skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Agreed, it was a bit disappointing to get to the part where the password was added to the word list.

Why is that disappointing? It is a proof of concept, rather than evidence that it has already been done. Sure, it is not novel and perhaps it is overstated, but it does point out that attacks are already possible. It would also be interesting to see the results of a dictionary attack to see if the behaviour of people who use password managers is any better than the population as a whole.
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No, only Taibbi is. I think there’s a third guy but can’t say I know anything about him.

But this is something in the real world, not a logic puzzle, and unfortunately in the real world you actually do need to consider the context of everything using all available information. I mean, you going “this guy is just coincidentally a sex offender” is not the common man on the street’s response, and most journalists are literally not sex offenders.

I don’t know what Elon is doing. He’s of course extremely compromised by multiple governments, I mean he owns SpaceX and a Chinese Tesla factory, and Saudi Arabia (who’s planted spies at Twitter before) is a major investor now. I also suspect Elon doesn’t know what he’s doing, though.
In a weird way, maybe this is good. The only reason I learned what autorun.ini does, or what VB is, is because I used them to get around the school's network controls. Kids today will figure out how to enable developer mode, un-enroll their chromebooks, and play the dinosaur game. A world without challenges is a world without ingenuity.
Everytime someone posts the correct fact that average lifespan has drastically increased in the past century someone will wrongly claim that it is only because we got better at lowering child morbidity. They might even link to the garbage BBC article that only looks at data for rich privileged people who did indeed live long lives centuries ago. However the rich and privileged of old times were not representative of the general population.

Why do people so aggressively deny that things have been getting better in the past 100 years?
Well, you've got to do the experiment. Move to a major European city center, with kids, without a car, and see how you like it. I tried this in Berlin, and it was quite good! Getting around on the U-Bahn with kids is so nice. You get to hang out with your kids as you travel! Having a free, walkable Kita (daycare/school) is incredible. Being able to walk to useful things like groceries, or a coffee shop, was great. Also, in Berlin they have some of the best playgrounds, and lots of them! Plus on "going out nights" you can get anywhere and back and never worry about finding a designated driver.

But yeah, would I try this in downtown LA? No, never. (Although you could argue that LA is weird because it's neighborhoods are like suburbs. Would I try this in k-town? No. You need a car, for everything.) Of course I have to admit that there is some circularity with the LA situation - no-one wants to live in the city center, so only the destitute live there, which makes it less desirable. In many places in the world, this situation doesn't apply. Would I try it in Manhattan? Maybe.
I'll admit, I don't have a ton of experience with rpm- I've generally avoided it since I had to help a client deploy a website on I think CentOS, and the available packages for imagick, language X, and language-X-imagick bindings were all three incompatible with each other. Not a great excuse, but I since lean towards other distros and tools.

In that sense, I alone have lost more time to rpm than the entire world has with nix sha256 collisions.
I think you're taking a humorous tone[0] too literally. The poster you answer to was saying that they think the biblical stories are myths/legends.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understatement
Donald Knuth’s Christmas Lecture (2022) [video]
ruby-install and chruby is the dead simple way to go IMO
This is flat-out wrong. UBI isn't universal if you only get $50,000 UBI after earning $50,000.

This is a situation where your net tax is 50%, and marginal tax on work is still 100%.
They said 2023 not 2032.
How cash strapped?

Personally, I would just use something managed like AWS's RDS for PostgreSQL

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/

Then you don't need to worry too much about administrative tasks. As a bonus, you can start out small and easily scale as you grow, versus self-managed.

It doesn't have to be AWS. You can find similar offerings from pretty much any cloud provider.
In my opinion, 1password is definitely more secure. 1password generates a key when registering which you cannot restore. So not only an attacker need to know your password, they also have to know the generated sequence. This is helpful for people who tend to use easy to break passwords.

1pasaword is not perfect, but it’s far better than lastpass
The media will cover Mastadon when there’s an event to cover. It has existed for six years, so far there’s not a mass exodus from Twitter, so what’s the news the author is expecting? It seems like the author wants journalists to write promotion for a platform that won’t pay for coverage and where there’s no news to cover. That’s not how it works.
Also regardless what people say votes ARE being bot manipulated if you criticize the right power-posters. There's a list so far of a small handful of people, with an associated range of downvotes that will be incurred all at once as soon as the author notices.

Initially I thought I was thinking too highly of myself, but when a 30 minute pause happens in someone's post history, and then shortly after their scathing rebuttal graces my reply the predicted downvotes arrive in short fashion within a small window of time. I saw it, I suspected it, I tested it. It's pointless to report 'thought leaders', without them here, and without their patronage of YC, a lot of followers would just follow them where they go.

