skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole thing makes me wonder if AI could detect "anomalies" like the human who found the actual hack did. Observe a system (lots of systems) and use that data to spot anomylous behavior from "new" versions of packages being added, throw up a red flag that is like "this really doesn't act like it did in the past because parameter(s) are unusual given previous versions"
I sincerely thought that Denuvo was a boss in the game.
How can I run this locally does anyone know? Can't find any instructions.
Exactly, and even worse because the analogous disease would have no easy vaccine everyone else can use to ignore it.

In other words, less like measles and more like drug resistant tuberculosis.
JK who???
The Sea People are mysterious because, as my older brother who's teaching history said, they were not only multiethnic but groups of warriors from different geographic areas all around the Mediterranean sea.

They were behind the fall of some civilizations as they were moving around to plunder. Their attacks coincided with climate change (drought) and the scarcity of food in actual Iraq, Egypt, Syria, turkey, North Africa and so on.
Mostly suppressive fire, but more generally, providing a steady stream of small projectiles
Not necessarily. As long as some mashed pixels of the license plate remain, and assuming different license plates would result in differently mashed pixels, it might be possible to restore the original from the highly compressed image data.
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The problem with your definition is that it excluded forms of life that do not have actors and sensors. Implying that consciousness is not a mental property, but rather a property of being physically able to manipulate the world.

I.e. you are saying Stephen Hawking is definitely less conscious than an average human with functioning arms and legs. In its essence, you are too focused on your own experience of reality.
While agreeing with the results of this article, I’ve found that convincing other developers of writing test with properties isn’t very easy: coming up with good properties is not always trivial.

Here is an informal testing maturity ladder in increasing order:

- code can only be tested with an integration test

- code is tested by comparing the stdout with an earlier version (hopefully it’s deterministic!)

- code is retrofitted with tests in mind

- code is written to be testable first, maybe with lots of mocks

- code is testable, and pure functions are tested with unit tests, leaving the rest to integration tests. Fewer mocks, some stubs.

- property based tests, assuming the unit tests are fast in the first place

- fuzzing

- mutation based testing

Not speaking of formal specs or performance testing or anything else.
See their docs page here: https://docs.heyform.net/license
or https://formlick.com
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Lithium is also available from the water Japan has plenty of access to.
I’d use it to pick through and sort the massive pile of Lego my children leave behind after an Easter long weekend. Seems trivial to do identification based on the high quality corpus of block databases. Wouldn’t have to be super quick - you could just leave it running overnight.

I’m sure someone’s written an interesting paper on the ideal sorting algorithm too (i.e. large things > small things vs. ‘just pick up and place the nearest thing’.) I would personally just get it to sort them into basic sets before placing the trays back in their goddamn drawers.
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Reddit has lots of niche content that is extremely valuable the one time you use it, and I'm sick of seeing sites with valuable user-generated content dying off because the incentives of the owning company are misaligned with their community.
Would it be possible to just re-implement something like Reddit on top of IPFS? Ideally that knowledge should never be allowed to die off until truly no one cares about it.
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It's a (failed) case study in "what if we backdoor it in a way only good guys can use but bad guys can't?"

Computers don't know who's / what's good or bad. They're deterministic machines which responds to commands.

I don't know whether there'll be any clues about who did this, but this will be the poster child of "you can't have backdoors and security in a single system" argument (which I strongly support).
That's it, isn't it. The question is not, how far away from that are we, but when can you and I actually afford it? Because, as the other commenter snarkily replies, human maids already exist. The lifestyle of the singularity is already here for the rich. It's trickling down that kind of lifestyle to the rest of us that AI robots will enable. (with some amount of social upheaval.)

Lets say the robot that can do that comes out next year for $15 million. Could you afford one? I certainly can't. So pretend that it does, what changes for you and I? Nothing. So the robots that can do that won't be used as robot maids until the price comes down. Which; it will. Open source robotics and model-available AI will force things to be affordable sooner, rather than later, because we'd all like a robot to do that for us. Along with be in the kitchen, doing dishes, cleaning up; cleaning the bathroom, doing yardwork, making my bed.

The industrial versions will be used to do hideously dangerous things. underwater welding, chainsaw helicoptering, manual nuclear reactor rod removal. We already use machines for a lot of those difficult/impossible tasks, it's just a matter of programming the robots.

Which takes us back to today. How far away from that are we? The pieces are already here. Between https://ok-robot.github.io/ and https://mobile-aloha.github.io/ the building blocks are here. It's just a matter of time before someone puts the existing pieces together to make said robot, the only question is who will be first to make it, who will be first to open source it. Who will make it not just possible, but affordable?
> more dangerous

only if you intend to produce a derivative work for which you intend to sell, and thus do not want to reveal said derivative to others.

