skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just got done reading Sarah Chayes's excellent book Thieves Of State. She spent significant time working with the USA military in Afghanistan and she devotes substantial time to the idea that the CIA is a rogue agency that often undermines the USA military and undercuts the goals of the USA State Department. Her stories are really shocking, including many months spent setting up a sting to take down a vast network of corruption in Afghanistan, only to have the whole sting sabotaged at the last moment, because it turned out that many of the people who were taking bribes were taking bribes from the CIA, and the CIA had refused to share that information with the USA military. If the subject interests you, I posted a long excerpt here:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/thieves-of-state-part-8-of-...
Do we have a list of all wordle clones? I feel a very strong urge to 'gotta catch em all'
This is great! When I design a product I always make sure that it has a built-in feedback/bug reporting mechanism because I know that as a user I hate searching their website for the link to the page with the email to send feedback, and usually don't.

But this takes it to the next level.
Seconding the exercise and social interactions. Also, for me: going outside, preferably near nature; learning a topic I've been wanting to learn; and finding some other, easier problem to play with.
There are indeed plenty of us here on HN. But you still shouldn't take legal advice from the Internet.

There are only two possible outcomes to such a thing: (a) you are not entirely forthcoming about all potentially relevant details in that public forum and therefore the advice cannot be relied on in your particular situation; or (b) you are entirely forthcoming about all potentially relevant details in that public forum and therefore you've waived at least some of the protections of confidentiality and privilege.
Bugs happen, and bugs making it possible to bypass password retry limits have happened across multiple manufacturers (including apple)
And 0% isn't even the floor. It could be -100% (not FDIC insured) to +10%.
> In this context it would be interesting to know whether the NSA had deliberately weakened the PX-1000's cipher, in order to monitor the ANC communications.

Honestly, that seems a little far fetched. This kind of thing seems like something that would be smart to do with no particular target in mind, with the idea that it could be opportunistically exploited later.

Anyone who goes out an buys a specialized encryption device, especially in the 80s, probably has a high likelihood of being up to things the authorities have an interest in.
A lot of people don't use search in Reddit. They'll ask the same questions over and over ("Why is "other" taking all my storage???").

Reddit could make a better search engine than google and it wouldn't matter.
"This is incompetence and negligence from the financial elite governing our nation."

Wrong.

This was a deliberate and planned response to protect their true stake holders from the liquidity crunch that COVID lockdowns almost unleashed. Asset owners. For all intents and purposes it worked extremelly well.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/blackrock-is-biggest-benefi...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2022/02/11/two-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/moneyshow/2020/02/25/moral-haza...

Nothing incompetent about it. This is moral hazard in action and has been the bull case for some time now. Fundamentals don't matter anymore because anytime the market gets rickety its been a safe bet that either the Fed will swoop in with more QE and low interest rates or the federal government will issue more bailouts.

Risk is socialized while gains are privatized.
So this is where Jobs stole "one more thing" from.
Don't forget, you're here forever.
They also broke the browser extension so it can longer read your personal vault in Dropbox / iCloud, in an apparent attempt to force you to move your passwords onto their servers. Literally removing functionality for the sake of... money I guess. So now I'm stuck copy / pasting all my usernames and passwords. Thanks 1Password.

Unfortunately I still haven't found an alternative that works as well, otherwise I'd have switched a while ago.
> I've been having my own methods for safe handling of passwords on the web.

I use a local password manager, KeePass: https://keepass.info/

It's probably the only good middle ground for keeping track of passwords, SSH certificates and other data: a password protected local database that i can move to USB sticks or SD cards for backups, or keep inside of an encrypted 7z archive, or a VeraCrypt file if i cared that much.

You not only get to have a simple way to use it (it's just a file that's compatible with the software, like SQLite is also really easy to use), but also get to pick where/how you want to store that data in an easy to understand manner.

