skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An early version of TBBS didn't require usernames and the passwords had to be unique over all accounts. If you signed up for a new account and selected a password someone else already had, it would tell you so. You could then use that password to login as the other user. Obviously that wasn't very secure but probably was created with a small number of closely affiliated people using the system in mind.
Headline is inaccurate (though it is the source headline, so it’s a Reuters inaccuracy). He said he will not sell more Tesla stock for the next year, and maybe not the subsequent year.
It’s the absolute best way to make sure all your passwords are insecure garbage.
How long before "Diet of Worms" means something different :-)

https://www.webmd.com/diet/health-benefits-mealworms
The Ripple Effects of Sam Bankman-Fried’s Legal Troubles
We had a credit reporting agency (big US one, suffered a large data breach a few years ago) try and insist that we require password expiration for our employees.

After pointing to the NIST standards (and two other references) saying that that reduced security and saying "we're not prepared to reduce our security" they backed off.
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I gave it up in my 40s a couple years ago. I can’t say I miss it. I certainly don’t miss the hangovers and the feeling that I was killing myself. I plan to never have a hangover again and that probably means never drinking again.

I thought I would miss the social aspect, but I don’t.
I’ve gone out with some friends and the places had mock tails or NA beer so it was just normal hanging out. Of course not being drunk I called it a night after an hour or so, but that’s probably sane and healthy.

The recent meta studies of the health effects of alcohol indicate that the health number of drinks per day is zero. Maybe you can have one or two a WEEK without negative health effects. Anyone who drinks more than that is needlessly lowering their lifespan and increasing risk of heart attack and cancer.
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Um, who has a quarter billion dollars to put up like that?

I cannot even mentally process an individual having that much "cash on hand" (money in checking account, etc.)

> The bond was secured by equity in his family home, and by the signatures of his parents and two other individuals with "considerable" assets

House can't be more than million or two. So Billionaires bailed him out? Wow. That's useful friends.
Wasm doesn't necessarily help if it's performance-critical because that comes with its own overhead. And the kernel component of ksmbd interacts with other parts of the kernel such as the vfs, sockets/rdma. If you had marshal all the objects into something safe before exposing them to a wasm sandbox (e.g. replacing pointers with some map keys) that'd increase the overhead further.
Expensive lifestyles are expensive because there’s more demand for them. Living a more desirable lifestyle and then retiring at the same time is still better is it not?
You tend to work for or around your hiring manager and that managers culture rather than the whole company.
If it can call a site, it can use ntfy.
The stated goal is often to help the more remote parts, even if it costs more to ship to a small town in Brittany than to Paris.
Not with TB specifically, but some years ago I was able to consistently crash both Windows and Linux by filling up the disk drive nearly to the brim, and then running various applications. It seems that not many programs consistently check disk writes for failures, or if they do, they don't shut down gracefully.
You should try running your dependencies on docker but ruby on the host machine.
Yeah, been messing with that a lot.
That was a really emotional and irrational way of saying "no, I don't have any evidence".
I have a good eyesight and still select 8 middle digits to make a verification contrast. Grouping is about memory, not eyesight.
I see Yandere Simulator got into the training dataset
Ninjas get No Love on ycombinator: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=realultimatepower.net
The idea that you can remove “harmful” person to person interactions by discouraging certain words is beyond naive. It’s as naive as the newspeak idea that removing certain words from a language will make it impossible for the population to revolt. People will simply make up new words or redefine current words to express what they want.

The “African American” phrase is a great example of this. Has using this phrase in any way reduced racism, police shootings, or any other harm? Of course not. Racism is in peoples mind. And no amount of word censorship will eliminate it. Racists will simply figure out how to work around the censorship. Using other words to express their hatred.

And non-racists will be in constant fear of accidentally saying anything that might be interpreted in some negative way. Making any interactions with outside groups a mine field. I personally feel like I am in a mine field talking to people of a different skin colour. Even though I am married to a person who is of a different skin colour from mine! It’s beyond crazy.
Playing the game is an important life skill. Go for that pile of money early. Compound interest over years means it can make the difference between just making ends meet for the rest of your life, and actually having something substantial to retire on. Apply to FAANG or whatever it is these days if you're smart enough. Prove you're smart enough by grinding leetcode and doing mock interviews. Don't faff about with homebrew game consoles or microcontroller things, things of that nature unless work demands it. Focus on GPGPU and open source FPGAs. Not quantum computing, though, it looks like that might be another time/money/energy sink like crypto. (Reconsider it if I'm proven wrong.)

Don't get distracted by the Lisp lotus-eaters. The future will be built on doing massive array-based computation as fast as possible, as parallel as possible, using as little power as possible.

