skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BW is/has switched to Argon2 over PBKDF2, fwiw. Although Argon2 trades the iterations field for an allocated amount of memory, so time will tell if there isn’t a “BW accounts with 16MB of argon2 allocation are no longer considered secure”.
We get to find out Monday! Exciting!
Sarcasm, and my apologies. Rough morning tbh
Can't you imagine a few ways to reach the same requirements with a significantly simpler and less wasteful design?

What is the point of this giant touchscreen, for example? It doesn't even show descriptive error messages. And once you have this useless display, it will drive more complexity into the design.

The fact is, you don't even need a CPU to meet the requirements. A simple microcontroller would be cheaper and less fragile while saving you the trouble of designing a complex digital circuit out of simpler timers, op-amps, and flip-flops.

Really, I refuse to believe that the best way to realize this design is by packing it with probably more computational power than what you had in Apollo's Guidance Computer.
Tragic.

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> A large company can't just have individuals and small self-managed teams go off and do whatever they feel like.

Right but how much of that is because humans don't scale? With the AI, if it can do a thing well enough it can do it 100 000 times per day.
What's the revisionism? The collateral murder video was actually especially popular and impactful to the demographic (democrat young white liberal) that is now almost comically against Assange.

Also, there's literally no difference in the way they did "narrative building" with Collateral Murder than , say, the NYT does in covering war crimes in Ukraine. I mean to be honest it's a bit hard to understand why you would even highlight the narrative building by the exposing party, when the actual events involved a cover up of war crimes from the Pentagon and an insane amount of damage control and PR. It just doesn't register for me, it's like saying you lost confidence in the NYT for covering war crimes in a way that highlighted that war crimes are actually... bad.
It would cause a global financial crisis. Similar to what happened when the US let Lehman Brothers fail.
Probability this simply turns into a weeks-long debate (of course, ON Twitter) about whether or not the tax structure is too difficult for even large firms to easily comply with?
What Microsoft did, and still hasn’t finished. System preferences still contain massive amount of details contained in Windows 7 (and older!) style windows.

At least Apple managed to move all their settings from one paradigm to the next in one year. I’m looking forward to the improvements they make to the app in the future.
I don't know if that was meant to be a counter. That is precisely making my exact point.
The thing is - AI is a very apt analogy today. People outside the tech sphere often think it's a toy, but don't see the real productive uses of LLMs, for example.

In contrast, today's version of crypto has had its popular moment. Like the dirigible, it got a lot of mainstream coverage as a "promising" "revolutionary" technology, and it has made its millionaires and billionaires. Like the dirigible, it has been found wanting. There is some chance that the future will involve CBDCs, but I think most people agree that the ship has sailed on the Bitcoin-Ethereum-NFT-based "metaverse" that crypto entrepreneurs wanted to create.
The truth is a narrative. Not all narratives are true, but calling something a narrative doesn't in any way disprove it.

Would you like to actually call out anything in Collateral Murder that you think wasn't exposing the truth?

I'm old enough to remember Collateral Murder. I'm old enough to remember it's video footage. Of members of the US military murdering people, and laughing about it. You can't dismiss that as "just a narrative", it's also the truth, and it's a fucked up truth that the public deserves to know about.
In practice wouldn't this just mean part nationalizing the bank so you can keep paying the salaries of all the various bank tellers, IT staff, and accountants to allow the depositors and bond holders to withdraw their money.

Given the retail bank is highly profitable wouldn't it make sense to then keep the whole thing going and figure out how to re-privatize it at a later date?
I just tried this and it wouldn't bite.
I like self-hosting things, but for something as sensitive as my passwords I trust a professional company much more than I trust myself. Yes, companies can and do screw things up all the time, but that doesn't mean I would do better, and I'm a single person with other responsibilities in my life.
But if you make depositors whole, we'll have to switch to banks as custodial accounts. These private companies can't make huge profits off of deposits in good times and be, essentially, insured by tax payers in bad times.
Don't confuse access to working laptop with access to encrypted data [upd: that was] stored inside it.
For what reason do you "still need Docker?"

With Linux, the only stable base required for Nix to function is the kernel. Nix packages all the required dependencies right down to glibc. Since the Linux kernel famously "doesn't break userspace," any sufficiently new kernel would suffice. Until recently, I've been able to get the latest Nix packages working on an ancient Linux 2.6 kernel. And even the kernel can be managed with Nix if you use NixOS. But Docker can't, so it's no use here.

