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> what the manufacturers said
You expect me to believe that? Really now. And the BOM is not the only cost, but +$50 on the BOM is probably +$100 retail.

What will the manufactures try to extract is the better question? Answer: As much as they can.

The only other saw with similar technology (Bosch) to hit the US market cost 50% more than the similar SawStop product. They had to pull it due to patent issues (despite attempting a different approach), so we don't have good market data on how well it sold.

This just reeks of regulation forcing everything to be more expensive. I'd rather just see the patent go away and see what the market really does. I really can't image this technology being added to low end saws for less than $150 retail and then you have the per activation costs. It really kills the low end market, when a minimal saw is $500.
Was it a good system, then, even if people didn't realize it?
For a review from 2009 that I think does a good job of summarizing the views of economists (though it's not my research area): https://www.nber.org/papers/w15098

"Such models provide little support for the Donohue and Levitt hypothesis in either the US or the United Kingdom."

Related: Levitt did a podcast recently that got a lot of attention, where he looks back on his career and discusses his retirement at age 58, and discusses this topic: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steven-d-levitt-freako...
That's a fair point. Just to make sure I understand, when you say fuzz - do you mean round up or down so it's a nice whole number?
No, legally what is being suggested above is nonsensical.

If you own the copyright to a work, you can freely use that work, and you can license it to others. As the copyright holder, you get to decide what terms go in that license, but you do not need to abide by those terms-of-use yourself since you are the licensor, not the licensee.

Suggesting otherwise would be a bizarro-world where musicians need to pay to listen to their own music, authors need to pay to read their own books, and so forth. That's completely absurd, nothing works this way.

There are certainly valid reasons to be upset at a software company for changing the license for new versions of its software, but this is not one of them!
I've had times where I've written those sorts of thoughts on a small sheet of notepad paper, which I would then tear out and burn in the kitchen sink.
More frequently, I'll just write what I'm thinking into an empty, personal use chat window in lieu of venting to others. In either case, I think they definitely have some effect.
He answers your question in the same paragraph that he states they're irresponsible:

> Lead seems to be the reason, not abortion rates. Levitt and Donohue don't engage seriously with the Lead hypothesis as there are many compelling studies supporting Lead. They only engage with the weakest research.

The accusation is that they are ignoring research that might disprove their point, while at the same time are using weak research that they can easily refute to try to downplay the stronger arguments they refuse to engage with. Now I personally haven't read the paper, so I do not know if this is true, but it does answer the question you asked as to what OP thinks is irresponsible.
WhiteWind is a blog service that anyone with a Bluesky account can use for free
Yes, triggers and stored procedures are supported. Concurrency is the only real limitation in terms of functionality.

The bundled in-memory database implementation is mostly for use in testing, for people who run against mysql in prod and want a fast compatible go library to test against.

For a production-ready database that uses this engine, see Dolt:

https://github.com/dolthub/dolt
iCloud seems peerless from a privacy standpoint.

I haven’t seen this mentioned much on HN (perhaps because it’s relatively new, an opt-in feature, and not open-source), but iCloud offers E2EE for most of its services. Of course, one has to implicitly trust Apple’s implementation as I don’t believe this is auditable by independent sources. Would love somebody more knowledgeable than me in this topic chiming in!
We have required safety gear to participate in most sports leagues too…
Announcing Vertex AI Agent Builder
Oh I'm not using any iCloud switching either, just straight up Bluetooth connection requests from previously paired devices.

It just turns out that two clicks/taps when I want my headphones from the device I'm currently using is a mindboggingly more simple, consistent, and reliable solution than whatever a headphone's vendor firmware tries to intuit about what I actually want to do from the fact that it's receiving audio.
the scheduler is probably simpler if coroutines can't bounce between cores. you can have a single thread per core that runs the scheduler to multiplex a bunch of coroutines on the single thread, which lines up with the example linked in the repo to a redis clone. redis runs a single thread (i think technically it has some multithreading stuff now but that was the model for a while) but can concurrently process a bunch of requests like when 1 or more requests are blocked on blpop, a pubsub thing, xread with block arg given, etc. nginx does something similar with forking a process per core that runs single threaded (ignore the threading for stuff that reads from disk).
You can make an argument against seatbelts on that basis, but it's not the one I'm making here.

