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Ask HN: Rec Room Brute Force?
Hi HN, I just received 293 password reset emails in a span of 6 minutes from Rec Room (which is a social VR application). I haven't used the app in a long time, but events like these are concerning.

1. For people with a Rec Room account, has something like this happened to you recently?
2. What should I infer from this kind of event? Was this a bot trying to get into my account? Is this a common black hat method?
3. Why did the number of attempts stop at 293, a seemingly random number? Could of course be coincidence, but could it mean whoever / whatever was doing this was able to crack the password?

I have of course changed the password since, and I do use a password manager and unique passwords on every login. I'm just trying to stay abreast of new black hat techniques and how to understand + deal with them. I'm also confused about why Rec Room. It's not a bank account. I'm nobody famous and my account has been in disuse for a long time (I've only really used it a handful of times)--so why try to get into my account?

Any thoughts and / or advice would be welcome! Thanks.
That's true of anything though. And at a meta level, the end users do benefit from faster iteration.

"Yes I could do without this tool, using my bare hands... But I created this tool and now it's easier and I'm faster at iterating. And since it is easier the production cost decreases. Which means I could charge less while retaining the same margin. "
> This means a company like Apple does not have to provide access to its proprietary M2 SoC to anyone who asks.

This also means that a disgrunted employee that knows how to build M2 SOC can leave and starts their own production. But currently goverment would send armed goons with guns, at taxpayer expense.

And US government seizes my private property, if I post to myself earbuds from China that look too much luke airpods under the pretence of 'Counterfeit goods'.

You are advocating hypocracy, free market for me but not for thee.

I am all onboard for the real free market, where government does not interfere to protect Apple at my expense.
The flipside of that is that pedestrian deaths are increasing. And I think this is because a lot of them are distracted (many just cross the road while on their phones, and some have over-ear headphones), and some just think "well, the car has to stop, so I'll step out". It's not just car drivers who are at fault - I've had some crazy near-misses with arrogant pedestrians, and sometimes when I've been on my motorbike which is not quiet, and also I would pay quite a price for an accident, even if with a pedestrian or trying to avoid one.
It's USA pro-car bias, not HN anti-car bias.

Looking from anywhere else in the world - how car-centric USA is - is fucking insane. Minor regional differences doesn't matter, you're still out there in the top right corner, category of your own.

BTW one of the result of this is that somehow Americans think only people living in big cities don't like cars. Like WTF? What does one have to do with the other?
> I think, first of all, that for a programming language to be effective, everything needs to be opt-in, right?

I disagree. You gain a lot by making things not-opt in. For example, strong typing. Strong typing really becomes powerful when everybody uses it. Another example, is purity and side effects. Purity isn’t really optional in Haskell.

Which brings another point: you could say that for side effects in Haskell, you don’t pay as you go, everyone has to pay all the time. You are basically forced to deal with the concepts of monads fairly if you want to write anything interesting.

Just like Haskell gets a lot of value in using the type system to encode side effects, Rust gets a lot of value in using the type system to encode ownership. Further, I would argue that the borrow checker provides value beyond memory usage, since a clear ownership model can have follow on effects for correctness and program organization.
Even if towns had the infra money and political will (they usually don't), where's all this hypothetical infrastructure gonna go? Where I live, there's a main drag which is the ideal location for pedestrian infra, has all the shops, near the one (1) bus route we have. No sidewalks. No room to even put one in, without some massive eminent domain. Literally there are buildings in the way which would prevent any expansion.
The benchmarking code is available, I did not: https://github.com/orlp/bitwise-binary-search. The compiler also did not appear to have autovectorized it.

That said, I would expect the overhead of vectorization to dominate at smaller sizes, and the fact that linear search is... well... linear to dominate at larger sizes. There might be a sweet spot for a few dozen elements where it would be the best, but I think it'd be rather niche (and strictly limited to floats/integers).

Regarding cache effects of linear search, this entire article is under the assumption your data is in-cache, if not your results will vary (wildly).
Editorializing the title is explicitly against the HN submission guidelines. Put it in the description under the title.
Having 10 to 12 thousand km between me in the US and my parents in Europe helped warm up our interactions a lot.
EDIT: To clarify, if you checked accuweather.com yesterday morning you would’ve seen a pollution map flooded red, AQI 142.

Yep I know - but did you check how many monitoring sites they use and where they’re placed? It’s not representative of the actual experience of living here. If you’re walking, or cycling, you’re constantly in extreme close proximity to tailpipe emissions from cars and diesel trucks. The city also famously has lots of construction activity, almost always also belching diesel.
My son has had a similar spectrum of issues to deal with over the years. He has been through a series of stimulants and now on SSRIs. All of the medicines we have tried have been hit or miss, mostly miss. I hope something like what you suggest is now seriously being looked into as possible way to improve people's life. Will you be able to share more information/links on the treatment specifics. I couldn't find anything substantial just by googling.
Whew - that is ugly.

