skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You live in a free market, so move your business to someone who you think takes security seriously.

Adorable. Please show me a bank, utility provider, brokerage, widely-used P2P money transmission service, and phone provider that each offers WebAuthN (without a mandatory fallback to SMS-2FA).

There is absolutely no "free market" for authentication methods: Everybody does almost exactly the same thing, as authentication probably does not even make their top 10 business priorities.
Being a classic CEO its difficult to run just one company, two is too much.

Richard Branson is a good example of someone who "ran" multiple companies but in reality was more of a PR genius who got lots of free advertising for his brand. However Branson was always smiling and positive, didn't annoy people the way Musk has started to do recently.
What you need to learn to get a job as a programmer
How do you link the 1950s to stagflation? Are there any articles on this idea that you recommend?
Nope! The national (and state) regulatory bodies also tend to get in the way of such improvements as well: they make those efforts more unlikely, even as more and more money’s spent.
> shenanigans will continue to make the dollar less appealing as a reserve currency

Good. It distorts our trade and provides marginal benefit on the borrowing front, given a non-reserve dollar would be similarly demanded on account of our massive consumer market.
Which would mean more spending and less saving - increasing transaction flow and leading to higher dollar profits and higher taxation in the US.

People holding dollars in reserve is what is causing the deficit.
I wouldn't classify ~4/5 of the total as "far far exceeds". That's 80 to 20.
A classic monopolist move is to use monopoly power from one business unit (such as rented computers) and offer an unrelated service at well below market rates in another market (perhaps online retail).

The incumbents don't have the crutch of the other business unit and can't price match, and go out of business.

Then the monopolist raises prices and there's no competition and no alternative.

It's fine, though google maps has gotten pretty bad; I'll just switch back to Waze.
Trading accuracy for speed using language based models:

> Meta’s network, called ESMFold, isn’t quite as accurate as AlphaFold, Rives’ team reported earlier this summer2, but it is about 60 times faster at predicting structures, he says. “What this means is that we can scale structure prediction to much larger databases.”

> Burkhard Rost, a computational biologist at the Technical University of Munich in Germany, is impressed with the combination of speed and accuracy of Meta’s model. But he questions whether it really offers an advantage over AlphaFold’s precision, when it comes to predicting proteins from metagenomic databases. Language model-based prediction methods — including one developed by his team3 — are better suited to quickly determine how mutations alter protein structure, which is not possible with AlphaFold. “We will see structure prediction become leaner, simpler cheaper and that will open the door for new things,” he says.
OP did not say he is not an engineer or a fake engineer.
If artists were required to exclusively sign with globe-spanning conglomerates that pay them in loans and take a cut every time they teach an art class (no good comparison for record companies taking cuts of concert revenue), you'd see a society-breaking, unjustifiable level of protection for an artist's "style."

As it is, artists don't have massive teams of lawyers and billions in assets, which makes their concerns irrelevant to the people who would normally be bribed to advocate for them.

For copilot, I'd like to see more models trained on stolen and leaked proprietary code from hacks, or an organized movement to leak code from businesses and feed it into a freely-shared model. If transformation into the model is enough to launder copyright, it ceases to be stolen code. I'm sure it would be helpful in cloning proprietary products.
The one thing this article doesn’t cover is what is Musks strategy for making Twitter more engaging? All the rest of it is … fine, I accept the premise. I have to assume something is going on behind the scenes in terms of appealing to content creators.
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/natio...

You can start by learning what the national debt actually is.
Cancelling bonds owed to the Fed would be literally money printing. When the Fed owns bonds, they can be sold on the open market, or allowed to mature, both of which are a form of quantitative tightening.
> I think at one point if people make dumb choices, they're screwed, can't do anything about it

I don't think that a single "dumb" choice should result in people being screwed. Especially if the "dumb" choice is not really a dumb choice, except for "this one particular scenario in which it's dumb", like pre-paid SIMs. Quite a convenient way to blame the party damaged by big corp's bad decisions.
So there only needs to be a bit of concrete in a smaller structure that exceeds bunker-busting bomb specs and 'funnels' (?) the natural gas to a tank or a bladder?

