skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
awesome-safety-critical > Coding Guidelines: https://awesome-safety-critical.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Rust SAST and DAST tools would be great for all, too.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35565960 :

> Additional lists of static analysis, dynamic analysis, SAST, DAST, and other source code analysis tools: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24511280 https://analysis-tools.dev/tools?languages=cpp
In Nice, I learned that nobody ever calls a toilet a "WC", but rather a "toilette", and that "ne" is generally optional in "ne .. pas" negation. But rappers like Dadju taught me Congolese slang like "kitoko." It took years to transform my American high school French into something less alien to people in France. Music was a huge part of that, though.
A lot of my friends and I are going about it in "ultra hard mode". It consists in having to use the guessed letters (that's normal hard mode) and always using the last day's word as your start word. It makes it really fun and really challenging.
I'll take Blind for $1000 Alex. The self-interested people I saw were weeded out unless they made decisions that led to stock increase. In which case their self-interest was aligned with the correct decision. I don't call either one politics.

I think of politics as useless bickering that doesn't advance the project. Usually it is self-correcting for the reason above. I've seen a lot of bad decisions drive company's stock into the shitter, but I think of that as simply the "wrong" decision.

Shit, I think I -AM- blind. Hmm....
Unlike Base64 or Base32, Base58 has approximately O(N^2) complexity because it requires iterative division and multiplication operations on big integers. You can't encode a gigabyte of data with Base58 in a reasonable time, but you certainly can with Base64 or Base32.
> Anyone have any ideas / knowledge on how they deploy little incremental fixes to exploited jailbreaks, etc?

LoRa[1] would be my guess.

For detailed explanation I recommend the paper. But the short explanation is that it is a trick which lets you train a smaller, lower dimensional model which when you add to the original model it gets you the result you want.

1: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685
Yes, it is very important that people feel guilty about having good jobs
Because they require a lot of maintenance for people who aren't even sure they enjoy cooking for 1 minute more than absolutely necessary. I understand that carbon steel is a lot less maintenance than cast iron, but it does require maintenance.

By comparison, you can soak a stainless steel pan in water for weeks with basically zero negative consequences.

Also, if you live in a culture that frequently cooks acidic dishes, then you're working against yourself by dissolving the seasoning constantly. I also understand that it's fine in moderation.
I see you are starting to understand ;)

Really, this is more of a honorific position for famous authors and those with enough political influence. Some deserve their fame, but they tend to be passed their prime and are far from expert linguists.

Their contributions are often treated as a joke by most French people. One of their mission is to maintain an official dictionary of the French language. The latest edition is nearly 100 years old. And for reforms, they only part of the process, most of the real work is done by actual expert linguists and legislators.
I was equally split between 3 and 4 until I started using more consonants, specifically the Wheel of Fortune ones (RSTLN). Now my two-week average hovers between 3.2 and 3.3, almost always better than Wordlebot too. For a while I had a 3.1 average, and even a 3.0 for a day.
> thinking that sailplanes could be used for commercial transport is almost like thinking that wave surfing could be used as such. We will sooner see some big return of airships than we will see commercial transport using gliders.

I have been watching with interest the advance of traction kites in commercial shipping. The description of Airseas's implementation[0] resembles dynamic soaring but details are wanting:

> “What differentiates it from other wind solutions,” says Bernatets, “is that the wing is not just pulled by the wind and countered by the ship.” Instead, it flies in figure-of-eight loops, which multiply the pulling effect of the airflow to give what he calls “crazy power.”

Whether or not it is caused by dynamic soaring, it is true that such kites pull much harder in the same wind while turning and a figure 8 pattern would maximize that without twisting up the lines.

My understanding is that the incentives don't encourage the traction kites' installation because the owners of the boats don't pay for fuel. Perhaps that friction can be overcome as the fuel costs continue to rise.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/30/travel/airseas-giant-kites-sh...
I guess, though if "more efficient business model" means giant corporation can buy and sell in such huge quantities that smaller competitors can't even buy products for same, let alone add small margin for rent and employees, that seems unhealthy. There's no efficiencies they can even attempt at that point.

(Let alone the Amazon shoppers who waste their time demoing and trying products in store, then act like they've caught some scammer if it's a few dollars more than online.)
Maybe if there were a DNS record for a SSH port number it could work? Separate port per server, not terrible.
> why exactly would I want to visit Europe?

To see stuff? US doesen't really have that have much besides nature worth seeing/experiencing from a traditional tourist perspective. Almost all the cities besides a handful are extremely boring in comparison (and in those worth visiting like SF you're very likely to get stabbed by a drug addict or even shot)*.

To be honest besides not having free water in restaurants (if I have to ask it's already not free (emotionally)) none of those other things you've mentioned seem like a big deal for me.

