skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > And many of the practically relevant cases can be avoided by using tools such as UBSan.

> "can be", but aren't.

It is a possible option when one needs improved safety, and IMHO often
the better option than using Rust.

> > The other fallacy is that these issue then suddenly would disappear when using Rust, which is also not the case. Because the programmer cutting corners in C or prioritizing performance over safety will also use Rust "unsafe" carelessly.

> The vast majority of these programmers aren't making a deliberate choice at all
> though. They pick C because they heard it's fast, they write it in the way that the
> language nudges them towards, or the way that they see done in libraries and examples, > and they end up with unsafe code. Sure, someone can deliberately choose unsafe in
> Rust, but defaults matter.

The choice of handcoding some low-level string manipulation is similar to the choice of using unsafe rust. One can do it or not. There is certainly a better security culture in Rust at this time, but it is unclear to what extend this will be true in the long run. Also C security culture improves too and Rust culture will certainly deteriorate when usage spreads from highly motivated early adopters to the masses.

> > it is also possible to have a clear strategy about what data structure owns what other object in C.

> Is it though? How can one distinguish a codebase that does from a
> codebase that doesn't?

This leads to the argument that it is trivial to see unsafe code in Rust because it is marked "unsafe" and just a small amount of code while in C you would need to look at everything. But this largely a theoretical argument: In practice you need to do some quality control for all code anyway, because memory safety is just
a small piece of overall the puzzle. (and even for memory safety, you also need to look at the code surrounding code in RUst.) In practice, it is not hard to recognize the C code which is dangerous, it is the one where pointer arithmetic and string manipulation is not encapsulated in safe interfaces and it is the code where ownership of pointers is not clear.

>Other than the expensive static analysis tool mentioned elsewhere in the thread (at which point you're not really writing "C"), I've never seen a way that worked and was distinguishable from the ways that don't work.

I see some very high quality C code with barely any memory safety problems. Expensive static analysis can be used when no mistakes are acceptable, but then you should also formally verify the unsafe code in Rust.
This isn't entirely correct though. You definitely shouldn't creep people out or make them uncomfortable. Assuming no bad intent, it's still an issue to know that by saying something you could unintentionally make someone feel bad.

That's not to say that no one should ever say anything to an stranger, it's just to point out that there are non-zero consequences to your actions.

I think that depending on who you talk to they'll give more or less consequence to making someone feel uncomfortable. (I'm not strictly talking about dating or talking to someone you are possibly romantically interested in). Some specific extreme examples are: at work or if you are in a position of power over someone (you are their boss or their teacher)- or these situations there are more consequences to having an interaction where someone felt uncomfortable.

Yes, those are cherry-picked relationships, but just to say that fear of making people uncomfortable is a real and valid concern. Is your discomfort made up in your head? Many times it is.

Back to OP, relationships are complicated... it's not hard to see why people end up talking to AI bots instead.
> Also there’s never a good reason to be extremely strict about fat consumption that 5 or 10 or 15ml is a problem

A tablespoon of butter (or olive oil) is roughly 100 calories, which is about 15% of a meal. It’s _roughly_ equivalent to 10 minutes of moderate exercise running.

If you have one fried egg in a tbsp of oil and a slice of toast, the oil is half the calories of the snack.

> The old studies linking fat to heart disease are complete bunk

I’m going to need a source in that wild claim. We definitely know that it was overblown, and the cure (let’s put sugar in instead of fat) might have been worse than what it prevented, but I don’t think there’s any doubt of the consensus that saturated fats in particular (one tbsp of butter is _about_ 40% of your guideline saturated fat in a balanced diet).
We've really kind of "lost" the end-user database. I played with an older version of Access and was blown away by how user-friendly and capable it was compared to just doing things in spreadsheets.

