skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The better question is, how do you prevent this tactic from working?

Make it clear that if it works, it will only work once.

The CABF should adopt policies that any such legal action or any request for extension will be considered a public declaration that the customer's application is incompatible with the requirements of the Web PKI and that not only will the current CA refuse to renew the certificate but it will be publicly documented in the Bugzilla so that no other CA will issue certificates covering any of those names nor any new names for the same company without an affidavit explicitly stating that the issues preventing compliance have been resolved and the company acknowledges this and commits to never doing so again.

Existing names that were successfully revoked in time can be renewed but neither the problematic one(s) nor any new ones will be allowed.

If they then file for another TRO in the future they may still get a short-lived order but the existence of such an agreement would at least to my non-lawyer brain cause any judge who may have granted a TRO to become very displeased when the CA presented it in their response.
What artifacts does it generate?
What stacks?
Does it generate a reproducible build outside its platform?
Vendor lock-in?
There is no way you get Wilmette to change zoning. They've fought with Small Cheval about the size of their sign for like 9 months. I doubt you'd get any village in the NT district to rezone - the Optima project was pulling teeth, everyone is worried about overcrowding NT, which as a single HS is pretty packed now
5 years ago I had a new employee fresh from a good CS grad program in the U.S. not have a clue what design patterns were in computer programming.
What other kinds of quality are you thinking of?
Sounds like an obsidian plugin.
The other major alternative to consider is RTF. I standardised on that about 10y ago, planning for a 30y horizon. It is a more complex format than Markdown, still text-based, but biased towards WYSIWYG presentation and editing, while Markdown is usually not WYSIWYG in the editor. Both formats suffer from a lack of standardisation, though Markdown seems to have more problems in practice - I've never had an issue caused by RTF incompatibility. Both are very widely supported. Both formats are very widely supported and it can reasonably be expected that this will continue.

I prefer RTF for two main reasons:

* I can't express simple formatting such as "make this text red" in Markdown. No, I don't mean "accentuate this text and leave the decision on how it looks to someone else", I really do mean "make this text red". I do a lot of public speaking, and I want to keep to certain conventions which are easy to read fast.

* Most of the time I am writing text, not reading a version after it goes through a formatter, so I prefer to see it formatted on screen. That's really a limitation on Markdown editors, but it's almost universal so for my point of view, it counts.
Tony Tromba (my math advisor at UCSC) used to tell a low key infuriating, sexist and inappropriate story about a physicist, a mathematician, and a naked woman. It ended with the mathematician giving up in despair and a happy physicist yelling "close enough."
That model of Surface is nearing almost 8 years old by now. Not current by my standards. I'm thinking about the chance of existing tooling still being around to make a screen and slap into a laptop rather than if it existed at one point.

But yes, considering that Framework's Chromebook is/was expensive (over $1k) for the class doesn't give a lot of faith that the 12in model would be any different. Though that was equipped with a 2k screen and had a 12th gen i5, so I genuinely wonder what kind of meetings happened to ship out a premium Chromebook (a segment that does not exist)
> and they cannot even implement Login.gov after being told by Congress

What are you talking about? I use login.gov all the time. Works well.

> I would like to see the rest of the first world do something significant, like fill the void, like Europe.

Europe may or may not do that. But who know who will? China. Look at what's happened in Africa in the past 20 years. While the US was totally distracted with its "war on terror", China has swooped in. It has struck major deals for access to natural resources, and boosted its influence significantly primarily through infrastructure loans.

> Anyone who says Germany or China is going to be more popular needs to put down the Kool-Aid.

Germany, no. But China will become more popular among developing countries. I'm saying it.

OK, but what I get from the jist of what you're saying is that you want to take down US's dominance on the world scene. I actually think the US' dominance has been detrimental and have no particular love for America, so in that I agree with you. On the other, China and Russia are even worse masters, so I don't see Trump's "let Rome burn" approach ultimately working out well for either the rest of the world, and certainly not America itself.

