skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In fact, we can play that game right now. The SHA256 hash [1] of "mlyle" is "CAD9051E126DA9BC7CB4048C4CA28804CCFEE0E3824F4E63FC151BC5E30B96D0". Using this information, please produce a password with the hash CAD9051E126DA9BC7CB4048C4CA28804CCFEE0E3824F4E63FC151BC5E30B96D1, differing only in the last bit. Ideally the shortest password using letters, numbers, and symbols in US ASCII, but honestly I'll take any binary string.

Just to note: this is not the game.

The game is, given a bunch of bits of the hash output, identify which of a known set of input produces that hash output.

Identifying which word in /usr/share/dict/words has the hash:

0f??????????????????????????????9d??????d2??????????????????????

is trivial.

Yes, enumerating all possible 14 character passwords is impractical... but if it was a 10 character password input, it again would be trivial.

The point is, the hints make it possible to know whether you've got the correct answer. You have an oracle, that tells you whether a given password you're considering is correct. Without this information, you don't have that oracle and cannot complete the search offline.

edit: woops, I didn't narrow the search space quite enough! There's two matching words.

mlyle@powerbook ~ % time ./meh.py | grep '0f..............................9d......d2......................'
0feeefd1e67f9c16131f9fa0c581cfef9d7f1fc3d2801f157c18d5dff5db4a53 abdominocystic
0f6fe3980f4d7d6d642868e125ebb00a17a02cec9d8e9a6cd2cdce137b63735f feminility
./meh.py 0.22s user 0.01s system 89% cpu 0.264 total
grep '0f..............................9d......d2......................' 0.21s user 0.00s system 83% cpu 0.260 total
I added Reddit to my pihole blacklist. I am now no longer annoyed by Reddit UX dark patterns and bullshit.
GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters, and is not quite human-level. Cerebras is talking about building out clusters that can handle 100 trillion parameters, about a thousand times bigger than GPT-3.

This hypothetical GPT-4 would be big enough that it shouldn't have the context window or BPE token problems of GPT-3. It would be superhumanly good at predicting token sequences-- generating text. What that would look like, exactly, is not entirely clear. (What does it mean to be twice as good as a human at writing an essay?) If it had the same architecture as previous GPTs then it wouldn't be "conscious" or be goal directed, but it would be able to correlate more information and draw conclusions that we couldn't. (Would we understand these conclusions is another open question.)

It would also be quite expensive to run in a capital-amortized sense, at first, maybe hundreds of dollars per word. The commercial use of such a thing would be limited. Large tech companies seem to be building AI because of how self-evidently useful it will be... eventually.

The economic case for high-cost NNs is the opposite of most automation, which started from the bottom up. If a net is expensive to train and run then you have to pursue the Tesla strategy-- start from the top down. So you need to target high-price knowledge work in terms of dollars per hour, but is tolerant of small variance, since the results are still probabilistic. In the near future you won't see NNs designing jet engines, producing complete software systems from requirements documents, or even standard grunt-level software engineering work of wiring two systems together, since you can never be quite sure GPT-programmer is producing the right work.

Similarly, GPT-lawyer or GPT-CEO would be tough to do. GPT-hollywood would be interesting, if you could get it to crank out a complete Marvel movie with superhumanly good CGI. More terrifyingly, GPT-advertiser, if it can produce super-appealing ads, would be able to pay for its own runtime at the cost of a machine hijacking human minds to plug money into gacha games or the equivalent in the 2030s.
We run our own ES cluster it’s not very hard… ec2 instances. The hardest part is just reading the docs carefully before upgrading… we also don’t modify schema eer mappings very often…. Oh and we run 3 masters, and 3 clients and then the rest are data nodes… since doing that knock on wood super stable
Not sure if you are serious or trolling, but if I'm not mistaken the fallacy here is correlation vs. causation: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Correlation_does_... (see specifically section 3)
tip: In HN comments you can write \* to display an asterisk.
If they found a good bug in the sheet, you can bet they'd make a lot of it: Some heinous spreadsheet bugs have leaked out over time

