skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In other words: plausible deniability on decryption doesn’t satisfy the adversary;

If there is only one key that decrypts the file, then they will have validation whether you provided the right one.

For instance if you have encrypted your crypto wallet info. You would have to give up the real key that will decrypt the file.

With plausible deniability scenario, you could have encrypted two wallets, one that you afford to lose. You can give it up and it's possible the attacker will be satisfied and you can keep the wallet that you care about.

The attacker will also never know if there are more keys. Mind you, they can always shoot you either way, but with the plausible deniability you might have a chance to leave the wallet you care about to your dependents.
A Dodge Charger is heavier than a Model 3, and it's also a small car.
I think the perfect interview process is:

1) A couple basic coding questions. FizzBuzz and such. Can they actually solve something basic?

2) Do a real code review with this person. Share your screen and let them review code. Observe what questions they ask and the comments they leave for the author.

3) Ask some design questions. Digging in on how they would design the classes for some new product and purposely throwing a twist in there from time to time. How do they handle this new information and adapt their design? Do they take constructive criticism well?

4) Talking to this person. Are they polite and respectful? You can help someone grow as an engineer, but good luck getting them to be a better coworker if they are rude.
Taking this rare opportunity to put OpenSSL on blast a little bit - I have experienced no other software library or vendor where seemingly benign patch updates have completely broken functionality at the system level (in the web world). Semver people! Use it properly (and be consistent with the rest of the ecosystem you operate in)!!
Bard's latest updates: Access Gemini Pro globally and generate images
No, they are not executable by the OS (generally).

Formats are on a gradient between "completely code" and "completely data" and PDFs are quite close to the "completely code" extreme'; I guess this is what the parent meant.
Some of it. It was less than mediocre for me. I don't understand the love for that movie.
I remember that era well. I hated the whole concept of using weird puzzles like that. It never seemed like a good filter.
What are the extra proporties you possess?
Sure, but none of the above things would ever merit a mention. I don't care about any of these particular things. But when all of them are combined it's a red flag. So I looked into it and it turned out I was right. I bought 8h of his time but was getting maybe 2 or 3 and no attention. For every 5 commits to our repos, there were about 35 to other private repos, and it was happening throughout our workday.
> Most people never learn databases, and most people who do are idiots working on enterprise three-tier architectures

Tell me how you really feel :)

My biggest problem with ORM's is that it causes people to sprinkle the ORM code throughout their codebase but they'd never do that with SQL, they'd want to try and sequester it to a system whose responsibility is the retrieving and updating of data.

It puts people into a poor mindset around their data.
One interesting example is how the OG algorithm for solving diff equations, the venerable and almost trivial Euler's method, in fact works very well with SD compared to many much newer, slower and fancier solvers. This likely has to do with the fact that we're dealing with an optimization problem rather than actually trying to find solutions to the diffusion DE.
Back before COVID, we were performing in-person interviews, and one of the steps was a debugging problem. We always told people in advance that they can either bring their own laptop configured the way they like (we gave details about languages/libraries required), or they can use one we provide.

I was surprised to see how many people would prefer our laptop during interview instead of having their own favorite environment.
Open Language Model: OLMo
I've gotta know, why is it called the Mikado Method? Is it a reference to the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta? The notion of a Japanese emperor?
No, more just ~10+ years of familiarity with Gary's bullshit from the homebrew scene.

Unless you like piracy, there's very little to like about anything made by Xecuter or their previous name, GATEWAY. They just are the piracy option; anything they say about homebrew is just lip service to not get banned from the relevant internet forums.

All their modchips have always as their main focus had piracy. That recent flashcard that debranded TX has made literally can only be used for piracy, not homebrew.

Hell, these are the guys that DRMed their piracy software to password lock the Switch NAND if you tried to reverse engineer it (twice! They did the same thing on 3DS.)
That's what editors are supposed to do.

And authors gaining editorial control is why so many books later in a popular author's career are worse and worse - no one able to trim them.

As examples I'll pick Neal Stephenson and J.K. Rowling. Even the fans have to notice how their work has gotten bigger and sloppier.
same. apparently this is very common, and somehow 23+me makes it seem rare. Regardless, why insecure about it??
I know in my country (NL) modern houses are built to an energy efficiency standard, so that 15 odd year old houses like mine are pretty efficient and well-insulated; how is that in the US?

