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I really, really miss the HP48 series.

It's obsolete now, but it's the best calculator design in the history of calculator designs. I wish there was a modern version. The old ones are starting to break down, and many cost more today than they did new. Many common operations are very, very slow relative to modern models.

The TI calculators are horrible in comparison, and the HP Prime is a blunt kludge.

Key features I'd like:

- High-quality keys

- RPN

- Being able to handle units. Can't tell you how many times that's saved me from metaphorically blowing up a space shuttle.

- Very rapid use of variables. `<< 1/ SWAP 1/ + 1/ >> P A R STO` and 11 keystrokes later, I have a function defined for parallel resistors.

- Comprehensive equation libraries

- Ideally, some level of backwards-compatibility (even through an emulator kludge)

Key modernizations:

- A fast CPU

- A high-resolution color touch screen, with nice rendering of symbolic equations

- A more modern engine for symbolic manipulation

- Python (integrated with RPL, for the numeric libraries)

- Modern connectivity (802.11+USB-C+bluetooth, supporting data streaming, external keyboards / mice, acting as a keyboard / mouse, streaming to an external screen, etc)

- Open-source, and software packages (apt-get style, ideally, and app store style, possibly)

One thing I've considered doing -- if I ever had time -- was to make an HP48 keyboard for my desktop. I don't need the portability, and I wouldn't even mind if the software were running on my desktop.
Book Review: So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport (2015)
Show HN: Bug Bounty on a Sushi Belt – Automated Target Identification
Hi HN,

I'm excited to share a project of mine called Bug Bounty Intelligence Stream. While automating my own bug bounty hunting, I realized the system detected more vulnerabilities than I could handle alone. Hence, I built this product.

The concept is simple: users can subscribe to an event stream that delivers pre-verified targets for potential bug bounty and security research. I take no credit for any findings and do not report them myself, so any potential bounty earnings are entirely yours. This tool might also interest academics studying the state of web security. I talked to a lawyer in my home country and from a legal standpoint I should be in no trouble.
You can imagine the product like a sushi belt. You just sit there and watch as the tasty stuff comes your way and you grab whatever you want.

This is my first ever-product and I am hungry for feedback from you. Please use the coupon code HN100 to test for free for one month in the “per month” subscription.

Some example detections include:

Exposed .git, ssh-keys, docker-compose, .env, config Files
Extremely outdated PHP, WordPress, Apache, FTP
Public phpinfo()
Leaked database backups

On my to-do list are features like:

Access to historical data
Automatic extraction of contacts from security.txt files
More complex detection capabilities

Looking forward to your feedback!

URL: https://cerast-intelligence.com/
I think it's a fantastic example because it's flexible enough for us to extend to make our points.

You make a good point, as when I made my comments I was considering an 'average' usecase, typically wanting to guard against malicious attacks from unknown actors on the internet.

You're talking here though about absolute security against basically a state level actor. No one else is going to be dealing with exploiting backdoors in firmware for specific targets.

But I still maintain my points is correct, it just requires substantially more money. If guarding against state actors is the requirement, that can be met by having custom or at least verified (at every stage of manufacturer) hardware. Expensive, but far from impossible. As for software issues, that's why we have stuff like SELinux and SEL4.

So yeah, I maintain you can absolutely secure a server. You just have to be clear about what the threats you are wanting to protect against are, and for most people that isn't state actors.
> “The cost of new nuclear is prohibitive for us to be investing in,” says Crane. Exelon considered building two new reactors in Texas in 2005, he says, when gas prices were $8/MMBtu and were projected to rise to $13/MMBtu. At that price, the project would have been viable with a CO2 tax of $25 per ton. “We’re sitting here trading 2019 gas at $2.90 per MMBtu,” he says; for new nuclear power to be competitive at that price, a CO2 tax “would be $300–$400.” Exelon currently is placing its bets instead on advances in energy storage and carbon sequestration technologies.

https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/71/12/26/904707/US...
How hasn't it happened? Is there government support for parents of Down syndrome children?
Faced with RTO mandates, some top tech talent left instead
But doing that is very expensive, the moment your interest starts rising you are paying hundreds of dollars/euros/etc. each month just so that you have the money available in your account, constantly depreciating. That is obviously something you need to be able to afford.
I always naively assumed that the purpose of a country is to support it's taxpayers, but what do I know about politics.
If there is a way to prevent your child a life of hardship resulting from being deaf or born with down's syndrome, are you genuinely saying you wouldn't do it?