I am a bike commuter and one of the great things about riding a bike is having the sky above my head. This is kind of a vibe killer.

I can see the benefits but I think a little more thought in the design could help us understand if this is something we really want.

How long is this stretch anyway?
Mostly because the anti-GC folks often ignore that many of those languages also offer low level coding knobs, value types and stack allocation.

GC meaning any kind of memory management described in CS reference bibliography, like the GC Handbook.
Why doesn't .com have the same effect? It was a common extension in DOS/Windows years back. I haven't been on those operating systems in decades so has it has been fully replaced by .exe?
It's an interesting topic for discussion.
I'm surprised more people don't use the Lens feature, it's one of the main reasons I still use Android. I use it to find where to buy clothes and shoes I see in photos, I can just hold my phone up to it and it returns shockingly similar looking products (usually the exact item).
And this doesn't count the fact that you're providing shade for cyclists as well. I wonder how expensive it would've been to make a simple roof just for shade; I imagine your value per meter goes up significantly considering that.
Anecdata here - I have had quiet and loud bikes, and the loud ones mean you're much less likely to get 'lane changed' on. Drivers are generally pretty ignorant of what's around them, and it's always the biker that pays the price if there is an accident. I generally don't put myself in harm's way, but there are always times when you have to be in a danger zone. And a loud bike is noticed more, in my experience.
When structures like this is built is a lifetime cost taken into account? I'm wondering if after a while it's going to fail or prove too expensive to maintain.
People here tend to walk in middle of the road in smaller one-way streets and move aside when they hear engine noise. More then once I've been startled by electric cars quietly creeping behind me.
You could also take the bus.

Sad that public transportation in the US is the first victim of car culture.
This is what I see when I visit the link:

The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country.

So I did learn something from the article, if I ever want to exclude visitors to my site from certain countries.
300 meters.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/04/28/germanys-first-photov...
This was my experience as well visiting Tokyo as someone who lives in nyc
What are the most sought after data engineer frameworks skills?
One developer's "best practice" is another developer's nightmare. Much of it depends on context.
I love my American Express but this is why small businesses do not; less than a million a year is 1.6~2.85% merchant fees.

https://merchantcostconsulting.com/lower-credit-card-process...
(consider adding more paragraphs next time, otherwise it's hard to read)
From now on they're only allowed to use BratGPT.

https://bratgpt.com/
As an American who opposes military adventurism, I think those bases are a net negative to America because they facilitate such wars. Protecting Europe from Soviet/Russian aggression is well and good, but insofar as those bases facilitated the "war on terror" they have been a disaster for American society. I wish American politicians would not find it so convienent to casually wage war in other hemispheres.
Got to get laid… women are attracted by loud noises.

I hate it when I go hiking in a nature park and there comes (illegally) people to ride bikes and quads on the trails. But even on the road, I hear those damn motorcycle's engines for tens of km in that silence.

I remember one summer hearing a particularly annoying instance, that then stopped, and after a while an helicopter. We presumed he had gone into a ditch. Found out later that it was exactly what happened.
The default abstraction in Rust, in retrospect, will be considered poorly chosen. Moving, read borrowing, readwrite borrowing, copying, cloning are an unnecessary complication over what truly happens at both your hardware level, and between components of it, and on the network between machines. Everything is copied, end of the story, no modes. And if something is copied, but it doesn't change, you can defer the copy until it's changed (copy on write). When something goes out of scope, it's freed. That's it. It's so simple, but very few platforms truly go with it, despite it's pervasive underneath the platform and much simpler than anything else we're doing.
I see where you're going with this. Gen Z hates home ownership! You've done a great job making this world for your children and grand children!
Huh? You are claiming Tokyo is shit, so is there a city of conparable size that does better? Or are you just demanding something impossible?
Is it even possible to passthrough ISA to a VM? Legacy PCI is (well-ish) supported with its own quirks but I've never heard of ISA passthrough even mentioned before.
I get along well with my parents today, and generally always have (for some definition of "get along"). That said, it took me into my 30s to really figure out where my parents fit in my life. In spite of the dynamic we had through the earlier half of my 20s, I don't have to act as they do, or think what they think.

I've since learned that some of my own dissonant thoughts are really just echoes of things that my parents would say. Recognizing that has helped me eliminate many of them. Step one was being my own person, which I could do while I still had those types of thoughts, but step 2 was realizing why the thoughts were there, and being able to move past them.