I think seatbelts should be mandatory, but don't think it's sensible to mandate complex and expensive technical solutions for table saws, when safe work practices can also mitigate them entirely.
One of the OpenAI PM's was also saying the model got substantially better at math: https://x.com/owencm/status/1777770827985150022

I'm trying it for coding and have added it to my VS Code Copilot extension Overall I'd say it's better at coding than the previous GPT-4 Turbo. https://double.bot if anyone wants to try it :)
As someone who considers Libgen about twice as valuable as the entire rest of the Internet combined: I don’t think this is relevant. I’d expect this leads to fewer published books overall, and worse promotion of another set of books that do still at least get published in some form, so, fewer on Libgen, either because the books never exist or because they don’t get noticed.
Useful info. Might want to make the ordered quantity and contract length ranges though, re: fuzzing anything that might identify the client
A German Microsoft software engineer's saved the internet
For livestock, yes. For pets, not so much. People spend stupid amounts of money on their pets and expect results.
Grounding generative AI in enterprise truth
There are way too many other features missing as well to do anything serious to be fair.
All the things you would like proper IDE to do to increase your productivity.

Let's see in couple years.

The biggest problem is to get those initial features decent so that you can extract the value from crowdsourcing the missing things like VSCode does.
Absolutely, feel free to explore and familiarize yourself with it. When you're ready to deploy your documentation, you can sign up and create an account.
Only if the specific workload needs FP64 (4.5 Tflop/s), the 9 Tflop/s for FP32 can be had for cheap with Turing or Ampere consumer cards.

Still, your point stands. It's crazy how that 2016 GPU has two thirds the FP32 power of this new 2024 unobtanium card and infinitely more FP64.
We haven't been able to use Claude 3 Opus vision yet because we're in Canada, but GPT-4-V works extremely well (when combined with Segment Anything). See: https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/610 (work in progress).

Unfortunately we can't compare it to ScreenAI directly since as far as I can tell it is not generally available. However ScreenAI does not appear to use a separate segmentation step, which we needed to implement in order to get good results.
In a world where "safe if you use it right," and "centrifugal killing machine" are equally non-compliant, aliexpress is going to sell the killing machines because they're cheaper and the expertise required to tell the difference is rare.
I'm pretty sure LLM vision capabilities are right now limited to something similar to subitizing in humans at best, ie. being able to perceive the number of items less than ~7 without counting. Expecting it to be able to actually count objects is a bit too much.
Mm, yea - that's a buyer attribute we can add to clarify.

And definitely! We do have contract length, though that's locked away as a Pro feature
So we're somewhat lucky from an engineering standpoint. Because the blade is circular the only interval of time that really matters is from detection to first movement away. Because it triggers on touch the difference between getting sawed and not is millimeters. The time from first movement to full retraction only needs to be fast on human scale time in case the person's hand is still moving into the blade. Name brand SawStop is actually fairly slow on the retraction because it uses the blade's momentum to drive it and that's plenty of speed.

However, the blade-preserving system puts the explosive between the table and the pivot that's already there for retracting the blade. The full explosion force is there to force the blade down and it ends up being faster than the SawStop. Which while cool the SawStop was already fast enough so it's all the same.

So I don't know, I guess to me I'm surprised that the solution we jumped to first was a brake when the action of moving it out of the way takes far far less energy. It's only the energy to move the weight of the blade and bar down at the requisite speed, instead of needing to absorb the full energy of the spinning blade.
In my experience (10 years in academia), people who understand statistics enough do look at effect size rather than significance levels. But unfortunately, even in one of the top european universities, a lot of researchers (who are ~70% PhD candidates with only basic stats training) tend to misinterpret significance as meaning "large effect".

There is another cause, more pernicious, which is that in the absence of a big effect, "a significant effect of X on Y was found" sells better than "no large effect was found", because there is a bias towards reporting positive effects in the litterature. In my field, it is actually usual for people to take big surveys, iterate dozens of statistical models with any kind of interactions, and only report one where some interesting parameters end up being significant, and derive policy recommendations based on this. Which is a recipe for non reproducible results.
One the bright side, baseline web API's are good enough that most websites and most web developers can ignore new API's entirely. That wasn't true in the old days. You had to be aware of browser differences due to crippling bugs.

It seems like that also means competing browsers should work on most websites? How bad is it, really? Some cutting-edge demos and games don't work?

I'm under the impression that a lot of idiosyncratic website bugs are due to browser extensions that somehow mess with web pages.
Our local hackspace occasionally gets donations from Amazon, often very random things. One time we got a box full of these cow magnets. They're pretty strong, have mostly been used as fridge magnets though
But at least you are in control of the computer where the decryption and re-encryption is happening.

