skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this even related to npm? The extension was on the VS Code marketplace, I can't see any evidence that npm is involved at all besides that it's referenced in passing exactly once in the article:

> the need for caution when installing VS Code extensions, especially those obtained from public package registries like npm.

I'm not aware of any way to install a VS Code extension through NPM. The article honestly just reads like the author knew that Mend does a lot of business selling NPM dependency scanning and that they're therefore expected to stuff it as a keyword for SEO.
That's actually a pretty genius espionage strategy. Don't bother to set-up a fake-ish company to say sell secure phones to cartels. Just wait until somebody does and then buy them out.
I assume Germany has 'the middle aisle' in Lidl and Aldi like we do in the UK? Solar panels are exactly the kind of thing I would expect to find there :D
A very rare and sensible comment. Thank you
"Boomless" Supersonic Flights

https://x.com/bscholl/status/1888939430833975765
How is market liquidity relevant here?
It's not a strawman, it's the crux of your argument. The rest is just hand-waving away the chaos that Musk represents for OpenAI P and NP so you can repeatedly frame this is a simple question of which number is bigger than the other - hence why you have to repeat it over and over again.

> how is Elon uniquely special

This is the part that is obvious to everyone, but I already offered a few reasons why. If you can't see them, then I think we're at an impasse.
If you think Trump is actually in charge when he's signing all those executive orders being handed to him and--

Anyway, he's not the real power, here.
I am so glad I rented a Tesla as a stunt for a friend’s wedding. After the sun set and the temperature dropped into the mid 40s (F) with high humidity, the touch screen practically stopped working. We were lucky we didn’t get stranded.

Zipping to 60 mph on the highway in 3 seconds was fun a couple times, but I would never own one. Especially if one guy could just delete my car if he decides he doesn’t like me.
Is equity in crypto any better than the crypto?
edge is really bad. well named though.

laws? they only respect one thing.
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All of this sounds pretty reasonable, but my goal was to document the simplest way I saw it work back in the day.

You can keep the process alive if copyover fails by writing to a temporary file and designing the server so that you get a "rescue console" if it fails to come up. Then you could inspect the dumped file, see what's going wrong, and exec() into another binary to try again. You could even use sqlite as your state file, which would let you interactively explore and edit it during debugging.

A custom allocator sounds like an extremely interesting approach. I'm still not sure whether I'd want to rely on struct layouts not changing, but if you use it diligently you at least make it easier to find everything you've allocated.
> take a field trip to your local river banks and highway underpasses if you want to see what happens if you fail to sell your labor

Very few of those folks are there because they're ready and willing to work but just can't find a job. (Those who are, the transitional homeless, tend to find one.)

> We have enough food in the US to end world hunger

We have enough atoms in the universe for anything. Getting them to the right place is the challenge.

Ending world hunger would require massively decreasing living standards in the rich world. Your aforementioned homeless under a bridge have better access to resources than much of the human population.
>customers with respected ended quite a while ago (except during COVID of course. But that's mostly over).

I definitely didn't feel respected during covid. There was a mask rule, standard for the time, fine. But then they give out drinks, okay. They were extremely strict, you must sip your drink and have your mask on again within less than a second. Long sips, unacceptable. Pause in your sip, unacceptable, there needs to then be two sips with an intermediate remasking. The air staff were quite 1930s Germany as far as the rigor of their enforcement of this rule. This has all the charm and beside manner of a driver laying on their horn 200ms after the red light turns green. Quite bizarre, the mask fetish, when most passengers were vaccinated and there's this huge vector of spreading the disease called touching things with pathogens on their surface aka fomites.
The Rig Veda is only 3000–3500 years old, contrary to folk traditions holding it to be much older. The Yamnaya culture is 5300 years old and only lasted 700 years. When the oldest parts of the Rig Veda were composed (and they are, incidentally, about the proper way to praise the gods, not about historical events) the Yamnaya culture had died about 1100 years ago. Those 1100 years included a lot of warfare, mostly nomads living in tents, without writing.

How much do English-speakers today know about the events in early 10th century France that eventually led to English becoming a sort of pidgin French, full of words like "eventually" and "sort" that didn't exist in Beowulf? How much effort do they typically devote to passing on traditions about Æthelwold's challenge to Edward the
Elder in Wessex?

And that's after 1100 years of a literate, mostly settled culture with libraries that contain physical books from that time, in a culture that values that kind of factual knowledge of history, rather than more practical sorts of knowledge such as how to properly worship Agni to gain his favor and which plants to poison your arrows with.

