skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I make this point in most of these threads, but this is falling to an anecdata fallacy. Gmail is thousands or tens of thousands of times bigger than Fastmail[1]. When you have have a scale difference that large, you're going to have a huge, huge imbalance of problem reports like this that has nothing to do with actual reliability. All providers mess stuff up occasionally. Everyone has a customer support crisis at some point, with someone.

In point of fact I'd put the odds of Fastmail failing entirely as a business rather higher that those of any single user having an unresolvable 2FA glitch with a gmail account. In the world of real data and not anecdata, Big Tech is incredibly reliable.

[1] Which seems great, btw. I'm actually looking at moving my vanity domain to them as I'm sick of chasing standards trying to host it myself. This is absolutely not a ding at Fastmail.
Do people actually do random tests and spend the rest of their life blindly believing the results ?

Dealing with allergies is such a PITA and a burden that follows you every day, every single time you´re trying to eat anything. It´s such a mental toll that I see people going for allergy tests usually after they had their first reaction and went through ER, or when there is precedents in the family and they have a pretty decent chance to have common allergies.

Even after getting positive results we had a pretty thorough talk with the doctor about the tests and the actual reaction we saw when we discovered the allergy.

I understand people randomnly buying gluten free stuff as a fad, but they still continue eating gluten in other foods in general. Food allergies and avoiding ingredients is another level of inconvenience altogether.
Those to examples are not at all comparable. The problem with having to keep completely separate facilities for products made with, and products made without sesame is a real problem. And if the law requires that food that is not labeled to have sesame mustn’t be baked in the same oven as products without, then it seems like the easy choice to deliberately add a bit and label it, rather than having to buy new ovens.
Convert to keepass and sync the key file across your devices with a cloud service.
Have you tried learning hours to use dev tools? I would look at the original web page source computed styles; override them and see how it breaks.

I assume the red line with circles is the hard part? Maybe each element on the timeline has a really long vertical line with circle that’s ‘overflow: hidden;’

Maybe it’s done with JS?

The best way to learn is to take apart existing examples. And dev tools is the easiest way to do that.
To hit the final quadrant, here's a sampled portion of a JFK speech, non-rhyming, but set to music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwPnJXXX5Ic
As someone with a sesame allergy I was wondering why suddenly 90% of the bread options had it. Effectively, I have 1 option now, that’s it. No hotdog or hamburger buns.

Is what it is, going to improve my baking game.
I think the answer is to treat capital gains and dividends the same as ordinary employment income and subject to the same tax rates. Perhaps introduce a sub-1% wealth tax per annum on very large fortunes (100m+) to add friction that the wealthy have to work to counteract.
If you have it tied to an android phone, even without two-factor, there is a hidden way to generate a code it will take under security

Not all accounts seem to have this but I did. I do NOT have two-factor and eventually the "try another way" method offered to take me through the android code generation and it let me back in.

> *"Sign in With Backup Codes"*

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1187538?hl=en&co=...
The original St Nicholas was some kind of necromancer:

> Another famous late legend tells how he resurrected three children, who had been murdered and pickled in brine by a butcher planning to sell them as pork during a famine.
Other companies have cars one public streets without drivers. Calling what current Tesla’s do Full Sell Driving is so misleading it’s probably just fraud.
Of course it's unfair. It's the definition of unequal opportunity.

That doesn't necessarily mean it's immoral or should be illegal, but how could you argue that it's fair that some people get free money while others don't by the luck of their birth?
It makes food products continue to be as cheap and available as they currently are for everyone who can tolerate a pinch of blended allergen.

Basically, it does about as much good as the Prop-65 labels do.

(Note that this sub-thread seems to be talking about the "what if we didn't [effectively] make it better for manufacturers to intentionally include the pinch of allergens, but instead just allowed them to label the possibility of trace cross-contamination?")
Is elementaryOS still going strong?
That side believes the other side is mostly made up of people like this:

https://youtu.be/Hdk3a9pI_jA

And frankly, that's a pretty big problem for a side to have. I think a good question that isn't being asked in earnest is "why would those people, who seem to have a stable income and lifestyle, subscribe to such a radical view of reality?"

There are legitimate views from the side viewed as 'evil', but most of those people seem to have gone silent since no one is listening.
Bill introduced to replace HF symbol rate limit with bandwidth limit
The bathroom is a place filled with moisture. If you’re taking two showers a day the towel may spend most of the day wet. It’s a good environmental for mold.

