skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Guys,it's 2022! You shouldn't be requires to give out your email right along for verifying anything. Please allow the old dog to die.

Site generated communication should be entirely optional, and even then why not support signal,whatsapp, slack,discord,etc... (as a library of course).

Fight spam? Use captchas.

What I found out is email registration is very difficult without a phone number which in turn requires a government ID in most places. So email verification has become a lazy way to require govenment IDs for even the most basic sites.

It is all built around user hostility. I have added items to a cart,tried to check out and then decided to cancel the whole thing because they have no guest(no-email) check out and require email registration several times this year. Why would they not just take my money? My payment itself is verficiation of anything email can verify?

It is so stupid! Imagine being asked for your phone number and then they call your phone to verify it at every store or business you went to in person.

I challenge any commercial site owner to prove that email registration improves their botrom line.

For non-commercial sites, please understand that you are being needlessly hostile to your visitors, use federated authentication and provide a no-email registration path.

Personally, I think registration itself is outdated. You want users to buy something or generate content on your site. You can still call it registration if you want but you don't need to do more than the bare minimum of authentication which when federated can mean not storing anything new or special about the user other than their login session and associate their content with the identities associated with that session. For example, if HN with github federated, this post and my submissions would be under my GH identity in HN's db, if I want to setup a HN profile, that too would be under that identity. Unless you have a specific need for it, there wouldn't be a table of users with my identity in it.

Lastly, for those that use email as part of an authentication workflow: understand that the use's email security is now your responsibility, because even though you transfered risk lack of options means you are responsible for mandating email as point of failure. So if a user gets phished and damage is done on your site, your site is liable unless you are also providing email security training. There is a reason secret questions exist (although I don't like them), you are not suppose to allow control over an email account as the only factor of authentication requires to reset login credentials. The whole 2FA setup is meaningless if you do that.
Sure, but the rule not to print naked adults might be useful and necessary to enforce a rule of "don't bring your amateur porn to this shop, please". Which I think is a reasonable request. Some might not be bothered, but the analogy to sending dick-pics comes to mind.
I see a lot of discussion between a couple of different "camps" on this.

I would have loved to have gotten a degree at a great university. Most of the arguments for a formal education are absolutely correct. But many of the arguments against it, are, as well.

But we make plans, and God laughs. Things turned out the way they did for me, and I ended up getting my undergraduate from The School of Hard Knocks, and my postgrad from The College of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of You. It's just the way things went. Long, sad, story (get your hankie).

I love learning, and still do it, every day. That's one of the reasons that I love this industry (It sure ain't the people).

The way I was "reared" in this field has given me some really useful, powerful, skills and habits, but I definitely feel the "holes" that are there, from not having the luxury of a complete, comprehensive education.
Yes, here on macOS 11.6.8

$ awk -version
awk version 20200816
It's an early ERP system that existed under a different model of economic organization; omitting that serious detail is almost, er, underselling it.

Modern Free SocietiesTM lose their minds over networked water meters; this was a near-real-time index of important metrics from the country's important industries. The actually-Marxist government used this data to wage class war against the still-private owners of eg trucking companies. We don't hold with that sort of panopticon in the West, no sir!

...Regarding corporations, obviously. Citizens dutifully endure their smartphones and smartspeakers and smartdoorbells reporting important metrics to advertisers and Amazon and the cops. The point is that ideology colours everything.
I mean blaming the PM that was last in power over 15 years ago seems a stretch?
How can data/files stored on somebody else's computer be subject to 4th amendment rights?
I hope this crashes ethereum value and ideally takes down the whole crypto bubble
> Another is the massive. underfunding of the NHS over the last decade. This has become much more evident post-covid thanks to the backlogs.

If this were the true issue, the excess deaths would have been starting at peak Covid hospitalization. In fact the opposite is true…

That said, particularly on any bureaucracy- more money doesn’t solve issues. In fact, more money often makes more bureaucracy. Obviously that’s not only the case, but it’s one I’d seriously consider here.
The left has somehow ended up as the party of the political managerial class instead of the working class, this is one of the best explanations why we're in such a weird place where the socialists are all trust fund kids who would rather have the working class arrested than talk to them.
I have relatives working in the NHS bureaucracy, even they claim its bloated - there's a fuck tonne of redundancy/duplication of effort and failures to exploit economies of scale, especially in the Trusts system where the same things are replicated dozens of times.
I contributed a tiny bit to pbrt[1], and one of the things I loved was that if you just plugged in physical values you almost always got great results with minimal tweaking.

