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Show HN: SecretPixel – Advanced Image Steganography Tool
SecretPixel is a cutting-edge steganography tool designed to securely conceal sensitive information within images. It stands out in the realm of digital steganography by combining advanced encryption, compression, and a seeded Least Significant Bit (LSB) technique to provide a robust solution for embedding data undetectably.
One thing is that a large fraction of C/C++ devs are hired by big companies. And those tend to have a large amount of legacy code and in-house tooling. Adding one more language to such big ecosystem can be a significant investment than kicking off a new project from scratch, so they need a good transition story to convince stakeholders and get actual funding(=more headcount/jobs).

I think Rust has reached to the level where many of us agree on that it's probably a good idea to move on, but probably not many of us have a good idea on how to do that. Hopefully some teams are eager to do that, so we will see some success story soon then more and more teams will explore such possibility.
Earth mass: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_mass :

> An Earth mass (denoted as
M_E or
M⊕ ( M_{\oplus } ), where 🜨 is the standard astronomical symbol for Earth), is a unit of mass equal to the mass of the planet Earth. The current best estimate for the mass of Earth is M🜨 = 5.9722×10^24 kg, with a relative uncertainty of 10^−4. It is equivalent to an average density of 5515 kg/m3.

Average mass of a human: 50-75kg, depending on whether it's babies or not

Population of Earth: 8.1x10e9

Total mass of humans: ~ 400-600 x 10e9

Proportion of Earth's mass composed of live humans: 500e9 / 5.9e24 = 8.4e-14 = 0.00000000000084 %

According to the video series on "How the pyramids were built" at https://thepump.org/ by The Pharaoh's Pump Society, the later pyramids had a pool of water at the topmost layer of construction such that they could place and set water-tight blocks of carved stone using a crane barge that everybody walked to the side of to lift.
People tend to forget, that if you can transmit 3km away, all the signals from everyone in that 3km circles are being received by your device too. With 2.4ghz wifi in busy apartment buildings, all the channels are overcrowded already, there is some space left on 5ghz, but not a lot, so that's why we've been going higher in frquencies for more bandwidth.

We also have other systems for unlicenced long-range communications (eg. LoRa), but once that becomes (more) popular, the spectrum will be full of that too.
Where do you live now with cheap childcare? We live in a DC suburb, and daycare was at least $1600/kid (we have 3, though only 2 at a time in daycare), and when they were infants it’s $2k.
I’m not sure how that is workable. If they have investments, they deprecate at 2%/year no matter what after $100m? Of course, the IRS doesn’t take a share of those assets, only cash, so they have to liquidate 2% of their assets each year, but only if they are worth more than $100m (assets - debts I guess?). Sounds like an auto economic cash given what has to be liquidated each year.
I’m not talking about the Overton Window. I mean specifically in the US based on survey data, young men vote about like they did 15 years ago, and women on average are much more likely to vote for the left leaning party. That’s all I mean.
Excellent! I need to mess around with them at some point.
So don’t use Google products then.
EVERYTHING IS FINE. WOULD YOU LIKE A BRAIN SLUG?
Most modern SUVs are 'underpowered' too. They take the same lame engine that goes in a non-sport family sedan and drop it in a larger, heavier car. If you want performance, you usually buy a specific type of car.
The Apple Vision Pro is spectacular and sad
Sounds like a skill issue to me. Their code sucks and they want to blame the language.
They can't just stop taking cards as they would lose a lot of customers.

Most small places not declaring cash want to stay off the radar, they use tricks like using old cash resisters that don't have trackable invoice ids.

Food places are rife with it as they can claim excess food was thrown out as spoiled.
How does that encourage more R&D and higher salaries? Or rather can you show an example of a country with high corporate taxes and higher relative wages and R&D spending? I’m not aware of one.
Man I feel bad for being it a bit flippant about "it's your character": you're extremely thoughtful and I can see the tension clearly now.

