skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They are useful as "interned strings" and that's exactly what I need sometimes.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "need" here, but as far as I know, Dart doesn't make any promises about the memory management or efficiency of either strings or symbols.

If I were you, I'd just use strings.
I've been seriously thinking of getting a separate phone which would just be used for financial apps. It seems apps are now required to log into a few of the institutions I use, and you can do virtually everything with their apps. Two factor seems to edging towards one factor, when a fingerprint can do everything.
Sorry about that, I typed from head without cross-checking.

I thought having read it somewhere on one of those embedded forums like embedded.com.

Upon further investigation they are still using their own stuff.

https://www.ghs.com/products/compiler.html
> Finally, the sheer obsession with money saddens me

You'd think they need it to live or something
Snoook HTML5 Game
Ouch dude
Killing a plant is still murder.

Taking a life out from a living being.
How about he was interested in giving a performance on his terms, and based on what he wanted to artistically convey, to people who could appreciate that and came for that, and not to be a performing monkey for people?
The difference becomes apparent when you connect or combine organizations using the same private range. It's a lot simpler to route networks (not globally, privately) when the ranges are unique. There's no NATs, double NATs, and other nonsense to deal with.

Even without this, it's a lot simpler administratively. I have about 20 AWS accounts, all with their own VPCs, all using the same 10.0.0.0 block because... well.. nobody thought about this. What do I do if they need to communicate? (They probably won't, but...)
all events trigger it, also imba.commit! which you can use however you like
Yeah, their comment read as incredibly privileged, and that paragraph pretty much said what they didn't have to
That's why Billy Joel is much shallower.
Fish are allowed in small bottles of water (though filled "water" bottles are not) because the presence of a living fish in the liquid is a pretty clear indicator that the liquid in the bottle is water, and not something else like explosives.
I feel for the man becoming a millionaire doing that degrading hard work of being an entertainer/artist. Real frustrating that must have been. I feel deeply for those struggling millionaires that keep plowing on, for.. for.. humanity’s sake.
You should read his post. It's a good one and he acknowledges what you're complaining about toward the end of it.

:)
Rats hitch a ride on transcontinental shipping all the time.
The United States already did this as well in 2010, and the spying extended into the home.

> Michael and Holly Robbins of Penn Valley, Pa., said they first found out about the alleged spying last November after their son Blake was accused by a Harriton High School official of "improper behavior in his home" and shown a photograph taken by his laptop.

> An assistant principal at Harriton later confirmed that the district could remotely activate the webcam in students' laptops. "Michael Robbins thereafter verified, through [Assistant Principal] Ms. Matsko, that the school district in fact has the ability to remotely activate the webcam contained in a student's personal laptop computer issued by the school district at any time it chose and to view and capture whatever images were in front of the webcam, all without the knowledge, permission or authorization of any persons then and there using the laptop computer," the lawsuit stated.

[1]: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2521075/pennsylvania-s...
Streets Influence UI Design
Mr Gates has an opinion on any matter that, obviously, represent some kind of interest into his investments. And also it has the echo chamber of the media craving for his "opinions" to push for favorable regulations.
This is how the world works today.
The whole title is clickbaity, not just by lack of name, so I've replaced it with something boring and straightforward.

(This is in the site guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
This is interesting, I'm surprised you can push back on this. Usually even if it's not legal people will just blindly force the issue because they don't fully understand and can't be told otherwise.

Has anyone attempted to force you to allow your kids to use a school laptop full of spyware?
This is backwards. Plastic gets those nicks and crevices as you point out. Good wood cutting boards don't absorb much, aren't good harbors bacteria anyway, and the nicks self heal.
You are right and I was wrong, reinventing the wheel is the least harmful thing of the like of htmlx. The actual dumb thing is that they cling on to a fundamentally wrong abstraction to build apps (form method), simply because that’s the web they’re familiar with.
You mean that fake syndrome that's not real?
here- try to my buggy, unfinished demo, you’ll probably understand it: https://waggledance.ai

source is available if you tap the GH icon in the footer.
870k is Cuban dipping his toes with a test account. Everyone has different risk profiles and adversity.
Try preparing leeks and if you can do it without biting sand your vegetable washing strategy is probably pretty good.
>they won't be printing and hanging up any photos from their Italian trip from their phone.

Meanwhile, literally hundreds of millions of other people are printing out and framing photos taken on their smartphones.
I think it's important to move bartenders away from a tip model to a salary model.

They would have a lower, but more consistent, income.
The reason SMS verification is popular isn't because it's effective against sybil attacks. It's not. You can get access to phone numbers in bulk for little money.

