skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are “multistaged” beings:

First stage: As Animals, we are chasing our impulses. It is just LIFE.

Second stage : As Rational Beings, we are chasing our "personal" desires/goals. Most people, most of the time, are content to feel the satisfaction and move on to the next one.

However, for some, sometimes, a voice emerges, a nagging voice. It says: "What are we even chasing?". The satisfaction is not there anymore. The wall crumbles, the void is overwhelming. Sometimes it is called depression.

Third Stage: This is what some would call “Spiritual”: as Spiritual beings, we are chasing...that void. Or more to the point, the void is chasing us (especially if we ignore it). Yes maybe it is not a "mere" (as you said) emptiness afterall. Maybe we should pay special attention to what this "emptiness" is telling us.
Still waiting for those autonomous cars.
My HTTP handlers tend to share state between invocations, such as caches and database drivers. If the cache or database driver panics then I don’t trust the cache or db to continue to be correct, so the only sensible thing is to shut the server down.

In my deployments, a server is just one in a pool of servers, so losing one is not a problem. The whole system is designed such that any server can die at any time and the overall service will continue to be available.

If you have a different architecture and design philosophy to me then I can see why you would want to recover in your handlers. It just doesn’t suit me at all.
>if ... the Password Manager gets compromised, the attacker will get their hands not only on your passwords, but also the secrets used to generate the TOTP HMACs.

As true as this is, it's because TOTP often breaks the spirit of MFA. Password-only logins where a password manager does the form filling are frictionless. Adding TOTP MFA to every single login—even a login from a known browser, where an existing cookie and browser fingerprint would serve adequately as the second factor—regresses UX back to the point before password managers got involved. Back when I was typing passwords, I didn't have to pull out my phone and look them up first.

The TOTP seed has just become the real password, because your "password" password isn't good enough. Security is hard, so service providers assume you're going to screw it up, and they make authentication suck.
That is so much work to go through when you could just buy an android instead of an iphone!

I don't see how this could possibly provide you any benefit besides some sort of glib satisfaction. You don't want to support apple but still give them money to use their devices.
You can also export codes from Google Authenticator to a second device now, which I used for backing up my 2FA codes onto my iPad. Great way to have a backup when necessary without meaningfully decreasing security (just make sure to test your backup occasionally!)
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I think that makes sense. Because they are incorporeal, they have fewer and different needs to fulfil, and this can give them a bargaining advantage.

If this is what most people are trying to say, I think the incorporeal language is much more direct and clear than calling them fictitious, which has other meanings
There are several redundant tracking systems on an airliner, but the pilot deliberately turned them off. That hadn't been an issue before.
IME, this is the number one reason outsourcing (whether on-shore or off-shore) fails for many projects.
You have to throw a dirty magazine down to distract them first.
I write assembly mainly _not_ because it is faster, but because I don't depend on an absurdely complex and massive compiler.
Audio insertion is actually straightforward: the audio URLs from the feed can redirect!
I always got the feeling that because it's such a key product the Excel team was basically its own organisation within the wider corporation and as a result had a lot more freedom to make its own choices.

(not that I'm arguing for trust that would, as you say, be misplaced, but if my feeling is correct then the Excel org's englightened self interest can diverge from the mothership's self interest more than other divisions can, which makes the calculations as to what your management is likely to decide notably different)
Same here, by mid 30s savings started becoming meaningful.

I always interpreted the "always save some" mantra (which was a mantra as long as I can remember) as a way to form habits, not to really accumulate any large amounts of retirement funds.
What’s the Smallest Variety of Cheri?
Amazon sellers are actually researching the market and designing new products, which
can't be said about domestic Chinese brands and sellers that are mired in cutthroat price dogfights.

The profits maybe not be that big, but big enough to drive a skeleton team, make a small fortune. One item with $500 a day in revenue can let you make more money than a typical coder.
The cybernetics of resilient product design
The first example is a junior level social worker -- that's fine, but come now: we all know that social work is not a high-paying industry.

The second example is a lady with 76k in debt, who has managed to pay down nearly 70% of it. Somehow this doesn't qualify as savings to the author.

The third woman actually makes a lot (they won't say how much) and has "achieved financial stability" (thus undermining the thesis of the article), but sends "the majority" of her paychecks to her family.

Finally, by the fourth example: someone with three jobs, who still manages to save $200 a month! I do feel for her, though. (Note to author: why in the world would you bury this example??)

The fifth example spends on expensive exercise classes and "also likes to go out to dinner with her friends"...but still saves $600 a month.

For the very last example, we have a 28-year-old man, earning well below average in NYC (90k a year), who nonetheless saves $2,000 a month. I'm sensing a bias here.

