skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least some of the issues here appear to be UAFs where raw pointers are taken to RC'd objects under the assumption that the object will not be freed while the raw pointer is held. That is not possible to express in Rust (without unsafe).

Some other issues are definitely going to be trickier - for example, passing a raw pointer to another context and then crashing that context while it's still held. This has come up within Rust before - how do you handle `&str` backed my mmap when another process could write to those values.

And then some are... maybes. Integer underflow panics in tests but not in release - when mixing it with something inherently unsafe like alloca, would Rust have helped? IDK. Certainly I think integer overflows are less likely to make it to release in Rust thanks to the default behavior, but it's also absolutely an area where I expect Rust to do only a bit better than other languages.
> The real unanswered question is, does it finally have a damn sleep mode so it can save power when idle.

I dream of DIY'ing a laptop, and RPi looks like a great platform for prototyping that... until you realize there's just no sensible way to put it to sleep. Hibernate + aggressive boot time optimization?
Lots of skepticism here with the implicit recognition that it would be a major accomplishment if true.

And it absolutely would be a major accomplishment if true.
Yes, there is a low power mode. And you're forced to use that if you startup with an "under"-powered supply.

Jeff Geerling on YT has a great in-depth review of these options in his latest video.
Worked at a place providing financial research data and models to investors. We spent a lot of effort creating infinitely flexible and customizable reporting and dashboards. Turns out no one used that. Everyone just wanted a general high level report emailed to them.
21 Inc, $ 116m: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-startup-21-inc-reveal...
Cutting GTA Online loading times by 70% (2021)
Thats a start but if they were really going for it, it would look more like a multi-billion dollar investment with M&A, head hunting, training infra, partnerships etc

Atm its looks more like getting they lay of the land, which IMO is the smart move.
Funny, I was clicking ready to rant about the opposite, claiming it's built from scratch, when it's just another Linux.
I dunno, I'd take a glass of juice over cryptocurrency from a retina-scanning orb.
You've misunderstood me. Cutting down this tree in the UK also needs permission. The question is only whether the landowner in question can or would be tied to the crime and punished.

This is also an issue in the NL. I grew up in the UK but I've lived the most significant years of my life in the NL so I feel like I can speak a bit to both cases. If something happens in the countryside with noone around to see there's very little that can be done, there's a certain impunity or a security through obscurity that exists outside of cities.

And I know that this is HN and what I'm about to say doesn't quite meet general etiquette rules here, but the idea that farmers are somehow more controlled in the NL than elsewhere is laughable when the literal Farmers Party is one of the main political forces in the country.
You wouldn't walk on a dosing oven in the usual course of events. However, it is totally possible that someone was up there doing maintenance or debugging (let me drop a temperature probe in there to test if the ovens built in temperature measurement is accurate!)
Man, I can't even begin to imagine what they're going to come up with. Titanium AIPods. Non-detachable alluminum RayBans. Google Glass, but it's a literal Black Mirror worn on your face. Self-driving Segway. Transparent plastic smart lunchbox. Electric long-board that's also a tablet. Fist-mountable selfdefense impact jackhammer. 5G base station Zurb ball. A keyboard that starts repeating nnnn when you think of what you want to type. Neuralink, but for discreetly listening to major record label IP. Contact lens payment system where you wink to tip your landlord. Quantified shelf. A car without a steering wheel, made entirely out of Corning glass. Heelies that auto-reverse when they sense an oncoming homeless person. Van-life, but it's a sentient executive jet plane. Longevity device that puts you to sleep for at least 8 hours every day. Intimacy fit-ring. Schedulable dopamine-inhibiting nanobots? This could be huge.
> You would do exactly the same if you ran an expensive website.

I can say with 100% certainty that I would not do the same.
From the sounds of things Musk’s antics have cost Twitter a lot of ad revenue from businesses not wanting to associate themselves with him.

