skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I hate most is when companies insist that my (Google Voice) number "can't be used for authentication" or, even more crass, "isn't a valid phone/mobile number".

Some have even done this after initially allowing me to sign up using it, changing their policy sometime after I've signed up, and I usually only notice when I end up locked out of my account.

Fortunately it's mostly been store apps or payment services that I can just avoid going forward, since they clearly don't value my business, but I'm concerned that one day, my bank will do the same and just lock me out of my account.
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If you can't measure the benefit, why would you pay more for security? Just get the cheapest thing that checks the boxes...
The Goldman guy?

UBS had similar? Perhaps.

Try searching for these.
That makes sense, and sure.

I'm not overly familiar with this part of psychology, but I think a good distinction is between emotions and mood states. Adrenalized anger would probably be considered a mood state. I'm probably wrong about this though, as a quick search leads to distinctions between emotions, feelings, and moods. It looks like there are also "mood disorders" which seem to be extended affective complexes of particular emotions.

> I guess it might help if natural language agreed on emotional ranges at least to the extent that it agrees on colour names...

Probably the largest reason it doesn't is because while the majority of humans experience visual sensation similarly enough (white/blue dress notwithstanding), the emotions are something else entirely. We spend so much time in certain emotions compared to other people that it's like wearing colored wraparound spectacles all of the time.
That's how GFM has functioned for me, and I've been lucky with and grateful for the generosity of friends and strangers.
Really beautiful comment. I agree wholeheartedly with all you said about the last and healthiest option, I've been intentionally doing it too and it's been rewarding, even healing :)
You have to mention "e-waste" in order to establish that you are virtuous, not just a killjoy.

Note, however, that this does not work in threads about the Vision Pro goggles that people will chuck in the bottom of their closets (next to their Oculus and Google Glass) once the novelty wears off.
We'd still be limited by however many Gs human body can handle right?
The biggest problem I see with languishing AAA franchises lately (eg, Elder Scrolls or GTA) is that they're not in development for years and years. Management has made the bizarre decision to simply sit out an entire console generation before even starting pre-production.

I remember the wait between Daggerfall and Morrowind felt like forever, and that involved the departure of the lead developers. That was only six years! Skyrim to TES6 will be 15+ years. If you're a kid, Skyrim is some retro game and you probably don't care about the next one. This seems like a huge strategic mistake.
We hear you! We're most certainly planning on eating up the system's chain to describe, version control and validate up the system's chain.

As one example in an earlier (and likely future) permutation of atopile we could compile harnesses (using the fantastic https://github.com/wireviz/WireViz) by linking two interfaces on connectors.

Long future, if you can integrate mechanically too, you can at least check if not generate the harnesses lengths, bend radii, drip looks etc... for that same harness.

Somewhat like software, you can only tractably do that at scale if the units work and work reliably. Unit tests are the basis of software validation and we expect hardware validation as well. We're starting low-level we know, but with a concepts we know (from the insane scale of big software projects) can work on enormous projects too.
> It became mathematically impossible to be admitted to Latin if you weren't coming from a low income school.

I don't believe this is true, but if you have citations I'd be happy to hear them.

For instance, their accountability data [1] shows that, in 2023, out of 409 kids taking their ELA MCAS test, 92 were categorized as "low income."

I find this hard to square with your statement (all students came from low-income schools but 88% are not low income?).

1. https://profiles.doe.mass.edu/accountability/report/district...
I would wager the number of people in the US with a smart token (I’m assuming you mean something like a Yubikey, ≈22M worldwide, most users have two) is probably close to 1:1.

I would also wager the number of people with dumb phones are close (but not as close) to those having computers without any biometric capabilities (and if they have them, they’re not set up).
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"experts in performance".
Never trust any promise not in a signed contract and with said contract reviewed by a lawyer in a high stakes situation like that.

Never trust finance people, they are the scum of this planet. They only respect leverage.

