skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always charged at Tesla's stations because I never was home, and the charges was a surprise at the end of the rental because they charged me only once when I returned the car... no clue if they ripped me off because it was the first time I used electric car chargers and didn't pay close attention to the receipt.

I know it would have been a whole lot cheaper if I had my own charger though.
Codecs packs... Ugh.
The value isn't just in terms of training LLMs.

I know that I regard anything I see on the web that was created after the advent of LLMs to be suspect and requiring additional vetting before giving it much weight.
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I had a very similar experience when changing my email address. I went through my password manager to update my accounts and ended up liberally deleting all the accounts I don't use regularly. I honestly found it to be very 'freeing' and therapeutic.
I wonder if this can lead to revision of “vacuum energy” theories.

The idea that empty space simply has a uniform, non-zero energy level is a disappointing and kind of anti-climatic explanation for one of the greatest mysteries of physics and hints that our best models of the universe have huge gaps.
The problem was that SSH linked to libsystemd. Libsystemd linked to xz. So the library got pulled in transitvly. Here are two recent commits that fix the problem by reducing dependencies:

https://salsa.debian.org/ssh-team/openssh/-/commit/cc5f37cb8...

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/31550
The argument here (that I don't buy) has always been that the extraction and processing is much cleaner here than in some of the countries you mention.

Personally I agree that we should stop the oil and gas extraction as the more oil stay in the ground the better, and the country is split about 50/50 on this issue.

Unfortunately, the major parties have been against so far but the conservatives are finally starting to debate it internally and if they come down on the planned phase out of oil and gas it will happen. The major left wing parties are not interested so far.

There has been some movement the in the legal route, the supreme court recently declared some recent exploration licenses invalid due to a clause in our constitution, however we'll see how long that ban lasts.

In any case, not being fast enough in one area does not mean you have to pollute max in other areas.
My only earthquake experience was also in NYC. In the 80's I was awakened by what can only be described as feeling as if someone had picked up the entire apartment building a couple inches and dropped it. Sudden and severe and over in a second or two.
A lot of cold water and maybe snow.
Interesting idea but I have some issues with the code style here. Two problems I see are implicit casts from pointers to integers and use of func() instead of func(void). These are both somewhat minor complaints but they tend to lead to bugs when tested in other environments. In this case I would expect a project aiming to be "C but safe" would at least take the maximum use of existing C safety features. Also the annotations seem a bit cumbersome, I know that's easy to say without providing an alternative but something just doesn't sit right with me about how verbose they are.
It's not a matter of being tired and having to catch up. The operators are explicitly instructed to treat the AI results as orders without questioning the results.

In other words, operators are threatened with punishment if they take the time to inspect the results more closely before following orders. It's not even an option!

> In order to speed up target elimination, *soldiers have been ordered to treat Lavender-generated targets as an order, rather than something to be independently checked*, the investigation found. Soldiers in charge of manually checking targets spent only seconds on each person, sources said, merely to make sure the target was a man. Children are also considered legitimate targets by Lavender.
It is quite a hard thing to predict which errors will be handled and which will not at the point that you create an error :)

So I disagree. This is a pedantically narrow view of what "error handling" is. Printing a stack trace and crashing is also "handling" it.
LLM DataGen: Generate synthetic datasets with structured text generation
You sadly miss the larger picture here. Why would soviets suddenly have a housing crisis that required shit-quality housing? Why don't we have commie-blocks district in Amsterdam?

Worse circumstances were -- living in villages in their own houses, but that was against communist things. People had to live in public housing in a city and work in a factory, be mobile and be shuffled around whatever number of timezones and thousands of kilometers -- that was the whole point of ideology and was needed for industrialization too.

Life in a village sucked by design too.
For whatever reason the email verification code to make an account didn't work for me. Excited to try it though!
There's no need for the snark there. I mean 'potential danger' as in the LLM outputting anything inconsistent with reality. That can be as simple as an arithmetic issue.
I don't know anything about what happened here, but I know Sunil is a good person and wouldn't have done this on a whim. Sometimes there are internal problems forcing painful decisions but you just can't go and tweet the details.
map predates javascript and python by decades
> Almost everything (electronics, subscriptions, goods) are expensive in the EU.

I live in Paris, France, one of the most expensive cities in the EU, and was recently on a roadtrip through the American Southwest and I disagree.

Subscriptions? Want to compare how much internet or phone bills cost in the US vs France (I pay 20€ (really 10 because it's the same provider) for unlimited phone calls, messages, internet and 30GB Internet in most of the world; and 50€ for 5Gbps down/1 up fiber which also includes a Netflix subscription and something like a hundred TV channels)? Even Netflix is more expensive in the US.

