skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This hasn't been my experience. Do you work in a large company? My experience has been that there are heaps and piles of data including (or potentially including, unstructured) personal information. And lots of reasons why complete deletion isn't possible - because certain other information nearby the personal information is necessary for business purposes (like submitting invoices), or because the person requesting deletion only wants part - not all - deleted, or because the database is structured such that deletion isn't feasible until next year when we roll onto a new technology, etc etc.
But that isn’t the only recommendation. The article also recommends a societal shift in how we think about the role of fathers to something far beyond financial caregiving. I think there’s something valuable to that.

Although I will also say that if the goal is to enable fathers to find friends, having access to affordable/free child care would be the most impactful. Many households don’t have that, so childcare is split among working parents and nobody gets very much free time at all.
They added Bing to goddamn Notepad
recently I played my Warcraft II via Wargus and was pleasantly surprised. It seems that they generalised the engine, named Stratagus, so it can run different games...
Yes. Check out James Hoffman on YouTube. He tests many machines, including grinders, using double blind taste tests, and he can reliably tell the difference between many machines.

Though keep in mind that his palate is especially refined. Average Joe buying a coffee at Baskin Robbins isn't going to notice the difference between different high end grinders.
I didn't think above was shade, but I'm only Canadian :(
Do people understand code by line-by-line reverse-engineering what the code is doing, or do they understand it by relating it to what they've written before?

If the latter is the case, then you get better at reading code by writing code. Writing lots of code puts those code-patterns into your long term memory, and then when you see those code-patterns again you'll recognize them.

For system design too - if you've designed lots of systems yourself, then when you see a new system, you'll be able to relate it to the systems that you've designed before.

So maybe building greenfield projects also makes you better at maintaining existing projects?

It'd be great if someone could point me to some existing literature on this topic. I've looked around and can't find any.
How are solar panels inequitable?
Unity Footgun
The central dogma of biology is DNA -> RNA -> Proteins. The details are very interesting but maybe not so much for a 12 year old. Understanding the roles this plays in the functioning of the cell (the big picture) might be interesting at that age IMHO. So you have Biochemistry which deals with the chemical reactions and pathways and Cell Biology which deals with how these Proteins function in a living organism.

Not exactly textbook but a bigger picture of the role DNA plays in evolution. I enjoyed them and they definitely inspire a desire to understand more.

Climbing Mount Improbable - Richard Dawkins
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins

Physics
A Brief History of Time. - Stephen Hawkins
Makes me wonder if there would be a way to pollute imagenet so a particular image would always match for something like a facial recognition access control system or the like. Maybe adversarial data that would hide particular traffic patterns from an AI enabled IDS would be more plausible and something the NSA might be interested in.
A 2MB patch to remove IA64 (Itanium) support has landed on Linux-next
There have been some studies that show that muscle loss is disapportionally higher than fat loss, which would lead to worse body composition after losing weight.
Even if that's true (a big if), all we can infer is that that's what hunter / gatherer societies seem to naturally coalesce around. It's not what modern society is coalescing around. Some folks take that as a sign that modern society is fundamentally flawed, but I'd rather be born as a random person in modern society than a random person in a pre-historical hunter gatherer society. Perhaps that's just my bias towards modernity though.
That didn't apply to books, plans for movies and the multi media franchise are faster now, discussions on day time TV might be manipulated with largely false controversy to imply parents should read all this stuff, etc.

That being said, I don't see much connection between the G/PG blockbuster related adult readers and the coming-of-age book auditors.
The session playback looks useful - I find this is missing from many DD alternatives I have seen.
Depending who you ask, CD stands for one of two things: Continuous _Deployment_ or Continuous _Delivery_ and they're not actually the same thing.

Want to go camping? You go on Amazon and order a tent. An Amazon truck _delivers_ it to you. Not the same as deployment. Deployment is when you pitch the tent.

Argo CD and Flux are great at Deployment. "Make this run in my cluster."

Neither of them addresses the other need -- delivery -- getting artifacts from point A to point B with adequate quality gates, etc. along the way.
Same. My A1C went down 1.5 points (7.9 -> 6.5) after I went on Ozempic with minimal behavior changes. I've also had trouble getting prescriptions filled because it's the hot new weight loss drug.
Why does the phone number thing bother you? You're far less anonymous with any other messenger because they centralize metadata about you.

Signal is private, not anonymous. The only info someone can get from Signal, even if they have your phone, is "a person with this phone number uses Signal". That shouldn't be particularly sensitive info in most countries.
Yeah, after reading the link you posted above, I get what you're talking about. Fully agree. I should be able to select any arbitrary notification and enable repeated alerts for it. Not just calls or texts or whatever, but anything that's important to me not to miss.
This longer-term support, while still not as long as I'd like it, I'd a big part of why I switched from Android for the device I mostly use. I still keep a few de-crapified/de-bloated Android phones for audiobooks, music files, and as a KDE Connect controller for a media PC, largely thanks to F-Droid, but the security updates on this hand-me-down iPhone give me some peace of mind.

