skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I get from the GP, the privilege is being able to get a salary without caring about his activity that adds the most value for society.

Given how the academic careers are structured, I do think "privilege" is a very bad word to use here. It's no more of a privilege than working most of your time documenting why you should get a promotion on Google like people were discussing yesterday. But it's one of the many very real problems academia has nowadays.
> This is what they are testing

(human capacity to create random numbers declines 25+)

Not really; what they're testing is what kinds of response differently-aged people give to their question. So it's important what the question actually is; and it's important if the question might, for example, seem to older people to be a waste of their time.

They're not measuring what they claim to be measuring.
> Chapter 8, lines 1044-1047: Here the CMF appeals to a paper (Sadler, Sonnert, 2018) as if that paper gives evidence in favor of delaying calculus to college. But the paper’s message is opposite what the CMF is suggesting

The author takes issue with some other items but quotes this in what I think might be an approving way.

But, I took this as saying a) good coverage of the basics helps more than already covering the specific topic, and b) this supports shifting time from doing it twice to spending more time on fundamentals.

But, it's not saying X is bad, Y is good. It's suggesting trading one against the other to get the optimum mix based on what all students need (since some will never do it for the second time).

So simply saying X is good isn't really responding to the argument they are making. Neither is saying doing X and Y is better than either alone. It's like saying you can invest the same money in both Apple And Facebook stock and make even more money than investing it all in one of them.

They know X is good, but within a limited time resource they think a little less X and a little more Y would be better overall.

Maybe they're right, maybe they are wrong, but this quoted critique seems not even wrong, which is a bad place to be.
I don't even think about it this way. The time I spend learning is not "spare" time, that's core to everything I am and everything I do. The rare bit of "spare" time I allow myself I usually either go fishing, read fiction, or watch movies/television.

All of that said, I have a huge (too huge) list of things I want to learn, or am "working on" learning to one extent or another. There's a huge amount of techie stuff, mostly related to AI, a lot of math stuff, physics/cosmology, etc., as well as "non techie" topics related to business, economics, history, philosophy, and FSM-knows what else.

I could spend 24 hours a day, 7 days a week studying and learning and still couldn't put a dent in the list before I die.
It is true that many people who are not diagnosed with autism have quite terible theory of mind to.

But it seams like you are missing a part of what poor theory of mind means here. It means that you don’t understand yourself and your own minds tendencies just as much as you don’t understand other peoples perspectives.
Weird. I don’t see this, or maybe I’m misunderstanding the problem. Do you have an example site?
Get rid of the stupid requirement for SMS or TOTP.
Show HN: Noise Destroyer
I made noise destroyer to help people get rid of background noise from their audio or video files. I had to write code to split mp4 files into audio and video, then merge them once processed. What a load of effort! Who knew mp4 was so complicated. What's more, if there's one tiny bug, the whole thing fails to play with very little in the way of debugging! If anybody needs help with it shoot me an email at dane@turbobuilt.com and I can help. Please enjoy using Noise Destroyer whenever you have a file with background noise. And no, I'm not gonna say how I built it because I need money right now for various reasons and I don't want anybody to steal my idea! I hope you guys enjoy.
I think he's talking about edge computing rather than CDNs. There's a new crop of web frameworks that are building around the idea that you can make navigation in server-rendered apps feel comparably fast to SPA's (and faster in some cases because SPA payloads are often huge) by putting the server very close to the user. In this model, you just have the client download HTML for the current page and the browser sees way less JS.

Here's a web framework that is focused on this architecture: https://remix.run/

Here's a PaaS that is focused on this architecture with wide language support: https://fly.io/
APIFlask is a lightweight Python web API framework
At the end of the day, credibility is a trust issue, and in the Photoshop era I don't think having the right header and the right formatting add much to the credibility.
Recovery codes are generated by the server, so:

• there's no temptation for the user to use them on another website, where they could leak

• the server can ensure they are high-entropy (although AFAICS GitHub's recovery codes are only 40-bit…)

Moreover, if someone takes over your e-mail account, they can reset your password; but they can't reset the recovery codes.
You could store them encrypted with a passphrase that only you know, so even if they're stolen they would be useless without your passphrase.
I recall something Stanley Kubrick said about Bambi being traumatizing:

I saw Mary Poppins three times, because of my children, and I like Julie Andrews so much that I enjoyed seeing it three times. I thought it was a charming film. I wouldn’t want to make it, but … Children’s films are an area that should not just be left to the Disney Studios, who I don’t think really make very good children’s films. I’m talking about his cartoon features, which always seemed to me to have shocking and brutal elements in them that really upset children. I could never understand why they were thought to be so suitable. When Bambi’s mother dies this has got to be one of the most traumatic experiences a five-year-old could encounter. I think that there should be censorship for children on films of violence. I mean, if I didn’t know what Psycho was, and my children went to see it when they were six or seven, thinking they were going to see a mystery story, I would have been very angry, and I think they’d have been terribly upset. I don’t see how this would interfere with freedom of artistic expression. If films are overly violent or shocking, children under twelve should not be allowed to see them. I think that would be a very useful form of censorship.
Do you have any evidence that there is a susceptible set? Books especially fiction come with two fundamental safety features. Firstly the book never subjects itself upon its reader. The reader is always in absolute control. Secondly the fundamental unreality of the setting allows one to dismiss it.

