skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, they do kinda do that. Currently there seems to be an Au Bon Pain, a Taco Bell, a CVS Pharmacy, Starbucks, etc.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-aug-03-mn-30116...

Not sure if the employees are cleared, but they are at least screened (and one would assume... monitored?)

https://news.clearancejobs.com/2022/09/26/top-secret-taco-be...

https://maps.app.goo.gl/nyqYWQ7WBDArvdzS9

However, if the hours on Google Maps can be believed, it seems like all of the Pentagon shops close at 5PM eastern. So if you want food after 5PM, perhaps you're still ordering delivery?
a primary litmus test for clearance is how much debt you are in

As someone on the outside, I'm curious if that's true. I've never applied for clearance but I was always under the impression that it was more about how many people could vouch for you. Is it true that it actually just comes down to your bank account?
> mark of the beast

what bothers me the most about unfalsifiable predictions is that their predictive quality can only be retroactively applied, undermining its ability to be predictive at all

it relies on total ignorance of everything prior that fit, and other catastrophes that also looked like the “end times”

how was world war I not? everyone dying of mustard gas followed by famine, plague.

world war II?

the year 536?

other maladies in other countries? for many people it was the end time because their entire family and culture were killed and wiped out

I wonder if America will shake its Evangelical death cult. People are becoming unaffiliated with religion here but I feel like the mysticism is ingrained into the culture either way for another generation or two
I've become disilusioned that anything will change from America, it's just a bunch of corporations in a trenchcoat, basically south korea-lite as seen by how Boeing just openly alledgedly killed a witness, no less ridiculous than how south korean megacorporations kill their employees then get a slap in the wrist.

I don't know how a decade or two more of degeneration based on MBA culture, which will happen because the system is setup for that, is going to look like.

I hope the EU passes laws so large in scope that it makes it impossible for the US to just pretend-ignore and has to enact laws to save face about it.
Do they not teach the concept of linear time anymore?
I was gonna make a post but this took the words out of my mouth. I have a whole talk about this exact topic, but the summary is that the paradigm of hot storage and then 2 weeks later, compressed archive, is the most wasteful way we could possibly organize this data. I discuss this at length in the talk below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXgBJmqv0ok
Instead of going to Twitter, just go directly to the source for up-to-the-minute and historical charts: https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html
This is why the US will never have functioning anything. People just immediately leap to why it's going to lead to dystopia.
You don’t think there’s at least a minor difference between an ad that directly pertains to the content you are directly reading, and is in fact from the same “vendor,” versus an ad piped in from an auction driven by your browsing behavior from all over the internet?
I think the popularity of phone numbers is not because it’s a good auth factor but because it is a little more work to Sybil flood with generated identities, compared to say email. So it’s not for our security exactly, but more for the company’s anti-abuse systems, and maybe the marketing department that loves hoarding phone numbers. That it works as a second factor is just a “happy” coincidence.

Which in turn annoys me to no end given that phone numbers are regional. Having no access to banks when moving, let alone traveling, to an area with no cell service or a different country, is infuriating. It’s like “what’s your mother’s maiden name” all over again.
Yeah, describing this as "a computer error" seems pretty misleading. In this case the computer was just a transmission medium, not the source of the error. If they had written it with pen and paper or tapped the message over a telegraph, it would have had the same problem. If you wouldn't phrase it as "Wrong couple divorced after postal error" or "telegraph error" then it doesn't seem like it would make sense here. The computer is entirely irrelevant.

Edit: Thinking through my own analogy about the telegraph more, I suppose that if it had happened over telegraph and had been phrased as "telegraph error" that could mean either the telegraph operator or the telegraph itself were to blame. So maybe the "computer operator" being to blame makes it a more reasonable description that I first thought. Still feels like a suboptimal description though since there is so much room for ambiguity. Though, a "postal" error still doesn't make much sense, so I suppose one would need to gather data about whether the "computer" is thought of more like the "telegraph" or the "post" to most people.
Automating also requires resources to keep the DB up to date.

Just look at the state of https://openhub.net/ .
This whole discussion is assuming Musk is the problem and somehow caused these layoffs.

But all of the "big three" US automakers have laid off thousands of workers in the last few months. Tech companies have laid off hundreds of thousands.

Tesla is both, so isn't it likely that they're dealing with the same forces that caused layoffs at other companies?

This discussion seems like several people with pre-existing (and oft-repeated here) grievances twisting evidence to fit their theories instead of forming theories based on the facts.

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(Another fact to consider: in addition to the widespread layoffs already mentioned, there's also growing competition from hybrid makers.

US automakers race to build more hybrids as EV sales slow

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-aut... )
> What's the solution here?

webauthn
So Rewind will be the local version and Limitless will be the cloud version? Will Rewind still be coming to windows?
I feel the need to defend the use of SMS for 2FA (in limited cases).

