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We had this debate post 9/11 with "enhanced interrogation techniques". No one cared.

Even when you called it "torture" the majority were perfectly fine with it after 9/11 in polling data.
That’s how I learned most software on my machine when I was younger pre internet at home.
Newly discovered exoplanet could have liquid water, lots of volcanoes
Unix-like is that the program is dead silent while nothing is going wrong and then indicates its progress by a successful termination status.
> they would rather crime and criminal behavior not be punished at all.

If it's possible to do so and sufficiently discourage crime up front, still reduce recidivism, and keep society from harm, then yes, absolutely.

Being the real world and lacking such a perfect solution doesn't mean that can't still be the direction we aim in.

The goal is maximizing net benefit to society.

There's absolutely some amount of benefit to the satisfaction the punitive approach can have for those harmed, there's definitely benefit to getting people to choose to not commit crimes due to consequences (but with diminishing returns), and there's absolutely benefit to keeping actively dangerous individuals separate from society. However, when we make prisons so bad that people come out as dangerous or more dangerous than they went in, has society actually benefitted on the balance?

Are we, collectively, better off because one murderer was made utterly miserable for 15 years who is just as likely to murder again than we are if that same murderer was made moderately inconvenienced for 10 years, but is less likely to murder again?
To head off similar comments from the previous discussion over Baltimore's lawsuit:

> There is no nationwide count of social-media-inspired joyrides, but individual cities have reported unmistakable upticks in certain car thefts: Buffalo, New York, saw a 500 percent increase in Kia thefts from 2020 to 2022. In Philadelphia, Hyundai and Kia thefts grew 400 and 700 percent, respectively, from 2019 to 2022.

The ignition could be turned and the car started with a USB dongle. This is a pretty serious product defect. No car is perfectly theft-proof, but I think any reasonable third party would conclude no purchaser would have expected a USB dongle to work.
> I can't print out my passkeys and store them in a safe, nor does there appear to be any system for allowing someone access to my passkeys.

In essence it's possible - some app that exports the passkey's private key in some standard format as a QR code [per passkey], ready to be re-imported, but such import/export mechanisms haven't been made yet.
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. Regardless of which ideology you're battling for or against, that's not allowed on HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. It will eventually get your main account banned as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No it hasn't?
There seems to be a market opportunity here for someone like WeWork because it's hard to find competitive smaller offices currently, though the big spots are cheap / sq.ft.

Look on LoopNet and the 1.5k sq.ft. section is still competitive with before. Unless someone here knows where I can find that size with high-speed internet, good power, and temperature control close to BART.
I also had the same experience with Supabase.

Even though it looks like a great product initially, it has a lot or errors and bugs when you are trying to actually build something more robust than a toy app.

Local development is a massive pain with random bugs.

The response time of the database also varies all over the place.

But the most important problem that we faced, was having so much of application logic in the database.

Row level security is their "foundational piece", but there is a reason why we moved away from database functions and application logic in database over a decade ago: that stuff in unmaintainable.

There is also really poor support and at the end of the day, the whole platform felt like a hack.

I think now, for most apps with up to 500_000 users (with 10_000 concurrent realtime connections) PocketBase is the best PaaS out there having tested a bunch of them.

A single deployable binary which PocketBase provides is a breath of fresh air.

Anything more than that, just directly being on top of bare metal or AWS / GCP is much better.
There are plenty of people who oppose those, too, because it's time not spent making the prisoners feel bad.
I always thought Passkeys is: Workflow for applications that aren't web applications. WebauthN only works in a browser, while passkeys work in "other" types of applications.

The fact that the private key is stored on iCloud is mostly irrelevant for understanding how it works, that's a client device implementation detail. There are software-only authenticators that work with WebauthN just fine and allow you to back them up.
I also preferred working in office. My company had a really nice one.

But due to covid forcing remote work I was able to go from renting a basement, to buying a home (and renting out MY basement).

House cost me the same as a city apartment, but I only qualified for the mortgage due to the added rental suite income. So if I'd stayed, I'd be unable to buy and have to continue renting.

