skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entire point of PBKDF2 is that a sub-$1,000 GPU isn't helpful.

It's certainly straightforward to use PBKDF2 in a way that is resistant to common / leaked passwords: add a per-database salt, then you can't go through the table in advance. For each individual user you want to target, you have to start trying passwords.

But even if you don't, the whole point of a password manager is to allow the single master password/passphrase to be something complicated. The average breached password should not be relevant here, and a good password manager's UX should encourage/force you to use something more complicated.

1Password, for instance, requires that you provide a 25-character random string in addition to your passphrase; it's not enough to just have the passphrase. I believe they're both used as inputs to key derivation.
infinity-order thinking: hanging all the self-improvement gurus from the highest tree.
It’s not the volume of jobs, it’s the quality.

Driving a taxi or delivering food is a pretty bad job, doing it as a self employed contractor is almost criminal. You have to cover all your own expenses and have no guarantee of work, with zero progression (ever heard of an Uber driving saving up and staring their own minicab business?). It’s a terrible economic decision.

The market does not correct for this as it is entirely controlled by a small group of companies.
I believe the plan is to undercut everyone else until all other sellers of $10 go out of business, then bring the price up to $15 and use your position to prevent anyone else from selling $10 bills again.
> “We have heard clear feedback that the Windows update process itself can be disruptive, particularly that Windows users would like more control over when updates happen.”

That only took several years of complaining.

> “All customers will now have the ability to explicitly choose if they want to update their device when they check for updates or to pause updates for up to 35 days.”

...and they didn't actually listen. This is still user-hostile bullshit and some people at Microsoft really need to be beaten with a rubber hose until they get it through their heads that they don't own our devices.

Even as a vocal critic of Linux Desktop I feel that Microsoft is doing its best to push me there. Hell, most of the computers I own have already been transitioned to Lubuntu[0] because otherwise I'm faced with forced update garbage every time I turn them on.

> Microsoft is also working to ensure the quality of this feature update, which is important given the disastrous two feature updates that Microsoft and its users experienced in 2018.

Maybe actually having QA or at least listening to the Insiders you've conned into doing QA for you for free would have helped prevent these things, but I doubt it because you seem so determined to copy the worst aspects of web and OSS development culture. User hostility, change for the sake of it, users are QA, ads (in a paid product!) etc.

[0]Lubuntu still prompts me to update it literally every time I turn it on too, but at least I can just say no.
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VirtualBox would like a word with you.
Didn't Alan Turing come up with what was effectively a call stack for subroutines with "bury" and "disinter" for the ACE?

I think that probably predates assembly language programming!
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That should no longer happen since they have added manual oversight to account closures.
Aside: I'd suggest removing the -webkit-hyphens:auto property from the title. When I load the page in Safari it appears as:

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You'd be hard pressed to convince me the younger generation is more gullible than the older generation. The term "Fake News" is testament to that. Long gone are the days of 3 Network news channels prescribing you reality.

Instead, you have a solid argument that mass iOS/Android usage and the lack of 'home desktop in the living room' have dumbed down certain technical skillsets.
OTOH the last "cloud" solution I've seen was a database that allowed a team to schedule itself. It was backed on Google cloud, had autoscaling backend. It was "serverless" (app engine), and had backups etc configured.

Cost to run it for 4 years: $70000.

QPS ? 5 was the highest I ever found.

You don't need this capacity. You just don't.

But it's got to be a good business to be in ...
Those are the arguments they are giving against Medium:

> Medium is very slow (compare). Medium's paywall is an insult to good journalism by forcing specific users to pay for content of often questionable quality. The Medium membership model doesn't work for several folks (likely you too). But, most importantly Medium dilutes your brand and negatively impacts essential metrics.
"pressure" aka micro management
[Wrong thread]
Guidance on why something pursued is unethical from a first principles perspective. Obviously Google can ignore those objections. However having a counterbalance is important (as any able administration should on its foreign policy advisors body, for example, though a president can and does ignore advice but not all advice)
I agree with the other comment that this just reads like an advertisement. You could at least mention alternatives; for example, Firebase Hosting has served me well in many cases and its pricing is simple and competitive.

There's also no mention of Wordpress, which is probably one of the best solutions for non-technical users. Not everyone wants to build and maintain tech stuff.
Care to explain? That sounds correct to me.
Sure, Google has and always has had the option of deciding that engineers should shut up about their opinions and just work and not ask questions. I suspect Google management realizes that isn't going to work. They've been able to hire and retain good people with the "bring your whole self to work," "don't be evil," etc. policies. If they want to try "We're no different from Oracle, but with brighter colors and maybe better pay," they shouldn't expect to continue being more successful than Oracle. They can fire their best people and hire some mediocre replacements.
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Thanks - had no idea.
I graduated from high school in 1999 and worked at a big box computer store during the spring and summer. I remember when the demo machines with the Voodoo3 3500 and TNT2 Ultras hitting the floor and all of us employees crowding around before the store opened to watch the demos, and endless hours spent arguing about which was better.

