skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sweden user summer time, so we get up earlier during the bright part of the year.

So it's still local noon.
Boeing to sell at least $10B in shares to plug cash drain
If he’d go after WPEngine, Matt’s likely to sue any fork or something
If you wait around long enough anywhere becomes a tomb.
OpenAI Says Iranian Hackers Used ChatGPT to Plan ICS Attacks
I've been to this, it's great:

https://strawbear.org.uk/

It's a load of different morriss dancing troops dancing around the town with a parade with the lot of them. And there are a lot. Bloody freezing some years though!

Also, in the same vein, this weekend I think there's the annual Sea Shanty festival in my home town.

https://harwichshantyfestival.co.uk/

The videos are quite bad at conveying how great some of the groups are, especially sitting in a smallish pub with a pint listening to some amazing singers do sea shanties. Quite magical.
https://www.wsj.com/business/boeing-needing-cash-moves-to-se...
I think you dropped your tin foil hat on the way out
Lawgiver – An AI-Native Legislation Tracker and Research Tool
Fun fact: Father Christmas (aka Santa Claus) was put on trial in France in the 1950s, then burnt on a bonfire (in effigy), for leading good Christians away from Christmas and towards consumerism.
What a nice comment in this thread where others denigrate the anti-fluoride. It's like we have forgotten about Thalidomide and various disasters, and we have forgotten how to do science. Instead we are implored to "trust the science!". You show us that it is possible to question the dogma and research a topic such as this to the point of being able to reach a conclusion such as "more studies needed please thanks".
In the Discord API, "servers" are called "guilds" which I assume it was the original name for them when they started developing the platform. Don't know why they decided to change it.
And Meta is using a lot of GPUs for offline ML and online ML features on Instagram, FB etc. So nothing is "wasted".
I bet if you sue them then they'll happily sign up for Face Puncher 9000!
Which isn't up to OpenAI, it's up to the regulators and, to a lesser extent, the voters.
> Well GARM wasn’t sure that was true

This is a lie.

> praised as a first amendment win by the highest office holders in the us government

Well, at one point the highest office holder in the US government looked directly at the sun during a solar eclipse, so this praise really doesn't say very much about whether it was a good or bad thing.
Source available (?) and licenses get expensive quick it looks like (?)

When I last did my survey of what I could use as a CMS I ran into this,
looked at the licensing and walked away quickly.

But I may be wrong since I didn't do any more research, .
It's a bit of filler text in a demo. You might be reading a little too much into it.
Pretty sure that Daemons (and all other supernatural creatures from Greek myths) would be frowned upon by a religious inspector from any Abrahamic religion.
What is the scientific evidence for water fluoridation?
> good strategy for them.

For everyone, besides OpenAI etc.
All of this looks good, but if they want to retain trust with artists, the last thing they should be doing is integrating generative AI tools into their art programs.

Creatives are getting more and more frustrated with the AI tools showing up in places like Windows or in Photoshop. For the first time ever I am meeting career artists and designers who are actively looking to add non-AI alternatives to their usual toolchains because they feel betrayed by the addition of generative AI.

Apple is asking to lose the trust of a major market segment by charging forward with this stuff. You would think that the backlash to their "Crush!" commercial would have been an eye-opening moment for them about what Artists actually expect from them...
I’ve tried to document the most relevant happenings and writings: https://duerrenberger.dev/blog/2024/10/08/timeline-of-the-wo...

> tl;dr After Matt Mullenweg, BDFL of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, has dragged WP Engine publicly through the mud for not paying a ludicrous amount of money or contributing (enough) to the open source project, WP Engine is suing Automattic and Matt Mullenweg, while Automattic claims misuse of WordPress trademarks.
It's OK though, since throughput considerations don't matter as hardware is so fast now and your boss just wants you to get the thing shipped
This typically works but the incumbent players - Meta, Google, Microsoft (ish) - are very rich, and are experts. They're no IBM.
Many are of no substance, or worse. One of them is an unhinged conspiratorial rant about COINTELPRO. Another starts with an insult against the author of this page. There's a transphobic rant. etc.

