skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Instead of passing (char *, int) in C, you just pass (slice) in Go.

Maybe that's a point of disagreement here. I don't exactly see (char *, int) as a single entity, so it cannot be replaced with a slice (a definitely single entity) in my view.

They do appear together in arguments, but they have to be separate variables when you manipulate them and no C syntax will suggest that they are indeed related. So you have to rely on conventions (say, `name`, `name_len` and `name_cap`) which tend to be fragile. You can't expect such annoyance from Go slices, so I argue they are necessarily different from each other.
> He highlighted that crypto transactions linked to criminal activity make up “less than 0.3 per cent of all economic activity”.

> “This is in stark contrast to estimates between 2 per cent and 5 per cent for our beloved euros.”

This is such a dumb argument. You have to use real currencies to get anything real done. Of course they will be used more for crime. If cryptocurrencies became the standard that number would rise drastically. 0.3% is a staggering high number considering how niche cryptocurrencies still are.

I’m also sceptical how accurate that number is. A lot of cryptocurrency transactions are in the gray zone. Like being related to ponzi-like schemes that would be illegal if it wasn’t based on cryptocurrencies.
Just chiming in to second your opinion.

Years ago, I wouldn't even dare to dream it would be possible. It's nowhere near, what people are used to watch normally, but the fact it's even trying to compete is insane.
Climate change is unavoidable. But people in power will be the least affected, so why should they really care?
Right, which is why air crash/incident investigations look at all causes. It would be absolutely the wrong conclusion from this to say "the problem is solely Boeing".

The problem can be Boeing, Alaska Airlines and the regulatory system under which they operate since an intervention at any level here would've prevented the incident: Boeing should be doing their job properly, but Alaska Airlines could've done more then the minimum with a plane displaying persistent pressurization problems, and the regulations shouldn't have allowed them to get an exemption to fly with a persistent issue like this on their records since the mitigation wasn't remotely safe.
The "safety brochure" at 0:54 is titled "Boeing 737 MAX 9".
You should buy bitcoin for the long term. The people who understand bitcoin don't care about price movements over 3 weeks.

They care about price movements over 3 decades.
This could lead a way to fix Tinnitus, there's many causes of Tinnitus but it's almost always thought to be trauma to the Cochlea organ / structure.

There's many cells involved in sensing and relaying signals to the brain, and are damaged by a growing list of things (Antibiotics, viral, Osteoporosis, lack of blood flow, Acoustic trauma, protein loss - long lived proteins in the Cochlea). Even our own immune system has the ability to damage the Cochlea.

There is actually limited recovery of the OHC's at least but lack of regeneration potential. If there's a path to regenerate, it could one day fix the underlying cause and with this news it seems we're closer than we ever have been.
> Now if you wanted to couple a VLIW design with a dynamically re-executing compiler (dynamic binary translation), then sure, that can be made to work.

RIP Transmeta
I used to use 8”x10” sheet film, and I know people who shot 20”x24” Polaroid… I really long for the day chips catch up to where large format film was more than a century ago.
This is pretty normal is it not? In the automotive world when you have quality or run rate problems the big 3 company will have someone on the line watching.
> How do we know that other H sapiens have the same kind of experiences of existing as you have? Best I can do is that "I know, right?" is a fairly universal reaction, so we know that even if others' qualia are not identical to ours, they are at least isomorphic.

Seeing my own phrasing echoed back, I notice an ambiguity: "the same kind" can be either "all the same things" or "it is kinda close".

The former is provably different between humans: aphantasia, gender dysphoria, sexuality (including the absence), ASD, the conservative/liberal divide, that some people describe having religious experiences and others don't, amusia, … there's so many ways to be different, I'd be surprised if any of us is entirely "normal".

I meant the latter. And the only positive evidence I have for that, is that other people were writing about it before I was born… which doesn't actually tell you that I have it, as for all you know I might be a P-zombie that's just parroting phrases it once read, I'm the only one who can be sure that there's an "I" in this body of mine.
How do you evaluate whether someone wants to do a project?
If a boss asks, "Do you want to do this project", seems like another way to ask "Do you want to remain employed?"
WiFi circuit breaker: a terrible idea [video]
Nitpicking here. Older 1Password versions do allow unlocking using the iOS passcode if biometry fails, but I’m not sure it was ever intended as a feature. It isn’t a UI that is built into 1Password though, it’s the iOS fallback UI for that scenario (which looks very similar to the SIM PIN unlock screen).

A _lot_ of apps did and still do fall back to iOS passcode authentication when biometry fails. It does seem like more developers are disabling this, however.
There are gains but not that astronomical when switching diets to vegan/vegetarian (based on googling carbon footprint with diet comparisons), looking at stats the major emission problems are due to beef consumption, likely the numbers would be way better with poultry consumption instead of beef in these calculations.

