skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run a small machine shop, and while I agree that you're opinion is closer to reality it's absolutely not out of the ordinary for a precision metalworking lathe to fail entirely and be dead weight until repair; it's not all gracefully easing into imprecision.

Older lathes, for example, love to put the AC motor under something that either accumulates or produces chips; you can see why this might be a problem over time. It's not out of the ordinary to require motor re-winds.
The root of this problem is vice law

Criminalising life style choice is evil
Wait, they suggest saving photos of the QR codes of your TOTP secrets? That seems to weaken the concept by making it easy for an attacker 1) to identify secrets and the sites they’re associated with, and 2) to retrieve them (in plaintext, no less) with no more than access to a device’s photo roll.

I thought the idea was that we’d write the secret once to an arbitrary number of primary and backup devices, then destroy it so it can’t be stolen as easily. Although I guess password managers save TOTP secrets alongside the password factor these days too.

Does the “the secret itself is not phishable” aspect of TOTP just not actually matter in practice as much as the rapid expiration and frustrating replay attacks / on-the-wire sort of secret interception?
At the risk of asking a dumb question, what does a git push do for you there? (Fully agree on the clone locally point.)
Well, that doesn't really help, because Wikipedia says

> A land value tax (LVT) is a levy on the value of land without regard to buildings, personal property and other improvements upon it.

In my mind, the value of the land without regard to buildings, etc, is what you would pay for an empty lot. But you said the value is what you would pay for the lot with improvements. Theoretically, real estate property taxes I've paid have been divided into the land value and the improvements value (although it's mostly conjecture; the total value is all that matters and that generally approximates market value of the lot with the improvements, at least in CA and WA, where I've paid property taxes; although CA has Prop 13 that distorts assessments over time). Washington even states the land portion is assessed based on the best use, not the current use, unless it's in some special categories like farm, forestry, and open space.

Now I'm even more confused. Which speaks to the GP's confusion.

> I have yet to understand why people have made land value tax a thing.

If the whole concept is so confusing, starting with the name, it's no wonder advocacy isn't effective.
No, that's entirely Europe. The outcome of the legislation was easy for anyone to see. As you say, it was blinkered and short-sighted. And I still have to click 20 popups away on mobile every day.

If only a few websites had the banner, then maybe I'd blame those websites. But when they virtually all do, I blame the law.
1) the saleswoman did not make any sales during her trial period, so she is justifiable fired.

2) what she did, recording the meeting without the other part knowladgement is borderline (if not totally) illegal.

3) Her actitude was condescending and snobby. Thing that probably justify her situation.

4) Uploading this to TikTok is completely unappropriated, and probable professional suicide.

5) The way the company assigned a random person to fire her over zoom is definitely not nice, her manager should have done that. Also it looks like the way this company works and she know that during the period she also remotely worked for them.
I worked at my fathers machine shop (which was a subsidiary of New Britain Machine Company) a couple of summers when I was in high school in the mid 70's. It was quite an experience and the employees were some of the crustiest characters I've ever met. The second summer, I worked with this guy named Ray on a huge machine that made the heads to ratchet wrenches (the square part with the little ball). He was one of these guys that was continuously pissed off. A man's man probably only 35, but looked 45 and smoked Camel unfiltered cigarettes. But the thing I remember most about him was that he could swear for a minute straight and never use the same word twice. For example, he called the machine "The Afterbirth". I'll never forget that man.
>If anything, in states where delta-9 THC is illegal, a bag of marijuana flower is far more likely to be one of these legal versions

You don't actually believe this, do you? Marijuana is incredibly abundant everywhere I've ever been, legal or not.

I'm Canadian, weed is legal here. I think it's insane people can get locked up for it. I toke on occasion myself. But if you get pulled over by the police and your car smells like dope, I'm a-ok with that being the bar of suspicion for a DUI. If you're the 1 in 1000 smoking pure CBD, I suppose you have nothing to worry about.
NHS is approximately a monopsony, which probably has some advantages for price negotiation.
We gave up the low intelligence blue collar manufacturing jobs so city dwellers can obtain highly specialized and skilled expensive college degrees to do important work on global problems in matter like, making and editing excel spreadsheets, writing emails, and sitting in on web meetings.

I am writing this while drinking an 8$ caramel latte from Starbucks with a slice of avocado toast for 17.99$.
> I love you all. Hug your kids if you have em.

Hi larsiusprime, thank you for sharing. Right back at you.

My brain has been turning your words over and over this morning, trying to make sense of them. Trying to understand how I feel about them. I still don't know how to feel about them, but I really connect with the humanity of your story.

Four Magic Words was brilliant, I'm sure that story will sit with me for years.
Don't ask me to explain the mindset of your average "tool runner" cybersecurity person.

