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811.
by skybrian 6mo ago
The San Francisco neighborhoods I'm thinking of aren't downtown. they usually require residence permits to park.
812.
by skybrian 6mo ago
It's the first I've heard of them. Looks like the research goes back to 1980, but good libraries seem fairly new? https://blog.sigplan.org/2021/04/06/equality-saturation-with...
813.
by skybrian 6mo ago
How does the attacker supply a malicious schema? Can that be turned off? It doesn't seem like a normal thing to do.
814.
by skybrian 6mo ago
It would make a difference in dense cities like San Francisco where many people park on the street. A lot of people would have to give up their cars. Meanwhile, in rural areas and many suburbs, it would be pointless paperwork, because every
815.
by skybrian 6mo ago
Are most web users inconvenienced at all? People on Hacker News aren't typical, which probably results in installing more privacy-preserving technologies that trigger captchas.
816.
by skybrian 6mo ago
It seems like person receiving the report is already in that position. Should everyone make reports themselves? Let's say you start with a report someone else wrote. It seems like you still need to read it and understand what it's
817.
by skybrian 6mo ago
That’s a lot of speculation based on one graph. It doesn’t cover whatever Google is doing, for example.
818.
by skybrian 6mo ago
Identify devices, not people. Distinguishing between child-locked and unlocked devices is something any website should be able to do easily. Adult-only should be a config setting. Vendors shouldn't sell unlocked devices to kids. Then i
819.
by skybrian 6mo ago
If the company got overcharged for materials, you don’t get a refund either. Unless the company wants to. Apparently, Costco has said they will be providing refunds: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/costco-pass-along-tari
820.
by skybrian 6mo ago
Since using AI costs money, some way of contributing AI patches when asked might make sense here? Let the project maintainers decide what’s worth attempting to solve with AI. Suppose there were a website that helped would-be contributors
821.
by skybrian 7mo ago
Maybe stick with 4.6 until the bugs are worked out? Is this new filter retroactive?
822.
by skybrian 7mo ago
It’s more like some cryptocurrency scammers tried to bribe him to promote their coin and he took the money and refused to stay bribed so the coin tanked. As it would have eventually, because it was a pump and dump. Why should the scammers w
823.
by skybrian 7mo ago
This seems similar to the lesson learned for cryptographic libraries where open source libraries vetted by experts become the most trusted. Your average open source library isn’t going to get that scrutiny, though. It seems like it will res
824.
by skybrian 7mo ago
If it was made before suitcases commonly had wheels, you’re still going to want to replace it. The grandkids (if there are any) won’t want it.
825.
by skybrian 7mo ago
For very long international flights I could see it, but I also see people in the first class seats on shorter flights where it’s hardly worth it. (I assume at least some of them are upgrades.) Also, checking a bag is not expensive.
826.
by skybrian 7mo ago
Pointing a camera at a pressure gauge and recording a graph is something that I would have found useful and have thought about writing. Does software like that exist that’s available to consumers?
827.
by skybrian 7mo ago
It's open source. Free riding is expected and normal. We all benefit from the work of others. If you're not doing the work yourself, it makes sense to give the people who review and test their dependencies some time to do their wo
828.
by skybrian 7mo ago
It sounds like a gate is a prompt that shows up at the appropriate time, which works because LLM’s pay more attention to the last thing they read. It seems like a lot of coding agent features work that way?
829.
by skybrian 7mo ago
This sounds to me like yet another way to automate filling out forms. I had been thinking about vibe-coding a Chrome extension for one form I fill in regularly, but perhaps this is easier.
830.
by skybrian 7mo ago
How do you know Gemini is losing money on inference?
831.
by skybrian 7mo ago
"Means, motive, opportunity" is a helpful framework, but that doesn't make violence predictable. For example, there are many religions and ideologies that people can latch onto and which crazies get motivated by what ideology
832.
by skybrian 7mo ago
It's long been conventional wisdom that you shouldn't write your own crypto libraries - leave that to experts. But excellent open source libraries are available, which do get reviewed by experts. And if you're willing to stud
833.
by skybrian 7mo ago
Crime isn't a simple cause and effect relationship just because you say it is. For example, in the US, bomb threats were very common in the early 70's and then they stopped and nobody really knows why.
834.
by skybrian 7mo ago
If I have to resort to hole-driven development then it seems like something has gone very wrong? I like to understand the libraries I’m using. Libraries should have good API documentation and intuitive type definitions. I shouldn’t have to
835.
by skybrian 7mo ago
I like how the Go team does things. For example, this is only one part of it, but the Go checksum database seems like a pretty good solution for making sure that a path and version reliably maps to the same source code. https://g
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by skybrian 7mo ago
There’s a sort of fatalism about violence here, like someone saying that school shootings are always going to happen. It’s true that you or I aren’t likely to do anything about school shootings. But I’m not sure it follows that nothing can
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by skybrian 7mo ago
The property being tested in this example is “after inserting a row into a database table, the same row can be read back again.” The insert statement isn’t independent of the database because the table needs to exist and its schema has to a
838.
by skybrian 7mo ago
Good link. I think that explanation works because it's somewhat closer to providing concrete examples of the kinds of tests you can write.
839.
by skybrian 7mo ago
It’s more about when your priors are so strong that it’s not worth paying attention to a new report. Clearly not in this case.
840.
by skybrian 7mo ago
A lesson of the parable about "crying wolf" is that cynicism based on previous events doesn't prove that the next event is fake. The people who ignored the warning may have thought it "most likely," but they were w

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