skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Rust Vec type has an unsafe function called `set_len` that changes the length of the vector without checking whether the new length is in bounds, or whether the memory containing any new values is initialized. The body of the function is the following:

self.len = new_len;

No unsafe operations in sight. Should the compiler emit a warning here?
I think this is Inigo Quilez's best video yet. It really goes top to bottom on how to procedurally render a nice landscape scene. The Bob Ross touches in the presentation are terrific.
Is this done automatically by Twitter? Can the user set their own alt?
Any references about spf, dkim, Gmail postmaster ?
it's worth testing indeed, that said these car sounds are under control, not impossible that in slow dense urban spot you can lower them
Not all errors are criminal negligence, but those that are certainly need to be punished just as this.

The methods and practices we put in places in workplaces like this are there for a reason. And it’s simply not acceptable at any levels to apologize killing someone by accident by saying “Oh but the IT system has problems, so we’ve decided to ignore safety procedures to move faster”

And this will certainly make hospitals safer.
I did earwax for a couple years, but after a while it started to gum up my ear canals and I'd have to clean them, and my canals got irritated every once in a while. I switched to silicone now, they're about as good and none of the problems. They stay clean for longer and hold quite well.
So... This is exactly the kind of weird, first principles legal "theory" I was talking about.

Look at actual example/precedents of fiduciary duty vuilatuons. The real ones. Not the pseudo-legal theory.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-invasion-protest...
I spent most of my childhood straight-edge and was thus cast out by peers for not joining them in their nonstop sex, alcohol, and drug addictions, and not being interested in sports.

Instead I made fast friends with the other outcasts like me. The computer nerds, the anime nerds, the hobbyists, the actors, the musicians, the magicians, and the artists. People that spent life chasing their imagination and not worrying about trying to be "normal". Those friendships helped me become the person I am today.

Kids without smartphones will be similar cast out of social circles that revolve around "app culture". Your kid will be better off without the influence of people that shallow.

People sometimes basically tell me "Oh, if you don't install snapchat, discord, or x app, we can't be friends". If someone can't figure out how to maintain a friendship with me without a particular app I have ethical objections to, then I don't consider it a loss. Your kid will learn not to either.

Ancedotal, but virtually all the nerds I grew up with are very successful now, and many of the popular kids that excluded me are still struggling to pay bills having never developed any specialized skills.
> What would image compression look like if designed around other things perceptions?

For computers, the question is meaningless because they only interact with our outside reality in the form of a "Chinese room" translation task. There's nothing inherently salient about image data to a computer, because the "ground floor" reality of computers is instructions for moving electrical charges around on some chips. But, given computers with built in cameras and having some use for discerning its reality of objects in 3d space, subject to Newtonian physics, and projected down to a 2d CCD array, the ideal compression would be subject to the same pressures as influenced the evolution of the human eyes and brain. Thus it should be similar.

Isn't it funny how similar compression artifacts can be to the visual distortion of psychedelics.
I wonder how it would fare if a service followed the Amazon wishlist kind of deal, and have random unrelated users directly pay some amount to the service provider, bypassing the site owner.

For instance Linode would expose 30 purchasable items for a site, and each item purchased by a user would pay for 1 day of uptime. As a tradeoff, money going to the project maintainer would need to go through Patreon if they set one up.
You are asking for the holy grail: aligning individual objectives with corporate objectives. The company that manages to do that will eat the world. It would be bigger than nuclear fussion or solving P vs NP.

The first thing to ask is how you measure recognition. Because there are plenty of people that get recognition but not a lot of pay. What you get paid depends more on what other companies are willing to pay you.

The second thing to ask is by whom do you want to get recognized? It's much easier to get recognition by your peers: they spend much more time with you and have the technical knowledge to appreciate your work, and get impacted by your work too. Getting recognized by your peers is important, mostly for your own happiness and sometimes it also permeates upwards (just a little).

I bet that you mean: getting recognized by your manager and getting more pay.
Regarding the pay: statistically your are not going to accumulate raises every year. It's unmaintainable. Of course some people manage to do that but you need to be extremely lucky and work very hard. Switching companies is the best way of getting raises.

Regarding getting recognized by your manager: that depends a lot on your manager. Do you give your manager recognition? If the answer is no then it may be because you know little about her work or maybe she is a horrible manager. In the later case screw everything and switch companies, don't bother, run, run fast, life is too short and the job market is great. In the first case communicate more with your manager and understand her problems. Solving her problems is the best way to get recognition. Even trying to solve them and failing will get you recognition. If you are doing something that you think is impressive communicate with your manager and explain why is important. So to summarize my advice is: align your objectives with your manager and super-manager objectives.
Does a bear shit in the woods?
I would recommend the The Syllabus. It's curated and broken down by specific topics. If you subscribe, some additional customizations are available.

https://www.the-syllabus.com/
I have been having similar thoughts recently. With just 4 years into my career (working at a FAANG for last 2), I too am looking around for a job. But it all looks the same corporate BS, providing "business value", grinding for promotion, being a small cog in a enormous machine, dealing with middle managers and their egos and endless insecurity, estimations and deadline chasing, I feel so done and tired. Add the bullshit interview process on top of all this and it is enough for me to never want to change jobs again. I feel like I am in hell.
> Steve and Larry were extremely close friends (in each other’s wedding).

