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This is, in fact, how I think we should have handled plastic bags. The plastic bags themselves are fine. But the customer should have to actually request one.

I can't tell you how many times I bought one small item I intended to carry out of the store with me, and the cashier just automatically put it in a plastic bag. "Oh, I don't need a bag," I'd say. The cashier would then proceed to take the item out of the bag, and throw the bag away.

(No animosity intended towards the cashiers, who have difficult jobs. But we should have a better process.)
Chicken Littles Are Ruining America
Haha certainly. I officially deem that text to be in the public domain.
LockPickingLawyer manages.
You're just going back to saying "Rust is better than C!" which is true, but uninteresting. The question at hand was whether this bug would have happened in a memory-safe language. And in fact it could have, because it's implementing an optimization Rust can only emulate using unsafe.

This is what drives me bananas about the rust community. The religion around memory safety persists even in circumstances where it doesn't exist. That's a cult, not an engineering effort.
Recent releases of Java have dragged the language kicking and screaming into the late '70s, and so people are starting to appreciate how much the JVM ecosystem gets right (instrumentation, dependency management, IDEs etc.).

Either that or the institutional memory of Java EE has faded, and Spring Boot is here to traumatise a new generation of developers with the magic of write-only COME FROM code.
> Not sure why you would want to find .text in the program

Not sure either, I just used the example I read in your post. Now I'm curious about why someone would want to do that. Maybe to make the section writable and patch the code at runtime?

> __executable_start and _etext, which surround the program code.

You're right! I did see those symbols when I dumped ld's default linker script. Completely forgot about them.

> This should be doable, but you need to make sure that the program headers are mapped to memory (i.e., completely covered by a PT_LOAD segment).

I'll keep this in mind when I try it again. At the time I got pretty frustrated because it was pretty hard to debug and figure out why it was failing. The mold solution was like a light at the end of the tunnel for me.

> I do wonder why you use program headers, though: depending on your exact use case, it might be easier to link against an object file containing only data (e.g., from objcopy) and use symbols instead.

Objcopy was ths first thing I tried! Even asked a question about it on stack overflow.

https://stackoverflow.com/q/77468641

Long story short, by default the sections aren't covered by a PT_LOAD segment and so they are unreachable. I wanted the program to work even if the symbols were not defined which is why I tried to find it in the table at runtime.
I would suggest either rinsing it in a bathroom somewhere, and/or carrying some sort of pouch or container you can stick it in so you don't dirty your pocket. Then you could clean it at home. In a pinch you could probably pour water from your water bottle on/through it outside if you carry a water bottle already.
Could also wrap it in a handkerchief if you carry anything like that.
If you need rolling hashes for deduplication, there are faster methods: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc16/atc16-p...
In sports with minor leagues, those are fun too. Baseball especially is a lot more interesting to watch with less skilled players.
If they had disabled those commands at source level (e.g. with the preprocessor) then that’s exactly what you’d expect to see. But we don’t know why they disabled them, yes it could be a rug pull, but it could also be because there was a serious known bug when the deadline for the beta came around and it was safer to temporarily disable the commands rather than leave them in. We don’t know the dynamics at play, there could be a bug in some upstream component and whoever is responsible for this tool doesn’t have any choice but to
disable it while they wait for the fix.

It would have been nice if they left a note of explanation but… Apple.
This is why a Korean Air flight crashed at some point. The copilot knew something was wrong but the pilot was a lot more senior than him and in Korean culture it's normal to defer to your elders (according to the checklist manifesto). The cockpit recording showed what happened and it directly contributed to efforts to standardize crew resource management training. Other incidents like a flight out of Morocco where an older male pilot disregarded the concerns of his female copilot and crashed the plane have reinforced the need for CRM, especially for pilots from cultures where people may be ignored for social reasons.
I wonder if it could result in cities making public spaces safer and more accessible for people with vision impairment.

I know AirPods/noise cancelation made me very aware of accessibility features for hearing impaired people. Suddenly I’m looking for the lights on the train door button because I can’t hear the beep.

Most of this danger is entirely human constructed. If you put someone out on a farm or otherwise undeveloped land, they are very unlikely to kill themselves by mis stepping.
> So when you mention that autism may be a "narrow tunnel of attention", this feels very consistent with the definition of ToM. If my attention is extremely narrow, then I will have an impaired ability to understand other people by ascribing mental states to them.

Indeed that may be a cause of impaired theory of mind in many autistic individuals. It would depend on what the narrow tunnel of attention is focused on. A narrow (and deep - I failed to say that earlier) tunnel of attention focused on another mind, say an autistic psychotherapist, or better an autistic psychotherapist focused on autism, may have a greatly heightened theory of mind.

