skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with you. I rarely know if the label refers to the current state or what will happen if I click it. Very confusing. Checkboxes are much better.
Even though I disagree with the parent, HN has strict guidelines about calling people names and I'm actually in favor of these guidelines. We all fall prey to our emotions so please just edit the comment. If HN is overflowing with clowns we have to take extra caution not to become one ourselves and to dissuade them from coming here.
Tell HN: Coinbase is a joke (product and support)
I work with Ukrainians and paying some of them has been a challenge, so we decided to give payment via BTC a try. I got a personal Coinbase account to play around with it, to get more familiar (I had never purchase any crypto until then). Once I got the account and proved to myself that it should work, I started the process to get a business account.

The business account took a long time to get. Probably 2 months. The amount of information they asked for was quite surprising to me. As a founder, I had never given this level of detail to anyone for any purpose. I assumed that it was due to regulations Coinbase were under, but honestly, I do not know. The end goal was important enough that I was willing to go along.

Once I went through the onerous process, I linked our business checking and purchased some BTC and tried to transfer it. I was told there would be a 13 day hold on the funds before they could be transferred to my consultant. I went through support and was told to use a debit card and there would be no hold.

Since I didn't have a debit card, I had to get one. After it came, I tried to add it and I got the error: An error occurred / Business cards are not supported.

That was in mid-December. Here we are in late January and it is still not resolved. Here's a thumbnail of what has happened in between:

- I submitted an email ticket, where they sent me canned responses for the first week or so. They really never seem to understand the issue.

- After a few weeks they finally told me I had a personal account and I couldn't add a business debit card.

- I showed them screengrabs of my account proving that it was a business account.

At this point they ghosted me.

A week ago I tried a chat on the website. I explained everything above and it came down to this:

> A person can only have either a personal or business account, but not both

Let's ignore the fact that they let me open both accounts and never said a word about it. They even let me connect a debit card to my personal account and a checking account to my business account.

Next, they told me if I deleted my personal account I could add the debit card to my business account. I did that. No change.

I started a chat again and after a long time bumped it up a level and said someone would get in touch with me via email.

Yesterday I got an email that my new ticket was closed and asked if my issue was resolved.

At this point, I deleted my personal account and my business account is stuck in "personal" mode and I can't add a debit card, so the hold time means it's useless.

I just want people to know that Coinbase is a complete joke of a company. Don't use them.
> Worrying about being a 10x eng or not is like asking yourself if you are Einstein level smart.

I think this is the crux of it. I don't think theoretical physicists sit around insisting that Einstein wasn't a 10x physicist ...
If you scroll down past the lede and the table of contents the old design has more information. It's just that giant square of whitespace next to the ToC that is holding back the old one.
You said this:

>Tesla will eventually be the largest company on Earth, and no one else is close.

And yet you have no way of knowing how "close" the "no one" companies are if you have zero knowledge of a competitor that has already surpassed their technology.

Cut the hyperbole and talk about things that you have knowledge of.
Physics for Mathematicians by Spivak is basically the Principia updated to modern prose and rigor.
Wow they are investing in real estate! How generous!
> The purpose of that committee is to be a factory for clips to show on Fox News and Newsmax. I appreciate your optimism but it's unwarranted.

The democrats got their clips for CNN, MSNBC, WP, etc with their sham of an investigation complete with a Hollywood director.

Now that there's over 14,000 hours of footage being released we'll have even more clips.
In this particular case I feel like it's a bug that backup codes are not treated as secure as 2fa codes, and that I need explicitly a 2fa code to disable 2fa is just broken (in my specific case)
Yep it absolutely ratchets up "suspicion" on your account, and failed attempts will quickly get your account in some sort of state where you're locked out. It's absolutely maddening.
Security, local copies, and limited restoration options
Solid State Active Cooling Could Revolutionize Thermals
I would also expect lying to be a bigger red flag compared to past drug use, and while it seems these stories invalidate such an idea, I believe they actually validate it: these are stories of people who did get security clearance and they were honest, the ripping up part is more like a symbolic gesture from the system "let's both pretend none of that happened".

These stories don't mean the person would have past when immediately denying the past offense...

While growing up, and during my studies I had often considered job roles where security clearances would presumably be required, but I decided to stay away from that world for multiple reasons:

1. when a sector is heavily propagandized / advertised in media (books, films, ...) then usually it's to attract more talent who wouldn't spontaneously apply. lots of people get disillusioned in armies etc around the world, which is why the experience is artificially inflated in movies etc...