Trivia: Steve Jobs was Ellison's wedding photographer. Ellison trusted no one except Steve when it came to aesthetics.
Here in the UK(dont know if this is global)-- test /automation / devops is heavily into Python. Even companies that used Perl/Ruby are moving to Python, simply because more people available. Dont know if this is globally true
You mean Henrietta
He doesn't need to prove his anecdote but prove that big tech is bad. The whole "I got recommended something that was actually related to me so I'm avoid big tech for the safety of my children" implies that him being recommended something that was actually related to him was dangerous.

This is almost the same as "I was talking to someone about wanting to buy a gaming PC then I saw ads for gaming PC. They must be listening to my conversations". Nah, some people got told to figure out the patterns of people who go on to buy a gaming PC and someone figured it out. Just like how LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, figure out people you may know because you share a data point or two.
Most of the country does not watch popular media. CNN's top news shows average 500,000 viewers (less than 0.01% of the country), and additionally the country overwhelmingly do not trust popular media, and therefore would not believe them anyway.
cool. It was hard to find. :)

looks like only a100 accelerator is documented.

cannot find any info about P4, T4 or P100
What type of projects to you do for $5?
The problem is that Smartphone/Attention economy is made to be addictive. In my opinion and observation, many adults, myself included, are overusing smartphones/social media, often mindlessly scrolling through stuff to "kill time", losing focus on more important tasks. I'm just saying this stuff is dangerous even to adults, and it takes quite some discipline to manage. That is why I am unsure that "education" in that field is enough. And I say this as an adult who often breaks his own set time limits for mobile usage.
Fyrox – 3D and 2D game engine written in Rust
Not at all the same.
I get what you mean, but do you see how the politics around otherwise sterile scientific decisions influence how scientists will decide what to test, and what gets ultimately funded and reported? For example, HCQ is and has always been a shot in the dark, based on some wonky theory about transmission rates in Africa. That it became a major talking point in some parts of the world before any tests were conducted meant that a) a lot of funding would inevitably go towards testing it, which is likely suboptimal and b) scientists who do not support the politicians who talked about HCQ in the first place may be inclined to review the evidence in a more negative way (and vice versa). Another level of distortion is added by media, as different organizations may report only results that confirm the biases of their clientele. "Just do good science" is an aspirational goal, not the reality we see.
Heretic !
I am currently succeeding at this failure.
How do you pull over an autonomous car? Like, how does it know that it needs to pull over?
Wow, unzip has a really cool signup form-- signed up just for that!!
I have two teens. If I give them the credit they deserve and try to trust them I find they make the right choices for themselves. Both my boys have smart phones (and both laugh at the whole tiktok thing).
Granted the kids in this story are much younger, but when they are older, if they are denied a phone that allows them to communicate with their friends on an equal playing field, they will be left out. They may even resent you in the end. Educate kids about tech, teach them how to deal with tech smartly, but do not deny it from them because of some ideological fear. Kids today are sometimes smarter than kids in my day. Give them credit.
My mother spent thirty years in the OR saving cancer patients, so I know a thing or two about this topic. Different patients respond differently to treatment, life expectancy can vary greatly even in the terminal stage, so doctors are unlikely to know “she'll be dead in two years. She'll initially respond really well to treatment, then just get worse until the end.” Delivering that information when there actual is non-negligible hope left would be imprudent.
IMO a lot of teams can do CD but chose not to as they don't have the risk appetite or maybe the resources to handle problems occurred at deployment time. (Tests, however many we have, simply won't cover every scenario that could break a deployment).
It's not just a matter of exposing the service to the internet. That's only part of the solution. The usability difference between consuming web content via browsers and creating/exposing it via web servers is vast. Most web users wouldn't even know where to start with today's tooling, and what's worse: even if such tooling existed, you'd have to convince them why they should use it in the first place. This is partly why adoption of any decentralized platform is an uphill battle.
If a teacher could not figure out how to communicate with a kid without routing those communications through Facebook servers, I would kindly teach them how e-mail, matrix, or other neutral internet protocols work.

Honestly -most- of the time I tell people I don't have a phone they say something like "That is super cool, I wish I could do that. My phone has ruined my life. How would you prefer we keep in touch since you can't use X app?"
So what about Sokushinbutsu?

