skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it was very clear from the beginning that these were a set of debug commands. A back door would probably have a door knocking semantics and a very limited apparent surface. These were direct memory reading and writing command and were available in a standardized protocol.

I would think the real issue was wether they were closed enough in real world design to avoid a security issue through debug means.
Related:

Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43301369
I just played the Claude attempt and found that the "fence" in level 3 doesn't actually obstruct either the dog or the sheep. Otherwise pretty fun.
Did you mean F-14s?

And quick question for you, when were F-14s built, and when were F-35s built, and has anything changed between those times?
I don't think asylum seekers are typically considered illegal immigrants. I think that's more individuals who either don't seek legal status, or have tried to get a legal status but failed and stayed in the country anyway.

And I don't think Sweden and Germany are giving free housing to individuals that overstayed their visas.
Free in quotes, but yeah.

Try to host a server allowing people to download movies or songs and you’ll see how fast you are offline in most countries.

Check out how far governments went to snag the Pirate Bay folks and more recently the various darknet markets.
> The big selling point of Google Chrome is the seamless integration with all the other Google services.

People keep saying this, but everybody I have spoken to dont care about that. They are just used to pressing the coloured circle icon to get on the internet. That muscle memory and brand recognition will be around for many years to come.
> I've been coding for a while and feel confident in my skills.

How long do you mean by “a while?”

> Building a SaaS … there’s always a risk of failure.

The risk of failure for any startup sits at 80% to 95%. I’d reframe as “there’s always a small chance of success.”

Everyone and their dog is cranking out web sites right now, especially with “vibe coding” the new thing. If you have extensive business domain expertise, a novel idea that adds value, and solid execution and marketing you might succeed.

Getting a dev job right now will likely prove difficult and frustrating, so I understand the appeal of doing your own thing. You can try freelancing, but you will need top-notch in-demand technical skills, business domain expertise, and a good network of professional contacts to make that work.
> Catholic church that pushed people to reproduce without limits

[Citation needed]

It's hard not to interpret this as just garden variety bigotry, of the same sort that caused the famine in the first place.

Let's assume it's correct, though. The Catholic church had been one of the most powerful organisations in Europe for well over 1000 years by the time if the famine. Why did it take until Ireland in the 19th century for their population mismanagement to become truly problematic? Also why did this not also happen in a country like Spain? Hard to find many more enthusiastically Catholic countries than Spain in that time period.

The population density of Ireland at the time of the famine was comparable to England (it is now much lower). Ireland produced enough food to feed itself and millions of people in English cities at the time of the famine. The issue was not a lack of food but the "ownership" of the food.

The account of capitalism emerging from the black death is a fine theory for continental Europe. At the time of the black death, Irish society was controlled by Irish people. After the 1600s it was increasingly run as a colony, with the indigenous culture outlawed and intensive resource extraction for export to England (timber, food, etc).

You might as well ask why industrialisation didn't take off among the Choctaw or the Cherokee. Or maybe they also just have the wrong religion?
> When arrested, she has to go through the proper deportation process

Why? Surely if both the US and the deportee agree that deportation is A-OK then you don't need judges and whatnot involved? Surely having a cop drive her to the airport and make sure she gets on a flight is wildly less work involved for everyone than whatever the fuck is going on now?
Ahhh, what a piece of shit that was! I spent summer lawnmowing money on that thing.

When I got a real job next summer, bought an AGP Matrox Millenium G200 and after that the NVIDIA GeForce2, and never strayed from NVDA since!
Seems nice because it's stateless and thus simpler. But it still enforces lots of structure (static entry points, memory, etc.). So if MCP reminds me of FTP/Telnet (bi-directional, stateful), SLOP reminds me of Gopher.

In any case, protocols need killer applications to take off — for the web this killer app was Mosaic. Right now I don't see any application supporting SLOP. If they are able to come up with one that outperforms other MCP-based LLM applications, they will have a chance.

My personal belief is that the winning protocol will be web-like. Right now there is no such protocol. Maybe I'm wrong, let's see.
> such things would be held at a municipal or state level at best?

Correct, the immigration laws (and databases) involved are all federal. However there are are shared legal conventions, such as the spectrum of trivial-to-major and how things are named. (Kind of like how logging levels are often INFO, WARN, ERROR, etc. across many pieces of software.)

Here I'm discussing the trivial end of the (shared) spectrum, but I'm using a non-federal example because it's something more people will recognize and relate-to. The majority of laws an individual American encounters are state-level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classes_of_offenses_under_Unit...

> Does this foreshadow a massive Federal government data hoovering?

The federal government can't compel states to "do their work for them", so getting special access to non-public state databases will probably depend on whether the state leadership decides to help make it happen.

Two contrasting examples:

* https://www.courthousenews.com/washington-sues-county-for-he...

