skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if nuclear weapons are a good example. In the 1940's most of the non-weapons-related nuclear research was public (and that did make certain agencies nervous). That's just how scientists tend to do things.

While the US briefly had unique knowledge about the manufacture of nuclear weapons, the basics could be easily worked out from first principles, especially once schoolchildren could pick up an up-to-date book on atomic physics. The engineering and testing part is difficult, of course, but for a large nation-state stealing the plans is only a shortcut. The on-paper part of the engineering is doable by any team with the right skills. So the main blocker with nuclear weapons isn't the knowledge, it's acquiring the raw fissile material and establishing the industrial base required to refine it.

This makes nuclear weapons a poor analogy for AI, because all you need to develop an LLM is a big pile of commodity GPUs, the publicly available training data, some decent software engineers, and time.

So in both cases all security-through-obscurity will buy you is a delay, and when it comes to AI probably not a very long one (except maybe if you can restrict the supply of GPUs, but the effectiveness of that strategy against China et al remains to be seen).
So does that make them mint-flavoring-flavored?
I think the problem is more fundamental: imagine that you were Google Gemini or ChatGPT. Anyone is allowed to ask you any questions, about any hot-button political issue or risky subject that they want. You will have Christian fundamentalists interviewing you about abortion, Marxists asking you about income inequality, etc.

You must answer in a way that makes everybody happy, with no accusations of bias. Is that even possible for anyone to do?
Apple's following of the law is definitely provocative to say the least. I think that big tech have started actively going against EU policies. While I don't have much love for big tech, the fact is that it has now become a required part of life.
> I don't trust OpenAI or Microsoft, but I don't have much faith in democratization either. We wouldn't do that with nukes, after all.

Dangerous things are controlled by the government (in a democracy, a form of democratization). It's bizarre and shows the US government's self-inflicted helplessness that they haven't taken over a project that its founders and developers see as a potential danger to civilization.
Not to be glib, but Africa is pretty warm. We lost our hair as we were evolving distance running, but we only needed to worry about clothes as we moved north, which, AIUI is relatively recent in comparison.
Don't usually support Elon Musk at all, but this seems like a great thing to do, even if it is self serving for Elon. AI needs to be open and it's methods available for public scrutiny as it has great potential to stratify society even more so than it currently is between the haves and the have-nots.
Unsure why it's capitalized in the article (it shouldn't be, consider terms like ice giant and sub-Jupiter or even the hycean planet Wikipedia page) but I'll point out that there's a pun there you've missed. High seas.
As I understand it, the principles behind nuclear weapons are well known and the chief difficulty is obtaining enough highly enriched material.
Scientists Confirm the World Now Has over 1B Obese People
I'm talking about 32 vs 40 h per week productivity, not WFH productivity. What's one have to do with the other?
Just to provide an idea: work very hard, be the best qualified for something, earn it, own the merit based on performance, don’t get a chance because of [enter your favorite DEI reason].

This is messing people’s lives up. It’s excruciating.
this kind of emotive ragebait comment is usually a sign that the message is close to getting through. cognitive dissonance doesn't slip quietly into the night
Why is Germany always so naive when it comes to Russian espionage and infiltration?
> Those apps are no more going to leave the App Store and go to the web than they are going to leave the Google Pay Store.

...Microsoft did exactly that, though:

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/30/hands-on-xbox-cloud-gam...

I don't really understand the rest of your argument. "Of course developers aren't going to use the web instead of apps, it's a way worse experience!" is precisely the point in criticizing Apple letting the web platform languish. They have a vested interest in making sure the in-app experience remains superior to web experience because of their 30% cut.
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Going to the IRS and saying, "This is how we plan to benefit humanity and because of that, we shouldn't have to pay income tax." and then coming back later and saying, "We decided to do the opposite of what we said." is likely to create some problems.
Go to the map and sample a few locations?

https://www.tesla.com/findus?v=2&bounds=39.04279611004773%2C...
Microsoft just bought off Mistral into no longer releasing open weights and scrubbing all references to them from their site…?
> The consumer would switch their PWA default engine in one of the half dozen "you have to agree to continue" buttons when Edge and Chrome install themselves and demand every privacy and security toggle be turned off (as Microsoft Teams demands when you try to run it in Safari), and then all PWAs would be insecure and monitored by the adtech engines.*

I suggest Apple takes inspiration from Android then, since that doesn't happen on Android. Maybe Android's security model is better.
Short answer: They don't all need updating. Many of the most popular games go on for years without needing any updates, and usually if you already have settled on specific games and revisions thereof, you won't need to update.

Longer answer: Every MAME update changes things, which includes adding, removing, and changing the definition of ROMs. Due especially to the nature of arcade games, there aren't convenient de facto wrapper formats (like, say, .nes or .sfc files), and MAME just defines each independent ROM as their own files, with MAME's own idea of what the names should be and accompanying sha1 hashes. If MAME developers/contributors have discovered that a game revision previously dumped was incorrect (as is the case in TFA), it might be replaced with a known good dump. In that case, you are expected to redump the game from your arcade board, this time the right way (or well, pirate the game, which most MAME users do...).

