skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I cannot conceive of any situation that would make a 64 character password necessary

Password for a streaming service that you want to use on your smart TV/Roku/Fire TV/Apple TV/Cable box.

Ideally, they provide some way so you do not have to type your password using a crappy onscreen keyboard and the up/down/left/right/enter keys on your remote. For example, I've seen some that tell you a simple URL (https://<comany_name>/add_device, say) and show you numeric code. You go to that site on your computer, log in to your account, and then enter the code from your device. Your password manager deals with the password.

Sadly, some do not do this, and you find yourself entering your password via the remote and on screen keyboard. Every time your password has a change between {upper case letter, lower case letter, number, punctuation} you have to navigate to some kind of shift key and hit it.

I do not want to try to enter some password like "sW3/W4Bmbx=Md%" that way.

An alternative might be a password that consists of 4 groups of 16 lower case letters, with no duplicate letters within a group, with the first and third groups sorted so the letters are encountered in this order: qwertyuioplkjhgfdsazxcvbnm [1]. The second and fourth groups are sorted using the reverse of that order.

That gives you a 64 character all lower case letter password that can be entered by starting at 'q' and then scanning across the keyboard back and forth, row by row, hitting enter when you come to the characters that are part of the password. It has about the same entropy as "sW3/W4Bmbx=Md%" but might be less frustrating to type. Most of the time entering it you are only having to deal with two remote keys. The arrow for the direction of your scan on the current keyboard row and enter, with just an occasional up/down to move between rows.

(If it is a smart TV or cable box, there is a decent chance the remote includes a numeric keypad. In that case I'd consider a 27 character all digit password, if I wanted something with about the same entropy as "sW3/W4Bmbx=Md%").

[1] assuming the on screen keyboard is QWERTY. Some use alphabetical order.
You're talking about literally thousands of people you'd need to ban.
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I’m not so sure about that, men and women largely have the same diets yet I think sleep apnea disproportionately affects men.
I remember getting a sleep study where they titrated for my cpap pressure. I woke up leaving that morning feeling like superman. It was as though a long fog was lifted from my brain.

I've been using CPAP for 9 years now and I can't imagine my life without it.
i generally use the unfollow button for people who post a lot of stuff I don't like. I got to the point where its really stable, I mostly see what I want, funny memes, pictures of my friends doing things, etc. I use to have 800 friends, went on several purges to get it to 250 - much more managable
A counterpoint, although perhaps an exception, to the idea that diversified law and culture results in smaller companies in Europe might be Airbus.
You are entirely right.

I've long said that optimising for "engagement", with no regard to what kind of "engagement" that is, is a paperclip maximiser.[0] Rewarding the posts that get the most comments regardless of whether they are positive or negative or thoughtful or shitposting, and the posts that get the most reactions regardless of whether the reactors (?) have or have not given it a few seconds of thought, is destructive to understanding each other and destructive to democracy.

See, I would rather Facebook not de-platform Trump, or any of his fans, or anyone else I don't like, but let's not pretend that Zuckerberg gives a shit about peace, love, and understanding. They have taken conscious decisions to prioritise "engagement" over anything else, because that is what makes them money. I get it, that's business, that is what they have to do. Likewise, we should do what we have to do to protect ourselves and to protect democracy: Zuckerberg and anyone that works at or has worked at Facebook should, to borrow a phrase, be unto us as heathens and publicans.

(You can extend this to Twitter too. I know, they scored some imaginary Internet points with left-leaning crowds by "fact-checking" Trump, but the truth is, with the algorithmic timeline providing exactly the same rewards to shitposting as Facebook does, they are as much to blame for this too.)

[0] https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
Most people who complain about FB on HN, "deleted FB years ago"
Worst video ever.
Flint's water problems were not inflicted by some nearby or upstream wealthier town. They were inflicted by Flint city (mis-)management.

Even as detailed by the left-leaning NPR: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/20/465545378...
The nature of PC gaming really changed in the 90's. Through the later years of the Amiga's commercial life, most games were focused on the lowest common denominator because markets were small and everyone wanted to pick up the largest userbase, and the computers likewise had some balance of capabilities, with gaming features existing as one of several considerations. What I think changed was that as the scale of everything picked up, it became increasingly possible for a gaming enthusiast market to emerge, distinct from general computing and console gaming. In the late 90's not only did the specs accelerate very quickly, but the media started pushing to cover this enthusiast segment(e.g. Maximum PC, PC Accelerator). Where previous graphics advances were mostly focused on larger RAM usage and had clear benefit everywhere(higher resolution, color depth, etc.) the ordinary computer user in the 1990's had no reason for a GPU except to play games or engage in 3D content creation and visualization.

A high-end PC from 1996 or so is basically competent at doing everything that was envisioned in the 1970's, if not in practice, then certainly in theory - the things that come after, are there because we started looking for ways to keep applying more computing power.