2. I understand that in some situations people in certain job roles need to sacrifice some of their personal freedoms in order to protect the freedoms of the population at large, think for example freedom of expression vs secrecy, and the need of secrecy say among the Polish, French, British, ... in the context of the cracking of the Enigma coding system. To join and apply for security clearance entails signing away certain rights and freedoms. The mere thought that the only way to find out if that's a good decision or not is by taking that decision for life is nauseating to me. Even if I were to become an employee and the practical experience would be that the organization and the individual that signed up agree on the need for secrecy 99% of the time (which sounds very optimistic), I would balk at that 1% or more of the time where I disagree, where I might be convinced the secrecy is creating more problems than solutions. That thought seems unbearable to me, so I'd rather have no security clearance at all and feel ... free.
> Who says I should deliver product that has value?

Whoever hired you?

"Not my responsibility/problem" is a terrible attitude, nobody wants employ those people. They can be useful as contractors. But if you are hired as an FTE, it's strange to complain about not being treated as a contractor, don't you think?

> Between (performance, scalability, fancy tech, etc) and (growth, UX, features), which one is Software Engineering and which one isn not?

It's a false dichotomy, all of those are Software Engineering. Some of those are not Computer Science, but could still be strongly tied to it (e.g. UX is often a synonym for HCI).

> You clearly see which metric matters to a software engineers (performance, scalability...)

No, I see this is a metric that matters for bad software engineers.

> And the value of a product is combination/unification of all these things (performance, scalability, ux, ui...) and who should think/plan about that?

Few people should be responsible, but everyone should think, plan and provide feedback.

What you need to recognize is that engineers are in unique position: they can understand 80% of business domain, while business folks can understand 5% of engineering domain. You'd be an idiot not to involve engineers in delivering value.
These are distinct from the AR goggles which they are expected to announce before the developers conference.
This is by design with the app. There are other authenticator apps like authy that save/sync 2FA.
I've used it to port code to different languages, and it seems to do a pretty good job.
And yet company stores managed to make it work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tXJokkWQjY
Do you plan to support http3 in the (near) future?
Thanks for posting this. awesome article.
Why didn’t a smaller group of Republicans vote for a Dem?
http://shorturl.at/bnOT0
I use OTP Auth[1] and enable its iCloud sync function to guard against this specific scenario.

1: https://cooperrs.de/otpauth.html
If you can find an economical way to recycle plastic, it would be an insanely lucrative business opportunity. It has nothing to do with their views on the environment.
Is buying an option instead of building? You could try out some free credits with AWS Textract to see if it fits the bill (it specifically has table extraction) ?
My immediate (i.e. unconsidered) thought is a solid state zone plate (like a radio version of a Fresnel lens) which can be used for adjustable focusing or steering of incident radio waves.
Maybe I missed this in the article. How many single drops of water have life in them? Like what’s the hit rate?
There was a debate in America in the 1800 (during abolition) on how similar wage labor was/is to slavery. Those who said that it was would call it “wage slavery”.
From the first google search on US farmland subsidies:

" Who Benefits Most From Farm Subsidies?

Farm subsidies don't benefit all farms equally. According to the Cato Institute, farmers of corn, soybeans, and wheat receive more than 70% of farm subsidies. These are also usually the largest farms.

From an other source:

"Corn growers received the most product-specific assistance with $2.2 billion in subsidies. That was only about 4.4% of the $50.4 billion in total corn production that year. Soybeans rank second in subsidies. While the US soybean industry produced $41.3 billion worth of products in 2017, it received $1.6 billion in subsidies in 2016, representing 3.9% of production.

The US sugar industry produced $2.5 billion worth of product in 2017 and received $1.6 billion in subsidies, according to the report. The support amounted to 63.5% of the value of total production."

- https://www.thoughtco.com/us-farm-subsidies-3325162

- https://usafacts.org/articles/federal-farm-subsidies-what-da...
Are tech companies in the Bay Area still recruiting foreigners?
Hello everyone, are companies in the Bay Area still recruiting foreigners?
I may have 2 years of experience in the Cloud (AWS/GCP/K8S) and two other years of experience in dev (Go/Scala/TS), but I have no answers, not even a screening.
Is it the period that wants this? A change of vision?
Somebody should give out a price for best awk usage...
... though it might be awk-ard.
Because UX "design" is often not about design but about cargo culting the latest trends.
If you want to go down another order of magnitude or few, fluorescent microscopy of single-celled organisms is pretty interesting. This collection of images is stunning:

https://www.canadiannaturephotographer.com/epifluorescencemi...