I would not be surprised if some of these 'power posters' have been given light moderation privileges.
Separate your work and personal data, including passwords. That way if you ever leave the job it's and simple as leaving the password manager entity and not having to clean out your personal bank of passwords.
It’s a fair theory but given the long track record of proven insider trading, their connections to people with insider information, and their repeated refusal to enact prohibitions on insider trading (it is in fact perfectly legal, despite efforts to apply the same rules that everyone else plays by), I think there is a lot of evidence for systemic corruption and against “they’re just better investors”.
Interesting, thanks. I did look it up after writing the comment and it appears that I’m not the only one getting BBS vibes. I do wonder how much the ability to post images changes the culture and if a text only for everyone social network could be an alternative.
I think thing the biggest threat to mastodon will be the “mods” and “admins.” It’s a matter of when, not if there will be drama and it’ll be interesting to see how that is handled.

A lot of subreddits went so far as to make a bot that will ban users for posting on other subreddits. With mastodon that’s more or less “built-in.”

You’re right though. Social media in general seems to be going downhill. Can’t really put my finger on “why” but “uninteresting” being a word I wouldn’t disagree with.
Yeah, Blindsight is great in many ways but the aliens aren't really the centerpiece. Once they get too alien you just get noise.

As it happens, I recently inventoried my favorite aliens and eliminated the ones that were too humanized and also not understandable to people. I might be missing something obvious, but the one that sticks in my mind 2 years after I read it is:

Pandora's Star
Read books by Gary Provost on writing. Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark. Draft number 4 by McPhee. They contain a variety of ideas. Writing Tools is great if you want to identify and drill techniques. Provost's books cover everything and are written well.
>BleepingComputer has found that the option is baked into the general protection feature of the browser extension, so when the extension is active, all Google prompts are blocked automatically.

pop-up modal blocking becomes a standout "protection feature" when duckduckgo buys a big native ad to make this seem newsworthy
OK, but that's in ZFC. You don't have to do things that way. Not everything needs to be an encoding of a thing. Sometimes we want a thing to be the actual thing.

You're very dogmatic about what people should accept from a foundation. You seem happy to accept an approach that has very little to say about practice, which is certainly an opinion, but not universally held.

There is a point of view that foundations should reflect and inform practice - or maybe even challenge practice - and are not just there to make you feel more comfortable philosophically.
I think you should apply the same criticism and context to your own posts, which literally consist of trying to link information to sex crime in order to attempt to change the conversation.
I could see password reuse being used as a reason for trying brute force/dictionary attacks. E.g. You see that a user has used the same password on Coinbase as X, which could indicate that the user isn't using randomly generated passwords and therefore be potentially vulnerable to such attacks.

Kind of a long shot though.
> The economy is more resilient…

Sure, but OP said “continues to decline”, not “completely collapses.”
My supposition has been that, absent Apple to throw their weight behind the iPhone, someone would have created a pure touchscreen device (Android had one such concept under development IIRC) but it would have failed because it would have been just one phone among many, gathering dust at retail stores.

Apple bet the farm on one phone, had the built-in fan base to leverage, and the resources to make it work well from day one.
- GPT-4 launches

- US barely avoids recession, slow growth for H1, back to normal H2. NBER announces no recession in 2022.

- Inflation normalizes at 4%, Fed pivots despite prior denials. Market trades sideways to slightly higher by EOY 2023.

- Robotaxis become common in 10 cities around the southwest between the top ~4 competitors, but revenues are lower than expected.

- Continued consolidation amongst the AV component suppliers

- DeSantis, Pence, Christie, Hutchinson, Hogan enter the Presidential race. DeSantis ends up being weaker than expected, and is in a close #2 with Trump by the end of the year against a split field.

- Trump recovers in GOP primary polls after DOJ indictment

- Biden announces re-election bid, met with token opposition from Nina Turner

- McCarthy narrowly wins speakership, House investigations end up a dud.

- Another fusion breakthrough (higher Q than expected) EOY 2023

- Tech job market normalizes at 2018 levels instead of 2021 levels in the second half of 2023.
I can see your post and I'm just some random logged-in user so you're probably fine on the shadowbanning front.

AFAICT a lot of posters here are pretty skeptical of contemporary google for all sorts of reasons. I know I am, and my job these days is primarily Android app development. The days of "Don't be Evil" are long over literally and figuratively.

I'm sure there are lots of fine people working at Google, but its a giant company that exists primarily to stuff ads in your face at the highest rate you will tolerate and collect data on you for the same purpose so its not too surprising that there's going to be some ethically dubious goings-on as well and even when you get past that its hard to root for a company that has such a long history of taking well-regarded projects, developed either internally or acquired, and just unceremoniously killing them off right after you start to depend on them.