* https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/10/despite-profiling-c...
> So british has nothing to do with the famine ?

You could feasibly make the argument that they exacerbated the Bengal famine. I don't think the scholarship supporting this argument is very good, but you could make the argument. As for the famines that occurred throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, no. There is no compelling reason to think that those famines occurred as a result of British mismanagement; they were the result of natural disasters.

Amartya Sen makes the argument that famines stopped occurring after India was granted independence, which alongside Churchill's general disdain for Indians is one of the more compelling reasons to think the British had anything to do with the 1943 famine, but this also coincides with the introduction of modern farming technologies (mechanization, chemical fertilizers, etc.), which complicates things.
https://archive.is/2025.02.26-183951/https://www.lrb.co.uk/t...
Triple the transportation carbon footprint. <sarcasm> Brilliant!
Context: https://www.tarlogic.com/news/hidden-feature-esp32-chip-infe...

Both HN discussion [1] and blogs [2] mentioned that it was a nothingburger.

tl;dr: there are undocumented debugging interfaces on the original ESP32 chip that can only be accessed by code running on the microcontroller or via another computer connected via the physical UART interface. No remote exploit possible. Espressif will now provide a patch to disable these debugging interfaces and document all yet-undocumented interfaces.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43301369

[2] https://darkmentor.com/blog/esp32_non-backdoor/
Does U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan get paid or boosted by military lobbyists? Does he or his family own any military stocks or companies?
ChatGPT o1 Pro

Demo: https://show.franzai.com/a/clean-parrot-brown (Page will self-destruct after 3 months, feel free to host it somewhere else)

Oneshot Prompt https://chatgpt.com/share/67cff8e6-e218-8009-af5b-d91060eaed...
Note how this is personified in the official propaganda and media. This is not "Russia", this is "Putin". This is a typical tactic to deny that whatever actions Russia has been taken reflect deeper interests and (Russian) public opinion but is instead only the result of a "mad man".
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Ask HN: What do you do when you can't take on a dev project?
I (and a lot of my dev/engineering manager friends) will often get approached with project ideas from people who ask us to "build this thing for me". Most of the time the projects are small enough for us to build ourselves, but for larger projects - which would actually benefit us the most financially - we generally can't take the work on ourselves given we have full time engineering jobs.

I'm curious to understand if other people have this problem and how they deal with it. Do you refer projects out to people who have time? If so, how do you make sure it goes to the right person?

I'm trying to build a tool to help myself and other people out with this problem, so any thoughts would be helpful.
Something like this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37394665
part of the problem is wasted space and money in cities for parking (and, to a certain extent, gridlock). i do own an old, bottom of the line car which i drive rarely - mostly on weekends out of the city as i usually cylce or take public transport. so it often occupies a parking spot 24/7 for a week or longer. on-street parking takes away a lot of spaces that's urgently needed for bike lanes, bus/tram exclusive lanes, walking and green spaces.

there's a good option for car sharing in vienna (car2go), but that's mostly inner-city iirc, so not my use case.

i guess, car sharing wouldn't reduce grid lock but ride sharing would. i suspect, ride sharing would be more acceptable if it wasn't your own car.
But there's a reason we don't use those algorithms. We don't need out-of-the-box thinking that's so far outside the box that it's useless.

With these kinds of circuits, they were so sensitive to the specific conditions that the circuit was tested in (temperature, process variation, ..) that the solution couldn't be generalized to be used outside of that specific experiment.

We need the kind of intelligence that can question what assumptions can be challenged, and which we need to keep to have a viable (eventually commercially viable) solution.
Work is full of arbitrary hoops
I think the idea is to bring everyone at the same time more than just restricting uptime
even the parent poster isn't asking for the downfall of russia
> Why not use a regular database for this (can be as simple as an sqlite file, depending on your needs)

A lot of depends on the scale and load pattern (e. g. ratio of active and inactive sessions). For a small scale sqlite could be a good choice.

Storing session in a regular DB (say Postgres) could be more expensive (hardware wise) than in Redis and there are cases when the load is high enough to matter but the budged is not unlimited (to use a DB at any cost). Also redundancy with a Redis cluster is easier than with Postgres. I don't think Redis always better, but at some load patterns it is.

> or the default thingy that comes with your framework or programming language?

Default PHP session store is files in /tmp - works for a home page but if load is high it explodes (millions files in /tmp is too slow to work with).
I grew up on a farm near the hills of The Burren in the west of Ireland. If you look closely, you can see walls made of stacked stones cross-crossing the hills, as if to demarcate farmland - but those hills are not arable farmland, so why? The British refused to offer free food to the starving, so they made people build these completely pointless walls to “earn” the food. They’re now known as the Famine Walls.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_walls
like pretty much every other state-sanctioned crypto experiment. Or, more subjectively, pretty much any crypto experiment, imo.
Factual video, clickbait title. The Casio F91 doesn’t attract any special attention unless worn by someone already profiled, or wired up without a band in luggage. I wear one and never experienced a second glance, much less hate, from an airline or TSA.
No, your military isn't the reason you don't have free healthcare in the USA. You don't have free healthcare in the USA because of an ongoing concerted effort to prevent it happening by people and companies who make a nice profit from it not happening.

