skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm reading this correctly, the author is at least partially aiming at public health campaigns designed to prevent deaths, on the margin, stemming from the US opioid crisis. Only in the second to last paragraph does the author make passing reference to synthetic opioids being pushed excessively by drug companies. Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family are not mentioned.

The Sacklers are currently before the Supreme Court, negotiating a deal that will shield them from further civil action by paying a $6 billion dollar fine (leaving them a few billion ahead)[1]. While I don't think we can extract justice from punishing one responsible entity, articles like these give cover to people, companies, and systems that created this crisis.

1: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-purdue-pharma-sac...
> The more rational voices in my mind, though, become more and more afraid of a world where the only thing you can trust is people sitting right in front of you.

You could care less if the content you already consume on forums like HN were generated by AGI. Just sayin.
Curious, what would that many ffmpeg processes be doing at Netflix? I assume new VOD content gets encoded once per format, and the amount of new content added per day is not gigantic.

Agree with the general premise, of course, if I've got 10 different videos encoding at once then I don't need additional efficiency because the CPU's already maxed out.
1. They can generally be "trusted" with a house. It's a house. You sleep there.

2. The idea they need constant monitoring comes from the same outdated approach that believes we shouldn't help people unless they deserve it and we can make sure they deserve it. That model has not proven effective and either reducing homelessness or reducing homelessness' external costs on society. It has proven even less effective at improving long term mental health and addiction issues.

3. We have not found a long-term solution to chronic mental health and addiction issues. No approach, yet, has shown outsized performance over any other. Housing First approaches, however, have shown an improvement in homelessness, medical services and criminality – which might be the best we can hope for.
Where Do Unicorns Come From? Studying the Career Journeys of $1B Founders
Yeah that's what I mean, they are moving, but nothing like this where the movements will be measured in hertz.
> Rust doesn't even free you from the need for a runtime or standard library.

Could you elaborate on this? Rust doesn't have a runtime (beyond what C has), and am having trouble understanding what you meant to say about stdlibs.
fun fact, no its not.
Ah, that's bad. Perfect environment to reproduce and then of course they find their way in.
Ada has Controlled types, so the memory reclaiming story can be similar to C++/Rust RAII. What it's missing compared to Rust is the lifetime and borrow checking.
Why on earth would you possibly think that?
CES still exists? With actual people going there?
Well ethanol in the right doses actually makes you cool - introverts do need couple of beers to get in touch with their social daredevil. Also alcohol is tasty.
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By the same logic, other phonemakers can come over and make phones. The definition of what is a "market" is arbitrary and subjective. Google may be a monopoly in internet search, but only a small player in "global advertisement". And anyone anywhere is a monopolist in the very narrow definition of the market that includes their own ten customers.

What's really important is the power play: your company should strive to hold a comfortable and stable monopoly position in a meaningful market (meaningful to you), while the government's role is to watch over all the businesses so that large numbers of people are not under heavy influence of external forces and not made unhappy. If any product exploits its monopoly by shifting the power from the government or making people sad, then gov steps in and interprets the rules in the way to correct this. Or, the gov is corrupt and helps keep that monopoly going :-)
"Ban a ton of widely used C++ features" creates a problem that is smaller than but still comparable to "rewrite it in rust." You also still have some features of modern defensive C++ that can still be abused and cannot be removed from the language or made safe without something resembling the Rust borrow checker.

Getting these features in the C++ language itself will be absolutely impossible, both because of massive performance implications and well as nightmarishly large ABI breaks on everything.

There are various efforts to do what you are describing. I think that they are often a good idea, but they absolutely will not solve the problem conclusively.
Thank you! We do correct for this in the app - it's quite a complicated process because we only have a single 'monocular' camera image which we have to compose with 3D content. We use some tricks to render the camera in a way that feels comfortable with the content. We consider the camera passthrough to compete very favourably with Quest 3 / Pro and have also received independent feedback to say so, primarily because it's high resolution and high framerate (60 fps while we believe the Quest passthrough is only 30).
Back in the day you if you wanted to 'watch internet videos' then you needed a video player, you needed codecs, you needed to download the videos, you needed to find the videos

If you wanted to share videos online, good luck? You needed somewhere you could upload them and a lot of forums had file size limits, so sometimes you just spread/discovered them via p2p services. For the non-technical person, there were a few places you could submit videos to or browse 'funny internet videos', but most video sites were an individual or community's curated collection

Youtube bundled all of that up as "a video repository and search engine that provides a streaming player which is already supported by your browser", and (in the US anyway) that moment coincided with: (a) wide-spread broadband access and (b) digital cameras becoming accessible to consumers

So in that context, I think it might be a bit like saying "interest in reading increased after book printing technology made libraries comparatively inexpensive"
Generative Artificial Intelligence: Thoughts on a New Artistic Medium
Observing viral trends made me think deeply about Generative Artificial Intelligence as a new artistic medium and its implications. I’ve tried to sum up my thoughts and considerations in this article, where I draw comparisons between AI and other artistic mediums and then list some examples about the most exciting ways, at least in my opinion, to interact creatively with this new tool.
Yeah I didn’t realize either till I saw a tear down. The only time I really notice in use is when I change the active lens and the perspective slightly shifts.
People that are addicted to fentanyl are already in a situation where they are past caring (or able to act on that caring) about society as thinking of them as losers.

