skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does not add a warning for older code. It does not affect existing code in any way.

> Exactly equivalent to an already popular practice of passing array and its length next to each other.

Differences:

1. passing pointer and length next to each other is a convention. This means the compiler doesn't know about it.

2. you cannot turn array bounds checking on and off with a compiler switch (though we strongly recommend leaving it always on)

3. your array bounds checking convention won't be compatible with someone else's code (standardization is a big deal)

4. I've never seen it used for strings. Strings are a major beneficiary of bounds checking

5. You have to document this every time you use it.

6. it's clutter

7. there's no check that the array/length variables are not mixed up or otherwise confused with other variables

Most importantly, making a feature trivial to use makes for at least an order of magnitude increase in adoption of it. And what we want is adoption of it, right?

The proof is that array buffer overflows remain the #1 problem with C bugs.

P.S. I am always amazed at how C++ managed to get users to prefer:

std::vector<int> a;

over:

int[] a;
We would need to improve academic assessment.
The announcement goes into copyright, and the process for copyright holders to have their content removed: https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/index.html
Alcohol would like a word. Probably older than civilization, and we still have people getting cirrhosis.
Trans-Holocene chronology for tree and field crop use in El Gigante rockshelter
He’s good at butchering a quote from “The Princess Bride”
You’re not supposed to drink water or use mouth wash for a while after using fluoride toothpaste either.
Ask HN: In search for website with likelihood of mysteries
I came across a website but could not find it through regular means. It lists (un)solved mysteries or controversial topics, conducts meta-analysis with evidence, then assign a probability of likelihood using Bayesian techniques.

Some topics I remembered reading from the site were "origin of COVID", "cause of MH370 disappearance", and "who shot down MH17".

Which website was this?
That would constantly charge and discharge the battery – probably much worse than just keeping it at 100% continuously.
I meant soda drinks
Commuters prefer origin to destination transfers
For me, this kind of toothpaste was much worse for sensitivity than a high-fluoride toothpaste you can get prescribed by your dentist. (It's a prescription, but it's inexpensive.)
Google didn't invent the idea of a web crawler or search engine. Because of how the web was designed, I think it was always an inevitability that the internet would start open but trend closed.
Just look at what happened with the Rust foundation. It probably guides a lot of his rant.
Water doesn't have caffeine. I know many people who take their caffeine in the form of diet sodas instead of tea or coffee.
The funny thing is the site which should have been removed like the of Stackoverflow spam clones, or sites like Canva and Pinterest that make thousands of similar looking pages with slightly different heading are still allowed and rank on Google.

Also hate the top 10 pages whenever you search the best something, like best domain name registrar. I don't want to read a spam blog post with affiliate links, I wish google would show me the actual domain registrars instead (like chatgpt does when i ask it). Google has been gamed so badly and they have been doing nothing about it just because the spam blog posts contains their ads.

There are some tricks I learned on HN to use uBlock origin to filter these spam sites but Google really needs to fix this. There is only so much an adblocker can do to fix search. And right now all the useful content is getting blocked while the spam content is not only allowed but ranking on top of everything.
Great video, but very wrong to cite Jeremy England. Ilya Prigogine came up with the concept of Dissipative Structures and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1977 for that work. He also has a couple of pop-sci books on he subject that I found super illuminating. They are a little bit challenging to read, but
they're very thorough and Order out of Chaos in particular has a fantastic summary of 400 years of philosophy of science. Highly recommend reading the OG.
I'm the opposite, I prefer the Zero sodas, but both diet Coke and Coke zero use aspartame, which surprised me.
The title is very misleading. What they actually show is that a certain set of cognative biases (_not_ the same as "bad choices") that are pretty much universal can't explain differences in outcome because...well, they're pretty much universal.
Also, I suspect that lack of the ability to photosynthesis, multiply twelve digit numbers in your head, or see gamma rays with your eyebrows will turn out to not explain a significant proportion of population-level economic inequality.
I don’t really think of Notion as “markdown” but I suppose you’re right since we support a bunch of markdown conventions. Some things are different though like `> ` is a toggle block, and `” ` a quote block. Unfortunately we already abuse / for a command menu, which is by far my least favorite feature. I want to make a setting to disable it but it goes against our anti-settings philosophy.
You never eliminate a bottleneck, you just move it somewhere else.

