skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you're talking about security, adding a bunch of config flags for users is never a good idea. Most users aren't going to understand what it does, and like others mentioned, there's too many reasons to turn it on.
> what evil looks like and who the bad guys actually are.

Whataboutism aside, I really don't get what you're trying to imply with that "actually".

Like, is there some country whose blemished record we pretend is terrible, but is "actually" okay when compared to Russia?

Julian Assange was recently freed after spending 12 years either cooped in an embassy or in literal prisons because of the US's relentless campaign to punish him for exposing the US's war crimes. (And yes, there are many things to dislike about Assange and his support for Russia is a pretty big one, but the US would have hunted him regardless of these things.)

Is the message that the US aren't actually the bad guys? That they're only the bad guys until you compare them to more violent and more openly criminal regimes? In that logic, isn't Russia not-actually-the-bad-guys because it has committed fewer war crimes than ISIS or the Nazis or the Myanmar junta? (Or maybe not. I don't know the numbers for any of those.)

The lesson can't be that we're periodically reminded of evil when it's unambiguous and performed by polities opposed to US hegemony. All states do evil given the opportunity, and the only way to close off that opportunity and call them out whenever it happens, whether they are Russian, American, Israeli, Arab, French, Brazilian, Papuan or whatever else.
The createElement function is called immediately, and it immediately calls your component function. I don't think this is a significant difference. Many libraries accept a callback and I'm really not ready to call all that a framework just based on that.
Hey euvin! Sorry for the late reply, I've made a "Try for Free" feature so you can check it out :)

And no, it's not a gpt wrapper but i do use a model for tts.
> It is possible that no DRM in Mozilla would have resulted in the same outcome we arrived at - Mozilla gave in, so we'll never know. But what does Mozilla even exist for if it's unwilling to stick to its principles?

If DRM weren't added to Mozilla and Firefox, then they would have continued to languish in marketshare on Windows/Mac and only would have hurt open source users on Linux/FreeBSD/etc.

The long-term gains of Firefox gaining marketshare (shaking up the IE monopoly and allowing web technologies to break stagnation) were worth the short term loss of "principals" on DRM. At least, IMO.
The market is not in a free fall. Or rather, it's only a free fall for junior fresh-out-of-college developers. If you are skilled and senior, don't believe this nonsense and have confidence in yourself. This is just an extension of the imposter syndrome that I see often in many people.
I have an assortment of low quality original encodes from the 90s (an assortment of thousands of mpeg and flv web videos, think divx and co) that I’ve refrained from reencoding in hopes that some day AI would get there and having the originals would pay off. But looking at all the “originals” in the demo, they’re all super blurry (blurry upscaling, I know, but also trademark h264 low bitrate or high deblocking). It would be ironic if I had to use h264/h265 as a deblocking upscale intermediate step before using something like this someday.
15 years ago? Just buy bitcoin
Good, finally we can scrape these to feed into an engine to make soulless versions of Picasso
Based on what others have said about how the coin mechanism works, this seems like the most likely explanation. Now it has me wondering if it was my brother who set it up. The payphone was outside a bar in an area I'd never been to before and I can't remember why we ended up there that day. Perhaps he was jamming up phones and then returning later to collect to proceeds. He was always getting into such small time schemes before he got mostly straightened out in the military.
Here are the two best tributes to Chomsky that I know of:

The Loneliness of Noam Chomsky by Arundhati Roy http://www.rarre.org/documents/roy/The%20Loneliness%20Of%20N...

When Chomsky Wept by Fred Branfman- https://www.salon.com/2012/06/17/when_chomsky_wept/

Absolutely beautiful writing about a beautiful person.
Code practices? Factorio is one of the most well programmed, stable, and consistent piece of software I've ever seen. It's almost a shame to see skilled people work in games because of how desperately other fields need people who are good at programming.
Microsofts AI boss thinks its perfectly OK to steal content if its on open web
This seems like an attitude that would be held exclusively by people in their 20s.
Nope. Assume you have insurance with a one-time fee of $X. It insures against a single kind of event that happens with 60% probability, and pays out $1.6X. So the majority of people are likely to have the event happen to them. The EV of the cost to the insurer is then $1.6X * 0.6 = $0.96X, so the books are expected to balance.

Obviously I'm ignoring variance in this calculation, but you can easily adjust the numbers to give a margin of safety.
The Operational Wargame Series: The best game not in stores now (2021)
I'm saying that prices are falling increasingly more slowly and that using solar+batteries to replace coal, gas and fission power plants will probably not happen.
I say civilization is derived from humanity, and uncivil behavior is derived from inhumanity.

On those terms, then I think humanity as we know it could theoretically make the trip.

However, civilization as we know it could not, since the only civilization we know has been based on unsustainability itself for so long it's really difficult for so many people to tell the difference.

