skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is Ally Bank abandoning email 2FA?
I recently got an email from Ally Bank:

"We need you to add a phone number to your security preferences. As part of our continual efforts to keep your account safe and secure, we’re making changes to the security code delivery settings for your Ally account. In short, we’ll need you to update your preferences.

In order to log in moving forward, you’ll only be able to receive an authenticated security code through a text message or phone call, not email."

This seems astonishing. Everyone here knows how insecure 2FA is when done over SMS. On the other hand a well-protected email account that has hardware 2FA is about as secure as it gets. I appreciate not all Ally's customers are technically capable of setting up their email in this way, but even so, Ally might give a choice.

Does anyone care to guess at the reasoning behind this crazy decision? Ally doesn't use email as username, so it's not that. I'm minded to close my Ally account today, or at least use them for checking only.
If I ever create a programming language, one thing I'd like to try is to promote integer operations to larger types, so there is never overflow. For example, if a and b are int16, then a+b is int17, and (a+b)/2 is int16 again.

In practice you'd store them in the next larger integer, so 32 bits for a 17 bit int. If you really want to cut off bits or overflow, you use a cast or modulo.

It seems really weird that the "correct" way to do this calculation is to resort to bit manipulation (which should be an implementation detail IMO).
Their "security" focus was always just branding. Telegram is about as centralized as it gets, architecturally, with the service provider trusted ultimately.
It's always funny when someone complains about that, because the cookie law (ePrivacy Directive) is a different thing, it isn't even from GDPR.
Really unsettling to think that just 4 days ago, right before his death, he was still posting here on HN. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=chrisseaton
How is its interface so sleek? It’s better than Apple’s own apps.
But compare this "it's my website, I can be hostile to users with special needs if I want to" to the real world. In the real world many countries such as the US and the UK make having your shop accessible to people in wheelchairs a law. So you need to have ramps, or whatever to do this. We don't expect people in wheelchairs to carry the burden of this by requiring them to cart around their own ramps that they can place over stairs.
That's unfortunate. I wrote a VMM that tries to back memory with hugepages (even the guests page tables). It's making a difference!
Pointing out obvious propaganda is being an "apologist" and supports dictatorships?
You have to consider the opportunity cost, probably those people engineering time is better placed on M3 gpu drivers. It takes really excepcional and kind people to achieve what they did AND prepare public documentation along the way for the profit of open source community. It sometimes happens, and we have to celebrate that more, but it's not the normal.
Absolutely! But pay may vary because of "market reasons" (whatever that may mean).

Some suggestions for your study;

1) Use C/C++ only and nothing else. See my past posts for books full of example code. This will allow you to carry your knowledge across MCU families.

2) Starting with Arduino and moving on to direct AVR programming is a great approach. Get Elliot Williams' book Make: AVR Programming for the latter.

3) Arduino programming is deceptively easy but extremely powerful if mastered properly. Do your sample programs first on Arduino and then redo it using straight AVR-C. This will teach you how to prototype something quickly using Arduino and then when you have strict cycle/memory/power/latency requirements how to drop down to the metal and program exactly what is needed.

Finally from the career pov, you will become one of the few who can do and understand everything from bare metal all the way to processing in the "Cloud". As an example; read sensor data using Arduino, send it over the Internet to the "Cloud", Apply ML algorithms and do "Predictive Analytics". This is Industry 4.0/IIOT etc.
Top 10 reasons why you should be using Eshell
Thanks for making my day!
Nah... docker desktop is pretty dead now that it's got restrictive licensing etc... stick to standard open source tools like Colima etc...
So, the traditional counter to this is that they have: the crows/ravens and parrots all have member species who are pretty smart, there's plenty of smart aquatic molluscs (squid, octopuses and cuttlefish), and then there's dolphins, etc.
No, none of them have developed technology to the extent humanity has - but it's not inconceivable that they would, if humanity weren't already around to mess with them. They just need another hundred thousand to million years of the right evolutionary pressure...
Yep, they come with the whole shebang of self-issuing passports for their empire, and hoarding weapons for the next insurrection. Their fervor for the German Reich is absolutely comedic to Germans, especially the insistence on it having never ceased to exist. On the other hand their readiness to commit violent crimes (including readily assaulting city officials and law enforcement officers) is justifiably causing concern.

These people behave as though grandpa woke up after a 60 year sleep and he doesn’t know yet that Germany lost the war or that the wall has fallen (like that Germany movie Good Bye Lenin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Bye,_Lenin! )

It’s the old trope of a family dinner where the eldest suddenly starts reminiscing how great things in the “3rd Reich” were. If I may draw comparisons then I hear that over in the US the Americans then I hear that similar situations are experienced during a thanksgiving dinner, when a certain relative shows up.

