skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh no, if I cycle enough through Other Ways or I don't have my phone (while having my phone number connected with Google Account), it offers me to confirm my phone number with showing number as *** & last 4 digits.

When I confirm the phone number, it sends a 6 digit SMS code prefixed with G-, like G-123456 The input box on page has already a read only G- text, & then a box for 6 digit code. After I confirm code from SMS, it gives the option to reset password.

Most of the forgot password ways to reset password is Tap on other Device prompt OR get a code from Google App.

Sample Google SMS to reset code with fictional number.

```G-007007 is your Google verification code.```

After I removed the phone number, now if i click Other Ways enough times, it simply says, give us the information about last time logged, creation date, some address I email frequently, & some other stuff, & sats it will take few days for them to get back to me.
They do but then the companies pay it forward to their customers. There’s a whole list of itemized fees on a cellular bill. Those aren’t collected “for” the government. The company is just itemizing it for you, probably so that they can neglect to advertise it in their contract sticker price.
They publish their revenue and expenses numbers [1]. The marketing mail junk revenues are around $150 per household, and equals to two pieces per day per household.

So it’s a lot of junk as you said, but it’s also a lot of money. I’d wager that less than 10% would pay that $150 annual fee for an “ads-free” model.

[1] https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2020/1113-...
Yeah and Firefox still lacks full passwordless fido2 (ctap mode)
That makes it nearly impossible for the programmer to predict what will type check and what will not.
HN is usually pretty utilitarian, I'm sure there are a lot of people on here that admire Mark Zuckerburgs "style" and seek to emulate it by not caring at all about how they dress and simply optimizing for clothes that will last the longest.

But there are also people out there who are influenced by wanting to look in a way they perceive as nice or cool and still have a satisfying life. I appreciate the tech culture that helped eliminate the suit but mostly because I like the way I dress and it's a form of expression for me. Plus it's nice regularly getting comments for putting in a little effort without having to resort to business casual. I know specifically my younger cousins admire that I can do a programming job and still wear (and are able to afford) clothes they'd want to wear.

Perhaps if the USPS trucks weren't the ugliest design that satisfied specs and instead seemed like some cutting edge vehicle there might be people out there who are growing up that would actually find it kind of fun or cool to drive around a USPS truck. It might be nice for it to be a job people want to do versus it being a secure job where you're the joke for driving around the ugliest vehicle on the road while dodging people's dogs.

As a simple example that well design can still be top quality, look at any of the trains on the Tokyo subway and train systems versus any train system in the US. They're far better functionally than any of the trains in New York or Chicago and look alot better inside and out as well. Maybe it looking impressive and not a tin can on wheels contributes to the increase in ridership for all groups of people, maybe that makes the job to be a conductor highly competitive to the point of it being a college degree worthy job. There are other things the train system does well but you still want to not hate riding on the vehicle.

An even simpler to understand example is the early days of android vs iPhone. Android was simply uglier but wasn't that different functionally. It was just extremely ugly to the point of people not wanting to buy it if they could afford to otherwise, so much so that Google invested a ton of money in creating Material Design
Or the magazine article...
A literal 120V exterior outlet? 83% of these vehicles drive in the city. They drive on average 18 miles a day (typical routes being about 45 miles). You don't need a 150kW Supercharger station, you just need a 1.2kW regular old 120V exterior outlet used for trimming the bushes. Even a cheap RV hookup would be overkill.

If a federal government agency in the most powerful national on the planet can't take the most obvious step toward electrification in a case which is the best possible situation for an electric vehicle (very stop and go traffic, slow speeds, short routes, long total miles on odometer over life of vehicle), what hope does the rest of the world have in taking action on climate?

Greta Thunberg is right. People don't care about climate. Literally everything else is a priority.
The correct fix is to remove the use of RDRAND entirely.
I worked at a bottom tier company for 1.5 years. I got fired and hated my time there. I never want to repeat that experience.
