skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Ruby on Rails is a framework and not a language.

2. This is a straw-man argument. The premise that Ruby on Rails is "barely spoken of" just isn't true.

Even a quick google will show that Ruby on Rails is still very popular and used by some of the biggest and most successful SaaS companies.

It may not be fashionable with polemics to say this, but Ruby and Ruby on Rails are both gaining new features and improving with every release.

If you want to put up a CRUD based SaaS today Ruby on Rails is better than it ever has been.
Maybe you should stick to plant-based food and lab grown meat before telling other people to stop eating animals and go to plant-based food and lab grown meat.
Scientists capture X-rays from upward positive lightning
It could happen, but not overnight. SC cases take years to resolve. Even if this one was fast-tracked, it will create a media and PR circus that whatever administration is in power will not want.
Maybe this is the right thread to ask. If you were in the market for a new Mac (eg MacBook Pro), would you go for the 100+GB RAM option for running LLMs locally? Or is the difference between heavily quantized models and their unquantized versions so small, and progress so fast, that it wouldn’t be worth it?
Trans people are not usually hostile to someone making genuine mistakes. It becomes an issue if one makes them intentionally, or if one appears to be careless.

It's also ok to ask trans people what are their pronouns. They should be glad most of the time.

About cis people, I don't know. I don't have much experience in the topic. I've never seen anybody misgender a cis person. Sometimes there is a doubt but it's vanishingly rare. It's also uncommon to ask a cis person their pronouns, and I believe a cis person won't expect to be asked this because for them it should be obvious what their gender is, though it would be logical to do so because you are not expected to notice a trans person is trans and some places push for it.

I personally won't explicitly ask pronouns unless absolutely necessary and didn't have the chance to pick the information up passively. I certainly don't need this on the internet.

On the internet, the rule is simple: you should not use a gendered pronoun to refer to someone without checking first. "they" is safer if you don't want to spend time checking their profile and sometimes you just can't know. That's what I do most of the time.

Now, trans or cis, if you keep misgendering the same person, it's a bit like using a wrong name several times with the same person. People don't usually like this. Since gender identity is (unfortunately; my opinion) a big deal in our societies you have no choice to care if you don't want to piss people off. It's general politeness, if you don't want to appear rude, you need to care, remember, etc, just like you need to remember the name. Though forgetting names is quite generally understood and accepted. I'm of people who don't easily remember names at first.

tl;dr: I use "they" on the internet or check the profile. In real life, I try to pick it up and remember the information. It has not happened to me that I misgender someone, but I consider it is fine once but will not make the mistake twice.
The leftists I know are socialists, anarchists, and communists. They are very much doing the work both politically (I live in the Pacific Northwest, where socialists are on the ballot regularly) and locally (e.g. via Food Not Bombs or restoring land to natural states).

There definitely are academics, in organizations like the DSA. But there's practical folks too.
Similar to the cDc but instead of hacking it goes after culture and religion is the Church of MOO which I think came out of the same bbs/usenet and irc era of the Internet if you could even call it that http://www.textfiles.com/occult/MOOISM/
A Boogeyman argument against unionisation and a Let them eat cake argument to dismiss their position.
Some additional context,

My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26961482) - Apr 2021 (705 comments)

Jon Pretty statement in April 2021,

https://web.archive.org/web/20210428020410/https://twitter.c...

https://web.archive.org/web/20210428024304im_/https://pbs.tw...

Additionally,

Open letter of support for community members targeted by Jon Pretty (https://scala-open-letter.github.io/)
This is a bad idea because the police will break down your door based on IP.

It might be a good idea in a prosecution to raise reasonable doubt. Few people are willing to play punching bag for the police to find out. Also the general technical skill of the average cop and prosecutor is quite low.
IBM Buys HashiCorp to Control the Alternative to Red Hat Kubernetes
Desire - yes. Feasibility - not sure, we need to substitute the caloric intake with something of a relatively similar density, profile, and nutrition. "Vegetarian" might do the trick (beans, rice, fresh vegetables) and I suspect there are a number of ways to improve protein and fat uptake that milk, cheese, and butter provide.

