skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly it's hard to make the case for learning OpenGL at all at this point, unless you need to maintain legacy code. It's not a good API, and it's a technical dead-end with Khronos no longer developing it and Apple abandoning it even earlier. While Vulkan has the vertical learning curve problem there's now native WebGPU libaries providing a sane middle ground that follows modern principles without getting bogged down in minutiae like Vulkan does.
There’s basically 0 application of Olympiad maths (what job do you think requires solving these problems?)
30-40x murder rate is wildly incorrect. According to 2022 stats I found, Singapore had 7 murders for a pop of 5.6mil (1.25/mil) and NYC had 30 for a pop of 8mil (3.75/mil)... that's 3x.

Maybe that's just fewer guns and better mental health supports (whether official or cultural).
How else do you prove you live some place?

“I pay the bills there” is barely better than nothing, though. We do this in Canada too. It is what I used for a driver’s license one renewal.
That cookie banner is non compliant with the EU law. I agree that the banner is nice, unobtrusive and kind. But a serious business cannot use that instead of the bigger one which - while super obnoxious - provide the required information about which cookies are used, what, and how.
> could have been in any language

Bingo. This was a highly motivated, targeted, and well planned compromise of the supply chain itself. And funnily enough, using a memory-safe language could have actually made it less likely for this to be detected.

There were symptoms showing up prior to the discovery, most prominently Valgrind errors in otherwise unrelated project builds. (ref: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2267598)
I agree that too much art commentary is made without actually seeing the goddam artwork. As an art student I was guilty of this. I remember being very contemptuous of Edward Kienholz's work. These installation pieces looked very cheesy in photos, but when I saw one in real life (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beanery) I was blown away.
It runs deeper than that: if RISC-V is a success, rv64 assembly is the new C.

If we are honest with ourself, and avoid Big Tech brain washing, on the life cycle of many software components, ironing "issues" in assembly is done on the long run and does exclude de facto "issues" spawning due to ever changing machine code from compilers.
A lot of people miss the forest for the trees. They can clone a voice using 15 seconds of audio. So how good the clone will be when they have 10 min, 30 min or larger sample size. And it will probably keep getting better
I couldn’t imagine trying to train the general public to use mTLS and deploy that system.

I’m not even sure it is difficult. Most people I’ve talked to in tech don’t even realize it is a possibility. Certificates are “complicated” as they put it.
Seriously, a naive database sharding algorithm could be implemented in a week or so by a competent dev.

A company like figma (billions in revenue) putting a small team to implementing a database sharding solution for an un-implemented use case (RDS, not just postgres). AND open sourcing it creating a value for the community is a net-good for the industry.
>lithium battery powered trains

If only trains were traveling at predictable routes and you could supply them with electricity while traveling. Let's call it an electric locomotive.

Planes, at least passenger yets, will never use lithium ion batteries. Which is why the industry is pivoting to "green" aviation field.
My career was a rollercoaster. You will never know what might have been, but it is important to be happy (enough). Ended my working days as a WFH contract developer which by then was perfect.
It was much more fun playing outside in nature when you could grow your knowledge of life and consciousness by playing with friends.

Now that has taken a back seat. Growing your consciousness by observing videos, learning and playing games is the norm for kids.

Simply knowing that you could be expanding your mind tenfold on a phone, while you're outside throwing sticks and climbing trees, kind of ruins the fun of exploring outdoors.
The fact that so many of them believe in that effective altruism nonsense shows why none of these people should ever be in control of such vast amounts of power and resources. They think they should have all the money and power because they're tech CEOs and have a maniacally unhinged confidence in their understanding of complex global societal issues / are straight-up lying because they're greedy, and the rest of us peons should just bow to their will.
> what are those characteristics?

That's easy: does the particular pile of trash generate any interesting discussion?

(for the category-heads: what functors are there into or out of the pile of trash?)

EDIT: we have AI generated art; do we have AI art critics yet?
… Or an accounting firm can do this to Enron’s books and it tells them where the fraud is. Or an aircraft manufacturer can throw in all the product documentation for their aircraft and all of their parts suppliers and the maintenance records too and turn it into a database. Or an international regulator could do the same for air traffic control regulations and incident reports. Or a global beverage manufacturer or a clothing and footwear company can do the same for their social media interactions. Or a gamer can do it for a video game walkthrough and ask “What do I have to to build item X?”

So far as surveillance goes, about ten years ago I went to a conference where there was a workshop on text analysis put on by no other than Edward Snowden’s bosses boss. Except few of us knew who Edward Snowden was until a few weeks later!