I've long advocated a local HTTP interface for our products, but usually a losing battle.
Yeah, I'm a huge Rust fan, but some of the decisions they've been making with the newer RFCs, especially around things like convenience syntax, and the fact that they now have async/await and neutered coroutines, instead of having proper coroutines capable of doing both ala Kotlin, among other things, seem really iffy to me. I'm afraid it'll turn into Scala or something soon, with a huge bag of redundant or partially overlapping features.
I don't have strong feelings about general internet access, but right now, I am probably spending $200k / year in tax dollars to keep him locked up behind bars. I'd be getting my money's worth.

I would much rather he be contributing to free software from behind bars. That's true more generally too. A plumber behind bars should be allowed to plumb. A carpenter to carpent.

Why shouldn't people in prison contribute back, if willing and able?
Show HN: CNC mill for under $500 by converting a Proxxon with 3D printed parts
Social networks and marketplaces are the hardest things to get going
There's been a recent video by the German "Sendung mit der Maus" (basically how does stuff work for little children) about these kind of generators. I did not double check if the company in the video is the German one mentioned in the article, but chances are high. Video and subs are in German only, but it's less than 10 minutes and one can see a little how it works.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aqfFZDWiJOI
>(for whatever reason we seem to attract fire alarms while on family holidays)

Took a while to learn to "check your exit routes", then?
Or, ignoring any snark, you've learned a lot since "Glasgow (Scotland) last [S]ummer"?
I always hear this caveat, and I'm sure you're right, but I'm curious about the threat model here. If I roll my own RSA using e.g. GMP[1], what would it take to find vulnerabilities? Is there some automated software that could do it automatically for free/cheap, or would it take the resources of a highly specialized org?

[1] https://gmplib.org
FUD of what? That some rich fool out there is double spending, and you of all people would be the counterparty?
I don't know the big companies. But a lot of smaller firms I used to install software systems own their own buildings (basically, a big residential house or a small warehouse). The company owner owns the building, the actual company leases the building to the owner.
The concentration of power and wealth dis-incentives competition in the market.
Curious, do you still have your NFC implant?
> QAnon

I have never heard of, seen or even got wind of a "QAnon" member, group, theory, website or whatever they say it is outside of mainstream news. According to them it's some huge group of evil people but I can't tell myself that they're a real thing. If anyone has any real world, personal experience I would love to hear it.
Security via obscurity and "closed loop" tends to be the answer, plus whatever doesn't show up on a scan tool.

Thankfully we have a (fairly) accessible API to the cloud side.

TBD on what (if anything) matter will change.
On another side note: I have been running an interesting link recommendation feed for many years now, and evidently in ~2018 someone curating links for Digg found my feed and started relying on it heavily to populate Digg's front page. It went on for months. Some days as much as half of the links I posted would subsequently show up on Digg, including links to unusual and old content (which was a strong signal that the overlap was no mere coincidence).

In 2019 Digg posted a job listing for a links curator, and I cheekily applied, noting that I'm already doing the job anyway, so they might as well pay me for it. They didn't take me up on it, but like magic, the poaching went away.
SoCalGas billed customers millions to fight clean energy. This bill could stop
A state senator introduced a bill Wednesday to strengthen laws that prevent energy utilities in California from passing on the costs of political lobbying to their customers.
Exactly, that's why calling this concept nonsense is so weird. It might be a tiny bit counterintuitive at first glance, but there's plenty of examples of it all around.
Hans Reiser on ReiserFS Deprecation
Why would you choose to write something here with a snarky attitude like that?

There's a reasoned discussion to be had around fire safety regulations, but when you instantly make it about cultures and don't even try to understand, you're not being part of the solution -- you're part of the problem.
In my entire career of programming, “excessive comments” have NEVER been a problem. On the other hand…
Noup. Only a moron would hire this person.

1) in the video is clear she was not a closer, so bad saleswoman.

2) posting the video with your face and name exposed?!?! Unless all this is fake, she is done.
But in the BFF case, you would basically have an intermediary function Bn for every caller n.

What you’re describing is more like an API gateway.
Double loaded corridors fundamentally change the composition of buildings. If you look at example floorplans, single staircase buildings typically feature 2-3 bedroom apartments, because giving every bedroom a window is easier, while double loaded corridors end up mostly with deep studios and 1-beds.

Building new housing in the US is not cheap, and reducing the leasable or buyable square footage by 10% can move projects from being profitable to build to not. Especially when the quality of the remaining square footage goes down (as it does when you have 30’ deep units with only one wall with windows).
Man on mission to save the homeless says 'found 27 dead so far' [video]
Nice writeup, and the point (RSA is very simple, until you actually to need it securely!) is conveyed well.

One thing of note: BB98 essentially springs eternal; a new way to find the single bit of oracle state needed for it is discovered every few years. See ROBOT[1] (2018) and this year's Marvin[2].

