skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if I trust them as such, but they're doing it anyway, so I'd appreciate it being more explicit.

Also, as long as it's not training the whole model on the fly as with the Tay fiasco, I'd actually be quite interested in an LLM that would debate you and possibly be convinced and change its stance for the rest of that conversation with you. "Strong opinions weakly held" and all.
"The Year of Living Dangerously" is a surprising one to show up. Reasonably profitable and successful film for the time.

Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver - she usually doesn't get the romantic role.

She became so enamoured with Mel Gibson that the man whom she eventually married resembles Gibson.

Linda Hunt won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress (her character is male in the movie), she played the "boss" on NCIS-LA TV show for several years.

wikipedia page says 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.
hmac-bcrypt solves that problem very well, and should replace plain bcrypt: https://github.com/epixoip/hmac-bcrypt
Curl 8.12 Released with Its Rust Hyper Back End Removed
Like I said, at this point I'm not convinced they have any leverage.
That sounds pretty dark. What's this vogon forum? ironic name
It's telling that culture will instantly lump anyone successful into the "white" category. I feel like this diversity drive was broken from the start
It's actually not up to the legislature anymore. And that's a huge problem in this country. The legislature exited stage left by handing way too many powers and responsibilities over to the executive branch. Now the courts determine if the executive branch has been previously allowed by congress to do something stupid or not. By the time the legislature can agree on exercising power on one item or another, the shit has already hit the fan.

It doesn't need to be a coup. Congress sold us out to presidents long before most of us were born.
I just saw a thread by a lawyer on X that broke down the EO creating DOGE.

It was very interesting how they got around things.
the US has more civilians with guns than any other country, by a wide margin, and was founded in a violent revolution.

Musk and Co. are betting on people to stay home and not get involved, and if they do, that they'll be peaceful protests that can be ignored. because they will ignore them, basically.

shit, even the Jan 6th coup protesters killed a cop and assaulted others.
Is there some means of synchronizing your keyboard with a global caps-lock state which would not involve running local software? I cannot imagine how that would work.
This one is about executives not regular employees.
what I would have naturally done without anticipating any flaw (and probably be just OK):

cache_key = sha(sha(id + username) + bcrypt(pass))

with sha256 or something.
Trump Puts California High-Speed Rail in Crosshairs
Other large software rewrites have unit tests.

ATC has human operators and people are non-deterministic and non repeatable and you can't just run a few tests and conclude it's fine.

The issues you're trying to stop may only occur once a month globally across all airports or something, and only be noticed once a year.
I'm assuming I did well since I finished it in under 30 seconds. Then again, I trained myself to notice even a difference of 1 in a channel for a RGB pixel.
This is not a good article. Shocked that it got so much attention here. It's full of garden variety common sense.
That’s like asking if Darth Vader would release a report on whether the destruction of Alderaan was legal.
At least you can get past the challenge. For me, every-single-time it is an endless loop of "select all bikes/cars/trains". I've given up even trying to solve the challenge anymore and just close the page when it shows up.
I run a Mediawiki instance for an online community on a fairly cheap box (not a ton of traffic) but had a few instances of AI bots like Amazon's crawling a lot of expensive API pages thousands of times an hour (despite robots.txt preventing those). Turned on Cloudflare's bot blocking and 50% of total traffic instantly went away. Even now, blocked bot requests make up 25% of total requests to the site. Without blocking I would have needed to upgrade quite a bit or play a tiring game of whack a mole blocking any new IP ranges for the dozens of bots.
> somebody using your website in a way you don't like?

This usually includes people making a near-realtime updated perfect copy of your site and serving that copy for either scam or middle-manning transactions or straight fraud.

Having a clear category of "good bots" from either a verified or accepted companies would help for these cases. Cloudflare has such a system I think, but then a new search engine would have to go to each and every platform provider to make deals and that also sounds impossible.
What is the difference between a strategy and a tactic?
Yes, I think that it is good that they did not touch existing projects. (Much of the complaints (including my own complaints) when it was announced were due to ignorance of the working of git and of GitHub; once I learned how it is working then I do not have complaints about it.)

Even for new projects, if you create a empty repository on GitHub and then send a repository from your own computer, it will work with whatever branch name you give it, at least in my experience (I had sent repositories with the only branch named "trunk" and it seems to cause no problems at all as far as I can tell).

