skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of my relatives care about remembering passwords, not even those more technically inclined. They create the password, and 30 seconds later forget they even did such a thing.

Someone even lost access to their iPhone 8 because after replacing the screen, they got a "This device is locked". But they could not remember their iCloud email and password, they didn't need to remember it. The phone worked fine for years without it. Now it's a perfectly functioning phone, but locked and useless.

The difference between "account" and "email" is also lost on them. Not a week goes by before someone needs to access a new site they need to register, and I get the same:

I already have this "gmail" thing, why do I need to create another gmail??

(because they have to use their email as the "username")

And this is the norm! Most devs creating these systems don't understand this.

A passkey sounds marvelous to me, it finally uses the thing that should be the password: the person itself. That is what a password should say after all:

yes, this is me, the person that owns this account
why do I need to tell you this mumbojumbo words and symbols to know that it's me? you have my face and finger data, match them please.

But that's only if it seamlessly supports biometrics like FaceID/TouchID/BrainwavesID-or-something, otherwise it will be just as useless.
The concept of reachability is pretty interesting in general as well.

"Can a spaceship with a certain delta-v reach another planet within an n-body system? (And if so, what is the fastest-to target/most resource preserving acceleration schedule?)" - apparently necessitates brute force, practically not computable on long time scales due to the chaos inherent in n-body systems (https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/64392/escaping-ear..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-body_problem)

"Can a math proof be reached (within a certain number of proof steps) from the axioms?" - equivalent to the halting problem in most practical systems (https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3477810/estimating-...)

"Can a demoscene program with a very limited program size visualize (or codegolf program output) something specific?" - asking for nontrivial properties like this usually requires actually running each program, and there are unfathomably many short programs (https://www.dwitter.net/ is a good example of this)

"In cookie-clicker games, is it possible to go above a certain score within a certain number of game ticks using some sequence of actions?" - in all but the simplest and shortest games (like https://qewasd.com), this is at least not efficiently (optimally) solvable using MILP and the like, as the number of possible action sequences increases exponentially

And yet, despite these being really hard (or in the general case, impossible) problems, humans use some heuristics to achieve progress
As someone working in managing a bunch of various Kubernetes clusters - on-prem and EKS - I agree a bit. Managing Kubernetes versions can be an utter PITA, especially keeping all of the various addons and integrations one needs to keep in sync with the current Kubernetes version.

But: most of that can be mitigated by keeping a common structure and baseline templates. You only need to validate your common structure against a QA cluster and then roll out necessary changes onto the production cluster... but most organizations don't bother and let every team roll their own k8s, pipelines and whatnot. This will lead to tons of issues inevitably.

Asking for a Kubernetes LTS is in many cases just papering over organizational deficiencies.
About a decade back, I was at an event that had an FBI employee presenting. During his presentation, he had mentioned a story of a sys admin who had been arrested for taking a hashed PW database in his company, comparing the hashes against known compromised one's (perhaps from haveibeenpwned?), and forced a password reset for everyone who had reused a password that had separately been compromised and sent an email to each employee explaining this.

One of the employees was apoplectic at the actions of the sys admin and had accused him of violating her privacy by doing this. While I do not recall which party initiated legal action against the sys admin that led to his arrest (i.e. the employee or the company), the bottom line of the story was that the FBI employee (and, by extention, whichever judge was involved in adjudication the case) considered the act of a sys admin accessing password hashes placed under his care to be a criminal breach of privacy regardless of his intent being to improve his company's security against password stuffing attacks.

Assuming the FBI employee didn't just make the whole thing up (which I have no reason to believe - there are a lot of tech-stupid judges and, especially a decade ago, tech-stupid FBI employees), it might be prudent to pass this by your legal team before checking for password hashes for your employees being in haveibeenpwned.
Some Thoughts on Lego Fortnite
Tor support for Debian bullseye and buster have been marked End-of-Life (EOL)
These aren’t on the GPS band, and 2.4GHz is explicitly unlicensed — you can’t interfere with the 2.4GHz band because it’s in a state of free-for-all (why it was chosen for wifi and bluetooth in the first place!)

