skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not even about not willing to spend 1$ for a random phone number.

Here's a list of things that are wrong with what Google does:

- If you want to read your email, you have to use app specific password. I'm ok with that.

- You can't generate app specific passwords if you don't have 2FA enabled. That's some artificial limitation made to force you into adding phone number to your account.

- You can't use authenticator app to enable 2FA. I have no idea why SMS which is the least secure way to send information is a primary method and authenticator app which can be set up by scanning QR from the screen without sending any information at all is «secondary» and can only be used after you give your phone number.

- You can use «notification» to confirm it's you, but you can only do that on the phone. I'm currently logged in in my browser, certainly I could confirm any login attempt from that same browser, wouldn't that be a second factor?

- Nowhere in announcements or help pages or in the Google Account interface they tell you that you can't generate app passwords if you don't have 2FA. The button is just missing and you wouldn't even know it should be there unless you search on the internet.

- Nowhere they tell you the only way to enable 2FA is to link your account to your phone number or to your android/iphone device, the options are just not there.

All of this is just bizarre and ugly. I have no idea why other people are not complaining, probably most of them just accepted that and added phone numbers.
"They pay well because demand for engineers is high"

Do they pay their teams in Canada, India, China, etc. as much as SV? No.
I guess I'll just have to stop using google.

Welcome to the club. The fastest way to convince me *not* to use a product is to attach a "Google" label to it. Nothing Google has to offer justifies the drawbacks.

NOTE: I do use an Android phone --- but only after it has been thoroughly de-Googled --- starting from a stripped down, bare metal device that won't even power up.
I mean, I was being a little hyperbolic when I said I stopped going outside completely. I actually still played sports throughout High School, but just felt that the majority of my social interaction was through the computer.

During COVID is the first time I really stopped seeing other people (other than my wife and kids) and I actually enjoyed it. I have my own yard and house, so I do go outside on the occasion still, and make sure to get the mail each day. Some days I sit on my porch in the morning, if it feels nice. I do body weight exercises and yoga and I am having a full gym built in my basement.

That said, I still don't see many other people and I don't feel like my social needs are lacking.

I enjoy my life, it is good.
The controversy stems from the egalitarian cultural assumption of modern western liberal democracies that humans are generally equal, "blank slates" and intelligence, skills, intellectual abilities etc can all be cultivated through institutions and technical processes to produce generally the same outcomes for most or all. A similar dynamic is observed with propaganda around saying everyone can "learn to code", as if we just need to figure out the educational algorithm and we can teach everyone to think the same way or be capable of achieving same intellectual skills.

IQ tests, or any standardized tests for that matter, blow up this assumption as do aggregated data showing differentials across groups or even nations, and that intelligence as even crudely measured by IQ tests which is just a proxy for something that isn't so precise, still correlates with general positive outcomes in life such as earning potential, health, career success, national achievement in science etc. It is also not politically correct that this dynamic is largely a biological phenomenon, that intelligence like many other physical characteristics is heritable.

This is why generalized IQ tests were banned from job interviews because not everyone scored the same, which is politically incorrect and unacceptable in our current political climate.

Basically for the liberal "left" which dominates western culture, "equality" is almost a religious belief, in opposition to any acknowledgement or even promotion of hierarchies, or recognition of inequality as an objective reality of human existence. Anything that undermines "equality" and points to natural hierarchy is "controversial" not allowed.[0]

[0] A random example, but there are many, of unacceptable differentiation when it comes to group cognitive outcomes. And elimination of standardized tests or advanced classes in the name of "equality" and against any instances of "inequality"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/06/04/californ...
They don't. They fly because they are so ugly that the ground repels them.
Good thing I switched to running my own mailserver in 2013. Now I'm completely independent of google and google accounts. If my @gmail.com email stops working with Thunderbird or other imap clients then that's that. I'm done using gmail.

Google hates open protocols. Don't let their claims of OAuth being open fool you. They don't use OAuth, they use OAuth 2 which is the mega-corp version shoved down the IETF's throat where every single corporate implementation is different and not-interchangable. You need a different OAuth2 plugin for every mega-corp.
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Your life anecdotes are nice, but they are not a universal experience, and certainly don't apply to everyone (especially, if what I've seen is true, the younger generations). I'm middle aged now, but the most serendipitous things that have happened to me have been online. For example, my first roommate and then life long friend came to me via an online builtin board related to a project I created. My first job came to me through a reference from someone I knew on IRC. Heck, I met my wife through online dating!

