skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, if you want to do

struct bytes { size_t size; unsigned char *data; };

now you've got two allocations (or at least two separate memory regions, or at least a pointer wasted assuming it's constant) per dynamically-allocated thing.

On the other hand, if you take a more direct mirror of a Pascal string:

struct bytes { size_t size; unsigned char data[]; };

You're back to one memory span but can't reslice it.

And of course the worst codebase is when someone uses the first one because they want to keep slicing and someone else uses the second one because they need to save memory / indirections. To support both you end up writing functions that take a separate size and data pointer, and... well, then what's the point?
So much work to sell shitty food, if they would have put half that energy & creativity into making their food better they would have had an amazing restaurant.
Review of English Wikimedia fundraising emails
There are several of these ultra-bright LED signs in my neighborhood that are very annoying at night. One is at a nearby church displaying the schedule and various upcoming activities. It is at eye level and is just off to the side of the street (as most church signs are) and is so bright that it lights up everything within 200 meters. This is the same for several banks and liquor stores in the area. Honestly, I don't see how the people that live across the street get any sleep at night.
Makes me wonder how hard it would really be to change it. For example. Why can't we use k when the c sounds like a k.

kat, price, cirkle, cirkumference, kick.
WebCodecs is missing. They say it's "worth prototyping" [1] but I don't know whether they are working on it.

1: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/
> The video makes it quite clear that he has a degree, soooo, clearly he's not doing stupid shit on YouTube.

You clearly never had the pleasure of discovering ElectroBOOM.

https://youtube.com/c/Electroboom
How so? I found it all pretty clear.
Even if what you wrote was true, what has it got to do with algorithmic content?
I recently created a new PayPal account. Got locked out almost immediately after adding 2FA via TOTP. First login worked, on the second login I just got a message that they were unable to verify it's really me. When contacting customer service, I was told that this is a known problem and I should just write them an email so they can remove 2FA from my account and then readd it a few days later myself.

When signing up it also told me my provided contact details weren't correct because I had a forbidden special character in the password that I typed in the previous form. Took a while to figure that one out.
Do this as an execerise:

Take your phone outside, find an airplane. Try to take a photo.
I'm not arguing 4chan is good for that, I'm just saying social media is not the only way we find out about things either.
USA is the leading country of the free world (by having the heaviest cultural, economic and technological impact), so by transitive property Joe Biden, being the leader of that country, is also the leader of the free world.
I don't like the idea, mostly because it means there is a much greater chance of a restaurant where I enjoy something being churned out rather than any puritanical argument that restaurants have to exist in a particular form.

I remember back when I was at university we had a friend who worked for a rather successful artisanal coffee shop. The owner then opened up 2-3 other coffee places under completely different names around the city. I wonder how many people actually knew that their little coffee shop was part of a mini empire.

It's not nearly as bad as large breweries trying to muscle in on the microbrewery scene with a subbrand. That genuinely gets my blood pressure up.
Whenever someone or something is labelled as being under the influence of Russia, I zone out.
Would you be happy to board this plane knowing that it had these issues?
This was an area of interesting and active research (at places like PARC and Indiana) for a decade or so but IMHO by now all the juice has long been sucked from this attractive fruit.

Such is the fate of some fundamental research, and not a bad one.
US Army looking to hire APT nation-state hackers
English or Finnish? English pronunciation is insane, you have to memorize spelling and pronunciation independently because how a word is written is just a vague approximation at best, or an intentional attempt to mislead at worst, of how the word actually sounds.

It's not only not a 1:1 mapping, and not only can wildly different spellings sound the same, but wildly different pronunciations can be written the same. It's crazy.
> 1971 Cote UFO

That could be anything. Damage to the film negative is a simple explanation!

Any single picture is basically just fan-art. I and many others with a reasonable level of scepticism wouldn't accept anything other than the same UFO or "design" of UFO turning up in many photos, ideally from some sort of scientific sky survey array run by non-UFO-fanatic astronomer types.

In fact, several such survey systems are being built right now, and a few are already operational.

The operational ones have not found anything.

Strange, isn't it that the better the quality of the survey, the less likely UFOs are to turn up in the data?
i havent used C in quite a while but I did not remember strlcpy using strlen, and it seems the linux kernel's implementation differs quite a bit from the openbsd one:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.19.3/source/lib/string.c...

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/lib/libc/string/s...
I had a similar problem for nine months before I could get hold of someone at PayPal. At that moment I was so angry that I chose to close my account. I also don't support businesses that use Bitcoin.

In my case, I had got 2FA through being called by an automated voice giving me a OTP. However, my number in their database had somehow been mangled with a 0 before the country code, so the 2FA had attempted to use the country code as a domestic area code.