[1]: https://robotattack.org/

[2]: https://people.redhat.com/~hkario/marvin/
Apparently it's a moderately common enough phenomena that cops intentionally keep aspects of a murder scene out of news and reports, so that they can check if someone knows them or not. People are sick enough for fame that they'll murder, and being sick enough for fame to confess to someone else's murder isn't nearly as bad.
I may have browsed this for 2 hours during a meeting this morning. I also may have added 20 new books to my wishlist
Sounds like they're working as intended.
I really appreciate this angle, but I have a few counter-arguments:

- The ongoing replication crisis has shown that experts and entire areas of study can be completely wrong for a long periods of time. People are rightfully distrustful when economists put out a "model", so it shouldn't be so crazy to expect natural skepticism elsewhere.( I don't think that applies to climate change - you should be able to look with your own eyes and see that it's real. )

- There are actually several distinct arguments people have to accept for climate change: 1) It's really happening 2) It's caused by greenhouse gases 3) It's man-made 4) There are bad consequences 5) There are achievable solutions. People are often expected to "buy in" to all of these arguments at once, but some experts do not even buy into all 5!

- At this cultural moment, facts do not matter. Or they only matter when "our side" wants them to. This is true for climate, but it's also true for other topics like gender, diet, economics, guns, nuclear power, etc. There are a lot of areas where people willfully ignore or set aside "facts". So it should be no surprise this one gets treated the same way.

I myself do not live my life according to the best paid experts - I drink, I eat red meat, I listen to music too loud, I stay up to late. So I will act with a touch of grace when other people don't listen either.
I have a public transit commute, but at the end of the day it's 8 minutes of walking to the train, a transfer after 7 minutes, and then a 7 minute walk to the office from the train. Never enough unbroken time to get into a book :(. I've learned something new about public transit commuting--look for a commute with as long a single stint on the train as possible, while still trying to minimize total time.
> The whole field has been referred to as AI for decades

Yea, everyone else has been laughing at you for this the whole time. It's a dumb term for anything but encouraging rubes to fork over cash for stuff that looks like magic.

> Referring to the things used here as AI is entirely consistent with how I've seen the term used dating back beyond when people would ask me if AI was to do with aliens. Simpler things have been called AI in the public sphere too, so it's not a new thing being sprung on people.

Maybe you should consider communicating more directly and effectively.

> I don't think people have generally been confused by a camera that says it has AI thinking it's sentient.

You should talk to more people. This is 100% a problem.
Not the GP but at that point it's available and more discoverable for at least a little while longer for others (and no guarantee you'd get hit with a takedown as well).
Why did software design get boring?
Isn't that the same situation whether there's a single staircase, staircase + fire escape or two staircases?
The French reduced costs by having a few designs rather than many as in the US.
Arm’s teams work at the same time. One does a longer term design while the other is shipping.
FWIW this is highly related to what I think of as the "narrow waist" architectural principle. You may like these articles I wrote:

The Internet Was Designed With a Narrow Waist - https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/02/diagrams.html

The Internet has huge utility because TCP/IP is a narrow waist. It has architectural connections to Ethernet/wireless/... on one end, and HTTP/BitTorrent/... on the other.

For the most functionality, you want fewer code components, and more interoperability. You want O(M + N) pieces of code to give O(M * N) functionality.

The narrow waist architecture does that -- it gives O(M * N) connections to O(M + N) amounts of code.

You don't want to write O(M * N) code, though many people and systems are stuck there!

This generally works the best when the connections are data-oriented and protocol-oriented, not oriented around source code.

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A Sketch of the Biggest Idea in Software Architecture - https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/03/backlog-arch.html

I mention Metcalfe's law, which is related but distinct. Metcalfe's law is about O(N^2) network node connections ("dynamically"), while the (usually) O(M * N) narrow waist is about system architecture ("statically").

They both produce network effects! If the Internet already exists, then the easiest design to implement is to attach your new network to it (e.g. a network in space), not create a new, incompatible network.

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Incidentally, this seems like what's wrong with the Kubernetes ecosystem -- it has an combinatorial explosion of code due to lack of protocols and interoperability.

It's not data-oriented, like Unix is.

(An important point is that lots of people complain about Unix-style unstructured byte streams because it's suboptimal LOCALLY, while missing the global interoperability / scale / system economy issues -- they get stuck writing O(M * N) code to avoid parsing and serializing )

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Newer article from last year - Oils Is Exterior-First (Code, Text, and Structured Data) - https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2023/06/ysh-design.html

Software modularity within a process is much different than modularity between processes -- it's a bit more like networking.