> vigilant for pickpockets

In some places? Sure. But IMHO even in notorious cities like Barcelona it's not really that bad.

* well that's certainly not true.. but if you base your opinion on what some Europeans might be saying on Reddit/etc. you might end up believing stuff like this.
In the US, Copyright requires creative input by a person. Just because "work" was done doesn't make something copyrightable.
Nice. You're starting to make me think in how a manifesto should sound like.
I think any negative connotation there is subjective.
Evolution as a process doesn't "care" in any meaningful sense. It doesn't "want" any specific outcome. In fact, this is one of the more damaging ideas that people end up with (e.g. "Why don't squirells just evolve to not get hit by cars?").

Evolution is a term we've used to describe a naturally occurring, largely random process. Animals get random mutations; if it causes that animal to be more likely to have successful offspring, you will tend to see more offspring with that mutation.
In most contexts, you are correct that the translation of "Things are a bit sticky" is typically not interpreted as "We are in extreme difficulty."

However, in that specific case, the British general supposed that it was the point of pride for a British officer to rarely admit a weakness or lack of control over a situation. So, the slightest admission of the circumstances being "a bit sticky" should have been a sign that circumstances were severe, or otherwise he would have avoided making any admission at all.

The less ambiguous way—which would have avoided any ambiguity due to the general's understatement—would have been for him to state the facts: his troops were substantially outnumbered, and therefore they could only realistically last a short amount of time without support or withdrawal. However, perhaps, it is possible that he could not send a message of that length in the circumstances of the time.

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I took a brief look at your profile to try and guess your native language to make a comparison, and it appears you may be a francophone.

A perhaps similar example would be if you ask someone « Ça va ? » ("How goes it?") and the other person responds by saying: « Ça va... » ("It goes..."). For some people, « Ça va » is their default response, so it means that their situation is no different than usual. For others, who you might know to usually say the chipper response « Bien ! Et toi ? », a sudden change to « Ça va... » may be a hint that things aren't going so well, and a way to avoid directly saying « Non, rien ne va et je suis déprimé » (as taken from [1]).

The British general's phrase therefore had a distinct literal meaning, but he meant for the phrase to carry a different message that he expected the US general to pick up on (which did not happen, as the US general interpreted the phrase by its literal meaning instead).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/French/comments/po2cdm/what_is_the_...
OpenJDK is GPL 2, how is Larry going to take it away?
This is a pretty cool idea.

Recently I have been using SD 1.5 checkpoints with the LCM lora for all of my image generation (generally weighted down to 0.8 strength, with 6 step inference). It's not as fast as sdxl turbo, but at least it does a good job of people's faces.

It would be good to make more efficient use of people's donated resources by making it possible to use LCM lora.
Maybe not in your jurisdiction...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment_in_England_a...
French, as a romance language did not import from Latin as English did not import from proto germanic.
Related reading with a different conclusion: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/11/03/violent-crime-...
FWIW, there are tens of millions of former US military in the civilian population. Once you've been trained you don't really lose it, you just become rusty. In this scenario the AR-15 bros would have a logistics advantage because they start from a state of decentralized resources, whereas the military does not. The US government does not have remotely enough military equipment to control the geographic size and distribution of the US. In a large-scale domestic conflict, the ability to produce more equipment also comes under great risk.

The government doesn't have a safe harbor they can operate from in a civil war, particularly one that has no clear geographic split. This severely curtails the use of heavy ordnance due to the importance of not killing the uninvolved populace, since that would only encourage them to also question the legitimacy of the government.

As a practical matter, it is not possible to control the US via military force short of indiscriminately murdering most of the population, and a domestic military force doesn't even have that as a realistic option. Everyone knows this, so this is a deeply unserious scenario and the government would avoid precipitating it at all costs.

The whole thing is just implausible.
Movie is on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5irrPePbls0
Crockford variant of Base32 uses a different encoding alphabet and treats those similar characters as aliases.
I'm up for it, though off the top of my head, I'm not sure how to make it the right size - short enough to be useful, but longer than "1) learn about feedback loops, 2) think in dynamic systems, not static ones, 3) meditate on “Meditations on Moloch”".

A different list I believe I could use is one that's listing some working mitigations to tough problems. Like, checklists are effective at this-and-this in medicine[link set 1], and this-and-that in aviation [link set 2]. "Two-in-cockpit" policies are effective at helping in this-and-that in aviation, to such-and-such degree [link set 3], etc. The motivation here is that it seems that some industries figured out ways to reduce the severity of various tough problems, and there may be an opportunity for cross-pollination, or staging those techniques into an even better mitigation.

