skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To start off, you need a data access layer. This is non-negotiable for well-structured applications to properly secure your data.
Scattered SQL queries across your codebase will most likely lead to unmaintainable authorization, even data leaks.

Super hard disagree with this.

Much of the pain and suffering I deal with in legacy codebases can be attributed to someone attempting to force the entire product to use one logical view of the data. This typically manifests as a single folder full of ORM types. "Models", "Entities", etc.

Virtually all problems can benefit from taking more targeted and nuanced views of the underlying data. This is only possible when the original call site is directly responsible for composing the SQL query.

You talk about authorization but I think this is confounded by the strategy of one middle tier handling all data access. Now, you've got to move the auth code away from the business logic that justifies it into a box that's way too smart to be labeled "Data Access Layer" by this point.

All this really accomplishes is smearing your BL across a bunch of DLLs.
According to Herb’s article most of this is already available in compilers
For those curious about the differences between Standard ML and OCaml.

http://adam.chlipala.net/mlcomp/
Whisp [1] - Pure* PHP SSH server specifically designed for devs to build fun TUIs

Ended up having to write a decent chunk of C using FFI mind, no wonder people write SSH servers in Go/C, and why every AI tool told me it's really difficult and shouldn't be done :D

Bit of fun though, and I know more than I would ever want to know about the SSH protocol now!

- [1] https://github.com/whispphp/whisp
> Read a paragraph then stop and have a conversation with yourself about what just happened.

I like that approach, as it combines the training of attention span and memorizing.

I've come to the painful realization that we are not only losing our attention span --our capacity to concentrate--, we are also concurrently losing our deep memorizing abilities --our capacity to retain the information we managed to intake--. So it's really a double whammy effect, making it even more difficult to revert.
Meh. It seems to me that these people just allow their kids what they themselves had. It's not a principled decision, it's just nostalgia. Example. No tablets, great. But they can have a game boy. What's the difference? The difference is the parents had game boys growing up so they have good memories. Then they rationalize this as "only has two buttons so requires patience". Surely you can find games on a tablet that only have two buttons and require patience...? No, the actual explanation is nostalgia, with an a posteriori rationalisation.
> When traveling to Norway I notice a lot how the food is both lower quality (in taste, not in safety

Maybe this is because food was never a cultural thing (as opposed to France, Italy, ...)?
Always interesting how the Anglo world never really got into Hegel, I guess it's their lack of real philosophical spirit that explains it. They never really got passed Hume's empiricist reflexes.
"Suárez, a 33-year-old native of Caracas, Venezuela"

is in the second sentence of the Mother Jones article. He is not a Salvadoran citizen, he's been sent to a third country by the US.
> Alien visitors are entitled to all rights in the soil of the USA

Except voting, firearms ownership, the ability to work, etc. What else? (* sans LPR status - they're not 'rights' if someone can take them away, though.)

I love how "behave or go home" now equals "imprisonment."

Please keep espousing this nonsense: 2028 will be fun.
Musk's lawyers added that the payments were "intended to generate a grassroots movement..."

Nothing says grassroots like a billionaire government employee handing out novelty size checks for a million bucks.
ToS;DR
> so no brain-to-brain exchange is happening — just AI to AI.

Rubbish in, rubbish out. Just increasing entropy, a day at a time..
That's a new one. Both these countries are net payers.
It's already been demonstrated to be insufficient; otherwise Apple software would now be impregnable. That's not to say these protections are a bad idea; they should be universal as they substantially reduce the existing attack surface - but the paper massively over-sells them as a panacea.
Kaspersky was the very best, it could handle any bad case better than any of the others.

I used to use the cataloging software WhereIsIt. It was really genious.
It has always been transactional. There were always a few gems in every class who actually had the brains and/or drive to dig into the subject and enjoy it. A big chunk were there to have a good time with friends and class is something they just went through. The rest hated it but didn't have a choice. This composition has been there forever.

Its like gym - everyone should exercise but only a few love it and the rest would rather get the muscles without putting in the effort. The gym rats and the purists are still enjoying real gains. However, now the reluctant majority has access to steroids called LLMs that are providing hollow gains in form of useless degrees and certifications while no one seems to care about the long term damage.
"The people", who originally were (and are today) the lawful citizens of the several states are party to the first eight amendments in the Bill of Rights. Foreigners enjoy 1st Amendment protections at the discretion of the federal government, at best.
The March of the Vegetables Parade
Of course not but it's JavaScript, why don't we pile more on top of the garbage mountain.
> too late to the party

And even if this would all be available today, you would need to wait 10 years for all third party libraries to catch up. Just look at the current rate of c++ version adoption. Many projects just migrated to c++17 this year, and that version is 8 years old by now...

