skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People like to snob Unix but the fact is: the world runs on Unix.

The world you are aware of runs on it.

> Can we really do that much better or is it just hubris?

Yes. Have a look at seL4[1] and Barrelfish too[2], even though that's no longer active. seL4 in particular is powering a lot of highly secure computing systems. There is a surprisingly large sphere outside of Unix/POSIX.

[1] https://sel4.systems/

[2] https://barrelfish.org/
Apparently all that's required to make recording a phone call legal is to play a 3 second recorded message saying "This call may be recorded for quality and training purposes" because that's what every corporation does. They don't ask, or verify consent. Why can't I do that on my phone? I will happily have my phone say "This call may be recorded" before every call I pick up, so that every call can be recorded.
Whether or not he always was, he certainly is now, and that makes him worthless as a source of information.
It's OK to expect higher standards from police officers. Cameras should record all day and officers should only be allowed to mark timestamps they wish to be deleted later. The footage should still be logged in a black box, encrypted with something to make it not easily accessible. That way a cop could "whoopsie" their camera before beating someone, but it would still ultimately be possible to get that recording.
While the impact on Jewish individuals was the same, it's true that Nazi style antisemitism focused on them as a racial group (Their ancestry), whereas previously they were targeted as a faith group (What they believed).

Your example of the Pale actually makes the point; Converting to Russian Orthodox actually released you from the rules imposed on Jews within the Pale. Conversion wouldn't save you from Nazis.
This is why punishment for any non-trivial corruption by officials should be a life sentence. So they would know, if they are caught, it will be maximum possible penalty. Because, unlike usual theft, embezzlement affects lives of many people.
WebAuthN is an excellent alternative to passwords, but a relatively poor access recovery mechanism, given that it just kicks the can down the road to another provider at best (usually Apple or Google), and to a single physical object that's easy to lose at worst.

I use it myself, but I do also understand companies and people that don't want to make it their only way back into their account as it is.
The severe bottleneck 800,000 years ago includes the ancestors of all modern Africans.
Thanks for that, I'll go do some reading.
https://archive.ph/onjY5
This was way better written than the expletive filled reply I had cooking in my head. I appreciate the history, and in reply to the other commentor, I DO condemn the whole institution, and anyone who participates in it. This isn't some job where you're tricked into doing heinous things to ordinary people, they choose to be that way & anyone working to further the goals of the organization is part of the problem.
Ah, no; this is historically completely inaccurate. Even as early as 1285, King Edward I put into law rules on the minimum number of officers (“constables”) per area.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constable
Multi person approval, especially two that don’t work together.
> Effectively (and sadly) open source is a resume building tool nowadays

Is that sad? Isn’t that a purely positive signal?
Exact analytical algorithm for solvent accessible surface area
In the end, Hitler basically stated the first axiom about Germany, so it really wasn’t a difference
Can't you link them to a specific frame? I used to use that feature all the time. Did they remove it?

https://forum.figma.com/t/link-to-selected-frame-should-be-r...
Presumably you could.
> What's the point of a citizen review board if the sheriff or chief appoints everyone on it?

I don’t know, but I know what the point of the law was.
US Regional Banks Dramatically Step Up Loans to Oil and Gas
The equivalent in America would be 1.68 trillion dollars, which is 70 million dollars shy of the total amount of outstanding student loan debt in America.

I feel like if you only polled people who owe more in student loan debt than they make in a year if they would push a button to allow the single person who stole 1.68 trillion dollars to be executed by the state in exchange for 96% of their student loan debt vanishing into thin air (but being 1/(number of agreeing people) responsible for her death) then chances are they're pushing that button.
> One of my favorite games for the NES was Ninja Gaiden.

> My kids helped design some of the characters, and they love to play it together, which makes it a lot of fun as a family.

> My family (my wife and 4 kids) loves hanging out with neighbors at Morrissey Park in Champaign. Champaign has great parks, and we’re fortunate enough to have a neighborhood community that regularly gets together at the park in the evenings. I also volunteer with my local church and am learning to ride the unicycle.

Dude has been winning at life nonstop.
That's a great observation. As you said, both started a little late, but at least they're doing it. Compare to nearby Cupertino which _still_ can't get anything built on a giant property right next to their 'downtown'.
> I never discovered any movie on IMDB. I go to IMDB to find trivia, cast or some other fact about a movie that I somehow already knew of.

Then you're clearly using IMDB wrong.

IMDB is owned by Amazon, therefore, their recommendation algorithms are quite good.

And like Amazon, if you create an account and feed it data about your preferences and wishlists, these recommendations get better over time.

