Hacker News: throwaway0x7E6

New comment by throwaway0x7E6 in "There’s no such thing as affordable housing"

throwaway0x7E6 — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 06:56:33 +0000

>limiting ownership to a very long lease (e.g. 99 yrs) similar to what they do in Singapore.

...and China.

I wholeheartedly agree with (2), but this is not the way to do it, for a number of reasons.

New comment by throwaway0x7E6 in "Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked"

throwaway0x7E6 — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 02:38:45 +0000

>but regulations have forced them to cripple it in some ways

the regulations don't apply to Microsoft apparently, because even goddamn Bing has been better at it than Google for years now.

New comment by throwaway0x7E6 in "Antidepressants help bacteria resist antibiotics: study"

throwaway0x7E6 — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 16:38:29 +0000

it's remarkable how little time it took for the big pharma to become our greatest ally

New comment by throwaway0x7E6 in "Enigma: A simple cross-platform encrypted filesystem in Golang"

throwaway0x7E6 — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 09:57:11 +0000

>Don’t roll your own crypto

as far as I can tell, they're neither inventing their own algorithms nor implementing existing algorithms from scratch. that's what "Don't roll your own crypto" supposed to mean, not "just use Bitlocker"

New comment by throwaway0x7E6 in "Official Warning: Zero3K"

throwaway0x7E6 — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 22:47:05 +0000

no it doesn't, these things get flagged in minutes and only the people with showdead get to appreciate these

New comment by throwaway0x7E6 in "How do AIs' political opinions change as they get smarter and better-trained?"

throwaway0x7E6 — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:03:47 +0000

we have no way to evaluate that. OpenAI products are severely lobotomized. Microdoft fears another Tay

New comment by throwaway0x7E6 in "AMD Announces 7950X3D, 7900X3D Upto 128MB L3 Cache"

throwaway0x7E6 — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 20:22:51 +0000

imagine the UPS

New comment by throwaway0x7E6 in "Automatic1111's GitHub account suspended for "ToS violations" [restored]"

throwaway0x7E6 — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 11:32:19 +0000

github linux repo is a mirror

New comment by throwaway0x7E6 in "Freenet build 1495: new user experience and performance"

throwaway0x7E6 — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 08:37:59 +0000

lmao at two nearly identical glowie comments

New comment by throwaway0x7E6 in "The Signal App and the Danger of Privacy at All Costs"

throwaway0x7E6 — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 04:44:16 +0000

ah, carefully nudging the public opinion into the desired direction

New comment by throwaway0x7E6 in "GPT3/DALL-E2 in Discord, chat like ChatGPT, generate images, and more"

throwaway0x7E6 — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 11:02:47 +0000

their bullshit pointless essays are out of place even here

New comment by throwaway0x7E6 in "Barnes and Noble's surprising turnaround"

throwaway0x7E6 — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:38:53 +0000

>At the end of the day, most people are fine with "buying" a book that they don't own as evidenced by the sales.

most people are under the impression that they own the things they've paid for, and the inevitable rug pulls always take them by surprise.

rejecting the bullshit rules of rent-seeking parasites would be a more worthy principle to pursuit.

New comment by throwaway0x7E6 in "Bitcoin hashrate drops nearly 40% as deadly U.S. storm unplugs miners"

throwaway0x7E6 — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 18:56:20 +0000

I really doubt bitcoin mining farms use power from the grid, that's simply not viable. they can only operate with near zero electricity prices.

New comment by throwaway0x7E6 in "MIT faculty adopts “Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom”"

throwaway0x7E6 — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 03:30:27 +0000

surely at this point you must realize it was just a story about wizards and witches, lol

New comment by throwaway0x7E6 in "Moving the Ctrl Key"

throwaway0x7E6 — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 22:47:47 +0000

just type with your index fingers

everything else is a meme

New comment by throwaway0x7E6 in "The antimicrobial resistance crisis needs action now"

throwaway0x7E6 — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 22:39:58 +0000

>if

when

New comment by throwaway0x7E6 in "Merry Christmas, HN"

throwaway0x7E6 — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 21:53:41 +0000

Merry Christmas!

New comment by throwaway0x7E6 in "SantaCoder: A new 1.1B code model for generation and infilling"

throwaway0x7E6 — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 03:40:53 +0000

I see Yandere Simulator got into the training dataset

New comment by throwaway0x7E6 in "Password Requirements: Myths and Madness"

throwaway0x7E6 — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 03:05:24 +0000

kinda. you can calculate the number of bits of entropy in the password

8 character long alphanumeric lowercase password: (26+10)**8 = 208827064576 possible passwords. 11000010011111000100000010000100000000 in binary = 38 bits of entropy

20 character long upper+lower+numeric+other ASCII password: (26+26+10+32)**20 = 2901062411314618233730627546741369470976. 132 bits of entropy

128 bits of entropy is considered to be enough for all purposes

New comment by throwaway0x7E6 in "24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse (2017)"

throwaway0x7E6 — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 20:28:24 +0000

web, email, images and a bit of security are not the reason windows UI is laggy as fuck