The Octane data seems most complete at first glance (with complex IOR etc), but for things like milk and blood I expected at the very least some absorption coefficient for the translucency or similar.

[1]: https://pbrt.org/
I'm not sure about OP, but here in Iceland having a smartphone with electronic ID built into it is not TECHNICALLY a requirement but life can be very difficult without it. It is the de-facto identification system used by every government service and banking institution.
How do you automate this for daily backups?
Thanks! Good to see that ETCS seems to be addressing this use case now!
Units exist for a reason.
>> One can be concerned about both.

I didn’t say that you couldn’t. But by voting for the current day Tory’s you are choosing to decimate the health system and waste money on sending Refugees to Rwanda. It’s idiotic to prioritise that over the NHS.
Afaik mandatory government-provided mailbox is in Czech republic ("datovka") and Slovakia, at least for some parts of population (like enterpreneurs, lawyers, other professions that communicate with state institutions), with general mandatory use coming soon.

They serve the fiction of confirmed mail delivery. If you don't pick it up from this mailbox, it is considered delivered anyway and your problem, if you miss something here.
So, if they don't die in the first wave of COVID, they need to die of underfunding?

I mean sterilizing immunity through infection is now known (through many thousands of documented re-infections and likely hundreds of millions) to be both irresponsible and a failure. However, if the goal was to reduce the long term cost of the British medical system through the death of it's oldest and most expensive, then perhaps there is still hope by simply reducing funds?
This looks amazing from the simulation point of view, and if you are interested in flying planes, this looks like a place to be. It makes me want to buy a state-of-the-art PC, joysticks, and actually learn how to fly planes in the simulator.

At the risk of sounding flippant though, the graphics are still not great. Now, I absolutely understand how computationally demanding flight simulators are, but I can't help but feel that Microsoft oversold the graphics capability of FSX. As someone noted in the thread, for me, this means there's still some suspension of belief required.

I just cannot wait until we have a flight simulator that has graphics comparable to non-simulator games. I think that might actually compel me to spend the $10k (or however much you need for the compute power and peripherals) and invest the time in such simulator. Maybe when I'm retired, I will get to experience the dream of flying planes in what feels like almost another reality.
Should be top comment
I think "suspension belief required" is what keeps me from FSX as well. Greatly put!
So don’t work at a place that prints peoples private photos?
Correct me if I'm wrong: Isn't every satellite largely software defined?

The innovation here seems to be that it's designed to facilitate a wider array of uses.
As a European, it has always been perplexing to me how little the US invests in teachers and schools, given that we know how huge the benefits are down the road (educational attainment, income, pro-social behavior, life satisfaction).

Watching how large parts of the political spectrum embrace hardship as a societal teaching tool, I begin to understand that the expectation may always have been that kids ought to figure it out by themselves. It's almost as if our "invention of childhood" (as a protected phase in life) is being rolled back.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't believe kids can until they are quite old. On the contrary, I expect the emotional and psychological scars to demand a significant toll in the future.

[edit] PS: There have been quite a few very heated recent discussions where dang sternly warned against incisive political scorn. I agree, and my comment is intentionally worded carefully and as objectively as possible.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...

In 1997 the NHS had 1/5th the budget it does today. Do we think that service has improved 5 times in the period?

Like universities the NHS has been eaten from the inside by administrators whose sole purpose is to keep doctors from doing actual work. Talk to a nurse and 4/5th of the bullshit they have to deal with is pointless paper work.
> opens up your email client

What the fuck?
Teaching/training is quite difficult. I've done quite a bit of training (but not true teaching -there's a difference), over the years.

My family is full of teachers. I have many friends that are teachers.

It's amazing how "solutions" never seem to actually get around to simply paying teachers more, and maybe not expecting them to be child-rearers, in lieu of parents.
I played many long hours with that. I still have the original disk it ran from, a single 5 1/4" floppy.
Great, let's move forward with some real online learning initiatives. The current system is antiquated and no longer makes sense from a purely educational perspective. For too long the US has used the school system as a baby-sitting service while both parents (or single parents) are at work.
> I was interested in whether it had some unique feature/paradigm, or was it loved for some other reason.

It was so beloved because it actually worked exactly as the marketing slogan at the time claimed: "The power of C++ with the ease of Visual Basic". (Or was it the other way around?)