Over here if you have an older house you can get subsidies or attractive mortgage rates if you spend it on improving your house's energy efficiency, it's worthwhile looking for schemes like that.

Actually I should look into that myself; I don't need to improve insulation, but switching to electric heating and adding solar panels and a heat pump would be interesting, especially given we need air conditioning during the hottest periods nowadays.
That's very true, I would never call Emacs "no nonsense" at any point haha
I think it's possible to get Windows 7 Ultimate down below 2GB, so a comparatively impressive Linux build should definitely be a lot smaller.
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They weren't too great with vertically mounted drives or slot-loading drives, either.
DragonflyBSD is typically on-par or slightly faster than Ubuntu (Linux) or FreeBSD.

And that's with a radically smaller # of developers working on it.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/corei9-freebsd13-dfly6/4

--

Yes, I know the common complaint is benchmarks are flawed and how Phoronix could do more meaningful test.

But the reality is, nearly no one even does comprehensive OS benchmarking anymore - so there isn't really a good alternative source to use.
I didn't say they were mostly lazy idiots. I'd work less too, if I were able. There's just no need to put them on a pedestal.
high-end CPUs have more cache than that !
Mamba is the new and hot "linear transformer", could one day replace GPT based LLMs and scale sequence length up to 1M. It uses a clever math trick to parallelize token inference in the input while keeping a constant state size for generating the output.
It’s a bit weird to me that this is specifically for neovim when it kinda seems like a generic piece of glass for “some TUI” that in this case happens to be nv. Maybe I missed the point.
> People that haven't been into management typically have a very naive idea about how much power managers have.

A CEO isn't just a manager though, at director level and above you get to have a say about what gets worked on and what doesn't in a way you don't if you're lower-level management.
looks interesting, however: "Our tools are currently available to users in the following countries and regions: US, Kenya, New Zealand, and Australia."
Only took a quick glance. But it looks like a good debunking to me, especially the part where he refers to a section of the original paper clearly stating that the VAE has been trained with a 10e-6 weight factor on the KL divergence term.

I think what would happen if this problem was fixed is that the VAE would produce less appealing more blurry images. This is a classic problem with VAEs. So, more mathematically correct, but less visually appealing.
I think the answer to your question is "yes"; Neovide is just a client for an underlying Neovim process. That process can be local or remote.
can this be added to https://ollama.ai model list?
I don't need scaling

Well, ok, then I simply misunderstood the intent of your comment.

Normal people hate

I have no idea where those claims come from, or what you mean with normal people. Source?

E.g. wouldn't normal people rather just ignore articles about stuff they do not care about instead of hating it?
At this point, I've forgotten the struggle of global hotkeys interfering with uncommon symbols. Using Emacs, when I need to write in a language that doesn't use only Latin symbols, I switch to phonetic translit for that language. I.e. I still type only using Latin symbols, but some sequences of symbols translate into different letters in the target alphabet.

Also, maybe less so today, but at the time when internationalization was usually even worse than it is today on typical computers available to general public, it was very common, at least for Poles outside Poland to write w/o any diacritics at all. There's not so much overlap, and usually you can figure it out from the context.

BTW, in a very similar way, Russian ё is often replaced by e. To the point that the "incorrect" variant is today acceptable even in newspapers. Alternatively, if I see Russian text that uses "ё", I get a feeling that it's about patriotism and must be some self-aggrandizing propaganda.
The paranoid answer is to assume that certain organizations (e.g., nation state intelligence services, corporations that have enormous capital available, extremely wealthy people who can create organizations to pursue this) already have quantum cryptanalysis capabilities or very soon will.

In any case, it does no harm to be ready for a PQ world.
> I am not sure why Chinese even instituted the elections instead of keeping the English system, in which the metropolis appoints the Governor-general

That would be difficult for a metropolis to do. I tried to find out how this actually worked, and wikipedia states that the Governor-general of British Hong Kong is appointed by the British Crown.

I can see why that is no longer the case in specific, but the current system seems fairly analogous.
> Just pass them into ChatGPT and ask for a summary - problem solved!

