skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BookWalker generally don't have exclusive rights to their books, so just buy from other place instead.

On books that they do have exclusivity, though, people are doing exactly that, OCR the book and recreate the EPUB.
I left CA for TX about a decade ago. I like the heat but it became unbearable. Worse yet, COVID and Trump made the people unbearable. (Doesn't matter which side you're on, everyone forgot their manners and won't shut up about things.)

We left after almost 10 years. We're in NH now. There are still people who won't stop talking about their personal politics but it's a lot fewer. There are signs during voting season but that's most of it. People here seem to be genuinely friendly and not Bless Your Heart "friendly."

I wouldn't go back to CA without a major change in the economics and I'd never go back to TX because it's just going to get hotter and people will likely just keep getting worse.
Buy high, sell low.
> I downloaded the popular rockyou.txt wordlist and put my actual vault master plaintext password inside (using a quarter of the wordlist), otherwise it would take 6 hours+ to crack.

I don't believe the 6 hours+ claim. (Or rather, the "+" is doing some serious lifting in that sentence.)

Looking at the password, it's of the correct-horse-battery-staple variety, which could be conservatively estimated at 44 bits of entropy (this is even ignoring the additional number appended to a random word) - which would take even the described "multi-gpu" setup with 2 million hashes a second just about 100 days to exhaust (or 50 days to have a 50% chance of getting it), let alone the 1000 hashes a second macbook the author was using.
This is especially true for NAS. And why you need BTRFS or preferably ZFS. Unfortunately none of the consumer NAS offers ZFS, and BTRFS is still not a default option. Neither Synology or Qnap seems to care.
Hasn’t tptacek said to avoid lastpass on here (in favor of 1Password) for the last ten years?

I don’t know if he ever got into the details of why (maybe he couldn’t for contract reasons or something), but his judgement on it looks accurate.

I’d be curious what his thoughts are, or if the risks he was talking about back then we’re unrelated.
"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." (1)

Can this war go on for many years at current intensity? No. Can it be sustained past the end of 2023? Maybe, maybe not. Can it continue to "slow burn" - possibly.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Stein#Stein's_Law
Thanks for sharing! Hadn’t heard Aviciis remix before.
Those 115F days are less rare now.
Are you familiar with sports? The billionaires made their money outside of it. Sports teams often don't make any profits at all.
This looks better in the app -> We're too inept to design a good mobile interface and/or we would like more of your data please.
Only 400M?
Why do people use AES-ECB? I keep seeing this when even the Wikipedia entries explain very well what’s wrong with it. It’s not like AES-CTR or even a decent block chained mode like CBC is hard to use.

Cryptographic libraries shouldn’t even expose it except in a subpackage or namespace called “hazmat.”
While numerous websites settled for a fixed width indeed (I think, this was mostly a US school of thinking), responsive designs were somewhat doable with table layouts. What you couldn't do was a general change of element order etc. (However, you could respond in JS using `document.write()` on first render.)

E.g. (this was a demo installation for a brandable horoscope service, not exactly 1999, but from 2000): https://www.masswerk.at/demo/easyphone/
1Password has had a phenomenal security story. This is Lastpass breach what, like #4?
> We do it all the time with North Korea.

Some food help is not comparable.

> I don't think the concession would be territory

If Russia "loses" Crimea, then it's an undeniable Russian fiasco and Putin has no way to claim the war as a success.

It sounds like a weird scenario where Russia threatens to use nukes and then leaves satisfied with no NATO membership. (worth reminding that this war wasn't about NATO at all)
I just logged in to delete my dormant free account – turns out I'm in a "Premium Trial" that I definitely never signed up for and never received any communication on. What happens when that runs out? No way to find out. And their UI hasn't improved a bit, they really try hard to be as unattractive as possible. Good riddance.
It feels kludgy and slow and unreliable to get what you want. That’s kind of like my 90s web experience.
Is that the inertial scrolling in the extension? I agree the scrolling could be smoother and is on my list to fix. I don't use scrolling much as I rely on fuzzy search hence it's not made the top of the list. Thanks a bunch for the feedback. Appreciate it!
> For instance, why do people hate Congress and love their phones? Obviously the answer is “Congress is bad and my phone is good,” but what’s actually happening in people’s heads when they say that?

Congress is a clique filled with old inside traders that hoard money like dragons while the phone is a device which enables me to even know about that. That's what's going in my head.
It's possible the person you were responding to deleted his/her comment, isolating your response.
This does not, of course, make any sense. Any given memory cell will be read once per, say, millisecond, and the value written back. Once it has flipped once, the wrong value will then be written back, and after that the wrong value is read back out and rewritten again, indefinitely. Errors are sticky, and accumulate. (Flipping back again is negligible unlikely.)

