skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I guess step 1 of modern cryptanalysis is, compromise the RNG.
As usual, the true test of whether something will stick is what apps/tools is Microsoft building with MAUI? If nothing, then good chance it is a yet another framework thrown at developers and abandoned five years later.
Ah, I meant I don't imagine places using Exchange switching to Thunderbird (in the future). Sorry for the confusion. But I don't know really.
I thought qps (queries per second) was bog standard.
Or at least decent text editor, which allows to have one physical line per paragraph in plain-text messages but wrap these long lines visually to size of the editor window. As simple as that.

Or good quoting engine. Does somebody remember FIDO's editor GoldEd? It made perfect multi-level quotes int most complex situations without problem, re-wrap and re-format lines to fit it in 80 columns (without breaking quotes in process!), it was real pleasure to read long threads because you always know who wrote what. And if you see broken quotes in echoarea you know, it is from usenet user, received via gateway with their shitty news clients.

Thunderbird is still shitty in this regard, 30 years later.
If Randall Munroe's name is not on the answer, it's not the answer.
What is this job where the position is so high up that it can make unilateral decisions on the tech stack but also needs to be punished if they know about Rust? Would you hire a team leader that didn't know what Rust was?
> I could make a long list of 'lies' that other car companies made up with actual harms that are completely ignored and never brought up.

Ah, back to the "Tesla is just another car company like all the rest" whataboutism.

> Even if what you said was true

It is.

> it's not okay to constantly make up misinformation about Tesla

So.. it's made up misinformation that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is doing an engineering analysis of Tesla's power steering problems?

> There's a long line of shortsellers, fossil fuel and car company anti-EV lobby money in the media and just plain haters making up things, and anyone pointing out the falsehoods personally attacked.

There's that paranoia again.
The Commodore VIC-20 was marketed as VC-20 in Germany and got backronym-d as "Volkscomputer": https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/VIC-20
This is a really cool idea.

If you have a Fantasy city which is these weird polygons - you could make some great themes on cities - What if you will have creeps coming from Your Occupied side of the map, and you have to identify the snipers in the buildings in order to create a safe pathway throgh the city for your creeps... (tower defense style) as you reveal in a click-through fog-of-war manner, when you reveal swaths of "streets" as you click, it will allw creeps to have a safe or not path - and you have to be able to click a safe path fast enough before youre creeps get sniped...

(now, if you want to make it super controversial with a viral hope; They are refugees attempting to escape a war torn sci-fi city as they are caught in the crossfire of to warring factions... the snipers dont shoot at the refugees, per se, they shoot across the path at eachother, and if the refugees have only that revealed path to run through - they wil get shot, so as long as you keep revealing safe routes, they will follow that, but if they reach fog or a revealed sniper alley, they will still take the sniper alley unless you safely de-fog a safe passage. Sometimes tanks roll down an alley and they will be turned to Student Burgers if they get caught by the tanks...

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You could do a multi-player version, which could be similar to https://GENERALS.io [0]

https://i.imgur.com/cUZ3kW1.png

https://i.imgur.com/k08X89r.png
>Then you still didn't audit anything. What you need to do is inspect the docker file, follow everything it pulls in and audit that

You don't need to audit anything it pulls in INSIDE the container. Who cares? Just what kind of access it gives the container to the host.
Like artificial “meats” there’s going to be a lot of artificial things in “printing” “cork” plain old plastics might be better.
You're suggesting that Andy Weir did not science the shit out of that?
I like where this is going. Keep it up.

However, I wonder if it wouldn't reach a far greater audience in C++?
So 3 times faster than LoRa but a third of the range on a similar band.
Considering that I remember reading the CIA’s own historical document on this operation, I would guess its usefulness had run its course. If I’m not mistaken, it was the CIA who released the document to journalists; it seemed like bragging.
I'm guessing the people who own those things acquired them with money. I'm sure it's possible to figure out a value.
Is this really a big factor?

