skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a handful of key litmus tests that are part of the background check. If you are/were a felon, If you lie at all during the check, If you are in extreme debt, If they find public record of you being anti-american, If you fail a drug test.

These all come up during the screening interviews of your peers, family, and coworkers. I have done about a half dozen or so of these for former peers, friends, and colleagues who have moved on to do public sector or join private military companies that needed clearance.
If you do it yourself (I did) its a reasonably straightforward webapp, and you do not really need a lawyer (its no-fault, and the divorce is separate from financial and child arrangements cases). You just fill in some forms, then wait a few months and fill in another form.

The problem here is that when lawyers deal with it for you they can mix up different cases, but the problem is that if you authorise the lawyer to act for you (as in this case) you cannot then disclaim responsibility for what they did under that authority.
The affected couple were in the process of getting a divorce, but reaching the stage where it's finalised takes time and negotiation. It seems that one of the parties is quite happy not to have needed to go through this phase.

I'd hope that even though this error leaves the couple divorced earlier than expected, it won't mean that the former-wife will forfeit her right to whatever support she should be able to expect.
Heisenberg was the leader of the Nazi atomic weapon program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg?wprov=sfti1#
But isn't it the case that most sites will tell you if you pass a password check before hitting you with a SMS verification?

In that case I could see someone attempting a sim swap attack for accounts where they pass a password check for higher value stuff like primary email or anything that is probably linked to a spending account
Holy crap, just tried it and it worked! Thank you! Mine has started to get bad the last year, and especially at night. Driving me CRAZY!
5% nuclear vs 80% renewables on the chart linked. Really, the sane solution is the one that brings down the financial system (debt for existing oil plant and nuclear is substantial, and has decade long write down periods attached to it.)
How is it egregiously wrong? The couple were getting a divorce anyway, the woman just wants the divorce cancelled so they can continue "negotiations" on the terms.

But in terms of law, her lawyers acting on her authority requested the divorce, the other party agreed and the divorce was finalised. The due process was followed.

What should happen next is that the woman sues her lawyers for negligence, demanding compensation to the tune of the amount that she failed to negotiate in the divorce.
I'm not from the USA, not conservative and have not made a study of whether Paxton is conservative or not nor do I know whether the 'tea party movement' can be called 'conservative', from what I gather they are/were more of a populist movement? I also do not equate opposition of 'LGBT rights' with conservatism since in my eyes conservatism does not have much if anything to say about such things. Here's what Britannica says about conservatism [1]:

conservatism, political doctrine that emphasizes the value of traditional institutions and practices.

Conservatism is a preference for the historically inherited rather than the abstract and ideal. This preference has traditionally rested on an organic conception of society—that is, on the belief that society is not merely a loose collection of individuals but a living organism comprising closely connected, interdependent members. Conservatives thus favour institutions and practices that have evolved gradually and are manifestations of continuity and stability. Government’s responsibility is to be the servant, not the master, of existing ways of life, and politicians must therefore resist the temptation to transform society and politics.

In a society where 'LGBT rights' have evolved gradually - e.g. the Netherlands (where I'm from, originally) - there is no friction between supporting such and being 'conservative'. I guess the same is true for parts of the USA - California comes to mind - but less so for others - Texas being an example of such.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/conservatism
Unfortunately that was literally true from the beginning. Much of the US Constitution is devoted to separation of powers. But the powers are so separated that it's practically impossible to do anything. Our checks and balances are badly overbalanced.

The government persists because the executive branch takes a lot on itself. The Supreme Court is currently deciding that this may be too much overreach, and the government will grind completely to a halt.
Why not bigger? Why not a full-size ITX mainboard? There's no pleasing everyone.
That's what the offending lawyers called it to the judge when asking that their mistake be reversed.
As another user here said it best: it is good enough to keep honest people honest. But determined people will find a way.
SMS 2FA is one thing. Bad, but ineffective. SMS-based account recovery is far worse. Every time a major website asks me for a phone number "in case you lose access to your email account" I freak out internally before ensuring I never enter it.
"with renewables".

