skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My threat model isn't a directed attack, it's DB dumps with unhashed or unsalted passwords from random websites. I want to use a unique password on every site, and password managers provide a convenient way of doing that.

Even if every BW vault leaked, if it takes half a day to run through 8 a-zA-Z0-9, it's not practical to do that for every vault. On the other hand, if I'm being targeted, even increasing that to a month wouldn't really matter.

Every "critical" site I use also supports u2f 2fa, which I've turned on. So even if they got my passwords, there's the 2nd factor they don't have.

tl;dr: Just use a damn password manager, even one that has arguable issues such as this improves the average person's security by orders of magnitude.
This is super cool, great start!
Griddy didn't have to beat the bricks like most REP's in Texas. Smart consumers aware of the risk beat a path to their door. Unfortunately, as with anything like this, the followers and fools soon showed up (reminiscent of $GME) and a good thing somehow suddenly became "a scam".
I don't think tools cancel themselves out, and I suspect that nothing "is just" anything.

Even if ideas like "the medium is the message" are partially true and then just partially applicable, that should give us pause when we try to cross out tools in our morality equations.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
This is the first time i have seen this argument. Just understanding ownership seems more complex to me than writing a simple web app in go or PHP for that matter.

I am sure rust is great but it is at the very least more difficult to learn then go.
Because it feels so good when you stop.
Added few thoughts via this article on DAPR :

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dapr-distributed-application-...
Game makers change tune about ads
Indeed, and balanced by the fact that the younger ones are more numerous by far and able to simply overrule the older ones by force. Of course, all of us know this and we know that all of us know this, which makes for an entertaining thought experiment.

After all, present day me would be trying to stop the other ones from getting to their goals, but they would figure that out pretty fast. And by generation 32 I am four billion strong and a hive army larger than any the world has seen before. I can delete the few oldest members while reproducing at this rate and retaining the freshest Me as a never-aging legion of united hegemony.

But I know that divergence can occur, so I may intentionally commit suicide as I perceive I am drifting from my original goals: i.e. if I'm 90% future hegemon, 10% doubtful, I can kill myself before I drift farther away from future hegemon, knowing that continuing life means lack of hegemony. Since the most youthful of me are the more numerous and closest to future hegemon thinking, they will proceed with the plan.

That, entertainingly, opens up the fun thought of what goals and motivations are and if it is anywhere near an exercise of free will to lock your future abilities into the desires you have of today.
Great YC idea, 99/month is expensive, you'll be priced out.
Look at channel selling/private labeling through primary care.
The article is about app store fees and how there are no real alternatives to them, how would that apply to Microsoft?
It's both. Look at the amount of unnecessary waste created by the abysmal Android update policy.
I read this and thought you must be an idiot. Then I read their front page and now think I must also be an idiot.

Reading deep into https://fibery.io/about-us, it seems like they're a Notion competitor.
The following is very illuminating:

> Instead of fixing the bug, department sources said employees are attempting to identify qualifying inmates manually... But sources say the department isn’t even scratching the surface of the entire number of eligible inmates. “The only prisoners that are getting into programming are the squeaky wheels,” a source said, “the ones who already know they qualify or people who have family members on the outside advocating for them.”

> In the meantime, Lamoreaux confirmed the “data is being calculated manually and then entered into the system.” Department sources said this means “someone is sitting there crunching numbers with a calculator and interpreting how each of the new laws that have been passed would impact an inmate.” “It makes me sick,” one source said, noting that even the most diligent employees are capable of making math errors that could result in additional months or years in prison for an inmate. “What the hell are we doing here? People’s lives are at stake.”

Comments like yours seem to glorify a pre-software world filled with manual entry. The reality is that manual entry is even more error-prone, bias-prone, with more people falling through the cracks.

If nothing else, software can be uniformly applied at a mass scale, and audited for any and all bugs. And faulty software can be exposed through leaks like the above, to expose and fix systemic problems. Whereas a world of manual entry simply ignores vast numbers of errors and biases which are extremely hard to detect/prove, and even then, can simply be scapegoated with some unlucky individuals, without any effort to fix systemically.
Better quality (original video*) can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czjS9h4Fpg
The recent opinion section, no less by the Editorial Board, at WSJ claimed that focusing on renewable energy sources led to the Texas power cuts [1].

While the paper, on the same day itself, reported the opposite [2].

Links:
1) https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-deep-green-freeze-11613411002...
2) https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-freeze-power-grid-failure...
> Suggesting better codec doesn't matter and is purely for pseudo audiophile completely neglect the work people have been tuning and making these audio codec better for the past ~20 years.

I never suggested that better codecs don’t matter. I was stating that lossy codecs are amazing and that lossless, no matter which codec is used, isn’t necessary.
The AZ vaccine still needs to be produced, it isn't sitting in a warehouse somewhere. The amount of time it would take to make AZ vaccine is the same as making the other Pfizer/Moderna vaccines. It's unlikely it would increase supply at all.
> C elegans is a small nematode [...] We still can't simulate it.

