skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
one of the stark dividing lines I have noticed is that while driving too and from a local area with large comercial agricultur operations to my home place in hilly, but also low lying in tidal country,that is far to steep and fragmented for large operations or equipment, that there are no bugs on the windshield whatsoever untill I get close to home,and here at home are numerous species of insects that dont show up even in the literature, but hey, it's just fucking anecdotal
and we cant consider it or draw any conclusions
becuase, something,something, science
I was not referring to wiring going thru studs, but along studs. Nail plates are very effective for going thru studs, but often wire is ran along the side of a stud. If it is a large bundle and you don't keep it centered on the side of the stud it will be close to the surface right where a screw could miss. Of course putting some kind of shielding or sleeve could work, but that is very uncommon in house building.

Smurf tubes work great, but are not practical in some high density environments, especially a house with steel structure and I-beam joists. I used these for some locations in my house, but not all.
Thinking more in the sense of being forced to introduce a backdoor, weaken encryption, in the future which would give the US more data. Yes the encryption algorithm is theoretically very secure.

Any entity that operates in the US has to abide by US laws, after all. Probably not a concern for US citizens since they're allowed due process but creates risk for non-Americans looking for a truly secure messenger, especially if they live in a place that is currently at odds with US policy (Canada, Europe).
> are in desperate need of people who mind their own business, keep their heads down, and contribute humbly to the common good.

What do you even mean by this? Unless I'm misunderstanding, your comment sounds like you are advocating for a "let them eat cake" ideology.

Do you think our current administration exemplifies the three things you say we are in desperate need of?
> It has allowed me to start and finish projects that were previously relegated to “maybe someday” (read: never).

I.e. stuff that probably never needed to get done, otherwise it would have been a higher priority than what you were otherwise working on.
In this case, assuming you are using Signal on iOS, the app could very well decide to send all the decyphered messages of targeted users (users that say a certain thing, or users with a certain name) to a 3rd party server.
If they wanted to be undetected in all cases, they could leak data via the timing of the network packets.

And they could do all that without even knowing it, just by using a compromised toolchain.

Long story short, unless the SW (the app, the OS, the toolchains) and the HW have been audited, you have no idea what's going on.
Post your github
By definition if I knew how AI would change the world, I would invest/build things to that end. The fact that we still don't have a great AI product outside of chatgpt, shows that no one knows what will happen.
For the threat profile of top leadership of the US government, yes, Signal is not secure. Signal runs on phones and phones can be compromised or lost, which can grant non-authorized individuals the ability to read the messages.

Spyware like Pegasus [0] has been able to use zero-click exploits to penetrate target phones and read messages as though they were the phone's owner.

The US has the best SigInt capacity in the world. The leaders of the US government know that phones are not secure against sophisticated adversaries and they know that we have very sophisticated adversaries. It's deeply troubling that so many of our leaders were so comfortable discussing Secret level plans in such a reckless and illegal way, and it's extremely likely that hostile adversaries have fly-on-the-wall level access to extremely sensitive US planning.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)
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A whole lot of words to justify an emotional feeling that's going to change in less than <2 years when the mid-terms inevitably flip the senate and house towards the democrats, as always happens when the pendulum swings one way in US politics.

Washington is and always has been corrupt, and political battles no matter how hilariously trivial in context to history have always been "the most important of our lifetimes."

Everything is fine and going to be fine.
The oldest are maybe old 5-6 years, but they still look great!

That said depending on how you store it ymmv. If you keep it in the same pocket as your keys you’ll have a different outcome from keeping it in a separate pocket of a bag or just even in its own pocket in your pants.
These are awesome! I didn't realize NeWS had been released in source form, or that Pratt had worked on it. Does it build today?

`goto straight;` sounds appalling. Can't escape heteronormativity even in NeWS!
The 95 year old lifetime appointment judge with dementia and cataracts: “Cars have cameras you say? In my day we only had daguerreotypes. We wore an onion on our belts, the style at the time. Request denied.”
RTX 4060, done in julia 20 fps (for 4096X4096) (47ms per frame) in https://github.com/yolhan83/ProsperoChal
It was quite fun !
Alternatively, if you think of the patterns not as names of things, but as the actual solutions presented in the design patterns book, none of them. None of them can be implemented in a non-class language when all the patterns are intrinsically class oriented, and quite heavily so, often actually dependent on inheritance.

Not saying this is the only way of viewing them; there is validity to both but it is I think it is important to keep in mind that the patterns are also supposed to be solutions and not just the names of problems.

