skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need to make sure this isn’t the neutral-connotation usage of the word “excitement”.

A plane crashing into the neighbors house can be “exciting”.
I’m not backpedaling. If your environment has guard pages and does probing then it protects equally well against VLAs and function calls overflowing the stack. If it has neither then both are liable to overwrite other memory. Obviously I would prefer that you have the protections, or some sort of equivalent, but they have nothing to do with VLAs.
ughh I dislike when pop history takes this smarmy tone and is also not particularly accurate.

> In fact soap is a motherfucking medieval invention. Yes. It is. The Romans – whomst I don’t see a bunch of basics going around accusing of being filthy – did not, in fact have soap, in contrast. They usually washed using oil. Medieval people? Oh you better believe that they had soap.

Wait a minute, what about Aleppo soap? I thought the Romans knew of it and Wikipedia alleges the same in their article:

> Although it has been claimed that soap-making was introduced to the West from the Levant after the First Crusades, in fact, soap was known to the Romans in the first century AD and Zosimos of Panopolis described soap and soapmaking in c. 300 AD.

Citation: https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_History_of_Greek_Fire...

Then the OP author goes on to say:

> It was first introduced from the East, like most good stuff was at the time, but it took off rather quickly.

This contradicts their claim that soap was a medieval invention! It wasn't a medieval invention. It was adopted technology.

That's not a big deal I guess, but if you're going to make a rant about historical accuracies, what else isn't exactly accurate here? It seems the effort is put into the berating imaginary enemies rather than the writing.
Because the California DMV determines who gets to drive in California. The CA DMV
licenses autonomous vehicles.[1] California was the first state to do this. There's a reasonable licensing system. Vehicle makers can apply for a license to autonomously test drive with a safety driver (easy to get, 50 companies are licensed), testing without a safety driver (harder to get, only 7 companies licensed), and deployment (only Neuro, Cruise, and Waymo have qualified.) Tesla's marketing materials imply that they are qualified to deploy autonomous vehicles. They're not.

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/auto...
Just this is reason enough to go EV and charge mostly at home. But you know the fast charger networks will try this - but it takes enough time to charge that the user walks away for coffee and bathrooms, so the audience is much less captive
Can't ride the subway or even take a piss without having a screen with ads running in your face.
I don't see how it is sad. The One China Policy is simultaneously amicable with the PRC and ROC constitutions. They both claim One China and the United States acknowledges that there is One China, but the United States makes no claims no preference for either government in resolving the Taiwanese straight conflict as it is a civil war.
To continue the terrible analogy of a home, what appraisal was done where on preparing to move in you find rising damp, nests of rats under the floorboards and the slap of paint on the roof was hiding the need for a full roof replacement?
You’ll find it difficult to beat a construct that has dedicated language support. Trying to fake function calls without actually making function calls is difficult and going to have poor ergonomics.
Oh my god I forgot about that. Yeah, the high-rise my old company was in had those as well. A cheery, "Here's what's happening in the world" with some quick headlines, then an ad for Jimmy Fallon or something.

We were on the 45th floor, so there was plenty of captive time.
I own one and am glad they are getting flack. hopefully someone will compel them to make it right.
Meh... I always look back to this case when anyone talks about free speech. It's a tough pill to swallow here in the US. I would be more than angry, and emotionally scarred, if anyone picketed near a family member's funeral.

https://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-a...
That's a very impressive dialogue.
Yeah I have no idea what icedchai is talking about, DynamoDB free tier is super generous https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/pricing/on-demand/. It's going to cost you nothing until you have enough customers to afford to pay for it. Correctly modelling single table design on the other hand ...
I'm nearly 40 and don't remember elevators in my area of the US ever having music. Oddly enough, I knew what it was - my parents told me the music playing at department stores was elevator music. So guessing it faded out somewhere between our two generations?
Why people in HN have no sense of humor?
Why?
> It crashed because of his antics.

