skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The game is you're expected to arrive at the most extreme political ideology so you can to remain relevant on social media...?

Seriously though, I sent the article to my Dad as he seems to believe everything is a conspiracy theory; the EU is a German project to win the Second World War (I know), climate change is made up by governments for some reasons and a plucky band of fossil fuel companies and right wing bloggers have uncovered the truth, the war in Ukraine is The West trying to sell arms and it's their fault for inviting Ukraine into NATO (which hasn't happened AFAIK?)... you get the idea.

We live in a time described excellently by the article even if you are not the target of it's point, the fact that this conspiracy-theory-isation of society exists and an extremely high percentage of people seems to be playing it to some extent.
> Dryer did not exists and human have been drying clothes in most climates in the last few thousand of years.

Yes, and most of that drying happened outside. Also, moldy rooms and people having to deal with mold were a thing in the past.
What makes you think Google cares about homeless?
Yeah, but what point does a social network have if most of the instances are closed off to "unknowns" due to the abuse potential? The few that have open registration still have to do the workload I described => most of the users will flock to these centralized sites that somehow have to deal with the effort required.
> Still, it's not in your interest, it's in theirs.

Which is okay, because it is a business.

If society wants homeless people to have reliable access to email without having SMS 2FA or whatever requirements a business requires, then society should elect a government to provide it as a utility.

There is no reason to expect or want businesses to pick up the slack for the government not providing adequate safety nets. Let businesses be businesses, and let governments handle redistributing wealth.
How about https://perspective.finos.org/
ah yes the Canon DSLR phone case
>Maybe the solution should be to have some basic free state-paid email provider for those people. They are not forced to use Gmail specifically (albeit the number of non-sucking and free email providers is probably close to zero).

You don't need to use Gmail. There are a lot of good free mail providers.
+1. Can probably use captions.
When I lived in the United States, I realized that it is not a uniform country at all. Just as Europe varies greatly from one country to the next. Something that is common in New York City may be illegal or considered outrageous in Utah, or vice versa.
Quinn Emanuel Tells Its Lawyers: ‘Work from Anywhere’
The same mechanism that determines why that can't happen today could still be in place.
From personal experience it almost assuredly has nothing to do with feeling offended by underwear itself.

The complaining party simply thinks (correctly) that they will get more traction from their neighbors/public/city council/HoA if they wail about that vs. general clothes line drying they find distasteful.

I have nothing good to say about people like this, other than to say they are a large and growing segment of the US population.
It's the 400 hours I'm looking forward to.
Whoops, that's what I get for writing these when I'm sleepy. Yes of course ! doesn't always set the result to success, that wouldn't make any sense. I misspoke in that part. I meant to say Bash treats it like any other command that modifies $?, instead of treating it specially and preventing it from modifying that variable. Thanks.
> How does adding latent heat reduce the sensible heat? Are the clothes washed in very cold water?

You're not adding latent heat to a room, you're adding water, which when evaporating uses up the heat energy in the room which cools it down.

Look into how swamp chillers work.
I wonder how many people suffer identity theft versus how many have a working recovery email but are denied to use it because some algo finds it suspicious that you moved country or logged in from a linux machine?

The key takeaway is not about how we should promote 2FA or how we should promote long ass passwords, the main issue at hand is google's neglectful lack of customer support.

I was once caught in this non-sense many moons ago. But I learned my lesson, I absolutely do not rely on any google products for anything that has any potential to impact me personally (with the unfortunate exception of the Android OS on my phone).

Google as a brand is absolutely dead in the water for anyone that has woken up from the 'Don't be evil' kool-aid of the early days.
Was the diagnosed with borderline personality disorder? Surely sounds like it.
People can't remember many good passwords. So they start reusing them. If one site has a leak, everything is lost without 2FA.
Yes, hosting is a cost and it is not 'free', hence the frequent downtime with Mastodon instances, even when they had traffic during Elon's takeover of Twitter many of then could not even handle the new users.

Also, these users don't even know which instance to go to, since there is little to no-one to talk on there. If there are 'hundreds of thousands' of users then that means they have just recentralized on Mastodon.social, the "main" instance, defeating the point of it all.

> PS. Please do not say anything about “anyone can start his own instance”. No, average Twitter/Facebook consumer can’t start his own instance.

This is why Mastodon has failed in the first place after almost 6 years with this system.
Israel sets up AI-controlled machine gun in occupied Hebron
Hence the "some of them optionally".
I don't understand the question, google cannot attempt to solve this without assigning someone to spend their time on it.