Not being multiplanetary seems like the least of our existential problems here on Earth, and will continue to be that way for awhile.

At the same time, chemical rocket efficiency becomes totally irrelevant for a slightly more advanced civilization than us.
Modern slavery.
> If healthcare is so cheap,

Well it's not that cheap... It can be very expensive for serious accidents. You just almost never need to pay anything yourself. I'm not sure the cost for liability insurance is that much (or at all) higher in most of Europe though.
Also impervious to heat unless sustained above ~1000F for several hours.
You're misinterpreting the quote You're responding to.
I like the syntactic sugar of directly validating types through modules. However, configuration at some point always converges towards Turing completness. I’m biased but imo nothing beats TypeScript and schema validation tooling like Effect.Schema or Zod. Yes it’s more code to write but you’re not locked in and can adopt the system as needed.
Ah, the book Hooked + the aspiring MBA... A match made in heaven. And probably more responsible for regrettable product decisions than any other combination in modern history.

Signed,
An MBA who read Hooked
This might be a silly question, but what would be the downside of a single threaded language similar to javascript, but where every function is just 'async capable' and can always be non-blocking, with no special syntax like async/await?

So every time you call foo(); you anticipate that it might resolve immediately, or it might take some time, but it won't block any other function (unless it actually does some cpu bound operation)

And any time foo(); does something asynchronous, all of its callers, and its callers callers, become implicitly asynchronous too.

Of course you would have to have some primitive for when you actually want to do several things concurrently within the scope of a single function rather than blocking that function, but that doesn't sound too bad and in JavaScript you effectively need to use Promise.all most of the time anyway.

I'm sure there's some major downside I'm missing -- but what is it?
> DIY MBAs are low value.

MBAs are low value...depending on perspective. Around these parts, they are deemed very value, or at least in low regard. Look at Boeing as exhibit A.

If you're an engineering company that allows MBAs to make the decisions, you won't be a good engineering company for long. At that point, you become the dead carcass that the MBAs point to as to what their purpose is.
No mention of whether $180000 is reasonable for the medical treatment.

Insurance companies receive all of the blame, when the root cause is usually the providers.

Insurance companies are probably the only entity keeping costs down.

This is the case with auto insurance and medical insurance.

The publication is called “The Economist” but they are omitting a massive externality.
First fault-tolerant quantum computer launching this year
https://www.quera.com/
As a controls engineer, I strongly discourage using hertz as a measure of events. It's an abuse of notation.

In control theory and signal processing, we refer to the frequencies that make up a signal in hertz. The maximum frequency a control law can track is called its bandwidth, which is in hertz. Frequencies a filter is passing or stopping are in hertz.

Computers being digital, we have to run that control law or signal processing algorithm at some rate. That rate also gets referred to in hertz, a lot, and it is a cause of no end of confusion, because the running rate of the algorithm is very much not the same as the bandwidth or filter bandpass. The Nyquist criterion says that the algorithm has to run at least twice as fast as the frequency of interest, but practice more like ten times faster. SO when we refer to a control law as "500 Hz" or whatever, I have to explain which sense I mean every damn time.

Don't do it. Events happen at events per second. Hertz refers to sine waves, and NOTHING ELSE.
What a weird take. If you do live in WA, you’re well aware of just how rural WA is. You full well know public transportation isn’t a viable option. You should also know that Seattle’s public transportation isn’t something to write home about. And you’re fully aware that commutes of >30 minutes are not uncommon, in part die to how unaffordable the greater Puget Sound if.

A car is a basic necessity of life for the vast majority of Washingtonians. Congratulations on being the vast, vast minority.
> Will they do CSP AND actors (they're different!)? Will there be some kind of OpenMP type thing?

