skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a secure enclave that will only release the key given the correct PIN

So...a TPM?

> This seems like it isn't worth the cost in authoritarianism?

You know what's really authoritarian? Having your computer practically only decryptable by some remote directory server, potentially not even under your control.
Actually I remembered that wrong, ants aren’t identical, in fact they may be less related than siblings because the queen could have mated with more than one male. Sorry!

There is an evolutionary biology and game theory perspective on this but it’s more complex than the case of genetic clones.
Scientists identify 'missing piece' required for blood stem cell self-renewal
In the paper, at citation [2] where he talks about mal-formatted URLs and fixing punctuation on Wikipedia, the footnote citation is a broken (and line-broken) link to the Wikipedia page.

Also, there is a [1] in the footnotes but not in the main body.
We referred the sample program from Apple. It clearly shows how to persist the world anchors, pretty amazing.
Just google " Tracking specific points in world space "
I've always found it interesting that on Hacker News, articles like this pretty much fly by without commentary and are routinely downvoted, while articles speculating about the inevitable doom of mankind due to AI generate hundreds of comments and lively discussion.

We're so in search of novelty, we ignore the bus steadily making its way straight towards us as we stand in the middle of the road, doing absolutely nothing - and with no hint that anything or anyone will come to save us - and instead we keep reading tea leaves and imagining more fascinating and wonderful dangers that have a near zero chance of manifesting before the bus hits us.

To some extent, the bus ending is just too boring it seems for anyone to really become engaged by it - narratively speaking.
Surely there are more useful avenues for harnessing excess energy than mining Bitcoins?
Check out pg.176-177. Remarkably prescient.
That's how Android Firefox mangles PDF also.
> Well, the prior is that our ancestors had to survive on what was available, not live optimally healthy lives even during their reproductive years.

That's true but our ancestors weren't some poor apes constantly on the verge of starvation scrounging for any kind of food they can find. If contemporary tribes are any indication, in the tropics food was very plentiful and their diet was diverse, long before they started domesticating animals and cultivating plants. These ecosystems support hunter gatherer tribes to this day, the last few remaining holdouts from agriculture and pastoralism. That allowed archaic humans to spread as far east as Indonesia more than a million years before they made it north of the Mediterranean.
I’ve mostly switched over to this over the past year already, from my previous password manager BitWarden. My only complaint is the current Safari/iCloud Keychain doesn’t support arbitrary fields like BitWarden or other password managers do. I often keep crucial info about accounts in such fields, but it’s not possible with Apple’s current implementation. Hopefully their new Password app will support it.
Okay. I said approximation, and saying that the approximation is not completely true is not that interesting.
> So instead of looking, like the author of these new options, for ways to make life for the bad guys harder we do nothing?

Yes, because as soon as the security clowns find out about these features, we have to start turning it on to check their clown boxes.
Knowing Boeing, they probably installed them wrong, broke them, left a tool inside, etc.
Apple, love you. A password app that isn’t cross platform in 2024 is DOA. You keep claiming you’re becoming a services company, but then you keep doing things like this that makes me think you have absolutely no idea how to be a services company.
What rights are being removed from the other side?
Sid Meier's Civilization VII trailer [video]
Well, it's similar to all the approaches which use natural or fractal phenomena as input to generate music: it's essentially the output of a non-optimal random generator arbitrarily mapped to musical features. There are too many arbitrary human-made decicions between the input and the output to claim that it is "music of spheres" or "music of dna or proteins", i.e. the musical effect of any structures in the input data is rather arbitrary.
I think this has more to do with the prevalance of driving among the population. At least compared with India I remember looking into this, and it did.

Being a driver or passenger on a roadway in India is much more risky, but people in India are far less likely to die in this scenario because they spend so much less time in those situations than Americans.
> Obv. not possible for renters or condo owners or for people who can install solar.

That can be as much as 67% or more of the households in large Metro areas. This is really why I think EV adoption is a pipe dream. It is probably a boon for the grid as well.
I'd argue, on the contrary, that it's primarily in a larger team and project this stuff is necessary. The smaller the team and project, the more process you can get rid of. Commit straight to master, use single emojis for commit messages, like realistically there's a team size where that is 100% fine.

You do half that in a larger organization and it's a disaster. Structure and formalized communication becomes so much more important as a team and project grows.
52 giga watts.
In my opinion Chuck Yeager was the best pilot ever. A World War 2 ace who shot down 13 German planes. First to break the sound barrier. But Yeager took his last flight in a jet at 79 (with a copilot) and surrendered his pilots license at age 80.

