skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I’ve heard is that they will have a demonstration of “net energy” by 2025. This is still a long way from solving the engineering problem of putting energy on the grid. And if that “net energy” definitions is actually Q-plasma as this video claims, it’s a lot farther still.
There is a reason project management calls scope-cost-time the iron triangle. It's extremely to bind all three sides tightly unless the estimates are very good, and/or there is significant added buffer to the project (and that really means the cost side is what's stretching to give you extra certainty on the hard scope and time deadlines).

More commonly at most two of the three are tightly constrained, and another side is more free. One can optimize in some directions, but none of the sides are fully independent of each other. I think the best project outcomes I've seen on are ones where only one side is strongly fixed, and the team is in control of the other two aspects.
> ... So-called “employee handbooks,” provided to workers at the beginning of employment, are ubiquitous within the tech industry. They are filled with the information an employer wants a worker to know, but are void of the content workers need to protect themselves.

The Tech Worker Handbook is not a how-to, set of instructions, checklist, or call to action to whistleblow. Whistleblowing — the act of speaking up in order to improve a situation for others — is an individual decision that should be made after a careful consideration of risks, options, and intended outcomes. My hope, though, is that those who do decide to take great risks in coming forward — for all of us — are better prepared and supported.

^ Excerpt from TFA. IMHO it's a good idea, cool resource. Not everyone has Frances Haugen's gumption and foresight.
"This HTS magnet technology will next be used in SPARC, which is under construction in Devens, Massachusetts and on track to demonstrate net energy from fusion by 2025. SPARC will pave the way for the first commercially viable fusion power plant called ARC." [0]

But this does not say that they are going to put power on the grid in 2025. They say net energy from fusion by 2025 which may just mean Q-plasma > 1, it does not say (which kind of proves the point of the article). They don't have any estimates of an on the grid fusion plant.

https://cfs.energy/news-and-media/cfs-commercial-fusion-powe...
In any comparisons with B2, don't forget to consider that they have a 2 hour maintenance window every Thursday during the US business day: https://www.backblaze.com/scheduled-maintenance.html

They usually don't go down during that time, but sometimes they do and their support told us to always expect outages during this time.

If you need your B2 data available during those windows, you'll need to also set up a failover data source for those times.
I hear Netflix has a good tech blog ;)
Many hashes are trivial to target, until you start getting to password hashers that force you to use lots of RAM or CPU (or ideally both) to check a single password. As long as you know what hashing algorithm was used (often inferred by the hash length or other details), you can shove it into hashcat or some alternatives and wait, either using a good dictionary or bruteforce. If you've configured hashcat to work well with a decent GPU, you're good to go.

Even bcrypt is not that hard to find a solution to a hash if it didn't use enough rounds.

I learned a bunch of this when a company I worked for was breached and wanted to see just how easy it was to solve out weaker passwords in our db.
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Which in my opinion is a real problem. I went to a private high school that hired off-duty cops from the local PD as security. Guess which high school students got off easier when they were caught underage drinking and the like by the police?
Salts being exposed is not a massive risk in of itself, as the purpose of the salt is to prevent the use of pre-computed tables to reverse a hash into plaintext, forcing an attacker to bruteforce each individual hash+salt instead of being able to reuse work.

With regards to crypto mines being used for breaking hashes, if you have one based on GPUs, yes, you could reuse GPU mining hardware for cracking hashes, albeit with relatively low hashrates for current best practice hashing algorithms.

If you're looking at something like Bitcoin's hashrate and thinking that it could be used to break SHA2 hashes, as far as I understand ASIC miners, this is not possible, as ASIC miners are designed only for mining, and they don't really accept non-mining related inputs (ie, no arbitrary inputs to be hashed, unless it matches Bitcoin's specific steps for iterating over nonces).
But doesn't Android sell more devices overall? Does that imply Android is better?
It is indeed, sadly because Lin is awesome. So is the entire Mozilla team doing pioneering work with WASM, fyi they mostly moved over to Fastly where they're continuing their work.
Might as well make the payments from master to servant explicit, I agree.
“If votes were stored on a blockchain, it'be impossible to hack and decode them”
I’m in the same boat.

I still use it for messenger, but most days I don’t even look at Facebook.

You can still meet people in real life, just the other day I asked out a girl at a concert and we got drinks afterwards. That’s much more straightforward than installing 30 apps and chatting with bots.

In fact I had a girl offer to add me on Instagram and I just said no. It’s not that serious ( plus typically if she won’t give you her number she doesn’t actually want to date you.)

