skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For security critical projects, it seems like it would make sense to try to set up the build infrastructure to error (or at least warn!) when binary files are being included in the build. This should be done transitively, so when linux distros attempted to update to this new version of liblzma, the build would fail (or warn) about this new binary dependency.

I don't know how common this practice is in the linux distro builds. Obviously if it's common, it would take a lot of work to clean up to make this possible, even if it's even possible in the first place. It seems like something that would be doable with bazel, but I'm not sure about other build systems.
Bitmap fonts are beautiful. I think the original iPod(s) also used Apple's bitmap fonts including Chicago and Espy Sans.
Indeed. I think part of the reason when they are not discussed openly may be that much of the data used is copyrighted, which introduces some legal ambiguities.
This skepticism is completely justified since ChatGPT 3.5 is also happily hallucinating things that don't exist. For example how to integrate a different system Python interpreter into pyenv. Though maybe ChatGPT 4 doesn't :)
Easy isn’t the same as possible. I had a family member go through NYC social services back in the 1940’s, it’s been functioning for a long time.

Parents threaten to or actually kick their kids out on a depressingly regular basis there’s various procedures for dealing with it. I don’t think talking through the specifics of your situation would be appropriate on a public forum like this, but you can look them up.
> if you accidentally use the word"hack" when trying to get ChatGPT to write some code for you. it'll stop and tell you that hacking is bad, and not a colloquial expression, and refuse to go further.

Is that 3.5 or 4? I asked 4 for an example of code which "is a hack", it misunderstood me as asking for hacking code rather than buggy code, but then it did actually answer on the first try.

https://chat.openai.com/share/ca2c320c-f4ba-41bf-8f40-f7faf2...
One good argument for standardizing Signals is that debugging them seems to be a nightmare. Imagine a deep tree of calculated signals firing off each other and you need to find the source of what started the chain reaction. Standardizing will allow devtools to develop around it.
At this point the focus should be on making interop with python a first class feature.
No, Silent Generation did that about Boomers.
Recent and related:

Jamba: Production-grade Mamba-based AI model - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39853958 - March 2024 (80 comments)
> Maybe they were just overwhelmed by violent dictators

Yes, that is a form of failure. And it’s not always the result of violence. German democracy failed when the chancellor of a minority government managed to make himself dictator. Russian democracy failed when Putin took over.

Explain to me why, even after 20 years of help, Afghanistan couldn’t establish a democracy. I have an explanation that largely approximates to “they lack the proper mindset and culture of maintaining a democracy”, but if you reject that categorically, go ahead and provide an alternative explanation.
Cerebellum the Brain Region That Controls Movement Also Guides Feelings
> the English parses (to me at least) idiomatically as a native speaker from either the US or UK, and I did not encounter any signs of Singaporean English

Singapore is an Anglophone country. Many Singaporeans are perfectly capable of writing (idiomatic) BrE or NAmE, given the medium of instruction in Singaporean education from kindergarten to university is English. Example: me.
This comment perplexes me. Do you think there is no research happening? In that view, what do you think disease research, anti-aging research, and medical/pharmacological research is? And do you suppose that there are a finite amount of great minds, that the current set of them dying off implies that we'll be left without any soon enough, or that the current set needs to be maintained forever? As important as his work was, do we need to keep him around forever as some sort of special class of person?
I used to work for two Israeli companies and they were always off on Friday and Saturday. They start the week from Sunday.
When I "blitz", I'm looking for an immersive, memorable experience in my target language. Learning is merely a bi-product of that.

That said, as someone with an A1 ability according to CEFR (I started learning Polish 5 months ago), my ability to follow along with a native speaking narrator, even at 2x speed, has improved exponentially. My exposure to Polish vocabulary has also exploded, and I'm familiar with many Polish words in their various grammatical forms. However, I haven't committed to long term memory as many Polish words as I'd like to. Many meanings are still fuzzy, like a word at the tip of the tongue. I think I just need to see these familiar but fuzzy words in more diverse contexts before they are nailed down. That means more blitzing.
No. But then what would we do with all of the extra memory and performance?
The abstractions are relatively brittle. If you don't have a powerful GPU, you will be forced to consider how to split the model between CPU and GPU, how much context size you need, whether to quantize the model, and the tradeoffs implied by these things. To understand these, you have to develop a basic model how an LLM works.
If you want factual answers from a local model it might help to turn the temperature down.
The story of Eugene Debs parallels what might happen currently.

We’ve had a presidential candidate run from prison. His crime was protesting WWI…
In the paper (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pro.4941) it seems as if they are basically drying out the cells (kidney cells in culture) and then rehydrating them, and some percent survive.
I might be wrong, but wasn’t it established that “Havan” syndrome was just severe burn out?
> Anyway I have no idea if cpp2 would get support from microsoft or other devs, but cpp2 seems like the most humble and "least risky" solution for the future of C++, and I really want it to be.

