skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just remarking the other day of the danger one particularly self-righteous man can present to many. There was the guy who advocated zealously against separating bike and car traffic, for years, resulting in untold numbers of dead cyclists. There was the guy who advocated zealously for work search reqs as a condition of receiving unemployment, robbing millions of the opportunity to reskill after being fired or laid off. There was the guy who flipped dozens of state houses by planting lies about his party's opponents. There was Richard Nixon and his waves hands vaguely.

This kind of person doesn't even necessarily lead a movement or anything of that sort. He is simply loud, and single-minded, and shrewd about couching his disastrous visions in terms that the go-along-to-get-along majority find agreeable enough to outweigh the discomfort of confronting him.
> You will still die earlier than someone who's not single.

This assumes the reason people in LTR's live longer is because of LTR's, and not that healthier or more fit people are more likely to score LTR's. IME people settle once they think a relationship is locked in and let themselves go.
MythBusters 2009 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1529059/
It is worth pointing out that zero actual information is transferred, it's just an inexact analogy to describe a problem space which lacks terms in plain English to describe it. It's not possible to communicate faster than light with this mechanism. What can be done is to generate same random numbers in two and only two distant places at the same time. That has great application in secure communications because it bypasses the entire need for potentially insecure key exchange mechanisms, but because the numbers generated are truly random they contain no information and this mechanism cannot be used to cause an effect faster than light, it does not violate relativity in any way.
Montreal Protocol worked.
In my opinion, GPT doesn't invalidate the need to learn to code anymore than the invention of the pocket calculator invalidated the need to learn one's arithmetic.
I don't mean that the US instigated the war or that Ukraine is somehow a puppet, but it is convenient for the US to not have to fight it and let Ukraine use US's weaponry, drones etc to fight this war. I am not Russian or a sympathizer, but also not blind to US incentives to sell weaponry in Europe, and hurt an adversary in Russia. It is true that everybody underestimated Ukraine.
Your argument is that maybe we can brute force with statistics sentences long enough for no one to notice we run out past a certain point?

Everything you said applies to computers too. Real machines have physical memory constraints.

Sure the set of real sentences may be technically finite, but the growth per word is exponential and you don't have the compute resources to keep up.

Information is not about what is said but about what could be said. It doesn't matter so much that not every valid permutation of words is uttered, but rather that for any set of circumstances there exists words to describe it. Each new word in the string carries information in the sense it reduces the set of possibilities from prior to relaying my message. A machine which picks the maximum likelihood message in all circumstances is by definition not conveying information. Its spewing entropy.
Sorry, but unless there’s an actual link to the agreement, list of countries bound to it, and significant meaningful timely means of enforcement— this is meaningless.

As far as I’m concerned, all harvesting or harming of wildlife sea or otherwise needs to stop. If a country or individual refuses to agree, should either be a life sentence or act of war. People are unable to handle any rule based systems other than black and white, zero impact.

China, US, Japan, etc - regardless of what they say, will never stop until sea, land, and air no longer has wildlife.
Although I am a huge Noether fan, hidden in plain sight?She's one of the most important names in theoretical physics.
They said upfront that they were using it in a non-standard way, I think it's fine.
OpenBSD Webzine #13
> He was known to be mean and pushy and could easily force his name to be included.

He was also very closely involved with every aspect of the products Apple was developing. Just watch any of his interviews. He knew all the details: technical, design, marketing.

So yeah, I'm not surprised he has his name on patents.
/r/patientgamers: Posting AI-written content will result in a permanent ban
Bitwarden argues that the finding is out of scope because from what I can gather the claim that exploiting this requires access to the device. If that were the case, I'd agree with them. But having access to the Bitwarden database is not the same as having access to the device. There are plenty of vulnerabilities that give you limited read access. Simply selling your hard drive without erasing the data first would be a very common scenario.

That's why SSH keys or GPG keys are typically protected by a pass phrase. Not a PIN, not a password, a pass phrase. At least that's the wording that OpenSSH uses, and Bitwarden should do the same. Secure your database with a pass phrase, not a PIN, or else you might be vulnerable. That's how it should be communicated to the user. These details matter.
Which he probably got at salvage and repaired.
> it is not a science, it is ideology

Hello, economist here! You are half correct. It's not a science, it is a social science. As far as methods go, it's quite imperialistic and has been the source of a lot of methodology improvements in many fields over the last several decades (especially in mechanism design and econometrics, IMHO).

Though, there are certainly ideological branches of economics. A good example is the "Austrian school," which claims to be the "mainline" of economics instead of mainstream per Pete Boettke.[0] There are also pretty dead arguments around Institutional Economics and similar that aren't really active fields anymore. However, this notion that standard economics is somehow lost is more reactionary and prosaic than it is sublime -- mainstream economics tends to do quite well in the marketplace of ideas and in evaluation, though subject to the same replication concerns all social sciences face.

