skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the stuff Runway has been coming out with absolutely blows my mind. Can't wait to see what it looks like by the end of this year, let alone five.
A lot of people live in bubbles and local networks that don’t have regular access to the normal tools of skepticism that you and I might take for granted. If you’ve been brought up to believe what you’re told, these people can be very convincing.

This is no longer an exclusively offline type of localism either. There is no shortage of online bubbles that are well insulated from outside perspectives.

It’s not even a “poor, dumb people” thing. We are all subject to the network effect and must make continuous active effort to avoid sinking into a comfortable echo chamber. I know so many people who grew up combatting religious fundamentalism, dispatching creationist arguments with expert logical fallacy-fu, only to later fall into their own malign belief systems, losing the ability to question. Even academia, where the foundation stones of skepticism and innovative thinking were laid, has bubbles of very smart people whose working environment is being drained of heterodoxy.
> Who knew God was a degen!

That is a great line.

> Regalado had told investors that the funds would be going to "widows and orphans", but spent most of it on himself and his wife.

Maybe his parents are dead and his wife was windowed in the previous marriage :)

He actually contradicts himself as he denies spending the money on himself and hiss wife, and admits spending money on a home renovation "the Lord told us to do".

I thought when someone said something like "your house looks divine" it was a metaphor!
It seems nowadays a lot of politicians are effectively groomed for such a career from their teens when they see early success in some youth organisation. Sometimes a part of that process is to acquire some kind of academic background for them, justly earned or not.

Ed. I checked and both Sandra Borch and Ingvild Kjerkol seem to have been active in party politics from an early age. Exactly fits the mold of groomed career politicians.
>control it however they wish

I'm jumping in the middle here, but this isn't true. They cannot control how they wish. They can only control under the limits of copyright law.

Copyright law does not extend to limiting how someone may or may not be inspired by the work. Copyright protects expression, and never ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, or discoveries.
I'm happy because I got the job!
Parameterized SQL is your friend here.
> There is no such thing as a fair wage

Bollocks. A fair wage is a wage which is agreed upon by employee and employer, and is livable according to local cost of living. Let's not get into a semantic argument.
> Also not storing hashes of passwords, because then it wouldn't matter what the input is.

That only tells you they don't hash the passwords in the client. Likely the protection ("protection") is for the input validation layer, not the password backend itself.
Which languages have a recursive delete in their standard library, other than shell? Do any? HShell (see other comments) also implements its own rm() function because the JDK standard library is too low level to support something like that.
When companies start forcing their services on to you, you know they are in trouble. This wont end well. I hope the EU is noticing.
I'll grant your definition of plagiarism. Now, under this definition (which differs from what any layman would think of "plagiarism" as) explain why plagiarism is bad. Who exactly is harmed when I repeat my own words?
Not necessarily. You can write open source code in your own time and publish under Google org on GitHub. This is the recommended process if you don’t care about retaining the copyright to your code.

If someone does want to retain copyright, there’s another process for getting approval.
Actually, it does, but you need to create a custom search engine. Strangely enough, even without banning the seo spam sites, it still gives better results than my vanilla google
Just to be clear, because the intro to that article is not, it's much more rare for circumcision to be required for purely medical or hygiene reasons. Let's not prepare that excuse.

This form of genial mutilation is most often performed on babies for no reason other than perpetuating religious or cultural expectations of the parents.
tbh, I'm surprised it's taken this long for a) Google to publicly admit it, and b) for people to understand that it doesn't hide or erase your digital footprints online so Google, your ISP and every agent in between is well aware of what you're doing online. In fact, I believe most people still don't understand (b).
It would be a strong defense, except I heard that unfortunately the prosecutors were all told in a dream by God to prosecute him for fraud. Nothing they can do about it except move forward with the charges, it's just God's will that there be legal consequences for this. /j
QuasiNet: A neural network with trainable product layers
You can use radamsa [1] to create mutations for JSON payloads. There's an example using it with ffuf here: https://github.com/ffuf/ffuf?tab=readme-ov-file#using-extern...

[1]: https://gitlab.com/akihe/radamsa
And here is a serious study that supports Graeber.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09500170231175771

> Contrary to previous studies, it thus finds robust support for Graeber’s theory on bullshit jobs. At the same time, it also confirms existing evidence on the effects of various other factors, including alienation. Work perceived as socially useless is therefore a multifaceted issue that must be addressed from different angles.
thanks for your reply.

okay, if you were me, how would you have refined the question? interested to know:)
tl;dr:

The older ones are better able to fight bacteria, and have a "lower ratio of neutrophils to lymphocytes in the blood", which ratio indicates stress. They evolved to live a long time because good breeding conditions are rare. No word on biochemical mechanisms.
Googled around a bit. I’m old enough to read Russian, so found info on runet. It was commissioned in 1962 and was active until 1982.
Show HN: AI-generated 3D skeletal animations
Hi all - I wanted to showcase the current state of AI text-to-motion models, so I put together this small demo app [0]. It uses the MoMask[1] model on the backend (I'm not affiliated with that team, just a fan of their work). They have a visualization on their HF space[2] but I thought it would be better to see the generated animations with an actual model.