Anyway, I have no much of sympathy for quants. So, poetic justice maybe.
Also don’t get packages delivered to your house because badguys can steal them.

Also don’t keep money in your wallet because badguys can pickpocket you.

Also don’t use computers because badguys can steal your passwords.

Turns out the problem is Carriers are dogshit and don’t protect their customers.
> no idea what the implications would be if most plastics suddenly gained a shelf life like natural materials.

Wood basically doesn't have a shelf life as long as you aren't exposing it to the elements. This would be a problem for underground PVC piping, but not for bottled water, for the most part.

Plastics already photodegrade. Not being an expert I assume this would be one of the larger issues for bottled water expiration dates, for instance.

From here: https://www.pollutionsolutions-online.com/news/waste-managem...

The big issue seems to be the size of most plastics, not that bacteria can't already eat them.

: Eventually, the pieces of plastic will become small enough to be consumed by microorganisms, which are able to metabolise it and convert it to carbon dioxide (CO2) or absorb it into their own biomolecules.
Are you saying we never had drought in times before co2 concentration went up 0.01 pct points over the last 100 years?

The climate change cult language is a lot like that of medieval christian nutcases: “oh there is drought because you angered the God with your sinful behaviour. You must repent with fasting, abstinence and prayers. … oh you say you did all that and still have drought? Thats because you have not prayed hard enough, try again. Or its perhaps God’s will. Now pay your subscription to the church.”
Question: have you seen some almanac of known gravity waves observations, to make some overall picture?

Something like Astronomical survey?
Software development is a lot like bureaucracy these days
Also an identifier that is much harder to create bots/spam with, as phone numbers are harder to come by than email addresses.
I don't know what possessed me to make this, but here's the voice crack cover of 'Ocean Man' 320x slower (11 hours), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnEc0NZiNbY
I don't think it's quite as cut and dried as that. A 9.5 hit Chile about 60 years ago, and about 95% of the most directly hit town survived. Which is not to minimize it - there were thousands of fatalities - but it was human scale tragedy, not apocalypse.
And blame the carriers.
I'm honestly not sure, they are super lax about checking Rx in general though, so maybe email them?
Arr, this blew up! I think, in some form, people are missing the context of the script. It's a plug-and-play script where you can make changes to PDF quality using CSS/Python. Even fonts are loaded through Google in Python. 'Beautiful' is called contextual. You can create your own version and share it with the community.

I'm on mobile, so I can't add a Google Drive file screenshot to the readme, and iframes are not supported.
>(2) because few people are going to have access to 100 different phone numbers

There's a plethora of sms verification providers where you can pay a trivial amount (eg. 50 cents) per verification, and have tens/hundreds of phone numbers available. This isn't stopping anyone who's mildly determined.
I suspect GitHub’s insurance company has mandated it or gave notice that they intend to.
I created a realtime app for us to track https://isgithubipv6.live/
That was my first recollection -- after CoreOS' Flannel, I think the next two (or at least two of the earliest) overlay networks available for Kubernetes were Weave Net and Calico (whose core maintainers started Tigera). Flannel is still around and under active development despite CoreOS being long gone; hopefully the tools Weave employees maintained can keep healthy communities going around them.
They did and there's even tools to import their component library into Altium or Eagle.
Momentum but no mass, if I recall my physics correctly (low certainty).

Wait, hang on, we have access to an appreciable-chunk of the world's knowledge at our fingertips...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon - "Photons are massless[...]In empty space, the photon moves at c (the speed of light) and its energy and momentum are related by E = pc, where p is the magnitude of the momentum vector p[...]Current commonly accepted physical theories imply or assume the photon to be strictly massless"
Perhaps as a society, we could all contribute to a pool of money and when people get sick they could draw from that money as needed in order to pay for their healthcare. It could probably achieve much efficiency through economies of scale and consolidated administration.
What needs to be done to get rid of SMS as 2FA? Fed regulation? It will be slow (ie, took many years for the US to fully get rid of mag stripes as the standard), but at least it will motivate US companies (effects to possibly ripple across the pond) to get their shit together or find a new vendor.

