skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe my account could potentially be shadow-banned (comments are pushed to the bottom always) due to a few years back i talked incessantly about the time Google invited me to demo technology of mine and they were pretty awful. Of course that's just my word yet when another HN member met the same people at Google ATAP and they patented her work without her consent then got caught with email evidence I did talk incessantly about it.

Eventually I was told by an admin here I need to chill / move on which I have and haven't talked about it in a two years or so.

Overall I just wanted to alert others that tech companies even ones who inspired you are not to be trusted. Demand tons of money if and when you get an invite!
Unless I've been driving very differently from you, most of the things that I care about the precise distance of are well within 20 meters.

And moreover, it's lucky at best if my Model 3 acknowledges a car 20m away on the preview. It struggles with cars a few feet from me on the diagonal at stoplights.
- " Attackers on the other hand can leverage multi-GPU device setups with optimised drivers that could easily reach speeds of 2,000,000+ H/s."

Why wasn't LastPass using memory-hard key derivation functions? I thought that's been best practice for a very long time now: we've known about GPU/ASIC hashing for decades.
> Tom Brady Super Bowl MVP

He can’t keep getting away with it :(
It’ll be the year of the Real ID/ Open ID.

Wonder whether we’ll have a cyber 911 to push it through, or something cheaper like the necessity to cull far right voices online.
Mastadon won't ever overtake Twitter.

Without a marketing department, without ads, and without a non timeline feed, there are very few reasons for major brands to migrate.

Elon quarralled over what is bots, but marketing only accounts, reserved mostly for brand protection makes up another significant portion of Twitter active users. They'll have no reason to shift to a distributed service.
I wonder to what extent the assistant quoted in the post is writing things that Rossi would not? Maybe they’d agree, and maybe the lack of acknowledgment in the book speaks for itself, but I think it’s jumping the gun a bit to attribute things from this professor’s secretary to the professor herself. Presumably if you’re a professor’s secretary then part of your job when talking to journalists, etc, is making the professor and therefore the university look important.

It’s a shame the article didn’t have a comment directly from Rossi but maybe they tried to get one and failed.
Dang probably deleted it after he reprimanded you in the thread... why not ask him?
Congresspeople regularly outperform the market with their investment which is called "insider trading" and is forbidden for anyone else but them. I'm not saying that's the biggest issue with them, but that was what came to my mind first.
I planned for this as well, 2 months before Covid happend, so a bit lucky. Anyway it works great and I don't want to go back. The thing I don't subscribe to is the "co-worker" part. you see if my child cannot attend daycare because she is sick, I cannot work full. we have an agreement at my work that in such cases we go into "50% or best effort"mode. I guess it depends on the child and maybe the job, but I cannot code/think/debug while a 4 year old wants to be entertained, also I don't want to sit her in front of a tv/mobile just to calm her down, so 50% it is
They don’t know what to do with Mastadon because they are not journalists. They are content creators.

Most journalists fall into this category.
https://archive.ph/a7xqV
It was very mild stuff. Even if HN is shadowbanning, as you say, I can't imagine the comments in question drawing that action.
1) dwm is an X window manager.

2) X apps work on Wayland, Quartz, etc. because there are X servers foe those environments, Xwayland is currently the only maintained X server; it too will eventually go away (especially when the toolkit maintainers drop X support altogether).
No, Taibbi is just lying. You can look up the deleted posts on archive.org and they’re pictures of Hunter Biden’s penis, which I will not link.

Some of them aren’t; these are mistakes. law enforcement can report posts the same way anyone else can, and if they report the wrong ones you can ignore them. They don’t have special powers. It’s fine.

(Also, Taibbi moved to Russia in the 90s, assaulted underage women, and publicly wrote about it in his publication the Exile. This is also a kind of bias.)
Elon (personally) and Tesla are revealed as insolvent
> That we cannot get laptops or even desk machines with ECC

The Xeon series of laptop processors does support ECC just at a quite large premium.
DuckDuckGo now blocks Google sign-in pop-ups on all sites
Fat, Happy, and in over Your Head (2019)
Is it this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34118393 ? It's flagged, but I can still see the comment and your response.

