skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not really convinced by the piece. According to the article the fix should be :

> None of this is to say that the world should give up. Beyond nuclear power, we need to be placing medium-sized bets on potentially transformative technologies not funded by regressive taxes or industrial subsidies, and not dependent on future breakthroughs that might still be decades off, if they happen at all. Let thousands of climate-startups bloom — and let markets, not governments, figure out which ones work.

I don't see any supporting arguments why it should work better.

Also nuclear power was never the result of the effort of medium sized start up, but the effort of (apparently evil) governments and their military complex. You cannot have your cake and eat it too... The cognitive dissonance is strong in this one.
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Think of it as the equivalent to high frequency trading vs long term investment. There is a need for both, and battery tech is the best at high frequency trading.
I see a lot of comments on here about the efficiency of Lyft/Uber's and lots of comments about their overspending.

The new book by Reid Hoffman, Blitzscaling, was an eye-opener for me as to how these companies operate and what seems as incredibly inefficient now will all be but forgotten tomorrow when they have complete monopolies over all transportation... The nature of technology makes it winner take all almost always, it's only a matter of time until they can offer other forms of transportation to people. Perhaps people someday won't even own any cars at all especially if it's cheaper to call an autonomous one from your device whenever you need it.

These are interesting times we are living in and these business models are completely counterintuitive to traditional norms of taking small risks and that much is obvious from seeing the business models of Uber/Lyft, WeWork, Airbnb, etc.
Intellectually, I see your point.

But pragmatically, it is Orwellian to suggest the phrase 'America is a Meritocracy' is tantamount to 'White Supremacism' or even that it is remotely an 'impolite' term.

", be conscious of how your actions affect other people."

No, it's not our job to not ever say anything that might possibly offend someone somewhere, because someone will always be offended.

This is not about 'being polite'.

It is 'polite' to not use foul language, to make assumptions about people, or to not say things that would offend most people, or are definitely going to offend a small groups.

It is not reasonable to control language to a point wherein speech is restricted because of the mere possibility that someone, somewhere, might be mildly offended.

I think you've made my case for me, because if it is 'not polite' to say 'America is a meritocracy' - then most speech is literally not polite and subject to the arbitrary whims of authoritarian overlords.

Just yesterday the CBC, Rogers and Bell (Canadian Gov. Broadcaster and equivalent of AT&T and Verizon) just banned the #1 most popular Christmas song 'Baby it's cold outside' - because of the innuendo about a man pressing a woman to stay with him. Contrast that with the fact that there are zillions of songs with overt, vicious, bigoted, violent and sexist terminology played all day long and you can see immediately the arbitrary and ideological nature to which these things apply.

A small, totalitarian group of 'thought nannies' decided that a very popular, and frankly innocuous song, might possibly suggest or offend someone, somewhere - and so it was banned.

Yes - let's be polite ... but utterly arbitrary and normative speech that might be contentious in intellectual circles ... does not constitute racism, insensitivity, or 'impolite' speech.
Only a sidenote: did you think any human being can have properly reviewed webkit source code before using it?

If not, how can be anything based on webkit considered to be safe, privacy oriented etc?
It sounds like apple requires the data in JSON format - they may not have a choice.
To what history are you referring? There are scholars who study this kind of thing (check out Bonnie Nardi, for example). Good systems that integrate end user programming are popular and used by non programmers when they are available. If they are a minuscule part of contemporary personal computing it is because developers have stopped making these types of systems, not because it is somehow above the abilities of regular people.
Note that it is possible to implement SRFI-42 using `syntax-rules` - the only available macro system in R5RS.
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That thing is never going to be commercial viable. It doesn't have the energy density to be worthwhile, and comes with all the hassle that a moving mechanical system brings (maintenance etc). Plus I don't believe their 85% efficiency figure. That's ludicrously good.

Also most of the $40m/year saving of this battery is that it can respond in 100 ms which means they don't have to spend so much money buying electricity from other people when demand or supply changes suddenly.
Racism is fundamental to virtually every social interaction in the US.

It's not always virulent or violent, but it is always present.
Yes, type declarations are documentation, and tell me about as much, or more, about a function than its name, when reading e.g. Haskell code. They are a necessary usability feature.
When I talk to people who claim race is not a significant issue (I'm in Canada, so it's usually about discussions about indigenous people - that's where Canada concentrates its systemic racism), I always ask them to consider why, if there is no issue, do so many people in that community think that there is an issue? An important facet of systemic racism is that it can be invisible if you're not affected, so you have to listen to those who are affected and not assume your own experience reflects societal reality.