Perhaps tangential, but consider Temple Grandin's exemplary work designing animal handling facilities that work much better largely due to treating the animals
better - often with changes or accommodations to things that nobody realized caused the animals stress and anxiety, often by putting herself in their place.
There's rail service to the stadium on event days, through a rail shuttle from Secaucus to Metlife
https://www.njtransit.com/meadowlands
No. Lifeforms are merely the re-arrangement of molecules which are already present. And it would be a negligible amount of matter compared to the mass of the Earth anyway, even if it was magically-introduced matter.
> it's simply a habit to take a small folded up reusable bag most places when we head out (just incase we end up shopping), or to think ahead and grab some bags when we know we're going out for a shop.

For us ADHD people your simple habit is an insurmountable problem. Even if I have them in the car I'll be halfway done with shopping before I remember the bag. Fortunately they just let me pay for a new reusable bag each time.

I resent it because it feels like token bullshit. Plastic bags were quite thin so there is quite literally 100x+ more plastic in the packaging of the products I'm buying than the bag it goes in. Environmentalists pushed the most inconvenient policy that has the least benefit instead of something that might actually move the needle enough to gain my support.
> There's a lot of fearmongering but the reality is climate change won't kill us for longer than we'll live.

I really don't like this take when I see it.

Do you care about just the next 50 years, or the next hundreds+? Do you have children/grandchildren? Do you care about an increase in the quantity and impact of natural disasters? The resulting increase in death, suffering, insurance premiums? What about more unpleasantly hot days? Less snow on the ski slopes?

All of that stuff is important to me, even though it almost certainly won't kill me personally. It's just such a no-brainer that the environment and climate is something to cherish and protect. Even if you're generally pro-environment, referring to environment-protection measures as fearmongering only makes it harder to enact them and increase their scale.
I don't believe virtual interaction covers the same basic needs that physical interaction does but this is completely my own opinion. I'm sure everyone is different. That said, the nice thing about physical interaction is that you can always find free spaces to join. Makes me wonder if the state should create an online equivalent of a public park.
> With most technology, people don't assume it hasn't changed since the 90s, but for some reason, that's what people do with C++

Disagree, every technology is like this. Talk to people about Maven and they think the 2005-era reasons not to use it are valid. Mention MongoDB and people think it's 2015. The industry is seemingly only ever willing to progress by adopting new things, not by fixing existing things.
In
https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Definition:Graham%27s_Number

it states
"Amusingly, given that Graham's number is an upper bound, the actual solution to the problem in question, according to certain experts, may well be 6. "

I cannot edit the page but I believe they're up to at least 13 now.
I’m not sure if it’s still the case, but Subway used to be big on doing product placements with shows on their last leg. They probably got it for a steal, and they made it really, really obvious. For example, the episode of Community where Subway is a person. Chuck did a lot of obvious Subway stuff at the end too. I remember Zachary Levi (Chuck) posting on Twitter to buy Subway for the finale in hopes that it would boost Subway sales enough to get them to pay to renew it for another season.

I’ve actually been surprised the more subtle product placement isn’t more common. There are always prop bags of chips, boxes of cereal, etc. you’d think it would cost basically nothing to swap it out for a similar soundless bag with a Lays label on it and get some money. Everyone knows what Lets chips are really trying to be. Maybe syndication presents issues. Does the company pay every time the episode runs, in perpetuity, or just once to get the episode made? With a one time payment, getting a spot in a show like The Office would be like winning the advertising lottery. If they have to pay for each viewing, it could turn into a real problem.
The plastic wrap on the cucumbers makes them last longer. You can argue whether it's worth it, but there is a reason.
I mean, I’ve found Apple support has become incredibly disappointing in the last 5 or so years, and Lenovo support has actually improved, though you usually have to mail your device in.

I’m legitimately unsure what changed in Apple to make their support go from “pretty damn good” to “honestly a waste of damn time”.
> Eliminating short-haul flights and restricting international travel.

This line in particular is an extreme totalitarian view, good grief.
A vulgar popular phrase from where I'm from (Italy) is "we are for equity, fairness, so we put it, you the people have than to get is, fifty-fifty". That's the kind of sacrifice ALL ruling classes in the known history have asked and "taken themselves".
I'm in academia and doing research.

It's a racket.
> Why do I still have 5 app packages "mounted" on my desktop after 3 years that I eject every few weeks and come right back?

This sounds like apps are being run directly from disk images. Make sure the apps are copied to /Applications/ or ~/Applications/ or wherever else preferred, make sure they’re all quit, unmount the disk images, trash the disk images, empty trash. They won’t come back.

