skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very positive sign for the quality of coreutils, but does exactly nothing to assert there are no flaws.

And I'll point to CVE-2015-4041 as evidence in my favor - that's a buffer overflow: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-72/p...
What I am referring to is not dynamic linking, but something else. My memory of that is rather faded and I only remember seeing in in various docs something like 40 years ago
Ahh, yes, the flaw in my optimism is that those doomsday planes do in fact have direct radio links to send the PAL codes and authenticated launch orders directly to the silos, submarines, and standby bombers.

The tier of generals just not senior enough to have a seat on the doomsday planes isn't in the emergency line of command to the nuclear weapons. So, regardless of how powerful a small coalition of those generals is, they cannot reliably prevent a nuclear launch. (They'd need a pre-existing conspiracy to quickly and efficiently turn their own air defence batteries against their own doomsday planes... at which point it seems very likely they'd just launch a coup long before a nuclear strike was ordered.)

So, I guess our last hope is that a small conspiracy of generals just under the doomsday plane tier would stage a coup once the nuclear sabre rattling reached a sufficient magnitude, before the nuclear first strike order is given.
We use F# and Excel as our main tools. This seems like a product made in heaven.

But this would never fly for us. The pricing model could not be sold to management.

What would work is if it was something like $5k for a year of updates. We're on 365 so office's constant updates would force us to upgrade every year. But management would not feel like they're renting something they would rather own.
>This is like saying that movies in the 1980s sparked a rash of car thefts because they showed people hotwiring cars all the time.

Probably did, but the scale of the problem is much larger considering TikTok's reach.
> To move American troops to Europe as quickly as possible, the military wanted a troopship that would be capable of carrying an entire army division–some 15,000 men–over the Atlantic in one trip.

That's a lot of eggs in one fast-moving basket.
The CCP would lose face, which is one of the worst fates for them. No more mandate from the heavens. Sure, they could try to deny it and claim the world is jealous of China or something like that, but that's unlikely to work for very long, especially with the rest of the planet. Losing their mandate from the heavens to rule China could very well lead to their ouster and perhaps the balkanization of China. Losing the respect of the rest of the world at a time when China wants to be the other major superpower, would be disastrous for them. In a multipolar world, the superpowers compete against each other for the loyalty of the rest of the world. Hard to do that when every single country on the planet suffered during the pandemic.
Wow, a lesson in not speaking the full truth to our managers. Thanks for sharing.
I’m not sure who “you people” are. Doesn’t feel like that’s adding much to the conversation, nor does it incline me to participate.
True, but then this happens: https://theconversation.com/why-do-flocks-of-birds-swoop-and...
What does everyone think an appropriate punishment for China is if it comes out there was negligence in a lab?
It's a fascinating subject, precisely because the exercise of sailing was so highly developed (due to both the length of its history and functional importance) and then... effectively disappeared.

The mind boggles imagining the number of crew they had on large ships, including up in the rigging, adjusting the boat in real time as a team. Even moreso, under battle conditions!

I guess a cautionary tale for companies to be aware of the fundamental value their businesses are built on, should the world start to shift.

Something was able to go faster... and freight sailing was no more.
Elon Musk didn't found Tesla, he bought it with the proviso that they pretend that he was a founder. He also didn't found PayPal; Confinity developed PayPal, which merged with Musk's company before rebranding the enterprise to PayPal, after which Musk was then fired for incompetence. But he sure is great at taking credit for the work of others, including the work of Gwynne Shotwell at SpaceX, who is, by all accounts, the real person in charge.
I think it's extremely unlikely that rates of illness have gone up.
Noam Brown, FAIR: On achieving human-level performance in Diplomacy, and more
Here is a podcast episode with Noam Brown from Meta AI where we discuss his work on achieving human-level performance on poker and Diplomacy, as well as the power of spending compute at inference time!
How is that humans look at the problems of Southeast Asia, or anywhere, and say, "I know! The solution is more people!"

They burn the crops to maintain production, allegedly, but beyond the economics of the stuation, the reason that the production must be maintained is to feed the 1.5 billion.

This is, obviously, a death-spiral.
No, this is not correct at all. I am saying that I should be able to run whatever code I want on hardware that I own and pay for. There's no effort from the manufacturer required at all for this in the same way that I can currently run whatever code I want on my laptop without the support of the manufacturer.
It is obvious that interstellar travel is indistinguishable from magic.
When your competition is willing to lie and cheat, honesty is a liability that will result in bankruptcy.
Worse, this attitude is endemic in all business sectors where I have worked, and I would be shocked to find a sector where this is not true.
Typically if a gas station isn't accepting payment, I can drive to the one next door. I've done that before, but it's very rare unless if Visa or Mastercard is having issues (which is pretty rare, but affects much more than just gas).
Ultimately I think MS is right betting on the fact that this will not matter in the long run. All AI tools are trained on copyrighted data. The tools are too useful to cripple with restrictive laws written for a previous era.
"Notwithstanding any other language in your Agreement, GitHub will defend you against any claim by an unaffiliated third-party that your use of GitHub Copilot misappropriated a trade secret or directly infringes a patent, copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property right of a third party, up to the greater of $500,000.00 USD or the total amount paid to GitHub for the use of GitHub Copilot during the 12 months preceding the claim."

