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About me:
Hi I am a Full-stack engineer with 3 years of experience in C# (.NET Core), GraphQL, TypeScript, Angular, and SQL. Passionate about scalable apps, high-performance APIs, and clean code. Open to new tech and not limited to web apps. Let’s connect!
If you remove yourself from a group, how will they change their minds without a dissenting opinion? I had to do it myself eventually, for my own sanity, but I believe this is still a real problem I am no longer addressing among my loved ones.
No paywall press release:

https://www.mta.info/press-release/mta-unveils-first-fully-r...

The maps:

https://www.mta.info/maps
Low altitude is no longer a viable strategy for evading radar. Especially with the advent of datalink enabled satellite and other forms of downward looking radar. The propellers show up on pulse doppler like a flashing emergency light. Especially over the ocean with so little ground clutter.
Too late to edit, I meant early- and mid-war. It did get somewhat less horrifying closer to the end.
More generally, any animal that cannot be drawn in 12 circles cannot be drawn in 13 circles when riding a bicycle. By recursion, no animal can be drawn when riding a stack of seven bicycles.
On the American side, "The Woman Who Smashed Codes" by Jason Fagone is really good.
Privacy Washing Through Pets: The Case of Worldcoin – Communications of the ACM
I have to tell you and most people reading this is that you belong to a tribe of people who only think they are impartial and unbiased and reasoned thinkers, but they actually aren't.

The level of objectivity that we strive for is just really possible.
Challenging your own viewpoints is not just hard, it's downright dangerous. You can really lose your sense of identity and question your own morals if you are not well-grounded. It's much easier to dig your heels in and try to limit your self-reflection to be more "safe". (I still think you should question your viewpoints, but I don't blame people for being a little afraid.)

This is especially true if you have a history of being somewhat cruel to people on the basis of a conclusion you're not really 100% sure you agree with anymore. Now if you question it, you have a lot of guilt to contend with.
If your 9front machine is in a position on the network whereby it could serve a NAT, you don't have many networking problems at that point. Almost all operating systems can do NAT in such a position.

I'm talking about two machines deep in somebody else's network or where you don't control the router/NAT.
> The most interesting part of this attack was the discovery that the reset pin goes low for the window of time you should insert a glitch to bypass security!

Wait, does this mean you can use the reset signal directly as a glitch signal, or that the glitch has to happen for a short while within the window? If the former, that's the first time I hear of a device that provides its own bypass signal.

Excellent work!
That sounds so bleak.

What’s the endgame to this approach? Seems to me, folks with genocidal thoughts and feelings would find more positive reinforcement amongst themselves and less negative reinforcement everywhere else. Not great for the “genocide is bad” theory.
A New Hash Table
https://archive.ph/TCSv6
One thing I didn't see mentioned, and maybe this is part of being tribal, but politics is often not about the positions you take, but about the game theory of how you stay in power, and convince a group of people about the positions you take.

One thing I hate about the trump administration, and maybe all politics is fundamentally like this, is you can't really disagree with them. You can't really disagree with them because it's really hard to figure out what position they're taking. I find it makes discussing things with family really difficult. I can intellectually agree that "A nation should protect it's borders" and have a nuanced perspective on how much immigration is the right amount, but then I'm never going to square that with what the politicians are actually doing, right? We can't have a nuanced conversation with what the right immigration policy is, when the administration is deporting people without due process, or when the current administration says the problem with immigration is that Joe Biden let judges run wild in 2019.
It would be especially detrimental to the pursuit of justice if the friends, family, and lawyers of a suspect could find out whether or not a warrant has been issued for them or their stuff before it is executed.

Our system works on “trust but verify”. If the cops show up with a warrant they claim they is valid, you trust the warrant is valid, let them do the search, and later verify the warrant is real and that it was issued legally. Doing otherwise is a crime (obstruction of justice).
https://philosophy.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/The%20Libr...
I think it's this one: https://www.pbh2.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/go...
Relatable debugging, though after 2 tries I would have moved straight to strace/truss.

Edit: okay I continued reading and that was actually the next step. :)
I demonstrated that I am not a serious or good programmer by installing steam locomotive on my Linux laptop immediately after reading this.
> In the introduction they talk about creatine loading

(1) Yes, that the loading phase was BYPASSED. = (

"Those on creatine did bypass a loading phase, which includes taking 20 to 25 grams daily for up to one week. While it is common to start with a loading phase, it can cause gastrointestinal issues and is not necessary to reach saturation levels – the maximum that the body can store at any one time. "

My understanding, to reach saturation without a loading phase - it takes about 3 to 4 weeks. (Could be wrong, going off of memory there.)

With loading, I've read it takes 1 to 2 weeks to reach saturation.

(2) Without measuring creatine levels, what was even tested? How many people were creatine "non-responders?" How many people were getting plenty of creatine from their diets already?

