skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For the pic seems to be her home, her property and she can't even hang her clothes to dry.

Sure, but there's limits to what you can display on your front lawn without annoying the neighbours, no?

As per the pic in the article, she's handing her clothing in the front yard, which, even in a country where drying-by-hanging is the norm, is still considered tacky and stupid.[1]

Now, maybe she doesn't have a backyard, or maybe it doesn't have enough space, but the article didn't say so. They also pick a single quote used in the anonymous notes - "Don't want to see your underwear" (or something similar), without the rest of the anonymous note. My guess is that she has already had notes asking her to do this in the privacy of her backyard.

I wish they (or the woman herself) could have stated why it has to be the front lawn or nothing at all.

> This coming from the country where morons want to own a gun to protect their property and all other bs excuses, it's rather comedic.

[1] I'm 46 years old in said country, and I have never before in my life seen people hang their laundry on their front lawn. How common is this in Portugal?
I hate services that forcibly enable 2fa on you. Even if you have it disabled, if they detect that you have changed browsers, IP addresses, etc. they make you go through 2fa whether you want it or not. Or just lock you out, or even suspend your account. Fuck that.
Why would anyone do that, then?
There are various approaches to 2FA, from backup codes, to SMS, to external physical keys - none of them workable for the specific use-case OP defined: person is homeless and losses their stuff every few weeks.

For that situation no 2FA solution is going to work.
So how does one launder a half-billion dollar heist like this? Asking for a friend.
That's overly dramatic, of course you can re-create it on the other phone. But what's true is that you can't physically transfer it.
If you include gas heating, heating alone becomes twelve times the energy use of refrigeration: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/homes.php
Would lower property prices compared to a similar neighborhood without clothes hanging in the front yard be a real reason?
> but the actual response is that without 2FA even more people lose access to their accounts

This is not black and white. It is possible to encourage 2FA but allow to opt out. The same for phone numbers.

And that's why companies enforce 2FA: they want your juicy phone-number or other data. And yeah, maybe they also want to reduce support costs and avoid bad publicity. Still, it's not in your interest, it's in theirs.

If they at least would allow for a sufficient number of options. Like paper-tan (even self printed), yubikey or similar, second email address, an authenticator, ... but even big companies often only require a phone number.

EDIT: Yes, Google offers more than a phone number when creating a gmail account. I didn't say they don't. However: they don't make it easy and I would even go as far as saying that they are evil here. If you don't believe me, try to create a gmail account right now and don't google/search how to do it without phone number.
As a Turk, I also see Erdoğan's "fiscal ideas" as "crackpot", but he may be betting on something like "replacing China as a manufacturing engine for Europe", or "staying competitive in slower world economy."

Explanations like "he's an Islamist opposed to interest" does not hold water. It's just something he uses to explain the policy to masses. I'm almost sure that the reason behind high inflation / lower interest rates is intentional. He's intentionally making the population poor. He can't tell this straightly, so he's using religious slogans.

I'm not sure about the real reason, but I don't think he'll lose the next election in 2023, and he knows to calculate the effects of his policies. "To feed up his cronies" is a lazy explanation. He already had that power, why would he risk that opportunity with crazy politics.

Also, most of the savings (>80%) are in USD here. Most of the assets are priced in USD. When you buy/sell a house, you talk the price in USD. Working class with a fixed income is certainly affected direly, but the economy itself is moving. Personally I saw many times he played his cards correctly, despite seemingly unreasonable moves. I'd like him to go, but I doubt the situation will cause him to lose election.
> with too little depth

There's a limit to what you can do with these tiny optics to get depth via separation with a shallow depth of field.
Can we stop villifying people we disagree with?

I've seen it so much, I'm more inclined to believe it absolutely didn't happen that way.
> They hadn’t started collecting social security due to some debts and was worried it would ALL be garnished.

