skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People don't seem to understand that VR was always an element of dystopian fiction. It's one of the things we do when we are confined to Earth. The others are gambling (with apes?), drugs, mindless hedonism (there's an app for that), following cults and crazy ideologies (Qanon? flat Earth?), pointless political intrigue, and war both physical and cultural. There will be a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.

Starship is the most important project at this point in human history. Without a frontier there is nothing but meaningless conflict, repetition, and stagnation. We will sit here on Earth and basically masturbate until some black swan event destroys our civilization or even our entire biosphere. That event could be something stupid we do, an asteroid, a gamma ray burst, who knows... but it doesn't matter. If we stay here intelligent life dies.

I think Starship is even more important than fighting climate change, since winning that battle still leaves us trapped in a cyberpunk dystopia that just happens to be a little more sustainable. That means instead of global warming trashing our civilization we might get a few more centuries of pointless masturbation before something else kills us.

Edit:

Keep in mind too how frontiers work. Novelty is imported from the frontier back to the old culture. The frontier revives everything. It's like going for a hike in the woods or a trip to a new city, but at civilization scale. Even if only 0.001% of humanity ever goes to space, I predict a civilization-wide effect.

As an added bonus as far as we know there are no natives in our immediate region of space. The "new world" of Europe's great age of frontier exploration was not a pure frontier, and it came with the moral baggage of war and displacement. The new frontier is pure. It's all exploration, no conquest. It's going to be more like the settling of the Polynesian archipelago (by the original Polynesians) than the European age of colonialism.

Anyway what a crazy rant from an article about VR... but I think it's relevant. Every time I hear about the metaverse or NFTs or some other bit of wank this is the thought that runs through my head.
I think it is because Zoom uses Microsoft C# compiler (that .NET uses as well). This compiler makes execute and write to same memory segment possible, no?

I did learn that backends of Zoom are made up of PHP, JavaScript (both server-sid and client-side), Python, CSS, and HTML.
No, I have no trouble opening it (sorry that I wasn't clear enough). I meant that my entire UX in that window is full of mistakes and confusion. To name a few, clicking on an item shows "unable to autofill" message as if I wanted to autofill my gmail password on other sites and not open a card. Lock button is hidden obscured in a settings menu. Password length slider is too sensitive in a generator tab. And the window is always not high enough to include most important options. It feels half-assed all over the place.
> I'm going to argue against you. The airline industry does have a culture that encourages even the slightest incidents to be reported, analysed, and protected against in the future.

The airline industry in some countries may have that culture. In some countries it may not.

The societal culture may 'override' the workplace/industry culture:

> Executives of South Korea’s Asiana Airlines say they’re altering its pilot training program to encourage communication among senior managers and subordinates, after a July plane crash in San Francisco that killed three people and injured dozens.

> A U.S. hearing into the crash revealed one of the pilots said he did not feel he had the authority to abort a low-speed landing as individuals at a “higher level” had to make that decision.

* https://www.cnbc.com/2014/02/10/asiana-airlines-to-pursue-co...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214

> A culture that frowns upon crew resource management: the pilot flying the airplane was senior in rank and stature to both the instructor pilot and copilot who would have been reluctant to speak up. This isn't an Asian thing at all, the Japanese have fully embraced CRM. The Koreans and Russians have not.

* https://code7700.com/case_study_asiana_airlines_214.htm
Yeah, I had a hell of a time trying to get our internal network to 100Gbps and was told by multiple experts I was being too ambitious. I ended up with 100Gbps between switches and 40Gbps to the servers.
Is it not bigoted and hateful to say that someone should die because they didn’t get the vaccine?

Asking as a liberal
Stop using passwords entirely. That's my dream alternative.

Password managers are stupid because the problem they solve is dumb. They act like fake users inputting passwords into little boxes.

I don't know how to solve that issue though. Some single-sign-on? Client certificates? Biometrics? I don't know.

Probably client certificates would be the best option.
The respectful way is to approximate it using the phonemes available in the target language.

But that doesn't mean using the rules that language uses to translate the letters to phonemes! For example, English has a perfectly good sound for /i/ - so don't read foreign names with that sound in them as /ai/, just because the Latin spelling of said foreign name would be pronounced that way if it were an English word.
Really???

It crashed 70-80% in 2018

And then later went way above the 2017 peak.

It is not guaranteed to recover, but it is FAR from certain that it won’t, and history suggests it will recover
People are blocked by different things to overcome personal obstacles. For some people fear and anxiety of making progress or failing is the blocker and they need the linked kind of advice. You didn’t have this experience, which is fine as long as you realize your path to success isn’t going to work for everybody.
*bonus
You can control locality for some parts of Cloudflare's offering [1], so I guess if you want to comply with the privacy shield stuff, you would have to ensure that the data is stored on a server within a EU country.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-the-cloudflare-data-...
Does anyone find the other guys claim more interesting? That you can derive private keys after just one transaction.
Good news (more infrastructure in the critical sphere is always welcome) but the real endgame is buried deep down:

> 12. Lawful filtering: Filtering of URLs leading to illegal content based on legal requirements applicable in the EU or in national jurisdictions (e.g. based on court orders), in full compliance with EU rules.

