<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: chmod775</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chmod775</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 22:17:30 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=chmod775" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chmod775 in "Who wins and who loses in prediction markets? Evidence from Polymarket"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The only time I'd trade on that platform is when I have information others don't. I assume that is also true for those 1% farming suckers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 04:08:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244574</link><dc:creator>chmod775</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244574</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chmod775 in "Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Making a movie about one of the creation of some of one of the most famous companies on Earth is obviously interesting.<p>That's not what "Jobs" is about. It's the setting of a character-driven dramatization of Steve Job's life and his personality. You do not grow a company like Apple merely by dominating rooms with your personality, dropping oneliners and speaking in absolutes. There's a lot of actual work involved, the details of which would make for a movie rather boring to most audiences.<p>"Jobs" is a movie about Apple as much as "Inglourious Basterds" is a movie about the US military in WW2.</p>
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<p>Maybe at some point originally, but now you can't change it. Spoken language resists attempts to shape it by committee, and written language has to begrudgingly follow its lead.</p>
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<p>Because in English you say "three dot two", whereas in German it is "Drei-Komma-Zwei".<p>It just reflects the spoken language. And having the unused symbol then be the thousand separator is natural.</p>
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<p>It's wild to me that this can have effectively no impact on a person's cognitive ability.</p>
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<p>The Ministry for State Security in former East Germany had cells they'd dissappear people into. If you ignore the physical torture they employed in the earlier years, the actual cells themselves were somewhat more comfortable than what the Japanese got.<p>The Stasi had beds, some sense of privacy through proper doors, and an hour a day one might spend outside in a small courtyard to get some sunlight.<p>However the level of psychological torture (sleep deprivation, hours of standing/sitting in a prescribed posture, hourly checks, ...) appears to be milder in Japan. The Stasi could take that pretty far once they weren't allowed to use physical torture anymore.</p>
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<p>> Apple's 'TrueDepth' cameras are serialised and paired with the rest of the device. The touch ID sensors were before that too.<p>That prevents trying to swap the module, but doesn't prevent swapping out the sensor on the module itself.</p>
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<p>Shush! Explaining them away is boring.</p>
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<p>That key will get leaked. A key that has to go into every phone, even if done at the manufacturer and onto the TPM chip, <i>will</i> get out.<p>Also even if it doesn't get leaked directly, the security of TPM chips is not absolute. Secrets from them can theoretically be extracted given an attacker with sufficient means and motivation. Normally nothing that's on a typical TPM chip would warrant a project of that magnitude, but a widely used private key can change that equation.<p>Plus a TPM chip doesn't really have means to tell the phone isn't being lied to. You could swap out the actual phone camera hardware and sensors for a custom board that feeds the entire phone camera data of your choosing and it would be none-the-wiser.</p>
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<p>They're just part of the machinery for extracting money from these "nonprofits". Take a closer look at anything these paragons of virtue spend money on, and you'll find rot in every last minute detail of their day-to-day operations.</p>
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<p>It doesn't even matter whether it actually exists, because it works for modeling the universe and making accurate predictions about it.<p>That means for now it's useful.</p>
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<p>The driver's exclamation after being struck...<p>"Oh shit!" indeed.</p>
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<p>Holy anthropomorphizing.<p>If they didn't have an LLM wipe their DB, they would've found another way. At least that's the feeling I got reading that.</p>
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<p>> Still not sure how I feel about China of all places to control the only alternative AI stack, but I guess it's better than leaving everything to the US alone.<p>Fully agree. From a US perspective, that sucks. For everyone else it's pretty great.<p>At this point the world's opinions of China are better than those of the US in some polls. One country invests and helps build infrastructure on a massive scale globally, the other alienates allies, causes countless conflicts, and openly threatens to end civilizations.<p>Indeed, even if one isn't partial to China, there's reasons to be glad that an increasingly hostile US has powerful competition.<p>> This is about who will dominate the world of tomorrow.<p>For this you'd need a technological moat. So far the forerunners have burned a lot of money with no moat in sight. Right now Europe is happy just contributing on research and doing the bare-minimum to maintain the know-how. Building a frontier model would be lobbing money into the incinerator for something that will be outdated tomorrow. European investors are too careful for that - and in this case seem to be right.</p>
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<p>Function coloring also only applies to a few select languages. If your runtime allows you can call an async function from a sync function by pausing execution of the current function/thread whenever you're waiting for some async op.<p>Libraries like Tokio (mentioned in the article) have support for this built-in. Goroutines sidestep the issue completely.  C# Tasks are batteries included in that regard. In fact function colors aren't an issue in most languages that have async/await. JavaScript is the odd one out, mostly due to being single-threaded. Can't really be made to work in a clean way in existing JS engines.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:26:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861504</link><dc:creator>chmod775</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861504</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chmod775 in "TSRX – TypeScript Language Extension for Declarative UI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This allows one to sprinkle implicit returns throughout the entire body of one's function and I'm not sure what to think of that.<p>Also the syntactic rules around control flow within elements/literals/identifiers seem a bit inconsistent. Some things require curly braces, others don't.<p>By the way you can probably implement this to 90% without needing a compilation step for React. Just track what elements get created by react factory functions during the function component execution (similar to how hooks work), and treat any that weren't passed as children to another as implicit returns. This only breaks when they're used verbatim in expressions, but this library doesn't allow doing that without a special wrapper tag either. A library approach should probably add a lint rule to disallow it.<p>The only thing you can't implement as a library is some of the syntactic sugar that allows one to directly put control flow within elements without wrapping the thing in an IIFE.<p>Overall a bit too much magic for my taste. The style stuff is nice, but I'd prefer a library approach for that in a react app as well.<p>Finally here's something with rather strange output:<p><pre><code>    export component Test() {
      <div>{Date.now()}</div>

