skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One has to consider that if the longest lived spider ever, is one out of possible millions, chosen for a particular study, that maybe 43 years isn't actually that long for a spider.
It seems unlikely that at random they just happened to choose the spider that would live longer than them all.
I don’t think that’s how the word “objectively” works. Was this a joke?
Surely there's still subcomponents made in China, even if device manufacture happens in Taiwan.

Granted, it doesn't really matter from a security standpoint unless those subcomponents are ICs of some sort. Then again, there's probably some really clever ways to backdoor stuff even using "dumb" components.

It'd be nice if consumers had options for end-to-end supply chain assurances though.
https://github.com/zeroxoneafour/polonium

This certainly looks interesting. Cannot comment on it's current state, as I still use bismuth on x11
we all know technology is just a vector for nerd fantasy

the billionaires will make our dreams come true, just believe them
Sometimes quality rises to the top and people notice. Not often, but sometimes
> Dang makes the (correct) assertion that people will much more easily game it if they know the intricacies.

Which is interesting, because it's sacrilege to insinuate that it's being gamed at all.
Okay, but you did bring up root; why?
Signed overflow is not UB in rust. That's not the same thing at all.
I don't personally think there is one single mechanism. I use some things which synchronise inside themselves or their own cloud sync, (bitwarden) and some things
which synchronise via Google Drive, and other things which use iCal/Caldev syncing, or IMAP syncing.

I help people who live entirely inside Apple, and the built in and cloud sync is very very good: Password store sync is within seconds.

But, for various reasons I think I will remain in Android, despite using a Macbook for my daily life.

Photo sync has more complex problems. Acceptance of "live" images HEIC is .. mixed in other apps.
Many, perhaps most, successful academics are horrible mentors and parents/spouses. That isn’t pertinent to the fact that all faculty are, in fact, quite busy.
It’s not.

You have missed my point.
Who’s liable when a user is tricked into handing over a 2FA code? That’s the vast majority of the incidents I’ve seen over the years.
If two people are fighting to fuck you over one person, the person trying to escape the fucking wins just a bit more.
I think there are usually three actions a programmer can take when PBT fails.

- Create a test case that doesn't depend on PBT as you suggest.

- Fix the production code being tested since its failure is an unexpected bug.

- Fix the PBT itself. This means that the programmer has had wrong assumption for the test target.

I think it's difficult for the tool to know which choice is the best on a failure. But if there's any good idea, I'd like to incorporate it. :)
The "j" is always what put me off from learning Clojure. I've had too many bad experiences with JDKs and JVMs that I stay a thousand kilometers away from any thing that has "J" in it unless it's referring to JavaScript.
> just tell me the bloody date, I can figure out for myself.

But use ISO 8601 or a month name FFS — dd/mm or mm/dd is not always obvious.
A Fur Suit Designer Analyzes the Patterson-Gimlin Footage [video]
I think the writing style is too fluffy, but I realize some people like that. The true sin of this book is that it actually starts by teaching the reader Emacs, not Clojure. That's a huge distraction for a beginner who is probably coming from VSCode these days.
Love this. I tried my hand at reverse engineering some of these components on linear and similar websites but did not get good results. I love the fact these are configurable and free. Something I definitely would have paid for.

The rise of bento box designs [at least for now] is very visually appealing. Glad to be moving away from illustrations. Some of the designs animated with Rive are mind blowing:
https://x.com/alex_barashkov/status/1790748157141213237
We do know with 100% certainty there is a backdoor built in to the hardware. [0] The only question is who gets the extreme pleasure of using it.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/exploit-used-in-mas...
Series A does not require $1M/year. That's just for low-tier stuff.
Ask HN: What do you think about the potential for 3D office software?
I've been wondering if there are any 3D office software tools available. The idea of using 3D visualization for organizing projects, visualizing data, and collaborating sounds intriguing and could really change how we handle our daily tasks. Has anyone come across software like this? If so, how was your experience? If not, do you think it would be useful? I'd love to hear your thoughts on this potential game-changer for productivity tools.
Recently I've been walking a considerably younger colleague through linear interpolation and since they use Copilot, we were constantly being interrupted by it's suggestions. It was definitely not conductive to the learning process.

