skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linux also started out as a toy project. https://fossbytes.com/linus-torvaldss-famous-email-first-lin...
You can do more than you think: Practical principles for self-directed growth
My point is that they have different levels of authentication required for different levels of access, and the voice id thing seems more reasonable in light of that.
Yeah, it looks like off-the-shelf spectral notch filters are aimed at laser laboratories. Around 800 usd per lens so 1600 for my glasses, bit steep. You’d get some pretty awesome looking Doc Ock style goggles out of it, though
Read up on the Zeiss optics that go into the ASML EUV machines. (or at least what is publicly available knowledge). It's truly insane
ebay banned my account recently because I decided to list a vehicle for sale and noticed my address was old (I moved 3 years ago). I updated the address at the time I listed the vehicle and they auto-banned my account. The only way to log back in was to use SMS to verify a landline number I had associated with the account 20 years ago. Their support was no help and just kept asking me to verify my phone number. Oh well, the fees were too high anyways.
I got banned from Paypal because I used an expletive in a support email after they removed the requirement that I login before making a purchase (paypal would assume my login status based on cookies or browser fingerprints). I did not ask for that feature and I did not want it - I wanted to have to login each time I use Paypal, I had no desire to remove security features from my account.

Well, I've been better off without Paypal, their ban did me a favor. Paypal will die in a fire of its own making.
this, .com domains are an ego thing more than anything at this point. Why waste valuable money on a vanity thing rather than trying to fuel growth? I guess in the worst case somebody could try to trick potential customers but otherwise as an early startup you have bigger things to worry about than a domain name
There a sort of necessary evil. They definitely complicate things, look at the debates over Tannenbaums work writing the os for secure enclave bios interactions. And, like protection rings they come with questions about bugs and subverted state.

I have worked on systems doing HSM like activity which depended on vendor specific TPM. They're a pain.
I bought a lightly used Herman Miller Aeron chair after the .com crash. I could sell it today at the price I bought it for 20 years ago, but it's still in great shape and its the best chair I've used by far. Way more comfortable than chairs with padding. I have another one that I bring on site if I'm going to work in customer spaces for a while and they have normal, crappy chairs.
I had exactly the same idea regarding ```python fences. I filed an issue if you wanna give it a thumbs up: https://github.com/joerdav/xc/issues/42
I can see that, but also being out of the loop on social media is incredibly fleeting. If you haven't seen Star Wars you'll feel left out of some conversations, if you don't know about the long nose dog meme or whatever, just wait a week until no one remembers it anymore.
Let's go metric with 2000 km. The 2021 Kona EV has a range of about 500 km. The level 2 charger at my house takes 9 hours to recharge from empty (i.e., overnight). That's 1.5 days to fully charge a battery offering a 2000 km range, in theory, which is half your estimate. A DC fast charger can recharge 400 km in 50 minutes (80% capacity), equivalent to 4 hours for 2000 km. Meaning those batteries will probably take closer to 5 hours to fully recharge when using the fastest chargers available today.
The same as for the credit card payments you just mentioned (which ARE insecure and naively rely on store clerks not copying your 3 digit number etc).

ANY biometrics you use to pay can be easily replayed. Whatever function you derive from these biometrics can be executed when you’re not there.

Not to mention that the biometrics themselves can be emulated by a device (eg voice recording) as you see in sci-movies like Minority Report (fake eyes) or that star trek clip.

Sure, for smaller amounts and using copious amounts of “seller beware” chargeback protections, the system can work. And those chargebacks can be good for many things, so that is how our financial system works now.

But if you want to secure thing that are valuable, like elections and many others, then what I described is the optimal solution.
In some sense this news was surprising and great (40k is I'd estimate, ~0.5% of the unique monthly players!), but the release was also a bit misleading. The part "With that goal in mind, we released a patch as soon as we understood the method these cheats were using" is just outright false - there are numerous open-source Dota cheat engines which have been around and in working order for many years.
So Y.T.'s mom has clacked up the stairs in her black pumps and gone into her
office, actually a large room with computer workstations placed across it in a
grid. Used to be divided up by partitions, but the EBGOC boys didn't like it,
said what would happen if there had to be an evacuation? All those partitions
would impede the free flow of unhinged panic. So no more partitions. Just
workstations and chairs. Not even any desktops. Desktops encourage the use of
paper, which is archaic and reflects inadequate team spirit. What is so special
about your work that you have to write it down on a piece of paper that only
you get to see? That you have to lock it away inside a desk? When you're
working for the Feds, everything you do is the property of the United States of
America. You do your work on the computer. The computer keeps a copy of
everything, so that if you get sick or something, it's all there where your
co-workers and supervisors can get access to it. If you want to write little
notes or make phone doodles, you're perfectly free to do that at home, in your
spare time. And there's the question of interchangeability. Fed workers, like
military people, are intended to be interchangeable parts. What happens if your
workstation should break down? You're going to sit there and twiddle your
thumbs until it gets fixed? No siree, you're going to move to a spare
workstation and get to work on that. And you don't have that flexibility if
you've got half a ton of personal stuff cached inside of a desk, strewn around
a desktop.