> It's about cost of maintenance not people wanting a feature to be removed. And while this feature specifically doesn't have to high of a cost (I think) it will sum up if many "hardly used" features are left in place.

There is no maintenance cost as they are keeping the "touch" option. Unless checkboxes are somehow easier maintain than drop-downs.
Not sure why so downvoted. I recall a psychedelics advocate/former Vice reporter on the Joe Rogan podcast couple years back who warned how his good friend had a schizophrenic break after doing shrooms. Likely some medical pre-dispositions in place, but it's not a risk free activity.

I read Michael Pollan's How to Change your Mind, and concluded that it's a richer if not safer experience if you're older/figured out yourself, e.g. have more set grooves in your brain where psychedelics can help you realize new connections; and that it's probably actually pretty risky if you're young, confused, anxious, or don't have your basic coordinates yes.
This.

It's what I use between my harness and the anchor to tie myself to the belay

I have used it with, say, guy lines on a tent, and it is finicky there, or around a tree... but with a 9mm climbing rope and a carabiner it's quite good.

It's easy to inspect, it is easy to tell if you've tied a girth or munter hitch on accident, and it's easy to untie by removing the carabiner.

Best of all, it's very easy to adjust without fully undoing the knot, and so you can change the length of the tether quickly.
I'd like to unsubscribe from this alternative reality of the world please.
When African Americans start acquiring legal guns, the laws are sure to be changed.
I wonder what they're going to do with the old vehicles that are being replaced. During the last replacement cycle, the used vehicle market was flooded with surplus Jeeps. One of my brother's friends got one for $12 at auction. They were inexpensive first vehicles for teenagers though not all that safe.

My understanding is that UPS scraps their vehicles once they've exhausted their usefulness, which is why you don't see used UPS vehicles driving around with the logo painted over. Would USPS do the same?
An invert-rotate approach to a dark mode works great until you have any sort of layering (i.e. modals). This is where it really falls apart. Shadows become glows, and make it much harder to differentiate between layers.

If you're going for a quick hack like the above code, I'd recommend at least separating out your shadow styles into a css variable. I.e.

:root {
--shadow-color: #000;
}

.modal {
box-shadow: 0 0 8px var(--shadow-color);
}

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
:root {
--shadow-color: #fff;
}
html {
filter: hue-rotate(180deg) invert(1);
}
}
This is what 99% of the people don't understand.

The virus needs the host in order to spread. The virus doesn't have any other ulterior mechanism that wants to kill humans.

This is why spanish-flu virus got weaker over time because as it evolves, if it kills humans rapidly, it cannot evolve. So, nature sorts it self out.
good point. I guess banning "mined" currencies and the trade of "mined" currencies is what should be desired
I see the arguments back and forth. But this is just classes replacing styles, with a cascade that can't be controlled from HTML. I see no advantages over CSS, and a huge cognitive load for using Tailwind.

Adam Wathan is brilliant. But I don't see a practical advantage.
The Lesser Death-Watch and “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Unfortunately, Fidelity (at least for my account) only offers some non-standard "Symantec VIP" product. Does someone reading this know if there's a way to turn it into standard TOTP?
Yes, I believe it is. You're dismissing out of hand one of the primary security benefits of an open device while giving far too much credit to Apple.

For the open device, (with one glaring hole: they don't support full device encryption i.e. the bootloader etc... yet) you can encrypt your data such that if you lose the key, it is effectively unrecoverable. There is no communication with any 3rd parties that you don't specifically allow/enable. That is a killer security feature of the device: there's no 3rd party between you and your data.

On the Apple side, you're crediting them with 'secretive and innovative' when the reality is they only provide users as much security as their business model requires. All Apple really offers is security from casual hackers and when it suits their purposes, from the user/purchaser of the device. The fact that Apple is in a position to respond to a government demand with anything other than a blob of encrypted data tells you all you need to know about how secure your data really is with them. (I'd love to be corrected if it's realistic these days to use an i-device without their cloud services enabled... I left their ecosystem years ago so I am speculating that it's not)

There's no magic when it comes to security: either you provide the foundation to allow for a secure environment (which Pine appears to be working toward) or you don't (Apple likely never will as they appear to not want to piss off various governments).
