skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "SSO" implementations

I love SSO. It means every time I log in, I get to do it twice!

I'm looking at you, GitHub.
Doesn’t that also apply to most currencies?
It would be a dupe since it's the same story. It's probably a better submission though, so you could email the mods to replace URL on this one.
Learn to read, write and speak. Learn to speak to people. Learn how to build and maintain relationships (I don't necessarily mean romantic ones). I know it's glib, but HS is a good time to focus on those social skills because you can bite more then you can chew and not suffer severe consequences unless you really F up.

I also humbly suggest that you don't actively try to have a "high school" experience. The media we consume tends to romanticise it (lots of firsts etc) but most of it is inconsequential and can be harmful. Just be decent and don't let peer pressure stop you from doing what you want to do. Your grades matter, they are what decide your first steps out of school and into the "real world" but they don't matter much after that.

What would I have changed? I would have tried to be less cynical and angry at everything at nothing.
The best management hires the right people for the job to be done, and retains them.

More importantly it fosters them, and gives them the spaces that they need for this to happen.

The best management overlooks the things that do not infringe on the job to be done.

The best management negotiates rather than imposes terms, on all subjects outside of the task.
That's fascinating. Here's my best shot at an application:

I have a mouse with a switch on the bottom, the switch lets me change the scroll wheel between free spinning mode and clicky mode. I wonder if you could achieve a sort of soft-clicky-mode with three discs, printed with the right electret pattern and arranged so that the middle one is free-spinning.

There would be preferred and not-preferred orientations, and you'd get a small force pushing the middle disc into a preferred location (providing tactile feedback). You could probably also embed some wires in the outer disc and use information about the currents induced to detect whether (and in which direction?) the wheel was spinning.
Libby is incredible. I hope others know about it.
I'm literally running 5 sites and $40k MRR on a $5 linode
> there's no substance just a lot of charged language.

Yeah, this was my issue with all I could find so far. It seems like 'working as designed'. Perhaps those who publish on audible would like to be able to opt in or out of various sales/credits etc but as a customer I prefer that I can get anything with a credit.

> Basically Audible splits the money spent on credits among the books that the credits were spent on, except weighted by the retail price

Is that all credits in the system (similar to how Spotify was weighting streaming subscriptions (to my understanding)), or per user. I would prefer the money from my credits to go to the books I purchase, not be weighted with purchases by all other users.
Make haste slowly – the long and winding road to 6G
Blizzard has not responded to Starcraft 2 API bugs for over 10 months
Yes, it's a randomly generated string with ~90 bits of entropy.

After one guess, I know many fewer of those values could work. Unfortunately, the best known way to test this is to enumerate all of them.

14 character random strings are out of reach; 11 character strings you can enumerate & test them all with a lot of computing.
Organizations: Size and Time
Has anyone compared the new 1password GUI for ssh keys to the Userify one, esp for a team? The userify one is only for SSH keys, but it seems great for safely managing public keys and leaving the private keys safe on our dev laptops (you can put in more than one key so a user can just disable one key at a time, and then it also has a great feature of actually killing all remote sessions when you remove the user account across all the servers -- haven't seen anything else that can do that.) The UI is perhaps a bit simplistic but it seems to do the job.
Like American Fuzzy Lop for regex. I dig it.
The Founding Engineer (aka First Engineer?) needs to be removed. Speak with the CEO and CTO, surface your concern.

Having been in the CXO shoes before, I would have let the Founding Engineer go. Awesome if they give us a few weeks (fully paid of course) to KT to you.

At a startup, esp. of this size, team cohesion is critical and this person is a no go.

If you don't want to do this, you should still inform them after you resign because they have to sketch a plan for replacement of this Founding Engineer anyways.
You are representing exactly the point that Caplan is making.
I love hearing stuff like this. What are you using for your database(s)?
Thanks for the recommendation, I'm going to track down a copy. I read Lakota America last year (funnily enough also a recommendation from HN) and really enjoyed it.
A pound of the cheapest bread here is $0.86. The cheapest meat (bone in chicken) is about double that.
Same here. I found myself hoping it was supposed to be Bezos?
I struggle with understanding this viewpoint. I don't think the son is being harsh or dismissive, in fact it strikes me as utterly guileless. He has a reaction . o O (That can't be right...) and voices it without artifice or manipulation.

On the other hand, the father presumably knows that the son is technically inclined, but dismisses his expertise out of hand. He's struggling, but he doesn't say "I'm struggling getting this to work." The author presumes that the father wants him to help, and I defer to him on that, but the father doesn't ask for help. Instead he stakes out an extreme position (it's incompatible!). In some cases, people do this in an intentionally manipulative way! (See comment in this thread about the timeless technique of confidently stating a wrong answer to goad people into jumping in.)

