skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of my basic interview questions to candidates and it is amazing how many people have no idea how exceptions work or how much they cost.

Back in 2005, I was involved in a replatforming of the legacy COBOL and TRANSACT HP3000 mainframe codebase to the modern system. The code was transpiled into an [unholy mess of] C# and ASP.NET. The Transact code was extremely procedural and had mainframe forms interspread in it. Each block of code that ran between the form display and wait for input block turned into a function in C#, and all of them were chained in the main function with gotos. To get out of the function, the transpiled code would throw new Exception("with some custom message indicating step to go to next"), it'll be caught upstack, message parsed and then goto'ed to that. So yeah, control flow with Exceptions

I am shuddering just thinking about it now, it was impossible to read. Under medium load - and I was in charge of load testing - it threw some astronomical numbers of exceptions/sec and it was just so ugly.

Try as I might I couldn't dissuade them to change the ways they returned from the function. It all went to production. The customer just threw really big machines and lots of them and they just exceptioned all day long.
https://www.planetizen.com/node/58690
Let’s see… I can use a form of transit that takes longer. Likely for the majority of people, so much longer that it’s impractical for majority use cases (20 min car ride becomes 40+ min bike ride). I have to physically myself, so I’ll be prepared to be sweaty and live in that all day. If there’s inclement weather I have to wait it out for some unknown length of time or endure the elements (and again be disgusting for whatever I’m off to next). I’m in much greater danger than a car. People will try to steal my bike so I have to worry about that. If I have any amount of baggage with me, I guess good luck. I can’t listen to music vs a premium music experience…

I mean I could go on. Don’t get me wrong, Ive done a bike a primary transit for a year or so. But anyone who’s confused why the average American doesn’t want to is probably a little out of touch to say the least.
This is the kind of stuff I'd love to see rapidly accelerated through universal basic income.
Couldn't mastodon just provide an option to logging in via OpenID? Then you would have a single authentication for multiple mastodon instances with different topics.
Huh. This got merged in from another thread, and now I look like a doofus.
Did they ruin Figma already?
Here is the choice I made - I switched from managing people to an IC. It is a pay cut and a different career choice. However, it opened up the time for me to travel, scuba and do underwater (and above water) photography. My wife is onboard with me on my travel plans for 3-5 months in a year. Eventually, once the kids move out, we hope to do more of travel together.

As long as we are making enough money to live a lifestyle without worrying about savings, retirement and other expenses (which are being held in a separate account), I am content.

I try not to think about big payouts or anything beyond the next month. My current job pays me enough for me to be happy about it. I learn new things and try to gain more expertise, just for the self satisfaction. My recent fascination is to see if you can use a game development engine (Godot) to create animated shorts.

If you just want someone to talk about this, my email is in my profile.

PS: For those who know about this hobby, yes all the money I earn goes poof into gear, travel, stay in nice resorts etc.
One avenue that chatGPT has, and I'm not sure if it is being utilized at all yet, would be the ability to feed it the unimaginably huge body of information locked behind copyrighted textbooks, books, academic papers and other pay walled information.

Imagine the knowledge that could be accessed by feeding all that information into an ai engine like chat gpt. Presumably, it would not break copyright rules anymore than a regular human reading a bunch of papers behind a paywall and regurgitating the learned information.
I think what the article is addressing is likely not what is being discussed in this thread. The article ("Unfortunately, I often see solutions abusing exceptions" followed by using exceptions to replace if statements) is very likely discussing poor understanding of the topic from student assignment rather than actual code in the industry. Such mistakes (abuse of exceptions in the article) often go away once students become actual professionals because these mistakes are more easily caught during code review than other types of common mistakes.
New facial recognition technology scans your ear
Median does not capture adjustments at the bottom 2 quintiles, which is where hotel room cleaners probably are:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CXU900000LB0102M

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CXU900000LB0103M

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CXU900000LB0104M
> It’s been a while, but I remember most of those “National Merit” type things to be not very important or relevant.

That's what I thought when I was a kid, but it turns out that the important college ranking system uses "number of national merit finalists" as a high weighted metric. I got a full ride to a respected state university solely from that PSAT test and so did two of my friends.
> That summary ignores all the relevant context.

All that you added was not in the article and therefore not in the summary of the thrust of the article.

> The story is thus about a deliberate decision by the administration to downplay a certain kind of educational metric

It's about results arriving late and then filtering through what is pretty much a universal hand to hand to students that all school suffer through.

WE have similar systems here, important reults and awards are directly notified to students, not filtered through a school admin. The fault lies with the National Merit Scholarship Corporation .. who seem to expect others to do their work for them.