There’s also a possibility that it’s automated third party updaters getting stuck and not being able to unmount the disk images from automatically downloaded updates but this seems less likely.
I guess it's the influence voters thing. Who else gains from it?
Boeing delays some 737 MAX deliveries after new quality defect
There's something very gross to me about this product. It digital gluttony. It's like buttering your pop tarts. It's like adding extra sugar to your Cola. It's like wearing a diaper so you don't have to get up off the couch. At some point isn't enough enough? How connected do you have to really be? How much more engagement do you need to feel something? How many screens do you need to fill the hole in your heart? I wonder what's going on in the mind of a person who craves this isolating hyper stimulated cocoon strapped to their head.
it's not an agenda, it's 2 things.

you tell someone, "hey don't order so much, it's bad for the environment", and they reply "you can't stop me doing something i want", like all the plastic-straw fans in this post

given a person who will make the same order regardless, recycling is better than not.

we need both things
That’s interesting about the young cork. I saw that it can take a couple harvests to get something good.

I had a bottle of wine a few months ago with a really bad cork. It did seem more like bark. I guess I can assume that came from a younger tree, borderline too young maybe.
Or... when you finally get to the part of the game that requires you to insert disk 7 of 7. And then you discover disk 7 is bad.
> You wouldn't download a car.

I would, but I can't. :-)
Right! Maybe they knew a safe way to do it!
Were the other, dominant car companies actively trying to kill Mercedes by making the roads unusable by Mercedes drivers? No. That's why Linux having a strong and growing market share is important.
Wrong on both counts.

focus was on m2 to get the release out because that is where almost all the users are.

As a result, I was the main one working on m3 before the new year, and got it through to Linux kernel loading (ie m1n1 works) and running macos under the hypervisor. Patches are submitted.

I also happen to be the one doing a lot of the wifi work.

Wifi and Bluetooth work fine on m3 - the chipset is the same as the m2.

It's listed as not working because there is no released Linux support yet.
Downloading anything has side effects and can't be allowed by side effect free language. It is pretty rare that config language allow downloads.

Downloading dependencies isn't usually done by config languages. Config languages generate a config, JSON or YAML, from source. The config file can be used by engine that applies the config including downloading dependencies.
I searched for a few things that were of the class "you should have this and match DDG/Kagi/G/Y/B" and the top 2/3 were matching.

That's pretty good for a new-ish player.
Two puzzling things to me having read most of the comments:
-‘It’s just a minor inconvenience/ why do you care so much?/…’ ~it’s just manipulation and social shaming ritual with questionable outcomes, that we’re going to eventually ramp up for your own good. It’s meant to be annoying so you do what we want and when you get used to it we’re going to make it painful. Why are you annoyed?

And is it so hard to think: maybe there a lot of nudging going on in all directions and someone fed up with ‘one minor thing’ might have had their camels back broken?

One of my aunties goes neurotic over bags, and every other ‘issue’, so much stress brought to her life trying to do the right thing. ‘It’s just a…’ I don’t read all my memos but I think nudging is everywhere, thousands of little ‘it’s just a little’s’. She’s much like a left version of the Fox News watcher trope.

It’d be like trying to follow all the laws, surely impossible, at least a huge strain. Except it’s cultural shaming, largely manufactured, which makes it worse.

Which is all to say: how can it be sincere: we want to annoy you into change, and cannot perceive that you won’t smile and thank us while we’re doing it. You must answer for your insolence.

Second is the plastic industry having skin in the game: it hardly seems surprising, wouldnt we also expect the yes plastic ban studies to be from environmental/other industry? I see less plastic bags, therefore anything not supporting must be industry lies. Like, huh?

A local news story had a ‘speeding’ cyclist run over and kill an old ladies dog on a walk way. So weird, comments were like bike and cars, cept bikes comments were saying car things and ped comments were saying bike things. So many things are just say what ever fits for now. But we’re just meant to go with it.

Straw anecdote: when the ban came into place, walking past a skip (big dumpster?) at work full of unused plastic straw, easily 50 cartons, making way for the new paper ones. The worlds funny.

That’s what I’ve been thinking about, sorry for dumping it under your comment.
I found a more detailed explanation of that proof at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ApWBYBsc9k

It also wasn't immediately clear to me that this _is_ a valid sample space, the explanation in https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/18szn6y/anyone_use_pr... provides a more formal but still readable construction

I especially like the "finite" variant/version of the proof which reframes this as a counting/combinatorial proof instead of a probability-based one.
Ah, nobody reads Kant anymore; and even if they do, they tend to read just the first critique, stick to the analytic and focus on the "important" sections. You have to read the whole thing! And then, if you're so privileged, and you have to time, nothing is more fruitful than going on towards the Groundwork for Metaphysics of Morals, and the Critique of the Power of Judgement. And once you've read that last book, maybe you will begin to understand Derrida. Or even better, you will begin to understand how to critique him.
What type of co-founder agreement is this? I'm at a bit of loss as to what he, as CEO, is really contributing here. But that aside, it's completely unclear what the terms are.

