skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A horse "getting loose" at 31,000 feet is definitely an emergency, what if one of the pilots had witnessed how loose the horse had become?? They would probably have been stunned and lost control of the aircraft immediately. Horse was also described as "in difficulty" and in need of a vet - might have pulled a muscle like Uncle Harold at the reception after a few champagne toasts.
The short answer is absolutely not, even when you are sure that it should. Even something as simple as a naive byteswap function might wind up generating surprisingly suboptimal code depending on the compiler. If you really want to be sure, you're just going to have to check. (And if you want to check, a good tool is, of course, Compiler Explorer.)
Corporations (and LLCs) protect you legally from the mistakes caused by others.
Huh, thanks.
>I'm ok with having it all mixed together so long as the flavors complement. I don't want a steak, cubed, mixed with my veggies and mashed potatoes, all in a bowl.

Huh? They don't complement??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd%27s_pie
Yeah mine would say "you are in your 40's and healthy so I won't prescribe antibiotics unless it doesn't get better in a week". But that as I said is fairly new and quite specific to sore throat from streps.
No, Docker is not right for this, mostly because Docker does not actually run on Mac; it runs on a Linux VM. MacOS doesn't really support containers.

I would suggest looking at Homebrew.
CPI includes a lot of stuff that's not in PPI (including shelter and rent), so it would depend on what the components or drivers of inflation are in the CPI.

If owner equivalent rent is moving lower (which it was in October), and if prior inflation was caused by supply chain tightness or higher input costs, than a lower PPI could indicate that supply chain tightness has eased, and goods inflation will head lower or stabilize.

It's also worth noting that CPI moves slower than PPI because rents make a pretty big percentage of CPI, and rents move slower than PPI due to how the BLS measures them. It is _a_ leading indicator, but not the _sole_ leading indicator.
> regulating the size of new trucks and SUVs

I can’t imagine this is within the purview of the NTSB, who focus on individual safety features, rather than vehicle dimensions.

Dimensions are usually the domain of the licensing bodies that license drivers, where license classes dictate acceptable vehicle dimensions. If you want change, start there to up the licensing requirements for monstrously large passenger vehicles.
I can confirm, they hand it out at the doctors in Australia for almost anything. I used to get sinus infections more than twice a year and they would give me antibiotics without testing if it was bacterial of viral. I started to refuse them few years ago and start to use salt water rinse which worked way better
DWARF supports quite a few languages: https://dwarfstd.org/languages.html
I used to be your daughter! Super quiet, got all my work done on time, was seen as "gifted", but would lose absolutely everything (and I mean everything).

I really suggest some sort of setup to maintain structure as she gets older - being aware of a diagnosis or having medication / therapy would've really saved a couple painful years in university for me
This Plasma Wayland session crashes (in my GPU driver):

- 3 years ago

- 1 year ago

- 6 months ago

The biggest issue I have with Wayland is that it requires a lot more out of a GPU than a framebuffer, and my experience with video drivers on Linux is that they are very buggy and not maintained for very long.

I have an older computer that I can run Xorg with compositing disabled and firefox with GPU rendering disabled. As far as I can tell I will never be able to run Wayland on it without changing the GPU.

Similar issues with some ARM based SBCs; they have varying levels of stability in their graphics acceleration capabilities, and often only on a very old kernel, but I can get a reliable framebuffer on mainline.
Pushing "ifs" up has the downside that the preconditions and postconditions are no longer directly visible in the definition of a function, and must then be checked at each call site. In bigger projects with multiple contributors, such functions could end up getting reused outside their intended context. The result is bugs.

One solution is some kind of contract framework, but then you end up rewriting the conditions twice, once in the contract and once in the code. The same is true with dependent types.

One idea I haven't seen before is the idea of tagging regions of code as being part of some particular context, and defining functions that can only be called from that context.

Hypothetically in Python you could write:

@requires_context("VALIDATED_XY")
def do_something(x, y):
...