I still think the best thing I did to improve my relationship with them was move out.
True, but for now I think it’s good to be slow when you’re a big corp. Esp when it comes to code, it’s probably wise to wait out the early legal battles first.
Back in 2005, I bought a car in India. I was trying to pay a part of the purchase price using my credit card. My auto dealer wanted me to add a surcharge. When I called up my card company and complained about this, i was asked to pay the surcharge by my card issuer's call center employee :-(
TikTok being evil is not the main point of OP. Is the society best served with banning evil things, would be a better framing. Banning is a knee-jerk reaction, and an attractive revenge fantasy for many, but when we're talking about society (or raising children), banning without other actions doesn't make the thing go away. For examples, look at the attempt of banning alcohol, drugs or sex work.
I much more value the consumer protection laws that prevents surcharges to be added to the advertised price. If we open that door we will end up with tons of junk fees.
Brazil does just that with Pix.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(payment_system)
But I am not criticizing his stream-transformer / state-machine equivalence, I am just curious why he thinks functions of Stream A -> Stream B have to produce exactly 1 output for exactly 1 input.

Now, I know that Haskell in its pre-monad days used to have main have signature [Response] -> [Request]: the lists being lazy, they're essentially streams. Each Request produced by the main would result in a Response being provided to it by the runtime. This model actually has to be strictly 1-to-1, and indeed, it was so easy to accidentally deadlock yourself that switching to IO monad was quite welcomed, according to SPJ in his "Tackling the Awkward Squad" paper.
Actual manufacturing cost of Apple VR headset around $1500
I think unless you live near an airport, that's the case for most people.
Narrator; "they are not"
> Mathematically, RxJS and Vue/Solid Qwik like FRP are equivalent.

Yes, these are basically the same thing. However, they have little to do with Conal Elliott's "FRP". Which itself is also badly named.

> Meijer (who invented Rx)

Well "invented". What's a bit surprising is that with both Rx and the Rx-style "FRP", there either is no public history of the ideas at all (Rx) or it is patently wrong (Rx-style "FRP"). Or a bit of both.

For example, the "Reactive" part of Rx-style FRP appears to come from the definition of system styles by Harel. Both the connection of synchronous dataflow with the term "Reactive" and with FP languages are made in the paper on Lustre, which is a language that integrates synchronous dataflow into an FP language. But there is nothing inherently FP-ish about synchronous dataflow, it was previously integrated into to the imperative language Esterel, and they also made a variant of C with synchronous dataflow.

Again, nobody mentions this, it is all presented as having been invented out of thin air and the principles of Functional Programming. (Or as having come from Conal Elliott's FRP, which is not true. Ask Conal Elliott).

Once I figured out the connections, I asked Erik Meijer, who has "I am the original inventor of Rx..." in his bio. He admitted that he was "inspired" by synchronous dataflow. And of course that is pretty much all it is. Except they dropped the requirement for it to be synchronous.

What do you get when you drop "synchronous" from "synchronous dataflow"? FRP, obviously ;-)

Just like Objective-C is Smalltalk + C, and Objective-C - C is ... Swift?

Controlling narratives is important.
I wish. I had cut tie with one of them (which was really hard for me with Asian upbringing) but have since reconnected, only to be disappointed again and again. And I gotta tell you, it hurts every time.

I understand and empathise how they came to be like that but I still cannot truly forgive them. I wish I can forgive and be at peace one day.
The use of "lost the war with cancer" here is also a bit of a euphemism for "died from cancer".
Cars have more trouble going fast through narrow streets, so they go slower. Motorcycles and scooters in the city tends to have small engines for fuel economy and price, so they have to run at much higher RPMs compared to cars for the same speed. They also have much less ability to dampen the sound because the exhaust system can only be so long. Then there are people who purposely put loud pipes on. They are better space and efficiency wise, but in terms of low speed noise they sure are worse. Two wheeled vehicles don't tend to encourage the kind of space waste in north american suburbia though, so I think they are still preferable.
When I was there, people were afraid to even use Google for work related stuff.
I love these kinds of sandbox games, Orb Farm is super nice to have it running directly in the browser for a little procrastination break. Although my favorite is probably The Powder Toy [0], I've been following this project for years.

[0] https://powdertoy.co.uk/
I don't think you should be advertising your services when you have such a tenuous grasp of the situation.

It has nothing to do with being fearful of new technology or because Apple doesn't have their own LLM to offer their employees. It's because ChatGPT allows sensitive data to be exfiltrated to a third party that in turn will make it available to the generic public.