This is just for beef, of course. It is hard to overstate how reliant most developed countries are on chicken and, especially, basically every part of a pig.
Their speculation seems to be that there is some maliciousness or intent here, rather than a natural result of the DMA changes. My point is that it could be the latter.

As for reaching a human, my understanding is that Google does not discuss ranking reasons with companies on purpose, in order to prevent bias and gaming of the system.
Is it particularly helpful to use ZFS on root?
Many times, we don't realize how our brains/selves have been conditioned. It's kind of a luxury to even be able to have the time and space to gain this insight for many people.
> Additionally, many Python developers using Unix forget that the default encoding is platform dependent. They omit to specify encoding="utf-8" when they read text files encoded in UTF-8

"forget" or possibly simply aren't made well enough aware? I genuinely thought that python would only use UTF-8 for everything unless you explicitly ask it to do otherwise.
It’s just a matter of time for it to happen everywhere unfortunately: it’s possible, it’s easy, most people don’t know or care or understand, so keep trying and it’ll happen.
I assume this could really help with in-the-wild OCR for blind people.
The EU court ruled against this law in 2020:

https://www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/en/news/eu-court-rule...
North Korea also declares itself "democratic", just to add to the parent.
> I spend more time dealing with systemd edge cases, and bugs, and security issues every few months, than I did in 30 years of other init systems.

It's been the same situation for me, too.

Every time I get stuck dealing with a new systemd-related problem and search online for solutions, the huge number of bug reports, mailing list posts, forum posts, IRC logs, and other communications I incidentally see describing my problem and/or other troubles involving systemd remind me that I'm not alone. Many other people are consistently having a wide variety of problems with it, too, and this has now been going on for years and years.

Systemd has driven me to move systemd-using Linux systems I end up responsible for over to FreeBSD or OpenBSD whenever possible. Their init systems aren't perfect, but they almost never cause me problems. In the very rare cases when they aren't working for some reason, at least those systems are simple enough that I can usually debug the issue on my own, without having to search for help online.
I wish clickbait got flagged here.

Also I read the article just to see if that poor grammar was directly copied and pasted from it, and to save anyone else the time, it was. The article wasn't proofread. Just made as clickbaity as possible and posted.
I've only experienced this with low quality or frayed HDMI cables. When I've hit this and swapped the cables its always stopped happening.
Not relying on flaky system defaults is a good thing. These things have a way of turning around and being different than what you assume them to be. A few years ago I was dealing with Ubuntu and some init.d scripts. One issue I ran into was that some script we used to launch Java (this was before docker) was running as root (bad, I know) and with a shell that did not set UTF-8 as the default like would be completely normal for regular users. And of course that revealed some bad APIs that we were using in Java that use the os default. Most of these things have variants that allow you to set the encoding at this point and a lot of static code checkers will warn you if you use the wrong one. But of course it only takes one place for this to start messing up content.

These days it's less of an issue but I would simply not rely on the os to get this right ever for this. Most uses of encodings other than UTF-8 are extremely likely to be unintentional at this point. And if it is intentional, you should be very explicit about it and not rely on weird indirect configuration through the OS that may or may not line up.

So, good change. Anything that breaks over this is probably better off with the simple fix added. And it's not worth leaving everything else as broken as it is with content corruption bugs just waiting to happen.
I don't think a pure language model of the sort under consideration here is heading towards AGI. I use language models extensively and the more I use them the more I tend to see them as information retrieval systems whose surprising utility derives from a combination of a lot of data and the ability to produce language. Sometimes patterns in language are sufficient to do some rudimentary reasoning but even GPT4, if pushed beyond simple patternish reasoning and its training data, reveals very quickly that it doesn't really understand anything.

I admit, its hard to use these tools every day and continue to be skeptical about AGI being around the corner. But I feel fairly confident that pure language models like this will not get there.
noting in passing; a possible influence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotinus#One
The government creates these laws, not the reining Monarch.

