skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks everyone for the commentary. You can see my update to the post. This is not true, and `login.gov` still supports an authentication app as a second-factor.

The dialog in question is only for recovering your password, which is also an important flow to safeguard. In those cases it makes sense to use a different 2FA mechanism, so that you still have two separate factors for recovering your password. An authentication app was not an option in this dialog because it was already one of my factors.

I assumed that "Personal Key" was an authentication app, specifically in contrast to a "Security Key", and that I had to replace my 2FA option for regular logins with a different option.
How the US arrived at this critical crossroads in Afghanistan
I know of a couple banking apps that use this. super handy!
Thanks! For the record: I added the sentence after "No, thank you" after I got a few downvotes. And please don't call them idiotic. It might be they truly believe in the necessity of someone "managing" FOSS projects and their authors.
ATF shop (loosely-affiliated?): https://www.apifederal.com/atf/default.aspx
Is there a difference between untruthful and lying? They seem perfectly synonymous yet I see that one all the time
It makes more sense than generating bytecode since your “compiler” doesn’t need to comply to runtime changes other than high level API compatibility and you can leverage the performance improvements of which ever Java compiler is used to produce the final bytecode.
Tesla Is Trying to Patent Lasers That Can Clean the Glass on Its Cars
I tried to read it but didn't get the answer, I did get the good question: WTF happened in 1971?

I have a dark suspicion that it has something to do with the rise of computers, of information economy. When some people can take advantage of computers and others can't that leads to income disparity.
It's more school and getting hired in FAANG or other big tech startups =)
Off-the-shelf LEDs optical wireless communication with PJON
Physical in-store shopping has always been a nightmare for me. Too many people moving in too many random directions, most of them oblivious or actively hostile to those around them. I can feel the waves of frustration and anxiety of everyone around me. I'm one of those people that goes to a store only when they really need something, and I plan it out like a bank heist. Park here, away from everyone else, keep my head down, go this route to get to thing X, see if there is anything there that would remotely work for me, grab it if there is, head directly to the checkout farthest away from the mass of humanity jockeying for position, pay quickly, exit quickly, start to breathe a sigh of relief as I head for the car. I don't know how I got this way, I'm not antisocial in most other contexts, but for me shopping has been a terrible experience and online shopping has been a blessing.

Probably because of my "smash-and-grab" shopping routine, I don't spend much time searching for that Perfect Item. I just buy something that looks reasonable and hope for the best. If I have bought enough of that kind of item to have a brand preference or non-preference, I would take that into account. If I were wanting to buy some gloves, I'd first go to Amazon (sorry) and search for leather gloves or whatever. I'd maybe use the checkboxes on the left to narrow it down. I'd look at maybe four different choices, and pick one. Sometime a day or two later I'd wonder what was in the box, because I would have forgotten about the whole experience already.

My shopping-phobia or whatever it is has conditioned me to not buy too many things, even now where online shopping makes it stress-free. Which is probably a good thing, because I'm always trying to downsize anyway thinking I have too much crap.
There are some real gems here. "Smooth Operator" lip balm, a security officer bear, "In God We Trust / All Others We Monitor", a .50-cal bottle opener, "Admit Nothing Deny Everything", "Beware Of Female Spy", "Screen When Confronted", etc.

The NSA gift shop is much more tame in comparison. Have some nice shot glasses from them (won my first at a Defcon panel when everyone was too drunk to answer any questions correctly)

[1] https://www.eaamoc.com/Lip-Moisturizer-Smooth-Operator.html [2] https://www.eaamoc.com/Bear-SPO-With-Handcuffs.html [3] https://www.eaamoc.com/T-Scrn-A12-Plane-IGWT-Gy-Wh-S.html [4] https://www.eaamoc.com/Bottle-Opener-50-Cal-Gold.html [5] https://www.eaamoc.com/Btl-Scrn-ANDE-Gunmetal-Swell-17oz.htm... [6] https://www.eaamoc.com/Btl-Beware-of-Female-Spy-Pink-17-oz.h... [7] https://www.eaamoc.com/Btl-Scrn-When-Confronted.html
More info here: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON/tree/master/src/strategies/An...
AngelList study concludes you should invest on AngelList.
This is interesting... maybe it's fractal-like? Maybe there are these microcosm(oses,a) that experience these failures of communication and cooperation?

