skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah but the argument at its core is that, while having a phd will generally land you a higher salary (provided you don't specifically choose to stay in a low-paid profession, like academia), in general this comes at the cost of earning potential sacrificed during your phd, and that the increase in pay typically isnt enough to make up for wages lost during your studies. right?

which sounds like a nuanced argument at first, until you realise it's exactly the same argument for any level of education. if you work from age 6 to 20 instead of going to school and then basic college, the increase in pay from having a basic education will not be enough to make up for potential wages lost over 14 years. Especially if you invest part of it in the meantime.

Obviously I'm not saying this is a good idea. The point is, if one were to treat the financial argument as the only argument worth considering, this would be the logical conclusion, and PhD would be no different from elementary school in that regard.

But obviously, even though it's the same argument, it sounds different when talking about PhD instead, because of this whole deprecation culture trend people seem to have towards academia these days (which doesnt seem to have reached basic schooling. yet.)
Roger Ebert: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1995)
what if life exists everywhere we are just incapable of detecting it? All we know for sure that there is none on the moon, and soon we will make that claim for Mars, after turning a couple of rocks.

If there is life with the same technologies to us sending some beacon signal, what's the odd that we get it?
I had a similar case, in one of my (lesser) gmail accounts. I took that as final warning and since then started to move away from google mail.

Currently, I use a posteo mail, which costs me 1€ (I believe) per month, for the important stuff. Mails which come as part of my webhosting package for most of the other stuff. And a free adress (web.de) as experiment, but it didn't turn out too bad so I keep it for unimportant stuff They just send ads as mail once a week. Calling this "mildly annoying" is exaggerated already.

Yea, so the takeaway (imo) is, leave the sinking ship before it sinks you. The process may take weeks or months if you proceed it relaxed (that's how I did it), so start before one of your important addresses gets hit.
It's not just the user-agent, it is definitely doing non-trivial fingerprinting (both linked projects also had UA mitigations before). We don't have an easy workaround (besides a sketchy cookie hack that took hours to reverse engineer) right now and have been trying to get in touch with them.
owning a john deere was once a symbol of a liberated man
I’m definitely a web3 skeptic, but honestly, I’d love to own one of these NFTs for sheer novelty purposes. It’s some random dude’s face, that’s pretty hilarious. So I doubt it’s all money laundering.
There is minimal effort in a CLI app compared to a full-fledged web app.
I also appreciate how much faster things are when there is a CLI REST APP instead of a GUI front-end for the same application.
My solution is, buy your own domain. It's cheap and it will cost you only 20$ a year or something like that. I'm not saying run your own email service (I do, but I recognize that it's complex and not worth for most people), but use a public email service (like also GMail) with your own domain.

That way at least if you no longer can access your account, or you get banned, or whatever, you don't loose your address (since you can just move to another provider).

Also, use an email client on your PC (such as Thunderbird) and configure it to keep a copy of all your emails locally (and possibly have the PC backed up). That way if you loose access to your account you don't loose access to your mail, that you can even upload again in the new provider server.
The vast majority of the world has cheaper rents than SF. Its simply a numbers game.

Yes, I am sure you can find a couple people, who would move from a more expensive location, but that is a silly thing to bring up, as some counter example, when there are a lot more places that are cheaper, which people could move from.

So yes, it is a very reasonable assumption, to say that if someone moves to SF, that most of those people, are moving out of cheaper cost of living areas, because that is how stats work.

And anyway, maybe those mountain towns would be cheaper, if those yuppies were living in SF instead. So both points support me, even in the case of a yuppie coming from an expensive mountain town, moving to SF.
I think you've worked it out: because Spotify doesn't sell music.

In producing it's own programming, Netflix started competing directly with the very people providing it's content.

I assume streaming on it's own just wasn't considered lucrative enough; but it still seems ill-advised to me. What happens seems completely predictable, yet Netflix could have had a really good long game here.
I'd guess that it's because they (incorrectly) think it's an embedded Webview, which get blocked (see https://developers.googleblog.com/2021/06/upcoming-security-... and https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/oauth2/poli...).

You could try creating an issue in the Cloud Identity issue tracker (Cloud Identity is Google's API for letting websites have a "Login with Google" thing): https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/new?component=522910&...
it's all about the money, no matter the cost, that's why they mostly operate in grey zones/areas, always trying to circumvent the law somehow. "What do you mean we can't dump all the waste into the river? we actually have to dispose it properly and pay for it?"

and I get it they want to increase their profit. Even if a company wanted to dispose it properly he won't be able to offer competitive prices if nobody else does it
Defering things to other layers such as code review is the exact opposite of Go making it non-optional to explicitly handle errors. Idiomatic Go has developed very rigid patterns around how to handle errors specifically because if you want to write happy-path code which ignores errors the language itself does nothing to discourage you from doing that, and in fact makes that the easiest thing to do.
> in general sha-256 is already really fast. Why bother with something faster?

