skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if it's really not possible to do some automation.

Could a compiler or static analyser not work backwards from execv() params?

I guess it's not as simple as that because really all functions matter not just the exec/system ones. Anything that merely reads or writes memory at all, could be used eventually to disclose a secret or alter behavior. Without ever doing something as obvious as executing a shell command, I could maybe change the address to a function, causing the function to behave differently, skip some bit of important logic that sometime later in some totally unrelated process allows me permission to access a file or interface I shouldn't etc. In the end, I guess there is no function anywhere that doesn't matter, and so the backtraking process would just end up including everything. Not useful.

You would need a "mark of the web" bit of metadata attached to every single variable and block of disk. That would need to be baked in to the hardware platform as an extra bit. Everything on the motherboard, ram, cpu, storage everything is 9 bits instead of 8, with 8 payload and the 9th is the tainted mark. Not just every byte of memory, but every part of everything. The disk bus has the extra bit for the data, all the disk access instructions include the extra bit to taint the issuance of the instruction itself, which also taints the data the instruction handled, every cpu register, every address, the address itself as well as the data at the address, etc...

These could all be 65 bits for 64 instead of 9 for 8, but only if the platform was made incapable of operating on anything less than 64/65 bits. 64/65 would have to be the fundamental "char" for the platform.

Even then, I bet it would all have to reslove out to every byte or word ends up having that bit set for one reason or another. Ultimately 100% of the data comes from outside and comes from people, or was somehow derived from data that did.

Though maybe we could simply artificially bless certain data even though it is software or firmware or data that humans wrote and loaded in, and use that to keep track of the rest in a more useful way.

Rust in hardware?
There have also been huge corruption scandals before and after COVID. Grift will find a way.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_selfie-related_injurie...

India has the highest selfie related deaths compared to other countries.
You can find more info. about AutoGPT alike projects here - https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoGPT/
That the screenshots are from the mobile website for some reason makes this look even worse.
That reminds me of the entertaining "I just want to serve 5 terabytes. Why is this so difficult?" video that someone made inside Google. It satirizes the difficulty of getting things done at production scale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI
I have read this analysis several times, and near as I can tell you’re basically saying “if blowing up a stick of dynamite provides x energy, we can just use that same x energy to find all the original bits of that stick and put it back together”.
came here for salty julian jaynes takes
Finding unused dependencies in Python projects
How much do you need in savings to handle the maximum number of properties destroyed in a once per hundred year, bad year? If the number is greater than 100% of home value, clients are better off holding savings funds.
It is amazing how well Age of Empires 2 aged. My regular gaming crew likes RTS sometimes, usually AoE2. So, we decided to try out some Brood War, since it was the decidedly superior RTS 20 years ago. Could barely finish the game! All the comforts they’ve added to AoE2 over time (bigger viewport and better graphics mostly) and the grouping/pathfinding made us spoiled.

I played a ton of StarCraft growing up and it definitely has a high rank in the pantheon of games, but I’ve been converted to AoE2 I guess. Wololo.
Spinach is an extremely common and cheap food in India. Again, we are not sure if better alternatives. That was a pitch and idea that we wanted to try. We felt the cost to benefit ratio is massive.
Emerging US Debt Deal Would Raise Limit, Cap Spending for Two Years
Are people still hating on GPT-4 summaries? I find them useful:

>The text notes that while powerful institutions and victorious factions may influence the preservation and interpretation of historical records, factors such as literacy also play a role. History's portrayal of England's Reformation illustrates how the 'winners' can shape historical narratives, in this case favoring Protestantism over Catholicism until recent reevaluation. The notion of 'winners' itself is questioned as too simplistic, potentially obscuring historical diversity. The text also explores the fluidity of 'winning', using the example of the Cold War's end and the subsequent scrutiny of neoliberal ideals. Lastly, the text asserts that contemporary history is largely crafted by historians, professionals dedicated to analyzing history's complexity and including the voices of marginalized groups.
>but their continuing to live there and be insured has to be subsidized by somebody somewhere

I think insurance companies cover customers because the customers pay for the insurance.

You're saying that because profits for insurance companies aren't at the level the insurance companies want, that they can say - because it's illegal to own an uninsured home, where people can and can not live?

That seems like an overreach of power of a private company.
I always marvel at all of these ETA's. They're building a train station near me and take them 4 years to build it! For a train station! Skyscrapers go up faster than that! I don't get it.
Too much capacity and not enough profit. Anyone who puts money into AI startups is going to find it very hard to compete with Open AI and Google. But reality has never stopped a gold rush before and it wont this time round.
Nintendo did not DMCA Dolphin – Valve contacted Nintendo about Dolphin
it’s extremely to share urls needing auth with people who have the same access levels as you, such as in your company
It wasn't just for cheating, though. Any form of plagiarism was punished this way.

