skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US has a wide variety of public lands, of which the national park system represents relatively little- about 15% of total federal land. The National Park System might be getting underfunded and pressured to privatize certain aspects, but its the other public lands that have largely been treated as de facto parks are really where the threat is. The administration has a lot more legal leeway there and its not afraid to use it.

See https://www.rei.com/blog/hike/your-guide-to-understanding-pu... for a nice primer on public land in the us.
No, it isn't at all. Moreover, sim swap is not necessary at all.

Anybody with direct access to SS7 can send a fake roaming request for your sim card.
Shopped for a mattress with my wife. Tried pretty much everything in the store. her favorite was a firm no-frills no topper low end "brand" name mattress (one of the big 3). Was nice to get something delivered for $600ish in a california king. I was more-or-less prepared to spend whatever it took to get something we both liked. That was easy.
Oh - that's why I mentioned it... if you wanted to ensure fairness it might be a good tactic to state the question with a clear analogy like property taxes as a reference.
It just sounded honest. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's mainly just an issue of manpower on our end (we do accept doc contributions, but probably we should be doing it); having fresh reader eyes on it like this is still valuable though.
> I’m sure, internally, it’s looked at as the “mainstream media trying to get clicks...

I interviewed with FB shortly after the Cambridge Analytica stuff came out (but long enough after that it was clear to everyone that FB had screwed up big time).

When it was my turn to ask questions in one particular interview, I gave a standard fallback when I have nothing else: "[despite all the blahblah positives], having worked at other technology companies, what's your least favorite thing about working at FB?"

This guy was a FB vet (maybe 5 or 10 years? Very long in FB time, I think). He gives me this spiel about how hard the teams work to maintain user privacy and how unfairly they're being treated by the public and the media, and how hard it is to work in an environment where everyone treats you so unfairly.

I was floored. Not even a hint of apology, remorse, or "we could have done X better". "Unfair. Fake news. We're doing great things, and no one thanks us enough." And from someone that had probably made a mint having been around at FB near-IPO time. It was my first or second of the day, and while no one else was so blatant, the sentiment persisted throughout the rest of the day.

I bombed the interviews hard, they didn't want me back, but I had basically decided I'd never work there by the time lunch rolled around.
Dude just fades into the background, a fact she must make choices around, and anyway she must have landed OK, right?

Amazing how senior execs in powerful places selectively lose agency.
Let's say someone includes a line

48362/37277295;

That's a no-op. (Some rational value you're not using - it's not even assigned to a variable name).

The compiler might warn you about it.

But do you think it should be allowed to just remove it - not even create the op?

Regardless of what the standard says, I'd expect the answer to be "sure."

What do you think?
It’s more to make customers feel better than for security.
What Is GPU-Driven Rendering?
At least they offer codes via email. I can (and do) secure access to my email account and domain registration with a very long password and a Yubikey. That’s “good enough” for my purposes.
It's a longstanding measurement, yeah. And it's not actually just excluding agriculture, the definition removes a whole cluster of jobs that are especially hard to track accurately, including all of nonprofit employment and unincorporated self-employment (i.e. most of construction, handymanning, etc.)

Of course, farm labor and unincorporated self-employment are heavily male, and nonprofit work is heavily female. So it's a useful statistic for accurate change-over-time data, but stories like this treating 50% as an inherently meaningful tipping point are wildly misleading.
Except now Iran shoots missiles at a US base in Iraq and the price of oil barely budged. Times have changed, and the US is much more energy independent. And over the next decade even more so as the EV revolution and renewable energy continue to dominate.

IMO the increasing irrelevance of the Middle East will continue to increase world peace and prosperity, at the expense of some truly awful regimes which will crumble.
IIRC, If you hack into PCIe, you only lose USB 3.0, because the USB 2.0 ports are directly connected to the SoC.
I don't really agree with the idea that people are being too critical of FB, or these massive social media giants in general.

People vastly underestimate the power of data IMHO and therefore the responsibility that comes with it. We'll look back in 20 years and wonder wtf we were doing just like any other decade, cause hindsight is 20/20 (after a certain number of years out ofc).

I don't think our society is really prepared for the digitization of so much information and there will be growing pains.
For me personally, I'm always hungry, and my body is apparently really good at storing excess food as fat. The only truly successful method for reducing hunger that I've ever discovered is fasting. After fasting for a few days, I'm no longer hungry. Unfortunately, it's not the most convenient thing to do.
> I thought both these vectors were already common knowledge to HN readers.

