skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Java, yes. Note that the JVM doesn't enforce checked exceptions. It's a language level thing. So in Kotlin for example, where all exceptions are unchecked, you can use the streams library without needing try/catch.
The flaw is in the implementation.

The mind of man, nor his trivial algorithmic automations are deception free.

Yet are discrete and codified insulation of intrinsic function beyond laws of what may be? I say no.

The problem is that we ourselves are self deceivers. We do only what is necessary for intended outcome. It takes ten years of reflection for our progressive learning to catch on. Despite how smart we think of ourselves.

Idempotent logic is one example of potentially “immune” logic, yet the devil is always in details of implementation as so many layers exist between client interface and serviceable results.

Wrapping layer by layer, where nothing really trusts or takes anything for granted must be intrinsic design for the hardest core.
ASML Stolen Data Came from Technical Repository for Chip Machines
"Keep working from home, just like we're doing right now" is within every company's power.

Fixing the statewide housing shortage, or replacing the suburbs with something dense and walkable enough to allow good public transport, is not.

If you think we can do the latter, please do so! I'd be happy to return to the office after it's been done.
Ask HN: (How) do you/I apply 80/20 principle to investments of $, time etc.?
I have been listening to the Business Method podcast on 80/20 principle [1] for a while.
Maybe I have been missing something from it due to multitasking, but I am curious how to apply it to beginner level investing in stocks/funds.

My (European) bank, as probably other banks also, offers some free investing services. There are some "funds" to invest for free, comprised from many stocks from many companies and across different sectors and managed by some human managers. There are non-free investment options with seemingly higher ROIs, but I'd like to start with the free ones. I suppose (maybe I am wrong) that these "funds" are mostly non-volatile and may have some stable government issued stocks etc.
My bank loves green energy, so there should be lots of stocks from this sector as well.

How do I apply the 80/20 principle and select the 20% of stocks/funds producing 80% of ROIs?

I suppose I could collect yearly data on ROI etc, available for these stocks, feed it to some regression program. Or just visualize ROI in quartiles and select the highest. But then should I compute p values for stocks with marked increase of ROIs?

In the podcast Richard Koch tells that it's easy to find high ROI companies per this principle, though may not be easy to invest in. I am a very basic level in investments with sparse knowledge.

How do you apply 80/20 principle in financial/time/etc investments?

[1] https://thebusinessmethod.podbean.com/e/ep554-hacking-the-algorithm%c2%a0of-business-finding-billion-dollar-investments-richard-koch-author-of-the-8020-principle/
Funny, I remember when we were called crazy conspiracy theorists for saying this not too long ago. Something tells me there will be no apologies.
> which in my experience was a set of 20 binders

They came in binders because, regularly, you’d receive a packet of new pages, sometimes a few, sometimes tens or even hundreds, with instructions on where to insert them in the binders and what pages to discard.

git pull is a tiny bit easier ;-)
Any large service consisting only of integrating 3rd party providers with 3rd party consumers is fragile.
IoT, Smart Homes, and Locus of Control
This person bought an IoT controlled home but didn't control it.
https://dnyuz.com/2023/02/17/unwanted-connection-who-has-control-of-your-smart-home/

Perhaps this is a place where AI could prove useful.

The problem seems to be that the "owner" has full permission and control.
The person buying the house can't be sure the prior owner is gone.
So the "locus of control" rests with a human.

Consider instead using an AI as "the owner", where the AI is associated
with the house. Buying and installing a new device would require
"convincing" the AI to accept it. Now the "locus of control" rests with the AI.

When transferring control from the old house owner to the new owner
there would be a process of convincing the AI that the old owner can
no longer access anything but the new owner can. Perhaps this might
require the AI to check with a government authority to verify that the
required paperwork for transfer is complete and correct.

The key idea is to transfer "locus of control" from the person to the house.
By that argument you should never cross a road as a pedestrian...

