skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not GP.

> I'm very skeptical that the lack of memory safety is not going to be an issue "in practice".

For what it's worth, I agree with you. And I'm a C programmer that managed to put out a non-trivial piece of C code ([1]) that has had no memory safety issues triggered in the wild after 1.0 (which was released on 26 Oct 2018, so almost 4 years, yay!) that I know of.

The truth is that I am not able to write such code; I just fuzz the ever-living daylights out of my code with lots of asserts to test all of the assumptions that my code makes, including preconditions, postconditions, everything. I also use static analysis, -Weverything on Clang (without -Wpadded; that's a stupid warning), and a massive test suite with near 100% coverage. In my new projects, I'm even using fuzzing to generate almost all of my test cases so that my path coverage is as good as possible.

That's a lot of work, and it's not fun.

But what would make it even more effective would be to effectively automatically add asserts for me to test the assumption that an index is in range whenever it is used! And that's why memory-safe languages are the only way to go: not only do they save people from bad code, they help programmers turn bad code into good code with the tools at their disposal.

I think the Zig people know this, which is why they have ReleaseSafe for testing and for those cases where you have to be sure. But I also don't see them test their code enough for me to trust that it's not needed. And I doubt that Zig users test their code enough for it too.

All of this is to say, I completely agree with you despite (so far!) being the exception to the rule you articulated, and I dread the day when my reign of "being the exception" comes to an end. I really want to stay being the exception.

[1]: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc
Except that according to the same website he stated the opposite of that quote.

> It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth.”

– W. Edwards Deming, The New Economics.

https://deming.org/myth-if-you-cant-measure-it-you-cant-mana...
Not on things that makes people feel like they can find what they are looking for. The Apple drop down menu hasn't changed its place since the original Mac OS.

The UI skin might change a bit from year to year, but the UX of Key components haven't changed much for 40 years.

Used to work at AppleCare special programs support in Ireland, and when we did change something like hide certain menues in the Server appbecasue we wanted to disincentive usage of parts that were going to be depricated, all hell brekas loose with the older sysadmins calling in furious over having to read change notes. Thing is Apple makes sure to communicate a lot of these changes in emails sent to users, in change notes, and in popups, and people just refuse to take notice.

Or when Final Cut Pro X changed it's library management. There were good reasons for these changes, but people at first hated them since it disturbed an otherwise uninterrupted workflow. But when these changes are made, it's usually for a very good reason based on user feedback.

This did however highlight a serious behavioural issue with the users. Some users rarely update, so they never get the incremental changes, and instead opt to jump 3-5 major release versions which breaks everything. This in turn makes the user wary of ANY updates as they now associate it with breaking everything and changing everything. Which is a problem that they would not have if they did follow best update practices.

I saw the exact same issue at HPE, Nikon, Salesforce, Microsoft, when I worked there.
Especially when there so many frameworks (Tailwind etc) and design resources out there that aim to make development easier and more streamlined!
When I was PTing it was effective and results were visible.

Another commenter already said though: you can really only apply discipline in a few areas of your life effectively. The amount you can depends on your workload in other areas. Choose wisely…

That being said, your 0hysical Health is foundational.
I have personally found that other individuals who happen to go to the gym at the same time as me to be my “accountability partners”.

While you build the discipline when doing anything enough, I think the better conceptual model for building that discipline is B. J. Fogg’s model.

His model is B=MAP.

Behavior = Motivation X Ability X Prompt.

You can have little motivation but high ability and go to the gym. You can also do the opposite. So long as there is a prompt of some sort.

Using the idea that motivation is transient, that’s where much of James Clear work in focusing on the systems comes into play. To make the ability and prompt easy, visible, etc.

A personal trainer is much of that combined into one.
:D thanks for the illustrative insight. I don't have much experience with that one, but can recommend rock climbing, which I've been doing for most of my life, it exercises pretty much everything. As something that demands good power to weight ratio you tend to drop the useless stuff.
Laser induced plasma can also be used as a speaker system:

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/07/19/...
But that's the thing - they can't spend those directly to buy tanks - until very recently, they were effectively forbidden from expanding their military capability, like Japan, and there is still a lot of political resistence against that sort of thing. So how do you forage a national defense industry then? You lend to others to buy their wares.

That is only one of many, many German industries that would suffer from the demise of the Eurozone. The benefits of the common currency sustaining demand across the continent waaaaay outstrip any perceived "loss of control" for the German economy.
Currently living in Latvia, I've seen Accenture, Cognizant and other agencies have a strong presence in many local ICT events, such as DevTernity, Riga DevDays, DSS ITSEC and many others. I think that's just the way things are, they also advertise their vacancies to universities here and thus are many people's first experiences with software development in a professional setting. Of course, the results there vary, as with most jobs.