Recent work in causal inference (which ML enthusiasts celebrate) has absolutely upped the bar for economists' output.

As for your hunches, they aren't really on point or based in reality. Modern Monetary Theory came a long time after Baumol's elucidation of sectoral cost disease. Recall that macroeconomic theory is only a small part of economics as a whole, even when considering its associated fields of inquiry.

[0] https://www.peter-boettke.com/mainline-economics
You can just straight downlod the fw file in a
Linux .iso > make a flash drive bootable and update https://semiconductor.samsung.com/consumer-storage/support/t...
A possibly apocryphal story was passed around my flight school about someone who would to something similar at the airport - wait for a steady high wind down the runway, slowly take off and hang in front of the tower until they told him to clear the pattern, and then fly backwards to the start of the runway and touch down and taxi back to the hanger.
I have absolutely no idea whether it's actually correct or not, make no claims about it, and don't think the object level question matters compared to whether it's harmful. Discussing its validity in any way is falling into the trap of publicising it.
Not knowing much about the REA, I doubt humanitarian arguments were behind it. I imagine it was successfully sold to Congress as a farm subsidy. Rural areas were where the farms were, and farms needed electricity.
He published a paper with some colleagues on a way to disprove Everettian Mechanics. It falls into the difficult but not impossible category. It involves looking for minuscule energy spikes that would be evidence of some kind of "collapse of the wave function" that would rule out Many Worlds.

The Copenhagen Interpretation isn't a theory, it it is an attitude.
Not at all sure how “you’re responsible for yourself” isn’t obvious, even if there are government and private charities to help.

People are absolutely too used to “the government will save us” that they fail to do the barest minimum to start with. Perhaps (keeping in line with HN) this is just anathema to so many of us because you have to prepare for when, not if, that equipment fails?
> How does one find out if a particular 980 Pro needs firmware update or not?

seriously? you google "upgrade firmware samsung 980 pro" or you add "how do I know" and "version"
“Let's commit to maintaining complete confidentiality about the company—no exceptions.”

Zuck sounds like he has no idea what he’s doing?
that's actually how take-off distance is defined regulatory. The take-off distance of a plane is over a 50ft obstacle (i.e. a line of trees at the end of the runway or similar).
Also in games, because the games that I play are heavy on the reading side and there's always someone that needs help in a Facebook group.
Interesting. Estonia was my top pick in the EU.

In retrospect, were you searching or escaping?
Hate the leadership feel bad for the excel grunts.
>Emigrants (the word I think you were looking for)

Emigrants leave and immigrants come. It's two sides of the same coin. You can't emigrate without immigrating. Except if you manage to become stateless and remain on international territory.

Migrants is just the term without the direction. Which is unnecessary if you're not talking about the country they leave or move to.
It's literally not a phone. Facebook didn't build or design any hardware. It's exactly what Mark said, an interface layer (Launcher) for Android, and it came bundled with this HTC phone.
Let say China and the US come into open conflict and everyone is forced to choose a side, which side do you think Vietnam will pick?

China and Vietnam share a long history and culture. They are also right next to each other and have the same government type. Vietnam has openly showed their desire to work with China at the cost of the US. They sent some top diplomats to China right after the US diplomats came to visit them. That is pretty clear to me which country they prefer more.

Investing in Vietnam is basically the same thing as investing in China in the past. It will end the same way, with a strengthened opponent in Asia.
Related:

Bracketed paste mode (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18329305 - Oct 2018 (22 comments)

Bracketed paste mode - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6359316 - Sept 2013 (1 comment)
The article and comments don’t really answer the most important question here: Most modern hardware supports access to secure key storage via biometrics or pins that lock after a few attempts.

Is the issue that bitwarden fails to use these properly (e.g., by storing a short pin in the touch id enclave), or that the person reporting the bug is using a machine without such an enclave, and enabled pins anyway?
The linked article with details on design (http://www.zenithair.com/stolch801/design/design.html) is very interesting and I wish every company marketing a product would write down their design choices like that.

Imagine engineers designing a car would have to write about the design rationale of their touch interfaces...
> "distinguished online shopping platforms" They feel like platforms that belong on the darkweb

yes, this is what distinguishes them
I think its simply because upper management doesn't trust the people they've hired.

In my mind, having individuals and small self managed teams go off and do whatever they feel drawn to do is exactly how a good company is run. - So long as those teams and individuals talk to (& seek advice) from the rest of the company when their work has impacts outside the team. The book Reinventing Organizations by Laloux talks about this a lot, and how it works in some companies today.

The reason it doesn't happen more is that upper management doesn't trust their employees and they don't feel in control when people just do things.
Are you joking? He used it as a talking point during his campaign, now he's hand waving every time he's asked about it.

