skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An ideal Turing Machine can perfectly well predict the state of a quantum system: it can solve the Schordinger equation, and predict the time evolution of the system for each possible solution. It can then predict all possible states of the world after N steps, and even the probability of each state. N can be arbitrarily large. If you believe in the Copenhagen interpretation of QM, you then need to choose one of these states randomly according to the probability the TM predicted. If you believe in the MWI, you don't even need to do that: by this point, the TM has already done exactly what the universe does.

This same process also extends to chaotic systems: a Turing machine can take all possible measurement clause and compute the state of the system after N steps.

The mistake you are making is in the word 'predict'. Of course you can't predict the result of a non-deterministic process. But a computer doesn't predict: it computes, that is, it follows mechanical steps to transform an input value. And non-deterministic computations are nothing special, we do them every day in real computers ( rand() is a non-deterministic computation). The most famous class of algorithms in complexity theory is even called 'Nondeterministic Polynomial Time', NP for short (of P=NP? fame).
The same person who probably handled the hollywood accounting that inflated the costs to $200 million.
It’s probably a simple calculation. Those who watch less than $monthy_price hours of content are likely to cancel.
Aren't almost all mainstream video games precisely designed sequences of events to elicit feelings of accomplishment to induce emotional investment?

I mean, except for Dark Souls.
If your software is ultimately dependent on thousands of other modules from various developers all over the Internet, you have no idea whether what you're depending on is actually well implemented or not.
I didn't say it looked nice, I said it was interesting ;)
Even so, you can forget about most of these being up to date. Even experienced IT people that update their servers religiously tend to forget the router in the closet.
chaotic hysterical
Don't try to put the blame for the absolute mess that is NPM on Microsoft.
Given, and yes I've heard that before, but I counter with:

If you don't want someone to mess with it, name it as something other people will not regularly have a reason to muck with. One concerted effort to ship distro's with a "sys-python" symlink instead of /usr/bin/python, and for all things currently using the newly minted sys-python stuff can be free of wayward travelers and system sculptors like me mucking with things.

No, pyenv is not the answer. Naming things is.

And trust me. I get it. It's a rite of passage learned in due time, yada-yada. Got it. If we ever want to get this stuff easier to use though, we have to be willing to help draw clean distinctions between this and that. Virtual environments don't do that until it is far too late and a beginner is already in and over their head in breakage.
New mission to scour interstellar neighbourhood for planets that sustain life
I saw in https://codeascraft.com/2021/11/04/mobius-adopting-jsx-while... that you're using Redux Toolkit (which I created and maintain). I'm curious if you have any thoughts on using RTK in general and RTK+TS specifically.
I agree that using node to write browser client code requires more configuration of the compilation environment than I would like (especially since I have to configure both node and some kind of packer to convert all of my es6 module dependencies into one flat pack JavaScript file).

That's a small up-front one-time cost relative to writing Redux from scratch. And before anyone asks... Yes, our use case is complex enough to justify a local state storage solution based on immutable state curated via actions and reducers. Just as our rendering use case is complex enough to justify React.
He they meet in Milpitas?
The milk board managers must be quaking in their boots realizing that some milk could get sold without them getting their slice of the take.
gov.uk is what the Web should be. Lightweight, accessible, simple.

It takes a certain kind of maturity to ship something so unapologetically utilitarian without giving in to any of the “modern” Web trends. No wonder it takes none less than a nation state to pull this off…

It’s beautiful.
Dang. I thought as one of my last actions as the DISA.MIL Technical POC in 1995, I had successfully turned 22/ back into the NIC, so that it could be re-assigned to someone else who needed it. When we swept that address space repeatedly, we sure didn’t see anyone actually using it.

Dang.
How did you miss...

>Obviously not a practical or feasible solution but there's a _whole lot of spectrum_ between mega Paris + no meat and what we have now!

Your understanding of economics and agriculture is as strong as your understanding of English grammar.
This produces 16.7 million new IPv4 addresses. Won't save the world but it is something.

As for security issues, I think they could be shaken out with a transition period. In the first phase, ISPs would treat any attempt to use 127.{1 through 255}.x.x would be a hard error instead of a loopback connection, and none of the addresses would be assigned. So anyone using these addresses and expecting loopback would start seeing errors.

In the second phase, some subset of the space would be made available for assignment and the majority of it would still be a hard error.

Finally the whole thing could be opened up. At that point, we might find that some old devices won't connect to servers that have one of the new addresses assigned.

For an IoT device, probably no problem, as long as the host it 'phones home' to is in the legacy IP space.