Rust builds support for all of these models based on it's basic underlying "shared ^ mutable" and "Send/Sync" safety guarantees. It should be quite clear based on this whether you're sharing access to some read-only data, staying within a single-threaded context with mutability, or relying on some sort of synchronization primitive (be it atomic data, locks, r/w mutexes etc). The fact that we understand some uses of these facilities as involving patterns such as "CSP" or "Actors" is quite beside the point.
> I presume a planet with 1.5x the radius of Earth and 3x the gravity would have an atmosphere that is far more thick and any rocket would have to contend with a significant amount of drag.

I'm sure that's true holding all else the same, but all else isn't the same.

Maybe it's airless due to stronger stellar winds.
Advanced demagogy.
Minecraft addiction in real life
> TikTok’s “Tunnel Girl” has focused fresh attention on the amateur excavators who build their own underground infrastructure — often in defiance of local laws.

Gotta love we’re at the point where digging a tunnel on your own land, which you own, is illegal lol
Your corn-based pain amuses me, cretin. I'll deign some packets of cane sugar to alleviate your pathetic woes.

(Honestly, HFCS prob has wreaked legit havoc via the "death by 1000 papercuts" method.)
That strikes me as a very uncurious perspective. There’s absolutely nothing that could be improved about configuration files? An 87MB binary feels like a very arbitrary measure of worthiness.
I’d be quite surprised to see a company not using code reviews. Nowadays I work with a pretty large CI/CD pipeline, but even when we were a small company we enforced code reviews on all changes.

I’ve seen people be a lot looser with code execution though.
Yes, the windows registry, the peak of our craft. No need to innovate, this one’s solved, wrap it up and move on

Try taking more time to consider the problems you don’t have that others do, instead of writing anything off that doesn’t make sense to you (and simultaneously gatekeeping an entire industry)
i.e. "bad" CEO. I don't really think the reason matter.
This is what I describe as "stackful coroutines" in the final section of the post.
Why can't it be both? I mean the coverage limits in the US are still ridiculously low by Western standards and would hardly cover serious treatment throughout much of Europe despite healthcare being cheaper there.
A friend bought this as a gift for me 10+ years ago: The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business by Josh Kaufman [0].

I've given it as a gift to other friends.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Personal-MBA-Master-Art-Business/dp/B...
There’s an old myth that Seymour Cray used to dig tunnels in his backyard.
You must not live in the west coast if you believe it is “well developed”.

All west coast states are largely rural where public transportation is ineffective and cars are a basic necessity of life.
And a writeup on how those companies are usually scams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
I only count my requests in pints per fortnight.
>This one doesn't.

That isn't accurate. Jujutsu doesn't even let you have untracked, working, or staged changes as everything is always committed (except for what's in .gitignore). Any change you make will be forced to be part of your current commit.
The reason it matters is that I don't want to have to deal with it on the front end
Another article on 2% tax on assets of the wealthy.

I wonder how that would change the payoff calculations for business founders?

If winning means you just get your winnings taken by taxes over the rest of your life, why work to win?

https://80000hours.org/2014/05/how-much-do-y-combinator-foun...

The median return for a founder is essentially $0. Because most startups fail.

The average return for a YC founder is skewed heavily upwards by one or two ultra-successful unicorns.

Plenty of founders are motivated by non-monetary goals (especially status).

But would people still be incentivised to become founders if the amount you get to own after decades of taxes rounds to $0?

Some pundits suggest a cap on wealth "limitarianism".

Incentive structures matter.

It appears to me that a lot of small businesses are run by people investing huge amounts of their time to go from having a few million to a few million more.

A 2% tax above a cliff means that people will stop developing their businesses once they reach the cliff.

Socialism via taxation policy?
Oh, I’m sure they’re big on redundancy. I mentioned correlated failures, however, because that has multiple failure modes and the one I was thinking about is something like physical degradation: redundancy doesn’t help if all of your redundant nodes have a component which fails at roughly the same time. There’s a reason why storage admins learned to mix hard drive brands and manufacturing batches in RAID arrays, and that problem is much harder to solve in space.
> Paying for peace of mind is much less important.