I won't belabor the major point, you extracted it well from another comment of mine, re: there's a cost to the mentor in this type of situation, even when the mentee is...someone we don't see much traction with.

`I requested feedback internally and it was mentioned to take character/culture differences into account.`

I hated having to go through this exercise of interpreting statements from my managers, but in retrospect, I always found there was much more nuance to their advice than they were able to communicate: here, I detect subtle understones of "they might not measure up to you, you're excellent technically and thoughtful" via character differences, as well as invoking cultural, to give some breathing room and indicate it might not even be that they have character issues, but might be attributable to outside influences.

Honestly you've handled everything extremely well, even going to the trouble to seek out advice internally, and here, and being very thoughtful in the process. A real outlier.

What I'd say then is, they probably expect you to treat this as a performance management problem. Which is where it gets hairy. I can tell you at G if a manager was in your situation, pre-2020, they'd end up being silently flagged and just never...advance.

That's one extreme. Driven by that it's a _very_ difficult, to impossible, problem to communicate directly with an individual. You'd have to come up with a whole other abstraction layer to not communicate too directly, because you'd incinerate the relationship. Since it's a difficult problem, and they preferred having headcount, you'd just sort of see the relationship grind on over _years_.

The other extreme is 2023 Google, or what you may have seen as a TikTok trend of people videotaping their firings. Because performance management is so difficult, and companies are incentivized to cut right now, very frequently management never says anything _and_ suddenly lets the person go.

You could strike a middle ground and let them get a performance review cycle in with a sanitized version of what you wrote to us (ex. needs guidance from peers too often, etc. etc.) and see what happens.
Its not accurate unless you tax the sale price. An estimate could be off by 10s of millions in the case of $100m dollar properties.
Typical excuse for African nations run by morons elected by an equally moronic populace.

Many formerly colonized countries achieved unprecedented levels of success.

But in Africa where corruption and tribal violence is hindering development, the foolish kleptocrats running the show always try to hoodwink their population by blaming long dead and gone colonialist powers.
dive is amazing. One thing I realized by using the tool is that chmoding a file from an earlier layer results in that file (in it's entirety) getting added to the current layer. E.g. the below Dockerfile creates an alpine image that is around double the size of the original alpine image:

FROM alpine

RUN chmod -R a+rwx bin dev home lib media mnt opt root run sbin srv tmp usr var
I was a top writer for two years (and got a pretty sweet jacket out of it). I was a multiple knowledge prize winner for my answers (which paid out enough for me to report it on my taxes!). Here's the nugget from the article that's the core reason:

> that “was all about trying to come up with questions that would draw in more views and more people,” she said—not about incentivizing high-quality answers. It was all about adding webpages of individual questions, for SEO purposes.

I remember the day they announced to the top writer forum that they were killing incentives for good answers and starting to incentivize engaged question askers. Overnight, you got bots posting questions about trivial math problems (literally just multiplication in most cases). The top writers disappeared.

What hurts the most: I deleted my account. At some point it became undeleted. I don't have the ability, as far as I'm aware, to kill it. My profile lives on to enrich the people who betrayed the writers. Kind of sad, but it was all about engagement. Ad dollars.
Add in "smoking a joint" and "sex while driving," you've got yourself a Blockbuster!
Is there something in particular that causes you to be this aggressive to a complete stranger?
https://archive.is/2024.02.03-231709/https://www.theatlantic...
I mean, you could expect to be able to translate from your UI design software to your UI framework. Not sure why you're creating that limitation.
ITAR is quite sensible. We can make mistakes and we can be sensible but wrong.
Wait, what?

I keep seeing these posts on the "New" page, with only one comment, by the submitter, with some summary comment that doesn't add much, and I always assumed that it was a sketchy way to try to attract attention to the post. So I downvoted such comments when I saw them, because such games should be discouraged.

Now I feel like a real jerk. I've been downvoting innocent people who were led astray by the forum software.

