skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The movie actually incorporates a surprising amount of material from the book. I read, and then watched six months ago.

It embellishes by establishing a romantic relationship between Holly Golightly and the narrator, and then also makes the narrator himself into essentially a prostitute, as Holly was also. Moon River is also a major addition, as is Holly's decision to remain in New York at the conclusion.

They even kept the cat in the plot, for most of the same story.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_at_Tiffany's_(film...
Vernor Vinge’s Peace War has balls of stasis, which you can’t see in to tell if the person trapped is alive or dead. So when they figured out how to calculate the lifetime of the bubble, they started putting the guilty party into a bubble timed so they both popped at the same time, which would quickly be followed by your court date if it turned out to be murder.
I would assume it. If attacker can send my game arbitrary commands for execution without client side filtering out things like moving my character around (unless context allows it, eg waiting for a mission to start), there are good odds they can cause a buffer overrun and execute code directly too. Games usually aren't in memory-safe languages.
Gen Z'er here. Some language is accurate, some isn't. Some things I noticed:

OMG: shouldn't be in caps. omg this AI is stooopid.
l8r: rarely used, if at all
"ya": ?? "You" is used much more often than "ya." The real equivalence of "you" is "u", NOT "ya" (gives creepy southern vibes) (also, if "ya" is used it is used as "yes" NOT as "you")
Ey: nope, just no. Who says this? Use "Ayo!"
tunes: nope, "music" works just fine
rockin': nope, first of all why would someone go thru the effort to use an apostrophe when the g is right there?
4eva: Nope

Bottom line: this AI is far from fly. Nobody would believe it fr fr. Ongg, ppl will think it do be a bearded grandpa tryna sound hip.
No, it's not the same. An uncapped downside would be something like shorting stock. The price of the stock can be unbounded, and you owe the difference between the current stock and the price you opened your short position. So you can literally lose an unlimited amount of money.
What I’ve heard from people in the service industry is that tons of pickup orders never even get picked up. Maybe they’re banking on some percentage of delivery orders not even noticing that no food arrives? Still, seems highly unlikely to work out.
Given that Google's whole IoT world is seemingly moving to Fuchsia this is a bit of a surprise.
That said, Nest Hub type product is I think the only one with user facing UI, and an extremely limited one; really more an appliance. With a couple fixed hooks/extension points 3rd parties can tap into (versus being a general OS).

I still have an ebay search I havent cancelled to show me results for one of the old 2-in-1 machines that had been a dev target, the Acer Switch Alpha 12 (https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/development/hardware). But that was sooo long ago now. And I dont really know what user-facing intents have really emerged or grown since. Seems hard to kickstart a new consumer os, turning a viable platform into something emd userable. Yeah, having your own niche appliance os is fine, but less interesting.

It'll be interestint to see what happens with 3rd party Chromecast/Google Cast products over time. Will Fuchsia ever have inroads on 3rd party products? Do many of them already run & will they continue to run CastOS? Are there other off the shelf Chromecast implememtations? I was surprised when Android Things got dropped, when the ecosystem fractured, given how much infrastructure/packaging/services they had been able to use. Interesting times.
I tried to revive the medium 14 years ago. The remnants are at https://textfyre.itch.io/. Shadow in the Cathedral received strong reviews and Jack Toresal has a unique interface if you can get Silverlight running.
I wasn't sure what the acronym stood for until I came to this comment explaining it, so maybe not all that common
Interesting that the judge wrote "non-family" and then amended it to "non-parental". Makes me wonder if one or both of the additional sureties (the names of which are sealed) are siblings.
Baseball cards? You really need to do a write up about it this sounds pretty interesting.
The rumors are correct. This is an out-of-bounds array read/write vulnerability in the multiplayer scripting engine. Even if they patch this one, there are about half a dozen others known already. The only reason why this hasn't yet been turned into an exploit that runs arbitrary code outside of GTA on your computer is that no-one has bothered to do the extra work required for that. Not as far as I know anyway.
so the parents apparently have $249m in assets? or this means the non-parent co-signers just wrote checks for $500k + $200k and assume some portion of the $250m liability? If it’s as little as $700k then makes sense any law firm or debtor might be staking a position here.
Couldn't it just be the internet hug of death?
Before anyone kills me and yells that “OS development is hard!”, remember that Fuchsia was running on a Pixelbook, with a basic GUI, 4 years ago, with the first source code being posted 6 1/2 years ago. Now look at what Andreas Kling has accomplished in 4 years…