It's just different now. After covid, even more so.
> The problem is there's zero incentive for managers to listen or change.

Yeah, there is now only incentive to get rid of you since you are having a negative impact on the manager's (perceived) success, and you have also banned yourself from ever being promoted to management by being disloyal.
frequently I reflect back on a conversation with a supervisor of mine from over a decade ago when he explained "I won't ask you to do anything I wouldn't do myself." then had me show him how to run cat5 under the floor so he could help. I've tried to emulate that with my employees as well.
“This script is distributed by some operating
systems in a manner where it is automatically executed” — probably executed as root, right?
One of the Google cofounders read the book “Nudge” and loved it so hard they invented a process I call “Shove”. You’ll do what we want or we’ll push you into traffic.

This is a prime example of using dark patterns to achieve a short term goal at the cost of creating a world none of us want.

We must all remain vigilant of this trap both as creators and as users.

I applaud you for calling it out. I wish there was something more we could do about it.
That one does seem the most questionable. Looking at an ethnicity map of Cupertino, it seems like in-office requirements would favor white and asian employees, as they tend to live closest to the Apple office. The other items in that list seem pretty uncontroversial to me though.
>What works for you may not be what works for everybody, and that's the point.

Instead of making it personal, lets make it general. According to you how many people have a problem working in the office for the reasons you listed?
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Your understanding of the mask cases is incorrect.

There is no "right not to mask". A right not to mask would mean that such a law would not be enforceable. But the court found no such right. It simply found that the executive was interpreting a statute incorrectly.

Specifically, the Biden administration believed that a piece of legislation gave them the authority to mandate masks in certain workplaces. The court disagreed except for in the case of medical facilities. In particular, the court said nothing about what would happen if, hypothetically, Congress were to pass a law clarifying that OSHA does indeed have the authority to mandate masking.

The SCOTUS decisions regarding masking/vaccines were not cases of constitutional law or individual rights. Rather, SCOTUS was simply ruling on the meaning of a statute passed by the legislature and enforced by the executive. Individual constitutional rights were not in play.

By contrast, Roe v Wade establishes a constitutional right to abortion. What this means is that even if Congress or a state passed a law outlawing abortion, that law would not be enforceable unless SCOTUS overturned Roe.

I don't think there is a single justice on the court who believes that the constitution provides a right not to mask. The court is hopelessly political, and on hot-button issues it's best to think about the court reasoning backward from decisions rather than forward for law, but "a constitutional right not to mask" is not how the conservative justices currently on the court would ever go about justifying striking down a mask policy.

Comparing the mask/vaccine decisions to the Roe decision doesn't make much sense.
>the game itself seems to crash in Safari after walking around for a bit.

Apple users need to ask Apple to use a tiny bit of their fortune to make it possible for developers to test Safari and Safari Beta on their preferred OS/device, otherwise small projects can't support it.
In Australia the government freely admitted to using mobile phone tracking and tower 'pings' to determine lockdown compliance, the state of Victoria at one point using the data to justify extending a lockdown in Melbourne.
Another one, how do I exclude usernames from the search result? Some users has names of popular libraries.
Im pretty sure caretakers can;t work from home ....

Also isn't it pretty racist /sexist to suggest that just because your black or a woman, you won't be able to commute?
This is a very base-10 mindset.

In fact, if we use base-π representation then π=1 and memorisation is trivial. QED.
Are civil wars the fault of the people who hold politicians accountable? The tit for tat here only works if the politicians arw actually up to shady stuff. Thats the issue
> as long as the state would step in and assume that financial obligation

Do you mean a system that provides for the needs of poor children (based solely on financial need)? That already exists, and I'd support expanding it.

Or do you mean a system that reduces the financial burden on a wealthy woman who can afford to provide for her children but simply doesn't want to? I don't see the compelling need for a system like that.

Government support for children should be provided based on their financial need, not an alternative to child support based on the father's income. That's how the available funds can most improve children's welfare.
It's also an excuse to Move Fast And Break Subordinates.
Not a Motte-and-bailey fallacy, because I said the paper, not the linked article about the paper.