Edit: Just used PCL that got updated from c++14 to 17, or look at https://vfxplatform.com/ where everything is c++17, and the list goes on....
An old teacher's saying from Turkey (where grades were out of 10 back then): 10 is for god, 9 is for me, the best student gets an 8.
Sounds very cool. I'm curious how you manage to monitor Linkedin though.
The only tool that seems capable of monitoring Linkedin is https://kwatch.io , so if you manage to achieve that too it's impressive.
Come for the Simplicity, Stay for the Extensibility: Identity with FusionAuth
Certification Authority/Browser Forum adopts new security standards
Awesome, you can also use it with LibRedirect (https://libredirect.github.io/)
Writing new graphics drivers in Rust will definitely be helpful, and is starting to happen.

The safety of LLVM and GCC need not be a priority... they're not normally exposed to untrusted input. Also, it's a particularly hard area because the safety of generated code matters just as much as the safety of the compiler itself. However Cranelift is an interesting option.

No silver bullet here unfortunately... but writing new infrastructure in C or C++ should mostly be illegal.
> People do not change all that much morally

This is debatable. In fact, the US culture war is absolutely about what American "morality" should be. It's what a lot of the Project 2025 Manifesto is about:

"The document spans a wide range of policy areas, but when it comes to culture, family, and morality, it emphasizes a return to traditional values, a rollback of progressive social policies, and an assertive use of federal power to reshape American culture"

There's a reason it's called a Culture War and not a Culture Mild Disagreement.
Plane windows are large compared to radio waves. They'd need to be no more than about 5 cm wide to create a full Faraday cage.
That's the wrong way - the way of the likes of 'fascists' and 'anti-fascists' alike - to go at that problem. A better way is to point out where Hegelian thought can lead and has led in the past. No books need to be burned, more books need to be published and read while educational institutions should stop pushing books which promote the destructive aspects of Hegel's thoughts. Yes, that means that Howard Zinn should not be used as the historian of choice in the USA, that all the different 'Marxist critique/perspective on ...' studies are not the ones to base the curriculum on and that terms like 'decolonising Shakespeare' [1] should become the exception rather than the rule when dealing with the cultural inheritance of 'the West'.

I understand that you were trying to sound edgy but the effort falls flat in the light of the many examples of 'book burnings' - between quotes because physical book burnings are out of vogue - by the authoritarian progressives who slowly marched through the institutions of academia. National socialists censored books by burning them, international socialists censor them by 'decolonising' the curriculum [2] and the library [3].

[1] https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-audacity-of-decoloni...

[2] https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/l...

[3] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=decolonising+the+library
Kotlin is also nicely expression-oriented
> rates of autism and other mental disorders also started to skyrocket

Diagnoses for them started to skyrocket. Important difference.
Norway has incredibly high tolls and tariffs on importing food (a bit ironic nowadays), primarily to protect the local farmers etc. We're a big country, but the amount of arable land is small and the climate does us no favors. We're at about 39% self sufficient for food, and import a majority of our vegetables, grains and fruits (Norway is one of the biggest importers of food in the world). Fact of the matter is that the only thing that props up local farmers is the subsidies and high import fees, if we join the EU that will have to go and local farms will not be able to compete on the open market. There's obviously much more nuance and details here, but that's the gist of why a lot of people don't want to join the EU. The last vote was essentially decided by the agricultural industry in Norway.
> Alien visitors are entitled to all rights in the soil of the USA

Where in the US Constitution do you believe this is stipulated?

> democracy

The USA is not a democracy. The USA is a larger republic of a union of republics.
Now we know where the bias comes from
> And my course instructor hated me pointing that out.

That is shameful. Instead of doing that, they should have given that out upfront and then spend the class discussing it and helping those who still had doubts/questions.
We don't know 100% for sure, just from their claim. In the other high profile cases recently it was a different agency and they were open that there was no amount of due process.
In the servers we have only 16gb to 64gb of NVDIMM, depending on density of NVDIMM and how many slots are populated with NVDIMM. Whatever raw NVDIMM is, usable is half because we mirror the contents for physical redundancy (if we lose a transaction it is fatal to our business). NVMe is amazing, but not everything should be NVMe, like petabyte scale object storage for example does not need to be on all NVMe (which is super pricey).

In newer DDR5 servers where we can't get NVDIMM, the alternative battery backed RAM options leave us with even less to work with.

Where we have counts of HDDs or SATA/SAS SSDs in the hundreds, we still want the performance improvements provided by WAL (or functional equivalent such as ZiL/SLOG) on NVDIMM and some layer-2 (where layer-1 is RAM) caching with NVMe.

Ceph OSDs want a dedicated WAL device. Some places use OpenCAS to make "hybrid" devices out of HDDs by pairing them with SSDs where the SSDs can accelerate reads for that HDD and the Ceph OSD goes on a logical OpenCAS device. OpenCAS is really great, but the devices acting as "caching layer" often end up underutilized.