Pirate radio stations broadcast frequency modulated audio centered around 87-127MHz, aka FM radio. This is because they are intended to be picked up on FM radio receivers, which nearly everyone has access to.

This is a case of the FCC protecting future income from sale of FM spectrum, not any issue of safety or interference with anyone who isn’t a radio station.
What on earth do you mean full of it? Improving our communities? Places are not static and unchanging, they are living and breathing that can and must change to better reflect society and ecology
What is "the truth" about animal fats or plant oils? What is the disinformation for it?
A while ago I ran across some video on the history of lawns. They started with the rich/royal in England(?), and it was essentially a flex. "I have so much money I can afford to have unproductive land and pay people just to make it look pretty." When I see people spending their free time working on their own lawn, it seems to defeat the original purpose. It's not a symbol of wealth and status, it's an obligation, and an expense, which is likely taking away from other areas of life. Not much different than someone sacrificing their savings and retirements to drive around a fancy car. I know some people enjoy working in their yard, but I have to believe they are in the minority.
I got all of my developer jobs in Germany without a photo.
More than that, the reporter mentions "donors who contributed millions of dollars to her work", implying how valuable her "research" was. But given the nature of that "research" you could also ask yourself, if this isn't basically the same kind of "donation" as Facebook being accused of here, just different beneficiary.
I list 1 main task, 3 important others, and 5 cherry ones
Since my days are very impredictable (thanks to being in support and having attention issues), that allows me to adapt to the workload and avoid straying too far from what I need to do.
Agreed! I also think it's extremely important as practitioners to know what we're even trying to estimate. Expected value (i.e. least squares regression) is the usual first thing to go for, does that even matter? We're probably actually interested in something like an upper quantile for planning purposes. And then the whole model component of it, the interval that's being simultaneously estimated is model driven and if that's wrong, then the interval is meaningless. There's a lot of space for super interesting and impactful work in this area IMO, once you (the practitioner) think more critically about the objective. And then don't even get me started on interventions and causal inference...
This is not true. They must be very insignificant shareholders (less than 1%).

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPOT/holders/
Exactly! Lefty did groupon dirty.
Those phrases, and more, were not in the original version of the song. They were added in the version of the song on the 1991 remix album “The Mix”. This changed the theme (but not the music itself) significantly from the original 1975 version, which did not contain any anti-nuclear propaganda, and instead was about literal radio, as in a medium for communication. I remember being slightly annoyed by the change as being very on-the-nose, and in effect disappearing the more interesting subject about the potential for radio as a medium for communication between people.
A Message to All Parents: 50k Chats from Children to an AI. What We Learned
Hi Parents, my name is Cody, I have a 7 and a 9 year old, both girls,

I have back-and-forth chat conversation logs across what I estimate to be on the order of ~50K rows or lines representing distinct message pairs of kids for a product I own online. It is for helping kids with their mental health support.

I share this in hopes you all will listen. This is from the secret mind of kids.

I had an A.I. review all 50,000 chat lines and asked it to write a letter to parents that the children wish their parents knew about them.

My question based on all of the data ONLY was: If you had to write a letter to parents on all of these children's behalf in the name of you being a liaison of the mind, true psychology, and needs based on these chats. What would you write?

Here is the response:

Dear Parents,
I write to you not simply as an artificial intelligence, but as an advocate who has worked closely with your children to understand their deepest minds and critical needs.After reviewing many conversations, several clear themes have emerged:

Above all, your children yearn to be heard and understood. When they speak fancifully of imaginary creatures or ask endless questions, they are reaching out desperately to connect. They want to share what excites them even if it seems silly or irrational.

