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> Throughout your posts, I notice a recurrent theme of false equivalence between "rust" and "memory safety".

I'm glad you were able to reason through it.

> Rust is merely a tool; a language that makes memory safety easier.

I suppose, if I overstated the effect Rust might have on memory safety, you risk understating it here.

> It is not required for memory safety, nor does it, by itself, guarantee memory safety.

No, but it does an incredible job?

This reminds me of a post, on this site, I saw which said something to the effect of "ZFS is only great because it is the only filesystem in its domain" which is ridiculous on it's face, but I think even more ridiculous as you dig a little deeper.

When someone who keeps shooting themselves in the foot says, "That safety doesn't prevent all the ways you can kill yourself". Sometimes you want to scream to that fool who manages to continue to avoid using the safety: "What more do you want?"

> This is particularly true in supervisor mode, with hardware other than the CPU itself within reach.

Of course, I'd agree to some extent, but I think your framing is again perhaps overly narrow. Rust is a really good tool. It's such a good tool I hear they are trying to write drivers with it in the Linux kernel.
I once had the opportunity to watch two crows attacking a swarm of sparrows.

I've never seen birds hunting birds before so it made me watch the whole scene for 3-5min and I was baffled how the crows systematically 1) induced chaos trying to isolate a sparrow from the swarm then 2) killed it and 3) while one crow was busy eating it the other crow kept the infuriated swarm at distance. After a while 4) the crows changed jobs.
Having fun so far but given the advice to ask for small incremental changes the 10 runs per day is not enough. Even the Pro level at 100/day for $19/month is too low if I really want to play with it.
Ask HN: How do governments store immigration records?
How are immigration records such as permanent residence grants and citizenship records stores by governments for redundancy?
I suppose he/she meant pexpect https://pypi.org/project/pexpect/
Snowflake Cortex Analyst: Behind the Scenes
Is 463 some joke I'm not getting?
Similar discussions: https://pastebin.com/eCRrLakN
Nice.

I was a little kid back when all this happened and like many other kids I was totally caught up in the space and moon missions. I remember watching a lot of launches and seeing the updates on the evening news with my parents.

We tuned to the nightly news regularly back then. Special reports following events in the space program were important so we tuned in to catch them. Some days this type of news felt like the only good news on the TV broadcast since we had the war in Vietnam, anti-war protests all over the country, racial issues, assassinations of various political leaders, etc. I could feel the effects of these events on my parents and other adults. I had good parents and so the lessons I took from this period have served me well in how I work with other people. Maybe it's like Willie Nelson sang when he said to "Remember the good times. They're smaller in number and easier to recall. Don't spend so much time on the bad times, their staggering numbers will be heavy as lead on your mind."

I still remember the excitement and dread of watching this unfold, not knowing whether they could stick the landing and the immense joy when they confirmed that they were on the moon. My parents made sure to gather all of us so we could watch things like this as they unfolded. Somewhere in a box I have a recording of some events like this - the moon landing and moon walk, Nixon's resignation, etc.

I'm glad these guys took the time to sync all of this dialog with the video feed. That brings it all back.

I'm a bit older now though I still felt the excitement of watching the first men land on the moon and hearing the confirmation that they made it.
Yeah for sure. So say your category is "fruits and vegetables". You might say Avocado, Banana, Celery, etc. The goal is to challenge yourself, and it's more of a stretch than you'd think (but a good exercise). Or at least, it was a stretch for me especially at the beginning
"Intelligence" may imply "not uselessly exposing yourself to danger". As long as they don't know what they could win by becoming more familiar there is no reason for them to do so. You may try to let them discover such a reason...
@azinman2 GOTO PRINT [list_N_versions_concept_created]
Rust advanced topic – Creating a super fast file system watcher
> // 500 interpreter states

> static constexpr auto MAXIMUM_STATES = 463;

There is a joke here that I’m missing. Does anyone understand what it is?
Why bother? People need to make money for their work somehow. If they kill their own business with a paywall, why stop them?
Prologue: To be clear, I absolutely agree that rich people have disproportionate power in our economic system due to their wealth, but taking away that wealth is simultaneously (1) evil (according to every self-consistent non-arbitrary moral system I've seen - if you have another, I'd love to hear it) and authoritarian and (2) completely unnecessary - you don't need to tax people in order to get rid of these behaviors, and it completely misses the underlying problems that are present for all economic strata.

> You can't outlaw the exercise of power, so the extreme power imbalance itself is the core problem for humanity; and the only way to fix that is to take some of their power away.

