skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such an ignorant take. The default wallpaper is seen by millions if not billions of people. Many never change it. It's an important part of the branding. The total cost of the shoot, including equipment, salaries, the studio, etc. is NOTHING to Microsoft and its marketing budget. It's not like they had to prioritize this over anything else, they are printing money left and right, they are a trillion dollar company and the default wallpaper is a key aspect of how people see their core product, Windows. It would be disastrous of them to ship with a sub-par wallpaper and in what world would the money "saved" would make a difference to "build a better product"?
DaisyDisk is an awesome macOS GUI version of this app
As crazy as it sounds, having a reputation to honor the unlocking of data is a great way to get other victims to pay. However, I'd be more suspicious of promises of data deletion.
I agree. An individual may develop improvement over time (43 years!) but there's no evidence of transmission across generations. Still, ability to refine might be heritable?
Only if you mean C as defined by K&R C, and its original use when porting UNIX.
Don't forget to initial the crossed-out section and draw a passive aggressive happy face!
Hi, my best solution is Syncthing.

It all happens in the bacground. You define which folders to sync and additionally you can sync with as many devices you wish (e.g. a backup in your own server).

https://syncthing.net/

Good luck!
Hey, this looks quite cool! Just spotted this link on your site's frontpage is 404ing https://www.neosync.dev/solutions/keep-environments-in-sync (was quite keen to read this one specifically)
What I found weird is that there's only one guitar piece in the list: Asturias. The rest is keyboard music. And unfortunately, that piece shows weaknesses in the system. Notes get cut off, the rhythm is wrong, and there was one very loud buzzing sound, which suggests the buffer can't be filled fast enough.
Or you could punish people for misreporting. Would sort things out very fast!

Or automate the reporting (totally feasible in 2024).
Removing this anxiety was one of the most unexpectedly powerful changes in my life. And then in a moment of hubris I signed up for an American Express card and now have to relive it every time because a good portion of vendors in the UK don’t take it.
You know, if they sold cans of Baja Blast I could see it, but I think it being a fountain drink makes it feel weird. Then again, if they said "Fantas" maybe it would be less weird.

Maybe it's just me. Language is weird.
Macros are also standard C features, and good luck figuring out that an identifier is a macro without IDE help when the definition is buried in some header.
Eh? The whole point of Paint was that it never changed. It's even been copied for it's simplicity, a clone of which is the only painting app I have on my Mac exactly because all it does is the basics. Adding AI to it is a joke.
Does Cloudflare assume there is only one "legitimate search engine crawler"?
I've been spending a lot of time on photography (though mostly w/ film cameras) during recent years, and only recently realized this is actually photographed. (It took long because I'm a long-time Linux user, so I barely seen the image.)

Many people say this would've been easier with VFX, but I disagree. The image has highly convincing details that would take a long time even for highly talented VFX artists to nail. Instead, with a camera, you can let the world do the work for you. The studio setup is also very simple (cardboard + acrylic panel + projector + fog) and easy to experiment with. I'm pretty sure photography was the right tool for the project.
Did you even read the article? The part where it talks about problems with destructors is about halfway through.
> I don’t want to be a fanboy but the wallpaper is so soulless and industrial. I like how Apple always tries to bring nature to computing with wallpapers and screensavers.

To each their own. I personally have more than enough nature around me; I prefer it to not also invade my computer.
I know it’s pendantic, but Ford did not own the copyright to either the original Bette Midler performance recording nor the lyrics/melody of the song. The marketing company that prepared the ‘Yuppie Campaign’ for Ford did negotiate a license for the lyrics/melody from the copyright holder. It doesn’t make a substantial difference, but commenters have been using wide ranging analogies in this thread and I wanted to make sure nobody jumped on a flawed foundation when arguing about the precedent case.
They lost all relevance after they gleefully announced their manipulation of search results 2 years ago
Libmatoya
IIRC with a bloom filter if returns false you can be sure it is not in the set but if it returns true it probably is in the set but might be a clash giving a false positive?

