skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a feature, not a bug. :P

Alright if you prefer:

read PW; sleep 3; xdotool type "$PW"

Or if it's already on your clipboard:

sleep 3; xdotool type "$(xclip -o)"
I would be very surprised if someone didn't know of an ancient world example.
It's actually pretty concise: Prolog isn't all that easy! That's why people don't use it.

Competent CS students fail Prolog courses all the time. A lot of Prolog on the internet will either be wrong, or it will be so riddled with unnecessary/unclear backtracking that an LLM won't be able to make more sense of it than it does words.
Their username is fitting though.
That hardly seems equivalent. Why do you need to e.g. reconfigure replication inside of a transaction in the first place?

The lack of transactional DDL is a totally valid complaint, but the non-DDL stuff is just a total head-scratcher to me. Aside from DDL, implicit commits have literally never impacted me in my 21 years of using MySQL.
It's not possible for the same reason the halting problem is undecidable.
For public consumption, yeah I think it's reasonable to censor the most egregious stuff, but for private use there's really no point. If people want something, they will always find a way to get it. 100% of the time. There is absolutely no amount of censorship or even laws that can prevent it.

Censoring anything meant for private use seems like a pretty pointless exercise. It will either get un-censored, or users will find what they want elsewhere.

E: You also need to ask yourself: assuming that you can't simply suppress other people's desires for things you find objectionable (because you can't), would you rather they use fictional CP with fictional people, or the real deal with real children? Because the real thing very much exists and is quite available despite the laws and social stigma. If you make some vain attempt to prevent anyone from ever creating fictional CP, then what do you think those people will get next?
The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft. In February, OpenAI asked a Federal Judge to dismiss parts of the lawsuit with arguments that the New York Times paid someone to break into OpenAI’s systems. The filing used the word “hack” but didn’t say anything about CFAA violations.

I feel like there were lawyers involved in this article.
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My top 50 to see in person would definitely change if 25 of them can be experienced in VR. (I might still go in person to my top 3, but there's a lot of nearly even exchange among spots 4-100.)
From what I understand of Inkscape's (somewhat dodgy) extensions protocol that shouldn't be too hard with a little xml processing magic.

--edit--

Looking at the linked page that would be super trivial to implement.
An extremely large commit with Azure. AFAIK, none of the other non-hyperscaler competitors have access to that much of a compute.
Oof, just above that entry is this one:

> That may be awkward for someone who DM’d and will have a later last day (could be next year, even), but my priority is people staying, not people leaving. I’m hearing from people staying that they’re stretched thin right now, so we need to hire and ease that overload. It’s not a time for a bunch of people to leave at once.

Am I reading that right? Someone tried to take the voluntary layoff package, but Matt reneged on the terms, so now that person gets the joy of working under a cloud until Matt decides to honour the deal? It's small potatoes in light of the other stuff, but yikes.
tl;dr: "I read too many books and wasn't getting much value out of them compared to reading one or two books that I could really focus on."
I find posts like these difficult to take seriously because they all use Terminator-esque scenarios. It's like watching children being frightened of monsters under the bed. Campy action movies and cash grab sci-fi novels are not a sound basis for forming public policy.

Aside from that, haven't these people realized yet that some sort of magically hyperintelligent AGI will have already read all this drivel and be at least smart enough not to overtly try to re-enact Terminator? They say that societal mental health and well-being is declining rapidly because of social media; _that_ is the sort of subtle threat that bunch ought to be terrified about emerging from a killer AGI.
I just blame it on atrocious corporate crapware making my camera not work again. "Sorry!" (I am not, in fact, sorry.)
seems you're using both open & closed source models

i just tried it out. solid, but doesn't seem as uncensored or capable as e.g. https://uncensored.com/ai

btw: do u know whether c.ai actually parses tone/emotion from voice (or just from the SpeechToText stream?
> integration is so tight that it feels like you're using your favorite shell natively in Windows

WSL1 certainly felt that way, WSL2 just feels like any other virtualization manager and basically works the same. Not sure why people sings the praise of WSL2, I gave it a serious try for months but there is a seemingly endless list of compatibility issues which I never had with VMWare or VirtualBox, so I just went back to those instead and the experience is the same more or less.
Can it drive the same route without a human behind the wheel?