I imagine having something similar in paint will prove pretty distracting as well.
Ok, we've reverted the title. Submitted title was "OpenAI and Scarlett Johansson's Voice". Thanks!
Do you save the user data, ie, the searches themselves? What do your TOS guarantee about the use of that data?
I honestly have given up in this battle.

I'm curious, what do you think deleting accounts and starting new is going to do?

They'll just link it all together another way.
Learn you a Haskell for great good
Interesting that you associate the sociopathy as the reason someone might do this for fun. I see it as the reason they would do it for money.
The financial incentive to continue business operations will always be larger. Unless that’s the financial incentive you’re referring to.
Wouldn't want to anger a mean biker who was a member of a violent enginecycle gang ;)
Completely agree. Though I’ve also found an Elixir backend works well because of the power of the Beam VM.
For my MSc in Cyber Risk strategy & governance my final dissertation was built on the parallelism of Italy's ban on payment of ransoms for kindnappings and the current ransomware trend. It's difficult to take solid conclusions, the measure could be effective in disrupting some financially motivated attackers but, given the current landscape, I guess the threat actors could shift more towards extorting end users where the ban will be more difficult to enforce. Ransomware rely heavly on financial incentives, for a company it comes down to cost but the same holds as well for threat actors, they try to go after the bigest whales they can get away with. Insurances may be loopholes, in Italy at the time they were banned as well.
How long are these messages that your reading speed doesn't burn through it faster than it takes to click or tap the button...?
things like opening a remote network connection etc
Yeah, it’s got a bit of that “sci-fi books that HN recommends “ syndrome in that it’s a cool idea for a book but not actually a good book. More interesting to have described to you by someone who has read it than to read.

But probably worth forcing your way through the poor writing, character building and storytelling to get those cool ideas out of it.

It’s a good book to have read, but not to read, I guess. Sadly, the second one squanders an even more interesting concept, and isn’t worth reading.
I have seen videos of small turtles going really fast on tiny skateboards. All of a sudden, they become a fast animal and seem happy with it. A bit like human with a bike or a car.

Feels like evolution is not as perfect as we want to believe sometimes.

Could something similar happen with sloths? Maybe their eyesight would improve quickly?
I genuinely don't know why you have a hard time believing that chain of events. It's really not that uncommon. What "movie tropes" are you talking about that aren't just... extremely common real life things? Sleeping on an air mattress? Working at Home Depot? Teaching yourself a skill and working your way up to a respectable position?
Honestly, I've gotten so used to copilot's autocomplete in vscode that I kind of wish it did. (As one commentor pointed out, it does do that in Edge, though it gets annoying and just deletes intentional newlines sometimes)
The "metabolic maximum" is around 1250, though. And a mediocre lifting or running momentarily increases it from 125 to 700.
yikes... turns out that lily is actually a venus fly trap...
This reduces the friction, but doesn't eliminate the needles back and forth. Breaking context locality is just bad

The threads example in another comment is way better
As a native English speaker there are words there that I've never seen and others were I would not know the original adjective. In wiktionary, you can click them see etymology, here https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-th#English

For example, apparently "filth" comes from the equivalent of "foul".
I use that, it is useful for small drawings, not so much for handwriting. When using it with a tablet, maybe with some algorithm improvements, it can be as good as Inkscape.
Surely you mean tune in and out of?
It’s rare for an application developer to need to use ISeq, but library authors do use of when they want to implement custom seq’s right? For them, and also just for those curious to understand how the core interfaces work, it’s still better to be explicit and write what the contract is I reckon.
Same feeling from me. Windows 11 could be the perfect OS if they dropped the anti-user features and pestering, and make new features like Copilot and AI stuff opt-in instead of being forced down your throat by major updates.

