skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this article, the bank used both voice ID and date of birth to verify identity before a balance check. That seems like a reasonable level of security to me.
How to Be Prepared for Layoffs
I'm running a bootstrapped startup so a special case, my salary is nearly nothing :) :( :)

At a bigger company you'd just ask a junior to set it up or maybe a sysadmin. You can probably contract to get part timers too. I guess I spent half a day or so setting up the CI cluster at the start and have barely touched it since. That wasn't much cost even if I was earning a big salary. Our builds can use caches to speed them up (not docker, other types of cache) and when we turned that on it was like a 3x speed win, so having persistent disks is definitely worth it for many types of program. Especially if you're brave and trust your build system to cache unit test results between builds!
It's a classic commons dilemma. Having a child is very very costly on a personal level and the profits (future pensions) are mostly all societal.
Focus less on the cost of the printer and more on the cost of materials. If your second grader is anything like the 2nd graders I have known, there will be more than one incident of "I googled and found 3d models of all the Pokemon/MLP/Pixar characters and I've been printing them for 6 hours and we need more printing filament". You want really cheap supplies, not the stuff your printing car parts or ghost guns or whatever out of.

There are tons of really cheap 'USB Microscopes' on Alibaba/Amazon that are probably more fun/accessible than a traditional glass microscope. I know I've gotten my young nieces/nephews ones that they can carry around and point at things, ones with goosenecks that they can stick down holes, ones that work underwater, etc., all for a ~US$20 or less. Most have BT so they can throw the images to an old iPad or retired Android tablet. They loved them.
I mean drinking juice isn't going to have a significant calorie difference from soda. Juice or soda should never be a replacement for water.
They're so powerful they own a home on Stanford campus.
I don't think this should convince anyone but I just so happened to go to school with people who are now working there. That, but moreso the absence of bullshit, the experience so far, and the availability of reasonable payment methods makes me a happy customer.

As with anything relying on trust with a third party, one should definitely actively assess their individual threat models and risk profiles. It might be useful for parts of your traffic, not necessarily all

For outgoing, I also heard that proxychaining is a thing (which might not help you if collaborating actors compromised all obv)
Old man yells at cloud. I can relate to that. :)
It's also pretty trivial to get right. I'd use carbon steel just because it can heat faster. I can have my pan ready to go in 2 minutes of heating. Use a bit of oil (sometimes I mix in a tiny bit of butter to help nonstick, but it isn't required) and it's good to go. The difficulty is extremely exaggerated. I've not had a need for nonstick
Unpopular opinion perhaps, but I consider buddhists atheist
Latest denuvo iteration has been cracked
I've done some testing with ECG sensors adhered to the scalp and know what noisy, limited signals that gives you, but man am I looking forward to the day when people can send data from their brain directly to a computer. I don't mind shaving my head (I'm male in a family with a history of male pattern baldness, if that matters) but I'd 100x prefer a device that lived outside the scalp to one with probes beneath the skull.

The amplifier fidelity and data processing rate of eg. TI ADS1299 chips that I worked with 10 years ago is only going up slowly, but (now outside the field) it feels like the data processing potential to turn extremely noisy and hard to measure waveforms into letters and words could move forwards extremely fast with AI.
That's highly irrelevant for my point, which would still stand if the process generations were named differently.
Same with Bernie Madoff -- a guy who literally burned people and made off with their money.
For those wondering what this is about.

Base is an optimistic rollup built on top of Ethereum. An optimistic rollup batches and compresses transactions and general computation. In an analogous manner that .zip or .tar.gz batch and compress files. The rollup executes transactions or general computation (Ethereum is a general purpose blockchain with a Turing complete programming language, so it can execute anything you code), computes a cryptographic proof of its correct execution and posting that to Ethereum. Which then verifies its correct execution.

Why do this?

Because blockchains don't scale. By don't scale I mean that there is a very explicit trade-off between vertical scalability (beefier nodes) vs. decentralization (barriers for anyone to participate in the consensus) and horizontal scalability (parallelization) vs. security (cost of attack). So Ethereum's approach to solving scalability is to accept head-on this limitation and instead of compromising on decentralization or security find ways around it.

With rollups you place the costly execution outside the blockchain and let the blockchain act as verifier and settlement layer of cryptographic proofs of computation. The blockchain verifies proofs, which are much cheaper, while the actual execution is done outside where you can scale vertically and horizontally.

With this approach Ethereum has settled over 600 bitcoin-equivalent transactions per second in the last hour (this is the actual figure, I just checked https://ethtps.info/ ). Remember when 1.5 years ago it was 15? Well... Now it's over 600. And plans to keep scaling until it reaches 1M-10M transactions per second by 2030.

So what?