FWIW I do agree, the safety aspect is by far the biggest downside of motorcycles/bikes. But there's plenty that can be done to make both a lot safer, and examples of countries that have pulled it off successfully. And once you have a significant fraction of people no longer using cars, roads tend to become safer for everyone.
Are the parts 3D printed, or what is the fabrication process?

> McClelland admits that the parts “look somewhat alien and weird, but once you see them in function, it really makes sense.”

I wish this aspect has been shown in TFA.
For most companies there aren't many reasons to force people back.
Productivity was higher for my firm, yet some executives want people back.

In my opinion this is a flexing of power by the executive class, and I think it will backfire heavily. They think people can't find new jobs, and sure its a tough job market. But employees are creative, and can cause all sorts of damage if they'd like via slowdowns, "accidents", leaking information, etc.

I keep warning my firm, but they aren't listening. If just 5% of our employees decide to be a pain in the ass, it'll be a god damn disaster.
Adding to this, I also did a summary of a book from Ernest Becker way back in the day, and the section on neuroticism, or how psychology is taking over from religion, and such broader societal topics you can read about here: https://www.lostbookofsales.com/notes/the-denial-of-death-by...

It's quite some brutal and heavy reading, but then again, if it helps you understand the condition better then it's for the best I guess...
I'll never use GoDaddy. They've been fronting their customers for literally decades. Few times I searched for a domain, the next day I search for it find it already reserved by them and on sale for hundreds of dollars instead of the regular $10 it was the day before. They've been abusing their power for as long as they've been in business.
It's from someone doing incorrect percentage math. Twilio laid off 11% in September, then another 17% this week. You can't just add percentages; the actual total percentage from pre-September levels is around 26%.

Regardless, though, it seems to me a bit disingenuous to suggest that an outage now is correlated with a layoff from 5 months ago, let alone causal. Even with the more-recent layoff, Twilio is still well above its 2020 employee count, which should be more than sufficient to keep things running (and then some).

(Disclosure: former long-tenured Twilio employee; resigned a year ago.)
" But but but but it's the WOKES who are crazy"

Meanwhile non of the 14 year old blue-haired tumbler users they seem to think make up all of the democratic party and represent the only opinions of progressives actually make any law changes, or get elected, or are even thought leaders!
Actually there is somewhat standardized set of SQL error codes and they can be put into a hierarchy like the HTTP codes.

For instance, you can have a SQL error because the syntax of your SQL is wrong. If you're not doing "dynamic SQL" you know this is a programming error (it doesn't matter what input was supplied to the functions.) One common error is "attempted to insert a row with a duplicate key", frequently you want to catch that SQLException and rethrow all the rest.

The ideal SQL library for Java would expose the hierarchy implicit in SQL errors as a class hierarchy.
Are You Playing to Play, or Playing to Win?
Sorry to hear that. I know a friend in the same spot at Amazon. Their global remote team has been successful and they bust their ass coordinating across time zones. So, I guess they quit or "work from the office" by themselves like at a WeWork.
Does it do gardens?
At some point you have to realize that you might not be safe just because you aren’t in that country. I don’t think North Korea is going to kidnap you or something, but intentionally antagonizing foreign governments that aren’t amicable to your own government just seems like it could have unintended consequences down the road.
Neudivergent people also have to deal with being the other.

It's clear you don't want to have a discussion in good faith. You keep fixating on the word "rights"
in the phrase "fighting for rights or having a voice" in an attempt to reframe the discussion and to avoid having to meaningfully engage in the points mentioned.
My company has hired and grown many remote employees over the years… a few extremely junior. I’m sure some prefer in person but acting like it’s everyone is just ridiculous.

In person jobs will always exist, forcing everyone to be in person is not good.
Eng 1: Yeah we got backups, hit up Bob

Eng 2: Bob left in December. Who replaced Bob?

Eng 1: I don't know, his boss' email is coming back as invalid in outlook.

Eng 2: Fk it I'll just do it myself.