What happens as you move around languages is not so much a binary thing, but the relative importance of them changes. Plus you should expect patterns to appear in a new language that weren't in the old language, both because the pattern would be too easy to be a pattern and too difficult to be a pattern. Some will fade away so far that maybe they aren't useful any more.

I really know someone doesn't get the GoF pattern thing when I see "Design Patterns in X" for X != ["Scheme", "C++"] and they are exactly and only the GoF design patterns, implemented in the target language. That is not what they are for. Generally in my experience they're some combination of "wrong", "unidiomatic", and "not the easiest alternative" in the target language anyhow.
I have both. 2 Cat6As plus a SM fiber to each AP location. The APs need power over POE. I just added in my first AP that was 10g (Ubiquiti XGS), and that uses POE over 10g.
That merely equates the term "causality" to propagating waves. It doesn't introduce any new concept. Ontologically, there are only quantum fields in space-time. The physical laws governing them imply from their mathematics that they cannot contain any propagations faster than c. But attaching the term "causality" to it doesn't really add anything here.
There are laws about this sort of thing that have severe penalties attached. When I was in the Navy handling encryption gear I had to sign a paper that stated that I understood that compromise of the secrets I'd been entrusted with could lead to the death penalty. Are you saying that shouldn't be true? Or shouldn't be true for people above a certain level?

Are you claiming that Signal running on consumer iPhone and Android devices where Pegasys and 0-days are for sale is secure?

Are you claiming that it's secure to conduct classified business on a platform where you can add anyone to the conversation without the appropriate documented approvals?
Related discussion: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/security-of-qubes-os-vs-graphen...
If "our global supply chain [will] collapse before we reach 2030," why is having a some type of computer a priority?

I feel these kinds of projects may be fun, but they're essentially just LARPing. Though this one seems to have a more reasonable concept than most (e.g. "My raspbery pi-based "cyberdeck" with offline wikipedia will help!" No, you need a fucking farming manual on paper.).
YouTube comments have lots of smart people in them, sometimes.
Lasso-shaped antibiotic evades standard drug resistance
> Luck is also a factor but you cannot control that.

I agree, but making choices which increase exposure to opportunity is often lumped-in with "luck".
Well, if you want safety-critical code, you could have the LLM read this before asking it to write its own code: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1642624

GP was pondering about code re-use. My typical use involves giving an entire file to the LLM and asking the LLM to give the entire file back implementing requested changes, so that it's forced to keep the full text in context and can't get too off-track by focusing on small sections of code when related changes might be needed in other parts of the file.

I think all of this is getting at the fact that an LLM won't spit out perfect code in response to a lazy prompt unless it's been highly post-trained to "reinterpret" sloppy prompts just as academically as academic prompts. Just like a human programmer, you can just give the programmer project descriptions and wait for the deliverable and accept it at face value, or you can join the programmer along their journey and verify their work is according to the standards you want. And sometimes there is no other way to get a hard project done.

Conversely, sometimes you can give very detailed specifications and the LLM will just ignore part of them over and over. Hopefully the training experts can continue to improve that.
Do you mind linking the repo, if it's public? Thanks!
>You can take off-the-shelf clothes to your local tailor to have it tailored to your body. It cost ~$10-15 per garment.

Unless you're referring to historical prices, I'm not sure where those numbers are coming from. For US/UK prices, good tailoring of something RTW, if it can be done at all, would cost at least 10 times that amount; even something as simple as hemming trousers could cost more that that. And some things are not usually altered, eg, even bespoke shirtmakers usually make new shirts with adjustments after doing fittings rather than altering ones they have made.
Doccmd: Run commands (linters, formatters, etc.) against code blocks in documen
Good suggestion, thank you
> isn’t perfect at all

Isn't this purposefully minimizing what essentially amounts to a poor-people-torture machine.

The purpose of the system is what the system does.

In the US we have deeply ingrained perverse financial incentives in criminal justice with wildly variable sentencing that depends on the mood of the judge that day.

Stray any amount from the fine line of legal, and if you're unlucky you could be plunged into a system where you'll be put into massive debt, while also losing your job, home, important documents, etc. We claim to want to reform criminals, yet we kick out their feet at every turn and expect them to say "thank you".

And then the people who face the smallest amount of risk to being victimized by this system like to say "Yeah, it's not perfect".
That’s how I would do it too recording with another phone/camera everything, the chat history, all members and open their contact information and yours, record how it’s your phone and you enter into the signal app.
Backup your phone, maybe delete some things and be ready that you have to hand it in.
I'm terrible at writing, but I love reading. I've got ideas for novels, but I struggle to put them down.

