skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anyone else see the irony there? Without middlemen? Spotify was trying to cement itself as the middleman in as much podcasting as possible, right? Or maybe it's not irony, it's exactly that, Spotify saw a space without middleman and thus an opportunity to lock itself in as the middleman.

Yep, it's not irony, but is instead a common corporate play: if you see a space with a lot of value to extract, you move in and start extracting.
There are different scopes: it's not the case that every controllable CLI invocation is also one where an attacker could change the URL entirely. There are cases where they might only be able to change the behavior of a single flag or option, or a subrange of characters in a specific protocol's URLs, etc.

I think the realistic attack model here is:

1. SoHo router that has a public accessible endpoint that takes inputs boiling down to "safe" cURL flags;

2. Those flags can actually induce memory corruption;

3. An attacker is able to execute arbitrary remote code in the context of the cURL subprocess through a payload packed into the "safe" flag.
Only as a corollary, to put things in perspective, in the early '90's that was Windows 3.x on a 33-66-100 Mhz CPU with 4, maybe 8 MB (yes megabytes) of RAM and programs had a splash screen to mask the fact that they were very slow loading.

With at least 20x processor speed, double the bits, and 1000x memory (let alone SSD's) I would have expected something better than what we have.
I've been running the stock implementation that OpenAI put out, I didn't know people had made so many improvements!

Thank you for your work.
Reddit is really poor sample of how average person or decision makers think in these two countries.
A directory in a projects dir that is in my $HOME dir. Whatever is related to that project goes into that directory.
So true. I actively rage against Spotify sometimes when I see all the podcast spam, that I can't turn off. I feel so insulted and used.
~~Yeah, I think carbon recycling can be pretty good. They've been doing it on submarines for a while.~~

(edit: nevermind, I was confused about the submarine thing, the user "idlewords" below has a lot of good commentary about this)

At any given moment, any human is about 18% carbon. Carbon is also pretty important in *carbo*hydrates. Any plants that we would grow would need a ton of carbon. It can be done, but any moon colony will basically always be dependent on getting extra carbon from Earth, so it can never be "self sufficient" in the way that Mars can eventually be.

It is kind of funny that on Earth, we're obsessed with capturing and burying as much carbon as possible, when it's going to be an incredibly valuable resource on the moon, assuming that a bunch of people are gong to want to live there.
Days ago I ran W2k, something I missed between Windows 98 and Windows XP, just for fun, under a VM, with no Direct3D hardware acceleration, just KVM accelerated virt-manager. The virtual machine ran faster than the GL accelerated Mate DE in the host.
I’m pretty sure NASA has been reusing carbon on human spacecraft since at least the Apollo program.
Washington was on track to lose ALL of Eurasia to the inevitable force of China-Russia-led integration. So they opted to carve out the EU.
This is the same thing that pretty much ended IBM.

They had been pitching AI for how long and now they have to sustain themselves on openshift sales.
Pakistan is selling nuclear weapons? Can you provide any support for this claim?
I just love how half of the responses to you refuse to accept that chronotype is a physical attribute just as real as height or metabolism. I see a "just push through it" and a "stop drinking caffeine" so far, and those are emblematic of how people without extremely shifted chronotypes absolutely will not try to understand the health and social costs to people living outside of their enforced norm.
Nobody will remember about it in few years. The same was with cap and trade system.
A recentish /r/haskell discussion[1] had some brief thoughts.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/zk2u6k/what_do_has...
It's just that to the HN audience, the spam sure seems unsophisticated. I can imagine being able to filter out most blogspam just by looking at the CSS. like, every blog spam review and restaurant site is so obviously bad it hurts.

also, "bestmitersaw.com" or other similar single product review/spam sites filled with affiliate links. Jeez. Kill them all.
My guess is because both the production side and the distribution side cost so little money, it's hard for anyone to monopolize it. Once someone really solves the advertising model for podcasters, the creators will flock to it naturally like how so many people only distribute through youtube now.
This is a comparison with C that I am familiar with. It illustrates the reasons why C++ won for many applications (compared to C). The author also is on record as someone who hates C++, and is very careful about not making any claims in that blog post about C++ because that's not his area of expertise.

Compared to C, where a data structure library is at best a heap of cobbled-together macros that make a lot of assumptions about the underlying types, C++ has well-developed libraries for all of the data structures mentioned.

And you need to trust the author plenty to make a btree that works - that is a very complicated data structure. It's not just about memory safety, there can be a lot of functional bugs, too. The author of the C++ one is Google/Facebook, who I trust to write a solid library, while the author of the Rust one is someone who was inspired by the C++ version.

