skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. You couldn't offer the same level of services that a cruise ship does because of height restrictions and it's too slow for fast-paced youngsters. Price-wise it's hard to compete with interrail so I guess it would be a very niche thing. Which leads me to wonder if there is anyone hitchhiking barges.
Interestingly enough, this password does not show up on haveibeenpwnd!
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"Finally, I must point out that the Chinese Wikipedia don't have the culture of deletion, unlike the English version. Some experienced Chinese editors went to edit the English version, only to find many edits have been reverted and canceled."

You must realize on the Chinese Wikipedia you don't need to delete anything if only content the Chinese government wants on there is only what gets posted? E.g. How quickly before posting about Tiananmen Square Massacre before it gets deleted, and perhaps how quickly before you get an in-person visit from the authorities?
> How on Earth was this a good idea?

On whose time horizon?

If yours is "the next five years", it probably looked pretty good for a solid thirty years or so.
Whoa, I hadn't seen the VW XL1. The covered rear wheels look annoying, but my first reaction to it is "cool!"
Someone has to constantly remind people that Linux doesn't exist.
That's just a bad system design, not your dad's fault really:

"You're password 'huntet2' is invalid"

unless the password is just random characters, anyone can guess how it was mistyped.

Hell, even if it was just random characters, one could just assume that it's one character-off from the real password, and try shifting each character around.
Here's his Github account: https://github.com/ken
They're also instrumental for electric cars, which, provided cleaner electricity generation, might have a massive positive impact on the environment
Honestly, that confused me too. I really thought the whole password was that long.
I'm genuinely curious: Why do you think the "vote with your wallet" mentality is broken?
Of course Teslas are taxed in the EU. Like any other car, even the ones manufactured in Europe. Or European cars in the US. I'm not sure what you are getting at.
And an extremely common one.
As an aside, emotional well being I believe (though I don't have any papers) is linked to improved health. Dog owners, unsurprisingly enjoy dogs. So to a degree, the dogs do have a magic aura.

I don't own one currently but I absolutely adore them. I imagine my stress levels drop significantly every time I'm admiring one at the park.

While it is of course not "magic", I think you're over simplifying the impact of positive factors in peoples lives.
Yes, I'm sure it diligently looked at reviews that were opposite or critical of those studies and decided it would further their cause to list them. Where is the list that refutes this data? Here's a hint, a little searching on Google will show you that there are opposing organizations who, conveniently, leave out this far left website's "legitimate reviews" in favor of ones that follow THEIR side.
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I disagree. Lots of the streams I enjoy are largely based on the personality of the streamer and their interaction with viewers. If you start removing their freedoms of what they can and can't say that would heavily impact their interactions and limit their opinions/speech. Yes it's true that most of the dialogue isn't heavily political, but politics is a wide sweeping topic. What if they are bringing up legitimate problems with the game, or the parent game company? Totally reasonable and interesting opinions that actually happen all the time on streams would be in danger of getting banned. Not to mention discussion of everyday life outside of the game which is also commonplace on many streams.

Just watching gameplay with no opinions and interaction is a watered down boring stream in my opinion. Maybe there are times when that is what someone wants when specifically looking for gameplay tips and how pros play, but that is only a subset of game streaming even by professional gamers. If the streamer is a sponsored pro, sure they have to worry about those sponsors but what kind of advice is it to tell them they should have no opinions? It feels short-sighted of the sponsors because they are limiting the potential of the stream and if they already sponsor someone, why wouldn't they want their opinions heard?
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Finally getting around to watching Downton Abbey while I walk on the treadmill.
>You are a professional player in a tournament, you should not use an official stream to spew political opinions... or opinions of any other kind.

You should use whatever platform you've earned to state whatever views you wish. If there are consequences, so be it.
I think: "People everywhere should have the basic human rights" is far less controversial than "God hates the gays". I imagine that the latter also would get punished the same way to be honest, and then we wouldn't have this discussion at all. At least in the west, as in the east they do not appreciate the acceptance of anything LGBTQ+ related.

Blizzard went all-in with the pride stuff in the west, but did not have that event at all in the east. Not even a toned-down version of it.
I, for one, care deeply about making my papers readable. I'm outside academia and doing research as a side-hobby, so I couldn't care less about things like tenure etc. So for example, one of my most successful papers [1], I intentionally wrote it in 2 pages (which is quite adequate to get the key idea across), instead of ballooning it into 20 pages. As a result, I had no choice but to publish it in one of the most obscure journals in existence, because almost no-one else accepts 2-page papers in this area these days. Not that it really matters: it still benefited from useful comments by its reviewers, and it's been far more widely read than any of my other papers. But with the journal I published it in, it would never do me a lick of good in an academic job hunt or grant proposal.

