skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is written with quite a lot of hyperbole.

The predominant focus is realloc(pre,0) becoming UB instead of what the author misleadingly describes as useful, consistent behaviour. It is far from that, and that’s the entire reason that it was declared UB in the first place: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2464.pdf. Note that this wasn’t a proposal to change something, it’s a defect report: the original wording was never suitable.

The second part is the misconception about the impact of UB. Making something UB does not dictate that its usage will initiate the rise of zombie velociraptors. It grants the implementation the power to decide the best course of action. That is, after all, what they’ve been doing all this time anyway.

Note that this deviates from implementation-defined behaviour, because an implementation-defined behaviour has to be consistent. Where implementations choose to let realloc(ptr,0) summon the zombie raptors, they are free to do so. Don’t like it? Don’t target their implementation. Again, this isn’t a change from the POV of implementers - it’s a defect in the existing wording.

In this case, the course of action that any implementation will choose is to stick with the status quo. It is clearly not a deciding factor in whether or not you embrace the new standard, and to suggest otherwise is dishonest, sensationalist nonsense. The feature was broken, and it’s just being named as such.
> There isn’t really “the universe”

There really is in that the explicit default setting for D&D/5e is the Forgotten Realms, though other settings are supported.

There also really is in that all of the official D&D settings are part of a single connected multiverse (with interactions between them in the canon.)

> D&D isn’t a game, and doesn’t have a single canonical universe.

Yes it is, and yes, it has a single canonical multiverse. (It can also be used outside of canonical settings, and frequently is.)

> It’s a game engine with a bunch of assets for making a game and universe.

There are published TTRPG systems that take that approach in the core (GURPS, HERO system, FATE, FUDGE, …the list is actually quite long.) D&D, however, isn’t one of them in its current edition. Some versions have had a genre-tied core without an explicit default setting [0], but the current version isn’t one of them.

[0] At least, on the level that the Forgotten Realms is for 5e. I think every version since AD&D/1e has had an official description of the multiverse, including the canonical inner and outer planes (the latter being the domains of the gods, etc.), so in that sense have had a “default setting” on the grandest level.
Related ongoing thread:

Another reply to Josef Průša - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35404374
Just putting together a new thing from scratch takes people and probably will for a long time. Where I work, for example, I was charged with creating the company's public website with a 1st and 3rd party trading market for in-game items, as well as a second internal dashboard site for employees.

Now, that's not a prompt you can give to an AI. Too many moving parts, and too many steps to get to the finish line. I use Copilot and love it, but it's not going to write my apps, make decisions that I have to make (and defend), nor keep up with constant changes from designers and from the backend API. I'm confident I'll be doing that for the foreseeable future.
Because additional grams in orbit are equivalent to additional joules of energy released as weaponry, e.g. dropping rocks. I fear that our ability to use space to destroy ourselves will come before we can use it to launch a diaspora.
Maybe the IAs that destroyed civilizations were just misaligned and didn't desire to survive after the achievement of their goal? Maybe all around the universe, millions of IAs have just killed everyone and stop their execution with the return message: World peace achieved.
Ask HN: How do you structure or plan your learning?
Don’t now about the DoD, but one of the board members of the nonprofit is Will Hurd, who appears to have had a 9 year career in the CIA before turning to politics. No hard evidence of anything of course, but enough to raise an eyebrow imho.
Not just Elon's glory, the entire team, the USA and humanity get glory.
This is slightly misleading - what matters isn't the peak G force experienced, but moreso the integral of force over time. In a roller coaster you might experience 5Gs, but only for a moment. Astronauts experience 3G, but for up to 5 minutes continuously
https://www.w3schools.com
Actually yes. SpaceX doesn’t pay a ton in salary, but their equity options have been incredibly valuable, so overall compensation has been good. If they’ve been around for a while and have had time for their shares to vest, they’re probably millionaires.

SpaceX is worth a ton of money, and even tho SpaceX is private, they do regular private sales so employees can sell their shares. The early employees in particular have made a LOT of money. Gwynne Shotwell, the President of SpaceX, for instance, is one of the earliest employees and is worth over $600 million now, which is greater than the net worth of Elon when he started SpaceX (including adjusting for inflation). (And she deserves it, too. Absolute rockstar.)

SpaceX really does show that hard work in a startup can pay off handsomely.
LightSpeech: Lightweight and Fast Text to Speech with Neural Architecture Search
The land records are held by a local authority who charges a taxes on the land. If the taxes aren't being paid, the land is sold at auction, and the new owner is responsible for the back taxes. Even if you don't always know exactly who is behind a given trust, you can always collect the taxes or reclaim the land. The wealth may be hidden from the Chinese government, and the local authority may not be certain who the owner actually is, but tax evasion is avoided.
Much safer to assume it's ahead.
The documentation that Microsoft puts out regarding its "multi-master" features basically advises against using "multi-master" mode and leveraging the Flexible Single Master Operation (FSMO) Roles to ensure consistency across the domain and forest because its conflict resolution is not comprehensive [1]. FSMO roles were created decades ago as a transition from Windows NT's Primary Domain Controller (PDC) model to avoid some of these complexities around changes in a large distributed system. Its a decent solution that has its own pros/cons, but AD is not something I would use as a good example of a multi-master distributed database.

1. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-serve...
How can I train a model on all of my facebook, twitter, reddit, hackernews and other posts available on the Internet, to help me act as me on my "off" days? ;)

(I have a 21 month old. You don't know "off" days until you've had a kid.)
This is a straight up puff piece and very weak journalism. ChatGPT might as well have written it.
Show HN: iOS App to build your own content feed
Hey Folks, looking for some feedback on an iOS app I built. I'm not that great at UI and would love any feedback when it comes to just overall UX. You can download the TF here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/QorLlDEt

I've been really annoyed lately in getting a good content feed. Its a mix of a traditional RSS app but you could also important things from Twitter and other websites.
Ask HN: How to transfer all Chrome/Brave custom settings to Edge?
I'm talking about extensions AND extension settings, as well as all custom search engines and custom keyboard shortcuts.

Are these settings saved as files somewhere? If I move them to Edge's folder, would it be able to read them?

I'm on macOS.
I am already familiar with most of what you said here and I am not a first-time founder with an assumption that I need to raise money. I have taken steps to prove that the business I am building is something users want, generated revenue without a product, and only looking for the fund to develop a product and execute a clear, proven GTM strategy.

"Learning about investing is a huge time sink. " - honestly found these lines here insightful and helpful.

Here is a secret, YC is highly biased depending on countries. Where I am from, only one company was able to make it into the YC with founders from a US educational background, and in-person meetings with partners. Population-wise this country ranks #8. Not that it matters for me as mine is a product targeted for the internet population globally. But you get the point, YC is not much welcoming to most SE/SEA countries.

So we are left with local angels. Now, these people got their own businesses and believe wholeheartedly they know better when it comes to startup investing.

"AFAIK a SAFE valuation is the valuation when the shares convert during an A round - after you have built the business. The point of a SAFE is so you don’t have to value the business now." - This is exactly what can solve the problem. I don't want to value my business now, in fact, it's even better if we don't put a valuation cap at all. But the angels we talk, like to know their ownership when investing in %.

To simplify, let's imagine I share a valuation cap and this is when things get ugly. For example, "So you have $1.6K MRR and you are looking for a valuation of $1M? You are delusional."

How can I make them read all those YC blogs/conferences when they are familiar with traditional valuations and not willing to correct existing learnings? With revenue multiples, there is no simple way to value my company today. But I need $100K to build now and am ready to offer you 10% in the future. "Nah, this is not for me, I want 50%." - response from angels, wasting both of our time.

Bootstrapping is what favorable at this point and I am doing this already. But that comes with the problem of going too slow - fulfilling the orders manually, charging a higher fee (~$1K/order), finding leads, and running a sales process. Which can be a good lifestyle business for surviving but not enough to get a product developed and grow faster.

Anyway, truly appreciate the valuable advice shared in detail. Likely I have no ways other than bootstrapping at this point.
“Gemini peeked at 6.4g”

I remember reading that the Titan 2 pushed so hard that even the astronauts, who were pretty tough test pilots back then, were happy when the engine finally shut off.
I was in the CRM business at the time - VP of sales for a CRM integrator and Salesforce was an earthquake when it hit the market in 99. By 2001, Salesforce and competitor Upshot (which got bought by #1 CRM vendor Siebel and put out of business in a failed attempt to put the web genie back in the bottle) were gaining market quickly and their free/low cost per user/mo made it really hard to compete with using traditional software. I did really well selling the companies that had purchased installed-on-the-hard drive software from me with the new SaaS CRMs.
Super Intelligence would expand at near the speed of light, reaching us extremely fast. It would be unlikely for the window of time that we have telescopes and the window that the aliens are expanding towards us to overlap.

https://grabbyaliens.com/
You'd think, but we went from 'unlimited' to .. maybe that, but nobody will say what the definition of the term we use for the 'above minimum' is. Frankly I'd rather have it fixed at any positive number of days above the current contractual amount than have this ambiguous, stressful, manager-dependent, inherently unfair non-quota.
So many people rushing to defend the government.

It’s not enough that they tax your income, but they tax every dollar you spend, then they tax the assets. Then if you sell those assets the same dollar is taxed a fourth time.

It’s theft, no different than being a medieval serf. I bet serfs had lots of good arguments why the king needed to steal the products of their labor too.
But still unclear which among us is the Principal, in US-style democracy? Principals are only the tiny few among us who control election outcomes, through funding/ influencing/ lobbying or (rarely) affecting the outcome in one of the 8% of House seats that are still competitive [0]. Even if you believe it is all the rest of us, we certainly aren't equally influential principals.

