skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Same thing is going on with Germany’s car industry at the moment with the attempted shift from ICE’s to Electric,

I call that BS.

The market was shifting to Android. Industry veterans like Jean-Louis Gassée wrote that during OPK era, he was approached by Nokia board asking for advice, and he told them to go Android. The board refused, and it was decided to bet the company on Windows Phone. Not for some technical or organizational/cultural reason, but purely for strategic reasons.

https://web.archive.org/web/20121225214448/http://www.comput...

German carmakers are waking up late to electric vehicles, but they are acting now to pivot to the winning technology, before their marketshare reaches 3%. Nokia bound themselves for a multi-year exclusive contract with Microsoft, that even Microsoft folks were surprised they would enter at such a minimal payment for MS. I remember reading reports that the Microsoft negotiations team was authorized to go considerably higher than what they ended up paying.

So it was overconfidence on Nokia's part to what extent they would be able to sell the turd that was Windows Phone, coupled with the lack of exit strategy if that didn't work out. And that's even before talking about Elop's financial incentives to run the smartphone business into the ground and sell it to Microsoft.
If I need to pay $1000 for such a bike, I’d say it’s a very generous interpretation of “generally lighter”. As in, 90% of bicycles I encounter on the street on a given day are probably not that.
You cannot compare San Francisco with Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, etc. SF is so unsafe that most people avoid public transportation and use
Uber instead.
It is debatable if software engineers are "real" engineers or not, but in any case, the article is titled incorrectly as the axioms listed do not apply to any engineering discipline.
I did notice Vitalik Buterin's tweet about some "strangeness":

> Looks like the Ripple/XRP team is sinking to new levels of strangeness. They're claiming that their shitcoin should not be called a security for public policy reasons, namely because Bitcoin and Ethereum are "Chinese-controlled". [Two relevant screenshots of the document enclosed in tweet]

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/134121951954555699...
Oh my, you just reminded me of „Global Guts“

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xtTFPwu4oc8
Maybe they were saving a "slam dunk" for a politically-opportune moment.
Maybe you can start with this? https://github.com/adambutler/balena-xmas
This won't work very well if the site you're logging into uses bcrypt, and the value you store in your password manager is >= 72 characters.

https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/02/how-safely-store-password...
Alternatives are difficult, I agree, though I believe they exist. It's possible to distrust, or at the least, be sceptical of information or the intentions of those providing information while also consuming and acting upon that information.

To push for greater freedom of speech, and hence privacy protections, while also pushing for greater transparency from powerful entities would be my political recipe for helping the general state of things.
So is it like in a boardgame with a maximum number of actions per turn? If you use all your actions for movement you reach the maximum speed in the game (speed of light here) but you can't do anything else (produce, consume, buy, sell, etc.)
May I assume most spy agencies around the world obtain information illegally?
> If people had been free to speak their minds back then

Are you under the impression that people weren't free to speak their minds "back then"? People did speak their minds, loudly and regularly. That didn't change the outcome.
WiFi 6 gets 1.34 Gbps on the Raspberry Pi CM4
A lack of sidewalks combined with narrow streets forces drivers to slow down and pay attention, which is ideal if you want to see fewer injuries and deaths caused by vehicle traffic on a stretch of road.
Chris Larsen is certainly spending like this won't make a dent.

https://www.townofross.org/sites/default/files/fileattachmen...
Those weren't the early days; Condé Nast owned it and you could make your own subreddits by then. Early on it was very science, tech, and liberal. Mysogynistic, but not alt-right/hate content like Voat.
Other ways lies survive.

* By being easily digestible and easy to state while the the refutation requires a long form explanation.

* By spreading faster and being repeated more often than the truth preying on our innate bias toward things we’ve heard before.

* By being tied to an unrelated political ideology or issue of intellectual or moral superiority.

* By gaslighting where the authority of truth tellers are undermined.

* As a form of the Streisand effect where any attempt to discredit or silence lie tellers is parlayed into more evidence for its truth.

* When the belief in the truth imparts a material, social, or image cost to the would-be believer.
how is it an assumption? it's almost a definition.
If you found yourself in a situation where getting food or shelter now was a matter of life and death, and you effectively had only one supplier, it would. But you usually have time to find alternatives, and usually can skip the shelter altogether, and the markets are so large that it's usually hard for a supplier to form a monopoly or a few to form oligopoly.

