skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PBR textures don't include just the usual colored images, but also other surface properties that influence how specific surfaces interact with light. Like roughness, glossiness, elevation (surface normal vectors), whether the surface is a metal, whether it has specular highlights, whether it appears fuzzy, whether it is partly translucent (like skin) and so on. The combination of such textures is called a (PBR) "material".

It's called "physically based" because there exist simple physics formulas for these properties, so it luckily isn't necessary to simulate the all microphysical details that cause them in real objects. Similar to how one can describe a gas with a few parameters from thermodynamics without considering the molecular details that explain those phenomena.

In old 3D renders everything looked like plastic because they had only very primitive surface properties.
As much as I can see why the company making these homes would not want to cover up the unique texture of the walls, I feel it somewhat hurts the appeal. If they put the extra effort into adding some drywall and making it virtually indistinguishable from other homes, everyone would likely focus on the time and cost savings.

All I can think of looking at those pictures is how ugly it looks.
You're not even _curious_? That's sad.
What about the plumbing and electrical?
Yep, this is why I don't use passkeys.

I tried. The power-grabbing garbage was immediately apparent and sent me straight for "heck no, I'll just use passwords until they figure this out, at least that can't control my password manager".

In principle I should be very in favor of them, but the wild variety of lack of support for basics, and the built-in-the-spec ability for site X to control how I store and sync stuff is utterly bonkers. It's feeling like the OpenID promise -> OAuth platform lock-in cycle all over again, but compressed into v1.
I've only had the full USB-A style ones. Every device I've had that I've needed a yubikey with has either a USB-A or supported NFC. The >1 decade device is a Yubikey NEO, I recently got a Yubikey 5 USB-A variant and also have one of those FIDO-only blue Security keys in USB-A.

What kind of failures did you have for the nanos? They just became unresponsive? Did they suffer any obvious physical failure or any particular kind of event cause their failure?
There are plenty of things that people can and do in private industry that are significantly more harmful than making some incremental improvement in a weapons platform.
They’re basically an advanced username/password that’s automatically generated by your device. I believe one of the benefits is they require an encryption component that is known only by the devices that you own. This is better than a password that’s stored on a server and can be lost.
Okay, but that actively works against their interest. There are a decent number of brands that are very much in my brain... wrapped in enough loathing to ensure that I avoid them every time.
Correct, there was an open letter [1].

And to clarify above, there was no "contributors of this company" dynamic to the outrage.

"jobs" are things which come and go, not a lot of people are will to burn their personal image for a [potentially] uncaring company. And I'm certainly not one of them either.

[1]: https://nixos-users-against-mic-sponsorship.github.io/
Maybe all these years of staring into the uncaring blackness of my terminal has damaged my brain, but there are some real gems in "Tales from the TinkerPop."

"Grasily had been stationed at vertex v[32] for as long as he could remember. ... Grasily's commanding officer was org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.process.traversal.Traverser@76a36b71"

"The famous mystic traverser Gri Gurobindo (ग्री गुरोबिंदो) once said:

My single step in the graph is composed of the steps of numerous other traversers."

Our computers are at least 10,000 times faster than decades ago. Yet, are we having 10,000 times the fun?
What if you wanted to create audio for your videos without having to have a recording session.
> Feldman, a former teacher and principal with degrees from Stanford, NYU, and Harvard, is part of an army of educational consultants who charge as much as $10,000 per day.

I think this is the real reason more than some passion for the particular topic. The topic gets news and drives book sales and consulting gigs.
The unprompted part, that's the important bit. If you find out you were wrong in with previous recommendation or advice or just basic info, let me know. Email, text, whatever. I don't think there's enough AI agent ecosystem to support that yet.
Or I'm on a three-lane highway...
That's clearly insufficient (this doesn't want to be an attack). Sadly even the best intended developer can get their machine corrupted and as a consequence poison huge chains, unfortunately.

