skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TFA has nothing to do with SHA-1 or SHA-1 collisions. It's about abbreviated hash values introduced for readability by humans. Now these values are used by auxiliary scripts. Which again has little to do with git proper. It's just what the kernel community writes into commit messages and what scripts they use to parse those messages.
While it certainly does not solve everything, the work being done with verifiable VMs is very interesting.

Today's most advanced projects are able to compile pretty much arbitrary rust code into provable RISC-V programs (using SNARKs).

Imo that solves a good chunk of the problem of proving to software users that what they get is what they asked for.
I don't think there's any real future in catering to the most demanding users, most of which are completely unwilling to actually pay for a power user browser.
Enigma machine explained with animation [video]
Very interesting. I am wondering about the "level of translation". Is it using plain safe Rust or is it full of unsafe functions everywhere.

I planned to port LMDB to Rust by hand "just to see" and it was an awful work. There are too many defines and conditional compilations due to the nature of the work: interfacing different OS to write an on-disk B+Tree...
I skimmed over both of those links and it seems that there are in fact no aspects of the definition that could be challenged with public domain software. The second one is all over the place (the author even says he's not a lawyer!) but it seems focused on the fact that public domain rights are not recognized the same in every country. SQLite has other licenses you can use for those situations. The idea that this project is not truly open source seems silly.
I was referring to aipapersacademy and not the arxiv link.

Also I didn’t mean the occurrence of the word „coconut“ in the paper, but thanks for counting.

I meant their publication site: https://ai.meta.com/results/?content_types%5B0%5D=publicatio...

The video is something I’d expect from AI.
I would blame Microsoft for that one, since they had the ability to ban crowdstrike and others who have no business being in the NT kernel from the NT kernel, but instead gave them access by giving them code signing certificates.

Apple on the other hand got them to switch to userspace:

https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/crowdstrike-supports-...
I have the feeling you both are confusing your development workflow around database structure with the structure itself.

You seem to think that using columns somehow results in some type of automatic "tracking" (versioning?) of something.
I don't see how it could possibly could be illegal in any jurisdiction.

The only part of the US public domain that won't fly in many countries is the waiver of moral rights (mainly the right to attribution). Since my country does not allow this waiver, the authors might be able to sue me in my jurisdiction if I started claiming to be the author of the code, which would have been ok in the US. But the voluntary non-exclusive transfer of usage, modification and distribution rights is surely allowed in every jurisdiction, so there is no reason that that part of the dedication would not be valid.

And if there exists a jurisdiction where the transfer of material rights isn't allowed at all, selling a license also wouldn't fix anything. Unless there's a jurisdiction out there somewhere that allows the transfer only in exchange for money or in a one-on-one contract, but then open source licenses also wouldn't apply there and I feel like I would've heard about it as a fun fact somewhere on the Internet by now...
>A declassified 1966 memo from the US nuclear program stated that uranium-233 has been shown to be highly satisfactory as a weapons material (wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium-233#Weapon_material)
Author here, it’s totally possible to get IQ samples from the RX chain! Unfortunately, the design of the TX chain is in such a way that it does not work off of IQ DACs, and is more limited in what the silicon can generate.
An input lag investigation – RetroArch
With refinements, there is now little excuse to do that globally in Ruby any more.

Refinements let you "temporarily" modify a class within a lexical scope. E.g I have an experimental parser generator that heavily monkeypatches core classes, but only when lexically inside the grammar definition.

It lets you have the upsides of the footguns, but keeping them tightly controlled.
My device is currently not supported, their FAQ about this is needlessly passive aggressive, though I can assume there's a reason.
This has the nice effect that fossil, the source control system built on sqlite, will open repos one hasn't looked at for years without trouble. I suspect lots of software works very much better in practice because they chose sqlite as the storage layer somewhere in the distant past.
> the UI hasn't changed in years. It begs the question what those 100mb are and whether it's actually necessary.

Signal desktop doesn't use incremental updates. Each "update" is just reinstalling the whole package. That's what those 100 MB are.

It's possible to make incremental updates with binary patches, but it's more difficult. I guess Signal have other priorities.
The topic is indeed very interesting but before studying commit author diversity it would be useful to understand the volume and traction. Statistically most of the forks are dead ends, even if maintained by a few enthusiasts for some time.

I'm sure opensearch won't die until it's a commercial offering of AWS but how is going? Any new features coming, a product roadmap exists? Or it's mainly bugfixes and maintenance? What about Opentofu?

Even something basic like a graph of LOC changed over time, with a fork in the middle would help to put the article into perspective.
I disagree. The problem is more nuanced.

A well implemented (native) app is always better than a well implemented web site.

