skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The discussion in the article is poor.

* Yes, symmetric encryption is better than the asymmetric encryption in terms of resistance to brute force attacks. However, as soon as you type in the password in a login page, it will be protected by an asymmetric encryption in TLS. All data in transit is protected by asymmetric encryption, often RSA 2048.

On the other hand, asymmetric encryption is better than symmetric encryption in that it doesn’t need the private key for encrypting a password. This reduces the exposure of the private key.

* The fact that the file names may not be encrypted is part of the appeal. In exchange, you get: passwords live in sort of their own sandbox environments. If the local machine is compromised, while a password is read, other passwords are not affected (see the next item on smart cards).

This is great: with a single-database, as you frequently extract unimportant passwords, your important passwords, say your bank account password, is decrypted too, and at risk. Further, with a single database, it’s difficult to frequently type in the master password; so the database is usually unlocked in local machine, with all passwords loaded in RAM.

* A GPG key can be put in a smart card. Every touch of the Yubikey gives up only one password.

* There are many password managers with self- rolled cryptography. The code has very rarely been audited, even for keepassxc. A lot of code is involved, with GUIs, complex databases, apps, and plug-ins. You want to outsource the cryptography to a well audited codebase. OpenPGP and GPG have been throughly reviewed.

Pass is a simple short bash script that you can actually audit it yourself. That’s very important to security.

* The directory can be encrypted by a wrapper, see gopass and similar.

* GPG 2.3 has introduced AEAD modes, such as ChaCha-Poly. So there is now authenticated encryption (there is MDC which is outdated). You could also sign the encryption, which is a proper authentication.

There are also newer tools such as Passage using Age encryption (though some tools such as agent is missing). Passage uses PIV applet of the Yubikey, so you can have multiple keys.

* Symmeyric encryption allows for 256 bits of security. In practice, it’s difficult to frequently type in and rotate such key. People use much weaker passwords. You can use a key file, but that’s plaintext in local system.

* The secrets have to be entered by command line a lot of times. Pass works great with piping etc.

I strongly suggest using a Yubikey with Pass or passage.
You get strong security conveniently with a weak PIN code.
Intentionally having another kid right before being jailed for 11 years is selfish. If that isn’t obvious, you’re welcome to ask. When the kids grow up, just ask them how they feel about the kind of abandonment that you and Elizabeth Holmes believe in.

Well, assuming the kids haven’t cut off contact with their failed parent.
Reading a bunch of responses, I feel like I should qualify my initial comment slightly - I really meant it as being specific to these circumstances, in which the largest/most successful companies are doing layoffs.

I generally work at early-stage startups, and I 100% agree with you - at those, if layoffs start, barring some extraordinary circumstances, it's time to get the hell out because your options are about to be worth bupkis.

When it's FAANG, etc. I don't think that's true. Amazon and Microsoft can lay off swathes of people and still have plausible outcomes in which their stock prices are higher in a year or two (perhaps even more plausible than they were pre-layoff).
Well, in reality...

This is the kind of shenanigan that happens when you use an OS where the widespread norm is to run highly privileged executables with full access to your home (and desktop) dirs in order to install software. Or really uses full filesystem mutability for package/software installation.

Because I'd be willing to bet a pretty serious amount of money that someone tweaked the Edge MSI installer/updater package and accidentally re-triggered the "First Install Icon to Desktop" step on upgrades. Edge updates very, very frequently and Boom, bug.
Yes, but the 'lowest' cost path is then travel to cycle, go round loop infinity times, and then go to destination.
My understanding was that privacy.com is just a “detached service” implementation of something that many European banks offer natively as a feature of having a credit card (or even just a chequing account) with them; and that privacy.com was only viable as a business because, for some reason, American banks are (or were at the time) totally unwilling to build anything like this, so people were willing to settle for a (strictly worse from a “privacy” perspective) third-party-MITM-proxy card if it meant having this feature.

I’d suggest, rather than looking for a “detached service” that does this, look at what (probably larger) European banks besides than your own offer their customers built-in.
The trick I describe in this article - using embedding similarity to find relevant content, then constructing a prompt to try to answer a question - is showing up in a whole bunch of different places right now.

https://github.com/jerryjliu/gpt_index is a particularly interesting implementation under very active development at the moment.
One doesn't need that, but one certainly wants that. Value is not just what you create directly but also indrectly (such as rising moral in the company, attracting people etc.).
I mean, that is just funny. Having your IoT device in your own home break because of a change in your employment status is objectively bad UX, from a Google device, happening to a Google UX exec.
Abe's assassination was an anomaly. Japan is far more peaceful than America (I'm an American)--rather than pretending Japan more violent than the US, you might prefer the more accurate argument: Japan's low crime is attributable to its strong traditional values, homogeneity, conformity, etc.
I seem to remember a CNN article interviewing citizens just after 2018, when the majority party of republicans were installed. They campaigned on reducing/killing welfare, as they do. The citizenry that were interviewed seriously thought it was "reducing welfare for those people. We didnt think they meant us".
It is just experience. Look at Germany. They are building ONE power line from north to south called SuedLink, they started planning in 2013 and operation should start in 2026. Maybe.

