skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>While I don't have numbers ready to cite, the steel industry is a superb analogue. It, too, is a hazardous production environment. It, too, has production rate as an OKR. I believe deaths in that industry used to measure in the thousands [1].

I recently read RAILWAY ADVENTURES AND ANECDOTES (1885) <https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31395/31395-h/31395-h.htm>, a collection of interesting moments from the first 50 years of railroads. Almost every page there is a mention of some fatal accident for passengers and crews (usually a boiler explosion, and/or a derailment), yet everyone seems very matter-of-fact about such things despite (or, rather, because of) their frequency.
Thank you. :)

> I wonder if I should use it for something...

I'd be honored!

A couple of ideas:

How about a simple configuration format? https://gist.github.com/djedr/681e0199859874b3324eaa84192c42... (I should make a library out of this)

Or you can put it in your query strings to make them more humane: https://github.com/jevko/queryjevko.js

Or make up a markup DSL: https://github.com/jevko/markup-experiments#asttohtmltable

Or serialize game objects in your indie game. Or make it the interface of your experimental app. Or use it to shave off a few unnecessary characters off your data: https://jevko.github.io/compactness.html

No parser in your favorite language? A basic one should be only a couple dozen lines!
https://github.com/jevko/parsejevko.js / https://github.com/jevko/specifications/blob/master/spec-sta...
I see a lot of people being surprised at the risk benefit calculus leading to this decision but not many recognizing that the threat of people getting sick isnt the only issue. having an event like that if there is going to be a mask mandate for example would simply not be any fun in my opinion and I think problems of this nature are a large part of the decision
Looks like this is very Xilinx centric list. There are other vendors too. Intel/Altera being the biggest. With Lattice and Microchip probably following. Plus some newcomers I have no experience with.
The Shinkansen services claim zero passenger fatalities (and close to zero passenger injuries, on account of a recent mishap). If you carefully parse the language of these claims, taking note to discount those ineptly rephrasing official claims, these statistics usually do not include workers. Here's a paper discussing how those trains are cleaned: https://siliconflatirons.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Trou... Exhibit 10, page 11 shows the number of employee accidents for the years 2001-2005. No year had zero. 2004 and 2005 were as high as 18 employee accidents.

Here's a fatality from just last year during tunnel construction for a maglev line: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/10/29/national/jr-tun...
The iPad doesn't become the Macbook Air until it can run XCode and you can develop, compile, and test iPad apps on the iPad itself.
IBM PC/AT keyboard protocol here. But it is more often called "PS/2", which is the same with more keys.
I agree that it likely is a nothingburger, but I wonder what the ratio looks like. The coal industry was probably much more sizeable than the number of workers working on rockets.
> lockout/tagout may seem unnecessary, but it's specifically to avoid exactly these types of situations

Thank you! I was trying desperately to remember what that system is called but deleted that sentence from my reply because I had forgotten it!
The problem is it's impossible to build a complete implementation which captures all the complexities of the real world. Well, short of a big text input field which is validated by a human manually/interactively.
Probably true, and analogous to gamma correction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_correction) although they don't specifically say whether the range-compressing transformation that they are using is a power law.
Am I missing something about the definition of the word "comprehensive"? How can you call a list comprehensive and ignore Altera/Intel? Last I checked they were the biggest FPGA player in town. I have three devkits within arms reach that aren't on this list.
I read it differently. I read it as the gp indicating that at the point where they are engaging in political play a scientist writ large ceases to be as much of a scientist. Perhaps that's not the original intent of the [gp], note: edited for clarity

Edit: Oh wow. I just read gp's comment below. It was the original intent of GP.
I'm halfway with you. Asus computers running linux mint (or your favorite flavour) stand up very well without having to deal with the multi-armed octopus that is Apple. Phone wise though, I've always been a pixel guy but my next phone will be an iphone, just because I don't trust Google any more not to be selling my soul to their advertisers and cutting off security updates after three years. That's like buying a car at the dealership but they refuse do any repairs after three years.
Would love some additional info on this if you are aware of any. My intuition says (and could very well be very wrong) sound at one frequency would only damage that or very nearby frequencies hearing range? If wrong I'm curious what the range of damage is (I'm interested in exploring ultrasound data protocols, so curious what frequency I have to go to to avoid damaging anyone's - and potentially animals as well - hearing).

I also assume if you are starting at a reasonable (laptop, small desktop speakers) at a low-to-medium level (say 50-60dB), increasing a bit won't cause immediate damage even if you can't hear the sound?
Yes, you do need to work for them because if you become a PR through employment then jump then it was always viewed as fraud. The generally recommended strategy was to stay with the employer for one year after the PR status is granted.
The State of the Linux Kernel (2007) [video]
> Typically papers write a follow up story when new facts have emerged, what new facts have emerged?

