skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's awesome, what a treasure trove :-) thanks for sharing.

You can also download a huge number of shows via the John Peel Wiki [1] and look out for Phil's Mighty Database. There's also a torrent out there, a huge archive of Peel shows known as The Motherlode, well worth nabbing.

[1] https://peel.fandom.com/wiki/John_Peel_Wiki
Google's VP of Online Partnerships claims he has never heard of "ad network"
What's the point of using human shields if your enemy isn't averse to killing the shields at all?
That's not an honest question.

If you are completely fine with WPEngine's commercial practices, trademark violations in their marketing materials ( like it or not ) and moral OK for them not picking up part of the bill of what they consume ( talking about infra resources, not even talking about code ), then.. why the f** are you so bothered by an unhinged rant from some guy? It's GPL after all.. Don't you see the irony? or you just want to see it because Matt is kind of an unlikable dbag? Is that the level of depth we are at when cheerleading for this stuff?
Around 2000 metric tons of nuclear waste are produced every year in the US. And that represents under 20% of electricity production.

I do think there are ways to manage the problem, but tiny isn’t the word I’d use.
> Never going to happen; too much investment.

Because of the nature of software patents the investment is worthless anyway.

One of the biggest problems with software patents is that they're unreasonably broad or ambiguous and then the claims read on arbitrary software the authors of which have never even heard of the patent.

Another is that companies purposely patent interfaces that are needed for compatibility, and then the patent isn't needed because it's so great, it's needed to interoperate with existing systems and thereby offers no ability for competitors to design a better alternative because better is different is incompatible. You have to license H.264 even if you build something better yourself -- or you've already licensed H.265 -- because you still have to be able to interact with media and clients that use H.264.

Then as between large companies, they all need each others' patents and just end up cross licensing everything. All the effort is for nothing because it just cancels out.

As between large companies and small companies, the large companies can sue the small one, but the small company probably doesn't have any money anyway and the suit makes the large company look like a bully and creates PR losses that likely outweigh any benefit from filing the suit. The small companies, on the other hand, can't sue the large ones because the large company would just file counterclaims and (at best) force the same cross-licensing that exists between large companies. So that's worthless.

Which leaves the only entities that really like software patents: Patent trolls. Eliminating them is a major economic benefit of eliminating software patents.
Workers use the web worker API so theoretically there’s less lock in. I’ve also found wrangler pretty good, what problems have you run into?
No trusted company behind it, not even a name or address. "About us" link leads nowhere.

Is this an obvious scam to steal your servers?
I don't know a lot of security engineers that agree, and while (as a SAML implementor) I have my own opinion, "don't do new SAML implementations" is mostly me parroting what I think is the consensus.

I think... it probably is as cut and dry as I'm suggesting.
I hear yeah.

But there is virtually no language as easy to learn as Lua.

You can learn the whole language in 30-min. Seriously.

It’s so small you can fit the entire standard library in your head.
Actually had this happen with a boomer long ago. Not saying that insultingly- just a difference in generational cohorts. I use Google keep for all my notes. The guy stopped mid meeting and asked me why I felt he was so boring that I would just play on my phone during the meeting.

I turned the screen and explained the typing was me taking notes. He and I had a good laugh and had a better understanding about this- ever since then I tell new people in meetings with me that I am going to take notes on my phone.

This guy and I became good friends but this is just a difference in technology utilization between generations.
I found most of his arguments poorly worded and require lots of context. Which also signals he is not very good with public communication.
Why would you expect that? 3D renderers are not generally deterministic. Many will incorporate, for instance, noise algorithms. They will frequently not produce byte-identical renders on the same hardware using the same binary.
So are calculators …
Pdf2audio: Convert PDFs into an audio podcast, lecture, summary and others
open-source alternative to NotebookLM. Your task is to take the input text provided and turn it into an lively, engaging, informative podcast dialogue, in the style of NPR. The input text may be messy or unstructured, as it could come from a variety of sources like PDFs or web pages.

Don't worry about the formatting issues or any irrelevant information; your goal is to extract the key points, identify definitions, and interesting facts that could be discussed in a podcast.

Define all terms used carefully for a broad audience of listeners.
All nodes are allowable entry nodes, although the standard client uses a guard selection algorithm that ensures the entry node will always be one with a good uptime record.
It’s also unfortunately a problem in niche sports that don’t really have international gambling-ad-free leagues. e.g. If you want to watch professional curling, your options are pretty slim, and they’re gambling sponsored.

