skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I do know that video footage of prison cells where prisoners killed themselves does does not disappear by accident

How do you know that?

To me, this is like saying "backups of important data do not become unrecoverable by accident." Except backups (and CCTV footage) is routine, high data volume, and very usually uninteresting, so something going wrong can very easily be missed. And things can go wrong with relatively high frequency--I would not be surprised if most attempts to restore from backups failed.
I prototyped moving to aiohttp from requests/multiprocessing. The speedup was amazing. Saw something like a 60% reduction in runtime for our use case. Only reason the code hasn't gone live: we currently use requests_negotiate_sspi for authentication, which sadly isn't supported by aiohttp. Not sure if httpx supports it. Looks like it might. Planning on giving it a shot next week.
Rule number one: Nothing is real till the money hits the bank account. The rest is all foreplay.
No Its not
Possibly nothing, but in this context, to me, "sell" means sell for a profit, while "charge for access" means charge just enough to cover hosting/admin costs. For something like getting my address or driving record, that's possibly the difference between $5 and $20 per request (total guesses).
> So I don’t know where that massive insecurity is coming from.

The biggest racket that the major car companies ever pulled was tying someones identity to the car they drove.
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No. I'm just pointing out that there's a lot of conspiracy theories trying to link people who had at best tangential relationships with Epstein with his demise, but somehow manage to ignore that literally the most powerful man on planet Earth had a lot to lose from Epstein's indiscretions becoming public.

It's interesting how conspiracy theories seem to always have a very particular... 'conservative' bias.
OK, I guess that "joke" was a poor choice.

More like "wry observation".
You know what's funny? LinkedIn is supposed to be a 'professional' social network (Microsoft owned) and a friend of mine was asked to add a phone number 'For security purposes'. I knew this was suspiciously involving 2FA SMS + a bonus of spam callers and I told him to press "Not Now". Whilst the world is moving to U2F and time-sensitive codes, a security system using SMS 2FA is now equivalent to a single PC running Windows XP in a bank.

But its not just LinkedIn. Its a huge list of major companies including some FAANG ones too. Oh dear.
It's California... A friend of mine who is quite attractive and _maybe_ had an extra 10 pounds moved to Southern California for grad school, and immediately felt like she was fat and started going to the gym, whereas I had never her mention her weight before. The social environment is just that different.
I think you misunderstand: file deletions are what is slow (I don't use ZFS, my reference is WAFL, but my understanding is that all snapshotting file systems have this problem).
This wasn't a "few decades ago" it was 2015. The standards for professional events have not changed since then.
Why does that say "Epstein and Maxwell told her to have sex with" and not "had sex with, as ordered by Epstein and Maxwell" ? Did Giuffre say that the sex happened?
To avoid the appearance of impropriety, should people avoid hiring female assistants? I hope not.
> Gates had close ties to Epstein

That's an extreme exaggeration that borders on character assassination - your linked article disagrees with your setup at every step (it notes repeatedly the limited nature of his interaction with Epstein). Gates met with Epstein a few times on the premise that he claimed he could raise billions of dollars for charitable causes Gates was associated with and otherwise did not have ties to him, did not do business with him or know him on a personal level.
I'm obscenely young, but have you ever not remembered something, and then stopped thinking about it, and a day or two later the memory hit you like a train out of nowhere?

That's happened twice to me, and it's as if the brain spawned a search daemon that worked in the background and successfully returned (along with the context of the query) later. uwu Das cwazy...

Also there's no way computer analogies can't flawlessly capture neurology.
> This is a hoary old chestnut

As is the phrase "hoary old chestnut"
> And if those people revolt, then there's a "legitimate government" asking us to help them in a "police action" - not a war, God forbid! And then we train their troops and give them munitions. And if all that fails, then we send our troops to protect the "legitimate government".

And the last time this happened was... ?
Back around 2000 I tried restoring Windows from the original CD and the thing would get hacked before it could install it's updates. Eventually punted and bought a hard drive with Windows pre-installed.
Worth having a private number on a low or PAYG plan and use that for your security separate from your main mobile number.

