skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These 2FA bypass scam calls genuinely unnerve me - because they're specifically designed to trick someone who knows how scams work and has actually put some effort into securing their accounts.

Hardware authentication factors are, of course, immune to these sorts of attacks because you can't confuse the victim into forwarding their second factor back to you. However, I don't see why you couldn't construct a specific scam setup for those.
This just seems like it would violate some sort of MLS rule.
Do you have a practical example of that influence actually mattering to you personally?

The thing about the property taxes is that if you move to someplace like Austin where the property values are skyrocketing, your property taxes can jump a ridiculous amount in a single year. You're completely insulated from that in CA (once you _own_ property, which is obviously the hard part in the SF Bay Area etc).
> I wish California could attract governors who have no presidential ambitions.

Like the one you had who was constitutionally prohibited from being president?
Wages always lag behind inflation. We're heading into a recession, which means the labor shortage will evaporate and employers will be facing much less pressure to raise wages.

Only people like our Blackrock president here will be insulated from this.

Welcome to Stagflation.
If your marriage is ending over a toilet paper roll... it's not actually about the toilet paper roll.

It's the same deal with Debian and systemd. It's not the init system. It's the thing it represents. Having to either adopt systemd or run GNOME in an unsupported configuration seems like a clear-cut choice (which is why systemd is now the Debian default), but having a major upstream force you to significantly rearchitect the distribution seems like a pretty significant loss of control. This is at the same time as other upstreams have gradually ripped control out of the hands of Debian developers in other ways: Firefox, librsvg, and python-cryptography adopting Rust suddenly made it a lot harder to support a bunch of niche CPU architectures. Speaking of Rust, and also Go, they use static linking and have their own library package managers, which both makes it harder for Debian to package and simultaneously easier for users to install a binary directly provided by upstream. And languages that don't have static linking support can always use Docker.

Honesty, I wouldn't want to be a Debian developer right now. Red Hat has tried to reinvent themselves in a world of containers, but since Debian is a volunteer organization and not a corporation, it's a lot harder to pivot (attempting to pivot would probably cause all their existing volunteers to quit, while failing to attract new ones). What sort of future does Debian even have, if they have no decision-making power over the core OS, and all the applications route around them?
Indeed this is the Halting Problem.
Jupyter notebook is a regression from Excel, at least Excel computes the dependencies between the cells. With Jupyter, you have to be careful in the order you evaluate the cells.

And both falls on the floor the minute you want to use a spreadsheet/notebook as a library of functions, i.e it's not composable.
As a lifetime Californian (granted one who grew up in Sacramento where it regularly exceeds 100F in the summer), I concur. One of the most depressing things about considering moving from California is the weather in much of the rest of the country. Much of the northern part of the country gets extremely cold and snowy in the winter, which is something I don't want to deal with. Much of the southern part of the country has very humid summers, which I also don't want to deal with. I remember living near Tokyo for a short time as an intern and experiencing its summer; a 95F day there felt like 110F in Sacramento. Thankfully I loved just about every other aspect of living near Tokyo, but Tokyo's hot and humid summers wasn't one of them.

My favorite weather is the Mediterranean weather on California's coast, particularly the Central Coast. The favorable weather is one of the reasons why the area is so expensive. Barring that, I can cope with the warm Mediterranean climate of the Central Valley. Yes it gets hot in the summer, but it's a dry heat, and the winters are also dry, with snow being a once-per-generation occurrence, and the spring and fall are just as nice as on the coast. Barring that, I like the weather in the Pacific Northwest; yes it does rain a lot, but the summers are amazing. I also heard good things about the weather in parts of New Mexico, where it's a high elevation desert and thus it doesn't get too hot in the summer, and where it sometimes snows in the winter but doesn't get extremely cold like it does in places farther north.
Isn't Node API an equivalent of go standard library?
The uprooting of universities and their subsequent erosion as research university in the Humboldtian sense (in the US the John Hopkins University can be considered its first model) of "unity in teaching and research" based on a holistic concept of Bildung (education) in contrast - but also in addition - to a mere vocational training has very much to do with the neo-liberalization of higher education.

In Europe this became known as the "Bologna process" in which established "academic degrees" literally - in a EU-bureaucratic hunch and self-aggrandizement - got thrown away overnight (in Germany: Diplom, Magister) and then modernized, accordingly rated and standardized in a modular fashion, repurposed for the international/European (labour) market. The faculties and universities themselves from then on were run in a more and more managerial fashion with "operating numbers" and by winning state-funded budgets ("exellency" programs) and by efficiently recruiting third-party sponsoring.