I've discovered countless new movies and TV shows I wouldn't have discovered otherwise thanks to IMDB.
> all that's required to make recording a phone call legal is to play a 3 second recorded message

In some jurisdictions, all that is required is an audible beep (or even no notice at all). In others, full consent [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_call_recording_laws#...
The idea is that if you don't consent you hang up after hearing the message.

Funnily, the phrasing "may be recorded" is not interpreted by the corporations as "the customer may be recording as well" and in many cases their default policy is to not talk to you if you've declared you're recording. Single-party consent jurisdictions make it even more muddy.
ID REALLY should be paid for by taxes and 'free' for everyone obtaining their proof of identity. Now, a 'drivers' license might have an extra fee on top of that.

Maybe the free IDs could be issued by police departments? Either way this is a good time for someone to register as a voter too, WA state has a simple checkbox for that and other states can too.
Now imagine you have twins, or more. There is no buy-one-get-one-free on childcare, you're now down 100k a year.
> Single-party consent jurisdictions make it even more muddy

Don't they simplify it? You're on the call. If you consent to recording, you've given your single-party consent. You don't need to tell the company you're calling you're recording.
Yeah was just coming back to edit after reading up on it. A bottleneck from 100k to 1000 human ancestors ~800,000 years ago for ~100,000 years.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7487

"Population size history is essential for studying human evolution. However, ancient population size history during the Pleistocene is notoriously difficult to unravel. In this study, we developed a fast infinitesimal time coalescent process (FitCoal) to circumvent this difficulty and calculated the composite likelihood for present-day human genomic sequences of 3154 individuals. Results showed that human ancestors went through a severe population bottleneck with about 1280 breeding individuals between around 930,000 and 813,000 years ago. The bottleneck lasted for about 117,000 years and brought human ancestors close to extinction. This bottleneck is congruent with a substantial chronological gap in the available African and Eurasian fossil record. Our results provide new insights into our ancestry and suggest a coincident speciation event."
This is indeed the elephant in the room with WebAuthN.

There needs to be a way to e.g. share the secret seed in one passkey securely with another and put that in a safe deposit box, with a friend etc. without needing access to both keys whenever a new account is added.

It's a real shame that most stakeholders in FIDO/WebAuthN have moved on to passkeys as the canonical path forward over hardware-based solutions like this. Passkeys are definitely better than passwords, but they shouldn't be the only option out there as-is.
I suppose it's a matter of opinion. I would not have guessed that your list of US states governed “to spec” would include Idaho and Montana (weaker municipalities? Not sure), but not Massachusetts or Rhode Island (New England towns).

I'd only reiterate that if the question is whether there can be high-trust societies with a lot of local self-governance, that also have a lot of immigration, then Massachusetts proves that the answer is yes.
I actually was using a cheap Samsung phone( with a jack ) for a good while, but it lacked Esim.

I suspect at the lower end most people aren't buying 100$ earbuds so they might as well leave the jack.
Ah yes, that was lambdafu
There's an alternative as unfortunate as it may be of: how many years does each war move us forward. Or how many years behind would we be without the war having occurred.
Renaming the files fixes it, you can run them as usual.
Originally designed for calling it on your landline or flip phone to concretize the experience of the time.
If the law forbids you from approaching, staying where you are would be fine wouldn't it?
> Would be bad if every time a police officer tries to stop a crime, suddenly 20 hard of hearing people need to crowd around him really close in order to record him

It would. Do we have credible examples? Because we have a lot of evidence of cops lying, and only being caught on account of recordings, with disastrous effects. If one side is hypothetical and the other substantiated, it strikes me as reasonable to favour one over the other.
Neat. I "see" a 3D twisting oscillating when actively listening to music and I'm also musically inclined.
The problem with this, I suppose, must be the power plant needed to produce the electric power needed to drive the fusor. My guess is that for a deep space ship one would need a propellant-cooled fission reactor, while for a thruster for orbit management a solar/battery/capacitor system might suffice (but with very short run times).

For a deep space system there would be challenges. Shutting down the fission reactor would require continuing to use propellant as coolant long after the fusor stops working -that or a massive radiator-, and either way the net ISP would be driven down. And then the fission reactor would have to stay shut down for quite some time. Though if you jettison the fission reactor when propellant runs out then there are no such problems!

For orbit management thrusting though this might yield a very weight-efficient system!
We don’t really understand why anesthesia works, but I’m still going to opt for it if I have surgery.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theories_of_general_anaesthe...
Yeah, I'm explicitly not calling for the return to night watches. I'm saying it should be possible to imagine societies without uniformed police forces, because we've had many models for justice without them in the past. We could, with some effort, imagine something better.
> we have a chronic shortage of doctors – and nurses – in our health system

Just imagine how bad it's going to be once the "you're set for life if you go to medical school" meme dies. It's still very much alive here in Brazil but people are already being forcibly woken up to face reality before they've even graduated. Won't be long before the new generation of students realizes that medical school is a bad choice.

