skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't just think about the deaths.

Think about all the injuries too. All the environmental damage. All the people that don't hang on the street because of the fumes and noise and danger. All the road rage and cortisol that boils within otherwise sane people the moment you put them behind a wheel and into some traffic. All the sedentarism and obesity from people opting to drive 2 minutes rather than walk 10. All the forgone housing for parking stadiums.

I am all for convenience, but the costs are noticeable in more ways than one.
Money is a limited resource and I don't think NGI has proven to be a good investment. They made the same sort of embarrassing mistakes your average VC fund would make like BS blockchain ideas. A lot of uninspiring "research" where some of the deliverables is some open source software that no one ever uses and for which development stops after funding runs out. There seems to be something rotten about the open source "community" funded by the EU. I never going to forget the scene of NLnet members distributing free t-shirts with their logo on it to random attendees of the CCC congres in Berlin and then taking a big group photo for some social proof they can put on their website. All in the name of free and open source software that respects EU democratic values, that is pro-social narcissism for you right there.
> this just shows how short-term our memory is.

I've been out of IT proper for a while, so to me, I had to ask "the Russiagate guys are selling AV software now?"
This is what people don’t get about places like Florida. The people in Florida are in fact aware that it storms and floods, thats why the house is built on stilts with metal storm shutters.
If you don't see that the thing that happened today that blew up the world was the rollout, I don't know what to tell you.
A QR code can store 3 KB of data. Every patient has a small QR Sticker printer on their bed. Whenever EPIC updates, print a new small QR sticker. Patient being moved tear of sticker and stick to their wrist tag.

This much of patients state will be carried on their wrist. Maybe for complex cases you need two stickers. Have to be judicious in encoding data, maybe just last 48 hours.

Handheld qr readers, off line that read and display QR data strings.
Yup as you say, if you go for a state of the art firewall, then that firewall also becomes a point of failure. Unfortunately complex problems don't go away by saying the word "decentralize".
What the article points to is that most updates are bad updates. We teach people that they should accept all updates for security reasons, but really they should only accept security updates.

But they can't, because this is not a possibility that is given to them. All updates are put together, and we as an industry suck at even knowing if our change is backward compatible or not (which is actually some kind of incompetence).

And of course it's hard, because users are not competent enough to distinguish good software from bad software, so they follow what the marketing tells them. Meaning that even if you made good software with fewer shiny features but actual stability, users would go for the worse software of the competitor, because it has the latest damn AI buzzword.

Sometimes I feel like software is pretty much doomed: it won't get any better. But one thing I try to teach people is this: do not add software to things that work, EVER. You don't want a connected fridge, a connected light bulb or a connected vacuum-cleaner-camera-robot. You don't need it; it's completely superfluous.

Also for things that actually matter, many times you don't want them either. Electronic voting is an example I have in my mind: it's much easier to hack a computer from anywhere in the world than to hack millions of pieces of paper.
Non hardware "drivers" which cause a BSOD should be disabled automatically on next boot.

Windows offers it's users nothing here.
You might have replied to the wrong comment. You are talking about people wanting better paying jobs. I am talking about people wanting their house to be an investment.

Perhaps you are implying that even if the price of houses increases, if wages increase at the same rate, then they will cancel out? If so you are describing inflation, and the real cost of houses will be unchanged.

Alternatively, if you are implying that the solution is for everyone's wages to increase faster than the prices of houses increase, then the consequence of your solution is that houses will no longer be anywhere near as attractive of an investment.

Setting aside any moral considerations, it simply does not make any rational sense to wish for the price of a necessity to increase while also wishing for it to become more available. Imagine wishing for food to become more expensive while also lamenting that people can't afford food!
I thought you were joking, but nope:

"Rust is compromised by a cabal of woke tards that are doing strange things"

A stunningly ignorable person.
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Vulkan has some advantages to OpenCL. You gain lower level control over memory allocation and resource synchronization. Rocm has an infamous synchronization pessimization which doesn't exist for Vulkan. You can even explicitly allocate Vulkan resources at specific memory addresses, which means Vulkan can easily be used for embedded devices.