Great question. What new facts HAVE emerged that caused the New York Times to change their stance on the provenance of these emails? Seems like a story should have been written about that, right? Unless no new facts did emerge, but that would be even more concerning, wouldn't it? That would mean they were either intentionally misleading people or changing their mind capriciously.

It's bizarre to me the way people treat this as a non-issue. I myself wanted the story to be false because I didn't want it to cost Biden the election. I don't, however, approve of being mislead about things, even if I agree with the goals. This is doubly true for a news organization. It's a failure of their primary responsibility.

edit: even more strange to get downvoted for saying this. I wish some of you who think poorly of what I said would offer a reason. I don't care about the internet points, but I'd like to know what the contrary position actually is.
> Vim can do this, not in the sence you putting into the article

So in what sense? Some other irrelevant sense?
You will have Conway's law in your codebase. Coordination between teams is hard, so teams will prefer to implement features entirely in their language, even where that is technically suboptimal.

You will get hot loops in Python, because a Rust programmer wasn't around, and Rust programmers implementing whole complex business logic in Rust behind a single `do_it()` Python call.
- Thinking Fast and Slow (been around for a while - I am just getting to it)
- The 3 Body Problem, Dark Forest, and Death’s End - a SciFi Trilogy by Cixin Liu. A masterpiece. Read them back to back
- Think Again, by Adam Grant
Corners in signals are like limits in calculus or irrational numbers in arithmetic. Once you accept them as an abstraction that you can't touch them directly all the anxiety dissipates.
I see they have decided to ignore the fact that the previous model’s remote is a flaming piece of poo
Why do you think scientific research is published?
I'm not really familiar with the acronyms, but I wonder if it would be possible to prove that the virus is not artificially constructed? The other theory just sounds like natural origin with an extra step.

But what I wonder most would be, say that it was proven that covid-19 was artificially constructed through some method or other - what would it matter? I wonder if more people would get vaccines? Would China now know that they can unleash something like this on the world with relative impunity? Would it incentivize further research into biological weapons?
Embedding Training With 1% GPU Memory and 10 Times Less Budget, an Open Source Solution for Super-Large Recommendation Model Training on a Single GPU
Well...

UNSAFE {
// TODO: Verify all the lines, all the time, are ok
// Just like you do testing, documentation, security and all that
// ok?
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main() {

// YOUR CODE
}
}
Seattle has improved and there are now regular corridors through most of the city. You do sometimes have to join an arterial or cross it, but I can get from my house to downtown, Capitol Hill, or North Seattle/shoreline easily with a bike plus the train.
How would you ever handle deleting posts or removing content if there's a Merkle tree that gets invalidated for every deleted post you send?
Some great advice that I got: Buy a five gallon bucket, drill an 1/8" hole in the side. That way the water can soak into the ground without having to stand there with a hose for five minutes. Plus you can measure how much water you're giving the tree—I was told one bucket twice a week for the first year, but I'm sure YMMV depending on the tree and your climate.
Our brains are technically only "turing complete" if you ignore their finite memory. (Edit: which is what is commonly meant by turing complete.)

It seems pretty obvious that there are thoughts that are too big to fit inside our heads.
“"12th Generation Core processors support ECC when paired with W680 platforms. In fact, even enthusiast-grade Core i9-12900K gains ECC support when paired with W680." - Intel spokesperson.”
This is a bit confusing: why single out the i9-12900K? The way that sentence follows the first, it seems that it is the only CPU that will gain ECC support.
~10 trees have been planted on my street (in London) over the past few years. Each cost hundreds of pounds and took months to arrange. Every one died this summer.
I specifically mentioned socializing at work and working with complex and controversial issues, how does buying something online relate to that? I also never said that people can't convey ideas while remote, the post I replied to made one vague mention of on-site requirements, I made none. Just the implication that on-site leads to better building of trust.

I would never personally advocate for full on-site and I am actually a supporter of full remote work. I just don't pretend it's already perfect and that we can function by just purely conversing about work like we are JIRA ticket machines.

Also, geographically distributed companies will still tend to have the majority of people in a team or sub-team in one area but nothing is 100%. Different geographies usually have different responsibilities. Companies will also do all kinds of other methods of team building that is mostly social to compensate like flying everyone to a singe location occasionally or remote activities.
I believe the person going straight in a lane has right-of-way over someone trying to turn in front of them faster than they can reasonably stop. Bicycles are treated as cars, but pedestrians always have right of way if on a pedestrian path.

My near misses and accidents generally are because either someone tries to quickly get in front of me so they can turn in front of me, or because they didn't notice the bike lane at all when turning.