Quite the opposite! At least the one I use regularly, tea tree & hemp oil, has a moisturizing quality and leaves my hair (if it's not shaved) and my beard feeling healthier. I also only wash hair/beard twice a week (any product is harmful to hair on a daily basis).
I suspect there is a high level of variance in both the length of different routes and the availability of power in parking areas for mail trucks.
I might write a tool to fetch webpages from a CA VPN endpoint and a nonCA one - and highlight the diffs...

Maybe even automatically tweet a “hall of shame”.?
Is Gizmodo hosting this article in order to give a demonstration of “dark patterns” with their website? Auto playing video ad overlayed inline with the text, article content split and spread over the whole page. What utter garbage.
I use the alpine butterfly to make a trucker's hitch, and I'll often use a friction knot at the end when I've tensioned the line. With those few knots I can use a single 100ft rope in place of a bunch of ratcheting hitches for securing loads in the bed of my truck. And when I want to release the load I can just untie a couple of corners and the whole rope comes out.
I disagree, it's because of post weighting and weighted newsfeeds.

Provide the feed based on post time, allow you to agree or disagree to view hidden posts due to friends votes (down and up).

That's it. I useto enjoy FB(like 10 years ago), until I lost the ability to scroll through a time based list of posts.
Open the Telegram app, go to Settings > Notifications

Turn off "Include muted chats in unread count" and "count unread messages". They are under the "Badge Counter" section.

https://i.imgur.com/pzH614U.png
I have never had a good experience with Scrum, sprints, standups, retros. I mean you can fucking take what I worked on, what I'm working on from JIRA. Why should I waste my time reporting that on a meeting?

Like others said above, Scrum did reduced the time we between when we finish a feature and when it hits production. I like the idea of quick feedback cycle and fast iteration.

But most companies abuse scrum and see sprints as a way to squeeze more out of dev teams. I've been working in a scrum team (leading the tech team as a tech lead, not product owner) for 3 years and I'm burned out now. Trying to get to a different place soon enough.

It is good for the product/managers, but for dev teams it can be bad if not done well.
Because people are so ultra-woke that the term would trigger people. Remember, we are in a time when the term “master branch” is considered offensive.
While I appreciate the distinction, the point still stands: fetishization is something that humans do, and science, while imperfect, stands on a foundation that is entirely unlike that of religion.

The definition and history of scientism is also more complex than "basically a religion".

Meanwhile, a large and growing group of people truly believe that science is religion in a very literal sense, and they're using that belief to reject the reality of climate change, peddle anti-vaccine viewpoints, etc, and that has nothing to do with scientism.
A service 10 people were sharing, but using less than one person might have used a better service, will now have fewer users. My guess: brand awareness plummets to match subscriptions.
This is one of my first science fiction favorites.
How to Turn Your Blog into an Automated Sales Funnel?
Well that isn't cool, Patrick. We need to discuss this over some Huey Lewis and talk about your stats.
thank you for sharing your experiences!

for a new grad in a non-CS STEM subject, do you suggest I spend this summer doing a no-name internship, study algorithms, or both?
Not sure why this is downvoted. It’s a fact.
Did you watch the video? The Volkswagen faired as ‘safe as a car’. It was the other manufacturers that failed miserably.

My conclusion from watching is that it seems like safety is a design problem that not every mfg designed for.
> or registering two devices/phones at the same time

A substantial number of services don't support this, which is a serious impediment to using 2FA both safely and securely.
The “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” links are awfully wordy. An icon would be nice to have. Why would you make an overlay from it, though?