After all, most have a spare phone and great use for those Nokia's.
Hubble launch approximately coincided - and contributed - to a rapid expansion of astronomical knowledge. All other tools, both Earth-based and space-based, since early 1990-s contributed vast heaps of data which reshaped astronomy - noticeably changing the speed of development, hence the need for distinction.
I deny you the right to put words in my mouth. Please stop misrepresenting my position and my words, trying to make it sound like they support your ideas. They don't.
There's not a lot of information on the site about the architecture or storage solutions used. Do the authors have more info about this space?
A Facebook Bug Exposed Anonymous Admins of Pages
Wonder how long they'll last...
That article describes abhorrent behavior, good lord, he should have been fired multiple times over.
I interviewed there this summer because the position/compensation offered was just too good to not consider seriously. Like, top 10% at FB kind of money, which is a lot. During the interview process, I asked many FB employees about their thoughts on FB in the news, the headlines, scandals, etc. All super smart and dedicated people, but anecdotally there was no hint of them thinking they had done anything wrong. They explained for example how Cambridge Analytica was totally overblown in the media, specifically because users opted in, and the media was just bashing them. They did say they wouldn't follow the same route again, but didn't seem to consider themselves responsible ethically/morally. I can see how one might debate whether having an opt-in absolves FB of responsibility, but it had a smell to it and didn't necessarily jive with my personal ethical framework. I did get an offer, and not necessarily for that reason ended up declining. But it parallels what you said except in May 2019. I would consider taking a job there in the future and I got the sense that they're working to turn things around, but what high level people at FB said to me largely seemed to mirror your experience many years later so I thought I'd share.
Is SMS 2FA Secure? No, I agree.

Is SMS 2FA enough for most of the people today? Yes

Is SMS a cost-benefit solution for most uses? Yes
I agree, we're clearly not understanding each other perfectly, I think this phenomenon is all too common and it's worth some mild effort to investigate where things have gone wrong.

The original comment:

> Citations to your references would be appreciated. It's the first step to overcoming the state of internet disinformation, as well as helping society overcome the fear of missing out just because someone doesn't already know your references.

This request (and it's just that, nothing more) seems reasonable.

This subsequent comment exchange:

>> All the while we've learned that they have utterly sold the company to international electioneers.

> This is disinformation, laundered with the trust of the first comment.

...specifically: "laundered with the trust of the first comment" seems like perfectly valid criticism, and arguably adds to the "onus" (or value in) for the original person to provide a proper citation, in order to minimize misunderstanding.

And then here is where I see a problem arises:

> Just disputing that a citation was required for that claim in this forum.

You are criticizing someone for saying a citation is required, but it is you that introduced the idea of it being a requirement into the conversation - which is what I pointed out (perhaps not as eloquently as I should/could have).

Your subsequent reasoning:

> I deliberately swapped so you could see how that word doesn't work

...doesn't make sense to me. Replacing the original word with a new one that has a distinctly different meaning, and then criticizing OP for the new meaning of the sentence, doesn't make sense to me.

Am I misunderstanding somehow?
I want to buy your mobile app
Game, utility, entertainment, etc.

I want to grow my app portfolio. No app is too small as long as it has some consistent usage/retention.

If you're interested in discussing, shoot me a note [ appbuyerguy@gmail.com ] with:

Category:

# of app store reviews:

App store rating:

OS (Android/iOS):

Language/Framework/Engine/Platform:

Launch Date (MM/YY):

US MAU (January 2019):

US MAU (July 2019):

US MAU (December 2019):

US MAU (MTD):

Asking Price (USD):

If your app is available on both iOS and Android, please break out the data above per OS.

You don't need to send the name of the app if you don't want to to kick off the conversation. The questions above were selected so you can kick off the conversation in an anonymous way w/o revealing the app you're interested in selling.
> The only reason you are not sold to the highest bidder was because the ceo got played.

The truth is that the only reason you aren't sold to the highest bidder is that there was no highest bidder interested in buying. Just people motivated enough to do the courting rituals required to get a peek beneath the sheets.
I’m surprised I was downvoted too.

Honestly I think the headline is attention grabbing. A much more useful headline would have been “An analysis of the vulnerabilities of 2FA over SMS”.

But the Betteridge headline is in the domain name!
Yes, she did claim that. Here's a better link:

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article233728717.html

> In the lawsuit, Giuffre claimed she was forced to have sex with a “large amount of people,” some of whom had not previously been named, including former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, former U.S. Senator George Mitchell, Hyatt hotels magnate Tom Pritzker, hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin, the late Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist Marvin Minsky, modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, Dershowitz, Prince Andrew, another unnamed prince, plus “a well-known Prime Minister.”
I studied a bit of politics, anthropology, history in my 20s. The one things that frightens me the most is that a relatively "safe" constant of pretty much all dictatorial / totalitarian / fascist / <insert_new_dystopia> regimes of the world, going back millennia, is control of information, and thereby the population.