I'd really like to take this further and create a platform for generating high-quality/professional-grade animations. That requires a clean/curated dataset, which I won't be able to fund on my own. If this is something you're interested in using, it would be very helpful if you could register your interest @ https://tally.so/r/mJzRJo

[0] Web support for the front-end renderer is still experimental so please let me know if you experience any issues. In particular, iOS Safari won't work so I've disabled that completely.

[1] https://ericguo5513.github.io/momask/

[2] https://huggingface.co/spaces/MeYourHint/MoMask
These are good criticisms, but mainstream archaeology has similar issues, their theories just get the benefit of the doubt because they used to have the bulk of evidence on their side. It doesn't mean that David Graeber's contention of how civilization emerged isn't correct. I think it's increasingly clear that ancient forager societies were far more socially advanced than we're willing to give them credit for, with many features of what we'd call a complex "civilization" including urban-like ceremonial and monumental centers and clear evidence of long-distance trade. AIUI, Graham Hancock endorses very similar ideas.
The war in Ukraine is about selling American shale gas. There are probably other reasons, like dividing Europe and Russia.
The second Gulf War was motivated by Saddam Hussein's desire to sell his oil in euros to fight American imperialism.
America is playing the marionnetist for all its benefits.
Maybe you aren’t as interested in Magic as you thought you were. I find that when I’m really into something new, or any project, I will sometimes make a list, but then completely ignore it while I follow various tangents I get taken on. By the time I look at my list again, I can cross off half of it. Some lists are made just to get things out of your head to free the mind up to explore more freely.

In a similar way, at the start of each year I make a list of a bunch of stuff I want to do that year. I don’t use that list to schedule things out and make sure I get them done. In fact, I rarely look at it. The act of making the list puts the ideas in my mind, and when opportunities present themselves, I’m more likely to notice them and say yes to the opportunity. By the end of the year I end up being able to cross off a fair number of them.

When I treat lists as things I must get done, I rarely do them. List making then turns into a form of procrastination. I make the list and feel like I did something, and then I don’t feel like I have to do the thing, because it’s on the list for later. If it’s not a thing I need to do, it won’t get done.

Another thing I try to keep in mind was a technique I saw where you write down everything you could to do for a certain goal, but then look at the list and think about what the actual goal is as pick out the few things on the list that would actually allow you to call the goal done… and actually enjoy doing it. It seems like number one on the list would be finding people to play Magic with regularly and doing that. I imagine that would inform and prompt everything else you might want to do on that topic, and give it purpose.
Given the dual use of fossil fuels between military and civilian purposes, I wonder whether any state that deliberately handicapped car/aero/petrochemicals would’ve been able to survive the early twentieth century.

Both the USA and Nazi Germany benefited massively from have a civilian industrial base that was complementary to military production.
I've seen quite a lot of "shell but in perl" and "shell but in python" in the wild, but also I think this is primarily aimed at "this particular utility that ships with $library would most naturally be a shell script but it's a lot more convenient overall to have a nice way to write something similar-ish-looking that shares the interpreter with everything else."

If nothing else it'll make development-side package.json commands easier and nicer, which is still IMO a net win.
I thought it was well understood that "private" mode in browsers relates to what your local machine records about where you visit.

I didn't even think that a web site could know you were in that mode, let alone honour it.
> These calcium carbonate structures, which allow fish to hear and sense vibrations in the water, form a new layer each year that can be read somewhat like tree rings.

Each time I read dating method like these, I wonder how stable these method are. Sure they are sensitive to water temperature, right?
We have not-so-long-term climate changes, periodic solar storms and irregular volcano eruption.. All these are affect water temperture...
> and how that relates to how people work or “learn” is besides the point

It is important (for the training and generation stages) to distinguish between whether the model copies the original works or merely infers information from them - as copyright does not protect against the latter.

> The first part, collation of source material for training is emphatically not unexplored legal or moral territory.

Similar to as in Authors Guild v. Google, Inc. where Google internally made entire copies of millions of in-copyright books:

> > While Google makes an unauthorized digital copy of the entire book, it does not reveal that digital copy to the public. The copy is made to enable the search functions to reveal limited, important information about the books. With respect to the search function, Google satisfies the third factor test

Or in the ongoing Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence case where the latter used the former's legal headnotes for training a language model:

> > verbatim intermediate copying has consistently been upheld as fair use if the copy is "not reveal[ed] to the public."

