skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is SMS two factor when email is not ?

Separate from that, it is not productive for you to tell me to think about it more -- for all you know I've implemented two factor authentication in various forms for decades (from OPIE when I worked at NRL to Smartcards within DOD to Passkeys currently). What would be more productive is to get more insight into what you're thinking
I dunno, I don't see this as bias or as anything nefarious. When I read the headline, my first thought was "huh, that seems unlikely; I wonder if they are counting Steam Deck users in that".

Frankly I just don't see it as an interesting metric. "More Steam games are played on Steam Deck (+ desktop Linux) than on macOS." So what? Even though the Steam Deck blurs the lines a bit, I don't consider desktop gaming and console/handheld gaming to be directly comparable. Or at least, I don't consider comparing them in this way to be interesting.

Just as I don't think "Linux is the most used OS kernel on the planet" to be all that interesting. Ok, it's interesting in a certain, narrow way. Obviously its use in mobile/embedded devices and servers dwarfs its use on the desktop. If we want to compare "OS choice on servers" or "OS choice on mobile devices", that's notable.

But when we're talking about gaming, and we want to compare "desktop macOS gamers" to other things, the only other things I think are relevant are "desktop Windows gamers" and "desktop Linux gamers".

If Steam-using desktop Linux gamers were surpassing Steam-using desktop macOS gamers, that would be huge, important news! But a bunch of people buying a Steam Deck and raising the number of people gaming on the Linux kernel is, to me, no more interesting than saying there are a ton of people playing games on the Linux kernel because there are a ton of people who game on Android phones. Whoop-de-do, film at 11.

(Full disclosure: I'm a desktop Linux user, and have been for over 20 years.)
> That would be a society where you tell people "you're not allowed to have kids", and you enforce it through law. Do you think it's reasonable to forbid people from having kids if they want to?

That sounds like a terrible thing to do.

Can you come up with a less terrible alternative?

Think of any animal populations, be it seals or starfish or lizards or anything. When the environment is optimal there is a big boom in their numbers. When the environment changes there is a huge die-off.

Humans have the benefit of advanced technology to smooth out these environmental bumps. But, nothing can grow to infinity so there will be those die-offs at some point.

Hypothetically, if we could plan out the next million years of humans on Earth, would it be better to hold a population level that could adapt to anything, or to go for the unlimited growth boom/bust cycles of nature?
It would seem then that this year is yet another early warning sign. Perhaps we got lucky to get a glimpse of what is coming and in a sane world, this would motivate us to finally take real and significant action. Unfortunately, the last few years have demonstrated that we clearly don't live in a sane world and of course, we'll ignore this warning too.
What was surprising to me was that having an Ubuntu Laptop and a Windows 11 PC side by side that Ubuntu needs about twice as often restarts compared to Windows.
I only have that setup 3-4 months, so it could be an outlier though.
Ask HN: Use RPi to host my photos, simple solution like umbrel?
I want to be able to use my raspberry pi to access my media drives from in and out the house, hopefully have some other tools like network monitoring and photo galleries and iOS integration.

I liked how umbrel setup, but I am wondering if there is something less crypto focused? Umbrel used tailscale to connect which is I am fine with. Thanks.
there's always bigger fish to fry and therefore we cannot talk about the smaller ones?

but srsly, "cashless" used to be a FPÖ (the far right party in Austria) topic, now the conservatives have finally picked up on it. I don't like either of their agendas and nobody seriously suggested going cashless in Austria.

However, I'm also not a fan of being forced to use a private company just to pay for my basic necessities. And it seems plausible to me that after a certain decline of cash usage and the corresponding decline in infrastructure, there will be a tipping point when handling cash becomes so expensive that it will be shut down for cost reasons.

A good question to ask imo is:
Is it possible to hold a view that's not held by my political ingroup?
Alternatives to Reddit and Twitter won a much greater relevance and audience than they would have had if a whole generation of early adopters hadn't been gifted to them.

But the eternal September people will remain on the enshittified legacy services until it's clear to them which direction to follow early adopters.

And do we even want that exodus to happen? Reddit and Twitter were never as good in recent years as they were when they were smaller.
I like this. The first and last ten percent of the work is usually the hardest. If you have someone get something out, it gets you to that next stage.
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That hasn't been true for years.

CC processing today 100% requires power and network.
Most of my best field trips as a kid involved OMSI.
You are extrapolating a lot out of a simple statement pointing out there is an example work-from-home company that is very competitive, and appears to be winning. They aren't winning so much that they're able to make Tumblr profitable, but better companies have tried and failed.