Knuckle down and do the high-paying work early on, and possibilities will open up as to what game to play in your 30s, 40s, and beyond. Play the tech bohemian in your 20s, and you may find yourself struggling in later life.
Wow what a fascinating article and general subject! I was not aware there was active research around organs-on-a-chip nor the considerations for a balanced vaginal microbiome. From my perspective it seems the Theranos debacle was a relatively large setback for x-on-chip type devices but surely that could change as technology/research understandings improve.
Personalized medicine seems to be held as "the future" of health and at the least it's nice to see some examples of what this might look like. Presumably x-on-a-chip technologies enable greater diagnostic/testing capabilities in a minimally invasive way.
My former company required not to use one of the last 10 passwords. So every 3 months, employees did the 11-password dance, setting the password back to the original one.
Parsing LastPass’ data breach notice
agree with parent re: stitching together -- but also, someone's gotta program the API!
Oh, not sure I want an AI that can bring sharp tools near my soft flesh. Long-term future, please, don't need it yet that badly.
Oh god! I made the same mistake. I thought you just meant password reuse. Past password similarity?
That's literally impossible without plaintext passwords isn't it. That is insane.
Someone is out there building and maintaining the APIs
If the biz logic is about structured data storage and transformation, it belongs in the database.

If the biz logic relates to data validation (data types and data affinity), it belongs in the database (and probably should be checked elsewhere as well).

If it relates to data integrity and correctness (foreign keys, check constraints, uniqueness, cascade behavior, etc.), it belongs in the database.

If it relates to communication with external services (email, queues, file storage, HTML rendering, data compression, scheduling, lookups to 3rd-party APIs, pure computation, etc.), it very much does not belong in the database.

All of these are "business logic". All are important. Use the right tool for the job at hand. Set theory for the databases, general purpose computing for the app layer.
I agree. The original comment is bizarre, and espouses a black and white view of life. As a general rule, no young person realises how much age and circumstances will change their life. It is impossible to foresee. Every year of my life, something arrives out of the blue that was impossible to foresee and changes the direction of my life. And older people seem to forget their own circumstances in youth.
All the pollution was not a result of the administrative response. It was a really serious contamination event.

Deaths aren't the only way to classify a disaster.
Open source DevOps tool for Clojure(Script) developers
Yes it's not the best way to translate, and for some languages it won't make much sense since the word order is different, as in English to Japanese translation.

To say nothing of all the myriad nuances of language like context changing word meaning and colloquial meanings of words.

In the game Cyberpunk, when doing the inline translations between english and japanese it is actually swapping fully translated sentences out, so not word for word, the effect just looks similar.
You mean "why is software development a thing" there? Not sure what your point is...
There is a large world of programmers outside of the Web world.
The cost of production is irrelevant. The sale price is determined by the supply and demand on both sides (supply of the product, and supply of money available to pay for it).

A market like ISPs is subject to natural monopoly because of the physical nature of running wires to houses. A true free market would see any competitor free to run their own wires and offer a service, but we don't allow that. We kind of did in the early days of electricity when people just strung up wires wherever they liked. It led to a lot of people getting electrocuted.

If there is really a large margin available for a competitor to undercut, someone will find a way to do it. And, as predicted, people are with options like Starlink and 5G hotspots becoming viable.
I think we’re a good 10 years away from “read my codebase and add the feature my PM asked for.”
they've built all of the biggest hvdc systems in the world since 02010 and are building more all the time

prc has had 800 kilovolt uhvdc since 02010; 12 years later there still aren't any in europe, north america, africa, or australia, though a european company was the lead contractor on the 02010 project

but plausibly the answer is that transmission losses do eat them alive and they have to curtail pv output in the northwest because there isn't enough local demand
This is likely the best way to deal with the inertia exerted by antiquated requirements: Most (keyword being 'most') businesses tend to follow the rules laid out by authorities, so an appeal to authority works in this regard.
>dating the wrong person or praying to the wrong god

I must be really screwed since I did both at the same time

One more form of staring into the abyss is undertaking restoration of vintage equipment.

Not for the faint at heart either.
Expiring passwords are the bane of my existence when the period is short. I can live with changing a password once a year, but every three months is only encouraging me to pick weak passwords.

Why can I accept it? I constantly see colleagues sharing passwords and constantly have to say "please don't" when they try to share their password with me. While forcing people to change their passwords doesn't eliminate the underlying problem, it does limit the scope of the damage.
This story has nothing to do with the CCP.

In the US now, every story that has anything to do with China is reduced to "the CCP."

This is a story about a tech company abusing its access to user data to try to track down which of its employees were talking to journalists. This could be a story about a Chinese company, an American company, or a company from pretty much any country.
>I saw a senator taking about Jan 6@US Capital a few days ago. He was talking about the violence, and the 5 people who died there. Please find a list of the 5 people.