One can reasonably wonder if Fuschia is in development hell…
The Debian dist-packages/site-packages mechanism alleviates a lot of the problems with dependency hell and clobbering from packages needing to be installed. It's a shame it hasn't been embraced by mainline Python. A case of perfect being the enemy of good. Instead we get the chaos of pyproject as the next great thing.
There is already a distributed one in every HN’ers closet underneath a bunch of other stuff.
You support Taiwan, not just with weapons, but also with shooting at China's invasion force. China of course shoots back. One side or the other loses that encounter and decides to escalate rather than backing down. If that continues, yes, you and China can jointly start WW3.
Got any advice for React Native applications?
The 20 year period is based on the assumption that allowing it is beneficial to society overall (inventor shares details to further human knowledge and in return gets to monetize). If this assumption is no longer valid (when pharma companies overcharge) then why should we continue to support such an arrangement?
I saw someone who was laid off after being at Google for 16 years. I saw their resume and they had only been a manager for the last few years and before that they were just Senior. I think if you’re only L5/L6 after 16 years then you’re probably a low performer. This is especially true at a company like Google which was a rocket ship in the last 16 years which means there were a million opportunities to get ahead. Your future value is lower than someone who made L6 after 8 years because that person may be a director in another 8 years.

It doesn’t sound very nice but it’s fair.
> a middling tennis player...

If you're referring to the 2006 NYT piece on Roger Federer, I think you're not supporting the "quite mundane" characterization

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20fed...
Were Google's IoT products affected by layoffs as well?
Which is why even though I don't believe in the bible I would be happy to own a pallet of fancy ones to hawk.

I don't believe in crypto. But I know plenty of religious zealots to sell it to. So I'm happy to own it. My bet is it isn't a dying religion.
I have no real idea about the purpose and inner workings of those Google companies, but being a Google-adjacent company is probably not a great predictor for success, because big G needs to eat to sustain the behemoth and there's also too much fat on these companies to be business savvy, so they seem to serve as G hiring pool, or G vacation destination for burnt out G folks.

Also G companies might aim too high even when they try not to? OpenAI can release a shitty chatbot, but a G subsidiary simply can't, they want to solve proteins, aging, cancer, and then maybe we can chat.
context is whatever you want. i'm just curious what people are thinking.
TikTok runs on top of AWS, and uses S3 to store uploaded videos. Each uploaded video is copied into several resolutions, copies of which are made available on each regional CDN.
Show HN: Firebase Library Written in Swift
I don't know. The few technicians I know are already hardcore on having paper manuals, an iPad is already way too much into the BS. They'd never put that on.
Aardwolf mud: https://www.aardwolf.com/
Fair enough; I guess I had some threads were collapsed when I ^F'd.

> I don't see how any of that is relevant here. Many countries have committed crimes and injustices, and in some cases continue to commit crimes and injustices. That doesn't say anything meaningful about China and Taiwan.

It's not a "fun fact", my point was that it's just a generic insult in multiple languages and that going on about literal definitions of cancer is a bit silly.
Thanks for checking it out! Noted on the documentation shortage, focusing on building now but that can definitely improve. Specific import/export features are not added yet, although you can simply paste in HTML or get the output HTML from the document's public page. I'll think about adding that feature, but it'll probably just be HTML or PDF, not to specific services. The pricing is tentative, tho it is aimed towards professionals who may use it for hours a day, and not necessarily for normal consumers who may just want to take class notes. And thanks for the interest!
I was talking about the essay "Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness"

Michael Joyce's highest ranking was 64.
Surely I'm not the only one who saw the headline and thought it would be about bears.