As for Terraform, I don't see how it's relevant to this discussion. Nix-based SSH deployment tools can replace some of its functionality, so perhaps that's what you're talking about?
The parallel may well be wrong, but I would go as far as calling it absurd.
There are billboards everywhere touting AI. My mom talks about it.
Many us legislators are openly admitting it is a proxy war. See Rep. Dan Crenshaw-TX comments on Ukrain support. He calls it a good deal that we get to fight a major geo-political adversary without any American deaths by just supplying Ukraine with weapons. He is not the only one. That is by definition a proxy war. Fighting a war on the cheap that isn't designed to ultimately win anything, meanwhile sending 200,000 of those Ukrainians to their deaths is despicable in my opinion.

I am not on Putin's side on this, but this is not 1945. Russia does have some vital national interests in the reason, since its right on their border and they have a long historical relationship with Crimea. The prime minister of Israel claims they had a deal worked out, but the Biden administration nixed it. This is a result of strategic planning within the State Dept. to have this fight.
If AI can be that good, it will just be a new level of software abstraction you have to learn, the demand for better software to serve our needs won’t stop and we still need software people to “program” them the way we need it.
Part of these types of businesses is accepting that risk then, and knowing that despite doing everything right, your business may be unceremoniously shut down because of some PM’s whim. I wouldn’t want to be in that kind of position, but I guess more power to those that do.
770MWh every hour is just 770MW

The hours cancel outs!
Turborepo is migrating from Go to Rust
Different threat model. If someone steals your laptop, your hardware is seized or your employer wants their backdoored machine (but not backdoored in this specific way) back, you probably do not want to leak your password manager contents either.
Businesses reclaim any VAT they pay. You file a monthly/ Quarterly/Yearly report to the taxman either to Pay VAT you collectes or to rexlaim VAT you paid

Only the end consumer pays VAT.
It has to be possible to orderly wind down a GSIB. If that is just not possible then they perhaps cannot be fully private institutions.
Okay but the CS name and brand is worth mud now. No one is ever going to bank with them again after this? How is propping them up meaningfully different than letting them die?
I would say an SA (Solution Architect) is very different from an SE (Sales Engineer) in one fundamental way: the SA is focused on delivering value post-contract and the SE is focused on making sure the org is able deliver the value promised by working with sales in the pre-contract phase. In some smaller companies or organization within a company, I can see these roles being performed by the same person but in general that distinction between pre and post sales has been my lived experience.
Lightbulbs powered by electricity were a convincing app, and so was the electricity-powered washing machine and similar labor-saving appliances:

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/how-appliance-boom-moved-mo...

Notably, electrification of rural areas lagged well behind that of cities and towns until the Rural Electrification Administration was created in 1935:

https://livingnewdeal.org/a-light-went-on-new-deal-rural-ele...

> "The REA continued into the postwar era and helped the percentage of electrified farms in the United States rise from 11 percent [1935] to almost 97 percent by 1960. The New Deal had helped rural America achieve near-total electrification."

This is comparable to the situation with high-speed internet in the US at present:

> "The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), a New Deal agency established in 1934, estimates that today a quarter of rural Americans and a third on tribal lands do not have access to broadband internet, defined as download speeds of at least 25 megabytes a second. Fewer than 2 percent of urban dwellers have this same problem."

This is what you get if you privatize and deregulate basic infrastructure services: huge holes in coverage and overpriced monopolistic control of the rest of it.
If well done, co2 and water. Or, if you want to do carbon capture instead, you can bury it.
Still, all the fuss about maximum individualism, petty politics and celebrities feels so utterly irrelevant, it’s frustrating for me sometimes. Here we sit, apes with a giant brain, the most complex structure in the known universe, and we use it to haggle commodities, shift borders a bit and stare at short videos on people’s opinion on other people?

Don’t you ever get that sad revelation that we’re all just moving in a spinning wheel, a dead end? The Fermi paradox being nothing but stagnation after a convenience threshold?
A similar thing happened when Alexander Solzhenitsyn defected to the US from the USSR. As long as he was blasting the Soviets everybody listened, but when he started critiquing the US as well…his speaking invitations dried up.
I never talked about monopoly, I talked about anti-competitive behavior. You and scarface74 have put words in my mouth and twisted the conversation to meet your narrative.

AWS behavior is anti-consumer, and puts the house brand at an unfair advantage.

https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...

From the link above

> Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors.

Where did I ever make the argument about monopoly? My citation was to point to an FTC page on bundling services, the way AWS "bundles" is the same effect. They charge everyone the premium and then remove it if they buy the house brand.

This isn't shopping for a brake job, AWS already has an egress moat.

> If there are 5 major cloud providers then this is pretty strong evidence against having significant market power, and yes the FTC definition and US court systems agrees with this definition, and disagrees with you.

This doesn't hold. AWS already has leverage over their customers and the cost of leaving to another cloud provider (which probably does something similar) is not worth the remedy, exactly the kind of behavior the FTC would be looking for.

I'll make my joke more clear next time.