And no, the "headline" (called a "Title") of the paper published in Nature says, "Ancestry-inclusive dog genomics challenges popular breed stereotypes".
I pitty everyone who is trying to hide their wealth by buying real estate in Dubai.

The biggest penalty we could impose on them is make them live there.
Yes. I've been walking for a LONG time and 12 miles takes me about 4 hours. That's a lot of time out of your day, plus you likely won't have a lot of energy left for errands or whatever else needs to be done afterwards.
You don't know what you're talking about re: security lol
121 sounds reasonable if you guessed the last six ones. What the test measures is essentially how many questions you get right before you start guessing, whether out of boredom or because you don't have enough time to figure the questions out (the test cannot really differentiate between those two). For reference, I scored 133 and had to guess the last three or four ones; this is consistent with the last time I did a test like this several years ago.
Reminds me of the Juicero, but without the need to buy the juice packets. Wonder if the folks behind Aquapur will start selling their own bottles of recommended water to pour into this device. Just so you get better, purer, AI-approved H2O.
> It's also the BBC, the state propaganda organ of the UK, comparable to Russia's RT

This is a very silly and misleading comparison. It’s true that the BBC has biases, but these are more easily explained as cultural biases that are simply the product of it being a British organization with predominantly British staff, just the same as (eg) the New York Time has cultural biases that are the product of its own circumstances. To suggest it’s meaningfully a propaganda arm of the British state is just not really very credible.
"Trillion" has two meanings. I'm Dutch, we use the traditional meaning of 10^18, what you call quintillion :)
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GameMaker and RPG Maker just never quite stuck with me the way Zelda Classic did. But my kids are getting to that age where they want to "make games". So I'm hoping something like that would be fun for them.

I remember getting the Ti83+ in High School and trying to make a Snake game. I followed a tutorial, and I barely knew what I was doing. But man, was it fun!
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Time to freely disseminate lists of data brokers (and their acquaintances) who sell location data of people who visit abortion clinics.
From the article:

> It shows that this filter is for this specific host name only, not for the entire haxx.se domain.
One of the few games I've played in my 30s. I really liked the story actually, until the final chapter where Max is navigating some weird Dreamscape that goes on a bit too long.
Something I’ve been wanting to do but haven’t found a perfect solution for yet: storing the output of previous command in some variable by default.

I use Terminal.app’s Select Between Marks or tmux, but I wish this was a thing.
> restricted file access so much that a third-party app can't move files between directories without the OS prompting you to allow the "delete"

What use case do you have where you have an app that you want to be able to move files but you don't trust it with the "delete" permission?
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Whatever that means lol

You mean the borrow checker? People are working on formally proving that, and have already done so for large subsets of the language.
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Is it better or worse than having a club for Ivy League schools? At least Mensa doesn't gate membership on political connections and class (yes by proxy, lets be charitable).
I have a small free VPS and free domain name (whatever.duckdns.org). Do you think I can make a mail server that works, that could send emails that won't end up in spam folder of other people, and that I could use to create accounts?

I have thoughts of running my own mail server, but a lot of sites just won't let you create an account if you don't provide «trusted» email, and by «trusted» most of the time they mean gmail.
No, because you're framing it like they're blocking or challenging every user that comes to their site. Instead, when 90% of your malicious traffic comes from VPNs/TOR, it makes way more sense to just block or challenge those specifically even if it causes an inconvenience on the ones who use those services in a non-malicious way.
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> Contractors increasingly see themselves as second-class citizens

This made me laugh

My dude, you’re not a citizen at all.
Yes, let's not forget Legends of Kesmai and its predecessor Island of Kesmai.
I also got into Mensa not that it has anything to do with the correlation of jobs and IQ.
> the primary criterion

You are describing a type in the context of a club of people interested in the opposites of the type. It could suggest you that the deviation may remain the interesting part.

> the primary criterion for joining

Improper formulation. Not that important, but.
I never understand articles like this. Am I supposed to feel bad for playtesters because they don't have access to a soccer field and D-pad shaped couches?