They usually call it E2B (end to bridge)
Obviously not qualified to answer this but I think the drop in literacy is happened quite a while after youtube or even online video being a thing. I am a strong reader and get highly annoyed spending 5 minutes watching a video on a topic where I could get my answer in 10 seconds or less reading about it - I think most strong readers would feel the same. I see absolutely no benefit to getting information from a video (plus it’s hard to refer back to) unless you are not great at reading.
I wonder if the toolchain generated unwind tables. It's not unusual to disable them in embedded contexts. Without them, the DWARF-based libgcc unwinder won't worm, obviously.
I would show an interval that's within 5% or whatever, but use the same intervals for all accounts otherwise people will be able to deduce the original number by calculating the midpoint :)
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More discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39977671
Visualizing Attention, a Transformer's Heart
> The old Dashboard was feature just so fast and easy!

And, amazingly, was HTML/CSS/JS based (for widget development).
Sure, if you use the audio adapter accessory mode, you can just get CC1/CC2 resistors. But then you just push a ton of complexity (even more-so than the standard codec for headsets) into the device. You need additional analog muxes above and beyond the codec, which aren't free. Nobody implements this anymore, cause it's much easier to just shove the codec into the dongle itself. Also, it's deprecated as of the latest USB-C specifications (precisely because nobody uses it now).
"The manufacturers can already be sued if they make a product which is dangerous even when used appropriately."

In most states they will get comparative negligence, if they get sued at all.

The traditional way of doing what i suggest is paying into a fund that people make claims against without having to sue.

As for the rest, yes, you can game it, but that's easy to fix as well - you can require they have sufficient assets/surety to cover if you sell in the US. This is done all the time.

It is quite easy to ensure a level playing field, and we know, because this is not the first situation something like this has occurred in.

Also note they already can't sell saws this dangerous in europe. Between losing the european market and the US market, there isn't a lot of market left.
TIL dynamic libraries are only partially loaded at launch in iOS
In a lot of countries there is no bill, it's all paid for by taxes.

Which is why seatbelt mandates make sense, they reduce the cost for everyone.
I agree. I can only hope that this doesn't catch on. There's already too much information locked up in video form as it is.
If your metric is memory bandwidth or memory size, then this announcement gives you some concrete information. But - suppose my metric for performance is matrix-multiply-add (or just matrix-multiply) bandwidth. What MMA primitives does Gaudi offer (i.e. type combinations and matrix dimension combinations), and how many of such ops per second, in practice? The linked page says "64,000 in parallel", but that does not actually tell me much.
You need a analysis to tell you that products with user replaceable batteries are more sustainable than those with glued in batteries?
I not infrequently find myself prefixing my own code review comments with some variant of "I'm mostly asking this to make myself sound smart, but..." and then usually (not always) I delete the comment. But it's not a high proportion of my total review output, assuming I'm impartial enough to tell the difference.

My point is, it definitely happens, but if it applies to _most_ PR comments I think the code review practices of your project may need improving. My experience has been that most code review comments are either seeking to impart or gain knowledge that the commenter genuinely finds useful.
Swipe left from the right edge with two fingers. Command+Expose button.
In theory, but there are still a lot of sharp edges. e.g. I wanted to use sqlite in-browser with an ORM, but few ORMs support such a setup.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39977671
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39977671
This government's track record of passing radical reforms has been pretty poor (the Farm bills, labour reforms, GST implementation) so I am not holding my breath. It is not the supermajority that was hindering the Farm bills either - their main issue has been the lack of advance outreach to the relevant sections of society. There is no way you are going to simply pass laws like that in India without first priming the farmers / labour unions etc. first, even at acute tax payer expense. If they learnt from their mistakes then we can hope for something but their modus operandi has been to completely ignore any opposition to their policies so I will not hold my breath.
Not a proxy in the traditional sense, no. go-mysql-server is a set of libraries that implement a SQL query engine and server in the abstract. When provided with a compatible database implementation using the provided interfaces, it becomes a MySQL compatible database server. Dolt [1] is the most complete implementation, but the in-memory database implementation the package ships with is suitable for testing.

We didn't extract go-mysql-server from Dolt. We found it sitting around as abandonware, adopted it, and used it to build Dolt's SQL engine on top of the existing storage engine and command line [2]. We decided to keep it a separate package, and implementation agnostic, in the hopes of getting contributions from other people building their own database implementations on top of it.

[1] https://github.com/dolthub/dolt
[2] https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-05-04-adopting-go-mysql-se...
FCC Mulls Rules to Protect Abuse Survivors from Stalking Through Cars
Is it worth still paying the $20?
A few decades back I fabricated and wired industrial controls. While wiring, we used cow magnets to attach the blueprints to the open cabinet doors so that they were always within sight was we strung wires between PLCs, terminal blocks, relays, buttons, etc.