From here: https://github.com/customer-terms/github-copilot-product-spe...
I cant read the article, but from the headline it seems insane.

I'm all for the proper treatment of animals. I live on a ranch with a herd of horses.

That said, if my neighbor was mistreating their animals I would call some authority like the sherriff or the USDA to deal with it.

I have neighbors who would shoot you where you stood if they caught someone rustling their cattle without a second thought or a challenge of why. You would be too dead to explain that your intentions were noble. The law would scold them then give them a nod and a wink and a pat on the back to boot.

Do not try to rescue animals from a farm or ranch or even your urban neighbor's back yard. You are basically asking to be shot.
>Are you comfortable risking your company's IP by unknowingly using AGPLv3-licensed code that Copilot "generated" in your company's products?

This would not risk your company's IP.
Forget pollution, imagine how successful both could be if they got beyond internal religious squabbles. Trend the GDP per capita for India and China, 30 years they were similar, now China's is many times India's.
China restricted their entire society for almost 3 years, yet they've done ~nothing to shut down wet markets or convince average Chinese that wild/exotic meat is dangerous.

What conclusions should we draw from this?
AH! yeah in my chrome it didn't work at all. i was super confused how the example got the little dots and what they meant.
Microsoft itself uses and suggests this internally for production code.
I'm glad a known brand is taking this line of product.

I am unsure about IKEA quality. I'd like to see someone like Apple (or Google or even MS take this up)

I question IKEA because they are all over the place quality-wise. Some things are built with quality in mind, whereas others are semi-disposable and I cannot tell what this will be. Will it require and enable periodic recalibration?
> The problem is that 'failing free' would incentivize people to disrupt charger communications

Can’t you just log locally on the charger the transactions? Once the connection is restored and if there are dishonest charges you can just pursue them the same way a petrol station would pursue those who fill-and-dash.

Or even better. Can’t the car download a certificate from the central server when it is still up which is signed with the private key of tesla and it contains what level of service the vehicle is subscribed to and an expiry date? And then the charger can check the validity even without a network connection.
The most likely outcome is that interstellar travel is impossible.
I can't figure out what you're trying to say
I don’t think OP meant it a friendly way either. Like under China’s thumb “pals”.
> So it appears we may be asking the wrong questions. Not why apps are getting slower, but why it seems the market has fewer competing apps at all levels.

This is exactly the phenomenon I recently started describing on HN with the phrase "software is resisting commoditization". It's rare these days to see an app you could use for a while and then replace with an equivalent alternative.

I think SaaS is a big driver of this - by keeping important functionality (and user data) server-side, the user ends up being locked into your software. No need to rely on IP protections - there's just no way for them to pirate the bits running on your infrastructure. And even if someone reverse-engineered your APIs and built a better frontend, the users of that alternative would still be tied to your backend, and thus your service.

This means there's no business in making alternative frontends. Instead, it's better to start your own SaaS and go after a different market slice. Even seemingly equivalent products quickly drift apart, each optimizing strongly for slightly different audience. It's easier than to fight another company over their users directly.

A tailored set of features is a good "unique value proposition" for a while, but it may be too easy for someone to eventually replicate. Taking user data hostage is better, but users don't like it very much. The best UVPs seem to have nothing to do with software.

Spotify is a stellar example here: the real value they own isn't software or infrastructure, it's all the relationships and contracts they've established in the music industry. This moat is impervious to nearly all competition - unless you're insider on the music label side, or plugged into Softbank's infinite money hose, you're not going to replicate it. Spotify, in turn, doesn't have to give a shit about its music player anymore.

How to fix this? I'm not sure if it can be. We'd need to destroy the ability for businesses to prop their software with some unique propositions that can't be easily copied by competitors. I can't see it happening without a total overhaul of intellectual property and computer crime laws. Things like Data Portability section of GDPR help a little, but ultimately there's just too many ways to create those tiny moats that make applications non-substitutable.
Well right it likely won't be actually banned, which pushes this further into the "not meaningful" territory.

