skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And yet, reality is that for many companies, an off-the-shelf CMS is all they need

Except they don't. A static website would work for 99.9% of all businesses and could be hosted on a potato.

The problem is that marketing wants a website that "Doesn't look embarassing and has 5 nines uptime."

Translation: "Marketing wants a website that looks completely like our competitors(because reasons)! But make it completely different (because reasons)! And make sure it's on AWS (because reasons)!"

Response from IT: "Our website results in zero revenue to the company and is a gigantic security problem and spam magnet. And because marketing is involved it's also a headache of a political football. Here's the WP Engine credentials. Now fuck off."
I think the traditional outlet for that stuff is like Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.

USA certainly produces a lot of entertainment and celebrates niches.

What's weird and interesting though is that Japanese Anime covers just so many genres (including edutainment. I'd add Ninja Girl and Samurai Master as a very educational plot about the Warring States period of Japan). Maybe even Kenshin as a more mainstream historical fiction about Mejia Era / dawn of industrial Japan as the perspective of an old Samurai assassin.

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USA has assassins creed for example (or Canada does at least??) but that's a video game. Shogun and Game of Thrones has fantasy + history in them.

I guess general USA entertainment certainly covers all the genres. But anime alone attempts to cover all the bases. That's quite unique for a medium IMO.
Father Ted opined on the concept quite extensively. It's hard to say whether the python "leaders" responsible for this are sociopaths or well-intentioned. If well intentioned the concept is to mold the community into an image of what is good and pure and right, to clip out impurities. Totally from the line of road to hell paved with good intentions. We see how this type of thinking goes - Pol Pot, Germany in the 1940s, and so on - the lesson is that it is wrong to try to mold a person or a society so forcefully, no matter how sweet the ideal. Secondly along the lines of Father Ted, it's increased likelihood at higher levels of seniorities that these are simply sociopaths who use the veil of "good" and kudgel of white guilt to leverage as much power as possible for themselves. Knocking out a scapegoat or two helps establish their power to grant or deny the future of absolutely anyone, basically a low key reign of terror. Sad to see any organization go that way but especially sad in an organization thinking itself to be for the common good.
And even if they do care you have to also preserve the system used to read it. Even if your papyrus survives if no one knows your language it doesn’t matter.
I always think of Python as having "fairly strong" typing, because you can override the type of objects by just assigning to __class__.
I've never designed a system that needed to be secure, nor have I been tasked with breaking one, but...

Is plaintext really that much worse than hashed/salted/whatever storage? If the user generated a hard-to-guess password, then the user is also unlikely to reuse it. If the user generated or reused a memorable password, then it would be not too costly to guess most of them using a dictionary attack or whatever the state of the art is for guessing non-random passwords.

Is this just defense in depth, or deterrence, or is there something I'm missing that makes the plaintext storage really much more dangerous?
One guy named Bill did it all himself, statewide?
Depends how fussy you want to be. But it would be pretty easy to design the MagSafe holder so you insert the charger from behind, and there’s a thin layer over the front to hide the charger itself.

Or if you want to get really fancy, the MagSafe magnet arrangement is well documented, and you can easily buy adhesive magnets that arrive in the correct pattern and orientation, which would allow you to embed the magnets completely within the print, and later add a standard Qi charger to provide power.

I’ve personally torn down Qi chargers and embedded them in furniture to create completely integrated, and “invisible” wireless chargers. On the whole it’s pretty easy todo, only major downside is higher power losses because there’s more space between the charging coil and the phone, and your coil alignment will be less accurate than Apple. But it’s still a completely functional charger.
You're not missing anything with FastMail. I started using it based on HN recommendations but eventually discovered its spam protection is too strict. It's not false-positive'ing emails into the spam folder, it's flat out rejecting them.