By placing "big" Ceph OSDs on ZVOLs, we don't have individual disk slices for WAL (or equivalent) or individual disks for layer-2 read caching, but a consolidated layer in the form of ZFS Intent Log on "Separate Log" (NVDIMM) and another consolidated layer in the ZFS disk pool's L2ARC (layer-2 adaptive readback cache).

The ZVOLs are striped across multiple relatively large RAIDz3 arrays. Yeah, it's "less efficient" in some ways, but the tradeoff is worth it for us.

https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/rados/configuration/bluestore-config-ref/#devices
https://open-cas.com/
The EU itself imposed a limit of deficit spending to 3% GDP

The Eurozone included economies as diverse as Greece, Spain, Lithuania and Germany

These are some of the self-contradictions I'm referring to.

And the basic issue is that you cannot have a single monetary policy and impose half a fiscal policy, without political unification. And IMO that will never be squared.

I suppose the new glaring contradiction is that environmental policy and net zero policy has primacy (rightly in my view), but now so does making bombs.
> Ask the LLM for a solution, paste it in, get an error, paste that in, get a new solution, get another error, ask for a fix again, etc. etc.

That's exactly what I've seen as well. The students don't even read the code, let alone try to reason through how it works. They just develop hand-eye coordination for copy-pasting.

> Rather than simple laziness, it was often because they felt intimidated by their lack of knowledge and wanted to be more productive.

Part of it really is laziness, but what you say is also true. Unfortunately, this is the nature of learning. Reading or listening is by itself a weak stimulus for building neural pathways. You need to actively recall and apply, and struggle with problems until they yield. It is so much easier to look up a solution somewhere. And now you don't even to look anything up anymore -- just ask.
F# doesn't have many of OCaml's more advanced features. In particular, no functors and no polymorphic variants. Also the OO system is basically .NET, which isn't that surprising (but means that you don't get the neat row typing with inference that OCaml does).

OTOH some of the choices it makes are a bit more pragmatic - e.g. arithmetic is overloaded for ints and floats, locals can be marked as mutable similar to record fields, and fields are scoped to record types (so different types can use the same field name).
Wouldn't such a public statement be enough to ruin their argument in the lawsuit against WB?

> Village Roadshow complained that the Burbank studio’s pivot away from an exclusive theatrical release had destroyed the value of a key franchise.
Threat protection made simpler – Nordstellar first impressions
My company decided to add Nordstellar to our cybersecurity deck. There are quite a lot of us working in this specific field, but we were especially interested in how NordStellar would help us in everyday life. We have quite a large amount of data traffic that needs constant monitoring, so it made sense to get some automation in place.

Basically, NordStellar offers advanced encryption and real-time threat monitoring to secure sensitive information both in the cloud and accessed on-site. We got it for threat exposure management so that we could see real-time data and insights that we could solve ourselves. This monitoring allowed us to know about any potential threats and data leaks happening at the moment and come up with solutions more efficiently, instead of checking everything manually.

NordStellar worked for us because of the multi-layered security approach, which combines several defense mechanisms to protect against everything from malware to phishing attacks. During a couple of months of using it, we noticed a credential leak in a dark web forum. Thanks to the automated alert, we were able to act immediately, securing the exposed accounts before any damage occurred. If you have any data that could potentially end up in the deep and dark web, like forums, cybercrime telegram channels, ransomware blogs, or hacking manuals, it catches the data in time so you can manage it.

Also something neat – they provide automated asset discovery to map your infrastructure like web servers, applications, domains, etc.), and then you get notified about the vulnerabilities. So in one product, you get data leak management, dark web monitoring, attack surface management, and domain squatting covered.

Shortly, our department appreciated the integration so far, it’s easy to work with, and it did make our work a lot more efficient.

Maybe anyone else has tried out tools for threat protection, or NordStellar? Any reviews?
I emigrated from England mostly because housing was just utterly unaffordable compared to wages, even in tech jobs.

I think older people might not be aware of how bad it is, as you are quite insulated from it if you are paying back a mortgage from a 10-20 years ago rather than renting at market rates.

If you have a good job you can get by, but with a significantly lower quality of life than a comparable job would have on much of the Continent, let alone in America.

That said, my experience is mostly limited to London and the South-East where I grew up, so perhaps it's better elsewhere but most of the jobs are in London, and anywhere even within commuting distance is ridiculously expensive. Getting a house like my parents or grandparents had would be impossible, and they weren't rich.

The new government has said they want to sort out the NIMBY stuff and get Britain building again, let's hope they do.
Rewriting a backend is easier, because you can use a Strangler Fig[0] pattern to replace it bit by bit. The customers don't even have to notice.

With a browser you really can't do that, because you can't force users to update and then you'd have a bunch of semi-working Frankenstein monsters in the wild. A full rewrite and release is the only option.

