skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He made the point that religious organisations tried to restrict freedom of speech in order to silence activist groups they didn't agree with (which at the time was true), but also suggested a causal relationship between the fact that they held "primitive" beliefs and their willingness to censor.

If you look at how society has evolved over the last 15 years, the opposite has come true. Activists are successfully limiting speech they find offensive through legislation and intimidation, and one of the strongest defenders of "full" freedom of speech has now become the religious far-right.

I'm not saying I necessarily agree with the notion of "full" freedom of speech (which we don't actually have in Australia; only an implied right to freedom of political communication to the extent that is necessary to keep democracy running), but you can't deny that religion is no longer the enemy of free speech.
It should be much simpler to make changes to the manufacturers software, since they all come with the GPL notice.

It’s so silly things that don’t work, e.g. the guest network not really being separated.

I’ve found it very hard to get a decent solution, especially given that I can’t really change much on the canceling, now considering getting a pfsense/opnsense router in front of a consumer mesh Wi-Fi, though that still isn’t ideal, won’t be able to really do much for the Wi-Fi devices.

I think I’ve posted this once, what’s also missing out there is a guide for the home user to set up networking with typical scenarios, along with hardware recommendations (apart from companies producing better products, would consider paying the premium for ubiquity but here again it seems to require too mutant cables to be laid).
Ask HN: Ideas for an access monitor/counter for a bank saftey deposit box?
I recently aquired a safety deposit box at my local bank and would like to use it to store some items. After doing a few searches regarding the boxes, I found several accounts of unauthorized access occurring from bank employees.

I was wondering if anyone knows of or has ideas for a device that I could leave inside the box that would keep count on the number of times the box is opened.

It would have to be non resetting and reliable enough to not give false counts.

Ideally a low power device that could operate for months or years without the need to change the battery that would record a time/date stamp of each time it was opened and closed.

My only idea so far is some sort of light sensor tied to a data logger arduino setup with simple encryption but I am concerned the power consumption of an arduino may drain batteries too quickly even in sleep mode.

Thoughts?
There's still a road to the left so that section is passsable almost immediately. They deal with mudslides and washouts fairly quickly most years. I realize though that some of these are more extensive than the past.
I've been really impressed with Arcane. Despite the silly Imagine Dragons cameo just prior, the fight scene between Vi and Sevika in episode 5 was incredible. I had to watch it again because the movements and punches looked motion captured and very well choreographed.
Is your day to day bad or is it just your feeling toward the job?

If your day to day is bad or the pay is not enough, change job.
If you hate something else about your job which is not about yourself (people don't value engineers, unfair things happen), you may benefit from stop worrying about things that don't concern you. You can even joke about how bad things are. Some of the funniest times in my career were in failing startups I had no shares in.

Once you mastered that and you're nice and calm, you can even try to manage upwards, point out the problems and solve them - but you should be detached from the problem, as if it were an algorithm you're writing to solve a gnarly problem. No need to get upset.
Reminds me of those GameFAQs guides filled with legal commentary. As if they were ever gonna sue anyone.
Keepass2Android's keyboard solves this for me.
> west of Timmins

Yep. Sudbury to Kenora is some lonely road with a few “no services next 150km” stretches
Yes, but sadly the idea is less controversial with rich institutions (who presumably buy much of the treasury bonds) than it is with rich people/households.
Stop me if I'm wrong, but they don't actually "own" the JPG itself, do they?
Excellent. Are you using any of the latest and greatest CSS f**eries or sticking with something simple like bootstrap?
From Lyn's past article on Japan it is showed that over the past "lost" decades in Japan, the private sector debt has been dramatically reduced while the public sector debt has taken it's place. I really wish she looked into that for this topic.

It's not just the QE, it's not just the lowered interest rates. You need to look at the balance of the money supply compared to the GDP. In America corporate and public debt are ballooning, and that's a direct result of Fed policy. In Japan, even with low interest rates and public debt super high, their money supply is in balance, and so their equality is balanced.
Could you elaborate?

Shouldn't the type checks happen while you write the code?
This comment inspired me to go to archive.org and play Nebulus (which I remember buying from a shop on Tottenham Court Road). I'm even worse at it than I remembered :)
"We know that for a circle, for some reason, the circumference is the derivative of the area, and similarly for the sphere, the surface area is the derivative of the volume ..."