Well, yeah, you shouldn’t make your site incompatible with browsers that don’t support non-specced features if you can avoid it. Which is what I said the lesson was.

But I like WebGL2 and SharedArrayBuffer and don’t feel bad blocking users until their browser catches up.
One very popular CCPA white-label service cross-checks identity databases and credit reports in order to prove state residency. VPNs won’t help with that.
I would argue that functionally the US behaves more like a plutocracy, in which money matters an order of magnitude more than race or any other factor.
They use the term "dark patterns" in the press release, but the actual regulation is very specific, straightforward, and limited to the "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" link that's required by the California Consumer Privacy Act.

The notice of right to opt-out shall be designed and presented in a way that is easy to read and understandable to consumers. The notice shall:
a. Use plain, straightforward language and avoid technical or legal jargon.
b. Use a format that draws the consumer’s attention to the notice and makes the notice readable, including on smaller screens, if applicable.
c. Be available in the languages in which the business in its ordinary course provides contracts, disclaimers, sale announcements, and other information to consumers in California.
d. Be reasonably accessible to consumers with disabilities. For notices provided online, the business shall follow generally recognized industry standards, such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, version 2.1 of June 5, 2018, from the World Wide Web Consortium, incorporated herein by reference. In other contexts, the business shall provide information on how a consumer with a disability may access the notice in an alternative format.

source: https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/CCPA%...
I'm a non-CS new grad in STEM with this exact situation. do you suggest a no-name internship, studying algorithms, or both?
> Most if not all Turing-complete systems are also known to be Turing-equivalent. (I regret not being able to find a better citation for this.)

It links to Wikipedia (WP), which defines "system" by:

> a computational system (such as an abstract machine or programming language)

there is no better citation[0], because it's not true under some definitions of "computational system", per WP's definition of "computational system" [3]. For example, under the WP definition of "abstract machine", a non-computable function satisfies the definition. Or we can define it as follows: input: strings in an alphabet A, output: {true, false}, operations allowed: check for membership in a language L in alphabet A.

So we see that theoretical formal languages are a subset of computational systems. But there are uncountably many formal languages and only countably many TM. Crucially, we can easily turn each language into one that acts as a universal turing machine while still being distinct. Hence there are uncountably many Turing-complete languages for a given alphabet A[2]

[0]: incidentally, the linked WP page claims slightly differently (unimportantly) that "All known Turing-complete systems are Turing-equivalent, which adds support to the Church–Turing thesis."

[1]: "A typical abstract machine consists of a definition in terms of input, output, and the set of allowable operations used to turn the former into the latter." Absent a more precise definition, I assume the set may include arbitrary mathematical operations (and it is useful to define non-computable abstract machines, and in general usage in the field abstract machines may refer to languages more powerful than Turing machines).

[2]: Sketch: Let U' be a Universal TM in alphabet A (hence U is Turing-complete), let M' denote the language it accepts, and let 0 be a symbol of A. Define M such that if i' in M', then i in M, where i is i' with every symbol duplicated and 0 prefixed (hence if i'="123", i="0112233") Define N such that if i' in complement(M'), then i in N, where i is i' with every symbol duplicated and 0 prefixed. Observe that every language disjoint from N that contains M is Turing-complete (wrt a slightly modified description for TMs and the simulated input than the one for U'). Now, let L be an arbitrary language in A. Define f(L) = { j | j' in L, j is j' with every symbol duplicated }. Then we see that f(L), M, N are all disjoint. And if T, U are distinct languages, so (f(T) union M) and (f(U) union M) are distinct languages that simulate Turing machines (i.e. they are Turing-complete). Hence there are uncountably many Turing-complete languages. There are only countably many Turing machines, hence only countably many Turing-equivalent languages, so in fact most Turing-complete languages are not Turing-equivalent languages.

[3]: of course,
Yann LeCun Team's Barlow Twins Method Boosts SSL in Image Representation
Should be optional.

