skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like Newton's laws of motion? They're only observed to be true and ceases to be at relativistic speeds.
It's not true that Intuit discontinued support for the desktop version. Where did they get that idea? It's a subscription, yes, but the desktop version is alive and well. I WISH they would kill it so I could force my own users to upgrade to the online edition but no, it hasn't happened yet. We just upgraded to QuickBooks Desktop 2023.
The norway problem is not a problem if you use yaml 1.2.

Which is 14 years old.

EDIT: this sounded adversarial which was not my intention. Plenty of libraries do not support 1.2 which sucks, I just meant that it's something solved in theory a long time ago.
Various clues were left by Roche, who authored the ruse. For example, the invitation letters sent by the marshals were signed by "I. Michael Detnaw" ("wanted" spelled backwards) and when the fugitives called the specified telephone number to confirm their attendance, an operator would redirect them to Flagship's business manager "Markus Cran" ("narc" spelled backwards) while the song "I Fought the Law" played in the background.

I find it insane that with such a big operation they would take unnecessary risks to effectiveness like this for no reason whatsoever.

On the other hand, I definitely have seen some of this trolling before in the cat-and-mouse games between criminals and their pursuers.
Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel also did a review and found many cheap Android TV boxes were infested with malware. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vpepaQ-VQQ

It was perfect timing since I am trying to find some simple solution to my old Roku I use to bypass my "smart" TV. But Roku is probably just as invasive privacy-wise.
I'm curious how much our early programming experiences fix (as in, make permanent) our mindset about types.

As a little kid, I dabbled a bit in BASIC.

But my more formative years, in high school and college, really centered on statically typed languages: Pascal, then C++.

In the 20+ years since then, statically typed languages have always seemed far saner to me than, e.g. Python.

I can think of various explanations for this:

(a) Because I got my start in statically typed languages, that became ingrained as my "natural" way to reason about programs. Which was self-reinforcing, as practice reinforced my ability to express program constraints using types.

(b) I'm naturally biased toward writing correct programs, rather than rapid prototyping. So I would have gravitated towards statically typed (or even proven) programs regardless of my early education.
I got it with clinking beer mugs, no one under 18 symbol, and ID button
Wait, you're comparing an American city to Taipei, and saying it has a crime problem?

Why not compare it to another American city? You'll quickly discover that these 'worst' cities are middle of the road when it comes to most forms of crime, the real horrible places in the US are not in the liberal coastal states. The vast majority of them are in the tough-on-crime god-fearing ones.

(I also always found it a little weird how many of the stores citing crime for closing are ones that just happened to have unionized, but maybe that's just a coincidence...)
What distribution is that on? At least Ubuntu has had ptrace capabilities restricted to superuser processes and descendants for many years now, as far as I can remember.

/proc/$pid/mem access needs ptrace permissions as well and accordingly follows the same rules.
If one is looking for an alternative config format, the best designed I've seen is https://github.com/gura-conf/gura
> How about we test realistic scenarios

This is a false dichotomy. I feel like this well-worn talking point might be outliving it’s usefulness even faster with the invention of LLMs. We teach the mechanics of arithmetic and of spelling and grammar because that’s what education is for, it’s for teaching how things work so there’s an understanding of the fundamental mechanics, and it starts with the basics and builds on top of them to more advanced topics, in order to deliver a well-rounded and deep understanding. Note that the logical extension of your argument is to let ChatGPT, or the next AI, or the one after that, to start explaining your examples, and let humans ignore everything the computer can do, which now includes writing 1500 word essays. After all, just like spell checkers and calculators, access to AI is what people have in the real world.

We don’t need to choose between teaching multiplication by hand and how interest works, because we already teach both, one in a basic arithmetic class, and the other later in algebra & calculus. Same for spelling vs grammar vs writing. Spelling and grammar happen in elementary school, and essay writing happens in high school and college. Teachers already do allow calculators in algebra and calculus. This has no bearing on whether we should allow calculators in arithmetic class based on the vague notion that having access to calculators at all times is a ‘realistic scenario’.

I feel like this kind of thinking is what is leading people to try to cheat in the first place, it’s a lack of understanding of the value in basic skills, and the misguided assumption that learning something only has value if you can demonstrate you would need to use it all day every day for a job right now. The problem is it doesn’t ever get better or easier if you skip the basic mechanics that computers can do; in fact it only gets harder to learn the subjects that do actually matter that you are going to be using, when you have foundational gaps.

