skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think many of the MBAs that I have encountered have had a chance to utilize their accounting knowledge or negotiation skills (or leverage their networks). Perhaps this is the reason.
Small XSS payloads in more unsuspecting places.
Let's go and tear down houses when code is updated and see how quick we can make everyone homeless.

It's not reasonable to build with GFCI outlets in the bathrooms in 1956. It's not reasonable to build without them in 2023.

Most places have a very limited enforcement appetite for existing construction. If it was safe and current when built, it's fine enough. Exceptions include adding smoke and carbon monoxide detectors --- but they're not that expensive to buy or install; and sometimes you can't get a home insured if it had certain electrical panels with poor safety records, and knob and tube wiring is sometimes frowned upon (but really, it's not that bad if it hasn't been altered; just a lot of houses where they added too much load on the existing knob and tube and overloaded wiring is never good). That doesn't mean you should build that way today. Somethings that were standard aren't even available anymore; nobody makes orangeburg pipe since the 1970s, so you've got to use something better.
Just ate at a place in CA with an 18% automatic gratuity added, and a second line for "additional gratuity".

Reminds me why I do all the cooking in my house.
FYI, there is a new ENS normalization spec on the horizon:
https://github.com/adraffy/ens-normalize.js

https://adraffy.github.io/ens-normalize.js/test/resolver.htm...
That seems like a whole lot better system.

> I do believe that the incentive tips provide for employees to "act" friendly to customers can be transferred over into a review/feedback program, which is what we will be testing out. If customers rate their order and interaction with the barista to be satisfactory, a bonus payment will be made to the baristas on shift. Once we introduce this, I'll share the results.

Might as well go full hog and add rating to food/drinks they ordered. Not to judge the person doing the service, just get a feel for what your customers enjoyed and what they didn't.
If a place doesn’t accept credit cards, I leave also. I just don’t carry cash anymore. To each their own.

They mostly do it for safety reasons. Being a target for being robbed for drug money just gets annoying after awhile. Getting rid of cash gets rid of that risk. They might lose some customers, but losing workers to stress about being robbed is a bigger problem these days.
I'd love for us to abolish tipping, but I don't really get a say in it, because these are expected wages and I can't just say "no, I want to keep my money." Its a social norm, not something we all voted on.
I was just there in 2021 and the smell was at least as present as it was in 2011 when I was there last. I think if anything, they’ve cut back on the ventilation to save money.
Your site has a fixed floating header. See that bar at the top that follows you as you scroll down? Sorry if I didn't use the technical term or establish enough context that you could infer what I was referring to. (Not sorry if it's just an issue of you playing dumb or not making an effort on your end.)
technically you can severely limit what an app can see and do on a modern OS (inc. limiting it to only specific files), but it's so complicated nobody does it. definitely not as convenient as 'here program, please read only this file right now'

(fwiw HN is not a great place to learn security, but I don't have better recs either)
The government will never never allow any kind of bank account that cannot be closed and is forever accessible.

The closest we have to that is gold buried in a hole somewhere or maybe a cold storage seed phrase in your head and the discipline not to reveal it in torture.
Nobody uses Zelle to pay for a slide of pizza in the US because credit/debit cards are ubiquitous. Everyone and their dogs have one. Apple Pay and Google Pay make it even more convenient. Zelle and Venmo are for person to person money transfer. Different application. Also, FedNow is supposed to be available within a few months - [0]

UBI is a very good system, no need to exaggerate to feel superior.

[0] https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/about....
> You would go to a restaurant and the first thing your hostess would ask is "smoking or non"?

In parts of the US this question was common in restaurants through at least the late 90s, maybe a bit longer.

As someone who was a kid during that time period, I heard it many times at a buffet-style steakhouse my family would go to for get-togethers, birthdays, etc. It's fuzzy but I think they may have even still asked into the 2000s. We took the smoking section through most of my childhood since my parents smoked, but they quit later on so we switched.

At least that building was big enough to where the division kind of made a difference… it had a very high ceiling and was huge. It did absolutely nothing in smaller buildings though.
The problem is the store charaties are always awful. I donate to local charities that actually do good work with it (Non-affiliated-beyond-being-donor plug: https://www.nuci.org/), not to bloated “awareness” charaties like Komen.
Key word: almost
My father was born in 1935, he's 87 going on 88 and takes a turn on roster once a week to deliver meals on wheels to the old people that struggle to get by.

Otherwise he potters on with his meetings on the organisational side of the local bushfire brigade and looking after his 15 km section of a 1,000 kilometre long bushwalking track that runs past not too far away .. when he's not splitting wood, fixing gates, etc.

