skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you believe that all effects have causes, then births and deaths and identities and consciousness are all perhaps contained and encoded in the initial conditions of the universe and its physical laws.

Your particular identity is a mode or process by which one local part of the universe experiences itself in a certain way (through your eyes, as it were). When you die, countless other lives and existences will continue to be modes through which the universe experiences itself, but not through the same identity.

This was captured by Carl Sagan, who said: "The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."
And the official russian propaganda arrived to HN.
True. Any data the user leaks is data the user leaks and we should work to prevent this. However I don't think people realize just how easy it is to reliably fingerprint users who are blocking javascript and canvas and other web features.
Everyone loses when it comes to war
"digital illiterates" is quite a take there when any password manager is involved.
So? It cost trillions of dollars to rebuild them in such a way that car driving is necessary. Most cities had functional public transportation before cars reached the tipping point that pushed cities into car dependency[1]. In the mean time, a lot of slack could be taken up by buses, especially by converting existing lanes into dedicated bus lanes.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_dependency
All the Balkan Slavic languages also feel just like dialects. I could very easily converse in Polish throughout all Baltic countries. Along with the ones you mentioned. I find Ukrainian very difficult though. I'm not a native Polish speaker so I chalk it up to that.
What I am curious about is, is this part of a spec or are these APIs part of the proprietary Chrome Web?
I bought my wife a Chevy Bolt and myself a Model 3 Performance. I don't have the Tesla any more, but we do still have the Bolt.

The Bolt has CarPlay. The screen is much nicer in the Tesla, but CarPlay brings a lot of additional functionality and flexibility.

The Bolt is lighter, more nimble, smaller. For city driving, it's really handy.

The Bolt has normal door handles that don't require any special movement to open them. Normal locks, mechanical glove box latch, full windshield wiper controls, a normal shift handle to select regen (good because my wife hates regen, I love it).

The Bolt has slightly stronger regen, especially with the paddles. And it has a saner regen-to-stop mode, which only functions in drive. Unlike Tesla, which makes you use the accelerator pedal to get the car to reverse down the driveway (which just feels weird).

The seats are crappy on both. I prefer cloth to vinyl, though. And I especially don't like the slippery vinyl on Tesla's steering wheel.

The Bolt is vastly cheaper. Like, half as much.

The Tesla charges much faster with DC fast charging. If you only charge at home they are identical in this regard.

Overall, I feel like the Bolt is a much, much better deal if you factor in the cost. The Tesla is much faster, has more range, heated rear seats, and it makes fart noises. Of course, it also has AP, which some people like.

The Bolt feels like a car that happens to be electric. The Tesla feels like a computer that happens to have wheels.

My wife would be happy with another Bolt when the lease on this one expires next year. I won't buy another Tesla without CarPlay and proper wiper controls, but my next EV will need to be faster than the Bolt. So I'm thinking Taycan.

The Bolt makes me wish that VW would make an electric Golf R. Same size, better interior, more power. Aside from getting screwed over by LG's flubbed manufacturing of the batteries, the Bolt really over-delivers compared to what I expected from it.
> I’ve previously encountered the idea of equating the state prior to my birth (nothing), with that of my death (also nothing).

I think some people call this concept “Eternal Oblivion”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_oblivion

> is it any more absurd to be born twice than once

It depends if you’re approaching this from a scientific perspective or not.

From a scientific perspective, this isn’t something that we’ve been able to test or document in a controlled way. It’s not clear why some people claim to have vivid recollection or subtle feelings of past lives and others don’t. We also don’t know of any natural mechanism that would cause this to happen. So scientists are stuck on the hypothesis phase as no one to date has been able to construct a repeatable experiment. If no one can design a proper experiment and this hypothesis of multiple lives is unfalsifiable, then some would reference Russell’s Teapot and conclude that it’s not worth pursuing scientifically: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot

But if you’re approaching it from a philosophical/religious perspective, then why not? You’re free to believe whatever helps you enjoy life and decrease suffering. You don’t have to justify it to anyone and it only matters if you find it absurd or not.
Of course not; I don't want to die!

But I don't agree that it should only be people that go to war that should discuss or decide whether we should go to war. If that were the case, it would be soldiers themselves that voted to take us to war.
"Slap a GPL3 in there" is pretty much the opposite of what the parent commenter wants, though. At 5500 words, GPL3 is a long read - I have a rough idea what it says, but can't say I've ever read and understood every word. Making my users do so might constitute cruel and unusual punishment :)

0BSD looks short and sweet, though. I don't need people using my libraries to include my LICENSE.txt, or give attribution, or tag any changes with their own copyright notice. Just take the code and do whatever you want, no strings attached.
"Imagine a future where websites force people to consent "

I imagine a future, where people just do not vist sites, where they do not agree to the conditions.