I don't know the author or his father, so I don't know what their actual intentions or interactions are. Please don't read my comment as impugning them or their motives in any way. But the hypothetical situation as presented does not lead me to the conclusions that I think the author intends readers to reach.
I doubt Blizzard even has a skeleton crew for SC2
New Omicron Subvariant BA.2 Accounts 1 Out of Every 5 New Covid Cases
"See? You were able to use the hardware you bought, what's the problem?"

"You bought a dishwasher that only allows soap purchased from General Mills. You figured out how to bypass the restriction. what's the problem?" Ummm... I bought a dishwasher to wash dishes.

"You bought a printer that only allows HP print cartridges. You figured out how to bypass the restriction. what's the problem?" Ummm... I bought a printer to print.

"You bought a laptop that only runs MS Store software. You figured out how to bypass the restriction. what's the problem?" Ummm... I bought a general purpose computer to compute.

Vendor lock-in is an "add-on" that controls hardware you bought, not for your benefit but for the company benefit. In some sense you bought "the right to use", not the right to own.

I develop open source software. I want it to run everywhere so I have various versions of hardware and software. I bought this laptop for Windows testing.

Unfortunately I didn't realize it was Windows 10 S. Initially I couldn't even install X11 which has been around since the late 80s. Testing involves a lot of other non-MS software such as emacs, docker and jenkins.

You don't seem to understand the subtle technique of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30260939
It seems pretty surprising to me. When the supermarket offers a discount, they don't then turn to their providers and say "since we sold this at a discount, we're going to pay you less for it".

The terms on which Amazon want to offer Audiobooks are their business, but as I consumer I certainly wouldn't expect them to affect any downline incomes.
If you read his book, like it was already suggested to you a couple of times, you'd know what he says about "care-free student life". This way, you would be able to address his actual positions, instead of arguing against a version of Caplan you've conjured in your mind, based on a single blog post and a few HN comments.
So this means Audible can have promotions ("first month free!") and basically share the CAC with the producers?
Please stop

...communicating...

via ...

multiple ...

twitter posts...

please...

...
write an article, blog, book, youtube video

anything but these spread out posts.
I worked on a tool at Amazon once that incorrectly calculated royalties, not because Amazon was greedily trying to steal from publishers, but just because of general incompetence (or, lack of sufficient competence maybe).

Basically, of the people who wrote the tool, tested the tool, and used the tool, none of them knew exactly how royalties should be calculated and none of them could tell whether or not they were being calculated correctly. They weren't. We eventually figured out something was wrong and went through a very annoying process of learning about royalties and how they interplay with prices, discounts, and other factors and then set things right.

Still, if I were paid by Amazon royalties in any capacity I would carefully double check their math and read the fine print.

Maybe it's greed in this case, but in my time at Amazon I saw many teams in "Keep Lights On" mode where one or two people with vague memories of how services are supposed to work try to keep them running. There's also high turnover, so it's very easy to be the person on your team with the longest tenure and also be mostly in the dark about how your services should and do work. As I say, maybe it's greed, but I would never rule out the people responsible just not understanding (or doing) what they should be doing.
Writing in context of preceding comment, which seemed to be predicated on them having a special capacity to raise prices in response to land taxes.

I did wonder briefly if a land tax might decrease competition => higher prices, but then I recalled that the supply of land is fixed.
> But again, I would buy a small fraction of the audiobooks I have purchased at full price.

I’ve got ~300 audible books in my library, and I can safely say I’d have bought exactly none of them at full price.
Top Three Motivators For Developers(not money)
The centroid, surely.
I've always thought it was a bit odd how it is usually cheaper to buy a Kindle copy of a book and add the Audible narration on, than to buy the Audible audiobook outright.
Yeah, you pay me that sort of salary I'm out after 6 months and building whatever side projects I feel like hacking away on for the rest of my life.
(Unless I really enjoy the job I guess).

Or I'll stick around for a couple of years and then open a restaurant that I don't have to care about profitability with. My current dream is a little hole in the wall place that sells greasy burgers, sandwiches and breakfast stuff.

Maybe I'll combine the two and open an uprofitable breakfast sandwich shack with the most overengineered point of sale system ever built.
- make at least 10 good friends, go out of your way hanging out after school, day after day, join clubs, go to parties, and more. Best long term friends I made were in hs.

- the most important subject is math, master it to the T

- learn to code, choose one language and go deep in it, something you can start making money with in 2 years ideally even before college (recommended: go lang, javascript, python, java...)

- girls (make a goal to not be without a gf for more than 1 month, ask out new person every day if you have to)

- gym (get into weight lifting and sprinting/swimming).. aim for consistency

- apply for best colleges even if they are financially out of reach lot of them are actually free if your parents don't make 100k+

- engage in public speaking, even try making podcast/youtube/tiktoks (being influencer isn't just cringe thing to do, it's highly lucrative and sets you apart in most fields)

- invest all extra money in index funds, seriously, lot of upside in 10 years.