1 hour later

Eng 2: So backups stopped when Bob left in December. He was doing them manually due to an error in the automation. I'll try to restore from December.

5 hours later

Eng 2: backups are corrupt and won't work. Looks like we've never restore from backup to production

--------

Nation State Actor: WTB: Twilio access
Recently Laid off Employee: I like money.
Software engineers want a seat at the table, but refuse to form unions that would actually give them one. I'm curious if that will begin to change during this era of greater pressure from management (but I doubt it).
> Maybe Amazon should also ensure employer safety while commuting/walking to the office.

I've never looked into it myself, but they do advertise a service like this around the Seattle offices
This comment is presumptuous, dismissive, and also wrong. People who write application-like front ends in React (etc.) want back ends that can interoperate with those front ends.

They accomplish things like built-time code generation, static server-side rendering, and other kinds of code transformation that are difficult and flaky without a back end that can understand JS.

I have looked for non-tinkertoy solutions in Java and Go. There aren't any, and senior people in those communities are hostile to the very idea. (Maybe remembering Java Nashorn?) Maybe the only people friendly to the idea of interoperable back ends are Rust people (where you have libraries like Yew/Sycamore/Dioxus/Leptos that actively imitate JS frameworks).

But yes, your claim is that the only reason to write JS back ends is ignorance and enfeeblement is ignorant and repugnant.
Where do you get $100/flight deals? Also you need to account for lodging during the week
What you said may apply to both "non-destructive" and "destructive" editors just as well. A better example would be "if you add reverb to your track, save your progress and close your project, you won't be able to unreverb it". With "non-destructive" editor, all you did was to add a flag that your track should have a reverb added to it, so you can easily disable or adjust parameters of your reverb afterwards without having to rely on undo.
If anybody wants to read a more fleshed out description of this same concept, but without the mental limitation of being stuck in a small closet, they should research the method of loci also popularly known as the 'memory palace.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
While it doesn't have the batteries, typescript's gradual typing is much nicer than python's, so for some use cases it's a better language.

All languages come with tradeoffs in terms of performance, development/maintenance cost and ease of hiring. Most businesses only care superficially about performance, which leaves developer productivity and ease of hiring. Node/typescript isn't terrible in terms of developer productivity, and it's got the best hiring story of any language. Python is good in both those ways too, but since you already need a javascript hiring pipeline for the client it's easier just to use node and hire full stack devs.
"I find myself missing match in pretty much every other language I go to."

Python has match, is this the same thing?

https://blog.teclado.com/python-match-case/
Near work! I’m still confused how it knows to use “an” if it hasn’t chosen the word after it yet?
What is ControlNet and how does it work?
Here's a brief explanation of ControlNet, a new method that can be used to control large diffusion models in arbitrary conditions, such as image edges, human poses, or segmentation maps.
11% were laid off in Sept.
> What I'm advocating is changing the STRUCTURE in which they operate so that "becoming nicer" is prompted by the system. The current system fully expects only the primary goal of maximizing profit/value for the shareholders/owners, and minimal compliance with anything else.

Those are interested ideas. But it begs the question: How to enforce compliance without regulation?
>Take, for example, the Deepwater Horizon spill. The company paid out what, 1 billion in fines? Less than 5% of last years profits.

How much should they pay? 100% of profits? Whatever percent you think it should be, do you think that if you spilled a bunch of used oil on the ground should you be fined the equivalent amount of your disposable income?

>The media - all media - were barred from filming or investigating

The wikipedia article[1] for that disaster doesn't seem to have a shortage of media on that topic. There's even photos from the government itself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill
Ha ha, found the nerd.

(I was thinking the same though.)
I managed to compile and run a hello world C program (it might've actually been B?) using ed on an old school Research Unix machine they had.

I also remember messing with the shell on an even older Unix machine that had an actual teletype printer terminal. And directly poking the VGA buffer on a C64 to do goofy things...

