skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the past decades there were still plenty of businesses renting things if you so desired. And, even better - they were often pretty small scale enterprises, because we hadn't yet entered the realm of corporations buying up basically everything in existence, including other businesses. Actually you made me look this up and it's kind of a neat factoid. Hertz's rent a car service started in 1918, with a dozen Model Ts! [1]

So the basic functioning of the economy would probably be unlikely to change in a really fundamental way. But I think what would change is that overall society would have a much healthier distribution of wealth/'things', with the cost being that the overall GDP and economic growth would probably be significantly slower.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertz_Global_Holdings#The_comp...
"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon." - Milton Friedman

See also "scapegoat". This story is about the federal government coming after private business for raising prices after the feds caused the increases by increasing the money supply and diluting and seizing its value.
Thats mosyly the faul of AI, NOTHING else.
You don't think this is even more pronounced if the criminals can keep af gun to your head in your own home when voting?

That said - I am yet to see any protocol that is resilient against not showing up IRL (due to the exact reason above).
I don't think routing is that resource intensive, especially in transit setting where there are set number of stops (nodes) and the graph is fairly static - we can do tons of preprocessing and then routing queries would have minimal computational overhead.
Because you need to ensure that the vote is given without anyone interfering.
The concentration of alcohol in hand sanitizers is like 70%, not small.
> Every study about bugs related to UB

Are about C++. There's an order of magnitude difference in the cognitive level to visually spot UB in C code vs visually spotting UB in C++ code.
I was a die hard Dreamcast supporter back in the day. While the Dreamcast had already been discontinued by the time GTA3 came out, let me tell you it really was the nail in the coffin.

It's been 23 years and there is some part of my brain that still holds on to my childhood belief that Sega would realize their folly and Dreamcast would make a comeback.

I frankly think a big part of it was that the Dreamcast was the first system I purchased with my own money, and it being so quickly discontinued was almost traumatic in a way.
Yeah, they used to use film reels (not video). The way he described it, it was similar in principle to Nintendo's Sky Hawk from 1976:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLcT5eaUZw0

This is the actual film footage used:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-lUgkT2sz4

I don't know if the game my dad remembers worked the same way, but as you can see the footage is divided into two halves: the top half is the footage of the plane flying, and the bottom half has both a spot of light and footage of the plane exploding. A mirror inside the machine normally is positioned such that it reflects only the top half of the picture to the screen. The spot of light on the bottom half corresponds directly to the plane's location in the top half; a light sensor corresponds to the gun's motion such that when the gun is pointed at the plane, the sensor will pick up the spot of light (similar to the NES Zapper) and register a hit. Then at the right moment, if a hit was registered, the mirror will rotate, shifting the image from the top half of the film footage to the bottom half and showing the explosion sequence, before resetting for the next plane.
there already are mirror like beetles, maybe weeds will catch up to that :D
Women claim this but the success of dark triad traits and the “I can fix them” meme imply that most people actually do want to be in a “bad relationship”.

I’ve heard women unironically say “I want him to fuck my life up”. Risk aversion is only a trait in the poor or those with significant trauma, which the dating market reminds us, are dysgenic traits…
I feel like this is just another version of people solving problems created by technology by adding more technology.

We could probably side step a lot of issues, simultaneously, more elegantly, more efficiently, by driving down to the foundational technology and considering alternatives with our newer technological arsenal.

In farming that foundational technology is monocultures, it simplifies scaling, efficiency of planting, managing and harvesting, but the cost is soil degradation, disease, and susceptibility to pests. All of these issues evaporate with multicrop farming, it would be more interesting to apply robotics and ML to making the planting, and harvesting of that practically scalable.
> If your developers are sloppy about security does that not create a lot of other problems too?

Yes, but: devs can be sloppy about ssh key security and better (yet still imperfect) at other things. Also, it's worth continually making improvements in some areas even if we can't fix everything. Which is good. We'll never be able to fix everything.

I wish certificate signed host keys were easier to roll out and maintain. That's a marked improvement, even if it has its own flaws.
what are benefits of soil vs hydroponics?
Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason
You whole conter-argument is "programmer-think", none of this _foo_bar or even paths is that relevant in the broadest use cases of the markup

> Markdown was primarily a pragmatic thing that worked with people writing without needing to think of many rules, and that's exactly why it got so popular.

That's wishful thinking, the whitespacing, especially in such common thing as lists, is something that requires thinking. And with urls it's a common fail to forget which () [] go where.
And there is nothing pragmatic/conventions about this strong/emphasis nonsense, that's just following HTML <em> spec, none of common email/blog post plain text writers think in HTML standard, they think in terms of bold/italic/underline

> Wanting /italics/ is just your opinion, not some objective ideal.