So there is no paper in a Fed office. All the workstations are the same. You
come in in the morning, pick one at random, sit down, and get to work. You
could try to favor a particular station, try to sit there every day, but it
would be noticed. Generally you pick the unoccupied workstation that's closest
to the door. That way, whoever came in earliest sits closest, whoever came in
latest is way in the back, for the rest of the day it's obvious at a glance
who's on the ball in this office and who is -- as they whisper to each other in
the bathrooms -- having problems.
> The UK is in a downward spiral.

From "greatest" empire of the world to a small island no body cares besides for their funny politicians, in 100 years (speedun edition)
Makes a lot of sense given how many people are WFH
The worst customer service I can ever remember observing was in the US (LA specifically). But I've had indifferent, sloppy and excellent customer service in every country I spent long enough in to observe it, and the US was the only one where not tipping is considered some sort of faux-pas by the customer.
> The stuff you’re saving time on, managing hosts, just isn’t that much compared to dealing with aws/terraform/etc.

This is where I feel like I'm doing stuff wrong. If we're comparing Terraform, it means we probably care about reproducibility (rather than an "AWS console vs SSH into pet hosts" scenario), so the like-for-like comparison involves bringing in something like Ansible. On top of that, you need to pick, install, and configure logging exfiltrators, monitoring agents, process managers, etc and you need to operate systems that let you explore those logs and metrics. You also need to configure SSH access and manage keys. You may also need a custom base image, so maybe you're doing packer stuff as well? On top of that, you need to run some database which means managing backups and running replicas with failover (or maybe we/re a small business and we don't care that much about reliability?). And again, we care about reproducibility, so we need to encode all of this stuff in Ansible playbooks or similar. You probably also need something like security groups to restrict which things are allowed to talk to which other things, and encoding this in Ansible or similar is maybe impossible if you don't have software-defined-networks.

It seems like a lot to get to parity with what someone could throw together with API Gateway, Lambda, S3/DynamoDB in a couple reasonably-sized Terraform files in a few hours for a pretty marginal cloud spend (most small businesses would probably stay pretty close to the free tier--these services are extremely inexpensive).
I'd work from a toilet stall for a Google L6 comp band

I doubt any Googlers actually care about this stuff
Author here. In 2007 when Django was starting to get popular there was a website called instantdjango.com where you could go and download a zip that would let you run Django and Python on Windows, with everything configured nicely.

I only used that version because it is the official one supported by cosmopolitan, but it is also possible to use newer versions with the same approach, for example Python 3.11 and Django 4: https://github.com/ahgamut/cpython/tree/cosmo-djngo (Website has been updated to point at that one).
Yes, this is a solution for gmail login challenges.

In the slack app you create a phone number, then you register that phone number with your google account. From now on any login challenge you receive on that phone number will be sent to slack.

If you have a team of multiple people, they would all be able too see and use that code if they triggered it.

This is much better than having to ask the person who's phone number is associated with the gmail account. As they may not answer in time.
Not surprising, shit like this was happening pre-covid as well if you look for it.
I agree, but I think that the way of achieving that is quite dumb.

Id rather enforce something around. The first 1-2 floors in some specific buildings on every campus will turn into shared spaces instead of forcing everyone out of their desks.

Decisions seem so poorly though recently that the only way I can make sense of many is thinking that they are trying to get people to quit to avoid paying for severances and taking another morale and press hit at announcing layoffs.
1. I didn't make any mention of diversity.

2. The notion that companies will win purely due to skill is questionable. I would highly recommend listening to "How I Built This". Skill is a significant factor, but companies that win do not always do so based on skill.
> The Syncron Switch is meant to be less invasive than other BCIs like Neuralink

While it is a direct brain implant, Neuralink’s goal is to have it done 100% by robots, no neurosurgeons involved (with their hands at least). Their device is also so tiny that it’s hard to say it’s more invasive then pushing something through your veins + a chest implant…
Most retailers are okay with denying all checks.
> Why distribute the music that way

Because distributing music over multicast works very well, and it's rather simple in nature: You get audio frames as UDP packets, you play them. Because it's multicast, they reach where they should.

> why not just attach it to a radio directly

Because you lose control of what's being played, and there are probably not many "elevator music" radio stations.