But yeah, it's the sort of thing that it's better done at EU level rather than in 27 different, weak and uncoordinated ways. Offices and schools would be very happy to use it, I bet.
Tip on post formatting - on this line:

> λ pijul add *.cpp

I think you intended an asterisk to display, but it didn't, because it's being interpreted as the start of an italics markup. So you need to escape the asterisk on this line with a backslash (i.e. type \*).
Same thing I'm doing right now. I intended to copy the data into CSV files to get a better sense of tracking, but (surprise surprise) I haven't kept up in what little free time the kid allows.

So far, the biggest benefits to tracking:

- Knowing how long we have until the next feeding. I swear he has a three hour timer in him somewhere.

- Knowing if one of us already gave him certain medications today.

- Calculating average amounts over the week before a pediatrician visit.

And, like all logging, it only shows its value in hindsight.
Not Google, a company. Because not GA on it's self is illegal. The use of GA is illegal.
There is already similar stuff being done as part of tracking for carbon credits. i.e https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/08/16/th...
> The whole letter reads like a polemic attack on the editorial department of Scientific American.

It really doesn't. The letter addresses the points raised by the author of the original piece.

Your comment is bizarre because it is so at odds with the actual contents of the letter.
Thanks! It looks pretty impressive.

I just saw it uses mmap. My other concern was that mmap handles I/O errors asynchronously through unix signals, and it isn't possible to pinpoint exactly which operation caused an error. Does this mean that a write error could cause data loss (other than what was written)? Or does Sanakirja guards against that?

The worst case scenario is that if the program doesn't know about a write error right away, ensuing read operations on the same location could handle corrupted data, which could lead to further erroneous operations, until the error is dispatched to the signal handler and hopefully the program exits.
i love bitwarden, but the design is a little ugly. they need to improve this
Not sure if you are aware but you can get Pavlov Shack for free through the AppLab for quest2: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/3649611198468269

I've had some good fun playing it.
FOQS: Making a distributed priority queue disaster-ready
Oh, and I would never actually use the copper cables with RJ45 for anything above 1 gigabit. Those ethernet cards heat up a lot, use too much energy. This would be a bad investment. Get a proper patch or optical cables and use SFP+ instead.
This should come as a surprise to no one. Many white people like to identify as some amount of some racial or cultural group that isn’t white. Whether that’s talking about a grandmother that was “full blooded” $tribe/nation or leaning into Irish/German/Italian/etc ancestry.

As white culture has become more and more generic due to mass media and little regional variation, many people are going to try to find something unique or “exotic” about themselves to make them stand out. It’s peacocking, both inwardly and outwardly focused. You see this especially strong in social and mating contexts (read: bars).

There’s a lot of problems with this, but primary is that it puts the Native American experience as one that exists only in the past. Not the reality of the lives lives by people belong to the various tribes and nations today.
Craig Wright is such a fraud. The ALAB Podcast episode on him is hilarious.

He's got some serious mental issues.

My favorite part about the saga is that after he claimed to be Satoshi and have access to billions of dollars, everyone involved in lawsuits with him agreed.

"Yeah, okay you've got billions of dollars. So that means you owe the plaintiff half of that, and the Australian tax authorities a chunk too."
I’m smiling at your question!

Yes, it’s less efficient than having a persistent server, but as all things are, it exists in a spectrum.

The load time for one of these processes is going to be almost trivial. I’m on mobile right now, but I would guess that it would be in a handful of milliseconds, especially when the binary is already in cache (due to other requests).

But if you want to compare this against a lot of the prevailing systems, it’ll still probably win on single request efficiency. Network hops, for example, are frequently quite slow and, if efficiency is your primary metric, should be avoided as much as possible. Things like Serverless go the opposite way and tore both your incoming request through a complex set of hops, and also your backend database requests.
They haven't shined in 25 years. We will just be forced to use inferior products.
Argh, a typo there.. read "pulled the plug" (too late to edit post)
I think it's time to make good backups of some google accounts.
In the world of unlimited budgets, where employees all spend their days pulling gigabits per second of egress from the cloud, apparently.
Definitely a preference thing- no doubt.

But thank you for responding anyway.

(As a clarification, in case it's needed: I obviously didn't LOVE it when I had to update 20 ctors after changing a somewhat fundamental "service" to need a new dep. My point was that, even as painful as that was, it wasn't that bad and it's usually much less bad than that.)