This is a ridiculous article. It should be titled: "These 20-somethings mostly manage to save despite difficult life choices and low incomes, and so can you."
This is really fascinating. Thank you for the detailed and interesting response.
A question for those "starting to migrate away". Why bother changing passwords that you then put back into LastPass?

Change the passwords yes, all of them, but if you're going to put the new ones back in to be re-exported by your adversary you may as well save yourself the time and stay with the already breached ones.
My ophthalmologist recommends not using eye drops long term (except possibly artificial tears), unless you are treating something.

One of the most effective tactic is to not stare at your monitor all the time. Close your eyes or look outside a window between your pomodoros.

Get your eyes checked and make sure you have the right lenses if you need any.

Definitely sleep more.

Don’t work on a bright monitor (or playing with your phone) in darkness. Always work in a well-lit environment. A quick test is to place a piece of white paper beside your monitor, and your monitor should be as bright as the paper.

Keep your monitor at the right distance, roughly at arm’s length.
It's a particularly responsible man, too. You'd think if they had some kind of insidious demographic agenda they would choose a different contrast. I think the only subtextual story here is the last line:

>"He said that he owed his father for providing him with much of his personal finance knowledge and that friends from families who didn’t talk about money did not have as much financial literacy."
Wait -- there are podcasts you just can't listen to if you don't have an Apple device? That's beyond absurd.
Also for several weeks recently my phone was getting messages several minutes before they showed up on my laptop, and 3 or 4 of my coworkers (all remote and in various parts of the US) confirmed they were having the same issue.
Really depends on what kind of work you're doing. CRISPR, flexible high-density microelectrodes, scRNA-seq, etc. are all borderline magic compared to the average understanding of biology.

I just remember being awed by opto around a decade ago and now it's just a tool that labs have. Which isn't to say there's not cutting edge opto.
I only use Apple Podcasts to automatically sync a couple of podcasts onto my Apple Watch. The rest of the time I use Overcast. But that Apple Watch sync feature is a compelling use case.
Tether isn't FTX either. And yet, both are scams.
I remember having an iMac with 3TB hard disk on which I stored all my CDs ripped in an lossless format. iTunes had an option to stream the library to local network and since this iMac was on 24/7, this was a perfect solution for me to have an audio-NAS and also kind-of remote streaming when I was connecting via VPN to my home network.

Than there came Tim Cook's "upgrades": OS X was renamed to macOS, iTunes to Music, and Apple blocked LAN-related options which came with purchased devices.

At the same time Apple asked me to pay for the same functionality and their ecosystem's attractiveness started getting shittier. Since then, with similar actions, Tim Cook switched increasingly more of my activities from Apple's increasingly-hostile and toxic ecosystem to almost anywhere else.
>> And so if a hotel is overbooked, or otherwise has an issue that would be better addressed prior to arrival, they have no way of contacting you?

> I stay in a lot of hotels. I’ve never once been called.

I've been called because of a travel issue, once. About a little more than a decade ago, I was scheduled to fly out of an airport that didn't actually end up opening for another several years. I believe the only heads-up notice I got about the change in my itinerary was a phone call about a month before my departure.
In change of course, U.S. agrees to send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine
I think about it like this:

If I ask you to write assembler faster than what the compiler emits for one very specific CPU model, you'll pretty much always be able to do that (given enough time).

But as CPUs become more complex, and compilers get better, achieving that win requires more and more "overfitting" to implementation details of the specific hardware, in ways that are not helpful or even counterproductive on older or newer models of the same CPU family.

It's still worth it sometimes, of course. It's just more work and a lower value proposition on average.
There's always a virus out there that can kill a bacteria. Or, we can just engineer one to kill a bacteria.

It's just... really hard, takes weeks to months (if you're engineering, and then it's GMO, which is another can of regulatory worms).

It's not even expensive; we just use regular lab equipment. But people are doing lot of things by hand today. But we're finding ways to scale up and insert robots like OpenTrons and Singer!

> extremely limited for technical and financial reasons

The severance packages of each tech layoffs is more than what our entire field gets every year in funding.
Yeah I feel like this project should've tried to get GNUStep to a usable state instead of putting a skin on top of Qt.
At least two of the women (the 2nd and 3rd profiled in the story) are pretty much killing it. One has an emergency fund over $10K, is regularly saving additional money, all on a $65K income at age 25. That's got to put her in the top 10% of 25-year olds. The third is absolutely crushing it by any reasonable guessing at her financial flows.
It covers more than just the blog post.
> What are you even talking about? The context is that cash is inconvenient and costly to deal with.

You replied with a non-sequitur so I replied in kind.

Asking about opting-out of paying someone? No, that's immoral. Only scumbags would consider asking that let alone actually do it.

Asking about opting-out of using cash? No, that doesn't make sense given that I've clearly stated that I won't be a customer of businesses who have.

Asking about opting-out of taking out the trash? Nobody likes trash to pile up and I have a lot of respect to people who deal with it.

