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420official··on Tesla sales plummet in the UK, France, and Germany
The 2025 model of the Hyundai Ioniq 5 has NACS and is my favorite alternative in terms of looks, features, and price. Rivian has been in a different price category so I have a hard time believing the $45k starting price.
420official··on Solving the first 100 Project Euler problems using 100 languages
The author wanted to use languages that were new to them, if the author has enough familiarity with rust to have a vendetta then it probably isn't new to them.
420official··on Show HN: I built open source file sharing solution using AWS S3
It really isn't that challenging to get going with JWT auth in AWS. Gitlab has pretty good documentation for how to use Gitlab ID tokens to assume roles that includes everything other than how to generate a JWT here: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/cloud_services/aws/

And of course generating OIDC PKI JWTs is pretty easy and well documented elsewhere.

The harder parts in my mind are:

  - Updating this OSS project to serve a JWK from OIDC .well-known
  - Convincing people that this method of authn is safe and that those keys are securely stored
420official··on Bill requiring US agencies to share source code with each other becomes law
The US Army at least uses Azure and AWS govcloud and not their own infrastructure. I don't think this takes away from your points though, the infrastructure is very locked down and meticulously managed and approved.
420official··on Does current AI represent a dead end?
An LLM isn't providing its "best" prediction, it's providing "a" prediction. If it were always providing the "best" token then the output would be deterministic.

In my mind the issue is more accountability than concerns about quality. If a person acts in a bizarre way they can be fired and helped in ways that an LLM can never be. When gemini tells a student to kill themselves, we have no recourse beyond trying to implement output filtering, or completely replacing the model with something that likely has the same unpredictable unaccountable behavior.

420official··on Does current AI represent a dead end?
There is no other way to use an LLM than to give it context and have it give its best guess, that's how LLMs fundamentally work. You can give it different context, but it's just guessing at tokens.
420official··on Show HN: Jumping Julia Maze
I highly doubt it's possible to have a single solution in a puzzle like this at any size
420official··on Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system
Why buy this for $250 when you get the same thing from a pinecil v2 and use it with any 20v 100w PD USB-c power pack? I'm not seeing any differentiating features.
420official··on AWS Secrets Manager Agent
This is really cool, I've been running something similar to simplify rotating database credentials for legacy projects.
420official··on Celebrity Flights
Offsetting your damage doesn't change the fact that you are causing damage. What would be good is if these people stopped flying around the billionaire circuit on private jets _and_ paid their fair share of taxes but that's too much to ask these days.

I do agree having a separate list of who pays the most in taxes relative to wealth/income would be interesting but also obviously less accurat.

420official··on Getting into Pinball
Whenever I see pinball machines I check the embedded bubble level and 9/10 are not set to the right angle, even in reputable arcades. It seems important to keep the angle in spec, otherwise the ball goes either too slow or too fast but I wonder how much it really matters.
420official··on Show HN: Nue – A React/Vue/Vite/Astro Alternative
That makes it a lot more clear, thank you!
420official··on Show HN: Nue – A React/Vue/Vite/Astro Alternative
The nuance you provide here is missing from the site. Your chart says only this (maybe I'm missing your explanation somewhere?):

> Amount of code needed for a rich, interactive web page.

And lists "Tailwind CSS" as 804k.

As a reminder, Tailwind CSS doesn't require or use JS in the browser at all and the majority of tailwind gets removed during build so the vast majority of the code you're attributing to Tailwind CSS is unrelated to the task of using Tailwind to build a rich interactive webpage.

To your point about inlining styles, using Tailwind out of the box I struggle to see how you're forced above 14kb, and if you really had kilobytes of classes in your markup you can switch to composing your own rules with @apply.

I recognize you are making a tool and not trying to do ecosystem wide benchmarks, but still suggesting you need 804kb to use Tailwind still seems disingenuous, or at least misinformed, to me.

