skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those that have a new phone number or have changed their number - sometimes you might have your old phone number in your payment profile (or something along those lines). That number might still be used by Google even when you change your number. So you can end up in a situation where you update your recovery phone number, but that old number still shows up. It took me some time at a point to get rid of this one to ensure that it works.

Also, 2FA will still trigger even when you turn it off. I had turned off 2FA because I don't care about this account and because I kept having issues with it due to the countries I lived in over the years. I logged into a machine that got a fresh install and got prompted to go through 2FA and get a text. But this was turned off.

So I'm sorry to hear about this, it's a real big issue and I ask everyone here who cares about privacy and who cares about a better tech environment to push their friends and family or followers to move towards more privacy respecting alternatives that HAVE support, that WILL assist you if something like this happens. Even in a worst case scenario (all emails being lost), getting back access to the account itself can make a huge difference... So please, support those who hit on issues if you can somehow and promote alternatives for those who can afford them (and most people in the west will generally be able to afford the 1USD/1GBP/1EUR a month some services will charge).
yeah, the fundamental problem doesn’t seem to be a result of government or companies as we’re seeing this happening with both. governments and as we’re seeing, across the board with companies.

there is a different fundamental problem at play.
> That is the issue here: people want to be able to sell their cards to other players, and now you need to build a mechanism that supports that correctly without becoming riled in the customer support issues.

I mean, if you put it like that it sounds as if the main advantage of the blockchain technology here is to offload responsibility for the inevitable issues that arise when people start trading for real money, such as scams or people regretting their purchases. But you're not actually solving these problems, you just gain the ability to point to the decentralized blockchain and claim there's nothing you can do about it.
> you would be needing $1B or more, because the worse case is a satellite gets smashed into 100,000 pieces

You bond for the average cost and then use liability for edge cases. We don’t require every consumer product to be bonded for the edge case that it’s cancerous.
The powershell script is a minor part of the screw up. The real issues are multitude...

1) hardcoding actual production credentials in a script at all. Seriously what the fuck.

2) Thycotic not enforcing MFA for the keys to the kingdom admin account. Even my cellphone provider has better security.

The root cause is likely the assumption that the VPN is sacred. This needs to die asap - your internal network should assume the VPN is wide open and secure everything accordingly. Defense in depth not eggshells.
IIRC, cross site loads fail. Most likely due to TLS mismatches.

See:
You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain (reddit.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23479435

I once submitted a bug for Mozilla, it got shot down:
The site does not work as expected if you use https://youtube.com. in Firefox.
This can be a security issue, if you are on corporate or public-wifi DNS that is a security issue, too:
if the default search happens in companyname.com. by DNS setting of that network and they offer youtube.com.companyname.com., you will get youtube.com served from evil companyname.com

Why does that nowadays still exist? A good use case, if you are lazy, is that you can visit webmail.companyname.com by typing https://webmail and being in corporate (virtual) private network, which I frequently do.

Compare:
URLs with trailing dots in host names (FQDN) produce cert name mismatches (for paypal)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134402
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Same goes for JavaScript. The first version is nowhere close to the beautiful, expressive and powerful masterpiece that we have today.
No, he’ll continue paying for things he gets value from using a medium that works for him.
Shouldn't the optimal solution be to adjust the display refresh rate using vesa adpative sync these days? No need for shitty interpolation when most panels can run at variable refresh rates.
You can use nilpotents with classical logic and the excluded middle. This is called dual numbers and it's already a good model for "calculus without limits". They are like complex numbers, but instead of x^2=-1 you set x^2=0.

However, if you want to get really serious about that, you'll need that zero plus an infinitessimal be equal to zero. This is impossible in classical logic due to the excluded middle (which forces each number to be either equal to zero or non-zero).
Fastest uninstall ever.
Show HN: Low-cost backup to S3 Glacier Deep Archive
Hi,

most people (hopefully) have local backups. However, when that backup fails, it is good to have a backup stored somewhere off-site. In the old days you would ship physical drives/tapes, which is cumbersome, costly, and slow. With fast upload speeds, it is now possible to upload your data to the cloud. I have found S3 Glacier Deep Archive to be a great solution for this:

- It is very cheap ($1/TB/month for US region)
- Very reliable (99.999999999% data durability, data spread over 3 Availability Zones)

However, usability out of the box is not that great, I'm not aware of any automated backup solution for Deep Archive. This free project provides that.

Currently, ZFS is required, but that might change. Please try it out and provide feedback!
Note taken, the developer of Plasma Bigscreen asked for help recently with the content of the website (https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-promo/2022q3/000223.html). So if people have other recommendations or want to help, feel free to reach us in the #kde-promo:kde.org matrix channel or just post a comment to this message.
> Mark Zuckerberg has created a monster that has no oversight.

