skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO the bigger problem in Paris is the requirements (such as someone with sufficient revenues to guarantee you'll pay your rent/pay it for you). With regards to price, there are options - it might be crap sharing an appartement in a crappy suburb, but it exists and there are tradeoffs that can be made (nicer but farther away, crappier but closer, shared to bring costs down, etc.). Also there is student housing which is quite affordable but the system is ridiculously bad. However on both points there are improvements - there's a state guarantee program for students, and the system for requesting student housing is improving, even if there still isn't enough in Paris itself.
people like to forget that this exact same thing happened in 2017/18 and will probably happen again in a year or 2.
Indeed, they're not one-time pads - they are symmetric authenticators where both sides hold the same seed, and iterate a PRNG or similarly iterable function every N units of time (say, 30 seconds), to give you the same new output, based on the same starting seed. Think stream cipher output, with an initialisation vector.

They are often called OTPs though (i.e. one-time passcodes), just to cause confusion.
It uses the acoustic wave to expand and contract pressurized helium, and then conduct heat created from the subsequent pressure oscillation.

Source: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/01/02/residential-thermo-ac...

Which I just noticed was posted a few hours ago, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34233719
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32” is just too big. 27” 5K is the sweet spot. As usual Apple is the only company to execute on this successfully.
> This myth that the US incarcerates prisoners not because we have a huge criminal class,

The US has a “huge criminal class” because of its criminalization, incarceration, and disenfranchisement (not just voting, but more general engagement in society) practices, which grew up initially as a concious, direct replacement for chattel slavery.

The size of the criminal class is not the trigger for the policy, but its objective. Initially out of racial animus and desire for commercial exploitation, including via the (now closed by federal statute despite the absence of a Constitutional prohibition, formally, though many would disagree that it is actually eliminated in practice given the nature of prison labor policies) penal servitude loophole in the 13th Amendment, but now the institutional interests of the politically powerful law enforcement—prison—industrial complex in protecting and expanding its own role is layered on top of those interests.
100%. Min payment is something like $100.
I wonder how much data traditional cable companies collect these days. Their services sure haven't gotten any cheaper.

I was very happy to ditch Comcast a few years ago but the streaming landscape has become so confusing that I am about to give up on trying to figure out what subscriptions I need to cobble together to watch the sports I am interested in.
I think 31.5" is too small for this resolution. I have for example 4K at 32" and pixel density is sort of borderline optimal to me at 100% font scaling. For programming I want to have more windows and text on single screen, not smaller pixels for which I have to increase scaling proportionally. This particular Dell display in this case has to have something like 50" which is way too big when sitting in front of it.

I can imagine it can be useful for some image / video related professional production or for font perfectionists. Other than that I do not think it is very practical.
The big problem with this line of reasoning is that good developers hate working with bad developers. So if you don't do something about bad developers (which might just mean train them, not necessarily fire them), then the good developers will leave.
It doesn't have to be using tokens.

People like Adam Neumann, Travis Kalanick and Elizabeth Holmes were being propped up by VCs long before any ponzi schemes adjacent to Web3 appeared.

Venture Capital firms can prop up money-losing economics for years (called "reducing friction"), and then dump the stock on the public (called "an exit"). By the time the public realizes there isn't an amazing business model there, they're the proud new owners of stock. Then they proceed to replace the management and pressure the new managements to extract rents from the ecosystem, endlessly, to justify the expected endless growth in stock prices.

If anything, true utility tokens (ones pegged to the dollar) can eliminate speculative bubbles, and let the network be owned by the participants.

PS: Celsius and FTX and Binance are not in fact decentralized protocols. They're middlemen, the very thing Web3 smart contracts were supposed to eliminate. UniSwap, Aave and other protocols are chugging along just fine, and the smart contracts are NOT capable of rugpulling people. Even Dogecoin and other altcoins aren't. Everything is designed to be owned by the participants, with no central control. What happened was that Ethereum lowered the barrier to creating these smart contracts, so we got a lot of crap just like PHP. But it's actually worse than that -- opportunists created centralized services where you can merely deposit tokens and withdraw them, and that's as far as they get when it comes to "Web3".

It's too bad that people blame "Web3" and decentralized networks for stuff done by centralized players who build shiny interfaces that LARP as a decentralized protocols. It's like blaming all gold when banks get robbed, instead of realizing the problem is the centralized banks storing your money, not the gold itself.
I completely disagree with this.

My XDR is too tall if anything, definitely not too short. I can't have the entire thing aligned with my eyes: I end up either having to look down a little, or up.

