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The blockchain and LLMs parts in particular fall flat in this article. Blockchains are attractive because they are novel and can be easily monetized (usually by taking money from invest... well... suckers). Their wastefulness has little to do with anything. And LLMs are... just useful and promising. I'm personally deeply reserved about near term possibilities of LLMs, but it doesn't stop me from paying $20/mo for ChatGPT and using it as a convenient search engine for programming and other things.

And generally this doom-saying by people like Jonathan Blow doesn't reasonate with me at all. Sure there is a lot of waste. But also software is better then ever was. 3d graphics are better, programming langauges, Unicode support, software development process, hardware is faster, all the clunky C tools are being replaced with modern equivalents in Rust/Go with way better usability, cryptography and security are better, desktop environemnts are better, file systems are better. I could go on.

In my mind the only things that are getting worse are the commercial stuff: web sucks and stole the thunder from native apps and Windows/MacOS are degrading.
Oh funny, i've been working on a similar project, analyzing earning call transcripts using LLM's. My first attempt was with BERTopic. The results were awful. My second attempt was with a finetuned 7B version of Mistral, with heavy prompt engineering, the results were actually super good in my opinion... plus it runs on a single 3090.
You could always take a flier on cryonics.
$800M? Can you imagine the public howling at that kind of CEO comp?
Hard pass. What if I lose all my devices? (Except a fireproof offsite box with a piece of paper containing most of my passwords in it.)

More realistically, what if Google decides to disable my account, and holds my passkey database hostage (which they can, by design)?
Can someone please explain what this company actually did? I’m not a cloud person per se, but I find it strange that I’ve never heard of them given the overwhelming number of people here who are familiar.
Threads would be much better if it had the algorithm of TikTok.

Basic things like I scroll through Threads on my iPhone (while logged into my account) and then I do the same on my iPad and it shows me the same posts. WTF?!? Keeping track of what I've read (or at least scrolled past) is really basic and has been part of email, newsgroups, etc. for decades.

TikTok does this pretty well but it is also pathologically good at picking new things based on your viewing habits. It has a huge advantage over Threads (and Facebook, Instagram, X, etc) in that TikTok only presents one thing at a time to the user. If I flick it away in a fraction of a second, it shows that something has triggered me (boredom, disgust, etc) to move to the next thing. If I watch one clip multiple times and/or dig into the comments or other clips from the same creator, or even follow a creator, chances are I want to see more of that and/or more like that. I'm sure it's more complex, but there's a lot of feedback to the algorithm there. Facebook and Instagram try to learn from the "more..." buttons that expand comments, but it's not really the same level of information.

As it stands, the discovery process on Threads is no where near as compelling as it is on TikTok.
Last time I used the McDonald’s app here in Québec, I was surprised to see only ⅔ of the translation keys were actually translated into French. Those_snake_cased_keys_everywhere interspersed with successfully translated French values.
Especially since CSS now supports imports, variables, nested children and other features that have rendered the CSS processing tools of yore obsolete.
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That's the point though. You should let people that PAY for electricity use it however they want. If it's profitable to mine bitcoin this tells me that the price of the energy is too low.
> It was delightful to hear my own spouse gasp in amazement to see herself in 3D twirling gracefully during a recent outing.

Did you get two ?
Why does the service provider care about account takeover, from a financial perspective?

They can always reset the password on their end, given proof of identity (if the account matters).
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I am not there for the sex. I want a solid information platform that is real time and a lot of people use. That obviously means they invest in anti-propaganda and brigading tech. Hopefully it is not too flashy and stays out of my way, and the search / curation features (like twitter lists) work enough that they are not a point of friction. There is still obvious work to be done, but it is on a good trajectory for now.
Carriers can certainly carry an amount of blame. IIRC in Aus its gotten harder to activate a new sim for these reasons. The attacks haven't stopped entirely but its gotten more rare. It now relies on a very persistent social engineering attack to pull off.

That said number portability is a really deep well. And theres utility in keeping it somewhat liquid for the many many many people it benefits rather than making it terrible for everyone to prevent a number of attacks.
In India your Sim card stops working if you do not recharge ebery month and after 2nd month, the number gets blocked, after 90 days the number gets canceled and recycled.

The going argument is, WhatsApp if your number gets unused for 90 days doesn't let you reset password or something so its all fine.

Then its a matter of submitting a written application with the bank to change your mobile number so its all fine
As someone who has moved countries before, I despise SMS authentication. It should not be used for anything, ever.
Accessing TOTP or passwords in the iOS built-in password manager requires someone to (1) have your phone; (2) pass a biometric authentication or a passcode authentication.