With ECC in the refresh path, such an error could be corrected and the right value would be overwritten over top of the bad one. Then errors would not accumulate, but would instead be "scrubbed". Mainframe machines scrub their RAM. Disks too.
I'm a southerner (not TX, but living in TN currently) and I really dream of making it to CA some day.

The south is cheaper for a reason, and CA is expensive for a reason. You get what you pay for. Red State governance is truly abysmal, the climate is terrible, and there is precious little BLM land to explore.

If enough people leave CA to reduce the price (or enough people move to the south to raise the price here) I'd gladly move to the west coast.
Of course not. I'm not saying we can have perfection. I'm saying that we can do much better, using methods and technologies that are very old at this point.

The reason why we don't is laziness and market segmentation, mostly.
Amazon has forked Chrome for "Silk Browser" on fire devices. Prime not required.
New York City pushing state to lower blood alcohol content threshold for DWI
I moved from lastpass to bitwarden about 2 years ago, then to self hosting vaultwarden about 6 months ago. Bitwarden wasn't as feature-full as lastpass at the time, but I liked it a lot. My father was using lastpass in the meantime and I saw it devolve into an unpleasant mess UX wise and these days, ignoring the elephant of the hack, am confident bitwarden is a much better experience overall compared to lastpass.
Well, they also said a framework machine, which has excellent Linux compatibility, especially for the commonly difficult hardware you list.
2 times 2 = 0 mod 4. Sorry for the markdown mess-up.
>how else are we going to keep up the image that we're on the side of the good guys?

Everything we are seeing and hearing from the people in the liberated areas seems to be working pretty well. I guess they bought into the narrative too.
Given that a four word password should have around 44 bits of entropy (according to the correct horse battery staple XKCD), that should take 2^44 hashes to exhaust, or 2^43 hashes to have a 50% chance of getting the password. 2^43 hashes / (1000 hashes per second) are about ~280 years. That's a big "+".
Right. I did get the feeling I was forgetting something. But as you say, it didn't feature the usual large-scale marches through Paris.
Technology:

Two seat fully self driving cars will become popular in Asia. They will arrive at your house with a dinner table loaded with Sushi and alcohol. They will be used for dating and business meetings rather than transportation.
No, we're robots.
Work is easy compared to parenting
What would you describe as a better tool? GUIs definitely aren’t it, as they can’t be composed together. APIs are great when they exist, but are often far too verbose for one-off tasks.

Relevant here, a GPT-powered shell throws away the repeatability and predictability that shells have. There’s nothing to say that a different random seed or a little more training data won’t change the interpretation of a task that was specified in the vagaries of natural language.
My prediction: Next year, GPT will make the best predictions.
Also the US-army.
I understand the justification for UBI from a labor perspective if all “mundane jobs” are automated, but where I haven’t heard convincing justification is on the more abstract “life purpose” side of things. What happens, regardless of UBI, if we move towards a system that provides little to no purpose in working towards anything, or at a basic level, working for a living at all? I know many friends and relatives who reached retirement and faced anxiety and depression due to lack of “a reason to get up in the morning” - it feels like UBI would introduce this problem at a larger scale, and I’m not convinced by the general “we’ll all just be artists” concept either…
1. Internet services become increasingly fractured. China bans more services. Then Russia joins in, with Middle-East following suit. US government gets jealous and so "Should US Ban TikTok?" becomes the New Thing that is talked about for a good part of 2023.

2. Ukraine fights on but cannot last forever against a country with a much larger population and, arguably, industry (capable of war). Tensions rise, but many governments drag feet out of fear of killing their already covid-striken economies.

3. Austerity in UK becomes the only solution as budgets with 30 billion pound black holes kind of can't exist. NHS collapse, that has been occuring for ~10-20 years, accellarates much faster. Productivity declines due to sicker population. Vicious cycle becomes apparent over next ~5 years as sicker workers -> lower productivity -> lower GDP -> worse healthcare -> sicker workers -> ... Will be blamed on brexit and/or "lazy people", as was the case ~10 years ago when "benefit fraudsters" became the new group that the UK government told everyone to hate'n'blame.

4. EV uptake misses the current jubilant expectations as the first-world eventually catches on to the absolutely dispicable atrocities occuring to mine {metal} (e.g. Cobalt, Tantalum, etc.) for {battery dependent thing}. EV companies employ FUD to divert blame. Perhaps ask government to help silence discussion, Twitter Files like?

5. Scalping (i.e. PC parts, etc.) will still be a problem (although not as bad) since there is literally every incentive for companies to not do anything about it. Many scalping services, scripts, github repos, etc., spawned from covid times, lowering the bar so Joe Bloggs can do it, spawning what will be an endless cat-and-mouse rat-race to the bottom until {something} happens.

6. Small-time logo designers and all related industry deflates as stable diffusion et al automates a good chunk of it, lowering the bar.

