skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a passionate atheist, it was quite interesting to listen to the "no dumb question" podcast - a pretty down to earth priest (Matt Whitman) just chatting casually with a renowned engineer (Destin from "smarter every day").

The questions of faith and christianity often come up, but the most interesting episode for me was the one when Matt was telling about his travels to Jerusalem and how different the American version of christianity felt compared to the one practiced in the holly lands.

It's better to listen to it yourself of course but in brief his idea was that the closer you are to the "source" of christianity the more its old school, filled with pegan beliefs and the need for divine objects, miracles etc - concrete manifestations of the religion itself. And further out its more abstract - like your personal belief and values that don't depend on anything specific.

It was fascinating to me to discover how different and "realistic" christian faith in US can be, as it seems it has distilled the essence of the value system itself, shedding away the pageantry and mysticism and other unnecessary trappings, making it a lot stronger to my mind in the process. By this point I could easily see myself following the commandments and values, while not having a shred of faith in the religion itself, since they are quite nice and consistent system.

It's just a model to interpret and react to the world around us, and as the saying goes - all models are flawed and imprecise, some models are useful.
Unless much has changed since last century, which American college matters far more than what grades one got while there.
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I'm afraid to ask what you think are the better ways?

My assertion is that most risk of online fraud is a social, not a technical problem. As such, it will require law to make safe.
Why would they make the flywheel out of carbon fiber? Isn't carbon fiber supposed to be very lightweight? In a flywheel you would want a massive wheel.
thank you! I'll reach out.
Effective Neovim: Instant IDE
And what do you do when your key is broken or lost? Because that will happen.
It's not that easy, normally having function have a big avalanche factor - even one bit changes the whole hash. There are some malleable having algorithms but they're necessarily less secure.
If you're sending multiple hashes to check nobody is stopping the user from sending garbage, except their lack of JS/browser skill.

If you're sending the plaintext password, what are you doing using a hash? When your backend is compromised, attacker will just grab all the password when they're getting changed.
Apple Health already does this, with the backing of a company that both consumers and the medical industry trust. Everything else you've pitched is things that sound nice, but ultimately are not differentiators to decision makers.

Right now you have to ask yourself two questions: 1) what is a related problem that we can genuinely solve in a robust way that people are willing to pay to have solved, and 2) do you have enough runway in the bank to pivot?
> The CIA and FBI have checks on them and are balanced as we speak.

Haven’t the Twitter files proven unequivocally that is not true?

I agree that we should worry about both. I’m honestly unsure which of the two is a greater threat.
Nix on the Steam Deck
>the important thing is to have a (rigorous) definition for what 0.999... means

And a rigorous definition of what "=" means too, which is another important point.
Tesla shares tank after U.S. discounts doubled on key models
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The article is about public schools in the LAUSD.
I am frustrated by password managers auto-generating nonsense. It increases the friction in moving away from a specific manager and people essentially become locked out of accounts if they can't access their password manager. I imagine that leads to weaker passwords anyway for things like shared accounts. I like the encrypted sync between my devices but never use the suggested passwords.

Using TOTP 2FA should be the primary second factor enforced everywhere. If you use Aegis on android or Raivo for ios, you control your 2FA secrets and can make encrypted cloud backups. I can't see myself ever using YubiKeys or Passkeys because I don't want to worry about hardware failure. Additionally, the chrome/ios roll out of passkeys requires it to be associated with your Google/Apple account and is tied to your login. Google passkeys don't support linux and don't plan to.

Veracrypt is stable and replaced truecrypt for me years and years ago. I am not sure why bitlocker would be recommended over Veracrypt. For true full-disk encryption, I thought it was still best to use a BIOS/UEFI set password so the prompt happens before boot. My understanding is that this is independent of OS. From the last time I checked, bitlocker has slightly better OS integration, but veracrypt allows compatibility and decryption with linux. I like veracrypt for situations where I need things to be portable and able to be backed up in the cloud or need access across OSes. Is there a benefit in using bitlocker?

I like GitHub's push in this area. When ssh keys were first being forced for signing/authentication for commits, I was annoyed that I couldn't use passwords. But I realized that I was more annoyed about having to change my workflow, and it doesn't slow me down now that I've done it a few times.

https://xkcd.com/936/
Still not one meaningful photo of such a place though.

I don’t think you have an accurate idea how significantly more capable a Jeep Rubicon is. Agree to disagree.

Happy holidays!
Clips failing is a product of mechanical wear with minimal physical space available meaning any design is a forced tradeoff of clip lifetime vs battery capacity.

> cylindrical batteries are reliable

Uhhh. Phones and laptops didn't move away from cylindrical cells for fun and excitement. A cylindrical battery uses less than 80% of the available space, and as a byproduct necessarily has <80% of the capacity.

> What if batteries attached via small screws?