Is the same true with this data structure.

I guess you could mitigate this by storing an additionally hash or the original key in it’s entirety as the value?
"The agent, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to assure the safety of her client, said the actress confirmed that neither Johansson nor the movie “Her” were ever mentioned by OpenAI."
There are only 330m US Americans. Just having American throat development patterns narrow you down to a group of less than 4% of population, and it only goes down from there - e.g. PNW has only 13m people total, half that by gender, that makes someone from there belonging to a group of 0.08% of the world.

You might think voice is something you're born with. It's not, it rather partially comes from languages and your backgrounds. So random chances of someone literally sounding by DNA from half a world away is quite low.
The original law fails for too many programs to be useful in its own, but why do you need some law to replace the obvious expectation that a social media program is going to do messages?
I was - thank you! I should have realized the story belongs to the Culture universe.

Is there a story where non-sentient automation takes over society and leaves humanity by the wayside? Not malicious, sentient AI subjugating humanity (like Terminator or Matrix), but apathetic automated corporations maximizing profits trading with other automated corporations as humanity withers. I'd read/watch that
>You might be able to plan, but what about the advancements that nobody would plan for

You obviously adjust the plan? Planning was never supposed to be some static system (and the "5 year plans" are not about market planning, they were more like "5 year initiatives to improve this or that aspect", e.g. "develop more tank making capacity", or "take a man to the moon").

>I can’t ever see a communist system coming up with an iPhone.

Communists came up lots of inventions.
also, fire engines
Even languages like Modula-2 and Ada, among others, had better semantics than C, but they didn't come for free alongside UNIX.
DuckDuckGo broken: "Sorry, we ran into an error displaying these results"
More MFT goodness: the file search tool Everything (https://www.voidtools.com/)
Nice, so a bit like Everything but for disk space!
Copying by hiring a sound-alike/impersonator is an implementation detail. They knew full well that they were trying to copy her voice. Then they asked. And they got a no. And then they did it anyway.

I don't see how the implementation details matter at all.
I'm on LineageOS and use the included backup with Nextcloud.
Relatively painless to configure, works quite well.
I also use Nextcloud for photos/videos sync, so in theory I can loose/break my phone and restore everything back on a new one.
I just use syncthing for all of these. Why do you use smb?
As proven multiple times throughout the computing history, individual tools are optional, and as such used less often than they actually should be.

Language specification is unavoidable when using said language.
I love the way the smoke evokes Windows making your computer overheat, melt down, and burn up.

I can almost smell it immolating.
You can hear both voices for yourself and tell they are different, but y'all such NPCs you just believe the bullcrap the media spoon-feeds you not the literal sounds in your ears.

New theory, HN is a honey pot for dumb people that Y Combinator studies how to make money from.

Previous theory it was a Alzheimer's style "Fake bus stop" used to round up imposter hackers and keep them contained while the real Hackers did stuff.
This is a bit like someone saying they don't want cars traveling down the sidewalk because they're too big and heavy, and then having someone ask how big and heavy a person needs to get before it becomes illegal for them to travel down the sidewalk.

It misses the point, which is that cars aren't people. Arguments like "well a car uses friction to travel along the ground and fuel to create kinetic energy, just like humans do", aren't convincing to me. An algorithm is not a human, and we should stop pretending the same rules apply to each.
They asked her. She said no.
I thought this was a right-of-publicity case where the "her" tweet basically misled people to believe the voice is of Scarlett Johansson, who's against the use of AI tech like any other Hollywood people?
Parody is protected in the US. The Simpsons can get away with a lot of stuff because of it
Then why pull the voice in the first place?

