skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://snapdrop.net/ is a great solution that unlike KDE doesn't require installation. Along with https://webwormhole.io/ they are my go to for transferring assets between systems.

Both use WebRTC.
Non-competes like this are often not enforceable, but it depends on the jurisdiction.
That's how I feel about "performant". Unfortunately I'll never stop seeing such jargon every day or two, working in tech. It is what it is, I guess. :\
The story addresses this as well.
> many employees aren't sure how they work.

Why aren't they simply asking their product?
Yes. That was my point. But then recording got cheap enough to record everything, and now AI is getting good enough to analyze all the data. Orwell didn't see that coming.
As already mentioned it was the install setup, and it's my favorite Windows background to date as well. It's actually a 2 bit image with all blue and black, with dithering. It's very comforting in my opinion.
no exponential growth is sustainable in the long run
I think everyone in this space soon or later invest a router. At CBK we did too. I am not sure if this is a big problem to solve but I am thinking we need to open finish our Open Relay soon.
in an immutable context, cas updates the content hash a named pointer points to.
I think the wallpaper is minimalistic, elegant.. and boring, which is why I usually end up using a wallpaper from KDE Plasma.

https://store.kde.org/browse?cat=299&ord=latest
I've been a part of /now movement for a few years. Yes, remembering to update the page is a problem. I've set up a calendar event once a month to finally get ahold of the stale content.

Drop your now link below and let's get in touch:
https://nazavo.com/now/
The point is those $44K cards have $500-1000 BOM.
I call fake on this. But I'm not sure. 42.
My wishful thinking is that instead of the corporate lead "ai evolution" some breakthrough and leak turns it into an "ai revolution" where a free linux OS comes with absolute privacy enforcement, ad busting in all forms of media and sites, automatic dark pattern removing web browser, untracable piracy, mass scale detection and highlighting of country trends in censorship / fake news / authoritarianism. And that it puts a ton of new pressure on companies having to have some sort of publicly proven morals
Civilization, I'll stay right here
That may be your opinion but we have plenty of social media conversations about it when the voice first came out 7 months ago, before any of this was a controversy, and the only two names that are consistently brought up are Scarlett Johansson and Rashida Jones for who the voice reminds them of.
I'm with you. This one at least has punctuation, but the lack of capitals makes it materially harder to read and therefore makes me less likely to put the effort in to read it. When people write like this and don't even use punctuation, I stop reading as soon as I encounter the first missing full stop I have to mentally insert myself.
Maybe today's the day we find out DDG is just a UI to an Amazon Go-style backend: a room full of workers in India typing the queries into Bing and copy/pasting the results back to you.
It's a longtime friend of mine who has kept my computer from wasting space.
But it's pretty outdated, and I think there are better programs out there now.
They are working with PGO, and adding also AI based optimization algorithms, both can help.
Did you experience any performance degradation when using alacritty + tmux vs alacritty alone?
> what if I don't login to the AWS account for 9 years, and then when I need my files, I find out AWS kindly deleted/disabled my account and I didn't know about it? That situation is my biggest concern.

Understandable concern, but AWS being targeted at enterprise gives me confidence they don't do any funny stuff like that. On and of course, they bill you monthly, so ideally you'd have a tell if something goes wrong.

I also store my files locally on a USB drive in alternative locations, but I conceptually trust S3, but maybe actions speak louder.
All power position attract psychopaths, so naturally we find more when we look at those.
I don't know why iPhones have autocorrect on, and why people do not disable it first thing. It trips me constantly so much so that it is an anti-feature when writing acronyms, URLs or any text message with abbreviations or non-standard word.