Right now it's great for all of my vaguely relevant access credentials, from numerous e-mail accounts, to online shopping accounts, to even access data for online platforms, hosting solutions, servers etc. with as many separate databases as i choose.

In my eyes, it's also really great for letting you randomly generate secure passwords - i don't know almost any of the non-essential service passwords and because it's so easy to generate new ones for accounts, i'm not plagued by "password-reuse-itis" either. When coupled with 2FA, it's pretty decent from a security standpoint.

It also has a clearly understandable attack surface - infected password manager binaries, stealing passwords when in memory or malware on the system (like keyloggers, clipboard watchers), someone stealing the database AND the master password, asking me nicely for it with a 5$ wrench: https://xkcd.com/538/

For why people use web based ones which aren't so clearly understood or dependable (your list of risks would be a lot longer with those), i'm not sure. It's probably just convenience.
The valves/thermostats in the article is actually kinda big. More modern ones are not much larger than the regular thermostats. It might be a question about which models can be integrated into Home Assistant.
>Incentives! You have to listen to Nader Al-Naji explain the vision. It gives me goosebumps.

This isn't a knock on you personally, but when I come to HN for discussion, I'd like the discussion to be on HN.

Insisting that I view some YouTube (which I avoid like the plague because I hate their business model) content in order to understand your point of view, just makes me want to ignore you. Not down-vote you, just ignore you.

It sounds like you have a point of view that seems (to you at least) important. If it's that important/relevant/insightful, then please explain your point of view.

I don't know or care who "Nader Al-Naji" might be, nor am I going to jump off to another site to find out.

I want to be crystal clear about this: I'm not trying to beat up on you (andrewfromx) or anyone else. Rather, I'm interested in your point of view not that of some rando on the site of some rapacious corporation.
Can you provide some examples where the modern leftist progressive is indistinguishable from a bush era neo-con?
I think a Usury tax would be better. It would put less of the burden on the poor since they don’t take out loans, and it would be easier to administer as the lenders would handle it.
Primarily ease of transfer. Probate is a pretty long winded process that can take month to close. A living trust avoids most of that.

Apparently there are some potential tax optimization options as well, but I don’t know how that really benefits my particular case. (It’s definitely why we did it.)

Here’s more info:

https://www.scscourt.org/self_help/probate/medical/living_tr...
Zoning fixes are absolutely required, but Texas (particularly Huston) is not a good model. While many places in Texas don't have so-called 'zoning' they manage to implement pretty much all the restrictions zoning reform advocates want fixed through things like land use restrictions on deeds (which are even tougher to reform than zoning)

Japan is the model I'd like to see: inclusionary zoning. A small number of zones that allow for maximum use.
CIA is 24K++ per semester. 12-18 credits.

I would expect 8-9 semesters needed to get the 129 credits needed.

9 * 24K = $216K.

So that's $200K+ for a culinary arts degree.

If you study ethnomusicology and get a PhD I could run some numbers that would make your eyes pop :)
Damn, the courage it must've taken to scold a child on a internet website -- how did you summon it? Do you have a patreon I can donate to
> When designing a game, "The game is fun," is a shitty razor because it doesn't tell you how to prioritize or make trade-offs

coming from countless hours of playing games and near zero hours making them, I'm curious why "this game is fun" doesn't help you make tradeoffs. I feel like concentrating on the game being fun would help avoid repetitive mechanics that would be tiresome or tedious (inventory management), frequent non-skippable dialogue, etc. Why is that not the case?
We left the hardwired stuff, a couple Nest thermostats and the garage door openers (obviously) that were connected via wifi, and unplugged and brought with us the Phillips Hue hub. I forget if I took the time to take the Hue bulb out of the ceiling fan.
That's the last we ever hear of Andrew Yang.
Last night I was working on a list of folks I haven't talked to in a long time, and you're on this list.