> Frankly it’s bizarre for someone from outside the US to say conservatives are waging a frivolous “culture war” ..

Do you not read your own countries media?
Have you not seen the baseless hysteria over trans people, "woke history", etc?
It's what happens when smart, privileged people abuse uppers. Rather than break into a truck to steal tools they just go on white collar crime sprees.
I think it would make a good bighead storyline
It is almost the same as stackoverflow. I've seen many answers which is runnable but without proper error handling or security mitigations. They are just as misleading as ChatGPT.
Since both are talking, I assume their deal isn't that great. My understanding is that you only get those out-of-jail-free cards if there's no other way to convict and I don't see that being the case here in any way.

On the other hand, great lawyers and connections might still make something out of it.
I'm not saying that they're not a minority; I'm saying they're not a disadvantaged minority. And, in the larger context of TJ, there's an ongoing battle over the extremely low level of black and Hispanic population (which are largely disadvantaged) versus the extremely high level of Asian population.
Right, but we're also an above median family size (again: 4 kids.)

I could easily drop 20-25k from that spending if we didn't have kids - in fact, at the time I had my first kid, my mortgage was $24k/year, my bills were nearly 40% lower than they are now, and I didn't track food and clothes budgets back then but even if they were 80% of present day levels (I suspect it was much lower) that'd put us right around $40k/year.

But I also am on the real estate property ladder, so I think it'd be foolish for me to spend any less of our income on our housing than I do, so counting it as pure "expenditure" is a bit misleading.

Also since someone asked this year I paid $2,200 in healthcare distributions on top of $750 annual premiums.
Publicly traded companies have fiduciary duty to protect their reputation.
> So, your guess is as good as mine, because that video certainly is not some kind of school policy position, as the article implies.

The person in the video is the superintendent of the Fairfax County Public schools who stated that "equal outcomes" are a priority for her upcoming tenure. Maybe not a policy directive, but the leader of the school system is stating that it is a priority they intend to focus on.

The author has an agenda, sure, but they didn't fabricate the video or put words in the mouth of the district superintendent.
I'm not looking for wisdom, just patterns.

I guess that I'm looking for whether things that I don't see on the internet do exist somewhere.

If they are in the model, then perhaps I'm just in the wrong bubble.

If they aren't in the model, that's interesting.

The foremost question I have is what can it do that Google can't.

It seems like it might be a good programming tutor, which is really valuable for someone who is isolated from mentors.

It doesn't seem like it writes ready-made code for you, but quickly gives (maybe) relevant examples.

It's not very helpful on problems with a niche piece of free software. I mean, it provides the standard answers to the problems, which are not helpful.

But it told me that I should use fetch instead of XMLHttpRequest, and confirmed that fetch doesn't require a library like Node.js - which seems to be true.
That was 40 year old me a couple years ago. Street car rails are terrible, bad for bikes and pedestrians, a lot of expense, and doesn't provide much more than a bus.
I mean they're pretty much Gwart and the rest of the stallions.
I'm making the point the public system has a worse record on the subject. And any child is safer at school compared to your home.

It is shocking when a priest who takes vows then breaks them and commits such acts. It is less shocking to find out a teacher is going out with a student or texting naked photos. The first is forbidden and taboo and brings great shame by society. The second is at times encouraged by popular culture when the genders are reversed (female teacher / male student) but is a crime.

Your kid is more likely to have this happen outside of the Catholic system. Your feelings about the church overshadows reality be reenforces how much of a taboo a priest having any form of sexual pleasure is.
If you have photos in Apple Photos, I know you can edit one photo inside Apple Photos, then go to Image -> Copy Edits, and then you can select a batch of photos and paste those edits.

Maybe this works for RAW photos too, but I don't know how/if Apple Photos handles RAW files in this scenario. It definitely works for non-RAW photos.
> The current crop of hires aren't really contributing anything fundamental, just jumping from one high paying gig to the next

Who is responsible for this? Hiring companies play a major role. I knew a guy, who started as a tape boy at Bell labs, eventually becoming a system administrator, later a programer working at AT&T labs. He didn't even have an undergrad education. This was possible for him, because of the kind of place Bell Labs was.

Today, companies don't want to train people, don't want to take a chance on candidates. Sure, since companies pay $350K per annum, they just want rock stars.
Relevant Sheldon Brown article of course:

"they are welded, not brazed. [...] There are necked-down parts that fit into the top tube and down tube, like internal lugs."

