skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using an 8 char password for those tests is very weak

On my old linux gaming rig with the AMD RX580 I can run through the entire WPA2 keyspace of 8 char lowercase or 8 char uppercase in 3 hours.

Md5 and sha1 takes seconds using JTR or hashcat masks or brute force or a straight attack using the Rust super fast Cracken password generator.
This is just whataboutism. Maybe you don’t know this but there are many alternatives to both neo-capitalism and authoritarianism.

Tim is not blaming capitalism. Without wanting to put words in his mouth, I think he’s blaming unfettered capitalism and its winner-take-all bullshit where the majority of the participants in the economy fail to benefit from it.

My next business will - very intentionally - be a lifestyle business, but it’s been really hard to find a niche where I can build a quality moat against massive players. The odds are stacked against us smaller players because of an accumulation of capital which is unnecessary and less efficient than alternatives.

You can blather on all you like about capitalism being better than communism but the kind of capitalism we’re getting is no better for us than the kind of communism we’ve fought against.

To quote someone on HN some years ago - I apologise that I didn’t keep the URL - “The US government's democracy is at most the same as the Soviet Union's communism, merely something to cover the way that those in power divide the loot.”
Dani, whom the article mentions, has also worked on prosthetic arm replacements which are indeed modelled on tentacles. I don't have a link to hand but I'm sure some use of your favourite search engine would show this for you.
There won't be any riots. This is the scariest part, most people just don't care
There is a desktop application that works really well you only need to link it once. Exactly like the WhatsApp web app.
I gotta say this is one of the best ever position sticky, scroll animation fests I have ever browsed. It was smooth the whole time, and handled window resize by basically saying 'fu' to the user I'm going to start from the beginning. However, saying all this, I think it's a pretty terrible form for giving importance to the content. It just continually distracts from the words on the page, and I end up just playing with the scroll toy instead of caring about what the article is about. Maybe sour grapes, because I struggled with similar web projects in the past. So I have true admiration for the makers of this but I feel like it turns the page from some article about the macintosh to a cool scroll experience.
According to whois the domain is marked ClientHold - this means the domain is subject to legal dispute or non-payment. :-o
People often conflate anarchists with libertarians. They are quite distinct, and the post I replied to clearly was referring to libertarians as not having a government.

The US was a reasonable approximation to libertarian up until perhaps FDR or so.
Non-consensual deep fake porn is no joke. Although 7 years jail seems a bit ridiculous; this seems like it'd be more appropriate for the punishment to be a fine under most circumstances. I'm not sure what jail time is supposed to achieve here. This is probably going to pick up a lot of idiot teenagers.
> We’re decades into the pattern. I continue to be stunned that anyone is surprised by Chinese product anymore.

The problem with this kind of thinking is that it is "narrative based" thinking. This type of thinking typically associates a country's manufacturing with low quality products based on news and stories, but not a truth-seeking mental model.

In my opinion, a better mental model is this: Chinese manufacturing is a system. It a capitalistic system that can manufacture at any level of quality and price point. It is also libertarian in that there are fewer rules/regulations.

Quality is often proportional to price point, and many of the products on Chinese e-commerce sites are manufacture-on-demand (often low lead times) at very low price points. What kind of quality can you expect for $3-$4?

On the other hand, if you are willing to pay for high-end manufacturing that is highly compliant with standards, you will get the level of quality you expect. Apple seems to have no problem with the quality of Chinese manufacturing.

The system will produce what people are willing to pay for.
I always ask people to give example of real world SPAs where JS is "used well" and nobody could give me an example
Airburst is something that behooves one to get a blast door to their shelter, complete with air vent connected to a reservoir of non-flammable liquid as a buffer.

If outside the wood-constructed residential air blast range (16.4 miles for airburst 20Mton load), a simple plywood-reinforced wooden door will do.

Chinese Civil Defense outlines using wooden poles in the A-frame over 3' deep trench then cover with 3-feet dirt. Only need to shut the door once you see a "spotlight" shining your way as its 2.4 seconds from light to the blast wave for an airburst, longer as you're further way.
"it is OK for them to have bizarre sexual likes and dislikes."

I agree, so long as they are not consuming something that harmed anyone. Just as we know banning ivory sales reduces elephant poaching, contributing to demand causes harm. Putting an AI step in between the CP and its consumption is the same as before, it doesn't change anything.
> is, apparently, not a metaphor for some (most?) people.