Losing Access and similar things has lead to Salesforce being a billion dollar company; when it's basically AccessOnline™.
Most Quest users don't care about anything you said, and apparently their devices are selling very well.
The Google vaporware of 2025 to be discontinued in 2026...
Because that's still 2 numbers, complicating comparisons and arithmetic, and the more important number is at the end. If you could use e7.5 then that would alleviate the problems, but no software/language/calculator accepts this notation, and using a caret like ^7.5 is more evocative than the already very-overloaded "e".
(may have been autocorrect, but just fyi "pseudocode")
Official docs should really have a direct link to the specs from the main technical docs.
I just want to add that the main issue with retaining inspectors is the amount of travel leading to unfavorable work-life balance. Most people do not want to travel 75% of their working time. I imagine the number of people wanting to travel to or relocate to India and China is smaller than those willing to travel or relocate domestically. Then you need qualified people interested in this domain. I image the pool of ideal candidates is extremely small. Recent vacancies are about 10-15%.
I would say stainless steel is non- stick with some fat and a hot pan. I would say my Teflon pan is _slippery_ even when cold.
My local PBS did a BBC block on Saturday evenings, but on Friday night they did Red Dwarf on its own. The Saturday block was where I was introduced to Rowan Atkinson with Black Adder. I still quote "I have a cunning plan".
As someone who works with API's everyday I'm curious about what the basic use case for this tool is? Not trying to hate, serious question.
citing individual cases is not the road to reason here IMHO. Every single person dies at some point. This is an "entire population" question. Ethics and Morality play an educational, character formation role.. and, a medical decision is not the same as other kinds of decisions.. Another point -- people who are unstable or overwhelmed personally often leap to extreme, graphic and emotional examples first and without context. The original post here fits that description IMHO
Stephen Fry and Brian Eno discuss AI and what changes it might bring
Related:

https://dangerzone.rocks/

https://github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzone

> Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to safe PDFs.

From the learn more about page:

> Dangerzone was inspired by TrustedPDF but it works in non-Qubes operating systems, which is important, because most of the journalists I know use Macs and probably won’t be jumping to Qubes for some time.

> It uses gVisor sandboxes running in Linux containers to open dangerous documents, instead of virtual machines. And it also adds some features that TrustedPDF doesn’t have: it works with any office documents, not just PDFs; it uses optical character recognition (OCR) to make the safe PDF have a searchable text layer; and it compresses the final safe PDF.

Previously (announcement and details of gVisor sandboxing etc):

Safe Ride into the Dangerzone: Reducing Attack Surface with GVisor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41630076
Packages (be them bulk for use in pharmacies or set packages) generally have their country of origin on them, often with some level of detail of where specifically.
Can you safely get those temps on an electric oven?
Showing proxy icons of course. That's a big one.
It's likely FLUX.

https://imgur.com/a/BBMHMZA
Crash Bandicoot 3 breaks when played for (2^31)/30 seconds or ~2.26 years
Alternatively, maybe Alphabet actually came to understand that while it would have been a pointless waste of time to flush money away on AR and VR in the manner of Apple and Meta, AI use cases and work on stuff like like Gemini streaming and Project Astra (both prominently highlighted yesterday) convinced them that AR might actually have some general use in the future.

So they decided to put some more effort and attention behind this rather than, say, shutting it down to invest more in AI, or simply keeping it on a back burner as tech portfolio hedge.

Sometimes corporate communications actually contain a bit of meaning, as shocking as that might seem.
All of these so-called solutions are a waste of time and largely just adding a ridiculous amount of complexity to what is a very simple problem.

Context: I worked a number of years in the special effects (movies) world. I supported hundreds of graphics artists working in dark rooms 16 hours a day. Think movies like Independence Day, Star Wars, etc. Dozens of artists wore all kinds of wrist braces all day. They also had just-about every single crazy ergonomic keyboard you could possibly imagine, including various forms of split, slanted, cavity, whatever. And, of course, the fanciest adjustable chairs and tables. I remember a couple of the guys working on Independence Day having to have surgery on their wrists. Crazy. Just nuts.

Do you know who did not suffer from these injuries? Without fail, anyone who was actively involved in sports or physical training (going to the gym, lifting, swimming, etc.) AND took regular breaks.