The other comment is the one by dang, and it's simply folded.
The dot com bubble was the very definition of capitalism.

It's the MBAs (that HN hates) that turn "the internet" into a product that makes money- or that they can convince investors will make money some day.
What services do you use for anonymized phone number?
Seemed a bit too robotic with just a period. Topic’s kind of heavy you know.
Blank page with an embedded tweet. How bad can it be?
JS: 1.5MB
PageSpeed score: 61/100
Time to Interactive: 9 sec
TBT: 1.7 sec
I realise that's blurrier when it comes to laptops, but AIUI it's more a case of whether the motherboard than supports it than about the AMD chip. i.e. given a desktop CPU, as far as I know you can put it in a motherboard that either does or does not support ECC RAM.
I haven't used it, but afaict the --ignore-environment flag is intended for roughly the same usecase. https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/4359#issuecomment-907768... notes some differences.
> Seems weird that they would have the number of rounds fixed from the time of account creation though. Surely it would be possible to increase the number of rounds over time.

Well, No. In metacode, pbkdf2 works something like:

derived_password = pbkdf2(real_password, salt, 5000, ...);
Encrypt(vault, derived_password);

(See Wikipedia for more details https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2)

Point being, you can only change the number of rounds if you re-encrypt the vault, and you can only do that, if the users participates by giving their password to first un-encrypt it during that process. So it cannot be done silently in the background.
I’ll say it again. They have limited resources, and can develop something else rather than a vaccine. Only so much manufacturing plant and raw materials and they keep it busy. Don’t want a higher risk, low per item vaccine? Fine, they’ll make a lower risk, high per item drug. The latter is usually a better defined problem anyway.
They increased what was provided in the old $5 a couple of times, before raising the price to $6, though.

Also, there’s a new $4 entry-tier droplet that has the same CPU, the same amount of ram and the same amount of storage as my $5 droplet used to: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets

The included bandwidth is only half as much (500GiB), but I suspect most people who would have gotten $5 droplets in the past will now be getting $4 ones.
New Sensor Uses MRI to Detect Light Deep in the Brain
Kickstarter shuts down campaign for Unstable Diffusion amid changing guidelines
With top notch analysis like this, you should consider claiming a salary from the fifth directorate of the Federal Security Service. This is just the kind of stuff that'll allow them to continue building on their stellar track record of 2022!
Maybe they're smarter and more knowledgeable than the average trader?
Because I have no idea who he or she was. The comment is deleted, and I can't remember the handle that posted it.
TiltFive has some very nice demos but it's still several years away from being on par with Tabletop Simulator in terms of remote presence and fluidity of play in any boardgame not specifically designed for it.
Agreed. I just posted a guide on how to do it in another thread and it’s actually not that hard. The only thing that won’t be familiar to all devs is HTTP signing. I expect that we’re going to have more HTTP middleware frameworks that support ActivityPub if Mastodon gains more traction.
Everyone complained openly about sun while they were around. They didn’t do everything right, but they were very generous with their open source contributions, all the way to a fault.
Incorrect, the Leaf does NOT have active thermal management, which makes it lose capacity faster.

Tesla and some of the others do have sophisticated thermal management systems.
It does matter, because it represents the difference between two different scenarios that don't have the same chance of occurring:

1. The FBI/CIA hacked Twitter and leaked their database in retaliation for the "Twitter files"

2. The FBI/CIA hacked Twitter (or someone else did and they obtained the data) back in early 2022 (for an unknown reason), and are now leaking the data in retaliation for the "Twitter files"
I see you comment near the top
What systems have you encountered this on? (just curious; not trying to minimize)
"It's not the onboarding, it's how the experience goes a month, or even a year, in."

As a techie person, that makes sense, but as a normal user, if the onboarding isn't simple and easy enough, users won't make it to a month or year of using the service.

