skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russia is committing crimes against humanity with overwhelming popular support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity

They are no different than Nazi-Germany. You can't support Russia without supporting the crimes. They are as inseparably linked as Nazi-Germany and their crimes against humanity. There was no way to support Germany in 1942 and remain a moral person, and there is no way to support Russia in 2024 without being either a disgusting soulless bastard or a total moron.

"Negotiated settlement" sounds attractive in its sophistication, but in practice it means leaving people in occupied territories for Russians to torture, rape and murder: https://bylinetimes.com/2024/03/13/the-hallmark-of-russian-o...

It's as "great" idea as stopping after the liberation of Paris in 1944 and offering Hitler a deal that would've allowed him to continue the Holocaust in still-occupied parts of France if only he promised to stop the fighting on the frontlines. People who propose ideas like this are either uneducated morons or fundamentally evil.
It’s fascinating to note the ability to have stored programs was planned but not completed due to time and budget, so the extra memory and interface was added as an upgrade in ‘48.
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> That's like deciding to never try beer after seeing some people getting blackout drunk.

Out of all reasons to never try beer, this actually seems like a pretty good one? If my #1 reason would be seeing a drunk driver crash, then this would be a solid #2.

I'm not one to go moralize other people's use of substances, but it's also weird for me to read your take on it. Those are very common and good reasons for people not to try substances.
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> Third, the deadline effect is real. Most of the work in college happens at midnight before the project is due.

This depends a lot on what your team is like and what your long term vs short term look like.

If you've got an established product and revenue stream and can look 5 years ahead then pushing deadlines will make developers cut corners and make feature delivery a lot slower and buggier a couple of years down the line.

And if you have a motivated hardworking team (which, to be fair, isn't that common) you won't get much of an increase in pace as the deadline approaches, you'll just get more corner cutting and short termism.
> (Note, also, that linking libsystemd into sshd was a downstream patch.)

I feel like a lot of people are really glossing over this point. What's happened here is that Red Hat and Debian have made a choice to patch OpenSSH in a way that opened it up to this attack.

It's a little ironic that e.g. Arch, which actually shipped the malicious code to end users since it publishes changes so much faster, as shipped never would have executed the payload (because they didn't patch OpenSSH).
Tumbleweed is rpm-based, though maybe not so used in production
I love it. It is easy to install and containerized.

Its API is great if you want to integrate it with your code editor or create your own applications.

I have written a blog [1] on the process of deployment and integration with neovim and vscode.

I also created an application [2] to chat with LLMs by adding the context of a PDF document.

Update: I would like to add that because the API is simple and Ollama is now available on Windows I don’t have to share my GPU between multiple VMs to interact with it.

[1] https://www.avni.sh/posts/homelab/self-hosting-ollama/
[2] https://github.com/bovem/chat-with-doc
Precision calibrated instruments help also
Because SiO2 is one of the most stable minerals known, whereas copper and iron (and their oxides) are not; they readily chemically and biologically available and will be dealt with by the body.

Keeping iron from dissolving is hard

Dissolving SiO2 is nearly impossible (one of the many great advantages SiO2 brings in Si in lithograpjy).

EDIT:

You can do these experiment at home!

Buy very fine iron wool and some fiber glass. The giber glass is a stand in for asbestos.

Warning! these experiments involve fire or the evolution of corrosive fluids.

Blow torch the iron and glass wool. How do they fare? WARNING! This fire is very hard to put out.

Mix bleach with iron wool and glass wool.

Mix vinegar. Note, for best results use organic apple vinegar with the mother, or a too shelf Japanese rice vinegar

Mist the iron wool and the fiber glass with water.

RESULT:

In all these experiments glass was unfazed. Iron didn't make it in any. Sometimes violently.
2007 was a couple economical eras ago. I started around the same time, and it is impossible to compare then and now. Even post-global financial crisis, the job market was not as dire.
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> Is it possible? Definitely. But that's extremely rare, especially if you want to keep a relatively natural pattern for the commits and replies.

What sort of nonsense is this? Have you ever actually known any software developers? A huge number of them keep odd hours, moreso in the infosec sphere. They wouldn't need to automate anything, just start working hours that match the timezone that they're faking... If it really is a state actor, I imagine they'd be able to find someone willing to keep those hours.
idk, but Twitter under early Musk leadership sounded like anything but a bureaucratic swamp and he still absolutely and predictably failed. However, Twitter was a pretty different problem domain to what he was initially known for
Really, it starts before things get bad. This thing where - in the famous XKCD example - a single guy is thanklessly maintaining a project for 20 years in Nebraska needs to stop. Software libraries like these are no longer a one-person job. They can't be for the bus factor alone. Major projects like Linux distros or bigger foundations like Apache or Mozilla need to start harping on people hard to contribute to important libraries. We'll get to whatever the buzzword of the day is once we do the important work first.

