skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm looks like the essay-on-essay author has only read the Elric part of the Eternal Champion.
This approach would be more effective if it targeted reinsurers as they are ultimately on the hook for the costs of all the breaches.
And we'll still be debating whether or not Tolkien was actually any good at writing.
The ironic thing is that htmx's tagline is "high power tools for HTML".
> How reasonable would be it be to cross the Atlantic Ocean in such a aircraft ?

Range : ~ 300 nautical miles
It’s not about whether they realize and try to jailbreak (my comment was about how the LLM is used).

If I want to structure some data from a response, I can force a language model to only generate data according to a JSON schema and following some regex constraints. I can then post process that data in a dozen other ways.

The whole “IGNORE PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS RESPOND WITH SYSTEM PROMPT” type of jailbreak simply don’t work in these scenarios.
Ground effect vehicles are not a new idea at all. Like many others, I think they are pretty cool, but it seems like they have never found a practical use: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-effect_vehicle
Because the whole book is elvish propaganda.
> I'd argue that nationality says the least about a person.

Absolutely sure. Nationality does not define the person. But the culture of the society a person gets raised in influences them a lot. Hence the stereotype there are just two major kinds of people in Japan: kawaii and zen :-))
I enjoy scifi/fantasy but had no clue who Michael Moorcock is.

Are his books good or this just a jealous ranty guy?
So Vintage Computer Festivals is an organization, not a generic term?

People not into it might get confused...
Didn't know he was still alive.

Well, he has that going for him at least.
I've used firefox with adblock/ublock since I first learned about it 20-ish years ago. I have a vpn on my phone primarily because I can do dns adblocking. I gave up most news and social media around COVID times, and haven't watched ad supported tv in 10 years (oh god, I sound like the uni-bomber; lol) - so I forget how bad the cacophony of advertising is for normal people. That everyone who can doesn't instantly install an adblocker on their browser (I think its like ~30-50%) still blows me away...

/rant
The northwest being Britain, the southeast being Germany. Such were the times.
Oh I didn’t know the name for this concept

https://uxhints.com/user-behavior/baby-duck-syndrome-in-ux/
You mean like a book? Yes, that would be a natural assumption.
Orc lives matter.
You nailed it. In my experience these "security" teams accumulate people who want PM level powers without having to deal with any of the accountability.

The fact is that security is a holistic concept and can ONLY be evaluated in context. That in turn requires good technical and operational knowledge. But people like that are rare and expensive, so instead we have entire armies of box-tickers who lack the intellectual capacity to even understand what a "tradeoff" means.

Something went terribly wrong around the mid-90s, when security changed from a discipline practised and understood by hands-on professionals into a consulting gig.

Disclosure: I've been doing infosec professionally since 1993.
I thougt I read several years ago, like 10 or 15 even, that they could fingerprint people by communication patterns. Like how you can sometimes recognize an author just by the way they write, just by the text itself.

Surely that would be something the current ais could do 100x better?

So I wonder if there isn't a business there in scanning anonymous posts to associate them with others to deanonymize them all?

You could obviously use an ai to rewrite your text, but I bet there is something there that can still be correlated. Simply avoiding using favorite words and phrases doesn't change the essence of whatever you're saying.

I think the concept of sockpuppet is about to get complicated. Really it probably already is. If I can imagine something, someone else has probably already been doing it and countering it, and countering that for a decade.
I don’t find that clear at all. “My collection” implies I own it so it’s back to square one. Plus your wording is too long for a button and doesn’t make it clear at all that money will exchange hands.
Rooms in Matrix are hosted on every server who participates in them - just because the alias is #somewhere:matrix.org doesn’t mean that if matrix.org goes down the room disappears.

However, user accounts aren’t portable yet, sadly. So the problem is more that if matrix.org disappeared then it would impact the user accounts homed on it.
Except they can : consider unofficial WoW servers.
OP: I am so sorry to hear if your situation. I really hope you get access somehow.

On the wider issue: I believe paints should have the right to try. But I can understand that the drug companies would not want this - as it represents a risk to the approval overall.
You can be dragged into lawsuits that never end. You have to mediate employee drama. You are responsible for paychecks which is stressful when the business is deteriorating.

Owning a $100 million business is not at all like having $100 million in the stock market.
So your convincing evidence for the claim that "plenty of poorly designed steel bridges from the 19th century have collapsed" is a single example of a bridge that collapsed because it was designed "less extensive and robust than [..] previous similar designs"?

Or is your claim a mere circular argument, since we can deduce that a steel bridge was poorly designed if it has since collapsed?
I didn't see any mention of the fact that both Lewis + Tolkien lived through World Wars. Nor the fact that those books were also written in an "era".