Is this common? I knew a guy who had the same mindset. I ended up paying him in cash for some work, he was convinced that if he made any money in a traditional role it would be instantly garnished.
Actually, I don't necessarily mind it. It should be done in the backyard or sides if possible though as it's probably an eyesore to numerous neighbors.

But the bigger point is if the community has a standard or by-law that she is just ignoring. Just doing what you want is no way to live in a society as is reflective of the selfish turn we've taken. It's inconsiderate of you neighbors and part of living socially is that a part of "who we are - our true selfs" has to be sacrificed to make ourselves bearable to others. We can't just expect everyone to accept "our truth" or whatever. Otherwise, you're antisocial.
What makes a blockchain necessary is having both decentralization and generalized distrust as hard assumptions.

How do you manage not having to trust the bridges in such scenarios?
I just started using M-Discs last month. Bought a compatible burner, a Pioneer Blu-ray Disc (BDR-XD07B), CAD $170. I'm pleased to report that my burning software (ImgBurn) worked fine with the new Pioneer DVD drive.

At $10 a pop, one is very prudent when choosing what to backup.
Was it a crack when ACM came over from IBM to Red Hat? Or Hypershift came over from IBM to Red Hat?

You align software to where it works best. IBM is better suited to develop and sell Software Defined Storage than Red Hat.
Not finishing my degree.

I started a business which was successful and dropped out a year before I finished my ChE degree. I had decided that I didn't want to go into oil (which was the most likely career path) and that I really enjoyed writing software and I was making more than I would as a ChE, so why bother? I've been writing software ever since.

However...not having graduated has bothered me more than I thought it would.

I have a letter from the Dean allowing me back as long as I go full time and finish as a ChE. It's been over 20 years so I'm not sure how much weight it carries now, but I doubt it's something I'll ever take the time to do. Looking back, it would have been better to tap down my enthusiasm temporarily and just finished up. Back then a year seemed like such a long time.
Where they got stung is the use of FFmpeg to transcode files. YouTube actually return an "InnerTube" key in the page response that can just be used to ask for the mp4 file of a video.

It's essentially exactly what the browser does when pulling in the video for playback. There is no manual decryption or anything of the sort involved.
Having a "visual memory" has nothing to do with it. (Everyone who can see has visual memory, except possibly aphantasiacs, and it's generally the strongest of most people's memories.)

If you can imagine something happening in your mind's eye, then you can also see how your visual memory can be created. You're "seeing" something in your head that is not actually happening. This vision can turn into a memory. Heck, I have a recurring daydream that I have so often I can think of it as a memory.

There's no indication that any of the subjects in these various studies were not using visual memory, and the descriptions they used of their memories matched that.
There are two good reasons why Grace Hoppen should not be used as an example.

1. You are (likely) not Grace Hopper.

2. Computer science was, in a way, much easier back then. At least very different. Listen to the Brian Kernighan being interviewed by Lex Fridman; he keeps repeating that you didn't have to be as awesome back in his days, using himself as an example.

Saying "If Grace hopper can do it, then so can I" is like saying "If John Carmack can repeatedly write a AAA game (basically) by himself then so can I"[1].

Not only are you not John Carmack, but this is also not the 1990s. Hell, "throwing triangles at the problem" is just not as hard as it used to be.

Marie Curie got the Nobel prize in two disciplines. That's amazing. But doing it in 2022 would be 100x as amazing, making it basically undoable.

[1] Simplifying a lot. I'm aware of the story but I think my point is valid still, since it's "true enough" when measuring Carmack's coding impact.
A bit off-topic but if you're interested in some modern players that make heavy use of alternate tunings, I strongly recommend Ichika Nito and Yvette Young (Covet). Ichika has tons of videos of him playing in the weirdest tunings and it's quite entertaining.
Seems most promising but the reply was to postgrest, because I really don't need a UI
guess he must be fully vaccinated to enter (he was boarding plane to New York) USA? or he must be a USA citizen or permanent resident i think?
Most homeless people aren't permanently homeless. Of the homeless population at any given time (very) roughly 50% will only be homeless for a few days, 20% will be homeless for a few weeks, and 30% will be homeless for months or longer.
>Unhoused people tend to get their phones through the "Obamaphone" program, which means that replacing a lost or stolen phone results in a completely new phone number.

