skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Preface: I've been busy as shit this week and haven't really read up on FIDO. I don't know that I have a position on it yet.

> Something you have can be easily stolen, and biometrics cannot be kept secret, can be forged, and can't be reset/changed once compromised.

Something you have can easily be stolen as long as someone is able to access it. Someone on the other side of the world is not going to be able to steal your USB token from the comfort of their own bedroom, just as they're unlikely to get your biometrics.

A password exists in your memory, yes, but it also exists in the databases of untold numbers of corporations, each with different levels of security, and at least some of those corporations duplicate copies of those databases across different data centers throughout the world. These databases can essentially be accessed by anyone, anywhere.

I understand what you're saying, but you're forgetting that passwords, by nature, have to exist somewhere other than your head, guarded by someone other than you.
Good. I have seen editors exclude articles on actual public figures — multiple (credible) books published, academic publications, interviews on mainstream media — as being "irrelevant", "unimportant", etc., etc., all seemingly because, when the editor's chain of edits is examined, that person took a position with with the editor strongly politically or policy-wise disagreed with on the strongest terms. The editor system is one of Wikipedia's greatest weaknesses — people with bones to pick and hills to die on work to exclude even mainstream views with which they disagree, and there is no way to stop them from running amok. Something really needs to be done about this.
That's why I decided against the MBA. I was in this stage of life in my early-mid 30s, and asked for some advice from other engineer-with-MBAs. All of the ones who had done things of value with their MBA were no longer engineers.

What's your endgame?

Do you want to be a CEO some day? A product manager? Business development? Work in something other than software? An MBA will teach you useful things and help you get your foot in the door.

Do you want to be a CTO? Do you see yourself creating software down the road? None of the MBA things explicitly help you, and executive MBAs are very expensive to do "just for fun". If you want to go back to school, go get a masters in CS if you don't have one yet.
That seems like a good improvement. Pull requests welcome!
Take a look through what is deleted, it's mostly junk. In my experience Wikipedia could stand to be more aggressive with its pruning. Low quality articles waste your time because you have to read them for a bit before you realize it is worthless.
Samuel Alito and Drug Prohibition
Would be weird if they didn't include those pages on a "radical inclusionist" wiki.
Looking at some deleted articles [1], I do get it. There seem to be hundreds of articles of asteroids which consist of only a few sentences. A lot of small or already defunct startup companies, small indie-bands and their albums etc.

[1] https://deletionpedia.org/en/Special:AllPages
"I don't get why they would do this to so many topics."

Self-promotion and non-notable content.

Pretty early in Wikipedia's existence all sorts of spammers and non-entities realized that they could use Wikipedia as their personal advertising billboard.

Lots of things that (arguably) don't belong in an encyclopedia have been added to Wikipedia too. For example, you could, arguably, have an article about every one of the 7 billion people on the planet and about what foods each of them like, etc.

Inclusionists might like all such articles to be included, but to the extent deletionists are effective, articles on non-notable subjects are deleted.
Tip I learned from an interview on Motley Fool money podcast.

Take a cheap plastic razor, use and dry it after every use. Quite dry, e.g. with a towel and blowing on it. It will last from 3 to 6 months, depending how dry you keep it.

Meaning, the razor degrades primarily due to rust, not from shaving!
> While a perfect fifth is a difference of 7 semitones, this produces a difference of only 6.804 semitones. It would seem that its designers didn't have a perfect fifth in mind.

Remember that 7 semitones is not a perfect fifth. (Note this depends on your definition of perfect fifth, some people allow for being close, since equal temperament is so common.)

While a perfect fifth is a 3:2 ratio of frequency, seven semitones isn’t exactly 1.5, it’s more like 1.498.

800/540 is ~ 1.48, so I definitely agree the designers weren’t going for a fifth, very likely they wanted some beat interference to give it a nice metallic warble.
Note: Not cdb = "constant database" described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdb_(software) .

Ha! And later on in the README it even says:

> cdb is an acronym for Cask Database, and it is not related to D. J. Bernstein's cdb. I don't expect this to get popular or used in production environments, and naming things is hard .
Too much noise often makes it hard to find the signal. It's also difficult to sustain any quality/accuracy, especially if the topics are too obscure.
Especially in the face of apparent aggressive anti-union behavior by the company.
Best Pocket Notebooks (and how to make your own that beats them all) (2020)
Sure, which is why no one is legally obligated to host it.
hmm .. "drones fighting the war on deforestation" ..

what about Arbor Day ? seed science.. good soil conditions.. erosion control.. regenerative bio-dynamic ecosystomology ?

can the point-and-shoot gaming crowd please chime in on how we can blend the marketing message here, since perhaps we share some goals?
> Things 3 is another classic example of an app that would be very easy to port to other platforms if so wished, but the devs aren't interested in going outside Apple's Walled Garden. And if it makes them good money I can't even blame them.