You going to tell me that all these hardcore monks were actually breaking a core tenet of their religion?
That's just not the case. Pumped hydro is fundamentally limited in scope. It might be fairly cost effective but you only have a small amount of suitable sites, it can never scale up by many orders of magnitude to support the energy storage needed to enable meeting all energy demands with solar, wind, and hydro. That leaves the only proven energy storage method of grid scale electric batteries which again are only a tiny miniscule fraction of the energy needed. You can make more and more batteries, but lithium isn't plentiful, good luck mining enough lithium to support 100% electric vehicles and energy storage, prices would go through the roof.

Personally I think deferring electric vehicle charging and feeding power back into the grid could help a lot here and make this make economic sense, but that doesn't give you enough energy storage to go 100% solar and wind. Right now intermittent power sources are being subsidized heavily with being able to lean on cheap natural gas. Nuclear doesn't depend on any resources that would be strained even if relying on Nuclear power for 100% of demand. Nuclear is also power dense and other than NIMBY concerns is easier to site closer to where the energy is needed than large scale wind farms. Before you say "rooftop solar!" I'll admit, a PV panel is great for being able to scale down to tiny amounts of power instead of just "hundreds of MWe". That still doesn't address the fact that massive swaths of the globe do not get enough sunlight during the winter months to make 100% solar every week of the year worth it. You could currently overproduce enough in the summer to be net zero, but that doesn't change the fact that you're still relying on massive overproduction in sunnier climates and transporting energy large distances or fossil fuels to make up the difference. No chance energy storage bridges the gaps for seasonal changes instead of just a few days.

Renewables true costs are just unknown.
That's called moving the goalposts. Mainstream political opinions absolutely will get you fired at large tech companies.
I don't think Jobs could have done much with Sun, or much more with NeXT, which had pretty much run out of road by then.

Sun was professional, Jobs was consumer. Jobs needed to be top dog and in charge of concept, and he couldn't have done that at Sun. He also needed some constraints and consumer focus, which Apple provided.

NeXT was basically a vanity project. It was poorly run from a business POV, but developed some decent tech. The real primary motivation wasn't to make money, it was to keep some attention on Jobs and maintain his profile as an Important Innovative Person.

Sun was engineering-led not image-led and wedded to workstation/server. That market turned out to be a relatively short-lived spasm - a legacy of the mini market pioneered by DEC - in a much longer consumer-oriented tech history.

So there was an impossible tension there.

It might have worked if Apple had remained a completely independent division and Jobs had been given a free hand to run it. But that was never really remotely likely.

It might also have worked if Jobs had any interest in the server/business market. But he really didn't - possibly because it was "boring" and not mass market, which meant less attention and praise for him.
can be solved this way:

- npm start when developing

- deploy on dev using the artefacts from npm run build

builds take a bit longer this way, but it guarantees QA will test using a non-dev build
> items that are 100% toxic [...] like rap/hip-hop music

Didn't expect to see this take on HN, especially in the age when the library of congress includes hip-hop records and a former president expressed his appreciation towards it openly. Ffs, it is just another form of art. It isn't some vice that they will unfortunately have to eventually be able to work around, like alcohol. There is genuine value in it.

Same with Tiktok. It can be used in a toxic way, but also in a way that can genuinely be great. I saw plenty of great DIY projects on tiktok that were fairly educational to me, as well as plenty of great examples of people teaching or creating amazing things. I am not "coping with toxicity" of tiktok when i use it, i am just using it in a way that is controlled and intentional.

The only thing I can add at this point is, you are just going through the good old "heavy metal/rock music/Dungeons and Dragons turn our children into devil-worshipping heathens" type of thinking.

If you dont have conversations about it and just blanket declare it as evil and ban it in your household, it won't stop your kid from listening to it. It will stop any discussion of it though, which means that they will have to work through it without your guidance on the matter (which has a potential for turning ugly), all while eroding the trust between you all.

Saying that as someone who grew up with very overprotective (at quite a few points) parents, (almost) nothing good came out of it at all. You probably don't want your kid to get a motorcycle license just out of spite for you the second they are fully financially independent and realize that you have zero control over them. And then promptly crash on that bike and break a couple of bones within the same year. I didn't even have an itch to ride a bike that badly, but it felt like some internal obligation to myself. No regrets about it whatsoever, I genuinely enjoy riding it now as intrinsically as possible. But it definitely didn't start off this way at all.