https://theconversation.com/excel-errors-the-uk-government-h...
If they're not willing to do the job then they need to get a different job.
But libadwaita hasn't taken away the ability to try? You can still load custom themes through GTK_THEME and specific CSS through ~/.config/gtk-4.0/gtk.css.
SPARK/Ada is an example of a language/proof system used for real world software. Especially embedded military systems.
A common tactic for Poker players who want to make some of their actions in a common scenario random (call in one instance, or perhaps re-raise instead) is to look at their wrist watch, and depending on where the second hand is they can simulate a coin flip or a dice roll.
also as someone who is working with architects and builders right now on a house, I can say the houses you are getting at the 250 /sqft range in many cases are terribly built.

They are going to last a fraction of the time that that $45 / sqft house from 100 years ago lasted
> If the spreadsheet showed education was a net positive, would Caplan accept this and rewrite the book

Caplan is definitely the type of person who would either rewrite on not write the book in that case.

But this an implausible question anyway, because it’s not like you get this far into a project without an idea of what the evidence is telling you, waiting to press a button and out if it’s actually Good or Bad.
“Lost coins only make everyone else's coins worth slightly more. Think of it as a donation to everyone.“ — Satoshi

If you are going to donate coins to the cause, who am I to complain?
Well, in particular my argument is that there isn't a legal issue with the computer being an accuser. Just that the accused doing the confronting might not get what they want out of it. I mean, what's the definition of 'confront' in this context?
In my somewhat limited printing experience, small changes to hotend temperatures can have a big effect on print quality. Wonder how they’ll get around that problem.
Interestingly, while it's entirely possible that the spreadsheets, through their abstruseness, hide incorrectness; current policy recommendations just try things by assuming outcomes. The conclusion is pre-determined, so evidence isn't really acquired.

Of course we must spend more on educating everyone. So anything that says that we shouldn't is wrong on its face. Of course of course.
And how do you set that if excluding the type of property that's on it?
MFA fatigue wouldn't be such a big problem if their MFA and SSO implementation was not so utter shit.

Whenever I get a signin prompt, there is literally no way to tell what I'm signing in for.

When the MS Authenticator app receives a MFA request notification, there is, yet again, no way to tell what service the request is for.

To add insult to injury, when I need to signin again for a SharePoint guest account, it consistently fails to correctly redirect me back to the SharePoint folder.

Microsoft's MFA is just security theatre. Take MS Teams for instance. Why does it ask me to sign in again, and yet still allow me to read messages that are already on the screen? Worse yet, the MS Teams desktop app can still receive new message notifications and display them while I have not re-logged in yet.
You quoted the wrong part if you’re after the dismissiveness. Declaring someone’s argument is in “bad faith” is unimpeachable. You can counter “no, I genuinely believe this” - but that’s just more bad faith argument! It’s an iron-jawed and unconquerable tool to deploy against any argument you do not want to engage with.

Now - are there arguments not worth engaging with? Absolutely.
> working 60 hours in a week

You do not just have a low mood. You have a potentially life-threatening condition on your hands (not to be over-serious, but). And overwork is linked with cognitive decline. You are potentially talking about somehow managing mood control while getting dumber.

Just to put some kind of perspective on that.

Personally when I was doing this, I had really good luck with anti-inflammatories (I was hitting I think 1200mg Ibuprofen a day, this is not medical advice), caffeine, L-theanine, and a bunch of other stuff including sweets. I found that if I switched my diet to pure sweets, like donuts and chocolate bars for every meal, I could overwork myself while hitting weight loss calorie targets, when I would otherwise stress eat (normal food + sweets). The inflammed mind & body and sweets are good friends sometimes I guess.

If you can't sleep, meditation and self-hypnosis can feel pretty close. Otherwise you might consider supplements for insta-sleep, noise machines, and so on. Definitely give some time to planning your sleep cycles so you can minimize e.g. anxiety derived from poorly-managed sleep.

https://sleepyti.me/

> And then how do people who work in investment banking doing 80-120 hours a week possibly do it?