A big factor is likely the quality of the UI frameworks on other platforms. On Windows, only the older "legacy" frameworks come close to the depth of AppKit but are a bear to work with (and in questionable maintenance status). GTK isn't the worst, but version 3 and up makes no attempt to fit in on non-Linux desktops. Qt probably comes closest but it comes with the caveat of being tied to C++ or Python, and distribution can be a pain. With Electron you have to bring your own everything.

I follow some Apple platform devs (on top of being one myself) and there's will from them to produce software for other platforms, but only once there's an option as nice as AppKit/UIKit to do so with.
And firing seeds into the ground doesn't solve anything.
I suppose it’s worth noting that my phrasing was a direct response to “greediness isn’t a flaw of the system, it’s a core value”

I do think it’s a flaw. Its an overreach to say it’s the singular cause of all the worlds problems, but boy does it seem like it sometimes!

Now I’m left wondering something I’m sure philosophers have grappled with better than I can: can a creature’s inherent nature be wrong? Are right and wrong even applicable to nature? Seems like it’s more that it just is and we can only apply our morality after the fact.

I guess that means I take your point :)
Portal and “Feminist Games”
Ironically it makes it faster. TRP and TRCD numbers are getting so big compared to transfer clock rates that it's more efficient to double the bank groups and send data on more smaller channels vs speeding up a single one.
I always assumed that the sensitive skin isn’t on your face.

Soap is, indeed, “good enough”. But for a minimal investment you can buy the shaving soap cakes, cup, and a shaving brush. Way cheaper than the stuff in a can, a little more luxurious than hand soap.
I'm pretty sure mine were all like $10-$20 each at thrift stores.
It’s crazy how people feel entitled to have somebody else host their “thoughts” on the Internet.

As the project at hand shows, if Wikipedia doesn’t want to host your page, you can simply publish elsewhere.
I'm so glad to see that this exists. The world needs this. I can't tell you how many times I wished that I had the time and energy to set this up myself. It's such a tragedy for hard work and human knowledge to disappear into the void just because radical deletionists managed to take over Wikipedia.

The only thing that would make me happier would be if us Inclusionists could get organized, get our shit together, and kick the Deletionist camp on Wikipedia right in the teeth (metaphorically speaking) and shift the tide.
I did not see that or a TOS as part of sign up

If the HN communities behavior is to point to a TOS I didn’t agree to at sign up, I’ll go ahead and logout and stay away

That’s some bait n switch, end run around norms, patronizer enabling, dark pattern nonsense.
If the data isn’t being collected, PRISM doesn’t matter.
ps aux then pipe to grep and/or cut. Or sort. Or...
Loved your story, I learned `./configure && make && make install` under similar pretenses.

Maybe Nix/Guix can bring us closer to that fanciful reality. I haven't used Nix, but have been really impressed with I'm hearing about festures like Flakes, and particularly Nix Comma, which uses nix-index to make downloading, compiling, and running (without installing) a package as easy as `, firefox`.
This is like a discussion the other day on streaming service quality. Even if the "crap" isn't completely without value to anyone, dump 100,000 low quality/value pieces of content into anything and it's that much harder to find (and trust) the good content.
There is never ever a “best” decision. The most important part in any is that it is your decision.

In this case you are in the best of places but are not taking advantage of that. Any decision will be yours for life.

This is the way to build YOUR life. Acting.

I am not trying to criticize you: just trying to help.

Your life is the sum of YOUR decisions. Right now you are not living, you are led by compulsion (trying to be sure, certain, safe, whatever). What you call “analysis” is exactly paralysis. Stop. Act. Most of life is uncertain (if not all).

Good luck.
I can understand why wiki articles get deleted. What I cannot understand is why their edit history is also deleted. If part of an article is deleted, one can still find it in the article history. But if the article is deleted entirely, there is no way to check what used to be there.
Ask HN: Do you still provide cover letters?
I’m currently in a job search phase, and have heard differing opinions from my peers about still using cover letters when applying to roles. I can understand using them in the beginning of your career since it can help differentiate you and bolster an empty resume. However, for reference I’m in my “mid” career with roughly 9 professional years under my belt.

Curious to hear if you’ve stopped using cover letters passed a certain point, or continue to use a tailored one for each role applying to.
Most unions don’t allow managers to join, as they’re generally considered to be part of capital’s collective bargaining side, if not part of capital themselves. I think most modern labor theory includes a “professional-managerial class” to account for this.

There’s an argument to be had about where this line makes sense in modern megacorps but local managers in blue collar work tend to hold a lot of power over their employees in particular regardless of the shape of the corporation they’re under, so it would be surprising if they could.

