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_dark_matter_··on Heathrow scraps liquid container limit
Why would they? Because they are about to do the thing they planned to do for months or years? Because they may be risking their own life? Because they're worried about getting caught rather than following through? Because no matter how prepared they are they have never done that EXACT scenario before at that exact airport with those exact people? Because the human mind is a lizard brain even with training and preparation?

Still not a perfect systems, other countries manage this part much better (I've heard Israel is especially good at it, but I don't have direct evidence).

_dark_matter_··on eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update
Seriously, how is this the top comment?
_dark_matter_··on Eat Real Food
Whole milk, cheese, and steak are not the usual foods I associate with health. Unfortunately this is not backed by scientific evidence.
_dark_matter_··on Charles Proxy
Agreed, I used to have a bunch of mitm commands in my bashrc to easily intercept https messages
_dark_matter_··on CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat
I'm sorry, I've been vegetarian (mostly vegan, no eggs or milk) for over 10 years, and I crave meat. A juicy burger. Spicy chicken wings. Actually those are mainly it.

I am so thankful of advances that let me eat something my brain enjoys. I get the best of both worlds - no animal harmed in the process.

Why do vegs have to neg on other vegs for what they eat? I hate that. To each their own. I encourage everyone to be vegetarian to support animal rights, but I also would never tell them that their cravings aren't real or how to go about doing it.

_dark_matter_··on CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat
Wild to think that there's 6-7 chickens for every human in America at all times
_dark_matter_··on Show HN: Continuous Claude – run Claude Code in a loop
Fyi
_dark_matter_··on Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died
I was wondering why I knew his name - he published a series of chess puzzles based on actual historic games in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/chess-puzzles.

They were fabulous, and I especially enjoyed his commentary. May he rest in peace.

_dark_matter_··on My new Git utility `what-changed-twice` needs a new name
This is why I no longer do atomic commits. I've just never had it be a benefit to walk through and guarantee that each commits tests and builds successfully. I so rarely back out changes that when I do, I test then that everything is working (and let's be honest, I back out usually at the PR level, not the commit).
_dark_matter_··on Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation
I'm as skeptical as anyone, but have you ever heard of companies like Oracle, which got rich off a database or Snowflake (current market cap 65B)? Companies pay oodles of money for that capabilities.
_dark_matter_··on Show HN: An interactive dashboard to explore NYC rentals data
I follow our local market very closely because we're considering moving and have never seen this. I've even seen houses delisted and relisted, and the full pricing history remains on Zillow. Can you share an example?
_dark_matter_··on Shallow water is dangerous too
Look, I'm telling you this from my perspective as someone who tried to do the exact thing you're saying. If those things stressed me out as an adult who knows about swimming, and crucially prevented me from signing up my kids for swimming lessons at the Y, then it is going to be even more true for people who are low income and not knowledgeable. These are real barriers. Acting like they're not is just putting our collective head in the sand and letting the problem perpetuate.
_dark_matter_··on Shallow water is dangerous too
I disagree, YMCA lessons are not accessible. First off, you don't know what level your child is, and I remember being stressed trying to read our Ys website to understand what the levels meant. This is important because 2, the classes fill very quickly. You have to know what you want and sign up as soon as they're available. And finally, the classes are at very specific times, which certainly do not work for all working parents schedules. For example, it will just be tue or Thur at 5:45pm. If you can't make that you are SOL.
_dark_matter_··on People Are Being Involuntarily Committed After Spiraling into ChatGPT Psychosis
Counterpoint: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Show_delusion
_dark_matter_··on Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
Okay but I commute to work so give me a picosecond back please.
_dark_matter_··on I will do anything to end homelessness except build more homes (2018)
This isn't everywhere. I live in Nashville and we have SO MUCH housing being built. Just apartment building after apartment building after apartment building.
_dark_matter_··on Claude Code feels like magic because it is iterative
I'm still not convinced. I spent a few hours today trying to get it to add linting to a SQL repository, _given another repository that already had what I wanted_.

At one point it got a linting error and just added that error to the ignore list. I definitely I spent more time reviewing this code and prompting than it would have taken for me to do it myself. And it's still not merged!

_dark_matter_··on Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh
Totally agreed. I really enjoyed using my Windows phone! Even the tablet software was great (might still be too, but I haven't used one in years)
_dark_matter_··on Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure
Oh so trivially bypassable by changing your password twice.
_dark_matter_··on The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
These were... Introduced, and passed, by the Republican party? Seems kinda obvious that we should blame them. Let me know who you blame for cancer: the tumor or the doc who "let it happen"
_dark_matter_··on The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
Lol only for it to kick back in in 2029 during the next administration. Your employment has now become a bargaining chip in the GOP's handbook.
_dark_matter_··on The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
That's still not true. As long as a group within "everyone" (or multiple groups) decide that their support is required to pass the bill, they can suddenly demand concessions and the bill now gets complicated with good and bad.
_dark_matter_··on Long live American Science and Surplus
What a ridiculous comment. Of course lots of Gen Zers know how electronics work. The oldest Gen alphaers turned 15 this year.
_dark_matter_··on How to live on $432 a month in America
So now you have to have a car? So yes this post is still unrealistic
_dark_matter_··on Transformer neural net learns to run Conway's Game of Life just from examples
I think it's interesting, but I don't see how it's useful. Can you describe what you think is useful about it?
_dark_matter_··on The Future Is Too Expensive – A New Theory on Collapsing Birth Rates
Is this AI generated?
_dark_matter_··on I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search
I think it's pretty obvious to figure out how much polish is "too much". This is a business. Engineers time is limited. Was the time you spent on that more valuable than the alternative? I'm leaving the question of what the alternative was ambiguous on purpose.
_dark_matter_··on Ask HN: What will tech employment look like in 10 years?
Computers aren't real
_dark_matter_··on First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV
Very unlikely is an understatement. Francis never even visited his home country of Argentina after being elected as Pope.
_dark_matter_··on I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt
100x? I think this deserves a bit of a deeper insight. The inputs are the same, which means the verification steps are also exactly the same. The only change might be volume, but I highly doubt it would be 100x.

Outputs would change from bool to float between 0-1. That much is relatively easy given a calculator.

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