I don't remember any specific names, but I owe a number of you an apology...
This is not the point, the point is if they are valid JavaScript or TypeScript.
They have attempted to remove it here but Docker really works much better when WSL2 is present (or maybe Docker and WSL2 share the same technology underneath). My employer has been trying to remove docker as well but it's sort of a requirement for development.
Yea but if the costs of accident exceed that bond you still have to cover it if your at fault.

Plus most medical expenses quickly will exceed those bond values these days. Maybe decades ago if you had a lot money to just set aside getting no interest on it it may have made sense.

However the costs of medical and even cars today make it quite a risky proposition
Apple will optimize it so they don’t enter markets that would cause their tax bill to rise. So say Spain wants 25% and other countries just want 20%, well, iPhones will just be sold in the black market like they did in India, so Spain loses out on the VAT that it is already reliably collecting. Each country also wants Apple to compute their profits differently, and they will probably argue about what profit they have dibs on (if multi taxation is avoided).
I run a $5 a month Linode with code-server on it, and use Tailscale to access it, and Tailscale Funnel to publish a web server on it.

I'm kind of happy as a clam.

I know that MS Visual Studio is a lot nicer for C# development. But yeah, I'm really enjoying having this cloud code environment available from anywhere.
The global plastic market was $609B in 2022 and only growing.

https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/global-p...

Gotta start somewhere I guess.
Not beneficial, but I imagine you’d just see a lot more spyplanes.
Misappropriating a trendy word to use as a descriptor for anything you don’t like. This is how someone speaks immediately before taking a look in the mirror and realising that they sound like their parents. You are not the be-all end-all and your drive-by analysis of a technology is going to be biased by its suitability for what you do day-to-day. No amount of experience justifies your attitude.
Laws haven’t kept up with rising costs, so the amount of coverage you are required to have in most states won’t cover the average accident, let alone catastrophic ones. Same with the amount you have to bond for.
No. To float you would need a gas lighter than hydrogen, which isnt a thing. And powered flight (wings) without oxygen would be trickey, requiring more of a rocket motor than an aeroplane engine.

Yes, you could use a balloon filled with vacuum, but lifting something the size of an orbital rocket in a hydrogren atmosphere would require a vacuum chamber at least the size of a city, possibly the size of a small state. It would probably be easier to build a tower.
Are CEOs Born Leaders? Lessons from Traits of a Million Individuals (2015) [pdf]
Naming things. Requests per second is clear and unambiguous
Schemas are often better than syntax typing. In other words the program decides what the type is, not the file.
one arm, one leg, and, if you did not buy apple care plus, one thigh
A majority of big tech employment is bait and switch.

You're leetcoded to death for a job that doesn't require leetcode skills. You're implored to follow some lofty mission statement, that in reality means nothing. Your first day you're love bombed into oblivion, only to be coldly thrown out of the door your last day. You're put on a "performance improvement plan" with no avenue to improve. Every company/CEO speaks in positive euphemisms while actively stabbing every thing and one in the back.

The best advice that can be given is NOT to associate personality or self-worth with employment at these companies. Unless you win the lotto, it is fleeting.
Now the argument coming from civil society for backdoors is based on CSAM:

> Heat Initiative is led by Sarah Gardner, former vice president of external affairs for the nonprofit Thorn, which works to use new technologies to combat child exploitation online and sex trafficking. In 2021, Thorn lauded Apple's plan to develop an iCloud CSAM scanning feature. Gardner said in an email to CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday, August 30, which Apple also shared with WIRED, that Heat Initiative found Apple's decision to kill the feature “disappointing.”

> “Apple is one of the most successful companies in the world with an army of world-class engineers,” Gardner wrote in a statement to WIRED. “It is their responsibility to design a safe, privacy-forward environment that allows for the detection of known child sexual abuse images and videos. For as long as people can still share and store a known image of a child being raped in iCloud we will demand that they do better.”

