skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got Google One just for the telephone customer service option. They weren't very helpful for my needs in particular, but I think most people would appreciate the phone option for the $2+ a month it cost.
I'm disappointed in this article for several reasons.
Ars used to be such a great tech/news site.

I would have much more interested if they had dug a trench, installed fiber, or hell UTP CAT5 or CAT6. [0] This wasn't a 'tricky' task, you are operating within spec of all network cabling released in the last 20+ years.

As another posted pointed out, 800m would have made for a more interesting story even if it was just buried fiber-optic cabling.

The other part that annoys me is that no foresight for the future was taken into consideration. Let's assume that there are no trees blocking the line-of-site between the two antennas. Will it remain clear and obstruction free for the next 10 years? What about 20? I have a cable conduit installed between my house and my garage. 30'ish feet. That conduit has not had a problem since 1985 when it was installed. The cabling was upgraded from intercom to phone to network CAT5. Being out in the elements will age your equipment.

Future proofing AKA How often do you want to climb up that ladder: Wireless tech has horrible shelf life and is quickly surpassed. Data needs are always increasing. The 1Gb/s switch I installed back in the 2000's can still handle the workload today, but the wireless AP I installed 5 years ago is buckling under the load that it can't accommodate.

This article is as impressive as telling us the story of how they might have upgraded their service from 1Mb/s DSL to 10Mb/s cable.

[0]For twisted-pair Ethernet, maximum cable length is 100 m (Cat-6A for 10GBASE-T, Cat-5e for 1000BASE-T or 100BASE-TX, Cat-3 for 10BASE-T).
I just dont see how getting a shot every year or six months for eternity is a viable solution. Not only that, vaccinated individuals can encourage new mutations (this is controversial, but I believe over time it will be realized)
> For adults, I agree. But this is squarely aimed at kids and they haven't got the life experience to see these problems coming or deal with them appropriately.

That's what parents are for.
Indeed, thank you for these links and quotes.
Ironically, it's just what Timnit Gebru did.

"I can't prove algorithms are unethical, therefore I'll make a point that the (clean) energy used to train them contributes to global warming (by assuming all the energy required came from jet fuel)". [0]

And then ethics tries to claim it's a real science!

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-a...
I had to look at mine once in 5 years because acme v1 shut down.
The title of this article is the pinnacle of clickbait for me. How do I not click this?

To be clear, this isn't a judgement of the content of the article (I found it interesting and not at all the kind of awfulness that constitutes "clickbait" typically).
Meh. I have $1.5mm by 30. Make $400k/yr.

Parents at their peak earned maybe $60k together. Most of life they earned less and our house we got when growing up was only $120k. (They didn’t have a house until they were in their 40’s btw)

They have no envy. They still pay for dinner if I visit. You know why? Cause they know how hard I worked for it - they saw how many years I spent grinding. They’re proud more than envious by a large margin. They’ll brag to their peer group while still conveying that it wasn’t them that made it happen.

I think if you worked hard for it. I think if it’s apparent how much effort went in and that you’re not a person who is callous to others then people will treat you with respect.

This is one area of my life that does differ from some. I’m very upfront with how much I’ve struggled to get where I am. Extremely upfront. No one has a single ounce of envy for my life. I’ve professed many times that if I end up being a billionaire - I’d never relive my life even knowing I’d be a billionaire later because no amount of money will make up for the pain, suffering, and agony that I had to endure. Even now, it’s not like things are fantastic. I still don’t have what I want because what I want requires 10x what I have for SFBA. If I moved to BFE then it’d be no problem but then I wouldn’t have a job or a hope of a social life.
Shouldn’t universities rename master’s degree programs as well?
What is really unfortunate and not communicated in this article is just how much Google's various star crossed forays into healthcare took oxygen from other fruitful and deserving efforts. It's an indictment of healthcare institutions as well for falling for it every time one of the tech megaliths promises the moon.

At ClearHealth we lost many, many potential projects, partners and dollars over the years to "we are going to see what google is doing", "we are in talks with google", etc.

The damage is very large but difficult to calculate.
While I am sure many kids would be swayed without it, the potential to make "serious cash" is one of just three things they highlight about their platform on their creator page: https://www.roblox.com/create
> how does the query engine know

It doesn't, really.

When a query planner is deciding the best path for answering a query, it will generate many different plans with different costs. Estimations are sometimes wrong, so planners may try several different plans for the same query over time and eventually settle on the one that actually did the best.

Databases are also constantly collecting statistics on the values in each column, such as min/max, distribution, cardinality, rows per page/block, values at different percentiles. It's possible for these statistics to change over time, either suddenly or slowly, and this can mean the cached plan is sub-optimal. Or maybe you're adding/removing indexes. Plans become stale, and new plans will need to be tested.