Relics from the past that refuse to disappear.
>Not only the English elite[...]

I wasn't reffering to the UK but that "the US establishment descends from the earlier Angloamerican establishment format"

>First, both of them were inspired and based on the principles of the Age of Enligthenment.

This much at least you admit

>Not surprisingly, the resulting format of the new society was established based on those lines - a system of 'checks and balances' that actually prevents the democratic majority from democratically deposing the incumbent elite was created to prevent any popular demand - like those pesky land redistribution ideas - from being voted on, passing and taking effect. John Adams, de facto architect of the US constitition openly declared that it was going to protect the opulent from the masses.

It isn't so surprising that lasting reforms start slowly. How long did the French vote on anything? The reign of terror begins almost immidiately, then power is transfered to Napoleon. The fact that you see a continued trend towards democracy in the US as proof of aristocracy is puzzling.

>The societies of the entire world bar the US and the UK are based on those principles.

Is this a joke? Or do you only consider western Europe as the rest of the world? (Even then you are wrong.)

>The initial post was written for those with a measure of knowledge of history. There is no way to provide easy links to educate a random, uninterested reader on this topic

Well I'm both educated and interested. Perhaps to you I'm random though, whatever that means.

>large part of the US was owned by English aristocrats.

But there was in the US never a title of aristocracy such as lord, or any additional rights associated with it. Having English aristocrats in the US doesn't make the US an aristocracy. So yes, unless you simply mean the rich have power then your statement is wrong and if you do mean that then your statemenr is misleading since you equate it with English aristocracy

>And no, as said above, there was actual aristocracy as such in the colonies.

How does this refute the fact that "there never was an aristocracy in the US?" The colonies are not the US. Did you know there were aristocrats in France before the revolution?
ChatGPT came up with this solution when I asked it to handle the overflow, and then asked it to be more efficient.

// Calculates the midpoint of two 64-bit integers
// and returns the result as a 64-bit integer.
int64_t midpoint(int64_t a, int64_t b) {
// Use the __int128 type to calculate the sum
// of the two input numbers without overflowing.
__int128 sum = (__int128) a + (__int128) b;

// Shift the sum to the right by 1 bit to divide it by 2
// and get the midpoint. This operation is equivalent to
// sum / 2, but is more efficient because it uses a bit shift
// operation instead of a division operation.
int64_t midpoint = (int64_t) (sum >> 1);
return midpoint;
}
Next tournament will be at 3 light-hours away from Earth.
> They could just literally charge the $16 or roughly whatever it is upfront. It means nothing for them to be in a blockchain except waste of resources (ironically increasing their costs...)

I don't think so. When you own a lot of crypto, and have lots of real dollars (Pavel has lots of real dollars!), you can manipulate price a little bit.

In 2019/2020 Telegram had to give investors all their money back, and the new TON project started without venture capital with a value of 0$. It's now 1.84$.

If their market makers are sophisticated enough, they will create enough liquidity grabs to sell telegram's TON bags over time for a nice sum.

I think they are aiming for creating a market + "eco system" similar to ETH.
https://archive.ph/syEW1
Maybe it’s fine for you to be ok with lying but it’s generally frowned upon.
> what am I missing?

That the cia has got far more leverage on it than any other foreign powers

It is used fantastically by them on the current iran unrest and as a medium to pierce against Russian information spheres

Where zunzuneo failed telegram has succeeded and blossomed
I do like having both separated. Different devices for different use cases.

You also don't use e.g. the same pair of pants for swimming and office work.

Mobile OS's give you almost no control over anything, but you're forced without choice to use them and their apps you have zero say over for half the things today (e.g. parking, banking, choosing the color of your LED lamp, ...). It's great to keep that separate from my desktop computing workflow.

Unless I can bring my home computer paradigm to the phone. But are those parkings, banks and LED lamp manufacturers going to allow me to run their stuff on my OS of my choosing over which I have full control?
> low quality content that gives the uncanny valley feeling or just annoyance by the repetitiveness of the writing style.