In one exercise, we had to set up a website (basic HTML/JS/CSS stuff). To fill up this site with content, one student translated an entire other website without clear credit (there was a little link on the bottom of the index but that was about it). Despite the focus of the course having nothing to do with the content, that was a strike.

Another student I knew got a strike got one because in the first report they had to write in a group, one of their team members copied some text from Wikipedia and didn't tell anyone. That probably worked in high school, but it sure didn't work here! The entire group got a strike on their record for that, not even two months into their education.

If you were cheating particularly badly, there could be more consequences than "just" a strike. I doubt they'd let you get away with looking up answers to test questions.

In contrast, at my current university, cheating is rampant. Entire courses with known mass cheating had no measures taken because that would affect too many students. It's terrible and if things don't change I wouldn't be surprised if degrees would lose accreditation at some point.
Drone delivery does not work. It sounds cool but in practice it is terrible.
This is reasonably well studied and not true. California homeless are not, in fact, largely migrants from other states.
What were they thinking. Nintendo allowing an emulator on steam??
The biggest issue I've personally experienced is semantics when wrapping your head a design or debugging a service you aren't familiar with.

"POST" has come to imply a "write" operation, and mixing up the the reads and writes of a system leads to cognitive dissonance.
Because it’s another thing that can malfunction at the single worst possible moment for a thing to malfunction.

I’m not even an enthusiast and I would never ever ever buy one of these as a self-defense firearm. It just doesn’t make any sense in terms of the risk you’re trying to mitigate by buying a gun.
A brief explainer I should really have submitted with the link:

- PlatformIO already has "official" support for the RasPi Pico board, with Arduino

- However almost everyone prefers and uses the "unofficial" earlephilhower/arduino-pico integration which adds a ton of features and is well documented

- A PR to add this integration to the PIO registry has been outstanding for over two years now

- In the last week or so the PlatformIO CEO has posted that they will not be merging the PR

- My understanding of their reasoning is that RasPi needs to pay PIO to support the branch going forward? The language is rather vague with a lot of talk about "communities" and "values" so I could be wrong about this, please don't sue me

- RasPi's response is basically "LOL no" since they are all-in on their horrible CMake toolchain and don't care about PIO
>The area is clearly insanely risky to the point where no premium justifies offering coverage

Perhaps this was lost, but areas where insurance companies are deeming too risky to live is growing given climate change is real and weather patterns are shifting - sometimes drastically - to create more powerful storms.

This is just going to continue to happen in a game of Russian Roulette.
Not for Jane Street. They likely have millions of lines written in OCaml and rely heavily on its type system safety guarantees.
Cocaine would have a similar issue as saffron. although to a much lesser extent. While it can be grown rather easily, one would need quite a few plants to make enough for a single recreational user.
Oftentimes people enter relationships since they’re too afraid to be alone, and so are willing to close their eyes and tolerate something in a partner (be it a friend or a lover) they would not otherwise. Of course, there comes a time when the accumulated annoyances with these incompatibilities become too much, and so it falls apart.
Cloudflare R2?
Show HN: Using AI to summarize news into 3 bullet points
OpenAI uses inferior text-DaVinci-002 instead of GPT-3.5
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/surprise-theory-of-everyth...
I’d imagine that it is feasible to defend any area with greater than x people per square mile from fire, aye? At some point you could install multiple fire hoses per block, build river beds to create fire breaks, and clearcut the surrounding area, no?
probably thanks to other substances, fossil fuels
Vote Republican to solve the problem, or vote Democrat to make it worse.
Scientists develop ‘artificial leaf’ that could power the cars of the future
Tesla instructed employees to only communicate verbally about complaints
Why don't all American cities look in these regards like San Francisco does? They don't, so something is going on. I think there's something broken about San Francisco, and people have been suggesting that for coming up on 3 decades now:

https://www.salon.com/1999/11/03/sf/
I would imagine it depends on what you're concerned about too. If you're using it for self defense but also have children you need to lock away the gun for, this might be attractive compared to a slow to access safe.
During the mid 90s you could have been excused for thinking the company’s name was “Beleaguered Apple Computer” that phrase was used so often in the trade press.
Students learning Algorithms for the first time should never touch CLRS. It is the worst thing that a beginner can pick up. It is good as a reference text.

Beginners should start with this. This book "actually" teaches you how algorithms are designed and how to break down problems into chunks and solve them using induction/recursion.

Your mind will just be blown.
> So say I write a book - it seems to me you're saying I have a moral obligation for that book to be preserved for future generations to read. How about if I actively don't want that to happen? Should the cops come to my door and take it away?

