skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"It seems like there's a lot of people in the Java community who still think OO is a great idea."

Java is not the only language in existence and the OO is a great idea as well as many other paradigms when not being overused. Problem is with the programmers who learn one language / paradigm and would fight tooth and nails to solve all world problems with it no matter how poor for particular case.
Could you elaborate on where exactly you save or store your entries to make them universally accessible? For instance, do you use a specific application or cloud storage service?
Interesting, but I'm going to stick with "tow the line" because it simply makes way more sense and is way more intuitive.
We drink a lot of decaf and I email roasters before ordering to see what method they use (even though it's stated that methylene chloride is "totally safe"). It seems most commercially available beans are processed via this company: https://en.descamex.com.mx/ (which does both: https://en.descamex.com.mx/mountainwaterprocess)

Even our local coffee roaster replied and said they only use Swiss water process on their more expensive organic beans - the rest of their lineup uses MC.
Kowtow, but no.
Berkshire Hathaway abruptly dumps entire TSMC stake due to geopolitical risk
But what it's becoming isn't the point, the point of the loose translation is that the location of the furnace melting it down to become nails isn't specified in the original statement. The rest of the article implies it most likely went to Malta for resale and then somewhere else to become nails.
Do you think it would be good/capable for audio or video editing?
All of my current experience with Siri tells me there is a 50-50 chance of the result coming back as “Sorry, I have having trouble connecting to the network” or playing a random song from Apple Music.

Just last night, we were entertaining our toddler with animal sounds. It worked with “Hey Siri, what does a goat sound like?”, then we were able to do horse, cow, sheep, boar, and it somehow got tripped up on pig, for which it responded with the Wikipedia entry and told us to look at the phone for more info.
I'd say overall mostly yes. I had a few main goals when I started journaling late last year:

1. Help me better understand my feelings and where they come from

2. Help me plan things in my life at a higher level, so I'm not just living day to day. I find that writing generally helps me think more logically.

3. Make it possible for me to reflect back to almost any given day and understand what happened that day. Prior to journaling I'd get the feeling that days, weeks and even months and years could sometimes be a huge blur.

For me I've been able to mostly accomplish these goals.

I'm still having trouble with consistency, but I'm working on it. I like building things so to keep me motivated, I built my own app (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/a-journal-a-day/id1659288235). Doing so has somewhat helped me stay motivated and write.
As a way of illustrating the distribution of a set of random numbers, it's an absolutely terrible visualization.
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The Fremont factory predates the Georgetown factory by a few years, and of course even more if we consider the pre-Toyota history of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Motor_Manufacturing_Ken...
I wish you the best. But you'd help yourself if you came to terms with ...Twilio is a service where its relationships matter. For them. For you.

Three hours? On a Monday?? Monday being the day well known to be backed up from the weekend, as well as from ppl catching up on the weekend and then contacting X Service Provider.

You're wasting time with this on HN. You're not blocked by any means.
which ideology is that?
Some sort of natural immunity maybe? I realized several years ago that I was getting the flu every year unless I got the shot, and it always kicked my ass. I did skip the shots over the Covid years though.

On the other hand, I’ve managed to avoid getting HSV-1 even though it seems like everybody else in my age bracket (over 60) has it. Must be something genetic.
> China just destroyed hundreds of thousands of tech jobs due to ideology

What did they do?
Here is Musk himself trying to provide cover to one last week when he really had no reason to open his mouth about the shooting at all.

https://fortune.com/2023/05/10/elon-musk-twitter-texas-mall-...
Carbon tetrachloride is used in research to reliably create liver damage. It's very toxic.

"Carbon tetrachloride is one of the most potent hepatotoxins (toxic to the liver), so much so that it is widely used in scientific research to evaluate hepatoprotective agents."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tetrachloride
The point would be to stop them peeking for other reasons.
> I want to link it to whoever insisted on adding a useless TextDecoder class in javascript that you have to instantiate, instead of just calling textDecode(…, “utf8”) using a global function like the rest of the standard library.

I for one would rather punch the person who proposes such a global function as the only mechanism for conversion, because charset conversion is a reasonable thing to do on chunked partial inputs, and maintaining the state for conversion yourself is actually quite painful. Wrapping a stream converter into a one-shot function is much easier than the reverse, wrapping a one-shot function in a stream converter.
>I'd be very surprised if there were zero atheists that were anti-abortion.

Well, sure, there were _some_, eg both Hitler and Stalin have delegalised abortion in their countries. But I'm not sure if that's the kind of moral oracle that todays christian fundamentalists would like to remember.
> That sounds dystopian to me already (maybe because I'm not in the US? Or haven't spend much time at BigCorp? But is that really the default minimum these days?)

It's not the norm for white collar professional jobs, no.