At this point, both are well-tested, but there are a lot of Rust libs that are in the same position, but relatively untested.
Trading futures options.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ZQ%3DF/futures/

https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/interest-rates/stirs/30-day...

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/you-can-trade-options-and-fu...
Wild garden path sentence: Who is proposing it is? What is being talked about here?
> If surgery is completely ineffective

It isn't "completely ineffective", there is a solid evidence base that people who want it and get it are happier than people who want it and don't.

> at preventing massive suicide rates

A large part of suicide rates is hostility from society. For example, what if society forces people who don't want surgery to get it just to update their IDs? This is a eugenicist human rights violation, and it was the case in Sweden for the time period studied.

Note that in the time period, Sweden also required trans people to prove that they didn't have any gametes in storage! This was such an egregious instance of eugenics that the Swedish government should be paying millions of USD in reparations to anyone affected.

> why is it an option?

Because it works and makes people happier.

> Post-op transgender people still have extremely elevated suicide rates

Due to hostility from society. Suicidal ideation and behavior is a well-known component of CPTSD, and almost every trans person I know has CPTSD from social hostility. (There is one trans person I know who doesn't -- she's 20 and grew up in a supportive, left-wing environment.) That doesn't reflect on any kind of surgery. Rather, it's a damning indictment of society.

> therefore the surgery is ineffective.

False. This absolutely does not follow either logically or empirically.

> Then you have transgender activists routinely attacking people in their own community who regret the surgery

First off, there is not just one "the surgery". Saying that just exposes your ignorance on the subject matter. (And you really should spend a few weeks learning about trans healthcare before commenting any further.)

Besides, your claim is false. The objections are only to the people who regret it and use that as an excuse to attack trans healthcare generally. I know trans people who were forced into a surgery they didn't want, regret it, and everyone I know has full compassion for them.

> and papering over the inconvenient truths about hormone blocking drugs (they cause permanent bone damage in children).

This is a well-known side effect of low sex hormones (also happens in post-menopausal women). There are also serious side effects to not intervening. As always, you have to balance the benefits with the costs of intervening versus non-intervening.

> I'm not taken by arguments that routinely include tactics like death threats towards campaigners who speak out against dangerous hormone blocking drugs.

Plenty of medications have side effects. Accutane can cause depression. Hormonal birth control can have serious side effects. Focusing on this over anything else shows your biases.

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If you're engaging in good faith and would seriously like to learn more about trans healthcare, https://medicine.yale.edu/lgbtqi/research/gender-affirming-c... is a good starting point. There are over a hundred citations in the paper, and you can use any of them as a starting point. Sci-hub is your friend.
A smart watch is a different thing from a quartz wrist watch but it would be foolish to act like the decline of the latter has nothing to do with the former.
Having worked both sides of this, it's generally the case that IT is absolutely terrible at their job that ends up with them getting called in late.
Kind of unfair to include at the end the only one important sentence for a publicly traded company.

"Spotify touted major user growth to finish out the year, and after announcing that it had best revenue expectations, the company’s stock price jumped."

Then, why would this author choose as title this: "Spotify's podcast bet went wrong"?

Not as professional as I would expect. Just another publisher seeking controversy and clickbait.

There are always deals gone wrong and bad management decisions in a company with the size and notoriety of Spotify. But, its not cool to post a piece that doesn't balance out all valuable info.
Kopete did the same Slack does today (with inline Youtube videos and LaTeX equations) with KDE3 running in the background under a machine with 256MB of RAM.
having been out for 5 1/2 years, I can't say for sure. But even in 2017, there were a large number of "born on third base and think they hit a triple" people.
Agree. Shotwell at the helm would be fantastic.
That's because these things are way more than word prediction.

Their job is 100 percent to predict the next word, but saying that hides what you have to do in order to predict the next word

In a factual database? You have to repeat facts.

In a logical database? You have to learn logic.

In a database containing only good chess moves? You have to learn to make good chess moves.

Train any AI model in a strong enough way and it will pick up donation knowledge along the way. Yes, it's predicting words, but it's using that knowledge to do it.

It's by no means perfect, but do not underestimate the potential here, and remember that reductive definitions (it's just x) can make most great things seem bad or mundane.
> The definition of the word normal.

I'm aware of how you're defining it, I just don't care.

Don't bother with whatever appeal to authority you're about to search for: I don't care what the dictionary says, either. Dictionaries describe how people use words, and sometimes the way people use words changes faster than the dictionary can keep up. People using words are the source of information in the dictionary, and viewing the dictionary as an authority on meaning is a fundamental misunderstanding of how dictionaries work.

> Normalness is not defined mathematically, and doesn't mean the intersection of an infinite number of arbitrarily selected traits.

Normalness is defined by the common understanding of the people who use the word to communicate. Usage determines definition, not the other way around.