These techniques also revealed the sheer scale of microbial life, as even the clearest ocean water from the most remote, nutrient-limited tropical seas will contain as many as 100,000 cells per mL. Below that there are the various viruses that infect or cohabit with these bacteria and small plants and animals, which are invisible to light microscopy.
I think they still have loss carryforwards, they didn't make money for several years initially
Sharing a useful app I found: The Orca Scan app on iPhone can scan and decode all kinds of barcodes and qr codes
I feel like the lesson there isn't 2FA == bad, but rather it's important to have backups of your most important data and credentials, including TOTP seeds.
It's happened to me a couple of times, but the time periods were short because I realized within a couple of months that not only was I (and everyone else on the team) horribly unproductive but that effecting change was impossible.
I have used that method many times with success.

One side-effect is you can't go into a folder and type something like: `cp .doc` or `cp screenshots xxxxx`
Democrats and Republicans can both suck. Pointing to Dems when Repubs are assholes doesn’t make Repubs any better. Being partisan doesn’t always mean a good thing.
They don't want to host a document with very little engagement. They want to serve articles that are short and lead to more page views.
Bit of an aside story but I'm in the process of renewing a US work Visa (travel into the US for work often from Canada). I was reminded going through the online form last week that there are 3 full pages of questions like: "Have you ever participated in child trafficing?", "Have you participated in terrorist activities?", "Have you participated in overthrowing a government?", etc. etc. All of the most extreme international crimes you could think of.

I later realized that they don't expect any one to answer these truthfully, however if in future you are caught doing (Edit: or having previously done) any of these things the "lied on Visa application" is grounds for an instant revocation of the Visa without all the other possible complications.
I've found in these situations that the most effective way to solve the problem is to contact a Google employee that you know personally. If you can do this, they can fill out a form where they vouch for you, and you can get the account unlocked.
What more should they add? How would you like it improved?
I am genuinely asking.
> Ingredients: [...] Chicory Root [...]

Hey, that's the stuff my (great-)grandparents drank, during and after the world wars! They didn't additionally "upcycle" date seeds, whatever upcycling means in that context, though. :D

Personally I would just switch to pure chicory root or wheat coffee before using such an overpriced "premium mocca faux". $17 for less than a litre of "coffee" is quite the price tag.
Is your manager's comment real to you? Or is it just their attempt to shift blame by shaming you?

If someone has now explained the "big picture", do you see a path to have seen it earlier?
Would help to have some information on the landing page about what this is before asking for sign up
No, I think it's more like- you have to treat Republicans as true, pure psychopaths. They will promise anything that gets them what they want but when it comes time they will do whatever is in their best interests regardless of previous statements. And their base will reward them for doing it.
You can't really make a deal with someone like that.
FreeBSD for the Writing Scholar (2021)
A public square is a square of the public, not a private establishment. These are not public platforms, provided by the public for the public. They are private enterprises with a specific brand and desired code of conduct whose goal is to maximize engagement for profit. Essentially their existential risk is becoming a cesspool of toxic trolls and driving out the normals. This is the same, in the context of a public square being different than a private bar, which has an open door to the public but has discretion on who stays in the bar.

Example: You certainly can be kicked out of bars for being an asshole. Source: I’m an asshole.
only those of the majority party can is how the rule goes.
Love it! Was thinking of making this myself, you saved me the trouble!
Hey, so this is admittedly monday morning quarterbacking, but in the future, you can definitely consider moving from Google Auth to Twillio's authy [1]. It lets you move devices and all your secrets come with you (it's also got other cool features, but the one that is killer IMO is the ability to migrate from device to device).

https://authy.com/
For what it's worth, there are also actually on-board radar systems in some aircraft
Ha, yes. However I’m a New Zealander in New Zealand.
Which could mean that these people have been outsourced.
The only places on Earth where beef is as or more expensive are Hong Kong and Korea. It's a steep drop off from those three.

Food prices in general are higher in Switzerland (1.6x EU in 2020), but meat is exceptionally expensive (2.3x EU). This affects both organic and non-organic stock. Most of the margins on both are to retailers.[1]

> The system only works because Switzerland is a member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), but not part of the European Economic Area. It can therefore easily isolate itself from the EU internal market and protect domestic products from foreign competition.

> "Switzerland doesn't get flooded with cheap meat from Germany. That's a huge advantage for Swiss farmers," says Martin Rufer.

> Anyone entering Switzerland may import a maximum of 1 kilogram of meat or meat products per person. Anything above that will get extremely expensive because of the high customs duties.

1: https://www.dw.com/en/switzerland-meat-animals-farmers/a-545...
Yup. I keep a cheap backup Android phone with Google Authenticator installed just for this purpose. Every time I add a 2FA code, I add it to the backup phone. I also print out the QR code, but a backup phone is far more convenient.

I dropped my main phone into the toilet a week ago, completely fried it. Moved the SIM card to my backup phone, and carried on like almost nothing happened. I then powered up my 10-year old Nexus 7 tablet, and duplicated all my 2FA codes to the tablet. When I get a new replacement phone, I will duplicate my 2FA codes again.
I thought they'd thrown him off a boat to drown.
I am not going to visit or look up these sites on my work computer.

