skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be really useful to have some storage media that can truly last 50 years. It is pretty disappointing that most of the media with useful capacity (dvd r etc) cap out at 20~50 years. I wouldn't trust the most commonly used storage now (usb thumb drives) with important data for even few years unless it was stored in triplicate.

Personally I think the best method of long term data storage is spinning hard drives stored disconnected. I have a collection of them that goes back decades (with important data duplicated on multiple drives) including my first ever hard drive bought in mid 90s. Of my entire collection only one HDD broke down (actually one of newer 1tb usb3 drives bought few years ago - it started clicking few weeks ago).

I can't vouch for the current spinning disc tech, but I distrust current SSD tech(SD cards and nvme included) more so my current data gets backed up to a set of spinning discs frequently.
Not sure where you read that it only applies to companies - certainly not in the GDPR itself. It also applies to public entities - courts, government agencies, etc.

It wouldn't apply in this case due to other reasons though.
I think airmule does very close scrutiny of its importers, which is why it's limited to one air corridor. I'm more imagining a small-business owner putting out a call for something they want to sell in their store, the app user buys it on vacation, and sells it to the store owner after landing. a ratings system like uber or airbnb would likely take care of the bad-actor problem for something like that.
You don't have to look very hard to find screaming racists, furries, and lolicons. They make no effort to hide themselves since operators apparently endorse that sort of behavior as long as it fits their own particular biases and kinks.

I note for the record that this is precisely the sort of thing that doomed Voat. They got invaded by racists who decamped there after being given the boot from Reddit and promptly began spamming every sub with their obnoxious behavior which chased off everyone else. They shouldn't be surprised that they have a reputation for being a haven for people too toxic even for Twitter/Reddit.
The discussion you posted is not nearly as bad as you make it sound.

It's basically someone realising one of the clauses in their deed is worded perhaps a bit too broadly and are worried if it will be enforced. As a result, they are asking for legal advice on an internet forum and various randos are chipping in with half stories.
(FWIW, my bank does not provide any other 2FA options.)
I use the Casio F-201WA: https://www.casio.com/us/watches/casio/product.F-201WA-1A/

It has a big, readable digital display and easy to press buttons. It costs £20.

I could spend five times that and get a bulky G-Shock with a less readable display and harder to press buttons, and then it would be less likely to break. But I don't want those compromises and I'd rather enjoy the benefits of this one even if I have to replace it more often.
I agree - it reads like propaganda paid for by this "Project Laundry List" organization, in the pattern of PG's Submarine article.

Since when does this need to be a national issue anyways - "U.S. residents fight..."
Looks dead. English docs haven't been touched for 2 years.

https://github.com/apache/incubator-pegasus-website/tree/mas...
These things suck, though. The way they protrude from the USB port makes the phone awkward to carry around, and they prevent charging the device while using a headset.

You can buy adapters that pass through power and also have a 3.5mm jack - I have one of those and find it even flakier.
My childhood would have been a lot more convenient if Amazon was around back then. I remember having to explain to adults at stores why I wanted stuff and not having a good answer. In fact, I remember trying to buy mercury chloride to demo the halloween clock reaction and they wouldn't sell it to me, which probably worked out well because I don't think I really wanted to properly dispose of the mercury when complete.
One thing I don't see used strongly enough is know-how transfer from GenXers to Millenials. Docs won't do it. And everything depends on that.
I think that all computers is a scam. The promise of computer is to be a learning environment and a human's slave. What we see is Facebook, Tiktok, steeling some personal data, now it is common to use a computer as a heater.

By that definition, Ajax is also a scam as a computer's creature.
I usually ‘lie’ to everyone that where I am going I will have no connection. Even if I go to London City or some urban hub :)
I run an instance and I really have none of these problems. Keeping open applications off solves a lot of them, you have to ask me for an invitation and I’m not going to give you one if I think you’re going to be a problem.

There’s a Patreon for it that pays the server bills despite it only being a few hundred users. My users even say thanks for running the place now and then. Running a small node of The People’s Glorious Social Network is a very different task than what you are outlining.
The US is huge and diverse. This is just the stuff you hear about.

against a rising tide of housing associations who oppose the practice

...and which are not present everywhere in the US.
> It still weirds me out that people in USA are such bad neighboors (and their law so restrictive in some cases).

I’m sure bad neighbors exist in Portugal.

> For the pic seems to be her home, her property and she can't even hang her clothes to dry.