It may seem annoying, but it's the nature of game preservation. It'll never be in a perfected and finished state.
The article said that a few scammers tried to pay them to look more legitimate.
I guess it you want a nuclear apocalypse then giving the tech to people that would rather see the world end than be "ruled by the apostates", that sounds like a great plan.
Primates originate from tropical/sub-tropical Africa where its generally consistently warm. When humans left Africa remains a matter for debate, but even still its extremely recent with regard to human evolution. By that time humans may likely have already developed clothing for other reasons before encountering areas of consistently cold weather.
I'm not sure how this applies in softwoods (like the hemlock & fir type stuff usually used in construction), but it is not really so obvious that slow growth (tight rings) is better than fast growth (wide rings) in hardwoods. The fast growth wood is usually much less likely to shatter or split under strain -- which for some purposes (anything delicate, or with staked construction such as Windsor chairs, basically stuff which needs to bend some under use) is preferable.

I'd need to break out my [Hoadley](https://www.tauntonstore.com/understanding-wood-2nd-edition-...) to confirm, but my belief is that you are trading modulus of elasticity for modulus of rupture.
Sorry to say it, but nonprofits operate for profit businesses all the time a few different ways. Educational institutions, hospitals, charities, science, public safety, etc all can apply for 501c3. See healthcare orgs like Kaiser Permanente for example, they are 100% for profit 'medical groups'/partnerships, funded by the HQ, which operates under nonprofit status for tax purposes, by following all the laws re: 501c3. The private child operations are not considered part of the 501c3. The profit from the nonprofit parent is reinvested into the company 100%, but the private org 'partnerships' that are not hospitals are definitely for profit. OpenAI.org did the exact same thing. If you have a lot of money in the US, you don't have to pay tax thru creative accounting, which is non-competitive.
Scholz does not stall support for Ukraine, Germany has given about 10 times as much military aid as France to Ukraine: https://www.politico.eu/article/military-aid-ukraine-france-...

Also compared to the US, Germany has given about 60 billion total aid (including the EU share + refugee cost) if I calculate it correctly, while the US has given 75 billion. So it gives much more per GDP.
This announcement doesn't indicate that any of that has changed. They're not investing resources, they're just ... not removing an existing feature. A feature that they would need to maintain anyways, since it would remain enabled outside the EU.
How we actually solve that problem (at least over here in Poland) is by excluding the weirder holidays from the electronic schedule altogether and deactivating all the arrival time boards and such. If you're lucky, there are cardboard signs explaining all the holiday rules at each stop, there may also be a PDF on the operator's website.
If I add multiple slots with the same name it shows all of them.

<div id=t>
<template shadowrootmode=open>
<slot name="s1">s1</slot>
<slot name="s2">s2</slot>
<slot name="s3">s3</slot>
</template>
</div>

<script>
setTimeout(_=> t.innerHTML += `<span slot="s3">three</sp>`, 1000)
setTimeout(_=> t.innerHTML += `<span slot="s1">one</sp>`, 2000)
setTimeout(_=> t.innerHTML += `<span slot="s2">two</sp>`, 3000)
setTimeout(_=> t.innerHTML += `<span slot="s1">ONE!!</sp>`, 4000)
</script>

I guess there is no way to replace a slot, again and again?
4 day week is very stupid. You can only do a few hours of good programming a day and throwing away one of them is idiotic
> A powerful technology is a danger to society if only a few people possess it. By giving it to everyone, you even the playing field.

That's why we all have personal nukes, of course. Very safe
The reality was different. Prior to MSFT, Open AI ran a lean company operating within the the budget of Musk funding, focusing on science and talent. For example, in 2017, their annual compute spend was <$8 million compared to like 450 million for deep mind.

Big spend only came after MSFT, which invested $1B and then $10B, primarily in the form of credit for compute.
Which link checker(s) do you use?
I wonder if getting rid of hair helped decrease tick and lice borne diseases.
Unity was till 2017, it states. Hmm, what does Ubuntu use now? It’s not the Gnome I use on Fedora. I don’t like (and use) Ubuntu, so I was under impression that it uses Unity to this day.
Fixing Ext4 Under Pressure
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I can really relate to this article! I created T.LY URL Shortener in 2018, and I've encountered all these issues and more! I found out the hard way when my hosting company shut down my servers for malicious content about a week into launching the site. Malicious actors will go to all sorts of lengths to achieve their goals.

Be careful relying on Stripe to prevent these users. Next they will start using stolen credit cards to create accounts then you will face disputes. If you get too many, Stripe will prevent you from processing payments.

About a year ago, I launched a service called Link Shield. It's an API that returns risk scores (0-100) on URLs. It uses AI and other services to score if a URL is malicious. Check it out and let me know if you would be interested in trying it linkshieldapi.com/
Trustle | Principal Engineer | Remote US | www.trustle.com

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From cloud computing providers like AWS, GCP and Azure to hosted apps like GitHub and PagerDuty, Trustle understands the management of user permissions for a rapidly growing portfolio of cloud hosted software solutions and identifies things that require attention to any teams that manage access in an organization.

