<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: dmurray</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dmurray</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:59:45 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dmurray" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dmurray in "Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Afraid for your life <i>if you were to confront the thief</i>.<p>That reasonably covers pretty much all cases, especially in a state where lots of people have guns.</p>
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<p>And lots of expat-friendly countries that are tolerant of working on repeated tourist visas rather than a full immigrant visa, but still require visa runs every month or three.</p>
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<p>I once inherited an APL system which was just an image. I didn't know where to start trying to get function definitions out of it and into some kind of version control and eventually ported to something else. I'm interested to know how much better it would have gone with LLMs.</p>
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<p>It's not particularly unusual in <i>Python</i>, because it's normal that important functionality is implemented in other languages by a diverse set of third parties.<p>That said, this isn't a security vulnerability, it's just a bug. To meet a reasonable threshold for being a security issue, you need to show a real system that has an issue caused by this, and then the vulnerability is in that system, rather than in Python.<p>I'll grudgingly allow that a buffer overflow or an SQL injection possibility - in a library advertised as safe against that kind of bug - is a security issue, because there's so much history of turning those into real exploits. But a choice of library or language that makes those bugs easier to write - the idna library, or C or PHP say, is not itself a security issue.</p>
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<p>Sounds like you talked to the locals who might end up being expected to pay tips. The ones who might expect to receive tips would have a different point of view.</p>
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<p>How about a mirror that is only there when you need it? The car could detect from a combination of your eye movement and from its own monitoring of the road behind when you are likely to check the mirror, and pop it out then.<p>This sounds like a lot of overengineering - you need reliable low latency eye movement detection and a motor mechanism that can react that fast but withstand the air forces at highway speeds. Just to deliver a worse UI - imagine the complaints about how Tesla doesn't detect my eyes unless I look just right. But 6% fuel usage sounds like an enormous saving that would be worth some of your complexity budget.</p>
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<p>But fiction is the best way to learn about those past times.<p>You could read in a history book - in the few sentences your locality's curriculum can spare for Victorian England - that there was a lot of urban poverty in London after the industrial revolution. Or in a geography book, that that area is prone to smog if you build coal-burning factories in it.<p>But are you really going to get it in the same way as someone who reads and imagines young Oliver Twist asking for "more", or about the smoke and the mud and the fog crawling down over rooftops in <i>Bleak House</i>?</p>
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<p>How about eating a Sandwich with Turkey, Bologna and Cheddar, maybe with a Paris-Brest for dessert?</p>
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<p>A trained operator could have got up to a very high speed anyway, though, as the age of typewriters would show. Even if Paige didn't know that. Having the machine able to keep up is more important than the speed of the typist.</p>
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<p>It's not aimed at consumers of their product.<p>Someone outside the company who was thinking of joining a B2B sales team, and who likes tropical vacations, might react positively to this post.<p>Or a potential investor might be impressed to see the company has a mature sales pipeline and plenty of revenue to reward its top salespeople.</p>
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<p>Goldfish are what stereotypically served this purpose in the UK and Ireland, though this seems to have got out of fashion as pet shops no longer sell goldfish to be kept in tiny bowls.</p>
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<p>Well at least this wouldn't result in massive incentives for Microsoft to get the same law passed elsewhere.</p>
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<p>If by "ride" you mean hitch a lift to somewhere you couldn't get to otherwise, space doesn't work like that.<p>If you want to land on an asteroid/rock, either you match speed with it, in which case you already had enough speed to go wherever it's going, or you intercept it at a different speed, in which case you get smashed to dust if your speed was any more than a few m/s different.<p>Maybe you didn't mean this, but it's a common enough misconception. People even on HN were suggesting a spacecraft could hitch a ride on ʻOumuamua to get a quick way to a different solar system.</p>
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<p>It's a very silly point to make to AI researchers specifically. If they don't work on those projects, the AI won't advance and won't magically be able to replicate the work in "one to three years".</p>
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<p>> All people are not born with equally capable brains<p>You can't write this and then object to someone also shortening this to "stupid".</p>
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<p>In these circumstances I always say "I've seen something similar before". That has the benefits firstly, that the interviewer will probably go ahead with the question anyway while still noting your honesty; and secondly, that it's usually true - it's possible this problem is subtly but importantly different from the one I'm pattern matching against. There are half a dozen versions of this ball problem.</p>
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<p>It was invented as a comically long fake word, but gained enough currency to be used in real writing, though in a tongue-in-cheek way.<p>It's a Latin calque. I'm sure the spelling should be floccipaucinihil... from <i>pauci</i>, few and <i>nihil</i>, nothing - you and the reviewer have used spellings that differ from this and from each other, but I doubt O'Brian did.</p>
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<p>I was at the World Series of Poker when this change was made.<p>The major sites had anticipated the decision not to allow sponsorship by "real money" gambling sites and had registered their .net equivalents. Pokerstars.net, fulltiltpoker.net, etc.<p>.net stickers were printed in dozens of different colours, backgrounds, fonts, and players were instructed to take a .net sticker that most closely matched their branded clothing.<p>Of course, not <i>everyone</i> had their ducks in a row for the decision, and some of the domain names were still available. An enterprising entrepreneur registered Paddypowerpoker.net, and perhaps others, and turned it into a porn site.</p>
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<p>Or because there's not enough worth stealing in your house.</p>
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<p>Ireland, like the UK, has a system of Prize Bonds that work exactly like this, administered by the state. The expected return on them is actually quite competitive, depending on your tax situation.<p>Everyone here seems to have got a present of €20 Prize Bonds for a 10th birthday from an aunt or grandmother, yet people from outside are always surprised that such a product can exist.</p>
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