skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Laymen might think that's a bad thing. But it's not... it's exactly how science is supposed to work. The problem is, people need to be told an absolute, but science can't do that for the most part.

Scientists have my full support to stumble around in the dark and figure things out. But it's not the laymen who desperately need certainty. It's the scientists themselves when they deign to make policy demands based these half-baked theories de jour.
We only did it because the pandemic travel restrictions completely wiped off our previous (Bay Area-based) startup in just a few weeks, so I can see it happening.
Nice, will look into this!
Read “I Am Alive and You Are Dead” by Carrère just a few weeks ago. It was such an inspiring book with details about Dick visions and way of thinking
What can I say. You're locked into a significantly worse maximum than is possible (and exists) using better tools. In a normal workflow your commits are small enough that you don't have to do "sewage archeology".
I've always wanted a zombie/apocalypse/disaster movie where everyone works together and rebuilds civilization and the struggles therein, instead of it being about how humans are really evil when the shit hits the fan. So cynical!
It will theoretically increase the entropy until the total entropy exceeds the length of the hash (not the total length of the input).

What we really care about is how hard it is to determine the passphrase given the hash. With a 128 bit hash, an attacker requires an average of 2^127 guesses if they are guessing completely randomly. So as long as your passphrase is well before the first 2^128 guesses an attacker is likely to make, making it harder to guess is theoretically useful.

For example, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" has more than 128 bits, but it's also going to be (relatively) easy to guess. As shorthand we say "it has less than 128 bits of entropy"

In the example that GP gave, you could advertise "I used 10 diceware words for my passphrase" and it would still be as hard for the attacker as attacking a 128 bit hash. 7 diceware words would be much longer than 128 bits, but if you advertised "I used 7 diceware words" it would give the attacker a significant advantage, since there are much less than 2^128 possibilities.
Firefox on macOS unfortunately has very poor WebAuthN support, in my experience.

It only supports legacy U2F keys/mode, as far as I know, and Apple seems to require CTAP2.
SF restaurants, when I last lived in CA, were rife with these hidden fees. (The restaurants were upset about a local mandate. I … don't care about your politics? I just want a burger. Be straight about how much that will cost me…)
I teach and see people learn. Few things can be more satisfying than that.
How Are Webb’s Full-Color Images Made?
Neil Cicierega has a number of "Mouth..." albums, each more deranged than the last. Mouth Silence, Mouth Sounds, Mouth Moods, Mouth Dreams. The opening to Mouth Dreams haunts my nightmares.

Highly recommended.

SoundCloud is my preferred source: https://soundcloud.com/neilcic. There are also some one-off tracks that don't show up on the "Mouth..." albums, like "Bustin" and "Dear Dinosaur".
>because people don't care enough and they don't have a good reason to care

Users do care, but they're not given an OS that works in a sane manner to enforce their wishes. You can't bolt this stuff on after the fact without a lot of grief.
If you're just talking about running a typical Linux server with your server applications on top, then it's 99% of the time all 64-bit and nothing to worry about. 64-bit time is going to be used on 32-bit systems as well, so if you have those systems make sure to upgrade them in a decade.

Though saying this, I think you still have to manually remember to upgrade XFS filesystems so maybe there will be some things to worry about next decade.
Have you considered creating e.g. a YouTube Series going through it? Or contacting e.g. Computerphile? This is way too awesome not to share with the world. How did you get involved, have you been working for Alan Kay?
I'm cofounder of a small company and wear many hats - writing code, roadmap planning, mentoring, product design, etc. The diversity of skills needed is fantastic and loads of fun.

But the biggest benefit is I get to set set the culture of the company without having to answer to anyone else. I worked for years in corporate tech companies (FAANG) and while I could create little pockets of healthy spaces, there were always people getting in the way of creating a truly psychologically safe place for people. It's a huge relief not having to worry about that anymore and instead I can fully tap into the psychology of motivation, treat people with fairness and empathy, and be transparent without getting into trouble with leadership. It's made the job more satisfying and everyone we work with gets along amazingly well while being incredibly supportive of each other.
Because bad/simple dialog is way easier for the over 50% of the modern box office that isn’t the US. CGI explosions don’t need to be dubbed/subtitles in 20 or 30 different languages
Definitely need higher denomination coins. For now, coins of 1 and .50 work well for coffee shops.
I wonder if it could work if you (somehow) ranked the company as a whole, not by team?
My current job is drudgery due to agile. But for most of my career I've found it enjoyable to have the kind of space and freedom and ownership of work that I don't have now. Earning trust and getting to exercise my own judgment about what to work on every day without Jira and sprints. Owning entire projects rather than having work I could do myself split among 3 people and getting blocked or delayed at every step.
To be fair many of those "obvious truths" are rapidly discounted by the kinds of teenagers that go on to become university core math students.

