skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can we actually know this?

Can you ever actually prove a negative?

> I think we're in a bit of an age of innocence with everything moving to the cloud, where everyone still believes that all of these services are going to be well meaning, competent, capable stewards for your bits.

> Once any info gets to the cloud, its out of your control forever.

You're propping up a straw man using a hyperbole.

> But for someone not tech savvy, I'd probably recommend a pen and paper with memorable (long) pass phrases before I'd recommend a cloud solution[...]

And then presenting your original assertion without any more evidence.

But that's all nearly beside the point.

The most difficult factor to wrangle is human psychology. Without intervention, phishing attacks just work. People re-use passwords. People switch from redox1 to 1redsox1 when forced to change them. They do this all to avoid having to think about it.

The entire point of password managers is to mitigate this. You need to compete with the psychological ease of re-using the same password repeatedly because that's the only way regular users will use it. Then, you can warn them when they're entering credentials into a site where they don't belong. You can warn users if a service they use was breached. You can warn users that their password is weak or reused or old and give them a quick solution rather than leaving them to figure it out. You're making it easy for them because that's the only way it works. If you draw two barely kissing circles on a sheet of paper, that's the Venn diagram of users who care enough about electronic security to deal with the extra irritation of using strong unique passwords but won't use an automated system to do it.

So maybe the second-weakest link is the credentials themselves, and the third weakest link is the collection of websites users submit their credentials to that don't store the passwords in AES-256 encrypted vaults with no local master password storage, like password managers do, and the fourth is probably the browser, etc.

Everything we know about the actual empirical risk of these components points to password managers, in general, being close to the bottom of that list. Prioritizing anything but the most blatant password manager security flaws over even minor user convenience will have a negative net effect. When it's a risk so obscure that we have no documented instance of it occurring among thousands of documented instances of breaches occurring in other services, I'd argue it's less safe.

If you're going to base your security strategy on intuition about our relationship with cloud services, go for it. Personally, I'll leave the faith to the priests and stick to attack vector analysis and balancing limiting attack surfaces with solutions that work most easily for most people, because that's the only way they'll use them.
This is genuinely wonderful. Sure, it's kind of easy once you get a go at it, but that's just because your neural network doesn't reset itself every go. Maybe you could add this feature? :D

Made my day. Thank you :)
I'd argue that advanced and easily-accessible software tools is doing this to most mediums. Personally, I'm very jaded by amazing cinematography, at least physical landscapes, in films these days. It's too easy to go on location (well, less that part), shoot some breathtaking scenery, and after the IMAX footage is digitally processed, make a macOS wallpaper. Or even a smartphone background. Everything looks glossy and spectacular to the point of banality. One of the reasons I was less than overawed by Dune.

Technical perfection is too easy to achieve these days, and music is just but one example.
GP was just making a popularity comparison, in terms of viewer/listenership, not making any kind of endorsement.
> But you can't see that on a spreadsheet, so...

If true, that just means that a small spreadsheet is dangerous. Not that going by numbers is bad by itself.
Orange Pi's seem to be available at normal prices.
I just had this experience yesterday! I entered the correct password, the right recovery email, even asked for a code to be sent to the recovery email address and entered it but Google still didn’t allow me log in.

I had the same experience last year with the gmail account I created for my app. I travelled and Google didn’t allow me login from my laptop (cos I was in a different country). Entered the code from my recovery account and still no show.

In both instances it asked for a phone number to send me a code. If it refused to accept the code from my recovery email, why would the one from a text message be different. Besides, I didn’t want to provide my phone number to gmail
It’s 60% as sweet as sugar, while monkfruit is several times as sweet. And it behaves different when heated. But unlike monkfruit, it’s legal in the EU ;)
I loved that movie. 'Shut it down'. It's one of the few where I could not figure out the rest from halfway into the movie.
I actually found the solution to this last time I had it. I get it all the time on legacy G Suite accounts that are still hanging around that I never log in to.

I think it's this link: https://accounts.google.com/signin/recovery (don't go through the usual forgot email/password process on the login page or you get that stupid AI loop).

