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I assumed almonds mostly went to almond milk?
> a security researcher's article stating that biometrics should be used as an identifier at best, but never as a password

Blanket statements like that are never true. It's usually about threat modelling, i.e. build your defences according to who might want to access your stuff and what are their capabilities.

Why? Because you will have to target a balance between convenience and security. If you don't use biometrics you might end up to have "QWERT1234" as a password to compensate for the loss of convenience.

Even if you have a strong password and you are ready to give up some convenience, you also risk false sense of security. Your password might be strong but there are many ways to extract passwords. As a result you might want to switch to certificates - which are convenient and secure to use but now you are responsible for it's upkeep or you might loss access to the systems when you loose your certificate. Also, you might think that certs are super secure but just yesterday it was revealed that there's a way to extract certificates from Intel and AMD machines through an attack called hertzbleed.

Hmm, maybe you need something even more secure. How about air gap? If your device doesn't have a network connection, you must be %100 protected, right? Wrong, there are multiple demonstrations about extracting information through sound, magnetic forces and light.

%100 security is impossible, better choose the right kind for you.
It's the exploit/explore tradeoff. In the cultural industries, most consumers (the majority of whom don't care to be more than that) prefer to exploit--that is, read or watch or listen to something very similar to what they already have--than explore.

We think readers should be a smarter crowd--and, thus, more upscale in their choices--than TV watchers and popular music listeners (as both groups comprise, roughly, the general population). This is possibly the case, but it seems to be cancelled out by the massive time investment involved in seriously reading a book: eight hours for a typical novel, as opposed to an hour for a TV show or 3 minutes for a pop song. The high cost of exploration means that the book world has the same problem and, unfortunately, the processes and people who are trusted to filter for quality, quite frankly, don't. Traditional publishers follow the market and "book buzz" is built from the opinions of highly influential non-readers.
But it is far, far easier to become a bestselling author than it is to become the dictator of a large country - which is kinda a prerequisite for the "or we'll shoot you" strategy.
> The takeaway should be that propaganda and limiting the options to the two worst via gerrymandering, FPP and other broken voting systems results in two options which are fundamentally the same but differ on fear of crime vs paying lip service to diversity.

How does “gerrymandering” lead to under 30% of Hispanics approving of Biden?

> The very fact that you're attempting to lay the blame on swing voters and aspirational immigrants is proof that the system is fundamentally broken and completely uncoupled from the wants or needs of the majority.

I’m not “blaming” anyone. I’m asking you to think honestly about what these folks really want, instead of what you wish they want.

> Hugely popular measures that actually help the people rather than the rich are rejected bipartisanly at every single level of government in every country where murdoch reigns using the same garbage propaganda whilst privacy is removed, police powers are increased, and trillions of taxpayer dollars are sent to coal and oil barons or arms dealers based on votes taken in the middle of the night.

The typical aspirational immigrant doesn’t care about any of these things. The top issue among Hispanics right now is inflation: https://www.newsweek.com/ominous-sign-democrats-poll-says-in.... The plurality want police funding increased: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/10/26/growing-sha...

Asians, the fastest growing minority group, were instrumental in recalling Chesa Boudin in SF, supporting it by larger margins than anybody else.

> At a local level the 1% of NIMBYs are listened to over the 70% of people that actually want low carbon, more convenient transport

This is urbanist fantasy. Most people, especially aspirational immigrants, don’t meaningfully care about “low carbon.” Most want a suburban house with a pool. As incomes among Hispanics improves, for example, pickup truck sales are skyrocketing in that demographic.
Exactly, this depends a lot on jurisdiction. I seem to remember that there are some places where you could basically spend the rest of your life in jail if you forget (with or without scare-quotes) your passport.
CMOV Is Pointless (2007)
Never forget the $10 wrench method.
No? What gave you that idea?
Makes sense. I was thinking being less emotional a psychopath could coupe better with dire situations.
This isn’t true in most of the world and is even questionably true in the US
The combination that seems to have struck the best balance so far is Ordoliberalism as enshrined in Germany.
Why aren’t there any franchising IT companies?
> This seems very much like an outsider's critique

Spot on! This same sentiment was expressed very well in a paper evaluating the R language [1]:

"This rather unlikely linguistic cocktail would probably never have been prepared by computer scientists, yet the language has become surprisingly popular."

