skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems likely that enabling insecure account usage would be a net negative to huge swaths of their user base.

Gmail is functionally the root of trust / skeleton key to millions of people's online lives. The only real competitor is Facebook and, for some, Apple. I think Gmail is far better (more secure, more privacy respecting, less capricious) than Facebook.

With the admission by Chad that that homeless he advocates for can't retain mobile numbers, or ID cards, or 2fa keys, I have no idea how he thinks any secure access could possibly work.
> Wikipedia cannot be cited because it is not a static resource

Regardless of the merits of citing Wikipedia, if you do want to cite it you can reference a specific revision. Or include the date and time you accessed it, from which anyone else can determine the revision. This puts Wikipedia in a much better position than citing URLs in general, which are mostly not version-controlled.
(I know nothing about the area.)

Am I incorrect in thinking we are headed to future AIs that jump to conclusions?
Or is it just my "human neural hash" being triggered in error?!
to build on that, a mastodon instance's "federated" feed is the feed of stuff that everyone on the server is receiving.

Having publicly readable posts is core to the whole idea, just like Twitter.

Note: there are some interesting forks like Hometown[1] that have interesting privacy variants. The big feature I'm envious of in Hometown is the ability to send a message _just_ to people on your server that will never leave it. BUT overall mastodon is 100% about publicly readable information (like Twitter). If someone isn't comfortable with that they shouldn't use Mastodon.

[1]: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown
ai driven ads that know exactly what your meeting will be about with virtual copies of the employees cheering the product presented and close ups of the CEO (30 years younger) making a thinking face.
Yeah, I was surprised on this one because it was a machine that just printed the front on a blank card - the name wasn't embossed, but otherwise it was a normal card.

Still using it, it's how they do cards now; they never sent an "embossed" one.
That decision is as exactly as legally binding as the signs on trucks disavowing liability for falling debris.

Banks might be trying to pretend Zelle isn't covered by Regulation E, but I haven't heard any good argument for why it doesn't apply, other than arguments similar to yours that they simply don't want it to.
I loved it too. But somehow I wish he'd ended it there, and I never had to know how Woodrow dies. The book didn't need to be shorter, but the rest of the series may have diminished it. I feel that way about Dune too.

On the other hand I'm a fiend for the real long-form, like the Aubrey-Maturin series, a novel in twenty-one volumes. That kind of seemlessness is rare. McMurtry killed his Maturin in volume one. The rest felt like post script.
I bet it's easy to make $500/day briefly, and hard to sustain it. Catalytic converters have the benefit of not requiring you to break into someone's house where risk of being caught or harmed is way higher.
Yes, you're correct. Somehow I've missed that part
> An English link to the same topic

Its not the same topic (as it is today's address of President of Ukraine), but it does include excerpts from latest presidential decree.

Main link directing to Decree of the President of Ukraine №692/2022 (in Ukrainian), signed today:

> 1. Ukraine confirms its respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Japan, including the Northern Territories, which are still under occupation by the Russian Federation.

> 2. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, in accordance with the Agreement between the Government of Ukraine and the Government of Japan on the establishment of diplomatic relations (in the form of an exchange of letters) dated January 26, 1992, in its activities, proceed from the position specified in Article 1 of this Decree. The Northern Territories are an integral part of the sovereign territory of Japan.
I’ve wondered the same thing in the past, mainly because my primary instrument is the bass guitar which uses all fourths.

Once you play guitar for long enough you will understand why that major third is there, though. A small compromise in the “logic” of the tuning gives you so much utility.
I'm not exactly the right person to answer this since I haven't done SRE at Google, but I did turn down an offer to be a Google SRE, and then subsequently went to work in a heavily SRE oriented organization, and eventually landed as a SWE at Google.

Some thoughts:

- being on-call can be anything from soul-sucking to mildly annoying depending on what team you land on, but a lot of SWEs are also on-call, including at Google

- a lot of the entry SWE positions at G (any level) are things that they have trouble recruiting for internally, so unless you know exactly what team you're joining you may not find it as exciting as you would like

- Google's SREs are top notch and you can expect to develop some new skills and learn a lot

- SRE work on a good team is actually pretty fun if you like problem solving and can deal with mild stress. AFAICT most SREs are very big into no-blame culture, at least at good organizations

- retrospectively I probably would have enjoyed Goog SRE as much, maybe even more than I did being a SWE, which was: mostly
Additionally I work with heads of different companies and banks directly and as I understood that I should be focusing on Value Propositions for them rather than bothering with reinventing the wheel. Many thanks again you probably made drastical difference with my understanding on business.
Thank you. I had not really thought about how much notifications hurt my computer enjoyment / productivity. I'm reconsidering my home computing strategy in light of this. I have one machine I'm most productive on. Reading your article made me realize it's the only one I have configured without notifications.

