skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Increasingly those trailer parks are being bought by private equity and institutional investors.
> but when the best trained NPs were given the chance to take a watered down version of Step 3 which has a 97% MD pass rate with 1-3 weeks of casual studying, only 40% passed.

Citation needed?

> This is notwithstanding the explosion of NP diploma mills

There's no standardization yet for NPs. I've seen short, one year programs as well as 3+ years ones. That's indeed an issue they must tackle.
Mars was always too small to hold onto its oceans, rivers and lakes
FIDO2 keys still lack one of the main features of physical keys that make them great... you can have many copies. FIDO2 makes it impossible to copy a key, saying instead to always use multiple FIDO2 keys in all cases. This pretty much kills the idea for it to replace passwords as no one is going to set up 3+ keys for every site they login to. So it will only be of use to lock your password manager where registering multiple keys would be feasible.

You could use it to unlock a single oauth account that you could then use to login to other places. Problem with those systems is trading privacy for convenience.
It's a lovely illusion of choice, yes.

I'd personally rather see us invest time in "passwordless" systems that provide their own choices/alternatives, but in a collectively strong way where the weakest link in our security chains aren't bad password policies and massive password leaks from database compromises.

(How many banks still require passwords that have no symbols in them because they are overly afraid of injection hacks and would rather have users use weaker passwords? How sites in general still require tiny passwords because of choices in varchar(16) that haunt them to this day, or worse COBOL tools with exact sized binary fields that still need to have those passwords in them? How many sites do we need to see added to the database of something like pwnedpasswords/haveibeenpwned before enough is enough?)

I'm absolutely not saying that Microsoft's approach to "passwordless" is the best one, and certainly "national ID card" is a very scary straw-man that comes up a lot in these discussions!

I am saying that we have to start from the perspective of passwords are broken for us the power users (and our lovely workaround the modern password manager) just as much as for average users that don't understand what is going on technically. We need to get rid of passwords. If we work together today we can try to build standards that get rid of passwords and still provide (especially for power users) provider choice and hardware choice and all of the little things like that which matter to us.

Pretending passwords aren't broken isn't going to get us there, and is more likely to get you that future dystopia where you have no choice rather than appreciating today that passwords need to go and we should be working together on the solutions (twenty years ago) and rather than arguing to maintain the (broken) status quo, now is still a great time to explore and propose alternatives.
This reminds me of how forests actually benefit from the occasional wildfire.
Considering that they got the algo reverse engineered from 14 (it is already in the code running on all those devices) there seems to be a possibility that a security update could bring it online on 14 as well. Just my speculation but it seems plausible.
If possible please try this https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1225034/better-instan... and let me know how it goes for you. No stemming applied, no term expansion etc... The back button issue exists (not sure if possible to fix that as a plugin), but id suggest opening results in a new tab to solve that issue.
For some countries, there are legal requirements about maximum LTV. e.g. in Ireland the limit is 90% for a first time buyer of a personal home, and 70% otherwise.
OP opines with retrospect. I'm a dyed in the wool Linux bod but I can't accuse MS of destroying passwords via AD.

AD is simply a hierarchical database of data that is DNS federated. It has a heavy lean to windward in the guise of Kerberos and LDAP. The thing about Kerb is DNS ... lol!

Our internets needed RFC1918 to squeeze a few extra decades out of a 32 bit IPv4 address. We have NAT and that means that DNS becomes difficult for identity purposes. That means that Kerberos doesn't work quite as well as originally envisaged, without some bodges. That means that you use a lot of NTLM ...

Unixs and Apples have also always relied on passwords as a first authentication method.

OK, I hate the term "best practice". There is no such thing, and MS deploys that term with complete and utter gay abandon. That is what is wrong for me. I think there is good and bad practice but never "best". There is no discussion outside of their own little minds in much of the MS documentation. I suspect this is changing right now but I have read an awful lot of MS docs over around four decades.