It would be nice to see a post about R that analyses _why_ it's so hugely popular with data scientists. It's easy to write "R doesn't do what we computer scientists think languages should do, so it's no good". It's harder to analyse what R gets right (for its domain) that other languages get wrong. Personally, I think it's not just that R has the best data-handling libraries (ggplot2, plyr, data.table), it's its "unlikely linguistic cocktail" that is perfectly suited for data exploration.

I think that maybe we hear the views of software engineers who get handed a messy R script and are asked to make it run in production, or make it run on big datasets, and so they only ever see the downsides of R. R wasn't designed to make life easy for production! It's designed to make it easy to explore datasets, which often means one-off code, 99% of which you run and then delete because your hypothesis about the data was wrong.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240040602_Evaluatin...
I think you could then count on the expectation that, as they say, 'not a jury in the land'...
I looked for "Hive" on Google.

- https://hive.com/ project management app

- https://hive.app/ E-commerce management app

- https://hive.io/ Some kind of crypto

- https://hiveon.com/ Crypto mining software

- https://www.withhive.com/ Gaming platform

- https://hive.apache.org/ Data warehouse software

Guess I didn't find the one this article is about.
> You might still fail if you pivot but you'll definitely fail if you stop.

I think this is a skewed way to look at it, because it doesn't take into account what happens once you failed.

Fail your startup after a year, get hired as an employee and grow your career for a few years, and you have immensely more chances to be in a good place to succeed than if you choose to push and spend years before failing your startup.

Failing is the rule for startups, by far not the exception. Persevering at some point becomes sunk time fallacy, not something to be proud of.
Why does it matter? They could already unlock the laptop with Touch ID. Now they can also install drivers?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/minidum...

Minidumps designed so well the initial Windows/x86 impl could be easily extended to multiple platforms like Google breakpad did. Symbols on demand over HTTP. For all the crap they get Microsoft got many things right.
Ouch:

On the company’s quarterly earnings call on May 3, 2022, MicroStrategy CFO
Phong Le stated that the company would face a margin call if bitcoin’s price
fell to about $21,000.

According to Coindesk, the price for Bitcoin dropped to $20,087.90 last night:

https://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin/

Wonder how that's playing out for them...
I felt like a missing conclusion was "Kafka is a critical dependency". They'd started out with the assumption that Kafka is a soft dependency and found this library bug that made it a hard dependency (which they then patched).

But isn't going metrics-blind whenever Kafka goes down bad enough that you should push more effort into keeping Kafka alive?
> unwinding style exceptions are basically zero cost with a modern compiler - the debt is paid in the implementation being tricky.

D doesn't return values when an exception is thrown as far as I know. How are exceptions' costs are paid by tricky implementation?

I thought exceptions require allocation and run-time type info and therefore always introduce some cost (this goes for D and C++). I guess returning values and allocating error strings statically can help with that (or maybe allocate some exception buffer on program start -- but that's technically "overhead"). Am I wrong, or missing some important context related to exceptions?
The fungus probably isn't normally eaten. Shrimp shells aren't exactly a treat.
"value" in economics is a term applied to goods and services. my use of "pseudo", as in spurious or invalid, here really plays with my critique of using the market framing for social relationships. They're not goods or services.

This "worry" as you purport it to be can only exist in a system that makes it so. The worry of >tfw no gf is not comparable to the fear of losing one's job and health insurance, and the utter lack of opportunity to bounce back, meaning a job is a matter of survival. But since a lot of people on HN don't experience this latter situation, it's easy to see dating as a market where goods and services should be easy to get. The market analogy breaks down in more than just this aspect.

So, it's not wrong per se, sure, you can say that, but it's deeply, even inherently, flawed in my book.

I don't understand you ending rhetorical question.
I was talking to someone the other day who told me he was dating a woman he met on Match (I believe this was several years ago) and noticed her profile was still active after they had decided to be exclusive. He asked what was going on. She told him Match gave her a really good deal on a year membership, but only if her account remained active. Since it was still early in the relationship, she didn’t want to kill her membership if things didn’t work out. So when women aren’t responding, it’s likely they are in a relationship already and just leaving their account hanging out there to keep their deal. This gives guys the impression they have a lot more options on these sites than they actually do.
I lock my computer when not near it. If my computer is breached, having user level access of the one account permitted sudo is pretty much Crown Jewels. If you really wanted to privesc you could sniff X11 keystrokes or back door bashrc, but either way even user level access screws me so whatever do what you want after that.

