skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's actually another possible approach to blocking SolarWinds style hacks that doesn't require pervasive sandboxing. Sandboxing is very hard with the current set of primitives operating systems expose, e.g. macOS doesn't expose low level sandboxing primitives as a documented API at all, Windows barely has a sandboxing API, Linux has several but they're all extremely low level and complicated.

That other approach is to rely on confidential computing technologies, in particular, the remote attestation capabilities of Intel SGX and AMD SEV. These technologies are often associated with DRM or multi-party computation, but they can be used in a different way. In this alternative use case you statically attach a remote attestation to a piece of data as a signature of computation.

A signature of computation is a proof that a piece of data was derived by running a specific program with a specific input. If that program is deterministic, and has been verified by yourself or a third party, then it means the correctness of the transform can be mechanically verified in such a way that it's much harder to hack. In particular if you use SGX then root exploits on the machine doing the computation won't help the attacker due to the hardware level protections. If you use SEV it's harder but can AFAIK still be done with some specialized OS hacking.

Concretely this means that a shipped software artifact could come with a signature proving not only the identity of the developers, as is the case today, but that those files were produced using a known third party compiler and linker applied to e.g. a source tree at a specific git commit hash. Because those files can be verified by anyone including the developers themselves, it means that a compromised CI system is very limited in what it can do: every file has a cryptographic proof tracing it backwards to the input source tree, which in turn is replicated independently on developer's workstations and laptops so it can be checked by many semi-independent actors. And for extra value the company can hire a third party auditor who verifies that the source code at hash X does in fact meet the vendor's description of what it does.

I've experimented with this sort of approach in the past, but unfortunately CC as a tech gets sort of repeatedly stuck in the domain gap between low level systems programmers and the kind of wideband ecosystem building you need to deliver genuine business value. People aren't aware of what it can do or how to use it.

Also, this approach has a subtle side effect: it means the compiler is now a valid target for attack. For example if source code can corrupt compiler internals sufficiently to inject code, then you could potentially cause a miscompile that invalidates the proof. One solution for that is to use memory-safe compilers but the only one I know of is Graal.
> I'm amazed at how professional and finished Blender is for being an open source project.

I'm amazed at how much prejudice people still have about open source projects.
> horses "didn't complain" when cars were invented

It's not that often a member of the executive class forgets themselves and says the quiet part this loudly: to them, we are livestock.
In Poland there is no checkbox on a tax forms to say "you've dealt with crypto", but every transaction over 10K EUR is reported to the gov, and when I was a UK tax resident with a Polish bank account my Polish bank asked for my UK tax info to send the details of any such transactions to HMRC in the UK. I suspect it's an EU wide thing.

I'm not sure why these 48 countries single out crypto assets like this. You can evade taxes by buying gold, heck, there were schemes that bought tons of steel, mobile phones, anything of value.

To me it all seems like just pandering to "crypto=bad" crowd.
In a same way as a paddle boat is a war ship…

Yeah, it’s cool, but there’s bazillion things needed for a space station. Just a metal tube in the orbit isn’t sufficient.
Here is the heart of our disagreement:

> perform computations

Brain doesn’t perform computations in any CS accepted sense (neither it is a turing machine nor it has any encoded program to execute any defined algorithm).

It processes information, yes. But anything more specific than that is full of unknowns, unconfirmed hypothesis and speculations.

Would you call an ants colony a computer? A tree? A government? But they all obviously processes information and seemingly perform computations, don’t they?
It's not difficult at all. This is 2023, we have spreadsheets, lol. You just generate a list of all transactions and losses/gains. Active traders have been doing this one way or another for a century now with stocks and derivatives.

If cryptocurrency was actually used for purchasing goods/services it would be more tricky.
> The worst dev on my team uses ChatGPT a lot, and its facilitated him producing more bad code more quickly.

This is great. The exact same is true with writing, which I think it's trivial for anyone to see. Especially non-native speakers or otherwise bad writers can now write long-winded nonsense, which we're starting to see all over. It hasn't made anyone a good writer, it's just helped bad ones go faster.
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Seems like they've traded the recent full-on system-wide outages for distributed intermittent failures. IMO they've rolled the updates out before they were fully ready. This is what happens when you use ChatGPT to write your scripts!
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FWIW I didn't wave away the entire concept. LLMs definitely have uses.
I'd actually hope that it leads to fewer, larger satellites that it's practical to go up and repair. At least with a bit of regulatory oversight and some international treaties once this model suddenly becomes feasible with Starship.
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I do have bigger concerns personally over the space debris issue that isn't resolved just yet.

I would prefer some contingency plan so that were not stuck here because Elon decided to go fast and break things...
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Because we found out it was bullshit.
California is a lot bigger than your comment suggests.

