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panic··on Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims
If you have access to the Copilot weights, you should consider leaking them. We shared our code with you because we wanted it to be free, not sold back to us at $10/month.
panic··on Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting
BTW, I'm not sure why it says adding syntax highlighting to a <textarea> is impossible -- as the linked post says, you can turn the text invisible and add styled text in a separate div at the same position.
panic··on Do not confuse a random variable with its distribution
There’s an interesting connection here to another article on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40794786

In that article, squaring a number in interval arithmetic is different from multiplying two independent numbers with the same interval. Here, squaring a random variable is different from multiplying two independent random variables with the same distribution.

panic··on Solving puzzles faster than humanly possible
You may enjoy the “sum” metric obtained by adding the three scores together: https://zlbb.faendir.com/categories/SUM
panic··on Solving puzzles faster than humanly possible
BTW, hi, I'm the one running this challenge -- let me know if you have any questions! So far most of the interest has been from within the existing Opus Magnum community, but maybe some hotshot AI programmer on here can show us all how it's done in October.
panic··on You cannot simply publicly access private secure links, can you?
“Security by obscurity” means using custom, unvetted cryptographic algorithms that you believe others won’t be able to attack because they’re custom (and therefore obscure). Having a key you are supposed to keep hidden isn’t security by obscurity.
panic··on Please make your table headings sticky
It would break a lot of existing content to change something like this, unfortunately.
panic··on The Ruby on Rails Podcast Episode 508: YJIT with Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert
Ah, my mistake then, thank you for clarifying!
panic··on The Ruby on Rails Podcast Episode 508: YJIT with Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert
Who was the other coinventor? I thought Marc Feeley was just her advisor here.
panic··on Why isn't Bluesky a peer-to-peer network?
According to this page, there are 20k+ active nodes on the fediverse: https://fediverse.observer/stats
panic··on A proposal for the next version of C [pdf]
This seems like more of a rant than a proposal. The only concrete suggestion is an explicit versioning mechanism for C source files.
panic··on Sam Altman got $75M from the University of Michigan for a new VC fund
You’re doing it wrong. You need to get other people to do the actual work while you go out and get yourself involved in more things.
panic··on Stop Hiding the Sharp Knives: The WebAssembly Linux Interface
The C function you linked calls _Fork, which calls __wasi_proc_fork, which calls __imported_wasix_32v1_proc_fork, which is the 'proc_fork' import in the 'wasix_32v1' module. The question is, what JavaScript function is provided for this proc_fork import when instantiating a WebAssembly module using WASIX? From what I understand about the WebAssembly JavaScript API, such a function is impossible to implement, which is why I'm curious how it was done here.
panic··on Stop Hiding the Sharp Knives: The WebAssembly Linux Interface
One nice thing about WebAssembly is that it can run in a browser. How would you implement things like fork() in that context, given the inability to manipulate the stack?
panic··on Ask HN: Best UI design courses for hackers?
There’s no coherent set of principles or system for UI design. It’s all about what will work or not work for real people. Paying attention to your own feelings about what works or not is the first step—listening to your users and understanding their feelings will take you the rest of the way.
panic··on Please, expose your RSS
Where do you think we find the posts we submit to HN?
panic··on Dropbox handing over 25% of San Francisco HQ back to landlord
Really, everyone should have places to meet and work in person, not just people employed by corporations. I wonder how these spaces could be configured to help clubs, hobby groups, support groups, political organizations, volunteer groups, part-time workers, and other people who may have difficulty finding a space to meet.
panic··on The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
Ursula Franklin’s “The Real World of Technology” as well.
panic··on My views on NeoHaskell
Discord is where the creative energy is right now, for better or for worse.
panic··on Lodash just declared issue bankruptcy and closed every issue and open PR
Issue trackers have two overlaid uses. First, they’re a way for maintainers to keep track of work they have to do, and second, they’re a way for the larger community (including users) to keep track of defects in the software. Declaring “issue bankruptcy” makes sense for the first use, but for the second, it’s erasing valuable information about the issues existing in the current version.
panic··on Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts
There's nothing exactly like it, but I use Keyboard Maestro for macros and such.
panic··on George Church lab creates ovarian granulosa-like cells from stem cells
Your words were "biological design and destiny". It's hard not to read that as saying that a woman's body is designed to have kids and that having kids is her destiny.
panic··on George Church lab creates ovarian granulosa-like cells from stem cells
This comment is misogynistic. Obviously a lot of women enjoy being mothers, but to say that it's a universal biological destiny is simply wrong. Women can participate in society and find fulfillment in many ways, regardless of whether or not they have kids.
panic··on The Screwed-O-Meter (2013)
Try it sometime! Turning off JavaScript makes web browsing noticeably faster and less memory-intensive. You may be surprised how much still works fine with it off. Software like NoScript lets you allow it temporarily if something really does need it.
panic··on Threads users down by more than a half
It's also possible there will be no successor place.
panic··on Dril is everyone. More specifically, he’s a guy named Paul
At least a couple of these accounts are on Mastodon now:

https://mas.to/@dasharez0ne

https://botsin.space/@RikerGoogling

panic··on Workers are competing for their own jobs
Where does this bullshit come from, and what are the principles behind the redirection of its flow? Is there a theory of bullshit dynamics that would allow us to design a better manager?
panic··on The GMP library's repository is under attack by a single GitHub user
The idea that not hosting your code on GitHub makes you a “trouble maker” is ridiculous.
panic··on htmx
"Load HTML from a URL and replace part of the page with it" is a powerful technique for progressive enhancement, even if you don't want to use a framework like this. A button can send users without JavaScript to the URL directly, while users with JavaScript can have that part of the page replaced inline.
panic··on Updating our inactive account policies
The issue is with the expectation they’ve set. “Store your important data with us, and we'll keep it safe” was the message many people got, even if they never actually promised to do that.
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