skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think you have any idea of what you’re talking about.

The attack you mention doesn’t help you retrieve any part of the encrypted text, it only leaks the upper bound of cardinality of the set of all IDs.

While the padding oracle attack would allow you to retrieve parts of the actual ID.
and yet, there are responses here confirming that the bricking is indeed what happens in some cases. so yes, it is nitpicking.
Indeed, he was not the first at all. The concept of thermodynamic entropy predates, with a huge margin, its information theoretical counterpart.

You make it look like I am saying there is a mystical property of the human brain that backs the validity of information theory, an assertion that has no resemblance at all which what I am attempting to express, and sits in the same category the ones I am trying to debate against do.

What I am trying to say is that there is no meaning in a teleological interpretation of information theory. Things like “the purpose of living organisms is to propagate information” contradict information theory because there is no such a concept as absolute information, you always define it on mutual terms.
I guess that the task is really underspecified (maybe intentionally to have different speed runs). It makes a huge difference whether you have a kernel with a TCP/IP stack, a C compiler, a C library with the socket API, etc.

The point of the shell example is, that once you have some way to easily open a socket, you can bootstrap a more complete system very quickly. You download a more complete root image from your favorite distribution and override / with that, etc.
I thought they were bricked from the factory because of the shit keyboard that only works in clean room conditions.

And I’m not talking hearsay here, I own one and the keyboard is as shitty as the entire internet says. Comparing to my previous MacBooks that had no keyboard problems when used outdoors too.
Unless them producing more drives the payout on the puts up more than what they pay for production (minus world prices).

Oh, and of course, this is all politics. They are not just maximizing profits, but they also have to worry about the optics of firing redundant workers, if they stop production.
I more serious variation on the topic: http://bootstrappable.org/
Hard to draw that conclusion versus they feel like they finally have "enough" training data.
I wouldn't mind CAPTCHA hell so much if the tasks I was doing were benefiting libre projects that everyone could draw on, like OpenStreetMap or Wikipedia. The offensive thing about CAPTCHA is that your work is for the sole sake of improving one corporation’s product.
That page is kinda laggy to load on my machine...

Specifically Chrome on Linux the GPU tile rendering is far slower than I can scroll, perhaps because some text blocks are large enough that the out-of-tile culling leaves too much work for each tile rendered?

Perhaps the custom font has something that really slows down rendering or something?
No. I mean that on many levels —including your reading of that article— but I'm not going to engage there.

You are once again pointing at opioids a some unassailable argument that doctors are only in it for the cash and cannot be trusted. If anything, doctors are trying to keep people off ventilation. They have to, they have dramatically more C19 patients than vents. Here, patients over 60 with co-mobidities are actively disqualified.

Beside this global conspiracy amongst physicians to over-prescribe ventilation, you're also suggesting that neither they nor the hundreds of public health bodies are looking at the results of their actions and adapting treatment, despite taking extreme care to collate data. Guidelines here are emergent, but you can't placebo people with resting SpO2s of 80. They die.

Again, "Look, opioids!" is not an argument. It's a harmful comparison.
Yeah, I’m not sure why there’s such a massive contingent that admit to having never owned an Apple product (some snarky comment about the Apple tax) and dismiss the hordes of serious engineers who use these products. Can you get 90% of the way there with your favorite flavor of Linux? Yup. Are there some things that Linux does far better? Definitely (looking at you containers). But it’s that 10% sugar that make most (not all) people more productive. But if I can make my expensive engineers more productive by spending a few hundred $ premium on the single most important piece of kit I’m giving them, well that’s insanely good ROI.
Joshua rises from the dead (Timetravel 36AD)
"cash"..
I've thought about a variant of this with Baking Pi [1].
That takes you through assembly to the point of having a Raspberry Pi with a minimal terminal (with just an external USB driver the author wrote).

I think it would be interesting to see how quickly you could get from there to a useful system, say one where you could download the USB driver from github and compile it. But I definitely don't know enough to do that.

[1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/tutorials/os/
I'd recommend at least getting your own email domain so you are still able to use Gmail's interface, but could easily switch to something else if necessary. That's what I did with Pobox – reliable and affordable solution for that (and even more).
Just a suggestion, but you really might want to use a more relevant or intuitive name, redsand.io has zero meaning to me and I'm sure that many would feel similarly.
Wow, that's quite interesting!
> Conway distinguishes Free Will from randomness by showing that randomness is just a special case of determinism. The random numbers could have been written down before the big bang and looked up when needed, which is still predetermined. What makes Free Will free is that it's the selection of some future state independently from the information in a particle's past light cone. Only the particle determines that part of its state.