On the other hand, some blue collar jobs have a long history of detailed tracking. Clocking in when you arrive, maybe with biometrics, and clocking out when you leave. A call centre worker might find their employer monitors the number of calls they take, the time they spend on each call, records the contents of the call, and surveys the caller for their feedback.
OS in Go? Why Not?
As someone who worked for one of the big Japanese auto manufacturers less than five years ago in Infotainment, in the exact domain of what this thread is talking about, I agree wholeheartedly. You all may or may not be surprised about the philosophy behind this. Your data is looked at as their data... In the company I worked for, this was all driven by a small sect of executives in Los Angeles.

This is one of the biggest reasons I left, as I couldn't agree on an ethical level with the decisions around customer privacy.
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Heavy EU accent siri incoming!
One weird theory:

AI might actually significantly increase the demand for software engineers in the short term.

If software engineers are more productive, then they’re higher ROI for businesses to hire.

Plus, the world still has a massive supply shortage of software.

I’ve hired contract software engineers for my businesses at a higher pace since GPT-4’s release than before. And I like working with contractors that utilize GPT to help them do Dev.
I did a phd in cognitive neuroscience. It was similar-ish to my undergrad.

Early in the program, days were fairly structured: a typical day had classes/homework, maybe meeting with an advisor, read some the foundational "classic" papers, and maybe collect/analyze data.

Later in the program, the structure disappeared. You might have a meeting or two, but the rest of the time you need to figure out what to do. Should I write something? Apply for something? Which papers/journals are worth reading to stay up to date? When should I stop playing with new analyses and start writing up some findings? The hardest part of the PhD was dealing with this lack of structure and the most useful skills you work on are self-discipline and time management.

I didn't learn self-discipline and time management very well and it really took a toll. There was a constant drone of "I should be working right now" so I took a laptop and stack of papers with me everywhere. But I rarely did much work, so I ended up a) never truly disconnecting from work and b) piling on extra layers of guilt because I was not working.
I hope you won't mind if I use the term "journaling" in its broadest sense as anything written about events of my life.

1. I write a training journal that consist of .fit files with extensive notes in .txt files - how I felt during and after the training (including things like "I discovered a new road next to a river, it was beautiful" or "I kept thinking about X and I was pissed), what I ate and how I slept that day, that I was observing swallows flying and that it made me feel good for some reason... writing a journal like this forces you to pay attention to little things. You notice patterns, maybe little signs of overtraining, signals that it is going well, connections that you might otherwise miss, like "I have elevated heart rate every time I eat poppy seed cookies"...

2. when I have something on my mind, I write it as an email for "someone close". This started during a difficult but interesting period in my life when I was actually sending emails to my close friend (we were on different continents and it was before Skype, mobile phones etc. - emails were the only connection we could have at the time). Nowadays I sometimes just write what is happening in my life without sending it to anyone but I usually still think about it as if I am writing to a friend. What is great about it is that this somehow re-frames heavy stuff into a funny story - it works even at the very moment when you are living through something tough; instead of just being depressed or scared you are already formulating in your head how you will write that email later and somehow your perspective changes into something a lot more positive - at least in my case it works like that.
I use rails, with some turbo/stimulus.js if I need it. Often I don't need any JS. And I can get something built in a few days or weeks at most.
> It seems that Google has reduced the registration price to $15 per year for a .zip domain last week, which appears to be less than halve the previous price. The price drop appears to have increased interest for .zip domains, and some new registrations are already used in phishing campaigns.

It is interesting that $15 a year is enough savings to justifying starting a new phishing attempt. I assumed there was so much money in phishing that an extra ~$1.05 a month could be easily absorbed.

Either way, I'm shocked that a .zip domain was ever approved. This should have been obvious for whatever mysterious board approves TLDs.
Kojima made a GBA game about a vampire hunter who was stronger in the daylight. The cartridge featured a light sensor that could detect if you were playing it out in the sun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boktai:_The_Sun_Is_in_Your_Han...
Apple is the most valuable fashion brand by a mile.
What about trying a gratitude journal? That way you're not just focused on the negatives
It's been known for quite some time that trichloroethylene is linked to Parkinsons. In fact the doctor that assessed my father a few years ago asked him "what was your job?", "engineer," "you used degreaser didn't you? Did you know that .... ".
I feel pretty confident in my ability to see through people that are faking it.

Maybe I am exaggerating my perceptiveness, but being shocked by Caravaggio paintings is not at all uncommon.
Losing weight especially with that much scrutiny where you track everything can definitely make you neurotic about what you eat, and mess with how you perceive yourself (i.e. someone looks perfectly fine but their eyes just laser focus on a tiny bit of fat on their belly and they think they're obese because of how critical they were).