More than ever, what we are going to need from here on out of the education system is people who know at least a little what AI is on the inside just so we can use it effectively, not to mention build it, maintain it, control it, set legal policy, fix it when it’s wrong, etc. etc.
Oh this is one of my favourite topics.

This site is like many of the other DRAKON tools written by Stepan Mitkin and is released to the public domain on GitHub [0].

The tool I am most familiar with is the DRAKON editor [1] also created by Mitkin and released to the public domain [2]. I feel in love with DRAKON about 10 years ago and have used it on and off for just writing out flows or some algorithms, I even wrote a optimistic database in Erlang with it some years ago which I found pretty interesting. More recently I have been looking at adding Rust support to the tool, but many of the things I want to do is blocked by various technical debt that have accumulated over the years, and the fact that I have never used TCL before.

[0]: https://github.com/stepan-mitkin/drakonhub

[1]: https://drakon-editor.sourceforge.net/

[2]: https://github.com/stepan-mitkin/drakon_editor
> Prior to Rooms, Toff spent 10 years at Google, off and on, in product marketing and product management, including at YouTube, Area 120 and in VR/AR. Before that, he spent a couple of years at Vine as product manager, including after it was acquired by Twitter. And most recently, Toff worked at Meta, where he dabbled with new product experiments, like the zine maker E.gg and music-making app Collab, among other things.

I don’t think the founders are particularly good at making their employers money either. They kept jumping between experimental projects that went nowhere.
Frankl’s Laws of Dimensional Ontology and the Fallacy of the Dominant Dimension
Europe: SEPA Instant Credit Transfer

https://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/what-we-do/sepa-insta...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area#Sche...

So far it hasn't seen widespread adoption, though.
>The tech for what you describe exists

I am not aware of this technology; can you point me to it?

>>Unless other people have these glasses, they can’t see your screen either. Even if these glasses have no shortcomings whatsoever, I can’t imagine a future where everyone in the room needs compatible glasses to look at the same screen.

>I can, very, very easily.

Currently, if your own device doesn't work, it just means you can't access your own content. With connected AR devices, it would mean that you also can't access anyone else's shared reality. Here are some common ways I foresee AR devices not being easily interoperable:

* Knowing Apple, only Apple glasses will be compatible with each other, so all the people in the room with non-Apple glasses (or glasses that are too old) will be left out: "sorry friends, I can't show you this funny video, I have the iGlass 5 but you guys only have the iGlass 3, and you guys have Samsung Galaxy Glass."

* Battery life on these had better be phenomenal, since you're cut off from a large portion of reality if it dies.

* These glasses will have to be networked, with close to zero latency, which is always tricky business—even mature technologies like wifi are far from perfectly reliable today.

>But in the long interim between now and then, I can imagine remaining legacy screens which people already have for that. Because we already have them. It's not a zero-sum game, having wearable displays too doesn't somehow make existing screens shut off.

I totally agree. This is the future I think is most likely — some sort of clever hybrid between physical screens and AR screen extensions.

>>Few people actually need enormous amounts of screen real estate

>Utterly ludicrous.

You are right. I should have said, “given the tradeoffs of AR glasses, few people need that real estate.”

>The only reason people use small screens is portability, size (not everyone physically has room for a large display), and cost. If there were two 12" notebooks, one of which had a conventional matching screen like now and the other at the push of a button could pop out a 30" magic solid hologram display (resizable to whatever one wanted) at zero extra mass or stored size cost for the same price, there are zero people who'd pick the former.

I totally agree with this. If this technology were a magic hologram (i.e. zero tradeoffs), it would be totally game-changing.

> watching movies/playing games/reading books/doing work is niche, and wanting to do it privately is niche

You don't need a giant screen with tons of tradeoffs to read most books or do most work. Gaming and movies would benefit, but most people do not spend the majority of their time on a computer gaming or watching cinematic movies.
DRAKON is an actual language;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON?wprov=sfti1
Can we please avoid mass hysteria about pipelines? As you've seen, bulk shipping by rail is incredible stupid.
Discipline, meeting new people with new ideas, new ways at looking at the world.
Agreed. We are manufacturing misery and suffering on a planet-wide, industrial scale. Something has to change.
I would love to know the source of this uttering.
A wearable that lets AI see, 100% coded by GPT-4
Canon printers are the only ones that gave me peace of mind. I avoid everything from HP and everything from the top 3 brands as default.
Wow, someone’s really butchered the actual name, Большая/быстродействующая электронно-счётная машина.
ChatGPT detectors don’t work at all. Why would I believe a study about detection needing to be more equitable when the whole thing is bs from the start?

