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Kikkoman USA has been brewing a lighter soy sauce in Wisconsin for the U.S. market for a few decades while now. It’s what most people in the U.S. think of when they hear “Kikkoman”. Specialty markets sell imported Kikkoman products, such as
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> “Here hair here” Here hare here. (The hunter, leaving them a rabbit.)
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The author writes: > Just like with software, where deep understanding is often the basis for discovery, an organization has to truly understand itself to be primed for innovation. When teams operate as impenetrable black boxes, vision b
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Code scanners reports should be treated with suspicion, not accepted as gospel. Sonar in particular will report “code smells” which aren’t actually bugs. Addressing these “not a bug” issues actually increases the risk of introducing a new e
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I presume that you would want your crypto gains to require “proof of identity ” to access, not just “proof of humanity ”, which is what World provides. Also, once you have generated keys with your eyes, you use the keys, not your eyes, as
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For e-commerce to continue, there has to be a way to confirm that the transfer of funds from a bank or credit account to the vendor’s account is approved by a human who controls the bank/credit account. As AI-powered scams become more
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I assume this is your last post on HN, since AI will surely be participating in the discussions here in the near future. Seriously, though… How will you “carve out a little island”? Computers are the kingdom of AI.
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Exactly. People are too focused on shoehorning AI into today’s “humans driving computers” processes, instead of thinking about tomorrow’s “computers driving computers” processes. Exactly as you say, today it’s more efficient to create a “on
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Like Sam or hate him, he’s not wrong about AI creating a need to distinguish humans from bots. We’re only just starting to see the damage that AI-powered scams can do. Further, why not try and develop Proof of Humanity (PoH) tech that l
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Turns out most people don’t have a friends and family group that can generate exciting content at a rate that most people want. The platforms oblige this with “reshares” and “you may also like” content, and eventually everyone’s like “who g
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In the sense that people are voluntarily installing and running this malware on their computers, rather than being tricked into running it? Is that the only difference?
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I’m really struggling to understand how this is different than malware we’ve had forever. Can someone explain what’s novel about this?
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TIL > Meshtastic is a project that enables you to use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communication platform in areas without existing or reliable communications infrastructure. This project is 100% community driven and
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Yeah I’m listening to a legal analyst on Bloomberg radio and there’s a lot of detail that’s getting lost under the headline. It’s not yet even clear yet that Google would need to divest from anything in order to address this. Bloomberg
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That must be correct. The phrase “You are making an investment… “ followed by a discussion of whether or not you should invest threw me off.
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So your argument is that the U.S. is currently like wartime Britain, and that science funding specifically must be sacrificed despite the fact that is has created an economic boon that would help to pay down the debt: We just desperately ne
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Your description seems directionally correct, but I don’t understand this part: > You are making an investment … just like any other investor, albeit with a lot less favorable terms. The best part is..guess what? If your circumstances ch
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I’ve read that cocoa processing involves drying the pods in the open air. Heavy metals in dust from nearby mines covers the surface of the pods, which are later ground up along with the cocoa. The solution here seems simple enough: Don’t
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In this attack, the compiler is not a reproducible artifact? Or does backdooring use another technique?
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> “We don’t have time to [write automated] test[s],” stated the principal engineer… This was in response to my candid observation that test coverage was low, existing tests didn’t always run locally for mysterious reasons, integration te
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> Have been told that I have to “drop the sarcastic tone” if I want to be “taken seriously” as a “““reporter””” but the jokes on them because that criticism implies that I’ve crossed the threshold into being a “journalist” rather than a
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> But maybe I'm just less frustrated by the pain, or less inclined to admit the pain to myself or to others, or less inclined to trust myself. Maybe believing feels good, so I want to do it. That wouldn’t be the placebo effect then,
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I think FraudulentCoder may be falling victim to “media spin”. There is a report [1] showing that the Social Security Administration had 72 billion of “improper payments”, which includes not only over-payments but under -payments, and does
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If you ignore the weird rant about OOP (that references an article from 2006… haven’t we all moved on in the last twenty years?), the author’s main thesis lacks context: > But take it from someone that’s had do deal with codes passing th
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> … [I]n OOP land there's the idea that types aren't mere containers for data. Can you elaborate? Types don’t contain data in any way that I understand… Do you mean constrain ?
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) definitions: “Computer Programmer”: https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/oes151251.htm “Software Developer”: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes1512
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Not sure if this was your intention, but you’ve pulled these words out of context, making it seem like the author is making this claim, when in fact the author writes that to describe what others claim. > Most of us have encountered a
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Kudos to seeinglogic for trying to quantify that “readablity” is. We need a lot more of this. (I feel like the most common definition of readability in use today is “readable to me“.) I have a half-baked thought that we could find the actua
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