"If it wasn't a leak..." are you referring to a deliberate release scenario?
kurzgesagt has a new episode today about the human machine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYPFenJQciw

One of the topics in the video was emergence, and where we see it in the world as more layers of complexity are added to systems. We're to the point with our algorithms that we are seeing complex system emerge from simple parts.
Your comment would have credibility if three of the sources you cite weren't Murdoch mouthpieces. Also USA today is literally a printer and the AP wire service rewritten to a 5th grade level and with even more less information then the AP stories that are copy pasted.
Ha, surely someone who has driven a £20,000+ car to a surveilled remote location isn't going to bring ... what, a 4G radio jammer? Wire cutters? Risking electrocution? To save £5-20 on a top-up? While they wait 30-60 minutes for the charge to complete?

I had assumed they failed open because the installers have more of an incentive to build trust with drivers than to avoid a little extra revenue loss for a few days?
> Really, the environmental movement would actually be most happy with you if you killed yourself...But they only say that in private.

I've been around environmental culture, sustainable agriculture and sustainable living practice communities for decades and I've never heard this sentiment, in public or in private; so I think you have constructed a strawman argument.
The lawyers on my last job were terrified to know that we store tracking information on website visitors computers that is used to track them by third party corporations.
Don't worry, the EV EU date ain't gonna happen anytime near the schedule. Those dates are for show, they'll always get pushed into the future...
At the very least, we can look at our own response to the pandemic, both government and societal, and agree that huge mistakes were made, and lessons need to be learned instead of taking the usual "Hey, let's just move on and forget about all the evil things we did" approach. There certainly needs to be a reckoning for the tech world that gleefully jumped on the authoritarian bandwagon and tried, somewhat successfully at times, to stifle all opposition to the botched pandemic response.
Source: Ex Hospital IT.

I wouldn't risk it. It is too easy to write the wrong prompts and leak PHI.

ChatGPT:

"Write me a parser for this HL7 message..."

Copilot:

"Using this example message please write a parser for it..."

Yeah... If it was compliant, people would write those in a heartbeat.

Unless sold as HIPAA compliant, and the conditions of use for that compliance are known... don't trust it, for SAAS.

This is stuff covered in your yearly HIPAA briefing folks.
I don’t understand that second paper at all. It just seems like they’re guessing at that? Or what’s the evidence?
Agreed. Copyright is not a fundamental law of physics, its something we invented to help incentivize creation. The moment AI tools show to help spur creation, they are now more useful than copyright so society will simply rewrite the laws to adapt.
That's an awesome story. I'm sure it could have been 30 degrees.

If I can share...It reminded me of waiting outside school one day to be picked up for a scout sailing trip. Talking with friends about CS class assignments.

Watching it grow later and later. Dark clouds.
Then being picked up late by the busy, but adventurous, doctor who owned a sailboat.

Arriving at the port late. Leaving late.

Setting sail just in time for the storm to arrive. The Puget Sound and not the Atlantic but damn scary.

Instead of "ah better be careful, got a bunch of kids here," just a, "I think we can make it."

Those who wanted to be out in the weather were up top. Those who didn't want, were below sitting on one of the old bench-couches reading or playing cards.

Thank god it was ok to be down there. Until it wasn't.

"Everybody out!" Pitch, pitch black outside. Walking downward across the deck because it was natural. Feeling waves smack my hand because the waves were at arm's reach.

"Get on the high side!" More orders. This was the guy who asked us what the hell we were doing back there screaming and throwing backpacks around (we hadn't touched them), while he was talking on the analog cell phone and eating a sandwich, while driving his van on two wheels around a corner while driving up to Mt. St. Helens. The tilt threw the backpacks around, not us.

Then most of us kids, leaning off the high side, no....more like just sitting on the side. You could make out the big beautiful hull structure over your shoulder.

How dead were we?

More orders. Eventually being dropped off under those tall metal streetlights, on some island (wrong island).

Sleeping overnight on concrete slab, under some large pavilion at an indigenous cultural center that wasn't patrolled. Waking up thirsty. Drinking from the little water hose at a small island airport.

Sign: "Do not drink" oh.

Later, rendezvous and the same boring scout food. Those who brought Jolly Ranchers already ate 'em. Boredom. Hijinks. Adults decide it's time to go home. Much easier travels on the way back.

Sorry, just had to share, it's contagious.
Why on earth would you ever put any PHI information in source control?
> IRS isn't trying to put you in jail, they just want you to file correctly.

A lot of people would live much easier lives if they believed this.

You can make a really half-assed filing and all they will ever do is send you an invoice for the difference.

In fact, you could simply not file your taxes ever and the IRS will eventually inform you of your actual tax burden, at which point you should probably pay accordingly. I've never gone beyond this point.
Some people want to be the king of the world: some people just want to live like a king. ;)
You're right to be confused, sorry. I meant to day "Automatic installation of updates when Firefox is not running is enabled by default there."