But some of the caveats for compute applications are currently:

- No bfloat16 in shaders

- No shader work graphs (GPU-driven shader control flow)

- No inline PTX (inline GCN/RDNA/GEN is available)

These may or may not be important to you. Vulkan recently gained an ability to seamlessly dispatch CUDA kernels if you need these in some places, but there aren't currently similar Vulkan extensions for HIP.
Why can’t you have that with competitive ladders? Presumably theres still mechanisms to kick people in game if they start for example spewing racist messages in the game. What difference is it to kick someone one way or another? Not to mention plenty of games with vote kick mechanisms did have strong competitive scenes.
that comment does make some sense, but it is still wrong from beginning to end; everything it says is close to the opposite of the truth
The problem with "they don't want to be contacted" is that it's not really an "informed dissent".

If they knew about our 0.4% child mortality, 80 year life span etc, each individual could make an informed decision.
You said…

> You can generally forgo anti-malware on servers that are doing one thing that requires a smaller set of permissions (e.g., serving a website), but that's not because of the OS they are running.

It seems to me like you’re trying to have it both ways.

It really is because of the OS that one doesn’t need to run anti-malware software on those servers and also on the iPhone, which you seem to have admitted.
> we setup failure prevention systems

You can't prevent failure. You can only mitigate the impact. Biology has pretty good answers as to how to achieve this without having to increase complexity as a result, in fact, it often shows that simpler systems increase resilliency.

Something we used to understand until OS vendors became publicly traded companies and "important to national security" somehow.
Maybe, maybe not, devil's in the details.

If, for example, they were doing slow rollouts for configs in addition to binaries, they could have caught the problem in their canary/test envs and not let it proceed to a full blackout.
Having actually partially designed and maintained a visual programming product with I guess what would be called a time travel debugger (among many other fascinating and strange features) inside of a major technology company, the biggest push back was always from developers themselves. These things sound good, and often they're very useful to those without strong programming backgrounds, but inevitably developers are pretty aggressive about poo-pooing tools like this as lots of things are much harder to implement, like diffing for example. The tool itself was honestly very radical (we were able to do a ton of really cutting edge things around resource scheduling, containerization pre-Docker, real actual shared time travel debugging at massive scale), but in the end, I think the company shitcanned it for something much simpler.
For those following along, I ended up doing four levels of bisects to find the actual problem. First the bisect I described above to identify the problematic file–stackMapTable.cpp. Then another on the functions inside of the file with optimizations and without to find the function that was broken: StackMapReader::next(StackMapFrame, bool, unsigned short, unsigned short, JavaThread). With that I manually inspected the code generated, found that it was wrong, and then did a bisect on optimization passes to see which one broke it (ConstraintEliminationPass). Finally one last bisect to see the history of where this came from (seems to be fixed in a change Xcode hasn't pulled yet).
We appreciate your diligence.

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SLS and Mars are the charismatic megafauna of NASA programs.
Rooftopping is my art form: death-defying couple who climb tallest skyscrapers
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Must be hug of death. Anyway, I recently made a video visualization of every fatal accident in 2022 by timeline and it ended up being over 8 minutes long because there were so many (over 39,000 events). It's sobering to realize how many people are losing their lives on the roadways each year. There's a fatal crash about every 10 to 15 minutes in the US alone.
Not really. I think most religions don't have an issue with the premise of alien life. They would simply fold it into their existing theology, as they have every new paradigm-shifting discovery about reality. Even the Catholic Church's stance is that if aliens exist, they're just another part of God's design.

And there are already plenty of cults and religions that incorporate aliens (cough Scientology cough.) It's going to be difficult to compete against Nordics and Greys and hyperdimensional ascended masters and Xenu with some Venusian moss on a rock.
Impulse Induction Stoves Come with a Battery to Power Your Whole House
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My wife and I use a countertop induction stove called a Breville Control Freak, and, apart from the name it's incredible. Way better than legacy gas or electric stoves.
When I was in highschool I had to fill out a survey about my experiences with substances. I remember getting a laugh out of lying on the survey. Always take any self reported questionnaire results with a large grain of salt.
Is there "no reason"?

I want to steelman microsoft's position here, and I can find many reasons:

1. The financial loss of the product (Redfall) was large enough that keeping that business unit itself was a risk. They need to show wallstreet that something is being done.

2. While there are talented people at the studio, they are unable as a corporation to be able to figure out what went wrong, ie who do they need to fire and who can they keep.

3. Their current business model precludes just moving people to other products for some reason, they don't want to disrupt those other products with a reorganization, this just isn't how they run studios, they want the teams to be colocated, etc.