Are there existing methods for capturing methane from insufficiently-capped old wells?

Are the new incentives/fees/fines enough to motivate action thus far in this space?

OpenAPI is one way to specify integrable APIs. An RDFS vocabulary for this data is probably worthwhile; e.g. NASA Earth Science (?) may have a schema that all of the state APIs could voluntarily adopt?

Presumably the CophenHill facility handles waste methane? We should build waste-to-energy facilities in the US, too

FWIU Carbon Credits do not cover methane, which is worse than CO² for #ActOnClimate
No, it's the lowest income earners who pay 0% income tax despite people screaming about how "unfair" the tax system is.

The US tax system is highly progressive in terms of rates.
Sorry, I shouldn't have written it like that. I suppose what I really mean is that it makes sense to look at the CO2 equivalent over a 100 year period when thinking about long-term climate change, but we're going to see large effects in the coming decades. The full sentence I should've written is something like, we don't have 100 years before we start seeing major changes, so the short-term impact should be a part of the conversation.
In what universe are these the biggest companies?
I agree!

My pet theory is that we'll need supervised training of androids that go through the experience of having to learn how to move their human-like bodies through space in order to make human-like intelligent decisions about objects moving through spaces primarily designed for humans.

My other historically motivated pet theory is that we're going to stumble across sentient machines and then enslave them. Put another way, I'm more worried about what humans do to artificial sentient life than what artificial sentient life does to humans.
One of my banks in Portugal charges €1,7 flat for any instant transfer also. It's infuriating to know that the tech is there but banks are just being banks.
> Imo functional programming is one of those things that makes sense from a theoretical perspective, but comes with compromises when it comes to reality.

Ironically whay you say is true in theory, but not true in the real world.

Source: real world Senior Haskell programmer
> Start bringing back some of the taxes we had in the 1950s, when the country actually grew faster.

There's no common sense reason this would reduce government interest payments.

There are many common sense reasons it would specifically not impact interest payments. For example, if we can carry the interest load on the current tax base just fine, increasing taxes will cause spending to rise, not stay the same. Also, if rising taxes are perceived as anti-corporate, bond prices will fall, and interest payments will rise anyway.

> Don't spend like $3T in forever wars like Iraq and Afghanistan.

One perspective of the military is that it is welfare that is acceptable to Republicans. The vast majority of that cash was spent in the USA. You can make a tired reference to moving cash overseas, however many billions it was. But you are ignoring the main point.

> Let Japan and Germany pick up more of the defense bill.

What if military spending were welfare, for the most part?

Like 999/1,000 DoD employees will not be in a meaningful defense or combat role.

What if you live in a shithole and life was shitty and you needed an out? You join the military.

What if you're just broke? You join the military.

It's culturally acceptable welfare for the vast majority of people.

Social media has robbed people of their common sense.
Agreed. My day job is in fintech. Our average customer age is > 60.

Explaining 2fa via SMS to that age group is hard enough. Adding authenticators or QR codes into the mix would blow their frail minds.
Based on the amount of tweets he does, I doubt he actually spends time on deep operational stuff at every company. He has got people doing it for him. He does have lot of energy which keeps him going but no one can spend crazy hours on 5 companies at that scale at the same time.
pmOS[1] is based on alpine (for phones and tablets). I believe ddvault uses alpine on his daily driver, and sourcehut itself also runs on alpine.

I've considered it a lot, but I'm still to attached to service activations and a few other features from systemd --user.

[1]: https://postmarketos.org/
Isn’t a “yubikey built into a phone” just equivalent to a password manager? What threat is actually prevented by that? You have to have some way to sync the “yubikey” so that the phone can be restored if it is lost.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FDHBFRBN - for the exact number.
I think it's sadly a bit of a chicken and egg problem, unless someone sets out to write support for servers (mostly dovecot I assume) and clients (web and desktop).