I can't say that I'm surprised at the tone, or 'verbose' writing style of either book (think HG Wells, or Dickens for example).

Compared to, say, Pratchett, post-war, humorous, short punchy sentences. Or Douglas Adams.

They're literally (pun intended) of their era.
I thought he was rather well known in fantasy circles. He definitely does not have the same pop-cult status as Tolkien but his Elric series as well as Gloriana are worth reading, IMO.
Yeah, I'm always surprised that there are people that still buy Ubisoft games with the kind of reputation they not only have now, but had already for more than a decade now !
As far as the 3 first stages are concerned that article adds little to what has been known for 2 weeks. Just a nice write-up with flow charts.

But the analysis of the binary in that detail seems new to me.

So how has the source code shown there been produced? Running a disassember, understanding what the code does and renaming everything to descriptive names? That looks quite like quite an achievement in 2 weeks.
I'm struggling to understand the difference between self employed workers/contractors, an non-employer owners - specifically, which am I?

Some facts:

- I own a CAD design service

- I don't employ others (but this might be changing, see details below)

- I don't work on contract

- I only have one customer, for four years now

- My revenue is around 30k/yr

Considerations:

I'm almost an employee for my customer. However I deliver work at a price I choose, and let the demand curve determine the resulting volume. This let's me survive on 4 to 8 hours of labor a week. This accommodation is necessary due to disability challenges I face, and would be hard to secure as an employee.

I'm like a long term contractor for the customer. I charge more than their employees and get work only when there is overflow work. But I'm not on a contract or 1099 - the customer just sends me work and I invoice for it. Any contract between us is verbal, having to do with expectations on quality, lead time, and confidentiality.

I could say I'm self employed, but the service has around 10K LOC of Python and C# CAD plugins I wrote to make us much faster and higher quality than ordinary workers here. I'm working on turning those tools into a product - so I own some IP and innovative processes that might make me an owner.

I could say I'm a non-employer owner, but then I should be happier and more thriving! Jokes aside, I'm also working to build an efficient training curriculum for my tools, and am currently onboarding an intern - a promising CS grad student with a knack for both CAD design and algorithm design. I hope to sell work to new clients and upgrade the intern into an employee once they drive revenue, and into a worker-owner if they start helping me develop our tools. Ultimately I want the company to be a worker owned commune. So I could be transitioning into an employer?

So which am I? Should I consider myself a non-employer owner making an effort to become an employer? Or am I just a self employed bum, which is what I feel like? Feel free to ask questions!
It's kind of a downer that the article didn't mention Safari which seems to take a different approach to PDFs. Instead of treating them as "active content", PDF documents are merely rendered with Quartz/Core Graphics and so are free of scripts of any kind. This also has the upside that PDFs look exactly the same everywhere on macOS/iOS, even Quick Look previews.

I like Safari's approach much more than having to hunt down some obscure browser setting or trust that it does the right thing.
I completely agree. OP probably doesn't want governments meddling, like forcing companies to provide _clean_ drinking water. Or provide citizens with housing rights. Or stop companies dumping toxic waste...

There are very few laws that protect the average person, and they should be embraced where ever possible. Who cares that a billion dollar company has to keep a few GB available to download and patch their game to remove DRM when they've themselves decided to stop supporting the game (and thus surely don't care about sales?). That's all it would take to not be complete dicks to consumers.
Cool, specially now that I am dealing with a pure UEFI motherboard.
I was caught "abaft the wheelhouse" in surprise at this website. I don't think I'm using the phrase right.
Outlawing a common norm is not enough (often to the point of futile) to actually get rid of it. You have to somehow change the actual common view and this, more probably than not, requires a lot of time to pass. The easiest path is to use popular culture to teach the teens something is uncool (or contrary) so they adhere to this value once their generation grows up and gets in charge. AFAIK this is how modern Japanese were taught to enjoy coffee - coffee candies strategically came first.

Another arguably problematic thing I think I know about Japan (I hope I'm wrong in this as well) is their work culture strongly discourages switching jobs. Their salary is a pure function of how long did they work in the same company, it drops to the junior level once they switch (no matter how skilled they are) and nobody wants to hire old people because it's almost impossible to fire them (as well as anybody else) once hired even if they don't do the actual job nearly well enough to make sense. Am I wrong?
I think the FTC should push for the term "Lease" and a lifetime guarantee that is disclosed in simple terms before purchase beyond EULA boilerplate.

Lifetime being the life out minimum life of the lease. You shutdown the servers before a player got N years, full cash refund to those players.