BTW. The support assistant on the phone was a young person who had never used land-lines and did not understand what an "area code" was, so I had to explain it to her.
> Meanwhile, for this year we're just trying to figure out how to get our kids to school without buying a second car.

Make them take public transport? If they’re older than 10 or 11, let’s say. Or make them walk to school? Assuming you live at about 2 km max from said school (a good half-hour walk to and back from school has never hurt anybody, to the contrary).

Now, I understand that there may be laws around where you live that ban leaving kids unaccompanied, but you can and try fighting those laws (I guess there would be other people who might join you). Also, maybe your local public transport is crap, but it’s easier and better for the whole society to try and fix that than to try and impose cycling paths that would be used by only a small percentage of the people living there).
It went for regularity instead of naturality. If you want to sacrifice a little regularity, for naturality, check out Interlingue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingue
Likely not. Most companies auto-enroll you into binding arbitration agreements now. If you ever want to opt out of it, you have a small window where you need to print out forms, sign them, and snail mail them. Kind of the opposite philosophy of SMS to login.
If you are concerned about privacy, best thing is to have webcam broadcasting in your local area network,to which you then VPN.

Given it's a baby monitor, you are likely to be on the same network, so VPN is not even needed most of the time.

Just restrict your webcam to access wider internet
I hope he has a laptop in 20XX the question is what was really on it.
Europe’s problems may have been sparked by the general tightening of 2008, but how poorly the Greek crisis was handled was an own goal. The IMF already recognized how counterproductive insisting on austerity was, it was mostly at EU and German insistence that they doggedly went on with it.

Also, the EU still does not have a cross border deposit scheme or Eurobonds, so it’s a matter of not if but when the next country gets underwater.
Da fuck?

Only 100m?
At the core is a more fundamental principle at play: reputation. The law just tries to honor this one way or another.

Reputation is a core concept in building trust in human relations, that we have subconsciously transferred to brands.

Since the dawn of time, both humans and brands are trying to fake their reputation. For instance in the old days, when communication wasn't as fast, con artists used to travel a lot, allowing them to start over after ruining their reputation.

I think for many of us it gives an innate sense of disgust because it goes agains the core of human relationships.
Whataboutism is relevant when the story is a carefully orchestrated dump of a mixture of real and false information by one political faction intended to swing an election with a "Vote Sideshow Bob for President" message.

There's not much doubt that Hunter Biden got board seats because he could brag about his deep understanding of and connections with the top level of US politics, and that he used illegal drugs extensively, but we knew that without the laptop.
Indeed. I remember seeing spelling bees in American TV shows and movies (which were subtitled) as a child, before I learned English, and wondered what the point was. It would be trivially easy in Finnish and anyone who knew how to read and write could easily get perfect points in such a competition.
Transparent solar panels could replace windows in the future
Glad to see progress on this, because I really liked Nim when I learnt it and this is my only blocker to consider it for a few personal projects.

I understand the necessity to detect known malware, but AVs are definitely terrible if they're unable to fingerprint the actual malicious code rather than the general traits of the toolchain used.

Also, signed binaries have proven close to useless since newly released binaries/installers raise a warning on Windows until several people run them anyway.
I feel like the big language models have proved this style of learning a language is the wrong approach.

I learnt Japanese; I studied it for 4 years and spent a year in japan.

You know what worked?

Lots of examples of people using particles.

What did not work?

Text books explaining what the particles do.

A grammatical study of particles is only useful after you’ve gained an understanding of when you should use them from shed loads of examples.

It helps you refine specific fine detail points of when to use them technically, and in formal writing.

For early learning, I posit it’s next to useless.

Language is not a well designed programming language full of orthogonal concepts.

This has long been an argument, but language models reallly nail down the fact that a probabilistic approach to “similar to existing examples” approach to language is categorically superior to attempting to construct semantically correct statements from “rules”.
Because there aren’t enough examples of it in recent history or just to be edgy?
I would take the other side of that bet for whatever amount of money you’d like.
*why strscpy is good, my iPhone has unfortunately learned the spelling of commonly-used C functions
Bs.. i remember sending the link for the nypost article to a friend via facebook measenger and the link would simply be deleted as soon as I sent it.

That isn’t tweaking algos.
> Zuckerberg compared the suppression of the story to due process in the justice system.

In the justice system, you are innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

Here, uncorroborated claims were enough. Not even a probable cause was required.
Social media may not be the only way to access news, but most of the other ways are too obscure to spread information quickly.
Here's a similar one for the C preprocessor: https://jadlevesque.github.io/PPMP-Iceberg/ (previously discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32094693).