On top of that, even "pay-up-or-die" doesn't mean that the price will be a billion dollars. Instead, it means that it's the price that maximizes total profits. Suppose that no one could ever pay more than $30,000 for the medical helicopter. Then the helicopter people would set a price that prompts people to pay as close to $30,000 as they can. Perhaps if patients see a bill for $50,000 they negotiate down to $30,000, but if they see $500,000, they go to court and only at the end pay $30,000. Similar dynamics can limit food prices in areas that really only have one food supplier - there's only so much you can charge, and if you charge more than that, you won't succeed in squeezing more out of them, but you may attract all kinds of trouble - violence, or legislation, or competitors, etc.
It's not weird for securities law, but Wells Notices are kinda weird in the broader context of the US legal system. The DOJ doesn't let you know they've convened a grand jury.
I wouldn't quite say that. The US imports virtually no live-action series or films from foreign language countries, and relatively little even from other English-speaking countries. So we extrapolate the tastes of the entire country from what is a relatively small market share.

Imagine trying to judge US culture solely on the basis of shows like The Simpsons, Futurama, and South Park. These aren't low-quality shows, but they're also nowhere near fully reflective of the entertainment that people consume in the US.
"Felony streaming." Consider the absurdity of that concept. Categorizing the re-transmission of someone else's imaginary property in the same bucket as committing murder.

Looks like it's going to the Senate, poised to pass. There's not much else an average person can do than call in and object. I would encourage anyone in a position of power to enforce laws like this to say No. Do not implement systems to enable this. Make it as hard as possible for the copyright mafia to extort ordinary internet users. Civilly disobey. It's a tough fight, but it's one we can't give up - or one day your device will have to run ContentID before you can Ctrl-V.
Ideological homophily is a bitch. I actually tried arguing voaters out of their antisemitism for a while. As you might expect, it was a thankless task. I really think that examples like voat should make us skeptical of online communities in general. No one likes to be told they are wrong, or tell others they are wrong, so you get echo chambers.
If you were granted Incentive Stock Options (ISOs), you are in for a world of hurt. You may end up wishing you'd never spent so much money on them. With the recent Trump Tax Reform, AMT thresholds have risen but it's best to check with a CPA (or what's called an EA - Enrolled Agent) about the tax implications of exercising your options. You may view the upside in an entirely different light.

The nastiness of AMT is another huge reason the startup stock option game has become worthless/-ve worth to most people who have been in this industry long enough to know better. With Trump's Tax Reforms, this has somewhat lessened, but it's still a huge problem.
IH = high power and uniform heating, pressuring = makes rices softer and viscous, but still remains somewhat tough.

Generally high power is considered to important for Japanese people to make delicious rice, I highly recommend it if it's affordable.

Pressuring is a bit controversial because some people not like softer rice, so some maker (Mitsubishi) still make high-end rice cooker without pressuring.
The original claim was that you have to preemptively eject anyone with even a weakly implied fascist sympathy because otherwise you'll soon be overrun with actual Nazis. No sense of irony in claiming that a counterargument is the slippery slope fallacy?

And the point I'm making isn't that you would eject all communists and capitalists in practice, it's that you would have to do so in a consistent application of that principle. It's a reductio ad absurdum. You can take anything and find a tenuous connection from there to something terrible, so arguing that we have to ban the anything because allowing it would enable an influx of people connected to the something terrible is ridiculous. Applied as a consistent principle it would require you to ban everything.
This is wrong on so many levels. You are encouraging witch hunts based on fear and paranoia. Moderation is about maintaining order, not slapping down baddies. You could argue that one leads to the other, but it's the difference in mindset that allows for effective moderation without the need for all that negativity.
My guess is that that was a phony reason to mask some other one. I run a reddit clone with as much activity as voat gets, and I do it from the smallest server DigitalOcean offers for $5/month. That includes running it, the Postgres server, etc. It has near instant load times.

Either something with their software is really messed up (Lemmy is a great example of a reddit clone that requires an order of magnitude more server power than it should) or there's a more insidious reason and the admin just wants the whole thing to go away without giving a reason that will incite the mob against them. You can see them in there already calling for the doxx of the angel investor who stopped paying.
“Me-first capitalists who think you can separate society from business are going to be the first people lined up against the wall and shot in the revolution,” he tweeted. “I'll happily provide video commentary.”[0] - Dick Costolo, former Twitter CEO

[0]https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2020/10/01/some-busi...
> Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; ...

The rule of law is a myth, a fig leaf hiding the fact that we are ruled by the whims of people in power.

Edit: Shadowbanned. Neat.

Related to the Espionage Act specifically, here is an excerpt from Christopher Hitchens [1]:

"Everyone knows the fatuous verdict of the greatly overpraised Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes who, asked for an actual example of when it would be proper to limit speech or define it as an action, gave that of shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theatre.

"It's very often forgotten what he was doing in that case [2] was sending to prison a group of Yiddish-speaking socialists -- whose literature was printed in a language most Americans couldn't read -- opposing President Wilson's participation in the first World War, and the dragging of the United States into this sanguinary conflict, which the Yiddish-speaking socialists had left from Russia to escape.