Basically have Windows behave like Linux, where you get the bare minimum and the letting you choose what to add on top.
Bah! Live performance is one of life's greatest joys (and has been for over 2,500 years). So we grin and bear the ticketmaster extortion.
I think Roc (https://www.roc-lang.org) is trying to be that kind of practical, less theoretical FP language. It's strictly evaluated, doesn't have currying, you can learn it without ever hearing the word monad. It's still very young, so the tooling isn't there yet, but it already has a formatter and linter built into the compiler.
If airborne spread between people were a big threat, you would expect to see some infections in people who did not have known contact with infected animals.

However, I would agree that dismissing the domain experts who asserted that there was good evidence that Covid was airborne right from the early days of the pandemic was problematic in the extreme.

In hindsight, it should have been obvious that airborne spread was a strong possibility as soon as a cruise ship saw Covid continue to spread from cabin to cabin even after locking the passengers down in their cabins.

The categorical denial that airborne spread was even possible was the single biggest failure in public health leadership in decades.
I'm sorry, I'm not sure what your point is with this comment. I don't think GP was presenting their story in the context of providing statistics or objective truth about the impact of technology. They were just sharing their experience with the topic of the article.
I think we'll find voices not that unique.

A voice can be zero shot encoded to a few hundred kb vector. Timbre, prosody, lots of characteristics. That's less information than a fingerprint. And more importantly, that's something you can dial in with a few knobs by simply listening by ear.

It's why your brain can easily hear things in other people's voices. They're not hard signals to reproduce. Some people with flexible vocal ranges can even impersonate others quite easily.

I'm sure most people have gotten, "you sound like X" once or twice. Not unlike the "you look like Y" comments.

Voices really aren't that fingerprint-y.

If we really want to split hairs and argue from biology, who "owns" the voice of a set of identical twins?
Minorities? Reality is a stubborn thing. The numbers: Russians are 71% of the population of Sevastopol, 58% in Crimea, 39% in Donbas (but in Donbas, 97% of people who identified as Russian spoke Russian, whereas only 41% of those who identified as Ukrainian could actually speak Ukrainian). These are 2001 numbers from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_Ukraine

And who, pray tell, is dropping bombs on these people? (and has been since 2014). Hint: it is not Russia. So they absolutely do welcome the protection and make up the majority of the fighting force currently advancing on West Ukraine. What is actually happening is in effect a civil war.

Edit: to the downvoters: which is it that you disagree with? That a chunk of a population larger than 50% is not a minority, or that people don't generally bomb themselves?
Good to start practicing now ;)
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40437018.
In my experience you can get to nominally working without too much pain, but getting beyond that is very hard no matter what you use. You really need to commit to an ecosystem to get seamless integration.

I’m not happy about this fwiw, just my experience.
For small files with no hassle, any instant messenger app like Telegram, Google Chat, FB Messenger etc where you can send photos, videos, files to yourself.

For massive files at home, I own a Synology NAS hosting a SMB network folder. I drag files in and they transfer at ~1gbps in theory, a bit slower in practive.

For massive files on the go, I turn on mobile hotspot then use Total Commander in "Wi-Fi transfer" mode. Also ~1gbps in theory, a bit slower in practice. You use your browser to upload/download the files on the mac side.

Options I avoid because they suck: GDrive (slow and limited by internet speed), All those "snapdrop" "peardrop" "wormhole" etc sites. They promise a lot more than they deliver. They're usually slow and finicky.
It's neither consequential nor AI which we won't see, our children won't see, their children won't see, etc., so seems fine to trust Altman with chatbots.
At most i can think of is visualising data.
I didn't see that comment but I did post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40437018 elsewhere in that thread, which addresses the same concerns. If anyone reads that and still has a concern, I'd be happy to take a crack at answering further.