This was a time when Microsoft's "Visual" Studio IDE was anything but: It had no visual form builder, just a code editor. To actually put something on screen, you had to write reams of code straight out of a Charles Petzold tome. Visual Basic, OTOH, sure did have a nice easy graphical UI builder, but a pathetically weak ultra-high-level language -- in contrast to Object Pascal, which is every bit as high- or as low-level as C++.

I learned all three in an "Object Oriented Programming" course I took in 1995, IIRC in the order 1: OO concepts, 2: C++, 3: VB, 4: Delphi (or was it 2: VB, 3: C++?). After the two preceding, Delphi was a revelation and love at first sight.

That love soured slightly after the Kylix debacle, some more with diverse bugginess and drawn-out implementation of Windows developments (Unicode, 64-bit, High-DPI...), and finally petered out almost totally over the covert "feature moved to higher-priced more Enterprise-y edition" and overt price hikes over the years (decades) since, with the on-again off-again free (gratis) Community Edition shenanigans as perhaps the final nail in the coffin.

But Delphi versions 1 through 7 (1995 -- ca 2005-10) still has, and probably will for ever have, a special place in my heart as my most beloved programming tool. And fortunately, it has a worthy heir in Free Pascal / Lazarus.

HTH!
Each of us has exactly 24 hours every day that we can choose how to spend.
I like this idea of reverse email verification. I have a gmail account that I have long since abandoned due to other people signing up for accounts and using my address. If they actually had to send an email from the address to sign up then I probably wouldn't have abandoned my address as quickly.
"Nor is there pain, or cause of pain,
Or cease in pain, or noble path
To lead from pain;
Not even wisdom to attain!
Attainment too is emptiness."
This telex machines act like terminals if you connect them to computer. They did best with technology they had. (previous government didn't know how to use them).
It is remarkable what they did. And very interesting. The title is misleading.
Maybe not you specificially, but for example in the U.S., there are over three million people with security clearances. That's a large pool for an adversary to choose from. Maybe all an adversary needs for one particular mission is to identify a janitor at a facility, go through some of their content to find a nude selfie that they might be embarrased if their family saw, and the adversary says, it would be a shame if your friends, family, and coworkers saw this, just prop open this door, it's just a door...

And there are a million more people who don't have security clearances and work at companies such as Alphabet, Meta, a datacenter, Boeing, etc.
"K-12 schools spend $666.9 billion or $13,185 per pupil annually." - https://educationdata.org/public-education-spending-statisti...

We invest plenty. We just don't get a great return on our investment.
> But, many many issues where decisions are required are more subjective than objective.

They're still objective, it's still objectively wrong to order your employees into a battle royale to the death or paint everything they can find teal as a response to pretty much any problem even when the$e are multiple right answers with a human component. It's just that measuring can cost more than the benefit the task brings, and change what is being measured to destroy anyvalue produced.
Change alone would not make much of a difference. It’s definitely mainly a funding issue. But some change is necessary, particularly where the tech side is involved (lack of record sharing, old systems vulnerable to ransomeware attacks etc).
Sure. I may have worded it a big ambiguously, but I mean that too.

I don't want to be confronted with information I don't need at a moment, so I prefer this information that I need maybe 1% of the time to be behind an explicit interaction.
Firefox also opens a gmail tab for me when I click on a mailto: link actually
I hope social services are getting involved
But there's nothing that says you have to use that smartphone and services for anything other than government communications.
A teacher should know better than making blanket statements every 2 lines with "Americans think..".

What a bad article.
I am a software professional and run my own email and it's a massive pain in the ass. I started also using a google account just to use for all the stupid sign ups the internet makes you do, and use my real email for actual correspondence, banking, and a few other things only.
I used to aspire to work in FAANG or start my own startup.

I now live below the poverty line, using food stamps, have a child with a partner, am growing a community of supportive loving people, and am pursuing radically different projects of my own creation, including a culture construction carnival that's donation driven.

Economic self-determination is a luxury of people who have lots of money AND/OR creativity AND/OR willingness to live radically.

Fuck the norms. Postactivism is where it's at for meaningful life changes. That's a relatively recent word that effectively acknowledges that activism will always be necessary, so it makes sense to be in a way that accomplishes activism as a side effect, rather than setting aside time to do activism.

There's no way I would trade what I'm doing now for money. And the things me and my friends are working on require life skills FAANG doesn't teach, like embracing death and communal healing.