> You will be constrained by the vertical height (since you need to use dpi scaling)

I run the XDR at a very comfortable scaled resolution of 3008x1692 and text looks absolutely flawless. Compare that to your 30" 2560 x 1600 native screen and you can see it's hardly a difference.
This kind of attitude only really make senses if there is a carbon tax.

Net metering is as good a subsidy for green energy which we DIRELY need as any.

Making perfect the enemy of the good is bad enough as a general principle but is 100x worse when the future of the planet is at stake.
Another use case where you should be seriously considering using post-quantum techniques is update verification. If a piece of hardware needs to work 10 years from now, and it uses RSA or ECC public key crypto to verify proposed software updates, it may live long enough to see quantum computers break that.
aside: I think the year on the dates is wrong :)
Same question about how loud it is. Wikipedia says thermoacoustic engines work at 180db, which is the sound of a pound of TNT being detonated 15 feet away.
Are you sure the compiler didn't say "since having a null pointer gives undefined behavior, we can optimize out the part that confirms the address is non-null"?
Interesting thought. Most tvs have a vesa mount, so you can put it on a monitor stand. Are there some major drawbacks I might overlook?
Heinlein said something to the effect that predicting gadgets was easy -- societal changes hard.
It's just so obvious at this point. I remember Justin Kan's interview[0] about Web3 and gaming, specifically the idea that we'd have NFTs as transferable game assets and instantly thinking "how does this guy not know how dead-in-the-water this idea is?" You'd need collaboration from studios on a level that would test antitrust law in order to make such an idea even remotely realistic. Of course he knows better, but hype machine go brrrrr.

0: https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/08/twitch-founder-justin-kan-...
Speed == probability of survival for startups. You only have so much runway; better developer productivity means more swings of the bat at finding PMF.
I think a lot of our current practices in the prison system fall under "cruel and unusual punishment". A large segment of Americans are obsessed with punishment and at every opportunity they push for harsher sentences and the cruel treatment for prisoners.

I don't think we can truly reform the justice system until we deal with the culture that brought us to this point. It's the cruelty of the voters that holds us back from large scale changes, and the cruelty of the employees working within the prison system that enable it at a local level.
Feeling Bored Outside of Work
I'm quite young (25) working as a software developer. I skipped university and have work full time (40h/w) for 4 years now. I really like my job and working in the software industry.
After work/on the weekends I usually play computer games with friends or go for a walk.
But if I do not play computer games for some reason, I am very bored. I used to develop side projects but at some point I lose interest or just finish them.
I also feel like I have to do some programming in my free time to learn new stuff and stay informed. But without any goal it's hard to learn a new technology imo.
Should I stop seeking for "possible side projects", that can fill my weekend time, and pick up a non tech related hobby?
I agree that shouldn't be a zero sum game.

Yet, there are undoubtedly forces at play it that cause a significant fraction of men to feel disfranchised. We can blame that to reactionary forces, to the last blows of patriarchy, but ultimately it's a real issue and unless we find a way to communicate across the ever deeper chasm the situation can only get more serious.
Conversational interfaces. I don't think GPT is taking us to the singularity any time soon, but I do think it's pretty strong evidence we can go a lot further with conversational interfaces.
I don't know what particular kind of VISA it would have been, I'm not familiar enough with US processes.

But flat out cutting the interview process without any consideration seemed a bit odd for me.
To address a different point here - up until the 70’s, the US had and regularly used the draft.

Most countries have mandatory military service for all males that starts anywhere from 16-18yrs old.

Pretty much everywhere except some specific parts of the US (and still even then, though it’s not stated out loud), it’s expected for a man to get and hold a decent job, or women will ignore him and everyone will look down on him. Does it always, 100% apply? No. It’s definitely the majority case though.

Does that mean men were abandoned? I don’t think so.

Honestly, it seems more like men were a resource. Just like everyone else.
In case anybody misses your point, I'd like to add on to it by pointing to some scary changes at the American Bar Association - https://pacificlegal.org/american-bar-associations-equity-st... and American Medial Association - https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-rel... among many others.

It doesn't appear that this is a fixable problem now.
I converted my 27" 5k iMac into a monitor using a conversion board from eBay.

I use a macbook air for personal stuff, and a windows laptop for work (Microsoft). So it's great having a 5k monitor for both of my laptops!

