skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, ultra-hazardous activities are regulated differently from other activities, including under tort law, but generic AI tools are not ultra-hazardous by nature. No piece of software is, until it is connected in some way to real world effects. Take an object-detection algorithm. There's absolutely nothing inherently dangerous about identifying objects in a video stream. But once you use the algorithm to create an automatic targeting system for a drone with a grenade strapped to it, it does become hazardous. But that's no reason to regulate the algorithm as if it were hazardous itself, at least no more so than it is to regulate the drone. As you point out, we regulate hand grenades. We do not regulate the boxes hand grenades are delivered in, or the web framework used for building a website that can be used to purchase hand grenades.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Z9ifuTpljg0
Holy shit, the results are amazing; I didn't think they could still make exponential leaps in quality...
Not yet. Working on it :)
I had initially ignored the show because they had cast Keri Russell which I had assumed to be a total light weight. So I missed it the first few years and then I realized after its fourth renewal - gee maybe its good - and well - I was completely wrong. She was amazing. The show was terrific. But I'm a sucker for 80s cold war dramatics.
The alternative is VC / investors. They don't get their money back if your buisness fails, but you have given away much of your equity if you succeed.

Generally a much better deal for first time founders.
SQLite Is Enough [video]
Discord dismantles Spy.pet site that snooped on users
For a sense of scale, the Horsehead Nebula has a diameter of 7 light years which is greater than the distance of 4 light years from us to Proxima Centauri.
I see nothing wrong with this statement. Spice it up by inserting Rust at the blank and I can fully agree.
I've had puppies tell me how tasty the buzzy bugs are. Haven't tried one myself.
Joni Mitchell - Blue (Blue)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MvR7Dkg4NQU&t=820s
Don't feed the troll, there's a “flag” button just for that.
Each galaxy is a neuron and we are a spec of electricity within a spec of a neuron experiencing ourself, the universe, in realtime, together, forever
Great idea, and done! :-)
I‘m a happy user of direnv. Hard to imagine my life without it. The only problem is not to forget to include it to .gitignore.
I understood what you meant I was just trying to gently point out that it's not a goal that is valued or even taken seriously by people who study language, including lexicographers. Some curiosity about why that is could take you pretty far here.
The role of brain health in mental illness is commonly discounted, but so consistently found in studies. I got roasted here for recommending psychiatrist Mary Edes' book on improving mental health with dietary changes, but the benefits of the approach are clear.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/01/27/1227062...

I've resolved most of my diabetes type 2 with diet, and nobody should be surprised that this came with improved mental clarity and emotional stability.
> couldn't believe they used so much Wikipedia to get their answers. This at least seems like an upgrade from that

I don't know if I would even agree with that. Wikipedia doesn't invent/hallucinate answers when confused, and all claims can be traced back to a source. It has the possibility of fabricated information from malicious actors, but that seems like a step up from LLMs trained on random data (including fabrications) which also adds its own hallucinations.
It tells me that its knowledge cutoff is Nov 2023. So pretty recent.
That is incorrect.

“You may use any brand or type of lock to secure your firearm case, including TSA-recognized locks.”

Source: https://www.tsa.gov/travel/transporting-firearms-and-ammunit...
Prompt to gpt2-chatbot: who are you? and which version?

Answer: Hello! I'm ChatGPT, a language model developed by OpenAI based on the GPT-4 architecture. I'm here to help answer your questions, assist with a wide range of topics, or just chat about whatever's on your mind! How can I assist you today?
PHP is a scripting language and so is Bash. Both focus in different use cases.

The observation "PHP is web shell" does not seem very insightful or interesting.
My two cents: I worked in a different engineering field before transitioning to Software Engineering because "coding" was and is what we need to solve problems, and I got the hang of it. A few years in, I spend little of my day actually writing code but more time in meetings, consoles, documentation, logs, etc. Large language models (LLMs) help when writing code, but it's mostly about understanding the problem, domain, and your tools. When going back to my old area, I am excited about what a single person can do now and what will come, but I am also hitting walls fast. LLMs are great when you know what you are doing, but can be a trap if you don't and get worse and worse the more novel and niche you go.
My wife and I are both (relatively in my case) skinny, and we both also need to be constantly vigilant, although I find I need to be less so when I walk 4-5 hours per day at my desk.