[0] https://martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerFigApplication.html
> and cannot cope with things going back to normal.

I would argue that we worked our way to the post cold-war golden age, and then destroyed it with greed, which led to financial pain, which led to political nonsense, which led to the rubbish we are in right now.

So the period we are in right now is not the "back to normal" phase, but an actual decrease of human evolution. Not dissimilar to things that happened in the past, for example with the collapse of the roman empire.
I spend most of my time developing Slurm-web, an open source web interface for Slurm, the workload manager for HPC & AI clusters.

It's fun, with good mix of interesting technologies and it seems to solve a real problem for many users in HPC community!

https://slurm-web.com/
US citizens do have a right to listen to the opinions of others under the first amendment so if the US government does have a visa program then it needs to be run in a way that is viewpoint neutral. so the US government can't revoke the visa's of people who have controversial opinions. of course the funny thing is being lectured about this by people from Europe or other countries like NZ, AU, CA or UK where it is common place for the government to revoke or deny visas for people who have the wrong opinions.
The C++ people were kind of ignoring the safety problems and Rust, but when Microsoft suddenly announced that all new code will try using Rust first, it's like suddenly they woke up and realized this is not a fad and that the gun is pointing at their heads.
A lot of very critical infrastructure is still not even rewritten into C, rewriting it all in Rust or whatever is a pipe dream. And before you say that the financial system is not critical, I'd like to see you stop relying on it.
I loved this footnote:

“I followed up by asking GPT-4o to draw “Explain who the enemy is”, and it generated an image with nothing except the word “SELF” in bold letters on a beige background. Odd.”

While this might have just been 4o guessing what the user wants given the prior thread obsessed with self… “Self” as the enemy is a beautiful idea common in eastern philosophy and the unexpected and odd way it’s delivered is like an allegory of a Zen master’s sudden lesson to a student.
You're right! Adding noise can significantly increase file size, especially with high-intensity effects. However, I'm actively working on optimizing the output to reduce file size while maintaining quality.
Trappist, a space exploration / city builder game in the Trappist-1 solar system. It is inspired by the classic Alien Legacy, with more modern gameplay in the style of the Anno-series.

I've been working to time an update and demo release with the Steam City Builder & Colony Sim fest: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2769820/Trappist/
I sent a link about Iran, you comment about Jugoslavia.

You don't have to read my link, but you can also skip on making completely unrelated comments if you don't feel like doing the reading.
> Much of the pain and suffering I deal with in legacy codebases can be attributed to someone attempting to force the entire product to use one logical view of the data.

This seems like a non sequitur. Data access layers don't require one logical view of the data.
> In a European public university ~10 years ago, I did a class in discrete mathematics in my first year as a student and it was hard. The professor was going fast, not following any book or notes but writing everything on the blackboard. During that hour I needed to pay constant attention to the lesson, take notes, going home to find explanations in books or online about what I didn't understand.

This has always been my pet peeve. My classes were mostly like this. I like to think and dig into topics and instead of doing that, there was regurgitation without any pause. Whoever could write fast and have breathing space to think won. I wish they had given out the notes upfront, use a portion of the class to go through the overall thing and then use the rest for getting into the tougher parts/Q&A.
This is exactly it.

You can find actual steals if you know what you're buying, EoL items and end of season items for a fraction of the price.

But then there's the cheap shit with the brand plastered on it, which is usually basic garbage, just rebranded.
Thanks for sharing.

I'd also recommend this NHK Documentary on the Fukushima mag 9 quake. Fascinating and disturbing footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E2Q7kr4L2c
Yep! https://github.com/matteason/tooth-reimbursement-service

Localisation is a great idea, I've created an issue: https://github.com/matteason/tooth-reimbursement-service/iss...
How did you get people to agree to training a chatbot on their sessions? That strikes me as extremely intimate text. Is it a "it's in the T&Cs" deal, or did you seek a separate opt-in?

I'm askng because the answer will shed light on the level of privacy "the average consumer" is comfortable with.
Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam
> If you are of a different opinion then we are, you are either badly educated (read, stupid) or a nazi

Depending on where you are from, this could absolutely be true, as "elitist" and insulting as it might be. Well, fascist is more appropriate than Nazi because Nazi is superset of fascism with a heavy anti-semitic element, and I'm not aware of many rabidly anti-semitic parties in the mainstream in many countries.
Of course it's possible. CORS is a way for a browser to sandbox one site from another. When you are the browser, or an extension, you don't sandbox yourself from doing things you want to do.
Optogenetics could change the world. So why hasn't it?
I'm putting about an evening a week into Advent of Code 2015, in C, to try to learn a bunch of stuff that I won't unless I push myself: https://git.thomasballantine.com/thomasballantine/Advent_of_...