Ummm...ok?

- Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer as rioters tried to breach the House chamber.

- Kevin D. Greeson died of a heart attack, collapsing on the sidewalk west of the Capitol on Jan. 6.

- Rosanne Boyland appeared to have been crushed in a stampede of fellow rioters as they surged against the police.

- Benjamin Philips, the founder of a pro-Trump website called Trumparoo, died of a stroke.

- Officer Brian D. Sicknick of the Capitol Police, who was attacked by the mob, died on Jan. 7.

Any other low-IQ questions you would like easy-to-find answers to?
They can be used for pretty much anything that 3D models are used for.
You Americans have no idea what kinda monster the west and western companies created.

China is gonna eat the west alive. Sooner you guys wake up the better
I think this is very good advice for many programmers. I think a lot of programmers become stagnant in sone company because if the phenomena you describe.
I would just point out zero-knowledge proofs. Magically enough, no, that's not a necessary feature of blockchains.

Zcash allows an independent observer to verify that a transaction was authorized and completed. It does this without revealing (a) who the recipient was (b) who the sender was or (c) how much Zcash was sent.

Extending this idea to broader use cases: https://aztec.network/
I’m a small company and the problem with SAML is that it requires the “enterprise” plan for each app. Slack goes from 0 to $11.75/month/user, Miro goes from $8 to $16. Then you have to pay for Okta (Isn’t it $15/u/m?) For a 5-person business it’s $1185 difference + $900 for Okta, and that doesn’t make me SOC2 compliant (There is a bunch of other requirements, secure access to physical offices, logs, etc.).
> Recently someone started appending to a json field type over and over in our production database. And then on some queries, postgres crashed due to lack of memory. The fix was to remove the field and code that constantly appended to it, and do something else.

So your choices are doing something manifestly non-optimal in the database in violation of best practices or not use the database for non-trivial business logic?

Sounds like a false dichotomy to me. Maybe just find a better solution?

I mean, if someone writes an O(n^3) algorithm in Python, is the solution to use a better strategy or to swear off Python for anything non-trivial?
After all recommended approaches have been tried unsuccessfully, certainly the solution will be something that is not recommended.
Does this work in Preview (on Mac) or Notability (on iOS)?
Same experience here. I work my machine hard. It runs 24x7, hosts many sites, databases, Plex, and I do some pretty heavy development work on it daily. It pretty much "just works". The last time I had to routinely reinstall Windows was Windows XP. Ever since Windows 7 driver stability is significantly better. Despite all the bad press, the Windows 11 upgrade was smooth for me. Yes, the OS has some annoying features, but all in all it's been remarkably stable.
If you have a single DB instance in production, something has already gone wrong.

Read replicas.
The solution is simple: Tax land not income.
A few centuries. The biggest sea level rise will be at the end, the effect will be non linear. Long after we decarbonize, sea level will keep rising.
We’ll become diff revisers
One way to look at it that makes it clear CVS was deceptive: Nothing on the checkout screen donation message implied that a donation made there would differ from one made through other channels.

That ADA agreed to the terms does not make them any less deceptive.
I’ve never been a problem drinker (I never had behavioral problems when I drank) but it was killing me. I was drinking a significant amount every day and after a while I had a two week hangover. I think that was my body’s way of calling uncle. I didn’t need to see a doctor to know something was very, very wrong. I simply decided to stop, to never experience an hangover again. And that was it.

I just firmly and with certainty decided to stop. Alcoholics call it rock bottom but I think it’s just knowing that you don’t want to do it ever again. That certainly has been with me for years and I see no reason it should ever leave me.

Get there and you’re done.
To be clear, a tiny fraction of an investment bank works hours like that. Morgan Stanley has about 70,000 employees. I guess about 700 junior investment bankers (M&A, IPO, etc.) are working hours like that. And it only lasts for two years. And no one forces them to do it. People willing sign-up for the career fast track.

In 2022, who is working 100+ hr/wk in consulting? Doing what? The 1990s/2000s are over. Now, they are mostly milking big dumb corporations by building unnecessary, overpriced software systems. Probably magic circle junior lawyers are working much more than consultants they days, and making more money.

Also you wrote: <<These careers effectively force you to adopt the career as the core of your personality.>> Not true. Many people get lucky and are selected for a two year ibanking programme. They work like crazy for two years, learn a decade's worth of banking knowledge, then move on to a different role or career.
Hold up. I need some clarification here. SQL databases are opaque with regard to resource usage but Kafka is completely transparent in this regard? That is your personal experience and assertion?
As someone who can take it or leave it when it comes to alcohol I've made some interesting observations about alcohol and drinking culture!

I've found that for some its less about the alcohol and more about the ritual and the way it makes you feel. pouring that glass of wine after work or sipping the fancy cocktail before your meal in a restaurant.

