skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why there should be an issue with everyone knowing your SSN, or it being in plaintext everywhere

Because far too many businesses, esp. financial ones (banks/credit unions/etc.) have also incorrectly used it as a password to authenticate that "voice on phone" is really John Q. Public and/or that "grifter in chair across desk" is really John Q. Public. I.e., they used the fact that "person X" knew number Y as proof that person X was really person X.

We can argue that it was never intended to be used this way (a true statement), that knowledge of it provides no such proof (also true), and that using it as such was always wrong on the part of these businesses (also true), but the fact is, many did use it this way, and, sadly, many still do use it this way. And it is this misuse that is the "issue" with everyone knowing everyone's SSN.
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This is as close to a dog whistle as I think is probably still socially allowable. However your supposition is so fraught that it’s not worth a cogent response other than highlighting that the concept that abortion is “Black Genocide” has been long recognized by the black community as being a flag that white progressives like to wave to tokenize and use black women as pawns for their puritanical ideas.
In case it isn’t already on your radar: https://precondition.github.io/home-row-mods
It is actually even worse, I can't read. Skin color wasn't actually mentioned, just hair color.

Unfortunately, I don't think we will overcome racism until everyone wants to overcome racism. More unfortunately, I don't think everyone wants to overcome racism, this seems obvious.

The bigger tragedy is, trying to force-feed "don't be racist" to society just makes some people dig their heels in more, making things worse instead of better. Finally, the biggest tragedy of all is how predictable this outcome is, using force and anger as a tool to change the thoughts and actions of a person/group is generally quite ineffective.
>ISPs asked the US Supreme Court to strike down a New York law that requires broadband providers to offer $15-per-month service to people with low incomes

With this US Supreme Court, I expect this New York Law will be overruled.

But I believe NY has another option. Tax all ISP revenue (before deductions) over a certain amount at 99% (I wanted to say 100). Those funds could then be distributed to the poor.

In the ACA Case, the US Supreme Court upheld the ACA because part of it was considered a Tax. They said they cannot overrule Tax Policy. So this would be an option for New York and other States.
There was one guy at Xerox (Smokey Wallace, RIP) who loved the keyset and could type like a mad man on it.

Everyone else just put it away and ignored it, until MazeWar came along.
Thanks for the clarification. I should have never commented on anything even remotely political, my bad!
I love this. Please keep it running. I just bookmarked it in favorites.
Books are absolutely being banned from public libraries and schools in the US. There may not be laws preventing the private circulation of such books (yet...some are arguing bringing back the Comstock act for these works) but they certainly are being banned from certain settings.
As a person who is also in the art scene, this is reasonable and inspiring.
haha yeah -- it's a Tula, kid is ~11 lb
It's never going to not be a negotiation. All you're doing is limiting your options by arguing from personality typology. What you should be doing is asking behavioral questions and digging in on the responses you get. You'll get better information about what a candidate will do and how they reason through interpersonal problems than asking them questions like "which would you prefer on your time off -- going to a party with a lot of people, or spending time inside reading a book?" Questions like that which appear on many personality inventories are so abstract as to be almost meaningless.

Also you need to understand that if you start personality testing people you will never get any truthful information from your candidates. They do this kind of testing for many retail sales roles and every sales associate you'll ever meet knows exactly how to answer every question to maximize extraversion and minimize undesirable traits. It quickly stops being a test of whether you have what it takes, unless your intent is to test whether people are deeply aware of how fake personality testing is and exactly how to game the system to get past it.
> With this US Supreme Court, I expect this New York Law will be overruled.

Why? Just because the court is conservative and this is a progressive law, or is there is an actual legal basis for the court to overturn this law?
The motor control issues make a lot of sense.

Assistive Access is a setting in the OS. It’s under Settings > Accessibility > Assistive Access (under the General heading near the bottom)

There is a setup process for it, it’s not just a simple toggle. Then there are settings for which apps to allow, and various things to enable/disable.
Because like TV, when you're watching something, you know other people are watching exactly the same thing. And that's pretty cool.
I had been surprised by Ezra Pound going (not Nazi but) Fascist, because I had thought he had translated chinese poetry in his youth. Then, when I recently discovered his "translation" process was to start from someone else's prose translation and re-poetise from there, it started to make more sense.

(well, that and Il Duce pretty much said that he needed a poet who could rail against the global financial establishment, which is a line I could see many conspiracy-minded artists falling for)
That is what it was like in the 90s! Although you could use your VCR to record the other channel.
Can relate to the ADHD bit and ditto on environments that are best for personal productivity. I started at a big bank, moved to a VC fund, then an early stage startup and now work as an independent consultant for a non profit now. With each move, as autonomy increased and incentives were more aligned, I found myself producing a lot more. A large part of it is that I was able to also find work that was interesting but I think the bigger factor was autonomy, alignment of incentives and whether I was judged on metrics that correspond to my strengths. It's not even like i have an inifnitely high risk appetite but for personality reasons, I've resigned myself to the fact that if i want to succeed, I have to pursue almost complete autonomy and thus expose myself to broader variance.