Goods? What goods? Food in restaurants is more expensive in bumfuck nowhere restaurants with Maga hat wearing clientele than mid end restaurants in Paris FFS! Clothing is way too variable to be a useful comparison (there's cheap shit and expensive luxury items in both countries).

Electronics... maybe? I compared Apple Mac Mini and Studio prices and it was pretty much the same.

Do you have anything concrete in mind or are you just imagining things?

There is one thing that is definitely less expensive in the US - fuel. But that's by policy in the EU, not due to credit card interchange fees.
we've had tornadoes in NJ..
I felt it on Long Island over 100 miles away. I had headphones on and thought a really heavy truck was shaking the ground. It was enough to make my desk and monitors shake but nothing too crazy.
If by "small scale" you mean, widely available in the areas they serve, then I agree.

> It seems unlikely that such a capital intensive business would make sense long term.

People are only getting more expensive, and the tech is only getting cheaper.
> The market rate for text is $0.001 per word, she added.

I'm astonished that a picture turns out to be worth a thousand words.
I ran out because I thought the boiler was going to go kaboom.
> It's not a good practice to print stack trace anyway

What makes it not a good practice?

> you don't need 20 lines of stacktraces

I don't _need_ stacktraces, but they are useful to me.
So far I have avoided getting very long range zoom lenses, especially those that bracket 50mm but I am starting to think I might want something really versatile in my bag though I'm loathe to give up on image quality and aperture.
I'm on the Cape, and I heard some banging around that time. I thought my wife was just being loud in the shower.
There are many reasons it might not be profitable even if the ML part were working well.
> Medieval knights used to wander around hoping for honorable adventures to pop up so that they could demonstrate their bravery.

That is a loose pop historical way of describing the chivalric tradition, but it did exist in some fashion. The dragon reference also exists in a passage that is being airily allegorical, you're all being overly anal about accuracy.
> their product feels like its built by people who are passionate about their craft.

I have never once thought that about Hubspot. I daily think the opposite.
Not quite, because one big input is the ratio of your investments to your annual savings. Large drawdowns are bad late in life, early in life they're not such a big deal. Kelly prohibits very profitable bets when they come with considerable risk of ruin (because you lose out on any future compounding when you zero out your wealth), but that is too conservative when you're young and your portfolio is small relative to your income.

The article even hints at this by observing that the discounted sum of future salaries are part of your current wealth. Which is exactly correct and also -- if you're young -- the most significant variable by several orders of magnitude. Curiously, the author understands this but doesn't care.
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Well tuned 3d printers are somewhat surprisingly mostly unaffected by earthquakes. People have even done stuff like hanging a printer and printing without any significant issue. It'd just show as a slight imperfection on that specific line.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_1992_nor%27easter
Yes, but Hamas instigated this by attacking civilians and the PLO—and only the Palestinians and its silent backers—threw away a dual-nation solution during the Clinton era.

So when we include decisions, it’s important to be impartial here.
> anyone have good examples of real time multi user apps?

My SaaS day-job is a real-time multi-user checklist web-app - built using SignalR.

We're able to fit tens of thousands of concurrent users on a single Azure AppService instance - and we're self-hosted so we don't have IaaS-rug-pulling-anxiety - PartyKit looks cool, but I take a long-term view (5+ years) before adopting a technology, and PartyKit's brochure website is lacking information in that area...
Nah. I define the hikikomori by necessarily the state of despair. That obviously came through the participation in society.

For the record, a hikikomori makes a video game? Wow. I wish I can do that. It's a matter of effort, of putting a foot in one another. The thing is, developing a video game and releasing it to the public is inherently a social activity, unless you write the code only for yourself.

Things are happening. Playing video games which is what creates despair for me. Nothing happens outside of that video game. Don't get me wrong, playing video is a lot of fun, but it isn't beneficial when there's too much of it.
Tiny fraction... if you ignore the learning data processed by a billion years of evolution.
People need to be more often disclaim when they make an "ironic joke" to explain the joke and point out that those who enjoy the joke from the other side where, you're "just speaking the truth", those people are in the wrong.

Or just.... not make the joke.

Maybe as this sort of thing becomes a problem more often we'll see more of these "edits" on personal blogs, posts, comments, etc.

Could be interesting to have a pen test set of ai generated images and every year see how the data comes out the other side.

Probably not useful as the image would change so drastic each time even within the same set of data.
That's not really apples to apples though. If we start bombing Indian reservations and trying to exterminate Native Americans, I'm pretty sure they would quite deliberately become a threat to American equivalents of this guy.

(...or perhaps I'm misreading you? not sure)
sshd is started by systemd.

systemd has several ways of starting programs and waiting until they're "ready" before starting other programs that depend on them: Type=oneshot, simple, exec, forking, dbus, notify, ...