@contextmanager
def validated_xy(x, y):
if abs(x) < 1 and abs(y) < 1:
with context("VALIDATED_XY"):
yield x, y
else:
raise ValueError("out of bounds")

with validated_xy(0.5, 0.5) as x_safe, y_safe:
do_something(x_safe, y_safe)

# Error!
do_something(0.5, 0.5)

The language runtime has no knowledge of what the context actually means, but with appropriate tools (and testing), we could design our programs to only establish the desired context when a certain condition is met.

You could enforce this at the type level in a language like Haskell using something like the identity monad.

But even if it's not enforced at the type level, it could be an interesting way to protect "unsafe" regions of code.
Aren't past elections the only ones that matter as far as this discussion goes?
Who ever even says future or ongoing elections are rigged? Even Trump finds the ones he wins to be legitimate.
Why would Microsoft not produce them at scale? With Azure and internal use cases I'm sure they're at a good scale.
Prince – OpenAI Custom GPT to Uphold Bridgewater Principles
This are exactly the kind of talking points that the powerful and controlling elements of the criticized group would want you to use to dismiss criticism and protect their own interests.
An extremely pornographic ad is making the rounds on YouTube
Make this man Sir J Graham C immediately
Colombia begins sterilizing hippos descended from pets of Pablo Escobar
> I know it's frowned upon to ask people if they read the article but, uh, did you even read the headline?

Uhm...the evidence suggests that he probably read more of the article than you did. :-) After talking about the horse mentioned in the headline the article goes on to mention that unscheduled landings are fairly common and gives some examples--one of which is due to a fight breaking out.
>The free market and financials decided against nuclear

I'm just trying to fully understand the position here. How do you mean "free market"? Because it seems a disproportionate amount of nuclear cost is driven by regulation. I'm not even saying that unwarranted, but it certainly seems to be very different from the colloquial definition of a "free market".
Function call overhead can be a real issue in languages like Python and JavaScript. But you can or should measure when in doubt!
Ever heard of Obecalp? Halcyon days, those were
It is common for governments to subsidize areas where they want to see more industrial capacity and research. This, in the long run, leads to more competition and lower prices.
If you know where they belong, this post isn't for you.
Considering processing time from pickup, not including driving (since I almost never drive just to get food), all the way to food ready to eat, we (two parents of one child) spend eight to ten hours a week.

Grocery shopping, again excluding travel, takes one to three hours a week. Once a month I put together a bulk order through the local food cooperative. I consider this time well spent, as food (along with sleep (preferably in a stable home), exercise, social interaction, and a sense of purpose) is so important to a healthy life.

I look forward to planning and making each day's meal from raw ingredients, using the leftovers for lunches and sometimes subsequent dinners if I made enough or too much. It's a relative luxury that I wish more people had access to.
Seems like it would be much better to do conventional weather forecasting and then feed the predictions along with input data and other relevant information to a machine learning system.
Your question in other words is: How far was the primordial Milky Way from these two galaxies 13 billion years ago?

I don’t have the answer on hand but it might be related to comoving vs. proper distances:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comoving_and_proper_distances
TripMode on Mac is supposed to fix this.
I also wonder about the sound design which is very well done, but seems to be a very different field than 3D?
“… and here we have the common Twitter poster. Their attempt to gain favour with their peers and, therefore, popularity with potential mates falls foul once again.”

- Attenborough maybe.
It seems like a decent general guideline.

It has made me wonder, though—do there exist compilers nowadays that will turn if’s inside inner loops into masked vector instructions somehow?
The issue I've most seen is that it never gets rewritten because the business side sees it as sufficient and just uses it. The techy/IT/programming folks never even hear about it until it breaks.

Most of these things are sheets which perform perfectly fine as-is, with their issues being around long-term maintenance. (Routine platform upgrade break the app, but the platform owners had no idea about the app until it broke for the users. The app didn't really even have an owner anymore because IT was never involved to assign it an IT owner and the author is long gone...)

