skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A 1979 UNIX /etc/passwd file surfaced a couple of years ago (it's on Github[1]) and people tried to brute force the passwords; Brian Kernighan's was the weakest. Ken Thomson's took "more than four days on an AMD Radeon RX Vega64 system running hashcat ( a password cracking tool) at about 930MH/s (Million Hashes per second)" and was the last to fall.

https://inbox.vuxu.org/tuhs/87bluxpqy0.fsf@vuxu.org/

https://fossbytes.com/unix-co-founder-ken-thompsons-bsd-pass...

[1] https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/tree/BSD-3-S...
Maybe the sort of brashness of being honest that's it's a tiny deli with sketchy paid wages, miniscule revenues, etc.
>the switch has been worth it.

So I think it is clear that there are better alternatives to a granny knot in a technical sense, I am still skeptical that there is really value added.

Outside of achieving fashion perfection on a Hollywood red carpet, I find it hard to imagine there is value in spending the time and energy to learn and remember to tie your shoes the right way, rather than just a double knot. It seems like more of a burden than anything.
I've been using the Ian knot since around 2005 and it's easily the most impactful "life hack" I've ever made. My shoes basically never come untied.
Ah, I guess it just took some time :)
Interesting take. I’ll think about this for my next project!

With web there are a lot of transferable skills: http, DOM, chrome debugging, general problem solving etc. so there is that too. If I try nextjs and it does something odd I can still debug it.
> It's not like Java is any simpler.

Can attest. It's easier to learn the rules of Java the language, but way harder to learn how to write good Java software. To some extent, Rust forces you to begin learning both at the same time, which is of course more difficult.

What always surprises me is how much "good Rust software" actually coheres with "good software". I'm not saying that you should write software in any language as though it were Rust -- every language has its own effective praxis. Rather, since Rust forces you to pick up some of the rules of good design as you learn, those rules can transfer to other ecosystems, forming part of a language-agnostic basis of engineering. I think that's really cool.

A good example is handles over pointers [0]: recognizing that pointers/reference embody two orthogonal concerns, address and capability, lets you see how to separate them when it benefits the design. Rust's extremely strict single-ownership model often forces you build separate addressing systems, allowing disparate entities to address and relate to each other in complex patterns, while consolidating all capability to affect those entities into a single ownership root.

The mental model of single-ownership itself is valuable for managing the complexity of a large network of entities, and knowing when you can or should break it in other languages has been really valuable to me.

[0] https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html
$25k/yr is a junior level pay in Poland (at least in larger cities). You can double that with a few years of experience, and you'll likely top off at triple that unless you work remotely for a US company. Most of the local work is the typical satellite office stuff though.

That being said it quickly puts you in a very comfy financial situation, with very little risk and standard working hours.
> people ... expect banks to be better than others at tech.

Banks hold people's life savings among other things and thus, I would think, should absolutely be putting the best security to practice. Both physical (like safes and so forth) and technical.
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Writing just tests is not ideal, but writing tests in general can be very challenging and interesting given that you need to understand what the code under test does and figure out (edge)cases to exercise/break it.
Here's a source. [0] In release builds, overflow results in two's complement wrapping. In debug builds, it results in a panic at runtime. It never results in undefined behaviour.

Safe Rust really is a safe language. That's really what's remarkable about Rust: it has high ambitions for safety and usability and performance, and it's succeeding in achieving them.

(I hear there are some who want to dilute the safety guarantees of Safe Rust. I'm optimistic that they will continue to be ignored.)

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch03-02-data-types.html#integ...
All the owners in the world would just love everyone to just roll over and be grateful for whatever they are given.

The only power you have is the power to walk. So it's simply that you have to excersize that one power if you want any input or influence at all over what 90% of the waking hours of your life will be like.

It's simply claiming, not requesting or hoping for a scrap of, but claiming, your personhood and basic dignity that you yourself would (one would hope) accord anyone else.

There is no valid reason to be grateful for a shit job even if the shittiness is office politics instead of black lung. And there is no valid reason not to evaluate any potential job to find out if it will be shitty. If asking illuminating questions turns off the interviewer, you didn't want that job.

If you're desperate and willing to be treated like shit and say you're grateful, then go ahead, we all have to sometimes, but that is not some ideal way to operate all the time. That is something you do under duress. You should seek to get out from under that duress and live like a human being.
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You realize that chart only shows 10 1st world countries right and conspicuously very specific wealthy nations? Seems like someone is pushing an agenda.

Maybe try a source that calculates every country? https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/police-ki...
> the knot at the toe end of the shoe

What are you talking about? That photo shows the knot at the heel end.
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Obviously the mainstream media will immediately publish a wave of retractions to reflect this because they botched the reporting on this incident.

https://www.reddit.com/r/media_criticism/comments/mmhz7n/dc_...

