skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like a few folks are confused.

1. One of the underlying cryptographic principles is multi-party / secure-party communication (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_multi-party_computation). e.g., three people want to share their salaries to each other, but don't want the information to be traceable to back to the source.

2. Another is Steganography, hiding text in, say, an image, or audio.

3. You want to prevent the problems with Signal, Tor, Bitcoin, etc. This means, no "50%" problem like Bitcoin, no monitoring of exit nodes like Tor, no centralized distribution issue like Signal.

Imagine:

Alice "sends" a message to Bob by creating an account on Reddit and posts a cat meme which has the hidden text (steganography).

Bob knows how to find the text in that cat meme, and responds by posting something on Twitter, which Alice can read and decrypt.

All this is deniable (I didn't get anything from Alice!), available (e.g., Twitter goes down), and secure.
I think every Emacs user has thought the same thing. The trouble is Emacs isn't the interpreter, it's the enormous amount of Lisp code written for that interpreter. This isn't the first CL Emacs and probably won't be the last. For a CL version to work you've got to be so good it attracts enough people over despite it being initially worse. But that group of existing Emacs users is already tiny and they spend enough of their time hacking Emacs... This one not being GPL doesn't help either.
A bit sad. But I haven't checked the site in 10+ years. It was hot in the heydays of the Internet and Pentium processors, reading reviews about CPU and motherboard performance really helped in deciding what to buy when a top of the line computer was already obsolete a year later.

Progress has essentially halted since 15+ years. Back then a new computer really coud do something the old one didn't even dreamt of. Now what can the new generation of CPU do? Watch YouTube shorts even shorter? :) Or the new Android or Apple phone? Send more pictures on WhatsApp? Literally don't see any difference between my current phone / computer compared to what I had 10 years ago. (I don't play games, maybe there it's visible somewhat).

Anyhow, it was nice while it lasted but all good things must come to an end ... Bye Anandtech, you will be remembered.
>But in March 2023, an appeals court reinstated his conviction after finding that the lower court had failed to give Young Lee, Ms Lee's brother, sufficient notice of the hearing that freed Syed.

>In a 4-3 opinion, Maryland's Supreme Court on Friday upheld this decision, saying the lower court judge had “worked an injustice” by not giving Young Lee reasonable notice of the hearing.

Absurd reason to reinstate a conviction. There should be a double indemnity-like rule for being released from prison.
Most writers who give this "Japan is backwards" spiel all seem to have lived in the 80s or 90s.

I'm much younger than these Gen Xers and Millenials, but it feels like Japanese style cultural impact is much larger now than "western style".

Heck, KWave, KDramas, and Manhwa are heavily based on Japanese JPop, JDramas (the GOTO back in the 2000s before Sony made licensing expensive), and Manga.

> view xenophobia, fear of change, and cultural/economic death grips by an older generation as negatives

Japan has also changed a LOT demographically over the past 20-30 years - before foreigners were mostly Zainichi or Taiwanese plus a smattering of Chinese illegals, but now you have 2-3% of the population from ASEAN, China across all economic stratas, Koreans from Korea, etc but they all look "Japanese"
They have also become an online lingua franca. You'll see this a lot on TikTok, which autotranslates captions, descriptions, and even static or dynamic text within the videos. Emojis allow users viewing these autotranslated posts to communicate to the poster in a comprehensible manner (even if that's just "this is funny" or "I love this")

Emojis are really great.
I feel like it's not just ageism - software development itself is so big now that it's fractured to the point that there are now strongly opinionated camps that are "stuck in their ways and unable to change - even when faced with evidence to the contrary. "

For example, certain web dev crowds that love (in my very biased opinion) really slow, bloated and/or over complicated tooling to do simple things. But only because they've never ventured outside of their ecosystem to the great beyond and "that's how everyone does it".
I never said they would kill the feature. I said they would shut down the behavior. They can do that through economic incentive.

