skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>lock out users after X attempts

Legitimate users usually aren't going to fail more than a couple times. If someone (or something) is repeatedly failing, lock that shit down so a sysadmin can take a look at leisure.

>disallow users to choose a password they used previously (never understood that one)

It's so potentially compromised passwords from before don't come back into cycle now.
Batteries are absolutely destroying demand for natural gas in California:

https://reneweconomy.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/calif...
I got used to the taste after a couple of drinks. The few flavors available mask the taste.

For me it was similar to alcohol or coffee. Did not like it the first few times but gradually got used to it. Now I take a sip and it's refreshing.
To be fair, if they fired him, they should have fired everyone else in the chain of command that knew about this and left it in the codebase.
I generally dislike the term AI because it could reasonably describe most computer programs.

However, in this case machine learning is involved, so even by a narrower definition calling it "AI" seems more than fair.
Can you explain #3 and 4# more clearly?

in #2 you are claiming there is no objective reality or no 'broadcaster' of reality

We must assume some things as being objective such as a rational universe in order to make any claims at all.

-if you are saying in #3 that humans as conscious agents make subjective claims about reality but that those claims are in fact 'the reality' for that agent or person, that is a subjective claim. (I'm not saying that that subjective reality isn't true for that person)

Also, Hoffman doesn't make a 'supernatural' claim per se, his claim is simply that reality as 'we all see it' is NOT the whole story, and that it is in fact only the projection of a vast, infinitely complex network of conscious agents that creates what we perceive as the material universe and time. He starts with the idea that consciousness as a property is fundamental, existing outside of space and time and that if you apply reasoning and mathematics that networks of agents acting as UANs in a sense project that material universe into being, with that assumption, ie that it extrapolates to our entire universe.

I'm not sure I'm (or anyone for that matter) is really qualified to answer that claim..it's so big that it does verge on mysticism. that's why I said its such a wild idea, but I found the article above another interesting piece of evidence for Hoffman, because it talks about a general theory underlying such networks:

whose "repeated and recursive evolution of Universal Activation Networks (UANs). These networks consist of nodes (Universal Activators) that integrate weighted inputs from other units or environmental interactions and activate at a threshold, resulting in an action or an intentional broadcast"

ie this is very similar to Hoffmans system of Conscious Agents -which is an extreme theory of such networks that I described above

https://evolutionnews.org/2023/10/eccentric-theories-of-cons...
Structuring Success – The problem with software structure
Indeed. This 3-hour long "ASMR" version including hard drive sounds is one of the better ones [1]. It seems oddly satisfying to watch a couple of single sectors getting written into the holes and reshuffled, after which an enormous block of sectors gets dark blue at once. All while listening to the hard drive sounds that are in symphony with the graphics.

When defragging my own computer in the past, I could look at this for an embarrassingly long time, but I've also just watched this YouTube video up to timestamp 00:08:50.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFbkujZ0OuI
> Supports cloud platforms, bare metal, and virtualization platforms

> Production ready: supports some of the largest Kubernetes clusters in the world

> It only takes 3 minutes to launch a Talos cluster on your laptop inside Docker.

> delivers current stable Kubernetes

Whilst you're not wrong, and the website could be clearer, there are plenty of clues.
They might even be paid for consuming power because that provides stability to the grid [0] in such a situation. Too little load causes the frequency on the grid to rise which is only acceptable within narrow limits.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_services_(electric_p...
I recently put in a word for a senior programmer I worked with in a previous job and he got hired. Well, it's really clear he doesn't care anymore and doesn't find anything about software development interesting. Now I'm in a tough spot because he's a major burden and my manager wants to give it some more time but I don't see it working out.

I heavily relate to this line in the article:

> Some time ago, I knew a programmer with the same number of years of experience as me. Yet he seemed unable to comprehend what was required of him, and I had to review everything he wrote because it rarely worked
I work in the power generation industry. The large scale introduction of Battery Storage is going to be a game changer for renewables since it will allow overproduction during the day to be stored for the evening peak. I think the current fad of peaking plants is somewhat overblown, as the average large scale battery storage system will not face the issues with starting reliability that can be present on large gas turbine power plants, which not only affect the grid but can be very expensive as a failed starts consumes large amounts of fuel to no effect. In the end, this will drive carbon-producing power capabilities to largely only run during the night when solar is out of service.
Technology born of capitalism is destined to be bug ridden hellscape: I currently have a yeti microphone on windows 11, i believe due to old/missing drivers pre-company resale, it constantly unmutes itself. Randomly crashing and default is unmuted perhaps? purposeful microsoft privacy busting perhaps? AI audio processing thinks hearing sounds means i want it to unmute? who could ever tell now?
If the data was always encrypted, then simply discarding the keys effectively means the drive is left filled with random data. Also, NVMe drives can be sent the sanitize command which can erase/overwrite the data across the entire physical drive rather than just what's mapped into the logical view. I believe there's SATA commands to perform similar actions.
These two perspectives are not incompatible. 49 here and still love programming. But only discovered that after quitting my Google job and spending a year working on my own things. Then housework wasn't getting done because I was writing code instead, and I realized I just love doing it, still, and I'm a far far better programmer than I ever was 20 years ago. I can do things I only dreamt of back then. And faster!

