My education didn't touch upon it but I've been grilled on it multiple times in interviews.

I learned about them after the first time I got grilled and rejected. Sucks to be the first company that grilled me about it, thanks for the tip though, you just didn't stick around long enough to see how fast I learn

2FA and Google SafetyNet are two completely different things. Your banking app can implement 2FA without SafetyNet.

It's Play Protect and Play Integrity now, not SafetyNet, in case anyone wants to look it up

I haven't had issues with the mobile apps of 3 of the most major US brokerages. They run fine on rooted phone. They do everything I'd want a bank to do anyway.

Ditch your bank if they have issues. If their retention department asks why you're leaving, tell them their app doesn't work.

> Ditch your bank if they have issues.

This is what I was thinking as well, TBH. I'm not particularly tied to any of my banks, I already did mostly switch off of BoA because their website was so bad.

Good to hear everyone's responses in the thread though, some stuff I definitely didn't consider.

These kind of breaches are why I'm against KYC's current implementation.

If the government wants to know who I am, that's fine, I'm not here to fight law. I however don't think it should be necessary to tell banks and private businesses where I physically sleep. That is more information than they need to operate, and every few months it seems someone has a data breach.

> Not everything is about money.

It is when researchers can't make enough money to eat and live, which is an actual reality in the US right now.

Researchers at top institutions often make less than Uber drivers.

There are other countries where you can live on less and the government isn't dipping their hands into your pockets every 5 seconds.

Some people will switch careers, but I do doubt that in an economy with very low unemployment amongst qualified people, any actual scientist will literally starve and become homeless.

maybe not starve, but should scientists live in poverty?

Well yea, but I suppose that exceptional molecular biologist can use his potential somewhere else better than as a lower manager in a corporate.

Humans also have limited context. For LLMs it's mostly a question of pipeline engineering to pack the context and system prompt with the most relevant information, and allow tool use to properly understand the rest of the codebase. If done well I think they shouldn't have this particular issue. Current AI coding tools are mostly huge amounts of this pipeline innovation.

I think we need a LLM equivalent of this part's of fitt's law: The fastest place to click under a cursor is the location of the cursor. For an LLM the least context-expensive feedback is no feedback at all, the LLM should be able to intuit the correct code in-place, at token generation.

Yeah it depends on what the system is.

Lots of systems can tolerate a lot more downtime than the armchair VPs want them to have.

If people don't access to Instagram for 6 hours, the world won't end. Gmail or AWS S3 is a different story. Therefore Instagram should give their engineers a break and permit a migration with downtime. It makes the job a lot easier, requires fewer engineers and cost, and is much less likely to have bugs.

Protons (and mass and energy) could also potentially be created. If this happens, the heat death could be avoided.

Conservation of mass and energy is an empirical observation, there is no theoretical basis for it. We just don't know any process we can implement that violates it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

All of physics is „just“ based on empirical observation. It’s still a pretty good tool for prediction.

Conservation laws result from continuous symmetries in the laws of physics, as proven by Noether's theorem.

Time translation symmetry implies energy conservation, but time translation symmetry is only an empirical observation on a local scale and has not been shown to be true on a global universe scale.

FB knows your eBay, for that matter. When I search for something on eBay I get ads on FB for it.

Even if they are not merged, corporations can share your data behind the scenes and you are forced to unilaterally, without negotiation, accept that ToS to use these sites.

It seems safe to assume that just about any vaguely commercial site knows about your activity on all the other ones. Sometimes the cookie banner shows info about who they share your data with. There will be literally hundreds of entities. And I’m sure many of them pass the data on further.

The problem with today's society is you walk into a hospital bleeding and they make you sign an ultimatum.

Legally this should be treated as signing under duress and invalidated.

If someone's life or well-being depends on it, and undergoing services in not a choice, terms and conditions should not be legally allowed to be unilaterally dictated by one party.

> it’s illegal to open new hospitals without the permission of the government.

This doesn't seem surprising on its face given that a hospital is, not unreasonably, a heavily regulated entity.

“on its face” is doing the heavy lifting here. Banking is highly regulated but you don’t need government permission to open new branches. The food supply chain is heavily regulated but you don’t need government permission to start new restaurants.

The supply of medical care, from operating rooms to doctors themselves, is heavily controlled by the state. There are billions, perhaps trillions of dollars that would flow into reducing the cost and increasing the availability of high quality medical care in the US if this were not so.

The demand is through the roof and will continue to rise. But the right to supply is only handed out to cronies.

> Banking is highly regulated but you don’t need government permission to open new branches.

The closer economic unit would probably be a bank itself, and to my understanding you do effectively need the government’s permission to open one of those.

> don’t need government permission to start new restaurants

Zoning, construction permits, occupancy permits, patio permits, food licenses, liquor licenses, health inspections, dumpster permits, etc

All of those are normal things for operating any business, and are not limited in the usual case.

Liquor licenses notwithstanding.

There is no default-deny for getting a business license or opening a restaurant in a commercially zoned area, anyone can do it. Licensing and permission aren’t quite the same thing.