That's a distinction without a difference - how would you tell whether the particle is magically looking up its results in the universe's big book of random numbers or deciding for itself? It's true that quantum-mechanical randomness is localised, in a provable sense, but there's no contradiction between that and what "randomness" is usually understood to mean.

> One implication is that our brains, being composed of particles, derive their free will from the sum of the particles' free will.

This is unfounded speculation.
Thank you, I'll try that. Appreciate the response.
Love these demos. The best one I've found, also 256 bytes, is Pyrit by Řrřola (Jan Kadlec, a Czech developer). It's frankly incredible, something I wouldn't have believed was possible:

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=78045

I ported it to a boot sector so you can run it with a single (rather long!) Linux command line in qemu:

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/pyrit-by-rrrola-incred...

The source code for Pyrit is worth reading too (see first link). It's very clever and quite readable.
It's been a while since I tried the default setup, but I believe it is set up so mouse buttons are simulated by clicking on the bottom left and bottom right of the touchpad. Additionally the touchpad sometimes causes stray input while your hands are above it typing.
My domain is something that I've had for a long time and it's my preferred nick online (rolisz). The email address I give out to humans is then first@domain_name
> there is no such a concept as absolute information, you always define it on mutual terms.

This is true of classical information theory, but not (as I understand it) algorithmic information theory. I think the jury is still out on whether it makes philosophical sense to generalize over universal machines like AIT does, and the practical applications compared to classical information theory seem minimal, from a layman's view it seems like it's been mathematically very fruitful.
I don't live in, or look at exclusively at the US. In western europe for example there've been massive increases in healthcare costs, too. These are socialised, citizens don't pay them through their insurance package, but they're paid by society (citizens) through taxes for sure. And these have created large gains.

Cuba is a poor example because it prioritises health over everything else. That's not a value judgement, rather that it's just an outlier. If you mandate in a dictatorial government that people should be doctors and work for a humble salary, then of course you'll see good healthcare outcomes for little money.
so is the problem that Java is not good as a programming language or that OO is no longer considered cool?
Auto update is granting RCE to the vendor, as well as anyone who can compel the vendor to push updates to your device.

The Apple updater system can target specific machines (not sure if it’s by serial or MAC address or what).

I do not want point and click military intelligence RCE capability on my machines.
At least KDE offers the option to disable the touchpad while typing. I'd expect other desktop environments to do the same. Isn't that what you're looking for?
Many castles have been renovated and restored, some of them to a state close to one period of the past, others with a new style, etc. In France, a whole lot of monuments were restored during the 19th century mainly.

For example the castle of the Dukes of Brittany in Nantes, was renovated in the mid 19th century to remove the modern additions and get it back to its supposed 16th century state (the period when it was actually used by the Dukes of Brittany).

The castle of Belle-Île was also restored, in the 20th century, to its 18th century state, this one entirely through private funds.

Another castle I know well is the Suscinio castle, which was a complete ruin and was restored in the second half of the 20th century, but not to its former state.

And for another restoration effort with yet another kind of result, het Gravensteen in Ghent was restored in the 19th to its supposed 12th century state, but they got it mostly wrong. That's what happened with most restoration efforts during this period, as far as I know.

Today, the most common stance is often to preserve ruins as they are, keep them from degrading further and do the least work possible on them because we are well aware of all the botched restoration efforts of the past.
For a lot of people, any non-normal state == bricked. Especially now, when the genius bar isn't open.

And yes, there's a difference between a soft brick and a hard brick, and it depends on your ability to repair.

Getting my phone stuck in a bootloop is usually a soft brick, but my Pixel went into one a few years ago for no apparent reason (likely mobo failure) and that was beyond my capacity to repair or diagnose, so it's bricked.
Exactly https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-11/the-secre...
I briefly looked into running my own mail server, but from what I've heard, sometimes you run into issues with deliverability, which are quite hard to fix.

Otherwise I run plenty of own infra, both on VPS's on DigitalOcean and on my home server.
You could use a Bloom filter to save on memory.

And perhaps empty it once a year, if necessary. (Ie so that replies to emails older than a year don't rank better than random emails.)
>But no matter what, two finger scrolling and zooming won't ever be as smooth and "step free" under Windows/Linux

That's not true. I'm not sure exactly what's changed but when running Firefox with the Wayland backend I've found that scrolling is continuous.
Try to use aliases. Give out news@domain.com when signing up for a newspaper, gaming@domain.com for gaming accounts and so on. In this way, a simple filter for incoming address will cover a lot of different email senders.
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Brick different.
The problem is that you are really dependent in what other people in your address range do. One malicious user in the same DC could reduce the reputation of an address range and then you get mail delivery problems.