but that's not the same thing as enjoying writing the dreck that many employers want, and keeping up with their endless stack of messy JIRA issues, planning meetings, poor design docs, and management shenanigans....
And a lot of the Apple run-up happened relatively late in the game. Don't get me wrong. Apple--and what I was able to do with the money--was good to me. But so was a late 2010s Microsoft purchase and I don't think a lot of people are highlighting Microsoft as a stock they missed out on during the last 10 years.
That's how I feel about dark matter. Oh this galaxy is slower than this other similar one. The first one must have less dark matter then.

What can't be fit by declaring the amount of dark matter that must be present fits the data? It's unfalsifiable, just because we haven't found it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Even worse than string/M-theory which at least has math.
Absolutely, there is no doubt that are stealing grid service revenue from spinning thermal, and they also provide black start services (jump starting larger generators when they go out through an isolated transmission path).
>Reasons is a good start. Explaining and justifying those reasons would be better

The question was "Why specifically is it bad", and I gave 6 reasons. Does the "justyfing" demand stop at some point, or we'd get down all the way to justifying why being alive is better than being dead, why anything ever matters, and so on?

I think the reasons are self-evident - i.e. it shouldn't take any argument as to why repairability and upgradability are good, why being more at the mercy of the vendor is bad, or why protecting environment and being less wasteful matters.
>disallow users to choose a password they used previously

I think Epic Game Store hit me with that one the other day. Had to add a 1 to the end.

A common pattern for me is that I create an account at home, and make a new secure password.

Then one day I log in a work but don't have the password on me so I reset it.

Then I try and login again at home, don't have the password from work, so try and reset it back to the password I have at home.
So what you're proposing is encode to html on input, to sql on output, passthrough to html, and encode to Json on output but after decoding from the saved html - and just document it well?
By freelancing you can save nice nest egg in most places. I did that for 11 years in Europe and now I work because I want to, not because I must. Disclaimer: not consulting anymore, I moved back to startup grind once more because I feel more connected to the work than what you do as a consultant.
How does it feel like living under a rock? Why even have a mobile phone at this point then? Just get a landline wired telephone at home and at work instead.
Hopefully people will tell me why I'm wrong, but right now programming is just feeling like a bit of a dead end in general? The demand seems to be for AWS gurus, data analysts, low-code, prompt engineering etc. I'm not against learning new things to stay employable, but the new things that are in demand don't really seem to be programming. I learned a bit of Rust because it's kind of new(ish) and exciting, but apparently there's a massive glut of Rust devs. Whereas 15 years ago I learned Python and my employment prospects rocketed.
TUI for Managing Bluetooth on Linux
Lots of these exist out on the open net, I don't know why this guy would be the guy to bring the wrath of the mediatech industry down upon him.
This is annoying me alot. The whole point of the address bar is to show the address and its not doing it.

On mobile you don't have the tab title either, which makes it even worse.

I really hope they revert this.
IMO AI means neural net. I get that people use it for other things, but that's what I use it to mean - there is just no other term that's easy to say. And at this point the idea of breaking problems down into "neurons" and activation patterns is inherent to most AI models. Here though the keywords are "ensemble machine learning" and "Bayesian" - they could have used a neural net for the machine learning but most likely it is just XGBoost or similar. https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2021/the-ml-technology-looking... mentions they are also doing full-physics joint inversions and computer vision, perhaps the vision is a neural net.
Well put. There’s something inherently cool in knowledge you’re not suppose to have.
Right now, it's not working like that.

I was thinking about it.

On the one hand, I want to make money.
On the other hand, I understand that making everything available for free would be much more aligned with the Project Gutenberg philosophy.

I left my job, living on the savings, and in the last year listenly made only $400 ~= $35 MRR.
Although I was not doing much marketing.

I'm dreaming of it making $1k, $3k, $5k MRR.

Right now, I set the price to be 50% of the API cost, so I would make a profit starting from the 3rd same book purchase.