RE the Moloch link, I'm not in the right mood to respond to the reply under that comment, nor do I have energy for this right now. I mostly disagree, but I note one point - it's true, at least for me, that realizing a problem is one of coordination at scale (and therefore likely systemic) makes me feel despair. The realization itself is a mood killer - I find myself recoiling from it, and thinking along the lines of "please let it not be a Moloch thing, please let it be something solvable, something that can be approached directly". I would love to know of a way to feel encouraged, instead of instantly demotivated, by this kind of problems.

EDIT:

Another one to your list of common point-misses: 4) what's the base rate, and 5) what's the effect size?

Prompted by 'userbinator remembering that one, and asking the important question. Paraphrasing, "if those chemicals are so very bad for us, and have been everywhere for decades, then where are the ill effects?".

It's like with dietetics and cancer scares. Consuming/not consuming red meat/coffee/artificial sweetener/whatever can give you cancer! How much of an increase? 10%? Over what base rate? 0.00001? In that case, it's affecting your lifespan less than worrying about it is.
sounds like idealism more than a material analysis
I agree — it’s a question that takes one right up to the limits of human cognition. Another question like this: “is the universe finite or infinite?” One or the other must be true, yet both options will eventually melt your brain to contemplate.
Comparing basic science research with commercial product research is comparing apples with oranges.

Governments spend research money on space research, particle accelerator, fusion research, basic medical research, and similar that do not intend to turn a profit. National Institutes of Health for example spends more on basic medical research than all of industry combined. The health industry takes that research and uses it to develop products, which combined R&D are several times that of the budget of NiH. $1 of NiH basic medical research is not the same as $1 R&D by a medical company, and especially not the same as $1 going into production. Spending $1 to produce a pill may save a life. $1 of NiH basic medical research may save a population.
sterilizing community cats seems like a good solution, and there is some interesting progress here via gene therapy:

https://www.science.org/content/article/hello-kitty-goodbye-...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-develop...
Wow, a very nice reimplementation.

To go on a tangent, I note your custom 'BCML1' 5bit per weight compression codec and your optimised hand-coded AVX2 to encode it... was that really needed? Are the weights encoded on every startup? Why not do it once and save to disk?
> All the world tour about "oh so dangerous AI"

Well, it took a while to figure out asbestos is too deadly for humans to stick it into every wall. To really see if AI is dangerous I suspect we have to stick it in every place possible and find out, which is kind of sad.
How does stainless require more temperature control than something like non-stick or cast iron? If anything, stainless will cool on-par or faster, especially when compared to cast iron.

If people don't know how to cook to the point where they are burning food based on what type of pan they are using, then I would argue they don't know how to cook... very few everyday dishes need to start on a ripping hot pan.
Sell your MMM stock.
Do schools kill creativity? – Sir Ken Robinson [video]
> People always complain about stainless steel when they come to my house

Tough audience. Of all the people who have ever come to my house none has ever had a thing to say about cookware.
Evan Czaplicki's talk did make a great observation about how easily we compare small open source projects with multi-million-dollar corporate projects with a straight face.

Though we treat small projects far worse because we don't even have the expectation that a large corporate project like Swift gives us individual attention, yet we entitle ourselves to the attention of a free open source volunteer project and then make a loud stink when we don't get it.
Wow, I immediately recognized the text. I am very positively surprised in seeing Gurdjieff referenced here.
Author here. The app works in two steps:

Step one is building an index of the file system. This is simply done by walking the filesystem. The resulting index is stored in RAM and a file. On the next app start the index ia loaded from that file, which is much quicker than walking the file system.

Step two is using this in RAM index for searching. This scales really well with the number or CPU cores and on modern systems a normal case insensitive substring search should finish almost instantly with few million files.

The next release will support file system monitoring with inotify and fanotify to keep the index updated. Although this has some drawbacks.
Money means yes, everything else means no.
The author gives several reasons for their decision. I love my Lodge cast iron pan, but I also agree with the reasons that the author gives when choosing to not recommend them for "most" people.
Benchmarking C/C++ hash table libraries for small keys
I live in Europe and have never been stolen from, and I‘ve been on plenty vacations abroad. And in many places you do get free tap water (eg London or Vienna) with food. IDK why you would care about the price of tap water though since that’s probably 0,1% of your traveling budget for a city trip.

Taxes are country specific, you‘ll find some EU countries with lower taxation than your average US state, eg Bulgaria.

Being rude on Twitter won’t land you in jail, please.

> why exactly would I want to visit Europe?

Business, sightseeing, and cheap dentistry.
And it seems to be a play on one of the largest French newspapers, Le Figaro (think: WaPo of France).
Corner stores don't track your ID and purchases. Come on. We all know that any information you enter into a website will be used to create a profile on you. The fact that these profiles will be attached to very personal information about people's sexualities should be very troubling to you. This is a huge privacy violation.