If it goes to court I’m sure discovery will unearth a bunch of emails and slack messages pertaining to this as well as documentation about the make up of their training sets and casting and performance notes for the voice talent. Hopefully they’re under legal hold now.
PrototypeJS (2015)
Nice quote but it was clearly meant to demonstrate how out of touch a CEO unveiling such tech is from the actual nature of art and its value, which funnily enough is exactly what AI CEOs are doing right now.
So much power and brain resources in the hands of the shallowest of individuals.
1.sh is 12K
> 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.

COVID wasn't airborne in humans either until Dec 2019, then very suddenly it was. The virus didn't come out of thin air, it mutated and gained the ability to spread in humans. One morning the world woke up and there was a new virus with human-to-human transmission.
Name mangling is an implementation detail to fit into UNIX linker design space, not the same approach as other compiled languages with modules, with their own linker.
The Privacy Smartphone
Actually I’ve been pleasantly surprised by Rust on the Arduino! Things are certainly much easier with the large community behind it, I probably would’ve chosen C if there wasn’t an existing community.

I don’t think Rust should be used everywhere, but I’m firm that it could be used anywhere that C can (short of an unsupported architecture).
Yes, it meanders to much to get to the point. Which is that RAII doesn't work in C because unlike C++, which has a comprehensive type system mandated by a standard, a C program doesn't "know" at runtime that a struct is composed of other (typed) fields so it can do a proper deep field copy (or destruction). And implementing that type system in C doesn't seem feasible for practical and political reasons.

I think the actual question should be "can C get automatic memory management like in C++ without having the equivalent of C++'s type system"?

Though I can't put my finger on it, my intuition says it can, if the interested people are willing to look deep enough.
So, front end devs are also engineers now ?

Like, my friend who took a 3 month js / react bootcamp and is working as a front end dev for our local pizza place, she's an engineer now ?

Cool.
You are getting confused by an implementation detail. They wanted to copy her voice, and they did it. They asked for permission and she said no. So they went ahead and did it anyway.

The voice actor involved is irrelevant.
> unless it was to get PR

I think this possibility doesn't receive enough attention, there is a class of people who've figured out that they can say the most scandalous things online and it's a net positive because it generates so much exposure. (As a lowly middle class employee you can't do this - you just get fired and go broke - but at a certain level of wealth and power you're immune from that.) It is the old PT Barnum principle, "They can say whatever they want about me as long as they spell my name right." Guys like Trump and Musk know exactly what they're doing. Why wouldn't Sam?

Johansson's complaint is starting to look a little shaky especially if you remove that "her" Tweet from the equation. I wouldn't put this past Altman at all, he knows exactly what happened and what didn't inside OpenAI, so maybe he knew she didn't have a case and decided to play Sociopathic 3D Chess with her (and beat her in one round)
This is not true as a blanket statement unless you are talking about commercial flying, large drones or restricted airspace. I'm not sure what country you are referring to but I haven't personally come across one that requires a per flight permit outside of higher risk commercial operations. Most EU countries are pretty harmonised on drone rules at this point.

Sub 250g drones such as the DJI Mini series and the Autel Nano will give you the most flexibility in places you can fly legally.
How is the fix committed once you are done? Does this run counter to immutable deployments?
I use multiple websites that have hundreds of thousands of free stock videos that are much easier to label than YouTube videos.
Every time I've been in a hospital (visiting people), I have a frequent sensation of wanting to get out of there. I hope/imagine I will never need to be in a hospital, because I know it will be hell for me. I have extremely good hearing, and am very affected by sound. Visiting people in hospital requires serious effort from me to maintain focus on the person and those I'm there with, and ignoring such a shocking degree of noise I can barely believe it's the accepted norm. I can't believe how many devices and processes purposely make noise as a part of _normal operation_, where there's not even anything amiss!
Windows can have Bing Wallpaper, which changes the wallpaper every day. It's not installed by default, but it's a fun offering from Microsoft.
I think you're giving far too much credit to those involved. Not everything is a plot.
- "It is thought[by whom?] that national security reasons delayed the disclosure to the media."