You may agree with that - if you do, I'll turn it around on you and ask - if what I said was a blatant strawman, why does it seem like the majority of the social-right in America think that the social-left automatically consider them racists? That's a message I hear continuously from the American right-leaning press. Either there really is something there; or the media is misrepresenting how the right-leaning community thinks; or the right-leaning community thinks that but are flat-out wrong.

I also hear all three things when discussing systemic racism - it is really there; the media and academics are whipping up a problem where none exists; or the people in question do think there's a problem, but they're wrong and should get on with life.

You seemed to take offense at what I think was a pretty gentle characterization the tribalism seems to dominate discussion nowadays. (Well, offense at my description of one side of it, anyhow.) I think there's a parallel between your response to me and the response many socially-right people have toward systemic racism. I don't think either are helpful to discourse or solutions.
There are enough large, interested parties (Samsung, Microsoft, Mozilla) out there that they could literally fork Blink if organizational issues arise and gain a sizable install base.
I was just about to build this! Arghh you beat me to it..
Simple, effective, cheap and ecological solution:
make phones with batteries that can be swapped easily by anyone.

Radical concept, isn't it?
Neither the article nor any of the commenters in this chain has said anything about "Tumblr should not be allowed" to do this.
Yes. Which is why I called it "a different handwavy theory". And also listed some of the things that it didn't explain.
As a publisher, most of us do not care about Firefox either. They have done us no good. So we don't even bother to test on it.

Their so called "Tracking Protection" is nothing more then a gimmick. It can be bypassed easily using methods other then cookies. All it did was reduce the revenue from ads because of no cookies (the legitimate way to track id's). It did an insignificant harm to Google. But it reduced the revenue from Firefox users by a huge percentage for publishers.

Firefox is losing because it favors the wrong demographics. Firefox offers nothing much exclusive to users and neither to developers. Most people using ad blockers, use Firefox on mobile.

Sad to see it the way it is. Safari did the same. But the market share is still relevant, but it is declining as well. Once it reaches a certain point, no one will bother to test for it either.

DNT was a shit show. DNT should have always required manual user intervention to be respected.

Google's interests apart from their AMP project aligns with the publishers. If we win, they win.
I wrote several articles about the ARM1 when this simulator was released in 2015. A better article to start with is: http://www.righto.com/2015/12/reverse-engineering-arm1-ances...

Dave Mugridge also wrote some articles about the ARM1, focusing more on the ALU and registers: https://daveshacks.blogspot.com/2015/12/inside-alu-of-armv1-...
Rust is absolutely wonderful for tasks like this. They don't hit any of the cases where Rust's ownership can make things tricky. And the serde library makes deserializing JSON a piece of cake.

You end up with code which looks pretty similar to the equivalent JavaScript or Python code, but performs much faster (10x, 100x or even 1000x faster).
I really don't find this insightful, just repeating what everyone thinks : "people don't care about privacy", "Chrome is successful because it is installed by default", etc. thx captain obvious
Nope, it also works for static text
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My instagram account with a single-letter username had that username randomly changed today, I did not even receive the usual email confirming the name change.

As far as I can tell my email has not been compromised, nor has my phone been sim swapped. I also have 2FA enabled, and didn't receive a code. Nor the usual alert you receive for new logins.

I don't think I was hacked as nobody else seems to have taken that name, when I try to visit my old profile link I just get a 404. I can visit my profile and log into the account with the new name though, the password wasn't changed.

What can I even do here? It seems to be insanely difficult to get in touch with FB regarding issues like this.
You see the effects of the monoculture here. If their hiring process wasn't a poster child for age discrimination they might have somebody who remembers the 1970s. (eg. people who think that way won't learn it from history either because "this time is different" every time)

V(S)TOL is right up there with the SST (Supersonic Transport) and the LMFBR (Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor) failure stories of technology in the 1970s.

Heck, in the 1970s you could take a helicopter from the roof of the world trade center to JFK airport. It was fast and fun (if loud) but also the helicopters tended to crash and the passengers die.

After heavy investment, people discovered a large number of reasons why VTOL is not competitive for passenger use. Maybe they have some answer to these problems (eg. answers to the LFMBR problems and SST problems have been talked about) but cool 3d renders don't cut it.

Fortunately for them most people don't seem to remember past the headlines a week ago, so they might get away with.

VTOL has been marginally successful in military applications, although the Harrier 2 is the only unequivocally successful VTOL aircraft. The USMC says it likes the V-22 Osprey but the USMC also doesn't like to talk about failure in public. Development programs and operations for military VTOLs have resulted in accidents that have resulted in dozens of families getting a sad call from a commanding officer.
It up to browser standards to make this thing reality. example.com does not have any incentive to provide this url. However, if a users browser would treat sites implementing this feature as "more secure", example.com will gladly implement it.
To keep track of your master password, just write it down and put it in your wallet/purse. We're used to and experienced with securing physical objects, and while it still offers an avenue to expose all your passwords, it requires a lot of extra work to do so.