Compared to staying in town, since I made the move in 2020, the difference in my net worth is now more than the entirety of my untaxed salary over that time.

tldr: I prefer office work, but working remotely has been the equivalent of earning 2.5X my salary the whole time.
The problem is, it is difficult to convert modern commercial building to have tiny 500sqft apartments. But it is not a problem to convert to 2000sqft apartments.
This is by design. All the tech giants realized search-by-speech is mostly unprofitable compared to search-by-type because you can't really sell ads auraly compared to visually. Every search done by speech is lost ad revenue. Expect to see less and less search by voice over the coming years
It's still essentially an appeal to authority. “Good artists copy, Great artists steal” and all that. If an artist is great enough, by definition they're doing transformative things with anything they touch.
I'm sure that you're right, but I'm less concerned about that (obviously).
> It sounds so fraught

Wait until you hear about charitable trusts! (And specifically, ones defined into existence by a person's will, such that it's up to a probate judge to figure out how to make the act of charity happen.)
Chrome and IE did not have the same business model. If we look back at Netscape vs. IE they both had predatory nonexistent business models.
I love typing in Dvorak. Although I don't use it on my phone. I didn't find the switch particularly painful. I just switched one day... and had a chart printed out that I looked at whenever I couldn't remember something and eventually I just, didn't need it.

I don't think it took particularly long... a few weeks? Maybe a bit more. I had to do the same thing when I picked up the ErgoDox and programmed in certain layers.

But now my fingers just dance across the split keyboard from side to side. It's really enjoyable and feels great.
If everyone had to go through a jury trial (which I kind of agree that they should), what's your threshold for allowing them to remain out of jail before trial? How much are you willing to give jurors as a stipend for missing work? How much do you want to spend fitting out new courtrooms? Because if all three are not extremely generous by current US standards, you're going to be forcing innocent/kind of guilty people to sit in jail for years waiting for their trials - we don't have nearly enough judges, jury members or court capacity to give everyone the speedy trial with a jury of their peers.
I don't know what you meant by (((that bit))) but assuming you're aware what sort of trope it is: we ban accounts that play those games. Please don't post flamebait to HN.
Twitter’s new 2-hour video feature is already making it a hub for pirated movies
What do we need human actors for at this point? Everything can be generated by AI now.
also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36002667
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Yes because dandelions make your lawn look like shit.
> I'm sure windows and linux did the same thing, but both shapely continued booting while FreeBSD waited and waited and waited and waited.

My understanding is FreeBSD will by default wait until it's found all the fixed disks before it figures out which one to mount as root. This could be a USB drive, so it needs to enumerate all the USB first. Adding hw.usb.no_boot_wait=1 to /boot/loader.conf.local or thereabouts if you don't need that will skip that wait and speed up the boot process a lot (especially on hardware where USB is slow to finish enumeration).
> You don't have to agree!

It's not really a matter of whether or not I agree. I was just trying to understand what the assertion was!

I was baffled by the notion because I couldn't think of anything inherent in the language that made it hard to use good libraries. Now I understand that's not really what the assertion was.
I'm a programmer, not a professional folder contents lister. Anyway, I'll typically use my 4th finger for l, because my hands are a slightly weird shape perhaps - and if I know I'm going to type ls -la, I'll put my 3rd finger on it.

Try typing CreateVertexBuffer or SetVertexDrawTestFlags on QWERTY. Or consider the humble underscore!
It's an IoT standard / ecosystem developed by Google. So that you could control e.g. smart home devices through Google apps, similar to Apple HomeKit or Home Assistant.
One annoying thing about Matter is that it's built on top of a networking protocol called Thread, which has no relationship to threads. Thread runs on top of Zigbee, Bluetooth Low Energy, or WiFi. It's pretty much a standard for a REST API with certain key/values for specfic application profiles. e.g. all IoT lights could use the same REST API so they are easier to integrate.
Compared to many other IoT or embedded systems, Matter seems like it provides more and better resources to get started, however I haven't used it before. e.g. it provides open source tests for the application profiles. Google wants to push it as the 1 protocol that rules them all, but apps like Home Assistant might be more popular atm. Haven't used Matter but it seems like a good effort to get a whole bunch of small embedded devices doing things in the same way.
Same thing was said about GPUs when they were just for games
In many towns it is illegal to just let your lawn grow wild.
Funny! I made a mouse jiggler (actual hardware mouse with switch to enable/disable) 10 years ago and there was no market! I even had a full unproductivity suite, like software to send slack messages at a later time and a chair with a motor that would randomly spin it around to make people think you just stepped out.
"Sustainability" is a bureaucratic requirement, not a technical requirement. The reason the mission architecture has been stuffed full of reusable components like Orion, Starship and the Gateway is to make one-off capital expenses into long-term operational expenses that are difficult to cut. This is the same reason important parts of the whole program are being farmed out to ESA.

Starship gets hated on because it's vaporware being promoted by someone with a long track record of creative promise making across multiple fields of endeavor.
Hacker News was never anything more than a subreddit for elitist silicon valley VCs and FAANG programmers with 35 hours of free time per week.
Very good point.

I would be surprised if the next major language is like that.

Because IMHO low level memory management and similar features of system languages aren't needed anymore for the majority of software even many "system components".
> To most people the differences are obvious.