I went through all of them; there is only one that I would "vouch worthy" and should not be flagged (the one that links to stallmansupport.org), so I vouched that one. All the others I've seen should be flagged, not because they're "critical of the report", but because they're garbage.
Emacs can perfectly emulate Vim already and even do more than Neovim ever could.
Did that get Elon his advertising back?
I would say it kind of depends. It certainly written in bad form as you should almost never do direct variable insertion into your SQL query string. You should should be doing the variable substitution and a prepare execute type method. Either with your database doing it directly or with your libraries that are handling the queries to do it for you.

If there is no possible way for an untrusted user to modify your userID, then there is no SQL injection possibility because that is a known set value from a piece of trusted code. If it's untrusted data there should also be additional sanitization around it before it even makes it this far to get concatenated into your query.

Still all of that is a multi-layered approach to ensuring your data is properly sanitized. The final bit is proper query substitution. If I saw a piece of code like this it would immediately fail a PR review and anyone who argued that it's fine we would be engaging a wider engineering audience because that person needs a retrained.

Additionally the select * is bad form as well. You should be returning the data that you need which is rarely an undefined all. Also for your union approach where it fails due to column mismatches you can address that by simply concatenating your columns together so you return the same number of expected columns in your injected query.
Linux doesn't even maintain ABI compatibility with itself, nobody else is going to manage it. The possibility that might work is there's a couple projects that maintain just enough API compatibility to reuse driver code from Linux (IIRC FreeBSD does this for some graphics drivers). But even then you're gambling with whether Linux decides to change implementation details one day, since internal APIs explicitly aren't stable.
Of course I grant the above point that software systems are not "ethereal". They have a physical form: often as electromagnetic states in matter.

I hope my contribution to the conversation was clear: the nature of the physical embodiment matters. Things that are easy and cheap to copy are harder to contain. Containment of intelligent systems is very difficult, based on what we know about human flaws and security systems.

>> When software can relocate its source code and data in seconds or less, containment strategies begin to look increasingly bleak.

> Hard? sure. Impossible? No

I don't need to claim that containment is impossible, just really hard. I'm interested in planning across a range of scenarios. Given human foibles, we should plan for scenarios where AIs get out of the box and can spread rapidly and widely.

See also: "Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence Containment" at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.08476

Imagine two possible AI containment failure scenarios. In the first, say it is feasible to "shut everything down" by disconnecting power. In the second, say humans have to resort to a combination of kinetic force and cyberattacks. For both, a likely next step would resemble the global health to eradicate smallpox. It would require tremendous effort and cost to bring the system back online while proving that no copies of the rogue AI exist.

Would such coordinated responses by humanity be possible? Possible, yes. Likely? Estimating this is hard. I, for one, am not optimistic when it comes to international cooperation generally, much less for ones involving high complexity.
It's also a choice that Twitter made long ago to be funded primarily by advertisers. You'd think the guy that blew billions on the site might have noticed that during the due diligence he most certainly did
Squarespace. I know that sounds insane, but Squarespace.

Used WP for 7 years and now Squarespace in its place for 5.

The builder has gotten so much better in the last 3 years, and I am very impressed. The plugin library is expanding at a faster clip now, too.
Discussions

(114 points, 2 days ago, 109 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41831009

(93 points, 3 days ago, 95 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41815567
Interesting history! "Motorola became the first company to use Linux on a mobile phone when it released the Motorola A760 to the Chinese market on February 16, 2003." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MontaVista#Mobile_phones
I will be staying on ptpython then.
Except it shifts the ones with power towards authoritarianism, not reflection.
Freenodenis/was a small thing used by quite technical people. WordPress is very different.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode#/media/File%3AIRC_t... - this shows 100k Users before the fall and libera taking over about half of them.
> I have no idea what you’re referring to when you say things break month to month, that has not been my experience with js.

