skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But keep in mind each of those was one of n implausible sounding ideas at the time. Even if you might have been willing, would you have had the resources to put into it, or would they have already been wasted on implausible ideas we don't remember?
Wages obviously aren't the only significant cost is all. I was being chippy with the first comment about revenue, because that's the corner the other poster decided to argue from, that wages are the most significant cost (which I combined with their earlier implication that doubling wages would nearly double prices, a statement that implies the starting wages more or less match the starting revenue).
> companies want to get rid of one of the factors

This is because the security of "2FA" isn't really from the fact that there are two factors, but that one of the factors is kinda just ok, and the other factor is ideal. A password on top of a proper 2FA method doesn't actually add any security to the typical login flow.

> So we’re back to one factor that’s ultimately secured by a device password/passcode anyway.

Unsure of exactly what you mean here - in what way is something like a yubikey secured via a password? Also, even if that were the case, changing the scope of passwords is important in and of itself.

> Plus if/when you’re not able to access the device, it’s much more painful to deal with.

Agreed, this is the big problem to solve - essentially this is just a subset of the "recovery" problem. It's one place where passwords may still fit in, though in a different role.

Ultimately, verifying identity at scale is just extremely difficult, and there will never be a perfect solution to recovery, but I think that we can mitigate that quite well with things like:

a) Phones as 2FA devices/ recovery devices

b) Multiple devices (ie: if we can reduce the cost of hardware tokens by an order of magnitude it becomes viable to buy 2+ for many more people)

c) Slower recovery methods that involve leveraging multiple identity methods - things like validating a government issued ID, mailing address, etc.
Cobra has also support for completion. Through defining a ValidArgsFunction. This seems the same level as the completion shown for npm install.
It is definitely a useful survival trait, and it certainly helps with the progress of the species.

Man does it suck sometimes though if you’re on the ‘push even if it hurts’ part of the spectrum!

Something that has helped me over time is the awareness that the stories we tell (both ourselves and others) are almost always post-facto attempts to rationalize what we fundamentally do not understand or control (our own thoughts and reactions, and those of others).

This is often for safety - both the illusion of control for ourselves, and to spin a safe and beneficial story for others to magnify the good or hide the bad of what happened. It gets even more interesting when the possibility of influencing others (or yourself!) to your benefit comes into play. Also a necessary and useful survival trait! There are a great many things it is helpful to believe that may be plainly contradicted by evidence.

If you cut away the noise produced by this process, ignore what people say, and look at action/reaction and reverse engineer it a bit - it almost always produces a far more reliable and predictable model for understanding people and the world overall.

Either way it takes a lot of experience and data points to have any accuracy, so it’s going to be confusing as hell for a long time. Especially if you haven’t figured out that almost everything anyone says (especially yourself!) is fundamentally self serving and post-facto - not due to malice even (though that happens), but because that’s the way it has to work!
That wasn't my read. My read was that they go off independently based on their own conditions (the large pump has a float switch that presumably isn't set off until after the small pump should have taken care of it) and the monitor just records these things.
Yep still use it. It's been stable, and still does what it did before the zoom purchase.

Actually, it felt like Keybase was scrambling to add weird features and find a fit before. They are what they are now.
Shell-Less Kubernetes: Talos Introduces the Common Operating System Interface
You don't inhale granite.
Pretty much all of his articles are similarly lazy (edit: and usually articles from other top SV folks). I'm always astonished that people upvote his stuff. I've come to think of it as an HN tax: we get a well-moderated forum with otherwise good content and in return we have to scroll past one extra article every month or so.
What is "Google's 2FA" ?
Go wrong as in retreat was boring? I guess I will trust judgment of that engineer a bit less but otherwise I can't think of any consequences.

Go wrong as in somebody died? Pretty sure conflict of interest will be about 10th thing anyone will worry about.

Go wrong as in rafting guide bantering sexist jokes? Happen to my team without any conflict of interest. Asked him to stop as soon as I heard it, reported to HR, explained situation and nothing came out of it. Again I can't imaging conflict of interest will change anything here.
January 3, 2032.

For several years now, programming has been a required course for all grade-school students.

The tech field is flooded with talent, and it is virtually impossible to get a job.

The technical interview has grown at an unbounded rate.

An aspiring engineer walks into the interview room, freshly shaven. He sits down, cracks his knuckles, takes a long sip from his branded thermos.

Waits.

And then it begins. The interview.

10, 100, 1000 logic puzzles. Faster than seems possible, he recites answers memorized from algoexpert.io.

Cut to a wide shot. Speed up time. Stubble, then a beard, appear on his face. The sun rises and sets, and yet he dare not sleep.

