skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every common farmer could have told you that you will run into huge problems if you don't use fertilizer on a soil that has been fertilized for years. The soil probably has zero nutritional value for plants and any water will quickly evaporate. It is basically just sand that may or may not be too acidic or too alkaline because of chemical residues. It would take years to prepare the soil. You will also need more land to plant different crops and let it regenerate.

Chemical NPK fertilizer is something terribly effective for that matter. It would be a huge improvement to regulate how much is allowed and farmers need to be compensated for the additional land usage to be able to do sensible crop rotations and allow the soil to actually build up nutrition. Overall this could easily take a decade or two.

Of course the motivation wasn't ecological, fertilizer got more expensive and there was no money to buy it with. Industrial fertilizer is made from natural gas after all... You could probably also use oil...
> It is actually quite rate for ordinary people to be able to accept a debit card payment, but that doesn't make debit cards not useful.

Venmo and Cashapp allow you to receive debit card payments, and there are no fees if you transfer the money to your bank account.
Not a lawyer or accountant here but I think it would be reasonable to only treat the eventual on-chain withdraw as a taxable event.

Until then, you have deposited some value in a number of lightening network nodes and have been negotiating a set of pairwise IOUs with them for later.

DeFi/staking has a similar problem and I believe waiting until gains and losses are realized will be the way it goes down.

For now, make a good faith effort to pay taxes or expect some friction later.
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Serial printf logging is often required

This reminded me using "printk" in an incorrect place in an operating system course assignment. It was actually printk itself that was hanging the kernel!
I reread this every time it pops up! :) it makes me smile!!
The article doesn't seem to cover a potential issue- updating an email address associated with an account (2FA aside).

If you've somehow lost access to email, a typical pattern is that you can login to your account, update the username and receive a validation email at the new address to confirm its validity.
Sure, but the justification for nations having them is much the same as with private individuals having guns in the USA, and just like the problem the USA has with gun crime, I don't see any path from here to the good world that's likely to get past the political hurdle.
You are on the right track. That's one of the reasons China makes inroads across global south, because it's willing to "make a deal". Another reason is that China doesn't want any sort of commitments to international standards, democracy etc.

Western governments offer 'help', but it's rarely what local governments want. And often it means publicly complying with rules imposed from the 'outside'. When the 'outside' includes your former colonial overlord and you have turned anti-colonialism into most important aspect of your political identity (for example African Union has no problem with dictators, or genocide, but you better not have capital on different continent) you'd be undermining your regime by accepting it.

In the meantime China offers exactly what you ask for, and doesn't ask about minorities or how long your presidential term is.

For now it's mostly working out for locals, their governments at least. In the long run ... Congo had very beneficial relationship with Portugal during the first century or so, not so much afterwards.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kongo#Foundation_of...
That's assuming they get close to the contact transfer limit. A lot of theoretical numbers are stated. Now that it's in use, maybe we'll get some practical numbers. Perhaps they never will get near the contact data limit, so it's not to be a concern.

It's possible they don't "catch up" for a while, getting a few extra bits and pieces over the next several contacts, not just at the contact following that missed.
Noooo thanks. The day I will happily give away biometric data online has not arrived.

Just let me send you a public key instead.
CP/M was nice, it's a shame we got saddled with MS-DOS for decades.
(That implementation comes from BearSSL, whose website also has a discussion of the issue and a performance comparison[1].)

[1] https://www.bearssl.org/constanttime.html
I wrote a Rails plugin for magic links at https://github.com/rocketshipio/nopassword that doesn’t suffer from many of the problems I’m seeing in the comments.

The big thing is I only use a 6 digit numerical code that people have to copy and paste or type into the browser which they’re authenticating. I looked at stuffing a token into a URL, but it’s not a good idea because the email client may try opening the link to preview it or it may try opening the link in the wrong app/browser, such as an in-app browser.

That may sound super insecure, but the 6 digit code is half the secret that’s needed to authenticate. The browser that the person is using to login has a much longer complex secret that must be included with the code. Additionally, this combination must be authenticated within a set number of attempts, 3 by default, within a certain timeframe, 5 minutes by default.

My motivations for creating this, instead of using something like devise with passwords, is because I have seen soooooo many non-technical people get tripped up by passwords. I know there’s sign-in with Google, MS, etc. via OAuth, but I wanted to give people a way to login to web applications without being under the watchful eye of big tech.

I’m currently using it in production for all of my Rails apps, like https://legiblenews.com/email_authentication/new

A better description of why and how it works at https://github.com/rocketshipio/nopassword
Serverless SFTP and infinitely-scalable data storage
Fees have constituted just 1% to 2% of mining revenue over the last year (the other 99% being the mining reward ("coinbase") of 6.25 BTC per block).