Also simply with the world population increasing if everyone would switch to vegan diet we'd still reach these emission numbers just a little bit later.

I wonder if methane/carbon capture projects will eventually "monkeypatch" this issue or not.
Simple, because I use foss.

I'm always amused when people bash on free software, then you ask if they wrote all their own software, libraries, compilers, etc.. and hear silence.
Are oil and gas 'bad'? Are other corporations 'good'?

If you see things in these terms, I think you are trying to address you political or environmental concerns, directly with corporations. This really end up feeding the government though - you simply get more government. Is that 'good'?
I still regret I couldn't get a Barry White text-to-speech for the voiceover.
„Cultural change is not an engineering problem“ - cannot count how often i heared this.
But if you want to have an „engineering culture“ - let an engineer handle it!
But why would anyone whish to hange to said „engineering culture“ if no engineer is around?
Or for high value targets, just outright hold you hostage for an hour.
A Rust crate is a single translation unit. It's the precise equivalent of a C source or object file.
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In this phase of it's life, bitcoin is proving itself as a store of value. It can't start to compete as a common medium of exchange until its value has stabilised enough to be a good unit of account. This will likely take decades and a bitcoin value over $10M/BTC
Can't see why not.

Charging a single person in boeing is not the same as bringing down the whole company
I feel so bad for all the people who have the same surnames as their unmarried mothers and don't think this through. I don't know how big that chunk of humanity is, but I feel for them.
Sam Altman's self-serving vision of the future
Most debugging informations are "useless" until they are desparately needed, and this "wasted space" was no exception. So as always, it's another trade-off: will you "waste" some bytes to ease yourself in the future? Cargo already has decided that uninformed people don't want them for the release mode, but it was found that this decision was not uniformly enforced and some debuginfo was still left there. So a new option was added and the default was changed. Happy ending!
'Secretive' Russian EW System Could Be Behind NATO GPS Jamming
This one ?

https://www.france.tv/france-2/cash-investigation/saison-4/1...

More than a couple of years though (2016).
The DoD has lost trillions of dollars of equipment.

They will rattle sabers until their grandson gets a no show job.
If one disliked comment every 50 days is enough to justify a permanent ban for you, then go for it - I don't really care.
I'm excited about these text 2 video models, what I'm not excited about is that it's Google publishing this. That means, no code, nothing deployed to try and most likely we will never ever hear about this ever again, or maybe it quietly hits Vertex AI in 2 years (like Imagen) and no-one will care.

Also, ever since the Gemini marketing video shenanigans, I don't really feel like trusting whatever Google's research says they have, if I can't test it myself.
To me it says their lawyers don’t trust Boeing enough. My cynical side says companies never give a shit what their customers think in an industry like aviation where they have so few or no other real options.
Well they still decided to fly that plane with the auto pressurization fail light going on several days in a row.
Respectability politics and semantic arguments aside

"Consider what this has resulted in in practice ..."

Who cares? Has this actually impacted your life in any way or are you just making a slippery slope argument?

"Western values ..." you're just talking to hear yourself talk man. Despite me, indirectly, asking 3 times now I've yet to be provided any kind of evidence connecting "Western Values" to the good things you want to give "Western Values" credit for.

So we can't even get to the next step of testing your theory because you won't explain any further. My next step would be to ask you how you grapple with the fact that "Western Values" also brought slavery to the Americas. But I see no point in asking insightful questions because you haven't even articulated whatever connection you think exists between the two concepts.

"There is no excuse for this, and it needs to stop."

Why? Why is it so wrong to inspect our philosophical frameworks or subjective values? Why does that behavior need to stop?
Not that it undermines your point much, but $60M (1990 resp. 1985) = $140M resp. $170M today. (I’m not good enough at this to correct for the interest rate differences as well.)
People busting on the past and current CEOs, and for sure they deserve it.. however in my experience, many of these decisions happen at the board level. The Boeing board of directors need to be replaced, and held accountable for allowing quality measure to drop (for whatever the cause: outsourcing or pure cost cutting/staff skills).
But instead, as is so common in corporate politics, we pick a figure head like the CEO to be sacrificed, while the root problems don't get solved.
> To remove at most 2% of greenhouse gas emissions?

The problem with this argument is that everything is a small percentage contribution if you break it down enough.

At the moment some UK politicians are saying the UK shouldn't be concerned about reducing emissions because the UK only contributes about 1% to global emissions (we also have ~1% of the world's population which I think rather negates this argument).

2% is a lot. If we want to tackle this problem in a reasonable timescale we need to go for the low hanging fruit, the high hanging fruit, and all the fruit in between.
ChatGPT with Voice made me forget I was talking to an AI (2023)
I agree in spirit with your stance, and it is a good solution to the shoulder surfing problem.

