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This is Stumpy Nubs argument (YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxKkuDduYLk); that patience, forethought, and use of a blade guard and other tools would prevent most injuries. I'm in agreement.

But I don't think that companies are trying to make the tools more expensive. In fact, it was the opposite. SawStop sold high-end saws, other manufacturers did not want to adopt the technology because of the cost it added.

The issue of proper saw safety and use of sawstop technology are two different issues, I believe. And while I agree, the proper safety procedures you cite should be used by everyone, they aren't. In fact, they often aren't. And we can sit here and shake our fingers, but it won't change the overall culture around them. And I think that's the conclusion that regulators have come to as well: They're not going to get people to always use their blade guards or count to 10, so they'll mandate adoption of a technology that mitigates the risk due to people not following directions.

Regarding the licensing, I think that's been addressed by others elsewhere. But in short, SawStop defended their patents in order to license the tech. When the government moved to mandate it, SawStop said they wouldn't enforce their patent, but they're not handing the tech over either. Other companies are free to develop their own method without running afoul of SawStop's patents, or they can license SawStop's tech. To me, it seems like a fair approach that both protects their investment while not putting themselves in a morally questionable position in taking advantage of the upcoming regulation.
I see these kinds of hateful comments repeated on HN all the time, and these comments disgust me. Why phrase the criticism in such an incendiary way? What’s the goal here?
Google is still buoyed by their de-facto monopoly on search. If that ends, the world would look different.
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> If there’s ever a situation where the dumb version is better, they’re doing it wrong.

Not sure what this means, but personally I dramatically prefer traditional "dumb" wired light switches that flip up or down to interrupt a physical circuit vs. Caseta wireless doodads with their little blinking LEDs, microswitches, and inability for "three way" switches to properly respect the primary dimmer slider's physical position.

Our contractor put in Caseta and it made me very happy to replace them with ordinary light switches. It makes me sad how much marketing and sales effort is going into pushing people into a brittle and overcomplicated computerized system trying to "fix" something that isn't broken.
nice AI chat bot. It has made me think a bit
Ironically this used to be one of the better uses of Twitter.
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VimConf2024 Talks
This WAF scenario is different, it's a porous unreliable last line defense, like anti-virus. Having a mitigation stop something != not having the vulnerability in the first place.
> You have to go pretty above and beyond to have the courts slap you down like this in that kind of environment. Like manufacturing your own crack, apparently.

Well, after three years of it. And then when the court says "No, don't do that any more, and erase the records of the people that were arrested and/or convicted by that" you can sit on that for three decades saying "Eh, maybe we will, maybe we won't, depends on how we feel" before it gets pushed at all.
The board might've been deliberately planted there to tank the stock in the long run.

Wouldn't be the first time hedge funds do this, but to be fair they prefer small pharma (famously cancer research/meds) startups or generally smaller companies to do it. Wouldn't be surprised though.
50 years is honestly not that long. When you look at historical dynasties even the shorter ones tend to be ~100 years, if they don't immediately implode.

That was a lot of suffering and chaos of what's actually a fairly trifling dynasty in the grand scheme of things.
It’s often unclear whether the decision to remove politically unfavorable content is a pure business decision or the result of informal lobbying of such companies by the government. The White House has often made requests about the removal of material about certain stories, including e.g. the Hunter Biden laptop affair, and it’s rarely clear whether these requests are entertained due to general political sympathy, the threat of unfavorable regulation, or what. If the government directly censors citizens’ speech that’s a 1st Amendment concern, but if they strongly insinuate that a company will face a hostile legal climate unless it censors a citizen’s speech, that is afaict not illegal.
This. It is either amusing or depressing to read hand-wringing from Go developers about design issues that have been solved for some 50-ish years (see [1]). It was the same with generic types.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)
"I taped an AirTag inside an empty plastic yogurt container"
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I've been using asdf for years. So far it works great but sometimes the shims breaks which kinda annoys me.

Was it worth the switch?
The beauty and horror of the internet is that we can access all the information; the internet provides us information from everywhere. Meanwhile, there is scientific theory to suggest that our mental capacity to handle information is ultimately finite; for example, Dunbar's Number[1] and the Paradox of Choice[2].

This means unfettered use of the internet can lead to information overload. In addition, because information from the internet most likely concerns things far away[3], you quite literally have no fucks left to give to concerns local and actually relevant to you (see: Dunbar's Number[1]).

The answer is, of course, the same as everything else we consume: In moderation.