What I have found that works is to give the LLM the "world" outline at the beginning and then just feed it one line summary of each chapter and get it to write a chapter at a time.

The problem is that the quality of results drastically decreases as the context length increases. After about 10 chapters the dialogue will start to get real snippy. I've tried getting it to summarize all the previous chapters and feed that back in, but it never includes enough detail.
Up and down with ecology – the "issue-attention cycle" [pdf]
The old family farm, in Indiana, had all these short "barns". Because they were from Germany, they couldn't figure out how to build properly footed foundations, in the Indiana wilderness. The result was the bottom logs of the houses kept rotting out. So, every 10-or-so years, they'd just build a new log cabin. The old log cabin was the new barn. And, yeah, the old growth logs meant most of the cabins were only 4 logs high, since each log was 3' thick, after they were squared up. By the time the cabin rotted out the second log, the last logs were dry enough they'd stop rotting. The farm had a number of these weird, short, log cabin barns.
New user experience for consumer authentication
puts on tinfoil hat

The coverage of this story has felt a lot like it's being used as an excuse to trick people into believing that Signal is nOT a sECuRe mESsAGing APp to discourage regular people from using it.
That is not true, see "mental health disorders" which I do suffer from. Me not doing something does not mean it never needed to be done. The opposite is true, too. Something I have done does not mean it had to be done, if that makes sense.
I actually think that most problems that took 5-20 mins are now a few minutes and it’s more about how many of those intense minutes and loops you’re going through.

Also, right now engineers are hyper optimized in the code aspects but not thinking about the context into cursor and context out of cursor.

Like the amount of copy paste from Notion / JIRA / Sentry and the amount of output like summarizing the git commits and PRs, slack and other “over communication” you have to do these days. This is the area I think we can more easily automate away.
the weak point of Kerberos is not the Kerberos protocol itself, but the most popular implementation of it being Microsoft Active Directory.

Due to an incredible bloat of AD and entire Windows/Azure ecosystem, it has an enormous attack surface (multiply the universe of all windows ecosystem by the decades of old versions being supported for compatibility), and any vulnerability in the ecosystem (past and present) can lead to escalation and compromise of the Active Directory itself.

so is Kerberos secure? as a protocol it is fine, cause it was developed at MIT by smart people.

is MSFT AD/Windows ecosystem secure? HELL NO, stay away
Lack of reuse
AI-generated code sometimes lacks modularity, making it difficult to apply the same approach elsewhere in the application.

Example: Not realising that a UI component is already implemented elsewhere, and therefore creating duplicate code.

Example: Use of inline CSS styles instead of CSS classes and variables

This is the big one I hit for sure. I think it's a problem with agentic RAG, where it only knows the files it's looked in and not the overall structure or where to look for things, so it just recreates them.
> Unsecure in terms of being vulnerable to state spying on cell phones

Signal forces us to use Android or iOS. Doesn't it look suspicious? I would happily use it on my desktop with Qubes OS, but I can't do it without a much less secure smartphone.
If I am wrong, then explain why this 24-strand plenum rated fiber optic cable has a minimum bend radius of 5.9”: https://leviton.com/content/dam/leviton/network-solutions/pr...

Part number: LTP12B024

I am running a project where the low voltage contractor is pulling this fiber cable into a conduit my electricians are installing.

I don’t doubt your bend radius claims on the fiber optic cables you listed, but there are far more types of fiber cable than the ones you listed.
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The detection and bypass is trivial: Access the site from two IPs, one disrespecting robots.txt. If the content changes, you know it's garbage.
Next.js' main offering is that you basically get SPA architecture but with a single browser<->server round trip on first load instead of two round trips.

That's where ~all of Next.js' complexity comes from, and it should definitely be appreciated for that because it's a hard problem.

But if you don't need that, I don't see why you'd use something so brittle, complicated, and experimental.
I use LLMs for various purposes in day to day development. I don't use any of the tools mentioned in the article because I'm using intellij and don't want to replace a tool that has lots of stuff that I use all the time. But aside from that, it's good advice and matches my experience.

I've dabbled with plugins for intellij but wasn't really happy with those. But ever since chat gpt for desktop started interfacing directly with jetbrains products (and vs code as well), that's my goto tool. I realized that I like being able to pull that up with a simple keybinding and it auto connects to the IDE when I do. I don't need to replace my tools and I get to have AI support ready to go. Most of the existing plugins seem to insist on some crappy auto complete, which in a tool that offers a lot of auto complete features already is a bit of an anti feature. I don't need clippy style autocomplete.

