skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Security isn't my specialization, so somebody please correct me if I'm wrong).

My understanding is that two APIs talking to each other and exchanging one time tokens is better than the same APIs exchanging passwords. Passwords are susceptible to phishing attacks, rainbow tables, dumb password requirement policies, and also just basic fuckups like transmitting in clear text or not hashing and salting it.

Compared to time based software OTPs that 1Password also did, I don't see any security improvements there. But the user experience is better (one click instead of multiple).

Compared to gold standard 2fa (something you know AND something you are or have), I think passkeys are actually a downgrade. They wouldn't be if you used your hardware secure enclave as your key storage, but you can't do that if you want the convenience of cloud sync, so we're back to square one.

All in all it seems to me that passkeys primarily offer better convenience with good enough, not optimal, security. Which is probably the right balance IMO.
I’m not sure it’s as freeing as you suggest. You typically lose a lot of freedom because you gain a lot of responsibility
I was on a flight just yesterday, placed in a middle seat, where the two gentlemen flanking me rolled over the arm rests into my seat space. As an unhealthily slender man I am 100% comfortable subsidizing not having my seat space invaded by people who have a different shape than I. I don’t want to pay extra to personally avoid it, as I could in first class, I want to pay extra to make sure nobody suffers either side of the problem: these men were both profusely apologetic and embarrassed, and I’m sure I was not the only of us three left also physically uncomfortable.
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That would be nice. But how would they check that the trackers comply?

Taking down has the advantage of being easy to enforce.
Exactly this. Paper voting has some really great properties, like being easy to understand, easy to administer, easy to examine after the fact, and hard to attack at scale or at a distance. It's not perfect, but as the National Academies of Sciences found in its review of election security research [1], it's the best option we've currently got.

Security is a "better than" game. Just because option X isn't perfect doesn't mean X isn't a worthwhile solution given all other alternatives.

[1] https://nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/25120/interactive...
> My question was explicitly about cases when you have no benefit whatsoever in this life.

I’m sorry, I didn’t get that from your post. Can you give an example case where I’d have no benefit whatsoever?

> Yes, how else can you argue about "the meaning of the universe" otherwise?

Can you please define “the meaning of the universe” for me? I stated previously that I hold no beliefs about that, and that is primarily because I don’t understand what you and others mean by that phrase. Other than stating I hold no beliefs about it I have not been arguing for/against it, again, because I don’t know what it means for the universe to have a meaning.

If you believe the universe has meaning, can you please first define what that means, and then cite evidence in support of it?
Well, I am not saying there is no work. I am saying the work load has decreased substantially. Everything you mention is something they had to do during previous markets too.
Sapolsky has a new book coming out literally today called "Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will".

Obviously I haven't read the book (yet) but here's the NYT promo interview https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/science/free-will-sapolsk... : In his latest book, “Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will,” Dr. Sapolsky confronts and refutes the biological and philosophical arguments for free will. He contends that we are not free agents, but that biology, hormones, childhood and life circumstances coalesce to produce actions that we merely feel were ours to choose.
There seems to be an underlying assumption that when your god knows you're running a prayer experiment, they'll selectively ignore the prayers in order to make the experiment fail and make themselves appear nonexistent. Why? I understand that god is unknowable, but what I mean is, why do you believe that? Is there some theological reason? Or do you just assume it must be true because otherwise the experiments would work?

I appreciated your analogy, but I don't believe it answers this question. No father would ignore their child's requests specifically to make them believe they don't have a father.
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Home inspectors are usually optional, and almost always a waste of money... appraisers in my experience are also a waste of money, but banks (and bank regulations) do require those.

I have bought and sold several homes, and never used an inpector on either side. (I have seen inspections, and the homes that were inspected, which is how I come to yhe conclusion they are worthless.)
Unavoidable tradeoff? Fundamental tension between modularity and efficiency.
Elon is only interested to be in the news cycle 24/7 so that his meme stocks do good
> I really don't care what the contingent of passkey haters on here say.

I think what a lot of passkey advocates misunderstand is that this isn't a debate about what passkeys should look like once everyone has adopted them. It's a discussion about whether passkeys will ever get adopted.

Ordinary users are not going to use passkeys until these problems are solved. You're envisioning a world where everyone says, "there are tradeoffs, but we all made the switch and the security is better so tough luck." The reality is that fixing the tradeoffs are a precondition for passkeys to be a replacement for passwords.

The same industry that was incapable of teaching people how to use real 2FA tokens is not going to be able to teach them how to clone passkeys across devices. The discussion around passkey problems is not a discussion about how many people will grumble when passkeys eventually break into the mainstream. It is a discussion about whether passkeys are ever going to break into the mainstream at all.

