skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smoking is divine. Eh, sorry, I mean Cigarettes are Sublime

https://www.dukeupress.edu/cigarettes-are-sublime

Ashtrays may go along into the dark arts of secret knowledge, along with hooking up a modem, coding your own BBS, repairing your own leather boots, starting a fire to cook dinner over, etc. But something human, something tactile, something that carries with it dangers and pleasures and the competence to determine your own safety, gets lost each time we're proud that the next generation doesn't have to think about these things and can't even conceive of them. I don't really think it's human advancement to throw out the bad things if it means forgetting what they are and why they were bad; then we're doomed to repeat our mistakes. Cigarettes are unquestionably a net negative, but if you haven't understood the pleasure and beauty of them, you can't really understand what makes them tempting. Just like you can't understand what makes religion tempting if you're an atheist, or what makes sex tempting if you're asexual. Yet these things we look down on are all parts of the human experience, and if all you do is look down on things that you never partook of, you really aren't well-qualified to decide whether they had merit.
> Both Bitwarden and LastPass should improve this situation by making the iteration count automatically increase over time.

Bitwarden does let you increase the number of PBKDF2 iterations through a setting, they they also provide this warning:

> Warning: Setting your KDF iterations too high could result in poor performance when logging into (and unlocking) Bitwarden on devices with slower CPUs. We recommend that you increase the value in increments of 50,000 and then test all of your devices.

Translation: upping this could make your old device very slow.

I'm not sure I'd want to be receiving end of a whole pile of users complaining Bitwarden is becoming unusable on their current devices because they silently upped it, so I'm be leery of upping for existing users too.

As for the server side key issue highlighted in the article: they have a point; it could be done better. But it's already pretty good, and if that's the only issue it's the least of my concerns. It's only a concern if a hacker got read access to the server, but read access means they've been compromised. And if they've been compromised those same people might have write access. If someone gets write access to Bitwarden's servers, then all bets are off. They can just modify the javascript to send themselves my unencrypted key.

Then there is the /dev/mem thing. The bottom line is if someone has access to your machines RAM, then you can likely see the entire database unencrypted. Is your Windows desktop "corporate managed"? If so, I'm looking at you, sir. While Linux / Android / iOS are more protective of their users than Microsoft (who seems hell bent on selling their soul to their corporate customers), they aren't whole pile better. They may not sell their soul to high paying corporate customers, but they will still do whatever their governments ask and you will be none the wiser.

The bottom line is all these proprietary solutions suffer from this "we won't let you see but we promise you can trust us" flaw. I refused to use LastPass because it was hopeless in that respect, and later their promises turned out to be hollow. With Bitwarden there is a lot less trust involved because we can inspect the code they promise we are running.
Yes. I hated Chess almost all my life, then got really into it a few years ago. I'm still very bad, mostly because I'm optimizing for having fun completely at the expense of getting better (e.g. I only play 5 minute games, which are terrible for learning but, hey, that's what I like). So caveat here that I might not be the best person to ask :)

Having said that, what really helped me other than various tutorials is the basic goal of the game. The goal seems like it's to checkmate, and I focused a lot of effort on that. And that is theoretically the goal.

But really, most of the time, especially in the beginning, you're not going to be spotting fancy checkmates and neither are your opponents. So your main focus in the beginning should actually be about winning a material advantage (capturing something of theirs without them capturing you in return.) Then, once you have an advantage, just try to trade off all the other pieces until there's nothing left.

I didn't understand this idea at first. But it makes sense like this - if you have the full board, except the opponent is missing a rook, anything can still happen. But imagine now almost all the pieces are gone, except you have that extra rook and he doesn't. Now, it's a much easier and winnable game, and there's nothing the opponent can do anymore. Of course you have to know how to win a rook endgame, but that's fairly easy to drill.

So my advice - drill how to win with two Rooks, with a Queen, and with one Rook. Then most games boil down to trying to get some extra material, and then trading off all the pieces, and then winning that endgame.
The current epitome of this currently being Complex Doom Invasion.
I wonder how I could signal my willingness to be a H2F candidate. I could see doing this, for example, to make a few bucks in pre-retirement: 1. Get hired as the sacrificial lamb, 2. Do nothing (or the bare minimum) for 11 months, 3. Start interviewing again one month before I know I’ll be stack-rank fired, 4. Get hired as another sacrificial lamb at a different company that does stack ranking, 5. Goto 2.

Everybody wins. I get a salary for doing nothing. Hiring manager protects his team from a cruel system. High-and-medium-performing coworkers are secure in their jobs. Recruiters meet their hiring goals.
This feels plausible but I think it is really nonsense.

