skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My employer requires that all passwords be rotated every 180 days unless the password is at least 14 characters, then it's good for 365 days.

I maintain a user-facing system that expires passwords after 120 days, no exceptions, and I've tried in vain to get that restriction lifted.
It's interesting how two people can have diametrically opposite readings of the same piece of art.

I read the Wired as not less real than the real world, as the influence could flow in both directions, with events in one place causing effects in the other. The ultimate confirmation of that is the final scene, which was actually depicting Lain meeting her grown up school friend some 10 years later, while Lain stayed - timelessly - a child.

I once read a story which dealt with the lack of purpose in a world dominated by technology, where humans had nothing left to do, nowhere obvious to progress. The story presented an escape into tradition and slavery along with the progression into virtual reality, where new worlds could be built, shaped by the will of the participants as opposed to the hard rules of physics, therefore granting a whole set of new universes in which to search for meaning.

While we don't have fully fledged universes yet, we have gotten to various lengths along that road thanks to the Internet. Why should we say that experiences of the people who value their Internet goals more than the real world are invalid?
Every time I open the Snapchat Android app it prompts me with a Snapchat-styled (not the system) dialog to share my contacts. Every time I hit "Don't allow". Every time it prompts me again.

This is an inexcusable dark pattern. Two things need to happen:

1. The operating system needs to provide a "screw you, never" option for any permissions.

2. We as engineers need to say "screw you, never" to requests to implement behavior like this. Sure, this could be a bug, but I see the same behavior with Venmo and location access.

Personally I'm rather disillusioned with where we've found ourselves. This sort of adversarial relationship in which people are property of a platform and treated as such is winning.

Edit: Venmo had been set to "Only while using the app" and was prompting to enable location services on the device, not for permission. That's my own fault.
I think this is about clarity rather than political correctness. Used in this context, "agnostic" is basically just a bit of jargon that's used where what we really mean is "independent". The latter is a drop-in replacement, and I'd argue that it conveys the meaning more clearly.
Places without high crime (armed robbery, murder,etc) can decrease policing because those areas don’t have high crime. Those are not the areas where police violence is an issue. So your solution effectively does nothing.
I suspect some of there more out there "brexiteers" would like that - I have seen calls for returning to imperial units FFS!
I would also like everything to be cheaper.

With password managers, it’s not that much work to visit multiple websites.
A lot of basic solar-powered calculators don't have batteries at all. Covering the solar panel will shut it off.
Incorrect. 74k should be in the denominator, that is what's being compared against (baseline).
Working with a shitty business partner. An expensive (time wise) but worthy lesson.
Is it really true that Bitcoin mining is such a huge source of emissions ?
I created a part-time jobs board, ParttimeCareers (https://parttime.careers). I collect remote and part-time jobs (mostly engineering jobs, but sometimes marketing jobs).

Yeah, I can see where you are coming from. Some people want to look for part-time jobs because they want to spend more time with their passions, kids, parents, or friends.
Government policies would be better than both of these options. The only reason that it "usually" works that way is because of the persistent effort of conservatives to paint government as ineffective at best and harmful at worst, when in reality democratic government is the best way we have to solve problems that require society-level intervention and coordination.
Fun fact, Microsoft requires all their vendors to have mandatory password rotation.
Anyone interested in starting up some of these recycling facilities as a community project? I'm in Austin and could provide all of the funding but would love some volunteers to help. It would be a non-profit. plasticproject@fastmail.com
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It doesn't have a type in Haskell, from a certain point of view. `3` is polymorphic.

Prelude> :t 3

3 :: Num p => p
> people typically get jobs because they have bills to pay, not because it's fun.

If a position across the street becomes available which allows you to pursue a personal goal you aspire and afford your current lifestyle, would you remain at your current "non-fun" job or give it a shot and apply?

Many people don't just get job because they have bills to pay, they get jobs that they don't like because there is no alternative available to them which meshes with their lives.

To an extent, you could argue "that's personal responsibility, everyone makes tough choices".

Then again, the author tacitly references to the fact they were still obligated to physically attend an office space, even though they could their work remotely. Now expand that to the millions of workers who are forced to make long commutes.
Not sure why you were downvoted. I totally agree with you.

One of my past manager told me that the trick of making a boring job interesting is to introduce a layer of abstraction to the task.

For example, if you have to right a lot of boiler plate code then write a code generator.
My network login has become progressively simpler as I have been forced to change it. I use KeePass and unique/random 20 character passwords for every website that I log in to. But not for work. It used to be "Quite hard and very long password". Now it's "NotVeryHardPassword7".
I actually stopped reading the Verge because of how relentlessly negative they were about everything related to tech. Which for a tech blog is sort of weird. So not sure what you mean about favorable coverage there.
I wonder which of those "b"s are bits and which are bytes. e.g. is the external traffic 2 Gbit/s or 16 Gbit/s.