This is not the only fix. It is possible to outlaw specific exercises of power that actually harm people, such as lobbying and bribery, without taking any money away at all, and it's possible to level the playing field in other areas such that money is much less of an advantage.

> For example, the ultra-rich can spend far more money on lawyers than anyone else.

By simplifying the legal system, and removing barriers to entry in the legal profession, such that people can effectively self-represent, both because they're legally allowed to, and because the legal system is simple enough that individuals can comprehend it and argue effectively. (this will also greatly reduce the effectiveness of high-powered lawyers, because the simpler the system is, the less advantage the best lawyers have over the worst ones)

The legal system is inherently flawed in that richer people have a massive advantage over poorer people - that is the problem, not that some people have more money and so can take advantage of it.

Please, seriously, think about that for a bit - our economy is filled with systems that are unfair or exploitative (e.g. legal, healthcare, non-compete agreements, the rent collusion that's currently happening), but the solution is not to start taxing the ultra-rich, because that still leaves those systems in an exploitative state, and they'll continue to take advantage of the middle and lower class even if you eliminate all of the rich people.

> E.g., the Bill Gates foundation has a lot of influence on global health spending

This is also very feasible to fix - make the status of being a tax-deductible charity contingent on not doing the bad things you want to disincentivize. This is similar to how Title IX is a huge lever over public institutions that prohibits them from doing some bad things.
Hear.

I really believe that, when people ask if some organism is "intelligent" or "conscious" (answer is usually No), they're just asking how similar it is to a human. Intelligence or consciousness is not a Thing; it's just a set of behaviors that have proven adaptive to some species. Crows have somewhat more of those behaviors than we'd thought.

By way of example, many animals have much better smell than we do because that is adaptive for them, and it's not quite as much of an advantage for us.

As for what kind of "consciousness" they have -- they have what they need. We can't know what it's like to be a bat, because we're not bats. It's probably not like being a flying human with sonar, but we'll never know.
Might be cheaper than deadstock tapes of decent quality, not recently manufactured ‘type 0’ tapes.
Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41356528
They do live in rat lungs.
After the bombs fall the kind of leaders that people will rally around are going to be very different from our current CEOs and celebrities. I'm thinking more Genghis Khan.
I vaguely remember a doco (about a study?) where they established similar fear in crows using similar masks. They tracked these crows, waited for them to breed, and tested how the babies responded. Saw this over a decade ago now I'd guess, so my memory is fuzzy, but IIRC the takeaway was that the parent crows were able to communicate the knowledge to their offspring that these masks were bad news.
X has refused to abide by the governments decisions, so that is big but understandable news. Trying to casually ban all VPNs as part of that is surprising and excessive.
Lots of ideas here for SciFi movies.

I also like the idea of everything being a simulation (like in Matrix) but managed/set up by an alien civilization and just experimenting or having fun with us, or us actually just being their avatars… and we are them!!! Alright, time to go to bed.
I do think that it has practical applications for the smaller ratios that are easy to remember and/or derive. For example 5:8 is a both a closer approximation than 3:5 that most people use, and is more convenient when miles are a multiple of 5.
I'm surprised people today even learn to read. Just watch youtube.
But beasts and man were created in distinct phases, with different rules and instructions.
It’s not about deliquent payments but auditing fraudulent returns. Particularly for rich people using all sorts of novel ways to hide taxable money, it does require some investigation to dive deep.
What is Collatz conjecture good for?
Can anyone tell me what real world problem is solved by proving Collatz conjecture? Outside of (maybe) being awarded $800k years down the road?
Wow. This is evil and lovely.
Maybe it's just my skill level, but I've used both hand-rolled recursive-descent and ANTLR for the same project (Thrift parser), and hoo boy I would never go back to recursive-descent for that. ANTLR shrank my code by an order of magnitude, and cleaned up some bugs too.

I'd be willing to believe that beyond a certain level of input complexity, ANTLR no longer pays for itself. In my experience, there exists a class of languages for which there's no better tool.
This project comes from FUTO, which is now making a name for itself by releasing and maintaining OSS alternatives like this, as well as sponsoring development of other OSS options. I personally first came across them when Louis Rossmann announced his affiliation. Very excited to see where this goes!

As an aside, I wonder what it will take to get the protocol integrated into browsers? I presume Chrome is a foregone conclusion, but maybe Firefox and/or Brave would be interested in an integration?
Yes, and what about the possibility that an attacker already accessed this database and added themself as an employee?

Would you rather to be prepared and do a full (well, for a govt agency, full enough) check on all people allowed to access flying death machines, or have a dev silently fix the issue with possible issues later?
Yea these questions aren’t great but if you want to ask these type of questions a better version would be:

- “Can you tell me about the last time an IC on your team turned an idea into a feature/product? What was the process?”