So it is completely correct to take current state of the network and consider it virtually unchanged for decades to come.
It’s the more exclusive private parties where the real influence is wielded. Like convincing Japan to give Negative Interest Rate Policies a go as an experiment to see if it would work for the rest of us.
From an outsider perspective the obvious goals to fix is health care, homelessness and housing. For some reason people jump into completely tangential things like UBI. America has both the strength and intelligence. Does it have the will? If not, why?
I'm also interested in knowing which law-enforcement divisions are actively interested in taking on fraud cases -- if the community finds it, which divisions and prosecutors are fired up about chasing down online fraud?

Seems like a great way for an ambitious team to make a popular difference in the world.
While I don't agree with this single reduction of the cause to just "imitation", I do really like his views on jobs in general.

One quote I remember him saying is "You should never have to leave a job involuntarily".

An interesting way to think about this is to read any CEO's book on leadership and compare it to the actions they have taken in the last few years to see if it represents authenticity or imitation. If imitation works, then you ought to do it. Which seems to be working for these companies especially looking at hiring trends over the last few years and the layoffs recently. Imitation is at the heart of human survival after all.

It just sucks that in the world of knowledge work, the division of labor is still there. Many knowledge workers are capable of becoming specialists in relatively short periods of time. But rather the focus remains hiring new people who have the specialty today. That seems to me to be a big takeaway for these companies who lay off already loyal employees, culture fits, and show the curious persistence of learning.
Is there an equivalent for Python? Which one is most widely used?
I recently wrote a toy barebones compiler for amd64 x86_64 It cannot compile anything significant besides addition and multiplication expressions yet but I think the code is educational.

My dream is to write a JIT compiler that is similar to HolyC. I want it to be expressive and powerful and parallel and concurrent.

I do live range analysis and simple register allocation.

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/compiler
You won't have to put your entire life on break in order to understand the fundamentals of git and why it works the way it works. Going through https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/ and really understanding the material will take you a couple of hours at max, but will save you a lot of time in the future.

Wanting to understand things before using them is hardly elitism, not sure why you would think that.

Just like you probably don't want to fix bugs without understand the cause, it's hard to use a tool correctly unless you know how the tool works.
Hence management taking a bigger cut.

Some solutions to this include furlough rather that straight cuts. Those do reduce some infrastructure costs. I can’t reduce service staff and contract work at all if everyone is working 40 hours a week still. We use the same toilet paper, water, electricity, other consumables and depreciating equipment. A saw blade cuts X feet of metal. But I can trim if everyone is working 37 hours.
It has accidentally utility: speculation.

That's only good until enough people get burned so bad they never touch it again. Then it has completely no utility.

Gold has survived as a speculative vehicle because it's been relatively stable over a much longer time period. That, and unlike Bitcoin, gold is actually a physical asset that is not held together by (wasting) electricity.
Oversight? Hardly. You don’t seem to understand the purpose of copyright to begin with.

The purpose of copyright is to progress science and useful arts. Period. Any action taken in the name of copyright that does not progress science and useful arts is unsupported by law.

What else do we know about copyright? A copyright can apply only to creative expressions. While the bar for sufficient creativity is intentionally low, it is non-zero.

Another thing we know is that purely functional expressions are not copyrightable. When does an expression go beyond being a function expression to a creative expression? That’s up to a judge. Since code is math and math, by itself, cannot be copyrighted, when an expression reaches the level of creative expression must be beyond the math. Updating a database field, factoring primes, or using data correction algorithms are not creative expressions.

Now for AI. Only humans may own copyrights. The output of an AI is not copyrightable. But what if the input was copyrighted?

When it comes to software code, AI will value expressions that are commonly used more so than uncommon ones. But software code is, by it’s very nature, an intertwined collection of copyrightable (creative) and non-copyrightable (functional) expressions. If AI values commonly used expressions, those expressions are highly unlikely to be creative enough for copyright protection in the first place.

So we have a circumstance where AI is trained on copyrighted but Open Source code. Yet the code itself is comprised of both creative (presumably) and functional code, with no clear delineation of what is and what is not protectable.

Lastly, many authors do not understand what constitutes a creative expression that is protectable by copyright. The amount of work required to create the expression is meaningless. Manipulating data to thresh out something interesting is not creative. Let’s just face it that most software is comprised of mostly functional expressions that are not protectable. Back to that “math” problem again!