AGPL is the best license available for open source imho.
It works great if you cooking for just two people - perfect sizing and speed.
Ha ha, I feature towards the bottom of this article, for an early (for me) venture into retro chess software. I really should revisit it (must be getting up towards 20 years) and see how badly or nots the bits have rotted.
I don't always love Peter Attia, but in this case I'm glad that he points out that this widely cited anti-fasting study is nonsense. Hope this rebuttal gets more visibility.
'Dogma', the controversial religious comedy that can no longer be seen anywhere
Amusing but I really do wonder what the goal post consensus will be

Different vegans have different reasons for being vegan, many reasons are related to reducing suffering and that does have a comical element to it if their entire solution doesn’t and never did that
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That is actually to be discussed. I started thinking about putting it up on Udemy but in the meantime I was thinking that I might just put it in a .zip and just distribute it via gumroad. Or even use their video hosting platform.

If you have recommendations let me know!
Even if it were anonymous, your recipients wouldn’t trust it. Everyone knows anonymous polls get you fired (which is still proof that some people still trust anonymity, but those people are usually not working here anymore).
speaking as the project lead for Matrix: I haven’t done a great job of balancing “build new stuff to show off how amazing Matrix can be” and “make current stuff super polished and amazing”. However, we’ve spent the last few years plugging away addressing that, and I’d like to think the situation has improved significantly.

Another consideration is that nobody yet has consciously gone out to build a Discord killer on top of Matrix. Element is currently focused on being a WhatsApp replacement for government users (as a way to bring in $ to make payroll), which often explains why folks expecting it to be a drop in replacement for Discord users have to readjust their expectations a bit. That said, Element could certainly end up competing proactively with Discord in the longer term.

Meanwhile, Matrix certainly suffers from being successful enough to engender very strong feelings from folks who are disappointed in it. Whether that amounts to being run badly is probably a matter of perspective.
They intentionally tried to contribute security bugs into the linux kernel as a research project: https://lwn.net/Articles/854645/
GPL never talked about linking, it's probably the single most misunderstood aspect of GPL.

You can in fact have GPL bw applied over network IPC even
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Banks lend to polluters.
Some of this can be done without AI as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_sensing
> There are dozens of ways to read the articles.

It is unfair to assume everyone knows the dozen ways. It would be helpful to share some of those. So far none of the alternatives posted are working, so the article should be flagged for removal.
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This. I was like "do you believe it in your head?"
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Cute logo.

And UX is pretty great: integrated fetch, simplified fs api, integrated test runner (I miss good old TAP style assertions though), ESM/CJS modules just work, some async sugar.

I think if they offer me a paid *worker solution, with sqlite, that's something I'm willing to pay for.
That's just subjecting yourself to more marketing. They're trying to sell you their theory and get you to cite it or even better fund the work.

It's quite common to gloss over arguments or ignore data that don't support their cause.
Careful, APT28 is pretty dangerous. They are merging their ops with APT29 these days, and I wouldn't wake the cozy bear if I were you.
As someone that built a 20m ARR survey product... The only difference between this and something making millions is a sales team.
Just needs a fine grained enough set of parameters that are observed on a system, aka "monitoring", and flag anything that sticks out. No need for "AI" unless the parameters that are monitored have more of a (complex) pattern to them than some value +/- deviation or similar things. "AI" is, in an abstract way, a pattern matcher and replacer, but also a big cannon that is often not needed and simpler heuristics work faster and better (and are usually deterministic).
Poor Nations Are Writing a New Handbook for Getting Rich
A 750 wasn't very fast back in 1987 if I remember it correctly? But a 784 was still decent?
Mainstream GCC has never supported 16-bit code on x86, only 32-bit

However, there is (at least one) fork which adds 16-bit code support, see https://github.com/tkchia/gcc-ia16

I don't think the GCC maintainers have ever or will ever want to support 16-bit x86, because it is so limited, and adds a lot of messy corner cases, and nowadays is really only of hobbyist/retrocomputing interest.

Maybe there is some 16-bit x86 embedded system still being maintained–there were military spec versions of the 8086, and possibly some weapons system, aircraft, satellite, etc, still in use contains one. But I doubt they'd have any interest in adopting a 16-bit GCC – they'd already have some proprietary compiler they'd been using for decades, switching now would add a lot of risk, very late in the life of a legacy system, for no tangible benefit
In my job, I do the stuff I’m supposed to do even when I don’t want to because if I cut corners and did a half arse effort, in some instances people might literally die.
I don’t always feel like doing my job properly, there are many times I think to myself “I can’t be arsed” but then somehow, I muster up the inner strength to do the shit I can’t be bothered doing.
I wouldn’t call it intrinsic motivation or extrinsic motivation because I do it while feeling wholly unmotivated the entire time. Especially lately because I just quite frankly feel mega burnt out.

