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Jon Pretty wins in court against sexual harassment claims by Scala community
It's still not a great multi-platform/multi-device story. I use multiple machines regularly (and I've migrated away from 1Password to the KeePass ecosystem, by the way) so syncing passkeys from my Mac(s) to my iPad, to my Fedora machines and my Windows working environment is simply not happening any way I look at it.

Passkeys are great for consumers who use one or two devices (or browsers - I also switch browsers frequently). For anyone with more than one platform or one device in their lives they suddenly become added complexity, because even though you _can_ have more than one passkey per account per service, in practice there are all sorts of weird edge cases.

They're just not mature yet, period.
To me it seems to be turning into php but with better developer experience. SSR is much better and fortunately React devs have also discovered that shipping 2MB+ of js at once isn't optimal.
Possibly true, but "good enough" is within reach of many more people than realize it. Engineering level calculus is not particularly high-level math, but will get you a long way in terms of applications.
Scientists Have Grown Diamonds in Just 150 Minutes
Fascist policy grows in stagnant Liberal society. Right now, in many of the wealthiest nations we have two Liberal parties. (For instance the democrats and republicans in the US, which are both Liberalist parties.)

Without a more diverse political landscape, the government accelerates hard towards corporate power and centralization of wealth, at the expense of the worker and individual.

When individuals cannot seem to succeed, and start to get frustrated, they seek populist candidates. The sort of "I just wish someone would tear this all down and rule in my favor" candidates.
It was a workaround from the time the Microsoft OEM agreement required them to ship an operating system, but the contract didn't specify which system.

Anyway, FreeDOS is useful for updating BIOS images, it also seems to run a lot of legacy industrial equipment, you can play retro games with it, and Jim Hall has a wonderful YouTube channel where he regularly shows using FreeDOS as an educational tool: https://youtube.com/@freedosproject
I wish I could print out this headline on business cards and just hand one to whomever states "what has government/regulation ever done for us!?!?"

EDIT: changed "perhaps" to "I wish".
The MWI is the second most popular interpretation of QM, and it's deterministic, because Schrodinger's equation evolves deterministically. The probability comes in when making measurements. But in MWI, that's just a function of decoherence hiding the other branches.
It was in parts inspired by p-table, just wanted to add some more properties, and some more context and supply sources to the values presented
Or Amazon could have made an actual page or API endpoint that uses the person's existing Amazon credentials to generate and send the email.
Oh, that makes much more sense, I misunderstood the description of the procedure.

Edit: But it still sounds like an insane thing to do.
> I hope big internet companies boycott the UK

So at least there's a potential bright side for people in the UK :-)
> The alternative is what? Open Source? Where anybody can fork anything. One person puts out a standard, then another and another and suddenly there is no standard there is just a giant pile of one-off hacks.

Tell me you don't understand open source software without telling me.

Major OSS projects today have funding and corporate backing because the popularity earns you money. Not all major OSS projects start with funding and corporate backing (though some certainly do and that can be a leg up if it's done with good intention).
Archaeologists May Have Found the Villa Where the Roman Emperor Augustus Died
The silver lining is that they are lucky to have contracted HIV rather than some of the nastier stuff. There are plenty of worse reality checks.
"It is useless speculating about things we can't ever know of."

And how do you know which things we can know of and which we cannot? Trusting your gut instinct on that isn't scientific. And why is speculating about immaterial things useless? I'm sure many great mathematicians heard some form of "what you're doing is useless and has no use or relation in the real world" especially in the realm of pure mathematics.

You bring up the soul which is a convenient example, but let's instead use a concept which YOU know exists for yourself which is consciousness. Can we ever know anything more about the mystery of consciousness or life or why any of this world and universe exists? Are those unknowable? Should we not talk about them? Should we only try to apply the lens of science here and for some reason not try to advance our understanding using philosophy even though it might not be as formal and unambiguous as math?
Why do you need a "minced meat" substitute anyway? Compare your minced meat to a can of beans which one is cheaper.

Moreover, it is well established research that most modern western diets contain too much animal products. If you think that living vegetarian causes so much problems, you need to explain how many cultures who live almost exclusively vegetarian (e.g. In some areas of India) without significant health problems.
I didn't know it was cheap or had bad rep—it just seemed cool to me and I thought about putting my personal site under that domain. Might have to reconsider.
Bird flu became an animal pandemic
Tor is about to become a lot more mainstream in the UK.
Not everyone is a native speaker of English or live in an English-speaking country, you know?
> In an inspection in the fall of 2018, health investigators found shocking conditions: unwrapped syringes in drawers and counters, unlabeled tubes of blood sitting out on a kitchen counter, more unlabeled blood and medical injectables alongside food in a kitchen fridge, and disposable equipment—electric desiccator tips—that were reused. The facility also did not have an autoclave—a pressurized oven—for sterilizing equipment.
what about "kiss my piss"? is that less common? :)
If only there were some kind of way to serve HTTP over a secure connection.