That it's an internal transient copy is not inherently a free pass, but it is something the courts take into consideration, as mentioned more explicitly in Sega v. Accolade:

> > Accolade, a commercial competitor of Sega, engaged in wholesale copying of Sega's copyrighted code as a preliminary step in the development of a competing product [yet] where the ultimate (as opposed to direct) use is as limited as it was here, the factor is of very little weight

And, given training a machine learning model is a considerably different purpose than what the images were originally intended for, it's likely to be considered transformative; as in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music:

> > The more transformative the new work, the less will be the significance of other factors
I was a teenager during the 90s in Moscow and share none of your sentiment.

Yes, we lost the Cold War. NATO won. Understood.

We got child prostitution, heroine epidemics, kids inhaling acetone vapors from glue to get hi in basements, together with so called 'democracy'. Also lost significant part of science and industry, free education and health care.

Something's terribly missing from you "harmony". Sorry, but this seems like ignorance.
A few years ago I was working on some app that would use Wordpress API to post stuff. The customers had their own WP installation on various hosting with various "security" features. We had bug reports where posting to the blog failed and would post empty content, this security plugins would scan a big blog post and if it would find something like ".... select <a few paragraphs of text> from " it would replace that POST parameter with an empty string.

Also seen similar stuff on a customer bug report, where request from our server containing html text inside a json field would get injected with some obfuscated javascript, I could not be sure if it was a "security" plugin or malware.
I used this for a year and really liked it! The change dir by frequency (frecency?) (Ctrl+P and search), the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P and search), and immediate type-to-filter were great features. Everything felt pretty smooth and stable. I only switched because I started spending more time in the terminal, and fman was getting a tad slow on my machine.

It was also my first exposure to a solo developer trying to make income with licenses, which at the time felt annoying, but now I understand completely. Thanks for making me more productive :) such a huge upgrade from the default OS file manager.
That, or some poorly architectured "framework" or toolkit.

Others in the comments see this as "proof" that the application has poor security. I don't think we can draw that conclusion. We can, however, draw the conclusion that some part of the stack is poorly implemented.
I wonder if the original intent of the feature was to lull people into a false sense of security so the data could be collected on activity people wouldn't otherwise share.
Doesn’t wireshark have a format for storing request / responses ? That seems a fair standard to lean on.

I like the idea - I think I have at least two formats for storing expected request / responses and probably more.

But standardising - as in not just my ball of twine tools uses but every uses is great.

I just think it already exists ?
What genocide is Canada committing?
Incremental alternatives to stop-the-world garbage collectors were well known over 30 years ago.
Did someone have a Bobby Tables moment?

https://bobby-tables.com/

In Oracle, you can't use a bind variable in setting a password on an account, so SQL injection is a more significant risk. I wrote some JavaScript and pl/sql to address that.
For me, power mismatch = hamas will naturally adopt more terror since they're limited to asymmetric warfare. War crime labelling is lawfare instrument to try to rhetorically constrain actions of less capable adversaries but really doesn't change the fact that Hamas at strategic / geopolitical goals for Oct7, no different than strategic bombing, i.e war is politics by other means. They weren't just doing a random terror operation. And Israel isn't just randomly levelling Gaza looking for Hamas.

IMO they're trying to make situation so dire that other parties capituate to resettling Gaza. The intention is expulsion not nessicarily genocide, but that doesn't mean current actions and rhetoric, even if flippant, can't be used against Israel in international court / opinion. I'm not saying what Israel is doing IS genocide, but there's probably enough bits and pieces for interested parties to weave genocide narrative, especially the longer war drags out and more dire Gaza situation becomes.

> removing this organization is in the best interest of both people

I don't disagree, for short term. But without Israel expressing interest or some effort at making 2 state solution work, it's kicking can down the road. The fundmental problem, as seen with Hamas, and Houthis is technology proliferation of not garbage tier weapons is making Israel's lack of strategic depth less and less defendable by the day. General arab acrimony is not going to go away after this, and US+Israel can only maintain their military advantage for so long before rest of region catches up or surpasses due to sheer scale. Each generation is more capable than the last and ultimately there's 400 muslims in MENA vs 10m jews in Israel on sacred lands. And this war is just setting up for blowback down the road, especially as US FP will likely change as new gens are much more sympathetic to palestine.