It's more like a "hope to" than an actual solution
@dang can you unflag this? There’s more to the story and a think it’s suspicious its getting flagged.
Or I'm on a three land highway...
NASA's Orca, AirHARP Projects Paved Way for Pace to Reach Space
I can imagine it wouldn't be to everyone's tastes, but I actually find the end results, especially the interior shots, quite pretty. A little like being wrapped in burlap or sisal twine. I almost expect it to be fibrous to the touch.

I like that the layers remain as evidence of its construction technique, much like the exposed beam ends on the outside of adobe houses, or the 2x4 board impressions left on the outside of some concrete facades.
I did read your comment but I don’t really understand what you mean by “the memory system”. A linear bounded automaton is by definition a finite state machine for a given input (i.e. fixed tape size) because the number of possible configurations is finite. A Turing machine’s infinite tape is what stops it being a finite state machine.
Jira can be pretty agile and minimal if you don't buy in all the bullshit.

Has nice feature too, can create child issues in a few clicks from the parent.
Go buy a Yubikey?
The secret is that you can convert most type B math into type A by looking at steps in a proof as rules in a term rewriting system where the terms are mathematical expressions.

I've not found a book that makes this point completely explicitly, but most of those which cover sequent calculus get you half way there.

The rest of type B math is intuition which lets you guess at new conjectures and how to get you from the assumptions that you've made and the conjecture that you want to prove efficiently.
lol Germany. Do you all still live off 1GB of mobile data there too?
There's not much info in that thread, but it reads to me that they consolidated the responsibilities of this one team into another and let the original team go.
Unfortunately this sort of news rarely show up in the home page though:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240322155020/https://www.bbc.c...

https://web.archive.org/web/20240323161503/https://www.bbc.c...

https://web.archive.org/web/20240129162322/https://www.bbc.c...

https://web.archive.org/web/20240130140028/https://www.bbc.c...

Maybe because they are categorised as "Technology" instead of "UK" | "Society" | "Politics"
Here's a primer on the basic idea:
https://blog.codesolvent.com/2015/07/why-not-signed-password...
Same thing with the Kythe (aka Grok) team that does the cross references for codesearch.
If you're smart enough to construct this analysis and critique, then you're smart enough to have reached the same conclusion the parent and I did.

I'm not charitable, it's just what made sense, like mentally fixing a typo instead of acting like you don't know, and can't figure out from context what someone meant just because they flubbed a letter or a word or something.
> It's almost like capitalism isn't actually good and you shouldn't want to live in the US

Strong words from a FAANG employee. Does he think there's another economic system which would give him the same extraordinary compensation package?
You can try ff2mpv.

https://github.com/woodruffw/ff2mpv
It doesn't take into account the whole range of errors that can creep into runtime. If a type system only moves 2% of programming errors to compile time, but costs you in terms of coupling, complexity, and effort, it may not be worthwhile. This is especially true if you can catch that same two percent of errors with tests instead, and avoid the coupling and effort penalties.

Personal opinion: Type systems are more useful for initial code comprehension and tooling than for writing it in the first place, or preventing bugs.
For a machine to be able to say "what you want to hear," it must understand what you're talking about, internally, in some fashion. How else could it do that?

As Hans Moravec wrote in 1998, when he predicted intelligent machines would appear in the 2020's:

> Only on the outside, where they can be appreciated as a whole, will the impression of intelligence emerge. A human brain, too, does not exhibit the intelligence under a neurobiologist's microscope that it does participating in a lively conversation.

Source: https://www.jetpress.org/volume1/moravec.htm
Which story is this? I've heard a few famous stories of people getting caught using Tor, but none that were like this.
It's not bad advice, but it's becoming increasingly difficult as the front of surveillance capitalism[1] advances to capture more territory. The opt-out options we have are disengagement and legal requirements, both unsatisfying. The latter because territory advancement outpaces legal countermeasures, and because legislatures are in bed with the very corporations who create these systems. It's a broken system because it's prone to this type of exploitation. Before we switch to solutions, I rule out moralizing their behavior, it rarely works, but developing a more nimble conceptual antithesis is required.