I don't think we have such a strong tech scene here or that many household names, to work in SaaS companies, though I've also just seen that quite a few EU job vacancies are for companies for whom software development is a supporting activity (sometimes very important, other times less so) as opposed to their main and only way of earning money.

Maybe I've just been looking in the wrong places, but I don't think almost any of my direct acquaintances work for SaaS/IaaS/PaaS vendors either.
I pay for a retired accountant to handle all of my family and business financial matters. Worth every penny. She makes sure bills are paid on time, taxes are accounted for, and has taught us over the years about to budget, save, etc.
There is no single scientific evidence that lockdowns save lives.

Instead, they increase:

educational gaps

domestic abuse

unemployment

alcohol & drug abuse

suicides & self-harm

depression & anxiety

cardiac & cancer deaths
> (why people pay to go to the gym and deadlift, then e.g. happily pay someone to move a load of soil around the backyard always confuses/amazes me).

I tell people I only lift weights, not boxes or bags of soil.
Because in the gym the can progressively increase the wights they are lifting and get stronger and put on muscle.
Looking at most people doing manual labor jobs all day and they almost never look great and mostly have wear and tear from the jobs they are doing.
For a 'recycled tub' implementation, you can easily source a water pump from an aquarium supplier, if they sell gear for salt water aquariums they will most likely have large enough pumps.

Nevertheless, and I hope this sounds constructive, this is the kind of topic that you should really be discussing with an occupational therapist or child psychologist with experience in autism.

For some topics the internet can be a terrible place for advice.
You can make them stay visible in settings
It feels at least like there is a simple writing style that can follow writing for twitter as a thread. This is a completely personal comment perhaps, but I think as a weird 'medium' for writing i think there is value.
Disabling UAC meant there was nowhere to elevate to because you just had admin rights all the time.
That's more like gitk, not git gui.

On ubuntu it's a separate install from the main git, https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/+package/git-gui

Try `apt install git-gui`, or similar.
At first I thought you were using “scammed” literally, on second glance I’m guessing you meant “scanned”.
I see, sorry for the misunderstanding.

I don't know enough about the UK response to make a well-reasoned reply, except it sounds like a very strange decision to me.

I suppose it could have been a form of pre-emptive triage to avoid hospital overload?

It's always been my view that lockdown was the only response sufficiently effective to actually stop the spread in its tracks, and that's been proven in countries that locked down earlier, like Norway(at least in the first wave). The problem is that stopping the pandemic globally would more or less require a globally coordinated lockdown, which was never going to happen because we're just not at that level of internation cooperation in general, and it only takes one reckless government like Trump's or Bolsonaro's so ruin it for everyone. And it would probably be untenable for economic reasons as well.
Not sure what you mean by that?

The UI/UX design of the System Preferences hasn't really changed since Snow Leopard imho. Cant speak to much about before Snow Leopard as that predates my personal experience.

I'd love to get an example of what you mean?
actually that 'domestic abuse' one may be false. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/did-domestic-violence-reall...
we don't need to rely on the numbers coming from the CCP to get an estimate of how bad it is in china. what we can do is to rely on the covid count of passengers coming in from China, reported by non-Chinese disease authorities. we have several: south korea, singapore, and taiwan who were taking in chinese travelers at various points of the pandemic. china is a minor contributor to imported cases in these three countries.
I don’t need to move soil in my garden 5 times a week. As a matter of fact I have nothing heavy to move that often. I walk or cycle to most places and while it of course helps, it’s far from being sufficient to keep a good level of fitness.
Of course they didn't, unless you are using some extremely narrow and historical definition of "class". France still have significant wealth inequality and rent-seeking, so by most modern definitions of "class" they certainly have a class system.
Why are they privatizing it? Does it not work?
Unjust algorithms. Algorithmic decision-making systems turn agains us
I have airpods and an android phone. They work well now (I really am not interested in spatial audio). They did however work pretty badly until I connected them to an iphone to allow the firmware to update. I dislike the ecosystem argument. They are just Bluetooth earphones... Quite expensive ones at that.
Cuckoo hashing is really nice: fast O(1) access, amortized O(1) insert. And really space efficient, and it can be parameterized easily for a space efficiency vs. access time trade-off (it is always O(1), but with larger constants for better space efficiency). It is also very simple: basically just an array (plus an algorithm). Unexpectedly simple in my opinion for its good time and space performance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_hashing
Yep, in multithreaded langs you just want to use a ConcurrentMap or whatever the stdlib has for this. The write is very brief because you only write the promise and not eg keep a proper lock on the key until the result has arrived, so no need for a fancier datastructure.
Show HN: This Entire Music Video Was Made by AI
We've only been using it since the beginning of the year but are really happy with it. Not sure what you expect but we sent around hundreds of Excel sheets every month for different purposes and now moved many of these processes to time2submit. If you don't need to gather information from other people, then I guess, it doesn't make sense to use that tool.
You did save the NHS. Barely. What you're missing is that without the lockdown it would be much, MUCH worse. They stopped treating other conditions BECAUSE of Covid.