Royal assent is a ceremonial process at this point as the powers to refuse a bill are very, very rarely exercised.
If they publish it for free then it may be adopted. Currently tech industry should use free and public access standard.
> an adversary in possession of a read-only copy of the database of the service you're trying to authenticate with

True, but GP is referring to the private key on the (user’s) device or computer being stored in a password manager. The main protection that passkeys offer in such a case is that there’s no case of passkey reuse across services and accounts, which is something that’s possible with passwords even if one used a password manager (albeit poorly by not generating unique passwords for each account).
As stated in the post, I contacted the listed email exactly one year ago. I did not contact law enforcement — I did not consider it to be my place

Edit: and I’m not sure standard disclosure even applies. I’m just talking about IOCs, not the actual attack vector (which I do not know)
Do the cows know they are herbivores? Why would the fact that they don’t predate on other animals in the wild make it “abhorrent” to feed them animal products in captivity?
Is it possible for this to happen today with SMTP?

Email supports HTML/CSS/JS and is sent over plaintext, so shouldn't the same kind of injection vulnerability exist?
KeePassXC has support for passkeys now. However I've only managed to make it work with GitHub. Bitwarden does not work for now (although their passkey implementation for log-in is reportedly in beta).
AR has better real world capabilities and use cases than VR. AR is what you use to enhance reality or make it easier. VR is where you go when you want fiction.

Aside from entertainment, I don't understand this VR push when AR is arguably better for many of the non-entertainment uses
>Who should I use?

None. Go out there and enjoy life, life is way too short to be spending it listening to so-called journalists peddling anger and fear.
> Surely we are past this bullshit now thanks to https being everywhere?

Plenty of hotels (and other places) misdirect your DNS queries so that your machine will connect to the hotel's captive portal where you need to accept the terms and conditions for using the wifi. This causes HTTPS connections to fail. Captive portals are a rather inelegant hack, but in most cases they achieve what they are designed to achieve.
GM collects driver behavior data then sells access to insurance companies
The party is over for developers looking for AI freebies
I remember when this stuff was happening. It was like the world shifted over to HTTPS instantly. Wish we could do the same for IPv6.
Quite dissapointing, because I found the authors book "A Mind For Numbers" to be good.
Governments will just get other governments to let them tap their fiber.
It does phone home yes, but people pretend it doesn't and only Windows is evil when it does so. At least it doesn't have ads.
Nightly Postgres Backups via GitHub Actions
The prompt I always try first:

Two cars have a 100 mile race. Car A drives 10
miles per hour. Car B drives 5 miles per hour,
but gets a 10 hour headstart. Who wins?

Tried it on Qwen1.5-110B three times. It got it wrong 2 times and correct 1 time.
That's funny you mentioned switching to another language, I recently asked chatGPT "translate this: <random german sentence>"
And it translated the sentence in french, while I was speaking with it in english"
> It sounded like Stephen Hawking choking on vodka

I'm probably way, way overthinking this, but this seems philosophically quite deep and interesting, much like "what is the sound of one hand clapping" (ignoring Bart Simpson's masterful destruction of the ancient question).
This comment thread is about cheap drones hunting down individuals. They are not using Shahed for that. You can easily build a small drone capable of carrying a grenade for under $300.
Everything besides YAML is arcane these days.
It was but Dave sold it to MS, so they own it
What sort of force is appropriate to use in defense of deodorant?
> and is sent over plaintext

No longer true.
EU is working on it.
I was thinking of the one they got kicked off twitter for-

