skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of several attacks that can be used to generate valid TLS certificates for domains you don't own. There are mitigations but they can all be defeated. This will persist until there is reform among internet standards groups, but they are controlled by the browser market, and they aren't responsible for generating the certs, so it's one of those "nobody is responsible so it will never be fixed" deals.
What are the constraints that you want for the name?

I was thinking "Pragmata", or something along those lines.

Continuing with natureish themes:
Alga
Moss
Myco
Wisp
Ivy
COSMIC DE (Rust-based) supports rust-windowing/winit apps, which compile to a <canvas> tag in WASM.

winit:
https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit
Lords of the Rising Sun was written in Modula2 on the Amiga

https://www.google.com/search?q=lords+of+the+rising+sun

My understanding (please correct me) is that Turbo Pascal on PC was actually Modula2 ?
Why searches? Because the post I replied to stated "I cannot currently search the web for any sort of art without drowning in a swamp of AI results".

I don't see anything supporting this claim so I asked for how it was obtained.

Also, styles aren't copyrighted. Specific works are. I can paint in the style of anyone and sell it no problem. I can use whatever tools I want for that. If I clone a specific work, then I may be in violation.
I don't understand the tone of this announcement at all. "This is your captain speaking. I'm excited to announce that I have a parachute. Also, the plane is crashing. I wish you all the best in the new year."
It isn't "one and done." Room temperature superconductivity will be an amazing breakthrough, but there will be many more barriers to overcome before it becomes a practical product.
> The solution is better anti-trust

....how? Just saying "better anti-trust" isn't a usable solution.

Chromium is an open source project. What's the government to do, split the codebase in half/thirds? Chromium got to where it was because of the downstream decisions of developers not wanting to waste months/years of their lives reimplementing something that was already implemented.

"Someone else had already done the laborious legwork with Chromium, let's just use that."

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If you want to actually solve this problem:

- Purge and ban software patents & copyrights. No entity should have total control as to how to implement efficient H.264 playback in the browser, nor native GPGPU support.

- Rewire human behaviour to inherently fear any market share of > 60%. Humans will continue to want to concentrate around a few choices as a result of network effects.

- STOP WITH WANTING NEW FEATURES. Every new shiny object that you desire will inevitably be replaced by the next shiny object, with only 10% of them sticking around in relatively popular use for any notable period of time. Browser devs, meanwhile, can't have the luxury of dropping support for <rarely used feature X>, and have to keep maintaining each one for some niche case.

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I've already said my response to this: STOP wanting more features. The number of features that a browser dev has to support right out of the box is the major contributor for there being so few browser engines to choose from.

(Copied from a previous comment I made before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37733053)

> There's an argument to be made that the extreme breadth of scope that modern web browsers are obliged to support (in order to gain/retain market share) heavily contributes to there being no worthy contenders against Chromium's web monopoly.

> https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope....

> When you're the leader, you can further widen your lead by bolting on additional functions & features that require at least X amount of effort to implement. Any new contender will have to put in SUM(X effort for each feature) to match feature parity with the existing leader, and existing competitors will have to put in at least X effort to catch up. Existing OSS work can help bridge the gap, but only for what's already been done.
Cheers and sadness on junior NHS doctors' picket line
Indie Fund I
You might be surprised how many shadow IT projects end up becoming load-bearing members in businesses. (I think this is mostly a good thing, because it works out a lot more often than it fails, but when it fails like this, it can be very disruptive.)
>Taken all together, it's not completely surprising that a CEO of a trillion dollar company makes $10M/year (or receives stock of that value).

I mean, sure. a trillion dollar company, 10m dollar salary, that's not even 1 hundredth of a percent of the company.

