skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's when a democrat moves.

Republicans move to Arizona, Texas and Florida
What’s the comedy? I always used to let my petrol car engine run a few mins till it warmed up on very cold mornings too
The dead internet theory will become true.

Machine generated (spam, AI, not reposts) and old posts from dead people or dead accounts will overwhelm new human generated content.

The war in Ukraine will end with Russia relying increasingly on kamikazi drones. Around end of spring a peace will be brokered. Russia will retain most of its territory gained esp with respect to black sea access.

Western Europe continued in recession with the UK leading the pack in economic downturn.

It will become apparent we've lost the 1.5celcius cap to global temp rises and governments will stop caring accelerating demise.

The ISS will be taken out by some space junk. But no Kessler cascade.

Chinese space station becomes man's only ped-e-espace NASA refuses to work with them.
I have been a little bit astonished lately to see reasonably deep dives into board games that don't at least mention the possibilities Augmented Reality and digital immersion will bring to the table. Efforts like TiltFive are here today and widely available enhanced vision systems are not far off. I get that the anti-digital ink-on-cardboard ethos runs pretty deep; but you can get the best parts of both worlds. So, while I do like and agree with this article about a general resurgence, I just think we haven't even scratched the surface of a golden age yet.
So, if my lastpass master password is actually secure (~30 characters and contains capital, lowercase, symbols, and a long string of randomly-generated numbers that I memorized as part of it, and no part of this is reused anywhere else), do I have to worry? It does seem like a good idea to switch, but do I have to switch urgently?
With the width of the Atlantic Ocean, and the state of the art in long-distance ocean travel back then...is there any other credible hypothesis? I am not convinced by arguments that they hitched rides on alien spaceships.
You probably don't have to worry.

The main concern is whether LastPass has also faced a supply chain attack that will expose you to a malicious client that will leak your passwords post-decryption.
yes, i realized after i typed up my complaints about fedi admins that i did the same thing.

Mastodon is php, and as such it requires php-level stuff. Misskey is nodejs (i think) and python, so it depends on if you're used to wordpress-y stuff or not. I prefer misskey because it has a "drive" - you can upload files and hotlink, or make "tweets" with them.

thankfully, activitypub and Ostatus "protocols" are open source, so one could write a server implementation in whatever language du jour makes them happy, but only a few people have.

I see a lot of the same issues with realtime applications like matrix (for chat) and audio/video streaming. Some php implementation (or python), and then no one else can make something that adheres to the standard. Whether that's the standard's fault or not isn't for me to say.

if i get a jpeg image file, and the joint picture expert group's spec for jpeg format, i can write something to view that in a day or so. same with whatever RFC IRC was. or http. or ftp.

try writing a toy matrix or fediverse implementation? meh.
Tries are not mentioned in the OP and I have yet to see an example where they are actually working well.
One thing you guys don't realize is that it's in Madagascar, it cost me 3000 euros per year to run, not millions.
Can you give some examples of this "ample historical evidence"? I saw quite convincing video recently where a guy goes through all, known to him, sources and debunks them (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WI72JNz0IC8 - warning: might be offensive for a diehard believer).
You don't get it. The main issue with a hash collision in sha256 wouldn't be Nix breaking for a few hours; it would be the modern internet breaking down.

I don't see why you get so fixated on Nix rather than preaching about anything else using sha256.

> infantesimal chance that we would have a power outage.

Power outages are experienced every day in every country; sha256 collisions are still to be found. That's not the same magnitude of ‶infinitesimal″ at all.
> The basic problem as I see it is that the companies that get contracts aren't especially good at writing software

At least here in Norway, a huge part I think is that the buyer doesn't have a good grip on what they need. The people making writing the bids or managing the projects are too far removed from the day-to-day operation to write down proper requirements.

