skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Passwords are simple to implement and easy for users to adopt

For a long time security wasn't a top priority for many companies if we are frank about this.

Today we have standardized implementations and guidelines, we have many additional options like TOTP or U2F which are pretty robust.

Nowadays if someone wants to implement good user identity/authentication they can.
I use levelDB for cache on low cost resources, ie 1 vcpu, 0.5gb ram, 5-10gb ssd.

Gives me great performance (especially paired with Go), and I'm able to deliver 6-10k rps for a few dollars a month.
My kids are grown now, but my policy was that they could have a phone if they could buy it and cover the ongoing bill with their own money.
We once wound a geocache in a hollowed out book. First it caused a lot of anger from some of my colleagues until it was confirmed that it wasn't one of our books, but one brought in from the outside. In the end it was tagged, registered, and put back on the shelf were it was found.
While it's nice to imagine what this could be used for, it just looks like frontend dev hell with so many moving parts.
https://archive.ph/Bh4fc
It's not regular mud, and you can't really drive on it. It builds up on the wheels and can be pretty deep. It's closer to clay.
This article[1] from 20 years a ago paints a different picture.

> Russians Dying--Literally--for Favorite Fungi

> Like most Russians, Sergei Kayava and his family considered themselves mushroom experts--but the assumption proved fatal.

> On July 8, he and his family eagerly dished up helpings of buttery fried forest mushrooms prepared by his mother-in-law.

> “She is very good at cooking mushrooms. She boiled them and then fried them and then served them with boiled potatoes. It was delicious,” Kayava recalled Saturday.

> But the dish killed Kayava’s wife, Marina, 40, and her father. Collecting mushrooms earlier that day, Kayava’s in-laws mistook the deadly blednaya poganka, or pale toadstool, for the innocuous and tasty syroyezhki mushroom.

...

> The mushroom season has just begun and lasts until late September, but already at least 95 people have died in Russia and Ukraine, a casualty figure much higher than normal for this time of year.

So although this seem unlikely that the top Russian rocket scientist died from mushroom poisoning it isn't out of the question or that ridiculous.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jul-16-mn-53777...
Have you been to burning man, because it sounds like you have not.

Food and water is everywhere. They will not run out unless this thing lasts another week.

If some people run out, others will have extra. Of this I am 100% sure.
I've heard the opposite -- eg that firms like Black Rock have stopped buying houses and are now selling them. Eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcL9_xd-il8
Insights into prostitution by former receptionist presents harrowing reality
In general, companies that are hardware manufacturers provide the worst software, with one or two obvious exceptions everyone here can point out.

Embedded software is the absolute worst. Think about the UI of your TV or car radio (unless it's from one of the few manufacturers who have wisely given up on software and licensed theirs from Google or something): My old Toshiba plasma TV's UI looks like literal clip art, with obvious "polish" problems like some of the icons being 32x32 and others being 31x31--that kind of shit. Fixed width text font. UI responds 3 seconds after you press the remote button. The full color palette is: 0xff0000, 0x00ff00, 0x0000ff, 0xffff00, 0xff00ff, 0x00ffff (very creative). The audio feedback that happens when you navigate a menu is 500-1000ms off from the animation. It's a total mess.

These companies look at "Software" as just another line item on the BOM, like a nut or a screw. Source it from the cheapest supplier you can find, and scoop it into the product somewhere down the assembly line. The idea that software is actually a vital part of the creative industrial design of their products is foreign to them.
> No because if I add space to the original string I don't get a valid string

Yeah, it's telling you what it was expecting when it hit an invalid token.

You take the invalid part and filter the list of suggestions with it. If you tell chatgpt about the problem it solves it.

(Edit - when I was running this, having any number of spaces was parsed as valid btw if that's the concern - space was a valid option)
That’s not really the point though - it’s more like saying the NYC metro area isn’t only Manhattan. Brooklyn would be the 3rd largest city in America by population.