"In fact, it could be just as plausibly argued that the Yiddish-speaking socialists ... were the real fire fighters, were the ones who were shouting "Fire!" when there really was a fire in a very crowded theatre indeed."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z2uzEM0ugY

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States
>As to the larger picture though, I'm not sure why anyone trusts journalists nowadays.

I see HN has imported the cynicism of the 2020 slashdot crowd. I'm sick and tired of this viewpoint.

Your false dichotomy is eyerolling - either we have total faith in all stories we read, with zero attention to detail and context, or we condemn all journalists as hacks, bad faith actors, and relics of the past: That knowledge is either meaningless, or easily compiled and comprehended in its raw format to the layman.

We need journalism. And in the new century where we will have stronger disinformation campaigns, better deepfakes, and the potential collapse of local news as we know it, "trust" in institutions and particular sources, based on their track record and credibility, will be all we have. Not everything is verifiable, and we as humans need to act on information we can't verify all the time.

So instead of going on about how all journalists suck, let's call out errors and bad work when we see it, and continue to push for better journalism and new ways of researching, citing, and reporting facts.
Yes. I could not agree more.

The mind absolutely boggles trying to understand how a legislator can force an unpopular act like this into an unrelated appropriations bill and think they're doing something good.

I don't know if they're acting on greed, malice, or if their campaign funding is somehow tied into the companies and lobbies that push for these bills, but they know as well as we do that this would never pass if citizens had the opportunity to lobby against it and other legislators had the opportunity to question it. It's a failure of our system.
This isn't good security advice. Taking trunc(32, hex(sha512)) will still give you a result that is stronger cryptographically than taking the 32 characters hex(md5sum) would give you.

For more security, you of course can encode the sha512 hash in a format other than hex in order to let those 64 bytes be fewer characters. The hex encoding is only one of many encodings.

But the main point is that the solution to needing to store a shorter value is not to use a weaker hashing algorithm, but to truncate the result.

This is the reason that sha-512/256 exists as a truncated sha-512 even though sha-256 already existed.
When I first moved to my current home I installed a big wood stove in the basement to help keep the home warm. Over the next few years I learned a lot empirically about how fire works.

One of the more interesting lessons was how important it is to use the radiant heat from a burning piece of wood to build and sustain heat in other pieces of wood. It works a bit like fuel rods in a fission reaction. When you keep the logs separate they will burn, but not vigorously. But if you bring two glowing logs close together, you can see them mutually heat each other and drive up the rate of combustion.

I think something like that happens with these concentrated communities.
Sorry, you were probably replying to a part of my comment that I subsequently edited out. Namely, I originally mentioned that even though I enjoy rude websites, I don't like when rudeness crosses the line into stuff like manipulating schizophrenic people or telling clinically depressed people to kill themselves. You're right, the places in question do that, too. That said, I would hope that there can be places where consensual rudeness can nonetheless be practiced. Not everyone can handle mountain biking, rough sex, or reading about how to make explosives, but other people enjoy those activities without coming to harm.
Is there any reason why something like bitwarden couldn't prompt you with an in-browser prompt() dialog for your horcrux right before you enter your password and append it the one they auto-inject into the form?
> As I wrote earlier this year, I long viewed the Japanese fondness for sanitary masks as evidence of some deep-seated cultural defect. [...]
Ripple is the central operator of XRP.

They absolutely are suing XRP.
Or both in the case of places like The_Donald and voat, there's very little intelligent discussion going on and the enemy is always the "elites". The elites aren't the 1%, they're experts like doctors and people with enough education to move to big cities.
Idk what you define as being cool but here's Tom Morello destroying a guitar in front of a Nazi Lives Don't Matter screen.
https://twitter.com/TerranSocialist/status/13409250499944243...
Elon Musk: 'I'm Ready To Compete Against The Apple Car'
source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZapfmWPxl4&ab_channel=Dr.In...
ᐅ Domestic Violence Registry – Georgia (GA)
8kun seems to be at the same level last I checked
What I've never understood about XRP and Ripple is that originally XRP was meant to only be used for paying for transactions and the ledger was meant to track IOUs between people denominated in some other "real" currency. They had videos floating around explaining the concept. In fact, they were handing out XRP for free to bootstrap the network of users [0] (that post says 1000 XRP, originally it was 30,000 XRP when the post was first created).

XRPs themselves were basically worthless, but it was required to interact with the ledger (you pay maybe 0.000001 XRP per transaction). The idea was that you pass a small amount on to friends and others interested in using it to create their wallet and start tracking IOUs, and you needed to have at least 20 XRP in your wallet.

Somewhere along the way all hell broke loose, Bitcoin got popular, crypto currencies in general got popular and XRP itself suddenly became worth something, the original concept got lost and everything seemed to go off the rails... That's when I lost interest.