Use the internet in moderation. Too much internet is bad for you just like too much water or oxygen is bad for you. Stop doomscrolling through sensation after sensation and running your brain literally dry of mental fuel; instead, get out into your reality and live. Touch grass, because that grass is more relevant to you than whatever the fuck the Sensation Industrial Complex is peddling onto you via the internet.

Kneejerking as you suggest ("keep away at all costs") is, well, kneejerking and doesn't actually look at the problem.

>what in particular is driving mental health outcomes down.

When you subject yourself to an endless onslaught of sensational negative "news", the logical conclusion is you end up depressed and mentally ill. You are what you consume, this includes non-tangibles like information.

This has actually been pointed out since long before even the internet[4], because "journalism" has always preferred sensational hit pieces that pull on viewers/readers' emotional purse strings since they garner more revenue. The internet enabling easier distribution of and access to information simply exacerbated this problem. Good news isn't good business.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice

[3]: War in Ukraine! Uprising in Syria! Oppression in China! Congress in turmoil! The EV revolution in Scandinavia! Here's what King Charles had for dinner!

[4]: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10001-if-you-don-t-read-the...
For the logarithmic sine sweeps (confunsigly also known as exponential sine sweeps) used here the standard method is to use an inverse filter to (de)convolve the sweep recording into an impulse response. No worries about windowing or leakage when using that.

This is sadly not very well documented process, but some open source implementations exist. E.g. https://github.com/maj4e/pyrirtool
Im going to bring this back to my cloud computing analogy. I’m trying to figure out the future of the business model wrt GPUs. Its possible that GPUs and machine learning APIs could act as the “crowd draw” meanwhile they make all the profit on overpriced commodity x86 vcpu and storage buckets (the beer and nachos)
The original article made a pretty good case for thinking Gelsinger's ego was a problem.
I switched out my app config to YAML which parses much slower and now my app starts exactly as fast as before.

I don’t think anyone proposes switching to YAML for your API endpoints
Sorry, are you accusing me of lying? I mean, I do have the receipts here...
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The paper proposes that testosterone's evolved function is more closely related to courtship efforts, than sexual desire.

It's easy to lust after a lady; not to court her.

If so, the purported purpose of testosterone makes sense, since the courtship process is hard.
Because Torch only exists on CUDA-platforms. At least in any useful form.

This was, if anything, the main theme at Supercomputing: “there is not even a point in talking about Nvidia’s new benchmarks. You all are going to buy it anyways” coupled with very few “we are betting on buying cheap hardware (Intel/AMD GPUs) and hope that we can build the relevant parts of CUDA ourselves” and the latter is pretty much a desperation move of labs/sites that simply cannot get NVIDIA GPUs (either price or availability).

And yes that is probably the seed of the end of Nvidia’s dominance. But it will take 20 years and multiple fuck ups. Just as it did with Intel
BindingGYM: Large Mutational Dataset Deciphering Protein-Protein Interactions
As Syria changes its flag, a look into Unicode's emoji politics
Yep, any good textbook or course with Anki for aiding raw memorisation. By far the best way to go
Speaking only as a gamer, I think graphics cards might eventually pay off, but it's a market that will require something like 10 years of runway. It's going to take a long time to both make competitive cards and convince gamers they have value. Lots of pretty good AMD GPUs have struggled for marketshare.
Making true random numbers with radioactive decay (2021)
How does it work? How has it been validated?
Skype is still alive!?

Back in the day my entire extended family used it to connect with each other across the globe. But today? I don't know a single person, old or young, that still uses it!
Are those body builders controlling for other variables? Changes in diet, exercise, performances, routines, etc?

I'd believe any number of things could correlate with body builders as they spend a lot of time changing their bodies.
Also peer review in its current form was a postwar invention, meaning that for the majority its history it was not regularly employed, let alone considered to be a line of demarcation between science and non-science.

Having been on both sides of the peer review process many times, I can assure you that it does not pick out all and only “actual science”
That's how other countries normally do things, but America is a little weird.
That’s not what OP meant though. That’s caring about _hardware_ capability. You could do that yourself for different hardware. And (OP’s point) any alternative hardware provider could do that for you. It just happens to be really, really hard
How do you access google cache?

cache:https://hackerone.com/napol-webug

Does not work for me. Is there a still working method?
Why do you think this is a problem? It's solved in other languages that have much more expressive type systems than Go and comparable or better performance. Rust is an obvious example.

The standard implementation is pretty simple: the different variants of a sum have a tag that tells the runtime which variant they are, and hence where to find pointers.