Have you never sat there waiting for a hash to finish computing? I regularly do and I'm not even dealing with large data. It's very slow, and worse than that it's both very slow and also entirely sequential! (So is BLAKE2 - BLAKE3 is parallel.)

Worse than that - it's an astronomical waste of energy if we could be doing the same thing in less time. I wonder how many hashes humanity runs a day?
I was working for one of the Big 4 in risk assessment and this is 100% how it works.
Show HN: Grams.io – calculate how long drug(s) stay in body
$100B is ~8% of $1.2T. Single digit, yes. Tiny - guess that's more subjective than I thought.
Amazon's security is completely bonkers.

I lost access to my old account and they just decided that I will never change my password there.

To unblock I must provide them with proof of identity.... that includes:
- notary certified copy of my passport, in English... (I'm not from an English speaking country)
- proof of residence in Ireland, where I wasn't even resident, but I did receive a few packages

or.... I could just call my old phone number and ask the person to just forward me a text that they send to that phone number.

I mean... How over the top are the requirements, while someone with a damn leaked password database and access to my old phone number will be able to just "sail through"...

My AWS/Amazon accounts don't even have any activity or data in them...
I agree. I change my phone number often and this is annoying.

It's also very annoying that most EU banks rely on SMS codes to confirm transactions as it's quite easy to clone SIM cards. Yet they don't support real OATH OTP.

I hate Office 365, but I have to concede that their login is much more robust. I use passwords + OATH and it's truly reliable.

Gmail has locked me out very often for no clear reason. Besides they don't support TOTP unless you use a key or a phone app. So I can't use an airgapped device to store my keys.
On your final point: really easy to raise money and the irony of centralized projects built on the stack.

Again, probably true... but to an extent. Take a look at that Chris Burniske talk I posted in the other comment. There are many things that look new in crypto, but in fact, they are just more efficient in crypto. One of them is the speed through which the value that accrues in crypto is redeployed to fund new innovations. So when we see these huge market caps of tokens, it means huge treasuries are also being deployed to fund good (and bad) ideas. This means many founders in the space can find good homes quickly, making it more competitive for external investors to access the founder pipeline. So the strong vested interest you point out is partially just the result of this wild fast loop.

I really don't see coinbase as a contradiction. It solved some pretty big pain points that web3 alone couldn't solve in the early days. Some of that will be replaced, other parts of it probably will not be replaced. It's just one piece of a puzzle.

I guess final thought related to that last point. There is a really easy mistake that founders make all the time. They look at the market or the competitors and they assess the current state, a snapshot. It's really hard to break out of that and assess that outside of us with velocity taken into account. Where will they be in x amount of time? People will sit there and point at centralized opensea as proof of web3 failure, until opensea isn't the dominant player anymore, and they will point to the next thing. But where is it all going? Where is it already that we just cannot see from the outside?
Guns get stolen. In a country with 300 million guns and a very porous border with lots of criminal activity along that border, there are going to be many, many illegal guns.

There are a lot of controls on new firearms transactions now, but there weren't always, and even now, some States allow private transfers w/o a background check (I believe Florida does, where it suffices that the seller not have reason to believe that the buyer is disqualified from owning a firearm, but IANAL and also am not a Floridian).

It's entirely possible that just based on stolen guns, and transfers made back before background check were required, that there might be several million firearms in the hands of persons not permitted to own them. Even if it was just one million, that would be thousands in certain cities. Add to this that drug traffickers along the southern border have ways to sneak in enormous amounts of illegal drugs, and you have to imagine they would also bring some firearms too, no? so probably quite a few over the past 40 years.

Here's a link I just found searching for this: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/guns/procon/g...
I have this exact issue since I changed my phone number and forgot to update it in all my Google accounts. Now I can't access an account that has some adsense funds. Lesson learned: don't trust a company that doesn't have customer support.
These people may be majoring in CS, but there's really no way around it in the end - to be successful in this field, you have to really love computers. Unless you're a certifiable genius, part of the challenge of this field is just spending a ton of time in front of the computer, learning all the little things. This is a lifelong journey, one that's impossible to complete, and one you can't fake or BS your way through. I don't think CS is a bad major, it's still extremely marketable, but you just have to recognize that this is just one piece of the puzzle for the top jobs, and the other piece is technical prowess, a skill you really have to grind to get good at.
Fax usage has not dwindled at all for hospital medical records; it's still the primary way of transferring records from one hospital to another if they don't have the same computer software running the hospital. It's ridiculous.
Looking at all the Google, Amazon, PayPal and comments on many others, security UX is simply an unsolved problem.