I take it you have aphantasia then? I wouldn't say it's "not a metaphor," as it's clearly not literal, but yes, most of the population can see at least faint images in their minds with some effort or when unfocused (daydreaming). The detail of the image and effort required to contruct and maintain it exists on a spectrum. But yes, people with visual imaginations have all "seen" images that have never been physically produced.
I use iCloud Keychain for passwords. It's a trade-off between security and convenience.

Passwords aren't as critical in my opinion, because I can always change them. Sure, it would suck if someone broke into my hosting account or my bank account, but I could probably fix it somehow. I was more thinking about secrets that I don't want people to find out, because there is no way to make people forget something they learned about me that I wanted to hide.
No it’s not a joke. Outside of tyrannies it’s ok to ask questions.

Specifically, I am interested in tangible examples.

The one thing I got from your post is: Meta can target you to deliver better ads.

If you have other specific examples of what else can happen, please elaborate. I am curious
It might be free speech in the USA but Australia is a sovereign nation with its own legal system so nobody cares what people in the US think.
When was the last time public outcry actually impacted policy?
Other countries have also seen inflation of prices of energy and other things. I doubt any of this would become cheaper if you leave the eu.
Unfortunately, your comment does neither, which is the far worse offense.

See also: HN guidelines regarding shallow dismissals.
bonding over walks is actually one of the best ways of communicating your thoughts with the other person. ofc I don't have any research or anything to back it up, but whenever i hit a blocker in life, i take a walk with my bestfriend in and around the college campus. 99% of the problem is solved by the end of it. however if i do the same thing elsewhere, like our room or some place to eat, the flow of thoughts isn't that coherent or fruitful. maybe the active work of walking stimulates our brains to think out stuff properly.
Clicking on the dropdown entries also selects the radio button below it.
Thanks, that’s very specific and actually happened.

Good point
I agree with that - but all that browsing around also requires plenty of typing and mousing around. I'm not saying DVORAK is the answer, just that when my hands hurt, the non-writing-code / code-browsing activities hurt too :)
You could just change your App Store region to any country outside the EU. For example all you need to change to US is an American phone number and credit card.
A design so cool and principled nobody talks or cares about the content.
Joro spiders are parachuting their way to New York
I'm interested in how this might work out (or not!) in practice. Turning p=0.05 into p=0.045 is a mortal sin in some circles (see also: p-hacking). I can't see how you can look at your data for only "massive signs" without also picking up the smaller signs. Have a computer do it?
Doesn't remove the fact that we had good sofas 40 years ago.

Perhaps capitalism is only good while it's kept in check by the menace of communism.
So far, the law doesn't have a majority. Even if they manage to push it through the Commission and Parliament, it's very unlikely to survive contact with the European Court of Justice.
If you have the means, yes.
It's probably scanning most common ports first, so covering breadth of IPs rather than completeness of results. Out of curiosity, have you tried scanning your external IP with Nmap, enabling all ports?
> The US was a reasonable approximation to libertarian up until perhaps FDR or so.

Wouldn't it be great if somehow the titans of Silicon Valley could figure out a way to bring back sweatshops, company towns, employment sharks, Pinkertons, and child labor? Oh, wait.
If the LLM doesn't output data that conforms to a schema, you can't reliably parse it, so you're back to square one.
I have pressed an imaginary "brake pedal" with my foot many times when travelling as a passenger in vehicles with someone else driving, just because i was watching the traffic and sensed the need to slow down.

Another instancee --

In my country growing up we didnt always have "blinkers" on our vehicles (light motorbikes, scooters, bicycles) -- so it was common to use "hand signals" to indicate your intention to turn right or left. I once did "hand signal" when WALKING along a corridor and had to turn right into another corridor / aisle.
The early demos from ctrl labs (aquired by facebook) were VERY interesting.

They put a sensor band around the forearm and used machine learning to interpret the electrical signals the brain was sending.

They were able to interpret intent to move before actual movement. they apparently had a perfect keyboard, but you didn't have to actually move your fingers.

What was interesting is that one of the guys working there had figured out how to have a third arm.

can't find the article. this is close:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/6/17433516/ctrl-labs-brain-c...
conservative view

You are a lazy good for nothing, feckless workshy benefit scrounging loser.

labour view.

You are a lazy good for nothing, feckless workshy benefit scrounging loser.

My view

C'est la vie.

We need unemployed people. It drives the economy, creates competition and encourages employers to pay more wages.

Working life is brainless slavery.
Cool! I wonder if offsetting the coils on the different layers would allow a clock with finer steps, or even stepless.
The words we use are funny.