Is this true? My understanding is that the "crash" is inline with other tech companies losing value in the same period. IIRC (and I might not!), it only looks like Musk caused the crash if show only the Twitter price. Once you overlay it with some other stocks, it looks pretty normal.
I would put The Saturday Evening Post cover illustrations by Norman Rockwell ahead of the Byte cover illustration.
Every single concern you just listed is valid and are indeed being used in real exploits, the output into input is just one way to exploit terminals, there are several more. I'm sitting here laughing because usually when we bring up these issues about doing insanely insecure bad ideas, a UN*X diehard will come over and talk about how we don't know anything and "PoC or GTFO", as opposed to putting any effort into stopping the insecure bad idea. A prime lesson every hacker ("cracker") learns quickly is that anything that looks insecure will likely actually later turn out to be extremely insecure, even if you can't immediately figure out a way to exploit it.

I discovered wall and write at some point and was amazed how stupid that was. At some point some distros started getting rid of them but I gave up trying to understand UN*X long before that point as it was clearly a joke OS.

> This could matter if you use "sudo".

The most common concerning use case I think is SSHing into something. There's no way to tell if you got out. This perhaps has limited exploitability, but still should not be a thing, and is easily solved with a real UI instead of terminal hacks. Sudo is usually only used to run stuff as root - under the pretense that requiring this will somehow stop malware from getting root - which itself is a misconception (which indeed capability based systems avoid).

>You might want to remove your complaints about downvotes and boasts of rationality so people don't downvote you for them.

Nah it's funny.
Thanks for the detailed reply. I'm kind of shocked that so many people agree with this so it's really helpful to better understand peoples perspectives on this.

I think part of the issue here is probably that we hold different views in regards to freedom of speech, and my mine are admittedly quite extreme. I disagree with libel laws, for example. I don't believe anyone has a right to a reputation, but I do think they have a right to speech. To address some of the points you made in regards to legality, I do understand that what Alex Jones did could be seen as illegal in the US, I think what I'm less clear on is where the lines are drawn and why what he done specifically is so bad that it warranted a $50m fine.

Alex Jones, like or not, owns a media company and media companies often do lie about people. An example that comes to mind is that Kyle Rittenhouse had some very subjective and nasty things said about him by the media and by people with large followings online (perhaps deservingly, idk). Many media orgs implied, or outright said that he was a white supremacist. And I think we can probably agree that isn't good for Rittenhouse's reputation. So I what I don't understand how it's okay for a large authoritative media company like MSNBC to imply Kyle Rittenhouse is a white supremacist without evidence, but Alex Jones with his relatively small following can't suggest Sandy Hook was a hoax?

Am I miss-understanding something here, or were these media orgs also potentially breaking libel law?
I think you can apply for Google Search Quality Raters, these people exactly doing this every day.
Right but the reason we don’t have ILP64 is mostly legacy code.
Your definition involves setting humanity apart from
nature and then inverting the implicit superiority in doing that. Once you’ve taken those steps you can say anything people make that isn’t made by other animals is worse because it is unnatural.

To me the essential idea is we have the scale and capacity to move global homeostasis in ways that few animals (at least since dinosaurs) have.

Plastics are not unnatural. They are produced by animals. Humans are animals. Just more dangerous than others on a global scale.

Wax moths and bacteria both have already naturally mutated and evolved to consume plastics. Evolution and life are perhaps less fragile than you think.

None of this is to say we shouldn’t behave responsibly, only to say we also shouldn’t panic every time someone creates something that kills some stuff. That too is natural, and drives evolution.
Every random corporation having some random person picking from a list of open source cipher packages isn't the only alternative to strictly requiring the algorithm be NIST approved. It may be the worst possible alternative one could conceive though, and one that would probably take more work to do than something more reasonable anyways.
What MISRA and Cert C static checkers do you (or your company) use?
The bit about using face recognition to customize the music is cool until you think about how it would be cloud based, your face would be associated with an advertising ID, and your day-to-day comings and goings in the physical world would be tracked. But hey, it starts playing the Gorillaz when you get on so totally worth it right?
Why wouldn't free software solve this? Where it is successful, it keeps your government and corporations from making you run software you don't want or keeping undesirable features (like interfering with what you hear or see) secret from you.

It's true that some backdoors or vulnerabilities might go unnoticed, but you can choose firmware with an extremely low chance of those. If your enhancement needs are modest, you might even be able to write your own firmware from scratch.

