skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're saying that Swiss-based Protonmail is worse for privacy than Australian-based fastmail?

I'm claiming that neither of them are good for privacy. As a sibling wrote so well: "encrypted email just isn’t a thing. The minute you send a message to someone else it’s out in the wild."

I have zero interest in my email being encrypted or protected or anonymous. So ProtonMail's value proposition is meaningless to me. But the fact that ProtonMail masquerades and markets their email as private and encrypted is the problem. They're subject to subpoenas, just like everyone else, and if they are going to market their service as private, encrypted, or anonymous, then they are misleading at best and lying at worst:

https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-addre...

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/05/how-protonmail-lost-th...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/8ww4h2/comment/e...

Lots of other interesting dirt if you do some basic google searches.

So I chose Fastmail because of their honesty. I know what I'm getting. Their prices are great, apps are great, web interface is great. They've been around since 1999 -- longer than Gmail. I used their free tier first then moved to paid with a custom name some time ago. Clearly they're not going anywhere. I'm not sure what else you can ask for in an email provider?
Did the economy benefit over $10B from allowing voip calls to spoof numbers? I feel like dropping that ability would be a net win - would be much harder to spoof the elderly with a scam coming from a clearly foreign number
I have no idea why the sibling comment would be dead.

With the exponentially accelerating relevance of ML/AI and compute resources even for casual users (see DLSS and RTX), NVIDIA really doesn't have any meaningful competition on multiple axes in the GPU space.

So they don't really need to collude with anyone to fix the prices, they can just raise them.
Would like to see some more use cases illustrated in the marketing page besides "tell people I'm busy until later for coffee meetups."

Most emails I exchange at work are questions to me about specific information or asking me to make specific decisions, or responses from others to specific questions I have posed to them. I don't think this tool could be used for that, unless it had some integration into my calendar and my notes to be able to, for example, suggest a specific time for a meeting, or try to find an answer to a question from somewhere in my notes.
When I was young, I had a few scratched PS2 games that wouldn't play. Some advice on the internet was to put toothpaste on the CD, gently rub it in small circular motions around the CD with a paper towel, then rinse it off. Perhaps I'm misremembering, but I remember being surprised it worked for most of them.

It might've been specific to PS2 games and whatever material they were made of and/or how they were pressed, so I wouldn't recommend it as general advice. This thread just reminded me of it.
Personally I like Vim because I do a lot of coding while in an SSH session and it's easy to port my setup very quickly. My work involves using a workstation with a GPU so I am not able to do that at home, and debugging requires me to run things from command line a lot to know what to change in the code. No doubt I could create a set up with a fancier IDE to do that, but at the scale I'm working in (academic code with just 1000s of lines of code) there is really no need.
Learn how to encrypt and decrypt sensitive data
I don't follow really. You are comparing $10 to what? I can't think about a lot of countries with 'paid' childbirth. Also while childbirth falls under the health care I wouldn't think about it if asked. Also, lumping parking there? Why? In the poor country I'm originally from ambulance riding is free, and yes, one additional person can ride it too.
I would think about illness treating first and foremost if asked about health care. Your comment is just sad to me.
> If Russia can hack SpaceX's systems and divert them to ensure they do not provide service over Ukraine, why wouldn't they?

That didn't happen as far as I know.

> Or brick all terminals by sending a malicious update?

That didn't happen either.

> Similarly, dealing with electromagnetic interference.

For which there is no evidence at all, in fact the only reason Starlink ever suffered an outage was for reasons which had nothing to do with the Russians.

> Thinking Russia is completely benign would be an incredibly naive take. Or simply blinded by Musk hate.

No, I'm totally not thinking that Russia is 'completely benign', and I'm sure they'd love to do all of those things and more. But without any evidence that it is actually happening it is as far as I'm concerned fantasy.

> This experience has allowed them to launch "Starshield", but it definitely has not been cheap.

So what?

Really, I can't make heads or tails of your comment, that's probably on me though.
> be weary
I've seen this mistake three or four times recently, and it's starting to make me wonder why I keep seeing it so often now, when I didn't before. "Wary" (like "beware") means "cautious"; "weary" (like to "wear" someone out) means "tired."
Having the first living thing in orbit survive for a week vs. a few hours makes a pretty big impact on the perception of your new space program. "Total success, now we just have to figure out re-entry" vs. "failure, our spacecraft cannot sustain life yet".
This was far more interesting than expected. Title more appropriately "illegal and/or useful".

This talks about power. I'd also like to read one about all the possible data and video usages and gotchas.
Not just Tesla, all the major tech stocks are sliding real fast. Not sure what changed in the last 4-5 weeks.
> it would be even better

This is you indirectly imposing your choice onto other people (e.g. you vote for a government which does the imposition on your behalf.)