It's because most honest users only have one phone number, which makes it a useful unique ID for tracking the honest users. Anyone using it should immediately be under suspicion of selling you out.
It should be noted in context that the labels and text "microwave safe" refer to the safety of the product, not the human. The label is added to products that will not melt in the microwave - there is no testing of volatiles emitted.
I would characterize an LLM Agent to be "a software application of LLM" that is typically used to solve a problem that requires multiple steps.

The application uses an LLM to breakdown the problem into pieces and asks the LLM to choose a tool that is suited to handle each piece. The application then invokes the tool to solve that piece of the problem. This is iteratively done until the original problem is solved or determined to be unsolvable.

There are many agent variations, depending on whether you breakdown the problem once at the beginning, or understand what to do next based on the outcome of the previous step, or constantly evaluate and reprioritize which piece of the problem to solve next.

Because you rely on an LLM to understand the problem, if you chose an LLM that exhibits good world understanding, and designed the LLM Agent well enough, then you can use it to solve problems that traditionally required deterministic code.
That's just low effort picking a popular opinion for a hate target.
> the "real world" comparison would be iPhone vs nothing.

Or iPhone versus being-there-in-the-moment-yourself.

It's especially amusing when people watch entire live performances through the screen of their phone.
Yes, if they're not already washed. https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/communication/leafy-greens.ht...
> AI's power usage is performing useful calculations

A lot of AI's power usage is going towards generating images, or writing fiction, or doing any number of other things that don't help people improve any kind of physical processes. That's not to get into the GPU usage of video games, which by every economic measure consist of entirely useless calculations. In both AI and crypto you can find people using the resources to perform "useful" and "not useful" calculations; it's all subjective and at the end of the day people have the right to run up their electricity bill on whatever they fancy.

> If somebody invents a chip that uses 10% of the power, the industry would gladly adopt it and decrease consumption by 90%.

If someone created an invention that used 0.012% of the power to run a blockchain, many chains would gladly adopt it and decrease their energy consumption by 99.988%.

In fact that's exactly what Ethereum did, with its move from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake. Now, almost every new chain is PoS.

> This is the general pattern in computing, except for crypto.

Ethereum did it.
One thing that you could definitely miss is the gradual creep of latency. While throughput on terminal emulators is certainly infinitely faster than 300 baud physical terminals, latency has suffered a bit over time: buffering (sometimes to improve throughput) has added a frame here and some milliseconds there. Granted, I have Never used a physical terminal, but I believe some of them had enough circuity to locally update the cursor during line editing and whatnot, and if that was the case, in theory they should have excellent latency characteristics.

On one hand, these latency figures are so small that they're usually difficult to directly perceive; who can even notice the difference between e.g. 25ms and 30ms of latency? That aside though, I believe it likely still negatively impacts the experience. Personally, it feels extremely pleasing to use a pre-compositing desktop environment on a CRT display; the lack of latency is visceral. I am so used to modern machines that it typically feels like it's updating before I have even performed the action.

I think that modern terminal emulators and text editors in modern desktop environments on modern computers with modern peripherals run the risk of having latency bad enough that it actually, if only subtly, impacts typing. USB polling rates, relatively high latency 60hz panels, buffering from compositing, it all does add up over time for sure. Add SSH to the mix and it could legitimately make the difference between something feeling quite usable and something that is irritating.
Google data center pioneer Luiz André Barroso passes away
I have so many questions! Can anyone comment on the significance of doing this research in a zoo? I'm guessing it was a crime of opportunity since that's where zoologists work and can easily collect dead animals, but what does that mean for the research? Is it likely to be a representative sample of animals in the wild, despite the exposure to exotic animals from all over the world? If they were exposed there and a population established itself among zoo rats, how likely is it to spread from there?

What's up with that life cycle? Rat to snail seems like a weird combo. Usually parasites' lifecycle is a little more obvious like Leucochloridium paradoxum which infects snails that are then eaten by birds, who spread the eggs via droppings, or Toxoplasma gondii which gives rats a hankering for cat pee. What's the deal with the snails? Did the parasite just evolve in a field somewhere, where snails frequently came into contact with field rat droppings?

I wonder how many more pathogens are just waiting for some lucky exposure to break into the human population. Even before COVID brought that idea front and center, I remember going down a wikipedia rabbit hole during the Ebola outbreak and there is some terrifying stuff out there like hendra and nipah viruses with >50% mortality rates.
I just want to know how do I get this into a jupyter notebook.
> Let me play you the world's smallest violin for them.

You miss my point completely and i am unsure how to reword it.

Yes they are exclusively big players already, thats why it wont work through top down regulation and requires user action.

We might be better off without them, but i dont see how that could ever happen through top down regulation. The economic and political incentives are way to strong and bureaucracies way to unwilling and incompetent. You cant destroy such profitable business models through regulation, they have to much pull here. At best you get regulatory capture. It will be another iteration of "safe/privacy on paper" allowing for higher profits and more entrenched monopolies for said megacorps.

