skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> SSH keys are just long passwords.

They're really not, they are private/public key pairs.

Now, sure, if you have a public key, and a guess at a private key - you can check if said guessed private key can derive the public key - but unless you know something no one else does - there's no practical way to enumerate and guess the key space.

But a password may be arbitrarily short and eg a random password of 8 mixed-case letters, numbers and some symbol is "just" log2((26*2+10+10)^8) ~ 50 bits (rounded up). Now that's probably not feasible to brute force on-line (without anyone noticing) - but quite feasible off line (if you're patient - but you don't have to be immortal).
Because it’s an incredibly dangerous activity and you can easily kill people. That’s why you need to pass a test and get a license to drive a car.
Turing machines can’t generate their own true randomness, so they are incomplete.
You can also install VMware esxi on a thumb drive and just boot from that. esxi has excellent support for them booting physical or virtual disks including USB and GPU passthrough from there. If you want to boot your VM on bare metal then just remove the thumb drive on next boot.
> 100% of a SWE salary at a big employer should melt that $80k in no time flat.

2 years left at my current plan with 401k contributions, taxes, holding stocks, etc.
I can add my personal longest-day story. Short background: I started bike touring back in high school, and had done several multi-week bike tours[1] before doing my longest day many moons ago.

It was a flat 400k randonnée. Two starters, we stayed together for the first 100k and then he took of[2]. I was pretty fine for the first 300k[3]. I had had a hamburger at 150k and a pizza and 250k, in addition to some bananas and snacks, so I was in good shape enerywise. But then it got dark, and started to rain, and I was getting tired.

Tired to the point where I actually fell asleep while biking. Probably just for a second or two, but I had drifted into the opposing lane. It was after 11pm on a lightly trafficked road, but still. And I could just as easily gone into the ditch. I became wide awake at that point, and then pretty much limped home for the last few hours, getting home at just before 3am after having started 5am the previous morning.

I did do a few more 250-300k rides the following couple of years, but I realized I also had found my limit when it came to long-distance one-day rides[4]. This summer I did a very nice 650k, 9 day tour on my Brompton. That's more my style these days.

[1] Generally averaging 90k per day (with rare days up to 150k) at a leisurely pace.

[2] In the end, he finished like 5-6 hours before me, IIRC.

[3] I had done both a 200 and 300 during the previous six weeks so was in pretty good shape.

[4] It's probably been 15 years since I did more than 200k in a day.
The most insane part of streaming is all services are capped at 720p on desktop. This is the biggest thing everyone should be yelling at lol. To watch anything on desktop I have to pirate it just to have watchable quality
Plus having separate left/right click buttons is much more reliable. My laptop's touchpad periodically expands when I leave it out in the heat, which sticks the left of the touchpad to the chassis so that I can only right click.
Those myths were not around 15 years ago as well. Take SAP for example.
you know what other group of humans are ineffective at their jobs?

every... single... one... corporations/government doesn't fucking matter. group of humans working together? inherently inefficient.
Because it is where all the Snake Oil Salesmen are currently hanging out. The industry which dominates their employment usually gets the bad rap.

There is certainly a difference between offering salary and literally telling someone that they will get rich working for you. I've only encountered the latter while talking with the crypto crowd. The first and primary talking point is always about how much money you will make. The change the world attitude has waned as the realization has set in that there are many issues when bridging with meat space and all that is really left is finance applications.
change the boot JDK from the version 11 JBR JDK to version 15 of Azul Zulu.
I feel pedanticdirty pointing this out, but something can be a myth AND also not be believed. I bet most myths are like that. That said, your criticism is right on, because you're responding to the implicit synonym to the title: 5 things you believe that aren't true about startups. But the assertion that we believe them is false, and false is bad.

The correct title here would be "5 things that some people at some point in time may have believed that aren't true that we are dusting off for an original content listicle." Which I think has a nice ring to it!
"Returns 1 if the computer is on. If the computer isn't on, the value returned by this function is undefined."

Better description would be:

Returns 1 if the computer is on. If the computer isn't on, the value returned by this function is not computable.
Very cool tech, but this use case - shipping fertilizer around - is a problem perhaps better solved by reducing or eliminating the need for fertilizer.

https://climate.mit.edu/explainers/fertilizer-and-climate-ch...
> It displays a mind like a Rube Goldberg machine employing the wrong tools to try to resolve a simple dilemma.