(3) Was the creatine regimen effective and optimal? Water intake is another factor. I don't think a set of 50 people divided between 2 groups is going to be anywhere near enough to capture a nuance like efficacy of the regimen vs no regimen.

> Also, their study is looking at lean body mass changes after the "wash-in" period, so any effect that increased recovery is supposed to have on lean body mass when following the exercise protocol they give for the time period they studied should be captured, no?

I'd say no, simply because it is not known whether the wash-in period was actually a wash-in period without knowing if creatine levels actually changed in a significant way. Second, the study group of beginner weight lift lifters is a chaotic data set. The gains of lifting weights vs not lifting weights is likely magnitudes different from creatine vs no-creatine supplementation. Some beginners might easily get 10% more muscle mass vs 5% for others. An effect that is expected be very low is going to be completely lost in the noisy data. Let alone that we are starting from a questionable baseline.

Overall, since the body can absorb up to about 5g of creatine a day, and the body is likely already intaking 1 or 2g per day - this study is kinda only looking at the effect of an increase of creatine from a moderate dosage to a maximal dosage, across beginner weight lifters. It's like, say you're a bit dehydrated, instead of drinking 500ml of water per day, you now start drinking 550ml of water and then measure any changes from starting a brand new weight lifting routine.
I don’t know but the way I think about it…

Israel v Palestine. Lots of posts will pop up over time. If it’s simply an another attach or similar and you start seeing a he roll of disagreement from both sides, flag. There is nothing additive to it. I remember vouching a story though that was touching on Israel’s PR marketing ability of the war. That’s fascination and both new as well as high potential to discuss something new.

In the current immigration and administration. I feel like to some degree the horse has been beaten. There is not much to add for yet another misstep in the administrations policy. There is both no new interesting angles from the news itself and the discussion has been beaten to death by both sides already.

It is not an indication that the topic is not important but to me that there is nothing left to say on the topic. I am certain there are folks that would love to keep going on and on about it for either side but nothing new or engaging comes from it. I am sure others disagree but that is my mental model.
Isn't that increased polarization largely driven by, you know, certain political actions? I find it strange to argue that both sides are evil nowadays. I'd say one is evil and the other is hypocritical and self-serving. The choice is still pretty clear.
This is fascinating, but I don't know enough biology to understand the concepts at play. Could someone knowledgeable in the field explain it further?
Some valid threads will get flagged because the comment section will be extremely predictable flame wars and have nothing to do with the article. That's the nature of social media. People can't help themselves. There's plenty of other social media sites for that sort of sports team drumbeating, so not much is lost by flagging some news article off the frontpage.
Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June 5 at $449.99
very depressing read...
I mean, yeah. IQ is a bad measure (if self-consistent). Training trumps all, like with every task. The more we do something, the better we'er going to be at it.

The thing that is going to be interesting is now that we have essentially cheap, ethically clear, and realistic digital 'people', what are the experiments that we can do with them and what can we uncover? I'm a little flat-footed even as to the questions that we can ask them now. At the very least, we can use them to 'dry-run' surveys and experiments and have better data collection and stress-testing. Like, you can now generate realistic data now and use that to run the stats while the real surveys are coming in.
My understanding is that flagging does not imply moderation. When enough people flag a comment, it becomes dead automatically. There is, separately, the case that a moderator “kills” an unacceptable comment, but then it only appears as [dead] I believe (unless it was also being flagged by people). Someone correct me if this is wrong.
> It's clear that the health advice banning coffee is a remnant of earlier times and currently operates as a shibboleth and token of obedience without merit.

How is what you're describing any different than most tenants of faith-based institutions?
https://archive.ph/CuLg8
I prefer Marx's version, that "history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce"[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_Lou...
I honestly often hear about the "demo scene" being talked about but I've never even once seen anything in the real world. I might see a youtube video or two but I would have 0 clue on:

1) What is it for?

2) Where does it happen?

3) What's the goal? (not in a snarky way but in what do the sceners pursue?)

4) How does one get to know about the demo scene? How does one "join"?

I'm impressed by how something that seem so hidden, but also talked about, but also hard to catch still exists.

I guess I'm just a noob out of the loop but I'm curious :)

EDIT: Or maybe I am so out of the loop not to know it's mainly a thing of the past?
Awesome, now where's that copy of excel..
HN's own Paul Lutus has a great sailing book: https://www.amazon.ca/Confessions-Long-Distance-Sailor-Paul-...

If you're interested in doing something like this, you could join the Vic Maui race: https://www.vicmaui.org/
The glitch has to happen within the window shown to you by the microcontroller. It seems to be in a different location for each microcontroller evaluated. The fact that it shows you where depending on which processor you’re attacking is pretty convenient!
What are the requirements of a review? And what is the marketplace for someone meeting those requirements?