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/chicago-schwinns.html
When you fall while running, you don't have a mechanical contraption limiting your movement. The nature of riding a bicycle (or motorcycle) makes it much more likely you'll hit your head. People also don't fall as much while running as they do when riding: it's easy to hit a crack in the pavement and lose control on a bike.
In fact, some programs (mpv comes to mind) make them literally the same, with the config file as a text file containing command line options in the exact same format that you would provide from a shell, with the only difference being that newlines are permitted noop characters.
A stack trace would be helpful, but so would adding context to the error (when appropriate), instead of just bubbling it up indiscriminately.

Of course, you can’t enforce this is dependencies, but at least tracking this to the first layer dependencies of your code should be fairly easy right?

TBH, Go style errors seem more flexible if some care is put into using them, however they are extremely unhelpful if they are used improperly (even if it’s not your own code).
Yeah indeed. Their homepage is pretty hypocritical.

“Professional image editing tools that anyone can use.”

“Designed and built exclusively for Mac”
Most Teslas (and most cars overall) are presumably financed, with the associated comprehensive coverage costs.
The commenter went beyond curriculum with this part of their comment (which has since been edited to remove the word “woke”, I might add):

> All of the politics and social justice, whatever you want to call is not part of the curriculum. I feel bad for people whose kids are forced into this nonsense.
About 10 years ago when I was working with American Express for a Payment Gateway project, all the internal bank too vendor communications were these encrypted emails with a self-contained HTML file that has the content encrypted inside of them, similar like Portable Secret. Sadly I don't recall the proprietary vendor's name or the name of the technology. Pretty sure I've received similar self-embedded HTML from Chase as well.
Hey, I quit Meta last year. I share your judgements, but the key that I have found is that tech is a tool. It's the only sane way to view this field. Like a machete, is can be used for good or evil.

I've written down a more concrete philosophy here: https://www.adama-platform.com/2022/12/17/life-past-40.html

My advice is meet people around and about, and find people you like. You'll see how technology helps them or inhibits them. You may decide to change careers, or you will see the bargain that we have struck with the tech devil.

One thing that I'm dealing with is that I can't stand the fad aspect of this field, so I'm using time to build a new vertical platform that I'll enjoy building and using. Next year, I hope to ship a game as I want to make board games. The "ruthless pragmatism of big tech" is just lame and makes the work suck.

I view coding as a craft that I am lucky to do, but I don't feel like working for another company for a while.

My core advice is to figure out who you want to help.
The reasons and benefits of keeping Pion WebRTC nonprofit
I was recalling the same thing. For me it was our little black and white TV we had when I was young. I loved going around to the back and side and looking in at the little city inside.

I've made my share of tube amps from scratch off and on for a few decades now. Must be due to nostalgia of some sort.
I think, we may be able to apply LoRA trick to transfer custom dreambooth models (trained with SD v2) back to depth guide models.
From my experience Mastodon is more obsessed with creating bubbles than Reddit hypermodding.

So it's great your FAQ says that and your topic is non-controversial and niche. But when applied en masse it's just a mass collection of extremely segmented bubbles. Nothing wrong with that. Niche forums are perfectly fine.

But lets not pretend that's a social network anything like Twitter, or FB, or Reddit circa 2012. Popular Mastodon servers ban hundreds of servers where users may have signed up but not known the extensive rules list of each other sub server (in addition to the [n] amount of moderated content).
I wonder how much savings they’d get by extracting things like that HBO intro or series intro songs and keeping a cached copy on the device, instead of downloading it with each episode? Or maybe they already do that?
Sudden memories of early http://www.bustedcarbon.com/
> I think what Java got wrong was allowing catching unchecked exceptions. If Java had only allowed recovering from checked exceptions, it would have been a very similar experience to Rust's Result and panic.

> Instead, the trend was to avoid using checked exceptions at all

Java's type system was far too weak for that to be at all practical. Early Java not only didn't have first-class functions, it didn't even have generics. Even today checked exceptions are horribly cumbersome - for example, it's simply not possible to write a wrapper function that accepts a function and calls it, and throws the same set of checked exceptions that the inner function does.

If Java had had proper ML-style types from day 1, like Rust does, then it could have done "errors are values" in a practical way. But forcing people to use checked exceptions would have resulted in either C-style errno codes, or the whole language collapsing under its own weight.
> I actually can't think of a single hill where I'm totally free and clear going down the other side.

The big hills I can think of near me all have either stop signs at the bottom, or another hill to climb.
Programming as we know it. I believe the future will be to write or design program specifications and the AI will write the code. We will be more like program architects.
Ellison's tweets about adderall are something else. I saw those and was like "People trust her with billions?"