Don't get me wrong, it's hard. But for these large projects I think many would have gone a whole lot better if the buyer had spent more time understanding their own organization and their needs before doing these large projects.
In my most recent job, my first real task was to implement a persistent (i.e. flash-disk-based) queue. In (micro)python. Seems simple enough, until real world performance constrains kick in, and suddenly things get much, much more interesting. Need to keep flash happy, so wear-levelling is a concern; not a problem using LittleFS (as it's designed for flash disks), but that ends up taking massive amounts of time for seeking. And we have an upper bound on allowable time for an operation, which throws out any naive solution.

Implementing algorithms is easy. Implementing algorithms with constraints... not so much (but still fun though)
He's said many things. He's said inconsistent things. For all we know he purchased Twitter just to shutdown that elon jet account.

> How about you take the time to research before belittling people?

My comment wasn't meant to belittle you or be a personal attack. My wording was borne of frustration. You and I cannot know what Musk thinks or wants. Reading and researching him isn't helpful either, he is a public persona and manages his PR. Not well recently IMO, but previously quite well. That means you absolutely cannot take at face value what he says.

I'd say look to his actions, but they are all over the place too. He certainly doesn't seem to be taking Twitter in the direction of brining any kind of union between the left and right, unless his plan is to make a common enemy for everyone. Again, I'm not sure how wise it is to speculate.
I never layoff and tell.
I might be missing the distinction you're making here. If you mean if the flip has already occurred, but the result was concealed (for example, the coin is under my hand but I have not looked at it), since my state of knowledge is the same as before the flip, I'd say it's equivalent.
Performance with auto transmission says less about the driver but more about the tech team.

And yes, the point of these racing regulations is to make it at least optically a driver skill competition, not just who can throw more money at a pretty mundane challenge of getting from A to B the fastest. (If not for those regulations, since the track is known to the centimeter, the fastest driver would probably be the lightest one because it would be dead weight.)

Thankfully software engineering challenges are far from mundane, so the chasm will indeed grow
> I doubt it's possible to substantially simplify Nix

In general, I think there's always going to be a long tail of things which will be relatively difficult to achieve with Nix.

But, I think it would be possible to make many cases much simpler, or have more common developer use cases well-trodden so that its rough edges get ironed out.
It's more commonly (but still not very commonly) called a "gentlemen's layoff", but confusingly seems to (also?) mean pretty much the opposite of what curtisblaine said: "Elon Musk and Jason Calacanis messaged about how return-to-office mandates could be used as a ‘gentlemen’s layoff’ to get workers to voluntarily quit" - https://archive.ph/tC9H4. No idea which sense birdymcbird intended.
- Starship makes a successful orbital flight.

- Russia won't start any overt military operations in Donbass, let alone Ukraine proper.

I'm sad this guy got both his predictions wrong.
Play and the sense of being real (2016)
Please, tech bros, stay out of Maine, Portland is already unlivable.
Thanks, that's a clear and thorough explanation. Enjoy your Christmas!
I think that property prices in Ireland, the UK and the Netherlands provide a neat counter example to your point.
- An autonomous drone is used in combat

- Chinas ascendancy slows, Xi’s popularity wanes

- someone “marries” their virtual partner

I'm pretty sure all three of these have already happened.
No but I think said increase is hardly influenced by human activity and is instead part of a cyclical behavior of Earth, which has been reconstructed by several studies (by reputable institutions I should add)

I'm fairly certain the biggest threat that human industry poses is the chemical and polymer poisoning of the environment.

Rising temperatures are only of concerns in the view that planetary conditions should be perpetually optimal for human comfort, which is a pretentious and unrealistic though process
1. Chat GPT3 or Similar Tech Enabled Personalised Social Engineering Attacks From Stolen Data.

2. A new social network will rise that will have an explosion of reels made from Stable Diffusion tech.

3. Apple creating a dedicated program to encourage developers to build apps leverage M1/M2s GPU Capabilities.

4. Reserve Bank of India creating a CDBC enabled savings account program to allow citizens to hold money without intermediary banks.
Ask HN: Unemployed for 2 years, refreshing .NET/JS skills
Hello HN,

I've been out of the job market for about two years now due to taking care of family. Was formerly a .NET developer (mostly C# and JavaScript/HTML/CSS) at a medium/large company. I want to refresh my skills in the most efficient way possible before hitting the job market. Any advice is appreciated, thank you.