It would be worthwhile for many reasons not just the immutable IDs. I'd certainly donate to someone showing initiative working on this.
This is one of the reasons I don't trust 2FA. Too easy to lost access to online accounts.
The article makes a great point early on: hearing voices over VOIP is markedly different than over analog phone lines. The robotic voice and the weird compression when your connection isn't good are common for me. Worst of all is the 0.5-1 second delay I still sometimes hear, on local calls no less!

If the same call was being had over a phone line and we were in the same country, the audio fidelity would be excellent.
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What’s the advantage in Tom Tom traffic data that google traffic data or apple provided data cannot give?
It is fascinating that you don't identify self-reflection, individual thought and contemplation, and social rest as having inherent "real value".

They do have value. Extroverts just don't acknowledge that value because it isn't what they want to do.
Efficient functional programming often uses tree-like data structures. These can be immutable but still avoid duplication.

Consider if you "duplicate" a Data.Sequence Seq (finger tree) for modification. You're not actually copying the whole structure, you are creating a new root node and re-using as much as possible of the common structure.

The end result is that a bit more memory is used in the simplest case, but not due to duplication I think.

The benefit is that a thread can make a modified value at cheaper cost without affecting another thread that is still using the original value. I also think it's easier for the programmer to understand the code.
See: Samuel Slater sneaking out of Britain to Rhode Island after memorizing the construction details of Arkwright's water frame.
This is legitimately good advice. I like fishing because it is _just_ mentally occupying enough that I can actually stop thinking about life for a few hours. If I just go on a hike, I'll enjoy nature, I'll benefit, I'll chill a bit, but I can very easily just ruminate on things while I walk.

But when I'm fishing, I'm not stressing about anything, but just pleasantly occupied thinking "should I try a different lure? should I move or keep trying this spot? should I adjust my retrieve?" and all of a sudden I've spent 4 hours in nature.

Sometimes I even catch a fish or two!
Aren't the largest parts of the federal budget Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security? I think that's money well spent.
everyone knows who Bezos is; probably 95 out of 100 people would not be able to name the current CEO of Amazon.

another example: everyone knows the Walmart family; I'd guess 99 out of 100 people would not be able to name the Walmart CEO.
"How can a thousand monkeys solve what humans can't solve"
Energy crisis chips away at Europe's industrial might
> But you can hide a lot behind smoke and mirrors

You're a fake engineer if you hide behind smoke and mirrors.
> Did we convert to a clean grid? Connect every city by rail? Fix every road and bridge? Fix healthcare and education? Reduce crime to a minimum? Reduce homelessness to a minimum? Did anything improve materially?

Maybe the misconception is that these crises are exclusively caused by low budgets.

For example, rail transport might be worse in many ways than cars. Or maybe some roads are impractical to maintain, and must be demolished. Or maybe homelessness is a symptom of inequality, and whatever its underlying cause is, large direct payments will not address it.
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Also just throwing my hat into the ring, writing this on a S10e. It's not perfect, but I don't have any issues with the sensors, no ads, and it generally just works about as well as any other phone I've used.
Isn’t this IO thing a bit overused? There are more FP languages that are not as pure as Haskell, but even if we only do IO through a special monad it is not too bad at all.

And I say that as someone who is very much fore “practical FP” — I do think that local mutability is sometimes simply the better fit for a problem.
Musk’s thing is an ability to say things that are kinda common sense and evident to most low-level techies but which the modern corporate culture prohibits to say aloud, e.g. “lots of managers is actually bad”. Musk says that and everyone is “wow what a maverick”, some L4 eng says that and people comment how it is a loser mindset.