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Note that passkeys themselves are a response to this reality: it used to be that everyone talked about how cloud synchronization within an ecosystem was just too insecure and critics were going to have to get over the fact that it wasn't supported. This was a common debate on HN.

That changed, because it became obvious that passkeys were not going to happen without cloud sync and that roaming passkeys were a requirement, even if they made the standard slightly less secure. Now the same people are out saying that portability and better standardization among services is not the FIDO Alliance's problem to solve and people are just going to have to get over it.

And I don't think y'all understand how standards get adopted. Ordinary users are not going to get over it, they're going to refuse to use the standard. The first time they use passkeys and run into Amazon telling them that they can't log in from Firefox, they're going to walk away from passkeys forever.
Redfin has a “Flood risk” layer option on their maps.

Interestingly, it show only small parts of Flamingo Park having substantial flood risk, especially compared to the rest of West Palm Beach.

https://www.redfin.com/neighborhood/55857/FL/West-Palm-Beach...
” The right not to preventably and painfully die should be unconditional."

This is a silly statement. You might as well say Superman powers ought to be unconditional.

Whose rights get to be trampled to give you this unconditional right to do nothing while receiving "free" stuff? Anyone with your mindset is an out of touch elitist. SOMEONE will still have to provide you food, electricity, medical etc. So, what you're saying is you actually want a slave class that provides YOU the right to not "earn a living".
I worked in construction prior to tech and yes, the General Contractor or Foreman may not know the latest in framing or concrete technology, or even be good at specific tasks like drywall. But they understand the job, can do it if need be, but most importantly can judge the quality.
I think there are some rules around hiring for public cos in the US too -- even if you they like you over coffee, they've still got to post the position and interview other candidates too (that's been my experience semi-recently anyway, but it's possible that some of those rules are imposed by the industries that some of those companies serve, hard to tell). Some large private companies have also clamped down on that to avoid nepotism in the form of a manager bulk hiring all of their team from another role without interviewing anyone else.
I think you meant: du-jure -> de jure
> fought hard to keep the mortgage interest tax deduction

I think this tax deduction is insane, but it's notable that this kind of deduction on interest doesn't exist in Canada and other western countries, but we have in many cases far far worse housing price inflation than the US. So it's not really the culprit.

It's really very simple. When people are buying a home, they are really buying a loan, not a home. 9/10 home buyers buy the home to fit the maximum loan the bank will approve them for. 15 years of insanely low interest rates means demand for those loans was crazy high, so the price of the thing that backed the loan -- the property -- also skyrocketed. Yes the tax break in the US likely worsens that, but it's certainly not the explanatory factor on its own. A large percentage of home buyers have no ability or intent to ever fully pay out their mortgages (and standard "financial advice" during low interest times was not to bother). So the commodity you're "buying" is not a house, but the loan itself, a long term rental arrangement with a bank.

Now that rates are returning to normal levels, I hope to see that level out or fall. But there are strong lobbying pressures to prevent that. There's a whole generation that sees interest rates lower than 5% as normal/expected. Which is pretty crazy, really.

Capital gains exemption on primary residence probably also plays a role. I personally think that exemption should only apply on a portion of the resale value below a certain threshold. That would help put a downward pressure on price inflation.

But the core problem is that there is the most powerful voting demographic explicitly does not want this. Most baby boomers and much of the middle class are relying on the $$ in their properties to retire, because western countries have on the whole dismantled the concept of pensions and a financially secure retirement.
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Are all polynomial time algorithms implementable with primitive recursion? You would need to know the constant factor, right?
(I meant that more as an example to follow OP's comment. I'm sure it would have to do with roofing material and other things structural in a hurricane zone.)
For every argument "it's not an issue" there's 5 correct points why it is

> Do you think using a mouse on an unlocked phone would go unnoticed?

Certainly, it only takes a millisecond.

> There's also a fair amount of disagreement over whether a mouse will work without input.

0days exist.

> the same sort of attack except it will likely only hit one person

Stuxnet alone is known to infect hundreds of thousands for a start, but as usual keep in mind the successful attacks are generally not found out :)
You don't need all of that stuff if your business respects people's privacy by design.

It's like complaining that the GDPR is causing cookie banners on every site. That's only half the reason. The real reason is that the websites need one's opt-in to do something they shouldn't be doing. Obviously the law should have been crafted with an automatic system to reject all non-necessary cookies in mind, but the fault for the cookie banners still lies with the website.
Paying for something doesn't rid you of the responsibilities of its consequences
Love after life: Richard Feynman's letter to his departed wife (2017)
For comparison, I pay 600€ per year for a 500K € 20 year old home, about 240 square meters (that's about 2580 square feet for my fellow Americans).

