skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly, from my point of view they're already heavily censoring content via their algorithm. Facebook hides posts that decrease engagement and amplifies posts that increase engagement. If the argument for absolute free speech is that misinformation should be fought with information (meaning, if some folks are telling people to drink bleach as a cure for covid, the remedy is to tell those same people not to drink bleach, and let the people decide for themselves), that's impossible what with Facebooks algorithmic censorship. It's nearly impossible to reach those people, and it's not even possible to even hear what argument they're receiving in order to rebut.

Secondly, in terms of liberty, Facebook is a company doing what they feel they need to do. What course of action, aside from government intervention, would prevent them from removing posts they thought were harmful? What would be the threshold for the government to intervene in a web service's moderation policy?
Government orders Google to track anyone searching certain keywords
Nios II is more than hardware. How do you run code on it?

They have to maintain all the compiler stuff, all the libraries, all the related OS kernel and library changes.

The core also needs updates to keep it current with newer hardware interfaces.

With just a team of 50 people to do all these things, that's a minimum of 10-20 million per year. That's not including the initial development team being much larger. Over a decade or two, hundreds of millions or more is not unlikely.
It doesn’t actually say the account must be deleted. It says:

“…must also allow users to INITIATE deletion of their account”

Capitals mine. So I can allow the initiation of deletion but never actually completely delete the account… and my app complies.
It is time to talk about unionization that would throw all these bullshit inequalities out the window.
The Pi 3 and 4 can also boot from TFTP with an NFS root. This also allows you to switch the OS your Pi is booting just by renaming a symlink on your server. All my home Pis boot that way. As a bonus, you never need to worry about an SD card going bad.
esheep inspired at all?

I was amused when it dropped from the top and I played around resizing the window to make it fall. Casually dropping "use arrow keys to move cat!" under hobby programming was a lovely way of revealing that and rewarding the reader.
What open source databases support automatic sharding? I think their only other option would have been something like cockroachdb, which probably wasn't very mature when notion started.
I think they're just trying to be helpful.
How large is the Oil Fund these days (after Corona spending)
1 trillion USD or something like that - you'll be fine
Don't they maintain shadow accounts and not actually delete the account in the background. That was my understanding from prior discussions around it. Basically they hide the account, not actually delete the account and all data associated with your use.

Could be totally wrong here though...
I don't think so, checking Siemens they're touting a 65% efficient 600MW turbine. The higher number might be including some application for the waste heat.
>Maybe the idea you are really looking for isn't "prevent it from being encrypted", but instead, "make any 'simple' reversible transformation of it, have parts that hint at a way to decode it / leave it still decodeable by some algorithm" ?

yes, but in such a way that the original message is recoverable even if it gets encrypted.

I should have said, that I'm thinking classically and that I'm thinking about key-based encryption, i.e. no one-time pads and the key has to be smaller than the message.

> if you are allowed to encode your messages in ways that make them really gargantuan and much larger than could ever be practical, then, I think this could be done ?

Yea, I think this may be unavodiable in any way this is done. The encoded message will be much bigger than the plain text.
Which also makes it reasonable to expect this to work only against key-based cyphers.

I don't undesrtand why you compare the complexity of the message and the complexity of the machines doing the cyphering (either en- or de-cryption), but regardless, thanks for the response.
They are also rich to the tune of $200k saved in the nations coffers for every citizen.
I'll assert that it's much worse than nothing.

"Nothing" isn't bad. Meditate. Let your imagination run wild. Relax. You can't do those things on facebook dot com.
Heck, I know they're hybrids but just look formula one. The total emissions of every car, from all sessions at every single race in a year combined produce less emissions than a one way flight from London to New York. Which is then completed negated by the fact that the drivers all take private jets around the world
Like changing a broken automatic transmission is a cheap thing.