I saved up money to build my first computer that summer and chose a Creative 3D Blaster TNT2 Ultra, paired with an Abit BX6 motherboard, a Pentium 3 450 CPU, 256MB of RAM, a white box Sound Blaster Live, a 3Com Etherlink XL, a US Robotics 56K modem, generic 40x CDROM drive plus a CDRW drive, and I want to say an 8GB Western Digital hard drive, connected to a 19" monitor that was so big I had to pull my desk away from the wall to fit my Model M keyboard. It was pretty much perfect, except for the fact that technology was improving so quickly then that I started feeling the need to upgrade it in 6 months.

That fall I went to college and hooked it up to the university's broadband connection. I probably got my money's worth in all the hours I spent on that machine. It definitely gave me a sense of wonder and power to have something top of the line. I spent countless hours playing Half Life multiplayer, Team Fortress, and then Counter-Strike beta. I don't know if I'd do it again, but I had a great time back then.
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Case in point though: People need to be able to communicate, so don't downvote him.
As a quibble, I would say the traditional VC-backed tech startup is a technology that costs $50mm to develop, but can be sold into a market of 10 million units @ $100 with a per-unit cost of $75.

"We can develop a monopoly by selling below cost" is some kind of traditional business, but I wouldn't call it a traditional tech startup.
19 Saudis were responsible for 9/11 and we invade...Iraq. They stop selling oil in dollars and they will get the Iraq treatment too.
Sorry, I was just switching away from the first low level NACHA file stuff I've had to do in years.
Think of society as a very slow (this is key) networked system, subject to the same kind of feedback loops and manipulations we can perform in computer networks, just progressing in human time over years.

Now within this system there are two strategies to run a company, #1) employ people, make a product, sell it for a profit, rinse, recycle, keep going for decades if you´re good.

Or #2, for a short (but longish in human terms, several years at least, remember it´s a very, very slow system, and hey interest rates have been really low now for a decade), borrow money, employ people, make a product, and sell it for less than it cost to make.

Eventually with #2 the borrowed money runs out, but until it does you stand a more than decent chance of beating #1, and since you borrowed the money you can throw some great parties with it along the way.

For extra thrills and lolz, borrow the money from the banking system, so that when you can´t repay it, you crash the entire country with a credit crisis. Note there isn´t necessarily as clear a division between the two strategies as we might want, most companies need some kind of startup capital, and have to borrow that from somewhere.
And that's perfectly fine, as long as the people paying the price (here, VCs) are the ones bearing the responsibility for their eventual losses.

It only gets disgusting when such "musical chairs" scams get too popular, becoming "too big to fail". Then the society at large will cover the bill, including those actors who were more prudent and honest throughout (adding insult to their injury).

The more involved and indirect the chain of responsibility, the larger the potential for scams.
Even if we don't know which particular problem it might cause right now, being wasteful when you can avoid it is never a good idea.

Image size is currently not the most important metric, but - guessing how your average node.js package already looks today - demanding people ignore it completely will probably set you on the road of multi TB images that also contain the developer's favorite desktop environment in the medium future.
Don’t shit where you eat!
Show HN: 300k lines of Java UI code running native in browser at desktop speed
> What I find especially sad is I am a total believer in political correctness as a general courtesy to people

Yes, but we must recognise the difference between etiquette and ethics. Ethics are the things you must do, but courtesy is a matter of etiquette, behaviour that is optional but culturally polite.

PC culture these days raises etiquette to the level of ethics, and that's simply wrong.
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OK, that's less scary then. I'm kind of glad I misunderstood that.
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Yeah, but a CC chargeback has a similar time frame.
Permitting sales of illegal drugs & services is a defining feature probably worth mentioning.
> There is only subjective human judgement and our attempts to rationalize it.

I feel that the very realization of that fact is the first step in becoming a more moral person. Now that the previous model of morality has been shown to be fundamentally flawed, one can begin building the next.
> What's so terrible about people using better and better passwords?

This is a complete red herring - it's an argument for using password managers in general, not LastPass in particular. The issues here are whether it is being done in a way that unnecessarily compromises those better passwords.
I think it’s important to separate the use cases of a) deploying off the shelf software like Mysql and Redis from b) deploying your own custom built software.

