skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm seriously curious about Craig Wright as a character and his mentality.

At one point I did some digging and found his early pre-2015 blog. As you can see here, he described himself as a "GSE-Compliance and GSE-Malware" [0]. You can also see he was working on his PhD research project in a university, and also doing some system administration at the university's HPC center [1][2]. Scrolling through the blog, the published articles included Windows commandline, Process Explorer, how shellcode works, etc. There are all basic things, not some extraordinarily creative or original works.

Thus, he was basically a regular IT security DevOps with a business, and also studies in an university for some regular research projects. I can easily imagine that the things he did was what an average user of Hacker News does.

So, what really happened in the meanwhile? What made him to metamorphose from a regular security geek into a persistent scammer who claims he's Satoshi Nakamoto? I think this is the real question to ask. There must have been some external forces come into play that made him do that.

A rumor I've heard is that Wright's business was running into debt, so somehow he made a deal with Calvin Ayre. Calvin Ayre became his financial backer, and as the condition of this transaction, Craig Wright must claim he is Satoshi Nakamoto and acts as if it's real. This is probably what happened.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20111123102230/http://gse-compli...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20151123012430/http://gse-compli...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20150121024725/http://gse-compli...
We continued our discussion in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29933516#29947146
Given that advertising is lying, it's not surprising that the ad industry would ask for such unethical license.

I think it was predictable that Google would turn to the dark side based on their advertising revenue source.
Ah wow. That’s awful.
KeepassXC, or Keepass databases and Strongbox for a polished iOS app. And any cloud file sync service.
But even Native American tribes mostly care about people who are culturally present in their tribes as members versus being of Native American race.

For example those whose ancestors didn't partake in the Dawes Roles are generally excluded from tribal membership even if they are genetically similar; the reasoning being they haven't been present as citizens in generations.

And really, what should we care about most? A particular hue of skin, or our values, principles, traditions, and history?
I recently bought an antique chair, literally from the 1800s. It is a little thing, probably a child's chair. One of the legs broke. At first I was sad since it was a nice buy ($15?) and fit exactly into a little space I had for it. I mean, it survives a hundred years and then gets broken by my idiocy within weeks? Then I had a look. The thing is put together with no screws. It's literally a friction fit for every one of the 4 legs and cross braces. So fixing it is as easy as spinning up a wood lathe and making a new leg. And it turns out...it has been repaired already. This is why it has lasted 100 years.
You can never trust cloud-hosted password managers..
HaDEA proposes DNS4EU, a secure DNS for EU member states
That's really the big reason you don't see more of 10 GbE - over copper it's kind of terrible technology and you should really use fiber. But that's a big jump, so people stay at 1/2.5 GbE.
https://github.com/a4k-openproject/a4kSubtitles

anonymous, scrapes a handful of sites including opensubtitles + subscene
Is life possible on rogue planets and moons?
Wow, sounds like a huge missed opportunity! If so many people were willing to pay a premium price for a device primarily because of how easy it was to customize, then perhaps it should be marketed that way in the first place.

Hardware vendor lock-in subscriptions may seem to the corporate world like a big win on paper, but how many customers are they losing who are willing to pay for a very premium product that they get full control over? (looking at you peloton)
Great for 1Password - I love the tool and I'm a strong advocate. But ...

Why such a large round? Why not go for an IPO?
Try to move one to a new path!
They do have a visual refresh in the plans: https://community.bitwarden.com/t/bitwarden-roadmap/12865
A couple of very large settlements [1], one being $452M, can go a long way to helping a poor community.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeur_d%27Alene_people#Environ...
Well, I always think of five letter plurals that end in S, even when I know there is no S in that position.
Currency data is free and everyone has it including yahoo. How does this compete with, say, IEX?
the starch can be extracted and is a common carbohydrate source in some parts of the world
There are lots of reasons to dislike Fauci but the fact his investments in mutual funds in 2020 made money is not a reasonable one. Show me a mutual fund that didn't make money from the FED pumping the markets and I might think differently.

Telling us masks wont help then admitting he lied to preserve supplies for health care workers, that should have been enough reason for him to go.

When a official lies to the public then admits the lie but continues to be in a position of trust all credibility of the institutions they work at is gone and they do more harm than good while they remain there, no matter their intentions.

I cant help but wonder how many more people would be vaccinated if not for him facing no repercussions for the lies he told.
Ok, care to explain your viewpoint further?
> They solve the problem of "pin a specific version of some external 3rd-party repo" really nicely.

My understanding is that they sound to many users like you could do more with them, such as making your repository modular, where in fact if you do that, you run into all sorts of problems.
I'm a little surprised that there's so much negative reaction to this idea. In practice, kids cannot be totally controlled; they're independent individuals, and they're sneaky, and they're fast. It seems natural to me, at least, that the better strategy for a parent is to be available when your kids are truly over their heads, and to try to do the high-level work of steering them and winning them over to the right direction.
> Do you increase revenue with hard DRM measures?

