skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can back the secrets up to a text file, print them out, etc. too. They're short Base32 strings and TOTP is a standardized protocol with an RFC (6238) and everything.
Anyone who calls me versus emailing/texting is not getting to me, full stop.
100% this

I already have enough struggle getting a hold of a real person with these IVR systems.
What about when a product changes names, between your logins?

Take protonmail - they started to use “proton.me” instead of “protonmail.com” more and more often. If your f(x) was f(“protonmail”) originally but after being away six months you try in the middle of the night while hungover and driving in snow f(“proton”) won’t get the same result?
Ask HN: Trouble doing my own startup
I know startups are hard and they are not for everyone. I know the media, twitter, and blogs don't talk about the gruesome parts of doing your own startup but here I am struggling with starting my own thing and looking for some advice.

I'm an SWE/EM with 10+ yrs experience. Worked at FAANG, small and large startups. I left my last job bc I really believe that I can start a company and it's really one of my life goals to do so. Sounds cliché but fast forward a few months and I'm having some expected turbulence.

I've tried a few MVPs and while the MVPs got less than 100 users, I got demotivated about them because it seems like for every idea I have there's already a startup that's doing something very similar (if not the exact thing) - and is super well funded or positioned. Because I'm trying to figure out "the unique" angle for the startup, I'm also having a hard time attracting a co-founder.

I don't know how to navigate my current situation. If you have any thoughts/advice that would be amazing!

(my ambition with the startup is to eventually match my bay area salary. I'm not concerned about short term finances)
Heh, the VWP already has a tiny bit of friction built in - you need a credit card to complete the application For the ESTA.
Yes. Penrose hypothesizes a non-computational (which would be interesting, because it opens a whole an of worms about how to model it) constituent of the universe. A little while ago he, along with Stuart Hammeroff, proposed the Orch-OR model, which posited that this is the same constituent as what causes the "collapse" of an unmeasured superposition of states into one concrete, measured state. With that said, I have not seen any of his work on this for some time (I last looked at it around 2016), though a cursory look shows some new papers of his on this and related subjects.
I love BitWarden, but coincidentally yesterday I saw a problem pop up on Reddit that was terrifying: There is a known issue where changing your master password can cause you to lose all your data:

https://bitwarden.com/help/account-encryption-key/#rotate-yo...

What?!

Of course, if you are careful and follow all the instructions, in theory you could avoid this. But why allow such a foot-gun?
In a thread about moral choices I think it's notable that some people who wished to isolate and minimize their risk of disease were not financially able to do so. Their choice, though frustrated, would be just as valid as those who preferred to choose to take a risk.
It's different in that it doesn't require misuse to get certain data about citizens.
Additionally there's also a mismatch between what is good for the public versus what the public will end up choosing (due to ignorance or carelessness). This is illustrated in your first example.

Good laws will protect the public from themselves, even at the cost of supposed freedoms (think schedule A drugs, production, revenge porn, tobacco).
Don’t you lose social security if you move outside the us?
It scares me very much that these people vote and the terrible state of American politics largely reflects that. If you can’t have the forethought to call your grandson to see before giving someone $10,000, do you have the brain capacity to make an intelligent voting choice?

I know this is a tangent to your comment but after seeing my parents and others their age do similar things to what you describe it makes me wonder about voting and driving with no age limits or proof of non-dementia.
> stating human brains are actually hypercomputers, which cannot be implemented in real life at the moment

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
There's a difference between killing someone and not saving someone's life.
I used to do a similar thing, then I realized it was a potential problem.

Let's say you have an account at AcmeCo. Let's say AcmeCo has a breach and I can see your password hash. Let's say the company uses a weak password hash (e.g. MD5), or no salt and it's easy to reference a rainbow table.

From this rainbow table, I can look up your hash and see that your password is "lulzSecret2$AcmeCo".

Now let's say you're in another leak from BetaCo. Similar situation -- I see that your password is "lulzSecret2$BetaCo2". Maybe the two is because you were forced to rotate your password once.

It doesn't take a genius to guess what your algorithm is.

But we can take it another level. Maybe I'll try all the major banks and guess passwords using your algorithm ("lulzSecret2$bofa", "lulzSecret2$chase"). Most banks require 2fa, but most of the time they keep it to text-based 2fa.

If I know your phone number from one of the breaches (happens all the time), maybe I can hijack your SIM card (this also happens all the time) and boom, I'm into your bank account.
You’re entitled to your Social Security benefits regardless of where you reside globally. You don’t have Medicare coverage outside of the US though.

Typically, your Social Security is your passive/pension/monthly income that qualifies you for a long term retirement visa.