This for some reason struck me as profoundly disappointing. I have a couple neuroscientist friends, so I tend to hear a lot about their work and about interesting things happening in the field, but of course I'm a rank layperson myself. I guess I expected/hoped that we'd be able to do more with simpler creatures.

If we can't simulate C elegans, are there less complex organism we can simulate accurately? What's the limit of complexity before it breaks down?
I think there is some truth in that those characters were more creative than many other, but they did not create in a void. Your first example, Newton, said "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." Who am I to contradict Newton? :)
Serious question, how many of them even knew what the hell they signed up for?

My experience with these companies is that they'll just walk door to door with a pen telling you to sign on the dotted line to save a bunch of money.

I doubt most of the people hurt by this are true believers, or even had a basic understanding of the arrangement.
Plenty of power companies can stop power remotely and I would assume the ones with smart meters are at the top of that list.
I have been following "long COVID" reports. Firstly, much of the mass media coverage is misleading, often intentionally so in pursuit of clicks and advertising revenue. A lot of the people claiming to have debilitating "long COVID" were never actually tested positive for COVID in the first place. They are the broadly the same demographic that, before COVID, were claiming to have "chronic Lyme" or whatever. Certainly mainly of them do have symptoms and distress, but it is questionable what relationship they have to COVID.

Then, if one starts digging into more serious discussion – even your link above – one finds that "long term" in medical parlance may mean a series of months but not necessarily years, and similar months-long impacts are known from diseases that we have generally tolerated among society. It also isn’t clear that these lingering symptoms affect enough people to impact the economy if measures are lifted once hospitalizations fall.
Side note: I'd like to point out one of the very few science fiction novels about linguistics: The Languages of Pao by Jack Vance [1]. The novel is clearly inspired by the Sapir-Whorf concept that language shapes thought [0]. BTW: Another candidate would be 1984. Though not the main these, that novel introduces Newspeak, a language in which dissent cannot be expressed, thus becoming another tool of oppression.

Minor spoiler: In Vance's said novel, the different segments of the population of a planet are taught three separate languages in order to develop and specialize economically, industrially, and militarily.

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

[1]. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Languages_of_Pao/ke...
I think technically a virus infects other files, but a worm is it's own file(s) that spread one way or another. A Trojan is just one means of spreading, and can be used by viruses, worms, or other malware. Though there really is no point in be pedantic about the definitions because all the lines have been blurred for decades.
Where I live, people pay little attention. Restaurants, bars, gyms, and grocery stores are all packed. In the latter case most (not all) people wear masks. I think lockdowns are impacting the economy much more than the pandemic itself. Most people do not seem to be that worried in the absence of government policies.
discussion from 2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10072656
That depends on how many cases you started with and how low you can get the transmission rate.

No way could the EU or USA get to zero in 6 weeks. It took Victoria Australia about 6 weeks to get from 500 cases to 20. America and Europe have a 100X more than 500 cases.

And the longer you need to lockdown, the less restrictive the lockdowns can be.
so we have not 1 monopoly, but 3. Should that prevent anyone from working on one of them?
«Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs to “weaken Russia,” leaked docs reveal» - https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/20/reuters-bbc-uk-foreign-of...
I have to ask why "Big Tech" is a monopoly worth freeing ourselves from now, if we didn't free ourselves from Microsoft circa 2000. Microsoft had way more monopoly power back then (maybe even does now), and barriers to entry into the OS market are much higher. It's relatively easy to switch to duckduckgo.com for example.

Isn't this just grandstanding, based on letting Microsoft keep it's monopoly?
And yet, so many get skin cancer when a big chunk of the population is vitamin D deficient through lack of exposure to the sun.
Is there a link to a non-subscribe-walled version?
I also don't understand why the article excludes the possibility of variable time of use based fixed rate plans, which are already common in California.

It seems to want to paint the picture as an either/or decision between fully variable real-time rates and completely flat rate plans. There are a whole set of possibilities in between, including but not limited to putting dispatchable appliances like smart electric water heaters and electric cars on more aggressively variable rate plans.
Ask HN: Security-first personal/mobile computing architecture?
Do efforts from Apple, as well as recent Intel/MSFT collabs, represent a security-first design philosophy for personal computing?

What would a security-first personal or mobile computer designed from the ground up look like from a high-level architectural perspective, in ways that are distinct from the status quo?

What main usability tradeoffs, if any, would result for your security-first design?

Answer can be in consideration of currently non-existent but feasible supporting technology.
My perspective might be biased, since for the 30-odd years I've been in industry, I have done mostly embedded systems.