How do people survive with their ducking auto-correct on, I don't know. I guess they don't type that much.
They made a video showing off how it was made: https://youtu.be/ewmXizBqjl0
Your Transformer is Secretly Linear
The potential for confusion when documenting the work in any scientific papers.
same. I just noticed it too, about 30 minutes ago
The Windows login screen has been showing dynamic landscape photos for a loooong time. Of course, the part where you accidentally click on one of the search labels (?) and it opens Bing in Edge (previously IE), which is one of the three hundred ways you can accidentally open Edge/Bing in Windows, is not cool at all.
Shame they went a little overboard with the smoke and post fx really. A cleaner sharper image would have been nice
It seems to be all search engines powered by Bing. Ecosia isn't working either, and they also don't have a status page.
My personal definition of "engine" had to have something combustible inside it that caused motion. So fossil fueled cars and buses and rockets had steam engines and internal combustion engines and rocket engines, but electric cars like tesla have motors!
As a Clojure editor tool smith it pains me that this is the case. Especially for ClojureScript where I spend most of my time. I really want to fix this.

For JVM interop, I think Cursive (IntelliJ Clojure plugin) is smart enough to help with autocompleting Java libraries.
Those other runtimes also don't do half of the features a JVM usually has to offer, and most people complaining also don't bother to actually learn the Java ecosystem, the existing set of JVM implementations, and the optimizations features made available to them.
Started about an hour ago (~1716454800000)
It’s actually fork() that’s slow, rather than Bash itself.

If you were to write Python code that did a of its business logic by spawning new processes rather than using its core libraries (which are written in C) then you’d find Python would be just as slow too.

But the exact point of Bash and other shells is to make launching new processes easy. This is the point that people miss when they say “write it in a real programming language”. Shells solve an entirely different problem to other languages. And “real” programming languages suck at working with other executables in a quick and convenient way.
The blackmail part is already illegal, so the criminals wont care one way or another.

It's the victims that would now have two problems: damned if they pay, damned if they dont.

It's not like the criminals will be at any increased risk or effort either. They're criminal operations already doing other criminal stuff, most of the work is automated (via viruses, bots, etc), and they already couldn't take the payments openly (it's not like they used a bank account).
That’s a whole lot of words to shit on a book that someone else wrote. It’s not a very good look. I mean, yes you’re smart, but have some class.
Why? Those two are the same to my ESL sensibilities: one Taco Bell, two Taco Bells; one Mountain Dew, two Mountain Dews. "Bell" may be a name of a specific person, but that's arguably subsumed by the "Taco Bell" being the name of a company. That may be a proper name in context[0] of all local companies, but once you use it to refer to restaurants - as in, "Taco Bell restaurant" with "restaurant" implied, then why wouldn't plural be "Taco Bells"? One ${opaque name}, two ${opaque name}s, etc.

Same with Mountain Dew - one Mountain Dew[ drink], two Mountain Dew[ drink]s...

EDIT:

The answer here seems to agree with my thinking: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/190023/why-are-n....

--

[0] - There are no truly unique names; there are only names referring to a specific entity in the context they're being used in.
Yes but also it was the same exact time when MS dominated and stagnated. IE6 shipped with Windows XP
that was when it rolled out to all regions. prior to that it existed in a single region only. not sure when that initially rolled out.
Yeah,Pet extends Animal is just sad...
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The point about not being able to create demand is absolutely vital to understand.
Nvidia will now make new AI chips every year
> This all makes me think gsuite will be next on the chopping block.

GSuite is the most profitable part of GCP, and it's totally propping that division up. It'll be the last to go - it's a lot easier to recognize bad management.

Domains probably was expensive to maintain or understaffed for some reason, and some exec knew a guy a Squarespace.
Like carbon credits? Pretty sure that's been gamed
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I read it before I became a daily reader of HN.

I always thought and still think it's a great book. It may miss some writer's instruments to make it "a good book" in the classical sense, but to me it wasn't missing at all.

If anyone here neglects this book due to being a "sci-fi booksthat HN recommends", please give it a try!
Truecaller and Microsoft will let users make an AI voice to answer calls
Yes there was.
What if, after 20 years of C++, you spend 10 years doing python, only to go back to C++ and realise that all this private/protected stuff is a crock and most of the time you are doing real work you just use struct and start typing your C++, virtual functions, constructors, destructors etc?