Good to see you're still around!
You should have some privacy policy about the messages sent, or at least some information about message/app security/encryption. Furthermore a web app as such might benefit from having a browser extension that implements/displays the messages on the HN page itself.
Home Assistant is also quite useful in a Company Office / Small Business.
There's daily "added value" on repetitive tasks and simple automations that provide immediate productivity gains.

It's also a great platform to implement weird "physical workflows" that aren't common in household scenarios.
Hence the word "many." It's interesting because econ deniers are common at university, haha.

In any case, /16 should be enough room to prioritize.
Picasso’s Lover
> > You shouldnt be taking legal advice from the internet.

> Why not?

Lack of expertise. Likelihood of conflict of interest. Lack of accountability. Lack of (because you almost certainly won't be willing to disclose enough, and if you did that has its own problems for your legal situation in many case) adequate information about the relevant facts.

(That's not to say you can't get legal information on which you can follow up from the internet, but there is a big difference between that and legal advice.)
How Aristotle is fixing deep learning’s flaws
If I'm a happy KeePass user, and everything just works, is there any reason to switch to KeePassXC?
Do you need to change your password every 90 days?
Hue.tools – an open source toolbox for colors
Good for you. I personally wish I could control everything with my mind.
> These are natural outcomes of removing friction from scaling.

Yes, and making scaling frictionless brings a very tiny bit of value for everybody, but a huge amount of value for the cloud operator. Any bit of friction would completely remove that problem.

Also, focusing on scaling before efficiency benefits nobody but the cloud provider.
Fair point. It would have been better for me to keep silent and just let the thought pass.
I'm glad it's not like that here. In Canada, as far as I know, it was only non-essential businesses. For the longest time even gyms and pools were excluded at least where I live.
Roughly speaking: yes, you make fair points that source code isn't required for a number of different security research approaches (and, as you indicate, many research practitioners essentially isolate the software they're investigating and then attempt to see what it does at a binary level and/or at runtime).

Although I suspect that I'm missing other things to add to the conversation, I'd argue that availability of source code -- at least in the Zoom and Intel ME cases -- would reduce the overall time-and-monetary-cost of identifying suspected flaws. And also of nullifying invalid insecurity claims! So that's another argument for FLOSS: let's try to dissuade vendors from (appearing to?) waste our researchers' and defenders' valuable time.
Exactly. I never understood why tech-savvy people pay for some private closed-source password-manager while there are some great free and open source alternatives.

I also heard good things about Pass "the standard unix password manager". Great for those wanting to use the command line and git to manage their passwords.

A more accessible solution is Firefox password manager : it works rather nicely and at least it's not owned by a company trying to make money on password management.
> talking about tech has always tended to lead to a certain amount of political discussion, especially in terms of things like encryption policy, DRM, etc.

Growing up in the era of peak Slashdot it was hard not to view politics through the lens of technology. There were politicians trying to take away my games, and restrict my speech, and put me in jail for downloading MP3s. Fighting those battles through the years has definitely formed my political views.
I can vouch for this solution. Combined with a common secure folder for core team members, and it's a great way to share key accounts that don't support multi-user. Otherwise, we'd never rotate passwords!
This is gimmicky and intrusive to the users. How is this any different from the other 999 solutions that do the same thing?
I do this as well with syncthing.

I have a PCengines box at home running wireguard that also runs an always on instance of syncthing so I can sync to and from my home network from a Starbucks or wherever.

It takes a little setup but once that's done it's very much "fire and forget".
And the people who run the "non free speech" platforms (i.e., all the popular ones) are operationally "opposed" to free speech primarily in the sense that they want a pleasant platform for advertisers, and hence must stifle the stuff that's unpleasant to advertisers. There is some personal ideology at the top of these organizations, but it is extruded through a profit seeking filter and often barely survives operationally intact.

I don't say this to excuse their actions or say that this filter is good, but that seems to be the fundamental mechanism.
And good luck retaining your highly paid janitor. Someone has to be the coaster in a workplace.
The Unreasonable Math of Type 1 Diabetes
They buy them with leverage though. A 3% yearly return with 5x leverage is 15% a year
More debt is better when money is cheap, but money is getting more expensive the longer you put off making a decision.

