skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading the spec again, I suppose it's possible to keep copies of environment variables around in memory without violating the spec, basically creating a copy for every getenv call that was modified since the last setenv/putenv. I thought the spec also specified that writes to the returned pointer would update the environment variables, but no such guarantee is given, that's just an implementation detail (and is disallowed by the API spec but good luck enforcing that).

The XSI spec does state that the result of getenv() may be overwritten by putenv() but that's not a strict requirement either.

You still risk programs and libraries expecting getenv to always return a pointer to *environ failing (I believe Go has an issue like that on MUSL).

On the other hand, the POSIX standard explicitly states that getenv() does not need to be reentrant (and therefore doesn't need to be thread safe) so any program relying on thread-safe getenv is already violating the API contract.

The rationale also seems to assume you can't make this stuff thread safe because of the standard implementation:

> The getenv() function is inherently not reentrant because it returns a value pointing to static data.
yes, compiler will align integers on word boundaries. casting to char, just uses the first 8 bits of integer word. Char was originaly just sematic macro for integer. pointer to char is 8 sequenial bits somewhere in the group of integer spaced bits. if you're lucky, the 8 bits are at the start of the integer group of bits, otherwise, segfault.

Originaly using anonymous unions & placing largest bit count variable as first item in union was the context needed to align the "char" correctly -- vs. casting.

Technically, can point at anything in an unaligned manner, just need to align access to machines address boundary to use a "fetch the value of a complete valid memory alignment address". One can hand roll the appropriate shifts/masking to get at the set of bits loaded (which usually let compiler do). Awk and settable end of line marker good way to safely visualize this.
Any sufficiently complicated productivity program is an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of a small subset of Emacs.
I quit doing paper forms ~10 years ago when I missed coping line 12c from form 5678-e to line 34-f of form 9876-k. The hassle of correcting that was enough to make me quit doing taxes by hand.

It takes longer to do my taxes via the web forms than it did by hand (which says just how bad the UI of tax prep is!), but it saves me from human mistakes.

Note that the ISR already has all the information they need to do my taxes for me. They just don't do them.
In natural systems (i.e. all real systems), it's better to think of exponential growth as just the first half of a sigmoid curve.
I don't think your lifestyle choice conflicts with educating people about backdoored systems. It seems to me that Hackers and civilians can work together to identify obviously backdoored systems (eg. Dual_EC_DRBG) and encourage review.
You can check out the source code of this project at: https://github.com/sudomakes/backroad
I would also encourage the use of the GNU Image Manipulation Program for raster style image editing. It's not as shiny or clean as AffinityPhoto, but it seems more powerful and has scripting as an option. Just a helpful suggestion of a middle-ground between automating through ffmpeg and AffinityPhoto.
> I’m sorry, I didn’t get that from your post.

Sorry for being unclear.

> Can you give an example case where I’d have no benefit whatsoever?

Let's say you donate money to African children or survivors of an earthquake, or partiipate in a project that will not have any results in your lifetime (like Voyager maybe?). Or you go to a climate demonstration while being old, without any chance to see any consequence of it.

> Can you please define “the meaning of the universe” for me?

I guess there can be no scientific definition here. But imagine there was someone who created the Universe and tuned it for humanity to appear and develop, in a hope of having a good companion. In such case, the meaning of the Universe would be to eventually give a companion. Or maybe, there was nobody, but the Universe still appeared in such a way that more and more complicated structures are created infinitely. What is a purpose of a living cell? It is to collect, process, and transfer further information about the environment (to survive). Same for human DNA, and maybe for humans, too. We can process information much more efficiently with our tools already and enter the informational age - maybe for a reason? To me knowledge is the meaning of the Universe/humanity, and only knowledge will reveal if there is something more here.
That'd be a loss for sure, yeah. I think they mainly work on Luau language stuff and developer experience / type inference? AFAIK Arseny works more on deep VM level stuff, or at least that's what he would talk about back when we were in contact.
Wait until you see CNN or Fox News in the new world.

"It'll blow your socks clean off clicking sound, wink and gun"

- AI generated Matthew McConaghey, 2033
Do they? Do you have any source for this, as I would be very surprised if it was true. Hell I'd surprised to learn that Tesla pays mechanics at their service centres in US in stock options.
Let me ask this - do you think Captains are no longer needed in the military? What do they do that Majors, Colonels, and Generals can't?

They execute.

You see, your directors, managing directors, VPs, presidents and C-suite people - they're all the high brass, i.e. the Majors, Colonels, and Generals. They're responsible for setting the vision and creating the strategic plan. They're not positioned for tactics and execution.