That was the beginning of the phase where I talked to all sorts of folks about how to do text analysis and, despite finding out about a few projects where people’s heads were well underwater, found that people who worked in the research triangle park area working for three-letter agencies had a lot to learn from, but not so much silicon valley folks, academics, etc. Also some companies you’ve heard of and even more you hadn’t heard of from India were doing big projects with Apache UIMA and half a battalion worth of annotators.
There are million ways to hide exploits even in "safe" languages. If you have a bad actor that can spend couple years prepping how to hide an exploit, then it doesn't really matter which programming language is used.

Build system is complex because of legacy and need to support millions of different platforms and distros.
In a movie his mental health issues would likely have been caused intentionally by the attacker, setting the stage for the mole to offer to step in just at the right time. Seems a bit far fetched in this case though for what looks like a tangential attack.
Same for me. Right next to sharex.
Exactly, and now she's saying that she's no longer fine with it.
I don’t think we need to be calling people incompetent over a disagreement.

Are you suggesting that not opening the ports to any other services means they’re no longer a vulnerability concern?

That would be.. concerning.
I use busybox XZ and I don't have that abomination of systemd.

I don't feel safe anyway. Anybody who does is a fool.
Good to see BoingBoing still have their finger on the pulse of two years ago.
GLiNER: Easiest way to do Named Entity Recognition in 2024
Extract any entity (person, email, phone, number, ...) from text
If you check the dictionary, the definition of "smear" requires that the accusations must be false.
That's what for-profit and investors do to morality.
I think our are taking about a professional organization. Those do not perform the same function unions do.

The point of unions is to gain bargaining power against massive corporations. If you are self employed, part of a small company or easily replaceable (which is the case for most lawyers), because your professional is only a tiny part of the company a union does nothing for you.

Professional associations exist for different reasons and have different goals.
All of which would be better than what the post is advocating and I totally agree with this.
> The service now has an estimated 1.2 billion users — about 1/7 of the global population

Based on how many Gmail addresses I know I have, and how many I’d apparently forgotten about until I got a notice at my recovery address that the account was about to be deleted due to inactivity, I’m going to express a bit of skepticism at this particular statistic.
It’s not “full”, since it only works in very limited circumstances.
Somebody drunk on white space will “listen” but not hear.
The internet acts as a booster in that it makes many things easier. Among others, peddling exploitation and abuse and still surviving economically. I marvel at the patience of people who put up with what you describe.
(I work at Notion)

Our shard key - Workspace ID - is a UUIDv4 so there’s a pretty high number of orgs per shard without conflict.
I would imagine if I lost my voice that I would prefer a standard TTS voice as opposed to paying a subscription to have an unholy digital facsimile voice that OpenAI owned.
I completely agree with you. I think of relational databases as a fundamental programming skill. I have made a good career from RDBMS and SQL expertise, and that technology shows no signs of going away.
This is prima facie evidence that LLMs are a devil's staircase.
Where have they complained about attractive women being used? I've only seen complaints about the image being from a soft porn magazine. Maybe you can conjure up someone saying this, but it's not the common complaint.

So your whole rant is off the mark. As I said: a straw man. There is no discrimination going on here.
> How many of people like this one exist?

I guess every 3 letter agency has at least one. You can do the math.
They havent't learned anything after Solar Winds.
Sometimes it's hard for me to imagine how the current teenagers, and people in their 20s apparently, grew up with what I always considered Web 2.0 technology and smart phones — in my mind innovations of my time. They OTOH basically had internet/gps in their hands and pockets since birth. Social media equals internet and smart phones are the only phones they know.

Are they more fuelled to invent the next thing?
Don't be too sensitive. Someone will sneer at you whatever you do. If it works, satisfies the business case and is maintainable all is good.
Would you rather have your tax money spend on auto dimming glasses for everyone to wear when walking, move all car road infra under ground, or just be a decent human being?
It’s the notepad++ of graphic editors. Another great remnant of Windows-based poweruser culture from a different time.
And then you wouldn't have random people discovering it! It could even be covered up indefinitely.
Robotic police dog shot, credited with averting bloodshed
Sounds like a fool. We have the ability to weight costs and benefits. We have advanced linear models and computers. We have the math to split the fucking atom, but when it comes to even thinking about the social costs of technology, suddenly everyone is impotent. What a joke.
Heat exposure may increase inflammation and impair the immune system
Yes, they used a memory corruption bug to run the payload.
Different platforms and distros still share a handful of common environments, while autoconf was invented back when there were hundreds of different environments to care about. Xz doesn't depend that much on the platform and could have ditched autoconf at least in the theory. But such switch is annoying in the world of C/C++.
You can still find the source everywhere, if you look for it. Having a fine-looking page distribute vulnerable source code is a much bigger threat.
I think you're drawing a lot of conclusions from that correlation.

what innovations did the Veyron introduce that the Challenger used?
The String Templates looks neat
It reminds me of the new EU law being implemented in that it eliminates the use of ai for private companies but explicitly allows it for law enforcement. Both are methods of consolidating power. Safer to be open for everyone and unrestricted than explicitly protecting the few.
Last night we tried ChatGPT to see what we could change the “Welcome {MyFamily} Name” at our AirBnB to say.