Maybe that's part of the issue. Why recycle numbers so aggressively? Give the user a few months to recover their old number if they can prove they are the same person.
Long march through the institutions is a thing made up by a German student activist and has no known organizational heft beyond this. The article itself cannot name a single organization or achievement under this strategy. The Federalist Society is well-documented, in was founded in and organizes within the country we're talking about, hosts multiple conventions with close ties to conservative Supreme Court members, who have known to attend and give speeches advocating for extreme political interpretation, and who has been repeatedly reported to be the de facto gatekeeper for opportunities to judicial and legal positions under Republican government.
Android malware has previously used overlays to hijack taps and do other shady stuff.

Banking apps generally set a flag on their apps to prevent overlays and screenshots to prevent malware from reading the screen and tricking the user.

Depending on your phone, this can have two effects: either the overlay is disabled automatically or the banking app detects the overlay and blocks access (ie to the PIN keypad).

Not all banking apps do this, but the ones I've used do.
When the Musk takeover was first announced it was practically impossible to register on many of the most popular Mastodon instances.

An actual takeover will almost certainly be a virtual DDoS on Mastodon.
Even if this is the case, this isn't a problem for the poster. They have a phone number, it just changes frequently. They can sign up, enroll in a TOTP or U2F system, and then they are set.
One thing I think the article maybe misses. I love playing Civilization but when I play, I rarely win militarily, or in fact, at all. Instead I just build up and up and up until my winning feels like a foregone conclusion and then I quit and start a new game. Building up and up and up is fun. But actually building a huge military and marching it through my enemies and taking over is really slow and kind of a slog actually.

I see a similar dynamic going on online, over on twitter and stuff. I think many people think those people who enter their online filter bubbles and rarely leave do so because they know their worldview is fragile or they're afraid to be proven wrong or whatever but actually it's primarily just that being inside the filter bubble and slowly building an argument that you just know will crush your enemies is really fun and actually leaving the bubble to go do that crushing isn't that fun, it's kind of a slog actually.

Anyways it points to at least one technological mitigating factor, which is that the engagement with those opposite you needs to be gamified in a similar way to make it more appealing to more people. Going on twitter or reddit and openly disagreeing with someone inside their bubble means I'm likely to soon be arguing with about 12 different people who all disagree with me, often in different ways (very unfair/unfun to fight on a dozen fronts) or going 30 comments deep with someone (you can never actually win so there is no reward.) I think technology has found a lot of easy wins in creating engagement by building bubbles but all the things we really want to do with those bubbles - merge them, pop them, slowly dissipate them, transplant them, etc. still remain unsolved problems.

And since the article asked: 1. T 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. IDK/C 6. F 7. F
Ask. Default to yes but allow to opt out.
You forgot about SOM, much nicer to use than COM, with support for implementation inheritance and meta-classes, for Smalltalk, C, C++ and eventually Java as well.
Scraping Emails from GitHub
A demonstration of how easy it is to scrape emails from GitHub to raise awareness about the problem and encourage everyone to take action to protect their privacy.
This is just a guess, but probably various subreddits and Discord servers. It's probably not the same because the platforms are very different, but people will find new platforms even if the conversation changes due to different forum/messaging UI designs.
For reference, based on quick Googling, Twitter publishes around 10 000 tweets per second on average.
When you are on the street your stuff gets stolen a lot.
That's also a bad response. The tech industry literally exists to invent things. That's its entire purpose. Why should we satisfied with a status quo that neglects the most vulnerable among us? What is the point of technology if not to solve these problems?
Won't work. VOIP numbers can be easily identified and Google and most other providers refuse to accept them.
I think the entire point is that those concerned about those things and who have the technical ability will create their own instances. And invite their network to their instance. As I understand it (probably poorly), people generally shouldn't just be joining random instances that end up getting really large, but rather there should be a LOT of instances, all interconnected, that are effectively run by the handful of "techies" in each given network. But sadly we still gravitate to a centralized model, trying to find the "right instance" to join, even though (again, as I understand it), people can communicate cross-instance just fine (assuming not blocked, etc.) I say this as someone who does not actually use Mastodon, I just haven't found the reason, even though I know folks whose instance I could likely join.
Why is this article from *2009* being posted some 13 years later? I would want to know how things have changed (or haven't) since that time.
> In some sense of the word they are already shut down.