Now I think some proponents of interplanetary travel are mathematically inclined, and playing the odds can never expect to arrive at a different celestial body which is more suitable for human habitation than the home planet.

That would be silly, what are the odds?

Instead, it's likely all efforts will be much more realistic, toward settling for any godforsaken unearthlike location within the range of science-fantasy, as if all silliness has been overcome in the process.
> Increases the torque arm.

Does the increased torque arm of thick sole shoes also increase ankle spraining risk?
They donated to Asahi Linux too :)
I'm curious about using typst for printed technical books.

What was the experience like? What features is it missing?
I think the tricky thing is the distinction between:

(A) Democratization: Let everyone participate as individuals on a freshly equalized playing field that was previously so slanted they couldn't even try.

(B) Democratization: Encourage lots of small disorganized weaker players into the market as unwitting prey for existing interests that have already established themselves with regulatory or competitive edges that they retain/maintain indefinitely.
CVE-2021-4440: A Linux CNA Case Study
I agree it is context dependent, but I was trying to show that it's not a binary choice between escalating or leaving. You can do both. If you lose the battle, at least you tried. I've left some jobs too early and regretted it. I could've done more and I should have done more. Probably, I would've failed anyway. Corporate politics and company culture is such a strong force.

The reality is many direct managers have little visibility into their reports day-to-day work because they are not hands-on enough. They should be checking the work product. Example: They should at least be looking at PRs and even participating in code reviews themselves. If you proposed this to some "engineering managers" I am familiar with, they would say this is not their job and you are crazy for even mentioning it. (I'd tell them I disagree about that, too.) This is why coworkers need to escalate performance problems: because many of the people making decisions do not know what is going on.
You're describing anybody investing in anything (except those who cheat).
Ezra Pound worried his high art had become “arsthitic”.

Is this a misspelling? I can not find a definition of "arsthitic".
The issue is not really about the verifiability of the bytecode but about the interpreter checking the invariants. JVM bytecode is intentionally designed to be verifiable so that the inner loop of the interpreter does not need to care about whether the operation is executed with correctly typed operands (which in the JVM case would be highly impractical and would essentially mean that you need twice the amount of memory). You can design a system where the bytecode is not verifiable, but instead the checks are done at runtime, CPython works that way.
Right, those bubbles need to be popped so the cysts can be drained and the patient (economy) recover.
> The public had clearly voted against immigration and free trade. At that point, the job of the federal bureaucracy was to put aside their own views about whether immigration and free trade were good things, and use their skills to implement the agenda of their duly elected new boss.

You mean a new boss put in place by an Electoral college, which didn't represent the majority of the people?
Majority of the country didn't vote for the 2016 President
A country that stops making things will eventually stop buying things.
Unexpected!

Since lua interprets bytecode, it can check the arguments to the bytecode are meaningful. Point to memory lua allocated, things like that.

Turns out it doesn't do that. Feed it bytecode with invalid arguments passed to the instructions and it executes it anyway. The rest of the compromise follows.

Further, instead of fixing their interpreter, the game plan is to statically analyse bytecode. Which turns out to only work in simple cases.

For a sandbox friendly interpreted language this is pretty disappointing. I wonder if they'd take patches to stop the interpreter trusting the input - presumably performance regression is the fear there, which seems dubious when luajit is the fast option anyway.
The game "Tabletop Simulator" allows you to spawn various objects into a VR playspace. One of the objects is a tablet PC, which displays a little web browser on its virtual screen. It's handy to look up rules or whatever without leaving VR.

The last time I tried this, the browser had a notification that it was out of date and needed updates.

Thinking about this broke my brain a little. I have no idea how to apply software updates to the virtual browser on the virtual tablet running in a virtual room simulated by my (hopefully real) PC.
The finding the biomass to make the methane from is the non-scalable, energy intensive part. You have to collect the biomass, load it on to a truck, ship it around on a truck, and then unload it and dispose of it after it's depleted.

If you only need air, electricity and water to make the synthetic fuel, that's going to be scalable to a civilizational level scale.
Where? I live in Dupont Circle. Are you talking about in Southeast? I'm not seeing empty storefronts except in really high crime areas.
I disagree. I think rewrites are sometimes the right thing, but rarely.

The Linux kernel is a good example. Should we rewrite it? No of course not. So was your point about code that hasn’t been maintained in a decade? Sure, maybe then. But I can’t square “code that hasn’t been touched in a decade” with “still in active use today”
It's publishing what you've learned not ok?
> Did this threat come from a doctor? What an astounding lack of empathy.

Perhaps this is a US vs. other countries thing, but I live in Germany and was born in the UK, and I'm quite shocked that you are surprised by unempathetic (or downright evil) doctors
That advertised features can still cause harm to end users, particularly those who don’t know what Lua or bytecode are?
As someone with depression, I'm very very very glad that your vision is not true
Lots of influencers out there claiming that anyone can follow their outlier performance. Super annoying but gets eyeballs (at least on LinkedIn).

