skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree 100%. Either do it or dont’t, otherwise you’ll be wondering if it’s too late to change in another ten years.

Anytime someone asks me how I made the leap to building startups the answer is pretty simple: failure doesn’t scare me that much, I have failed many times, but I’ve learned and don’t repeat (most) mistakes. That and I hate anyone telling me what to do. YMMV.
Yeah, my previous comment definitely doesn't show up on my profile or on this thread when I try to view it on both this submission and my profile in a logged-out state.

dang: I think this is because I used the full "p" word in my initial post, can you confirm?
I never felt real acceptance from my parents. Which made the first woman I fell in love with, who was very beautiful and sweet and totally accepting of me, nearly impossible to get away from once I realized that she was unsuitable for me to make a permanent (and sole) life partner. Cue many years spent seeing her on and off while trying to reclaim the same spark elsewhere and fucking up other perfectly-good (if never quite the same, and certainly less intense) relationships.

Unfortunately it seems that a lot of my… sexuality (this word seems like a vast oversimplification in this case) got tied up with her and is basically now gone, and I’m still processing this years later.

I did retain the self-confidence she gave me though, but the cost…
Unfortunately it's more complicated than this. There have been nonprofit organizations and government initiatives to give homeless people space in unoccupied hotels for example.

What ends up happening is they generally just destroy the living space in a variety of ways.

It's because the majority of homelessness is an issue of mental health. In the USA, there are pretty much zero mental health resources for people in poverty.
Reducing wages by definition increases profits and the title doesn't match what the linked abstract says.

I get what the study is saying, but the crucial piece of info is whether the non-business degree managers create an increase in profits greater than the increase in profits from wage cuts/suppression.
All I can think of now is someone in NZ posting "TGIF" and then someone fact checks it and notices that it is, indeed, not Friday in California.
I like your comment because it gradually stumbles upon the actual solution. We aren't being ambitious enough, but developing a device designed to be harder to steal or lose is timidly incremental. By the last paragraph, we're talking about ending homelessness entirely. That is an ambitious — but achievable! — goal, and one that actually addresses the root of the problem.
Did you even read the linked thread, of a person apparently actually working with homeless people? It explicitly mentions that email is the preferred method of communication for many of them, for reasons also mentioned in the thread.

> The homeless have challenges, no doubt, but that does not imply google worrying about 2FA for the homeless is the best way to solve those challenges.

You seem to be under the impression that improvements to the condition of people's lives are only ethically acceptable if they happen ordered strictly by descending impact. In my experience, that's not realistic.
You certainly can find areas in the UK where this isn't allowed. You may not be privy to them but I know they exist because I've been to them. In many places in the UK you must paint your home a particular color (black is common in farmhouse areas) and you must use materials that are appropriate to the listed status of your home. Some communities of people have by-laws as well such as where you must park your vehicle and if you can hang dry things in the front - which you can't where I know people that live.

In essence, anything your neighbors can see is highly restricted in what you can do.

And of course, many places don't have this and people have small properties so they park on the slim slice of property in front of their home.
I definitely had TOTP before I had U2F. I think you mean after enabling SMS 2FA, not U2F.
Because they say that. Just look in certain telegram groups, right next to The Great Reset.
In a non-fiat system why would you need to?
If Google were to shrivel up and dissolve, I would not mind at all. But what's currently happening is that a metric ton of people are using their free email service and won't stop doing so any time soon, and so they had an incentive to hand-hold and force along 2FA that coincides with some form of public utility: fewer security breaks and financial ruin for massive globs of vulnerable, tech-illiterate people.
I feel like this is personal for you somehow and I don't know why. I'm not "campaigning" against anything, I posted one comment on a message board. Let's try to avoid bringing hysteria into the conversation.

I'm glad you ended up having a working relationship with your mechanic but I don't think it's really relevant here. Your mechanic is not maintaining an open source project. He's fixing your car. Which is a great solo project.