ChatGPT 3.5 gave suggestions where most of the options needed letters we didn’t have.

ChatGPT 4 took a very long time and then apologized and said it was trying to loop over the letters but it couldn’t verify if they were real words because it didn’t have a dictionary.

Multiple tries returned the exact same results each time.

I’d hate to do this with Legos and then be missing parts part way through!
No, it's not cancel culture. You're just making things up to fit your outrage.

Your last whataboutisms aren't relevant. If people don't like having to work with an image whose origin is from a porn magazine and which the woman has asked people to stop using it, that's a perfectly valid feeling.
Why not generate something less opinionated like plain css instead of tailwind.
How do you get new contracts without using recruiters, is the million dollar question.
Good question, though I can imagine they took this action for two reasons:

1. They don't have the ability to freeze repos (i.e. would require some engineering effort to implement it), as I've never seen them do that before.

2. Many distros (and I assume many enterprises) were still linking to the GitHub releases to source the infected tarballs for building. Disabling the repo prevents that.

The infected tarballs and repo are still available elsewhere for researchers to find, too.
First text, then images, soon video and speech.

It feels like OpenAI is mostly concerned with developing proofs of the untrustability of every digital medium, creating a convincing case either for doing everything in person again, or necessitating cryptographic signatures on absolutely everything.
I have terrible trouble with signs when I’m walking. Unless they’re directly in my way I mostly ignore them.

On the other hand if I’m sitting around, like at an airport I read all the signs no matter how irrelevant.
Yes, the confusingly named “Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL”

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/postgresql...
It will be interesting to see how liability will play out with cases, where someone followed the official chatbot advice in good faith but was actually acting against the law.

In a somewhat similar case, Air Canada's chatbot gave incorrect price information to a traveller. The airline later argued its chatbot is a "separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions". However:

> The British Columbia Civil Resolution Tribunal rejected that argument, ruling that Air Canada had to pay Moffatt $812.02 (£642.64) in damages and tribunal fees.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatb...
Inevitably, someone relying on the advice of one of these AIs will be charged with a criminal or administrative offense. It'll be interesting to see if they'll be able to successfully raise the defense that they were relying on the advice of a public official or a "published" interpretation of a public statute provided by an AI.
> They are manipulating others by appealing to accessibility.

I'd argue voice cloning isn't really crucial to accessibility. I mean, this is just cosmetics. I'd like to hear opinions of people who actually can benefit from this and if it is really such a "game changer" for them.
Look back and see who invented the previous Next Big Thing(s),that's often a good indicator.
Here's a radical idea:

Rather than blame it on the latest kid obsession (in my day it was the TV) maybe look at the world they are growing-up in.

Maybe they're depressed because the world is burning down.
> On paper a global 1 Ω power grid is only $265 billion of aluminium / 1.7 years of current global production.

Sorry, what does ohms mean in this context? I would get what gigawatts or gigawatt-hours would mean in this context, but don’t understand the relevance of resistance
So last year when Linda Yaccarino said, "With X we will go even further to transform the global town square — and impress the world all over again. Our company uniquely has the drive to make this possible. Many companies say they want to move fast — but we enjoy moving at the speed of light, and when we do, that’s X. At our core, we have an inventor mindset — constantly learning, testing out new approaches, changing to get it right and ultimately succeeding. [...] Please don’t take this moment for granted. You’re writing history, and there’s no limit to our transformation. And everyone, is invited to build X with us."

What she really meant to say was they're going to clone OnlyFans.
Love this, I've long considered that this should've been made as Prolog and SQL are ternary logic and basically SQL derives from Datalog and it itself from Prolog. A table record can be taught as of as a Prolog fact, so this makes the WHERE clauses the predicates in the conjunction on the right-hand side of a rule. And then exhausting the goal is actually returning the result-set.

Hope to see this develop even further, as Prolog has its place with relational databases.
If you had just worked harder and become a billionaire you too could have been safe from the AI apocalypse
Getting 99 actual friends in 2024 sounds almost infinitely harder than just putting in 7 extra hours at WageMart to cover the expense.
I am not sure why this is being developed. The potential for misuse is so much greater than any possible beneficial use cases I can imagine. Text to speech is cool, why do you have to introduce technologies that allow for voice cloning, which will inevitably be used (more than it already is) to commit fraud and hurt people?

Society is not ready for all of these "intelligences", heck, we can't even figure out what to do about all the drawbacks of social media and we've had it for decades.
How will a system know all this initially? It seems this requires quite a competent judge and a lot of data.