Well, Coinbase is an exchange. A centralized exchange, for that matter. When you execute a transaction on Coinbase (or any other centralized exchange... NYSE, Nasdaq, Deutsche Bourse...) what knowledge do you have that the transaction was executed? That the stock the UI says you own is actually there. How do you know shorted stocks are actually lent and exist? This fixes it. You can see the code and be sure that it's executed correctly.

When CBDCs happen, and they are going to happen. The same kind of statements could be made for your money.
As a person who knows nothing about quantum computing, I sincerely wonder how exactly Google justifies spending tons on fundamental physics research in this unproven technology, in a time where its stock is sinking like a stone and the company is having to lay people off.

Moreover, if Google's track record is any indication, whatever advances they make in this realm will likely be copied in a much better form by competitors, so I seriously wonder about the judgement of their executives here.
See: operation snow white.

It may have utilized up to 5000 covert agents, and was only detected perhaps due to an observant librarian.
I wrote earlier that I don't have any issues self-hosting my own mail server. But this is most likely an exception that.

If your plan is to send out newsletters and other marketing content, you are really better off going through a company that specializes in that. Self-hosting email is really only practical for individuals hosting their own personal/family mail, or for small companies who have the resources to hire someone to manage the mail system for their own domain.

The TL;DR here is, if you _look_ like a spammer (lots of identical/similar messages from one domain to lots of recipients), other mail systems will probably treat you like a spammer.
Ask HN: What's a good way to prototype board games?
My first time designing a board game.

I am toying with an idea for a board game, and right now my design process involves printing things out on paper for the board and the cards, and trying it out with a group of friends.

Asking the community here for advice on what are some good ways to do this? Or in general, any good resources on building games?
Medical data, despite seeming like a juicy target, isn't really all that valuable atm. It requires a lot of infrastructure to move it around, and you can't do all that much with it without breaking the law. HIPAA/PHI fines can rack up really quickly and are still enforced relatively strictly. Although maybe Amazon's lobbyists are working on "fixing" that.

My guess is Amazon sees hospitals/practices starting to use more "cloud-y" services and wants to set themselves up to capture as much of that revenue as possible. The old hospital IT-fortress model leaves a lot of efficiency gains on the table and I'm sure AWS would love to be able to capture all of that.

source: I work at a "cloud-y" medical tech company
Not true - eBay doesn't disallowed multiple accounts. At one time it was considered "professional" to buy and sell with different accounts. Specifically, don't buy using your seller account. I have one account for buying and one for selling myself. There's zero hiding it - my name is globally unique.

https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/identity-policies/multipl...

>Can I use one account for buying and one account for selling? Do the same policies apply to each?
Yes, you can use the accounts in whatever way works best for you. Buying and selling policies apply equally to all accounts though, so you'll need to meet our buyer and seller standards across all your accounts.
privilege is literally a conspiracy
> everything wrong with obsessing over your startup status instead of obsessing over delivering value.

This doesn't stop, either. I've been at a company that's over 7 years old, a leader (top... 1? top 3 at least) in their space, over 500 people, and still goes on and on about being a startup. My inner cynic says this is because they can't let go of 'what got them there' and transition to big-boy pants, so they continue with the myth of the fungible tech employee, etc.
>that we cannot measure how much we debased it.

"it's a feature not a bug."
Also safety could also be a factor. Car travel is more unsafe than trains.
The reason for the distinction is that you basically cannot do anything about what you do not currently understand about the product (besides ship and iterate).

But you can do a lot about learning how to write quality software. And the more you do it the faster you'll get at it. It's only rational if you believe you'll have a long career programming to train how to make quality software, because many quality implementations are equivalently difficult to implement than low quality ones. For the same resources you get greater returns, and those returns compound as you are able to out ship your competitors and get more and more product knowledge/feedback.

From the transcript:

> I'm never in favor of writing code poorly, but I am in favor of writing code to reflect your current understanding of a problem even if that understanding is partial.
I really want to know more about the control the patient has over the interface.

i.e. if I think think something stupid, I still control whether my mouth lets that out (typically). Do they have control over mode of operation, like they think "OK Synchron!" and then issue some speech?
"To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2IcSsoPLnI
I don't understand why Google and Amazon would invest all this money in these employees building up their tech and tribal knowledge just to lay them off. Do these companies not expect to grow in the future? Seems like just freezing hiring for a year or two would save you more money in the long run rather than having to rehire and rebuild all this expertise.
Adaptive DNS Resolver Discovery
These are 'draft guidelines'.

Isn't it a more reasonable outcome to start labelling "milk" as "cow's milk"?
I'm quite familiar with CAD for the purpose of designing things from scratch. What I want to do is, essentially, create blueprints for an old, poorly designed and built house. The tools I have tried for this are not really well-suited to this task.
We microchip our pets. Let me walk into the DMV and get microchipped.