I'm all for social programs (or whatever the equivalent of "few hundred dollars per month is"). But why not let the individual decide on whether to die or not?
Trump's magical glowing orb from 2017: https://twitter.com/billkristol/status/866398789392793600
Finance background here.

All these PEP, sanction lists, ofac monitoring, financial sanction lists already exist and every company with a worthwile monetary turnover ever facing an audit runs these background checks.

The laws are there, they are called the aml directives, the lists are there.

And most of the entries there are provided by eitjer uk or us entities, youll usually find foreign military personells data there, dob, rank, id number, name but not much else.

It is bit of a joke as many muslim people have similar names and joe shmoes get flagged for nothing very often.

Meanwhile, the people on these lists are very high up within their own government hierarchy, they probably have 5 differe t passports.

Btw, these lists are csv files often...some sophistication.

Yea, monitor peps, fugitives and terrorists, but find a way without combing through the whole worlds innocent citizens.
I used to use a similar system (http://crypto.stanford.edu/PwdHash/pwdhash.pdf), until I realized it has a glaring issue when passwords need be rotated.

Assume a service you use was breached, and you have to replace your password there. You can work around it by having another input to your generator. Instead of (master password, service), you now have (master password, service, version). Maybe you append the version into one of the other arguments to keep the function the same; doesn't matter: now there's a new, per-service argument you have to track and remember.
The average just got whalloped by a deadly pandemic, so the average today is probably not representative of how long a person should expect to live in the future.
Because they need to raise prices or charge subscription fees in order to make money on it. Just making a better product without increasing prices is not going to change that they're losing billions per year on this.
Javascript lacks many basic facilities that other languages have.
This is a great discussion of all the ambiguity that has been added to the USB spec along the way and how that ambiguity can bite you. I'm fairly convinced at this late stage that the IETF motto of "precise in what you send, flexible in what you receive" is basically evil. When standards work around the non-compliance of clients in creative ways (like HTTP browsers did, A LOT) they become "well it isn't in the standard but if you don't do this you'll break a lot of things out in the field" problems. That resistance to breaking existing clients is understandable, but ultimately it is a trap (in my opinion) that results in both security issues and safety issues.

It would be interesting to have a USB 4.x spec that was both explicit in all the behaviors AND had explicit tests for and responses to non-compliant stuff. I don't think the IEEE or anyone else for that matter has the stones to try the experiment though.
I appreciate the post. The linked version is to the draft I shared while still writing. Here's the permalink to the final version:

https://danturkel.com/2022/12/27/advent-of-code-2022.html

(Maybe @dang can fix the submission link)
Don't be so quick to throw the entire concept of recycling in the bin (so to speak). Plastic recycling may be a scam, but metal recycling is simultaneously economical, effective, and better for the environment than extracting new metals. Steel, copper, and aluminum are all successfully recycled in vast quantities; the majority of the metal we produce these days was recycled rather than fresh-from-the-ore.
Would you please follow the site guidelines? They explicitly ask you not post this sort of dross, which only makes things worse.

Indeed you managed to break several of them with this one post. Not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> (1) find how many European military bases there are on US soil

To do what? Counter the Canadian threat to US American territorial integrity? Prevent war between California and ethnic Nevadans? Monitor unmanaged flows of migrants from unstable regions? Hmm, well maybe that one.

But really, one of the great blessings of the US is a lack of any home-front excitement, which makes this comparison pretty silly. Not that that disagrees with the hypotheses that the US is a world empire and the EU's present existence is predicated on US military size and operations.
Because sovereignty ends at borders.

Europeans want to vacation in the US. The US demands biometric authentication upon crossing the border. So you either give them that data or the US stops letting Europeans in.

And I doubt Europe is going to be any better at not demanding biometric data than the US is, because Europe has the same underlying incentives to do so (i.e. a restrictive immigration system, a large portion of the population who want to NIMBY entire races of people, and a large body of laws to enforce).
The problem with real estate is your retirement plan for a triplex may not materialize if you own in Detroit, and it's the 1970s and car manufacturing won't ever decline. It's putting a lot of eggs in one basket. You have no way of knowing if the location will fall out of favor. At least with the stock market, there are many other actors who have a shared interest in its success.
> if people forget about this and continue to fly Southwest (which, let's be honest, many will), their share price will recover when they announce earnings.

Well, if you believe this, go buy their stock (LUV). The market disagrees.
For whatever it's worth, I think people should be a little careful about using Pass. From their website:

> With pass, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the password.

This is the exact problem that LastPass just got hit with (okay, one of multiple problems) -- the vault doesn't encrypt the URLs of the sites you visit. Pass is really elegant, but it leaks a ton of metadata in pursuit of that elegance. Tracking password changes unencrypted in Git really seems like it's just asking for trouble.

