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Extremely weird and ahistorical. I wouldn't go so far as to say that everyone should use rust, but this argument is against a straw-man. Roughly speaking, it skips over the fact that

1. history has demonstrated that memory bugs are easy to produce and hard to find and
2. even a single memory error can be devastating in terms of data and money and productivity lost

If Rust eliminated most or a large class of memory errors and it was just as productive as C/C++ it would be a no brainer to at least write new, independent, systems in Rust. I think its reasonable to assume that Rust manages to eliminate many memory errors, but whether it comes at too high a cost is the real question, along with the lock in and network effects that our legacy systems have.

This essay basically doesn't address anything real.
If I print that page, should I stay out of Maine unless/until this amendment passes?
>When things seem so obvious and simple, it can be a good mental exercise to try to put yourself in the shoes of the "other side" for whom it also seems obvious and simple.

I would if I could but as I keep tryin to explain I can't because it requires I believe something that's a contradiction.

Just because it's a contradiction that makes ya more money don't mean it isn't a contradiction. Also I am that non-technical person.
This is very 2008 understanding of the industry.

Sure, insider access to studios and pre-release games is important to media, but that’s… also the same for movies and books and TV and music publications? And the argument about the scoring is so old and trite. There are so many games coming out nowadays that the bad ones just don’t get the time of the day. Does median score on Pitchfork hover around 5?

But even apart from that, written reviews aren’t the big traffic drivers they used to be. Bits of gameplay narrated by staff, guides, walkthroughs etc, and other commentary are only increasing in how much they matter traffic-wise.

The truth is that for the most part (with notable exceptions) people on both sides of the divide are adults, and nobody is going to blacklist a website because they didn’t like a negative review.

Publishers also generally do not get to influence review scores, the firing of Jeff Gerstmann from GameSpot and subsequent exodus of editorial staff is still An Event that everyone remembers and knows about.
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So that’s like a month of bitcoin transactions?
I don't think needing Massachusetts to sign off on your reneging would be a meaningful barrier.
Since FAT32 is the only FS that must be supported, I'd guess one potential limit is 4 gigs.
A gun within reach isn't necessarily a crime.
That's definitely a problem, but I think that's more of a problem with the media than with the bodycam system. A responsible commentator would have either held the story until having more information, or released the footage but made clear that they had not gotten information from the police about it. It might be more nuanced than I imply though, such as if the police refused to comment on the matter or something, but still I think this is more of a people problem than a bodycam problem.
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>Aye, there's the rub ;) How do you define "too similar"?

... Same ways I do for humans. That's why I wrote "the same as for people" that line was supposed to contextualize everything else I wrote and somehow it hasn't.

edited to fix a screwup. because somehow I swear I hit "copy" but it didn't copy
Block lattice is IMO far too unwieldy to use, and is useless for decentralization unless the system you're making payments on is actually yours, meaning you can't use it for real-world payments.

Also, still nothing solves the oracle problem. Any form of crypto does nothing for any transaction that doesn't purely take place in digital space. This really is never the case, even when people claim it is. People always use the "NFTs could be used for concert tickets" example, but when it comes down to it, the venue still has to physically let you in.

Same with DNS. Sure, you could have a record put on a blockchain, but somewhere down the road, you're gonna have to be routed through a DNS server owned by someone, and the decision to use a decentralized record is purely theirs. At some point, there's some centralized entity that needs to be trusted or regulated.

As long as the thing being bought/sold with crypto can't be decentralized (nearly everything), you're still kicking the centralization can down the road, and spending a whole bunch of time and energy doing it.
The neural engine in Apple chips is really for small models for doing things like Face ID, local inference for Photos.app, etc. It's there to run those small models with very little power consumption. It's not that great for huge models. The GPU is better for those, and they have been adding cores and performance there.

But yes, most large models are pretty heavily memory bound.
It is interesting that the redaction happened one month before the final judgement in the Granger v. Avery court case.

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And GPS. Retain location data during these periods and you’ve covered most of it.
While I'm not sure I see as much games being review bombed for political reasons in my sources for video game reviews, I strongly agree with you that it's really hard nowadays to find high quality reviews. It's always been bad in mainstream video games medias though, but underdogs that are more open to criticise game tend to not last very long.

The best approach I've found is to become aware of who are writing the reviews I perceive as high quality and simply follow them when they change medias and pay attention to what they communicate about their current position.

Ultimately, the best reviews are almost always coming from sources that have a business model that doesn't rely on ads.
Of serious consideration, eh?