With stuff like that it helps a lot to journal but in a way where it's not hypercritical / nit picky / focused on every little detail but just slightly broader strokes in my experience to keep it healthy & sustainable (not messing up how you perceive yourself)
Papers for the algos:

[50] M. J. D. Powell. A direct search optimization method that models the objective and constraint functions by linear interpolation. In S. Gomez and J. P. Hennart, editors, Advances in Optimization and Numerical Analysis, pages 51–67, Dordrecht, NL, 1994.

[53] M. J. D. Powell. UOBYQA: unconstrained optimization by quadratic approximation. Math. Program., 92:555–582, 2002.

[56] M. J. D. Powell. The NEWUOA software for unconstrained optimization without derivatives. In G. Di Pillo and M. Roma, editors, Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization, volume 83 of Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications, pages 255–297, Boston, MA, USA, 2006.

[58] M. J. D. Powell. The BOBYQA algorithm for bound constrained optimization without derivatives. Technical Report DAMTP 2009/NA06, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 2009.
Double up-vote for this. The most important book about the software development process that you'll ever read, from the man who ran IBM's bet-the-company System/360 product.
Is contacts working well for you? With about 3k contacts, it was performing poorly for me.

Apart from that, Tutanota is a GREAT service.
Former bartender here. Having nice cocktail ice chunks at home isn't as complex as this might make it seem. No need for a clunky box in your freezer or costly gizmos.

I keep a travel-sized coffee thermos in my freezer with about 2-3 inches of water at the bottom. Takes 18-24 hours to create one chunk. If you time it right, 90% of the water freezes, and the water impurities pool at the bottom – pop out the frozen chunk and the result is clear ice. I store 4-5 of these in a zip-top bag until I have friends over and serve drinks.

Best to use a thermos with a slight conical interior so it's easy to pop out the ice. Makes a nice plug-shaped, clear ice chunk. Then refill and restart the process.
I think they just want control and power.

Even more than they want profit.
A rare mutation helped one man stave off Alzheimer’s for decades
Journals ? No, it's just a mess of a bunch of unrelated things that only have date in common. I'd definitely consider doing one for travels, could be a nice thing with attached picture but for day to day things I prefer different kind.

Logging and notes? Yes. I am fond of "personal wiki" idea.

Project gets its own page with all relevant info. And links to all the other relevant things. Search makes sure I can actually find it. at worst if I wanted to look at history I could git blame so "when I wrote that" feature of journal is also filled in.

I use QOwnNotes which is absolute overkill feature-wise for me but I use it coz it keeps files in markdown which means I can edit/view it in many other things if required. Then syncthing to sync to other devices.

I'd only want for better integration with todo/calendar tools.

My ideal would be ability to write a calendar event (org-mode style) anywhere I want. And a feature to be able to express "put this event on my to-do list after date X". So I could, for example, put a maintenance thing year ahead on to-do list but without a concrete data and calendar alerts to bother me

I did use org-mode for a long time and it was great when only using editor but weak integration with anything else made me eventually leave it. Like, I love the featureset but non-emacs implementations always miss something (like spreadsheet-like table handling with formulas) and I grew tired of it.
Also, infertility[0].

[0] https://academic.oup.com/toxsci/article/82/2/590/1656962
There's at least one more group that comes to mind: logical reasoning models for time-critical accurate problem solving in robotic applications, that take natural language + sensor context and output movement commands. A "fly 100 m up and take bird's eye photos of this area" or "take this drill and make 3 holes spaced evenly into this wall" or "drive along the plants in this field and water them all" kind of application.
Safing Intra-Mesh: Service-Mesh, but for Your Intranet
SPJ would be proud.
Of course one of the first companies to create a commercial "AI" would lobby the government to create regulatory barriers to competition in order to provide a moat for their business. While their product is undeniably good, I am disappointed in OpenAI's business practices in this instance.
https://kyren.github.io/2018/09/14/rustconf-talk.html I rather liked kyren's keynote. It's particularly focused on games, but some of the same issues arise in other complex apps.

"Rust highly rewards data-oriented design with simple, understandable ownership semantics, and this is great news because this is a really good fit for game development. I suspect this is also true generally, not just for game development! (but what do I know?)"
It's even more complicated if you read the other books in the trilogy (though I can't really recommend them in general).
I feel like I just don't understand, as someone who has to upgrade hardware every few years just because it breaks.

My PC laptop's keyboard is broken, the bottom panel is snapped off, one of the hinge covers is missing, the ethernet port is broken off the motherboard, the charging cable is soldered in place (because the barrel jack kept breaking), the USB-C port is iffy, the fans keep failing, and it took all that to make me get a new desktop. But that happened in the span of about two years of using the machine in bed. I can't imagine trying to make that machine last any longer, it's a lost cause.

> Hardware from that era is still very capable, especially for basic office or home usage.