Misc:

32 years old, Male

Inland Empire, CA

6 years experience
I suppose a typical nomadic society is not like "mother and father with kids, the nearest relative a few miles away".

Childcare is easier when you have a group of adults taking care of a group of kids. And of course, parents have the primary responsibility, but it is not a 24 hour duty.
"but increasing probability Russia uses a tactical nuke in Ukraine."

Not likely. They would have nothing to gain from it. In their narrative, they are protecting the ukrainians ( which are actually russians, whether they want or not) from the fascist ukrainians. Nuking russian soil does not go together with this and Putin struggles already to not loose his base. And any military advantage this would gain, would be offset by massive upscaling of international aid. Also the russian army is in no shape anymore, to fight in fallout areas.

I expect a stalemate at the current frontlines, with not much changes in the long term.
Looks like the XKCD way of generating passwords is not as secure. After all, it decreases entropy by a whole lot if 30 characters can be dumbed down to 5 English words with dashes/spaces/periods between.

So it’s kind of like using 5 characters from a much larger alphabet (the English dictionary) instead of 30 from a 26 letter alphabet.
It's simple really. I want to exist because I exist. I exist because I want to exist. This mutually recursive loop belies the bottom of everyone's motivations for everything. All wants and urges, from an evolutionary standpoint, stem from wanting to keep existing. Wanting to exist stems from already existing, as anything which exists without wanting to will readily lose out to those that do exist and want to. That's all "point" there is at the bottom of it all.

What's the point of extending our life? The same as the point of eating and breathing. I want to keep on existing.
will AI really need to watch the game or could it just listen to a television or radio broadcast?
I'm from Europe and New Mexico looks the most attractive to me.
to be blunt. I dont care. I dislike python, and i like ruby. I'm sure benchmarks will appear to tell us why ruby is slow, sucks, dead, etc. hell ycombinator is a hate club against ruby.

as per speed, ruby 3.2 is 10% faster than 3.1 on shopify infra.
I'm not an ML expert so can't tell how good any of these are but there seem to be enough ML-related stuff for Ruby.

There are a few tensorflow bindings for Ruby. There's torch.rb. There's numo, kinda like numpy. SciRuby lists a bunch of AI-related/numeric gems.

What I'm trying to say is there's no reason to expect Python parity because there's Python and no reason to divert the effort but ML is not quite non-existent in Ruby. Start using it and be the change you want to see in the world.
Thanks to the person who added an entry at PubPeer: https://pubpeer.com/publications/9DA34BEAEDF0BA0B99E515443DC...

Through PubPeer, many other scholars will become aware of this possible problem, and the book author gets the option to provide a reply
Nice idea, but it appears only a single program has been conserved so far?
> One of the problems in the third world is that thugs backed by local politicians can illegally take over your land.

That's not even limited to the third world. Source: Personal experience of owning farmland in a first world country, with a mining company operating nearby, while living elsewhere myself. The only mitigation is to get involved in local politics, and to play as dirty as the thugs do. Not something you can do from far away.

tl;dr: I'd be biased towards selling, after getting a couple of independent opinions on value.
to put it in a nutshell:

* self-hosted on a rented physical server-system running debian gnu-linux (stable)

* setup via ansible-roles

* using my own DNS-setup with isc-bind

* (open)ldap-directory (qmail-schema)

* exim4-ldap with my own configuration (not the distro-standard)

* spamassassin + clamav

* courier-imap

* roundcube for web-access

* gnu mailman ver 2.x

* letsencrypt for certificates

just my 0.02€

ps.: i'm doing this since the 2nd half of the 1990ties ... so i really know what i'm doing :))
The XKCD method was always aware of that, the point is that it's more entropy anyway.
20km is less than what he has left of charge. If the detour is earlier in the drive. He could have gone to a supercharger. If he gets stuck in a jam for hours, it makes no difference. The car hardly uses any power when standing still, it will heat the cabin but other than that it uses no power. I've tried this myself, I once got stuck in double digit cold for around an hour in a model 3 outside Hamar. It made no difference to my range.
> Twitter patched this in early 2022 so breach data is
2021 to 2022
I agree with you that all that stuff is off topic in a textbook about Lisp. Some off-topic material is necessary in order to connect the programming topic with the real world. Too much of it will just distract from the focus and add bulk to the page count.