That's the two factors right there.
Here's Adam Mosseri's (Threads Head) update from 7 weeks ago: https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C046LSmPAuN
If only they put all the options on a single screen. That would risk the customer having any idea what they're buying. I'm just waiting for the day I click to the next screen only to learn I am purchasing a standing room ticket with the option of a seat for an extra fee.
to you, maybe
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In what way is a virus remotely like a prion? Both the structure and function of the parts are completely different.

Just because a virus interacts with a metabolism doesn't mean it's closer to having one of its own. That's like saying humans use gasoline combustion for our biology because we drive cars instead of walking sometimes.

You're not wrong that whether viruses are alive is not a very practical question, but none of the rest of your post meaningfully addresses it either way.
Based on my experience with Google Voice, I think of not allowing Google Voice as a positive that could help people. I’ve written a little bit about why not to use Google Voice in this comment (on this same post) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39270503

My experience may not apply to you, but it is still a risk, IMO, to rely on the “free” Google Voice.
I've never had problems with using SMS + wifi around the world without roaming.

(I've had that problem domestically, due to having laptop internet with no wifi password, though.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku
How about they create a permanent site that guides people who have read the article in how to switch to app based 2FA?

Doesn't have to name applications, but explain the process and common pitfalls people find themselves in when switching to app based 2FA and how to prevent them.
I lived in Florida for a long time, I can tell you that people don’t evacuate when it’s a cat 4 threatening to maybe become a cat 5. Having a category meaning “this is much worse than a 4” would be meaningful here. I see no reason to have an upper limit, it just artificially makes everything at and above the cat 5 threshold mean the same thing.

Also, Florida homes are built from cement, meant to survive storms like that. The building codes come from hurricane andrew, a particularly damaging cat 5.
My thoughts went towards a bare-metal torrent server, suited for seedboxes.
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I will build out my next project based on what comment gets the most upvotes. It can be anything , preferably interesting
Classic example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_El_Reno_tornado

This had wind speed measured by radar, but ultimately didn't hit any substantial structures, so they couldn't justify anything above EF3. Tornadoes are only rated based on the damage they do to damage indicators, the wind speeds are just best guesses.
Oh come on, by that criteria you dismiss the entire concept of categories.

Rounding is not a disqualifier.
hmmm this sounds familiar… :)
I'm 90% sure the people that did this project did it because they got nerd sniped by it and got to hang out with nat while earning a reasonable salary
A Yubikey used in that way is still more efficient and secure than every other option.

Someone would need to physically take your laptop, unlock it, and get your account passwords before they could use your yubikey to login to accounts.
"Any recent graduate can come up with an architecture better than the current one. What takes a senior engineer is to transition to a better architecture while the business is continuing to operate."
Yes, and I did just that. I had my first house built in metro Atlanta making $70K in 2002, it was $170K and my second house built in the north metro area in the “good school system” - 3200 square feet - in 2016 for $335K. I was making $115K when I qualified for it.

I bought my 3rd place - a condo in a resort area in Florida 2 years ago and this is the life we live now - thanks to being able to sell our house that doubled in value in six years.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36306966

Good luck with doing any of that now.

But unless you’re working for a non profit, you’re working for a company whose only motivation is profit. Why wouldn’t you work for BigTech and exchange as much money for your labor as possible?

Especially when you’re young and you have the time value of money working for you?

Right now, I’m only making about $30K more than an entry level dev at BigTech makes and I’m 50. But I don’t have kids to put through college or ever have to think about kids or starting a family (we are empty nesters), my own student loans, trying to buy a home in today’s real estate market etc.

But I also wasn’t able to max out my 401K plan and HSA at 22 years old like a 22 year old that I mentored when they were an intern when they came back the next year.
Step 1: Confirm victim is out of cell range.

Step 2: Sob story about how you lost your cell phone.

Step 3: Fake ID / Social engineering.

The five day wait would work well, though it doesn't protect against "I stole the phone and I yanked the SIM or looked at the push notification" attacks.
It's not a refusal so much as it's really hard to fire people in Japan. CEO pay cuts don't have much to do with it either, and Western CEOs do get "pay cuts" since they're paid in stock that can go down.
We also don't know how big the dev team is. It's heavily implied that it was one, but not actually stated.
A life?
No, but many things have been invented a lot sooner due to it, than would have been invented otherwise.