My hot take is that at some level, ADHD is indistinguishable from low conscientiousness - forgetting appointments, meetings, calls etc. More precisely, ADHD seems negatively correlated with the orderliness facet of conscientiousness but orthogonal to industriousness. If you're high on industriousness and low on orderliness, you sort of have no choice but to be your own boss.
Cryptography lets you certify attestation. So an organization can certify that an image is legitimate, and you can cryptographically verify that this organization has indeed certified that this is a legit image.

That's it. It doesn't verify that the image itself is real, only that some organization has put their stamp of approval on the image. You can verify that the image wasn't tampered with between when they approved of it and it got to you, but you can't verify that the image was real to begin with.

On principle, you could build a chain of certification into the camera itself but this strikes me as a losing battle because you could just stage whatever you want in front of the camera.

The impetus then is on organizations to build that trust.
Do you know what a marketing firm would cost to generate this kind of footage? OP is the one getting fleeced. At least they had fun with it.
> retired senior aerospace engineer

Kudos, sir, and all due respect.

An admirable industry, and one that could nowadays use much of the values, approaches, and skills of your generation of engineers
Influencer marketing works so well on the younger generations that it's scary.

Just look at Prime. It's just a generic crappy sports drink and kids were literally paying 10-15€/bottle for it during the worst hype times because supplies were so short.
Telnet over WireGuard?
In France (and apparently the rest of Europe too) our GFCIs are not located at the outlets. They are inside the electrical panels and protect a row of circuit breakers.
To put into perspective how abysmal 19 an hour is, I used to make 22 an hour working at a gas station. Second shift, not third. And I'm not in a high COL area.
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Huh, I wasn't aware of such a viewpoint. I've never had or heard of problems with HIPAA preventing timely or accurate care, even with my father going in and out of hospice toward the end of his fight with cancer. I'm really sorry to hear it. At the same time, I do have to wonder if that kind of problem genuinely outweighs the protection HIPAA has given millions of people against harms small and large. (I guess with the state of data privacy today, HIPAA may be basically useless, but that isn't exactly HIPAA's fault.)
reminds me of using the old MIRROR target in iptables back in the day. before it was removed because its ridiculous. we used to watch script kiddies trying to brute force their own hosts but even then we knew it was ripe for abuse.

https://www.linuxtopia.org/Linux_Firewall_iptables/x4448.htm...
Okay there's an asterisk on the "had to", which is "unless you want an unstable phone". There's plenty of evidence for that.

Apple lost because they did a bad thing, but I disagree with your characterization of what the bad thing was. In particular I will note that your quote says that they settled and what they were accused of, which is very different from a verdict.
I'm curious about what works and what doesn't: Many experts don't trust OpenBSD's security implementation (I don't want to raise the issue, just stating fact - many don't). Yet many do trust OpenSSH's security implementation, and OpenSSH is of course an OpenBSD project.

What works in OpenSSH that doesn't work in OpenBSD? Maybe it's as simple as, though under the same umbrella OpenSSH uses a different team, methodology, etc.
Sitcoms solve this. Just watch your favourite one again.
Ah fair enough. I guess it's probably a lot harder to tell the difference between accidental and deliberate overdose.
Love it! I am observing a moment of silence for your no-doubt plummeting karma scores
Good point, but that's not always desirable. If you have strict type-checking and _aren't_ doing ser/de, it's likely not necessary (eg Rust doesn't do runtime checks).
It’s not an attitude, it’s how the industry works. You’re an uninformed fool if you think otherwise and fast moving businesses will eat you alive.

>which shipped with half-baked, buggy firmware.

Because consumers pay for this shit. It’s the world we live in. The people working on the bug free version ship a year later after the buggy competitor ate the whole market. They’ve also taken the recognized revenue to take a higher valuation and hire more engineers to rewrite their buggy system than won the market.

Bugs don’t matter unless it’s a competitive market where they can change a sale. A startup operating in that kind of market is already fucked.
JSON looks like tinydb
No, it's a combination of (1) we don't see everything (or even 10%) of what gets posted, and (2) most people underestimate their own provocations and overestimate the provocations that come from others, so it always feels like the other person started it and did worse.

In case anyone wants more explanation of these points, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... is all about (1) and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... is all about (2).
When I see these infographics I think of non-technical audiences like policy makers and politicians consuming the same information, and I avoid making these fine distinctions. In this case, I would not mention the water in the mantle at all.

