skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Constant pressure to hit quarterly performance targets meant that machine quality often suffered. In some cases, machines would be shipped out the door unfinished so the delivery could be booked, and assembly would be completed by service technicians at the customer’s location. In his history of the American machine tool industry, Albert Albrecht states that “the actions of these larger corporations and conglomerates, under the leadership of financial MBA’s, perhaps more than any other factor, contributed to the restructuring and decline of the US machine tool industry at the end of the 20th century.”

In short, the MBAs happened. Clueless management was brought in who then decimated anything they did not understand. I.e. everything. Aided by Reagan policy to aggressively outsource manufacturing from the nineteen eighties US manufacturing just imploded.

Just speculating here, but by the time the Japanese and the Germans caught up and got really good at machine tools, the metric system would have become an obstacle as well. Because the US insisting to do everything in inches, foot pounds, and what not doesn't translate very well internationally when you start outsourcing all your manufacturing. Outsourcing meant manufacturing standardized on the metric system using equipment and parts not made in the US.

Just speculating here, but I imagine that all that combined lead to a natural preference for non US based manufacturing companies that took over from US companies to not use any US made equipment or parts. So, manufacturing became predominantly metric based and that would have affected standard components, screws, bolts, parts, etc. All made by non US companies standardizing on all of that.
I appreciate that your post is thoughtful and has good intentions, but can i suggest not telling people how they can or cannot feel, or what they should or shouldn’t do?
(hah. putting myself into this basket for a second and acknowledging this comment)

emotions are complex.
you can show compassion and empathy without instruction?

inshallah
Humans eating human meat making people go crazy is actually a myth I think. The reason people thought it was a thing was because of a small group of Indonesian (I think) indigenous people who ate dead relatives as part of funeral rites. Only children and women were getting sick with a "laughing disease" because they ate the dead. The underlying cause was a prion disease that could be carried without symptoms and that just ripped through their population over a few generations. That account is why people think cannibalism is bad for you, but if I recall correctly, prion diseases are not actually widespread enough for this to be a major concern. In terms of health, most human meat should be safe for consumption.

Obviously ethically we probably should not normalize eating people though.
Thank you! I was considering a different/lesser form of "keep it privately available" (as I suspected that keeping it widely/anonymously publicly available was never going to work.)
Government is a double-edged sword. Classifying drugs like psilocybin as class 1, meaning researchers couldn't even study it. Also, 13 year approval process makes it extremely expensive to try to get a drug to market. Of course government R&D dollars are needed!
You do yourself a tremendous disservice by blowing off good scholarship with uninformed jokes, especially in the case of book publishing, where titles are often set by the publisher and not the author.

This book gives detailed, and very accurate, descriptions of how trade wars which appear to be foreign conflicts-- i.e. one country united against another-- are almost always actually domestic conflicts between competing interest groups inside the same country; often during these conflicts, those interest groups can make alliances with equivalent groups in other countries. This is a commonly-observed phenomenon which, for brevity's sake, we reify as class, and does not require any Marxist axioms or analysis to understand.
For context, I was born the year this guy went to prison. I'm almost 16.
That is only for the Hue app. You can still just put them in pairing mode and use any zigbee controller you like.
This appears to be autonomous driving related and also mainly Germany.

“The main reason given for the move, which sees 950 cuts in Germany alone, is the significantly slower-than-expected development of fully automated driving”
There used to be a lot of content about Hans Reiser on Slashdot back in the days before HN.

His statements, code and conduct were controversial long before the murder.

I'm curious if anyone has insight into his technical contributions. Were they:

- ahead of their time but now superseded by other filesystems

- visionary but not fully realized/implemented

- other
It'd suck a lot less if your main hobby was playing poker with roughnecks.
It 100% is a real thing, I dont even really understand the opposite. Users curate lists, and even share those. I am a YT Music user and that severely cuts down on my ability to find playlists that others have created compared to spotify. When I switched to YT Music, my partner was pissseed. I had to locate and run some python scripts to run to transfer over the playlists or we were gonna be switching back. There are people who have Youtube Premium & Spotify because of their playlist/social lockin. Spotify Wrapped alone keeps people from jumping ship.
add two spaces right before the echo to avoid logging your secrets in the shell history
He later made the argument that he killed her to protect his children.
As long as those manufacturing centers are part of US allies (Japan, Korea, Europe, Australia, Taiwan), or at least trustworthy neutrals (Vietnam, India), I'm happy.

But some manufacturing, in fact a large amount, is Chinese. And I'm not convinced they've got our best interests at heart. Either China needs to calm down over their "Wolf Warrior" style, or we need to cut back on providing benefits to an obviously and increasingly antagonistic power.