One person can't know everything... that's why I come here. Thanks for the info!
Copy paste it, don't click a jwz link from HN.
Double-edged sword.

Your website is outsourcing security to any company which can service a cell phone account, which may be better than your website security or worse.
looks nice, but appears to have a quite a few third party deps that requests doesnt?
I apologize, I misread what you said. In options (bottom left of the screen) there is a switch to disable touch completely (it also seems to remember it’s setting for that particular app).
I think this sums up not just big cooperate, but large part of our society in general as well. ( May be a bigger problem in US than other parts of the world, but still a problem )

I often wonder why realistic people are called cynical, even when they are facts happening everywhere in a statistically large sums. Do others live in fairy land?
Thanks for elaborating!

Was this part of the interview challenging? Seems to me like a surprise data structure coming up in an interview could be a bad thing (in terms of doing well).

Edit: What have your other interview experiences been like? Similar to Google, or would different/more preparation be required?

Also, what level are you at/interviewing for at these companies?
> This happens MUCH less today than at any time in the past.

Really? You know this how?

> Only 2 generations ago, stuff like this was happening on a daily basis everywhere in the world.

And it magically stopped?

> This was basically what justice used to be.

As opposed to justice now being what money can buy?

> But it's more fair and just than it's ever been before

I disagree. The world is just as fair and just as it's ever been before. This is just recency bias like how the enlightenment crowd painted the period before them as the "dark ages" where no learning or progress was made.

> But compared to even 50 years ago, we are so far ahead it's unbelievable.

Maybe if we cherrypick some parts or aspects.

> 100 years, and it's basically a different world.

Humans are still humans.

Things aren't as terrible as you think they were. Things aren't as terrible today as some think. Things aren't as great as some think they were. Things aren't as great today as some think.
Veni Vidi Vici is definitively my favorite level in my gaming history. I would play VVVVVV again and again just for it.
Though my initial response to the title was to laugh, upon further thought I think they're actually making a smart play here.

They're essentially betting on "optimizing wellness" being a huge fad this decade, which I believe many others are predicting, and are using their current position to get more cash to get ahead of that.

I don't associate Casper with "a quality night of sleep", probably because I'm happy with my current mattress and have no need of their product, but at the same time I couldn't name a single one of the current applications that exist to track + "optimize" sleep / circadian cycles, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that, so who knows? Maybe in 2030 we'll all be moaning about Casper putting up their Nighty Night subscription another $7 for "HD dreams" and reluctantly acquiescing to it.
Yeah, the by far biggest cost of 2FA is the recovery process which you need anyway, not actual 2FA implementation.
C++ is my bread and butter, but even I consider "struct and class are exactly the same except for default access specifiers" to be pointlessly redundant. I mean, the language could get rid of one of them, but I think the options offered here make sense.
I would disagree with that idea that the vast amount of irrelevant and distracting content is somehow the problem.

Believe it or not it's an incredibly challenging problem. Google is burned at the stake everyday for their biased response on searches when they're parsing disgusting amounts of data and attempting to minimize noise. It's a damned if you do and damned if you don't honestly, because even if you can effectively minimize returns for a given query (regardless of topic), there is then information loss to some degree and therefore arguably a bias.
HN seems to be getting a lot of these submissions lately where the question asked in the title is the same as the domain name. Sometimes the content of the page doesn't even answer the question.

Feels like some kind of spammy PageRank manipulation going on. I'm happy to be wrong about this, but I wanted to see if anyone else has noticed. Maybe I'm just smoking crack waffles again.
This is awful news. Too young.
> What happens if the user loses a yubikey.

Always buy two. ;-)

Joking aside, I've moved almost every 2FA to hard token, soft-token, or google voice. But the root of trust is still LastPass & Google. I don't see an easy way out of dependency other than power of attorney. Even worse: I worry what happens to my protected assets as I age and possibly face memory loss.
Just google for "форум пробив" and you will find black market for accessing any kind of information, including SMS, phone location, etc and associated services for hacking accounts (VK, Gmail, etc). You don't need to be a government, it is open for everyone.
I went looking, and found that "unincorporated self-employed" is exactly as you say, and is 2/3 male. Farm employees are roughly 3/4 male. Soldiers (~90% male) are also excluded.