I agree it’s kind of irrelevant and the original point was correct: DC is an urban core without the rural split most other states have.
It's a bad argument because it's a bad argument. It also happens to be a bad argument from people who traditionally and historically have made similar bad arguments.
Those climate protesters who tried to blockade the entrance are probably laughing now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8fDM60MS84

(Though it seems unlikely that a particular rainstorm could be attributed to climate change.)
Yeah absolutely! It's crazy and I think one of the reasons why I really need to cut down my internet and reddit usage down somewhat.

For a topic like this, that I know nothing about, I am mildly curious and don't want to research it in-depth to get an answer as this would be a wildly bad use of my time, so i rely on others that seem more knowledgeable, but the problem is, who do you believe and what can you trust when you do this? To really know, you have to verify, but to do so on a mild interest topic, is not worth it, therefore how much of this general consumption is ultimately of any use or has much of a point.

Worse, I wonder in which topics my view is now warped, as I read some comment somewhere that I accepted as truth at the time and I now believe it although cannot remember the source.

One of the troubles with Reddit, is that upvotes give a post apparent credibility but are voted on by everyone and most of the people there aren't experts or know what they are talking about, so the reality is whatever sounds the best, sounds 'nicer' or more politically correct gets the upvote. The truth, which might not fit that mould, will get much more mixed results.
Ah, just wait until another Russian scientist or business person gets hit by lightning.
I love ECC RAM, but I disagree on one small point.

Registered (meaning ECC and buffered) RAM is common in the workstation market, so it is not limited to noisy servers.

Check out HP Z series and Dell Precision workstations. They are available used / refurbished at low prices.
It's called Steamdeck Midnight Special by impish. Mouse+gyro on right pad. Various controls on the buttons, left joystick press to enter/exit vehicles and switch modes. Left mouse on left side (not the default swap) and extra precision on a soft pull. Enjoy
>E.g. would it be at the top if the title was "Don't measure performance by story points"?

TBH it's a non-zero chance here on HN. "Don't measure by story points" is still preaching to the choir to a community like this after all.

>I guess some interesting anecdotes have resulted in the post, but the message of the article itself doesn't seem to share anything particularly new or enlightening.

1. Lucky 10k. Especially if it involves some managers who may in fact be doing this stuff as we speak

2. Generally, I come to the comments because some anecdotes are more interesting than the article.
Sure hope so! You know what can change that though? More mud.

No one is asking to fly in the military here or something. People are observing: “oh, that seems like a risky situation that could go very south very quickly.”
I pay for Nebula, which has many of the creators I care about.
When I have enough money, I'll pay for Patreon or similar stuff.
I refuse giving Google revenue/money, even if they somewhat take creators hostage.
Heh, of course, I'm just taking the mickey out of myself. It avoids the car things that make me I'm know out of my depth: carburettors, gearboxes, firing patterns and such. Those come from a mysterious world I have no experience with.

If imagining a kit car then you won't be worrying about the custom designed elements you highlight.
It doesn’t work that way. Rising rates clear out the shitty companies with too much debt, but the people with cash sweep in and buy it out.

Increasing rates will raise rents in the professional demographic cohorts of folks who buy houses.
You have to pay... to file your taxes? Just American things, I suppose...
Yes!

So in around 2015 or so I was a bored MSSQL DBA and had been on HN for some time. I noticed the who’s hiring and looked for Python roles. I had taught myself enough Python to be dangerous and thought I’d apply. The role happened to be in Hamburg, Germany. I didn’t think anything of it so I applied.

They responded and offered me a job. It was a logistics startup in Hamburg! They moved my whole family over. My wife, my dogs, and all our stuff. 7 months later I and a bunch of other employees left as they moved development to India.

I had a bunch of roles in between but have always found something. And finally I landed a role in Berlin and it’s awesome. We moved here about 2.5 years ago from Hamburg and we love it a ton more than Hamburg. Berlin is far more accepting of foreigners.