But like others pointed out, those sites exist already since quite a while.
In my most recent invoice view, this is in their JS code:

"adyen-checkout": "prod_assets_web_modules/adyen-checkout"
~10 years ago: How horrible. Sad to see such security holes being found in our devices.

Now: Nice. I wonder what kind of DRM/Anti-user feature will this break. I hope it never gets patched.
Did something change in how you use it? Or do you use fast charging a lot?

Also purely anecdotally ofc but my 3y old S10 still finishes with 10-20% left at night, and I'm using it heavily for browsing during the day (FF+Ublock). I do have some power saving settings enabled though, and disabled fast charging (since it charges over night anyway).
Nvidia Hit with Cyberattack, Proprietary Data Stolen
Alan Kay: A Conversation with CMU Faculty and Students (2007) [video]
Just a vote for Zoho. It's a really impressive collection of integrated business tools. I keep discovering new things every time I check it out.
I can attest to that statement. I work with many contractors from Ukraine and they're tough, determined, and extremely skillful. They can handle any problem, in any condition, at any time. In my experience, they will not stop until they're satisfied that the issue has reached a conclusion that they are satisfied with.
Isn't that the Brave browser?
I hate password rotation rules. Companies have iT departments that love nothing more than to add "value" by adding their own spin on what password security should be. It's pure security theater.

At every company I've ever worked that required password rotation, everyone just incremented a digit, usually at the end.

I also hate the completely arbitrary rules on length (I mean, why do some sites have a maximum length?). Some require uppercase and lowercase as well as digits and certain special characters and what special characters are allowed is inconsistent and completely arbitrary.

We need to focus on how much entropy [1] a password has without arbitrary rules. 20 lowercase letters is going to be better than a 7 letter dictionary word with one letter capitalized and a number of symbol on the end. In fact pretty much every password 8 characters of length should be considered cracked. 10 should probably be the absolute minimum.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/936/
And I've heard of teachers who are universally disliked by students, teachers, and administrators who are too difficult to fire. These are people who get switched to a new co-teacher every single year because the last one refuses to work with them again.

I'm not anti-union but it's a double edged sword.
No you don't understand power politics, sorry you're leaning on your own experience instead of the expert approved only USA and Russia matters geopolitical framework. No way that without CIA puppet masters Ukrainians would use their own will (after all non-powers countries have no will or agency) to choose to orient West like the failed Baltic states and Poland instead of being a thriving Russian vassal like Belarus
I dropped a copy on a thumb drive and epoxied it into a piece of furniture. A floor mosaic would have been a better choice, but it’s the project I had going. I should probably have included a Rosetta Stone of how to bootstrap usb and how filesystems work. I bet the long now foundation probably has a better plan.
Have you found what causes the bad days? I suffer from this too and haven't been able to figure out why it's worse some days than others. It seems random, but I wonder if there's a causal factor I'm just not noticing.
Reuse: J. Random Newbie (2003)
> There’s no need to change passwords if they're robust, unique and not breached

This assumes you'll know if passwords were exposed in a breach. Some breaches go undetected.
what happened was not luck, Putin's force must have targeted this administrative building on purpose. The goal is to scare the opponents and the world at large, and to show determination. IMHO it's not incompetence, it is a strategic move. (to be clear, it is still horrendous)
The nordic countries are though? I'd say i would consider any country were the state expenditure account for more than 50% of GDP socialist. And any company where the workers own more than 50% of the share communist (those exist). Unless we have different definition?

Edit: I'm not opposing socialism to capitalism though. For me capitalism is that the capital own the means of production, aka: more than 50% of the shares belong to investors, not workers.
Here's a thought. Just think of yourself in a much broader context - life on earth. In the same way one of your cells comes and goes while your body seems to be continuously present, so too you are one tiny part of the tree of life. Your influence is greatest while you're present, but the effects can last beyond your time here. I would argue from the PoV of consciousness you were not here before and won't be here later, but then it was never about you anyway. Gotta destroy the ego to find your proper place in a larger context - then your question become moot.
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At what point does short term become long term? Crypto mining has been an issue for people looking to obtain GPUs going back to at least 2016, which is when I built my first PC, and its only gotten worse and worse as time has gone on.
As a linguist I find such community-driven projects fascinating as you can literally see before your very eyes in a time-lapse enabled through an artifically imposed restraint (here in reference to "Old Church Slavonic"; a different approach: Tonki Pona) the language "evolution" and get an humbling appreciation of the multitude of contingences under which languages evolve.

A simplified "linear" scheme I'm referring to:

From perfect "intelligibility" (universal language/Proto-language) --> mostly ("dialects") to limited ("seperate" language) to virtually none at all (seperate "language family").

