skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The solution has always been fewer rich people, and the more they believe this is hell-on-earth, the more they will leave and the fewer will come.

Please stay the course and let them have their “reality”.
I got turned off by the docs when I wanted to try this tool some months ago, maybe it's worth to revisit. Do you recommend it? Do you use it often?
A problem I see with parents in general and not just personality disorder types, which is reinforced by the state and scientists, is this subconscious bias that kids are the property of their parents.

It needs to stop.

Kids are like AI they learn from the environment around them and prison populations are in part an example of the failed parenting, state and scientific direction, but as usual State officials and scientists never get held to account when they should only the parent.

Add in different belief systems and you have a recipe for disaster which constantly unfurls to one degree or another day in day out. ad nauseum.

And all the while the planet still keeps being more and more over populated. Its like fiddling at the seams whilst Rome burns.
Ethical non-monogamy: the rise of multi-partner relationships
No, it is not. And we need to get clear on our use of words and the games we play with words and their meaning to make others look bad.

People understand that when we say passwords were stored in plaintext on a company's breached servers it's a lot more severe than when we say passwords were stored encrypted on a company's breached servers. If the encryption key was also leaked, we're in as much trouble as scenario A.

It is an abuse of our understanding of these words, which stand related but differentiated to each other, to use the word "plaintext" from scenario A interchangeably for "encrypted" in scenario B.

That is, at best, manipulative of people like you and I and of a media which is all too willing to stoke the fires of outrage.
In flyover country you have insane racists screaming at you for being gay/black/whatever.

In NYC/SF you have insane homeless people screaming at you for ...whatever they are screaming at you for.

I think the important question is - what percentage of the population in any of these areas is really shitty to live around, and how often does a person have these types of experiences. In either case, it's hard to avoid some form of unpleasant shitty people.

All that being said, that really sucks and I hope the world changes for the better soon.
> Where the money was coming from when Facebook, Google, Youtube, Twitter etc were really good places that were free to use?

I don’t think this is very mysterious. It’s coming from investors who are spending money in the expectation of future profits as the business scales and reaches greater efficiencies and increases monetization.

In the case of this cryptocurrency there’s no obvious point where these tokens suddenly become useful. People only buy them because somebody else will be willing to buy them later (which, of course, relies on ever-increasing amounts of money entering the system). With a stock you are at least theoretically anchored to real world value, since you can buy out a company with stocks and then liquidate the company’s assets.
That's still an issue. humanly generated passwords tend to be predictable, repetitive and not very long.

A computer will always do a better job at generating\remembering passwords.

hardware 2FA is definitely a good idea.
For anyone wondering: the two body problem is a phenomenon that happens when two academics marry. They both want an academic job together, at the same institution preferably, but there's usually only enough room for 1. What many couples do to solve this is accept postdocs at different universities (because there's a two body problem for post docs too, so you can't usually find 2 postdoc positions at the same institution), and then wait around until they can find two assistant professorship openings at the same institution.

Sometimes if the candidate is really good, one department will ask another to make room for another faculty there. But that can be a political nightmare. Or if both researchers are in the same field e.g. CS, then the department might have to hire both even if they really only would take the one.

It's quite a problem for hiring.
This is a fascinating topic (hence the HN points, I guess) but note that the article is three years old.
File count and general "bloat" is an indicator of the quality of the engineering in the product. Especially for a security product _minimalism_ should be evident -- nobody with good security sense would want or allow anything not truly necessary to the product's functionality to be included.

There's a lot of room between "super trivial" and "needlessly complex" -- it shouldn't be either.

Trusting a cloud-based third party with my passwords is a non-starter for me.
For those interested, here is a pretty well produced video on the situation:

https://youtu.be/4ELRFROUf64

One thing that was left out in your summary is how jacmob was hired: Shortly after the Bot Nuke he showed up at the annual convention of Jagex and showed off his (still working) new Bot to the one of the heads of Jagex, who ended up hiring him.
> Games that maximize property rights (as Axie Infinity wisely hasn’t) are bound to be overrun with cheaters and bots, which in turn will just bring down the value of in-game assets anyway.

This may happen temporarily, but a sufficiently well tested and bullet proof enough game should able to combat that.

This is the same argument people made before BTC: it's just a matter of time before any decentralized currency would get hacked therefore we cannot have a decentralized currency.
What if you don't own a car? I'm also curious.
I see. That makes it a little better. At least we can utilize higher-level scripting then. Cool.

I'm still not sure about having more than one file that's handling building however...
One of my favorite experiences working at a large bank was sitting in on calls in the call center for a morning. It blew my mind.

