skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are pointing out that while the "something you have" factor may be stronger than "something you know", multi factor is still better. I agree. Also, passwords are decentralized, whereas passwordless puts the power into fewer hands, so this too reduces complexity for attackers.

2FA>1FA
What's the best technical class you've attended? (cloud-hosted)
Hi everyone! Does anyone have some type of technical training that they've attended that really stood out as a complete and streamlined experience? If so, what company / class / platform was it?

I'm becoming passionate about the art of online technical training:
1. Conveying complex ideas in a clear way
2. Delivering hands-on labs to practice those ideas

My starting context for this is something like (formerly) katacoda.com and free content / cloud machines from acloud.guru. Thanks for any input!
1Password NEVER had lifetime licenses. We made this decision since day one because we had a product before that died because it was a "lifetime" purchase. The 1Password license is valid for the major version of the app. The license purchased would still work with that version today. If you look at the release history of 1Password apps — every version had a ton of updates made long after the app was no longer on sale. For example, 1Password 7 was updated just a month ago: https://app-updates.agilebits.com/product_history/OPM7

The licenses are also confusing — people had to purchase apps separately for every platform: macOS, Windows, iOS, Android. And then they had to purchase upgrades separately as well.
> When it is not a downturn, VCs encourage startups to grow at all costs

The defining difference between a startup and small business is scaling potential. If you can’t grow, you shouldn’t take VC.
ACH never "completes", there's no confirmation in the system. The bank merely decided 3 days is enough time to assume there isn't a reversal coming, but some reversal reasons can be expected to take up to 60 days.

Some banks have been offering "two days early payroll"; that just means they see enough transactions for your paycheck that they've decided to just trust it.
Some anecdotes about Diogenes (which may or may not be true, of course, but they quite fit the character):

Aristotle famously described man as a "featherless biped". Diogenes carried a plucked chicken around, calling it "a man, according to philosophers".

Alexander, at the time the most powerful man in the world, went to visit Diogenes and asked him what he wanted, drawing a shadow while he stood before him. Diogenes responded: "get out of my sunlight".

When asked about his thoughts on masturbation (an art he sometimes practiced in public), Diogenes responded: how happy would we be if the gods allowed us to get rid of hunger by rubbing our stomach!
Does Meta Pay have a checking account as part of each account that you can withdraw from directly via an ATM? Or does Meta Pay need to transfer the money into a 3rd party checking account that you can then withdraw from? That second step may not be instantaneous, depending on which bank the account is at.
You can score 3090 for 800-900 used, with 24GB VRAM it's superb value
and better pay and tenure options for people who don't want to do research but are good at and put significant amounts of work into teaching.
Ok, but isn't there a rather large amount of personel who do basic jobs and won't do anything special nor won't move up the ranks? 18-23 years old young men that enter and leave and that is it. As in, there is huge amount of other people too.
"The contracts stated that OpenAI would pay an hourly rate of $12.50 to Sama for the work, which was between six and nine times the amount Sama employees on the project were taking home per hour."

OpenAI paid $12 an hour, it's Sama that paid them $2 an hour. People should be upset at Sama, not OpenAI. I'm sure you could find Americans willing to label data for $12 an hour.

From OpenAI's perspective, they likely thought they were doing good by going with Sama, since Sama's mission is to provide work to people in Africa. From their website: "Since our founding, we’ve pioneered new technologies and business methods that harness the power of markets for social good, meaningfully improving employment and income outcomes for those with the greatest barriers to formal work."

This is a story about Sama exploiting cheap labor in Africa, if that's what you want to call it, rather than OpenAI specifically aiming to do that.
Instructions unclear, pinky finger fell off.
It might be unclear for an A.I.

But a human being can use their "theory of mind" and rule out any implausible interpretations of what a fellow human being means when they complain Siri is texting Dad, not Mom, when they say text Mom.
Its not made made up firstly.

In fact white people are basically the only people you can be openly racist towards without being villified. Now this racism is quite tame all things considered sure, but it exists.