Game devs believe that these measures benefit revenue enough that they keep on adding them, despite significant technical and reputational cost. So, absent evidence to the contrary, I suspect the answer is "yes."
I am still surprised that air traffic control is mostly managed by human operators. Seems odd that this cannot be fully automatised and managed through an algorithm.
CodeBullet returns after a year off
Or Israel?

The genesis block contains a huge front page news storey of Israeli tanks rolling into Gaza, images and all, put there by Satoshi themself.
Hahh, "I don't need a calculator" :) Regardless, I can't find the source, but I remember reading that this site is a cash cow.
Honestly as a user it doesn't matter, ~it's a bad look for a tool when it's biggest competition _does_ handle it.~ - I'm going to consider it a feature of the competition!
1. the market being so hot for mid-level engineers means that we are considering and hiring good junior engineers where we cannot find adequate mid-level talent. we would rather hire and develop a junior than compromise.

2. show code on github, sure, but if you can demo the work deployed somewhere it goes much further. everyone has a crypto tracking or twitter sentiment project somewhere, but i need more. if you can deploy the work somewhere in a smart way, great. if you can communicate well, great. a project with a 2-5 minute video tells me a lot more than code alone (which anyone can do with a tutorial).

3. demonstrate that you are easy to work with and that you are willing to learn. if a candidate has enough code or work on their resume, that is great, but a good cultural fit goes a long way.
I think it's how it's always been with software. It's ephemeral.

When the devs have to keep up with the system updates etc. there is expectation that they keep working on software. I am sure they would love to just push something that would work forever.

So much software that i bought stopped working. Even when you have "lifetime" license - eventually world moves on and you are without hardware to run the software.

I am not saying it's right but i am also not sure how it can be solved.
You seem to be talking about 4x10, instead of 32h weeks. Which is a totally different story. Imagine your 5x8 but 4x8. You get the good long weekends and the productivity of 8hs
The thing about `sudo` is confusing because you don't even need to modify the namespace to overwrite `/etc/sudoers` if you have root. You just need to write to the file.

What it sounds like plan9 is doing is giving a local view of the root that local processes see. Which Linux can do too. Not with the same use-cases in mind as Plan9 though, as such capabilities were added for sandboxing/containerization. But the mechanisms are probably(?) general enough to do Plan9 in Linux.

A `sudo` that is seeing a local view of the root is going to have privileged access to that local root, not to the global system root. And that is correct. That is what sudo does. It gives root access to the same root that contains /etc, not to any "outer" or "more global" root.

It doesn't mean you can't have any access to the global root from the local root though. There are many ways to arrange such privilege escalation. (They do have to be arranged, of course, by someone writing the userspace code -- like sudo had to be written.)

>If you put a user under a uid namespace in linux, and then give them the right to create their own filesystem namespaces then sure, you've enabled them to potentially do things like this. But you've also blocked them from escalating their privileges, because now they can't use setuid binaries to obtain "real root" or whatever.

Privileged processes can have a global view of the namespace while the user does not. An ordinary setuid binary on a filesystem the user controls can't get a global view, only because the user does not (should not) have authority to do that. A process with the global view and root can grant the authority though.

The important thing, it seems to me, is that the global outer namespace can grant to the process local namespace any capabilities available through the outer namespace. I'm not sure if this is 100% completed but the ongoing containerization efforts do involve reaching toward that 100% mark.
So... Dropbox, then?
There are no good password managers.

Bitwarden sucks, but sucks the least. Make sure you self-host using vaultwarden, the people at the Bitwarden company are clueless about security.
To add on this, consider unis your timezone, i know we are hiring as long as you're in PST, but we have engineers that have moved to CO and down south in the the LA metro. We just hired a gal over in Seattle to do Data Engineering work for us, but we are located outside the SFBay.
Because money is desperate to find sinks to throw itself at.
> does having projects on GitHub help?

yes.

My advice ( valid in the pre-covid era )

- Check the local tech meetups ( https://www.meetup.com )

- Give a presentation.

- In the last side .. add some indirect info about your job search.

- go with an after party - and make a personal connections.. ( and ask advice )
Correction: majority of people who didn’t spend their lives gaming get motion sickness pretty quickly anyways. This is coming from someone with an index running at 144 Hz on a 3090.

I’ve actively been encouraging friends and family to try it and my experience is that motion sickness hits about 18/20 people within 30 minutes of play, depending on the game.

However I’ve noticed that my friends who have played a lot of computer games (in particular fast paced FPS) tend to fare better, and also that the sickness goes away with practice. I used to get it too but now I can beatsaber for literal hours without discomfort.