I guess the (philosophical) difference comes to this statement:

> The intermediate classes that _do technically depend on FooService because BarService does_ - the intermediate classes don't care!

I can definitely understand what you're saying there, but it's interesting to me that I don't see it that way. I think I'm just less pragmatic and more... "academic" (?) about how I read and understand my own code. If X depends on Y and Y depends on Z, I'm comfortable with X explicitly depending on Z because I imagine "inlining" Y's functionality in X. Either that or you turn Y into an interface and then X only depends on IY. But, my brain just likes the explicit continuity I guess.

Cheers!
Literally the only thing heard from Satoshi since he disappeared was a post from a mailing list from a known email address of his saying "I am not Craig Wright"
I guess Plausible.io and similar are going to be drowning in cash in the next few months.
What a deceptive headline! It puts the most horrifying sounding facts first, and negates it all at the end of the sentence, using the most obscure negation they could think of: “averted”.

I have a headline:

“Murder of millions of people alone in their homes obviated by police”
There are definitely some people who would rather steal.

You need to get out of your bubble man.
Baby Buddy maintainer here — I have often thought about trying to turn the app in to a product for non-techie parents and still respect user privacy but I feel like that is still a hard sell (i.e., I don’t think I’d get far just being more privacy focused than other options out there). Also the options have actually improved a pretty good deal since the time I started working on this for our family (from a usability, if not privacy POV).

Thanks, by the way, for contributing! We have long passed our own need for the app with our little ones but it has been a joy to maintain and interact with Baby Buddy’s users over the years.
*(2014/2020)
This feel vacuous -- people before 2000 had to live without WhatsApp because they existed in an WhatsApp-free environment.
As I understood it, data location is not even the problem, but the US CLOUD Act, that allows their authorities to request data from US companies no matter where it is stored. So even if Google Analytics would store data from EU citizens in Europe, they would still violate GDPR, because US authorities can access the data without the users consent.
(edit: ignore me) Yeah that sounds like he mis-spoke. You can't get the private key from a signature, or the protocol is broken.

Edit: I see. It's confusingly worded but that makes sense.
Thanks z/OS UNIX System Services.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=descriptions-zos...
> I know it's the parents fault.

True. But it might also be because tap water in the places I have been in the US (mostly Raleigh NC) is really not a very pleasant drink.
Does Recaptcha use similar technology as Google Analytics? I would happily see it burn.
Based on the results of GDPR, it'll probably just result in more annoying sites that users will avoid due to all of the pop up banners. Hopefully I'm wrong, I wish there was strong competition from Europe
> The site was created in 2006 with little knowledge of security, so passwords were stored in md5() hashes without salt
Sorry, but this is no excuse. It has been 15 years and there were so many breaches that even many casual people know about databases leaks and that passwords have to be stored in some special way. I don't know this guy's background, but he at least knows that md5 is not sufficient here. And then it never crossed his mind to do a check up on this? That's just negligent.
takeout.google.com really helps for this
No. I definitely did read that part of the article. I also went back and read the rest of the article this morning before I posted that comment, and he never goes on to explain that part. He just brushes past it and never clears it up.
The ruling which led to this conclusion was made back in July 2020.

From the article:

> This is a very detailed and sound decision. The bottom line is: Companies can't use US cloud services in Europe anymore. It has now been 1.5 years since the Court of Justice confirmed this a second time, so it is more than time that the law is also enforced.

This article is addressing a specific case which follows from a previous judgement (known as Schrems II) which determined that Facebook could not transfer data from Ireland to the US under the US 'Privacy Shield' framework, as it no longer meets the GDPR's adequacy requirement due to CLOUD Act.

This finding by the Austrian court just reaffirms that the Schrems judgement also applies to Google Analytics.

As the article mentions, this is the first of 101 cases ongoing brought by Schrems, and I expect them all to end in more or less the same outcome.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2020/6520...
This is factually incorrect. Every poll of the US Jewish community has shown that between 80% to 90% are supporters of Israel. At most a few thousand US Jews are not fans of Israel, and they are very vocal about it.
Can we call them "segregation initiatives"? I've already seen "separate but equal" thrown around with no apparent sense of irony or awareness that was a catchphrase once.
This is not about downloading content, it's about uploading content.
Bcrypt truncates to 72 bytes, so it's kind of irrelevant IMO. Whether your average length is 12 or 20 or 64 bytes doesn't matter much.