It looks great, but honestly wasn't really worth the effort and risk of damaging everything. I retrospect I'd have sold the iMac and bought the Studio Display I think.
It's funny to think of a future where the rising difficulty of surviving in mainstream culture for anyone who's not a movie star eventually results in a society evenly split between punks and goths, but something tells me that's not a real solution. :-)
You would actually want to discuss the document with a lawyer (AI), for instance asking if not paying the 100k in point 3.4.7a is enough for termination of the contract, show the reasons (copied from the doc and explained) and if yes, are there any clauses that invalidate that clause or any logical inconsistencies regarding that clause etc.

As someone (no legal background) who has to read legal documents sometimes (perks of being a founder cough) and would take advice (yet) from an AI over a lawyer; the above would give me enough of an idea how exposed we are or not and if a lawyer should be contacted. I can read legalise quite well (perks of having been a founder for 35 years), but if its 100s of pages, I need to be able to ask questions about the doc to get an idea of where I stand. Which is why I would hire a lawyer to do a review after I send them my questions anyway.
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Are there any US banks that are actually secure? AFAIK they're all using SMS 2FA or worse.
No self modifying code needed, simply embracing pointer arithmetic more than is typically allowed without your sanity being brought into question. This technique works just fine with no changes to page permissions and W^X.
A lot of these laws "to protect the kids", have nothing to do with that purpose or are highly misguided. What is presented instead is the usual attempts at gross censorship, nanny state ideology, outright spyware, and/or a lack of common sense. Such BS laws are easily circumvented with VPN (or functionally similar) and are nearly unenforceable.

Much better for the parents to exert some direct control over what their kids are doing (as oppose to expect the state to) and express to them whatever their values and expectations are.
The word "millionaire" in the title isn't reflected in the article, and it seems poorly chosen. There are tens of millions of millionaires in the US alone. It's still a lot of money, but it's no longer a ridiculous sum accrued only by plutocrats. It's a comfortable middle-class retirement fund.

That was already a joke in 1997, when Dr. Evil demanded "one million dollars" in Austin Powers, and was laughed at.

That may just have been a poor choice of title (often written by editors and not the original writer, though this is just a blog). The rest of the article doesn't mention "millionaires" in that sense.

The thesis may well apply if you change "millionaire" to "billionaire", but it's a weird mistake to make in the title.
> What are current feasible, sustainable solutions to long-term nuclear waste storage? Any pointers?

Bury it in geologically stable areas.

At some point: it will cool down on its own, or technology will be developed to re-use it in an economically-amiable fashion and we can bring it back up. We know how to re-process it [1] but no body really wants to pay for that.

As it stands: before we start worrying about what happens to nuclear "waste" 500+ years in the future, we have to get through the next 100 years and all the issues that climate change is causing right now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Hague_site
Very interesting. I have been using 4k 27" monitor but this makes me temping to switch to 32".

But I don't like that ugly and huge webcam. I would use my own webcam on top of it.

> via Mini DisplayPort 2.1

Why Mini Displayport? I haven't heard of Mini DP for years.
So now people have to keep a piece of paper around or somehow put it into some software and not lose access. You're right, it would work. In reality, people can't even be bothered to use a password manager or understand even the most simple of new security software, let alone even remember their password. That makes it completely intractable as a solution.
The execution model of local calls are quite different from remote calls. Because of these differences, many efforts have been made, but "transparent remoting" is still not achieved [1].

[1] https://scholar.harvard.edu/waldo/publications/note-distribu...
Yep! Plus, the first two words must be Hacker News.
His attempts in 2013 to get funding for Bitcoin mining using quantum computers (and claims they could get similar benefits by simulating those computers on classical machines) could at best be described as naive and ill informed, less charitably described as idiotic, and reasonably described as a scam.
33% of content how? By byte? Surely this has to be defined better than that.
If it's open source and in a certain language I always peek. Not necessarily for security but to see how they structured things.
Forcing consistent language, runtime, tooling etc is generally a good thing as it reduces ongoing operational burden as well as some retention & hiring dilemmas.
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An individualist with no definition of an individual is quite useless.

In particular, classical liberalism depends on rational actors. Even in the most liberal countries, there are ways to declare particular individuals as wards of another (disability, elderly, children, etc). Without rationality, the basis of classical liberal philosophy disintegrates.

So if we want to be consistent as a liberal individualist, we need to place rationality on quite a high pedestal, which means at least making concessions that those taking drugs ought to be temporarily at least deprived of particular civil rights.
It's been a little while - but I think it's because NP problems can be converted into each other, so if you can solve one of them in P you can solve all of them in P.
My understanding is that Bitcoin, used correctly, is effectively quantum safe.