Even if we're being cynical, I think we should still be mindful that (usually) large corporations have dysfunctionaly dynamics. (This is not news, obviously.)
I use Vim to code, but it took me a lot of time to find to configure it. My primary need when coding is quick jump to symbol definition, and after many trial and error attempts, settled on the plugins `vimprj` and `indexer` in combination with Universal Ctags. Have been using this setup for years and it's proven to be stable and giving me the result I need.

But I hate Vim.

It's so fragile. Configuring it is a nightmare. One buggy plugin could cause weird behaviour in the editor, and I'd had a hard time figuring out why.

In a recent incident of this kind, I noticed that the scrolling of syntax highlihted code became horribly slow, and the cause turned out to be the new regex engine of Vim 8.

So I've compiled Vim 7.4 from scratch, and intend on using that version till the end of time.
By the way - my plugins are manually installed and I never upgrade them. Ever.
Lidar damages CMOS image sensor pixels due to thermal effects. Your eyes have ample cooling capability to deal with that.
Get Ready for a Slay Ride
The kinda critical thinking that makes them think working for China to throw people in deathcamps is good but working with the US government is bad?
> With a lot of Cycorp projects, it's hard to point your finger at exactly where the "AI" is happening.

Lol. It really sounds like none of the projects need Cyc. Sounds like the model is to bait smart engineers to work at an engineery company and then sell engineering consulting to companies who would never be able to land their own smart engineers.
FWIW I read it as just meaning that the AI is very impressive, but might or might not be competitive at the highest levels of play.

Like, if you took a world-class team and had them play against random opponents I'd be surprised if they lost more than one game in a hundred.

In comparison to chess, according to the ELO guidelines where a beginner has an ELO of 800, an average player is ~1500, a professional is ~2200, and only four people have a rating of ~2800, then we'd expect Magnus Carlsen to almost never lose against an average player, and to win around 99% of games against a low tier professional player.
I wouldn't be mad if the FCC standard was still 10Mb.

But I prefer it increasing the way it has been. The downlink, at least. Minimum uplink should be at least a quarter of minimum downlink, if not higher.

And I disagree that 4K only needs 10Mb. I think youtube uses about that much, and it very much does not reach the full potential of 4K. Netflix uses about 16 with HEVC, with massive amounts of server time spent optimizing every second. And they recommend your connection be 25. And if you wanted to watch a live stream of the same quality you'd need far more bandwidth to make it work.
There are non-end-of-the-world scenarios in which this is useful. For example, during the California wildfires, landline and cell service was down. During the Chicago Marathon, the crowding was so great that cellular service in downtown was very spotty, and they needed Ham Radio to carry on medical emergency communications.
The issue is intent, did they remove the watermark as a matter of input sanitization, or did they remove it to conceal their behavior. Genius claims it was the latter.
After browsing around quite a lot:

These sound effects seem remarkably well selected, recorded, isolated and categorized.

The curator(s) of this archive are really good.
We're Gamifying Our Website
Not true. He says:

> The 2019 measurements are consistent with the trend over the past decade. Outliers (i.e. isolated data points that lie well above the average) are seen throughout the record. Do not over-interpret them.

He goes on to say there's no evidence this is from methane hydrates, or permafrost:

> That is not to say that we shouldn't worry about the potential for increased methane release from melting permafrost. But there is no evidence to support breathless claims that we have e.g. crossed some "tipping point" with regard to such processes.
lol this is how its always been

We only investigated it this time due to cold war sentiments and weaponizing an obviously compromised candidate for the highest position in the land

Any other combination of this is not newsworthy, such as a PR company that happens to be in Portugal, or Rhode Island
The surprising thing is that is's only 49%. I kind of think that at least another 40% are lying, and another 10% only think their new password is substantially different ("I used uppercase instead and I incremented my trailing counter from 10 to 11!")
I couldn't downvote jly's reply to me even if I wanted to. I didn't upvote it either though. It doesn't cite any evidence and it appeared to be incorrect when I searched for evidence on my own.