But the irony is that the vast majority of Trump voters think that he wants to make the US stronger, not weaker. They will be in for a rude awakening.
I feel like .zip and .mov gTLDs are more understandable to have blocked
I believe MCP helps here because it standardizes integrations, enhances user control via opt-in plugins, and improves security by avoiding direct endpoint calls.

@gregpr07 wouldn't adoption of MCP open up Browser-use to more use cases?
This is very very important. It's completely unusable if this isn't solved. The agent could access a website that takes control of your machine.
The most famous ollie
We met through a computer dating service back in 1964 (2016)
Just tried it, and it works well! I didn't realize the potential of this technique until I saw just how many dupes there were of certain types of files, especially in node_modules. It wasn't uncommon to see it replace 50 copies of some js file with one, and that was just in a specific subdirectory.

I see it is "pre-release" and sort of low GH stars (== usage?), so I'm curious about the stability since this type of tool is relatively scary if buggy.
This.

Food is just a "has to be there in case I'm hungry" for our cat.

But she'll run up to us, meowing and running around us and bumping into our legs to try and lead us to her favourite spot on the floor (on a rug, so it's nice and warm), throw herself on the floor and on the side to get petted.

And if you stop too early, she'll run after you.
This doesn't sound right.

A 30 year old engineer with 6 years of industry experience should know what XML is.

This isn't a generational gap. I would argue that in a large sample of other 30 year old engineers with 6 years of experience that most of them would know what XML is.

Something else is at play here.
This strikes me as very un-American.
I noticed a vastly larger jump between HDD and SSD’s, which hit for most people after 2011, than between PII vs PIII’s. People generally buy systems not individual components and in practice it’s mostly bottlenecks that matter. PII’s and PIII’s had the same RAM latency as earlier and later CPU’s because that’s bound by the speed of light, thus the explosion in cache size.

> 2011 is long after the major price drops of the 90s and early 00s

Not in terms of actual average PC prices which are down ~40% from their 2011 average. That’s a big discount in real world prices. Your price comparison on 1+k CPU’s is irrelevant when so few of them entered customers hands at those prices. Sure nVidia is selling 2000$ GPU’s today, but the average PC is ~650$ that’s the number that matters.
I think its an excellent name mr.Tim haha, I m glad it stuck. Always reminds me of effbot (rip) and others. It felt more personal and memorable than gallopsort would.
Hmmm. I see the use in this...

For me, everything swirls in a lovely vortex towards org-mode.
- Literate Programming, tangel/weave
- Export to DocX, PDF, HTML
- Org-Roam
- Time Management.
Well, you'll see a lot fewer of us this winter and at least the next 3 after and it won't be because of the changing planetary climate.
they did. it was called the moosehead. it replaced the indy and i think was the last of the mips boxen before they became a pc integrator.
USD <> CAD exchange rate is rough right now so lots of snowbirds aren’t going lately.
Some of it has to be because people know Lisp.

When XML hit the fan, it was the first time some of our Lisp-ignorant colleagues got a taste of notation for structured data.

But what a disappointing flop: basically just a recursively chopped-up chararacter string, with no notion of type whatsoever, and a huge amount of verbiage

No arrays or lists, no distinction between numeric and textual data. <foo>0xff</foo> might come out as 255 in one application or garbage in another.

In XML-land, you see ad-hoc notations within XML that are not part of it, like <temperatures>12.3, 13.7, 13.1, 12.9</temperatures>.

When people wrapped their heads around XML, though, it did become a tad easier to explain Lisp as being structured data (like XML) that represents code.
> most stars have planets in orbits closer than is Earth’s.

I don't think that this is true. IIRC it's an artifact of the techniques we use to detect extrasolar planets -- our techniques are biased to detect planets that are closer to their stars than further away,
Instead of trying to impute hidden motives, you could just read it as the statement of fact that it was. I wasn't "going" anywhere with it. I've always been an avid conservationist and have actively worked on climate change for decades, I have a pretty good handle of the issues. But I also abhor the popular strain of ideology that believes we should obscure the truth or be dishonest about the reality when communicating with the public because we imagine they might engage in wrong think.