In my own case, having seen just how bad things could get, once I started to feel soreness on my wrists I took matters into my own hands. I use the flattest possible keyboards and a thumb-operated trackball. I designed and made my own desk to guarantee proper arm and wrist ergonomics.

Laptops, for the most part, are evil. They force the wrist into a bad configuration. Not good for prolonged work if you care about your health.

Aside from that, take breaks and lift weights. Amazing things happen when you squat, deadlift, bench and shoulder press on a regular program (I recommend Starting Strength).

The vast majority of the crazy ergo setups out there are a waste of time. They do not address the root cause, which is treating your body like we are robots. We are not. We need moderation, rest and exercise. That's the solution or, at the very least, the way to mitigate and prevent injury.
Hey everyone! I’m soon launching a startup and I’m curious if this is something you’d find useful: an AI “software engineer” that’s up-to-date on the latest Next.js docs, familiar with shadcn UI patterns, and can plug into your GitHub repo. Imagine having a helper that’s not just finishing your lines of code, but really “understands” your setup and can recommend best practices, point out better approaches, and speed up your workflow in building modern web apps. Would that be something you’d want to try out, or is it overkill? Just looking for honest feedback! (unlike general LLMs, it is trained on the latest docs while chatgpt only knows next 13<)
My initial point was a really that there are terrible privacy implications and poor track record of actually treating the customer well, as if that wasn't obvious.

As for the rest, I'm just pissed off with people throwing their words into my mouth. Oh there we go again.
Welcome to the club! The race is on, i think including me at least 4 individuals / teams are on this. I made a "pivotal tracker community" discord server if anyone wants to have an ongoing conversation and keep track of the different cloning/ open sourcing efforts.

https://discord.gg/4NVRXAeYVa
Isn't the purpose of AI so I don't have to learn this?
Affirmations AI is a powerful tool that uses artificial intelligence to generate personalized affirmations in both text and audio formats. Our platform helps users create custom-tailored positive statements designed to transform their mindset and achieve their personal goals.
Doctor look out! is permanently burned into my brain from this for the past 20+ years

edit: maybe it's the live version or a remix. there's a version in my inventory that definitely has that sample
> Even if the factor is off by 10, it's already too much chemical exposure.

Source, please. Drinking one gallon of water a day is perfectly safe. Drinking 10 is not. 500 mg of acetaminophen is fine, 5 grams is not. 2 beers is reasonable, 20 is not. Factors of ten are pretty large safety margins.
Same features, including Netlify DNS. You can also choose to remain on the Starter plan, which has traffic overage billing, by entering a payment method.

When you exceed the limit, your Netlify-hosted sites are suspended until the end of the month. Netlify DNS remains operational, as we're aware that people operate non-Netlify infrastructure, such as email, that relies on it.
Australia to force tech titans to pay for news
Haha, that author is a funny writer. Very weird experience for that to be so readable, when I didn't understand probably half the content.

By the way, I found an excellent word for when a proof is disproven or found to be faulty, but that is esoteric enough that it has less risk of being misinterpreted to mean the conclusion is proven false: 'vitiated'. The conclusion might still be true, it just needs a new or repaired proof; the initial proof is 'vitiated'. I like how the word sounds, too.
There is no "we". There are people and their bodies and their wishes. And authoritarians who want a say on it. Doesn't matter if nice sounding words like law and democracy are used to describe the tyranny.
They list 72 cookies as strictly necessary and you can't unselect them.

They are effectively claiming that their website cannot function without the cookies from presumably 72 different third parties.
Disagree, but I have a funny anecdote in your favor.

My university's top Dota player was a 2.x GPA slacker who did nothing but play games all day. Guy was going to continue wasting-away by going to a mediocre foreign grad school, but he got his admit revoked because of stupid visa reasons.

Life hits him in the face and for 1 year, he quits dota and studies. Goes in, bags 99.99 percentile score in exam with 300k applicants and ends up at my country's HBS. That's the power level dota was holding back.