On top of that, it's not just porn websites that this will apply to. It's any website featuring explicit material that could be "harmful to children." That includes most discussions of sex. You're going to have to register your ID to even have an R-rated conversation online. That'll have a huge chilling effect on free speech.

Children's internet access can easily be controlled by parents with readily-available tools. The problem here is parental negligence. There are plenty of ways the government can push parents into using these tools, and none of them are damaging privacy or free speech.

And don't bring child sex abuse material into this. If you're concerned about CSAM on porn sites, you should be advocating that the government investigate that. Not that they institute draconian ID-checking laws. Unless you think CSAM is only a problem when it's viewed by someone under 18?
Qatar Airways Bans YouTuber for Negative Review
> why exactly would I want to visit Europe?

That’s okay, we don’t want you. I lived the first 28 years of my life in the downtown historic area of an increasingly touristy European capital and American tourists were always the worst :)

The Chinese tourists can be frustrating because they travel in tight packs and take up a lot of room, but at least they understand they’re not visiting an amusement park and are not the center of the world.

My favorite were always fellow European high school and college kids traveling in small groups. You’d never even realize they were tourists if not for the oversized backpacks. They just blend in, aren’t loud, respect the locals, and seek authentic experiences.
>that's mass murder.

Unless you can show that someone adulterated the product with the specific intent of causing death, it isn't. Causing someone to die through negligence, recklessness or indifference is manslaughter, not murder.
Misra is a specification for languages to specify and avoid undefined or underdefined behavior as I understand it, thus avoiding bugs. What if a language has no undefined behavior and dynamic allocation is easily disabled. What would misra rules say?
It's also obvious in sports that star players don't always work well together. If you're a fan, you see the storyline play out often.

Teamwork is important.
5 points for the Luddite (me) that said amd would leverage their knowledge of chiplets and bus fabrics to make a comeback in AI. I wont pretend to be able to read this article, or read in general, just wanted to plant my flag.
You're not reading (the first sentence of) the report correctly.

> By the 2000s, so much information was being generated
worldwide that only a small fraction (0.5% in 2015) of the
digital data generated was being analyzed at all.

Information and its analysis is not equivalent to content and its consumption, nor can you extrapolate one from the other.

That you seem to use this as the sole basis for your conspiratorial findings that we're in a content bubble and "platforms don't advertise it" is unfortunate.
It's not so much that "yes" means "no" but that VC's never actually say no, and it's easy to understand why. Whether or not they actually fund you, they always want you to think that they are going to fund you because that way they hedge their bets in two ways. First, if they learn new information (like if you suddenly start to get traction) they can change their minds without losing face. Second, and more importantly, as long as the answer is actually no you are potential competition for some other company that is actually in their portfolio, so they want you to think that you have a shot with them so you won't pursue other opportunities as aggressively.

The only thing that actually means "yes" in VC land is when the check clears.
That's information to research/inquire about before the interview(s) & at interview(s) before accepting a position.

Result of inquires determine what the job seeker should request be put in writing before accepting an offer.
Why does this have "(2014)" in the title of the post? This article was written, or at least updated, in late 2022 or 2023: "data for 2022 and beyond are still being finalized, so this does not include inflation taking place in 2022 and beyond"
What would that help? 3M create way more value than not.
I'm not sure there's a distinction here. Especially when personal greed often informs how one votes and what political causes one supports financially.
“In all honesty, it was the Debt Crisis that ended the Roman Republic. There was a Sovereign Debt Crisis during the Roman Republic period resulted in a dictatorship and a debt default.

…

Therefore, we find that the debt crisis was correlated with a separatist movement – which we are beginning to see worldwide starting in Europe, but will eventually become a contagion in the United States as the conflict between left and right erupts after the November elections.”

Timing was pretty bang on if you consider Jan 6th as a turning point

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/history/ancient-economies...
Rubrik for early stage:

1. No product:

-> went to stanford or harvard -> funded (no questions asked)

-> held director level at faang -> funded

-> everyone else -> probably not funded

2. Have product:

-> not prestigious -> need real ARR with good growth

-> prestigious -> need a product

-> everyone else -> not funded
"True" foodies are largely being converted to induction, albeit they sometimes drastically overpay for it [0]. The control is better than gas on all but the cheapest of models, and indoor air quality is dramatically better. Nobody wants to pay to heat outside in the winter, but if you don't crack a window or turn on the venthood, you're sucking in tons of CO2.

0: https://www.sousvidetools.com/eu/thepolysciencecontrol-freak... ($1500~)
Great but I wish Africans had the chance to do what French people have done to them in Africa. They should take a page out of Israel's book.
You would think so, and yet AMD dropped the ball so hard on the software side of things, the resulting hole in the ground might as well be bottomless.
zerohedge is Russian propaganda.