skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I've spent the past month developing plugins for my own WordPress website, and it is laughable how bad it is. I mean, the official advice to understanding things is not to read their documentation, it's "look through the code lol" [1].

This particular advice of looking through the code is for finding "appropriate hooks", if you've had to work with WordPress to implement a fairly customised solution then you'd have realised that you often find yourself in a place where you need to perform some task at a particular time in WP Core's or some other plugin's code's execution ( the very use-case of hooks in WP ), no documentation can effectively help you in finding the appropriate hook. With a little bit of experience in writing WP code you'd realise that it's far more easier and faster to open to source code and and look for `apply_filters` or `do_action` calls than opening documentation.
As a data point, when Google decided that knowing the password and the SMS verification code is not enough to get access to my account, I tried again with a different ISP, and that worked. (The first thing I did after regaining the access was to delete the account.)
> evade police so as to facilitate drivers dodging law enforcement

Isn't this illegal as fuck?
Amazing how many people (especially from HR) don't get this. The other day I got a calendar invite from a random HR person who I've talked to before that said nothing but "Sync". It made extremely distressed until I messaged that person asking for more information and it turned out to be something completely innocent. Just write it in the damn invite then instead of giving me a heart attack!
I disagree. Professional has knowledge but lacks context. You lack knowledge but know all of the context. You can improve knowledge but professional can't improve knowing everything relevant about you. You are in far better position to handle your health then anybody else.
Near the former for the first 30 minutes, near the latter for the next 30 years.
By then christianity had veered quite off, which lead to the reformation.

Even modern day christianity has been "adapted". Pointing nuclear weapons at your enemy isn't really compatible with "turning the other cheek".
Oldest heart found in prehistoric fish
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Of course- but consider that many of the torturers would be able to rationalize what they were doing. Kings were seen as the protectors of the nation via divine appointment, and the church acted with the authority to rival what is written in the Bible- a Bible that most Christians could not even read.
nor used social sign in, so it was not life altering, just a bit of work

For most users, it’s not a bit of work, but a life changer (as in this case, right). Most sites only allow G and f SSI, and that’s it. Quick registration is a killer feature and it’s a shame that it is not a part of the tech stack at much lower level than google/site integration. It’s almost 20 years of mass-internet and it still sucks at account registration.
The answer is for Google to be better regulated
> seen as a tax dodger they really should contact their MP.

Actually the parliamentary group that also deals with Loan Charge scandal is aware of the problem of umbrella companies pulling fraud with impunity. They called for a reform, highlighted the issues to no avail. HMRC is dead set on this to continue. There is nothing one can do. After all who cares about some care worker getting screwed, she should have known better...
It's an open question as to whether mathematics is discovered or invented.
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I kind of did, but I'm in the EU and I had no 2FA.

When I got locked out of my account I wrote (in pen and paper) to their GDPR team saying essentially "You don't have to give me my account back, but you do have to give me a dump of my emails".

After some back and forth (they told me to use Google Checkout, which I couldn't access because I was locked out) they decided that giving me the account back was easier, and they did.
Websites & apps treat your e-mail or phone number as your identity. Is it ideal? No, but it's reality.

Until everyone can agree on a better system, your e-mail is your online identity across countless websites. This makes losing your e-mail (with no customer support to regain access) a huge vulnerability in everyone's personal life.
> A piece of advice I wish I could give my manager is don't be spooky.

Why not politely talk to your manager and let them know that this behaviour is not appropriate / productive?
Moral of the story: don't use google, don't set-up 2FA.
Something similar happened to my mom earlier this year. She lost her phone (stolen) which through the YouTube app was her 2FA device.
I've had my Paypal account frozen because I was cheating by living in a different country, not just on holiday. I managed to recover it by giving them the documents they wanted to "prove" that I lived in the country my account was in. I think this included getting my bank to send statements to a family member's address and have them email me a copy. I know some people really do get locked out for good but that wasn't my experience.

Trying to get money from a real bank account (Lloyds in England) after moving out of the country was much harder though. It involved writing several letters and getting a policeman to stamp something, as well as multiple phone calls, including to several staff who gave me wrong advice. But still, they returned my money eventually.
Even during the late 1700s the enlightened Habsburgs were still using breaking on the wheel for some of their public executions. Case in point the Romanian revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan [1], in 1784-85.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_of_Horea,_Clo%C8%99ca_a...
From their agitprop, my impression was that by socialism they mostly mean minimizing economic exploitation, so e.g. street vendors, craftsmen etc who aren't wage workers aren't really incompatible with that approach. I'd be more curious to see the statistics on larger businesses - how many have a hired labor force, and how many are co-ops.