I discovered many years ago that almost everyone is surprised to find out that "endangered" in this context has little relation to "almost extinct" because that is their intuitive understanding of the term and people are encouraged to misinterpret it that way. It comes across as misleading at the very least, which fosters distrust. There is evidence on this very thread that people are confused by this distinction. Furthermore, this has historically been weaponized by activists in ways that are indefensible in the pursuit of other agendas.

If we are going to have adult conversations about these issues then it is imperative that everyone has the same understanding of the tradeoffs at stake and feels they are not being manipulated in bad faith. We have enough challenges with the environment, we don't need to invent new ones.
> Texas has grown rich building up as a California alternative, but doing more than moving people out of California, actually bringing back overseas operations that would have gone to California had it not devolved into an economic wasteland, required a powerful financial incentive and Trump has finally given one.

Wasn't Texas a tech hub dating back to TI?

I doubt anyone will seriously bet on any of Trump's changes since his mercurial temperament and tendency to chase the shiny makes it all so unreliable.
I hear you: would love to see a RISC-V-based system without all the downsides to using ARM. Perhaps in another 3-5 years we'll see performance parity and it'll be viable. If we get close it certainly seems like we'll see a laptop from Framework using such a chip.
And then you add in all the galaxies that are so far away our light will never reach them...
Drug-screening biz DISA took year to disclose security breach affecting millions
Yup, you can pick up Teslas cheap in the UK now ... and I still won't buy those PoS's ...
> If it's the product of an attack, but not the end goal, surely it's of value to the attacker?

Well sure, but it doesn't help them attack. That's like arguing that since the bank robber wants dollar bills, dollar bills must be a useful tool for breaking into bank vaults.
If you're in a struggle against a hostile regime, you don't refuse to use the weapons available to you because they're not what will bring you final victory. You use whatever you can.
Even here in Canada it's been amazing to see them return to areas where they were gone (southern Ontario, etc). There's a population of them now in Coote's Paradise here in Hamilton. Apparently after a 50 year absence.

https://www.rbg.ca/plants-conservation/nature-sanctuaries/co...
Curious if you inject insulin yourself?

I’m Type 1 diabetic and have been injecting for 10+ years now.

I really see a tool like this being useful for newly diagnosed and/or younger diabetics, particularly if you add a visual component.

I inject 4-6 times a day and after a few months of that you really start to develop a reasonable feel for how much to inject based on a lot of factors. I couldn’t tell you how many carbs are in my dinner but I feel like tonight is a 6 unit night.

I think this would benefit from visual component of this and the input could be simpler. Like just show bread and say a piece of bread is usually about 20g of carbs. Then show other foods that are about 20g so the user can make these associations faster.

Or make it a game and show the food and ask the user to guess the carbs.
And now you see them. Real, old world societies , with castes and strata ,where the royalty looks down on the peasants while paying lipservice to western idea. China, india, the middle east, russia. Welcome to the desert of the real.
> Back in the MS-DOS days, when the RAM was sparse, there was a class of so-called "memory optimization" programs. They ultimately did nothing but claim they did the work. Must've sold pretty well nonetheless.

QEMM worked by remapping stuff into extended memory - in a time that most software wasn't interested in using it. It worked as advertised.

Quarterdeck made good stuff all around. Desq and DesqView/X were amazing multitaskers. Way snappier than Windows and ran on little to nothing.
Indeed, the main drawback of the various Deep Research implementation is the quality of sources is determined by SEO, which is often sketchy. Often the user has insight on what the right sources are and they may even be off-line on your computer.