The bitter truth is nobody is really going to put the "care" in health care if they're not getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it. Would you really want to slave your life away in some hospital for shitty pay? I mean that literally, medical residency is analogous to indentured servitude. Would you want to spend the best decade of your youth studying and training and working 14 hours a day only to end up poor? I've seen doctors actually kill themselves over lesser failures than that.

Very few people are that selfless and altruistic, even those who affect such a demeanor in public are likely secretly hoping it will come back to them in some way in the future. They will be bitterly disappointed when it doesn't. Even fewer are rich enough that they can sustain such caring activities out of love. Those who try discover that they are just individuals, that they don't scale, they don't form a health care system. They don't make much difference in the grand scheme of things.

Today I saw an interesting post from an older doctor. He just straight up quit medicine. Took his money, bought a bunch of trucks and now he's managing a logistics company and making several times as much money as he used to while caring for people. This is an older doctor who reaped the profits of the golden age, he had the capital to create his business. New doctors arrive at the market with 100kUSD+ debt only to find that they get paid about 10 dollars a consult if they're lucky. The only winners here are the owners of the medical schools.
I'm actually really glad you wrote that comment because I've been writing my blog in markdown for years and I had no idea you could collapse headings
This used to be Twitter :( I had so many peers I worked with on different projects over more than a decade. Entire community just destroyed by musks takeover.
Yeah in theory if my average tenure has been 1-2 years, I should be desirable because I won't stay long enough to want a raise or try to take any leadership roles from anyone. I'm basically a contractor but without the higher pay.
No one would dispute that hatred towards Jews existed for 1000s of years, but I think you're mincing words here and being somewhat uncharitable. The kind of anti-Semitism that was based on an innate racial inferiority rather than based on religion and culture was very much a 19th century development and it was that specific form of hatred towards Jews that was widespread across Europe and America rather than an opposition towards Jewish customs and beliefs.

Indeed the term "anti-Semitism" was coined to reflect the shift in hatred towards Jews from one rooted in culture and religion to one root in race. The very fact that you acknowledge that pogroms prior to the 19th century were not based on race suggests that if you had just taken the time to actually understand what was being said you could have avoided your confusion.
Almost everybody supporting 2FA has this security flaw today.

The number of sites that actually let me never provide a phone number, or at least not have it be a recovery method, is tiny.

Even things like a simple time lock (e.g. SMS-OTP "2"FA recovery only being possible after 24 hours, combined with sending a blast of "careful, your account is about to be recovered by somebody that might not be you" and a way to stop that for the legitimate accountholder, would go a long way.
They must be getting heat from the fusion process, thus increasing ISP. Nothing else would make sense here.
The world wars advanced science and engineering enormously. Aeronautic, nuclear, medical, radio, computer, mass production, logistical, and space technologies were all powerfully driven by wartime demands. Innovation might have been pushed by capital and human needs, but I would think it would probably look very different than it does today.
License revocation for making a mistake is exceedingly rare.
Laser handguns are probably never going to be a thing. How many places are there on a human body where a cauterized hole a few mm across will kill or incapacitate someone? How likely is someone going to be to hit those places accurately with a pistol?

There are some interesting niche uses for laser sniper carbines[1], IMO, like punching holes in a gas tank and igniting the vapour, burning out security camera sensors, cutting power/communications lines, starting fires inside distant buildings by firing through windows, etc., but I think most useful laser weapons will be mounted and computer-controlled so that they can track moving targets long enough to do meaningful damage.

[1] It's not a rifle if the bore is smooth.
Make the caregiver's pay rise the longer they work. Take a rising chunk of that extra pay out of the management's pay, right to the top to help incentivize them. As the rate's rise, rise them higher for the higher-level managers.

Direct Supervisor of 10 staff. Ward supervisor of 50 staff. Hospital manager of, say, 500 staff.

An extra 1-2 hours, +5% pay/hr, manager -1%/10, ward -1%/50, hosp man -1%/500
2nd extra 1-2 hours, +10% pay/hr, manager -2%/10, ward -3%/50, hosp man -5%/500
3rd extra 1-2 hours, +20% pay/hr, manager -5%/10, ward -10%/50, hosp man -20%/500
4th extra 1-2 hours, +35% pay/hr, manager -10%/10, ward -20%/50, hosp man -40%/500
...

While this allows a few overworked people without hurting management much, if it's widespread, it hurts management a lot, especially at the top. You may choose to introduce a cut-off where management starts getting hit hard, without the staff divisor, to really disincentivize working anyone longer than that cutoff point.
I kinda like the idea of robotaxis. They could be cheaper than normal ones, and you wouldn't have any worry about maintenance, parking or even going back to where you left your car.