Again I did not equivocate anti white racism with anti semetism. But fandamentally they are the same thing : racism.

Still dont understand how my question answered itself.

Also, youve been completely hostile, rude, and unwilling to grant that my arguments are in good faith. This argument will not be productive because you refuse to be amicable. Have a nice life.
Guide to Budgeting
creating a budget that works for you is a process that takes time and discipline. By setting financial goals, tracking expenses, being realistic, sticking to your plan, and being flexible, you can achieve your financial goals and take control of your finances.
It's less about being able to do everything a human can, and more about being able to exist in spaces that were meant for humans. The vast, vast majority of settings were built operating under the assumption that a 5-7 ft biped with a similar armspan and effective hands would be using it. If you can make a robot that fits that description, the replacement story is a lot better.
I believe it‘s a conspiracy where sysadmins wanted to create their personal next generation job security.

Countless inane layers of overengineering no one can reason about anymore.
> Zelle® does not impose taxes on transactions made on its network. If payments you receive on the Zelle Network® are taxable, it is your responsibility to report them to the IRS. If you have any questions about your tax obligations, please consult with a tax professional.

Got it.
The shifting meaning of the word exploitation:

Companies are 100% exploiting cheaper labor in other countries - they are only interested in the bottom line.

opportunity and exploitation are not mutuality exclusive, nor does one person's opportunity erase another's exploitation.

Creating opportunity is great: do that without exploiting people - that isn't a requirement. Praise opportunity given. Denounce exploitations not to remove opportunities - but to improve them.
It’s easy too! Just run the container and you’re all set.
Do checks still exist in the US?

Edit: Here in Europe no one uses checks since I can remember (since the 80s?). In Switzerland lots of cash and direct bank transfers.
This is something we need to do, but haven't prioritized yet

For now you can do

bunx bun-repl
How the Netherlands Is Taming Big Tech
If a scammer gets your CC number (in meatspace or online) and makes fraudulent purchases you can dispute them and get the charges reversed, so maybe not the best example.
I won $25 in nickels from a slot machine in Giesen (1998). Turns out it's hard to find a German bank that wants to accept and exchange that. Spent two years feeding it into vending machines on post.
React native is by far better choice than flutter, we are creating apps in both these tech and also in native and my suggestion is Native > React native > Flutter. So when you've Cross platform option only, go with react native.

If any help needed, feel free to reach. Here is our work agicent.com/our-portfolio
Millions, even tens of millions, for founders isn't unheard of at all for small "lifestyle" businesses.

Not VC billions, but fuck you money is certainly doable.
I took your parent to mean there are no more jobs out there without moving to another mining town. Versus a programmer job where there are plenty of other "mines" available.
Bezos isn't CEO anymore.
This looks great. I am glad to still see good work being done in this space.

I had used https://gotenberg.dev/ on AWS in the past. Many of the options available at the time weren't usable in Azure outside of a VM due to needing to make use of GDI interfaces that were disabled for security reasons. Interested to see how it compares to that and the other options being floated at the time like Puppeteer*
Depends on your market. I just checked in Montreal, Canada and you can't get anything used for less than 1600 CAD (around 1200 USD).
Do a post grad??
There was a 1 week time when I had literally 0 to my name because all my money was tied up in bank transfers. It was unnerving.