As a result, I just enable passwordless sudo.
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I think you're making my argument sound simpler than it is, by presenting it as a false dichotomy. There's a large range of options between "strictly illegal" and "encouraged as a fun Sunday activity for the entire family".

So for example, there are jurisdictions in which there is a way to get murder approved by the authorities – that's what capital punishment is. Instead of illicitly murdering someone, you go through the system to make sure it's an appropriate murder. Similarly, there are jurisdictions where suicide can happen above board, often going by the nicer sounding term assisted euthanasia.

Jaywalking is also not as strictly illegal as one might at first think: in most jurisdictions I'm familiar with, taking the proper precautions and following procedure, road workers are allowed to traverse roads in active use. Many forms of gambling are also allowed, often disguised as "providing financial services", with plenty of regulation to make sure it's done somewhat responsibly.

I'm not saying I agree or disagree with these legal choices, mind you. All I'm saying it's not as unimaginable as you make it out to be that sometimes things which we think of as criminal offenses at base could be justified in some cases, and that doesn't mean it automatically becomes a free-for-all.

However, I do find it harder to even imagine a situation in which something like rape or drunk driving could be justified and that it should be allowed to happen as long as its done responsibly with relevant professionals involved.

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So I guess now I'm in a tricky position: as a general rule, I would like to say that "yes, things that are going to happen anyway, we might as well provide a legal route for, with the proper checks and controls, and the professional support necessary to make sure the application is proper".

On the other hand, if you asked me outside of this argument whether I'm a proponent of capital punishment, rape, or drunk driving in any shape, I would give you a firm no.
You should consider doing infrastructure as code and gitops. Then your infrastructure repository represents the state of the infrastructure, by design.
> Why not the shipping company?

Typically, the recipient can't make a claim with a shipping company as they're not the customer, only the shipper (seller) can
Nobody knows why the market is down or up at a given moment. And btw, it often has nothing to do with short term economics.
> Except I need an exhange to get the coins and turn the coins into usable currency

Not any more than you need a bank to convert your left-over € from your Europe holiday into US$. You wouldn't need a bank, you could try to look for another person who is about to leave for Europe to trade, just as you can try to look for a person that is willing to trade your BitCoin against whatever else you desire or another crypto (say on localbitcoins.com). Yes, there are marketplaces that bring these traders together, just as there are institutions that specialize in those exchange in larger amounts (for a fee). You also wouldn't need to exchange your gold into US$ with a bank, but some offer this as a service and its easier to find a buyer yourself.
> In a bar that plays soccer games, 3% are women.

You are there to watch a game not flirt, who cares about percentage of women? Also in most of europe the percentage is much larger (for big games), same as superbowl parties in america have more than 3% women.

> In a dancing class of bachata, ~75% are women.

Yes every bachata class in the planet has 75% women. Also there to dance, not to flirt.

> Something like this is my opinion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31750692

Those are insanely varied, and vague things though. Signifiers of social status can get vain people interested but that does not realte to long term relationships or success in dating. Attracting gold diggers is not a superpower, and honestly a pretty undesireble thing to want anyway. It'd be like writting a guide into how to attract Pick Up artists as a woman, why would anyone want that.

If anything the list being so long proves the 5% thing cannot possibly be true, you can do the math, but if people happen in a regular bellcurve, being top x% of something, across multiple variables exponentially decreases the chance of finding anyone. Therefore someone close even to top 5% in even half of those categories would be 0.001% of the human population.

In other words, women like a varied number of things, men do too, and in that complicated mix of wants, needs and preferences dating is a varied exercise that leads to finding suitable partners, which happens for most people.
Younger Dryas cosmic impact of 12,800 years ago (2018)
What does it mean to "magnetize" an electron or ion? The only thing I could think was that they meant "polarize" or something like that.
My favourite term for such disambiguation is Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computers.
Concise summary: YouTube comedian accuses politician of being corrupt. Politician sues both the comedian and Google for defamation. Comedian eventually settles. Google takes the case to court, but then days before the trial starts their lawyers withdraw all their defences, announcing that they have no defence to the lawsuit. Judge is upset at Google for wasting the Court’s time - if their defence is that they literally don’t have one, why did they wait until so late in the process to admit that? More central to the charge of contempt, however, is that the comedian’s initial response to the lawsuit was to treat it as part of the joke, including pulling stunts on the plaintiff at public events - and Google facilitated that by hosting those videos.
The idea that a union would lead to a loss of revenue is a recurring anti-union rhetorical point because unions usually involve membership "fees" (which are more organisational cost payment). There is also the idea that unions are corrupt, but it's more of a tu quoque than anything.
Mundane chores are all the rage in gaming
OOP is the most natural way to introduce programming to a newbie. Tested on hundreds of my students. Even though oop is not a universal solution neither the best approach in many real world applicau.
Voronoi Diagrams on the GPU (2016)
What matters the most is the cohesion, functioning and productivity of society, which is unaffected by circumcision.