"The Babylon Bee's Man Of The Year Is Rachel Levine"

featuring gems like
"UPDATE: Since announcing this award, we've been told that Levine actually identifies as a woman. We have still chosen to give the award as his self-identification has no bearing on the truth. Congratulations, Rachel Levine!"
Both categories but with lower meat consumption.
Whoa, really? Amazon’s employee value prop just shot way up.
I've tried it and it works on GitHub. Sites seem to be hit-or-miss for now. Tip if you want to use it with the browser add-on, it needs to be manually enabled and you also need to remove any YubiKeys from the system because it will prioritize them over KeePassXC
I'm seeing FreeDOS mentioned here, but I do wonder what practical use it is being put to. I only ever see it as something computer makers write into the hard disk because they have to put something there, which gets promptly wiped and replaced with a variety of Linux. (Why they couldn't ship an empty HD, I have no idea.)
Engaging directly also let's them set the agenda. Deciding what info people need to neutralize the problem and publishing it let's you set an agenda.

Do keep in mind that if it becomes public debate, your most and least vociferous are both potential candidates as the author. Even someone very vociferous and seemingly on your side may actually be your troll doing all they can to keep the discussion going.
What is the latest with MariaDB?

Seems like it gets ignored by "MySQL" when, originally, it was a dropin replacement since MySQL was Oracle owned.
Malicious QR codes at work, that's pretty brazen.
We have a ton of examples of great mathematicians who also happened to be great philosophers and vice-versa. Some philosophers also tried to incorporate mathematical symbols and such into their work. We value both their philosophical works and mathematical works. They were smart people and chose different mediums to express different concepts.

How can you try to explore the ego, consciousness, unconsciousness, dreams, suffering, life's purpose, subjective beauty, symbolism, truth, religion, god, ethics and whatever else that is not easily formalized? We might very well arrive at a formal and unambiguous description of these sometime in the far future, so are we not supposed to at least try to talk about these concepts now? You use different tools for different concepts, and science and philosophy is just 2 of those tools. At the end of the day philosophy undeniably changed the world, so there is at least some value to it. Philosophy is not anti-logic, it is very much for logic.
I don't think you know what phishing means. By "dropping malware on endpoints" I think you mean having a website serving malware? That's not phishing. For an attack to be "phishing", the website needs to be pretending to be some other website that the user trusts. Passkeys completely prevent the user from logging in to another website than the one they've created an account with.

Your attack only works on people who basically "trust any website" at all. For those, yeah there's no salvation.
They were also trying to find sponsorship to turn S6 into a full dodged fledged service manager. I don't think they were successful though.
If you want passkeys without Javascript, leave a thumbs-up on [1].

[1] https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/1255
> How would that help? All the spammers spoof the numbers

Mine don't, it's either from Pakistan or from 2 towns in my country which presumably are the places that provide a forwarding service to them. If I could block +92 and those two towns i currently would get no spam calls.

Also why shouldn't I just be able to block things with a wildcard rather than every individual number.
Indeed; that even the Welsh Ambulance Service was ever given nationwide no-warrant-needed access to internet connection records still irks me.

However, the 2016 act was ruled incompatible with EU law: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/2018/975.html
> Your brain is a computer and we still don’t have much of a clue how it works.

Notwithstanding the fact that Daniel Dennet thinks of the brain as a virtual machine on which memes execute and evolve via cultural evolution, the common understanding of a computer does not include gray matter.

> What would happen if our concepts were entirely different?

That’s why we use different words to denote different concepts.
The signed assertion includes the clientDataJSON, which contains the origin of the relying party. Assuming the server properly validates that assertion, it should prevent the use of a phished assertion by a third party.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Authent...
I am pretty comfortable with suggesting one OS as the "hardware" OS and another OS for the userland...

Alpine's design makes it really well suited to "hardware"; I'd even suggest it's probably a good way to run kubernetes or lxd because it's simple and trivial to provision/customize and not full of vendor nonsense.

You can use alpine as a "base container" layer, but you'll quickly end up in a world where libc vs musl or "I need a weird package" makes a tiny centos/debian container more appealing. If you've got java or python or ruby or some other complex runtime, just run it in the most commonly used base container and don't go looking for trouble...
Ainu? Koreans?
The UK is still subject to the European Court of Human Rights, which is distinct from the EU.