Edit: fair points in the replies about management unions and that I was focused on a North American perspective. I was interpreting the post I replied to as saying the managers would join the union (as in the same one), but they didn't actually say that.

I can definitely believe that things would be different in a less union-adversarial environment. But it's still pretty unlikely that warehouse bosses at amazon would be welcome in the same union as the workers, or be likely to manage to unionize themselves successfully. The incentives just don't really align well in this context: corporate has too many carrots and sticks.
To be like Lukashenko and read the winds of change and to get with the winning team. They have no power otherwise, they're just cogs in the system.

Influence to avoid having the union, but if one is going to form ... then beg to join it.

Bend like a reed in the wind, it's all they can hope to do.
Well, you don't see too many homeless people or citizens failing to receive medical treatment or retraining if they fall on hard times. It's a compassionate society when it comes to care. I'm sure it's cutthroat in the business sense, but that's normal. The US is cutthroat in nearly every aspect where we should care for one another and prevent problems from existing--gun control, drug use, unemployment, basic housing, education (this is getting worse the more evangelicals influence it), etc.
Indeed, as an interesting aside it's a 3-4-5 triangle.

25^2 - 20^2 = 15^2
Exactly what I thought. I wonder if OP played
Carbon steel pans are my current favorite, after having used primarily cast iron for a long time. They are thin, so they heat up extremely fast. They season as good or better than cast iron. They weigh a lot less, so are easy to maneuver. And they clean up as easy as cast iron.

De Buyers are more expensive than your regular cast iron, but they’ll last a lifetime.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220506173540/https://www.nytim...
Apple, Google, and Microsoft will kill passwords and phishing in one stroke
Massive company, so an activist would need a lot of capital for any noticeable stake. Overall reasonable and relatively consistently increasing valuation, so there is little incentive. If the stock does very poorly while AWS keeps growing, so the company value diverges further from the value of individual divisions added together (sum of the parts value), you could expect pressure on this.
Carbon steel has similar properties to cast iron with regards to non-stick but at a lower weight.
I read through wikipedia AfD occasionally for fun (yeah, I know, I'm a weirdo). I'm not going to say it's never happened ever, but I've never noticed an AfD that ended up with a delete consensus that was obviously started due to an editor's political bias.

Can you provide examples to substantiate this claim?
Because there is insufficient art in tech.
Apart from too much noise a lot of it is duplicated effort as well. E.g. Cherry RC is indeed deleted but so it can be a redirect to RC Cola which already talks about it. Letting those exists just serves to dilute the quality of the articles on the topic even though the overall article count is higher.
“Amazon reportedly left police in Spain 'dumbfounded' by asking them to intervene in a mass warehouse strike and patrol worker productivity”[1]

I wonder what will take for anti-union companies-can-do-nothing-wrong people to consider that maybe companies can be authoritarian and bad.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-asked-police-in-spain...
"Culture" is a very large and full bag. Some items in it are fundamental to maintenance of civilization, others are entirely superficial.

Civilizational: Respect for rights of minorities, rule of law rather than of the strong, willingness to work and pay taxes, valuing education.

Superficial: Cuisine, dress, artistic taste, ritual formalities of religion.

Few governments have had success splitting immigration policy priorities along these lines, though some have had the wisdom to at least try.
The wages in medical field in the US are pretty good compared to Europe. Probably some would even say outrageous, I'm sure its part of the high cost per patient care in addition to layers of complexity with insurance sector.
Not much have changed in PHP since 2012, relating to his exact criticisms. I've yet to meet a good developer who likes the language, but I've met many who like it.
Would be interesting if there was an easy way to find “controversial” pages. If a page has a significant amount of edits or discussions prior to deletion for example.
Have you tried Logseq? Might be more your style, but could also be too bloated.
What the New York Times won’t admit about California
Ah right. I probably misread the parent, sorry.
I think it should be pretty clear at this point that we can at least achieve "generalized AI" to the extent that we as humans have it. There is no reason whatsoever to think we can't build a machine at least as intelligent as we are.
More often than not, the problem is not "collective bargaining" per se. It's that unions are known to play the dumb game -- in France for example, the demands from unions are in general so far from anything reasonable that any union representative is viewed by anyone who ever so slightly understand how the economy works as a band of nonsensical fools who just need to be bypassed by whatever means.
> A password exists in your memory, yes, but it also exists in the databases of untold numbers of corporations, each with different levels of security

> passwords, by nature, have to exist somewhere other than your head, guarded by someone other than you.