(Source: I was on the S3 team. Opinions my own, etc.)
You have to wonder if these people ever stop and think through these decisions.

Start with: why are we even renaming this thing? Everyone already knows the name. The new name is not going to make us any more money. So what are we doing?

Next: is there any chance "Windows App" will be confusing for, I dunno, practically everybody? (I realize everyone else here has pointed this out.)

Maybe the decision to rename was made by AI.

https://genius.com/Abbott-and-costello-whos-on-first-annotat...
Speaking of terminology. I open the discussion because I thought the title was about the manufacturing process (casting with a mold).
Personally I don't understand why so many people are so terrified of needles. Subcutaneous injection is so straightforward, even filling up the single use syringes yourself. I've done that once a week for the past nearly 7 years. But still, from talking with other people who use similar pharmaceuticals to me, so many of them are terrified of needles to the point they choose less effective routes of administration, even though they wish they could have the benefits of the injection route.
Snails aren't bugs!
Researchers find SQL injection to bypass airport TSA security checks
Nothing from the outset appears that original, in a world of nearly infinite information, when you start. So just do the thing, it will become original in your execution of the thing.
I enjoyed the article and it reminded me of many experiences in my career. However, this sentence bothers me:

“I felt like by 40 I needed to move on from engineering because if I didn’t, I’d be like the few older workers I’d dealt with in my career. I felt like they moved too slow, were stuck in their ways, and unable to change - even when faced with evidence to the contrary.”

I’m in my forties and none of those things are true about me. Nor are they true about any of the other older developers I know. There isn’t this magic switch that goes off when we turn forty.

When I extrapolate from there, it makes me genuinely wonder how many of the writer’s problems stem from the position versus how many stem from a serious lack of empathy and the communication difficulties that creates.

The best management advice that I ever received was to always consider if a management problem is actually the sign of a personal problem. If it is, it’s my job to manage to fix that before I make my workplace more toxic.
I don't have a version with captions, sorry. You can find the slidedeck at https://github.com/elves/elvish/blob/master/website/slides/2...

The remaining 8% mostly falls into the following categories:

- Code that use OS functionalities that are cumbersome to mock in tests

- Code paths that are triggered relatively rarely and I was simply too lazy to add tests for them

Nothing is impossible to cover, but for whatever reason it was too much work for me when I wrote the code.

However, it's worth mentioning that I only settled on the transcript test pattern fairly recently, and if I were to rewrite or refactor some of the untested code today I would add tests for them, because the cost of adding tests has been lowered considerably. So Elvish's test coverage is still increasing slowly as the cost of testing decreases.
Maybe that's why Chez is the most performant scheme.

I've heard people suggest that a more expanded scheme would become a ~lisp. "Common" lisp was formed as a moderately expansive standard for lisps of its time.
Sorry, my mistake.

My claim was based on averaging over the time-series - so the average wholesale prices since 2015 and not just the prices for 2024.

Over the extended period, French wholesale prices have been 12% higher on average than those in Germany.
Yeah - getting an OpenGL (and presumably same for Vulkan) context is surprisingly annoying if you don't have a library to help you. It also works quite differently on X11, Wayland, or directly on kernel APIs. Many games that don't otherwise use SDL2 (such as ones ported from other platforms, i.e. most games) use it just for that.
MySpace CEO: Facebook Didn't Kill MySpace, Google Did – For Music
Yep and ILOM access probably happens over the management network and can hardware-reset the machine, so the dataplane internode network issues and any OS level brownouts won't get in the way.
Because I am the bluebird of happiness, there are a couple of things you may want to be aware of here.

"I’d be like the few older workers I’d dealt with in my career. I felt like they moved too slow, were stuck in their ways, and unable to change - even when faced with evidence to the contrary."

First, keep in mind that many of your co-workers will still feel this way, even if you provide evidence to the contrary.

Second, after you have been around the dharma wheel too many times, it becomes difficult to hop onto the hype-train as quickly as you used to, which is one reason many of your co-workers will feel that way.