"Nonfarm payrolls" was never meant to be a gender-balanced stat, it just excludes the hardest to track jobs. Which is fine for comparison over time, but makes 50% a meaningless metric.
Isn't GUN the one with the lexicographical LWW? It may allow peers to communicate between each other, but I would fit separately from WebTorrent or SSB.
The right type is ‘object’, not ‘Any’.

‘object’ is the base class of all types: you can put anything into an ‘object’, and you can only do very generic operations like str() on what you get out of an ‘object’ without further checks like isinstance().

‘Any’ is an unsound escape hatch that disables type checking: you can put anything into an ‘Any’, and you can do anything with what you get out of an ‘Any’, and the type checker will make no effort to stop you from doing something wrong.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#the-any-type

https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dynamic_typing.html#an...
Because it was supposed to be a professional event and that's not even remotely professional? There's a second hand account in this thread by someone who knows people who went to the island and were propositioned for sex there.

It's unprofessional at best but as we know know, many of these girls were sex trafficking victims and underage.

It's also known that Epstein's island residence was decorated with pictures of underage nude girls and a giant nude painting of Ghlisaine Maxwell. So yeah, I'd say there are quite a few red flags there.
I think down this road leads a tautology because most classical definitions of consensus are such that taxing the wealthy more than the poor is considered a fair and equitable consensus. I don't like to leave assumptions and definitions unexamined so here's an analogy, most people who murdered steve don't believe that people who murdered steve should be punished for it - even though the majority of the population disagrees with that view we need to defend the minority of people that just murdered steve less their opinions be swept under by a tyrannical and unreasonable majority.

The majority absolutely can be tyrannical and the court of popular opinion is not considered the sole ethical decider - see philosophical discussions about whether certain historical events in the 1940s led to a society where some pretty extreme actions actually qualified as ethical. The society they occurred in publicly and openly approved of those actions but most of us would hesitate to call those actions ethical so there is merit in being hesitant to call the apparent ruling of the court of public opinion a consensus, but I think this particular case is more valid and self-reinforcing.

Interesting question though.
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I want to mess with certs in Python so that my web crawler can actually access the whole web. If you don't talk to a wide variety of hosts, you probably haven't noticed that it's broken for 1%.
Have you seen the prompt system, as used by Google, Micosoft, Okta, et al.?

In my strictly personal opinion, responding to a notification that asks if a login attempt is you is clear enough that people need minimal training to make use of it. This might just be me, though.

In my career, I've definitely seen people actively choose SMS over other factors on offer. It was easier for them, and in many cases shouldn't have been offered. Your point about SMS being better than nothing is wise and true and insightful, but it's perhaps not always the question as faced in practice.
Compared, presumably, to the other two popular 2FA methods: TOTP and WebAuthn (f/k/a U2F).
Politicians lying? what a shocking development. By the way one thing that always really bugged me was how every controversial law that is proposed is given a name which is pretty much the direct opposite of what it really intends to do. From the federal right down to my local city initiatives sometimes.

But here's a counter-perspective on polarization: the winners don't get to control the narrative anymore. Both sides are lying rather than just the one who gets the pulpit.
Any difficulty spikes were usually for the optional trinkets, and not required to beat the game.
Apple is (gradually) transitioning to ARM as we speak, right before our very eyes: the T2 chip and Bitcode.

The A-series chips in the iPhone and iPad seem to compare pretty favorable to Intel processors in the low to mid end.

Now imagine a version of the A-series processor with more space, thermal headroom, and cores.
Where did you get that resource industries are able to turn a profit in the park system from the article? The only thing I saw was the privatization of campgrounds, that’s not exactly the “purposeful rape of public land.”

The public lands outside the park system are under far more threat of development.
Lifespans are the reason for that, and births are majority-male, so the adult stats are actually even more heavily female. But the 25–54 cohort is gender balanced, and women are the majority starting from 55–64, so the effect kicks in well before retirement.

(This also screws with the labor force participation stats, since unless you check "prime age" there's no upper age boundary.)
People always focus on SIM swaps and signal security, but neither of those apply to Google voice numbers. So in the context of Google voice, is there still any reason to not use SMS 2FA?
> Oil so useful that modern society would collapse without it.

I don't like the taste of this, I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly why, but it's something like:

We depend on oil, because we depend on oil. I can say I "need" my phone but I bet I'd be just like anybody else in the 60s if I didn't have my phone. I "need" the BART but only because I live in a city that exists in its current state because of the existence of public transit. Etc. Feel where I'm going on this?

