skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Commercial aviation in the 60's was quite safe. Of course there were plenty of issues but the truly dangerous era was the preceding decades. The 747 dates from the very late 60's for example and that's an extremely safe plane. Conversely the 50's was a much scarier decade as commercial jet engines were in a fairly experimental decade.
why would copying the comment and then deleting it here be a problem?
As others have said, Apple devices can now br passkeys, which is just a new term for WebAuthn + FIDO support. The linked article is about logging into your Apple ID, so you of course want another key for logging into that. But for other sites that support FIDO2+WebAuthn, I believe an Apple device can already function as a security key.

Further reading:

- Apple's passkey security doc: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213305

- I liked this overview of Passkeys vs Yubikeys, but of course it's a bit biased: https://www.yubico.com/blog/a-yubico-faq-about-passkeys/
Embarrassments will continue until everyone realizes all the "security experts" recommending password managers have marketing deals with them. Password managers are an awful antipattern, I've been saying it for years, and it's absolutely comical to me that people do not get the message. When one falls, it's "oh that one sucked, use this other one instead".

An Internet-connected data vault is subject to attack from anyone on the planet. A Post-It stuck to your monitor is only subject to attack from people who can visually look inside your office. Guess which is safer? Once you realize a Post-It is a better choice, and you can think of trivial ways to improve on that... why are people storing their passwords online?
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I'm sure this varies so I came to this same scenario at a high end sushi restaraunt where there is a waitress, a sushi chef, a non-sushi cheff, hostess, bartender etc and every single one of those people are working on your dinner (closer to $100 per person, but still).

I wasn't sure and I had hoped the tip worked as you said getting spread around (at least to the sushi chef who takes the sushi order directly and drops it at your table). I figured the hostess would tell me straight up since she's not taking my tip directly and doesn't benefit greatly one way or another.

She made it clear to me. Don't expect anyone beyond the waitress to get a meaningful share. I presume she meant either the sharing was very minimal or the waitress was likely to pocket most of it before reporting the amount to the people she may obliged to share it with. That didn't sit well with me but I have a feeling she was telling the truth, especially in light of the fact that the waitress would have every incentive especially with cash to just pocket the money and tell everybody else they were stiffed or got 5% or whatever.
> we don't accept cash either.

Not accepting tips is one thing. But not accepting cash means you will never have me as a customer.

Edit: I've already walked away from a dozen different food places in airports because of this kind of trash: please install this app, can't pay in cash, can't see a menu without scanning a QR code, use an iPad with shitty touchscreen that I can barely see or use...

I just wanted to order some food and pay with legal tender.
That's the problem. The system wants to assign one number to performance and fire based on that yet even getting an approximation of that is hard

> Someone who closes out tons of tickets but is a complete asshole and hated by their teammates should get a worse performance review than someone who codes less but provides mentorship and guidance and is generally pleasant to work with.

They should get a talk with their manager about the attitude and if they don't fix it they should be fired; not wait for any ranking to cull them.
Forget freezing the data, where do you make a CCPA delete request?
> Credit cards have quite a bit of protection on them.

"Quite a bit" is not the same as "to my satisfaction when traveling"
Actually lose money or provide value to other departments that earn money ?
> A reasonable take if you ignore how this system reinforces existing inequality

Sure, it "reinforces existing inequality" but what should we do about it? I'm pretty sure punishing people for stealing stuff "reinforces existing inequality", but does that mean stop doing that? Giving high paying jobs to the most qualified candidate also "reinforces existing inequality", but does that mean we should allocate jobs via lottery? Many things "reinforces existing inequality", but they exist for a reason. "reinforces existing inequality" is just a thought terminating cliche.

> the ways this system is used outside its original scope.

What are some examples?

>Also you have to admit it’s kind of fucked up that there’s no total opt out mechanism.

I mean, you can sort of opt out by refusing to give consent for people to run credit checks on you. The problem is that if you don't they assume you must have terrible credit, so you get denied for a lot of things.
Excuse me, in what way are hotel housekeepers not in hospitality industry?
Sure. It's not the coarse language that I object to — it's the lazy, juvenile humour. It's similar to penisJS[0] — a software analogue to children defacing the chairs in their school classrooms with drawings of genitalia.

I think it's a pretty bad look for the industry.

Not to say there shouldn't be humour — there should be more humour. Personally, my most popular software projects are purely comedic, and they're also a little more coarse than this.

To put it another way: I'd prefer the software humour to be a little more Sean Lock and a little less Beavis and Butt-Head.

[0]: https://github.com/edankwan/penis.js/
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MS-BASIC (for the altair) dates to 1975. At that time, ed was the standard unix text editor (vi, the VIsual editor, didn't exist until 1978.). Most early 80s computers used a variation of MS-BASIC from 1977, designed for 1977 hobbyist hardware, slightly modified, never updated, and burned into ROM.