To be fair, a team of chess grand-masters tried to form a dota team once, and got destroyed. So maybe dota is harder. Speaking from personal experience, I haven't done anything in life that's as all consuming, rewarding or as destructive as dota.

Don't do Dota kids. Try drugs.
Not necessarily. If that "only move" is obvious, then it's not really risky. Like if a queen trade is offered and the opponent accepts, then typically the "only move" that doesn't massively lose is to capture back. But that's extremely obvious, and doesn't represent a sharp or complex position.
KLF's more fun take https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsAVx0u9Cw4
I also started using mouse key due to RSI and i was surprised how well it works, I use a single speed and I can still be extremely fast (not yet fast as a "real" mouse but very close).

One feature i would love to see is some sort of absolute pointer mode that work in a similar way of what op is doing as an alternative to do quick large movement (especially in multi-monitor scenario).
Gamification, fun, and variety.

Exercise can get really monotonous for some people.

But if you practice in a boxing app that also makes it a game of skill, which you enjoy more, why wouldn't you?

Also, I'd guess you're much more likely to injure yourself with heavy weights in the gym, then during the more aerobic/cardio type of exercise you do in VR.
> Seeing as the person you’re addressing was a mathematics graduate student, I’m sure they know this.

The OP (u/boothby) was not the person I was addressing (u/bell-cot).
I'm an "early" user of the Internet (early to mid 90s, I missed out on BBS's and Usenix but had an internet-connected PC in my home before most people I went to school with did).

And yeah I turn off notifications always on everything. Even my smart phone is usually in Do Not Disturb.

I don't know how much of my online experience shaped this, though. I've got an asperger personality (worded as such because I've not been diagnosed) and unexpected interruptions of any kind drive me insane.

Then there are notifications like they have on LinkedIn and now Facebook where they're more like ads than they are genuine notifications. Things such as "so and so shared a post you might be interested in." These are not designed to notify of you something you wanted to be alerted to, they exist to "drive engagement." Because I don't even like notifications when it's something I care about, these really trigger me to the point where I don't even want to use the "platform" anymore. It's so bad on LinkedIn that I just stopped reading the notifications all together since if you try and turn off all notifcations on LinkedIn .. good luck. You'll spend hours navigating through complex multi-page forms clicking on toggles and then they'll just add some new notification and auto-enable it for you. There's no global "turn of all notifications for all devices" option that I've been able to find.

I don't comment on YouTube videos as much as I used to, because people started comparing the comments sections they are shown for a given video to what their friends and spouses are shown and realized that the comments section is also now algorithmically curated for you based on your viewing and commenting habits. This leads into some serious "dead Internet theory" territory, especially related to this article about OF creators using AI to reply to DMs. Because if two people can see different subsets of comments for the same video, and if YouTube has AI reply features for creators ... how can I trust that the comments I'm reading and replying to are actual humans? Even if they are humans, I don't want to interact with people that just agree with me.
you can blame the FTC for that, google is getting antitrusted because they built android as an open ecosystem and then tried to monopolize it, whereas apple gets mostly free reign over their walled garden. it reads to me that the message from the FTC is to vertically integrate and wall off everything, and open nothing.
"wok hei" is the charred, smoky taste from Chinese stir-fry dishes, which you can only get at very high temperatures, usually with an open flame.

You do not want to expose Teflon pans to high temperatures because it can degrade the non-stick coating. This is why most woks are made of carbon steel, which work fine over a large flame.

Note: if you're stuck with an induction stove (like I am) you're not going to get wok hei even at the highest setting. It's possible to cheat with a butane torch, or by taking it outside with an outdoor wok burner.
WiFi 6 does ok for VR. The current limitations IMHO are the hardware on glasses / headsets in terms of compute and power. Not too dissimilar to how wireless earbuds just weren’t practical til what 5 years ago?
8 years ago, the startup I worked at folded with an eng team size of 8. I spent 3 years working part time and side projects, my coworkers joined big tech (LinkedIn and Airbnb). They road the 2021 boom and ended up 1-2 levels higher than me with 3-5x more pay. 5 years after returning, I’m just now catching up to them.

