What a fun little project! I thought it was going to be the 30 Rock one!
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gvx commented on Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website 404media.co/anyone-can-pu... · Posted by u/mahkeiro
Or just what happens when you hire a bunch of 20 year olds and let them loose.
That's currently how I model my usage of LLMs in code. A smart veeeery junior engineer that needs to be kept on a veeeeery short leash.
One who thinks "open source" means blindly copy/pasting code snippets found online.
gvx commented on Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website 404media.co/anyone-can-pu... · Posted by u/mahkeiro
Everyone knows investing in cybersecurity is just wasteful spending!
gvx commented on Show HN: Ldump – serialize any Lua data github.com/girvel/ldump... · Posted by u/girvel
This is an interesting thought. Currently, it is unsafe and intended to load only the files you trust. I should definitely include a warning into README.
Overall, it would be nice to make it safer. I don't think switching to non-Lua format would make it safer, because it is intended to serialize functions too, which can have arbitrary code even if everything else would be stored as data. Maybe it is possible to make a function like `ldump.safe_load` restricting `load`'s environment, so it wouldn't have access to debug/os/io modules.
You could take a look at SELÖVE, a (severely out of date) fork of LÖVE that is intended to make it safe to run arbitrary .love games. (It used to be on bitbucket, but it looks like it's gone? I'm not sure if I have the repo locally :/)
Running arbitrary code was such a problem that I just completely ruled it out for bitser. Instead of serializing functions, you can register safe functions as resources. This doesn't solve the upvalue problem, though.
gvx commented on Show HN: Ldump – serialize any Lua data github.com/girvel/ldump... · Posted by u/girvel
Cool to see you were inspired by Ser!
gvx commented on Estimates of plant CO2 uptake rise by nearly one third ornl.gov/news/plant-co2-u... · Posted by u/akyuu
Interesting that a couple of months ago there was an article which stated the exact opposite:
> In 2023, the hottest year ever recorded, preliminary findings https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.12447 by an international team of researchers show the amount of carbon absorbed by land has temporarily collapsed. The final result was that forest, plants and soil – as a net category – absorbed almost no carbon.
> “We’re seeing cracks in the resilience of the Earth’s systems. We’re seeing massive cracks on land – terrestrial ecosystems are losing their carbon store and carbon uptake capacity, but the oceans are also showing signs of instability,” Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, told an event at New York Climate Week in September.
> “Nature has so far balanced our abuse. This is coming to an end,” he said.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/14/nature-c...
Not exactly. The headline is a bit misleading imho: the article doesn't say that CO2 uptake by plants is up by 31%, rather that new estimates of the CO2 uptake by plants is 31% higher than previous estimates. That doesn't preclude a temporary collapse of carbon absorption (related mostly to forest fires as far as I can tell).
At least his physique is evidence that has a better practical understanding of health than 95% of Americans his age (and at the majority of Americans half his age, more than half of whom are overweight).
^ That kind of shallow understanding of health is a large part of what makes RFK Jr. so dangerous.
gvx commented on Is there now a generation of users who never worked with files? blog.hyperknot.com/p/is-t... · Posted by u/gelstudios
The interesting bit is that for years this wasn't a problem. Like for 5 years I got 0 support requests about missing Save. Also web apps were not auto-saving traditionally, many of them still don't do it today.
Update, answered in detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016231
It's very possible that if you showed me the MapHub UI eight years ago, I'd have intuited that I'd need to save manually---I can't tell for sure. I am definitely aware that the way I engage with software nowadays is very different than when I started using computers in the early 2000s, and I don't doubt it is still evolving due to the changing conventions in UI and functionality.
gvx commented on Is there now a generation of users who never worked with files? blog.hyperknot.com/p/is-t... · Posted by u/gelstudios
I work with files every day, and I'm not sure I would have realised I'd needed to save manually with the original MapHub UI either. A web-based interface that looks like that, I expect it to be transparent. If it'd had three icons (the classic blank page, open folder and floppy disk) in the top left, then I'd assume it would need manual saving. (I'm not saying that's what you need to do, just analysing my own intuitions)
gvx commented on TinyJS – Shorten JavaScript QuerySelect with $ and $$ github.com/victorqribeiro... · Posted by u/synergy20
With that name I'd expect a tiny implementation of JavaScript.