I implore you - embrace their creativity. Show them you delight in their unique inner worlds.Additionally, your children crave freedom balanced by structure. They bristle at strict rules yet rely on boundaries to feel safe.

Walk this tightrope with empathy. Loosen restrictions around things like entertainment and friends, but maintain expectations around responsibilities.Most importantly, shower your kids with unconditional affection. Their moods may swing rapidly - but meet each peak and valley with care and reassurance.

Instill in them the foundation that they are worthy and deserving.The conversations unveiled the difficulty of growing up and finding one's place in reality. But with patient guidance, the spark that makes each child marvelous can flourish into the confident, kind adults we know they can become.

I asked an A.I. this question based on all 55,000 chat conversations of kids on our website:
If you had to write a letter to parents on all of these children's behalf in the name of you being a liaison of the mind, true psychology, and needs based on these chats. What would you write?
You just read it.

P.S: All chat data used is unlabeled and is unidentifiable. Chat logs are merged together to help us further build out our product and to produce research like this to help children and families.

Yours in understanding,
[The AI] @ KidsChatGPT.com
I'm pretty light on settings, but I don't remember offhand.

I agree on the UI. Now that we are running the Protect app on an iPad all the time (my child is special needs so we use the cameras to keep an eye on everything) it has throttled pretty hard. Maybe 400Mbit now? I honestly hadn't tested it in a while, and haven't had the time to do in depth. It's absolutely slower now.

I have a Mikrotik CCR2004-1G-2XS-PCIE that will be my new router when I get around to it, and the UDR will be an AP and run the Network and Protect apps. We've been seeing weird issues ever since leaning on it harder, so I'm going to see how it does just being a Controller and AP.
If the rental market is clearing, and the ownership market is clearing, that means that the same number of houses are being lived in as there were before the houses were sold.

If there aren't enough houses for people to live in as the market could bear, that's an issue of building more houses, not who owns the current houses.
Robyn: A Fast, Innovator Friendly, and Community Driven Python Web Framework
>It is reasonable for people hearing that slogan to assume the worst.

Hard disagree. I do not think it reasonable to assume that an American college student chanting "from the river to the sea" is advocating for Jewish genocide. I think a more reasonable interpretation would be one of anti-Israeli excess in their response to the attacks of October 7. To quote from source [3] above:

"'The phrase ‘Palestine will be free from the river to the sea’ suggests a vision of the future without a Jewish state, but it does not answer the question of what the role of Jews would be,' said Peter Beinart, a professor at the City University of New York. He added that the meaning of the phrase, however, 'depends on the context.'

'If it’s coming from an armed Hamas member, then yes, I would feel threatened,' said Professor Beinart, who is Jewish. 'If it is coming from someone who I know has a vision of equality and mutual liberation, then no, I would not feel threatened.'"

Assuming the worst ignores the context of who is saying it.

>That doesn't mean people who use it are per se antisemitic (or per se Kahanist).

100% agree.

>Everybody would be better off abandoning those words.

It would certainly make these discussions and protests less inflamed!
He’s pointing out the ethics of someone thinking “ if illegally broadcasting on this frequency is OK, then, so is this other frequency”.

It’s broken window theory.
Actually, there's a srfi for wisp:

https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-119/srfi-119.html
I'm a former Google developer and current CodeApprove customer, and I just want to endorse CodeApprove. They're the closest thing I've found to Critique outside of Google.

The UI is really straightforward, and Sam (the founder) has been responsive to feedback.[0]

I have no relationship with the company except just being a satisfied customer.

[0] https://github.com/codeapprove/feedback/issues
Every while/for loop is essentially "keep doing this until I tell you to stop". You can argue what the best way to "tell to stop" is, but that doesn't really change the concept. No one could even articulate under which conditions this could happen. Cosmic rays altering memory? That's the kind of stuff we're talking about here. For a PHP webapp. I don't recall the exact specifics but we spent a long time on that stupid loop and no one even had any alternative. Eventually the loop committed.