If Mastadon is too complex to attract critical mass of users to achieve a competitive network effect, it will not replace Twitter.
I don't think it's normal or common for comments to disappear completely unless the posting user deletes them before there is a response. Sometimes they are marked [dead], and you can see them if you set "showdead: yes" in your profile (click on your login in the upper right to access).

And sometimes threads of comments are "folded", and can only be viewed if you click the "X more" link to the right of the header. But I don't think they are usually removed completely.

I'm guessing you are referring to your comments in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34116509? If so, the comments you are looking for are probably under the two "folded" threads at the bottom.
Russia will have unexpected gains in Ukraine and US will decide to directly intervene using armies from Poland, Baltic states, Romania, Slovakia, Czechia, starting the WW3, escalating beyond all prior limits rapidly. EU will get completely nuked within a day, destroying all cities above 100k, leaving only pockets of rural areas survivable. UK and Ireland will be swept by a massive tsunami from a nuke detonated underwater. There will be a full-blown nuclear exchange between the US and Russia, wiping out most countries in the northern hemisphere in the process, reducing human population to 1/10th of the current level within a year, leaving only parts of South America intact. Humanity will enter another stone age with no chance of rebuilding the civilization due to having all surface-level resources exhausted and will turn to cannibalism to survive, however Earth will be too damaged to carry life and will slowly become another Mars with deadly background radiation everywhere. Metro 2033 will be renamed to Metro 2023.
>Mapping light distribution in tissue by using MRI-detectable photosensitive liposomes

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-022-00982-3

>Mapping light distribution in the brain via MRI

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-022-00995-y
Yes, I found it by accident, because I dug into a Go code base I don't even use for fun, because I wondered about how they do audio, noticed it wasn't actually cross-platform. So I wondered if it's solved overall and found this, which seems to be the most straight-forward way of supporting pretty much all platforms that Go supports. Not completely sure about Plan 9 though.

https://github.com/gen2brain/malgo
Yeah I think I over egged this slightly. But I imagine if you're in a team of half a dozen copywriters like a friend if mine that by the end of 2023 there's only going to be one left.
> " I guess you don't really know that you needed ECC until it's too late."

I spent many years on hardware consultation and was amazed at the all the times I had to explain it was just a what if insurance like any other things their business was mitigating against. Sometimes they'd even decided they needed to save costs in non-ecc ram when it was $4 a gb in difference, or (during the FB-DIMM era) there wasn't even an option to avoid it.

Never really understood the resistance towards it.

Maybe the lack of evidence before the Google study and people thinking RAM manufacturers were trying to rip them off or something.

The "never had a problem so why would I need" it attitude with no way to know if an issue was caused by a bit flip was most baffling.
(New York City, not New York State)
Shadow banning on HN follows a visible pattern. They'll be marked dead automatically and someone will have to vouch your post. If they just float to the bottom with a small number or no upvotes, nobody found your post interesting.
That's the nice thing about ECC, it acts like an always running memory test.

You normally have a scrub time that can be configured in the BIOS, which also adds a regular verification of the entire RAM at regular intervals, just in case something goes wrong in some rarely used part of the memory.
I know how Mastodon and Bitcoin work, yet I have no idea what "bitcoin for your tweets" even means. That's a terrible analogy.
XKCD estimated 11 bits per "common word", corresponding to a dictionary of ~2000. But that's assuming even distribution across that dictionary, which isn't a reasonable thing to expect a human to do themselves.

Diceware - an actual formalisation of the approach, including recommended means of generating the entropy and specific wordlists - uses 7776 words, for a shade under 13 bits each. EFF have a nice one - https://www.eff.org/dice

The recommended 6 words gives 77.5 bits of entropy per password. At Lastpass's current default iterations of 100k that's about 2^93 SHA256 operations to have better than even odds of breaking it.

To put that into perspective, the Bitcoin mining network is reportedly hashing at 256 quintillion hashes per second right now. At that rate it would take on average 72 weeks to crack.

