skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw the title and that was the first thing I thought of.

I was sincerely hoping that "magic drug" wasn't referring to its use in cosmetic surgery[0].

As I'm not a member of anything medical-field related I was unaware that it had been used to treat "blepharospasm"[1]. Having gone through that to the point of actually seeking treatment, I'm disappointed my doctor wasn't aware of that option. At the point -- two days with no sleep -- I would have raided the drawers and given myself a shot.

But, really, Botox is what most people think of when thinking "magic drug." I'm not sure that's the word I'd use.

I'm a guy in my 40s with a pretty typical subset of people categorized as "I used to know them in High School". Literally in the period of 4 years about 25% of the women in my friends list were very clearly talked into getting Botox. One woman must be involved in some multi-level marketing scam related to Botox because she's frequently posting pictures of her face "post treatment" (and, I'm sorry, it's grizzly)

I have to believe that some people have good results. But, no joke, I can pick out at least 10 women who have what I call "Botox Face". You notice it first in the lips -- "permanent semi-duck-face". Then they start talking -- large portions of their face don't move as expected. I had a co-worker who had it done, missed a few days of work, and when she returned I had assumed she suffered a stroke (thank God I didn't say anything). I had known she had Botox before (she had the lips already) so this was a second course of treatment.

Despite how this sounds, this wasn't intended as an attack on folks who use Botox. I'm truly curious -- it seems like a lot of people have this done and the results are much worse than before for many of them. How many is anyone's guess ... in theory, it would be impossible to tell the difference between good Botox and "natural" but I can't think of another form of cosmetic surgery that has worse results. But considering how many people have bad results, why do so many people continue to get it done (including folks who previously had bad results!)

[0] Ok, maybe just a little, because it's an "easy target".

[1] Such a fun word -- one that people know if they've ever had their eye twitch consistently for a month (try sleeping that way).
Intent plays a part, but you can do no harm with a lot of intent, and also cause a lot of harm without any intent.

>What you intend to do with the creation is what usually dictates the legal ramifications.

Disagree. Legal stuff is first concerned with what happened, and just secondarily with the why. This separates murder and manslaughter for example in the US, but in either case, the main thing is that someone died because of another person. If it was only intent, and no harm done, not even an attempt, there wouldn't be a case in the first place.

Now where the moral line is, that's another question, and intent indeed does play a huge part there. In Christianity for example, you can sin without even doing anything, as God is concerned not just with outside actions, but with a person's inner life too.
Thanks I didn’t know that. I’ve read them with an interest in neuroscience. Can anyone suggest a better alternative
Ok. How about I make up a high entropy password and you use it.
There are a couple more options.

Shopper's Corner (a boutique market in Santa Cruz) has the most amazing marinated meats I've ever tasted, and their trick is that they run them overnight in a vacuum tumbler. Presumably a regular tumbler would have the same effect.

When I lived there, one of my favorites was a teriyaki ribeye. It was obvious from color that the marination fully penetrated the meat - steaks have striations and tumbling opens them up. So you can get a lot more surface area mechanically.

There's also the option of "mechanical tenderization" - basically poking a zillion holes.
I don't see the limits in your ignorance. Bad names doesn't have anything in common with programming culture or aesthetic.
I hate CloudFormation I hate CloudFormation.

Unless you're using AWS as yet another VPS provider, creating a "cloudy" product requires way too much knowledge about AWS services as a developer.
No. I think that means people with low IQs will be able to do high IQ work.
That's a pretty fantastic idea!

Of course, I'm far from an expert in anything related to medicine and I'm sure there's some reason this is dangerous/wouldn't work but I'd love to know why...
A Big Curveball Here
Mathematics has been Likened to a Language and Through the Likes of Galileo the Language of the Universe.

But Language Came First, in Order to have a Permutation of the Languages an Individual Could Speak.

Would it not Follow that On the Hunt one Could Described a Series of Logical Steps that Much up to Logic, without Being Called Logic. To Predictably Bring down the Bison?

Or Know Logically that they Could Frighten the Bison to Run off a Cliff and save themselves the Trouble of the Hunt in the First Place.

That it would be Counter Intuitive to Describe the Hunt Mathematically, but the Hunt also had to Be Something that could be Repeated. So What other form of Language Prose exists regardless of Written Language that Allows for Something to Be Repeated?

A Story, but how is the Story Composed to Pass down the Lesson to Frighten the Bison to Save the Trouble of the Hunt? But So too what Mechanism in those People would Recognize that Running the Entire Heard off the Cliff would Lead to Waste and Depreciate the Yearly Yield of this Strange Tradition? Logic without a Name.