I’ll agree Facebook used to be much better. For example I was( like 10 years ago) in a college group and I actually went out with a girl from that. I think if your in a closed community it can still be fun.
There already is an example of such an API, it's possible to use NetBSD drivers outside the NetBSD kernel with its rump kernel feature: https://research.csiro.au/tsblog/using-rump-kernels-to-run-u...
Is it only in Europe that this is already by law for every entity that stores personal data?
And this AMA is officially closed. (Aurora self-driving)
Wow. I wonder how many apps this will take down due to not ready.
What browser are you using? In my machine it's fine in Chrome, Firefox and Edge.
I’d like to speak to whoever came up with this acronym for obvious reasons
Same as WSJ
As I said, I've heard the claim, but still question it. Here's a sha1 e7b7cdf949007abe7e8a190ba8eae56c60018c1f, how long does it take hashcat to break it?
It's a very polished, state of the art crud app serving millions of people, it's always interesting to see how it's made.

I personally don't give a single fuck but I can see the appeal for some people.

It's a bit like the great pyramids, it's just a big pile of rocks but we'd be really interested in knowing exactly how the made these big piles
In the first or second series of the fabulous Gomorra, there's a scene where the psycho hard-bastard Gennaro Savastano is standing next to a little pull-along suitcase playing with his phone, made me laugh out loud.
If the personal data is encrypted and you destroy the only key that can be used to decrypt it, is it still personal data? Or is it now simply some random bytes?
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While it's true a third-party attempt is all but hopeless, Nader's campaign isn't the most successful in recent years. Gary Johnson did better in 2016 and Perot did much better in 1992 and 1996 although he wasn't running as a Libertarian or Green.
There could also be a newly discovered bug or change in Safari 15 that affects AMP pages.
I still remember Final Fantasy IV even though I first played it around 30 years ago. Those novels I had to read for school? I don't remember half of them, and the half I do remember are not novels I remember fondly.

Why? The game starts with a guy committing war crimes. He questions his king, is stripped of his post, and sent off on a suicide mission. Then, when he carries out his mission, it turns out he's committed yet another atrocity. That was fucking grim for a game that came out in 1991, and strong medicine for a sheltered kid who had grown up on TV that produced "pro-social" messaging like Dungeons & Dragons and The Get-Along Gang. Here was a game that gives you a taste of the kind of bad shit that can happen when you trust authority instead of your own conscience, and that was strong medicine.

So, yeah, I think games can be effective storytelling media. Just bear in mind that FFIV didn't have full-motion video, anime cutscenes, or voice acting. Hell, the original SNES release didn't even have an accurate translation; as a pre-ESRB title it was censored to suite Nintendo of America's content policies.

https://legendsoflocalization.com/final-fantasy-iv/
I've probably done 50 interviews and hired around 10 people. The people doing them with me and I used a decently uniform process to give all applicants the same set of quite varied questions. We also gave the interview process to a decent number of existing employees to see how an existing employee fares.

I started the process thinking education would be quite independent of performance. Our data from the process showed exactly the opposite.

Quality of education, especially at entry level, made a large difference in the process and also in the long term performance of the hires.
Where did you get that from? R2 is cheaper for storage too then s3
To make it simpler, let's assume that the shape of pizza is a square, i.e. we are talking about a 12×12 inch pizza and a 18×18 inch pizza. This increases the size of both pizzas by the same ratio, so it shouldn't change the answer to "are two small pizzas smaller than one large pizza?".

Now let's measure the size in a new unit which is 6 inch long. So the small pizza is 2×2 units, and the large pizza is 3×3 units.

twice 2×2 = twice 4 = 8

3×3 = 9
You know what, it's probably the same reason Walmart Pay is based on QR codes, too.

It's probably why NFC is not universal on Android as well.
Also, he was right. People shouldn't have sent Zuck their private info even if Zuck were a saint, because there was no way they could have known Zuckerberg was a saint.
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Oh, I’m not so silly as to say it’s a good idea. I just find it entertaining.

I think I would have posted the usual “previous discussions” and then also posted “By the way, I’m building this discussion aggregator blah blah” and linked.

Submitting a popular post to introduce the need for the discussion aggregator will work. His execution was just a bit ham fisted.
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People glommed onto the idea of circumstantial meaning weak from police and legal procedurals.

And since we are talking about evidence, we should be using it within the context of evidence. And in that context, some or all of the evidence being circumstantial has no bearing on whether or not it is good evidence.

This isn't a matter of "other meanings [being] derived from the same root". There is no root. It's a misappropriation of a word from lazy television writers.
One hundred percent. That is something that, to my knowledge, was not known before. If it is indeed true then it would bring some interesting questions along with it.
Yeah a free open source implementation. How are they planning on making money?
Herein lies the banality: facebook is boring, but if you're bored, it's better than nothing. I don't begrudge folks using it to pass the time on transit to avoid interacting with the public... but I've witnessed quite a few people scrolling endlessly while half-watching tv, half-participating in face to face interactions, etc. I've fallen into that trap myself, during a period of intense burnout -- my ability to focus or produce dropped to zero, and... gotta get that dopamine.
It hasn’t even been legally established that Kyle Rittenhouse did anything wrong. Legally, he is innocent until proven guilty, and he has a case for self-defense for every round he fired that night.