1. sorry I don't have a better term. this seems to be the most prevalent name.
A persons very limited comment history is not a strong measure of values, I don't use this site that much.

I'm not a Kyle Rittenhouse supporter, I merely held that he didn't commit murder which is what many legal experts held as well.

Fwiw my actual policy and culture positions are much more aligned with liberalism when its pragmatic and not pathological altruism.

I'm happy to provide references on ben collins bias, he has been called out multiple times for spreading misinformation despite claiming to be an expert on it.

He has been objectively criticized by multiple legit journalists like glenn greenwald and even moderates like nate silver.

https://reason.com/2023/10/19/ben-collins-disinformation-hos...

https://nypost.com/2023/10/20/nate-silver-rips-ny-times-nbcs...
If my commute were much longer & more stressful, then most likely yes. My commute is 25 minutes in relatively stress-free suburban traffic, so driving doesn't bother me much.
Quick question: is there more to this than just putting a heavy weight down on the "M" key and watching number-go-up?
Very little at the scale of this codebase is still a lot.

From where I sit (SRE), I see a lot of Python which is very much mission critical.
Gems of Tailwind CSS
Exactly. This is why CC0 is was created- to make public domain available to jurisdictions that don’t already have it.
And if they get the passkey's private key, when you're signing some ticket to send off to prove identity? That has to be unlocked for that too, it's in memory somewhere.

Then they privilege escalate, lock out all your other devices after adding a new one, it's the same issue. And it's opaque, reinforces the ideas that users are too stupid to do anything right, so that we shouldn't even try.
Why is it easier to mock minorities? Why is it harder for them to be in this class? It kinda sounds like it does have something to do with them here.
I think you just said: these are contradictory, and then you did a cognitive dissonance to avoid that conclusion by saying but it's fine, because I want to build society.

But the "Anti-Free/Speech Anti-1A ideas = building society" is just a fallacy that have been assumed.

Here, it's even admitted: "It states the complete and universal right without any caveats whatsoever,". then you do the dissonance dance because you don't like that very much.

Our founding fathers should have included a list of definitions (and a list of definitions to those definitions...), but they probably didn't realize how catty their future generations would be, or how much they like being oppressed because it makes them feel safe.
If you can recover your account solely with your username and password, then what security does your Yubikey provide?
Do you think that's not a thing? Especially with what is going on with Windows 11?
That's good to hear, because right now I'm playing it by placing something heavy on the M key.
Good to know, thank you for the link!
password managers are growing, but I'm not sure that 'most' people use them. Maybe 'most' software engineers or techies, but the average person probably has no idea what a password manager is.
I imagine training people, and having everything I say be available in any language, matching my tonality, and being able to reach a global audience. I'm very much looking forward to this.
Without an online course or a mentor I'd be lost too. But you only need a two hour introduction to have fun IMO.
> In 3.1 it was the default encoding of string (the type str I guess).

No, what was used was what sys.getdefaultencoding(), which was already UTF-8 in 3.1 (I checked the source code).

At that time, the format used for representing `str` objects in memory depended on if you used a "narrow" (UTF-16) or "wide" (UTF-32) build of Python.

Fortunately, wide and narrow builds were abandonned in Python 3.2, with a new way of representing strings : current Python will use ASCII if there's no non-ASCII char, UCS-2 –UTF-16 without surrogate pairs — if there is no codepoint higher than U+FFFF, and UTF-32 else. But that did not exist in 3.1, where you could either use the "narrow" build of python (that used UTF-16) or the "wide" build (that used UTF-32).

