Programming your keyboard is actually a common case! See usevia.app

It is indeed common!

But a keyboard flashed with malicious firmware becomes an undetectable keylogger, a USB rubber ducky, and a virus-laden USB stick all in one.

The concept that someone would want to reflash their keyboard firmware, but wants a sandbox because they don't trust the firmware programmer makes no sense.

There are plenty of crippled web browsers out there. Heck, on iOS, it's the default.

Yeah, who disagreed with that? "war crime" is not a random term you can throw at things you don't like. you can dislike an atrocity, but you have no right to do anything about it.

It's so hypocritical. Not a single post on HN I've seen even brought up the genocide in sudan or other african countries. I'd like to see where you commented on how everyone who supported and provided refuge to Hamas and its leaders were committing an atrocity.

making noise about 'war crime' or atrocity does nothing except inflame the very propaganda being used to commit those atrocities, and legitimize all other atrocities being committed, from Iran to sudan, to ukraine and elsewhere. You pick and choose which genocidal country deserves attention based on your bias.

Iran's nuclear program was justified because they were eventually attacked, and Israel's atrocities are retroactively justified by people who insist they have no right to exist.

guess what, if I was an israeli and you're saying I have no right to exist, and should be genoicded or ethnic-cleansed, I wouldn't care about any atrocities against you either.

You don't care about legalisms and ICJ, so what do you care about? emotions? certainly you don't seem to care about actually doing something. organizations like ICJ exist for the purpose of doing something, and in this case it is ineffective.

I think my rambling about ICJ is more productive than other ramblings about "atrocity" or "from the river to the sea".

In Florida and Texas? Maybe check to see if your priors are relevant before commenting based on them.

Building coalitions is slow, deliberative work. Not a skills match for this administration, whatever your assessment of their overall aptitude is.

That hash would be expensive to maintain, and the end result would still be racy since the file could be modified after the hash was read .

In the current POSIX paradigm yes, it would be expensive. But if the hash was defined as the hash of fixed blocks, it wouldn't be expensive. The raciness depends, a lot, on the semantics we would define. (In the context of a build system, it's no different than that the file could get a new mtime after we read the mtime.)

LLMs absolutely let you explore ideas and areas you wouldn't have otherwise...but does your new design actually _work_?

I'm curious whether the "knowledge" you gained was real or hallucinatory. I've been using LLMs this way myself, but I worry I'm contaminating my memory with false information.

I think that you're confusing what you're doing with what I'm doing.

What I'm doing is learning the circuit constructs that I need and then putting them to work in real circuits. There's usually a few breadboard steps in the middle, which you could call reinforcement learning.

To me, the telling thing about your question is the implication that I would spend a week learning how to do something and then not test it out. I know that this reply reads as salty, but I'm really struggling to contain my own "wtf" on this end.

Seriously, people that are so determined to prove that LLMs don't work despite how easy it is to test for yourself and see that they clearly do work are the ones that are hallucinating.

This will always happen as long as people are led by their egos. Also they probably aren't autodidacts and don't understand learning for fun.

At some point this existential doubt about your own work and others seems pretty weird.

Go ahead and figure out ways to interrogate on your work with technical means, that's a critical part of the process with an LLM or not.

Thank you.

You were on the happy path. I just had to get involved for a family member that broke their Apple phone and couldn't get their SIM transferred. Even after adding them as an authorized user under duress, they had to physically go to a T-Mobile store to get their phone on the network.

I believe you, but do you have a citation?

Search for the phrase "Vision Zero"

Will a managed MacBook allow the installation of random native apps, either?

Though let's be realistic, here: $600 is much more than the typical school-assigned Chromebook.

It’s $500 for a kid, a full time student.