Authentication is hard. Trust is harder. Twatting around with phrases like "passwords are wrong" is irresponsible. You need to look at the whole chain of trust and how to authenticate it sensibly.
I remember stumbling into that perl codegen years ago and just being horrified. I haven't done any OpenSSL internal work in years and recently I tried to find it and couldn't. I thought maybe it was just a vivid nightmare.
Firefox has the same feature, i have been more firefox user since Chrome was hanging my system sometime ago
In case you're feeling left out in Notepad, you can right-click › "Search with Bing..."
Yeah, the robot/engineering part is cool, but the end application is just yet another junk mail gimmick, and a pretty dull one at that, which is hard to get excited about.

Decades ago I talked briefly with a startup that was doing something similar but using calligraphers in China. The founders were nice but I passed for the same reason.
In short, it takes a longer time to read code than to write a simple snippet.

Because you may not know the syntactic sugar syntaxes while being an expert at the language / field. They also may not know libraries that's been used by the code without researching beforehand.

OTOH, stripping the code to read from libraries and syntatic sugar syntaxes will reduce the code quality and sometimes making it harder to read / maintain. It doesn't reflect your tech stack in the company.

While writing code will guarantee that it's something the interviewee knows, with tolerable typo and syntaxes, and IMO it's more suitable for the interviewer to ask for written code than vice versa.
How does Swappa handle fraud? ie. saying the phone is broken and then shipping back some other device to the seller?
Even at current NG prices in Europe, combined cycle is still probably cheaper than new nuclear.
Oof, I see a lot of infighting in this thread over whether nuclear or wind/solar is better. It's so sad to see proponents of renewables fight amongst themselves while we keep burning fossil fuels.

Can we agree to build as much nuclear AND renewables as we can first, and then fight over which ones to keep after fossil fuels are dead?
Thanks. It is still crazy to me that this was 15 years ago since I still have nightmares about completing it.

I used the approach to design a PDP-11 Floating Point Unit commercially, but haven't really seen more Spreadheet-to-FPGA work or RISC emulation -- it is clearly my thing to do.

Microsoft just added LAMBDA to Excel but didn't copy my approach of capturing a table as the formula--Like most people if I start with a big data table to analyze, I start by spreading my formulas across a row with short intermediate results, and then test it on a few rows before applying it to the whole table. My lambda would let you select your input cells and define your output cells and capture the dataflow graph between them, with any external references as globals and then spare you the results in intermediate cells.

I spent some time trying to sell this to Wall Street folks in 2007-08. I remember presenting on this at a supercmputing conference on Wall Street exactly today 13 years ago, and the Lehman guy on the panel didn't show up because they shut down that day.
Yeah I feel like as UI has modernized the "search box" UI approach is still not as celebrated as it probably could. I quickly don't care if it's some quirky incantation of a pigeon language as long as it gets me precisely to the destination without messing around. In the few enterprise apps I've seen evolve that was the most successful change was to make either a UI search or a content search.
Most 2FA services like Google also allow hardware keys like yubikeys. I don't see support for these disappearing anytime soon since they are a requirement for many certifications (like Fedramp).
One more point for e-ink readers... they are rather more comfortable to read outdoors on a sunny day (which I do a lot) than paper. White paper reflects sunlight all too well, to the point of being painful or even damaging to the eyes. A typical e-ink screen not so much.
Stephen Hawking Warns: Humanity May Have Less Than 600 Years to Leave Earth
Air Force Blew It When It Decided Not to Give Its KC-135s Winglets 40 Years Ago
I don’t think that Google’s & Microsoft’s behavior should justify new behavior. Or as the adage goes, Do three wrongs make a right?
Can't duplicate. Also, I'm a bit curious how this person is able to see HTTP2 contents in Wireshark, given its almost-mandatory TLS. Also, I'm extremely surprised that Microsoft would send telemetry without encryption.