Anyhow, Apple Pascal was available with a full-screen editor in 1979 (this required 64-K of RAM, a disk drive, and lots of disk switching). 1984-era MacBASIC had a GUI text editor (The mac shipped with 128K of RAM, 64K of ROM, and a 400K 3.5" floppy drive.

https://archive.org/details/mac_MacBASIC.335
You generally tip babysitters (especially if you want them to be available in the future).
and end up in a situation where 80% of the country is over 70 and cannot function? how is that better or short-lived?
Managing money as a couple can be challenging, but with the right approach, it can also be a great opportunity to build a strong financial foundation together.
didn't see anything out of the ordinary on that blog post. and yet, it is triggering my laptop fan. very odd.
Video rental records is it. Everything else is up for sale.
I have a friend with no education who has been a server and bartender. When he is able to work as a server, the money flows in. He's currently working at a Brazilian steakhouse where the standard tip for a table of 4 is $36 before counting money spent on drinks, meaning that after splitting up the tips with other servers and the backroom staff, he's still making well over $70 an hour on a slow day.

Of course, when he was between serving jobs, he was working at a doggy day care for $12 an hour.
> Babysitting.

Not generally.

> Obviously, you don't decide if you're going to pay for restaurant service; you decide only whether you're going to hold up your end of a cost sharing deal.

Tipping is not a “deal” that you have committed to, by definition.
Negotiating bills is a simple yet effective way to save money and take control of your finances.
> What we didn't expect was that the village idiots would also come along.

And that there would be so many of them.
i knew about this, but I wonder how many spam tentatives you get to this address
https://media.carnegie.org/filer_public/0a/e1/0ae166c5-fca3-...
But then you should probably look at what is not earning money or facilitate earning money.

But that's kind of irrelevant when layoffs are coz shareholders want more returns this yeah, not because company has problems...
I remember being on a long (9ish hour) flight from London to Nairobi as a child. My heavy-smoker parents thoughtfully bought non-smoking seats for the flight.

We turned out to be a row or two away, made no difference at all.

But, they both smoked heavily, continuously in the car and at home too. My whole family did. Grandparent, parents, siblings (2 of 6 didn’t), step parents, aunts and uncles. Growing up it felt much odder and rebellious to not smoke.

In addition to the ash trays my father insisted he use little heavy, silver tubular extinguishers in each ash tray. Silver plated, from memory. Doubt they did much, but were ubiquitous at home.

My father was proud when he “gave up smoking” by moving from Gitances to Silk Cut, which he said were like fresh air compared.
>That is a pretty fringe worry of tracking that places a major burden on the business.

Taking cash? It's illegal in NYC not to... Not sure how fringe that is.
>why should the 2FA app give you a one-time code if you could be an attacker?

Because the app aims to prove that someone has possession of the device. If someone has the key instead they can give back the device and generate codes later without possession. They can also resell the key online without having to ship a physical device. They can sell the same key to multiple people.
interesting view
Even if I agree with the thrust of your point, I think it’s too much to claim GP is not criticizing “in good faith” just because their critique wasn’t as defended as strongly as you’d prefer.

Seems like a misuse of the term, unless you think GP had ulterior motives behind their critique of a datetime standard format.
I'm seeing folks on social media looking for work. e.g. if it's Twitter, chances are someone's friend list has other people in the same part of the company that might have been laid off. A lot of people are also brushing off old Linked-In profiles and announcing their availability. Meetup is another good source because people will be joining the groups their interested in to start networking and you can scan the membership. A lot of people looking for work will likely make themselves really easy to find.
Laptop getting old?
Thankfully, life is not a zero-sum game (I mean it is, but we are just converting energy into complexity).

Some of these engineers will open other types of businesses and employ these people. Or maybe these people will go back to trades, because you know, these are much needed skills.

Based on your logic, we should still be using horses.
Are we even surprised at this point? Legal ramifications for these security breaches are a joke. Consumers just keep getting worked over.
Not sure about the “paid extra” part, but this is called Hire To Fire[1] and is evidently in practice at companies that do stack ranking.

1: https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/amazons-controversial-hire-to...
That never happened to me when I came back from China (unable to get a credit card for 9 years because I didn’t have a Chinese ID card, so no credit history within the 10 year window they keep track), nor did it happen to my wife, who obviously didn’t have any history as a new immigrant. We didn’t have problem getting a rental with proof of job/income. And without the job/proof of income, even with 10 credit cards, many of these places won’t rent to you regardless of your credit rating given eviction laws.

