Hacker News: mayama

New comment by mayama in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

mayama — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:39:50 +0000

In linux, I trust most distro apps to run with network access without any sort of firewall. And for apps from internet, just put them in bubblewrap or run with flatpak without access to homedir, network, audio, video etc. depending on program.

New comment by mayama in "John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement"

mayama — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:17:21 +0000

And people that are likely to not be bought wouldn't enter politics in most cases. To enter and succeed in politics needs ambition and skillset that is diametrically opposite to a honest person.

New comment by mayama in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

mayama — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:57:50 +0000

Most of humanity survived on agriculture and sometimes hunting-gathering for last 10k years. People that survived on hunting whales is minuscule. Comparing those two is nonsensical.

New comment by mayama in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

mayama — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:34:56 +0000

> AI is exactly the right term: the machines can do "intelligence", and they do so artificially.

AI in pop culture doesn't mean that at all. Most people impression to AI pre-LLM craze was some form of media based on Asmiov laws of robotics. Now, that LLMs have taken over the world, they can define AI as anything they want.

New comment by mayama in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

mayama — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:10:09 +0000

Why does github owners need frequent change? Do members in you team change so often?

New comment by mayama in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

mayama — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:00:32 +0000

These commands are just about what files to start looking at to understand new codebase.

New comment by mayama in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

mayama — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:29:06 +0000

Problem is that there was too much propaganda in that war, that parsing propaganda is too difficult even for military watchers, let alone general public. Only when american weapons are being destroyed that, US MIC is willing to acknowledge that may be million+ usd missiles are not solution to cheap drones.

New comment by mayama in "Go on Embedded Systems and WebAssembly"

mayama — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:16:56 +0000

Lot of stdlib, especially net, crypto, in tinygo doesn't compile, or if compiles has stubs as implementation that panics with not implemented. Few years ago, I tried compiling small terminal http client app and failed at compile stage.

https://tinygo.org/docs/reference/lang-support/stdlib/

New comment by mayama in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

mayama — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:07:38 +0000

> An aerial drone capable of materially damaging a modern navy ship costs $1-2M a piece. Anything much cheaper doesn't have the range, survivability, or required warhead to do much more than scratch the paint.

Problem isn't a single drone, it's the cost of intercepters. Iran could launch a swarm of 100s of drones with few antiship missiles mixed in to hone in at same time. CSG has to spend $million+ interceptors and will quickly run out of them. US hasn't taken anti drone defence seriously, or the cost of doing it seriously before going in.

New comment by mayama in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

mayama — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:48:13 +0000

Min release age might just postpone vulnerability to be applied few days later in non trivial cases like this. More I think about it, Odin lang approach of no package manager makes senses. But, for that approach won't work for Javascript as it needs npm package even for trivial things. Even vendoring approach like golang won't work with Javascript with the amount of churn and dependencies.

New comment by mayama in "Honda is killing its EVs"

mayama — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:05:21 +0000

For that they need captive market that keeps China out to get the kind of marketshare they enjoy now, otherwise chinese makers will sweep in and dominate the market. Or another option is to just take Chinese EVs and rebadge them, like some manufacturers are doing.

New comment by mayama in "Honda is killing its EVs"

mayama — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:18:13 +0000

To compete in EV, one has to compete also in battery manufacturing. Increasingly Japan is unable to keep up with China and even Korean manufacturers. Panasonic is still in the race due to their decades lead, but its market is largely shrinking. Once China took over batteries, it would have been unlikely for Japan to take the EV market, just like Sony. Same with most American EV manufacturers who are unable to compete, even with closed off large American auto market, that Japan has no access to. As rapidly shrinking Tesla marketshare world wide suggests, competing with Chinese makers is hard.

New comment by mayama in "Honda is killing its EVs"

mayama — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:56:08 +0000

Liberal arts, Hollywood and the associated soft power, increasingly prevalent onlyf___ etc.

New comment by mayama in "Starlink militarization and its impact on global strategic stability (2023)"

mayama — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 06:01:52 +0000

How would they geolock terminals on active conflict zone where conflict line changes in realtime. Terminals also cross miles across the line on drones etc. regularly. There was also pushback from Ukraine forces, when they are asked to register their terminals to be whitelisted a while back.

New comment by mayama in "Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting"

mayama — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:46:39 +0000

They will force locked bootloaders like in the phones on to laptops. UEFI is already there, just force it to boot keys of OS which verify age.

New comment by mayama in "NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf]"

mayama — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:48:18 +0000

I wanted to emphasise both are untested new designs that are likely to run in to troubles, one is SMR and the other Sodium.

New comment by mayama in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

mayama — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:29:49 +0000

It looks like computing math heavy process with known answer, like 301st prime, and comparing the result.

General memory testing programs like memtest86 or memtester sets random bits into memory and verify it.

New comment by mayama in "NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf]"

mayama — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:09:34 +0000

How is this fundamentally different from Nuscale approval? Like Nuscale this is also brand new design, sodium fast reactor, that hasn't been commercially deployed and is likely to run into usual ballooning budgets and western nuclear construction roadblocks/delays

New comment by mayama in "Story of XZ Backdoor [video]"

mayama — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:55:27 +0000

It probably is because of video length, mentioning systemd would mean explaining init system which could add another 5 min runtime. At least they showed it in diagram of dependencies.

New comment by mayama in "Story of XZ Backdoor [video]"

mayama — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:52:52 +0000

From my vague memory of xz backdoor, I don't even recall systemd being involved. Now, I get what people are talking about when they said systemd is taking over everything and why there was so much pushback to systemd when it was being added to distros. For me as a end user/dev, it mattered little whether services were started by systemd, openrc etc.