Apparently the Mozilla foundation is around 2 billion in revenue a year. But how is that worth 70% of the above salary (I won't count stocks, it makes sense that if a company makes more money, shareholders make more money)? $we're already well beyond retirement levels of funding in a few years and they double it in 2 years.
They also need a runway, which they don't.
I didn’t think it was necessary to put a disclaimer: they are my favorite characters in all of the literature that I personally have read. I can’t speak to my preferences about the millions of books I haven’t read, Karazamov sadly being one of them. I certainly hope that there are literary characters out there that I would like as much, or more, but I haven't met them yet, and so, continue searching.

I haven’t read Hornblower since I was a teenager, so some it might have gone over my head back then. My read on it was that it was more of an adventure story than anything. With the Master and Commander series I often find that the parts where they aren't at sea are the most interesting (The Fortune of War, The Surgeons Mate, Treason's Harbour are three of the books with particularly interesting periods on land). I am also biased since the subtle humor in the books is something I find particularly funny.
I'm mostly on board with your proposal as I've seen a felony speeding conviction stop a friend from getting tech jobs over 5 years after it happened. His situation would have been totally different if he was caught 2 weeks before, it wouldn't have been a felony but the state arbitrarily changed the law. He didn't wreck, cause a wreck, or wasn't participating in street racing.
If you've got that out of a random password generator, beat yourself for not having bought a lottery ticket instead of generating a password
Well, it has been an Incredible Journey.

https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
The JVM did that many years ago and nobody liked it. I can't help but think wasm is just the same idea but worse.
Right, but thousands is a minuscule number - there are myriads of services out there. While it would've been nice if 23andMe would've used a service like this, can't exactly blame them if they didn't - it's not like this is some well-established industry standard, but more like an extra effort by extra security-conscious companies.
Many private sector companies handle data that the general public probably shouldn’t. Extending special protections to the state that are not allowed to private employers is ridiculous and unsafe.

Companies like credit bureaus or banks or the telcos or airlines or hospitals are effectively arms of the state at this point. You don’t get to opt out of the oligarchy with consumer choice.
Let me restate that - California isn't producing the insulins that people want.
A 3/4 mile radius is a lot. There are quite a few small cities in the Bay Area that have this and more, although maybe not the museums. And they’re not very dense.
I have a synology single HDD NAS, which syncs to cloud. Its kinda slow but handy.
There is a Corolla built for the track. Any other Corolla will completely fail within a few laps.

https://www.toyota.com/grcorolla/
People are dropping like flies. It's not manufactured. Lots of people are having respiratory problems and this is one of the main problems of death in older and immunocompromised adults.
Another unfortunately place where MD5 is widely used: pirate libraries such as Library Genesis and Anna's Archive. While content is distributed at large in torrents with SHA1-summed shards, and Anna's Archive at least offers some structured metadata which would allow to slowly migrate away from MD5, files are still indexed using MD5 as primary key, and any other kind of file hash is nowhere to be found.

Pirate libraries are particularly important to preserve our cultural heritage in a transparent and trustworthy way. A role that traditional libraries sadly cannot fulfill due to draconian copyright laws, especially around digital books. With archive.org as notable exception.
>Yes, there are bad CEOs out there, but they are not generally all bad.

most of the Fortune 500 don't seem to have much good to talk about. Let alone what justifies 8 figure compensation.

I guess we'll never truly know, but it does make one wonder how much change it'd be for those to be run by CEOs for a tenth of the compensation (which mind you, is still 7 figures).
I haven't been in the office for over two years. I don't miss it one bit. I'm in constant contact (maybe too constant at times) with the teams I work with via email, Teams chats, video calls, and all of that sort of thing.

Being remote works for me. It works for many people. If it doesn't for you, then that's the way it is.
LK-99 saga continues: Chinese labs report replication at -23°C
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00999

Manifold: https://manifold.markets/postjawline/will-the-meissner-effec...
Look up what? If I ask a dev the time complexity of a function they’ve just written, what are you expecting them to lookup? They should be able to tell me on the spot and we can discuss if it’s optimal
I used to run synergy back in the pentium III days, the trick was to change the windows service priority to real time - once that was done there was no noticeable mouse lag.