I've coached some of these folks, it's also similar with some top salespeople depending on industry, age, etc.

To put it gently, most of them are or were very fluid/open about letting emotions and sensory needs come and go. They don't like it but they don't act as if they have much of a choice.

Those I spoke to who fit your criteria in extremis would essentially torture their body via overwork and a work/life values mismatch, and then pay that debt down by periodic heavy indulgence. That's one way of defining it, anyway. They also have an office culture or cult of some kind where the vibe is that we're all in it together, we're f**ing navy seals of selling stuff, we're different here, and so on. It's a self-reinforcing torture ring, maybe.

Their relationships were in the gutter, regardless of friendship or romantic relations.

I remember one of these clients had a crazy booze & coke habit, they had custom homes on four continents, yada yada.

A couple years later they were living out of a suitcase and very limited funds in a cheap apartment looking at new career options. Burnout is real.

A lot of them explain that the "why" is that they want to be doers, they want to be achievers, etc. But of course this is coupled with the worst parts of boundary-destruction. They never set realistic targets at which they'd stop or be happy. So there was no end to how far they'd push mind & body.

(I get annoyed writing about this because I'm lecturing my past self to some degree, but glwt and I hope you can make the best of your situation)
That's about seeing things in photographs taken from space, not things seen with the naked eye. Like, we've all seen satellite reconnaissance photos, so we know those can see lots of important stuff.
Ok, but then why actively block attempts to tackle this problem?

Yes, there are edge cases in which EV certs can be confusing, but in general they give a guarantee that you're dealing with a registered company from a country with generally respected business standards. That's a lot better than the current state where the site might as well be served from a raspberry pi in some teenager's basement.

If the company's name is not sufficient to identify them, put an address in there, too, or registration number or whatever. I don't get what's so hard about this.

And as for "people are ignoring them", I'm sorry, but this is largely the browser vendors' fault. For a long time, people were ignoring cert errors as well. Browser vendors reacted with a massive UI revamp up to intentional dark patterns to change behaviour here - and it worked.

Meanwhile, with EV certs, UX went into the exact opposite direction: Browsers were increasingly de-emphasizing the EV data, to the point that people are actively discouraged from looking it up. No wonder then that no one checks EV information.
The arrows mean that the target is in that direction from your guess (NOT from the target country). I interpreted at as meaning the opposite, which made things tricky
That's part of what I'm missing here. How is that value calculated?
Magna Alta Doctrina (2021)
Dementia content gets billions of views on TikTok. Whose story does it tell?
>"Probably because any attempt to even reduce the topic to a spreadsheet is a case of "not even wrong"."

But he didn't reduce it to a spreadsheet, he wrote a very thorough book.

>"When someone says that they proved that say, studying art doesn't matter, with math, you don't bother arguing with their math."

I am not sure what you think Caplan says. His book is mostly about the signalling and human capital models of education. The vast majority of post-secondary students say they attend post-secondary education in order to increase their future earnings, so Caplan calculates the financial impact of various degrees, and then figures out how much is attributable to the various factors.
Are you aware of the maximum number of Unicode codepoints which can exist, offhand?

And how that compares to the number of 7-bit ASCII characters?

And how many special cases would have to be considered?

Scale matters.

The risks:reward ratio from 7-bit ASCII is low and manageable. The expressive capability is high. No, it's not a perfect representation for all languages. It is, however, a sufficient one, where common understanding is necessary.
The military is not funding fusion generation because current planned designs will never produce any viable power. (Actually all of inertial confinement is really military, but is about nuclear weapons research.)

If the money poured into fusion for the past N decades had gone into solar and storage, good cheap solar panels would have come out decades earlier, and we would have already built out our clean power system. But the fossil companies did not want that.