To end on lighter notes:

7. {new product} on Show HNs will still be dismissed by some as "simply achievable with rsync".

8. Work on nuclear fusion increases as it becomes less of a toy/pipe-dream and machine learning enables rapid progress and iteration.
The recommendations in this thread are really good so I’ll add just one more which is more of a card game:

Lost Cities by Kosmos (first edition, not sure about latest but seems like classic play is still supported: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/50/lost-cities)
Okay. The experiences (mine and others shared with me) that informed my post are still real.
Show HN: FancyWM (tiling WM for Windows) is now open source
" I lived as if she'd always be there. And in her typical quiet way she encouraged that illusion. But an illusion it was. I think a lot of people make the same mistake I did."

PG's writing style is excellent, conversational and clear expression of ideas.

Profoundly written.

Relentlessly pruning bullshit gets better with practice and age.
Average commenters on tech news sites dont know either. I went through an ars technica comment thread and 80% of the posters were assuming Mastodon is a for profit competitor to Twitter too.
deserved or not, there is shadowbanning in effect on hn. If you disagree with people enough, you'll end up on the list for offering counterpoints.

often it takes bravery to disagree with the crowd, and often only those who are most passionate have the guts to disagree.

The funning thing about HN is, we're all typing with our pinkies out, so you can disagree but if you dont do it with the utmost literary elegance and most bulletproof logic, it doesn't matter how right you were. Instead, what matters is that for a moment you stepped outside the parameters of gentility and your comments will be held for further review... forever.

Bravery and fact are not always intertwined, but you will nonetheless pay the price for your bravery. Don't be brave here unless you're confident in your abilities of presenting a point covertly.
Anecdotally, my brain is pretty wired for making plans. When I didn't have a house and security my plan was that. Every move I made was connected to those plans in some way.

When I got a house, I spent a bunch of money and it was during a recession, so my two adjacent plans then became derivative. I already have plans for when I'm secure, but they're mostly around optimizing for cost, efficiency, and reliability.

I used to not have a lot of money, and for a time, was stuck in the poor cycle. Plan making let me escape that thinking/action cycle.

Now, I don't think I'd be less happy without optimizations to my house unless they violated some ideal I had like living frugally. I was definitely unhappy watching my chances to get a house slip away but I turned that into some happiness by realizing that every time I walked away from a deal I had a little more money, which increased my odds of not only getting a house, but getting the exact one I wanted. By the time I bought a house I basically dictated the terms because I had cash in a recession.
I was expecting some joke around "there is no war in Russia, it's a special operation, yada yada". Then I reread myself and spotted the obvious mistake.

:facepalm:

(Although, technically, some parts of Ukraine are claimed by Russia, so... No ? Ok, no. Sorry.)
>For what?

For replacing humans at any old arbitrary thing. It doesn't matter how actually wrong the output is, it doesn't matter that language models aren't actually intelligent, what matters is that it outputs 60% of human quality at 1% of the cost and .01% of the time (and that's at this early stage of language-model-development). That'll be more than enough to speed its adoption by nearly everybody, but certainly by bad actors, who aren't bothered by the "plausible imitation but not actually intelligent" aspects. "Clickbait SEO copywriting", for instance.
A lot of cautious and/or negative predictions in this thread.

1. The UK rejoins the EU either literally or effectively (i.e. bound by basically the same agreements).

2. Russia withdraws from Ukraine and enters into good-faith talks about reparations for their invasion.

3. Twitter collapses.

4. Major new environmentally-friendly method of goods transportation discovered which is effectively a drop-in replacement for global shipping.

5. The trend towards renewable energy continues.
I think the catch is simply that the maintainers of OSM are difficult to work with if you’re Apple et al. They wanted a better governance model so they went and made one that they can live with.
Or... you could just actually read the Twitter files?

You clearly have no idea what's in them judging from your comment...
cant delete if someone has replied
* Inflation becomes endemic at 8-9% Interest rates rise to 6% by year end with no recession is sight.
* First Starship Launch, with successful first stage recovery
* Cannabis removed from schedule 1
* Ceasefire reached in Ukraine by year end
That's where 1password's security key helps because you need that for decryption. Apps will store it so you really only need it once when setting up a new phone/computer and you can transfer it from another via qr code, but if all you have is a vault dump, you're out of luck even if you phish the password (which should be easier than phishing the security key since it's used a lot and in muscle memory)
The original iPhone OS was developed on a separate team from the hardware one, and Jobs siloed them very heavily. It's possible the software team didn't know if they’d have a dedicated GPU. Correct me if I'm wrong though.
I still remember that tech journalist saying Mastodon would fail because he couldn't find William Shatner in 2017. To me, the lack of William Shatner is a feature.
> 4. Major new environmentally-friendly method of goods transportation discovered which is effectively a drop-in replacement for global shipping.