Processing fees are not unique to cash. Banks charge cash processing fees to businesses too, and have for ever. Most shops will deposit all the cash received at the end of the day - perhaps every few days - with a bank.
Are there smarter math markup languages that take advantage of Unicode and allow entering actual math symbols instead of spelling every name?
It's just that on a proper computer it's easy to set up a few (or many if you typeset math alot) actual math symbols that would take as much or less effort to type, but look way more readable even in the unparsed format

For example,

∑(i=1)^n instead of

sum_(i=1)^n

√x instead of

sqrt x
You mean Nb? I oftn vx that derangd mothr fuckr furthr than he deservs. ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11415473

>I am looking forward to the day that AP starts replacing the missing penultimate "e"'s in the poorly spelled names of companies that were too cheap to buy the correct domain name, like Flickr and Flattr.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11526636

>What really impresses me about Viber is the way they went all out and splurged with an honest to god penultimate "e" before the final "r". Most dot-com companies would have settled for "Vibr", but they went the distance and bought an authentic luxurious vowel, precisely where it was called for, without going overboard and throwing in a sometimes-vowel "y" in place of the "i". Very bold and straightforward spelling, I must say. Color me impressed!

>>Viber is an Israeli company, don't be so judgmental of their poor startup spelling skills.

>>>No, you misunderstand: I am truly and earnestly impressed by their good spelling, not criticizing any bad grammar. If they'd named it "Vybr," it would have come off like Steve Buscemie holding a skateboard over his shoulder wearing a MUSIC BAND t-shirt, desperately trying to appeal to the youth demographic.

>>>>Read that one again with </sarcasm> at the end :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14489564

>The fact that its name is missing the penultimate "e" should have clued people in that it was an over-hyped up sham.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16822776

>2004 called. They want their missing penultimate "e" back.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19483596

>I dunno -- the name "credder" sounds much more authoritative and trustworthy to me than "spidr", because they didn't leave out the penultimate "e".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29068627

>At least he didn't call it "Canvasr"! The missing-penultimate-e-suffix is so tird, not wird.
I also have an rsync backup that looks to see if I'm on a certain network and then runs the backup accordingly.

It's sufficient. I'm not doing things that important
Neat.

This one[0], "Pink Moss", is not moss. 芝桜 is Phlox subulata[1], which has common names including the word "moss", but it is not moss.

[0]: https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=ZYorsh

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlox_subulata
Elixir also fits every one of those points plus OTP. I think even Spring Boot matches those advantages, except for a working REPL. Or is there a way to use JShell on a running app? I don't know. But Spring Boot apps are super quick to get started on. Much faster than Rails in the boiler plate department.
Employees spend half their waking hours at work. That's a huge opportunity cost. I don't get where the idea comes from that they take no risk!
If it really comes to all of that I doubt they can hide in their ranches.. and even if they can, what will they do there for months or years?

These ranches seem more like a symbol.. to show the people with less money: "See, I can go there and you cannot."
> The service industry is what you do in high school or college

most people working in the service industry are not teenagers and college kids. For restaurants and fast food joints adult workers are more common.

https://datausa.io/profile/soc/fast-food-and-counter-workers

https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-workers-older-88-percen...

The average retail worker is over 40.

These aren't "summer jobs" for pocket money or children's first steps into the workforce, they're the jobs adults depend on to keep their rent/utilities paid and their families fed.

Someone 25 years of age and older can deliver exceptional service, they just aren't paid enough to care to.
That is awesome! When you say: what the price on the menu is that is what the customer pays; does it include sales tax as well? If so, def a very happy development and pretty much revolutionary for being in the US.
If not, is it something you could consider doing? I think it would be the next natural step :)
Disclaimer: I’m Swedish, all prices in Sweden everywhere is always including everything, you’ll never pay more than what you see.
>Some people are legitimately addicted.

And some people aren't fit to serve on submarines.
A few days ago I got dinner delivered, and I added a $5 tip through the app (which came out to about 22%). When the delivery person came, he expressed disappointment about the size of the tip, which really surprised me. As much as I know that it would be better for businesses to pay better wages rather than tips being expected, I also know that the system being unfair isn't any consolation to workers who are just trying to make a living and don't have any power over the situation, so I've always tried to make sure that I give a sizable tip whenever receiving any sort of service where it might be expected. I admit that I haven't had any recent discussions with anyone who relies on tips to make a living in the past several years (the last one that I remember was a discussion with my older brother who had waited tables at a restaurant for several years), but my general understanding was that 15% tends to be low enough to not make up for below minimum wage that restaurants can get away with paying due to exceptions in law for jobs where tips are expected, but that 20% was a good baseline. Has this expectation changed in recent years? (Based on the specific wording of the complaint, I know that the delivery person did see the exact amount I tipped, so I don't think that the complaint was due to the app taking a share, but I guess I don't know for sure since he might have assumed I knew that or didn't think to mention it).
Oh new technic, our students could learn faster and easier but we fear our old school crap way to learn things must be change then, let’s ban it and pray to heaven…
Creating Better Avatars with a Dual-Domain Approach
"So to answer your question with a question, to which kind of socialism are you referring?"

