skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oneirogen – that which produces or enhances dream-like states
It's from a time when the country was more sparse. A normal citizen can make arrests only with proof of a crime, in some very important situations like theft or trespass you'd like to be able to arrest on suspicion.

If anything these hyper-specific forces tend to be more professional that local police forces.
Authority is technically not a must for an arrest, just it’s not a casual part of the law you should mess with.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen%27s_arrest
Hard-core, zero covid countries such as China have made a serious mistake. (note: I am not anti-China).

Omicron is very infectious. It moves incredibly quickly. Almost my entire workplace (a school in Denmark) has had it, including me. I'm unvaxxed 55 yrs old, everyone else is vaxxed. It was like a moderately unpleasant cold.

The guy who's renovating my gf's takeaway had it: he's 70 and has cancer. He didn't even break stride.

What do these countries think they're going to do when covid is an endemic, seasonal cold in the rest of the world? Are they going to keep their borders closed forever?

The whole thing is ridiculous.
My out of body was from hallucinogens rather than near death, but it was very similar as well. The strobing is fascinating, going from a place of undifferentiated light back to the material world and back at a specific frequency.
During the discussions leading to the inception of the SI second the bigwig standards folks nixed the consideration of relativity, basically paraphrased as "If you physicists do not stop arguing about relativity we will never redefine time in a way that removes it from the astronomers."
Montgomery invaded quebec, thinking the local (freshly conquered) french canadians would join the revolution, which didn't happen. They took Montréal, laid siege on quebec but ultimately had to withdraw with heavy losses due to winter, mounting losses, and low morale since the American militiamen were absolutely not keen to fight this far away from their home states.

The event is a bit forgotten in the US but here in Canada, it's taught in high school. The relatively huge celebrations of the 200th year anniversary of the 1812 War back in 2012 also mentioned the invasion quite a bit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Quebec_(1775)
The last thing we need is more HR departments automatically scanning collected résumés and ML apps "reviewing" them.
Not only expiration, you also limit the number of attempts, the IP address, you verify an additional nonce token generated for the specific request, etc.

The security of your email is typically taken care of by a more sophisticated system like GMail, that will do captcha, they remember your geographic region, your habits, etc.

Given the above, I'd say alphanumeric one-time codes are better in terms of entropy and feel. They look like passwords but you don't need to remember them.
Surely you recognize that the odds of getting into a FAANG are higher and the process more repeatable than starting and selling multiple businesses for $10-$100m...
idk man, having lived in some third world countries for extended periods of time, I don't agree at all. Sure there's some really shitty parts of America, but the kind of living conditions you see everyday in 3rd world countries would be something that would be very unusual to see in America.

I've described the living conditions of the very poor in America to locals in these 3rd world countries and the universal consensus among the locals is that life in America is pretty great in comparison.
Mantle Convection
A "file" is just a key-value entry where the "key" is some label in an arbitrary namespace, and the "value" is a blob of bytes. The "directories" of a relational FS would be dynamically generated: they would arise as query result sets based on user input, as opposed to being fixed and materialized on-disk. This is how the relational FS worked in BeOS, but the exact same "virtual directory" feature was also ported to some versions of Windows.
Anybody have any experience with any compounds that promote extra vivid / intense dreams? I experienced that when I first started taking Metorpolol for high blood pressure, but the effect fades over time. I find it quite enjoyable though - there's nothing quite like a vividly intense / surreal dream so long as it's not an outright nightmare.

Anyway, I've been wondering if there are any safe / over the counter substances that can help promote a similar effect. Found this Wikipedia article which is encouraging. But would love to hear any first-hand experience from fellow HN'ers.
Machine learning research often scales up to solve a new problem, and then scales down the solution until it's actually usable. Object detection, for example, is now fully usable on a phone CPU.
> The hierarchical works better on my computer than whatever scheme we've cooked up for our phones.

What do you mean? Hierarchical is how I access files on my phone. Is that an Apple thing?
Lacking crime data for the counterfactual world where crime wasn't prosecuted, I don't think you can make this assertion. Not to say that you're wrong (and I've seen evidence that you're right), but that you can't just eyeball our crime rate and come to any conclusion.

It is counterintuitive to suggest that punishments have an insignificant effect on crime rates. It doesn't pass the 'me' test- even my idealized version of myself would steal if there were no consequences, though it's tricky to judge whether I'd be more or less inclined with variable consequences. Again, doesn't mean it's not true, just sets the bar for evidence a little higher.
What could they do? They increased the arrests (they have that authority, interestingly enough) and surveillance efforts, but the people they catch are back out on the street within 24 hours, just in time to catch the next train.

Perhaps, alter their schedule to ensure the train never stops in certain areas so there is no chance to hop on and open the locks?
that's probably true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...
No this isn't money laundering there's way easier ways to launder money on the blockchain.