To say that the First Amendment doesn’t protect the rights of people to organize and assemble in a public place where one of them is later forced to defend themselves is absurd. People don’t use Facebook to plan premeditated acts of political violence. They use Signal.
As mentioned in another comment, don't forget to consider B2's weekly 2 hour maintenance windows during the US work day: https://www.backblaze.com/scheduled-maintenance.html
Some countries have this for selected occupations that are commonly bursty. It could be good if it was generally available:

https://www.ato.gov.au/business/primary-producers/in-detail/...
That's not an estimate, it's a deadline. Different concepts.
I guess it makes sense from business point of view, although it is a pity that Pony is losing what is probably the only commercial user (that I am aware of).
Update: I've (politely) declined the offer and told them to 2x the number if they wanted to bring me in. They've asked me if I can work some hours for the rest of the year in order to help the engineering team launch the first iteration of the product and then revisit the proposal in January.

Thanks for all the comments, you're all being very helpful.
Let me get my reading glasses... Ahh... OK, they limit it only to accessing everything... lol.
Not a browser, but iTerm2 has this functionality built in. I could see how it would be awesome in a browser.
No one in IT should have access to business data. That's simply best practice. Worst case would be a database engineer who has access to backups or some prod data for troubleshooting, and even that should be under tight control with good access accounting.
I was thinking to do this but I had some concern about electrolysis, as electric water tanks are designed for AC, not DC.

But I never learned if this was a real concern or not.
I'd like to disagree with the idea of a "treadmill" because it implies that changing language doesn't anything and leaves us where we started. The wikipedia entry mentions "moron", "imbecile", and "retard" as examples which started as medical diagnoses before becoming insults.

It implies that the medical community moved away from these terms because they became insults. However, these are all terms derived from IQ testing and the concept of "mental age". IQ has been de-emphasized as the diagnostic criterion for a couple reasons: people with mental disabilities aren't the same as younger people without mental disabilities; the focus should be on what sort of help people need rather than what they can't do.

> In current medical diagnosis, IQ scores alone are not conclusive for a finding of intellectual disability. Recently adopted diagnostic standards place the major emphasis on the adaptive behavior of each individual, with IQ score just being one factor in diagnosis in addition to adaptive behavior scales, and no category of intellectual disability being defined primarily by IQ scores.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_classification#Classificati...

As for the common use as an insult, you're right that its impact is culturally relative. To me, I would ask why you're using a term which used to be a medical diagnosis as an insult. The wiki section says kids are saying "what are you, 'special'?" in reference to "special needs". Does that mean it's bad to get that medical diagnosis? I'd side-eye someone who says "retard" as an insult because it's not just rude to the insultee.
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>Why would an intern have access to this data?

monorepos are a thing at several companies (e.g. Google).
This was my morning read & it was a delight. The cycle of open & closed society, with closed being the default, the secure form of society... loved it. Very interesting framing. The turn mid-way through, into those who see what society could be, mystics, was a very fun twist right as it felt like we were about to run out of things to discuss.

I liked the author's write up on liberal democracy, as an embodiment of this mystic spirit:

"Liberal democracy is “essentially evangelical,” founded on a religious insight into humanity’s unity and dignity. Preserving liberal democracy is thus not so much a matter of legalistically defining rights and norms, as of keeping alive this “religious character” of openness to fresh expressions of its founding intuition that all human beings are equal"

"Democracy is not only one form of political regime among others, but a mystical, messianic, open religion."

As per @cratermoon's comments though, I think this is where the article quickly goes a bit off the rails.

"It is also to say that democratic societies can only survive insofar as they remain to a great extent closed, becoming a new kind of theocratic anthill in which the antinomian or anxiety-producing potential of individual thought is largely neutralized by convention and myth."

Here I feel like we're stumbling poorly into the Paradox of Tolerance, confusing the ardency with which openness must be insisted upon with a closed-ness.
Shocking that using a language that no one use was a mistake on the long term. It made 0 sense what so ever to use it in the first place.
Hi Joe here, leading up Cloud at Coinbase. Thanks for pointing this out, as a new product there's bound to be some quirks! Really appreciate the feedback. we'll get things like this fixed.
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It's true that 480 isn't on the list, but you'll notice there is a big skip in the list between 360 and 720, so if you want something in between, 480 is a good choice since it's still a multiple of 12.
>We see this today in those who attempt to weaponize the idea of censorship when society attempts to minimize the destructive effects of intolerant views.

Today, I think you are making a mistake and reversing the order.

It is the intolerant that are weaponizing censorship to minimize the destructive effects of the tolerant.
> The local PD is also refusing to do DNA tests which would resolve the issue.