[1] https://philarchive.org/archive/ALEATO-6 "A type of simulation which some experimental evidence suggests we don't live in"
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related first staff announcement https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2019/10/09/washington-post...
Kids' climate lawsuit to go before Alaska court
Uh, no. What you're saying is "My user should not be allowed to customize the appearance of their application."

You want the user to have less freedom? Great, good luck with your app development, but I sure hope you're not in charge of developing anything I use.

Also if you read my original comment you would've seen that I am still reading the OS setting. The difference is that rather than locking the user into their OS's setting, I default to the OS's setting and give the user the freedom to change it as they see fit.
Another login, create account, subscription? Yuck.
maison qu'offre: it's on the house. But you won't get that from me.
The Magnetic Tape Alert Project is a step to save audio-visual archives
This is _so_ wrong. My dog loves walks, but only for so many minutes before she wants to just lay down.
We have 1/2 acre outside, accessible 24/7 to her via dog door but even then she barely goes outside except to do her business or check if any bunnies have made out. When we do know that there will be someone in our back yard (locates or maintenance), we leave the dog door closed.

She has urinated/defecated in the house maybe 10 times in the 5 years we've had her and most of those were in the first 12 months. She requires very little walking and is very housebroken. Worst thing that happens these days is a couple of times a year she pukes in the house, but even then we have her trained to puke in our walk in shower.

She also will just lay in our yard when other people/dogs walk by, so long as they do not enter our yard. She will not bark or enter guard dog mode until the lights are off and we're in bed. After that she will guard the front door and only bark if someone is in our yard. She is great with kids and other dogs. Only thing she is not great with is cats. She's also a herding dog (bouvier des flanders) and will reliably have my mom's chickens herded within 1 minute of arriving at my parents' place.

I'm pretty sure we won the dog lottery with her. I understand you're just generalizing, but let it be known that it's possible for some dogs to just be awesome. I think breed has a lot to do with it.
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Cathy Freeman defied the Olympic rules and carried the Aboriginal flag at the 2000 Olympics, and went on to carry the Olympic flag at the 2002 Winter Olympics opening ceremonies! Sports are one of the best venues for protest because they give you an audience that can be global.

https://spitztengle.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/cathy-freema...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_Freeman
I have a story of how 2FA over sms is worse than nothing (written as a throwaway, because I don't want a target on my back).

I had an account with Bank of America and a prepaid AT&T plan. I was about to move abroad so I went to my local bank office and asked if there was anything I needed to do to prepare for this. "Nothing in particular" I was told.

After moving abroad I opened another bank account in that country and tried to transfer my money over to said account. However in order to transfer the money out I had to enroll (I wasn't already) in sms 2FA. As at&t prepaid does not have roaming I wasn't able to enroll using it. And only American numbers were accepted. I got on the phone (a different one) with at&t to see if roaming could be enabled. "-Nah, there is no roaming for prepaid only for postpaid. -Can you sign me up for that? -No, only in a store"

Now I weighted my options. I could fly back to the US to resolve it, if I could get another visa. I could fly to Mexico or Canada where there is roaming. In the end I went with the advice the bank's support gave me: I enrolled a friends number. This does not feel secure at all, but what you gonna do?

Moral of the story: If you move abroad, better make sure your sim supports roaming, because you're gonna get locked out of stuff otherwise.
https://www.lexico.com/en/explore/is-a-thumb-a-finger
I forgot all about asdfmovie! That's an oldie for sure.
Interestingly the most... clever, if not necessarily convincing, phishing attempt I've heard of, went like this:

1. Phishers call someone and pretend to be from their bank. If they've guessed the right bank and the person gives away their details, they win!

2. If they don't, and question the phishers authenticity, the scammers say "sure, just call us on the number on the back of your card".

3. The cardholder hangs up, and then dials the number for their bank, which they know and trust, because they've called it before or it's come from their card.

4. They get connected to a service representative, answer security questions, confirm that the transactions are valid, and then can relax.

5. A few days later, they get a call from their bank saying there's a whole lot of fraud on the account.

The trick to this one is that the phishers (a) call the cardholder on a landline and (b) when the cardholder thinks they've hung up, they haven't - the phishers just play a hook tone and then a dial tone.

In Australia at least (not sure about elsewhere?) if you call a landline number, the caller must end the call, or at least it used to be that way (I haven't owned a landline phone for a _long_ time. There's probably also a significant skew towards the elderly in landline owners, and in susceptibility to scam calls.
Not sure if it’s true, but I’ve heard that mail (at least in the US) is safer because the cost to send letters is high enough to deter bulk sends vs email/phone, that postal inspectors are relatively effective at catching people, and that the laws around mail fraud make prosecutions easier.
> It's mostly consumer goods manufacturing that's moved abroad. I don't see any particular benefit in bringing it back stateside. Making things in low-wage countries like Vietnam or China dramatically slashes costs for the consumers, allowing us American consumers to live a more lavish lifestyle.