The short version is that users flagged that one plus it set off the flamewar detector, and we didn't turn the penalties off because the post didn't contain significant new information (SNI), which is the test we apply (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). Current post does contain SNI so it's still high on HN's front page.

Why do we do it this way? Not to protect any organization (including YC itself, and certainly including OpenAI or any other BigCo), but simply to avoid repetition. Repetition is the opposite of intellectual curiosity (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...), which is what we're hoping to optimize for (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

I hesitate to say "it's as simple as that" because HN is a complicated beast and there are always other factors, but...it's kind of as simple as that.
As impressive as this looks (and is), the effort strikes me as monumentally oversized. This particular picture, with its straight lines and everything artificial, could have just as well come out of a renderer. For substantially less cost, the result would have been the same.

Doesn't mean you don't need to have the creative vision first. But executing it with a camera and a light/laser/fog set and all the effort that went into it, seriously, just take a talented vfx artist and you get the same result.

It's different with nature photography and especially with humans. But there was nothing natural with this image.
Although this is great somehow in my opinion this was the best windoze wallpaper

It somehow captures my soul, perhaps because i was very young when i saw it

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....
5 years ago NVDA was at $36. Today it's pushing $1,000 with a total cap of 2.34 Trillion. At 34 million per annum, Huang seems underpaid.
I was perusing some Simpsons clips this afternoon and came across a story to the effect of "So and so didn't want to play himself, so Dan Castellaneta did the voice." It's a good impression and people didn't seem very upset about that. I am not sure how this is different. (Apparently this particular "impression" predates the Her character, so it's even easier to not be mad about. It's just a coincidence. They weren't even trying to sound like her!)

I read a lot of C&D letters from celebrities here and on Reddit, and a lot of them are in the form of "I am important so I am requesting that you do not take advantage of your legal rights." I am not a fan. (If you don't want someone to track how often you fly your private jet, buy a new one for each trip. That is the legal option that is available to you.
But I digress...)
> a simple statement like `a = b++;` can mean multiple constructors being called, hidden allocations, unexpected exceptions, unclear object hierarchies, an overloaded `++`, an overloaded `=`, etc.

its just mean if you need that logic, in C you would write lots of verbose less safe code.
You can in places with lots of partying, there is the smell of puke and piss from all the drunk people.
I think it might just be a consequence of an approach to business that, in aggregate, has been very effective.
From the title, I was expecting this to be about some new strategy invented by private equity vultures.

I’m happy to learn that it wasn’t
I hate myself for saying it, but this feels like an artistic variation on "we spent 500 hours manually perfecting React button animations" or "I built a Lisp so we can have more interesting configuration files for our ... todo list app".

I guess I'm jaded.

> Creative Director: GMUNK

> Managing Director, Live Action: Oliver Fuselier

> Managing Partner, Digital: Dustin Callif

> Executive Producer: Robert Helphand

> Head of Production: Amy DeLossa

> Producer: Mary Church

> Associate Producer: John Stern

> Production Supervisor: Liz Welonek

> etc ...

I mean, come on.
If I was doing this I'd negotiate a volume discount, charge the clients the base rate and pocket the difference.
Already fulfilled by other bytecode runtimes in the past since UNCOL (1958), eventually people settled on a couple of key languages instead.

Many of us (haters), are old timers seating on the saloon bench seeing yet another slew of gold diggers arrive full of enthusiasm into town.

This time is going to be different, and it will take over the world (TM).
OpenAI's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad month only continues to worsen.

It's pretty established now that they had some exceptionally anti-employee provisions in their exit policies to protect their fragile reputation. Sam Altman is bluntly a liar, and his credibility is gone.

Their stance as a pro-artist platform is a joke after the ScarJo fiasco, that clearly illustrates that creative consent was an afterthought. Litigation is assumed, and ScarJo is directly advocating for legislation to prevent this sort of fiasco in the future. Sam Altman's involvement is again evident from his trite "her" tweet.