Thank you for this amusing and poignant metaphor.
Previous discussion (96 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21850527
Still in progress. You can see the projects I contribute either on codetrace or Github. https://codetrace.com/users/ljmf00 https://github.com/ljmf00
In practice it's mostly just programmers, so yeah that's what it mostly is. Gatekeeping to keep the "normies" out. There's nothing wrong with that but I wish the community were more honest about it.
In that case, while the title's not real, you may at least _actually_ be buying a very small amount of land (though some of those things are just scams).
At least Andrzej Rosiewicz gave Gorbachev the credit he deserves by performing "Wieje wiosna od wschodu" in front of Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev in 1988, a song which Nina Hagen also performed a rapping cover of, which is far better than any song ever written about Henry Kissinger:

Andrzej Rosiewicz - Wieje wiosna od wschodu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM2FSf5IQa8

>Opposite the stage are sitting Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev, next to Wojciech Jaruzelski.

Nina Hagen - Michail, Michail (Gorbachev rap)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e1suuoTs2Q

>Zdravstvuyte tovarisch Michail Gorbachev, zdravstvuyte prekrasnaya Raisa!

>Ty ne frantsuzsky, no ty Russky bogatyr'

>Oy-oy Mama kruzhitsia zemlia, Matushka-Rossia Rodina moya

>Oy-oy Mama hvatit-hvatit syl, v novoy revolutsii pobedit Michail!
I've still got my Lazarus/Free Pascal installation warmed up from Google Kickstart, so I'm ready.
This man must have some really top tier chamois cream. I’ve done a bunch of centuries and by far that is the worst part for me assuming you’ve got your nutrition nailed down.
Yep. My email client has message tracking built in and I forgot to disable it after a re-install once. A lot of messages are "read" immediately. I've always been curious how promotional mailers handle that.
> GoFundMe’s Terms of Service prohibit raising money for the legal defense of an alleged violent crime. In light of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, we want to clarify when and why we removed certain fundraisers in the past.

We have an adversial court system in the US where defendants are expected to obtain legal counsel. It's horrifying that GoFundMe would prohibit raising money for that at the time funds were most needed.

> Once charges for a violent crime were brought against Kyle Rittenhouse in 2020, GoFundMe removed fundraisers that were started for the defendant’s legal defense.

Horrifying.

Note that in some Australian cities, the #1 reported crime today is DV, since divorce lawyers are advising their female clients to automatically make false allegations. (Some govt. departments actually mail out blank forms during divorce procedings to report DV, without the forms even being requested.) If these claims were valid, the hospitals would be full of DV victims, and they simply aren't.

How did that happen? Prosecutors have been told to do nothing about false claims from women.

So automatically restricting how defense funds can be raised is absurd, despite allegations of violence before a trial.
The recycling industry is growing up: https://northvolt.com/
"Less than 2%" plus an additional constant-ish fee, sure. The typical cost of a CC transaction is significantly more than 2% at small amounts (like many in-app purchases).
Deploying K3s to hetzner in the most ridiculous way possible: KISS
It depends what operation is much heavier. Remember that the loop condition itself can be heavy. And that compilers can't optimize away things like disk or network access time.
EV batteries hold up much better than in smartphones. Data from Teslas shows 1%-2% degradation per year (so you can expect to have 80%+ of range after 10 years).

Leaf fares worse (~4% per year), but it only has air-cooled battery. Tesla and other modern EVs have active battery management system that heats and cools the battery to keep it in the right temperature range.

Replacement is costly, unfortunately. It's the most expensive component of an electric car.
Yup. Very much a chance to learn a new (for me) language. Looking to do Golang this year - brushing up on the basics of the language as we roll into a long turkey weekend.
I question the notion that most employees do not want to be paid daily. If I am being paid via direct deposit, there is no inconvenience for me to be paid daily.

And certainly cash workers, aka day laborers, demand to be paid daily.
I made the jswat plugin back in the day, good times :)

I'm also shocked you started work on this so young!
This might be the largest contributor relicensing project of any IP category: 2800 people and companies. 94% progress is impressive.
Maybe I haven't done enough Go to know why that's something to wonder about? They wouldn't just carry on when resumed like anything else?
The heavily funded “Just Say No” campaign never worked. So what makes you think a billboard will somehow be more powerful than that?
I don't understand why you keep claiming that someone else holding your money makes it theirs. Can you expand on this?
Google is evil (dark UX pattern)
FAQ about the name: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/06/17.html#why-is-the-proj...

I kinda want to make a funny web page that insists that

Oil Shell != Shell Oil

just like

Breakfast (meal) != Fast Break (basketball play)

Blackjack (game) != Jack Black (actor)

Bookcase != Casebook (type of textbook for law students)

Backdrop (a kind of picture) != Drop back (football play apparently)

upturn (improvement) != turn up (to be found)

More examples appreciated :)
jEdit was my main editor for about two or three years. An excellent and in some ways very underrated project. I see that the original author is here in this thread - if you happen to see this I just wanted to say thank you for this editor that brought me many hours of productivity and enjoyment!
This is the modern equivalent of being an army general in the year 1910 arguing against adopting machine guns.