This is something I knew, but Factorio taught me viscerally.
For Bild aka the German Fox News. Nothing of value has been lost here.
Reminder: If you have an economy with opportunity, you will have inequality. It’s a feature not a bug. Even if everyone in the world got free entry to Harvard (no jokes please) then there are some people who wouldn’t remember to set their alarm, or listen to the lectures, or apply the knowledge, or who just wouldn’t be interested.
You're undermining your own point but listing a bunch of console games.
I know very smart, fly-over state born and raised, right leaning individuals, I don't know anyone that calls them rednecks. It's meant to mean uneducated, violent, rapey, racist, fake religious, fake patriot, asshole. The aforementioned people even use the "slur" themselves. Calling a duck a duck shouldn't be a source of controversy.
When I click on the blog link I can see only the first paragraph. How do I get to the rest of it?
>Since 2020

Way before 2020. Circa 2008 it began, and it simply continues to the present. ChillingEffect's downfall in 2015 was a massive blow to the public.

https://searchengineland.com/anti-censorship-database-chilli...
i never said it wasn't arbitrary, i was disputing that they were equally arbitrary and pointing out one is far more sensible and useful.
How NATs Work, Part III: ICE
I wonder if six weeks is long enough to measure the lasting effects of such a change.
Write a blog (history is valuable here, speak on Podcasts, Present at Conferences, be active on social media.

This can lead to people offering you positions that aren't publicly posted, because via your engagement they feel they understand you enough that you should be able to fill the role they have in mind.

For example - I write 20 blog posts going in depth on some topic - there's a decent chance I may actually know that topic. When that skill set becomes critical to someone - the odds are higher they'll contact me for that skill set because chances are, I'll be top of mind through sheer volume or quality of information I have written about that skill.
Array bounds errors in D are treated as "go directly to jail, do not pass Go do not collect $200" errors.

I.e. they are not recoverable, so no need for error handling.

Many people have debated this and wanted such errors to be recoverable, but the principle in play is that the program is in an undefined state if there are such errors, and should not be allowed to continue as we wouldn't want it to launch nuclear missiles.
The Communications of the ACM article "The Silent (R)evolution of SAT" [1] gives an overview of some of the techniques used in SAT solvers. I believe it was posted on HN fairly recently.

[1] https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/6/273222-the-silent-revo...
On the other side of things, why don't we use little bits of botox to prevent wisdom teeth from growing in the first place?
That wall of text doesn’t address what I said which was

“Since the movie “Inconvenient Truth” the amount of ice of the world has increased significantly toward the mean.”

That is 100% accurate. You’ve assume I said something else and constructed a straw man argument.

Additionally, as mentioned by another poster, secondary weather sampling stations were built by the government to audit the warming trends reported and the result was way less increase in temperature.

Additionally it was reported that the BBC reported a historic increase in temperature and after bloggers spent a year doing FOIA requests to audit the data it was found that the entire temperature anomaly was due to a 60 second spike of a single temperature sensor placed in the pathway of airplane jet exhaust which was triggered by three military jets landing right after another.

Additionally, the earth is not the only planet experiencing global warming, every single planet in the solar system is experiencing global warming.

Mars:
https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/missions/solar-system/is-...

Pluto:
https://news.mit.edu/2002/pluto

And this warming coincides with the warming trends on Earth.

I could go on… the Bell curve controversy with climate alarmist Michael Mann who’s defamation case against Tim Bell was dismissed because Michael refused to reveal his climate alarmism data to the court for 9 years despite the Judge ordering him to do so.

I could also mention how prominent climate scientists like Judith Curry get evicted from the “Club” once they go against the alarmism narrative.

This whole thing stinks like a religion where heretics are burned at the stake and any contradicting data is ruthlessly silenced.
I work at a company called Switchboard and there is a company named that involved in a different domain than ours in the US as well. Leadership said they pretty much can't do anything about that other than become a well known good product that when people think of Switchboard, they think of ours and not the other kind.
Isn’t that how science works?

Or do you mean the political implications of these papers?
It's debated. https://www.bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l1613

Mainly Monsanto lobbied enough that it wasn't classified as a carcinogen by the FDA however it has been labeled as a carcinogen by the WHO.

> In 2015, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) identified glyphosate, the world’s most commonly used herbicide, as a probable human carcinogen.12 It quickly became evident that separating science from politics and economic interests would be difficult for glyphosate.

> IARC’s assessment prompted a major controversy between health evaluation agencies, led to unprecedented lobbying by Monsanto (the primary manufacturer of glyphosate and genetically modified products resistant to glyphosate), and resulted in high profile court cases in the US.3

> Glyphosate typifies the problems associated with research, evaluation, and regulation of pesticides. These include serious difficulties in the conduct of human research; important gaps in post-market research into exposure and risk assessment, particularly in low and middle income countries; lack of information on environmental effects; extensive industry involvement in evaluation and regulatory processes; and the major legal implications of these evaluations.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/feb/16/revealed-mo...

https://enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12302-0...
On Dark Triads in Silicon Valley
“APAGARD Premio” is what it says on the tube. Hydroxyapatite.
From the article I linked.