Housing is still nigh impossible to find for reasonable prices but it’s doable if you press really hard and don’t give up.
Good summary, I made xtemplate with many of these ideas in mind. For example:

- Uses html/template which escapes content by default. This was already useful; e.g. the author name field is supposed to be a plain string according to the rss spec, but the google blogs include <name><company><department> tags which were automatically escaped by html/template. It's also easy to input raw html if desired, which I do after sanitizing it with the `sanitizeHtml` func (which uses the bluemonday lib) when displaying article content.

- It improves on file-based routing, by yes rendering matching files, but also by allowing you to add templates anywhere to handle any kind of request by matching method and path parameters.

- By default errors abort the request, but you can use the `try` function to get access to an error (if any) and handle it in-template.

- You don't need shared memory if you can query the db in 0.1ms :)
>> It's a bad argument because it's a bad argument

This is the fallacy of circular reasoning.
Based on this resource https://gist.github.com/hellerbarde/2843375 1MB sequential read from SSD just 4x slower than the same read from main memory.
For random reads main memory faster of course.
I believe author meant some average value.
I respect what you are saying, but both people I know suffering through it are type 1, and are just struggling to stay alive in a way where they want to continue living.
I've read here & there that smoking weed makes it impossible to remember dreams.

Now that weed is more widespread and openly discussable in the USA, can anyone verify or refute this claim ?
All you can do is make sure you have a seat when the music stops. Nobody is coming to save us.
Basically, it seems the government wants to water down rules that it proposed last year on dangerous experiments.
You do realize that the "spiritual in principle" science you describe is "materialism", right? The "small mechanistic particles" are the quantum wave function; they're the same thing. And according to the sciences you refer to, consciousness does arise from the same things you describe as part of GR and QM.
> Ford explained this poor performance by higher costs, mainly higher engineering, and spending-related expenses, commodities and other inflationary pressures.

Okkkkayyyy, I guess.... but how and when does Ford expect this number first to converge to zero, and then to turn into some profit? Or they expect that this is sustainable on the long term? Sure, most of engineering is a one-time big expenditure, but the rest is kind of continuous.
Probably my ignorance talking, but I don't understand why there isn't a layer on top of an LLM that uses good old computer logic to keep track of and validate data.

I am baffled by the fact that when I ask ChatGPT to look up some stock data (for example) it spits out errors. How does it not have a built in ability to check its own output?
That would be cool as a kidney disease patient.
It's your machine.
Non-Euclidean Therapy for AI Trauma [video]
PATIENT ALICE: An Artificial Intelligence suffering from hallucinations of a lost puppet show. These hallucinations need to be erased.

GENERATIVE MODEL TYPE: Diffusion-based.

PRESCRIBED TREATMENT: A Latent Space Editing method that involves the Pullback, the Jacobian Matrix, Eigenfaces and SVD.

-------------------------

This video experimented with a different approach, combining a science fiction mystery story told by analog VHS effects with an explanation of a very recent paper about latent space editing in diffusion models. This is my only entry to #some3

Link to the paper this was based on:
"Unsupervised Discovery of Semantic Latent Directions in Diffusion Models"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12469

-------------------------

Timestamps: [spoilers ahead]
00:00 - Patient Introduction -- [No Math]
02:08 - Manifolds and Pushforwards
06:38 - The Three Functions
09:55 - The Lost Show -- [No Math]
12:32 - Diffusion Models and the U-Net
14:13 - Matrix Multiplication and the Change of Basis Neurons
20:01 - The Jacobian Matrix
26:17 - The Pullback and the Dot Product
28:42 - A treat before treatment -- [No Math]
31:09 - The Treatment -- [No Math]
36:13 - Finding the Error
39:31 - Correlations in Matrices
42:13 - Superposition
45:23 - W^T W
47:24 - Eigenvectors of W^T W
49:38 - The Trauma -- [No Math]
51:43 - Singular Value Decomposition
54:30 - Reunion -- [No Math]
When you can get a bootcamp certificate, and then get two remote jobs and coast at both for 12 months, and then repeat, what could a union do for you?
> Grass fed beef consumed locally/regionally reduces fertilizer use and transportation costs

> Deforestation is only a problem if you have a corrupt government that doesn't manage its land

While governance plays a role in deforestation, these pastures are often already deforested areas. Producing beef there still demands a significant amount of agricultural land for a minor share of our caloric intake. Reforesting could offer greater benefits like carbon storage and biodiversity restoration.