In my own experience I’ve been seeing a lot more dodgy ads (scams, crypto, far-right groups) that were probably rejected by the old management. Maybe that’s making up some of the lost revenue, but it’s exactly the sort of stuff that made traditional businesses anxious about content moderation on platforms like YouTube.

It does seem that the userbase hasn’t gone away - the migration to other platforms hasn’t panned out and the power users are still there. But if the platform is long-term toxic to advertisers then they’re going to need some better ideas than Twitter Blue.
Are y’all going to keep “just asking questions” that have an implicit stance of a musk-stan
Many doctors don't actually take the hippocratic oath (some make up their own, like wedding vows) and it wouldn't carry any actual legal force, either. It's like the american pledge of allegiance.
My angle was informed by the idea that this is only really applicable to gasoline fuel. Diesel and Jet fuel is not really changed by this. (Jet fuel because electrolysis at this scale requires heavy batteries or power draw.) To that end, the actual amount of gasoline edge cases get really small. Almost all small engines (lawn care, etc) are EoL due to better battery options. Motorcycles are an interesting use case but this likely requires too much electrical power to make sense. Once you get past all of that, the actual edge cases are tiny and nowhere in this report does it actually cover the impacts on efficiency or the fact that it makes chlorine gas.
I find it hard to believe a 16yo can fell a big chunky tree all on his own - although I guess I don't know how powerful modern chainsaws are.
> Not sure I see the point in hating on one specific configuration language.

Point is most devs do not control what their employers mandate to use. Ranting a bit help them release some frustration. And how one can improve on it? It is not an individual app where I can change or upgrade a bit and be happy.

> But very few actually want to put on the enormous amount of work needed to improve YAML or create a new language.

So some did awful amount of work to come up with awful config language and everyone feel thankful about it. It doesn't seem right to me.
I feel pretty lucky to be living in Colorado with ample dark sky areas in a short driving distance. Even living in a small city in the Denver metro area - the night sky is significantly clearer with more stars than I used to see as a kid growing up in the “rural” Midwest. Although I’m sure folks who lived in the front range 50 years ago have Noctalgia for even darker skies.

Whenever friends come visit (especially those who are more city-folk and less outdoorsy) I make sure to take a short drive into the mountains so that they can see the milkyway with the naked eye. Never fails to blow their minds. Still blows mine after all these years.
3x as many emergencies per employee (not total, per employee) would be at least moderately alarming even if the numbers were 0.003 accidents per employee at Tesla and 0.001 accidents per employee at Audi.

I wouldn't get too hung up on statistical significance here. Whenever someone brings up statistical significance, I always like to ask: "significant with respect to what? by what standard?"

However it might be interesting to consider whether 3x is normal for all new production facilities. But that's a separate question.
Places claiming to be centenarian hotspots may just have bad data
> I was surprised how afraid many people are of being left to themselves in their own flats and what a big topic this was for them. Many people don't seem to have any other interest than meeting other people.

You were surprised by that? Humans are extremely social animals, you know. Borderline eusocial, even. Social isolation is a major risk factor for a variety of psychological issues. I'm sure those people do have interests other than meeting people, but in the same way a person deprived of food has an unwavering focus on eating, a person who is all alone can be expected to have a keen interest on socializing.

I agree with you that the measures that were taken to try to mitigate the pandemic were very reasonable, in fact I think that masks and vaccines should be pushed a lot harder. But it shouldn't come as a surprise that people are fearful and uncomfortable about being required to isolate themselves from the social sphere. A pragmatic strategy for countering the pandemic should take that as an expectation and must have some way to account for it. The unemployment benefits and stimulus checks we got early on were a really good step in that direction imo: it really helps alleviate people's fear and discomfort if their financial anxieties are reduced.
Audi lists a volume of 332,981 vehicles for Ingolstadt in 2022.

https://www.audi-mediacenter.com/en/audi-in-ingolstadt-5543

Tesla posted a tweet regarding 5000 vehicles in one week in Gruenheide on March 25, 2023. That pace would be 260,000 vehicles over 52 weeks.

https://insideevs.com/news/659190/tesla-giga-berlin-producti...