So let's say you create an index on `createdAt`. When you ask for rows `WHERE createdAt >= '2020-01-01' AND createdAt < '2020-04-01'`, it's going to generate plans considering that index and compare it against a plan without that index.

Because the index is sorted and we have a range query (min/max), the planner knows it can very quickly find the inner b-tree nodes that contain all rows that match the query and how many pages may need to be read from disk and how many rows that will include. It will then know exactly what data pages we need to scan to find the rows we're interested in.

Without that index, it has no idea about the distribution of values of `createdAt`. It's very possible that 99% of all rows are sorted, but for whatever reason 1 row is completely out of place (should be row #100, but is row #10,000). Every row will need to be scanned to be sure.

Even with the index, the database statistics include min/max values. Let's say we change our query to `WHERE createdAt >= '1900-01-01' AND createdAt < '2100-01-01'`, and it includes EVERY row in the table. The query planner will be able to figure this out, and will generate a less costly plan that just does a full table scan instead and skips the index.
> It's absurd.

People said that about the idea that covid would become a pandemic too, you just proved my point.
These are questions that are worth delving into more deeply. In my brief period at IBM I was adjacent to the Watson Health folks and the challenge, to my unsophisticated eye, was greed. Basically the "Health Care System" in the US appears to be completely corrupt[1]. Thus any proposed change the is presented based on how it will "Improve the system" is immediately suspect by those for whom the unimproved system is paying them a hefty paycheck. In the two (and be aware there were thousands so this is an anecodtal sized sample set) engagements I had visibility into with Watson Health teams, the one that went in with "This will improve patient outcomes" got shut out, and the one that went in with "This will increase your net margins" was welcomed with open arms.

I'm not sure how one unties that particular knot.

[1] Corruption here being that the primary mission is the collection of monies and health outcomes are a tolerated side effect of that.
Could be his email address uses OTP or UFA, which would make it secure.

If anything SMSs are much more dangerous than OTP and services should eschew them.

Sadly some of them still force you to have SMS.
I don't know if you would be interested in it but I currently own yaynay.io and would happily transfer it to you at cost. I had originally hosted a failed side project there and it has since been rotting away. Feel free to email me at tyler at greaterscott dot com. Congrats and good luck on this!
Interesting. As a European (dutch even, so more water interested) I would love to learn more.

I often felt that, in agriculture we (dutchies) have over engineered for short term profits. I wonder if the same holds for our water engineering.
>Get vaccinated every 6 - 12 months

So what I already do for influenza.
Because mass vaccination combined with a vaccine that does not necessarily prevent infection and transmission creates selective pressure that is likely to further enhance the fitness of the virus and will lead to variants that escape the immune response in both vaccinated and naturally infected individuals.

Excerpts from [1]:

- "The spike protein receptor-binding domain (RBD) of SARS-CoV-2 is the molecular target for many vaccines and antibody-based prophylactics aimed at bringing COVID-19 under control."

- "Such a narrow molecular focus raises the specter of viral immune evasion as a potential failure mode for these biomedical interventions. With the emergence of new strains of SARS-CoV-2 with altered transmissibility and immune evasion potential, a critical question is this: how easily can the virus escape neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) targeting the spike RBD?"

- "Our modeling suggests that SARS-CoV-2 mutants with one or two mildly deleterious mutations are expected to exist in high numbers due to neutral genetic variation, and consequently resistance to vaccines or other prophylactics that rely on one or two antibodies for protection can develop quickly -and repeatedly- under positive selection."

- "The speed at which nAb resistance develops in the population increases substantially as the number of infected individuals increases, suggesting that complementary strategies to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission that exert specific pressure on other proteins (e.g., antiviral prophylactics) or that do not exert a specific selective pressure on the virus (e.g., high-efficiency air filtration, masking, ultraviolet air purification) are key to reducing the risk of immune escape"

- "Strategies for viral elimination should therefore be diversified across molecular targets and therapeutic modalities"

[1] Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (April 2021) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909660/
> The only difference is that Minecraft users make no money at all for their efforts.

Minecraft dev. here, not strictly true. We have a pretty bustling marketplace full of paid and free content (maps, skins, etc.) but the process to release such content right now is pretty hands-on and not suitable for non-adults.
You cannot get a loan with a company's EIN, nor can you (easily?) get money from the government by filing tax returns with a company's EIN.

Therefore there is not much value in fraudulent use of EINs.
I've been asking those questions for about 16 months now and hardly anyone of those in charge is willing to even consider an answer. They just botch and bumble their way through from one lockdown to the next.