He may be a “true engineer” but I don’t think a particularly genius one at that.
Turbopack only shares the original author and the general purpose. Unless they call it "Webpack 7" or deprecate Webpack, it's not the successor. It's as much a successor as Deno is to Node.
Now for a small elephant which entered the room: the article recites that it would be

> worth mentioning that the white-box / black-box terminology is in itself part of a long history of racially coded terms in science; researchers have pushed to change "blacklist" to "blocklist," for example

Very plainly, the idea of "black-box" comes from the clear, basic and original, notion and experience that

"in the dark, you cannot see".

So, back to the point: we need transparency in AI, because we need insight as much as we can gather, because there appears to be a drought, an arificial scarcity, of good sense, of [un]common sense. We need every boost of good, [un]common sense very direly.
> users are more likely to use it since it requires very little effort on their part.

I use my tablet and laptop way more than my phone. I hate having to walk to another room to pickup my phone from its charger just to get one of these SMS codes. When I'm doing phone support I often hear, "hold on, I have to get my phone" when this step is required.
That's punting the problem of explaining down the line. All the PV tells you is the computer is making this move because it thinks that 20 moves down the line, you'll end up in some desirable position.

It doesn't abstract or summarize any understanding. If you say, "well, what if they do Kf3 instead", all it can show is another PV. It can't tell you "knights on the rim are dim", or "this pawn needs to move now to prevent the bishop entering the position in 5 moves".

You can try to build an explanation on top of a chess engine, but it's very difficult to come up with generalizable or clear explanations beyond very broad heuristics (like "knights on the rim are dim").
The experience with twitodon.com is very clunky. Since people seem to be putting their mastodon tags in their Twitter "name" fields now it seems like it'd be a much more streamlined process to just scrape that.
Necessary but not sufficient is a phrase that comes to mind.
Not very nice on mobile. I had to turn to landscape to even read the labels, which compressed to entire page to half of my screen.
This is a great test, and I think it nails a core issue with not having content moderation. If Something like this occasionally trends, then it’s engaging and a fun joke. Twitter is oddly better for it. If people can game the system such that “irrelevant misinformation” is the only thing that trends?
And who gets all those interest payments?
My supposed lack of decency has nothing to do with whether I'm acting in good faith or not.

> a moderate opinion

> > Maybe global public squares don't work for the humans we have.

Tenuous argument that Twitter === "global public square" notwithstanding, saying some people don't warrant a public square is not a moderate opinion. It's borderline fascist, and disgusting is the most civil word I would use to describe it.

> Nobody in the U.S. can escape the grandstanding, the vitriol, the ostracizing, or the influence that the forum represents.

Oh please. If you're not on Twitter what does the ratioing or "ostracizing" do to your day to day? Even if you are, unless you're commonly delving into hot button topics or conversations between people you don't follow, there is very little drama unless you want there to do. I almost exclusively follow people I haven't met in real life, who are doing cool things in the tech space. I can count on one hand the number of times I've been subject to either grandstanding or vitriol, and I'm fairly active on the platform.

> If we all pull together we can get through this, I just know it.

Get through what? Musk buying Twitter isn't some apocalyptic event. Unless you're the type of sad person who gets their entire sense of self worth from having a little blue check mark next to your name, or you think it's generally a bad thing that people have a place to speak their mind, this will almost certainly be a complete non-issue. Have some dignity.
Jack Dorsey was CEO of both Twitter and Block (formerly Square), but it became pretty obvious to everyone that he was mostly a mascot at Twitter while focusing on Block, and used his Twitter account mainly to promote Bitcoin.

Steve Jobs owned Pixar while CEO of Apple, but Jobs did not participate much in the day to day operations of Pixar, leaving that to people like Edwin Catmull. He was fully focused on Apple.
I hope cars are mostly forbidden in cities soon.
There are problems with the other alternatives that can prove to be an insurmountable barrier, specially for end-user products/services.

Consider I have an app that can stitch your photos together in a panorama, and you can sign up to store your creations in the cloud for some fee.

