skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you'd assume this but older members of my family regular seem to not understand this. Either they just assume that their phone number is their "account" or in some cases make no distinction between the app and their account. They installed the app so where did their data go?

This is especially pronounced now that application sync between devices is more or less universal on iOS and (to a lesser extent) Android.

To the layman, the intuitive perspective is that it "just works" and is exactly how they left it previously, regardless of whether they have wiped their phone or replaced it. This isn't a dig at tech illiterate people but it is just how things are for the normal person. Hell I have been almost burned by this in the past when I moved phones and a certain app(FGO)'s data didn't transfer over.

TLDR The most intuitive thing is working out of the box and seamlessly transferring to a new device. The easiest way to do this is to allow it to be bound to a user's Google account, Microsoft account, and Apple ID.
> You could say that about anything -- nothing is completely static

1. Contracts are a thing. You can draft a contract with your vendor that guarantees certain terms for a certain duration.

2. You should be wary of wandering into commitments (including de facto commitments e.g. "vendor lock-in")--there are plenty of good reasons to do so, but one should make sure to properly consider the cost.

The problem is that doing business with Apple can make or break a company--companies can scarcely afford not to do business with Apple. I'm not an economist, but this seems pretty monopolistic (which isn't to say Apple should be broken up, but perhaps more tightly regulated).
So there are those who want backdoors that only (their) government can access. Tech people say that's impossible. And the response is "do it anyway".

I wish those people would attempt to construct a proof-of-concept. Or they could could hire someone to do it. Then when the result is shown to the world and everyone laughs at how bad it is, maybe it'll start to be clear that what they want is "magic", not real.

The government might as well mandate the energy companies to develop perpetual motion machines.
Essentially, the tradeoffs don't make it worthwhile for the average user: having to do more work to interoperate with fewer people? "Sign me up," says almost nobody.
Agreed, I would expect that early child literacy is pretty critical for this. Now once you get to age 10, you can pretty much just start reading random books (or anything really) and start picking up new vocab and grammar skills quickly, and probably turn out alright. But if you can't read period, that's not going to happen.

If anything, I would say the focus on unschooling when it comes to early childhood should be read early and read often. Interestingly, this seems to play into the larger controversy of intensive phonics instruction vs. the less structured "whole language approach."
A lot of first hand experiences here have to be understood as survivorship bias. It's unlikely that "unsuccessful" unschoolers would wind up here.

I don't have a strong opinion either way but I was raised with a strong basic well rounded education and personally I feel it helped me. One thing that should be emphasized is that the material should be challenging enough as having it too easy leads to bad work habits.
It was actually a dark pattern, not a bug.
Also adding port knocking.

https://netslovers.com/2018/02/28/port-knocking-server-secur...
Yes, I do want curating from most of my news sources. Nobody(a) has the time do do full background checks on all the stories we read. That curation of relevancy and truth was one of the most important functions of newspapers and it is good that it is appearing in the online variants.

There will always be the unfiltered version out somewhere, the internet is not centralized.

(a) yes, some people will lie and claim to be able to research and determine the "truth" all they read themselves. Dunning-Kruger has something to say to those people.
That is not always the case that there is no legal accountability:

https://europeangaming.eu/portal/latest-news/2018/09/11/2789...

In case you would like to know more about this kind of things check this:
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/76/
It's a dicey situation. That said, Jake's not being completely truthful about the risks here. The office he worked in (TAO and Specifically the ROC), was a volunteer office, and it was made clear what your actions could lead to. Future travel restrictions and concerns were brought up for this exact reason, just as anyone working field work is given the explanation. In a more basic awareness, simply working a position that is cleared, has you go through plenty of discussions / classes / onboarding videos, that discuss the risks.

At the end of the day, he has to accept that he is accountable for his action as should others, it comes with the job.

I'm more concerned with how candid Jake is (as are most of is former co-workers), but that's another story for another day and not really related here...
YC winter 21 invites tracking, Lets track here
How to Get Rid of Paper-Based Processes with Dynamics NAV/Business Central
I use the solid sleepplugs from sensaphonics: https://www.sensaphonics.com/collections/plugs-sleeves/produ...

They are molded to my exact ears. I have tried several other ear plugs, and none of them come close to the level of isolation, including normal custom IEM's. Sometimes things are a little too loud (e.g. neighbors that won't quit on 4th of july at 2am), so adding white noise helps smooth things over.

I will say that I can very clearly hear my breathing with these in, as well as my heart beat sometimes. It's sometimes that bothered me for a couple of nights, but now it's quite comforting.
Many of the security design flaws in signal have had little to no direct impact on usability.