This is Madrid, Spain. Small town outside the city.
So basically own nothing and be happy? What then drives people to create any meaningful value to the economy?
"Lowercasing ‘Russia’ and ‘Moscow’ in unofficial documents will no longer be considered a mistake."

Sounds a bit childish to me. Proper names are proper names, regardless of your view of the entity. For example, writing "Stalin" instead of "stalin" just recognizes that "Stalin" was someone's name, not that one has any respect for that person.
In the US, we used to be able to tabulate votes in 1 day, fairly correctly, with little corruption. Where there were problems, we could manually audit quickly and effectively. Then we switched away from paper ballots to e-voting.
How would you implement such a mechanism without introducing a lot of overhead?
I don't think Kant, or any reasonable philosopher, would consider blocking ads a moral dilemma, which is the precondition of a maxim.
> Well, as a thought experiment; should the CEO of the company know how to do every function he or she hires for within their business?

No, but they should at least know how to do the job of their SVPs or VPs in their absence. In fact, many times when the SVP departs, their reports are expected to report to the CEO directly.
I think what you are trying to get into is decentralized technologies.
If you have a commercial loan the interest is tax deductible as a business expense. The "tax shelter" many people think of when thinking of becoming a landlord (and is not allowed) is deducting passive losses each year (eg rental income is less than all your rental expenses) when you are not a "real estate professional" as per the IRS guidelines. You can deduct those passive losses when you sell "substantially all" your property. IANAL but I did own, landlord and then sell a commercial property (and would never do it again).
These weren't startups monetizing calendar software. It was geeks who were going to AWS who threw together a better UI for it. They didn't do it for Amazon, they did it for themselves, the challenge, and as the kids call it, the "clout".
Voting is a human trust problem. More people can understand voting with paper and pencil than computers. And this is mostly because everyone knows someone who's been ripped off online with no recourse. No one really trusts computers.

Pencil and paper solves the trust issue. And the issues of security around paper voting such as it's security, lots of guards, public counts etc, costing a bit more, are better understood than SSL, layer 1,2,3,4 securities, and verifiable systems.
Could candidates opt out of using ChatGPT? I don’t think I’d be comfortable using it in an interview.
the problem with large corp failures are it's not the execs that get left holding the bag. investors, consumers, employees, community do.

to me the easiest way to fix that is don't let companies get to big to fail.
Well hopefully he will be able to live his life without fear of being locked up again.
They're not mutually exclusive. Plenty of managers have engineering backgrounds. What is generally mutually exclusive is managers and individual contributors. It may be that if individual contributors did all the decision-making then the outcome would be different; it may be that it would be exactly the same. We can't really know, for the same reason we can't know how society would be different if we elected "normal people" to Congress instead of "politicians."
It would be nice if it was a sliding scale that decreased as the value went up. It is essentially no more work to transact an $800k house than a $400k house yet the commission doubles.
Since having kids I’m a lot more able to get in the zone for 1-2h at a time since I rarely get a whole day free (also due to a more senior position). I think it’s largely procrastination. But I also try to batch and minimize the meetings the engineers on my team have to take
That is some deeply targeted recruiting my friend. ;)
The "how" is simple: because it could be done with relative ease now. So those charged with preventing crimes can push for it and pushing back against crime fighting is a tough stance to take.

Also, assuming high levels of privacy in the days of old might be in error, depending on what you were doing.
Interesting! It's nice to see such a small implementation!
Maybe it's cyclical, but honestly I think the valley's days are done. There will be a new technology hub and it will be somewhere else.
Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires.

Most haven't also realized that just because they work in software, it doesn't mean the world hasn't changed. The times of Microsoft's IPO creating tens of thousands of millionaires and multiple billionaires are gone. Until the next big platform pops up, things are not frozen, but stuck in mud.

The biggest Windows apps have probably been the same since 20 years ago. The biggest MacOS apps, same. The biggest iOS apps probably stabilized at least 5 years ago. Android, same.

Quoting kids: game's gone.
I agree with you, but every agent does know the offer up front.
We use this process, and it has helped us hire some great developers without having to use third party staffing and headhunters:

1. Post well written job post on major job boards.

2. Immediately reply via text to every applicant (yes, we have opt in on the application)

3. Initial screening including several knock-out questions via text. Immediately let candidate know if they are not selected and why.