It might be convenient for you to choose to trust some little-known firmware that hardly anybody has vetted, in order to get extra functionality. And there's always the possibility that all the supposedly independent people who have vetted some firmware are part of a conspiracy to hide its antifeatures. But that's very different from it being necessary to trust governments and corporations.
I know very wealthy people in the south who are giving a lot of money to militias. does that count?
Hey, I'm curious to know what are some of those "weird opinions at a maintainer level". I would love to know more about your experience using it at such scale.
GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers can access IP addresses for audit log entries
I think transhumanists eventually just grew up, realized how silly the whole idea was, and then were never replaced by some younger generation that shared the same naive optimism about technology that they had in early years. We’ve learned to look at technology with a more cynical eye these days. It’s like for any technology you imagine, I can instantly see how to exploit it at the expense of the human experience.
I'm surprised this comment is still visible, considering what the mainstream American opinion is on making examples out of criminals.
> Disclaimer: word "cuda" is taken from Serbian language, it means "miracles".

[uncomfortable silence]
I was hoping this would be more specific and do followups on people who were featured in places like Wired. For example they have a picture of Anders Sandberg wearing an eyepiece and carying around a computer. Does he still do that?
I've heard about people implanting rfid chips in their hand. Do they still use them a few years later?
Those aren’t suburbs to you? Sure the main commercial street (maybe a few blocks total) isn’t, but Ann Arbor is 90% suburban single family homes.

It’s like San Mateo. The Main Street is more dense but very few choose to live there. It’s mostly endless single family homes.

Hell, I’d call a good part of SF “practically” suburban. Sunset is mostly block upon block of single family homes with maybe 1 corner store within a 10-15 min walk. Transit is easy on a narrow strip, otherwise you’re screwed without a car.

I personally don’t see much difference between that and what people rail against as suburbs.
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Want to elaborate a little bit on what specific discussion prompted this post?
> ah ok... so if I say something, and someone else does something because they think they should, I am responsible for it

If you deliberately keep spreading a lie to profit from it, you should be held responsible IMO.
No I haven't, but if I wanted to improve my coding skills (which I'd rate as intermediate) I would do one of their projects. My company would pay for it, but that's not a concern ($80/mo is nothing to me). Main investment is time, as you said, but it's probably worth it. I'm just too lazy/busy to do this right now.

It was discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32342334
Not only accepted as fact, but some US states starting to initiate laws around it:

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/voti...
Zero-Copy All the Things (Zero-Copy #2)
You don't need to use a GSM number.
Japanese police can detain suspects for up to 30 days before pressing charges… per crime. I remember reading about how long Carlos Ghosn was held because he had the temerity to not confess.
I think a lot of shared-nothing systems are similar from high level, connection handling / storage node (with small shards) / Metadata (routing)
Yes, I've used a couple of those iOS apps, but the end result is not boosted enough in the higher frequencies. My $500/pair of MDhearingaid Airs work a lot better, but they don't connect to my Apple devices.

I also have the latest AirPod Pros. With Apple Music, they are not too bad, but Apple is preventing me from having enough volume. I switched to Tidal - the sound is better, and their overall audio out level is higher than Apple. (Tidal also has notes on the music and the bands like the liner notes in the old days.) I tried Idagio, but their output level is even lower than Apple's Music. Basically, I couldn't hear the music well enough to bother with them.

If I play music on my sound system at a comfortable level, and ask people, "Is it too loud for you?", they say, no, it's fine.

The other problem I have with the AirPod Pros is their transparent mode doesn't provide any gain or much EQ for external sounds (even with the audiogram), so I can't hear people nearly as well as I can with my cheap hearing aids. I still have to remove the AirPods and put my hearing aids on, if I want to talk with people in anything but a silent room.

What I need more than anything else is compression. I can hear loud sounds fine - in fact, they bother me. What I can't hear any more is quiet sounds. That's what I need amplified, along with treble boost to compensate for my aging ears.

Apple is really missing a market here for OTC hearing assist. They have all the tech needed, even already built into existing hardware - AirPod Pros are an engineering marvel. They are holding back for some reason, probably some contractural arrangement we're not aware of.
Another productivity rabbit hole on HN
Don’t want to be a downer, but installing surveillance devices elevators you don’t own is a pretty good way to have an uncomfortable conversation with the police.
Not a Yoking Matter (Zero-Copy #1)
> Resistance training goes furthest in this.