Please prove me wrong and show me these signs.

Albo's no different to the last 6 who had the job.
I assume the intention is to reassure the market, but it actually looks like blind panic.
> Julian Assange had no loyalty to the truth (...) cares only for the “truth” when it’s favourable to whatever agenda he has at the point in time.

To what end are these agendas?

Being personally relevant? Paid? If one of these, how is he benefitting from those now?

Surely he'd be expecting his demise,given his knowledge of the organization(s) he shone light on.

We're talking about an ex-hacker type turned political leaker, not a talk news pundit.

There are no shared assumptions about these agendas, besides the narratives he and WL have provided. If you have some assumptions, share them?
I’ve had my 980 pro disconnected for a long time. Is it safe to plug it in to update the firmware?
I can't read the article because of the paywall. But I have to say, when I was single several years ago, my happiness was maybe a 4-5 on a scale of 1-10. I used to feel lonely all the time. Right now I'm married and expecting our first child, and I'd rate it a 7-8 (depending on my mood). Some of that is from being more financially secure though.
Do people answer these in good faith?

I always lie in those internal surveys.
right now theyre using vc money, their focus is user traction and vendor lock-in, not really profits yet.
This is like saying no other countries are handing out briefcase nukes.

Most aspiring producers of FSD recognize the danger and realize they don't want to live in a world where their neighbors are made unwilling test dummies.
Entanglement Swapping and Action at a Distance
I agree with you. Short PINs are for preventing well-intentioned people from accidentally using the wrong account (which I do consider quite valuable, for the record) - not for keeping bad actors out.
You sure your ESL class is a bigger contribution to a host economy than a skilled welder?
Check your SSD's firmware, SSD-Z is a good one under Windows for example http://aezay.dk/aezay/ssdz/ Hardinfo is a good one under Linux, most distro has it in their repo https://github.com/lpereira/hardinfo

Then go here https://semiconductor.samsung.com/consumer-storage/support/t...

-> Samsung SSD Firmware and check what's the newest firmware file
> To all the other people talking about intent to settle or not: read the post. The author lived in China for 20 years and built a family there. They're not an "expat" under any technical definition of the word.

And yet he's leaving. He calls the US "home". So evidently he was an expat.
I don't agree. Yes in one sense people are all the same. But differences in each country really do matter. As do cultural differences.

I grew up in the US but I've lived in South Africa for nearly 10 years. I've also lived in Switzerland and Mexico.

So I've seen enough of a range of how people live to know there are better and worse conditions. Maybe there is no true perfect country or culture, but there are definitely tradeoffs.

You might love the culture and hate the government, or love the government but hate the culture.

Like I love how friendly South Africans are, but my God the government is so corrupt. I love how the Swiss government works, but Swiss people aren't known for being easy to make friends with. God forbid you flush the toilet after 10pm.

So depending on what you are optimizing for, some places really are better than others.
There are worse places for muslims than China as far as human rights are concerned. I feel the whole muslim issue in China is just a pretext. Have we forgot about Saudi Arabia or whatever mess is left in Afghanistan?
Exactly this. They took one toxic bank and made it into a bigger one. No one wants to hold UBS after this.
I still see it used in govt projects. I mean this year. Folks care about stability, not eye candy.
Expat == anglo work migrant
The content of the email seems fine to me. The title, which everyone will see first with no context is horrendous though.
Agree 100%. When I read this sentence "If you want to project power as a ceo you have the communication task delegated to someone who specializes in company communications and information security" I literally had to read it like three times because it seemed so obviously backwards to me I thought I must be missing a negative somewhere.

I hear on HN 99% of the time how folks don't like corporate speak and that they wish leaders were more forthcoming and honest, and here someone is arguing that they just want the corporate-speak version of it. It is completely baffling to me.
https://archive.ph/zWIAT
There are walkthroughs like this on the internet: https://www.ign.com/wikis/pokemon-red-blue-yellow-version/Pa...
Ah, I see. Yeah, I wouldn't accuse him of that.

I was taking the "reality distortion field" talk to refer to the cultlike status Job's fandom reached at its peak, where the "famous for being famous" effect came into play. I don't think he qualifies as a con man, and I don't think he claimed personal credit for the inventions of others (he never "took the initiative and invented the internet" like Al Gore).
>Meanwhile, Taiwan’s value to the Chinese diaspora can’t be understated—it’s a bastion of a mandarin-speaking democracy.

A bastion of democracy which has been a right wing dictatorship from its inception until the 90s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Terror_(Taiwan)
+1, at least anecdotally, at least in T1 cities: I spent a few months in Shanghai for work in 2018 and all of my local colleagues had messed up housing situations of one flavor or another. One guy lived alone in a shoebox but when he had a free weekend, he'd take the train ~2h out to a smaller city where his family lived in a decent house. There were also a lot of complaints about apartment quality even/especially in new construction.