I only went once a while ago, when my family took a trip to Seattle, but that is one of my most treasured memories. It's a travesty that future generations of nerdy kids won't get that experience (and I'm sad that I likely won't get it again either).
I've lived in the city, in the suburbs, and in the country.

Absolutely no question, living in the city (in this case, Manhattan/NYC), a car is a liability. Parking was either insanely expensive or a game of musical chairs 2X per week as the no parking times for the streetsweepers come up (and that was decades ago).

But anywhere else, the car is basically a necessity. Doesn't have to be fancy, but it does have to be. I keep looking at electric motorcycles/scooters for a relatively short commute, but not keen on the hazards (and I'm not risk averse; I've had sportscar racing licenses & experience, rock climbing, etc., but when surgeons I know call motorcycles "donor-cycles", I take the hint).

What is sad is that only rarely is driving fun anymore. A long drive in the country on a nice day was a real joy, but there's just too much traffic now...
Is there a free trial available? Would be interested to play around with this since my company is considering building homegrown. Thanks.
I read through your post above and it helped me put words to what I feel in my mind. A cluttered garage.

Thank you for writing it.
It's a shift where many will avoid FAANGs because they start offering less upside. Stocks are down, public imagine slightly toxic and less benefits. When you subtract the cost of living close to FAANG people are going to go for more work life balance.
Considering how many hoops I have to jump through to use their services (under the guise of anti-fraud/spam) I'd love to know how they get away with it
You're assuming this wasn't done maliciously
Berkshire is not unique in its ability to buy what you call "distressed" companies. The companies it buys are not usually distressed, but just undervalued by rest of the market. It's entrance into tech is fairly recent.

Overall strategy is simple to state but hard to execute over time consistently: 1) Actually read financial reports. Buy what you truly understand.
2) Don't buy stuff during bubbles or when overvalued (which is a lot of the time) and be happy with just sitting on your accumulated reserves,
3) Buy when you spot companies/stock that is undervalued relative to the market
4) Mostly HOLD forever.

The reason tech came relatively late is it failed Rule #1 of "buy what you understand", and vast majority of the time it fails Rule #2.

What not to do: Time Warner-AOL merger was worth $350 Billion. In 2015, Time Warner got sold for $78 billion.
Not to be pedantic, but if they executed a 11% layoff and later executed a 17% layoff of the remaining, that does NOT add up to 28%. That math is incorrect. Please fix the title.
Passkeys if the site supports them as a secure authenticator for 2FA/MFA (should pop up in your device if you try to setup a secure hardware authenticator on iphones and android) or TOTPs stored securely somewhere that isn't vendor locked.
Regarding the guards and the cameras, I don't want to accept those as unlikely until I know whether guards in that prison sleep on the job often, and whether the cameras were under regular disrepair and nobody cared enough to fix them. Both of those seem quite plausible to me.
Have you seen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_%26_Frank

?

That movie wonderfully explores the difference between what a robot owes to its owner and what it could owe to the state.
> Few times I searched for a domain, the next day I search for it find it already reserved by them and on sale for hundreds of dollars instead of the regular $10 it was the day before.

I don't understand how that could possibly be profitable. Imagine how many searches there must be for new domains every day. There is no way they could afford to buy all of the domains that people searched for.

And if they had any means of measuring how "good" a domain name is, in order to filter the searches that people make, and front run only the ones looking for good domain names – I don't think that would make sense either. If you were able to reliably measure how good a domain name was you could just buy the domain name right away without waiting for any customers to search for the domain.

Anyway, for anyone that is looking for a registrar to use I recommend that you stay away from GoDaddy. Register your domains with Gandi.net, they are nice and good. https://www.gandi.net/en-GB
Sorry I'm not sure.
20 seconds maybe? However long it takes Tomcat to start.
the article states they laid off 11% , less than 5 months ago.

That's 26.1%

Anecdata, but in several years of being a Twilio customer, I have never seen such a long outage.