Also 3mil is peanuts, definitely not worth the effort.

And you're right that a first year law student would know the answer to this question, as do I.
Some people are horrified by a six pack a night, sone people are horrified because they keep a bottle in their desk to even things out during the day. Those require different treatment strategies.
I do recall him snarkily remarking that MINIX was thus "used on more PC's than Linux (or Windows!)"

30 years on and he was still upset I suppose
America's incarceration rate is over nine times that of a country like Denmark's. You see the comments here from Americans - even more people need to be incarcerated, the DAs are too soft. People elect these DAs because they are tired of police brazenly murdering people on video and locking everyone up.
I find the subject extremely frustrating. Accessibility is an afterthought across the entire stack from the OS to the application. On the application side significant developer effort is required. Not only in the design at the end but properly supporting the rolls. Accessibility APIs are extremely complicated to interface with and are fragmented on Windows and Linux. Higher level libraries often abstract enough to do automation but not provide enough performance or have missing api features to provide screen readers and voice programmers the kind of accessibility they need.

The mobile space has much more accessibility than the desktop environment. Don't get me started out about the web...
Iwata was one of gaming's most brilliant minds.

We're privileged to of been able to play his art.
Big Tech Braces for a Wave of Regulation
The railroads in the US are pretty heavily regulated by various US government departments. It makes sense to have specialized police for the needs of the railroad.
Archive with full text of article: https://archive.md/ZsTwv
This is really not an issue. If the company as such a dumb HR department on automatic mode, I’m glad I’ll never be hired there.

But to be honest, I’ve never seen so stupid HR people. Like a lot of people, they have goals to reach and they’ll happily accept an interview from any CV as long as there are computer-related keywords and roughly the required experience.

HRs are one of the most important department when it comes to a company potential shitiness. So I’m glad they have the power to kick you from the hiring process for stupid reasons.
> so it is download source tar balls and build your own for ultimate stability?

Not to this extend, installing things from packages are okay.

> what do you do when a vulnerability has been posted and impacts you?

There were no substantial vulnerabilities for those packages in years, if my memory doesn't fail me. But even is something comes up, there are additional measures like fail2ban on open ports.
It used to be lumped in with green, fwiw; or rather green was more a cyan or sealike color and they binned everything "cool" together.
Surely you're not trying to restart the A1200 vs. Falcon debate? We all know the Amiga was superior anyway. ;)
its currently targeted towards Gmail users because it specifically looks for the "All Mail" inbox which Gmail provides. I'm working on allowing users to configure the inbox name, which means it should work with any email provider.
How do they get out so quickly?
Also i think in this particular case (since thefts are happening on private, fenced territory) it's easier to fix by a small adjustments in law, essentially allowing guards to shoot to kill on sight - so that thieves are not arrested, just eliminated. Normally that wouldn't be a possibility because of chances of mistakes, but here's there's no way to make a mistake - anyone within the fenced area not wearing a uniform and a service ID can be shot to kill on sight and that will be it. Put appropriate markings on fences.
In Washington State BNSF is allowed to hire retired law enforcement officers (usually ex-highway patrol) as a "Special Agent", and they are re-sworn and have arrest powers. They cannot book people into a jail without permission from the city/county operating the jail.

The railroad can't just hire Apu from the Quickie-Mart and hand him a gun and badge.
The promotions tab is just a filtering mechanism, it doesn't mean that you'll get more spammy promotional email?
There is an interesting anecdote in the Doom engine black book about working around the logo as well.
> DVDs

The Xbox Series X and PS5 both play DVDs. If physical media players still exist in 2032, I wouldn't be surprised if they still play DVDs.
Some of this is really just common sense. I believe the following:

- If murder were not prosecuted, or punished by only a day in jail, murder rates would increase. It would effectively be legal.

- Changing the sentence on murder from 10 years to life, however, would be unlikely to have any marginal deterrent effect.

Stated more generally, I think many sentences in this country are horrifically long, and dramatically shortening them would not increase crime. But if you decrease them to a level where they are de minimis compared to the benefit of the crime, or just not prosecuted at all, I don’t need a study to tell me crime will increase. It is human nature.
The problem with these generic explanations is that we can't know if it was a real issue with the tool, if it was a misunderstanding of how to use it from your side, a problem with documentation, a third party plugin, etc.

This is like saying "React is bad because once I had a problem I don't remember".
>the Atari Falcon

Was just an Atari. Braindead architecture throughout.

It is remarkable how the 68030 still had to wait for its turn to access RAM. Like the ST, Falcon had no concept of FAST RAM.