That ship has sailed. They already have C#.
This is a bit dated, but if you are interested in general electronics (rather than digital electronics), you can try https://repairfaq.org/.

Digital electronics is in many ways much easier, but the analog part tends to sneak in everywhere, especially when you find your digital stuff isn't working. I think it's hard to design anything new, even digitally, without at least a working knowledge of how Ohm's law, LRC circuits, transistors, diodes, op-amps, etc. work.

I don't think it was this course, but I recall checking out an impressively thick book meant for US Navy technicians. The advantage there is that the assumption (unlikely college textbooks), is that you are intelligent but not college educated, and you need to know how to work on nearly anything electronic. Again, the focus is mostly the analog side. https://archive.org/details/NEETSModule01/mode/2up
I wish Apple had a modern version of this that 1) was as well thought out and 2) they actually paid attention to.
Actual title: "The aftermath of ChatGPT’s launch leaves media industry battling profitability with layoffs"
Natural Language Programming Language
Signals are actually much older concept from 70s introduced in smalltalk as a ValueHolder. Later Qt reused the same concept and called them "signals & slots".
This should have been called Enhanse (sticking with the misspelling theme)
Really a relaxing video to watch. Loved the transformation
Because you have the same mess plus all the mess and hard to debug incompatibilities and weirdness, added by the translator.

What people don’t get about cobol is that it is a language you can learn in a few days. It is meant to be readable for non-technical users so Cobol itself is not the issue. Once you get past the meaning of sections, and the implicit defaults that are different from modern programming languages, it is way easier than, say, C.
Discord to start showing ads in the coming week
A state actor is potentially the only person financially supported enough and willing to do this.

"You're in Zurich this weekend? Oh wow, me too. I'm holidaying with my wife. Let's grab lunch" as they proceed to prepare their military expense form for two business class tickets for them and their coworker
The examples only show simple values. What happens when mutating nested objects and arrays?

Other frameworks usually struggle a lot with this. With workarounds like having to override equality functions in useMemo() or call .set after a mutation even if you pass in the same instance as before.
I don't unsubscribe from emails I haven't opted in to. So report spam it is.
I also have a similar feeling. Though I think OP is talking about open source contributions which might be different from more casual forums and IRC.
Everything in software monitoring is dead, apparently
So, to cherry pick an example, the chart has data from 1954, three years before the launch of Sputnik.

How high is the confidence in the global surface air temperature data before the existence of satellites? Because, surely, ground based measurements are going to be less accurate if not completely missing from large chunks of the planet. Antarctica alone is 5.2 million square miles. What percentage of the continent did we have accurate measurements for in the 1950s? What about Asia? How many and how accurate were the air temperature measurements in the first half of the 20th century?
Alfalfa hay exports 2.9Mt ($1bn) with 55% going to China.

https://www.agproud.com/articles/52343-alfalfa-hay-exports-s...

https://fas.usda.gov/data/record-us-fy-2022-agricultural-exp...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/12/groundwater-us-...
I concur; in my experience Mixtral is one of the best ~30G models (likely the best pro laptop-size model currently) and Gemma is quite good compared to other below 8GB models.
Example with web components in all frameworks https://webcomponents.dev/blog/all-the-ways-to-make-a-web-co... and an other version to experiment with https://jsbin.com/yiviragiba/8/edit?html,css,js,console,outp...
> When I asked how exactly did he calculate it, he simply repeated with different numbers.

Now you know how an LLM feels during training!
Signals have, too. And it is literally spelled out in the readme, in the introduction section
Same here, it's cropping tool is the thing that makes it for me
No, far from it
But the vanilla code is much cleaner and nicer to read and reason about than the proposal?!

Seriously the JavaScript ecosystem is so strange..
The first photo seems to have a ruler besides the flowers, with each line probably being a millimeter. The whole inflorescence (stalk) with hundreds of flowers would thus be a few centimeters in length.
"The story of Eugene Debs parallels what might happen currently."

What exactly?

I do not see much that Donald Trump has in common with Eugene Debs.
I think you’re right, I don’t see how building this into the base library makes some things possible which weren’t before.

I think that the Promise API was not the actual thing people directly wanted (and on its own had no compelling reason to be added to the base library), but a standardised Promise API was needed in order to add the hugely useful async/await keywords which are unachievable without changes to the language.

I am however a big fan of a really good base library (it’s one of the things I love about working with .NET), but they should be focussing on functionality with the broadest reach (as in most encountered by average JS devs working on day to day tasks), e.g. things like better tools for working with dates and times.
>The example with the circles is a little misleading. The first task is find the circle, whereas the second task is find the red object, since this is the circle.

I think you completely missed the point of the square/circle example. The red circle is just a circle with syntax highlighting. The task is still to find the circle, but you are supposed to know in advance that the syntax highlight color for "a circle" is red.

