skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And chiming in:

> there's no reason why you couldn’t safely promote a u8, u16, or u32 into a usize

The people running Rust on a 16-bit architecture (e.g. AVR) would disagree. On those platforms, usize is 16-bit, so promoting u32 to usize would not be possible.

I _do_ wish there was a nicer way to declare up-front "I *never* want this crate to compile on something smaller than 32-bit (or 64-bit), so assume that".

IIRC, similar ideas like this have floated around under the name of a "platform compatibility lint".
1) More grip options are more accessible, and allow a familiar feel between two different guns.

2) safer than trying to fight with a knife directly.

3) More convenient storage, support for differently sized people to safely use a firearm.

4) Prevent blinding flashes of light.

5) allow a suppressor to be attached which prevents hearing loss.

6) launching flares for locating without direct LOS.

7) reduced recoil for better accuracy or smaller/weaker people to safely use a gun.

8) Similar to 7.

9) similar to 1.

10) safety, accessibility, increased accuracy

These bans tend to only ever make guns more dangerous or less accessible. The fact some people may be able to also buy a gun that looks (not works) like some military forearm is irrelevant.
A collection of generic data structures written in Go
Pilot here: It could help with some familiarity but generally in MSFS you can get away with ignoring the gauges and just mess around. The tutorial might gloss over some of it.

Having an unbelievable number of hours in MSFS when I was a kid ... landing a real plane is considerably harder and a ton of instruction time is just focused on getting you to land reliably. I finished my PPL in just over 40hrs which is close to the minimum. Most people will fall into the 60-100hr pool.

I'm dubious that this passenger really had zero experience it takes a good 6-10hrs to get decent at landing (as in not bending metal).

MSFS does however offer a reasonable feeling for the cruise portion of a flight.
I understand what you mean, but I think you chose a terrible example. I will never be in the Olympics, but if I was I would definitely have that on my resume.
You're right, but in this situation - a non-pilot is in a piston single with a pilot who becomes incapacitated - what are the odds they're not already panicking?
> And if one thing that COVID has taught us is how incredibly unnecessary you are to maintaining civilization--unless you are some supply chain developer

Wait what? So you somehow realize that if you're a software engineer supporting some necessary field, you're necessary by extension, but apparently the only thing we needed during covid was a function supply chain. Impressive mental gymnastics.

No one was calling for the "return" of programmers because (almost) no one interacts with them directly like they do their barber. Do you think their barbers decided during covid that they no longer needed to support credit card payments, an electronic scheduling system, etc?
Maybe she was trying to help me, eh? Saying stuff I needed to hear so that I would get help. I mean it worked, it's stuck with me for years.
Google Cloud launches AlloyDB, a new fully-managed PostgreSQL database service
His arguments are straw man in nature. I think we all agree that fossil fuels have led to orders of magnitude increases in standard of living, at least for most humans. That is not really in dispute. But it is now time to move on to new sources of energy that are not so destructive for the planet and biodiversity; renewables, nuclear, and ultimately fusion. We need to look forward, not back.
> and you can go and visit nowadays

And that is how conservation is defeated.
It isn't enough to say we're seeing something in blood and fetuses, it has to be quantified by how it is a problem.

I find alcohol in my blood all the time, I understand the effects and manage it so it's never a problem. Alcohol in fetuses on the other hand is a well understood problem where no level is really tolerable.

So, back to plastics. I found https://earth.org/how-does-plastic-pollution-affect-humans/ offers some indication. But I would love to see better information from a non-biased source. I've a suspicion that earth.org is biased.

From the linked article, plastics are a problem but the pollution level is probably below the threshold of harm for most people. But it's also possible that the levels have increased over the past couple of years to the point that it is harmful.
Looks neat!

The documentation does not seem to have any examples of the generated docs, though. I think that would be a good addition, because it’s a good selling point for the project.

(I.e I don’t think I’d go through downloading and running it just to see if the generated documentation is ”good enough”.)
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
A lot of confused kids are going to grow up and ask "Mom, Dad, how could you let me have my penis removed?" It's honestly horrific. How can you have so little back-bone you mutilate your child instead of putting your foot down. Clown world.
The most streamlined "4X-ish" I know of is the wonderful Slipways:

https://slipways.net/

However, it achieves this by eliminating the combat, the opponent AI, and ways to revise your decision-making, instead making it more of an economic logistics puzzle with immense numbers of dependencies to consider on every turn, which makes some players used to having a build strategy to exploit and an enemy to beat up accuse it of being "not a game", always a good sign that you're on to something new and different.

It's originally a PICO-8 game, which gives some idea of how compact it is. You can still play that version right now: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30978
Any interesting info?
She worked with addicts and it was a casual conversation. I'm sure if someone pressed her professionally she wouldn't say it like that.
This is no different from the outrage with Apple and client-side scanning of your device.