In my experience, it was the endurance athletes and people committed to dynamic bodyweight work like pilates, dance, or gymnastics that hit that “20 year reunion” mark best, but resistance training is good for sure!
What sucks about the iPhone mini?
> just because you choose to assign it some other emotional value doesn't change that the core purpose is illegal

The comment you're replying to is an argument that it should be legal. It's current status as illegal is not a counterargument.
https://history-maps.com/story/Conquests-of-Alexander-the-Gr...
Seems to be more about the data than the queue designs but okay.
Absolutely, I really feel for the brands impacted by these practices that they have limited control over, just as the brand in the article ends up wearing the costs for returns via Amazon and co. It would make me think very hard before deciding to start a hardware company needing to deal with the small section of the population acting in bad faith here.
OK. My own personal take is, it confused me-- did I click on the wrong article? Does Ellison have some connection to this vendor? Then, I find out it's just a joke bringing up a topic that annoys me (and evidently annoys the person posting) in what would otherwise be an innocuous fluff piece.

I like tangents, but this is an awful tenuous excuse to inject an 11 year old rant about Ellison into the discussion.
I'll say as a person who was just coming out of HS and not in tech yet at that point I don't think I had any idea who Musk was until after he come into Tesla. I'll also say he wasn't as wild on his twitter till after Tesla and SpaceX bumped up his public profile.
Técnicas novas de invasão de site
Tenho em contas que muitas das técnicas antigas já não são mais usadas, gostaria de saber quais as novas técnicas de invasão de website
I read a book titled Elevator Music by Joseph Lanza and am sad to say that I don't remember much about it other than that slaughterhouses played elevator music for the cattle to calm them before the slaughter, and an anecdote about an orchestra conductor who yelled at a hotel manager words to the effect of, "I'm trying to make my musicians more sensitive to music, not less!"

Edit: I forgot that the book also mentions a German category, Gebrauchsmusik, or utility music: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebrauchsmusik
IMHO, I’m sure a lot of people are fun and funny here. I kind of like that it’s more serious.If I’m looking for humor, I usually go to something like Reddit or twitter. Just my.02
Tough choice. I’m interested in a lot of old beers. The hype around original Berliner Weiss would be cool.
It usually doesn’t, often it will compile with warnings.
Perhaps the best way to build trust in a cryptographic algorithm is to have it devised by certifiably neutral general purpose mathematic neural net.

It could even generate an algorithm so complicated it would be close to impossible for a human mind to comprehend the depth of it.
It's funny you mention the blind since it's the name of an another approach in the same space, teamblind.com
Show HN: Sematic – Convert plain English to structured data
Hey HN!

I would like to share the project that I've been working on for the past six months. It's called "Sematic", and it's an NLU API that parses plain english so that devs can really start start to understand the language of our users.

In January I was trying to build a "text to bash script" product for my wife, as she is unable to use services like Zapier due to security reasons. I ended up being completely stuck on the first part of the project, which was parsing plain english to a data abstraction that I could code against. The largest problem I had was determining all the relationships between different objects/entities.

I was hoping that Machine Learning could help me, but after going down some rabbit holes, building models, abusing GPT-3, etc, I found that no matter what, I was going to need proper error correction on the model's output. This prompted me to begin studying linguistics, and other no-ML rule based language parsing options. I still feel like there is going to be some ML in this project eventually, but for now I feel like I still have a lot of alpha to go by using some great libs like Duckling, and using old fashioned parsing techniques.

My goal is to get Sematic to a point where devs feel comfortable with using it to add Alexa/Siri-like text understanding to all kinds of apps and websites. If you have comments or suggestions, I'm happy to chat more about it. Thank you.
Pinpoint unique elements with BigQuery search features
Technically, they are a part of the attribute syntax in C23. Maybe a backdoor way to get them into a future standard.
> Oddly, they BOTH drive far to close to parked cars on unmarked city streets when there is no oncoming traffic. I normally drive right down the middle to leave space in case a door opens, and I've tried to instill that in my son.

In many U.S. states, even on unmarked streets you must always stay on the right side of two-way roads.
I do nor even remember the last time I heard music in an elevator, But I think it started disappearing in the late 70s to the early 80s.
Jury rules that pharmacist didn't discriminate when he denied morning-after pill