When zelle first came out, my bank fudged an api call and basically sent my money backwards... which made the transfer crash. Took me a month, they couldn't recover the transfer and just had to credit me the missing cash.
Many businesses DON'T do that, and have adopted structured data transfers. I imagine you're working in an older industry like real estate?
You can bring your own computer but if you want internet you'll have to pay obscene amounts of money for dialup speeds. I've heard that the UK customs officers also take great joy in limiting what kinds of literature and files the soldiers are allowed to import. They confiscate anything they deem obscene (eg Playboy magazines or a hard drive with porn on it) or antisocial (apparently "motorcycle gangs" were a hot topic at one point, so be prepared to say goodbye to your copy of Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)
How long is the average depression though? I still have my parents for a while, but they will be dead in 10 years...
If the payout rate of the machines could be set to pay out 100% of the take in prize money, the military would not be taking a profit, but the gambling would still be real.
More than likely those weren't overdraft protection since i think are only opt-in now. There are fees for having a negative balance which is outside of overdraft protection. There is no way to prevent an account from going negative like with ACH reversal.
There is a payment provider in Europe that has become rather popular, who implement "instant" payments by asking for your online banking credentials... Security best practices always go out the window when they interfere with the business case.
Where do you think they should draw the line as a business case?

I see a pretty obvious line allowing women without a hijab but not what might be considered child porn (girls topless).

Unless you're suggesting that topless girls goes from fine as a baby to not okay as a teen to fine as an adult?

> Should you be using facebook and instagram at work?

I'm allowed to browse at work. But not watch what they consider pornographic.
C# and .NET is an MIT licensed code base.

Not to mention with a community that built an alternative implementation so strong that MS ended up buying the company the emerged from it. And this was before .Net Core was fully open sourced.

I’m not worried about C# or .Net getting nuked.
Can Logic Programming Execute as Fast as Imperative Programming? (1990) [pdf]
I’m a big fan of your list because (other than fuel), each item you list is an order of magnitude less likely to be necessary or even useful

Physical cash: very likely you need it some day soon

Multiple bank accounts: technical issues, fraud, etc, plenty of reasons that might make one accounts funds unavailable

Stocks: if there’s bank runs or such you can have equity to fall back on

Crypto: if your entire economy goes kaput but the world economy lives on, this can be useful

Guns, ammo: if civilization as we know it falls apart atleast you can shoot some people before starving to death
> By deciding where to scope the variable with the destructor/drop function, you've already made a manual decision about memory management.

That's not really what's meant by manual memory management. MMM almost always means things like malloc/free, arenas, buffers with pointers, etc. I would not call stack allocation "manual", and IMO Rust's system is closer to stack allocation than it is to either manual or automatic memory.

In terms of DX, bugs and ergonomics, you only really have two schemes: ones which requre some kind of free() call and thus permit use-after-free bugs (manual) and those that make it impossible (ignoring weakref and friends). Rust is not manual by virtue of no free() instruction. In the same breath, "automatic memory management" is not an exact antonym of manual.
> VB.NET has only superficial similarities to VB 6 and before.

There are differences, but the similarities are more than superficial. Some of my first apps were in 6, and then I transitioned to VB.NET in the early 2000s. At the very least, it pretty familiar and intuitive.

Even VBA is pretty similar to the VB.NET apps I developed in terms of OOP, syntax, autocompletion in the editor, event handlers, and so on.

Again, there are definitely differences, but there was no "[relearning] software development and getting intern like opportunities" like the comment I was replying to said, and my knowledge and experience was definitely not "worth exactly zero." It was just an evolution.
I don't like it. It was fine the way it was. I like the new table of contents though. Thats kind of useful
For a short while, Norway had extremely liberal slot machine laws. They were in every supermarket, post office, anywhere. There was (and is) a state-run gambling monopoly, but slot machines weren't covered by it - they were considered a continuation of Payazzo games, a form of very-low stakes skill-based gambling machines that charities had long been allowed to operate. So charities got to operate slot machines.

Some may say the charities got just as addicted as the gamblers. I remember in particular in a TV debate, where Thorvald Stoltenberg, respected former minister and president of the Norwegian Red Cross, declared that although he realized the harm they caused, he had decided to defend slot machines "no matter what" because they were such an important income source for his organization. He said it as if it was some selfless commitment.