Our systems were terribly unhelpful in handling the average call. I was embarrassed to note the vast difference between the systems we gave our call center versus what we gave our customers. Also their needs were pretty much the same (obvious in retrospect). The customer-facing system had continuously been measured and improved for user experience and delight. The systems our call center used looked like a wasteland of retro tech. Agents were hopping between systems and copy-pasting sensitive customer data. For one simple customer query I saw an agent hop between 4 systems and 5 pages.

I left with my tail between my legs and a wealth of insights that continue to have an impact several years later.
Baking Soda – Safari extension replace custom video players with video tag
For me it happened a couple weeks earlier:

> Time Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 11:12 AM EST

> Location Ottawa, KS 66067, UNITED STATES

> IP address 208.114.93.34
If you’re running a 2-sided network, both sides are your customers.
I see GNU Make as sitting on the opposite end of a spectrum than Git. Git is fascinating as a sophisticated, featureful system emerging from a simple fundamental concept (Merkle tree of file hashes), whereas Make is a mish-mash of concepts cobbled together to expose a particular set of user features (describe and execute a graph of executions in a factorized way).

Git emerged decades after other version control systems were first invented, and found a neat abstraction that covered the space.

That's why I have such hope for the BSalC paper and what can emerge from it.
Work for the government. Work for hospitals. Work for the education industry.
An entity that experiences all of time at the same time would be pretty used to suffering, as all suffering that has ever and will ever occur is experienced by this entity all the time, so hardly a sacrifice. Jesus's suffering is a small drop in an ocean of suffering experienced at all times by such an entity.
My perception is that everyone knows job hopping is normal and companies will be happy to have you for that 1-2 years if you’re good. It’s not a black mark on your resume. For me a questionable resume is someone who spent the past 20 years at Accenture or something. Signals possibility of being too entrenched in those habits to make a contribution in a new environment.
As I’ve said before on HN (on the topic of “fuzzy green ‘glacier mice’” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23280378):

> Being baffled is pretty much a scientist’s job. (What’s that old quote about “the most important phrase in science is ‘hmm, that’s funny...’”?)
Get yourself named as executor of your parents’ estate. That is spelled out in a will. If they don’t have will, get one written with you as executor.

The executor is the one responsible for distributing assets (including real estate and anything of value) from the estate. You want that role.
I might take that back :) currently trending on the front page, a real article about Lastpass master passwords being compromised. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29716715

So yeah, take Lastpass off the list, I don’t trust them :)
When I was on Apple Maps in 2018–19 they still did this! I’m pretty confident they still do.
Thank you for linking those threads as the latter one was a thrill to read: both the thread as the paper.
I was considering some options to store passwords for both myself and my customers and LastPass was one of the candidates. After thinking about it, I went with Keepass and a single file that is stored on my cloud account. It's working great to be honest and at least I can keep track of my security chain.
It's not really that much of an outlier -- AAPL has had pretty ridiculous growth in each of the previous 4-year periods this century as well.

2021-12-28 $179.29 4.19x
2017-12-28 $ 42.77 2.14x
2013-12-28 $ 20.00 2.65x
2009-12-28 $ 7.56 2.87x
2005-12-28 $ 2.63 6.57x
2001-12-28 $ 0.40 3.33x
1997-12-28 $ 0.12

I agree this can't go on for too much longer, if only because governments will eventually stop Apple if they control too much of the economy. But is there room for another 4x? Maybe?
sorry I should have specified how big is big. I'm talking >35k.

even a 5k company, its perfectly possible to change the company in one specific way. (Even I managed it, by accident)

at a 25k company, that's hard. 50k+ almost impossible, unless you have a posse of cheerleaders.
That would make sense but at least some companies that maintain hydrants are also using OSM data.
Thanks for the correction!

> You don't need all values of your language to have lazy semantics

Once upon a time (no longer, I think), Nix was 'maximally lazy', so I think historically at least, there has been a question of how essential laziness is to the design of package managers in the functional paradigm. Since then I guess we've seen what you describe (some targeted laziness) is all that's required in both DSLs.

I've edited my comment above to better reflect Guix's design and stop spreading the 'Guix is eager' meme. :)
Being able to control the game and progress on demand is still mastery, even if the spectacular failure is interesting to explore first.

I blow up plenty of things in Kerbal Space Program in interesting ways before deciding to buckle down and get more science.

Playing around with the "wrong" geometrical proof instead of taking the straightforward and known-to-myself approach isn't harming me, either.

Young kids like exploring the whole state space-- not just the ones we're likely to label as success or useful. Then at some point later they get afraid to fail-- especially to be seen failing. It's a mixed bag: motivation to push "forward" is useful, but fear of failure prevents deeper understanding or full effort sometimes.
I have also experienced some uniquely Apple lows in my time. The mini-Jobs personality problem is spot-on, there are some middle managers there who are unprofessionally rude, mean, even dictatorial. The stress is ratcheted up by ironclad deadlines that entire orgs live and die by. And for a long time a lot of internal systems were absurdly out of date even though they belonged to such a cutting-edge company.
Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content
Google Maps may have led Tahoe travelers astray during snowstorm
Ok. My parents never abused me. Just so you could hear the other side.