While sure its bad that the studio lost its job I really don't think it's no reason.
yJS has the webrtc adapter and appears to still win out in the edit benchmarks. I’ve used yJS in two projects: once just for presence chat and syncing menus for a coaching site and once in a overlay graphics app for a livestream

Biggest problem with yJS for me has been the ergonomics when I use it with React. There’s a third party project called synced store that I used for the stream overlay but it has some strange behavior.

With first party support with React in automerge I think it’s worth a shot for my rewrite
Sure, I tried one country name and it didn't work.
>For example a part might meet the voltage specification, the temperature specification, and the radiation specification individually, but when you put that same part simultaneously in a high voltage, low temperature, and high radiation environment it doesn't perform as well.

I am not disagreeing, but at some point humanity should switch to actual probabilistic device models instead of vague datasheets. Imagine every datasheet has a .sample() function and you get a randomized SPICE model as if it came from the manufacturing line, you can draw a 100 and plot the properties. Want to measure the dynamic range of some ADC? A-weighted or not? Instead of specifying values highlighting figures of merit, each such figure of merit corresponds with an explicit SPICE circuit that measures that figure of merit on one and the same generator for random SPICE models with that specific part designation.

If a brand tries to fool its customers by insinuating a desirably high or low value by changing the test method, its immediately clear. A user may specify his own test circuit, or reuse the test circuit from the interactive datasheet from a competitor etc in order to make apples to apples comparisons for different DUT's.
I liked the Dirk Gently series a lot; it's a shame there weren't more.
“Science owes more to the steam engine than the
steam engine owes to science.”
Lawrence Joseph Henderson
(Civ 6 players will know this one by heart)
>Venus is pure acid under ridiculous pressure that melts any probe in minutes.

Only at the surface.
Apologies for the wall of text, but your reply triggered something I've been thinking about a lot recently.

I agree with you on many points, but the word "preferable" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. It doesn't describe who it is preferable to, or how objective outcomes inform people's preferences, or whether this preference only exists when it is non-uniformly distributed across the world.

I believe that more precise empirical knowledge of the world is preferable, but I don't think it generalises - or naturalises - to human cognition. Or that it is causally related to reduction of colonial genocide and economic exploitation.

Anecdotally, I know a number of people who prefer their "objectively better" life courtesy of vigorous anti-intellectualism, conspiracy, religious fundamentalism, internalised naturalisation of race/gender/faith/etc. And other cognitive distortions - as I would call them.

Again though, I agree with you because I believe (among other things) that less human suffering is preferable, increased longevity is preferable, our species surviving longer is preferable, and other species surviving with us is also preferable. And I believe more precise empirical knowledge is the best way to achieve those things.

But many, many people disagree, and many just believe differently. As far as we know, that disagreement is not due to a kind of naturalised deficiency of cognition.
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There's a non-trivial chance that the only reason you're around to complain about child safety is that we spent so long eliminating unnecessary dangers. The issue is speeding, not that you want to get somewhere faster than the speed limit.
They come up with their platforms based on donors and their advertisers. Advertisers set the narratives in public discourse that inform public opinion. Politicians know where their bread is buttered. If NASA wants more money they should consider doing more secret squirrel stuff like they’ve done in the past. Its why satellites were funded. Its why apollo was funded. Its why the shuttle was funded. Little academic exercises are only going to get so much money compared to how much is sloshing around in defense related spending. Unfortunately for them I’m sure much of this space defense money they might have gotten otherwise goes to space force and other agencies that weren’t around or operating in space in the 1960s.
Indeed. It will be very interesting when we start letting models choose their own training data. Humans and other animals do this simply by interacting with the world around them. If you want to know what is on the back of something, you simply turn it over.

My guess is that the models will come up with much more interesting and fruitful training sets than what a bunch of researchers can come up with.
It's also separating things out. We need larger, faster roads to get from city to city - that's kind of inevitable. But the way you design those is to completely separate out bikes and pedestrians from them, and also limit access to them. Think of something like an interstate freeway.

Slow, local streets are relatively safe because of the slow speeds and the priority on building places that cater to people and businesses rather than moving automobiles as quickly as possible.

The 'in between' things, "stroads" are what tend to be the worst of both worlds. They do often include some token bike/pedestrian infrastructure that is not very safe, and they include lots of places where other cars exit/enter the road and turn lanes and just a lot of potential for bad interactions in unexpected ways.

The Strong Towns folks do a pretty good job of outlining this, and in terms of fixing it, I've seen some interesting stuff related to street design in the Netherlands.
> Making that swap often means installing a new, 240-volt plug—the kind you might use for a washer and dryer. And depending on how much electricity everything else in your house is already drawing, it might also cost thousands of dollars more to upgrade your central electrical panel.