It's the ritual people crave and having something unusual to taste. I find alcohol has very little to do with it and if your not able to switch your after work wine for low or non alcoholic I would guess there's a bigger problem there that is being self medicated by the numbing effects of alcohol!

I've never had anyone call me out for not drinking.

I'm able to stop drinking at any time, this includes half way or even two sips into a new drink. If I feel it's gone or going too far I stop. If someone insists on including me in the round after I've said no the drink doesn't get drunk. This was the hardest thing for me to learn but I've never been called out on it!

I also never drink if I'm in any form of bad mood and I won't drive if i've had even a sip of alcohol.

I'm lucky to be able to follow these 'rules' as I've gotten older I've found alcohol affects my blood sugar quite severely so it's a helpful incentive as it's very scary when it happens!

The non and low alcohol selections now are brilliant. enough variety to have that ritual or make a fancy mocktail! Best part is sipping on them during meetings during the summer!
This is wild and when you lay it out on terms of dollar amounts and percentages it really looks like a machine with graduate students coming in and administrative salaries coming out
> were they granted a legal monopoly?

Err, by "they" do you mean Apache, BHP, BP, Chevron, KufPec, Mitsubishi Motors, Mitsui & Co, Quadrant Energy, Santos, Shell and Woodside Energy ?

(ie Australian LNG producers)

and by "legal monopoloy" do you mean "A market structure characterized by a single seller" ?
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>words can be considered violent in some cases, for instance assault requires no physical contact

they can be considered assault under very specific circumstances but not violence, which has a meaning.

>but don't accuse me of a false equivalence when what I said was literally true.

your false equivelance is to equate the idea that some specific circumstances speech can be considered assault, therefore we must consider the idea that any words can be violence. it is on its face a false equivalence.

Similarly one can declare that buying illegal goods can be a crime in specific circumstances, therefore a list of which items to not buy in a grocery store might reasonably also stop you from committing crimes, right? So now we can restrict what you can purchase anywhere because we can imagine a tangential and unrelated situation where exchanging money for a good might be illegal.

And that is even a stronger case than one you made, because it at least says that illegal acts are illegal, rather than saying 'falls under the statute of assault in some jurisdictions' rather than actually arguing whether it is violence or not.

It's a ridiculous false equivalence

>Anyway, I can tell you are the type of person that even if you know you are standing on a bad position you will not back down, so I will go ahead and let you have the last word, which I am sure is going to be some kind of re-affirmation that it is my fault for making you act like this. Good day.

I'm not acting like anything. I'm merely using your 'logic' on you. if speech can be violence in any case because it might be assault in a specific case, your speech can be violence, and you might make me a victim with your utterances and false equivalence. In fact your speech itself might not matter - only my feeling of fear from hearing it.
Why invoke conspiracy, when normal stupidity and corruption will suffice?
It’s possible to gain social wisdom without alcohol.

Here’s one for free:
Surround yourself with people you like. Be the friend to them that you’d want for yourself.

That’s all the social wisdom you need.
Shift+Click to select a range is so second nature by now I don’t think it would have occurred to me to look for (or on the flip side, create) a dedicated “all” button.
> There is no way to tell if a password is strong since it may be reused.

Very good point. From that perspective any reported strength can be extremely misleading.

As far as bits go, this is where I get a bit lost. Calculating the number of bits only makes sense if the attacker knows what your character set is. Otherwise they will need to iterate over the full set of characters.

So a 20 character password of Xs and Ys is just as strong as a 20 character password with lowercase, uppercase, digits, and 10 symbols (72 options) as far as I can tell.

The other issue is, even if I have the entropy of the password I don’t know what “strong” really means. Presumably something like logarithm > some value, but that value also seems completely arbitrary.
I really enjoy that aspect of the visuals because it's like a tiny reflection of the kernel of cyberpunk (the genre, not the game).

Here you have a technology that would work in a way totally different to the way people assume... But someone put the effort into making it look like it does something else because the skeuomorphic expectations of the human makes that inaccurate representation feel more correct.

That gap between the way tech works and the way our perceptions and psychology drive us to assume it works is very real, and it underpins piles of tech we use everyday, from the icons for making calls and hanging up to whether browsers blank the screen when navigating to another site.
Exactly. Effective use of an ORM requires knowledge of the ORM's API in addition to SQL, not in lieu of it.

Using an ORM without a firm understanding of SQL is a recipe for disaster (or at least glacial performance).
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut
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The use of the word "ripple" is apt. The XRP issuer is getting sued by the SEC. Why is it these folks do not want to comply with the laws that were created to protect investors. SEC has given them every opportunity to do so.
It's irrational to expect "ex" government agents and spies to still pursue that government's agendas? You are confusing rationality with naivete.