Yes, it's the old-as-time problem of misaligned interests, but it's the reality in most corporate/enterprise IT and is a strong reason for prohibitions that may seem stubborn to devs.
I mean it does feel right for the government to regulate visible light? The same way you can't have flashing lights on the road or have a massive blinding beacon in your backward, you can't yell on the airwaves. I'm sure if visible light could be seen from halfway across the globe, we would also have that regulated.
Nearly all of the hate I hear for X/Xorg is from Xorg developers (modulo people complaining about video tearing). As far as I can tell they will not be contributing to Xorg anymore, so it's going to gradually fade away.
Ford F-150 Lightning Breezes Up Obstacle Where Tesla Cybertruck Struggled
Taking a dive in a fight (losing) in order to fix the fight (for those gambling on it) would be an example of a rigged fight.
SpaceX gets license for 2nd launch of giant Starship rocket
I think this is the relevant paper [1]. It appears to be about the inverse problem, though. The guy in the article has a healthy brain but damaged eyes, so his brain isn't getting any visual signals to interpret. The patients in the paper have healthy eyes but damaged brains, so their brain is getting visual signals but it can't interpret them.

That is interesting regardless. It's like the brain lost the ability to process visual data into images, but is still able to derive some information from it. Makes me wonder how many variations of sight there are. Is it possible to detect motion without sight? Or to have depth perception without sight? I guess depth perception without sight would be like complete colorblindness, almost like lidar.

1: https://elifesciences.org/articles/67573
Fascinating that Kay describes Ivan Sutherland as the inventor of OOP with his Sketchpad. Not only the inventor of computer graphics, but OOP, both in an MA thesis. No wonder Licklider handed the guy the keys to the Information Processing Techniques Office. Insane. We should all go home.
I need Werner Herzog to narrate my life!

"Look in the eyez of this nerd. The intenzity of the ztupidity looking at back at you is juzt amazing."
I'm not convinced that such general rules can really apply to real-world code. I often see this kind of rules as ill-placed dogmas, because sadly even if this particular blog post start by saying these are rule of thumbs they're not always taken this way by young programmers. A few weeks ago YouTube was constantly pushing to me a video called "I'm a never-nester" apparently of someone arguing that one should never nest ifs, which is, well, kind of ridiculous. Anyway, back at the specific advice from this post, for example, take this code from the article:

// GOOD
if condition {
for walrus in walruses {
walrus.frobnicate()
}
} else {
for walrus in walruses {
walrus.transmogrify()
}
}

// BAD
for walrus in walruses {
if condition {
walrus.frobnicate()
} else {
walrus.transmogrify()
}
}

In most cases where code is written in the "BAD"-labeled way, the `condition` part will depend on `walrus` and thus the `if` cannot actually be pushed up because if it can then it is quite obvious to anyone that you will be re-evaluating the same expression — the condition — over and over in the loop, and programmers have a natural tendency to avoid that. But junior programmers or students reading dogmatic-like wise-sounding rules may produce worse code to strictly follow these kind of advices.
Step A: build a machine which reflects a reduced and simplified model of how some part of a human works

Step B: turn it on its head "the human brain is nothing more than... <insert machine here.>"

It's a bit tautological.

The worry is that there's a Step C: Humans actually start to behave as simple as said machine.
Yeah, that's most likely true. I am less sure this would be a "far future" feature, though, given it's probably not a ton of work and power users would probably be willing to pay for it. We shall see, OpenAI moves fast...
Firebase Incident
> We call it slavery, but is it?

Yes. When you are forced to work and aren't allowed to quit your job, you are a slave. Slave owners may feed/house their slaves, and even pay them slave wages but none of those things make the slave any less of a slave.

> What's the real objection to this?

It's rare that someone asks what possible objection someone might have to slavery. Even if you thought that exploiting, abusing, and degrading enslaved human beings for profit wasn't morally abhorrent, there are purely economic reasons why slavery is a terrible idea. There are also purely selfish reasons to oppose it because if we allow it to happen to others it could just as easily be allowed to happen to you.

