skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "We don't actually know that."

Arguably one of my main areas of personal study is the limited ability of science to under stand the world, so I'm not one of the "the science is decided!" people.

There's a bizarrely implied bias here in your statement that I've pointed out in past which is "we don't know so things are probably fine". I've been surprisingly close with a famous climate scientist who also holds this controversial opinion. I'm not convinced. The data I've seen right now is that our climate is breaking down quickly, in ways we have not expected, and we tend to underestimate the negative impacts of what we don't know on the future of our species.

> "So if one is actually concerned about the future, one focuses on solutions, not on hand wringing."

Only the naive optimist paints the pessimist as one who is obsessed with "hand wringing". I'm not remotely interested in panicking, or despair, but rather learning to find methods of survival in a quickly collapsing society. It's visibly happening this moment and in more ways than just climate, you don't need models to or predictions to realize what's going on. Which brings me to an even more important point:

> I'm one of the annoyingly upbeat people

I don't think you're the people I'm talking about. Politely disagreeing with my view is not the problem. The issue is with a huge subset of this community that will down vote and even flag content that scares them.

My concern is that people in denial lead to strange behaviors and become increasingly dangerous as they need to become more aggressive in their denial to maintain mental health. The mental health of people unable to accept our current situations is degrading terrifyingly fast. Myself and all of the other people I know who saw all of this long before the pandemic are dealing with things reasonably well, after all we knew all of this was coming decades ago.
>"For example, you could create a new object, pass a reference to it to some function that stores it in a hash table, reach the end of your function where the object is automatically deleted, and then have something try to read the object out of the hashtable."

Emplace constructs copy of object in the container. You should be fine.
Unfortunately, educating people is very hard and covid-19 clearly shows it.
The ability to walk in quiet, open spaces with low pollution is one of the top advantages of low density suburbia.

Low density suburbia can, and usually has, plenty of walking spaces with a ton of nature around. I lived in multiple suburban neighborhoods and I was always either within a short (and easy) drive to a park or had great walking areas in the neighborhood itself. Contrast with high density, where you have to deal with pollution, noise and potentially crime just to walk to a park (and in the park itself)

Regarding "fear or interacting", in my experience I have a lot of more interactions, of the cordial and polite kind, with the few neighbors I have in my low density area than I've ever had when I lived in a high density city where you can feel like an ant in a colony.
The attribution is much more grey with the advent of so much globalization. As humans we like to pin the blame on a singular entity but the real world is far more complicated.
There's one flaw in your scenario: if your computer suddenly stopped respecting valid credentials, it'd be extremely obvious that the motherboard had been replaced or tampered with.

Generally speaking most evil-maid attacks assume that the attacker wants to remain covert, otherwise the victim will start revoking stolen credentials, calling the authorities, etc. If you don't care about remaining covert then you don't need to do an evil-maid attack; just buy a wrench.
Yeah, in Firefox, I can't seem to drag anything leftwards to the first two columns (third and onwards does work), I have to move those first two columns out to the right instead and shuffle them around...
> The 4% rule may not be entirely reliable. See: Ben Felix’s YouTube video on the topic.

Felix (and Cameron) recently interviewed Bengen (who came up with the rule) on their Rational Reminder podcast, and it may actually be 4.5% now:

* https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/135

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nYTrCxluaY

In 2006 he had it at 4.5% and in October 2020 at 5%:

* https://www.fa-mag.com/news/choosing-the-highest-safe-withdr...

The reason being is inflation.

The really high inflation of the 1970s (and 1980s) chewed up savings for retirees and brought down SAFEMAX down, but in the 1950s and '60s it was actually 5% per Bengen.
I would always take the SkyMall catalog when I was a kid. It was a comedic gold mine.

Personal favorite: Safe-T-Man

https://www.gusworld.com.au/rotd/9610/safe.htm
> "I have no idea what "set up your logs correctly" is supposed to mean but clearly no one's doing it. What is a "clean log"?"

As you admitted, passwords get logged "all the time." So the reasonable solution in most cases would be to ensure all applicable logs were clean and not logging passwords, not over-engineer a JavaScript-powered client-side-hashing algorithm. That's like taking a sledgehammer to a nail.
Sure. I’ve studied that for years and I’ve come to the conclusion that is not the root cause. At the end of the day it’s a boogie man people trot out to excuse the fact that they did that and continue to do it together. They let it happen because they wanted it.
There is zero US military - or any other military threat related to Taiwan or Hong Kong.

While there might be some possibility of US defence of Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion, there is no material threat to Chinese territorial integrity otherwise - from anybody.

There's no airbases, no missiles, no naval base, no ballistic missile launch points for US forces on Taiwan.

There is zero military justification for China to invade Hong Kong or Taiwan.

The capture of Taiwan and Hong Kong is 100% a Nationalist Imperialist objective of Han Supremacy and their version of identity, history etc.