But if they are headquartered outside the US like many online pharmacies are, likely they are going to just ignore any law enforcement requests for user data.

Putting myself in the shoes of an online pharmacy selling abortion meds, I would be crazy to headquarter in the US. I'd be surprised if even a few were US-based.
Repubs could have gotten their game theory wrong. It’s likely both sides are doing the wrong thing because that’s what both sides and the status quo always do.
I basically agree with what you're saying.

My response was based on the reader saying something about "mathematical thinking" in their post. In my experience, programmers talking about "mathematical thinking" usually have math insecurity and are referring to more advanced topics, thinking they need to consult tomes of deep mathematical wisdom to correct this deficiency (wrong). Could be totally off base, of course. But note some of the other replies here, suggesting very sophisticated books. Are they appropriate for a random HN poster who is soliciting random book suggestions to improve their "mathematical thinking"...? Seems unlikely to me...

One caveat, though:

... Also unfortunate is that for probably most people who are working career professionals, there likely isn't enough free time available to go back and do an actual math degree in school. So learning on ones own from books, videos, etc. is probably the only viable choice.

I'm not so sure about this. If, like you say, someone is in a job where they need to read some papers with some math in them, they should be organizationally near someone who can help them out. If possible, I think a better strategy (better even than getting a degree) would be to find these people and develop a relationship with them to the point where you can ask them questions. They should then be able to explain any unclear notation, unfamiliar (simple) concepts, etc. Possibly some of that person's advice might come in the form of "watch a Khan Academy video on Topic X". But this will be a far more productive use of time than self-directed learning in this case.

On the other hand, if they aren't near anyone with those skills but they're reading these papers... something is probably amiss. For example, if they're reading a machine learning paper which requires a significant knowledge of "engineering math" (Calc 3, linear algebra, etc.), and there is no one with that knowledge nearby... having them read that paper is probably a waste of time from an organizational perspective.

There's also the question of why they're reading that paper when they don't have those basic mathematical skills. Without those skills, it is unlikely they will be able to do very much that is useful with it. If they want to implement the algorithm because they think it will be suitable for some task, I would argue that without those skills they are not in a good position to be able to accurately assess whether the algorithm will perform well. Part of what you learn in an advanced degree is how to read a paper---i.e., how to sniff out the bull shit, what to be wary of, etc.
I recently saw Beyond sausage on BOGO sale at Safeway. I’ve never bought it before, but between that discount and a general meat coupon (which interestingly applied to meat substitutes), it was a decent deal. Haven’t tried it yet but interested to see if it could be a worthwhile purchase at this lower price level.
https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html
yes this is true, I was imprecise
"Pink Slime" was about a picture of a pink substance being extruded that people claimed was chicken nugget paste.

I never understand when people get riled up about that kind of stuff. What do you THINK ground up meat looks like?
I've seen whole teams kick and scream about migrating, even when their preferred system was taking minutes to do basic operations because the repo was too large.
They are however allowed to kick someone out who the other patrons find abusive or offensive in their conduct or behavior. If you went into a restaurant screaming about killing all the black people, you shouldn’t expect a lot of sympathy from anyone when they kick you out.
I agree with most of what you're saying, although we're describing slightly different use cases.

For example, using a .deb file is just as "distro locked" as the sort of "apt-get scripting" I was complaining about. It's pretty much a Pareto improvement to change a Dockerfile from `RUN apt-get install ...` to `RUN apt install ./my-package.deb` (we can construct the .deb wherever we like; outside the container, inside the container, in a separate container, etc.)

As for Docker being "easy"... I suppose that's subjective. Personally, it's given me nothing but pain; from trying to get the damn thing installed, to trying to understand it (lots of documentation turns out to be obsolete, and lots more assumes you're already familiar with its bizarro-world of not-invented-here concoctions).

I gave up trying to understand Docker itself. I learned much more by following the OCI specs, and building container images directly using `tar` and `sha256`. AWS ECS seems to run them just fine :)
This response is a really bad idea, and I think the security office people that recommend this are actually compromising security by making value judgments about what is and isn't relevant to background investigators based on their own personal beliefs. If this came to light they might get fired, despite it being way too normalized.

The conventional wisdom is to answer truthfully, and justify your answers. You really don't want to get caught lying. It's not up to the person asking you to fill out the form to tell you what to list and what not to list.

If the government can't find enough qualified people they need to adapt the process (and they have). Some things are 100% dealbreakers and should have been changed a long time ago (see local Marijuana jurisdiction laws), but I'm a firm believer you shouldn't lie to get the job. Find another one and move on. My .02.