So, LN does not reduce the incentive for Bitcoin miners in any meaningful way, unless I'm mistaken.
Use gloves if you’re ever handling a lot of tamarind as well. It’s more acidic than you might think and it will burn your skin.
I get it when I substitute methylphenidate with caffeine for a day or so (which is how I keep myself below 20mg MPH a day), and usually just at the crash point.
I see a lot of comments talking about how this law effects truckers with some commentary about Uber/Lyft type gig workers (who are now exempted).

Don't forget that the blast area of this law is substantially larger than that. I am a independent technology consultant living in the Bay Area. AB 5 significantly complicates my ability to find clients because many of the most obvious clients (other technology related Bay Area companies) are essentially excluded from contracting with me.

From https://insight.ieeeusa.org/articles/ab-5-and-ieee-consultan...

[AB5] contains a long list of exemptions from the new rules — professions that do not fall under the new definitions. One of those exemptions is for engineers — but only for licensed engineers. This narrow exemption will work for professional licensed engineers, but not for most technical professionals.

While the article does talk about the exemptions for business-to-business relationships so long as you've established things like LLCs and deal in written contracts with clients (something I was already doing, so not such a problem for me personally), it also talks about the issues with even this:

Complicating the business exemption is wording in AB 5 that requires contracts between consulting companies and their clients to meet a set of 12 criteria. Most of these are benign (you must have a written contract, you must have a business license), but others are more troubling.

For example, consulting companies must have “contracts with other businesses to provide the same or similar services and maintains a clientele without restrictions from the hiring entity.” The problem is that some contractors work with just one company. These consultants may want to branch out and find at least one other client. On the other hand, courts in Massachusetts and New Jersey have ruled that similar language in those states’ laws does NOT mean consultants need to have more than one client, only that they could have additional clients if they chose to. California courts don’t have to consider how the law is interpreted in other states, but they generally give other states’ legal opinions weight.

A final problem with the business exemption is that several criteria, including the one above, assume that the consulting company is already in business. That could make it hard to become a consulting company. Getting your first client will be difficult if you first have to prove you have other clients.

What this means is that even though I can meet these tests, for many of my prospects having to sort out whether or not they can contract with me on a business-to-business basis is just overhead for them. Better for them to just give up on the idea of contracting with me and just put up a job posting or hire a larger company.

I strongly support the repeal of this law. There is often times nothing worse than to be the "beneficiary" of the good intentions of others.
>> And Aqua-Lung wasn't available until after WWII.

Your on link says it was invented in winter 1942/43, WWII didn't end until September 45. That's plenty of time to train, equip, and utilize the technology in warfare. This article may not have been about Aquq-lung, but your book may have been accurate.

"The Aqua-Lung was invented in France during the winter of 1942–1943 by two Frenchmen: the engineer Émile Gagnan and the Naval Lieutenant Jacques Cousteau."
Oh that's cool, thanks!
You seem to be confusing me with someone else, or your posting style attributes things to people and you're connecting the wrong people.
I mean it's literally in the Atlantic article:

"The Trump administration pointed to Hambantota to warn of China’s strategic use of debt: In 2018, former Vice President Mike Pence called it “debt-trap diplomacy”—a phrase he used through the last days of the administration—and evidence of China’s military ambitions."

Look, you keep lol'ing, moving the goalpost and making new claims, but how about you actually discuss based on facts and provide evidence? I keep providing counter-evidence but you keep moving the goalpost every time you can't counter those.

Again, I have nothing against legitimate grievances. But keep it factual rather than based on spite.
I don't think you need to worry about duck and cover if your city gets hit by a 50Mt warhead.
There's absolutely no excuse for the security boundaries that OSes have promised for decades

I'm not saying there is. I'm saying running untrusted javascript on strange websites is not worth 15% of my CPU performance.
This is kind of ridiculous. Everyone has to start somewhere whether it is by doing or by reading books. Even crypto experts started by doing at some point. It's not like the person is going to be using their own crypto in production.
As a side note on the design of that website, I noticed that they play a rather unusually long confirmation animation when you click Accept on the cookie consent, prior to removing the banner. This feels like the exact opposite of what most users probably want, which is to make the banner go away as quickly as possible. Especially on mobile where the banner takes up a significant portion of the screen.