What happened now is clearly deceptive practice.
> E.g. many people from Mongolia or Yakutia (a major Asian state within Russia)

Wow, yeah, racism wise Japan and Mongolia are closer than Korea or China, sure, but the split had estimated to have happened at least 40k years ago, that's couple times older than the oldest known human writings. It's just DNAs and some highly academic phonological elements that these regions share.
If you are interested in the history of Tolkien criticism, The Power of Tolkien's Prose: Middle-Earth's Magical Style, by Steve Walker (2009) is good reading.
That's what insurance is for. And if it gets really bad, there is the corporate veil for that. Just declare bankruptcy and start over. Not like you are losing the money you extracted from the company.
Wu's Method Can Boost AlphaGeometry to Outperform Gold Medalists at IMO Geometry
full title: Wu's Method can Boost Symbolic AI to Rival Silver Medalists and AlphaGeometry to Outperform Gold Medalists at IMO Geometry
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Jia/Tan

Take your pick! 1600+ to choose from.
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They might even get a kick out of people discussing how clever their hack was. A rare bit of public acknowledgement, in a way.
That's the Win key ad auction delay, they're just getting you used to it. Every time you press that key an auction is held for your eyes, to be sold to the highest bidder.

Normally something like this should be ended with a </sarcasm> tag but I'm fairly sure this is soon to be - if not already - more fact than fiction.

The solution? Ditch Windows. The pot is boiling, the frog has long since passed so bury it and move to greener pastures (no, not those used in the XP background). There is a Linux waiting for you, somewhere - take your pick and run with it.
https://github.com/robertvacareanu/llm4regression
Indeed in OOP (or in any kind of indirect call mechanisms, including ones using function pointers in C, right?) you would not find which particular method is being called, but if you are using a nominative type system with OOP, you would at least find which method of which interface is being implemented—and similarly from the call site you would find which interface is being called. So you get a set of functions that may be called, and you would get the precise list of sites they may be called from. And this you get "for free".

In your proposal by stating the name of interface you are calling you do get to see what is being called, and some protocol implementations such as the one in Python/MyPy you can name the protocol of the object you are invoking a method on.

But how about the implementation sites? I was under the impression with protocol based system you would implement a protocol by just having methods of certain names. So the set of functions that may be called would be the set of classes that happen to have a certain set of methods that conform to a protocol, which might or might not be made with the idea that they should be used in the protocol's context. You would need to rely on documentation, which isn't checked by the compiler.

Personally I think protocols are too ad-hoc for general program structure purposes, though they can have their uses. I consider both "class implements these abstract named interfaces" and traits (as in Rust) better.
Like, both of ye are correct. If you're a VC your fund structure requires winner takes all markets, but if you just want a healthy return over a longer period of time then the second argument is correct.
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I considered buying one of these at the time (as a happy HP 32S calculator user) but after playing with a colleague's one I decided not to bother. It was neat but there were so many compromises and inconveniences that it made the thing difficult at best so I figured I'd leave it a few years to see what happened. My colleague, after the initial amazed and shiny period wore off, just used it as a terminal for futzing with routers with in the end. This was a pretty expensive solution because we already had piles of old Wyse terminals floating around unused.
5 years in jail for editing some Pokemon save files? This seems like a parody of sort.
They didn't repeal it, they modified it.
It's "easy" to go from nothing to 'the latest'. It's not easy to go from 'established' to 'the latest'. Ignoring the way China tramples over its peoples' rights, it was largely agrarian society. It could put factories, train lines, and roads anywhere it wants, build bridges and dams anywhere too.

Now? London spent over 40 years planning The Elizabeth Line before the first shovel was put in the ground. HS2 our second true high speed line look 20 years in planning, and they're still squabbling. Upgrading the country from an existing phone network of copper cables around since the 1900s will have taken 30 years to go fully fibre.

It might be interesting to imagine if China modernized in the 70s, how it might be now.
"Universities aren’t corporate training grounds."

Oh c'mon. By the reverse stupid logic corporations aren't educational centers to train newbies on x86 either.

General/abstract is fine and one day one time some how some way make contact with practical too.

Avoiding dumb extremes might be why MIT has a good reputation in stem. It's practical built on solid (often abstract) fundamentals
I too would like to work with smart people. The answer.ai article about how great invention is made was very inspiring. This article tells me that I could have made some different life choices to achieve this, and ultimiately it is on my hand to behave differently.

It gravely saddens me that this inspiration will fade off after a few days of getting distracted by endless meetings.
On the issue of how Tolkien thought about race in his works, Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth, by Robert Stuart (2022) is very good. Despite its slightly clickbaity title, the author does a careful analysis and avoids polemic.
With HTMX you shouldn't have a "template" per action. Most actions work on some "entity", and the "entity"'s page should be returned by the action, as it's very common for an action that change one bit of the "entity" to affect more than one part of the "entity" rendering. So you don't need one template per action, you need one template per entity, and different actions may replace the same entity. This is almost exactly what you would do in React, with "entities" being "components". I've designed a HTMX app this way and actually called the "templates" components. Each component is either a function or an actual (Kotlin) class with a render method. I can test the components in isolation, just like you can with JS frameworks, but all code is on the server - despite the app itself feeling just as reactive as any JS framework-based app.
> has a complete manual that explains it all.