What matters here is the tool integration, not the model quality. Better tool integration means better prompts with less work and getting better answers that way.

Example: I run a test, it fails with some output. I had this yesterday. So I asked, "why is this failing" and had a short discussion about what could be wrong. No need for me to specify any detail; all extracted from the IDE. We ticked off a few possible causes, I excluded them. And then it noticed a subtle change in the log messages that I had not noticed (a co-routine context switch) that turned out to be the root cause.

That kind of open ended debugging is a bit of a mixed bag. Sometimes it finds stuff. Mostly it just starts proposing solutions based on a poor analysis of the problem.

What works pretty reliably is:

- address the TODOs / FIXMEs, especially if you give it some examples of what you expect

- write documentation (very good for this)

- evaluate if I covered all the edge cases (often finds stuff I want to fix)

- simple code transformations (rewrite this using framework X instead of Y)

I don't trust it blindly. But it's generally giving me good code and feedback. And I get to outsource a lot of the boring crap.
GP was apparently unaware until now that martinfowler.com has basically been a blog/article hosting site (though more in the highly curated sense than a generic hosting site, more akin to a trade publication) for the last couple decades and that not all the content is written by Martin Fowler himself. The author of this piece is Birgitta Böckeler.
> But that fluff is there for many reasons. It adds context, it allows us to commingle our meaningful and valid emotions alongside our facts, and ultimately, it lets us tell a human story.

That was the case prior to the availability of LLMs. However, the practice of sending over LLM-expanded content from the sender to the recipient and the use of LLM-aided summarization on the recipient's side is only about to become prevalent. Once it reaches some sort of saturation point, people would either forego LLMs entirely, or move to other forms of communication that you speak of where this sort of social convention won't be needed entirely.

In my case, I predict that this is going to make people interact a lot more in meatspace and supersede Internet communication in the same way email has been relegated for many people over channels such as Discord, WhatsApp, etc.
I wouldn't trust any form of symmetric encryption to secure anything.

And I would bet that there used to be people in the govt that could have told you why.
What an absolutely unqualified statement. "Politicians" aren't just the attention seekers in Congress who make outrageous statements to keep their names in the headlines. There are quality people in Congress, in state legislatures, in government at all levels who are there because of a calling to public service. Not only that, but there are people around the world in every nation's governments with the same calling to not only make their countries better, but often too with an eye toward protecting all humanity and civilization.
It can be depending on how much you know about criminal use of that service. Past reporting of him has covered a persona in a community which is popular with people engaged in illegal activities including what appears to be him soliciting DDoS services. Again, typically the kind of thing you’d investigate before giving access.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-...
I was talking about America as a whole, not just South America.
Remember how she wasn't locked up? That set the precedent.
I'm really excite about this! I've got hopes that WASM/WASI will grow into the dream of the JVM from the 90s. A memory-safe target for development that allows easy of porting and testing across multiple platforms. WASM can, and hopefully will, be for so much more than browsers.
Some people are afraid the world will end, others are afraid it won't. The latter type actively enjoy thinking about this sort of thing.

I think we'll see more of it as the boomers continue to age. Some folks mistake their own looming end for the end of all things.
That would imply rationality. It's rage trolling anyone who pays enough attention to care, while posturing for sympathy that he is a victim. His hideous naked id.
So sad that capital owners will resort to child labor exploitation rather than paying fair market wages.
Rust standard library is minimalist (at least compared to Java/.NET), so no SHA-266.

If you want a more useful standard library, perhaps consider Go.
It's somewhat arbitrary, but the threshold where you're not allowed to resubmit a story on HN is if it reaches over 20 points. I'm not sure if that's still the case, but it was a few years ago when I asked why I couldn't resubmit.

Also, just from my subjective sense, it's a reasonable cutoff for when articles are officially on the front page for any meaningful amount of time rather than they briefly appear and then fall off.
Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility
I think jailing European tourists for minor/non existent offences is new. It would have been headline news if it had happened before.
Didn't humans first leave Africa 100,000 years ago by high estimates? To Western Europe 40,000 years ago?

Doesn't this completely upend early humanity?
I have two pairs of sneakers I wear for a lot of things. They get at least weekly use. Both are >4 years old. One was a pair of Sketchers I got for $40, the other was some pair that didn't even have a box I got for $9 at Walmart.
SCIFs are for viewing TS materials, whether or not they are SCI. Even then, SCIFs are often employed for processing things that are only marked Secret or systems only handling Secret. But yes, if we want to be specific, Secret has a lower bar and can be worked on outside of SCIFs but still not in public or at home.