I will say that the Audi Ingolstadt campus does have more than just line manufacturing.
Or the market remained irrational longer than they could remain solvent. It's an economic system, it's not omniscient.
It's not a premium phone, showing that OLED and 5G are not premium features.
> author is focused on the input ("I wrote this in X") not the output (value the user gets)

Possibly, a lot of us enjoy developing X in Y for the sake of doing so. Not everyone may end up caring about the value that the user gets.
Hackers can build an ecosystem. So it doesn’t really matter what the vast majority do imho.
The board is just Musk, he fired everybody else.

The investors are Musk, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Binance, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia and some others. Imaginary profits shouldn't be an issue for this group, the value of their holdings lies elsewhere.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/24/elon-mu...
You can still buy older models of Raspberry Pi if you don’t need the performance of the new ones.
If this weren't a forum where we discuss only serious matters, I'd feel obliged to post Monty Python meme: "...It's just a flesh wound..."
This sounds accurate. But of course the dashboards would be one of the biggest selling points in a sales pitch.
Thanks for the link!

Yeah, ucl looks syntactically similar. On the other hand, I am not sure if it has expressions, and the variables usage is limited - they need to be registered in the parser, so they are existing outside of the config file; plus, they seem to represent just text.

My assumption was to use variables in the same file, to make the content more modular/DRY, and to evaluate expressions using these variables. Moreover, variables and expressions have basic types: int, float, string and bool. This is not an artificial need, I will give you concrete examples what I want to have in the config file:

- port numbers increased from a base value (int arithmetic)

- recalculated frequency/throughput values (float arithmetic)

- fields enabled if some other condition is true (comparisons, bool arithmetic)

- names concatenated from text and numbers

What else... in BCL variables are internal to the file; I want also to resolve the information existing external to the file, which would be: env varables (planned builtin function getenv) and ideally, output of executing command (like shell's $(), also planned). With this I can express easily and shortly quite complex configurations.

Actually thanks a lot for your comment, because answering this makes me realize I should put such information in the README of my project, maybe in some more structured way.
Bad article. From your link " And McDonald’s began changing how it heats up its coffee."

This is contradicted by wikipedia, which says McDonalds continues to heat their coffee that hot, and that Starbucks and other coffee shops do as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau...

> Since Liebeck, McDonald's has not reduced the service temperature of its coffee. McDonald's current policy is to serve coffee at 176–194 °F (80–90 °C),[40] relying on more sternly worded warnings on cups made of rigid foam to avoid future liability, though it continues to face lawsuits over hot coffee.[40][41] The Specialty Coffee Association of America supports improved packaging methods rather than lowering the temperature at which coffee is served. The association has successfully aided the defense of subsequent coffee burn cases.[41] Similarly, as of 2004, Starbucks sells coffee at 175–185 °F (79–85 °C), and the executive director of the Specialty Coffee Association of America reported that the standard serving temperature is 160–185 °F (71–85 °C).[citation needed]

This case seems to have myths inside myths. The first order myth is that the lawsuit was bogus. But there's a second order myth, that the temperature of the coffee was unusually hot and they've since changed this. What is true is that the coffee was hot enough to cause severe third degree burns, requiring skin grafts, and that McDonald's coffee cups at that time were prone to spontaneous collapse. But the coffee was not unusually hot; coffee hot enough to cause those kind of burns is the norm. In fact even coffee substantially cooler than that can cause third degree burns, particularly with children and the elderly. Look up scald charts, 140 F / 60 C can cause third degree burns with only 5 seconds of exposure.
A counter philosophical take:

As a human, I can live a perfectly happy, healthy life without eating animals. Statistically it’s healthier, cheaper, and has no downside other than taste (meat tastes good, no argument here).