There will never be a commercially competitive Tokamak fusion power plant.
The vehicle is my responsibility, but that's not proof that I committed the crime.
I suppose this is the greatest problem with the Democratic party, is that they are nothing but a bunch of various political groups cobbled together. If Biden tries to appeal to the moderates, he isn't doing enough for the progressives. And if he tries to appeal to the progressives, then he alienates the moderates. It seems his strategy so far has been to talk the progressive talk, but walk the moderate walk, and it doesn't strike me that it's working particularly well considering the polls.

The Republicans have this problem to an extent as well, but it seems that the various wings of the party have much less of a problem "falling into line". Whereas the modern progressive insistence on ideological purity makes party cohesion much harder for the Democrats.
A cop can still legally follow me around and overhear my conversation with a recorder
A future myth? They've been printing money for over a decade now. Their first positive net income was 2009. Apart from last quarter, they're still gaining users every year, sometime double digit percentages. They were able to squeeze multiple times the revenue out of their user base than other social networks.

If they execute on VR half as well as they did their core product than the hype is real
It's a shame that his follow up, Lab Rats, was written like he was apologizing for having made Disrupted
Might just be me, but I genuinely wish there was reliable data on everything like this. I'd love to know that someone did a proper study, found that it's not damaging to the knees if you're between BMI such-and-such and run between x and y kilometers every day, that it has health benefits a, b and c, but that of course you have to invest time amount z which one might use also for swimming which then has another value. Then you can just weigh what you enjoy more against the benefits.

Lots of people do things they know is bad for them, more data hasn't stopped anyone from making their own decision, while I do see the potential benefits.

The argument you're making seems to just dismiss the idea without substantiating why it's not important to try and factor in all the factors to reach a conclusion.
What kind of tuning do you do? We spend time but typically on upgrades… very rarely have we spent much time on tuning I’m curious what kind of tuning are people doing beyond mlock and having enough memory / nodes?
I don't follow that reasoning at all.

For example, in many businesses there's an "ecosystem." Within the ecosystem, companies are actually "frenemies," because while they're ostensibly competing, the more value is available in the ecosystem, the more it grows, creating more opportunities for everyone in the ecosystem..

I lived through the evolution of the personal computer ecosystem literally from the Altair to now, I've watched it in action. Ecosystems have both zero-sum and positive-sum characteristics. Mac versus Windows was a death-match, but being an ISV within the Mac ecosystem was very much a positive-sum game.

When I was selling my Mac classified ad software, I could have thought of every other vendor as a competitor for my customers' fixed budgets. But if I saw a problem and recommended some other software that solved it, they got more value out of their automation and would end up spending more money on me. Where as if they didn't get enough value out of their Macs, they would switch to WIndows and I'd have had to port my app to continue to serve them.

The same thing is true of working in a company. Yes, you're kind of competing with your colleagues, but at the same time, cooperating with your colleagues makes everyone money. So working as an employee has both zero-sum and positive-sum characteristics.

Maybe I misunderstand your claim, but as I interpret what you've written, I feel it doesn't match my observation. I really do think there are lots and lots and lots of things that are positive sum games in business.

Come to think of it, this web site is one of them too.
What direction and how far away the country is.
Intel's CEO is tired of Wall Street doubting his turnaround plan
Damn. 0.117% of twitch streamers making even 15kUSD a year is rather bleak in terms of calling it a potential career.
You aren't Roger Ebert. Everyone on HN is a critic.

https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/2553/the-benefit-of-doub...
where’s my loogie gun?
If I'm driving 30 or 40 mph then I will not hear a loud motorcycle directly next to me. Between my radio, my engine noise, my tire noise, and whatever insulation there is, I just won't hear it.
> Prior to student loans you more or less had to fund it yourself,

Or become a citizen of a country that is not hostile to its population.

In many countries you can get decent education for free.

As it should be. Because educated population that is drowning in debt is probably going to lead to better outcomes in the future.