Intention is not a valid metric, outcome is.
It's a burn but it's accurate. Had three consultancies in (high end well known ones) and and two in house certified to their eyeballs professional cyber security experts in charge. All they did was tick a fuck load of boxes, run some scans, spend a lot of money and make it really hard for people.

Yet I managed to find a fully remote RCE and exploit it in 30 minutes after they did all this.

The industry is a fucking scam.
I fail to understand people that can't be bothered to empathize with other use cases than their own. Game development usually has a large number of binary assets that need to be in source control, does that sound like a reasonable use, or are they also doing it wrong?
You'd also need the distance between the pixels.
To be clear, if we could make real light sabers they would definitely not be allowed on planes.
I really don't understand the sentiment of "literally everyone would be better off if the TSA paid people to just stay home and do absolutely nothing at all". I can understand sentiments like the TSA is inefficient, or bloated, or wasteful, but does literally nothing?

Do you really think things would be better if we had no xray scanners for luggage or full body scanners for people? Someone needs to run those machines, and thats the job of the TSA. How can you say we would be better off without those?
I think that this is just a adtech-delivered spyware and likely exploits various zero-day browser issues. Those exploits will be ever changing as some are blocked and others are found. Pegasus has been doing this via SMS messages for more than a decade and they continue to be in operation quite successful even after each exploit made public is patched.
I don't know of a better option than what a number of blogs, like Daring Fireball [0] do, link the footnote number to to the footnote, end each footnote with a link back to the footnote number (typically using the ↩ character).

Kitty Giraudel wrote about a version that's a bit "extra." [1] They make a whole word or phrase the footnote link text but style automatically inserted CSS counters so only numbers have the appearance of a link. Plus, each link has a description, "Footnote," to make it more clear to screen reader users where it goes.

[0] https://daringfireball.net/2023/08/whats_the_deal_with_senso...

[1] https://www.sitepoint.com/accessible-footnotes-css/
It’s not unusual to take a camera on vacation and keep it handy whenever possible.
I'd think that 45K per month is a big number for most people on HN.
There were a LOT more plane hijackings (with guns and grenades!) pre 9/11.
I love seeing projects like this! I have one too, but it completely throws away compatibility and is very simplistic. I opted for a lisp-like language instead of a lua-like language (https://github.com/sid-code/nmoo but don't look at the code, it's embarrassing).

I have some questions:

- Does each verb call create a whole new world state that it mutates, and later commits to the database? That's the impression I get from reading the code. Does this come with a lot of overhead?
- What is that emacs mode you're using to edit verb code?
If you never watched the Hercule Poirot series with David Suchet, I highly recommend it. He filmed all the stories which spanned 25 years.
He’s also got a good book on it and what it was like to be Poirot for that long.
Ads generally run in iframes and iframes are considered a form of sandboxing.
> so many people my age mustered out of finding new music sometime in their college years.

There’s a collective pull too. If you’re open minded enough to appreciate new music, but your peers usually don’t, you end up enjoying things alone or only able to musically connect with college age people. The ability to enjoy music with the other similar age peers around you will generally pull you to the older stuff they enjoy too. (Unfortunately hasn’t worked for me)
"Firms violate Innocent-until-proven guilty (not to mention even the actual guilty have the right to run a business totally unrelated with the crime) and blackmail a video host, to police content unrelated to their business. Establishment rag gloats about it".
The problem is that the first hand the ticket touches is a reseller instead of a person that genuinely wants and enjoys the concert.

If the price is set from the Artist, venue, Ticketmaster at prices from $50-200 then they have made that decision.

The local mini libraries on the sides of streets have free books. You could take a book and sell it, but you are not the intended person. The intention of the transaction is for the genuine reader to read the book, put it back, or give new books. This intention is set by the originator of the transaction.

If the Artist wanted the most money, they would set the price accordingly.
I agree with your premise overall, but:

> But the US has a huge contingent of people fundamentally opposed to doing things like this even when it would make literally everything better for literally everyone.

I don't think this is why your idea won't happen. I've talked to many people over the years who are genuinely worried about terrorists and they believe that the TSA protects them. You can cite all the statistics in the world to them, and it won't matter. They are not rational on this topic. They will view "get rid of the TSA" as a huge negative impact to their safety, and will vehemently oppose it with or without the paying agents to stay home.