Obviously Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and add Pol Pot to that list, among Che Guevara and Castro.
Good intentions, but horrible outcome.

"Then there's communism in which, in it's final form, there is no state at all. The latter may not even be possible"

And it is up to debate and depends greatly how you would define "state".

Humans have existed and lived, before formal states were a thing, so it is definitely possible, but apart from that, Humans will always have organisations, to well, organize things. The question is, are these organisations mandatory and formal, or not. And then there are informal hierachies etc. so the main question is, will things improve and how and why, when we get rid of the nation states.
> how so? The iteration count must be part of the non-encrypted parts of the vault data. If a client is offline, it will use its locally stored vault with the old (lower) iteration count. If it's online, it will have the updated vault with the higher iteration count.

The iteration count affects the encryption key, and bitwarden neither has the old encryption key nor the actual password to derive either.

So the vault has to be updated at the first device connection after updating the iterations count, and any other device will have to derive the new encryption key and log back in.
Are you sure? Heart attacks and strokes main outcome of smoking, not lungs diseases?
As an ex-smoker, I'd ask you to consider it as about the most addictive thing going.

Think of something you really, really like doing. Something that calms or pleases you every time you do it. Like, playing a game, or reading a book, or eating your favourite food. Now imagine someone telling you that you don't have to do that, it's just a choice. Imagine being deprived of it and being guilt-tripped into it.

Sure you can wean yourself off it, but it'll take effort - uncomfortable, painful effort - and you might fail.

And meanwhile some idiot on the internet is saying it's all just a choice.

It is an addiction that was designed to be addictive by the manufacturers. It has never been a "mere choice". That first cigarette or two, maybe, but addiction is awful and horrible and doesn't deserve to be denigrated and reduced by flippancy.
We’re talking about serving on a submarine, in the military. Quality of life takes a back seat to health and safety, performance, and the mission itself. Personal space and weight are extremely limited on board.

What you’re suggesting is that smokers be given special accommodation by having their own room for smoking. Furthermore, they would need to be provided with special equipment to filter the air to remove all of the smoke produced by their smoking, otherwise it would spread throughout the other compartments as soon as they open the door to leave the smoking room.

Is any of this reasonable? I don’t think it is. The only reasonable accommodation I can think of would be to allow smokers to bring a supply of nicotine gum or patches.
> that would risk Google losing its lustre for talented programmers.

I suspect that ship has already sailed, any of the postdocs or senior software engineers I know wouldn't touch Google with a 10-foot pole these days. There's a feeling I suspect that they've become too corporate, and that they could fire you pretty much anytime and the first thing you'd know about it would be your access card suddendly not working.
How much money you lose by counting money and depositing it into a bank?
Also calculating the tip including the tax, instead of just the products/service provided.

(Shouldn't be tipping on tax, if you really want to send it to the IRS. :)
The management is the one holding a grudge for something he did in the past. Not a lot of "turning the other cheek" for someone who you can bury into tasks and come back with reward.

Good management can de-escalate the situation and exploit his personality to work the system better. Not a lot of management Chess going on here, just people valuing feelings over making money. Not paying the guy the fair market worth for the work he did, isn't going to make him any more nice to work with.
Easy to do if one is starting now with computers but not an option for those who already invested time and money on Apple hardware and use it for their daily work.
In these context I would rather suggest to buy (or build, which is also fun and instructive) a 2nd PC machine running whatever the user wants. This would also helps to keep the two worlds separated (work|tinkering). That involves some money for sure, but if the user has a job involving Apple products, chances are that a much more affordable platform like a PC won't be a problem.
Sorry, Microsoft has never really been able to deliver on anything, particularly consumer-facing. They're heavily reliant on enterprise and Office. What makes you think they'll be able to successfully combine Bing with GPT?
I disagree.

The root cause is that homes are in part appraised (for mortgage purposes) on hypothetical rebuild costs, so this is a way to make those rebuild costs higher (and justify why you’re paying $500k for something that cost $40k in 1980).

If it weren’t car garages, it would be kitchens.

Cars are a separate problem, as evidenced by the extreme housing prices in some of America’s least car reliant cities (NYC, SF, Boston, DC, etc.).
Google achieved market dominance for its excellent search product that was superior to competitors well before it grew huge and started hiring in large numbers.
> you are actually implying that service in Canada is somehow particularly great.

I was saying that service in Canada is noticeably "better" than service in Australia.