See for example: Gurven, M., & Kaplan, H. (2007). Longevity Among Hunter-Gatherers: A Cross-Cultural Examination.

Population and Development Review, 33(2), 321–365.

doi:10.1111/j.1728-4457.2007.00171.x [1]

It was discussed here [2]:

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/12o4py/what_...

For the longest living group estimate, 5 year olds can expect to live to ~54, 10 year olds to 55, and even 20 year olds only have a life expectancy of 60. Life expectancy only starts approaching 70 for a hunter-gatherer who survived into his 40s.

This would put life expectancy of young adult hunter-gatherers ahead of that of young adults living in historical agricultural societies, but behind that of those living in highly developed countries in the last several decades. The life expectancy of people living in developed countries today has more than "gained back what was lost since the industrial and technological revolutions."

[1] Enter DOI into sci-hub for full text.

[2] The link to the full text of the PDF in that Reddit post is now broken, which is why I noted the DOI.
Christmas Lemmings
Justin's theory is that the design focuses on a clean (empty?) look for mobile users. And on POIs, not streets.

https://www.justinobeirne.com/what-happened-to-google-maps
A thread from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992595

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1078652
100 companies are responsible for 71% of emissions. Projects that you have listed are important but more likely only help individuals to feel that something is being fixed instead of any real impact.
All of those are mostly because any other policy would result in companion-less runs of the game. AI just isn't there yet to read and react to the situation in a way that should take such outcomes in to consideration, and arguably that effort might never be something custom tailored to a game, it'd have to be off the shelf with maybe just some tuning and/or helper hints.

Reading the player's intent would probably still be a very difficult problem, so even with the perfect knowledge of how to interact in the world they'd probably not act and react to changes in the player's intent anywhere near as well.
Amazon vests 5/15/40/40, even worse than you said.
Cisco Silicon One – first routing silicon to break 10Tbps with single ASIC
All this stuff is so obvious, why does it even need to be written down? It's hard to believe that people don't know this intuitively.

I guess there are so many highly paid bureaucrats who don't know what they're doing or why they're doing it that such basic articles have become a necessity.
The logic of risk taking (2017)
Cross Entropy and Maximum Likelihood Estimation
Venture Capital 2020 Outlook: IPOs vs. Big Tech vs. PEs
Java code is almost the same as bytecode, and is easier to debug.

That's a benefit of having a VM with JIT.
You'd need a certain sang froid to buy the Alger Hiss book https://www.eaamoc.com/Book-Alger-Hiss-Why-he-Chose.html from the company store, maybe.
Why Successful Companies Think Data First
Yes and no. The way to refute a bad comment is by respectfully providing better information, and this is very much a question of content. "This is some capitalist nonsense" obviously doesn't do that.

It may feel to you like you were refuting the GP as much as it deserved, but from the point of view of an open-minded reader who's here to learn and doesn't have a fixed position, your comment contains no information, only name-calling.

Don't forget that all this is a matter of degree. Degrees of badness matter; responding to a bad comment with a still-worse one is a step in the wrong direction.
Please see my response to Jacques, above. It's a partial rebuttal to the blog, because the blog is... in many cases "not even wrong," but it is long.
So their conclusion is based on just looking at non negative investments? If so how useful is this data? Because there is no way to practically know what investment will be a positive or negative investment. In other words, there is no way to broadly index among all non-negative investments.

The paper should have compared brodly indexing among all startups vs hand picking possible winners. This is practical and avoid any survivorship bias.
>The increased trend over the past decade is also part of a larger trend.
> So you aren't hitting some validation server on every HTTP request to validate a token.