Militarily, the invasion of Taiwan is going to be extremely expensive, hugely disruptive, and will risk giant swaths of Chinese trade, their international standing and participation in so many things. In fact - it already is. China faces a great deal of pushback for their moves on both HK and Taiwan.

...

"I cannot imagine anyone who has seen a world map seriously advancing the idea of HK independence,"

There is a 100% chance, that if a choice were given to Hong Kong citizens today to either continue on the path to integrating with China - or - to be independent - they would chose independence.

Why don't we find out and give them the choice?

Hong Kong would dump China the instant they had the opportunity.

If the CCP had not moved towards controlling the political apparatus, Hong Kong would have been independent in 1997 whereupon China used the threat of violence to stop anyone from considering otherwise, as they do now: violence as the only instrument of power.

...

"way ahead? On what metrics?"

Hong Kong and Taiwan are ahead of the mainland on all metrics.

2020 GDP/capita in USD:

HK $46K
Taiwan $33K
China $10K

In terms of quality of life, education, healthcare, political freedoms - Hong Kong and Taiwan provide immensely better for their citizens than China ever will.

The capture of Hong Kong by China is already resulting in it's decline, the same would happen to Taiwan.

Hong Kong serves as an important financial gateway for China into the 'real world' - the only reason that financial opportunity exists is because the historical independence of Hong Kong.

No more independence - no more special financial status - and so both China and Hong Kong lose.
A trivial fix here is to:

a) Add a static value to the salt ie: your company's name

b) Add the user's email address to the salt

The "right" way would be a zero knowledge proof.
Why are knots used in aviation over kph?
yes they are. can you explain what your graphs are showing then, please?

I think they are showing nothing but noise.
I'm genuinely curious: does "technical and political work to keep Earth habitable for subsequent generations" include efforts to reduce the earth's population size? I ask this because sometimes such efforts fail to address the root cause, often deliberately.
“People” for “definitely not women” in this case. Nor his brothers.
happy to join forces on a side project and make friends.

i'm a fast moving generalist, working on distributed databases and k8s. i am excited about many things, including mobile dev, compilers, generative art, building effective teams, etc.

i can invest anywhere from 2 to 10 hours a week into it, feel free to reach
out to me at genmaicha123 at protonmail dot com even if you just want to chat and
soundboard ideas.
I was a C/x86 developer who switched to VB for an ASP job. Then I became a VB.NET devotee. I kept up with C# the whole time because 99% of sample code was in C# and I needed to understand it. I actually still believe VB.NET is the better language, I think it reads a lot easier and is therefore less susceptible to errors. I've given up though and switched to C# just because the support is there.
I meant that they can only be provided by the state in an effective way to protect the negative rights. That is what you need precisely to avoid becoming a failed state, where negative rights are not protected.
You should stop spamming your stuff all over unrelated comment threads.
I'm feeling more and more confident that your comments are intentionally snide and personal, so I'm going to bow out. Happy New Year to you and I hope 2022 brings you much joy and happiness.
And that's fine. It would still detach that new thread entirely from the old one, so that the target of the ire wouldn't get a million notifications about how they deserve to die or whatever.
Yea you’re exactly right. The elite of every non first world country are busy trying to immigrate to the US or one of the Anglo nations. It doesn’t say much about whether a country will continue to rise or not.
> People keep saying that 'climate change is happening too slow to be noticed over a human life span',

No one seriously says this, unless they're pushing their own anti-science narrative.
They are allowed and used. They are just less frequent. Because even with your examples, someone interested in history of Nazi Germany does not have much to talk about with someone who just read about medieval monks lifestyle. And neither of them have common topic with someone who wants to discuss Austrian economics.

So, the three of them will discuss game of thrones.
https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/tools@v0.1.8/cmd/file2fuzz
If you a "business owner in Hong Kong" then you should be able to see with your own eyes whether Hong Kong is "just another Chinese city" or not, rather than believing the anti-China propaganda that western media regurgitates repetitively and predictably, paying only the most basic level of lip-service to actual events.

You will know then that Apple Daily and Stand News were pushing "freedom of the press" into territory that no western media dares to push in their own countries, including actively calling for foreign military intervention in Hong Kong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfVGludKPWM
SCMP - The insufferable hypocrisy of Western governments hell-bent on destroying Julian Assange

"the only solution to bad speech is more free speech"

"the only solution to a bad market is more free market"

"the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun"

edit: Hacker News that bastion of "free speech" where all opinions not conforming to the "western liberal" doctrine gets downvote-censored because the readers are too fragile to read different opinions

> US media personalities calling for military invasion of Australia

(1) That's not the same thing as calling for military invasion of the US. (2) No government cares about random small articles that only random internet commentators know about to make a "irrelevant counterexample fallacy"; what matters is large-scale media exhibiting a long-term pattern of behaviour and trying to organise large numbers of people (which they failed at in HK; most people stopped going to the protests after a small group started extreme violence).
In the USA, I've seen even worse: trucks with a message printed on the back that their speed is governed to some constant value (usually 55, 60, or 65mph), that are driving on a freeway where the speed limit is higher than that. So naturally, you get a bunch of road rage and shoulder passes with the 55.1mph truck passing the 55mph truck, taking up both lanes, in a 70mph zone.
Levels of measurement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_measurement
Nuclear engineer here. In school in Ann Arbor we ran a radiation detector overnight in the lab and were able to identify several nuclides in the air leftover from weapons tests. Fun times.