If/when this XR dies or is no longer supported and another old-but-good gift phone is not in the works I'll probably look for a cheap-enough, good-enough Android and stop paying for Apple One. As I get older and the desire for novelty is replaced by the expectation of consistency and reliability for communication, information (a web browser), and a decent camera, I just want this device that I'm used to to keep working.
The premise of cloud computing is click and click ... and you magically have a fully operational database up and running without ever thinking about the important bits like scaling and storage, because that's all managed away for you (as a example).

That's what I mean with that.

Funny thing is that you can easily do that on your own hardware using a solution such as KubeDB just as well these days, after you get through the pain of getting Kubernetes on bare metal operational.
Why not do it like Blender:
just autosave into some software directory, have the possibility to restore on crash, have the possibility to restore the last n autosaves from disk and add a setting for how many to save etc in the options.
> many apps really only work if they get your full contacts list

Too bad for those apps. They should be able to work whether I have 1000 contacts, 0 contacts, or any number in between.

If they want to have a cool feature like alerting me when a friend joins, they are more than welcome to persuade me to provide my full contacts list so I get the most out of a feature.
That would be an interesting thing to do actually. Since the banana just goes bad and squishy what you'd be left with is a cool banana-shaped wireframe to hang from the ceiling in a tropical bungalow

I might actually do this
Why not use the Find my F-35 app?
Hi - good questions.

In general I think some privacy concerns are valid and others are not. Specifically I believe government surveillance is problematic and I wish there were more visibility and restrictions on it.

I do believe many companies are collecting data for reasons other than advertising. For example CRM tools (eg Salesforce) have heaps of personal information their customers store with them for a bunch of different reasons. It's really complex for them to comply with these laws - even though they aren't doing any advertising.
How I wish Apple's core apps weren't tied to the OS. Apple Music needs a ground up redesign so badly. It's not quite as bad as it used to be, but it's such a core part of the iOS experience, and it really feels like they put in the minimum they could get away with.

Just look at this: https://www.apple.com/v/ios/ios-17/a/images/overview/music/p...
C&C games were among my earliest forays into modding. It was so easy with the whole game wrapped up in an ini file, and so much fun to muck with stuff.
In a world where our jobs and entire careers are based on "impact" and "fulfilment" I think this an interesting question to ask about someone who's had the impact he's had as in I don't know anyone who hasn't heard of ChatGPT.
Yes we are probably trending that way, but I don't see how that's a bad thing. The bad thing is that rural and smaller cities were not able to compete thrive. In the end the centralization of the economy will only increase productivity, but if you want to keep them alive you need to invest in them to justify their existence. We should not be going out of our way to keep them alive, unless they have specific national interests.
Spotify… poor, we don’t fairly pay the artists, Spotify.

Don’t like the market? Build one. Don’t like the devices? Build one.

Don’t like Apple’s walled garden? Build your own.

Just like the federal judge told Epic: ‘The marketplace allows you to build a competing service, do so. Also, you signed a contract. Heed it.’
Look at all that * space *
1970s Sci-fi Novel about rival AIs turning on humans
The only details we're asking for is your email so we don't get spammed/botted by people taking advantage of a publicly hosted LLM endpoint. We're not using your personal details for anything.
I don't disagree with you on targeted attacks, but if you're creating output at scale then I'd say there's marginally more risk.

It's possible there's some minimum amount of poisoned data (a % or log function of a given dataset size n) that would then translate to generating a vulnerable output in x% of total outputs. If x is low enough to get past fine tuning/regression testing but high enough to still occur within the deployment space, then you've effectively created a new category of supply-chain attack.

There's probably more research that needs to be done into occurrence rate of poisoned data showing up in final output, and that result is likely specific to the AI model and/or version.
It's written in english. The prompt that is.

Langchain and Langchain.rb are both using this prompt to get the LLM to do what they want. You can build an app in anything and that is great news!
This could be huge for healthcare companies like Metriport [1] - do you sign BAAs with customers for HIPAA compliance?

[1] https://github.com/metriport/metriport
It's interesting that this is a classroom assignment, like the sibling comment, I'd curious which university / class this was. I did the read part (+ query planning) on my own as an exercise, but I haven't gotten around to implementing writing yet.

You do need to parse DDL to get the column names, they're stored as a "CREATE TABLE" string. But you don't have to if you want to dump the file without names.

https://github.com/dunhamsteve/sqljs
Czech has around 10M speakers world wide. It sucks that they don't have solid predictions, but there are languages with massively more linguistic footprint that will end up prioritized.

