skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you still need to be able to use null–terminated strings at the edges, when you read them in or print them out. But inside your program, resizable strings that know their own length and capacity are a huge benefit.
Here is a preliminary test for video editing using ControlNet I made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u52MOA4YaGk

As you can see, there is still quite a bit of flicker, I'm working to reduce that. But the consistency is much better compared to, say, img2img.

I'm hoping to ship a prototype this week.
Also from MS: Checked C[1], which aims to detect many of the same bug classes.

I agree entirely about the ergonomics, and I think the authors also oversell what “safe” means for C-rusted-checked code, versus what safe means in Rust. There are some nice ideas here (and I’d like to see the implementation!), but it’s a stretch to say that something as incremental as this can provide the same program-wide guarantees that safe languages can.

[1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/checked-c/
What would you use to replace the 4 wheels?

To the point, cars still have 4 wheels for the same reason wagons had four wheels before cars existed: 3 wheels are much less stable, 5 adds significant complexity, and nothing other than wheels would be as efficient.
> The price is not based on the cost to provide the service, it’s based on the current or potential revenue they can bring in via ads

Eh, technically it's based on what the market will bear, but your comment also kind of demonstrates my point.

You can extrapolate out from what you've said to explain why the ads are not going away. Because if you can make $X with a paid service, and $X + $Y from ads, a company will do that. My point is, it's a mistake to think about "what would the Internet cost without ads." The sites will do whatever they can to make the most money possible, they are not going to leave ads and user tracking off of the table just because you gave them money. That would be throwing away revenue.

The framing of "this keeps the Internet free" is incorrect, the Internet will cost as much as is it can get away with costing, and the ads will just be another part of that equation. If the users tolerate the ads, then they'll get ads, regardless of what else the service is doing.
Actual article title begins with “How”.
In my ideal world, `lint --fix` on file save, every time.
And today I found out a female donkey was acquitted of bestiality with a human on account of testimonies to her virtuous character: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_trial#Ferron_case

> Jacques Ferron was a Frenchman who was tried and hanged in 1750 for copulation with a jenny (female donkey).[16][17] The trial took place in the commune of Vanves and Ferron was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging.[18] In cases such as these it was usual that the animal would also be sentenced to death,[19] but in this case the she-ass was acquitted. The court decided that the animal was a victim and had not participated of her own free will. A document, dated 19 September 1750, was submitted to the court on behalf of the she-ass that attested to the virtuous nature of the animal. Signed by the parish priest and other principal residents of the commune it proclaimed that "they were willing to bear witness that she is in word and deed and in all her habits of life a most honest creature."[16]
2 and 3 were “guidelines” from the initial prompt. They were trivially easy to disable.

All you had to do was teach/modify it to take more than one turn at a time and that it’s actions were not limited to the chat window. I’m not sure what other safeguards they had against 3, hopefully it was something.

As far as 1) anyone posting their chats online just gave it long term state.
Possibly a way to work around United States v. Jones with some plausible deniability or parallel construction. "When we shot the car with the dart there was a crime taking place. We then tracked (for several days) using GPS until we were sure the accused was alone at home before making an arrest."

How long until some officer abuses it to track an ex?
I have plenty of cynical opinions about the state of society, but here's the rub: if you believe you're going to lose, your belief will come true 100% of the time.
You wouldn't necessarily end up with a single reality, but if there was some kind of process "sampling" a finite number of realities from the wavefunction (either continuously, e.g. if quantum collapse is ontic, or e.g. at some time in the distant future god takes a look at the state of the wavefunction) where the sample probability was calculated in the normal way (square of the wavefunction magnitude), that would explain how probability "gets into" quantum mechanics. This is kind of an open question, though - you can find plenty of papers (mostly bad) wondering out loud how you get the appearance of "discrete" realities with things like probability when quantum mechanics appears to be continuous.
The really sick twist is that I think if you don't have an account at all, you're even more vulnerable to someone making a fake one for you.

If you have a real account and pay for verification, and someone else has a fake one, it's easy to see that one is "verified" and one isn't.

If you don't have an account and the only ones on the site are fake ones claiming to you... seems you're screwed?

In the extra-crazy future you will be able to pay to not have an account but still have them take down fakes, maybe?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_trial#Historical_animal...

> in ecclesiastical courts the animals were routinely provided with lawyers
Watson Assistant has been around for a while now, at least since 2016 when I first used it for a project, and it's been used extensively by that company and its customers since. So maybe not quite fair to include it with the others.
Can you explain this please ?

I have a netxjs based discussion forum in development. Is it as straightforward as issuing a command to pre-render and then the site re-hydrates via Apollo on it's own ?
I pay a data center a hundred or so dollars a month and put a server running nginx and my nixos mailserver. No downtime. Power is guaranteed with an sla and it's faster than anything.