I am not taking anything away from William Anders but 91 might have been just too old to be responsibly flying a jet.
My comment was because my last three submissions were blocked. I emailed the moderator the first time it happened, and he said the algorithm probably thought it was self-promotion as I cross posted it to medium.com which I now know everybody hates. By blocked, I mean the articles showed as normal on my browser but was hidden to anybody else. I did not use the "Show HN" option because I have had articles submitted in the past from my website without this issue.

I am not a prolific poster, maybe 2 or 3 a year, and appreciate HN efforts to keep the spam out, so I will give it another shot on my next original article using the "Show HN" option.

Ironically my last submission that was rejected was exactly about this https://rodyne.com/?p=1400
If one day there is a battery for every house or even flat. That is double the capacity of Tesla power wall at half the size while lasting twice as long. Do we still need to upgrade the grid infrastructure?

I assume With that many buffer in place the whole thing should be able to self balance relatively easily. But I wonder if that is also a false assumption.
Boeing contracts them, so Boeing is ultimately responsible, of course.
I mean this is where pumped hydro would be pretty handy actually. Pumped hydro can't charge as fast as batteries, but can have enormous energy capacity.

You could almost certainly tune a pumped hydro installation to absorb the ramp of a reactor cycling up and down, but you'd lose the risk of running dry due to renewable unpredictability.
Sure. It's a tool that makes you worse at most things and poisons your body when you drink it, but has proven effective at date rape. It has evolved? I will grant that humans have a complex history with it, but you are mischaracterizing an unhealthy and dangerous drug.
What are you talking about? You can do anything on zombo.com
> Ismail Abu al-Fida’s 1323 hypothesis regarding a “circumnavigator’s paradox,” which held that exactly one day would be inevitably lost by long-distance travelers “bearing the Sun company.”

I had never quite thought about it like this, but of course it makes sense.

It seems like it's the same as, but kind of the opposite of, the coin rotation paradox, or the fact that there are 366.25 sidereal days in a year.
This just isn't true. The burden on nuclear is the extremely long construction time and massive cost overruns.
> The "secondary" film and TV markets are so starved for good new ideas

There's a long list of very good scifi that has never been made into a movie.

Instead, we get the Mandalorean which rehashes every spaghetti western trope. The character even sounds like Clint Eastwood. It has the hero breaking in the horse while the old ranch hand leans on the corral fence, for example. And training the village to defend itself from the bandits. And so on.
Popular Republican talking points.
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Cool analogy didja learn it in middle school english?

Seems everyone and their grandma wants to hold the torch of "rationality" and declare anyone who has an actual belief about something "dogmatic." It's intellectually facile and morally bankrupt

But no, fool, the principle of autonomy, or in this context that "the state shouldn't make decisions about what individuals can do to and using their own bodies" is not an arbitrary moral position, it's a meta-norm that has deep mechanism design implications in a functioning cosmopolitan society, ones that the balance of evidence suggest make that society work better for everyone except for the very lucky tiny percent of authoritarian busybodies that win the inevitable holy wars that come of structuring society around the premise that a state should be able to micromanage your individual life. I say that we have not achieved a state that truly doesn't meddle in this way (and one that are closest have in some senses backslid in the last century or so), but every move in that direction has produced both stability and prosperity

The very mindset you're espousing, that no one person's morals should determine the law, is a derived principle of enlightenment liberality. It's exactly why populism can't create a stable functioning human society

Liberality and consensual autonomy isn't a charter for total nihilist moral relativism and it doesn't call for every decision to be made by pure mob rule, it calls for government to act as a superstructure to allow democracy without lynchings and pogroms against political dissenters and laws against sex you don't like. It's a technology, not a religion

Moral nihilism doesn't imply that you're wise, it implies that you're spineless
Only affects MS Windows it seems. Phew!
I've seen a copy of this for sale at an antiquarian book fair. It would be very easy to overlook, but up close you can see that there's definitely something very different about the texture compared to ink on paper.