Completely laid back cultures advance very slowly.
I don’t have experience with TOTP on this, but I’ve seen that the “try another way” doesn’t even work with a recovery email address and a code sent to it. Google seems to make it almost impossible to login if you move away from your “home” location, unless perhaps you use its apps and are already logged in.
For sure! You've made two super important points; how can I trust it shuffling things under me and how can I justify trusting this thing if it's going in long-lead or production hardware (stuff that's hard to fix)

The first one is super interesting technically because there's a few routes by which engineers can gain trust in something, and in my experience code-generation often isn't the strongest of them.
It's often the case that checking an answer is vastly easier than solving the problem in the first place. Our mid-term roadmap includes scripting tests (~pytest + SPICE in CI) and for a complex chip like that, I first expect that those params will tweak those tests, those tests will fail out of spec and the engineer needs to reconfigure it in that application while understanding the datasheet.

The next level is extremely similar, except the solver is selecting configuration component params based on cost-functions and rules, and this same test suite is validating the solution and providing the confidence needed to manufacture a prototype.

The final and important mechanism though is that you have a lockfile that lockdown the configuration of these discretes unless an engineer opens it up - yielding review as we'd have today.

The other half of this though - how can we confidently deploy this to production, is eased with the rigorous workflows software version control tools (github, gitlab) can enforce. If an engineer tweaks these params, you can use the tool to rigorously enforce review from the domain-specific-experts on the team.
Currently, it's vastly too easy to slip something through (mostly unwittingly) in design review meetings, and these version control tools go a long way towards fixing that.
CSS feels just about perfect now. Any more convenience features and it would probably start feeling overly abstracted to me.
I had no idea what the price was in Walmart. My point was even I get sticker shock on a high tech salary.
"all labor on which another profits" is not the definition of exploit.

https://www.google.com/search?q=exploit+definition
Ada is such a lost opportunity honestly. As powerful as C, performant and clean.
It does. Windows WSL2 + Nvidia Operator + Kubeflow Docs are here https://docs.qbo.io/#/ai_and_ml?id=nvidia-gpu-operator. Please note that support for WSL2 is new in Nvidia GPU Device Plugin and the PR is under testing before Nvidia releases it. Looks like RC comming next v0.15.0-rc.1 that should contain the PR.

See here for more info:
https://github.com/NVIDIA/k8s-device-plugin/issues/332#issue...
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> It’s your choice, and you don’t need to choose to.

And if I don't choose it, I can just choose to not pay bills/rent when I'm fired. What a simple solution.
Problem is, by that point YC have already filtered out the founder who is naturally inclined towards product over ponzi. Yes, it's still not entirely a gamble but remember that a person who has enough self-awareness of her product potential will still prefer to bootstrap over getting into YC, so one might suspect that's not inherently a low bar. (Or else the partners would not have such a distracting job in the first place) What should YC do then? I'd say, demonstrate to a producteer how willing and able YC are to help her explore side markets, a bit like HN's commitment to curiosity :)
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> accelerate our spaceship at a mere 1G continuously

Do you mean accelerate at 9.8 m/s^2 ?
Exactly. You could use a trustworthy mail provider with a domain you own (registrar and DNS provider in two other accounts, probably), and then a second mail account for the 2FA for the other three accounts, but then what's the 2FA for the second email account?
Charles Schwab does "My voice is my password" when calling. That's going to cause a lot of problems in the near future if it hasn't already.
I can understand that sometimes the technology at work might provide a platform to try some things you're interested in, but if you're honest about what your long term goals and dreams are, those probably have very little to do with work.

I used to get frustrated at work, thought I could recreate one of our systems in a better way, maybe I could have, but ultimately it was just a CRUD app, and making slight improvements to CRUD apps is not my dream. Running my own CRUD app, maybe, but not for someone else. (Nor were they asking me to recreate that system.)

My real dream is something more like "figure out how to bring strong AI to the gaming industry to create more interesting single-player strategy games", but that's hard, much easier to chase some tangent on someone else's CRUD app.
> Rest assured, this person is actually a terrible negotiator. They’re good at being difficult and causing a scene, which can sometimes convince a waitress or shift manager to appease them. But this style of negotiating will get you nowhere when negotiating with a business partner (that is, an employer).

You need to pick your negotiation strategy based on the situation. Sometimes you do need to be bullheaded when insisting on a refund. That doesn't make you a bad negotiator when negotiating pay - you just use a different strategy when negotiating a pay raise.
As far as I can tell, Adafruit doesn't price gouge. More expensive than some other US places, sometimes, but usually not by much. Sometimes they're cheaper than similar US places.

The only places that sell same or similar items for drastically less than Adafruit are places like Aliexpress (or the same foreign sellers selling on Ebay), and there are many reasons why Adafruit is more expensive than those places...