Of course this gets complicated when e.g. different language families get in 'contact'.
The current Persian language "Farsi" (an Indo-European language, the oldest well-attested Indo-Iranian languages being "Vedic Sanskrit", "Avestan" etc.) is heavily soaked with 'Arabic words' (Semitic language family) through the Islamic Conquest. One of many such examples:

Farsi: کتاب‎ (ketâb) "book", Old Hindi: कतेब (kateba) "book", "Qu'ran" comes from the Arabic root of ك ت ب‎ (k-t-b): "related to writing".
"Arabic" in turn is related as a Semitic language to "Hebrew" which has exactly the same root כ־ת־ב: "forming words pertaining to writing".
The constructed Proto-West Semitic word *katab: "prick, cut, scratch, scrape".

That being said, from a sociologist/ethnologist/historian perspective such artifical constructions are hardly compatible to the cultural complexities in the real world, so mostly it remains a very limited scholarly exercise or it gets "imposed" in order to "stick".

As someone speaking West-Slavic "Polish", learning East-Slavic "Russian" really unlocked for me a big cultural treasury chest which I would argue is even a better pay-off than trying to ideally reconstruct a "neutral" language to circumvent the deep rooted "political" resentments.
As a fun "cognitive"/"evolutionary" exercise, I'm all for it but in order to really appreciate the cultural richness (language as an expression) immersing yourself in a 'living' language is so much "brain-compatible:
(1) Don't obssess over "correctness" and (2) realize the more languages you actually learn the easier it gets to aquire more. (If you speak French and learn Spanish, Latin will connect a lot of things and in the end Italian will be a "breeze")
Transfered to "Slavic" from a "Polish" perspective in learning some "Bulgarian" and "Lithuanian" with my "Russian" in the end you get more bang for the buck. 3 languages are not 3 languages. E.g. "Russian", "Japanese" and "Arabic" would be 1-2 orders of magnitude "costlier".

To sum it all up:
The most elegant and beautiful solution in one's mind ([...] what Old Church Slavonic would have become had it been allowed to develop naturally over the centuries [...]) can distract you from the obivous and the most feasible solution, now, in the real world of "communicating". Just learn the languages "and" at the same time enjoy the beauty of the interconnectedness of languages. There is no pure language, they are all connected, in my eyes: beautifully, as they to my constant surprise succinctly bear our cultural heritages.
If you look at election and poll results there is a clear east/west divide in Ukraine. It is not moot and ignoring this factor is woefully uninformed about the causes and perceptions of this event in the east.
> Covid for 90% of the population was never something to have fear over. Something to be cautious about yes but the range of sheer panic among people under 40 in good health that i met was beyond silly.

To me the fear seemed mostly directed to local health infrastructure being in a position of crumbling down under the case load, which still holds true in many places. Can't speak for every country, but over here we're still one wave large enough away from overloading our ICUs. Each wave brought us extremely close to the cutoff.
You can colour it any way that you like. Many Americans would likely baulk at the idea of a turkey-less Thanksgiving. It is a central theme of the holiday. What else is it, if not a sacrifice?
It came off as sarcastic initially to me, but I read it again and realized it was earnest.
This does exist: Passwordless with FIDO2/WebAuthn has been gaining some decent traction.
No? I can buy a 3080 and get it under a week from multiple vendors. Sure, it's expensive. It's not impossible though.
So, really, you should change a password regularly if:

- The password is weak

- It is ever reused

- Anyone else has access to it

- You use it on a device you don't control

- You use it on a device which might be running malware and can intercept it

- It was stored insecurely
Not to mention it makes it harder to use the password in automated systems, as lots of places try to parse (or can't encode properly) $, /, -, and others.
I see you haven't come across "Download The Crestfallen" boss yet?
This is an excerpt from Eric Raymond's book The Art of Unix Programming. I submitted it because it's an interesting time capsule. I wonder how much better things actually are now, especially among the dark mass of business application developers that we rarely hear about here.

I slightly editorialized the title to add context. Then HN dropped "The Tale of".
Are you sure its benchmarks which are the only apps which can use it?

The idea of making a blacklist of apps which take up 100% of a CPU despite not needing it to function sounds like a good idea to me. Some games might do that by endlessly spinning rather than sleeping or something until the next time they need to process state/draw a frame etc.

Benchmarks are obvious candidates not to put on such a list because when you use them taking up 100% performance is reasonable.

So depending on the apps on the list I could see it being deceptive, or just curating a list of apps which weren't developed with power usage in mind.
Yes, Climb 2. It is fun and realistic, but it does trigger fear of heights feelings in me. If you don’t have that problem, then go for it and enjoy!