This EP is from 1961, featuring the actor Ronald Reagan, and was played at coffee meetings of "concerned mothers" organised by the wives of American Medical Association members.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYrlDlrLDSQ

As part of "Operation Coffee Cup".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Coffee_Cup

These kind of things are why you don't have free healthcare, anything that provides social good but challenges private profit is immediately labelled socialism by vested interests who have sufficient money to propagate their falsehoods.

It always amazes me what a sufficient plurality of Americans label as socialism that other countries consider to be "a good investment in society".
Why would they need to hide it? Has anything of consequence happened to Meta from 2016? Their stance is just a private company running ads.

EU probably reacted stronger to them from Brexit, but I've heard nary a peep on the US side over such issues.
Wouldn't US-based businesses be the ethical competitors?

I think of schiit inc which works hard to make everything in the US, or the apple mac pro made in texas

https://www.schiit.com
Smart naming
"No AC in the summer"

Have you ever been in a castle? Thermal mass is highly underestimated from my experience.
I suggest the likes of Foix in warm southern france in the peak of summer.
Walking into one of the lower rooms where the doors are wide open and such is like walking into a fridge.
A small Dell. But not that much.
That's almost certainly their rationale, bit I'm not convinced it's sound. Firefox's market share is pretty dire anyway, and many people watch Netflix through phones and tv apps now, rather than their actual browser, I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't an issue at all.
Having hollywood endorse a candidate is not the same as having hollywood be a candidate.
I think you could also be allowed to modify your “three hour slot” up to 24 hours in advance somehow. That way you can handle travelling and relocation without allowing people to game the system and extend their slot to 6 hours or some other weird thing you didn’t anticipate.
> That's very different from saying you shouldn't help people in a famine.

I never claimed that it said that.

> Also the KJV version is a pretty inaccurate translation

It's the version I am familiar with and thus the version that I used.
> Hemingway didn’t need some bullshit Hemingway Writer to craft his style. Michelangelo wasn’t posting meta takes on Hacker News about the tools he used to carve David. Dante didn’t waste time blogging about the ink he used to write
Inferno.

The greats have been as particular and passionate about the tools as the rest of us. Whether this is productive or unnecessary is a different argument. But don't revise history to fit your argument.
> The report found “monthly financial reporting usually took 12-15 days to consolidate and five days to analyse.”

> It gets worse: Health Minister Simeon Brown last week delivered a speech in which he said HNZ operates “an estimated 6,000 applications and 100 digital networks” – or roughly one application for every 16 staff members.

> He also said HNZ’s Senior Leadership Team members “have only just begun weekly in-person meetings, and have continued to operate from different offices, despite the majority living in Auckland and the organization being two and a half years old.” Most work in different buildings.

> However the Minister doesn’t have a plan to get off Excel, or fix HNZ’s tech leadership woes.

HNZ's Senior Leadership should be reassigned to clearing fatbergs from sewer mains, and some competent grownups brought in.

And probably similar, further up in the NZ government. Two and a half years is how long it took for the 1940's USA to go from Pearl Harbor to D-Day.
"Up the RA" is a great slogan. The IRA made an important and undeniable contribution to Irish statehood. I don't think we'd be "a privileged and filthy rich country" were it not for their activities in the 20th century. There is an unfortunate tendency among some people to be unwilling to recognise that for fear of offending our neighbours to the east. As you say, it's in the distant past and not worth getting too offended about.
I doubt they're benchmarking things properly. Most likely some flawed "ad blocking speed" that doesn't measure ads and tracking scripts that are loaded / parsed etc.

Not even sure it's a valid comparison; are you even an ad blocker that can be compared with another ad blocker if you don't block ads properly. You can get a lot more speedup with an ad blocker that blocks nothing. Ad blocking speed would be 0 microseconds :P
Inhumane decisions will be easier to make when you think you can point the responsibility to an "official" machine. Dark times ahead.
I don't know about you, but I am always nice and friendly with my AI, I always say please and thank you. In the event AI will take over the world.
It does not work mathematically. If you delay signals from one satellite, then you need to simulate signals arriving _faster_ from another satellite (on the opposite side of the sky), assuming the receiver is not diving down into the Earth. And you can't do that because you can't predict the timestream.

The receiver should be able to detect this inconsistency and try to filter out the faulty signals.