Basically, storing your master password physically only really vulnerable to highly targeted attacks.
There's also pikkr (https://github.com/pikkr/pikkr) if you need really really fast JSON parsing.
That article says that one tower fully stacked is 20 MW, while the Tesla storage is 6 and a half times that. You can somewhat compare pictures between the articles to get a sense of scale.

Seems to me the Tesla system would have a much lower total cost of ownership as its a solid state system (and perhaps even construction costs - getting that much concrete in one place for the tower system would be a large expense). Plus the batteries can respond much faster and more efficiently to changes in electricity needs.
What I don't understand is the math. Author makes the claim that using 3 words changes the combinatorics from 62^12 (62 characters, in 12 positions) to 20,000^3 (20k words, in 3 positions) but a hashing algorithm doesn't work with words, it works with characters, so if the words are 4 characters each, you've still got 12 characters to fill. Since an attacker doesn't know that you've not used symbols or numbers, they can't reduce the problem space to 26^12. Right?

Have I missed something in the article that would make the connection?

EDIT: Yes, hashing works with bytes, so technically, it can be even stronger if we include charsets from other scripts in the problem space.
I should have know better than to use THAT word on the internet. How silly of me.
"Please explain why identifying the work of white supremacists and similar pustules as their work, and suggesting that decent people should not help them make that work "

That's really easy.

The statement 'America is a meritocracy' is not remotely a phrase or statement supporting White Supremacy.

The fact any reasonable person would try to put such an innocuous statement in the camp of 'White Supremacy' makes me afraid.
And a generation of British childhood programmers was born.
You still pay that. And yes, it's wrapped up in that $30. Yes, someone is providing a 'service' for 30% of your billing, but you can't shop around to get better and/or less expensive service.
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Yep, exactly this. Perfect is the enemy of good. This is like the people who argue against your nontechnical relatives writing down their passwords. In reality, if they do that and have unique passwords for all their accounts, they're actually doing really well!

The base comparison seems to be a mixed character password with a length of 14. That's far more complex than the vast majority of passwords out there, so the simple three word password would be significantly more "secure" than the average password used.

Password managers are relatively easy to setup for technical people, but getting everything working on your home pc, tablet, and phone isn't a simple task for many people.

The threat 99.999999% of us face isn't that someone will bruteforce our password using a Cray. The attack that is currently occurring against you and the people you know is credential stuffing, which simply targets password reuse.
Just driving around cars that aren't in use gets brought up with self-driving cars all the time, but it's just a terrible idea, even ignoring the traffic considerations. You want them evenly distributed so they can be summoned quickly, sure, but wear and tear on all the expensive parts of a car is proportional to road miles. You want to park them somewhere when they're not in use, and as long as you have peak hours you're going to have times where you need more or less cars.

Re: venture capital use, there are currently 65,000 Uber-affiliated cars in NYC alone, according to a random search. If you were to replace all of those with self-driving cars at $50,000 a pop, that would be $3 billion right there. You can argue they'll only need a tenth that number because of self-driving efficiencies and because most Uber drivers aren't constantly driving (for comparison, NYC allows ~13k taxies) and claim they'll be able to manufacture a self-driving car for half that, but you're still talking hundreds of millions of dollars for a single market.

To replace their current fleet of sub-contracted drivers with self-driving cars is going to cost billions and billions of dollars. Uber currently has something like $7B on hand and is burning through nearly a billion a quarter.

So 2021 comes around, and self-driving technology has been perfected by Uber, Google, Tesla and Ford.

You are a VC -- or a regular investor if Uber is public -- looking to invest in a self-driving taxi company.

Two companies are seeking $10B to build out their world-wide fleet of self-driving taxis. Would you rather invest in Uber, which has a successful ride-hailing App and an internally built self-driving car and is $20B in the hole on VC investment already, or would you rather invest in a newly formed corporation, Bob's Friendly Taxi Company, which has nothing, and is going to use its VC funds to buy a bunch of self-driving vehicles and develop a new ride-hailing app from scratch?
Other attacks would have to be targeted, in most cases. Replacing a standard file under .well-known can be automated.
It will take me about 10 minutes combined to set up the redirect in this proposal for all of my websites, with all of their varying auth paradigms.

Implementing some API spec that itself lets you change passwords for each one? No thank you, I have more important things to do.
>If Uber and Lyft prices go up 1.5x to 2x, that suddenly means that in cities, taxis undercut them.