Just asking, for a friend.
Fare well my friends. You still have a few pics of mine :) will remember.
Or windows in a VM. Parallels makes that painless if you can use arm.
DDG runs on bing, so that squares. Apparently, MS uses Bing for their portal, because I can't search inside Azure portal neither.
Yup, I am also running into the same issue where duck duck go is returning the error message:

> Sorry, we ran into an error displaying these results. Click here to try again.

I thought it was just duck duck go, but I tried searching with bing, and was met with:

> It's not you, it's us

> Bing isn't available right now, but everything should be back to normal very soon.
To call these Lisp Machine features is to skip quite a bit of history :-)

RMAIL, info, etc predate Lisp Machines (ZMacs and EINE have their roots in ITS/TECO Emacs) by quite a bit. They where standard on ITS long before the Lisp Machine came about, and that is really from where GNU Emacs draws much if not most of its inspiration.
Too bad in most parts of the EU is illegal to fly drones. You can do it if you are far from populated areas but you need to go trough a complicated bureaucracy and obtain a permit before each flight.
works for me 8 minutes later, idk
> Always use an industrialized western perspective

Who do you think has driven modern medicine and how do you get advanced healthcare without industrialization?
The ICC Arrest Warrants: Even a Strong U.S. Reaction Should Not Include Sanction
Technically? Maybe not. In spirit? Sure as heck.
If they are so confident that they didn't copy her voice, then why did they pull that character/version?
Yes, that's a property of C++. It tempts you to hide complexity under several layers of classes so you can have ... more classes, i guess? And job security, because it makes the code much harder to follow for whoever didn't write it.
I don't know about you, but more often than not I have maximized windows covering the background image. The thing which reminds me I'm using Windows is the start button. Not to mention.. everything else.
I hope someone will one day talk about me the way corporate america talks about its logos.
Maybe it was acquired by Google?
Why start with the person trading bitcoin holdings or any other action for that matter?

Why not just give the police arbitrary power to fine and toss in prison anybody?

Sounds like getting to that with extra steps.
That this hurling chunk of metal still communicates with us is mind-bogglingly impressive…
Can’t really fault the voice actor for having a specific voice.

The question is whether or not OAI traded on the similarity to Scarlet Js likeness. The “her” tweet raises suspicions.
> is it not then true that this period where Russia was wounded and had all the turmoil is what allowed Putin to come to power?

Sure, that was my point.

> Second question: who did the wounding? Who do you think the average Russian thinks did the wounding?

It's... Hard for me to formulate a strong answer on this, but my impression is that Russia mostly did the wounding itself but the current average Russian probably blames either the reform attempts masking a power grab OR the west and the US for it's toils.
Very impressive poetry of the gold markets in your blog! Wow. I am a bit speechless about the potential of all these.
Because many paths of that era were not binary-transparent. There was CR-LF to LF conversion, the possibility of ASCII/EBCDIC translation, and other transformations.

Hence such horrors as MIME delimiters:

-----=_Part_2827761_1947716067.1716352583971
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_Part_2827760_1372041171.1716352583736"

We still have the mess that is the required and standardized behavior of HTML5 parsers faced with bad data.
Story time.

I'm from Western Australia and spent a lot of time in its deserts in my youth.

I have a very distinct memory of walking out among the spinifex as a child, needing to pee. Its hot, my bare feet are burning, the ground is unforgiving and I already have spinifex'ed ankles, so naturally I tread as carefully as I can, trying to avoid the sand and the spikes, only walking on the slightly less heated organic mats that surround some of the spinifex, a kind of carpet of twigs and leaves, gathered in pockets by the wind.

The natural urge is rising, and I stop paying attention and get a bit of pace, as relief must be had. I see a particularly appealing area, covered by this organic dust, and I leap over to it, get my body parts aligned, and begin the process of relief.

