skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the browser is properly sandboxed, and you're only accessing the internet through the browser, you should reasonably safe, no? Obviously it's better to have defense in depth, but I don't see the immediate danger.

What is the attack vector you are concerned about?

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I daily drive a 2013-era version of OS X, using a similar modified version of Chromium[1] to browse the web. I'm pretty sure I've plugged the holes I need to plug in order to be reasonably safe, but if you have a specific concern I'd like to hear about it!

1: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
I do not expect Boeing to get a plan approved within 365 days, much less 90 days.

I do look forward to whatever they produce being more of a parody than any Dilbert cartoon ever could be.
Decades after US buried nuclear waste abroad, climate change could unearth it
Microbe from Yellowstone's Hot Springs Could Help Feed the World
Can we say humans also hallucinate and continue parroting a bad idea for 1500 years? How does this support the concept that humans have real understanding unlike AI? Looks to me we have hallucinated theories that eventually get invalidated. We don't really understand, we're like hallucinating LLMs testing their outputs in the world.

Similarly to this we had no idea about the germ theory of disease even when 30% of our population was dying (Black Death). A life and death scenario and we couldn't figure it out, that's how intelligent we are in reality - not enough to save our asses. Our intelligence is social, an environment based discovery process not something coming from a single brain.

All we know comes from the environment, and no agent is too smart alone. We should reexamine intelligence as a property of the brain, better see it as a property of language.
'Pandemic Babies' developed 'fascinating' protection against common condition
In terms of impact on climate change, most proposals for greening the Sahara are surprisingly just around the breakeven point, where negative impacts are about as large as positive ones.

For example you can do extensive reforestation enabled by water from desalination plants. Running those is energy intensive, but you sequester carbon in the living trees. But the sand and rock off the current Sahara reflect a lot of light right back into space. Trees capture more sunlight, turning it into heat that can be trapped by greenhouse gases. In the other hand trees bring moisture into the air, causing clouds, which reflect a lot of light. On the other hand, desert sand picked up by wind also reflects light.

It's a web of complex interactions that all approximately balance out. I'm not saying it's impossible to make it work, but you end up with supremely expensive projects with very uncertain benefits
Here is a book I can recommend: https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book
SEEKING WORK - Remote, Washington D.C

I'm a full stack developer and designer.

I'll build you a minimal lovable product for a fixed $9K and in 5 weeks. For iOS apps, I use Swift. For web apps, I use Ruby/Rails, JavaScript.

To see some of my recent work:

https://breue.com/

A sample project: https://oatmel.com/ - https://github.com/breue/oatmel

I also specialize in natural language processing: https://zachhajjaj.com/nanobird_relevancy_engine.pdf
Hopefully you can read hackernews without an SSD and many GBs
This where I think criminalization actually serves to increase exploitation and increase the incentives for exploitation.
Combustion of Date Stone and Jojoba Waste in a Hybrid Rocket Combustion Chamber
To be fair, you can also read Hacker News in links, so if that's your only goal, Chromium is overkill.
Yeah, exactly. Your matrix shows up when you do a 3-point discretization of -u''(x) = λu(x) with u(0) = u(1) = 0, at 5 equidistant (interior) grid points. That's the discrete, 1D version of the problem they're looking at in the paper.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_stencil#Three_Point_St...
Why do they use so many different domains?
Food as Social Life
I wondered if that would be the case. If rain is falling in the desert where it previously didn't, that means rain is not falling elsewhere it previously did.
Levels of AGI - https://ibb.co/XbpCfBC
ShotSpotter is recording conversations inside peoples homes and on the street. You can definitionally hear someone making a drug deal or talking about the joint their smoking etc.

I'm reasonably concerned that once recordings exist getting access to them is much easier, especially as police have already heard many conversations taken from these recordings.
Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
You see, both gentrification and white flight are bad, and so is the very existence of low-crime underpoliced neighborhoods.
NYC's smallest apartment is 55 square feet and costs $1,400 per month
Are prescriptions required for antibiotics?
A functor is a mapping between categories, just like a function is a mapping between sets.

What kind of insights this means for programming is quite up to interpretation and how you choose to formally describe its semantics (and most popular programming languages don't have formal semantics).
The $25B Eigenvector: The Linear Algebra behind Google (2006)
tl;dr this looks like a full stack description of a hobbyist scanning electron microscope [0]. 'Full stack', here, means gerber files of a pcb with an fpga that 'controls the beam and gets an image', 'gateware' to configure the fpga, and some python scripts that read an image from the fpga and serve it as a web page drawing to a canvas with shader instructions.