The people positioned for tactics and execution are the people who work with production, i.e. the doers. In the military, it's the Lieutenants and Captains that are on the actual battlefield. They're middle management. They're the people that fully understand the vision and strategy and yet are empowered to control the means for getting it done. They're in the trenches with the troops, enduring their pain and hardships, and building camaraderie. They're LEADING. THAT is what a middle manager does, or at least should be doing. If your middle manager isn't doing that then they should be replaced. If your company's high brass doesn't understand what a middle manager should be doing then you need to leave - it's unlikely you'll succeed pushing that rock up the hill and you can apply your energies elsewhere with an organization that has a clue for how to run things.
I've never once heard of a recruiter rescinding an offer after a relocation. Not once in 35 years.

Recruiters also don't dictate layoffs. This is a function of Finance and layoffs are a part of life.

And it is extremely rare for a recruiter to ghost a candidate. I don't recall ever hearing this happen, though I imagine it's possible under rare circumstances.
How do we clean up the scientific record?
100% opposite experience here, but you know the saying, if one person won’t accept your invite it’s probably them, if nobody will accept your invites…
I'm more concerned about my phone being stolen. A DoS because I left my Bluetooth on is annoying. Having my phone stolen and then just letting the thief makes money off that is galling.
What if I told you the better alternative to Figma is... not doing the stuff you do in Figma at all?
> I simply do not trust for profit drug companies to do this work. I certainly don't trust governments to do it either.

But you trust nature to do this work? ;-)

> Further, the idea that we can correctly estimate how nature is going to perform and then front run those outcomes in the laboratory is entirely insane and is explicitly anti-science.

Well, this eliminates a great deal of research areas completely outside virology. Climatologists aren't needed. Seismologists aren't needed. Meteorologists become largely irrelevant. Much of cancer research, forestry, etc. isn't needed. Certainly no need to take measures for forecasted hurricanes or tsunamis.

We do just fine estimating how nature is going to perform and identifying what to do in anticipation of it. There's a lot of variables involved, so we don't always get it exactly right, but we sure do a lot better making forecasts and reacting to them than when we don't.
> There will be some remote employees who are not asked to return... individuals who have niche skill sets or significant institutional knowledge (e.g., multi-disciplinary skills, deep expertise with Roblox systems, etc.).

So they are just straight-up admitting that RTO is a punishment for bad performance / inadequate skillset? They're apparently just trying to extract extra performance out of people that would rather just lay off.
the SARS-CoV-2 genome is ~29.8K nucleotides long. 96% of that sequence is identical to the genome of RaTG13, i.e. all but ~1200 match. for reference, SARS-CoV-1 is only 82% similar to SARS-CoV-2. at a mutation rate of 8*10^-4, this means the current strains of COVID are ~97% identical to the original 2019 sequence.

so, darned close honestly. to be clear, I'm not saying RaTG13 is the source of the lab leak - it's just too different - but I am saying that it's much closer than the original SARS, and thus had no business being analyzed in a BSL-2 lab.
Mazda's DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist's smart car API tool
I agree with you, but that doesn't negate what I said about this being correctable in software. Whereas if someone implants a malicious HSM in my iPhone, or a screen that has a secondary chip connected to it recording everything I touch, then that's not correctable in software.

It also does not qualify as "pwning" your device, at least for my interpretation of the word "pwn."
Big fan of the four tet remix of this one
https://spotify.link/n3A1bFEOYDb
Why is something like this published as a press release? Is it not an internal matter?
It's sad that most of the mentioned stand-alone (desktop) alternatives do not have a Linux option.
Yeah it's a bit weird to see the difference.

> Also, ExecuTorch does not rely on TorchScript, and instead leverages PyTorch 2 compiler and export functionality for on-device execution of PyTorch models.

I think this is the major change: AFAIU you could consider ExecuTorch as ""just a rewrite"" of PyTorch mobile using PyTorch 2 compiler.

BUT this is should still be pretty major. It was pretty hard to retarget models to be compatible with TorchScript. But most recent models will want to target PyTorch 2 compiler for the performance boost. Which means they'll automatically get ExecuTorch support.

As someone who got burned several times in trying to port models to TorchScript and run them on Androids, I'm happy they did that.
I don't necessarily disagree with this at a high level, but it doesn't really have anything to do with the idea that we have to listen to what someone has to say simply based on their level of wealth, or that their level of wealth automatically makes them "inspiring".
Right, there seems to be some assumption that LLMs must respond in a way that its both congruent to the trainer and user but if the user requests responses that aren't congruent to the trainer, then the model must refuse.