Ask for an overly polite answer instead. You don't need to mention that it should be wordy. GPT will take care of that naturally.
Polish (personal) computing industry definitely had a great – and, sadly, largely wasted – potential, however Odra is the worst example to prove this point. A poster child of the Polish "engineering thought" in the 70s was K-202[1], whose creator's tragic story shows how the dreams of the "Polish Silicon Valley" were defeated by the communist reality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-202
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Movim 0.23: A federated, open-source web-based social OMEMO E2EE XMPP client
> Revenue for a company and GDP for a country are at least broadly comparable.

It’s really not. One is a figure that a CPA (or whatever your country’s equivalent is) signs off on, reports, and is stored in or flowed through the reporting organization’s cash accounts and the other is a statistic represented by a figure that belongs to no organized entity whatsoever.
Yes, this brings back such memories for me too! I also used to boot from removable media to use linux on school computers. The librarian assumed I was some kind of computer hacker and reported me to the schools IT admin. I thought I was in trouble. Instead he took me under his wing and had me work with him after school on some fun projects! Really helped me understand that the skills I was learning were valuable and that I had an aptitude for it.
I somehow have a hard time believing that you can feel the performance of the tcp stack while browsing of all things in a VM, are you sure it can be attributed to that?
This novel from 1978, written by a paleontologist, is set in a time 35000 years ago, when Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons lived at the same time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_of_the_Tiger
That's also the period Yahoo and other companies had a tremendous investment in FreeBSD.

FreeBSD is great on its own, and that amount of attention also meant every single bit of performance would be extracted no matter what it takes, and any scaling or stability issues would be hammered out pretty quick.

Until they moved to redhat...
I would assume there is not much attention because better results come from just dropping the VAE entirely unless you're chasing a small resource bound, but most of the research interest is in state of the art work which is hardly resources bounded.
GNU C Library vulnerabilities could impact Linux systems
Almost every "escaping the sandbox" is due to some kind of bug.

Sure if the PDF standard exposed a "globalThis.runBlobAsNativeExecutable" function it would be worse, but it is still escaping the sandbox.
Rust Has Provenance
A Kexa rules repository to govern them all
I invite you to read this short article to see the management differences between Kexa with local rules and remote version
Déjà Connu: Using Copilot Feedback Quality as a Signal
Modern American printings do now include the final chapter. Described on the back cover as "includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition, and Burgess's introduction, "A Clockwork Orange Resucked"".

The "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" introduction is from November 1986. It covers the reasoning behind the shortened American edition[0], Kubrick's film, and his own feelings on the 21st chapter[1]. I think the final paragraph summarizes it well "Readers of the twenty-first chapter must decide for themselves whether it enhances the book they presumably know or is really a discardable limb. I meant the book to end in this way, but my aesthetic judgement may have been faulty" (Burgess xv).

[0] "I needed money back in 1962, even the pittance I was being offered as an advance, and if the condition of the book's acceptance was also it's truncation - well, so be it" (Burgess x-xi)

[1] "There is no hint of this change of intention in the twentieth chapter. The boy is conditioned, then deconditioned, and he foresees with glee a resumption of the operation of free and violent will. [...] The twenty-first chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation [...] The American version or Kubrickian Orange is a fable; the British or world one is a novel" (xii)
Still not available in Canada...
My best experience integrating with a Postgres database was using Clojure with the Honey SQL library [1]. Essentially Honey SQL operated solely as a query builder library allowing me to express queries as regular Clojure EDN maps and vectors (comparable to objects and arrays in JavaScript), or nested function calls returning the same kind of data. In essence SQL queries were expressed in a Clojure native data format which finally could be transformed into SQL syntax.

The huge win was that I could use the Clojure REPL to run my SQL-generating functions and see that the SQL actually matched what I was aiming for. Caching the query-building was as simple as memoizing the query building functions as queries are parameterised in any case, so can be reused.

There is something really nice about having the full power of SQL at your fingertips. The only drawback compared to ORMs of course is that it outputs the resulting query result in a flat structure. So any aggregation you'd need to handle in code or use something like Postgres JSON aggregation.

[1] https://github.com/seancorfield/honeysql
That's interesting. I imagined we would notice more cuts in government directly, but this makes sense. I work in Holland and there are discussions all the time about government outsourcing.
Palworld is the Pokémon this sinful world deserves
For readers unfamiliar with German: ß is the German sharp S. It’s pronounced like a normal English “s” in situations where the letter “s” may be pronounced closer to the English letter “z.” For example:

Strase -> shtrazeh

Straße -> shtrasseh
Let me guess, this is one of those online-only adderall-pushers that grew enormously during the pandemic, right?
Sure, but nobody in Austria wants to change that in order to improve the situation and make it attractive to skilled workers, high earners and investors both local and from abroad.