I've been writing books for over 10 years (have published over a dozen). If you keep at it, there is good money to be made. Because you learn how to market and treat it like a business.

I now make more from my books than I make when I was in industry. But it took a long time. And a lot of work.
> Don’t underestimate the value of digging into history to investigate some bugs

I'm one of about 2 people at my company who goes on archaeological expeditions to understand when and why a bug was introduced. A nonzero number of times, I have found that the behavior was introduced on purpose over a decade ago, and sometimes it's addressing an edge case I didn't think about. History is valuable!

(unfortunately the most common usage for me though is as a 'smell test' where I learn who wrote the code from the history and then decide based on my existing assessment of their skills, how suspicious I should be of that code)

e; oh yeah one more story that's kinda funny. Just this week I saw some behavior that I didn't like and went to look at the code's history. I was the one who wrote the code I didn't like. But I had left a good enough comment on it that I realized there actually was no issue at all and my expectations were incorrect.
Mt. Gox is short for "Magic The Gathering Online Exchange", and the site's focus was on virtual trading of cards for Magic Online rather than cryptocurrency.
From what I understand, commercial real estate is also going through some devaluing so maybe those rents should be going in the other direction? This seems like a last ditch attempt to keep things together long enough until rates come down (I'm not sure they'll come down enough in the near term.). I'm hoping businesses choose to move - or maybe go storefront free for a while - to speed up the correction. (I've noticed several businesses operating (purely?) out of a nearby storage place for a while now.)
Nobody agreed on what "DevOps" means.

A regurgitation of Sysadmins that knew some scripting?

Cloud Native Sysadmins?

Patrick Dubois said "a systems administrator working with an Agile mindset", and this guy started DevOps Days; which is where we get the term.

The "merged teams" spiel is from the "10+ Deploys a day" talk from Flickr, and it's but one definition of what devops means.

This is why I personally consider it failed, it's meaningless because it means different things to different people. You can never "do it wrong" if you don't even have a definition that everyone agrees on.
Well, obviously not anymore, but since he belongs to a sect of Christianity (Hebraic Roots) that incorporates Torah law and certain Jewish traditions, can you blame me for getting a little confused?

I hadn't seen that article.
I'm not sure that I agree with this metaphor. Slow win can still become a working good business even without becoming a unicorn.
That material with restrictions on use would fall under the "grey area" he referred to. You're essentially not given permission to download/copy it if you're going to do the prohibited thing with it. But if it's just a random picture, there's an implied permission to download it and use it for yourself, since that's what it was put there for.
Why are you against religious views?
> No one complains that reading something on paper burns out your retinas. A light mode shouldn't either.

The problem is that modern monitors are optimised for max brightness, not minimum. On my monitor I work on 0% brightness during the day. More is too bright already. During the night I turn down the contrast for lack of other options. That screws up colour depth though. Dark mode helps a ton too. A monitor that could display accurate colours at low brightness would be amazing but nobody cares enough to make one.
Physics and Perception
Will this make people who make indirect money through their content, less motivated from publishing their content on the Web ?
This might be arguable.

May be, there should be a similar amount of openness in publishing the content used for training commercial models.

The copyright owner should have a privilege to ask for that content to be removed from training. This may also allow individual authors to gain their share with their Advanced RAG applications, that are specially focussed on the content they own and also published on the web.
Show HN: Summarize the Exact Part of a YouTube Video You Want
Hey everyone,

I just added an awesome new feature in you-tldr.com. It's a game-changer for those long videos where you're only interested in certain parts.

For example, I used it to focus on Andrew Huberman's comments about relationships in his latest interview with Lex. It made it super easy to get the insights I wanted without watching the entire video.
>This is the same issue as Prop 65, and while we can all say "oh the law is bad" the real problem is _corporations are lazy_.

I mean, I'd definitely say that laws that are obviously incompatible with the incentive structures clearly present in real life are indeed bad laws.

Everyone is lazy -- or, more to the point, everyone has finite resources to allocate to their pursuits -- and expecting corporations and consumers to incur exorbitant costs in order to ensure optimal resolution to every possible edge case is neither reasonable nor realistic.

The problem isn't that "corporations are lazy"; the problem is that some people unaccountably expect them to be otherwise.

> Our food shouldn't contain allergens, and our computer mice shouldn't give us cancer, but instead of taking the time to make sure of that, companies just tell us the products are dangerous, because they know we don't really have a choice.

But we do indeed have plenty of choice. There are a ton of options for getting high-quality food and other products that go through lots of extra steps and give consumers much more granular information about how they were produced and what's in them. Those options are just much more expensive, and many people are perfectly happy to make the choice to use products that may e.g. increase a particular risk from 0.001% to 0.002% in order to avoid paying twice as much for it.

