skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the extra interested… reminded me of this one: https://explained-from-first-principles.com/email/
Believers just say it was cooked up, and reinforces their belief. Makes the politician a martyr, breaker of chains.
>I generally find expert testimony to be suspect

I have two feelings on this. One of which is alarm because it is a sentiment like this which is the backbone of misinformation believers and spreaders and we're in the worst era of misinformation I think that we've been in in a long time. Certainly the worst since the dawn of the digital age. Experts are right about vaccines. Right about building your savings with a 401k. They're right about using sunscreen. They're right about not ingesting too much sugar. They're right about reading to your kids from an early age and right about the impacts of tariffs on the economy. They're right about climate change. They're right about the Higgs Boson, etc. etc. In almost every case, the people going against the experts on these things are cranks, frauds, or confused conspiracy theorists.

But my other feeling is one of agreement in a very qualified sense. I believe that within the U.S. legal system, people who are presented as experts in certain forms of science, are able to invoke an unearned professional authority and legitimacy that has nothing in common with genuine expertise. When we talk about pseudoscience in the modern age, a lot of the time it's about new age crystals or evolution denial, but I think expert witnesses presented as authoritative in courtrooms have been responsible for generations upon generations of pseudoscience of various types. Everything from penmanship analysis to bite mark analysis to body language experts to, rather remarkably, supposed 911 phone call tonality analysis experts Who can include that wrongly timed emotional tremors or presence or absence of emotions prove the callers involvement in a crime.

And while it might be a gray area, I suspect there's at least a fair amount of crankery or motivated reasoning with hired gun economic experts summoned to Delaware courts to testify in favor of major corporate acquisitions.
If it's been proven that a politician will cheat democracy, how is banning them from running for office a bad thing? And who should decide that if not the courts?

How would that be any different than banning someone from running a company after they've been found guilty of fraud or any other way of breaking the law about how to run companies?

If they've been proven unable to follow the law, they shouldn't be able to be elected.

As some extra context here, the judge mentioned that she was totally recognizing how heavy the situation was. But she mentioned a few things:

- it's been found that it was all part of a system designed from the very top of the party (so MLP) to embezzle money

- it's been noted that during the entire procedure, all the defendants showed complete denial of the facts and no will to accept that they did something bad

As such she pointed out that they was a high risk that they would do it again, and that's what tipped the scale in favor of banning them right away. I agree with that.
Stop using `INT_MAX + 1` as an example! It is the worst possible example you can give (though easy to understand). Such code is essentially never a memory safety issue and not to what most people worry about UB.

In the vast majority of cases it doesn't matter what `INT_MAX + 1` does you code it wrong. Sure there are a few encryption cases where it is fine, but the vast majority of cases your code as a bug no matter what the result it. If the variable netWorth is at INT_MAX there is no value of adding 1 that is correct. If the variable employeeId is at INT_MAX all values of adding 1 are going to collide with an existing employee.

Meanwhile if you define INT_MAX+1 you force the compiler to add checks for overflow INT_MAX in addition operations even though most of the time you won't overflow and thus have needlessly slowed down the code.

UB causes real problems in the real world, but INT_MAX+1 is not one of those places where it causes problems.
I'm not sure how good a look "they imposed consequences for my stealing a measly 4 million euro of taxpayer money" is for a populist politician, tbh.

Like I mean I'm sure her core followers will be able to explain it away, but for a broader populist appeal it doesn't seem great.
Yes. I'd expect the law to apply equally.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy_corruption_t...
If all of the galaxies we see rotate the same way, are we “looking down” from a pole and seeing only those with the same rotation we have, as opposed to a more equatorial view that would be evenly split.
In before people post contradictory anecdotes.

It would be more helpful if people posted the prompt, and the entire context, or better yet the conversation, so we can all judge for ourselves.
I know audio gear that does firmware updates via audio input.

The most obscure thing I have ever seen is a device that received firmware updates by strobing the bits as light into a photodiode. You would go to a website on your phone, press upload and hold the phone in front of the thing.
I used to read a lot about the history of science as a kid.

The one thing that stuck with me is how frequently things we believe to be true are disproven.

This does not surprise me:

> “If that is indeed the case, we will need to re-calibrate our distance measurements for the deep universe,”
Are you sure about that? Throughout auditing a lot of codebases in my lifetime I've found loads of ways to bypass authentication, spoof identity, cause denial of service in every one. These are very big and widely used applications with a lot of userbase.

While unauthorized people waltzing on in to company premises hasn't not happened, it's been way rarer than the amount of serious bugs or security flaws I find. Traditional phone and email scams happen more often, but their impact has materialized much less severe thanks to very limited user privileges
for reference https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/48748
I think the GP's sentiment is more around the fact she cannot run for office, not that she isn't sitting in jail.