If you understood what the person meant enough to know they're using a word in a way that you aren't used to, then communication occurred.

If you really want to fight about this particular dictionary definition not being mathematical, you should really look up the history of the word, because you're very wrong about that. But that's rather silly, because usage determines what the definition is, not the other way around.

> The meaning is clear to anyone who speaks plain English.

True! Which is why it's bizarre that you would insist on a different meaning when everyone, including you, understands what is being said.
Unless you are planning to have a full system on all the time, renting a loaded 8xA100 machine is almost certainly the way to go for a startup.

As others have pointed out, vRAM is the killer here. this big of a machine is mostly for vRAM coherence, which is a specific usecase.

For almost every other type of job lots of single GPUs with shared disk storage will do (particle sim, rendering, oil and gas, etc.)
Yeah.

I am sort of sympathetic. The same thing has been happening at my company over the last year. We are a startup but we're up to 180 people now and when you're looking to raise and starting to think about a buyer/IPO etc then things get more and more efficient. That's just life.

I think Google (and other FAANGs) did really well to remain innovative and start-up-y for so long. But "gravity always wins in the end"

It must be a bit bitter for people who recently started at these companies. I think a lot of people worked very hard for a long time to "get in". They expected guaranteed employment for life, perks galore, etc. They had "arrived". And now its all evaporating. That's not fair really. But I don't think anyone did it on purpose. I think people just forgot that middle age comes to all companies eventually...
The "explosion" was part of an intentional burn as part of the prescribed cleanup plan: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/06/1154760911/ohio-train-derailm...
I don't understand why anyone find a mix of style unreadable. That's like saying you cannot read a book which switches between dialogs and narration.
Another way to put it is that there are probably very few destination podcasts for a significant number of users. While there are some podcasts that I listen to most episodes of, if one were to go to Spotify (which I don't subscribe to) as an exclusive, I'd shrug and move on.
Rust is not a C replacement, it is a C++ replacement.

Many of the people writing code in C do not want to use C++.

And many of the embedded use cases for C already involve very careful memory usage. If you've banned malloc and don't have threads, you've removed a huge swath of common bug sources right off the bat.

For someone writing code to setup registers on a DMA controller, Rust has nearly 0 benefit.

(That said, no one should be writing new command line utilities in C, parsing arbitrary data in C is dangerous!)
I prefer this workflow too. Only issue is if we move to a different ticket tracking software.
TSMC to boost capital at Arizona factory by $3.5B
Modi apologists seem to make similar attacks on the media and the west. They claim that the media is biased and out to get him, any criticism of him is anti-national and so on.

You're claiming that the Uighur women that got forcibly sterilized are terrorists? Modi similarly uses the terrorism bogeyman to suppress criticism. (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/10/how-terrorism-...)

And why isn't it easy for western journalists to report from Xinjiang, if it is as you describe it, a benign situation?
> "Let's shove podcasts down your throat, whether you like it or not" approach

Unless I have incorrect data, they have to pay like 70% of their revenue to record labels because they hold the rights.

Knowing that, it feels like podcasts was their "big bet" to "own" some content of their own and be able to receive a bigger share? Just an educated guess really on my end.
Elon Musk's Tweet View Complaint Solved
Then Chesterton's fence doesn't apply. People wrongly using arguments to enforce blind conservatism doesn't make the underlying arguments wrong...
Scan of the Month – Car Parts
That's only because if they did charge for it, no one would use it.
> with comparable functions (not always, but quite often).

Is that really the case? Are 2010 skype and 2022 discord comparable in terms of functionality? Are 2000 winamp and 2022 spotify app comparable?

Todo app 15 years ago was a simple CRUD app. Today todo app has to do CRUD, sync, offline mode, public API, integrations with popular services, collaborative projects and support 6 platforms.

People whine about bloated web tech in app, and how good it was with native while forgetting that availability and feature parity on all platforms is a feature too.

I still remember how bad it was before electron as a windows user. Half the apps that seemed cool(omnifocus, bear notes) had mac only desktop version, other(1password, evernote) had a native windows version that felt ugly and unpolished.
Democracy is messy but better than the alternatives.
Dissipating heat in a vacuum is certainly more difficult, since it must all be done through radiation instead of convection. It follows that thermal storage would then be more efficient in a vacuum too. I couldn't say whether it would be "better enough" to make it a much more compelling option than it is on Earth though.
Does anyone irritate grazing land? Is that common at all?
Not the porn I watch, but the porn that's easily accessible nowadays. BDSM, choking, simulated rape, incest and other more extreme stuff wasn't accessible anywhere when I was a kid. It wasn't something that you could find in your dad's or uncle's mancave.
Even Sirius isn't THAT profitable...they have several satelites that will need to be replaced in the next few years, each of which will eat about 9 months of profit.
The namespaces are URLs, so DNS ensures the domain names are unique globally, the owner of each domain name ensures the paths are unique for that domain, and the author of the XML document ensures the namespace aliases are unique for the specific namespaces used in that specific document.
Neither subreddits are realistic snapshots of South Asian social media. Most South Asians use FB+Whatsapp with a smattering of Twitter.
Surely his pandemic opinions also had an effect.
"Hersh uses the testimony of one person, mixed alongside that aforementioned historical or political commentary, as evidence for every significant aspect of the alleged conspiracy. Here is the first mention of that source:

Last June, the Navy divers...... according to a source with direct knowledge of the operational planning."

"Hersch was asked by the Russian news agency TASS about the identity of his source. He told them that, "It's a person, who, it seems, knows a lot about what's going on."

https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/02/10/hersh-nord-stream-sab...
My notetaking process is my learning process, i derived it from how my mind functions so it's very specific to me but I've documented it here if you find it useful.

It boils down to capture, consume, execute and share.

https://geekodour.org/docs/documents/notetaking/
Try the link below.

Its not the exact term I used over the weekend in my original post, but this is a basic enough one. Since it's more basic, it actually has a good result or two first. Then falls into spam upon spam. My original search over the weekend has only spam.

https://www.google.com/search?q=2002+chevy+s10+brake+wiring+...
I find Spotify in general to be greatly inferior to Youtube and I listen to JRE a lot less since his move there. I'll catch all his high profile guests but I find I never listen to random podcasts because the Joe Rogan "Experience" downright sucks on Spotify.

- The constant ads in the US, they're skippable but they're obnoxiously long and frequent and annoy the crap out of me.
- Spotify app performs poorly, seeking is slow, random freezes/hangs, sometimes I have to close the app completely to get an updated list of shows for a podcaster for some reason.
- The interface for viewing shows is inferior. Thumbnails for shows are tiny while they have a ton of wasted space on a typical 1440p monitor.

I also think he's greatly bought into the mob's demands and engages political topics a lot less frequently since at least COVID, despite being lied about repeatedly and basically being correct in almost everything he ever said or questioned.
I like Joe Rogan, but I don't like the UX that Spotify offers, which is why I've never managed to move over to Spotify for music or for podcasts. Joe Rogan's nice just resulted in me watching him MUCH less, I think I watched two maybe three podcasts since he moved there. I think that YouTube is just that much better for video and obviously that more familiar to me. As for music, I mostly listen to it either locally or on YouTube Music (which can lead to me taking music, that I like, locally).

Don't get me wrong I tried to switch to Spotify many times but it never stick. I still remember trying for multiple hours to open my friends most played of the year playlist without success, I still don't know what I was doing wrong, I even tried creating a new account, but it didn't work, while other friends could listen to that playlist without problems, to me it didn't even show.

As for video the controls felt a bit of and selecting the size of the video was a bit strange too.

Thus I remain on YouTube. I do, from time to time go and check if Joe Rogan had any interesting guests, but the bat for me to watch it is much higher then it was on YouTube, where I watched a lot of Joe Rogan, I'd say at least one episode per week!

But hey, we still get clips on YouTube, so that's something ^^
Depends. Are you a Director/VP interested in holding people accountable for who gets promoted?
this would be incredibly bad move
Search for anything with a mercantile aspect and the first page of results will be all ads and e-commerce sites.
Modulex: Lego's Lost Cousin
I work for an ISP and my role is pretty much to have the TV STBs become ewaste as late as possible (trying my best to do my part). Currently our security is pretty bad [1] (that's why I'm posting from a throwaway account), but I have a mainline Linux booting off a USB storage without touching internal storage (with very little changes). I plan to fix those security issues, and make this boot-from-usb official within few months. We're far from thrashing those units, but when we will, it'll be too late to open them up.

[1] related to security of user private data
Django templating is limited, but it's not necessarily a problem because you should be putting most of the business logic in the view/service/model anyways. After some initial friction, I don't have any issue with how limited they are.
Airline accidents kill hundreds of people outright. The media gives those stories tons of attention (If it bleeds, it leads) and accordingly the airline industry knows it must take safety seriously to protect their profits.

Meanwhile the chemical industry kill the gods only know how many thousands of people over the course of decades with a steady trickle of statistically correlated illnesses, but the media doesn't cover it and the consumers of chemical goods feel insulated from harm which seems very abstract and indirect to them. A consumer buying a chemical good is not directly imperiled by the chemical industry in the same way as an airline flier is threatened by airline crashes.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out why the airline industry is better at safety than the chemical industry.