Of course you’re still hungry - you have a pantry of delicious food right at your fingertips. One Oreo couldn’t hurt, right?

That’s not somehow unique to fat people, though I know some other skinny people will pop in and say “I’m basically never hungry!” Humans didn’t evolve to have delicious food constantly available, and to need to do no exercise to get it.

I wouldn’t say those that are overweight have an eating disorder. They’re (obviously, going by statistics) “normal.” Then there’s those of us that have the will power or specific motivation to not stuff food down our throat. The few that are left are probably the real ones with something biologically unique.
>we the members of NATO sometimes sabotage other members, like when some pipes of the Nord Stream pipeline were destroyed two years ago. So...

Or when NATO members wanted to build Nord Stream despite protests from other NATO members.
Try Perspective, especially if you want users to be able to interact with the visualizations and update them - including re-aggregating the data https://perspective.finos.org/
The Silicon Valley / Hacker News Paradox: ~80%-90% of companies in this world are still using PHP, Perl, Bash, COBOL, Fortran, and C - all without fuzzers, automatic testing, or CI/CD. There's also no shortage of Bootstrap, XML, jQuery, jQuery UI, and pre-HTML pages in this world. (Heck, macOS still ships XHTML 4.01 pages as part of the Screen Time system, right now.) You also seriously do not want to examine how much stuff which still relies on Internet Explorer is out there in corporate IT - there's a reason why Microsoft kept it for so long and still has IE Mode in Edge.

We can't all be elitists and chronological snobs enjoying Rust, Ruby, and Node and bragging about how this is the only good or practical way to do things.
[citation needed].
I have used number prefixes for repeating a very pervasive change that has to be done 1000s of times. When you're in that situation no other editor is any good and it's particularly useful for a complicated change which you record as a macro.

Typically your macro starts with a regexp search for the next item to change then you have all your editing commands (including arrow keys and inserts and replaces and whatever) - a quite complicated macro, then you stop recording your macro and tell vim to do it 1000 times. if 1000 isn't enough then do it 1000 more.

You can end up with junk at the end of your file or other issues but on the whole the ability to do a macro many times is still a fabulously useful feature.

sed usually likes to work on a line-by-line basis whereas macros aren't limited to that so vim with numbers can basically do things that no other tool does.
That's a very good question. The problem is what's next if they acknowledge that.

Say it is acknowledged as an attack on a NATO member, but nothing is done. That immediately turns NATO's worth from whatever its is worth now, to less than the paper it was printed on in 1999 when the Check Republic joined the organization.

That's the achilles heel of NATO, and the Russian government knows it. Same goes for Baltic countries and possibly Poland. Currently what is Americans' and West Europeans' appetite for starting WWIII over an arms warehouse, or a small village in Baltics? I want to believe they would step up, but I am not convinced. Those kind of attacks becomes very attractive for Putin: blow something up here, hack something there, assassinate this or that person, and then watch NATO do anything.

That's why the predictable response it so look away and pretend nobody saw anything.
The "National Emergency Library" was obviously a huge mistake, and I'm surprised that IA continues to defend it. The problem is, their online book lending is far from the most important part of the Internet Archive, and by continuing to fight for it, they risk losing everything, including the entire rest of the archive which seems to me to be far more important.

The Internet Archive has become the de-facto default location to upload anything rare, important, or valuable, and a terrifyingly large amount of history would suddenly blink from existence if it were brought down.
Is "the sweat spot" where you want to be though?
The verbosity and the BS-ing for me are the clear ones. AI content always just keeps hammering at the same in different ways.
We'll circle back to that later for readdress.
You suggested the difference in total risk is 50% not just a drop in rates.