But I'm not a financial advisor so don't listen to me, I'm just some dude on the internet. Those loans are gone, since interest rates are continuing to climb and that trend will continue for years.
I'm not sure. I love my house, but the lights are insane with a switch under every overhead light, and using smart switches to control them has been so very useful. Generally I control all the lights in a room with 1 smart switch so I don't have to walk across the room to turn on all the lights in the room

My bedroom came with 3 switches in 2 panels across the room from each other, the kids room 2 in 2 locations, bathroom 4 in 1, kitchen 4 in 3, living room 6 in 2, dinning room 2 in 2.

Detailed example: It takes 4 light switches in 3 locations to turn on my kitchen lights:

• 1 panel - 3 sides of the kitchen ceiling lights switch, kitchen recessed lights switch

• separate panel 4 feet away on the other side of a counter - breakfast bar (4th side) ceiling light switch.

• final panel 10 feet to the right, down the breakfast bar counter to turn on the recessed breakfast bar lights.

Is it too much to ask that you circumnavigate the kitchen every morning to turn on the lights to make coffee? No, the previous owners did it every day for 20 some odd years. But do I want to do it? No.

And I certainly think it's progress that I can choose not to.
What bothers me the most is there was another kid who didn't win, who did real scientific work, and will go on to be a great scientist, but will never get the attention, credit, or funding that the first kid did.
Apparently, it wasn't originally by Google, but rather acquihired by them.

https://web.archive.org/web/20151226091156/https://www.pie.c...

This thing.
Yes, I should have mentioned that. Remix and Next remove the initial loading that SPAs seem to be known for, where the page is rendered but then it fetches again to actually get the content. I always hated that and was trying to find workarounds years ago for Angular because while loading JSON content is great for subsequent requests, it seemed so backwards to deliver the entire app over HTTP and then just make another HTTP request to fetch the content while the user looks at a loading screen, rather than doing it all in one step.
This may be a good place to ask: Are there any books that are something like "the SICP/HtDP of databases", in the sense of teaching fundamentals in a principled, mind-expanding way? Something that doesn't focus so much on internals, but on how to design and deal with data models and databases.
Maybe it will change our society from a monetary one to a liveable one.

Everything we do now is measured in terms of money. Define ‘rich’. For the longest time, everyone was able to be happy without money.

Consumption tax would remove the power money has over society.
The Battle over Psychedelic Therapy's Future [video]
Of course it wasn't/isn't.

Biden needs a distraction from his horrible poll numbers or he won't complete his first term. Even nuclear war is deemed "acceptable losses" to fix that!
KeePass, as far as I can tell, is inactive. KeePassXC seems to be the logical successor that is active.
Home Assistant is great, but it will face huge hurdles as the founder tries to cash in on the popularity. It's already underway.

1) Nabu Casa was founded with a claim that "it will all be transparent and reported" as to income, etc, etc.

2) Then the "private" components happened only for Nabu Casa - like the cloud connection stuff.

3) A few years later when pointed out nothing was transparent yet the response was "We will not share this information."

3) Nabu Casa then started to hire up the more active community developers and set off on their own closed vision.

4) NC has bought up many of the associated pieces - the companion apps, the ESP32 stuff, etc, etc.

5) NC has hired many of the community developers and now quite some secrecy around the roadmaps and decisions.

6) You dare not question decisions or you get thrown off the forums and Discord channels for life. Many cases of this happening. They have a community manager who is particularly sensitive over any perceived negative comment and prone to going off to which the founder needs to step in and smooth the emotions. Not sure why they've not fired him after strike 4 or 5.

The end result is that Home Assistant is far less open than it was. It is going the same path pFsense did under the ownership of Netgate.