C'mon. Let's call a spade as spade: you wanted to complain about moderation and you shoehorned it into conversation. In no way does it make Twitter "shut down".
Why developers hold the key to cloud security
Binance hit by $100M blockchain bridge hack
Xkcd: Easy or Hard
I don't at all think this is a reasonable choice. A group of like minded adults should be able to establish some form of stewardship. it's the basis for human civilization.

That said the maintainer has my sincere prayers for his family and for his path in life.
Pay for what? It's not about making money.

> By volunteers adding more instances(that they can close anytime)?

"That they can close anytime", just like twitter in this example. Partly, yes. But that sort of total exodus would mean a lot of additional people contributing ideas and code to the Fediverse, not just servers, but by making it easier to run your own instance. Who's to say it couldn't be run just like an email client with the right ideas and effort? It's such an extreme example that I'm not even sure it's useful to discuss.

What traffic is it prepared for? It would be interesting for you to provide the numbers and the evidence which backs this up.

As for real life scenarios...there are upwards of a million people using it right now. I've made friends, networked professionally and found several homes there. I am literally a real life scenario and so are the people behind most of the posts there.

And today you are right about "anyone can start their own instance", but it's a darn sight easier than running your own twitter.com, and it'll get easier every year.
Are you interested in "pure" sudoku? Or are killer, arrow, thermo and so on clues allowed?

There are ones like this - https://app.crackingthecryptic.com/sudoku/6dP4FN27HB (solve https://youtu.be/zfIomUELg6c )

Normal sudoku rules apply but in the final grid, every clue is wrogn (aka invalid)...
Clues are valid if: [Everything is "totally standard" Undar promises...]
-Digits in a killer cage sum up to the small clue in the top left of the cage;
-Clues outside the grid are correct X-sums. ie Clues show the sum of the first X digits in that direction where X is the 1st digit.
- Clues outside the grid are correct skyscraper clues. ie The digits in the grid represent the "heights" of skyscrapers. Clues represent the number of skyscrapers seen from that direction. Taller skyscrapers block shorter ones.
-Digits on a thermometer increase from the bulb end
-Digits separated by a black dot has a ratio of 1:2
-Digits separated by a white dot are consecutive
-Digits separated by X have a sum of 10
-Digits separated by V have a sum of 5
-All digits in a circle appear in the 4 cells touching it
-Maximum cells are larger than all 4 adjacent cells

That one is just crazy... but solvable. Apparently, there's a new one from just a week ago that is similar in construction - https://youtu.be/JTkvR5M0yFo (you'll note the 2h long video)

Another one https://cracking-the-cryptic.web.app/sudoku/pnf623FF7B (solve https://youtu.be/73iEwlTO_p0 )

> Normal sudoku rules apply.

> Group Sums: A number in a small circle indicates the sum of the digits in the cells covered by the corresponding circle. These digits may or may not repeat. Arrow Sudoku: Digits along an arrow must sum to the number in the corresponding circle. In this Sudoku all group sum clues contain a comparison operator. The clue ≥26 for example indicates a sum of at least 26. An arrow between two cells points to the smaller number.

You'll note that I picked a particular channel with the longest videos.