That happened to a friend of mine, who was quoted around 50k NOK (~6k USD) of a car he bought used for twice that. Fortunately for him, it turned out there was one week left of the 5-year "new car" warranty so he didn't have to pay after all, but that was sheer luck.
The "teardown" video was quite well done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxnr2FAADAs. Their openness is an interesting contrast with other manufacturers.
Exactly, I carry and regularly use only 3 physical cards. The rest of the 20 or so cards I only carry in Google Pay, with the physical cards staying in the drawer and which I only ever use for the 3-digit number when I verify Google Pay on a new phone.
Yes. They start commercialization. Not that a commercial reactor will be ready in 2025 but where they work to commercialize SPARC -> ARC.

https://cfs.energy/technology
Isn't the Monarch a party to every criminal case in the UAE though? He'd be trying himself.
Which is not that different from paying by the TB, as long as you are big enough that your traffic isn't too spiky. If you assume that over the day/week Cloudflare's your bandwidth usage moves between 0.5x and 1.5x of the monthly average, then paying for 1 TB/month is basically the same as paying for 4.5 megabit/s (1TB/month == 3Mb/s, multiply by 1.5 for peak demand).
I like Borges, but this is one of his weakest stories. The mathematical point made is on the trivial side (and most readers who praise it interpret it as merely making a mathematical point). It is a bit stronger if read as an implicit critique of logocentrism or religious textualism, but still falls short of the best few of his other fictional works.
So this will also apply to all banks with online onboarding?

E.g.
1) Download an app (N26, Revolut, etc...)
2) Create an account
3) After login, the option to delete the account should be there...

(Of course the bank should respect all data retention policies)
How do you know what people have been working on?
Children today rarely see the results of their labor. School grades are so inflated there is little correlation with the quality of work and the mark. This causes anxiety because children rarely feel competent and frankly many are not.
It would still fail in school, regardless of how smart the student is. Having someone edit before publishing always makes sense even if your English is absolutely perfect. If you make such glaring spelling mistakes and ignore the coloured squiggly underscore, what other words and phrases leave the reader with the wrong perception or meaning?
This is what I don’t get - lots of people resist just saying no. If you’re well off financially and someone refuses to hear your answer then you’re in a proper position to exile family members. The only thing stopping you from exiling them is yourself.

Cut toxic people out of your life!
Separately, the ruler also hacked his daughter with the same Pegasus toolkit, as part of his plot to kidnap her. This surprisingly isn't mentioned in the article (though it does reference the kidnapping).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/21/dubai-prince...

>"But there was one threat she hadn’t planned for: The spyware tool Pegasus, which her father’s government was known to have used to secretly hack and track people’s phones. Leaked data shows that by the time armed commandos stormed the yacht, eight days into her escape, operatives had entered the numbers of her closest friends and allies into a system that had also been used for selecting Pegasus surveillance targets."

"“Shoot me here. Don’t take me back,” she’d screamed as soldiers dragged her off the boat, roughly 30 miles from the shore, according to a fact-finding judgment by the United Kingdom’s High Court of Justice. Then she disappeared."
It doesn’t actually say the account must be deleted. It says:
“…must also allow users to INITIATE deletion of their account”

Capitals mine. So I can allow the initiation of deletion but never actually completely delete the account… and my app complies.
Check out Implementations section on this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shard_(database_architecture)
That is why when comparing languages we should always look beyond grammar and semantics.

This is nothing new, it is also a reason why languages like C and C++ won the systems programming wars from the 1990's.

After a while one gets tired to write wrapper libraries, or having to pay extra for an additional compiler that isn't part of the platform SDKs.

Hence why successful languages always need some kind of killer feature, or a company with deep enough pockets willing to push it into the mainstream no matter what.

Same applies to new OS architecture ideas as well.
You can believe that dark billing patterns are bad and this change is good, while at the same time also believing Apple should charge developers less -- these are not mutually exclusive.
Carnot's law is what you want. Max efficiency is temperature differential divided by hot absolute temperature.