For example, for years we asked for a simple mechanism which could be used to view a users key and mark it as identified, to prevent MITM -- even one buried in a menu for advanced users (who could at least act as canaries against widespread interception). Not only was the request turned down but usually responded to with vigorous personal attacks against the requesters.

Subsequently once a fingerprint validation method was added it was gratuitously bound to be pair-wise, making it largely unusuable -- e.g. post a pgp signed signal fingerprint that any of your contacts could use to transfer trust from an existing key. Requests for a non-pairwise version, even as just some advanced thing that grandma never sees ... again, hostility.

The constant logic-bombed auto-expiring software that make signal effectively open-source-in-name-only. etc.

I think signal is fine as an insecure messanger: Unencrypted communications protocols should have no place in on the internet today. But to advance it as a security tool almost certainly puts people's lives and freedom at risk.

Common usage of signal has zero security against MITM: users aren't effectively notified that the contacts keys have changed-- and given how often users lose/wipe phones perhaps that's really the best that can be done for normy friendly software.

If that's how it is, that's how it is. Some resistance against passive monitoring is still a critical upgrade. But don't call it secure: if you do people will do and say things using it that they wouldn't otherwise.
You can't just replace. You need to make a better game than what is provided.

The most difficult aspect of this is it is hard to compete against free.
I know it may frustrate at times, but instead of relaying instruction, I ask questions and challenge assumptions, though only if any ambiguity remains. Covering it up is the worse option.
Concurrent with an upswell in stories about significant quality issues. Not a good look.
> The __intent to understand__ seems to be the key thing in resolving misunderstandings here, both in online and in verbal communication

Intent to understand is but one of many possible points of failure. The world is infinitely complex, but our minds have this nice feature where they hide the vast majority of that complexity from us. The problem is though, the simplification process is vastly different for each person, not to mention they are not working from the same set of data.

So when an internet discussion takes place, particularly on special topics like politics, the odds of each person considering the topic from the same perspective (with the same desired outcomes, etc) is very low. Add on top of that the fact that most people seem to lack realtime awareness of the simplification process running in their heads, leaving each participant in the discussion with the false impression that they are talking about the(!) facts(!), when the reality is very different.

Situations like this is where some variation of the recommended approach in TFA could perhaps come in handy, but people seem to be not terribly fond of speaking precisely and accurately, especially when it comes to politics.
Dude, this is basic theory at the high school level. Here's how it works: spacetime is 4-dimensional, and a vector in spacetime is always c units long. You can restrict your travel solely to X, Y, Z, or time if you like. If you do that, the other three components are going to be zero.

Photons put it all into the X, Y, and Z components, leaving nothing for the t component. They experience a change of position in space, but not in time. What's so hard to grasp about this?

Another point is that if this concept were actually scientifically useful, somebody would be using it in a textbook or peer-reviewed paper.

Seems that a fellow named Maxwell got a lot of mileage out of the concept, even if he didn't know what was really going on.
Yes, because they aren't performing traditional military operations. They were performing espionage and sabotage. The United States would prosecute these Russian military members if they were caught doing the same actions inside the US
I'm of the opinion that while it's a necessary part of learning to repeat exercises to advance your skillset, school is much too focused on this element of learning, and in doing so to an unnecessarily rote extent (I suspect because it's the easiest way to try to get it done).

The problem is that this mishandling gives people a bad taste for associated activities, especially STEM subjects, and it's rare for people to subject themselves to what seems like an incredibly boring process when they're not being forced to. As such, most of the competency they may have been forced to gain is lost, along with potential passion.

Even repeating exercises can be fun when you understand the motivation behind it. For example, if you have a real passion for understanding Newtonian physics, the parts of calculus that might be 'rote' when unmotivated and part of a purely rote process can become some of the most enjoyable.
It doesn’t really matter what he calls intelligence - it’s still mostly heritable:

https://areomagazine.com/2020/09/02/the-nature-behind-human-...

Skills, accurate self-image, and cultural competence. etc, are of course a different matter.

Maybe he’s talking about these things, but they aren’t the same as intelligence.
I've tried visible <title> [1], it looks natural in search results

title
body ...

vs default

title content
same in h1 content. body...

Search engines claims that's error and may (I'm not sure) penalize. Have to use <meta description> to fix search results (its absence claimed as error too).

[1] http://sergeykish.com/live-pages
As you know, this condition is totally unpredictable, so it may just be a temporary lull completely unrelated to my diet. I also feel obligated to leave the "I am not a doctor" disclaimer. And good luck with your seizures as well. They're so awful
Epic did say it was going to be terminated, presumably as part of the overall account termination. They then updated that it would continue to work.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/10/21431396/epic-sign-in-wit...