You're always free to not publish your work, and you'll never be compelled to publish your work. But at some point, you (or your heirs) will lose the right to use copyright law to prevent other people from publishing your work.

> Or if let one other person read it, now they inherit some right over my work to reread it?

https://xkcd.com/294/

Copyright only gives authors/owners a limited set of exclusive rights over their works, mostly concerning physical copies, derivative works and public performance: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/106 Copyright law is not about ideas or knowledge in your head. Reading a book is not an activity that copyright law is concerned with.

> In the future its likely games will be streamed and played in the cloud. You will never have physical access to the actual executed bits. Does that mean your rights as a user are different now?

Being a user isn't what gives you rights under copyright law. Being a legal owner of a copy of a game is what matters. If you only use a streaming service, you probably have never purchased a copy of the game. You may have purchased a license authorizing a hosting provider to run their copy of the game on your behalf (commercial software vendors like to use contract law to try to wield powers that copyright law doesn't grant them).
You sound like an AI generated post.
The documentary is great. It’s a little repetitive and disjointed, but still great. You can find it on YT.
Humans are responsible for about 1% of annual co2 emissions.

What they said is spot on: the problem would go away in short order if we ceased all emissions today.

That’s obviously not going to happen though, and the original argument is spot on too: the technology is just socialised greenwashing. It’s basically only there to postpone legislature and offload the cost to tax payers while keeping private profits high.
How many people have actually been prosecuted as war criminals even on the losing side?
What climate/zone do they grow? Where can I get me some seeds?
>The chips are essentially highly parallel processors

Right. AFAIK we already were doing SIMD, Vector Processing, VLIW etc. to speed up parallel processing for numerical calculations in AI/ML. What then is the reason for the explosion of these different categories of chips? Are they just glorified ASICs designed for their specific domains or FPGAs programmed accordingly? If so what is their architecture i.e. what are their functional units and how do they work together?
I was supposed to help customers hook up modems and reboot their routers, I wasn't really supposed to dig into this stuff (and when I did I'd usually get an annoyed manager asking me to focus on my job). It would've been a great learning experience, but nobody really knew much other than that some device on the customer network was interacting with some known C&C servers.

The customer wasn't particularly interested in finding out either, they blamed us for false reports the moment their XP machine was scanned and found no viruses.
"Can someone explain how the business model for indoor farming is supposed to work?"

This depends entirely upon a bunch of various factors, but the major draws are that you can control the environment, and with specialized hydroponics techniques you can drastically reduce the usage of fertilizers and water to obtain an equal-quality crop. You can also drastically reduce the footprint required - in certain hydroponics systems, what would normally take 1 full acre of land (say, alfalfa) could be done in 1/8 of an acre. Depending on the crop, you can even get away without using light at all (most grass crops work with this) reaping even more savings on energy usage.

Many of these farms are failing because they've got a bad mix of factors that they did not thoroughly think through before implementing. All of the farms I've set up in Australia, UK, and the Middle East are still working just fine, a decade later.
Change nothing about my life. Pretty much just keep doing the same thing I do now. I already don't work. I pretty much just do whatever interests me. Hopefully getting a lump sum of money doesn't screw with my SSI or my Medicaid and food stamps because I would hate to have to start having to actually pay for my groceries with real money and have my prescriptions actually have a copay instead of be free...
You're ignoring such a huge part of the HTTP specification there, like request idempotency, caching, the security model, and surely stuff I'm forgetting right now.

HTTP, at its heart, is a way to compose an action from a verb and a noun - such as "get this", or "update that". The request method, or verb, is intertwined with the URI, or resource, the noun - together, they form the action the user agent intends to carry out. "GET /foo" is entirely distinct from "POST /foo", and there are lots of considerations why it has been implemented like that. I cannot recommend reading the spec (or letting ChatGPT summarise it for you) enough, it will really make more sense.

Having said all that, I know what situations you are referring to - say, issuing a PATCH request with an HTML form, or circumventing some redirect bug with a POST request. Still, all of those problems hint at some other, more general issue, and solving such inconvenience would come at the price of a completely broken HTTP specification. Protocols like email, or HTTP, have only been around for so long because they were designed elegantly and carefully. Let's not break that for convenience' sake :)
I only remember doing this as a kid out of curiosity and to annoy other people :)
I wonder to what extent the Ukraine war partly an attempt to break this remarkable reserve-monopoly that the US has acquired since the 90s. Using its global projection of military power, the US has managed to open up and secure world trade to the entire rich world, and in the process made the USD indispensable. The US can keep printing for decades , and the USD is not getting debased. People in tech startups are aware of the advantages of low interest rates, being awash with money and using it to outcompete every threat. Not only that created monopolies, but easy capital made US tech cities the default and mandatory destination for entrepreneurs from all over the world, which has added quite a few trillion to the US economy. The US enjoys the privilege of being the last empire in a post-empire world and maybe military action is a desperate attempt to change that. Maybe it even contributed to the rates rise
The future of wealth and growth hangs in the balance
Thanks for considering my problem intriguing. I didn't find your comment dismissive at all and I appreciate your thorough response.