So, with super heated steam of say 600 degrees C, I'd make that a maximum of about 66% theoretical, so 50% actual sounds pretty good.

If you could build a plasma heat engine, you could get near 100% but I've no idea what that would technically look like.
It is more complicated than that. On the "milder" side of the spectrum that is certainly true. On the severe side of the spectrum there can be significant cognitive deficiencies that impair an individual from living the life they desire. There is nothing wrong with creating tools to help ameliorate those deficiences as long as the goal is not to "force them to be normal" but rather to give them tools to help them realize their potential unique and valuable abilities and perspectives.

Edit: This does appear to be a money grubbing attempt to capitalize on poorly informed and desperate parents rather than an attemot to create tools to empower individuals with ASD.
I don't agree with this at all.

While it's true that there are lots of bad libraries and many libraries are easy, you really isolate yourself from the broader ecosystem by doing this. Vendors and 3rd party solutions are now much harder to use, and when you use them you'll probably only use them at a surface level instead of using all the features.

And some things are so mature and vast you don't have a chance of building them yourself. If what you are doing can be done well in very mature ecosystems like React or PyTorch, the effort to recreate them will dwarf the time spend on important work.
Twitter 3x their money on MoPub in just 8 years. Well done.
I feel like App Store accounts require a credit card number, and they do an authorization for a few cents to check if it’s real. At least they did years ago when I tried to set up a relative’s iOS device with a fake credit card number.
I find it extremely ironic that they whine about Twitch being a "disgusting cesspool"... on 4chan.

> Calling Twitch a “disgusting toxic cesspool,”
Raspberry Pi Launches New Website for Its Hardware
> The LinkedIn password leak contained hashed (but not salted) passwords, and some of those where cracked and exploited in the wild.

The hashes of previously unused passwords were brute forced, or passwords were reused across sites from a previous plain text dump and exploited? Because there's a big difference between those two things. If your password is reused and originally compromised , you're screwed regardless, and having the leaked hashed passwords doesn't leave you in any worse a situation than before.

> My old gaming PC with a 1060 can apparently do ≈ 6300 * 10^6 hashes per second. Assuming your password above is az-AZ, 0-9 = 62 possibilities (with no salt) it would take me 10 seconds to test all combinations for 6 characters and 30 days for 9 characters. And it's a trivially parallel problem, making it easy to throw money on to make it wall-clock quicker.

So practically infeasible to exploit? The claims that are being made (even in this thread) are that having a mining rig would let you brute force a SHA1 hash, but based on the numbers

> It's just a simple brute force problem, I don't see what there is to question

If it's "just a simple brute force problem", and SHA1 is the only issue, then my question is what's the password in the hash above? You (and others here, on reddit, online) are telling us that this is a trivial problem.
I'm pretty similar with coffee; all you really need is a decent grinder and reasonable control over water temperature, and immersion brews (like the Aeropress) are really hard to completely screw up, so you can focus on buying good quality coffee and on experiencing the variety in flavours.

While I've managed to avoid an expensive espresso addiction, I do still do pourovers every once in a while even though I'm not that good at them because they're just fun to do, and I can totally understand people putting tons of money and effort into perfecting their coffee experience.
Form Energy's iron-air battery, for instance - good at the two days to two weeks duration, needed as backup for wind during prolonged calms. We already mine a great deal of iron; the extra needed globally wouldn't really be noticed. Others are working on iron-air also.

At least a couple of teams are quite far along with hot rock energy storage. Good for the one week to one month timescale.

Various other battery technologies for sub-day timescales - lithium for grid frequency stabilisation, flow batteries.

I don't know of any active trials of ammonia energy storage, one of the most scalable candidates for seasonal storage, but ammonia engineering is very old and very widespread, so there don't appear to be roadblocks to scaling up rapidly once required.

The YouTube channels "Just Have a Think"[1] and "Undecided with Matt Ferrell"[2] focus on this stuff, and do some research.