See this article for a good overview of the history of strings in Python : https://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/python-behind-the-scenes-...
A different take from a non-Italian. I'm curious what actual Italians think of this:

I'm reading a book on how Spain gained and lost a world empire (I'd had it on my shelf forever and never read it):

https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Spain-Became-World-1492-1763/d...

It said that many northern Italians believe that a big reason the Mafia is so dominant in southern Italy and Sicily is that it was ruled (loosely) by Spain a long time ago. True?
I guess "Black dirt spewed out by sublimation of ice makes spider-like patterns on Mars surface" just doesn't have the same ring to it as a headline, huh.

The mechanisms of the observations are interesting; the grabby headlines, however, are tiring, and the associated visitor engagement as seen in many comments is so off-putting it makes me depressed.
Hit it with some surface treatment and some paint and you can start thinking Art Deco.
There’s a ton of python all over the place. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
For some more portable examples of removing an.lcd backlight for more outdoor or daylight-powered use, see

https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMobileComputers/comments/1awpgj...

And https://twitter.com/mljmljmlj/status/1254231084482482176/pho...
Ask HN: What are your unused domain names? 2024 Edition
Someone recently made an offer on one of my domains. I searched it and found I'd mentioned it 9 years ago when this same 'What are your unused domain names?' question was asked*.

So, HN folks, what are your unused domains and what did you plan to do with them?

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9334927
Cannabis is technically also banned in the UK. As is selling vapes to underage people. Where there's a market, capitalism finds a way.
That is one hypothetical scenario, yes. Another hypothetical scenario is that as a result of responsible disclosure the site owners patch the hole and ensure customer data isn't publicly accessible before the vulnerability is public knowledge.

Seems reckless to me to not even _try_ responsible disclosure. You don't have to wait a year. But at least give a chance for the problem to be solved before you make it common knowledge.
Privacy. The idea, IIRC, was to have separate identifying material for each site.
As usual for "3d printed house" stories, there's no mention of reinforcement. Is this just unreinforced concrete?
It always strikes me as odd that we have housing crisis everywhere but these cheap 3D printed houses or ready-to-assemble houses from Amazon never took off. Does people find it off-putting to live in these? Or is it more of a regulation issue? Or land acquisition issue?
That’s socialism! /s
> Of course factory farming is an aggravating factor for the spread of diseases.

Modern industrial farming has been the greatest source of limiting disease, parasites and sickness. Before modern industrial farming, human life was rife with food-born parasites, disease and sickness. So much so that it severely limited people's physical and intellectual development.

> Of course we can thrive with less meat consumption or none.

We can survive without meat. But being omnivores, we probably need meat to thrive. Though too much of a good thing can be harmful.

> How is that even a question?

As a self-proclaimed rationalist, why does that surprise you? Rational people question things.
Doesn't your password manager use biometrics to unlock though?
This is probably why the text of the article mentions that it actually took two months for the house to be finished. The 18 hours was just the framing, essentially.
That's fascinating. Where would you direct someone that is interesting in learning more about these items? Any good sources or websites to read?
Your applications would look however you wanted them look.

https://pharo.org/success/
> I agree that it's not more vulnerable than just using a password, I'm only saying that it's only slightly less vulnerable under the best circumstances and incredibly more vulnerable under the worst circumstances (ie. if somebody got ahold of your password manager).

I feel like we might have a mismatch in understanding what a passkey is. You make a new keypair for each account to authenticate to. A leaked passkey is generally no more vulnerable than a password when leaked.

> But putting the passkey on a second device provides an even smaller attack surface since now a bad actor needs both your device (or a MITM attack) and your password.

Correct. The gold standard is a hardware secured, non-cloud synced private key.

> This is an HN forum. Nobody's giving "security advice,"

It's a technical forum with statements on a technical topic. Making statements like that can always be misinterpreted as technical advice by default.

> but I do feel like the parent comment's question hasn't been answered. Why would one store passkeys in their password manager instead of on a separate device?

