skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I'm one of these, I'm having a hard time coming to terms with my thoughts

I guess most simply, it's like double dipping or expecting congratulations for keeping a commitment

Overall I'm happy for it, but I don't like the idea that this is something to be rewarded over expected

An elected official followed popular demand? Holy cow!
Appreciate the principle, but not all of us have time to change everything we don't like the moment we don't like it a little bit.
My favorite Gladwell book to rip on is Blink. It is 296 pages long and the main point was one only needs a few moments to understand complicated things.
I don't know that it is less dire, but I do think it's less likely. Are homeless people's email accounts getting hacked three times per year?

Also... maybe getting hacked is worse, or maybe loosing access is worse, but the user should have the right to make that decision! Google can set the default, but the user knows his or her own life.
Not only Google.

A much less critical or important thing but underlines the bad attitudes:
I just tried to renew my cancelled Netflix membership yesterday.
I am not allowed to do that without providing a phone number (I used Netflix for ca. 8 years without it).
I do not provide that because I do not want to.
I do not tie every aspect of my life to my phone number. In fact I do not want to tie any aspect of it to my phone exclusively. Phone number based authentication is not safe and reliable anyway (can loose, stolen, damaged, then I'll have a cascading effect of problems instantly).

I talked long to the helpdesk lady and the conclusion is that I am not allowed to renew my Netflix account without providing a phone number. End of story.

I permanently remain a non-Netflix user this way. Their loss actually.

(A secondary trouble with them is that they are trying to misinform me, giving false reasons! The support lady reasoned that they need the phone number for validating bank transaction. Since they - Netflix - want to use this to send a code in text that I am required to type into their - Netflix - system it has nothing to do with my bank and with authenticating the transaction! (my bank would never use phone for authienticating a transaction btw, I am not even sure if I updated my phone number with them, they reach me other electronic ways). She was just bullsh%ting! Also the renewal pages stated differently, saying that authenticating my account is where the phone number is required. Not to mention that a friend of mine registered recently and for him the reason to register a phone number was to retrieve password recovery messages. Three sources, three different reasons, one of them is complete bullsh%t. Very repelling kind of practice, I am actually glad staying away.)

(A third smaller aspect was that the helpdesk lady tried to interview me about my phone usage strategy and my reasons instead of answering my question about alternatives. It is not her business how I use phone and trying to pressure me into some rigid lifestyle strategy they determine. There are many alternative ways to carry out the same task, they should provide more and better choices.)
Intel has had several CEOs with non-technology educational background. ( ~ MBA )
The US government uses the USPS to do identify verification for passports. If it can handle identity verification for passports, why would it not be able to handle identity verification for other purposes, such as replacing or reauthorizing one’s MFA device?

Hell, it should be trivial to offer federal government provided emails with ID verification with customer service in the event of loss of device/loss of ID/death/etc.
Part-time, virtual, temp, fractional, etc — CXO (CTO, CFO, etc) - are already thing; being boards member is always minimal amount of time by definition also has clear legal limits.

Automated accounting, marketing, etc are also thing too.

What specifically do you wish existed?
Very confusing title, I thought there was some weird schedule that needed address verification. It's when a phone is lost which is on average every 12 weeks according to the twitter post.
Props to the instance for doing whatever they can to let people migrate their account somewhere else, and Mastodon has some provision already in place to create an alias and easily move your followers from one instance to another.
There's a lot happening in the body and brain of a teenager. There can be a lot of anxiety and to some that can feel overwhelming. There's also a lot of peer pressure among teens. For most teenagers all that will pass even though it may not feel that way at the time.

I refer this quote from the tweet:

"Even more heartbreaking, we got several cases where the children had consumed the SN, immediately notified their loved ones that they’d ingested it and regretted it, and even though EMS reached them in time, they didn’t recognize the telltale symptoms, saw no instructions on the bottle, and had to contact poison control as the child died in front of them."
> what is the debate?

The debate parent mentioned is what to do with the money, not where to get money. You can see that there are lots of possible options, right? But you say use taxes like it’s ‘duh, easy’ or something. Now we’re in the realm of the debates actually happening every day in the US, whether to provide social services at all, before we even discuss how much money they need, what to do with it, and where to get it. A huge portion of people this country seem to believe that they don’t benefit from taxes and would prefer safety nets for other people not come out of their pockets.

> The correct answer is […] using government resources to provide methods for identity verification, communications, and various other bare minimum needs for living.