The tech industry has never had a career path for technical people other than directly into management or into a pseudo-management "architecture" roles that are neither technical nor management---you don't get many of the advantages of either and what you can do is mostly based on your personal relationships with managers or technical people. As a result, if you remain technical, you may find that your salary and influence stagnate.

Oh, and 40 is still pretty young. I'm 56 and it wasn't until the last 8-10 years that serious burnout set in. (Salary isn't really an important factor in job satisfaction; influence very much is.)

Personally, I've never had to write a letter like yours because I shot the suggestion of a more management-oriented position down in flames, twice. Lucky me! :-)
Was this in person or do you have a link by any chance? Would love to see it.

From my own experience XML tags are incredibly powerful — particularly for very large system prompts, with some markdown in there too.
I used some Decawave kits ~a decade ago and they worked pretty well... however if you want to DIY something as usable as Airtags I think the main struggle would be getting the package compact and with low power consumption (unless you want to track large things and are fine with a chonky battery)
Cool idea. I’d suggest a few tweaks to improve text formatting. Justified text generally doesn’t read well on a device. Better to justify left. And paragraph breaks seem to be lost, which makes it harder to read and scan.
I’ve lived in many parts of the U.S.—from major cities to the rural countryside. I’ve also lived outside the U.S. And without fail, every time I visit other developed countries, I become so confused about how our economy is apparently one of the strongest, and yet the U.S. just feels behind a lot of other places.

A friend was telling me the first time they moved to the U.S. to work in Silicon Valley, they were expecting some sort of high tech glassy utopia. “It’s just suburbs” they said with a frown, “and San Francisco was a grimy disappointment as well.”

Most of the U.S. doesn’t even look as nice as the Bay Area. It’s mostly the same suburbs minus the wealth, nature, and sunshine. The buildings and infrastructure and in many cities are decades old by now. What exactly does it mean to have the highest GDP if it doesn’t reflect in your daily life and surroundings?

I read that people in Japan tend to travel some of the least in the world outside their own country despite their amazing passports, and most will say it’s because they’ve got everything they need right there. Perhaps relentless economic growth shouldn’t be the goal—rather, building something nice for the society you live in and keeping that way should be.
What actually is the compounded stuff though? Where does it come from? What’s in it?
Freedom of speech has never meant freedom from consequences, particularly in one's dealings with private individuals or corporations.

At best it's supposed to mean no reprisals from public institutions, such as the TSA, IRS, DMV, and the like.
I love Emacs and it has been my number one tool for a long time. It is definitely more efficient with native compilation but there are still some issues. For example, get a large code base and obtain all occurrences of an expression in the whole code base. Every IDE is going to stutter on this but Emacs will pretty much lock up until this completes.
While there is a certain exciting aspect to this in the same vein as any cyberpunk dystopia might have, it also sounds exceedingly wasteful.

The security properties are interesting but largely overshadowed by economic forces. Things become centralized because they're cheaper and easier for users.

If this system existed, it would have to have _such a good user experience_ to overcome its many inefficiencies.
>In a passenger vehicle you'd think they'd be able to get away with a small motorcycle engine.

The range extender on the BMW i3 EV is a motorcycle sized engine at 647cc:

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a15088505/2017-bmw-i3-w...
us is the strongest in arm not civil
Especially by a lack of sunlight. Fitting.
For mobile coverage and speed, I've found Japan (I've been from Ishigaki to Shiretoko in the past few years) to be pretty world class (assuming your device supports the proper bands - for anyone visiting, refer to https://www.frequencycheck.com/countries/japan ). For wired connections, almost every new building in Tokyo has fiber, and 10Gbps support is pretty common (NTT, Sony, Softbank and others all offer it) while I don't believe it's widely available at all in Vietnam.