At work, I cannot turn off the apps that pollute my day with notifications. The firm got rid of their phone system - there is only <popular corporate messaging app>. Previously, I could turn it off and tell people to call me if there's something important. I suspect others are stuck in this position as well.
datasync / backend-for-frontend problem
Mastodon does inform your followers when your account moves[0], but unfortunately doesn't allow you to automatically migrate your existing posts over to your new account.[1]

[0] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8003

[1] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12423
There's quite a few other hints in the marketing and decisions at Signal that reek a little bit of honeypot (by the NSA).

Super hard to prove though...

For me personally the strongest hints are the fact that it's centralized, there's no getting around connecting to their server(s) for the app/clients to be useful and that it's impossible to know what exactly their server is running (by design?).

Oh, and Signal is based in the US. That fact by itself pretty much means all bets are off when it comes to security or anonimity.

I don't see how the NSA would not be pwning that server or owning/creating that server and/or organization (indirectly or directly).

Or to put it differently: why would it be hard or illogical for the NSA to setup an innocent seeming "good guys" radiating non-profit chat service that is supposedly secure (yet centralized and non-anonymous by design and also a honeypot)?
My sympathies. Are these issues that could have been flagged by the current genetic pre-screeners? Eg NIPT
I love long books just fine. Like "Mission Earth" by Ron Habbard or "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George Martin or Asimov etc. etc
I actually worked on gsutil a while ago! I added in flight compression -J/j. Glad to see gsutil is on its way out.
Unfortunately political apathy is no longer an option. "Silence is Violence", and you will be forced into taking a side, even if you are just trying to dine outside in a restaurant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxjJPZF4P_s
Yeah, I should have been clear - accessing it at a local branch. Not that many people need to do that anymore; in fact it's so easy to do everything online you may forget to update addresses, etc. And with no paper statements, you might not even notice until one day your bank decides it needs to mail you something important.
Yes, they are used all the time in the US.

The numbers on the bottom are the routing number and account number of the payer. Anyone can make and sell them, and anyone can buy them.

https://www.costcochecks.com/home
Fascinating. It will not allow me to initiate conversation on android without access to contact list. I wonder why the platform difference!
I think you underestimate how long modern hardware can last. I have 8 to 12 year old PCs running non-stop, in a musty and damp basement.
But real books on real topics have been getting purged from libraries (especially school libraries) for well over a decade now. In many school districts, older books containing actual truths, are destroyed rather than marked as removed from circulation and re-sold. Some libraries I know of locally purged almost all of their books on "old, white" history, and replaced them with "more modern" bullshit works by "CRT" writers.

To the point of this article, much of this is driven by the teachers, who say they will not accept sources that might have "social biases" (as if it were possible for any book to not have those!) The library then purges those books because "no one has checked them out in a couple of years".

The sad thing is that almost 100% of books being added to the libraries fall into just a few categories: Books promoting or "celebrating" perverted sex of any and all kinds (including pretty much all "youth fiction"), Manga, or "Graphic Novels" (let's face it, some have good artwork, but are really just nicely bound and printed comic books, usually with little to no redeeming educational value.)

Sadly, I don't know a single person under 30 who has a clue how to actually use a library to find real sources - they all just default to Googling. The web is amazing, but what's NOT on it is staggering, and of amazing quality and scholarship (which is itself a lost art...)

More worryingly, I've seen a LOT of valuable content vanish from the search engines, which just shoves that content right down the memory hole, using the same flawed logic as those high school librarians - no one's asked for it recently.

We lose access to and context for valuable information when our search engines (it's all about the money from hits and eyeballs) only keep what is "popular". Alas, we've replaced Carnegie Libraries with Kardashian libraries, to our great loss...
Can you be more specific on what exactly do you mean by 'cluster'? A cluster of desks? Deployment and testing environments? A storage array? It might be helpful to know what kind of application are you building.
Thought experiment:

What's the largest start-up or most compelling start-up that can be built on a bunch of SaaSs taped together?
Prima facie it is wrong because it's victim blaming.

But using weak and/or compromised passwords is a bad idea in exactly the same way that it's a bad idea to leave your front door unlocked.

Legally, we do assign fault for negligence. If absentmindedly leave your kitchen tap open with the drain stopped and then go on vacation, your flood insurance is probably not going to pay for repairs, even if you didn't deserve to have your house destroyed.

From a policy perspective, I think the most appropriate thing would be a middle ground. It is good for everyone's peace of mind to be sure that your entire bank balance won't vanish without recourse, but if you leave your banking "front door" unlocked, the bank covers 90% of the actual unrecoverable loss, but you're on the hook for the other 10%. That eliminates perverse incentives to use weak passwords without being cruel to victims.
> this isn't a species-wide thing and definitely overstates the inevitability of these structures.

well between what I described above and straight-up totalitarianism that covers more or less the majority of the population of the planet does it not
You have to pay for them but yes you can still get checks. My order of 80 checks should last me the rest of my life.
but are they making more money now?
Deep down you have the dichotomy between "instant payment" and "refundable payment".