But maybe I should make it fully social project, get some donations, and treat it as "lead magnet" to monetize something else.
I'm open to your suggestions!
> You probably don't know any retired programmers

Ha I know lots of retired programmers. I was one for a while, but like most I really wanted to get back to work
I only use Nightly because you have to to install unapproved extensions
>I don’t know for sure but I imagine the average length of use for Nokia devices was less than that of iPhones

Wasn't and didn't have to be. Ancient Nokia mobile phones would still be perfectly usable, protocols aside, for basic phone functions like talking and messaging. And you could even use them to bash on and mend a dent in your anvil.
No, but it's still a ridiculous YoY at this scale. Wiz is the fastest company to ever reach $100M ARR and still have a lot of growth left in them.
The point view that Linux is a net negative for the world is incompétence to understand the field. To believe that a commercial offering is absolutely better than an open-source offering is so childish. A world without Linux could be better, sure. But there’s only a tiny little chance of it happening.
Interesting. I recently picked it up in the last Steam sale and it runs with no issues on Steam Deck. Wasn't even aware it had problems on Windows 10 & 11.
> If you're a security practitioner, teaching yourself how to hack is also part of the "Hacking is Cool" dumb idea. Think about it for a couple of minutes: teaching yourself a bunch of exploits and how to use them means you're investing your time in learning a bunch of tools and techniques that are going to go stale as soon as everyone has patched that particular hole.

If only this was true... Injection has been on Owasp Top 10 since its inception, and is unlikely to go away anytime soon. Learning some techniques can be useful just to do quick assessments of basic attack vectors, and to really understand how you can protect yourself.
For anyone wanting to build their own GPS receiver, here's a fully open source project that explains a great deal of the theory too: http://www.aholme.co.uk/GPS/Main.htm
Programmers haven't always made this much.
What's sufficient depends on your threat model.

Normal dude in a secure office? An auto-locking password manager would suffice.

Someone that should be concerned with passwords in-memory is someone who believes another has full physical access to their computer (and can, say, freeze RAM in nitrogen to extract passwords

My largest concern would be an adversary snatching my phone while my password manager was actively opened
AKA, put the name of the site in the password :)
I’m in Europe and I can pick on Texas all day on energy. The separate grid is a self-inflicted gunshot wound in both feet.
Show HN: Ezauth – trivial auth for a Go web app
https://github.com/mannders00/ezauth

Basic bcrypt auth isn't that hard to learn for a Go net/http web app. Its true, but online forums are littered with desparate cries for a django-allauth equivalent in the Go ecosystem, which doesn't exist (in a way that is trivial to incorporate). These cries either come from beginners, or from time conscious individuals uninterested in reinventing wheels. Both are valid.

I made the decision to implement auth fitting this description. By creating a public package, I can import future fixes into my disjoint projects, open the global community to make security suggestions, and help someone in the future get started more quickly.
The mere presence of a smartphone reduces basal attentional performance
There's two things going on. One is, yes, I think the quality of work mostly sucks all over.

But the other is it's a down part of the cycle and there's just a glut of us all, and a bit of disrespect from employers as well.

It's been a long time since we had one, and many people either didn't work through one before, or have forgotten.

That part will bounce back. In 5 years it'll be a crazy job market again, and having Rust on your resume will be valuable.

(To put it in perspective, I learned and wrote Python in 1996, 1997. And I really liked it. But nobody even knew what it was, and nobody would hire for it. I moved on, and lost my taste for dynamically typed languages, and then all the sudden Python was huge, and if I'd stuck with that, it would have been a big thing for me, I guess. I suspect a similar thing will happen with Rust, etc. At least I hope so, since Rust is my day-job :-) )
I got a job at Elastic via the Who’s Hiring thread. I haven’t used the Who Wants to Be Hired thread yet, though.
> So I guess "A.I." is the new buzzword for how we describe all digital technology going forward

I wonder if any companies are getting deals on compute for making a big splashy deal out of the part ML played in these processes. Kind of a B2B meets Twikstogrube Influencer marketing strategy, but instead of companies having cachet because a bunch of social media followers find them appealing, they actually manifest things in the physical world. That is a big hole in the Generative AI company sales pitch for a) non-early-adopter potential customers, and b) many others looking uneasily at the kind of resources they're tearing through when the only tangible things they've seen from it are a pitches for features they never asked for and don't care about, and very concerning faked images and videos for extortion, bullying, porn, and political shit. I'm not saying those things are all its good for, but the communication about the real-world value of this stuff has been pretty lacking, and the drawbacks have been understandably shouted from the rooftops, so they're probably preeeetttyyy thirsty for stories like this.
I brought up counterpoints to each of your reasons, but if you don't want to have a conversation about them that's fine. I'm not particularly invested in my counter position, I just get very tired of the zeitgeist where people think it's okay to dismiss a popular perspective because it's "obviously" wrong.

And no, flat-earther comparisons aren't going to fly, I'm talking about perspectives held by tens of millions.
I bought into AMD stock when it was $10 per share, it's now $180, yes it's a bit lucky but I'm not bullshitting.