I was in the hospital (not UK, my own country) for a very dangerous, non-covid, pneumonia in December 2020 during the height of cases. I needed intensive care, but it took 4 days for them to find me a bed and a ventilator.

Why? Because the hospital was full of covid patients. There just wasn't any room for me.

Covid may kill granny, as it almost killed me. Just not the covid in our systems but the covid in the systems of other people. If I died of my PCP pneumonia I would have been a victim of covid, even tho covid never entered my system.
I started my matcha addiction at the wrong time it seems. Just bulk ordered a bunch of tea from Japan, and while the dollar is relatively strong, it wasn't cheap. Still cheaper than Starbucks every day though, which is how I'm justifying it.
Thank you for your advice.
I am currently working on adapting the design for mobile devices.
Not quite a personal trainer but a few months ago I found an Olympic lifting gym where we work in small (<10 people) classes with at least one proper qualified coach in each session. I think this is the ideal arrangement as you get the attention of someone who knows what they're doing along with the social encouragement which pushes you on but is also a great thing in itself.

Side note: doing my first competition in August, something unimaginable for me at the start of this year.
I'm from New Orleans we have TOO MUCH water there.
A general purpose transactional interface widene the error space to include cross process deadlocks / denial of service not to mention performance issues.
Sure, why not? But you should be paying an appropriate tax for that privilege to make owner occupied housing and land more affordable than rentals.
I hope satire but made me laugh!
Starting to put code into RAM (as contrasted to data only) is not the birth of RAM... This mix up seems really confusing for a seemingly professional website.

Even today there are devices which do have RAM, but are unable (by design) to execute programs from there.
> what’s the point of exporting things, if you don’t get other things in return?

This take is utterly naive. What you "get in return" from being a massive exporter is not all quantifiable. It's soft power, influence, prestige. When everyone uses your machinery, you control the standards and their evolution, you control the market.

Plus, even going back to purely economic terms, you can absolutely export and then keep the accumulated money sitting in coffers, financializing the gains (lower borrowing costs etc etc), or invest in local research to extend your advantage, and so on and so forth. None of these options require importing anything.
Company makes lithium-metal batteries that last as long as lithium-ion
Why not have a sister company/branch for the small clients? One they grow, you'd be able to transfer them to the big block?
Very true. This is why I rage quit Using Windows at Windows 8... adn barely accept the horrific state of Win 10. Im particularly pissed off about having system preference settings in at least 4 different places that are all counter intuitive.

I really liked windows 7, and was grumpy about first using Mac OS, but what won me over was that I didn't have to fight the OS in finding what I was looking for in settings.

Also the reason why I like Linux and BSD. there is a standard to where you find the setting files.
I did this with biking years ago and I don't regret any second of it. It relaxes me in the morning, it does the same in the evening. During warm months it's all pleasure, during colder months it's mostly the way to work and back (or an equivalent in the opposite direction when I WFH).

The only drawback is that although the muscles in the lower part of the body seem like made of steel, the upper part is definitely weaker, so a while ago I started to do pushups as a kind of game: can I ever do 100 pushups in one go? The first step was to make 50 pushups daily and to gradually increase it. I can now do ca. 20 pushups and I'm very proud of it (I could barely do 7 at the beginning).
Charityvest (YC S20) Is Hiring Lead UX and Brand Designer
Arquero – data tables wrangling in JavaScript
Lyrics were surprisingly good, has got me curious to try it now!
Most of your work problems are internal
Obsidian-HTML-1: A simple tool to convert an Obsidian vault into HTML
Unfortunately no, there's nothing that can be done about an ABI that insists on lying to you. This is one of the reasons I think the Linux default is a really terrible idea.
Bringing up Turing to support the idea that the state should prevent people from taking their lives is beyond tone deaf. People asking the state to enforce their moral compass (which is basically what you're doing now) is what lead to the situation that Turing killed himself over.
We used artificial intelligence to generate an entire music video in the style of Eminem.

First, we used Writesonic which is an AI-powered writing assistant to generate the lyrics for the song. We used the phrase "I'm gonna change the world" as the seed text and music style as Rap. Writesonic's song lyrics generator was able to generate multiple different variations of lyrics from just this one line of input. We picked the one we liked the best.

Secondly, we used an AI model trained on Eminem's vocals to generate the voiceover for the lyrics.

Then, we used another AI model to generate background music. We synced up the vocals and the music.

Finally, we used OpenAI's Dall-E 2 AI to generate images for each lyric in the song and combined all of them into a video.

