they saw it as a threat to be stomped.

They almost succeeded, but Google would've canned their game eventually. Believe it or not, "free stuff" is popular.
Yeah, but this semantic problem has deeper ramifications. Since 98% of people who want an explanation of music get instead stuck down a rabbit-hole of culturally-biased music-pattern jargon/notation stuff, they don't know what they are missing. The market doesn't recognize its failure. And teachers don't learn that there even exists better insights to offer.

The core point: I can't just tell someone about this semantic problem and then they are just on the right track and all is fine. Instead, even when you recognize the semantic problem, there's not a robust beginner-oriented base of literature for music cognition. The semantic problem is an actual obstacle to the prosperity of the better approach that I'm suggesting deserves to be recognized as "music theory".
Not to start an argument, but that's easy to say when you have a comfortable life and already experienced abundance.

You know, people of poor and underdeveloped countries have the right to aspire to a better life (and yes, that means owning more than a couple of ragged t-shirts and eat meat often than twice a month)
Sure, me too. But historically, and also literally right now, lack of economic growth leads to revolutions and protest if people are poor.
It’s an absurd statement anyway. It informs you of what other traffic is doing, where you can safely expect to maneuver in an emergency, and etc.

In one case, I’d say checking my rearview was worth thousands of dollars and maybe three lives. When approaching a crosswalk and reducing my speed to stop for pedestrians I saw clearly the guy behind me wasn’t going to stop (he maintained his speed and was looking down, probably texting). I honked and flashed to warn the pedestrians who stayed out of the crosswalk. Then I took my foot off the brake as the other car hit me. The damage was minimal because I just let him push me. I pulled into a nearby parking lot. The other guy took off without stopping. It was a new car so no rear plate.

If I hadn’t looked I’d have tried to stop, been pushed into the pedestrians anyway unless they noticed on their own, and my car would likely have been totaled.
Most likely what happens when Windows can't restore state from sleep/suspend and you have to delete the state file and do a normal boot. Though hopefully with fine grain control over what you can nuke.
Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth
Since everyone in the chain cares about expiration dates, food manufacturers aren't in the habit of commingling products with different ages. Why wouldn't they ship a pallet that's all made at the same time?
Yes! Which is why you won't hear me waste a whole lot of breath yammering about lossy compression.

I'd sure pay Spotify extra for lossless, because I'm weird in ways I'll reveal below, but I agree that people should give lossy compression a break. Well-encoded AAC and Vorbis averaging over 256 kbps are very transparent-sounding, in ways that never was possible with mp3. If I put in time, I get 5/6 right in this famous test from NPR's website[1], just because mp3 is awful and ancient.

But I double dare anyone to blind test Opus as low as ~128 and ~160 kbps and working upwards, with decent gear. Having grown up with shitty mp3s, it feels like magically good. And it's free software.

Even lossy-lossy transcoded AAC and Opus, which Youtube uses for a lot of stuff, sounds shockingly fine, most of the time, on most equipment, if the original copy was ok to begin with. All this is mostly passable, especially as background music.

That is, until you run into special circumstances, like listening attentively with halfway-decent equipment. Spotify's default normalization mode sometimes can adds dynamic compression, which sounds bad in itself. But this can make artifacts stand out in ways shouldn't (thank god for the 'quiet' setting, added sometime in 2018). This is especially true with poor source material, for example the stupidly bright 90s Led Zeppelin remasters, which still float around on tons of curated Spotify playlists, despite being superseded by really good releases.

So what I'm trying to say is that I want to maintain a music library I can pull up on any device and expect consistently good quality during playback. Take my little hobby I discussed here as an example (that is, me and my friends independently inventing the Japanese audiophile parlor/café concept) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20583900

Just because I can't hear a guitar riff getting slightly distorted or hi-hats smeared when I listen at work, doesn't mean I won't hear it with in an acoustically outstanding room with 5k worth of audio gear. This problem is very pronounced with Youtube material when there's a poor supply chain, so I won't add a bunch of random garbage from Youtube in a playlist on the tram and expect to actually enjoy it later as I'm leaning back in a proper listening room.

Spotify, on the other hand is relatively close to providing a universally sane way to access music on any device.

1 - https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/...
Weird terminology. Thanks for explaining though
Thanks, I appreciate that!

I feel you about the lights. Ultimately, I have grown to think that users should have ultimate control over the software running on their devices. If I want a light you can't disable, it should be by designing the hardware that way ... and you're still free to use a sharpie/tape/drill to modify your own hardware.