Fractal surface areas, the re-order of terms in an infinte series, infinite hotel questions, etc. were all high school puzzles in the 80s in my part of remote Australia so I can't imagine them stumping or confusing a university math lecturer.
A rare-interesting UX problem with people thinking the screen froze. I guess it’s easily solved, but there are surely many ways to solve it.
Don't forget https://hnreplies.com/, to get email notifications when someone replies to your comment.
TAI is not a timezone. For actual clock, you still want to use UTC most likely. TAI is more of a format for describing that time. You can convert from UTC to TAI by removing the 37 leap seconds we got so far. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time
Something else I wonder is how have we managed to convince generations that smoking is not only horrible to your health and frowned upon but alcohol is acceptable?
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1883/
I love the smell of a cigarette when it’s first lit. If they packed them well, it’s just the scent of the paper with a hint of tobacco. It’s a great smell for about a second, then it turns to the smell we all hate. But I miss the scent of a my parents’ and grandparents’ cigarettes, or maybe I just miss all the people who’ve died.
For a moment I thought this was a new one after last week's announcement.
Wake up at six. Drink coffee, and have a morning cigarette.

At seven I walk to my wife's house, wake up our child, feed him and take him to school.

Back home around eight AM, drink another coffee, turn on the laptop about 08:30 and work until four. Take an hours lunch break and walk around the neighbourhood for some air, space, and more smoking.
Please elaborate, how can you pick bad words for a passphrase? (Except obviously a movie title or an everyday sentence)

Like, if I go "street bologna drawer sunset fang", did I do well?
Honestly, I feel satisfied when I succeed. My job has long periods of scrambling in the dark for relatively few periods where everything works and you've made something great. I like the feelings of accomplishments when it finally works
We still do
When someone says that they drink, they usually either mean that they drink regularly or that they will drink again in the future. There are plenty of people who have consumed alcohol who never found much of a use for the stuff.
What about offline only managers?
I love headline writing.

Headline: "Forget google maps!!!!"

Article: "This [map] shows all the rivers in the U.S., with each color representing a different river basin."

I ain't navigating by color coded river basins, fellas!
>I go to a bar that is cashless and still see people have to leave because they only had cash (or didn't want to use their card).

I wouldn't patronize such a place because I'm not comfortable surrendering my credit card for an indeterminate amount of time, nor having any idea of how much money I've spent until I'm about to leave.
Yes, our magnetosphere has had extended periods (~hundreds of years) of being in a weakened state without disrupting all life on Earth. Our empirical evidence on the size of the impact is limited, mostly due to how long ago it was. It was a big enough impact that it did leave evidence.

It's not an humanity destroying event, but it is a big stressor on a world already going through a lot.
I just took a look and all jobs says hybrid. How it supposed to be globally remote?
I used to love having the freedom to figure out a need in whatever way made the most sense, without too much oversight, and working on things that actually helped people in the company. My only distractions from coding were Bi-weekly status meetings, and calls with future/current users to figure out their needs. Then scrum snuck it's way in under the guise of agile, and I've been a ball of anxiety ever since. Always either late for a meeting, or an arbitrary deadline, and unofficially spending most of my time teaching people with way better educations than me. I'm addicted to the money and healthcare, and because my contract forbids it I have no portfolio to show prospective new employers. It no longer feels like freedom, or problem solving, it feels like I'm stuck doing busy work, even though it's essentially the same job.
> Not sure how it happened or why

Obviously police are a diverse group, but certainly no white male police officer in his right mind would risk a violent encounter with a minority suspect in today’s political environment. If I were a cop, I’d get another job ASAP and focus on paperwork until I found one.
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The 1980 PBS “Lathe of Heaven” was excellent. Apparently Le Guin herself was involved to some extent in the production.
Thanks for clarifying.

My confusion stemmed from the fact that the bug is supposed to affect pixel 6 devices, which aren’t listed in the QPR2 updates but were explicitly mentioned in the update to r37p0.
Ask HN: Share sites that look good? Dribbble lookalikes not allowed
Looking out for well designed sites (or software) that looks and feels authentic. Any ideas?

Everything in the "Dribbble design bubble" is starting to become an eye sore.
It’s about getting robbed for drug money. The irony being that our huge population of visibly unhoused in our neighborhood (unlikely to have bank accounts) also correlates to the problem of being robbed for cash..leading to businesses not taking cash anymore for safety reasons.
I still think it's maddening that LastPass's website says that the vault is encrypted, yet in reality that wasn't and may still not be the case, where aspects of the vault as we now know aren't encrypted.

Unless I'm missing something, to me that is one of the biggest failures. It is even laid out in their technical and organizational measures document.
I recommend reading any actual research on ADHD instead - you'll find out that motivation deficit and executive dysfunction are pretty much its defining aspects, and that it's not quite about seeking "effortless risk-less pleasures".