With games it's been simple: more detail on models and textures, more expensive lighting computations, more accurate physics and more complex animations. The progressive enhancement of the web to the degree that it taxes a modern machine, on the other hand, is like a fitness function that has become overly relaxed. And I think that's a divergence that really occurred in the late 90's when standard RAM sizes grew to the 10's of megabytes - enough to comfortably multitask provided all applications are optimized for memory size. Once you have multitasking, feature bloat can set in.
Bullshit Job Simulator 2020.
The DPRK is a specific entity, antifa is not. A better analogy would be "pro-democracy" being all about democracy.
You should be able to add -jquery to your query to remove it as a term. Or do "jq" most of the time it works to clear your results

Also duckduckgo can be better than google sometimes
Yeah, Azure is huge. There are a lot of companies that see themselves as direct competitors to Amazon and refuse to allow any of their applications to use AWS. Walmart is a huge one with this -- if you want to sell IT services to Walmart, your product cannot run on AWS. They're not the only one either.

Azure also kind of just plays better with the whole Active Directory / Office 365 / Sharepoint ecosystem and many Azure products are substantially cheaper than AWS.
In some respects a fuel cell is like a bettery. You use the fuel cell to combine Hydrogen with Oxygen and you capture that reaction energy in water.
Going the other way you split water into hydrogen and oxygen by adding that reaction energy.
They need to make these reactions into reversible half cell potentials and there has been a hunt for the proper catalytic membreans or surfaces that will do this for years and years and which will not gradually degrade or get poisoned by stray funny atoms in the reaction streams. This much like the chase to improve Lithium batteries over the past 20 years.
They make incremental progress and have functional systems now, but they do not have highly efficient ones. Hydrogen storage is one problem. They have made some hydride based hydrogen storage tanks, but they are not fast fill. They have made some that use air, but sulfur from SO2 in the air poison the membranes/catalysts they use.
All this said, after another 20 years they may well solve all the problems - there is a lot to be said for Japanese perseverance.
Rather than shying from it, dreading Thanksgiving, or hiding behind an eggshell thin wall of group think, people should learn to grow a spine. Learn to defend your own opinions, stop getting overly agitated that someone has their own conflicting ones, and generally stop caring when people disagree with you.

I’m no doctor but I’m fairly certain you’ll live longer.
The causal claim is itself a (stronger form of) correlation,
so how is that a contradiction? They claim:

1. To demonstrate a causal pathway

2. There was not a previous correlative claim that this merely strengthened

Also, given it's in an open access journal, you can trivially verify from the source rather than rely on a press release.
"we describe a pathway wherein sleep fragmentation raises inflammatory-related white blood cell counts (neutrophils and monocytes), thereby increasing atherosclerosis severity" [https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...]
some of these benchmarks Fibonacci etc are superficial. don't reflect real world use. people need to start comparing languages on ecosystems etc, error reporting e.g Elm | Rust have beautiful error messages. time to write a feature and deployment. Your language | framework could run in microseconds etc but if getting started is a nightmare or it has cryptic error messages, then it's non starter
Unfortunately that by itself does not guarantee security. The code that is verified by the bookmarklet could download additional code when it runs, and that code would not be verified.
That wasn't the intended use case, but it might be possible. I haven't tried personally, but if someone attempts something like that and they run into a blocker I can certainly take a look.
Typed Racket is one option: https://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/

I'd say also that the ML-dialects, such as F#, Ocaml, and SML, are pretty close to a statically typed Lisp/Scheme, at least in the flavor of programming aside from them having better pattern matching built-in.

I'd like to see a specifically designed statically typed parenthetical language, basically something that merges Racket and F# but simplifies things a bit.
I'm wondering if this sort of thing would fit well with GPU processing, which tends not to do well with branchy code?
The precautionary principle is the initial condition though! (Ideally speaking, of course.)

The idea is to assume new chemicals may be dangerous. Then undertake careful testing programs to determine if they really are dangerous. I think that this is what the grandparent comment was suggesting.

There is good precedent for the use of this principle, take for instance drug trials. Furthermore, I think it would be beneficial to assume all new technologies may have detrimental effects, and weigh those effects carefully.
Dread and ennui is as much a part of vaporwave as anything else. It's kind of the duality of the hopefulness of the era -- Windows and Mac machines being touted as the precursors of the Ono-Sendai cyberdecks we would all be using -- and the soul-crushing boredom and consumerism.
Hyperbole, and sensationalist title: Executive orders cannot be enacted so easily, it can be disputed in congress and lawsuits can and will be brought forth to contest them.

