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New comment by reshlo in "'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens"

reshlo — Sat, 16 May 2026 08:02:10 +0000

These compromises are usually caught within hours by security researchers performing automated scanning of all published packages.

New comment by reshlo in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"

reshlo — Sun, 10 May 2026 06:21:08 +0000

Getting another job when you have Meta on your CV is a lot easier than moving to another country.

New comment by reshlo in "Training students to prove they're not robots is pushing them to use more AI"

reshlo — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:36:12 +0000

How it’s done today is that they rely on your other marks from earlier in the semester to inform how your exam grade should be adjusted. That doesn’t work if there are no other marks to use.

New comment by reshlo in "Maybe there's a pattern here?"

reshlo — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:48:35 +0000

Dozens of credible witnesses, including several who authored sworn affidavits, claim they saw Richard Pearse achieve powered flight before the Wright brothers. Pearse is a much better option if someone wants to claim the Wright brothers were not the first.

New comment by reshlo in "How Markdown took over the world"

reshlo — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 03:24:14 +0000

It’s not just “extended” flavours of Markdown that allow embedding HTML. The original reference implementation supports this too.[0]

> For any markup that is not covered by Markdown’s syntax, you simply use HTML itself. There’s no need to preface it or delimit it to indicate that you’re switching from Markdown to HTML; you just use the tags.

[0] https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html

New comment by reshlo in "Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would 'invade' Venezuela"

reshlo — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:36:17 +0000

The claim doesn’t need to be substantiated, because it doesn’t matter whether they actually will control Venezuela, it only matters that it was their intent to do so, which Rubio and Trump have both admitted.

New comment by reshlo in "Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would 'invade' Venezuela"

reshlo — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:09:29 +0000

It doesn’t matter whether the US actually has control, only that the military action was taken with intent to establish control.

>This market will resolve to "Yes" if the United States commences a military offensive intended to establish control over any portion of Venezuela between November 3, 2025, and January 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to "No".

New comment by reshlo in "Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would 'invade' Venezuela"

reshlo — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:07:45 +0000

Isn’t it?

> This market will resolve to "Yes" if the United States commences a military offensive intended to establish control over any portion of Venezuela between November 3, 2025, and January 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to "No".

New comment by reshlo in "How HTML changes in ePub"

reshlo — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:51:01 +0000

The widespread acceptance of Postel’s Law also encourages poor authorship, because if you know clients have to be liberal in what they accept, there is no incentive to be conservative in what you send.

New comment by reshlo in "How HTML changes in ePub"

reshlo — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:46:31 +0000

If authored files had to be valid in order to work, how would the author have sold you an invalid file in the first place? They would have seen that it didn’t work when they were making it, and fixed it. If they’d sold you a book that didn’t open, you’d be entitled to a refund.

New comment by reshlo in "LLM Year in Review"

reshlo — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 03:21:58 +0000

> The Economist recently had a piece on word usage of British Parliament members. They are adopting words and phrases commonly seen in AI.

Many of the speeches given by MPs are likely to have been written beforehand, in whole or in part. Wouldn’t the more likely explanation be that they, or their staff, are using LLMs to write their speeches?

New comment by reshlo in "AI is wiping out entry-level tech jobs, leaving graduates stranded"

reshlo — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:30:13 +0000

All of those things are more than 5 years old.

New comment by reshlo in "The Tor Project is switching to Rust"

reshlo — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:12:24 +0000

The randomisation features were significantly improved in Safari 26. Is that the version you have?

New comment by reshlo in "What will enter the public domain in 2026?"

reshlo — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:09:58 +0000

People who end up leading successful companies are often able to do so not because they’re more willing to take risks than others, but rather because they have experienced more good luck than others. Take Bill Gates, for example. His parents sent him to an exclusive private school, which afforded him regular access to computers from an early age, giving him valuable experience that most others his age could not access, through no fault of their own. Microsoft was able to make a crucial business deal with IBM because Gates’ mother knew the CEO. Someone else with equal skill and appetite for risk would have found it much more difficult to be as successful as Gates was, because their parents were likely not rich and not connected to the right people.

New comment by reshlo in "A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code"

reshlo — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:50 +0000

F# can do this too.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-ref...

New comment by reshlo in "Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?"

reshlo — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 23:20:12 +0000

What good is a contract if you can’t prove what its terms are? Such a contract is worth the paper it’s printed on.

New comment by reshlo in "The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million"

reshlo — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:57:36 +0000

https://xkcd.com/1070/

New comment by reshlo in "Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden"

reshlo — Tue, 20 May 2025 18:44:20 +0000

> In the Limitations and Directions for Future Research, it also note that right-wing ideologies tend to be more prosocial toward ingroup members than left-wing

That supports the original comment, which asserted that right-wingers often only experience empathy for the ingroup while left-wingers also experience it for the outgroup:

> We have seen this pattern repeated with numerous people who share Adams' political opinions, in that this level of empathy only seems to arrive once they themselves go through a similar experience. People who have that empathy without the need of that direct experience tend to have different politics.

New comment by reshlo in "Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden"

reshlo — Tue, 20 May 2025 11:10:06 +0000

> Do you think that prosocial is the same as empathy?

Empathy is one of the main prosocial traits that the second linked study analysed.

> Prosocial means getting a group/everyone to do things.

No it doesn’t, it means your individual behaviour benefits others. Empathy is one of the most obvious things to analyse when investigating prosociality because empathy motivates you to behave in ways that benefit others.

New comment by reshlo in "Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden"

reshlo — Tue, 20 May 2025 08:21:00 +0000

> Here, we tested this putative asymmetry using neuroimaging: we recorded oscillatory neural activity using magnetoencephalography while 55 participants completed a well-validated neuroimaging paradigm for empathy to vicarious suffering... This neural empathy response was significantly stronger in the leftist than in the rightist group.[0]

> Our large-scale investigation of the relation between political orientation and prosociality suggests that supporters of left-wing ideologies may indeed be more prosocial than supporters of right-wing ideologies... However, the relation between political orientation and prosociality is fragile, and discovering it may depend on the methods used to operationalize prosociality in particular... Nonetheless, we are confident that our investigation has brought us one step closer to solving the puzzle about whether our political orientation is intertwined with how prosocial we behave toward unknown others—which we cautiously answer in the affirmative.[1]

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10281241/

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19485506241298341