Helm seems a weird choice for B.
Interesting take, but it misses the fundamental point of the stack metaphor: each layer has to depend on the existence of the previous layer. An operating system can't exist without hardware to run on; an application can't exist outside the context of an operating system. The author seems to think that any system with multiple components can be called a "stack" - at that point, you truly have reduced the term to a buzzword.
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My first card was a GeForce 2 MX, after seeing countless ads in every PC mag for the Voodoo's which were too far out of reach for my piggy bank.
You can also just turn on your gas plants (which produce less CO than coal plants) instead of using obsolete technologies like coal or nuclear that are not capable of load following. After this step you can start investing in infrastructure to create your own carbon neutral gas because you now have an oversupply of renewable energy.
Reminds me of a recent comment I saw but can't find by Douglas Lenat (of Cyc[1] fame, also relevant here) about how all the work on deep learning was great but now we need to marry the two, much like the ideas about how the "right brain" and "left brain" or system 1 and system 2 or something work together and work differently but we couldn't very well function as humans without both.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc
Not to mention the 213 things Skippy is no longer allowed to do in the U.S. Army: http://skippyslist.com/list/
> I genuinely don't understand the argument that tech companies are hurting society by providing lower paying gig-economy jobs.

The whole point of “disruption” is that these businesses are squeezing out existing business which either provide more and/or higher-paying jobs.
How Gatwick Airport was moved to the cloud
Agreed with ignoramous' reply - interested in reading more literature here around what you're describing.
That gave me another idea which I haven't considered the implications of, but it sounds fun and video game'y:

Electronic/Smart bills, that keep track of how many times they've been used to purchase stuff with.

After a bill has been circulated N times, it increases in value by Y, and/or unlocks special artwork.

Some bills may become highly sought-after collectibles worth far more than their face value.

Would it help or harm the economy?
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I definitely see a usefullness in these lists, I just feel sad that they get a lot more attention than actual code repositiories.

Indeed, Github should find a solution for this. I didn't care much about Github stars but recently I noticed they're being required in various scenarios, for example some CDN require a certain number of Github stars to include a library [1]

[1] https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#b...
> up until Russia's currency was so successful that it did indeed threaten the US hegemony

That's not remotely plausible. Russia doesn't have an economy to support a serious global currency. It has an economy the size of Canada. The US could have never positioned itself to have the global reserve currency, without having the world's largest economy (or otherwise massive economy). That position dates back to ~1890. You can't acquire a superpower economy on the back of currency magic, it can only be done through actual economic production (an area where Russia is severely lacking).
Which nation? Google operates in many countries - should it be proportional to business activity in each country?
It’s not proprietary in the sense that the offer has been made for any car company to use the same connector technology (and even the supercharger network) royalty free. No car companies have taken Tesla up on this offer. The ones that expressed interest wanted Tesla to make needless changes... but part of the deal with Tesla offering the tech is that it has to be done in a way that does not burn extra engineering time for the Tesla team... so the requested changes would not fly.
Love your pictures!! Wow, it actually looks like a bunch of people who are happy to be there.

Look at that Tek scope on the scope cart! I purchased one of those as an undergrad in EECE, what a great old scope.

Also, is the part of your website that loads images behind a 1970s switch at bell labs, perhaps? :) I thank the other HN members for the mirrors.
People use the word "stack" in multiple ways. So... ?
> So clearly we are [fundamentally] different from all other animals, even if we have the same components.

This is not even remotely clear. More and more we are finding that the properties we told ourselves separated our minds from those of animals are not unique to us.
It's not the investor that decides to give money to the $10 bills seller. It's a third party.

Now, I don't know what kind of punishment the GP wanted to see. If the question is why doesn't all the money run away from the VP's fund, I wonder about that too.
> yet good science fiction writers routinely do just that.

I see two things going on here.

- Science fiction influencing engineers / scientists.

- Selection bias, how many sci-fo books/movies are completely wrong ? If you produce 100 000 scenarios surely some of them will be more or less comparable to reality.

Did back to the future predict self lacing shoes ? Or did Nike invent self lacing shoes because of back to the future ? &c.
Someone working for Devuanhosting posting advertisements for Devuanhosting?
> it just averaged them

As opposed to Boeing's "lets pick one and hope to dear God that it's the correct one"?

How would you handle opposing input where any of the two pilots might give the incorrect input?
How is this news? Only a moron would spend millions on lobbying and let others write legislation while he idly sits by.

Those who "elected them to write new laws" aren't much better either. What is the purpose of these "new laws" if not higher taxes on others, more spending that benefits selected groups, or less freedom?

It's only a matter of who writes them, the purpose is the same - to benefit the author.
Huawei’s P-Series unapologetically aims to be a camera with a decent phone attached. Borrowing from the Mate 20 Pro made sense in this respect. The result is a better all-around experience than P20 Pro but without the same impact.
Age comes into play with how people react to bad UX. A youngster can learn the quirks of a bad UI, and deal with it (while hating it). An older person will simply choose to not use the product.
There will be partisan lines drawn in these debates, but we don't need to start there. But mostly this was obviously a PR/DC networking move and not a serious attempt to have oversight or meaningful conversation.
I'm pretty sure you posted this on the wrong thread, but I'm enjoying imagining you didn't.