It's not even terrible unlikely that it will. The US locks up more of their own population behind bars than any other nation on Earth. There are plenty of entirely innocent people in prisons too. The best way to protect yourself against slavery is to make sure that enslavement isn't even an option on the table.

That said, there's no reason why that should mean that prisoners can't be employed by choice. If they were free to decide what type of work they wanted, and they were free to decline employment they wanted no part of, and they were provided the same pay for their labor as anyone else would be, and they were afforded the same protections against exploitation and hazardous working conditions as anyone else, then there'd be no harm in letting them make money and it'd be very helpful if they could put some money aside for the many expenses they'll be on the hook for after their release.
I wouldn't quite say this is bad advice, but it isn't necessarily good advice either.

I think it's somewhat telling that the chosen language is Rust. The strong type system prevents a lot of defensive programming required in other languages. A C programmer who doesn't check the validity of pointers passed to functions and subsequently causes a NULL dereference is not a C programmer I want on my team. So at least some `if`s should definitely be down (preferably in a way where errors bubble up well).

I feel less strongly about `for`s, but the fact that array arguments decay to pointers in C also makes me think that iteration should be up, not down. I can reliably know the length of an array in its originating function, but not in a function to which I pass it as an argument.
>I eat lots of dark leafy greens too. I often steam them in a Pyrex in the microwave then enclose in cheesecloth and squeeze the water out with tongs

Takes longer to prepare but if you bake them in the oven you'll get a similar result but won't lose all those nutrients in the water

Side note - you really are a maverick kind of cook lol
Neigh lad…
I don't have the reference handy, but I read a study of US healthcare which found patient satisfaction to be highly correlated with whether they got a prescription at the end of an office visit. With a prescription the patients felt like they were getting their money's worth.
IMO the best street food takes the win
> Entirely within their rights to do

Legally, you are correct, they are the owners and the dog is at their mercy. But I feel sorry for the dog who is at the mercy of these people.

> plenty of folks would argue they would be irresponsible and abusive to their kid to not do it

The irresponsibility was theirs, for not handling the situation properly when they brought a kid into their home where the dog had already been for, by my count, three years.

To make the dog pay with his life for their irresponsibility does not strike me as a good choice.

If they can't handle having the dog in the house, and don't have a friend or neighbor who will take him, they can take him to a shelter who will find him another home. He would still be paying for their irresponsibility, but at least he would get a chance to be with better people.
A new design, yet it still has steps to climb to get in, and a high windscreen.

An ordinary European bus has at most one step for the rear half of the bus, and has a low windscreen so the driver can see children passing in front of the bus. Asian designs are similar.

Example: https://www.mercedes-benz-bus.com/en_DE/models/citaro.html
what should they have to publish?

anything? bomb instructions? child abuse imagery?

only legal things? legal where?
I just look at the flag and know which countries have good meat. E.g.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/antibiotic-usage-in-lives...

There may be local regulations or labellings to (e.g. some organic labeling means no antibiotic and so on). But as a first rule I just try to avoid meat from "bad" countries. E.g. we get quite a lot of imported Brazilian beef in stores and I know it's terrible both for deforestation and antibiotics so I avoid that completely. Some interesting differences in the map is e.g. between Australia And NZ.
> Nvidia sells their top GPUs at insane premiums.

It is all sold out, for years. You can't sell something you don't have.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/08/tsmc_ai_chip_crunch/
Not the first one and certainly not the last...
They're shipping Realtek? I thought they were shipping Mediatek? Big difference in my experience.
> there's no entity in the system to even be subject to thoughts or feelings.

Can our brain be described mathematically? If not today, then ever?

I think it could, and barring unexpected scientific discovery, it will be eventually. Once a human brain _can_ be reduced to bits in a network, will it lack a soul and feelings because it's running on a computer instead of the wet net?