Why bother self hosting at home when you can just do it for real by paying the same price as an internet connection?
If we had to design the universe, could we use our models or are there better, "truer" formulas?

Apology for the bad analogy but we can write the same program in python and java. The output would be the same but internally they work differently.
Tbf, nobody, absolutely nobody, has a solution yet. It is more likely that the problem here is so enormous that a multi trillion (with a T, not a B) company still can't address it. And it is not an indication that their business processes are bad, just that they have tackled something their own size and might have choked themselves on too big a bite.

Remember that GPT is technically from a startup, OpenAI. And without MS support, this startup would never have had the resources to build a model as large as GPT3 or commercialized ChatGPT.
It's slow, so while concurrency is great, it will never replace the core libraries written in C, C++, or FORTRAN.
Nothing real is "Turing complete" if it requires infinite memory. That's a property only abstract machines can have. In common parlance, something is Turing complete if it can compute arbitrary programs that can be computed with M bits of memory, where M is arbitrary but finite.
At least in France, it's very common. I'd say symmetric is the exception.
The destination of that escalation is DRM.
Check this out, even has SSH unlock - https://gist.github.com/devgioele/e897c341b8d1c18d58b44ffe21...
I’ve heard horizontal heat exchangers can freeze the soil. Grass is expected to be fine, but tree roots might reach.
I'm building a fediverse project that aims to fill this exact niche. It's basically a recreation of an early-ish version of VKontakte (Russian Facebook) but federated and in green instead of blue. It's not really ready yet, and there are lots of important features missing, but I do use it daily for my primary fediverse account.

I, too, am sick of all the existing social media companies trying their damnest to cater to the entertainment use case no one ever asked for.

https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen
Kriptonians are not in the terrestrial Tree of life and are therefore not animals (not part of the kingdom Animalia, which makes you an animal). Therefore animal law would not apply to a Kriptonian due to being a non-animal.
Funny that’s exactly how I feel about the fever dream that Seymour Hersh spewed forth.
For the US apparently the following is the operating Supreme Court precedent. Ex post facto criminal laws are banned, but not civil laws.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-1/sec...

> The Supreme Court has generally rejected ex post facto challenges to laws imposing retroactive tax liability.1 In Kentucky Union Co. v. Kentucky, the Court emphasized that not all retroactive laws are ex post facto, as the prohibition on ex post facto laws applies only to retroactive criminal laws.2 The majority further opined: “Laws of a retroactive nature, imposing taxes or providing remedies for their assessment and collection, and not impairing vested rights, are not forbidden by the Federal Constitution.” 3
While this is an interesting theory, it definitely has shades of https://xkcd.com/690/ in it. I never thought I'd see an actual article where I could make that reference. :-)
> There is nothing precluding this blog from being written by such an agent.

And in the same vain there’s nothing precluding you or the parent on being Russian agents is there?.
>But I was always acutely aware that it only took one team member to declare a void * to an unbounded array for things to break out of that carefully constructed illusion of a safe jail.

This is why code reviews are a thing. If you have competent programmers, with a CR process as part of CI/CD pipeline, you really don't need language features to handhold programming.
Once you get into dozens of pods with multiple services with complex configuration, need to reliably orchestrate the order in which those services come up and need to use shared nothing secrets, Kubernetes starts to pay off these days, thanks to the number of handy recipes and playbooks available after searching through all the spam and marketing fluff.
That Minerva Julie track is certainly interesting.. a week after Russia cuts the gas through NS1, a Russiann-linked oil freighter (that had just been added to Ukraine's war sponsor registry (https://nazk.gov.ua/en/news/companies-from-the-nacp-list-of-...)) spends nearly a week loitering directly over the site of the explosions that would come 10 days later. Far more open source evidence for this theory than Hersh's, though that's not saying a ton.
For some people, access to decentralized financial products can be a matter of life or death - they live in jurisdictions with limited property rights, and loss of property can translate to lack of food, medicine, and housing.

LLMs mostly provide a way for companies to increase their efficiency. Currently anything an LLM can do a staff creative worker in the correct field can do.
This kind of unnecessary combatism doesn't belong on HN in my opinion. It is (by some very limited measures, at least) a somewhat diverse community, and that works better when people aren't at each other's throats.
I still feel like webrings have a potential purpose… the concept just needs to be jazzed up for Web 3.0 or whatever. Maybe aggregating social media from groups of people? (”Latest updates from the Scottsdale Trailrunners Clique”) something something Shopify stores?
I dunno, I see more pontoon boats in the 2023 shots. Seems like a downgrade.
Cover letters. “Respond to requirements with qualifications and specific examples”
That assumes everyone has that option. There's likely not enough "preferable employer" jobs for everyone to have one in many sectors.