But I also think these rituals are about being pure. Washing off the struggles of the day.
For sure. I believe I have this set to create an export and notify me the backup every quarter or so. Not the perfect solution, but until I do the right thing and switch over to fastmail, this at least ensures I can only lose a few months (gulp) worth of email.
He also went as far as saying the stock is too high. People just hear whatever they want to hear.
As long as there is sufficiently high property taxes that owners of land are forced to put it to societally useful purpose in order to pay the tax, I don’t see an issue with land inheritances. I don’t agree with “deemed disposition” tax rules that act as if the land was “sold” to the inheritor, triggering massive capital gains taxes.
For me, it is the other way round - their spam filter is quite aggressive and I routinely find non-spam messages in the spam folder. Hopefully the training I'm providing makes the filtering better.
The Iranian regime has not been hiding their actions from the west, Christmas or otherwise, for the past months.
https://archive.ph/DjBlV
The John the Baptist story was an attempt to get the remnants of John's followers to follow The Way (early Christianity). John's followers today, the Mandaeans, consider Jesus to be a false Messiah or a prophet of lies.
As I understand it, because the new law made it more either/or: those trace warnings aren't satisfactory, and they can't misrepresent what is in the product. So they have to be sure sesame is in it if they're liable for saying it's not without a newly cost prohibitive means of assuring that.
Read The Coffee Exporter's Guide: Third Edition https://www.un-ilibrary.org/content/books/9789213614860 Its free and will give you a good overview of the industry.

If you want to get into farming get Wintgen's Coffee - Growing, Processing, Sustainable Production: A Guidebook for Growers, Processors, Traders and Researchers, 2nd, Revised Edition https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Coffee+Growing%2C+Processing%2C+... (You will get a way cheaper from other sources).

Depending on the country you have different options. You can think about leasing it to other farmers or a cooperative. Talk to a local Specialty Coffee Roastery for a different perspective.

If you are interested in more information I could make a follow up post
I’ll give you that,

I once asked it write a Python script that lists all of the accounts in an AWS organization with a given tag key and value.

It confidently, initiated the SDK (boto3) and the correct object on the SDK (Organizations) and then it called a none existent function - “get_accounts_by_tag”.

The next day I asked it the same question and it got it right using a technique that I would have never thought of.

On the other hand, I asked it “given the following XML file and a DynamoDB table with the following fields, write a Python script that replaces the value node in the file where a corresponding key is found in the table with the value in the value field”.

The code was perfect.
The "members of the other party are literally evil and uniformly commit (non-political) crimes against humanity" thing is somewhat overstated. There are a disturbing number of people who think that, but it's far enough from the norm that it's not hard to find a family gathering with nobody who thinks that.

Not that our politics aren't super weird and unusually contentious. They are, often even relative to the same people twenty years ago. It's just that the particular archetype you're citing here is still pretty unusual in the scheme of things.
Non identical twins are still siblings so they share a lot of DNA while also growing up in similar environments.

The huge difference between identical and non identical twins is suggestive of a very strong genetic component.
How do you define "politically neutral"?
I think 6 or 7 years ago, many people thought we would at least have something like Waymo's self-driving taxis in Phoenix in several cities, more publicly available, really starting to change transportation.

We're not too far behind on that estimate. My guess is in less than 3 years - Waymo will be publicly available in large parts of Phoenix and probably another major metro - and within 10 years most of the south west.

But a lot of uninformed people thought we might have FSD everywhere by now. I think there's just less uninformed people now.
maybe the government should tax consumption instead of work or investment?
As a founder, I pay programmers who care about customers about 50% more. I’ve actually doubled the salary if a total junior within 10 months of hiring, because he cared about business goals.

I also work to eject those who can’t work with customers. We’re not here to serve the beauty of JUnit tests. I simply don’t understand the “programmers aren’t paid enough” torpe; It’s only true for purists who don’t dedicate their work to building a business.
Thats exactly what I do - get a bit tiring to manage emails on both side during the intermediate phase (which I'm still in) but I have already migrated most of my financial and government contacts to fastmail.
Time to use it with a SIP client :D
> I noticed Google stops dedicating spam protection to un-synced accounts (or something).

It’s not just you. Their spam filtering has been broken in general for a while now. Not sure what’s going on. I wonder if the volume of spam has just hit some critical threshold where it costs too much to process every incoming message.
> Several alternative hypotheses were considered-that spices provide macronutrients, disguise the taste and smell of spoiled foods, or increase perspiration and thus evaporative cooling; it also is conceivable that spice use provides no benefits. However, none of these four alternatives was well supported by our data. The proximate reason spices are used obviously is to enhance food palatability.

> But the ultimate reason is most likely that spices help cleanse foods of pathogens and thereby contribute to the health, longevity and reproductive success of people who find their flavors enjoyable.

From: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/420058
Hypothermia in nonhuman primate paves way human torpor during spaceflight
>From the exact same comment, emphasized, add 'traces of sesame' as an ingredient.