Eventually, though, gambling addiction became a too big and obvious problem to ignore, and the gambling monopoly took over, sharply reducing the numbers of machines and (supposedly) making them less aggressive. There were some concessions to the charities that lost income as a result of it (which, as I recall, screwed over the few charities that had taken a principled stand against slot machines).
By the way... did you know...?
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision – OpenAI
Finally. I have a big monitor and the line width is insane, glad they made it a more reasonable column layout, moving my head from end to end was getting very annoying that I had to use custom CSS instead.
Probably because these statistics are based on reported burglaries as opposed to the actual number of burglaries. It's my impression from various threads and news articles that people in California have given up on reporting all sorts of crimes due to the lack of prosecution.
Moreover, thieves are likely to use custom-built RF occupancy detection devices, while the vast majority of homeowners will buy an off-the-shelf product that will either sell their data to advertisers (a la "smart" televisions), require a subscription service, or both.
US credit card protections are better than Europe's.

Debit cards are somewhat less protected than credit though.
So you're telling me the robots from the matrix could have avoided all that trouble if they just went with candles?
C# came out in 2000; Microsoft didn't even exist in 1970.
So the weekly layoffs thread is right sometimes!
>That's a crazy amount of nutrient for even a very large garden.

Its really not. Cattle manure is around 2% nitrogen. If we call a yard of composted manure 450 kg, that's around 9 kg of nitrogen. Say I'm going through 5 yards annually, which is about right, so 45kg. I'd say some where between 1/2- 1/4th of that actually reaches the plants (22kg). I've got substantial gardens, and I garden them very intensively. I've got about 1000m2 of gardens. In my climate I can crop continuously. High fertility for corn would be around 280 kg/ha. If I'm at 220kg/ha on my 1000m2, that seems about right.
How do you propose to uninvent generative models? They are already deployed. Some are open source and free. The best strategy now is to push ahead with AI. For example to develop local AIs that can counter the evils of the internet and other AIs. An AI immunity system for the user, maybe as part of the web browser or operating system.
GitHub's new user signup is an unusable GPT-ish interface
To be fair, materials sciences are still advancing to this day, so even though no base element contains a measurable fragment of scrith's material properties, it's not entirely infeasible that no alloy in the universe could approach it.
Does it use postgres or other databse and store the spatial data in-db?
In Times New Roman's name, Roman is a reference to the regular or roman style (sometimes also called Antiqua)
You must be on mac, because my 1pw experience is horrible on Linux. Edit a password in the browserextention opens an new tab in n which i have to login all again. Ugh. Bitwarden at least doesn't do that. Drag and drop? Nope.
The Netherlands has big tech companies?

Oh.
> no impact to backtrace generation or debuggability

That wasn't my experience with MSVC's implementation of LTO.

In particular, eliminating ABI-compliant function calls meant that those functions were eliminated from the callstack as shown by the debugger.

Are GCC or perf better about that, somehow?
If you compare the pg essays from 2000-2010 to 2010-now, there's a very noticeable shift in tone on this exact topic, even moreso if you zoom out of pg and consider YC messaging then and now.

Tons of old pg essays sound straight from something like Indie Hackers or Microconf with their "avoid raising VC money" angle. He even literally predicts the death of VC in web SaaS, saying "investors aren't worth the trouble": http://www.paulgraham.com/divergence.html .

His YC cofounder Jessica Livingston wrote a book "Founders at Work" and about half the founders in the book are bootstrappers (DHH, Joel Spolosky, Craigslist). The other half are mostly founders recounting horror stories of interacting with VCs.

Compare that to modern YC where there are videos where they say _everyone_ should consider applying to YC with the _only_ exception being people that want to bootstrap. Modern Startup School says: "Without startup funding the vast majority of startups will die." (https://www.ycombinator.com/library/4A-a-guide-to-seed-fundr...).

There's something very important to note which is that YC did not change the deal from 125k for 7% to 500k for 7%. It's still 125k for 7% plus 375k worth of equity on your next raise. Which only makes sense if there is a next raise. So obviously they discourage bootstrapping since their whole model has been built around you raising at least one more round after YC.