If they do so, I would rather they put that money into actually helping the homeless.
That's like saying you use general relativity because you own a GPS. Understanding general relativity is only useful for the people making the device, not the people using it. You don't need to be a mechanical engineer to drive a car, a biologist to have children or a mathematician to use a credit card.
But (1) is suggesting only a woman at that age with those life experiences could have done what she did. I don’t see why that has to be empirically true
The 10,000 hours thing is A) probably more workforce folklore than fact, and B) about becoming an expert, but you don't need to be an expert to switch careers. Hell, you don't even need to be an expert to be highly successful.

I'm in my 40s also and one of the things I've become certain about over the years is actual competency is depressingly low on the list of traits you need to have a successful career. Far more important are traits like confidence, charisma, the ability to bullshit (I hate this), and soft skills.

Don't sweat the 10,000 hours. It's probably not true and you don't need to be an expert anyway. I'd say if you really want to switch careers, go for it. Worst case scenario is it doesn't work out and you can come back to your current field. That's a far better outcome than spending the remainder of your life wondering if you could have done it.
> Dryer did not exists and human have been drying clothes in most climates in the last few thousand of years.

Washing machines did not exist until recently either, but no one in this thread is advocating hand washing their clothes.

> That being said : I see what you mean. I grew up in France ( dryer don’t exists ) and it’s easy to dry stuff there. Except maybe in winter.

In the US dryers and washing machines are a set pair. If a washing machine is in a location then a dryer is there also unless someone went out of their way to only buy a washing machine. For example laundromats all have dryers as does any laundry room in an apartment complex or apartments with washing machines.
I have lost access to Tinder and Transferwise because I moved between the UK and Australia and thus changed my phone number. Whatsapp also silently fails to send me private messages now, even after I went thru their official inbuilt 'I changed my number' process - only my group chats work now. The messages appear to send to the sender, they don't even know I didn't receive them.

One of the worst examples I've heard is that Overwatch 2 not only requires a phone number, but they actually check with your carrier if it's a prepaid number, and if it is, you're banned. Sorry poor people, Blizzard doesn't want scum like you playing their game.

Assuming someone's phone number never changes, or that they'll have access to their old and new numbers at the same time, is simply wrong and does not work.

I haven't been locked out of Google yet, somehow, but maybe it's just a matter of time.
Wasm is not implemented "in JavaScript", rather JS engines reuse important parts of their compilation pipeline to generate good code for Wasm.
Is it vilifying when you provide sources of a person's negative behavior?

"I'd recommend against this open source project because it has a solo author who has a track record of not playing well with each others" strikes me as statement of fact, not vilifying.
> 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.

Google seems to support all of those?
I totally agree, hence my preface. I don't believe that to be inspired by great people and their situations means one has to expect to repeat their feats in full. I'm not a Chinese military general but I have been inspired by Sun Tzu ;-)

That she contributed so much with such energy from her 40s through to her 80s inspires me to not see my age as a downside. Am I ever going to be 1/100th as smart or consequential as Hopper? Ha, of course not!
Because they might want to live in a place without laundry or rotting cars in the front yard.

Also common is HOAs for 55+ year olds, who essentially don't want to deal with kids around.
I hate when I have to do them twice. I twitch a lot. It's the worst, and I'm uncomfortable, and the tech is stressed because it screws up the scheduling and ugh it's just the worst.

Or when I have to pee in the middle.
Google doesn't even care about their paying customers. You think they care about the homeless?

Just stop using Gmail. Here is a very small number of other providers: https://www.ionos.co.uk/digitalguide/e-mail/technical-matter...
Simply put, it's trashy.

Putting indoor furniture outdoors is inappropriate as it isn't made for outdoor use. It will grow mold and rot and fall apart and it will become a nest for rodents and attract insect colonies that can spread everywhere. It will smell bad and reflects poorly on those that live nearby. I wouldn't buy a home in an area where I saw something like that. If you were to poll my neighborhood (granted the average home is over $1,000,000) I guarantee everyone would agree. Even where I grew up which was very blue color, you wouldn't see anything like this and you could be certain a neighbor would have a talk with you if you tried.

We don't live 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.

Of course not. It's on the Internet. I don't have a problem with furries, people with bias or kinks. What if I'm one of those people, should I not be allowed to make public comment?