Asking about opting-out of being a janitor? I was a janitor for a long time. How does that make sense in the conversation though?

> To which I basically responded...

Your new reply doesn't include what you originally replied with. There's new context here and it changes what your first message meant to me. Here, have a new reply:

No, I am not a scumbag. People deserve to be paid fairly.

Further: janitors do real work that robots simply cannot do. I cannot ask a robot how their day was, how long they've worked there, what their hobbies are, or where to find the competing store. I can ask a janitor that though and perhaps even build a friendship.

> Taking cash involves a variety of extra costs, risks and infrastructure. If you don't take cash you don't need a cash till, you probably don't need a safe, you don't need to pay staff to count and reconcile it, you don't need to get it to the bank safely, or pay banking fees.

Taking cards involves a variety of extra costs, risks and infrastructure. If you don't take cards you don't need a card reader, you probably don't need internet, or have IT staff to manage all of that, you don't need to pay staff to count and reconcile sales, or pay processing fees...

Do you want me to go on? The risks aren't gone. They're just moved.

> If you feel that having to use a card in an unacceptable burden, then perhaps you don't use that business.

Indeed, I have stated exactly that in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34499522

> it's far easier not to bother with cash as an individual too

It's easier until you have a problem. When you have a problem it takes a hell of a lot more time to resolve.

If you have a problem with cash... well usually there _isn't_ a resolution so why bother trying? Time saved and that's far easier to deal with.
A backup second factor is not very likely to be useful to an opportunist. Is they a reason to not just store it at home, perhaps in a fire resistant safe?
Yes, enough of the "stop spending so much on {coffee, toast, Netflix} " advice. Or the lectures about saving. Even though I don't usually agree with the NYTs politically, I have to admit this is not helpful. The issue is costs keep rising faster than inflation, wages. Insurance, healthcare, childcare, tuition, etc.
POINTERS ARE REAL.

I believe.
> If the stats are true, then surely companies, who are known to value monetary gains above all else

1. Companies are not known to value monetary gains above all else.

2. Even those that do often concentrate and very short term gains over things that would make them more money in the long run.
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I work with a bunch of researchers and physicians on antibiotic resistance every day and I had no idea (though tbf I'm just the "computer guy" here)
I keep seeing this take and it's not a great one.

TOTP in Bitwarden (or 1Password or KeePass) is an upgrade over SMS authentication in terms of both security and convenience.

For most people, TOTP in a dedicated app is not actually much more secure:

1. They could lose the device. Without a backup, they're suddenly unable to login to their accounts.
2. Their device may not be well secured, e.g., either not requiring auth to unlock it or only having a 4 digit PIN.
3. They're likely logging into accounts on their phones and have the password manager and TOTP app on their phones as well.
4. If the TOTP app has backups, then it's vulnerable.
5. Such a user may be less likely to use 2FA in a given app because it's less convenient.

If you secure your devices with long alphanumeric passwords, secure your password manager with U2F / WebAuthn and an even longer alphanumeric pass phrase, and consistently enable TOTP 2FA, then you'll be more secure than the person who either uses it less consistently or who uses it on device

Yes, you would be more secure if you used it consistently AND had 2+ dedicated devices for your TOTP codes (your main device and at least one backup). But let me propose an alternative: do that just for your most critical accounts, but use your password manager's TOTP solution for everything else.

Which dedicated device would I recommend for storing your TOTP codes? The same one I recommend for U2F, the Yubikey 5 series (specifically the Yubikey 5C NFC). It can store up to 32 codes, which for 99% of people is more than enough for all of their critical accounts.
Your analysis doesn't match the economic measures I've been reading, which indicate that lower income workers in the US have seen real wage gains and that homeowners have seen net worth increases, and are feeling wealthier. Unemployment is very low, despite the recent layoffs, and many categories of employment are still seeing upwards wage pressure.

Social Security is pinned to inflation, so I don't understand why those living on Social Security payments might be in different circumstances now than 5 years ago.
But surely isn't true in general.

Why not? Wealth-making attracts two kinds of people: those who are interested in mutually beneficial exchanges, and those who see trade as a zero- or negative-sum game. Research suggests these groups exist in a roughly 60:40 proportion to each other in human populations: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600451

I do think your disagreement is sincere, since you propose allocating a tax on technological deployment to fund research and backing that up with strong regulation. But you overlook the phenomenon of regulatory capture by industry and bad-faith politicking. Just recently we saw how a regulator's observations about the surprisingly high negative externalities of gas stoves was quickly turned into a political football, pre-empting any meaningful policy discussion.
Yeah IMHO setting up the TOTP on multiple devices is a good idea. I also save the setup key along with the recovery codes so that I can easily set up new devices if I need to (plus I have seen some cases - ie Facebook - where the recovery codes don’t work). I guess this is marginally less secure than storing just the recovery codes, because if someone finds my backups they can now generate infinite tokens, but if that happens I probably have worse problems to worry about.
Author here.