SMS is actually a perfectly good channel for 2FA for most customers in most cases. Because most customers, most of the time, are not under a targeted or even semi-targeted attack. SMS 2FA protects quite well against large-scale brute force or credential stuffing attacks. If someone is checking 10k accounts against the 3 top passwords (yes, this is a very common attack type), those customers will be very well served by having SMS 2FA.

SMS is a terrible channel if anyone is trying to target you directly though, that's absolutely true.

edit: also, in case this wasn't clear - I'm not talking about any services that allow password reset through SMS alone - that's beyond idiotic, obviously.
On the face of it there is this difference:

> In his summary, Judge McFarlane noted that "with its now customary speed", the system granted the order just 21 minutes later.

In the equivalent pen and paper situation, the solicitor would presumably have a significantly longer time period to discover and correct their error.

On the other hand, they really should have been familiar with the process.
We would 100% call that a clerical error.
Thank you for the confidence and praise! I do believe we, Neon, try to be as open as possible while also trying to build a business around this open source product.

I'm a proud PostgreSQL contributor myself and value the work of my collegues highly. However, it should be said that AWS' RDS PostgreSQL offering in late '13 significantly helped increase PostgreSQL adoption, and the recent contributions by AWS' own PostgreSQL Contributors Team should not be discounted. IIUC, their Aurora PostgreSQL offering also was the inspiration for Neon as a product, so I don't think that your last jab to AWS was justified like that.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/259/257/342...

Yes. I'm sure he runs ads all over social media, because that's literally the only way you as a writer (or any creative really) can foster a following to monetize the work you want to do.
Maybe the judge doesn't see the need for this to be resolved. The lawyers for the party who didn't want the divorce, but had been given the authority to represent the client, submitted the request for divorce. The other party agreed. The divorce was finalised. All done.

The lawyers who requested the divorce want to cancel it, but there's no legal process for doing that, given that they instigated it, had the authority to act on their client's behalf and there was no administrative mistake made by the court. Especially as the guy is perfectly happy with the outcome, under what basis could the court rescind the divorce and compel him to become re-married? Even more so when the outcome is clearly that they will ultimately end up divorced anyway (or else they wouldn't have engaged the divorce lawyers) and the only issue is about the terms of the settlement between the two parties.
Anti-semitism(or any other type of systematic hate) is not a disease but a symptom of a declining, rotten society.
It's also wishful thinking that any society that engages in genocide will self-destruct. Plenty of historical examples exist where it continued to survive and collapsed for other reasons.
eia.gov statistics disagree.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/
Hey! Just wanna wave a flag for Coralogix (I work there, disclaimer). We've built a ton of cost optimization because we know that the industry is just ridiculous right now. Your assessment is absolutely correct, and there are more than a few multi-billion dollar companies whose bottom line is predicated on their customers wasting money and being inefficient. We're not one of them!

https://coralogix.com/
I don't know how accurate Google Maps' information is here, but it seems like all of the shops inside the Pentagon do indeed close early. 5PM for restaurants, and 1:30PM (???) for CVS.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/iCZBTiWQUKSKU1LS9

From everything I've seen, though, it seems like there are 20+ shops inside the Pentagon and GMaps only lists a few, so I don't know how accurate that information is.
> I don't need a sklearn script kiddie - I need an sklearn script kiddie who also knows how to apply ML to my specific business domain

sounds like you need consultants ;-)
This is aimed at desktop use. I guess it would be hard to mount if it was smaller than mini-ITX spec and/or wouldn't mount firmly on some/many desktop cases.
A lot of people on HN are obsessed with Musk though. There's a post about him every day here.
The arguments about cost are specious, this is a purely political debate with very little in the way of substance, and loads of tribalism. Most people engaged in the debate are seemingly ignorant of the facts, and in any case, apathetic to them.
My bank took away the ability to do 2FA via email and is phone-only now. At least with the typical Gmail/equivalent account you have the option of making that less vulnerable to social engineering and outright bribes.
We already have that and have for a long time, it’s just more way time-wasting and far less secure than it could be.
This isn’t just an sim/T-Mobile issue

Most customer service representatives are on very low incomes (especially in other countries) and it’s not hard to find one who will take actions for a (western) small amount of money. CSRs often have powerful capabilities and access to sensitive information. With poor access controls.

Solve the SMS/MFA issue and they’ll attack the next thing in line
Still trying to find a functional tool that makes it easy to take full backups and restore them to android devices since adb deprecated the "backup" command
Exactly my immediate reaction.

I divorced through this process.

There are multiple steps. You have to apply, papers have to be served, then (after a five month cooling off period) you get a preliminary order (what used to be called a decree nisi) then after another few weeks you have to apply to a final order (what used to be called a decree absolute). I stayed up so I could apply for the final order at midnight. It was done by the time I woke up late the following morning.