And how many users do they have to need that amount of hardware?
Because a Sov is actual currency you don't pay VAT and CGT doesn't apply.
I advocate for publicly funded journalism, elections, etc. but our legislators are already captured as well. And yeah if that means higher tax revenue to support that then that's just what we have to do.
Same as with cash payments or bank transfers today.
There definitely is value in it if users created proper passwords, but path of least resistance tends to win out in the end, and people will just find ways around the mechanisms to prevent weaker derived passwords.
Knowing spacex, they will deck that thing out with 4K video even if it means dropping a few satellites into Martian orbit to act as relays.

My understanding is that video requires power to transcode and compress, and power is a scarce resource.

This is especially true on ingenuity, which is powered by six 18650 batteries. And most of that power is dumped into just keeping it warm enough to function, not into actually flying.

https://rotorcraft.arc.nasa.gov/Publications/files/Balaram_A...
>Except in this case, consumers can't act. Can consumers vote with their wallets to prevent using technologies that are excessively polluting, say a necessary chemical which they use only indirectly, one that has a polluting manufacturing process?

Pesticides are a necessary chemical to industrial food production. Consumers can opt to prevent that from being used/manufactured by buying organic[1]. Organic goods are widely available in US supermarkets. The fact that organics haven't outpaced conventional foods tells you all you need to know about consumer preferences.

>Can poorer car buyers opt for any thing cheaper than the currently available options? Or rather, because there are no options available for them, should they simply not use cars instead of using the polluting gasoline cars?

So according to you, poor car buyers are forced to choose between a gas guzzler or no car at all, because the fuel efficient cars are too expensive. Clearly the right thing to do is... stop gas guzzlers from manufactured in the first place so they're forced to not have a car?

[1] organic allows certain kinds of "natural" pesticides, which might or might not be worse than their banned counterparts, but this is another can of worms
The covert religiosity is perhaps more insidious. The books are drenched in his particular religious world-view: not just Catholic, but a medieval kind of Christianity. The world he's created is deliberately pre-Christian, but the characters and overarching story arc think about the trajectory of the world in a way familiar to medieval Christians.

That comes through in a fascinating sense of alien-ness. The books feel both realistic and unfamiliar because he's capturing a sense from the past as a very foreign country. That's a sense available to you as a non-believer because it's not gussied up in the specific trappings of any belief system you've been exposed to (and probably put off by).

The highest virtue in The Lord of the Rings is a very Christian kind of hope -- hope for the next world rather than this one. And the key virtue of humans, rather than Elves, is that they get to go there, while the immortals are trapped here. It's easy to miss all that in The Lord of the Rings because it does ultimately depend on hope in this world -- they win and evil loses.

But look at the sadness of the Elves, who know that they will ultimately lose and the world will decline. Think of that from the point of view of somebody living among Roman ruins that they cannot repair. And the only hope comes from a far-off entity promising a better afterlife.

It's not propaganda, but it's a very real demonstration of the virtues of his outlook.
How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow?
I had not heard of it. It looks similarly motivated the harmonic table layout. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_table_note_layout
I’m pretty sure almonds and other high water usage foods are more problematic than swimming pools... If your average family just bought 1 bag of almonds every year, that’d be an entire swimming pool - depending on size. (1900 gallons per lb of almonds) I’m pretty sure people eat more than one bag of almonds per family just due to all the things that contain almonds.
One year ago I'd have agreed.

Today? I'd be running around like an excited child, given half a chance. Probably hugging people I know are comfortable with it. I recognized I really do like that energy, and I only live once.

Not saying people who prefer a more restrained celebration are not valid in their preference! Everyone is a little different, and that is a good thing. At my workplace we like to have multiple ways to celebrate a milestone, because it's important that everyone can participate if they want. For example, we might have a team lunch/party (pre covid) for folks who like that, but also, say, personalized notes sent out, or office posters made of the achievement with participants' signatures on it (optional), and companywide announcements (again, representation optional).

For the record the only movie that routinely tears me up is Apollo 13. Specifically, when they land, and the people in Mission Control are shown. Some of those people have a lifelong bond because of that event, I'm sure. That's important to me.
I thought FTP support had been removed a long time ago for some reason! I have very fond memories of FTP but I guess its time has come. I probably haven't used it for 10 years at this point.
Many ancient human cultures had base 12 and base 60 number systems because there are 12 digit segments that can be indexed by pointing your thumb — 3 segments/digit x 4 fingers
This objection should have been raised for the original sale. However, the owners then made bank on that sale and those owners also presumably had better political leverage then. Read that as Brits sell crown jewels for coin to foreigners. Foreigners re-sell crown jewels but UK discovers public interest and raises objection to crown jewels being sold. It's a bit late.
> PDF forms now support JavaScript embedded in PDF files. Some PDF forms use JavaScript for validation and other interactive features.