The picture is literally refuting what you’re claiming? She was able to hang her clothes to dry.
f*c*book has been floundering for some years now and is lurching from trying to follow one trend to the next, pouring money into each attempt and everything twitter seems to do causes another exodus. They'll be brought out and then hollowed out, or attempt a major pivot which will be fatal for their global relevance. This is without the spectre of data protection laws offering us more and more protection from the abuse of these sorts of platforms, having themselves broken up by monopolies, their revenue stream being cut off wholesale by the likes of Apple, investors and big customers finally realising they're paying for bots and I'm sure several other bear traps just waiting for them to stumble into.
> ... the homeless will lose any physical thing after N weeks. So what kind of 2FA would be homeless-proof? I don't see a solution.

How about the homeless person remembers a good password, and that's all that's needed for authentication? You know, just like it used to be. What exactly is wrong with that?
IMHO, its decentralized nature just isn't compatible with most user, or the concept of social media.

It works for certain demographics but not most.
I'd add that dehumidifiers are basically air conditioners they just focus on making sure the water is removed from the air before it leaves the device.
Exactly. The word people should be looking for is "vulnerable". They are not a niche category, they are a vulnerable category, and need protection, not dismissal.
It's kind of a genre: watch like, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhLk7L1B_fE, and you can see a bunch of others in suggested links.

From what I gather, a industrial-scale air-conditioning unit company basically broke the space open, since they were essentially doing large scale prefab construction already.

Just think about it from first principles. You can build large structures out of prefabricated parts, and if you design the parts sufficiently well, it's possible to fit them together fast. The problems are stuff like weight (transport costs start to dominate), volume (if there's not enough demand for skyscrapers, you don't want to be sitting on a skyscraper factory), etc.

In East China, they have a lot of structural advantages: a huge, hugely dense population, a government that loves big construction projects, a massive housing market, a great deal of experience in doing civic infrastructure fast, etc.
I don't know about this one. She got a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Yale when she was 27. This was in 1934, before Computer Science was an established academic field (it was the 60s before anybody got a "Ph.D. in Computer science"), so everybody was coming from some other academic background, often maths/engineering/physics.
This post was also very misleading. The concerns the librarian raised were actually addressed. The doc was old and made public by somebody other than the librarian, who edited it after it blew up to make it clear that the content was out of date.

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Addition, 08/02/2022, 3:03pm: I don’t know how this got shared to HackerNews. I appreciate all of the positive responses we have gotten. However, this was not an open letter. It was meant to be shared internally to Google. It went directly to the security team and we had a conversation about it about a year ago. Things have improved significantly since then and this is no longer a daily problem. Please stop calling the branch or emailing me about it. It’s interfering with my work. Press inquiries can be made through https://libwww.freelibrary.org/contact/ and the public relations department will be in touch with you.

If you want to learn more about patron privacy and support librarians advocating for patron privacy and against big tech please check out https://libraryfreedom.org/ which is a wonderful organization I am a part of that does work like this. I still firmly believe in and stand by everything that I wrote. But this particular action was not meant to be a public letter.

Also! If you’re in Philadelphia you should check out this big program we’re doing on August 12th called Empathy Versus Misinformation where a panel of experts will address questions and misconceptions about transgender youth!! Boy am I relieved that this was a Google Doc and I can just put whatever I want onto the front page of HackerNews now :)
By asking you?
Even with CGI improvements, some actors struggle with green screen acting
There are lots of Sudokus wuth multiple correct solutions, and no way to differentiate them.
Pretty salient article, even if it felt like it hyperfixated on the low-hanging QAnon fruit, and not more controversial examples of perverted/wishfully-thought reality. Well-worth a second read!
Hah, I managed to start caring after high school, but too little too late, I’m expecting to lose my most attractive physical traits will all fade sooner than later, just aging naturally.
> One of the other concurrent goals at the time was to remove Microsoft code from OS/2. Developers on the team were classified into those who had seen Microsoft code and those who had not. Even seeing the MS code was immediate disqualification from writing anything new, and this was actively enforced.

IBM has always been super cautious about intellectual property. I am an opensource committer at Eclipse Foundation (which was created by IBM) and there is a strict IP review process. A copy/paste from stackoverflow is not allowed.

> I'd always wanted to be excited about OS/2, and the IBM job was about as close as I got. My day to day PC at the job was an ancient (1988-era) PS/2 Model 80, and it ran even the current versions of OS/2 surprisingly well.