And that personal example was on a very mild side, from what I've personally observed in my peers. As a former RA in college dorms who had a chance to see a lot of those situations play out, you can pretty much always correctly guess what kind of parenting the freshmen kids who got into ER with alcohol poisoning within the first month of college or dropped out due to partying too hard (or playing videogames all day) had. It was almost always the kind of parenting that you are advocating for.
It was inspiring how engaging this was. And the accompanying visualizations are award worthy. I hope more people get a chance to watch this through.
I argue there is no need for regulation and we just need pure capitalism.

Without a government, companies made of people with guns would emerge punishing scammers and criminals in general, advising companies and reputation systems would emerge protecting people from scams.

Due to the nature of entrepreneurship, all these companies could be held in check by competitors. Without regulation slowing down new competitors, if a cartel emerges, there would be a great incentive for a better alternative coming up and making money.

You may argue the systems of companies providing these services would make a sort of government - and you would be right. It would just be more decentralised and therefore there would be less space for corruption.
You also wouldn't force people to pay you a part of their profit or they go to jail and you wouldn't force people to avoid certain substances or limit what activities thay may be doing.

You can at best say: "If you don't pay a protecion agency, you won't have protection against criminals / foreign invaders", "You may take this drug but this recommendation company suggest it's bad for you".

I'd rather live in a free society, a society where I'm free to even damage myself, than in the regulated prison we live in today.
Yeah, the connection between understanding them as people and meetings per se is a bit tenuous, but to get to know them better I would have to interrupt them for a chat, or schedule a coffee break with them, or go to lunch with them, all of which seem as "interrupting to flow" as a scheduled meeting.
What part doesn’t she like?

I am assuming it’s the “always on” culture it breeds, but that might be my projection.
The wikipedia article on zugzwang [1] has some further interesting distinctions of reciprocal zugzwang, full-point reciprocal zugzwang, and zugzwang lite.

While the game of Go has no zugzwang, as it allows players to pass their turn, it does have something resembling it on the tiny 2x1 board, where the first player must pass to avoid losing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugzwang
For an alternative, I get great service - not free but very cheap - from updown.io.
I use testssl too, the dockerfile has saved me countless times, as having an image to run and test old SSL versions is godlike.
And I'm seriously hoping you corrected her romantic view of the past.

Sure, the movies make it seem simple, but... you know, AIDS. It sucked even more if you were queer. "Crack babies" that weren't (that was just poverty we were seeing). Regan starved people with the 'welfare queen' stuff. Misogyny was so much more open.

It wasn't the same. It wasn't better. It was different.
7 and 9 sounds way too young for kids to have their own phone in my opinion. My son really wanted a smartphone at some point, and we figured he would need one for secondary school (starts at 11 or 12), add some time to get used to it, and he got the phone in his last year of primary school. That sounds early enough to me.

He never takes it to school, by the way. Despite his phone, we can still never reach him. He mostly uses it to watch YouTube at home, and for chatting with his friends, he relies almost entirely on Discord, which he's got on his laptop.

At least I'm glad he's not into TikTok/Facebook/Instachat and that sort of crap. To reach him, they'd have to launch an antisocial network.
Oh, it's big. It's definitely big. For us here it's even bigger than you might think - a good part of the reason why eastern europe is still so much behind is russian influence. Getting rid of that means finally picking up the pace and realizing our potential. Not to mention Ukraine... 44 million people free and in EU. The "good ending" here could be incredibly good.
Free trials are an essential for the reasons you describe - but it doesn’t mean it has to be free forever - just for long enough to make an honest evaluation. 30 days is the norm, and that seems fair to me.
> Does this include boomers?

No, only silo based. No submarines at sea, or any mobile land based ones, as they will delay the first strike, and out the preparations for it. Warheads on them are tiny as well.
"We work closely with the SFPD on how to interact with our vehicles and have a dedicated phone number for them to call in situations like this.”

And yes, that seems thoroughly impractical at scale.
Human genes renamed to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates (2020)
Opportunities, Features, Epics and Stories – What's the Difference?
> I spent most of my childhood straight-edge and was thus cast out by peers for not joining them in their nonstop sex, alcohol, and drug addictions, and not being interested in sports.

That's a false dichotomy - you posit that those things are the only alternatives, which is incorrect.

I never did non-stop sex, drugs and alcohol (and ignored sports) in school, and yet I was part of a number of different social groupings in school.

> Ancedotal, but virtually all the nerds I grew up with are very successful now, and many of the popular kids that excluded me are still struggling to pay bills having never developed any specialized skills.

That's funny - I was never a nerd (computer or otherwise), and grew up fairly successful.

I think you might be missing the fact that your exclusions has lead you to believe a number of things that simply aren't true, like your first statement above.
Presumably if they avoided kicking down doors in a rich part of Dallas Texas or something. This is on that upper 0.01% of politically connected areas at the national/international level and perhaps top 1% of wealthy areas. Describing it as a wealthy area isn’t wrong, but that not why it’s unusual.