It's one thing to be content with who you are, it's another to deliberately impose hardship on someone when it could be avoided.
>> one could uncharitably but not inaccurately characterise the modern art world as a means to arrange for low cost materials to be purchased for vast sums in tax advantageous ways.

> Is this supposed to be a bad thing? Because, if that's what you're saying, then what is your idea of "art"? Something that you can buy, have promptly delivered and hanged on a wall to decorate a space and get compliments from passers-by?

Are you disagreeing with the comment’s view of the contemporary art world’s POSIWID? The initial question seemed to disagree but the stawman you constructed concords with the parent’s pov, albeit focused on the decoration instead of the tax benefit.
I've seen several posts on TikTok from idle farmers sitting in their planters looking across huge fields at their neighbors sitting in their idle planters.

Fascinating to see the effects propagate across different mediums.
(unsure how I ended up on farmer TikTok - probably my interest in "big machines")
I recommend this channel in general. He has extremely deep knowledge of the inner workings of the game, and presents it in an approachable way.

Other classics:

A 3 hour 45 minute deep dive into the game's infamous invisible wall bug (useful for understanding the linked video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsXCVsDFiXA

His most famous video, a summary of the extremely involved and complex methods required to beat a particular level using the lowest number of A button presses - in this case, 0.5 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A
It is less like an alphabet, we already know that there is a discreet number of click clusters (basically an alphabet). Here they have found that the sperm whales modulate tempo of these clusters, rhythm within the clusters, add additional ornamental clicks, and change the rhythm of individual clicks within clusters over time (rubato). This adds an insane order of magnitude to their language much like our use of tone, context, and all the other ways we take our alphabet and enrich it with exponentially more meaning. This is the first time this has been proven in an evolutionary lineage separate from ours!
There is no market in the regular sense when it comes to large-scale enterprises, especially one that is so government-entangled as the energy and infrastructure sectors.
Let’s make a bet and see how this will hold up to scale.
wow - thank you for the meticulous check - these are issues we should certainly fix!
A discontinuity being an exception from a great majority of surface consisting of spiralling and continuous lines is no proof, nor debunking.

A spiral form being an exception from a great majority of circular lines may be just that, an exception, and would point towards a non-spiraling cut.

The photo with the discontinuity shows one side only. Therefore there is no way of knowing if and how the lines are connected on the obscured side, and no conclusion can be made either way.
AWS/Azure/GCP is suggested because it's easier to hire someone who can maintain it after the founders burn out or exit, and most importantly because the VCs have access to loads of free credits that can get you through the first year or two, effectively increasing their investment (and yours too).

Nothing stops you from just running an EC2 VM there, this has nothing to do with microservices. I never had a VC ask me about software system architecture, though yes they strongly suggested we use AWS, which we luckily did.

There are services on AWS that bring significant benefit even if your app is a monolith - managed DB, email service, queues, nowadays the ML things, and in the past DevOps pipelines and Git repos before that became free/available on GitHub.
There are times when there is only one left of my favorite bread, so I take that one. There are enough people who don't care. The store staff can notice that people bought all the May 25 loaves they put out, so that only the May 11 breads are left on the shelf, and refrain from putting out any more May 25s (or newer) until the May 11s are gone. If that doesn't move the May 11s, as a last resort, they can sticker them 25% off rather than throwing them away.