I was using windows and a sun box, the windows box had to be the one with the mouse/keyboard connected so ctrl-alt-delete would work.
They don’t really do the same thing. Airplane is a developer focused tool to quickly productionize scripts. Its closest competitor is windmill.dev. All these may be converging in the same direction but Airtable offers nothing for me to migrate to.
This is why open source and/or self-hosting tools are important.
> We're not talking about regeneration here

That's reserved for the Axolotl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axolotl#Regeneration
Generally speaking, not really worried about it. I don't see HN as a risk vector. If I was worried about it, I would have run it through a standalone browser on a fresh machine (or VM) behind a VPN, and not spoken in my "voice" (I would have used ChatGPT to rewrite)

Not the first time I've used a throwaway, and they've never merged my comments into my main account (only use throwaways for these types of discussions - I assume abusing it, such as ban evasion, would be a different story)
I'm kind of a fan of Lola, an easy-to-learn HDL which was inspired by Pascal/Oberon vs. Verilog (inspired by C) and VHDL, inspired by Ada.

I like Wirth's whole software stack: RISC-5 (not to be confused with RISC-V) implemented in Lola, Oberon the language, and Oberon the environment. IIRC Lola can generate Verilog - I think the idea was that students could start with an FPGA board and create their own CPU, compiler, and OS.

I also like his various quips - I think he said something like "I am a professor who is a programmer, and a programmer who is a professor." We need more programmer/professors like that. Definitely an inspiration for systems people everywhere.
What's Bad for Harvard Is Good for America
I'm aware of the idea. I'm also aware that I can read and understand a whole lot of pages of code in the amount of time it takes me to decipher a few lines of K for example, and the less dense codes sticks far better in my head.

I appreciate brevity, but I feel there's a fundamental disconnect between people who want to carefully read code symbol by symbol, who often seem to love languages like J or K, or at least he better able to fully appreciate them, and people like me who want to skim code and look at the shape of it (literally; I remember code best by its layout and often navigate code by appearance without reading it at all, and so dense dumps of symbols are a nightmare to me)

I sometimes think it reflects a difference between people who prefer maths vs languages. I'm not suggesting one is better than the other, but I do believe the former is a smaller group than the latter.

For my part I want grammar that makes for a light, casual read, not having to decipher. I want to be able to get a rough understanding with a glance, and gradually fill in details, not read things start to finish (yes, I'm impatient)

A favourite example of mije is the infamous J interpreter fragment, where I'd frankly be inclined to prefer a disassembly over the source code. But I also find the ability to sketch out such compact code amazing.

I think Wirths designs very much fit in the languages that are skimmable and recognisable by shape and structure category. I can remember parts of several of Wirths students PhD theses from the 1990s by the shape of procedures in their Oberon code to this day.

That's not to diminish Whitney's work, and I find that disconnect in how we process code endlessly fascinating, and regularly look at languages in that family because there is absolutely a lot to learn from them, but they fit very different personalities and learning styles.
While NeXT wasn't a big commercial success, they were wise to innovate on a boring foundation (Mach/BSD, PostScript, Objective-C) while architecture astronauts working on Taligent, Cairo, and Copland were off reinventing the wheel.
A dev being able to tell you the time complexity of their code isn’t trivia it’s a very important tool to be able to document, discuss trade offs and generally plan for time complexity at scale.

I’ve worked and led teams in multiple problem domains. Devs not understanding how to optimize to avoid slow time complexity is definitely one of the first nuts you have to crack in a new engineer.
If there are continued costs associated with running the service, sure, I’ll pay a subscription if it’s good enough. A subscription for static content is a complete and total grift. Such content should be a one-time payment, which I will happily pay if it’s good enough
No, I provided one example, made it clear it's one example, and did not remove the surrounding context (in fact, providing more of it, which the author of that blog fails to do). Those are very different things.