For weeks they pushed the narrative that "the violent riots at the Capitol resulted in the death of five people." But this is wordplay. One died from being shot. Two died from natural causes. Another died from a drug overdose. And the last died from a stroke. So four of the five deaths were caused by unrelated reasons!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/04/07/capi...
Would you consider sharing it? Might be useful for others in the same boat.
No, trying to compare the murder rate to the police killing rate and thus misconstruing the original proposal as focusing on police killings instead of preventing murder (when I had made no such claim) is the the straw man.

GP comment made the claim that since fewer people are killed by police than murderers that therefore actions that decrease murder rates increase efficacy even if they also increase police killings. My comment refutes that.
A pattern of misinformation: Hype the story for months only to quietly retract it after the political gain & social damage takes effect. The government & benefiting organizations will not give up the power granted to it by "temporary" or "emergency" measures during this period of public belief in the misinformation. There may be a "fall guy" if the subsequent public outrage is strong enough. Anybody identifying broader patterns & illicit behavior by authorities & organizations will be labeled a "conspiracy theorist" & ridiculed by the usual suspects.

On sites like Hacker News, the post will be flagged due to it's "politically sensitive" content & not stoking "intellectual curiosity", even though it is interesting & useful knowledge to understand markets, government behavior, where society is going, etc.

I'm not saying that this pattern is being applied today...but it is a security vulnerability that could be easily exploited in our Democratic & public information systems.
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You know "Whataboutism" isn't a magic word that lets you ignore an argument, right? If Twitter has extremist content (or death threats, or racism, or whatever) and isn't banned, then that is evidence that that's not the real reason for another app to have been banned

Parler were banned for refusing to properly moderate ( while having no problem with moderating any content they disagreed with), not for having hateful content. When you report similar content on Twitter or Facebook, they usually do something.

So yes, this is classic and very useless whataboutism. Don't you have anything meaningful to add to the conversation?
Because talking about it made a bunch of people buy it.

It's like posting about how some scamcoin is a scam and so people run out to buy the scamcoin.

Though it's probably more like "$15 on a meme stock is nothing".
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Yep, but I find it to be a really poor paradigm for efficient work if you don't remember them. Having to search the command palette is much slower than being able to set up a toolbar of often used functions. Don't get me wrong, the command palette is great to have but if you can't memorize all those functions then it's a really poor replacement.

For efficiency Key combo > toolbar > command palette. I just hate to be forced into #3 because #2 doesn't exist. (not to mention that the developers make crazy arguments in the forums about why they refuse to impliment it... but that's all off topic)
Just pull the ends to get it off. Works great, never gets untied.
That's extraordinarily generous and super that you actually provided him this opportunity. He clearly needs direction. I hope it works out for him and you get SUPER-brownie points.
Since no J-Core chip, as far as i am aware, was produced on an recent node, so comparisons would need to be based on simulations.

If you were to talk with a specific foundry and shell out the money to get access to proprietary simulators and other proprietary information you could get some simulated number. I am not aware of any such numbers.

I heard "decade on a button cell at chip inside free toy inside kids magazine cost" in a presentation once and that probably refers to a 180 nm process but this is hardly a concrete number.
I wonder if anyone has anything from the early 80s. So much lost stuff.
Doesn’t it still produce the same knot as the standard shoe tie knot? I thought it was just a faster method?
I don't have any specific recommendations and am quite rusty - but years ago when I was similarly interested I just looked up a decent undergraduate music programs course requirements and got their intro harmony text followed by intro comp text; learned a lot from that.
And this is an excuse to link to this really thorough documentation of the architecture and history of Uptown, which has had a wild history.

https://chicagoflaneur.com/2020/04/24/portrait-of-chicago-up...
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oh man Ian's Shoelace Site is such a beautiful piece of what the web should be.
It is interesting how police is wildly different between countries.

In France they are routinely attacked and their reaction is gentle (recent example: explosives and molotov bombs were thrown directly at them, they responded by lacrymogen gas). Paris streets were being destroyed and they did not attack the hooligans.

For attempting to kill policemen by burning them alive in their car (it was a trap, police was called to come), out of 16 attackers only 8 were jailed for 8 to 16 years.

I miss something in between France (the world of teletubbies) and the US (Mad Max)
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https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/issues...
A fair bit of early music composition is weighted by what is easily sung, more than anything else.
Wow. It does. Wild. I literally saw the toe end of a shoe there, due to the darker colour. I wonder how many others will see that first, or if I'm just borked.