Self driving cars can’t impact the risk of a someone bashing the windshield to get stuff out, hail or a tree falling on your car, it getting stolen, an uninsured motorist rear ending you at a stoplight etc. But it will mean replacing your car is more expensive should it get stolen etc.

Further if you assume more ultra self driving cars are on the road the human drivers risks also drop.
Kaiser Permanente notifies 13.4M patients of potential data exposure
Show HN: Temporary QR code to validate physical presence (valid for 5 seconds)
The US is no longer a democracy. It's effectively an oligarchy now.
Donate it to https://computerhistory.org/, assuming they want it.
The ST was at least a cost-effective way to emulate a PC very slowly. Not so much for SoftPC for VMS, which cost as much as an entry-level ST for the software alone:

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/catalog/Digital_U...

But hey, MS-DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.1 would have at least both fit comfortably on a single TK50 cartridge or 9-track open-reel tape, so at least you weren't stuck in front of the console swapping floppies waiting for the products to install.
I get that "web shell" in script-kiddie land has a specific meaning, but that is not what the author is talking about. They're just talking about how PHP, for many seasoned engineers, functions as a quick-and-dirty tool for getting things done and running quickly, much in the same way that shell scripting does for Linux ops.
I think eventually we’ll see a popular framework come around that provides a simpler alternative to React but with optimal ergonomics. For me there’s no going back to the Ruby on Rails world after using Typescript. I’ve used sorbet a bit but I think it’s pretty rough. Someone needs to put together a traditional MVC web framework for Typescript. It won’t be able to do everything that a React app can, but it will handle most needs just fine.
Google Says It Blocked 2.28M Apps from Google Play Store
You can write crap in any language. Or at least I can.
Not to be juvenile, but I firmly believe that "computer log processing" is much more comparable to sewage treatment than converting trees into lumber.

I now have another facet to add to my appreciation of "Log" from the Renn & Stimpy show.
This is that how jet fuel melted steel beams?
There is, but really only for the MIPS hardware.
OpenAI team, if you are reading this I am impressed and thank you for your work. Can't wait to see the official release of GPT-next.
This isn't directly useful to me, but it thrills me nonetheless. It is so great to see people digging in like this, learning and sharing what they learn, and that inspires me! Great work!!!
"In 2023, Google said it blocked 2.28 million bad applications from being published on Google Play and banned 333,000 developer accounts."

"The company said investments in better security features, updated policies, advanced machine learning and application review processes, and strengthened developer onboarding helped in the battle against bad Android apps and actors trying to slip into the application storefront."
Redis 7 Internals, with source code examination
gpt-4 latest is December 2023, just asked it on chat.openai.com
Agencies need all types of spies, some laying low for years in case their networks get rolled up.
This reminds me of Evan Czaplicki's PhD Thesis [1] on how concurrent functional reactive programming (FRP) can be used to solve most (if not all) of those challenges with little effort from the application developer.

[1] https://elm-lang.org/assets/papers/concurrent-frp.pdf
It's amazing how much more biodiversity you get in a local area just from having a small garden around. Easily ten times the number of different species of bugs and butterflies and various things. Manicured yards with grass, a couple of non-native flowering plants and a tree or two are practically dead places in comparison.

If I ever have a yard of my own I'm going to do all native plant landscaping and some raised beds for edible plants.
> arguably the languages closest to English

Yes, but they're not English. All the concerns that you mention are ones that I think LLM development tools are aiming to eliminate from explicit consideration. Ideally, a user of such a tool shouldn't even have to have ever heard of recursion. I think we're a long way off from that future, but it does feel possible.
> Statistics is a very precise science. Can you show your work or is it just a gut feeling?

In my case, my gut feeling, but is it so unlikely?

As mentioned in "Cosmos: Possible Worlds", planets may go through a "habitable zone", which is the window in which they are just the right distance from just the right star, and they have the right elements in their surface or whatnot. And then just the right random events have to happen and there's the spark of life. And then a gazillion extinction events must be averted, at times when the Tree of Life (to use the metaphor from Cosmos) is at its most fragile, when all of life could be cut down before its prime.