Neither git nor GitHub software cares what the branches are called as far as I know; I think they just changed the default settings if you are creating a repository using GitHub, but you are not required to use them.

And, actually, I read the documentation and you can even make per-user settings on GitHub, and you can change the default branch name for git itself too (and, like in GitHub, this setting can also be changed in git).

They also added the function to rename branches (you can rename any branch, not only the default branch), and they provide documentation about how this is working, so this is a side benefit of their work on this, in case it is sometimes useful to rename branches (although I think probably it is usually better not to rename existing branches, maybe sometimes it might be useful).

Furthermore, "main" is shorter than "master", and starts with the same two letters; but in my opinion, these are minor benefits (although they are still beneficial anyways).

However, even though I think this is good, this does not imply that all software that used "master" and changed it, were doing good. In many cases they weren't good, but git (and GitHub) isn't one of them that isn't good. The reasons why it is good or not good have to do with the existing working of the software and of working of names, and how the changes are being handled, and is not because of racism and stuff like that.
Not familiar with "filibuster". Does it mean that Democrats could effectively prevent a potential "DOGE is legal" bill from passing by endlessly debating it?
Really? They tell us this now in the midst of an egg shortage???
For the government, it largely does because the individuals are immune from lawsuits and the government fining itself is a pointless ouroboros. Many things can't be retroactively unwound reasonably.

Once the impact has been made, it's pretty sticky. Once these workers are gone and have been replaced, we're unlikely to unwind it. Once people are deported we're unlikely to un-deport them (I'm not even sure what that would mean).

Completely correct for individuals, though. Unwinding is simple there, you can just send them to jail at a later date.
I hoped it was apparent from my comment that "this is of course by design, to inspect the traffic" meant I understood they are doing it to detect DDoS traffic and separate it from legitimate traffic. But many Cloudflare users are not so technical. I would simply advocate for being more upfront about this behavior.

That said, their Magic Transit and Spectrum offerings (paid) provide L3/L4 DDoS protection without payload inspection.
David S. Goyer debuts latest franchise on a platform built on Story blockchain
It works... But it doesn't have a lot of integration. It's OK for its main use, a UI framework for primarily C/C++ programs, rather than a pure JavaScript+HTML host.

A company that I'm advising is using it for their industrial IoT control dashboards, and it's great for that purpose.
Will worrying stop Trump? I believe that is the overarching point here.

Stressing over things you can't/won't impact is largely a waste of time and energy. Your worry wont help Gaza.
I have OpenAI Deep Research access in Europe and it is extremely good. It's also particularly good at niche market research in products and companies.

Happy to give you a demo. If you want to send me a prompt, I can share a link to the resulting output.
The current acting deputy administrator is Marco Rubio who the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State works directly for the President.

The President hasn't shut down the USAID yet. They just froze it with the intent to abolish it.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946854
"I don't understand this complexity so this means it shouldn't exist"
Even if I'd simply "forgotten" to cancel, the prohibition on charging me for the months I didn't use it would've made this a non-issue. Hell, I'd probably still be a customer today, now that I've long ago moved back to a city with Anytime Fitness locations.
and before that Scaleform!
Clion, clang tidy and Visual C++ analysers do have partial support for the Core Guidelines, and they can be enforced.

Granted, it is only those that can be machine verified.

Office is using C++20 modules in production, Vulkan also has a modules version.
It is not debateable at all, the President has to ask Congress to rescind appropriated funds if the President doesn’t want to spend the money allocated by Congress. If Congress chooses not to rescind the allocated funds, then the president must spend the money.

The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Act of 1974 is explicitly clear about this, there is absolutely no room for debate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Budget_and_Imp...

> Title X of the Act, also known as the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, specifies that the president may request that Congress rescind appropriated funds. If both the Senate and the House of Representatives have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within forty-five days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation. Congress is not required to vote on the request and has ignored most presidential requests.
I've such bots on my server. Some Chinese Huawei bot as well as an American one.

They ignored robots.txt (claimed not to, but I blacklisted them there and they didn't stop) and started randomly generating image paths. At some point /img/123.png became /img/123.png?a=123 or whatever, and they just kept adding parameters and subpaths for no good reason. Nginx dutifully ignored the extra parameters and kept sending the same images files over and over again, wasting everyone's time and bandwidth.

I was able to block these bots by just blocking the entire IP range at the firewall level (for Huawei I had to block all of China Telecom and later a huge range owned by Tencent for similar reasons).

