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LukeB42··on CIA doctor hit by Havana syndrome
Doesn't surprise me in the slightest. I know a whole community of civillians who're assaulted with microwave weapons daily.

𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱.

Here's a retired Royal Navy radiological weapons expert explaining how it's been used on foreign adversaries since the 60s:

https://youtu.be/z99_SzoXZdY

Full video: https://youtu.be/v5Tn89I7uic

LukeB42··on Ask HN: Which small video editor do you use?
What is Idem for Blender? Is there a homepage URL?
LukeB42··on OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind
Thanks for your explanation.
LukeB42··on OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind
Thanks for your explanation.
LukeB42··on OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind
Thanks for your explanation.
LukeB42··on OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind
Thanks for your explanation.
LukeB42··on OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind
How is this open source Marrowind if I need a copy of Marrowind to play it?
LukeB42··on Ask HN: How much is HTTP worth?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
LukeB42··on Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it
http://tunage.bandcamp.com
LukeB42··on Python Pattern Matching
My gut tells me the logical `or` here should use the word "or" like in the rest of the language.

Neat syntax overall but it's not clear what it makes more succinct than the equivalent `elif` statements.

LukeB42··on Building Rich Terminal Dashboards
Reminds me of Window, which has keyboard input: https://github.com/lukeb42/window https://github.com/lukeb42/emissary
LukeB42··on How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web more energy efficient?
Talk more about what regulatory pressures can be applied to help these companies evolve:

https://theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100...

LukeB42··on Fastcore: A library that extends Python with new features
I'm thinking of templates, if that helps.
LukeB42··on Fastcore: A library that extends Python with new features
What's it offering that's more idiomatic than the `isinstance()` it breaks down to other than resembling virtual functions in C++?

What's costlier, the new stack frames plus conditional for a decorator or the `elif isinstance()`s in one function definition?

How does a programmer reference the correct function definition by name if they're using @typedispatch instead of `isinstance()`?

LukeB42··on Fastcore: A library that extends Python with new features
All libraries extend their language with new features.

A lot of the proposed value-add seems like the authors aren't aware the built-in `type()` can dynamically modify class definitions.

Getting rid of `hex(id(self))` in `__repr__` is regressive UX.

@typedispatch seems like both a slow way of using 'isinstance()' and a FOMO C++ virtual function bloat.

LukeB42··on Neuralink Progress Update [video]
<Aramaki> What do you mean I bricked my device?
LukeB42··on “The Edge of Chaos” (2017)
I'm a huge fan of your book. Is there anything you'd add in a revised edition 20 years after publication?
LukeB42··on Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching human baseline
http://www.irc.org/history_docs/tao.html
LukeB42··on Streamlit: Turn a Python script into an interactive data analysis tool
This looks excellent. Thank you.

Can we use asyncio to update multiple charts simultaneously / at arbitrary intervals?

Wouldn't it be better if Jupyter absorbed this API for its dashboards?

LukeB42··on Show HN: CLI forensics tool for tracking USB device artifacts on Linux
Looks interesting. Could you please convert the tabs to 4 spaces though?
LukeB42··on Neuralink Live Stream [video]
Who thinks Elon Musk is going to walk around with one of these in a world full of hackers who aren't buying it?
LukeB42··on Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
https://github.com/lukeb42/psyrcd
LukeB42··on Open source collaborative text editors
https://github.com/psybernetics/synchrony does realtime collaborative WYSIWYG hyperdocument editing.

Imagine if Google Wave had a friends list similar to Telegram and each peer acted as a public cache for dead hypermedia.

LukeB42··on Running an IRC Network in 2019: Challenges and Opportunities
Containerising the IRCD would probably broaden the pool of people willing to host the network, due to not needing root on their boxes anymore.

Shameless plug for anyone who just wants their own IRCD: https://github.com/LukeB42/Psyrcd

LukeB42··on Serious Chrome zero-day
Bad time to ask for browser extensions on mobile then?
LukeB42··on Composing Programs in Python, SICP Style
Very tough question.

Personally I'd lengthen the course with a Section "1.5" on the raw math topics being dealt with (Set Theory and Category Theory) plus ones the student will certainly bump into if they ever find themselves having to deploy MapReduce in production...

LukeB42··on Insect collapse
When? Yesterday?

Enough energy enters Earth's atmosphere on days like this one to sustain 7 billion people plus the six-legged majority with room for human technological innovation. We're just not capturing each day's energy with even greater than 50% efficiency yet.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43619013?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co...

LukeB42··on Composing Programs in Python, SICP Style
It already has a chapter on MapReduce, which is making a few assumptions about where the student is going, whereas teaching category theory is appropriate for where the student is.
LukeB42··on Composing Programs in Python, SICP Style
Very nice formatting for the content but it feels like it's missing three chapters on category theory and two chapters each on the AST module and the `compile` builtin after that last chapter on recursion.
LukeB42··on Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time
Shameless plug but I designed and wrote something for doing this from 2011 to 2015 because nothing like it existed or indeed exists as far as I'm aware.

It's a p2p caching proxy that also lets you edit web pages collaboratively in realtime over a LAN or the internet. It has a contacts list system and p2p chat functionality. This project effectively died due to lack of interest and I still have various security concerns about it (Should you break/reimplement Same-Origin policy or break/reimplement the TLS chain of trust?)

The main security concern is that because it decentralises HTTP in-place (existing URLs can now be looked up on an arbitrary number of overlay networks if the original URL isn't providing an OK response) it puts users at risk of malicious actors spamming overlay networks with browser exploits for popular resources like "news.ycombinator.com/".

I hope TBL and co converge on satisfying answers to these problems or constrain their design to not bother with decentralising existing URLs in-situ.

Code lives here: https://github.com/Psybernetics/Synchrony

Feel free to shoot me any questions.

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