Edit: you should be sceptical; well done! Scaling really does take forever. That's why the only viable technologies are those already lying around all over the place, being used for other things.

1. https://www.youtube.com/c/JustHaveaThink/videos

2. https://www.youtube.com/c/UndecidedMF/videos
Thank you all for the honest feedback. Yes, the idea was to show the usefulness of the tool "by example" using it for popular stories. I should have put more effort into it (and I'll write to dang to ask for permission).

I'll also buy a custom, less spammy looking, domain. The .pw extension is what I use for my main website which I have chosen at the time because it was cheap.
You think others have more knowledge than you. Should you worry?
Thank you, I really appreciate that.
And especially now with the added burden of the “luxury” car tax.
It sounds like there's a little bit of presumed Zodiac-Killer DNA on his letters, and there's been some preliminary analysis of it. Hopefully this evidence is suggestive enough to justify a full comparison.

https://medium.com/@charlierusso23/why-has-dna-evidence-not-...
What would you do if it's declined or the number is compromised?

I stopped carrying cash like 10 years ago. Even banks themselves recommend having more than one card just in case an issue occurs, to ensure you're not left stranded.
[sort "for i in range(n)" "for j in range(n)"] https://www.google.com/search?q=sort+%22for+i+in+range%28n%2...

[sort "for (int i = 0" "for (int j = 0" site:stackoverflow.com] https://www.google.com/search?q=sort+"for+(int+i+%3D+0"+"for...

["modswapsort"] https://www.google.com/search?q="modswapsort"

The last is the function name from one of the earlier results.
They also don’t force developers to pay $99 or 30%
underfunding public institutions in ways that drive them towards other sources of funding and outside influence by those with power and capital is not accidental, it is intentional.

You can effectively force this type of corruption by cutting apportionment without cutting responsibilities. C.f....

* IRS unable to investigate rich tax cheats due to lack of agents

* the FDA example used elsewhere

* America's public universities

* This
Unionization would throw so much out the window!
It will only matter if management is responsive to reports (see for example the youtube crypto livestream scam problem, which has been going on for almost 3 years).
There are a handful of independent shops that can repair a battery for much less than full replacement cost. I think that will get better as EVs become more common.
> Raise money from an angel who owns a conglomerate. The angel forces all his businesses and people working in these businesses to adopt the app that others wouldn't otherwise trust.

In other words, the YC model.
Exactly. Google does not sell personal data, so its revenue from selling personal data is $0.

Of course Google is still subject to the law because it qualifies on the other two criteria.
Tripe article, stating the obvious
The Crane Who Fell in Love with a Human
Implementing just-in-time access on legacy systems that pre-date just-in-time architectures is extremely expensive. Its cheaper to either give all info or no info. Which is what every legacy company does instead.

My company can shut off my access to the all the databases when they stop asking me to troubleshoot any and all data issues. Which will never happen.
With half the Teslas made going to Norway for quite a while, I think indeed it was a key to their success.

Not just the numbers, but also the geography and climate. Make a car that can be used for a long trip any time of the year here, and you're set for most markets.

There's a reason why car makers come to Norway and Sweden to test their new cars before launch.
I can appreciate the author's criticisms of the shortcomings of Cloudformation, but this is really just a "Why you should use Terraform" post.

e: Title was changed
So, if you're pretty open for the language, I'd love to recommend checking out Nodewood (https://nodewood.com/, disclaimer, I'm the creator).

One big peeve I have of working on apps is that frequently, the backend and frontend are in different languages requiring different libraries and code for common business logic. Nodewood specifically tries to minimize this by using JavaScript for both, and even doing things like keeping database logic out of models, so the models can then be used to store business data and do business calculations on the backend, frontend, wherever.

When you minimize code duplication like this, you not only speed up development, but you reduce your maintenance burden later. For example, you never have to worry about introducing a bug where you update validation logic on the frontend but not the backend.