I have lost all faith in scrapers. I've written my own scrapers too, but almost all of the scrapers I've come across are nefarious. Some scour the internet searching for personal data to sell, some look for websites to send hack attempts at to brute force bug bounty programs, others are just scraping for more AI content. Until the scraping industry starts behaving, I can't feel bad for people blocking these things even if they hurt small search engines.
Chat, are you ready to go to space with NASA?
What would you expect from system that did not change much since 18th century? As example France had like 5 iterations in between.
Before 2.0 models their offerings were pretty underwhelming, but now they can certainly hold their own. I think Gemini will ultimately be the LLM that eats the world, Google has the talent and most importantly has their own custom hardware (hence why their prices are dirt cheap and context is huge).
It's astounding how bad the default API for Bcrypt is.
lol, DOGE is obviously illegal. Trump created a fake department of the government without congressional appropriation of funds.
Completely understandable. Sucks to see this keep happening to OS devs
>> From Netflix's perspective, it's not clear to me that the payment for licensing technology to e.g. NBC is worth it, versus hoping that they end up with an inferior product, especially when they're competing with each other for customers and licensed content.

Apple and Amazon Prime and Youtube seem to enable other services via their platforms, presumably for a cut. If the cut is large enough, seems like a good business move for Netflix also -- let the content owners focus on their business rather than some random broadcasting company trying to hire AWS infrastructure engineers and 3rd party platform testing experts.
> Trump and Rubio [...] did.

Might be illegal.

> Musk talked Trump and Rubio

Obviously isn't, no matter how many salutes he does or how many emeralds he owns.
I looked into that recently, and Calibre with this plugin is a viable option. https://github.com/mmagnus/Pocket-Plus-Calibre-Plugin

You can schedule periodic content pulls in Calibre, and I believe you can also automate sending the resulting EPUB to an email address (like the Kindle's send-to-email feature). I would use this, but I prefer EpubPress's formatting and I'm too lazy to tweak Calibre's.
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Oracle starts laying mines in JavaScript trademark battle
The biggest problems I see with DDoS is metered traffic and availability. The largest Cloud providers all meter their traffic.

The availability part on the other hand is maybe something that's not so business critical for many but for targeted long-term attacks it probably is.

So I think for some websites, especially smaller ones it's totally feasible to not use Cloudflare but involves planning the hosting really carefully.
True. Curate who you follow carefully, and stay away from that "for you" tab
This crash is an even newer Cloudflare issue (as of yesterday, I believe). It is not related to the one discussed here, and will be solved in the next browser update:

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32064
Blocking Falkon is especially egregious if they're not also blocking Gnome Web. Those are the default browsers for Plasma and Gnome respectively, and some of the few browsers left that are "just browsers", with no phoning home or any kind of cloud integration.
How are you defining "reasoning"?

Because I see these sorts of gnostic assertion about LLMs all the time about how they "definitely aren't doing <thing we normally apply to meat-brains>" by gesturing at the technical things it's doing, with no attempts to actually justify the negative assertion.

It often comes across as privileged reason trying to justify that of course the machine isn't doing some ineffable thing only meat-brains do.
How are you making the jump from calibrating your emotional response to distant political changes that have no immediate significance on your own life, are par for humanity, and don’t matter in the long run, to nihilism in your immediate experience of meaning?

I don’t connect distant political to my own personal experience of meaning in the world, so i can’t follow this line of reasoning.
I would think anyone employed at nsa would be able to get private cybersecurity jobs, no?
Things that were in the Go standard library from the first public release (2012):

encoding/json vs

Python: 2008, json package added in version 2.6
.NET: 2019, System.Text.Json came with .NET Core 3.0
JVM: still nothing

net/http client vs

Python: gave up, "just use requests"
.NET: also 2012, HttpClient came with .NET Framework 4.5
JVM: 2018, HttpClient came with Java 11

The time library definitely sucks though. There's really no excuse for it, joda-time came out a long time ago.
What People Get Wrong About 'Everything Is Political' (2023)
A lot of the fake browser traffic I'm seeing is coming from American data centres. China plays a major part, but if we're going by bot traffic, America will end up on the ban list pretty quickly.
> The intelligence that will be available to the average technically literate individual will be frightening.

That's not the scary part. The scary part is the intelligence at scale that could be available to the average employer. Lots of us like to LARP that we're capitalists, but very few of us are. There's zero ideological or cultural framework in place to prioritize the well being of the general population over the profits of some capitalists.