Old Android devices that no longer get updates might be unable to connect to servers that use the freed up space.
Didn't you just describe most Linux distributions?
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> When I'm writing desktop software, I don't have to worry about whether yaml adds a dependency that I can't afford to maintain.

Why not? Because some big, centralized player has put the time, effort, and money into making yaml part of a complete library that gives you everything you need to write desktop software. Nobody writes desktop software by importing thousands of tiny libraries from all over the Internet.
> So long growers are maximizing THC content and yield per area Hyrdo will outcompete organic soil

In my case that's a feature and not a bug of soil-grown marijuana. I'm way more of lightweight compared to my college days and would prefer good taste over potency.
I like this article because it says what I want it to say
Pony Town is a classic! It's crazy how popular it is for how sparse the featureset is, I guess it's a testament to the value proposition of sites like this.
The fake environmentalist attack on Bitcoin
I think it's blog self promotion for over employed.com
Microsoft wanted to own it, so now they own it. If they buy stuff they can't fix, their problem.
if that were to happen it would be a "to big to fail" event. the gov would bail everyone out and mandate a reset to what ever it was believed to be before. bank accounts, retirement accounts etc would be reimbursed up to the FDIC limit. credit reports would be rolled back to the last known good value. it would probably fuck things up short term but long term it would lead to better security of consumer data
NIST 800-63B [1] has some good guidelines on password rules, one of them being low complexity:

"As noted above, composition rules are commonly used in an attempt to increase the difficulty of guessing user-chosen passwords. Research has shown, however, that users respond in very predictable ways to the requirements imposed by composition rules [Policies]. For example, a user that might have chosen “password” as their password would be relatively likely to choose “Password1” if required to include an uppercase letter and a number, or “Password1!” if a symbol is also required.

Users also express frustration when attempts to create complex passwords are rejected by online services. Many services reject passwords with spaces and various special characters. In some cases, the special characters that are not accepted might be an effort to avoid attacks like SQL injection that depend on those characters. But a properly hashed password would not be sent intact to a database in any case, so such precautions are unnecessary. Users should also be able to include space characters to allow the use of phrases. Spaces themselves, however, add little to the complexity of passwords and may introduce usability issues (e.g., the undetected use of two spaces rather than one), so it may be beneficial to remove repeated spaces in typed passwords prior to verification.

Users’ password choices are very predictable, so attackers are likely to guess passwords that have been successful in the past. These include dictionary words and passwords from previous breaches, such as the “Password1!” example above. For this reason, it is recommended that passwords chosen by users be compared against a “black list” of unacceptable passwords. This list should include passwords from previous breach corpuses, dictionary words, and specific words (such as the name of the service itself) that users are likely to choose. Since user choice of passwords will also be governed by a minimum length requirement, this dictionary need only include entries meeting that requirement.

Highly complex memorized secrets introduce a new potential vulnerability: they are less likely to be memorable, and it is more likely that they will be written down or stored electronically in an unsafe manner. While these practices are not necessarily vulnerable, statistically some methods of recording such secrets will be. This is an additional motivation not to require excessively long or complex memorized secrets."

[1] https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html
BABSCon used it this year, and tbh I think it went extremely well: https://twitter.com/ponytownteam/status/1379378405557297157
Interesting. I’ve had Apple proactively email me about parental controls along with an offer to refund what they seem to have considered excessive in-game currency IAPs.

I’d be amazed if the game publisher would have cared at all. No amount of future loyalty to the one game would have offset the cost of the refund. Same is not true for Apple or Nintendo.
And they are unrealistic too. As if the wealthy would ever have private islands where they engage in pedophilic behavior.
I've read through this several times and I really don't follow his argument. Is he actually trying to suggest that showing NON COVID deaths look similar to vax'd and non-vax'd people, that the vaccines must be a placebo?

His argument seems to be most deaths aren't due to covid so we should ignore covid deaths when evaluating vaccine efficacy?

If this is accurate, "not very good" is a vast understatement.
If by "makes sense" you mean to ISP shareholders - for ISPs to take federal USF funds and never, ever deliver on the required upgrades or expansions (eg:Frontier@WV,Verizon@PA), due to regulatory capture.
Any tech recruiter who tells you there should be no ramp-up for programmers is lying, and you should be accordingly wary if they use a lot of "hit the ground running" talk. Fact is, nobody does that. In some jobs it might take as long as six months for programmers to reach the desired level of productivity.
So if I choose a career as a not so good artist the government should subsidize me so I can have kids?
This is correct. I feel there are 2 distinct levels of knowledge with Typescript: the application level and the library level. The application level is fairly easy, but if you want to write libraries with good types you're going to have to dive in the more complex features of Typescript.

