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klawedon You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules

The gp points out that some states, (for example, Massachusetts) opt to put this in their own constitutions

klawedon France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

How hard is it to find an aircraft carrier without resorting to this? Not saying there’s no privacy leak here but aircraft carriers are not exactly stealthy…

klawedon State of Embedded: Q4 2025 Overview

Surprisingly no mention of ESP soc’s. Mane esp boards easily replace both arduino and raspberry pi zero projects with a single board.

klawedon What we talk about when we talk about sideloading

It makes me a little sad that there’s no mention of Raymond Carver in this thread. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_We_Talk_About_When_We_Tal... The current state of dominant mobile OS’s is about as bleak as the bleakest Carver story. Since I’m on a tangent I’ll also highly recommend the movie Shortcuts.

klawedon Friendship Begins at Home

I’ve heard it referred to as the itty bitty shitty committee.

klawedon The wall confronting large language models

> avoidance, which we also discuss in this paper, necessitates putting a much higher premium on insight and understanding of the structural characteristics of the problems being investigated.

I wonder if the authors are aware of The Bitter Lesson

klawedon Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database

Never thought of this before, despite having read multiple books on godel and his first theorem. But I think you’re absolutely right - that a whole class of code injection attacks are variations of the liars paradox.

klawedon Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

http://slothulence.com/

Various slothy art and coding experiments - a 1 level melonjs sloth platformer, A vanilla js game with lots of animations and audio and mobile accelerometers usage using no JavaScript libraries- just html, css and js callong browser apis.

klawedon Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

Wouldn’t 1 nine be 9%?

klawedon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023)

Overjet.ai Boston / US Remote Our well funded and startup is hiring in many roles. Exciting cutting edge software is delighting dentists and insurers and getting better outcomes for patients. Hiring junior and senior python, Java and devops engineers. Contact claude at Overjet.ai to apply

klawedon Ceephax Acid Crew

You may enjoy this loop of Prelude although the artist didn’t do the whole score https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lpWFX9D4px8

klawedon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)

klawedon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)

Overjet.ai Boston, MA/Remote US

Our well funded and startup is hiring in many roles. Exciting cutting edge software is delighting dentists and insurers and getting better outcomes for patients. Hiring junior and senior python, Java and devops engineers. Contact claude at Overjet.ai to apply.

klawedon The basic dramatic situations, according to 1919 manual for screenwriters

“Lumpers vs Splitters” is itself a splitting or a lumping?

klawedon Lisp is not based on the Lambda Calculus

Wow. Thanks for sharing this.

klawedon Lisp is not based on the Lambda Calculus

Don't forget Gödel!

klawedon The 9 lines of code that Google allegedly stole from Oracle

Your case is reinforced by clang's recent rise as a worthy alternative to gcc.

klawedon Failing the startup game at Unbabel

>It's not a lesson you should need to teach anyone. Perhaps most of us (the non-assholes?) learn this at such a young age that we don't even remember learning it. But I do believe, because I've seen it happen and done it myself, to varying degrees, that people CAN learn this later in life and change bad behavior (even if it's initially for superficial reasons like a desire to see a venture succeed).

klawedon So, leboncoin.fr doesn't like my email alert webapp

For those who don't read French and don't wish to investigate too much, "leboncoin" (le bon coin) roughly means "the good neighborhood/hangout" (and literally means "the good corner") in French.

klawedon When Life Gives You Lemons

Of course. That makes perfect sense.

klawedon When Life Gives You Lemons

I'm surprised the removal of a fuse wouldn't be logged. Unless it's the fuse that powers the logger.

klawedon China Halts Bank Cash Transfers

As writer of software, I'm also betting on option B.

klawedon Absurdly High Valuations

>A bubble can occur when speculators invest with the belief that a sucker will come along after them to buy the stock at a higher price.

This seems more of a requirement for ANY market - not just a bubble. Aside from fixed-income or high-dividend paying stocks, When would an investor ever buy a stock without the belief that someone else will eventually buy it for a higher price?

klawedon Tarsnap logo contest

>You can rest assured of this as well: people will definitely submit to your contest--but none of them will be great designers, because all of them will be people who place the value of their work at somewhere around "maybe 500 dollars."

This would almost certainly be true if content participants had no connection to the business. In this case, participants my be considering their work to be pro-bono work with a value much greater $500.

klawedon Facebook Premium

I would look more to LinkedIn Premium or OKC which lets paying users see more about those in their network (like who's visiting their profile).

klawedon 'Crack baby' study ends with unexpected but clear result

>It's totally preventable, and the lack of understanding of consequences is devastating. While the behavior that causes FAS is easy to stop for most women, for some segment of the population (those who are addicted to alcohol) it is seemingly impossible to eliminate or moderate alcohol consumption for even 1 week, let alone 9 months. The success of preventing FAS should correlate directly to advances in treating alcohol addiction.

klawedon Protect Kids, Get F*cked

It's charitable to say that the title is a bit disingenuous. I agree that the story (as well as the ongoing discussion) is very much worth reading. The unnecessarily provocative title is only slightly distracting.

klawedon What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project

Buried beneath the snarkiness, the implied constructive criticism might be along the lines of "don't re-invent the wheel, kid". I looked at Heather's code. It seems pretty tight to me.

klawedon Bypassing Gogo’s Inflight Internet Authentication

>>This isn't really about taking from the big, bad corporations. It's about taking from your neighbor. It would be great if we had in-air broadband, but until that day, we'll have to find some way to regulate the use of a limited resource to prevent it from becoming over-saturated. If GoGo allows this to continue, it's also about them not prioritizing their customer experience very highly. I've long felt that they should be tuning their firewall to eliminate or minimize unneccessary traffic. I'm not sure what their SLAs are but I've flown enough to know that on any full daytime flight, the intertubes feel very full. If, for example, 1/4 of the passengers forget to put their mobile devices in airplane mode and their devices are conversing google services the entire flight (even though they never purchased or activated GoGo) that alone will likely gobble up a noticeable portion of bandwidth.

klawedon Extraordinary support? You’d better blow my mind.

Not fair. The essence of the rant is that PayLane overpromised and underdelivered. That's a very key takeaway and there's a lesson there that applies EVERYWHERE.

[EDIT fixed typo]