Seems a pretty simple case of "follow the incentives." YC basically became more of a traditional VC over time. And I think pg was still closer to a founder in the early 2000s, from a founder perspective, it's more of a set of tradeoffs whether you should bootstrap or seek VC. But from a VC's perspective, obviously they want you to seek VC since they can't get involved if you bootstrap and bootstrapped startups won't get the outsized returns they need.

My opinion is, pg is a smart guy, there's still a ton of wisdom to learn from in his essays, but as with every other person on the planet, consider their motivation and incentives for telling you what they're telling you.
Why would the military be interested in a machine that folds laundry? I mean, BostonDynamics makes cool stuff but lets not kid ourselves.
Have you seen Mr Robot? Something similar happens in the show, good watching for anyone on HN.
For context, Hugh Nibley was a prolific apologist for the mainstream Mormon church.
1) Awesome, didn't know about this, but

2) Are they ingesting and modifying raw WP pages, and haven't updated for the new design? I ask because on desktop Safari there are tons of major layout errors (search field completely overlaps left menu; top logo image missing; page stretches one full, empty screenfull past the end of the footer; some text sits on top of section dividers rather than within the boundaries of a section) and wonder whether that's normal or just a temporary issue.
A lot of alcohol before.
Nope, I wrote a dedicated app to do the ETL (which is Rails but doesn't actually run a webserver outside of development).

I'm transforming Peoplesoft data into something actually usable, so it's more complex than any off the shelf tools I looked at could tackle. It's my third time doing one of these so the code this time around is super clean and maintainable.

The university I work for is switching to Workday next year so when we're actually provided details on that I'll be sure to revisit Kiba. If Workday's DB is cleaner it could be a good option.

Thanks for the tip. ;)
> if one takes the position the measures are not the cause of the collapse they can still be a cause of unrest

You’re missing that the measures have been taken in other contexts without unrest, e.g. Iceland, Cyprus, FDR’a gold confiscation. If X always precedes Y, and Z sometimes does but sometimes doesn’t (and when it does, is twinned with X), and we witness X, Z and Y, X is the dominant explanation for Y.
The way we do it is we just take the new stuff and put it at the back so the oldest stuff is at the front. The other thing is we only buy things we know we eat regularly. So we have 3 months worth of applesauce, goldfish crackers.

We also freeze anything that isn't in a can or a sealed, so bread we usually buy 4 loaves and freeze 2 or 3, and accept we'll have to get more from the store before we go.

The limitation is we can't get things from Costco that aren't used regularly, for example, we don't go through enough cream cheese to buy Costco size, and it doesn't account for all our food needs. But if tomorrow I lost my job we know we could survive without having to go to the store for anything but milk and eggs* for the next month or two.

* Hopefully we'll remedy this in the summer with chickens.
No, I read the article, and appreciate the point, but I don't think Seinfeld is a great example. They quit earlier than they could have, but if the objective was to "leave the audience wanting a little more" then they were already too late. He didn't really give any other reason such as being tired or losing motiviation.

The Bill Watterson example cited by other commenters is better.
I love my AudioEngine A5's
This is a lovely lecture by the legendary topologist Bill Thurston, in which he illustrates the cyclic branched cover of a knot by interpreting the knot as a portal to other universes.

I don’t think the idea has ever been used in a real video game, but there have been a few demos: the most impressive is the VR demo [0], which is described in detail with lots of background in [1].

There’s also a pretty comprehensive thread on Twitter [2], where @RAnachro collects a lot of videos and demos of knotted portals.

[0] https://www.imaginary.org/program/knotportal

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-020-10028-8

[2] https://twitter.com/RAnachro/status/1362478176874754050
Why I Like Nox
Who controls JavaScript?
> But on the other hand, Windows 95 was perfectly useable to people who had never sat down at a computer before.

As did Gnome 1.4 on my grandmother's first computer (an old 486 we saved from the bin).

People who never sat down on a computer have always been the easiest in term of adoption because they aren't limited by old habits, muscle memory and resistance to change.