Also, I'm a bit curious why this looks more like a request that it would send when someone types a search into the Startmenu rather than the Run box.

In fact, when typing into (or even running from) the Run box, I see no network requests over ports 80/443. When typing into the Startmenu, I see network requests going to the same M$ IP shown (204.79.197.200), but they are, of course, TLS-encrypted on port 443. Even if I block port 443 in the Windows firewall, it does not fall back to port 80.

This is either false, or version dependent. I would lean towards the former. Frankly, if this is real, a bigger problem than the sending of telemetry is the sending of unencrypted telemetry.
It's the culture of "the customer is always right" and "the squealy wheel gets the grease".

When acting entitled gets things done, and when management rewards that behavior from customers instead of shutting it down, it's not surprising that more people start doing it.

I think this is a pretty pervasive attitude in our individualistic, quasi-meritocratic American society: we expect things to work right, we get frustrated when they don't, and we get doubly frustrated when the support line doesn't seem to be working either. Then, often, we seek compensation instead of being grateful.
Which is exactly what Freenet provides, because it is needed to prevent censorship by spamming.

Along with pseudonymity that prevents people from pressuring you into voting as they wish.
I discovered Henry George in one of the previous threads on HN. Read the book review that was posted and felt like a light bulb went on in my head.

Over the next 2 months, i awkwardly would try to mention it in conversation to everybody haha. Most people patient enough to listen agree but see that there’s no hope of change because everybody’s lifesavings/nest are tied down to the value of their homes already.

One thing it made me realize is I should probably look into buying land more.
Ok, I see your point.
Porsche 928 from ‘Risky Business’ Sold for Way More Than Expected
A similar thing has also been done with other religious texts (e.g. https://github.com/Sefaria/Sefaria-Project/wiki)

It would be quite interesting if all the world religions’ and philosophies’ texts could be hosted with a common format and available with an API for linking and finding parallels etc.

Maybe then run it all though GPT-3 and generate a new ideology – perhaps a bit scary as to what will come out!
This. Here's research to back this statement up:

Today's House Prices Are Over 40 Percent More Affordable Than The Housing Boom Peak:

https://blog.firstam.com/economics/todays-house-prices-are-o...
Deepak Chopra Has Never Been Sick
Hey @all since I have seen this kind of comment a couple of times I would like to address it in more detail:

"If you take extra funding and hire people just to meet their needs, you no longer have a SaaS. You are writing a custom product for this large customer, with explicit permission to try to sell it to other people too. But this big player will be driving everything, as if you do not do what they say, they can walk and your business collapses.
That does not necessarily mean it is the wrong choice - if you are not growing otherwise, and this is a path to keep it alive, it makes a ton of sense. But if you are growing and these guys are just a jumpstart to bigger ARR, it might be a mistake."

=> I realized that I can easily build the features myself and don't need to hire extra staff. I might need one contractor that could do some last-step safety checks but that's it. In terms of building extra features just for them: Besides the enterprise standards such as SSO and the apparent need for data isolation all the other requested features are on the roadmap.

My business right now is not really growing anywhere and this customer could essentially spark the engine. The reason for this is that there's actually another almost equally as large company that wanted to use my app but had to decline for the exact same lack of enterprise features (mainly the security part)

What I am concerned about is that they want some sort of support plan and an SLA which all seem intimidating at first glance as I have no idea how to properly price it so that I am not a slave just to their needs, you know?
Pointing to Ivanpah is disingenuous, as solar thermal of that kind is has failed to compete. PV is much cheaper now, and PV needs no cooling water.
I think they only synthesized the spike proteins, not the whole virus. You don't need a whole virus to check if a protein is neutralized or not.

(For the record, if spike proteins were themselves in any way harmful to life on their own, Moderna and Pfizer wouldn't be the primary vaccine vendors for the US right now.)
There's a certain kind of tinfoil-hat people who predict that Microsoft is about to restrict what software they can run on their computers. There were similar conspiracy theories when Windows 8 launched - some kind of secure boot scheme.