One extra word bumps that up to 11 millennia, if that's a bit too tractable for comfort.
What's a PBS Cricket match? Am an avid Cricket follower but haven't come across the term so far.
For obscure reasons it's not made obvious, but Dan Gackle (dang) is the moderator of the site. He posts like a normal user, but you are often expected to understand that he is speaking as moderator. Mostly this system works, although occasionally it can be confusing, especially to new users.
Both twitch and YouTube's subreddits aren't moderated by staff, but by random tryhards. If they don't like you, you're banned. Reminds me of Wikipedia.
The 'possibly universal' came from also conducting a survey with English speaking Polish and Mandarin speaking mainland Chinese people. But what might the results have been if the experiment was done with paranoid people which likely wouldn't have been in these samples? 'Cross-cultural' would be a better description.
Some communities (fandom is probably a better word) are more like cults of personality than actual communities.

Given the fannish nature of Twitch and its audience in general, this level of almost religious fanboying and "how dare you question the Gods" mentality is very familiar (my teens and 20s were spent in fandoms - first anime, then comics, then furry).

I've seen this in every single one of them to some extent, but especially furry and Twitch. It's sad, because -- as they, sunlight is the best disinfectant -- and all this does is block the sunlight and discourage people from talking about issues.
What notion of optimization had you expected?
Work is impossible while parenting.
For the uninitiated as myself, here are excerpts from: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/MoltexFLEX-launc...

“According to MoltexFLEX, the cost of electricity generated by the FLEX reactor is comparable to that of wind, at just GBP40 (USD44) per MWh. This is achieved through a unique, patented system which uses two molten salts: one acting as a fuel, whilst the other circulates as a coolant. This allows the heat from the reactor to be extracted through natural convection, without the need for pumps.”

“Once online, the FLEX reactor can be operated with the same skills and equipment used in a fossil fuel plant. The reactor has no moving parts and is fuelled for 20 years at a time, meaning that there is very little operator input and very low ongoing costs.”

“MoltexFLEX estimates it would take just 24 months to build a 500 MW power plant. The company plans to have its first reactor operational by 2029.”

“The SSR-W is a molten salt reactor that uses nuclear waste as fuel. The company aims to deploy its first such reactor at the Point Lepreau site in New Brunswick by the early 2030s.”
Thanks for this I’ve been trying to read more fiction.

Futility Closet episode 181 has a more historical account if folks prefer audio over text (that’s how I first learned of it):

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2017/12/11/podcast-episode-18...
2022's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math
> People have been dunking on LastPass for a very long time. I haven't seen the same infosec people do the same with 1Password and Bitwarden.

This is my impression as well. What I wonder is whether this is because they haven't tried to find these issues with the other products, or they just failed to find them so nothing ever got published, or if it did no one noticed it. I find the latter hard to believe as I suspect marketing departments would have been all over it.

That said, to me LastPass was always terrible. Back in the day I moved from KeePass to LP for the browser integration but everything was so buggy and unreliable that eventually I moved away.

1Password was better but the cloud service brings some of the same worries as LastPass.
The context and text within the emails doesn't match what you just wrote and from what I've seen there were 1000s of deletions -- not only of Hunter Biden's penis as you imply...

It makes zero sense to me that this email (https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701482308669440?s=46&...) would have anything to do with Hunter Biden's penis. The Twitter employee is clearly talking about feeling unable to not act on a pro-russian tweet even though they hadn't been able to support any action on it using Twitter's own policies.

The point is, the US government partially infiltrated Twitter, and then applied regular external pressure on it to applying badly defined policies against their targets.
I have a number of twitter accounts. My main does have a phone number attached but the others do not and they are not shadow banned.

(Only reason I attached a number to my main is because I needed API access many years ago, for years before that it never had a number attached to it)
> The Dark Ages were a time where humanity forgot how to read and write, where one person, a priest, was the sole person in your social life that could tell you truth from fiction. The Enlightenment changed all of that by re-teaching literacy.