I recall observing with morbid curiosity a video of someone losing their life to a terrorist many years ago thinking it would be no different than a gory movie. I was very very wrong. It isn't the realism of the simulation that matters its the inability to dismiss what one knows is in fact real.
I've used Easy Move+Resize[0] for this and configured it to Alt+drag windows (like most Linux window managers).

[0] https://github.com/dmarcotte/easy-move-resize
That’s a pretty big foul. I use a different hardware key plugged into each workstation I use and then some “roaming” keys that I can use for backup, travel, etc.
The phrase "wreck the world" is obviously referencing climate change and environmental degradation. The danger of carbon emissions was well understood in the 1980's, yet we still have a large portion of the population who believe it is some elaborate conspiracy instead of an urgent crisis. Guess what generation most of those people belong to.
fwiw I would probably have turned to rclone.org for this. It doesn't have support for vimeo out of the box but the Vimeo API seems sane enough that it would be trivial to implement uploads quickly.

Previously used rclone for doing massive transfers between cloud providers using "cheap" on-demand servers which provide unlimited data transfer (the public clouds make this very expensive).
Profile age doesn't guarantee anything. I sold an iphone 11 on Ebay and a scammer used the credentials from a ten year old account with many legit purchases to try and run some kind of paypal payment request trick.
This only covers twisted pair, as I only use this as reference when I need new endpoints in my or my parents house.

I'll update the guide when I rewire my house with fiber optics (currently I don't even use the full potential of cat 6), but contributions are welcomed.
It's actually configurable in BTT whether you bring the window to the front. You don't need to click, just hold down modifier keys.
MJPEG is just a very simple "video" format that needs very simple and cheap electronics to work. Video encoding blocks are mostly part of bigger SoCs and comes with licensing costs.

Same goes on the other hand for the receiving end - decoding a stream of JPEGs is just much simpler in both CPU use and code complexity than dealing with something like H.264.
Why aren't we doing more to validate the identity of the service we are trying to connect to? CAs don't allow me to establish my own personal web of trust. If I connect once to my bank in a method I deem safe, I should be able to store their credentials in an easy to validate way.

That way if I fall for a phishing attack, the browser can CLEARLY indicate to me that I'm encountering a new entity, not one I have an established relationship with.

Concurrently, OSes need to do a way better job of supporting two factor locally and out-of-the-box. To even use a yubikey personally you have to install their software and disable the existing login methods or else you can still login the original way you set up.

While we're at it, browsers and operating systems should actually lock out the second a key is no longer connected/in range. I know smart cards can behave similarly, but this needs to be grandparents level of easy to set up and control.

I would feel much safer with my elderly family having "car keys" to their PC.
While a commonly repeated trope, I disagree with it:
Play stores apps must pay a 30% comission rate the first year then it drops to 15%.
Most of user acquisition of successful apps are made after the first year of existsence.
Therefore, the vast majority of Android apps revenue are made with a 15% commission rate vs Apple constant 30% milking.
So one could ~say for an equal revenue, Apple will take the double, and since they have ~25% marketshare, then I see no signal of apple users spending more than Android users, however the milking is hard.

Android announced this year that from now one, the comission rate will be 15% even the first year. And 15% is still indecent, people must be really perturbed in modern society to find such power abuse acceptable.
If it's anything like my company - we buy information on how the average salary and cost of living changes in different areas over time. That's the information that's proprietary.
you can get notifications for logins from a new device. isn't that just as useful?
super useful info for me to at least look up. thank you!
Not having access to the names and methods of intelligence agencies doesn't hinder my trust in the media, no, and I can't really establish from this article that much more than that is happening. If anything it boosts my trust, knowing that these publications are considered legitimate enough by the UK government to be on their d-notice distribution list.
It's not contrarian...there's simply no evidence either way, that's all I'm saying. For every anecdote you can come up with showing a kid doing well after hearing scary stories, I'll come up with another of a kid doing without without hearing them. That's it.
Related: The change is fine, it's only one line.
> I'm saying "Overuse of SPAs has reached comical proportions. That doesn't mean there is no legitmate uses for them."