I expect the parent's concern came from experience with PBKDF2, where the length is unbounded. It's good to consider possible denial of service attacks: if someone submits an enormous 1 MB password a PBKDF2 hasher can be knocked offline for 60s. Sha256 will quickly crunch that attack to a more manageable length.
England's Covid restictions to be relaxed
Even if the censorship implications are a bit obvious, it's good that:

- we have more alternatives

- we add to the global network for resilience

- we increase our independence from the USA for something so critical

- we get more control over our little part of the internet in case of a digital attack

Provided we can always switch to an alternative DNS server from inside the EU if we need to, it's a net positive.
Beer is basically liquid bread, so it's nutritious (or at least has calories). Small beer has low alcohol so you don't get drunk
The Small, the Agile, the Many
What’s Plan B for the US Navy in the South China Sea if the current approach of aircraft carriers and subs doesn't play out against local adversaries? A call to tech innovators and existing capabilities: the Navy may need to change their big and slow strategy one of these days. That's going to come down to improved collaboration and information sharing.

I thought this article by Steve Blank was interesting and wanted to share.
Note that we're talking about security here, not preventing a corporation from profiting from us. All normal people need to do is store their stuff in Google Drive. I agree it's not pretty, and I agree hopefully we can get to a better future where we don't use a megacorporation for this, but it is safe and sensible for normal people. You've got to remember that other things happen in peoples lives -- their loved ones die -- and that's all more important than the aesthetics of their digital lives. Google gets the job done for them.
> to prevent super long passwords from eating up CPU time

Is that why websites sometimes have low maximum password length requirements ? Ex: must be less than 20 characters.
I used Eleven to learn how to play table tennis during the pandemic and have also become fairly competitive with my friends and family that already played. I now have a real table in my home and my wife and I play regularly. Certainly got my money worth out of that used Oculus.
That's what is great about the GDPR. Just adding another disclaimer in a cookie banner absolves them of nothing.

In fact, this whole case is exactly about that. Some Austrian website tried to use Google Analytics and just added another disclaimer in their cookie banner. Now they are facing the consequences.
Now I'm wondering how many EU government sites are currently using GA.
> Launching the nukes would be bad for whoever they blew up, but bad for whoever launched them, too, particularly if whoever they launched them at launched their own.

Yes, but it wouldn't hurt them in terms of power. Here's Mao:

> I'm not afraid of nuclear war. There are 2.7 billion people in the world; it doesn't matter if some are killed. China has a population of 600 million; even if half of them are killed, there are still 300 million people left.

> If the US were to release all the wrongly-convicted brown-skinned people, would that be good for China and bad for the US?

It would presumably be neutral; the US either does it for some reason, or for no reason. If they do it for reasons of social stability or keeping crime low, it would hurt them. If they do it out of laziness, corrupt legal systems, etc, it would be to their gain.

> if China stopped abusing its Uyghur citizens, that would ... arguably [be good] for the rest

If so, why keep doing it? And why do they have to be told by the US to do what is good for them? Is the US in the habit of giving countries "helpful hints," like a back-seat driver? When the US encouraged the Soviet Union to abandon its economic system, did they do so out of concern for the well-being and economic standard of ordinary Soviet citizens, or for some other reason?
Doesn’t work that way. This issue is that CloudFlare is a US company and can be compelled to disclose information to US Govt regardless of where they hold the data.
As I understand the ruling though this pertains to the fact that data is transferred to the U.S, it may be that if they changed to just using servers in the EU it would still be declared illegal but a new case would have to go through to make this declaration?
The math might check out but that's about it. Comparing a storm to an explosion is completely asinine because the mechanism by which the energy is dispensed is completely different.

Katrina did squat to the city except tear up some roofs and windows. The water deposited just so happened to breach some flood control stuff and then all the damage was a result of everything being immersed in floodwater. A storm releases energy in the form of find and droplets of liquid being accelerated by gravity and flung around by said wind. An explosion releases a pressure wave.

Comparing energy released in storms to explosions is like saying a leafblower can push harder than a dude with a sledge because it has more horsepower. Neither comparison serves any useful purpose.
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Not taking a vaccine and endangering yourself and others as a result is a personal choice, so I would not call it "bigoted" to be angry at someone for making that choice.

"Hateful", maybe. But again, it is personal choice that person made that endangers others. It is also not an active stance - no "liberal" is going out to actively make unvaccinated people die. They are just sitting there hoping for their choices to have extreme consequences.

And the complaints from conservatives about this are definitely not in good faith. They are just an attempt at a gotcha and turning tables. They themselves do the same kind of thing every time, and do not see a problem with it when it is their own side doing it.
Firefox Android (and iOS it seems?) actually supports autofill for other apps, one just needs to enable it: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-of-support-firefox-...

(I've used it quite successfully when it was in a separate app called Lockwise)
Come on mate, you're likely listening to music via a EU service (Spotify) and you were calling people with a EU service (Skype) before a US corporation bought it and ruined it.
If one stops and thinks about this point of view, most of the services used globally are under US jurisdiction... Which is less than ideal.
Being Sick Changed My Health Care Views