For example:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9066661/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3010326/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2626918/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170216105919.h...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1744-9081-1-8

Even got you one directly related to this thread:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01651...

There's plenty of popsci too around the phrase "interest-based nervous system":

https://www.additudemag.com/secrets-of-the-adhd-brain/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/optimized/202107/the...
I get regular emails from Tarsnap users thanking me for making it possible for them to recover data which they lost. The work itself isn't all that satisfying, but knowing that it's having a positive impact is very satisfying.

Interestingly, nobody has ever written to thank me for keeping their data secure. But I suppose security is something which is generally only noticed when it's missing.
In defense of cashless, there is so much you don’t have to worry about as the business owner; yes the credit companies take a somewhat exhorbitant percentage but you don’t have to worry about having thousands of dollars in cash at the end of the day, don’t have to worry about employees skimming or making mistakes like coming in short. It also automates a ton of the accounting. So there are some benefits.
What about KeePassXC? CLI comes with its own risks so I would have thought it is not universally applicable.

Also what is this new rusty pass app you speak of? Sounds cool but you didn't link it. :(
> decent books

Such as?
Thanks for that! As someone who got into tech directly because of MUDs, it was sad to see TMS go.
Nice. Unlike the dev world where you can open github and find an infinity of open source projects, the rest of the world is much more opaque. It’ll be great if you open source the stacks you are building, write article how you are doing it, etc… I wonder if that will attract more people/devs into it and an open source energy develops around a bunch of these sectors.
Was trying to find out when it even became legal for insurers to even have a tobacco surcharge. That speaks to the power of the tobacco lobby.

I believe (iirc) that legality is quite recent (possibly from the ACA), but I'm pretty sure that is news within the last 20 years.

In that search, I spotted a study that stated the surcharge does not increase cessation but does decrease uptake. Which makes sense, tobacco has a higher relapse rate at 6 months than compared to relapse rates for cocaine or heroin.

High cig prices have a similar effect for youth smoking. Smoking is an infamous example of inelastic demand (that and gasoline were _the_ examples used when I was taught elastic vs in-elastic demand in grade school)
Actually they're working on embedding a verifiable, steganographic signature into GPT responses that would let them detect it's outputs later. It would basically bias common word choices in a subtle way that requires a private key to verify.
> Look man, it's Theo Ts'o maintaining the thing.

A grim/realistic view, but Theo is 55yo. As we get closer to 2038, he may not care much about it anymore, or may even die before. I really hope it's someone else we talk about as maintaining it soon.
There's a fourth option:

- You'll realize that building an organization not built on exploitation is not viable in an exploitative economic system. You'll always be undercut by companies treating their employees shittier, that's what capitalism optimizes for.
The American Astronaut is one of my all-time favorite movies, and I have never met anyone before, online nor real-life, who has even heard of that movie much less liked it.
I know what you mean. When the cashier at Whole Foods asks you, it does feel somewhat petty to say no. I think there was a South Park episode on that.

But if the POS asks you, it doesn't feel as personal to turn down the option to donate, don't you think?

Anyway, not married to the idea, but I think there are some people that enjoy the endorphins that result from contributing to a charitable cause (especially when discretionary spending, like on a latte).
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Even arcade consoles had ashtrays built in. Crazy.
Top grading stack ranks are devised by managers who fundamentally believes people are fungible widgets, and like a widget, have a defect rate that’s statistically analytic. I’ve rarely found an engineer I’ve hired that is worth letting go. Sometimes engineers come in and struggle at what they are assigned, but as a manager if I take the time to understand the person, rather than discarding the widget, I’ll find what they are good at and I can find a way to make them do that. There was always “something there” when we hired them, and it was my fault if I didn’t match them to the right work, style of working, or environment for working.

The managers of widgets are sad widgets. To be a person as a manager, you have to manage people.
Yea, basically this is a data collection front end. I too hate where you can't pay without cash though I'll bend if no other alternatives are avaialble.
You must have not been to Japan.
Thanks, this was a great explanation!
That sounds like a good idea. Using device-specific keys sounds a lot like Keybase to my naïve ears. Are there any major differences in your design and theirs?
> and (slim concern) robbery - things that, depending on the area and the market, are theoretical.

If your bar is being hit every week for robbery, the chance is no longer theoretical or a slim concern. Not sure about that bar, but marijuana dispensaries here get hit weekly because they are a cash only business. If the feds allowed it, they would go card-only very quickly.
If your password is very long and randomly generated and not used anywhere else then probably not. But it doesn’t hurt.

The iterations count regulates how fast an attacker can check a guess of the clear text.
In that case, I would say you're a finitist (which, as the name seems to suggest, is fine).