Pretty cursed stuff down there.
There could be a difference in labour required though and that is they key. Potatos made workers available who were not needed for farming.
You might already be aware of this but use the developer tools of the browser to check for "display: none" or "visibility: hidden" or "opacity: 0" style attributes on some html element (sometimes the <body> element)

Fucking web designers man!
No, it is not. Making these models generate interesting images requires you to learn something that is almost similar to a new kind of language.

As soon as you start to automate this process, for example by adding some default attributes like "4k, 8k, hd" to every prompt, you introduce a huge amount of bias to the output and lose the freedom to get anything outside of those specifiers.

Sure, future iterations will have a better understanding of language input. But knowing exactly how to phrase your prompts will always be a skill that requires eloquent writing to get to the more interesting and appropriate results.

In part that's because using more esoteric language will automatically connect you to a specific subselection of the source material, that was described using those more uncommon words in the training of the model. Having an extensive vocabulary and knowing how to wield it is actually a huge boon in this particular field.

"Unreal Engine 5" is just a quick shortcut to output that is detailed, clean, often futuristic and usually looks impressive. But you can go a lot further, for example by manually subtracting weights. Teasing MidJourney with this prompt was entertaining:

clear view of a dense forest::5 plants::-.5 tree::-.5 trees::-.5 foliage::-.5 leaves::-.5 shrubs::-.5 bushes::-.5 blur::-.5 mist::-.5 winter::-.5

Btw, is anybody working on a "language florifier" model yet? I imagine writers would be interested. "Rewrite this story with more emotion and in the style of Kurt Vonnegut, cyberpunk".
Just reading the title I wanted to mention Henry Darger, who produced art, a huge manuscript in fact, along with a few more things with no seeming intention of ever sharing it with the world. He is certainly not alone. There are many people who use art not for social purposes or social commentary or anything like that, they just to it because they like it.

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

But after reading the article, especially this part:

“ But no art form exists apart from our social relationships.”

I think this is true. Even in the case of outsider artists or people doing it to relax or whatever, it has a social component to it. Whatever is produced is a result of social interactions, knowingly or otherwise.
How is navigating millions of comments in a paginated thread any better? That's more than 25 000 pages.
I would never be so cavalier about a security related thing such as this.

See my other reply on this thread.
I've noticed people saying this over on MacRumors, but my experience is exactly the opposite. I have a single finger set up as a single fingerprint, on a M1 Air, and it's been 100 % since I got the machine 20 months ago.

Like literally 100 %, I don't think I've ever had to touch the sensor twice or wait more than half a second.

PS: My hands don't sweat much and I keep the keyboard clean and without dust.
String literals are char arrays, so it seems reasonable to be able to not resize them…
Yep, a person who is known for distributing misinformation and Zuckerberg who's platform does that on a huge scale.
1- Those "aliens" and UAPs could be terrestrial. Imagine an underwater civilization evolved independently from humans in a time scale much larger than our written history.

2- They can have all sorts of agendas. There are discussions that they have visited or interacted with human civilization since thousands of years ago. They may want to affect the course of our development for example.
It could be cheap underground drilling. That gives you affordable ground source heat pumps. It makes it cheaper to run underground cables to renewable energy. It makes it easier to build on piled foundations. And could even be a source of material for construction.
>EDIT- I didn't know you could even set up TOTP.

For a long time you couldn't. They supported Symantec's app, which was TOTP but obfuscated. So for a long time, you had to extract/reverse engineer the seed from the Symantec app.
You're mistaken, ISO 29500 and ECMA-376 are both (they're actually three somewhat different standards all in all, as I understand it) for "Office Open XML" (totally not intended to be confused with Open Office and Open Office XML), which is docx/pptx/xlsx etc.

ODT (OpenDocument) is also XML-in-a-ZIP and is also an ISO standard (older than Microsoft's, in fact).

I don't think the older variants (.doc, .xls etc.) are standardized, but iirc Microsoft did eventually release some documentation on them.
Well it would help if news outlets that report about it wouldn’t use slurs about the subject they are reporting about or at least write their articles with proper sources instead of „commentaries“.
This would be more like shadow banning but in a way that can never be proven, or even detected in the first place. The post would just be surfaced less. Since there's no visibility on what gets surfaced when, it's a way to nudge public opinion on different issues without any accountability.
I always find it hilarious how HNers think governments are stupid.

It’s entirely reasonable to prefer Heathrow over Gatwick, nobody wants to switch airports, apply for transfer visas, worry about connections, etc.