He's not altogether unusual in the area, there's a lot of still active older folk about the place.

Can you expand more on how everybody over 70 cannot function?
I remember flying to Australia from London as a 9 year old UM (unaccompanied minor) and they plonked me next to a man who Chainsmoked the whole flight there
I love coffee pauses. They are useful to "reset" your mind. Too much work will ruin your brain.
And sociality between co-workers is a must.
I deployed 1000+ over 3+ years, and never had one break. It’s anecdata and I believe they can fail, but we never saw it once.

Using the A and C nanos. Helped they were permanently in machines though. No mechanical risk.
We are just taking a loan from the next generation, who will be completely enslaved to debt.
It’s interesting only as a refutation of the original quote:

> consider the set of numbers that cannot be described using any finite collection of symbols. Such numbers must exist because there are only a countably infinite number of numbers that can be described using a finite collection of symbols, but there are an uncountably infinite number of real numbers.
If any of them worked sensibly as currency, maybe. But end result would probably be "the crypto transaction processor" most companies taking crypto use getting all the info needed to link person with their money anyway.
I like the Oracle buildings in California designed to look like UML databases.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/U7TWkc5mrQMGzkgY6
Google investor TCI asking for more layoffs
I updated my master password in 2022, but my account was still set to 5000 iterations. Not increasing it on master key changes seems beyond careless.
Are these papers reproducible, or do they have source attached to them, if applicable?
I think "mandatory tips" is just another name for a bill.
> What if a social media platform could be built where "the algorithms" were user created plug-ins that users could subscribe to? Each "subreddit" with their own set of algorithms.

I think this goes too broad, like asking "what if we there was one tool that could be turned into any tool?" Well, it wouldn't really be good at any of them.

We have enough data now to understand how different social media designs affect behavior, we should be able to propose changes to disincentivize certain ones. For example, reputation systems tilt towards well-mannered behavior. It's not perfect, but it's about nudges and pokes to subtly shape culture.

One of the most egregious offenders is still Facebook, whose comment and reply system actively boosts toxic content since the platform is only capable of measuring "engagement." Tons of angry reacts? Straight to the top! And the lack of proper comment threading means that everyone just kind of yells in each other's general direction, with no way to follow anyone's conversation.
Can an LLM base64 encode an arbitrary string? I don't think so but conceivably the rules are learnable
I understand the logic of requiring two keys, but why can't I have password + (security key OR single use code). This is what most services support - for something like GitHub I have an authenticator app on my phone or my YubiKey as the second factor, and can use either. That actually provides more redundancy against lost keys/devices than I have now, since if I lose all my Apple devices I'm locked out.
I wrote “electronic money accounts”, and yes. It is clear that electronic money has lots of utility, and it makes sense for a society to ensure its existence as infrastructure.

The same infrastructure can also serve as an identity verification service, which is also sorely needed.

There is no reason it has to operate as a bank, which would involve becoming a lender.
Where is it illegal to smoke with a child in the car? Not to get political but we can’t even get people in the US to agree to a bump stock ban.
I remember being a kid on a flight with my dad and the people a row over from us glaring at him because he was smoking. Mind you, I was glaring at him too... so embarrassing and awkward.
Agreed.

Three sisters would not have gone this route and the police would likely have done nothing until after the stalking had escalated further. Also, 1 brother might not have attempted this either, especially considering the guy was a large creep and smart enough to wear a mask.

Nor would a woman allow her sisters to go vigilante for her.

These guys were quite restrained. I know families with 3 or more brothers and at least 1 sister. And for them, at best, the stalker would not be walking for awhile.

Brothers can be protective, and enraged and activated in a different way. Not saying that's the best route for this situation or others. But in many cases, it IS the best solution. Stalking can escalate very quickly.

Everyone that is like "oh they were so dumb" likely 1) doesn't understand that brother/sister dynamic, 2) hasn't had much experience with the police and/or 3) has never been violated by a stalker/home intruder/etc or very close with someone who has.

I've helped get someone arrested and charged before. I had video of the man breaking into my neighbor's car. I confronted him with my neighbor in real-time. We got him out of the car and questioned him and checked to see if anything was stolen or damaged. We called the cops, they eventually showed up after the guy left. Asked me some questions and they tried to downplay it as a likely homeless person looking for place to nap which it clearly wasn't as I saw him going through the car.

I'm talking with the cops and I see the man down the street. He never left the neighborhood. I tell the cops "there he is"! They keep asking me questions and I'm confused at their inaction. Yes he didn't take anything. But he entered the vehicle, was trespassing and going through the glovebox. Go question him!