I also agree that there's something kind of special about when it was produced because the ability to do this was so recent. (Although of course we have tapestries that depict images, even woven directly into the tapestry, going back centuries, so maybe we could imagine a lower-resolution equivalent having been made without programmable looms as an almost unimaginably labor-intensive effort before that!)
It's not a silly question. The USS Enterprise used to stop by pulsars and neutron stars all the time to observe them
Where do you live with power costs that high? My power is about 11c/kWh (Chicago).
This is exactly the type of solution we need. Redistribution of hydro and other resources can be an excellent use of excess energy.
If you want to feed observation data into Epic for charting that is quite easy. It supports inbound interfaces using HL7 V2 Messaging and FHIR standards for things like medical device waveforms, aggregated device data, vital signs, etc. Other major inpatient EHRs have similar functionality.

https://open.epic.com/Interface/

The FDA has a whole program office to assist startups with medical device innovation. They can help you a lot if you engage with them early in the development process and explain what you're trying to accomplish. Think of them as partners, not obstacles.

https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/cdrh-innovation/activities-sup...
> equipping it with bitcoin miners that can be turned on and off algorithmically to deal with the fluctuations in demand

Interesting that people are doing this! When I was thinking about this ~10y ago [1] the economics didn't work out because of how quickly the ASICs depreciated, but they've probably stopped getting better quickly by now?

[1] https://www.jefftk.com/p/balancing-the-grid-with-bitcoin
I read through your other comments and don't exactly agree with many of your points, which appear to be pro-squatting? But you certainly seem to have a good handle on the problems. Is there a way we can connect outside of HN? Not really sure how to PM somebody here or if it's even possible.
These days engines are usually leased separately from their planes and the leasing company provides maintenance, repair, and overhaul with their own MRO provider or a third party of their choice. Boeing wouldn't be involved.
That's not really a funny or helpful comment generally, but especially not since the plane in question (C-FIUV) is over 16 years old...
I see it connects one substation (NYIS):

Clark Energy Center, New York Power Authority - Marcy, NY https://maps.app.goo.gl/hvQi4qzgSTbs84296

to another (HQT):

Hydro-Québec - Poste Châteauguay - Saint-Étienne-de-Beauharnois, QC https://maps.app.goo.gl/duDA5wbBPrgVBxc19

but, reporting of other attached lines stops there because the datasource doesn't include Canadian-only lines.

Live overview status here, but not for a specific power line: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electr...
> If you are a young conservative on a college campus are generally very alienated for their positions.

Are they? Data showed not much difference in self censorship.[1]

> Maybe there's a survivorship fallacy - if you are conservative in a college environment it's because you are very self-assured and not reliant on the opinion of others.

Maybe. Maybe the median college environment is not what you think. Maybe conservatives avoid words associated with mental illness. Maybe students think national and global issues are more important than campus issues. Maybe the question about feeling like you have no time for yourself was a bad match for the others. Maybe liberal students with conservative parents have stressful and frustrating interactions and conservative students with liberal parents are rare.

Certainly LGBT people more often report anxiety and depression. Certainly people who attend religious services less often report loneliness. Certainly family income and mental health are correlated. Certainly 1st generation students more often report feeling isolated and more often are from low income families, are immigrants or children of immigrants, or are in other minorities. Certainly these factors correlate with political identification.

[1] https://www.intelligent.com/college-students-fear-expressing...
I personally don’t think that people that age should be driving even a car in public. Any time I am stuck behind a car driving slow, eg. doing 30 on a 60, it’s an old person. It’s dangerous, nearly seen so many accidents with people overtaking.

But then again, if it’s someone’s own plane and there’s little risk to anyone but themself, then maybe fire in. But wow should the insurance be through the roof.
>One exercise that helps every time is I’ll draw a diagram of all the major characters and ask myself, “Does each character have at least one scene with every other character?” Or “Am I missing moments with three or four characters together?”

this sounds like a great way to insert a pointless and boring scene into a TV show. why not just focus on making good television instead of servicing characters because... ???
Well I hope so, but it would take something more exotic than the directory service described in this article, right?

... thinking it through, maybe not. I guess if a client initiates AddVerification for some twitter handle, and the directory service sends that handle a private twitter message with some guid, and then the client sends AddVerificationStepTwo with that guid, the directory service could append both of those messages to attest that that user is associated with that handle. A malicious directory service (or a real directory service that's calling a malicious twitter clone) could fail to correctly verify someone, but it wouldn't be able to add a verification for the wrong client or for a client that didn't initiate it, which is probably good enough?

edit: just realized you're the author, thanks for working on this stuff!
nit: the T-34 Mentor is a propellor plane
They don't.

The person who tweeted/xed/whatever doesn't know what he's talking about.

270 gigs of data? Entirely possible.

270 gigs of source code? YeahNo.
A ThinkPad keyboard. Why any other?
Civilization was the game that made me decide to stop playing video games. So many nights of “just one more turn”, then next thing you know, it’s 3am. So much fun and happy memories, though!
Google Chrome has a built-in reading list (go open the 3-dotted menu at the top-right corner, then click on "Bookmarks and lists" -> "Reading list")
What cooperation ?