The store has full control over their algorithm for avoiding waste, and full control over what they put onto the shelf. They have all the tools for solving the problem, even in the face of some shoppers going for the newest date.
There's no US law requiring encryption weakening.
> I also would have preferred a full list of courses to avoid if ROI was important.

Here you go, just sort by ROI: https://freopp.wpengine.com/roi-undergraduate/
Source: made it up
Yi 1.5
Its look like auth0 and clerk.com, what they offer that clerk not?
The Rarest IBM PC Clone in the World [video]
Oh we knew.

Hyperion covers this topic quite well.
Many emigrate to Palestine in eastern Jordan because they feel a connection to the land their great grandparents grew up in, it's worth the tradeoff for them (assuming it's less prosperous than Israel which of course may be inverted, who knows)

In an optimistic scenario -- approximately what percentage of the current Palestinian/Arab population (in the West Bank + Gaza) need to make this move in order to create conditions for peace, in your view?
Pound Foolish recently made an appearance on Penny Wise's YT channel. They are friends!
I would describe that as a career based on being realistic, not one based on having drunk the nuclear koolaid.
Sounds more like the system didn't know the accuracy was reduced. It indicated that it was planting a straight row, but was wandering around. Maybe it lacks some sanity checks, e.g. "I should not need to be moving the steering this much to stay on a straight line"
Homoiconic Python
Pure copper is too soft and it has never been useful for most tools.

The widespread use of copper for other purposes than jewelry has begun only after it became possible to produce in a reproducible way various alloys of coppers, now known as bronzes.

The tin bronze, i.e. the alloy of copper with tin, has been discovered relatively late, around 5500 years ago, close to the time when writing has been invented, so we have much more historical information about the civilizations that used tin bronze. (The much cheaper brass has been discovered only long after the method of iron extraction, during the Greco-Roman Antiquity.)

Nevertheless, for several thousands of years before, other copper alloys have been used, e.g. arsenical bronze or antimony bronze, so that is still "bronze age", even if it would be useful to differentiate between the ages of iron, of tin bronze and of other "bronzes". The Egyptian state definitely belongs to the age of the tin bronze.
Ask HN: Which programming language do you think would be best to learn first?
If you were to advise someone who has never learned to program and would like to learn, what programming language would you advise them to learn first?
In science fiction books, yes. But in the real world Germany has spent hundreds of billions over a decade in renewables while phasing out nuclear, and yet they are still very far from full renewable (they haven't even over the “easy” phase of the transition)
Nuclear is terrible for peak loads of course but absolutely perfect for base loads. We should be producing something like 60% of the base load with stable and emission free nuclear, then all kinds of renewables can provide the rest. When there is excess power we charge batteries, pump hydro or make green hydrogen for use in peaks.
If you do not believe that the State of Israel should exist

I never said that either.
I fully agree with you.
I wish people would stop focusing heavily on how removing features can potentially decrease attacks.
Especially when those exact features are used to prevent the WORST possible attack vector, a mishandled or exploited Clipboard. I do not see how else would a user be able to gain access to the passwords without either using the keyboard, or opening the edit dialogue to select "show password" which would just make them plain-text and MUCH easier to attack.
These features were introduced to not only offer ease of use, but to facilitate a more secure method of transferring the password to the desired location.
These maintainers clearly did NOT think these things through and potentially created a much less secure package than intended.
> He was shocked at the question and explained in detail why doing that is bad.

I'd love to know!

> It was something about doing that does not create real value.

No, it does not create value. Neither destroys it. Stock buybacks are net neutral as long as the shares are priced fairly.
Yes all people are weird, and autistic people are people, so it's no surprise they are weird. I don't think this is a failing of Western imagination, I'm not sure who gave you this impression.

Autism isn't about being weird or quirky though -- it's a developmental disorder and the behaviors associated with it are disabling in our society. This is characterize as having "significant impact" on ability to function.
Interesting fact: Unity doesn't use a Microsoft GC, or the Microsoft implementation of CLR.

They had integrated the competing Mono implementation early on, and it came with its own "stop the world" Boehm GC.