Look at groups of people at a more granular level. On average, the economy is more efficient when goods are manufactured overseas.

If you're living in Wisconsin and you aren't a highly skilled knowledge worker with a college degree, and have been watching your community go from people with good factory jobs to minimum wage fast food and Walmart employees, it's a disaster.

The middle of the country needs quality jobs and options. It's not enough for small groups of people to do extraordinarily well while everyone else falls by the wayside.

And people don't want government handouts to fill the void. They want dignity, purpose, and control over their lives. In America, the only way to have that is to have a reasonably well paying job.
That's not a theory, that's some kind of urban legend or folklore, and it's nonsense. Repeating it without a shred of substantiation is equally nonsensical.

If you want to "stay way from Volvos" on account of it, fine. Please also consider throwing a pinch of salt over your shoulder when you spill it, and crossing the street when you see a black cat.
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Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists: “Damn they beat us to it!”
Only because they can't. Leverage requires steady cash flows, fixed assets, etc. If VCs could increase their potential return while also increasing financial risk to their portfolio, they absolutely would.

Across private equity there is a spectrum from small cap to large cap with increasing leverage. The small cap funds do a combination of the leverage tricks available to PE investors as well as the deal structure tricks available to VCs (preferred, etc).
oh! I thought the whole thing was the password, apparently the first part is the hash
>Sell their stock.

To whom? Eager buyers of the stock?
So China is censoring the fact that they are censoring.
disappointed he didn't use algebraic notation.
Could have been: e4e5f4ef
>if you mistyped your password, it would print the mistyped password,

That's incredibly useful. Stand next to someone, casually chatting, while they enter their password. Just before they hit [ENTER], stab a key -- say, a 'z'. Boom, it prints their password with an extra 'z' at the end.

Sure, they'd be aware of it and likely change their password. But still. A more common use case would be to hang around and wait for them to inevitably typo the password. If you see that enough, you'll get a really good idea about what it's supposed to be, or at least give you enough of the password to make figuring out the missing part trivial.
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London is the only city in world that turns everyone's snot black, not even Delhi or Beijing does that.
For good entrepreneurs, there’s always a Plan B
> We quickly learned that everything in AWS has some kind of service limit

Except S3. Unlimited objects, and unlimited Put and Get requests.
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> I think this is the wrong way to look at the problem. Progress is always iterative. If a given person happens to make a bigger iteration, then people call them 'masters of the universe', but that iteration isn't inherently different from the normal, smaller kind of iteration.

+1. Bloch himself made the iteration over work by Arthur van Hoff and others at Sun before him.
I'd assume that the Great Firewall has different settings for ordinary citizens, foreign visitors, purpose-built troll farms, low-ranking party members, and high-ranking apparatchiks. China has basically used Orwell as an instruction manual.
Isn't it great to make claims about entire industries based on single data points?
The difference between the data you could get via a smart phone or smart watch and "brain information" is already quite thin.
I know an online forum if that counts, https://pincong.rocks (Chinese, Browse with Tor) they're pretty anti-CCP in my opinion, and the only one I know of.

I don't agreed with many of their posts, but if you want to waste your time in the chaotic Chinese political small talks, then maybe that's one place to look at. Also, keep in mind that you reading small talks there, so take everything with a grain of salt.

I personally acquire most of the information on Twitter. I followed many people who working in the IT or related fields, and sometime they retweet political related stuff (As joke or mock mostly). This is how I know about that South Park episode.
Issues related to China and Blizzard, Apple and China-Hong Kong, etc. intensifying - which is bringing all of this bad, authoritarian behaviour to light - compounding. People seem to have had enough and are speaking up.
Yeah but that’s been going on for months and it feels like there’s a sudden surge (though I don’t have the stats to rigorously prove a sudden change).
best practices have changed from using a complex password with lots of upper/lower and symbols to use something longer but easier to remember. More strength from misspellings and a few symbols

My Fav0riT Pas%werd

is actually pretty solid compared to

df22@$Fasdf

because the latter is more crackable
Yeah, hanging up and calling the 800 number on your card is the best route.

But, the responses on Twitter weren't "never talk", they were "I'd know it was a scam as soon as..." (implying they'd allow the call to get that far).
A political opinion isn’t a political opinion anymore, once it’s spread to fixation. “Political” in this case—and most cases where it’s used in discussions like these—is a euphemism for “damagingly controversial to support.” Even an opinion on politics can cease to be a “political” opinion. (For example, “the US should not be a British colony” is an opinion about politics, but at this point, not much of a political opinion.)