Never mind that nothing of the sort happened and you can still run whatever you want on your PC, both with and without Windows. Meanwhile Apple has all kinds of anti-competitive restrictions but this is fine.
Dr Ian Cutress's youtube channel TechTechPotato has a few interesting videos regarding time and computing and why its hard, and also why it could be easier.

The point about planned obsolescence is tough to work around. Until we start designing physical devices to make it for the long haul, this problem just wont go away.

Time waits for no man, nor machine.
Always a challenge trying to explain to a paying customer that "they're doing it all wrong", if you want them to stay a paying customer.
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It can work really well for sure. I lost 50 pounds that way after using other methods for the first 50 pounds. That was about 5 years ago. I still remember how frustrating some of the TDEE models were when I was testing them out. Somehow a 500 calorie bonus budget could appear in there and throw you off for a few days.
There are decades of computer history telling users that they are never allowed to write a password done on paper or post-it notes. It's not a new "no true password" fallacy, it's a deep one in the history of computing. I think the fact that so many average users are scared to write their passwords down because of bad 1960s security advice is it's own indicator that passwords are broken that can be a long rant to itself.

I don't know if WebAuthN is the answer either. I just know that passwords are broken.
Again: scanning my cloud account is not the same thing as scanning my --private devices-- which have no apple cloud sync enabled.

Which part of "what I store on my device is not even remotely the business of the manufacturer of the device" do you not understand?
> Ask a minority what it’s like going on a road trip sometime - I guarantee there’s many places where they won’t want to stop.

Certified brown person here. The only thing I think about in terms of deciding where to stop is how far I can get before needing gas, and what the odds of finding decent food are. I've travelled in rural areas all over the country: midwest (my wife grew up in rural iowa), west coast (wife's family is from the rural oregon coast), and south (worked a summer in southern virginia, my best friend lived in south georgia for a decade). I just got back from a road trip through rural Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming with my white wife, mixed kids, and Latina au pair. In all this time nobody has even looked at me sideways.

Hell, the precinct where I live went for Trump 58-34 in 2016 (the year I moved here). The precinct a few minutes away where my parents live was 57-32. Most of the ones around us were 60-30. Again, no problems.

I have to agree with the sibling comment. I have no idea how these folks would perform on an IAT (and I don't care because they're bad science: https://qz.com/1144504/the-world-is-relying-on-a-flawed-psyc...). Southerners are nice to visitors and keep their thoughts to themselves for the most part. I'd rather deal with that than west coast frigidity or NYC aggressiveness.
Dimension 2, put 4 circles radius 1 at (1, 1), (-1, 1), (1, -1), (-1, -1). In the centre, put the largest circle you can. Then from the outside, you can't "touch" the inner circle.

Dimension 3, put 8 spheres radius 1 at (1, 1, 1), ...
Then from the outside you can touch the inner sphere (and it's a bit bigger).

Once you get to a certain dimension (10 IIRC), the inner sphere is no longer in the convex hull of the outer spheres, it is "poking out" of the arrangement.

Spiky like that.
I thought this was going to be about the hundreds os US persons being held against their will in Afghanistan. Likely for ransom until 'aid' is provided to the taliban.
Great quote:

the next version of the Internet will be when somebody finds a word for "the email you put off responding to because you want to give it your full attention — and thus never answer"
One thing I haven't seen mentioned which jumped out to me about the first theory is how would they have inflated the bag with breathable air in the first place? Were air pumps around back then?
Having painful flashbacks. Script Debugger was sooooo useless.
This doesn’t contradict your post (and perhaps even reinforces it) but it’s important to note, ambulance rides are required to be covered as in-network by your insurance, though billing you that way isn’t! That is a single ambulance ride should top out your out of pocket coverage on any legal insurance plan. If your bills or insurance say otherwise they are likely paying fast and loose with the rules.