You need an exterior narrow waist. To pick an example, a consequence of that is that encodings like UTF-16 don't make sense in any channels where you don't have metadata, and there are a lot of those

e.g. the URL comes BEFORE the Content-Type header in HTTP!
I think yellowsir actually has a point, and I'm the one they responded to. For search I think Google should care, as their users will eventually leave if they can't find reliable information. YouTube on the other hand... I don't see any business reason for them to care about content quality or authenticity - they make money from every video people watch.

To my first point, I don't know how any Google competitor is going to provide more reliable information until the root problem of authenticating sources is solved. So maybe there is really no reason for them to care after all.
Seems like the fix for that problem is a cap for annual payouts instead of torpedoing the whole program? Though I would think for a lot of people who might be able to contribute to only one or two per year (and still do their dayjob) the $1200 would be pretty underwhelming.
Coincidentally, physicist Sabine Hossenfelder published on YT just hours ago about a new treatment - "proton flashes".

> one of the most common ways to treat cancer is radiation therapy with x-rays ... You can use these highly energetic photons to kill off cancer cells. The difficulty really is ... killing the cancer cells without killing the patient - but the problem with using x-rays is that you can't shoot them at tumors inside the body without also burning some of the tissue on the way to the tumor and behind it... But you can use beams of other particles instead and this is where particle physics enters ... A beam of protons is far less likely to interact with tissue on short distances

And it is still part of the "kinder" set (protons are "kinder" than x-rays).

New Cancer Treatment With Proton Flashes Goes on Trial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K515uMQQzV4
Sabre Notes is aiming to get there sooner rather than later. incredible progress last year from basically nothing https://github.com/saber-notes/saber
Goodness and evilness predates Christianity by millenia. Read about Mesopotamian religions, or the Hindic ones.
Boston hospital to use piloted drones for medicine delivery
A family member has had immunotherapy on the NHS and it was disclosed to them (not sure how reliable or accurate this is) that a single dose cost the NHS 4 figures. It needed several layers of approval for it to be administered.
>The company is morally corrupt.

haas has been morally corrupt for some time.

they're essentially the 'john deere' of machining, they sell under-performing over-priced crap that only they can sell parts for or maintain, which is convenient for them because they produce machines that have some of the highest downtime in the entire industry due to lack of repair facilities/parts/availability as well as overwhelming small quality control problems.
It's a shortcoming in MRISC32 too.

Unlike RISC-V, MRISC32 has a madd-instruction (integer multiply+add), which is helpful in multi-precision multiplication, but there is little help in terms of carry addition arithmetic. Together with the very verbose function prologue/epilogue (explicit stores and loads from the stack, just like RISC-V, except without the "compression trick"), this is one of the main pain points of the ISA (although I don't have extensive experience with where this really matters - except obviously for 64-bit arithmetic on a 32-bit architecture, which will be less of a problem in MRISC64).

I have a couple of ideas that I intend to explore in the future. One idea that I like, but that would be a slight paradigm shift for the ISA, is the "instruction decorators" that Mitch Alsup has developed for his My 66000 ISA: You can prefix a series of instructions with a "CARRY" meta-instruction, that basically tells the CPU that "for the N following instructions, propagate a carry via register Rx" (or something similar), effectively turning 2-in-1-out instructions into 3-in-2-out instructions. It's more of an encoding trick, and works with more instructions than just "ADD".

The tricky parts (i.e. that modifies the architecture) would be 1) instructions can have two results, and 2) the decoration instruction adds state to the decoder that must be carried over during exceptions and similar. The latter may be possible to dodge, though, if certain restrictions are put in place (e.g. no exceptions, branches, speculation or anything similar can happen during a "decorated bunch").
Our inputs to agriculture (lots and lots of fossil fuels) are not post-scarcity in any sense.

Yes, but our levels of productivity per-farmer would look like utter Sci-fi to a medieval peasant, if they had a notion of Sci-fi.

Also, by these standards, 1st world societies are fantasy lands, where the even the poor are fat, and have magical machines to keep food fresh, deliver music and entertainment, wash clothes and dishes. (Not all, but still.)

What we posit today as post-scarcity, will likely just move the goal posts for scarcity.
Police success rates on completely random murders are insanely low partially because they're insanely rare.

Complete success is something like 50% overall, but in general in many of those cases that "aren't solved" they know who did it, they also know they can't prove it.
That's besides the point, the question is whether you still think of her and refer to her as 'your wife'. And then extrapolate to the - obviously hypothetical - situation in which you murdered your soon-to-be-ex-wife and still refer to her as 'my wife' many years later. It's bizarre that this needs to be spelled out. This isn't a legal issue, it's a bit of insight in how Reiser feels about the person he murdered.
Low-Code Startup or Fintech?
Should I continue working as a developer at low-code startup or accept the offer from a payment gateway company?
Random nerds on the internet with little more training than a few of the cryptopals exercises will likely find gaping, game-over vulnerabilities in an RSA implementation you threw together with an arbitrary precision maths library.