This is fair. The answer is: convenience. It is most definitely worse security posture to sync passkeys than to store them on a separate, physical device that can answer challenges without leaking the private key.

The reason to use them over passwords is they are more secure, even when synced to a cloud vault.
> What's ridiculous is that you can look at governments today, at any level, and imagine them being run worse.

That's a pithy and meaningless statement that doesn't add anything constructive to the conversation. If we take it as true, then we'd have to assume that you're actually optimistic about government, since it suggests that the only direction we can go is up.

But of course the reality is that that for as dysfunctional or corrupt as we might see some operating government, of course it could still be even much worse so still. That doesn't even require imagination, since examples abound across modern geography and even recent history.

If you can't even imagine things that are plainly visible in reality, then, sure I can see why you might struggle to imagine what could be worse. But we're not all so afflicted.
When UTF-8 was still very much not the default encoding for text files it was useful to have a way to signal that a file was UTF-8 and not the local system encoding.
"actual malice" means either they knew it was untrue or they published it with reckless disregard for the truth. That would be the test he would attempt to prove they failed.
> when the room is in a country that has a list of travel advisories including "Violent crime is more common in the US than in Australia", "There is a persistent threat of mass casualty violence and terrorist attacks in the US" and "Medical costs in the US are extremely high. You may need to pay up-front for medical assistance".

What's wrong with these Aussie technocrats?
Tax breaks for hiring citizens.

Tariffs for hiring non citizens.

Force companies to follow all the same employment laws for employees and contractors in other countries.
Cool idea!

What are some papers labeled "High Quality Article"? How do you determine that?
In Italy it's now a part of your energy bill, by law. Basically too many people were opting out (legitimately or not), so they made it non-negotiable: "if you have energy, you must be powering screens! Pay up!"

Meanwhile, mainstream TV (both state-run and privately owned) is more and more unwatchable, and more and more people just tune out - but they are still taxed.
I think it's so they can provide a quality web experience curated to facilitate their Patreon goals.

Their work is free, but they likely want to ensure folks know "who" is making all these assets and that they have a Patreon so you can help support their efforts.

That seems fair to me considering the generosity at play here.
All good fiction is a statement on reality.
FYI, Harvard Square is a public place, thousands of people visit and pass through it every day who aren't Harvard students. It's not part of the actual Harvard campus (as opposed to e.g. Harvard Yard).
I don't see the relevance to the topic being discussed.

The fact remains that the ATF enjoys the ability to unilaterally revise firearm policy well beyond what many find reasonable without a change in law made by Congress.
That's a tragedy, but to your point I'm reminded of the Mitchell and Webb sketch where a man is interviewed on his opinions about a safety system not being installed, and he keeps trying to insist that his views are extremely biased as his wife's life would've been saved by such a system[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98CWbGG2DJ0 [video]
A nightmare for dust. And if you need to repair a wall good luck getting the pattern to match again. Do these people even own homes?
There is definitely a market for this in the same realm as MMOs. Provide children educational problems to solve and then reward them with items that allow them to increase their ability to interact or decorate the world around them. Let the parent company guide the actual curriculum and allow kids to become creators ala Roblox to increase the number of assets available to them. They end up wanting to learn in order to get the shiny thing, and the company who puts it out gets a motivated audience.
the problem with acronyms... his PBR is a completely different PBR than I was thinking...
- But how many floors high is the system able to build?

(and at what price?)

Locations that would benefit from (more) affordable construction are high-density.
constrain joints so that they can be cut with a tool on a CNC with the material secured on the machine in a convenient fashion in a reasonable period of time

Could one make that a part of the evaluator/fitness function?
Land is the issue. And more specifically, land in a desirable location.
PC LOAD CEMENT?
Automakers Keep Killing Off Small Cars Despite Eventually Regretting It
Such a clear LLM copy/paste reply upvoted to the top is weird, HN usually catch it fast
Big Tech and Silicon Valley are transforming the military-industrial complex