Apple commented they weren’t doing anything to stop Sign In with Apple working, but I have to wonder if there’s a lie of omission in there. Like “We aren’t doing anything deliberate to stop it, but it’s going to stop as a side effect of terminating their developer account.”

Either that or Epic was lying outright.
If you want to get pedantic I'd argue Generic programming is a subset of metaprogramming. To that end I'll go ahead and state that Lisp (1958) is probably the language I have done the MOST programming I would describe as 'generic'.
> I suspect your experience is with one crowd

That's a large assumption without knowing a thing about me. Though I exist in a bubble as everyone else. Age with internet chatting is interesting because no matter how old you are, there is actually a finite amount of experience anyone alive today could have with it. There's a large age block that irrespective of the individual age probably have about the same level of experience with chat (i.e. starting on usenet/IRC and staying with it all until now). Oh, I know some fortran. Still wanna guess my age?

I'm going to re-emphasize a point I made earlier that invalidates any age-based arguments: Poetry. The conventions of interpreting far more meaning from punctuation than a reader tends to from long form prose have been around far longer than anyone alive today.
https://images.wired.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/18184147/...
Did you mean FaceID? The iPhone 5c in the San Bernardino shooter case was released at the same time as the iPhone 5s, which introduced TouchID.
I'd expect the C to be buggier, personally
Please don't get it wrong,but I never understood 'getting stuff done and shipped very fast'. You can't get stuff done, if you don't understand. Too much magic works good for typical 'hello world' apps, but when things go south, it adds significant delay in debugging/fixing.
still using Sublime Merge? I never used it, wondering if you still like it
Going to be hard in the current time to get through the gate keepers who are looking for a small number of ivy league universities.

Your going to be screened out by a liberal arts graduate with a 2:2 in HR
While not directly related to this case, the following wikipedia entry has a fairly good explanation and view points on a "just following orders" style defense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders
Lisp has been around for decades. Wikipedia says 1958, which predates C by many years. It is indeed functional and favors recursion over loops.
I mostly just use the 3 or 4 "base" emojis. But, particularly in relatively terse emails/messages, I think it's often useful to indicate that you don't intend to be taken literally/totally seriously/etc. I suppose that you can just avoid making flippant remarks and such but that's not the way most people communicate casually in person.
Heh, my used chevrolet EV came with the remainder of 100,000 mile 5 year warranty.
I don't think this is good logic. If something appeared in Russian or Chinese newspapers that the state didn't approve of, then several reporters would turn up dead. You can hack Putin's Political Party, or some of his candidates in the lead up to an election, but it's not going to have the same effect of Putin hacking En Marche because En Marche is fighting a free and fair election, and Putin manufactures election results. There is no misinformation you can pump into a Russian election that will result in Putin losing an election because the election results are devised by Putin in the first place and any opposition leaders turning up with Novichok in their system.

America may do bad things, but these specific bad things generally aren't actually an attack vector on China or Russia.
> You can't coherently be alarmed by Signal's use of SGX while at the same time endorsing systems that use no cryptography whatsoever to protect the metadata Signal uses SGX for.

You can be: It isn't difficult to argue that signal overstates the security properties of their solution.

It's not an incoherent position to say that it's more important to be conservative (or at least accurate) about the claimed properties than it is to provide epsilon more security.

If it were the case that signal claimed that this metadata had no privacy towards them (and the hosts running their systems), but when you dig into the protocol or detailed tech docs you find that they're using SGX to minimize risk-- then I think there would be nothing to fault about the addition of SGX. In that case it would be purely additive security.
Does anyone know why Webauth does not support a message associated with the authentication? Shouldn't the user be informed in a secure way what they are authenticating for? Currently only site and user name are supported to be shown to the user. For payments (PSD2 for instance) it is a requirement to also provide information about the transaction for instance.
> When tech nerds nit pick Signal's implementation, they ignore that the unfederated nature of Signal limits the damage these decisions can cause.

It limits the damage that some decisions can cause, but exacerbates others. Signal only allows the first-party client to connect to its network; if the developers were legally compelled to add a backdoor into that client, users would have few options.

Its security depends on a single company being perpetually trustworthy, free of influence, and supported. Having used many chat platforms that have been shut down/acquired/etc in the past, that’s not a bet I’m willing to take.