Lots of people ARE saying that it does mean no one should use them. Or at least are phrasing things to sound like it.

That said...

People using things like an SPA for things they should goes WAY back, to the flash days even.

All the sites with like 4 pages of static (hard coded AND non-animated) were frustrating.
Yeah I can't see how it could be any worse than that.
This should already be supported on most phones: https://webauthn.me/browser-support
Dan Olsen published a video [0], last year, outlining his experiment on Minnewanka Curve and the ideology driving people who deny his, and similar results, demonstrating the curvature of the earth. While there is no artificial structure, he observes that trees on the opposite side of the lake are obscured by the water surface. He also published raw footage of the multiple recordings he took as a separate 28 minute video.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44 90 minutes
The expansion mentioned in the article is explicitly passwordless.
I believe the real “why” can be fully explained by the needs and constraints of human psychology, which in turn is informed by its biological and socio-cultural evolution. Science is the correct tool to arrive at the real answers here. Whether most people can deal with those answers is a different matter. One aspect of those answers being that meaning and meaningfulness only exist as inner constructions of the mind. The general difficulties that humans have with understanding and accepting the inner workings of their minds are hard to resolve. Arguably it’s of evolutionary benefit to have a counterfactual model of one’s own mind and of the metaphysical and spiritual nature of reality.

BTW I’m not disagreeing on the fact that some things are necessarily unknowable, but mostly in the sense of the incompleteness theorems and other inherent limitations of information processing and the physical laws of nature.
i hate checking email or looking at my phone for two step auth. either choice requires me to access another system. It requires far fewer steps to just tap the button on the side of the yubikey.
Who Will Profit from Saving Scotland’s Bogs?
Yes there's a lot of looseness. Considering the history of the
D-notice in wartime (1914-18 and 1938-45), when the stakes were high,
it's a typical British implementation of "strong flexibility". The
problem may actually be over-compliance. The days of Woodward and
Bernstein have given way to journalists whose idea of ambitiously
advancing their careers involves not offending anyone and running to
mummy to ask permission at every juncture - not of government but
their corporate/advertising lords.
Stoicism is, to my knowledge, the only branch of philosophy that feels useful to me. It's like an insurance policy -- care about doing right, and act accordingly, and you will be content (if not comfortable) no matter what happens. The world really would be a much better place if it had more stoics.
I’m a big fan of using subrequest authentication with nginx. I’ve been using it for years, but in my case, it uses plain http-auth to get the credentials from the user (with an ldap backend).

For this implementation, how does the request work for the user? Is it http-auth, or some other SSO web login form?
I don't think ending of these life of mother exceptions in certain states is that far fetched.

It's half way there in some states through vague language, using legal system to intimidate, ban by bureaucracy, and religious hospitals who won't even abort when there is an ectopic pregnancy.

This source is an opinion piece, but worth reading imho. The author includes state's legal language on when life of mother exception can be used.

A lot of them are vague or require an immediate emergency. Though to be fair some she includes aren't super persuasive to her argument imho.

When you empower every nut job in the state to sue it intimidates MDs to not use that very judgement.

Medicine isn't black and white and even if it was the government or citizens empowered by the govt should not get to arbitrate in the middle. Every miscarriage becomes suspect. Was her life really in danger? Etc

Basically, I'm no longer shocked at the kind of stuff that is now being said out loud or publicly fought for.

From healthcare, attacking elections, attacks on queer people etc.

I think we will increasingly see a group of states continue this trajectory and push this country to the brink. And the Supreme Court continue to enable all of this dangerous behavior.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/04/28/the-new-ab...
Should also lump in Metamorphosis into this category of bleak but fascinating stories.
The author Eugene unfortunately passed away in 2019.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24961110
I can't stand Amazon. In my mind they are equivalent to a cancer that society needs to collectively purge. I don't say this hyperbolically, I say this after much experience. I only do work on GCP now
But it's significantly easier, like way way easier, to phish someone versus compromise a filesystem and extract SSH keys. And you can just add keys afterwords if you phish them, so why wouldn't you go the easy route? That's why phishing is still such a massive problem: because it works.
Funny story, I did store my Github codes in 1pwd

Years go by, I need a code, they don’t work. Github could do nothing but tell me to start a new account.

Same old story; Github does not exist for you. It exists to make its workers and owners money. Whether it works or damages you is irrelevant to them.

The future has no obligation to the past. Don’t expect the codes to work if they change something that deprecates the old system they used.
That's depressing. But is there wild camping in Scotland then? Would be amazing.
It’s interesting watch Journalists become a protected class in society.

They are always on the side of good and can say whatever they want, but any disagreement with them can be classified as harassment and/or trolling.
I don't know about the others but Amazon missed things because of a $7B+ loss on Rivian investments. Otherwise their growth had slowed, but the actual core business is still growing.