As for Palestinians, they will not forget this. Hamas/resistance will come back in one way or another. The other reality, which makes this problem intractable is poor Gaza with 90% literacy rate and limited access to modern tech / resources was enough to overwhelm Israel on Oct 7th. Israel can barely live with a semi capable Gaza, and definitely can't live with a capable (free) one. Given how weapons are proliferating, Hamas rockets likely a few iterations from taking out existential Israeli strategic targets like desalination plants. There isn't isn't enough geographic buffer for both people to exist on the same land, not without one permenantly keeping other down. Hence IMO Israel will try to make Palestinians disappear from Gaza, one way or another.
Patchscopes: A Unifying Framework for Inspecting Hidden Representations of LLMs
I've dabbed in collision detection in the past, and here are a couple of notes:

* The square root operation is relatively expensive. Don't use it. If you're doing point-circle or circle-circle collision detection, you're better off comparing r²< a²+b² than r < sqrt(a²+b²). The same goes for 3D, obviously.

* Use a hierarchy of bounding volumes, with coarser bounding volumes calculated at runtime and determined based on the computational cost of the collision detection method. Say you have an element comprised of several sub-elements. You start with a coarse sphere that groups all elements and start by evaluating a collision based on that sphere. If you detect a collision, you re-test with finer-grained bounding volumes.

* In some applications it pays off to discretize coordinates and sizes and replace accurate floating point math with less accurate integer math. This approach can be a part of the hierarchical collision detection approach.
How representative do you think your knowledge is of the web browsing public?
Really? Since day one the message was absolutely clear, and it was obvious that incognito only deletes local history and cookies.
Yeah, that's what's mapped in my head to "sanitizing input" in these cases, as it's the correct way to handle them. I should've unrolled my brain shortcut for the discussion.
That's because they drink a lot of water, and everybody knows water is good for you. :)))
Do you have any resources on the latest with electrolytic carbon fixation? Like, how do you go from solar panels -> energy -> plants?
Any downsides to Firefox? Seems like an obvious switch.
The funniest part of this is that they don't even check for all of the banned strings.

Source: I'm a student there and tried it out of curiosity.
Was there actually any cryptographic aspect to this, or was he even lying about it being a “cryptocurrency”? He’s taking money on Venmo and running an “exchange” that trades only in this coin.

It would be interesting if “cryptocurrency” is now this entrenched as a synecdoche for any scrip-y scam.
https://cpj.org/2024/01/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/07/israel-strikes-journalis...
I mean, this is a gross misunderstanding of how user input makes its way into a database safely. If you're putting out error messages like this it's a giant red flag.
This has always been the case. Seems like they're just clarifying things for people who didn't understand what Incognito mode was.
And I bet that data is skewed by VPN.
That is a strange request for the OP. I doubt they're going that direction.

Assuming the number of meals you make is limited, you can use ChatGPT directly for this. Just ask it to make stories for your meals.
It's too preachy.
Mass media is also an example of mass production, working in the same way. Whether it's through subscriptions or selling physical media or entrance tickets, creators seek a huge audience. They usually have huge investment costs to produce their stuff, whether it's money or time. Then their cost-per-unit sold is extremely low, sometimes approaching zero. But if they can't get paid by a mass audience, then creativity will have to return to bespoke works. Ie, artists will make their work for rich individuals by commission, instead of to the general public.
This makes no sense and impacts a lot of early stage software projects.

In many cases for bootstrap ones it makes them not financially viable - 100%+ effective tax rate would do that if you optimize for early profitability.

Even for VC backed ones, those taxes just eat into your runway. I know a bunch of companies that opt for some weird international setup to try and avoid the effects but it’s really not what you should do in early days…
Everyone knows that the original intent is "porn mode", but it would have escandalized the delicate ears of some politicians.
Torvalds Speaks: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Programming
Google has always tracked me incognito. That’s never been what incognito is about.
Cool project, I really like the idea of sponsored issues. But what happens to your company, if GitHub decides to adapt this feature?
And how are they different than the millions of factory workers on a line?
Cool idea. I've actually just taken a pic to my plate, threw it at gpt4 and asked it to generate a story. It worked nicely.
Whats wrong with that? Kids play with anything, wooden stick is a great toy anytime for example. That there are some logos and not some other logos or pictures they couldn't care less about
Yes, Bullshit Jobs has a lot of interesting ideas and narratives. I found it worth reading for that.
I switched to arc.net recently and it’s been pretty great.
Is it a slow sunday for me or... If you hash the password on the client and send the hash then hash is the password. And if you then have, for example, a DB leak with username and hashes, you don't need the password anyway because you can just send the hash and log in? (but then it's sunday and I need more coffee so I may be wrong)
What does WAF stand for?
I agree but I'm not going to point fingers at the public. For most people, this stuff is complicated and I can't expect them to understand it.

It would be cool if instead browsers could somehow give them what they are expecting. Like "Private Mode" automatically flips their internet traffic through some kind of reputable and open VPN (not that those currently exist to my knowledge).