Other remote first companies have been attempted, and flourished, such as Buffer. DigitalOcean. Not sure how current this list is:

https://buffer.com/resources/remote-jobs/

edit:

So your solution to being underpaid as workers is instead of organizing and pushing back as workers, as it is the legally recognized of labor for over a century, is to start your own competing studio? If that is what you consider "cringe," then you have successfully signaled your virtues. Very well.
A 10 second convo is a two liner question I can shoot of via chat any time, not even needing to look for (and still fail or mistake) unbusy persons (and with a small team chat even broadcast to multiple people to also solve finding the unbusy person)? There are always many perspectives.. I have also seen introverts cope much better that way than approaching IRL. Heck you can even combine, "let me know when you are not busy to quickly explain me X" providing already the question async way, and then have the call or real desk meeting afterwards?

> There is a higher hurdle to setting up a zoom call than there was to waking up to a colleague who was at their desk

Also just not getting that, hitting the call button (or a real phone call) was always quicker and easier than walking two floors down to another room just to find the person not at its desk. Where is the hurdle?

Really, just not getting it ;) What's to be solved? I see it may be a problem or hurdle for some, but for others the bigger hurdle is the opposite way. Don't extrapolate, generalize and state it like fact, because that is imo not true for everybody and may be the other way round.
or just billions upon billions of dollars.
Could you please clarify why you think so?
macOS does not permit kernel extensions, because contrary to GNU/Linux they take ABI and kernel stability seriously, and are incrementally turning the OS into a proper microkernel, with all extensions running in userspace.
I remember some original reports about ubiquiti but not the specifics, is lodged in the back of my mind as "this company is getting worse"

I never saw the apology, but even if I had the damage would still be there, the subconcious part of my mind has downgraded ubiquiti

On the flip side maybe ubiquiti deserved to be downgraded - I remember talk about new owners and new directions, and perhaps I never even saw the security claim, and this retraction will unfairly "un-downgrade" them.

It's the same problem as the tabloid press. They can spend 3 weeks hounding someone with lies on page 1, then print a retraction on page 14. Even if the retraction was on page 1 it wouldn't undo the damage.
It could be that "24 hours" raises an higher score in spam filters
Do you think you should be allowed to change your brake pads? How about bleed your brake lines?
I know this is only anecdotal, but since the blackout started, my engagement with the site has plummeted to almost nothing. The few times I check my feed out of habit I simply don't see anything worth clicking on or engaging with in any of the dozens of subreddits I'm subscribed to. Old content also seems to take an absurd amount of time to be replaced with something new.

The only traffic I send Reddit's way is through search engine SEO, and if I can't find a good enough answer I simply join a Discord instead of creating a post in the subreddit. I have a hunch that if Discord ever decides to prioritize its communities being discoverable through search engines, Reddit is in even deeper trouble than it already is.
It wasn't a good analogy. For one thing, toddlers don't tie their shoes: the average age for learning to tie your shoes is 6 years old. And it's not clear that kids will learn for themselves if you give them a few hours. We're not talking about letting junior engineers struggle for weeks or months, but they can bang their heads for a few hours or maybe even a few days and figure out a lot of things for themselves. That's a useful skill to acquire.

Here's my analogy: if you want to learn how to ride a bike, you've got to take off the training wheels, and sometimes that means falling over.
IPv6 is compatible with IPv4 there are millions of devices with only an IPv6 address that work just fine.
Yes, I'm happy with their gigabit fiber product specifically. I can't comment on other products.
> What kills me is that LK-99 might actually be a room temp superconductor, but that doesn't mean the straight out crazy beliefs and behaviors were.

I've been trying really hard to keep an even keel but your point is absolutely valid and I'm in equal parts annoyed by people that categorically reject it and by people that blindly accept it. Science just doesn't work that way, you need to be patient and do the work. But I do hope that it works out, and as a fall back position that it turns out that it works out as a superconductor but not one with practical use. Because that would still open the floodgates for the funding that would either create a RT(AP)S or rule out that one is possible to a very high degree of certainty.
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The negative reinforcement needs to be strong enough to make the behavior unprofitable or it is completely ineffective. The fines exhibited here don't do that so your justification falls flat.