Go already has a "type switch" for interfaces, so it must already store tags with values in some cases, which is exactly what is needed to make this work.
It depends. Some people most certainly grasp things better if they are concrete, grounded in their perception of reality. For others, they see each 'example' as a mere partial projection at best that completely fails to capture the true essence of the abstraction.

That said, in sloppy engineering we often see the reverse. 'Here's a meta-model I cooked up overnight. Now if you spend the next 3 years gathering all the domain knowledge and expressing it in my nifty notation, you can have the outline of a potential candidate for your question. I'll write up a journal paper tomorrow about how I solved your problem'. There was a lot of that around when I was in academia.
Tinkerers might remember Marvell from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheevaPlug
We should preemptively destroy the concept of the Crockford Fallacy because people might seek to emulate it, right?
I use it every month for book club meetings, just for convenience, it’s easy to use and hasn’t changed much in years and years
I know the feeling. I managed 9 months scraping supermarket data before I gave up mostly because a few other people were doing it and I was short on time.
> No tribe emerged from the primordial aether with bureaucratized and abstracted concepts of legality and ethics which in any way resembled high civilizations.

Why do you say that? Ethics, laws, government, etc. are universal to human cultures, current and historical, and less and more developed (per leading research on cultural universals, e.g. Donald Brown).
I heard that from heuberman
I hope they refund people or still allow people to use their existing credit... I use Skype to get a virtual number so I can call places in England from the U.S. before I visit there and so I can continue to use the same number while I'm in England :)
It depends on power; there are no rights or law at all.
Apparently the recipe for bechemal sauce dates back to at least 1733. I think it’s pretty fairly in the public domain at this point. Those poor “content creators” are also just copying the recipe from someone else, just like chatgpt is. I’m sure I even own multiple cookbooks which cover the recipe - it’s just easier and faster to ask chatgpt than go hunting in my bookshelf.

I feel a little sorry for the good quality cooking websites out there. I’m just so burned by the bad ones that I’d rather skip the Google search. ChatGPT is also a straight out better resource because I can ask followup questions to chatgpt - “How much should I make for 6 people?” / “What is rue, anyway?” “It’s been a few minutes and my milk isn't thinkening. Am I doing anything wrong?” - etc. It’s an incredible cooking aide at my level of skill.
I understand the value of infinite NPC dialogues and story arcs, but why do we need live scene generation? Don't we already get that with procedural generation?
This site is hilariously fucked on mobile https://jfrog.com/artifactory
I was only 9 years old then, but nowadays I find it interesting that a number, which was arbitrarily chosen, caused so much fear and stuff. It's just a random number. Why were people scared of numbers?
While I agree that Rust advocates can be annoying at times, your last paragraph confuses me: which language do you have in mind that is both memory-safe and higher performance than Rust?

Rust is legitimately special: being memory safe without any kind of garbage collection (I include ref-counting here). That's what enables its deployment in stuff like QEMU or the Linux kernel.
It's definitely still one of the best consumer VoIP solutions and I've found that video/audio calls still work really well, better than other apps
I wasn't thinking this was specifically for kids, but it does not seem to exclude kids inherently. I thought one-on-one would be best for starters, as group video calls might be chaotic. I would not prefer pre-recorded sessions as the main point of the project is that there is immediate human feedback.
Has any popular service disappeared overnight quite like Skype? It was common to set up Skype calls with friends/relatives as late as 2018-2019. Starting 2020 people would laugh at you if you even suggested it. What happened?
You got any numbers on that or just bigot bravado?
I still use it daily, the business version was swallowed by Teams but I hope Skype will survive, not as bloated and just does the job.
I really enjoyed (at the time: I have not watched it in 20 years) the 1999 made-for-TV movie of the same name (and apparently there is a copy on YouTube now! I am totally going to watch it soon and find out how bad my memory has aged ;P).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y2K_(1999_film)

https://youtu.be/PETzibC-PNU
> Before reposting something, ask yourself “have I heard about this website before today (or before this news event/cycle)?”

Here's a better heuristic: Stop wasting your precious time and mind on low-grade crap. Read/watch high-value sources only - you won't run out; there are too many to read them all.
They haven't been heavily tested in combination, and they should be! It just shouldn't be required for insurers to pay for exotic multimillion dollar experiments. There are far better places to be spending that money if the goal is improving healthcare
There is the theory that Rust people constantly have to reassure themselves that the language is great and the future, so that can bear the suffering from using it.
Ask HN: Demos are easy; Engineering is hard. What are you favorite examples?
what are your favorite examples of where a demo caught peoples attention then it failed to materialize as a real thing?
Microsoft happened.
I love Ted Chiang's work dearly, so I am excited to have a look at Anvil's work as well. Can you recommend something specific?
Yes there's a problem and it's bad. The question is: how to fix it?