Wanting is not an opinion, it's a desire. Also /italics/ is objectively more intuitive
It is. Especially to do multimodal routing offline.

https://github.com/motis-project/motis/issues/423
> it is obvious why everyone uses kettles. I myselft have 3kW one and it heats 0.35 litres to boiling in 51 seconds.

Wh? It’s definitely less hassle, and maybe faster, to fill a cup/mug and stick that in the microwave

Than it is to fill a cup, pour that into the kettle, boil it, then pour it back in the cup. Or you have to put more water into the kettle than you need, because you can’t measure it accurateLet, and then it takes longer to boil
You've roughly described how fuchsia[1] is designed.

[1]: http://fuchsia.dev
There is https://hckrnews.com, which I find more useful than the basic homepage.
The difference between trusting HTTPS with credit card details and trusting crypto BS for voting is that you can easily tell if your credit card ends up abused. You can't easily tell if your vote is or isn't counted.

You're generally right about each point in the process being a potential point of corruption. That's why voting systems need to be very simple and involve lots of people, even if it costs more. Ideally multiple independent parties would count the votes and compare results for discrepancies, until they reached an agreement.
Gist of Go: Wait Groups
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/crowdstrike-global-t...

Of course that was technically not a DDoS attack... Reassuringly, we're only vulnerable to single point of failure type attacks?
Related, shouldn't it be possible to get data from rail signalling radios, and infer when a train is blocking a level crossing, and mark a temporary closure on that road so traffic is routed around it?

In the US at least, trains sometimes block crossings for upwards of 10 minutes, and it can be very worthwhile to drive around. Doubly so if you could know en-route and seamlessly reroute, rather than having to approach the crossing to discover the closure.
Hey, my bad if I came off as hostile before. Didn't mean to.

My perspective comes from spending lot of time training and onboarding devs. Devs can level up their skills if you give them a chance. That's why I push for upskilling rather than dumbing things down.

I get where you're coming from with the SSH key stuff. And yeah, it's practical to go with easier options most of the time. You're right that no one's getting fired over SSH keys. But hey, learning this stuff can make the team stronger in the long run.

I understand this is a petty example as Senior developers can be flexible about these things and strong-minded about others.
Also, if you're on a corporate network and start pushing ssh through 443, a competent security team should check in on you to make sure things are okay.
Dave Jones (EEVblog) has been debunking these too.
> It's just wrong.

Language is ultimately descriptive, not prescriptive -- so common patterns are never "just wrong". But as someone who taught English for many years, I'm actually fascinated by what you've noticed. Because as an overeducated native English speaker, I observe that:

- "There's likely other factors" sounds totally fine to me.

- "There is likely other factors" sounds horribly wrong.

- "There's other factors" sounds wrong, but not horribly so.

- "There are likely other factors" sounds fine, but you wouldn't usually say "there are" as two distinct words, you'd say...

- "There're likely other factors" which would sound fine if perfectly enunciated, except the "'re" tends to get swallowed up and it will easily sound like "There likely other factors" to the listener which will sound wrong

So my theory here is that, in order to aural eliminate confusion between "there" and "there're", there's an unwritten rule in spoken English where we substitute "there's" instead when the plural object isn't immediately following, but has an adverb intervening.

I'm not 100% sure this is a full explanation of the phenomenon, but what I can tell you is that criticizing it is useless. It's just how native speakers talk -- it's conventional English (at least in the US). What is interesting is investigating it, though! So thanks for noticing a little quirk of English like that.
I’ve heard of this for frost prevention, but never rain. Do you know of a specific vineyard doing this?
Something being hard does not mean that it should not be tried.

There are methods for preventing all the issues Tom Scott raises.
I agree. What they should have done is make the raised bed thinner and build a wheeled rover for planting. In exchange for having smaller beds, you can now let the rover service dozens of beds. The irrigation system should be integrated directly into the beds and the rover merely tries to check the soil moisture to conserve water and prevent mold.
I don't quite understand how Phoenix, AZ, became the focus for chip fabs in the US, and even the recent CHIPS-backed TSMC investment.

AZ does not have a lot of water, and the Colorado Basin treaties expire next year. There are interests from existing holders of water rights, the 7 US states, several Federal agencies (BLM, Army COE) and the international aspect with Mexico.