This also sounds like you think it’s easy, without considering the implications. (If govt resources is the solution, why do we still have a problem?) We don’t have municipal or federal Gmail or Facebook, and there are reasons to believe programs like that would take a long time and cost a lot of money. The ‘bare minimum needs’ have changed dramatically in 20 years, and will probably keep changing just as fast for a while, with the homeless population growing in the mean time because the tax-funded social safety net we have isn’t doing the job.
They should have continued with the Nexus line.
This is how my money get wasted.
Because the goal isn't to cut costs, the goal is to make money. If hiring someone to cut costs doesn't make money, then it has resulted in nothing but the suffering of your employees and vendors, and possibly the quality of your product as you switched to shittier vendors and lost your best employees.

So the owners get no profit, the employees lose, the vendors lose, and the customers lose. Worth considering when deciding to hire consultants?
Wish…? You're enduring a punishment!
First, anyone skipping out on their responsibilities shouldn’t be getting a sympathetic reaction (and, yeah, I know they always have stories about how it’s justified in their case - my dad spent a lot of time hanging out with other deadbeats but every time details came out, surprise, surprise, they were leaving out a lot).

Paying people under the table has a lot of potential liability for you and it almost always catches up with them. Especially now it’s just not viable to live off the grid (e.g. hoping you don’t get sick isn’t effective) and all this does is ensure that the amount they owe the IRS is unaffordable when the bill finally arrives, usually when their earning potential has gone down.
Did you even read the article? There is no law against it.
Basically the entire time I was getting a business degree the word "employee" was never even used! Just different forms of "human resources" or "workers".
Seems to be only available in China, too, which kinda limits its usefulness.
You do realise that you're the one being personally dramatic here, right? Especially with a comment like that.
> Having Google change their 2FA system for this group would be one such decision.

It could be opt-out.

> It's similar to the 'think of the kids + terrorism' attacks on encryption.

No, it's not. Nobody choosing whether _they_ enable 2FA affects your decision to use it or not. It's more like forcing drugs down somebody's throat because you believe it benefits them and everybody else is doing it anyway.

> Why is it such a hassle to keep the same number after a theft? We could investigate there too.

Sim-jacking. Somebody could claim to have lost it and just take your number. This has happened before. The problem of authentication is fundamental in security and Google are just passing the buck onto phone service providers.

> Heck, if we want to focus on Gmail, why not focus on why it's the default choice for the homeless to begin with, as opposed to removing features.

Because it's free and the emails don't bounce. Most big tech has 2FA now.
It was pretty much flawless. :)
When/Where did you go to school?

When I did my MBA at Fisher (Ohio State 2018-2020) this definitely wasn't the case. We actually spent considerable time talking about how to get the most out of your team and how dumb of an idea it was/is to treat employees poorly. Many of our in-class discussions that revolved around this topic focused much more on treating employees well and how dangerous bad corporate culture and out of touch leadership was. Many of my classmates came from prior working backgrounds in various fields, however, so perhaps that leads to a different culture at the b-school.
100% agree. every good technical colleague I've ever had who got an MBA completely ignores technical considerations when making technical decisions, and in general, they really seem to be on their own planet afterwards. they are no longer a part of reality.
What works great for me is using _songs_ , ideally a sentence not directly from the chorus of a lesser-known song, complete with punctutation and some obvious replacement rules (such as `and` -> `&` ) . The reason why this works so great is that many people have some obscure song "in them" that they know by heart but which are not super widely known.

I only had to change one of my passwords once when my coworkers discovered I was reliably whistling "Stayin' alive" after logging in.
This is the argument Postman makes in "Amusing Ourselves to Death":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death

Before the telegram news was predominantly local news and only major news from abroad since it took so long to travel. The telegram made all news globally, instantly available and we were suddenly inundated with information that for the most part we couldn't really act on and had a strong incentive to be as sensational and attention grabbing as possible.

Newer media like the radio, television and the internet only accelerated this trend.
> Washing machines did not exist until recently either, but no one in this thread is advocating hand washing their clothes.

This conversation is about people being denied the right to do something, the reasons why they should have the right to do so are there to justify it. No one said people should not be able to wash their laundry by hand. It is probably because doing so is unobserved. That being said, it is also a much more challenging thing to advocate for. While hanging one's clothes is marginally more labour intensive, washing clothes by hands is much more labour intensive.

> In the US dryers and washing machines are a set pair.

I understand what you are getting to, but the presence of both does not imply that both receive the same level of use. For some people, the use of driers is purely seasonal. For others, it will only be used for large items or things that need to be dried quickly. As for the examples of laundromats and shared facilities, the complimentary pair is intended to attract customers (not to mention that hauling around wet clothes is a pain).
Time to maintain it ain't free
I always wonder what business schools actually teach.