Off topic, but when I am writing code, getting up for a 5 minute game of Oculus ping pong is a great refresh.
Locked out of Google account, endless loop: Gmail
I’m a kids mode type player.
"A similar sign was used in Ukraine by the Social-National Party of Ukraine, Social-National Assembly. and Azov Battalion.Group members claim that the symbol is an abbreviation for the slogan Ідея Нації (Ukrainian for "National Idea") and deny connection with Nazism."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfsangel

What I personally think about it? I really want to see the bombing in Ukraine stopping. Russia has no rights to invade Ukraine. There is 0 reason for that. There is 0 reason to discuss about other topics which somehow supports the idea that Russia is right. Russia as we all know isn't a land free of racism, right wing groups and hooligans.
I assume screen is a massive drain; starting with Apple's "Retina" push, and all manufacturers following, my tiny phone now has resolution and refresh WAY higher than anything I deem functionally useful (though I do have a friend or two that will incessantly talk to me about how "smooooth" scrolling or whatever is; don't care!).

As well, while on my original HTC G1 I optimized the thing to an inch of its existence, with modern phone there is SO much happening in background, I don't even know where to start so I give up and have literally bought couple of 10-packs of charger wires, and have wireless charging pods in several rooms.

I miss the days of my Palm Treo, when I could take it on a vacation and not bother with charger :P
Why is it unfortunate that DDG is bigger and bigger every year?
You won't like the extreme mode I have planned.
The purpose of freely distributing code is not to be useful to corporations. It's to foster a spirit of sharing with the community.

If I put something up for free, it's because I want other programmers to be able to freely use it. I don't care if a big corporation with expensive lawyers likes the way the license is worded.
I don't think my response will be much appreciated here, but you'll get a great deal more insight into your question by taking 5g psilocybe mushrooms or 600mcg of LSD [1] than from any comment in this thread.

[1] These are fairly high doses. Take appropriate medical and psychological precautions before participating in such ceremonies.
Is this really what we want as a society?

https://fortune.com/longform/unions-workplace-technology/

And they fight against merit pay.

https://www.econlib.org/archives/2010/10/why_do_unions_o.htm...
I use parts of song lyrics or movie quotes for most my passwords, and I do the same with increasing a digit. I'm at digit change 17. The thing that REALLY kills me is when a password has a maximum length.
I enjoyed reading this, but the sarcasm might fly over a lot of people's heads. :)
Not who you asked, but also see To The Top on app lab if you're looking at climbing games. It's more of an arcadey take on it versus The Climb's more realistic levels.

https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/5930576503634498/
> Is it too late if you change your password 6 months after it's compromised?

I'd say no... some compromises are "2 step"... Ie. someone accidentally was logging the passwords in plaintext for a few months to some logs system (compromise 1)... and then years later some attacker breaks into the logs system (compromise 2).

Or you accidentally typed a password into a terminal and it got stored in your .bash_history... and then months later you accidentally make your dotfiles github repo public, including your .bash_history containing your password...

Also, some thieves may compromise your account but not do much evil with it (and remain undetected). And then many months later they sell your account to someone else who does do evil with it.
You could also argue that your jurisdiction is the problem. In several European countries there'd only be a problem if someone is under 16, or if the people actually NEED to go to a night club or casino straight away (and not just late rin the evening), but every bar and retaurant would be open at 18 and 16-18 should be ok until 10pm or midnight.
As with many technologies, if you operate them in a responsible way and you put measures in place to mitigate the risk it's fine. This is no different here.

In this case nuclear has a downside for another reason. It centralizes electricity production, making it relatively easy to deny large parts of the country any electricity access. Which is probably the main goal here.
I own one and drive it in winter including on long distance road trips so this isn’t a belief it is direct experience. The tesla charging stations are numerous and growing rapidly never have I even come close to running out of battery.
Borrowed money funded share purchases by ‘SPAC king’ Palihapitiya
Because the service as it stands is of dubious (or negative) worth. So far its main uses are enabling illegal activity and MLM-style get rich quick schemes. For all of the hubbub about the crypto-revolution, we are over a decade in and 99% of its use falls into those two categories.
Mindfulness can make you a darker person
Do we need more deserts, especially grain lands turned into radioactive desserts?

Russian invasion blocked wheat traffic from Ukraine, so it caused spike in prices for wheat. Just imagine prices for food when Ukraine will be poisoned permanently or occupied by RF, which may perform genocide of Ukrainians second time in less than 100 years. Wastelands are good for wildlife only, because humans are major danger to them.
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that's remember me of https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-04-27-me-50918-...
I encourage everyone in a position to run into this discussion internally to memorize a few key sections of NIST 800-63. It's come in handy more than once...
"One of the greatest things to happen to 2D canvas in all these years was hardware acceleration."

I loved this one, too. Except for the one drawback, getImageData is now very, very slow. And no asynchronous method in sight, that could make it fast again.
Oh I just wrote it like that cause that's what I remembered off the top of my head. For some reason my brain prefers using wavelengths for Radio waves (short wave radio, long wave radio) while frequencies when looking at the whole spectrum.