The problem is poorly implemented apps which are just UI wrappers hitting dumb APIs or embedding entire web stacks which hit dumb APIs. A well implemented web app isn't much better than that. They don't work offline, they use way more resources than anything native and they leak data like a sieve generally.
So, I'm reading there's a free, anonymous Mistral endpoint somewhere with the bill being footed by Mozilla.
At least with Lambda you can use mainstream programming languages. You can also have single lambdas that handle multiple endpoints or events. It’s a bit different.
I hit that too, there is an open bug: https://github.com/lexiforest/curl-impersonate/issues/81

Worked around it by modifying the patch: https://github.com/jakeogh/jakeogh/blob/master/net-misc/curl...

Considering the complexity, this project, and it's upstream parent and grandparent(curl proper) are downright amazing.
Japan absolutely has a homelessness problem. Not anywhere near as bad as California’s. In my experience they mostly keep themselves out of the way as opposed to western homeless. Not sure if this is due to stricter enforcement or cultural practices.
Not many libraries use the GPL because “that only works for open source applications”.

That said, you can just copy the .so files if you want to run the old binary.

Furthermore, binaries are mmapped, so even if it is very large, it will still launch relatively quickly since only the parts needed to launch are read into memory.
For example, there could be a web-based attack that would target unpatched webviews. This could be a maliciously prepared webpage or image on the web, favicon etc, and this piece of data could be distributed by an ad network, for example. So, browsing the internet with an out of date browser or webview could pose this risk.

Another issue is escalation. Again, we are in a speculative realm, but if a device is affected like how I described it above, it could then be the foot in the door for other attacks, like scanning the local network, and finding other devices to target, some of which might be also out of date, or be more trusting to a local device, than to an internet device. Like a router, for example, or a NAS with a passwordless LAN file share activated.

Another usage of an exploited device is it joining into a botnet, that then is rented out for any purpose the buyer would want, distribution of files, acting as a proxy for others, participating in a DDOS attack.

Thing is, most of this is automated actually. The devices on the internet are constantly scanned by automated means for vulnerabilities.
Couldn't we use an AI model trained on historical text data (up to today) to predict likely events for tomorrow? Taking this further, a sufficiently advanced AI system could potentially analyze human-generated text up to any given point in history to understand patterns of human thought and behavior, then project those patterns forward. This speaks to your point about human language - while we need text data for initial training, the AI's internal representations and predictions could potentially transcend human language constraints.
The disincentive is far higher than the incentive, and the TOS have been scrutinized deeply by some of the biggest enterprises on the planet. GCP is not a consumer service like Gmail or Maps.

As the comment above suggested, any information to the contrary would be business-destroying for GCloud. Many of their enterprise users have strict requirements about access to and use of their data.

Re the example of Microsoft corporate email, much the same situation applies. If Microsoft were mining that corporate customer data and using it or reselling it, enterprises would dump them in a heartbeat.
Skip all that jazz and write some php like it's 1998 and pay 5 bucks a month for Hostens or the equivalent...
Well, that's the opposite costing side of the spectrum from serverless containerized dynamic lang runtime and a zillion paid services as a backend.
Ah I didn't know they've finally done that. I'll have to give it another try. If the password manager works well (e.g. with apps) and I can make the app drawer search open in Firefox then I'll probably switch.
Israel has exceptionally great PR, especially with people in power.

Palestinians have horrible PR (carrying dead bodies on the crowd's hands in tiny streets, is not something westeners relate to).

In Europe a large part of a generation believes that the holocaust is the reason the state of Israel needs to be. Why is Israel not founded on a repurposed piece of Germany then?
Martin Casado captures the essence well: “I don’t recall another time in CS history where a result like [whether LLMs have a capability] is obvious to the point of banality to one group. And heretical to another.”

100% this. The topic seems extremely and unnecessarily polarized. I was at a high level senior academic AI meet last week, and people in that space are really confused when I say I use current LLM models daily in production business environments, as they (a) somehow believe business processes that can deal with incorrectness are somehow not existant and (b) see flawed basic non lingual reasoning as a huge obstacle to any practical apllication.

On the other side I meet CEOs and CTOs that believe they will replace whole business divisions with of the shelf AI in the coming year.
I do a similar thing with my terminal emulator: Different background colours in PuTTY depending on which server it's connected to. Green for Dev, red for Prod...
"Smarter" is too vague. A group can compensate for individual weaknesses or even converge on a hard-to-make prediction given sufficiently uncorrelated outputs; basically the idea behind ensemble models / wisdom of the crowds. But a group of 1000 dumb apes would never achieve categorically-above-ape intelligence, probably not even "genius" ape intelligence. Groups of unintelligent agents come with downsides as well, like the ant death spiral.
The main takeaway for me is the following. Everything you post online will end up in a public archive. That includes everything you post to supposedly private or semi-private venues, like Telegram channels. Everything you posted when you were a dumb kid will be there too, however long ago that was. So, if you’re gonna be a cybercrminal, make absolutely sure that you start with a clean slate. No one can know the connections to your past, because even if you’re careful, other idiots can let slip (like using your old moniker to address you) at any time. And don’t post fucking photos, ever.
What are you referring to exactly? If Mozilla told you "sure, we'll take your money and give you a more privacy-preserving browser", what would you want to be different about it?
You could argue the US did this first with the 1964 oak ridge experimental reactor. Still it's good China is continuing the experimental reactors. That's how science progresses.