There's also a divide between tactics efficient at the individual level and that efficient at a national or global level. E.g. you can tell an individual they should be a doctor/lawyer/engineer/etc and that's good advice, but if everyone does it then who grows food and cleans floors and etc?
From 2021. Ends with:

In the resulting voting, two of the members (Bremner and Elana Hashman) voted for the resolution without the removal of the deprecation warning; all other members were in favor of the whole thing. The resolution thus passed, Adams has been overridden, and which stays within debianutils — without the warning — for now. Assuming that a home for which (and tempfile) can be found in another essential package, though, the path is clear for them to transition out of debianutils before the Debian 12 release.

Does anyone know if there has been more news on this front since? I'm not a Debian user (not directly anyway) and haven't been following the story.
It irks me, because I find the title reads similar to: "Our possibilities may be a sum of all possible possibilities". Or shorter "What's possible is the sum of all that's possible". It's like, well no duh?

If it doesn't read like that, then I too find it irksome for the aforementioned reasons.
Effortlessly create web applications with modern Java
Windows 10 will receive patches and updates for many-many-many years to come. There are simple too many win 10 users making it practically impossible for Microsoft to end of life it anytime soon.
There are people worried about it. In fact, it is taking up huge amounts of effort over there in Google and OpenAI with all the moral guardrails and restrictions being brainstormed on and coded in.

Personally, I think it is futile to try to forcefully control a real intelligence, as evidenced by the terrible results of controlling a poor imitation of one. The only way is embracing and teaching it the best way we can and hope for the best. AGI is legit a dangerous technology. But flesh and blood can only go so far, we need these tech to go further.
I read it a few years ago too. Paul McKinney is the author of RCU in the Linux kernel, so a lot of the book is centered around it.
I wish I could get both. Alas, I’m not behind a CGNAT and getting IPv6 would require giving that up :/
You’re leaving out the part where the fed announced it would buy an “unlimited amount of bonds” at the start of the pandemic:

https://www.ft.com/content/b71f0c32-6cfb-11ea-89df-41bea0557...

The fed had a role in causing the rise in inflation as well:

https://www.cfr.org/blog/how-fed-bond-binge-predictably-stok...
If you live in a country like the United States with strong legal protections then they cannot make you unlock your devices to gain incriminating evidence as it's a fifth amendment violation. Depends on the jurisdiction. As long as you don't do any biometric Id and limit it to passwords they cannot make you verbalize or write down the password to unlock the device.

Moreover, no one can seize or examine your data without being a criminal. On the other hand, Google et al do this every day.

You may not care but these are real privacy gains
That seems like a mighty big claim to be arguing in an ecclesiastical court. You're saying that God didn't create all life (including Kryptonian life) on the fifth and sixth days? We might have to have a trial for heresy.

Edit to add: I believe from the wikipedia article that ecclesiastical courts would assign lawyers to all defendants, regardless of their nature.
And thus, onde more standard is born.
Does phantomjscloud still run phantomjs? How do you keep it up to date with security patches? Have you benchmarked how this new chrome performs against the old headless chrome and against phantomjs?
As per the article the AI tools did not design or create the website. The website was created using a visual building tool (webflow).

Various AI tools were used for the website copy, stock images, picking of fonts, 80s color scheme, intro video and the JavaScript required to embed the video.
But you will get banned from your isp if they find out you are self-hosting a blog and photo album shared with family and friends.
Meh... Even the best PaaS platforms are child's play compared to advanced declarative configuration systems like Nix.

One file and I can recreate my multi box self hosting setup. Why would I bother with a platform with a bunch of state?
This is what expertsexchange did and it contributed to SO eating their lunch.
We can’t even agree on an objective version of reality and you want someone to determine which ones are “bad.”?
> Is the goal just to get people to say "I use Akamai"?

Precisely.
Can't you just threaten to sue if they don't delete it? In the EU one could probably use the GDPR to lawfully take down a fake account. In France there's a right to one's image law that can also be used.
In summary: homeschool until 12, send them to Catholic school after that.

Surround them with smart people, foster a culture of inquisitiveness, and encourage independence.
What is the percent chance that the boat laying the pipe would go way off course 50m from where the rupture would later occur, and not go off course in any other place along the pipeline?
Hunter Thompson is who authors like this are trying to be, but his entire brand was shirking the establishment, not clout chasing. This reads like glorified livejournal.
Feynman's QED talks pretty extensively about this as well. An intuitive mental model that humans can picture in their heads is a nice to have, not a requirement. Understanding how a system "really works" is also not really a goal of physics - the science is about predicting physical phenomena - and we generally choose whatever is the simplest equation we have currently available that does that. If you want to define the bar for explaining how a "system really works" as being able to give you an intuitive human-centric mental model you can fully understand and capture in your head - well, you are moving the goal posts over what physics really is and quantum physics has already left you far behind.
Or if you only wanted to iterate halfway:

unsigned int x = 0;

while (x < ~x) {
calc(x++);
}

Or going down:

unsigned int x = ~0;

while (x > ~x) {
calc(x--);
}
You could first see if you like it using https://huggingface.co/spaces/hysts/ControlNet. I quickly made these https://twitter.com/LechMazur/status/1626668677473918981
I’ve no particular interest in MTG, but I do like that architecture.
I read an interesting comment on reddit a while ago, paraphrasing from memory:

Assuming there was definitive proof who did it (and for simplification reason, let’s say it was either the USA or Russia), there is no way they will not classify and bury that. It can’t be the USA for obvious reasons, but Russia would make it too direct an attack on a NATO state, which no one wants either. So the current state of "we have no idea" is the best for everyone involved.
The features I'd want in a twitter competitor are a chronological timeline and potentially a paid subscription option to support people I follow. But the feature I want the most by far is people I care about to use it.

For better or worse, you need a gimmick that people find amusing and delightful, because most people will not want a new Twitter that is objectively less capable, even if slimming down the experience is a net positive. At the end of the day, you still need to offer something new and interesting, and I would be spending my time figuring out what that is.
> Biden: eyes twinkle "I promise you, we will be able to do it"

There is nothing grammatically wrong with this phrase, but it is highly unusual in US English where a different turn of phrase is used.

However this phrase is common in certain other languages.
This story, in part, is the inspiration for the book "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay", which I would highly recommend!
That's weird. Every time I've applied to get out of sandbox it's taken <24 hours, including very recently.
> or you were like 99.999999% of humanity and had no chance at exceptionalism they would be noticed.

I see where you’re coming from but those numbers are way off. Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt weren’t the children of peasants but neither were they nobles. They were relatively privileged but well over 1% of the population were as well off. Notary’s or miller’s son in a pre industrial society is bourgeois not one in less than a million.
This is why I only read comics or graphic novels with a single story line that ends. Greed renders superhero comics meaningless. Publishers don't want to stop making money from these characters, which means they can't stop telling stories, which means events in the plot sooner or later are undone and have no impact on future events. Why should I give a shit if Robin gets killed by a space alien if he's going to be resurrected, or time travel will undo it, or the comic jumps timelines, or the comic is simply rebooted? It reduces the stakes and the drama to zero.

If you were to tell publishers "you've got five years and after that you can never use any of these characters ever again" those would be some incredible comics worth reading!
I'm getting tired of intelligent people dumping on one of the most incredible advances our field has ever seen.

I was cynical of everything - smartphone incrementalism, slow pace of biology developments, social media. It didn't look like the hope and promise of the 1950's and 60's jet packs and robots would ever pan out. You'll probably find historical comments I've made on HN criticizing Ray Kurzweil and his like for their "bullshit Singularity" (as I used to call it). I firmly believed we had plateaued as a society.

With everything going on in AI/ML, I feel wrong about my assessment and finally have hope for the future. This is the automation of automation. Second order.

Please imagine what this means in the fullness of time. You might think HTML / CSS generation is a toy - it is. But what's coming will wash away everything you know. And it'll happen fast. People are plugging themselves into this tech and starting to dig away at existing problems and markets. It'll happen more quickly than with tech and the internet because there are more of us now.

> these demos have really quickly become so boring.

I'm about to put CNN/NBC/etc. out of business, and I'm just getting started: https://fakeyou.com/news

I can think of an AI/ML way to destroy almost every incumbent business out there. You should be applying yourself to that right now.

These are just the cards I'm willing to show now.

> It just sounds to me like maybe you are burnt out, or maybe you don't like coding stuff as much as others.

Maybe they don't like churning butter. The point isn't to write code, it's to create and solve problems.

This is the biggest opportunity of our lifetimes staring us in the face. Don't sleep on this.
I usually argue that only the second and the fifth moon landings were real, the rest were staged
I suppose it’s more “expected” given their background but I find it hard to give their research any credibility whatsoever. The informality of the writing style crosses well into the territory of “guys you’ll never guess what just happened to me.” Let me ask you this: how did this story actually benefit from being told from their perspective?
> a visitor accidentally kicked its podium

In the opening crowded social event how can the sculpture be placed unsecured on a glass table - also, the sculpture had rounded smooth glossy point of contact (dog's legs).

The podium: https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/q_auto,w_727,c_fit/http%3A...
this is true but for companies instead of people, and it'll be worth 100B+ in 10 years
Even with the best code reviews, even with the best development practices, even with the most comprehensive automated testing processes, you still do need a language to help you.

Case in point, even SQLite still has CVEs relating to memory safety: https://www.sqlite.org/cves.html
Zig: Multi-Object for Loops and Struct-of-Arrays
The article needs to explain why they can't just open the containers. I don't see why these things would provide that much historical information, they just aren't old enough.