skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From experience, I would agree that the first thing activists who wish to take over a group will do is to behave badly, and then use this as the pretext to demand a Code of Conduct.

They will then subvert the spirit of the CoC, while adhering legalistically to the letter, in order to control others. They allows them divert a topic into pointless discussion of the rules, or to needle someone persistently, while remaining within the rules, until that person reacts, at which point they will insist that he has violated the CoC.
I clicked the link after reading just the first 4 words of the title. I didn't see the year it was written until I had closed the link - perhaps it was added after the initial submission.

After reading the article through I was struck by the tone. It was a breath of fresh air - so optimistic and enthusiastic and not in the least bit self-important or unduly serious. It made me excited to read more!

When I saw the '(2009)' flag I suddenly felt a pang of grief. Whatever happened to that infectious, enthusiastic incarnation of wired magazine?
Your comment isn’t responsive to what I wrote. I was making a very narrow point responding to the phrase “Legally you can make personal backups…” by pointing out that you frequently cannot legally make those backups. Whether it’s possible and whether you’re likely to face consequences have no bearing on it's legality.
US retail lobbyists retract key claim on 'organized' retail crime
What if all inboxes were public, but only decryptable by the recipient? Recipient can then poll for new messages.
StableDiffusionSafetyChecker
It could simply also be that their inpainting model is quite bad at certain things, and replacing a person's head produces consistently bad results. Hiding the problem could simply be easier than fixing it.
Classic: Thinking less to do more: Dev Tool Time with ThePrimeagen
The game that broke MAME (and almost me)
It needs to be repeated endlessly.

Im sure they will deliver a great api for this ai then change it in a way that breaks everything.

You will fix yours I will delete mine. I will feel dumb. You will improve your life again and again basically 20+ times. Enjoy!
Metals, Amyloid Beta and Alzheimer's Disease
The problem is that 99% of people will never read the TOS, period. South Park said it best in "Human Cent-iPad"
The Marion Stokes VHS tape collection was sent to the Internet Archive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Stokes
I am not sure why you compare PS5 sales to Steam Deck, Playstation is a brand that has been around from the 90s, has been advertised left and right, and so is known in every angle of the world, and are not even the same format/segment, I'd compare Steam Deck sales to ASUS Rog Ally if anything, since they've been around for pretty much the same and have been advertised as much?
ORMs and NoSQL were a direct result of the desire to have an object-oriented data worldview in a programming landscape dominated by OO languages. They were not introduced because programmers didn’t want to learn SQL (implying incompetence etc).
The courts have power, the companies know it and behave accordingly.

Everything you are saying is only true for two guys in a garage. The folks with something to lose don't behave in this dreamworld fashion.
Possibly related: Meta is removing cross-platform chats between Instagram and Messenger [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38528306
I've only kicked the tires, not used it in anger.

The tutorials are fairly accessible:
https://cljdoc.org/d/missionary/missionary/b.33/doc/readme/t...

In a recent London Clojurians talk, the author Leo Noel explained Electric can be thought of as a frontend for Missionary. Rama is by a different team (RPL), but agreed, their philosophies are similar.
Heroic Launcher is a lot more polished
Is it a true EE2E where data at rest in the Facebook server remains encrypted and keys held only by the sender/receiver? I didn't think so.
> a) remorse for the dumb thing he said (he says it is probably the worst mistake he has made)

This is the same interview where he told the advertisers he needs for revenue to go fuck themselves. I don't think the remorse is genuine.

> Yes, when people try to limit what you say (beyond the law) then it is natural to be upset about it.

I also feel that Disney is limiting what I say by not giving me millions in ad revenue. That's just the reality I have to live with though.