In a separate, private graphic, I’d show the available water next to the number of 1 GW reactors, the pile of annual uranium mining output to feed those reactors, and annual calendars it would take to assemble all that to extract the water and dispose of the waste in a way that won’t harm our ecosystem further to express, “if you want this water in a form you colloquially understand, the species possibly can’t afford it”. In case some wise ass decides to bring up that mantle water. But that additional detail would even help technically inclined audiences reading the infographic.
I’m not a fan of Musk but it is so funny to see that many haters here.
More likely it is the inverse: Selecting a random video at scale is the costly problem.

You can certainly fake it as a workaround. For example, you'll notice that "I'm feeling lucky" on Google simply follows the first search result. Streaming services could take what is already computed as the first result on the "Home" page and use that, for example.

But at that point why not just click on the first video? Unlike Google, which doesn't give you much until you enter a search query, all of the streaming services I know of have already given you your "lucky" matches by the time a "I'm feeling lucky button" could be presented. Two buttons side-by-side that do the exact same thing doesn't offer much.
The Supreme Court isn’t limited to what has an actual legal basis. Like jury nullification it’s a loophole arising from being the ultimate arbitrator.
Doesn’t California have a similar set of regulations?
You chose papyrus too, I think that was the most damning.
Yes well that’s the point

Until the 1970s there was no reliable way to decide to not have children while still being sexually active.

That’s a well researched and documented change in biology that continues to be ignored for how massively impactful it has been on society.

We take it for granted that you can have regular sex and not have a kid as a result. That’s extraordinarily new and powerful in human history.

Said another way: The base rate of likelihood of having a child as a result of having sex has dropped to ~1% given the prevalence of oral contraception (99% with perfect use + Plan-B) and abortion (for gaps in perfect contraceptive use) from ~20% which was the failure rate of the most successful method of interruption + synchronization with menstrual cycle, prior to oc.

A 20x drop in desired children is non-trivial and reflects a 20x base rate change.
Well done. Would this work on iOS natively through an app?
> the Tensor A1 chip runs 90 times faster than the speed of sound

Finally, a chip that runs at thirty one thousand meters per second
Yeah and in practise most people will probably be using Pydantic anyway. Just wanted to point out it's not strictly necessary. :)
I think it's good that android exists because it keeps governments from trying to ruin my vertically integrated iphone experience
Yet my fixie remains unhackable
What I find most interesting is how few of those stereotypes/archetypes are present in our media today.

I still know many of most of them, but they've been replaced as our economy and demographics change.
Cool thank you for clarification and on write side what can write load scale to ?
> This assumption comes about because in the majority of cases it is the truth.

Are we saying that if you can show you have enough income / assets, it'll be that much more likely that you'll be fine in those cases?
Yeah I used one in Costa Rica... it was shocking me the whole time. I didn't realize until after my shower what was going on.
This was the first thing I noticed, too. It's amazing how much better it is, simply leaving off all that "what's up guys" introduction.
Nope. Section 10:

> Each time you convey a covered work, the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensors, to run, modify and propagate that work, subject to this License. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties with this License.
It's true that personality tests per se might have little value in the business world. But the fact that traits cluster together in non random ways is not irrelevant to making predictions about people. Big five literature is one of the few things in psychology that have mostly stood the test of time.
What a hot mess from a number of perspectives;

- big bang release for the S2 app, lazy approach, do it incrementally instead!

- sonos threatened, a couple of years ago, to no longer support older speakers, what a joke

- why is there a different S1 and S2 app? is there a terse explanation of this somewhere? i really don't get this, it feels like either laziness again, or an indirect way to push people toward refreshing their hardware
I’ve had 3 pairs of Apple Airpods. All three of them eventually had problems with charging. One bud would be full charge and the other empty. Sometimes I’d put them in the case and the light indicates they are charging but come back later and they didn’t charge at all.

Does Google’s pods suffer the same issue?
Fairies literally only use papyrus
I'm pretty sure it's syrup. The article says "The alcohol content is under 0.5%" so by my estimate says that'd be a very tiny amount of the real thing (but for the price being ~20 RMB based on the other numbers in the article, you can't expect much).
i have a friend who is great at this, so i picked her brain a bit. she does this method and i see her booking show after show without a social media presence. she does 90% studying the brief, 8 percent presenting her submission in a structured way (think: explain the idea, what lead up to it, how it will benefit the show, who she is, and even visualises how it will look by photoshopping her art into their space) and 2% submitting beautiful work.
You can watch LTT without any sponsors or ads on Floatplane[0], you just need to pay for it.

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Your fingers are doing double-duty pushing buttons and yet also holding the phone/keyboard combo without pushing buttons. Even this design has that problem to some extent and it's got a lot more room to hold the phone.