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The other part, with respect to Taiwan + China, is that we must defend Taiwan as they are a critical source of advanced-materials (ie: computer chips) to us. Yes, its more efficient to have Taiwan centralize production, but it does come at a cost. We need to be ready to defend Taiwan and keep it safe if we are to continue to build computers and phones out of Taiwan-only parts.
Having the QR in your photo roll doesn't break the 'not phishable' property.
Generally speaking: if your RSA decryption implementation has any timing sidechannels, then it is probably vulnerable to some kind of Bleichenbacher variant.

As far as I know, GMP doesn't many any attempts to be generally resistant to timing channels. This year's Bleichenbacher variant[1] specifically calls out GMP's modular exponentiation API (which is what you'd use for RSA) as being susceptible to timing.

[1]: https://people.redhat.com/~hkario/marvin/
It doesn't copy the elements if the source vector is already at max capacity, which you can often arrange for beforehand.
And what are those investments worth? Quests have great quality with nearly no-profit price and who uses it. Their Horizon platform that even employees hate.
This is the most institutionalized-minded answer I have seen.
Most of the time, it's more painful to receive money than to donate it.
It’s supposedly their autonomous driving related stuff
what does “a synergy of mobile design and desktop design” mean? It’s the same cores, but more of them. iirc, they’ve made cache structures larger as well.
Can't believe I had to scroll this much to find someone mentioning how good this is in Switzerland (where the implementations trust the customer) vs other countries (where you have to weight everything).

I scan everything beforehand with their device, then head to the self-checkout with a shopping cart full of items (already put into bags), I scan the QR code there and I pay. Done.

The whole operation is like 20 seconds max, and it's how it should be.

Using self checkout in the UK, US or in Italy is a nightmare. First
of all, they don't trust you by default so you have to weight everything (this operation takes on average 10s per item). Half of the time the systems are broken (in terms of UX) and you need to do things in a specific order (e.g: you can't scan a rewards card with the other items - you have to do it BEFORE even starting to scan the products).
The order of the classes in the dom will match the order of the classes in the .css files
I think its also just really hard for people to quantify on a small scale. Its much easier to reason about whether or not you get, on average, $25 a month worth of value from a subscription to the New York Times than it is to try and guess whether someone's review of a vacuum you're considering is worth $2 to you or $0.37 or anything in between.

Or if the stakes are even lower and you're not avoiding a lemon of a vacuum, you're getting marginal improvement to an experience - what is it worth to read someone saying "don't go to Jim's Ale House when on vacation there, its fine but Jacks' is nearby and better"? Clearly that information has some value, but... how much? Whats the cost of a tip that helps turn a serviceable meal on a vacation into a better one?
I've not done it, so I don't know, but I suspect you can never fully get to "I completely regret what I did because it was wrong" without having somewhat of "I completely regret what I did because I got caught".

I do think we wants to discuss computer stuff; he seemed entirely unaware of SSDs and how that has (and should) change filesystems, and still thinks Slashdot is a place to post things.
The post linked in the article as "shouldn't use RSA" has a few examples: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/07/08/fuck-rsa/
> Here is a popular Instagram account where someone does exactly what you are saying is unreasonable: https://www.instagram.com/salvagetoscenic

Except they don't. First post shows them asking themselves if there's a more comfortable way, second post shows them installing a flat surface.

https://www.instagram.com/salvagetoscenic/reel/CyGu0vUuXsz/

https://www.instagram.com/salvagetoscenic/reel/CyWqTSSJV7U/
True, but for loads there is at least a theoretical way to avoid clobbers. For stores there is no way.

Stores: 1-2 superfluous results

Loads: 0-2 superfluous results
I've had really bad experiences with fat32 and xfat... back in the day it was pretty common to lose data due to hard drive or filesystem bullshit.

In any case, I was a technology journo at the time this happened, and I covered this story, but I don't recall encountering a lot of technical discussion... it seemed to be mostly "ew this guy murdered his wife". Which is entirely deserved. (If a little unfair to the creative work)

I wasn't much of a programmer yet so maybe I wasn't looking at the right discussions.
Open source text to speech has been really lagging, so I'm really happy there's another tool out there.
How we teach humans is irrelevant since human learning is a totally different process. I wish people would stop anthropomorphizing these.
FinTechs are where the money is!

Other job characteristics matter as well though.
This is one of the most moving things I've ever read on this site. Thanks for sharing your experience about a topic like this, where any discussion turns to the politics of the topic rather than the emotional impact it can have on real humans. Be well my friend, I'm sorry that you're having a hard time forgiving yourself.
it would be great if you could link it to rejection letters from past years and show where they are now? those posts exist out there right?
His letter contends that ReiserFS was intended to be more than just a filesystem, and that jibes with what he was saying about it at the time. I think that it was meant to be a queryable database that happened to be good at implementing traditional filesystem semantics, but also optimally useful through some other kind of API.
A project I did a couple years ago was to have an onboard SDR that communicates automatically with airplanes in the vicinity, or switching to manual where the drone operator can communicate as if they are “on-board” through the internet by a mic on ground. I can see something like this is doable, with a modified system to fit the length flight, after all, the position is fixed so I don’t think it would be a problem.
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> I am probably spending $200k / year in tax dollars to keep him locked up behind bars.

