skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Your parent was right, it doesn't really matter.

The password hashes buy you an improvement for the narrow range of passwords that are bad but not that bad against adversaries who are powerful but not that powerful. It's pretty much the definition of a marginal win. Which hash you choose slightly tweaks the margin.

It's essentially impossible that this is the lowest hanging fruit for your system security and so "use a different password hash" ought to be nowhere near close enough to the top of the TODO pile to get done if you're already using any of these decent password hashes listed such as PBKDF2.

If your users have strong passwords (e.g. a 20 alphanumeric random password from a typical password manager) it makes no difference at all. Even plain MD5() of such a password is as safe for the user and for you as Scrypt or Argon2 or other choices.

If your users have very weak passwords then once again it makes no difference. Your heavily tuned Scrypt password hashing doesn't prevent me guessing that Steevo412's password on your site might be something obvious like "letmein" - on a lowly mid-range laptop before I get bored.

So all this work is to achieve a marginal improvement in the middle. Maybe if Steevo412 has picked "LetMeInNOW" and maybe the script kiddies who stole the database ran out of stolen Amazon credits, they don't "crack" his password this time. Maybe.

And none of this makes you any safer from inadvertently leaking the plaintext passwords, which your system unavoidably needs to know during authentication, or numerous other pitfalls that have nothing to do with dick-measuring contests about which hash is better.

OR if security actually is important you could deploy something that's actually a clear improvement such as WebAuthn and stop trying to sweep the problems with password storage under increasingly complicated rugs.
Elon Musk demonstrates Neuralink’s tech live using pigs
This makes me feel uneasy, and weird, but... I think I like it.

It's probably all those movies written about the subject (ie Matrix) that add to the uneasiness.

I like how he focuses on safety aspects and that it's reversible etc.
Ask HN: What are the most misleading things in life? or in the modern world?
Seems to work OK for Minecraft. There is DLC for mods and texture packs and other clearly auxiliary stuff, but you get the whole game when you buy it.
>There is no copy cats rule.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#cop...
The ability to reverse a charge isn't just about helping you if you are cheated by a merchant, though. It is also about if your credentials are compromised and used by someone else.

Sure, you might be happy to give up your ability to get a chargebacks against a particular merchant.... but what about against a thief?
Not only are you going to have to charge your phone, watch, headphones, and glasses, but you're gonna have to remember to charge your brain now too
HN is not better in that way, or else the comment you’re replying to wouldn’t have needed to posted. HN users often bring preexisting and inflexible views to new discussions, on topics such as GateKeeper, GPL licensing, and ‘freedoms’. Unpopular positions on such topics are frequently unwelcome in discussions, even when presented with good reasoning and respectful tone. HN users often use downvotes to hide content they disagree with, rather than to hide content of low quality alone. HN users often use conversational warfare and personal attacks to diminish the views of others. We have more than earned this chastisement by the mods over the past few months.
Yup, that is a promising direction. I think a lot of my concern is around building a consensus and getting people on the same page.
Stanford restricts parts of campus to essential personnel
...and that despite not being anywhere near as aggressive with exploiting UB as gcc or clang, which shows that backend-based optimisations like instruction selection, scheduling, and register allocation are far more valuable (and predictable).
not at my computer now, but if I remember right, that shows you whether HW acceleration could in theory work for some video or not at all. The second case is a clear one. But in the first case you still don't know whether it is actually used for a certain video or not. I understand there can be many parameters preventing usage.
I’m so sick of these interloping Japanese ghosts taking American Go coaching jobs.
The full title is "Stanford establishes zones on its main campus to facilitate the return of research and teaching", which was too long.
Ah, then yes, apologies -I did not mean to put words in your mouth. Technical feasibility is likely easier than imagined; most Mastodon services use the auto-generated list that appears on their "about" page - easily scraped if not available through the API - here's the list on the instance I moderate on for example:

https://toot.wales/about/more#unavailable-content
Are the exclusives permanent?
Which part did you find aggressive? Prosecuting those responsible for aiding in the genocide of a people?
> I'm going to tag the news media industry as the major problem.

I'd argue your critique would apply not so much to the industry, but to those in positions of power/influence who control and manage how the industry behaves - i.e. the decision-makers of the companies which own the media companies.
iPhone user here. I did not opt into a walled garden for the benefits. I am in this walled garden because I happened to buy an iPhone 10 yeas ago and now I'm locked in.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink: Brain-machine interface
Even those weren't enough for what I needed. I think it was getting around 1440p sizes at high dpi by downscaling (2880p -> 4K).
>>> It is acceptable to enforce the rule that laws cannot favor Islam.

> How do you draw the distinction between a law, which you're arguing isn't speech, and political donations which are, at least under the law today, a form of speech.