I am wondering if YubiKey would have the same problem? Edit: Looks like not.
I think we, "people", pushed companies to do this.

There are billions of people creating various accounts. Hundreds of thousands of them had a weak password, or told their password to someone, etc, and their data leaked. There were so many news about "data leaks" and "security issues" in the past 20 years, and each time, a company was blamed, never a user.

We even made laws, where letting people log in with only a password can be illegal.
I think we need to quit calling it AI, and instead call it AS: Actual Stupidity
The only way to avoid getting into a trust-fail situation with Google is to be completely signed into it at all times so they can monitor you 24/7.
> It is possible that some men or women cannot be just friends with the opposite sex, but I have at least one counterfactual for the universal claim.

From my experience and observation, I would say that it is possible for _some_ men and women to be friends, but it is not the rule rather the exception.
This is a nice reason
to play with x86 assembly at this century, and the challenge of fitting the code within a tweet makes it more exciting. Just now I want to return to playing with it
Sadly, it appears they have discontinued the free plan:

> But anyone who hasn’t created an account by December 31 [2021] at 11:59pm Eastern won’t be able to create an account via our open registration flow. Instead, they’ll need to choose a paid account, or get a Free account through another channel. Read on for details.

https://write.as/blog/changing-free-registrations
LOL!

I just had an email from Mouser(online electronics store), that gave me the option to send in export for by fax...
At Amazon every 100ms latency cost 1% of sales. Here's what we did
> for example, the smartphone with the authenticator program breaks

There are 3rd party authenticator apps (not Google Authenticator, though) that will allow you to seamlessly back up and restore the 2nd authentication factor, even to a different device. Ideally, it then becomes no less convenient than a password.
Medium UX is also quite terrible – the website doesn't even allow you to copy text to the clipboard which is infuriating every single time.
Although Halliburton can create the situation of pressures where the government conscripts you to war but the level of indirection for control over you is inconvenient. So we're really just making it a bit easier and cutting out the middle man. All hail our new leaders.
It was a lot worse a decade ago. The GDS have done a pretty good job of unifying the design language and methodology of disparate government departments, but of course, it is a huge job. It clearly involves just as much cultural and organisational overhaul as it does technology work.

Most recently I found the DVLA license renewal was one of those ugly backwaters (albeit still fully online), but their license check code generator is great.

For real terrible stuff, check out local council websites.
The CEO has literally no say in creating Capital Allocations. That's what the CFO is there for.
It can also go the other way. I found at established companies new projects often had new managers (not sure why) and also got a lot of the positive focus in the org, and had more resources as a result, which lead to better retention and raises and more headroom if there were issues like missing deadlines.

It really depends on the company though
Not using Charm, but I've designed a TUI Gemini client in Go! It's pretty popular, for terminal clients at least.

https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/amfora
Gotcha, I wasn't sure if it was the parallelism or the reduced rounds that made the bigger difference.
I've read stories here on HN about non-existent Google customer support from people who worked at companies that were paying Google millions.
Historically speaking, it's always been there. It seems to be getting a little better over the generations.
You don’t know the highest possible price.
Not to be confused with Hugin [1], the FOSS panoramic photo utility.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugin_(software)
In the work context it's for me an indicator whether to choose a library or not - apart from last commit, handling of issues and PRs. It's frustrating to include deps with little community/contributor interest that sometimes even silently get delisted from package repositories.

That said, I also use them as bookmarks.
That should be Level 6.
Phone numbers are basically super cookie identifiers unless you make a new phone number for each account and use different aliases & maybe addresses for them too. They all sell into centralized information systems and create profiles about you that are very detailed, which includes banking, income and credit info. So yes, the phone number is incredibly valuable, especially a place like amazon that shows different prices to different users and who's recommendation engine drives a lot of sales.

Phone 2 factor is pretty much the only kind of 2 factor most people will accept, and for most people the phone number probably has better security than most people's emails, because most people reuse passwords, while with phones you had to do a special non-password effort for them.
I accidentally used YAML.parse instead of JSON.parse and it worked
It's an advantage to know someone's agenda so I consider it a good thing. This author and other authors such as Stephen Diehl are known for their negative take on cryptocurrencies and they end up here quite often. You can still read their articles while keeping their bias in mind!
This reminds me of the anecdote by Jimmy Carter about a Japanese translator doing what your initial impression described for a joke spoken in English. [0]

[0] https://vimeo.com/36578569
That's cool. I'm a heavy R user and was like ???. RMarkdown is a game changer. Thanks for doing that and this.
I have a Bion-X with regenerative braking. I live in Seattle. It is extremely useful in the hills; my house is up a hill, if I start fully charged it's really annoying riding the brakes all the way down, but when not it's really nice glide.
The blog mostly contains anti-crypto articles.