I'd rather pay someone to sort out such issues for me. The $5 p/m or so I pay Fastmail monthly are far cheaper than my own time.
Sure, but I will keep my GMail account - for YouTube Premium. But at least if it gets banned for whatever reason, I lose only my Youtube history and nothing more.
While I agree in general, I don't think it's as easy as urban-rural. Germany has some cities with extreme housing prices, notably Munich, but the discrepancy is big within the group of larger cities as well.

I can't say much about my friend group, as we don't talk about buying houses often. The few I talked to have an even split between the ones that want to buy (or just did) and the ones that don't even want to, even though we're in an income segment where it would be affordable.

I was surprised to find that home-owner rates in Germany have been quite low compared to other countries, but I couldn't find data before 2005 (it was 51-55% overall). It's really interesting to look into these kinds of things!
I've seen sites reject for having the plus and strip it on submit when I tried this :/ so not a perfect solution
> In Linux, wrists keep triggering touch events as you type.

In KDE: system settings -> input devices -> touchpad -> disable while typing. (this is enabled by default)

In Gnome: I'm not using it, but apparently https://askubuntu.com/questions/923060/how-to-disable-touchp...
Extending the other answer, root on eg a hypervisor guest also shouldn't give you access to secrets hidden from even the bare-metal root account.
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First time I've seen this series. A little dry when he was talking about the timing for the memory chips, but what can you say-- this was incredible overall.
Ask HN: Cognitive behaviour therapy, tried and tested resources
I'm coming out of an extended spell of mental fog, and I would like to investigate self-administered cognitive behaviour therapy as part of my recovery and treatment. My local health service is running at capacity and so I'm looking at doing this myself, at least initially, in a responsible fashion.

I have a budget for ebooks and online courses. I would be grateful for advice or feedback on what is and is not worth investing time and money in. What works or worked for you or someone you know?

Thank you in advance.
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I'm switching between mbp and xps15 and honestly couldn't describe the difference. They're slightly different, but I wouldn't call either one "better".
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There are plenty of games that are 32-bit only, even recent ones.

Apple killed them all for no reason.
Fastmail has continued to make significant improvements, while keeping the interface lean and functional.

And they are making open standards (JMAP) and contributing to the Cyrus IMAP server.

Moreover, they will soon have labels :) (currently in beta).
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John Horton Conway
That “nothing” is everything.
Good organization could be managed at tge time if one was powerful enough. I just checked Château Gaillard on Wikipedia, it's a typical medieval stronghold, quite advanced for its time. It was built in the exceptionnally short time 2 years along with the nearby town by Richard the Lionheart, with huge suns of money.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_Gaillard
Use riseup.net last 5 years, great services(), but heavily relies from donations.
I know this is going to happen because my apartment's management company gave everyone the chance to renew now for an additional 12 months for the same rent as previous, while also fear mongering that this offer was only available for 1 month.

I immediately knew that within the next few months rent would drop a ton, because this management company had never given a single shit about us previously, and I'm sure they're only offering this to lock in another year for everyone.
Especially when it's a developing story and probably published in a rush (in less than ideal situations). Mistakes happen and the informative side is more important at these times.
Don't let TypeScript slow you down (2018)
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22812509
> In Linux, wrists keep triggering touch events as you type. Screens start scrolling, focus goes to random things, and everyone swears. You end up having to hold your hands right over the keyboard in a very unnatural way to avoid accidental mouse interaction.

I have this problem as well. The Synaptics driver seems to have some palm detection logic but it does nothing. Perhaps my trackpad has no support for it.

> They swap recipes for how to disable the touchpad completely.

Sadly the surface I usually place my laptop on doesn't have space for a mouse...
I’m hearing that in the current economic situation banks are asking for 40% deposits to get a mortgage. I remember my landlord in 2008 saying it had been hiked to 20%. In good times people can get a mortgage with 5-10% down.
And another person with the Erdős-Number 1 passed away :(
Not that I disagree with your point, but to finish the conclusion: in the rent scenario you save $12k a year, or about 1.4% of the purchase price.

As the return on investing that $12k will be so low (in dollar terms), it is perfectly rational to own if you believe the condo will increase in value by even a little more than 1.4% per year. And as our government goes out of its way to prop prices up, that seems like a safe assumption over the long term.
The question is why you would ever expose your data to the control of lawmakers who make such laws if you're not Australian.
It’s not Google vs paid service, it’s Google vs another free service. They already exist, it’s just that Google has monopoly due to network effects, despite providing inferior product.
My laptop has a Synaptics trackpad and came with Windows pre-installed. Trackpad acceleration was really comfortable on Windows. It all changed when I installed Linux. Tried adjusting the Synaptics driver settings but couldn't get it to match the Windows experience.

