skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Why do people use password managers?
I'm not a security engineer so pardon me this is dumb.

From what I understand, password managers stores all your passwords in hashed format and uses your "master password" as the encrytor.

master password
H(password) <----------------> encrypted password

The key difference here being that this is two way hashing so passwords can be decrypted.

In reality, there are a lot of attack vectors like MITM, event logging or sometimes straight up storing data in plaintext. Through these hackers can generally get passwords of all users of these services.

So, why don't people use local password managers?

Just a txt file encrypted with "master password" should be pretty damning to break into. And the reward for breaking in would be password for 1 person. (compared to 100k businesses).

Obviously, this would be less convinient and wouldn't sync between devices. But would do the job.

And the best part is there are solutions already that do this: https://keepass.info/

So, why do people and companies use Okta, Lastpass, 1pass etc?
Bitcoin Faces Headwinds as ETF Optimism Stalls; Doge, Sol Give Back Gains
Thanks for the words of encouragement! If I may ask, what is the level of "maturity" you expect before adopting a home robot? Clearly, a robot that can wash and fold laundry is already there, but what are the other necessary/sufficient qualities?
Rather than complaining that the link doesn't work why don't you guys with weird set ups just provide one of your own instead?

Tired of seeing it in every comment section. It works for most people, consistently.
And various economists (and others) have suggested that the invention of the washing machine was the most important step towards allowing women to enter the workforce.
I contend that a camel tethered by a ring on a runner which passes through the eye of a needle, by means of a sheet bend specifically, can "pass through" the eye of the needle just as a float strung on the bridle passes through the eyes of the fishing net.

As to whether or not the thread which would fit through said eye of the needle would be enough to restrain said camel, this is in the hands of God.
There's so many issues with large companies demanding people to return to the office, so it's at least somewhat refreshing to hear "do it because I said so", but this just isn't going to work in the long run. The toothpaste can't be put back into the tube. And this is because anyone who worked in-person at the office of a large tech company knows it's markedly worse.

For meetings, the process typically was:
1. Try to book a meeting room for a group large enough, succeed about 80% of the time and scramble at the last minute other times.
2. Wait for someone to finish up their call. If someone super senior was in the room, my meeting was guaranteed to start whenever they felt like ending their meeting, which would be 5-10 minutes late.
3. Inevitably dial into a video conference because at least one member of the team is working in a different office, so not even everyone was in person anyway
4. Run out of time at the end and having to dash to my next meeting room late.

And this doesn't even account for the fact that getting quality heads-down time in an open office floor plan was nearly impossible.

Just take the good with the bad. Make in-person meetings mandatory for important events that require in-person collaboration like design sprints, brainstorming, launches, etc.
Luckily, Gippity isn't the only capable LLM out there!
One factor to consider is AI-Augmented content. I'm not an academic reviewer, but I certainly will do some sort of analysis, write up some key bullet points, then ask chatgpt to synthesis some prose for a report. I then make a few tweaks and edits and send it off. The core content is coming from my analysis, not generation, but if I'm being lazy the content ends up having the "default chatgpt style." I could imagine this ends up being common, especially for non-english natives.
> if they're wrong, they will be "punished" by market forces

we live in age of monopoly, market forces no longer punish. in 1990's there were twice as many companies registered on the stock exchange as today
"He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."
How would you pronounce `jaq` other than `Jaques`[1]? It seems to be the default pronunciation.

[1] https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=Jacques...
There's this:

https://github.com/the-paperless-project/paperless/issues/20

I don't know if it made it's way into this fork.
Language Machinery Who will attend to the machines' writing?
This is similar but should be enough to get you started! https://github.com/espressif/esp-csi
The documentary "Another Body" finds no one is safe from threat of deepfake porn
Bad news for that: it is only free for noncommercial use, and this isn't just a temporary early-release thing, but the new general direction for StabilityAI:

https://twitter.com/EMostaque
I took all my lessons from DS9. Specifically Ferenghi rules of acquisition.
I'm surprised I've seen nothing on HN or Twitter... Are we the last Rackspace Cloud Files clients in London?
I am using a paperless@<domain> address for this as well. Handy to archive stuff coming in via email.
I never really get this "used up the water". Unless it seeps deep into the core or "evaporates" into space we should be fine. Only bother might be at some point needing to use more energy for desalination and use cases for the brine that results.
Is there anything out there like "SELECT * FROM "http://..."?
I avoid them in my personal life, but stuck with them in my professional life. :|
Journals and academia are starting to reward reviewing papers (you can mention your reviews on your resume), so I don't think it's irrelevant. The supposed AI reviewer here is probably polluting journals with dozens of poor quality reviews. This wouldn't be possible without AI help, so that makes it a big problem!
It's not takeoff that consumes a lot of fuel, it's climbing to cruising altitude. You're not going to get much savings with a launch catapult. A catapult really only helps with shortening the runway distances required to take off (e.g. off an aircraft carrier).
Smut aside, long-form writing is actually not that "easy" to full automate with LLMs.