Still not rocket science, but it takes way more than 3 hours, even if one studies it intensively.
It really makes the most out of the flow-programming paradigm and the integrated UI bits are really convenient.

The architecture is pretty straightforward. MQTT over wifi acts as a message bus between node-red and your 'legos'. (You don't really even need a raspberry pi, you just need to be able to run node-red, an mqtt broker and have wifi. I ran everything from containers on raspberry pi and ran the pi in AP mode which kept everything self-contained and tidy.)

For the i/o 'legos', i had more luck with the esp8266 than esp32's on Tasmota, but things have probably improved since then. You could also look at espurna, esphome, home assistant, etc. Main thing to look for is a firmware that supports some kind of async messaging protocol that nodered supports and has the i/o you need. You can buy a six pack of nodemcu esp8266's for $20 off amazon.

Good luck and have fun!
As it becomes more difficult to sustain tech choices related to Javascript, I wonder if the web industry will start to slowly divest from it and embrace decent technologies using Wasm, or if we're past the point of no hope to free ourselves from JS...
I fully agree. The difference is the value exchange. At a normal bank they just want to charge you fees because you cost them money. Fidelity lets you keep your money with them in the hopes that as you grow your money, you'll spend it on their investment products, which I imagine everybody does.

Most brokers have some kind of cash account and they're always better than banks and almost always better than credit unions.

I recommend keeping a credit union account open too so you have a local branch if you need something in person.
The Steep Cost of Capture
I figured it was a play on the "networking industry" rather than knowing people who know people bit. He was able to build trust with people he worked with every day. Not much different than getting a recommendation from someone who you worked closely with and landing a new contract.
If you think so, report it to the HN authority and they remove it. Good luck.
My favorite example of this is that trees aren’t really a phylogenetic group all their own. They’re just plants and plants can become tall and woody with a few genetic tweaks. You can’t trace trees to a common ancestor because the ancestors of many types of trees are just ordinary plants.

https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-th...
This is a really good strategy. We just implemented this for our SEO tool.
Based on reading your responses my summary would be ...

You've already tried to improve your current position, and it seems like that hasn't gone well and is leading to you losing interest and focus.

Get a new job.

In particular, I'd suggest getting a job at a software company rather than as a company where IT is a cost center. While this isn't a magic bullet, I think you're more likely to have a better experience at a company where software dev (and associated roles like QA, build engineering, Devops, etc.) are at the core of what the company does.
> and the new password must be at least 3 character different from last one.

Does this sort of rule imply that they are saving passwords whole (either plaintext or encrypted, as opposed to hashed)? I can understand "can't match your last N passwords" cause that's just saving old hash entries. But editdistance(old, new) < 3 implies you know the string value somewhere.
There are now, but for a long time they had to live in contrib because Java wasn't open-source, and so apt didn't deeply integrate and customize their package management the way it did with perl or python.
> does anybody NOT feel alienated in our current society?

<raises hand>

> does anybody NOT feel alienated in our current society?

I do not feel alienated.

> Does anybody REALLY feel like they belong in America?

I do.

> what exactly is this country FOR?

It's for people who want their fundamental rights guaranteed so they can do whatever they choose to do, like be a rock star, build rockets to go to Mars, race motorcycles, write poetry, etc.

It's not for people who want cradle-to-grave security and want someone else to make all the decisions for them. Nor is it for people who want to run other peoples' lives.
> I guess I'm having trouble fathoming how languages were so far ahead while computers were seemingly VERY primitive.

My intuition is that back then getting run time on computers was so scarce that the best programmers and mathematicians spent a great deal of brain time considering exactly what their software should be. If you only get one run a day, if that, you're gonna do your best to make it count. Today we're often in the opposite situation, where it can be entirely rational to burn incredible amounts of computation in the absolute sense to save brain time.
> [T]hey behaved like visible light, yet they were not detected by the human eye.

The early days of discovering things that were real, but not human-perceptible, must have seemed almost magical.

We're used to it now, but initially it must have been mind-bending.
There has got to be a better way, namely, not an excel spreadsheet (maybe vault or LastPass) and not the individual employee's account (e.g. have an IT super user account).
September 2020 is when their logs start.

The preceding sentence says they have no idea if it was exploited before the start of their logfiles:

"This vulnerability existed in the npm registry beyond the timeframe for which we have telemetry to determine whether it has ever been exploited maliciously."

So packages uploaded after September 2020 are probably fine.

Before that: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If NPM/Github were being responsible here, they would make package owners re-upload clean copies of anything which hasn't been touched since before the start of their audit logs.
I'd move closer to the Equator probably in Indonesia. Climate would be less chaotic regardless of the temperature increase and the country's climate is classified as roughly the same [1].