I think you're confused about my perspective so let me be clear: I'm not concerned with "defending" the reader from "meanness". I'm suggesting that investing in any project run by a single person is risky: more than likely if that person quits then the project is dead. That's strike one. The fact that the single author has a history of being combative with open source collaborators suggests it might be harder for the project to ever move beyond being a solo project. That's strike two.

All of this is just common sense. I'm sorry if it rubs you the wrong way. If your mechanic decides to stop maintaining your car in the future there will be hundreds of other mechanics waiting to take the job (and, importantly, your money). A solo open source project depending on volunteers is a lot less likely to have that.
> I think banning alcohol would probably be a good thing.

Yes, after all this worked so well the first time.
Exposing GPU programming to anyone besides C, C++ and Fortran developers would already help, even if that would take a speed bump, as proven by the few attempts targeting PTX.

I wasn't talking about Web apps.
A good starting point is the YouTube channel Cracking the Cryptic, linked below, which you may already be familiar with. He does superb sudokus which employ advanced techniques. This includes a LOT of variants.

Variants may be a turnoff if you’re not starting light. My favourite very light variant is this one:

https://youtu.be/QNzltTzv0fc
He can only sign legislation presented to him to sign by Congress.
Sadly, there are probably businesses out there that would see this study as a argument for hiring business managers over operational business units.
And Eurovision, with 200 million+ a year even more ;)
I suspect that any organisation that filters you out because of the lack of a CS/engineering degree is probably an organisation that doesn't deserve you!
Useful, yes, but the author would be violating the DMCA and the extension would be banned.
That link involves someone with no backup email address connected to their google account for recovery purposes, for what it's worth.
1M Facebook Usernames, Passwords May Have Been Stolen (Meta)
Google agrees

https://google.github.io/styleguide/shellguide.html
I don't recall Voat ever being specifically marketed as such, although it was certainly characterized as such in the press. It was literally just Atko's .NET knockoff of Reddit.
Slimbook plans to expand its Linux laptop business
Yeah, I got the Pixel 6 when it was on sale a couple months ago. Amazing camera and buttery OS, but damn that thing was just huge to me. Also the on-screen fingerprint reader was only about 90% accurate which was just frustrating enough to make me hate it.

Ended up sending it back and getting a refurbished Pixel 5. Not state of the art, but the size/weight is perfect and the physical fingerprint reader never misses a beat.

Really, really hoping they bring back a sensible model to the Pixel line for people that just want a nice, clean, lightweight phone.
Smart phone rigs are a thing:

E.g.: https://smile.amazon.com/Zeadio-Stabilizing-Stabilizer-Panas...

More: https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=video+grip+iphone+rig&sprefix=v...
A popular (well, used to be) artist who does this is Chris Carrabba (Dashboard Confessional, huge in the early '00s, was basically a solo act when he started, break-out and biggest hit was "Screaming Infidelities" which got a ton of radio play).

I think he did it to make it easier to play+sing his songs solo, is all I can figure. Heavy use of multiple open tunings. He'll use like half a dozen tunings on one album, plays on stage with a rack of guitars so he can swap between songs.
https://archive.ph/mFN9P

Original FB post:
https://about.fb.com/news/2022/10/protecting-people-from-mal...
Marijuana has been legal-and-regulated in Canada for years. I assure you that the sky hasn't fallen.
Google demands 2FA because popped accounts are used to abuse their services.

Homeless people don't have enough of anything to be an attractive target for advertisers.
> Oddly, I suspect if Google provided no free accounts at all--if you had to give a credit card and pay $5 to sign up--nobody would be complaining about this.

That is like saying 'if the DMV didn't offer IDs to people, no one would complain about not being able to get an ID'.