You don’t say? I’m shocked I tell you.

Hopefully this will at least generate more buzz for the movie than Facebook could have.
Japanese professor wins Ig Nobel Prize for study on knob turning
over communicating is a sign of weakness

you work for them, you adapt to them
I relate heavily to this, but I know that I'm an anxious person. So I absolutely appreciate when the people around me provide context for why they're messaging me and I've also gotten my close friends and family to text me before they call me.

However I also know that it is not on them to deal with my anxiety. That's on me and I need to actively work on managing my anxiety instead of relying on the people around me to do that for me.

It's always difficult to infer someones character from a few lines of text, but it seems fairly obvious that the author has not yet understood that they are (contrary to their own belief) prone to anxious thoughts.

Some comments here make this out to be an extreme character flaw, or think this is somehow an indicator that society is going downhill, but having anxious thoughts is not inherently a bad thing. Being unaware of your own tendency to produce anxious thoughts however is a bad thing. Anxious thoughts that aren't actively managed will influence your behavior and your decision making processes.

The usual advice is of course meditation, but just knowing being aware of your own anxious thoughts is often times enough to combat them.
Betteridge's law of headlines (if it's a question the answer's no) needs an extension for science journalism: if something 'could' do something, it won't.

Always seems like 'predicting 17 of the last 3 recessions' - on the off-chance X thing is ever achieved/understood in some way using Y, get your claim in early that 'Y could be key for X'. If it's done via Z instead, no harm.
Exactly. that's why governments love IT and push it - they weaponise it against citizens.
Did your failed log-in attempt reactivate your account? Can your friends see your old facebook account now?

Please check for me, because I'm in a similar situation but have been hesitant to try logging back in.
Add it in https://myaccount.google.com/signinoptions/rescuephone
Shoving yet another banner in the user's face that is styled like every other banner ad you place in their way, including the one that begs you to download chrome or to sign up for google's latest service does not constitute a meaningful attempt to communicate with the customer. And the customer's blind dismissal of yet another annoying banner does not constitute dishonesty.

It is completely disingenuous to frame this as though Bob walked up to Alice after lunch and asked her "Has the phone number you used for authentication changed?" and she lied and said "No".

And it seems obvious that in most cases, users that lose access to 2FA methods are not asked "has your 2FA changed?" while they still have access to the account. It is far more likely that one day their cookies are reset or google decides it's time to reauthenticate and they realize that they changed their phone number when they switched phone plans a week ago, and they hadn't thought about the consequences.
I can attest that KODI has options to bypass the default audio format that was automatically selected during handshake usually through HDMI.

The use case is the following. Consider one that has:

* 5.1 capable audio system
* A TVBox (KODI)
* A TV
* A projector

Now

* The TV apps can play 5.1 content
* The TVBox (KODI) can play 5.1 content when connected to TV through HMDI (5.1 was agreed in the handshake between TV and TVBox)
* The TVBox __cannot play__ 5.1 content when connected to projector through HDMI because the projector is stereo audio only and there is no option to accept 5.1 content.

KODI gives the capability to __force__ audio output to be 5.1 if the playing video has it. It can transcoding on the fly i.e simple 5.1 in file to DTS.

It does not bypass ALSA. It uses ALSA. It bypasses the original HDMI handshake and follows the user's wishes.

Of course it does not work in my case because a) that's the universe we live and b) it hits some android capability / security problem and it switches back to stereo output.
I would love something like this, modern smart tv is kinda horrible experience and nobody is not making consumer dumptv anymore.
What happens is that as a company scales to this sort of size, all kinds of shortcuts are made, all kinds of compromise decisions are made because there is still little non-financial cost for getting it wrong.

Imagine deciding to add some extra floors to your office made from cardboard because, "we are scaling too quickly to build them out of concrete". Wouldn't happen. Why? The legal and marketing fallout would be fatal.

In the corporate world, especially in ones at the extreme levels of inefficiency/size/etc. it is easy just to blame the previous job holder, the previous culture, "we have made improvements since then" etc. as if that makes it alright.

tbf, we also see this in Healthcare and Government so I think it is Human Nature rather than corporate greed.
Flamewars run on more than just insults. (though the snark in your comment did sound insulting, when I first read it.) Attributing a stupid position to somebody else, especially on an inflammatory topic, is flamebait and against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

On a second reading though, it doesn't seem worse than the comment you were replying to, so I'll reattach it.

Btw, your follow-up here is a case of an interesting phenomenon I've noticed many times: people often give a better (i.e. more neutral and explicit) expression of what they originally meant, when explaining it in response to a moderation scolding.