The COVID-19 vaccines are a boon and a vital component for ending this crisis. However, they're not the panacea those in charge made them out to be. Make no mistake, those vaccines, particularly those of the mRNA variety are more successful and have been available much more quickly than one could've reasonably hoped them to be.

Still, it should have been clear right from the start that virus variants against which vaccines are not as effective anymore are a distinct possibility.

Hence, my suggestions for a "new normal" (though I dislike that term because it implies both that the world in general is static and that on the other hand we have to accept the current situation as the new default indefinitely) for the time being (that is until COVID-19 has become endemic and most of the population has built up at least some level of immunity - through vaccines or by "natural" means) are these:

1. getting vaccinated, if possible

2. getting booster shots and / or updated vaccines regularly, in case that's proven to be useful (the jury still being out on both counts)

3. wearing masks in certain settings, e.g., on public transport

4. the most important one: having everyone - vaccinated or not - tested for indoor gatherings or large-scale events (rather than prohibiting those outright)

Other than that, life has to continue as normal: No further lockdowns, no social distancing, no civil rights restrictions.

Unfortunately, and totally incomprehensibly, #4 seems to be highly controversial, with some countries now even shutting down their previous - if perhaps not exemplary then at least adequate - testing schemes or implementing truly asinine measures such as mandating people to pay for tests and only requiring those not vaccinated to be tested at all.

Yeah, right. What could possibly go wrong? I suppose the rationale behind that one is: "No tests. No problem."
I assume the PM doesnt actually use android auto, and one of the devs who does wanted to at least be able to use it personally.
Technically that's possible but there would be too many false-positives. People would be signed out every time they took their laptop home from a coffeeshop or connected over a mobile hotspot.
The number of stories I’ve read about people getting rescued tells me that the beacons are not overkill.

Activating you beacon while buried under snow seems very difficult if not impossoble.
> Unfortunately some companies interpreted "equal pay for equal work" as "everyone makes the same".

It worked at NeXT. But unless you have a world class founder and are hiring in a top tier market, good luck.

The real question you need to ask yourself is: is it equal work and are you an HR company that happens to write software or a tech company?
I was not trying to compare the 6502 with the 8080 here, and I said "potentially" exactly because it depends on the architecture wether it works out (and, as said, 8088/8086 removed the conditional returns). On the 8080 specifically, conditional returns seem to be a little cheaper overall.
It's trite at this point that someone will respond that the users aren't the customers, they're the product, but it's trite because it's often correct, and deserves to be said, so I guess I'll be the one to say it this time.

The sad thing is that this person actually is a customer because they bought a product and pay for things on it, but Facebook still doesn't realize that, or more likely these customers are such a small amount of their revenue they just don't care (and don't think it matters for growth of this area or don't care about that growth).
Critical thought requires falsifiability and evidence, but conspiracy theory only requires belief.
Xkcd: News Story Reaction
Since US laws tend to be somewhat bonkers, a european perspective.

If you need some applications installed on a smartphone in order to perform your jobs duties, the smartphone is a work tool. This must be supplied by the employer if requested. In practice, our company offers two choices if your position requires this.

For one, you can be issued a company owned and managed phone. This phone is registered with the MDM and the MDM manages the installed software. Additionally, because the MDM can wipe the work phone after loss or theft, company data may actually be stored on the phone. The drawback is that you now have two phones.

Alternatively, there is a small number of use cases authorized to be done on personal phones with basic security enabled. For example, access to mails with a web browser, an authorized messaging client, or a TOTP MFA application, like google authenticator. These are fine, because they either don't store company data on the phone, or because they are not critical on their own. You can have my MFA token generator, because you don't have my password, for example.

So for example, personally speaking, I have to have a TOTP app around, a messaging app - threema for work - installed due to on-call and maybe duo in the near future. I consider those reasonable, especially because I have a TOTP app and something for oncall anyway. Or used to. RIP Firealert :( However, once I'm supposed to install teams, outlook or some of these, I'd balk.
This doesn't really address the core issue. There's a difference between determining loan rate based on race of the applicant, and using features that correlate with failed loan repayment that happen to overrepresented among black people. While it is illegal to use race as an input to your algorithm, biases in outcomes will still be present given the bias in the relevant non-protected properties. Are ML algorithms required to normalize for race in the face of bias in the relevant variables?
An example from this year: Rather than fix problems with the golang.org website search box [0,1,2], they just removed it [3]. They ignored the low-effort workaround which is making the search box into a form that submits to Google Search. Is their whole team too senior to spend time maintaining a website search function?

[0] "Make website search case-insensitive" https://github.com/golang/go/issues/40217

[1] "Make search box remember what you typed" https://github.com/golang/go/issues/40218

[2] "show search box on smaller viewports" https://github.com/golang/go/issues/40220

[3] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44357
I'm not following your argument. What is this thing that URLs are which makes them public?

