skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't something we learned about five minutes ago. It's been known that people lose their phones for a very long time. The tradeoffs were considered when designing the system.

Treating the tech industry as a magical black box that can "solve anything" is disingenous and dangerous. This is the exact same attitude that leads to things such as legislation that says "find a way for any communication to be decrypted upon subpoena. You're tech people, figure it out"
Again, this idea of "secure by default" should at least have an option to opt-out. A few misunderstandings about phones:

1. Somebody has a phone

2. Somebody has a smart phone

3. They are in contact with the phone 24/7

4. They are the unique user of that phone

5. The SIM card and/or number cannot be taken from the phone (virtually or physically)

I currently have to use this for work, with the only positive being that if I get locked out, I can go tell the admin team to let me back in. With someone like Google, it's not even possible to get them on the phone to explain, let alone have them believe it is really you.
No bitcoin has always been difficult to insure because no sane company would insure something that can double or triple value overnight. The extreme finite quantity of bitcoins is what makes it difficult to insure.
> It's because the majority of homelessness is an issue of mental health.

This isn't true or at least it doesn't start that way. What people don't understand is that there isn't a single homeless population. You have people who are temporarily homeless and people who are chronically homeless. The temporarily homeless are people who lost jobs, fell on hard times, etc etc. The simplest solution for them is yes to give them housing. The chronically homeless is where things get more complicated and those are the people who typically need mental health and abuse services. The simplest and most efficient thing we can do is help the temporarily homeless and prevent them from becoming chronically homeless.
Feels like peak capitalism where we have most needs met at the minimum required level and so we seek out more novelty and fun in our lives. Used to just be TV, but the amped up level of interest and adrenalin when it's happening in reality is too appealing.
What is the point of this study? If we don't hire managers with business degrees we'd see increases in employee wages and profits?. A person with a business degree is hired because the business hired them, and they're likely doing the job they've been hired to do (cut costs). If a company is cutting costs it may be due to decreasing profitability.

Research like this just feels like tenure bait (the academia version of click bait).
Did you even click on the link?
Promise you that it is never too late. Speaking from experience. You've accomplished more than you realize. Stay straightened out and get out there.
Password managers are absolutely not required. While they're a good idea for most of us who don't have to worry about having somewhere to sleep, homeless people can still most likely memorize a password and remember it after a few tries. They can't do that if 2FA is forced on them.
The point stands, the vast majority of workloads are unsuited for GPUs, either because they are full of divergent branches, or because the data transfer and synchronization overheads would cancel any performance gains.
When I was in b-school, it was like they were trying to train us to have contempt for employees, especially the jobs where wages were low. They wanted us to treat them as fungible, replaceable cogs in the machine, not unlike this whole stupid pets-vs-cattle debate with servers.

I got my degree but left utterly disgusted with management and MBA types. I am of the opinion that business degrees and business school are a toxic influence on most companies and that, with a few exceptions, they would be better served by hiring management types from other parts of the business and giving them some light compliance training instead.
What learning curve? Setting up the account in the first place? Sure, that’s a tad complicated, but I really don’t understand why your girlfriend finds it easier to call you when she just has to open the app and the code is simply there.
The universal solution is also great for spreading fire. In many places the trash chute violates fire code
From my experience, both Mastodon and Pleroma are massively overcomplicated resource hogs that are hard to set up, configure, or navigate.
OK. Let's play a game.

Let's say I care. Let's say I care a lot. I care so much that I'm willing to make it my personal problem to address the very real, very pressing needs of a critically vulnerable and marginalized part of my community from inside Google.

What am I going to do? Is anyone going to be happier if I stand up and proclaim loudly how much I care? Probably not.

Could I say "Gee, what if we just let everyone put themselves in the group of people who don't do 2FA"? Yes, if I wanted to be responsible for a lot of people not securing their accounts. Could I outsource identity verification to a wide assortment of groups (libraries, non-profits, etc.)? Absolutely, so long as I'm alright with this being used to gain improper access to a LOT of accounts outside the target segment. Could I offer more password chances and friendlier lockout times? Sure, so long as I'm OK with the negative consequences of this for a lot of people.

OK. Let's end the game now. We don't really have any major steps towards real solutions here. Empathy is very useful for showing where a problem is. Demanding what amounts to lowering the global bar for account security is perhaps not the ideal approach here.

Sometimes problems are just hard. Taking ownership and feeling empathy and sincerely wanting to solve the problem does not render them easy.
Not just Quake, though.

I remember it as first there was Wolfenstein 3D, and people went crazy not believing their eyes. Then they learn about the technology, and go "ok, well that's cool, but can't do real 3D".

Then that cycle repeats for Doom.