> According to the US Food and Drug Administration, the acceptable recommended intake for aspartame is up to 50mg per kg of body weight each day, equivalent to the amount in around 19 standard-sized cans of Diet Coke (other brands are available) for the average American woman.
Because real boosts in this society are not puny scholarships. Its graduating with a good job already lined up, no debt, and and a heap of cash. This is basically how a lot of my wealthy friends I met in college ended up. Parents would even give them like 100k cash or even more as a graduation present. They’d also throw down on their down payments for new car or housing. Meanwhile their peers who are also getting a scrap of paper that graduation day are perhaps in debt by that amount.
A downside of a small business: not enough scale to justify high availability.
"But Brawndo has the nutrient plants crave."
> any attempt to examine your thought changes it--just as the measurement of an electron alters its course.

Wait a minute. Isn’t this factually wrong? I mean the uncertainty in measurement is not brought by the experiment perturbing the system but something inherent to the system. We know how much we are perturbing the system. We can always subtract that from the calculation and the system still ends up having uncertainty.

Not a physicist, can somebody correct me if there’s something wrong?
> If you look on Wikipedia, you’ll see that aspartame is a methyl ester of the aspartic acid phenylalanine dipeptide, which isn’t, like, comforting.

The aversion most people have to anything sounding chemical is crazy.

Chemically speaking, this is a relatively simple molecule. „Dipeptide“ means it consists of two amino acids, which are ubiquitous and make up every protein. „Methyl ester“ is the product of a reaction between an acid, in this case the amino acid phenylalanine, and an alcohol, in this case methanol. Also very common throughout chemistry and biology.
Ask HN: Linux Wayland Screenshot App – where to start?
I really like the screenshot app on Fedora. It works flawlessly but sometimes I drop screenshots into graphics program (Gimp) to draw arrows, etc. Would be really nice if everything was integrated together.

I programmed in Basic in the 80' and 90' and Pascal/Delphi in early 00'. After that Python and Django for the usual web stuff. It's been awhile since I did major projects - mainly Python scripts now if needed (scraping and data)...If I would to build this kind of app from scratch where do I start?
IMO the bugs add some needed entropy. If you’re not paying attention your bases will eventually be demolished. Makes me more thoughtful about my planning and design rather than just plopping some half assed shit down.
From "Reactivating Dormant Cells in the Retina Brings New Hope for Vision Regeneration" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35871917: direct neuronal reprogramming (for retinal growth), Tissue NanoTransfection, Muller glia

"TNT" out of Ohio State:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue_nanotransfection ; direct (epithelial,) stroma reprogramming

Regenerative medicine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_medicine

From https://www.ada.org/en/resources/research/health-policy-inst... :

> What share of U.S. children and adults have dental benefits?

> Dental benefits coverage varies by age. For children ages 2-18, 51.3 percent have private dental benefits, 38.5 percent have dental benefits through Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and 10.3 percent do not have dental benefits. For adults ages 19-64, 59.0 percent have private dental benefits, 7.4 percent have dental benefits through Medicaid, and 33.6 percent do not have dental benefits. Source: Dental Benefits Coverage in the U.S.

TIL about Dental lasers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_laser

What percentage of dentists offices have lasers in the United States?
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+percentage+of+dentist+o...

FWIU, dental lasers cost from $4-40K per unit, per station in the office; and they may be tuned for specific applications or general purpose. There's a waveguide to guide the beam; and there are new waveguide methods for steering photon beams through opaque tissue (with e.g. dual beams).

"Scientists Have Discovered a Drug [Tideglusib] That Fixes Cavities and Regrows Teeth" (2017) that's already FDA approved for Alzheimer's but there are yet no clinical trials of it as a cavity fill??
https://futurism.com/neoscope/scientists-have-discovered-thi...

Tideglusib: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tideglusib

Can teeth be grown in molds from e.g. stem cells, or nanotransfected tissue with/without a 3-d printed scaffold or [...]?

Dental care probably has direct returns in labor productivity?
The above URL seems to be dead, see: https://thetech.com/issues/83/24/pdf
Bohm was one pf the last visionaries but I feel he is wrong.

Light is never a particle, it is always a wave. It only appears to us as a particle.

Think about that! It means also that everything is always a wave! And if everything is a wave nothing is separate from anything else. That will explain spooky action at a distance.