The headset does make a difference, (my friend’s Vive was particularly bad), but it’s not as great as you suggest. Time and practice are far more important.
My response isn't a HN "appropriate" comment, more Reddit - but this is gold! Made me laugh thinking of it.
Torx can take more torque than a hex (due to the much smaller driving angle at the tool/bolt contact point). Bolts that take the same torque can thus have a thinner head.
Who is us?
It doesn't erase the possibility, of course. It doesn't even erase the possible moral justifications for punishment. I was very specific with my wording there for a reason: It does erase the main moral justifications used for vengeance.

With respect to using hard determinism as an excuse for vengeance, keep in mind that even a society that buys into the lack of moral justification for vengeance on a hard determinist basis will still have every reason to punish you for it purely based on the expected effect on future offending (by you or others).

This is one of the things that often cause people to react to a determinist view: They tend to think that it either makes it pointless to make choices because they have no control, or that it makes everything a free for all because you have no responsibility.

But the problem with that line of thinking is that we don't get to "step out of the illusion". We live within a world where irrespective of whether your choices are free, you do make them - choosing to do nothing (or anything) because your choices are not free is in itself a choice, and has consequences that may be good or bad for you. Making choices because you think you can use lack of free will as an excuse may or may not end well for you even if your choice to do so was not free.
The good news: He finally came back and posted something. He's probably the most entertaining way to learn about AI/ML strategies to solve problems such as "make a grid and click on everything because it's faster than processing all of this".

The bad news: He used to link to his repos in the description of his videos and it seems like he doesn't publish code anymore.
I'm pretty sure the models are right, and that we will hit +4C on time, that politicians are aware of this, and they wont do much about it. They want to, but all real solutions have massive conflicts of interest, and they are aware voters dont really care much about global warming compared to other issues like house prices and jobs.

In forums like this, where everyone has a well paying job and fuck you money, it is important to preserve the planet, just not enough that more than 1% here would approve a build permit for a windfarm next door to their house. Arguably we mostly care about preserving the nice nature we now enjoy for free, and this is as good as it gets.
The vast majority of people who specifically feel climate change is important still dont think the near guarantee of climate change is more important than the negligible risks of nuclear power.

Basically, politicians are representing the true interests of the population, which to be fair is their job. We just arent who we want to pretend we are.
Hi all, blog post writer here! This was my first time writing a blog post, so curious to see thoughts/criticisms. Also available on Twitter @NoWhiteboardOrg if you’d like to chat me up/DM me there!
Both takes appear to be missing the entire privacy issue - you are free to share your data with the US if you wish. You are not free to share my data with the US.

GP is correct, they are not free to share "any data", where their right to share "any data" and my right to privacy conflict.

We all love our freedoms - but we have to respect that other people have freedoms too - and we don't have the freedom to take theirs.
On Crypto Art and NFTs
Because the need to meet ROI always leads to selling data.
> You can never trust cloud-hosted password managers..

If you examine the source code of a client (for example bitwarden) and make sure that it's not leaking your master password and then compile the soft yourself and not update - you'll be pretty safe.

This will make it similarly secure as e.g. keepass, because even for keepass you should be sure the source is legit
As mentioned above, asian markets performs better but the currency also get devalued consistently which eats into the gains dollarwise.
I think the elephant in the room is population controls. No one likes the idea but at least passive measures by all governments need to be taken to curb total world population. We cannot sustain 10 billion people for long. We probably can’t even sustain 7 billion for much longer then the lifetime of some people alive today.

Human expansion can continue, but it will have to be off-world. Earth population needs to be brought down into the low billions to achieve true sustainability with high quality of life.
Logitech has a keyboard that is "VR ready" - it will show up in VR just like the Quest 2 controllers do
You know what the worst is? When they limit you to, say, 20 or 32 characters, but accept a longer password and silently truncate it!

I've run across that at least once and it was a total pain to troubleshoot and figure out.
On top of that, iFit is not very good. Continuously adjusting incline stopped being interesting about 2 months in. The only thing I liked was that it recorded a running total of distance and elevation, which was good for motivation. I walk outside more than I use the treadmill nowadays, and I use my Apple Watch for motivating statistics. I will probably just sell my treadmill or just give it away.
They're a paid service. Why do they need so much extra funding?!

There's definitely going to be a feature creep and annoying changes.

Time to consider the alternatives again :(
The odds are a small part of what you have to consider.

If you want to quickly improve to a proficient level there's no quicker way than to read Theory of Poker and Hold 'em for Advanced Players. Both of these books focus primarily on limit poker, but the concepts are critical for no limit as well. And you'll realize there's a lot more strategy and nuance in limit poker than you thought.
KeypassXC & Strongbox on iOS.
Keypass has browser extensions, strongbox has autofill on iOS. Use iCloud drive as a database (windows iCloud app needs to be setup) There are occasional sync issues but I recommend keeping a local backup on each device.