(And it's a great point! Go repost it in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19581571)
won't the mods sort this out here?
Thanks for pointing out. I’ll fix the mobile version.
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Because workers often stake their livelihoods on a single source of income. This is perilous enough when the source of income is result of them making contributions to the economy at the actual market rate.

But there is nothing "market rate" about rank-and-file work for a company that's pouring gasoline on VC money and setting it ablaze. If demand for your labor is only due to artificially low prices, that demand will evaporate once growth targets are met.

See also: existing business that was disrupted. If the new service is not actually more efficient and was only able to undercut existing players on price because of VC money, there are no real long-term winners on the ground. Sure, maybe some founders, early employees, and investors net a tidy profit, but that profit isn't based on an actual economic contribution if the product isn't viable after the VC spigot gets turned off
You’re being fed false information if you think Tesla cars don’t have buttons. There are plenty of buttons and other physical controls even in the Model 3.
If only companies/countries/individuals without a scandal or controversy in their history could become a 'victim', the newspapers would be amazingly empty...
This is so cool! I’ve been wanting to do just this!
Again, nobody forces you to do this so what's the point?
Mughal-e-azam plus Capsule
शीघ्र गिर जाने को शीघ्रपतन कहते हैं। सेक्स के मामले में यह शब्द वीर्य के स्खलन के लिए प्रयोग किया जाता है। पुरुष की इच्छा के विरुद्ध उसका वीर्य अचानक स्खलित हो जाए, स्त्री सहवास करते हुए संभोग शुरू करते ही वीर्यपात हो जाए और पुरुष रोकना चाहकर भी वीर्यपात होना रोक न सके, अधबीच में अचानक ही स्त्री को संतुष्टि व तृप्ति प्राप्त होने से पहले ही पुरुष का वीर्य स्खलित हो जाना या निकल जाना, इसे शीघ्रपतन होना कहते हैं। इस व्याधि का संबंध स्त्री से नहीं होता, पुरुष से ही होता है और यह व्याधि सिर्फ पुरुष को ही होती है।

स्खलन समस्या, विरोधी शीघ्रपतन गोलियां, शीघ्रपतन, शीघ्रपतन हर्बल गोली, शीघ्रपतन का इलाज, हर्बल शीघ्रपतन गोली, मुगल-ए-आज़म प्लस कैप्सूल

समय से पहले वीर्य का स्खलित हो जाना शीघ्रपतन है। यह “समय” कोई निश्चित समय नहीं है पर जब “एंट्री” के साथ ही “एक्सिट” होने लगे या स्त्री-पुरुष अभी चरम पर न हो और स्खलन हो जाए तो यह शीघ्रपतन (Premature Ejaculation) है। ऐसे में असंतुष्टि, ग्लानी, हीन-भावना, नकारात्मक विचारो का आना एवं अपने साथी के साथ संबंधों में तनाव आना मुमकिन है। यहाँ यह समझ लेना जरूरी है कि जरूरी नहीं है कि हर वह व्यक्ति जिसका वीर्यस्खलन शीघ्र होता है शीघ्रपतन का शिकार है। हो सकता है व्यक्तिविशेष किसी शारीरिक विषमता का शिकार हो और यह समस्या स्थाई हो पर इस हेतु अच्छे विशेषग्य से परामर्श आवश्यक है।
Just give everyone $15 worth of cryptocurrency!
On windows 10, I was unable to install "Flight Simulator 2004" that I bought in 2007. Have you tried to install Word 6 (mid 90s) or visual studio 1.52 on windows 10 ?
People talk to each other about their cars and whether they like them. That's a network effect.
This is the country with the "war on drugs" that have 10+ year sentences to largely minorites convicted of possession of a few grams of cannabis so this really shouldn't be that surprising.

Focusing on the crimes being nonviolent seems like a poor tactic. Look at the outrage in about no one going to jail for financial malfeasance, for example.

But I have 3 particular issues with the sentence here:

1. The government has moved him twice across the country from New York to Colorado then Arizona. The Wikipedia article mentions his mother moved to Colorado to be closer to him. That seems cruel.

2. Why a high security prison that's going to put him in with actual murderers and violent offenders?

3. Life plus 40 years does seem like overkill. I mean look at the sentences for the Elizabeth Smart kidnappers by comparison.

At the end of the day though I have limited sympathy. Like what did he expect to happen?
Good choice. I really feel for anyone who plumped for a V5 over a Geforce 2 MX - that must have been painful