So Mathematics is a Late Understanding of Language that Provides a Condensed Symbol System to Perform Operations based on Some Mathematical Logic. Proven by Some Test we Call Theorems. To Inform that these Symbols are Not just Random Symbols, but Correspond to Reality via Some linking from the Individual doing the Maths to the Process where the Maths is used to Inform what Was Once the Hunt, but is now used in the Creation of a Product instead. Just a Slice on a Document Filled with Other Language to Inform the Creation of the Product where Math is Just an Additional Quality that informs that Processes Outcome.

Interesting to Note Math was a Late Addition to Computer Science.
> Galaxy is impractically huge.

Yes, but also no... There are about 4x10^11 stars in the Milky Way galaxy, which from an exploration standpoint is massive. But 10^11 isn't exactly an inconceivably large number... let's suppose for the sake of argument that the development of complex multicellular life capable of creating and using radios is 'gated' by only two independent one in a million chances per star.. that's already 1 in 10^12. For 4x10^11 stars in a galaxy, that would mean the galaxy has a 2/3rds chance of not having even one star system with radio-capable life.

(1 - 1/10^12) ^ (4x10^11) = 0.67
And then the credentials get stolen through phishing
A randomly generated password is not incompatible with the notebook approach...
The environment yes, and after they've eaten it they can continue making money from it, by partly reversing a bit of the damage they did.
People with full bellies are less likely to rebel. If would be syria x 1000 if the south of US couldn't feed themselves for example.

I do agree that the author merely correlated without proving causal relationship. But I think it might also be correct that had the syrian economy been doing well, there wouldn't be a civil war.
I should not have reacted in the way I did, and for that I'm sorry.

I've tried to debunk your comment, but it would take a long time, so I rewrote it instead.

"We are not doing it so the nature will destroy the economy and when that happens basically everything falls apart. We then won't have enough food and essentials for everyone but loads of people would be without jobs and others would lose their homes, their livelihood or life even.

A fully green economy could be right around the corner, but instead the transition seems like it is going to take a century or more, which is not enough time not to enter societal and environmental collapse, so it seems more like an extinction level event."

> And I don't know what phone sanitizers are.

We're their descendants. Rejoice, you're in for a treat ... I suggest to you ... The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. You'll enjoy it (the book, not the movie!).
Curious, are material such as this targeted for folks who did not do undergrad in CS? Don't typical CS grads know about this?
ransomware, cancellation, billing snafus, attackers, insiders,..

https://threatpost.com/hacker-puts-hosting-service-code-spac...
Anyone mentioning is air gap is often scorned these days, because in practice it is rarely used, used for long, or survives “this one workflow we really, really need and is commercially important”. However there are occasions and situations where it can be workable.
Air gap is a weapon. Know when to use it.
This is pretty vapid advice. Setting aside the absurdity of the idea that you need to decide whether you can like a type of work before you're capable of doing it you've not answered OP's question to any degree.

If you have any experience with the field that allows you to answer OP's question please offer that rather than this feel good nonsense.
> It wasn't clicking for me.

Out of curiosity, was the problem with the language itself, the embedded library/tooling ecosystem, or something else?
shrug. you can already lie
We used redmine pretty well. We are on jira, and works fine too. I guess with a fuckton of projects, another fuckton of users, and less structure, every tool can be chaotic.
So, some science done by some scientists. Very different that "science bashing" which implies all science done by all scientists.
Isn't it almost always the case when there's a job that there is more than one applicant who is qualified under a loose definition of the qualifications, and thus the decision makers have to come up with tighter and tighter definitions until there's one winner?

I suspect it's the case 99% of the time. You have some widget factory, some team leader leaves, and of his team of 10 you need a new leader. 4 of them are veterans and could do the work if you asked people who understand the business but are not involved in the decision. So then what? Well lets say you have to have published papers in the Journal of Widgets. Great, that leaves three. Now let's see how they do on random questions at interview. Fantastic, 4 of the 6 committee members think it's candidate B. Congrats.

It's an effect of the pyramid structure. People who can do the work have to be whittled away somehow, even if it's some silly criterion.
Gonna be eagerly waiting for the time when we can finally change our behavior at will, be it neural implants or nanomachines or whatever other method of direct intervention to the brain.
It seems so weird to me to want to use Linux on the desktop. This is not The Year.

I decided at the very start of my career, before Google, to use a laptop at the primary interface and only use workstation / dev environment / etc. remotely. That way I have the same working experience at my desk, at a cafe, on my desk at home. The only thing that changes is the number and size of monitors. It's worked out really well, and during the COVID era it only got better due to investments in the remote workflows.

I wouldn't even notice if my VM lost internet access and root.
I saw this pattern done on a forum. You just provided your email, and it would set a super-long-lived cookie. There was a button for "recreate my cookie" which sent you an email - like a password reset function without a password.