What is the speed of an unladen monopolist?

EU Monopolist or Chicago?

Your comment comes off as demeaning and uncivil. It doesn't appear that you discuss in good fair.
Notion ?
A rule of thump: Nearly everything which is called PIN can be reasonably brute-forced as long as it doesn't get locked after a few attempts (and only unlocked through another factor e.g. a PUCK).
That's the play, attack the person or how it was release but never acknowledge the contents of the release.
I think we have different understanding on:
What a bootcamp is (length, scope, model)
What traits a junior developer should have (lot of non-tech stuff)
What a person can reasonable learn outside of a job (there is a limit)

What I think is reasonable to teach in a one year full-time coding program is the ability to learn programming. There are some “secret components” also to make the learning experience smoother/faster, but these are “just” constant optimizations.
One side could unilaterally end the war in one word.

Strange that it’s only in the interests of that side that people call for this.
i may have misread the article but .... there are no flooding threats in the uk at present (damp, but not too wet winter). and no wildfires ever in march or april (too damp) so who the heck is going to get these things??
yeah. sharing some design will give more trust to enterprise people. at least they will not suggest disk clones of nix store as solution.
Not an expert, but the scary thing here are all the secondary and tertiary side effects of having a huge financial institution fail. For example lowered confidence in the banking system and Swiss are known for their banking.
I will also note that the cash burn rate for this war in Ukraine is now exceeding that of Afghanistan in the early years. It is more money after nothing, because they won't even define what victory means. Just more war slogans.
NVidia have moved most of the driver stack on to device local firmware instead. The parts of their driver that interface with the GPU are now largely open source as a result.

Of course this only applies to more recent GPUs so doesn’t invalidate your comment
A PIN is a de-facto very weak password. Of course it can be brute forced!
I find surprising that comments are aimed to discourage people fixing phone themselves and still somehow justifying apple bad appleness.
When I realized my partner was (mostly) both able and willing to support me through what turned out to be a prolonged mental health crisis that few would've had sympathy for, it completely changed my life. The amount of suicidal ideation I experienced plummeted. I was no longer crippled by fear that I'll be abandoned and imprisoned/homeless if I can't always live up to some externally imposed standard of output. I eventually became more able and willing myself again to 'give back', but with a new & improved perspective.

Unfortunately, far too many have nothing like this. I am extraordinarily privileged and have to continually process the guilt which comes along with that fact.

None of us asked to be born. In any truly forward thinking culture, the option to receive the basic essentials of life without being overly marginalized for not always having anything substantial to offer in return should 100% be a requirement. I believe many if not most 'deaths of despair' would be obliterated by such an approach, and that a large number of people who would've otherwise died could ultimately give back to their communities in enough ways to make the long term costs justifiable to even the most cynical economist.
Realistic Single Image Talking Face Animation – SadTalker
I think that’s why the POC was on Linux.
> questions about its long-term viability

I guess people have been having them for the last 47 years now.
If I think of everything I use electricity for these days, lighting* is pretty far down the list of usefulness. The sun can fill 80% of my lighting needs, giving up on the 20% really doesn't seem like it would be that painful.

I actually thought the list of items in the ad in the article was far more convincing than lighting as a use case.

Today my list of more important use cases would include things like long distance communication, refrigeration, transportation*, cooking/manufacturing, computing, data storage, small cameras, medical uses*...

except in so far as light is how I use electricity to make light for information transfer purposes. Something like e-ink would be an adequate substitute though.

* ICE engines do fill a lot of this niche, but not all of it. Subways, elevators, and the like are made much better via electricity.

** Imaging devices especially come to mind
30 years ago I got tired of writing the same code over and over, so I went looking for something to cut out the repetition. Around a decade later I got tired of rewriting libraries or programs to make them exactly fit my needs. I used to really enjoy just coding for the sake of coding. But I started to value my time much more. I called this phase "losing my immortality".

Any code that ChatGPT can write, I don't want to write. I'm ok with it taking my job. If I can work in higher level constructs and get more done, I'm all over that.

Last week a coworker need some Python code to figure out how far through a day it currently is. I started thinking of the different ways to approach it (strftime, maybe time_t modulo 86400, twiddling datetime objects). Before I got very far I decided to ask chatGPT to write it, eyeballed the response (twiddling datetime objects), ran it and verified the response, and called it good. I should have asked it to write some tests for that code while I was at it.