So what causes this difference? Is the Windows driver just better than the Linux driver?
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I suspect that house prices will never come down significantly because as soon as they start to fall in a crash a billion dollar investment fund will buy up all the housing stock to rent to people, which will keep the prices high and drive more people to renting.
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Yeah, but then you've got an arbitrary pause before you can use it again.
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Just used the PPA. Looks very nice. Has some very nice defaults. Super-Shift-? to get the keybinds was a great idea. I did hit one snag: I can't figure out how to run any actual programs. With the remapping of Super-d to pull up display settings, I am not seeing anything that will pop up an equivalent to dmenu.
The C library includes the stub resolver / getaddrinfo(), so you don't need to memorize any IP addresses ;D
No? You're looking at an extremely local level at SF, which is obviously influenced by the tech industry which is hosting some of the world's largest companies like Apple, who's revenue tenfolded since 2007.

If you look at median home sales prices in the US in general however, you get this picture (just compare the peak of 2007 till today):

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS?utm_source=series_p...

I'm not seeing an 88% increase. Now if you correct that picture for median household income in the US, for the same period:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA646N

You'll see, income-adjusted home prices haven't shot up that much since the last peak.

Then you have to contextualise further, and look at interest rates. After all, you're not buying homes in cash. For almost all of us, when we 'buy' a home, we're really just signing a rental contract for cash (a loan), and our housing costs consists of servicing this loan, the mortgage payments. The principal sum matters of course, which went up as prices grew, but so does the interest rate, which is at a historic low and responsible for the prices growing. You can't just ignore interest rates.

So if you actually look at monthly payments, which is by definition corrected for interest rates, and correct that for income increases, really what we talk about when we say 'housing costs', really isn't anywhere near the record levels usually talked about in the media, discussion forums etc.

And THEN you correct that for the larger homes etc.

Now I tried to give a longer historical perspective of price increases for a few generations beyond mine, but if you want to nitpick that and make a joke about jacuzzis, fine by me.

My point is that if we break down what a 'change in housing costs' really should mean, we typically want to talk about:

income-adjusted, monthly (periodical) cost for a square foot.

What we tend to do is: ignore the fact our incomes rose greatly in nominal terms, yet express increases housing in nominal terms, ignore interest payments dropping for decades reducing the costs to finance these homes, and then ignore the fact these homes have doubled in size in the post-war era and typically have much better amenities.

And that's not a fair representation, I think.
In 2005, in Holland, my deposit was -20%. I went into the bank hoping I might get 100% and the mortgage guy immediately offered me 120% "to help with the furniture".
A significantly underrated progenitor. Not always recognised, and certainly not reflected adequately in the official historia recited often by Americans.
How can they prove it?

And if they don’t have to legally prove it, then they don’t need an excuse either.
For programming related things (in general, everything non mainstream), I find ddg to be nearly unusable and I always have to go back to Google. The results I get on ddg are almost always only in the general area of the search terms, while Google gives me specific results that are relevant and helpful. Sadly that's why I can't switch as much as I want to.
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>I can write math that loads instantly on your browser, using no MathJax, KaTeX or any client side processing

You can render math statically with KaTeX and some standard static site-generator too. Here an example from my blog (using Pelican):

https://depot.traits.de/pages/2020/02/21-markdown-example.ht...
This is yet another example of a case where no matter how many people are working on a problem or have worked on it, that there's still room for improvements which create an explosion of a positive response.

I can't believe that nobody has thought to build an application with bio-directional block linking like this. Every app I have used with links can link to a page. Fewer apps can link to a specific page. None of these give you much "at a glance" insight about what the thing is linking to without clicking the link.

I have thought about this and I have tried to build it, but I haven't had the time. Clearly time isn't an issue for the note building world though. Not taking apps are a dime a dozen. That's not to say that my app would have been Roam. I just wanted the functionality Roam brings to the table. I know I'm not alone from all the praise Roam gets. I'm just glad I didn't have to build the thing.
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Depends what you mean by "server". Is the service you're interested in available only via that one server? Specifically, you could host your own twitter-equivalent handle from your own server, and the server going down wouldn't bring down the twitter-equivalent-service. Or your server with your blog going down doesn't bring down everyone's blog.

I'd say we should keep the decentralised and replicated-for-reliability concepts slightly separate. They are interesting together, but they're orthogonal.