Then I can force-wave to pay for goods, go through security checkpoints, etc. People will freak the fuck out about it... but personally I'm 100% for it.
> One almost never parses string in pwsh

Assuming that there are object-based commands that do everything that you need, which is quite a generous assumption.
Not to me. DOB is publicly available information, and I wouldn't even consider using voice as an authentication method. But perhaps that's because I have a fair bit of experience in those voice techs.
But suddently you started to inhale smoke of numerious other additivies they put into it in the meantime.
Biometrics work (in their limited way) only if you control the hardware and the physical environment. You can measure something unique and check that it's as expected, but that's only valid if there's proper custody on the measurement and resulting data.

It's a pretty simple concept, but people perennially can't figure it out. Or don't care.

So, if you're going to use biometrics, a retina scan on a bank vault might be reasonable, but a web site that does facial recognition with the user's camera is not.
Who said he donated equally? That's your accusation. I maintain my original stance: his behavior says nothing about "the left" or "the right." Your focus on who he donated to is entirely missing my point.
WebAuthn 101 [video]
Some people use emacs as an email client - that is probably why it may require permission to access Contacts.
Brilliant stroke of win-win diplomacy, so long as we keep the concerns of the daughter aside.
This is the main reason I ditched them. Carbon steel is my primary pan type now. When you're breaking in a new pan use just a little bit of butter for stuff like eggs. I use more oil than butter but just having a little amount present helps.
Good. The best minds of a generation have wasted their talents figuring out how to best maximize media addiction and serve ads for Facebook and Google. Let’s hope a new generation engages in more socially productive endeavors.
See also COINTELPRO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
The TGV is excellent and cost-effective, IMO. Elsewhere trains are way too much trouble and expense, even as a solo traveler.
Wow.

If the reality of living in a country with a constitution, constitutional amendments, as well as a litany of tort and criminal law (and subsequent case law for both) that all dictate what the government can and cannot do feels libertarian to you, I have some unfortunate news for you.
Isaac Arthur has an entertaining "Civilizations at the End of Time" series https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIIOUpOge0LvHsTP5fm8oxB1q...
I think the point being made is about the tooling being available to do it easily.
Agreed. I could swear this has been actively stated in literature previously.
Giving the donation should not be the illegal bit...

Accepting the donation should be the illegal bit... Which means I'm hoping to see 300 politicians heading to jail any day now...?? Right??
> Currencies need to be stable enough to use for transactions.

That is true for most people as playing a full game of economic chess with real stakes against a strong opponent that is the market during every purchase is really hard, but I think in general that's absolutely not a requirement. E.g. the entities who can do that will.
Of “kill cash” fame
There are design choices you probably wouldn’t make this way today for a new green-field OS, like the process forking mechanism, the POSIX threading and file IO API, the whole TTY architecture, and the file permissions model. These are all aspects that are different on Windows, for example. Similarly, starting with a stripped-down Windows, you wouldn’t end up with a Unix-like design.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White
Here's a question I have - how easy is it to fool the detector?

Phone lines are frequency limited and connections are sometimes poor. Apparently you can fool it with a recording of the target speaker, but what about an computer generated voice? And are the features it's detecting things you could correlate with information you could gather on a subject - age, gender, place of birth - to produce a good enough match for enough people to make automated targeted attacks possible.
It's about the packages, a Quicklisp dist has a list of packages of specific versions (like libfoo 1.1, libbar 1.0, and libbaz 1.2) and you can switch to an older dist (which can have libfoo 1.0, no libbar, and libbaz 1.2).
If you have to own a specific device to exist administratively, I'd rather use something that:

- doesn't cost hundred of dollars

- doesn't live track me every seconds

- isn't holding also the rest of my entire life

- isn't a good target for stealing, ceasing or hacking

The wonderful thing about the payment card is that it's just that: a payment card.

It's small, cheap to replace, doesn't require a battery, doesn't share my GPS position at every second, can't show me ads, and if it gets stolen, I don't also lose my entire list of contacts and my browser favorites.

I can easily have many in my pocket, and only use one when I want. If I lose it, I can cancel it quickly, it doesn't affect anything else, and it's swiftly replaced.

It's also super simple to use, yet not that easy to abuse.

The phone is already too many things at once. Too many eggs on the same baskets.
Your oversimplified comparaison sounds good but is not true : trains spend (way) less fuel AND are more flexible:

- you can pee anytime

- you can choose different class without changing materials

- you can book as much tickets for your whole family and kid's friends. Everybody will travel together, no separate cars, no additional drivers

- and my favorite : you can enjoy your ride with meditation, work, movie...

edit:formating
So, on the one hand, people who fear malthusian predictions often are presented with the concept of "peak child" which will occur at some point once much of the world is developed and the rest of the world naturally reaches a low fertility rate. On the other hand, under the current system we have (and I'm not sure if there really is any other stable system), we rely on a growing population to provide for everyone and keep the wheels turning.