At 425,000 km^2 it is almost as large as all of France (552,000).

There's about 700km of California north of Cupertino.

And it is a 500km drive from Cupertino to Hollywood.
In this highly competetive market we're currently more focused on things that we can do better like on-premises and embedding/API.

DocuSeal doesn't require any significant initial costs to be built - and then it comes only to our ability to build a great product to come over the competitors.

Regarding the compliance we're focused on simple eIDAS signatures for the EU and also we follow the UETA and the ESIGN Act.
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Oh, no, that's not true at all. An invention might not even be possible, let alone having a clear and (literally, provably) correct specification of inputs and outputs. Just seeing that it exists, to say nothing of getting the correct proportion of inputs and outputs, could shave a decade off your invention cycle.

Take, for example, the nuclear bomb. Just knowing that it could be done put you ten steps ahead. What if cold fusion or a warp drive were known to be possible because you could see it (even if from a great distance with little detail)? Airplane manufacturers leapt ahead (literally) after the Wright Brothers.

A tremendous amount of effort for worthy inventions is often involved simply in proving that it can be done. Once you know it can be done, you don't have to prove it anymore, and also large companies will throw buckets of money at a clone of something that's proven to work.

A patent (sometimes) prevents that -- at least, when everything is working as it should be. (In this case, clearly not!)
How much is this monthly premium? We are talking about 50USD, 500USD, more?

If you don’t know how much monthly insurance premiums are, you probably shouldn’t be arguing about the topic?
That's the traditional Mac way. e.g. historically you would "pull down" on the menu bar at the top of the screen. You would click and hold, and slide the mouse down, releasing the button to choose an item. If you were to just click on a menu, it would quickly open and close again. I want to say it's typical for Linux desktop environments to open contest menus on mouse down, as well, but don't recall offhand.

Blender dates back to 1994, when many modern conventions weren't really a thing yet (Windows 95 didn't even exist)...and they have put a lot of time into modernizations in recent years. Back when I was dabbling in Blender, in the early 2000s, Ctrl+S was the keyboard shortcut for "erase everything and create a new scene."
And somehow you extrapolate from "meeting with politicians and border patrols" to shooting migrants from space?
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Tiktok has been scrutinised so much that if they were showing "brainwashing content" to Western children we would've heard about it already.
absolutely not, in the real world you work with constraints and you can make simplifying assumptions.

"How large can the file potentially be" would be my first question. Depending on the size I might even throw sqlite, an RDBMS, or even a full text search engine at the problem. Or I might not, it depends on the actual scenario.

But if your description is to keep it simple I'm going to do that in good faith.
Promising project, but keyboard internationalization is a mess. It's unusable for those using non-English keyboard layouts.

https://github.com/lapce/lapce/issues/2244

https://github.com/lapce/lapce/issues/1094

https://github.com/lapce/lapce/issues/1689

https://github.com/lapce/lapce/issues/2731
yeah I find all of this pretty strange, because Musk was very much adored by the left leaning people before he started his cultural war. Around 2016-2017 he was still the cool guy even on Reddit. I find this whole political circus slightly unnecessary and I believe he got himself few doors closed by this.
The satellites are equipped so that they can not only correct their orbit themselves, but also deorbit whenever SpaceX decides that it is their end of life, rather than just be abandoned.
We had a guy like this on our team last year. He never said he was autistic, but in my opinion he was pretty far over on the spectrum. He was a very smart guy and a prolific developer, but absolutely terrible to work with. He would argue endlessly with everyone about everything. Often he was right, but unfortunately even when he was wrong he almost never backed down.

Ultimately he was unable/unwilling to change his ways. Several team members got themselves transferred to other teams just to avoid working with this guy before he ultimately ended up leaving our company to return to his old job. I suspect he had himself a nice window-sitter R&D position where he could work without interacting with anyone.

I wish him the best, but I absolutely would never work with him again.

Oh, I guess I have no advice for you.
What are your favorite interview questions for people who assume management roles as these?
There’s so much more than that though. You need to build your own accessibility tree and hooks into the OS’s assistive tech infrastructure just for a start.
Google is basically acknowledging they don’t want and or care about portfolio/small utility/first time project apps on their store. This obviously isn’t a great look, especially when both companies nominally support educational and vocational efforts around app development. IMO, onus is on these companies to resolve the inherent contradiction here.

That said, it might be the right move. Despite some FUD in the comments that this will hinder indie devs or prevent the next Flappy Bird, such claims seem a bit exaggerated. Also, overcoming obstacles is part of the challenge of app development so if somehow this relatively low bar is the line too far…good riddance. Anecdotally, I’ve interviewed quite a few mobile developers with clear resume projects who then claim they’ve “published multiple apps to the [Play/App] store”; almost universally these candidates acknowledge without much pressing that said apps are unmaintained bitrot or even delisted due to some other unmet requirement anyhow.