So ethically, how is eating meat any different than torturing and killing animals for pleasure?
Thanks! For the social media sites, I made custom parsers to read "posts" (or the equivalent) in particular. Otherwise you have the option of just scanning almost every element on the page, which works surprisingly well but is likely not efficient.
The parsing rules don't adapt unless an update is pushed, and it only mutes the words/phrases you set it to.
It doesn't seem like your link supports your assertion. It says:

"In fact, there is a large body of research supporting that the population that perform the highest levels of physical activity (i.e. elite athletes) seem to present a lower risk of CV diseases and mortality. Specifically, a meta-analysis including 42087 elite athletes reported a 27% lower risk of mortality associated to CV diseases in comparison with the general population (Garatachea et al., 2014). Furthermore, an epidemiological study that analyzed 15174 Olympic medalists found that these subjects lived a mean of 2.8 years more than the average population, independently of the country or the type of sport performed (Clarke et al., 2012)."
> Tesla accelerated the mass adoption of electric cars by at least a decade

That is a VERY bold claim given that Tesla sedans only began sales 11 years ago.

> Tesla’s workplace safety stats and their rate of progress are inextricably linked. If a 3x injury rate vs similar companies is cost of such progress, definitely worth it.

That claim is even more bold. Other car companies are ramping up their electric assembly lines even faster than Tesla did in Germany with even less experience in electric car production. Shouldn't it follow that they should be maiming their workers at an incredible pace?

Is there any reason to believe that design and technology innovation is linked to a higher injury rate in serial production? Shouldn't TSMCs chip factories be veritable slaughterhouses with that logic?
Ohh, that sounds familiar. We're probably gonna have another bust with inflation and rising interest rates. Hopefully not a big one this time around.
> Anyone have a suggestion for an alternative to YAML that's easier to write by hand than JSON and also supports nested declarations? ("XML with a fancy text editor" doesn't count)

S-expressions. A parser for s-expressions (with no evaluation) can be as small as 300 lines of C code.

It'd take a day to write, and can express everything in a way that:

1. Current IDEs and code-editors can semantic-highlight

2. Current IDEs and code-editors can auto-format

Add in builtins for setting/getting symbols, and you can also DRY your config with variables and functions.

[EDIT: The DRY is optional - if you don't want someone messing up configs down the line, then don't implement any builtins that modify the symbol table, just examine the tree in your program after you have read in the s-expressions.]
> The main difference being that issues in California are generally handled via civil suit, while Germany handles them through a government board.

That sounds like a pretty big difference, and not one that favours california. Having to lawyer up is a big barrier?
Smithy Code
I wouldn't say anyone but they certainly haven't killed everyone
What It's Like to Own the Cars That Became a Viral Sensation to Steal
Tangential, but I kinda miss the days when this would be SFM, Simple Foundation Models.
That was not lost on me
A more fair comparison would be to the Audi factory in its first year of operation.
> Then the judge, judges.

Unless it's a criminal offense and the defendant invoked his right to being judged by a jury.
Wow, this is amazing and I hadn't heard about it yet so thanks a lot for sharing it!
That sounds really interesting - can you give an example of what you are talking about? I can’t find anything by googling.
I use Kagis summarizer. It saves me a bunch of time because it answers the question - is this link worth reading?

It has an HN mode, so here is its current summary.

- ChatGPT and other AI assistants can help improve productivity by answering questions faster than searching online or asking another person. This includes explaining technical concepts, providing code samples, and helping with minor tasks.

- However, the quality of code generated by AI is sometimes inconsistent, and debugging may take as long as writing it manually. For complex tasks, AI may not be much faster than a human.

- AI is most useful for getting around poor documentation, asking "stupid questions" without bothering others, and learning new concepts through interactive "interviews."

- AI can help with one-off text transformations and formatting tasks that aren't worth writing custom scripts for.

- While AI may struggle with writing production code, it can help with boilerplate, stubs, and minor repetitive coding tasks.