And then Quake, except this time it really was 3D. Quake didn't even really have load times!

Ok, so these people can be inspirations. But probably should not be used as an example that should be expected to be followable.
A pretty interesting project I came across via reddit. Seems like a good lightweight solution for self-hosting git repos if you don't want to be burdened with the overhead of managing a full-fledged code forge. This also seems to come with a stagit offering for serving over gopher [1][2].

[1] - https://codemadness.org/git/stagit-gopher/log.html

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
I feel for you.

My dad died earlier this year from prostate cancer. I wish deeply that I had spent more time with him, listened more closely to him. I lay awake every night thinking about lost opportunities I had during my life, moments when I chose to do anything other than just hang out with him.

You have a hard road ahead, I hope you have a support network filled with people who love you. I am a loner with no support network outside of my family and it has been fucking hard.
I have binders full of cheap Staples CD-Rs from the early 2000s that literally flaked and peeled. I also have Sony CD-R discs in the exact same binders from the same time period. The Sony discs are fine.
A cronjob that replaces /etc/hosts with a version that has Gmail pointing to localhost would do.

Now seriously, get help. That's the only way you'll get over it. A couple more drinks will be enough to be able to bypass your own firewall. Hope you're doing okay.
"Enarx": Reads like "e-narks", the "e" from email (rather dated as a prefix these days, but we're all used to it), and an intentional misspelling of the plural of "nark", as in one who reports information to the authorities, a snitch, or tattle-tale.
The Fourth Political Theory
When you put bead counters in charge, they count beads
SSH Academy
Thought I did, but did not, thanks!
The Long Now Foundation chose analog etched metal for a Very Long-Term backup [0]. Although their time scale is more link 10,000 years, much longer than you are thinking.

[0] https://longnow.org/ideas/02008/08/20/very-long-term-backup/
It's a valid point that I don't expect Alphabet to address.
Honest question : what about those security code? I'm not homeless but I expect my phone to die anytime. It's from 2015. I want to bring it to 2025 but it might not make it.

As a result I planned for that phone stopping to work and my understanding is that I will be able to emergency 2FA with those code once it broke. Am I wrong?
Probably a genuinely useful application of biometric authentication.
I’ve been using this for a while now, and it has been working like a charm!
Not a modern player, but the great Joni Mitchell used alternate tunings so much, she claims that only a couple of her songs were in E-standard tuning.
I've found there comes a point where your webcam can be too good.
Who's to say that your email account getting hacked is less dire than losing access to it? Attackers can easily search your inbox for 'verify your email', visit any website of value, and use their access to change the account away from your email to an address that they own, effectively removing your access to your third-party website accounts entirely.
Here's the refund form: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v843-unhappy-users-editio...
try opening any myspace/google+/orkut/and so on links and you can see this in action.
My argument is that you can perceive them to do the same things. Even though they are, in fact, doing something else.

And this, in large, rests on your perception ignoring everything else about what happened in the process. When eating my food, did I slowly subtract all of the grams from the input of food that I was given? In a perception of the event? Yes. Would you say that I was slowly counting away at the grams of food? I was never even cognizant of the number of grams, so that is an odd take. Even if an outsider could have been aware of how many grams something is and that I would stand up on finishing. It does not make sense to call that counting, as you are advocating in this thread.

Regarding the brain as a computer. This is an interesting one, as it is classically accepted and appeals heavily to the way we built up the idea of a modern computer. My take is that, if it is a calculator in that sense, it is only calculating on the simulation that it is building of and for itself. And that it is its own self interpretation that allows this view.
Uh, I'm an American who's been all over the country and my biggest complaint about travel in the US is that damn near the only diversity is the physical landscape and which regional fast food chains you see. We're extremely homogenous, with maybe a half-dozen somewhat-different (but not that different) regions. The rural/urban divide is by far our biggest one, not state-by-state or regional. Those differences are so tiny that rural/urban overwhelms them everywhere.

You can drive 500 miles in this country and feel like you haven't moved an inch.
In the US even zoning to allow 5 story, 25 foot wide row homes to be built everywhere residential housing is allowed would make it easier to develop a lot of housing quickly and cheaply. It’s cheaper to build 1,000 units all at once than 2 units at a time, and if you can fit 500+ units on 500 feet of street frontage, you don’t need to buy a square mile of land in order to build a profitable development.
Except for #36, not much has changed in 30+ years.
Unfortunately, this IS some people's jobs, certainly the San Francisco Fed president reports on financial conditions conditions across the west, including LA, and Portland...

how do those places look?
There was an ONVIF/RTSP battery camera I wanted, but nobody seems to have on the second-hand market...