TL;DR: part time basically pauses careers.
> You are comparing light bulbs to wireless communications? What is your point?

Visible light and Wi-Fi are the same physical phenomenon, just at different frequencies.

> several forms of artificially triggered electromagnetic emissions (such as from light bulbs with thermal filaments, gas discharge lamps, x-rays, lasers, etc.) are not polarized.

So, he contradicts himself.

Also:

> Natural EMR/EMFs (cosmic microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, gamma rays) [...] are not polarized.

Oh yes they absolutely can be, and frequently are. Polarized sunglasses are specifically made to block the polarized light reflecting off lakes, snow, sand, or other surfaces. Does the author consider light reflecting off a lake to be unnatural, or is it the OK kind of polarized because it's "natural"?
This guy lawsuits
Jesus, -18 degrees Celcius? Is that what you mean by "a little cold"? :)
Don't know if the developer is here, but feedback - a bunch of people complained that it was hard understanding that cells had two letters in it in the video. That also translates into the product. I have a hard time figuring if the cell is LO or OL. I think having the first and second letters either in different colors, or different font weight (eg first is bold, second is not) would really help.
Early-onset colorectal cancer cases are surging, global study finds
If you are US military, your probably won't be flying on Thanksgiving...

If you are a spy trying to look at the activity or capture changes at a site, you probably aren't going to be flying on Thanksgiving since no work was done...
If you start with a sieve and try and plug all the holes to make a bucket you're going to end up with a leaky bucket.
MS Access was a very solid product when it came out. dBase had no chance.
It's a horrible way to go. As an early teen my grandma went through it. We would find her hiding from her abusive ex husband who had been dead for forty years. She would call the house at 3am, I was told to not answer the phone and of I did answer to hang up on her nectar she would talk at great length about how she could feel the worms eating her skin in her grave. It was really awful to watch as a kid and I'm sure it was much worse for her. She didn't do well in a home after that and would attack the nursing staff negate she didn't know who they were. That shit of horrifying. I think if nothing else, Alzheimers is one hell of a great reason for assisted suicide.
Location: AZ

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: python/django SQL, metabase, C#

resume/cv: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1px-oOulk-JZM9Ir6uh24w6pyNBL...

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Maybe I'm showing my ignorance, but... does anyone still use Autocode?

BLISS?

CLU?

SNOBOL?

It was harder than I expected to find examples, though.
https://google.com/search?udm=2&q=xp-4+drone
This sounds possibly useful, but I just don't trust extensions unless I can see the code.
Google's VR/XR strategy has been very stop-and-go, between Cardboard, Daydream, and a host of their VR applications they invested into 8 years ago (Poly, Earth, TiltBrush). It's obvious they don't want to be a leader in the space - just want to hedge their bets in case it becomes a viable market. If they maintained a steady presence in the space, I think Daydream could be competitive as a lower-entry-point alternative to the Quest headsets - which - since they run Android, would be potentially mutually beneficial.
While I agree that logarithms are better for expressing most physical quantities, when those values are used by humans, the "common logarithms" a.k.a. base-10 logarithms, which are used at your link, are completely obsolete.

Binary logarithms are much more useful. Even when you are not using any automatic computer, but you are only doing computations in your head, binary logarithms are more convenient. Moreover, the inter-conversion between binary logarithms and decimal logarithms is very easy to do mentally, by the approximate rule that 10 units of binary logarithms match 3 units of decimal logarithms.
That's why most people celebrate the death of this CEO, because they're well-adjusted. Roughly 25k Americans die each year for lack ability to afford health insurance. Normal people don't cry over one filthy rich guy accused of insider trading and known to have overseen implementation of AI to deny claims, while giving zero apparent fucks for the orders of magnitude more people who are actually decent.