I get it, there must be some place that denies rental based on lack of credit history, but I would guess it is so rare that you’d have to stretch really hard to find an example.
OP discussed an apparently mandatory "cost of living fee" and tipping, which is optional. The overall discussion based on TFA is about tipping.
Worshipping at the altar of artificial intelligence
yep, same author: https://github.com/ozkl?tab=repositories
Only 60% of Americans drink? I routinely get astonished looks when I tell people that I've never in my life even tried a drop of alcohol. It seems like way more than 60% have had alcohol.
A possibly salient fact is that Dick and LeGuin are essentially the two sci-fi authors who attracted academic study. Whatever the initial impetus, those doing literary analysis like to be able to cite and build on previous papers, and so it's easier for everyone else to stick to those two.
I love that feeling after successfully completing and handing off a project, the ebullient sense of elation. There's nothing else like it in the world.

I'm a software engineer and solutions architect.
It also assumes that money doesn't change hands multiple times before going back into another bank.
> assuming actual fraud

That's a load-bearing assumption here!

Yes, whenever a credit card fraud investigation will be resolved in your favor, so would it be for a debit card – and the outcome is "no money lost" in both scenarios as well.

But in the odd case a credit card issuer does not side with you, are you absolutely sure that they would just silently drop the pending balance and not report you for a missed payment if you decide to not pay? (Yes, there is recourse against that – but so is there against a Regulation E debit card fraud case, at least as far as I know.)
People do tip in Australia, it's just not expected. Tipping a genuine act of generosity to reciprocate exceptional service.

The correlation between service quality and tipping is an interesting one, why does anyone do a good job in any role without some kind of incremental reward for effort. Do office workers always revert to 'just enough to not get fired' or are they playing a longer game for promotions and bonuses?
Did you see that sign "Welcome to the United States" when arriving at the airport? That was the clear disclosure that from this point on, every restaurant price is [menu price] * 1.3. Just keep that in mind when ordering.
> You can know in the most obvious subset of cases of error, but if your score is 573 and it's supposed to be 605, good luck figuring that out.

Presumably you're talking about the case where somebody never checks their credit report, goes out to get a car loan or whatever, and gets a worse interest rate because there's an error on their report. My question is, what are they supposed to do? They're already required to give you a free report per year. There are various services that give you your score and report for free multiple times per year. I guess a push model would work better, but would you want all the credit bureau to send you a letter to your address on file every time your credit report changes?
Ask HN: ‘Following’ Other HN Users?
I’m conflicted about even asking this. I do really love that HN is only very lightly curated for me, and I’m evenly exposed to the opinions of a fairly random sample of people on a daily basis. It’s easily the standout feature of this site.

But still… It does often feel too ephemeral. I sometimes wish I were able to easily keep track of what some people are posting on here and interact more directly. It’s easy enough to sort of keep up with some of the more prolific accounts because they’re often almost hard to avoid, but that’s about it.

As an example, I ran into a few people in a thread once that live nearby (statistically fairly unlikely!) and there was talk of meeting up, but that was the end of it, because how else could we coordinate? I can’t even find that thread now, but I’m still up for some beers, gorge residents!

Anyway, sorry, I’m rambling. Really I was just wondering if anyone has any good tools for following other HN users’ activity.
I guess just getting 2 different brands of cards would be fine for that.

I've seen devices like this for servers, basically 2 microsd cards with hardware raid1 mounted inside the server. It wasn't doing much writing on it tho, it was designed so you could run say hypervisor off it and be able to use all drive slots for storage.
Yeah, the product manager lets us trying a lot of technical things for the benefits of the long-term development of the project. And also a heavy trust in every teammate skills.
Google Fuchsia OS team affected by layoffs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34473500 - Jan 2023 (82 comments)
I have found way more satisfaction while building something for the consumer masses, rather than system-to-system integrations.
> and we don't accept cash either.

I would not patronize your business.
Why don't you set the default to be $0 tip, and make anything else optional?

This seems to go out of the way to fight tipping culture and seems to cause more confusion than necessary.
The smoking area was also the prime location in the restaurant! I would often choose to sit there (as a non smoker) just so I didn't have to sit in the back room.
Waiters need a fucking union. Tips are pretty much used exclusively to fuck over workers
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Those ventilation systems in Vegas casinos are running at half power or something. I was there in 2011 and 2021 and it seemed like the indoor air was much lousier in 2021. I couldn’t walk from my hotel room to outside without ending up smelling like smoke (this was the MGM Grand).
If you want to avoid this in Vegas, Park MGM is the only smoke-free casino hotel on the strip. There are a few hotel-hotels that are smoke-free as well.
Too high. I do not and did not know any smokers of my age in high school, college, or after. Seriously zero, which would be odd if it was really one-third. And I'm from Oklahoma which has a high rate of smoking, but I associate it with my friends' grandparents.
You want the government to run banks so that stores don't need cash registers?
One advantage is that a PIV PIN can be much shorter than a password and still be secure (because the smart card/Yubikey enforces attempt limiting in secure hardware).
I find forced (or even strongly encouraged) rating even worse than tipping, especially given the inevitable anything less than 5 stars might as well be zero attitude.
I don’t, I’m constantly doing shit work to paper over deficiencies in our data model and software.
You want an honest answer? Because our profession pays well.