The problem isnt the adderall. Its that she was clearly abusing it. She participated in the theft of billions and she felt great doing it.
Tesla driver in multi-car crash told police self-driving software malfunctioned
If there were a more efficient way to walk, we would have evolved to walk that way.
I wish netflix allowed you to specify that you have a beefy internet connection and to stream higher bitrate 4k. I hate watching netflix shows directly because of how crushed the blacks are. Ironically, pirated netflix shows dont have that problem.
Lol... I'm not making excuses. If you read my post history, you'll note I've been a constant critic of crypto and the accompanying scams. i'm just pointing out that the people who commit some of the worst crimes often convince themselves they are doing great good. Most of us believe that we would never do bad things. However, most of us are quite capable of it because we justify our actions to ourselves, and it's very easy to do bad while believing yourself good, which is what happened here.
Java has them now but it didn't at the time (and even now they're kind of bodged in IIRC).
Having just self-published a book that capped out at 10 sales, yes.

For me, the hardest problem is even getting the word out. I’ve used a few different platforms to get my book in front of people. And by and large, the ones who start it also finish it. But even giving away content, it is surprisingly hard to connect to an audience of any size.

Pick any kind of writing, and you’ll find the marketplace is incredibly crowded. There is so much content vying for a finite set of eyeballs. And it’s not just other writers; you’re competing with all other uses of leisure time: Netflix, Fortnite, Twitter, TikTok, hell, even Tinder

I think you have to enjoy writing because it scratches your own itch. If you’re lucky, maybe you’ll attract a few like-minded followers. If you’re hoping for a more sizable audience, you’d better enjoy marketing.
Agree with other comments to sell immediately upon vesting. Learned this the hard way a while back when I held onto my vested RSUs for 1y to reduce the tax burden. Per-share value dropped below the tax % difference, and I was not diversified enough for risk.

As I also recall, holding them complicated my taxes that year and put me into AMT threshold. This may have been from option exercise though, I can’t remember.
Are track days the only viable place to find/meet these people who can help maintain such cars, or there are other ways. I couldn't hold back the question, but feel free to ignore
Well, this is the comment section of a HN topic that's specifically about Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang (their names are included in the title).

If this were some random other thread, then yeah sure it would be confusing to just say Gary or Caroline.
A big problem here is, what is the airline's incentive for the list to be accurate? If it has a whole lot of false positives, in absolute numbers it's still too small to put any real dent in their business - there are millions and millions of other customers. What you really need is transparency, oversight, an appeals process, and guarantees that human judgement is in the loop - all things that come "for free" with the court system, but would have to be recreated from scratch in any corporate-run extrajudicial penalty system.
http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/portal/communities/pa-suburbs/po... talks more about it under the heading “Trends in Subdivision Design”.

Part of its source material is from a 2002 publication: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/NRB46_S... (8mb PDF, see page 59 of the PDF, with printed page number of 49.)
How is anolog "authentic?" How is anolog qualitatively different from digital from an authenticity standpoint?
A jump from, say, 23mm wide to 28mm on a standard road bike won't affect comfort much. Spend the money on getting the bike fit (or a beach cruiser).
> On the other hand, great lawyers and connections might still make something out of it.

That's my concern. Caroline's father is an MIT professor who was previously Gary Gensler's (head of SEC) boss.

It would be extremely disheartening if Caroline gets an extremely generous plea deal due to her father's connections.
Why Turgenev remains one of the most important Russian writers
Especially since the hotel and the hotel’s insurers ended up paying $800M:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/las-vegas-shooting-settlement-m...

> Jim Frantz, whose San Diego-based law firm represents another 199 victims including Romo, said Thursday's settlement is a good first step. Now MGM must strengthen the security protocol at all their facilities, he said.

>"I would assume a responsible business, after going through something like this, would institute the highest level of security," Frantz said, adding that the company should add metal detectors and Navy SEAL-type security guards. "As long as we have automatic weapons, we've got to be on high alert with all our security."
That’s about 1.5m people, so. . . Maybe?
Ok, but this is still missing a very important element - where the hell are they getting finances to live?

The point OP is making us these people probably need ~$2000 a month to live at an absolute minimum. No luxury, no gadgets, just getting by.

How does one decide “working isn’t worth it” but still magically has these funds?
I really want C to have a slice/fat-pointer-array type, because C is the least common denominator for ABIs and any kind of FFI, and since it doesn't have something like that, it complicates FFI from languages that have a more sane way of handling arrays.

I'd even be happy if the standard just included a macro like:

#define ARRAY(T) struct { T *ptr, size_t len }

Along with a few functions for working with such types.

Although that would be kind of unwieldy to use in C, since you would need a typedef to actually use any specific types.