A few seconds into it, I feel something moving. The entire mat that I was standing on, is in fact, a field of trap doors. Maybe a hundred of them. They begin to open.

I have never levitated as hard and as fast in my life.

So my Tabula Rasa has given me this lesson: don't go into the spinifex to pee. Ever.
I'm ignorant but I've never understood why people actually pay the ransom. Aren't the attackers anonymous? What stops them from asking for another $Y after they get their $X, and not actually removing the ransomware? There's not much incentive for the attackers to actually do what they say after you pay them, right?
In English, you can use the word powerplant in a more abstract sense, e.g., to refer to the engine or motor of a car. It doesn’t only specifically mean the large industrial building which generates electricity, as I believe elektrownia does.

I think your note about the -nik suffix is congruent with my point. A silnik is a thing that is doing/making siła.

To clarify, I’m perfectly aware that if I tell someone in Poland that I have a problem with my silnik, I’m referring to the engine in my vehicle. But in this discussion here, I’m talking about the most direct translation.
Yes, seeing it too, for about an hour already! Came here to check. Nothing on their xitter page but this thing is spiking: https://downdetector.com/status/duckduckgo/
And today: a post about Johansson's voice was on the front page with quite a high score, and then disappeared. This is not the place to discuss OpenAI.
If you look up "hacker news", it at least shows you an insert from the Wikipedia article, even if there are no normal results:
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=hacker+news
C has scopes. Add destructors. That's pretty much all you need to get most of the benefits of RAII.

You can add `defer` instead, but regardless, this has nothing to do with C++. You can implement safety features without having to copy the arguably worst language in the world, C++. I like C++, I wrote many larger projects in it, but it sucks to the very core. Just add RAII to C.
When I worked at Google it was literally impossible to access personal data like this in most roles, even for my own account. So it seems like meta leaves something to be desired if it's a click through and a policy.
How to hold your phone when tapping (2018) [pdf]
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/bac...
Wincott and Dance and are both British actors that began their careers on stage, so they have similar accents, cadences, and vocal mannerisms common to stage actors. For example, both of them speak like Patrick Stewart, another English who also began his career on stage. But otherwise they all clearly have very different voices: they have different timbres, vocal fry, and only one of them (Dance) can sing well and he has a surprisingly large vocal range (see his performance as the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera).

In this case, the actress selected for OpenAI was clearly selected for similarity to SJ. And that by itself would have been okay, because the actress is speaking in her natural voice, and SJ doesn't have a monopoly on voice acting...but OpenAI went further, and had the unknown[1] actress base her inflections, cadence, and mannerisms on SJ's performance in the movie Her. And Altman even tweeted the movie's name to advertise the connection.

The problem is that there is a well-settled case law stretching back over several decades that makes this a slam-dunk case for SJ, because it doesn't matter that OpenAI didn't "steal" her voice, they stole her likeness.[2] It wasn't just some unknown actress speaking in her own voice, it was an actress with a voice similar to SJ given lines and directing by OpenAI with the clear intent of mimicking SJ's voice performance in one of her more-famous roles.

[1] There is a very short list of a few actresses who both sound like SJ and do voice-over work circulating around Hollywood, so a lot of people have a pretty good idea of who it is, but nobody will identify the actress unless she identifies herself, out of solidarity.

[2] Likeness rights are quite strong in the U.S. They're even stronger in Europe.
> You don't want C, you want a language that actually gives defined semantics to all combinations of language constructs.