I'm not sure what you're confused about here? Say we consider bakers. Essentially before the law there were 3 classes of bakers wrt sesame: known contaminated (actively using it as an ingredient), regular (not actively using it, but make no promises either way), and medical (actively promise to ensure no contamination as a product feature). This law banned regular bakers, and it did it in such a way that they all become medical bakers by default, because if they don't actively use sesame then they must meet the medical standard. But that's TERRIFYING for a regular baker for good reason. Before if they cooked both sesame goods (lots of delicious ones in high demand) and non-sesame goods (same) they could make reasonable efforts and that's fine. But medical means they now look at blame and liability for some child or adult having a serious reaction or even dying. And meeting that level of liability and standards may simply be impossible in an existing mixed normal facility. There is no funding for this mandate either.

The obvious reaction to do is to switch to the "known contaminated" class instead. For the cost of adding a minuscule untasteable amount of sesame flour to everything, now they effectively return back to being regular bakers again. They can keep all their existing cooking, in their existing (very expensive, potentially impossible to move from) facilities. Like, what did anyone expect would happen here?

Edit to the reply, since I'm getting rate limited:

jacknews: "My point is they could simply add 'traces of sesame' to the ingredient list without actually delberately adding sesame."

You're arguing for producers to commit arguable fraud then, and add an ingredient to the list that isn't actually an ingredient and may not be there for the explicit purpose of bypassing a new legal requirement. There is no "simply" about that one. Maybe they'd win the resulting lawsuit, or maybe it'd bankrupt them. Or maybe it would bankrupt them even if they did win, as such things in America often do. And for what benefit?

This entire subject is about second order effects. Please spend a bit of time doing some game theory on any "simple" fixes you wish to propose, and consider why those "simple" fixes aren't what producers did.
>it’s further away than anyone thought

I worked full time in a computer vision company (non-automotive) for several years prior to 2018. I joined an automotive company (not Tesla) in 2018 and very intentionally steered clear of the autonomous efforts going on there. Not because my skillset wasn’t best applied there, but because I didn’t believe the roadmaps the industry was laying out at the time. “Level 3 by next year, Level 4 by 2020, Level 5 by 2022” is what they were saying back then. I called bullshit (silently) and worked on viable software instead.

Lots of people were doing the same. This isn’t surprising to a whole bunch of people that work in the non-automotive computer vision/ML space and realize how absurd it is to think the these models will converge any time soon.
_Has_ sesame allergy increased? Like, it’s _rare_; it’s just extremely nasty (it kills people).
The passwords are encrypted by a per-user key. That per-user key is derived from a password through a password based key derivation function (PBKDF). In essence, an iterative hashing function.

Many users don't use "good" passwords, so you use a high number of iterations on the KDF, to make it harder to brute-force an account's password.

Lastpass initially used 5000 rounds of KDF for old accounts. That's not a lot, especially today. They increased it over time to 100,100 iterations (which is better).

The data stored in a password vault is encrypted by a per-entry key, derived from this user password. If a user's password is weak, predictable, re-used, etc, then attackers now have an opportunity to decrypt the contents of their vault. Up until now, attackers generally have been assumed to not have access to user vaults, as that requires authentication (maybe including MFA).

No local software has been compromised, but getting a hold of the server-side backups makes it possible to try to brute force user's passwords in a way that was prevented by server-side rate limiting and MFA.

There is also some side information leakage from the server-side copies of users' vaults, like the URLs of websites in a given vault not being encrypted, and vaults being tied to user identities and contact info.

This tweet thread suggests/implies that at least one user has had a password compromised from information held in an encrypted vault. There's no evidence yet of a compromise of the locally installed software, but it emphasises the importance of changing passwords, moving to new wallets if seeds were exposed to Lastpass etc.
There are pass clients for all platforms. Although only the terminal variant is officially supported as far as I know, but that’s the same model followed by KeyPass
This prompted me to download Thunderbird - was very easy to get started (it basically provided a wizard with some basic inputs and started fetching messages immediately using POP).
This is a very recent phenomenon in the US as well and I'm hopeful the fever is beginning to break.
Someone needs to make a name and shame website for this frankly.
Mainstream full self driving would just create massive traffic and gridlock - pointless in the end. The induced demand would outweigh the benefits. States are better off acknowledging that sprawling car dependent cities are not sustainable. High frequency busses in the interim with rail transit is the real solution.

Current self driving technology plus some key infrastructure changes with dedicated bus lanes and prioritization is already good enough to have automated busses cart people around.

Just think about it - what happens when everyone has a self driving car? All of those cars that are otherwise parked are now on the road. Traffic. Same thing that happened pre-COVID with "ridesharing". (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00678-z)

> The role of transportation network companies (TNCs) in the urban transport system is under intense debate. In this study, we systematically assess three aspects of the net impacts of TNCs on urban mobility in the United States—road congestion, transit ridership and private vehicle ownership—and examine how these impacts have evolved over time. Based on a set of fixed-effect panel models estimated using metropolitan statistical area level data, we find that the entrance of TNCs led to increased road congestion in terms of both intensity (by 0.9%) and duration (by 4.5%), an 8.9% decline in transit ridership and an insignificant change in vehicle ownership. Despite the ideal of providing a sustainable mobility solution by promoting large-scale car sharing, our analysis suggests that TNCs have intensified urban transport challenges since their debut in the United States.