Every opioid addict I have met is ashamed of their habits already.
> Sounds like you need a new group of people around you

...

> You honestly see Apple as the aggressor in that situation and not those people?

Where did I call Apple an aggressor? Stick to the facts, please.
Looks interesting !
Enshittification by marketing, and move to internet and social media announcements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
hmmm let's see E-sports influencer reach is I imagine the cause as many vendors are in fact using those for their ads reach, etc.
"They want money from my app when I want money from their store! Therefore I'm a victim and they're a mafia."

Seems to me you're not noticing the Kremlin levels of cognitive dissonance in your statement here. With this severe lack of self-awareness, if you were in Apple's place you'd be way worse than they are right now.
And the crowd reactions are still there in the form of chat/Twitter. And then there's PAX et al.. It's not the same, but the experience isn't completely erased from existence.
Just give them another blanket or two! They’ll be fine.

/s
The nuisance drug users become is due to the fact that they are high and operating on damaged hardware.

No matter how pure, hard drug abuse is in itself the problem.
I guess it's irrelevant for Netflix then*. But it sounds great for the remaining 99.99%.

* I would be very surprised if Netflix even uses vanilla ffmpeg
They famously do not. That's OK, it's a trait shared by a lot of hardening developers on other platforms, too --- all of them are better at this than I'll ever be. But the gulf of practical know-how between OS developers and exploit developers has been for something like 2 decades now a continuing source of comedy. Search Twitter for "trapsled", or "RETGUARD", for instance.
Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord (1944)
Oh, I've used such tests on other JIT based languages, as well as non-JIT. None made valgrind show quite so much show. I'm not sure I've ever seen less "memory safe" code bases.
I imagine not, hence 'or another cloud provider' in the comment you're replying to.
I see we've reached the "prove my claims for me" section.
EdgeSAM: On-Device Deployment of Segment Anything
> The person you replied to also seems to act as if many of these people are actively choosing to not be tax payers and not be productive members of society.

A lot of people like this exist though. Toronto has a huge problem where the homeless refuse to go to shelters because they don't want to be told they can't use drugs. So they make the conscious decision to opt out of society and stay on the street.

There is no way to get through to people like this. Even if they had their own place they'd probably OD before the end of the week with all their extra comfort and freedom they have. Some people can't be helped and that needs to be something people are more willing to accept.

As for your friends, popping opioids like candy is a poor decision even if your doctor is prescribing it to you. Intelligent, educated, and capable adults should be held accountable for their own decisions when they turn out to be poor decisions. The opioid crisis is not society's fault.
The level of intelligence of the whole world has been on a boat ramp for few years.
New Device Leads to "Dendrocentric Learning"
Thank you, this is helpful and I will make it clearer.

It is a phrase used in award travel (using air miles/points to purchase a flight ticket).
The way you put it—"FOMO in children," really does it justice. The way Apple uses their messaging service is almost psychological manipulation of children to increase their market share.

It's so sad that a company that resorts to those kinds of tactics to increase their market share, as opposed to, just selling more of their product because it's a superior product.
is that why the republican mayor of NYC is loudly sounding the alarm on this? my mistake, he is a democrat.
My current perspective is "I'm not interested in fighting anymore about what people should or shouldn't do. I just want to find somewhere nice, far away where I can live a clean decent peaceful life alongside anybody else who is capable of doing the same."
I believe I have too with gstreamer's pipe framework for threading, but ffmpeg's syntax has stuck in my mind far longer than any of the elaborate setups I built with gstreamer. I'm excited for this development
Do you mean I should not use a GitHub organization ? I planed (not yet done) to put all the repo in the organization
Having it as default on todays hardware is a non-starter. Few would pay say a 200% perf penalty for arithmetic unless it's on a security critical path. So opt-in it is. And almost all languages already support that type of opt in at the global level or smaller scope.
Electrocharged Fibers Spark Stem Cells for Bone Repair
Why would you want to a release about your game at same time with all other games, if you didn't have to. You would instead try to guess a few days in year where there isn't likely other releases and aim for that. In later case you get more publicity for same effort.

E3, kinda makes sense for connections and getting boots on grounds and showing stuff in progress in controlled environment. But for online you are better off going alone, unless you are tiny.
"That's from four years ago" is a funny rebuttal to "classic thread".
> Destigmatize? The point was to decriminalize. Those are not the same thing.