I thought we were going to get some interesting zoo logistics or something.
A cheap drone with a pipe bomb solves that.
No need to dive into Dutch, "cancer" as a slang word to describe something that just sucks and is very annoying has been mainstream for quite many years in English. At least online and in the cities I've lived in, on both west and east coast of the US. And yes, there is a wiktionary entry for it as well[0].

Your dismissal of the user making the comparison to Dutch was straight up silly. It was based on nothing but you not being able to see the point they were trying to make at all. And their point would stand even if "cancer" was't an extremely commonplace slang term in English.

0. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cancer#Adjective
I thought this too until the most recent xkcd book taught me that if a black hole is big enough it's actually possible to pass through the event horizon without getting torn apart. It's a question about soup. Good stuff.
> Your downside is never capped, of course.

Of course your downside is capped. You're never going to wake up one day and owe Microsoft a billion dollars.

A real example of uncapped downside is when you sell call options on a stock, or short a stock. You actually can wake up one day to your broker telling you you need to find millions of dollars right now because the market moved against you. And it can get worse and worse, the downside is truly uncapped.
We (https://www.quintar.ai/home) are learning we can do a lot with a phone. But I hope someone figures out AR glasses.
Unit tests, mocked integration tests and local end to end tests which make calls to the development environment.

Its not easy and there is no free lunch.
This is the house he bought for them with the stolen funds, right? Doesn't seem like it would be that much of an incentive not to skip bail, if they didn't pay for it in the first place.
Removing reviews should be difficult for the owner of a business. It seems weird to me that someone would think it appropriate for a business to remove reviews of their business as they see fit otherwise you just get business owners removing all bad reviews
Your anecdote is from 1997, 26 years ago from today. Do you really think there is remotely any overlap from your experience in 1997 to how things are done today?
> And the majority of people dying from COVID are vaccinated.

The majority is vaccinated. Also, the 17% unvaccinated in Canada comprise greater than 50% of the deaths. That’s huge.

Also, 12+ billion doses have been administered with issues numbering in the tens of thousands, which is to say very few negative outcomes.
Funny - my 2002 Nissan Xterra still runs, drives and looks like the day I bought it. My 1997 Miata is likewise just as fit. I'll take ANY Japanese car over an American, or god help you, European car - keep them clean and do oil changes religiously and most modern cars will treat you well.
The biggest thing that boggles my mind is the amount of people who have garbage they don't use in their garages instead of their cars. And then let their kids destroy the interiors with food and drink.
You can't "choose" which one[1]. It's the same button/stalk. The car chooses by itself.

This is almost 100% the driver just confusing the name or a slip of the tongue, which is understandable. He bought FSD, he probably has it enabled and uses it, and knows that on highways the UI changes. Just doesn't know that when the UI changes it's the old autopilot.

[1] Technically you can disable FSD beta, thus it will always use autopilot
Taking a step back, we rely on countless systems every day where some reasonable proof-of-personhood is critical for the application, yet our countermeasures are best-effort in-house fraud prevention relying on security-by-obscurity. I suspect virtually all systems of today are ripe for exploitation in a rapidly evolving cat-and-mouse game. We’re in the early stages of a dirt cheap, sophisticated AI content generation revolution. Yet, our rhetoric suggests that these are minor, isolated issues with specific companies.

I’m wondering if it’s time to properly categorize these attacks as a separate and omnipresent danger to computer systems that process and distribute human input, and take it seriously. (Is there already a term for this? Sybil-attacks?) Are security researchers or academia largely overlooking an elephant in the room? Maybe I live under a rock, but I haven’t seen any interesting movement in analyzing, much less mitigating, these threats systematically.