OP: don't let the money fool you. There are so many ways to go about life not involving money. Developing an awareness of what constitutes universal human needs and how to meet them without money can help focus on figuring out ways to cut money out of your life. This can help you dial down your dependencies on money. It will also reinforce the idea that money is absolutely not a need. Finding and accessing gift economies (such as Buy Nothing) is an easy first step to learning how to meet needs without money. Learning to live without money includes developing the skills of need identification, strategy identification, asking for help in coming up with the previous things, asking for and receiving freely given things/help, abandoning shame & healing through trauma around gift giving/receiving, and offering/giving freely offered things/help.

Don't let haters sway you if you choose this path. Many people will try to shame or guilt you into not following this path with nonsense thinking like "you owe it to society to use money" or "you can't possibly cut out all money usage from your life and, even if you figure it out, you're a hypocrite if you use money in the meantime." Debt is a myth, especially debts to society. Hypocrisy is a shaming term for "in a transition from one state to another"; embrace messaged of hypocrisy as signs to keep going.

Keep calm and clown on.
> Why not let the industry handle training for what they need their people to do, and let universities focus on their intended goal: create more university professors/researchers.

Which would result in universities eventually going out of business. An outcome I'm not opposed to, provided what replaces them functions better at training young people for real life.
Same here. Those shitty providers are a too high risk.

Many years ago Microsoft has banned my outlook account for no reason. I tried contacting the support to resolve the issue - nothing. Only after writing a letter, I received the answer from Microsoft Germany:

We banned your account because I was distributing porn through onedrive (which I was not doing). The investigation showed that Microsoft could not find any wrongdoing. The account was gone nevertheless.

This is why I say:

- skip Gmail/Outlook and all this crap, use something proper like mailbox.org with your own domain
- dont trust cloud. Backup once a month, use two clouds at the same time, have a cold storage with your backups
- biggest risk is your apple icloud account. dont be dependant on them: dont use their credit card
- dont use google/ms 2fa apps
- have multiple accounts in parallel: one for google drive, one for search, one for mail (if you need it), one for youtube, etc
Do they do regression tests, and how do they verify them?

How do they know that a new version is actually an improvement?
There is cooperation between state and corporations for "greater good". There is "othering", see also "deplorables".
people have been saying the NHS is 24 hours away from being privatised by the tories for 50 years
Hatred of the elites is just simply populism. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are populists, two sides of the same anti establishment coin.

Populist sentiment is only growing.
paying teachers more is not going to solve the problem that most people do not appreciate teachers whether its kids or parents. It is certainly not a job for those who cannot stand being criticized the whole time.
Now I need someone to FOI TfL for the Tube announcer voices!
s/to Teach/to be treated like shit for crap wages/g

Not exactly news, these days.

In much of America, local school districts still have quite a bit of autonomy. As thing keep getting worse, there might be a district or few, here & there, where a different approach gets an honest try.

Might.
This isn't a solution. It's centralised.
It should suffice if you disable cloud sync and backups.
The biggest failure here is Google's continued refusal to segment their services and this has been a problem since at least the Google+ days, which is more than a decade ago at this point.

During Google+, Google controversially instituted a "real name" policy. This was controversial and completely driven by Vic Gundotra who would get up at company meetings when asked about this (back when he still answered questions because believe me that ended) and said "we don't want people named 'dog fart'".

Legitimate concerns that people might have for their safety were completely brushed aside.

Anyway, the enforcement for this of course was automatic and resulted in I'm sure many false positives. But what happened when your account was flagged/ You lose access to everything.

This too was criticized at the time and people asked "well if it's a policy violation for Google+, why do people lose their Gmail?". These questions too were completely brushed off.

At this time I decided I simply couldn't and wouldn't use any other Google service because my Gmail is too important to risk by an automatic ban from a false positive on a completely unrelated product.

And here we are, a decade later, with the exact same nonsense happening.

Now of course the CSAM ban itself is ridiculous. Refusing to reverse it is ridiculous. All of that is true. But don't tie your email or your phone to a company's other services when they do blanket bans like this.

Disclaimer: Xoogler.
Right now, I don't think so unless companies like Boeing start building their own simulators on top of FSX. Right now, a pilot must be certified to fly a plane, which might include simulator hours. The airplane manufacturer then builds their own simulations, as far as I am aware.

It's a great question though to wonder whether it wouldn't be cheaper for companies to build the simulators on top of something like FSX. Create something like the upstream training where you can train, until you get to the "production" simulator from the manufacturer, where you simply prove you have the required knowledge as a pilot.
Hey, cool. I wonder why companies love to dumb down their recommendation engines to the point of them being barely useful when they could just let me tell them what I'm looking for.