Multiple banks I use still use SMS as primary 2FA. Kind of sad.
How do you identify a valuable book? Are there some 1000 well known valuable items you keep in mind? Or are you looking inside every jacket hoping to find an author's signature on a 1st edition? I assume the price of a false positive is low (ie I'll buy these dusty books for $20), but sounds like a lot of legwork.

I imagine it is definitively less sexy than the Ninth Gate
There are many possibilities (and I can't really tell from skimming this writeup), but the possibilities absolutely include someone thinking "We got what we needed, now let's drop this person, and free the salary and bonus obligations".

Or they might've decided they didn't want that employee for some reason, maybe even dudebro culture fit mismatch when he showed up looking fatigued, and were "sux2bu" about how they got rid of the person, firing fast. Or that project got scrapped. Or some other person had a look at the code and decided they didn't like it (or didn't like the partner whose pet project it was). Etc.

A factor to keep in mind is that many, many shops nowadays really don't know how to build software that works sufficiently well, or they have low standards for what "sufficiently" means. For example, a few years ago, if your experience was only when the top priority was the appearance of growth, and then the next funding rounds and then exit, and there were all sorts of memes about moving fast and breaking things, etc., and you have no idea how to build systems that work, even if you wanted to... you might well think that developers are disposable and interchangeable commodities. (Someone else here noted the practice of a startup using offshoring contractors for key tech early on, which I think is strong evidence of this kind of thinking.)
It doesn't have to be accurate, it just has to be believable to sell the product.
I worked on this for a little while myself.

It wasn't so much "pc board by code" so much, but it was more a "pc board by CLI" approach.

And by that what my goal was, was to offer primitives and utility functions that would build the board up over time, but it was to be done incrementally in a Lisp REPL.

My use case scenario, was ancient AutoCAD.

Back in the day, while you could hook up a tablet or other pointing device (I'm talking pre-mouse here) to make AutoCAD drawings, a lot of it was done simply through typing in commands, in AutoLISP.

(lineto 100 100) kind of thing. And the drawing would appear on the screen over time, you'd save the data model, and manipulated with the REPL. If you wanted 10 lines:

(dotimes (i 10) (let ((x (* i 10)) (y 100)) (line x y x (+ y 100)))

(HN does not have a paren matching editor, apologies...)

Where it broke down for me was coming up with a graphic rendition using CL.

If emacs had anything reasonable regarding graphic support (its SVG support is Not Good), I'd have done it there.

Rethinking it, it just occurred to me I could have probably gone a good way using ABCL in a Java GUI shell.

But the key point is that I think using a REPL for building up something like a circuit can actually work, actually be efficient for users, especially if it's extensible (i.e. (defun grid ...) ). Especially a hybrid (like clicking on a line pastes an identifier into the REPL).

My experiences with KiCAD drove me down that mad hole.
man that shimmer is cool
Don't VC companies basically gamble with other peoples money? So yes, the person that actually put the money into the fund might want 1x or 1.5x out over 0x, but for the VC firm it doesn't matter, right? It's not their money to begin with.
Owner since Friday morning and developer with normally 17k pixels on 4 screens. If you’re seeking to 1:1 your existing flow, not yet. While my Studio Ultra delivers a lag-free crystal clear feed to the VP, not all “non IDE” apps work well in AVP native windows yet.

But, if you exploit the strengths of the platform, it’s quite nice. I physically walk to my analytics station, meeting station, and programming station. The walking helps me think more intentionally between tasks. It is absolutely slower than multitasking IRL, but faster in terms of thought clarity. Like ideas in the shower. I’ve found a good part of two work days has been better spent in the Vision Pro. I doubt every work day will be the same.

I wish I could walk between git work trees.
There is a massive difference between a pilot napping in the cockpit (and thus being available with a few seconds lag) and having no second pilot at all.