It is as if the original comment presupposed the meaning and just gave us the snark, where the follow-up spells out the actual argument. Usually the actual argument isn't obvious; that is, it's obvious to you (i.e. the original commenter) because you have it in your head already—but it isn't obvious to the rest of us. Since that's the interesting bit, it would be better to include it up front (and then you could drop the snark as well).

I'm not sure if there's any way to actually use this pattern to improve the threads—short of scolding every comment, which would end up becoming background noise soon anyhow—but it's interesting how frequently it shows up.
The first step of a western is SDS-PAGE.
What's that quote about metrics and goals again?

Crash testing will need to continually get updated to avoid manufacturers being able to target the tests too much.
They don't. The web version is a viewer not an editor.
While it's not a baby, I like to have my packs in front of me. My back feels more vulnerable because I can't keep my eyes on it.
Then don't use it? If there would be more reluctance against ubiquitous (and pointless) IT services, perhaps the situation with overreliance wouldn't have happened.
> kaleidos.net seems like an interesting place to work as well.

Yes they are, their culture and project portfolio is awesome.
The best approach is to assume there's a renegade employee constantly trying to screw the company over. Granularity of permissions should be set to minimize the blast radius to the absolute minimum they need to do their job.
Is Infinity Real? (2016)
I think AI is amazing but also that it's full of magic tricks.

If the model is just extracting words from the prompt why not make that explicit.

"You typed: women with a cat under her hat, we extracted the words woman, cat, hat, under and her and applied these weights to them".

People seem to go out of their way to make these models more exotic than they are, even when what they do is amazing already and has no need for confusing hype to obscure the truly amazing.

Then when the model improves you can say we have detected that the cat is under the hat, we assume 80% the hat is on the woman's head or whatever.

Just only showing the hand picked best output annoys me. Show them all or don't show them at all.

Do we need someone to rewrite "how to lie with statistics" but for AI demos?
Name is so strange. Even people here think about old Plasma TVs.

We desperately need an alternative to Chromecast for all sort of web videos. There is none (even Apple Airplay is not as good).

That's one of the reasons why I cannot switch to privacy Android forks or non Chromium browsers.
Sent. Nice domain btw.
> ALSA had difficulty mixing multiple playback streams

At some point long before PulseAudio was ever a thing maybe but dmix with the default config has been working just fine all this time.
Zoom’s calendar and email apps could compete with Google and Microsoft Office
Our school does that. The staff must have had so many phone conversations where the first thing the parent said was "omg is something worng?" that they just learn to automatically preempt it.

We've had the "This is $teacher, $child is fine but $bad_thing happened, we did $x, could you $y", all in the first sentence. It's remarkably effective communication.
The problem with consent pop-ups isn't the European law; it's the failure of many companies and persons to properly follow it.
After reading through this for the missing negation - I love them for this!

(I worked with managers who would never use agendas. Leaves them more room to filibuster when it becomes clear they don't understand what's going on.)
As long as I'm still free to try to persuade the 51% that I was right in the last election I lost and I have a chance to win next time, then it sounds like a perfectly good system to me.

Just because sometimes you lose in a democracy doesn't make it tyranny. Quite the reverse. If you can't accept a political system that doesn't always let you get your way, then you're the tyrant.
Can you recommend a good domain registrar to keep your domain on that isn't google?
Don’t even need 4G chips, just a regular ol’ wifi/bluetooth module thanks to stuff like Amazon Sidewalk: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/introducing-amazon-...
How would someone be logging in if their current, valid 2FA is no longer accessible?
The majority of relational databases scale far more than their users need. But somehow Mongo got popular enough that I am stuck with it at work.
Emad, what are next steps for Stability AI? I’m into the Data Science education space (exited my prev company in ‘19). If you’re looking into something edu-related, let’s connect.
As I said, I'm probably in the wrong, but my plan is:

- Try to reach Google's One support instead of the generic Google Gsupport. Since they are paying customers, may be there are humans involved at some point.

- If that fails, the next move is to take the legal path. There are several ways of doing so before going to court. I assume that once so trivial reaches any lawyer of the company it will be fixed immediatelly. If it doesn't, given that the company has valuable and confidential information that's not accessible anymore the case could be strong enough to reach a judge, even if the amount itself is very low (20eur/year). It's expensive and will take time, but it's the best I can devise.
Timing of daily calorie loading affects appetite and hunger responses
If someone is concerned, isn't it better to understand why they are concerned, and not have the first prejudicial guess be that it's only their own poor character/upbringing.
Because he is an oyster. j
Nobody's mentioned it yet, so... One reason this is so difficult is that the VPU runs an entire standalone OS of its own.

AIUI, the VPU is in control of the computer, and the Arm is an accessory device. Only once the VPU has loaded its OS and it's running will the Arm be initialised, the kernel image loaded into RAM by the VPU, and then the Arm pointed at it. The OS continues to run and control the computer even once the Arm is running.