Not legally and not according to Tesla either --- because Tesla's FSD is not "Fully Self Driving" --- unlike Waymo.
How to Have Polygenically Screened Children (2023)
Assume that I am one of your half-brain individuals drinking the Kool-Aid.

What do you say to change my (half-)mind?
A new village 90 min from SF
What is the use-case for such a function?
Just out of curiosity, what was the use case for a really long timeout? Feels like most if not all long timeouts would be best served with some sort of "job" you could persist, rather than leaving it in the event queue.
There's a reasonable philosophy where toolmakers don't involve themselves in fine, disputed, and frequently changing cultural differences.

It's one thing to build guardrails into tools where the impact is immediate and catastrophic, like a safety guard on saw, so that people don't permanently lose a finger to distraction or casual negligence.

It's a different thing -- to be reasonably argued both for and against -- to build guardrails against concerns that are abstract, indirect, cultural, political, etc

And you can tell that your example is more cultural than catastrophic because not everybody frets over what people do by themselves and in their own mind.
Psychiatry is the gift that keeps on giving. The strangest part of some of these mental diseases is how they're defined in terms of other people. You're ill because you fail to adapt to society.

They diagnose a person with attention defict because he can't tolerate the government's mass education system. Can't sit still and that disrupts class and gets the guy sent to the principal who calls their parents and refers them to a doctor who prescribes medications to make it stop. Before being medicated, that exact same person used to go home and write computer code nonstop. Ten hours straight, he is a machine.

There are organic causes for this, neurodevelopmental causes. There are treatments. But the truth is what everyone truly wants is to make the guy fit into society's mold. It's easier for them that way.
One of the most effective techniques we use for mosquito population control is to actually breed infertile mosquitoes and release them out in the wild. When mosquitoes breed they will end up laying infertile eggs

I wonder if we could do the same with other species or if the destructiveness pythons exhibit in their much longer lifespans makes this equation work out very differently
Who initiated this story, and what is their goal?

Both MS and Altman are famous for manipulation.

(Is it background to negotiations with each other? Or one party signaling in response to issues that analysts already raised? Distancing for antitrust? Distancing for other partnerships? Some competitor of both?)
> JSON can often be used in place of arrays

This is like storing UUIDs as text. You lose type information and validation. It's like storing your array as a comma-delimited string. It can work in a pinch, but it takes up more storage space and is far more error prone.

> convenience types for ipv4, ipv6, and uuid.

That's nice to see. A shame you have to decide ahead of time whether you're storing v6 or v4, and I don't see support for network ranges, but a definite improvement.

> MariaDB supports RETURNING.

That's honestly wonderful to see. Can these be used inside of CTEs as well for correlated INSERTs?
> Again, Prolog is not magick. The article above and the papers it links to seem to take this attitude of "just add Prolog" and that will make LLMs suddenly magickally reason with fairy dust on top. Ain't gonna happen.

It frightens me that HN is so popular with people who will strain credulity in this regard. It's like a whole decade of people engaging in cosmic-ordering wishes about crypto has now led to those same people wishing for new things as if the wishes themselves are evidence of future outcomes.
That means there's a licensing department somewhere that wouldn't have jobs if the pythons went away completely.
If you can take the heat, public shaming always works and also makes other people aware. If you want to remain anonymous, moving on is probably the best option.

What happened to you is called brewdogging, named after a similar public shaming:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brewdogging

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/brewdog-...

Or brain rape:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlwwVuSUUfc

Or getting free labour out of job candidates:
https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/companies-are-using-job-c...

Ignore all the gaslighters telling you maybe the company didn't steal your idea and some fantasy happened where they thought about it themselves. They didn't, the CTO definitely stole it.