(I had to go back, stare at it, enlarge the pic, stare some more, then I saw it the correct way.)
Neither dang nor hu3 went over to your place, pointed a gun at your head, and forced to to hang out on a website you hate. If you think HN is awful in so many ways, vote with your feet. Go somewhere you like better. Why hang out here to complain about here?
Does it support auto positioning like in MindMaps? e.g. everytime I hit `tab` I get sub node then I hit several times let's say I have 10 sub nodes now, auto positioned.
Would a good solution be to test battery designs in crash tests and tax more flammable designs more? Try and incentivize companies to come up with innovative fire suppression designs
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> I still find it creepy that they gather data this specific

I personally have never cared—there is nothing that can be learned about me (aside from being a power user, which I don't care about being public knowledge) from technical features I use. I absolutely block everything personal using uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger + FF's built in stuff, but I definitely see the value in tracking feature use.
Question “how” in such general and abstract issues is always meaningless and not fruitful.

Start with question “why” and the moment you find concrete and important answer — you stop asking generic “how” questions.
> This doesn’t seem sufficient to me. Given that the US has the death penalty at all, how can we declare that it is not ok for people to call for it when they believe a crime has been committed

Does the crime they believe was committed have the death penalty? If not, then calling for the death of the "criminal" is certainly not ok. ( And generally I find calling for death and the death penalty to be morally wrong, but that's another story)
I have seen this done but have never learned it.
Can you please pop this list of articles into pastebin and paste it here? tyvm
No, it's a custom thing.
What counties are you referring to that had irregularities and were not audited that would have changed the outcome of the election?
One is symmetric, the other one isn't.
That's right. Thank you, I know what the phrase means. Don't get attached to me simply using their words to make my point.

The point is: instead of making a change, they waited until laid off. So in the end, it's somebody else's fault, like this: "I don’t want to talk too much about it, but let’s say my boss didn’t care about doing good work and didn’t know what good work looked like."

Maybe the post leaves too much in the unclear. It's not obvious if this is the author reflecting on the past and making up with their inner self or if it is simply taking out on the world. The post doesn't answer any of that.
Most likely but doesn't that prove the point that reading is ultimately heavily context based and provided enough context you can distort the letters themselves to some absurd lengths and still preserve meaning?
Or he paid more, had more interesting work, clear path leadership was present, wfh options, family vibe, stock options, less corporate culture, etc..
Are you referring to this picture: https://www.fieggen.com/Dont_Link/finished-Surgeons-Knot.jpg

The perspective of the picture fooled me for a moment too, but this knot is in the usual position.
I keep the starting knot taught by simply keeping the ends tensioned at all times when tying.

Re people saying the Ian knot doesn’t come undone: neither do my normal ones.
I would like to see America build more of these.

Even lightening building codes, and zoning requirements (allow for very small rooms). If the Infrasctructure bill promised more of this type of housing I would be thrilled. I'd be happy with a few public restrooms strategically placed around cities, but I guess I'm the only one that needs easy access to a bathroom!

1. It's obvious homlessness is just getting worse. I just heard the head of the Federal Reserve comment on the increasing size of the homeless encampment mext to his office.

2. We need building codes that encourage small simple housing units.

3. I like the hotel doesn't have a list of rules. I feel giving people some control over their lives is very important. I like there are no mandatory religious meetings, or curfews. Treat a man like a thinking adult, and you might be suprised with the result?

4. Yes--I understand this place is in disrepair, but why couldn't we built simple housing? I sometimes think authorities make projects more complicated because they secretly don't want anything built, especially for the poor.

5. Oh yea, America needs more people like thus guy:

"Wesley Duran, a porter at the hotel. “I try to give everyone respect, treat people fairly here. There’s too much hatred in the world for me to go that way. We’ve gotta be nicer to one another.”
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You should check out this paper where they tested different representations on humans to see what they could tell apart, and came up with a novel representation called Moji.

https://exascale.info/assets/pdf/students/MSc_Thesis_-_Micha...
At what point/to what degree do we think VSCode will feed back into Visual Studio in the future (in terms of UX, implementation, or otherwise)? I don't see them totally converging any time soon, because Visual Studio has a huge legacy audience that needs continuity, and not just "it basically can do the same things". But I believe Live Share started in Code, for example.

There's clearly already some visual resemblance- I'm just curious what the future might hold for the relationship between these two products
You might get jumpy too if this was your day job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIKCjQdxtO0&t=61s
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Yes. I'd guess he means Ian's Secure Knot, which I also now use.

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm
Yeah at present, people can see a film separately but still talk in depth about tiny details of it. When this tech is in place but new some conversations are going to get confusing. Once everyone is used to it it'll be a slight annoyance, and something that some people will actively avoid - perhaps putting premium prices on original copies.
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Both unexpected and welcome to see this site on here.