The amount of complexity that one can put into a PDF is both surprising and a tad frightening.
Whoosh! (me, LOL)
> In UK you can be associate professor without a degree?

Yes, in rare occasions! More frequently without say a higher degree. One that springs to mind is the current Professor of Poetry at Oxford University who read classics for their undergrad but with no further education. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Oswald

I know there are other examples but I'd need to google a bit to find them. Notable people who got a PhD without a Bachelors or Masters in the US include Wolfram, so it's not just in the UK where rules get a little bent.

> How can you do a master without a bachelors?

Experience in industry counts if its highly related. I was offered or interviewed for postgraduate courses at the University of Leeds, Oxford University, University of Leicester, and a few others. All in Software Engineering and I eventually accepted a part-time position on an MSc in Computer Science. A bit of rigmarole but not that much - I started the course at 25 with 6 years experience in tech. After some pestering I was able to help with some lecturers papers which led to the whole PhD discussion but dropped the MSc because it wasn't as rigorous as I hoped it'd be (I'm interested in the foundations of computer science and this was more applied). If it helps I've been to doctoral summer schools in both the EU and US without any credentials either!

Maybe the UK is the only place with such ways, I emailed Stanford a while back (I'm moving there this Summer, my partners a postdoc, and wanted to try audit some of their postgraduate CS courses) and got shot down pretty quickly!
The news/reporting side of the organization and the Opinion group are very very separate.

It's important to look at the news gathering side. Reporters don't take to being told to 'go easy on this group cos we have business ties' - that usually provides the opposite response.
(Not an immunologist/virologist/biologist of any stripe. The following is my rough layman's understanding of the answer to this question. Would love to be corrected by someone with more formal knowledge of the subject.)

My understanding is that the main reason is a biological application of the principle of parsimony: Evolutionarily, organisms don't generally evolve lots of different things all at once. Thus, if you have a novel variant of a virus, it is highly likely to be mostly like existing variants, but with a very small number of changes.

Basically, you can think of it as the virus having to hit a particular threshold of a mutation direction that increases transmissibility to become widely-spread, but also has to hit a particular threshold of a mutation direction that increases lethality in order to become very dangerous.

As soon as it hits that transmissibility threshold, that is the version of the virus that's going to spread, and hitting both those thresholds at the same time is going to be incredibly rare.

What's much more likely (and genuinely concerning) is the possibility that a virus that has already become highly transmissible evolves more in the "lethality" direction and goes from being a widespread nuisance to being a deadly pandemic. The longer we let something like COVID remain widespread, as I understand it, the more likely we are to see a variant emerge that retains its high transmissibility but also gains a higher lethality. However, as we can see from the fact that the bodies are not piling up in the streets, even after nearly a year and a half of a pandemic form of a particular virus, it's by no means guaranteed that something like that will happen, even at a small scale.
I take a liquid supplement called Floradix for b12/iron. It is made from yeast and vegetables. I'm prone to anemia and it has been immensely helpful.
> Capitalism/trade is generally morally good for all consenting stakeholders (with a few exceptions such as taking advantage of addictions) and morally ambivalent for everyone else.
It is so because morality is the affirmitation of societal norms.

> I wish more adults understood the above. Capitalism isn't always an unadulterated good (for people outside of the exchange) but it mostly is positive-sum good for people within the exchange, and we need government to implement taxes that prevent the former and otherwise mostly stay out of the way for the latter.

Your argument goes the way that lousing each other is beneficial to all if there are strict rules and punishment for those that don't louse back, instead of simply washing yourself or seeking other ways to delouse oneself.
I'm well off and thanks to wide diversification of assets my future descendants will have all the time in the world to wonder why people still equate labor and property.
> A government isn't ever going to allow a normal citizen to have a anonymous payments system so I don't see them allowing a purely private and anonymous currency (ala-monero)

Actually, the UK got pretty close to it in the 1990s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondex
> But until we have a better system of plainly showing access levels to one's account its a scammer paradise to allow access via said API.

Nobody says such API would be connected to a person's life holdings. It could be low amounts that are safe to lose in case of a hack.