But this isn't new, the Keystone XL debacle pipeline was essentially the same thing that marked a new norm. Propping up these dead industries, mines and pipelines, with typical plutocratic nepotism has to be the most prevalent thing in Washington. And while this speaks to me directly as an environmentalist, I can't help but think of all the BS bailout bankster/corporate welfare we've seen decade after decade despite whatever administration is in office, which is what essentially enables these corporations to lobby the Government to do this in the first place.
> feels cheap and detrimental

Cool, pick a new app.

It’s naive to think a small group will work against very powerful forces and against all odds and not be ideologically driven.
It offers basically everything that normal open source licenses do except that they have a very specific non-commercial clause regarding offering it as a paid service.

I think that calling them “source available” or “source provided” does them a disservice as it implies that you can't modify/distribute/use it.
FWIW (and it might not be worth much much).

I'm from Venezuela and most of my contacts are too.

Most content that I would consider "bad" that comes up for people are just memes, and stupid top X/spammy-ish/clickbaity content or recipe videos.

Maybe a different algorithm or just network effects?
Each of those is putting words in mouth and I am on your side for each. Yikes.
>double paying

You also have to factor in the (very large) public expenditure on healthcare in the USA. Americans also pay for part of their healthcare through taxes.
I think you have to trust your DNS resolver or choose a new one. You can compare the results of different resolvers but I'm not aware of any solutions out of the box. For example:

dig example.com A

compare against

dig example.com A @dns.google.com

etc
But if there is only TODOs and not bugs, how managers will prevent the creation of 'high severity bugs' when they're in panic mode?
I wish I was joking but that's something to think about..
My personal feed is not the issue here. The issue is how reactionary material keeps popping up in the feed of people who are susceptible into rallying behind it. The target area is so vast the you are bound to influence a lot of people. And the nature of the material only belonging to personal feeds makes scrutinizing by third parties impossible. All of this culminates into a really dangerous propaganda machine, especially since the platform is used by people who only go there to keep in touch with friends and family.

Not moderating facebook is criminally negligent and is putting our democracy in a woeful danger.
How does FHE handle, say, a quantum cracker?
This situation happened because FB is complicit, not because they didn't do anything.

They optimize for ad revenue, not for decency or the human angle. FB is basically the Matrix and we are the ad revenue batteries powering it.
On Debian, "sudo apt install mysql-server" will get you MariaDB(tm), not MySQL(tm).

This happens for a technical reason: without it, an upgrade from the older Debian that shipped MySQL will not transition you to MariaDB, but leave your database broken because Debian no longer ships MySQL. The package was adjusted to provide the upgrade path. apt provides no alternative. This mechanism is called a "transitional package".

I'm providing the MySQL/MariaDB example not because I think it's wrong, but because hopefully you'll see that it's the same pattern being used by an entity you perhaps better trust, and that might give you some confidence that it's technically the best approach available.

The same is going on here. Users who have Chromium installed on Bionic, upgrading to Focal, expect to still have Chromium. This is why installing "chromium-browser" in apt results in the snap being installed.

It's not a dirty way, and it's not morally wrong. It's being done for a purpose.

When you install Ubuntu you are consenting to receive the choices that Ubuntu has made for you.

If you insist on using Ubuntu but never using a snap, you can configure apt to never install snapd. See apt_preferences(5).
Agree we're talking past each other a bit. Sorry. I agree with you that proliferation is bad, but I'd like to elaborate.

Summarising as I see it:

OP's point was that WMDs (of all kinds) are an equalizer between nations.

Your response was that nuclear proliferation creates instability. You also I think unfairly characterised OP's position as being pro-nuclear proliferation. You assumed OP was talking about nukes but I believe they were making a broader point.

My response to you was that nuclear anti-proliferation efforts create a kind of hegemony where dominant nations get cemented in power forever.

For the record, I'm also anti-nuclear-proliferation, but I wanted to point out that from the point of view of anyone not under the protective nuclear umbrella of a dominant nation there's a heavy element of hypocrisy involved.

Circling back around to drones, I can see why the U.S. might want to restrict them or classify them as WMDs. I think the following is where OP was coming from:

They have the potential to undermine conventional power and effectively turn war into a competition of mass cheap manufacturing capability. It's not at all clear in 2020 that the U.S. (in particular) would be able to dominate in such a situation.

They're super hard to regulate in the sense that a nation aligned to a major manufacturing power could acquire or stockpile them in massive quantities with little oversight.

It would create a possibly surprising shift in power where the U.S. might not be able to project conventional force into areas where they would normally expect to be able to do that.

They're also tricky in terms of message management (big part of warfare) because when used defensively, a nuclear response to them is not politically credible. So you can't use the big stick.

This doesn't create nuclear instability but it does create "instability" in the sense that it has the potential to shift the balance of power for the existing nuclear and conventional hegemony.