Fusion powered teleportation?
OK, here's a preliminary, hand-wavy, high-level summary of my understanding so far:

It seems we could repeatedly apply attention as an iterative update rule, feeding the output sequence as the new queries: new_Q = Attention(old_Q, K, V). Obviously, no one ever does that. But in theory we could, and apparently it would work just as well.

In self-attention, we apply dense layers to the input sequence to get K and V, so we can rewrite the update rule like this: new_Q = Attention(old_Q, input_seq). Internally, Attention would have to compute and cache K and V from input_seq. The input sequence is given and remains fixed, so we can rewrite the update rule again to make that explicit, like this: new_Q = Attention(old_Q | input_seq).

According to the preprint, everything the routing algorithm does can be written as an update rule U that looks just like that, except that the preprint calls the queries "x_out" and the input sequence "x_inp". Using their notation, the update rule looks like this (section 3.3 and appendix B): x_out <-- U(x_out | x_inp).

One more thing that seems important: In self-attention, we get the initial queries by applying a dense layer to the input sequence. In the routing algorithm, the initial queries come instead from the same update rule, U, by assuming all possible output states have equal probability. Interestingly, the code in the github repo executes only two updates by default: one to compute the initial queries, and another one to get updated queries, which are returned as the output sequence. This isn't too different from what we normally do with attention: first we compute the initial queries, and then we apply one update to get updated queries, which are returned as the output sequence.

EDITS: Many.
I think it's also that most of them write with investors in mind. In this case there's no investment angle.
Nothing to be shocked about… All of these devices are readily available in China, no questions asked. I would be surprised if Russians wouldn’t be able to source from China the critical electronics they need even today.

A few months ago, we were asked to help with sourcing an out-of-stock high-end SoC (Western-made) for an R&D project funded by a western government. Sure enough, one of our reliable Chinese sources had some in stock. However, there was a catch: QR codes on the devices were laser-etched.

At first, we were confused about why would anyone etch the QR codes from chips… Were they stolen? After all, we were talking about a device which costs a few grand a piece. Eventually we gave up on this source.

A month or so later, we were procuring a similar device from an authorised reseller, and we were asked to sign some paperwork confirming we will not export it to any of the “axis of evil” countries. And then it struck me: reason QR codes were laser-etched from those high-end SoCs was they were export-restricted and were not supposed to be in China in the first place.

There’s hardly anything exotic on those PCBs in that Twitter thread. I am sure a well-funded, sufficiently determined buyer would find plenty of places in China willing to fabricate these things without asking a single question.
I interpret "collapse" to mean "many people doing it full-time lose their jobs and the market price of the outputs drops significantly". In which case I agree with the assertion that collapse is coming soon, although having played with the tools quite a bit I'm not convinced on 2023. Definitely by the end of 2025.
Every economy enjoys a mixture of well educated visionaries and self-entitled idiots. Sadly I believe a bloody revolution would just result in different people in the same roles.
I drive a 1972 Toyota Conora in the winter of 1990. One time it stopped and I had to walk to school. I got there late with MY HAIR FROZEN. That was a huge pain. Using a few extra amp hours of green electricity for 3 months a year to charge my 2019 Zoe is not a huge pain.
It is not a dumb question at all. At Shopify we use chruby since it is lightweight and less opinionated. However, devs never really have to use chruby directly, since our in-house `dev` CLI tool can install the Ruby version any project at Shopify specifies and configure `shadowenv` to set the right env variables to use it.
Your quote includes the most significant part of the article "and put my actual vault master plaintext password inside".

He took a word list which did not include his password and put his actual password in the word list. He didn't crack his password, he showed that a brute force password guesser can find passwords that are in its word list. If he wanted to save six hours, he could have put it first in the password list. No news here.
> - would need a heated garage

Yes exactly why things like govts banning ICE vehicles in 2035 is unfair on poor people without homes.
Interestingly, they used 49.3 mostly to pass the budget, and they're now slightly more limited in how much they can use it for "regular" laws.

And even if they did not have to bypass parliament, there would be strike (source : the last 50 years or so ?)
The internet but with only privileged people, is it still the internet?
It's a side point, but the bit about the Dark Ages and the Enlightenment is wrong and I recommend looking for real history to read if you're interested.

Here is a thread about literacy in ancient Rome. Short answer is that it's complicated:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3huswa/how_l...
For me, 1password continues to work and improve on its features in a good way with biometric unlock support (Windows Hello, iOS/MacOS biometric unlock) and the SSH Agent is nice, so I use it and was paying the yearly subscription for it before my work started to give me a license for free. While it's my choice, I can see why most don't like 1password 8's subscription-only and cloud-only model (you effectively have to use 1password.com, can't store your vault on dropbox gdrive etc).