It's one of the simplest rule of a State hostile to its citizens: the more you control information, the stronger the leash. The tighter your hold. And if cruelty is on the menu, the worse it can get with more, better, faster information.

So I thought, when Facebook really took off, "people do this now because there's this fad, this dopamine of novelty, but surely soon enough it'll recede" and I was damn wrong.

I also thought, "oh but governments with half-decent minds will undoubtedly choose to increase protection for citizens, enact "digital rights" to further the reach of the sanctity of one's "home territory" to internet, a "digital democracy" in terms of infrastructure rules so to speak, and again I was dead wrong — they're doing it the exact opposite direction, proving that the concepts were not lunatic and very much implementable, but as it turns out in the form of "digital authoritarianism".

So yeah, I'm the usual optimistic about most things, even the worst like climate change; but in this case, I know no example in history to disprove this assumption: in the current context, if any major western country falls into dictatorship / totalitarianism / etc, it may get very dark very fast. The powers of such a modern incarnation of extreme regimes would be, well, unprecendented, and that's kind of understating orders of magnitude in scale.
> For those that don't know, bloom filters are really good at determining when something is not in a set. So if says "not in set" that's 100% accurate and super fast.

Agreed. It allows for false positives, but disallows false negatives.
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Did they? I honestly don't know since I don't use them.

To my knowledge the ruling to stop was mid December and the decision of the higher instance is expected within weeks.
That’s a strange article. On The one hand they’re saying people who say lack of hazard management (controlled burning) is making the fires worse are literally “conspiracy theorist” and then the very next paragraph this line:

> Former fire chiefs who have been calling strongly for action on climate change, and who have been trying to meet Morrison for months, have also been calling for increased funding for hazard reduction.
Would be freaking awesome if Wells Fargo understood this...
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A couple of my neighbors had 500Es and a few of my friends had gasoline powered 500s. The electric owners seemed to like the car well enough but declined to buy it after the lease (FIAT wanted an obscene amount of money compared to the lease price). Price was the only reason the 500E was appealing – my one neighbor paid about $120/mo after insurance.

The gasoline owners were less enthusiastic. One of the big problems in San Francisco is that it was the Maserati/Generic Italian dealer that got the FIAT franchise (granted the other Bay Area FIAT dealers are just as bad). They're expensive, incompetent, and not particularly customer oriented. One friend had transmission/clutch issues and the dealer wanted $3000 to R&R the clutch on a car that was barely two years old. The other Bay Area dealers wanted about the same amount of money. I asked someone overseas to look up the book time and parts cost (about 3 hrs and $300 respectively). That works out to well north of $700/hr in labor charges.

The scummy service advisor showed us what he claimed was the clutch they pulled and it looked almost brand new. Turns out FIAT put a hydraulic clutch control system in the American market ones and their Mexican factory put the wrong throw out bearings in early builds. The dealer never did give us the throw out bearing (I wonder why...).

If I wanted an econobox with a warranty that was fun to drive I'd buy a Honda. They've had that market locked down for ages. If I wanted something more exotic I'd look at a VW. If I wanted something difficult to find parts for I'd get a Peugeot or Citroen. If I wanted something that rides like crap and isn't utilitarian I'd get a Miata.

The story only gets worse with Alfa. FIAT couldn't even keep the press cars running and they kept blaming software issues for mechanical failure[0].

FIAT gets a bad rap in the United States because they don't have the cachet to get away with their mediocre quality and non-existent support network.

0: https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a23145269/alfa-romeo-gi...
I had some representatives from ARM and NXP come and give a demo of some ARM boxes.

Now these were in the context of white box customer premises networking equipment, but what I found quite interesting was that these machines all supported UEFI.

There's certainly an effect to have some standardisation for ARM machines.

But who knows when it'll get to the desktop.
Hunger by Knut Hamsun, 1890. I consider it the first psychological novel.

"The novel has been hailed as the literary opening of the 20th century[1] and an outstanding example of modern, psychology-driven literature.[2] Hunger portrays the irrationality of the human mind in an intriguing and sometimes humorous manner."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_(Hamsun_novel)
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Should SQL queries use trailing or leading commas?
What I normally do is remember the law, and generally I don’t click through headlines which are questions.

But this one felt more like it would be something a little deeper.

So then I clicked through - and the page fills up with the word “no”.

So I feel pretty duped.
Have you done anything to encourage this improved memory? I struggle to recall names in particular and have wondered if supplementing omega 3 for e.g. might help.
0:"path" /read lines
"path"0:("line1";"line2") /write lines
1:"path" /read bytes
"path"1:"content" /write bytes
fiat has marvelous compacts. the fire engine derivatives just run forever, the diesel made school twenty years ago and have an edge still today.