The challenge is many people invested into it and when it implodes it won't be pretty. I am hopeful someone forks it with a better community engagement model.

(I've been a user since the start, and a contributor in the early days. Left the community due to my work being monetized by NC without my consent.)
Must be nice to live in a place where your police are so bored, having such low crime rates in a homogeneous, high-trust society, that they have to do petty stuff like this to earn their paycheck.
I like the KeePassXC interface way better, the database format is the same though.
Elon Musk says US is trying to 'chill' his free speech
I do for my personal email, because the signal-to-noise ratio is so bad there's no reason to pay much attention to it. I manually check it when I'm expecting something (99% of the time, from a computer).

I do use Basic HTML, though. The others barely add any features I care about and bloat the memory footprint by a large multiple. And their AJAXy loads take longer than full-page refreshes on Basic HTML gmail.
I feel that the vast majority home automation tech got the whole thing backwards.

They start with "we can do this" and then "let's see what we can bolt it on".

Instead, they should've started with small things like being able to toggle every existing switch from your phone. Let lazy people be lazy efficiently. Now that has a mass appeal and would've led to a better adoption. Once this is in place, then you can build on it - dimmers, hues, scheduled and presence lighting/heating, etc. Once this is done, accepted and integrated in everyday life, move to more advanced gadgetry.
Indeed. On Android I'm using Keepass2Android Offline which doesn't even declare internet permissions, works great.
Honestly, do you really think that was our whole problem?
As I frequently try to point out, wealth inequality seems to only meaningfully decrease during market corrections, which the Fed is determined to prevent at all costs, despite the side effect of increasing wealth inequality (which could be a feature rather than a bug) [0].

The more the Fed distorts normal market signals, like interest rates, the less efficiently capital is allocated, and so the wealth distribution morphs from one that roughly represents human skill at allocating capital to an extremely top-heavy skewed chart that rewards incumbents.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBST01134
Because it would be a total nightmare.
Adding a microservice to your monolith
The biggest challenges:

* takes FAR more energy and material inputs that normal meat

* tastes like ass
Hi. I'm the designer of this lang feature. The specification covers this. However, to be clear, neither new line after the first `"""` is not part of the literal, nor is the newline before the last `"""`. Thanks!
GitHub Copilot and Copyright Law
Upvoted. Windows has become intolerable without an SSD.
Ah, perhaps it's because I installed Slack via Flatpak instead of RPM. Will give that a go.
This is also an issue with Gorillas in Berlin. There's a dozen deliverers blocking the sidewalk in front of the store.

However the bigger problem everyone talks about is their appalling work conditions and how they squashed the attempt to unionize.
We ran into this in Cubscouts with pinewood derby...the solution we had was a build day where the kids could go from raw block to finished car with our help and tools (belt sander with used up belt, parent or leader running the scrollsaw for the younger kids...paint at the Cubmaster's house and the parent doesn't have to worry about spraypaint)

Then to get past the 'parents doing all the building' we ran an outlaw class where the siblings and parents could compete...but it's the same kind of dynamic.

I don't immediately see the issue with the parent helping a child with tech they're familiar with...helping my son 3d print and sell fidget spinners had lots of little life lessons wrapped up in it.
You make it sound like finding an accountant/tax consultant that won't truck-drag your burn-rate is easy!
I would like to preface my comment the idea that I have limited knowledge of this entire field.

So it seems that leaders who have tried to implement Marxist ideas have committed great atrocities. Did they commit those atrocities in the name of Marxism, or were they corrupt and used Marxism as a guise for totalitarist actions?

Because class struggle is such a Hot Topic in Marxism, is the above the reason why the idea of class struggle is completely dismissed in America? The reason I ask is because there is a good long history of employers taking advantage of employees. And those employers having government support to do so. Although, most of my examples come from 1850-1920, there are still some issues that working people face today from their employers and the government. Unions aside, did the atrocities committed by Marxists contribute to stigma against questioning the status quo?