[0] https://www.nanographs.io/
Sneaky React Memory Leaks: How useCallback and closures can bite you
Hard limits coming to Vercel Spend Management
What Programming Languages Are Used Late at Night?
It can do that, but it can also mean that you can't use better performing ways to do things that were only introduced in a newer OS.
The problem is that our field has a deep seated problem with differentiating good engineering with over-engineering. The latter is taken as the former. In my experience SREs/devops will just as often over-engineer and leak their abstractions to everyone else due to paranoia and the current fad in the "cloud native computing" field. Suddenly people need to know about a dozen concepts to debug the travel of a http request. This was not needed before and mostly just a consequence of holes we've dug ourselves (like micro-services) and are now using to justify our over-engineering - all within the part that was previously seen the absolutely simplest one to manage: stateless app servers.
What I am saying is that the solutions presented assume we have N stations which are way less than 1_000_000_000.

Worst case scenario for RAM would be if each line contained a unique station. In this case we'd have to allocate 1_000_000_000 * sizeof(stats) in RAM to contain the result of the computation.

So most of the solutions assume sufficient RAM ahead of reading the file.

In the first solution:

type stats struct {
min, max, sum float64
count int64
}

would take up 32GB for the stats alone for all 1E9 stations, and that's ignoring space needed for each station's name!
This ideology is exactly why we have bloated abominations like Slack electron apps.
Wait what does Steam run on the NES, too??!
I forgot to mention farm subsidies. Farmers are in the business of capturing energy, using the green growing thingies, which they have to plant, nurture, harvest twice a year. Which is a lot of work for 3- 6% of energy captured by photosynthesis. Solar panels are 20 - 25% efficient, and they last 25 years (under warranty) and could last 50 years or more with slightly lower output.

Every country has farm subsidies. Ethanol subsidies support 40m acres of corn in US. Worldwide, this could be 100m+ acres for ethanol/biodiesel. If the subsidies were slightly shifted to incentivize farmers to produce solar, it is profitable for everyone.
ECS is a fairly "late" idea in game development history, "just stuff widgets in arrays" works just fine in small games. But when you have

- commercial games getting too big for any one single person to keep track of all those widgets getting developed in parallel

- engines being developed as standalone generic projects to be used in many, many games that need solid abstractions

- enough RAM to justify the overhead (whole megabytes! Scandalous!)

...then ECS starts making a lot of sense. That was in the late 90s/early 00s, and these days the (performance) overhead is negligible even for indie game dev. The only potential downside is the cognitive overhead, but that very much depends on what you're doing.
Two thoughts:

1) Why is this conversation happening in this subthread? What does this have to do with nonrandomstring's experience in doing similar work for the military?

2) Nothing in the passage you quoted insinuates anything about the reasoning for surveiling poor neighborhoods more than rich. It simply points out that this is a thing that is happening.

Earlier they said this:

> Many assumed that ShotSpotter coverage was concentrated in disadvantaged parts of the city, an unsurprising outcome but one that could contribute to systemic overpolicing.

It's unsurprising because that is where the crime tends to take place, but there's a valid concern raised that this is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I've read some highly political anti-police rants in the past few years, but this isn't one of them. The author barely makes their opinions known at all, and when they do they're very aware of the complexities.
WebEx: Confirming Leakage of Highly Sensitive Military Discussions
The days of the Wehrmacht are over. Fortunately, the German military are amateurs today.
By definition you're risking more than 100% of your portfolio value when trading on margin, even short-term. One wrong bet can wipe you out. You shouldn't delude yourself to believe that this isn't the case because you've had one successful experience with it.

Risking getting wiped out may be a palatable prospect if you're early in life and have the time to rebuild your fortune, but it won't be if you're risking 20 years of savings.
Ads track you everywhere and sometimes use popups, redirects, and disabling the back button. The people serving ads have way more resources and capital at their disposal to be obnoxious than any one user does to evade their obnoxiousness. Blaming users is blaming victims.
reputed works.

Dictionary
Definitions from Oxford Languages ·
reputed
/rɪˈpjuːtɪd/
adjective
past participle: reputed

2.
widely known and well thought of.
"a highly reputed company"

Similar:well thought of, well respected, respected, highly regarded
If they can prove they never met otherwise agreed on a price, but they just happened to take the same decision, then yes, it's not price fixing.

But if they are using the same third party that is telling explicitly telling them "your price should be this", then it's quite clear that they have agreed on the same price. Doing so indirectly doesn't make it any better.
Coming up with a plausible but incorrect theory of how something works is not hallucination. Hallucination is seeing something that is not there.

In terms of LLMs, they don’t come up with with any original theories. When they hallucinate, they make things up that are easily shown to be untrue using current and present methods.
thanks man i did't know there exist a thing called old.eddit found something new!
And the rates of drug-related violence and property crimes.
> A quick Google search shows that Amazon only has 40% of e-commerce.