Oral tradition can preserve knowledge to an astounding degree. There are songlines, as I understand it, that record the geography of landforms that have been undersea since the Ice Age (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-indigenou... roughly the same time as the Proto-Indo-European culture). But it is hardly surprising when it is silent on a topic we wish we knew more about.
I never said uniquely. But it was on the flag of all the entities involved in Europe, which makes it pretty European colonialist/invasiony adjacent at least eh?

Hell, I didn’t even bring up the Conquistadors [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquistador], or the Crusades, which were also pretty explicit about the whole ‘bringing Christ to the unbelievers’.

You bring up Australia, but the Church was insanely abusive to the natives. Same in Canada. Cultural annihilation and in some views genocidal. That is a type of conquering. It just didn’t make the radar of ‘war of conquest’ explicitly because they were so weak it wasn’t needed. Just ‘skirmishes’.[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse...]

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not claiming these actions were ‘Christ like’. Unlike most Christians I know, I’ve read the Bible (many times). The Koran too.

If someone tried to claim Islam wasn’t involved in expansion/conquering, I’d also have plenty of documentation lined up there too. And unlike Christianity, Mohammed was very explicit on the ‘go out and conquer in the name of god’ thing. And kill all the heathens (except the ‘good ones’). They’re just not relevant in the current political discussion eh?

There are religions without a lot of ‘go out and conquer the heathens’ history - Judaism, Hinduism (they tend to just ‘absorb’/co-opt everything), Jainism, Daoism (maybe?). But at least European style Christianity definitely isn’t one of them.
tbh, despite the rap the Pinto gets it really was just as dangerous as the rest of the vehicles on the road [1].

Of course, a gas can with a spear pointed at it isn't a great design. But the rest of the cars were also dangerous as well.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Retrospective_safet...
I’m not acting as if anything. I’m simply pointing out that there are also rules for mootness.
Precisely. It’s not really about system performance anymore, which just leaves the workflow benefits once you get used to it. As you point out, when using keyboard shortcuts thoroughly, the WM behaviours just make sense.

Command-Tab, Tab to select the app for foreground, Command-N for a new window. Combined with Command-Space for Spotlight (or Alfred/Raycast) it’s all very quick and seamless.
Hacking a ESP32-Based Smart Home Device
It's in TFA.
If you get two EVs equivalent to average size American cars, that’s over 200 kwh of storage.

That’s equivalent to roughly 15 tesla powerwalls, and newer models can charge your (tiny) house battery as needed during power outages.

Having said that, community net metering makes way more sense in urban areas than per-building solar. The idea is that, by law, you can buy a small fraction of a neighborhood wide solar or wind farm (e.g. on a commercial parking lot, or a few blocks away, etc), and the power company offsets your power consumption bill with the electricity your fraction of the solar installation produced.
When I started out programming in C#, I used reflection sometimes to circumvent the language’s design and restrictions. This resulted in brittle and hard to reason about code. Reflection should never be used to do this.

So I do think you’re right that reflection can (and will) be abused by beginners if present as a language feature.

With that said, I don’t know much about the internals of the C++ compiler, but having built a simple reflection system for C++, I think the important thing is just being able to serialize and deserialize POD structs to and from some representation (e.g. json).
For more advanced data, such as images or specific binary (file) formats, it’s easier to write custom writing / reading, encoding / decoding logic.
So models are trusted but algorithms are not? Just asking, I really don't know.

In the case of debanking it seems that those who were debanked didn't consider their own counterparty risk, this is a two-way street. Businesses using multiple banks seems to be newly popular. Perhaps loans need to be considered separately from bank accounts?
I'm also suggesting creating a new kind of payment system for the US federal government, so in that there is a large risk for the people that try to misuse it. Perhaps a payment system is more amenable to automation than a bank account?
Can be tough if parenting is shared. You'll probably have to see a judge and if the other parent won't agree they'll just award them custody and now there is a warrant for your arrest because you missed payments while hitchhiking to some far away place with jobs.

Otherwise yeah easy problem to solve, there is always a train or car you can ride on.
That kind of generalizing isn't helpful and isn't true, either. I am sorry you didn't have a "Bluetooth anything" that worked reliably. I did. In fact, everything that I own that uses Bluetooth works very well.

There are two important things about Bluetooth.

1. There are actually two kinds of Bluetooth. The "traditional" mostly connection-oriented Bluetooth and BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy). They share very little with each other, except for the marketing name. BLE works way better in practice. Many people still remember their old headsets that used Bluetooth and that took ages to connect to their phones and associate those with the "Bluetooth experience".