And then they fired their "superalignment" safety team for good measure. As if to shred any last measure of doubt that this company is somehow more ethical than any other big tech company in their pursuit of AI.

Frankly, at this point, the board should fire Sam Altman again, this time for good. This is not the company that can, or should, usher humanity into the artificial intelligence era.
I wasn't aware that London belonged to the Romans in the 1950s.

I also wasn't aware of any places named Kyivtown, Crimealand, or San Donetsko, and yet the US seems to have a claim to these places.
This is kind of how sandboxed apps on the Mac work - they can only see files or directories that the user has manually opened in the app though one of the OS facilities (double-clicking a file, drag & drop, or the OS-provided file open dialog)

It would have been nice if you could just force non-sandboxed apps (basically anything from outside the Mac App Store) to be sandboxed.
I think there's a lot of self-selection going on with the cathegory of estranged parents who blame their kids. If you're the sort of person to reflect on your behaviour, take responsibility and change it because you realise you're hurting others, you're a lot less likely to end up with estranged kids in the first place.

If it does happen anyway, you're probably also less likely to be self-soothing with listicles about how it's definitely the fault of your ungrateful kids and whoever turned them against you.

I hope you're in a better spot now, and I'm glad you found the strength to demand better.
Great, if these documents are credible, this is exactly what I was implying[1] yesteday. Here, listen to Altman say how he is "genuinely embarrassed":

"this is on me and one of the few times i've been genuinely embarrassed running openai; i did not know this was happening and i should have."

The first thing the above conjures up is the other disgraced Sam (Bankman-Fried) saying "this is on me" when FTX went bust. I bet euros-to-croissants I'm not the only one to notice this.

Some amount of corporate ruthlessness is part of the game, whether we like it or not. But these SV robber-barrons really crank it up to something else.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40425735
No. When working with JVM/typescript libraries you have their autocomplete information.

If you need method autocomplete scoped to a type you can use the `..` macro for more concise call syntax:

(ns my-project.core
(:import (java.util ArrayList Collections)))

(defn example []
(let [list (ArrayList.)] ; ArrayList constructor can be autocompleted
(.. list
(add "Hello") ; The .add method on ArrayLists will be autocompleted
(add "World")
(add "Clojure"))
(Collections/sort list) ; The Collections.sort method will be autocompleted
list))

this other form will a also autocomplete everything after the dot (.) to call a method on an object:

(.toUpperCase some-str)

but the trick with this arrangement is to write that variable some-str first, then if you write . in front of it the autocompletes will be relevant to that object. But I gratuitously used threading macros like .. or -> to make it match java-style code (in other words: (-> some-str (.toUpperCase))).
Some of us already escaped that, with other bytecode formats, or stuff like COM, AIDL, XPC, D-BUS.
I hope one of these assumptions is untrue: the photographer views their portfolio as the artistic-equivalent of Ansel Adams despite "licensing" it as home wallpaper, doesn't care about PR, has nothing else better to do, no customers, and a surplus of cash.
Evolution happily trades everything away that would allow to escape the niche your stuck in. And one day, you are a koala, unable to recognize leaves when they are not on branches, a planktonwhale beaching yourselves, a panda who needs electric help to procreate, or a sloth to slow and calorie low to eat. Moral of the story: High effort Low Energy diets are a evolutionary swamp - never eat all your veggies.
KDE connect (android, macos, linux, etc.) + Soduto (a kde connect client for macos - https://github.com/soduto/Soduto ) is decent for basic file-sharing as an alternative to apple airdrop.
It's not sacrilege, it's just that people rarely have any basis for saying this beyond just it kind of feels that way based on one or maybe two datapoints, and feeliness really doesn't count. We take real abuse seriously and I've personally put hundreds (feels like thousands) of hours into that problem over many years - but there has to be some sort of data to go on.
This. Two Windows machines, Android and iOS (via paid Moebius Sync)
Why Revolut is asking suspected scam victims to take selfies
https://archive.ph/TkHoD