I do think that paying people to stay home instead of doing make-work is relatively unpopular in the US, so that doesn't help. But the biggest problem you will face is just that people don't want to get rid of the TSA no matter how you do it. The TSA is very unpopular in tech/geek circles (and for good reason), but I've found it to be quite popular with normies.
> I have a debit card from an EU bank. It's barely usable because every time I need to make a purchase, it has to go through 3DS and 50/50 the transaction gets rejected

I have 2 debit cards and two credit cards from UK banks, and my partner has the same. I genuinely don't think I've ever had 3DS reject a transaction for either of us.

> a fully dysfunctional system and yet somehow it has become solid because a "less" secure one has lost some people some money.

No, it's solid because of legislation. Improving the technical details doesn't help the situation, as most of the issues are legislative.
Crypto aside, I have idly wondered how/where the mega rich keep their money.

Is there a money manager effectively controlling a Schwab account with $1+ billion dollars? How do you minimize the blast radius to prevent internal/external loss of control? Even sub-dividing a fortune across N investment managers still leaves enormous targets painted on those accounts.

Or is it the more implicit threat that you do not steal from these people or the full weight of the government will aid in recovering these funds?
I think I get what the author trying to say. In my years as a graphic designer (mostly print), I intuitively knew when something “felt right”, and when that happened, I often have made something that I am still proud of today. It may have not been for everyone and it may have been hard to sell to clients (who often prefer what they have already seen in successful examples), but I didn’t care, because I saw the value in it and often a few other people also did.

Those were the projects that I redesigned multiple times, because the previous approach just didn’t “feel right”. I invested a lot of research into that feeling, it was somehow addictive (and sometimes equally frustrating) to me.

As a developer, I now have a similar experience with personal projects that grew out of my own curiosity. When doing something for clients, I often feel myself torn between what feels “right” to me and what the client actually wants or prefers. It may often not be what they really need, and I know that, but this is why I must have my personal projects, because client work often feels unfulfilling to me (however, it is fulfilling in a different way).
> ETH's PoW algo is memory hard

Note: Was memory hard. ETH's PoW algo was abandoned by the main chain as of last year.
The idea isn't new, but the fact that a company is commercializing spyware deliver via ad-networks is new.
If I enter your house through the front door and unlatch the patio door from the inside, I can then enter the house through the patio door
What happens if you take a picture of a noisy (or grainy) photo print using an iPhone?

Would it remove the noise?
I didn't quite understand the ants behaviours, like moving sand around, but thoroughly enjoyed this simulation. Cute.
Also you can pay money for TSA pre-check of CLEAR for faster security clearance. So those who have money to pay for those services are less impacted by TSA bloat.
Wayst – Simple terminal emulator for Wayland and X11
A climate scientist wanted to start a debate in academia. He set off a firestorm
“The paper I just published — ‘Climate warming increases extreme daily wildfire growth risk in California’ — focuses exclusively on how climate change has affected extreme wildfire behavior. I knew not to try to quantify key aspects other than climate change in my research because it would dilute the story that prestigious journals like Nature and its rival, Science, want to tell,” wrote Brown, co-director of the climate and energy team at the Breakthrough Institute, in Berkeley.
You only need a few minutes of thought to understand why electric vehicles will never be able to replace internal combustion engines as things stand today. They are little more than a way for rich people to demonstrate how green they are.
The reality is that relying on a cold storage wallet for security is just too much overhead when it's competing against a biometric scanner to authorisar a transaction that can be reversed with a phone call.
Good point, although I am less worried about the lack of scale and more about the lack of temporal persistence.

It seems like he needs to constantly push new products out there to maintain a steady income.
> Fortunately, the solution of just sticking to mainstream platforms works.

Well, it depends. For widespread non-targeted attacks, like the one mentioned in the parent comment, I think using a niche platform is a form of security through obscurity that can actually work, because it's possible the generic exploit you encounter is not designed to work on your non-standard system (like a virtual machine, a hardened configuration, a non-mainstream OS like OpenBSD...). Although this is more difficult on phones, because it's not possible to use some mainstream services on niche platforms due to attestation requirements.
This is very well-written. The author has more articles at this site, which are also worth reading: https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/contributor/michael_banks

I thought I knew a bit about WWII disinformation programs; but I learned quite a bit from this piece: https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/britains-raiding-...
> unit test suite with >95% test coverage

I'm sorry, but that claim is wild. This is nearly impossible unless your application consists of 5 classes and you are moving a few bits in memory. For a large application, anything over 75% sounds a bit fishy to say the least. And beyond that, it's practically unsustainable: the odds of making even a small refactor(which sooner or later you will need to), without wasting a week fixing your tests is a fairy tale.
Can someone explain how a third party app is getting access to her banking information on Android?

Aren't apps sandboxed?

Was this using regular Android security permissions, or was this relying on security vulnerabilities? And if vulnerabilities, is the problem that Androids often stop getting updates, so a large proportion of phones are sitting ducks?