I had a conversation with my wife yesterday explaining to her that "gas" (gasoline) wasn't a gas. (it can become one, but that's not where the name comes from)
Can you refer me to any project you are speaking about?
I consider it possible that they were planning new nuclear stations before the war, but since the war and the constant nuclear thread by the russians, I would be very surprised if there are larger projects planned.
Unfortunately, these days economic community is not enough. With the US slowly falling apart due to internal polarization, rusia and china trying to grap as much power as they can, Middle East far from stable, and the disrupting impact of climate change, focusing only on the economy ignores our biggest problems.
No unless you jailbreak your iPhone (good luck with that) or re-sign the app every week because that's your only option without a $100/year developer account.
At what point does content distribution happen? If someone distributes a seed and prompt that reliably generate a deepfake of a celebrity using open source models and tools, is that covered?

This is ultimately about compression, and the famous DeCSS t-shirt and illegal prime number[1].

Not taking a moral position here, but regulating distribution independently of creation for personal consumption seems difficult.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number#Illegal_prime...
Presumably Signal will remain available in the UK. At least, it could.
I wish bus stops where I live weren't so hostile to the user, no one wants to sit on metal in 100 degree weather, especially with no shade. Also if the buses came sooner then every 30 mins I would consider them more often but if it takes me 30 mins to walk to a stop where I sweat in the sun with no shade and the bus left early before I arrived I might end up waiting an hour hoping it arrives. So then I have to leave extra early and it's too much effort especially when I have a car.
Activable Marketing Persona
Most of us are not aware that it takes time and money to increase brands and enterprises digital visibility. It requires organization and planning to become efficient over time. My recommandation for you would be to get back to STP marketing basics, TOFU, MOFU, BOFU marketing funnel steps and ask yourself the following questions:
1- Which market segments are associated to my brand(s) or my business?
2- Based on the above how can I define activable marketing personas for each market segments that I have already identified. An activable marketing persona is a description (with real targeting parameters including demographics, interest, professional skills, behaviors) of an audience that I can activate/turn into a digital advertising campaign in a targeted advertising platform.
3- Which set of messages to associate to each of the defined activable marketing personas
4- Which advertising channels to use to reach the targeted audiences (activable marketing personas)
5- What timing between the different messages for each targeted audiences characterized by each activable marketing personas
It is quite clear that it would be easier and faster if you could have access to a SaaS tool facilitating the creation and management of activable marketing personas at scale. I guess that www.markaiter.com is enabling such capabilities.
You don't even need a credit card if you don't plan to pay for things. I changed my Apple ID country to US with just a fake address.
Since it is super simple to create a new app and super simple to deploy and host, I don't find it to be an overkill. And if you want to expand on an idea, it makes it very easy.
For sometime that's really simple, like a landing page, I use jekyll and the end result is just plain HTML
Well, nothing interesting can happen in short-term, but not sure about long-term given how much surveillance is being built under our noses.

Currently, only issue I face is, due to unlimited text/calls benefit in Germany, I also receive a lot of scam/phishing sms or random sales sms about some random agency offering digital marketing, webdev, wordpress etc irrelevant service unsolicited. I noticed that, somehow when such sms arrives, I am very proactive in immediately blocking those numbers, but may be by evening, I start seeing adverts all around the web creepily related to those same sms(mostly different vendors but related business area).

Thanks to the garbage that LLM is, now I suspect Google SMS as well as other Android based sms apps are also scanned and profiled to feed to advertisers, which I can't prove but my experience above is definitely not the Frequency Fallacy.
Might be something with my system them. I keep having to link every month or two.

Not a serious WhatsApp user either, so my comparison is FB messenger.
What do they do if I send: AFBC67CEDA7AD?

Ban all “non-intelligible” content?

Who can stop me from hiding information in very normal looking sentences?

If you want privacy, there will always be a way.
That's why you keep a second mode trained that instead makes you jump away from the uncontrolled blade.
According to Kearney, distillation doesn't remove dangerous radioactive iodines (iodine is relatively volatile). He instead recommends building a clay-based earth filter, using a freshly-dug hole and taking material from more than 4" underground.

Chapter 8 (Water), pp78 https://ia902306.us.archive.org/19/items/NuclearWarSurvivalS...
No, turns out there are enough other muscles/tendons pulling on it I haven't really missed it, there's nothing obvious I can't do with it - I suspect the ones that pull it down are more important than the ones that pull it up
The problem is America is that tipping has become a norm, and it's hard to put the genie back in the bottle.

You have 3 parties with non-aligned goals.

Staff will optimize for earnings, so they actually prefer tips. Many oppose a minimum livable wage (keyword being "minimum", which often ends up being much lower than tipped wages).