It sounds unlikely for any single planet, any single star system, any single galaxy, etc. But on the grand scale of the universe, it cannot be that nowhere else but here on Earth did this happen.

I don't know if this is statistics. It surely is gut feeling. But I think it's the right kind of gut feeling...
FASTBuild – High-Performance Build System
Yeah I mean you can certainly have the opinion that any amount of medical bankruptcies greater than 0 is unacceptable, but that has nothing to do with my original point that the 2/3 number should not be cited in discussions about bankruptcy.
> they called it Project Habbakuk, in reference to ... "I am working a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you."

This is a slightly more subtle way of calling it Project You Ain't Gonna Believe This
This is a great throwback reminder of all the dirty mice I’ve cleaned. Having all that lint unevenly stuck to the rollers made the tracking of the mouse uneven. I hated it so much my default behaviour when sitting down at a computer was to start with cleaning the mouse. That usually came with a puzzled look from the owner.
The most egregious acts can be downplayed or politely ignored, if the aggrieved party really wishes to avoid war. On the other hand, the smallest provocation can serve as a justification for war, if the aggrieved party wants war.

North Korea regularly shells South Korea, sometimes killing South Korean civilians. It's absolutely a cause for war, and they might indeed be justified, in a sense, with breaking the ceasefire and marching on Pyongyang the next time NK does so. But they will have to live with the war that would cause.
Took me a moment to understand they mean "shell scripting language for the web", as opposed to "webshell" as in remote command execution interface.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_shell
Prompt: code up an analog clock in html/js/css. make sure the clock is ticking exactly on the second change. second hand red. other hands black. all 12 hours marked with numbers.

ChatGPT-4 Results: https://jsbin.com/giyurulajo/edit?html,css,js,output

GPT2-Chatbot Results: https://jsbin.com/dacenalala/2/edit?html,css,js,output

Claude3 Opus Results: https://jsbin.com/yifarinobo/edit?html,css,js,output

None is correct. Styling is off in all, each in a different way. And all made the mistake of not ticking when second actually changes
Add it to the long list of attacks. The real question is ‘what sort of attack would generate a response from NATO?’
You shouldn't take it lightly, but you may already have decided you want to when you arrive at the page, and then a bunch of text will at least for some seem like it is an annoying obstacle to doing what you've already thought through.
We use echarts at https://evidence.dev and have been quite happy with it. We do a lot of embedded analytics and it's worked well for us.
This feels as much likely to be a prompt problem as a 'bad answer from a model' problem.
https://github.com/KFearsoff/nix-drama-explained has a good summary of what the contention is about.
Unsurprisingly, Mythbusters have tried it - not at the scale of an aircraft carrier, but a boat displacing a few tons:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a4101/4313387/
For those that are curious about an alternative perspective on this matter, I detailed much of my personal views in my reddit suspension post. I don't have much context on the EU NixCon 2023 events, but I've been actively involved with the project for 2019, 2020, 2021, beginning of 2022, and late 2023.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1cd5fod/in_case_im_u...
Yup. There's also a ton of legacy Java and ASP/.NET stuff out there in my experience.
Many (most?) countries do not require you to show any passport when exiting the country. (But if you’re traveling by air, then the next country you enter will likely share your passport details with the country you just departed.)
Hopefully all this moon activity stays peaceful. What a complete failure combat on the moon would represent. Very interested in the Chinese mission to the South Pole of the Moon. Hopefully they find usable water.
There is Tvix, a Rust implementation of Nix, and although it still uses the Nix programming language, I bet it would be a lot easier to replace it there than in the original C++ codebase. (not just because of the language of implementation)