Of course, you need to educate people to not put all their life savings into those accounts. But the same applies to multiple other services.
I would say I've seen more critical pieces lately. I think over the last couple of years, a lot of this has broken down because of just how egregious corporate behavior has gotten. But especially around 2015-2016, it was palpable how much Verge was holding their tongue in articles especially in the months around Sundar Pichai interviews.
Well this is cheating, but I stopped working for Microsoft :).

I actually still quite like .NET on the whole. But the job I took after Microsoft had me writing Rust and Go.

I should note the list is in no particular order. If it were ordered newest to oldest, it’d be:

- Go

- Rust

- F#

- C#

- Ocaml

- D

- Pascal

Languages I’ve used heavily but wouldn’t for prototyping are C and C++. Most of my time at Microsoft was 67-75% C/C++ and the rest some form of .NET.
Software engineers are highly paid in most parts of the world though.
yup. Even password managers half the time fail to properly capture a password change so that the easiest way is simply to increment the password, then add that increment in the password manager - instead of going through the trouble of generating a new random password which may or may not end up getting saved.
that's not nice!
The talent race is also an ethical race
You may have misread the original statement. I'm comparing the US white crime rate to the UK black crime rate.

It is clear US whites are far more likely to commit crimes.
Can't find the video but there was a sec talk where the host would demonstrate a few horrendous ones.
The gameboy (and GBC) screens are very different. They're normal LCD screens with a reflective and scattering layer behind them instead of a backlight. E-ink's technology doesn't apply to them.
As trivial as cleaning up user names and in game chats without triggering a few million false positives. People have been working on this for decades, they have yet to succeed.
I instantly thought to myself .. "what could possibly go wrong?"
Sorry, wasn't questioning your claim. I do want to find out why people have such different experiences.

Is this part of the failed hostile environment policy from a few years back?
The only reason I've seen for vertical farming that makes any sense right now is that you can control the environment without damaging the ecosystem around you. Filtered air so no cross pollination with wild strains, no insects, recycled water so no runoff or wasted fertilization, perfectly regulated soil/hydroponics, no PH issues from rain, no herbicides, etc... Good for high value, difficult to raise crops. Usually stuff that costs an arm and a leg like pink lettuce, white asparagus, hop shoots and wasabi root.

Otherwise the entire thing is too expensive. Usually water is more expensive in urban areas and power costs are prohibitive. Then you have the cost of capital to build a giant building that can support extremely heavy equipment for grow beds. You can't just use an old office building to support a couple thousand tons of equipment unfortunately.

But the thing is, right now there is so much arable land we can have luxuries like cattle and farmed wild game. In 80 years we may not be able to maintain those luxuries for 10.5 billion people without vertical farming. Especially since a lot of those people are starting to become more affluent on average. I wouldn't be surprised to see beef prices go above $20-30 a pound before the end of my life. Even accounting for inflation. Maybe VF will become economical by then?
What happens when one of the "personal" devices gets lost? How do you authenticate to the device in the first place?

I also don't feel like lugging around my employer's laptop wherever I go, but I sometimes happen to need to check an email or something when I'm at a friend's house (so I can't register the device). Should I not be able to do that?

> Who is still sharing a family computer and needs to switch user accounts?

My client does. People work in shifts, it would make absolutely no financial sense to have double the number of computers. It would also be a pain to have to switch screens, etc. Or much more expensive to equip everyone with laptops.
I hope that in a little while we get an actual video like we got when the whole thing was descending onto the ground.

I am not expecting much from Ingenuity but I would be very disappointed if we didn’t see any video from Perseverance.

I know doing video requires a lot of power, but I really feel it is justified for something like this. It would become a historic video.
$ ssh sshchat.hackclub.com
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Nothing is worth your time when you put ego first, and focus on saving face and being boorish after being called out on a bunch of half baked ideas. I even quoted something that I expected would grease the wheels of reason:

> "It is believed that at least one incident occurred while a parent was running on the treadmill, suggesting that the hazard cannot be avoided simply by locking the device when not in use," the CPSC said.

A child lock or quick reaction are not enough despite your insistence. Any kind of engineering background, or maybe just common sense, would tell you this. You even accidentally figured it out by noting that a treadmill could hurt an adult if they stepped on it at full tilt. This machine and many others have none of the safety mechanisms and failsafes that needed to make them safe enough to use in a home. They're just made to look pretty and save a buck, so they will kill or injure adults, children, or pets just the same.

Omitting essential safety measures and replacing them with a disclaimer is the hallmark of incompetent engineers. Like replacing the protection in a bathroom outlet with a disclaimer "don't use around water".

I tried taking the best possible interpretation but your comments don't show evidence that you have anything really pertinent to say on the topic, just opinions and guesses that don't stand up to reality. Might be worth it to take your time and understand what I'm saying and that way maybe you'll get something useful out of this conversation.