I worked at a company where it was decided that the tech support department had a bunch of college drop outs and nobody had a business degree so they had to hire some. A few MBA guys were hired. These guys had MBAs straight out of school with no experience outside some internships... and man it showed.

Their first job was dealing with managing a schedule for about 25 people who manned the the tech support line 24/7.

They just couldn't wrap their heads around the idea that on the spreadsheet if you schedule someone on Friday until Midnight... starting them at Midnight on Saturday doesn't make a lot of sense / they would be working 20 hours in a row.

It's was horrible working with these guys. They embodied the "I'm business guy and I made my decision for business reasons and you should follow them."

Eventually I (worker drone) took over the schedule because what became known as "the MBA team" couldn't handle it / had no idea how to balance priorities and etc.

I'm sure there's some great schools for business / MBAs but I really wonder what they teach at those schools if just understanding simple hours, math, responding to emails in a timely / professional manner isn't it. It was almost like the old FedEx advert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcoDV0dhWPA

Perhaps they should all be required to go manage a McDonalds for a year or something?
The term appears to be very old--originally referring to water carts. Those "on" the wagon would be drinking water.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fall_off_the_wagon
The only "marketing" a mastodon server does is the description on the main website though, what matters is who joins the server. It seems that people who would join a server that was characterized in the press as "free speech above all else" love racism and porn. It's the people on the server, not whatever the administrator claims to want.

I'm on mastodon.scholar and the most risque thing anyone has posted was a closeup of Neptune's uncensored moons. I don't disbelieve you, mastodon is part of Earth and unfortunately that means there are racists there, but I don't think your experience is typical.
Unlike email, the Fediverse hasn't been captured by a few large organisations. So long as we take measures to ensure that this doesn't happen, "go somewhere else" will always be a viable solution to complaints about an instance's moderation.

I disagree with moderation decisions made by many instances, but if they made no moderation decisions, I would not be able to use the Fediverse. So I'm glad of it, even if it's a pain sometimes.
I've lived in different countries along the years, it's simple and best to just keep a permanent phone number in the country you consider the most like "home". Get a cheap phone-only plan, stick the SIM into a dumbphone or your second SIM slot. Done.
> we show that non-business managers share profits with their workers, whereas business managers do not

I wonder why that is.
Depends if X is a tool/cause/symptom of the political climate you are talking about.

Because Twitter is, so I think I side with the guy that said it’s silly to think it’ll shut down soon.
It also depends what you mean by "switching jobs." I've had three distinctly different jobs/careers over the past 30 years or so (with some moving around within those careers). However, they were all sufficiently adjacent that there was quite a bit of knowledge transfer and the transitions were very logical as a result. (And, in fact, in all cases I was hired by someone I knew from the prior job.)
Ruby, Python, C#
>>The first release of OS/2 cost about triple what DOS did, had significantly higher system requirements, and needed specific software to enable the new functionality... which did not initially include a GUI.

My first job at Novell in 1988 was testing their OS/2 driver. In order to get OS/2 up and running, they had to buy a 4MB memory expansion card for my 386 box. IIRC it cost about $2000 at the time.
There is a huge disconnect between two types of companies.

The majority of companies seem to view email addresses and phone numbers as largely permanent identifiers.

Then there are the companies that actually provide you those things.
To them, what they provide you is definitely not permanent.
love this one
Malcolm Gladwell never claimed you could mastery anything in 10k hours. That is just what people thought he said. But yes, the research is all around defined fields with expert coaches guiding the way.
Exactly. It seems that the current trend is to dehumanize folks as much as possible. Nevermind the fact that businesses are made of people, and they SERVE people, and not just their shareholders.

In fact, if anything, shareholders need to take a back seat on the list of priorities.
Sure - all of those are true; just explaining why someone might not sign up for social security, even if the reasons don't actually pan out.
> Knowing little about photography all of these photos look like an obscure combination of fake and dull. Like over saturated HDR-era style photos with too little depth.

That's what you get when not a single artistic soul is present during the development, they maximise everything for pure raw """performance""". "see in the dark", "maximum amount of dynamic range HDR", "improve faces", "improve colors" &c.

So yes, the camera can see in the dark, see 20 stops of dynamic range, add fake depth of field, but it looks like shit because they fundamentally don't know what makes a good image.

You have the same thing with photographers:

- the "technicians" who have the most expensive and advanced gear and often produce lacking results

- the "artists" with limited funds taking breathtaking pictures on prehistoric hardware
I am so sorry. I hope you can take a lot of comfort that even with hindsight you feel that your decision was the best one that you could have made. I imagine your sister would have agreed and would have understood.

We never know the storms we are about to sail into.
Btoh you and the justice system. You could plead the fifth on personal incrimination, but that may result in an investigation into your personal matters now that you've indirectly hinted that the facts you were asked to present could indicate wrongdoing.