(Not sure the headline makes sense without that?)
A mix is the best solution, a stable baseline of nuclear is great for stabilizing the grid. Just get rid of the petrolium, coal and gas.
In a typical SIM swapping attack, the attacker will contact the Cellular Carrier (either in-person at a retail store, or by phone/online support), impersonating the victim and claim that they've lost their phone (including SIM) and that they need a new SIM for their account.

Carriers should have procedures in place to ensure that the identity of someone who presents themselves with this situation is verified, but it can often be bypassed.

In the case of the article, corrupt employees of the carrier are being bribed to bypass the ID and security checks that should take place in the above situation.

In other attacks, there are social engineering ways of bypassing the ID checks - such as claiming to be the victim of a robbery where both the phone and wallet were taken - so they don't have any ID, credit cards, or phone to prove who they are and that getting a new SIM would really help them out.
> In the US, our nurses buy half million dollar homes.

Dude, half a million for a home ain't what it used to be, it's just below average home. Why would a nurse not afford a home?
Really cool to see some neat stuff in C#.

Somewhat of a tangent, but what does "kernel" mean in this sense? I'm aware of Operating System kernels, but am not sure what it means here.
EIA stats are pretty strong that fossil fuels are on their way out:

>The US has posted its largest annual volume of new
capacity in 20 years [with most of the growth coming from renewables] per @BloombergNEF using @EIAgov data

https://twitter.com/ShanuMathew93/status/1779902695719006648

> Solar and battery storage to make up 81% of new U.S. electric-generating capacity in 2024

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61424#:~:tex....
There has got to be some sort of two-man rule (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-man_rule) integrated into the system that can't be bypassed by the people with authority to make changes to accounts. Otherwise any insider / careless spear-phishing victim will make the changes they want.
> but optimizations will save cycles down the line. No?

No. There are not practically enough cycles saved to overcome the often minutes of CPU time to build every update of a large software package.

> When every program is compiled for a specific architecture

Every binary distribution already "compiles" for a specific architecture.

The inane variant "tuning" generally renders miniscule speedups. Even if there is performance to be gained it can be done on a limited case by case basis.
Yes, although this is the rare ECDSA private key recovery issue where deterministic nonce generation was the cause of rather than the solution to the problem.
Housing, housing, housing. The answer is always housing.

The cost of housing in NYC (and other desirable areas) is so egregious that it's nearly impossible for people to live there who aren't rich. So if you're in a line of work that isn't scalable by means of automation, there are a whole host of jobs that can't afford to live in places where folks who can scale their output have taken up all the scarce resources. This story has repeated itself time and time again across different cities and jobs (e.g. super expensive resort destinations where people like cleaners, retail workers, waitstaff, ski instructors, etc. can no longer afford to live there), and the root cause solution is nearly always the same: build more housing. And then build some more.
I'd say that directory organization of filesystems is an example of it too.
If you're single in the US, you have to earn over $578,125 taxable dollars in a year to have a single dollar of you income taxed at the highest rate, 37%. So considering only federal taxes there is no way most of anyone's income goes to tax in the US. The highest state tax bracket in the US, a quick search tells me, is 13.3%. In California, any dollars of taxable income you earn over $1 million gets taxed at this rate. So if you earn $2 over this threshold, the majority of these two dollars, rounding up, will be taxed. If you manage to earn enough above this threshold for the extra 0.3% tax to make up for the lower tax brackets you crossed on the way to this threshold, you are a pretty rare individual indeed.
This is true for other very effective cures: vitamin D has a similar story.

There is no money in cures that target the root cause which is often basic nutrition and using the biology as it was designed, instead drugs can be invented, patented, and when everybody takes them there isn't a control group left to notice that in aggregate they make things worse. And the doctors are indoctrinated to know nothing about nutrition, to be fearful or dismissive of supplementation (see: vitamin D) and believe there is a pharma drug for every condition.