Specifically, I fear the huge boost in human-imitation AI will shift the scales in favor of gray/black actors, due to reduced general trust-levels (as if they weren’t already low). If fake reviews cost $5 today, but $.01 tomorrow, there’s simply no way our dams will hold to that pressure. We really need some answers on how to navigate the upcoming sea of bullshit, or we’ll regress quickly into a world that’s disorienting at best, for good actors, and offers plenty exploitation by bad actors.
It's been proven again and again that privacy rights are not that important to mainstream consumers. VR's actual problem is there are no killer apps and the novelty wears off
This reminds me of the kind of fiction that would be in Omni Magazine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni_(magazine)
Enigma: A simple cross-platform encrypted filesystem in Golang
Pygame is back up as of now, 1/21/2023 10:47 PM EST (1/22/2023 3:47 AM UTC)
Apologies if this is naive, but it seems like Google employees need to understand that its no longer a company that has their interests at heart. The company leadership is making it clear through their actions. Is the expectation that leadership will really provide more clarity on why high performers were laid off? Why? What will the employees do if they don’t, or more likely let consultants come up with nonanswers?
Second that. Pip has been the default for more than a decade. And yes it does have issues. Why not fix it or add options to pip instead of piling on more tools?
Do Large Language Models learn world models or just surface statistics?
Startups will be out of reach of many in the US until we have a much more robust baseline of public services. First and foremost being health insurance of course.

I would love to start the kind of lifestyle (or "non-scaling" as you put it) business, but right now it's a complete non-starter for me because getting a health insurance policy for my entire family would be comically expensive.

It's even been harder for me interviewing with smaller startups because compared to single people, my insurance premiums are bonkers.
I'm replying to myself because re-reading this comment is sounds a little callus. While I am implying that we can't say for sure what fair looks like given human variation, we also can't say that the current distribution is fair the way basketball appears to be.
1997 is when side impact regulations were enacted - there hasn't been anything as dramatic since. Yeah, newer cars may have a few more airbags but feelings about those things can go either way. Especially if you are a smaller person - airbags are probably more dangerous than a help.
These are equivalent to long-skip connections in residual neutral nets!
Not enough people realise that the driving reason for ECC in home systems is this, not random once-in-a-blue-moon bit flips

I’ll always buy ECC after multiple data loss events from ram suddenly going bad, worth every penny to have ECC ring alarm bells rather than put 2+2 together after random BSODs and silent corruption
Ruby on Jets: Like Rails but serverless
Wondering why this framework isn't more talked about, especially amongst rails devs to take advantage of AWS Lambda.
>You're never going to wake up one day and owe Microsoft a billion dollars.

Unless you use Azure, of course. Then you don't even need to wake up to owe them that much.
I'm always baffled by people that think the way that laws are written must be the way things operate. Taxes in BA are above 100% of profits. On paper it's illegal to make money. Yet businesses exist. Some peoples' minds may explode.
That's exactly why I avoid those companies. If the price is hidden behind a quote, it means they're going to try to gouge you for every penny they can get away with.
Yikes. That’s what we need, a key European breadbasket country poisoned to hell in a needless war.
> I think if you’re only L5/L6 after 16 years then you’re probably a low performer.

L5 is supposed to be a “terminal level” so there isn’t an expectation for employees to want to advance further. But perhaps there are some implicit assumptions on max tenure at that level.
As soon as interest rates started to go up the market flipped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw2rainqEtw
A RCE in any and all video games should not be a surprise to anyone who took a cursory look at software quality, complexity, and the constraints (and rush) that come with game development.
Microsoft Flight Simulator[1] is a really interesting example, because running code from third parties has been the norm for decades. Custom code for things like airplane instruments was distributed in DLL modules that had full Windows API access (file system, networking, etc) while the game was running. It's obviously a huge security risk.