I’d also contest the idea that Matrix can never have a client as usable as Signal, but I’ll agree that there isn’t one yet.
Exactly. People have been incorrectly measuring online ad effectiveness since online ads first existed. The only reason they continue to spend on online ads is that they couldn't measure offline ad effectiveness at all. As long as this is true, and as long as the ad buyers remain unsophisticated, this bubble will not pop.
(That's what the link is for)

That they later dismiss the case strongly suggests that they never thought it would be prosecuted in the first place. Do you really believe that they thought there would be no discovery?
:D. Creating quotable content since 2020 ;p
While Maya is widely used at present, in my opinion it is in serious trouble in the near future from competition with Houdini.
SideFX keep up an amazing pace of development, and Autodesk don't even seem to be trying to compete at that level.
That said, it doesn't reduce the relevance of python for vfx at all - it's definitely the main language for getting vfx stuff done.
> declarative description of components to be rendered.

Doesn't the "to be rendered" part make it instructions? Its like there are two labels for a bottle of poison: "poison" and "poison: do not drink". But the label that says "poison" is of a shape, color, and design that is commonly understood to be a label that tells the reader not to imbibe the contents of the bottle to which it is attached.
Cool and all that, but isn't this... practically and intellectually useless? Surely, you can build a computer using pebbles on the sea shore by aligning them in the specific order. How is that surprising?
You are externalizing the factor of soil health. When we start a field with fertile, normal soil, and add extra inputs, yields absolutely go up in the near term. But after decades of that, then your yield is back to where it was when you didn't have inputs, and now your soil has become dirt. Yet the problem is you are required to pay for inputs just to keep that land at par with the year before. And if you want to wean off the inputs and switch back to the original method, yields will go down for a few years until the soil is regenerated. After which point you will still only be back to normal.

The increased yields from input-heavy factory farming can essentially be seen as a loan of yield from the future. If you are overleveraged, and your capital (in this case the nutrients in the soil) is finite then when capital is depleted (leeching into the environment in this case) getting back to square one will require investment or continued increase in leverage.
"... when honest people would have to cheat to compete, but they don't (by definition), instead leaving, dropping the average culture even more."
Who, though? Matrix has contact discovery, doesn't it?
Taxes were not the main contributory factor.
"Ireland continued to export large quantities of food, primarily to Great Britain, during the blight. In cases such as livestock and butter, research suggests that exports may have actually increased during the Potato Famine.
In 1847 alone, records indicate that commodities such as peas, beans, rabbits, fish and honey continued to be exported from Ireland, even as the Great Hunger ravaged the countryside."
https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/irish-potato-fami...
I disagree, I think there's many times where a statement can clearly seem hostile, or jovial, at the same time, and adding some emojis to lean towards jovial will make it a 100% safe message.

Sure, you can add context in other ways, but it's quick, easy, and effective. Is it unprofessional? Perhaps in an email, but I don't consider every slack message something that should be "professional" in tone. You don't speak professionally to every person IRL (or, at least I hope you don't).
I'm glad I saw your comment. I thought it was the older chess great and was disappointed to read something like this about him.
Amazing how if you just stare at the logic gates you can kinda figure out what they mean. Makes you think maybe our meatware and the computers we use aren't as far apart as they seem.
I was a pretty rubbish reader until 3rd or 4th grade when Legend of the Seven Stars came out for SNES and my sister eventually got tired of reading the dialogue for me. So that would put me in the 10 year old range.
This is super useful. Love the fact that this saves me time looking at multiple sources. Easy to use, gave me the facts for where an article has been published and a general breakdown.
Any system that requires all users to be massively above-average is, almost by definition, doomed to a niche existence.
To be honest, I have almost all mobile device notifications turned off. Though I realize some people are in groups that have more of an expectation of immediate response.
Yes, every contract explicitly said 50h/week paid hourly. Going home "on time" means a 20% pay cut. 40-50 wasn't even overtime.

On the plus side if you're young and single you'll be happy to get a "free" dinner.
Ok, I was assuming the entire education was self-taught/unschooled. But in this case it was unschooled until the person chose to go to traditional college and get a certifiable degree.
I was wondering about someone who went the whole way without traditional schooling.
Yep, I ran into this a few times and now my `~/bin/discord` is just `chromium --app='https://discord.com/app'`.

Only missing push to talk, which I don't need on Linux. One of these days I hope browsers come up with a way for a webapp to request access to capture a particular key, in the same way it can ask for your mic.
Thanks. Now I've listened to [1], I can see why it's one of your favourites. Enlightening to say the least.
> And yet, few people take the time to hone the skill.

Probably because it is, as you said, quite literally undervalued.

Coding is just a writing job, so if you don't think that someone would get hired as a staff writer for The New Yorker then I don't see why you'd hire them to write in your codebase. But most companies don't think like that, much less put any actual weight on writing skills during the hiring process.