I feel equally threatened by a potentially weak bank app running on my phone all the time as I would my carrier giving away the keys to the castle.
I completely agree.

SMS 2FA is, at best, just adding a little hassle for the hacker. If it's not a targeted attack, there's a chance that the extra effort means they'll move on, but that won't stop any remotely determined hacker.
> Having a major vaccine lead to serious issues puts all of vaccines into question

This is false. Problems with AstraZeneca has little to do with any other vaccine. They're engineered entirely differently and mechanisms of action are wildly different.
> David Bronner, the top executive at Dr. Bronner’s soap company

He might be a wealthy executive, but, you're going to have an extraordinarily hard time convincing me that he's anything but the exact opposite of the caricature of a "wealthy executive"

Dr. Bronner’s is an amazing company with an amazing product.

They also source some of their oil from a small fair trade olive producing cooperative in palestine[1] which I was fortunate enough to visit in 2019. The people there couldn't say enough about how Dr Bronners had saved their coop and the Palestinian olive industry. Amazing people all around and the smells of a olive oil factory producing fresh olive oil are burned into my brain now!

[1] https://www.drbronner.com/all-one-blog/2017/05/growing-hope-...
Let me ask you this, do you think epsteine killed himself?
OK, both Amazon and Facebook (and likely Google, can't remember) order custom servers for their datacenters, instead of going with readily available Supermicro, Dell, HP, IBM offerings.

Same reasoning here: at such a scale, having a custom-built thing optimized for a bunch of your specific requirements, and made uniform, pays off.
tl;dr

Static go/rust executables make deployment easy
Don’t you get a replica set for that $? That's three of your laptops. And if any of them fail, a free replacement. And that FT sysadmin of yours is willing to work 24x7? Cool!
First off, my comment wasn't legal advice. Second, the federal government is not bound by the linked document, and indeed there are several cases (such as banking, firearms, et cetera) where it does not apply at all.

The basic core of my statement stands: the fact that they are not actually legally restrained by anything from prosecuting you under these federal laws is a risk that you should be aware of when you undertake breaking them. The fact that they have voluntarily subjected themselves, in some limited circumstances, to restraint is a) not binding upon them, and b) not relevant to that risk, as anyone who has filled out a Form 4473 (or tried to get a credit card terminal for a dispensary) can attest.

They can write all of the memos they want; malicious prosecution for pissing off the wrong people is still a thing, and has recent federal examples (weev, Roger Ver, et c).
> I think Emacs types would shy away from building JavaScript into their editor, having V8 be the engine, adding more layers of abstraction to understand and maintain, and splitting the extensions between Emacs Lisp and JavaScript. I'm also not convinced that a significant part of the community really wants this.

I'm reminded of when an old C hand tells me that Rust will never replace C because it's too complex, brittle, and frustrating for the kinds of applications C programmers use C for. I always tell them: Rust isn't aimed at you -- it's aimed at your replacement.

The Emacs-ng team doesn't have to convince the Emacs community -- they only have to convince their replacements. Much of computing in the very near future will be built on two languages: Rust and JavaScript. By basing Emacs-ng on those two languages, they just opened Emacs up to extension and hacking by a huge community who have no interest in touching Emacs's ancient, doddering Lisp nor its C underpinnings (C being, inherently, unsafe at any speed to work in). So ugly as it is, from a social standpoint it's absolutely the right approach and may well overtake GNU Emacs in terms of ecosystem size and vibrancy by the late 2020s.
Standards of living were vastly different back then. It used to be the norm that 6-7 people were living in the same room, and apartments were about 22m² [1]. Toilets were outside the apartment. etc. Since then, old houses were upgraded and massive amounts of new houses were built to accommodate a rising standard of living. Just in the past 30 years, formerly cheap regions at outer parts of Vienna, with houses that were only habitable during summer, developed into enormously expensive upper-middle class areas with single-family houses.

[1] https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000067989262/wohnhistorike...