Come up with different ways to assess students. Writing samples don’t work anymore get over it.
Debian packages, although they aren't signed but "use apt-secure (also known as secure apt) which is a tool that will allow a system administrator to test the integrity of the packages downloaded" [1].

1. https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-manual/de...
There are 92 entries in my credentials archive. I try to avoid creating them if at all possible, and I never use OAuth.
No, it only applies to material produced as a type of pornography, for example. I've reworded the post to make it clearer.
Intel Suggests Dropping Everything but 64-Bit from x86 with Its x86-S Proposal
Can anyone share any practical experience using Drakon for a non-trivial project?
from the article,

"...I note that the cost of housing per square foot in Biloxi, Mississippi, one of the poorest cities in the country, with a median household income that is 60 percent below that of San Francisco, is $139 per square foot. And this is for a city that is not only poor but is chronically at risk of major flooding, which raises insurance costs and reduces home values. "

So, San Fran residential real estate needs to be 28% cheaper than Biloxi?
I have exactly zero credence in your ability to ascertain the internal state of my brain based on a single comment.
Yes, I'd speculate along with you that this is not "bias" but just probability space: sampled input, styled output.

Had the training cutoff been prior to SEO and "content generation" farms, as well as a shift in balance of academic writing published, the embedding space would be different.
>I'm far more interested in the OS and Apps, that's the thing that's going to make this a success or a flop. Hardware (Apple will almost certainly get this right) is important, but the actual user experience and use cases that Apple present are what will be the deciding factor.

Outside of gaming and industry use AR/VR have felt a little like a solution in search of a problem. I do believe though that the people who work at Apple are capable of solving that problem, finding the use cases that an every day person wants it for.

This is my feeling too - I just don't see an immediate usecase for such a device outside of a select few niches, none of which (even combined) move the sales needle for a company of Apple's size. What are people actually going to use this for? I just don't see it - although there could be something as the tech matures in a few years.
Invisible Backdoor Attacks in the Frequency Domain Against Deep Neural Networks
"...we propose a novel frequency-domain backdooring technique. In particular, our method aims to add a backdoor trigger in the frequency domain of original images via Discrete Fourier Transform, thus hidding the trigger. We evaluate our method on three benchmark datasets: MNIST, CIFAR-10 and Imagenette. Our experiments show that we can simultaneously fool human inspection and DNN models. We further apply two image similarity evaluation metrics to illustrate that our method adds the most subtle perturbation without compromising attack success rate and clean sample accuracy..."
Adding to that, Rust really isn't such a fringe language anymore. It's used in production all over the world, at huge companies such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix, etc. and it powers like 75% of the large crypto companies. The dev tools are high-quality, and there are lots of learning resources available. The language itself is mature too, and very stable.
Ooooooo, if the passwordstore has a bash autocomplete in which to navigate selections of its config file subdirectories, then the solution becomes incredibly robust.
> It's hard enough to vet a github repository, but at least it can be done.

It will, more often than not, fall victim to the bystander syndrome. Someone else will do it, right? Right?

Well, in fact, nobody will do it. Here's why: a KeePass client is already a niche piece of software; people who are aware of it and would like to use it on their iOS devices form a small subset of all KeePass users; of those, people who have actual chops to perform a review of source code, are an even smaller subset; of those, people having enough spare time and brain cycles to be bothered is a number very close to zero, or can be counted on a drunk carpenter's fingers. Those people will maybe carve time to look once they suspect something fishy is happening.
Tool for creating proportional scales in design systems
I've always thought the layouts and conventions of Drakon are simple and clean, and a legitimate improvement on most other systems. But I would prefer to use them as Graphviz renderer, or via another textual interface, than via a custom GUI. I don't think a text UI exists, though.
I think the even more "high school essay" trait is it's tendency to infodump its marginally relevant general knowledge of the subject matter. Look at all the stuff I've learned, isn't it impressive!

And whilst it's bad at being nuanced, it's even worse at being opinionated because its guide rails and human testers alike love its answers to be qualified with generic caveats like "depends on the specific situation"...
> Yes, why not ?

That's one specific case out of all possible uses that's not allowed with this licence. It honestly doesn't sound like much of a limitation. It would also be an extremely weird service to run as a non-profit.