The system could also consider your testimony to be so important as to proclaim that you shall not be prosecutable for anything that you say as part of your testimony.

Of course, all of this applies only to things within your mind. You cannot use the 5th to get out of presenting any and all existing materials that may even be perceived to be relevant to the court order. That's likely to be as initially broad as emails, business plans and documents, road maps, etc. Obviously, impeding these efforts would be contempt of court or (in the case that you destroy anything) possibly worse.

In practice though, your attorney works with the court and other parties' attorneys to identify what exactly would be relevant to the case and if any special secrecy regarding those materials and testimony is warranted. Case gets worked out, life moves on.
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Um, k8s was built for hundreds of clusters. I doubt it's 0 adoption for 100+ clusters, we have hundreds across AWS and Azure.

I've read of smaller companies building their own PaaS over K8s, which is in fact how Kubernetes makes sense.
Multiple pro-Assange demonstrations planned for tomorrow
I'm following so many accounts that if I don't sign in for three or four days I can barely keep up with my home feed. Almost all of it is interesting, funny, insightful or simply chill discussion. They almost exclusively use the Fediverse, none of them use the Fedi as a second-class citizen. Your insistence that something that is alive, growing and healthy has "failed" is simply proof that you have failed to bother with it because of your preconceptions.
So it seems that the entrenched powers in IBM are winning over.
Sad but expected TBH.
First of all the 10K-hour rule is pretty bullshit. Not all hours are equal. It's all a sliding scale with diminishing returns. Also there's no minimum level of expertise to reach your career goals. Like in body-building, the initial efforts for an untrained person pays off dramatically more than later effort. See the 80/20 rule.

You can definitely switch careers at any age. But you also should think about it in terms of both personal satisfaction and opportunity costs. There's a tendency to think the grass will be greener in the new career. That may not be true, most generally available work has large unsatisfying components - otherwise you wouldn't need to pay people to do it. The other thing is opportunity costs. If your new career requires losing 4 years of income while you do an undergraduate degree, plus paying for said degree, then you're 48 and have maybe 17 working years left until retirement (varies, but just an example) then you have to think if you wouldn't just make more money in your existing career, with less risk. Money might not be your primary objective here, but it often is. Also could your family afford for you to be earning negative income (paying for training) while retraining, for the duration required?

There's no one-size fits all advice. Just don't rule it out because of your age. Do the math and be logical, not emotional, about it. Get some friends to check your math, because they will be more impartial than you.
That was underwhelming, not much really said about the JIT other than "we do DCE".
The entire crypto ecosystem seems insane to me. So for your money to be safe - you need to be sure that largely anonymous devs wrote bug-free code on some of the most complex parts of implementing already complex logical proofs. Oh and the Red Team has hundreds of millions of dollars of incentive to line-by-line your code and exploit it. Yeesh.

This thread linked elsewhere here is par for the course -- so many things done right in the code, but one important thing done wrong: https://twitter.com/samczsun/status/1578185275062132736
Not spending more time my parents and grandparents when they were older.

You get busy with your own life and they never made me feel guilty for not visiting, but this is something that would have benefited me as much as them. I could have done better.
christ the IBM acquisition is turning out to be the WORST timeline.

- Redhat kneecaps centos because some mid manager was worried he might not get this years bonus

- Redhat kneecaps Ansible by making ansible-core and forcing everyone to re-install community plugins they were using from EPEL, or buy the shiny Redhat version of ansible.

- Redhat decides to turn Ceph into yet another garbage storage product with the same exorbitant support fees and contract payments that were the original motivation for an open source storage solution in the first place.

All this is being done under the guise that "oh its not proprietary, its enterprise grade now!" like the very same devsecops engineers and SRE's who made this shit work in the first place arent wholly capable of running it in production without forking over most of their $round of investment to the same company that turned softlayer into a swirling vortex of DDoS gangs spam relays and double extortion rings.

to date it feels like all IBM wants to do with Redhat is turn it into IBM so if thtas all these juggernaut dinosaurs can do im quietly waiting to see Microsoft acquire Ubuntu and quietly turn it into a teams plugin the same way they acquired github and turned it into an outage response simulator for developers.
Sure, jail isn't a solution in many cases, but fines aren't either.
I understand they get stolen
No, because "voter satisfaction efficiency" is just as subjective of a criterion as the voting methods themselves are.

There's nothing "objective" about it. Just because it's a number you can calculate doesn't make it the right number. Some people think it's a good metric for evaluating voting systems, but many others don't, and there isn't even remotely any kind of consensus that it's a good or even useful measure.