Ludicrous. More realistic is they were afraid of negative media coverage and protests about the potential public health hazard to their people. In the US, NASA goes to extreme lengths to qualify their space radioisotope devices, their survivability and how they fail in a failed rocket launch or unplanned atmospheric reentry. All of which is transparent to the public, and to independent review. There's AFAICT the opposite of such transparency and accountability here. It's not clear at all what degree of risk this (at-the-time secret!) radioisotope launch had, how the containment device was engineered and what potential (secret) flaws it could have.
Or it could be that, when you search something, you also click through to some of the results, where FB/AdWords and other trackers are present.

Alternatively, there was a fallacy of human mind(forgot the name), where if you think of something, your brain will start focusing on the random occurrences of that things in all places. So, those ads were always there, your brain just started focusing suddenly on those as you were thinking of those things.

Note: Not affiliated with DDG.
I keep reading this, but I haven't been able to find much data on intentional vs. accidental consumption with the exception of people who thought they were taking heroin. Do you have any sources on how many deaths can be attributed to laced or misrepresented non-opiates (e.g. marijuana, adderall, mdma)?
Just couple minutes of data through 10-20 minutes of training with RVC WebUI[0] on included base model into VC Client[1] gets you to 90% there. But that's nearly an year old method, so I'm sure OAI has its own completely novel architecture for extra 5% fidelity.

1: https://github.com/RVC-Project/Retrieval-based-Voice-Convers...

2: https://github.com/w-okada/voice-changer
For an RPN calculator I discovered similar problems with a number hierarchy as well. The calculator has four number types:

- integers (for hexadecimal operations),

- quotients (like some HP calculators),

- IEEE 756 floating point numbers (because that is the most simple thing on computers) and

- complex numbers based on two IEEE 756 components

Mathematically these types are subsets of each other:

ℤ ⊂ ℚ ⊂ ℝ ⊂ ℂ

But number values in a computer aren't subsets. Not all 64 bit integers are representable as 64 bit IEEE 756 numbers, for example odd integers beyond 10^53.

Hand-held calculators need to hide a lot of complexity to be intuitive.

One example. If you have two values in the calculator that approximate e and i * pi as good as the calculator can and request the power operation, then you have the Euler identity and should get the integer 1. The implementation uses complex numbers and because of rounding errors you might get something like 1.0000000003. To be user-friendly, the calculator needs to hide that.

That's what I did:

- Use four distinct types without any object-oriented features

- Operations aren't methods but functions with a given signature, for example as a Rust function:

fn sin(c: Complex) -> Complex

- Coerce when an operation expects a different type

- Don't use the whole precision of floating point (truncate to a lower precision and hide one decimal precision digit after truncation)

- The default display omits both the imaginary part and the fraction if zero
Also pretty sure it was the fun tool for the project.
"Motor inn" is still quite common.
Do you really believe he was genuinely embarrassed? All his public statements lately have been just PR BS. Nothing genuine there.
Not sure what you are trying to get across.

This is the final comment [1] that got Michael’s account banned.

You can see dang’s reply [2] directly underneath his which says:

> We've banned this account.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10017538

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10019003
Important caveat: "Real" 2FA and not all these cheapo SMS messaging systems.
It can't be tacos bell because Taco Bell is the name of the restaurant, Tacos Bell would be Tacos of Bell, not the same meaning.
bing as well
Indeed, you hide longjump in a #define macro instead, with a do while block trick.
My conspiracy mind tells me, may be bing changed their search api with breaking changes or suddenly introduced massive billing(think Twitter API, reddit API et al.) hence all search-engines pulled an immediate break without having time to fix/update.
The lack of status pages is annoying. Neither Bing, Ecosia or DuckDuckGo have one.
I think it's a very similar question to "how unique is your cooking". Most people aren't unique cooks.
Could those changes be intended to “poison the well” for llm training?
I know there is some exceptions in US law for use of parody ???.
As someone fluent in both English and Polish (being my native language), I cannot see how silnik and a fixed place where power is generated, specifically connected to a network where that power is put out (i.e. powerplant) have anything in common.