A hack you can do if you can work remotely is collect Social Security out of the country while working remote; this increases your income and if your annual income replaces previous lower income years on your Social Security wage record, your monthly benefit will go up over time as the SSA re-evaluates your benefit annually (not to mention cost of living adjustments).
Any ideas on annotating video and audio? Looking for something on a mac.
I work for an EU tech startup and our experience is entirely the opposite. The trick here is to think about how you use the data before you collect it and not just collect whatever you get by default because thats how you speedrun ending up in the courts.
manual is ok, very useful thanks
How the clothes hanger found its hook
Climate change is a very important issue but when we make loose claims or imply the earth will be a hellscape with few or no surviving humans in one generation, it only emboldens those that think the real issues are hyperventilating nonsense.
Saddest is that in order to fight tax avoidance, when an European creates an account in an European bank you need to sign a separate statement that you are not an american citizen. I am not sure if they share data only of US citizens (or those with two citizenships), or all... but I also doubt that americans have to sign a document where they admit if they have a second citizenship in one of EU states. It feels very one sided.
Did Germany own the pipeline? A cursory search indicates that it was owned by the hostile Russian government unless I am mistaken?
or more recently https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2022/afghanistan-biometrie
> The keybindings are really the unique selling point of Vim, and you can get them anywhere.

How you know somebody doesn't have a clue what they are talking about.

That's like saying "chess is a bunch of nerds playing chess with more pieces."
Do you have evidence that the earlier advice wasn’t responsible for mask reluctance later? Because when you tell people masks are ineffective, that’s a very very hard bell to unring, and indeed, many mask rejecters were citing those very same health officials. And why wouldn’t they? Those are the trusted authorities!

Of course there was a mask shortage. But like the others said, the correct way to fight a toilet paper shortage is not to tell people that it’s ineffective at removing feces from your anus. It’s to a) throttle sales at retail, b) give guidance on alternatives (here, how to turn a shirt into a mask), c) coordinate on increased production.

If masking up had been a high status thing to do early on, that would have saved a lot of effort in policing later.

Yes, lying to the public and expecting them to both trust and keep up with the latest lie is foreseeably stupid. I hope you don’t need insurmountable evidence to agree with that part.
It's Waymo you need to argue with, and they're doing great, AFAICT.

Let's disperse a few thousand of them at random locations across the country for everyday use and see what happens.

AFAICT, no one has actually done this yet.
I actually think it’s questionable if a new born infant is conscious. I think it takes years of sensory input and possibly even language development to establish real consciousness. Of course it’s entirely impossible to determine if any organism other than yourself of conscious. I might be acting like I am, but truly you have no idea if I’m actually having a subjective experience.

Other interesting thought experiment: if you developed as a baby with the complete absence of senses. No sight, touch, smell, etc. would you ever develop consciousness? I suspect not. I believe our inner subjectivity is inexorably tied to our senses.
>I can say it because it wasn't tried.

That kind of logic also invalidates this conversation because you don't know if your suggested approach would be better because we didn't try it either. I guess there is no point discussing any hypotheticals because it is all unknown.

>You seem to think that we've been living in a dystopia where governments have been lying to us forever, there's none you can trust, and everyone everywhere believes and knows this as if it were fact. I don't think that was anywhere close to true before the pandemic but I'm more likely to believe it today because of how many more people distrust their governments and the WHO because of their lies.

No, I do not think we live in a dystopia because I don't think "the government lied to us" is enough to merit this type of hyperbole. I also don't see how something like "the CDC lied to us in an attempt to save lives" is somehow more threatening than "the government lied about WMDs to start a war with Iraq" or "the government is not telling us about their borderline unconstitutional mass surveillance of American citizens". I just don't see how this is the lie that caused anyone distrust the US government. There are countless more nefarious examples of the government lying. This one at least has a very easy to understand altruistic motivation behind it.
In my family, whenever someone gets over an illness, someone else mentions burning the velveteen rabbit. Likewise, if someone coughs, someone else mutters "Gollum."
I'm sorry to hear that. It was almost the exact same thing with my uncle. When I first started asking questions, he tried to assure me it was legit because he had heard his grandson talking in the background. My guess is that they had somebody sobbing hysterically while talking so as to make it hard to recognize that the voice is "off". When you're stressed, it's easy to miss that kind of thing, and they exploit it.
Pilots do precisely this already.
Naturally not, because CPython doesn't have a C++ FFI, which is a Python problem, not C++'s.
> Consider this, you want to book you table at restaurant so you tell your AI which will inform restaurant’s AI to book a table for you. Now in this whole scenarios where is UI?

Chatting with the AI is the UI.

> The advancements of AI will eat up GUI?