Flask: 64,900 GitHub stars
Starlette: 8,800 GitHub stars
MicroDot: 847 GitHub stars
Tremolo: 6 GitHub stars

https://github.com/pallets/flask

https://github.com/encode/starlette

https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/microdot

https://github.com/nggit/tremolo
Hey, does anybody know why Waze still exists as a separate app?

It was acquired a decade ago. Is there a legitimate reason, or is it just a reflection of Google leadership's lack of a holistic app strategy? (see: Google's history of messaging apps)
Free wifi the whole way, but 100x the usual number of billboards? Hmm, might be worth it
Don't apply. The employer is showing you how they operate when they're trying to impress candidates. Do you really want to find out what they do when they know your best alternative is a job search?
Thanks, obviously things have slowed down now because it's just Nov / Dec which is historically always a slow time of year for hiring. I'm just starting to lose hope because I started fielding my resume about four months ago - only a few bites so far and my emergency funds are running low. Feels shameful to have to dip into my savings.
> I'm not even sure video game journalism was ever good

In my youth I read a few PC game magazines. Not sure about the accuracy of the reviews but the people writing them did try to make their reviews as entertaining as possible with jokes and what not.

Sadly, those old magazines are long gone so I can't really go back and re-read them to see if it's just rose-tinted glasses. I don't even remember the magazine name or which country it was from.

Edit: Come to think of it, those reviewers were kind of like Yahtzee (formerly*) of Zero Punctuation fame.

* https://twitter.com/YahtzeeCroshaw/status/172168721254128042...
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Turning off a body cam should have the presumption of guilt. I would happily wear a body cam when dealing with strangers as a civilian. It is unfortunately socially unacceptable and often illegal. That they do not want to makes me very suspicious of their actions.
"Amazon lockers" are at places other than your home. So unless they're somewhere you're already going to be going, at the right time, for other reasons, that option is much less convenient. Especially if your other plans change and you now need to go out of your way to get your package.
That is certainly something the tribes should sort out, after getting the land back.
The issue is that if you're currently making $200K, it's hard to tell where they might think you might sit in that scale up-front.

It's a bit like saying "Employee - $10K-$10M p/a" - It's not very useful in a job posting, as you might reasonably assume someone being paid the top salary is not actually doing the same role as at the bottom range.
The timing on this is rather difficult though, and its non trivial time and effort
I agree with you, but pragmatically, how do you handle bathroom breaks? Private phone calls with spouses?
I tried to find the article I saw that did exactly that and couldn't, but I guess empirically if you take a look at the LLM leaderboard (https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...) and add the "precision" column to the data, you can see the GPTQ/4-bit/8-bit quants still handily beat out the smaller models at full precision. Downside is there's no 3-bit on the submission page, so we can't easily gauge how those are doing, but all my anecdotal personal experience with 3-bit has been extremely disappointing. Exllamav2 might have bridged that gap a bit. Again, wish I could find you that article I had. It laid all this out and showed a huge perplexity dropoff below 4-bit.

Here's a reddit post showing the 2.5 (exllamav2) quant as incredibly bad, at least: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/16mif47/compari...
Absolutely. The police unions complain endlessly that the public just doesn't understand how it is for cops. That the complaints against them are almost always meritless. So show us! Record it all. Release the video any time there's a question.

We give cops a legal monopoly on violence. I don't think, "show us how you're using it," is too much to ask.
The history of police departments in small towns would like a word.
Meanwhile we can't even agree whether automated traffic enforcement using cameras should be legal
Yep that’s covered in the video if you watch the whole thing
What is the argument you are putting forth? Less body cams, more belief in the police?
Sure thing, do you have an email in your prof here on HN?

I basically trust recruiters less than realtors at this point...
There's lots of research here in the Tesla hacker community. The car continues to function. The easiest (not trivial, but easiest) way to test it yourself is to remove the SIM and disable wifi -- the non-network features of the car continue to work indefinitely. There are even some third parties who support early Tesla vehicles, on stock firmwares, in part by fully blocking comms with Tesla.
> I use both Waze and Google for long trips…

You use both simultaneously? Or if you alternate, based on what?
Exaxctly. The one really big thing, at least for me, was making controller/joypad usage easy or more less hazle free. Before that, you had to do that manually which was a PITA
This is a thoughtful and insightful comment, and brings up issues I wouldn’t have thought about or understood.

Even though the parent comment was terse, this comment shows why we shouldn’t be downvoting / flagging opinions into oblivion. Free speech and listening to opposing views can bring about meaningful discussions and help is all understand the world better.