      if (Math.random() > 0.5) {
          return;
      }

      <style> div { color: 'red' } </style>
    }
</code></pre>
Yielding:<p><pre><code>    const Test__static1 = <div className="tsrx-vhi6ss">{Date.now()}</div>;

    export function Test() {
        if (Math.random() > 0.5) {
            return <div className="tsrx-vhi6ss">{Date.now()}</div>;
        }

        return Test__static1;
    }

    /* CSS */
    div.tsrx-vhi6ss {
        color: "red"
    }

</code></pre>
So you either get the date when the component was most recently rendered, or the date when the page was loaded with a 50% chance each (should probably pick one). And the CSS is unconditional, which is not very intuitive.<p>I'm not sure how much of that is intended, and how much is a bug.</p>
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<p>Lots of components from third parties, starting with the processors they use (Intel/AMD vs ARM processors).<p>Framwork is usability and performance first, openness second. MNT is the other way around.</p>
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<p>The Kobo Glo, released in 2012, is still getting updates to the latest Kobo firmware version.<p>In fact all Kobo e-ink devices, except the Kobo Mini, wifi, and the original one, are still getting firmware updates.<p>Their android-based tablets with IPS screens are all discontinued though (as far as I am aware).<p>This is more than Amazon ever did. They haven't updated the firmware on some of their devices that are officially "supported" in years.</p>
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<p>Calling DotA just a custom map is a bit of a stretch. That was merely the packaging. These "custom maps" had various scripting capabilities that made them more than just some terrain.<p>Also custom maps <i>are</i> mods by definitions anyways, with the exception of games where the creation of maps is a component of gameplay.</p>
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<p>> Somebody is making all those faked videos and photos.<p>Yeah. Bored 15 year olds for laughs.<p>We had a great time putting the most ridiculous stuff out there.<p>Having a classmate who was actively buying into tons of conspiracy theories (9/11, cold sun, hollow earth, ...) was just the cherry on top and probably what got us into it in the first place.</p>
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