They aren't, but in today's world, there appears to be an actual slippery slope going from decriminalization to destigmatization and maybe even to celebration.

> Even with legalized marijuana we're not encouraging people to consume it.

"We're not"? Marijuana is a legitimate business in many states now, so it will get promoted.
...and phrase your results slightly awkwardly like a time pressured human journalist (churnalist) would.
Maybe they meant the cruise speed of the test aircraft. Some quick googling reveals it as a Colomban MC-30 Luciole [1], which according to Wikipedia [2] has a cruise speed of 110 mph and a maximum speed of 120 mph. Mounting the long instrument arm to the tiny aircraft probably doesn't do it any favors (seriously, the aircraft looks tiny next to a Cessna), so cruising at 60mph sounds reasonable.

[1] https://www.wildbergair.com/registrations/C/OE-CRG_1_01.htm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colomban_MC-30_Luciole
Portable, non-invasive, mind-reading AI turns thoughts into text
vundo is a simpler implementation: it reuses Emacs's built-in undo/redo and just implements the tree visualisation part.

undo-tree is a reimplementation of Emacs's undo/redo, that supports a tree visualization.

* undo-tree LOC: 4700. https://gitlab.com/tsc25/undo-tree/-/blob/master/undo-tree.e...

* vundo LOC: 1350. https://github.com/casouri/vundo/blob/master/vundo.el
Because the FBI has pinky promised to develop those and has consistently failed with violations continuing. There’s also plenty of technical reasons why “good internal controls” are a myth. For example, the CIA and NSA could help out the FBI by secretly trawling through that database bypassing all “controls” using exploits / back doors and sending tips from “confidential sources” and parallel reconstruction being used to prosecute.

Btw we also have similar problems with normal police officers misusing records to spy on spouses and whatnot and occasionally we find out about and the department promises stricter controls and reforms and round we go the merry go round.
FFMPEG does so much more than just video encoding. I use ffmpeg all day every day, and only a fraction of the time do I actually make a video.
What's that got to do with the issue?
> Denigrating Greek literature is incredibly dismissive

AFAICS he was praising it
I don’t think most Rust programmers agree it’s impossible at all.

There’s always unsafe. I can make a pointer to anywhere by hand and write to it. That would involve some very intentional work, but I could do it if I wanted to.
Show HN: I made an app that plants trees for free while searching with Google
I would assume they mean through the use of unsafe, which is true, but in practice unsafe code is less common than people that don't write Rust seem to think and tools like Miri help a lot to write unsafe that doesn't write to memory locations you weren't meant to.
> I can’t imagine the magnitude of digital fraud and scams that would happen if Apple devices weren’t a walled garden.

I can, and I don't mind. Let it happen. Computer freedom is more important than preventing scams and fraud. Just have the corporations and banks eat the losses instead. God knows these trillion dollar corporations can afford it.
that's a fair assumption. feels like swiftcoder is just trying to gotcha
Its hard to calculate because non of the costs are really all that clear. There are not even lander contracts for any mission after Artemis 3. It also depends on how long into to future you think this continue.

And I think what that kind of analysis misses is how many important multi-use technologies are developed. Starship will mostly not be used for moon, but financed with moon money.
> You'd think that creators making people want to use the site would be important

YouTube's audience size and advertising metrics have long since gone through the point where individual creators or groups of them matter little. If a creator walks off the platform there are more who will fill the place, in search of potential monetisation, so youtube will still have somewhere to hang adverts off. An advertiser leaving is harder to replace than a content provider.

eBay has a similar flip some years ago: they realised that there was more value caring for buyers needs than sellers: sellers swarm in attracted by the number of buyers and are difficult to put off for long as there are often few other options, buyers need to feel safe to hand around.
Why are you LARPing based on first principles? Just give examples:

* Trump's First Step Act. E.g., title III-- can no longer use restraints on prisoners during pregnancy-- and IV-- reducing mandatory minimums for drug felony convictions

* Trump's Affordable Clean Energy rule which removed caps on emissions

* Clinton's repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act back in 1999

* Carter's Airline Deregulation Act back in the late 70s

* the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963

If I searched my memory for five minutes a day I'd have a list of hundreds by the end of a week.

I get that domain expertise doesn't magically apply outside a domain. But how is HN this special level of asinine when it comes to the simple history of legislation in the U.S.?

Reading the thread with your interlocutor is like reading someone claim that C only has global scope. What could they possibly have read to convince them of such a thing?
Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses:
https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...
>Rust doesn't even free you from the need for a runtime

I always thought that Rust was the only memory-safe language that doesn't need a runtime (beyond the libc that every language links to when running on Unix-like OSes). Maybe you could define what you mean by runtime.
And that is exactly the sort of picture that we should as society to aim to destroy. It might take a generation or two. But I believe with hard work we could get there.
Pressurised airframes also have a pressurisation cycle limit
> But it sounds great for the remaining 99.99%.