Also, the most recent iteration of the social contract that I have - one from 2016 - has these bits in it:

"There shall be a right to invest in private projects which, while taking account of environmental balance, provide the services necessary for economic development, respond to the needs of society and help to stimulate economic activity in the community.

The right to private property shall be safeguarded in such a way as not to conflict with the public interest, and it shall be regulated by law."

Now this is all rather vague, but it doesn't read like a hardline stance against any hint of capitalism. And given the bottom-up political system, so long as democratic institutions work as declared, it seems that individual municipalities should be able dial the balance as they see fit. From what I heard, while PYD enjoys broad popular support, that doesn't necessarily translate to specific policies they advocate for. So perhaps it's basically as socialist as people actually want it to be at the moment?

Which would make it even more important. While the economics of it is interesting by itself, I think the key part of the experiment is decentralized council democracy. That should be enough to give people actual voice on matters that concern them, as opposed to the sham that representative republics inevitably end up at scale. Once communities actually have control over their commons, they can figure out the economics according to their needs and preferences.

But, again, this is assuming that their governance model is as advertised and can persist in the long term. What was your impression on the ground?
We're only talking a few docs by a single account... it is possible, semi-manually: https://medium.com/@buro9/one-account-all-of-google-4d292906... The Drive section of that.

But in essence: Share the files, make a copy once shared, delete the shared file and only the copy exists.

Better though: Don't use Google Drive for business critical docs if you're not a very high spend Google customer able to talk with an account manager. If you're a small/hobby user or individual, keep critical docs offline as well as online. Just consider it part of your business continuity plan.
If you already work for them for free, why should they pay you?
I'm pretty sure they do perceptual hashing of all displayed output.
I'm getting quite depressed by the increase prevelence of these types of dismissive comments on studies. You see this exact argument posted especially on Reddit.

The second increasingly common popular comment is "Yeah but is it causal? and not correlation?", including popular follow ups such as did they correct for socio economic status? (Which in the vast majority of studies, they always do)

I'm curious to know if the posters of these comments have been to univsersity / college? Have they taken any classes on the basics of scientific method? I remember my bachelors had a course on it, at least.

It's great that more people are interested in science, but it's not great that people dismiss entire studies because they do not understand how science works.
> Repeated pings fall under the same category. If I'm available, I would have replied to you already.

Managers that do this are micro-managers and won't listen to the advice.

My written conversations with my manager are asynchronous, even when via Slack. I know he will answer when he can and I will answer when I can.

So if it's urgent it goes in the team chat, where we can take a collective decision without having a less technical manager be the bottleneck.
Used to be our playground (2020)
I upvoted this post so hopefully it stays long enough on the front page for someone at Google to see it and do something about it.

It's the only thing I can do to help, I'm sorry for your mum.

I've said it before, Google cannot be trusted with anything important. They don't care about their users because the users (info) are a product they sell to their actual customers. There's no incentives for Google to provide their cashcow something like customer support, because the user is not a customer.
The captioning by YT is nice, but it can't translate anything he types on screen. Obviously very skilled, but I'm too American to want to sit through the Chinese video. Probably should have the native language included as part of the title.
> speaker safety model that estimates speaker temperature to keep them safe

HW protection done in SW because designing a robust HW was expensive.
Makes you wonder whether all of this makes any sense, since the end result isn't humanity ending up with great tools to assist human lives, but a select few with capital getting even more capital, to the detriment of the former goal.
Should be yes. The forwarding has nothing to do with identity/login
OLEDs have very good blacks, but as soon as a pixel needs to emit any light at all, it will be significantly brighter than what a regular IPS pixel can emit at it's lowest brightness.
For what it's worth, the Benin Bronzes are in the British Museum, which is free to visit. (Though special exhibitions usually cost extra.)

Of course, there's still monetary benefit to the museum, London and Britain from people visiting to see them.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/about-us/british-museum-story/...
If she is still logged in somewhere, on a laptop, desktop, phone, whatever, then she can go and remove 2FA (no, you don't need the 2FA code to remove 2FA - or at least you didn't ~1 month ago).
It'll still become Open Source in 2027 under a GPL compatible license. That at least ensures that it won't ever die unlike most "source available" code out there.
You can join a staking pool if you don't have enough.
> And more importantly to me, rather than addressing the real suffering homeless people and addicts are experiencing and real solutions to help them.