The community around that channel has some particularly difficult puzzles especially if you're willing to go beyond "normal Sudoku rules apply."
You can try my C/C++ port of Whisper:

https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp

No dependencies, no Python, runs efficiently on the CPU.
Hawai'i national park summit closed due to ‘elevated seismic activity’
Well .. yeah. And I think that's what OP (of the twitter thread) is advocating (without explicitly stating it). Namely, that 2FA doesn't work for homeless.
Hikaru Nakamura went crazy listening to poor game analysis by Hans Niemann
Nonsense. Web scraping is legal. How does Google legally index the web then?
Sad to say I'm in a similar boat. My highest rated answer explains how to do a callback. I just happened to be first, and correct. 11 years later it still makes me points.
It's not stupid - Google wants to track everyone everywhere and a phone number is a good way to link an account to a real world person.
Postgrest has excellent security setup, which is tightly integrated into postgres, I mean there are, by obvious design, no real paradigms for SQLite
This reminds me of the stock prediction mailer scam.[0]

[0]https://math.temple.edu/~paulos/oldsite/scam.html
I took a coding boot camp at age 40+ and changed my career.

Been working for years, making good money, very happy with the decision.
That isn’t a C-like language. Doing it in a statically typed low-level systems language is an unusual thing.
This is yet another example of the "accessibility, privacy, fraud-protection, choose any two" problem.

You can force people to use 2FA, but then you discriminate against people who can't. You can build an account recovery flow that requires government-issued proof of ID, but then you sacrifice privacy. You can do neither, but then you make accounts easier to compromise and harder to recover. There's no good solution here, it's all tradeoffs.

Captchas are another situation where this problem arises. You can implement easy audio and text captchas, available in all the languages your signup form supports, but then you get a lot more fraudulent signups. You can eliminate captchas altogether, relying on invasive user fingerprinting instead, but then you sacrifice privacy. You can do neither, but then you discriminate against visually impaired users. Once again, no good solution, just tradeoffs.
From what I remember when I used Authy briefly (Google Authenticator finally added the ability to mass import/export codes shortly after I ended up trying Authy), you create a login and set a master password, and then you have access to your codes on any device when you log into the app. Of course, this means that you have to trust Authy with your codes being stored externally, but this might be one of the sets of circumstances where that's preferable.
I was in Silicon Valley just before the start of Dot-Com with nearly a decades experience running a couple of software startups (in Texas, not in a high tech city) working at Apple and left to go back home thus missing out on enormous opportunities. I thought Apple would go out of business and figured no point in sticking around. What a doofus... I never looked around and asked, would my experience be useful somewhere?

My career was OK but who knows where I might have wound up.
We weren't unaware of these things. Wasm is the first low-level format to instantly have broad availability, becoming available in all web browsers in 2017. AFAICT none of the previous formats had low overhead platform-independent in-process sandboxing, and certainly none had a machine-checked proof of type system soundness.

So Wasm has a few legs up on what came before.
Back in the mid 90's as the Internet was starting to become more accessible to the general public, I remember reading an article that made the following point:

The telegraph effectively killed many newspapers as everyone moved to newspapers to printed national and global news. That was bad b/c it lowered the options people had for consuming news and dramatically reduced the diversity of ideas and opinions. The Internet was going to do the same to the point that we all read the same big websites and therefore had the same thoughts, opinions etc. <end of the point>

I remember reading this and thinking "that kind of makes sense". Revisiting the idea recently, Pandora, YouTube, TikTok etc have all made a business out of building a customized feed for YOU. It's become the exact opposite of what the original article predicted. It's not surprising that we've become so divided when you can "build" your own reality by choosing the information streams that you want to consume.

PS In terms of mass media shared experiences, 120 MILLION people watched the series finale of the TV show MASH. Hard to imagine a similar event today.
My earliest ones still read. My later ones mostly don't. I'm guessing the difference is the earlier ones were recorded at 2x speed (fastest that existed) while the later ones were recorded much faster (probably 8x or 12x), which means less laser burn in time? Really not sure. Either that or the yamaha drive was just much better than the later model plextor.