A while back, several distro maintainers found problems with using Type=exec (?) and chose Type=notify instead. When sshd is ready, it notifies systemd. How do you notify systemd? You send a datagram to systemd's unix domain socket. That's about 10 lines of C code. But to make life even simpler, systemd's developers also provided the one-line sd_notify() call, which is in libsystemd.so. This library is so other programmers can easily integrate with systemd.

So the distro maintainers patched sshd to use the sd_notify() function from libsystemd.so

What else is in libsystemd.so? That's right, systemd also does logging. All the logging functions are in there, so user programs can do logging the systemd way. You can even _read_ logs, using the functions in libsystemd.so. For example, sd_journal_open_files().

By the way... systemd supports the environment variable SYSTEMD_JOURNAL_COMPRESS which can be LZ4, XZ or ZSTD, to allow systemd log files to be compressed.

So, if you're a client program, that needs to read systemd logs, you'll call sd_journal_open_files() in libsystemd.so, which may then need liblz4, liblzma or libzstd functions.

These compression libraries could be dynamically loaded, should sd_journal_open_files() need them - which is what https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/31550 submitted on the 29th February this year did. But clearly that's not in common use. No, right now, most libsystemd.so libraries have headers saying "you'll need to load liblz4.so, liblzma.so and libzstd before you can load me!", so liblzma.so gets loaded for the logging functions that sshd doesn't use, so the distro maintainers of sshd can add 1 line instead of 10 to notify systemd that sshd is ready.
Deinstitutionalization was primarily a cost cutting measure. Sure they paid lip service to "community support", but that either never arrived or was cut shortly after.

A lot of the abuses were IMHO caused by underfunding.

Eugenics by free market.
>If i'm not in the top 10% my wife and friends are going to leave me.

I hope this is sarcastic because it's comically neurotic. Like you're headed for a huge breakdown.

>look at nature: The best do what they can and the weak suffer. It is sad, but its reality.

Wanna know how I know you spend 0 time in nature?

I think you should start a garden. Get in touch with actual nature. You're going to have a breakdown when you realize you're not in the top 1% of all gardens, but once you start to see perennials refuse to accept they were put in the wrong spot year after year, maybe you'll chill out.
Plus the main aqua duct that supplies several million people is old and fragile. A simple earthquake could possibly turn into a Flint, Michigan level disaster.
At a certain point I guess you're just going by weight of paper.
Wow, that didn't last long! This can only be an acquihire given Sunil worked at Cloudflare before.
In a big rip scenario, the scale factor goes to infinity in a finite time. The author is correct on this one. Whether we are in a big rip scenario or not is not entirely settled, even though it's more on the unlikely side and just became a tiny bit more likely, considering the new measurements.
The Iraqi Swiss Dinar is another example of a currency surviving without a central bank -- in that case, even with the central bank directly opposed to the continued circulation of the currency.
Garbage In, Garbage AI
He he, I have a secret aversion to movies exceeding 1GB :) I know what you mean! I wonder what video fidelity I would gain moving to something more modern. It's just really convenient being able to playback anywhere.
If you follow California politics, that statement is not that far off.
In many states a home loan is “non recourse”, which means that in a default the bank gets the house and nothing else. The debt is completely discharged.
ffmpeg wasm is very slow in the browser. Users would still use those terrible websites because they wouldn't be terribly slow
I live about 20 miles from the epicenter and my neighbors said that their mirrors were shaking and monitors were wobbling. I felt nothing, at all, and my cats didn't move an inch.

I'm pretty observant with that sort of thing, so I'm a bit surprised.

Is it even possible for someone a few houses away to experience drastically different seismic activity?

Edit: I was on the ground floor, which is likely why I did not feel it.
AFAICT libsystemd is the "blessed" way of a daemon interacting with systemd and its notification protocol. libsystemd is something of a kitchen sink library now, it wasn't always so: there used to be separate libsystemd-daemon that had the functions a daemon might use (and not the ones it won't, like compression wrappers for functions in external libraries). https://lwn.net/Articles/587373/

A lot of things (e.g. OpenSSH, Apache) don't use it natively, you won't tend to see it in the official sources of non-Linux specific software. Package maintainers who choose to foist^H^H^H^H^Huse systemd add it to those packages. It's quite fun working out why Apache hangs when you port a config and don't realise it needs mod_systemd loaded to stop systemd stamping on it.

There's an extra security wrinkle too: lazy symbol resolution is not the done thing now, it's preferred that symbols are resolved at loading time so important chunks of memory can be protected from other types of attacks (more clarity in one of the preceding articles: https://research.swtch.com/xz-script ).
"The future of serverless is stateful"

I'm a big fan of Cloudflare's openness, e.g., in supporting wasm in workers.

But I wonder if building lock-in is really in their customers' interests - or theirs, if people lose faith in them.