This is already a thing, courtesy of hordes of people who are heavy on "content marketing" and light on actual writing skill.
Cool - they paid for their own bureaucracy with a bunch of small fines with no net benefit to society.
There are videos debunking them which are pretty damn convincing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhAC2YiYHs
With a fast reactor you can keep the cycle going. Russia is recycling MOX with the BN-800 fast reactor. The U.S. did it too with the FFTF but the FFTF dumped the heat to the air without trying to produce power. Oddly, this makes the FFTF look more like a future fast reactor because the heat exchanger for the FFTF looks more like the heat exchanger for a low capital cost closed cycle gas turbine.
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On the contrary, all the evidence supports it. We have spent significant time and resources looking for extraterrestrial life and found nothing.
the title is a bit of a (humourous) clickbait but the author explains pretty well the advantages of using the "emacs lisp shell" (eshell)
A mouse from 1985 did not feel that much different from one today. Sure, they all had cables, you had to clean them regularely and use a proper mouse pad. But then they were very much as precise as they are today. The last real innovation was the scroll wheel.
The worst thing about these people isn't that they're shitty edgelords spouting nonsensical gobbledygook about NFTs like they've discovered fire. The worst thing about them is that they're uniformly boring in every conceivable way. Great, some submillennial has made his own version of ZooTV on a dying social network. That must be terribly exciting if you've never seen any media ever that came out before Gossip Girl. Yaaaaaawwwwwn.
Recently the Vikings posted this clip of their PxP announcer Paul Allen doing his thing. Even though I don’t care one lick about American football, I still found this clip to be great fun to watch. The skill, passion, and joy he has is infectious.

https://twitter.com/PatMcAfeeShow/status/1592980588608487424
This is definitely going on already.

Here's a VPN company advertising "a VPN server located in a region that offers cheaper games, in-app purchases, products, etc." and if other VPN providers don't explicitly advertise this benefit, they know some of their customers are using their product for that reason.

https://www.vpnunlimited.com/help/solutions/saving-with-regi...
There are some models where the keyboard itself isn't fully water safe, so there is a chance your keyboard dies but the rest of your system is fine. This is especially true if we don't spill water but some other harder to handle liquids.

There are also some products published as ThinkPads which aren't really ThinkPads (like some(many?,all?) of the Yoga ThinkPads don't have any of the properties normally associated with ThinkPads, they are much less robust pretty much in every category and much harder to repair even if it's just the keyboard.
Wow. Interesting question.

I don't have a second account so I checked stylometry and it gave me bunch of names that I know are not me. Maybe I will try with a new second account and confirm.

Second, stylometry can dox me how? My current handle is not attached to anywhere else on internet and even if someone did HN/reddit/twitter stylometry analysis, how will that reach my home and or identity of my passport? Its not like I post anything online in my own name. Haven't in actual years.

So assuming an adversary was trying to find me and did see my reddit or active twitter account, so... What? Short of breaking into it and checking the 2fa number (which I avoid at all costs) how ? Maybe amazon but I don't write reviews so ..... How would you go about this?
Yes? I just migrated from reddit.

Read my comments. I have been discussing my job in Europe and my work with vectorised optimisations.

Seems like a lot of work for sowing discord, but you make the call.
Seems like victory for privacy. You could get a AI to censor people faces automatically too.
Unfortunately the digitalisation has enabled that being done at scale. Before everything going always online and recorded, the tendency to restrict freedoms was unfeasible for the most part. Not anymore.
Because we have no evidence to suggest we are anything but, and we don't know if there will be others.

Given that we believe the universe to be infinite, we could be 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 3 billionth, etc. But one thing is for sure, we're on the list, but our likelihood of correctly guessing our position on the list is 1/Infinity.

However, if we assume that there is SOME constraint, then that list is no longer infinite. Instead of our 'guess accuracy' being effectively 0, it's 1/<list length>.

If there are 3 billion, we might be 3 billionth, but if there are 2 billion, we are definitely not 3 billionth. The same follows all the way down to if there are only two, we may be either first or second. We know that there is at LEAST one, so if we guess first, we're at least certainly not guessing out of range.

The probability, without any other information to the contrary, of us being 'first' is higher than the probability of us being 'second' or any other possible point on the list.

Therefore it is a more logical conclusion—although clearly it should not be parroted as a fact.
A bit more detailed look at it: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220207-00/?p=10...
Yeah, my question too
I have been on two tours of the A380 final assembly building, the last time was with senior Airbus people so got basically the customer tour walking round the aircraft.

Have seen Belugas flying and on the ground at Toulouse.
> Humans are also able to drive with vision only. Same sentiment as Hotz from comma.ai has.

I’ve said this before and I’ll repeat it here. A CMOS sensor is nothing like the human eye both in terms of HW and the SW (ignoring the AI that interprets the signal - I’m talking just in terms of the sensor). Your eye is constantly subconsciously scanning an insanely wide FOV so that not only do you have an insanely high-res image at the center, you have a fairly high fidelity larger FOV that is quite wide. Additionally, the camera will automatically shift its focus insanely fast if there’s any motion in your periphery and start filling in the scene with extremely high fidelity data. It’s hard to really equate the two but some analyses I’ve found on Google estimate the human eye at having hundreds of megapixels worth of fidelity. The Tesla has ~8 1 megapixel cameras.

As for the intelligence behind the camera in terms of command and control, the human brain is significantly better.