> People will naturally eat less meat at a higher price point. Currently the externalities of industrial meat production aren't priced into the cost of factory meat, which is why it's artificially cheap

Exactly, and that's why I believe that subsidies for polluting and destructive sectors should be abolished, and these sectors should be appropriately taxed. Doing so could make the price of meat prohibitive for most, which aligns with your point about higher prices reducing consumption.

It's uncertain how many animals could be raised sustainably, and how many people would be able to afford meat from such sources. The number for both is likely low.

I also worry about biodiversity. If we've managed to reduce animal populations by 70% in the last 50 years, how long will it be until they collapse completely? Agriculture is the main culprit, with animal agriculture making up 80% of it.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/13/almost-7...
Like they give a fuck. They've gone back to forcing use of their own browser and others.
I bet its cheaper than the alternative, expensive treatment for life...
But life is full of being left out. An argument can be made that it's good to learn how to deal with it when you're young.
No, DC's population is a little larger than the smallest state and nowhere close to larger that the two smallest states combined.
I need to do the same thing with attributes, naming conventions, etc that are typically required to make orms work.
That’s totally orthogonal to making tax filing simpler. One has nothing to do with the other.
You can't live in your stock portfolio.
This is the first I've heard of it after reading and researching on the net for a long time for a myriad of comp sci topics. Perhaps I'm just part of the 10,000 today, but I am surprisingly having trouble finding it being recommended out there. I'm quite interested in whatever blogs/news sites (beyond HN) have been recommending it. Perhaps it will help shatter whatever rock I've been hiding under?
> I didn't have to hunt in a different part of the source tree for where something was done. It was all 'right there'. YMMV.

This is my take too as I have gained experience. The way I did code from the get go, was the overall best way. Long function that did the stuff one thing at a time. Like no functions called from different parts of the call tree. I breeze to debug and understand or modify.
The argument seems to be that by striking, the employee is preventing the employer from employing someone else in that role and also depriving them of work.

I thought most US employment was "at will" and employees can be terminated for almost any reason?
Yeah, it's just arguing semantics. We do need better vocabulary and stop it with the anthromorphism IMHO.

Intelligence is already ambiguous in humans, see IQ tests. It's just not linear, much less binary. Whether something is deterministic or stochastic and what the error rate for a specific task is, those are more useful questions to me.
wonder if the pendulum will shift back to mechanical components being cheaper than the electrical alternatives with the ever increasing demand for electrical components.
It’s not dire. People overpack, and anyone asking for water or food will get it. There won’t be ice, people’s generators will run out of gas, and I’m sure some people will run out of acid and have nothing to do, but no one is going to need supplies air dropped in.
Well think about it this way

Baking soda (Sodium bicarbonate) is something like pH 8, sodium carbonate (What you get if you put bicarbonate in the oven at 400 degrees for an hour or so) is something like ph 10-11, and is a large component of alkalai soils. [1] You probably won't have a problem with baking soda but the more basic form of it (as we call 'washing soda') is definitely something you don't want on your skin for long periods of time. I suggest making some in the oven to soak some soiled socks or something you have - but careful breathing the dust in, you'll notice that it's way sharper on your nose than baking soda.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkali_soil
Not really, they are just getting more creative. Too many falls from windows would make boring news. What's the weather like? Who else fell from the window today?
breaking a leg or arm can be lethal due to immediate complications or emergent complications due to lack of prompt evaluation and treatment.
That is not a counterpoint. Counterpoint to what?