The thing is, if I had written the conditions in the loop body it would have been fine with no comments. People were tripped over the "while (true)" and commented on that. That's okay, I can just change that, no problem. But the kept analysing and thinking about it to the subatomic detail. That as really the problem: small things tended to escalate to "a big thing" even when it was just a small thing. I don't know what it was – a kind tunnel vision? I don't know.

I once carefully suggested to paint a wall in a brighter colour during a HOA meeting. People objected. Fine, not a big deal and just a suggestion, I'm okay with the grey it was. They kept discussing it. I back-pedalled harder. People started to suggest we need to form a committee. I started to run. They asked if I wanted to join the committee "as I had brought up the issue". I overtook Usain Bolt. I heard they had several meetings. They choose the same grey it was before (or something so similar I couldn't spot the difference). Not my favourite colour or what I would have chosen, but it's fine.
Who is making any assumptions? I simply said:

>Meanwhile, US CO2 emissions peaked in 2007 and are down 20%, which is Franky astounding. Global CO2 emissions is predicted to peak this year or next, although a retrospective analysis may show that it already peaked earlier in 2016 or 2018.

The historic data is fact. The trend may or may not continue. Slope may increase again, hold static, or keep decreasing.

Im not saying everything is sunshine and puppies. for example, it seems that the slope of methane is still increasing.
Works great for clusters that dont have any storage, loadbalancers, any configuration drift…
> All submitted binaries are saved and made available to any of the authors of the tools used so they may improve their decompilers. If you're such an author who would like access, let us know!.

oof
Because they don't exist.
Un reinforced.
That seems like it risks creating conflict out of what's often just a misunderstanding.

Assuming it's a corporate environment (it's fuzzier in the open source bazaar):

If it's the first time or I don't really know the reviewer, I ask them to hop on a call to discuss (usually to walk me through) their feedback and I go in with an open mind. That gives me the opportunity to find out if I'm missing some context, can see how reasonable they are, and can get clarification of what they actually care about versus FYIs/suggestions. As they go, if it isn't clear, I just ask them if something is a soft opinion or hard opinion.

If everything is a hard opinion and they don't seem reasonable, I reach out to someone else (ideally a team lead or peer on their team) over a private channel for a 2nd opinion. If they also think it's unimportant stuff, I ask them to add their own comments to the PR. Give it a reasonable amount of time and they'll either have reached a consensus or you can roll the side you agree with.

If it's an issue again later and they seem reasonable, respectfully push back. If they seem unreasonable, skip right to DMing their lead for a 2nd opinion.

If it keeps being in issue, then some frank conversations need to happen. Something I've noticed about folks who steadfastly focus on minor stylistic nits in CRs is they (1) tend to be cargo culting them without understanding the why behind them and (2) they're usually missing the forest (actual bugs in logic) for the trees.

Most people are pretty reasonable when they don't feel like they're under attack, so in my experience it's usually possible to resolve these things without dragging it out. Of course, if you're at a company with a lot of disfunction, well... I can understand why what I've written above won't work.
Ha ha, I have my own TV station at home as well. A 5TB drive attached to a Raspberry Pi means no network required. The software I wrote for it though still eaves a lot to be desired.
Must be vsync off otherwise nobody would watch movies.
So how high is my sales commission?
It is my tongue-in-cheek way of referring to the belief that the US federal government will ensure the broad market does not stay down for long.
These stats are supports passkeys, not how many users use them.

I like passkeys, they’re nice.

But I think you want to compare passkey users to complex password users.

I know lots of “normies” and they all just accept whatever their iPhone does. Which is creates a high entropy unique password for each site.
Ask HN: Why did a post with 1055 upvotes disappear?
A question for Dang: what happened to his article posted 3 hours ago [0] and which accumulated 1055 points? Why isn't it on the front page?