One of the value propositions for javascript+databases, and java before it, is that it was a programming model built in the open, and sometimes to standards that multiple vendors could supply. The openness of SQL has powered the industry, notwithstanding the manifold limitations and variants.

A PartyKit integration is not particularly concerning if it's just niche gaming, but if real-time collaboration really does become trivial to implement at the same time AI spreads into all corners of content, it could become the dominant programming model for emerging tech at scale. AI seems to have ample competition, but I see little competition and many barriers to entry for this kind of programming model.
Thanks for sharing this link. My god there is something about this writing style that's just incredibly entertaining to read.

Most of the time I get so bored reading such long articles, like the New Yorker ugh. But this is the first time I've enjoyed such a lengthy read! I hope I can decrypt what the author is doing to make reading such fun.
Read above about how a cop planted evidence in my car to get what he wanted. Google Civil Forfeiture if you want to see more scummy ways cops will fuck up your life for giggles.

For all we know it was anime and the cop said it was child porn because he had never seen anime in his life.
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Python jail escape: a challenge with one of the lowest points in the Newbie CTF 2019 which we solve in this article. It is generally a bad idea to allow users to input commands that will be executed since there is a high chance that they could input something that would allow them to gain elevated permissions or access sensitive data. However, people often add condition checks in an attempt to prevent this from happening, even though it is rarely effective.

The jail is basically a set of python code that is executed on the python process when the user executes certain commands, in this case entering specific lines of text. This is possible since Python allows passing parameters to the application. In this particular case, the script only checks if the command passed is not banned.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack!
Well, the last one (hopefully) I was living in and moved from in 2015, was built in 1971 and it's "district cooperative" was mostly unchanged from that time (starting from technical employees, through administrative ones and ending on "executives") and basically was there to just rubber stamp any inspection. It's not like the building was collapsing of course. It had full 10-floors of tenants. But if going by the actual inspection book - it shouldn't.

Gas leaks - check, Fire hazard in the basement - check, Fire hazard through faulty (aluminum) electrical installation - check, Elevator out of order or just simply being scary - check, Often plumbing problems (no hot water for a month? check!)

and the list could go on and on. The last straw for me was when I installed a water filtration and filters basically turned black in a week and clogged. I just moved.

One of the big advantages of those buildings is often the location. Beats living with no public space (parks, playgrounds, walking space etc) and public utilities (like schools, commies, built those with every new district erected) and on the outskirts of the city
Digital Collection System Network
I’m not a lawyer, but I do live in a one party consent state. I would imagine if I setup a service here, ensured all calls originated in my state, and the person who owned the account being used consented, it would be legal. Even without informing the person on the other end of the call.

Would this violate other laws outside my jurisdiction? Probably, but that just means I won’t travel there.

I actually hope I’m wrong.
You have no newspapers that are worse?
I generally agree with this point of view, because a 100% failsafe solution can be so costly. I think medicine is a good example of how the cost of perfection scales badly.

However, it sounds like significant resources went to institutionalizing the person. Maybe that's good for the police who get to take the cost off their books. The government overall is still paying.
Is AI a Cloud-Native Challenge?
sounds like someone doesn't recognize the leadership of a visionary genius when they see it
Irix OS was my second best OS exposure after Ubuntu during college days.
Does your linter look for syntax errors in the content of strings? If so, how would you design a unit test meant to capture syntax errors?
The Turing test has been a poor goalpost almost since its inception. It turns out, it doesn't require much to fool people. People thought ELIZA was going to eliminate the need for therapists and psychiatrists.

Hell, ELIZA still beat ChatGPT 3.5 in terms of % of people that believed they were interacting with a human in a recent study! [1] Notice that we only properly identified humans about 60% of the time too.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/real-...
GDPR covered data should be worth a lot less.
Nobody's going to mention Worldcoin?
By any objective measure, there's more books and more video games than you can ever play within your limited lifespan. That is what I meant by there's always something to do but yet nothing.

I partially solved that by actually just learning the science as opposed to watching more educational science video. There's only so much edutainment that you can tolerate.
Oh that's not how commie blocks and heating work. You can't turn the radiators on and off in a classic commieblocks. There is no valve, there is no anything -- your only regulator is a window. The local government picks a day in a calendar once in 5 years when the turning on and off happens. People who talks about efficiency, insulation and all that have no idea.
Wood's lawyer told the court that Woods did not have the mental capacity to stand trial. What do you think would have been the correct response from the judge?
TIL that saffron ice cream is a thing that exists. It's certainly not in any store in my area that I am aware of, so I'm afraid that I can't try it.
it looks very good! is it possible to cast to a tv? this is the only thing that has me stuck on plex, which i otherwise do not like
> even though there are at least two other libraries that implement just the communication functionality and are actually designed for non-systemd programs to use.

The important question is: if one of those libraries is used, and then something else pulls in `libsystemd`, will they conflict?