Then you're requiring tools to replace the batteries, so you aren't getting easily replaced batteries that seems to be what's on the table.

> A little strip on the top could contain the protection electronics and screws, and the strip could be standard across all battery sizes,

Not sure what you're saying here - it sounds like a single standardized power logic board that every manufacturer uses regardless of battery size? Seems like that would necessitate low end devices have a massively over provisioned control board.
>> So, yes, weight is a big deal.

Not if it costs more. It doesn't by definition cost less because it weighs less.
>not sure about password managers... especially in light of what is currently going on with lastpass.

i would counter with don't use cloud based password managers. i'd go so far as don't use cloud based anything, but that ship has sailed. i use a password manager, but do not use the cloud offerings of it. i can sync all of my devices to the same database, but yes i have to do it. >99% of people will prefer the convenience over security, so as a founding father once said, give them neither (or something like that).
Does the Babbage Engine run Doom?
Low energy could be many factors:

- Low sunlight could cause SAD (https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/seasonal-affe...)

- Depending on how you exercise, if you go very hard at the gym, you can start off with high energy when you start but as you build a routine and ramp up in intensity/volume, you will end up very tired

- Your cortisol levels could be high from working too much/boredom. I think a lot of people might be confusing depression with general boredom/overwork (https://health.clevelandclinic.org/effects-of-working-too-mu...) and often, a solution would be moderate exercise to increase dopamine production or planning going to some big event (I personally really look forward to electronic music festivals/events)

- Over/under weight can cause low energy. What's your diet like?

- Is your sleep optimal? You might have sleep apnea or some sleep conditions that you might want to look into

In general, I found when I was eating healthy, going to the gym moderately, and had an active healthy social life, my energy levels were mostly good compared to when I was working really hard, not really going out, and exercising. It's probably multi-faceted and you'll have to double check your assessment of you being tired as actually physically tired, or unmotivated/bored.
I personally know at least one person who had his Google account locked with no explanation.
I recently was looking into the possibility of finding a local tax prep service for the mess that is my taxes from 2020. I stumbled upon a website that was highly rated on Google and looked completely professional, so naturally I let my guard down a bit while browsing it. Before I knew it one of their navigation links in this otherwise professional looking site redirected me to some malware spewing porn site that probably would have downloaded and installed itself on my machine if I was not using uBlock Origin and on Mac. It's super easy to get tricked these days even when you are security conscious 95 percent of the time, it only takes that one 5 percent chance to go wrong.
At some point the buck stops. It might be when they are failing college classes. It might be when they can’t get into grad school. Or it might be their first job interview, or their first job.

Eventually someone who can’t read or add simple numbers just can’t succeed at a professional level. Schools can claim whatever they want, water down grades, eliminate standardized tests. Eventually reality hits. Once you send an email and it’s grammatically moronic and full of typos, the jig is up.
Qasarbeach – a Fairlight CMI IIx synth/sampler on steroids
>You'll see people say things like "0.999... approaches 1";

This is somewhat correct. At least it is the correct way to think.

A real number is an equivalence class of cauchy series. 0.999... is one representative of 1, as it is shorthand for the Cauchy series (0.9,0.99,0.999,...).
Technically you could tokenize and dictionary plus edit distance check the password in the client if you have the plaintext, or use malleable hashing. Check entropy while at it. Of course that will not stop a determined policy ignorant.

Requiring a plaintext password storage somewhere is an instant regulatory fail in ISO 27002 and PCI DSS standard. You can technically store the passwords encrypted, but attacker is liable to steal your salt/key, and protecting the passwords in transit strictly requires strong PKI. We know users cannot determine that anyway and get phished/MITMed.

Plus it's kind of mean. If your users are determined to ignore your policy, maybe it's a bad policy or you need to tell them to stop doing that.

Checking for x latest passwords requires just storing their hashes.
Better start with something like Ableton. Tons of tutorials on youtube and the interface makes it much more clear what is actually happening.

These trackers are built around the limitation of old computers, some people prefer working that way because that's how they started but I wouldn't bother with them as a beginner nowadays. Some DAWs like reason try to emulate a real studio with cables and all, simmilar to this pico-8 app, but again, if you never worked in a real studio why would you bother?

The only "real" classical music theory you need to know is Scales, the bigger chunk will be knowledge about digital audio production. Synthesizers, compressors, filters, ... that information is also plenty available on youtube.
At least Google's password manager is tied to your login, which should be a lot better protected and people wouldn't give away that password as easily.

You can always export your passwords, they're not locked into a password manager.
I get the emotional angle, but it's hard to disentangle the message from the underlying risk of getting attached to any kind of business; it will never love you back, and your community may as well be an accident.