I had never learned how to tie my shoes and some day decided to look it up online. I taught myself the Ian Knot from the pictures on the site and have been using it since. That was over ten years ago and it's still the only way I know to tie my shoes. Thank you, Ian.
We appear to have very different ideas of what whataboutism is. If twitter and parler are actually different, then just say that. There's no reason to dismiss the argument without meeting it.

> Don't you have anything meaningful to add to the conversation?

And in any event, there's no reason to resort to personal attacks.
Also https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I remember creating a moderately large spreadsheet in Google Docs last year. Safari unloaded the page and forced a refresh every time I switched away. Firefox would hang recomputing formulas and only Chrome scaled well.

I'm looking to move to Safari by default. I just need to get over some UI differences. It drives me nuts that Firefox doesn't use the native context menus (I use "Look Up" constantly) and Text Shortcuts don't work. There's a bug for this filed literally 20 years ago.

Each browser has different trade offs and those may not change over time. I'm glad Safari fits your needs.
https://github.com/mozilla/readability

I had no idea that Readability.js was available as a standalone library. That’s awesome!
We're discussing a report from a team hired to do a security audit, that would certainly qualify as a good reason for them.
I think that it's actually not an unreasonable question and the prior answer was a little short!

For example ARM has different ISAs depending on the application: A for more complex Application processors, R for Realtime and M for Microcontroller. The ISA for M is less complex, less complex to implement and likely to use less power than A (or than a full x86 implementation).

Not an expert but from what I've seen Super-H seems like a good candidate for a low power applications.
I keep one of my ringfingers (specifically left hand) on the overhand (starter) knot while I thread the other bits. Works a treat.
I agree that in general one would not use R to engineer software. However I disagree regarding low maintainability.

I've seen very complex R packages that have been around for 30+ years. They are actively maintained. Applying good design principles, unit testing, modularity - all that is very much doable in R.

And you will want to write software in R, especially if the purpose is to support the very activity of working with R packages and to expose the R statistical environment over HTTP. Case in point, the software I link to, in my comment above.
Make sure you read down to that awesome anecdote about "mosaic theory" how large investors profit off of private meetings with executives even though sharing "material information" is illegal.

> On the other hand, it is clear that the Aberdeen analyst got useful information out of this meeting. The analyst paid close attention to the discussion of the chairman’s spa trip and charity polo match, and got a strong and accurate sell signal from that discussion. Surely the most useful information in the meeting came from the guy’s tan. If you describe an executive as “unfeasibly tanned” in a research note, you have definitely decided to sell. Here, that was the right call.
I am imagining my response to that which is the inscrutable stare until the other person realizes they said something that is beneath acknowledging and flops their way out of it however they will.

But these days with the meeting taking place over zoom and residential networks, just going still and staring is not certain to carry the same meaning!
I 100% saw it the same way you did and exclaimed aloud when I read this thread.
You are right. It's the same bowtie knot, just tied in a single motion.
Yes it is, I and almost certainly a large amount of people just blip right over whataboutism posts. Everyone is fed up with this style of deflection. Its just.. old. The discussion is about Parler, if you can't talk about it without the constant barrage of "well what about what Twitter does??" then maybe don't hit reply at all.
It has a fixed enumerated list of cases (here `Ok` and `Err`). Some of those cases may have additional payloads, but I don't see how that makes them any less like an enumerated type.
Note this is not about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Born
It's not 1-1 with either comment or submission upvotes. It's more complicated than that, largely for anti-abuse reasons.
That's how I saw it first too.
I'll admit that I do like the premises of various isekais - kumo desuga nanika (I'm a spider so what) and honzuki no gekokujo (ascendance of a bookworm) that you mentioned are in fact two of my favorites - but it's worth remembering that these are light novel adaptations. Personally I think there's a bit of loss of "magic" directly attributable to bringing the story out of the text-based medium, particularly in the case of honzuki no gekokujo. I thought there was something very special about how Myne was sickly and could not physically go see how Parue was harvested, and how her family's description of the process was as bewildering to her (as an other-worlder) as it would be to any of us. It's a really clever storytelling device that masterfully helps convey the protagonist's situation.

Another example: the orc arc of moonlight sculptor was an absolutely epic read in text format; I don't think the cartoon format can really do it justice.
Likely those with a heightened sense of perception are detecting this illusion. I mean, clearly that explains it.
"Independence" is defined for random variables, so "randomness" is implied. However, this approximate orthogonality property depends on the distribution. It holds for the normal distribution and many others, although not in general.