I'm now trying to teach my son, an avid programmer, how to work with chatGPT. He's 13, so he's got a lot of opportunity to really integrate it into his career, but he also has a lot of blind spots where chatGPT can really lead him down some blind alleys and knife him.
It doesn't have to be P2P, as long as the vault items are encrypted using device-specific secrets that are in a secure element (like iCloud Keychain). As long as there is no secure element in the loop, the security is limited. Secure elements can rate limit requests, require biometric authentication, etc. Without such limitations, you are only one upstream compromise away from exfiltrating all passwords.
Wow. That's a lot of graphs. Is there an argument other than fishing for a signal in the noise?

the first one, the productivity and compensation is very misleading.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/25/wage-stagnation-much-m...
Weirdly chrome seems to prompt for windows hello pin to view passwords but not to auto fill them. Is it using the TPM to store them securely in any way?
Apple addresses a market of people who entered the market over 5 decades. Most of them way after Ken. It went from improving on the Mac to completing the Mac’s destiny as a computing appliance.
"Credit Suisse has spent the last decade finding astonishing new ways to lose money and embarrass itself (...) It's failings have included a criminal conviction for allowing drug dealers to launder money in Bulgaria, entanglement in a Mozambique corruption case, a spying scandal involving a former employee and an executive and a massive leak of client data to the media, (...) not to mention its losses on the Archegos and Greensill scandals."

Matt Levine is a treasure.
The security barriers for getting keyboard events in macOS are not as simple as “root has access to everything”, and for various reasons can’t and shouldn’t be that simple. So ignoring that part, Apple could make this into a one-click solution, but the number of legit apps that need to do this are so small that it’s very unlikely they will dedicate engineering time to it.

This is obviously where open source is superior. Apple probably can’t justify cleaning this up in macOS, but you can just go in and make it easier on on Linux if you have the knowledge and time.
> The issue is when it becomes extreme and a group decides that all other groups should be exterminated.

In which given enough time all groups come to that last same conclusion. No group is safe once the extreme amass too much power.
> The growth of the economy is not a tide that lifts all ships.

Aw, c'mon. Technological and economic improvements, in the long term (and with frequent setbacks) have driven the growth of human population and improvement of the human condition.
Ask HN: Should nursing homes encourage residents to talk to chatbots daily?
Maybe this should even be required by law?
I built my own that does this :) Just working on improving the UX now...

It has some cool features too, like not injecting anything into pages until you activate it (so no performance cost or risk of breaking sites) being less reliant on perfect detection of fields when it is activated, etc.
And one of the first things they did with it was use it as an inefficient means of execution.

Marvin the Paranoid Android: "Humans; you've just got to hate them"
It’s been a few years but the book Code by Charles Petzold covers a number of those topics which I found interesting to learn about (but not study).

https://www.codehiddenlanguage.com/
> Personally, I think the Electoral College is not nearly as bad as the first-past-the-goalpost-winner- take-all electoral system

Agreed. This even has a name, Duverger's Law:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
Thanks, it is good :) You don’t need the serverside though; you can just call openai apis straight from the client. Makes things easier!
This is an interestingly common units issue. I can understand confusing bits per second and bytes per second - most of the time the capitalization of the units isn’t important. But no one confuses miles and miles per hour!
You will prompt a whole GPT company into existence, staffed with various bots each with its own role and personality profile. The bots could collaborate through regular tools like Slack or MS Office, and be like a remote company. They could do Zoom calls and use Github, interface with humans (customers, partners).
Well these are riskier businesses to start for this reason.

I did cage it by saying make sure your whole company doesn't collapse if one API gets shut down.
Just curious, what are your primary sources of information that have shaped your opinions and perspectives shown in this thread?
"During the 1980s and 1990s, nearly one-third of savings and loan institutions failed due to losses incurred from long-term fixed-rate mortgages that declined in value when interest rates surged."

History is repeating itself.
I did this, but the I spy version. When it claimed that it was looking at something in its environment I questioned if it could really have an environment, being a program. It conceded this point and told me it'd select something from its database. After that I guessed CPU anyway and it told me I was correct.
I was using a Raspberry Pi v1 as my NAS for years. It was fast enough and got the job done to my satisfaction. However when that pi eventually died and I tried to replace it, I found that v4 Pis were 1) just as expensive as NUCs, and 2) not even available for purchase anywhere that I could find. So now I've got a NUC filling that role. The Raspberry Pi org has really dropped the ball.
Could you please recommended a product(s) for 2 part fast set epoxy?

Yes, the Shoe Goo dries up whether you put the cap back on or not! I wish they had a smaller tube version so I could more easily justify the cost. I've used Shoe Goo to repair so many things (favorite was a microwave oven handle) and never had a failure.
So you dont currently work there, but insist you know better than everyone else about the inner-workings.

All your posts in this thread read like you are head of FB PR.
What exactly about Euclidian geometry is it that the Egyptians needed to build the pyramids? Clearly nothing. My point is that this part of the text is just fluff. Engineers have been building shit without having a formal description of that shit for millennia.
You are right the Twitter API is so usable right now..