I think it helps to use Google Chrome too.
AirTags do require network activity for the location to be make its way back to your phone, with that network activity provided by another Apple device, rather than the tag itself. And, each AirTag must be linked to an Apple account. If you find an AirTag, hold your phone near and it will give you the full serial number and the last four digits of the phone number associated with it. I’m sure Apple has all sorts of additional information, related to that account, that could be given to the authorities.
Google now have support, including phone and chat, via Google One ( basically if you pay for extra storage for Gmail/GDrive/Photos/etc.).
I'm talking about process engineers, not logic designers, and most of them retired 25 years ago. But a lot of them are still alive.
You are actually pointing out a tremendous opportunity that Google has internally and externally. I work at Google and recently tried to file a bug about the calculator embedded in search. It was dastardly difficult to find how to file the ticket. It took me maybe an hour. A better system for filing tickets internally and for filing and triaging tickets from external users would be a tremendous asset for Google.
I love it in cola. It’s a perfect fit, and I’m sad that it’s very rare to find stevia sweetened sugar-free cola (so far I found one in Germany, and they apparently decided that normal coke is not sweet enough…)
I think maybe the common problem is that there’s a hidden and false assumption that being good in one domain will transfer elsewhere, it doesn’t and didn’t
Saying "just hard fork it" is kind of admitting defeat, no?
While perhaps a bit more raw, if you’re interested in next gen CLIs and TUIs, see also Notcurses:

https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses#readme

https://youtu.be/dcjkezf1ARY

https://notcurses.com/

https://nick-black.com/htp-notcurses.pdf
Do you have a writeup, or know of writeups by others, that go into detail of your use? Always a bit hard to imagine given universal tools like this.
I have been doing this since years and never had a problem... The author is blaming the system while he made a mistake when he tried to create the symlink.

Also he wrote "SimLink command" in the article. PEBKAC here :)
The Other Diversity Dividend
Super cool but I feel like my own (human) neural network only needed 1 game to get the hang of it and be better than the machine.

So it went like this: closely lost the first game, then quickly won the second game after just 2-3 shots. Kind of interesting as a "self-reflection" tool to notice how you learn but seemingly too easy if the AI resets every time. Maybe it could learn progressively faster for every game you play?
Not exactly what the OP is talking about, but I do consulting and have ~5 gmail accounts.

My FAVORITE feature ever is: "huh. You just woke up on a Tuesday and need to get to work? Well, we've logged you out of all your accounts and need you to log in again."

The worst.
Yeah Rogan is an independent thinker. He doesn't fall neatly into a left/right categorization.
I have an upcoming project in the pipeline that would injest emails based on a users custom email handle. The software should parse the email, strip one time password out of it, and send the data (otp and email Id and time" forward. At the same time, the user uses a browser extension to tell the server that an otp has been sent.

The software should "match" the two api calls which would "give" the user the requested otp.

I dunno. Should I use amazon ses+lambda+ api gateway or is there a Foss selfhosted option
That's largely pointless. The critical data elements do get charted. But time spent closing data entry gaps on patient charts is time not spent actually caring for patients. There are simply not enough clinicians to do all that, or funding to pay them. Furthermore there are many aspects of patient conditions that can't really be coded in a useful way. A skilled, experienced clinician can intuit a great deal from subtle signs like skin color, breathe sounds, tone of voice, small movements, etc. Healthcare relies on tacit knowledge far more than arrogant, ignorant software developers understand.

And in most routine cases the diagnosis is the easy part. The hard stuff is actually working with patients and doing the hands-on procedures, which won't be significantly automated in our lifetimes.

Pattern recognition algorithms do have some promise for computer assisted interpretation of things like medical images and ECG waveforms where the input data is already in digital form. We can't rely exclusively on algorithms for patient care, but if the physician reaches a conclusion different from the human physician, then it's probably worth taking a deeper look and getting a second opinion.
The solution to these kinds of problems is obvious: Stop using any Google service. No more Gmail, Google Cloud, Google Docs, Google Drive, ... there are many alternatives.

I've pretty much completely degoogled my live and don't miss anything.
At work I use Chrome, and I was once using some more obscure features of Google Search to find Microsoft documentation and it (Google) started asking me to verify I wasn't a bot, over and over.

So there's some evidence that this sort of nonsense can be other than malice.
Likewise; love Tim Urban. Spent way too much time reading his work. My favorites are "Religion for the Nonreligious" [1] (which actually has little to do with religion, despite the title), and "The Tail End" [2]. Each one gave me new ways of looking at life and relationships, in ways that I haven't thought before.

I started "The Story of Us" [3], but haven't gone through all. I think it crossed the threshold of long-blog-post and became almost a book-in-a-blog.

[1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious...

[2] https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html

[3] https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html
I find when those who are clueless are making money on something, "it's" going to collapse. Same as 2000 when I saw high school drop outs making tons pushing paper for real estate loans. They were all broke and unemployed soon after.
Idris is a really interesting language. One of the few languages that are really pushing the leading edge while trying to also be pragmatic.
You are welcome to peruse craigslist and fact check my claim yourself. I do note the poster said new apartment, that poster was me. It is still surprising to me that for the money spent living in Columbus, you can live in LA. Even if the acommodations are a little bit older in the LA example, it's not like you are getting a multibedroom apartment for the price of a studio in LA or anything. Plus minimum wage is $15 in LA and $9.30 in Columbus and more skilled jobs go up from there accordingly (SWE in columbus make like 70-80k probably). Here's a studio clocking in under $1300 in LA in Koreatown, which would be very convenient if you worked in hollywood or downtown LA:

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/apa/d/los-angeles-stud...