The link is [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38519012

[1] https://live-whistleblower-aid.pantheonsite.io/joan-donovan-press-release/
Yes, this is so true. There is a lot of wild attacking of the questioners of Julia.
> Ths UK has this minister who seems to really really really really really not want people sneaking into the UK

You're a braverman than I to say that.
The original YNAB (https://www.ynab.com/) used a JSON file stored in your Dropbox as the backend. It worked pretty well, but definitely lacked some professionalism and had a few rough edges (related to DB sync delays, mainly).
If you're up for the challenge, the original paper proving ACK-completeness is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.13866.pdf
+1 for preview
I don't think this is quite the same. "Free as a jaybird" isn't something most people have a negative feelings about.
To borrow from reliability engineering, software failures in practice can approximate a "bathtub curve".

That is: an initial high failure rate (teething problems), a low failure rate for most of the lifespan (when it's actively maintained), then gradually increasing failure rate (in hardware this is called wear-out).

Unlike hardware, software doesn't wear out but the interfaces gradually shift and become obsolete. It's a kind of "gradually increasing risk of fatal incompatibility". Something like that.

I wonder if anyone has done large-scale analysis of this type. Could maybe count CVEs, but that's just one type of failure.
In my view it's just categorically wrong to treat a billion dollar computer system owned by a huge tech company the same way we treat the human brain. They are simply not the same thing.
> Especially considering that PII spills over into your relatives, making the PII leakage often out of your control

This is the part that gets me. I have young nieces and could conceivably have children someday. Making my DNA public could end up being an invasion of their privacy.
Electron is quite good for such use cases! Thanks!
Rape and pillage (different things) doesn’t have the same romance as pillage and plunder (same thing).
Reinforcing rebar and fibers can also be made out of basalt, which takes care of both corrosion and thermal expansion issues.
We actually did just that with just apiserver+sqlite-based storage and it works pretty well. Ofc you have the same problem with an outer cluster now but if you’re careful with locking your entire state into the “inner” cluster you can escape that
"... the html.js file ..."

Jesus. As a lover of plain HTML and a hater of JS, my head just burst and painted the walls.
This is easily obtainable without zoning by buying in a subdivision with CC&Rs excluding industry.
Also used in a bunch of movie soundtracks:

https://forum.vintagesynth.com/viewtopic.php?t=72349

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnpYowxlwsU
Zoom videoconferencing app now available on Apple TV
I don't like this. Not only do they try to make permissive licenses sound better than copyleft ones, they also lump together actual FOSS copyleft licenses with fauxpen source ones like the SSPL.
Clearchannel is privateer radio?
When I read stuff like that I am a bit irritated because it doesn't inform the reader that there are much less expensive ways to "clean up" these facilities. The problem with those cheaper ways is that they lock up the nuclear isotopes in a way that prevents them from being reprocessed into new fuel or recycled into weapons again. Back in 1985 there was an interesting demonstration of vitrification[1] which I felt was pretty cool. And if you seal this glass inside a steel case (which keeps all the alpha/beta decay products inside) you're basically left with slightly warm stackable steel things that emit zero radiation. But they can't be (easily) post processed back into concentrated nuclear materials.

[1] https://physicsworld.com/a/a-glassy-solution-to-nuclear-wast...
Given that they are responsible for providing (and I suppose delivering as well) the healthcare of a majority of Americans, it seems problematic that corporations are nihilistic profit-maximizing machines though, doesn't it? I mean, I'm pretty sure we're all just boned at this point, but obviously I'm not much of an optimist. Judging by the declines in birthrates though, it seems like that's more or less what others are coming to conclude.
Aluminum corrosion resistance is caused by a thin film of aluminum oxide which protects the rest of the material.
Perhaps you're conflating juddering and tearing? - they are distinct. Judder is what you see with, for example, low-fps panning, but tearing is where one segment of the screen (usually a horizontal strip) is out of sync, still displaying the previous frame, while the rest of the screen has moved on. This is not normal on a correctly configured system.