That said, there are also solutions for this in other frameworks, libraries that dynamically update the page with new server data without much custom coding from you, though they have their limits.

Either way, if this is a priority for you, I'd love your feedback on Nodewood!
A lot of Go and Ruby
In future warfare, I'm pretty sure these will be fully autonomous to avoid jamming and latency issues.
It can but from the article, with a not so old Windows stack it seems that this encryption is not used:

> At the time of this writing BitLocker does not utilize any encrypted communication features of the TPM 2.0 standard, which means any data coming out of the TPM is coming out in plaintext, including the decryption key for Windows. If we can grab that key, we should be able to decrypt the drive, get access to the VPN client config, and maybe get access to the internal network.
I have been just as addicted to Hacker News as I have been addicted to Facebook. Since I discovered this site in 2007, it has at times been a daily routine to come here. Of course you don't spend as much time on HN as on FB. It only takes a few seconds to scroll to the end on HN.
What I was trying to say was, since there are an infinite number of real numbers between each pair of integers, there would be a similarly infinite number of garbage text between each pair of legible texts.

Even though there are an infinite number of integers, there are an even more infinite number of reals, rendering the proportion of (integers)/(reals) to be near 0.
Can someone please help me? I'm trying to recall a post on HN within the past year that ended up introducing me to The Library of Babel. It was like a textual/visual blog post/article either in the same vein as The Library or direct text from it...or maybe the images were originally meant to illustrate it. It was weird. That's all I can remember.
What a load of nonsense, autism is a horrible thing that should be entirely eliminated if possible. An autist probably will never be a salesman, for instance, we should make that not the case if we can because otherwise those opportunitues will stay off limits because of some peoples birth. Then there are the more severe cases where people cant speak and care for themselves. Thats not a society issue, thats a birth defect and working to fix it is good.
Here's the full list, for anyone wondering:

OPERATION LAPTOPBEAVERED

GYPSUM BRINK

PROMONTORY DIDDLER

OVERSHADOWED LATVIAN

SLICER COMMUNE

Just kidding, the keywords you can't search without being warrant-targeted turn out to be...crime victims' names and addresses? lol everyone is so screwed
>> Can anyone comment on the heat > electricity conversion ratio? My understanding has been that modern multi-stage steam turbines used in power plants are around 90% efficient, not 50%.

They probably mean 90% of a theoretical maximum.

For example, one of the results that stood out to me in thermodynamics class was that the maximum possible efficiency of an internal combustion engine (I forget which cycle) was a function of the compression ratio. In other words you could never reach 100% conversion of chemical energy to mechanical energy and the theoretical "efficiency" was a function that increased with compression ratio but could never reach 100 percent. So lets assume an engine with a given compression ratio could have a theoretical efficiency of 50 percent, but a real-world design only achieved 45 percent. Someone might say 45/50 is 0.9 or 90 percent of the theoretical limit. That's a measure of how good the design was vs what's theoretically possible, but it has little to do with the actual efficiency of the energy conversion.

IIRC the best heat-to-mechanical energy conversion devices are rockets with a theoretical efficiency of 50% but it's been half my life since I studied thermodynamics, so maybe I'm off on some of this.
I think this take is too skeptical to apply to all the startups. For all the talks from CFS I've seen, they've been very measured and sober about the viability of near-term fusion.

The game changer here is not very new reactor designs, but cheap high performance high-temperature superconductors that enable very high field and therefore much smaller size.

Other fusion work, like ICF or the LLNL laser fusion or Lockheed or General Fusion all seem to be built on designs that are far less understood and less Q performance so far.
Infrastructure takes time to build. A short term price hike in oil costs isn’t going to change how many cars Tesla can manufacture tomorrow. Near term you can build up infrastructure to extract more oil from the same well faster than you can build a new car factory.

The only real change from such a policy is how quickly wells will run dry, but I hope we can abandon oil long before running out is a serious concern.