The first circle is shown without syntax highlighting, the second circle is shown with syntax highlighting. "Square" and "circle" is the syntax, red is the highlighting. The point of the first example is to show how much easier it is to spot the circle when it takes advantage of syntax highlighting.

It's a very good example of why syntax highlighting helps with these kinds of tasks. The squares could be blue, black, yellow or white and it would still be easier to spot the circle because it's highlighted in red.

It doesn't even matter what color the circle was highlighted with, so long as it's different than the syntax highlighting of the squares.
I don’t have a dog in the fight. I also don't see yet any mainstream support behind the proposal. So I don’t get why it has to be so heated?

The main benefit is interop. Same with promises. You can implement all of promises with custom callbacks - in fact it’s trivial. But competing implementations don’t typically land on API compatibility simply because they’re solving the same problem. That causes a fractured ecosystem. Maybe interop could be important with signals? I think they should argue that, if so!

> Users will still need to use libraries for that, just like they do today.

Yes? But you reduce the lifting by the libs - ideally enabling a class of vanilla use-cases which can be made demonstrably improved. You could say querySelector was unnecessary because you can do it in lib. Or filter, or map. Standardization can cover std-lib like features too no?

Doesn’t mean I am in favor. I think you should always default to no unless strong and consistent proven benefits. But why not have good faith arguments for what problems this will or won’t solve. For instance, if hypothetically let’s say react or svelte has a different model that cannot possibly use these signals, then that’s probably a sign it’s not good. My philosophy with proposals is balancing the curiosity and honest inquiry with a grumpy defensive inquisition before saying aye. Flaming though is really not helpful.

> You're basically saying that we should add signals to JS because we've added (much simpler or more needed) things to JS before

> saving bundle size

Yes, I agree these are weak arguments.
I get the opposite effect. The shifting colors slow me down because I'm expecting them to have some special significance. Once I force myself to ignore the colors, I can read at almost normal speed again (although it takes extra concentration). I wouldn't want to read a whole page like this.
Check out wxPython.
It's not abnormal in many fields. A lot of biology or physics papers have more than that number.

In academic labs, so you're a postgrad working the overnight shift watching some petri dish to make sure the bacteria doesn't die, etc. It's super boring grunt work but you do it so you get on the paper's author list.
Saina uu? Mongloor nadtai yarilgui yu?
Where was Cornelius Vanderbilt in this? There is no reference at all.
There's certainly a lot of grace, especially in today's consumption mindset, in repairing a physical device. I hope you can monetize it someday (or maybe not if it will take the fun out of it)
Pinatubo erupted in 1991 and affected global temperature in the next years [1]. Adding 1991 and -3 to +3 years to the plot should show the trend change.

> Huge quantities of particles from Pinatubo's tall ash cloud injected into the global wind system in the stratosphere. These particles affected the weather in two ways. Tiny aerosol droplets reflected sunlight away from Earth causing cooling at the surface. Scientists observed a maximum global cooling of about 1.5°C. Sunsets and sunrises were more brilliant because of the fine ash and gases high in the air.

I wonder if artists painting pleinair before/after the eruption would show the intensity change of sunset/sunrises in their work too.

[1] https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/stratoguide/pinfeat.html
Yeah, one of the “ends” being Facebook itself. It's “legal” as in it is indeed end-to-end encrypted in the same way Cloudflare-hosted websites are, but very shitty. I always thought Facebook did this, but having some confirmation bias is very nice indeed, lol.
Because I pay once, and I own it. For life.

I don’t care if it’s 50 bucks or 500. I don’t want to pay for your shitty subscriptions. I do not want to have an account, I do not want to have to have an internet connection just to use software that I paid for.
The only thing stopping people is defeatism. People organized effective mass movements before the Internet - now it's infinitely easier, and so is the defeatist propaganda.

The Reddit CEO has been successful - one absolutely necessary reason is a lack of defeatism.
UpCloud's Zero-Cost-Egress
Your point, that doing this ad-hoc in go results in a half-baked shitty reimplementation of ansible/chef/fabric/whatever, was well made. I totally agree with it.

My point was, is that the DevOps person needs to be smart enough to pick up Go, which I'm sure you are.

Any hiring manager that puts your whole application on the bottom of the stack because of a lack of experience isn't a good hiring manager and isn't worth your time.
Yeah it isn’t profitable when you then spend 30% of your staffing costs on hiring new people as the old ones leave

To me late payment means they are possibly insolvent so I am looking for another job.
> In practice you rarely need to explicitly go “new Promise” yourself

However you do quite often need to use Promise.all, even when using async/await.
I’m not arguing about why the US and UK supported the coup. I’m pointing out that Iran was no longer a democracy when the coup happened regardless. I’m also pointing out that if Iran had remained democratic, the shah and the military would have had no reason to carry out the coup whether or not the US wanted it to happen.