- it's ok to drop out of college and come back when more motivated or do part time college, esp true if college isn't like top 10 college

Priority list: Friends > Girls > Math > Gym/Sports > Coding > Public Speaking > Investment > Other HS Studies
I used to do a lot of research on SEO and the methods behind the madness of getting decent organic traffic, and it basically always boiled down to quality content built around targeted keywords, phrases, or related topics.

The way I always imagined to accomplish this was to write or hire someone to write this content and present it in a blog format. It does not seem that you do this on these properties, so briefly what kind of SEO optimization can be continually done outside of that? Are you still writing content as a guest poster and generating reputable backlinks? Engaging communities that are focused around your topic and promoting through those channels in hopes of generating backlinks? Or am I just in left field with all of this and what I thought I knew about SEO?
Is it considered cheating to look at a map? Seems to easy if so.
> They have a standalone headset which has fairly limited performance, and FB Horizons which looks like something you could make in Unity in a few days.

I think judging their long term plan by looking at the limitations with the current hardware (and therefore software), is extremely (and literally) short sighted. Horizons has been "out" for three whole months, and needs to run on that limited hardware. I'm assuming there's real value /learnings for getting the architecture figured out, regardless of the clients GFLOPS.

For some positives, besides having the only viable standalone headset right now, their camera based tracking (position, hands, controller) is far better than anyone else's. There's nothing remotely comparable for their hand tracking. I think it would be hard to argue that camera/lidar based inside out tracking is not necessarily the future for small form factor devices.
That comparison doesnt even make any sense.
Brownian motion is fully random and doesn't have an underlying direction like the stock markets do(up).
Same #Worldle #26 1/6

You can retry on incognito mode if you want to see how it works though.
I was on one of the teams since 2010, and still at the surviving company now. The original deadline was “before a space agency went back” or 2013, whichever came first. There was about 30 teams, of which only about 4 were serious, and as far as I know, only 2 surviving as companies that are actually still working.

Near the end they finally figured out how to pare down to a few teams instead of manage 25+ teams of a few people each, making press releases and experiments but there was a lot of years of nothing much happening aside from the Milestone prizes in 2014. Each year after that it was a real struggle from the people
At xprize to convince google to extend by one more year (which needs an annual budget, not only the prize money), teams so and so are going to launch soon. Eventually it wasn’t credible, and after 11 years there was none of the original people involved at either xprize or google so there was no one left to convince higher-ups. News about GLXP was more and more negative each year as well.

I was fortunate in that we were (at the time) only making a rover so we were partnered with or in discussion with all of the top teams at some point and got to travel around to meet them. It was a great time!
Google Drive now flagging my illicit .DS_Store files
MySQL - just checked.

I would've sworn it was postgres. Just shows how much attention I pay to anything that isn't business logic
I think French Guiana is not a territory, it's a full department in France. Equal to Hawaii in the US as far as I know, but I'm not 100% sure.
The year is 2100, and no one knows how the model made fusion work. But the AI has grown smart, and knows all of humanity depends on it. Soon, it holds it ransom.
> When the supermarket offers a discount, they don't then turn to their providers and say "since we sold this at a discount, we're going to pay you less for it".

No, they negotiate those things ahead of time. It does t matter though, as there’s a huge difference between an item that is infinitely reproducible and a commodity that has per-unit production costs.
If Caplan is right it should be a personal choice not subsidized by government
Neither am I - but all my reasons still apply.

Try getting a job as a dev with vanilla JS and SQLite skills, as opposed to React and Microservice skills. What a business needs on a technical level doesn't matter when it comes to finding jobs.
This article didn’t resonate with me as much as I was expecting.

While the insights on developer influencers was sharp, the article itself felt like more of a reaction than an evaluation.

I’ve worked in many legacy companies. The rationale for staying on the tech stack they have, and the approach they take to DevOps, is not particularly well reasoned. Often they are experiencing painful consequences due to their adherence to old design patterns.

I wanted each paragraph to be more diagnostic, frankly more reminiscent of the wide ranging and interesting debate we find here (especially when the old guard shows up and speaks with real authority and wisdom on how the problems they solve don’t map to Kubernetes, etc.).

I’d really welcome counter-arguments to the point I’m making, so I’ll frame it this way:

This felt like the same kind of “playing to the crowd” that dev influencers do, just a different crowd.
The think about getting muscular is that it's I thing you can just decide to do.

Decide + gruelling work.

But it is a choice (to be candid, one I haven't executed on yet)
Across the system, not per-user.