IMO, let her run, but still put her in jail. If the electorate still chooses her as the best option then it's hard to get away from the continued will of the majority. Don't let her out, but give the people who (and what) they wanted.
Attackers cannot double free memory. They can force you into a state where you double free memory, but that is a different situation.
No Starch Press books tends to be all meat no bone. I don’t think I’ve picked up a NSP book and regretted it… unlike other publishers who just phone it in
Grafana/K6 v1.0.0-RC
Why not? Most simulations (flight sims, etc) include external stimulus.
It's also a way for someone to make their own re-election (or the continued control of their party) easier by "putting pressure on the judiciary branch" as you said to find their opponent guilty.

Take the individual parties of today out of it. You don't want the party in power in the government to have the ability to decide who is allowed to run for office. If you actually want to live in a democracy and not just autocracy with your favored party in power, you want the people to decide who runs with as little government input as possible.

A judge saying someone is not allowed to run for office is objectively, by definition, anti-democratic.

> We're seeing this exact process happen in real time in the US.

Last I checked Rosie O'Donnell is only one stupid enough to imply that the latest presidential election was not completely above board.
approximately 60% of the 263 galaxies examined were found to rotate clockwise, while about 40% rotated counterclockwise. The study’s results have a significance level of approximately 3.39 sigma, indicating a moderate chance that the findings could be due to random fluctuations
I think they'll be safe if their bosses pay the appropriate bribe:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/uline-mexica...
The fourth level would be the capitalist class (I.E everyone becomes an entrepreneur/businessman), but we didn't really figure out a reliable way to convert the upper-middle to upper. Funnily enough, the problem isn't lending, money was pretty cheap for the last decade or so, and even China had that whole microloan thing happening, but that not enough of the upper-middle were capable of executing correctly.

Imo, we should go back to education and take a more serious look about the social utility of what we are teaching, not on an individual but a systemic level and whether this really is the best way to allocate subjects. How much of this after all is about actual training or just social signalling?
At least in France, the courts are independent of the executive.
Yes, FT was Swedish and Scream Tracker was Finnish, from Future Crew.
It helps, however there is also a culture mindset that is required.

Back in the old Usenet flamewars, C developers would to say coding in languages like Object Pascal, Modula-2, Ada,... was like programming with straightjacket, and we used to call them cowboy programming.

When C++ came into the scene with its improved type system, it seemed a way we could have the best of both worlds, better safety and UNIX/C like ecosystem.

However this eventually changed as more and more people started to adopt C++, and thanks to its C subset, many C++ projects are actually mostly C code compiled with a C++ compiler.

So hardned runtimes help a lot, as does using static analysers like clang tidy, VC++ analyse, Sonar, PVS Studio, Clion analysers, ....

However many of them exist for the last 30 years, I was using Parasoft in 1999.

The biggest problem is culture, thinking that such tools are only required by those that aren't good enough to program C or C++, naturally those issues only happen to others, we are good drivers.
For me I had to upload the library's current documentation to it because it was using outdated references and changing everything that was working in the code to broken and not focusing on the parts I was trying to build upon.
Actually Steve Jobs, in an interview, strongly argued against a wild west internet and called for "authoritative news organs" iirc. It was on YT a few years ago, may still be there.
Isn't https://aider.chat similar?
I think they don't fall into the trap, and their position on migrants is formed not from the assumption that migrants have leftist views, but from the assumption that it is easier to make migrants dependent. And when someone is dependent, it doesn't matter what cultural views they are inclined to.
GP answered why the UNESCO lists help, in their first sentence:

> The biggest benefit is in bringing legitimacy to preservation efforts and curation of historic records (photos, videos, data, binaries, sources) on the history of the Demoscene.

It's not necessarily about "effort" but perhaps more about "appearances" - it's easier to say "This history is important enough to be recognized by UNESCO: give us money to preserve it!"
As the planet warms, the Southern Ocean is getting mysteriously cooler. A new study shows why.
You're arguing that the conviction is unsound, or that the sentence I outside that permitted by the French legal code?
Yes! This one works. Thank you so much!
No, I'm still a C++ person because while Rust is intriguing I have so much existing C++ it would be billions of dollars to rewrite to rust and it will take years to get more than a trivial amount of Rust. For the vast majority of new features the cost to implementing it in Rust is far higher than the cost of doing it in C++.
Thanks for this context! Pretty pivotal piece of info.
Friend, if you scroll down to the bottom of the page they include a link to Cambridge Digital Library which allows you to look at the full resolution images:

> The digital results of the project are now available for everyone to explore online via the
> Cambridge Digital Library. [0]

[0] https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/merlinfragment/1
I have never seen anyone backup defaults database between macs[1], I have seen a lot of scripts calling setting by setting instead.