Yeah, the actual passwords are encrypted and stay encrypted, and that's great -- but we've just seen with LastPass that it kind of matters that the entire vault be encrypted. I personally think there are better ways to get a CLI interface than exposing the site list.
new account spamming lies and snark
That could go to the supreme court, maybe violates the 4th amendment?

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated"

meaning, I got the right to secure my sh*t.
As other people have said, there's almost no one who will stand the full test of time. Washington/Jefferson owned slaves for instance. There are people who did bad things but also accomplished things. Perhaps we allow things to be named after them but have to say for __ ie being named after James Webb for his work on the lunar landings. Perhaps also when naming buildings/etc after people, have a plaque that mentions some of the controversies around the person. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-might-change...
Or we move away from naming things after people.
The ability to perform arbitrary computation on encrypted data efficiently.

I don’t think we’ll get there in 10 years.

This requires fundamental innovations all the way down.
Yes, actually.

- If you host your own servers you can still verify.

- if you are using well-designed, human-centric software, untrusted servers (read: all servers you do not have control of / cannot audit) would not have any access to private data due to encryption, and clients can be verified to make sure decryption only occurs on the client side

The trouble is, this kind of software is a poison pill to advertising. It will be a long time before it takes over.
The problem is, education alone won't help. Dementia, alzheimer's etc. are horrible, and ffs even experts on scams can get scammed like one of the scambaiter Youtubers (iirc Jim Browning?).

You need to fix scams at the source: sanction India and other countries until they kick up efforts to neutralize scammers, and replace insecure systems like SSN.
I recommend everyone who's looking for a single solution to annotating common online media to check out Readwise Reader. It just went into public beta. It can annotate Web pages in original or in a beautiful reading mode, PDFs, YouTube, and probably more things that I haven't tried yet.
But that isn't migrating, it's "changing all your passwords on all sites you use".

Even if you stayed on LastPass(!), you should still do that, right? It's a penalty for LastPass compromising them.
Agreed but fwiw in b2b SaaS (their current target customer) it’s very painful to anchor your prices publicly.
The way USB C is designed you have to go out of your way to make that happen. I believe you (!) but I'm not sure how I could build a device to behave that way. Could it be due to a weirdly noncompliant power adaptor?
Toothpaste is a mild abrasive, if the scratches weren't deep it removed them entirely.
Assume the function is a cryptographically appropriate hash function, you can reduce the risk of suggested attack to almost nil, considering the number of inputs you'd need for such attack
> We can't have nice things because of massive fraud. There is always tension between ease of receiving services and those looking to exploit the benefit.

Massive? Source?
"Ogan, using NHTSA crash numbers, Tesla’s previous reports, sales numbers and other records, concluded that the number of reported Tesla crashes on U.S. roads has grown far faster than Tesla’s sales growth. The average monthly growth in new Teslas since NHTSA issued its standing order was 6%, he figures, while comparable crash stats rose 21%."

"The Tesla Autopilot crash numbers are far higher than those of similar driver-assistance systems from General Motors and Ford. Tesla has reported 516 crashes from July 2021 through November 2022, while Ford reported seven and GM two. To be sure, Tesla has far more vehicles equipped with driver-assist systems than the competition — an estimated 1 million, Ogan said, about 10 times as many as Ford. All else equal, that would imply Tesla ought to have a NHTSA-reported crash total of 70 since last summer to be comparable with Ford’s rate. Instead, Tesla reported 516 crashes."
You could also use VS Code's remote (over SSH) ability.
You can do the same with vscode btw. I also work on remote gpu workstations and vscode remote with ssh works just fine, especially if you use tmux, you can preserve all the history and what you were doing.
I really can't believe that Japanese users don't use the Gregorian calendar for most of their activity.
Tutorial: Search PDFs in Your S3 Using OpenSearch and Flask
Always, or did it just break the ability to flip it upside-down?
I've made this same comment in other replies but none of those examples present the kind of labor issues an airline has. If your essential workers don't show up / quit and operations grind to a halt then no amount of technology is going to fix that
So it is lithium.

If you don't tell what you want to say, I'm pretty comfortable to keep assuming the details are all wrong. And yes, it's a simple algorithm. Yet it seems to work quite well.
Will we care about proofs and type-systems once we have AI systems that reliably answer questions like "does this code do X?" and "under what conditions does this code violate invariant Y?"
Because all of their self driving stuff is falling apart since they dropped Lidar.
Python source code ?
No cloud native API integration ?
UI?
I've probably rented box trucks a dozen times in my life for various personal and professional endeavors, including a stint of regular quarterly rentals for several years, and two cross-country moves. At this point Penske gets my money no matter what; I don't even look elsewhere.
I'm surprised that no spaced repetition systems seem to exploit relationships between facts/cards. One might imagine that capturing a graph of similar ideas would allow for better algorithms.
Rephrase as if it was written by a 5 year old:

"Typhoeus is a special thing that you can use with the gem, but it's not necessary. You can change the gem so that you don't need to use Typhoeus if you don't want to. You can also remove the part of the gem that uses Typhoeus if you want. It all depends on what you want and what's easy to do."
Though you're not wrong, most places did not see such a collapse such as Detroit. In the end though, you're hedging greatly with the fact that it's a multi-family. So even if it did fall out of favor, you're paying a fraction of what you would otherwise due to the rental income gained from the other units.