I also really don't see the economic harm in killing robocall companies. It seems like a net win to me.
And lots of ordinary users spent that time tired of seeing that story have so much traction, or were angry at Reddit, inc. after some of the more nasty details came to light, dipped their toes in other sites for their daily info-trawl, and established habits that don't include Reddit.
The article references two kinds of sources: arXiv posts, which get numbered footnotes; and posts on other websites, which get inline links. One of those links is allocated to some guy on Twitter making fun of unconfirmed levitation videos. There are no links to any of those videos.

Clearly, the author considers scientists publishing videos of their work less deserving of attention than making fun of those scientists. I think that reflects badly on their character, and badly on nature.com for hosting it.

(Also, an article published on 2023-08-04 should be able to refer to an arXiv post from 2023-08-03: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01516 even if they don't like citing videos.)
Question: is Objective-C post 2.0 being actively maintained outside of Apple?

Can I use the new features that Apple added in cross platform projects or open source environment like this?

I loved Objective-C very much (yes, really) and I'd like to continue using it after Apple phases it out
i was not aware of that, thank you. that is a lot more in line with what i would have expected to happen, and it is quite unfortunate that firefox is so difficult to reuse as a base for other projects.
Sure. Do you have a better one? I'm open to suggestions
What’s your point? Are you arguing that a country only surrenders when every single soldier drops their guns? I’m confused as to what you’re getting at. The war was basically over before anyone reached Berlin. The specifics don’t really matter.
This is a more articulate description of something I’ve been thinking of for a while. Tweets, and maybe just internet comments in general, are like a stream of consciousness momentary thought response. Rarely is it a fully formed opinion, but instead it’s an instantaneous opinion that might have left as quickly as it came. Someone insults my cup holders, and I kind of like my car, the cup holders are fine, but for an instant I feel slighted. Then I see they have so many upvotes, and their wrong opinion is being spread. Now it’s my duty to inform the world of the quality of these cup holders, and defend my honor. They can’t just be wrong, they have to be completely wrong, so out comes the exaggerated response. And then, as quickly as it came on, it’s forgotten, and I don’t even notice the next time I use the cup holders that they are kinda shit.
> Cloudflare public DNS is 1.1.1.1. If I switch to ipv6, I get to use 2606:4700:4700::1111. You telling me that's an upgrade?

The concept of vanity IPv4 addresses was invented in 2009, when Google acquired 8.8.8.0/24 from Level3. This is an emergent feature of a small, densely packed address space. IPv6 had existed for a decade (EDIT: not two decades) by that point, so you can't really blame the designers.

Sprint controls 2600::, probably by accident, but they're not doing anything interesting with it.
Yeah, the interesting case here is Johnson and Johnson [0], which is best explained by Matt Levine.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-31/matt-l...
Don't we all? This is the #1 pipe dream of any "commoner" who has lived in organized society since the dawn of history.
maybe a lot of people are tired of hearing people flog uniformed opinions and third-hand speculation. its not really a very productive discussion.
Here you go

https://christitus.com/windows-tool/
Presumably thats because everyone already has Twitter installed...
If their business model is broken, it's their problem.

You bought a car, paid for the car, and that car has heated seats. Now they want more money for using hardware you already bought, paid for and received.

I would understand if they had recurring costs with your heated seats (like they do with eg. a music streaming service or something like that), but nope, they sold you the hardware and now are blackmailing you for more money to use something you already own.

Not adding heated seats does not mean a different production line, just one skipped step for the seats without heating, and this was done on every car before they started with this subscripton and "pay extra" crap. This would also reduce e-waste for those who do not want and/or need heated seats.

Do you really want to live in a world, where you have to pay extra to use something you already bought?
> have both semi arid savannas and steppes to arid desert climates. It is not no stranger to high temperature anytime of year, neither to the sudden steep subtropics warm up midwinter known locally as ‘veranito'

Yes, but similar record was last seen ~70 years ago for the peak in Chile and ~110 years ago in Buenos Aires. So, the matter is about "how frequently how much"

> Here in SE SA plateau it's been a normal to cooler winter

Yes but this is exactly the "stochastic" part of randomness, i.e. making it difficult to assess a phenomenon from a restricted perspective which is not the big picture.
Yes, this polarization is really annoying, it also blinds people because they become too invested in their own team to still change their position given additional evidence.
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Do you have any writeup of how you did it?
I think they’re each measuring one’s ability to do a certain type of puzzle. IQ tests at least attempt to measure general ability across a variety of tasks.
What would you expect to replace pip?
I just put a desktop build together, and Nvidia GPU prices are indeed nightmarish.
> asynchronous works great for open source, so why not business?