Most people have all kinds of practical limitations on what they can say. I can't tell my boss to go fuck himself and still put food on the table. Joe Biden can't tell the American public to go fuck themselves and still get elected. I'm not sure why Elon feels entitled to be uniquely free from consequences for his utterances.
I setup codeql locally to do some simple taint analysis recently. I found the tooling very powerful but quite complex to use. Updating the codeql database after making code changes was quite slow as well which made it harder to do incremental analysis.Can't imagine the complexities involved with quantum computing code analysis.
I'm interested in the question: why does Bitcoin use water? Apparently some of the water comes from cooling power plants, but a lot of the water usage comes from hydroelectric power. From the study the WSJ article is based on:

> Iran’s high reliance on natural gas for electricity production lowers the water footprint of its mining activities in comparison to countries like Canada and Norway where water-intensive energy sources like hydropower have a more significant role than Iran.

Depending on the source, using hydroelectric power is not really a waste of water. For instance, another WSJ article linked from TFA [0] talks about using hydroelectric power from the Niagra river. At night, there is often surplus energy generated by hydroelectric power plants along the river. Both Canada and New York have pumped storage hydroelectric plants to handle the excess power generated at night from both hydroelectric plants like the ones along the Niagra river as well as nuclear power plants. And still there is excess power at night. You're actually doing the state of New York a favor if you can put excess night time electricity to use.

0: https://archive.ph/y3CFt
There is a middle ground between the massive decrepit zombie studios, and indie. Larian, Grinding Gear Games, Remedy, Valve, and CD Project red are still admirable studios that release mostly masterpieces and are clearly passionate about their product as an art form. Valve and CD project red might have a few caveats, but overall still nailing it if they're capable of HL:Alyx and what Cyberpunk2077 is as of right now. You can't make things of that caliber without being great.
I didn't realize bitcoin used some sort of hydrolytic reaction that destroys water.
Sony and the AP Complete Testing of Advanced In-Camera Authenticity Technology
I think Google does a good job with the Pixel line. I believe it is likely they are the 2nd most secure consumer phones after iPhone due to their quick updates and Google's good security record. The fact that I can easily side load apps on Android make it a much better, ad free experience for me.
I've cancelled Copilot due to subscription fatigue and quickly found I can't live without one. Tried Cody and it's buggy af and just not as useful.

There's no going back from Copilot, but keen to try JB's AI. Seems one can't get a trial going using student licence tho.
Article fails to disclose Alex de Vries actually works at the DNB—the Dutch central bank. Seems to be a propaganda piece aimed at dissuading younger people from exploring alternative financial systems by tying their use to climate change. I wouldn’t expect much truth here.
Finally, a use for that drawer full of 1 GB USB drives!
None of which alters the fact that there have been multiple reported attack vectors on both Apple and Google products in the last 2 months. They can be and are hacked daily.
Gemini 1.0 Beats GPT-4 – AlphaCode 2 is better than 90% of coders [video]
This may sound wrong, but shouldn't Parents monitor their kids Phone usage in the first place?

They want privacy and they also don't want encryption?

I will report if I am aware of the problem, but what would a child know, they wouldn't even know if they are abused, they are innocent.
Parents should be responsible for their child's Phone usage. They allow their child to use social media which is full of predators, yet they don't monitor their social media account? Should parents be mindful of a their innocent child's privacy instead of security?
What choice do these voters realistically have but to allow it? What alternative is there? As a minimum they would need to be able to put their votes somewhere that would somehow "disallow it", but where would that be?

As for extra-parliamentary measures, I believe most of these are illegal and the rest of symbolical value only.

Added:

I feel sorry for those in the UK. Other former wealthy and admirable European countries seem to be on the exact same path of decline, too. I'm sure it's not due to Brexit at all; OTOH I have a feeling that I can't really explain rationally (ie. this comment box is too small) that Brexit will somehow be good for the UK on average once the transition pain is over and done with. That might be a while, though

This situation is not new, it's been a slow decline ever since Maggie and most likely long before that.
What? That's exactly what this is.
Its just going to become self aware and start spitting out photographs?

Every scenic view, every building, every proper noun in the world has already been photographed and is available online. Photographer as "capturer of things" has long been dead, and its corpse lies next to the 'realist painters' of the 1800s before the dawn of the photograph and the airbrush artists of the 50s, 60s and 70s.