> It's not just weak studies. Guzey provides multiple examples of demonstrably false statements in the book. There is also flagrant data manipulation. For example, rather than reproducing a chart from a study, Walker presents a modified chart with the data removed that contradicts the claim he wants to make. This calls into question the quality of the entire book and Walker's integrity as a researcher.

I did not see any examples of actual research being misrepresented. Where does this happen?

Throughout the post, Guzey is effectively saying: "Walker's book says X but a study says Y" without mentioning the study was released after the book, sometimes years. This is literally the first study linked to that suggests there's no correlation between sleep length and longevity (2018 meta analysis, book released 2017), which is a point the author isn't making in that first section, when viewed in context. If the argument is it's poor communication on Walker's part in the book, sure, I'll agree to that. That's not what Guzey is arguing though; rather he's arguing a statement that doesn't seem to be made. To put it plainly, these two statements are very different:

- If you do not get enough sleep, there is a correlation to worse health effects, worse health outcomes, and less lifespan

vs

- If you don't sleep a minimum number of hours, you will have a shorter lifespan

Walker appears (in context) to suggest the former, while Guzey is arguing against the latter. One of the first problems with any study (let alone meta-analysis) in sleep has to contend with is the fact that the individual data points may require a different number of hours of sleep to be properly rested, and that sleep quality can vary greatly. Simply counting the hours is insufficient.

Really, maybe there's a bigger discussion to be had around the reproducibility crisis as a whole and what it means for people who author books. The problem with books and subjects like this is that they can be an in-time snapshot of knowledge, which are often incorrect when further reviewed (see: Power posing and related). Maybe ethically social scientists should be barred from publishing.
There are some segments of autobahn in Germany where there is no speed limit. There are many segments where there is a speed limit, varying from 80 mph to 60 mph, especially in or near cities where most people live. There are many segments where there is dense traffic or road construction. You can't just speed through those areas at 160 mph while shouting "out of my way, peasants!"
Yes, this is sad to hear. This blog post from Airplane https://www.airplane.dev/blog/no-code-has-no-future-in-a-wor... had resonated with me. I think platforms which help teams securely deploy and manage low-code solutions generated with AI assistance are going to become popular. The challenge for Airplane might have been that SaaS (as against open source) in the developer tools space is difficult to sell.
I guess the pilot decided to crash the plane, kill thousands of passengers and celebrate it with words of excitement and gratitude.
Btw, Happy New Year!
> I also wonder if the regenerative braking is less efficient / engages less often when dealing with larger weight

I'd def be interested to hear more if this is true, my gut tells me you should actually be able to get more energy from regenerative breaking, but could def see it not being set up for towing at all and sensing the extra weight falling back on traditional brakes earlier.
I have all of that in 10-15 minute walks in my extremely suburban neighborhood. Hell I’ve got regular full sized grocery store and a super sized grocery store within a 10 minute walk and a super Walmart in a 15 minute walk.
My company had a significant product based on an early stage startup's product -- before we signed a license with them, we negotiated a code escrow agreement with the company. And it was good that we did because about a year later they got acquired by a company that didn't want to continue selling the product we used, but we got the source code so were able to maintain the product. We picked up a couple of the developers that were working on that product too.
If you see what the GT3 RS can do then you’ll understand why a regular Joe can’t maintain it. They’re basically a GT3 race car with a little less downforce (it has DRS too) and (barely) street tires. Everything is made of carbon fiber and special alloys. All new sports cars are going that way, computers are an irreversible need for performance today. Not just for the engine, but for brakes, traction control, suspension control, etc.
“Retooling, that’s a good excuse.

I’LL RETOOL YOU!”
I think crimes of violence are relevant to any/all roles.

I don’t want to hire or work with anyone who has ever at any point in their life used violence to attempt to solve problems.

I am fine with a percentage of human beings being blacklisted permanently from access to much of society. Violence has no place in our world.