Yes, we should absolutely do everything we can to protect the children. But losing our privacy is not and can never be an acceptable course of action.

There is a frighteningly short distance from giving up privacy due to CSAM, to a full-blown surveillance state.
This is really neat. Is there a colab or Jupyter notebook we can look at?
The big thing a lot of people miss about a lot of these large companies is that they build a great reputation by making high end products (like that old backpack you mention) but as they expand they also start making much more diverse product lines. I bet that 1989 backpack was also not cheap (for its day) while comparatively the one you got recently probably was quite cheap.

Most of these companies still do produce the high quality stuff but it is priced high as well. Figuring out which products are which as the consumer can be tricky.
I disagree. It shows a track record of success throughout the life and that you are not just "one time wonder".
Legislation of a similar tone is already the law in many places. Some places ban pornography of adults with flat chests. Some places ban lewd drawings of characters who aren't sufficiently curvaceous. Many platforms hosting content such as literotica and erotic audio recordings ban content that describes or roleplays as minors.
Results of the NeurIPS'21 Challenge on Billion-Scale Nearest Neighbor Search
One question I did have on the monk skin tone scale. They note that tone (normally a color measurement) is actually subjective (not objective) and so participants in studies should be asked to self identify their own skin tone and not let the computer classify images based on the scale. To the degree self identification is materially different than a technical measure of skin tone, how does that work in a model (ie, someone who is white self identifying as having a black skin tone). Secondarily, are these tones intended to map in any way to any traditional measures of ethnicity / race / national origin?
>You would just say you have "an iPhone"

They tried this with the iPad 3 IIRC. Was just "The New iPad" but they then reverted back the next year.
We're all ignoring the possibility that the pilot gave him the, "Now if I become incapacitated," speech before taking off.
It's kinda crazy how little there is to show from a year of effort for 139,995 employees.
I work at Google and I don't always know which phone is which.

It's a phone. It does phone things.
At a long enough time scale everything is below value because our star collapses.
Legally, the US doesn't have an obligation to to do anything other than comply with the treaties it signs. It would be within its rights as a sovereign nation to require that everyone within its borders wear a rainbow wig and hop around on one leg. However, that would be a stupid policy that would make people's lives harder for no reason.
When you start labeling non-violent political interest groups as "domestic terrorists" for the simple reason of "we disagree with them morally", you should lose all legitimacy.
To be a bit pedantic, there are CEOs of all sorts of organizations, many of which are tiny nonprofits that bring in very little money. You could be a CEO and bring home $60k a year.
Yea cars have this notion of model years. Everyone knows nothing really changes between model years except the trim. It's the vehicle generation you care about. I think the focus should be on holding press conferences when you genuinely have something new to show off otherwise it's just fluff.
Free speech is much larger than just the first amendment (if you can believe it, some people actually live outside the USA).

It is perfectly consistent to believe in free speech, support the first amendment, and also want platforms like Twitter to allow for the free speech of it's users.
I feel the same way.

It might be fun if the goals of the game turned upside down when you're winning. The AI players surrender and you're the newly crowned Galactic Emperor, congratulations! Everybody works for you.

Now comes the second half of the game where you try to keep your empire together while it decays into bureaucracy. In a thousand years, a Hari Seldon appears and you have to decide whether to exile him...
It is unfortunate that we have not popularized certain newer fibers more because there have also been amazing advancements in textiles over the same period - lighter weight gear does not NEED to have crap durability - it just unfortunately does in practice.
I've poked around in Chrome's source code, and what struck me is that the JS-to-C++ interface seems pretty similar to what's going on in a game engine - C++ classes with generally pretty similar APIs to their JS counterparts are wrapped and exposed to JavaScript - I think this is the way WebAssembly should be implemented as well- an interface that replaces this interaction layer with its own - since the native objects' lifetimes are handled by C++, a typical WASM target language (say C++ or Rust) would be pretty straightforward, since it could access these resources with similar semantics.

Additonally, in managed, garbage collected runtimes, like .NET, the handling of native resources with explicit lifetimes is a solved problem as well - garbage collection would be handled by the languages own runtimes, no need to move this responsibility to WASM.

This would also avoid the issue of having the .NET GC and the JS GC coexist - this typical too many cooks scenario of 2 separate GCs is a nightmare to manage.