Financial and child arrangements are separate cases and you only need to go to court over those if there are disputes over those.

In this case they had gone through the whole process when one party's lawyer's accidentally applied for the last step - the final order. That party had authorised their lawyer to do it, so its fair enough that they are being held to what their lawyer did on their behalf.
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IMO people should not even use lawyers for the divorce. They might be needed for the (separate) child arrangements and finance disputes, if (and only if) those are disputed. For the divorce itself. Just do it online.
Is Id.me and login.gov the same thing?
Statistical Rethinking: a course on Bayesian data analysis [video]
There is a whole subreddit for this with 300,000 subscribers:

https://old.reddit.com/r/overemployed/

When I read the stories I question the payoff matrix a bit - it seems like most have 2-3 $150K/year jobs, but if you're really good at one job and aggressively switch to the highest-payoff opportunities, you can easily make into the millions per year. But it makes a lot of sense for people that are stuck at the bottom of the company ranks and want to generate more transactions for themselves that actually result in more dollars.
Not the OP, but personally I'd prefer a search on some realistic examples, like maybe the React docs (https://react.dev/learn) or Next docs (https://nextjs.org/docs) that I frequently struggle to search, especially for complex questions like "what kind of caching does Next.js do" or "what is the proper way to do an async clientside fetch".

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Some other feedback (just so I don't make a bunch of separate posts):

- Demo #2 404s

- It would be nice to have some way to highlight or summarize the relevant parts of search results, especially when they're "semantically" searched and each result is several dozen words. There's no easy way to skim the results, and it's not really clear to me (as a user) why the rankings are the way they are. It just looks like a bunch of reordered paragraphs that I still have to read all of.

- 20 MB is a LOT to ask a client to download just to run a search bar. Is there any way to run this as a serverside function / serverless?
Yes he wouldn't have been able to seize power. But what is power for? If he had not sized the power he would be able to see his grandchildren grow.
Company I worked for gave us all a copy of the book and made us go to a 3-hour presentation by the guy. I was not impressed!
Of the scientists who stayed.. what did they do during/after the war?
It's definitely a valid point, but at least the ad is made specifically for the site being visited. The article seems to be referencing the ads that are for other products or services outside of the site being visited.
I think it's a sock puppet, because the stylometry on the page is a perfect match for the "GrapheneOS" account on discuss.grapheneos.org .
Who would be stupid enough to commit a federal crime for $300? Doing this will leave a clear paper trail to the respective employee (I hope, if not that'd be disastrous) and the crime itself has a high likelihood of being reported.

Am I missing something?
I don’t think that's true.

Most large contracts are cost-plus. Contractor direct costs + some agreed upon margin.
Where I work, they mandated RTO three days a week. It was largely ignored. Eventually they started checking badge-in access and strictly enforced the mandate.

There was a lot of grumbling about people quitting, but anecdotally I didn't notice much uptick in turnover at all. It's very hard to tell what will really make people quit. If the labor market hadn't softened a bit I'm sure we'd have seen more, but my guess is the disgruntled people weren't able to get full WFH without a salary decrease larger than they wanted to tolerate.
> Some of them end up concluding it's all a cynical manipulative scam, and everybody else is the same as themselves except absurdly dedicated to keeping up the fiction.

See most people who use the phrase "virtue-signaling" pejoratively.
I came to comment exactly this, here is the video where she announces it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU1ORt6ZnVE

It's interesting to go through her earlier videos where she documents her daily life.
> But...since you keep framing it that way...I would say, between the two, allowing someone to lose money is a better outcome than making it likely that someone will be beaten while being imprisoned against their will.

Ok, so there's actually a word for that, it's called "extortion". It's generally frowned upon.

You have repeated that it's a "false dichotomy" like seven times now, but you haven't actually suggested a third solution to the problem. "Get involved in providing systemic solutions" is absurd; what the hell does that even mean? I vote for politicians that might do something about it? I write a letter to the UN? Ok, so that's great, maybe I make a change.org petition while I'm at it. Maybe in twenty years something will actually get done.