For a typical (german) undergraduate student there isn't much a difference between school and university, anymore.
Most Gen X'ers (and Baby-Boomers for that matter) will readily tell you how they for the first time had to learn to resort to self-reliant learning in want of detailed instructions (like in school) but also began to appreciate the less strict scheduling not only for partying but for developing their critical thinking in heated arguments with peers or when confronted with challenging ideas. This is mostly gone, now, a big part of that former public space has vanished.

For attaining craftmanship a particular skillset for a particular field, universities were never a good place to begin with, that's what internships and later your chosen vocations are for. But if they don't prepare you for the labour market and don't provide you with some kind of Humboldtian ideal - a universal starting point with sufficent leisure in pondering about the right/critical questions to ask in a nourishing environment - so what are they actually for?
Are most of its residents "struggling"? What is the definition of "struggling" you're using here?
Reminds me of a classic article

https://www.theonion.com/eggs-good-for-you-this-week-1819565...
What happens when you put an incompetent engineer in charge of brain surgery?
I love Go as well, but I don't think being the first to kick up a flame war will do anything for us.
Facebook is king for niche groups and I just don't know why. I'd love to give it up but I honestly don't know a better way to interact with these micro groups i've grown to love. P.S the answer is most definitely not reddit
Marking a page pointer as modified / accessed for example
Yes, it's the big lie in all the conservative posts about people "fleeing" California.

The ones actually fleeing are the lower-income conservatives who can't afford to stay, and don't want to because of politics. Meanwhile, wealthy conservatives are flooding into the nice parts of CA, driving up housing prices.

There's a reason that every major GOP presidential candidate comes to Los Angeles when they want to raise lots of money: it's where the wealthiest Republicans live.
yeah air quality is terrible in Los Angeles when I visited there.
When we don't have enough of a treatment, we have to prioritise somehow. Are you arguing it was wrong to prioritise older people for the vaccine, for example?

If you think that the metrics they are using are bad, make the case, but arguing that race should never be a factor is absurd when we know there are lots of cases where race massively changes your odds, just as with age. How much time and money that could be spent just producing more treatment is it justified to spend trying to make sure the exact people get the treatment?

Maybe we can do better, but it being just racism against white people to ever take race as a factor is an absurd characterisation of that.
let foo;
try {
foo = await is_this_better();
} catch (err) {
console.log("if err != nil doesn't seem so bad all of a sudden");
}
> I wonder if it's the removal of secondhand stress

Yup, a key component of the sensation of "play" is low stakes.
Obviously battery-powered tools will have chips. But at this time those are mostly still gas-powered.
>The one that has the biggest impact on my life is Alpine, because I run postmarketOS on my phone which is an Alpine derivative.

Ok, that's a fair. My python projects refused to work on alpine so Ihavent tried it.
Yeah, still in public beta and multi-container apps like Baserow are pretty new and marked as "experimental". Already looking into the error.

Edit: Should work, but takes several minutes before the web UI becomes available. We do provide the logs for such cases. Most other apps are easier to deal with. :-)
The sysadmin thought I was up to no good and suspended me, which seems pretty reasonable to me. He was really cool and not even pissed off that I wiped out a server. All got cleared up. The site is on a different server now.
Firebase has a product of the "functions on the cloud"-kind, which we use, a lot.

Auth + Storage + Functions is all we really need, and that triad is now complete on Supabase.
How big do you think these data centers are? There are ~80 square miles of farmland in Zeewolde. The largest data center in the world would take up less than .1% of that space.

On top of that, the farmland isn't necessarily even growing food. They may be growing, say, tulips.
> He verified my name, he had the last four digits of my debit card number, and everything generally seemed to follow the normal script of a transaction verification call

There's a red flag right there — I've never found a bank willing to provide any verification of who they are when calling me. They call me and ask me to give them a code or card number without providing me with any proof of their identity. I've tried to get them to give the sum of the last 4 numbers of my account, but they won't do it.

They always tell me to just call back using the number on my card and try to find my way to the right department. Super annoying.
What great timing. I've rearranged my desk and have trouble fitting a second monitor next to my ultrawide + big speakers, and I've been looking for a smaller monitor.

This might be a tad too small, but worth considering!
Depends where you are in NZ, of course. Some places it only rains for much of the year.

I grew up in NZ, moved to Colorado for ten years and whined about the snow, then came home and realised how good I'd had it in CO. I hadn't noticed the rain because I'd grown up with it. Only when I came back to it from a place with little and predictable rain, did I notice it.
The downside of the standard library approach is that things tend to ossify. While I agree that slower change can be a good thing sometimes, putting things like a HTTP server in the standard library means less experimentation around different ways of doing things, and more difficulty getting performance and other improvements into the hands of language users.

Sure, people can make a third-party module that implements a HTTP server, but the incumbent default that's shipped with the language has an inherent (and often unfair) advantage and a lot of inertia behind it.