Find a way to make it happen. Sorry, "I just can't" isn't going to cut it after this.
> (though that won't work on VPNs now)

Did for me just now, although as of a week or two ago reddit has been blocking many of my attempts to access through a VPN old. or not. Usually need to reconnect about 3 or 4 times before a page will load.
I don't think I have ever seen a BEAM language described as imperative. They are worlds apart from Rust and Nim.
It is really all about henkilötunnus, but at least they have proven they got it from reliable source. Which is entire point for me.
> before long

Specifically, 1600 years at current rate.

(I have a personal bugbear about people worrying about sea level rise)
My reasoning: There are hundreds of billions of dollars at stake getting the wider world to embrace LLMs on a long-term basis. If I were a VC, or Nvidia/OpenAI/MS marketing person, I'd be paying trusted names such as yourself to post about using LLMs. That coupled with the loose link between OCR and LLMs in your latest post created an itch I thought was worthy of a scratch.

> No, I'm not being paid to promote LLMs.

This is good enough for me, thanks.
Oh wow! I found him back in December. At that point, he hadn't updated the blog in over a year. Nice to see that he's active again.
> with no change in supply

This may be your misunderstanding. The 'equation', for lack of a better word, is supply and demand, not just supply. Market conundrums can normally be solved by change in either supply or demand.

A shortage occurs when a situation prevents price from rising, thereby warding off a change in demand. This is where an alternative selection mechanism — examples including a lottery, needs-based, or first-come, first-served — will typically step in to solve the dispute given the constraints in supply.

> Shortage is less information

Less information than what? As you can see, when we removed shortage in the above examples, the reader was left with the exact same information. No information was lost at all. Shortage added absolutely nothing.
Zstd implementation got a lot better in the last five years.
C is what Linux and Git are written in.

Just because the kidz doan' like it, does not mean it's bad.

1 is the loneliest number (have to be an old fart to get that), but big teams can be a problem (Camel is a horse designed by committee). I'd say the experience and track record of the principals are a big factor (see "Linux" and "Git").
you wouldn't give out the same sort of advice when a compiler or linker failed to complete a given task, although one certainly could do the work manually.

it's just fashionable to hate on AI, /s or not.
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What I haven't seen discussed much is the linking mechanism that allowed the lib to hook into RSA_public_decrypt. Plenty of talk about what could or could not be achieved by even more process separation and the like, but little about that function call redirect. Could it be possible to establish a way to link critical components like the code for incoming ssh with libraries in some tiered trust way? "I trust you when and where I call you, but I won't allow you to introduce yourself to other call sites"?

This would surely fall into the category of "there would be ways around it, so why bother?" that triggers a "by obscurity" reflex in many, but I'd consider it reduced attack surface.
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I had one of these white plastic iBook G4s. My next laptop was the very first “unibody” MacBook Pro 15”, bought from a Thanksgiving sale in 2008. I upgraded the RAM to 8GB and the HD to an SSD and it still runs great today. I stopped trying to upgrade the OS so the biggest challenge now is security. Thankfully Firefox has a long-term-stable version that still runs and gets current root certs for TLS.
how to be a better fiction writer. i wrote a novel and i'm revising it for the fourth time. i accidentally ripped off 'as i lay dying' by faulkner. i started writing my story about a funeral told in the first person present with multiple narrators and realized that faulkner had already done that. while writing it, i avoided reading him because i didn't want to rip him off more. but now i'm re-reading the book very closely and learning how he did it and taking some stylistic tricks. that book is genius, perhaps the best novel i've ever read in my life. it was a bad idea to avoid.
I’ll unsubscribe, but now call BS on the “this may take 14 days to take effect…” nonsense in 2024. If I’m getting more emails in a couple of days, they’re getting marked as spam. (Looking at you, TripAdvisor. If you can figure out how to build AI-generated itineraries, you can figure out how to not email them.)
I am amazed at the ability of the JS community to consistently make things more and more complicated.
Bo Burnham, on the subject, 10 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCVGpvzcHko
That's because you're a normal, well adjusted person.

Consider TempleOS[1] which was created by a programmer having a series of manic episodes which he believed was God's instruction to create 640x480 pixels of perfection.

He spent the rest of his life on this.