I love programming, and I do it as a hobby, but if it didn't pay well, I wouldn't do it as a job. I would do whatever job I am capable of that pays the most.

I am just beyond lucky that programming pays well, because being poor in this world sucks.
> I can’t remember the last time I paid or even saw someone pay cash for anything

For as long as not everyone has access to a bank account or credit card I'll be concerned about fueling divisions in society.

I'm not from the US, unlike the origins of this discussion, but also hear this statement and have no reason to doubt it is true. But if you step out of the wealthy areas or even just look a little closer then the users of cash are visible.
Is this where cryptocurrencies come in? The convenience of a cashless transaction without the tracking.
It may be, but remember that most companies do stack ranking at some roll up level, not over the entire population. I had 40+ developers in my organization with two peers having comparable sized teams. We were expected to horse trade amongst ourselves to insure the VP got his distribution. However, the VP would always try to browbeat each of us into matching the curve. It was pretty intense and he frankly didn’t give a rat’s rear end who got steamrolled in the process. To say I was thrilled to have outlasted his employment would be an understatement.
>Being bad at that because of inherent inaccuracies in their methodology is a problem.

The parent poster already mentioned that it's "not a crystal ball". It doesn't have to be perfect. Sure, there are some edge cases where it fails, but if it works 99% then it's good enough. On the flip side, do you really want a minority report like system that can predict your future credit with 100% accuracy?
No, that sign is clear disclosure that you are being welcomed to the United States.

Even if we assume the person is familiar with American culture, it is only restaurants with wait service having prices times 1.3 (including sales tax).
I believe in the 50s, commercial flights were propeller planes.
> Even if you configure your account with 1,000,000 iterations, a compromised Bitwarden server can always tell the client to apply merely 5,000 PBKDF2 iterations to the master password before sending it to the server. The client has to rely on the server to tell it the correct value, and as long as low settings like 5,000 iterations are supported this issue will remain.

This seems like a serious flaw that completely undermines setting a custom value, no? If an attacker gets temporary control of a bitwarden server then they can get your password in a more easily crackable form no matter what you set.
I tell people that I don't not drink. The reality is I drink when I want but I almost never want. I am sure that people like me are part of that 60%.
We took a similar approach to passphrase stretching in EnvKey v1 [1] (EnvKey is a secrets manager, not a password manager, but uses end-to-end encryption in a similar way). We used PBKDF2 with iterations set a bit higher than the generally recommended levels, as well as Dropbox's zxcvbn [2] lib to try to identify and block weak passphrases.

Ultimately, I think it's just not good enough. Even if you're updating iteration counts automatically (which is clearly not a safe assumption, and to be fair not something we did in EnvKey v1 either), and even with safeguards against weak passphrases, using human-generated passphrases as a single line of defense is just fundamentally weak.

That's why in EnvKey v2, we switched to using high entropy device-based keys for our root encryption keys. It's a similar model to SSH, except that on Mac and Windows the keys get stored in the OS keychain rather than in the file system. Also like SSH, a passphrase can optionally be added on top of the device key.

The downside (or upside, depending how you look at it) is that new devices must be specifically granted access. You can't just log in and decrypt on a new device with only your passphrase. But the security is much stronger, and you also avoid all this song and dance around key stretching iterations.

1 - https://github.com/envkey/envkey

2 - https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn
Hard disagree. If a system has virtue, it needs to stand up to various kinds of scrutiny. Using housing as an analogy, pushing zoning, wealth, and development restrictions to their limit, people either leave their communities to find homes elsewhere, or they start setting up tents in backyards until the police can't do anything about it. The system should crumble at a certain point.
Is it really a major burden to accept cash?

Am I really tracked when I pay in cash?

Should this really be far down the list of privacy concerns? My debit cards record every single transaction I make with them. Anybody motivated enough could find out exactly where, when, and what I buy. Seems like a pretty major privacy concern.
Zergs are Tyranids and Protoss are Tau generally in this analogy.
Current operating systems allow the program to directly access files, which is the way they've worked historically. This means that if the program is compromised, all the files the user is allowed to access on the system are at risk.

A better way to deal with this is to use an operating system that doesn't trust applications with access to files by default, and instead uses it's own dialogs to allow the user to select files for access, and only give capabilities/handles to those files to the application.
We also had a student smoking lounge in my suburban Chicago area high school in 1991! I think you had to have a parent sign a permission slip or something like that, and I don't know how it didn't run afoul of the law as few kids were 18. But it was always packed.