Which has direct equivalent in "reg" files, to be quite honest.

[1] Other than restoring time machine backup to another system or similar cloning setups
Everything has the potential to be a slippery slope. That potential doesn't seem like a good reason to abandon the idea of standards for our leaders.
Sane defaults should be table stakes for toolchains but C++ has "history".

All significant C++ code-bases and projects I've worked on have had 10s of lines (if not screens) of compiler and linker options - a maintenance nightmare particularly with stuff related to optimization. This stuff is so brittle, who knows when (with which release of the compiler or linker) a particular combination of optimization flags were actually beneficial? How do you regression test this stuff? So everyone is afraid to touch this stuff.

Other compiled languages have similar issues but none to the extent of C++ that I've experienced.
Well if you only focus on the bad stuff that happens during a human life, sure.
Ok, I can't even Google what this is about?
> How is that different from email?

Expectations have evolved just a bit since 1982. We've learned things. Competent protocol designers don't ignore decades of improvement in the state of the art.

Also, and/or as part of that--

1. Email was expected to be mostly business email, and the operator of the instance was expected to be the business involved... meaning they were fairly likely to "own" the content anyway. Insofar as people were thinking about personal email, the expectation was that, in the long term, you'd be running your own server. Which you should still be doing.

2. Even if that broke down, you at least expected that the person you were sending mail to had some much closer relationship with their server operator than you usually do with a social media operator. Or with GMail.

3. Users were much more sophisticated and could reasonably be expected to understand the risks.

4. Nobody actually expected there to be all that much "embarrassing" content that people wanted to keep private.

5. Cryptography was far less widely understood, and most people thought it was legally risky to use it because of export controls and various government threats.

6. Nobody was offering a security setting and then failing to deliver on the obvious expectation it created.

> It would be a scandal if a popular mail server implementation allowed any account on the server to read private emails.

Indeed. And what Pixelfed is doing is also bad. That doesn't change the fact that the protocol is a bad design... unforgiveably bad any time after about 2000.
What does this context window mean, is it the size of the prompt it can be made aware of?

In practice, can you use any of these models with existing code bases of, say, 50k LoC?
There is a great book called The Dawn of Everything (Graeber and Wengrow) that talks about how cultures like that existed, and we (the Western civilization) decimated them.
1. The point is you don't need root when the unprivileged process already has access to all data. There is nothing more to be gained.

2. Good luck breaking out of your AWS instance into the hypervisor.
Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)
The IA is closing in on 30 years, has UNESCO done anything to help the IA during that time?
Maybe I don't feel the AI FOMO strongly enough and obviously these performance comparisons can be interesting in their own right to keep track of AI progress, but ultimately it feels as long as you have a pro subscription of one of the leading providers (OpenAI, Anthropic or Google), you're fine.

Sure, your provider of choice might fall behind for a few months, but they'll just release a new version eventually and might come out on top again. Intelligence seems commodified enough already that I don't care as much whether I have the best or second best.
Absolutely, I would. It just seems that the criminals tend to be from one end of the spectrum....

But crime is crime and justice should always be applied equally.
I see some posts of lost items / wallets on local sub reddits. There's always the question of how much info to give and such but as far as the wallet situation goes this is pretty neat.
As long as it's not a death sentence (and we don't want those), all sentences should be immediate. If everything hinges on an (another) appeal, where does it end?
Banks and tech groups commit to live data-sharing in UK fraud clampdown
Same in Sweden! One of the public radio channels (P2) had some nighttime shows with Commodore 64 programs. I can't remember if it was purely BASIC programs or just loaders using data statements for machine code. Seems really impractical now but back then everyone was using cassette tapes to record music from the radio and the C64 had a cassette deck to load software, so it worked quite well. Except that they, as far as I remember, did not use compression so most programs took ages to broadcast.
If a court isn't independent of the executive, something is very seriously wrong (see Poland)
yesterday Gemini refused to write a delete sql query because is dangerous!