None of the instances I've used tolerate the harmful examples such as racists or lolicons, that you've incorrectly lumped together with perfectly cromulent lifestyles, and thanks to that I've barely seen any. And on the odd occasion I do, I just ban the user or the entire instance and move on. This happens maybe five times a year, if that.
A good password is one that is difficult to crack which potentially means it will be difficult to remember. Long phrase passwords are recommended to be the most secure, but ironically the more convoluted the password, the harder it is to remember. In the case that a service requires a new password every x months, remembering a secure password is out the window. This type of practice encourages unsafe and easily guessable passwords such as “password1”, “password2”, etc…
Of course it does, but I do agree that it would be better if it did.
Dwindling Mississippi Grounds Barges, Threatens Shipments
Here are 2 statements. See how they sit with you.

Reality, beyond the local, unless you travel a lot, only exists as a media fiction.

The bigger reality, the world beyond the local, is more important than the local. Because the bigger reality is bigger.
Fetch is low level. Axios is battery-included
> can’t seem to put together a single useful thread that is about crypto.

There might be a reason for that. "Crypto" (in the cryptocurrency sense, not the cryptography sense) simply isn't particularly useful.

I'm a fairly long-term crypto sceptic; I was pointing and laughing back before MtGox imploded. Back then, HackerNews was generally (and, I thought and still think) unreasonably positive on crypto. After a decade of, well, nothing much, that has changed, unsurprisingly.

And crypto has gotten very _same-y_. There's a new type of scam along every year or so, of course, but nothing much interesting has happened in a long time. I'd argue that Ethereum, while a very bad idea, was at least worthy of a good bit of discussion, say, but the thousandth dubious use case for NFTs, not so much.
I have to say the phrase 'isomorphic tunings' is very confusing if you have a mathematical background. It apparently doesn't refer to tunings which are effectively the same (not entirely what this would mean, I suppose you could swap a few strings).
Maybe each individual should be allowed to "choose the two" that work best for them.

Most of us have at least one email account that's already under our real name, where we have no big interest in hiding our real identity, but we do have a big interest in not being randomly shut down by Google. We hear about such shutdowns every few weeks on HN, if not more.

Google has unfathomable financial and technical resources, much of which goes to projects of speculative value at best. I can't help but feel that they could provide a slightly more customized login experience to help diverse people with diverse needs.
Because in many areas these are almost the only homes available in certain price ranges and sizes.

If you want new construction and are not independently wealthy, you would be extremely challenged to find a house not under a HoA.

It's eye opening when looking in some areas how hundreds of square miles of developments are 100% HoA controlled.

I would never buy such a place, but I do understand why some folks would feel forced into such a transaction.
Of course there is. For instance a printed paper tan list. Yes, this is not as safe a proper 2FA device. But it's easy to access, cheap (just go to a copyshop and 10 cents to print it, then put in a plastic bag) and it's so small that it's easy to put it somewhere where you don't lose it and is hard to get stolen.
The easy solution is a single, general deduction. Everyone's first $25k or so is tax free. Everyone pays 10% on every subsequent dollar.

Mathematically, this is equivalent to a small UBI.
2FA is not only SMS 2FA.
Embracing is exactly what corporations that abuse copyright want you to do. To quite rms,

"The term "piracy" is used by record companies to demonize sharing and cooperation by equating them to kidnaping, murder and theft." [0]

(Better read it in entirety, if you haven't yet)

[0]: https://stallman.org/articles/end-war-on-sharing.html
I am arguing that a matrix multiplication algorithm, like essentially any other numerical algorithm, consists of (at least) the following two parts

1. The actual steps you have to follow.

2. Some form of error bounds/analysis that tell you how good/bad the output will be given approximate inputs.

In order to prove correctness you have to prove that the procedure gives the error bounds you claim. The error bounds are something you mathematically have to prove.
Voat was specifically marketed towards the "free speech above all else" crowd, which will always attract people on the fringes since they are the ones with opinions too distasteful for the rest of society.

Many instances of mastodon on the other hand are happily engaged in real meaningful moderation. The owner is expected to moderate what type of content is allowed on their instance, with the federated aspect ensuring the "free speech".

That's not to say mastodon is without issues. The issues of voat just can't be transferred wholesale.
I mean frankly the opioid epidemic could only be discovered because of organizations like the CDC tracking stuff like this, so yeah that's pretty awesome. Remember that before we had organizations like the CDC and the FDA things like opioids had no regulation at all. These aren't perfect organizations and we should always be critical and pushing them to do better, but it is also vitally important to acknowledge they are worth having around at all.
What does this have to do with the article? It doesn’t claim that hanging your clothes to dry is more convenient; only more economical and environmentally friendly.