It was surprising the first time I used it but now I wish everything that didn't handle cash worked that way.
The existence of the attention economy demonstrates that your statement is blatantly false.

Technology is not for people. It ought to be, but it is not.

Technology exists so that the aristocracy can line their pockets and control the populace more efficiently.
Huh, didn't realize botox could be an effective bioweapon.

I get regular botox injections to help with my headaches. It works really really well. Takes a couple weeks to kick in then lasts for a couple months before dissipating naturally.
???

Wasn't MP3 patent encumbered for decades?

T-thanks Fraunhofer ...
Ahh good old Redmine. I still use it internally. After GitHub allowed private repositories on the free tier I have had less need to use it. But now that people are starting to see the advantages of actual decentralized web a few of these projects are getting a second life.

I still hold my breath when updating my Redmine server. There was typically an unmet dependency that crashed the whole thing. You get really good at reading the error logs.
Huh, only 35c?

And here's I was surprised my s22 was only rated to 40c...
I've read a similar thing about pink dogwood, where growing a seedling from it will only have a small chance of being another pink dogwood, more likely than not producing a white one. Because of that they are typically cloned.
That’s all fun and nice until someone decides to antagonise you and they intentionally make three failed login attempts for your username into the website every n hours, keeping you unable to sign into your account.
The journal has data about deletions, too.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrat...:

“As files, directories, and other NTFS objects are added, deleted, and modified, NTFS enters records into the USN change journal, one for each volume on the computer.”
Nothing will depress you more than showing VCs how those on academic probationary can literally lift themselves to academic achievement only to be told “people don’t care about education” “who is actually going to spend money on this” “sounds nice but hardware is just too much” “keep in touch” etc —-

This technology is waiting for its Mike Markkula - the person who can shepherd neurotech’s next generation founders. Without his early leap of faith, marketing influence, and savvy capital, I’m convinced Apple wouldn’t have made it out the garage - who will be neurotech’s?
The article we are commenting on is titled "This Is a Big Deal’: How College Towns Are Decimating the GOP". The GOP as we all know are the Republicans.

The other major party is the Democrats, so it is natural that they will come into the discussion when you are talking American politics. You yourself said that this was because "No real wage growth, no real improvement in quality of life, no real prospects for achieving the same things that your core constituency got." I disagree with your assessment.

I'll rephrase, how are the Republicans worse than the other major political party (the Democrats) on these issues?

I would like to counter that they are not, and it is instead largely other wedge issues that drive younger voters to the Democrat party. Neither political party acts in the interests of the average American, but I am tired of people mindlessly parroting that the Democrats are somehow better on these issues while providing no evidence of it.

The fact that you have repeatedly refused to answer what should be a simple question is telling.
> they are objects (I call them oracles) that answer Yes or No when asked if the number ought to be between two given rational numbers.

So a real number is a function from pairs of rationals to a two-element set (plus some sanity conditions)? Why is that better than the other constructions?
It might be expensive for an organization to host, but for individual / small groups it can be as low as $6/mo. I've been running a small Matrix server on a DigitalOcean droplet for years now, and the $6/mo plan has been working fine for 5 users, and three bridges running on that server.
I know you took a lot of heat for tweeting about only hiring people who are willing to over-work. Do you regret that and is it still your policy?
seems purposefully pedantic or ignorant to fail to see the difference here imo
> First politicians make unrealistically high pensions to gain votes and then they find out that economy cannot sustain paying them. What a surprise

It took multiple decades for it to become unsustainable thanks to increasing life durations.

> Also, I wonder, if the law is such controversial, why not hold a referendum

Because fundamentally, if you ask people if they want to work 2 more years, very few will say yes. This is an unpopular decision, like carbon cutting measures, that is needed at the higher level, but few will choose to make the sacrifice.
It is when they are all a variant of each other. I can't imagine him successfully writing down a bunch of none alphanumeric characters and not giving up.
It seems that more religious societies have much less privacy. Like, go back to Middle Ages. It would blow out minds how those people lived.
It may be useful (perhaps even necessary) if you have to be on AWS. But it is a systemic problem however. Lot of these services have "need to launch something" sticker attached - so AWS keeps adding layers over layers and end up with something very few people understand. First comment is spot on (networking tends to be a cargo cult)! Certifications tend to be in architect's space (talkers) while the real coders (builders) who build systems hardly want to know these things.

P.S - FYI I am nX AWS certified myself, so part of the clan :)
It's probably the main cause.

Chinese companies use to make up 30% of TSMC's revenue.
>I am not really comfortable with creation or viewing of such content being illegal. It feels like thoughtcrimes.