What expertise is required - someone who researches the same questions? Same general domain? Adjacent domain?

And how long does it take? I imagine that depends on many details.

Finally, what are they reviewing for? Is it a once-over for errors in method? Something like grading a student paper?
They didn't start with $415M, and they didn't take VC money to get there either -- that's the point.
Rather than wholesale banning of advertisements I would like to see existing laws actually enforced and judges using existing wiggle-room to make examples of businesses that use deceptive advertising, false advertising, multiple shell companies to hide bad reputation highly prevalent on Amazon for Chinese resellers, knowingly selling defective products or used refurb products as new, making it highly difficult or near impossible to return items or contact a real person at the company and so on. Those shady companies should feel enough pain they just leave the scene all together. The same goes for countries that harbor shady businesses. After enough complaints are confirmed they must be isolated entirely from global trade long enough to make them feel real pain.
The negative reinforcement is supposed to be when they actually attempt to unlawfully kill others, a 9mm bullet goes through their head. Until then, they have the right to their opinion.

It's hard to imagine isolating them from counter points is going to mitigate their position.
You can just install it on your local machine
Your right. I was thinking wrong. The only way to combat a flag is upvoting and even then it’s hard to see the impact since I believe it’s karma weighted.
Yeah, that's the 'receipts for everything' idea and if you think it through, you'll realize it's at a minimum impractical and more likely just an outright bad idea. Where are these 'reasons' going to go? Who is going to read them or act on them? It sort of wants to stick it to those bad flaggers and misinformed downvoters or whatever but think about it applied to you. Do you not recoil at being asked by some random web app to justify your actions? Like, we're ostensibly here for conversation not to fill out TPS report cover sheets.

This is 'drink verification can' but for messageboards.
I think the groupthink and independent thought axes need to be flipped. Way more toeing the party line and groupthink near the center. The more fringe you get the more independent thought there is. It might be crazy and wrong but it's not groupthink.
Ive taken entire web farms offline due to an unexpected expansion of a command on a Cisco load balancer.

The command in question was:

administer-all-port-shutdown

(Or something to that effect —it’s been many years now)

And so I went to log in via serial port (like I said, *many years ago so this device didn’t have SSH), didn’t get the prompt I was expecting. So typed the user name again:

admin

And shortly afterwards all of our alarms started going off.

The worst part of the story is that this happened twice before I realised what I’d done!

I still maintain that the full command is a stupid name if it means a phrase as common as “admin” can turn your load balancer off. But I also learned a few valuable lessons about being more careful when running commands on Cisco gear.
I wasn't saying, as a layman, that this is evidence for Dark Matter. I'm saying that the current thinking in astrophysics is that this is evidence for Dark Matter. Katie Mack, the astrophysicist in the podcast I linked, is a reknowned expert, and discusses how running the numbers on exactly these things provides evidence for Dark Matter, and how alternatives fail.
It could be used to replace k8s-based deployments (also Docker Swarms, etc.) since system interfaces on Plan 9 are namespaced and containerized "out-of-the-box" as part of its basic design (and this is one of the most prominent additions compared to *NIX). It's not a hacked-on feature as with Linux.
> unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon

Maybe time will tell if it was actually OT.
Oh hey. Congrats, tomhow!
Totally get it. Vmx on 9front with a Linux or BSD VM is the way to go if you want to try to go 100% 9. If you like you can experiment with this on a used laptop with supported hardware, thinkpad best. It's not lightning fast at the moment (patches welcome) but it works well enough.
Yeah - that extension seems to just update <video> elements to have the showcontrols attribute if they're missing. Doing that isn't enough for insta, youtube etc because you need to mess with their propriatary html.
Ideally, one should select friends that are respectful of other's opinions. Certainly, one shouldn't keep someone close who isn't.

But with family and acquaintances, it's not worth getting into. Except when someone isn't being respectful. Then I will certainly speak up and ask why they aren't respecting someone's right to think for themselves.
Why flag it?
If anyone here hasn't read Borges, I'd strongly recommend him. Pretty much everything he wrote was short, <20 pages, and so it's really easy to sit down and read one of his stories over a lunch break. The common recommendation would be to try out Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius and see if you like it. If so, it's part of Labyrinths, which is (in my opinion) his best collection of short stories. The best edition in English is probably Penguin's Collected Fictions.

Regarding the content of this interview:

>If you compiled an enormous dataset of everything Borges read, and combined it with an exquisitely sensitive record of every sensory experience he ever had, could you create a Borges LLM?

This is my Kantian way of thinking about epistemology, but I don't think that LLMs can create synthetic a priori knowledge. Such knowledge would be necessary to create Borges out of a world without Borges.