It's a fine line balancing making things difficult for creeps vs fully empowering a homeowner/caretaker to protect their castle/family how they see fit. But freedom for users to find their balance and law to punish truly bad uses are the only stable solutions... otherwise, creeps can always just use crappy products with no protections instead and you, the regular person, get stuck with crappy restricted products.

Some poignant examples of this are the many art installations that contain Dropcams. Suddenly a bunch of them have ugly blue dots that weren't intended by the artists. Does the artist now have to visit their installations with a sharpie? It's a stupid and limiting rule change that further pushes what was once a generally useful tool into a one-trick home security pony.
The trust will come from very stringent contracts (beyond the regular contracts that other customers would use), third-party certifications that the provider achieves, and the provider being covered by certain aspects of the regulations that cover banks (or healthcare or whatever).
>There is literally a legal loophole that lets employers pay less than minimum wage on the basis that the employee will receive enough in tips to make up the difference

I thought Uber and Lyft drivers weren't employees? Even if they were, that "legal loophole" isn't a federal thing, it only exists in certain states. Where I live, the minimum wage for tipped and untipped employees is the same. I still tip, but if I tip less than 20% I know that the workers are still making a floor of $15/hour.
I didn’t know that, and in fact it’s worse: 300’ if you’re in a zone with a limit of at least 50mph.

https://codes.findlaw.com/in/title-9-motor-vehicles/in-code-...
Crystal Ball Gazing: IBM’s Vision for the Future of Computing
The reason the article isn't accurate is that it (deliberately) fails to mention the actual reason she was fired: failure to disclose a financial conflict of interest, along with failure of any of her academic work to meet the lowest bar of academic quality after fifteen years.

Nobody took issue with her political affiliation.
Could just be where we are in the technology cycle. Using Carlota Perez terminology, in 2010 we were in the midst of Synergy for web technology and Frenzy for mobile. Now both web & mobile are nearing Maturity and whatever the next big technology cycle is still in Irruption.

If you looked at PCs from 1993-2003 you would've had a similar view. PCs from 1983-1993 underwent dramatic progress: you went from 16-color TV outputs, 64K of RAM, 8-bit CPUs, floppies, command-line interfaces, and BASIC to 24-bit color, 3D computer graphics, GUIs, 16MB of RAM, 200+ MB hard disks, 32-bit CPUs, IDEs, desktop publishing, CD-ROMs, modems and Internet access, even speech recognition and text-to-speech on some Apple machines. From 1993-2003, you had incremental progress: Microsoft won, Windows 3.1 became Win95 and then eventually Win2k, CPUs got faster, RAM and disks expanded, broadband happened, but what we used the computer for didn't change much, except for the advent of the Internet. The Internet itself was supposed to revolutionize computing, but the dot-com bust happened in 2001 and in 2003 it was still pretty much a toy. And other much-hyped developments like WebTV, VR, voice recognition, and AI had fallen flat.

There are plenty of toys that are still in Irruption now. Cryptocurrency was supposed to change the world; the bubble burst in 2018, but maybe we'll see it come back in 2020 with DeFi the way the Internet did in 2005 with social media. Drones are literal toys right now. So is VR & AR. There's been a lot of progress in computing for kids with things like Scratch, RoBlox, or Minecraft.
I started realizing something similar but with Guitar Center and Sam Ash. Guitar stores may not be as ubiquitous, but I know they're not selling out of their stock every year so I assume some must get sent back or destroyed.
OR1K Marocchino a Tomasulo Implementation
Neumann is definitely unconventional, but I don’t see how being a bit eccentric can lead to this. I’d put Musk and Thiel in the “weirdo techies” group along with Neumann, and both of their businesses are thriving.

SoftBank was just running a pump’n’dump; Pump up the company for an IPO, dump it on the market to realize the losses. Luckily, people are starting to catch on to these schemes from tech companies.

What I’m wondering is, what would we see if we analyzed Snapchat or Twitter with the same lense? Snapchat is basically dead now, yet it IPO’d at $24 billion. Once Trump is done, Twitter will die down too, and everyone will be left wondering, is this thing really worth $31 billion?
Sure you do, you’re just blending them into the rate, at a significant margin.

Cloud is awesome for companies where the capital investment needed to deliver the SLA is too expensive.

If you’re big, and you run the numbers, lots of services are better in a datacenter that you manage. Many of the early advantages of cloud tools aren’t a differentiator today. If anything, the granular billing is a nightmare to manage in many large enterprises. There’s a reason AWS heavily targets .gov customers — the Feds probably waste billions on idle services.