> This is where batteries come in, by way of a pair of two-year-old startups called Copper and Impulse. Both are based in the Bay Area, have CEOs named Sam, and share roughly the same goal to sneak big batteries into our homes by sticking them inside of cooktops

They're both going to have the same problem. When you use big batteries as expensive capacitors, no amount of marketing can make people justify paying big-battery prices.
> for webservers because they're mostly I/O bound

I'm not a web person, but can't you also gain I/O from parallelization? The I/O bound is waiting on responses right? So parallelization should increase I/O because you can make multiple asynchronous requests and even if there is dependence you can often stage or do partial computation in the mean time (at least this is common in scientific computing). (And if disk, well reading/writing to disk in parallel is far faster than serial but idk why you'd read/write to disk with pure python. Though it seems people do). So wouldn't this have significant effects that are more than the 36ms that we see in TFA? Or am I missing something and can someone explain why my guess is wrong?
That software did a lot less, however, and you just had to live with bugs. I knew people who just learned that they couldn’t use a feature without crashing, or had to disconnect from the internet to print, had to write their own math formula because a built in function was wrong, etc. and just worked around it for years.

The first company I worked for in the 90s had a C codebase which seemed like it was half #ifdef or runtime version checks because they had to support customers who rarely updated except when they bought new servers, and that meant that if some version of SunOS, DOS/Windows/etc. had a bug you had to detect and either use a work around or disable a feature for years after the patch had shipped.

I do agree that stability, especially on the UI side, has serious value but my nostalgia is tempered by remembering how many people spent time recovering lost work or working around gaps in software which had been fixed years ago. I think the automatic update world is better on the whole but we need some corrective pressure like liability for vendors to keep people from pulling a Crowdstrike in their testing and reliability engineering.
South Asia is a messy place. Governments do have a terrible human rights record but these governments are democratically elected and are clearly a representation of the general sentiment.
You can also query the database pretty easily here if the site isn't loading: https://cdan.dot.gov/query
I think I saw it used as part of an answer for a H. E. Dudeney puzzle.
That's ridiculously stretched. Russia is huge. Plenty of choice of "where you've been to". And you absolutely don't have to answer anything about where you've been to in Russia, because it's actually not their fucking business. Worst they can do is not let you into Ukraine. Surely, theoretically they can illegally arrest you, and torture you, and whatever, but doing that to a USA citizen (or whoever you are) on a basis of slight suspicion you could've been in Crimea or some other territory they consider theirs inside of Russia, well, that's risking way more than you do.
> Just to be clear, if that's the case, violence against the state is entirely justified. There is nothing morally wrong about rebelling against autocracy, in fact, it's quite a good thing.

Only if you have evidence against the state. Otherwise the state (which always has more resources) is going to take it to the next level.
For reasons I don't fully understand most younger programmers today don't know anything about debugging or debuggers.

The syndrome seems to track with FP and async and possibly with "teaching" programming. FP and async typically don't work well with today's debuggers. Back in the day nobody was taught to program -- they figured it out by doing. When you are taught by someone who themselves never "did" something about the practice gets lost, imho.

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It's not a management thing, it's very much a personality trait ... that for whatever reason seems to survive in pockets of management in most organisations over a certain size.

It's not a trait that survives well at yard crew level, trade assistents that freak out at spiders either get over it or never make it through apprenceships to become tradespeople.

In IT those who deal with failing processes, stopped jobs, smoking hardware, insuffcient RAM, tight deadlines learn to cope or get sidelined or fired (mostly).

To be clear, I've seen people get frazzled at most levels and many job types in various companies.

My thesis is there's a layer of management in which nervous types who utterly lose their cool at the first sign of trouble can survive better than elsewhere in large organisations.

But that's just been my experience over many years in several different types of work domains.
Powertabs or guitar pro files fix the tradeoffs at least. You get the sheet music for all instruments, tab, and midi instrument backing tracks to listen to in one view. And a metronome.
I'm honestly surprised at how well 1. works. Like if you told me as a company you spent over a million dollars hiring a ton of people and can't figure out what to do with them that you're just going to fire them I'd see that as a failing of management.

Even worse if you give them severance for like 6+ months of wages. Like you couldn't figure out how to reassign them with that long of a timespan?
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just curious cause i've never heard it before but how does porn cause erectile dysfunction?