One note, however: it's impossible for food not to include allergens, as people can develop allergies to essentially anything. Encumbering access to food products that provide nutrition and pleasure to the vast majority of people in order to eliminate the responsibility of a small fraction of the population to exercise care over their own consumption choices is ethically dubious, to say the least.
Sadly this program seems to segfault on Wayland.
> So if you publish, say, a novel or some expensively researched reporting online, you are now to assume it's legal to have an "AI" paraphrase it and sell it on Kindle? Or MS monetize it on their scummy "Microsoft Start"?

Existing copyright law already covers that. It's the same rules.
When the stock/crypto goes up 100% people will gladly take their profits and go on with their lives, instead of waiting for even bigger profits.

When the stocks starts its fall towards 0 people will do incredible mental gymnastics, clinging to any shred of hope that things will turn around and they will revert their losses, so it takes them much more time to get out of the bad investment.
Any thoughts on how to inhale it without risking others finding you in a oxygen deprived setup?

Like a warning sign or some fan kicking in later?
Funny that the one I actually did growing up all the time was not on the list. Partly because it’s a compound word I suppose, but nonetheless.

SHELL OIL

I still remember the number sequence by heart. There’s something about learning something at that age, it’s seared into my longterm memory.
This was my experience as of two weeks ago using a pyenv-compiled Python 3.12.4 and the latest PyInstaller on a fresh install of Windows 11.

If you used the Microsoft-signed or Python Software Foundation-signed Python binaries, maybe it doesn't trip the Defender alarm, same thing if you used older versions of Python or PyInstaller. 3.12.4 only came out on the 6th.
Sending a meaningful chunk of US electricity through HVDC lines is probably not that expensive.

A hypothetical estimate of 100% NYC’s electricity from Southern Arizona to NYC across HVDC adds up to ~1,300$/per person for infrastructure that lasts ~50 years.

East/west is even cheaper because people on both ends would want to move electricity. Florida solar kicks in early in the morning for California and California solar is still available late into the evening Florida time. You have some losses across HVDC, but you have losses and battery degradation with storage.
It's all good and well making statements like that but, and at risk of repeating myself, you cannot stop treating people just because you want to spend more on research. And even if you did magic up more money to spend on research, there's no guarantee that a cure would be found by 2050. Or even if it's curable at all.
A very nice summary of the current state of affairs!

Depending on the codebase one will be working on, it is probably beneficial to have lived through this entire history, so that one can discern which paradigm is hype or here to stay.

I wonder what approach in teaching students is most useful to become a decent software engineer. Is "history of software engineering" a mandatory course in most universities now?
+1 for the Steelcase Leap. It's an underrated chair.
I live in Canada. I also have google.

You are referring to an incident where a caseworker mentioned that MAID is an option to a permanently disabled veteran suffering from pain, and it was deemed out of scope for their job. The policy has now changed so that caseworkers are not allowed to even bring up MAID. No one was coerced into the option.

The outcome of the incident you are citing is that it is now less accessible for people to learn about the option.

Meanwhile there are cases across Canada where people have been blocked from getting MAID because of religious hospitals, outside objectors, and debates about what kind of permanent illness qualifies even if two doctors and the patient have all agreed.

The process is not fast, requires psychological assessment, and must be signed off by a doctor.

There is precisely no evidence that anyone has ever undergone MAID when they weren’t 100% consenting and having made there own decision.
Ammonia will likely not be used for cars and only be used for large industrial applications where there aren't any good alternatives like container ships because it's so toxic. For the same reason we don't have a make semiconductors at home with hydrogen fluoride kit, we won't have ammonia fuel in consumer oriented applications.
How divorce is boosting gender equality in Sweden – new study
I’m confused about one thing.

It doesn’t follow to me, that since all clients are running their own simulation, Lua scripts must run on every client too.

If a client runs a Lua script, why can’t we just run it on their machine and propagate any game state changes (if the script adds an inserted, for example,) as if the player made those changes themselves?
I've spent a ton of time playing with Stable Diffusion, just for amusement. I've rarely found it interesting to generate realistic people.
French court rules Ravel is sole author of classical music masterpiece 'Bolero'
I wrote and contributed to several programming books, back in the glory days when your local bookstore had shelves of 1500 page tomes on programming topics. It really is true that you didn't do it for the money - up to six months work for a couple of £k up front and then meager royalties if it sold. ISTR that in my case 6k sold was when the royalties kicked in.

I did it mainly because I was starting up as a consultant and trainer, and having your name and picture on a book was a huge plus. A second benefit was that you learn a lot when writing a book; not just about the dark corners of the topic, but also about long form writing and how to express yourself.

But publishers, though... I'll just say that if I was going to do another book I'd try self-publishing, make more from my labour, and save myself a lot of hassle.