I’ve found that the shitty to support or known workload services are best somebody else’s problem. Email is an example of both. Most other things are trading IT complexity with accounting complexity.
So here's something I always wonder about when I see arguments that unions aren't necessary at tech companies like Google because the workers are highly compensated and presumably well-treated: if we're all sure that's objectively the case, then why should management fight unionization efforts? Aren't they confident that the union isn't going to come in and say, "Yeah, actually you guys are pretty good, carry on?" If not, why not?

And, yes, one answer is "if there are no reasonable demands to be made, the union will make unreasonable ones," and sure, that's possible. Maybe newly-unionized employees will suddenly demand double bonuses, three months' paid vacation a year, and free ice cream for life. But I'm not convinced that's the real worry.
electronic music != house or techno. kraftwerk early stuff does not sound like house or techno.
Eh, maybe before Cataclysm.
In the very beginning, it was restricted to a very, very small list of users in the military and colleges. At the time it seemed like a very useful tool and pretty fun to play with. The next phase was Mosaic and then Netscape creating the web, which also felt like a pretty neat and potentially useful toy. I remember passing around sheets of paper with URLs to type in, before there were search engines. And then it all exploded, everyone had to have it, and things changed a lot as the average user was both way less technical and way less well-behaved.

Given that, blockchain may be in a similar state to the early-middle Internet. It's out there, you can play with it, it's neat and seems useful even if for most people that practical purpose is elusive. Maybe someone has yet to create the Netscape that turns it into a must-have tech, but it might be happening as we speak.

(Edit: TCP/IP came out in 1983, and HTTP in 1990. In 1995, the year of the Netscape IPO and when everyone "knew" the web was a big deal, there were 40 million Internet users. Now there are about 32 million Bitcoin wallets. I think some of the other answers are remembering things a bit later in time, or more colored by hindsight.)

On the other hand, quantum is much farther out. The percentage of people who have used a quantum computer at all is minuscule. When it does become useful, it may be too expensive to see mass adoption for decades.
>When Järlström brought the issue to the Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying, the state board opened an investigation in 2015 and fined him $500 the following year for practicing engineering without a professional license.

What a bunch of pricks. Vogons couldn't have done any worse than the Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying.
The donor class has already picked Pete over Biden, look at fundraising hauls over the last quarter.
https://blog.namely.com/tax-reform-takes-a-bite-out-of-offic...
vs
https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/benefits/pa...

hard to tell what's accurate these days
Show HN: Tab Sharing Without Screencasting
Hi HN,

I've developed a Chrome extension that provides tab-sharing functionality without the use of screencasting.

The product works by keeping the DOM on a mirrored page in sync with the driver's display. This is achieved by listening for DOM events on the driver's page and relaying them to the mirror as display instructions (e.g. add/remove a node, change attribute, scroll page, etc.). While the mirrored page gets the DOM structure directly from their peer via a WebRTC connection, the bulk of the resources and visible content (e.g. images, fonts, stylesheets, etc.) are downloaded directly from the site being browsed.

There are two significant advantages of this technology:
1) Because each peer is rendering the same DOM with all images downloaded from the same source, they see identical, full-resolution displays of the same web page. In contrast, screencasting over limited bandwidth connections often appears as jerky, low-resolution representations.
2) As the peer-to-peer messages sent to maintain page sync tend to be small, the application does not require significant upload bandwidth and can be more performant for users with slower internet connections.

To check it out, you will need to create an account, link up with another user, and install the extension. Instructions for doing this can be found at https://www.helpoutmom.com/

I hope you give it a try and I'd be eager to hear any thoughts, suggestions, or requests!
> Also, checking behind you has minimal value for drivers.

I think I'll keep tracking who's behind me, how close, whether anyone new has appeared, whether anyone looks likely to pass me soon, and so on, because it's sure as hell been important in practice. Most notably when something goes even slightly wrong in front of me.
Mandarin and Cantonese, two of several Chinese dialects, share the same Chinese writing system based on Chinese characters. But the same character is pronounced differently depending on the dialect. So a name can be transliterated in "Cantonese way" or "Mandarin way," yes.
Would your in-laws would let a kid play with power tool too?

They are aware that someone not able to understands the danger of power tools and how to use them safely shouldn't use them. That's nothing new. Yet they still do...
Take a look at NixOS, the entire OS is declarativily defined and can be stored in git.
What're kids into these days? I could believe it, but haven't seen anything else get hot recently.
That's exactly the idea behind the revised formula. (Which is an evolution of an earlier, similar formula that only considered the time to proceed straight through.)
MemComputing Announces GPU-Acceleration for the MemCPU XPC SaaS Platform
NordVPN runs a desktop app with escalated local privileges.

Surely if they were compromised that would be the attack vector for a bad actor.