Of course the dose rate from these nuclides was many orders of magnitude less than natural background so it was more a curiosity than a concern. Radiation detectors can detect single atoms decaying and attribute them to specific nuclides. Good old quantum energy levels of the nucleus.

If I could have one media wish this year, it would be that whenever someone says something is 'radioactive', everyone else asks what the dose rate is compared to natural background before talking about hazards.
The US can't even imagine the collective attention span required to achieve this.
https://avherald.com/h?article=4f24b2d7&opt=0
A lot of harm in US is caused by some states having abysmal standard of law in some domains. A lot of people would benefit if there were federal standards introduced in those domains.

Power must be smart. Making it more distribute doesn't make it smart. It makes it smarter in some places and dumber in others.

And since people don't choose smarter people for their leaders, just louder ... Smart leaders are rare.

It's better to draw people to become leaders from larger pool of people and let them govern more people.
Good critiques, which also apply to democracies.

1. "The election is not fair/can be bought" Democracy's got that one all right.

2.a. "no clear process to appoint candidates" I'm sure the process is explicit in company bylaws or country laws.

2.b. "In a corporation, candidates for the board are chosen from within the company." Hmm, I thought public company board members were typically chosen from outside the company but I could be wrong.

3. "There are no checks and balances and no constitution." Most companies have "bylaws" which govern their operations.

The biggest difference between company and government is that companies are subordinate to governments while governments (or confederations like the EU) are only ever have peers, there is no higher entity to which they answer. And that in turn allows companies to somewhat outsource enforcement of (by)laws and contracts to governments. The sci-fi trope of trans-national mega-corps answering to no government puts companies at the level of, or even higher than, countries, and then they need private armies of soldiers, not just of lawyers.
This has been educational for me as well - I happen to have a clear view of the building from the coffee area of our office and have been wondering for quite some time now what that neo-brutalist looking thing actually is.

Vaguely reminiscence of the the St Mary of Nazareth hospital in Chicago, actually: https://chicagomodern.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/resurrection-...
> What does it matter? If a criminal gains the hash, they can log in and be malicious anyway.

To that one site. But users reuse passwords and if a criminal only has a hash they can't reuse it across sites.
> Skilled assembly line workers cost more in South China than in cheaper US states.

Irrelevant when 2/3 of inputs are in China and overseas shipping rates are 2x what they were 2 years ago.
“Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to log into this webpage.”

(/s, you just reminded me of the help text for the log in screen circa 2000/XP)
I suspect they just haven't gotten to it yet - the FAQ says Mac and mobile support is planned.
Above 13 Jupiter masses would it have to be a burned out star?
Makes sense. I think especially for DBs that are mostly read-only, this seems like a really useful solution.

In some way, this reminds me of the way some of the old image boards were written: Instead of querying the DB and rendering HTML on each GET, the HTML was regenerated on POSTs and written to disk as static files. All GETs were handled like static assets.

This gave you high read performance, caching and partial reads for free, even for pages that normally would be dynamic.

(Of course the cost was bad write performance and severe restrictions on dynamic or user-dependent content)
One thing I do is use an app like WiFiman, or a laptop with nmap, to scan and find any existing network devices and determine what they are.

Network scanning won’t work for most commercial/guest WiFi systems like you’d see in a hotel, because they use client isolation which prevents your device from communicating with anything but the default gateway and maybe a DNS server. But it should work on most standard networks like what you’d find at a typical Airbnb rental.
Been asking for this feature for half a decade.
Well yes, that is a main takeaway from the study in question. Non sequitur to my post though
From nautical roots, hence aeronautical. Quite a lot is borrowed by aviation from maritime.
I'm the opposite. I see the rings spinning back and forth in all the examples.
Agreed. This may be what your video talks about, but the decrease in interest rate over the last 40 years has a lot to do with the increase in stock market valuations. Interest rates are E/P, the correspondence with a stock market P/E is straightforward. Interest rates are now at zero and can only go in the opposite direction. And probably will since everybody is now concerned about inflation.
Yep, that sounds about right.

On balance, every math genius I knew cracked IIT top 1000 (necessary to get CS). But most people who I knew got in, were much more likely to be hard workers rather than geniuses. Not a symmetrical relationship.