Maybe even with some kind of certification authority scheme to prevent the RXG from spoofing the domain.
mailto:membership@gmb.union?bcc=hr@amazon.uk&subject=Please%20cancel%20my%20union%20membership&body=I%20have%20decided%20I%20wish%20to%20participate%20in%20the%20free%20market%20as%20in%20independent%20economic%20entity%20like%20god%20intended%2C%20please%20immediately%20cancel%20my%20membership%20and%20remove%20me%20from%20the%20roster
Wreckless drivers should pay less. Wreckful drivers should pay more...

A big problem here is lack of consent. It's one thing to add an insurance surveilance device to your vehicle, it's another for it to be built in and not specifically agreed to.

Another big problem is lack of transparency: we don't always know what they're tracking.

Another big problem is (most likely) lack of understanding of the scene. You can't tell from one car's sensors if the driving was appropriate, IMHO. Maybe someone with a lot of hard braking should drive differently, but if they haven't had any collissions and have a long history, it smells of 'pre-crime' to charge them more for something they didn't do.
These drafts that never turn into essays
Hey, I appreciate your feedback
I’ll certainly add these features
As far as I can tell most UK media has hardly covered this.

It's sad but expected that the BBC have ignored this.
Don't forget easy theft.
Car manufactures should be held more accountable for how easy it is to steal a car.
> That means the obesity isn't due to meat or a lack of meat, per se. It's the diet outside of the meat.

So... if you take the meat out what does that leave you with?
Yes, this has been my experience as well, even at the kernel level. I actually enjoy looking at and hacking on BSD kernel code. Linux kernel code is ... another story.

But I tend to think the difficulty with Linux/GNU is more a result of the enormously larger community and the huge diversity of use cases. For example if you stick with a complete vendor (Red Hat being the best example) among the system tools is a fair amount of consistency and documentation (man pages). As you accumulate more applications and extra tools, that's where the community fragmentation really hits. This is most intensely felt when I try to set up a workstation (laptop or desktop) with a BSD. Even discounting hardware support, I run into so many things where BSD is consistent because in part because it doesn't exist there.

I still have a dream though that one day BSD will start becoming the GOTO for various places. Though, I think how Apple took it and made it common but also locked it down, I have my suspicions that the permissive licensing (which as a developer I really love) does seem to end up being taken by big tech to get huge profits and used without giving (much) back.
The post you’re replying to was responding to the question posed in the above comment:

> How about, in the next step, developing an app based on this idea that uses the light sensor typically integrated in screens in combination with the local time of day and the respective sunrises and sunsets to regulate screen brightness?

Basically saying that what the above post was asking for already exists.

They weren’t trying to improve on the DayLight computer.
It will happen, then people will adapt. Those that don't will suffer. It is tragic but not new. People are getting scammed now by being told in broken English that they need to buy gift cards in order to fend off Tax evasion charges or whatever.

The fact is that everyone gets taken for a ride at least once. Many people never admit it to themselves, but we have all been or will be taken advantage of. Some of us end up devastated by it or are an 'eternal mark', but the vast majority of us just learn a lesson.

What happens to society when trust becomes risky to the point that everything could be a ruse by a bad actor? It ends up doing what it always does in that situation -- authoritarian regimes can be looked at for examples of what will happen: people will rally around family and extremely close friends, and close off all vulnerability and vastly decrease their tolerance for risk around everyone else, unless they have no other choice.
Seem like this project's goals and the goals of polyhaven.com are aligned. Is a cooperation possible? Each other's libraries could totally benefit from more 3D Models under CC0
Every time my insurance renews they try to sell me on plugging something into my OBD2 port so they can gather data on my driving. That’s a hard pass. My insurance has gone up quite a lot, but this is something I don’t want to compromise on.

Adjacent to this, in my state I can save ~ $200 on my EV registration if I plug in a tracking dongle to read mileage. For some reason, just reading the odometer difference is not enough.
Greenland's Geology Revealed in New Map
This is exactly how I describe them to many as well. I just wish there was a USB key with the durability of a metal key.
I commented on this on HN a couple months ago, but I had a similar conclusion regarding the value of memorization when I joined med school after studying computer science in undergrad and grad.

It took me a while to buy in to high-volume memorization as a learning technique (especially coming from CS, where memorizing facts is not a huge emphasis). After a while though, I started recognizing how the quick recall encouraged by the system enhanced my understanding of concepts vs replacing it (I wrote about this a couple years ago [0]).

[0] https://samrawal.substack.com/p/on-the-relationship-between-...
Google is feeling pretty pumped about a new way of showing you ads on YouTube
Who orders just fries and a Coke?