I believe the vast majority of ffmpeg usages are web services, or one off encodings.
Because YouTube takes money deliberately from criminals an ad supported version of Netflix would hardly have Get-Rich-Quick schemes advertised which you need to pay to avoid. Make no mistake, I've seen criminal scammer ads on YouTube.
From the article: "In contrast, Rust's explicitness in this area not only made things simpler for us but also more correct. If you want to set a file permission code in Rust, you have to explicitly annotate the code as Unix-only. If you don't, the code won't even compile on Windows. This surfacing of complexity helps us understand what our code is doing before we ever ship our software to users."

https://vercel.com/blog/turborepo-migration-go-rust
MARLlib: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Library
Lordstown Assembly was never "torn down", and it would certainly take longer than a holiday weekend to do so. From the wiki:

"Conversion van production at Lordstown ended when production of the Chevrolet van's successor, the Chevrolet Express, moved to the Wentzville Assembly in 1994, leaving Lordstown to focus exclusively on compact cars."

The assembly plant is still there, although GM shut down all production as of March 6, 2019. The plant was sold to Lordstown Motors on November 7, 2019. Still intact, definitely not torn down.
To take a very simple example (which won't work on modern OS with ASLR):

1. You have a service that takes some user input

2. The service allocates a buffer on the stack for 20 bytes (the max input allowed)

3. Service doesn't actually validate that the user input is < 20 bytes

4. It writes the input into the buffer, but keeps writing past the end of the buffer.

5. It eventually overwrites the return pointer so now the user input can control where the execution jumps to on return

6. In the user input, the malicious user includes some shell code to do any arbitrary thing they want.

7. The overwrite the return pointer to jump back into the shell code and now they are executing arbitrary code in the server process.

This sort of thing was embarrassingly easy to do on old linux kernels before ASLR was implemented. Now it is dramatically harder because there are all sorts of countermeasures in place to prevent it (ASLR, stack canaries, executable vs non-executable memory, etc).

To get a sense of what a more modern real world exploit looks like, give https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i... a read.
K what about via Android, is it more flexible on that side?
Yeah man. It's the hot place to go when you need to find out what they managed to cram a wifi antenna and touchscreen with an unsecured OS into next. Definitely only sunshine & lollipops on the horizon for that event.
If the HPSCI version passes, it will be legal (and presumably, automatic) to target any non-citizen or permanent resident traveling to the US and search "one end foreign" 702 data on them.

Of course, if they're traveling to the US, it's much more likely that they're communicating with Americans (e.g. visiting friends). Which means that scrutiny of Americans' conversations, swept up en masse, will dramatically increase.

If that passes, tell your friends not to visit America. Because if they do, then all your conversations with them are totally fair game for secret government review.
Wanted to point out that “Just take the decision to not carry those ads” isn’t as easy when you’re at YT scale. Not excusing them but I think we all understand the challenges of content moderation at scale for organic content — now amplify that for paid content where the incentives get even thornier.

Yes YT should invest more in review and policy work — but it’s a forever expanding cost with no silver bullet.

I appreciate there’s a least a price and option for ads-free.
By the same logic, if you just delete the content, then you're not stealing anymore.
If you examined that statement fully you'd realise how little sense it makes as an answer to the question.
Depends on use-case. What you are building, here is one use-case for example where it made sense over postgres https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HycGtLjlikI
I think X is in decline, but probably relevant for a while longer. I logged out weeks ago and don't feel like I'm missing out most of the time. There don't seem to be any great alternatives, maybe we could chill out on social media use for a while, as a society

It may become hyper fragmented, which is probably not a problem, or one we can make less so
lol ok then what is copyright agreement if not a bunch of laws?
Some interesting past discussion on the raw RFC itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27729610
Like what do you do?
While I don't live in the US, my experience with advertising there while visiting Miami was pretty crazy to say the least.

I heard it before when playing GTA Vice City on the in game radio and thought it's just satire, but no, it's actually pretty accurate. "Ask your doctor..."
I stumbled on this recently (I think here on HN); The Crosstown Trail:
San Francisco in 17 Miles - https://crosstowntrail.org
Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc are also putting up a spectacular dog and pony show in order to convince you they carr about privacy. They don't.
If you check LLM benchmarks, they struggle to surpass humans in a variety of tasks. Replacing a senior dev is a huge task, it's in AGI territory because the breadth of tasks a senior dev needs to do is simply too large.

Maybe it means a hard time for junior devs but even the, do you have tasks a junior devs would struggle? You can count on LLMs struggling too.
Hunter-gatherers' work was play