Apartments.com says theres like hundreds of studios available at this price range across LA:

https://www.apartments.com/los-angeles-ca/under-1300/
...or any nesting. TOML sucks for anything non-trivial.
There are still a few grammatical errors in the post. But do not worry about fixing them. It was clear that English is not your first language. That is perfectly alright. The meaning of your post was very clear. And that is all that matters.
> Why not?

Because "That is the compiler's job: emit the code that the programmer wrote", and optimizing means the compiler is allowed to emit code the programmer did not write.

> If you can optimise without compromising the intended semantics of the code, go ahead.

And how does the compiler know what the "intended semantics" of the code are, if it isn't precisely what the programmer wrote?

> you will have to apply judgement

How is that compatible with "It is not the compiler's job to second guess the programmer and generate the code that it believes the programmer meant to write"? Applying judgement to guess what the programmer intended sounds exactly like "generating the code that [the compiler] believes the programmer meant to write".
In the original game the players position would change, so, your neural network would have to adapt every new game. Not the case with this experiment thought
I ended up going with node-red over huginn since it met my needs better, but having a "glue" service like this is useful. Whether it's building an api for sites that lack one (eg, alert me when this clinical trial actually gets results) or handling exceptions (when X is down, toggle Y switch).

Sure, you can write code and deploy it, etc to do this. The glue service just presents a low code approach to most simple things.
Funny that I interpreted the original "long-form content" as being writing. Rogan's podcasts are certainly long, multi-hour sessions, but tend to wander fairly aimlessly and don't really have a central thesis or topic that they stick to. This is unlike most traditional "long form" writing that I assumed OP was looking for.

Try some of William F. Buckley's old Firing Line episodes, available on YouTube.
Seems like this problem would be solved by a serializable transaction isolation level without the need for any locking. If during the transaction the select would return a different result the transaction will fail and can be retried. A select sum() is part of the example for serializable transaction isolation. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/transaction-iso.html...
Good riddance. The number of smart people who expected me to comment intelligently on Watson’s plumbing in the before-times was disturbing. Trying to be very polite when saying “I have no idea what Watson does, and I’m not sure you or the person you talked to does either” is ... not my strong suit.
Ask HN: Is Google Hangouts circling the drain?
Dear venerable and magnificent netizens of HN,

Hangouts and Gmail have been helping the billions communicate easily.

One thing I discovered when I started using chat in Gmail was it's missing the stickers from hangouts. A lot of people probably think those stickers are no good. Maybe the design seems dated or not so trendy. But I think they're awesome and I got used to using them. I really hope the makers of chat in Gmail and hangouts will bring the full set of classic stickers from hangouts to Google chat

They were so adorable

I want to go back to hangouts just for the stickers... They became part of my emotional communication language in significant relationships.... Without them in chat...I feel I can't express what I want to show. Emojis aren't right for everything. Those hangout stickers really hit quite a number of spots to express.

I hope that Google will please please please bring them to chat.

Look other people feel like this, here:

https://support.google.com/hangouts/thread/121080190/using-stickers-from-google-hangouts-in-google-chat?hl=en

I know Hangouts is transitioning but I'm kind of worried when it's going to shut down or what will not be present in the new one. Sad
Yeah but honestly, it's sounds automatable enough.
None of those nurses can be compelled to work for ThedaCare by the court.

If I were any one of those employees, I would quit effective immediately and not work a day more in the old facility. It serves ThedaCare right! They made poor business decisions by declining to pay each of those employees fair compensation. Losing them is the consequence. Their case against Ascension will not hold water.

More American workers should take note and follow suit. Do not accept poor work conditions and low wages. Collectivize. Refuse to work for bad employers and take everybody else with you. This is our power to make change.
The difference here is that the fundamental promise of blockchain is that there is no trusted middleman, so it is not possible even in theory to prevent abuse without subverting the purpose of the whole system. For existing web2 systems, we can argue at the edges about which things are handled correctly, but at least the mechanism is there.
It's difficult to answer this question in the abstract because "meditation" as a descriptor is about as general as "exercise." Even at the level of philosophical schools there's secular mindfulness meditation, Christian meditation, Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist, and the like. Or at the level of technique there's visualization, mantra, vipassana, shamatha, jhana (which can be seen as part of shamatha), chakra, kundalini, ...

So a first turning point might be to discover why you're meditating: whether it's for curiosity, to lessen your suffering, to make yourself stronger, to answer your deepest questions, to help and serve others, to seek some kind of transcendence, to be a better person, or for any other number of reasons.