Modern society would absolutely collapse if oil just suddenly vanished. Obviously. But how could that possibly happen? It's impossible. And it's also, I think, absurd to suggest there's no possible way to quickly and intelligently transition off oil dependency, barring the fight against the Oil lobby, which I'll get to.

Also, I postulate modern society could absolutely exist in an almost identical form to how it does today, if it hadn't become addicted to oil from the get go. It's feasible from an economic and engineering standpoint that we could have transitioned our entire electrical grid to nuclear, with some trickles of hydro and wind here and there, in the 1980s. Sure electric cars haven't really been entirely feasible until recently, but electrified public transit absolutely has been, and maybe we would have gotten better electrified vehicles sooner if there wasn't as much oil available.

My basic point is that Oil is not "necessary" for modern society, either in its formation or in its current iteration, and that we can absolutely get by without it, EXCEPT for the fact that would hurt some shareholders in a very big way and so they will fight tooth and nail to prevent them. With them out of the way, the obstacles would be so much less.
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We could call it Blakey's Walrus?
Without relating much to the article's particular examples, I'll say this about anthropology and sociology: among people who have studied several domains (e.g. the idea of a "major" and a "minor" in most Anglo-cultural countries, or simply people who tried at several things), of which one was anthropo-/socio-logy, a striking majority report that these were the studies that helped them the most, generally, in life, whatever their trade.

(you can safely remove cases of doctors or lawyers or engineers who cannot do without the major, obviously; consider general studies for most jobs out there that fill 80% of businesses)

My anecdotal opinion is that anthropology in particular triggers a formidable widening of your conception of "human", "society", "rules", all these abstract yet incredibly tangible concepts / objects.

It's hard to explain concisely, but the promise is that you get closer to having some sort of "third eye"[1] at a collective level, i.e. regarding your own family, crew, city, country, planet. A typical case of "can't un-see" which screams all the relativity of human cultures and behaviors — i.e. outside of biology (and even there), "normal" means very little in natural terms, normalcy is pretty much acquired / trained / cultural.

I'd recommend anthropology (and some sociology to link it with current / modern societies) to anyone wanting to "expand their mind" a lot about what it means to be human, how our rules and ways of life are both relative and potentially very variable, and generally to be able to navigate all the political mumbo-jumbo of human groups and circles (family, office, public, etc).

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[1]: in a down-to-earth psychological meaning, the "third eye" is one's ability to look at oneself from a third-person perspective, i.e. to remove the camera from subjectivity ("1st person view"), to observe oneself from the outside. I think Freud called it the "it".

It's a trained habit that we think biomechanically enabled by the prefrontal cortex, and likely instrumental in making us "sapiens sapiens", i.e. able to reflect upon ourselves, self-awareness. I am implying that anthropology is one way to acquire this skill from a collective standpoint, i.e. "see how we (the we's you belong to: your family, or office, city, country...) are different from others, see how we are and how we could be, have been, or would become."

You'd think like me that you know it all because you've seen the world (all hemispheres, all continents), you're opened to or knowledgeable about other cultures blablaba, and you take 1 class in anthropology with a great teacher and your mind is blown — how limited, little, narrow your ideas were, how much bigger that thing actually is.
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Agreed.

It’s perfectly acceptable for a business to ask for (or even demand) earnest money when signing an LOI. The buyer, via the LOI, is asking for the right to negotiate with you exclusively. That’s worth something and if they refuse, that tells you how serious they really are.

The amount of that earnest money is up to the parties involved - 50k might be high for some situations, low for others, and just right for the rest. But they should pony up something. Otherwise you are just giving away leverage.

As the article mentions, there is an incredible amount of work that goes into due diligence and sometimes an even larger emotional investment. A sale falling through, and I can speak from experience, can be devastating.
I thought malware was the business model of low-end smart phones. Random game company pays them to install their game on x000 devices. It's really a question of when, not if, those companies would ship malware. You can't imagine they are actually vetting any of that stuff they install.
Ran Bar-Zik, from Israel, created a technique to hack most voice 2FA by using a weak voicemail password. It was largely used in 2019 to hack Brazilian politicians, including state ministers. The hacked telegram messages were passed to Glenn Greenwald, linked to Assange.
Adding features? Sure, as long as current code keeps compiling.
> There's more than one variable involved.

Doesn't 'success' encompass all these variables at the same time?

If you can be successful with a very high QA effort then fine. If QA costs were too high then you wouldn't be making money and you wouldn't be successful.

If you can stay successful with a very low bus-factor then good for you.

And so on with other variables.