They respond slowly and head the man's way. They do nothing. Later that night, guy comes back and is seen by the neighbor from the car incident. He sees him attempt to break into the neighbors garage. Then succeeds in breaking into the house. Cops come and take it more serious. They clear the house and arrest the guy later down the street. I submitted evidence from the earlier incident and he was charged.

Without any resolution, these criminals escalate.

It's easy to say - don't confront criminals, call the police, it's their job and they're trained. But that's what people who haven't experienced these things or had to rely on the police say.
A lot of restaurants do that? If it's agreed up by the employees BEFORE the transactions are taking place or even the employment decision is made, then whatever system they choose is fair (cooks or no cooks, etc). The key here is the the cooks know what they're getting into as well as the servers.

The problem is when the restaurant tries to change the rules in the middle of the game (Like the girl in Bentonville who's manager tried to confiscate a $2k tip) OR the restaurant owner sees this cash left on the table and gets a little greedy.
Sadly, we both know the answer to that question.
35% sounds right from that time frame. I smoked until Dec 1999 and almost everyone in my social circle smoked.
Uh? I got bad news for you. Crypto is by far the LEAST private method.
We can only speculate as to their internal motivations. But why doesn't really matter when we can watch them actively do it.
He may not have even worked at the car wash. That’s a pretty common scam among panhandlers.
Everyone knows that in the US, price = menu price + tip + tax. "Everyone knows" is enough of a disclosure.
What's preventing a "communist hellhole" from implementing something similar?

Nothing? I referred to a fantasy, not reality. (Don't get confused.) It's possible I missed one of the cautionary tales I was supposed to catch to truly inculcate the proper American fear and hatred of foreigners. If you can point me to some 1980s-era capitalist propaganda that features this particular horror, I'll concede the point.

Back in the real world, it seems possible that e.g. China already has this, or will soon. I wouldn't take either side in the "is China communist?" argument, for fear of offending. I don't care very much, because I don't live in China. I'm concerned with the particular drain that my own nation is circling. You apparently share my apprehension; otherwise you would have argued that this wouldn't happen here rather than that it will also happen there.
> they are reducing the commercial attractiveness of building the infrastructure

A company will do whatever is most profitable (build transmission or build generation). Which is fine, given the bad things (e.g. coal) were taxed out of profitability.
It is hard to comprehend what it'd mean to have the world connected via distributed ledgers that provide transparency and would be able to automate a lot of what we do to a much higher degree.

We're not running in circles.

> Businesses aren't built around this technology because it's not advantageous to use it in a legally compliant environment.

This is just one of the reasons. The technology is also not scalable and abstracted enough yet. No one is pretending anything here.
I also love spotify as a general product. But the UX grievances are fair and representative of tge standard product thrash where far too many people are involved in making design decisions that ultimately end up punishing users
Imagine you're an adversary, and you've just stolen a list of hashed passwords.

The values you see are:

ae1fb1a0b0ee --> ???

f10abddc10a0 --> ???

What you're going to do is start bruteforcing letters until you find the matching passwords. You know that the passwords are hashed with 100k iterations, but you don't know how long the password is.

First you start with a, b, c, d, ... z. That's 26 combinations.

Then you do aa, ab, ac, ad, ... zz. That's another 26^2 (676) combinations.

The next length of aaa, aab, aac, ... zzz is >17k combinations and it keeps increasing exponentially.

Increasing the number of iterations applies a linear multiplier to the time. If it take 26ms to bruteforce all the one character hashes with 1000 iterations, it will take 2600ms with 100,000 iterations.

But increasing the password length adds a multiplier of 26 with each new character (and that's only assuming single case letters). Adding 4 extra letters is actually an improvement of over 450,000x (26^4).

(Assuming you are using the printable ASCII character set, that's actually 95^4 = 81,450,635x)
Overall pretty meaningless coming from Facebook. They'll still collect all the metadata they want. The only theoretical benefit this offers to the user is in the event of a massive Messenger data breach, at least the contents of user messages won't be leaked. Which I guess is some comfort, to somebody?
The greatest scam perpetrated by tipping was the idea of it being a percentage of the cost of the product you ordered.

This is why tipping still exists in America. Because there are urban restaurant workers, and busy bartenders being tipped absurd prices not because of their stellar service, but because they are lucky enough to work in a place with high prices and the cultural percentage mindset benefits them so much they will fight against a "living wage" because they are making more than that, and most of the time, not reporting it as income.