I won’t even hire former cops. It is, unfortunately, illegal in the US to explicitly avoid hiring ex-military.

I don’t really care about whether or not they have “changed their ways” or “grown as a person” - there are lots of people out there to choose from who have never been violent.
> People are dropping like flies. It's not manufactured.

I... think you need to reread the article (or even the headline) a little more carefully.
They offered a nearly free runtime and free network ingress/egress. You’d only have to buy one $10 seat and use it for ETL to cost them a lot of money a month. No idea if anyone did that though.
Which obviously means you also have to pay for cloud storage right? What cloud storage do you use?
It’s not that hard to get librdkafka linked to your Go code.

I did it in a day, behind a corporate firewall, without root access, and an outdated GCC compiler.

Most of the day was spent compiling a new version of GCC.
container2wasm > Additional Resources: https://github.com/ktock/container2wasm#additional-resources :

vscode-container-wasm:
https://github.com/ktock/vscode-container-wasm :

> VSCode extension for running containers on VSCode for the web (e.g. github.dev, [vscode.dev,]), leveraging container2wasm

Chromebooks can run vscode.dev and WASM.

Is this the best way to `git clone` and run `python -m this` in a Bash/ZSH shell on a Chromebook?

This could be useful with jupyter-repo2docker.
It's a shame that Pascal was largely abandoned (except for Delphi, which lived on for a while); I believe several Pascal compilers supported array bounds checking, and strings with a length field. In the 1980s this may have been considered overly costly (and perhaps it is considered so today as well), but the alternative that the computing field and industry picked was C, where unbounded arrays and strings were a common source of buffer overflow errors. Cleaning this up has taken decades and we still probably aren't done.

Better C/C++ compilers and libraries can help, but the original C language and standard library were certainly part of the issue. Java and JavaScript (etc.) may have their issues but at least chasing down pointer errors usually isn't one of them.
I work in multiple problem domains as I lead teams on multiple projects across orgs. My comment about network requests is because one of the most common issues I see in inexperienced engineers is writing database code locally where they add a lookup and insert on some dataset inside of a loop. Regardless of language this is unacceptably slow when a real network is involved.
Very noisy, because I'm not concerned about HN. Not the first time I've used an alt, whether as a throwaway or logging in via my employer's account. I have comfort in HN's integrity when I'm not abusing the privilege.
Yes true

What I'd blame 23andMe for, is having encouraged so much all that sharing of sensitive data with other accounts, without providing additional safeguards to access such data.
I don't think it's a good idea to depend on yet another third party domain in this way.

The check has low value.

HaveIBeenPwned only provides value when it positively informs about a pwned password, otherwise it says nothing useful.

If you're already rejecting weak passwords using some heuristics, then the remaining passwords are unlikely to show up on that site, because, strong passwords are unlikely to be pwned, even if reused and subject to a breach.
Ants have been doing the whole "advanced civilization" before long before humans even evolved. There's a ton of stuff we still have to learn about, and from, them.

edit - didn't see eigenket's comment basically saying the same thing
This is the same legal system that still uses polygraphs as “lie defectors” and known-junk DNA matching tests as fact, so this isn’t exactly shocking.
I personally don’t trust anything other than the confluent-kafka/v2 package.
The industry picked C when Pascal was still widely supported, not as a result of it being abandoned.
Buy out competition. Phase them out. Migrate customers to your product. Bump prices across all tiers. Pump your P&L. Sell stats to vulture capitalists for Z funding round. Rinse and repeat. Eventually IPO. Founders cash out equity. Retail investors left holding the bag and leadership handed off to B-school flunkies. Product eventually circles the drain. Gets picked up by some private equity and guts it for pieces and eventually selling off to bloodmoor.
Orbit Bridge Hackers Drain $81M in Crypto Assets
Turns out this only turns off some of the telemetry. Turning it off completely is not entirely trivial.

https://github.com/K3V1991/Disable-Firefox-Telemetry-and-Dat...