The good news is it's rather easily fixable, but it is something that will never come from top down, it is and is going to be a bottom-up process.
where I am at cases generally expire after 5 years. I think that is super important.

if you never see finality you can worry that some entity will come and change the assumptions at any time.

say that you made a transaction based ona valuation. 15 years later the IRS comes and rewrites that valuation and because this is so late you have absolutely no recourse.
Your wife's new legal name is TAARGÜS TAARGÜS
Fox News is not unbiased and as such not the right organisation for this purpose. As far as I can see none of the 'networks' in the US are anything close to unbiased.
I had to deal with this recently. Basically, they put a hold on the account. The request is forwarded to another internal department for verification. Once verification is complete and the team determines the request is not fraudulent (asking for "verification pin" or "account password"). Then the request is forwarded to the appropriate tech team for further processing.

SMS and calling was blocked during that entire time (~24-36 hrs) since the backend teams are likely operating in offshore timezones.
Akira
Ghost in the Shell (and the Stand Alone Complex series)
Dune
To some extent, Arrival
Because every transceiver pair can do 32Gb/s or 56Gb/s and you have dozens of them.
They have one: Diablo Canyon.

I understand there are issues, however...
I was neutral on id.me until I started getting unsolicited marketing emails through them. https://help.id.me/hc/en-us/articles/202709194-Why-am-I-rece...
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At some point it was determined that working longer hours was safer than increasing the amount of mistakes caused by handoffs where new staff takes over and can make errors, miscommunicate, or just lose information. I'm still skeptical fatigue is less dangerous than handoffs.
That is not how the system works in the UK. the financial arrangements are a separate case from the divorce itself (as a child arrangements) and can take place from any time after the conditional order (what used to be called the decree nisi) is made onwards (including after the divorce is completed by the final order).
The problem isn't that nobody wants nuclear in their backyards, lots of people do (the people that already have nuclear in their backyard).

The problem with nuclear is the same one that it's always been: it's too expensive. Nobody wants to go bankrupt.

Meanwhile we have cheap batteries and super super cheap solar and wind to charge them.
And it looks like the disagreement is over financial arrangements, not so much whether they want to remain a loving couple.
From a Nazi perspective, what you're saying makes little sense. It would be similar to "we should enlist Ted Kaczynski and Timothy McVeigh in the army, because they've shown to be excellent at bombing stuff". That would be silly because these people and the organisations they associate with are considered a corrupting influence. In the Nazi view, Jews consisted a corrupting influence.

"Hitler and his friends hated the Jews more than they wished for some positive outcome for Germany" really misunderstands the world-view of the Nazis, and what Hitler did and didn't believe.

Anti-Semitism came rolling out of 19th century racial science; many people self-described themselves as such. As in: "against the Semitic race" (as opposed to the Aryan race), in the same way someone might describe as "anti-" any number of things today.

A number of organisations in the late 19th century carried the label (e.g. Antisemitische Volkspartei in Germany, or Antisemitic League in France), and a number of elected candidates from other parties were explicitly and proudly self-described anti-Semitic.

From outside the Nazi world-view, it of course makes a lot more sense. A lot of the Nazi rhetoric isn't even internally consistent and it was all a load of bollocks. But I don't think you can so easily separate Nazi-ism and the second world war.
> in my backyard

How do you define your "back yard"? I mean, perhaps very few people are willing to literally abut a nuclear power plant, but how far are most people OK with it? Looks like I'm about 150 miles from the nearest one, and about 180 miles from the second-nearest[0].

There's a lot of empty land in the US. Sites suitable for a nuclear plant are definitely more likely to be occupied (due to plants needing to be near bodies of water for cooling), but still, we can probably build a lot more.