We built an alternative to do Deep Research (https://radpod.ai) on data you provide, instead of relying on Web results. We found this works a lot better in terms of quality of answers as the user can control the source quality.
Obsidian is the killer app for this. I spent a month converting around 3 years of security notes to markdown and now use obsidian to search/archive everything.
Lots of things are "of value". That's not the bar the statute sets. To the extent something isn't per se exempted by the statute (as the outcome of the case established schemas are), the burden is on the public body to demonstrate that disclosure Would jeopardize the security of the system.
There is no libertarian bent in the argument. I suspect a lot of the drive to censor comes out of extrapolations like this, where people are reading into factual statements agendas that are not there.

In 2020, I had this chart showing the IFR for COVID (it's gone down since then due to widespread immunity from vaccination and natural infection) taken down by Facebook's "fact-checkers" because apparently providing the chart without context was "misleading":

Age Group | Low | Mean | High

-----------------------------

0-19 | 0.007% | 0.01% | 0.02%

20-29 | 0.01% | 0.02% | 0.03%

30-39 | 0.04% | 0.05% | 0.06%

40-49 | 0.08% | 0.1% | 0.1%

50-59 | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.4%

60-69 | 0.7% | 0.9% | 1.1%

70-79 | 1.8% | 2.4% | 2.9%

80+ | 3.4% | 4.4% | 5.5%

-----------------------------

Total | 0.4% | 0.5% | 0.6%

Same "I don't like the agenda I suspect this is intended to push" rationale behind the censorship.
Trump announces plans for a 'gold card'
You sound like an old engineer who believes that the process you've mastered is the only conceivable way to do things.

Saying LLMs are worth zero dollars shows a disconnection from reality so profound that I doubt you'll ever be able to admit you were wrong.

I wish you all the best with your remaining career.
People should be able to live/have a job even if they 'lack initiative'. Not everyone is a silicon valley perfect work unit. And not every job (especially not bureaucratic ones) require that.

> Who exactly are we speaking of, here? The guy who started 3 successful world-changing companies, or...?

The sycophants attracted to the chance to work for the guy who started 3 successful world-changing companies no matter what he's asking them to do.
Glad you appreciate it! On top of being a Java joke it’s an homage to my home, New Orleans. We still drink coffee with chicory here due to some events during the civil war and then a changed cultural taste. Though the history in this isn’t exactly clear I think https://neworleanshistorical.org/items/show/1393
Everybody knows real programmers use the XMLHttpRequest object directly.
To make dedup[0] fast, I use a tree with device id, size, first byte, last byte, and finally SHA-256. Each of those is only used if there is a collision to avoid as many reads as possible. dedup doesn’t do a full file compare, because if you’ve found a file with the same size, first and last bytes, and SHA-256 you’ve also probably won the lottery several times over and can afford data recovery.

This is the default for ZFS deduplication and git does something similar with size and far weaker SHA-1. I would add a test for SHA-256 collisions, but no one has seemed to find a working example yet.

0 - https://github.com/ttkb-oss/dedup
I agree, I think poster was just throwing it out there as a thought experiment. Of course, if an alien race did accidentally nuke the universe we'd have some extra data for the Drake equation as we watched the shockwave coming to destroy us.
The whole project is going to take many years. Even if we fix Oak Park zoning in the coming year, it'll still be years before anything significant gets built, and years past that for us to serve as a test case.
I've noticed a lack of familiarity with design patterns in junior employees as well, but I've attributed it to them not paying attention in class and/or forgetting about it. Are design patterns not part of the standard curriculum these days? I guess to some degree, the most successful patterns are already "baked in" into frameworks and even languages, so maybe they're not even worth mentioning as something noteworthy?
He won with fewer votes than Biden got to win in 2020. And not all of those are his 'base'. Many probably didn't even know who Biden is, they just voted for the guy promising to lower prices.
> Markdown flavor (Commonmark) doesn't actually support frontmatter.