Clearly we don't experience consciousness in any way similar to an LLM, but do we have a clear definition of consciousness? Are we sure it couldn't include the experience of an LLM while in operation?

> Data goes in, it's operated on, and data comes out.

How is this fundamentally different than our own lived experience? We need inputs, we express outputs.

> I mean you can argue all kinds of possibilities and in an abstract enough way anything can be true.

It's also easy to close your mind too tightly.
You win the prize for readership. Yes, shepherds pie was exactly what I was referring to. You can keep your meat pie.
> I would not want to be the owner who had a second kid injured from one specific animal. Fool me once, twice, etc.

If they are really worried about their kid, they can find the dog another home. Either a friend or neighbor, or take him to a shelter. Not kill him.

As for "fool me", they were the ones who fooled the dog, by having him in their home for six years and gaining his trust, and then proposing to kill him over something that was really their fault. Bringing a kid into a home where a dog already lives is, as I have already pointed out elsewhere in this thread, stressful for a dog no matter what breed. It was their responsibility to manage that situation. They failed. And now they want the dog to pay for their mistake.
At some point someone said to me, "How badly did we fuck up as a society that robots taking all our jobs is a bad thing."

And I think about that a lot.
A familiar experience! https://xkcd.com/1319/
Google Cloud Renaming Ingress and Egress SKUs
VBA does have it's issues (https://sancarn.github.io/vba-articles/issues-with-vba.html) but it's far from the worst tool out there... E.G. PowerAutomate

VB6 has a pretty big community, and https://twinbasic.com/ has really helped unify VBA and VB6 communities as of late. So it might have a little of a resergence in the dev community.
Why does the rate have to start high and slow down?
It's a clever model from OpenAI.

Developers will be rushing to create GPTs, after which OpenAI will get a huge amount of ideas and creativity for free. And might integrate the top 1% directly into the core engine. Similar to how Apple regularly destroys app developers by adding the features of popular apps into iOS, and how Amazon makes a rip-off product of popular 3rd party sellers.

And, if you upload custom data, I imagine it leaks into the larger model. This way their core engine discovering data it had not seen before. Similar to how we've all voluntarily have given up our data to Google.

And, underlying terms and pricing can change at anytime. And you'll have nowhere else to go as this will be the world's one and only engine.
Interesting stats. Could you elaborate on the data you mentioned please? What does the 40 exabytes represent? Is that a single “frame” of an image captured by the eye? Or perhaps its data per second?
Of course you do: You need to allocate a buffer, and you need to commit it to the visible display, exactly the same amount of work to do so under X. If anything, I suggest you look at the sheer amount of code required to put anything on screen with Wayland vs. X - Wayland requires a lot of boilerplate, as the presumption is that everyone would use a widget library.

As far as design goes, Wayland is absolutely awfully verbose for no good reason.
Hah, I wonder how people do it. The past few times I wanted to see my GP the appointments had lead times of 6 weeks or more. And they weren't bulk-billed.

I'd joke that by then the issue would have either gone away or I'd be dead.
My toddler learnt "more" and now uses it to get me to repeatedly sing the same song OVER AND OVER again. They haven't used the word yet, though they do speak other words.

I wish I'd learnt sign language before having kids so I just already knew how to do it, it's so cool. Props to the Ms. Rachel videos for including so many signs.
Social media is in a no-win situation where quelling conspiracy theories gives the conspiracy mongers a seemingly-legitimate grievance ("I'm being censored!") that they can exploit for even more clout.
sagan makes a good point but he errs in so many ways that he can’t be assumed to be speaking philosophically, and so i don’t know how to respond. apart from this bogus strawman he constructs (himself) and proceeds to vigorously burn down successfully (because after all he’s the manufacturer) he seems to be in a hurry to dismiss whatever knowledge cannot be arrived at scientifically (and even worse with tools available during his time). the problem with ‘knowledge’ is well-known and unsolved.
There is no enforcement. Nothing bad happens to the provider if she forgets or thinks the reaction has another cause.