Ask on Austria subreddit and everyone thinks Austrian SW devs are overpaid and should be taxed even higher eve though a developer from Poland or even Romania or Bulgaria makes more than them, or unionized bus driver for the local public transport company makes as much as a SW dev while having better benefits and job security to boot.

Ask them if there should be any tax breaks for skilled foreigners to come here like in the NL and everyone will think you're crazy. People vote for worse conditions for foreigners and high earners out of spite and for as much welfare as possible for the idle and lazy who know how to work the system.

Given this, is it any surprise that no skilled foreigner with high earning potential wants to work in Austria? You reap what you saw. If you wage a pitches and forks which-hunt against skilled workers and high earners, but of course not on those with massive untaxed inherited wealth who pay zero taxes, that's what you get, an unsustainable Ponzi welfare and pension scheme that will collapse in the future.
Still not sure if that’s an example of the technically impressive or of a woman whom, for whatever sad reason, is willing to accept a creep who can call out to an API as a better investment than a creep who can’t.

One way or another, here’s hoping their kids never find that thread.
> Indeed, that fixes the part about it only marching forward. But still, it wouldn't be sufficient in cases where the ultimate cause is near neither the start nor the obvious error, but (e.g.) in the 50th of 100 entries.

Not true. rr (and time travel debugging in general) really excels at exactly that problem. You just put a watchpoint on the offending data at the 'obvious error', and reverse-continue. This usually takes you straight to the root-cause. It's incredibly powerful.

(Disclaimer, I'm not exactly unbiased as I work on another time-travel debugger, https://undo.io)
From what is known the people we call Neanderthal were intelligent and were empathetic. They made seashell jewellery and they buried their dead covered in flowers. I'd be proud to have a high percentage.
I also can’t stand when I want to debug a single table test with VSCode debugger+dlv and I have to comment out hundreds of lines of table tests.
Multipart uploads to AWS Glacier via CLI tool
Well, there's a lot of lobbying from Greenpeace that's set nuclear back a few decades. It's not just industry.
It's likely that you have a weird situation where making ten books costs about the same as making a thousand, because ten would have to be done via quite expensive printers and a bunch of hand setting, but a thousand is done via complex machines that once setup, are relatively cheap to run.

As an aside, print-on-demand from Amazon and others has been pretty amazing for black and white text, if you quality check it, but it quickly goes sideways for hardback color books.

People have even reported bad printing on simple text, but it's not clear if that's bad files (as the user, you have quite the leeway in what you send them).
> ORMs suck, but raw SQL embedded in your code sucks too.

_strongly_ disagree and I bet anyone who has this opinion can't articulate a good, concrete, reason for it. The best they're going to come up with is FUD about changing table names, which is one of those theoretical things that very rarely manifests itself in reality.
Wildly speculative unfounded thought experiment plot twist based on no evidence:

Neanderthals were the superior species and hunted humans into hiding. A global cataclysm occurred, devastating the food supply available to Neanderthals who required more fuel. Humans survived, only barely, because the few who survived on the run had acclimated to living in underground caves.

Sometime in the next few centuries, another cataclysm will occur, wiping out the surface dwelling human species.

Dolphins inherit the earth, and one day look back at the “primitive human species” that clearly gave way to the “superior” dolphin.

The end.
>We didn't disqualify anyone for using AI, we disqualified them because of their dishonesty. If you can't trust someone in an interview, how can you trust them in a remote environment?

Radical honesty has been a core cultural component to many a strong team, I'm glad to see somebody else mention this. There seems to be something unique about the relationship between codering and the concepts of transparency, honesty, and truth more broadly.

Or maybe that's just a consequence of version control :)
Sherlock Holmes did not use opium. Watson once described him as appearing as someone under the influence of opium, but discarded the suggestion. In another story ( The Man with the Twisted Lip ) Watson discovers Holmes in an Opium den, but Holmes is on a case and in disguised.

The cocaine habit is probably exaggerated. Watson does not give a frequency of his usage and reports Holmes as saying that he only uses it when he doesn't have a case to occupy his mind. Whether this means he uses it a few times a week or a few times a year is not stated.