The idea of knowledge being something to protect is interesting, but I don't see a practical way of accomplishing it.
The “Open” in OpenAI refers to, uh, a certain part of your anatomy…
And if the code submitted used Rust's 'unsafe'?
I need it for sorting. I literally spend 20 days fulltime finding all the pieces belonging to sets. Yes it was a big box full of lego.
I wonder if you could do it inside the config script without the network.
Yep, I know people who have at least 25 different accounts they use for whatever different purpose. And don't get me started with throwaway addresses just for sending email notifications from a self-hosted server.

And let's not forget all the Gmail accounts linked to Android phones which many do not even know they have.
So all the pornbots following me will now go away and stay exclusively in their NSFW Community, right?
If you’re going to be playing that game, consider that his other contributions included optimizing CRC performance on the Chinese LoongArch CPUs with which he appeared to very familiar.
This would be a really cool feature to have in Microsoft powerautomate, so every pdf I receive on outlook funnels through this.
This reminds of of a quote by Zygmunt Bauman: https://untested.sonnet.io/Proteus+-+Uncertainty+is+the+only...
Yes, there was an earlier SwingSet, but someone told me that even SwingSet2 was earlier than 2007 (I went by the first copyright year on the source code).
Thats another story, and while my previous comment on a general basis stands (or rather I stand firm with this position), because the same twisted logic gets applied to other "bans", I stand corrected in the light of your note. Lena has a right to demand the image to be retired. But last time I read interview with her this demand was not included in her responses. thanks for update.
The was always the long game for Elon using his single-character-apex-domain flex.
Find keywords with Google search autocomplete API
Making AI-voice videos of Trump and Biden playing Minecraft is one thing, they clearly sound overly robotic and that makes it funny, but being able to perfectly replicate voices is a realistic way is a technology that has very little real-life utility and so, so many real-life downsides.

Literally what is the point of this tech? To eliminate voice actors? I don't buy for a second their supposed use-cases of accessibility or assisting people with disabilities. We're gonna enable people to fake voices realistically off of 15 seconds of for example a voicemail just so media companies can save a few bucks? This is actually madness.
At the time when Gmail came out, Hotmail was offering 15MB of storage. Gmail, out the gate offered 1GB. For many, despite the mining, was a godsend to actually getting online and maintaining an inbox that didn't have to be cleaned weekly, if not earlier.
Tech comapanies and CEOs are experts in the fine art of exploiting the prisoner's dilemma to quickly amass wealth at great societal expense, all within the system. I'm afraid the only way to solve this problem is a combination of educating society by making them more aware and taking tech companies down by mass public opposition / mob rule.
Same. And 20 years later I'm an aging man but do the exact same thing in Cyberpunk 2077. Despite spending a small fortune on a graphics card, it's still either smooth framerate or the gorgeous path traced environments, because I haven't splurged on the 3090/4080 yet. Nothing has changed.
Scott Pilgrim vs the world is another good adaptation IMO.
Gotta love that they're now suggesting to downgrade to 5.4.6 with a link to the now defunct (and under control of the same authors) repository. They should have probably released hash and version of a not affected source tarball.
I'm not sure if this is "rustic", it doesn't feel appealing at all.

Also, why it even needs to be packaged as a library - it would have been way more portable and easier to adopt/tweak if it comes as web components or just vanilla html/css snippets.
Indeed, I agree. And before I hear from them, I would like to make sure that it wasn't some tech company that provided all the funding and technology in return for a PR piece as is quite common in the tech world.
Why isn't he identified personally? Very likely he is 'contributing' to other projects under different accounts.
One might argue that getting bogged down in minutiae is not the hallmark of a good API either. Vulkan is not available on Apple HW and Metal is not available elsewhere, while OpenGL is at least somewhat portable.
More porn bots for you :)
Emissions standards per vehicle. Doesn't regulate how many miles get driven or how close to people.
Ask HN: How to secure website for public launch
Id like to launch a website project online. It has some functionality e.g. user can input search parameters to find specific locations using Goole maps API, and search based on device location. I'm concerned about my program not being robust enough from a security point of view, e.g. where user input occurs, I'm not confident I can manage malicious actors. How do you launch websites that use a front and back end, securely? I'm confident in launching static websites, reasonably experienced in python, PHP, (but only for localhost personal project work), this is really me taking the big leap from localhost projects to live. Are there third party services that give extra security, or is it a case of learning this side of software from first principles? Thanks in advance.
It is very obvious that the amount and type of damage is not the same if you clone any random person's voice or clone a political leader's voice.

It is not the same damage.
That really undersells the significance of this, GJ Cisa /s
The phisher will not receive a valid token, though, because you sign something that contains the domain you are authenticating to.