6 fingers might work. I'm holding my phone in landscape here with my thumb and pinky. I've got three fingers in the back on each side I could use. I think I could just about get two layers of buttons in for each finger without too much discomfort, but my ring fingers aren't too happy about shifting down to try to reach a fourth there. (And while every other aspect of the skillset has long since decayed, I did play piano for many years and I still retain those basic muscle skills; if mine are complaining there's a lot of people who straight up won't be able to do it.)

12 still leaves you with chording or arpeggiating or something very, very non-standard, though.

I don't think you could hold it like that for very long. Just in the time it took me to type out my brief experiences on my real physical keyboard afterwards my pinkies are already tingling just a touch. Not a good sign.

An interesting experiment to see if the back of the phone is useful for anything, though. Certainly worth some more thought and experimentation. Phones would be so much more useful if they had something like keyboard speeds available in our pockets.
Made a free app that ends scrolling addiction as a side project
I am completely new to app development, and I started a project on the side. My goal was to create an app that gamifies the concept of ending excessive phone scrolling/surfing. After 9 months of coding, testing, debugging, and getting people to try it out, it has finally launched on the Play Store.
Even then, the no apps claim is false. You can make apps for Garmin stuff. They're written in monkey c, and are quite nice

I've got one for my smoker, a fireboard app. Useful to see the temp on my wrist when I've got a brisket finishing
He's an entertainer with a decently large following. There are worse things he could be telling people to do other than save money and get out of debt.
How quickly you forget the unpleasant realities of shared spaces—like the distinctly unpleasant aroma of communal restrooms. It's amazing how some things are easy to overlook, but after a long break, those less-than-pleasant details hit you like a ton of bricks. Definitely one of the 'perks' of office life I didn't miss!"
Is this an American thing? This sounds hilarious
Anything by Hilary Mantel is extraordinary and worth your reading time. Wolf Hall trilogy threw me into a decade-long search into who really was Thomas Cromwell, A Place of Greater Safety finally made me feel like I understand the French Revolution (I enjoyed this as an audio book on a very long drive) . Thanks to her, complex history has made sense, and how today's machinations are not much different.
> People hearing about it for the first time are usually shocked
Inferring negatives from positive information sharing seems pretty adversarial to me, both in spirit and in substance.

My comment was to question why the interview should be framed as something implicity adversarial to begin with. And why it's probably better to use something like references to validate what it would be like to work with someone rather than rely on our own dubious judgement or the positively biased judgement of the candidate's.
> Mainly demonstrating you can literally sell rotten milk so long as you label it "traditional".

Cheese is the coagulated protein of fermented milk, not rotten milk. If it was rotten nobody would be able to eat it without dying often.

Cheese is traditional, it's one of the main ways that diverse cultures around the world have harnessed the activity of bacteria to transform food and preserve it or alter its organoleptic qualities to make it more pleasant to eat.

Works great without the need for experimental tech of dubious long-term safety, too.
Incredible. One of the winning human made video submissions says:

"There's something almost poetic about working with your hands. In a world where everything has gone digital, where things get solved with a click and a swipe, there's a unique satisfaction about tackling something tangible, something real."

Then there's this guy who algorithmically floods the contest with AI slop. Click and a swipe indeed!
> I disagree with the calls for regulation here btw. The issue is not with engineers but with their employers not willing to pay for them to do better.

Wouldn't regulations compel the employers to pay for better quality? I thought that was the most common need for and benefit of regulations.
25 Years Later – Thunderbird 130 Beta Includes a Tray Icon for Linux
If you ctrl-f for AGPL you'll see it's for all of it.
Haven’t we tried the home robot screen-helpers enough already? We don’t want it unless it does the dishes better than a dishwasher.

Can’t we just focus on iterating Apple Vision Pro? I still think there’s a ton of potential there.
Yeah, but they still have to argue something in the decision that isn't "we don't like this law". They have to argue that the state doesn't have the constitutional authority to make the law, or something like that.
you forgot <sarcasm> tag, or didn't you?
Neat! I have wondered how much of a foothold "retrograde" tech will take in the next 10-20 years.

Decision fatigue, nostalgia, attenuation — call it what you will. At some level we're tacitly acknowledging that the vast ocean of content and complexity we've created is beyond what is desirable or even healthy to effectively evaluate.

A very modern malaise. Excuse the armchair philosophizing.
High NA EUV is the next generation of EUV machine that is able to make features that are approximately 50% smaller than regular EUV. As such, this roughly means higher capacity RAM (this will probably go into production sometime around DDR6 or DDR7)
Copyright lawsuits will save us from political discomfort? Is this bizzarro HN?
GM is nowhere near a monopoly in the automobile market, so that isn't an issue in this case.