Netgear actually sold a rebranded/reflashed Arlo system as the FlexPower line with a special base station and reflashed Arlo cameras. The base did the magic that let the connected wireless Arlos act as ONVIF cameras in a DVR.
If Twitter has a sane architecture and all indications is that it does now, creating a new feature shouldn’t require back end refactoring. You have core shared services and you build another service on top of it. I know how at least one of the newer services work at AWS and how many existing back end existing services it depends on and that if anyone outside of AWS had the resources, they could build it themselves by calling publicly available APIs.

I seriously doubt Twitter is one large monolithic app

And let’s not pretend that Google for instance is any better at product development. It’s failed at everything it’s done not related to advertising - ie Stadia. It’s one success hides a lot of failures.
Yeah, ISS itself is not that realistic.
Oh, interesting, I didn't even realize that when I used it! I guess that goes to show how easy it is to take something like that for granted
Even beyond Grace Hopper being an outlier, software/computer science is probably something of an outlier more broadly.

You can find a ton of people in their 50s through 70s today who ended up in some flavor of computers and software even though they barely touched a (non-typewriter) keyboard until college or even later. But at least part of the reason they were able to do so was that a lot of computer science was still relatively young and, even if you majored in CS undergrad, what you got was probably more of a mix of math and electrical engineering than what a lot of people learn today. (Or, for that matter, what a lot of programs expect someone to already know before showing up to their first CS class.

And then, on the other side, a lot of people jumped onto the first dot-com bubble when a front-end web designer didn't really need to know much. (And arguably the situation is somewhat in play today--at least for the time being--with bootcamps etc.)

Which is a long-winded way of saying, I'm not sure how applicable the situation in the software industry is applicable to technical fields more broadly.
Didn't know about Hanwha, thanks. Looks like the A series isn't even on their European website yet though :(
Thank you! That seems like a pretty rational starting point.

I’m enjoying what I’ve learned so far but the ecosystem is large and has its own technical language. It’s often difficult to dig up simple answers like this.
Generally I believe it's important to learn from your mistakes, which are inevitable. If you're learning and trying to do better, then regret should fade with time.

I think the biggest mistake that I've made (that others might be helped to avoid by hearing about) was not to save money. I've had a lot of money flow through my hands over the course of my career as a programmer, yet I have very little to show for it, and I'm not getting any younger.

Other than that, I mostly regret the times I've hurt people or not helped them but could have.
It's not a solution, but it's a heck of a lot better than locking them out of their accounts even if they still know their password!
To be fair, some of us have been calling attention to this problem for a long ass time, and nothing is being done about it.

E-mail needs to be a regulated utility, given that getting locked out of one’s email happens all the time with catastrophic consequences.
Very nice :)

I hope this code is protected by DMCA.
Putting aside all the legal and freedom issues, is anyone able to speak more to the technological issue of: what is the "rolling cipher"? Sounds interesting.
Absolutely. In Mastodon it's a pretty simply setting IIRC and I expect it's commonplace across other microblogging platforms that use ActivityPub. I certainly wouldn't be against the principle of joining an instance that was paid for.

The whole "millions of users" fallacy is the result of people not being able to grasp what federation is about. The network can easily accommodate millions of users. Individual instances don't need to be able to.
Why? If you earn $1M/month you can contribute a lot more than that and not notice it.
You will definitely be an expert when you spend on something 10,000 hours.

However, to change a career, you need much less.

To get a very junior tech/programming job I would say it's something like 500-1000 hours.

That's about the same as most coding bootcamps. And a lot of people who went through a coding bootcamp were able to get a job in tech.
Hang your clothes outside, and you don't have to plunk down for any dryer, heatpump or conventional.
I like your opinion. I founded a startup at 40 as a part time job and it was a correct decision during covid19 crisis. My company is quite successful. It takes about 3000 hours to be sustainable. 10000 hours is an overrated term
I think most people in this situation do the same thing people do on Twitter when it suspends an account for nonsense reasons like telling a Nazi to eat paste: make another, make a post, share it with a few friends off Twitter/Mastodon, have them RT/boost to circulate it within their circles. This seems to work pretty well.

Cryptographic certainty is fun to think about, but sometimes you just need people.
I know someone who in his 40's, after working in the navy, then went to medical school and became a doctor! You can certainly do it if you are willing/able to put the time into it.
Business Schools specialize in churning out graduates with boomer ideology despite graduates being far removed from actual boomers. It's one of the reasons they detest WFH so much. Old school boomer mentality that still runs rampant in MBA programs.
Back in the early 2000s when startups were not cool, it was much less likely to find people with business degrees working in a startup. They preferred Wall St companies and big companies in general.