Anyway, everyone will have their own experience, and I haven't been in Vietnam since before the pandemic, but last time I was there (4 cities and a few out of town trips), while I had OK connectivity, I wasn't blown away by it vs Japan or other places. I'd take Japanese traffic safety and street sanitation over Vietnam every day of the year though.
These are amazing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFkIG9S2Mmg - The Insane Biology of: The Axolotl
Spacetime is a mathematical model that Einstein used to derive his field equations. Philosophically speaking, we are reminded to not confuse the model with reality. Even Einstein reminded us of that, even in regard to curved spacetime.

WRT to particles, we now model them as excitations of a quantum field. Quantum Field Theory, or QFT, is our most recent quantum theory and is the theory the Standard Model is based on. As such, it's enjoyed phenomenal success.
not true, im vietnamese and the internet in the us is faster in many regions
It doesn't work for me on a iOS safari. Is this excepted?

It shows changes by other users but you cannot add a color yourself.
When driving in the UK, I found myself practicing my 16-table a lot: when seeing a 50 mph max speed sign, I'd multiply 5 by 16 to get 80 km/h.
> which arguably are worse for people than the smog of the 60s

If the 60s had the number of cars we have today, I seriously doubt carburetors would be healthier than fuel injection.
There is an alternative history where Google and FB et al. didn’t eat up all the advertising revenue that used to sustain good journalism.

It might be impossible to have independent journalism with the internet as it currently is.

I don’t know what the alternative is, but I do sometimes wonder what would have happened if search engines had been prevented from displaying search results from news organizations that happened within the last month. This might have trained internet folks to go to the news websites for news and kept the economics propped up a bit better than the disaster it currently is.
Why not use straight UPnP (DLNA). Tons of open source there. The only problem was standardising codecs (also related to the Chromecast spinoff)
it's Viettel not Vintel
Having decades of experience gives me a certain degree of skepticism about promises that some shiny new widget will solve all my problems. From the outside, this might look like I'm stuck in my ways.
Which is repulsively a phenomenon politicians and officials will knowingly exploit. I believe the number of murdered children in Gaza in the first few months was in the thousands. They get their dirty work done fast while others are not allowed to speak out.
Hm I'm not sure if this helps.
Because thieves will first knock on doors, even for tens of minutes. Ring etc.
Normally people will open and thief will say some BS and go away.

Cameras with backup power and backup internet connection is your first priority.
I think that kind of explains the popularity of Arch.
This is an important distinction that the city fails to articulate.

The city lied about the breach, so getting a restraining order immediately looks petty and abusive.

But you make a good point that such a website would not actually be useful. Anyone who is in those documents knows it, and allowing the public web the ability to look people up by name is dangerous.

The "hacker" is correct to speak loudly about the lies the city told. He would be incorrect to create a lookup.
Intel claims its laptop chips aren't crashing because of that voltage thing
To realize one does not want to climb the ladder is fine. To realize there isn't any ladder to climb is enlightenment.
On the contrary. It’s quite cheap, since compounding pharmacies are selling semaglutide for injection.

Last week I purchased 90 tablets of 14mg Rybelsus for just over $700. My cost per milligram of semaglutide was just over 50 cents. Compounding pharmacies are preparing weekly injections containing at most a few milligrams of semaglutide, and they are selling a one-month supply for ~$250. Their cost for active ingredient is well-under $10.
Excellent browser. One issue with it though, when I close the browser I am expecting my history to be deleted as I set it up that way, but it turns out I have to manually close every tab before closing the browser for it to actually delete the history and that seems like a mistake. Otherwise, great browser. Though you should rip out all the Google stuff from it, literally every single thing that connects or touches that pos company.
"about what's happening in Gaza and Palestine" seems like a euphemism for some more emotional / inflammatory posts. It's not a violation of free speech for a private corporation to make an at-will employment decision to protect their PR image.
FBI releases new evidence photos from July 13 Trump rally shooting
That image with the pointer types is also derived from a frequently-posted-on-4chan picture from the youtuber "Laurie Wired" aka "the queen of /g/": https://0x0.st/XvfB.jpg
I can type up a bunch of words on here too, doesn't mean anything.