> or some RPi that will pull the stream

Because then every location that plays the music has to pull an individual stream, quickly saturating the bandwidth for no reason, instead of just subscribing to the multicast stream.

I also would not say "some RPi" is less engineering, and less maintenance, than the current solution that likely uses an off the shelf multicast audio system.

> or just have it prerecorded

Because you lose control of what's being played without a significant replacement step, when you could just play a multicast stream instead.

> Despite its simplicity, seems to be overengineered.

I'm honestly not convinced I read a less "overengineered" solution so far...
Just for giggles, I tried plugging a USB keyboard into my phone via an OTG cable, and wonder of wonders it worked. The catch, of course, is that you'll eat your battery by powering external devices, and the keyboard dwarfs the phone. A Bluetooth keyboard would probably be a better bet for anything but rare use, and there are mini BT keyboards that would be easier to carry.

Too bad built-in slider keyboards went the way of the dodo. There are times when the extra screen real estate from not needing an on-screen keyboard can really come in handy (and Termux is one of them).
I remember him, Johnny Lee. I actually bought his Poor man's stabilizer ~15 years ago because I couldn't afford to buy Steadicam. EDIT: He also worked as dev for XBox Kinect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Lee_(computer_scientist...
That's great!

SMS to Slack makes it easy for less technical folks to have a similar setup. Also cheaper than a monthly mobile service subscription.
Not exclusively European countries, but also not the whole Europe: https://www.revolut.com/change-country/

I was able to get my hands on one of their cards, but it was useless to me as I couldn't actually put any money on it from my unsupported country.
It is not as simple as Netflix but my strategy is to add interesting videos into the "watch later" playlist. Then, during leisure time I do a quick scan and pick something.

If I find myself watching a lot of the same genre I create a "watch later" for that subject.
Obviously Stripe: https://stripe.com

Or Wise, which will just give you a (virtual) account in Australia: https://ale.sh/r/wise
Revolut seems less trustworthy that PayPal. And there appears to be a lot less protection for you as their customer.
If only there were someplace the employees could work and not need a desk at the office at all!

Discouraging employees to all come at the office at once seems to dilute the “back to the office” mantra of “Employees work better when they can collaborate in person”.

My workplace has a hybrid policy where teams pick one day to all be in the office, and employees “should” be in the office 3 days a week, but if your “collaboration” involves people on another team, then you’re usually going to have some of them zooming in (and sometimes people zoom in from conference rooms in the same building because of miscommunication about who is in the office), and at that that point you may as well all zoom in from home.
"We know you scrolled just every so slightly slower past the video of the young girls dancing provocatively in skimpy clothing"
"I wish you weren't laid off but I wish that less than laying you off."
What if it's the stated goal of that company?
I agree, and the only fix to those concerns would be a free, universally issued ID from the Federal government rather than letting states set up a mismash of confusing and difficult to access systems. No one complains much about drivers' licenses, but national ID tends to bring out the crazies.
Sadly, this is how it goes. The public, our safety, our lives are all on sale for the right price. When someone can stuff their pockets killing us, we die. Governments are paid to stay out of their way.
That thing where recurring payments subtract from your PayPal balance before the assigned payment method is, as you put it, absolutely infuriating. It put me off of PayPal so hard.
I have the opposite experience with PayPal as a seller. Never had any issues with blockage. I did have some issues with customers trying to scam and sellers have a dedicated email support with a real person at PayPal that actually helps. Same with eBay. You must get to the right person that actually cares. I run a small company 20-30 people and the amount of times that I have to correct my employee responses to customers emails is insane no matter how much I train. It is a principal agent problem. No one cares about your business more than you do and with PayPal serving MILLIONS of people it reinforces support to care less rather going above and beyond to help. Oh and with scammers I learned by selling online that everyone is a scammer until proven innocent. People that you would’ve never think of being a scammer turn out to be scammers.
> it is impossible for me to take online multiplayer gaming serious in any capacity anymore

I'm a gamer but I don't think that they're meant to be taken seriously.
Cue this old Nissan Leaf ad: gas powered everything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn__9hLJKAk
Date of birth is nothing. It's public on your Facebook profile.

And even ignoring that voice ID is insecure, I still think for the amount of complexity going into voice ID, there are much simpler systems that would be just as easy to use. The difficulty of getting someone to enroll their voice into a database can't possibly be lower than the difficulty of getting them to read a code off the back of their card, or to set up a passcode, or to read off an OTP from an app.

Maybe balance checks are trivial enough where someone doesn't care if they get hacked, but it's still weird because there should be a secure login method over the phone that gets used for everything. That there are separate login methods for different operations is weird and probably not good security. Why bisect it?

