skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it can help you get out of a bind if you misplaced your 2FA token/app, changing any security parameters (especially when reducing security)should require entering all authentication methods enabled for the account. Imagine how changing a password requires the old password, not just the new one.

At the very least they could make it configurable, let the user decide if they want to be able to turn off 2FA without being asked for a confirmation token.
I think from a government fiscal perspective it's the same, but it's probably not from the viewpoint of the individual participants.

i.e. I have a well-paid job but stop working halfway through the year. On a full-year tax basis, I'm not in the bottom X% of tax payers based on my earnings to date.

Do I get a UBI check or not for the rest of the year?

Since virtually all tax matters are based on averaging income over some long time period (usually a year), it's not a good mechanism to deal with changes in income, and those changes in income (planned or not) are precisely the things which UBI is supposed to help with.
This is something I call a “wish in one hand, sh*t in the other , see which fills up faster” scenario. There is no way Microsoft could make as much as they do now on Server if they switched to a “services and consulting” model.
The gig economy should be nipped in the bud. It's nothing but bad for workers. It lets companies do complete end-runs around employment regulation, with many earning below minimum wage.

Society needs to confront the fact that capitalist control of government has removed the ability for a huge segment of society to care for themselves and their families.
To be fair, remote access to the user’s account on the machine is game over, regardless.

Knowing the password and having access to a trusted (don’t ask again for 30 days checkbox) device is possession of two factors.

Google offers stricter validation in the form of advanced protection, which isn’t so easily disabled.

https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/
Not everyone wants to be an employee.
So currently control, option, and command are three buttons. I'm wondering if it would be better with the left and right sides functioning differently. You could get many more chording combinations.
> I switched iphones and google authenticator did not bring my 2FA's over,

I have lost 2 FA's on other services via that means as well. I think it is easy if you have cloud backup on your phone that you think that you can just wipe your old phone and sync your new phone and you will be all set. Google Authenticator doesn't work like that.
Can't reproduce the problem on the site, but here

> Wireshark is the world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what’s happening on your network at a microscopic level and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many commercial and non-profit enterprises, government agencies, and educational institutions.

From the website. Btw wireshark is is one of the most useful tools for system administrators (especially in combination with tcpdump and ssh) and giving up on a project, because your browser bugs out is kind of bad form. You should at least take a look at it. Anyway hope you change your mind and have fun ;) some of my most interesting nights I have spent with wireshark
Their half-size model would need to be flying twice as fast for the Reynolds number to remain constant with varying length or diameter.

This changes the Mach number.

So no, in general, you can’t build and test a smaller model and transfer the results to a larger model using similarity, because your similarity model is incomplete.

You can either have similarity for the Reynolds number or the Mach number, but not both.
It's not any different from republicans calling liberals libtards, antifa and communists whenever someone talks about medicare for all. Both sides do it to each other, right wingers just complain about it more because the majority of people who control social media platforms tend to be left leaning.

In general, people only want free speech for things they want to say, but not for things they disagree with.
it should be possible to actually verify these speculations? Many nations locked down completely, but the virus was still mostly confined in some regions, so by comparing the regional excess deaths with the virus prevalence it should be possible to discriminate between deaths caused directly and indirectly from the virus and deats caused by the lockdown itself. Anedoctaly there are nations in Europe that are/were in lockdown and see no excess mortality at all.
There are many independent lines of evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Observational_evid...

Contrarian theories have outsized popularity here on hnews, and this tends to get fed by garbage articles from the usual sources (glances at quanta with mild disdain). Modified gravity theories are not some alternate path we just didn't explore. We explored them. They fail to explain the observational evidence. In particular the way stuff moves in galactic collisions makes very clear there's dark matter distinct from some modified version of gravity interacting with visible matter.

It ends up that the consensus view of thousands of Phds that study this stuff is actually not trivially mistaken.
Mountains are gorgeous when you have plenty of food and shelter, like we do now. They're shitty if you're a subsistence farmer in the 1800's.
You can make more money as a contractor. The deal is contractors get paid more to take in the risk of being fired. If you are ok with this, you get as liquid money the cash that would have gone to benefits.

So I bill for about 200k USD. My wife gets our medical insurance. I take home about 140k after taxes. If I were an employee, I’d only take home 100k after taxes.
> every single permutation of what one can do with software is being exhausted

This is not in the slightest bit true. It’s just that most people that you hear about are just executing variations on a theme. But there is vast untapped potential, and also many novel things in the software industry being developed that you just never hear about, because the people making them are not present in this chamber.
I feel like working in the Unix CLI is absolutely REPL programming with the same workflow, using pipes and filters and small programs.

