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It's usually not possible to prove that something was put in deliberately and maliciously, so that puts the bar very high. We know it for sure in some of the supply chain attacks, …

Maybe it's time to take a closer look at reality and correct this meme, which might casually blur the issue and deflect responsibility? Looking at the IT security landscape we see …

It doesn't look like they put AI into vim like Microsoft into Notepad. Someone used an outside AI to code something with vimscript, what do you expect? I'll be worried if they mess…

Even more important would be the purple hyperlinks (or any other distinct style) for those links that you've already visited.

That's just a basic financial credit score, and you can easily rent without one (even though some financial accountability is probably reasonable to balance the strong renter prote…

My AI suggests a few existing algorithms to tackle the problem of comparing two sound curves - maybe this one is not too hard? I'll check out that app when it's ready, good luck!

Accuracy indicators for rushing and dragging are very useful, but equally interesting would be an indicator that checks for a consistent peaks, so every note is played with equal v…

Ah, the good old Internet Libertarian. If only free and enlightened individuals could, through their choices in a market in which everything is allowed, spawn such a diverse set of…

My mental model of a browser is the same as of any tool, as a hammer, purely defined by its technical capabilities to do a job, like to display a website and offer basic functional…

I think in general, no major liability issue will come up: - if everyone is doing it, you can't really fault anyone - on some level we are, or will be, kinda dependent on that AI a…

My comment has not suggested that there were no legitimate cases for using more memory. It's too easy, and happening too often on HN these days, to reply with a low-effort contrari…

While we're bashing economics, something I truly miss is that no new high level economic systems are being discussed prominently. As important as fusion in physics or cancer treatm…

Is that generally how unused memory is used, and will this kind of "cache" be released if another application truly needs it to load actually vital things?

"unused memory is wasted memory" is a meme, technically true from a narrow point of view, but leading to bloat and encouraging bad practices. A little bit of care could shave off o…

As usual it comes down to the increasing individualism, that rejects any overarching societal guidance in favour of judgement-free self-expression ("body positivity"). This removes…

It appears that sentiments that downplay or dispute the health risks are growing in large social media bubbles, with strong effects on the real world. Efforts to push back on servi…

Open source is not a gift economy, and is in fact a different, and long established social contract. Never has this misplaced metaphor been used to describe open source, nor do the…

Is it though? Microsoft .NET has telemetry that you always have to opt out always. Dark patterns like this setting not sticking but being overridden after an update, and of course …

Let's do a less science then, but rigorous and throrough. Or find more funding. But surely let's have a "hard-line stance" on not drowning in BS?

If you get an answer outside of what you expected, reevaluate your approach, fix your study and redo it all, probably with a new set of participants. If you can't do science, don't…

You used to find amazing information on the internet back then. It is quite likely that someone else had already worked on a similar topic and blogged about it in a very searchable…

You appear to be in favour of said Guild trying to change the cultural expectation for more copyrights, now extending to human movement . Needless to say this evokes the image of c…

"Throwing the baby out with the bathwater" means trying too hard to do something good but accidently overdoing it!? Just to make sure we're not accidentally giving Google a break, …

When I learned about Rails a long time ago I thought the idea of MVC, scaffolding, creating the database, code and frontend that works, i.e. a basic application was genius, but has…