Yeah, mean ol' law enforcement, refusing to do DNA tests for any crank mystery squad solving team that demands them.
The compiled kernel isn't distributed so there is no need to distribute source. Note that prodkernel is different than the Android kernel (where they do, and are required to share the source by GPL).

To be honest I don't think it is a major loss. IIUC most features are either only interesting internally, or are submitted upstream to reduce maintenance cost. Google's "secret sauce" isn't how great their kernel is, so I am not aware of anything that is held back for competitive advantage other than maybe some drivers for custom hardware. So while it would be nice to see all of these patches collected into a "live" snapshot of their kernel it probably wouldn't be that much more helpful (if at all) to a third-party.
You must have some interesting stories!
Very nice balloon animation.

Rarely do I visit a personal homepage that heats up my laptop.
> even if that information is encrypted.

Assuming that information is only visible to the owner of the key anyways, then disposing of the key effectively renders that encrypted data as garbage. Not being able to delete it only enables some unknown future attack that can decrypt any data without the key.
> All these comments seem to live in a fantastical world where money doesn't corrupt or influence behavior. Police were paid to do a job and did it to the benefit of an oil company. You can't pay a detective to investigate a family murder or sexual assault and shouldn't have to. Ostensibly that's what taxes for and what most people actually want them to do anyways.

But as another commenter mentioned[1], the pipeline company isn't doing this voluntarily, they're doing it because the utility commission forced them to. If that's the case, what's the difference between the pipeline company paying the police, and the pipeline company paying taxes, which goes to the town, which pays the police?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28776698
> Twitter has by far become a more egregious platform for society

I don't really see how that can be true when only 20% of so of the population actually use Twitter. It's very small beans compared to Facebook, or YouTube for that matter.
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Creating a 4chan support group for ex-users would be very challenging.

How many other 4chan addicts do you know in person?
This is the cost of gaining access to users in iPhone.

This also has nothing to do with unapproved software. The idea that a user can actually delete their data from your servers should not be a controversial topic. But of course it is for businesses and developers, which is why Apple has to make a policy like this.

As a user I am very happy with this.
> can we make an error correction scheme so good that a message encoded with it can be error corrected back into the original regardless of how the encoded message is encrypted?

No. Preventing this is called IND-CPA (indistiguishability under chosen plaintext attack) security and is basically table stakes for any modern symmetric encryption algorithm.

In fact this is even weaker than IND-CPA, since in IND-CPA the attacker can first observe arbitrarily many other plaintexts and use the resulting information to choose two (non-yet-seen) plaintexts specific to the particular encryption algorithm and key to try to distinguish, and they don't have to be sure which is which, only to do significantly better than chance.
Amazing work, congrats everyone! The unminified source code for all of these games is on GitHub for those interested in how this black magic is done.
Am I supposed to just stop eating food and buying gas? I don't understand what you're trying to say. If the alternative is pay cash and not get these benefits the only other logical reason for your statement is that I have a choice in the matter to not do these things.
To be fair, Glassdoor always has negative comments for most companies due to the reporting bias (only disappointed employees take the effort to voice their concerns).

It is a cliche amongst recruiters around the dreaded Glassdoor questions during hiring process.
Even better, when I had to cancel my NYT subscription, it said there weren't enough cancellation reps to connect me; "try again later".

I went in via the normal support chat, said I wanted to cancel, and was immediately redirected to one. It was an outright lie.
The notion that you earn 6 times more than your peers is also absurd. You dont work 6 times as hard/much and your time isn't 6 times more valuable than your friends. In my ideal world everyone made the same amount of money since we are all equal. Then you would get your software degree to avoid collecting garbage or wiping old people in a nursery home. Now think of CEO's making 100x other people
Not necessarily. Consider a design where each bucket is immutable for its entire lifetime. (Think: domain squatting "This domain is for sale" pages. Or domains that only exist to serve a redirect. Or, say, example.com. Or the Web 1.0 category of "per-subdomain, immutable, fixed format, non-interactive, user-generated content" sites, e.g. YTMND.)

For such setups, it could be easier to think of an object-storage bucket as, itself, a fully-static resource, even a content-addressable resource — where the bucket name contains an asset-pipeline fingerprint hash of the content of the bucket. In such cases, whether the bucket exists is the same as asking whether the content is deployed.

Then, rather than relying on S3-or-equivalent's own HTTP hosting (which requires that your CNAME also be the name of the bucket), you'd give the bucket a well-known "symbolic link" name by either configuring your own load-balancer with a hostname ⇒ bucket-content-address mapping (think k8s Ingress resources for this); or by configuring a third-party like Cloudflare to route the subdomain to a Worker that in turn makes requests to the specific bucket, passing the actual internal hostname. In the latter case, the per-subdomain Worker script would also be part of the Terraform deployment.