1. mess around with some program, echoing things to it and looking at outputs
2. up-arrow in shell, edit previous experiment
3. repeat, adding more onto pipeline, until happy
4. save the good version to a script, eg echo "!!" > foo
5. add a #! line and chmod +x to promote it to a command
Wow. I thought they learned their lesson with the last mid-recession IPO.

I was on that ride, and it fucking hurt.
Precisely. Big donors provide money to get a return. In fact, its one of the best investments you can make.

"Corporations Lobbying Government Reap 76,000% Return On Investment. Between 2007 and 2012, 200 of America’s most politically active corporations spent a combined $5.8 billion on federal lobbying and campaign contributions." [1]

"How The Fortune 100 Turned $2 Billion in Lobbying Spend Into $400 Billion of Taxpayer Cash" [2]

[1] https://www.mintpressnews.com/corporations-lobbying-governme...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2019/05/14/how...
If the gig economy relies on the suffering of others, then it should be nipped in the bud.

If the gig economy cannot compete on a level playing field, keeping the benefits stable, it is just a race to the bottom.
I wasn't debating the facts of your argument. I was simply telling you that the debate is already lost as soon as you link to a site that still claims Obama wasn't born in the US. In many people's minds, it isn't worth the energy to dispute your point because you are already displaying symptoms of someone who lacks the critical thinking skills necessary to assess and process basic facts.

If the only important pieces of that article are the links to primary sources, you could have linked to them yourself. That has potential to make you sound like a conspiracy theorist tying photos on your wall together with red yarn. However that is still better than linking to a conspiracy theorist website that seemingly proves the same point.
What would it buy? Unless the org suddenly switches to a different tech stack that requires winserver, it’s kinda the worst of both worlds - none of the upside of Windows, none of the huge open source ecosystem of Linux.
The access is hardly unrestricted.

Once a verified LEO organization partners with Ring, they can send a geographically and time limited request to Ring for footage.

"please send me all video footage from 123 possum street to 350 possum street from midnight to 3am yesterday"

Ring then identifies who has cameras that may be of interest and sends the owners a request to share footage, which the owners can ignore (deny), explicitly deny or choose to share video.
An easy and simple rationalization for expressing hatred.
So far, the only use I've had for running Windows machines was running Adobe After Effects for a render farm, because you can't run the Adobe suite on Linux. I struggle to imagine workloads I'd want to run on Windows machines voluntarily honestly, but I'm also unfamiliar with the ecosystem from a sysadmin perspective.
For a tech company with a multi-billion dollar valuation this shouldn't be insurmountable
I might use it as a desktop, or for servers that had to run Windows-exclusive software, but I wouldn't go out of my way to use it if Linux was available as an option.
I’m conflicted. On one hand Rackspace used to have some great offerings and tech chops and then (wisely?) became a cloud intermediary.

Is AWS professional services for a company that has went through the transition Rackspace has worth a $100m IPO? (Assuming I read the S-1 correctly).
I think it clicks quickly for some people but not others (me). I don't get to use Clojure for work currently (.NET shop) but I really like it. In my spare time I remake a lot of things I do at work to learn Clojure using real world scenarios.

I've read this guide several times over the past few years, watched a bunch of the videos and I still find myself stoping/starting the repl very often because it feels difficult to keep the current state of the environment in my head, or something isn't updated as I expected, there's an error I can't decipher in the REPL that the compiler gives better info on. I feel I need to restart constantly, it's still my main workflow. I'm not sure what it is that's not clicking for me, but I keep trying. Either way, I'm no worse off than with my C# workflow.
Nightly to seconds is definitely great. Seconds to milliseconds is what is questionable I think.
As schools move more and more online they are locking into proprietary office programs that suck funds from schools, and students can't afford. Sure, as long as they are students they can use the school's software for free, but once they graduate they can't.

So in effect the government is already funding google docs and office 360. I would prefer the government fund opensource software that anyone who pays taxes can use for free.
Yep. Thats what I do too.

For emacs users, 'eval-region' and 'eval-expression' are your friends.
A non-scientist's summary of a synbio paper
Author here. Some teams use it, including ours (PWABuilder).
I can't imagine a constraint that would lead to restrict the use of Linux over Windows/MacOs unless is bureaucracy or ignorance like OP said. The only exceptions I can think of is they do development with tools only available for those systems, in which case I assume OP wouldn't apply in the first place since he uses Linux, and second having a deal with Microsoft or Apple which is not really an operational constraint.
I know you're being cheeky, but NBC owns "Friends" and "The Office". Those two series alone account for a large number of streaming hours in Netflix.
I don't think there's a single best Clojure book, so I'll recommend several (all available on Safari if you have that). For general language, syntax, idioms:

* The Joy of Clojure (whirlwind tour of the language and Clojure philosophy.)
* Brave Clojure (A very wordy, hand-holdy approach. I really like this one for dense topics like core.async which can take time to wrap your head around)
* Programming Clojure - just an all around solid reference. Once you've got a command of the language, this becomes more valuable imo .