People vastly underestimate the tenacity of individual fixated people: so much so that in the physical world victims usually feel isolated by their peers who just don't believe the degree of effort they stalker will actually go to.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
I heard that sshd in arc doesn’t link to xz
You could probably get about 80% of the job done with just 20% of the work. I’m not in OSS but I hire technical people remotely, and I know many people that do. Some consultant friends have caught blatant scams within the first couple of rounds of interviews on Zoom.
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This is an April Fools joke. Don't go to a .exe link (unless you know what you're doing).
I am sorry they were rude to you. I had an experience in Phoenix Arizona recently. I was traveling for work from an illegal state, and we were having a work event, it was nighttime, and the smell started coming in from the street pretty strong, after a few minutes a hotel employee came over and closed the window and the smell went away. Seems like the more reasonable reaction instead of calling the police or trying to get the people arrested, on the other hand it was rude to light up on the sidewalk just outside of an open window/doors. If people were reasonable about their consumption and courteous of others in regard to the smell, there wouldn't be an issue. It's too bad we just can't make it illegal to be a rear end.
> Now, imagine that AIs start replacing more and more of what I do, then I'll have more and more time to think of what I want built and not have to spend so much time on building it. Sounds brilliant to me.

Now imagine a person who just spent four years studying CS who's looking for a job after graduating college. This is what they're competing with.
Good, bad, they’re the ‘guy with the gun’. No competent manager is going to have an existential crisis over what you think about it.

No good manager is going to abuse it either.

They aren’t fundamentally the bad guy, anymore than you’re fundamentally the good guy. They do have a job to do. Plenty of folks on either side are abusive and shitty.

The manager has the majority of the power though, most of the time. Unless labor is willing and able to walk, of course.

No need to put it in the ad, because it’s literally ‘the deal’. It’s the whole point of the ad!

Do you similarly complain if you get dumped by someone you’re dating because ‘they didn’t put it in the ad’?

They have a job they need someone to do, and they’ll pay money for someone to do it the way they think it needs to be done. If you want their money and think you can do that, you respond.

If you don’t like the deal and how it’s shaping up, you can walk. If they don’t like the deal, they can fire you.

How else do you think it would work?
My father was a PhD psychologist and family therapist. He was on the witness stand during a custody case explaining a theory of personality when the cross-examining lawyer said scornfully "I'll bet you got that out of some book." To which my dad replied: "Why yes, in fact. In my profession, in order to learn things, we often read books."
Does that include the super annoying lane-keeping? Rented a Corolla and would never want to drive that again.
A classical cash register is not the same like the thing we call computer, but that's not my point. My point was that "a computer is a thing that computes while a calculator is a thing that calculates" does not sound correct, the argument is basically the wrong way around. In my opinion, the verbs "to compute" and "to calculate" are synonyms. We only recently started to distinguish between a computer and a calculator, probably being a bit fuzzy and sloppy regarding the term "computer" (as natural languages are). But that doesn't mean that we can transfer that implicit (and maybe altered) meaning back to the verb "to compute".
My guess is that most Linux boxes that run sshd use an LTS distro, not one with rolling release. But I don’t know how to get any data on this.
Yup. Totally agree to the right to your own body.

On a personal note: I know some of the protagonist's sentiments from myself. If anyone is interested, the following things have helped me monumentally during very hard times:

- Device-free time outside, in nature, with your phone at home

- Self-cooked meals from basic ingredients

- Drinking around 1 liter of water for each 30kg of body weight per day

- Follow a daily wind-up and wind-down routine

Just the physical act of going through these motions can already help. You can trick your brain to respond positively even if you don't feel like it (e.g., http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bul0000194).
Imo, it's very much dependent on the intensity. I don't smoke it myself and consider a slight whiff of it quite pleasant, but I wouldn't tolerate someone smoking in my living quarters.
How are these things not comparable? It's all smells which linger and affect people around, but have to be tolerated as personal freedom of the offender.

I guess, apart from indoor smoking without proper ventilation (illegal in Germany), car exhausts are the only other thing which should be illegal, because of the huge burden on public health and the objective impact on another's life. If I have to tolerate even car exhausts, you have to tolerate all the weed stink. I would gladly sacrifice weed for a car ban.

I don't smoke. But you need friends with better dope, or stop hot boxing.
For his own personal safety, he might not want to get on the bad side of whatever (powerful) actor was behind this exploit.
Referrals are encouraged by internal recruiters in most companies...and they incentivize it with a few thousand dollars for a successful hire. Why are you making it sound so nefarious?
I imagine it would be possible, but a ton of work!

Maybe WebAssembly makes it doable.
It isn't clear what you're discussing. You mentioned that functional programming has lost its meaning and then went on to describe things as if your defintion would exclude some of the most shining examples of functional programming.

Functional does not mean just pure functional. And a purely pure functional language would literally be worthless as it wouldn't be able to do anything useful.
I think COVID (and the 2020 events, especially in the USA - I was living in Minneapolis at that time, so I might be biased) increased mental health awareness. For everyone, but especially for "essential workers".

Supply chain improvements have been made to increase diversification and resilience.

There was a lot of individualism to cast a shadow, but also cooperation and solidarity was shining on a small scale (hobbyist 3d-printing and donating shields and face mask relief thingies), but also globally.