The fact of the matter is that email is 'de facto' online ID, and gmail has positioned itself into this role. They are now a societal need, not a luxury. They need to be regulated.
I took the study to imply sales / revenue went down as much as salaries.
I find it amusing that simply because I pointed out the faults of Dr Malone, you assume I’m some sort of devotee of the Washington Post/NYTimes. This is a fabrication inside your own mind.
The answer to all of the questions is: "Who the f* knows and why should I care?".

The problem is people are concerning themselves, committing huge parts of their cognitive abilities, to topics that are completely irrelevant to them. The media (traditional and social) bombards us with a constant stream of new issues every day. However knowing about or forming a opinion about these things is pointless for the individual.

You might as well form strong opinions about the latest Star Wars movie and go rant about it, it'll have just about the same impact on your life.
> What we really need in this landscape is dead simple services.

I'm working on exactly that: a service that acts as an ActivityPub server (code[1], example[2], example application running on top of it[3]) for users in the form of a static binary. It supports multiple storage backends that can be selected individually or all together at build time and it can be extended to many more.

[1] https://github.com/go-ap/fedbox

[2] https://federated.id

[3] https://littr.me
This is not about COVID or vaccination side effects, this is about long term damage.
I can assure you that this suspection is wrong, at least about me.

I've personally bought/subscribed to various companies both personally and professionally. Just recently (a couple of weeks ago) I evaluated a couple of mailproviders. I discarded all of those that enforced 2FA with a phone-number.

For instance mailgun. At least the support helped me:

> Hello XXX,
>
> Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
>
> At this time, I have successfully activated your account so that it is now fully operational and you are all set! You may need to log out, then back in, to reflect this change. Also, your users can indeed utilize Google Auth without using a phone number.
>
> Please reach back out if any other questions arise.
>
> Regards,
> XXX | Mailgun by Sinch

Others weren't as flexible. E.g. Sendgrind:

> Hello,
>
> Thanks for reaching out to Twilio SendGrid Support and for your interest in our products. My name is XXX and I’ll be more than happy to assist you in this matter.
>
> I am sorry for the inconvenience caused by the 2 Factor Authentication process, but this is mandatory for all accounts, as a security feature.
> The only options available are to setup 2FA through Authy: to receive an SMS code or use the Authy app, which you can download here.
>
> I apologise for the inconvenience caused by the fact that we do not have any other options available at the time.
>
> Please do let me know if you have any additional questions in regards to this matter and I will be more than happy to further assist.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> XXX | Technical Support Engineer Twilio-Sendgrid

Forcing me to use your own homegrown authenticator or a phone number? No thank you.

In the end I decided for a provider that offers 2FA but offers multiple options and doesn't enforce it.

Doesn't matter if I pay or not, really.
It does only in a vacuum. Real world is not so simple. Productivity can be impacted by wages, morale too, retention.
Try some interesting for you mathematical course, maybe you are really needing to learn calculus or whatever else topic. After solving all problems from the first chapter (especially if you manage to do it without any help) you will realize that there are lots of way more interesting things than a lust.
If you can't see a difference between parking a car vs building a giant ferris wheel on your front lawn, then I'm afraid that's on you. There is a line with what's acceptable - but luckily in most places and in most people's minds it doesn't lie anywhere where you think it does.
Why did this comment take 9 hours to show up? I mean, I've been on this thread and now this appears as a new comment with a 9 hour dating.
> In this case the people asking for 2FA are the "small minority", and the rest of us have to suffer through 2FA-authentication hell because of them.

How many people don't like 2fa because they don't know about all the times it's saved them from total account takeover?
The problem is multifaceted. And homeless people are not a monolith. There are large cohorts for whom simply receiving a home would make life significantly easier.
>But we don't do it, because, in America, our sense of what government can or should provide is atrophied, and we, mistakenly, look to private actors to provide basic public services.

I don't think this matches reality. The US government is doing more today than any time point in the past. Spending and taxation as a percent of dgp is at an all time high.