And the article retcons literacy onto the past.

> I think the worst part of this is how completely insane I probably sound to folks.

No. It's worse for the reader. I stopped there.
But not all users are API users. I would say API users are the minority of users.
I find this hilarious XD. Unfortunately some of these aren't impossible.
4. Is a no way.
Toward a platform and away from a publisher.
Reminds me of furries, and a lot of other fandoms actually.

A: "Hey I had a problem at the con this weekend"

B: "How dare you talk about that, that's DRAMA! Take your DRAMA elsewhere, LLAMA. I'll have you know the guy who runs ConWeekend is my best friend! You're Banned for life! Long live ConWeekend! And here's that Japanese BANNED meme video to play you out! HAHA I SAVED THE FANDOM!"
It's just another instance of the same broken thinking one sees in other ML fields. For whatever reason, people 1) hold ML systems to a standard of success far in excess of that demonstrated by humans 2) endlessly quibble about whether the ML system internally has "true understanding", despite it not mattering for the system's ability to affect the external world.

Thermodynamically, general intelligence is on the order of 10 watts, as is evidenced by most human brains. This leads me to the belief that we likely already have the computational capability for AGI, and simply have not figured out the correct architecture and weightings. As we've seen with the flurry of increasingly SOTA image generation models this year, innovations in the ML space tend to arrive with little warning, and have rapid and real effects on the world. Within the context of AGI, this pattern causes me a lot of existential dread.
On the US financing Ukraine, the house legislature party switch is likely to lead to this without any catastrophe or new events.

Though, the US legislature is less likely to be able to navigate an economic disaster during this split as well.
I have two OSes on my laptops and both iOS and Android, so I can probably manage except maybe on my office laptop. My parents are a part of my family plan and I don't see them being able to use it.
Today APITable open-source 500k lines code.
The best Airtable open-source alternative and an API-oriented low-code platform for building collaborative apps.
Yeah, that's what I used to do as well - although I used Dropbox and later iCloud for syncing.

Browser integration, less than great iOS clients and other quality-of-life features eventually made me find an alternative.

I might look into it again.
https://meduza-io.translate.goog/news/2022/12/25/v-boyah-za-...
LastPass is a standout candidate for worst password manager, as has been the case for many years. The other popular password managers, like 1Password and Bitwarden, are certainly not perfect but they're leagues ahead of LastPass.

1Password, for example, has written extensively about their security model and have done so proactively, including a lengthy whitepaper: https://1passwordstatic.com/files/security/1password-white-p...

LastPass is garbage because it's LastPass, not because it's a password manager. The only thing LastPass has ever done well is somehow remain relevant despite being terrible: that's an achievement.
Try not to judge, you don't know their circumstances. Some may have medical, family, or cultural challenges ("Homeschool is only way! Daycare is the devil!") that make time at home stressful.
Startup releasing particles into the atmosphere to tweak the climate
> you could still imagine an AI unbiased, "perfectly modelling" this "biased" data

Imagining something is different from building a working system.

In beginning physics courses, students learn the fundamentals of Newtonian mechanics using frictionless point masses, but no one has built one for the students to use in the hands-on labs.

If bias goes into a model through the training data, bias will come out when the model is used.

The only unbiased models are untrained models, which are not very useful.
It's fascinating behavior. I remember having an issue a while ago and describing it on a forum and the linux defenders literally told me that the issue doesn't exist and I am just making things up. They would simply ignore reality that didn't conform to their belief that linux is the holy grail and is beyond criticism. Psychologists would have field day with these people.
My point is that Mastodon is being judged for not focusing on the easy part.

And I'm convinced that Mastodon does not need to be a Twitter replacement to be a success. That is an important distinction that we should concede. It just needs to be a vibrant network that lots of people like using to succeed.
The comments are still there. "dang" is a user and the admin of this site. Maybe you're missing it because the subthread has been collapsed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34119476