- Lyrics: Writesonic's AI Lyrics Generator

- Vocals: AI trained on Eminem's music

- Beats: Another AI Model

- Images: OpenAI's Dall-E

Here are the lyrics:

I am gonna change the world

With my music, my words

I'll make them listen

I'll make them hear

The message that I bring

It's time for a change

And I'm gonna be the one

To lead the way

I'll be the voice for the voiceless

The one who's not afraid to stand up

And be counted

I'll make a difference

In this world

With my music, my words

I'll make them listen

I'll make them hear

The message that I bring

It's time for a change

And I'm gonna be the one

To lead the way

Do you want to join me?

Do you want to make a difference too?

If you feel like it's time for a change

And you're ready to stand up and be counted

Then come with me

And together we'll make a difference

In this world

With our music, our words

We'll make them listen

We'll make them hear

The message that we bring

It's time for a change

And we're gonna be the ones

To lead the way

Try out Writesonic's AI Lyrics Generator: https://writesonic.com/
It's really cool and innovative
It’s fascinating how easily a well-intentioned idea can become discriminatory.

1. let’s make families safer

2. 3+ HOV lanes to select for families

3. Single parents of one don’t apply
This thing is suprecool and AI is really advancing
We have pretty high water pressure and that is what we did to save water - it is quite interesting how easily we have adjusted to the reduced flow.
> There is no single scientific evidence that lockdowns save lives.

I'm all for science, but are you implying China's strict COVID lockdown strategy didn't save any lives?
> Aspirational stuff doesn't count. A technology only counts after a layperson can point at it and describe how it makes their life easier.

Why should we stop inventing and discovering things? Just because you want immediate gratification?

> I correct you. At the LHC cafeteria to be precise which costed about 0.01% of the whole project. Let's specify.

I don't accept that distinction

> It wasn't new theoretical physics. What I mean is that the kind of stuff that Hakwing has produced for example we will never get to use it, and verifying stuff that we already know it works at the macro level (which theoretical physicists have to admit will always be our level as mammals macro creatures) doesn't produce any benefit for society.

It actually produces huge direct benefits for society immediately

> Kipp Thorne is talking about building something like LIGO but in space, what's that for? How much will this monstrosity cost? What will be the ROI?

Physics isn't done for ROI, apart from the scientific return. And I will do so, by applying for grants, and taking YOUR MONEY to do it. You don't have a choice, unfortunately. The tax man will come with a gun to take the money from you and give it to me to do science. And oh what a wonderful thing that is! Btw, LISA will not be too expensive, since it is just three satellites. The space based interferometers are much cheaper than stuff like JWST because they can operate at high losses and without any lenses or much optics at all. We do optimise to reduce the budget

> While these people are trying to solve a murder mystery , the rest of the population is rightfully in pain because they don't have food, shelter or their loved ones die of diseases such as Malaria or TB. Even in the rich world we are still at the mercy of cancer and heart disease.

We can solve more than one problem at once. We are not one person.

> I can say the same things about you. Unhealthy obsession with a problem, no matter how beautiful or cool, makes you completely ignore the realities around you in terms of people and quality of life and undue setbacks as well as unrealized potential, which is a much worse perspective that not being able to tell if trillions of years from now the Universe will die of a big freeze or a big rip

Who said I am ignoring such things? Do you think that physicists are misanthropic. Let me repeat: one person can do one thing, while another can do another thing. I will go into more detail:

When you have two organisms in the world, such as two separate humans, they can make their own decisions and do different things. For example, even though you may want to watch one TV show, I can watch a different one on my own TV. While you may want to work as a doctor, I can work as a physicist. Different humans can make their own choices to do their own thing. It isn't a metaphysical requirement of the universe that all effort is put into the same thing
Came here to reference Deming myself. One thing I've noticed in Deming's work (especially 14 points, sicknesses) is that by contextualizing and properly understanding the use of statistics he humanizes people in an organization. We must look at metrics/statistics correctly, in a way that humanizes and enriches people, not in a way that turns them into numbers in a spreadsheet.
also see https://github.com/mbattyani/sub-25-ns-nasdaq-itch-fpga-pars...
Spreadsheets are only as good as the understanding of problem domain and scope.

I betcha that decision cost Google Cloud a lot of money in RFP evaluations to AWS.
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Global excess deaths (meaning the increase from normal) since Jan 2020 are [now estimated](https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid#estimated-...) at about 22 million people.

If we were getting a commensurate or greater decrease in pollution deaths, this number would be negative, so I think we can pretty confidently dismiss this hypothesis.
Why does the complexity of the care matter? There are only so many beds in the hospital.
YNAB - https://www.youneedabudget.com/
This one from 2019 by the same person (also about Etsy) is also very amusing. (Sorry can't figure out this unrolling technology.)

https://twitter.com/mcfunley/status/1194713712516423681
Yeah it's way higher than that in my experience in the restaurant industry.