I started using OS/2 Warp on a 486 66Mhz with 4GM RAM, it was running pretty smooth for me.
Sometimes when communities die or are killed, they don't come back. Nobody knows where to go to re-convene.
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> Mastodon instances will be down in matter of seconds

what, why? The load is hardly that high.
Which ones of the "swallowed" were not helloworldware/marketingware?
My dad helps people navigate the system to find housing.

Recent story was a 65yo + veteran living in a shelter. They hadn’t started collecting social security due to some debts and was worried it would ALL be garnished.

After explaining that veterans get expedited in line for housing and that they would still get almost all of their SS, they have applied for it and should be housed soon.

It doesn’t surprise me at all that 2FA causes problems after hearing many stories similar to this one.
You can do anything you put your mind to. But if you have doubts or not fully committed, then you're more likely to fail.

In other words, just do it. Don't look back. You only have so many years of your life left. Make it worth it.
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It isn’t a claim about the capabilities or features of Zig or any other language. I don’t see how it makes a big difference to the the reader. We are talking about the exact wording was of those advising Andrew to not do comptime and their exact position. I feel this a bikeshedding.

Making this into a huge topic that requires evidence and citations seems a bit over the top. I would say you guys don’t know how journalism works. You equate article writing with scientific journals and papers. They are not the same thing.

I think what is at the core is getting the language description correct.
This has nothing to do with the law and every to do with the HOA that the people in this article from 2009 willing joined when they bought their home.

I know it's fun to hate on the USA at every given opportunity but this is less some systemic issue with the US and more a squabble between a few individuals who are violating a contract they chose to sign, and their neighbors who also signed said contract because they wanted to live in a place without laundry flapping about.
You do realize that HDDs can randomly break, right? To keep a proper backup you need to have multiple copies of all your data and also regularly access / copy it.
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All of the above, plus little to no-one actually bothered to use it daily, with not enough users to even talk to and compared to Twitter, Mastodon has an extremely limited network effect.

This explains why they have keep pulling content from and why they keep using Twitter and not the other way round.
2FA that delegates to SMS needs to be illegal and addressed by congress at this point. Whats "actual" happening is you're delegating authentication to another company that performed either a hard credit check the person (the vast majority of us) or has a prepaid (likely the situation above). In both cases, it's delegating of IDV and needs to be outlawed.
hello Marko,
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sorry for my wording

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The problem with biometrics like that is that if the data is stolen or otherwise accessed then it can't be reset. If an attacker has your fingerprint and you use that for 2FA you can't reset that to prevent them from having access.
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Yep, if Putin gets concessions in Ukraine then Moldava, Romania, the Baltics are in the crosshairs next. One doesn't have to engage in wild speculation to see this is what he wants. It's right out there.
At the same time, around middle school something snapped and I stopped caring much about consequences, got in a fair bit of trouble that ended up costing me opportunities down the line.
I legitimately do not understand the philosophical exercise of 'free will doesn't exist'.

Yes it does. I could walk into the street right now. I could walk into the office next door and slap a co-worker. I could learn German. I could leave my life and walk to China.

What is your justification that free-will doesn't exist? Other than biological needs like eating and sleeping, I have control over the rest. Or, rather, I have control over how shitty the rest is. I have yet to hear an argument that has swayed me at all.
> obvious

How so ?
Excellent! Thank you for the detailed answer.

I'm going to explore all the solutions and start building my setup soon.
What about when you want to apply to a job or an apartment which requires email?
This is a simplification of the problem. Both:

1. Vulnerable populations need more assistance accessing essential services required to participate in society

2. Service providers need to maintain a reasonable level of security for their customers

Can both be true. Saying that maximum (or minimum) levels of security are required at all time completely misses the point of security--which is to mitigate risk. How much risk is appropriate varies a lot by context.

Beyond the context of risk, there is reasonable debate to be had on how to best provide access to essential services to vulnerable populations. It's pretty important to have an email nowadays and if you're not tech savvy or an individual/community has little to no money to spend it's not unreasonable to have the reality of the matter be that there may simply not be many good alternatives (or awareness of alternatives) to GMail.

I'm not sure what a correct answer here looks like, but I don't think ignoring the need is an approach that gets us to a better society or enables vulnerable populations to better care for themselves.
I'm just glad that netflix is still operating their disc rental plan. If you want to watch niche, hard-to-get stuff, that's one of the better options, IMO.

I legally can't recommend anyone copy/rip discs that they rent.
This is where blockchain ends up shining, since there are economic incentives to running a node.
I'm in this thread as an American confused about why everyone cares about this.