Tell it to the FTC. Their position is that sellers do not have a choice of whether or not to abandon Amazon, at least not without suffering severe consequences stemming from Amazon's anti-competitive behavior.

Go ahead and write them a letter explaining that Amazon has 40% market share if you think they're somehow not aware of that fact. I'm not in charge of who the government sues.

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Look, I'm not here to debate the entirety of antitrust as a concept. You can disagree with the FTC, Amazon obviously does. I'm just telling you that if you compare Apple to other companies that are also being investigated for antitrust, a lot of people are going to say, "yeah, you know what, Apple is like Amazon, which is also an anticompetitive company that uses bundling and abusive seller terms to squash competition while mimicking seller products in-house using seller data and then downranking competing products in search results to steal customers. You're right, Apple is acting like Amazon."

You can disagree with antitrust decisions, but you're not arguing from a place of strength when you say that Apple isn't anticompetitive because they're just mimicking [insert anticompetitive company] :)

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> Just like low graphics games like Candy Crush could make web apps today yet they find enough value to be in the App Store despite the 30% cut.

If this was true, free and Open Source applications or applications that monetized through advertisements exclusively would more often launch as PWAs and avoid the app store. But they don't, because it's not true. There are plenty of applications that don't rely on scammy impulse buys for in-app purchases in order to monetize. They're still on the app store.

It's not that the App Store provides value, it's that PWAs are not a viable alternative.
You can. Old reddit as well. I do that regularly on a 1st gen Atom netbook with 1GB of RAM and no SSD.
That name seemed familiar, but had to really dig into my memories; alas, I still love your cover of Monte Re on the Baglamas [1]!. Wishing you all the best with ente!

[1]. https://twitter.com/VishnuKVMD/status/1253324405813284868?t=...
My letter carrier is a young man with headphones in who cannot be bothered to read the address on the penny saver that he stuffs into my mail slot (I have unsubscribed).
Is not yet working for Pharo 11 but now that I see this NUI category, is this a case for one between Smalltalk images?

https://github.com/pharo-ide/Seamless
The quote doesn't insinuate anything like what you claim it's insinuating. I don't believe you're intentionally distorting their intent, but I do think they you're reacting to other pieces you've read before in a similar genre rather than to the article and author at hand.
OS-9 level 2 was well ahead of its time.
Gravity is effectively nil on a satellite - the satellite is within the gravity well, yes, but is constantly falling in a parabolic path, so doesn't feel any gravity. The total forces experienced due to gravity and related forces will be nano-newtons, so irrelevant. They are dwarfed by the drag force.

Thrusters are ion drive thrusters, so have typical forces of 2 milliNewtons (0.2 grams-force). I don't think 2 millinewtons will be sufficient to fold an airbed-like structure, even with 0 internal pressure. (imagine a fly lands on a plastic bag... the fly isn't heavy enough to flatten the bag, even though the bag has no internal structure - a fly is about 0.2 grams).
> It’s the expectation in 2024 that you should be able to use an app across devices and keep your state.

Device sync is a solved problem on quite literally every single major platform, including iOS. There's no reason Apple couldn't sync PWA storage using the same mechanisms.

> And you act as if setting up accounts on a server is hard.

It objectively increases attack surface, decreases privacy, adds user friction, and is unnecessary for the majority of apps. Most users (myself included) don't want online accounts. I don't need an online account for an alarm. I don't need to log in with Facebook or Github or whatever just to do basic things on my phone.

This is just unbelievably silly at this point. Of course reliable offline storage matters for app development, are you seriously going to try and argue that it doesn't? If Apple got rid of reliable offline storage for native applications, nobody would say that didn't matter or that it wasn't a big deal. Some of us actually like that we can do things like type into a text editor and know the text document will still be there when we come back to our computers, and that it doesn't have to get synced to somebody else's servers to guarantee that.

The solution to app storage is not to completely abandon privacy, require an Internet connection for every app, and then put all of our information on somebody else's server.
Yep, fully agree about React being the most widely used framework.

And yes, good point on the Pi.
Lots of People Make Money on Fanfic. Just Not the Authors
For server workloads there can still be plenty of non-trivial architecture-specific dependencies besides the core OS itself, such as the JVM and other JIT-based interpreters.

Python 'pip' packages, which often have native code dependencies, may also lack official RISC-V builds.
DUSt3R: Geometric 3D Vision Made Easy
One of our two big networks was, the other was not.
In America the most common cooking oil is now soybean oil. Canola and corn are the other popular ones.

Olive and sunflower both have similar small shares.

However, for home cooking in the university educated set olive is probably predominant. I expect it is much more common in Europe as well.

You can assume virtually any restaurant food has been cooked in a vegetable oil unless you are eating haute cuisine.