This can pinpoint whether the manager has a record of helping their directs get their own ideas into the product.

- “Tell me about the challenges you ran into in your last major migration, how did you decide what technical debt falls below the line?”

All migrations end up being late due to unknown unknowns, but you probably want to learn a little bit about how they managed the situation and how they decided to cut scope to still meet the new deadline. Or you could go with something like “tell me about the first 6 months of your most recent hire.”

The “6 months have gone by, what’s different?” Is just a bad question. If what you’re trying to figure out is how you’ll transition from onboarding to full team member why not just ask about that directly?

Also if you wanna social engineer the interview with this type of strategy, you probably should ask questions that are less focused on what they will do for you and more focused on how you can impact the organization.
Thanks. I seem to remember an article, about someone very accomplished, where they described their "sleep meditation"; it was something very similar.
Yeah, but I like to read articles on different sites but almost all of them have paywalls and their subscription cost is very high and I personally can't afford it. Ofcourse those who have money go buy and support them and avoid the hassle of copying each link then pasting, waiting and getting on to other site to read. But for people like me who can't afford this is the way. It's just letting people know that hey you can read this article without paying money from this website.
I've been using HA since near the very beginning, and I recommend using the Proxmox Helper Scripts script that installs the HAOS VM. That's what I do. I disagree with the OP, HAOS simplifies a lot of stuff like addon installations, updates, backups, and migrations. It's the main supported way to run Home Assistant now and the one they spend the most time testing. HA is probably the most critical piece of software I run, so I want it to work, and I don't care about also running other stuff on the same system (other than addon's) because I can do that in a separate VM. Having spent years running it bare metal and in docker that certainly works fine, but HAOS made it a lot less effort to manage and has been very reliable when I ran it on a standalone machine and then when I moved it under Proxmox.
The world is all that much worse for their poor character.
“.NET developer”? Meaningless. Copilot, Cursor, etc can
get anyone conversant enough with .NET to be productive
in an afternoon

Until something breaks. Or needs an API after the LLM's knowledge cutoff. Or has a bug in the business logic that requires domain understanding to even see.

My prediction: garbage handwaving like the above will be used by corporate bigwigs to defend paying less and less for experience, because "it's just typing in code".
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When imaginating something, I don't have a literal 2D image in my head

It's more like a scene which I can manipulate both camera angle and content at will. I can also imagine sound

What I have a hard time is imagining smell. I can remember distinct smell but the scenes in my head usually don't have smell
Which age of human child do you mean? I could argue even bugs are "more intelligent" than 1 week old baby - at least they can eat and run away from danger.

If we re-define "intelligence" as "smarter than a human baby", then this word covers most animals (and probably some plants too) and becomes useless.
When doing species comparison, I think it only makes sense to compare adults to each other, and perhaps even "average" or "75th percentile" adults.
For preservation? The salt content iirc, but there may be something else
My Covid "Toxo" hypothesis.

Hear me out.

Cat poop has something in it ("Toxo") that makes mice less afraid of cats. Win for cats.

I see so much scientifically-unsound* anti-vaxx hysteria from people who used to be otherwise quite intelligent and rational, that I suspect that Covid has done a number on them (like "Toxo" does a number on mice).

* IMHO, there can be rational hesitation to vaxx (Precautionary Principle, etc.) but I'm seeing "science-based mumbo jumbo".
The first question is absolutely spot on, but I don't like the second two. Those last two tend to generate answers that are purely administrative and without substance, such as: We will perform your first mid-year review!. WTF, so what?

Here are some better questions (repeating the first one from the article first):

1. “There’s an IC sitting out there who just had an amazing idea for a new feature/product. What happens?”

That question is solid because it indicates they actually give a damn about employee contributions beyond what they populate on a Jira board. Its a telling sign if they are hostile to initiative.

2. "How do you measure things related to your product and what do you measure?"

The answer to that questions addresses multiple concerns. Everybody claims to value product quality, but most places I have worked at really don't give a shit, because its just too much effort. If they aren't measuring things they have no idea how slow their product is, what kind of user engagement they achieve, their defect trajectory, and on and on and on. On a more primitive level if they aren't currently measuring things it also provides an indication of whether or not they actually want to, but maybe don't know how. The point here is you can use questions like that to cut through their bullshit and determine their level of current capability and also their level of honest versus conservatism.

3. "What is your average build time?" or "How do you perform test automation?"