4. 30 minute can you write a working function from requirements code test. Allow one re-try. Immediately let candidate know if they are not selected and why.

5. Interview and code review session. Bring a side project, show us how it works.

6. Offers out.

7. Background checks start in parallel with on-boarding. First week is spent with business unit teams to learn what the company actually, really does.

8. End of first week, we occasionally have to let someone go on background issues. Otherwise, week 2 is first week coding, expect a working pull request by end of week. All candidates informed position is filled, ask if they would like to be alerted if similar job opens.

Works like a champ. Helps we write software that does this.

Average developer tenure is two years, company is three years old. We write telecom software that does texting, voice and video interviews.
If I can be blunt, you sound like the kind of person who manages purely top-down and makes what could be an interesting and engaging workplace into corporate drudgery.
Can someone explain to me how is it possible using gaussians to have different reflections based on the angle of view like on the demos? I'm finding it hard to grasp.
Nlnet you go!
> with the incredibly complex edge case of only adding numbers divisible by both values, aka 15

Ah I love it, you are pushing them to reach peak human potential.
They're right.
Just read the code! /s
> After 25 years a new job should be a phone call or cup of coffee away. You should never even have to think about applications after two decades in the industry.

Oh really? What I've seen is the leaders/power brokers you once knew are retired, fired, or even passed away. And the leaders at many companies aren't keen to hire people with more years of experience than they have.

24 yoe
> We can think of consciousness in it's most simple terms as an experience of any number of bits of data.

If you interpret the word that way, it becomes completely uninteresting and, as you explore, makes us no different from some germ or collection of molecules.
> The initial reason why we have Leetcode today is that Google originally determined through their interview research that the smartest candidates were the ones who were best at algorithms.

How did they measure "smartness"? The Leetcode algorithms are mostly solved problems and I know people who can "solve" any leetcode you throw at them, but they are very poor at actual real world problem solving.

It's quite a bit like saying people who memorised Wikipedia are smart, because they know things.

To me being smart is to know where to look.
How do they measure which candidates are the smartest? And if such a method exists why they don't use this method in interviews directly?
Non-root can use seccomp-bpf. Chrome already does.
This article really rings true for me
Mind you, Spartacus failed.
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That appears to be the OpenSolaris C library.

I imagine that it is meant to convey that the quality is higher in this library than in GNU libc.
I dunno man.

Kinda feel like the true Techno-Optimists were the people collectively hacking together solutions under open source principles, and that quite a lot of the libertarian-eque mumbo-jumbo here invisibly stands on the shoulders of those giants.

The free market is arguably more aligned to a product that allows a monkey direct access to its dopamine center than one that lets a monkey rule the stars.

While I agree that technology growth is one of the most important metrics for the future health of a society, the idea that optimal growth necessitates uncontrolled markets or a whole host of the other things piggybacking on that core here is a bit silly.

A more narrowly scoped manifesto that was essentially just "tech accelerates beneficial progress; there's an opportunity cost to delaying tech" would likely have had better legs than an umbrella of rhetoric that tries to cover all bases and as such alienates everyone other than the author and the sycophants in their circle.

It's frustrating, as I agree with a lot of the broad sentiment and have been extremely disappointed in the tech pessimism I've been seeing grow dramatically over the past few months and years - but I really don't feel this manifesto speaks for nor to me, as optimistic about tech as I might be.
The market has been so hot that any offer with a home inspection condition is usually thrown in the trash bin.
I'm not sure how typical it is but, since grad school decades ago, every job (just a few) has been through sending out an email--including in the depths of dot-bomb. I doubt anyone ever actually looked at my resume.
Lol, yeah honestly wasn’t the plan but adding the plug felt like an opportune moment.
Another example has to do with what we could call the “hard problem” of existence itself: why does the universe exist, and why this universe in particular?

Plenty of theories have been proposed. Maybe the universe expands and contracts again and again, each time with slightly different cosmological constants. Or maybe there are infinite universes and, unsurprisingly, we happen to exist in the one which was suited to our existence. Or maybe everything is just one giant simulation.

What I find fascinating is that, once you remove the culture-specific veneer, these questions and our tentative answers are part of the same pursuit that centuries ago would have taken the shape of philosophy or theology.
Most teams aren't mature and the ones that are didn't get that way by overextending their managers.
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Quite a few. Search for "PaaS", e.g. https://dokku.com/

Specific to Hetzner https://github.com/hetznercloud/awesome-hcloud might list some integrations (PaaS solutions often need an adapter, configuration or plugin for each provider like Hetzner)