I think the Australian rule would be nearly impossible to follow in a major city, as it's difficult to predict when a car quickly overtaking you may want to "get one over you" and gun it and turn into a driveway in front of you, which is a major cause for my hits / near misses.
lol the best kind of paywall is one that doesn't appear if you prevent RCE
I liked the part where they said Python is too slow because it's garbage collected, and didn't show any metrics, and then built a new solution and Rust and didn't show metics to compare to the original system.

Makes me think the eng lead just wanted to do Rust, and made up a rationalization.
Especially business logic should be taken in the firm grip of static compile time guarantees that the hand of a strong type system delivers. Even more so if it changes constantly! Refactoring without fear.

Only software that does not have to run correctly (prototypes, personal hobby projects) can get away with a non-static type system.

When I have to pick a tool and I see it is written in Python I will have a look for an alternative if possible. Because I know it will have many bugs: some known, lots hidden.
Sars-cov-2 is already a pandemic causing agent.
Brave and Vivaldi manage to focus on privacy and not write sickening marketing copy. It's a Mozilla problem.
Yes, and vice versa
We’ll, there’s some evidence octopi and squid can count. If so then at least there’s some elementary maths in common. There’s no reason to suppose super intelligent cephalopod creatures would have particular difficulty with things like natural numbers, for all their different experience of the world. Two shrimp plus two shrimp is still the same amount of food as one shrimp plus three shrimp, no matter how many arms you have.
Not so. In digital photography, they all do. The headline is entirely wrong. JWST's mirrors are in fact reflecting an image onto its image sensors which use tiny light-sensitive diodes to convert light into electrical charges which are then translated into digital information and recorded as pixels. But the entire thing would be pointless if there wasn't an image to begin with. The fact is we can never see anything, we only see an image. But since this is part of how seeing is defined, it is taken for granted that the thing itself is not pressing on our retinas, only a reflection of light, aka an image, is.
The root gets updated with each update, and the diff gets exchanged as part of the sync protocol. Deleting and purging is no different than other federated protocols in that regard.
I've always been sad for John Bjornstad and Forrest Cole who died in a Space Shuttle test in 1981 when they entered a nitrogen-filled compartment. Since they were workers and not astronauts, they are treated as footnotes and not heroes.
75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime will be spent by age 12
I think they gain a semblance of perceived control or perhaps a sense of superiority believing these things. Everyone else is wrong or part of the conspiracy and aren’t they clever for having figured it all out. When I run into folks like this they seem so happy with themselves.
The key to RAII is not so much constructors as destructors. If you want to be able to signal construction failure you just have an init() member function that returns a bool or some integer. As for dynamic allocation, when I worked on driver development for Windows, I just had an allocate<T>() function that returned a properly constructed std::unique_ptr<T> with the deallocation function properly set and with the T fully constructed (you may need more than one allocation function if you need to allocate from multiple contexts that require allocation in slightly different ways).

>Not to mention, RAII makes it impossible to check whether you successfully released the resource

Actually, RAII makes it much easier by encoding that knowledge into the owning object. Using the example above, you could call allocate<T, do_something_special_on_deallocation_failure>(). Then whenever the pointer goes out of scope you'll do the special thing without the user of the object having to know what that special thing is.
"Please don't fulminate."

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What a nice surprise in the wake of the Linus Torvalds discussion 2 days ago:

I *detest* the crazy industry politics that made ECC memory so “special”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33224680

(260 points, 205 comments)
> Yes, that's more or less the definition of the term.

You can't characterize a type of research by its results for purposes of evaluating its methods. If we want to say "GOF research should only be carried out in a lab that meets such and such criteria", or "we shouldn't fund GOF research at all", then the definition must be related to what the research may do, since we need to evaluate it before we know it's result.
With my (admittedly limited) experience with the Hadoop ecosystem, I'd sincerely beg for people to stop writing databases in Java... Apart from the way bigger system requirements, dependency version hell, having to monitor GC pauses is just so, so annoying
Actually, unless you're doing something exotic, like using encoded aperture or light field stuffs, most digital images do begin as a real image[1] focused on a sensor.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_image
That supports my point, not rebuts it. My thesis is that the media shifted to the left, causing Democrats to see them more favorably and Republicans to see them less favorably, and the drop and the gain both indicate that.
Their marketing copy is actively repellent to me at least, and judging by friends and comments in this thread, I'm not alone.
https://archive.ph/9HLiN
See podman-network-create(1), I think the description of the --driver option should clarify this. You can use macvlan there, but in rootless operation you don't have access to the network interface of the hosts -- unless you set that up networking separately beforehand (as root), that is.