Without putting too fine a point on it, I can tell you from direct experience that while it might seem that purely statistical methods are sufficient for predictive text, one of the problems is that you're building those models (whether using neural nets or pure stat models) from a body of text that is fraught with peril and the details matter.

There's really basic stuff like profanity and other offensive constructs (see all the jokes about google suggestion auto-complete where sexist, racist, and otherwise offensive suggestions get tons of attention), then there's the problem of source languages often having a clear shift in acceptable completions for entirely different reasons.

The euphemism treadmill in US English are an obvious and continuing expense, but consider whether USSR-era Czech texts, which are substantial, would be a safe bet in training a completion system.
Isn't the CLI already available though? I recall reading that it was made available in Windows 10.
If the project comes close to linear.app's platform UI responsiveness - wouldn't be a bad thing.
Disappointment [pdf]
i invested in their republic.co fundraising: https://republic.com/terraformation

but then did more research, because i've been interested in forestry for a while and was geniunely curious and wanted to understand my investment more.

i pulled my investment once i learned that these sort of projects don't actually work. terraformation targets land in areas that aren't meant to be forests. also decided to pull it because i don't completely understand the space. (sure, "planting trees will solve climate change" seems easy enough and makes me feel good because "i'm planting trees!" but nah, not really, let's maybe rethink this...this is coming from somebody who spends a lot of time in the woods and finds trees to be an important part of my life.)

this person researches this space: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DbjysqUAAAAJ&hl=en

this is one of the bigger studies: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...
Wasm changes nothing here. Your docker image will have exact same problems as wasm file. If some service preloads 10GB of data and takes 2 mins to start, wasm alone won't magically make it better, smaller or faster.

> 30+ lambdas all hooked together in confusing ways.

You can use localstack to run them locally, but tooling definitely sucks either way.
I tried it but the biggest problem I have with Tiddlywiki is the layout: the 'tiddler' box is too small. And changing the layout is not easy.
That's scary in so many ways.

I assume you can operate the insulin pump without any app? Or do you depend on a functional smartphone on-hand?

Does the pump itself not have built-in safety features that the app shouldn't be a critical component?
We should have both! If you hover over a property value, a magnify/plus icon come up to allow you to search on that property value (no manual facets required) - and our traces all come with delicious flame graphs :) Let me know if you were thinking of something different.

One other thing I think you'd love if you're coming from Datadog is that you're able to full text search on structured logs as well, so even if the value you're looking for lives in a property, it's still full text searchable (this is a huge pain we hear from other Datadog users)

If there's anything you love/hate about Datadog - would love to learn more!
I got that and I was trying to answer in the least sarcastic way I could. I’ll try again.

Autopilot isn’t an all knowing AI that is better at dealing with emergency than a pilot. In the region of flight that involves a pilot ejection, especially in a plane like the F-35, the “autopilot” that would be created that could successfully scout a target area that was safe to crash in, eject the pilot, then somehow move the plane to that area with the canopy off the plane and the degradation of control that would involve, plus the million issues that could have caused the ejection in the first place… it’s not plausible to create this and still have a pilot. You’re talking about a system that is a better aviator, with more SA and more detail about aircraft systems than the human at the stick.

So, first, I don’t think we’re there with AI that is better than the pilot in this region of flight, second, to make that would be so expensive as to be ridiculous, for the incredibly rare event that a military plane needs to eject over a populated area yet also has a safe area like a body of water to crash into. Third, making that system would negate the need for a pilot in the first place so again, what’s the point?

I get the thought, but it’s silly.
I'd like to know the food logistics for sailing around the world. Would they have a crew that procures bulk ingredients like fruit, rice, and such and make them meals 3x a day?
> which apply to all "businesses."

It only applies to businesses that make over $25 mil, or that are in the business of selling user data.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Consumer_Privacy_Ac...)
We had a couple of labs of sparcstations that just went away a couple of times a year because something bad would happen with all of the NFS mounted partitions and they'd have to turn the cluster on one box at a time to prevent thundering herd issues with NFS.

I think they may have been mounting parts of /etc as well. People get the idea that managing accounts for a cluster of boxes should be centralized. It's all fun and games until the network mount disappears.
I'm in this boat at the moment. Married, 2 kids, no close friends.

I work from home, my university pals moved away, I can't relate to my neighbours, and remote work colleagues are equally distant to meet up.

I've tried online making friends only groups, but it's full of leching men going after young women, or people who again due to age or intellect, I can't relate to.

Actual groups outside of the house (e.g. hack spaces) are too far away or have awkward hours.