But let's suppose you're meditating to enact some kind of change in your day-to-day experience. Then a second turning point might be to realize that your conditioning is running the show. If you accept the idea that your starting point is one of ignorance and neuroticism, then if you practice alone, that same ignorance and neuroticism is running the show. This is why Buddhist systems emphasize the importance of buddha (here meaning the awakened teacher) and sangha (here meaning the community of aspirants).

Then if you continue this, a third turning point might be that there is no separation between formal and informal practice. This doesn't mean you stop formal practice; it means you treat all activity as part of the meditation and act with mindfulness and attention wherever you go. This is possible with a deep foundation in practice or with substantial lifestyle changes (such as avoiding distracting media), but usually it's easiest to sustain in a retreat setting.

But to put it in a sentence, I think the most important thing is to get real with your practice and build relationships with fellow meditators. Left to your own, there are too many traps that can waste a lot of time.
And providing no email at all and using form submission with captcha will annoy a bunch people but will save you from a lot of spam ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Honestly, in the context of hosting a static site, how?
https://issuetracker.google.com/ is supposed to be it, but if it were completely open and easy to use i'm sure they'd need a dedicated moderation team just for filtering the issues. The knowledge and dedication barrier is a frustrating but mostly effective way to weed out those with non-issues or issues that really don't affect them much (however humane you believe that is).
That change may also be related to the fact that modern car front windows have much larger angle to normal than the cars a few decades ago. Maybe insects will just be carried by the flow now.
The big dark areas are just fluid. He had some kind of shunt to drain fluid from his brain as a child because of too much pressure. And sometime in the next 30 years there was a problem with the shunt failing, which caused fluid to back up. And the reservoirs of fliud known as ventricles basically grew extremely large from the increasing pressure and squashed his brain.
> NPR, the CBC and BBC

You may enjoy the content from those outlets, and that's fine, but they are certainly not unbiased.
No abi compat is a big one. But if your writing pure python go for it.
Your requirements seem to be getting pretty close to XML territory.

To note, JSON specifically doesn’t have comments to close the door to annotations and other kind of meta use.
Perhaps a better alternative than VPN (given it may look suspicious) would be to spin up an $cloud instance at whatever location and using a SOCKS proxy.

I used to do this back in the day to augment my Netflix selection.
Ivermectin is actually standard hospital protocol (not just for covid) in large parts of the world where parasites are relatively common. Giving someone a dewormer is low cost and high benefit.

One of the reasons the research struggled to figure out whether it helps covid is that it is just a generally helpful drug for big parts of the population. It doesn't do anything special re covid, but it's still a good and useful drug.
This isn't anything new to be fair. Marketing books from the early 1900s talk about the strategy of attracting your flock of customers with a product but then cutting costs by offering a substandard product after you've created a reputation with the initial quality product.
And trainers / save file hacking / locating ram addresses / editing config files / modding.
The article is an argument against that argument.
Ireland's data centers: an economic lifeline or wrecking the planet?
What about the impact of improved vehicle aerodynamics?
Well you can solve 100% of them in one guess if you solve it in another browser first.
I think there’s a difference. “You are the product” means that your usage and data are the primary thing the company develops (with software) so it can be sold to their actual customers, namely, advertisers.

I’ve been involved with many software companies that gather various metrics (analytics, crash logs, user info, etc.) but do not sell that data to anyone. As such, the user is not “the product” but the customer. I think there’s a meaningful difference here.
>...It is a concept in capitalism

Throughout all recorded history those who have been well connected with those in power have unfairly benefited from that. This isn't something that only came about in modern times. It is only in modern political systems with rule of law, property rights, recognition of inalienable rights, etc. where people feel that this kind of political favoritism is bad and work to limit it by constraining the power of those in power. Constraining the the rulers is done by limiting their power by written constitutions, political transparency, etc. One can certainly argue (and I would agree) that there is more political favoritism than there should be, but at least modern economic systems think it is a bad thing and people work to limit it.
Really cool project and happy to provide some feedback! I like the simple but clean interface.

I'm having decent success for searched songs so far. Sometimes I'm not sure why the top songs were picked for similarity but as I go further down the list I can start to hear some similar sounds, but I guess that's just my subjective opinion so I'm not sure how helpful that is.

I looked up Roy Orbison's "In Dreams", and the top result had a VERY similar accompaniment, which was great to hear. But then listening to the next one down on the list, it's the exact same song mislabeled as a completely different one, not sure what happened there, or if that's a bug in the sound loading logic (looking up that song on Youtube it is totally different). Also was surprised going down that list how many singers have similar voices to Roy Orbison, unless that's also mislabeling? Not sure what to think there.