The majority of IITians are insane hardworkers and give up a lot of personal development to get there.
We accept occupational risks all the time. Here, the threshold for radiation workers allows a dose half of what has been ever linked to any amount of cancer.

The overall average, across all industries, fatal work injury risk is something like 35 per 1,000,000 worker-years. Compare to this, where the risk to radiation workers from radiation, if they receive the highest allowed dose (and basically no one does) can be confidently bounded to be well under 1 per 1,000,000 worker-years. (And, if it should ever happen, is likely to be far in the future and cost less life expectancy as a result).
Convention, smaller numbers, everyone that it matters to knows it
But you won’t get funding saying this. You need to make your subject of study a crisis in order to secure the funding to study it further. And of course the politicians that unlock the funding would do well if your model could align with their re-election strategy.
Yes. It is our narrative. This is one of the most honest videos I’ve ever found of our true views on life in America vs the ivory tower discussions that constantly blame GM and Robert Moses for destroying their “communities”
Historical reasons mostly. For the same reason that various units are used in all sorts of different industries. And guess what? If you changed you'd probably end up with some accidents in the transition as a result.
My problem is I like building things for fun, and things cost money
Right - it would, I don't disagree, it'd be awesome. It's something like WebAuthn.

I'm arguing here more against some people who think that using a JavaScript-based system to hash the password entry before sending it to the server is a good idea.
> If something is socialised then it is free to choose from. So it is free as in $ and free as in freedom.

Yes, and that's positive rights. As I said, I only believe in negative rights.

> Makes sense in principle but impossible to do in practical. Nobody has a mind reader. Nobody can accurately predict the future behaviour of other people. Do you agree that your thinking is impossible to actually implement?

Then we don't allow them. It's a price to pay in lost negative rights but only to protect other's negative rights.
I agree even if people are downvoting you.
Senior Engineer, semi retired.

Working in my spare time on various side projects, but i would really enjoy some input of which project to focus on, collaborate on and potentially incorporate.

1. Digital Assistant for on premise installation, already built that as lead architect for a customer of mine but want to take the concept fruther ( think star trek TNG computer )

2. Continous integration platform for ML Models, taking data collection, labelling and training as well as optimization and automate them as much as possible.
Some of these are pretty cool but I always feel like the ones that depend on the camera being in a fixed perspective aren't nearly as cool.
What's amusing is she talks about Enoughism or choosing to be financially poor (through choice or happenstance) but I wonder if she realizes how pleasant she is to watch/listen to and that her lifestyle is super interesting and unique. I feel she could have a great youtube channel and a successful revenue stream. The flipside I guess is she wouldn't need to live in a shed after that...
Privilege separation for applications is not the same as having separate user accounts.

true, and yes, maybe the whole system needs to be redesigned for that. but nevertheless, this needs to happen in the kernel. and once we have proper process separation, adding multi-user support on top of that seems almost trivial.
I think the imagination is important..."merely imagine yourself to have been on the brink of being."...is an important thing too. Helps keep your motivation when everyone else thinks you're crazy, and only you can see the path. That's what you need sometimes--you need to be the only person who can see the path, because that's sometimes what you will be. Nobody in the people you talk to or know will be able to support your belief in this...because to their perspective, it's not viable. That's the difference between you and them. One difference. The ability to keep going. So it's not "merely imagining", the imagination is all important. It looms over everything else, and guides. That and your emotions, what you really want. To take you there, that's the only motivation you can really count on: imagination and emotion. Otherwise you won't make it. You'll give up. That's what I think...so those things, imagination and emotion are to be cherished and protected. Like PG's "embryonic" startups, or anyone who knows the feeling of trying to protect a fragile little flame of a thing (an idea, a being, whatever), before it's ready to take on the world without such nurturing protection.

So as well as tempering yourself with reality...which hopefully some of the points above may assist with--you got to keep the flame alive. Be the keeper of the flame. Of your own dream. That's what you need to succeed, one ingredient.

I think without the imagination and emotion emphasis, focusing just on the "reality" and statistical aspects is too dour. Good luck! Whatever you choose to do, good luck !
it’s nonsense on the current subject, which is covid… not sure we need the gymnastics of “technically it could happen” here
Sorry, but the idea that implementing "clean logs" is:

a) Tractable

b) Simple or straightforward

compared to client side hashing is absurd.

Client side hashing is a one time solution forever that exists in one place, requiring no 'cooperation' from other code to be safe. "Cleaning logs", which you still haven't defined at all, is going to be a constant maintenance burden that can break in any place where you log ie: absolutely fucking everywhere by absolutely fucking everyone.
> Make doesn't understand gcc -MD output.

How do you mean? It's literally Makefile syntax that's being output, and it's directly included by the Makefile as-is.