Context windows cause things to break down very quickly. And overfitting of brief and to the point RLHF responses, as well as summary datasets makes coaxing many of the models into slowly narrating things, as one would in a novel is challenging.

Agent-based approach is one way to tackle this, but in that case maintaining narrative style coherency is also somewhat difficult to get right.

Come to think of it, it's actually pretty hard to automate any sort of advanced artwork generation with LLMs. Once you go beyond your average prooompting, you have to put in a lot of work.
And the beginning is exactly that, how to prod cancer cells to grow tissues.
> if your job consists of sitting in meetings all day, work is much, much more enjoyable if you're in office.

But is that someone else's problem?
So the person who recommended using Okta after a big process is now too embarrased to admit that they were wrong? Isn't it even worse to stay on a sinking ship?
Not sure why you added /s, this is exactly what’s happening.
686% inflation adjusted.
Unsurprising - ICE car makers have learned hard lessons over the past 100 years. Many of those lessons translate, but not all. Add to that fact that software and electronics for the physical world are super hard to get right, so we've got alot of problems to deal with. Hybrid is weird - you need the complexities of both ICE and electric, so more complexity leads to more potential areas to fail. By the time the majority of people are driving electric, there will have been lots more iteration and the reliability will hopefully be much better.
There's also this awesome tool to make JSON interactively navigable in the terminal:

https://fx.wtf
Any large company is going to have a lot of locations, both to take advantage of wage disparities and because people are often resistant to packing up and moving. Teams can sometimes be colocated but, especially with so much location-independent hiring over the past few years, the norm is that people are scattered all over the place and it's pretty hard to but the genie back in the bottle absent massive organizational and people changes. So, to the degree you communicate in real-time, you're going to be on Zoom a lot.
This could have been one sentence. Their only complaint is price.
Channel Music – ML powered tool for music exploration
A fun internal project we have been working on for a while. Currently supports Spotify and Apple music.
I think you shouldn't be in jail in the first place!

Drugs being illegal is batshit insane and literally keeps the cartels in business which destabilizes entire countries and kills way more people than having legal drugs.

Anyway thats a whole different conversation.

That being said theres this weird liberal trend to feel sympathy for murderers. And in my book if a person is a murderer or rapist or something, they need to be in a dungeon not a comfy prison with internet.

But for the bullshit you got in for Im glad you were able to find a good spot and make the best of the situation.

Hope you can get some sort if early release situation.
I think in this case it's for the completely reasonable reason that he wanted to write it in Rust and asking jq to rewrite their whole project in rust would be obnoxious.
The existing power grid basically with maybe some local improvements. An ev the charges while parked averages to less power than an electric kettle.
clause 2.1 is $8/million tokens for prompt or .008/1k tokens. interesting
> If all countries in the world simultaneously imposed this law, and google stopped linking all news articles world wide, then Google would be the bigger loser than media companies.

Large media sites would perhaps benefit from that but in general I don't think that's the case. I get almost all my news from link aggregate sites like Hackernews and Reddit. If I didn't get news links from those sites, I'd end up consuming less news. Especially local news.

> It's important to acknowledge the problem: Google extracts more monetary value from the news industry ecosystem than the the value it creates.

I don't think that's the problem. The problem is that news just isn't that valuable anymore. The only reason it was as profitable at all was local monopolies on distribution. Craigslist did more to kill media profitability than Google could ever do. Now you just have a thousand media companies all writing an article on the same current event and trying to capture a few eye balls mostly from being linked to elsewhere.
Primary keys in DBs should be natural keys in the first place. You use surrogate keys only to optimize things.

So the whole analogy now points in the exact opposite direction as stated.
Are LLMs just a ploy to ease recession hit?
It’s basically like having a really dumb person that spews out word salad fast. We had dumb people before LLMs.

Currently it’s the only thing that keeps optimism up in US economy propping up soft landing and tech investment..
(former Userify CEO, so probably a bit biased, but we only focus on SSH/sudo, so not too much overlap)

I agree completely, except with the obvious stipulation that Google seems to be only SaaS and thus extremely high-value target, but Google's security has always been top notch and you can tell they actually care.

Ping Identity seems to be doing pretty well (now owned by Thoma Bravo) and haven't heard of any publicly disclosed leaks.

LastPass has had several well-publicized breaches recently, though.
Vegan here! If you're an omnivore you have my full permission to complain about Bitcoin's water usage. I personally give you my "vegan blessing" or whatever to do so even if you still eat lots of meat.