The big take-away? The purpose of copyright is to progress science and useful arts, not to build walls around ideas and concepts (which, by themselves, are not protectable).
I'd rather join a company post-layoff than pre-layoff.
Also, in some countries it is illegal to do a paycut.
Fair points, I've checked source code and you are right, shm is indeed only used for editing, otherwise pipes are used.
Plus inflation on top.
Worth mentioning that several banks offer virtual credit card numbers as a built-in feature so you don't need a separate service: https://www.doctorofcredit.com/list-of-banks-which-offer-vir...

I've only used this for the sketchiest of vendors though. Chargebacks are pretty easy for the once-a-decade event where I get billed for something incorrectly.
To be fair there's also a lot of leftists who protest WEF, G7/8/20, etc. There is also left populism...

There's a lot of merit to face to face meetings - if you could have a date over FaceTime or in real life, which would you prefer? - and of course it's only the elite/influential people who are invited, they're the ones with the power to change things. Whether or not they're capable of fixing the world or if their hands are somewhat tied because of politics or shareholder motivations, is a different question.

For some populism: I do think most politicians/elites care more about their career/wallet rather than the world.
So instead of finding docs that are semantically similar to the question, you find docs that are semantically similar to a fake answer to the question.

Is the intuition that an answer (even if wrong) will be closer to the targets, than will a question?

Tangent: this reminds me of Cunningham's Law: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
Round numbers: 0.5m per pixel at 300dpi is 150m per inch so a 1km box is 7 inches by 7 inches. My city website has aerial survey data that looks to be much higher resolution data so you could also try there.
It's remarkable that I so often lapse in my meditation practice when it's such a short time commitment and so consistently improves my mood. I tell myself that morning yoga is enough or a walking meditation while taking the dog out is enough - I do those every day without fail. But they're not the same as seated breath work.

Why do other mood improvement habits seem more approachable, like making a cup of tea or exercise or a shower, while sitting and breathing seems harder?
I think the stock market agrees. Stocks tick up after a first round of layoffs. It’s seen as fat trimming.
computers wasn't something anyone could make publish right, internet was easier to get into, for computers you needed companies like IBM and MS.
> Your chances of being shot outside of an inner city ghetto is so small as to be negligible. You've been brainwashed by sensationalist news.

So have you. Just the word ghetto shows how disconnected you are from reality (sorry) - I haven't heard it in the city for decades. Your chance of getting shot anywhere is very tiny. People live and work, every day, for their entire lives in the highest-crime neighborhoods; almost all of them never get shot. They aren't idiots or monsters; they are normal people. If it was that dangerous, they would find a way to move. You could go there right now and you'd be fine. (And still, too many people are getting shot.)
Negative cycles are bad for the exact reason you said. Not "bad" from the perspective of "let's lower the cost as much as possible", but "bad" from the perspective that it violates certain assumptions of Dikjstra's algorithm which leads it to produce incorrect results.

When have a negative weight cycle, you can drive down the cost to be arbitrarily low by running through that cycle as many times as you'd like. What does "shortest path" or "lowest cost path" mean in this context then?

More info: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13159337/why-doesnt-dijk...
Microsoft reported [$83 billion in operating income for 2022](https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar22/index.html) and fired 12.000+ employees.
DUDE, WAKE UP!
> a bit more obvious

I.e. obviously worse. Much worse.
Fuck Sonos. Their products are truly awful. I have a Sonos sound bar that is the single worst piece of audio equipment I've ever owned. Half the time it doesn't connect to the TV even though it's plugged in, and you have to download their stupid app, open it, connect via bluetooth, bla, bla, bla. It's a fucking speaker. I should be able to plug it into the TV and it should just work. I don't need your fucking app that for some godforsaken reason requires access to my location data, I don't need this connected to WiFi, I just want sound.

Chromecast, on the other hand, I find to be a very useful invention. So thank you, Sonos, for helping to ruin that product as well, and helping to make the world just a wee bit worse.
Regardless of where we draw the line of reactability, with a sufficient number of rollback frames, a move that was on the reactable side will shift to the unreactable side.
If you were Montezuma, would you prefer to advertise your presence so that it would be visible from Spain, or would rather try to conceal your presence?
We need to have broad discussion and consensus to establish three things 1) How to pass the value created by AI and automation to all levels of the human society and nature 2) How to make sure there is equitable access to power of computing and AI and 3) Ensure governance of these forces to ensure benefits to all of society.

Don’t worry they are not my words. They are Sam Layman’s but they make damn good sense to me. Unless of course we want to stay in this mode for ever.
I should tell you as the publisher of a large game engine that performance absolutely does matter and it will eat you alive after it is too late and you've invested too many years into a particular language ecosystem.
> 1) In my career, I've never seen layoffs which were at all good at selecting the bottom 10%. Who gets dropped is pretty random.