There is also a huge difference between going from 4->3 or 3->2 and 2->1. You're loosing any redundancy!

So many of the near disaster scenarios I watch/read about (I'm an avid watcher of both Mayday and Admiral Cloudberg) are only near disasters because of having two pilots (or sometimes more) in the cockpit at the time of the incident. I recall one the other day where the plane was only saved because they happened to have four qualified pilots in the cockpit that day. The captain, the FO, someone doing a checkride on the captain and someone doing an evaluation on the pilot doing the checkride. Unusual situation but it happens.

The problem, as I see it, is that there are people here optimizing for the average workload and the average workload deviates by orders of magnitude from the workload during emergencies.

In normal situations the pilots are fairly idle most of the flight (talking about long haul here, not regionals with 10 movements per day) and probably use 10% of their training. When it matters, that other 90% of their training is absolutely critical to saving lives.

Similar situation with flight attendants. 99% of flights they are (exceptional) waiters and waitresses, but, 1% of the time they have to draw upon little-to-never-used experience which is the difference between life and death.
Assuming you’re asking in earnest I would begin with S&P 600 Small Cap companies, and see how they got their starts. These are all profitable companies with various levels of earnings growth and indebtedness.

Also commercial real estate fits your criteria almost perfectly.
Extra security is welcome, but I'm simultaneously terrified that I'll somehow get locked out of my Apple ID or main Gmail account.

Everything I read about Passkeys says this scenario is 100% impossible, as it's based on biometrics and no longer using a text string that can get lost, but I'm still nervous AF. I've had to do the "reset a password that's behind 2FA" dance before and it makes me want to crawl in a hole and die - super duper scary.

Somebody tell me to chill out.
This is all so true! But it also describes the problem very well. Of course a $100k CNC machine design will always be developed by a small team collaborating as you describe. But the tools and processes that work for that most emphatically do not work well for smaller projects with more distributed contributors.

Custom PCBs are so easy to order these days, but they are hellish to design and test well. That would change rapidly if we could reuse basic blocks the same way we do with code
A real catalyst would be to couple a sequencer to digitize the DNA together with a matter compiler to output real DNA from the digital DNA representation

Why? craft software to grow the organism in a biologically plausible manner in simulation from the digital DNA... then expose evolutionary pressure to this growth to evolve the DNA in simulation into a more value added organism

real organism --> sequence it's DNA into digital DNA --> evolve the DNA in simulation software --> output real DNA from digital DNA --> insert this evolved real DNA into a real cell to clone an organism now with enhanced attributes
> The people who run most businesses would be perfectly happy delivering nothing at all and bringing in a profit.

To be fair, to the degree that your statement is true, then I think most people who are employed by businesses would be perfectly happy delivering nothing at all and bringing home a paycheck.
> Same in case of incapacitation.

Though how tf would they land?
Nothing. Higher salary makes you a bigger layoff target, comes with bigger expectations and with higher taxes.

Time is a valuable thing.
That is true in a micro-economic sense. However, consider what happens if everyone saves? My point was that to continue driving asset appreciation for a small portion of the population - everyone else must become a progressively larger debtor.
It’s a loss from the business’ perspective. They could support 2FA with SMS and check a box; to additionally support it with TOTP would only be additional cost -- albeit with the bonus of “doing it right”. Unfortunately, that’s an abstraction which a lot of businesses consider to be achieved when they can check the box.
SMS for any significant action on an account is terrible.

1) Phones can be lost or stolen
2) People move country
3) SMS attacks
4) Phone numbers get reused
5) Users must maintain a paid phone plan

For the love of science, DO NOT tie accounts to phone numbers!!!

-- edit --

I updated the first line to clarify that I'm not talking about one-off notifications etc.
Family income is easier to game than community income though?
I see, your point was that the price of bacon at a Walmart cannot be that low because there are no Walmarts in the actual city of Boston? And you are implying that you answered "definitely" despite knowing that the price was correct for the greater Boston area? And that you don't care that 99%+ of the world refers to the entire Boston area as "Boston"? If this was the point you are making, please consider being clearer in the future that you are not contributing useful local knowledge but just being a pedant.
This guide should really start with why an absolute beginner, such as myself, would benefit from using emacs in 2024.