The set theory approach gives seemingly clear answers to all of these questions by talking about domains and ranges of functions, rather than talking about what is or isn't an "inexhaustible number". There are potentially different correspondences available, represented by different functions; some possible correspondences may follow the "if you select corresponding to itself in preference" pattern, while others don't. = and ≤ for cardinalities are defined using existence of certain functions between sets.

However, you don't have to believe that any infinite sets exist or that we should be allowed to quantify over them, or that we should attempt to define cardinality for infinite sets at all. Still, as Dana Scott said in a related context, "if you want more, you have to assume more".
I haven’t seen one in a new car in more than ten years. I do not live in CA, though, I live in the US. I think they just stopped adding them all together. Why spend an extra $0.01 per car (or whatever it really costs) when most people don’t need or want the lighter?
Who said those are the only two choices available? False dichotomy
I am an American who has been living in Sydney for years and who stopped tipping here after getting used to it not being expected - but it has gotten a little weird/muddied of late. First it was Uber and the food delivery apps - and I did tip there because the app asked and I knew that in the gig economy the workers were not paid well (unlike others in Australia).

Then I have been to a few restaurants lately that the card machine (often a US-based one like Square) asks for a tip as a mandatory thing (i.e. you have to say no or type 0 to get past it). And the waiter/waitress will stand behind you watching/waiting with the machine they bring to your table. This never happened before - and I do admit that I have started leaving $10-$20 or something if I was happy with the service when this has been forced on me (depending on the size of the bill and the mood I've been in).

I did this with a work drinks with a customer the other day and my Aussie boss called me out on it "what is this tip on here - we don't do this in Australia". And I was like "I was in front of a customer the machine asked me - did you want me to say zero and possibly look cheap/unkind?".

So it is somewhat creeping into things here. Curious the views of other Aussies on how they are dealing with it? Am I just slipping back into this because I am an American and was used to it being a thing?
And interestingly there's a strong argument to be made that gun control has already been implemented by the conservatives of a different era to hurt a specific out-group people were conditioned into hating at the time.

https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-...
I see this as an education problem. People need to be taught the specific rules of credit scores in addition to general personal finance.
Code I wrote 20 years ago is center of a patent lawsuit against Facebook
Number one is because I get to solve problems, and there are lots of points other people hit here too.
Circa 2006 I saw a friend who was a manager do exactly this. There wasn't stack ranking. He just kept a low performer on his team to sacrifice to the RIFs when they came through.
Yeah I've had difficulty renting apartments for 8 years because "LeasingDesk" falsely reported that I owed a past landlord $36,000. No one ever told me this is why my applications always faced long delays, additional scrutiny, increasingly insane documentation requirements, and huge security deposits.

Finally I asked my most recent apartment complex "WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?" and they were like "uhh this report..." and I spent 3 months getting LeasingDesk to deny, deny, and finally admit/accept my claim that they had bad data.

It was a nightmare to get it fixed. They just said "No, the data is correct because we called your old apartment complex and they said it was correct." Because LeasingDesk was acting in good faith I could only sue my old apartment complex for misreporting it, I couldn't use CFPB to force LeasingDesk to fix it.

So yeah, its not just Experian/TransUnion/Equifax....there are dozens and dozens and dozens of data brokers acting as credit bureaus. Right now the only protections consumers have from them come from the CFPB but if that's ever abolished we'll only have lawyers and torts.
DOS syscalls are an outgrowth of the CP/M hardware abstraction. It isn't tied to x86.
There has been a deplorable profusion of dark patterns in restaurant checkout UIs, such as offering preselected tip amounts set along a 18-20-25% scale (standard used to be 15%), making it quite difficult to leave a custom tip, etc.

Add to this various "surcharges" and other mandatory fees added for this or that (my favorite: mandatory "resort fees" for hotels - seriously why is that not just rolled into the price of the stay?), and the service industry in the US has a serious price transparency crisis. It is quite literally impossible to predict the final cost of service, so as a rule of thumb I have come to generally expect to be out of pocket about 50% - 80% more than the listed price.

Any other country would call this fraud.
It’s extremely difficult to get new keywords into the language. This is a very large part of the reason we can only have new functionality in the library.
papa?
Pays the bills, WFH, no overtime and stable company
This is great, I'm so tired of writing \frac{1}{2}. Got my VSCode markup set up with this now, looking forward to some easier typing this semester.
Microtransactions have made their way into real life.
It's a technical problem that feels like it should be easy to solve but turns out it's not.

And also turns out it's sufficiently difficult that not many people are interested in solving it/believe it can be solved. I'm here to prove them wrong.
> I’ve rarely found an engineer I’ve hired that is worth letting go.

Unfortunately, all of us cannot claim this. There certainly are engineers who need to be let go.