That's because it largely is. It's also highly unenforceable, which raises the suspicion: how would a proponent intend to enforce it? By implementing surveillance? Or would this be just used to suppress political opponents for example?

>if you create something in a form which makes it possible to distribute, and then someone just happens to get access and distributes it, is it not your fault too? Here it becomes unclear.

I think if law would exist, then it would define these scenarios. I feel like there are a lot of already existing situations that are similar, and also legally defined. For example a legal firearm can be stolen from somebody, or accessed by a child, and some harm is done, then in some cases, the original owner is also implicated[0]. Or with drugs, possession and distribution are usually separated, even in the case of a completely banned substance, with distribution usually being a heavier category.

[0] https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/can-i-be-pun...
A superficial “my one experience” story published in Science by a recent PhD in chemical engineering two years ago. Little more than a non-specific catalyst for HN comments that are much more interesting.
I’m not saying anyone wants to fare poorly, but that it’s very hard to create a strong economy where it’s also impossible to fare poorly. There is always risk. Either the system is designed such that the risk can be individualized and failure can be individualized. Or risk will be communal and economic failures will be necessarily systemic. I don’t want to ever be homeless, but I’d much rather it happen to me than everyone. No one escapes a Great Depression.
> This step is commonly something like “enter the code in an email we just sent” when trying to login.

Because email is insecure, and there is zero guarantee that your login email will arrive before the token expires. Your token does expire, right?

> We are literally living through the gradual phase-out of third-party cookie.

Yes, and a "remember this device" uses a first-party cookie, so it isn't affected.

> My own browser erases all cookies from an origin immediately after the last tab from that origin is closed

So you are intentionally breaking the web and complaining that things are cumbersome? Gee, I wonder why.

> [..] yet that same website is happy to let me authenticate using an API key for API access as a single authentication step. No “2FA” here.

Yes, because that API key is often used to sign the request, contains enough entropy to make guessing impossible, and because the URL is hardcoded in the app phishing is impossible.

> guaranteed use of a high-entropy secret obviates the need for additional authentication

No, it does not. See: phishing.

Forcing the use of website-generated passwords is cute, but doing basic entropy checks on a user-provided password pretty much solves the issue anyways. Why bother alienating a significant fraction of your user base?

Authentication is pretty much a solved problem. Use a password locker encrypted using a single remembered key for the "something you know" part, and use a physical Webauthn token for the "something you have" part. Stop trying to reinvent the wheel, it'll only end up annoying your users.
Exactly, it should be taken as "just business" from an employee perspective. From employee perspective, they should capitalize on the fact that the pay will disappear soon. So might as well use that time to benefit their own future, much like the employer is doing.
Uptake of EV cars will largely be an S-curve, and average length of car ownership is a bit less than a decade. As people get a new car they're increasingly more likely to get an EV. I would not be surprised if we hit 60-70% EV cars by 2030. and probably 80% by 2035
I made an html page that used frames to load whatsup and other monitoring tools as my background
Honestly, unless you're a major cloud/OS provider like Google/FB/MS/Apple, you shouldn't be managing passwords at all. Let the pros do that. You just use an authentication standard via a 3rd party.

If you aren't big enough to maintain your own operating system and web browser, you shouldn't be storing passwords.
The big boys, MS & Big G
Until last month they used the Apache license. https://github.com/makeplane/plane/commit/a3f6d61347ef98171f...
"Eyes Only", yet obviously written for publication...
Keylogger would still get the TOTP code. Dump would include the TOTP secret. Why write only the password down if you still need password manager for the TOTP code?

I think I mostly agree TOTP in password manager is useless, but it's not worse than not having TOTP at all so it's whatever.
>but faceless corporations literally cannot act in a way that is not financially optimal without committing a crime

It's not quite that black and white.
Sounds like certificates. You can use ssh this way, for example.
That's what it is. Thanks.
> Income tax pays for ... ridiculous things like endless wars and spying on American income tax payers

12% of federal budget went to national defense.

Most of it went towards Health Insurance, Social Security, and Welfare programs.
It's almost certainly a network-based firewall, not a host-based one. And if you use multiple firewalls from multiple vendors with different OSes running on the firewalls, theoretically, an attacker could have zero days on all of them, but it's statistically much less likely than an attacker having a zero day on only one popular consumer/server OS.
what would you use instead?
Yes, the abject failure of the tech industry to create usable and secure software is the fault of...checks notes...retirees.
I don’t know about this particularly, but it does look like some things have changed on a timescale shorter than I expected. It wasn’t too many years ago that I always heard about how Florida was a big swing state. Living here now, seeing election results and talking to people it seems closer to a red state now. Meanwhile, I grew up in Georgia which I always expected to vote solid red, and was very surprised it swing blue last presidential election.