AI, especially accelerating AI, is bad news for anyone who needs to work for a living. It's not going to lead to a Star Trek fantasy. It means an eventual phase change for the economy that consigns us (and most consumer product companies) to wither and fade away.
You're assuming there is no genetic component whatsoever to human skills and interests, and the only reason women are not studying computer science/car repair/welding is sexism.
If you are trying to reach race/gender based quotas, you simply cannot hire white men anymore when they are 90% of the applicants. Or at least, you must attempt to minimize it as much as possible. Math.
Very cool! How are you storing it to a database - vectors? What do you do with the extracted data (in terms of being able to pull it up via some query system)?
Specifically we're getting into territory where political actors choose to behave like there is no rule of law, in hopes they will be believed.

Not sure about that one. Nor do I think the election would have gone the way it did if people generally figured their choice was to have Elon Musk's word be law, and everything else including the Constitution to be thrown away as old hat.

I really don't think people priced that into their decision, so buyer's remorse becomes a real factor. People may demand that rule of law not be thrown away.
> [....] confirming in an unattributed response to Democratic lawmakers that Musk’s DOGE team has access to the Treasury’s banks of personal information on Americans. The letter confirms Tom Krause, the chief executive of Cloud Software Group, which owns Citrix and several other technology companies, is now a Treasury employee. Krause has not returned a request for comment.

Why is Tom Krause involved now?
> It is so objectively horrible in every capacity,

Total hyperbole and simply not true.

> but it still somehow managed to limp on for all these years

Before Rust became somewhat popular, there was simply no serious alternative to C++ in many domains.
Have you tried Science News? I currently read neither, but at one point I switched from the fluffy Scientific American to the no-nonsense Science News.
I am on the iOS app and I see Gemini 2.0 and Gemini 1.5 as options in the drop down. I am on free tier
The way I think of this is that there is no shame in Jeffries not having as good and intuitive grasp of the problem as Norvig. After all, this kind of problem is almost tailor-made for Norvig's skill set. Like many of us who haven't done a lot of work in this space would do, Jeffries spends a lot of time early on just exploring the problem space. He starts with a seemingly intuitive (naive?) data structure and goes from there. So far so good. No shame in any of that. All of us have been in a similar situation. I think that the key moment comes at blog post number 12. As the author of this post describes, this is where Jeffries basically recognizes that his approach needs to radically change and where a lot of people would throw away what they have, it having served the function of helping one understand the problem, and start from scratch with different assumptions, data structures, etc. Jeffries didn't do that, probably because he firmly believes in the TDD dogma and probably because he felt pressured to make this work, since he way publicly working through this. That's where Jeffries goes wrong. He should probably have admitted that in some cases you should just start from scratch instead of tinkering at the edges of something that's clearly suboptimal.
> You're forgetting all the little guys that make movies happen. Yeah the directors and actors probably don't care, but the other 100s of other people involved in making films probably do.

We're talking about movies that are 45 years old at a minimum. The majority of the people "involved in making the film" are dead at this point.
BOYCOTT TESLA, TWITTER, SPACEX.
SELL YOUR $TSLA STOCK.
Do it for America. And for the world. The rest of the planet is watching. America, get your shit together!!
> It was assumed that people would find a way to work together

This is not in line with first-past-the-post voting system. If you want to have "people work together" you need coalitions.
It's not ironic. PDFs are a container, which can hold scanned documents as well as text. Scanned documents need OCR and to be analyzed for their layout. This is not a failing of the PDF format, but a problem inherent to working with print scans.

I don't claim PDF is a good format. It is inscrutable to me.
> You literally get back characters + confidence intervals.

Oh god, I wish speech to text engines would colour code the whole thing like a heat map to focus your attention to review where it may have over-enthusiastically guessed at what was said.

You no knot.
The grant is for "proposals in the area of automated defense against social engineering attacks."
As an outsider's perspective: This aspect of American culture seems self-reinforcing.

It's not like things can't get heated when people in much of the rest of the world discuss politics.

But if the subject isn't entirely verboten, adults will have some practice in agreeing to disagree, and moving on.

With AI this particular cultural export has gone from a quaint oddity, to something that, as a practical matter, can be really annoying sometimes.
This 1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world
this is what you might call a vibes-based analysis. proof that the government needs to be dramatically downsized is found in the way it feels good to say and jives with relevant preconceptions.