Non or less commercial versions - diaryland, mastodon - will live on in relative obscurity since they prioritize users over growth, but maybe it's harder to find customers or patrons on those platforms.
I don't use a password manager and am not familiar with the math involved; I was going off your 10million number and the post above you's 300,000 iterations/sec.
“Zooming User Interface” article on Wikipedia is another overview of the history behind ZUI, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface
So his parents have a $250 million dollar home I guess. Or I am still confused. If they used their home then it must be worth $250 million. Or they borrowed $25 mil against it and got a bondsman. Somebody has to guaranty $250 mil to the court and it has to really exist or he would be sitting in jail.
It shouldn't matter as long as you don't reuse your password. If the site is hacked to the point where someone can inject javascript, I'd assume all of my data has already been compromised without logging in.
There are indeed private mailing lists, but (for obvious reasons) they're not very discoverable.
Glued in batteries can be replaced, and frequently are, and if nothing else refurbishing companies exist. Refurbishing fails however if there isn't any software support for the hardware, and that's what causes a phone to become e-waste.

The old school swappable batteries had batteries that died in negligible time and had to be discarded regularly, mechanical failure on the mounting bracket/clips to support the battery swap on the other hand send the device to the trash because they can't be fixed.
>And building from axioms is too verbose.

Ridicolous. You use previous results which were built up from axioms. The correct formal proof here is very short, it is just an appeal to the definition of equality for two real numbers.
GPT chat to the rescue!
Found a bug: sometimes, after completing a cycle of the deck, the top card will no longer be viewable. Can share a video if helpful.

Still can't figure out how to complete Tarot2 :(
What about those ads in the back of Fry's and Incredible Universe weeklies? $0 for 50 CD-RWs with mail-in rebate. Did that shit the second I got home.
HN skews the discussion - the vast majority of people are not buying a new phone a year, nor even every two.

Moreover even when people do replace a phone they tend to pass on the old one, not just throw it in the trash, but again, that's only possible if the phone is still usable.
You might be interested in the Dirtywave M8. If you don’t want to buy or wait for the actual hardware, you are able to install the software yourself and run it in headless mode.

https://dirtywave.com/

https://github.com/Dirtywave/M8HeadlessFirmware

You might also look at Pure Data and Max.

https://puredata.info/

https://cycling74.com/products/max

In terms of actually making music, I think that probably just comes with both practice and experimentation.
>where rigorous proofs are not possible.

Absurd.

>I know I can dig deeper all the way down to axioms if I choose so, but realistically there is not enough time for me to learn all of the underlying math.

So proofs are impossible because you refuse to learn math? What.
And, do I have agency to guarantee that they are fair to me?
What are you even talking about…
The Sherwin-Williams paint company likes to take the following credit:

'1939 Sherwin-Williams color consultant Harry Scheid recommended the well-known
“school-bus yellow” as the ideal color for buses for its high visibility.'

https://mb.cision.com/Public/4932/9915373/b6af8c5f4cd34662.p...
Yes, did exactly this.

People who say things like "you're putting your life on hold" have no discipline.

I set out on this path at 17. I'm 36 now. I have a wife, kids, have traveled a lot, lived in better houses than most of my peers, ate out plenty, etc.

Much living was had.

I left salary work at age 34 (FIRE).

What do I do now? Work harder than ever and play the long game, and of course continue to live a rich life.

To anyone considering saving and building wealth starting at an early age: yes, it's worth it. No, you don't have to "pause your life."

You will need discipline.
Now, everyone, think about how much worse the world would be if this was a lauded or primary way to think about "how to make software."

While I appreciate the self-motivation idea generally - this article does nothing for me except make me grateful for free and open source types of folks.

People should mostly just not do this.
Is it easier to guess the master keyword if some of the encrypted passwords are known to the attacker? Because on dozens of (previously hacked?) "unimportant" sites I still used a very week common password.
phishing?
It depends on the work. If you're writing a CRUD app then sure, it's easy to check out.

If you're building out new infrastructure, doing a huge refactor or stuck on a tricky problem then anyone that naturally cares about their work will have ideas moving around in their subconscious.

For me personally, I'm building my own software, so my asshole boss likes to push as hard as he can :D
This is a great approach.

I want to build a benevolent, kind, caring and nurturing AI that one can go to for learning, understanding and support in navigating this world and being human.

I want to dump key knowledge into it that I have been fortunate enough to discern during my lifetime and knowledge from others that I regard highly. Kind of like what characterai is doing, but highly fined tuned and customized.

What skills do I need to do this? What tech do I need to learn? What books, moocs, etc. or even just words to look into? Just looking to be pointed in the right direction, I’ll take care of the rest.

Definitely not trying to reinvent gpt3 or anything like that, but looking to leverage these tools and customize and fine tune them highly
I knows it’s becoming a bit of a meme now that modern software development is just rediscovering approaches from the 70s…

but it has really hit me recently how so many “indispensable” projects are just something that’s existed for decades re-written at a higher abstraction-level with a nicer UX.