So what's left to do?
The assets available for download within the OpenRA client are stored freeware releases OpenRA hosts. EA freeware'd the three base games back in 2008. OpenRA does prompt if you want to provide your own discs to load your licensed assets if that's preferred.

https://cnc.fandom.com/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Red_Alert#c... (referenced EA news link dead, doesn't look like archive.ph has a clean snap)
https://www.openra.net/legal/
You realize that this experiment is basically our proposal translated to Rust? Also I wonder why it is an issue that N3005 is still a draft? Rust also does not have an ISO standard.
I hope it keeps its blazing-fast startup. I regularly used Paint instead of Photoshop on a system where I had both because Paint starts instantly but Photoshop took a bit.
Oh my god, please yes. It acts like it thinks “its” is never correct (except when turning “it’d”, which, admittedly, is rather slangish, to “it’s”) with the result that it causes more harm than good. It’d be an improvement to simply make it ignore that pair of words and never try to correct either, versus the current behavior.
I mean what if I want to outsource payroll to say Equifax?

That would require sharing private data about employees with Equifax so that they're able to handle paying them.

Or if I want to ship a package to somebody; can I not give a 3rd party (DHL) the recipients address?

I like your idea but I think it needs some refinement. Perhaps just a time restriction; although I'm sure DHL would love to keep a photo proving that the package was delivered for a year.
MANPADs can't even shoot at a jet because they're flying too high. There's only so much rocket propellant you can put onto a shoulder-mounted device that humans have to carry around.

If you're only guarded by MANPADs, then a traditional bomber will blast your position repeatedly. The MANPADs are really there to deal with low-flying aircraft (A10 and Helicopters).

EDIT: I guess the AC-130 cruises at high speeds, but since its gun-based it has to drop relatively low... 7000 ft or less, which might open it up to MANPADs.

But the lower your aircraft, the more at risk vs MANPADs. Helicopters and A10 are probably the worst off since they're far lower to the ground than even an AC-130.

Furthermore, the AC-130 has the AN/AAR-44 Missile Approach Warning Systems, and a _TON_ of flares to misdirect missiles like a MANPAD. The A10 doesn't have nearly as many flares and is therefore far more vulnerable.

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Anyway, CAS are vulnerable to MANPADs (be it A10 or AC-130) because of their mission type.

But jet fighters and fighter-bombers, like the F35 or F16 (or at least, fighters that can play the fighter-bomber role) fly too high and too fast to ever be hit by a MANPAD. They're only worried about the bigger missiles who have enough propulsion to actually reach 10,000+ feet.
> Same with electric cars.

I mean, electric cars were a thing. Not a big thing. But nonetheless. And FSD is to me a lot less impressive than implied. And on FSD, he has repeatedly well, failed to deliver - "this year, coast to coast, no interventions" is something he's said each and every year since 2016. And it still runs in to the back of stationary emergency lighted vehicles. Until last year it could barely handle roundabouts. It saw level crossings as a weird intersection with a light that was red, and then not, and then red again, with a collection of trucks crossing it.
Most of us condone murder? That doesn’t sound right. Are you missing a “do not”?
Genuinely curious: what's a use case for dual SIM? Different countries? Separation from personal and business? Something else?
Read the headline and thought... they did this in Windows 2000. But they are not talking about UpdateLayeredWindow.
Traditional Unix conflates authentication and authorization - if you can authenticate as a user you are authorized to use the computer, full stop. If you want to later revoke authorization, or only authorize certain services but not others, Unix provides no general means to do so.

Scrambling the password works as a deauthorization mechanism solely because you strip the user of the ability to authenticate. This wouldn't clear authorized_keys, though; services that needed to implement new authentication mechanisms generally did not bother extending /etc/shadow or NSS in an obvious way everyone agreed upon.

Changing the login shell used to work because Unix used to be used solely through the medium of /bin/sh. This, however, conflates two different signals:

- Who should be allowed to start an interactive session on this machine?

- What kind of shell does this user prefer to use?

We pretend that disabled users just really love using this one particular shell that immediately kicks them out of their login session.

The only bulletproof way to deauthorize a user is to unperson them - delete the account. Except if you do this then their old files still sit there on the disk with their user ID. If you reuse the user ID then the new user gains authorization to the old user's files; so you have to keep track of unpersons to avoid reusing their IDs or meticulously reassign their files to a dedicated cleanup user.
This would surprise me since the primary reason a body stores excess fat is to be used for energy when needed. Then, the moment of need arrives and the body burns mostly muscle? Citation would be appreciated.
Anytime something like this happens, wouldn't they have seismic sensors that would detect a crash of this size?

I can't see one of these things going down softly once pilot ejects unless it had some kind of drone mode, in which case god help us who knows where it is?