You also have not actually explained how things are "being made worse" by these scambaiters. I would argue that reducing extortion is good, and outweighs the risk of the traffic victims being abused. It's very sad, I don't like them being abused, but what you're suggesting is borderline-ludacris, short-sighted, and doesn't actually make any sense if taken to its logical extreme.
Yeah, it needs to be clear to users that they can use other things, especially some built-in option. Currently it's not.
ID.me is a for profit private provider of identity proofing services. Login.gov is provided by the US General Services Administration. All federal agencies are moving to Login.gov. IRS is one of the last digital services that will move. There were some congressional hearings on ID.me, due to distorting the truth.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30430851 ("HN: IRS to adopt Login.gov as user authentication tool (Feb 2022)")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39691325 (a previous comment I wrote on the topic)

https://cyberscoop.com/idme-irs-identity-verification-congre... ("ID.me misled IRS on processing times for identity verification, congressional investigators found")

https://cyberscoop.com/id-me-ceo-backtracks-on-claims-compan... ("ID.me CEO backtracks on claims company doesn’t use powerful facial recognition tech")

https://cyberscoop.com/id-me-aclu-oregon-states-messaging-fa... ("Documents shed light on ID.me’s messaging to states about powerful facial recognition tech")

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/id-me-made-basel... ("ID.me lied to IRS about unemployment fraud, average wait times, House Dems say")
This is a silly retort. We already have multiple identity systems in the US:

- Social Security

- Passports

- NAPHSIS

- Most states' ID systems using Real ID w/ SPEXS

- The DoD's ID card system
Open source Pivotal Tracker to Shortcut importer
Probably gonna get downvoted, but the only sane solution is nuclear.

Also, I don't want a nuclear power plant in my backyard.

I know that's the problem :)
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You can also hit right button and say “windshield wipers Speed 2” or similar.

But yeah it’s weird to have to do that as half the time Auto doesn’t pick the “right” speed in the rain. Either too fast or too slow.
Really? Writers literally never develop a following through word-of-mouth? It's all advertising?
Big supporter of renewables, but what's missing here is the make up of what's getting imported. The overnight baseline appears to still be majority imports from, I assume, non-renewables?
That board is double-sided: the CPU and the SSD slot are on the back, while this ITX board has all the connectors and the processor on the top. That makes a difference both for the complexity and cost of building the board, and the complexity of assembling a system with the board, heatsinks and all.
Cracking a good password - which a large percentage of people don’t have or will readily input in any phishing web form without a second thought.

Time-constrained 2FA codes can be broken with sim swaps or targeted phishing which are less widespread than a wide-net spam-based phishing campaign.

Now don’t get me wrong I hate SMS 2FA with a passion but still :)
> Perhaps the real question is how much incrementally-better everywhere would be without old wars.

Agreed. How many years does each war set us back? And are there hurdles in our future that we will be unable to clear if we too often let war impede our progress.
But there aren't really generic Pico-ITX cases are there? What's the point of designing a Pico-ITX board if you need a custom case anyways? Just use the Radxa Rock 5B at that point.
I don't think they were saying that it has to be that big to fit an M.2 drive on it, they're pointing out that in the picture you shared, that space is for the M.2 NVMe drive to be mounted in
Title is a bit confusing in that this doesn't seem to be a open source implementation of the actual notarization process. It's "just" a tool which talks to Apple servers to handle the notarization (if I'm reading this right: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/apple-code-signing). I guess the main advantage over Apple's tool is that it also runs on Linux and Windows.
You may well be correct, and I spoke out of turn, but it is my understanding that the wavelength of the laser can make a huge difference.
In January 26th, 2024, Jan Lipavský (Czech pirate party, Minister of Foreign Affairs) said in World economic forum in Devos during interview:

“It needs to be developed such kind of regulation or possession or to control of those technologies (Ai) that the governments will be sure that it is not going against the interest of government.”

This rhetoric was used by communist regime 34 years ago in my country. Governments are genuinely scared by those new technologies.

I prefer to educate children about AI, how it works and what can do. Of course, education system in Czechia basically ignore new technologies at school and still use frontal teaching as it was hundred years ago.
... away from carriers and into the hands of Google/Apple/Microsoft, who can kill your account for any and no reason at all.

Except for that one giant issue, passkeys are gonna be great.
That's very much how it was justified. There was a saying in USSR:

"Tащи с работы каждый гвоздь - ты здесь хозяин, а не гость."

translating to:

"Grab every nail from work - you're the master here, not a guest."

essentially parroting the Soviet cliches about how proletariat was in charge etc.
But isn't that kinda the crux of it? If I can withdraw cash by presenting a photo ID instead of using my 2FA online, it is both more convenient for me as an end-user and also less secure (opens the account up to social engineering, fake IDs, etc.).

Similarly, some 2FA implementations allow human support agents to manually reset the 2FA, sometimes making that the weakest link.

The ruthless alternative is "If you lose your 2FA, you lose your entire account and there's nothing we can do about it". I've rarely seen that implemented in normal apps.
The notebook (like Ramanujan's three previously known notebooks) has already been published, in 5 volumes by Bruce Berndt and George Andrews, with extensive annotation (e.g. just flipping at random, in the third volume Chapter 6 is called "Theorems about the Partition Function on Pages 189 and 182", and occupies 24 pages, and indeed contains formal proofs etc). A raw scan of the notebook(s) is even available online: http://ramanujan.sirinudi.org