I've tried to work it with their support - who were responsive - but nothing has improved. I'm in the process of shifting providers, perhaps based on recommendations you get here.
Related development:

Telegram says it will share phone numbers and IPs of 'bad actors' to authorities

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41621705
> In languages built for it, you can type your dicts/hashes/maps/whatever and its easier to see what they are/know where the functions that operate on them live.

I think I must be misunderstanding what you mean by that, because I can very much do that in Python.
The system cannot penalize the working party in the same way it penalizes the paying party, if you are an easy customer whi never complain, always seem satisfied, would ride anyway no matter how high is the current rate, we might as well assign you any driver.

If you are a difficult customer who is rarely satisfied and complain of most inconveniences, you will get the better drivers.

Because simply, the algorthm is prioritizing sales, not nice and chill riders.
Camphor would release compounds that adjust the surface tension of water. So the oil would break that direct relationship.
Charge $200 bond to enter store
That was my Physics too, but Chemistry just completely glanced over the history. Same thing with Mathematics, no backstory of mathematicians. I guess that either 1. Physics History is short enough, well-recorded, or 2. Physicists really like teaching their history.
Can you be more specific about this "database/data store"? The nature of that will limit your options.

If it's just a big ol' CSV or something similar, you might be able to just use a nocode/lowcode tool like Airtable or Make.com to automate it in a few minutes.

If it's something particular SQL database that you need to write a query to extract data from, it gets a bit harder because you need to connect that layer to the automation layer and then connect that to a transactional email service with good deliverability.

If you can give a clearer picture of details, like what kind of data format it's in, how many people you need to send it to, how often will the underlying data change, etc., it would help narrow down the options. There are approx. infinite ways to build this, but it can be very simple or more complicated depending on the details.
He’s the original author of Photoshop, along with his brother John, who used to run the ILM Effects team.

I saw Photoshop before Adobe brought it. It was running on a Mac II, in a hospital, in Ann Arbor. Back then, it was still his thesis project.

I have no idea if he was an “artisan.” We never really thought of ourselves in such terms. Software was much more of a fun game, but the introduction of huge piles of money changed everything.
I was about to say. Phones were not allowed and this was when the 3310 was the peak of mobile tech to have!

This is Melbourne Australia.
Wasn't the web designed to be scraped?
Does this mean LCD displays are going to get a lot cheaper? That would be nice.
Sadly, Black and Decker no longer offers the Hammer + SD card combo deal.
Reminds me of the falling-blocks one, where IIRC he made the blocks 'spontaneously' create the necessary time by starting with them in the right order and then simply displaying it in reverse, due to the temporal reversibility of physics. So it simply looked 100% correct as somehow the blocks magically all bounced exactly right so as to turn into the time. If you did it 'forward', you'd be baffled, but it becomes trivial if you think like a Heptapod. :)

One could probably do the same trick here: start with the flies in the clock shape, then diffuse them, then display it in reverse. And stitch together each sequence by a bit of biased sampling to move each fly to its nearest counterpart in the next sequence? Then the flies magically assemble themselves into the time without ever moving unnaturally. "How do they know how to coordinate?! I just don't understand!" (Also a good analogy to AI diffusion models...?)
It is a heuristic, it doesn't work 100% of times for me.

I also don't know if ithas other factors, like region, number of rides, etc..
> Response from IT

This is where the mistake was made. Tens, possibly hundreds, of thousands of small businesses do not have an IT department.

Even the business I work in - almost a dozen employees before a single IT guy.

WordPress and Squarespace, and software like them, are the off-the-shelf solutions for them. You sign up for GoDaddy or another shared hosting provider, what do you get? Right now though, Squarespace is eating WordPress’ lunch, and (if you don’t need plugins) is objectively superior in many ways.

We need a modern replacement for WordPress to fulfill that role which won’t make programmers swear, or let closed-source solutions shut out the open ones.
SRP, one of the two major utility services in Phoenix does this as well
I connect my RAV4 to comma and it’s better than a Tesla on highways hands down.

Don’t need no junk software selling my privacy for ads.