This is not a real problem for the 99.9% case and you can add another nine if you aren't defaulting to "extreme conservative"on your risk analysis. A session token lookup in a Redis or a Postgres is completely trivial and cheap.

("But my auth service is over a network link," cries the architecture astronaut, who now has more problems and fewer solutions. Build simpler things, you almost certainly don't need more complex and you can build better solutions than JWT when you need them.)
> So there's a startup right here in the US doing exactly what we accused a foreign government of doing

Both are scummy, but there's no clear law against this IF you're not a foreign agent. Surely it's believable that the government might want to forbid foreign operatives from doing things Americans are allowed to do. A trivial example is voting.
Or just drop them as customers altogether. It may have actually been wise for the FCC to exclude them instead of forcing the company to drop them.
In the case of Outer Worlds, I don't recall having seen any ladders where it would be unsafe to pick started or finished and snap to those states over the save.

In the case of another game where someone's actually making progress up a very large structure, I can't think of any game offhand where saving in such a state has actually been allowed. However allowing a save there by necessity triggers the edited version of my statement which includes a timed state transition and safe aborts for failures in state change. Such a save would also include the current state of progression as well as the remaining limit for the timer.
I rather have the shirt:

Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms....whose bringing the chips?
I guess even in California rich privileged people like class seperation
“I don’t like to waste bytes” isn’t exactly a great reason to write off a widely accepted and deployed spec for transmitting data in a trustworthy manner and instead write your own implementation, which most likely hasn’t considered all the attack vectors the JWT (and broader JOSE) spec has considered and accounted for.

I get the motivation — and I hesitate a little bit to say this — but it’s 2019, and a few “wasted” bytes on your auth token are less than inconsequential in a world where your front-end codebase mostly like “wastes” thousands (if not millions) of bytes.

When it comes to securely transmitting data, it most often pays to lean on the work and research of others.
Big corps were hierarchical bureaucracies, but they were replaceable. Let's say that GM messed up, and didn't build cars that people wanted to buy. Well, you could buy a Ford or a Chrysler instead. You could even buy a VW or a Honda.

But if your central planning bureaucracy messes up, there's no way to bypass it to get what you want to buy.

Or was your point that workers' fulfillment is more important than consumers' satisfaction? That might be a workers' paradise, but it's a lot less nice for the consumers. But the problem is that workers and consumers are the same people. I'm not sure that it would be a net win...
It would appear that ANYONE can create an account and shop on this site.
> require between 1000 and 3000 person-years [to input all the relevant facts in the world]

Which is laughably small in retrospect. I wonder what current estimates are.
When Volkswagen did it it was a scandal. We just expect our telecom overlords to be evil I guess.
I think there are some mental health concerns at play, unfortunately.
Fortunately they tend to not just immediately go Leeroy Jenkins as soon as an enemy somewhere in the far distance goes active.

Skyrim was/is awful about that. I'd be sneaking along through a tomb, and then Lydia screams "I am sworn to carry your burdens!" and charges in, waking up a dozen draughir.
We use google drive for our knowledge management. I think this may cover a large percentage of people reading this.

I want to say, we hate Google Drive as a knowledge management solution, it is great as a document store in general, and the tools to create and edit the documents are fine - sheets, docs, etc, all good.

Primarily we use search in google drive to find things, and this has many issues. The document(s) that are found:
- Often not the current source of truth. Either they are outdated or missing information.
- Misleading or wrong. Information in many documents is just plain wrong, with drive everyone in your company can create documents and title them whatever they like, so it's often the case that a search will result in finding documents that are just incorrect.
- Confusing. Often the source of truth is found in multiple documents. You need to piece together multiple searches/documents to find the answer.
- Missing. This is also the case, the actual information you are looking for is not in a doc at all.
- Part of a large document. This can cause issues, as well as people, who do not like to modify large documents, so they often create smaller documents. They do not always link it either.
- Correct. This can happen too! They just find the right document.