They've been trying to move to Microsoft runtime for years but it's slow going.
Blockbuster movies are good and also not why indie films don't do as well
I tend to agree but there’s a sort of induced demand effect with this kind of thing. Instead of producing the same amount but more efficiently it’s used as an excuse to produce and consume even more.

The same happens with cloud computing. Now companies that used to have to pay for physical servers so rationed their use can have huge amounts of compute just sitting idle (not obviously idle because there’s so much steady state computing for logs, EDR, monitoring etc) which then causes the cloud providers to trash more land and consume more energy and water for their data centers.
Your domain name is compelling but search does not align with it. I might be drawn to that domain hoping to get pre-made school cheatsheets such as a page of physics formulas or perhaps a page of instructions on how to save and quit from a vim session (jk I use vim all the time). Coming to product and finding it to be enterprise search would not align with my expectations.

Good luck with you products.

Perhaps something suggesting finding a needle in a haystack might work for you. Maybe something like "just needles" or "hay obliterater"
A similar tool is Tailscale SSH. They replace SSH keys, which are clunky to distribute and invalidate, with the same authentication mechanisms you use for the rest of your digital security.

A great use case in the enterprise is wrapping old but mission critical systems that don't support modern encryption or authn requirements with WireGuard. SSH is a demo for that use case- there's a lot of proprietary TCP data protocols out there in the legacy enterprise world!
Some people present Alaska as a good place for SMRs. But the largest grid there, the Railbelt Grid, has an average power flow of just 600 MW. A 300 MW reactor would be too large to integrate into that system.
What are the chances of us being able to decode some of that in our life time? There must be some meaning to it, even if it's not as complex as human speech.

We should do it just to make sure they're not saying "so long and thanks for all the plankton."
I don't understand what you are saying.

If you can afford a 250k house then you can afford a 200k house + 25% saved per month. It's exactly the same amount of money.

You then have a buffer. It's the opposite of expensive.
More time to fix political systems and automate labor
>A crash is not - things cost 5%, 10% more over a period of months, and it's a bit harder to find a job.

A crash is when this continually happens.

>All you need to do to almost completely immunise yourself against this stuff is to spend, say, 70-80% of what you earn, less if that's viable.

And do what with that money?
About 2 acres. Right now there is a Husqvarna 315 and 415x doing the big open spaces. I have the i110n doing all the small/random/scattered areas that are hard or impossible to do with a wire.

That said I think the whole job could be done with one single RTK mower that is rated for a bigger space, but that wasn't availa available at the time and I've been evolving the setup over the years.
Keep the push mower, get out of the house and get some exercise.
If you are building any kind of tutorial/user content site, this could be quite a benefit for users + moderators.
It always amazes me how science has historically tripped over itself to avoid calling what is clearly some sort of culturally defined communication as “language” when it comes to cetaceans.

I think and suspect these animals are far more intelligent than we guessed, and the ethical ramifications of that reality would be difficult to swallow. Many species of toothed and baleen whales are under threat of extinction according to a lot of climate predictions.
During TF2’s massive popularity in its first decade, “everyone” wanted fun, casual shooting. The audience for social shooters is vast, but for some reason competitive play gets all the focus today.
After a certain level of improbability, you can basically assume an improbable event will never happen at all, and live life accordingly.
NASA's Chandra notices the galactic center is venting
Ah, so "it hasn't been done yet, therefore it can't be done" is a valid argument? We might as well stop talking about SMRs then.

Germany has not tried to roll out hydrogen yet. CO2 charges are not yet at the point where natural gas must stop being used for long period leveling.

Also, a big part of Germany's large expenditure was in 2009-2012 when solar (in particular) was far more expensive. Funny how you didn't mention that, isn't it.
So more sophisticated than a mere alphabet, if anything
Correct me if I am wrong but because petroleum byproducts are cheap we have ubiquitous plastics? Making plastic out of algae probably will never be as cheap unless it is subsidized
Hello, it’s my understanding that WireGuard isn’t very secure, but it is very fast. Is that correct?
Paradox of the perfect code editor (2021)
Not spending money to pay off debt means you continue to pay interest on the remaining debt you decided not to pay off.