I don’t typically comment on UX design for HN links, but that one literally made me do a double take… I loaded it up again in incognito mode just to make sure I wasn’t imagining things.
This is a bit of a tangent, but when I opened the page, the heading looked like this: https://i.imgur.com/mYHKd0Q.png

Turns out the Font family is specified as "Copperplate, Papyrus, fantasy" and my system didn't have any font that matched. Fixed it by installing the Impact font, as it matches "fantasy".
"Write once, run for 20 years" is a strong value proposition. I dabbled in web dev and it's rare for third party libraries and services to go a year without breaking interface changes. Meanwhile a program written for Windows XP will likely still run on Windows 11 even without a recompile (perhaps the source code was lost). In the worst case you might have to run the binary in XP compatibility mode.
ARM chips are mainly much simpler. The fight with Spectre-like side-channels is a fight against thermodynamics we cannot win, only mitigate.

Any performance improvement relies on the patterns of data also exposes the data itself. Intel and AMD wanted to make faster returns by analyzing the patterns in the return instructions by putting a branch prediction logic. When they do that it behaves differently depending on the data hence it is "observable" to outside world.

If any ARM manufacturer implements a similar feature, it will be vulnerable. There is only one question: When will it be practically exploitable?
Of course the link should be invalidated, but that doesn't protect from a situation where an attacker initiates a login, then the user receives an email and clicks. The chances are slim but some people might get confused and click without much thinking - and voila, the attacker has a valid session.
Nit for @dang or OP - it's ironSource not IronSource

(This comment is not an endorsement of the merger which I'm personally not a fan of - we get an ad/installer company merging with the biggest non-AAA game engine company which creates all sort of problematic incentives)
Which country isn't corrupt? I know many nations that are more corrupt than Srilanka. The major difference is Srilanka depended on tourism which led to this downfall.

Regarding the authoritarian governance, can you please supply the valid examples? Srilanka is just one example. There are many countries like Bhutan, Nepal which seems to be sliding day by day. I hope we won't label them authoritarian when they fail?

Democracy is not immune as people expect. We can't label demagouge who sways people as authoritarian. Democracy is only sucessful if majority of people aren't biased and vote based on merit rather than religion, greed etc.
The Brits have gas which can be converted to good fertilizer. They eat a lot of beans too.
>Though no official record of the first use of this method seems to exist, research suggests that their concept dates to the early 2010s.

Early 2010s? Craigslist has been doing this since the 90s.
The Repressive Politics of Emotional Intelligence (2021)
sure, but one of the authors works for the bank
That's super!
Archived: https://archive.ph/Vabow
In the US and other countries I have heard about, it applies to the sender also.

If you buy Bitcoin for $X and then buy something with those Bitcoin, then you have to record the "fair value" $Y of that something and pay taxes on $Y-$X. On the amount that your "Bitcoin speculation" has earned you.

Looks like in the Netherland, it is different indeed. Making it much easier to use Bitcoin.
I greatly enjoyed working through this list a while back: https://kk.org/cooltools/best-magazine-articles-ever/
Interesting that while they're certainly more detailed they also look "flatter" than the Hubble images. Is that due to differences in hardware or different choices in post-processing?
Germany finally gets serious about tackling cyber threats
Websites like freelancer.com used to have plenty of Russian freelancers.

I don't know if Russians now are barred from these sites?

If maybe there is space for a crypto-based alternative? Though as a hiring business I would need to be able to have my expense as a proper business expense.
> What other promising options are there?

Fast layer 1s.

That way I don't have to worry about integration between n layer 2s that my users are on (considering my users are unlikely to be on the same layer 2).
Google Countersues Dating App Match Group in Fight over Play Store Policies
Reading this article, it feels like the first "return to office" was when Louis XIV ordered all the nobility to come live in the Versailles castle. Politics, power plays, control, structure...

Simply it was not a "return" but a "first time in the office".

I'm sure he had to squash some relictance as well.
Try being a merchant and not using third party custodial services (Paypal) to accept payments on your website.
If you are seriously worried about the electrical power situation in Europe this winter, I would assume your priorities would focus on the well being of your family first?
No, it didn't exist (outside Google). Debian testing is not a rolling release because it is not a "release", it lacks internal coherence. As the article mentioned, testing packages are built in unstable and then simply moved to testing individually, with no regard to moving all the build dependency chain together. So you end up with packages in testing that were built using packages that are not in testing yet.

Edit: also testing lacks timely security updates, they don't bother to cherry pick security patches for testing and instead just wait until the new secure version make is way thru unstable.
Aptera asks Congress to make Tesla’s plug the standard for EVs in the US
under US law anyway; some EULAs are unenforcable under EU laws.
There's a near-infinite amount of not-so-small gotchas when implementing magic links:

- If magic links are the only way to sign in, authentication success rate is now directly tied to your email deliverability rate.

- Single-use tokens (immediately expiring after clicking) can be followed by spam filters, and thus immediately become invalid for the actual user trying to sign in.

- MTAs using greylisting can cause unexpected delays in email delivery.