I assume the negotiations are challenging and at some point, the Feds will step in, to direct water supply to chip fabs, rather than golf courses and almond groves.
Even sneaking a single box of ballots into an American polling station would get caught in a key district. Please see my response to baggy_trough.
You don't have to buy it.
The protocol is SSH, but the port is 443. Yes, it's not HTTPS, it's just SSH on a different port than 22.
Clearing the cookies for that website should(?) fix it. Or disabling JS.
There is also the FriendlyElec NAS Kit[1][2] and the Odroid H4 (Ultra) [3], only if someone else might consider this.

I'd personally prefer the Gigabyte MC12-LE0 Board for 50 Bucks with a Ryzen 5600 / 5650, which supports IPMI and Bifurcation. However, the power consumption exceeds 15W in most cases and the NVMe is stepped down to something around 1GB/s... and no 2.5Gbe without an extra card.

1: https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product...

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsM6b5yix0U&embeds_referring...

3: https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h4/
If the feds ever had possession of your computer, you may as well just replace it. Why risk it. Your data should be encrypted and backed up anyway.

Now police are going to be looking for nail polish and other clues
And therein lies my "theory" that the Austrian (mentioned in the article) was actually a double-agent working for the Soviets and was letting himself be "used" so that he can get complete systems with some deformities/problems to the Soviets and then have them reverse engineer the system while correcting/fixing the problem parts/deformities. Similar to how technicians (particularly in Asia/Africa) in many industries without any formal engineering knowledge learn to fix Cars/Bikes/Smartphones/etc (many of them are even uneducated). Of course with truly advanced technology like microchips/etc. it may be extremely difficult but with the resources of an entire state behind you may not be impossible.

As Sherlock Holmes says in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men"; “What one man can invent, another can discover.”
Looking at (a fork?) of the code,[1] I see a static polling interval.

Rawdog is a planet[2], which is fairly different from a normal feed reader.

[1] https://github.com/chirlu/rawdog/blob/75c742cb33fe968526af0c...

[2] https://indieweb.org/planet
Of course, "that's different", as always. The CIA has some seriously hyperactive idle curiosity.
Yes, if you have audits, most probably they will look for protocols traffic rather than just ports open
Can you expand on why you are so much against ARM?
https://www.userlandia.com/home/iigs-mhz-myth
Previous discussion in 2018:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16540802
Detractors don't see the need for this. But they already put out two other toys to be used as race tracks for these:

https://teenage.engineering/products/tp-7/

https://teenage.engineering/products/po-80
Now do the KGB.
This hits close to home. At my current job we have a similar experience, We are building an Android app and the codebase is probably the same age as me (25yo). It started as a Windows Phone app that was later ported over to Android, you can easily find files and segments of the codebase that were auto generated by some code converter from C# to Java.

In the codebase itself you can see the evolution of code styles, older views and the core of the system is written in a very old and very stateful manner while newer parts of the application use modern architecture practices, we have two local databases that load configuration into the app for our different clients and their requirements, an global state is loaded at all times to check what is the correct business logic to follow.

Im a junior, few years into Android Programming and while sometimes its frustrating having to deal with some nasty bug because a random variable is updated for reasons only god knows, i think the experience its giving me its something im going to appreciate years down the road.
That fits in with my "theory" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41154161
Interesting read - the BBC article referenced fleshes out some detail:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33414358 (Eric Roberts: The spy who suffered)
Show HN: Vamana, vector search using Approximate Nearest Neighbour
This repo provides an implementation of the Vamana indexing algorithm in python to play around with the parameters and benchmark performance.

The algorithm is used in DiskANN approximate nearest neighbour search in vector search databases.
> You need a language where you can express what you actually meant, which in this case is "Perform this constant time operation". Having expressed what you meant, now everybody between you and the hardware can co-operate to potentially deliver that.

Yeah, even with assembly, your timing guarantees are limited on modern architectures. But if you REALLY need something specific from the machine, that's where you go.
Is spending a ton of money on Mississippi’s rural road network a useful use of the money?
One of the great ironies of this situation is many of the now defunct websites had contracts and writing agreements that were absolutely egregious. Often the boilerplate would say that they owned the article (which they paid you a pittance for) until the end of all time.

Prior, in the print era, the standard agreement was they'd have the rights to your story upon publication then after a reasonable amount of time the rights would revert to the author.
> A much simpler version is f'(x) = {-1 if x<0; +1 if x>0; Chaitin's constant if x=0}. f(x) = abs(x).

This is wrong. The function f you've defined is not continuously differentiable. The one in Myhill's paper is.
> I myself introduced SVN as versioning solution to a company in 2007

In 2013, I was tasked with writing wrapper scripts around SVN to make it look like SCCS to avoid confusing the development people who only knew how to use SCCS whilst the company migrated to SVN. Fun but traumatising.
> You can't easily tell if your vote is or isn't counted.