But why are you addressing your problems with what he’s addressing instead of addressing the real suffering homeless people and addicts are experiencing and real solutions to help them? /S

Though to be real, yes, he’s addressing the problems he’s experiencing and that’s perfectly fine, we all should. If you hold people to the standard that no one can sound the alarm unless they have found solutions to the root causes then the only thing that would happen would be that there would be silence around the issue.
Well, we can't know that until we find (or won't find) the more effective way of teaching (or a way to do math without "symbol pushing" for that matter).

Until then it will not be wise to break what works (even for a minority of students).
Microsoft Teams stores cleartext auth tokens
It doesn't preserve everything like versioning, sharing info, etc, but if you're worried about losing access to these documents going to https://takeout.google.com every couple of months is certainly worth it.
A trick my mom and dad used on me was taking me for a short drive in car. For some reason moving in a car/bus makes me sleepy. Even today I have no problem sleeping in a bus or plane even if I am not tired
The new testament is fairly consistent and I don't think any modern human right activist will have any issue with a single line (not the least because human rights are largely the secular transcription of christian principles). But I never understood why christianity never ditched the old testament which is full of stories that directly contradicts the said principles.
Reasons you aren't updating your personal site (2020)
This is true for many things -- emails, forum/community posts -- always have a context, especially with the Subject. When one sends out something, it is for the recipient and not for the senders' convenience. I'm still learning but I love setting enough context for the recipient to either take action or form a decision, starting from the Subject which is the core of the whole content.

I once read about the idea of BLUF[1] - “Bottom Line Up Front”, popularized by the military - because lives may be dependent on how fast a message gets its context to the recipient. I love that idea and love practicing it. These are applicable, not just with emails, bit also with short text messages.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLUF_(communication)
The executed people, especially when brutally for supposedly very serious crimes, would frequently not get a proper burial. Their bodies or various pieces of them were put on pikes and into cages for display (and consumption by birds, etc.), burnt (all the "witches" after extreme torture they were subjected to), sent to different places as a message, etc.

An example of the numbers
https://www.history.co.uk/article/the-killer-king-how-many-p...

" It is estimated that during his 36 years of rule over England he executed up to 57,000 people, many of whom were either members of the clergy or ordinary citizens and nobles who had taken part in uprisings and protests up and down the country."

And those crimes above sound like high treason (many of those uprisings/protests were about that English church split and Henry treated wrong position on it as a treason against him) which back then was "hang, drawn and quarter" punishable crime.
"developing countries" in that context are places like the former soviet union, i.e. half of Europe at the time, or latin america. The hardware was hella expensive, but with several months of savings it was possible. The games were a different matter. You were basically buying imports from the other end of the continent with all the shipping and customs taxes that incurs. Piracy was what drove people's buying decisions.
> Dapper Labs, which owns CryptoKitties, has moved on to projects such as NBA Top Shot, a platform that lets basketball fans purchase NFT “moments”—essentially video clips—from NBA games.

So do they own the rights to those clips or is it another url to something someone else owns?
Bingo! The best criminals are the ones you never heard of, like Ralph84 =P
Maybe Germany isn't using them? It doesn't take a heavy rain to make them practically disappear - which I haven't experienced elsewhere. But that was already a good starting point for some searches, thank you!
> a private company did.

They did not. Uber also got caught discriminating against people.

> But you believe that the government will get it right next time?

I have more faith in government than in private companies which have a massive financial interest in saving the money that compliance with anti-discrimination regulation costs.
It’s already mainstream.
I got a very spooky email from HR a few years back:
"Hi, this is X from HR. We want to talk to you about an incident that occurred a few months ago. Can we meet on Thursday 3 PM?"
"Okay what incident are you referring to"
"I'll let you know on Thursday"

I then messaged my boss he told me the incident was something dodgey someone had said to me.
Most won't, but would instead talk at the managers' back. Many people forget that "I cannot read your mind!"
Looks amazing, I'll have to see if I can set it up on desktop mode for the docked Steam Deck.
They do, which is why you should never connect them to the internet.
For the marketplace-specific functionality in multiplayer games it could be useful, but I don't see how blockchain makes it any easier to implement or safer. All the stored transactions and data are meaningless if the front-end of the application is not supported anymore, so you can no longer view your items in 3D and use them in-game.

What's the point of owning a Fortnite skin if the game is gone and you can not use or showcase it anymore? Not to mention that even if you somehow manage to retrieve the 3d asset from the information stored in the blockchain, you probably can't legally use it anywhere else due to copyright laws.
This applies to everyone you interact with. I never leave just "call me" messages.... makes you think someone died.
What is cheaper? Investing into proper security for years and years without seeing anything or paying fines to regulators once you got breached?