[0] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145506.0
This is a problem you will face regardless. It is fundamentally a code organization problem and faces all the problems that other organizational problems face. Which is to say, the best you can hope for is to have a reliable way of generating the report you need when you need it.

Which for me suggests that it doesn’t really matter which way you do it, as long as you 1) dogmatically adhere to doing it the same way every time and 2) have the tooling to effectively manage the downsides of your choice.
This note from the article jumped out at me:

> While engineers tend to trust passing test results, they often retry failing tests a number of times on the same version of code and consider failures followed by passing results as flaky. We do not have a good theoretical explanation for why this behavior prevails.

which seems to me like standard confirmation bias.

When writing a test or updating code, you clearly assume you got it right. So a passing test “confirms” that.

Personally, I find myself quite susceptible to this bias when updating code (i.e., when I haven’t broken any tests, I assume I updated my code correctly) but I’m much more cautious when writing new tests. I usually prefer to write a failing test, and get it to pass, to mitigate some of that bias (but fully admit that once it turns green, I’m overly confident at the “clearly correct” nature of the output).
That would make a 51% majority just as powerful as a 85% majority.

Also, this sort of policy would make an even SMALLER minority of the country to have absolute rule over everyone else. Think about what would happen.

Ok, so now the party that has 51% of the congress has absolute legislative power. The other 49% shouldn't even bother to show up, they aren't even voting on anything anymore.

Now we have to figure out what are the party positions? What laws are we going to pass? Well, we have to come to some internal agreement, so they probably end up having some kind of vote on each issue. So now, only 51% of 51% of the legislature have to agree on something for it to become law. Suddenly, only 26% of the population has to agree on something for it to become a law.

That is terrifying.

We do not need anything that REDUCES the level of agreement required to do something. In fact, I think some of the best aspects of the US governmental system are the checks on simple majority rule. Tyranny of the majority is a real thing to be afraid of.

Also, we already have the issue of a two party system not being able to accurately reflect the myriad combinations of viewpoints that real people have, and we don't want to exacerbate the problem by removing entirely the ability to have diversity of positions within a party. We elect representatives who have a particular set of views, and that person is (usually) a member of the party whose viewpoints more closely align with. This doesn't mean they agree on every issue.
I do't really agree with the long passphrase thing.. I leave my passwords at 12 characters max (and 8 for less important sites)

Reason: You still have to type it sometimes. Like on a device you don't have the password manager on. That makes it really annoying. And because it's only used on one site it doesn't really matter how long it is. If a hacker gets hold of the password file they already own that site anyway. Doesn't really matter whether they can bruteforce the hash. It won't give them more access than they already have.

I do agree with the horcrux thing though.. Really important passwords I only store on paper and I already add a memorised thing to them. But be aware it's not perfect either. A compromised endpoint could have a keylogger installed. Totally passwordless with Fido2 for example would be even better.
OP referenced a US-specific rule, so I assume they can still turn off their guest network. Thanks for sharing about New Zealand!

SIM cards should get less relevant over time with e-SIM. Smart watches are leading the way in their adoption.
I think we’re mostly in agreement. I’m a little looser than your absolute in practice, but I apply the same principles. Where I’m looser is basically an allowance for closures as a simple expression (and where languages with more expressiveness may not require a closure). If any local logic becomes more complex than that, I’m quick to parameterize it and move it out to its own function.
Blue/green deployment is often used. There are always two instances of the app running, with one of them handling requests.

You deploy to the other one, do a health check, warm it up and start routing to it.

No downtime.
> Give a person a mask and he'll tell you the truth

Rather, give a person a mask and they'll tell you whatever will most further their own goals, be it truth or falsehood. If only the complete absence of accountability were sufficient to ensure truth.
Andras Tantos has ssh and X11 working [1] on his simulator so maybe there's a fairly straight-forward path to porting something like this? [2]

Seems possible that this aspect of the platform might drive the need some rework though [1]:

sizeof(unsigned int) = 8; UINT_MAX = 18446744073709551615
sizeof(unsigned long) = 8; ULONG_MAX = 18446744073709551615
sizeof(unsigned char) = 1; UCHAR_MAX = 255
sizeof(unsigned short) = 8; USHRT_MAX = 4294967295

i.e. ints are 64-bit longs, shorts are 32-bit but use 64-bits

[1] http://www.modularcircuits.com/blog/articles/the-return-of-t...

[2] https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric
Reddit banned demonstrably fabricated extremist content. It just so happens the political party most associated with it continued to eat it up.

/r/conservative is a gated community only for people they agree with. Reddit perfectly allows them to exist in their own created hypocritical bubble, along with lots of other subreddits.
Hello everyone

I am an idiot

Just letting you know

Okay bye