At most you are spending $200K divided by the total amount of tax levied multiplied by your share of that total. Probably less than $1.
I'd love to understand statements like this.

Lemme try:

Because trade deficits induce demand for dollars? Like how Japan and now China hold a bajillion US dollars? So if the US had (prolonged) trade surplus, no one would be holding dollars?

But wouldn't trade partners still need US dollars to buy US goods? Like the situation post-WWII?

So then we'd "loan" partners US dollars to buy our stuff?

Aiugh. My brain just broke.

How does a noob like me learn about these systems. I know it all probably makes sense to the learned. But with my folk (mis)understanding, these claims sound counterintuitive.

Thanks.
Data brokers get their information from all kinds of sources. There is no complete breakdown on where it all comes from in every instance that the data is used, part of the problem with surveillance capitalism is that there is zero transparency and near zero accountability, but yes, data brokers do collect your browsing history and that includes what ads you view/click

As for examples of that data being used "in reality, to actual people" you might find some good info in these links:

Employers and landlords using data brokers for hiring/rental decisions:

https://nypost.com/2022/12/20/how-employers-spy-on-your-sear...

https://privacy.com/blog/what-are-data-brokers

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2014/04/...

https://www.fastcompany.com/90269688/high-tech-redlining-ai-...

Health insurance companies:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/07/17/6294415...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-data-brokers-selling-your-p...

Police:

https://www.newamerica.org/oti/articles/how-data-brokers-and...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-tracked-his-bike...

https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2021-12-08-Legal-...

https://www.eff.org/pages/atlas-surveillance

Store prices, return policies, and hold times:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/mac-users-pa...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/business/secret-consumer-...

Keep in mind that this is a rapidly growing space.
Travel sites, retailers, even grocery stores have been looking into how to use this kind of data to set the prices of their goods on an individual basis to make sure that they can squeeze as much money out of you as possible. The main thing holding them back so far is that consumers view discriminatory pricing as unfair, but they've been working hard for a long time to change that view. If you happen to find a place that requires you to scan a QR code to see prices or get a menu, you might want to check with the people around you to make sure everyone is paying the same price.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41272-019-00224-3
It's a quote from comic: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...
It should be a requirement that companies include a good-faith estimate of actual economic damages in a DMCA, or an excellent reason why they cannot come up with such an estimate, and if there is a lawsuit stemming from this later be on the hook for those estimates actually being in good faith and not just "let's assume everyone in the country would have bought our dehumidifer if not for this GitHub repo existing ..."
I commuted once per month by train (meaning I took the train once per month to work in office for a week) and it was fine - most of the time wifi works and it’s reasonably comfortable.
It’s kinda bad if wifi doesn’t work and the train is super full.

Doing that twice every day would also be torture, spending 8 hours in the train daily.
I can’t fathom what would a human compel to do this.
> They don' build this, because, as many other commentors point out, the few people that would benefit from such a toggle, don't outweigh the amount of engagement, data, and usage it generates.

That makes no sense. Say I'm an open source project maintainer who doesn't want PR's in my repo. I have to continually log in to GitHub to check the PR tab and close all active PR's (or as others have pointed out, use a bot to do this, but that's beside the point: The discussion is about why this isn't a built-in feature.)

What value does Microsoft get out of the "data" generated by me having to continually log in and close PR's? "Yup, people who don't want PR's on github log in a lot to close them". Why is that valuable? We keep talking about engagement as a thing but nobody's explaining why it matters at all for MS. "Engaging" me by forcing me to open up the website to do mundane stuff doesn't move any of MS's needles. "Usage" goes up only because I have to keep doing this mundane shit.

Here's a VASTLY more likely reason why MS doesn't want to make it easy to disable PR's: Lock-in. Microsoft wants to encourage users to use GitHub for everything involved in software engineering, end-to-end. Because if you do so, leaving GitHub becomes a lot harder, because GitHub has your PR history, your issue history, and is hosting your wiki, etc etc. This is not the same thing as "engagement", it already has a term, and that term is "lock-in". (Apropos: I consider PR discussions to be indispensably valuable in finding out why some particular line of code looks like it does: Finding the PR that introduced it and looking at the discussion is a great way to find out the motivation of the original author.)

MS does not like users that purely use GitHub as a mirror and don't use any of the GH-specific features, because those users can trivially migrate their code to another hosting provider if MS ever decides to do something silly like charge them.