2. Bluetooth is complex. Many manufacturers get it wrong. But the problem is not with Bluetooth. You could invent a different set of protocols, and if they were to do everything that Bluetooth does, they would get very complex as well, and we would have the same problem, except in a less popular and less broadly adopted protocol.
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From the webpage:

"Go WASM is slow at parsing large amounts of JSON, which led to dramatic architecture changes and the creation of a “smart backend” for incremental data loading over WebSockets, using Go's rarely-used encoding/gob format."

From https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/gob

"This package is not designed to be hardened against adversarial inputs, and is outside the scope of https://go.dev/security/policy. In particular, the Decoder does only basic sanity checking on decoded input sizes, and its limits are not configurable. Care should be taken when decoding gob data from untrusted sources, which may consume significant resources."

How do they sanitize the gob data?
You can often get average monthly billing from the utility company on request.

My experience is that apartment units tend to have low utility rates anyhow, particularly in larger buildings where only 1 or 2 of 6 surfaces (walls, floor, ceiling) will have any outside exposure.

If you're not too particular about temperature, it's often possible to "coast" based on the heating/cooling of your neighbours rather than heating or cooling your own space. Temperate climates such as California further reduce need for interior climate control, though construction is also correspondingly less well weather-proofed (insulated, wrapped, weather-stripped) than in colder, hotter, or more humid climates.
I'm pretty sure nobody uses uniform probing hash tables in the wild. Every time I have wanted to have very high load factors (>90%), cuckoo hashing has been good enough, and below 70-80%, linear probing is blazing fast and absolutely good enough.
Branch By Abstraction – UML sequence diagrams
bingo! for long-haul flights (>10hrs) i'd even bring two zip locks. Relax and fall asleep right during takeoff while everyone else has to wait for the stupid cart forever.
I don't think it's reasonable to assume Monty picks a door at random, no.
That idea is also a perception of safety. No team of hijackers has attempted to take over a plane post 9/11.

If TSA is just theater, couldn't an attacker simply bring weapons sufficient enough to hold off the crowd and break the door? The hijackers on 93 only had box cutters.

It is the combined perception of airport security and the perception that passengers will fight that deter bad actors from even trying.
The application should not manage the network. It should send out a request and expect it to resolve.

If I write down instructions for a human someone can execute them 1000 years from now.

We build lots of things that just work. Software is not special, if all the bits are still there you can run it.

If your application is made of many chunks of code and data stored in as many different places the bits won't be there surprisingly soon.

Ii can be like a book on a shelve if we want.
Without someone telling me, I wouldn't have necessarily assumed this was unconstitutional.
Also, everyone has a carry-on since checked bags now universally cost extra, but there's never enough space for all the carry-ons, so everyone's quietly jockeying to not be the last twenty people in line.
Yeah, but with most JavaScript frameworks (and even Rust compiled to WASM), 4MB (at most!) would be the size of the uncompressed bundle.
Motorola's Quantar base radio[0] had, in its original incarnations, a 68040 at its heart running pSOS.

PhoneNet was an option (along with 10base2) to connect base radios together on IntelliRepeater trunking sites, but I've never heard of PhoneNet actually being used. BNC connectors and RG-58 are easy to come by in the land mobile radio industry, so I don't know why Motorola bothered. IntelliRepeater site LANs extend no further than a couple of racks.

[0] https://www.repeater-builder.com/motorola/quantar/pdfs/quant...
At the least, tools that minimise the usage of certain languages (i.e. JS if you're not a JS shop) or general frontend boilerplate will also do this.

See: Rails Hotwire, Laravel Livewire, Alpine.js
Mac OS on an unmodified Wii (2022)
Feature Flags vs. Configuration Options – Same Difference?
He may know some things, he got pretty far. But he seems to make some of the dumbest moves. While his 180 turn in politics may have got him closer to his power goals he alientated too many people who used to buy into his vision. Republicans don’t care about EVs or whatever Musk wants to sell them so it seems poorly though out…
It seems to me you're answering your own question. There's only one reasonable interpretation; you have to go out of your way (unreasonably!) to find any ambiguity.
We can’t do that. Those are subsidized. That’s completely unfair, unlike in the US, where you get a tax break for buying them.

/s
Thanks for bringing this up. I actually had a section on LPMuds in an earlier draft, but took it out because I didn't think I could do it justice. I also wanted to focus more on the Unix stuff. My friends and I tended to play DIKU derivatives, so I was never intimately familiar with LPMuds' capabilities.