Without getting into the healthcare and technology advancements we accomplished as a species.
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Simple: Brotli was initially shipped as a part of WOFF2 compressed font file format, and its creators foresaw more possible uses in the web browser, tailoring its built-in preset dictionary for web contents. It is no doubt that Zstandard is faster than Brotli, but both are sufficiently fast enough for web contents (100 MB/s and more), so an additional gain from Zstandard was much smaller. Given this, I believe Zstandard support in web browsers was possible only due to the strong push from Meta.
That novel is genius. If anyone here hasn't read it, you owe it to yourself to do so.
Hardly surprising when you consider gzip's DEFLATE was around in 1990 and developed by one guy as shareware and zstd was produced by a megacorp in 2015.
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React isn't in the list because the creator had a bad experience with backbone.js in 2013 and dislikes Signals. The team have kept true to his preferences without considering modern Signal approaches, concepts like components, dependency injection and TypeScript, npm packages which provide better encapsulation, discoverability and modularity than the state of the art in 2013.
It's naive to believe that any form of physical presence means someone isn't going to do something nefarious in the eyes of the project.

This problem can only be solved by more skilled eyes on the projects that we rely on. How do we get there? shrug.gif.

Anything less is trying to find a cheap and ineffective shortcut in this trust model.
I agree we need to stop depending on the 20-year hobby project of the guy in Nebraska, but adding barriers (which requiring travel and in-person meetings is) to sharing the load is not the solution. What these projects need is the necessary resources (mostly money) for multiple people to work on it professionally.
Beware if you buy a house from a natural person though, even if the house is sold through a professional broker, you are pretty much on your own. And filing a private lawsuit later gets very expensive (and can get pretty nasty).
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Indeed he did.

I care more about actions than words in this respect though (given Biden pushes for massive lethal aid to kill Russian invaders until recent House obstruction).
Oh this sounds like exactly like what I've been looking for, can't wait to give these a try - many thanks
It is easily done. The IFIXIT guide mentions it for anyone interested.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iBook+G4+12-Inch+800+MHz-1.2+GH...

"The connectors at the ends of the cables are attached very firmly to the sockets on the logic board. Pulling directly on the cable will either separate the cable from its connector or the socket from the logic board."
No, (semi-)government only by law, plus health care providers.
You can’t ignore that the variance and the sea level increases with climate change, especially at only 6m above.
The best things that came from COVID is increased WFH and mRNA vaccines.
"Oh no, there goes Tokyo" — Godzilla, Blue Oyster Cult
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It’s just bad diets. 30 years ago, it would be a struggle to find overweight people in any village in India. Absolutely rare to see an overweight child.

But during those decades, food became relatively cheap, especially carbs and sat fats, and Indian food is loaded with sugar/oil/cream/etc. It’s delicious, and do-able once in a while, especially if you have to sit around without air conditioning.

But start eating all those sweets and fried foods every other day while sitting in air conditioned offices and cars, and no amount of exercise is going to help.
Yearly inspections, how can that be lawful in a EU country?
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There's definitely truth to that as the flip side. If you say something will take three years, you'll find some way to stretch it out to three years (or at least 2 1/2) even if you could have gotten something reasonable out in a year.
This is incredibly sad to read. I will never stand in the way of someone's absolute right to decide their exit.

I watched my father suffer in pain and misery up until his last breath, and I just don't want that for myself. It was hell on my family, and I don't want to put everyone or myself through that.

I never understood why we force humans to suffer so much.
It's still horrible slow.
Zstandard was also mainly designed and produced by a single person, Yann Collet.
BTW, at our day-job, we've been running a "cluster" of M1 Pro Max machines running Ollama and LLMs. Corporate rules prevent remote access onto machines, so we created a quick and dirty pull system where individual developers can start pulling from a central queue, running LLM workloads via the Ollama local service, and contributing things back centrally.

Sounds kludge, but introduce enough constraints and you end up with this as the best solution.
I'm surprised to read such a take given pretty much every enthusiast I know went through the reverse cycle over the last 5 years when it comes to CPUs. I don't know anyone right now who is running Intel on their desktop computer. Even on mobile Intel seems to be loosing grounds. Only the GPU department is an uphill battle for AMD where they can't compete with any of NVIDIAs high end offerings.

However, observing Intels cards from an average consumers perspective, they really showed what difference good software makes when it comes to having great performance hardware.
You can simply check the Pull Request on llama.cpp on Github. JohanesGaessler (a core maintainer) has already ran the code and says it's an impressive speed-up. There isn't a thorough review by any of the core maintainers yet, but this is very likely just exactly what justine says it is; various significant and insignificant speedups.
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The current top of the line consumer GPU seems like such a weird metric.

I was "Doing AI" on a $300 laptop in 2013. (Running Dragon Naturally Speaking.)