I don't really care about the whole "professionals" bit. Sure, I don't want to be relying on something mission-critical to me that's maintained by one person doing it in their spare time. But there is a world of possibilities between that and having a dedicated paid team. Consider, also, that the Go team is only funded so long as Go is important to Google's corporate strategy. Once it isn't, funding will start to dry up, and Go will have to look for a new funding and governance model. That's not necessarily a bad thing, and I'm sure Go would still succeed despite that. But that's kinda my point: this whole "maintained by funded professionals" thing doesn't really matter all that much.
You're conflating popularity into my argument.

Tether is one of the weakest stablecoins in terms of regulatory compliance and general community trust.

In other words, most arguments I hear against stablecoins apply narrowly and specifically to Tether, yet people tend to use those valid arguments against Tether to straw-man the entire asset class. Popularity and volume have nothing to do with that.
dnf is what replaced yum, and it's alright.

yum is still aliased on most fedora / rhel systems so you can put Fedora 35 on a drive and run yum update -y and it'll kick off the associated dnf process.
High efficiency condensing water heaters still have a tank.
I use an old Chromebook, running Linux, in much this way. For it's compact form factor, and the small amount I acquired it for originally, it's been a great value.
Do you have a link to that? I'd be interested in knowing about it.
The rule in our family for a number of years now has been, "If the number is not in your address book, let it go to voicemail." We have the landline ringer off and always let it go to voicemail. As an 80/20 solution, it's been remarkably effective so far.
Is it really that much for the browser vendors to support TypeScript? Then, the only reason to compile would be to optimize for production by removing the excess code of the data-typing.

Browser support for TypeScript would invite developers to use those browsers, which aligns with browser-vendor interests.
I’m not for or against this. I am against people automatically assuming this is good or bad.

For better or worse, gender is frequently used as a piece of identifying information.

This could cause problems.

For example, many cisgendered privacy oriented folks could choice this option.

The possible result would a very large chunk of the population having no gender marker on their passport.

This might sound good - but it would make it very hard to study, for example, whether men or women receive preferential treatment from US Consuls. Or whether men or women face different threats abroad (some embassies keep statistics on sexual assaults).

If we hypothetically assume that gender is no longer recorded, that means gender inequality becomes very difficult to study.

Additionally, US Passports function as identity documents for US Citizend abroad. When I travel, I use it to pick up prescriptions. Most foreign pharmacies will accept it, but I occasionally run into trouble.

I simply hope the State Department looked at these issue.
This, I could've been more specific. I basically just want to design a simple HTML4 (or doable parts of HTML 5 ) layout engine to render static documents and avoid any dynamic components.
Genki Waveform is supposed to do this for two streams but it's still at the kickstarter stage so ymmv. (The pitch is primarily for Nintendo Switch users since they have successfully launched three other devices to that user base to date, including a USB-C-to-Bluetooth audio adapter.)
As someone who moved countries to do a technical masters (Theoretical Physics and Applied Maths) who has to pivot to tech (sadly doesn't seem Ireland recognizes my US teaching credentials or 5 years experience) for a while, I'd be interested to hear the rant as well as how I could better prepare for interviews, etc.
Pretty sure this is how it works in ARM as well, except that TBI can be configured per-exception level so it can be turned off in the kernel.
Every user-level feature that you cannot implement about equally well in a library as in the core language betrays a weakness in your core language.

All languages have weaknesses, and so end up with core features. Sometimes the language evolves to the point where the core feature is not needed anymore because a library does equally well, or sometimes better. A good example is the C++ Standard Library std::array, which is better than a built-in C-style array in every way except being a little longer to type.
I've stopped buying Apple accessories as they are often overpriced mediocre products (e.g. Apple keyboards aren't even waterproof). My trial of the AirPods reaffirmed this belief. I had borrowed AirPods to watch some movies, and faced the same issue that you did - suddenly and randomly, one of the AirPods would just go mute. Sound would only come from one of the AirPod. The temporary solution to this is to "forget" the Airpods and re-pair it again in Bluetooth settings. But obviously that gets tiring when you have to do it 2 or 3 times during a movie! In contrast, a much, much cheaper generic wireless Bluetooth earphone works perfectly without any issues on the same iPad.
If you put an OLED display behind dark plexiglass it looks really nice -- the border of the display becomes invisible and you see just the letters (or whatever else you are displaying).

With LCD there's always backlight leaking.
I wouldn't even say that the problem is that it is only leveraging cgroups.