The VPU runs a proprietary RTOS called ThreadX, which is now owned by Microsoft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreadX
Funny, since DRM is never an issue if you play pirated content. Arrgh maties!

But ironically, DRM is only a huge annoyance for paying law abiding customers.

Did you pay Ubisoft $50 10 years ago for Assassin's Creed 2, am amazing game? Great, because now you can go f*ck yourself instead of playing the game since Ubisoft took the server running the DRM for that game offline. Did you pirate the game? Great, because now you can play it for free indefinitely.

And there are countless horror stories of paying customer bases getting shafted on the products they (used to) own via DRM.
The flash loan trade was a wash trade, obviously “fake.” Other wash trades are also - very often - obvious because the blockchain is transparent and easily analizable.
i was also googling for the supported TV sets and then i found it :D
China tests maglev cars that travel at 230kph while floating 35mm above the road
Ask horses if machines can displace jobs for whole categories of workers. Or ask neanderthals if it’s possible to have one’s role replaced by a higher iq substitute
I know the blockchain has been kind of tainted by the way it's been used for the past few years, but I do believe that there can be valid uses for it.

Lately I've been thinking if it would be possible to have an MMORPG game where instead of a server all the data would be saved in a blockchain/linked list. The biggest concern I have though is the latency and speed.

Could blockchains be fast enough or in some other way protected from malicious actors to allow actual real time game play? Like World of Warcraft, or would it just be too slow.

I've been thinking about this, because servers are expensive and doing it this way you would have, kind of, solved the problem of scalability - no queues.

There would be no coins or NFTs or anything like that.

Just a decentralised MMORPG server/game thus saving the developers from the server costs.
I agree with you that there is too little investment in infrastructure in germany. But maglev was researched extensively and then we decided against it.

> the prices and shedules are an international meme.

Regarding prices: those are actually very reasonable prices for High-speed-trains. Look up tickets on TGV or Shinkansen. ICE tickets are starting at 20 euros. Regional rail is indeed worse but we're arguing about high-speed rail vs maglev. And Maglev is so much more expensive to build, I simply can't see how that would lead to better prices (or schedules/being on time for that matter, which mostly depend on the bad infrastructure and are "just" made worse by the fact that other trains run there)

> Transrapid is also more wheelchair accessible because it is level with the platform and the cabin is much wider.

Sure, ICE trains are bad for accessibility. But that is not due to the tracks they run on but rather due to accessibility not being a priority when designing the trains. Regional trains show that it can be done without bigger problems

> Also remember that stupid solar roadways idea?

The one that failed everywhere they tried?

> Guess where that actually works, in between the transrapid rails. By covering the center of the pylons in solar a route from bremen to hamburg would produce enough energy to replace 1 1/2 coal power plants.

Or you could place them literally anywhere else, there is no shortage of space to put solar panels in.

But to end on a more friendly note: Maglevs are indeed a bit cheaper to service and the fast accelleration is really helpful for those relatively short distances between city centers in some regions. But as was stated in another comment: try building a new line which actually goes from main station to main station. You're going to need space (or tunnels) in city centers and the space between and this will be expensive and tedious. 40 years ago this might have been easier but even then we wouldn't have had a network from the start.
> that many times

If you're already logged into Chrome and logged into your phone, it might take a few years before you get to "many times"
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Also do the opposite of the opposite.

If you need to fire someone, it's appropriate to use a somber tone to prepare the other party.

I was recently let go as basically agenda point 3 out of 4 during my normal weekly one-on-one with my manager and was completely blindsided (the position was made redundant entirely, so there was no preceding performance review or the like).
I see you are not British nor, according to your bio, do you live in Britain. I'm not sure how 'our' applies to you.
Plenty of Europe said the same thing but Germany is stubborn and think it knows better than these uneducated Eastern Europeans.
That's not the point I was making.

Playing a little bit with game economics is fun to a certain point.
I'm impressed at your capacity for cognitive dissonance.

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/pr...

> "I am proud to announce Christopher as my choice as the Director of the FBI. During his previous service at the Department of Justice, Christopher was the leader of major fraud investigations, and was a key part of the team overseeing the Justice Department’s actions in the war on terrorism following the 9/11 attacks," said President Trump. "He is an impeccably qualified individual, and I know that he will again serve his country as a fierce guardian of the law and model of integrity once the Senate confirms him to lead the FBI."

Yet apparently, he's now a tool of the Democrats! Seriously bro?
Link disintermediation: <https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/13/us/politics/c...>

"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

<https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>
Jokes aside, in the UK at least I'm not sure they actually have much down-time. They're only permanently staffed in denser areas - in others they have other jobs but are on-call for their fire & rescue duties.