I use VS Code, Sublime Tet, Word, Powerpoint, Obsidian, Google Docs, etc. for my various text/data editing needs - what would emacs do above this collection of software?
Yes. They do.
>we find simpler and simpler RNA based things

>In the early 20th century, plant pathologists came across viroids

>some of the obelisk sequences encoded proteins involved in RNA replication, making them more complex than standard viroids

I don't mean to interrupt your narrative but you seem to be getting information from other sources and I was wondering what they are.
Even if there weren't shenanigans, it's valid to be concerned. Incentives lead to outcomes. Companies do a cost-benefit analysis, if the legal/reputational costs are less than what they stand to gain, history shows that they'll do the thing and then lie about it. Sam might be uniquely resistant to this due to a personal ethical code, but it's impossible to know for sure given that I can't read his mind.
John Cage's 4'33" is probably one of the best jokes in music.

I personally learned about 4'33" in a music class, where it was performed live -- basically it was 4'33" of ambient noise, but there was a lot of tension if you didn't know what to expect. During the final exam for the class, the professor would play some recording and we were supposed to identify the music, and all of us would start writing "John Cage's 4 minutes 33 seconds" when the professor was too slow to start the next song.

There was also an incident where apparently Mike Batt copied 4'33" and named his song "A One Minute Silence", which resulted in an 6-figure court settlement[1], although later news said it was just £1000[2]. I also heard a version of the story that they didn't settle at all, because John Cage's publishers couldn't prove which minute out of the 4'33" was copied.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/23/uk.silence/

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-11964995
I’ve seen it happen so many times that I envy your disbelief.
"We're endlessly cursing comrade Stalin, of course, for a good reason. And still I'd like to ask - who wrote the four million delations?"

S. Dovlatov

Still, it's Stalin&Co's "achievement" that people were en masse corrupted to the state where they'd frame their neighbours and family to gain their sorry possessions or stave off their own persecution.

The closer you were to the Leviathan, the more at risk you were too, the most executed occupation being NKVD officer.
Because it's not something which will ever be pleasant to listen to, and thus is missing the entire point of music. All for some weird novelty thing.
I didn't say that we should put everyone on chemotherapy, you are arguing against a strawman.
Yeah, I haven't checked within the last few years on more recent Intel/AMD processors, but it used to be that on Intel CPUs, only port 5 could be used for shuffles, so it was possible to bottleneck them on code with fairly heavy usage of shuffles.
Not true. If we make Yubi keys cheap enough (below $5) then everyone would want them. Everyone is already carrying around keys, they won’t mind 1 more key. Why can’t we make yubi keys cheaper?
Sorry, I just don't see how to extend the limited read length of ~5 without more microfluidics, and the reagent story is unclear.
I just really don’t need kids or my job to find something I love.
I would actually argue two things here.

#1, I think it's easier to go from 2 pilots -> 0 pilots. If your automation and remote control are good enough and robust enough to survive without a pilot, they are good enough to fly without a pilot.

#2, If you actually want to reduce crewing in a way which makes sense with less compromise on safety, allow long-haul flights to drop to a single pilot in the cabin during cruise phase. Long haul flights might fly with 4 or 6 pilots today, enabling to always have 2 pilots in the cockpit. It seems reasonable to me to reduce this number and allow only one pilot during cruise, where a second (or more likely more) pilot can join in the cabin within a minute or two in the event of any issue.
Unfortunately, there are already laws that demand sms auth, e.g. online gambling in some US states (new jersey, being one).

The persevere practice has been established as 'strong login'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq3bUFgEcb4

"Notation Must Die" ... excellent deep-ish dive into music notation by the inimitable Tantacrul