Also your ideas are interesting! The last one especially.

> But if you have written the service such that you can reject a deployment unless you're sure it worked, you are technically free to use quite stupid ways to store the data because worst case the deployment just fails and the old code chugs on.

I do and there's lots of error handling, so I'm not worried about doing a fun idea like editing a user profile via API.

Your suggestions have my gears turning.
Atlanta. Not a lot of natural disasters there, far enough from the ocean to be insulated from rising sea levels as well as hurricanes. Too warm for ice storms.
I’d love to see your other suggestions!
Dolphin doesn’t run Switch games.
The same way you would be prevented from doing non-transactional things between calls to transaction.start() and transaction.end()
"smart" = complicated electronics likely to fail
This is about what I would expect from a PHP enthusiast...

Who was the last group that argued "states first!" over people's rights and lives? How did that go again?
Storage Boxes are even cheaper, 20 EUR (or less if you’re outside Europe) for 10TB + unlimited bandwidth.
I believe that is where India's population of 1.4 Billion comes in. There are too many unemployed people willing to work and benefit from some form of income. A decent pay (not an exploitative one) for most housewives would kill to get that job of harvesting Saffron in their spare time. That might supplement their household income and even send their kids to school.
But a new HTTP method would require an update to the middle boxes... if you're doing that, you could also consider updating them to avoid the issue you described.

Overall, I'm not necessarily inherently against new HTTP methods. If equipment that is supposed to be transparent to HTTP isn't, should be solved elsewhere, not by a new HTTP method.
Like the battery runs out when you need it. It uses both fingerprint and facial recognition to arm.
Also did you watch the video. Look at the size of it. Its enormous.

Also a minor nit: The gun apparently uses an enrollment APP ! Like I want to be dependent on Google or Apple to let me download an app to enable my gun. Are you kidding?
Disagree.

It’s closer to the same reason that most people would prefer not to have a car airbag that checks driver != thief in the milliseconds between impact and deployment.
Because they are an order of magnitude more expensive.
This is a great idea, but I have questions

* Is there a process for upstreaming this into the mainline language, or is this essentially JaneStML now?

* Why choose such an obscure word as `exclave` to indicate return-value optimization? How about `return local` or something similarly approachable?
The RFCs are clear that a server should ignore any body sent by a client after a GET request header. But RFCs don't matter; real life matters, and in real life there are lots of HTTP clients that can't make a GET request with a body. We had to go into our API and add POST support to every endpoint that was GET + body because there was a long tail of clients that couldn't manage to make the GET request. In practice, support is NOT widespread enough to rely on GET + body requests.
Anyone that has ever tried to use a fingerprint reader with greasy hands under time pressure will reject this.
Or even an ftp server and rsync.
Anthropomorphism in Dialogue Systems
In Portland, you only get specific types of avocados that can be harvested while still hard and survive the journey. This applies to all types of produce: being transportable is more important than tastiness.
One would be that this is an added point of failure on a tool which REALLY needs to be consistent when you need it. Conventional "safety"* mechanisms are already often avoided for certain use cases because they add another element of complexity which needs to be factored in.

*safety is in quotes because certain mechanisms don't necessarily improve safety assuming proper handling. A holstered gun without a safety catch or grip safety isn't really any more dangerous. If you operate under the idea that you are only going to draw a gun if you need it to defend yourself from a deadly threat then the "safety" is redundant and makes it more likely you will make a mistake.
Immunologist Akiko Iwasaki: ‘We are not done with Covid, not even close’
>The Yale professor and long Covid expert on why the virus is causing ongoing illness for so many, and the challenges she faces as a woman of colour in science
Fair enough, nothing wrong with proposing and interesting theory!
I'm not judging it as a good or bad result. I'm just describing a system whereby a student in the US can study pretty much anything they want that's offered by the schools that have admitted them and that they're able to pay for. Individual schools may also require, for example, taking some number of liberal arts courses even if you're in a technical major and that's part of the bargain you sign up for. But, unsurprisingly, courses are different than they were 100 years ago in general mostly because there's less demand for certain things such as fluency in Latin and ancient Greek and more for majors that companies are actively seeking. (Although there are still Classics majors.)
Bay Area woman ready to die with seizures saved via brain surgery by laser probe
How can AI change our Past?
That's rather silly. Getting IPv6 connectivity is usually the difficult part, and servers are the easiest things to get IPv6 for. I wonder what part of their tech stack is still incompatible after all these years.