Even when there were several pages of blueprint stapled together a few cow magnets tended to hold them in place. You just had to be sure to orient them such that they didn’t roll down the door.
The hobbyist table saw owners I know (myself included) tend to be more careful around a saw. We have the luxury of time to setup and think about our cuts (and less complacency) than the folks shoving wood through a saw to meet a deadline or because the boss is telling them they need to make X amount of cabinets per day.
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39960251
The magnets designed for glass whiteboards are arguably too powerful for working as a refrigerator magnet. I was able to pin a 100 page paperback book to the fridge with one of these[1]. For fridges I recommend these[2], which are $8-15 for a ten-pack and plenty strong (plus the shape makes them easy to grab).

1: https://amazingmagnets.com/product-category/large-pawn-magne...

2: https://amazingmagnets.com/product-category/WB-Series-Whiteb...
Early in the piece it makes the fairly standard pro-nuclear claim that nuclear is "... historically been among the safest forms of power generation" [1]. It bases this claim on three criteria: (1) air pollution (2) accidents and (3) greenhouse gas emissions.

Greenhouse gas emissions is an obvious win. But let's look at the other 2. Both are quantified in terms of deaths, which is the most favorable metric to nuclear because it says nothing about clean up costs and ecological or environmental damage.

Case in point: almost 40 years later, the Chernobyl Absolute Exclusion Zone is still quite literally 1000 square miles.

A worse example (for the nuclear industry) is the Fukushima clean up costs. The core is still incredibly dangerous and will continue to be probably for centuries. It needs to be actively cooled. This feels a bunch of tanks with radioactive water that is expensive to treat and controversial to release back into the ocean once its deemed "safe". We have no way of removing the core so this will continue for decades to come, possibly over a century.

Fukushima will cost billions in maintenance for decades to come, so far has cost >$70 billionn and will likely approach $1 trillion byh the time it's all over [2].

Now, consider US nuclear power regulation. The Price-Anderson Act limits liability for nuclear power incidents to $500 million per site with a separate total ($10 billion?) per year [3]. The industry has a self-insurance fund to pay for disasters like these but the size of that Fukushima clean up cost to date would have exceeded that multiple times already.

So who picks up the check? The government. Nuclear power simply transfers wealth to private industry while private industry assumes almost none of the risk. We would need to trust such companies to maintain and operate plants safely when we all know that economic incentives will be to cutback on safety, inspections and maintenance to maintain and increase profits.

That's why nuclear power is a terrible idea.

[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

[2]: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/04/16/fukushimas-final-costs-...

[3]: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10821#:~:te....
Siri to be the bearer of bad new but that's just a Google search away, if you don't want to write it yourself/can't.
Vitess (a fork of it anyway) provides the parser and the server. The query engine is all custom go code.
Is SawStop the only current manufacturer of a brake product?
Small thing / pet peeve: the website sets language based on my location rather than on what my browser is telling it is my language of choice in every single HTTP request.
I wish my son had tried this.
Yes, for Crash Bandicoot we had to entirely skip the C SDK for everything performance-critical; pushing arguments onto the stack and the SDK popping them off for each function call used more cycles than the underlying operation in many of these SDK calls.

Sony explicitly forbade this, presumably because they envisioned the API established by the C SDK as a way to ensure future backward-compatibility. We just ignored the rules and hoped the superior performance we could achieve would overcome any bureaucratic obstacles.

We also had to reverse engineer some of the PS1’s really nice capabilities. I only learned the hardware supported vector pipelining for strip rendering by noticing the coordinate values move from one register set to the next in the debugger.

Seeing that was a revelation: when rendering a polygonal mesh, you naively have to project three coordinates for each triangle. But if you convert your mesh into sequences of polygonal strips where each triangle shares an edge with the next triangle in the mesh, you only need to project a single additional vertex for each additional polygon in the strip. Observing the behavior in the debugger, it was obvious to me that the Sony hardware had in fact been optimized for this approach. But not only were we not given any documentation on this, we were instead told to use the C SDK, which didn’t expose this capability at all.

The PS1 also had 2KB of “scratchpad” that was slower than registers but much faster than RAM. Hearsay was this was a way for the CPU designers to make use of the physical space on the die meant for floating point instructions which the MIPS CPU in the PS1 didn’t have.

I used the scratchpad to store projected 2D “stamps” of the 3D world (stored in an octree) and Crash: a kind of low-res Crash Flatland. I could then check for X/Y collisions between Crash and the world very rapidly by inspecting the flatland bitmap stored in the 2K scratchpad. This was Mark Cerny’s idea; he was our producer on the Crash games and has also been responsible for PS2 through PS5 hardware.
The expanse doesn't really paint a very nice picture of the future of human society though :)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39968761
"Rabbit" (dado) blades aren't illegal in the EU.