I suppose the best argument is the same mentality that leads to spam on the store could be used to get around the 20 tester limit. Sure, but I’d expect that Google expects at least meaningful improvement even with malevolent actors, as that’s the new normal with such mitigations in any online marketplace these days.
I didn’t even know Nepal had Muslims.
And, further, Engels is just paraphrasing Hegel.
Android is great for reach, otherwise much more trouble than its worth
How to use generative AI for historical research: Four real-world case studies
Multiple bathrooms in houses is a relatively modern thing. And it's the sort of thing that's often hard to retrofit. So houses that are otherwise desirable may otherwise be short of bathrooms by modern standards.
No. If the code generated by chatgpt cannot even pass the unit test it generates in the same response (or is just completely wrong) and requires significant amount of human work to fix it, it is not usable AI.

That's what I am running into on an everyday basis.

I don't want my program to be full of bugs.
> The difference is that Starship is so cheap it makes both of those options feasible. Shuttle's reusability was supposed to make it cheap, but it ended up costing $1.5 billion per flight.

But that's exactly what people believed about the space shuttle before it launched as well. Let's wait to see Starship actually work before predicting it will be enormously cheap. As it stands, that cheapness is entirely predicated on a completely unrealistic level of reusability (multiple launches per day with the same rocket, when even Falcon 9 requires weeks or months between launches of the same rocket).
I've never seen a pharmacy that works like that, they most likely just told you that because they didn't want to do the extra work rebilling. Or it's a CVS only thing, which would be pretty messed up considering they run their own insurance company and pbm.
Not easier to handle, though. Keeping methane in a tank or moving it across some distance is fairly straightforward, as the problems regarding natural gas storage and transportation were solved a long time ago.

Hydrogen is notoriously tricky to even keep in one place, much less pipe across some distance.
>Add complexity...

You aren't adding complexity, you're changing the situation entirely.

The BBC threw things away. they meant to throw things away, because they didn't value them. If you throw my phone away, that doesn't mean I don't value it. If you throw a phone with nudes on, that you don't want people to see, then you obviously value your privacy and shouldn't have thrown your phone away with nudes on.

At some point you have to take responsibility for your own actions.

>What? How is that even remotely comparable? Had they sold it obviously it changes everything. Maybe even with clauses on how it's allowed to be shared and so on

My point is, if you sold a phone with nudes on you probably wouldn't want people looking at them.

So the 'morality' of that is independent of how the phone was gained.

On the other hand, if the BBC sold the tapes, there wouldn't be an issue.

So the comparison is flawed. One is an issue of how the item was obtained, one is an issue of what was on the item.
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I’d trust an American publicly traded company over an arm of the CCP any day.
It’s a personal incentivising thing. If you do that you can pay yourself on the back for, well, nothing.
Writing jobs will be ending in the near future, unless you are famous/well-known. My company does all ad-copy and most of their writing using AI now. We replaced at least 5 jobs in the past year.
Yes, consider the cost of securing the ~11000 mile perimeter of the united states
While I agree on the sexuality part of this and I do wish that wasn’t a problem on the App Store.

I disagree with this.

There are a lot of situations where an app is unnecessary. I feel like we have too many situations where it could just be a website.

But if I am going to download an app I prefer the App Store. Especially if it’s an app that I need to spend money on/with.
The prompt:

Article: {{ARTICLE}}

You will generate increasingly concise, entity-dense summaries of the above Article.

Repeat the following 2 steps 5 times.

Step 1. Identify 1-3 informative Entities (";" delimited) from the Article which are missing from the previously generated summary.

Step 2. Write a new, denser summary of identical length which covers every entity and detail from the previous summary plus the Missing Entities.

Although this appears to refer to a "previous" summary, from a previous run, would would appear to suggest it is run anew for each iteration, in fact it generates an "Initial Summary:" on the first run, and generates a Step 1 and Step 2.

For me though, it stops there. I can, however, simply say:

repeat again

And it does another Step 1 and Step 2, and stops.

I will note that the third iteration, on an article such as ...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/payments-ap...

... is indeed increasingly superior each iteration. By the third iteration (the fourth summary), it did seem ideal. The fourth iteration and fifth summary added entities that feel extraneous.
What a bizarre comment to make
It's also a rocket launch, which is commonly accompanied by a countdown.

It was also pretty common to have that countdown broadcast over the radio, as many people would show up just to watch the rocket launch. Even without a radio broadcast, it'd be as simple as a walkie talkie inside the control room and another with the filming team.

This shows up on the internet every few months, and I'm still astounded by how much attention it gets. It is not nearly as remarkable as portrayed.
> ...Unless people bought in the relatively short peaks...