To understand why, imagine the circle or sphere starting at a point and growing. For the circle, the circumference is 2 pi r, so the area of a strip dr wide is (2 pi r) dr. Integrate r from 0 to R and you sum it all up. You get pi r ^ 2. Likewise for the sphere.
> The frank truth is that including a dependency is, and always has been, giving a random person from the internet commit privileges to prod

I mean, no. This is hyperbole at best and just wrong at median. A system of relative trust has worked very well for a very long time - Linus doesn’t have root access to all our systems, even if we don’t have to read every line of code.
My bank used to have a virtual keypad, they now have a normal password field. So they actually saw reason. I think there is reason to be optimistic about bank password security getting better; what is known to be good password policies and interfaces are getting more widespread. It may take some time, but it should get better because it is accidental or ignorant password policies from the past, not deliberate attempts to make their customers trip up (unless someone knows better).

As for the asking birthday for security reasons, relic from the past, getting more useless as time goes by. With so many websites asking for that information, and then they get hacked, sold or leaked. Yes, this said the completely obvious, but it still amazes me that any organisation that I have a financial relationship with asks that for identification over the phone, usually my address as well, but that is almost as public.
IP is somewhat arbitrary. TCP on the other hand really gets down the fundamentals of what's going on. its kind of like a 'from the book' protocol.

I've designed several transport protocols (don't ask) - and they are really just minor riffs on TCP.

if aliens had a fault-prone wire they wanted to send a message across over some distance - it seems quite likely they would end up with TCP
My work is also big on pass phrases but I kinda hate them. It's a lot of extra work to type it every time I unlock my PC. And more characters means there's more chance to make a typo meaning I have to do the whole thing again.

And the weird way my brain works I have no issue remembering "G6bH,vIz#amV" so I still do it like that :)

Also, if an attacker has a hash of my password the damage is already done anyway. They can do a pass-the-hash attack, they don't even need to brute force it for the plaintext. So there's no real benefit there. What matters is online guessing and that is severely limited in the amount of attempts.

I can't wait for passwordless though. I use only smart cards/yubikeys at home and love them.
The job market is insane right now. If you are halfway decent and have Java, Python, Ruby, .NET, or Vue/React on your resume you will have 2-3 offers in the next four weeks.

Also I would ask do you have an 3-6 month emergency fund? If so then I would simply say leave now, like right now. Take the holidays off to brush up your resume and start your new job hunt. If this job is crushing your professional self esteem there is zero chance it isn't negatively impacting your family. Children pick up on everything and will pay more attention to what you do than say. You are showing them that you are unworthy of being treated well, thereby they will start to internalize that they too are unworthy.
Recently Node 16 LTS cycle started. One month and a few days before the carry-over, a super controversial package titled `coredeps` [0] was officially declared a core module and has been bundled with all official distributions since.

The NodeJS team refuses to discuss NPM because it's a separate 3rd party. And yet.... this NodeJS Core module comes pre-installed as a global NPM package.

We're just getting started.

This module installs or even reinstalls any supported package manager when you execute a script with a name that would match any that they'd recognise. Opt-in for only a short period, and intending to expand beyond package manager installations.

Amidst all that's been going on, NPM (Nonstop Published Moments) is working on a feature that silently hijacks user commands and installs foreign software. The code found in those compromised packages operated in a similar manner and was labeled a critical severity vulnerability.

The following might actually make you cry.

Of these third party remote distributions it's downloading, the number of checksum, keys, or even build configurations that are being verified is 0.

The game that Microsoft is playing with their recent acquisitions here is quite clear, but there's too much collateral damage.

[0] https://github.com/nodejs/corepack#readme
one html file, one css file. very nice.
On a MacOS Terminal window:

finger tony@plan.cat
... and that's roughly what the article does.
Like the idea, but unable to upload an image in iOS 14.8 Safari
Can anyone explain how we’re able to detect dozens of exoplanets (Wiki says we’re up to 4864!), but not be able to detect every large boulder around our own star?
> quarterly_sales_figures_final_v2_2002_Q2_3_final_v3.xls

People still do that even with Teams and SharePoint.
Yep, definitely the sound of an AI actively hijacking my brain D: thanks
I use securely generated passwords based on a cryptographic hash.

I don't use a "password manager". Someday 10^8 people who use a password manager are going to get their passwords stolen in one night and I'm not going to be one of them.
Good comedy has to be funny— that’s all good comedy has to do. It’s not that deep. If it makes you uncomfortable that’s a side thing, but first and foremost good comedy is funny. I read the post as saying that the jokes weren’t funny anymore in the context of why in-jokes with my pals aren’t funny to a total stranger.
Worth pointing out for bystanders that in superscalar, pipelined processors the number of instructions has very little bearing over whether something is faster or slower (unless we are talking about differences of many orders of magnitude in the number of instructions). This applies even if we are not talking about instructions that deal with memory or I/O.
I think it’s about 18 inches before it’s a seismic risk. They have a very small budget for more mistakes. (The precise number is in an SF Chronicle article somewhere.)
His videos are unnecessarily long
We evolved under violent rather conditions. Think of life on the savannah, or more recently, hunter gatherers throttling one another to steal resources. Or barbarian life.