"Why do we need to adopt machine guns? They are so much more complicated than our bolt action rifles. Everyone has been trained how to do their job using a bolt action rifle. We will have to totally rethink our doctrine. The Lewis gun doesn't even have a bayonet lug. In my experience, the average private will just give up when he experiences a malfunction."
Yeah, I did the first week of 2020 with both Lisp and Julia and parsing was indeed an issue; but I'm a Lisp beginner anyway.

Do you have a repo somewhere with the lisp code?
Hate to say “you’re using it wrong” but it seems kind of excessive to block a specific email address after 1 unsolicited mail. Ones like “I’m a Nigerian prince…” usually come from a random garbled sender or hacked account, and should be marked as spam to train the filter for future similar spam from other senders.

Blocking a specific mail address I figure would be for say blocking your ex-spouse because you absolutely don’t want to even see the message.
I'm torn between Clojure (totally n00b) or Elixir (mostly to force myself to use it rather than defaulting to Python)
Across Europe, protests swell against pandemic restrictions
That’s because it doesn’t mean much of anything really. It’s jargon intended to appear meaningful.
Wut?

Still no enhanced error code messages for improper use of `.htaccess` files?

(sigh)
How many of you ticked this box, thinking it would enable you to reserve with Google instead of with Chope (or any third party)? But actually it would register your for more spam.
That's cool! Do you have a family yet though?
How upvoted this?
> A functioning, 24/7, predictable taxi system was absolutely not available in most of the US before Uber.

I find this quite surprising. I've lived in 3 countries (including the US but limited to San Francisco) and calling a cab was always a reliable thing. I know my scope of experience is still limited, but Uber being the silver bullet of taxies seems to me like an overstatement. They are great, I like them, but to me they are just a better version of something else, most times. At least that statement explains more their level of success.
I should probably finish last year's. I did all parts mostly in time except for day 20, I couldn't figure out part 2 and just refused to do it.
It's mostly just a social club oriented around a protocol and a format. Initially there was talk about distributing alternative formats (like HTML), and the possibilities of screen readers, but these days it's mostly Gemtext and some syndication/feed formats (e.g. RSS/Atom). In theory you can render Gemtext however you like; in practice the community favors ASCII/figlet art content and spartan text, and doesn't care (positively or negatively) about other ways to view content. The community is mostly technical folks with socialist or anarcho-socialist views. The content is what you'd expect from a webring of blog posters with those views/preferences.

It's a pretty specific community, but if you like that stuff you'll probably fit right in.
I don’t understand why you talk as if money which you haven’t yet been paid is somehow yours before you get it.
It constantly blows my mind how dysfunctional SF is. Having lived in clean, safe, well run cities around the world, the amount of WTF generated by SF is unbelievable.
>Sometimes no matter how hard you look there is no underlying value beneath the price action, there is no reason or rhyme as to why people become maniac about stuff, and feel like they MUST have it.

...like people paying millions for an original painting rather than getting a replica made for $100k (or whatever) for their private collection? My point isn't that NFTs have underlying value (whatever that means), just that they're valuable in approximately the same way that original paintings have value over replicas. I'll quote an earlier comment here:

>But you still paid a few million more for the original painting, even though it's virtually indistinguishable from a replica. It's more helpful to think of an original painting as a bundle of two things:

>Original painting = thing that looks like a painting + bragging rights

>An NFT is just the "bragging rights" part of the original painting, and the JPG that anyone can access is the "thing that looks like a painting ".
Modeling Wealth Inequality: How the rich get richer and the poor get poorer [pdf]
Australian Rhino Project
I am well aware that it is never going away. I wouldn't call it minor, it's an extremely common source of bugs.

The non-documented functions are indeed often rare. That's all that can be said about them. They're about as obvious, on average, as the rest of PHP's functions are obvious.

Sure, until you want to have a UI framework, and an API framework, and ...

LOL @ Laravel being well documented. There's a tutorial and there's autogen API docs. And that's it.

This comment overall seems to be written by someone who has worked with PHP for a few years and thinks he knows everything there is to know about it.

I've been using PHP since PHP3 and professionally since PHP4, but thanks.
Wikipedia changed its license around 10 years ago, I think.
My personal fastest 24 hour split was about 600km, while riding the first half of the Paris-Brest-Paris brevet in 2019. I had my first sleep after that in Brest and took much longer breaks for the return journey for a total ride of 1240km in 78:02:21 (with ~26 hours spent stopped).