- Different AI systems have varying capabilities. ChatGPT is best for interactive explanations, while Copilot is more like an "autocomplete on drugs."

- It's important to understand an AI's limitations and use good judgment about what types of tasks it will and won't handle well. Day-to-day coding is often too complex.

- AI search engines can provide code samples and quick answers to common "how do I" questions, saving time over traditional search engines.

- Summarization, translation, and documentation generation are other useful applications of AI for productivity.

- By offloading minor, non-core tasks, AI helps users focus on more creative and challenging work.
wgpu I think might be finally an OpenGL killer. It's more platform independent than any graphics API ever dreamt of being.
Really depends who "we" is. Israel gets 75% of its water from desalination already, and that's just right now. And a lot of the other water sources right now are nonrenewable (groundwater, etc.), hence a big part of the motivation to look for new ones in the first place. The current situation is not sustainable on its own in many parts of the world, let alone the effects of dramatically increasing population sizes and global warming.
Not necessarily a bad thing. There's often a strong negative correlation between incident rate and fatality rate, a pattern found across many industries (airline, oil and gas, manufacturing etc.)

For example, are more incidents reported by British Airlines or Aeroflot? Now, which would you rather fly on?
It helps to think of older terms and how they relate to more-common modern terms.

"Benediction" is a synonym for one sense of "blessing" — the sense that means "to speak good upon" (bene- and -dict).

Conversely, a synonym for one sense of "curse" is "malediction", which is the opposite of "benediction": "to speak bad/evil upon" (mal- and -dict).
Posthog isn't truly open source as the author claims.

It's "too complex" to run natively and is only recommended for "hobby" projects. They basically say, yeah our source code is there but if you want to run it yourself, forget about it.

I was thinking of some clients I have that would benefit from this in their secure environments but was quickly chastened by their docs.

Fair enough, they have to make money but seems like the ole bait-n-switch method of customer acquisition.
Interesting. To me Wolfram's writing seems following logic/reason from first principles more so than what I know about Hinduism, but I guess I don't know that much about it...
>>> You know what else inhibits fatty acid oxidation? CPT1A (Carnitine palmitoyltransferase I) Deficiency.

If I am not mistaken, the problem with CPT1A is upstream, way before oxidation occurs, in the breakdown of the long chain fatty acids before they can go into the mitochondria for oxidation. Unrelated to inhibiting oxidation
Spatial atlas of the mouse central nervous system at molecular resolution
You're making a lot of assumptions there.
Swiss glaciers lose 10% of their volume in two years
>It is often said that programming for a computing machine forces one to think clearly...it disciplines the thought process.

Gerald J. Sussman's "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics" (2001) also focuses on programming exercises for physics. In the preface they write:

>The requirement that the computer be able to interpret any expression provides strict and immediate feedback as to whether the expression is correctly formulated.

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>Don't forget that Vannevar Bush also inspired Douglas Engelbart

Interestingly he read the July 1945 issue with "As We May Think" while stationed as radar technician in the Phillippines on an remote island. Having the time while waiting for redeployment and the radar technician background greatly contributed to his (and his teams) later inventions.
Key finding of the Lancet article:

These findings suggest that coronary atherosclerosis can be avoided in most people by achieving a lifetime with very low LDL, low blood pressure, low glucose, normal body-mass index, no smoking, and plenty of physical activity. The relative contributions of each are still to be determined.
The difference is that Python is a programming language, whereas YAML isn't (allegedly).
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/12/tech/elon-musk-bbc-interview-...

> Musk was quoted as saying in the interview that the social media platform now has only 1,500 employees, down from under 8,000 who were employed at the time of his acquisition. The reduction equates to roughly 80% of the company’s staff.

That was in April. Another 10% since then seems entirely plausible.
Cannabis Use Disorder linked to Heart Attacks
It's not about Mastodon taking users, it's about major advertisers deciding it's not worth it to continue. Have you noticed that the CEO, an ad account executive never mentions any advertisers by name or ad-related revenue growth?