So yes, it supports rootless, but by (kernel) design, there's no magic way to bridge (no pun intended) that gap (even with macvlan).
as a dutchman, i once stumbled across some swedes in a bar.

With enough beer, im convinced we would be able to speak the same language at a certain point.
They said that about Lisp, Rapid Prototyping, and now this.

I tried Co-pilot and am neither impressed nor convinced. You get a super-amplified version of Garbage In / Garbage Out, and given where Co-pilot's data comes from, that's a whole lot of unvetted garbage. And you won't get anything with a security mindset unless you are ultra-specific in your prompt, because you get literally what you ask for, and nothing else. I tried adding security keywords to my prompts, and found it much easier to just write everything from scratch in that regard.

You'll also probably start to see lawsuits for all the plagiarism that is clearly coming out of it, as it is beginning with the Arts. An experiment I did was to try different versions of Hello World in different languages, and with differently worded prompts. I'm pretty sure I found every single tutorial on Github that put their name in place of 'World' that way.

I enjoyed Co-pilot as a toy, in the same way I enjoy Dall-e mini as a toy. But I (personally... its an opinion) would disallow it for any real coding project.

I did not upgrade my Co-pilot subscription, because I won't be using it. Other than for entertainment, I found it to be much too much hassle since you basically change yourself from coder to code reviewer and damn near have to rewrite everything anyway. It is literally as useful as Dall-e mini for making professional images. You get some good hits, but it comes with so much rubbish to sort through.

They're toys for now. People who are getting anything productive out of them are spending as much time and effort "tuning" it as if they just went ahead and got back to coding again.
> You can't tie up a sale until that's done.

Sure you can - and you damn well should, especially for outright safety issues. What's the point of a building code if it ain't gonna be enforced?

> You know what people will do? Pass the buck to the buyer (Sold As Is).

Then give the buyer a grace period to bring the building up to code.
Does your definition include attenuated virus like the used in the oral polio vaccine?
Here is the missing piece of the tale: why did the manager want the parking lot swept?

I've been in a shitload of positions where I was assigned menial tasks for a variety of reasons. In some of those. positions I could say no without drama, in some I could quit, in some I could say "Yes sir/ma'am", in some I could delegate, in some I could outsource. In every case, I could respectfully and tactfully ask why.

"Is there any specific area that needs extra attention?"

"Will somebody else be covering my standard duties while I do this?"

"Is this going to be part of my regular duties or is this just to keep me busy?"

... and so on. Tone matters depending on the relationship you have with the manager. But a violent reactive act and profanity doesn't seem like the best way regardless of how righteous you feel years down the road.

I wouldn't hire you if this was your "tell me about a time you dealt with adversity in the workplace" interview answer, that's for sure.
And tptacek felt that your use of quotes around "scientists" was also charged to imply Lowe wasn't entirely credible. But he wanted to make sure that's that what you were claiming because Lowe apparently has the academic credentials to lay claim to the appellation.

You also want to accuse him of not engaging with your main point. But from your posts, I would say your main point is that some of those who claim to be scientists are more akin to politicians than scientists. And if that is not your intention, then I would say that is a failure on your part to convey what point you actually wanted to make.

You want to knock his use of the term "real virologist", but he's using it to distinguish the people as people who work in virology and not random people on the internet arguing about the semantics of an apparently ill-defined term.
The uni I attended did indeed have an "all you can eat" buffet, and strong-armed dorm residents into overpurchasing meal plans. Students swiping in people experiencing homelessness to expend their otherwise-forfeit meal credits was a relatively common sight.
Whoa, there is a huge difference between "not specifically designed to protect against" and "does not protect against".

A bike helmet is not specifically designed to protect against a brick falling from a building and hitting your head. But would you rather experience such an event with a bike helmet, or without?

Also you should take any article singing the praise of MIPS for regular bike helmets with a huuuge grain of salt. MIPS as it's been designed and tested for motorbike/downhill racing/etc. is a definite advantage. But those are all systems where the helmet is so tight it's almost glued to your head. And if you look up the research papers on MIPS, they use test stands with a crash test head and literally glue the helmets to the head before testing. A bike helmet is so far from firmly attached that the 10-15mm rotational slip offered by MIPS is obviously pointless.
I remember in college English class, I was taught to listen for the authors voice in a nonfiction piece. The problem, is that I don’t want to hear the authors voice in a journalistic piece, I just want the facts. Unfortunately in the media these days, opinions are often spun as facts, and the news item’s author pushes their personal opinion, while framing it as objective journalism. When I realize that reading the news was just reading the opinion of a journalist rather than facts, I gave up on the media.
maybe the parent should not use demeaning and inhumane language like "junkie" just a thought