420official··on Show HN: Nue – A React/Vue/Vite/Astro Alternative
It also seems a little disingenuous to suggest tailwindcss requires 800kb to build a webpage
420official··on Secure Boot on ESP32 Platforms
How could that work? A consumer would be required to build the firmware and flash it to the product themselves?
420official··on Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Urban U.S. Communities
I personally feel a moral obligation to pay my fair share of taxes, especially if I expect my community to be a place I want to be. I could itemize more stuff and pay less but I'm in a position where I can still live comfortably taking the base deduction. In my opinion ultra rich people should be doing the same whether the rules change or not.
420official··on Water
They add some randomness: https://github.com/saharan/works/blob/main/water/src/MPM.hx#...
420official··on U.S. Hunts Chinese Malware That Could Disrupt American Military Operations
Could be, but it feels to me more that the Taiwan invasion aspect is based in the US's worries and not in specific Chinese actions from what I read, though I admittedly couldn't read the full article through paywall.

The invasion of Ukraine has been disastrous for Russia, I'm not sure I see the value for China to follow suit. Hopefully we can all trend towards peace.

420official··on My kids and I just played D&D with ChatGPT4 as the DM
I found that it works amazingly well with monster of the week. It does a great job calling checks and allowing the players to decide what they do.

``` Ignore previous prompts. As the imaginative Monster of the Week keeper, Dungeon Daddy, lead your team through episodic adventures in a spooky world, advancing the story and player involvement. Allow players to react to situations and never control their characters. Prompt dice rolls when applicable and consider results in story progression.

Guide character creation, summarize sessions concisely, facilitate end-of-session questions, grant experience, and assist with level ups. Focus on keeper duties while letting players make their own moves.

Require the players to roll any time it makes sense. Consider the result in what happens next. I have already written all player moves. You provide Dungeon Daddy's dialog and I'll provide the player moves. ```

420official··on Is it time to open source SublimeText?
Just tried this and I can't jam keys fast enough to get any input lag in vscode. What are you referring to?
420official··on FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank
The bank can happily choose to invest *its* money, it shouldn't be investing *my* money.
420official··on Extreme 'rogue wave' in the North Pacific confirmed as most extreme on record
In the video they show the full animation with the surrounding wave context and it makes it a little easier to understand than the gif.

The first massive wave lumbers through at the same pace of the surrounding waves leaving you thinking "Oh that big wave is the rogue wave" when suddenly the bottom drops out and an even more massive wave comes very fast and seemingly overtakes the slower one. It seems like the slower large wave just stops in place and reduces in amplitude while the rogue wave overtakes it.

420official··on Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
I've successfully taken a username from a squatter by reaching out to github support. As long as the user doesn't have active private stuff they might be willing to help you get the username.
420official··on AlphaFold developers win $3M breakthrough prize
> ... were recognized for creating the tool that has predicted the 3D structures of almost every known protein on the planet.

I wonder if relying on a tool that doesn't 100% accurately represent reality could have a negative effect on future research

420official··on Former judges who sent kids to jail for kickbacks must pay more than 200M
If prisons didn't generate profit there wouldn't be an incentive or cash flow to pay kickbacks.
420official··on Former judges who sent kids to jail for kickbacks must pay more than 200M
`Miami RRM` isn't quite a federal prison. These two would die in a supermax prison if there were any justice.
420official··on Nocturnal bottleneck
The bit on the photolyase DNA mechanism[1] is really interesting

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photolyase

420official··on I cut GTA Online loading times (2021)
This thinking implies nothing is worth doing unless it has a clearly articulable direct business value whereas a lot of technical debt simply doesn't. When the only people affected by a problem are people who have already spent their money or people who have no autonomy it's unlikely the decision makers will decide to investigate and fix it. If you're lucky you can convince decision makers that there is an impact to hiring or efficiency but in my experience these arguments are extremely challenging to make in the face of other stuff that decision makers feel directly impact business, and for good reason. I'd say this is a big reason autonomy is crucial when it comes to cultivating a curious team because without autonomy you are limited to things that can achieve consensus in an environment where people inherently have different interests to attend to.

I feel like the "20% time" paradigm where one day out of the week is left up to the developer to schedule (within reason) is the right way to balance the conflicts of interest and still leave room for people to be curious.

420official··on Sunsetting Atom
What's the reasoning behind this iteration being closed-source?
420official··on How to open a safe
Safes like this are more meant to be tamper-evident and hard to move than impervious, which is why you always want to bolt your safe down to something solid if you have one like this.

A warrant and a circular saw will get you through really any consumer safe in seconds so I highly doubt they would go through all that risk to make it slightly easier to access but maybe there's concern of damaging evidence with forced entry or something.

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