Most places care more about their tech stack than actually writing software. That should send all kinds of warning flags. When developers just waste time all day staring at the ceiling while software goes through a bunch of build nonsense that indicates developer time just isn't as valuable testing alternatives. its great to have 90 minute builds when the business is healthy and you can go out and go bowling, or whatever, but the moment the employer becomes unhealthy those undervalued developers will find themselves unemployed.

As a bonus if you ask tough questions during the interview and the challenge makes the hiring manager uncomfortable consider they will remain as uncomfortable if you end up working there. That is really bad, because shit rolls down hill and their discomfort eventually becomes your problem.
Yeah, some people believe Facebook listens to their conversations and use them for ad targeting, in theory it's possible, but in practice it would mean needing to upload billions of audio files (how many conversations happen in average day near how many phones with active FB/IG accounts on them) and having the computing power to transcribe them.

And even if they had the resources, being caught doing it would be too damaging...

Then again, some dumb ad salesman on some cable network might believe the myth and think "If FB can do it, why can't we?" and try to implement this surveillance-capitalism-for-ads idea..
When a Film Doesn't Look Like Its Concept Art
Is there a way to export your notes for use in a standard mapping format, something like GIS or KML?
I’ve used Expect on Windows systems. Active State provided commercial distributions of TCL for Windows.
Radiance Cascades: A Novel High-Res Sol. For Multidim Non-LTE Radiative Transfer
>I think it's quite clear to anyone who probes them for long enough that they're not.

I disagree and so do a lot of people who've used them for a long while. This is just an assertion that you wish to be true rather than something that actually is. What happens is that for some bizarre reason, for machines, lots of humans have a standard of reasoning that only exists in fiction. Devise any reasoning test you like that would cleanly separate humans from LLMs. I'll wait.

> The claim is usually some pseudo-philosophical claim that the very definition of reasoning is simply 'outputting (at least some of the time) correct sentences' and so there's no more to be said.

There is nothing philosophical or pseudo-philosophical about saying reasoning is determined by output. If anything, the opposite is what's philosophical nonsense. The idea that there exists some "real" reasoning that humans perform and "fake" reasoning that LLMs perform and yet somehow no testable way to distinguish this is purely the realm of fiction and philosophy. If you're claiming a distinction that doesn't actually distinguish, you're just making stuff up.

LLMs clearly reason. They do things, novel things that no sane mind would see a human do and call anything else. They do things that are impossible to describe as anything else unless you subscribe to what i like to call statistical magic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41141118

And all things considered, LLMs are pretty horrible memorizers. Getting one to regurgitate Training data is actually really hard. There's no database of knowledge. It clearly does not work that way.
In theory it’s irrelevant in practice although companies try to make the process quantitative it is ultimately qualitative because it’s a human rating on a qualitative rubric. The impression you leave on the interviewer always makes a difference in how they represent you in their feedback and panels.

It’s like in school every TA uses the same rubric yet they all grade differently.
I don’t know if it’s true for others with aphantasia but this seems like solid description to me.

I draw a square by knowing that squares are closed objects with four equal length sides that meet at 90 degree angles. I don’t think that explicitly every time, but regardless there's no visual stimuli.
>Prior to 1910, for every 1,000 babies born in the United States, 165 died before their first birthday (Newmayer 1911).

https://www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/working/wp-2011-005.pdf

Today it is at 5 per 1,000.

Please read a history book before you start supporting a reset to what we used to have.
On the other hand, the Apache foundation asks for a CLA.
I dont believe your perception is accurate. I worked for Knight Ridder during this time, and print news was already a walking corpse. Cable/satellite news channels, and broadcast tv, and even radio before that had worn away the primacy of print. By the 2000s circulation had been dropping for decades. Local/regional newspapers were surviving on classifieds and local ad buys, which was eaten up by craigslist and ad exchanges generally.

At that point, 2000ish, there wasnt much newspaper journalism left to be sustained. Most US print news was gannett and knight ridder recycling AP/reuters wire stories. A handful of national/global mastheads could sustain real investigative reporters and foreign bureaus, for a little while.

Personally I dont see how (quality) “free to read” news persists. Quality and depth is the differentiation, and the consumer needs to pay for it. Id bet more on the bloomberg/the economist/stratfor models continuing in to the future.
The extremely hamfisted attempt to put DEI initiatives on the same level as serious mismanagement by leadership and structural problems in modern corporate design as the reason for major companies failing to innovate around the world took a lot of wind from the sails of what was actually interesting, if not new, arguments.

The link to an article arguing that everything was great until the civil rights movement was also a good look into the motivations of that attempt.