I'm sure it varies. I don't use them much when I travel but my perception is that they're maybe 70% or so of the price of a taxi. So not a huge difference but enough that I usually default to Lyft if there's no reason not to.

I agree about the competition. Though that's US-specific. Uber may operate under more regulation generally in Europe but I don't have a lot of personal experience.
Once the Web Authentication API becomes reliable usable this would make quite a lot of sense.

At last wrt. login and register for doing the "first" auth which is then stored in the authenticator, e.g. a username/password login).
> Would you allow new publishers to be created?

Yes, that was my intent. New publishers could emerge, and with no new restrictions on their behavior. Basically the main change is that the slate will have been wiped clean in terms of prestige.

I'm wondering

1. would new publishers emerge?

2. how, if at all, would they be different from what we have now.
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Fetlife.com

it already exists (plus other features, granted).
I haven't had mobile internet since yesterday evening on O2, and I travel to London for work.

Luckily, there's WiFi at home, at work, and on the trains, so it's not really affecting me too much, but I'd really like to see the postmortem of such a huge outage.
Jo Low is evading arrest, and they say is hiding in China. Makes sense.
The South Australian grid was particularly degenerate, making this more profitable there than elsewhere.

It does make at least some sense in most places, though.
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Why would ridesharing be winner take all? There's almost no network effect (beyond splitting the cost, but Venmo has largely solved that) and the drivers all drive for all of them.

In NYC I think there's at least 4 ridesharing companies and I usually choose which one based on which one has given me a promo.
Google Maps already has this. Well it doesn't charge you in the map, but it shows you services and gives you a price estimate.
My car is almost four years old and its battery has lost about 1% capacity. These things don’t wear out that quickly.
Yea you would put the fan before the check point so the line doesn't stop.
Absolutely.

In the ideal world, we all work together to find something that works. In reality, we're prone to change resistance so when we disagree with a new policy (regardless of whether it really has implications for our own lives) we tend to reject the policy, the premise, the authorities, and any groups that support said policy. There's lots of evidence that suggests that's an inherent dynamic of social systems. When policies have implications for social groups things turn explosive quickly, but beyond that I think the reaction we see to diversity conversations is just run of the mill change resistance. I often find it helpful to highlight the inarguable, universal truths in those situations as a starting point for finding a better way forward but...it's never easy.
Australia does not have the economy to force such a perverse violation of privacy on foreign business. If they try it, Google et al will be much better served pulling a Spain and blocking access in Oz than by complying.

The courts of most nations would laugh out the notion of extraditing their own citizens to Australia for hosting a website and not giving the AU government a backdoor to it.
This depends on the cracker knowing that you only use words in your password. If they don't know that, then they're back to cracking it based on length. Or at least, attempting all of the words first, then brute force.
Not really, the Bitcoin community was the one that made it a financial instrument once Bitcoin went from being called 'a payment system' to 'a store of value'. The community has repeatedly resisted making transfers faster, cheaper or easier due to various reasons(some valid), leading to various forks and altcoins.

The general Bitcoin community also celebrates every time a Wall Street firm starts trading in bitcoin, saying that's a way of Bitcoin going mainstream and being accepted as a store of value.
It's probably possible, but you'd need gigabytes of child porn to train a NN to detect child porn versus porn in general.
I'm sure they'd be happy to accept help!
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Would be curious about the websites indeed!
I had BASIC games I'd written for the BBC Model B and when I ran them on the Archimedes everything moved around the screen too fast to see. It was amazing.
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Write it down on paper, put it in an envelope, and leave it in your home, preferably in a small fire resistant lockbox that you keep other important documents in.

If your home isn't secure enough for this purpose due to roommates or other issues, ask a trusted friend, parent or relative to hold onto it and your other important documents on your behalf. If your situation makes putting it in someone else's hands a problem, you can split the password or other key material between multiple locations as well. 1Password makes it easy with the "rescue kit", and KeepassXC can use a combination of a password and file-based key for this purpose.

Security conversations on this topic typically go down some rabbit hole about the government, police etc. Keep it simple and don't crawl into that hole. End of the day, in the United States, the most reliable and legally secure place is your home or in some cases an attorney's office.
In free societies they just use social media. Much more efficient (and free). Dictators will probably follow the trend.
I refuse to watch the last episode. This way his series will never end.
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My company, Thorn Technologies, has a direct competitor on the AWS Marketplace called SFTP Gateway. We haven't seen any negative impact on sales just yet, probably because our product is much cheaper, and we think better. But only time will tell!

Yeah, this is so typical of AWS to do this, and I know we're not alone.