I hear that class/skill variety was often greater on LPMuds because it was so much easier to code up custom behaviour. Do you know of any especially good articles on LPMuds class (in the OO sense)/object hierarchies and the software architecture of mudlibs?
I learned it from my grandmother and from Gladys's grandkid. Gladys was the last person whose first language was Kiksht, not the last person who speaks it.
This is why Rails is a decent solution for many apps. It’s “Ruby everywhere” including the data layer.
> they only respect one thing

Violence? Do you mean violence?

You're implicitly complaining about creeping oligarchism, and your solution is to introduce violence? Because that will magically manifest against the oligarchs? Versus the way it's gone every time in history, for the most obvious of obvious reasons, from the top down?
Use their software less. The attention economy is important for tech companies. If their metrics decrease, they might respond to that signal. Additionally, if someone watches you use an alternative software then they might also be inspired to switch. Using bad software less sends a negative signal to the company and a positive signal for the alternatives that you support.
Tanstack is supposed to be about headless UIs right? Didn't that trend kind of die down? It doesn't seem to hit a sweet spot between something prebuilt and something custom. I took a look this and tried reading several and it seems all right, but not especially interesting:

https://github.com/TanStack/table/tree/main/examples/react
More data for their spy agencies to comb through? Blackmailing politicians around the world? Or maybe they are planning on nixing any future independence referendum for Australia/Canada/etc.
> Use their software less

Boycotts don't work if there isn't a substitute [1].

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/26841362
People instinctively want not to switch because the probabilities involved aren't intuitive.

Notice if Monty uses the knowledge of whether to open the door based on what you choose, he'd be giving the whole game away, so that's not it.
One insight from that great book I've always liked was when the CEO tells the team "no mode switch". His directive was about backwards compatibility with the old instruction set. With hindsight the team realise this was a useful constraint that led to a better product.

In my experience many junior developers love mode switches, because they aren't sufficiently scared of complexity. "Yeah, lets add a setting to turn on or off advanced mode. Then the power users and the noobs will all be happy!".

After some time in the trenches it becomes clear to most that mode switches lead to combinatorial complexity and should be avoided at all costs.
Yeah, so this makes more sense. Even if I accept this statistic about Iowans, which I am fairly dubious of, your position still doesn't make sense. You would be saying that in situations of crimes of passion, gas station robberies, etc that it would be more likely for an Iowan to commit a murder than someone from Saudi Arabia (again, still dubious claim but I will grant it), this doesn't say anything about terrorist acts particularly related to air travel.
Gleam might be a good fit for that.
No way, he’ll buy his way out of the courtroom. He may even enjoy the attention.
> But you don't have to make yourself miserable for not being a billionaire.

I don't think that's what the OP Redditor is complaining about. He's complaining that as a 30+ year old, despite his best efforts, he can't seem to get any kind of footing as a self-sufficient adult, and can't even afford to live on his own. This is a pretty common complaint for young people today, and it's grounded in reality. I don't think this is anything like someone complaining that they're not a billionaire.

Heck, I'm almost 50, and I frequently feel that constant low-burn fear that if it weren't for my fairly decent job, my family and I would be in huge trouble financially, and un-recoverably so. I'm thankful, but also fully aware of how precariously I am walking the tightrope. There's no safety net or grace period in the USA anymore. Once you're down, you're out.
It’s turned into an international pastime due to the Americanisation of the western world.
> Cuba is a nearby non-extradition country.

Well that's kind of what you'd expect a country to do if you treat it like a pariah and embargo people from even visiting as tourists.
This [1] should give you another 150 days of predictions.

[1]: https://www.project2025.org/playbook/
At least in my area (NJ) we lose power around a week on a good year, approx 2 weeks out on a bad year. Outages usually caused by trees falling during thunderstorm/wind, sometimes snow, not hurricane. Oh and drunks slamming into poles. Everyone has generators or other forms of backup power in my area.

But problem in recent years was the dead ash trees from emerald ash borer, they took a few years to fully die and weaken but now they just collapse into lines on a good wind gust.

Localities that have their own utilities never go down (Madison, NJ), my area is covered by Firstenergy that cheaps out and keeps only a skeleton crew in NJ, so when stuff like the poles snap at end of my driveway it takes 3-4 days to send crews from texas or ohio to replace it.
Yeah, but why can't I just do that once for free instead of an ongoing subscription?
This was my view once, but practically the languages have their own ecosystem strengths, now I think most of the major languages have similar concepts, async await, etc.. instead we now teach transfer your skills, and tbh I think it makes for a more interesting culture that's adoptive and excited by tech, and also learns better
Some billionare backstabbing is granted
What happened? Did they just stall out on growth and the board got the itch to cash out?
Go is a pretty popular language for web servers, so while "react devs who know go" might be small, "go devs who know react" might have large overlap.