Everyone has a dryer here, either in their place of residence or in the location they do their laundry. Washer and dryer are a set pair. They're either stacked on top of each for compactness (some apartments) or they're next to each other in the same room. I've never even heard of a place in the US that doesn't have dryers where they have washing machines. Even homeless people can use dryers, assuming they can afford to use the laundry in the first place. (And no the hot humid air doesn't dump into the house/apartment, it dumps to the outside.)

Yes I occasionally hang up laundry, but the dryers are always there. It's not an access issue.

This isn't something people complain about or even mention here. It's usually only recent immigrants to the country who hang up laundry like this however.
So if there are certain vulnerable categories of people who cannot use any form of 2FA, where does that leave 2FA?

Seems to me it should mean that it has to be optional, at least until we solve that problem.
The problem is that GPUs are mostly underutilized outside games and machine learning, because the industry still hasn't moved away from the concept only a few selected group of developers can enjoy tooling to program them.

So everyone that works in other domains, without access to libraries written by the GPU druids, largely ignores their existence.
I got "don't know" for 3 of these questions and "it's complicated" for further 2 and "probably no" for 2 more.

How can you give definite answers for factual questions in which you don't have full information?
If I’m in a VR simulation, why on earth did I wish to be me? Wouldn’t wish that on anybody.
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>The other thing is, we want at the same time Gmail to be unhackable against best hackers and state sponsored adversaries for the billions of users, including high profile dissidents, journalists, and senators who will inevitably have accounts; and at the same time to homeless people who can't keep any physical thing. It's kinda difficult to meet those conflicting requirements well at the same time.

It's only hard if you adopt a one size fits all approach to security.

Google's proclivity towards treating its users as an undifferentiated commodity isnt proof that its users couldnt be treated differently.
Yep, reducing standards for everyone in an attempt to help a small minority is also a growing trend in the west. Schools dumbing down so everyone gets A’s type of top level decision making.

Sometimes you have to make hard choices where some people get burned because the alternatives are worse. That doesn’t mean you don’t care.
I called out the euphemism that hid an atrocity - not clear where you think I am doing that here?
An authenticator app is a much better 2FA solution that I opt for at every opportunity.

Google's authenticator app is brain dead because they want to encourage 2FA over SMS. Why? Because it has the wonderful side effect of destroying your privacy. With your phone number, Google can easily identify you personally. Ain't that special --- privacy invasion wrapped up in security clothing! Much too tempting for Google to resist.

Google didn't invent OTP so there are other apps that are perfectly compatible.

Word to the wise, it should be obvious by now that all things "Google" are synonymous with "privacy invasion".
When working over a finite field there are no stability issues though, since arithmetic is exact.
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sorry but why are they losing their phones ? stolen ?
sell it for drugs?
>Clicking 'cancel' on a buy order for 110 bitcoins at circa 2$ each x)

Meh. You would have sold them at $4.
I didnt noticed that it was a picture of your inner walls. In France, we only use bricks/concrete for the structural walls. The inner walls are almost always "placo" mounted on steel rails. It looks like this : https://www.monsieurpeinture.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/...
or https://www.monsieurpeinture.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/...
I am sorry I can't help you here.
The only UI problems I implemented were rather simple, built with IBM VisualAge which had a nice drag&drop visual editor for the screens and dialogs. http://www.os2ezine.com/v1n11/vacpp1.gif
Enthousiasm is paramount in community work. But managing server infrastructure is more and more complex and it won't go simpler. People should consider joining associations which would be responsible, not individuals. Maybe less servers but larger and better managed ones. Associations are more resilient than individuals.
In defense of camera based vision systems, they can be more objective and consistent than humans. They won’t go partially blind without realizing it, for example.

There are examples of them catching things humans sometimes missed, so — it isn’t a total bust. At the same time though, no idea how you get bast the issues of blowouts obscuring the rest of the visual field, debris blocking the light, instances where depth is imperceptible, etc.
My experience in the US is that most folks' attitude about their home is that they should be able to do whatever they want, but no one around them should be able to change anything unless they like it.

America is full of people who believe in their right to be completely their own person, and that everyone else should be exactly like them as well. By force, if necessary.
I love hanging my laundry, but wouldn't appreciate it it my neighbors front yard. It is a jerk move if they have another option.

I guess it falls in the free speech category. I don't like what you say but I support your right to do it.

HOA residents also have the right to make binging agreements, for better or worse.