The Rivian investment is a bit of a head scratcher though. I get that electricity costs could bring down shipping costs vs. ICE vehicles, but they could order their 100,000 trucks without buying 20% of a business that's somewhat orthogonal to their core competency, which is definitively not vehicle manufacturing. Sure they're more of a logistics business than retailer at this point but owning a manufacturer... do they have big stakes in the established traditional manufacturers?
Also note in the case of Abercrombie that they were sued, and lost, over their hiring practices and marketing materials, and were required by the court to change them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalez_v._Abercrombie_%26_Fi....
Linear algebra has a lot of low hanging fruit, and applies to lots of stuff.

The fruit of econometrics hangs higher, but it's even more applicable.
How to make decisions in group meetings
Having support that is able to resolve 2FA problem creates new issues - how to prevent attacker from social engineering their way around support to gain access to your account. It’s hard to verify the identity online, across borders.

IMHO there’s no good answers on global scale. Identity should be handled on local level. Government already has process for issuing me new tokens even if I would loose all my existing ways of proving my identity. Local organizations know how to verify my identity using those tokens. I already put lots of trust on my own bank on this, so maybe they could also manage my digital identity.
Their security model locks users out.

I nearly lost all my passwords with LastPass when something similar happened to me.

Is grandma supposed to file her 128 character recovery code in a safe vault when she just wants to get from the airport?

Stop blaming users for them not adapting to terrible authentication experience.
Seriously.. also, looking at these code snippets...

If someone delivers code that looks like that, especially if intended for a production system, I'm firing immediately.

It's a miracle nothing has happened sooner.
I have a hard time believing that you're unintentionally being an asshole in this thread, it's so on the nose that I have to believe it's on purpose.
page rank isn't hard to do at scale- it was an iterative map reduce. It also predates adwords by several year (PR paper published in 98, already live by that time, AdWords launched in 2000).

Ask.com used HITS which was published in 99.
Facebook is irreparably doomed as a social network, but will continue to thrive as a software innovator (React, osquery, graphQL, etc).

The question becomes whether leadership will set their ego aside, stop trying to make the world like them, and own the actual future. No generation wants a Metaverse. Literally no one was asking for it until crypto got kicked out of Mom's house and needed a reason to crash on the couch.

I agree with you though: Facebook _optimized_ as it is trying to do with the eyeballs of all humans (e.g. VR color theory). Problem is that society learned its lesson. We became aware of how software aggregates our behavior for major ad deals with no regard for our collective health – mental & physical. Just like smoking in 1950, Facebook had its day. It's time to change some laws based on what we learned and get back to building genuinely cool stuff.
I was the Chief Business Officer of WhatsApp and I helped negotiate the sale
What you call "intuitive" I call "not at all obvious or even remotely expected". There's simply no evidence either way that can't be contradicted by opposing anecdotes. That's really all I'm saying. It's not related to The McNamara Fallacy at all, because there's no obvious observation that supports the initial notion. It simply isn't common sense, even if you want it to be.
Altdrag https://stefansundin.github.io/altdrag/
> It only worked there because we generated out code from the UML

That sounds very interesting! Was that a proprietary tool/pipeline or is there something which I can use to leverage UML to generate some specific language... for example C++?
I guess part of my problem is I have very strong music opinions on what I like and don’t like. It’s easy for me to listen to something and break down (albeit mostly in laymans terms) what exactly I like about the combination song/genre/era. But for some reason when I sit in front a DAW I’m complete lost at how to compose sounds into something I like. And there’s all sorts of strange knobs controlling something(decay, gain, idk it differs between instruments) and I have no clue how to use it all without brute forcing.

I have a similar issues with front end web design. I can have everything pictured in my head and even and idea of how to achieve it but somehow it never ends up looking like what my brain envisioned.
>So one could ~say for an equal revenue, Apple will take the double, and since they have ~25% marketshare, then I see no signal of apple users spending significantly more than Android users, however the milking is hard.

Blood from a stone and all that. You can only milk people for what they've got, and you can bet that Google's 15% number is not coming out of the kindness of their hearts. It's a competitive tactic to lure app developers away from what they know is a more lucrative platform. Point being that Apple users are, on average, much wealthier and more willing to spend money in an app store, and thus much more profitable per MAU.
A Kid’s Show Juggernaut That Leaves Nothing to Chance
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-05-10/lawsuit-sn...

https://www.businessinsider.com/mother-sues-meta-instagram-s...

https://nypost.com/2019/09/30/teen-commits-suicide-after-hes...
Not understanding the political implications of personal nonparticipation in politics is very delightfully ironic. The only way to win is to be invisible.