However, my newborn hasn't, hot-celebrity's wardrobe last night outside the club hasn't, the winning goal of the Leaf's game hasn't, AI can't create photos of those.

And the conceptual artistic reaction to today's political climate can't, so instead of that artist taking Campbell Soup Cans and silkscreening its logo as prints, or placing the text, "Your Body is a Battle Ground" over two found stock photos of women, or perhaps an artist hiring craftspeople to create realistic sexual explicit sculptures of them having sex with an Italian porn star; an artist is just now going to ask AI to create what they are thinking as a photo, or as a 3D model.

Its going to change nothing, but be a new tool, that makes it a bit easier to create art than it has been in the last 120 years, when "Craft" no longer was defacto "Art".
std::print is coming with C++23. In the meantime, there's std::format_to. You still have to dump the output into an std::ostream, but at least you don't have to use the disgusting ostream interface directly.
> How do you determine if the webpage Google gave you is honest? Most people don't seem to care.

That's the thing that surprises me the most about these "How do you know ChatGPT is correct?" questions. They seem to expose the fact that a lot of people were taking whatever they found on the internet (sites they found on Google, Wiki pages, Reddit comments, etc.) at face value without checking into it further. Most things people find on the internet are potentially inaccurate and need to be double checked.
streams is the best evidence that C++ was an experiment. It was a sandbox to try a bunch of different language ideas.

Overloading the shift operators for this purpose is prima facie insane, and anyone who has single-stepped through a C++ "hello world" program can figure out it isn't remotely efficient, but it was certainly creative.
Agree, but the only thing more boring than American Football would be regular football. Hours of game play with maybe 2 goals is such a drag.
I really resonated with this article and ended up at the same conclusion myself, even going so far as to replace a homegrown ECS system with a relational database in the browser
Exactly, why bother at all, who are they building this for?
I compared the Steam Deck to the current market leader in console sales.
https://youtu.be/hph9OeKjg3w -- here's a video about this about a research effort to accomplish precisely this.
Microsoft Bing have same mistake, if I used your browser for chat, why you force me search first:(
Using tmpfs for MySQL/MariaDB's data directory helps tremendously. If you're using Docker natively on Linux, use `docker run --tmpfs /var/lib/mysql ...` and that'll do the trick. Only downside is each container restart is slightly slower due to having to re-init the database instance from scratch.

Tuning the database server settings can help a lot too. You can add overrides to the very end of your `docker run` command-line, so that they get sent as command-line args to the database server. For example, use --skip-performance-schema to avoid the overhead of performance_schema if you don't need it in your test/CI environment.

For MySQL 8 in particular, I've found a few additional options tend to help: --skip-log-bin --skip-innodb-adaptive-hash-index --skip-innodb-log-writer-threads

(Those don't help on MariaDB, since it already defaults to disabling the binary log and adaptive hash index; and it doesn't have separate log writer threads.)

A lot of other options may be workload-specific. My product Skeema [1] can optionally use ephemeral containerized databases [2] for testing DDL and linting database objects, so its workload is very DDL-heavy, which means the settings can be tuned pretty differently than a typical DML-based workload.

[1] https://github.com/skeema/skeema/

[2] https://www.skeema.io/docs/options/#workspace
Such wild extrapolations from a simply stated fact. They suggested you kept Firefox on the rails. Pointing out it was off the rails didn't imply you derailed it.

> Your obsession with me, evident in the need to well-ackshually almost every HN post that might be considered positive about my work, is frankly creepy.

This is nonsense. My comments about Brave have been infrequent and neutral or slightly positive mostly. Recently I did list common criticisms to correct a claim about why people disliked Brave. My criticisms of Mozilla and Firefox have been non technical decisions made after you left mostly if not only. And even pointing out when Firefox's decline began wasn't all about you. Any future for Firefox depends on understanding its decline.

> I've already been erased from Mozilla's site, a la Stalin-era pre-photoshop photo touchups.

Were you removed from any photos in this way? Or was it histrionic exaggeration?