No, it's not about censorship because it's not preventing speech, it's about ensuring equality. It's fundamentally different in the same way a law that gives a right is different than a law that prevents an action. There's a fundamental difference between reduction of something (or the increase of other things to match) and the elimination of something.

> discriminatory against individuals, which seems to be the bad thing we want to avoid (or maybe I'm wrong and you're okay with discriminating against individuals?).

Well, I did just say in the prior comment "We can agree it's not okay to censor based on an individual", so I'm not sure why it needs to be a question...

> However, censoring certain topics may be done without discriminating against individuals.

And censoring the types of cake you make may not affect individuals either, if it's over something like your dislike for dogs. Let's assume both cases affect individuals. If you think it fundamentally changes what the argument is to restrict the web services side to items that affect individuals, then that points towards some ambiguity in the phrasing of the things being compared on one or both sides. That's progress.

> for example if the discourse is full of demonization of Islam, perhaps banning discussion of Islam is a net-gain for individual Muslim people

I think we're on shakier ground if we're justifying specific actions based on perceived public opinion and actions, because that's extremely subjective. What one person views as fair and rational discourse on a topic another views as lies and slander (dog whistles are a thing, as is being accused of dog whistling when honestly requesting information).

> Obviously this requires, like, an actual fair moderator

That doesn't exist. By the nature of the items we're discussing, I think there's a good chance it might be impossible to exist. The fair moderator of today is the one seen as blatantly biased in the discussions of tomorrow. Social mores change.

> tl;dr: Removing people from discourse cannot be beneficial to those people. Removing concepts from discourse depends.

Does it? What's a concept that being removed from discourse is beneficial? I think this is a very subjective point, and can't be taken at face value. There are some people that believe no concept should be entirely taboo. Those people actually wrote our Bill of Rights.

While I agree that removing a subgroup of people from discourse is generally not beneficial to those people, I will note it's generally agreed that it's sometimes beneficial for society. That's what we do with criminals. It may be that it being okay for some groups and not others means the way you group (the attributes that make the protected classes) matters most here.
The pandemic has increased the load of data collection especially of students in classrooms. Four years ago we were appalled that china was putting cameras in classrooms. Now we are putitng cameras on every individual child with audio and absolutely no regulation or organizaiton structure.

The pandemic has significantly increased an already high level of data collection. Does anyone think government should have a role in regulation?
Love that move. EPIC is no nice guy in this fight. They put it as if they want to benefit users, but is still bottom line they are after. You wanted a fight why are you ticked off the other guy start throwing hay makers?
Maybe if the U.S. government broke up microsoft when they had the chance back in 2001 then we wouldnt even be having this conversation. Apple would clearly, unambiguously be in violation of anti-trust laws, and that would be a win for the people.

But the courts have set a precedent with microsoft which makes it very hard to destroy these vertically integrated monopolies moving forward. Destroying monopolies is needed to protect the people's liberty and property.
WebKit alone makes Apple more of a friend to open source than Epic.
That almost always play nicely.

I still use optical media myself.
Can't this be avoided simply by making sure the property owner gives you wiring instructions in person?
The complaint is based on antitrust statutes.
If you don't want proprietary software in your head, don't install it in your head. Why do you need the UN to stop you from doing that to yourself?
As a systems admin of some 30 years, I have read this over and over, and even seen it firsthand. I think the real root cause of (at least in my case, the ones I have seen) of this problem is management. Leaders do not want to spend now. Leaders do not want to make a progressive plan to keep up with technology and move ahead. It costs money, and is very difficult to talk to upper-upper management about. Telling the boss to tell his boss to spend money on something "that works now" is very difficult. Few want to invest in the future when it costs now and is working now (unless its the stock market).
Lived in Singapore and it’s closer to the US in terms of cleanliness.
I share a different view on this. I want Apple to have as much control over as they can to keep my device safe. Obviously, this is an unpopular opinion on HN - part of me wants it super hackable and open source (my hacker self), but my average joe self wants is as tied down, closed doors as possible to avoid sniffing off my personal data, usage patterns, cookies, and a whole bunch of "soft metrics" about my device to finger print me and then auction it off in a giant data auctioning event - an evil corporation buys my data in 3 milliseconds and off it goes.

Apple acts on my behalf as a security officer - they have no interest in selling me ads - they already got their revenue hunger satiated from the high price of my device and all the internal Apple services I pay for (Apple music, TV, icloud, etc).

I love Apple and I love that they are willing to stand up for riffraff that's trying to invade my personal space (consider iPhone literally as the entire life's worth of information vault) by masquerading as a crusader of light and openness.

I don't want Apple to open up their devices. Average Joes around the world outside of HN crowd will have everything to lose and nothing to gain.