People eat junk food because it tastes good. Period. Not because they didn't get enough meat or some BS like that. Meat-eaters eat fries. Vegetarians eat fries. Everyone eats fries. They're delicious.

If you take the meat out there's a whole world of nutritious and delicious foods out there. You just have to broaden your culinary horizons. I'm not even a vegetarian or vegan, have no plans to be one, and I still recognize this.
Explain more. Are you suggesting that hate cannot be a motivator for a crime? That hate cannot cause a crime to be committed that would otherwise not be committed?

Or that we should not punish people who commit crimes purely out of hate any more severely than, say, out of random chance?

I believe that it's patently absurd to suggest hate crimes don't exist, and ignorant of objective facts and reason, so I'd like you to explain more in case I misunderstood.
Milk in the US is pasteurized at 63C for 30 minutes.

> The results show that at 54.5 °C, the virus [SARS-CoV-2] half-life was 10.8 ± 3.0 min and the time for a 90% decrease in infectivity was 35.4 ± 9.0 min. [1]

At 8.5 degrees hotter, I'm sure stuff happens quicker, but I doubt very much it kills them all. This study is in air - in liquid I imagine they would survive to a higher temperature.

It's far from clear that all virus particles are inactivated by pasteurization. Remember the main purpose of pasteurization is to kill most bacteria, to increase shelf life.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7856623/
I had the same experience. Spent a couple of (vacation) weeks devoting 2-3 hours a day to Pharo and going through all of one of the books from the website (Pharo by example? can't really remember).

It's really one of those things that will die out on their own, because of the many layers and the little applicability (outside of playing the gimmicks).
I have wanted to write a very similar article to this, but regarding the accuracy of various search engines and LLMs in returning factual information quickly. I've done my own quick tests to evaluate all the different engines, and have found that just for factual information retrieval Google is actually better than most other options out there.
That’s not how insurance rates work but okay I see the populist rage appeal of the headline and usually that gets loose with facts.

Edit: to clarify, overall rates are set based on the aggregate loss of the overall customer base in each state plus some profit margin. This is the whole pie.

Driver characteristics like the car data is used to segment those rates on the individual level so each is a different sized piece of pie but one slice being bigger means another’s are smaller.

The actual effect of driving data shouldn’t impact the average rate, only the individual rate with individual increases balanced by individual decreases.

So the headline would be just as accurate if it said the sharing is reducing rates.

That’s how it works. But yes, not having the data sharing opt-in is unethical.

The actual reasons rates are sky rocketing is inflation and increased accident rates.

Anyway, care to point out what’s wrong about this comment or is it the standard shoot the messenger type deal?
Boy do I have to warn you about The Onion’s content then.

Also if you think being partisan is the lowest bar instead of “report the truth” or “be accurate and fair” then that tells me enough already about your values.
Vote with your wallet. Never buy a car that has any of that crap in it.
What is a legitimate use case for this? I can think of a hundred applications for deceiving others but struggle to come up with a scenario where one would want their voice cloned or reproduced.
The fingerprint/faceid is just a local proof to unlock the actual asymmetric encryption key. It is not your actual identifier to the remote server. So if you need to redo your auth, you just rekey and stash the new key in your authenticator (or have your authenticator originate the key material and never expose it to main memory at all).

Think an SSH key protected by a passphrase. Your passphrase isn't the thing that actually logs you into the server, its just what you use to unlock your actual key material you use in your SSH handshake. Your fingerprint/face identity is just your local unlock of the actual key material stored in some other secure enclave.
Yes, you nailed it.
I'll have to get a hold of a copy of Bennett, Conquerors: Roots of New World Horsemanship by Dr. Deb Bennett to check her arguments that Persian horsemanship[0] went both north around the Med (via Xenophon) and south (via the north Africans).

Certainly the Byerley Turk (1680s), the Darley Arabian (1704), and the Godolphin Arabian (1729) are some post-renaissance contributions to one[1] of my favourite breeds.

Lagniappe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_the_Great#Accession

Top dressing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfiTTyi2He8 (if my indoor were this small, I guess my stock would have to learn how to back out of the corners too?)

[0] steppe riding yields the jineta seat, but not the brida seat (which would have been useful for cataphracts?)

[1] pedantically: three, as I prefer racing quarters, etc.
Nope.

Passkeys use public-key authentication wherein the server only stores the public half of a keypair and the client authenticates by correctly signing a challenge sent by the server, which the server then verifies using the public key.

At no point is the private key ever sent over the network or otherwise exposed to any infrastructure or code controlled by the server.
Choosing a Computer Language for a Project
Is the presence of alcohol or is it the way some people behave while drunk? Because that behavior could be illegal without being drunk also being illegal.