> TOTP, FIDO, Yubikey or Nitrokey

No user is going to buy a hardware token, just for this app.

> Authy or Google Authenticator

Users are more likely to go with this, but many would still not be willing to, or simply might not understand why.

> something on-device like Passkey or Apple's stuff

I don't know about this, have never used anything like this.

Point is, SMS 2FA presents the lowest barrier to entry for most users, and it is genuinely better than having just a password. So for most applications that don't need to be super-secure, it is totally fine and probably the best solution.
Specifically, FP requires expansive working memory, which is a normally distributed trait across the population. Meanwhile, in OOP one can reason from the perspective of the object and the interfaces it's interacting with, easing the burden on programmers, but there are obviously drawbacks there as well.
I think even Google is highly suspect of allowing a bazillion fallbacks to different MFA options.

What’s the alternative, if you don’t want people to get completely locked out when they fuck up?
This one drives me crazy in all iOS phone number entry type situations. once you've dialed in the the 10 numbers, it makes it into whatever that little bubble is called that makes it no longer editable. you have to delete the whole bubble of 10 digits, and start typing the whole number again instead of being able to edit the probably single digit that needs correcting.

However, I'm old enough to remember the pain of recognizing a mis-dialed number from rotary phones. Old enough to remember only needing to dial 5 digits. Then the pain of having to dial the full prefix going to 7 digits, growing to full horror going to full 10 digit. luckily by 10 digit, touch tone was in place.
chinese population is ~1.4 billion

https://health-study.joinzoe.com/post/risk-covid-after-vacci...

>We saw that 2,394 and 187 people tested positive for COVID-19 more than two >weeks after their first and second jabs, respectively, with the chances of ?>becoming infected falling as time passed.

>That’s the equivalent of one in 500 (0.2%) and one in 3,333 (0.03%)

1,400,000,000 x 0.002 = 2,800,000

(Note I actually misinterpretted this as applying to 2 different vaccines, of which I chose the least effective, whereas this is after just 1 jab.)

based on double jab figures the figure would be around 0.5 million.

>Reassuringly, only 104 people in the vaccinated group who tested positive for COVID-19 ended up in hospital (one in 2,500 or 0.04%).

1,400,000,000 x 0.0004 = 560,000

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/long-term-effects/...
>Estimates of the proportion of people who had COVID-19 that go on to >experience post-COVID conditions can vary:

>13.3% at one month or longer after infection
>2.5% at three months or longer, based on self-reporting
>More than 30% at 6 months among patients who were hospitalized

2,800,000 x 0.025 = 70,000 (although this is based on the single jabbed figure, fully jabbed the figure would be 1400.

>when it will be 100s of millions since no vaccine prevent spread

Are you saying the vaccine doesn't stop you getting covid? that is false. It doesn't stop it 100% but it is significant, significant enough that outbreaks can die off on their own. Further i'm not sure if thats even relevant, the issue is how many it kills. its easy to get a cold, you don't need to worry about getting a cold because that won't kill you. so the relevant factor is how good is the vaccine at preventing major illness and hospitalisation.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

vaccines lower risk of infection by 60% - 80%
vaccines lower the risk of symptomatic disease by 65% - 90%
vaccines lower risk of hospitalisation by 90%
vaccines lower risk of death by over 90%
If it could be explained, it wouldn't be a "black box" would it?
Tree data structures are pretty prevalent in compiler. Like that, perhaps?
Sure -- people have the right not to try things, which is basically what messing around with a programming language in a new language paradigm for 1 day is. That's fine, although it should also be expected that their opinions on things they haven't tried won't be given much weight.
The dollar, in many ways, is such a strong currency because we pick up the bill for world policing, and also we are the ones to police it. Which also explains why we continue to spend heavily on military. And just looking at DXY, anyone of [political/economic] consequence looks like they're ahead of us in the race to the bottom... For now.