Since the "recipient" address of a UTXO is expressed as a hash, a user does not broadcast their public key until after they spend the funds. If you follow good practice, you make a single transaction, sending funds to the recipient, and the "change" to yourself, in a new wallet address (addressed by the hash of its public key). This means the public key is never visible to an attacker until its balance is zero.

Therefore, to attack this and steal funds through false transactions, you effectively need both a pre-image attack on SHA256 (so you have a valid public key to match the UTXO address), and a way to solve the discrete logarithm problem, breaking ECDSA (on the Secp256k1 curve), so you can sign using the private key corresponding to that public key.

SHA256 would come under Grover's algorithm, I believe, which would give you 128 bits of security under a quantum attack. That is still pretty good going.
Why is this downvoted? Ain't it exponentially harder to break RSA using qubits each time you double the key length?

Until we switch to quantum resistant algorithms, we can keep doubling the key length for some time no?

8192 bits should still be acceptable speed wise (if we consider that 2048 bits is broken, then I'll take slower operations over broken keys any day of the week).
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More info on the MWRA website about Combined Sewer Overflows:

https://www.mwra.com/03sewer/html/sewcso.htm
I did exactly the opposite a while ago. I switched from 40" 4K to 32" 4K. Too much head movement to see the whole screen or inconvenient head angle when looking at the corners / sides. 32" at 4K is perfect for me
That monitor has wrong DPI.
Got to read the assembly to really know what happened.

E.g. if the architecture has pointers with non-address bits (modes or segments or whatever) and those bits were set yet the rest of the address was 'null', and the check was for 'all bits zero' then you could conceivably get that situation.
Times have changed. My TV (a 2018 Sony) needed a firmware update to support Dolby Vision. My receiver needed a firmware update to support eARC.
It is fair to say, that in security assessment you estimate lower bound on complexity of hacking.

Schor proved upper bound.
Ironically, section 1 of the bill contains declarations of facts and references to news media reports that could potentially change and, when viewed in retrospect, become subject to accusations of 'misinformation.'
Gas was not even close to €70 in 2014.
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These ads are pretty much directly responsible for inspiring me to work in this new Internet thing after graduating college in 1995. That and Wired magazine.
Yes, Nexus 4 + the official charger had that.
> Sounds like you need to get new friends.

I don't think I understand—which friends are you suggesting that 1attice get rid of?
> Why would I fuck around with the utility at all if I’m installing enough solar/battery to power my needs?

What will you do when it has been raining/cloudy for weeks straight like it has recently in California? For this period, wind has dramatically outproduced solar [1]. Even in the summer/fall, when there was severe wildfire smoke in the area, my solar+battery barely produced anything.

Sure, you can set up a propane generator (very expensive at the size needed for a full house backup), but then you are dependent on the propane-distribution grid. The dirty secret of "no-sacrifice off-grid" lifestyles is how much they are dependent on propane for heating and electricity.

Also, the grid's up-time is going to be better than your home battery setup up-time both because it is constantly maintained and it has access to a greater diversity of energy sources (wind, nuclear, fossil, large-scale storage) that are firmer than anything you can attach to your house.

The fact is that modern living standards (cars, TVs, comfortable temperatures) require a much larger amount of energy and energy-availability than most people can produce on their properties with solar. The additional energy has to be imported somehow, either from the electric grid or as liquid or gaseous fuels.

1. See Renewables Trend at http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html
Mr. Channon, is there anything you can say at this point about the allegations in the indictment? Are they whole-cloth fabrications, misreadings of the law, accurate, something else? Is there a victim here besides yourself?
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> 180db, which is the sound of a pound of TNT being detonated 15 feet away.

Sounds like that can be a bit annoying
Are you using windows? Because on windows you can scale in 25% steps and everything still looks crisp. Linux and macOS don’t have this feature (more or less only 100%, 200%, and so on).

I really like high DPI monitors for programming, text looks just so much better and is easier to read (less tiring for the eyes).
"I try to limit my child's exposure to addictive, soul-sucking tools"

Yeah, sounds like a real troll to me!
Co-culture might be fine. But realistically it's probably a lot easier to add neutralizing antibodies or other peptides or chemicals which would block viral infection.

For an industrial process it would likely be easier to just genetically modify your organism to be resistant to the virus.
Great finds. I always wondered how "White hat" hackers didn't land themselves in legal trouble while probing and toying around with systems like this. How do you ensure you won't be tracked down and legally charged?
I've used a 43-inch 4k monitor for 4 years. First a Samsung and now a TCL. I love it. Some people worry about frame latency for high performance gaming, but that's not me. It handles my level of PC gaming just fine, in addition to being my programming workhorse.