It’s more like fulfilling my obligations.
Sometimes we don’t do things because we want to or because we like to, sometimes we just do it because we have an obligation to do it.
Those were subreddits of conspiracy theorists and propaganda bots, I didn't really care all that much about their feelings. I wasn't banned for speaking out against it, I was banned because I commented at all in those subs and the moderators HATED said subs because they were anti-vax cesspools and assume anyone who would go there opposed their world views. You deserved punishment even if you had never even so much as read their "popular" forum. It was a power play and ego boost for them, maybe to make up for holes in their own lives so they could feel powerful at least somewhere.
I love this. The kind of simple solution that gets the job done.
So you can type this comment with complete safety while being protected by tax dollars
Yeah, you hit the nail on the head. ;)

> definitions of the words like "pure", "functional", etc. which are more like spectrums than binary.

That's exactly it. "functional programming" originally was not a spectrum. It was well defined. Functions meant "pure functions" or (which is the same) "mathematical functions" in that context. And they still do when people use the term "functional programming" in the original meaning. Though nowadays, I rather use "pure functional programming" since "functional programming" was taken over. ;-)

So on the other hand, can you provide a precise and meaningful definition for "functional" from your own perspective?
reddit is more popular than ever to be honest. Sure they lost some people over the "no more free clients" massacre, but it was a miniscule amount.
"It works until you run out of other people's money"
Not much. I have a UArm on my desk, which is a lot like this one but with cheaper servos. It was too inaccurate to use for much of anything. I built a force-feedback sensor for it out of a 3D mouse. Reasonable idea, but not stiff enougn for the application.
> to prevent abuse.

People never grow tired of the ever-repeating excuses to further reduce our freedoms, or to hide criminality, or just insult the already lacking collective IQ.

Think of the children! We need to prevent abuse! Someone's feelings might be hurt! Someone might get harmed! Seeing real breasts might cause trauma!

Or one that's not so often used, but still really effective:

We're just bulldozering this place, because it's so horrible. Instead we turn it into a luxury resort for rich people. People who believe that it's because we're destroy any and all evidence are just conspiracy theorists. (in regards to Epstein's Island)
Can't access the whole article, but I think it would be more uplifting if extreme poverty was impossible.

With the next priority to level up so less-extreme lack of wealth can also be addressed, ideally by increasing opportunities to move ahead in real terms through consistent productive work, much more than there are any more now.
"Because there are lots of people to pay you for your services in society, you owe it to them to share the wealth you generated in giving them something they wanted to pay you for of their own volition. Nobody is an island." That's what I hear when I read that sentence.

You want to go after people for amassing wealth in unscrupulous ways, I'm 100% on board. You want to go after wealth because they have it and you don't? You're probably my mortal foe.
This is exiting tech. I tested their button demo at KubeCon. It’s crazy to be able to access a web app that is not running and not even notice that it’s a cold start.
URLs you can hear...
> At least 7 years of backend engineering experience, at least 3-4 of which were spent building products using LLMs.

Seeing as the largest, most popular LLM only came out <2 years ago and penetrated the consciousness of the tech sector, what kind of candidate are you actually looking for?
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As far as I know, LimeSurvey can't auto update a spreadsheet with the answers.

But LimeSurvey has its advantages:

- it's in PHP, and our whole infra is already using it (WordPress and Nextcloud). So it's easier to setup and if we want bridges between these tools, it'll be easier.

- AFAIR, it doesn't require JS when filling a form and in particular, it's not a React app.

We have used LimeSurvey in the past, we got rid of it but I don't remember why, I should look into it another time.

Two other big requirements we have is solid conditional field support and easy to use form builder.
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Yep, I meant this indeed.
My sister was reading and I was typing :-)
Sure, I'll take the time.
That quote is from silicon valley the show FYI.
I sometimes depend on my phone for mission critical alarms and I'm so spooked I sometimes use two phones, one Apple and the oher Samsung. I guess I could add an analog alarm, but thats so awkward.
Cray-1 is from 1975. That’s long after the call stack and recursion became well-known, which was at least as early as with ALGOL (Dijkstra’s “Recursive Programming” (https://ics.uci.edu/~jajones/INF102-S18/readings/07_dijkstra...) is from 1960.) and almost universally supported (even the Intel 4004 had a call stack)
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Yeap there does seem to be a general drift from bottom-right towards top-left on the map of europe. Except, perhaps, the vikings who went from north to south?