It's purely about information security and risk management. And having actually worked at Apple they take this stuff extremely seriously.
I see many complaints that american tech companies are banned in china, while TikTok is allowed in the US. Maybe this is the kind of thing that this trade deal is supposed to address? Seems reasonable, if so. Would love to learn more about this, but this an extremely one-sided article.
> BratGPT is dead. I spent way too much money on model costs for the few days this site was up. It was a good run. Over 50k people chatted with the brat.
> Samsung Electronics won’t be swapping out the default search engine on its smartphones from Google to Microsoft’s Bing any time soon, according to people familiar with the matter.
Yes, but mostly after I had kids (and especially teenagers) and realized for myself that, yes, I was the asshole. The fact that humans let most teenagers live to adulthood says a lot of good things about the human race.
Highly localized. Radiation in Poland be like
I agree. They really need to consider the design aspect here, driving under what looks like scaffolding doesn't feel very nice.
In what positions is it illegal? HR? CSM?
His larger point was having a focus on memory management. He mentioned new and delete in reference to ensuring they match up to avoid memory leaks. He also mentioned smart pointers.
If you wanted every drop of CPU performance, you probably wouldn’t be doing lots of memory allocation. You would probably look at every operation in your critical path/loop and ask 1) do I have to do this at all? 2) do I have to do this right here/now?
Cut out, defer, pre-allocate until you get as fast as you can.
Naomi is fairly unusual, both surnames have the same number of syllables, and both rose to fame around the same period, in the early '90s. It's not true that Wolf "became famous for being unhinged on Twitter"; she used to be considered a leftwing feminist and worked with Bill Clinton, while Klein was a radical anti-corporation leftist active in anti-G8 circles, so they were broadly "on the same side" from a mainstream perspective (although I'm sure Klein, as the most radical of the two, would strongly challenge that). It's very very easy to mistake them; I know I've been knowing their work for 30 years and still occasionally mix them up.

Wolf seems to have drifted right only fairly recently - although I'm sure she would say that it's the Overton window around her that moved instead.
>I've never asked google search to write my emails, presentations, or feature proposals

sure, but you got word suggestions in gmail, spellchecking in google slides, and stored it on google drive.
TBH Fear of death isn't really the issue for me (well, maybe a little, but I've done high-dose ketamine treatments twice). Right now it's the fear of living - of doing this same thing for the next 10, 15, 20 years.

Chemo every 3 weeks, all the quarterly CT scans and the waiting for the results that will tell me if the current regimen is working or not (current one is "working" in that nothing's growing...but nothing's shrinking either). All the MRIs which will tell me if anything has metastasized in my brain, and waiting patiently for -those- results (we caught one last fall and radiated it out). The never quite feeling like I have enough energy to do "normal" things like mow the lawn. Being the dad who has to take a nap every day while my kids slowly grow up. All the worry about what happens when this chemo medication stops working (they all do after some time), will I have enough warning that it's not working or will things double in size before they can find out. All the people who get you alone and then it's "but seriously, how are -YOU-?" The well meaning people who say "well attitude is half the battle!" (hint - it's not). The overall feeling of complete helplessness, like there's nothing I can do that's going to influence how this goes, when it decides it's going to go sideways. Knowing that they'll never do surgery on me because the numbers say in the time I'd need to recuperate, something somewhere else inside of me that didn't show up on a scan would have time to grow.

Does any of that feel like a battle? Like I'm courageously fighting?

(I apologize, this isn't exactly what you asked about, and I'm not writing an angry response here to anything you wrote, I promise).
GAN Photo Manipulation
For policy setting that's the wrong question. The real ones are: how likely is it to happen, how much would training/comms change that, and how acceptable is that risk. Their answers seem to have been: very, not enough, it's not.

Where the problem is and how to change it is an interesting topic, but likely irrelevant for the decision.
That sounds a lot like the Atom/Pentium 4000 based 7” notebooks you can find online from the usual large retailers.
This is a nice visualization tool for seeing how these fonts will scale in your browser. Nice job!

I always consider: That 9px text might look readable on your 4K iMac, but how about your users on a budget Chromebook with a 720p display? And text rendering differences between browsers and operating systems is still something that severely affects how the text looks, especially at thin font weights that seemed to be all the rage a few years ago.
"majority of Samsung smartphone users don’t use its in-house Internet app"

Given how horrible the Samsung software is I can't imagine why...
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If one bus means 10 cars and motorcycles stay off the road, the extra loud noise is probably worth it. IMO electric buses are a low priority task for most cities.
I'm still not sure. I don't use a credit card for most purchases, only big things, and I think a lot of people are in that boat.