This is very true, and I would say definitely the biggest weakness of my point. In a theoretical world in which you can drop the bottom 10% of performers, I think that's clearly the right thing to do, but obviously practice is not the same as theory.

I will say the one other thing about 10% paycuts for these companies that would drive me out is that the companies are still making lots of money. If you're in a business where belt-tightening is plausibly necessary (something that has boom/bust cycles, for example, and hits a particular bad bust one), maybe I can accept a pay cut. If you're cutting my pay but still maintaining a shareholder dividend, I am gone.
Was gonna suggest the same! I use this countless of times. It's really cool how you can push/pull to a bunch of different things, including directories, ssh hosts, anything that can act as a directory (network mounted FUSE directories) and more.

Personally I use it a lot for backing up git repositories to a USB stick where I have a backup of every single repository + its branches and commits in case I ever need to recover from them. And I can keep my GitHub remotes clean without 100s of branches.
>you can save your own money for retirement without anyone's contribution towards your pension

No, that won't work. Money is only worth as much as the goods and services it will pay for, and those goods and services have to be provided by the labour of the working young. If there aren't enough young people to meet that demand for labour, prices will rise, and the purchasing power of those pensions will evaporate.

(This is why the "triple lock" and other such schemes are so evil; by pegging state pensions to inflation, they unfairly lock in the purchasing power of a lucky generation, in defiance of all economic logic.)
That’s all it takes, at least for me. Instant (minor) headache at low frame rate panning. Same in games running under 30 fps. I get migraines and nausea from longer exposure.
> Herpesviruses infect neurons and cause lifelong infections

No, you're abusing terminology to exaggerate. Herpes viruses establish dormancy, which is not the same thing as an active infection.

Are the viruses in the cells, somewhere, in low numbers? We don't actually know (your claim about protein expression change and hiding from the immune system is a hypothesis, not a fact). We know that viruses in the family go dormant -- stop causing visible symptoms -- and periodically recur. There's a huge leap from that to "causes long-term neural cell death and disability".

> I don’t think we should brush off the possibility of such an infection having long-term neurodegenerative effects (most likely combined with other necessary factors).

I'm not saying we should "brush off the possibility". I'm saying that it's a hypothesis, and it needs to be shown to be true before insinuating that it is a known fact.
Most of all, it isn't part of the global populist, reactionary conservative movement.
> I felt a bit crazy pushing back on this--surely, using more variables and more parameters will make the model fit historical data more closely, and a model which fits historical data more closely will fit future data more closely, and a model which fits future data more closely will be more useful?

> Explaining why this is wrong is really hard.

Seems straightforward. Points 1 and 3 are correct; point 2 is false.
Hmm, not across the whole pipeline though. For instance, 35mm film tops around the equivalent of 12k columns of resolution, while a lot of digital cinemas are still equipped with 2k projectors.
Perhaps before starting a walk buy a crêpe at La Crêperie de Hampstead, if the queue isn't so bad. The crêpes make excellent walking companions.
> Roe was decided by conservatives

Roe was decided by the Burger court, which, according to Wikipedia, "is generally considered to be the last liberal court to date". It was heavily based on a Griswold v. Connecticut precedent by the Warren court, generally agreed to be the most liberal Supreme Court in US history. Both of these verdicts were and continue to be widely criticized by conservatives as being based on extremely dubious reasoning. I don't know what made you think that Roe was "decided by conservatives".

There is a lot historical revisionism involved around these issues, with many people making blatantly false claims, either lying, or being themselves mistaken. The result is that people who have not lived through it, or who have not studied the history diligently, are very much misled as to the facts, because the media, which is very good and active at correcting lies and falsehoods spread by conservatives, takes approximately zero efforts to correct falsehoods spread by liberals (often it in fact acts with clear intent of spreading misapprehensions, by selective reporting and careful omission of facts).
> And people also hyperventilate on their own, but mostly preparatory to diving or holding their breath for some other reason.

It's common for people to hyperventilate in the midst of a panic attack, and the common advice I've seen is to encourage a panicked person to take deep breaths. Strange to see it as a consideration for beneficial effects. As a kid I'd hyperventilate to feel dizzy because it was fun (oops was I getting high?)
They are monetising by tapping into "hidden gamblers".
Except sighing isn't generally a natural response to stress, but a response to boredom.

So maybe it's consciously emulating a natural behavior matching a lower-stress state, to help shift to that state.

From personal experience, the deep inhalation preceding a sigh (extended exhalation) is also helpful.
Try turning off the colour improvement settings on your TV. It was a good series, I enjoyed it.