Now, there's a large gap between knowing Clojure's syntax and writing effective programs in the language. Clojure is not Python, or Haskell, or Java, and, as such, you don't build programs in the same way. So, as a final recommendation, I'd suggest the book Clojure Applied. This book deals with going from "I know the language" to "I know how to build things in the language"

For the web, get ready to beat your head against a wall for hours and hours on end ^_^. Lisp's "small pieces" philosophy is both a blessing and a curse. Outside of a framework called Luminus, and a few leiningen templates, the way to do things in Clojure land is by stitching a bunch of ad-hoc libraries together by hand, which means a lot of evaluation of not-too-popular github repos.

Once you've got everything dialed in though, it's an absolute joy to use.
> Enabling 2FA is an acknowledgement that you expect to be responsible for maintaining access to your second factor

Maybe to you and me, but to everyone else it's just a recommended (and in many cases forced) method to gain access to your own account.

My mum isn't making a pledge to always have her phone with her, she just doesn't want her email stolen
As many comments have pointed out, this is only when one is already logged in. Personally, I set Firefox to clear persistence of any kind when the browser is closed so that I always will need 2FA to log in my Google account.
Ask HN: Something like Khan Academy but full curriculum for grade schoolers?
Khan Academy continually gets held up as a great resource for online courses across the age spectrum for math related subjects. With the continuing pandemic continuing to grow in the US and schools not really sure how to handle things, the GF and I are looking into other options.

Is there a recommended resource that gives unbiased (as possible) reviews for middle school (7-8th grade) curriculum? Searching these days really doesn't bring up quality, just options one has to comb through.
The trailer for Apple's new Foundation show reeked of this. All of their heavily marketed content (See, Servant, Greyhound) look like they had the same person doing the trailers.
The implication that "abstract" discussion is acceptable seems to condone dog whistling, especially given that protesting much of that speech could be considered "redefining words or misinterpreting statements in a nakedly disingenuous way", as that coded redefinition by the speaker is literally what dog whistles require, but seems disingenuous outside of that context.
I think if the emerging gig economy isn't profitable with benefits for employees then it is not a sustainable business model.
Thanks. I know how awesome Wireshark is from the brief interactions I've had in the past.
But their website experience the terrible.

It's much more a critique of the state of the web than of the project itself.

BTW, both behaviors (insane CPU usage while scrolling and Cloudflare checking) are reproducible in Safari, Chrome and Firefox, so it's not the browser that's bugging out, but the website scroll highjacking that's poorly written.
1. The content of the article is still unknown. Scott — and from what I can tell most of the rest of the SSC chud community — made an assumption about the ill intent of the author for which there is no evidence. Again the hypocrisy here is delightful given how much of rationalist ideology relies on giving people the benefit of the doubt.

2. Scott's last name is already out there and is ridiculously easy to find. The idea that he was actually anonymous as the author of SSC is silly.

3. There's an implicit admission of guilt in the way Scott anticipates that his clients and the broader public will react negatively to his views. I wonder, what is it about Scott's views that makes him so certain the reaction will be negative? Why hasn't he allowed for the possibility that his clients and the NYT readership will react positively to the article? Couldn't it raise his profile and that of his blog in a way that is beneficial to both?

4. I recognize that this is heresy to rationalist ideology, but his identity matters in a discussion of his ideas, especially his political ideas. It's easier to assess his sincerity or credibility given the background his real identity provides. Is Scott really the Grand Wizard of the KKK in real life? Is he a saint who spends his days serving the homeless? Is he just some guy?

5. If nothing else Scott is making the tactical mistake of adding fuel to the fire. My guess is that not only will the NYT still publish, this entire kerfuffle will almost certainly now be part of the story. Traditional news media thrives on controversy and sensationalism. Scott has just made this whole thing far more interesting and already drawn more attention to himself via the New Yorker article. As of my writing this comment the Google autocomplete for "Scott Alexander" is his last name. His knee-jerk reaction to the unpublished NYT piece has already ensured the loss of anonymity. Seems kind-of irrational.
Is there a better format to read this, rather than on twitter?
Not only that, but in São Paulo a taxi license was in some places worth a lot of money. License owners would typically rent it, and would illegally hoard them, giving them to family members who never drove a taxi, just so he could have more and rent them out. Legally, one person could only own one. Then there are the taxi companies, which also hoarded hundreds of licenses, mostly through corrupt means.
All of these laws leading to full employment/benefits seem like a good thing on paper, but I wonder if it will lead to regulatory capture by the existing ride sharing companies, making it impossible for new entrants to join? Also what will be the long term consequences?