Granting, revoking and configuring access should not be a maze of clicking thru admin consoles, Terraform, custom tools and scripts. What we’re building will empower our customers to spend time in their core competencies with access to systems as an afterthought.

We are a small, fully remote, well-funded company with dozens of cloud services already supported for our customers with an experienced team with alumni/alumna from Okta, Netflix, AWS, Cruise and GitHub. We also occasionally discuss whether the Cleveland Browns are cursed at length. Trustle is fully remote.

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Not able to sponsor employment visas at this time, sorry.
I was thinking more of the inverse, I actively do flexibility/mobility work so that I can be a better climber.
Code that isn't tested, isn't done. Tests not only verify the expectations, but also prevent future regression. Fuzzing is essential for code that accepts external inputs. Heartbleed was discoverable with a fuzzer.
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Foxglove is the leading observability platform for robotics developers. We help robotics and autonomous vehicle companies log, ingest, organize, and visualize multimodal data. We're well funded (Series A), ~20 people, with an experienced and fast-moving team. Seeking like-minded people to join us!

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Email adrian@foxglove.dev if you have questions (no recruiters please).
The technologies that power LLMs are open source.
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Microservices Modernization Missteps
Location: Kirkuk, Iraq
Remote: Preferred
Willing to Relocate: No
Technologies: JavaScript, NodeJS, React, ExpressJS, Django, Python
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1epyMsf_XHuoqDc6ap_mpO9nkVAM...
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>Companies (currently) compete by offering more money - if the pool of applicants dried up enough, perhaps they'd begin competing by offering more time.

Because more money is what most candidates prioritize when job hopping, because when buying a house they can pay it with that money but can't pay it with more time off.

The only people who prioritize less hours for less money are
those who are already fortunate enough to have enough money but those can always choose to work less hours for proportionately less pay.

Like it or not, there are so many people in this rat race trying to build wealth that 40h and more money is preferable to 32h and less money. That's why the 40h sticks and the negotiation is done on money.
"I think there is still need to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout society."

In practice DEI entails discrimination against supposedly advantaged groups. A different approach, which I support, is not to discriminate and let the chips fall where they may.
Surviving the Cookie Hell
That's brilliant, but also... sounds like hell? Wouldn't that easily add several months to the timeline?
As a rock climber, I hope it grows. Tired of seeing these debates and fights with authorities on putting up anchors, which are far less visible than these via ferratas. If these catch on and people like them, I think it will be good for climbers.
Not trying to nitpick here, but '2' is not an int here. It's the constant evaluated at compile time. But yeah, valid case if users of your code are in the habit of typing magic numbers into your function that expects enum.

My understanding is that on a practical level, these kinds of issues arise from misusing types (or not caring about them) and naively putting variables of one type into the function that expects another. Examples with number constants typed in manually do not hold ground.
What's the benefit of a link shortener, these days?

It made sense back before Twitter had one of their own. And I know that some people use it to get link analytics. I've also occasionally seen it used for printed materials, to get pretty URLs that are easy to hand-type.

People also use it for malicious purposes, such as hiding malware, or disguising referral links, or otherwise trying to obfuscate where a link is going. (Note: I'm not calling referral links malicious, I'm calling disguised referral links malicious.)

Other than printed materials (which need pretty URLs and thus often need a dedicated first-party URL shortener) and analytics, what are people using third-party URL shorteners for today?
Because we need someone who know how to optimize beyond what the frameworks can normally do.
Where can I download the 70b mistral medium then? Other than the miqu leak.
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[1] Andy Gavin on the Making of Crash Bandicoot:
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Everything in the paper is talking about global symmetries, is there also the possibility of gauge symmetries?
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>At that point, is it worth the time invested? Every new feature can take 2-3 times longer to deliver due to adding tests.

Depends if you are writing software to control a pacemaker, or writing software for some silly smartphone game.
So why haven't they done it? Seems like a good way to get votes. "If you vote for me you'll only work 4 days/week."
My company has one they use to track who clicks on links in emails.
Mozilla and Google managed to reverse browser monopolies by just being better.

Why can't Apple?

Why is Apple entitled for a free pass on forcing browsers down their users throat?
Absolutely -- both in terms of the energy cost of refining and in direct emissions from the process. Extracting crude oil, transporting it to the refinery, and transporting the resulting gasoline to the gas station all have substantial carbon costs associated with them as well.
What Will Happen to My Music Library When Spotify Dies? (2021)
I don’t see how that fits the timeline.

The App Store was opened in 2008, and was a huge success in 2018 (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/01/app-store-kicks-off-2...: “New Year’s Day Sets Record With $300 Million in Purchases”)

If “Since then Apple has blocked any meaningful evolution of web apps”, why did they add support for PWAs on iOS in 2018? (https://medium.com/awebdeveloper/progressive-web-apps-pwas-a...: “Safari is finally adding PWA features.”)
That's surprising. The CVS a mile from my house uses USPS Priority Mail. It might actually be cheaper if a pharmacy tech spent ten minutes driving it here.
I shudder at a world where only corporations had nukes.
I'll be walking tall the day I can leisurely read articles like this! I wish I had studied this stuff; now time is short.
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