https://github.com/tvlfyi/tvix

To me, the perfect solution would be to have a base like Nix/Tvix you can build on top of, for example to make a package manager for your language, and have the users of that language's PM interact with TOML or JSON.
Adtech used AI to make money before it was cool. You wouldn't believe how many ML models are required to build those shitty little pieces of HTML.
In surprisingly many cases, PHP is a web shell and a webshell at the same time.
I disagree. Debating gives legitimacy, especially when one begins to debate a throwaway comment that doesn't even put an argument forward. The right answer is outright dismissal.
Fwiw, there's also a set of monthly Blue Marble Next Generation[1] (2004), similar to the single Blue Marble (2002) used by clouds.matteason.co.uk. Snow cover is quite visible[2] - perhaps undesirable for a "are there clouds there?" ISS application, but nicer for a "loosely approximate Earth appearance". I used it years ago for an Earth seasons interactive - perhaps there's some way to get actual snow cover these days, rather than echoing 2004's snow? And more realistic ocean color?

[1] https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/BlueMarble https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/search?q=blue+marble+next+gene...
[2] Jan https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/73938/january-blue-marb... vs June https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/76487/june-blue-marble-...
If you ask it about the model name/cutoff date it claims to be "ChatGPT, based on GPT-4" and that the cutoff date is "Nov 2023." It claims that consistently so I think it might be accurate.
Thank you for that clear and informative answer.
The solution to "save democracy" would be have more of it. The problem with our model is that everything relies on representatives who don't actually do the representation part.

We should have more direct democracy. For all it's warts, propositions like in CA, FL, etc have really moved forward the actual will of the people.
Do you think that continually asserting my wrongness makes me wrong?

I encourage you to understand this issue more deeply. But if it is evidence you lack, here it is:

A timeline of TikTok's history of reported security flaws, continual failures to fix them, and why it is currently in this situation: https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-timeline-ban-biden-india-d...

A list of countries that have already banned TikTok and their reasons for doing so: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/these-countries-have-alre...

Of course, that list does not include China itself, which also has TikTok banned locally.
> The singular property presented can't even be extrapolated to relate to both things.

Both things aren't equally important.

The energy capacity of the battery isn't provided for the same reason that coal plants don't specify the size of their coal piles or hydro plants don't specify the potential energy storage capacity of their reservoirs.

Power is the most relevant property to the real time operation of the grid, and the specification of power (and not energy). The grid operators need to know how much power a battery (or other generation source) can provide, and for how long. That tuple <power, duration> what any dispatchable energy source ultimately bids onto the real-time electricity markets.

The energy storage capacity of a battery is a function of what energy market it is designed to fit into.

For example, a battery that primarily functions in the frequency regulation market (modulation of supply and demand every few seconds) doesn't need a lot of storage capacity, but needs high power output. In contrast, a battery that shifts supply over the course of a single day might need more capacity (4 hours).

From the grid operator's perspective, the storage capacity is an implementation detail of the particular power source, or at least a secondary consideration.
The point the post makes is valid, trusted, tried and true boring solutions do one thing very well: they are reliable, they work, they ship.

But there's a different take:

I've written a lot of bash shell in my life, but at some point I quit and moved over to Python. Having a decent programming language makes building any kind of workflow so much better, easier, prettier, more readable. Anything beyond 10-20 lines becomes Python. Every single time I think 'nah, bash is good enough' I come to regret it.

I wonder if and what the equivalent analogy with PHP is.... ;-)
At least in some countries in Schengen area they check both passports on the outbound travel to Russia, e.g. in Narva, Estonia („You don’t seem to have Russian visa, do you have another passport?“)

However, you don’t have to be very smart and sophisticated to simply choose another route and use connection in Istanbul to avoid this check…
I had a kneejerk reaction to this — no way 90% of companies use this! But you could be right. I mean, 43% of the web is wordpress
Which episode of Gilligan’s Island was about mind reading? [1]

"The episode of Gilligan's Island that features mind reading is titled "The Friendly Physician." It is the 28th episode of the second season, originally aired on March 24, 1966. [...]"

Still no luck with that one.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40139501