Also let's say you didn't want Uber/Lyft/whoever to dictate your working hours, could you reject the full benefits for flexibility?
Uber works thanks to greed. When a driver knows he earns as much as he gets customers he will try to optimize his driving patterns. This cuts down a lot of overhead you otherwise need managing when, where and who should be able to drive for money. Making people employees with minimum hourly wages ruins this dynamic and suddenly Uber would need to add that extra overhead as well.
>>> I have always been afraid of software engineering becoming a trade similar to medicine or law or (regular) engineering where significant barriers will be put up before you can enter the industry, but this sort of shit makes me feel like it could be for the better. I will have to go and get a degree, but that's the price I have to pay I guess.

This would still happen because A) the programmers that made this mistake probably have the knowledge to pass any certification exam you can throw at them, B) most of the time we are not just building something that has exploded 1000 times before, we are creating new stuff.

The engineering process was the issue here, and sadly the only way to prevent this is not to make personal barriers of entry higher but to slow down the process with more QA, testing or whatever you can throw at it. In other words, make software more expensive. And keep in mind that this would only give better numbers but it would not solve the issue either (see Boeing 737 MAX).
> I also quit my finance job to start a business with a co-founder in 2018 at the age 26. It's also an online product but quite different so it's hard to draw additional parralels but I can totally appreciate your up and downs along the way. It kind of sucks sometimes but for me it's also why I did this in the first place, so I don't look back in my mid thirties with kids and a mortgage and wished I'd did something more with my life when I still had that flame in me

I'm not sure why people feel like they needs to make something in their early years before marriage/kids.

a lot of company started by people in their middle age because they spend their early years working in an industry, build up the knowledge and solved some of the problem they experienced.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/business/tech-start-up-fo...
I'm fighting against speech that dehumanizes Jews, LGBT, Blacks, and so on; and ensuring that people who engage in it face consequences for that speech. This gets back to Hannah Arendt's paradox of tolerance.
"Potentially" is an understatement! A much better take, IMO.
Can you give us the framework you use on how you presented the material?
Not Tesla but rather the toxic section of their fandom.
I don't think you can fairly say that type P pretend to mentally fragile. There are plenty of people who will be genuinely upset.

Isn't the issue that it allows bad actors to pretend to take offence and we don't have a mechanism of validating whether the offence is real or malicious?
> they’re about to crash and burn, because of an 8% conversion?

They are crashing and burning because they have fewer than 100k users after nearly 4 months and aside from piling a lot more money into advertising they have no momentum, no brand awareness, and no properties anyone outside a few people know.

> Comparing them to Disney is ridiculous too, it’s Disney!

It's not about 10% versus 8%, it's about 10s of millions of paying users versus 10s of thousands. Obviously Disney had a huge head start, that's the whole point. The two services cost the same amount, what attracts new users? Content. For my $7, I'm going to sign up for the service with content I know I'll like. That's the same choice millions of people made here.
I still can't believe kafka doesnt have a good open source GUI managing tool
I posted the article because it is thought provoking, although I disagree with it. The reason is for example statements like this "The real problem is that computers are not in the world, because they are not embodied."
"And I shall argue that they cannot pass the full Turing test because they are not in the world, and, therefore, they have no understanding."
First I think that whether something is embodied or not doesn't matter. Our senses in the end could be likely approximated by arrays of numbers fed to a computer, so I don't think lack of body is such an issue.
Regarding understanding by machines, that is clearly the issue for current AI, but at least based on what I know about modern machine translation, there is already something that works with concepts/abstract terms and their relations, which looks to me like a beginning for abstract reasoning...
No, it's nothing new... here is an article about the same thing from 2017... unless they have changed, BLM is a separatist movement.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/07/black-lives-matter-ra...
I Used the Last.fm API to Make a Badass ‘Listening to’ Section
Suppose you’re the president or another executive at a major university. Imagine, for the sake of argument, that you are entirely amoral. You find out that one of your employees is taking bribes, falsifying athletic recruit records, and personally pocketing the money. Do you:

(a) look the other way because you like rigging the system, or

(b) fire them and call the FBI.

I think (b) is the clear answer. Even if you want the children of the rich and powerful in your university, you want to
know who they are, you want to collect any money that comes with it into the university’s coffers, and you do not want your employees enriching themselves at your university’s expense.

Add in the fact that most universities’ presidents are unlikely to be entirely amoral, and I think it’s pretty hard to conclude that this particular incident indicates corruption at the top levels.

(Sure, one might argue that the fact that athletic recruiting requests are considered at all for admissions is a problem, but the case in question wasn’t really about this.)