So for the new version of Flight Simulator, they divided it into core game engine and "content packages" that fill the rest (airplanes, landscape, missions, other assets). Packages get loaded into a virtual file tree[2]. Packages may contain custom code, usually compiled from C++ to WASM, but the code is executed in isolated containers and it does not have access to the underlying file system. It only sees contents of its local package within the virtual file system.

As a result, the shiny airplane you bought from some online marketplace can't read your documents folder and send its contents to remote servers anymore. It remains an issue with many other games where third-party modifications ship as unrestricted DLLs, even on authoritative-looking platforms like Steam Workshop. For example, a pathfinding fix for Command & Conquer on Steam is just a DLL swap[3] - this should make security-concious people very uneasy.

[1] https://docs.flightsimulator.com/html/Programming_Tools/WASM...

[2] https://docs.flightsimulator.com/html/Developer_Mode/Menus/T...

[3] https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=21371...
Apple Time Capsules still work on Ventura macOS. And the drives are easy to replace.
> Don't get me wrong, I'm pro body cams and think they should be present in cases like this, but assuming every instance without bodycam is police acting in bad faith is just political grandstanding.

Do you have a better way of changing police policy to require the use of body cams in situations like this? I think normalizing a presumption that the police are hiding something (even if this is not true) is the most (and possibly only) effective means getting to somewhere better than where we are today. I genuinely have no idea what happened in this case, but in the absence of video evidence many people are going to presume the worst, and I can't prove that they are wrong. Regardless of whether the police acted appropriately in this instance, if we want to preserve respect for legitimate police authority (and I think it's important that we do) I think we need to force the police to document their interactions rather than demanding they always being taken at their word.
Would you consider doing a write-up somewhere after getting further into your investigation of pattern theory? I'd certainly be interested in a distillation of any insights you find and I imagine others would too.
no. it was only a test program, and the test was a complete failure.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/microsoft-mixed-real...
More Airbnb Woes
Anyone else ever have Airbnb offer a refund and then not provide it? This is my second time dealing with such a situation, and it's very confusing because they seem to have support staff in far-off places like the Philippines who don't really understand that credit card companies require US companies to fulfill promised credits.

Is there any recourse aside from giving up on Airbnb?
I was scammed by a plumber with this scheme, dozens of fake reviews. No recourse. And the listing is still there, no way to remove it.
VR can be a kind of ultimate safe space for people who are hurting. No one can touch you, you put on a disguise, and you can leave at any time.

Maybe. Doesn't mean harassment is impossible.

https://www.villagevoice.com/2005/10/18/a-rape-in-cyberspace...
I think drone landing pads or gondolas might be a more realistic solution for skyscraper level transit.
[1] p.99 information might be of interest

cc -Wl,-m main.c > main.linker.map

related search terms: _crtStartUp crt0 crt1

[1] : https://progforperf.github.io/Expert_C_Programming.pdf
Got it, thanks IanCal
>to sell lately to justify increases in domestic surveillance/police state infrastructure.

what evidence or even personal narrative do you have to back this assertion?

>But It doesn't seem like they're as organized as the narrative would have us believe

phew-boy, I don't have any inside knowledge of this because I have other things that keep my attention, but I'm quite sure that there MIGHT be a bit of a infosec/skill gap between the chuds posting on /b/ and the folks actually rolling out with assault rifles, knowledge, and intent to knock (a) power substation(s) offline.

There's all this incredulity in this thread but really, some dudes are gonna go knock out an entire power substation to rob a cash register? If I were one for Occam's Razer...

Frankly I really, really don't get this incredulity. We have numerous, fairly recent historical (in multiple senses of the word!) incidents that clearly point to both organized and unorganized groups of people who seem to fit a certain psychological profile of being motivated by fear and disgust and a very on-going, observable ability to be whipped into a violent frenzy when told its justified.
We need some person, a nice person, a benevolent person, who could some how tell other people what to do, dictate it if you will, and it would be best if they could keep up this job for the rest of his or her life. We’ll call them, the Friendly Language Uncle.