One of them: "I have instead come to believe that [crypto is] so harmful that I cannot ethically continue to ignore them, and must instead do my best to educate and advocate against their wider adoption. I am picking my battles, and this is one of them."
History of Singapore
I like most things that pick a theme, and run with it while executing it well. Doesn't honestly matter what that theme is imho.

Demo: Early 20's male who likes tech.

Other examples of sites I like:

jwz (.) org (recommend typing this one into address bar, don't follow links from HN.
https://xxiivv.com/
http://100r.co/site/home.html
https://tildeverse.org/ , and most pages linked to from
https://tildeverse.org/members/
http://9front.org , especially the FQA:
http://fqa.9front.org
Who is teaching the courses? Where do they get their info? Given the very limited oversight of "continuing education", it's trivial for Merck or Pfizer to ensure their advocate teaches the class or records the online seminar -- with zero requirement that they disclose that fact. At least when a drug rep visits the office and buys lunch, you know the source.
Reasonably confident one of my support tickets even got answered by the CEO once. They're a shockingly human-focused company.
this is an awesome project yall
Hierarchical Deterministic (HD) wallets exist for Eth.

https://wolovim.medium.com/ethereum-201-hd-wallets-11d0c93c8...
Bitwarden ($10/year Premium Bitwarden plan[1] or self-hosted Vaultwarden[2]) and KeePass[3] are also password managers that support TOTP authentication. They are open source and less expensive than 1Password.

A single password manager should only be used to store TOTP secrets alongside passwords if you're comfortable with both of them being accessed from the same devices. It's possible to store your TOTP secrets in a Bitwarden account or a KeePass file, and your passwords in another account or file, hosted/stored in different locations.

[1] https://bitwarden.com/pricing/business/

[2] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

[3] https://keepass.info/download.html
> Netflix had a wide catalog of content licensed (or used permissionless in disc form) from many studios at the beginning. Eventually

…Netflix got streaming competition, and stopped being an monopsony.
Yep, Fastmail is great. Google cannot be trusted. With google you are the product, not the customer. The Fastmail service and features are better than gmail as well.
I browse 'new' most of the time, because there is a lot of interesting stuff that never makes it to the front page.
Pencils don't have their own Constitutional Amendment or multi-million dollar industrial lobby.
This is why you want your email to be your own domain, so even if you still use gmail, you can recover from that.
Just more concretely closing the loop back to what you said. You said Instead NFTs are seen as an investment vehicle — they will appreciate in price over time, just look at BAYC. This is sometimes true, some of these NFTs are actually more like startups than you maybe are noticing. They use the transaction fees (5% of price) to hire paid teams to build things for the community that make membership (ownership) more valuable. So yes, some people buy those NFTs knowing that the team behind them is just getting started and is working to make the club more beneficial to be part of. Some will be flops, others will probably be around for a long time.
Perhaps I should have phrased it differently to make it more clear:

If you make the assumption that our universe is drawn out of an infinite set of universes (saying we're here because of the anthropic principle), then the likelihood that life is possible in the future approaches zero, because the anthropic principle only says something about the past.
I really like the idea of glow and I actually use it to read my markdown notes that I edited in nvim. One thing that I miss is running glow in watch mode to edit markdown file in one pane of terminal and see results in another pane.
I think I’ll pick up the idea of ssh tui for my website and blog. It will be fun.
Why do you expect that you'll be good friends with your team at a small company if you can't find a team at a large one?
Neat!

The graph of every possible game for Hard mode should be pretty tractable. Sounds like you wrote almost exactly what I started but have been too lazy to finish.

> but requires 7 guesses a tiny fraction of the time, so I instead exposed the best strategy that always requires 6 or fewer guesses.

That's awesome. My question is "what is the minimum number of guesses to solve every word while guaranteeing it never loses". For hard mode I'm pretty sure this can be provably brute forced. Easy mode requires enough pruning I'm not sure it can be proved.
We'll always be hostages of Google while we keep using their services.
Just so, and this is the reason the trick works so well in Hebrew: aleph, vav, yod, and ayin, serve as vowels in most contexts where such are needed.
I recognize that this is kinda subjective, but I'm a bit baffled that someone wouldn't find 1-in-20 to be "common".

Though it's not homogenous, that's very conservatively the equivalent of one child in every classroom. It's millions of people, even in a small country.
Thanks but C is just perfect. No need to learn a new language/environment.
Apparently not. Peak difficulty hit during the crash. I’m assuming because of fees.