I just felt like there is this clear cognitive dissonance here, either a growing population is good or it is bad. I do get the sense that "certain groups" growing is "bad" for some people whereas "other groups" (often their own) growing is good and them stagnating is bad...so there clearly are a lot of discussions around this happening in bad faith. Still, even the good faith discussion seems to have this contradiction here that I haven't really seen anyone resolve.

I suppose one argument is "no, we really will grow forever and it will be okay." And while we are probably nowhere near the growth limit yet, I'm not sure I have seen an argument that convinces me of this either.
What helped me:

- Exercise.

- Change of diet. (No junk food, learned to cook)

- No/limit/control caffeine.

I only ingest caffeine when my behavior isn't critical, ie I can have coffee if my tasks are all computer related. But if there is a meeting with people in the day, I don't drink coffee because I know I will do or say something "wrong" at the meeting.

Caffeine at least it greatly increases the odds of me having a hard time in a particular event, especially if something unexpected happens.

It can turn normal event into a difficult one, and hard one into an unbearable experience.

- Forcing myself to remain calm.

The more I do this the better control I get. It's never easy, so I fail and try again. And again and again.

- Plan/train ahead of time.

I mentally practice an event that causes me issues. Everything from conversations, to procrastination, distractions, etc... I go through in my head how I want something to happen and how I want to react or choose to behave in advance. So when it does happen I have a fighting chance. A few go arounds with this (failing each time) and eventually I get a better result.

It took me practice and work and accepting discomfort on a nearly constant and daily occurrence, and to just accept this discomfort as normal. (the end secret)

I think you are in a harder place because you are used to something and now have to learn to "feel" different. Just keep trying and you will eventually feel different, it's just how life works. We get used to what we force our selves to accept. (within limits of course, right?)

Just don't give up. Fail thousands of times, but just keep going because you have already discovered you don't want to go back.

Try something new whenever you have to. These past years I've tried many, many new things because "I just don't want to keep doing what I've already done", which is similar to your situation, you have committed to something, the hardest part is over.
Can Valve do anything about all the Z flags in their community? I mean, yeah, I know they can. But why don't they? F Valve.
DOB???? How can that possibly be considered a useful factor for authentication?
> Any good alternatives for C#, or anyway to make VS Code less draining

I've used VS Code, Rider, and even VS2022 via Parallels, and in the end I switched to VS Mac. It had been a year or so since I last really tried it and in that time it had gone native ARM (faster and less battery drain) and been much improved.

Unless I need legacy stuff or Windows-only dev, I now see no reason to use anything other than Visual Studio Mac on my M1 Air for C# development.
Workday sued for discrimination over AI candidate screening tool
My village shops don't have this problem in the south of the UK here.
NRX
This seems like one of those blindingly obvious things.

The comments on the reddit thread were more informative. If someone is autistic or thinks they might be then these comments from autistic people describing how they feel might help more and lead to getting help if they need it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/119ho15/camouflagi...
As a young traveller I took a handful of night trains...one time a family member had shared a bottle of homemade grappa - I was super excited about this! We were on a night train sharing a sleeper with an Austrian single mom with a couple of tweens. I think we were headed to somewhere deep in the Italian boot and it was summer - so very hot, with eight people in the sleeper car. Somewhere in the middle of the night, the heat in the room caused the stopper in the bottle of grappa to come loose. It didn't just spill - it evaporated into everything in the car. Every inch of our clothes, hair, etc reeked of booze. Conductor's face when he opened the door to check our tickets was absolutely hilarious.

So be careful on those night trains. ;-)
By definition, I would think 1% to 2% profit (net) margin is doing business on the edge, regardless of gross figures. 0% is a charity.

The slightest changes in your costs or revenue can be devastating if not immediately made up for with price increases and cost cutting. Grocery stores can usually do this, which is why they continue to survive at single low digit profit margins.

Are there businesses that reliably operate on less than that?
I believe the rule of using "are" when following a noun that ends with "s" still applies though. eg. "the vertices are" but "the collective is".

I can't think of a collective noun that ends in S that I would follow with "is".
It seems like such a waste of time and complexity for a knob that only a tiny, tiny fraction of startups will ever have to turn.
Wait isn’t this the plot to the original Charlie’s Angels movie?!
I disagree, mostly because if your product takes off, that single day or few weeks where the adoption rate sky rockets may be your defining moment for your startup, and scaling up on the cloud is trivial in comparison. Remember, when you're that small, the expenses of the cloud vs dedicated hardware is tiny compared to your employee expenses anyways.