Relevant past rulings:

https://dpglaw.co.uk/european-court-of-human-rights-declares...

https://privacyinternational.org/press-release/5120/judgment...
Ah - so it was the FT editor that equated Palmer Luckey to Oppenheimer.
If your hobby firewall rule-set compiler is perl based than custom trigger rules are rather trivial.

For a random example, most of these ports will just bind to the default web-server (mitigates loopback attacks etc.):

2021 //tripwire 5 day ban, delay 30s

2022 //SSL tunnel for SSH port on VM, with client source-port range restriction.

2023 //tripwire 5 day ban

2024 //tripwire 5 day ban, delay 130s

2025 //tripwire 5 day ban

2026 //trigger 1: enable trigger 2 for specific IP, 5 second delay to open

2027 //tripwire 5 day ban

2028 //trigger 2: enable trigger 3 for specific IP, 4 second delay to open

2029 //tripwire 5 day ban, delay 19s

2030 //tripwire 5 day ban

2031 //trigger 3: close trigger 2, enable SSL tunnel port for specific IP in 1 second

2032 //tripwire 5 day ban

2033 //close all ports for this client IP, and reset trigger states in 1 second

2034 //tripwire 5 day ban

I think the lack of popularity comes from the ease of locking oneself out (initially manual starting a firewall during configuration without rule caching is wise), and lack of client-side automated handshaking scripts on non-*nix systems.

Someone should put together a little tutorial given many people seem to have lost this simple skill-set. Most people tend to ignore fail2ban integration options like banning game cheats.

Have a wonderful day, =)
Yeah, I don't think we really have any equivalent technology that is advanced or as detailed as chip making. Chip making is kind of the parent of pretty much every other technology we have at this point.
I would like to disagree with you, but I can’t. Pharo, and Squeak that it is derivative from, is an odd development experience.

A long time ago I experimented with making web apps with Pharo, fun, but I wouldn’t use it in production.

When I saw this announcement I was motivated to update my Pharo NLP library https://github.com/mark-watson/nlp_smalltalk but I may not. Many NLP tasks are now done infinitely better using deep learning and LLMs.

I just looked for OpenAI API support and found 2 year old Pharo project library https://github.com/pharo-ai/open-ai and maybe more promising 1 year old project by Bracken https://github.com/brackendev/OpenAI-Pharo

EDIT: to be fair to Pharo, I am not really a Smalltalk person. In 1983 someone at Xerox arranged for me to get a trial Smalltalk system on My Xerox 1108 Lisp Machine, and I removed it within a few weeks.
Huge plus one. I too bounce between environments with my MacBook. Never experienced any of the issues the gp describes, which to me sounds like something wrong with that device. Is it a Corp managed device?
Oh, I didn’t connect the dots before after I read where’s she’s a professor at. She’s one of the instructors in Learning How To Learn https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
> I did that. "Impersonation" is usually posting something with someone else's name, though.

Impersonation is when you pretend to be someone else.
>If you want to know how you can become better in math and rewire your brain to be math compatible [...]

... then you just have to do it. And keep working on it, even though it feels awful
>> Outbreaks of E. coli, listeria, giardia, etc. are common in factory farmed bagged lettuce.

Common, in that millions of people eat the food and a vanishingly small number get sick during the rare outbreaks. Compare pre-industrial farming, where nearly everyone got sick on a somewhat regular basis. Read British history. Everything was boiled for a reason. Today we can get away with lightly washing our food. Most everyone opens a salad and eats without question. That is new. That is because of modern farming practices.
I just swipe with three fingers. I find that less annoying than dragging my mouse across displays and moving my head.
>At least we still have peace.

Only because even the most fervent US warmonger would have a hard time justifying an invasion of Canada.
You can still patch binaries on Windows.
There was a guy in a dorm who thought he was anonymous using tor on the schools website. They caught him because it turns out he was the only one using tor. In some ways it is a honeypot.
Server rendered react components are in rn afaik.

We’ve come full circle