That Fibonacci has a closed form it's completely irrelevant to teaching recursion as a programming technique. It could be mentioned in a small footnote giving some external reference. More relevant is the fact that the naive Fibonacci is terribly inefficient and can be vastly sped up by memoization. Even that is a problem that's not specific to the language and how to use recursion in that language. It has to do with using recursion well in any language, that belongs in an advanced chapter in a book which is not mainly about Lisp but about learning programming using Lisp.

Lisp already has a reputation for being scary, which is unfounded, but there it is. A Lisp book which goes into numerous mathematical rabbit holes will probably just contribute to that meme and have a discouraging effect.
Merry Chrysler, thank you HN. I hope I can be as positive an experience on someone else as others have been on me. It's hard to find such a high density of smart and experienced people in one community. I really appreciate having an environment that pushes to me constantly grow and continue learning new things.

To be clear, because humor gets lost sometimes, mispronouncing Christmas is a reference to this vine. There's nothing deeper, it's just funny to me.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_Z-Nu351j58
> I downloaded the popular rockyou.txt wordlist and put my actual vault master plaintext password inside

Note that is NOT a demonstration of being able to crack an encrypted LastPass vault. The author's exercise wouldn't be feasible without prior knowledge of the master password, or choosing a master password that is present in a list of common passwords. That is consist with what we have heard from LastPass so far.
These tools don’t obviate the need for skill in the domain, they are essentially excellent contextual search engines.

Having an en masse respected opt out from data collection on the internet is wishful thinking. Don’t expect that any time soon.
It is a shame that OpenAI charges a variable fee for using its API. Ideally I'd like to have a similar model running on my own server and have this tool pinging it instead.
Reverse engineering yet another eBook format
That's not happening here, it's quite peaceful compared to other poor country, we don't have cartels. I live in Madagascar full time, I will probably go back to France some day because my fiancee is French but not in the next 3 years for sure. Now way it's not worth more that $25K, yes you red that right. It hasn't produced anything yet.
My comment about CA being in the middle band assumes the states were divided into 5 quantiles, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantile, and that the upper (>=1.10%) and lower (<=-0.50%) quantiles are the extremes.
My general prediction is :

- next year will be a mixture of things continuing to happen as before, and completely unexpexted events (that will actually play out similarly than previous events, but from a while ago.)

- There will be strikes in France,

- coups in south America and / or Africa,

- very few plane crashes, an awful lot of car accidents

- and maybe a rocket malfunction.

- War in Russia will go on. (Apparently, half of all wars last more than a year :/ [1])

- A next wave from Belarus is almost a sure thing. Not sure why it would work better than last one.

- I don't know where it would make sense military wise for Russia to drop a tactical nuke. They will do if they find out.

- The first power cut in a major European country will change the game as far as public support goes.

- But gouvernements don't need public support to send weapons, they need industrial capability, so they will keep doing it.

- Also, famous people will die in January / February. (because babyboom + life expectancy + winter)

- Summer will be on average hotter than summers from the last decade.

- Except during my holidays, where it will rain cats and dogs.

- Finally, the year will end in December (high probability, high confidence)

[1] https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-does-it-end-what-past-wars...
> Twitter or Elon Musk if you are reading this you are already risking a GDPR fine over 5.4m breach imaging the fine of 400m users breach source
Your best option to avoid paying $276 million USD in GDPR breach fines like facebook did (due to 533m users being scraped) is to buy this data exclusively,
You're doing exactly what I was debating to do. I'll send you and e-mail. Thanks a lot.
How do you predict that it will end?
Me and my partner both gave each other a boardgame, unbeknownst to us that the other was also doing so. And a sibling gave us a boardgame as well.