If the normal login methods are too cumbersome or hard, well... that's another situation that's worth questioning. There are easy login methods for services that are much more secure, why isn't the normal phone authentication using those? Why is it using a method that's so cumbersome that they need a different login method to check bank balance?
Rich people will find a way to use and experiment with this. They'll do it on a private island if they have to.

Then dictators will be tempted to "build" better workers and soldiers to get an edge on "those pesky democracies". If they succeed and become a threat to other nations, those nations will feel obligated to follow suit. The cat's out of the bag. (I'll pre-order a second wanker.)

If nukes don't get you, AI will. If AI doesn't get you, genetically modified monsters will. If genetically modified monsters[1] don't get you, then rioters paranoid over the first 3 will get you. Enjoy every day like it's your last.

[1] Could be altered humans, altered viruses, altered bears, altered mash-ups of all 3, etc.
"Progress" is something that emerges only in hindsight, and is a value judgement that embeds a perspective from which it is made. What we have in the present are choices, and possibilities, and estimations of their outcomes.

You could oppose this because you think it's unlikely to work at all, and so is a dead end and wasted effort. You could oppose it because you think it will work, but that the changes are not likely to be improvements.

Is a procedure that creates a new form of smarter, healthier, longer lived human progress? For them it certainly is. If they deny me that technology for my descendants, is it progress for them?

It is simply not going to break down so easily into "this is progress and progress is good." It will have consequences, some of them negative, many of them unexpected. It will be better for some people some of the time and worse for some people some of the time, like almost all changes are. Resisting change simply to slow it down and better understand and predict the effects is a valid stance as well. None of these things are inherently unethical.
Generally, I'm of the opinion that:

1. The CEO is the leader of the company

2. Good leaders are visionaries that have the capacity of picturing a better future, realizing what needs to be done, and then delegating and executing those requirements to manifest that vision into reality.

3. Sundar wants to be a good leader.

It would be easy to say that my #2 is correct, but doesn't apply to Sundar as CEO. I've heard his tenure associated with the "MBA-ification" of Google. Solely focusing on maximizing shareholder returns, which in the case of the company sitting on the multi-billion dollar revenue hose, means cutting down on anything that gets in the way of that.

That would indeed allow shareholders to get a great return on their investment for some time, but if you reduce google to a private AI research lab and a digital ads platform, there's nothing left to react (or bring forth) to changes in how people interact with technology. I feel like nothing exemplifies this further than Bard.

Perhaps I am too much of an optimist. But it really feels like he should care.
Since it seems the days of Google being a fairytale workplace where every whim is catered to on a golden platter are over, which company now is taking up the mantle as the most enviable office environment?
Like google, they badly want your mobile number, for
tracking and additional Pii/identity purposes. This is what it boils down to, not security.

I cannot log in without a phone any more to paypal. At all. My mobile phone doesn't even work on my property, I live in a rural area, with no cell phone service for 1km.

I have a phone. Email. I could set up 2fa via the internet.

Nope.

Because of course, cell phones are always reachable?!
It would have to be timed so each employee got equal stool time. IIRC standing all day isn't necessarily healthier than sitting all day. You want to alternate.
What about venmo? Same thing?
IMO the biggest problem with anything that's not a .com is the registry owners. As a registrant I want low (or at least consistent) prices, minimal price increases, and an assurance the TLD is going to be around long term.

The registries constantly adjust pricing and the new registrant agreements aren't as good as the old ones (ex: no price caps). The registry operators probably think they're geniuses that are maximizing profits via price discrimination, but I think they're fools that don't understand their product or the target audience.

I don't care too much about premium pricing. It's the *fluctuating* pricing without any limits that turns me off. If shortsighted management ruins a TLD and it collapses, I don't want to be collateral damage. I know there's a bond to cover operations for a period of time, but that's not forever.
Don't use the PayPal mafia? Is it 2005? PayPalsucks.org has been online for 20 years. Yelling into the void. I do agree, though. https://web.archive.org/web/20040325150958/http://www.paypal...
Google also builds the world’s most popular web browser and the world’s most popular mobile phone OS and the world’s most popular email service and the world’s most popular streaming video platform. Most people prefer to see the ads and get those things free of charge. Oh, and they make thermostats, and funny-looking self driving cars.

Facebook runs the world’s largest social network and during the pandemic it was one of the few ways (along with things like Zoom) that people could see the faces of their friends and family during lockdown. Facebook are also VR pioneers via Oculus. The metaverse is pretty dumb though.

Reducing these gigantic companies that do many things to just “advertising” and implying that the many people who work there are wasting their talents is cynical and cheap.

You know what would really suck? Having to pay a few cents every time you do a search, or paying a subscription to watch Youtube or use Gmail or see your friends Facebook posts. Ads are a totally reasonable alternative and all they do is sit there — you can ignore them and get all of these products for free.