Customers will optimize for cost while having the peace of mind that workers are getting paid a living wage, so they prefer restaurant owners pay their staff a minimum livable wage, but not any higher than that so they can enjoy meals at a reasonable cost.

Restaurant owners are trying to optimize their cost, so they want to minimize cost of operations, which means paying their workers as little as legally required, and have the customer cover the rest by tipping (which is discretionary and governed by norms).

The equilibrium -- at least in America -- is found in a reasonable level of tipping.
In Australian states and in Australian federal courts the process is similar; to become a judge at level {X} there's a merit bar to pass (prior skills | qualifications) and prospective candidates apply for the position when vacancies appear (like other jobs).

The applicants are assessed by state or federal peer committees who give advice to state or federal attorney generals (head lawyer) which is a qualified position held by someone who is elected (elected to represent a district, not elected to be attorney general).

The Attorney General appoints Judges who apply and are qualified, those appointments can be appealed on various grounds.

Eg: In the State of Western Australia:

https://www.wa.gov.au/government/media-statements/McGowan-La...

2 x District Court judges appointed by Quiggles : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Quigley_(politician) who's quite the chap, he was a lawyer for the police for a fair while until he turned and gave evidence on police corruption.

In the Federal sphere: https://www.ag.gov.au/legal-system/courts/judicial-appointme...
seems this law has a loophole, since it just bans distributing but not possessing or generating. i imagine people will just distribute the tools to generate instead, which is then a fun re-do of the classic sony drm keys game [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers...
It's somewhat surprising that no quality scientific studies like this seem to exist. I understand that, to our knowledge, exercise can't influence the length of the eyeball, but some well-conducted studies to test that would still be nice.
Setting aside the frequentist probability premises, the argument that "Cars are way, way, way more dangerous than airplanes" -- while true, and reasonable, and would not be as dismissive a point if it were recognized that car culture is so normalized and widely internalized by individuals and less so the fault or ridiculous irrationality of said individuals -- is not really relevant to the argument that "Airbus is a safer airplane than Boeing given how each company is run nowadays."

Like, based on your simple frequentist argument, should Boeing be above FAA scrutiny? Let's just tell the FAA to spend more time on reforming car culture, too? People shouldn't bother voting with their feet?
I've interviewed many people, probably well over 100. One of the side effects is that I am very comfortable being interviewed and I'm usually completely relaxed because I know where the other person is coming from and what they're looking for.

It also helps that I haven't interviewed for a position where my programming skill was in question in a very long time.
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The context is A/B testing, so all the data will be on a computer already.

It makes sense to abort early when the results are clear. This happens all the time in clinical trials.
SMS 2FA should end like backup recovery email. One is not safe, the other is a loop hole. If breaking encryption is too expensive, then either use the hammer approach, or compromise one of the terminals (or both). Computation will get so cheap and so good, that unless cryptography evolves pari pasu real freedom will be affected.
The challenge right now is that even the expensive stuff is cheap shit. It’s goddamn near impossible to actually assess the quality of an item you’re purchasing, and the only guarantee is that if it’s a good quality product today, someone will recognize the brand has equity and financial engineer it into crap tomorrow.
The brain seems to do 90% error correction. Once you learn how human vision actually works it seems miraculous that it works at all.
Nope.

The defence strongly objected multiple times and sought a mistrial over Daniels' testimony; Judge Merchan ultimately allowed most of it over their objections, setting up a likely issue for appeal by Trump's team.
Or, it was recalling the details of the OpenAI repos it was trained on.
All because the checkout machine needs to go Ping.

You would think in these days of high tech that some bright spark would develop a check out machine that visually recognised what the cashier was passing through the machine that goes Ping..

So having no need for any stickers or bar codes at all.

Its just an avacado!
My takeaway is to avoid mixing the frequentist and Bayesian approaches. Choose one method: either follow the frequentist approach and avoid early data analysis, or use the Bayesian approach to compute posterior probabilities once data are available. Mixing the two without expertise can lead to errors.
France: Hold by beer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unr...
Would you honestly prefer someone calling it en-sit-ification, combining "cleverness" with a Doctorow meme?

Right. I didn't think so.

Also, the sofas of the USSR are not relevant to the conversation any more than pre-capitalist couches are.
Pay peanuts get monkeys.
Just gotta get some Gomer Bolstrood.

In all honesty I have no desire for furniture not made by someone I know or alternately made by some New England craftsman who gets paid more than I do and either way I want furniture that will last at least the next hundred years. I have no desire for furniture that my grandchildren wont spend a couple days fighting over.
If you have to run every image and text through some sort of "filter" you cant turn off... Yes.

Thats a LOT of compute.