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Present_...
"I never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a Furry."

"What about side by side with a friend?"

"Aye, I could do that."
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I mean, it seems like institutions like Yale exist to justify the US’s (insanely) stratified class system.
I think you're totally wrong!
So I find it quite fascinating that 211 (a 2018 Nic Cage film) is at #6.

I do not understand why this is so popular. Any thoughts?
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I once signed STOLEN on a pad at the grocery checkout. They let it ride and ran the charge.

But I was relieved to find my CC provider calling me to verify I was just up to shenanigans.

I was also curious how many thieves they had run across that signed for purchases as stolen in large cap letters.
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Quote in full:

> ‘Investing in Crypto Doesn’t Make Sense Right Now’

Correct.

Does it make sense to enter into crypto ‘right now’ when everyone is in profit after many cryptocurrencies breaching their ATHs?

On top of the $1TN infrastructure bill now signed into law, a ‘potential’ thanksgiving / black friday selloff incoming and the US debt ceiling being hit by December?

That is a lot of uncertainty that will impact all cryptocurrencies.

So, he is right. Right now, it does not make sense to enter. In fact it makes more sense to hit the sell button.
There's gopher where there is still quite a number of interesting posts. There's also a more recent network called gemini which is gaining in popularity.
No. First, Linux is an entire operating system, not a single application. Second, when people pull software from their Linux distribution that ultimately comes from developers all over the Internet, they do it to use the software themselves, not to develop applications that others are going to have to deal with. Third, Linux distributions put an extra layer of vetting in between their upstream developers and their users. And for a fourth if we need it, I am not aware of any major Linux distribution that has pulled anything like the bonehead mistakes that were admitted to in this article.
Yup, Roman democracy also failed in the most hilarious way possible. That anyone thinks of Democracy as anything but a punchline is all the proof you need of the sheer delusion of the governance space.
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Is VS Code Open Source?
Or, you know, reallocate some snark time into actually reading the Israeli antivax source for yourself.
> draft-schoen-intarea-unicast-lowest-address-00

Just as a heads up, zero in the last octet results in general reachability problems. We used x.y.z.0 as a vip at Facebook^WMeta for a while, but learned the hard way that some people can't reach those ips.

Some additional info from RIPE: https://labs.ripe.net/author/stephane_bortzmeyer/all-ip-addr...
Wait you can't build a reverse proxy binary tree with recursively hashed nodes and O(n log n) guaranteed in place sorting? Why do you even call yourself a developer?? Why should I trust my webform->database web app with you? On the serious side I loved the story.
No one who appreciates the unique characteristics of Bitcoin will want anything to do with anything else. Bitcoin is closer to a religion than anything.

In any case, the "unique characteristics of Bitcoin" are what makes it abhorrent.

I just mentioned the two top PoS crypto, but anything that doesn't gobble resources as a byproduct of the network security cost is fine. I agree that Cardano is run by a maniac and Solana is centralized and too affiliated with scammers (SBF)

PoS Ethereum would be fine by me, but they've been saying they'll switch forever, so I'll believe it when I see it.
I spent the first 15 years of my career writing .NET programs. It really is a great stack, and some of the best tooling I’ve ever used. You do avoid the crazy 3rd party dependency hell that seems to engulf most other stacks. Go is also quite nice in that way, but I prefer C# and F# for sure.
The furry community is most of the reason I'm holding on these days. Support at a few key moments from Suspiciously Wealthy Furries (not really suspicious, just employed in tech) helped get my life sort of on track.
Unfortunately, from a user perspective, in aggregate, the reputation of Apple beats the median reputation of devs at doing all those things in a customer’s favor.

So odds are subscribe through apple has better experience.

You, as a dev, may offer better, for sure. But the user cannot count on that.
The real numbers used in physics are all computable (pi [0], e, sqrt(2) etc are all computable numbers). There are non-computable real numbers, but so far those have never been necessary for describing physical systems (e.g. Chaitin's constant).

When talking about computability in the absolute, theoretical sense, the size of the universe is irrelevant - all we ask is if there exists some arbitrarily large, but finite, Turing machine that performs that computation and then halts after an arbitrarily large but finite amount of time.

If we're taking about practical computability, than my base assertion that the physical world is itself a computer also implies that this computer is exactly fast enough to simulate physics. Since we know that the laws of physics are computable in the theoretical sense above, and since we know that the universe is accurately simulating itself, we have proven my assertion.

Your other points about chaos and non-determinism I have addressed in another thread.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4134282/is-pi-a-turing-c...