- If a session audit trail is implemented, malware scanners following links might cause sessions from unexpected locations showing up.

etc.
I heard recently that most of Unity's money already comes from Unity Ads, so this is just the natural extension of that. It's sad, but that's our reality I guess.
Hi. Congratulations on the launch.

I'm sorry in advance, this is going to be incredibly negative. I'll sum it up to this: WTF?

What's the motivation to build and launch this? Simplify authentication (it won't)? Make it more secure (it won't)? Make it cheaper (it won't)?

Your terms (https://pixlab.io/terms) are ridiculous. You might be the first SaaS I see that has both a "business-critical" tier and a "no warranty" clause in their terms.

Your "GDPR compliant" terms are out of whack, actually, too. Has a lawyer reviewed this? It's written for end users with no mention of customers or data processing agreements. You don't even have a DPO.

I'm doubly shocked because this looks like a lot of work and care has been put into this; what you built is a prototype at best, yet you're basically screaming that this is an enterprise-ready product you're fully launching.
I think the distinction between expected and unexpected errors can easily fall through the cracks and writing code in a way that an unexpected error doesn’t break everything is quite powerful.

Golang makes it easy to ignore errors that can be ignored and defer/recover provide a way to implement a way to “let it fail”

There’s even an implementation of supervisor trees for Go [0] :)

[0] https://github.com/thejerf/suture
Uber whistleblower reveals company's dark tricks
I mean, Gundam 00 is cool and all, but it's from 2007 or so.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (from 1949) literally has Oceania, Eurasia, Eastasia :-)
Can You Drive Alone in the HOV Lane If You’re Pregnant?
Compilers will often delete code that has volatile stores, if it thinks that would be OK. Not everybody agrees with this policy. But they are not who makes decisions about what compilers do.

There "are always ways", but not everybody always knows what they are, or even knows they need to know them. And, what you think ought to suffice too often does not.
> an ad/installer company

Seems like Unity isn't too proud of that either. I wasn't able to figure out what ironSource do from the first few paragraphs due to them dancing around the truth.
I don’t think anyone except Luc Besson still thinks this is true anymore tho..
> My point is without actually spending time conducting deeper research and really understanding the technology(topic), this is will happen to anyone(amateurs).

I don't know if that's true. Most amateurs I know who invested in the stock market are relatively okay. They didn't i) put their entire life savings into it cause they didn't believe it was going to be the future of the world due to some weird cult-like behavior and ii) stocks didn't collapse 99% or whatever a lot of these shitcoins did. Most amateurs don't make money in stocks but they aren't wiped out either.
I do like the way they let you choose any combination of four blockers by setting individual bits in the last octet of the DNS server address.
One drawback of Lightning is that if you want to receive funds, and you don't have a direct channel to the payer, then you have to be online. It's an interactive protocol, you can't just publish an address and check it later. Since most people don't run their own servers, LN is pretty much going to be a custodial system.
I grew up when Taman festival was being built and it actually was open for a year or so. My brothers and sister and I had free roam of the place. It was effectively our own giant amusement park because almost no one else was ever there. They had a giant reptile petting zoo (with the hungry crocs below of course) and we’d always go there. They were so ambitious at time of opening, talk about building a semi underwater hotel, zero gravity roller coaster, etc. they actually did start on that roller coaster but never finished. You can prly still finds parts of it gathering dust. Pretty sure it was all a giant money laundering operation. It was a really bizarre location to build a giant theme park. I mean we had just finished building a house in the middle of nowhere (pedang galak, an area known more for black magic competitions and poisonous snakes). It bordered on a river / jungle. Hard to emphasize how not ideal of a location it was for a giant theme park. Cool for us though
It's amazing to think how common these sorts of myths used to be before the internet. If you heard something like this and wanted to challenge it, you would have to get on the bus and spend a couple of hours at the library and return with some photocopies. Now you can pull up Wikipedia on your phone.
> Did this ever happen?

I've not seen it reported that it ever happened. The point is that they prepared for it and intended to take that action if the situation occurred. That they planned and implemented a method to obscure evidence is a strong indicator that they knew some of what they were doing was not legal (leaving aside discussion of where wrong & illegal do/don't overlap, in their opinion or ours or anyone else's).

> it would probably not be satisfied via the Uber app UI.

This part isn't about the app. It is about making data inaccessible at an office should the authorities enter that office - equivalent to quickly ramming documents through the shredder when you see an auditor approaching the building.
Almost all mantras that are stated in absolutes will be accepted by the public in every single possible way. Unfortunately, and I know it sounds unbelievable, for a lot of people it really has become "don't even think of learning about crypto", not just "don't use your own crypto in prod"