This is utterly jaw-dropping. There is simply no way to respond to this, since the Everest mountain representing the JS reality directly contradicts this. Its like saying one does not experience Newton's laws of motion. I think you should definitely hold a poll with the community. You would be the super, ultra minority who would hold this position. The only you would have avoided breaking stuff is if you stuck to plain old JS, avoided use of all frameworks, maintained all libraries yourself and did not use any build infrastructure. There is utterly no other possible way you have gone a decade without stuff breaking. React has changed so much - its tooling, libs, best-practices and idioms in the last decade alone.

Comparing the JS versus Go ecosystem is like comparing a mad-max kraken with ten-thousand tentacles surfing the waves and wild on steroids vs a boring container freight-ship placidly making its way across the ocean.

But yes, it can be fun to surf on the kraken.
The quality of algorithm/recommendations on the platform has gone down sharply. In addition, I have noticed a slow uptick in bugs -- things failing to load, videos don't play, back button doesn't work, clicking profiles doesn't work.

Elon's acquisition of twitter was a total blunder, such a dramatic destruction of value in only a couple short years. I am less inclined to pay for the subscription now than I was on day 1. Hard for me to believe that it has any kind of long term future other than just slowly fading in relevance. Based on its current trajectory I expect it to either turn into or be absorbed by a super-pac ajacent right-wing propaganda org.
And if they refuse to remove/block the content (as Cloudflare is accused of)? Germany presumably has some sanction in that case and this would be the equivalent
Imagine compiler errors.
What does it say about me that I've only actually read 14 of the 56 authors in the second list [1] as an adult (i.e. by choice)? I know of quite a few, but haven't read most of them.

Here's my list (++ indicates more than 1):

Fitzgerald
Hemingway ++
Shakespeare ++
Christie ++
Brown ++
Dickens
McCarthy ++
Wodehouse ++
Steinbeck ++
Stoppard
Kafka
Conan Doyle ++
Seuss (of course) ++
Lee

A missing classic author is Robert Louis Stevenson - all his books are amazing, even 150 year later.

If you've read more than one Dickens novel, you have my deepest respect.

1. https://www.the-fence.com/all-possible-plots-ii/
I don’t think either country denies this. At least in India the growth is attributed to opening up the economy, privatization, reduction in licensing and bureaucracy etc.
Private keys for certs can and are being reused.
The interview looks translated from Spanish to English, as the prosody looks closer to Romance languages. Altough who knows, as we Europeans prefer to use lots of Latin/Greek/French derived English words because of convenience, as most educated speakers in Academia will know the meaning. As Europe it's a hub on Romances/English on scientific environments, native English speakers might get these 'oddities' back.

But, as a con, we might get more difficulties on Germanic words which are pretty much a piece of cake for any English speaker as they are used to them far more than to "technical" Romance words.

Paradoxically we might get along better on highly educated English native speakers than having a random chat with the average guy using mundane words. In my case I have to do huge efforts in order to 'simplify' my English.
How could you ever continue after the second statement without checking if you actually read an integer or not? How would you know what you can do with a?
I was able to dig up this ancient webpage about a browser for the Newton called PocketWeb ( http://web.archive.org/web/20120610041940/https://www.teco.e... ). Sounds promising.
> starts to suffer under heavy loads

The figures from 1990 are not the same as the figures from 2024. "heavy" here is so high it is not a realistic problem for 80% of sites.
I am moving away from my phone to just using my Apple Watch/AirPods then pulling out the mini when I need something it can't cover.
Way more distractions on an iPad, though.
There are ways to do this transparently if you control the machine doing NAT for the classic computer. Doing things that way used to be more common before https became the default for most sites, because nowadays you'd have to install TLS certificates on each client to not constantly get errors. However, if you're also proxying https to http, then no worries!