I would love for more people to become vegan, our current meat industry has a very large negative environmental impact. But please do not use veganism as an excuse to care less about the world. People's inability or unwillingness to give up meat should never be used as an excuse to avoid conversations about other inefficiencies and bad behaviors.

I'd love for people who care about the environment to give veganism a try or at the very least to reduce meat consumption. But if I can't get someone to do that, I'd still like for an omnivore to not use Bitcoin, especially given that veganism is an uphill social battle and Bitcoin thrives on hype and vibes and could genuinely see significant reduction with more conscious avoidance of the tech. So at the least, don't use Bitcoin, but also consider looking critically at meat consumption as well.
These both are things that we (society) should be able to provide. Unfortunatley, I don't know much about these things, but if you haven't do so already, I'd look to see what resources could help. This feels difficult, but I think solvable. Thank you for your response!
It's not a matter of electricity cost, it's a question of watt hours per Kg. A battery powered plane cannot fly far, no matter how cheap electricity is, because the energy density just isn't there: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#/media/File%3...
> Every fiat payment is backed by similar energy and resource usage by the standing military (or dependence on another nation's via other exchange) that gives it worth and stability

This has always struck me as a terrible rebuttal. This essentially means that the only reason that countries have armies is that they have a currency, which is obviously false, thus destroying the argument.

I mean, France, doesn't have their own currency but still has a standing army.
How long did you and your friend stay on the diet? And was it 100% potato? (e.g. did you just boil a potato and eat it, or was it salted/buttered etc.)

I tend to read accounts of people trying a "potato hack" where they adhere to the diet for only a few days, or a week, then go back to regular food. They often lose a small amount of weight but don't move the needle much.

Then I read accounts of people who do it for months, very strictly, and they usually lose dozens (sometimes upwards of a hundred) pounds, and keep the weight off with little effort.

If the potato diet actually needs to be accompanied by a significant amount of exercise, it's probably mostly just another fad diet that is tricking people into losing weight themselves. But, Penn Jillette famously ate only potatoes for 4 months, never exercising at all, and lost over a hundred pounds. Those are the specific kind of claims that need to be verified (or falsified) here, if a large-scale study is ever done on this.
Your right, maybe my formulation was a bit clumsy. I'm not arguing that Tesla is driving the price down for consumers (more then necessary).

I agree that they use price to regulate demand. But they want to sell as much as they can. So if the price is too high they will not sell out all cars. And they can afford to lower prices more then many of their competitors because they earn more per unit sold then the rest of the field [source: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/Tesla-earns-5-t... ]
If you can't actually show it from concrete evidence, then your certainty may actually be an illusion. I have worked with busy-beaver devs who created as many issues as they fixed, in effect making no impact to the quality of the product, and with three-toed sloth types as well, who took a while to get the work done but after it was done, it stayed done.
My coworker, a Singaporean gentleman, was an older man who often communicated in a way that was awkward and confusing, making work with him a challenge. He had a habit of spamming Buddhist topics in WhatsApp and boasting about his achievements, especially his daughter, in a manner that felt unprofessional. What made it worse was that he would intentionally give hard massages on my shoulder behind me when I had repeatedly mentioned that I had an injury on my right joint arm.

In the end, the situation became so untenable that I felt compelled to resign from the Japanese MNC. As for my colleague, I hear he's planning to retire with his wife in China, where he can hopefully enjoy an affordable living standard.

I would say that he has an interesting work attitude.

In other workplaces, I was surprised that the company hired a male colleague who had the habit of touching or molesting other male colleagues.
Just one of their Color-Laser scanner/printer combos. Works like a charm for iOS, Linux, MacOS, Windows.
I think it's more the hand-in-handedness that seems to exist between "rewrite an existing, mature tool" and doing it in Rust. Half the time it's hard for me to know which caused which — the need for the tool, or the desire to rewrite something in Rust.
Anybody using them got feedback?
Yep, and the next logical question when both implementations are for the most part bare metal (compiled and low-level), is why is there a large difference? Is it a matter of implementation/algorithm, inefficiency, or a bug somewhere? In this case, that search turned up a hardware issue that should be addressed, which is why it's so useful to examine these things.
If they weren't owned by landlords, you'd have the money up front to buy one.
The other options are C, C++, Go, and maybe Ada or Zig, though I haven't seen many CLI tools written in those two in practice. In practice, it seems like Go, Rust, and C++ are the preferred languages for newer CLI tools, although I have no data; my conclusion is based on my general perception. Older ones, C and Perl.
Today's power grid with some upgrades. The 1910s power grid also wouldn't be able to handle today's load.
Deskew is on by default unless you disabled it?
Consumer Reports article: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-s...
Google 2FA went from broken to wide open
Related and interesting: my local monopoly utility company RG&E is pushing for EVs hard. They stand to make a fortune if everyone all of a sudden needs to plug a car or truck into their grid.
Interesting idea but I'll stick to my regular 10fastfingers training regime
But do you want to work with people you cannot disagree with? Like, at some point we will probably disagree on work related topics as well, and I'd expect it to go somewhat similarly.
I guess it's cute that there's some terminal line art library in Rust somewhere, but when I tried to invoke jaq it just pooped megabytes of escape codes into my iTerm and eventually iTerm tried to print to the printer. Too clever.