Some of the stuff Adafruit sell is likely sourced from Aliexpress (or perhaps from Alibaba if they're buying in large enough quantity) and is indeed priced higher at Adafruit, but that's because if they price it the same or lower they make no money. So we know for those items, they must mark them up. But how much they need to be marked up is kind of complicated. Buying lots of things in order to resell them is more complicated than buying just one or two things for yourself, especially when the seller is on the other side of the world. Simply put: there's a lot more overhead when buying for resale that you don't have to worry about when buying low quantities for yourself. One big difference is that they need _reliable_ suppliers with large quantities consistently available, and those are rarely the same sellers selling things for pennies. (I could go into more differences, because there are many, but this reply is already getting pretty long. Ask me if you want to know more, or google for info about how to open and run a retail business.)

Also, bear in mind that some of that stuff that you can get elsewhere at a fraction of the cost than Adafruit are actually Adafruit's own designs being directly cloned, like a lot of their breakout boards. In those cases, you really can't blame Adafruit, since the reason those items are cheaper elsewhere is because someone's specifically trying to undercut them (often at the expense of overall quality and sometimes even at the expensive of authentic correctly-working parts).
And yet people understand the sentiment. Having footnotes pointing out the inherent unfairness of capitalism when criticizing the employers that go further than societal norms to exploit their employers seems like an excessive level of formality (to expect) for HN.
God forbid someone be critical of Europe's relationship with west Africa
You are being intentionally dense.
What happens when the owner of the number discontinues the phone service, loses the number and the same number is give to another customer who then tries to register for an account on the same platform? Phone providers may recycle numbers in as short a period as a few months.
> Time-sensitive critical decisions as a career sounds like guaranteed burnout.

More than burnout, it was the boredom of "lulls" in between time-sensitive critical decisions that got me.

In my pre-sales/post sales system engineering roles, I was routinely approached by leadership and teammates to "put out the fire" as they used to say. I enjoyed those kind of challenges but such instances were not that frequent, may be once a month, and I found the time in between such cases incredibly boring. But the high of solving a pressing problem and then relaxing for a while was very addictive and rewarding.

I expect that I might have burnout if I was dealing with such cases everyday but a few cases a month might not be that bad.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dark-archives-human-sk...
As you can see from the article you're commenting on, it does not protect you from being fired, so I don't see your point.
hoovering up users' phone numbers for profit is so widespread because

- everyone has a phone

- most people rarely change their numbers (if ever)

- many people are more likely to give out their phone number than their social security number

they couldn't care less about the security of your account or the fact that it's a valid number you control. they want the number that will uniquely identify you and already resides in the db of whichever adtech company bids the highest for your data.
The more common name to read about it by is "Relativistic Beaming".
So what's going to happen to the sock shop now?
>Black hat is just one giant bunch of sales pitches.

> No I haven't been there

The first sentence is not true. Many good talks are give, often breaking ground. Yes, you can find sales pitches, but there are good fundamentally technology talks.
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Is there a test of originality for copyright? I wouldn’t call myself vehemently anti copyright but when the idea of “let’s just not play and the ambient sound of the orchestra sitting there is music instead” is the basis for the copyright it does make me question the validity of it. When someone who has done XYZ drug of choice and can come up with that idea in their drug addled state of mind as a pretty good first pass (if I were to to smoke marijuana and you asked me of a clever avant garde music idea, the concept of 4’33’’ is probably be one of the top three I would just list right off the bat not knowing of Cage) I really do question whether you should be able to copyright that idea. It’s even a bit of a hippie meme “what if the music is everything around us? Har har”

By the way I love 4’33” and don’t denigrate it - the way Cage executed the idea is flawless - which is one of the reasons it’s so timeless. I just don’t think it’s something you can copyright. And indeed, the stories you linked indicate that, though rather than point out the ridiculousness of the situation they simply used it as a money and publicity making opportunity.
Yeah I remember searching to mathematical justification because it sounds like it'd be interesting, only to come up empty. Disappointing especially when I've seen some suggestions to base tax on it.
There's definitely a subjective element to authoring CSS, so I'm glad people have options.

That being said, one of the things Tailwind got right is that it's even faster to type out than normal CSS _or_ JS objects.

When you know what you want from Tailwind you write it and see it very quickly. Subjectively, there would have to be some very strong benefits to get me to go back to writing plain CSS rather than a bunch of class names.
Yeah, it sure would be nice if the same nations that deeply/fundamentally benefit from being epicentres of cutting-edge technology would actually do something to protect the rights of people who are reliant on and are affected by said technology.
I'm not recommending for unusable bags.

What I'm saying is that the risk profile is transferred.
Thank you for your anecdote. However your personal experience doesn't reflect everyone.

Many people don't have free international roaming, in fact mine only has roaming for US (I'm in Canada) and for zero roaming options available outside of North America.