But generally I don’t think it’s plausible for a mass market device to counter every kind of threat, or every iteration of a more specific kind of threat.

In a workplace or home theft scenario, there are _presumably_ better ways of identifying a thief than at, say, a random bar.

My beef with this feature is that my Significant Locations haven’t been accurate for over a month, so my home location isn’t “trusted”.
I really hope it works out like this.

But right now, the technological challenges (electrolysis cells are expensive at GW scale, transporting and storing hydrogen is dangerous and expensive) are substantial.

I just don't see a scale where a hydrogen electrolysis facility that only runs on days with excess electricity production is more economically feasible than running a thermal hydrogen reformer of a natural gas pipeline and using the natural gas itself for the applications where you end up just burning it anyway.

Gigantic taxes on CO2 emission could fix this, but ever then hydrogen would need a couple of breakthroughs to make it more economical than carbon capture and storage.
For one, the door plugs are installed not by Boeing but by Spirit Aerosystems. Alaska’s maintenance will be focused on that specific vendor’s performance.

Secondly, other bolts will be checked far more frequently as part of standard maintenance. Door plug fitments typically are only checked during heavy checks (which occur every few years depending on type and interval) unless there’s a specific incident that demands an immediate assessment.
True, but it sounds (nearly?) "useless" based on the description provided by the author:

> For example, one thing that was noted is that if we strip the debug symbols by default, then backtraces of release builds will... not contain any debug info, such as line numbers. That is indeed true, but my claim is that these have not been useful anyway. If you have a binary that only has debug symbols for the standard library, but not for your own code, then even though the backtrace will contain some line numbers from stdlib, it will not really give you any useful context [...]
i will not be putting a password into this webpage. ever
Thank you, interesting read.

Looks like scores for both groups are still improving at 25 vs 20 years so gap isn’t closing. I was expecting people to max out what the hardware is capable of or reach normal levels, but that doesn’t seem to be what’s happening.
This is not a fundamental issue, it's just a kind of boring papercut that Rust has many examples of. If you need to do a whole lot of "foundational" yak shaving to ultimately accomplish something else that's clearly worthwhile, the Rust folks are quite comfortable with that: it's what the WG's and initiatives are for.
They wouldn't have asked that if it was on a blockchain.
Panics have to be catchable because it's undefined behavior for Rust to unwind through C code, so a Rust library that exposes a C API has to stop panics at the FFI boundary and propagate errors in a C-compatible way. It's not "catching" in the Java sense; nobody is using catch_panic to implement resumable error-handling.
Extremely happy as well. I did put 64gb on it and use it all day for GIS and design on Ubuntu, plugged to a Dell dock and two 4k monitors for a triple head set up
Norwegian Higher Education Minister resigns after being accused of plagiarism
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/canneseries-202...
Quantum computing is taking on its biggest challenge
23andMe is reportedly turning the blame back on its customers
I think weak leadership is the default, with a micromanager trying to own everything as an over-correction coming in as the runner up.

I've worked across 18 companies, and about 2-3 times I've been given a person to onboard me, once we had a decent central wiki, and the rest of the times I've basically been left figure it out.

I don't even think these things are overly hard to figure out, but very few people in tech straddle the lines between tech and org, and when they do, they're usually kept at bay by the non-technical tech roles ( deliver manager, etc ).
> "zero-cost abstractions"

Zero cost in terms of CPU and RAM usage during execution time.
A comment just agreeing adDs nothing. A reasoned rebuttal changes the whole conversation, often advancing it.
Who is Beff Jezos?
Some planes fly 3-4 times each day. Each time, they carry ~150-200 people. They are incredibly mechanically, electronically and software -wise complex machines, and fly under huge range of conditions (number of conditions and range of values for each), withstanding elements, forces of physics, material exertion / fatigue etc etc.

So if there's an airplane manufacturer, delivering hundreds of planes to airlines, where processes allow for something like this to happen to a plane, and it's confirmed that it wasn't a single exception, it really brings to question how many out of tens of thousands of parts/aspects of those planes do not meet the expected parameters/standards and how many disasters are waiting to happen.
That they don't seems to have as much to do with Android not supporting it as anything. Being able to send messages locally without going through any surveillance checks would be a godsend for protest movements, which may well have something to do with why Google hasn't included it as an option.

It's useful for mesh networking too. We get used to Internet being available everywhere here in places with solid infrastructure but I imagine being able to use ad-hoc would be helpful in a place like, say Gaza. There are tools that help these situations, such as Briar or SSB, but something at layer 2 would allow for a lot more functionality.
Yes, it's far from perfect. We currently work on augmenting the prompt with e.g. relevant key-value pairs extracted from https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_features
Friend, as a software engineer who’s become a CEO I can’t disagree with you more.