I should update my transparent proxy how-to to be used with MacProxy Plus...
The stock price is completely wrong, stock was around $170 back in February 2023
Google's Chrome Browser Starts Disabling uBlock Origin
TPM was the sign. This is a symptom.

The apocalypse countdown began with IMNVN.

> https://www.dechert.com/knowledge/onpoint/2021/2/occ-confirm...

Here's a fun little aside: Somark Innovations' Lab Stamp is a 'beast mark.'
I miss literary fiction but with age my weakness for a point has become an all consuming vice.
Why not both? Nobody wanted seatbelts until they were forced to use them, maybe we could try forcing people to eat safer food.
There is an API available from many mobile operators called SIM Swap that can be called to find out if the SIM has been swapped. Often these calls are made by Banks to an aggregator (such as Telesign or Twilio) that finds out the mobile operator (e.g. Verizon or AT&T) that the customer belongs to and calls SIM Swap API on that operator. There is currently no universal app for that purpose but it can be developed. See CAMARA Project for latest specifications of this and many other APIs.
I never got into Twitter at the best of times, but I would read tweets if people linked them to me. Now that I have to have an account to view most stuff, Twitter has become extremely unappealing.

I do have a Twitter account, but I don’t want to sign into it to read something that is supposed to be public anyway.

Also, $22 to not see ads is obscene. I pay $21/month for my YouTube Premium family plan, and that’s for six people, and that includes unlimited music streaming, and that has no ads.

I guess at this point Twitter is just a place for Elon to be surrounded by fanboys?
I think it's, by far, the least compelling use case. AI first and foremost will be focused on singular tasks that are fairly complex, in order to automate.

These "catch all" use cases sound cool, but in practice are nearly worthless. Because you'll spend more time verifying than if you just did it yourself. The compelling use cases are the human-less use cases. Imagine ridding your entire accounting department because it can be handled by highly specific LLMs and calculators.
> They’re private companies. If they can’t tie it to profit, it’s not adding value.

Smart companies understand other types of value exist.

If a democratic population hates you, it is harder to convince politicians to do your bidding. (Not impossible, just harder!)

If potential employees don't think kindly of you, it is harder to recruit.

Llama is a constant source of good PR for Meta in the developer community. Compared to just a couple of years ago when they were mostly laughed at by devs for metaverse stuff. Now it is "holy cow Zuck is standing up to Microsoft and Amazon and democratizing AI!"

With Llama, Meta has got great PR, and also developed cutting edge tech.

They also get to benefit from thousands of developers trying to make Meta's models run more efficiently.
For those who cannot travel, the Fall of Civilizations episode 15. The Nabataeans - The Final Days Of Petra has stunning visuals in 4K

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSfFq02pK4s
They have a dark pattern around annual subscriptions, i.e. I had a monthly subscription I wanted to downgrade, and with no confirmation they charged me for the entire year after I selected the lower tier and hit next.

This is probably why.

I issued a chargeback.
Making oddly satisfying LED magnet tiles [video]
Your belief is based on a misunderstanding. If you have not worked in a context where holding large amounts of details and their relationships in your head does not lead to "losing the picture" when interrupted, you have had a luxury not everyone gets to experience.

Getting "into the flow", or loading/reloading the details into your head typically takes 15 to 30 minutes for sufficiently intricate task or dataset. In such a context, a mere, "Hey, you got a minute?" is costly — more so, if i happens repeatedly during the day.

Treasure your freedom from such difficulties.
X has the problem of boosting blue checks. Which basically means people pay money to get their way to the top, which leads to a few problems - engagement farming, spam/scams, and perhaps worst of all, a ring of grifters who all promote each other. I usually have to scroll way down, and often hidden behind 'may contain offensive content', to see much otherwise.

It'll last a while, but I don't see it having much legs. Eventually the free users will get bored of typing into the void and go elsewhere. The boosted users will have nobody left to grift, and will go too.