I'll just flat out say it - this premise is flawed.
use a malloc that has the extra saftey features, run under an interpreted C, and several other ways to handle it (sandbox program, emulator, etc). Changing the underlying C language should NOT be one of them.
I was going to download until I saw it isn't available on Linux.
The point of a land value tax is to incentivise that realisation. In prosperous cities the reduction is inner city population is due to land being used commercially, and maybe up to a point that's fine. You can always adjust the value tax based on type of actual usage. The important thing is that it's used efficiently in a way that benefits the community.
Can she at least have razor blades under her fingernails?
No, actually. COVID originated at the location of a lab doing gain of function research on coronaviruses and the lab had a sketchy safety record. If you need someone to tell you the most likely origin of COVID given these circumstances you have a fundamental inability to reason and a citation wouldn't help you because you lack the ability to comprehend.
This ordinance sounds like it was created to discourage people from flying drones and photographing residents without their permission. If I had to guess, some hobbyists probably tried to claim what they were doing was business-related. So, the city decided to set a high bar.
I'm not sure you establish the 100X-10,000X measure. How did you calculate the realized benefit? How do you quantify the relative impact of extinction?
Someone writing words in a prompt and a photographer setting up a photoshoot are completely different! Different enough that we can easily draw a line between these activities.

In the above case, the photographer had a particular vision in mind and fulfilled it with their camera, choosing the scenery, lighting, model, colors, framing, and overall composition. They set up all of those factors, and then chose the best take from the portraits to use for further work. It was deliberate and done with specific intent. There is no way one can argue this is the same as entering words into a prompt with a straight face.
I wish somebody could implement a Photoshop UI for GIMP. I am using GIMP as my main photo editor but there is a lot of UI pain. A lot of it. Many things are counterintuitive.
It is percent based, like the vast majority of sales in almost all market sectors, because the amount of work is unpredictable. It largely depends on the fickle nature of your clients and those on the other side, as well as for example lenders messing things up, etc, as has happened to me recently. So pricing needs to take into account the law of averages, it can't optimize as much as would be possible if all people were strictly rational actors.

Not one person likes high costs and there are millions of professionals attempting to optimize every day. There is plenty of incentive. It is a lot of money. But maybe walmart will come and make everything ~~better~~ cheaper and unbearable.
Care to elaborate? I actually agree with you, but I feel like my reasoning may be different, and I'm interested in how you came to your opinion.
> He found that most women would take his free drinks and ditch him.

If the option to ditch him wasn't there then the drinks weren't really free, were they? It sounds more like him buying someone a drink came with expectations attached.
Looks like her Shamanism business is a side gig. I see her listed as a VP on another non-profit website[0], so I guess she actually does have a track record of non-profit management. It don't think it's entirely unusual for people to have side gigs, especially when they're in management consultancy. I have a C-suite sister-in-law who is also a Reiki practitioner.

[0]: https://dignitymoves.org/team/holly-million/
Oh yes, the web is an easier route and has fewer barriers to adoption. I do struggle with adoption a bit since this is a desktop app, and many larger companies have strict policies about it. I would have definitely gone the web route if the solution I was aiming for could be accomplished using just a web app. However, some of the features I wanted to include in this "all-in-one" solution are best executed in a desktop app.
Just print out the sheet from your broker of all the trades you did with the end result of gains circled. Send that in. You should be ok from doing anything more complex.
Some more quotes

> Brostep has one good track: Charlie Sheen's raging cokehead rant

> The Swedish House Mafia is a dingleberry clinging to the ass hair of electronic music. Seriously, what sort of horrendous ear sandpaper like One needs three god damn producers?

> PS: If you're coming here from Pitchfork, go f*ck yourself.
Never heard the term either but prob refers to the ‘French touch’ genre including daft punk, justice, stardust, et al
A great replacement for Photoshop, which basically mimics CS2 (the last version that was good) is PhotoPea[1]. Free, ad-supported but with a "no ads" subscription option, and works amazingly well for a web app.

[1] https://www.photopea.com
There are tons of counter-examples to his argument — that successful organizations (and organisms) don't require exponentially unchecked growth. Do those mean either his argument is wrong, or those examples are outliers?

(Examples: Mailchimp, anything Pieter levels makes, etc.)
It is weird, it feels backward. When I look at the writing in the scans in the pdf, it looks less fluent and more typewriter styled than how we learned to write at school. For example, the h has no loop, the capitals seem not to have extra loops wrt their non-capital counterpart. This means that you will lift your pen more often.

That said, I think it reads easier than fully cursive, because it is less dense.
So, do it anyway and let the IRS eventually send a correction (refund or bill) in the rare cases where it makes a difference. Or allow the taxpayer to make corrections if they know about them. But probably the number of errors will go down; well-intended taxpayers often copy numbers wrong, and that probably happens more often than "eventually consistent" issues.
That's my point - seems like private police with both public authority and resources. These officers are directly benefiting churches, private neighborhoods, etc. by providing public services benefitting private institutions.

Seems sketchy to me.
That's why organizations like Consumer Reports are important.

E.g. if Tesla batteries only last X years and you plan on keeping your Tesla for Y years, then knowing that leads to better decision making.
Anyone can call themselves whatever they want, but others aren't necessarily going to acknowledge it. Just like how software developers call themselves "engineers".