We are in our 30's and have really never stopped playing boardgames with our friends. But I don't think there have been this many boardgame gifts underneath the tree since my childhood.
I believe you can hire organizational managers, as COOs, without sacrificing the founders as influencing CEOs though. When founders are forcefully replaced, the business loses its colors, its soul, and the source of its vision over time.
My view is that math is man made. It's a mash of notation for various ideas, more or less unambiguous, more or less rigorous. Some are more well designed than others. It's closer to natural language than programming languages.

Not every programming language has a concept of time. Sometimes that's a good thing, it depends on what you're used to.
Math arguably has less mutable state than most typical programing languages.
The English dictionary has about 170k-1M words, and taking the log_2 of that gives us about 16-20 bits of entropy per word. Depending on implementation, we have anywhere from 80 to 100 bits of security.

Even on the low end, it should take well over a decade if LastPass chose a good cryptographic hash function with a high iteration count.

The problem is that no average person is gonna use a password that long to begin with.
Is 10A common in Sweden? Around here, every basic socket is rated 230V 16A and even apartments typically have each phase 230V 25A. And then you can go to multiple phases.

(Funny thing, this is kind oversized for domestic applications and the driver behind it is that the law says you pay fee based on maximum amperage of your connection, so electricity companies refuse to install anything smaller than 25A and give everyone they can three-phase so they make more money.)

Also, how adapting to EVs is a huge pain but LITERALLY DESTROYING THE WORLD THROUGH CLIMATE CHANGE is not, I don't get it.
Isn’t this just obviously a result of the fact that there isn’t much literature on racism in China on the internet or academic papers?

This is not a reflection of openAI. This is a reflection of the failure of China to confront its own racism, and a reflection of the success of the U.S. to at least start the conversation on the racism within the US.

It’s fascinating to me that China’s failure to even acknowledge its issues is somehow being presented as “Oh no, WOKE IS TAKING OVER AND WHITE PEOPLE ARE BEING OPPRESSED”.
Recently a study evaluated one Canadian city's strong efforts to build housing. It was found that prices didn't go down because the builders colluded to build far less housing in the surrounding area, keeping overall supply down, and prices up. That's in their interest. The napkin solution is correct ... unless Marx is right about how elites behave.
What type and size of storage are you using for this ?
In anti-dumping, it’s protecting not the people. It’s protecting local market.

Goods at dumped prices will disrupt local markets and bankrupt local competitors. Then dumpers can raise prices way beyond initial prices to win jackpot. That when „the people“ loose. Local know-how is destroyed, industry ruined… and you end up paying a ton for imported goods.

Personally I don’t think TikTok is „better“. It’s more addictive and has a ton of marketing moneys pushing it forward. Should we not ban cocaine because the masses think it’s a great entertainment?
over the years people have done so much using Ruby and the other so called "dead languages", the new kids on the block will never do in a 20 or 30 years ahead.
Related reads are Seneca's On The Shortness Of Life (appropriately only about 100 pages) and maybe also Marcus Aurelius's Meditations.

These are recommendations from a philosophy newbie.
> But you know what I don't do? Freeze my ass off standing in a gas station in subzero temperatures and howling winds! Not missing that at all.

You have a garage. Those who don’t have a garage freeze their asses off in howling winds every second day while plugging the car into an outdoor charger.
I don't want to touch Python, and that's the problem. So it's just a wish.

But even if i love Python, the point is still: Make stronger ML support for Ruby.
That’s like gluing wheels onto the side of a horse to call it a horse car. Horses are still thriving to this day as a hobby but that doesn’t change the fact that cars ate their lunch. Board games are much the same but if you are going to add a digital component, meaning you have already embraced the cons of the digital format, why not just go all the way and play the vastly superior video games to get all of the benefits of the format?