That's a bit minimalistic, no? The "short peak" of $50-60k (around 50-100% more than the current value) lasted something like 6 months AFAIK? To be a store of value, you would hope those fluctuations would be nonexistant.

Store of value should be for everyone, not just the unlucky ones...
No one developer gets paid €134k/month in Europe. Average salary is probably more like €65k/year across the EU.
Hmm, maybe you could write to Engels to tell him just how unimpressed you are?
> and X will collect real-time information about what people are currently talking about

I really well hope this won't happen. I don't want any observations or conclusions from the environment that is predominantly shitposting, thirst trapping and provoking.
I assume the problem here is Iridium's airtime rates are some of the highest in the world for being a pole-to-pole satellite system. OEMs are balking at whatever rates Iridium is throwing them that they then have to pass onto consumers making it an inelegant cost to eat all around.

Globalstar, being a North American system and designed fairly more simply than Iridium, has a significant cost advantage for low cost burst data that makes it appealing for Apple to be able to offer at little to low cost.

Both of these systems have their own technical baggage in protocols and standards that make it slightly more complex to integrate in the first place.

Meanwhile, companies like Skylo are starting to hit the ground running with their bent-pipe 3GPP NTN deployment (which is, essentially, 5GNR/LTE with extra satellite extensions) and I think we're going to see more a pivot to NTN-style tech.
On the long term, anthropological warfare is a clever idea... but it's probably a little too optimistic to think you can implement with just one app. The CCP/tiktok hysteria feels overblown to me - public education is what constituents should feel concerned about.
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> 500, even in 1995, is a token amount of money to the representatives.

In the post-soviet countries (many of them now in EU), you can't imagine how much you can "get done" by "gifting" the right person a bottle of their favourite poison - which costs a token amount by almost any standard (like, high school pocket money).

My point is that these are two names for the same thing, an attempt to justify the "rules for you but not for us" on the moral spectrum. Microsoft can launder open source code with generative AI, but don't you dare even look at their sources.

Same shit, dressed pretty.
You should, it’s a country trying to normalize authoritarian governments.
You would never even get agreement on what more prudently means.
> I know the real cynical answer is that most people just don’t report correctly, but I’m curious how you’d do it if you wanted to be legit.

If you want to follow the letter of the law, you need to consider each and every transaction in calculating your cost basis, converting to USD at each step. The latter is particularly problematic as it’s possible to transact in something that does not have a clear USD price.

So the usual approach is that people just make up numbers, hopefully using some consistent methodology, and pray/hope/beg that if they get audited it’ll be enough to appease the IRS.

Not having any standard way of getting the details is another problem. If each and every transaction is not recorded at the time of execution, good luck trying to get that detail back again.
I love it. Though I'm really going to miss seeing screen grabs of Big Buck Bunny as the placeholder image in media-adjacent projects.
That's how drawing apps like Concept and Infinite Painter are priced. Free download, no sign up, several good features in the basic version.

There are IAPs to unlock brushes and other things, and a small fee to buy everything. I believe I paid $15 one-time to get everything for Infinite Painter.
Hard to fathom the damage to society that Elon could do if we funnel 10% of our defense budget through his companies.
I should have picked something other than the worst job imaginable. It came to mind because it was very hard labor.
Well, to be honest, for Grindavik we could currently be talking about a Pre-Apocalyptic situation :)
That was literally over 20 years ago. The majority of Blender's development has taken place while it was open-source; most of the features it's known for did not exist in the commercial version.
The four listed in the complaint were mentioned as examples of who they imitated. They could have stopped at three examples, the sports teams had three examples while the bands had one. The inclusion of Burton was almost certainly because the lawyer is a fan.
How can you tell if a photo is AI generated?
That's a incorrect and biased piece of sentence. Over 60 apps were banned initially, some before the skirmishes and some after. Kindly do not spread biased political propaganda.
> AI-generated risk scores were then presented to medics for 744 patients, with 45% having their treatment plans altered by medics as a result.

I don't understand how they measured if the 45% changes were for the better or the worse.
Seriously, burn it all. Nothing good has come out of any of it.
It's at 0.3, cut them some slack.
I was thinking about the shot by the crew doing Firefighters documentary. That shot of the first plane crashing is to me the best timed TV shot, even though it's for the wrong reasons.
It's a different development approach.

NASA with SLS spent a much longer time and much more money to build ONE rocket, which HAD to succeed. It uses well-established technology and pushes few boundaries.

SpaceX philosophy is to build fast, launch, and iterate on unproven, innovative ideas.
20 seems pretty low. I'd be very, very nervous about releasing any software that only had 20 beta testers. I am disappointed to hear that there is such a problem with apps being inadequately tested.

But how is Google going to enforce this?