Another daring, pie-in-the-sky thought: Javascript could use this interface as well, becoming just one of the many languages that can target the browser.
All planes are required to have the original POH onboard. However those don't really tell you how to fly the plane it's more focused on things like Vspeeds minimum flap extension speeds etc..
Helicopters aren't really allowed to fly over most areas in cities though, except for police and other emergency helicopters. The noise and danger make it a no go, even if they were smaller.
> (I have high hopes for super-high FPS recording)

That would be very cool. Google’s phone does 4K HDR stabilized video at 60 fps. Their slo-mo is 240 fps but I don’t know what resolution that would be.
Landing page on the Google Cloud docs pages:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/introducing...
Same here, I have yet to find a containerised application platform which fits my ideas of how to build a system. A sensible package manager with a reliable dependency graph - or plain old apt with judicious use of deborphan - goes a long way in allowing the installation of applications with a number of dependencies, testing it and removing all traces of it afterwards. Containers have their use but Flatpak and Appimage have not hit the right spot for me, at least not yet.
> AI ethics as a field is now mainstream

Let me guess, you work in tech and in a city? I personally believe that if a super intelligent AI were to be created, then it would have the same effect on society as the advent of nuclear weapons. So I respectfully disagree that it's not neglected, I don't think the common American thinks about how close we are to human level intelligence or what that would mean for society.
At the time this was written, boys learning to face danger, fight, and possibly getting injured was considered normal.
I have flown enough as a passenger with a single pilot to know some of those things. While I have held the wheel a bit, I have no formal training and no experience taking off or landing. If I were in the same situation, I would tell ATC, "I have no idea what I am doing" to err on the more useful end of expectations for assistance.
> “becoming ever more reliable with time, as the algorithms learn“

I mean considering Amazon has put in kajillions of dollars on their learning algorithms and yet now in 2022 those algorithms still aren’t even smart enough to figure out trivial stuff, like that I’m probably not gonna buy a second air fryer immediately after buying a first one, and stop advertising them to me. What hope do we have for this new algorithm?
> Apple WWDC events attract 10X as many concurrent viewers

Apple does the best job of anyone in the industry (imho) of building awareness and excitement over their events, developer or otherwise, but I think it is important to note that the WWDC keynotes (not the State of the Union), are also treated as proper consumer-facing product events, not just a developer keynote. As such, the audience is going to be much larger.

Back in the day, when Larry and Sergey were running things day to day, I/O definitely had more of that energy (they year Sergey jumped out of the plane and then walked on stage was bananas) and could pull Apple-like numbers, but that’s not what I/O is anymore.

40k concurrent for virtual conference that could be a series of blog posts and pre-recorded talks is actually pretty strong, IMHO.
That seems a liiittle hyperbolic. In any case, power user tools like Tampermonkey will seemingly be supported. Whether that be through special exceptions or new APIs remains unclear. Personally I'd like to see integration with Local Overrides.

https://github.com/Tampermonkey/tampermonkey/issues/644#issu...
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I have 30 minutes and 2 touch-and-go’s in my log book. I suck at Microsoft Flight Simulator.

In 30 minutes of the instructor sitting next to me, I successfully landed and took off in a Cessna 172, learned to trim power, elevators and flaps, learned how to transmit and how to “squawk ident”, and what channel to use in emergencies (1202 IIRC).

Operating the airplane was very straightforward. Without the instructor or someone talking to me, I would not have known what to do when, but I can completely see how someone reasonably smart, calm, and able to follow directions could land such an airplane in good conditions.
With woke pronouns, I feel like an 87 yo man around tiktok - don't care, not going to learn it, not enough time left on Earth to give a crap, happy to glide towards the grave without giving it a second thought. Y'all do you.
Part of learning to defend oneself is getting injured along the way. It's part of the learning process. You can't learn to fight by reading a book about it. If you start to participate and learn through that participation, sometimes your efforts (or someone else's) will lead to injury.
When multimedia was a huge thing in the late '90s and early '00s, you had a lot of small businesses with tight groups of graphic designers, illustrators, developers (full stack web + Flash & Director), and animators. Usually one of the creatives was in charge of hiring. It was totally obviously not a pro, and in many cases they'd make fun of it outright, or politely advise to take it off.
> Even if the parliament rejects this proposal, the next power hungry authoritarian can simply try again, until eventually one parliament will pass it.

Indeed, in the words of the previous President of the European Commission:

“We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.” https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Juncker#1999

The current President of the European Commission has been a long time advocate for Internet control:

“However, in the digital community, her posturing for the EU’s top job has caused concern. In 2000, when Von Der Leyen was Families minister, she advocated for the mandatory blocking of child pornography online via a list of offending websites managed by police authorities. Germany’s Pirate Party claimed that the law would lead to censorship of the internet.”

“The outcry that resulted was dubbed the ‘Zensursula’ scandal, blending the German word for censorship (“Zensur”) and her name (“Ursula”). The move was eventually repealed after it being challenged broadly, including a petition that had garnered tens of thousands of signatures.” https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/digital-brief-...
It's been kind of funny to see folks criticize apple, then when their product cycle catches up copy them :) This has been like clockwork for a number of companies, starting with the move from keyboards to glass etc.

