This is about the overground though..
While I think all overgorund trains have AC installed, this summer a lot of them either ran too low or not running at all, this is for Windrush line
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heavenlyblue commented on Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager danfabulich.medium.com/pa... · Posted by u/dfabulich
The design of passkeys is pretty solidly based around the idea that users are the weakest link the system and need to be protected from themselves. Given how criminally insecure passwords and push/code based MFA are in the face of user incompetence I have a hard time believing that WebAuthn is some grand plot by Big Tech to lock people into their walled gardens.
I think people on HN overestimate the security literacy of the average computer user in a personal/corporate setting. If a sophisticated attacker wanted to target an organiztion with passwords/push auth, it'd be trivial to get some subset of members to copy-paste passwords from managers and accept prompts. I think far more likely than lock-in is that FIDO members genuinely want to make their customers more secure, something that passkeys very much do accomplish for the average user.
That being said, I'm not rushing to enable passkeys on every site. If you already use a good password that enforces origin binding (the key strength of WebAuthn) and you extend that security perimeter through good OpSec (i.e., being careful when copy-pasting passwords), you're not getting much benefit.
Have you tried to log in AWS account using corporate identity? How many redirects it takes?
Or Bing/Microsoft?
Or the new trendy thing where you have to put in your email before password field is shown (because it may require 2-auth).
All of these platforms made authentication less secure because a) due to so many differen domains handling authentication I no longer can know if I am at the one I should trust b) since there's often no password shown password mamagers no longer automatically fill in username fields
These idiots broke the system that worked so well before with a password manager and it no longer works. For very little reason.
Don't say it's users who are to blame, it is as much the big companies who are making it worse because they are dysfunctional.
heavenlyblue commented on Yosemite embodies the long war over US national park privatization theconversation.com/yosem... · Posted by u/rntn
ok that's fine. I'll ignore the irrelevant whataboutism. as correlation is not causation what makes you think the elites would cease to preserve nature in the way they have? what is your mechanism for this shift in behaviour?
Elite doesn't need massive forests, they just need a little smaller forest that they can own themselves
heavenlyblue commented on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year helsinkitimes.fi/finland/... · Posted by u/DaveZale
Yes, in rural Finland 17-year-old boys who just got their license regularly end up killing themselves and their friends by reckless driving.
I believe there is cultural issue with boys’ upbringing. Recently my 8-year-old daughter was spending a week with her mother’s relatives in middle Finland. One day she sent me a picture of an old Volvo in a ditch. “Guess what dad, my cousin drove it off the road and I was in the car!”
The cousin in question is ten years old. I was absolutely furious that they let the boy drive a real car and that my little girl was in it with no adult supervision. But my in-laws didn’t see a problem: “He was only driving on a private road — there’s no risk — everybody does it here — this is the best way to get the boys used to engines and driving.”
In my opinion this is how you train teenagers to think that safety and rules don’t matter, and that they’re invulnerable. But I can’t change these people’s views, so all I can do is try to make sure my daughter doesn’t ride with her cousins from now on.
I saw tourists parking cars in New Zealand and, because the road is on an incline sideways, some cars would fall into a ditch.
Was the car driven recklessly or was it a parking/reversing mistake? This kind of thinking just brings unnecessary racism.
You would think that UK would have a lower rate of traffic incidents with it's "safe" approach to driving but numbers speak the opposite.
heavenlyblue commented on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year helsinkitimes.fi/finland/... · Posted by u/DaveZale
I was in Helsinki for work a couple of years ago, walking back to my hotel with some colleagues after a few hours drinking (incredibly expensive, but quite nice), beer.
It was around midnight and we happened to come across a very large mobile crane on the pavement blocking our way. As we stepped out (carefully), into the road to go around it, one of my Finnish colleagues started bemoaning that no cones or barriers had been put out to safely shepherd pedestrians around it. I was very much "yeah, they're probably only here for a quick job, probably didn't have time for that", because I'm a Londoner and, well, that's what we do in London.
My colleague is like "No, that's not acceptable", and he literally pulls out his phone and calls the police. As we carry on on our way, a police car comes up the road and pulls over to have a word with the contractors.
They take the basics safely over there in a way I've not seen anywhere else. When you do that, you get the benefits.
Very much disagree about this, European expats often make fun of how many cones are regularly used on the roads in the UK.
heavenlyblue commented on What the Fuck Python colab.research.google.com... · Posted by u/sundarurfriend
Preach. We need more Python slander. It annoys me to no end when people trash JavaScript as if it was some exception in bad language design. Most languages have something bad that can be picked up and trashed on - some more than others.
Given that it starts with a thing called "id" which is an implementation detail and probably should not be used for equality, it seems like this is a geniuinely well designed language :)
I don't think a human dev can divine a method signature and effects in the general case either. Sure the add() function probably takes 2 numbers, but maybe it takes a list? Or a two-tuple? How would we or the LLM know without having the documentation? And yeah sure the LLM can look at the documentation while being used instead of it being part of the training dataset, but that's strictly inferior for practical uses, no?
I'm not sure if we're thinking of the same field of AI development. I think I'm talking about the super-autocomplete with integrated copy of all of digitalized human knowledge, while you're talking about trying to do (proto-)AGI. Is that it?
> Sure the add() function probably takes 2 numbers, but maybe it takes a list? Or a two-tuple? How would we or the LLM know without having the documentation?
You just listed possible options in the order of their relative probability. Human would attempt to use them in exactly that order
heavenlyblue commented on New proof dramatically compresses space needed for computation scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/baruchel
Here's the gist:
For nearly 50 years theorists believed that if solving a problem takes t steps, it should also need roughly t bits of memory: 100 steps - 100bits. To be exact t/log(t).
Ryan Williams found that any problem solvable in time t needs only about sqrt(t) bits of memory: a 100-step computation could be compressed and solved with something on the order of 10 bits.
Why does it need the same bits of memory as steps?
heavenlyblue commented on What happens when clergy take psilocybin nautil.us/clergy-blown-aw... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
But that's true for any criminalized substance. It's not like the FDA or EFSA or so is going to do lab tests on, say, XTC and fine producers that lie on their ads or ingredient-list.
Though biological products like psilocybin (or weed etc) are harder to measure and control by producers, in strength than purely chemical products like LSD or MDMA. It's hard to trace what mother nature did exactly when producing this particular mushroom cap, but it could be possible to trace what the chemist did when producing this particular blot. If only it were legalized and we could have actual control, tracability, and prosecution of malpractice...
With MDMA if you have 150 mg of powder, you have 150mg of powder, i.e. this is the upper bound on how much substance you will take (be it MDMA or not), i.e. there can't be MORE than 150 mg.
With LSD it's always a solution (either in paper or in liquid), so you can only trust the producer.
heavenlyblue commented on UK tech job openings climb 21% to pre-pandemic highs theregister.com/2025/06/0... · Posted by u/beardyw
It's amazing there are any engineers or programmers at at all in the UK. When a graduate engineering post is commonly in the region of 25k to 30k, one wonders why anyone would actually aim to do that rather then finance. Sometimes I ask myself the same question - maybe I should have just sold out and I'd be rocking a million-plus detached house like my classmates!
It's also a bit depressing to think that there are posts so near what I started at 15 years ago (mid-low 20s), despite 54% inflation over that period, per the BoE calculator (another claims 64%).
I don't understand, what do you mean by "sell out"? You are working for cash