The notion of consent is arbitrary. You could also regard religious cults as primary, then you would need their consent to imposing your personal aesthetics.
> after they "negotiate" your estimates down

I hate this. An estimate is an estimate, there is no negotiation, negotiation an estimate is simply interfering with it, making it less objective. It can also be a trick to put pressure on developers.
Increases the risk of glaucoma.

https://www.nei.nih.gov/learn-about-eye-health/eye-condition....
any sight of 3d-printable semiconductors I can use to make 3d bulk circuits with?
There are a few videos in the article that are quite useful in this regard.
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The most fundamental tenet of capitalism. Capitalism's most fundamental tenant, on the other hand, is probably Starbucks.
It's because of the chilling effect of lawsuits and the risk of losing their DEA license that doctors in the United States are skeptical of issuing pain medication. Americans with genuine pain problems that cannot be effectively treated by local doctors despite persistent good-faith efforts should instead find a doctor in a Mexican border town where pain medication is more readily available.
This is what I'm trying to do but under Windows and Debian + preferably with a mechanical keyboard. Well the mechanical keyboard w/ fingerprint reader is the bigger ask cause there aren't many choices. There is a decently good one with Cherry MX switches from Taiwan but pretty much impossible to order one to Europe (they sell their other keyboards but not the one with fingerprint reader) https://www.i-rocks.com/web/product/product_in.jsp?pd_no=PD1...
But the touch ID sensor is on the keyboard!
Wow that was pretty stupid of them. This, while funny, is the sort of “polite obstinacy” I was talking about, the lawyers obstinately proceeded all the way to the courtroom when they probably should have quickly settled just like the comedian and it likely wouldn’t have cost them this much in time, money and bad PR.
On foot. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland
We constantly talk about whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare, don't we?
I think the process highly depends on what you know about the requirements and what is unknown. More established and standardized fields like mechanical engineering already know a lot of things upfront and can specify/document what the project is supposed to implement without having to tinker and experiment first.
That may also be true for some types of products in SE that have been built hundreds of times before or some types of problems that we already know how to solve. But with many other projects, a lot of uncertainty comes along, where we don’t even know what we don’t know yet.

In these cases it can be a great waste of time and energy to try and fix design decisions upfront, based on a theory of how things supposedly will work. In my experience, a lot of important insights can only be generated while you operate with the matter at hand (or at least imagine doing so, but this is very hard and inaccurate in more complex cases).
Therefore, I believe that doing small, isolated experiments/prototypes before writing any documentation (and certainly before writing production-level code) is a crucial first step that should not be avoided unless you have a very solid understanding of what you’re about to build.

I agree, however, that we shouldn’t start coding for production before doing any sort of research and design step first (although I don’t think that it is a linear process – we might have to cycle through these stages repeatedly).
I have worked in graphic design for many years before doing SE and my more challenging projects always needed multiple practical experiments – planning everything in my head upfront never got me anywhere. Of course, GD and SE cannot be compared 1:1, but both involve research and design.

Of course, planning experiments can still be fruitful and it certainly helps to formulate scope and intent beforehand so you know what problems you are trying to solve (this is how I would see the role of the press release mentioned in the article).
For more complex, long-term projects, I like to keep a dev journal where I can document my research and approaches while working on experiments and prototypes. This helps me a lot later on to re-trace my thinking process and the act of writing certainly helps to organize and focus my thoughts. I don’t think of this as a techical documentation/specification, but maybe it is one of the things the author of this article had in mind.
If you want to do the same but auth with your Apple Watch, you can follow this[1] guide.

[1] https://akrabat.com/add-apple-watch-authentication-to-sudo/