Are people used to waiting for their computers to do things? I can't use slow computers because I heavily depend on multitasking and task switching, but seeing some of the things people put up with—like Firefox taking 15 minutes to load—makes me wonder if everyone else is just okay with having a slow computer.
>a neural network's neuron doesn't share much with a human brain's neuron

What are the key differences?
I would lean against leaving, or at least against leaving now. Leaving too quickly looks bad on your resume; it may close some doors down the road. Also, things can change. Lots of things feel difficult after a few months that won't feel all that bad after a couple of years. But also, corporations change too, as managers come and go.

But I only said that I would lean against it, not that you should definitely stay. How bad an impact is this having on your mental health? It's not worth doing serious damage to your mental health for a resume that looks better. I can't tell you whether you just need a thicker skin, or whether you're risking serious damage.

One thing you might do is plan on leaving at, say, two years. Then, when pressure comes to hit whatever corporate goal of the moment, you can have a different perspective. "I'm leaving in a year and a bit. I don't have to care about your goal, and I don't even have to care about your performance review if I don't work overtime or whatever to try to reach your goal." At that point, you're a tourist, not a resident. The customs of the locals are quaint, but not something you have to live by.
Let GitHub automatically make screenshots of all your websites
Clone the repo and just fill the sites.txt file with your URLs. Let Github Actions create the screenshots.
Great time to be "selling umbrellas" :) good luck on your business! Exciting stuff!
I think it’s likely you’re projecting your personal experience onto others. I knew someone who was obsessed with the Red Room by Matisse. He was in no way pretentious or academic in inclination, but something about the actual painting itself entranced him and he could disappear into it for long periods of time. I honestly don’t know what was so powerful about it for him, but he was clearly having a genuine experience different than mine. Authoritatively providing my conjecture regarding his ‘relative reaction’ would be immensely pompous.

Art is more than technique, the music performances that move us are very often not the absolute highest level of virtuosity. Photographs were incredibly common in my lifetime, but I was still very strongly affected by paintings on books, album covers and in museums.

Further, non-representative visual art has a rich history. You merely have to look at the amazing art produced out of Islamic aniconism.
In practice, it's far easier to find good single-origin roasts than to find good decaf options. I've actually never been able to find anything lighter than medium roast in SWP -- not sure if that's for some functional or taste reason, or just because it's a sliver of a sliver of the market.
The article kinda glosses over an important point --- stablecoin issuers don't just act like banks --- they act like the Federal Reserve.

An ordinary banks takes in a $1 deposit and issues up to $0.90 in loans.

A stablecoin issuer can take in $0 and loan any amount they choose.

It costs them nothing to disperse stablecoins to friends in exchange for IOUs. Friends who will then use the coins to buy/sell and otherwise manipulate crypto prices in collusion with the issuer.

Bottom line: There is nothing to stop crypto prices from being rigged by stablecoin issuers --- aka the exchanges.

Musk called Dogecoin a "hustle" but the reality is actually much bigger than that --- the entire crypto market is a "hustle".
Implicit bias training is pseudo-science. The balance of the scientific evidence suggests that implicit bias training has no effect at best, and a slightly adverse effect (i.e. more bias) at worst.

Discrimination exists, and must be fought. The only thing implicit bias training achieves is making rich professionals feel better about themselves while doing absolutely nothing to combat discrimination. It's also a great box ticking exercise for big business.
Trichloroethylene is still used but less than before.

~20 000 tonnes today vs. 250 000 tonnes in 1970.
> I'm a pacifist

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” - Mike Tyson
I have a chain saw that can cut better than me, a car that can go faster, a computer that can do math better, etc.

We've been doing this forever with everything. Building tools is what makes us unique. Why is building what amounts to a calculator/spreadsheet/CAD program for language somehow a Rubicon that cannot be crossed? Did people freak out this much about computers replacing humans when they were shown to be good at math?
Following up - https://redpanda.com/blog/why-fsync-is-needed-for-data-safet...

Try this on your laptop see global data loss - hint: multi-az is not enough

Regardless of the replication mechanism you must fsync() your data to prevent global data loss in non-Byzantine protocols.
Xi Jinping Thought https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping_Thought
This reminds me of the government protesting that they only used dragnet surveillance to find terrorists.

And then Snowden was like "actually Ive seen them snooping on your nude pictures".
It’s cat and mouse.

“No, our suite detects nudity and automatically deletes related imagery.”
Thats not what’s being discussed though, which is Siri having these abilities built in
I do not know much but a guess: air currents over oceans mean evaporated water doesn’t stick around as much as with rivers or lakes? Though I share your skepticism with the hand-wavy “mo water mo rain”
The stolen part mostly relates around the sales and distribution network, less around the code. Basically the sales equivalent of IP theft, and a really huge douche move by their CEO. Makes him very unsympathetic to me. Not as bad as Behringer but close.