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Average life expectancy is the wrong thing to use here, since life expectancy _assuming you're still alive at 74_ is actually 13.1 yr in the US.

Say hypothetically that they were concerned that GPT models would see widespread abuse, for example by students cheating on homework assignments, in a way that could cause likely-i…

Sorta, but it's important for the calling convention that the compiler is consistent on what is done at compiletime vs runtime. Because methods are "normal functions" for the calli…

I wonder if npm could run a program where package uploads are automatically delayed for ~10min while they get distributed to an ecosystem of third-party code auditing companies for…

This is exactly what the Starlark language was developed to solve, initially for Bazel but also used other places. It's a "full scripting language" but intentionally doesn't (in de…

> Not to mention that trains are far safer than automobiles too. This claim is situationally true, but not universally so like many people seem to believe. For example, Brightline …

In the context of this thread, it's worth pointing out that "trying to deceive regulators" is quite normal behavior for individual human drivers involved in car incidents, and iirc…

Tangentially related, but there's a bunch of extremely high-resolution panorama images from the Apollo landings available at this site, for anyone who enjoys this sort of thing. ht…

They successfully built local privilege escalation exploits (from several bugs each), and found other remotely-accessible bugs, but were not able chain their remote bugs to make re…

Not even mentioned in the article, my favorite capability is the new `//go:fix inline` directive, which can be applied to a one-line function to make go fix inline it's contents in…

Do we even know that the child was injured? All I've seen anyone officially claim is that the Waymo made contact, the kid fell over, then stood up and walked to the side of the roa…

Your expectation is wrong in this case for almost all languages. The design of Pylance (as is sorta forced by Python itself) chooses to execute Python to discover things like the P…

I did a pretty deep dive into this recently, although haven't yet started any implementation work. As far as I can tell, the best strategy that preserves Linux's open-source and us…

Doing some quick math, if your bike is using 3kw to climb a reasonably steep (15% grade) hill at 8mph, we can calculate the weight it must be carrying, which ends up being about 1,…

A friend of mine created something similar using a numerical optimization based approach to minimize distortion. He also made the artistic choice to split the water between Austral…

There's a lengthy, and quite good, deep-dive into Alpha School by a current parent here, for anyone interested. Spoiler, "AI" isn't that big a portion of what they're doing, but so…

Feeding random inputs to a crypto function is not guaranteed to exercise all the weird paths that an attacker providing intentionally malicious input could access. For example, a l…

The original groupcache is basically unmaintained, but there's at least two forks that have carried on active development and support additional nice features (like eviction), and …

I highly recommend revup, it allows managing and uploading stacked (or arbitrary trees of) PRs to Github, including adding a comment that shows approximate revision-to-revision dif…

I believe it's a 360deg planar lidar mounted on a vertical plane, with a motor to rotate it around and slowly cover a full 4pi sphere. There's also a fisheye camera integrated in. …

Do you have other sensors in the same price range that you'd recommend instead for most uses? How much accuracy improvement would you expect?

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It seems like a 24hr delay for auto upgrades would mitigate a lot of this, maybe with some way that a trusted third-party could skip the delay for big-ticket zero day patches?

Not an expert here, but afaik a turbine section consists of alternating spinning blades attached to the shaft and stationary vanes attached to the duct, which de-spin the air comin…

What's your perspective on variable-width SIMD instruction sets (like ARM SVE or the RISC-V V extension)? How does developer ergonomics and code performance compare to traditional …