They grew too fast before they know how to commercialize it, if they had a payment model from the beginning this wouldn't have happened imo
Yes, I too have experienced teams that compensate very well for poor SW practices, and even enjoyed some of them. I've even been in teams that didn't use version control and things worked out fine. But frankly, I'd rather not be in a team without version control, and I don't think many would fault me for discouraging others from joining such teams.

There's a limited amount of time I have on this Earth, and the less time my brain spends on managing unnecessary complexity, the more time it has to do more useful things.

I haven't found a team that's perfect, so there are always some compromises. I treat them as temporary compromises, though. Just because I put up with weird X behavior in a prior job and it worked out doesn't mean I should/would put up with it in future jobs.
The engineers at my old company utilized many of them to runs tests against hardware. Hobbyists don't realize that they can indeed have business uses.
Speakers? Definitely not. The amplifier will, but not the loudspeakers. That's basically a magnet, a coil, and a paper cone.
I agree with this. Distrust in institutions can come from increased sophistication, although the institutions themselves may not see it that way.

This can be true even when institutions are generally correct, and giving reasonable advice... but are simplifying or glossing over true complexities, because they don't think the public is capable of any nuance or reasoning. They don't think that people are capable of understanding something like 'masks can reduce spread in certain circumstances, and have little effect in these other circumstances', and so hammer an obviously simplified rule in every press release, as if they are hawking a product.

In some sense it probably works, as does most marketing, but it comes with a growing feeling of distrust.
Same here, I thought this was great. Even though I have been in the "computer field" for a loong time, there is still so much to learn! I love articles like this.
Chess broadcast to include players’ heart rates determined by AI
Outright repealing Prop 13 would cause chaos; there are too many voters who benefit from it and it stabilizes things considerably for those who are bought in. But you could rebalance things: completely remove the cap if the residence is non-primary, for example.
Not the OP, but small OLED displays are pretty low cost, and they don't need backlight management because the display is emissive. Viewing angles are usually nicer too.
In the first line it says price discrimination requires different prices in different markets. While I’m sure there are examples of Apple doing this, how is changing the color and charging more for it in the same market an example of price discrimination?
I live in a pretty small town, so a handful of people complaining loudly does tend to get noticed. I realize that this is not true of larger jurisdictions like Austin.

Edit: Was asked for an example, here it is.

In the aftermath of the protests in 2020, there was some talk of removing the police officers that are assigned full time to the schools. Parents pushed back and we still have those officers in place.
I see that benefit. For code compiled appropriately. The article also thinks this will need to be per-process, so context switching gets even more expensive.

Maybe the mask gets in the way of prefetching the pointer destination, though the machine might speculate that the pointer will be in canonical form. The arithmetic mask itself is very close to free.

I guess someone thinks it's worth the silicon and software dev necessary to deploy. If it makes my code faster then I'll probably use it.
Wonder if this is point of view based on what you grew up with. I grew up in the midwest US, and very much like the experience of four distinct seasons every year. I would not want to live somewhere where it is cold all the time, or hot all the time, or even "just right" all the time.
For a decade+, people complained that go lacks generics. Would you say those were all people with no experience fixated on an imaginary problem that doesn't matter, or were the complaints valid?
You sound like you know a lot about the HDMI CEC spec. Do you have any insight as to why CEC implementations are often buggy on so many devices? I.E. "one touch play" turning on unintended devices in addition to your display and receiver.
I've only used both in home and small office settings, but I found TP-Link's Omada line of APs to be equivalent to Ubiquiti APs. Same type of hardware, same type of controller software you can run on your own machine. I don't know enough about APs to say whether the performance matches.
I remember that when first released it was possible to configure a white Macbook with the same specs as a black one for $50 less. So you were paying $50 for black, assuming you wanted the stats that were baseline on the black one.
This thread makes some claims which seem contradictory, or at least unusual. [0] claims that a rise in the price of wheat futures caused more wheat to be planted; fair enough. However, [1] claims that there is no wheat shortage, there is instead a shipping shortage, and [1] and [2] both claim that investors are unreasonably panicked, because there is not actually a wheat shortage.

However, I really don't see the distinction between a "wheat shortage" and a "shipping shortage"; as the thread notes, in either case there are people without wheat. Areas with wheat shortages are going to have higher wheat prices, doesn't matter if there's plenty of wheat somewhere else!

In [0] markets are good because the higher futures prices correctly stimulated enough production (which is strange because, if true, it means the inflated futures prices were _incorrect_). However, the markets which were smart enough to stimulate additional production were not smart enough to stimulate additional shipping.

In [1] and [2] the higher prices (reacting to "a very real shipping problem") are nothing but panic, and even make it "harder [...] to get new import shipments launched")

How can inflated prices be both the poison and the antidote?

[0]: https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/150777681533463347...
[1]: https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/150777682233906790...
[2]: https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/150777682448235316...