Go the other way Toyota, make rock solid cars that are easy to repair and hold their value.

I plan to keep on buying Toyotas as long as they keep on making highly reliable affordable cars without junk software.
I guess this is how we practice design skill, by building things with hands!

Look forward to expanding my maker from dev to real gadget!
I was also blown away at CNC grinding step. Perhaps he did it because heat gun would have impacted other parts of the PCB. With grinding the impact was limited to Nand chip only. He eventually had to use heat to cleanup the residue.
Look into "rainbow tables" and "salting & peppering" in the context of password storage.
It's not worth it obsessively, but casually or with-specific-purpose I believe it is worth the time and effort. It uses 'muscles' that I occasionally need, and would rather not let atrophy - primarily related to the enshittification of all things.

In specific scenarios local copies are far more valuable than 'cloud' availability.

Having said that, maybe we're quibbling over the definition of 'hoarding', which maybe (hah! definitely!) implies obsessive, and therefore implicitly unhealthy - in which case I agree.
"I don't want to get wet, I'll fly over here to the water."
Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang. A really enjoyable story about people on Mars and Earth after their societies and cultures diverge. Definitely felt like a new perspective to me.
LCDs are still widely available and dirt cheap thanks to cutthroat competition, but the only reason why you'd buy one these days is if you can't afford OLED. (That includes everyone that's worried about burn-in)
I presume that most of the weirdness of Planetary's stories was Warren Ellis's doing, but certainly Cassaday's worn, lined faces and bodies of his characters contributed to the world-weariness prevalent in the series.
Born in 1988. Just like you, Nokia 3310. Banned in high school.

I remember being 'caught' with a Game Boy Advance, tried to hide it, teacher saw me, and actually told me it was fine.
"History search" is a symptom of lack of system of record

Few months or weeks is fine. Everything else is just contributing to noise. Slack started when Snapchat introduced disappearing stories.
Is Reddit considered a news source now? Half of the posts on the front page are made up fictional writing, and the other half are politics and repeated questions, for the purposes of karma farming.

How do we know that the OP of this post did not make these claims up?
fines, pulling funding
> Most ISP's have a central point of contact / administration, and can be compelled to only forward encrypted traffic if it's explicitly permitted.

We standardized https. So it should be a lot harder than usual techniques.
There's possible context (unknown veracity) from this comment 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41614406
A lot of us watch more tv than two hours a day. I have over 1000 hours in the game Elden Ring alone! :)

I also consider life estimates as very fluid. My gf’s Hisense 75 inch can’t be more than a few years old and it has already gone to pot with weird circles visible on any scene with a white or light background. 8 hours a day for a few years is only ~6,000 hours, far less than 30k.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_flies_like_an_arrow%3B_...
It's like any other system designed to be used by people that are not technically savvy. Lots of things have default values that are not sane. That's why the script kiddies hit every server they can with known defaults and vulns. Otherwise, it's like any other publicly facing internet server in that it takes maintenance with patches and updates and being informed on what you're running and changes being made.

So because the majority of users are not savvy, it's become a cesspool. Then you read about it on a tech forum like HN and it is derided as an inferior product rather than allowing improper use by the user/operator.
For PPE: an effective respirator is not that expensive, should be wearing them and safety glasses for sanding as well. Only extra PPE you really need for acetone smoothing is some nitrile / latex gloves, and those are fairly standard in shop / art environments anywho.

Also, MEK, Methyl Ethyl Ketone, apparently smooths PLA out quite well too, but if you can print in ABS I would already be doing that for finished products anywho.
Why not? Animes signature 'Big Eyes' are attributed to Astroboy (early 1950s anime) but the Astroboy style was clearly from Mickey Mouse.

Similarly: One Piece / Luffys gears have been confirmed to be various powers that Tom and Jerry (the cartoon cat and mouse) have done over the decades with Gear 5 being a full on cartoon logic power up.