> wouldn't hosts have the original source material that they uploaded

As far as I'm aware, Apple never resurfaces the audio after it's uploaded, even in your dashboard. Even if they did, making someone manually download and reupload every asset for potentially hundreds of episodes is sadistic. Moreover, you physically can't leave, because your listeners won't follow you to your new hosting service.

> These users aren't there just for generic hosting, but also for the network effects.

The network effects are limited to an app with only 40% of the market. Outside the US, that number is even smaller.

> just that there is fairly old precedent

Every podcast hosting service ever has allowed you to leave their service.
Who makes the code that powers the APIs?! Who writes the OS-level libraries? What about people that write software for automotive, IoT, robotics, machinery? Is it your understanding that python notebooks never need to call out to OS-level libraries? (what is conda for then??)

Web developers always just assume the entire world is other web developers, and confidently dispense advice without any caveat re. its limited purview. The world is bigger than python notebooks and shitty ruby apps.
I use them too, but password managers feel like they’re building atop a poor foundation. I’d like if we could go further in the direction of site login using a big, well-known identity provider (sure, let there be some independent one if you don’t want to trust Google or Facebook). Failing that, this incident does show the virtue of the old-fashioned method of writing down the passwords and keeping them somewhere safe.
I agree - I love the old '3d' interfaces, and Aqua in particular. The new 'cell phone' interfaces are just a PITA. Really hard on my old eyes - no real indication/border around buttons, no color cues, often not even a place to grab the window and drag it around. Everything is just the same drab shades with no differentiation between elements.

As the 'cell phone' folks get older and eyesight gets worse, I think we'll see things shifting back. I basically don't use a cell phone for anything except 2fa cuz the silly lil screens are too hard to read.
High DPI and a full color palette are no excuse for not getting margins right.

Attention to detail is still doable, it just isn’t something that is valued by MBA/PM types.

(Being an ambitious personal project made in limited free time is a better excuse, and I commend the project author’s efforts)
We successfully replaced computers with computers!
It's definitely a classic - if you haven't seen it I'd recommend it even if it wasn't related to the article :D
I've considered it, and of all the possible takes, I think this is the worst one.

It's simple:

- They are chartered as a for-profit entity

- FAANG workers who are making an average $200K or whatever don't need welfare.

Like I'm all for class warfare, but not between the super rich and the very rich. I don't have any sympathy whatsoever for the $200K class when they get laid off - being worth this much money includes understanding how the game is played and preparing accordingly.

So no, if you get laid off at this level, you are not working class, you are not an average American, the package MSFT gives you is above market and that is good enough. Let's save the extra help for people who actually need it.
I feel like elementaryOS [0] comes a lot closer to the original mac vision when it comes to UX.

Too bad the project is going through some drama from what I understand.

[0] https://elementary.io/
Would you say it works more like fuzzy text search than searching by meaning?

For example i expect that searching "a snarky blog post" or "uplifting people"... wouldn't work that great
I am not a cryptographer, so please keep that in mind.

> An attacker that does have access to vault and token is given the ability to try brute force and to look for cracks that might allow decrypting the vault.

My reasoning for the token is, that an attack has to brute force both, the token and _after success,_ the vault. But the token is just a random blob with no HMAC and in my public repo is a script that directly tells you, that you will always get a random blob – correct password or not.

> to look for cracks

Is not possible afaik.
> The hope, of course, is that once inflation is under control, wages will rise to counteract its effects.

I see where you're going with your statement but I believe the wage-price spiral being a major cause of _this_ inflation is not a fact. :)
Agreed.

In-process is where you get things like instruction-level parallelism.

I think our university programs have failed us the most in this regard. ILP should be drilled into every student's brain as the penultimate performance hack. Once you start separating everything into a bunch of different buckets/systems/processes, none of these advantages can be explored anymore.

In some cases, ILP can give you a 100x improvement in performance. That's serial throughput. This is the reason many developers consider bit manipulation/hacking to be essentially free.
There should be a reverse version also, with a nation in top and choose a flag below
It’s also pretty convenient in a story - the protagonist (if said hyper competent) doesn’t hit roadblocks they can’t overcome eventually, regardless of what they run across.

And who wouldn’t want to be hyper competent in everything?
I wonder how many wheatgrass smoothies the author downed while writing this euro-smug critique.
Google job cuts include 27 massage therapists
If you read back in the thread you will see that you have tried to change the subject at every point, and I have each time steered it back to the actual topic.

I do not know why you insist on arguing against something no one has suggested, or what so terrifies you about the simple idea I wrote that you are motivated to vicious accusations of "edenism", but I no longer care. You have revealed all we need to know.