At some point in the future, sure. A pure vision system could be equivalent (actually better) to a human driver. Today it’s probably better in some ways (doesn’t have the attention failure modes that the human brain can suffer) but fatally worse in others (distinguishing the white trailer on a semi right in front with a cloud or understanding there’s a dividor right in front of you). Obviously things are going to get better so I’d bet on a pure vision system in a decade or two will probably work. The problem is Musk’s false advertising and the lives it’s cost.
Exactly.
The car is just a better version of the horse and buggy. There are no massive sociological changes that came from the invention of the automobile.

Human social behavior is completely scale invariant.

Society is just the relationship I have with my brother, replicated millions of times with no higher order effects, weird feedback loops, weird non-linear effects.

I am not buying that alarmist nonsense either.
The Nano X has a minimal user interface and two buttons. I really doubt the Stax can be driven by only a secure element like that.
What you said does not make it any less clickbaity which is the complain of the parent comment
Well, here's my hypothesis: The universe develops in superposition until the first observer emerges, causing the superpositions to collapse. Meaning, the first possible observer will not only be guaranteed to exist, they will also make their mark on the universe. Conversely, they also adjust the local universe to their causality, making it harder for other observers to emerge. – In other words, there we did something again, by launching the Webb telescope… ;-)

(PS: Here, the universe behaves like a path search for first possible observers and, thus, causality. Posing the question, if there is no possible observer in a given universe, does it even exist or is the search exhausted in what isn't even an instant? Anyway, let's call it the "race to causality" hypothesis.)
I was playing with it with my son last night, he asked why the beans cooled down more quickly than his potato

It started well with the volume-surface area ratio. It then expanded on it to confidently tell us that beans were made of metal while potatoes were made of plastic.
> Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
Because, of course, money is laundered $250 at a time.
Original source: https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-personalized-ads-facebook-instag...

The source = noyb is the organization (founded Max Schrems) that actually filed the complaint, hired lawyers, fought the Irish DPA tooth and nail for 4.5 years. Essentially doing all the leg work – great job!
Radio Free Asia is literally a State Department propaganda front and should be treated as such.
What do interior intrusion sensors in cars accomplish? I’ve not found anything about this online nor that Europe requires this.
Thanks for chiming in. Looks like it was my mistake in interpreting your product features. I'm going to attach them to household items but I'm still perplexed why each of my Tiles hasn't been "seen" in over a year yet I've ridden my ATV/snowmobile a handful of times during that period, all while having my phone in my pocket. Does the iOS app need to be open?
"All my friends are online. Will people forget about me if I am not on the internet?"

Yes. But they really weren't your friends to begin with, so it doesn't matter.
The date where you failed a reverse Turing test. A Gnirut test, if you will.
A Children's Story Written and Illustrated by AI
I think it's a stretch to say that society at large approves of taking hormone treatments without consultation with medical professionals.
This is why I had to fork nipple.js years ago. A harmless joystick library with a “ha ha okay…” name.

Oh and another: I had an uncomfortable talk with IT when I tried to navigate to the TypeScript playground by visiting “tsplayground” which… was definitely not typescript.

Finally: I will type “pythong” maybe once a month into bash. I’m not sure what that says about me.

Sorry this is off topic now. Naming is hard… sometimes fun.
How long will it be before companies pay to show adverts to bots, to change their responses
Reminds me of very small integrated circuit process nodes where the manufacturing process itself is so rife with trade secrets and "art not science" that it's hard to duplicate even without IP restrictions.
Working in the industry for a while now I've come to the realization that developers in the vast majority of situations are not security engineers, and should not and cannot be trusted to ensure both the software they write and the systems they run are secure in any manner.

Security itself is a set of processes and policies where different teams monitor and ensure compliance with said policies. If security policies get in the way of the software compiling/working developers will disable security (and sometimes for short periods of time this is needed for testing to figure out why something has gone wrong). But it becomes easy and commonplace for developers to turn off the security because it gets in the way of productivity. And that's the problem with security, you don't generally get punished for violating it immediately by an attacker. It can be months or even years before someone downloads your source code and posts it online. You may not notice for months that your database was breached and everyone that you don't want has a list of your customers.
All that suffering just so UPI payments go up?
MCD drive thru:

> Hi do you have a mobile order today?

< Yes.

> Inexplicable silence for 10-15 seconds

> (New voice) How can I help you?

< Hi I’m picking up a mobile order (??)

> What’s the code?

Their process of using the app at the drive through is missing a step and it’s annoying.
Your final +1 is not in the expression by OP. You can get it by taking the correction term (x & y & 1) as mentioned in another comment.
IMHO general design of ThinkPad touchpads with the additional buttons at the top (if it's a thinkpad which has it) is much much better even if you don't use the trackpad.

But if you don't use that buttons apple touchpads tends to be better in my opinion.