Not everybody on the planet (or in the US) has selection pressures that maximize convenience. We’d probably be worse off as a society if that was our only consideration.
Intel CEO Sheds Light on Emerging Software Strategy
> In another case, the child’s parent was riddled with guilt for obliviously leaving the unopened box containing SN on the counter.

Apart from the sheer tragedy of this -

Shouldn’t all boxes containing dangerous chemicals be marked as such, otherwise $consequences?
What happened to the virtual reality gaming revolution?
I would expect it to require a phone number and physical address before an email.

I also wonder if this person on twitter would be willing to let his friends use his email or phone.

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. It wouldn't even BE an issue if they weren't homeless in the first place, for example.
Will there come a point where a large 'conventional' weapon can cause as much devastation as a small tactical nuke? If that happens how will the 'red lines' that no nation dare cross, for fear of massive global retaliation, be defined?
Components Considered Harmful (For Content)
> Keeping open applications off solves a lot of them, you have to ask me for an invitation

But that simply doesn't scale to the level of services like Twitter. You might argue, and I would agree with you, that maybe we'd be better off without services that are too large to moderate in any meaningful way, but we are where we are. An invitation-only Mastodon network is not a viable alternative to Twitter.
The good news is Quake was an exception to game develop experiences (in many ways!), not the rule.

So the mindset “If Carmack can make Quake, then I can QA Subway Surfers for iOS” seems imminently reasonable.
> I lived for years in Paris. Dryer don’t exists there. You just don’t have space for one … Is the weather THAT different in London ?

Do you not have space for a washing machine either? In many apartments in the US the dryer is stacked on top of the washing machine. It doesn't consume any additional space.
Except that it generally isn't a crime to open and enter a locked door when you own the door, which is closer to the situation we're talking about here.
You misunderstand me; I agree with you, which is why I think we should quiet down and not upset the sensibilities of the majority in the community. I understand why you would assume my comment is not in good faith, and I do not hold it against you, but this is not the community to air such concerns, as that violates the community guidelines.
> there is reasonable debate to be had on how to best provide access to essential services to vulnerable populations.

What is the debate? The government can collect taxes and provide services, like they do for multitude of other needs.

> 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.

The correct answer is not depending on the largesse of businesses. It is using government resources to provide methods for identity verification, communications, and various other bare minimum needs for living.
> Pay for what? It's not about making money.

For servers that run Mastodon.

> 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.

Most users aren’t interested in contributing anything to the platform. Social media platforms popularity lays in simplicity. No one wants to run anything, just use service without any hassle.

> there are upwards of a million people using it right now.

Compare that to 200m+ users of Twitter sending 500m+ messages daily. I bet Mastdon can handle this without a sweat.
ID-Ware hack results in leak of PII of Dutch Parlimentarians [pdf]
Translation by DeepL:

A hack at the company ID-ware has leaked the data of the access passes of members of parliament, among others. The data can be found on a so-called leak site of a criminal group. The Telegraph has access to an e-mail from the security service of the Lower House which shows that investigations are currently being conducted by the National Cyber Security Center and the police, among others.

An internal e-mail from the head of security to MPs and staff, among others, states that personal data were leaked as a result of the hack. "A report has been made to the Personal Data Authority. A report has also been made to the police. Extensive investigations are currently taking place," the message reads.

The Volkskrant reports that ID-ware supplies access systems to at least dozens of companies and governments, including the Senate and House of Representatives. The company was hacked in late September by a criminal group using the hostage software ALPHV/BlackCat, according to their site on the darkweb. A large amount of ID-ware data was also stolen and put online. Customers of ID-ware include the Police Academy, Ministries of Justice and Security, Defense, Finance and Interior, but ProRail, TNO and Alliander also appear in the data.

It involves personal data - name, date of birth, pass details - from various organizations, including holders of Rijkspassen. "The systems of the Lower House itself have not been hit or hacked. Also, we know that the leaked information is not sufficient to create a pass that gives access to the buildings," reports the head of security at the House of Representatives.

If data of individual Kingdom pass holders has been leaked, they will be informed later. He urges MPs and staff to pay close attention to suspicious messages because of the risk of phishing. Other Rijkspas holders, including parliamentary journalists, have not yet received a warning message. According to a House of Representatives spokesman, that may follow later.
Well, I shut down my FB page 6 years ago and didn't move anywhere else. The "social network" need died in me already.
There are over half a million homeless people in the USA right now. And only a quarter are "chronically homeless", meaning for ober a year or more than once. There are many, many people who will be homeless for a few months at some point during their lives.