Eventually, he forgets language, reason, civilization, coffee. The touch of his baby son's skin, although he's not such a baby anymore.

He grunts, diagrams, and whiteboards. That's all his life is now.

"Ok, well thank you very much! You'll hear from us soon," Says the interviewer. The sounds are foreign to the engineer, but he is lead out of the office and onto the bright street. His car sits there, rusted.

The interviewer motions the next candidate inside.

He doesn't hear from them.
The kernel supports that via the binfmt_misc feature. On Debian you just have to install the packages: https://wiki.debian.org/QemuUserEmulation
Even in Starcraft:Brood War days, it was common to learn from stronger players by playing 2v2 (where Strong+Weak player goes up against Strong+Weak player).

Starcraft 2 added "Archon Mode", where you can 2vs1 (Weak+Weak player vs Strong player), controlling the same team. There were far more opportunities to play teams in Starcraft2 than Brood War.

And the 2v2 was always an option in Starcraft 2 anyway.
I got 6. Surprisingly, that seems like that's pretty good based on the comments. Basically stacked across the vertical (starting right and worked my way left).
I understand, and I'm glad you're thinking about it, but you could not have been more clear: "I don't think my work in advertising is something harmful to offset." Did you misspeak? Do you think it is harmful but turtledove might reduce the harm?
> It speculates ...

I can’t tell which ‘side’ you are referring to.
Android phones may be vulnerable to security flaw in Qualcomm chip
I recognize that web fonts is a difficult problem, but it seems like a solution is to get more fonts pre-installed with people's operating systems, no?
It is ironic isn't it.

Having everything society has to offer actually makes you dull and miserable, and depressed.

I can fully understand your sentiment too. I not have always lived in Scandinavia. But sadly now I can fully relate to the author too.
The surprising strength of China-Japanese ties
Non-consensus and right is the best framework for making investments, since you need non-consensus in order to get a cheap price. But for merely estimating the probability that something will succeed, consensus (whether positive or negative) is probably slightly predictive in that regard, as you point out w.r.t. survivor bias.

I do put a lot of stock into Paul's essay, though. If someone credible and highly intelligent has some non-consensus opinion, it's a good idea to suspend judgement and really listen to their reasoning.
I've been a developer for 40+ years and can really relate to this sub-thread. Now I'm spending time with my grand-children do I realise how much time I missed when my own children were growing up. Working those hours, building those products, helping the company grow, weeks on site, 96 hour weeks... all seemed so important then - and less so now.

I still love coding, learning new stuff and occasionally burning the candle, but I'll never again make it my god.
Direct playable link: https://qntm.org/files/hatetris/hatetris.html
Dynamic Maps, Static Storage
It's a bit like saying "it's significantly less work to just fix the bugs than write unit tests".

There are always bugs (leaks) and potential for bugs (leaks), some effort in both directions is usually a better use of time (and in this case, money).
Oh, I see what you are saying. I can definitely get behind the use of gender neutral language in product and marketing materials. That part makes sense anyways.
> supporting self-contained remarketing ads without individual tracking:

Yeah, but what about no tracking at all? What about getting rid of "remarketing"?

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Since you are here:

> The question is, what is the alternative? I see two main funding models: Paywalls. You pay with your money. Ads. You pay with your attention.

How about:

- people pay what they feel like?
- the patreon model, where some enthusiasts pay for the content producer, but everyone get access to the product of the work?
- (for social media): "influencers", power-users and media companies pay for the service and get a quota of "free accounts" they can bring along?

> producing most of what there is to read requires more money.

Wikipedia does not pay its editors and it seems to work without being only a "hobby".

Also: is most the content "that is there to read" worthy of the money and resources they receive? Content farms, celeb-gossip and listicle "journalism" only gets to exist because the are playing for quantity, not quality. Remove ads from the equation and they will certainly die a well-deserved death.

> Micropayments (...) many proposals and startups, but nothing has really worked out.

Brave is growing (over 30 MAU already, projecting to get 50M by year's end, over 1M registered content creators) and it is showing that a tipping economy can work. Would you go work on it?

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People defending an "ad-funded internet" think they are enabling democratized access to good quality content, but in fact what happens is that they are enabling a whole lot of people to make a living of essentially producing sewage. It's as if McDonalds was able to actually offer their crappy food for free and people were applauding it for fighting hunger. It artificially creates externalities and makes it next to impossible for people to pick winners that "should" win in the market.