I’ve heard too many horrifying stories of parents abusing their children, typically many decades later. Fuck those parents. Cut them off. You will only be happier for it.
What is a LISA paper?
Inherently less secure than an extension that fills the passwords, as it relies on you checking the URL correctly, while an extension will only fill it when the origin is correct, which means you are less likely to be phished (although a security key is even better for that).
I’m willing to bet the general populace will find ways to justify working for Meta. The compensation is a lot to say no to
You can use any qrcode reader and simply concatenate the data streams. As usual if the specs are open source you are always able to recover the data, even without the original tools.
Reminder to everyone that one of the private equity firms that acquired LogMeIn and took it private, Francesco Partners, holds a majority stake in NSO Group, an Israeli spyware developer.
SSE is a special case that makes it easier to be deterministic, but you still need to be careful, since the reciprocal instructions can be implemented differently and could produce different bit patterns for their results.

My statement was about non-SSE scalar floating point operations. Using different optimizations ('Debug'/-O0 versus 'Release'/-O3 mode) will possibly produce different results, unless you are very careful. Using a different compiler (gcc versus clang versus visual studio) will likely produce different results.

If you want results to be reproducible across different CPU architectures (x86, arm64 etc) one option is using fixed-point arithmetic.
This applies to salary as much as it does to titles and roles.
> A reservoir rock at 200 °C will produce over 120 °C fluids, while a 100 °C reservoir can only produce fluids around 78 °C after 30 years of operation.
It doesn't compromise the master-password and is not wide-reaching as it requires the victim to be lured to a specific website.

Doesn't match what people claim here
Like, I know intellectually that this must happen, but my experience (which tilts much more to investment banks, to be fair) is that an FTP server with plaintext files is much more common.
This reminds me of the last time I went to Vegas with my two best buds from college. I was a broke grad student, so I couldn't really do any of the entertainment stuff in the city. I also don't really like gambling, so I had a conundrum of how to spend the daylight hours, before the nightlife started up.

We ended up sitting at the nickel slots, playing just enough to stay busy so we could flag down cocktail waitresses for comped drinks. If you were economical enough with your slots play, not selecting multiple lines or multipliers, it was a cheap way to drink.

Pretty quickly, it occurred to me that I was doing a bullshit job. Why had I come to Vegas to feed a machine that wasn't even entertaining me? I felt like livestock.

Eventually, I cracked to the peer pressure of my buddies and decided to play poker with them. I won about $700 as someone who had played maybe twice before in my life, but that's another story...

Interestingly, one of the friends I was with was one of the first people I ever met to make money selling virtual goods. As a high school kid in 2001 or 2002 (well before the Second Life example the author cites in 2005), he made money selling Diablo II accounts he had beefed up in his spare time.
Had, because I wrecked it crossing the bridge over the mouth of the Columbia River (rain soaked bridges are extremely slick it turns out) I had a Ford Focus 2008 that got about 38 mpg. Maintenance costs are also a big expense if you keep everything up to date like I did, like changing the tires, transmission fluid and flushing the radiator.

Edit: Some have questioned my $6 figure and have talked to drivers who say they are making good money. I think it's because they are not taking into account the wear and tear on their car and subsequent decrease in value. They are basically taking equity out of their car and putting it into their pocket and thinking they are making money.
Any browser extensions installed?
Probably not. But I’m guessing that the people who created LuaTeX prefer Lua. And maybe, if you wanted to create a scriptable TeX that would be usable by the typical TeX user, a language like Lua makes more sense than a Lisp. Those users tend to be scientists and mathematicians, and just anyone who needs to make good-looking documents; most are not familiar with Lisp and would find it more difficult to learn than Lua.
My expirence from other large companies is these bonuses will be given to wrong engineers. But that is the nature of the beast. Nobody yet figured out the fix.
To be honest, everyone working in science, engineering, data science, actuarial science, or really any numbers-heavy field should be able to answer that first question by reasoning through it. It may be slow, it may require drudging up some distant memories from college, or it may even require a visit to Wikipedia; but if you work with numbers and you can't do that example problem, you owe it to your profession to brush up on your statistics. People not understanding pretty basic statistics like that is a major root cause of almost all the problems in science today (p-hacking, etc.). Many, many statistics problems (including the example) can be solved easily (again: not necessarily quickly) by the basic technique of scribbling out a rectangle or tree of possibilities and the probability of each.
We hackers like to believe there is a technological solution for everything. These projects feed that delusion. Massive reductions and degrowth are hard for us to accept. This article somewhat fairly explains how extremely impractical and unlikely carbon capture technologies will be. The investments in the technology and the PR around them serve more to feed the delusion and keep us burning as usual.
Thanks for the thoughtful response!