So I am feeling super safe. /sarcasm
I was using gemini 2.5 pro yesterday and it does seem decent. I still think claude 3.5 is better at following instruction then the new 3.7 model which just goes ham messing stuff up. Really disappointed by Cursor and the Claude CLI tool, for me they create more problems then fix. I cant figure out how to use them on any of my projects with out them ruining the project and creating terrible tech debt.
I really like the way gemini shows how much context window is left, i think every company should have this. To be honest i think there has been no major improvement beyond the original models which gained popularity first. Its just marginal improvements 10% better or something, and the free models like deepseek are actually better imo then anything openai has. I dont think the market can withstand the valuations of the big ai companies. They have no advantage, there models suck worse then free open source ones, and they charge money??? Where is the benefit to there product?? People originally said the models are the moat and methods are top secret, but turns out its pretty easy to reproduce these models, and its the application layer built on top of the models that is much more specific and has the real moat. People said the models would engulf these applications built ontop and just integrate natively.
Kinda, sometimes politicians gets elected, and tear down the courts who could say against them. Belarus was a democracy for a short time, until the future dictator ordered SWAT team to throw out members of parliament who wanted his impeachment. Then several of them disappeared forever, others got the message. And the democracy ended.
> "Having the wrong power structure is barely scratching the surface of why running a government like a business is an awful idea. Rural mail delivery loses money, so I guess that’s out. A defense department "for profit" would be a decent start to a scary movie, not a way to defend your country. But the biggest reason is that "like a business" simply ignores the fact that there are values other than money: protecting people from harm, enforcing laws, safeguarding our land and resources, and providing a social safety net. None of those are business values."

The end game is dictatorship, which is exactly what they mean when they say government should be run "like a business". Musk is turning the USA into XSA.
Don't do crimes, if you have done crimes you might be next to be responsible for them.

It's quite a simple concept in democracies under the rule of law, not sure if it's alien where you live.

Also, define the meaning of "left", since even if I try to stretch it to absurd levels I do not see how a French government led by Macron can be considered "left" but I live outside of your brain, pretty hard to understand what the boogeyman means to you.
I'm thinking a lot about RSS/Atom, how great email is to read content, and the intersection of these ideas with the W3C WebMonetization spec.

I think there's an opportunity to do novel things in this space, and LLMs might help in terms of providing summaries that people actually want.

I'm building this for me, but I think it could be useful for other people, too.
I'm glad to live in a country has strict rules about being able to run for office that has an obscenely high bar before being taken away.
I'm sorry, yes that was a deliberately patronising response. I was trying to write a funny reply. I actually suspected your comment might not have been entirely serious as the question you are referring to isn't asking you to do the thing you were complaining about (it's not asking you to speculate about Dostoevsky's views). The question is about the views of the main character in one of his books and since the character is fictional and his thoughts and actions are written down in the book it's possible to know about them without telepathy. I thought you might have been intentionally misunderstanding this in the way the OP was complaining his students did. Sorry for any offence caused.
I'm working on designing a survey to help assess the degree to which enterprise tech buyers believe that they need to invest in improving data access, metadata management, architecture, storage, and integration as a necessary prerequisite to getting value out of AI investments.

The backstory is that AI investments are proceeding, but companies seem to be struggling to get things into production, so the ROIs are beginning to slip. Where I have first party knowledge, there is a (small sample size) trend of businesses kicking off significant data modernization processes.

Most interesting to me, is that organizations finally seem to be figuring out that it is worth managing "information" for the business and "data" in their applications as separate work streams, and seem to be acting on separating those responsibilities.
What would it mean to say a german word with a german accent? I thought a german accent is when you pronounce english words as if they're german?
In this case it's not communication, it's using the school buses as power supply

From the article:
> V2X technology, which lets vehicles feed power back into the grid, is currently concentrated among a small number of US companies. Some are focused exclusively on commercial or residential applications, while others cover multiple segments.
The problem is tying this to the category of felony, which is too broad of a category.

Someone who committed something heinous like felony assault, there’s still an easy argument to be made that they should be allowed to both run for office and vote.

But if someone was guilty of some kind of corruption, bribery, taking bribes, spying, insurrection, treason, organized crime, violating their oath of office, or anything else that suggests they are not going to serve with the best interests of their constituents and the world at heart, they should absolutely not be allowed to run for office, and maybe should not be allowed to vote.
Courts already have the power to fine and jail people.

The problem is not the power. The problem is the politicisation.
> by "putting pressure on the judiciary branch" as you said to find their opponent guilty.

In a court of law in the US, a jury decides whether someone is guilty or not guilty in criminal cases.
Yeah its not even close. In my mind, the 200$ a month could be 500 and I would still pay for it. There are many technical problems I have ran into, where I simply would not have solved the problem without it. I am building more complicated software than I ever have, and I have 10+ years of engineering experience in big tech
They don't plan it because they have no use for it. They only care about the metadata. When you talked to this person; your wife; at what time of day; was it at night; how long is the message; was there a product mentioned in the message; was the message about sports; etc.
using outdated references and docs is something i've experienced more or less with every model i've tried, from time to time