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiat...
It’s pretty clear that you are putting “things that I [think I] understand above things that are better. Have you ever written an ini parser? If you have, I doubt it was good, because none of them are, because ini is a flawed format.
Good thinking, and regarding Euro institutions there's lot of regional differences- for instance, brits have steps to take which are pretty set in stone with the Centres for Doctoral Training; basically it's the opposite of the process from the prior comment, it's the system that allocates someone for you. Denmark is free if you're native or from EU- Finland however is free for all (according to peers and the net) and would gauge they're both tad more flexible than UK in terms of requirements. Anyway, there's plenty options!
Regarding the selection process, although they're a clear benefit perfect grades aren't a must and it's alright to be from outside of a top ranking school- but you'll have to bring something to the table to make up for it. Whether that is a solid paper, practical achievements along recommendations or whatever again depends on the place. I think there's just so many ways to show something that can be impressive without knowledge about the latest thing or dropping walls of equations for the sake of it haha.
Best of luck!
Oh absolutely.

I'm surprised that no-one located (somehow) and reported him before then.

I'm sure the digger would say that it's just rubble (nothing structural) he was touching, but there are of course plenty of issues & it's besides the point / could be incorrect anyway.
You can’t measure brightness objectively? You are right, though, about “social context”. If glaring headlights becomes a black-coded thing, the problem will get solved.
> and not-copying is handled in different ways

Can you give a few examples?
I'd really love to hear Dave Cutler's take on Rust.
Fella is having a sad night :’(
I have a crawlspace under half my house, and made the mistake of watching a YouTube video about how to do "underpinning". Now I want to dig it out down to 10ft to use for some desperately needed storage space, maybe some gym space. Our local building office is amazingly supportive of DIYers, and I appreciate them double checking my work.
I just point out your pretense at "fairness" is nothing but deception, and you have to resort to clowning and ad-hominem attacks as a response, which indeed proves you don't have any proper argument beyond "me want!". If is not me and not Musk who cries childishly "not fair!" when things are not as you like, as you can easily witness, and others are reluctant to finance your wants.

Your surprise that somebody can object to untruth where it's not personally beneficial to him tells yet more about your approach to fairness.
I tried this out and it helped me (a non-programmer) calculate the driving distance from several towns to locations we are considering relocating our office to. I, for one, was impressed
Beers per on-call shift
I agree this is what we want, we should not waste compute and money on memorizing world knowledge, just enough world knowledge to have the best possible understanding of languages.
this is the final frontier. we've conquered the land, the oceans, the skies. some people live in orbit, men have walked on the moon.

but you can still carve out a new world for yourself. you can still go down. there's enough room down there for a whole new world, with different borders and nations. and another one below that .. layers and layers like an onion. one hundred billion mole-men, saturating the earth's crust --
Right, but no one's trying to build systems that rely on precise velocity & its deritatives & related measures from nearby emitters - its implausible physically as well, your velocity can change very rapidly for reasons beyond your control.

But they are being used to build systems that are advisory or are closed systems.
I am a novice when it comes to rust but as I recall the instant you put anything that isn't a scalar type you need lifetimes. Is that what the person you are replying to frustrated with?

How would not copying be handled?

Sorry for the basic questions. Your comment tickles something in my brain that suggests I need to know.
Do you have a direct link? I'd love to read more.
I always thought the sums people were paying for MBAs was absolutely outrageous. In tech I feel like MBAs can actually work against you and can be perceived as a red flag. I knew someone a decade ago who paid I believe $120k to Duke Fuqua for a mostly online MBA that also required travel to multiple international destinations. This was a person in their late 20s.
> growth pump&exit investment scams

I'd go so far as to say that the mere existence of an "exit plan" is an indicator that the purported product may be flawed (the business may not be flawed, from an investor's PoV, but to them, the "product" is actually the business, itself, as opposed to what the business says is their product).