France has a border with Germany - UK & France were supposed to launch an attack on Germany from there. In reality, they did a half-assed attempt to invade Germany and called it quits.

I believe that if UK & France did react, mobilize fully and went to war with Germany on 1 September 1939, the war would be much shorter.

Quite similarly, if the West did provide advanced arms (which we are providing now ! way too late) to Ukraine 2 years ago, Russia would be unable of unwilling to take any land and the war would be much shorter.
I know what you mean. I have turned to reading history books, that are far more interesting stories.
College admissisons tests were a typical thing at least half a century before the timeline presented in your article [0], [1]. In fact, the demand for standardized tests increased in the pre-war period because colleges wanted to broaden their base of students, which had largely become a Protestant elite. Even Harvard's admissions process from the 17th and 18th century was sensitive to designing a test that would not just select for those with privileged upbringings [0].

Historically, the alternative to admissions tests have been social admissions, where you are admitted based on class or family status. Despite all the problems with standardized tests, they are at least nominally meritocratic and independent of what an admissions committee thinks of your upbringing and heritage.

[0] https://commons.trincoll.edu/edreform/2014/05/accepted-the-e...

[1] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/609506/harvard-universit...
I'm very much in the same boat. Fiction books haven't gripped me in nearly a decade. History, on the other hand, has become more and more interesting to me as I've aged.
Please don't get sucked in to spats like this on HN. I know it's not always easy but it's an effort we all need to make.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Getting shitfaced drunk with a group of friends or fellow young travelers at a hostel is great fun!
> I have seen experienced sysadmins create the test user with the password of "test" on a live server on port 22 because they were having an "autopilot moment". It got hacked within 20 minutes of going online and these mechanisms wouldn't have saved it, the attacker got in on the second or third try.

Is it possible to create some kind of reverse proxy for SSH which blocks password-based authentication, and furthermore only allows authentication by a known list of public keys?

The idea would be SSH to the reverse proxy, if you authenticate with an authorised public key (or certificate or whatever) it forwards your connection to the backend SSH server; all attempts to authenticate with a password are automatically rejected and never reach the backend.

In some ways what I'm describing here is a "bastion" or "jumphost", but in implementations of that idea I've seen, you SSH to the bastion/jumphost, get a shell, and then SSH again to the backend SSH – whereas I am talking about a proxy which automatically connects to the backend SSH using the same credentials once you have authenticated to it.

Furthermore, using a generic Linux box as a bastion/jumphost, you run the same risk that someone might create a weak password account–you can disable password authentication in the sshd config but what if someone turns it on? With this "intercepting proxy" idea, the proxy wouldn't even have any code to support password authentication, so you couldn't ever turn it on.
I think we are conflating Private Equity, small-time house-fixer-flippers, and vacation homes.

I think we agree that the PE crowd can rot in hell — they're buying properties to standardize, corner the market, and charge extractive artificially-inflated 'market' rents. They won't be idle long, and I don't think squatting is the fix for that.

I'm quite sure that the PE companies are the primary driver here, not small-time fix-and-flip investors. PE firms are taking the houses off the market for good.

The small-time fix-&-flip people take houses off the market for only a short time, and upgrade the property. If they take too long, they WILL lose money, which is also why even if squatters do zero damage (never heard of it happening), the mere delay can cause it to be unprofitable.

Getting PE out of the market WILL reduce the competition and bring down prices. The same is not true for small time fix-&-flip investors.

The small-time fixer-flippers are taking a risk. Their properties may or may not increase in value at all, even with improvements. The goal is to add value greater than the cost of the improvements. From the people I know who have done it, this is mostly accomplished by sweat equity, i.e., they do a lot of the work themselves, hiring trades only where necessary, as if it is all full-price trade work, it will NOT be profitable. If you think that individual enterprising people adding value, including bringing non-viable housing stock back to market viability —AT THEIR OWN RISK— is somehow bad, we should make a regulatory or tax policy against it. Making random people subject to arbitrary effective confiscation at the whims of random squatters is not fair to anyone.

Same for vacation homes. If you think it bad policy that they exist, then enact new tax or regulatory schemes.

Making random people subject to random confiscation and expense will not get the results you want. It will get people even more strongly motivated to be angry at squatters.
Please don't get sucked in to spats like this on HN. I know it's not always easy but it's an effort we all need to make.

I realize the latter part of the GP comment was provocative but please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And 91 year olds are unfortunately known for dying simply because they fell asleep.

I hope to be 91 myself one day - nevertheless, I remain suspicious.