The traditional culture of CEOs in the western world isn’t healthy: it’s top down focus and focus on pushing down responsibility and departmental compartmentalization tends to create a lot of the problems the very same management theory fancies itself to solve.

Having an actual “buck stops with me” CEO who has experience in the trenches and not managing other people to get the results that would reassure the market and has been shown to work very well in company after company.

First principles and the culture of questioning need to be nurtured by competent leaders, and not MBA lead presentations and check in meetings for progress. Sleeping in the factory until this situation is fixed is what needs to happen and it is not this board and management team.

Also, this is a board issue first, a CEO issue second.

Of course: I’m biased.
I agree and have asked for this change a few times.
Scheduling algorithm is different.

CPUs target low latency (they switch often).
GPUs target high troughput (they switch rarely, only when needed).

High troughput algorithms dont have problem with a lot of threads.
Low latency algorithms have problem with a lot of threads (they need lot of cache memory because of constant switching).
Why would it need to be an "engineering culture" as opposed to, for example, a "quality culture"? And even if you want to former, why does it need an engineer to create that culture? Does a good movie director also need to be a good writer or actor?
> people who've learned their second language as an adult and can speak nearly accent free

Perhaps it's just a capacity that some people have, similar to perfect pitch hearing. Possible, but rare.
I'm no fan of YAML but for an example of templating YAML that is tolerable, take a look at esphome[1] (and I suppose also home assistant).

In your main yaml file you have something like this:

packages:
left_garage_door: !include
file: garage-door.yaml
vars:
door_name: Left
door_location: left
open_switch_gpio: 25
close_switch_gpio: 26

Then in garage-door.yaml you can reference the vars directly with ${door_name} syntax.

It's the best version of templating YAML that I have experienced.

1. https://esphome.io/guides/configuration-types#packages-as-te...
Indeed. Sounds like another 'replication crisis' paper in action.
Not sure, my contract ended a year later.
The amount of computing resources it's going to take to retrain the model is enormous. So the most of us will have to wait for a big company to publish or leak their weights until we get to use anything written in the paper.
That is not really related to my point unless you want to say that engineer CEOs are intrinsically better/not susceptible to bad culture etc.

I have worked with great, bad, and middling CEOs and I would not say that it comes down to their degree background where they place in the spectrum of quality. Not having experience in managing other people but only some sort of trench experience will likely fail at a place of the size and complexity.

A lot what you describe is more like poor management.

And, yes, there is a big role for the board to play.
On these 'ole MAX planes they're used to just having to give it a Fonzarelli adjustment here and there. Ayyy!
I don’t know why you’re being downvoted; especially during 2016 the liberal media used terms like “angry white men” and “uneducated whites” as both an insult and a dog whistle.
Weirdly, most of the time I find that -O3 produces smaller binaries than -Oz.
GraphQL shines when your data model is already a graph, when you have polymorphism and expose nodes/edges and follow the "Relay" pattern.

But it shines only for the frontend. It is a nightmare on the backend to implement efficiently.

Then, you have Hasura, which will compile the GraphQL request into an SQL request. Hasura provides a REST-like schema with GraphQL syntax. At that point, just stick with REST.
I seriously doubt Oculus VR would have spent 500M as an independent company on the R1. Especially when looking at the other head set manufacturers.

Mega wasted 50B on VR as a category but that includes money subsidizing headsets, making VR movies, buying an VR company that had less than 100M invested for 2B etc. It’s a story of management incompetence not some requirement for headsets R&D.
Establishing a culture where that assumption is not the case and engineers can say “no I’m not very interested in that”. Also a boss that can actually read people (correctly).
Yes. Also, even within rare disease this application has desirable features. Obvious bio marker (hearing), relatively isolated organ system with obvious delivery method (inject into cochlea). main downside is that there is an existing alternative (implant) so risk/benefit question is less obvious compared to eg neurodegenerative diseases.
"Daily occurrence" is fairly obvious if you consider script-kiddies and small time criminal activities. As for electoral security, plenty of post-2013 events already to check the validity (and exaggerations) of this. What should concern is how much of this will be state sponsored.
Maybe not exactly what you are looking for but BestTime provides relative foot traffic data (also for Montreal's subway station:

Here a free demo page of some subway stations in Montreal:

https://besttime.app/demo/radar?q=metro+stations+in++Montrea...
It would have been even easier to, for instance, never allow the extraction of bituminous sands and tight oil : cannot burn something that was never extracted !

But as Tony Blair's aide explained so clearly, politicians have nothing to gain in trying to prevent these issues, and everything to lose, because the average voter doesn't give a shit about even the near future.
Nintendo sues literal nobodies into oblivion for making uninfringing homebrew games. Pretty sure they will bite here.
Apple Plans New Fees and Restrictions for Downloads Outside App Store