No one's really tried producing a commercial thorium reactor because it isn't really commercial so far - the costs are much higher than uranium.
Types are a basic tool of software design (2018)
Google Sheets can do that - https://officewheel.com/group-dates-in-pivot-table-google-sh...
Code review in the Linux kernel still happens by email to a large degree.

Further up in contribution tree there is additional signing. Would that further complicate the insertion of a false commit? I am not convinced that signing is used all the way down to every contribution.
Demystifying Defer
Verifying arbitrary code is safe is not possible for AV to do. If you know some way to do what you describe, you can commercialize it and become rich. Many would pay top dollar for such technology.
I think this is a hold-out from old-school blogging, where each post would have a url that was often an external link. Feeds often reinforced this, favouring the external link over the 'blog post permalink' (I guess since, who would care about that when they already have the full text content?).

On the site's home page, the posts include a "" link which points to the post itself. I'm guessing the reason the posts don't link to themselves is another hold-out from the old-school: a page linking to itself was typically considered bad practice.
When the Bing API went offline a short while back, the DDG website was a blank page. No fall back, nothing. A Bing wrapper with ‘trust us’ privacy marketing.
Mozilla Corporation is a for-profit organization, they can't handle donations. Mozilla Foundation don't need your money and won't use it to fund Firefox.
Stick tables
> at Rogue Engine, we’re committed to being the go-to game engine for Three.js and the web

and there you go, author has a vested interest in you making web apps.
There be a similar alternative site yiu can link to? Are you able to share the broken site
Looks fun, but also very OpenAI dependent -- similar to AI Town[0].

I really want to play with these, I just don't have the tokens. I do have a decent graphics card though.

0:https://github.com/a16z-infra/ai-town
AFAIK the Android binary blobs are generally userspace, not kernel drivers.
Eh, no one really has any idea what production functions will look like in 30 years (assuming no mass extinction of any kind.)

The more interesting question is another. Half the population has IQ<100. Assume a full-demagogy world where a majority can be manipulated to make any decision, voting or otherwise. Whose utility will be maximized?

It's a chaotic, non-ergodic system. Expect a random-walk outcome. One particularly troubling end state is a world with 100 trillionaires, 100000 concubines, a bunch of coiffeurs and masseurs, and no other humans.
The devaluation of dollar, this is the ultimate way

Let's say, if USD/CNY drops by 20%, the advantage of Chinese products will be erased, if USD/CNY drops by 50%, Chinese industry will be destroyed

Basically, this is the most important method the US used to counter the challenge of Japan in the 1980s.
What changed in Rails this year?
As many others already stated, there are more than just small subtle differences that will bite you with this approach. Eventually forcing you to develop unnecessary compatibility abstractions or downgrade to less efficient lowest common denominator feature set to make it work. It's not worth the effort.

Especially since launching postgres is equally easy and fast as sqlite. Docker can help with sandboxing. What is left to gain? 100ms shorter startup time or keeping your unit test executables as single binaries? Irrelevant.
that's more fit for agents, no?
Because those are ratings are based on consolidated user ratings, some of them are outdated and still marked Gold. Grand Theft Auto V is Gold, but online doesn't work anymore. Yet users are still giving it a thumbs up because singleplayer works. Apex Legends is also still Gold, and completely no longer works since there's no singleplayer

So it's not really ≥80% for top 10 at least.
Because it's a fantasy game and all humans are equal in it already? This feels a lot like simply corporate virtue signalling (all while exporting US culture wars)

Suggesting that grizzy bears as a category are bigger and stronger than humans isn't controversial, Neither is a hulking half orc, until now apparently?
While you corrected one mistake you added a new one:)

Those are git trailers, see git-interpret-trailers(1).

git-notes(1) is something completely different and not used by the kernel.
I sympathise, but talking to my sister I've come to appreciate a different point of view. I have an "app", a PWA, that she says she cannot find because it's not in the App Store. Despite telling her it's available as a website, this seems too much... she just doesn't use — or is comfortable using — Safari.
This doesn't need to be a link to some random dude's video because there's a perfectly fine Wikipedia article about Bertrand Russell and his views.

He held a variety of views and I hope this particular dude doesn't intend to paint Russell as source of truth.