I also think that 30% share is too low. Apple should be charging way more for exclusive access to their App store. It's their turf.

Why is this good? Because dev will go back to using browser apps to provide services and the browser itself is a nice sandbox to keep the riffraff out.

And only high quality apps will make it through the App store.
In the very definite sense that Android and iPhone are brands of mobile phones available everywhere in the US, which you can buy any minute you want. You literally just need to buy a new one. That's not the same for the place where you live.
I ordered a Pinephone. When it goes tits up in a few years I just may get a Librem. Both of these projects deserve your support, and I'm glad there's competition in the Linux phone space to keep everybody honest and innovating.
> If body count of individual actions was the only metric, I would totally agree with you.

You never specified your other metrics ...
I mean I'm building a startup from zero and my first goal is win $1, then $100, and so on. However, I want to start with small goals.
In case you are using Google/Cloudflare DNS try switching back to Comcast's DNS servers so you get directed to a Netflix Open Connect box within their network.
This absolutely should not be allowed to be done. We are treading on dangerous territory, except everyone is excitedly plodding forward without a second thought.
Then again, pouring a liquid out of a cup without touching the liquid isn't exactly high level coordination.
Take a look at scrcpyfor anyone wanting to do this in other situations, https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
There's finance stuff which is mostly large organization to large organization. Everything from escrow, loans invoices, to things like RFPs and supply chain management.

Then there's the NFT/Unique items section which is for gaming (God's Unchained/Magic the Gathering where each card is owned digitally and can be traded freely with others or used as collateral for a loan), media (You own a movie but can use it on any service), and art (Tokenized art is a big craze right now).

The big ones down the line are new methods of organizing and collaborating. DAOs allow for decentralized corporations and governments. There's a lot of cool stuff here.

There's more but payments are really just a tiny use case of crypto. The big stuff like decentralized applications which might replace Google and Facebook with privacy preserving neutral platforms built for everyone to use.
The comments are terrifying. I know this isn't unique to apple but I will forever fail to understand how regular people to seemingly have so much of their self worth tied to a technology.

We're all just out here trying to find (secular) religion, apparently.
My usual sympathy for the underdog is absent because of Epic Games’ ties to Communist China.
It's naive to think this will be optional for long once it's viable.

Oh you have X,Y,Z mental illness? Treatment from or inclusion in society is contingent upon getting this chip installed.
Uhh, so we're supposed to be happy about a variable bitrate and quality because it saves them some bandwidth? This isn't a feature for users it's a spin on a feature for the corporation.
Where I lived (Kraków, Poland; but arguably, similar schemes apply across the country), you'd get half-priced tickets if you're a student under 26. After finishing their 5 years at the uni, many people then sign up with whatever private school offers the cheapest nonsense course in underwater basket weaving or whatnot, and continue to use the public transport for half the price (as well as using many other discounts for things like trains, cinemas, etc., for which a student card makes you eligible).
I agree with most of your points. The one question I'd like to return, however, in response to your 70% question is this: does apple deserve 30% of all developer income? That seems steep. I think the 70 % argument is a bit of a red herring. If you think that virtually cost free products should cost less, that's a different argument. But once the price is set, why should get apple nearly a third of it? If anything, lower cuts could result in lower overall prices.
Sometimes I think that we are going to become the AI that Elon Musk is trying to prepare us to fight against to. This technology is literally opening pandora's box. Both the amazing and scariest thing in the world will come out. Pretty crazy times we are living. Cannot highlight this enough, we're summoning the demon hacking our brains.
I can imagine it getting confusing for beginners: "so start off by cloning this repo... no not using github, using git"
Thoughts about the device from the HN crowd?

I just watched the presentation, and I have to say that this is the first time I've felt like "wow, we're really in the future".

Creepy, disconcerting and exciting at the same time.
Out of all the recent new stuff I've seen, this is arguably the most 'sci-fi' I've felt. This and perhaps seeing GPT-3 in action.
It's almost always cheaper (and safer) to stay with what you've got. Right up until unsupported software or hardware makes it untenable.
I wondered about this, but is it not already the case with other existing devices like pacemakers etc?
Those cartoons dances pay for all other costs of epic has. Are you upset that the cinema tickets costs more than renting a chair for 2 hours?
That's because you're on HN and you and others are reasonable people :)

People in the more general population definitely support Company A or B as if these were sports team, you can in fact find this on the linked article.
Signal does not work in a web browser. However, there is hope that either the Signal app for Android can be used on a Linux phone through a compatibility layer like Anbox, or at least the Signal desktop app can be made to work on a phone screen. This is still a long way off, though.
Seems like a nightmare now that I think about it, like you get a ransomware popup beamed into your visual cortex saying:

"We are in your brain, wire the contents of your bank account to the following bitcoin adres: <adress>. If you do not comply, we will blow up your neuralink, if you try to alert anyone, we will blow up your neuralink. We are watching, you have 2 hours, good luck."