Engagement makes no sense whatsoever as a motivation to not let users disable PR's. Lock-in makes perfect sense.
MBA thinking ruins everything it touches. Boeing is another example. It's all about short-term profits over long term sustainability.
Which is why your test integration environment has to throw 429 and 5xx errors consistently from day one. The error handling paths are hard to retrofit but easy to do before deployment.
A few alternatives for micro donations that people have mentioned:

https://ko-fi.com/

https://github.com/sponsors

https://www.patreon.com/

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/

Any others, let me know
I’m referring to going for the most closely adjacent explanation, the mundane noun which represents something which tells something, like secrets. Since I apparently have to spell everything out.
Now someone has to test talc AI. I can do it.

Impressive demo and business idea, congrats, good luck!
Or 450 hours of breathing with polluted air stuck in an outdated underground train system - https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/london-underground-pollution
Thanks! What do you use? Are you happy with it?
First of all, LVT are designed to be replacement for property taxes, which already have the problem you describe.

Also, Terry isn't forced to sell to a rich person. He is a rich person. The type of people who like to live in hip neighborhoods tends to be recent graduates starting their high paying career. While they may have more income than Terry, Terry is significantly wealthier than most of them. If he really wants to stay on there, he can easily pay off any property/land taxes with the equity of his home.
Unless of course it prevented the draining of millions of gallons of freshwater.

No matter what there is some amount of mixing with the sea. The question is at which lock should that happen. Currently it's at lock 1, everyone here is arguing it'd be absolutely impossible for it to happen at any other lock, without providing any justification.
Sharing C code between Swift and Kotlin for iPhone and Android apps
> I stopped sending compromised key notifications to CAs. Instead, now I’m publishing the details of compromised certificates to everyone, so that users can protect themselves directly

If this is most feasible, ok, though it smells like the opposite of responsible disclosure. Perhaps I'm just not in tune with the nature of how this threat differs from a typical software vulnerability, and therefore the responsible disclosure method I'm familiar with is irrelevant.
At some point, the technical advancement rate of markets tops out and other nations then can catch up. Ford ultimately gave way to Toyota. Westinghouse to Panasonic.

The counter example is the semiconductor tool industry where the advancement of technical capability remains ahead of the rate other countries can catch up with them. Internal to the industry, the 'low-tech' machines are made by Japanese manufacturers: Track (TEL), Wet (Screen).

US/Europe (AMAT, LRCX, KLAC, ASML, ASMI) remain dominant in that capital equipment market.
Getting the extra reading time is nice, and if I didn't have a family I'd be all about that. But for me I get to spend mornings and evenings with my son, but if I had to commute half an hour then the morning would become just a rush to get him to daycare and the evening I might get to see him for a few minutes before he goes to bed. Sure the hour of reading would be nice but it would greatly diminish the quality time I'm able to spend with the little man.
A "higher bar" is basically "evidence against" because you're saying you need more evidence for.

Then again, everything I've read leads me to believe he's impulsive at times (even says so in the letter!) and the calculating part was afterwards not before or during (if it was, he was notoriously bad at it).
Everything is better analyzed in comparison. How much illegal activity has US Dollar enabled? How about Euro, Japanese Yen? I would like to see the comparative analysis first.
I’ve got my name on about a dozen US patents which translates into hundreds of worldwide patents. To me setting the minimum value at 0 seems arbitrary and almost certainly wrong.

From my experience what ends up happening is that every time a patent office comes back with some sort of response I end up having to stop doing productive work to deal with it while being paid my normal hourly rate. Plus lawyers etc. my best guess is that the net value of each of those patents is closer to -100k$ than it is to 0.
I wish if there’s an actual video of the whole system being operated and not just 3D renders, a lot of questions in mind about some details but probably most of them will be answered in such video.
I just compiled our oldest, largest micro service, it was 17 seconds. This is a full recompile, which I rarely need to do, because IntelliJ has incremental compilation. If you have a giant mono-repo, then compile time becomes important.

I can only guess what these "Scala experts" were doing, there are certain language features that can slow your compile times, and libraries like Shapeless that leverage those features in amazing ways, but can kill your compile times.

Scala is a toolkit that enables amazing things, but you have to understand the trade-offs, both in terms of compile time, and understandability of the code.

>In the real world, types have traits/interfaces/expected attributes etc. and type erasure prevents the compiler to verify this when using binary dependencies, which is obviously _not_ what one wants in a statically compiled language.

Scala has ways of recovering the information, such as using context-bounds and type manifests. Scala can actually verify an amazing amount of constraints at compile time, but the more exotic tricks will increase compile time.

What you are complaining about are foot-guns that rarely happen in my 20 years experience with JVM languages (I think generics were added in Java 5, but still...)