Unfortunately, the problems compound one another, people will find a misleading document and spend time to fix it, leading to multiple sources of truth, for the moment. They may also find it and assume it does not exist, so they make a new doc, so it gets worse, now you have 3 docs. It goes on and on.

Some solutions that we have applied:
- Delete - Just delete a document if you find it has incorrect information. I think this is rare, nobody really feels powerful enough to delete another person's document, but it does happen.
- Banner - Type a banner at the top of the doc stating that you think this is not the source of truth. Even better, link the correct doc in that doc. This helps with people who have the wrong document bookmarked or if the wrong doc is higher in the search.
- Use folders - Move documents into folders and have users search in folders instead of search the entire drive.

They are not ideal but might help others who are using docs in this way.
A follow up, but I also wanted to highlight: plenty of typed systems (like Java Microservices) have bugs. If 100% of bugs were due to typing issues, these systems would -never- have bugs. Ever. Yet, we know that's not the case. That's another rationale for how the 1/4 to 1/3 less bugs ratio makes logical sense.
The usually social ladder puts rich men at top, women in the middle and poor men at the bottom. Sometimes described as a differences in bell curves during gender equality discussions.

Poor men, having no influence or power gets conscripted against their will.
Women, being in the middle, are exempted from conscription but can't volunteer.
Rich men, being at the top of influence and power, was exempted from conscription and also had the choice to volunteer (usually for officer or other high ranking positions).

No one denies that the small percent that makes up rich men have more influence and power with more freedom to choose during conscription. Men as a group however is both the poor and the rich. If we only look at the top then we ignore an already marginalized and vulnerable part of the population. Those at the bottom.
Doesn't reddit get a lot more traffic than craigslist though? Also craiglist I believe is not a global site?
Well this just gave me a chill down my spine. It isn't too crazy to imagine this happening.
Frankly, the most surprising thing about this article is that only 49% of people do this.

Do the other 51% sincerely try to change their passwords? Or maybe they were too scared to report the truth :P
This is doubtful. All the research I've seen points to very different story. One example:

"the expected annual probability of death for a 65-y-old hunter-gatherer is about 5.3%; in contrast, for 65-y-olds in Japan today, the chance of death is only about 0.8%.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3497824/
This. If your service is collecting aggregated analytics data from users, bytes that those users would never care to send in the first place, you can get vastly vastly better pricing on traffic by going with providers that don't care too much about high-quality peering.
IBM/Watson model.
Easy way out from complaints, eh? :D
Timed animations constrain level design. If the height of the ladder changes, the timing needs to change.
There's a relevant xkcd for everything!
CYC effectively died the day OpenCYC died. There is no way that an entity that tries to catalogue human knowledge in this way will thrive on a closed set of data, there are only so many people working there.

Just like the Encyclopedia Brittanica has found its match in WikiPedia so CYC will find its match in something open. The engine - if the comments here are to be believed as still currently relevant - is a core that may be relevant and a huge number of domain specific hacks. Let's hope sooner or later CYC management comes to their senses and revives OpenCYC.
Take the barbell strategy — make sure to exit any less liquid investments (e.g. stock), and then extract capital from the bubble by raising money. When the market crashes, use your cash to purchase cheap assets and/or failing companies, and then work towards profitability.

Absolutely do not: become a VC, work for a startup, or place your capital into some kind of ‘growth’ fund indexed to tech. Don’t buy real estate in urban areas and don’t borrow.
Cyc uses a dead-end 1980s concept of AGI (expert system ruleset) that led to the AI winter.
You should never, ever, ever type a password on a public computer.
What am I supposed to go and do? Re-freeze Siberia?
California celebrates 1M solar roofs
Well some of that falls on Congress not the 4th amendment

We need to redefine data ownership in this country, not just to curb police abuse, but to curb the abuse of corporations as well

That extends well beyond the 3rd party doctrine
"If people are taking offense to talking about things like this really shuts down their ability to think and discuss things… setting aside the fact that I don't even live in the US or the EU… well good luck to them… "

:)