GUI will still be used for creation and interaction with visual data; but AI will replace some uses of GUIs, sure.
The attraction density in europe is very much higher.
In 100 years? Yeah there is plenty of reason to think its possible that much of the overhead would be gone. Anything can happen in 100 years, and even in the near term lots of progress is being made (albeit we are still far off from practicality)

The more fundamental limit is probably that you can't do lots of the tricks that make normal programs efficient. You can't exit early or have data dependent branches.
Yes, the scale is completely different. As the commenter after you noted, the events you're referring to happen all the time with other airlines as well.
My family plans the yearly family get-together at the yearly family get-together. A year in advance. Except sometimes due to scheduling deconfliction, it's actually 10 or 11 months in advance.. or 13 or 14 months in advance. The exact date floats and sometimes we are planning trips more than a year in advance.
They lose money on returns but just accept the loss since they still make money. It is harder on third party sellers.
This is just one example I know of, but in France they have laws regarding when movies are available to stream, in order to regulate competition with the movie theaters. This means that movies available in the US are often not (yet) available in France. I can imagine media companies having to deal with such rules for all countries being a nightmare to implement and then just open in the US.
After doing some more research, I've pretty much come to the conclusion I should be using KeePass (or KeePassXC) but I wasn't really sure how I should go about syncing. I will definitely look into Syncthing, thanks!
> slash healthcare costs

When there’s a clear line-of-sight financial incentive in killing the citizenry, the policies will only further loosen qualifications and even incentives over time. This is how you go from a poster child of an advanced stage ALS patient to normalizing the government assisted death of a depressed diabetic. Will it become more frequent (rising from 5% of deaths)? Almost certainly. The knobs here are the qualifications and requirements, decided by financial incentive vs sense of decency. Where that line of collision will be is in age restrictions (minors) and qualifying health conditions.

It’s also interesting to think about how this intersects with capital punishment. If the government can off a non-criminal in a profitable way, then something in the math we hear about capital punishment being more expensive than lifetime incarceration is grossly incorrect.
> $1 million nest egg can replace about 85% of a $70,000 median household income.

While property taxes depend on zip code, if the mortgage is paid, why does a couple need this much income?
> I'm sad to say it, but it's more dangerous than ever to be old or naive

It will get orders of magnitude worse once all this can be fully automated by AI (including a completely realistic video or voice call by the grandson where he talks about killing the pregnant woman).
Once i was looking for a paper, to construct a list of interesting sources for a professor I was working for.

It was a paper on a very relevant topic that would really be of interest. It had been cited in a dozen different papers, or so. But I could not find the cited paper anywhere!

I realized I could find the author of the cited paper, and just email them. They said "Oh, that was a conference presentation, it was never published as a paper anywhere, only presented orally at the conference."

Fine. Except... most of these citations didn't cite it as a conference presentation. Most of the citers, I am pretty sure were not at that conference. They just copy and pasted the citation from other papers, thinking the same as me, oh, that seems a useful cite. The first couple times it was cited, it might have actually been cited as a conference presentation at a particular conference on a particular date, but that wound up omitted from future copy pastes.

I don't think this was a particularly unusual occurence. Many citations are... unreliable.

A citation to something with an actual URL is pretty good.
I think you missed the point the previous poster was making: These non-US-based scams generate a ton of revenue for telcos, which is why they are not incented to stop them.

I don't know anything about it, just trying to clarify what (I think) previous poster meant.
The Youtube one-click opt-out is a result of a similar decision as the OP by the French courts actually.
Not every American is wealthy, and none of the Indian scammers are the Indians living in absolute poverty. Have a look at this scammer and his resume [0] and tell me how this college educated criminal defrauding Americans who aren't very tech savvy "increases the net happiness of the world"?

[0] https://youtu.be/EapyNrHp9xo?t=400
This doesn’t sound like quantum computing at all.
You also have to prove it.

It's not perjury to make an incorrect statement, it's perjury to intentionally make an incorrect statement, so you have to demonstrate that it's willful, not just point out the incorrect statement.

I imagine that the vocational findings are designed to appear mechanistic, whether they are or not (and stating a mechanistic outcome isn't an untrue statement).
All those arguments reduce to "humans have a soul, computers don't, checkmate atheists". Ironically, soon AI will be able to generate articles arguing that AI can't ever think, automating yet another job.

Any model capable of executing a turing machine (given infinite resources, so in practice bounded of course) can emulate another program, even if inefficiently. GPT empirically can execute a simple vm. At best the 'wrong model' argument would have to point out that specific design collapses once the program to execute becomes too big - no matter how much compute/memory is available, but then, it's only a technical claim about one specific design.