People writing prompts can certainly attempt to call themselves "artists", but they will not be perceived or acknowledged as such by literally anyone who takes making art seriously.
Not quite true: zoonotic crossover events become more likely as more animals are brought together.

Large-scale wet markets or bushmeat markets increase the chances because there are more rolls of the dice.
If that became the expectation or legislation, I'd expect you'd see a lot more "officially not end of life, but no recent updates have been pushed".
Right, so they’ve culturally made it impossible for the government to go after them and legally impossible for citizens. Pretty sweet deal.
> I've got somewhere around 10 years, conservatively, until Instagram/TikTok/YouTube/Facebook/etc. try to get my daughter to kill herself. I've got around 10 years until she is a statistic, hopefully the statistic that survives.

You make a fair point gnicholas.

If you can reword this sentence in a way that accurately reflects what you think is happening while simultaneously not losing the conciseness of the waters I'm navigating as a parent when I say "in 10 years, Instagram is going to try to get my daughter to kill herself" - I'll gladly edit it and start using that instead.

I haven't found a better way to express myself though.

Sure apps aren't sentient. They don't have free will. They can't "try to do anything." But language is messy.

You're right about losing people in the argument too, that's not a great outcome.

Micromacrofoot is spot on as well, you have a generation of parents who understand well that social media is a root rot in our society and evidence showing the people building them _knew_ about the impact it was having on kids.

"Bad for mental health" doesn't cut it. I reject any language that dulls the blade of kids committing suicide.
Your threat model is still ridiculously upside down. You are literally arguing that you are more worried about the possibility that someone subjects you to some type of maid attack (which requires an almost implausible level of dedication) rather than someone with a 5$ atmel chip claiming to be an Apple TV, automatically pairing with your device, and afterwards doing god knows what with it (including leaking more data than _anything you could do_ with a even country-agent level trojanized replacement screen). All from the comfort of their car and with so little targeting they could practically wardrive with it.
If you have a joint venture then your situation probably is complex enough that an accountant is something need anyway. At that point have them do the taxes as well. Most people don't have that complex a situation.
Curious if it says range between two devices.

eg. 2, 900MHz phones or whatever, multiband?
NIMBYism isn't exactly a good measure of whether something should or shouldn't be done.
When LiveJournal first launched my friends and I all got one. We treated it as a sanitized for public consumption diary, and we all posted regularly. It was really neat and really fun. I miss when the internet was more care free.
Content marketing ruined blogging, just like SEO ruined search.

I used to work with a lot of content marketers when it started to get hot. SEO was doing particularly poorly for a period (Google used to resist seo rather than reward it) and people realized that if you started writing "authentic" content, then people would organically link to it and it would increase your ranking.

Then social media furthered this problem by people mindlessly sharing content they never read but just looked engaging.

Marketing robots where just churning out content on blogs because eventually you would just hit search engine gold by nail the correct topic for some long tail search term. In my own domain, the atrocious "Towards Data Science" is a great example of this (except their "brilliant" innovation was to replace marketing robots with people eager to pad their resume). The content is largely garbage, but it looks about right and is easily shareable.

Today, whether you like it or not, if you want to make people to see your blog at all you have to think at least a bit like a content marketer to get seen at all. Consider Jay Alammar's fantastic blog [0], which is very high quality content, but still requires a tremendous amount of polish and marketing to survive. All of this has made it impossible to create the network required for a "global conversation among creative weirdos". Real content does get made, but has to be produced with the effort of a real marketer.

0. https://jalammar.github.io/
It's very reasonable to take the standard deduction with other deductions and credits. The standard deduction only replaces some of them.

edit: It's also possible you file before things are reported to the IRS about you.
I've used it for many years and never had a problem. It is like filling in a PDF form but has a "Calculate" button which runs all the math for you (apart from some tables, etc. which you need to look up yourself). So I'm not sure how you would get off by a cent.

Federal taxes only. Except for entering in your W-2s by hand, it's pretty straightforward. You can save a PDF copy to your local drive. The nice thing is you save postage and do not have to pay someone to prepare / file it for you.
> after all wouldn't it be great to have a reliable way to "collect" the blogs of interest and be notified that they had said something new? Yeah, that would be a really cool thing...

See:

https://blog.kagi.com/small-web

> but apparently the corpo types could not figure out any way to make money on that [other than ways that cut into their ads] and so decided to cancel that part of their offering.

All we have to do is pay for it (and so I ask everyone to):

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/plans/plan-types.html
I'm still surprised by most of my tech/design/startup friends who don't want or like using GPT-4 to get work done or even for small stuff like cooking and planning. We'll be ok.
They already use https for almost everything, don't they? It wasn't the case from the beginning.