For instance, I could argue "Fingerprints are not passwords, and they need to be treated as public, because of what they are" - because I can finish that sentence with "and what they are is a pattern that's left on every single random thing you touch, and is also immutable and impossible to rotate."

What's the analogous thing for URLs?
previous related discussion only 4 months ago:

What are some thought-terminating clichés in the software industry? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27012428

and earlier only a year ago a few discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23521426

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22722522
It seems that you equate sex to manual labour, when it is one of our important biosocial functions (if not the central) that involves much more complex reactions and distortions at all sides (a prostitute, a client, an aware neighborhood/society) than kicking a shovel into the dirt or massaging a muscle. It’s always baffling how some people try to render it as just a mechanical process akin to workout and/or blowing a nose. If it’s kind of the same, why hiding it from kids and not serving clients right on the squares, like hotdog stands do.

gp: The more that is normalised, the more it damages all women - not just prostitutes

I’d argue it damages society as a whole. Even if prostitutes and all women could be fine and safe by some magic mean, distorted concepts of a “succesful social woman” hit men back as well.
I don’t think that byod at every company separates things that completely
They also have a very refined palette, which is why they are often found in top restaurants
> The frenzy to paint this as anti-privacy given outlandish scenarios could very well end up killing a very pro-privacy move towards stronger encryption for everyone

I'm not sure a device you own silently scanning your files at someone else's behest can really be counted as a privacy win. You have no idea what it's actually doing, or how this process could be subverted for criminal or political purposes.
>How do you look at the technical person putting it together and just disregard everything they are saying?

Sounds like a large number of executives to me, honestly.
I misremembered. It was 90% of people over 50 that were vaccinated. It's in the article I linked. But I don't think that discredits my main point, that increased vaccination rates aren't going to eliminate the virus entirely and that natural immunity is actually doing better.
With BMW however, you can get the factory tools - so you didn't do your research well. They're also available from BMW legit www.bmwtis.com aos.bmwgroup.com

Just search for ISTA-P, ISTA-D, INPA, E-SYS and realoem, TIS, ETK for parts (you can get them for free* too)
Tmobile was 40M.

It is all small pickles anyway compared to Sep 2017's Experian leak of 147M people's records:

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2019/07/equifax-data-breac...

A credit reporting agency's information is all the important information you would need about someone to do something fraudulent with their identity.
CanvasPanel is a component that sits between tile renderers and Manifest viewers
Or, maybe you just believe in conspiracy theories that aren't worthy of anyone's attention.
I want the original version back. 2000's Facebook was actually pretty great while it lasted.
I agree no one is saying that. I think they are being unsound in refusing to say that but also saying that URLs don't count as an authentication system.

Is the argument "Information in an email should be treated as public"? Then how do you validate users on signup in the first place? How do you ensure that someone owns an email address that they claim to own?

Is the argument "Information sent over HTTPS should be treated as public"? Then why does the argument not apply to passwords or cookies?

If the argument is something else, what is it?
I've always been confused by the "calories in, calories out" claim. It is usually used to mean that weight gain/loss is proportional to calorie surplus/deficit. But I don't understand how that is a restatement of the first law of thermodynamics. What I could believe is the claim that the number of calories stored in a person's body is proportional to their lifetime caloric surplus, from which it follows that the change in the number of calories stored on a person's body over a period of time is proportional to their caloric surplus over that period. But weight is not proportional to stored calories, since fat is more calorie dense than protein. So in order to gain muscle, lose fat, and maintain the same weight, doesn't a person have to run a caloric deficit?
Generation and transmission of inter-lineage recombinants in SARSCoV2 pandemic
> Do you still feel he is a hypocrite?

Unequivocally yes, because the bar he set was (apparently) saying that living in comfort beyond hunger and pain (or whatever the comment I responded to said) is "wrong". Random numbers don't change the fact that he's still living quite comfortably, which by his own standard is wrong. If he admitted to changing his views, or acknowledged his hypocrisy, then I'd think highly of him for his intellectual honesty. Otherwise I don't see much value in his points unless you happen to already agree with him, again, like the commenter I responded to originally
Then that's not TOTP https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6238 but something different. Do you know how it is called and which products support it? I'd love to read up about it!
I think quite a few people monitor their accounts, but what comes as a surprise is that they can get charged after expiration.

I have checked my cardholder agreement with Visa, and can find nothing about this "convenience" of continuing to allow a recurring charge after a card has expired. Although, I will say I'm not ungrateful it's there as changing a whole bunch of such charges is not something I would look forward to.

After noticing banks/card issuers have done this, I have treated the expiration date as affecting new purchases only.
This is true of MySQL (which the guide uses), but not necessarily of other databases such as Postgres.