Mozilla's site hosts posts by you, posts by others mentioning you, historical documents by you, and credits for your work.

> No worries -- let it go, the past is in the past.

I hope you believe this some day. For your sake.
That makes a lot of sense. All the best, am sure you’ll go on to do great stuff!
SQLite is not a large corporation. The rules of the noted CoC appear to be given is good faith (pun intended). I'm not a follower of Christ but I recognize the good intended and have no problems with what was shared.

Obviously good intentions can pave the path to hell, but this case is only a problem to those that want it to be a problem.
Whatever happened to putting text on a page. I give I am too old for all the rounded corners. It's AI! Coming soon.
Portable C and C++ Development Kit for x64 (and x86) Windows
Only the recipient would be able receive/send messages from that inbox. So you can easily match inbox to the recipient.
Sure, if they stop ad tracking premium user I’d gladly pay for it.
>Whether it’s possible and whether you’re likely to face consequences have no bearing on it's legality.

If a law is written but never enforced, is it really a law? On a technical level, yes. On a practical level, no. A law that is practically impossible to enforce is at best an add-on charge for someone being thrown the book for an actually enforced law, not one people worry about when weighing consequences.

I don't think it's too productive to only talk in terms of spherical cows in a vacuum, so it's a point worth keeping in mind for anyone interested in such conversation.
RCE Vulnerability Disclosed for Elementor
CVSS 8.8
Laptop APU https://www.amd.com/en/products/apu/amd-ryzen-9-pro-6950hs

You don't describe the problems with anywhere near enough detail to guess at what the underlying issue might be.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU << Has a troubleshooting section that might help.
I relate to this LLM behaviour as how we “think out loud”.

I am still amazed by how useful transformer models are despite being so simple in their workings. I’m at a loss of words. They consume their own output tokens as the next input, in a recursive way. Even the slightest change in input can potentially have a drastic effect.
You don't need anything. Plug it into your machine's usb, open arduino ide(or their web ide + agent) and upload any of the examples that arduino ide comes with and use its serial monitor to debug/read whatever output you write on the esp32's serial. This applies to windows/mac/linux.
Why Big Tech structurally incentivizes overhiring and layoffs
> And not sure why you'd be afraid of CCP, we saw the wikileaks, USA does a lot of similiarly bad stuff...

I find little solace in this whataboutism.
> Bard w/ Gemini Pro isn't available in Europe and isn't multi-modal, https://support.google.com/bard/answer/14294096

It's available in 174 countries.

Europe has gone to great lengths to make itself an incredibly hostile environment for online businesses to operate in. That's a fair choice, but don't blame Google for spending some extra time on compliance before launching there.
As an european I feel the same. It's like it is US-centered
It's not even possible to extract the executable without jailbreaking
Really miss stuff like this from back in the early computing days. One time we used MS Backup to copy Warcraft 1 from my friends computer to my own. Took like 80 floppy disks!
E2EE won't be disable-able
Exercise is safe, sports vary in risk and those risks are readily apparent.
Maybe just stick to exercise?
I'd love something like the Matrix [0] data model (JSON messages aggregated in an eventually-consistent chatroom CRDT) transmitted over something like simplex for metadata resistance.

[0] https://matrix.org
[1] https://simplex.chat/
U.S. Chicken Tax on Light Trucks
I have a Transcend JetFlash 930C that I really like. It has both USB-C and USB-A, is super-fast, and so far has been reliable.

https://us.transcend-info.com/product/usb-flash-drive/jetfla...
Use llamafile
There are a lot of interesting sensors out there. A good start can be by picking a sensor you're interested in and use it for monitoring. It can be as basic as temperature monitoring, or gas/CO2.
PostGIS Day 2023 Summary
It's time to put down the encyclopedia and pick up Plato and Aristotle
Tell HN: ZFS silent data corruption bugfix – my research results
Hey HN,

since I'm personally affected by this bug[1] and this scared me somehow, I thought I'd post my research results to have a discussion about the details.