Sure, but it's pretty important from the perspective of the people you might seriously injure and their families.
"Convenient software/hardware bugs"... but "they are not backdoors, I swear!"
This sounds like fine a way to mine Bitcoin for someone else
If it is in a suburban area (as is the case with the creator mentioned in your quote) a collapse would put surrounding properties at risk
Installed uBlocklist, and both quora and pinterest are on it, never have to see them in results again.
Can population increase change Earth's gravitational pull?
Four Career Lessons That Forever Changes My Software Engineering Path
> Till today, I use the "unhackable" iPod Nano 7g.

CUB3D recently got code execution on n6g/n7g via a freetype 1day (comex's star vuln/exploit, after using another bug which allowed disabling resource partition checks).

https://github.com/CUB3D/ipod_sun
the biggest threat to a citizens privacy is always your own government.
In the early-2010s I was driving a budget car from 1995 (a ford escort). When white LEDs became the norm, I’d often be in the situation of trying to drive into the shadow cast by my car from the headlights of the other car.

I’m still shocked that regulations haven’t put lower limits on headlight brightness.
Thank you for all those links. I trust you that they support the "€1 / km" figure.
Still a fascinating mystery. Most likely they just crashed into the sea, but the many possibilities are tantalising.
Right, in a sense, we all own the infra they're endangering.

Now out on the farm, maybe do what you want.
Hertz is the SI unit of frequency.
You need permits to dig a tunnel in Herndon (VA), so it’s not illegal. Similar to any major construction on your home. She didn’t secure them beforehand.
Are these blob type of attacks accessible after boot? Essentially, are these only accessible if you have physical access? And at that point, isn't it game over anyways?
Ask HN: What do you dislike about using Image Gen AI or AI assisted tools?
Like Midjourney or Stable Diffusion?
In all honesty I think grandpa's and dad's causes were getting home
with all their arms legs still attached, but I hear you. Once the
sound of trumpets fades and the flags are folded, it's hard to get out
of your head what has been internalised so deeply. Yeah they're just
words, usually uttered by men who've sacrificed nothing.

But hey, this thing about "consent". Jolly interesting. Because not a
single person I've met born after 2000 really has the capacity

I do not mean that in a disparaging way, but I do mean it in a serious
legal sense. I don't think that in the 21st century the vast majority
of adults have the capacity to consent to digital contracts. It
started with EULAs, and has since plunged the entire legal profession
into degeneracy. It's total failure to protect the lives of common
people from technology predators is shameful.
Except she’s digging it in 200sqft of urban housing backyard in Herndon, VA USA. If you have 10 acres and want to dig a hole, go for it. But if you want to dig a tunnel in your backyard and your two neighbors houses are 100ft or less away… yeah, I would think twice.
A badly-dug tunnel can be a huge risk to your neighbors' properties, as well as to any underground infrastructure in the area.
Digging can affect utilities, water drainage, cause subsidence… of course it’s illegal, unless you get a permit. If you want to dig without a permit go to some place in the middle of nowhere.
A car ride isn't 'content'.
Holy crap! I've never watched that show, but thats funny as heck that this was a thing. (and they even say "I don't have HydroStatic Equillibrium yet...) too funny is the Akashic Zeitgeist...
Pringles can wifi hacking has been around since 2005ish. I also remember someone using a spider strainer as a cheap handheld dish with a USB stick wifi transceiver placed near the focus.

https://www.instructables.com/Wifi-Signal-Strainer-WokFi/

At some point people were trying to set the record for the longest range wifi signal.
great video
Modifications to structures and land in almost all developed economies is subject to planning law. Even something as apparently free as rainfall collection can be subject to regulation. It can be encouraged or discouraged, depending.
- "A physical [photonic] qubit with built-in error correction" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39243929
> “At the point”

There are many things you cannot do on your property, and that has been true for a long long time.
PayPal billionaire Peter Thiel invests in controversial doped Olympics
One time my dad installed a new driver on a Windows 95 machine that somehow broke the sound card output. Sound on that computer didn't work again until I re-installed the OS. Rebooting that computer meant walking away and finding something else to do for a while.