To make this attack feasible, you need to "prime" the receiver by delaying ALL the signals, but that is only possible if you control the initial timestamp sync.
> An HR screen isn't a background check. It's "can you talk about your roles and provlems solved like you actually did it. A good HR screen should make sure they aren't blatantly lying

Correct. While not perfect, if you have good HR hiring team they will do a decent job at feeling out the people before they get to you.

> I can apply to 100 job and interview for 10 that all fall through.

Part of the difficulty is that (despite any myths around engineering shortage) there are so many qualified people for every role that it is overwhelming.

I just opened a new job req last week, I have over 1100 resumes in the queue already. And this is a pretty specialized technical role in a specialized department, not a generic "javascript software engineer" role, either.

Obviously I can't read all of them, which makes me sad because someone took the time to send their resume and I feel like I should give them the respect of reading it, but there are simply not enough hours in a week. While HR does the screening, I also go and do a random sampling of the resumes and everyone who has applied seems at least moderately qualified. But of course I can only talk to about 1% of them at best.
Is this dotcom bust 2.0?
How do you run all this on developer's machine?
That's a whole lot of words to just carry water for a bunch of anti-user stuff Apple continues to inflict on their Stockholm Syndrome afflicted customers. The whole water proofing thing is dumb--why is it that every digital watch I've ever owned is simultaneously unbelievably easier to service and also manages to survive being under water way better than any phone I've seen, Apple or otherwise? It's like gasket technology doesn't exist. You could have your shiny metal back and just have it secured with a handful of machine screws. And as far as their batteries not being a pain, they're way harder than a Motorola, for example, and again frankly needlessly so.

It's so weird that we just come to expect to be screwed on these phones, when if it was anything else, especially the sort of devices that are more commercially focused than consumer, you'd demand better.
I had a LaserJet III that lasted forever, like over ten years. It just wouldn't die.
I've been a happy user of Adguard for over 5 years, on all my devices, so I am luckily unaffected by this.

So far it seems to be the only general solution that can inject cosmetic filters into network requests while blocking on a request (not dns-only) level.

https://adguard.com/en/blog/mv2-extensions-no-longer-alterna...
Doctors didn't warn women of 'risky sex' drug urges
Elon Musk blames X outages on "massive cyberattack"
I use the jetbrains product line for my professional work. They now come with a AI code completion assistant, which will 50-80% of the time, depending on the type of project, suggest something wrong, which I either have to spend energy to evaluate and then ignore. The rare cases where it does suggest something useful don't make up for the time an energy wasted having to deal with the completion. AI in this case is detrimental to productivity and attention to the code. It's more useless than useful.
From memory, the SpacemiT K1 doesn't support extensions like Zvkt?

EDIT: okay, looks like the official documentation lists it, but many places I looked didn't. Maybe it wasn't being detected in cpuinfo?
Mastodon is the real alternative, but many people seem to be converging at bluesky. Which is fundamentally not much better.
> The spreadsheet-using agency is Health New Zealand (HNZ) which was established in 2022 to replace 20 district health boards in the expectation it would be more cost-effective and deliver more consistent services.

Austria did the same with their national health insurance, to reduce costs and organisational overhead. It massively increased costs and organisational overhead.
"I love listening to the North Sea pirates on medium wave. So diverse and ecletic!"

I lived on the other side of the planet the 1960s when Radio Caroline began transmission so I was deprived of the somewhat 'illicit' fun of listening to it.

Instead I'd come home from school turn on my shortwave radio and witness Radio Moscow and Radio Peking battling it out for the position of which could produce the most outrageous and over-the-top propaganda. It was hilarious, even this naïve school kid wasn't taken in by any of it.

That was at the height of the Cold War (Cuban Missile Crisis, etc.) and especially Radio Moscow could be heard splattered all over the dial—it seemed that no matter where one tuned, it came in at strength 5/9+, its signal was enormous.

I'd love to hear some recording of those broadcasts again and I reckon I'd still be amused (I've not searched but I'd bet there are recording of them in archives somewhere).
Unless you reverse engineer the radio firmware, i dont think you can change the RF front end much
You should be switching off the bluetooth on your device if is not needed. CE also has some regulations regarding this.

I use the ESP32 in my product[1] I am glad they exist. Their per-certified modules save you quite a bit of money when you do your CE testing.

Espressif also offer free design review if you are using their chip in your commercial project/product[2].

[1] https://www.stationdisplay.com/

[2] https://www.espressif.com/en/contact-us/circuit-schematic-pc...
> The impact of this was quite revolutionary.

In screwing over a lot of people around the world, yes. Otherwise, not really. Ordering rides by app was an obvious next step that's already been pursued independently everywhere.

> They used the data they had from the watching habits of their large user base to decide what kinds of content to invest in creating.

And they successfully created a line of content universally known as something to avoid. Tracks with the "success" of recommendation systems in general.
Then in the next step, it would see that the result of the increment is never used and thus the increment instruction is dead code and can also be removed.