There's also a sense that nobody should have to do anything themselves. There's nothing stopping anyone from talking to a homeless person and helping them set up an email account without 2fa.
I am not participant but I have seen some invite only fediverse instances. Can't there be paid instances too, even pay by (please don't hate me here) watching ads ? Does actually anyone need to cater to millions of users?
I hate apartment living. People on all sides, you have to live like a mouse, no room for any activities.
Years back we rented a flat in a building that housed a lot of retired people.
A regulation we weren't aware of was that you weren't allowed to hang anything on the railings of your balcony.
On a day off we were cleaning and left a mat we'd washed to dry, hanging over the railing. It wasn't there an hour before we had a delegation at our door of angry elderly residents. They weren't one bit nice about it even after we immediately apologised, took down the offending item and explained that we were unaware of the regulation.
Later we got an apologetic call from our landlord who said he was ringing because he'd received a complaint about us.
Yeah I don't like that feature either. You can't get into your gmail unless your phone is working. If you don't have access to your phone # you are kind of screwed.

EDIT: It looks like you can turn off 2FA, I think I'm going to do that now so I don't get locked out of my Gmail.
My wife is starting to study UX design...

She is 42.. she doesn't know a single windows command line command

So yeah, you definitely can :)
I'm torn on this. My life is pretty great. Well paid, leaving a job I hate for a job I think I will love in the next few weeks, loving family. Things would be drastically different if not for the path I actually took, but still.

I'm a developer, and a decent one - not FAANG level by any means, but decent. But, my degree is from a school nobody's ever heard of, in an unrelated humanities subject, with a horrendous, barely-graduated level GPA. I was much more concerned with partying and video games. If I had it to do over again, I would have majored in CS, studied, and actually applied myself.

So I'm torn. If I had had my eye on CS, I might have gone to a school like CMU or similar, would have been excited by the material as opposed to the classes I slogged through, and maybe ended up in SF or NYC in the 2008-2010 timeframe. That was a super exciting time in the startup space. Who knows where I'd be now, but it certainly wouldn't be where I actually am, and I really like where I actually am.
That's what anthropologists want to do, usually in the form of writing, but I don't think anyone else cares.
Crypto losses always remind me of Kramer and Jerry talking about losses.

- Not a problem. It is a write-off for them.

- How is it a write-off?

- All these big companies do it - they just write it off!

- Write what off? You don't even know what a write-off is!

- Maybe I don't but they do. And they are the ones writing it off!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEL65gywwHQ
Can it do clean HDMI or DP out to be used as a webcam at full resolution?
Six years of steady growth is a Silicon Valley failure. It is not a failure by any reasonable measure. I predicted back in the early days that Mastodon would grow slowly and organically as more people figured it out and helped people in their circles come over. It's slow and steady, but I was right. This is how things grew before anything less than a double-digit billion sale to one of the big tech companies was seen as a failure.
I do give some preference to requests that come in with a well-formed session ID. I can't check whether it's real prior to granting the preference (the round trip is too expensive to justify in a high-load scenario, but I can check the signature validity at least.

But of course lots of legit authentication attempts come from new users, or new sessions. So I need to allow that case as well, and then we're back at square one.
Hey young man, go West. When I was your age I switched from Ux to software dev.

When I attended college at 43 I was the top student in all my CS classes. Same, when I attended an immersive 3-month bootcamp 5 years later. Now, nearly 10 years later I am an owner in a startup.

I will admit that I had some advantages. First, I was a life-long programmer hobbyist. Mainly a dabbler but I made stuff, mostly games. Second, as a Ux designer, I worked in the industry and side-by-side with developers so I knew my way around the shop. And last, I've been a learner my entire life so getting in the groove to return to school was easy.