If it was me and I had proof I would send an invoice and then sue if not paid. If I didn't have proof I would just write about it and share everywhere and prepare to fight. When I was younger and more naive I also accepted it and moved on. That's also an option.

Whatever you do, be very very careful from now on. Job interviews and hiring changed, it's all about power and self-preservation now. The people doing the hiring will rob and destroy you if it makes them look good to their bosses.
question: would it be possible/smart to have a system where the entity that is authenticating you has a way to disclose to you the maximum password complexity that it can handle ? Something like a GeekCode string that you can feed to your password generator and come out with a the strongest password possibly handled by the system ?
That's really neat!

You could add a "Download this page" button on the page which does some tricks to produce an HTML file with the images baked in that the user can download, which could work on mobile.

Here's a quick prototype: https://gistpreview.github.io/?14a2c3ef508839f26377707dbf5dd... - code here: https://gist.github.com/simonw/14a2c3ef508839f26377707dbf5dd...
Tried it! I really like the idea, but I think the clue generation could use some work. Every clue ended in "in games", and honestly most of them were not really game related to start with. For example the clue "Place in games where characters go to rest and replenish health or mana" had the solution "bar"... which I wouldn't describe as right. Similarly "The name of a popular character who may need rescuing in some games" was "Emily".

I think it might be worth working on prompting to make sure the answer is a unique solution to the hint (or at least closer to unique). What model are you using here?
The Amazon rainforest itself is also not that much older than 10k years. In fact, there's some evidence that humans played a major role in its transition from grassland to jungle
> being a luditite and abstaining from using AI is not the answer

Hum... The judge is still out on that one, but the evidence is piling up into the "yes, not using it is what works best" here. Personally, my experience is strongly negative, and I've seen other people get very negative results from it too.

Maybe it will improve so much that at some point people actually get positive value from it. My best guess is that we are not there yet.
Use the `read` method the other poster said, or ensure HISTCONTROL is set and then prepend a space to commands that contain secrets.

$ export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
$ echo 'supersecret' | whatever
Rethinking Builders with Lazy Generics
Make a joke and have something to write a blogpost about, while letting your readers learn something new.
this is the thing with JS and TS - the types and stuff, it's all good until you realise that all integers are basically int 52 (represented as float 64, with 52 bits for the fraction).

Yes, it's nice and flexible - but also introduces some dangerous subtle bugs.
There never was any baby in the bath, when it came to software patents.
They do have a big list of exceptions for password rules, you can find more details here. Seems they are collaborating with some other password tools, so maybe at some point switching products won’t help? Not sure. Bit Warden seems to make no attempt as this currently:
https://rmondello.com/2024/09/29/new-quirks-who-dis/
https://github.com/apple/password-manager-resources/blob/mai...

But you can also fix it yourself if it fails. How is detailed here:
https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/iphone/iphf9219d8c9/io...
https://github.com/MrForExample/ComfyUI-3D-Pack

Edit to add - the meshes it generates aren't the cleanest, so consider a follow up with something like:

https://www.meshlab.net/

Note - if 3d printing isn't your jam, you can also do things like generate game assets. Ex - take the output mesh and throw it into something like https://www.mixamo.com/#/ for auto rigging.

Again - the open source tooling is a bit fiddly, but it's workable (you'll need to be familiar with python packaging to get the 3d pack up and running in comfyui). Quality of the meshes will vary a lot based on input.

You can also find (somewhat) up to date info on new models and papers here: https://github.com/ActiveVisionLab/Awesome-LLM-3D?tab=readme...

If you don't want to run it yourself - there are also several commercial offerings right now:

https://www.meshy.ai/

https://www.3daistudio.com/

https://3dfy.ai/

etc
OpenAI's short definition of AGI is:

A highly autonomous system that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.
If we're pedantic, this doesn't actually do what's advertised, this would be waiting X timeouts worth of event cycles rather than just the one for a true Big timeout, assuming the precision matters when you're stalling a function for 40 days.
Sounds ok to me in casual conversation. I use it like fruit. Orange is a fruit. Orange is also a kind of fruit. Orange is fruit doesn’t sound right though.