More specificaly, who is to decide which information is "correct"? Do we need a "Ministry of Truth"?

China does tackle this problem with a government branch called "Cyber Administration Office".

Compared to this "100% authentic information", I'd rather to endure misinformation as noise, thanks.
Yeah they are great drugs, I will probably be on a similar drug soon.

And of course the patient should be allowed to take it! It just shouldn't be required that the insurer pay for anything at any price.
Also: https://www.semiaccurate.com/2024/12/03/why-did-intel-fire-c... (yes, even if SA is known for its hateboner for Intel)
iMessage (family), FB (friends), and Slack (work) replaced my audio calling needs.

If I truly need to call a US phone number, Google Voice will do it for free.
First of all, nice writeup. I am a bit surprised that so much GPU power was needed to find such short collision but it was nice to see his implementation nevertheless.

Regarding the last section, is 40k a reasonable price for one month of security analysis? Does this mean that a good security researcher make about 500k/yr?
Oh man, I use Skype to call foreign numbers ever 4 months or so when we’re on holiday.
The business version was nothing to do with the real Skype though. It was just a lame rebranding of Lync. Just some Microsoft branding BS.

If it still existed now it would have been called copilot video or something :)
I’m still using it. Why would anyone laugh, it still does what it’s always done.
“I writ a word salad and it is very scary, also please send me lots of monies kthx”

What a place the internet is.
> but there is a bit of a contradiction between "here is a huge learning curve to Rust, one that I am still climbing," in the comment above and "is just easier and faster than in C

I see no contradiction when you realize that no one has ever been proficient enough in C to write code that is free from UB… The problem with C is that cannot realistically be written by humans, so pretty much any language (except C++ …) is going to be “easier than C”.
It's unclear what this has to do with my rebuttal of your statement:

> and for some reason it's only a genocide when one loses a war against Israel.

Clearly there are numerous officially declared genocides other than the one you seem fixated upon.

> you seem very keen to believe them if a Jew can be claimed to have been implicated.

> so that people like you will condemn Israel for existing and defending themselves.

You're blinding painting with a broad brush here, I'm a little more specific than a general cartoon dislike of Israel and Jews.

Eugene Finkel, a Jewish Holocaust scholar, declared Russian actions wrt Ukraine to be genocidal and went into some detail. His criteria for that declaration, when applied to the actions of the current government of Israel, make the same case against Isareli actions in Gaza.

* https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-buch...

* https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2024.2...

* https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2023/11/21/finkel...
i know of two companies (via acquaintances) that use skype (the regular non business version). one is a medium sized spam company that trades IPs and malware from eastern europe whose spam clients are all using skype. and the other is an online porn company whose contractors are all using skype. i couldn’t find out why they’re not using something else.
Metaphor I would use is "using seed crystals to start crystallization process".
I'm still confused... Why can't headless Chrome with Bitwarden easily by-pass this? What private key?
They completely ruined the UX. Skype was clean and simple when it was popular, then became a bloated mess.

Pulling out the distributed backend and replacing it with the horrors of Microsoft Lync did not help either.
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You can keep the riving knife for those cuts, it causes no issue. just can't use the blade guard. I honestly can't imagine a cut that would require the riving knife off.
> The Number of Pieces an Integral is Cut Into

> You’re probably familiar with the idea that each piece has infinitesimal width, but what about the question of ‘how MANY pieces are there?’. The answer to that is a hypernatural number. Let’s call it N again.

Is that right? I thought there was an important theorem specifying that no matter the infinitesimal width of an integral slice, the total area will be in the neighborhood of (= infinitely close to) the same real number, which is the value of the integral. That's why we don't have to specify the value of dx when integrating over dx... right?
Just why I love OpenWrt. They even ask the people that use screen readers like me to test the web interface to make sure that all is working as it should.
I think the question isn't just whether Gelsinger was wrong for Intel... It's whether Intel is capable of empowering any leader to do what’s necessary to rebuild...
I used it extensively until Microsoft did that absolutely atrocious “redesign” that tried turning it from a messenger into a flashy social app, making it an unusable ugly mess. Telegram was just starting to grow but I had to switch.
2M mph ~= 0.5 AU/day
You should be able to commute terms of an union without changing its identity.

So this is not the right solution I'm afraid.
Business analysts added their touch.