The combination has all of the features you mentioned including xkcd password generation & Yubikey.

Only downside is that the desktop extension requires the app to be open in the background. For that, I have the app minimize to system tray so it isn’t in the task bar.

Strongbox settings menus are an absolute disaster to learn, but it has extensive customization. Make sure you only give the app 32mb of memory or autofill will crash.
Zork's ZIL targeted the Z-machine, now implemented on everything.
I just don't see how you can make a slippery slope argument when comparing dictators with the power of massive governments to changing political youth culture. Especially when this left culture keeps losing politically and has little state power. The anti-CRT hysteria has resulted in a bunch of laws mandating changes to curriculums without input from educators, to me that's closer to the old communist dictators.
Thanks - that did help me.
Not only this, but the correct driver head is designed to spin out before stripping the screw threads or over tightening.

The head stripping instead of the threads or hole is a feature, as the desired point of failure.

A quality screw can spin out without too much damage, but often today cheap screws mean trashing it once that's happened.
It really seems like they've been saying to take a deep breath and not pressure yourself into giving away all your data, and people here are self-defensively over-reacting. Saying that you don't _have_ to stress yourself out by being a micro-manager doesn't imply you're evil if you like being a micro-manager.
I really enjoy using pass / gopass
This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmVMh-nT200
I believe this is regarding their new infrastructure secrets product, so hashicorp vault but more corporate maybe.
Bitwarden, of course.
The mRNA Vaccine Makers
If you think things got worse for people since the 1980s, maybe you should start by digging a little deeper into how bad it used to be. And why would you think race has stopped being on the minds of any people? Do you have any evidence of this, because it sure strikes as utterly wrong given the non-stop ongoing national conversation about race.
Tangentially related to this: Is storing passwords actually hard, or is it knowing know to do things like this that is?

I've seen a lot of people on HN talk about how they never store passwords because they don't want the liability, and I've seen some talk about how they do since it's simple. In my experience, hashing with Argon2 and keeping that in the DB (for toy personal projects) has been very easy, especially to how scary keeping passwords seems to have been made.

I guess my real question is: If I'm hashing with an actual password acceptable hash method (salt and all), is there any reason I shouldn't still do this? I'm legitimately interested, because for all I know, I'm experiencing the Dunning-Kruger effect.
that's awesome, I wish more sites offered a slimmed down txt-centric version. if they added a minimal search it'd make it a lot more functional. as is, needed to clip the story number from the orig url to find it there:

https://text.npr.org/1068930998
https://api.ipify.org/?format=json and https://ipdata.co
Bitwarden. Both the client and the server is open source. You can selfhost the server, or you can use their server.
Is Google Analytics illegal in your country?
Disagree. As per your link, "in a system of just culture, discipline is linked to inappropriate behavior, rather than harm". Failing to disclose such an incident would lead to disciplinary action in most countries, including the US I suspect.
I really hope this means new product offerings with no impact on existing products, rather than "fucking with the product b/c it doesn't make us enough money".. which I'll dub corporate Marak syndrome..
I've been using 1password for years and so far haven't had any problem, all apps (desktop and mobile) work great, but I don't understand why they would need this kind of money, especially considering it's not free or cheap service.
And is it still redeemable for a pound of sterling silver?

I don’t think 600 years counts as long run when it comes to world history.
You mean
צ / ץ
פ / ף
כ / ך

And it does seem to treat them like totally different letters. They are the same though I'm not sure what will be more fun to play. Note that Hebrew has fewer letters to begin with (22 not counting those).
https://osgameclones.com
Yes. VR passthrough mode basically trumps AR (in my opinion).
Why should they have to be taken? Materially-prosperous Western countries are below replacement levels already.
Google/Chrome offer the best user experience for password management, but I guess many people using 1Password are doing so specifically to avoid Google?
Raising hundreds of millions of dollars for a built, profitable product with a tight scope and millions of users usually means the product scope will increase as part of their new remit to drive shareholder return. If people liked the existing tightly scoped product, and for password management simpler is better for many users, this investment indicates the product will necessarily move away from the existing use cases as a condition of accepting the funds.
> It wasn’t difficult to find signatories to the rebuttal, and we could have collected hundreds. I stopped seeking names after a few dozen, because the message is abundantly clear when you see who signed. Dr. David C. Queller is one of the most prominent critics of Wilson’s late foray against Hamiltonianism. Dr. David Sloan Wilson and Dr. Jerry Coyne both signed without hesitation.

Well, clearly these men are horrible racists as well.

Obviously I kid but it is truly frustrating how immune to logic or deeper analysis the current social justice movement is.