Hence no argument that you can actually explain, just a gut feeling driven by ignorance of what life in China is.
Cognizant to cut costs; lay off 3500
Historically, Earth has been much hotter on average than it is now: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hotte...

The near past was the one of the coldest points in history in the last 500 million years.

The idea that the Earth is going to explode if temperatures increase by 1.5C is amusing.

Yes, it's definitely not going to be fun, and yes it looks like it's definitely going to happen.

But the world has been that hot plenty of times before (100s of millions of years), and we haven't turned into Venus yet.

I'm all for cutting CO2 emissions - definitely think they're causing a problem - but it's not going to be annihilation / world ending.

I say this because I had existential dread for literally a decade until I looked into it more.
Your specific example is cherry picked and does not reflect reality (even the reality of the seventies). Wikipedia's page on Schneider tells the full story:

"The story made headlines in The New York Times [note: this is your NYT article]. Shortly afterwards, Schneider became aware that he had overestimated the cooling effect of aerosols, and underestimated the warming effect of CO2 by a factor of about three. He had mistakenly assumed that measurements of air particles he had taken near the source of pollution applied worldwide. He also found that much of the effect was due to natural aerosols which would not be affected by human activities, so the cooling effect of changes in industrial pollution would be much less than he had calculated. Having found that recalculation showed that global warming was the more likely outcome, he published a retraction of his earlier findings in 1974."
The sci-fi dystopian answer would be entangled photon lights and off site image recording that preserves entanglement :-)
It's to solve an additional problem activists face; you don't want to let your adversaries know that you're using encryption. Akin to hiding an encrypted partition on your drive so that it gets through customs without raising any alarms that you might be hiding something.
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Internationally, the US has burned, bombed, tortured, and assassinated the idea of equivalency out of existence.

If the problem is the behaviour of social media companies in general, legislate against that. Take note that it's not the conversation that's being had and that the people steering it have made their agenda, and ignorance, rather clear.
One has to wonder what incentive there is in publicising something like this. Indicating capabilities to potential adversaries seems to have utility in limited circumstances.
Not very well explained.
I agree, it just has a bad reputation and there’s few obvious and well known success stories
Off Topic: "Laying out icons on a grid should be an inherently linear operation"

it doesn't seem mentioned in the HN thread the cause here is probably the same thing O(n^2): sorting. laying out icons is only linear if the icons are read in the order that they're placed. It's been a long time since I used windows regularly but my memory is the default placement is by creation time. So if they're read off disk by filename (or some sort of hash) they'd need to be sorted by timestamp.
Defense industry, part of ARTT (Acquisition Requirements for Training Transformation, ), which is an incredibly-overdue-effort to merge specs. It's also being used to draft MBSE schemas for SysML, SysML has undefined overlap with the many many many other architect tools, and it's going to be the main player for MBSE (maybe . . there's some fighting about that).

These so-called "semantic web" technologies seem to come into their own when there's large scale organizations interfacing without a common reference frame. Like one org that does a spec from a programmer standpoint, and another org does one from a formal linguistics standpoint, then they have to integrate. For example, the USDoD Logistics steering group makes a spec for parts data from their requirements based on MTTF, cost, sparing, shelved space. USN makes a spec for parts data based on burn rate, transport, fuel type. It goes on and on like this, repeat a few dozen times, and you have a dump truck full of specs doing the same thing. See where I'm going here? They're speccing out the same thing from their own ivory towers, and - here's the kicker for those trying to LLM their way out of the situation - none of them are going to show their data to anyone else. The only thing that's exposed is the semantics. ARTT/CredEng is - or was, I am not sure if the program OR CredReg is still healthy - trying to solve this by unifying the semantics.

Ultimately someone's got to come along and give all these people a kick in the pants, one way or the other. You can't just float a boat around the ocean with no missiles, not these days.
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Thank you for sharing this. You just removed an item from my to do list because I wanted to code something similar for myself and now I no longer need to since I can use this tool.
The MacOS situation has been the most confusing. Neither Safari nor Chrome can use passkeys, which makes me think Apple either doesn't allow/support syncing them directly to the MacOS keychain, or the (windows hello-esque) APIs to access them are just not there.
There are dozens of us! I use the phone as trackpad when I need to. Small BT keyboard, but thinking of learning the Charachorder. Nreal Air + S22 Ultra DeX + AVNC + proot Ubuntu (via Andronix) + VSCode with the Remote Development extension has been my daily driver for almost 6 months now I think. I even play games on this via GeForce Now and a Switch Pro controller, even voice chat on Discord at the same time and it doesn't break a sweat.
The (former) fire chief Carmignani allegedly, probably, bear maced homeless previous previously. That is a separate crime. But the day the assault happened, April 5th, there's no evidence that the homeless man, Doty, was bear maced. The video footage shows Carmignani confronting Doty, Doty putting up his blanket like he thinks Carmignani is going to bear mace him (maybe he did in the past), and Carmignani confronting Doty as Doty is backing up out of the street. Then we have footage of Doty cornering Carmignani with a crowbar (not self defense), and then running and chasing after Carmignani hitting him with a crowbar (not self defense). There is a high chance that Carmignani could've died from being crowbar'd to the head.
I don't know. I am pretty allergic to the Apple way of doing things, so I'm unfamiliar with such details.
Supabase daily backups just use pg_dump. If their database was going offline, then something else was broken.
hey hn, supabase ceo here