I don't dislike Musk or even X for that matter, I check it here and there. I just don't see it being a successful long term strategy.
Personally this drug in not real heavy doses helped me tackle some issues in my life when I was younger that helped me become more psychologically free.
I recall having a bonfire on my lawn in the middle of the day while burning my taxes. Sounds weird but it did help
Then I suppose you don't care about:

* Performance

* Support for localization (as the format string and positions of values to format differ between languages).

* Code reuse & dogfooding - the data structures used in iostreams are not used elsewhere, and vice-versa

* C and OS interoperability - as you can't wrap a stream around a FILE* / file descritor

* bunch of other stuff...

iostreams work, but are rather crappy.
The real fix would be for them to stop being so stingy with 120hz panels, as long as they keep using 60hz ones they're going to be prone to jelly scrolling in one orientation or the other. With 60hz the best you can hope for is that the orientation you use the most often is the good one this time.
It’s tautologically the case that they wouldn’t have disbanded if they had 100% assurance this type of cartel was legal.
Quite good stuff. Was looking for something like this since a long time.
I think the kids call it “sigma mindset”

Same stuff, but for 12yos
I'm glad to hear you're working on getting an Unreal environment for these scans. I find the movement in the web version to be incredibly clunky. This really needs to have a game like environment to do it justice.

In general we clearly have the technology to capture 4K-8K environments and turn them into very realistic virtual worlds. Is anybody even doing such work? For example capturing a neighborhood in San Francisco (or any city) as it looks in 2024 for historical reference? Seems like that should be a thing.

I've seen high quality environmental scans, even way back in the Silicon Graphics days when they showed an amazing scan of the Sistine Chapel. But it seems to me all such scans wind up in some proprietary player format which was designed by somebody who never played a decent open world game like Fallout 4, Cyberpunk, Battlefield, Red Dead Redemption. I have yet to see a museum environmental scan which gets anywhere near the immersive quality of those games. This is not so much a criticism of such work - it's awsome! - but maybe more of a call to arms for game people to help out the scholars.
> objectively better

Except it is not.

As any other language, it has many potential upsides and downsides in picking it depending on the context.

This lack of nuanced thinking from evangelists is precisely why some people just prefer to shut it off entirely.
India Expels Canadian Diplomats
From the little we know about OpenAIs inference infra, I feel like I can confidently say that if training stopped today, and they got cut off Azure subsidies, their $20.00 subscription model would probably not cover the cost of Inference.

I know nothing about the enterprise side of OpenAI but I'm sure they're profitable there. I doubt the subscription cost of a single power user of ChatGPT Plus covers the water they consume as a single user (This is probably an exaggeration, but I think I'm in the ballpark).
In Belarus, the native language is vanishing as Russian takes prominence
Aren't they basically safe as long as future AI models are still basically multiplying tensors of floats?
Do any of these Android Go phones have semi decent cameras? That’s a big holdup for many people.
Thanks for giving a straight answer on the acquisition price.

Having a little clarity on outcomes like this can help founders make better decisions, really appreciate it.
There's a wide range of economically attractive cost saving options potentially, that involve replacing employees/contractors with cheaper/fewer Gen AI augmented employees. Perhaps another way to make my point is that in the B2B space you win not just on price, but on reputation also if not primarily (as the people making the decisions are not spending their own money and make decisions primarily to avoid being fired). The competition to OpenAI needs to not just be cheaper to take their business.
Beyond Dune: Accelerating with EVM Query Language
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EQL’s SQL-like syntax is intuitive for developers, offering faster results for focused datasets, while Dune is more suited for handling complex, multi-blockchain queries and robust visualizations. Benchmark tests demonstrate EQL’s superior speed in tasks such as fetching account states and transactions, though Dune outperforms in block range queries.

Ultimately, EQL is a lightweight, open-source option for developers who need quick, efficient blockchain queries, while Dune is better for larger, more complex data processing with advanced visualization capabilities.