But once startups started to seem cool we got shows like Shark Tank and Silicon Valley is full of people for whom traditional definitions of status and hierarchy are a big part of their self identity and aspirational posture. Those who would otherwise have gone to work at Goldman or Deloitte are now bringing their status-seeking worldview to startups. While not all have business degrees, many have the same kind of high achiever / status focus. They want an impressive title and they want a team under them, etc.

The VC world is poor at discerning the correct signals, because many such employees have impressive educational pedigrees which we all know helps to sell "the team" to the next round of investors, and they are usually pretty good at making decks, etc.
I missed Kramer. And yes, they will probably "write it off", I wonder if only BNB is going to be affected or if their stacking platform is also halted.
I thought I got everything moved over to an authenticator app before leaving home but I forgot one, I got a "check your phone for verification SMS" earlier today. My American SIM could get the text but my foreign sim was giving my laptop internet access. Big pain in the ass.
And yet userbase got decimated for most channels when moving from Freenode to Libera. Just because it was only 30 minutes (for you or for anyone) doesn't mean people will go through the effort.
Seems like self_control.app might be the perfect solution here for both of your problems, drinking one too many and emailing the ex.
I would have prevented by parents from using psychoactive medicine on me. Even though I was very young and it could not be said to be a reasonable thing to deny your parents anything at that age I still should have been stronger. I later learned that it has implications for your development so might have changed who I am. And not for the better.

As a close second: telling girls I was interested was something I could not do for a long long time. It's still difficult and I know it's very common for men to have these sort of regrets but I managed to overcome at least some of that.

I could have studied harder too but it was very difficult for me.
There's a lot of very serious ones in here; I'm going to opt for something a bit lighter: I regret not being more diligent in money management throughout university and after graduation.

Working a ton, but not saving. Not investing. Living downtown for too many years. Going out to restaurants and bars multiple times a week. Buying a new iPhone every year. Not optimizing the career path for income (or, anything really). Never really going into debt beyond a (cheap) car payment, so it could be worse, but also not seeing personal capital grow.

Now, I'm hitting the stage where I feel this pull to try an independent venture; and maybe even leave the software industry. But I don't know how to do it financially. Its not just the runway in my bank account which could be measured in months; its the lifestyle.
> What ends up happening is they generally just destroy the living space in a variety of ways.

Citation very much needed here. This certainly does happen. But, I don’t believe this the general (i.e. typical) outcome. From what I understand talking to acquaintances who work in this area, wrecking the place is not the typical outcome. And property damage is generally cheaper to address than the constant provision of emergency services.

I agree that mental health (and substance use) are major factors in homelessness, but those issues are more or less impossible to address when people are living on the street with no permanent address and no place to keep e.g. a cell phone without it being stolen.
Not necessarily. Are workers going to work as hard while earning less or will they just coast along doing just the minimum equilibrium to stay employed? Likewise are workers earning more going to feel more pressure to do more less they lose their position to someone who will be more motivated.
But reality is not “the objective truth.” The notion of ‘truth’ belongs to the conceptual framework of knowledge (and the very complex process of its acquisition), and, unless you yourself conflate the mental image with reality, you realize that the objective, material world as such does not have to contain true or false statements about itself.
You're absolutely right.

Now let's talk about how much effort and what level of resources it's reasonable to expect a commercial entity to invest in extending protections to vulnerable people in need who happen to not be customers.

Perhaps we're asking the wrong entity to address this problem? This seems more like a public service infrastructure problem.
If you're claiming there's consensus RCV with IRV is no good, you're going to have to show sources. Because everything I know tells me that's patently false. There's no such consensus in academia, there's no such consensus in the political world, there's no such consensus anywhere.

You say pretty much any other proposal is better, plenty of other people say the other proposals mostly look even worse.

I don't understand why you ascribe this to "hardheaded loyalty" instead of people just genuinely disagreeing with you, and that they have good reasons for it. Honestly, from the tone of your comment it seems like you're the one who's unwilling to seriously consider the alternatives.
Why do some engineers/specialists struggle in management and leadership?
> the bridges operate on the same general principle as proof of stake

Quick amendment here - most of the bridges operate on these principles. There are hundreds of cryptocurrencies, trading pairs and L2 chains that have zero accountability whatsoever. It's not written anywhere that these bridges have to operate without trust, and many of them straight-up don't.
You do realize jail isn't some magical unifying force of social justice right?

A while back a guy destroyed a vehicle of mine and drove off. Per criminal law in my jurisdiction, he should have served at least 45 days for that offense. But it isn't like that would ever give me my property back. It's also unlikely to deter that particular crime in the population.
Nope - Mastodon supports invite-only which can aid in this sort of set-up; I'm sure other platforms do as well. And if one runs a close-knit community (which takes more than expertise and infrastructure), donations or something like a Patreon scheme can work.