It seemed quite logical to me at the time that they would do well. This was right as Intel was being savaged by Meltdown and the performance hits of the mitigations and Zen 1 was successful.
Half will beat index by definition. The key is to beat it including the cost of beating - and we've also seen that the extra value have generally been captured by the fund managers - not the fund buyers.
What games actually work reasonably well with this? Particularly for someone who is not a speedrunning master of any particular title?
Having valuable natural resources historically seems to be a big detriment to stable democratic governance.
>"Not all opinions are equal" is a lazy line that does nothing to further any cause

My primary wish for this comment about not all positions being equal wasn't to "further a cause", but to stop the bad argument that amounted to "people just have different preferences" as if that made all of them ok.

If we agree that "not all opinions/preferences are equally good" is a better idea than "all preferences are equally ok" my work is done!

As for the specifics, others (and me, elsewhere in this post's threads) have argued several reasons why this tight integration is worse. In fact I gave six of them.
Interestingly, that article is uploaded, and indeed watermarked with year 2002, but the LaTeX \date is 2018. Any theories?
Texas is the number two state in grid battery. No other state comes close to either California or Texas.
Reducing the cost of a single Google Cloud Dataflow Pipeline by Over 60%
Huh, good to know! Thanks.
There are lots of optimizations, I agree, but we know the mechanisms work because of all the natural experiments (volcanos). We definitely need the research—but no one thinks we don’t do this research because it is too expensive. It’s a third rail—and major litmus test. But it is a bit like the greens being antinuclear. If you really want to preserve biodiversity and prevent massive climate shifts, why make your mechanism of action human morality?

“If we can merely engineer our way out of global warming, then humans won’t get what’s surely due.” Something like that, if you know what I mean.
Some understand flex-time same as full-time but with the flexible schedule. Would be nice to clarify part-time explicitly.
Imitation Intelligence – PyCon 2024 Keynote [video]
Ml became ai because it's the base for ai.

It's just what it is.

Nonetheless LLM Made it a lot easier for people to understand that investment in ml is really really helpful
Bad title. As stated in the article, the employee was not fired, he's just an intern that left for 2 weeks before returning as a full-time. PR team reported (truthfully) that the employee is no longer with the company, but the article seems to indicate that company still honored the full employment after.
My educational game – Bitcoin Play
Can it rebalance partitions? And delete crap from topics?

Every time we have to call up our ops guys for this; it’s like “deep breath, first utter some indescribable magic aws iam nonsense and somehow get an ephemeral shell on some rando bitnami Kafka image’s ./kafka-topic shell scripts to work over the next few hours” and ultimately succeed but with deep regrets
> the obvious reality that the lockdown of hackability, serviceability, access to parts is deliberate.

I mean yes, it literally is, the law requires that smartphones incorporate a killswitch capable of resisting a device format/reload of the OS. This was seen as a consumer benefit in 2014, and did succeed in bringing muggings and phone theft down by as much as 80%.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/440002/10-things-to-know-abo...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/11/london-sm...

https://www.pcworld.com/article/431818/drop-in-smartphone-th...

This is what the sibling means about tradeoffs: people at the time wanted the tradeoff of fewer muggings. The killswitch was seen as a benefit, and largely Apple is in fact just responding to the legislative requirements pushed upon them.

And if you have to have a killswitch that can resist a OS reformat… there has to be some component pairing mechanism that works underneath the OS layer, naturally. That is the sensible way to implement it, otherwise you'd just swap in a new motherboard and hey, phone's working again. Or strip the phone for parts.

The idea of parts being anti-theft/strip-resistant is pretty much inherently in contradiction to right-to-repair. And again, I think people probably understand that... but never forget that theft-resistance was a legislative initiative pushed over the objections of Apple and other phone vendors at the time, having some unforeseen consequences. People actually did want this, people lobbied for this, as much as modern readers may not believe it.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/is-the-smartphone-kill-swit...
An example I remember from a little while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23832437
That's a fair point. Originally devices generally had decent keyboards, or didn't need passwords.

The rise of not just smartphones, but tablets, online games consoles, smart TVs, smart appliances, etc had a pretty big impact on their usefulness.
You keep commenting here about how HIV is the fault of the people who have it. Now you seem to be arguing that if there are people who have HIV and it's not their fault, they don't matter because they're statistically unlikely. That doesn't track.

There are many thousands of people that have HIV through no fault of their own. And there's no reason that this drug is not a good idea for those people.

Two days ago: Over 2,400 patients may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis infections at Oregon hospitals

Whose fault?

> The Oregon Health Authority said that investigations into the breach centered around a physician who delivered intravenous anesthesia and employed "unacceptable infection control practices, which put patients at risk of infections."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oregon-hospital-patients-expose...
Article where I found the link to this study (link is in the first paragraph of the article):

"Do tampons contain ‘alarming’ quantities of lead and arsenic?"

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/13/do-tampons-contain-...
Watching web tech evolve is a good example. So much churn rebuilding the same thing over and over.