The macs I got to use in school felt inhumanly slow. I never got to use one of the fun colored macs but I heard those were a big step up.

Windows XP was a big improvement. Downloading and installing SP2 and SP3 was daunting on a 56k connection. Still, the OS was plagued by malware. I remember running various malware scans constantly.

Mac OSX on the first intel based macs was a massive step up from Windows XP. It converted me from a die hard Windows fan to a mac user. I still prefer macs.

For a while I used Windows 7 and it was ok. Better than XP and everything that came after 7, but still not that great in my opinion. One thing that drove me crazy was fixing fuzzy tex issues in Windows 7.

Not long ago I re-installed Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) on my 2007 MacBook. I was surprised by how snappy it was compared to my 2018 MacBook Air, and even my M1 pro. To this day the computer I miss the most was my 2013 MBP.

I would argue that Mac OS kept getting better until 2013-2017-ish. Windows peaked at Windows 7. Linux desktops struggle to compete with Windows. The operating system play a huge role in user experience. Declining UX quality in operating systems makes the good stuff not as good and makes the bad stuff really stand out.
This is so refreshing! As sibling commenter [0] mentions, this is clearly inspired by Dynamicland, and even uses the "Claim/When" syntax that Dynamicland uses to implement their "Realtalk" operating system.

When Omar's post about Dynamicland [1] hit the front page last month, I was frustrated by how little information was available about the project. It seems that the folks behind Dynamicland were very against sharing anything online [2] due to concerns about "including everybody".

On the one hand, I admire their vision. But on the other hand, it doesn't feel obvious to me that holding back something like Dynamicland would help it ultimately become "available everywhere." Even their answer of "come visit us in person" isn't relevant anymore since their physical space is closed.

I'm very excited about this approach - even if it isn't open source, they've shared far more information about the way the system works. I'm sure this will inspire others and ultimately blossom into something much greater.

Edit: actually, it's open source here: https://git.folk.computer/folk

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39242467

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38979412

[2]: https://gist.github.com/shaunlebron/4b9a9a986fca1e7abd0bfcad...
Thanks for the tips.

Unfortunately, my visa would have a "no recourse to public funds" note -- so I wouldn't be able to avail myself of any reimbursement scheme.

Besides, "3+" is also a problem, as one of mine is much younger than that. (The difficulty of raising children is naturally front-loaded; it starts out very hard, and gets easier and easier as they grow. What's interesting is that the UK assistance plan only kicks in as things get much easier. The difference between a two year old and a three year old is vast.)

The University's childcare scheme is certainly not free -- it's a whopping $1840/child/month. https://www.childcare.admin.cam.ac.uk/nursery-fees

If you're an employee, they take it out of your salary. It's not even discounted. But they charge for it "before income tax, and that's where your savings come in." I'm not joking.

Imagine spending $3700/month just on daycare.
Wow interesting read. I am sure it might be a little one sided, but this is still a great data point.
Show HN: A Python and JavaScript package of 100 link shorteners
Hi HN! I run a link shortening service (https://y.gy), and I kept running into a problem where users were submitting spam links that were cloaked via other link shortening services.

One of the solutions was to index and ban all other link shorteners. I'm making this index public and easily available in the hope that some of you may also find it helpful for reducing spam.
What domain are you working in where Rust is the replacement for Python?
Wow, I was at Apple back in the 2018 timeframe when Peter was first building this. He was hoping to make it open sourced even back then, 6ish years ago. Great to see that it finally made it.

I really wish Apple would learn to play nicer with the OSS community. I have yet to see them deciding to open-source something backfire on them monetarily or reputationally, and I've seen the act of them abruptly close-sourcing things sour community opinion (i.e. FoundationDB).