I wish I had more classic Unix sysadmin experience. But unfortunately the gains are real, and I can’t justify investing time into learning the older tech (let’s say, using chroot instead of docker), when the newer is so much faster to learn, and has (comparative to modern hardware) such small overhead (if you’re not on MacOS :P)

I am excited about the rust-rewrite movement for shell though - precisely because it’s a chance to bring all the ux lessons we’ve learned in the last decades to cli-tools.

Stuff like charm.sh is super exciting.
I use Consent-O-Matic browser addon which automatically hides cookie banners and rejects them in the background.
Musk's saga is not even entertaining anymore. It is simply becoming sad:( I liked him more when he hung out in the Playboy Mansion - smoked cigars - and pretend he ran his companies.
Introduction to Locality-Sensitive Hashing (2018)
Deep Learning on Bad Time Series Data: Corrupt, Sparse, Irregular and Ugly
Immediate Mode Graphical User Interfaces (2005)
Not really. One of the local elementary schools put out a sandwich board every day that announced to the line of SUVs "Please Pull Foreword".

I don't think anyone ever noticed.
So I personally find ChatGPT to be a search engine. That's how I viewed it from the minute I used it.

It's not "smart" at all, it's just retrieving and collating information in a "relative" type of way and it has some extra ability to "remember" things.

The first time I started using it, I stopped using Google for a while.

The biggest gripe I have with chat GPT though is that I have to "trust" that ChatGPT is correct, like blindly trusting a colleague who thinks they know everything.
> So his parents have a $250 million dollar home I guess

No.

> Or I am still confused.

Yes, absolutely.

> If they used their home then it must be worth $250 million.

No.

> Or they borrowed $25 mil against it and got a bondsman.

Also, no.

> Somebody has to guaranty $250 mil to the court and it has to really exist or he would be sitting in jail.

Again, no.
Calories Burned Running: How Many Calories Burned Running?
Can you show me an example of an Expedia or Booking price that is cheaper than a rewards member price from the hotel brand’s official website? A specific major branded hotel, on a specific date, specific room type, where the price is less on OTA versus the official hotel brand website.

Note that it is free to be a member of a hotel rewards programs, and requires giving the hotel brand no additional information, so the rewards member price is the effective price for a hotel brand.
Yeah, as much as he disgusted me, it was really interesting watching him subvert the powers-that-be by defeating the Republican candidates one-by-one until he was the only one left, and then winning the general election largely because so many people really hated Hillary. What was sad was observing how, at the beginning of the primaries, most Republican voters seemed to hate him, and only a small core of extremists really liked him. But than after he was elected, the rank-and-file Republican voters all changed their opinions of him and became True Believers. It was an interesting exercise in group psychology I think.
That's the hope! :D :)))) <3 <3 :)
I'm not surprised. Software is an attractive hobby to the miserly because it requires little investment. And eventually those hobbies become careers.

If spending was our thing perhaps we'd have gotten into woodworking, or photography, or whatever it is that can take a good chunk of change to get into deeply instead.
Please don’t get me wrong but I wonder what is the use case for this. First of all this tries to solve a problem that has already been solved by the mobile device OS layer within IOS and Android and furthermore is only working for Android. Why should anyone use this?
> You perceive the government to be a bigger threat because of how you imagine you might exercise power, maybe you want to unionize, maybe you worry about police abuse, maybe you worry someone might take your guns, maybe you hate taxes. That misses the bigger picture... out of the following people, would you prefer them to be "compromised" by the CIA or by China? Soldier, Politician, Judge, CEO, Engineer, nuclear scientist, EPA regulator, Chief logistics officers, FCC employees, Bankers, etc.

> I think the answer is pretty obvious, but I'm open to an explanation of why it is not.

Who has the motive and opportunity to do things that screw over regular folks? It's a lot easier to think of cases where the CIA has something to gain by keeping someone in or out of jail who shouldn't be, or routing money or weapons somewhere they shouldn't be, than where China does. Low-level disruption would be a poor use of their assets that's not worth the risk. CIA employees have a lot more reason to be in zero-sum competition with regular Joes.
The best solution is to try to limit your search space. Amazon is fine if you know what you want, but it's terrible for browsing. If you do browse, at least limit to sold and shipped by Amazon, although they don't do very much curation.

Better to shop at a store that won't carry 2,000 very similar products. If you're buying tools, pick a home store, and you'll have a lot less choices than amazon in whatever tool you're looking for. It's possible to make an informed choice when you've got 4 cordless drills to choose from, it's not possible when there's hundreds. Even Walmart is a better browsing experience, although you have to carefully avoid their marketplace as well.
> enthralled

I never heard that word. Is that an euphemism for "corrupted"?