[0]: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/nuclear/images/US_nuclea...
How do you suspect word of mouth operates when you're starting from the natural number of followers one will have at the beginning, which is zero?
Yup. OpenHub is nice. I love the simplicity of its design. What do you think about LibHunt https://www.libhunt.com? It's similar to OpenHub to some extent; however, it is more focussed on alternatives and comparisons of libraries. For example, a nice trick is to open any github repo and replace "github" with "libhunt" to find alternatives of that project. E.g. https://www.libhunt.com/site/find_alternatives
The Nazis weren't unique in dismissing categories of research on ideological grounds. The USSR label of "bourgeois pseudoscience" [1] was applied to various fields like evolutionary biology.

We aren't immune to it now. In the software world, remember that Ballmer called Linux a cancer, and in general there is a meme amongst capitalist software developers that the GPL is a cancerous or infectious license. In academia, there is always a question of where the funding is coming from, or how some research output can be monetized, and so there is an inherent bias against research which doesn't offer hope of capitalist and military-industrial dividends.

[1] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bourgeois_pseudoscience
> Most countries other than the US don't have such rigorous training for doctors

Where do you get this notion?

If Brazil is anything like Argentina -- and I bet it is in this context -- the study and internship stages of doctor training are positively grueling. Many doctors in training do drugs to cope. They work long hours and make all sorts of mistakes. Many are in terrible moods. And patients and people can get really rude and impatient with them.

It can be a really thankless, grueling job. I wonder why people choose it at all.
I was initially pleased when I discovered T-Mobile itself supported using TOTP apps like Google Auth and then flabbergasted when I found you could not disable SMS 2FA even after enabling alternatives.
Keto is also being studied for bipolar. Many anecdotes available on YouTube and elsewhere. It appears mental illnesses have in origin metabolic / mitochondrial dysfunction, through a combination of environmental and genetic factors.
We have an enhancement opened with Apple to have a way to delete .cstemp files if the tool runs into them. You'd think we could just add a `find . -name '*.cstemp' -exec rm {} \;` to our build toolchains before building, but we're in a large mono-repo and that would add a lot of time to our builds. Having something like a `--force` to delete the .cstemp files instead of quitting and reporting an error would make us change to this tool pretty quickly I'd think.
The option of Yubikeys is fine as long as the basic 1P thing is painlessly usable too.
Samsung also has much better lower end. The iPhone SE starts at 430$, compared to 200$ for a Samsung A14.

Often Samsung phones are even cheaper with a prepaid.

For 90% of people that A14 is going to give you the same utility. However Apple probably has a much better margin here.

They get to own the whole stack, if I buy an an Android phone I'm getting my apps from Google, my cloud storage from Google.

If I buy an iPhone I'm buying apps from Apple, paying for iCloud and Apple TV.
Thanks for clarifying. I generally agree with you -- I prefer direct API calls versus weird/poor abstractions. The only abstraction I use is one that standardizes the API calls/data structures between Gemini/GPT-x/Llama 2/Claude.

That being said, I do use RAG a lot (though generally code most of the implementations myself).
The wars were a driving reason for a lot of technology and innovation, and at the least accelerated some important technological advances.
It’s 1.8x1.2m versus 1.7x1.3m for the smallest size F-150, which has larger sizes are 2x1.3m and 2.5x1.3m.
That's interesting. I have the opposite experience with teachers where they wanted to do a real job in their field but were stuck babysitting children as a backup plan. What's the opposite of passion?
That assumes the attacker even has the phone number - best practice is to not display the full number, just the last 4 (xxx-xxx-1234) - so again, for the typical case, the attacker isn't going to know what number to sim swap.