The drive from central-ish Shanghai (Wujiaochang) to PVG was mindblowing because of the scale and frequency of the apartment megablocks ringing the city: identical enormous tower after identical enormous tower, lining the wide (but at the time oddly empty) thoroughfares. Felt like an alt opening scene to a Judge Dredd movie.
That's one way to speedrun war with all of asia simultaneously
>"The entire western world is so addicted to cheap labor "

This is the only thing that allows rich to get richer while still keeping peasants under the boiling point. Without cheap labor living standard in developed countries would drop like a rock. What comes after nobody knows.
Yes, and famously Roosevelt sent aid to and eventually joined Allied forces in Europe instead of being an uncompromising advocate for peace.
> Wow, what an amazing combination of statements. You're blowing my mind actually.

I'm not sure if that was meant to sound positive? :|

> > HN is the only place where it is possible to talk to the people who build the tech infrastructure which dominates and changes our daily lives.

> Here I start to lose the connection. I don't feel like HN admins are building that. We're just trying to run a web forum. It's true that YC owns HN and YC invests (or tries to!) in the most important world-changing startups, but there are several layers of indirection between us and that.

> > Internet politics is made here.

> Oh god that sounds absolutely awful. Let's not and say we did?

Oh I was not talking about what HN intends to be, but rather about what it factually is just by the question of who hangs out here.

Factually, it's the place with the highest probability of FAANG people hanging out that I know of.

So as a "civilian", here I have the highest chance to get heard by them.

And here they discuss new technologies and all kinds of aspects of technology which affect people, *and* their opinions on how things should be get influenced here, so this is the "political" aspect.

Sure, they are not legally entitled to decide Internet law, but the way their software works has consequences which can be considered as political and even as "the law" in terms of areas where there is no governmental regulation yet.

Thus HN is the place where a regular person has the highest chance to influence Internet "politics".

And to get to the point: That's why it is so annoying to get locked out of it. It feels kind of similar of losing a small part of Internet "voting" rights.
Housing prices haven’t cratered yet - the banks wouldn’t mind some of those loans defaulting, because they could sell and get the principal out there at higher rates.

Worse for the banks, those on low rate loans will sit tight.
I feel like this is another entry in the "stop having invisible modes" category of software.

No matter what the context, every OS, application and platform has some obscure feature which can be activated by the right random key combination, and provides no visual feedback or GUI controls to de-activate (so you get to just mash the keyboard till it hopefully turns off).
There's a conspiracy theory propagated in China that Covid was a biological weapon spread in Wuhan by Americans visiting during an international sporting event in late 2019.
> Morality becomes nothing more than an expressed personal preference and like any other personal preference you have no grounds for denying others' right to disagree.

Religious faith makes no difference here. When a radical islamic meets a protestant, all they can do is assert their preferences against each other, until they finally resort to "denying others' right to disagree" - aka coercion.
Some are selling their freedom quite cheap. It's really nothing new/hard to imagine.
"75 year project" seems to suggest that he's been working on it for 75 years - is that correct?
Fructose can mess with genes and causes diseases, DHA can reverse it
Although off topic from the original post, would you entertain this question? What's Taiwan's position on integration with China? What does Taiwan want for itself? I'd like to hear more about that minus American and Chinese input.
I think that’s based purely on your assumptions. Elephants chill and play and splash in the water when they reach the water on the west coast of Africa after migrating across the continent.

They’re not the only animals doing this kind of thing. Animals not in captivity generally seem to enjoy their lives. Deprive an animal of dopamine and it will surely start to wither away.

If you’re talking about humans, i find it very difficult to believe governments predate chilling with your friends with some palm wine or something.

Pleasure was an integral part of life until the accidental AI that is capitalism started manipulating human behavior for its own survival.
So it's still a bastion of democracy?
I find LW as cringe as most outsiders to their community, but to be fair their content has a lot more substance and interesting discussion attached to it than your comment here.
The most interesting part to me was the "change the world" rhetoric.

I'm always curious to what extent people in positions like Zuck believe their own bs.
The one is a talk going deeply into a cool technical project and the other is a cherry-picked bit of celebrity gossip—admittedly a fun fact, but not interesting (at least not intellectually interesting) in the same degree.

Although we didn't write code to do it on purpose, I think removing timestamps from videos (and similar things, like removing HTML anchors) generally does more good than harm, because people tend to use those to cherry-pick some detail they think is important rather than letting the reader make up their own about the whole submission. Generally we try to discourage that (see e.g. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que..., which is about titles but makes more or less the same point).
My point was that helping some minority often does help society as a whole.

The ADA, strictly speaking, only helps those with disabilities. But guess what? Having people with disabilities be able to access goods, services, and work just like anyone else helps society as a whole.