Empathetically speaking I’m sure it’s quite jarring for you when you read it.
Certainly I also can't imagine how you would get strong performance out of Server Blazor in real world/Enterprise conditions. RPC busses are going to RPC and roundtrips are still roundtrips even when SignalR-backed web sockets. Flooding UDP web sockets with HTML chunks isn't necessarily a great idea, even if HTTP3 (QUIC) kind of/mostly succeeds at it, but SignalR as good as it is certainly isn't HTTP3.

On the other hand, Client Blazor has huge initial overhead (it compiles a form of the entire .NET platform in WASM; you can golf it down a bit, but it's still an entire runtime and GC and most of a standard lib depending on what your app does, and its dependencies), but once it is loaded it can be as performant as just about any other Virtual DOM-like (modulo the overhead between DOM/JS and WASM, but that overhead is surprisingly small in current browsers and seems to only get smaller as browsers continue to optimize WASM scenarios).

I don't think I'd recommend it for most consumer-facing websites any time soon, but in my experience Client Blazor is still much better than Angular for performance in an Enterprise/Internal App scenario.
I don’t know. It seems like a total mess to me and everyone deeply immersed in it a broken person. Horrible science. Horrible. Look how broken the society is when everyone gets a computer. Awful. Just awful. But can’t stop what’s coming, but I also don’t have to pretend CS is coherent or interesting or even a science (it’s not).
Hoyle–Narlikar theory and the changing masses origin of the CMB
M$ is just having a "Oh I just bought Twitter for how much?" moment.
One time pads used properly are theoretically perfectly unbreakable. The problem is making sure no one ever uses the same 'pad'/keystream twice, that your pad generation is actually random, and that the pads never fall into the hands of your adversaries. (or if they do you've been diligent about completely destroying the used pads and the other end of your communications doesn't use the captured set of pads) They're just not very good at anything other than point to point secret passing and require a real world connection to distribute.

So much of symmetric key cryptography is just trying to find creative ways of creating and recreating 'one time pads' so we can distribute the key material instead of the pads themselves.
There is a generic way to do it that works with SQLite and other databases, including Postgres. On Linux, take a filesystem or block device coherent snapshot, take your backup of all the SQLite files from the snapshot, then delete the snapshot.

The app or service continues to run without disruption, and the backup is a coherent database image. Perhaps you have other state in addition to the database, or multiple databses. For example cache files. This covers them too, if they are all in the same snapshot.

There are many ways to take a snapshot: ZFS and btrfs offer a filesystem command, and any Linux filesystem, such as ext4, can be snapshotted with LVM or LVM-thin. Well known cloud providers like AWS, GCP, Azure also provide ways to snapshot block devices, through their APIs. However, to ensure a coherent image, it may be necessary to use the Linux `fsfreeze` command around API calls.

The database backup files can have incomplete transactions, but if the files are restored it will be as if the OS was abruptly stopped at the moment of the snapshot. SQLite and other good databases are designed to recover well from this sort of abrupt stop, without corrupting the database. They clean up incomplete transactions on recovery.
Off the top of my head, a cron scheduler for a server that reads from a database and sets a timeout upon boot. Every time the server is reboot the timeouts are reinitialized (fail safe in case of downtime). If upon boot there’s a timeout > 25 days it’ll get executed immediately which is not the behavior you want.
About damn time NHTSA opened this full scale investigation. Tesla's "autonowashing" has gone on for far too long.

Per Reuters [1]
"The probe covers 2016-2024 Model S and X vehicles with the optional system as well as 2017-2024 Model 3, 2020-2024 Model Y, and 2023-2024 Cybertruck vehicles.
The preliminary evaluation is the first step before the agency could seek to demand a recall of the vehicles if it believes they pose an unreasonable risk to safety."