> In 1929, he wrote that people deemed "mentally defective" and "feebleminded" should be sexually sterilised because they "are apt to have enormous numbers of illegitimate children, all, as a rule, wholly useless to the community.

No comment. Now we just need The Authority or a committee to decide who is feebleminded (maybe based on religious belief, why the hell not) and we're good to go. For the good of humanity! 5 years later: no one from the authority or committee member relatives was judged feebleminded, so coincidental.

> On 20 November 1948, in a public speech at Westminster School, addressing a gathering arranged by the New Commonwealth, Russell shocked some observers by suggesting that a preemptive nuclear strike on the Soviet Union was justified. Russell argued that war between the United States and the Soviet Union seemed inevitable, so it would be a humanitarian gesture to get it over with quickly and have the United States in the dominant position.

As Russian I'm surprisingly on the fence about this. In hindsight maybe cold war was actually better but considering how it's developing lately...

> In the Middle East, Russell suggested that the West avoid opposing Arab nationalism, and proposed the creation of a United Nations peacekeeping force to guard Israel's frontiers to ensure that Israel was prevented from committing aggression and protected from it.

It's interesting how he wants to oppose one people's nationalism and but not another people's nationalism.

> He also suggested Western recognition of the People's Republic of China, and that it be admitted to the UN with a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.

Also tongue in cheek:

> Every new conquest becomes the new basis of the proposed negotiation from strength, which ignores the injustice of the previous aggression

That guy should read about Muslim conquests circa 600.
Anatomy of a Debugging Experience
This is also seems to be the main factor in the exponential adoption of solar panels/energy.

Yes, it's a trade war with geopolitical implications. But not sure that it outweighs exponential adoption of solar energy. The same might be true here.
This is untrue. You can run old Linux binaries on modern Linux systems if you have the older libraries. You want to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to where the old libraries are located.

By the way, any Android applications using Google’s old messaging APIs no longer work and need to be rewritten to use fire base. I know people who were bitten by that multiple times since Google had to keep reinventing push notifications.
Another fun one is AMD's Linux drivers support emulated ray tracing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT6qbcKT7YY . This game won't even start on a newer/faster GTX 1080Ti

Though speaking of a 1080Ti, that's a GPU you don't want to run on Linux because it lacks some Vulkan features for good DX12 translation: https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/issues/465
git itself does not use a fixed size abbreviation but determines the length necessary with the birthday paradox formula. It just happens to be seven characters most of the time, because most repos are small.

This is just for the abbreviated hash which git uses only for specific cases like display in the git log and similar, where it is a user experience improvement and relatively safe.
Do you mean training each model independently and only averaging at a late stage, in order to reduce communication overhead in the distributed scenario?
The deal-breaker with Hack, for me, is its curly quotes—they are just far too indistinct. A lot of monospace fonts make this mistake, although there's a pleasing number featured here that don't.
Firebase auth? Would it be possible for a savvy end user to replicate your API calls to Google Sheets directly to bypass the auth?
They don't need to convince most of the public, just enough so they can fill up their venue. There are some Aunt Sues who are too afraid to go to concerts, but concert venues are still able to fill up when they have a popular act so it stands to reason that they're managing public perception of the risk well enough for their own needs.
You assume Windows is a decent OS. Many who know better would not.
Two reasons - cost and safety worries as in Chernobyl/Fukushima/waste etc.

The safety worries lead to excessive regulation and higher costs.

Here's how it's going in the UK with Hinkley C, our first new reactor for 30 years - "EDF now estimates that the cost could hit £46bn" for one reactor. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68073279

Also while nuclear costs rise, renewables plummet https://skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=6053

From World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2024:

>Solar and wind power capacities alone grew by 73% and 51%, respectively, resulting in 460 gigawatts (GW) of combined new capacity versus the 1 GW decline in nuclear.

>In China, a major energy market, over 200 GW of solar capacity was added compared to 1 GW of additional nuclear capacity.
>NATO is not at war. People aren't dying.

Ahem, NATO countries are assisting Ukraine in drone and missile attacks on Russia as we speak and foolishly floating the idea of adding Ukraine to NATO. Russian leadership has repeatedly said stuff along the lines of "Make no mistake, we are at war with NATO because Ukraine alone doesn't have the capabilities to do what it's been doing to attack us." So yes, NATO is essentially at war.
> Liang Wenfeng: We believe that as the economy develops, China should gradually become a contributor instead of freeriding. In the past 30+ years of the IT wave, we basically didn’t participate in real technological innovation. We’re used to Moore’s Law falling out of the sky, lying at home waiting 18 months for better hardware and software to emerge. That’s how the Scaling Law is being treated.
The pixel a series is made of plastic too, today. I'm not seeing anybody bothered by that.
There are time travel maps which not only trains, but also cars or bikes: https://commutetimemap.com/map and https://app.traveltime.com