> the general skill of effective and succinct technical communication is beyond valuable across a wide swath of applications you'll find in industry.

I did not feel that academia rewarded succinct technical communication in any way, and the criteria for evaluating effectiveness were very different than in the private sector. The kind of cases you need to make to pitch to investors (or even product owners) are different than the kinds of cases you need to make to pitch to a grant committee.

In both domains, there is a language you need to learn to communicate effectively, and I suppose that's partly what I was thinking of when I cryptically mentioned "writing to a template". But, the languages are not the same, and in fact you have to unlearn some ingrained concepts when you move from academic to private sector — or vice versa, I'm sure. At least I did.

> ... but that's, in a sense, the same thing as the start-up hustle, is it not? Build the MVP, get that one extra client...

No, I don't think it's the same. They both have incentive structures, but the incentives are different. It's good for private businesses to be judged on whether they make more money than what was invested in them, but it would be pretty catastrophic to our culture if academic research projects were.
Why are you not entertaining the third possibility though? That the person might have had shitty luck a few times in a row?
Yes. (Not just academic. Any specialized professional track outside of Medicine/Law.)
You should look into the Old School Runescape game mode. Someone just made a really captivating series limiting his character to just one region of the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk5XuqLrf3U&list=PLWiMc19-qa...
it's old stuff: 2015
That was my answer as well: My reasoning: Let x be the probability of purchasing disability coverage, thus the probability of purchasing collision is 2x from conditions b and c, we know that 2x∙x = .15 so we can calculate the probability of neither applying as 1-(2x+x)+2x∙x = .18 + .15 = .33

I can see the trap of forgetting to add 2x∙x in the calculation (since we don't want to double count the case where they purchase both insurances). And choices d and e follow from forgetting to subtract the probability of purchasing either from 1 (and making the same mistake of not removing the double count). I'm curious where the .48 distractor comes from. Coming up with good distractors is the secret to making a multiple choice test hard (students tend to think that multiple choice will be easier than a fill in the blank test, but they forget that with free answer exams, they can still get partial credit where in a multiple choice test, they'll lose all credit for a small mistake).
Does anyone know what happened to the Amazon team ? I was following their edits here: https://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-changesets?comment=amap

They were one of the main contributors to OSM and now they nearly stop contributing to OSM (they are still contributing but maybe 10 times less than before)
It's a trivial solution, though it might not be easy to do for each person to give up their habits and luxuries. We don't need to outlaw air-travel or design complicated tax-schemes to disincentivize it, we just need to stop traveling by plane.

The complexity comes from "okay, but I don't want to do that, what other ways are there", and I don't think there are many.
Using it without Bazel experience is not recommended. It is very rough around the edges, I often had to refer to Bazel docs when using it.
Data laws are like gun laws. Only the good guys care about them.
Capital-intensive industrial-scale miners might go bankrupt, but the origin of Bitcoin (starting from the whitepaper) imagined an ecosystem powered by effectively spare CPU cycles, where the marginal cost of electricity wasn't a big factor.

The beauty of the design lies in the balance of the incentives -- if electricity is too expensive, then sure miners will drop out, which lowers the hashrate and thus the security of the ecosystem, but remember that if electricity is expensive for honest miners than it will also be expensive for attackers. And if somehow there is an asymmetry where attackers have access to cheaper electricity than other honest miners, well it's likely in their economic interest to simply become miners themselves rather than attackers...

Bitcoin can easily exist at a minimal survival level that is effectively outside the fiat system for all practical intents and purposes, by leeching off free or near-zero cost electricity (I mean, nobody cares about the electricity bill for "folding@home"). In that kind of mode, it may not have industrial scale and you might not want to transact trillions of fiat-dollars worth of value through it, but it can easily exist.
! we just found the guy who knows how to do it right. What a day for humanity!
> is it good that a game is so boring that players are willing to pay real-world money to skip parts of it?

The difference between now and then is that people had to go to third parties; nowadays the game developer themselves will sell you the skip. Or a chance to gamble at a boost.

Some of these mechanics are "compelling", in a very visceral sense - they compel people to spend time or money, in a way that isn't quite describable as fun. And yet creating an obsession and a goal and providing a way to grind or spend to that goal is popular.
The second demo would be really dope in combination with a AR/VR headset – just look at a thing, do a "mental grab" without any visible hand gesture, and reposition the thing somewhere else. Or look somewhere, think "teleport" command and in a blink of an eye, you'll be there.
Says a lot about you and how you think, not the platform.
If there is a LastPass cache that is not encrypted, that is a breach since it is an application flaw.

If it is something like a keylogger, not so much.