My guess it's the latter :/
The monarch doesn't own it. It's not well defined, but if anything, the state owns it, with some of the profits from the estate being used to fund the monarch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Estate

(And the monarch is still exempt from inheritance tax on their private property, e.g. Balmoral.)
> - subtitle settings get reset every time I close the website.

I also find this ridiculous and annoying, but... I've found a "solution". Just open a mobile Disney+ app (I've used the iOS one) and set the subtitles/audio language there and this change is persistent. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

IMHO all the modern "streaming" UIs suck, but the Disney+ is definitely the worst I've experienced.
I dont know why you get down voted because you are absolutely right.

I would go even further and demand regulators to define standards to enable migration or self hosting.
This person needs to consider mindfulness meditation.

It almost seems like they are assuming some catastrophe is around every corner.

If your boss says "hey got a moment to chat" you have a choice in how you react to the information. Assume they want to just chat and engage, or freak out and think the world is ending. Both options are possible, one has a nicer outcome. It's important to remember and remind yourself that you have control about how you feel about things.

I know I do work. I can justify my time, If my boss pulls me aside and redirects my work. That's totally fine, I work for them.

But generally, meetings invites and messages should contain lots of info and context. Chatting with your boss shouldn't be scary, if it is, maybe consider a new boss.
Not really, we are yet to see any WebGL game with the same quality as Infinity Blade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDvPIhCd8N4
This is an extremely shortsighted comment.

If they don't pay you they:

- Have no incentive to make you continue contributing,

- Have no decision power over what component you contribute to,

- Have no decision power over when or how often you contribute,

- Have no ground for asking that you follow any particular process (due to the first point),

- etc.
It's a sad state of affairs when people are so anxious that a simple inquiry can cause them distress.

I don't know if it's character, upbringing or just the modern work environment but it really ought not to cause anyone any concern if someone just wants to check if you're available.
It’s a religion where the main symbol is a torture device! It’s abstracted but really that is what it is.
How will reducing car driving save gas?
I think the team is already busy teaching their AI or whatever that when you have a yellow police tape (or otherwise heavy presence of armed officers or other [para]military), find an alternative route. This is how the self driving tech improves. And it's better that glitches like this happen with a small food delivery robot than with a AI controlled truck.

But consider this, that robot didn't get arrested, shot at, or otherwise brutalized by the law enforcement officers. And hopefully didn't cause too much confusion at the crime scene either as in preventing officers doing their job. So really, a non-story with win-win ending; or something like that.
> people work thousands, or 10s of thousands of hours building, collecting, exploring, etc

It's only work when that is not inherently fun - and if it isn't you don't solve that by letting people pay others to do the work so you get the results directly. If anything, putting monetary value on in-game achivements devalues the experience of getting them yourself and provides perverse incentives for the developers to make getting them without payment less fun.

> and it's all owned by some emotionless gaming company that might just decide to delete all your stuff, or just disappear all together

For centralized MMO games maybe. For single-player games or games that support self-hosting (or really, any third-party hosting independent of the original developer) this is not a problem. And if the developer is unwilling to allow third-party hosting then why do you think they will support a blockchain they can't control in some way?

> Giving players control of the things they worked hard to get just seems like the natural progression as we assign more and more value to the lives we live in virtual spaces.

Giving players control of virtual items means letting them copy and modify the bits. That's a great goal. Let's reform copyright so that you can freely modify software in a reasonable amount of time (much less than an average lifetime!) and require escrow of source data including reuitred server components to get copyright in the first place so that it is available once copyright expires - then Vitalik can have his own WoW version with the balance he likes (in theory at least).

It does not mean trying to further monetize what should be entertainment.
Ideally yes, but we all know the word has expanded into a political battering ram, far beyond it's original meaning.
Maybe just clicking around until they found something. That's what many employees do on a daily basis looking for files on network drives, so nothing that would be noticed easily.
E-mail as online identity is both convenient and a huge source of risk (if Google's automated system goes wrong).

I wonder if Google could offer real customer support. I know offering support goes against everything Google stands for, but I'm sure many people would be willing to pay non-trivial amounts of money to get actual support from Google.

So if you unfortunately get locked out of your google account, you could pay for support that can actually resolve your issue.

(I realize paying to fix your problem may rub some people the wrong way. However, I would rather pay for a support ticket than be locked out of my account forever.)