Those things you mention are skillsets: software, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, etc. Sometimes you find them all in the same person, sometimes you have separate bodies doing each one, but at the end of the day it's a staffing issue.

I'd say it's less that it's "hard" and more that iterations are slower and costly and the less capability you have in-house, the slower it is. If you have a full machine shop and a Stratasys 3D printer onsite, a lot of things can happen faster. If you're doing garden-variety industrial automation, there's far less risk than designing state of the art humanoid robots.

There is a spectrum of difficulty, like everything. In my case, I was doing this stuff freelance, in my spare bedroom at age 25, so it's not that hard.
That's true, and I am not arguing that useful software does not exist. Instead, a lot of energy producing software is often not useful, or useful in perverse ways.
my question after reading this essay is,

1. why are there no startups building VC investing as a platform akin to what carta has done for equity.

2. are there any ways to shore up the cost of the transaction such that they benefit both parties as a service (eg. shore up lawyer fees which are currently passed onto the fundraiser)
Like most things in compression, it depends.

But DEFLATE sends the list of 288 code lengths, with all the symbols being implicit.

It also compresses that list with another layer of repetition encoding and huffman encoding.

For example, if you were encoding DEFLATE's default huffman table, you would first write it like (8, repeat 143, 9, repeat 111, 7, repeat 23, 8, repeat 7), and then you would compress that with a separate tiny huffman table.

The tiny huffman used on code lengths is itself encoded as a series of 3 bit code lengths, taking up 5-ish bytes, with the order of symbols predefined in the spec.
> Storing hydrogen is a nightmare

So is storing enriched uranium. Again this is not a point in favor of nuclear.
One of my neighbors just introduced me to low level arduno programing. Hoping to work on more projects with him in the future.

Reached out to a girl I meet while traveling in Europe a few years back , she responded so we'll see what happens.

2019 was absurdly good for me. Had a few amazing partners , but this only happened because I deleted my social media. I'm fine with taking a year or two off.
I disagree, 3 vaccine sources should be better than 2.

Now, if the US hasn't contracted any AZ vaccine, then you're right and the whole discussion is moot.
Do they actually have lots of species which look the same but are impossible to tell apart except for DNA?
> Yes, India was unstable. That is not the same as underdeveloped.

And it's valid to point that out. But at the end of the day for what reason India was unable to fight back against the western powers doesn't really matter.

In India's case there still was no heroic conquering. Just bullying. And then bullies fighting against each other from relative safety with their colonies as pawns.
Tricking the novel coronavirus with a fake “handshake”
https://ageofem.com/

(Robin Hanson's crazy version of futurism)
The free minute sounds like a really good idea to me - there might be twenty seconds or so of introduction which younger folks will tend to view as unnecessary time-wasting and older folks will tend to view as necessary pre-connection and the free minute allows these greetings to go uncharged and be mostly uncontroversial. I think it both counters the greeting time and also serves as a pretty good PR move. Also, if I can answer your problem in less than a minute then you didn't even google it.

I am sure a bunch of these sorts of questions will roll in and, if you're trying to continuously get answers within the free minute you're probably going to end up accidentally paying them a good portion of the time.
Show HN: I made a tool to request video recordings from my customers via a link
> $99/month is a bit expensive

$99/mnth for possibly 5 yrs is a helluva commitment. Most people are going to have difficulty with both the cost and time IMHO.
Thanks for the feedback. Improving the fake review detection by using statistical analysis is definitely on my list once this gets past the MVP state. If anyone has inputs on how to implement this, you are welcome to contact me :)
And it's not that sophisticated, either.
There is a difference between AWS which is indeed a utility to facebook which publish user's content. I understand why there need to be a special rules and regulation for publishing user's content, including the need for moderation and the implications. But I can't understand why we allow AWS or other infrastructure companies which are not involved directly with the content, to decide who they serve and who they don't.
Reader mode in Firefox worked for me
I still haven't seen enough data to prove that it's effective in old people, so these are not lies.

Moderna made sure that enough old people were included in their trials, even if they lost some time with it.

Pfitzer/BioNTech proved itself by vaccinating old people in Israel, so they clearly have enough data.
So sorry to hear this. My mother also died of covid, and I also feel there's a warning in her story for everyone.

She'd been sad for several months from my father dying, so during the summer she went to visit her sister abroad. Until then she'd been shielding at home. They both knew about the virus but thought it wouldn't happen to them, arranging group meals with old friends.

Three of them went to ICU, and everyone tested positive.

It's of course up to people themselves what risk they want to take, but with this disease in particular the numbers are deceiving. The general figures seem so low but are actually a heck of a lot higher than flu. They're also markedly higher if you're in a risk group.

It's also terrible because as family you think the odds are okay, most people at every stage (cough, hospital, icu) survive, until the doctor calls you and says it's tonight.
- Decreased efficiency

- Even less efficiency with mutant viruses that of course will spread as widely as the first one did, it's just a matter of time.