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/americas-most-wi...
I've been using i3 exclusively for the last few years. I gels so well with my workflow, I can't see myself returning to a non-tiling WM.
I think he means he's loathing and immolating himself, and we're supposed to appreciate his artistic nihilism.
I’ll check out those assert functions and I only meant that having apply,lapply,sapply,mapply took some getting used to most programming languages I had used prior include only 1 map / apply function and it’s still not clicking for me when there are performance penalties choosing one over another although I’ve read in the documentation that there are pros and cons
> but needs safety audit

I don't think anyone still using Windows 7 cares
Mature Optimization by Carlos Bueno
https://carlos.bueno.org/optimization/
Me too. These guys are a net loss for the humanity at large. No one would miss them.
You can if you have fallbacks for when those features aren't available.
> Exactly what is stopping King from having an online account or just having “login with $x” where $x is Google/Apple/Facebook?

Privacy, security, convenience and the fact that it's a #$%&ing terrible user experience. Nobody wants to log in with Facebook every time they play a video game. I mean, heck, you're on here arguing about user privacy, and your solution to that is that more user data should be stored in the cloud? Come on.

King does appear to have online accounts for at least the people who want them[0]. I would argue a lot of people probably don't want them.

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[0]: Or at least did at one point, a "quick Google search" shows that King did at one point make its games available online and was forced to abandon that platform in 2020 due to (in their words), "changing web-based technology on major browsers". Seems like that suggests something about PWAs as a viable alternative to the app store, but whatever, I'm sure it's just a coincidence and we definitely shouldn't conclude anything from it other than that King loves forking over that 30% /s
Ask HN: How disconnected am I with reality?
Long-time member, but throwaway for anonymity.

I've been living and working in the UK capital for a bit over 6 years as a senior software engineer. My partner was accepted to a top public university that most of you recognize (the one just over the Bay Bridge), for a 1 year graduate degree. She will be starting this summer/fall.

TLDR: Is it stupid to quit my job and try to accompany my partner on an F2 visa, spending a year looking for a job in the Bay Area?

The details:

* I am in the unique position of holding Australian citizenship, thus eligible for an E3 visa: I'd only need a solid job offer to be able to work legally, no lottery uncertainty or legal costs to the employer.

* Unfortunately my understanding is that employers are not really aware of this visa, thus tend to ignore/filter out resumes that look like needing "proper" sponsorship.

* The tech downturn is brutal and I am not an exceptional candidate. I have solid chops (backend/infra side), my work experience is modern, relevant and varied, but didn't study at a prestigious university, don't have FAANG experience, and not a DSA/Leetcode prodigy.

* On the plus side, I can spend the months leading to the departure plus my time in the US to grind DSA/Leetcode (although unsure of my maximum potential) and trying to secure interviews. But even getting interviews seems extremely hard from what I see in Reddit/Blind/HN.

* No professional network in the US to get referrals. I could try to rooftop slushie my way around that, but probably wouldn't be very effective.

* I've held 3 jobs over the past 2 years, so probably labelled as a job hopper, making getting past the resume filtering stage even harder. I had good reasons for each move and no gaps: 10 mo redundancy, 10 mo toxic environment, then got my current job which is great and fully remote. But I would need to resign to move with my partner to the US.

* Financially, I can afford being without a job for a year or maybe more but it would be a blow to savings.

Last but not least, I am a bit of a romantic, and living/working in the Bay or Silicon Valley has been a dream of mine. Even with the current situation in SF not being ideal wrt homelessness and general collapse of downtown, I'm still very much attracted to the idea and my partner is onboard. We've both been in and around the area and would be able to navigate the situation.

Should I take this risk? What are my chances in this climate? What would you do?
> Tom Cotton is a former military officer and attorney, he knew exactly what “no quarter” means, it is explicitly called out as a war crime in the Geneva Conventions.

Rioters and looters have nothing to do with the Geneva Conventions. For one, that is not even a bona fide combat situation. For another, they don't meet the definition of "lawful combatants" because they don't typically wear "uniforms or other insignia recognizable at a distance". No uniform = no POW rights under the Geneva Conventions. Unlawful combatants can be executed on the spot with no trial or any other formalities.

Now, one could make a decent argument that the so-called "Black Bloc" groups qualify, because they do wear outfits that might be characterized as uniforms if you squint at them hard enough. They should at least get the benefit of the doubt, IMO.

But random rioters and looters? It is utterly disingenuous to suggest that the Geneva Conventions even apply in that situation. Swiping iPads and Air Jordans are not the actions of lawful combatants. In fact, looting itself is explicitly called out as a war crime under the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Someone here isn't familiar with the Geneva Conventions, but it's not Cotton.
When I read an intro to game dev the first thing I read should be how to draw something to the screen not a discussion of design patterns. I get that lispers might like that but for anyone else it's probably less than informative.