SMS is bad at protecting one account, it's good at protecting 10000.
By all means, let us pick an unbiased arbiter of truth. All we have to do is find one!
First thing that came to mind. I remember in school at least 10 years ago we used it because a teacher liked it. Most of us just used it as a Powerpoint alternative, but a few kids definitely harnessed the extra power available over a generic slideshow. I remember being really impressed at the creative presentations a few people made with it. Fun times.
HN automatically truncates subjects past some certain length.
> Despite the name, and the leading sentence ("I am on a mission to scan all the ray-finned fishes in the world.") they do not actually intend to scan all the fishes. They settle for merely scanning a single individual from every known ray-finned species.

Maybe that's a distinction available between "scan all the fish" and "scan all the fishes" (!). (Where "fish" = "individuals" and "fishes" = "species".)
While I nuked my LinkedIn about 8 years ago because I was 1-2 from 96% of Silicon Valley and spammed by un-targeted recruiters incessantly... more importantly, my contacts and I didn't talk so keeping it was meaningless performative business theater.

MAANG companies (excluding N) are requiring relocation and RTO (hybrid, near an office). Also, their tone has shifted to where their recruiters feel like they hold a monopoly on in the business relationship power dynamic.

Perhaps shrinking corporate real estate holdings of properties and lease should be prioritized over burdening employees with additional relocation, commuting, and housing costs.
> I hadn't even imagined this constituting "brute force". Is my phone using "brute force" to find the WiFi router?

Early receivers were a lot less advanced than modern receivers - one of the key functions of the almanac is to help receivers figure out what satellites they can expect to see - thus greatly reducing the range of gold codes and time offsets they have to check.

Unlike wifi, GPS signals are below the noise floor until the gold code is applied to despread the signal, and the gold code has to be synchronized with the received signal to detect it.

The gold codes are pseudorandom and designed to stop signals interfering with one another. Unless you know which gold code you're looking for, and find its time offset (accurate to about 2 chips in 1023) you can't tell it apart from noise.

You also don't quite know the frequency you're looking for - partly due to the imprecision of the receiver clock, partly because GPS satellites move very fast and so can have a lot of Doppler shift (depending on where they are in the sky relative to the receiver of course)

Back when receivers had more limited physical hardware, searching through ~30 different satellites, multiplied by ~500 different gold code offsets, multiplied by a few different Doppler shifts could be a slow process. Especially if you'd found a handful of satellites, so some of your receiver channels were tied up with tracking leaving you with fewer for searching!

So ignoring the almanac and brute forcing every satellite, gold code offset and doppler shift is one of the many ways performance has increased since this stuff was developed in the late 1970s.
if you're saying labor is expensive and that building a house is too costly then we're not very good at building housing. if it takes 2000 days of your labor (exchanged for $ then purchase a house of course) but it only took 1000 days a century ago, that means we're getting worse at building housing, not better.
While you are right, you're missing the real problem. SMS 2FA is a systemic threat vector for identity takeover. Buy out one employee for $20 and you have access to take over any one of millions of users. Additionally, the victim won't figure out there was an attack right away. And the attacker can live anywhere in the world.

If someone wants to rubber hose me, they have to physically come to my area and that doesn't scale except for high value targets. Tolerating SMS as 2FA is absurd with built in passkey capabilities backed biometrics/code built into a device you can buy for $100 and already carry with you 24/7.
FWIW, there is a port of EDK2 to the RK3588, which is what powers this board. Most of the peripherals work. So that's nice. But the thing is, it isn't UEFI so much as the device-tree/ACPI distinction you need to be mindful of. ARM systems use both methods (whereas everything on x86 is ACPI.) You can use either DTBs (kernel configuration option) or ACPI to boot Linux on this device, though. https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588
CS25: Transformers United V4
Those two are not contradictory, though. One way to be a hero of one's own story is to demote everyone else to NPC. And once you do that, well, you're the hero, on some clearly important quest ... and they're just an NPC, they don't really matter, so what's the big deal about sticking to the rules regarding them? Especially if nobody finds out?
I worked for a Microsoft spin out in 2007 called ZenZui, which provided a ZUI for Windows Mobile devices. Then the iPhone was released!