I tried to do `echo *json | rush -- jaq -rf ./this-program.jq {} | datamash ...` and in that context I don't think it's appropriate to try to get artistic with the tty.

The cause of the errors, for whatever it's worth, is that `jaq` lacks `strftime`.
Animal agriculture feeds human beings.
Bob Colwell used to write a column for IEEE Computer (IIRC) that was just awesome reading.
How would word get out? Just dont tell anyone.

Also on a software devs salary you could bribe so many guards and inmates you would be king of that place.
My first instinct was to pronounce jaq as "jack".
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I do all the time, everyday. Is it an automatic paste? No. But then again, I don't want that on other computers.
Agree that this is a potentially system-damaging problem that will only get worse if not directly dealt with. In this case, I think the advice in the OP is good however: address the feedback from the good review, resubmit, and once the paper is accepted, then contact the editor with concerns once it's clear that you aren't objecting to needing to revise.
> No cookie cutter management fluff is going to get you anywhere useful with intelligent people.

bollocks. intelligent people are just as susceptible to advertising, charisma, good looks, "presence", flattery, threats, and other manipulation as anyone. The bar may be a little higher, but everyone has intrinsic biases regardless of IQ, and it's not hard to flesh those out through interactions, then pander to them.

These are all part and parcel of the management toolkit and if you don't think they are then chances are they're working on you right now. "Advertising works, even when you know how advertising works".
The main thing that stands out about this comment to me (agreeing 100% about algebraic types) is the "at this point in time" bit, such boundless optimism :D
dolphin emulator has recent example of this:
https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2023/11/25/dolphin-progress-rep...

seems its not without perils on Windows:

"In an ideal world, that would be all we have to say about the new solution. But for Windows users, there's a special quirk. On most operating systems, we can use a special flag to signal that we don't really care if the system has 32 GiB of real memory. Unfortunately, Windows has no convenient way to do this. Dolphin still works fine on Windows computers that have less than 32 GiB of RAM, but if Windows is set to automatically manage the size of the page file, which is the case by default, starting any game in Dolphin will cause the page file to balloon in size. Dolphin isn't actually writing to all this newly allocated space in the page file, so there are no concerns about performance or disk lifetime. Also, Windows won't try to grow the page file beyond the amount of available disk space, and the page file shrinks back to its previous size when you close Dolphin, so for the most part there are no real consequences... "
It's below average. I am not really hard-pressed to make a job change, but I have been interviewing a bit over the past few months. If you are really in need of a job I would study up on system design, behavioral interview patterns and a bit of leetcode-style programming problems.

From my experience, employers are being very very picky. I have been through full rounds at a couple of places with positive feedback, but they have all gone with other candidates. It seems like if you misstep once during a single interview round, your chances fall dramatically.

Full transparency: I have not put in a lot of time preparing for these interviews, probably explains a lot xD
They already have work locations allowed per department. Mine has 3 in the US and 4 abroad, but we work with others in far more. I could see them trying to move the number of work locations allowed down by shuffling people around or laying off but that'd just be a horrendous undertaking.
Hydrogen has great energy density by mass. But creating a very lightweight container to store either liquid hydrogen or highly pressurized hydrogen is challenging. More feasible than powering planes with lithium batteries, though.
It seems the 2nd EU link of gatekeepers in my original comment is no longer loading as it was before, but this link with "_en" suffixed to it does; can't edit my previous comment though.

https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/gatekeepers_en

In there you will find pdfs for each entity with not only the qualifiers/assessments, but also the counter arguments they presented.

For example, here is one from Alphabet that also brings up your point in the counter argument

https://ec.europa.eu/competition/digital_markets_act/cases/2...
I think this idea of having a custom AI generated Choose Your Own Adventure, in the universe of your choice, is really cool. As for the "smut" aspect, I'd immediately pass on that as long as another human is involved.
Is Amazon hiring scrum masters?
Did you watch the video? That's exactly how "Jaques" is pronounced. It's French: you ignore everything but the non-s-consonants and the first vowel.
By that logic, it should be good for Nextcloud investors.
Music is the cellular automaton of how sounds make humans feel
While the most recent version releases reportedly made some of the existing techniques less effective, there seems to be (judging from indications visible from the outside) a substantial community of people using ChatGPT through the UI or gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-4/gpt-4-turbo via API, for smut, with various prompt jailbreaking techniques.
Americans are 'doom spending' – here's why that's a problem