Good luck.
The programs described in "Peak" required a coach. Coaches play an integral role in the subject's road to mastery. Yet more evidence we cannot lift easy ideas like "mastery in just 10K hours" from psych research.
The time horizon is crucial here. Will it increase profit in the current fiscal year? Likely. Will it drive away the employees that have other options, which are often the ones who help building valuable products? Also likely.
Gmail allows users to generate 10 one-time use 2FA codes at a time. Even if you are not going to become homeless, you should generate these and write them down somewhere secure. You never know if your phone battery will suddenly die.
GP has -22 karma and I wouldn’t be surprised if they have some sort of shadow ban, but the post later got vouched. Did you have showdead on?
> What if I'm one of those people, should I not be allowed to make public comment?

If you do, do not be surprised when the service you're using gains a reputation accordingly.

> And on the odd occasion I do, I just ban the user or the entire instance and move on.

Yeah, that's actually part of the problem. If anyone can ban anyone for any reason then you don't actually have a federation. You have, at best, a gathering of barely-interoperable fiefdoms. You can either have a federation of commoditized servers or you can ban people you don't like -- you cannot have both.
This is because such bridges rely on proofs derived from other blockchains over which validators have no visibility. These add a huge amount of complexity and increase the attack surface. Simpler bridges such as capitalisk-dex https://github.com/Capitalisk/capitalisk-dex (written with only 5K lines of code including dependencies) have a lot smaller attack surface. The principle behind it is to rely on the security of underlying blockchains instead of adding a separate proof mechanism on top; DEX validator nodes have direct visibility over participating blockchains and work directly with on-chain data so they can verify everything directly using each blockchain's native cryptographic clients.
Executive Order on US Surveillance unlikely to satisfy EU law
Few people know what happens in a computer to calculate the same. And that it is potentially very different depending on what the instructions are used to do it. :D
If you have a bit of a safety net, by all means give it a try. I wish I could.
I have more than one brain (book review)
Oh wow, an odd convergence of two of my IBM careers... Dennis Kennelly was in charge of the part of Tivoli I worked for for a while about 15 years ago and then about 7 years ago I consulted for a year with the Storwize storage folks...

Well, it'll happen, unfortunately. Everything that Big Blue buys will eventually be assimilated. Unfortunately the next phase is usually a few years of tightening budgets, then beyond that 'buying another thing to replace it'.
As a counter example, email is a federated system too. I don't think a federated network should, or can for that matter, mimic the user friendliness of a closed system; so there won't be massive exodus of users from Twitter to the federverse, no matter how screwed Twitter became.
Why don't we expand physical IDs into the network space. We need some way to verify ourselves online that doesn't rely on a private company and a TOS.
Federal park land?
These options are addressed in the post, and they are very far from fixing the problem.

Yes, they are better than nothing. But as explained in the article it's still like wandering blindfolded into a minefield.
Hopefully we will be able to get digital credentials from state and local entities that will help with this sort of issue.

It’s a problem all around - the elderly are most vulnerable to the types of account takeovers that MFA will prevent.
Is this the company that was always begging for engineers here on HN?
Certainly, if one can adhere to a non-animal diet, one can also adhere to an organic non-animal diet. It’s not like it’s an impossible choice to make; the produce and products are there.

The environment will thank you.
For one thing, most employers will refuse to issue a laptop with a real GPU to developers and other employees because they are afraid they will get used for games.
Some homeless people don't want to deal with the maintenance of a home.

Some homeless people aren't capable of the maintenance of a home due to mental or physical issues.

Some homeless people refuse to accept help for mental issues for fear of being trapped in a psych ward.

Simply put, you need to split homelessness into temporary and chronic populations. For the temporary group, homelessness is the problem. For the chronic group, it is a symptom. Treating the symptom will not have a long-term impact on much of the population.

Source: conversations with a social worker friend who spent years working with the homeless population in our metro area.
The Downside of Imperial Collapse
Why would that give anyone pause? They're IBM customers now and it makes sense to sell as much as you can I would think.
By this, though, you have to then consider mere half life decay as a calculator. Such that the definition becomes pointless.