The only direct translation of the word is really just engine/motor, one can often use the word motor to mean silnik as well.
How is your experience with GPT-4o?
What are the areas where you find GPT-4o better than GPT-4 Turbo?
The part in it that I don't understand is ...

Again, "traditionally", one could (ab)use C++ as "C with extras". And it wasn't uncommon, especially in resource constraint usecases,
to do just that. C++ without STL or templates, or even C++ without new/delete.

This "is not C++", agree. Would a subset be enough for "using it like C-with-RAII" ?

Given the details and pitfalls the original author lists, I suspect not. It's not just C programmers who "do strange things" and make odd choices. The language itself though "lends itself to that". I've (had to) write code that sometimes-alloca'ed sometimes-malloc'ed the same thing and then "tagged" it to indicate whether it needed free() or "just" the implied drop. Another rather common antipattern is "generic embedded payloads" - the struct definition ending "char data[1]" just to be padded out by whatever creates it to whatever size (nevermind type) of that data.

Can you write _new_ C code that "does RAII" ? Probably. Just rewrite it in rust, or zig :-)
Can you somehow transmogrify language, compiler, standard lib so that you can recompile existing C code, it not to "just get RAII" then at least to give you meaningful compiler errors/warnings that tell you how to change it ? I won't put money on that.
> Ok, so are the transactions in question actual scams or not? It's not clear to me

Presumably at scale they can't say a definite yes or no on all transactions, only that a particular transaction has a high "scam score" from their system and they want the customer to take responsibility for it.
This comment is just a copy/paste of a quarter of the article.
Every single thing in your second paragraph is directly contradicted by the article at hand, yet you say them like they are established facts as opposed to things you just made up.
Pulling things at first signs of an outcry seems to be the thing to do. It's hard to know how folks would have reacted had they not pulled it.
> We’re joining forces with News Corp to support the highest journalistic standards and enrich our products with its premium journalism.

Hard to take this statement seriously when they are the owners of tabloids like The Sun and New York Post
if there are people on the sidewalk, yes, or if I don't see the side walk to verify that there are no people there
In today's climate you are considered guilty until you prove you are innocent. People who accused you don't have to show any proof.
Hershey sued for $5M over missing 'cute' face on Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkins
How is that different than learning any other language?

I think Rust’s reputation for being hard to learn is overblown. Yes it is probably a little more esoteric than what you’re familiar with but any decent dev should be able to pick it up
Thanks for adding more context. Twain was a member of the American Anti-Imperialist League, something I never knew existed, and found this essay linked from the Wikipedia entry on that organization.

I found it surprising, and thought others might as well.
Lawyers say OpenAI could be in real trouble with Scarlett Johansson
> Then why pull the voice in the first place?

Several possible reasons.

1. They're not actively malicious and have the emotional capacity to feel embarrassed

2. They know they were talking about her voice and making comparisons and that this is A Bad Look and they've had a terrible week PR-wise already

3. Might be a trademark violation, I'm not sure how that law works (in general let alone voice) but there's a reason why Pear Computer had to change their logo
Looks sleek, but resource-hungry to the point of absurdity.
No. There are tons of crawlers out there and we certainly don't think there's one. We maintain a list of verified bots here: https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/verified-bots and if you want your bot added you can do so via the "Add a bot" button.
1997 called, they want their prejudice back.

“Web designers are not even programmers”
It seems DuckDuckGo has some kind of outage.

The site itself is not down but every search I did recently are greeted with _Sorry, we ran into an error displaying these results. Click here to try again._

It seems others have the same issue as well considering downdetector data.

Any other people have similar issues?
I've seen enough reports of ransomware gangs failing to return their victims files even when they do pay up, that it's probably best to consider those files irrevocably lost and not pay.
> as loud as a 1u server.

Depending on the 1u server, that's still super noisy. :(