A particle is only a probability wave. And our mind cannot handle probabilities, it needs certainly. Do to create certainty it collapses the probability to provide us with the most probably outcome.
Mostly Android input being a hellscape, and wrangling React inside ContentEditable posing weird synchronization challenges with input method editors.
I understand the need to expand given that you have investors. I was asking why they needed to get investors if they were profitable.
Vs serial sexual harasser, I'll take it. Sorry you got so worked up over being called out amigo, you can still work on respecting other people though and better yourself. Good luck, me and all the women you think are asking for it, are pulling for you.
I always disliked diet sodas until I tried a keto diet for a couple months, which practically means fasting from sugar. Afterwards, the non-diet drinks taste way too sweet whilst the diet ones are fine. So it does seem like one can recalibrate themselves.
I picked all AMD for my box specifically because of their open source Linux contributions. I have friends who have done the same.
I know they mention Steam Deck but I expect it’s heavily skewing the results. I wonder what percent of linux gamers are accounted for by the Steam Deck. I expect it’s rather large.
This is broader than DMCA takedown notices. For example, if you tried to look up the origins of covid, for a long time Google would try to shepherd you away from the lab leak hypothesis, since apparently that's dangerous wrongthink.
I gave ChatGPT a tried on occupation and loneliness.

Remote workers: Those who work from home or in separate locations from their team can sometimes feel isolated, as they have fewer opportunities for in-person social interactions.

Night shift workers: These employees often work while the majority of people are asleep, which can lead to feelings of isolation.

Solitary professions: Jobs like long-distance truck drivers, freelance writers, or forest rangers, for example, often require long periods of time spent alone.

High-stress jobs: Positions with a lot of responsibility, such as CEOs or emergency medical workers, may experience feelings of isolation due to the pressure they are under.

with disclaimer which I agreed with:
Remember, it varies greatly from person to person, and not everyone in these professions will feel lonely. Many factors can contribute to feelings of loneliness, including personal resilience, social networks outside of work, and more.
True. $1,500 for my last half cow, higher than ever.

According to my improved lab results, for me it's a health expense, paying more for food now to pay less for diabetes, heart disease, etc., later.

On the other hand it makes me more likely to have a longer life, which is also an expensive luxury.
Maybe you just came up with a good idea for a PhD in dentistry.
https://youtu.be/zujMZ-olu5I?t=328

liftoff @ 5:29
What is this metric? Is it 13M accounts on mastodon.social or on the whole federated activitypub space?
The Humane AI Pin: A Leap Forward in Wearable Tech
Universal Analytics dies aged 11: 'Be brave and be strong'
Embedded DB
My experience is that some execs, some of the time, can reduce the chaos and give teams the running room/decision authority needed to do great work. (I've both failed and succeeded at it.) Part of this post was to encourage my peers to step up. Depending on ICs to push cultural change up through the org isn't IMHO a reasonable strategy.
A Battle in Ukraine Can Change API Terms
I'm not well versed in this space. Are you suggesting designing a language without specifying a formal grammar?
Chinese Researchers Used AI to Design RISC-V CPU in Under 5 Hours
we do have a word -- "negentropy". Physicists also sometimes find it easier to talk about "negentropy" instead of entropy.
That's a nice small benefit that seems dwarfed by the increase of complexity, but maybe I am blind to my death of a million paper cuts that I've grown used to.

Maybe I'll update my script to use named instead of randomly generated profiles, though.

What does it do for multiple profiles?
Air movement only helps when the humidity is less than 100%. With a wet bulb temperature of 35C, fans won't help you survive - you'd need some other way of reducing your body temperature e.g. air conditioning.
My best managers have been umbrellas, but with transparency. If something was happening in the company we would be informed, but could rest assured that our manager would do their best to work the issue for us while keeping us informed.

The worst managers I’ve had were umbrellas, but to such an extreme that they kept us in an isolated island separate from the rest of the company. We didn’t know what was going on in the company and had no chance to integrate that content into our work. It felt good at first, but over time I realized that the umbrella manager was trying to keep us in the dark so they could keep exclusive control over our work and neutralize any possibility of us competing with them among management. The last manager I had like this went so far they they would praise us for our work and give nothing but positive feedback, right up until he cut people for low performance. It felt like everything he did was for equal parts performance (looking like the ideal, happy, positive manager) and control (keeping us isolated from the rest of the company so he was always in full control).

Ironically, that manager now posts frequent leadership thoughts on LinkedIn and has a newsletter.
I'm surprised it's not higher.

Nvidia is actively hostile to Linux users. The worst part about gaming on Linux is dealing with Nvidia's drivers.

To echo Linus Torvalds, and for good reason, fuck Nvidia
It’s not only NY, LA, SF. Retail crime has hit a bustling Kansas metropolis
Or, you know, just drink the aspartame one and be done with it.
The amount of effort this must have taken is obscene. The creator made a physically accurate pin-hole camera and film inside Blender. I hadn't realised that this is even possible with existing off-the-shelf renderers, let alone open source software. What a blast to watch also.

That is, the fact that the whole package (Blender + the author's work) emulates a physical camera inside an existing renderer is amazing to me.
Also keep in mind that Cycles and most renderers use a simplified version of physics—rather than pathtrace all wavelengths, they use a simplified RGB model, which means certain optical properties behave differently. For instance, you don’t get the chromatic aberration with the simulated lens.