That leads to mixing presentation logic (meta data, ToC) and content. When typesetting the Markdown, the ToC can be derived from headings and meta data should be isolated to avoid duplication. The following videos demonstrate some of the advantages to this approach:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjQ-dle-tAE

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QpX70O5S30

See my editor's screenshots for more details:

https://keenwrite.com/screenshots.html

My FOSS editor is a cross-platform CLI and GUI application that replaces the shell scripts developed in my blog series about typesetting Markdown.

https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/05/22/typesetting-markdow...
Kill it with fire. This is disgusting.

I'm a factory worker. Have been for most of the last 30 years. It's nice to know what some people in the tech industry think of us.
This is going to replace the EB-5 which required a 800k investment, that you could get back with interest.

With this, it seems like a 5 million usd donation to the US government. Which makes sense and puts us in-line with other countries that have "weaker" citizenships. Just makes me a little sad because I was saving up to 1 million to get the EB-5.
Yes, but the AI was talking about implementing output sanitization in its proposed solutions.

> An alternative approach is to store the raw markdown content and handle rendering and sanitization in the browser:
Comparing daily standup to the situation here is an equivocation so sublimely dumb that I'm just... at a loss.

Also— if standup is just a manager mandating people to give updates in a daily meeting, that's a Scrum smell: it's probably wasting time, when people could be doing reports on their work activities in one of the many, many ways organizations do in the pursuit of getting things done. Not the best way to go about it!

Oh, the "smell" part means that it's an issue - as in an unpleasant odor that indicates a problem. Just FYI, in case the Hacker News crowd might need another term from the world of software development defined.
If you say "Even I don’t know what I meant by that" ... that's not really communication "tuning" now is it?

I don't expect someone -- even an expert -- to have perfect phrasing. But if they can't even tell you what they meant to say? How is that unrealistic expectations?
Can relate to that sentiment. What I'm still looking for is a simple solution that lets me use simple local files (eg plaintext/markdown; csv or single-page HTML would also be fine) as a backend for a web app (with login, obviously). Basically, I want to have something like a todo.txt that lives on my machine (in the folder that syncs to my cloud storage) but that I can also edit when I'm on my phone. Like using Google sheets as a backend but with a local file.
Honestly... I wonder why they didn't consider CAMM2? The bandwidth and signal integrity rivals that of soldiered memory. They could have had the best of both worlds, really.
Before that he was known for his exhaustive reviews of OS X on Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/author/john-siracusa/
Occasionally on HN, you will see comments that callout a portion of the article as being particularly important or insightful.
He's just one of today's lucky 10,000.

https://xkcd.com/1053/
> the model has something like a "be evil" feature

That description feels like a stretch to me, since it suggests some anthropomorphism and a binary spectrum.

Perhaps the model trained on mostly-sincere data grows a set of relationships between words/tokens, and training it again with conflicting content fractures its statistical understanding in non-obvious ways.
Necessitating a government contract for Starlink's new sat to phone connectivity you say? Welcome to DOGE!
By that logic there's no point investigating any crime or doing any kind of audit. You increase the costs of covering up, and put them in a dilemma - remember this is exactly what brought down Nixon.
Yes, this has been done a few times in the past. It's unfortunate that "distrust after X date" and "distrust now" are the only penalties that currently exist but that's the reality of the current PKI world.

There are a lot of efforts to get name constraints widely supported, so a given CA can only issue for certain TLDs or even domains, but it's still not there. That could be a viable punishment for misbehaving CAs in the future, or even an intentionally chosen restriction for CAs that want less strict requirements. Government CAs could be a very useful application, if a CA cert could be name constrained to only issue for .gov.cctld at that point we could basically just let them do whatever they want without concern. Likewise for any small regional CAs, if they could be limited to only regional TLDs their blast radius is reduced which also could mean less strict requirements than those applied to CAs able to sign for .com.
I think the sort of Discord group being discussed here counts as "in public". You can join interest groups by just clicking a link with an anonymous account. It's out of view of Google, unindexable, hardish to search and to collect organized information from, but it is more public than say, old newspaper archives in microfilm that anyone can look at in a library.

People are going to discord for that because it is convenient as a platform for a variety of reasons, not because they want to hide it from the public imho.