I must say I lost a bit of trust in ZFS, since it was 'sold' as rock solid unbreakable file system and now what... the sheer complexity of ZFS let's me think that this was not the only bug of this kind existing undetected in the source code.

However the communication was clear and precise, other filesystems had similar problems and I just love the feature set of zfs. So I'll give it another shot hoping that future revisions will be safe(r).

Here are my conclusions so far:

1. ZFS had a silent data corruption bug recently discussed on HN [6][7]
2. `Silent` means, you can't do anything about it without upgrading zfs (scrubs, checks, etc. don't help)
3. There is no tool to check if your data has been corrupted
4. Only once written and untouched data should be relatively safe (e.g. backups), the bug mainly affects reading data [4]
5. Setting `zfs_dmu_offset_next_sync=0` reduces probability of being affected, but no guarantee [4]
6. The bug affected any version before 2.2.2 and 2.1.14[2], but were more likely between 2.1.4 and 2.2.1 because a behaviour change in coreutils
7. The causing problem already existed much longer (since 2006?) - this is a question mark [4]
8. do a `zfs version` to see the version number
9. If you're scared (I was), please read this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38553342

So the only way to ENSURE your data is ok is checksumming all files on another filesystem at file level and compare or re-transfering all data from another filesystem after upgrading zfs to the latest version.

Please let me know, if I missed something or got something wrong.

Sources:

[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-Data-Corruption-Battle

[2]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.2.2-Released

[3]: https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/04/two_new_versions_of_o...

[4]: https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/1826lgs/psa_its_not_bl...

[5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38519382

[6]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38405731

[7]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38380240
I'm surprised that the reviewer was so ignorant of amortized constant time insertion.
What's wrong with Rockstar? Some of their handling of GTA Online is unfavorable (GTA+, porting features to console but not PC), but I don't recall them being bought out or selling out.
What's the Elon quote? "If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough" If you're not considering ideas someone thinks are crazy, you're not thinking hard enough.
To claim in marketing so ordinary folks see encrypted and feel a sense of security.

That being said, any progress is better than nothing, and this at least is praise worthy.
The shift operators are literally the nicest and most innocuous design decision of C++ streams.

What's broken with them has nothing to do with bikeshedding about operator choice.
It seems pretty good except for the parts about not getting drunk and not trying to make people laugh

Actually on second thought, its fine to exclude those from a mission focused collaborative coding space.

Take jokes and drunkeness to a different medium
That sounds like you copied the CD version via a floppy disk?

It would have probably been faster to put your friends hard disk into your computer for a few minutes and copy directly from disk to disk?
> Whether or not your accusation directly refers to GP is irrelevant.

On the contrary, it is of the essence, as you posed your accusation explicitly as me accusing GP of being wrong and lying or being lied to ("what I’m reading here is “you’re wrong and lying or lied to because of an ‘agenda’” and that’s it") - which raises the question of what position you think GP holds, and how you came about that knowledge.

> I included the “lied to” because I knew you would try and sneak out of it like this...

As you wrote this in the first line of your first post, in the middle of your accusation, this just demonstrates that you have been acting in bad faith from the beginning, uninterested in finding out what my actual position is. This will be of little surprise to anyone who has followed the conversation, or just picked up on the tone of your first reply.

It is also completely unclear what you think you are proving here. As I explained in my previous post, your accusation is not wrong on a technicality; it is fundamentally mistaken about where, and about what, I think someone would be lying (hint - it's not GP, as far as I know - but you should know that already from my previous post.)

> Normal people...

Normal people do not like wild, personal and unjustified accusations followed by badgering questions predicated on the false propositions of the accusation, and they are not keen on the people who make them, either.

Your final paragraph shows that you have not learned anything from my previous post, which is probably not surprising, now that you have revealed your intent to trap me on a technicality rather than find out what I am actually saying.
Gemini Ultra is the model claimed to be superior to GPT-4. I'd put Gemini Pro on par with GPT-3.5 or maybe slightly better.