I have no knowledge of the incident you're talking about but I suspect whatever warning you got was more to do with talking "incessantly" (your words) about the specific issue rather than the issue itself. At a certain point even completely valid complaining can come off as spamming if you force-inject it into any semi-related topic, though I also understand wanting to shout from the rafters when you feel like you've been personally wronged by a large, well-known entity.
Seems fitting that Krebs got doxxed given he punitively did that to some other people he suspected of hacking (iirc). Really unfortunate about everyone else though, that sucks.
> Also harmful for teachers that are trying to keep their students focused, not playing games

I really regret the number of things we're allowed to casually refer to as "harm". That word used to be significant to me but now carries very little weight, manifesting instead as inconvenience, frustration, or, in this case, distraction.
If TikTok was banned that’d be disappointing. I don’t expect it to be; the plan where Oracle bought it was better. It is a problem that China influences it.

I don’t think the EU is capable of making a popular social media site either unfortunately. They don’t have the culture.

Twitter does have blatant Chinese propaganda up, like their wolf warrior diplomats and Chen Weihua, which is another good sign for what they’re allowing elsewhere. Maybe that’s just because Chen is so incompetent it’s funny to let him post…
Show HN: I wrote a book about how to get into relaxation mindset
Its a short book and talks about below.

Part 1) Understanding raw perception
Part 2) Learning from children - perception
Part 3) Learning from children - behavior
Part 4) Being better adults?
Part 5) An altered state of being
Part 6) Life story - the map is not the territory
Part 7) Tuning down your storywork
Part 8) More issues with perception prediction
Part 9) How we interact with spaces
Part 10) How we feel in the body
Part 11) Exploring depths and breadths
Part 12) Self Talk

This is my very first book so please provide feedback if you get chance to read it. thank you.

Excerpt -
Let's do an experiment. Imagine a piece of paper. You can pause and try this right now - just imagine a piece of paper - then continue reading further.

Did you imagine a piece of paper that was white? rectangular? approximately a4 size? That's what most people do.

Now, why did you imagine white and not red or yellow or multicolored or transparent? Why rectangular and not elliptical or circular or hexagonal? Why normal size and not a paper that is microscopic or paper the size of the earth?

Something common about these choices was that they were done subconsciously, kind of automatically, and you didn't consciously choose the properties of paper.

The subconscious mind does this automatically, if nobody makes a conscious choice.

For example, if the original question was 'imagine a red piece of paper', then the choice was consciously made by someone, and then you would have imagined a red piece of paper.

Or if you had stopped for a minute, given it some conscious thought and made a creative decision, you would have chosen maybe a blue piece of paper or some other color, who knows.

Rule 1 - When you don't make choices consciously, your subconscious mind makes some choices for you, without your involvement.
June is gay pride month, which is when you will have the most large events. Need big numbers to hit 30+
> What hope does an average site have if a simple tweet requires MegaBytes of JS and seconds to interactivity?

But dev deploying that abomination spent whole days less by just including random shit instead of understand the problems they solve! That's investor value!
Users will pay instead of the FBI. At least that’s one interpretation.
Sometimes things happen unexpectedly fast, who knows.
> he certainly does not love the bad numbers (Tesla stock also went DOWN as well) and that the quite meaningless poll whether he should step down, was not in his favor.

The poll was just for show, and it was in his favour. The plan was always for him to be interim CEO, with reports going back throughout this year all the way to May about this. He keeps doing this – putting up polls where he’s already made the decision and knows the vote will just confirm it. Why do people keep falling for it?
A lot of things are cheaper when you have the RSA, but granted, it’s mostly leisure and optional things (museums, cinema, holidays at ucpa.com, etc). (ucpa.com is an excellent sports camp address for 18-40, by the way).
- Tech jobs at FAANG no longer look attractive or stable. Google hits the final nail in the coffin (not necessarily involving the layoffs)

- The age of smart assistants is over

- Microsoft will make a huge mistake involving Windows -> governments and companies start making concrete transition to MacOS and Linux desktop (start in late 2023)

- The all of above leads to a revolution of smaller companies, their boom, innovation, and culture which more resemble 90s than 2020s.

- Emergence of a new UI (non-smartphone/desktop/voice/VR)

- Countries start to move away from the fossil fuels for generating electricity. New nuclear revolution.

- New major Internet fragmentation
> No -- as any product or marketing manager could tell you, it is the onboarding.

Agreed. Onboarding is the main control of the boundary. The boundary (whether in a cell, in a community, in a company, in a fandom, etc) it controls what is "in" and "out", self and non-self.

Onboarding is the cell membrane of community. If you fail to onboard effectively, you are a different creature :)
It's not nothing, and it's weird to be strident about it, but the obvious problem here is the offline cracking of the vault passwords; this isn't worth arguing about.
> We will find mechanisms to cope of course

One coping mechanism is double-checking to see if a primary source really does say what a secondary source claims. We don't need to wait for AIs to fail this test; wetware-generated text already often does.

(eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34128199

in a truly adversarial environment, of course, someone will be spamming alternative versions of primary datasets. and in this case I suspect we've already lost, because it is unusual for wetware to fake data in ways that pass statistical tests, but being statistically plausible could be routine for machine-faked data)

[Edit: Upon reflection, replication is the (expensive!) countermeasure for possibly-faked datasets]
I don’t see how it ends without genocide of one form or another. Whoever wins is going to kill a bunch (more) people.
They clearly haven’t read the HN comments about Ruby
rent and electricity both bounced for me this month. as i spend christmas alone, i had some paté and instant cake mix for christmas eve lol.
Are you under the impression that it is illegal for members of Congress to engage in insider trading, so therefore the absence of prosecution proves it is not a frequent occurrence?

The laws are literally different for them: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/it-illegal-lawmake...
Enrollments for all History classes combined rises at least in the double digit percentage as a US national average. At least 50% of those that increased the enrollments will be double majors.

I think ChatGPT is going to allow a lot of STEM majors to try out a double major/minor in the Humanities. This is assuming that ChatGPT remains cheaper to use than the cost of a textbook.
London is resilient. The rest of the country will continue its long decline.
> - More gentleman layoffs at Google

more in addition to what?
> There's nothing about being a Congressperson that lends itself better to the kinds of knowledge or intelligence that would increase the chances of betting well on the stock market

How do you know that? Their outcomes indicate otherwise.

They're clearly in some regards quite exceptional people.
There are larger market segments, such as Alzheimer’s, that have consumed billions of D&D dollars. So yeah, there are other ways to make $billion if the blockbusters hit. Humera as I recall was 1-2 bil/quarter back in the 00’s. Big bucks in that industry and the trend now seems to be biologics which can be tailored more specifically than small molecule drugs.
The thing with content farms is a lot of the listicles etc. trade in currency, e.g. the best five blah-blahs of 2023. In general, that's not the sort of thing that generative AI is really set up for today. That will come as will rewriting press releases with some additional context. But, as you say, major impacts are probably later this decade as opposed to 2023 which will still be in the curiosity phase.
invest in decarbonization movement
> For compute - a single Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) t4g.small instance running Mastodon, it’s PostgresSQL database, and Redis.

its
https://archive.ph/jQYlg
I really don't think Dave Ramsey is a good source of information for very many people. The debt snowball method is the best example of this. There's no reason anyone should be employing that strategy unless they just need the mental satisfaction of paying off "a debt" to get on the right headspace to pay off the rest.
A buddhist monk recommends reading D-tier detective books to drill patience and contemplation for others.

Quite the exercise it is.
> "I for one welcome our new X overlords" ... This quote began back in 1905 with H.G. Wells' short story "Empire of the Ants" and has taken on a life of its own, as shown in this Simpsons clip.

I never knew that. I always assumed it started with a line from Half-life 2.
I think they meant they are following the activity on this comment. More common on sites like reddit where commenting gives you notifications on a thread.
I think so, although it’s hard to define what happy means.
> Twitter does have blatant Chinese propaganda up

Isn’t Twitter blocked in China? Do wolf warriors not see any hypocrisy in using it?
> I described what is supposed to happen,

Not very relevant to those for whom it doesn’t.

> and what happens most of the time.

This blithely elides the possibility that it’s not random who it happens for and who it doesn’t.

Have you considered that there are those for whom it happens most of the time, and those for whom it doesn’t.
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I hope there are efforts for the Ukrainian government to sequence the DNA of families missing children, digitizing those records, and storing them redundantly and durably to maximize the chance of locating and reuniting these children with their families in the future.
I think they’re going to blow their wad trying to take down a currently obscure debut novelist. They won’t do anything stupidly illegal because he isn’t actually that important to them, but the minor scandal will expose a few threads that the world will pull upon…

Y Combinator might not actually “go SBF” till mid year 2024 but they will start in 23… and out of sheer pettiness.
There is a do not call me register here in Belgium. Not using this list and calling someone on the list, results in heavy fines.
Throttle house did a video on this car over the summer: https://youtu.be/1uqgHZxBE8A
It's my opinion that in a nuclear Armageddon, it wouldn't just be a free-for-all for every nuke to be let fly at every country currently at odds with each other. For example, if Russia and US trade nukes, I wouldn't expect all other WMD wielding country to just start attacking every country they're in poor standing with.

For Australia in particular, we don't have nukes so we shouldn't be on anyone's Mutually Assured Destruction ledger, and if not that then it would be an opportunistic nuke, the purpose of which I can't fathom. It would be better to take Australia by conventional means and keep the infrastructure in tact, since without our allies we have very little defense.
I am writing a book I intend to release commercially, and a good sized one at that (likely 1,500 pages+). I am absolutely stubbornly determined to release it as both print and DRM-free PDF.

It'll get pirated anyway (if anybody cares enough to do so), so why bother punishing paying customers?