That's why I said:

> such as receiving a "tracking number" for your vote that is then easy to see it was counted

There absolutely has to be a way to easily tell if your vote is or isn't counted, and that it's part of the sum total. I don't know if Belenios specifically does this in a way that is easy to see, but there's nothing inherently difficult or impossible about it.
> Are you sure the taps in commercial restrooms would have more bacteria?

Some mouth to tap action at the fountains might even the odds abit too.
> have them reverse engineer the system while correcting/fixing the problem parts/deformities

So you're assuming the Austrian actually knows what the US deformed? Why would they tell him?
The Buran has a lot of innovation inside that exterior shell though. Its flight was fully autonomous, for example.
Do you think any sitting politician, your physician, or your accountant really understands cryptography? Do you think studying cryptography needs to be a prerequisite to voting? I swear, sometimes nerds are insufferable snobs.

As for the implications of your premise: Do you feel comfortable in not having a say whether you are taxed more, have your hobbies criminalized, or get sent off to die in some awful war somewhere so that some jerk can get rich? Because that's what you ask for when you say some obnoxious technocrat is fine running the country with no input.

And before you mention passing an exam or something to vote, that's just a direct path to corruption and disenfranchisement.
I don't think the Racket/Rhombus developers are really trying for adoption. They're trying to push the field forward via their research. Creating these useful programming languages is how they validate their research, but the end goal is not to grab a large share of working developers but to grab mindshare of the few developers who create the future of programming. In this they have been quite successful.
My target audience is:
Educators
Companies
Schools
Universities

I am planning to try many channels including cold emails, linkedin, google ads, youtube.

Also I already have some organic traffic from google and plan to increase positions.
the USPTO doesn't evaluate the utility of patents. that's what the courts are for.
That’s a sign of a good economy. The “hot waiter/waitress” index is real as hell in economic circles for a reason.
For in-person voting use "fill in the oval" ballots that can be hand counted or counted by offline optical card scanners, and augment that with Scantegrity II [1].

Scantegrity II is a system that adds end-to-end voter verifiability [2] to such systems by combining some clever chemistry with some clever cryptography. It requires no hardware modifications at the voting site except that special markers have to be used to mark the ballots.

Briefly, a code is printed inside each oval using a special ink that is invisible, which turns visible when that oval is marked by a special marker.

After the election all the ballots can be published, allowing any third party to independently verify the counts.

Voters that wish to verify that their ballot was included in the count and counted correctly can note the code from the oval and afterwards use it to verify the count. The code cannot be used to prove to a third party, such as a vote buyer or vote coercer, that the person voted the "right" way. Here's a proof of that [3].

[1] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/evt08/tech/full_papers/c...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_sy...

[3] https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/502.pdf
Well CPython has a lot of backwards compatibility to deal with that RustPython doesn't, so "import subprocess" might result in very different behavior.
Things you can do with codebases
I think a better measure against this is not physical presence, but allowing one individual to exercise their vote any number of times until the ballot period ends.

This means that a malevolent entity that wants to influence votes needs to sequester the voter(s) for the whole ballot period, which is vastly more difficult than putting a gun to someone's head for a single vote.

Executing this at scale so the effect can be statistically significant is even more difficult, and if it's still possible the entity holding the ballot can be assumed to have more pressing issues to care about than fair ballots. :D
I do. I mean providing a JavaScript widget that lets people see their credits, renewal dates and buy more. Then it would be an end to end credit solution.
I fail to understand what point exactly this article is trying to make.

It starts off telling me other articles about tech debt are wrong, because they urge you to allocate time to fix your tech debt. Instead, it argues for... fixing your tech debt??!

Maybe I'm dense, someone please tell me what I've missed. I can't make heads or tails of it.
Gemini Ad Backlash
How Chess Saved a Village (2017)
This is beyond brilliant! So well written. Love the gen Z tone. I’m bookmarking it for my kids.
Sure they CAN leave their homes, but they aren't. There is a lack of positive face to face interaction with people you can see often. We need more than text on an online forum. We need facial expressions, we need body language, we need smell and touch. We need people who can see that we're in a low spot because they see us all the time to know the difference. We need the chance to do the same for others as well. We need to interact with people who have different opinions and interests or are at different stages of life. We need to be told we're wrong and to see the impact on others when we screw up.

So much of that just doesn't happen online.
DEC already did it better back in the day: https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html

Too bad the message is in horribly garbled Russian. You'd need to have read this story in English to understand what it's trying to say.