If I'm selling you a car, I don't want a Zelle transfer for the money that I know you could claim was fraud and claw back from me - then I'm out the money AND the car; I'll demand cash in that case.
You are correct. There is currently an open issue[0] requesting support for migrating posts, that was opened in 2019 and unsurprisingly has some comments from today pointing out how useful such a feature would be.

[0] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12423
I remember in college in the late 80s (when laptops were mostly exotic and expensive) seeing someone walking across campus, carrying his Mac by the handle on the top and thinking that it was so cool to be able to transport a computer like that.
Wikipedia's math articles can be dense and assume you're an expert, but I've never known them to be wrong.
Do you just go into the carrier's store and ask them to change it, or do you have some streamlined way of changing it? Every time I go into one of those stores it seems to take hours to get even the simplest thing done.
Wow, that's an amazing link, their GH org is filled with ports: https://github.com/orgs/bitwiseworks/repositories?type=all although it's not super obvious what the patches are to things like python-os2
Edwin, thanks for popping in.

Serious question that comes up every time I see you: When you leave Stripe, are we going to be shouting into the HN void? I've seen you here so often when Stripe is acting up, but how is it that this stuff happens so often and that HN is the most effective means of resolution?

This is probably not the case, but it very much looks like if I'm a green name on HN or someone with no rapport, or who doesn't have a catchy title on their "stripe hurt my business" post, that I'm just not going to get the right amount of support on HN to get stripe via you to fix my issue.

Is this something that's talked about at all in the upper echelons of stripe? I am not the only person who feels this way from the HN crowd.
I doubt that it only started in 2021, unless you have evidence for it.

>but can you really defend the position that you thought those arguments were suspect because you knew banks were going to stop fraud corrections?

I knew those arguments were suspect, because the very same thing that makes such an intervention possible is the very same thing that makes it unreliable: a central authority, that first and foremost acts in its own best interest and is prone to corruption, abuse of power and what have you.

> While simultaneously preferring systems that never had it at all?

You can still build such a system on top of a decentralized system and put your trust in random 3rd parties, if for whatever reason that happens to float your boat.
Neural networks were modeled after a model of the neurons in human brains, a model which we know by now is inaccurate and misses a lot of details.
There are plenty of homes for the status-hungry, be they startups or FAANGs. I'd hoped they'd get bored of tech and leave, but there's too much money around, and status doesn't really leave professions very quickly. I do think they've changed the culture though. Primarily thinking about the weird way devs treat the FAANGs of the world: devs from there are seen as uber-geniuses without even saying anything. It's like we all need to believe that is true to ensure that those places remain high status in our mind.
I think you misstate the complete twitter sphere, but even still if you have a public platform used by all ages and identities, to which you add a commerce and payments platform and improved messaging, I think you would have something. The hardest thing to get is critical mass and Twitter has it. Musk believes twitter has been mismanaged, and may be squandering it, but that’s why he’s buying it.
Not that I disagree with the complicated nature, but there is a discernible difference between the amount of business value google can extract from an employee, versus someone changing a tire. I'm sure there has been analysis done that shows the extravagant benefits gets google more ROI from their employee hires. That would most likely not be true for other types of labor
My pet peeve with technical books is unintentional filler - things you can learn within minutes by googling it and easily amount to 50%+ of most books. Show me the obscure API workarounds and tricks that will take me weeks to find out instead.
> I'm not a good writer, sorry in advance

I found your writing style to be concise, pleasant to read and certainly nothing to apologize for.
> I hate the fact that something so grueling for me seems to be so easy and, well, fun for the other 99% of people out there.

In reality, that number is way, WAY lower, especially at your age? Perhaps 10-20%. The rest is struggling too, in one way or another (some may not realise it at the time).
Absolutely. I currently rent from an elderly couple and the simplest method of paying rent is the classic check.
The future of medicine in space: drug development, manufacturing, and beyond
This is a fantastically good point. I think things will get even more interesting once the ML tools have access to more than just text, audio and image/video information. They will be able to draw inferences that humans will generally be unaware of. For example, maybe something happens in the infrared range that humans are generally oblivious to, or maybe inferences can be drawn based on how radio waves bounce around an object.