Most people have jobs without those perks. Does the fact that you do work for a company "in tech" make it worse that you're not showered with benefits? The margins aren't high and the work they are doing can be done by almost anyone.
Unfortunately The time limit seems the only way to limit this type of test. There's only a certain number of types of problems they have. If you can solve one in a class, you can solve any in that class. There wouldn't be enough ways to discriminate results without time.
Ah... I sense a very lucrative, low-ethics business model in providing "cheap one-time virtual [phone] numbers" to be used for security-sensitive purposes.
Can you ever “burn” the number though? I’d be scared they will require you to receive a SMS token on it later, when they feel like it.
This is completely off-topic, I'm just curious. Your friend's pronouns are They/his?
Shout-out to you for saying this. I'm not anti-manager by any means, but I'm very vocal that our existing (and most common) system is not working well, or to the benefit of most people or the corporation.
That music on tinny computer speakers (if you didn't have Soundblasters at the time) was something else: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IOL4q5tDDQ

I think it was here on HN that I previously read a comment breaking down how the PC speaker could only play one tone at a time, but the team managed to simulate two overlapping melodies
Great training dataset for copilot.
It's not about tit for tat.

Some people have so little empathy that they can't identify with a situation until it happens to them. It's about showing them why this shit is a bad idea in literally the only way possible.
Reminds me of my favorite wikimedia commons page:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dice_by_number_of_sides
But super helpful to the various congress, senate, and state reps being paid by those contractors.

It is still mind blowing to me that “cost plus” contracts are a thing.

I have an idea: contractors get paid the agreed on amount and no more, if they can’t produce a product they can take their incomplete junk and return the tax payer’s money.
I do trust it. The OS, however, "helpfully" insists on "protecting" me and prompts every single time with no way to save the permission.
>No, it isn't. Businesses tend to play "follow the leader", so the ability to find a company offering substantially different work conditions is limited.

Assuming your premise is true, the 'leader' here would be remote-work if we are to believe that amazing benefits and therefore success that it can bring to a business. Businesses tend to copy things that other successful companies are doing.

You calling it a cartel situation is not fair, but I'm going to look the other way and assume you did that just for effect.
> You seem to consider it a negative to spend time on comments. Why?

Not just me. I've heard, read - here at HN, in the industry, blogs, co-workers, other books - the code should be self-explanatory. If it needs comments to explain then either the code author can't write good code or they are overly complicating it. Besides that, over time, comments get obsolete. We've to fight to get capacity to address tech debt. I don't see that time getting used in refreshing the comments
And according to people who have first hand experience of it, Chinese and Russian corruption.
Using a timestamp in a migration system doesn't really solve the problem at edge cases though: the time-based ordering of migration file creation may differ from the time-based ordering of migration application, especially accounting for different git branches, and different DB environments (prod, staging, dev DBs for each developer).

The canonical problem is two engineers with branches that each add a new column to the end of the same table. It's easy to end up with schema drift between environments, or cases where executing the migrations in alphabetical order yields a different result than executing them in git history order. You can add various guard rails and band-aids to catch this, but it's ugly.

In contrast, declarative schema management systems inherently avoid this situation. For example, if two engineers try to add a new column to the end of the same table, one of them will get a git merge conflict -- exactly like if two branches in an application code repo tried to edit the same line of a function.
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Pitbulls are not banned in areas where pitbulls are a problem, so no.
Not just location, wifi and bt and probaly network as using wifi will generally give away a location too. It’s not easy.
Don't best-practice IQ tests also measure the verbal component, e.g. vocabulary and reading comprehension? I also recall some tests requiring rotation of 3d figures, not just 2d fill the 9th slot type problems.

I see a lot of poor quality "IQ" tests on the internet that are 100% pattern recognition and it's always the same schtick - rotate, exclude, "combine" the figures. Actually got one of these tests as a prerequisite for an interview.

While I'm not one of those "iq doesn't matter" types who reject the ability to measure intelligence, I will absolutely cast doubt on these narrow pattern recognition tests.
I don't think the MBAs appreciate just how destructive decisions that effect the employee's trust in the organization are.
This has to be a Vsauce reference
https://youtu.be/fXW-QjBsruE
Yes, 80% of the stock market isn't 100% of the stock market, that is correct...

Also 80% by some metrics, much, much smaller by others.
HN needs a bot that posts an inb4 comment every time there's a post about Google or a Google product.

These predictable responses don't add any value whatsoever, and they're tiring to read.
Well, the best time to start is now... but without a domain name I don't think you'll have much luck. If you want to learn how to set up and run a mail server I cannot recommend https://workaround.org/ispmail enough. These tutorials cover all the background and high-level concepts for why you're doing things in addition to the details needed to implement a proper mailserver.