It's only now that we get to live in comfy little bubbles. They're still occasionally punctuated by moments of the grim truth.
This is a good example of the principle that popularity is not necessarily an accurate indicator for quality.

Many of these films are low quality. They will not be winning any awards.

Now consider that the "tech" industry is, with few exceptions, 100%-focused on popularity as a measure of relevance. If something is not popular it is not going to attract interest from advertisers or investors and thus, to the "tech" company intermediary website/app, it is of little utility.
When Jennifer Rubin decided to be Never Trump, she lost the Designated Conservative post. That's OK, I suppose, but replacing her with Hugh Hewitt and Marc Thiessen was a bad, bad decision. Neither of those 2 is honest. Megan McArdle is another weird choice, as far as honesty goes.
What I don’t understand is that cryptocurrency is considered property. NOT A CURRENCY. So how could the reward of more property; via defi mechanisms like yield farming, be considered a security?
If I'm not growing then I quit. To me, personal growth is more important than anything. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
I don't know, maybe it's an American thing, but to a person from Europe this reads like an attempt at parody. I cannot believe one can watch Seinfeld (likely one of the most benign tv shows there are) and somehow find it problematic.
I think we really reached a point when a big part of American culture (especially the constant racialization of everything) is not understandable to an average person from another country.
I agree that can be pretty annoying, whenever that happens, it is an instant red flag.

Another one of my pet peeves is when companies make it exceedingly difficult to end the subscription or delete one's account. Like you have to get in touch with them in order to do so. They can take days to respond or just inundate you with half pleas to get you to stay with them.
I know you're being hyperbolic and I also want to add that for crypto you should just use libsodium. The algos and the code are very good. And lots of very smart folk have given it a lot of review. And its API is very nice.
Well, neither of those things means a password is weak. Maybe they should check total entropy and if the password is already compromised and leave it at that.
Any UPS store or FedEx should be able to notarize it, in the unlikely event there isn't a registered notary among your coworkers.
Reading your other comments, you can probably do better than where you are, unless you're in some country with a broken economy.

Consider getting a job with s country with better engineering salaries so you can earn more money and be treated better.
I'd go with States, UK or Switzerland.
In the past you would have likely needed to relocate, nowadays it may just work.

Just apply to some companies abroad.
This assumes that the developers themselves are not malicious (see: left-pad) and that their signing keys can't be stolen.
Tyler Cowen: the future and Big Business [audio]
None of these would be visible. They’d be glorified meta tags.
I'll probably stream it tonight. That's anther 1.5 hours towards their goal.
It likely depends on what you're accustomed to seeing. Lots of people, myself included, grew up on absurdly over the top violence in video games and some stylistic movies (terentino films for ex) with desensitization as a result, in much the same way how some people are extremely triggered by certain phonetic combinations that correspond to current culturally relevant profanities.

If anything too much gore placed too gratuitously can actually provoke the wrong response and unintentional hilarity since we known it's a complete fiction.
Handling of state. Reusability, extendability, flexibility, immutability, avoiding brittleness and coupling.

The things Typescript gives you are very physically visible and so, gives the illusion and confidence it will guard you in everything but in reality it helps in the most trivial of problems and you are paying a big cost for it.
more of a ship than a building I would say, although its maneuverability leaves something to be desired
UK.gov blocks Nvidia's Arm deal for now, inserts deeper probe
I'm not super knowledgeable about these kinds of things, but aren't hashes usually a fixed length? Why would it matter how long your password is?
Does it really? When one considers that we take seriously the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and nigh-uncountable Calabi-Yau manifold topologies of superstring theory? There is some suggestion that our experiential reality is but one infinitesimal slice of existence even among the empirically minded.
And it may just be that happiness and video game playing are both correlated with something else, like having a lot of leisure time and/or a lot of discretionary spending money.
My experience has been that that's true of the city too, just from the other side.
Would you mind sharing where you saw that mentioned?
There are a lot of languages. I use Python. Right now I'm working on a project using the Pennylane library for quantum machine learning. Other languages exist – dedicated ones like Q# or quipper (built on top of Haskell) or libraries in Julia, C++, etc.

One paradigm, variational quantum algorithms (part of the broader class of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms), has several similarities to classical deep learning. The approach can be summed up as:

1. Construct a parameterized quantum circuit – one where the quantum gates are controlled by real-valued parameters. Ideally this circuit is one you think could reasonably solve some problem based off of your knowledge of the problem, input data, and behavior of quantum information.