Most importantly, you were going to spend money to live somewhere anyway.
Indeed - don't ignore warning signs -- sound advice.

Based on personal experience, I'd add - treat all human based organizations as what they are, Bad. The Badness is just a matter of degree. All good investors know that all stocks are bad - this is no different. They're bad because people are not 'good' (as we would all like to make ourselves out to be), but rather we're inherently bad, flawed, sinful to some degree - trending hopefully in a more perfected direction but often a more debased one. Add to that the stress of pride, self preservation, greed, deceit, murder (of character), in day-to-day operations - and 'good' organizations show their true color - bad.

Other musings:

1. Liars know they lie particularly when you're unsuspecting. You can lose years and years of your career with those that cloak bad values. Check trusted references of the execs you will work with and for. These values will manifest themselves in real consequences, it's just a matter of time.

2. Check the REAL specific behavioral norms / values of the organization. Is there a related specific Code of Honor ("I never abandon a teammate in need")? If not, why not? Can all players including the execs be held accountable to it or do they just want it to apply to you? Know the vast majority of stated values are virtue signaling BS - Marketing. Get your head straight - and do not fall for it.

3. If their core REAL values are incompatible with your own, and you can afford to, Pass.

4. Never fall in love with your organization - it's not a person, but rather a composite of flawed humanity. A beast of sorts. It will generally consume your extra good deeds, good ideas, extra work and strangely enough, you may even be hated for it.

5. Do not rely on others to 'do the right thing'. The players and values within the beast change. Get a lawyer involved particularly with equity and non-competes etc. Do not fear offending by having a lawyer involved. Do it in a direct, aboveboard, and civil manner. It's not what you're worth, it's what you negotiate for AND have in writing.

6. Cultivate options. All negotiations are determined by the parties' BATNA (Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement)...i.e. your options - have some.

7. And yes, make the best of your own situation with eyes wide open.
Tangent: I am getting really allergic to the word "woke."

Maybe my allergy is illogical. Let's examine it for a moment.

What is the definition of the word woke?

What is the opposite of someone who is woke?
This is part of a hackaday series on USB C. Other posts: https://hackaday.com/series_of_posts/all-about-usb-c/
They definitely have sensible backout mechanisms for their free tiers (i.e. Pages, they still serve static assets but disable compute/Functions).
Also, their docs are written pretty well, and openly hint at dangerous price traps.

We launched a big presale this year with an e-commerce app hosted on Workers, and we just barely hit the 5$ threshold for the paid plan. Did not use more services (other than DNS/proxy) though, so YMMV.
Good one!

I think the optimizing compiler one might actually work out.

However, I guess there might be some goalpost shifting around what compilers are expected to do.
Which is why it pains me so much that my municipality doesn't include (at least a household food scrap sized) compost bin with standard garbage service. They only offer a giant and expensive yard-waste bin.
As an aside, how do you enjoy both of your careers? I, also a fighter of depression, was a firefighter (as well as many other things) in the military and now do software. I sort of miss the firefighting. How do you balance both?
Of course. But that doesn't change the fact that stopping the production of plastic crap within a few years is not an option beyond the hypothetical realm. Nor is convincing the majority of people to stop buying all that crap simply on the basis of a moral plea. Pricing in externalities might work eventually (and will take a few decades to realize at any significant scale).
This is all perfectly fine.

The wealthy years of the 20th century (driven by ludicrous amounts of fossil fuel exploitation) are an incredible anomaly in human history anyway. We're just reverting back to the mean when the vast majority of people never retired. It was good enough not to die of hunger.

This is going to continue until we start decoupling more of the economy from fossil fuels.
Sadly this isn't the case. Volatility in the stock market will see your withdrawals deplete your equity at a faster rate during downturns and put you at risk of going broke early.

A $1M stock portfolio may not service $50K/yr for 20 years, let alone the rest of your life. A 40% downturn in the early years will see you go kaput.

If you want to leave nothing you probably need to provision for 40 years and build a bond ladder yourself (rather than buy in to bond funds). The problem with that though is you're exposed heavily to inflation, which equity will give you some protection from over the long term