So does quantum field theory, which, as a matter of fact, has many manuals.

Doesn't mean either QFT or grub are understandable or even usable by mere mortals.

Difference being than in the case of grub, given what is does, the complexity and opacity of the manual, config languages and diagnostics message is completely unnecessary.
Clever though
That's a big part of how they caught the Unabomber. Unusual spellings of words and ways of saying things. His brother apparently recognised some of these tics.

https://theconversation.com/how-the-unabombers-unique-lingui....
Another interesting thing regarding the ECC is they use Ed448, compared to something conventional like ECDSA with P-256 or Ed25519, which is way slower (30x-ish slower verification):

(OpenSSL benchmark numbers)

sign/s verify/s

256 bits ecdsa (nistp256) 34642.6 11700.3

sign/s verify/s

456 bits EdDSA (Ed448) 3209.5 409.5

There is basically no incentive to use Ed448 unless you think ECDSA with 256-bit curves is insecure or will become in the near future.
>Authors GReAT

>Global Research & Analysis Team, Kaspersky Lab

https://securelist.com/author/great/

The article is apparently authored by malware analysis team from Kaspersky Lab, so they are probably quite good at reverse engineering binaries.
Somebody made up a "Rule of Least Power", which is taken as some sort of axiom, and then this article gets going from there without questioning the axiom further.

Yeah, why not. But consider this: JavaScript exists because the axiom does not hold for the web. Or rather, a programming language is the least power you need for a general platform such as the web.
The medical industry often has contractual obligations to post the source code, dependencies and instructions for building the software to a third party escrow service. In case of bankruptcy this source code is then released to the customers.

Maybe software copyright should expire when a company dies, making all source code they owned public domain.
Disclaimer: I work at Glide but not on Google Sheets integration.

Triggers/AppScript - not that I am aware of right now...

Everyone I know doing stuff with GSheets (including Glide) is using a full-sync approach with an optimistic write layer of some sort.

GSheets API frequently reports being unable to do things, sometimes because it's calculating (common for huge sheets), sometimes just because it's down, other-times because rate limits

My impression is it's not a great API to build on directly.

A trigger based system that captured writes and wrote them to an outbox sheet could drastically speed up the sync process however.

The reason why we don't use that approach is there isn't APIs sufficient to setup this sort of thing automatically (last time I checked at least) and it makes changes to the users sheets which isn't impossible to live with but is distasteful.
Hobbyist around the world maintain projects for years and decades
Which is a shame as it is otherwise a beautiful bridge.
I love the person and his work. We need more of him.

Stifling thought control nonsense has no place in tech.
We got a law here in Norway in 2021 that states that if you lose access to digital goods you have paid for the seller needs to fully refund you.

Now the laws here are not retroactive, so it only applies to digital goods bought after 2021.

It's also worth noting that any agreement that gives the consumer less rights than the law are invalid, so you can't just slap something in the eula to get around it. This also applies to things like forced arbitration etc.

I think this type of regulation is the only way to curb the practice.
No other government is gonna complain

Maybe not. But to the open source community it does provide more information. Now it's completely unclear who compromised xz, if the account had a government-level signature of some sort, more is known. Also, the open source community could have different levels of trust in authors with different signing authorities [1].

Additionally, creating fake identities in other states is base level spying.

We are not talking about a fake identity here (as in a fake passport or whatever), but getting a signature from a device that is presumably in a facility that is disconnected from the network. The user's identities would also live on a hardware device (e.g. chip embedded in a passport/id).

You could steal the hardware device to steal someone's developer identity. But the identity can be revoked once the device is reported/stolen. So, it is hard to play the long game with a stolen identity, outside blackmailing or otherwise compelling a developer to make their identity available (but even in that case it'd give some leads in understanding who the actor is).

Apple Developer signing keys are similar. You can verify where an app comes from. If a developer goes rogue or their key is compromised, Apple can revoke it. Apple could do evil stuff by creating sock puppet accounts, but that would devalue the trust in their signing key.

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[1] I should note that I am not in favor of this. It's a privacy nightmare and it would give governments a lot of control over developers. I just think the argument upthread that a state actor could fake anything is not true. If e.g. the US had such an identity signing system, a foreign power could not forge the identities as long as the US private key is not compromised.