If you spent money to reduce your debt, you aren't just reducing the money you own, you reduce all future interest. Saving money instead of paying off your mortgage is expensive, it costs a lot of money each month.
Oh, it's all incredibly ironic; I think that's most of my point.
I enjoyed the... I guess "narrative Q&A" style would be a good enough way to describe it? Regardless, it's fun.

> The security team at Seznam - a Czech search engine and email provider - did not believe me when I reported this issue. They assume that as they are not actively using that key (beta._domainkey.seznam.cz), that means that it cannot be used to forge emails. This is, of course, not true.

Maybe consult a lawyer first, but the entertaining answer would surely be to tell them about the problem in an email from their own domain? (Though seriously, double-check that that's not illegal; funny isn't worth getting arrested.)
What you are seeing is the effect of acceptance and awareness, not overly broad diagnostic criteria. It's not reasonable to extrapolate from these rates to half the population.

We are talking about human brains and psyche here, not much is known, and it's hard to conduct falsifiable experiments. If this upsets you, don't concern yourself with such endeavors, who asked you? Not every truth is found through the scientific method. Others are telling you that their diagnosis gave them peace and understand, a foundation on which to build an identity. Why are you here trying to take that away from people? What is your reasoning for making these arguments?
> Vogtle nuclear power plant being built in Georgia, US

It was finished on April 29 and has been online since that time.
I thought your point was about your opinions being invalidated and ignored, but now I don't think I know what your point is.

You identified a problem. I questioned whether it was real. You, obliquely, affirmed that it was, but did not provide enough information for anyone (not already in the loop) to address it. Therefore, I spent an hour giving you enough information to begin addressing it from your end. What point does that make?
What is "expensive" in this context? Wolfram Alpha can solve it in a fraction of a second. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=solve+y%5E2+mod+%282%5E...

>>> x = 113338949109682836687814795709948365013
>>> n = 1
>>> y = 80490928931346377909947075573303248723 + 170141183460469231731687303715884105727 * n
>>> y**2 % (2**127 - 1) == x
True

EDIT: Looks like we got lucky here since 2^127 - 1 happens to be prime.
Great, thanks!

I made a mistake in my comments above:

I meant to write "Would be neat if the *Linear* integration had configurable fields (at the team level set which ones are visible, and set fixed values for some of them). For example, I don't want anyone to set the project (that's the triage step in Linear), and I want only some teams to be selectable, I'd like to skip the 'effort' altogether, etc."
I have not heard of tagless final style interpreter before and that seems really neat. However, based on the link it seems that tagless final interpreter uses a strong type language like Haskell or ML so I don’t know how well it would translate to Javascript, which is what the GP comment said they were using.
There is plenty of music which is entirely incomprehensible to the uneducated listener. This isn’t a good example.
If 90% of your activity is in the browser, then even if your sandbox was 100% isolated from other processes, 90% of your activity is still exposed, no?

And why are you confident in sandboxing? Just like in real life, it is only a rudimentary defence.

Here is some more browser goodness

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/30/23982296/google-chrome-b...

Rest easy. Although I truly hope you are not in charge of anyone's IT sec
Douglas Adams had it right, as usual.
Alpine.js: Your new, lightweight, JavaScript framework
For starters, SBCL's non-CL parts are separated into src/runtime directory, which makes it much easier to figure out what is just "support structure" and what is actual language.

For learning more specifically on SBCL, you can look at following

https://pvk.ca/Blog/2013/04/13/starting-to-hack-on-sbcl/

https://simonsafar.com/2020/sbcl/

And of course SBCL code and comments.

There are also some papers related to CMUCL (and before that, Spice Lisp) that talk about Python Compiler (the compiler used by CMU CL, SBCL, Scieneer CL)