But, I think it’s important to note, this doesn’t mean that these opinions that companies dislike espousing aren’t political in the literal sense. They’re a subset of what would be more objectively defined as “political opinions.” And, as such, it’s not these companies making this determination; for it really is considered a matter of civic etiquette—in at least Western culture—to avoid discussing “political” topics in any venue where something other than politics is trying to happen; and plenty of people really do get mad at companies just for the fact of their breaking this social more, even when the political statement itself is one they have no stake in either way.
I use a diceware[0] passphrase for my Keepass database. I was inspired heavily by XKCD comic 936[1]. My only issue with password managers is that they are a single point of failure and are juicy targets for hackers, so I usually vet them and audit them thoroughly before I use them. I am one of those rare people that actually looks at the source code of password managers to look for flaws in the implementation (I sometimes spot flaws and duly report them to the maintainers).

One caveat to diceware I never liked is how it wears out the keyboard over time as you have to type the same passphrase each time to open the vault (You would be surprised how many times I need to do this each day). I sometimes have to lock my database to avoid evil maid attacks when in a hotel for example. Of course I go through about three keyboards a year because of this, but I don't mind the cost if it gives me a crispy fresh keyboard each time. And did I mention I don't own merely one encrypted database, but many depending on different contexts and different devices?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diceware

[1] https://www.xkcd.com/936/
We can't just blame Trump for this though. It goes all the way back to the House's vetoing Obama from reprisals against Assad for using chemical weapons in 2013, on the basis that Syria wasn't America's problem.

Trump simply supported that position in his campaign, and lo and behold, what happens a matter of weeks after the US has both a president and a House leadership that have said bombing Assad for using chemical weapons is not in the US's interests?

Assad uses chemical weapons, because why wouldn't he, and Trump ends up bombing him for it anyway. Meanwhile about a hundred civilians, including a hospital full of children, die.

Now I'm a UK citizen, so I sympathise. The US is in an unenviable position. Nobody in the US deserves to carry the can for any of this. Nevertheless, this is the world we live in and it's the job leading politicians sign up for. Moral, responsible leadership matters.

I'm a Reagan-Thatcher era lifelong conservative voter. I supported the second Gulf War, I still think it's up in the air whether that was the right thing to do. The status quo back then was also horrible and arguably breaking the deadlock with Saddam was worth attempting. But I've had it with modern US Republicanism. It's demonstrated very clearly it will knowingly sacrifice lives for electoral gain, and allow a situation to deteriorate in which the US and Western allies have already lost lives and are likely to lose them again.

This isn't the conservatism I grew up with.
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Cliff Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg grapples with this a bit. The fine line between open systems that anyone can use, and closed systems that protect your privacy and data.

It's obviously a settled question these days, but back in the 70s and 80s, this was a bit of a hot topic.
I remember reading a blog post about how something like "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…" with sufficient 'a's was actually perfectly secure since it wasn't included in any of the common cracklists or hash leaks. I think the number of 'a's was somewhere in the 30s. Obviously bruteforcing it would take absurdly long, too.*

The problem is, after I've committed a long passphrase into muscle memory, it probably takes me less time to type a 40-character phrase than count 40 individual keypresses of a button hoping I don't miscount.

* Assuming nobody is stupid enough to make a depth-first password cracking program. "I'm down to a billion 'a's now. I should be ready to try a 'b' any minute now!"
This bothers me because I prefer to use slightly embarrassing passphrases. I do that because it creates a secondary incentive not to disclose them.
the most amusing thing is the exclamation mark on such a banal opening move.
If you want to see an accomplished life, look up John Goodenough on Wikipedia. Casually fought in WWII, developed Lithium-Ion, still going strong in his 90’s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Goodenough
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The difference in CO2 is marginal. Petrol produces about 10% less CO2 / km than diesel at the same fuel-efficiency levels while diesel engines have about 20% better fuel economy than a similarly-sized petrol engine.

Of course, the petrol version will make quite a bit more power as well. When you look at CO2 per HP, the differences are negligible.
> I agree with you. In fact, I didn't buy Overwatch because of the way they were shoving gay stuff into it.

I fail to see how this could be your takeaway from his statement. His point is that they will pander to whatever cause makes them the most amount of money.

LGBTQ+ content in a game should not be the reason you don't want a game. There are games that handle it very poorly and are just trying to virtue-signal. They make the point of the game that the character is gay (generally a lesbian as that hits more checkboxes) and as a result these games suffer quality wise. Being non-binary isn't a good story, your media should have a good story. The character having "being gay" as one of their character traits is fine. "Being gay" isn't (far from it) the only thing that defines a person (or character)