For me the lighting jack on the iphones actually has fantastic latency. Does anyone know how that works? Much better than USB-C (ie, you can use as a monitor for a multi-track recoding very comfortably)
Sounds good, doesn't work.

Security and freedom are "platonic" ideals. None of those exists in the abstract, as a real world thing, and you can't find one without the other in the wild (in a Disney-like world, maybe, but not in the real world, in the presense of others, that is people that want to deprive you of either/both, and can benefit from doing so).

Trivially speaking, if some thugs can just come and beat you with no police or legal resources available to you, you don't have either pricacy or security. Both are at their mercy.

You could of course defend yourself, but then you're still getting your freedom through security: it's just that in this case you're obligated to cater get that security on your own.

So, we trade some freedom (giving state the ability to enforce laws, have police) in excange for security. And vice versa.

But in any case, my point above was different: that what TFA descrives is not a tradeoff between privacy and security, it is giving up privacy for no real benefit. If anything, losing encryption costs in both privacy AND security.
We can't have nice things it seems.

Overall EU is a good idea, but total surveillance is a scary, scary concept that must be avoided at all cost, even at the cost of EU as concept.
So much hypocrisy going on. If fighting racism was the goal Unicode should not have added skin colored emojis. This is the dumbest move ever.
Some merit badges involve strenuous physical challenges, such as hiking (multiple long-distance hikes including a 50-miler). The canoeing MB requires learning how to get back on an overturned canoe while in deep water, which is bloody hard.

They still have badges for shooting and archery, too.

There are also some badges that were unexpected - plumbing, fixing farm equipment, computer game design.
Buzzing should emphasize the loud freaking noise these things would create landing, taking off, and flying at low altitude. Annoying to say the least. What we don't need more of is noise pollution.
Another driver I am curious about is Nvidia's build out of its gaming cloud (GeForceNow) and how much demand that drove.
Both your comments were "dead", you could maybe mail HN to have your account set to not be shadow banned.
Jailbroken androids for the enterprise! What could possibly go wrong?
For that dev part they have the developer keynote. Google just gave away many online training classes for free, which includes many many hands on coding labs.
Having a toxic job is not a sign of extreme privilege. Nor is facing a trade-off between having income and taking care of one’s mental or physical health.
Really interesting. Sorry for your experience but I'm glad I read this. At my last job I became overwhelmed and now in retrospect I can see I developed attention issues. I just could not focus. I have had great focus over decades long career but it got worn away.

Some of that is that my manager actually sabotaged me. I think the problem is that I am a terrific coder and he is not. He had driven away 3 engineers (from the company, not the project) before me in a little over a year, so believe me. I could actually not get a paid copy of the debugger tool although I was the highest ranked engineer on the project!! I was working on the free version where I had to make a new account or something every few hours!! Wow, I cannot believe I didn't understand the signal there. (He later got demoted from people management.)

The other thing that I intensely dislike in the current tech world is the constant interrupt mode from the tools, slack and teams. I think that causes focus to deteriorate over time although I am not aware of any studies. It causes anxiety to flow freely through organizations and I don't think people are aware of the downsides to that.

I also had major stresses in my personal life. Family issues. I just could not focus anymore and took early retirement. What I have been doing is Machine Learning courses. I think I want to do my own research projects. The good news is my focus problems, a year later, are GONE. The stock market dive may force me back to work but I hope not, not right away. I was a principal at one of the biggies so I did very well for awhile and with a little luck it could last the rest of my life and then some (for the kid).
That's because we need a standard, and without libcamera, there is no standard.
> If your software doesn't support spaces there's a reasonable chance it doesn't support more exotic characters either, which really sucks if you are not natively English speaking.

The problem with space is that it's often a separator, which will not be the case for exotic characters. Fixing issues with exotic characters will not necessarily fix issues with spaces, and vice versa.
This is a very pretty site but I have absolutely no idea what holes in my life it is purporting to fill, never mind making me sorry it only works on Chrome when I'm a Safari user.

Is it a password manager that is also a "crypto wallet"? Why are there about four hundred things in the crypto world called a "wallet" anyway? Find some new terms, that one's getting really confusingly overloaded. It kinda sounds like it's got password manager functionality except then there's a FAQ that basically says "we want password managers to not exist" so I guess it's... not also a password manager? I can LeARN MORE about how my information is stored but this tells me absolutely zero about what a "Vessel passport" is and whether I can use it in a single place outside of expensive ugly monkey jpeg enthusiast circles? And if I was part of those circles, how do I know this isn't just a scam to steal those expensive ugly monkey jpegs anyway?

I also like the "what sites does it work with" FAQ that takes about a hundred words to say "nobody yet".