Falcon had a cool DSP chip in it, but that's about it.
US also has, like, heck of a lot more crime than Denmark. We don’t arrest and jail people for the hell of it.
Yep, thats one of the public services that I looked at initially, but there was no way I was willing to give an unknown third party access to the complete contents of my inbox.
You realize they use the induction burners for something, right?
Would you put up with unfettered, unwanted speech by someone with a loudspeaker outside your home? Even if they were on public property?
Not even trying: the corruption of real science (2013)
To my knowledge, that was not the grounds relied upon to cancel his visa though. Had it been, I’d be a lot more comfortable.
I really liked the very generous introduction.
I'm going to guess when OEMs ship Linux (Dell, Lenovo, System76, etc...) there's no bloatware. No bloatware on Apple except their OS ;-). But yeah, it's shocking. When I bought my laptop (an Acer Swift 3) it was borderline unusable with Windows and the standard install (wasn't even using native resolution, like WTF!?). Thankfully runs perfectly and looks great with Linux (even suspend, fingerprint reader, bluetooth, etc...).
I'm not at all against these people being released after 24 hours on a misdemeanor. However if it's the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th time you've been caught stealing packages from trains the punishment should definitely be increased. Is that not how it works?
What exactly are you advocating here? That they shoot them?

The vast vast vast majority of the US runs on trust, and lack of crime. If every single business had to protect itself from any possible crime the entire country would grind to a halt.

There are countries like that in the world, and parts of the US. There are derogatory names applied to such places.

I do not wish a world where the only solution is "taking the necessary measures to protect cargo; they're wallowing in the hope that this is an aberration because any other approach will cost money." I wish a world where the rule of law makes such measures unnecessary.
>Then we should go back to protocols and open hardware

Sorry, I'm out of the loop. What happened to HTTP(S) and x86?
Individual passwords don’t have entropy.
One problem with this approach, even if it's true, is that when you combine overprosecution of victimless crimes with rampant victim-ful crime, everyone loses respect for the system.
I completely agree with you. However, getting companies like Pinterest to stop requires teaching ordinary users how to bypass their idiocy so that users will see it for what it is and thus begin to vote with their feet or wallets.
> Nobody can store passwords securely. 100% busted. [...] Let’s talk about

> one-time codes

One-time codes rely on a password: either it is stored in your 2FA App, or they rely on your email password, or they rely you storing a password somewhere else. OTP rely on stored secrets.

You can make these secrets be much larger than the humble password and call them "private keys" :

> asymmetric key cryptography, hardware tokens

If these are not protected by a passphrase they can be stolen. Which seems like a variation of "nobody can store passwords securely". To mitigate the effects of them being stolen, you need to protect them with a password.

I sympathize with your desire, but it's not that easy, although I do think that we can reduce password usage.

But fundamentally a password is a trust anchor in your brain. I have yet to find a way around this limitation.
The local prosecutor is extremely lenient and just lets even obvious serial offenders go under the guise of criminal justice reform.
Cyber Security Baseline for Consumer Internet of Things Device [pdf]
My guess is that in most cases it would be cheaper (in the short term) to simply have a train employee stand in from of the train distributing money for the robbers to walk away. Of course, long term that would have an awful ROI. The robbers would return every time, and more robbers would join them.
Marak didn't stop giving out free food. He intentionally poisoned a food delivery without notifying the recipients.

Using your food pantry analogy, it sounds more like he should go to jail.
A militant railroad sounds like a fantastic dystopian backstory
This is precisely why "3 strikes you're out" laws were written.

They have their own issues, but now you can properly judge between their need and their issues.
I generally love Lyn Alden's writing but I think this is one of her weaker articles. Better long-term perspective can be found here:

https://www.lynalden.com/fiscal-and-monetary-policy/

Along with a recent article (which I can't find - I think she takes them premium once they've been out for a while) where she said that the Fed is probably structurally unable to raise rates above inflation, but that won't prevent them from trying, and we can expect major stock market crashes each time they do. That's pretty much all you need to know: long term, the stock market is going to infinity because the dollar is going to zero (or at least, a value much less than today), but in the short term the stock market could easily see drops of > 50% because it is so heavily levered on zero interest rates right now.

I'd say that the the biggest hole is that her writing ignores coupling of political risk and financial risk. (Probably out of necessity, given her audience. Investing is pointless when you can't enforce property rights.) Historically, when you get hyperinflation, you get disrespect for rule of law, civil disorder, collapse of infrastructure, and revolution in very short order. Commerce can't survive in these conditions, let alone finance. (This is one of the factors that accelerates inflation into hyperinflation - as predictability disappears, so does production, leading to even more scarcity.)

Lyn's predictions exist in the uncanny valley where the petrodollar system collapses and the dollar loses its reserve currency status, but we still retain Internet access, orderly financial markets, bank accounts, property rights, and physical security. I'm not sure this is a given. Historically, transitions to a major new economic system inevitably require a war or at least a revolution, because the winners of the previous economic system will not give up without a fight. There's no guarantee that the new government will honor property rights guaranteed by the old one. (In fact, in most cases the new government explicitly strips property from the previous wealthy elite, and that's a major part of its appeal to the common people.)
Microsoft should change their BSOD screen background color to this.
Did they write the headings of the report backwards maybe?
Due to the LA’s “progressive” prosecutorial policies.