The curling community is also pretty small, so even though I’m nowhere near pro-level, I overlap with some of them - would be disappointing if I couldn’t watch the events with curlers from my city/country.
Would this not incentivise the forming of groups that replicate each others work. If you're already committing wilful fraud on your own papers, why wouldn't you commit a bit more for another researcher willing to do the same for you? With >2 parties, it won't be immediately obvious that this trading has occured.
Schizophrenia is the result of deficiency (and dependency) of vitamin B3, aka niacin. Adam Hoffer's therapy cured thousands
Engaging article about civilian-soldiers lending their expertise to a critical fight to maintain independence.
Boris Johnson: we considered 'aquatic raid' on Holland to seize Covid vaccine
I have some bad news for you: 1975 was almost 50 years ago.
> He argues that they even illegally modified code attributions (stripe plugin) which diverts millions from Automattic.

From reviewing the code, this is not "attribution" in the sense of "here's who wrote this code" but specifically and literally an partner code.. aka an affiliate code or what we'd normally call "a setting"

As GPL'd software, they cannot prevent people from modifying this code and - if they do - Automattic's only counter is to complain about it.

Further, since it's a revenue-generating code, it should be disclosed in the README, etc of the plugin and changeable via the Admin. It doesn't appear either is true.

Ref: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-gateway-stripe/pu...
Not to worry, the friendly clerk probably found the joke funny!

On another note, I really love the vending machine culture there. Never saw ones like this, but did end up scouring every machine I ran across for a particular white grape drink with odd chunks of something in it that I came across outside a small shop/market surrounded by rice fields. Found other grape drinks but not that one in the city.
Your analogy is valid, for the world in which humans exceed the speed of light on a casual stroll.
I think the worst part has been lost in the noise.

There were, and currently are, people suffering from Parkinsons disease whom are being subjected to greater suffering, knowingly, to further this person's career.

This is Nazi and Tuskegee experiment level evil. This person should go to jail. Not US jail, international jail. These are crimes against humanity.
> On call pretty much just comes with the job, and always has.

Maybe for you but not for everyone and I bet outside Silicon Valley startup land and certain industries it is probably less common than you think. I work in government which is basically 8-5 local business hours. Production issues can take days, weeks, months to fix and deploy depending on priorities. Most of my dev friends have never had on call roles either. Plenty of companies have enough staff to have around the clock coverage. Just trying to add an additional perspective.
A common pattern of SAML vulnerability is one that allows logins from one org access to resources of another org, which is not mitigated by trusting IdP's.
Hah, that's a great idea!
>>>> "..sleuths began to flag a few papers in which Masliah played a central role, posting to PubPeer, an online forum where research publications are discussed and allegations of misconduct often raised. In a few cases, Masliah or a co-author replied or made corrections. Soon after, Science spotted the posts, and because of Masliah’s position and standing decided to take a deeper look."

I am conforted that there are still real journalists such as those at science, doing fantastic work and pulling on a thread, wherever it may lead , reputations be damned.

Kudos to the PubPeer scientists for spotting the problem. Hat tip to you.

Last but not least, never forget that the free flow of information allowed this fraud to be uncovered. Truth and "moderation" (of the censorship/disinformation kind) cannot simultaneously exist.
Cryptographically authenticating SAML assertions is the most perilous part of implementing SAML

The incredible overengineering of the XML signature specification is certainly to blame for this recent SAML verification vulnerability (from the same site): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41586031
A quick search on the Australian National Library archive finds an article titled "A British Super Hero" in a 1918 newspaper. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/129947369
Totally agree on the confidence metric. The way chatbots spew complete falsities in such a confident tone is really disheartening. I want to use AI more but I don't feel I can trust it at all. If I can't trust it and have to search for other resources to verify it's claims, the value is really diminished.
How do I disable it and make sure it stays disabled?
Why on earth would I spend that much money on a shirt? I have $15 t-shirts that I got 12 years ago in college that are still perfectly fine.

But, fair enough. The sub-$10 number might still be my median, but my mean is for sure higher.
Fully agreed with all this.

Also, if there's a bottleneck where an oncall needs to rely on a teammate with more experience with the subject matter, then make sure that's noted down in a retro. Hopefully an action item can be made up and completed where said person does some knowledge transfer, at least into a run book or other documentation.
2000 metric tons! Wow! Look out, we're dealing with the big numbers there! Nearly up to 5 figures assuming we round it wrong.

That is around 3 shipping containers. There is literally a risk of losing it in transit because the volume is so small. If you see 3 shipping containers in a field somewhere that might be a year's worth of nuclear waste.

It is hard to get across how small that number is compared to 20% of the US's annual electricity production. The reason the problem hasn't been "solved" in the last however long reactors have been a thing is it is too small a problem to devote time to.
Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it, or words suchlike (from Santayana, I guess?).