So what I'm actually implying, is that service in Australia is quite "lacking". By lacking I mean nobody "waits" on you. You often order at the bar, pickup your own food and cutlery, re-fil your own water and walk to the bar to buy yourself a drink.

Even a "sit down" restaurant will really only take your order and bring your food, nothing more. Fancier is different, but then you're paying more for the food.

As I said, I'm perfectly happy with that level of "service" because it means no tipping.

Of course, minimum wage in Australia is $21.38 with benefits, leave, healthcare, etc. etc. For everyone.
Most people use google to get to a site. That might be facebook or this site.

Google can provide summary answers but you often want to dive in and get details on an actual site.
I'd guess that some family member like son Jan Pinkava https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0684342/ or grandchildren contributed.
I think if you have a sufficient number of staff for a particular project, it makes sense to rewrite parts of it now and then to gain a better understanding and also the chance to do things without making the mistakes of the past.
> Heinlein embeds too many weird sexual themes in non-trivial ways in his stories.

Didn't seem to be a problem for A Song of Ice and Fire.
A lot of the Netflix one or two season shows got cancelled when they were finally finding their legs too.
> I also don't jog, but you get the point

No, I don't. Carrying a card is way easier than carrying cash while jogging. Thin, smaller, more lightweight.

I see one benefit of cash: the privacy.
A Snapshot of Software Decline
That is about incomplete rewrites because the original is too complex to be understood in the given time.

The same thing would happen if you rewrote in rust.
Japan PM’s solution to dire birthrate has already been rejected by young
And this is part due to the fact that real estate has to (at least in part) be valued on hypothetical replacement cost.

Can’t have apartment buildings reading hands for $100mn when a new one costs $20mn (or have the land sell for $80mn when you only allow 2 stories to be built on it).
> Maybe we'll finally get a push toward real automation.

That's not at all what I'm looking for going to a coffee shop. I like the personal connection to the persons behind the counter. A short chat, sittinf down with friends, watching the barista clean the machine and make a coffee. It's the last place where I want to see automation and already touch screens that I as a customer need to operate to order are mildly off-putting and counter to a cozy feel. For me at least.
As far as bad reputation, don't forget all the fake-money evangelizing pamphlets.
You can vape up your sleeve on a plane, but snus is the best way.
I wasn't saying otherwise. It's an analogy. In case you struggle with those, in non-analogy form it would be "Do you start teaching a new concept using its most advanced incarnation?" No, you start from the basics.
This study tested different control methods, including an enclosure. The enclosure with a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter had the highest removal effectiveness (99.95%) of nanoparticles.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.7b01454
did they hire 10 bs jobs per 1 developer jon as most french companies ?
Anything can be marketed as "garum". The name isn't protected, all it takes is so naming whatever product you have. If our definition is some sort of fish sauce with various unspecified ingredients, then any Asian or other fish sauce is garum.
Slightly offtopic: Don't know if that's just overly nerdy, but I giggle when I think about the folks over at messagefactory.ca, that are now seeing a spike in page visits, wondering which campaign helped them getting more visibilty.
Thank you for the clarification, but it still seems arbitrary to single out garages (I think it was chosen because it’s simply the most palatable)
Discovering the Traces of Disinformation on Instagram in the Internet Archive
Why would an attacker issue that command?
My father smoked for many years before quitting. I have two roommates that are smokers. The difference between him and them is that he wanted to quit, so he did. They continue to smoke because they do not want to quit. It’s as simple as that.
Wow, driven by there several times, I never noticed that!
I'd be very keen to hear your feedback if you do manage to give it a go.

You can mail me hello@ <productname>.co
True - though I prefer binaries because when building from source it's easy to burn time just fiddling with dependencies
> The only reasonable accommodation I can think of would be to allow smokers to bring a supply of nicotine gum or patches.

Fair enough.
> Adhering to our current ideal of beauty — specifically in Western culture, specifically at this time in history — means being as divorced from your humanity as possible

It's rare to completely disagree with an article in its first sentence, but here it is. Essentialism, appeal to nature and pure condescension in a one-liner.
I know at least Ford sells a 'smoker package' option, where one of the power points is occupied by a cigarette lighter and they include an ash tray that fits in a cupholder... for like $300. Smoking isn't a cheap hobby, I guess.
I'm in the same boat, I've had a few experiences of really awful work environments in the past like what you described and while that was honestly bearable for the most part it's just so much better being in companies where people actually give a damn about each other on a personal level.
Intimacy: Smart E-Foil Garments
That was what Flattr's goal was but we don't hear so much about them anymore. BAT also has a similar business model but it's crypto-based and requires use of the Brave browser.
I don't. Eventually I want to switch but just started. Only thing I like is it's not very repetitive but main thing I want is problem solving. Maintenance is part of the job but yeah.