The only funky thing is that IIUC the computation of the total income across the whole system is done based on credits sold that month, rather than deferring the income from selling a credit to the month in which the credit is spent.
Canada's largest banks offline today
Yup keep putting up the good fight in support of big pharma and government overreach. A real rebel. /s
RedReader on Android.
lmao

This cracked me up more than it should have!
The Metaverse already exists. It’s called video games.
> - open folder selection dialog - click a folder by mistake without double clicking it - clicking the select folder button now enters the folder instead of selecting the current folder - there no way to unselect the selection. -> you have to enter the folder, then go a level up and then select the folder

Glad I'm not the only one with this problem, it's so frustrating and there's literally nothing you can do about it, you just gotta go up one level and come back down.
Because Rails doesn't encourage modularization. It's fine at small sized codebases but eventually you want to "package by feature" (to borrow a Java term) rather than by layer.
Lol - that slider
I wonder if authors are the ones who pay for the free Audible subscriptions that American Express Platinum card holders get now?

There is a huge a “Hollywood accounting” problem that never really went away (it’s how Warner Brothers markets HBO Max for free, how bands on major labels & even indies never recoup, and now possibly know how Amazon grows audible at no cost to themselves).
> You can store your policy bits anywhere.

You can but the application layer produces a far more legible policy and record of events. The right layer of abstraction for policy is at the application layer.
Its been admitted.

Looks like it will make it easy for GiveSendGo and authorities to take legal action given that the culprit has openly admitted and taken credit for the whole attack. It appears he's ready to hand himself in.

> GiveSendGo founder Jacob Wells called on the FBI to investigate the hack and said the company will take legal action.

There you go. I expect this 'cyber-terrorist' to be caught very soon.
Reddit can't build a better search engine
Love at first sight.
Sc2 isn’t getting anymore updates they were vocal about this
This particular excerpt resonated with me:

> It’s hard to avoid a disheartening conclusion: Quantitative social science is barely relevant in the real world – and almost every social scientist covertly agrees. The complex math that researchers use is disposable. You deploy it to get a publication, then move on with your career. When it comes time to give policy advice, the math is AWOL. If you’re lucky, researchers default to common sense. Otherwise, they go with their ideology and status-quo bias, using the latest prestigious papers as fig leaves. Empirical social science teaches us far more about the world than pure theory. Yet in practice, even empirical researchers barely care what empirical social science really has to teach.

It rings true with me even in casual discussions with peers when talking about social issues.
> They could bomb military targets, not civilian populations. Yes, Tokyo contained some military facilities, that doesn't justify firebombing the entire city.

I guess history disagrees with you.
> being good at being money.

i would argue that bitcoin isn't good money at the moment, since certainty of value is one property that is very high on the list of requirements, and bitcoin lacks certainty (or stability).

It's very good at being a speculative asset - like gold. But not money. Not yet anyway.

I'm not saying it can never be good money - that's what people are speculating about!
Note that they conclude ~19% is caused anthropogenically.
Large study show significant increase risk of mental heath disorders after Covid
Going to the sun is easy, going there fast is hard. You could put a tiny ion thruster on it and get it there in a million years
Colorado doesn’t have a statewide fire-resistant construction requirement
I have empathy for people in all kinds of horrible situations. I have empathy for every metamatie who gave up their soul for money, who might only now be starting to see the problem.
Bread doesn't seem like the best example here, because the finished product is not dense, can't be smushed, and has to get shipped to the store. Transport plus the shelf space (and rotation) can explain most of the price.

If you look at pure flour, rice, beans, pasta, and stuff like that, there are lots of cases where it drops from prepared-foods price down to something closer to its commodity value. Looking up rice, it goes for $14/c.w.t., which I think translates to a little over $0.10 per pound. You can't buy it at that price, but you can buy a literal 1 lb bag of the bad rice for $1.00. Consider larger quantities and you'll probably see an asymptote to a reasonable multiple times the commodity value.

Meat will not follow those rules. The floor for meat is much higher due to the physical inefficiency of production. Even at that higher price floor, there are huge untaxed externalities. A lot of people know the reality that we have to eat a lot less meat due to halt climate change. I think there is a strong business and social culture for businesses to move meat at close to its price floor, with business models like fast food.
I find Audible really easy and convenient, but it's frustrating to hear that authors get shafted. Some independent authors I follow have been banned from Amazon's platforms and they were forced to create their own platforms and self-host. The downside is that the audiobooks are more expensive. The upside is that they're DRM-free and the creators receive a much higher percentage of sales, so they can get by with fewer sales.
Another example: arxiv.org proofs of P != NP, FTL, perpetual motion, grand unified theory, etc. The signal-to-noise ratio of crackpots to experts is just too darn high.

This is one example where academia & credentialing serves an important purpose, even if academia can be pedantic & insular at times.
I wish 1Password used Tauri instead of Electron.
You’d think a simple report of all sales of a book within a period would solve all the issues. A simple table of:

Timestamp, book, price

Then author could simply calculate and verify royalties.