I don't know if I'll ever see things like devops and agile die the horrible deaths that they deserve - but I do wish engineers would at least learn to think for themselves and not drink so freely of the kool-aid that CEOs peddle.
What's great is the rest of the BSDs will integrate improvements.

Investment in the BSDs is goodness.
And here is one in the plural from 1928 referring to our Anzac (veteran's) day march. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115521528
Really fun, and the link to the numberphile video is great, too.
The problem is not XML by itself. XML adds a considerable amount of complexity to JSON[1] and when writing security-oriented software complexity matters quite a bit[2]. But this is still a level of complexity that can be managed. Most other XML-based protocols aren't as bad as SAML.

No, the main problem with SAML is that it relies on XML Signatures (XMLDSig). And the main problem with XML Signatures is that the signature needs to be embedded inside the XML it's signing, instead of being attached to it, like every other signature standard on the planet.

[1] The added complexity is not just attributes and namespace, but also entities, DTD and processing instructions. If you want even the most basic type checking, XML schema becomes mandatory. This is important, since JSON doesn't need a schema for handling basic types, and in fact OAuth 2.0 and Open ID Connect do not rely on JSON Schema at all.

[2] See the OWASP cheatsheet for all the ways accepting XML input from the internet can put your application in danger: https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/XML_Security_...

No equivalent document exists for JSON.
(I keep mentioning this but no one seems to be picking up on it.) There is an algorithm that was developed in the late 80's in the context of therapy that could be used to align incentives and collectively agree on outcomes.

The algorithm is a simple recursive procedure where the guide or therapist evokes the client's motivation or incentive for an initial behaviour and then for each motivation in turn until a (so-called) "core state" is reached. In crude pseudo-code it would be something like:

FOO = <some "presenting problem">
M = evoke_motivation(FOO)
until is_core_state(M):
M = evoke_motivation(M)

Generalizing, motivations form a DAG that bottoms out in a handful of deep and profound spiritual "states". These states seem to be universal. Walking the DAGs of two or more people simultaneously until both are in core states effectively aligns incentives automatically, at least that's what I suspect would happen.

(I have no affiliation with these folks: Core Transformation Process https://www.coretransformation.org/ )
I am not being rude either but your claims do not mean anything (this is The Internet after all). As i point out no outside observer can know the "Definitive Truth" in these sort of subjects. That is why i pointed to resources which give you a framework to understand the domain and perhaps maybe have some level of confidence in the validity of your own understanding.

The individual episodes like Jack Barsky etc. are not useful unless you have a bigger puzzle into which you can slot in these episodes to arrive at a bigger more complete and more meaningful picture. That was what i was hinting at above.

You can believe whatever you want but then it is up to you to figure out how closely your "beliefs" themselves are real well before you use them to "interpret" the "Real World".
I’ve been working on Python-based backend development for about three years now in various forms. I primarily use Django and FastAPI, although I initially started with Flask. However, during my backend work, I frequently encountered the terms ASGI and WSGI. For example, one of my Django deployment scripts included references to asgi_app and wsgi_app, and used gunicorn to deploy these apps. Although I initially dismissed these terms as implementation details, I now find myself needing to support both ASGI and WSGI apps for my company tensorfuse. As a result, I believe it’s important to explain ASGI and WSGI to a wider audience.
DRAMHiT: A Hash Table Architected for the Speed of DRAM (2023)
How are you allowed to tell me if that's an honest question or not? Do I have some hidden WP Engine shill comments in my history or something? Can you read my mind?

I don't have a strong opinion on WP Engine's behavior, because I'm not convinced by Matt's arguments. I do have an opinion on Matt's behavior though. I think it's unhinged.

Feel free to respond but I'm done with this conversation, given how unpleasant I feel it's going to be given the incredibly uncharitable tone in your response. I recommend taking a walk or something.
how much this data can sell for?
Sure, check out Audel's Electric guide, 1927 print, volume 10, for example. This is a series of books intended for practitioners at the time, in wide circulation in the USA. The "Electric Therapeuthics" section changed a lot with each edition so it's even interesting to compare across older versions if you can find multiple. I didn't want to reference specific old niche books but if you're willing to ebay it, I guess you can check. My point was more general than just electric engineering though.
I’ve been looking for exactly this. (For Python to be specific, but I see you support that too.) Nice!

What are the limits on number of rows, data in cells, and number of columns? I saw you say “infinite” on one blurb but couldn’t find reference to limits anywhere else.
How can I wreck havoc with a few hours, a laptop, and an internet connection?

It takes a bit more than that.
The mistake isn't thinking 'scaling is the solution to AGI'.