Flagging uncomfortable topics because they violate modern wokeism is a disturbingly Orwellian practice.
Imagine that you are an air traffic controller monitoring all legitimate planes outfitted with ATAC for proper tracking, you should not have to worry too much about unknown planes, right?

One or two planes, use old fashion air tower guidance.

Tracking stalker means it only takes ONE, and he is not announcing himself (amongst others)

It is about Shannon's Limit vs. Golay/Convoluted; signal noise ratio.
"Entitlements .. tool to disadvantage" feels deep in doublespeak. If it's a disadvantage, it's not an entitlement. Entitlements are things one can take up or leave voluntarily.
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> This is analagous to World War 2 bomber design (bear with me).

What follows that sentence has to be a contender to win the prize for the most tortured analogy in a programming language discussion. You see, safe languages are bad because they slow you down, and if you're slow, the Nazi anti-air guns (that is, security vulnerabilities) can catch you. You need to code faster to dodge those bullets! Write in C to stop the Nazis!

Earlier in the article, there's a lot of hand-waving that there's a lot of secure software out there that's written in unsafe languages, so memory safety isn't needed. No proof of this. If you make a claim like this, at least be specific and enumerate examples of software for which that's the case. Then we can verify this claim against published vulnerability lists from the past few years. Spoiler: every significant C program has had memory vulnerabilities.

But maybe those aren't important compared to other security issues, which is another a common claim and one that's hinted at here? Maybe C allows you to code fast enough to dodge other kinds of Nazi bullets/vulnerabilities, and that's worth it? Well, people do enumerate stuff like that, and despite most programming nowadays happening on the web, a memory safety issue is still at the top of this list, for example: https://cwe.mitre.org/top25/archive/2023/2023_top25_list.htm...

Perhaps those metaphorical airplanes were still to slow, and the programs that were counted in this should actually have been coded in assembly to be even more secure, what do I know.
Yes to just electricity, I think so for gas heating (I've also been in places in the UK with open hearth wood fires, oil heating, solar thermal, and pure electric, and that's just where I knew the heat source).

Assuming the linked calculations are correct, this doesn't matter because all current power consumption can be electrified.

Of course, even that's still not sufficient, as the chemical byproducts of several major agricultural and industrial processes also produce greenhouse gases. Fortunately, people are working on those too.
or “unethically” (depending on your ethics!), you could just _say_ you have a competing offer. Unless there is like some secret hiring manager slack where people ask each other “did you really send that person an offer?”.
nor any seamounts.

the physical descriptions of Atlantis seem fanciful.
Granted, I've applied a few hundred places and only got maybe 6 interviews.
The author is mistaken about the perceived lack of research into alternatives.

We know how to write secure C/C++ code. The methods are very expensive and don't scale to large engineering teams.

Government agencies as well as large companies - including Microsoft and Google - have researched this very subject for decades. The problem is that even very small probabilities become a significant issue at scale.
> MacBook Pro, i5 - 2017

Sorry but this is the worst machine Apple has made in possibly around 20 years. Feels heat constrained in it's own chassis, fan turns on at the drop of a hat, battery not big enough for sustained work and started durning off at 20% on older units when you open a video call, charger it ships with not powerful enough to jump start from empty without a 5 minute wait, keyboard feels gross makes too much (ugly crunchy sounding) noise and keys jam from everyday dust.

M1 was heaven after that shambles and I can never go back to hot, noisy and low battery laptops after this.
How Rust made it into the kernel is beyond me. Torvalds should have waited 3 more years and then he should have chosen Zig.
Seems like more testing is in order:

> Upon the outage, both banks immediately activated IT disaster recovery and business continuity plans.

> "However," according to Tan, "both banks encountered technical issues which prevented them from fully recovering their affected systems at their respective backup datacenters – DBS due to a network misconfiguration and Citibank due to connectivity issues."

Perhaps regularly flipping between them on a regular basis, at least for a short time, so the 'passive' part of the active-passive pair gets some work, is worth considering.
Ive seen good postings lately saying reasonable ranges like 130-200 and 180-250
Patrick Boyle was quite entertaining on youtube on The Inevitable Decline of WeWork. 4 weeks ago but not sure much has changed https://youtu.be/n3Q_4vjPMSE
The most interesting snippet from the article:

> Early Friday, Musk said that xAI would release its first AI system — presumably Grok — to a “select group” on Saturday, November 4. But in a follow-up tweet tonight, Musk said all subscribers to X’s recently launched Premium Plus plan, which costs $16 per month for ad-free access to X, will get access to Grok “once it’s out of early beta.”