I said "no" to "have it set to not install before prompting you" because I use the default settings. Now I'm actually also a bit confused whether you meant "it installs in background [while browsing]" or "it installs in background [while Firefox is not running, using the background update server]"

With the default "when Firefox is not running" setting, the updates should _download_ in the background and then inform you that it will be installed next time you restart.

The freezing and forced restart as reported by pontifier does not sound like default behaviour, it sounds like "when Firefox is not running" is unchecked.
Wow, that is a heart-wrenching story. What a shame.

> It's all about the next quarter.

Not sure that follows from your friend's story. In that particular case, it seems to have been about bad management, unless having only college-degreed folks on the floor improved short term financials.

Definitely an example of a short sighted decision, though.
And if that page changes without notifying you?

... Unless they are selling the compliance as a feature, be careful.
OpenAI/GPT products at MS making same exact bet
OP isn't saying the person is barely tech literate because they didn't expect the image to be restorable, but that they're likely barely tech literate because they were using a word processor as an image editor.

Abusing Microsoft Office applications to do things they're not designed to do has sort of a bathtub curve of likelihood versus tech literacy. The people most likely to do it are either largely tech illiterate or skilled hackers with far too much time on their hands.
Err yes you're right on that.

My point though is the "bearing failing" is too generic to determine what on it failed.

Sometimes the brakes are fixed to the axle, are they not? In that case it couldn't be the brake.
Eh, they would glare at you anyway.

I was pacing the vehicle in front of me and briefly took the lane around an s curve on a town street sharrows, a couple blocks from a stop sign. The guy behind me closed the following distance to intimidate me and when I went up on the sidewalk and yelled at him at the stop sign, he told me to go ride on a bike path.

He put my life at unnecessary risk for the offense of being on a designated bike street...
Fwiw Microsoft itself is betting on and suggesting devs use it for Microsoft production code.
The simple question about the origin was considered a conspiracy theory not that long ago. And you won't find any democrats speaking up about it, no they were busy covering it up just because that's what the "bad side" were claiming.

Why is memory so short in politics? The question you should ask instead is why do they suddenly care?
Yes because nuclear incident = more disaster then the anfo plant that blew up in Texas, numerous refinery explosions the BP oil rig explosion etc.
I'd like to see people try to cite the sources for the code they wrote. It's highly improbable that without looking at anyone else's work in their lives, they would have created anything remotely similar to what they produced.
HEPA gets all the hype, but if you can afford to recirculate the air for multiple passes (ie regular filtering, not a surgical theatre) then MERV-13 is the GOAT. It strikes a near perfect balance between particle interception efficiency and airflow volume.

Paradoxically, a 'more efficient' filter will generally achieves lower real-world performance (CADR) because the airflow drops so much.

The MERV rating are often hidden, instead you may need to look for numbers from a company-specific rating system like 3M's 'MPR 1900' or Home Depot's (yes, really) 'FPR 10.'[0]

(I almost don't want to include this last paragraph of info, because by sounding like an ad it will automatically 'taint' everything else, but fuck it....)

I find myself generally buying the 3M version (which is ~30% more expensive locally) which I observe has a much higher pleat count. That means more surface area (lifetime) and better pressure drop (airflow). By my math I come out ahead in cost per area of medium, which for me is a better metric than cost per filter.

[0] https://airfiltersdelivered.com/blogs/helpful-tips/merv-mpr-...
Betteridge's law of headlines - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Suggestion: If you type in a URL without http:// or https:// at the beginning it doesn't work. Can this be fixed?
Granularity is usually the problem here. It is very difficult to fully specify the full set of things you expect a program to be able to do. Even if you could, it is not usually something an end-user will want to do, due to the verbosity involved. Permissions are also time / sequence dependent. If you have something that can specify the user's expectations fully, it will be very verbose due to the inherent complexity, so the system will either be unused, default to overly broad permissions lists, or rely on trusting various pre-baked recipes that others have made. At that point I'm not sure how much you have gained for the average user, and it seems you lose some very real usability in the process.

Curious to hear how you would go about solving this problem. It seems that there is just a lot of inherent complexity here and I can't see any way to avoid that complexity without preventing the system from being useful.
An interesting lesson is to visit a user site and notice the step-by-step instructions, written out and taped to the sides of monitors, or pinned to cubicle walls. Those instructions were often hard-earned, either written by the user or shared among workers. That stuff becomes obsolete if the software changes. Likewise for online instructions, such as blogs that give instructions in the form of screen captures and text, and that are no longer valid. If the unofficial instructions are better than the official ones, or more legible than the GUI, then it's a step backwards for users.
Wow I really admire how cool minded and topic focused you've remained in the whole thread. I wish I can do that one day.
Lose face in the eyes of whom? Not clear to me that "this came out of our advanced bio research lab" is more damning than "this came out of our extremely unhygienic wet markets in urban centers."
Sure, none of which is dependent on the origin of the virus.