Put another way, people get arrested sitting quietly because they are drunk without any obvious outward signs of being drunk so it’s is hardly intimidating.
Are you saying that government regulation prevented this thing that happened from happening? Because that doesn't seem to have occurred here.
The best predictor of crime is a previous crime yet there’s a revolving door on jails and DAs won’t prosecute anything. It’s looking quite a bit like the Soviet Union where political dissenters were punished worse than murderers.
Not over TLS, which you really should be using in this day and age.
If running LLMs is your intention, a Mac is probably that absolute worse way to try achieve that.

Soldered RAM, no real upgrade path - M2/M3 is cool, but not for this.
Reminder that Congress is forcing NASA to kill this perfectly good and well functioning X-ray telescope by continuing to provide less funding than is needed for everything other than the SLS jobs program.
Most people just call it practice.
I haven't used Macs much, but I've also had issues with multi-monitor window placement on Windows and Linux too. I use a Windows laptop at work with a single external display. For some reason, if I unplug the display to go to a meeting, when I reconnect it all my windows are still on the laptop screen, and new windows even open on the laptop screen despite the external being primary. I've resorted to just disabling the laptop screen unless I need it to screen share in a meeting.

At home I use Linux Mint and also went back to one monitor. It seems like the entire desktop is just spanned across both displays, so Windows seemed to always open on the left-most monitor. Maybe it's better now, it's been a while since I tried it. But I'm also visually impaired and use the screen magnifier, which is awful on multiple monitors. If you set the mouse to always be in the center, it centers it across all monitors, not your primary monitor so your cursor is between the two monitors. On Windows, the magnifier app centers the cursor on whatever monitor it's currently on, which I think is much more intuitive. I've noticed this same behavior across multiple DEs (Cinnamon/Gnome & KDE) so I suspect it's a deeper issue. I've thought about making some code contributions to improve the usability but I just haven't spent the time to get a dev environment set up.
I only interact with Debian, sometimes Ubuntu, and that description of the Linux situation is fair and accurate. I love Linux, but it’s also a chaotic mess, just as described.
Having to drive defensively to avoid other people’s recklessness is a signal that you’re operating your vehicle in a higher risk traffic environment. Insurance already differs by geography, that sounds like more accurate pricing of risk. Bad drivers raise everyone’s collective insurance costs.
I was expecting a digital sundial, but I like this.
They probably don't want to draw attention to the fact that they use RIPA legislation to catch TV license evaders.
Responsible disclosure creates a ton of perverse incentives for all parties and ultimately leaves customers worse-off. Bug bounty programs and all of the drama and exploitative labor issues fall into this pit.

Full disclosure might have short-term negatives for _companies_ involved but is best for customers/users as it allows them to evaluate and implement their own mitigations as early as possible. It's the only truly ethically consistent way to operate.
Just a meta-observation on the discourse here. I'm _shocked_ that the discourse on ArsTechnica for this story seems civilized while here on HN it's all (so far) snark.
People have longed said that crypto has no use cases. They're clearly wrong. There is only one true use case for crypto: Making it easier to skirt the law.

This includes: selling/trading unregistered securities, scams, rug pulls, money laundering.
And now more people will have thier passports pinched as they'll be opening themselves up to more opportunities to have it stolen.
It'll be great to get ready for that overseas trip, or while returning, to find out you need to now visit an embassy as a forged version of it is now in use.
Show HN: A website dedicated for sharing Movie scenes with Timestamps
Hello hackers,

I've launched a website specifically for sharing scenes, complete with descriptions and timestamps from various films and TV shows. I'm reaching out to gather your perspectives and recommendations in these domains to improve the site and extend my outreach.

Link : https://scenestamps.com

You are not required to register/login to browse the site.

Scenestamps Features:

1. Search : You can directly search for a scene or a source. https://scenestamps.com/search

2. Upload Posts : You can register with your google account, login and start posting right away. Unlike other sites in this specific domain, users are allowed to upload posts.

There are two types of posts - scene - source

Source is a movie,tv show, documentary, etc... One source can have multiple scenes

While creating a scene post, source can be selected there.

Scene post will have the timestamp fields. There are two types of it: - single - one input field of timestamp in which the scene happens. - from-to - two input fields, from and to within which the scene takes place.

3. Share posts : Share feature is available on both source and scene posts, with which you can share the post to your favorite social media platforms

4. Tagging system : You can add tag to the scene posts. You can also get all the scenes that has that tag name by clicking on it.

I think people wanting to create scenes is quite a small audience, but I want to make this the best it can possibly be so please post any problems or suggestions in the replies or at https://reddit.com/scenestamps.com or message me https://x.com/gjpx_ if you prefer.
I've still never been convinced by the use cases of graph databases. It just seems like a new coat of paint over NoSQL. I always hear vague claims of increased performance (the same thing everyone said about NoSQL), without much backing it up. PG is just so performant and feature-rich these days, it's hard to beat.