The amount of play and borrowing from Japan to America and back to Japan and back to America is epic.

Samurai films are inspired by Westerns. But then Star Wars was inspired by Samurai films.

Bouncing back and forth between the two cultures is part of the fun of it all. Including borrowing words like anime, Isekai. Or Japan borrowing the letter 'H' (ecchi) from us with completely new meanings.
It's extremely costly to deeply inspect terabytes of traffic.
Totally! Another reason why sticking with a pre-populated dev board (like the Zuboard) makes life easier on many levels. My application is basic neuroscience, so we're looking at slow signals, each channel is ~25 kSps, so we're at bleeding edge electrode technologies before we get to 10 Gb.

I actually teach a microcontroller class to sophomores/juniors. I'd love to build a multi-semester curriculum where we'd end up at crazy speeds, but it takes a lot of work to cover all of the theory (E&M and system) required...
> Is plaintext really that much worse than hashed/salted/whatever storage?

Bruh...

Any random rouge employee (and judging from OP's post, it's accessible to not just DB admin/IT but also regular supports) can easily scrape any password they want.

Considering OP was told the password on a call, I'd guess a low tech social engineer could easily extract any password they want as well.

> Is this just defense in depth

You use "just" as if "defense in depth" is just some security theater term with no substance.
I personally don't like block themes.
> I love this story because it shows, at least anecdotally, how deep scientific insights can emerge from the simplest of experiments. It's a testament to the idea that you don't always need sophisticated equipment to unlock the secrets of nature — sometimes, all it takes is a drop of oil and a bit of ingenuity.

This can apply to many other fields too!
You probably meant this URL:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41628019

The one you pasted is unrelated to this topic.
Sometimes it works, but the performance is worse. Like back when I had an Intel Mac, csgo was fine on Boot Camp but had noticeable input lag in macOS, and iirc under Wine it had less input lag but stuttered more. It'd be unplayable if I cared about winning, but I didn't care.
LCD panels are already dirt cheap. Eg look at prices from wholesalers on panelook
Confirmed: It was a management problem. I noticed in CrowdStrike's post mortem report that they didn't say a thing about management.
I concur. I’ve been to Japan 11 times in the past 15 years, including an eight-month stay in 2010. Japanese convenience stores are nice, and they’re certainly nicer than their American counterparts, but when it comes to food, whether pre-packaged or prepared, I’ve found better deals for food at grocery stores. Granted, konbini prices are reasonable, and it’s hard to find grocery stores in central Tokyo locations like Shibuya, Shinjuku, and Akihabara; a konbini is much easier to find, and you can’t beat the 24/7 schedules of konbini compared to the restricted hours of grocery stores. However, in the residential parts of Tokyo there’s usually at least one grocery store near a train station.

I must say, though, that the Family Mart konbini near the hotel I stayed at two months ago was amazing for being able to order off Amazon Japan and picking up deliveries there. This is something I wish I discovered many trips ago.

In general, though, I concur with your assessment; konbini in Japan are nice but they’re not mind-blowing.
Thanks for the feedback! I appreciate you pointing that out. My understanding was based on the PyTorch documentation for scaled_dot_product_attention (https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/generated/torch.nn.functiona...).
- "The function may call optimized kernels for improved performance when using the CUDA backend. For all other backends, the PyTorch implementation will be used."

And was trying to make a broader point about the lack of transparency (in performance, lower-level impl) in PyTorch when running on NVIDIA vs. non-NVIDIA hardware.
Why is it bad form to expose a record type only via custom functions and not its field accessors? Isn't this just like exposing a more usual object with its public functions and private functions remain inaccessible?
Assume the database gets dumped. Plaintext you immediately have a password.

If hashed/salted, this would need to be cracked and takes time/resources. It's not perfect/ideal but it buys time. A raw pw dump you're good to go to start testing them on other sites.