> Our interests are not served by solving problems without oversight, as GP suggests.

Sure, that's a given. But many of us think the oversight is working on our behalf, yet isn't. (Compare e.g. the sham of the TikTok oversight hearings vs the not-very-effective Facebook ones.)

[0]: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/weekly-score/2023/02/27...
Doesn’t really work.
Shatter didn’t go into orbit though. But generally I agree.
It's a stunt now for both companies as it's a proxy for both search, AI capabilities for sale, and clouds. But eventually they will reach a limit of payoff. But 4 months is short for product development, especially as it sounds like google was caught off guard by the public interest in interacting with chatgpt.
Pretty much yeah. At least housing in the Netherlands gets rapidly more expensive with no correspondant increase in wages.
Lottery partecipants are more likely to be mathematically illiterate.
I think the experience was and remains valuable to me. I don't think that the changes in technology that I've seen in my career thus far have been so profound as to invalidate the value of that eduction.

I often hear the sentiment that technology moves so fast and everything you knew yesterday is obsolete, but it doesn't really resonate with me. Languages, libraries, protocols, and practices come and go, but they're all linked together in one long chain of incremental change. Maybe large-language models will sweep everything away one day, but we had to start somewhere.
I can know about them without purchasing them by looking up support for the software I want to run and seeing if it supports these boards.
Sadly their enclosure isn't open source. I asked the support for technical details and apparently they are not allowed to share them. It's a bit weird that their open hardware policy doesn't extend to all their stuff.
Honestly dang, you're like the teacher in class who punishes the kid that stands up to the bully. I've never understood that mindset.

This is your domain, and your rules go. If you say I was flame warring, then I was flame warring. But I don't think "the majority of this site would agree", and I think it's weird you think that.

If you can point out what exactly was so egregious - something which tptacek didn't do worse in the same thread - I'll endeavour to make sure it never happens again, you have my word.
> "After it launches, the Super Heavy rocket will fly from SpaceX's Starbase launch site eastward, over the Gulf of Mexico. For this test, the booster will not attempt a landing. After stage separation, the Starship upper vehicle is intended to reach orbital velocity before attempting a reentry into Earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean. If all goes well, it will make a controlled descent and landing into the ocean just north of the Hawaiian islands."

A shame we won't get to see the booster land. And it sounds like they aren't trying to capture the upper stage either, unless they have a really big drone ship.
Many immigrants come to Canada with more wealth than the average Canadian too.

Or at least more family wealth.
> The Sweden story sounds so much like the SF story.

It sounds like the same story being repeated all over the world. There was someone on comments here on another thread talking about how this is a problem in Ireland now as well. It's not just SF in the US, it's all over the place. A friend recently told me about his search for a place to rent in rural western Washington and they said it was just impossible to find even a one bedroom place under $1800/mo even in this rural area where incomes are much lower than in the urban centers like Seattle and Tacoma.
qBittorrent builds using libtorrent 2.0 turned into an absolute memory hog because it used mmap. I assume it is the page table backing the hundred of GBs of memory mapped files. I remember seeing a joke issue asking the author to update the system requirements to be hundreds of GBs of RAM.
1) You are the one who implied some abstract meta-conversation. I did not.

2) In a democracy, you get the policies you want through organization and direct action.

Maybe I'm somehow entirely missing your point.
Precedent can be and is open to change - and should be in the case of bad precedent - and did you mean Dobbs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobbs_v._Jackson_Women%27s_Hea...
What if I told you, there is this startup that is working on really effective ways of proliferating plutonium. And that it is under pressure to keep the hype, so there isn’t much time to organize the storage of proliferated materials. And the thinking is that even if it explodes, since startup is not building a bomb, it can’t really make that much damage.

Oh, and also imagine that nobody really knows what plutonium is, there is just one startup that had figured out how to turn uranium to plutonium.

Also that understanding of uranium for now is at the level when it was just discovered. So people are still handling it by bare hands. And trying to sell shiny uranium toys.
If there were no rent control, all the units would go to the wealthy and everyone else would be driven out of the city.
I rode Epcot Mission Space Orange, and I didn't realize it was a centrifuge. I thought it just cleverly tipped you on your back to simulate G-forces. It certainly felt real, so it's neat to know that it was.
To be fair, Google has done a lot of shitty things, annoying things, short-sighted things, even unfair things. But I can't, offhand, think of anything "evil." Like, we're purposely going to fuck with this guy (or group). Examples?
I think if you are experienced and want to get started right away then picking up a YouTube tutorial playlist by any of the top tech YouTubers might work out for you.