It's inequality disguised as being the "hard worker" when in reality, the shitty diner selling 8$ meals has servers working just as hard, or harder, than the upscale place selling 50$ meals.
"wikipedia has biased opinions posing as facts"

but yet to bolster your position, you link the brookings institute. lol
I'm shocked that that works - I was given to understand that MS outright shuffles syscalls per build to make them completely unreliable from userspace.
Why is the iteration needed if I choose sufficiently strong passphrase? Think 40 characters
Did you miss the six other comments that made a more substantive version of that objection?
By the mid-80s, kids generally couldn’t smoke in school in the US. Each school district or town or state had their own rules, though. I was told by kids a few years older than me that my high school allowed seniors to smoke in the early 80s. The 70s I think there were even fewer restrictions on the kids, but there were designated areas. You didn’t smoke in class.

But it changed mid-80s for students. There’s a famous 1989 song called “Smoking in the Boys Room” by Motley Crue, referencing kids going to the bathroom to smoke and then quickly leaving before getting caught.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5oVBvxA0mm0

Smokin' in the boys room

Teacher don't you fill me up with your rule

'Cause everybody knows that smokin' ain't allowed in school

Checkin' out the hall, makin' sure the coast is clear

Lookin' in the stalls, nah, there ain't nobody here
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Cash businesses tend to get robbed much more often than places that don’t take it. Cash-only businesses, like marijuana dispensaries, are notorious for being robbed here in Seattle.
I'm not super practiced in hashing theory. If the 10 words were usually longer than the hash function output (say, starting at an average of 7 words), would adding more characters (words) still increase the entropy or would the entropy get truncated?
It doesn't completely undermine it; if someone were to get a dump of the BW database, it would still make it harder to crack the stored hashes.
Coworkers will make or break a job for me.

I can enjoy even menial work if I'm surrounded by friendly people who like doing a good job.

I can loathe any work if I have to deal with unqualified, socially combative, or unnecessarily difficult coworkers.

The job also needs to be focused on delivering the product, not constantly fighting corporate dysfunction, attending meetings, and jumping through managerial hoops.
You're not allowed to harass people. With it being targeted, that's what this is. Also, you JUST acknowledged that these sorts of incidents have a history of escalating.
Almost half the states still haven't banned smoking indoors in public places:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans_in_the_Un...

Still common in bars in those states
Define "normal conditions". Searing a steak is arguably "normal", but it's also not something that I'm going to do with a non stick. If I'm stir frying some veggies, or cooking some eggs, I'm probably fine because the oil will start burning before the pan starts emitting fumes.
I remember visiting Europe a few years ago and being shocked at how much smoking there was. My wife got an outside table at a restaurant only to quickly change our minds when we realized that it was the de-facto smoking section. I appreciate that everyone gets to make their own choices, but you really can’t “get away” from it without moving 50-60 feet. I really appreciate the limited smoking that happens where I live.
Doesn't the level flow kinda act as a tutorial? Early very limited buildings and such?

I wonder why you had difficulty getting into HoMM3, I don't think the learning curve itself is that complicated when starting with the human campaign.
Yep; Darwin doesn't do raw syscalls, the BSDs don't (OpenBSD going so far as to block anything but libc from making syscalls, as a security feature), illumos doesn't... actually the only OS I can think of off-hand where applications regularly use syscalls is DOS, and even then it looks more like a side-effect of x86 architecture and the constraints that it was developed under. Go hit this particularly hard, having mostly grown up on Linux and then finding out the hard way that using libc isn't really optional on other systems.
Unless that becomes The Day the AI Crashed
Went to this Mexican restaurant yesterday. On the payment handheld device, default selection for tip was 22% with buttons for 20% and 25% and a tiny "custom" button. Making a selection under pressure with the waitress staring at the handheld device was an uncomfortable interaction.
Notes from Davos
Does anyone know if this works with Yubikey 4? I have a lightning to USB adapter but I can't seem to get it to work with these keys. It worked fine with A USB-C + NFC Yubikey Security key and a Google Titan key, but not Yubikey 4.
Google authenticator lets you transfer codes from one device to another, these days.
> This should absolutely be application managed and gradually increased over time.

One issue I could see with that is that because it’s the encryption key it’s going to lock out all your “live” devices, so an explicit step is an easy opportunity to warn them.

The second issue is that the transcryption would have to be done on login, which is a pretty shit UX as the user logs in then immediately gets locked out for however long it takes to convert the store (then again for most people I’d assume the payload is not enormous).

> assuming that scrypt and argon are more resilient to hardware brute-forcing

They are but needing to update the work factor as hardware progresses remains. In fact scrypt and argon have more work factor knobs than pbkdf2, which only has the iterations count.
that a great data set of 1. In Japan, men are statistically not expected to live past 81, so it's safe to say most of them are in deep decline after 70, a few years away from death.

Also, officially after 65 they can stop working, so who is even going to work in the whole country??