You can have poor parents, not be particularly bright, work hard to get your education and start your life with no debt at all.
I love this tool, especially that it's built with SvelteKit. Thanks for sharing it!

One thing I'm curious about that I couldn't discern from the GH repo: what's the license?
For those who don't read in symbols, there are instructions if you click the "?" at the upper left.
Are you running dedicated master nodes? We switched from every node does everything few years ago and it’s been incredibly stable
Metamucil?
There's only so much to do when all your products are feature-complete but you're too scared to acknowledge this fact.
Best of luck! Love the energy and excitement. :)
>Guess what is my approach when having side gigs

Webpack?
This isn't really true, because up until relatively recently most university funding came from the state and not tuition. The decline in state support led to higher tuition costs; federal student loans turned it into a bonanza, but the steep price tags are more because tuition was never the main revenue driver for universities.
Learning a new programming language when you aren't a professional programmer isn't a small barrier.

The best tools to use are the tools you know. Would you rather they had spent an inordinate amount of time putting together a hacky script that doesn't work/barely works? I believe if they did that, the comments section here would be picking their code apart for not using industry standard design patterns and for being worse than a new intern's code.

Spreadsheets can accomplish the same thing and are more accessible to most people than a script full of one letter variables and no modules.
Does it cost 5x to add electrical wiring into a house? I would happily take a 1915 house and upgrade it.

I love in a 'premium' newbuild block in a 1st world country, and the construction quality is so atrocious it would be condemned in some 2nd world countries!

The builders forgot to connect the extractor fan to any ducting, it just sits inside the ceiling and makes noise, the piping of the sprinkler system in not secured to any structure and is wobbling and threatwning a flood, the guy that made a hole in the ceiling for the sprinkler missed and we have a hole in the ceiling and a sprinkler somewhere inside. Last week a hot water mains has burst creating a flood of scalding water and 13 floors had to be evacuated. We had a nice steaming waterfall down the side of the building 40 meters down. The electric meters are installed in breach of code.
It's a 23 story building and elevators never work, etc.

The building was completed 4 years ago, apartments sold at a premium to 'investors' based in tax heavens - not a single resident here owns the flat. Mine is based in Cayman islands.
A bit orthogonal but something I would love to see:

A library which takes a regex and shows some examples that pass and some that fail. I would find that the easiest way of understanding a regex, rather than changing the language itself. (Though Melody looks v promising and I'm keen to see it develop).

It wouldn't be trivial to build — particularly for the "fail" examples, you'd want them fairly close to passing. For example, with `(/*\.csv\.gz)` you'd want `foo.csv.gz` rather than `aoseutn` as an example of a failure.
Perhaps if his audience were better educated they would have the competency to challenge his math and logic...
It sounds like you're more averse to calculating risk. If you have your risk calculations right, there's no FOMO.

Have a baseline for your default path. In this case, it's corporate ladder and promotion. How much are you investing? Maybe an extra 20 hrs/week for a 50% chance of gaining $3000/year in income? That nets to about $1500/year, $1.44/hour.

What about a side project? Maybe 30 hrs/week, 10% chance of making $500/month. So about $0.38/hour.

So in that situation, the side project may not be worth it and there would be no FOMO. But if the numbers change - less odds of a promotion, or higher income from a side project, the calculations change. This is also missing the 1% chance of making $5000/month and you might want to add that.

If your problem is that you don't trust statistics enough, maybe try playing more games. Something like poker will give you a better intuition for it, whereas a game like Xenonauts might build an intuition for being cautious but taking risk where necessary.
Open access publishing fees deter researchers in the global south
It doesn't need to be anything. It's the FB equivalent of ActiveX or self-driving cars or "the network is the computer". A thing that spinmeisters can use to generate spin.
It is, anyway, a lot to waste. It is not unusual for very large investments to yield zero. Any Tokamak effort will necessarily be one of those, because operating a plant would cost far more than the similarly-rated fission plant, and those are markedly uncompetitive.

But none of the money will vanish: every penny goes into a ready pocket.