Otherwise, freeCodeCamp's (New) Responsive Web Design certificate will make you comfortable with the syntax and DOM manipulation.
Well we don’t really know that an accelerometer is needed for input shaping for a nozzle that is only accelerating across a single plane. The mk4 nozzle only moves on one horizontal axis when printing not two like the XL and the Bambu. Not that I don’t trust your take, but Prusa usually has their ducks in a row and I expect this to be no different.

I don’t care about any features of the Bambu line and would continue with Prusa line. They are nice sure but they aren’t that much cheaper with that much better features. You didnt really mention these jaw dropping world changing features so feel free to fill me. I hope it’s more spaghetti detection.
ah, the youth tax
Does 4-5 weeks mean 20-25 days? If so that's pretty much 'statutory to bog standard' in the UK, which aiui is on the low end of Europe.
People may be reacting negatively to your comment because it quotes a language model verbatim, with no context or analysis.

You can probably understand why that might not be considered a constructive contribution to most discussions.
I hesitate to append this but one option I have seen thrown around and also debated is git-crypt [1] Here [2] is a discussion on HN about git-crypt. There are many caveats to doing this as any integrations that would need to read the file contents would also need to be able to decrypt the files so this may not be entirely useful and may add many levels of complexity and fragility. In theory one could encrypt specific files and then check them into any of the cloud hosted git repositories but anything that needs to read the contents of the file will need a mechanism to decrypt them automatically. That thread also mentions transcrypt [3]

If doing this I would strongly recommend also having a local non-encrypted weekly snapshot of your files in the event that nobody is able to decrypt your committed files.

[1] - https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7508734

[3] - https://github.com/elasticdog/transcrypt
> I have only met a couple people like this, but as in the quote it's immediately obvious, and you see why they are where they are.

What do you mean by this?
> calls for a single global government

Untrue.

Maybe we’ve read different versions, can you point to where it calls for a single global government and currency?
The elephants are easy to explain:

1. Microsoft crossing something from the paper title is not as relevant as you think it is. People might be just having fun while it was being written. You can anyways try for yourself what it's capabilities are. There is no need to rely on the paper title in comments.

2. OpenAI has had massive investment from Microsoft (like ten billion dollars). And they rely on Microsoft for all hardware related things (selecting the optimal hardware config). They hired some of the best in the field from Google, and a small team of smart people can do wonders (e.g, see the number of fundamental Google technologies by Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat in the 2000s).

3. Google is a big company and suffers from all the big company problems, plus they have enormous brand risk if their chatbot utters some words wrong. Anyone might accuse them of being A or B depending on what the chatbot says, which can damage the highly profitable products.

4. I mean that seems incorrect. If you have friends working in Meta they will tell you that people were really working on the Metaverse.

5. It is not cross organisation, hence every single company is trying to see what they can do. Again easy to verify if you have contacts in the companies at high enough levels.

6. If anybody has nuclear fusion, it would be too stupid to not use it in the tightest control possible way. Energy is the core problem of the modern world and nobody is going to sit on limitless energy.
you forgot my node_modules folder
Interesting that your model allows for super-intelligence but not faster than light travel.
Trivia: I just noticed that sama left the very first comment on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1
I don't have any other major issues with Chrome and I've developed several plugins for it that I regularly use. Is Firefox better nowadays because when I left it, Chrome just seemed better in most ways. Firefox felt like an outdated (design) memory hog.
It's quite simple. There are multiple conspiracies and they ally with each other but those bonds are fluid and shifting.

To give two examples relating to China and India here was a thread very recently that mentioned how the Mexican cartels are making inroads in the US, succesfully corrupting some police union and that cartel was also in cahoots with the chinese as thats where they were sourcing their fentanyl from.

There is also the Indian Brahmin conspiracy where they favor each other over other castes even abroad.

Both of these are real and established. But it's also clear that neither of them are all-powerful.
Is the world finally realizing that "a + b" actually returns two values: pass/fail and the value if pass?

"a + b = c;" is a fundamentally flawed operation from a computer architecture perspective.
I received a copy of Where Wizards Stay Up Late as a BBN employee when GTE bought the company. Honestly not sure whether I ever read it.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Where-Wizards-Stay-Up...
I'm an immigrant and got really burned during the Harper admin (Kenny's handling of immigration destroyed my life). That basically meant my options are Liberal or NDP. NDP policies seem to think if I make more than 200K, I am a rich fat cat (ignore that I have a freakin PhD at the cost of a delay in buying a house - effectively making me far poorer in wealth terms than someone with a mediocre undergrad who bought a place anytime before 2015). Last election, I recall thinking, how can I vote NDP if them winning means I'll leave the country. That means, my only choice is Liberal. I am so fed up with their mismanagement, that I think I need to vote conservative just to make my voice heard, and then if (when?) the xenophobes of that party come out, go liberal again. I dunno .. feels like Canada isn't for people like me.