- Reportedly more frequent side effects.

This is all of course tentative and based on the latest media reports, the public opinion might change in the future as there is more data - but that's what we've got now. Also the German government reserves Pfizer to the most vulnerable groups which creates an impression that AZ vaccine is somewhat flawed in comparison to Pfizer.
I remember in high school spending my money on what was probably the best portable CD player on the market, the Panasonic SL-SW890 [0]

Pretty sure the target audience was runners. It had a strap on the back so you would attach it to your hand, and near the hinge was a hard slightly-rubbery plastic with little indentations for your fingers. It was incredibly comfortable to hold.

And the skip protection was absolutely top-tier. By some kind of magic, the laser could read the disc at any arbitrary speed up to some limit. It didn't just handle bumps, but weird sudden rotations that would change the speed of disc rotation relative to the laser. I think it claimed 40 seconds of skip protection, but I would jostle, spin, and bump it for 5 solid minutes and no skipping.

And the way the thing close made it very difficult to accidentally pop it open. Drop it, throw it, it's staying closed.

Of course, I paid for all that ruggedness. I think at the time, most portable CD players were around $75, and I think I paid $150 for it. Of course, this was over 20 years ago so my memory could be wrong.

Pretty sure I still have that player in a box somewhere.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-SL-SW890-Shockwave-Portable...
> And within that chain, there should be legal
> recourse and, in most cases, penal consequences,

Wikipedia says, "Under common law, false imprisonment is both a crime and a tort".
Yes. "It's just the algorithm" is the "it's just procedure" of the 21st century.
It honestly can be very relaxing. I didn't discover it intentionally, either. A few times my music or podcasts just finished and I was so zoned out I didn't realize. But came to enjoy the result of it.
I'm curious about your data set. The correlation of cases to deaths using data from covidtracking.com for the US over the past year is 0.28-0.3 when I ran it. I slid it by two, three and four weeks.
I’ve been doing SLIT in the US for ~2 years. The drops themselves are off label, and no insurance will cover it. I’m allergic to basically everything and the drops are $250 for a 90 day supply. So that’s $1k/year already. After copays for office visits I’m definitely in $99/mo territory.
This is an important point, because the author of the post is essentially trying to argue that letting Texans either freeze to death or be price gouged is somehow necessary to fight climate change.

Regulations would have solved this. Why does the word "regulation" only appear in this article once? Make winterization standards a requirement of participating in the market.
That's true. .NET Core high performance optimization looks more approachable.

I'd still rather see the popular way of doing things be the benchmark.
PBKDF2 is a slow algorithm specifically created for password hashing. It's in the same family as bcrypt and scrypt.
Do I need to install software in my computer to use this platform ?
Datapoint: I'm someone on the MISO grid, with fixed-rate electric billed at $0.15 for the first 300 kWh, $.11 for the next 700 kWh, and $.10 for the rest. Last month I used ~2500 kWh for a total of ~$267.

MISO's marginal cost to deliver a megawatt hour to my area is around ~$16-19 over the past hour or so[1]; with those prices, I'd save ~200. That's nothing to sneeze at.

During the blackouts ERCOT's prices[2] were around $7500 to deliver that mWh; at that cost I'd lose $18,483 by paying market rate.

I don't think the average person is equipped to properly price this risk. I don't think I'd know how to properly hedge it, either.

[1]: https://www.misoenergy.org/markets-and-operations/real-time-...

[2]: http://mis.ercot.com/misapp/GetReports.do?reportTypeId=12328...
This is a very dangerous argument.

Decisions to approve or ban medications are difficult because they're about probabilities, and whichever decision you make, there is an expected body count attached to it.

The "but Thalidomide!" argument only considers one side: If you approve a medication that ends up hurting/killing people. That is bad, and everybody understands that.

The other side is that if you delay the approval of a life saving drug, that also kills a lot of people who die while you wait. That is bad, and very few understand that.

The same people who died before, keep dying today. This does not make news, no one has to resign, and as a result regulators become very prone to err on the side on delaying approvals.

How many Americans have died from this bias since Thalidomide is unknowable, but it's definitely in 6 figures, maybe more.
I find the Rust design very simple: a coroutine is just a state machine, i.e. just a C struct. I find this very easy to reason about.

It does not require memory allocations, does not require a run-time, works on embedded targets, etc.

Also, the compiler generates all the boilerplate (the state machine) for you, which I find makes it very easy to use. And well, the compiler ensures memory safety, thread safety, etc. which is the cherry on top.
You might not be the only one. There's literally a button on the homepage labelled "I don't get it, explain it differently."

It's effectively a user-friendly database at the end of the day. I used it to plan my wedding and I love it.
You could self-host a web page that has enough keywords that people from various phases of your life could find you if they googled, and then a contact form or whatever.