so I'm going to call out a /r/thathappened here.
If we spent 4% of GDP on a moon landing, we could easily do it again. Or if NASA just had a clear goal to pursue and wasn’t pushed around by Congress all the time.
The only reason why I use Emacs is org-clock-mode. Can I use it with Lem?
La Velue, and the Tarasque?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peluda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarasque
For what it’s worth, I am a relatively young engineer who has recently been working very closely with other engineers over the age of 55 on a daily basis. It has been one of the more enriching periods in my career so far. I often wonder if the ageism that I see so often referred to on Hackernews is more projection than reality because I consistently find it pleasant to work with individuals who have a very large body of experience to draw from. Ageism in general baffles me as one could very well ask the question: “would you rather have a carpenter with 2 years of experience working on your house, or one with 30 years of experience?” The answer seems obvious to me, and the question could easily be applied to software engineering.
> what would have happened if search engines had been prevented from displaying search results from news organizations that happened within the last month

News sites would probably change whatever metadata Google is using to check site age to make their news articles appear one-day-more-than-month old to Google crawlers, all as a part of Search Engine Optimization techniques.
https://archive.ph/Ipvl7

or turn off javascript for this site. The NoScript addon is perfect for this kinda thing.
Take a look yourself at what others have said. Go to en.wikifur.com and look at the Connor_Goodwolf page. That doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. Even if you think some of his causes are good, he does not do his due diligence and does not care if he's wrong.

My personal experience is from my own conversations with him and conversations with people in Cincinnati, Dayton, and Columbus.
The link provides 2022 imports and exports at the top of the page but if you scroll down includes balances going back to 1995.

2022 is not an outlier in this regard - on an aggregate basis Germany has been the biggest net exporter of electricity in the world over the last 20 years.

Nothing "waste" about it, the imports and exports in the link are priced in USD, so if your thesis is true, then it would mean even bigger _volumes_ of electric exports.
And it's all smashed to bits as soon as one lands on me. How tragic!
What a strange take on Apple hardware.

Apple is doing amazing things with Apple silicon.
Bubble sort is not robust either
If you want real accuracy, note that the actual mile/km ratio is almost exactly half way between 1.6 and (1+sqrt(5))/2. So do both conversions and take the average.

(You won't get results as accurate as that suggests, of course, because doing the Zeckendorff + Fibonacci-shift thing only gives you an approximation to multiplying by (1+sqrt(5))/2.)
I am a big fan of residential solar, but objectively I don't think it's a big story outside of Europe. In the US it's dwarfed by utility scale installations, which are then also one way only. The grid cost issue specific to the US, the way I understood it, is that proposed additions to the grid go through an interconnection queue and get slapped with the costs for grid upgrades if their project is approved and they are the first in that area. And that this is less of a cost for a large plant that anyway has more choice where to place it, and more of an issue for a much smaller renewables installation where the location is less flexible and the combination of smaller capacity and grid costs might make the project not feasible. The opponents of solar or renewables in general then like to say that these integration costs are high for renewables, but actually it's more of a regulatory issue and you could do things differently and share the costs among several projects in the same area. Here is a good podcast with a transcript on the issues: https://www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-deal-with-interconnection

There's also the case that rooftop solar preferably gets used locally and not fed in to the grid. So there you actually remove a lot of inefficiencies and costs because in the case of rooftop solar being consumed locally, there is nothing to transmit in the grid in either direction. So overall, my layman view of the situation is that the high grid costs are an overblown issue, especially because you would need to upgrade the grid anyway if everyone charged their car and electricity came from large plants only.
It is frustrating. You can still get info from reddit pretty easily though.

On Android, Red Reader still works and is free. The built in search works pretty well. It's much a much better experience than reddit in a browser. You don't have to have an account for it (unless you want to post and such).

Reddit posts still show up in ddg results.

Startpage.com will get you google results without using google.