I'd done many 600km brevets before that comfortably in 35-37 hours with a ~4hr sleep in the middle, but at PBP there were thousands of other strong riders and it was fun to work together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randonneuring is a lot more "normal" of a way to ride your bike all day than the Ultracycling approach in the article. Instead of grinding out laps of a racecourse solo, ride from town to town on pleasant backroads socially.
It is very early. But I was at one of the bug conferences recently (Lisbon) and it was surprising how much tooling has been built or is being built for EVM. Felt like it’s becoming the natural choice and all the young devs all they talked about was Solidity.

Solana is in Rust so that’s smart I suppose.
The wikipedia article on Kissinger mentions a Dr. Strangelove aspect, not mentioned in the linked review: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger#Views_on_U.S._...

"""
Computers and nuclear weapons
In 2019, Kissinger wrote about the increasing tendency to give control of nuclear weapons to computers operating with Artificial Intelligence (AI) that: "Adversaries' ignorance of AI-developed configurations will become a strategic advantage".[195] Kissinger argued that giving power to launch nuclear weapons to computers using algorithms to make decisions would eliminate the human factor and give the advantage to the state that had the most effective AI system as a computer can make decisions about war and peace far faster than any human ever could.[195] Just as an AI-enhanced computer can win chess games by anticipating human decision-making, an AI-enhanced computer could be useful in a crisis as in a nuclear war, the side that strikes first would have the advantage by destroying the opponent's nuclear capacity. Kissinger also noted there was always the danger that a computer would make a decision to start a nuclear war that before diplomacy had been exhausted or the algorithm controlling the AI might make a decision to start a nuclear war that would be not understandable to the operators.[196] Kissinger also warned the use of AI to control nuclear weapons would impose "opacity" on the decision-making process as the algorithms that control the AI system are not readily understandable, destabilizing the decision-making process:

... grand strategy requires an understanding of the capabilities and military deployments of potential adversaries. But if more and more intelligence becomes opaque, how will policy makers understand the views and abilities of their adversaries and perhaps even allies? Will many different internets emerge or, in the end, only one? What will be the implications for cooperation? For confrontation? As AI becomes ubiquitous, new concepts for its security need to emerge.[196]

"""
> To me, a commercial is something that advertises something I'm not watching and prevents me from watching what I want to. A non-skippable trailer for a movie is a commercial, for instance.

Autoplaying content is the advertising of something you were not watching (if you wanted to watch something you would have selected it) and prevents you from watching what you wanted to (again, you wanted to watch nothing, otherwise you would have selected something).
Sounds useful for applying that to (realtime) Delphi-Method, prediction markets,
and so on.
Intel vPro?
You would think that but it is Python so the likelihood is high that the magic convenient one liner is doing the equivalent of reading the file into a huge buffer and compressing that huge buffer at once.
Love the muppetlabs posts.

See also this series on ELF binaries, and a really small (the smallest?) ELF executable.

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
If you just want access to the language and are fine with Jupyter as a front end you can just use https://www.wolfram.com/engine/ no need to buy anything then.
That is a very good question. I tried to find you an answer but the only bits about the charging that I could find is that it is fully automatic and that they expect it to happen during the unloading or loading, but not how long that would take.
I am not sure how this would meaningfully differ from the current state of affairs, where the NIC runs in a low power mode while the PC is off.
GP said for the 'non-true state', not the 'computer off state'. I.e. verify that the computer is off, given that the fn returns false (which is valid only as part of its undefined computer-off response).
Before we can commonly use a new noun, we need to fully fit its meaning in our limited working memory. So I believe there is a natural upper bound in human intelligence, for things that are beyond our brain power to get the full picture.

That must be why we haven't solved P = NP yet. This would take a person with twice the L1 cache to accomplish.
WxMaxima (+Igor Pro) is what got me through my P Chem and QM courses in college. The joy of teaching yourself linear algebra because they forgot to list it as a course requirement. Luckily all you really need is rref.
The JavaScript argument doesn't really get at the point I was trying to make (poorly, probably). The parent was arguing that since almost all functions are uncomputable, "some aspects of reality might only be accurately described by uncomputable functions."

This seems unlikely to me. Functions are a mathematical abstraction. Almost all of those functions are uncomputable, but what does the universe care? In what manner could the universe be organized in such a way as to depend on an uncomputable function?

Perhaps a better question for my above post would have been:

Can we imagine any empirical experiment to distinguish between a universe that depends on uncomputable functions and one that does not?

Edit: And if not, in what sense can the universe actually depend on an uncomputable function if we can't distinguish?
I built a system in my previous team where clients can register "filters" described in Fusion. My system, which was a source of a lot of different notifications, would then run these filters and only send those notifications that passed the filters. It became very popular very quickly because of the easy on-boarding and the fact that clients not get only a fraction of the messages they were interested in. I just checked the Java implementation, it seems to be still active and get commits.