Whatever FIAT is importing for the US market hasn't been particularly reliable.

they still have good tech and when they put their eggs into the right basket, the output is just phenomenal.

Speaking of, the one thing that surprised me with the 500 was how primitive its bluetooth support was. I think it will only sync contacts with a phone (playing audio is just not in the cards).
Many engineers would benefit from spending a year in sales and a year in marketing.

There is a whole other way to look at products like this that is often missed if you haven’t done the time.
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>there was no hint of them thinking they had done anything wrong.

the grand majority of folks know not to bite the hand that feeds them very well, more than anyone else could
> As for how well it's worked, the biggest benefit for me so far is that it accurately informs me about how well I'm sleeping. Not just how long but also the quality of that sleep.

In your experience so far does the machine's indication of the quality of sleep ~unmistakably correspond with how you "feel" your sleep is? I assume the answer is yes, but I guess I'm more interested in the magnitude of how helpful you think the device is. It's not cheap, but if it does seem to really deliver results, it's not all that pricey that I'd exclude giving it a experimental spin based on cost.
Tesla is a compliance car manufacturer for-hire. If they were serious about the planet (and their own mission statement) they would cease this dirty practice.
Is offering or forcing SMS 2FA and not offering an option for only TOTP asinine? Yes.

It’s free, and requires a tiny bit of additional configuration to enable. No reason not to offer it.
I have found all articles like this written by senior established scientists can be summarised as “Looks like things aren’t as good as they used to be. Anecdote about old scientists 1, 2, 3. Science is important. The end.” They never say anything about actual scientists born after 1975. This is the very definition of pontification.
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Breakup fee is opposite of what I think you mean
"Turns out the object files produced by the CoreRT ahead of time compiler from 2020 can still be linked with the linker that shipped with Visual C++ 2.0 in 1994."

This really blew my mind.
VR is still new, and with a 180 degree field of view, either the pixel-per-degrees would be painfully low (very low-resolution) or it would be high-resolution, but no computer would be able to push all the pixels.
https://www.xkcd.com/801/
It would have been great to see some replies from those who downvoted. I'm not sure how that message isn't positive, but it I'd welcome some outside perspective on that.
Agreed. And it's up to the citizens to make choices that reflect what they wish to reward or not reward as citizenry.
To avoid the appearance and reality of impropriety, people should avoid sex trafficking and other crimes. I don’t understand what the relationship to ‘employing women assistants’ is supposed to be.
Yea I think the model here (especially since the article seems to really be conflating "desktop" with "High end desktop" especially in terms of the Arm ecosystem ), will be that we do see these features developed from the server side first, and then given the "content creator" treatment. I don't think that this is bad as the article implies. Rocking the top of the HEDT market is good for magazine covers, but it isn't exactly where the profits are. Filling datacenters will fund the work that we're interested in -- namely the robust, expandable, systems that have the muscle and the mainstream features that make for a cushy desktop experience.

But also, Aren't we still complaining about linux on the desktop?
Apple Patent Reveals New Colored LED MacBook Pro Keyboard
If we're stretching things to go with the earliest examples of the tech, then computers go back even further with ENIAC in the 1940s. Even earlier if you count electromechanical devices.
Facebook is the Ministry of Truth. They even throw things down the Memory Hole.
Similarities and differences between C++ and Swift
Nice 5G Hype versus Reality
UEFI seems pretty prevalent with AArch64 in general -- pretty much all recent Qualcomm Android devices do UEFI boot.
Because when you simply accept the world as is, it looks a lot like you're endorsing the status quo. Especially on this site where a lot of people seem to take a weird pseudo-detached outlook. Trying to analyze things in an almost entirely emotionless judgement free manner. I think this is seen by people as enlightened.

Personally I find it genuinely disturbing. It becomes hard to tell where this sort of detached analysis ends and where it becomes just actually not caring about or not seeing the moral issues here.
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Not true. Not true by far. That's an over statement. 2FA is only one of two factors, you need the the password, you need the mobile number and you need to obtain a duplicate or being close to your victim.

You should be worried if you are a POI or you are being targeted personally. And if it is so, SIM Swapping it's just one option and if it doesn't work there are other methods (breaking in, stealing yubikeys, mobiles...)
Sure. I don’t use google docs so I don’t know, have they fixed the ugly UI, have they had some big customer gains, has some new community adopted it?

I think Google has done a huge push into education, that alone could reap significant gains in 18 months.