Or we can continue burning tens of billions on self driving personal vehicles.
Every year some old colleagues and I have an informal competition to see which one of us can be last to inadvertently learn who won the Super Bowl. For a few years, just after I emigrated to europe, I had an unfair advantage, but no longer, because of pervasive internet.

Trying to look away from American politics suffers a similar problem.

(I once asked a farmer in a remote mountain village what her goats were named; the answer was: Hilary, George, and Barack)
I'm getting pretty tired of these threads. We've seen them for years and years and years. At this point, anyone still using gmail is a PEBKAC error. Move!
Depending where you live, all cars could be considered luxury cars but in reality they are just expensive. For example in Ireland a new scoda Octavia starts from 34k-54k euros. There is not big difference in price, but it's not considered luxury car for sure. I remember back in 2002 a good version of this car would cost between 16k-24k.
I more or less buy into the author’s analogy. I have two work modes: building things that have to work so I avoid unnecessary complexity and services I don’t have experience with, and, the second mode is where I am experimenting and learning.

BTW, in the opening “”” One of my favorite paintings is “Nighthawks” by Edward Hopper. A few years ago, I was lucky enough to see it in person at the Art Institute of Chicago.””” My wife and I saw the same art piece - that is what hooked me into reading the entire article. I wish I was better at writing introductory ’hooks.’
It also depends on what kind of political system you have. Here in the UK, the first past the post system makes it difficult to vote for other parties than the big two (Labour and Conservatives) as it'll likely be a wasted vote or split the vote for your political leaning. e.g. If you desperately want the Tories out of power, but do not like the increasingly rightwards stance of Labour, then most places you'll still have to vote for Labour or risk letting a Tory win again.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.x...

Wow introduced end of feb this year and passed by end of this year. Looking from outside, I am Amazed by the speed of American democracy .
Was Santa a Mushroom-Tripping Reindeer Herder?
>What he is not is racist. He is the only White guy at a predominantly Black church. He’s married to a Vietnamese lady who he loves dearly and is all for supporting anyone who goes through the immigration process legally.

I think there's a real problem right now that these people are often represented as strictly being racists / their beliefs being strictly the result of racism. It is often true, but, as in your case, it is often not true. But that heuristic has become pretty absolute among anyone who believes themselves to be "on the right side of history".

I'm glad you don't have that knee-jerk reaction.
> that it’s further away than anyone thought.

No no, only musk was stupid enough to imply level 5 autonomy within x years.

Everyone know how hard it is, realtime accurate position, machine perception of roads, & accurate prediction of cars/lorries/other are all very difficult problems. Then to hobble your team by saying "blah blah blah no lidars" because they are expensive and someone from the ML team convinced you that they could estimate depth reliably, was the clincher.

Level 4/5 self driving is more of a matter of scale. if you have a 99.5% safe rating, then a lot of people over a country the size of the states are going to have a bad day.
That’s fair. For a radical idea, a friend has his eyes set on building a self-sustaining biosphere dome to mimic the South East Asian climate in Texas. He’s hoping to introduce tropical birds and plants. Fascinating project and a great source of education for the community.
Great suggestion, you two! I was listening to Jolly Ol Soul just now after seeing your comments. Good! :D
ENLBufferPwn: A vulnerability for several Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, Switch games
> One bad crop (which could be because of no fault of your own) can mean financial ruin.

You can hedge crop in many ways. Give Terry Duffy a call.
The worst use of the <BLINK> tag ever was the discussion held in the early days of RSS about escaping HTML in titles, whose attention-grabbing title went something like this: "Hey, what happens when you put a <BLINK> tag in the title???!!!"

The content of that notorious discussion went on and off and on and off for weeks, giving all the netizens of the RSS syndication community blogosphere terrible headaches, with people's entire blogs disappearing and reappearing every second, until it finally reached a flashing point, when Dave Winer humbly conceded that it wasn't the user's fault for being an idiot, and maybe just maybe there was tiny teeny little design flaw in RSS, and it wasn't actually such a great idea to allow HTML tags in RSS titles.
Amazon Has Conquered Christmas–But Its Reign May Be Ending
Click bait, nobody is really using AI assistants now.
Is it my turn next month to post the google's AI security/support fkd me thread?

Anyway, hopefully the google support outsourced to hn channel can help...
How does paying 50 bucks a year give you that peace of mind? What kind of recovery procedures do providers like fastmail have?
I don’t think there is “Essential complexity.”
Most definitely! I would totally book a night or two to see that.