As far as your other points, I agree. Carry on.
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It's cheaper even if you don't ignore that.
This is not accurate. The average down payment is currently 5% per the latest Urban Institute Research.

https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2021/09/urban-institute-m...
> Also, I'm a bit curious how this person is able to see HTTP2 contents in Wireshark, given its almost-mandatory TLS. Also, I'm extremely surprised that Microsoft would send telemetry without encryption.

Install your own root CA then MITM it?
I'm unclear about these muddled responses to your post that simply states two incontrovertible truths.
It seems like most graph traversal and high-dimension problems would be difficult to model in Excel’s 2D data structures.

(Don’t get me wrong, I think more of the world runs on Excel than most people think and it’s perfectly well-suited for it, but “it can do anything” does not seem practically true to me.)
I really like the cover art on these books, by Przemek Dębowski. They have a very suitable and appealing retro-future look, I'd encourage people to them out. I actually ordered one from Dębowski as a poster recently.
I have a few plugins to improve the PR's in bitbucket too, showing you the relative size of the PR compared to others you normally work with.

Includes the language breakdown and such. Makes it much easier to know if you should be blocking out 5 mins to 5 hours to review something and if you even should be depending on the language.

Alas, Atlassian does not offer PVA for Bitbucket (it was meant to be there in July) so I cannot release it since it costs me money to host. I really wish they would invest more time into Bitbucket.
Fair enough, I made the US-centric mistake but 10% is vastly different than 20%.
Excel is a language alright, a hideous and perverse one!
Nuclear and renewables don't play well together. It really is an antagonist relationship for fundamental reasons.
> Windows cannot find 'foobar'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.
Gas leak phone call scam
> It seems to me that the English poem is indeed Kandel's original.

Hm, interesting. Still impressive since he had to write the poem.
> you just have to buy personal mortgage insurance if you're below 20% down.

You end up paying more in the long run when you add on PMI. I think they are internally conflating "should be avoided" with "can't." I do that with personal things all the time when I tell myself I can't do something that I shouldn't, but actually can do.
Isn't pmi pretty significant?
Clever way to manage user data with multi-tenancy
This was the way back in the early 2000s. We also had auto boot USB keys that upon boot would format the main drive and start listening for the Ghost server to send a command to image the drive. I was often amazed at how quickly you could format an entire computer lab.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lancaster#Scurvy

The navy is not a decentralized organization. Distribution of the results is not a concern.
U.K. Soft Drink Makers Have Just Days of Carbon Dioxide Left
I'm actually fairly certain that the Twitter post is referring to the start menu search. I see exactly 0 network requests when typing into the run box.
I still remember the teacher in med school showing us how exclusively eating mushrooms and wild boars[1] while living in a poorly ventilated granite house (radon gas) in eastern France still wouldn’t reach the levels of exposure one would get from the soil in some western parts of France.

It was enlightening, to say the least.

But then, it isn’t really a risk worth taking in any case.

[1]: because one can’t just live on mushrooms, but boars do eat a lot of those
High prices like that will bring in a flood of new renewable capacity. It cannot last.
We like things to be observable. Thus, a few things we don't easily grasp are:

- exponential growth, which is non intuitive when you are used to thinking in a linear fashion

- long-term effects, due to our propensity to focus on the near term

- grasping points of view we are strongly opposed to. This can be overcome with practice though
It helps that the government can set prices
That's why I said it was at best "something you know by-proxy". It isn't "something you know" that you share with either the IdP or the RP, but "something you know" that you share with "something you have" (your password manager), which in this case is a proxy known to neither your IdP nor your RP in most scenarios. It's a useful workaround to have "something you know by-proxy", but it doesn't really meet the strict definition of the factor.
It's true. I'd recommend ShutUp10 to disable this and other 'features'

Unfortunately it's not that hard to believe. Let's not forget Ubuntu did this as well and sent everyone's data to Amazon.