A specific airplane that has had multiple issues is definitely less reliable than one that hasn’t. Sounds like common sense to me.
I propose a new and simple law:

The branding of the parent entity must be more prominent than any subbrand on any packaging or promotional material.
In which case people who are deceased can be said to be termin…nevermind.
Im looking for the original Ceres source code from 1992/1993.
I guarantee you that the people making that call have thought about it and decided it's not worth it anyways.
Could it be both?
> First of all, if aliens did visit this planet, why here? There have to be many more interesting planets to go look at than Earth. If they stumbled on this planet by accident at some point, why would they bother to come back?

Where does this idea come from that we are "uninteresting" or less interesting than other places? Also why would these advanced beings not be able to canvas the entire galaxy? What if other places are more interesting, and teaming with alien craft, like Yellowstone is teaming with tourists, and we just see the occasional craft because we are a backwater.

> Even if there aren't more interesting places, what's the probability that an alien being could even breathe the air here? I'm not willing to go full on Signs and speculate that contact with water might be deadly to them, but it's pretty reasonable to guess that aliens would have evolved in places with significantly different atmospheres than Earth has.

Why does that matter? We can't breath in the ocean or space but we explore there.

> And, of course, none of this even touches on the vast distances in interstellar space and the level of technology that it would take to come here. It's certainly conceivable that aliens who are 5 million years ahead of us in societal development might have such technology, but how probable is it?

We have no idea whether it's possible or probable, and thus we also have no idea whether it's impossible or improbable.

> And if they had that level of technology, why not just send a stealthy probe with the alien equivalent of a Really Damn Big Telescope(tm) and park it somewhere out in the asteroid belt if they're that interested in the antics of 7.7 billion primitive bipeds? Nothing really seems to add up for me in the direction of "aliens visit the Earth frequently and UFOs are evidence of those visitations."

Why do we send people in person into the jungle to monitor animals instead of just cameras to record everything remotely? Why do people go to Yellowstone to see the sites instead of just looking at pictures?
Really good brief explanation, thank you!

I can feel your exasperation from here.
So... step one in the plan will then be: make Finland an economic and military superpower.
Scaling your API with rate limiters – 2017
And in the places where you left 'c' it sounds like 's'. You could just replace 'c' with either 'k' or 's' everywhere and get rid of letter 'c' entirely.
What do you mean by PCGamingWiki being a "copycat site"? Copying who? It's always the go-to site I use to check various technical details on games and any tricks that can be done to improve shortcomings of especially older games.
If Google had bought Slack, the free tier would almost certainly have stayed. Of course the compromise would be that you would be served ads and you would have to agree your Slack messages would be used to target those ads to your specific interests.

Salesforce is where products go to die. Slack will eventually get integrated in their Frankenstack and lose functionality. Salesforce can afford this strategy as long as they can keep charging $$$ for their CRM software that genuinely deserves its own circle in hell.
At least there is telegram for real news am I Right?
Looking forward to the next iteration of this: Decentralised cloud kitchens.

Do you have a freezer and a microwave? Then you, too can become a restaurant owner - just download our app and register! Once you signed up, we'll send you a week's supply of frozen meals from our selection. You can accept orders from our app, simply reheat one item, repackage it, wait for our delivery specialist to arrive and you're good to go! For a modest 30% fee we'll take care of all the rest!
The actual review of the emails starts here (that was the link I originally submitted ...):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(propos...

Below the emails and the discussion is an RfC, a straw poll of Wikipedia volunteers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28prop...

Current status is that

– 1 Wikipedian endorses the emails,

– 33 Wikipedians object to the emails,

– 5 express mixed feelings.

Objections are typically based on the perception that the emails mislead donors as to the current financial status of the Wikimedia Foundation; it has hundreds of millions in assets and reserves:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28prop...
There'd be no trouble opening a company per brand; the company would buy white-label products from Unilever and put its own brand, and market it.
It's not some subtle sleight of hand, the number of bots on twitter is not what is claimed in the legally required filings. We can argue till the cows come home about how many bots they are, but it's not relevant to the legal wranglings that are going on around Musk buying twitter. Musk is saying "The bot number is higher than you're saying" and Agrawal is saying "I've never made any claim on the bot number", and Musk might be right that there are lots of bots, but if he is right, it just highlights how dumb it was to make an unsolicited bid to buy the company with no due diligence.

And this isn't just some arbitrary thing that Agrawal has made up either, there's one very specific reason why you would care about mDAUs not bots. mDAUs are the number of people you can advertise to, and Twitter's revenue is advertising. It's like saying Twitter has an army of 10,000 cats in it's basement. It might be true, but it's not relevant to the value of the business.