> That's a standard fee members pay to cover expenses the org may have

Yes, but why did you mention it? It seems irrelevant to the question of what service you can build.
>There is no apparent interpretation of every verse.

There not being an apparent interpretation of 'alif lam meem' doesn't necessitate an esoteric interpretation, which is what I'm arguing.

>And verses you can't take literally: 18:85-86.

Linguistically it's very clear what the Arabic means here.

>So apparent just means a regurgitation of the Sunni interpretation.

No, it means the most obvious meaning of a statement according to the Arabic.
The alternative though is pornhub. I see a study from 2017

"Study on Australians ages 15-29 found that 100% of the men (82% of women) had viewed porn."

No shocker there but:

"Also, 69 percent of males and 23 percent of females first viewed porn at age 13 or younger."

Just one of those things that makes me love being child free. No clue what you do in this situation.
The description says:

> JunoDB is PayPal's home-grown secure, consistent and highly available key-value store providing low, single digit millisecond, latency at any scale.

what do they mean by 'consistent' here?
I don't think the KDE community takes any particular ideological standpoints. After all they also offer a lot of their software like KDE Connect on Windows which I'm very glad for btw, a lot of their stuff has good cross platform support.
The Future of Integrity in the Brave New World of AI/GPT – Asu+gsv 2023
Stanford Associate Professor Emma Brunskill, Turnitin CEO Chris Caren, GPTZero Founder Edward Tian, Wharton Professor Ethan Mollick, SNHU President Paul LeBlanc, and Stanford Professor Mitchell Stevens discuss the future of integrity in the brave new world of AI/GPT at the 2023 ASU+GSV Summit.
> he put in a timebomb that would make it stop working on a certain date

I wrote 'some Debian developers have characterized [it] as having a "timebomb"'. because I do not agree with that assessment. It did not actually stop working on a certain date. It displayed a warning dialog box on the screen saver lock screen saying the package was out of date. Here is the bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819703 Here is the relevant code: https://github.com/Zygo/xscreensaver/blob/379ea5d57c212863d2...

Nothing there about no longer working. (If "stop working on a certain date" makes something a time bomb, then expired certifications are certainly in Debian, like https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=844631 linking to https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=664177 "the [Certificate Transparency] information has a built-in build-time bomb of 10 weeks".)

Okay, "time bombs" are not malware. Got it.

My main point remains, Linux distributions handle far fewer packages than PyPI. "Debian comes with over 59000 packages" says https://www.debian.org/intro/about and PyPI has 455,474 projects says https://pypi.org/.

Can Debian developers handle 7x more packages? Almost certainly not. They couldn't even handle my software.

If a package maintainer already can't detect a "time bomb" with a huge warning message in the code, then why should I believe they are able to detect more subtle malware, especially with a 7x higher maintenance load?

I write specialist software with only a few thousand users world-wide. Do you really think each of the distros will have the people who are able to review and integrate my code into the distro at the same level as they do xscreensaver?

More realistically, they will reject my package as being out of scope, leaving me ... back at PyPI.
"The Road Not Taken," by Harry Turtledove

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken_(short_st...
Make the crane part of the building. In this case it would not even be an awkward necessity you try to make as invisible a possible, it could be a proud highlight integral to the the design language. Or rather could have been, if it's added now it would be a highlight extension to the design language.

Would that approach change the original design? Absolutely. But I'd see that as a positive. Not because I don't like the original design (I do) but because it would make a nice teaching example: if architects don't want their designs to be messed with, they'd better start making "how will it look and perform after x decades of use and weather" much more a factor in their decisions than they do now. I'm so tired of seeing new architecture that makes pristineness (while new) it's central design statement and has absolutely nothing to show for once that new car smell is gone.
What were those "completely unique capabilities" at launch? There was no App Store. It didn't record video. It didn't have 3G. It was actually a fairly ho-hum phone.
If the intention here was really to steal passwords, it could also be deniability?

Uploading sensitive stuff to logging and/or analytics packages or third party providers is a surprisingly easy mistake to make – which in turn makes it an excellent avenue for plausible deniability.

It can be really hard to tell which one it was without inside information or a detailed investigation.
Optimizing Lua Development for Restricted Environments
In 2007, cellphones were mostly “free” (the cost was hidden in the service contract). Plus however much they made by putting crapware on the phones.

Similarly the Facebook devices have their cost hidden in the privacy violations that come built in. It is a “better” business model than the cellphone contracts because it is even harder to figure out how much they are making off you, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the Apple model wins again.