EDIT: fixed % of %.
We’re not hostile to it and we have good or at least adequate public transit in a lot of major cities. We just don’t need it everywhere. I live in a very suburban town and can’t imagine that many people would really want to take it. My town skews heavily Mormon (large families) and elderly. That is not going to get much ridership yet some people still keep proposing light rail extension to my town.
Many people wrote about this technique, the earliest known person to describe it was Cicero.
I don't disagree that young folks can harm their finances by spending gratuitously on cars.

But, I see it differently as far as long-term trends. I'm actually surprised at how stable new car prices have been, while the quality and capabilities have been expanded. Let's consider two benchmarks, because these are ones I've thought about before. I'll consider a two decade period from late 1990s to late 2010s, so also ignoring the recent pandemic market distortions.

One is a practical economy car, e.g. Toyota. The other is an entry-level, all-wheel-drive luxury/sports sedan, e.g. Audi.

A 1997 Corolla at $14k compared to a 2017 Corolla at $18k (28% increase).

A 1997 A4 at $28k compared to a 2017 A4 at $38k (35% increase).

But, this ignores that the newer cars were up-classed and almost competed with their larger sibling models from twenty years before. The 2017 Corolla and A4 were nearly as big and well equipped as the 1997 Camry and A6, respectively. To try to stay at more similar size, power, and features, consider a lower model class for the later time period.

A 1997 Corolla at $14k compared to a 2017 Yaris at $16k (14% increase).

A 1997 A4 at $28k compared to a 2017 A3 at $32k (14% increase).

During the same time period, other living expenses like housing, health insurance, and energy pretty much doubled for me in California. The median US household income also grew from $37k to $60k (62% increase) in this same time frame. So, I see the new car market as having significantly "beat inflation" in a practical sense.
On mobile (Safari / iOS) it's impossible to enter a query containing a space character, because the <input> field opens the keyboard for typing a URL (with a ".com" key in place of the space bar). I am however able to paste a query including a space into the input field.
Tenacious A
We need more outages right before elections
Although I used to exclusively use it, Canvas-based maps just run so much smoother and support things like rotation that are really helpful for changing perspective.
Here’s an example from personal experience:

When working at the office, it felt meh. We mostly talked on slack, worked async, and ignored each other. But the weekly outings for lunch were nice.

When working from home, it’s b been great. We talk a lot on many channels, work together, and feel a great sense of camaraderie. But we mostly haven’t met in person.

Team morale has more to do with it than physical presence.

BUT whenever we do meet in person, you always find out the inside scoop about all sorts of goings on. You hear murmurings of big decisions months before they’re made.

I think the grape vine is a crucial information channel for people in leadership and it’s almost impossible to reproduce virtually. But it’s much less, if at all, valuable to us peons.
Sorry but I don't agree with employees working from home. The best ideas and collaboration happens at the office.

Period.

Edit: Fine, disagree with me.
It is perfectly possible that the interpolated image is a better statistical fit to reality than the source image.

This is more intuitive with height data. For example a 100m grid could have a 10m cell right beside a 20m cell. A point on the boundary between both cells is more likely to be at 15m than either 10m or 20m. And you can improve that estimate using other nuances. Picking a predicted value can be more truthful.

I agree that caution is important but that is true with any imagery analysis. A human analysing imagery will already be using a lot of intuition as it is.
Not in this job market. When all the plausible alternative employers are freezing hiring, many people will stay even if they don't like it.

Senior at FAANG means $400k/year total comp or more. You aren't going to get that at a startup. Only other large companies pay that well, and they aren't hiring.

Junior engineers are more likely to leave because a startup might pay them roughly what they make now. As a junior, salary is a larger part of your compensation. Once you are senior and have multiple years of RSU grants stacked up, it's very different.
Indent delivers secure access with Next.js and Vercel
Go has bad interop with C/C++ and languages that use the C/C++ ABI (including Rust). You can use cgo as a workaround but it's clunky. So that makes an interesting case for other high level, novice-friendly languages like Nim, Crystal or Val/Vale/Vala.