In short, its like having a kia/hyundai vs. any sane car manufacturer. All cars can be stolen, some just make it easy.
It's almost like Github needs to come up with chat app that summarises discussions into a wiki...
It's OK if history is not in our favor, we will just rewrite it.
Hahaha. That's actually my primary comparison. We're at $45K + $10K overhead these days....
Appreciation Is Scarce
Our local high school
just instituted a no phones in class policy. When kids enter the classroom they put their phones in a numbered pocket on the wall. They retrieve it after class.

The teachers are so happy.
Yes. It's always been a stupid, petulant implementation, and its widespread acceptance is confusing.
I think this is great, phones (largely) should be banned in schools.
Some channels are only available on android for off-play store apps, it is server side restriction of course.
Makes sense!

I never really gave it much thought. Just a fun word game.
It's quite foolish to assume that they couldn't quietly code up a "God mode" for Elon's account, or assume that isn't already in place, and instead had to create a feature to roll out to 350M users where Elon had an account no different than the unwashed masses.

It's his site, they would code up whatever he asked, X is no longer design by committee. Remember when the Reddit CEO/owner/whatever was hand editing the database to alter users' comments to make it look like they posted something they hadn't?
buying bombs to kill civilians is not the same as buying bombs and accidentally killing civilians.
Macbook Airs have 20 billion+ transistors, compared to 50 million on the Pentium 4 in the early 2000s. Moore's law is about transistor density, not processor speed, which is gated by thermal limits.
A lot of people don’t want their trusted web to know what websites they are looking at? Think Grinder/other dating sites, financial/crypto, pornhub, certain message boards etc.
I mis wrote, he talked about the experiments done to verify general and special relativity. Michelson-Morley was one of them that sticks in my mind along with some traveling atomic clocks. We never recreated the experiments like some of the other commenters did in their classes.
The trick is to interrupt stream-of-consciousness speeches with follow up questions...
I say "just" because if I'm missing something fundamental about how passwords are properly stored, then defense in depth might not be the point.

I read up a bit more on salting passwords, and now I see that it makes guessing the passwords _way_ harder, because it adds a factor of O(n) to the guessing (n is the number of passwords leaked).
My experience is that it's not the kids with the problem. It's the parents.

Not being able to contact their kid 24/7 is apparently a travesty. I don't get it.
JavaScript/TypeScript probably has the most written about it online. Can’t go wrong!
OLED do burn in but it take a LOT of time. Here is the OLED Switch that has 18,000 hours of static screen time. Yes, it has burned in but on the most extreme situation possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po8jAQjvd88
I just wish they would let me see anyone's posts [without logging in].
As someone who loves Typescript, the first chapter of your book deeply resonated with me. Good data representations and data types that encode meaning can eliminate entire classes of bugs by making invalid states unrepresentable, and I wish more languages emphasized and supported these principles.
it isn't GAS but at&t that I think you're thinking of. but the difference between at&t (with the percent and dest on right) and intel is so minimal, it isn't worth getting frustrated much over, at least in my opinion.

Arm can get a bit gnarly too. that bx lr is attempting to switch between arm32 and thumb based on the MSB of 'ip' based on the pop prior. the 'str' is moving data from left to right, but the ldr is moving data from right to left. you also end up doing weird and cumbersome things sometimes because of the instruction width limitations. I think arm64 looks and is much nicer than arm32 and thumb.
Why do we need state bill for that? Any reasonable school should've had a school level ban on phones since 90ies.
Sorry, but you're still well into the "don't know what you don't know" stage of learning, which is _not_ the time to become responsible for a colocated server.

Go home, from the colocation idea.

Start with way less expensive VMs from your choice of hyperscaler or el-cheapo-vms.com, or in a homelab with old hardware or RasPi/IntelNUC type devices.

If you "need" colocation, you need someone who knows what they're doing to set it up and maintain it properly.

Or just go ahead and wing it. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe Rachel's wrong. Maybe you're "The One".