I live in a busy city and i dont even know where I'd leave a car if I had one. I often take taxis and this might make them even more viable.
If you know of a way to export a passkey from iCloud Keychain to a non-Apple device, please do share it!

Otherwise I'd call that lock-in as well.
IDs are used for many things other than driving, like:

(1) buying alcohol / entering bars

(2) flying

(3) voting (in certain states)

(4) a doctor's appointment

(5) picking up a prescription

(6) withdrawing cash at a bank

(7) touring an apartment you might lease (for the leasing agents' safety)

(8) returning items at a store if you don't have a receipt (as an anti-fraud measure)
This talks about a lot of problems, but I have a hard time gleaning any wisdom from it aside from "Computers bad, tech companies like money".

If the epistemology they're using isn't good, I don't see any real suggestion on what we should be using. What can we learn from the fields of Media Studies and Art History that can help us make better city planning decisions?

It also commits the sin of criticizing some nebulous other, an unclear amorphous cloud of tech-bros, capitalism, and other symbols for things people just don't like. Is the app that tells me if the bus is running late not an example or these connected cities? Traffic lights that adapt to traffic flows? Are we not building a smart city with every connected bus, every car-detecting traffic light, every pedestrian crossing with a button?

This article doesn't clearly point at a problem, or clearly impart any lessons that I can learn. It just vaguely points in the direction of companies and people the author doesn't like.
heck there are probably humans who can sight read ROT13
Related:

Python is Actually Portable - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32245430 - July 2022 (120 comments)
I keep it in case I'm in an area that doesn't have data.
> I’m not convinced that healthcare really counts as being downstream from housing.

Yes, agreed, that's what I meant by "Healthcare (in the US at least) is a whole separate horrible mess."
I was over employed in '21 and 22. First 2 then 3 jobs. Then got laid off from all 3 before '23. Make hay while the sun shines
That's precisely what happens with SIMs in India. When a SIM swap happens, text messages are blocked for 24 hours to allow a customer to alert the operator before one time codes resume sending to the new SIM
They are using Coulomb forces to produce fusion. That's what a Fansworth-Hirsch fusor does, as well as a line of related fusors like the Polywell which I'm guessing will never produce net energy. For this application net energy is not necessary, just enough additional heating to get enough additional ISP to increase the amount of delta-v per-kg of propellant -- the additional weight of the power plant and fusor must not make this so inefficient/expensive as to lose that ISP advantage.
> I'm not seeing where they state whether it achieves any significant improvement in performance over existing cyclorotor designs like Voith Schneider

Traditional V-S loses a tonne of efficiency in the gearbox. It's less efficient than conventional shaftline. So if this is more efficient than the latter, it stands that it's moreso than the former. (Agree that I'd like more technical details.)
Constables are not the same as "uniformed police forces". Constables and shire reeves (from which we derive the word sheriff) did predate uniformed police forces, but they generally operated on the "I'm the local law, and if necessary I can draw on local posses to enforce my law". A constable with the power to draw men into his service temporarily is not the same as "these hundred men are full time employed as police officers as their job".

The men hired by constables were typically not uniformed, full time workers, but temporary muscle.

The first, iirc, police force was in Glasgow in 1800 with London following in the 1820s.
WinCryptSSHAgent is a alternative
>> I refuse to buy a Tesla

> assuming Musk is the problem

The answer, of course, is "all of the above".

Yes, Tesla is subject to the same forces as other car companies.

On top of that, some percentage of potential customers refuse to buy Teslas because Musk personally tainted the brand.

And that second factor could easily explain the difference between a 5% drop in shipments and their actual 13% drop YoY.
This seems like a very sensible (and common) UI paradigm for mapping applications with a variable area of concern.

Deep Zoom was pretty revolutionary for its time, but these days we just take it for granted in Google Earth/Maps, being able to zoom all the way from space into street view, seamlessly, with raster and vector tiles effortlessly combined and streamed. It's really pretty amazing if you think about it, IMO.

It's pretty common in variable-scale video games, too. Like Dyson Sphere Project, where you can zoom out from the ground level view of buildings to a solar system and star clusters to a galaxy: https://youtu.be/kNmZTISiH40?si=TfvRoRjHMLSWHF4X&t=36 (because you eventually need to collect and transport resources between star systems)
definitely shift off google for your email. either shift off google for your documents, or at least have regular backups.
HN search (in the page footer) uses the great service at https://hn.algolia.com, which will return those results, and more, indexing post titles, comments, and other categories for search.

Though I imagine he has a script for this use case though.

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You don't but if you do they'll hang up. The whole "the call may be recorded, but only by us" is rather idiotic still.