The lower tiers getting in the deal as well sounded too good to be. But still, at 16$/month if grok is anything like cgpt4 it's worth it, imo. What I'm gonna be interested in is Musk's "promise" that it will not be censored/lobotomized, like chatgpt was(and is). I'm not sure what technology they're using such that grok uses realtime X data (if anyone has ideas, feel free to share), though i'm assuming this is something like Bard(which from my experience does a similar thing) and the knowledge isn't "trained" per se in the model.
This is the case in almost all Commonwealth countries no?

The system works because the country is still relatively healthy. Nobody really cares at the end of the day what leadership style the country has, as long as the leadership ensures that the laws represent the ethics, that there is some concept of justice, and general healthy HDI (whether it's safety, work opportunities, housing, education, whatever).

Democracy is usually seen as some way to achieve this, but there is also a sharp difference between healthy democracies and democracies that start and end at the ballot. You can equally have dictatorships that are just as healthy, if not healthier, than many democracies (for example the UAE or Oman).
I am not sure why people think of complexity as something bad or undesirable. Everything I can think is extremely complex and probably cannot be explained in simple terms without missing much of the context and beauty behind it. In my opinion, its not simplicity, its actually the complexity that adds beauty and meaning to everything.
I have to say - my most bizarre interview experience was a round 2 "culture fit" interview at Coreweave.

The guy interviewing was way too nice to the point it was weird and the whole interview was him asking about my "best traits" and breaking them down to "get to know me".
This seems to be an argument against why everything must switch to Rust. It's almost a complete straw man because most Rust developers aren't even making the claims he's arguing against, but there is a little bit of truth.

There is such a thing as Rust fanaticism, people with a near-religious belief that Rust will solve all of coding's problems. You can identify them because they view use of unsafe as a great sin.

It seems he's arguing against the Rust fanatics, and not Rust programmers in general or the language itself.
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It's not so implausible, actually.

"In 2019, 88% of the time L.A. County sheriff’s officers spent on stops was for officer-initiated stops rather than in response to calls. The overwhelming majority of that time – 79% – was spent on traffic violations. By contrast, just 11% of those hours was spent on stops based on reasonable suspicion of a crime." [1]

If police are mostly spending their time doing discretionary traffic stops, and using a criteria for those stops that ignores most white drivers, then "Pretty much all they do is harass and commit violence towards minorities" is accurate, at least in terms of time spent.

It could be simultaneously true that LA County sheriffs spend somewhere between 0.1% and 5% of their time playing a crucial role in society. It would be great to know whether this was true!

1. https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/police-are-not-prim...
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> I'll admit I do miss the older generation of video game 'journalism' nonetheless. Had its problems, but the thing is, it did feel like people were sharing their genuine and honest opinions as a capital-G "Gamer" more often.

It's important to recognize that the stakes were lower back then. When games cost hundreds of millions to develop and market and are expected to have revenue in the billions bad reviews have the potential to have a massive impact on that revenue.

> You can see this especially in the bizarro way that people have become regressive about sexuality in video games-I'm not really sure how a bunch of people were convinced to go all the way from 90's style "toxic masculinity" to a totally puritanical anti-sexuality stance in such a short period, but I'll be damned, they really managed to do it.

I don't know if I agree. If you look at the most profitable gaming sector - mobile gacha games - some of these games are extremely "horny". But there's also another elephant in the room here that has nothing to do with games journalism: China. I think a lot of content in popular games is toned down so it doesn't run afoul of Chinese regulators. There are examples online[1] of it being done retroactively, but if a game is being developed from day one with the Chinese market in mind, you would never know what was cut to make that happen.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/49x7m0/chinese_wow_cen...
this is absolutely welcome. yeah a wide range is still better than nothing.

it's actually very simple, surprisingly many job posts still miss them:

* location, remote or relocation or hybrid
* pay range
* job description

this saves both sides' time in the end.

I also like the 'simple apply' and in fact I only apply for those jobs, i.e. just send out resume, instead of filling out lots of personal info. if the employer needs that, please parse the resume yourself with a script.
I think you are assuming that companies feel shame, at best they feel loss, and then only if it's a significant percentage of profits.
Are you referring to what they describe as "ghosts" in the image description?

> Another signature of Euclid special optics is the presence of a few, very faint and small round regions of a fuzzy blue colour. These are normal artefacts of complex optical systems, so-called ‘optical ghost’; easily identifiable during data analysis, they do not cause any problem for the science goals.