the Val Town team were kind enough to share this article with me before they released it. Perhaps you know from previous HN threads that we take customer feedback very seriously. Hearing feedback like this is hard. Clearly the team at Val Town wanted Supabase to be great and we didn’t meet their expectations. For me personally, that hurts. A few quick comments

1. Modifying the database in production: I’ve published a doc on Maturity Models[0]. Hopefully this makes it clear that developers should be using Migrations once their project is live (not using the Dashboard to modify their database live). It also highlights the options for managing dev/local environments. This is just a start. We’re building Preview Databases into the native workflow so that developers don’t need to think about this.

2. Designing for Supabase: Our goal is to make all of Postgres easy, not obligatory. I’ve added a paragraph[1] in the first page in our Docs highlighting that it’s not always a good idea to go all-in on Postgres. We’ll add examples to our docs with “traditional” approaches like Node + Supabase, Rails + Supabase, etc. There are a lot of companies using this approach already, but our docs are overly focused on “the Supabase way” of doing things. There shouldn’t be a reason to switch from Supabase to any other Postgres provider if you want “plain Postgres”.

3. That said, we also want to continue making “all of Postgres” easy to use. We’re committed to building an amazing CLI experience. Like any tech, we’re going to need a few iterations. W’re building tooling for debugging and observability. We have index advisors coming[2]. We recently added Open Telemetry to Logflare[3] and added logging for local development[4]. We’re making platform usage incredibly clear[5]. We aim to make your database indestructible - we care about resilience as much as experience and we’ll make sure we highlight that in future product announcements.

I’ll finish with something that I think we did well: migrating away from Supabase was easy for Val Town, because it’s just Postgres. This is one of our core principles, “everything is portable” (https://supabase.com/docs/guides/getting-started/architectur...). Portability forces us compete on experience. We aim to be the best Postgres hosting service in the world, and we’ll continue to focus on that goal even if we’re not there yet.

[0] Maturity models: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/platform/maturity-model

[1] Choose your comfort level: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/getting-started/architectur...

[2] Index advisor: https://database.dev/olirice/index_advisor

[3] Open Telemetry: https://github.com/Logflare/logflare/pull/1466

[4] Local logging: https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-logs-self-hosted

[5] Usage: https://twitter.com/kiwicopple/status/1658683758718124032?s=...
> THOR engaged the targets and knocked them out of the sky using its non-kinetic, speed-of-light microwave pulses.

Microwaves dont travel at the speed of light. Did they mean line of sight?

Edit - well guess I was wrong!
Yet another reason why KeePassXC is preferred over the alternatives.
It doesn't sound like they lived in a neighborhood at all, but some deeply rural area, if the nearest neighbor was two miles away.
I agree. I learned Dvorak about 15 years ago, and even though typing is much more comfortable, I wouldn't do it again.

I wish I knew about the increased cognitive overload. Sure, typing English and code is great, but once you get to shortcuts in different applications, things get rather ugly. I use multiple computers, and switching back and forth between QWERTY and Dvorak is no problem, but every time I switch to a different program I have to THINK about which layout I am using and because I never switch my keyboard keycaps, I have to think and LOOK which key I'm pressing.

Also Control/Command C, X, and V are impossible to do with one hand while holding your mouse unless you remap keys or create macros. It's a mess.

I've never felt comfortable about shortcuts ever since.
In Leith's Kirkgate, by the South Leith Parish kirkyard, there is a pediment with the Scottish arms and "I R" (for Iacoubus Rex) in relief. It's all that remains of the King James Hospital, built 1614, demolished 1824 [0]

It has a "6" chiselled into it [1]

The war has been running for a long time

[0] https://canmore.org.uk/site/51941/edinburgh-king-james-hospi...

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/77047514@N00/2556525935
Ignoring the particular encoding scheme discussed above, ideally, you'd use both.

Steganography is used to hide the fact that you are communicating a secret piece of information in the first place. The cryptography means that even if the steganography fails to hide the message, it still can't be decoded.