So, Zig?
Regardless of legal outcome, there now exists a corpus of public text from news coverage of this incident, upon which OpenAI will be trained, which correlates SJ's name to reporting on a 2024 OpenAI voice.
So so sluggish
It's not XSS if it's not cross-site.
Oh man, I would LOVE for all APIs to always return real HTTP response codes. It's crazy frustrating to get a 200 OK with an empty object or something instead of a payload with the expected/agreed-upon format. If someone can parse/handle a response from an API they can absolutely add a bit of code to handle a handful of response codes.
But OpenAI isn't making a sequel to Her, which I feel like there would be prexisting legal text in contract about repraising role in event of franchise if johansson has leverage, or ability to cast close facsimile if studio has leverage. Right now Johansson has leverage in court of public opinion, not necessarily law. What if OpenAI used a cartoon cat avatar that sounded like "Her", what if they have one interaction that doesn't comport to "Her" personality from the movie, thereby indicating a different being. Is there some comprehensive method acting documentation outlining the full complexity of a fictional character. Seems like there aremany ways for openAI to make voice sound like her, but not embody "Her" but they'd rather strategically retreat out of optics. But IANAL, but I am interested in seeing how this will get resolved in court.
I think Lockheed Martin is bigger than Airbus.

But note, that all the big aerospace companies are the products of mergers:

Lockheed Martin is Lockheed + (Martin + Marietta )

Boeing is Boeing + Chance Vought + Sikorsky + Stearman + Pratt & Whitney + Vertol + Hughes + (McDonnell + Douglas)

Airbus is Aérospatiale (Sud + Nord) + CASA + DASA (Daimler-Benz + Dornier + Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm) + Matra

The point being that these mergers require government approval, and in Airbus' case are mergers of nationalised companies. These companies only dominate because we let them.
Bing is sluggish but seems to work sometimes now.

I wonder if it's a DDoS attack on Bing.
Gmunk was working on visual graphics for the web back in late 90s / early 2000s with Vir2L.

If they wanted to, they could have easily banged out half a dozen wallpapers in an afternoon using Maya or whatever, but they chose the physical route.
I notice more and more pushes to 'improve' C and turn it into something it should not become. I feel like the C++ community gave up on C++ because of the growing complexity and so turned to C with the hope of adding to it the good parts of C++ without the ugliness. But this is of course hopeless: every added feature will create new issues that will be solved with new features until the language becomes too complex for anyone to fully understand.
I consider ATProto, the protocol BlueSky uses, to be a proprietary thing as it is owned and maintained by BlueSky. ActivityPub is an Open Standard.
I have not read this but I can recommend Vernor Vinges book “A Deepness of the Sky” on a similar theme.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky
> the US's first hydrogen-fueled ship is officially ready to set sail

Has the person who wrote this title paused to consider it makes it sound like the ship won't be able to be propelled by hydrogen fuel alone?
Extracting future ransoms can rely on their reputation
You must not be a fan of https://youtu.be/_ve4M4UsJQo?si=99yLl7V2hisVp0zT then.

(That commercial literally had Honda execs complimenting the team on the quality of their CGI when they first saw it. Needless to say they were blown away when they found out it was real.)
It’s surprising how these app developers are okay with this much data being shown: https://openrouter.ai/models/mistralai/mixtral-8x7b-instruct...
How sure are we that this viral DNA in our genome isn't occasionally activated to make fully fledged viruses?
These attackers have made it clear they will release your data. They have done that many many times exactly because they know the target needs to believe they will release it. They even have customer support to help the targets recover everything.
Presume that duckduckgo is not private or otherwise compromised.

For example many things I search trough duckduckgo later that day showed up in my twitter/x.com algorithmic feed, coincidence ? don't think so.
Yeah I think MIDI is your best option. Essentially you have to have a piezo connected to the surface your hitting, than I guess I would investigate linking it to an Arduino that recognizes and processes the hits and transforms it in MIDI data
Elaborate troll to spook VCs who are winner-takes-all averse when it's obvious.

Makes me think AI + stream processing is going to be a match made in heaven.
That is what static analysers are for.

The issue is developers that think they are useless tools.
>If reparations were seen as a fee for remaining independent country they could be very fair given the alternative.

That would be an ever greater insult. Instead of merely unfair, they'd be seen as both unfair and insulting - and threatening ("Our independency is at their mercy? Fuck them at the first opportunity we get!").