Which I think was the crux of the OP's original point.
I have used the “mute this person for 30 days” feature quite a lot lately. I wish Twitter had it.
I'm a massive Matrix fan and have high hopes for it but in experiments we've done with activist and journalist partners we've found the Riot.im client often gets a bit complicated for people to use. I think the main issue people have is related to keys. As I techie I love the options but I find many don't like having all the options. Signal of course is a lot easier as it hides many of those issues in the UI/UX.
Amen. I’ll take a conversation with a head over heels weirdo over anyone considered normal any day of the week.
I believe free speech is a human right. Facebook itself is not built up around pseudonyms, that would be Twitter moreso. But the founding members of the U.S. regularly wrote in pseudonyms in the Federalist Papers. Ben Franklin also regularly wrote in pseudonyms.

I don't like social media, as it exists today. I think it's a toxic form of communication.

But I'd rather people just realize that and migrate off it and towards chat rooms, group chats, discussion forums, etc.

I'd be fine with forcing social media companies to regularly warn users of addiction and to provide built in and highly visible tools for tuning it out.
TechCrunch, sorry!
Communicating Sequential Processing. It's a multithreading/processing model which as the name suggests, leans more on communication, less on sharing memory.

It's not as efficient for some types of computing, like doing tons of operations on the same buffer, but it scales horizontally very nicely.
The fact that you can reliably add Signal users using only their phone number is a feature for the users who don't care about that level of anonymity, though apparently not a feature the developers care about preserving.
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The are good points. Thanks for taking the time to explain.
There are actually multiple people on here, who had wives who miscarried, who got a $60 promotional FedEx package of Enfamil (baby formula) on what was the exact expected date of their miscarried baby.

So, it was not like it was hard to figure out that it was from medical data, and especially in one case, where they did not even know that they were pregnant when the miscarriage happened!

You can find this stuff easily by using variants of code words from the post I made, to find the details that you want to learn about.

However, this is the user who did incredible investigation work. (There are far more thoughtful posts over this incident if you just search for things like "USER" AND "Baby/Infant Formula": https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

You will find extremely insightful information if you further modify select key words in the search. It really is eye opening.

Also, the Financial Times always had pretty impressive investigative work on data privacy, and not in an apocalyptic or fleeting sense. It is just incredibly well researched, and somehow, I have never been disappointed by their coverage.
They create them and they go first in the queue. If there is more than one, they have to decide which is first.

If there are conflicts then it's up to the managers to fight it out.
>Pirates?

Well, yeah. There's a good reason why those became uncommon. But it's hard to tell how each state actor would behave if they treated their nearby international waters as their own.
This. 5 years may be generous too.

I've been using Dropbox since it's beta days around 2007 or 2008. I'm still a paying customer, but at this point I'm not exactly sure why.

Back in the day it's sync was far superior than any of their competitor's, but now it's largely a bunch of half baked features and products.

Until they recently made Smart Sync available to non-business customers nothing they had released was of any use to me. Mailbox was okay, but Inbox by Google was far superior. I tried using Paper for ~5 minutes. Once I realized I couldn't import my existing .txt or .md files it was of no use to me.

It would be great if I were able to sync any/all of my got repos, but without a Dropbox version of .gitignore this simply just isn't an option. Who wants to sync the node_modules directory? Not me.
I don't understand the point you're making, sorry. I agree with you that antifa is not a specific organization.
There is one already for Android, the F-Droid store. Totally open source and lots of good apps there https://f-droid.org/
What is your editor of choice? Go to definition has worked for Ruby in Sublime for a long time. I actually can't remember a time it didn't work.
IMHO this "almost open-source" is even better because otherwise people wouldn't be willing to start companies around their open-source solutions knowing that AWS would just offer a hosted version and screw them over.
It could be any number of things - for one there may not be much advertisment spend in your region compared to the US.
Yes, but the whole issue was caused by them switching to a new water source because it was cheaper. And old lead pipes that hadn't been replaced. And inadequate water treatment to prevent these conflicts. Root cause would be mismanagement, but even more root is trying to spend less money without properly assessing dangers.
Arch Wiki changed a lot over years, entire install was one page http://web.archive.org/web/20080517121811/http://wiki.archli... (and grass was greener):

> Don't worry about getting all the packages you want - you can easily install more of them once the basic system boots by itself. The only exception to this rule is installing any packages you need for setting up internet connectivity. These packages usually are:

> dhcpcd

> wvdial

I had fresh install recently, rebooted three times in LiveUSB to pick wifi-menu, wpa_supplicant, dialog (rechecked with pacman -Qe). That's fine, I still use Arch. And it is good Manjaro provides another set of defaults.

> DON'T PANIC!

> The Arch Linux system is assembled by the user, from the shell, using basic command line tools. This is The Arch Way.

I miss it much http://web.archive.org/web/20080720082349/http://wiki.archli...