If you have an draft, I'm happy to take a quick look. Lots of experience with these things.
Ask HN: 50-500 people startups with top engineering
What are currently the top startups in the 50-500 people range with excellent engineering culture?
I wonder if there's a way to learn polytopes directly with a non-MLP formulation.
A big issue is that the current milieu rewards pure weight loss over other outcomes. The obvious[1] thing to do is to reduce the dose so that the appetite loss and consequent calorie deficit is in range of what is commonly recommended for weight loss[2] and prescribe resistance training to spare muscle as well as all its other health benefits. That said the bimagrumab results[4] are interesting

[1] we would still want to do studies to confirm this, but all indications are that it would work as expected

[2] 0.5-1% of bodyweight per month, or if you want to get fancy body fat percentage / 20[3]

[3] https://www.strongerbyscience.com/realistic-training-goals/

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7807292/
I feel you should be able to keep the high level idea in your head at once; of course not the details. I don't think I've ever completed a piece of code without having a scheme in my head, and where it should fit in it.
that's not business emissions though, that's a government problem

change in government comes from people. capable government looks at real societal problems and shapes the future of the state to address them. of course public transport is a huge one, especially in the US
At this point it would be cheaper to buy a media pc and a few big drives and simply rip all your media to them, then buy all the movies you want and rip them.

The break even point with the cost of streaming these days is really not that long.

And you don’t have to pirate anything - buy the dvds used on EBay or something. Streaming is no longer cheap for some bs reason.
Should make sure to establish this up front: People know this, it's not controversial. It's not only known to a few. It's how it works.

Also note that this example purposefully minimizes training data down to an absurdity, so it is possible to correlate 1:1 that the next letter's probabilities to the input. The key of the rest of this comment,, and the discussions you reference, is the observation that's vastly harder once the training data is measured in terabytes, to the point the question becomes interesting.

The argument of which you're speaking, the people you think are speaking literally are speaking figuratively: they know it reproduces _some_ training data, i.e. 2+2=4 was surely in the training data. Or c.f. NY Times v. OpenAI, where they were able to get it to complete an article given the first ~5 paragraphs of the article.

The unsettled question, in US legal parlance, is if LLMs are sufficiently transformative of the training data that it becomes fair use.

Eschewing US legal parlance: where, exactly, on the spectrum of "completely original" to "photocopier with perfect recall" LLMs fall, given we know it isn't at either of those extremes? What responsibility does that give someone operating an LLM commercially to the entities who originated the training data?
How much time has to pass before an [admittedly fascinating] walkthrough such as this isn't a legitimate spoiler?
Yes, sure, just make better content and stop increasing fees and taking user-hostile actions.
Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence (2022)
Housing glut leaves China with excess homes for 150M people
In NZ after the single-use plastic bag ban some people argued against only having high quality reusable bags available by saying "but I keep forgetting my reusable bags, and I so I keep having to buy more! Now I have 15 cloth bags at home - this is far more wasteful than when we had single-use plastic bags."

But those complaints came in the first few weeks after the ban, and they dried up soon enough. Everyone learns eventually that they need to take their bags with them - at least I hope nobody is sitting at home now, five years after the ban, with 1000 reusable cloth bags.

P.S. I've found jute bags the best value for money. They seem to really last forever whereas the thin cloth type start wearing out after a while.
This is an incredibly disingenuous comment section, even for HN.
I inherited a 10 year old frigidaire washer and dryer combo, they are still going 10 years later, I haven't even had to replace any of the dials.
You need someone to look at your consulting agreement. This is largely about IP ownership. Happy to take a quick look if that's helpful.
I will go ahead and claim that culturally, we are increasingly aggressive about escaping reality, and in part, we don't realize we're doing it because our minds are darkened and distorted by decades of consumerism and the indulgence of disordered appetites. Instead of doing what rational people do, which is to conform our minds and our desires to the truth, we try to conform "truth" to our minds and desires, twisting "truth" to suit them. We are living the Bacchae, and if and when we manage to wake from our mad frenzy, we will see, like Agave, horror and suffering and death.
> The ‘get‘ word was chosen purposely and it referred to a http GET request.

This never would have occurred to me. What can one do for their brain to make this kind of lateral leap? Seems like it would be helpful in the debugging and comedy parts of my life.
Either your machine or the machine at the library had bad head alignment. :/
why shouldn't there be a cost? it's the best way to shape behaviour.
i've watched movies that felt like this. multiple directors brought in a different stages of the film, so none of it feels coherent.

however, i would love to have been a fly on the wall during the meetings with whatever contractor was used to build this.
Well, yes. But that's also a convenient defense for people who didn't understand it. :o)