Roughly 2.4 million Teslas in question, with "Full Self Driving" software after 4 reported collisions and one fatality.

NHTSA is reviewing the ability of FSD’s engineering controls to "detect and respond appropriately to reduced roadway visibility conditions."

Tesla has, of course, rather two-facedly called its FSD as SAE Level-2 for regulatory purposes, while selling its "full self driving" but also requiring supervision. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

No other company has been so irresponsible to its users, and without a care for any negative externalities imposed on non-consenting road users.

I treat every Tesla driver as a drunk driver, steering away whenever I see them on highways.

[FWIW, yes, I work in automated driving and know a thing or two about automotive safety.]

[1] https://archive.is/20241018151106/https://www.reuters.com/bu...
> 'Prolog + LLM' is not the answer to all questions, but it looks like a good step to move us forward.

Or it's a thing people can write papers about, and chase reproducibility on afterwards, as the shell game of claiming LLM reasoning continues.
Why am I having AI vibes after reading the article? A narrative (prompt) sparkled this whole "lets think step by step" thing.
I remember reading in Bruce Schneier's Applied Cryptography that in some cultures "encrypt" refers to the process of entombing bodies for burial and that "encipher" did not have that baggage.

Similar connotation to "decrypt" which would be exhumation.
CSAM is bad, no nuance. Which is why I welcome an alternative that could collapse the entire CSAM market and therefore save thousands of lives.

But, this is probably not the forum for this topic anyway. I understand that there are many complications to this, including the risk for normalization.
This is a fair question. Initially I just assumed this was true. Because someone who did research on this topic would not get something like this wrong. And besides that, if you know a little about the project this name could make some sense.

But the more I look into it, the more I think this is just a LLM hallucination.

The doc about the 'assembly' format doesn't give a proper name. It just calls 'go assembler'.

And I think the source of this hallucination was this first paragraph:

> The assembler is based on the input style of the Plan 9 assemblers, which is documented in detail elsewhere. If you plan to write assembly language, you should read that document although much of it is Plan 9-specific. The current document provides a summary of the syntax and the differences with what is explained in that document, and describes the peculiarities that apply when writing assembly code to interact with Go.
Yep, that was our strategy as well: just keep iterating until the script run cleanly from start to finish without errors.
… but ChatGPT can make a plan if I ask it to. And it can use a plan to guide its future outputs. It can create code or terminal commands that I can trivially output to my terminal, letting it operate my computer. From my computer, it can send commands to operate physical machinery. What exactly is the hard fundamental barrier here, as opposed to a capability you speculate it is unlikely to realize in practice in the next year or two?
To be fair they're not heavily soliciting donations, and even actively say that they don't need them. So it's not surprising people don't prioritise giving anything. Many users probably haven't even thought of it
I haven’t looked at the code but it’s fairly likely the author considered this? eg the new timeout is set based on the delta of Date.now() instead of just subtracting the time from the previous timeout.
I've had good luck with Cloudflare
It might just be an urban legend, but I have heard that some American soldiers sent to Afghanistan were told that shooting stray dogs would help their reputation with locals. I think rabies is a prevalent problem in that part of the world, so it seems plausible.
My guess is the noise factor even if you consider a suppressor. Sure, you kill 1 python snake. But scare off a half dozen in the near area.

Who knows, maybe the gun fire attracts other predators in the glades (alligators?).
First of all, there's no spec, no stable ABI, etc etc etc. And the language is constantly adding new features and complexities.

In practical terms and in this case it probably doesn't matter, but that is what people are talking about when they say it's both modern and unstable. It's not entirely unreasonable.

Note that "unstable" doesn't necessarily mean "broken". It just means that the ecosystem is likely to have changed massively looking back at code written today from some theoretical vantage point 5 years in the future.
Why not use a wiki? Zim desktop is text based local first. It doesn't handle videos but everything is handled. Search is good and you get the other benefits of a wiki. No mobile client, that I'm aware of.