Hold your horses. Your constant synchronous communication reduces the aggregate throughput by increasing context switching, which incurs dead time for the interrupted parties as they refocus on their task. A better way is to reserve synchronous communication for urgent requests, and time block (batch) or async the rest.
Split across everyone in the class?
The Eiffel-inspired tower in Tokyo is painted orange to comply with air safety regulations [1]. The color always looked odd to me but I guess it’s not so different from the Eiffel in the past.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Tower
Unfortunately you’re going to need to pay the lawyers that won you the case too.
Your reasoning might as well be applied to the Church of Scientology or most Ponzi schemes. Calling those for what they are does make the members close ranks.
Where do you think “speed” sits on the stack-ranking of priorities for Eiffel Tower repainting/surface maintenance?

For a monument of its value, I would almost think speed/lower cost would be seen as red flags.
Again, seems like it should pierce limited liability. The shell company stood up to take the fall should be immaterial.
After going through the article, I'm absolutely surprised that one can publish such low effort (oped) articles on nature.com; perhaps lazy me should also give it a shot. Didn't care to check the author's credentials: if he is sort of a big name guy so Nature didn't bother with quality control.
no violence needed:

We made a Drone to Toilet Paper houses!

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=QMb1FH_YEME
To be fair, Theranos didn’t get slapped on the wrist. They’re going to prison for many years.
> Libraries used to be able to do this

> without libraries having any say in it

You're assuming the libraries ever had a say in what Overdrive's catalog was. I can't imagine they ever did.

Some libraries probably presented a UI suggesting they could do it as their own combined catalog probably wasn't synced to whatever Overdrive's library was. But you're then assuming your request for a book that wasn't in the Overdrive library actually got to the point of notifying Overdrive, which is yet to be shown either way.

I doubt it did anything more than have a librarian check if the book was in the Overdrive catalog, and if not they probably just closed the ticket. And right now this idea has just as much evidence as yours.
Production of arms unaffected by loss of raw materials continued throughout the bombings. The classic example often used is ball bearings, whose production increased up until 1945.
I had the opposite experience with junior devs on my team. The ones that knew how to communicate and ask for help thrived. It was easy to negotiate some head banging on the wall time while also pairing from time to time to discuss where they're going. I've seem them flourish in less than a year's time and be able to perform just like experienced devs.
"Action produces information". If you "do something, so we can change it" be sure to do it strongly in one direction or the other, so that you set the direction of exploration, too.
We do love inventing gods to escape our responsibility
"The right to be curious"? "The real map"? We clearly have very different worldviews.
The word speculation really applies when you see people betting on this.
Right, but it isn't standard yet still.
Talking points aren't themselves a derogatory idea. You can have good talking points for defensible ideas, and in fact in public communication planning these is critical. It's only derogatory when you use talking points to try to slip something unethical or corrupt through by obfuscating.
You need a different hobby. There's no junior mod award. I was under the impression this was account was a bot.
I suppose you couldn't convince your employer to let you use an embeddable Scheme interpreter for the DSL?
> How you knew you'd be able to go to college if you studied hard, how you'd get to go to summer camp, how you'd get an apartment when you got a job, and so on. Like you could kind of feel economically secure about your future in a way that you couldn't in capitalism.

It's sort of like, communism is for conformists. If your goal in life is to be a mid-level bureaucrat who never speaks out of turn then your rent gets paid.

But it's exactly that security that makes it fall apart. There is no penalty for mediocrity so it proliferates.
> My conclusion was that fixing the docs was simply a waste of time. My resulting despair for the software and the company surely destroyed my productivity.

What did you do instead? It’s certainly frustrating to have people breaking docs that you fixed. But what else is there. You just figured it out on your own and left the docs broken?
You see this on HN often when advertising comes up. There's a large group of people ideologically against it.
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How the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk
I wonder how often managers forget that you can often make more money and profit by lowering prices.
This Nature article claimed that two of the Chinese labs attempting replication provided XRD measurements that didn’t at all match what the Korean lab had. I’m not a pro in this field, but XRD gives you insight into the crystalline structure of materials. That suggests that whatever they made might not even be LK-99. I suppose the difference could be other contamination?

Is my understanding right? If so, slightly shocking that these replication attempts are garnering so much visibility.
Oddly, the hordes tripping over each other predicting imminent rueage for Twitter, have all fallen silent.