Not sure where I said "don't shelter in place". Not sure where I said "don't listen to people more experienced".

All I said is that nobody is going to starve or die of dehydration because they ran out of food/water. I stand behind that.
I wonder if Putin ever watched The Dictator
It's up to you to show that is a good or bad argument

It's a bad argument.

"Moreover, I shall use force to prevent any other physician from attending to your ailment".

This is illegal. Basically, they are equating union strikers with criminals.

It is a particularly bad argument when applied to physicians. The American Medical Association is effectively a labor union of doctors with monopoly control over licensing and legal practice of medicine --- the only such union in the country. Which helps explain why the average US physician earns over $350K a year.
The ironic thing is that may have generated exactly the outcomes management wanted.

I’ve worked at places where it was more important for management to know what to expect than to achieve raw productivity towards a goal.

The people who were estimating in good faith may have assumed that management was acting in good faith. Whereas a lot of projects are created aspirationally or have artificially short deadlines to “motivate” people. The stress they incurred may have just been for the emotional satisfaction of a manager and not have provided any more value than that.
I bet they have no plan and just went for it...
SMB really is hell. I write business software and our admins do what they can to avoid using it because it's very hard to know when it fails.

But from a dev perspective, that's probably a driver level issue because that's where you want to handle or propagate errors instead of crashing.
Contributing with a whitelisted public key is much easier but not common.
Kidney problems can also be acute. Resulting from some kind of poisoning, out-of-control infection, or some situation where immune system attacks the body itself.

Husband of an friend of mine (~75y old at the time) got unwell during a heatwave. Kidneys gave up, resulting in blood poisoning & that was the end.

I hope for the grow-spare-from-own-body-cells method to become a practical option. That would do away with donor shortages & immune system rejection problems. Kidneys & liver would probably rank high as desired replacement organs.
I have seen first-hand the negatives of unions in Italy: there are downsides of powerful union control. But in the US, a strong argument can be made that unions played a very major part (along with the GI Bill of course) in the growth of the the middle class from 1950 to 1980, and their busting, starting with Reagan, likewise was instrumental in the dwindling of the middle class and the dramatic rise in wealth inequality.
> There is a contingent of Congress that does not want to make tax preparation easier because it aligns with their narrative that taxes are bad. The more painful tax preparation is, the more sympathy they find with this narrative.

I'm primed to believe this because I'm a registered Democrat raised in that kind of household. Is it true, though? The logic makes sense, but how could we really determine whether a tax-bashing neoconservative actively protects labyrinthine tax practices in order to justify adjacent political ends? I'm more likely to conclude that it doesn't happen.
Nitpicking: Modern Tesla Model 3 have 16V batteries (and subsequently also 16V "sigarette igniter" connection instead of 12V)
Odd common ground is a weird way to say that most democrats are really just conservatives. Both parties bend to the will of big business. Both parties are happy to screw over workers (just look at what Biden did to rail workers). Democrats are happy to screw over real progressives like Bernie Sanders (look at 2016) while doing nothing about the conservatives within their ranks (Joe Manchin).

Conservatives are happy to take lobbyist money and give them whatever they want. Liberal progressive want no money in politics and typically get funding from labor unions.

We need to recognize that both parties support the interests of the ultra wealthy with the exception of a handful of democrats and 3rd party candidates.
> How do you do QA on one-off items or reliably fact check books?

There’s a reason that traditional publishers don’t just take manuscripts and print them without active review and engagement, and there’s a reason traditional book retailers have buyers. Amazon (both as a publisher and retailer) and other online marketplaces have treated it as if the only reason for these things was resource limitations of the traditional marketplace (whether imposed by printing, etc., costs for publishers or inventory and shelf space concerns for traditional retailers) but it also goes to customer trust.

Does it scale? No, but if you don’t do something like it, then you may have an infinite number of titles, but it will become impossible for customers to find anything that has quality among the trash.