"01:59:59"

"01:59:58"

...
Using Neuralink may let bacteria enter into the brain
Plenty of countries strut about on the world stage while maintaining complete disregard for UN declarations. I don’t think that’s going to help.
What's the incentive to master a game already beaten by AI?
> I don't know of any consumer company that has taken privacy and security more seriously than Apple.

True, but that doesn't negate other intentions.
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Did you say this because you really hate Elon or are really into the Universes first few second :)

(Elon got it right)
>There are companies known as PBMs (Pharmacy Benefits Manager) whose sole purpose is to negotiate rebates and group discounts on behalf of insurers and employers.

All the big insurers have their own PBMs now so I'm not bullish on their business model lasting. Insurance companies hold the trump cards as they are the ones collecting the premiums and have the money. There's no reason for any of the big companies to give up margin to GoodRx. Maybe some of the smaller health plans might have to make deals with them.
And yet this technology may give some people their humanity.
> How is this any different from people having to use WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, SMS etc?

It means you're using a different app for secure messaging and SMS. If they're the same app then it knows to not send SMS to the person you have encrypted messaging set up with.

It also requires you to use multiple messaging apps, which increases cognitive load and the potential for mistakes, because there is nothing available on iOS that can both send SMS and send secure messages to Android devices.

> So the same people who are smart enough to know the risks involved in letting a third party intercept your text message aren’t smart enough to choose the right app?

Smart people make mistakes all the time. Isn't that your whole thing about not giving the user full control over the device?
We all carry biases, including towards/against groups we wouldn't expect to be biased towards/against. We probably all start with blank slates, but, unless you've had zero interactions with the outside world, you'd have to work actively to retain that blank-slate outlook.

In aggregate, we run the risk of collectively creating various forms of systemic bias. We can test for these systemic biases (we have) and prove the existence/non-existence of said biases (we have).
Limited attack surface is not acceptable for a device inside your brain.
> Fools errand to try with the press waiting in the wings. They might even be purposefully hiring ignorant people because they are more entertaining.

This is how voting to hire politicians is going too..
Some of them also only allow you to unsubscribe or contact support through logging in to your account. Which I could easily do through a password reset but that's illegal so I'm not going to bother.

I'm still getting credit card statements from an Indian bank. I can confirm the PDF password is easily cracked :)
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The only major technical update from its initial announcement a year ago is that they're no longer hiding the transmitter behind the participant's ear. (and pigs!)
Other than that, the whole thing seemed like a recruitment attempt, but that's fine. I fully support mission, and I'd love to work for them if given opportunity. To apply: https://jobs.lever.co/neuralink
True. I don't think establishing a functional government that would enable Iraq to become a regional power was in the cards. The US wanted oil.
Well, let's elect those who'd fix bad laws then
That's not what a deal that someone "can't refuse" means -- that's just a deal, a mutually beneficial exchange, one of the foundations of society. "Can't refuse" generally means a threat of out-of-band (e.g. physical) harm if the deal isn't accepted.

The Epic Store is free (as in beer) to create an account on, and there's no hardware lock-in -- Steam, the Epic Store, and other platforms like GOG Galaxy/itch.io/whatever Ubisoft has can all be run on the same computer at the same time. The situation is completely different from Apple's app store.
If AI becomes vastly more intelligent than humans as he predicts, a neural implant is nothing more than a teddy bear to make us feel better. If we augment ourselves with AI, our expanded selves will see the brain as vestigial and slowing us down, eventually excising it, then we become full machines.

In a way, transitioning like this, rather than only creating non-human AI in parallel, would hopefully transfer some of our humanity into the machines. In any case we would look back at this transition as a natural metamorphosis. I wouldn't be surprised if this metamorphosis is a natural emergent phenomenon among civilizations across the universe.
Then why does every company say that they have production limitations based on availability? VW was saying that just a few months ago, and so was porsche. That's give as the reason why Audi and Jaguar have low volumes.
Oh now suddenly shills exist.
> That's a separate issue from technical debt because whether code is generalized is only one aspect of many that determines whether the code is a dream or a nightmare to work with.

That's one of the problems attributed to goldplating and over-engineering solutions. One man's future-proof implementation is another man's unnecessary indirection that's a problem to maintain. Thus we end up creating an environment where rigid implementations that are prone to colossal amounts of technical debt are preferred over adaptable solutions that minimize or eliminate technical debt.
or use public key cryptography, and have a verification signature that can only be signed by knowing a secret.