I know you believe that you have the best intentions at heart, but at this scale there simply is no way to make anything more efficient than a direct, transaction-based market that could match producers and consumers.
"As long as profitable" is basically the same thing when talking about a FPE, but if you like those words better, fine.
Maybe you are right about youtube in context of Indian covid. However, the coverage elsewhere in mainstream has been quite graphic in the current wave.
> I’ll admit, my initial reaction to Mighty was “I can’t imagine it ever being faster than my behemoth PC.”

I haven't found Chrome slow on my mid-range PC (i5-7500). Or my phone (Pixel 3).

I feel like I must be in some parallel universe to everyone else talking about how slow Chrome is.

Just now, I loaded the first 6 links on Hacker News. 1 didn't load at all due to a server error. The other 5 all loaded in under a second (measured by DOMContentLoaded). I have uBlock Origin enabled (only in Firefox on the phone). Maybe that helps.

I can have 100+ tabs open without slow down if I want to. The bigger problem is I'm less productive with 100 tabs open because... there are 100 tabs open. It's just too cluttered.

I'm willing to admit Mighty might be a good product if people have this problem with slow browsers. I just never found this was an issue. Maybe it's a problem on low-end machines, but how many people have a low-end computer but are willing to pay $50/month for Mighty?
As someone who writes notebooks full of completely new, bad ideas, this comes naturally to many of us
Yes but the media was biased before Trump, it just became glaringly obvious during his administration because they were profiting off of his antics. Their viewership has plummeted post Trump and you can see them grasping at anything to sensationalize and garner more views.
I would rather say, the kernel-userland interface is stable. I think it is one of the strongest rule regarding the Linux kernel: don't break userland.

In the kernel itself, however, drivers have to be constantly maintained, which is a PITA if your driver is not in the mainline, but very nice if it is, especially if there is someone to do the job of maintaining it for you.

Again, choices are made, you can't have everything. The ones that led to Linux are good, we know that with the power of hindsight, seeing how successful it has became, not because everything about it is positive (it can't).
Making doughnuts and soft drinks available to everyone for free is superficially a huge win for people. They are valuable (as determined by marketplace) and lowering the cost makes them more available to everyone.

But measuring the net societal impact of a cheap stopped at that point is basically worthless. There are many 2nd and 3rd order impacts that must be included. The obvious is health, but others include the marginal cost considerations of where the money will go that is "saved". Or what alternative food would be purchased (if it's deep fried Twinkies, maybe free doughnuts are a health win).

Any work that makes the ad marketplace more efficient (easier for creation and deployment of effective ads or ad instrumentation) has huge effects on relative competitiveness of startups vs. conglomerates. Just as one example. And those effects directly affect consumers.

I can avoid ad surveillance to some degree, but am powerless to help a business that can't survive in an ad-driven economy. I can't single-handedly keep my local hardware store in business against the threat from conglomerates capable of operating indefinitely on zero margins.
Ask HN: New APIs to Build on Top Of?
Any cool new APIs / cos to build stuff on top of for a weekend project?
Might as well introduce this project here:
https://planetarysunshade.org

We are domain experts, and are developing the support of domain eminences. It's an umbrella organization for anyone working on space-based climate intervention. Happy to chat with interested parties.
You can be a crazy cult and have your member's organs harvested at the same time.
The article completely misses it. I used to work at Google, too, in Ads (the organization), but not on Ads. Most of the people I know were pretty focused on building their little corner of tech to accomplish a particular technical feat (implement a datastore, find bad ads, etc). None of the people I met were evil money-grubber types.

But there was a certain reality-distortion field that only becomes apparent when stepping out of it.

Ads exist in order to sell your attention to the highest bidder. Ads exist to support an exponentially growing tech giant's goals of infinite growth. Ads exist to keep a snowball snowballing. There is no ads business on Earth today that is focused on "just keeping the lights on". So the amount of ads that are out there just keeps increasing. Ads are creeping into every corner of life.

Just take Google search. If you look at the amount of computational resources that it takes Google to run search for today's internet, it takes X dollars. But Google's revenues are literally 5 X, if not 10 or 20. Google is sucking down a huge ton of money that is going to growth and funding zillions of other things...that will also eventually get ads, like Maps, reviews, YouTube, etc. Second, this "X dollars to run search" we are talking about is probably somewhere between 10 and 100 times what was required just a few short years ago. So we are talking about throwing 100 or 200 times--maybe even 1000, just look at the racks of Google made from legos from 1999!--the amount of computational power at a problem than it really needs, and that's to support the advertising market that Google has created in order to support search.

If Google websearch were a non-profit, I think it would require less than a billion dollars to run every year. For perspective, the United States Federal Government spent over $85 billion on the SNAP (food stamps) program last year.