What? That’s simply not true. Passwords are only stored in your head and anywhere you explicitly write them down for safekeeping (like a password manager).
Services do not need a copy to validate your password, and should never store one. They only need a salted hash to confirm if the password you input was correct. Such a hash is irreversible without an attacker randomly guessing your password through brute force, which is beyond impractical for any decent password.
Will the EU allow it?
> “but desktops/laptops are already a necessity of life”

No they're not! You need either a desktop or a laptop or a tablet or a smartphone, but you don't need more than one.

I'm okay living in a world where everyone needs access to some type of computer, in the same way that everyone probably needs access to some type of writing utensil. However, people should be able to choose the form factor that lets them live their best life.
For those who don't know it: you have logseq as a true open source competitor of Obsidian.

Although it's not as much an editor as an outliner; notes are strongly hierarchical, and it's difficult to use for writing plain markdown files. But that shouldn't be a problem if your main need is note-taking.
The history isn't removed, but its only visible to Wikipedia admins.
'There are people who tell the same cautionary tales for thousands or even tens of thousands of years.'

The people retelling the story don't understand it - we have stories and kings and feudalism, go on the street and ask a random person any question about how feudalism works:

What rights did peasants have? What right does the lord have over his peasants? could peasants be sold and how are they different from slaves? Which 'levels' of nobility does what? Who pays taxes to whom?

If put theae people into a feudal society tomorrow, and just renamed 'baron' and 'lord' to something else, they would not know it. We could call it 'landlord' and 'investor'
Nvidia's LHR limitation has now been unlocked for everyone. Good luck buying a new GPU anytime soon ;)
It's very well understood that making a product can create surplus value. This is basic economics. Contrarily to simply robbing someone else, which would be 0-sum (if not negative).

However if the product is being sold you are still taking someone's money. If you wanted to purely increase wealth for everybody you would be giving away the product for free. Many no-profits do that. (duh)

Yet, the tradeoffs are complex and some economic activities are purely exploitative.

In fact, inequality is rising across various societies and quality of life is actually decreasing for hundreds of millions.

Wealth redistribution through taxes has been a cornerstone of modern society and one of the biggest push to move societies out of feudalism. And now we are witnessing something described as technofeudalism.

> If Elon hadn’t created his businesses, his wealth wouldn’t be in the hands of other people, it just wouldn’t exist.

Either Musk made cars entirely by himself (which is not the case) or his employees did it. You are assuming that such workers would have all been unemployed if Musk did not exist, which is very unlikely.

Also, it's false that ALL of Musk's wealth would not exist. Only the fraction due to value created by the company (if any). [And I repeat, the products are obviously created by the workers]

An interesting question would be: if company X never existed, could the workers be doing something more beneficial instead? Plenty of organization has been described as a net negative for humanity.

And this is without accounting for negative externalities, e.g. causing pollution, or making another company go bankrupt, regulatory capture, creation of monopolies and the list is pretty long.

> The global GDP increases over time, which I interpret has new wealth being created

That's incorrect. Part of GDP is due to production of products and services, but a significant part is due to speculation that is not backed by any increase in productivity.

Additionally, GDP is in no way able to measure overall real wealth, quality of life, access to opportunities and so on: not destroying the environment does not increase GDP. As much as going for a walk with your SO does not increase GDP.

> I also assume that over 1 or 2 generations that his wealth will mostly circulate around.

This is provably false.
Lots of things that (arguably) don't belong in an encyclopedia have been added to Wikipedia too.

Wikipedia isn't an encyclopedia though, not in any traditional sense. Just because they use that word in the byline doesn't mean that it makes sense to pretend that Wikipedia is a 1980's door-to-door-salesperson bound edition of Encyclopedia Britannica. And in the same sense, it makes no sense to try and apply the same standards and policies from an outdated legacy media format to an entirely new media format.

but to the extent deletionists are effective, articles on non-notable subjects are deleted.

The problem with this mind-set is the idea that there is some objective, universally applicable idea of what it means to be "non notable". There isn't.
The double-dash is selected for pure practicality.

Any option character excludes a set of inputs, and we want this set to be as small as possible. It is already hard to look at file named "-f" -- do you want to also make accessing files named ":f" (or even worse, "f:") harder? Thus the desire to keep the first "-".

Now, they could have used "-:" or "-=" for long options.. but I think "--" won because it is so easy to type -- no need to move your fingers.

Using long options to encode DSL, like imagemagick and ffmpeg, can be pretty silly.. But those programs are exceptions, and most of the option usage is of much simpler variety. Like "grep --label=input --color=always".

The comments about es sound weird... You can set ";" as prompt in sh/bash too. I would not call its quoting "nicer" -- yes, using '' for a single quote is nice, but lack of " support sounds like a bad omission. Yes, bash is pretty fat by 1990's standards.. but if you want a real programming language with no line editing capabilities, no need to reach for obscure shells -- grab perl, python, tcl, lua or any of the other scripting languages.