And the mistake isn't thinking more generally about 'the solution to AGI'.

The mistake is thinking about 'AGI'.

There will never be an artificial general intelligence. There will never artificial intelligence, full stop.

It's a fun concept in science fiction (and earlier parallel concepts in fantasy literature and folk tales). It's not and will never be reality. If you think it can be then either you are suffering from 'science fiction brain' or you are a fraud (Sam Altman) or you are both (possibly Sam Altman again).
Much denser world network now
Except you can’t transport it. We built a giant cave for it in the desert and everybody agreed that the material was too dangerous to drive past people’s homes so we just leave it sitting around on site hoping a natural disaster doesn’t wash it away. I’m pro nuclear but we need to be honest with ourselves.
Hmm. Maybe this is a bit of an outlandish take, but although his decisions do seem at least superficially sus, I have a hard time agreeing with Josh's take. He chooses to make a lot of highly agreeable comparisons, but to me it seems more like a city (or some level) of government severely turning up the temperature on a particularly egregious contingent of landlords, landlord, or demographic, who've been abusing the system we've all been chill with until it's just not cool anymore. You could crank up property tax by double or triple the next year, and not offer the ability to vote on the issue of zoning anymore, or you could do the thing that no politician has the balls or the power to do and fundamentally change the system in a way that takes those issues off the table entirely, making the whole system more equitable in the future. The repercussions could be dire for some people, but it is what it would take to give a giant fuck you to the people who hold the reins. If the landlords can always hold the poor vulnerable freelancers that live in their basement suite over the heads of anyone who could otherwise theoretically change the rules, nothing will ever really change, and the people who've been along for the profitable ride won't want it to. But if you don't do it, you might risk your future hypothetical economy.

Now, I know that's all a bit of a reach, but it's hard for me to not think asking for Matt to be removed for this reason is just like all those people who ostensibly
would want public transit to be funded for all those other people who can't afford cars, until they finally got around to ripping up the street you use to drive to work every day and jacked up your taxes by $50.

But, all that said, I've also never liked WordPress at all and don't have a dog in the fight, this is just a thought experiment. However, if I had to move because my landlord eventually got screwed for not reporting my rent on their income tax, I'd be like "well sometimes that happens, was nice while it lasted but my place was a shithole, they weren't competing fairly, and they were constantly showing up to city council meetings trying to block a mid-rise from going up while I was at work paying their mortgage".
A sad but seemingly near-perfect example of the elitism / privilege that comes from living in a bubble and not knowing it.
Their "PCIe" wifi cards "mysteriously" not working in anything but Intel systems is enraging.

I bought a wifi7 card & tried it in a bunch of non-Intel systems, straight up didn't work. Bought a wifi6 card and it sort of works, ish, but I have to reload the wifi module and sometimes it just dies. (And no these are not cnvio parts).

I think Intel has a great amazing legacy & does super things. Usually their driver support is amazing. But these wifi cards have been utterly enraging & far below what's acceptable in the PC world; they are not fit to be called PCIe devices.

Something about wifi really brings out the worst in companies. :/
On call may page teammates for help, but they might be on airplanes or go camping or do other things that take them off the grid (primary and secondary must not). I would really hesitate before paging someone who's on vacation, but he would probably have his phone (not laptop).
How to Discover Conferences to Speak At
That’s what you get when you let bean counters take over academia and the worth of scientists are measured by number of papers and citations.
And even a "super-super hero" in 1926! http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article21042874

Apparently Charles Lindburgh was known in the USA as a "super-hero". http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article95784232
Is this based on actual science? How effective is this?
There are modern FPGA-based options like the Ultimate64.

https://ultimate64.com/Ultimate64

Got one of these too (the now discontinued non-Elite version)
and it is pretty cool running stuff at 48MHz:

https://youtube.com/shorts/fF2IXTwWDPQ?si=ww3IXp7CVWDT3SZy

In above video, I hacked the awesome demo Andropolis to utilize U64’s turbo mode during vblank.

This clip shows it running in full turbo mode:

https://youtube.com/shorts/hvmNnwz7ENQ?si=6idbUgRYikXHh25O
You can ignore it but the compiler will force you to assign it to something, usually `_`. That alone is helpful in reminding the programmer that return values need to thought of, but in addition you have pretty much all Go linters/analyzers force you to check its value and not use `_`.
OpenAI sees roughly $5B loss this year on $3.7B in revenue
Bitmap Books has many beautiful books on games, you’d have to browse their catalog.

I liked The Secret History of Mac Games myself. But might not be interesting to you if you didn’t own a Mac when young.

https://www.bitmapbooks.com/products/the-secret-history-of-m...