This specific article has another problem - it handwaves the definition of consciousness. It has to do it, because any attempt to actually define necessarily either defeats the whole argument (it's some property of a computable system), or reduces it to a magical claim about an external soul.
Even worse... the 4% rule is only tested over 30 years. If you're retiring at 55 you should probably be looking at a withdrawal rate of 2.5 - 3%, so 35-40 times your desired retirement income
Medical costs keep growing as you get older.
Exactly, there is no question that this is already in some FAANG data center in one way or another, which is the same as in possession of the US gov. They just want to formalize the deal.
They checked outbound as well at that time, not sure if that is still the case.
PaybackTony literally said "It's the biggest problem in the US because because of pricing." and went on to explain how calling in EU is much more expensive. I think it's safe to assume that he just didn't think this through.
> This appears to also be the case for 1password and bitwarden, so not specifically a lastpass failure.

It is currently(?) the case for Bitwarden, yes, but that's incorrect for 1Password, as they have client-only key material that is never transmitted to the cloud: https://blog.1password.com/what-the-secret-key-does/
Ask HN: Why is it not possible to report hacked social media accounts?
More than a few times in the past, I’ve seen accounts of friends hacked, usually facebook and instagram. In one recent case, it’s obviously a russian bot account because photos of Alyona Arshinova started appearing on the account. In a few other cases, it seemed to be possibly a personal account in the middle east after some time.

The friends in question had mostly given up on the accounts before they were hacked, but there has never been an option to report a hacked account on Facebook, Instagram, or if I recall, twitter either. Is this some kind of conscious decision?
Somehow they still manage to write people a lot of tickets, something that generates revenue for the police, and steal the money of legal marijuana businesses, something else that generates revenue for the police.

There are no consequences to the police for ignoring the parts of the job that do not directly generate revenue for the police.

This is not an overarching problem with "the criminal justice system" other than the fact that the police almost everywhere in the US have a culture of graft and rentseeking, and won't do anything if there isn't money or press involved.
Donald Knuth's 2022 'Christmas Tree' Lecture Is About Trees
We're not close to running out of oil yet, although saudi arabia is.
hope it should be clear by now Europe needs to stand on its own on all things …
I’m trying to think of a reason why the players in this market wouldn’t utilize a shortage like this to implicitly collude and fix the prices at the higher ranges until some additional competitor forces them down.
Paying for enjoyment. Most people don’t live near their kids or grandchildren in retirement and want to travel to see them and otherwise. The popular idea of retirement is about leisure which has a cost. On top of this, most money goes to medical costs due to age.
At Facebook we would simulate an entire datacenter disappearing.

When we first started doing it the datacenter would be chosen months in advance so that teams would have plenty of time to ensure their services can run without that specific datacenter.

When I left this year, the datacenter would be randomly chosen on the same day it would be cut off.
Given the US has army bases all in and around Europe, more than any European country, I bet the US wouldn't comply.

That's been declining: 430,000 US troops in Europe in the '50s, and about 60,000 at the beginning of this year.

https://www.boisestate.edu/bluereview/troops-in-europe/
Besides complaining about people reading the article being against the guidelines, yes, I read it and yes, that would be exactly my position.
You get what you pay for. I suspect, weather permitting, NetJets is still flying.

I fly very rarely. One of the reasons is that I cannot afford to fly on carriers who charge the correct fare for sufficient quality that actually reliably gets you to your destination.

For destinations on the local rail network, I can afford it.
It's pedantic to say it, but copyright is not directly intended to help creators; its purpose is to enrich the public by inspiring creators to produce more. Helping creators profit/benefit from their work is a means to an end.

Creative work benefits the public in at least two ways: primarily, by being itself. People like reading the original Harry Potter books. Copyright encourages that by allowing creators to sell their work: Rowling is rich.

Secondarily, by inspiring other works. Fifty Shades of Grey started out as Twilight fan fiction. Art inspires more art. Copyright hinders this process.

Based on the above, copyright should now be much shorter: on the order of a few years.

In the past it took time to extract value from a work. Successful books had dozens of printings. Shipping books around the world was slow. Discovery of material to adapt into film took time. Note, this wasn't universally true: the Gone With the Wind film adaptation happened only three years after the book was published.

But take for example the Lord of the Rings books. They were published in the UK in 1954 and 1955, but some sort of copyright issue/loophole caused them to be widely available in the U.S. in the 1960s, before authorized editions came out. When they did become available, authorized editions then had a note that included a phrase something along the lines of, "Those having a courtesy for living authors (at least), will purchase this edition (of the book) and no other."

In any case, now with the internet and digital media, the majority of the value for most publications should be available within just a few years of release. As such, the balance between the time allotted for initial value production and the value as material to inspire other works should shift forward substantially.

If I were setting copyright law, I'd probably make it something like 5 years automatically, with extensions available yearly after that by filing inexpensive paperwork, up to a maximum of 10(?) years.
(diimdeep replied here with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34151569 but I moved that comment to the top of the thread so more people can see it.)