IMO: Real businesses are meant to be ongoing enterprises. Being sold to others, is supposed to be an unplanned (possibly fortunate and hoped-for) event. It shouldn't be an inevitable business plan milestone.
Does synchronous Rust (with no runtime and no tokio) have a cross-platform way for a parent thread (eg. a GUI) to wait for messages either from user input or a child thread (eg. audio device changed), and/or a child thread to wait for messages either from IO (eg. audio buffers ready to fill) or other sources (eg. audio timeout or cancellation as you mentioned)? In C++ on Windows you'd use WaitForMultipleObjects, on Unix you'd use poll on hardware/event file descriptors, Crossbeam channels have a select macro but I'm not sure if it's as real-time as WaitForMultipleObjects (officially recommended for WASAPI) or poll (officially recommended for ALSA), and it probably doesn't work outside of channels?
Vacuum inside the tube?
The deduction is faulty.

PFAS are a specific family of chemicals unsuitable for this application.

No significant amount of microplastics is likely to develop from the mild abrasion of opening and closing a wine bottle a handful of times. And if your risk tolerance is so low that you are worried about that largely theoretical concern, you probably should not be drinking wine at all (because we have quite concrete evidence that alcohol is unhealthy -- unlike microplastics).

I would be (much) more worried about chunks of plastic getting in my wine from those fake cork products than from screw tops.
Ads ruin everything. No respect for power users, plain greed.

Is there any parallel to Medium?
Did we read the same comment? The one I read posits that those are the problems that don’t get solved.
The 2011 NEC ("electric code") has specific details on GFCI detection-sensitivity, where it lays out three categories for mA threshold before tripping: man, woman, child. For example, the common "residential 120V outlet with buttons" is a >5mA detector, which could still likely kill a child (but not adult, definitely not a man) before tripping.

I presume the modern NEC still has similar phrasing (I am retired — don't know, don't care), however "offended" certain groups might claim despite technical realities: avg woman is physically less-stout than avg male.
Exploring Tradeoffs in Ranking and Recommendation Algorithms
The Unlikely Twist in Feynman's Sprinkler Problem
You're just putting words in my mouth now because you are completely unable to address the arguments in the rest of my post because you have to admit they're correct. You also admitted other car companies lie by saying I was resorting to whataboutism.

It's not whataboutism when someone implies power steering failures happen only with a particular car company, and someone corrects them by showing instances with other car companies. That's irrationalism.

You're not even getting paid to be anti-EV and fossil fuel lobby's volunteer PR flack and spin doctor to spend all that time and effort to demonise Tesla while completely ignoring the other car companys' faults.

If you want a career in PR then at least get paid for it. Literally promoting Volkswagen all over the place after the intentional emissions scandal ruining people's health with 5 million dying because of pollution every year, that's sad, disgusting and pathetic.
In the US, since the 1950s, you need a permit to export any product which has encryption. There are fines if you don't file the right paperwork. In the 1970s and 80s they would only approve keys of 40 bits or less.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
Maybe you just have a faulty sarcasm detector?
I've also seen https://trio.discourse.group/t/structured-concurrency-kickof... which comments on an edge case of this article:

> His claim is that structured concurrency is the only way to make Ctrl+C handling work in a way how users naively expect it to work.

> And it’s easy to see why: If the exceptions are propagated up the call tree, freely crossing the thread boundaries, the KeyboardInterrupt exception is eventually going to reach the top of the call three (main function) and exit cleanly.

> However, there’s a hidden race condition involved: Imagine two threads in a scope, one gets KeyboardInterrupt and the other one raises an unrelated exception. If the latter exception bubbles up to the parent thread faster it will cancel the thread that’s processing KeyboardInterrupt and Ctrl+C would get lost.

I wonder if progress has been made since 2019.
I honestly wish I could have been in that boat because I crave the opportunity to use rust on the job.
I'm lost. Does the "count" thing also go for REST security scans (that are integrated with Postman or manually import the API schemas), or is it just only if the inventories are integrated with GitHub?
> Legitimate uses for the stuff apart from wine corks are scarce

What about cork flooring?
The Python parser has worked well for decades.
Big discussion previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39240205