2. Define an objective function.

3. Iteratively adjust the circuit parameters. This is done by measuring the output of the circuit and using that information in conjunction with some optimization function (e.g. stochastic gradient descent).

In general terms, I'm working on QML algorithms that may some day be used for applications in biology and medicine.

For a serious discussion of the approach, see: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-021-00348-9

There's also several nice walkthroughs of the basics on Pennylane's website: https://pennylane.ai/qml/demos/tutorial_variational_classifi...
I'm only speculating but almost surely it doesnt need to crack top 10 to be a success. On regular TV Seinfeld reruns have been money makers for years though on any given week they of course have paltry ratings compared to new stuff.
I agree. As I said at the top of this thread,

> That's going to be incompatible with writing interesting software on the web, unless we want to just hand the problem over to a handful of big players who can afford to hand-vet 10,000 dependencies.

Consolidating into a distro-management-style solution would be one option.
What's the desired takeaway here? The absolute numbers of deaths are pretty low, less than 10 mostly, and since August 2021, less than 5. There's going to be a lot of unexplainable fluctuations at that level. 1 extra death might mean a 20% rise for the day, for example.
>D. Zimmerman, The Finger User Information Protocol, RFC 1288, December, 1991

Almost 30 years old.
.plan files were a great way to follow Quake development.

https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive
People don’t know how or why to use styles. I actually read the entire word manual that came with version 5 for the Mac. Best thing I ever did in grad school
Honest question: are you choosing "goals" that are audacious or setting key results that are audacious?

We do the latter and there is deep suspicion if you are hitting 100% on your OKRs. I always thought of them as signifying direction versus destination, is this incorrect?
I am sincerely grieved for you and your situation, and wish you find joy and perhaps re-discover trust for women in the future.

Hopefully it is not poor taste, but I do disagree with your advice. Yes, marriage comes with a great deal of risk, because it is codifying your love. Love itself is risk, though. As C.S. Lewis said:

> To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

Yes, marriage opens yourself up to a great deal of potential financial damage. It also opens yourself up to a secure romance and friendship, where you can build a future based on commitment to one another. I far prefer to give my wife not just my love and companionship, but also my commitment, my future, and yes, my money. She does the same for me, and it is far more secure and stable than just a dating relationship which could end at any time for any reason. Divorce is way harder to go through than a simple breakup, for either party. Just the sheer effort of a divorce gives you stability, regardless of social, legal, and cultural implications.
Had the exact same problem when I made a password generator. The passwords it created never passed any rules.

Changed the algorithm a few times, to make it at least pass the password rules of common websites such as Facebook, Google, etc.
Intel GPU?
Russian Anti-Satellite Weapon Causes Emergency on Space Station
A success... but entirely forgettable.
There are two main ways we detect exoplanets. The primary way that I believe accounts for the vast majority of planets we have detected is the transit method. Basically we watch the light from a star very closely and look for a dip in the amount of light coming from it as a planet transits in between us and the star. This of course depends on the planet to pass directly between us and the star, and that means that its ecliptic plane has to be directly edge on with us. The second method is that we are able to detect minor wobbles in a star that infers that there is a planet sized object that is perturbing the star. I believe this is only able to detect Jupiter sized objects up to brown dwarves or other stars though, and even that depends on the distance to the star, and I believe only when the planet orbits at a relatively close distance (I believe closer than the kuiper belt)

The problem in both cases as it relates to planet 9 is that you arent detecting the planet as much as its effects. If you take any planet that far away from a star and youre trying to detect either the very little bit of light that it might be reflecting or its infrared heat signature if youre lucky, but both are incredibly dim.
https://www.reddit.com/r/EmuDev/ is a great place to hang out if this topic interests you. They'll always suggest doing CHIP-8 as a starter project but my unpopular opinion is to just attempt to emulate basic x86 programs [0].

[0] https://notes.eatonphil.com/tags/emulators.html
Also works in windows 10
Most of the exoplanets that we detect today are very large and orbit very close to their star, and happen to pass between us and the star during their orbit. This is why they are often referred to as "hot jupiters". We see them by seeing the dimming effect on the star as they transit between us, and we need to see a few tramsits to be sure that we are looking at an orbiting object and what orbital period it has.

There are just a mind-boggling number of stars out there, making 5,000 hot jupiters a small number.
i sure wouldn’t mind seeing typescript become a dominant language in back-end development
"Tiny composable dependencies" only works in a high-trust environment. Modern internet-based computing hasn't been in that environment for at least 10 years--probably more.
Seems to me there is a correlation between cultural homogenity and less societal problems. He is not 100% wrong. Is it racist to point out the truth?
Lot's of FORTRAN still in the LCF production queues.