In this interview, Simon's view feels much more like the way Hume viewed people as mechanical "bundles of sensations" rather than possessing a transcendent "self". This led to his philosophical skepticism, which was (and still is I guess) a philosophical dead end for a lot of people. I think such epistemological skepticism is accurate when applied to machines, at least until some way of creating synthetic a priori knowledge is established (Kant did so with categories for humans, what would the LLM version of this be?)
'gruseom
Direct map link:
https://www.mta.info/map/5256
Downvoting and flagging is not moderation.
is "becoming truth seeking" not some sort of religion - like the sports team - and the bay area is your tribe? Perhaps you were already suggesting this in your article and I've missed this - if so I apologise.

you seem to suggest that truth-seeking > tribalism, and we should pity the poor fools who are about tribalism. In this way, you're being tribalist against tribalism, no?

If ignorant tribalism brings people community and happiness, isn't that just as valid and commendable as truth-seeking?

Truth-seeking might provide a level of understanding of the world which is of value to your operating in life. It is not necessarily a sublime good of it's own right. Too much of it will alienate you from your mates.

I'd wager types like you might find on HN, Bay Area, could do with a little less seeking, in fact.

The Underground Man comes to mind, and presents the extreme of this spectrum. But then maybe he'd find mates in an area filled with other Underground Men?
We bought our house in 2009, and we're about to pay off the mortgage (3.5%). But we don't feel 'locked in'--we're not planning to move or sell, because we don't want to. On the other hand, we've been trying to get my mother to sell her house for years now, because it's getting to be more than she can take care of. But an 84-year-old woman who's been in the same house since 1973 doesn't feel 'locked-in' because of mortgage rates.
For youtube shorts, replacing the "shorts" in URL with "watch" will give you the usual interface, for example:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GqkmtcirwYA -> https://www.youtube.com/watch/GqkmtcirwYA

But actually I see that seek bar is already available in youtube shorts. Maybe it's a recent change?
nice to meet you tom
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.profigh...
Solely that it is the one relevant to the current conversation regarding Utah and (dis)affinity for coffee.
Show HN: Exponent, a collaborative AI programming agent
Hi HN, I’m Sashank and I'm excited to share Exponent. Exponent is an AI programming assistant that runs in any environment (terminal, web, CI, IDE, remote), can perform simple tasks up to multi-step workflows, and is easy to steer. Our early users have been using Exponent to debug Docker setups, improve query performance, onboard new teammates, automate CI fixes and incident response, and more.

We first got some attention after collaborating with OpenAI on one of their API features last year: https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1853564730872607229, and we're ready to open to a wider audience.

Here's a quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN0vU_FbE7c and if you want to try Exponent, get started here: https://exponent.run/.

I know there are many options and preferences (and probably fatigue) for AI coding tools. After building and using many of these tools, I repeatedly found the same limitations: opaque behavior, difficulty steering outputs, or being locked into just one environment like an IDE or terminal.

So, I built Exponent to be the AI programming agent that I would want to use. It feels great to work alongside, but is also powerful enough to complete work end-to-end. It runs anywhere: I can use Exponent to debug an error in my local development environment while another instance of Exponent runs in a CI pipeline which auto-fixes typechecking errors, without needing any other tooling. And it has a clean, intuitive interface which shows me exactly what the agent is doing instead of obfuscating it.

Right now, Exponent is best for people who:

- View AI collaboration as a skill: you think working with AI is worth improving at, and would use a tool that rewards and encourages high-quality interaction vs. using an agent that tends to go off the rails.

- Want a single tool for multiple contexts: you work in some combination of in your terminal, against CI, with your database, on remote machines you ssh into, and you want consistent context and capabilities across all of them.

- Use other pro software: you are partial to tools like Raycast, Linear, etc. because you have a low tolerance for friction.

And here are some ways you can quickly see if Exponent resonates:

- Try something you're unsatisfied by other AI tools for: Pick a scenario you've been frustrated by elsewhere, and see how Exponent handles it.

- Pick the next task on your to-do list: Whether it's frontend, backend, or infrastructure, a side project or a chore at work, just ask Exponent and it will collaborate with you on working through the task.

- Play: Experiment casually--ask Exponent to do the worst refactor it can think of, or run an obscure but interesting git operation, or autogenerate an exponent.txt. You'll get a feel for the UX and judge how you'd approach a more serious task.

We'll be quickly improving the agent with your feedback, as well as launching complementary products in the coming weeks. Please reach out to us with any feedback or requests you have!

Try Exponent and let me know what you think: https://www.exponent.run/.
I am not obtuse I just have no desire to get into political debates on HN. It’s been beaten to death already. Now if something new happened or if there was a different way to look at something then it makes sense.
I've found that tailscale.com sometimes gets blocked by overzealous content filters as "VPN software".
It is a ton of fun! I've been hooked for years!