So, instead of spending pocket change on a public utility that gives everyone access to "organized, universally accessible" (to borrow Google's mission statement) information, we have this behemoth focused on generating hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue that just accidentally happens to have a massive influence over everything we see.

You work on ads, Jeff? You've clearly done a lot of thinking as to why that's great. Me? I bowed out of the entity trying to attach a tacky flyer for Ovaltine to every book, magazine, news article, and video clip I see. I bowed out of an entity whose main existence is apparently to mediate every interaction I have with a computer--or another person--and insert advertising into.

I'm actually really sick of ads!
You realize what that would entail? Imagine a horde of wallstreetbets people buying huge amounts of dry wheat, causing the price to go through the roof and/or wheat becoming unavailable in some areas. Or, when they sell, a bunch of farmers' revenues dropping and making them go bankrupt. You really want that? Isn't it better if the chaos is contained to goods that aren't really important?
I'll take that as a yes.

So I wonder how you feel about:

Individuals and interactions VS processes and tools

Customer collaboration VS contract negotiation

Responding to change VS following a plan
Account authentication and password management best practices 2021 Edition
USAF's pilot vision requirements shift based on need and also aircraft type (which relates to number of applicants).

For fighter aircraft they generally require 20/20 vision but permit correction for some candidates (particularly USAF Academy grads), usually up to 20/50-20/70 range. Many more people want to be fighter pilots than fly other kinds of aircraft so they can be picky here.

For heavies (cargo, bomber) and helicopters that are less popular they may permit that range of correction for all candidates, not just Academy grads.

For getting vision corrected, it was PRK only for a long time, no LASIK. I'm not sure the present rules. So long as your initial vision was within some range (I think better than 20/200 for a while there, again not sure of the current rules) and was corrected to 20/20-20/70 or so then you could qualify to become a pilot. Above 20/200 there are other issues with vision that start creeping in which causes them to ignore those candidates.

However, it depends on current need. If they feel they have enough candidates and current pilots then they'll be stricter on the vision requirement (and other waiverable requirements like being just above/below the height range), when they hit their next pilot deficit because they were moronic and created another bathtub curve they'll relax the requirements again. Happens every decade.
The property you're asserting is physicality not reality or usefulness.
What about using mass drivers instead of chemical rockets?
Opposition to net neutrality was faked, New York says
Kahoot acquires Clever, the US-based edtech portal, for up to $500M
Let's talk about the individual and collective consequences of mass data collection. Are you saying you know something about those? Do tell!

Maybe I'm just terribly dense, but I seriously can't think of any reasonable objection to what google does. The best I personally can come up with is that most people don't understand what google is doing and if they did know some of them might object.

When I google "the individual and collective consequences of mass data collection" I get results that talk about the NSA and human rights -- this doesn't seem to have much to do with what google is doing though. When I add "google" to that search I get a rambling article on "How surveillance changes people's behavior".

Please help me out here -- how am I or anyone else being harmed by google knowing what sites I visit?

I don't think the author is being disingenuous. I do think there is a sizable subset of privacy advocates who have become so stringently ideological about this issue they would downvote even thoughtful replies and are so caught up in their bubble that they seemingly can't have a conversation with anyone outside of it.
I’ve had a similar impression, I think. What kinds of developers, and relationships, if you don’t mind elaborating on your reply?... Thanks
I believe it will be a successful business by normal measures, but not live up to the hype and vision of its founders and investors. I think there will be market for a tool, especially with enterprises where people are forced to use a particularly slow web-app or need other isolation features.

But for other people? Can you imagine Adobe saying "Here is our product, now please purchase this third-party cloud service to be able to use it." They either improve their software or launch their own server-driven app to capture those $30. That's my take.
For me (big tech senior), you'd have to get close to the money. I might take a 10% paycut, but probably not more than 20%. Equity can close the gap, but I can do risk based calculations, so it'll need to be very strong. I also have great benefits, a pretty good work life balance (more thant 40h a week, but when and how much I want. Most big tech Srs I know do- we've been doing this long enough to know how much we want to work.

What could attract me out, for at least a bit less money?
* More say on product definition
* Interesting problem space
* Leadership that I believe is genuinely happy to have me on the team, and wants to support me. And that I personally like.
* Team members that I like, including ones that I can mentor
* Clear ability to grow, including increasing rewards with appropriate impact.
* A culture that is a great fit

And you'd have to woo more than just a blind linkedIN inMail. People want to be wanted.
Indeed. This is why you should never compete on price. There is always going to be somebody willing to try to do the gig for cheaper.

You’re the guy who is guaranteed to do it well and do it fast. And that costs what it costs.