> The CIA and US media propaganda spread false reports about the situation then and still to this day. i.e this article you attached is a pure piece of western propaganda.

That claim is completely inconsistent with the CIA and US government repeatedly and publicly claiming responsibility/taking credit for the coup.
> SSH pre-auth RCE: root access to most servers on the planet, impacting everyone from hobbyist self-hosters (that's me) to large businesses (of every type imaginable) to probably even some of the security agencies around the world.

No, absolutely not; that didn't actually happen. Most servers on the planet that are running x86_64 Linux are probably not running a rolling-release distro based on .deb or .rpm. Rolling-release (or a beta version of the next OS release) is required because I can't imagine one of them updating to a new version of a library like this until the next major release of their OS, and .deb/.rpm because those are the only build environments where the backdoor would get built into the library. (And on top of that, only systems where sshd is patched to link to libsystemd.)

Also: while I will admit that there are many businesses with abysmal security practices, most will not have ssh exposed to the public internet; that'll require access to the corporate VPN as well. You note this, but fail to recognize the impact.

Even hobbyists probably aren't hit by this in large numbers. I run a VPS for a variety of things, and it runs Debian stable. Assuming this backdoor attempt was never found, it wouldn't get installed on it until mid-/late-2025, when Debian trixie is likely to be released (plus some time for me to get around to upgrading it).

I did have the affected package on my laptop, which runs Debian testing. But I don't have sshd enabled on it all the time, and even if I did, my laptop is rarely on a network without NAT (and I usually opt to tether to my phone when in public rather than use public WiFi). All the other machines on my home network are also running Debian stable, and were unaffected.

I suspect that precious few systems even had the backdoor installed on them, and of those, even fewer were accessible directly on the public internet.

Now this could have been bigger than Stuxnet, if the backdoor had remained secret for -- and I think I'm being generous here -- another year or so.
> Council of Nicaea is a favorite flashpoint for conspiracy theory people

Could you please elaborate on that a bit? I do not know much about conspiracy theories, but I am curious why an event so ancient can fuel contemporary conspiracies
Apple ecosystem becomes biggest blue-collar job creator in India
That is certainly true, I did not mean to imply this is not the case. I have noticed however that in the Singaporean English acrolect certain words and phrases are used differently than they would be in BrE or NAmE ("I'll send him to the airport.") In less formal registers the differences become larger, which is what I was looking for.
Put “insuring diamonds“ into your favorite search engine. More holes in those policies than Swiss cheese.
Hype people do this all the time - take a word that has a particular meaning in a narrow context and move it to a broader context where people will give it a sexier meaning.

AI researchers unveil alien intelligence

Is way better headline.
And great minds are born every year. Or rather with the potential to develope a great mind, if we help them with the right conditions.
Yikes. I'm definitely asking my CPA that question and not an LLM.
This looks sufficiently advanced to warrant some language support.

This could be a much more powerful feature if signal-dependencies were discovered statically, rather than after use in runtime.

If you’ve reached the point where you agree that the library should be standardized, why not take it even further to integrate it even more?
They do this for larger diamonds, it wouldn't make as good of a video though
Maybe something that can be done if it hasn't been done already: semantic analysis across the different platforms they communicated on, to determine if it was the same person. Also semantic analysis on the same platforms using different cohorts of time (days of the week, months of the year, quarters, whatever).

Also: analysis on the email chains they interacted with. It's a possibility that they may have responded to their own emails in their mailing lists with fix suggestions/requests for clarification etc.
Experts war-gamed what might happen if deepfakes disrupt the 2024 election
Try-with-resources doesn’t guard against use-after-close. Rust RAII does.
Stuff that is backwards in Australia
Have tested a couple of Surfshark locations - most of them are blocked by Reddit (new/old).

When Reddit farts - Fediverse ignites the fire: influx of users to Lemmy and other similar sites is visible, so I encourage to checkout it and maybe run an instance for yourself and your friends as well.
I've also wondered the exact same thing. Suppose we'll see!
https://archive.is/gjJo7
Sometimes we just need a single variant of such fundamental services that just "works", but today we, in a very wasteful manner, get hundreds of variants each of which is trying to steal some percentage of the pie. Yeah sure thats how capitalism works and competition fuels improvement, but I think its also ridding us on bringing much more users under a single umbrella to maximize the interactions.
More Evidence Ties Russia to Havana Syndrome Attacks
And that would likely be precious few, at least today. Only a teeny tiny percentage of servers out there were updated to a vulnerable version. And an even smaller percentage likely had their sshd port exposed to the public internet.

Sure, if the backdoor hadn't been found for a couple more years, the impact would have been much higher, as the backdoored version would have made it into actual current releases of the popular server distros, and companies gradually upgraded.