It’s seemed to be designed to artificially lower the crime and incarceration stats.

The train company actually runs it’s own police force. So it can arrest these people. Then they turn them over to the local authorities, which often doesn’t even book them. Some just pay a nominal fine like they might for speeding.
Entropy and min-entropy are properties of distributions, not of individual samples from those distributions. So there's no meaning to "the entropy of each chosen password".
It seems fine on my home desktop/gaming machine.

its a fking nightmare on my work laptop. So buggy, needs to be rebooted daily. It really doesn't like Sleep or having to change between multiple screen setups.

Patches for Win11 seem to be fairly slow in coming compared to Win10. but then it is early day I guess.
No, unfortunately that’s not how it works at all. See my comment elsewhere in this discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29963965) for examples of how it actually plays out.
CPython compiles Python source code to bytecode, but it never compiles the bytecode to machine code. Instead it interprets the bytecode, reading one instruction at a time, and basically calling a giant switch statement that handles every possible opcode.

A JIT would compile the bytecode to machine code then run it directly (at least for frequently executed code paths). There is no "switch" anymore. Each bytecode instruction has already been replaced by the corresponding machine code.
Sorry, my post wasn't clear at all.

Yes, I do realize that. I meant that I have always made better money than people in Silicon Valley make (when adjusted for inflation), and I did it while working for these types of businesses.

Nowadays I do start my own, but if I were just a salaried tech worker, I would still be working fewer hours and have more spending power than someone working for Amazon or Netflix.
I don't think it's that weird. Our national railway in The Netherlands also has a security force. I haven't looked at the differences in authority between them and the UP police force, though.
this is actually probably a good guideline. Doesn't mean you need to use the LTSC release. but once they have a LTSC release they are generally ready for skin on the table time.
Or indeed COBOL on COGS http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM

The one true web framework for serious business applications.
> All these database aspects remained virtually unchanged since 1970, which is absolutely remarkable. Thanks to the NoSQL movement, we know it's not because of a lack of trying.

Kind of an aside, but I find it odd that people treat "relational" and "SQL" as synonymous (as well as "non-relational" and "NoSQL"). You could make a relational database that was managed with a language other than SQL, right?
Yes this is massively annoying. Especially since the "old" watch later button will appear for a flash moment where it used to be.
>Meanwhile, I typed my angry responses on my 33 MHz 80386 with a 387 math co processor, a sound blaster, and VGA graphics on a system with a case actually designed to hold a hard-drive and 2 entire MB of RAM.

... which cost you a fortune and yet was still worse than the oldest and cheapest Amiga, nevermind the A1200 which was made available around that time.

I finally "upgraded" to an Athlon with Linux in 2000. I do not feel like I missed anything in between; Through the years, I had lots of chances to extensively use 386/486 with DOS and Pentiums with Windows 9x elsewhere than home, and at no point I thought the user experience held a candle to my Amiga, which by the way was just an A500 with 1MB RAM and no hard drive.

PCs just sucked. Quake was cool, though.
Honestly, because of inequality. When it becomes too difficult for people to live the life that society tells them everyone should live, people begin to lose faith in the system and that's when extremism takes root.

People will latch on to whatever 'tribe' they feel they belong to and create a scapegoat for whatever they think is the problem. Think communists vs. capitalists, ethnic group A vs ethnic group B, religion A vs religion B, vaxxed vs anti, etc...

Revolutions happen after an economic shock, not when things are going well.
Prevent the theft, don't just deter it through legal consequences. Increase perimeter security (barbed wire, electrical fence) so that it's harder to get onto the rails in the first place. Keep trains moving - don't park them for hours in dense metro areas with poor perimeter security. Get better locks.

Or, partner with Mark Rober to create a giant train-car-sized glitter bomb that will douse thieves in glitter and fart spray when entered.
And not putting criminals in jail allows them to commit more crimes.
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Visited (from safari and chrome) on iPhone, it looks like entirely white [1]. It appears as the correct bluish colour on desktop. Might be just me. No idea why.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/Bp1AW3u.png
Well.

These days I think I work at the best team I ever worked on and it seems I'm in the top two in spelling, it is almost as if the rest if the team is mildly dyslexic or doesn't care.

But they are nice to work with, smart and they make good code.

I'll take them 49 times out of 50 over some perfect in code and writing but nasty in person ex colleagues.

Even if I really really really need a specialist on hight performance <whatever it was, I can't add a dead giveaway here> I'd still try to look elsewhere first.

Edit:

... and those two ex colleagues? Their code was good but it wasn't perfect either.