"The universe" according to most human experience misses SO much information and it will be interesting to see what happens once we have agents that can use all this extra stuff in realtime and "see" things we cannot.
I bought one of those refurbished in 2001 and it was a fantastic machine. I used it for live recording setups, transporting it in a suitcase along with keyboard, monitor, mouse and 8-track A/D system, padded with towels. I only gave it up when I bought my first PowerBook.
> that type of policy results in a world where outcomes of disputes are able to be dictated solely on the basis of who has more power or resources.

We already live in that world. There's just an intermediary in the form of the state.
> So if you ask a very small area “do you want more housing or less?” a lot of people will say that they think the local harms exceed the local benefits, and the division will basically come down to aesthetic preference for more or less density. But if you ask a large area “do you want more housing or less?” the very same people with all the same values and ideas may come up with a different answer because they internalize a much larger share of the benefits.

That seems so simple, and I dont know why it never occured to me.

It's literally in the acronym NIMBY. As in: yes, I want it, just not in my backyard.
The mammalian brain have had a few hundred million years to evolve neural plasticity [1] which is the key function missing in AI. The brain’s structure isn’t set in stone but develops over one’s lifetime and can even carry out major restructuring on a short time scale in some cases of massive brain damage.

Neural plasticity is the algorithm running on top of our neural networks that optimizes their structure as we learn so not only do we get more data, but our brains get better tailored to handle that kind of data. This process continues from birth to death and physical experimentation in youth is a key part of that development, as is social experimentation in social animals.

I think “it remains unclear” only to the ML field, from the perspective of neuroscientists, current neural networks aren’t even superficially at the complexity of axon-dendrite connections with ion channels and threshold potentials, let alone the whole system.

A family member’s doctoral thesis was on the potentiation of signals and based on my understanding if it, every neuron takes part in the process with its own “memory” of sorts and the potentiation she studied was just one tiny piece of the neural plasticity story. We’d need to turn every component in the hidden layers of a neural network into it’s own massive NN with its own memory to even begin to approach that kind of complexity.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity
What really winds me up is when you have 1000 pages of book (or even 3000 pages of series) and then the ending drops in 50 pages.

Looking at you Peter F. "A god turned up and fixed everything lol" Hamilton, but it seems to happen a lot in sci-fi, maybe because the author prefers worldbuilding to a satisfying plot resolution.

Though I think in some cases the publisher puts their foot down and tells the author that the N-logy ends here and there's not going to be a N+1th volume, so the author just slaps a desultory ending on it and ships it.
Her “Mingus” album from her jazz period opens with “Happy Birthday Rap,” in which she calls out, “play that weird minor chord.”

If anyone knew weird minor chords… It was Joni.
I understand that Dumas was paid by the word, which explains the flowery dialogue in books like The Three Musketeers.

”I have a question.”

“Please, unburden yourself, so that I may satisfy your ardent curiosity.”

“It is, but a simple question; a humble question. One that I am ashamed to admit I have no satisfactory answer.”

“Do not feel shame. Please, allow me to provide you with some surcease.”

“Very well, then. This is my simple, humble question.”

“Please, I am afire with anticipation, that I may bring enlightenment to you.”

“Very well then. My question, humble as it is, is…Do you know when dinner is served?”
How far off of 50% of the work was the work they performed? Could it have been a simple case of they did about half the work for the pay you gave?

Maybe that'd be how I'd square it with myself. (But still probably never working with people who ghost again.) You paid 50% and got less than 50% of the work done, but work was still done - somewhere between 25% and 50% it sounds like.

It'd also help the personal re-framing if the next people I hired quoted less for the remaining work and it was done in a day. Granted, this is work with plants and things which change/increase in entropy by the day.

The possible life lesson here is to not let perception or preconception sour an otherwise sort of alright outcome. And sometimes outright re-framing a sour situation can diminish the sting. (Along the lines of "breakups hurt, but enjoy the good times and memories for what they were.") There's also not letting sunk costs steer decisions towards still worse outcomes.
Might also have something to do with his daughter being trans and him actively courting supporters who hate her.
IDK, did you see that section on boat hulls?
Right, my camera even goes as far as offering in-body HDR, it's just not as good as what I get in my iPhone, especially when the scene has moving elements, the camera isn't on a tripod, etc. Phones can paper over a lot of things with "AI" which means that you can get a serviceable shot without trying, but it doesn't really correspond to reality and sometimes (especially with the moving elements case) has artifacting.
Plug a $10 adapter into the end of your headphone cable.

Your headphone cable magically gets six inches longer and now plugs into your phone.

Problem solved.
This is why I find Outliers incredibly overrated. The core idea is fine, quite good even. But the fact that the book is 336 pages when it could probably be 20-50 at the most just kills the joy of reading it.
I do remember that viruses on Macs back in the 80s were a huge problem thanks to the fact that the Mac would automatically run code on any disk that was inserted in the drive.
The company that owns Zelle is owned by a cartel of the biggest banks and Navy Federal CU.