skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JVM startup time is how it got that reputation, I'm guessing benchmarks tend to exclude that.

Back in the early/mid 2000s, Java-based applications often had a Java splashscreen as it loaded, so even non-technical people made the association.
US school buses are going electric, in four charts
> Salinity will prohibit life in the water and directly at the shore.

Maybe these guys might survive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brine_shrimp Also these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephydra_hians - not really impressive, but birds think they're yummy...
Darth Vader now in „Return of the Jamba Spar-Abo“ (this only makes sense to Germans if at all;)
Lovely idea, a good use of wikidata (I assume it uses wikidata)?
Not a doctor, I've had similar experiences in the past, overweight and poor concentration (despite being "gifted"). I tried journaling.

The accountability etc is almost magic in its effect but I had found it really hard to do. Then 12 weeks ago I started on Ozempic, almost no effort required - 30lbs lost. 3 years earlier I started taking 54mg methylphenidate and on the days I take it, concentration is not a problem.
Where can I see an example of an actual prompt that is produced?
VVC codec – Its Benefits, Supported Devices, and How Bitmovin Is Implementing It
First a tracking tab to facilitate stalking, now a software kit to help simulate the voice of a person who may or may not consent. Entirely mass-produced. What could go wrong, and why isn't Apple concerned?
I joined HN few years ago, right away I felt 'these are my people'. The conversations are still pretty good for the most part but there is definitely a weird uptick of low effort borderline trolling comments.

I am not sure what the stats are for the site but I wouldn't be surprised if there was significant growth and when communities expand you start getting average content and average users which can change the experience old timers expect. I have seen these occur in many niche subreddits that grew.
No, I am not. This is real. The other thing that happens is brutally simple to understand: They just don't hold events featuring people with contrasting opinions. That's how you achieve "disinvitations is in the tens per year".

A parallel example having nothing to do with universities: The easiest way for a company to improve their numbers is to fire thousands of people. Their earnings per share metric will improve almost instantly. Yet, it doesn't mean they went out and got a bunch of new business...they manipulated the landscape to create a result.

I am not making shit up. You are ignoring reality and failing to engage in basic critical thinking. If you don't invite anyone from "the other side"...
"Do it once". If I may expand a bit...

If you leave, you have to stay at the next place. You can't leave there after six months. Doing that twice in a row looks really bad on your resume.

But if everything lines up perfectly, sure. "I left because I saw a perfect opportunity" flies better than "I left because I couldn't stand the old place."
I don't know, TouchID still feels pretty magical to me in 2023. And I'd like to think I have high expectations...
This is how, in-office, you get employees showing up at 6am to drink coffee and chat. It is also how, at home, you get employees to install a mouse-wiggling script and never close their laptop.

Your problem is unproductive employees - the ones who are going to get you business results are not going to appreciate being spied on and nickel-and-dimed for their time, and the ones who are not going to do so will not be suddenly transformed by you checking how long their laptop is open for.

And it just reeks of control freak.

Also, I always like to flip it around. What do managers even do? Those layabouts, I bet they're watching netflix and eating hot dogs while sending superficial emails all day while I'm here coding and actually producing value.

"I know checking “results” is what should be happening, but guess what? That’s actually pretty difficult and open to all kinds of debate"

"It’s not some small marginal group taking advantage every way they can every chance they get, it’s nearly everyone I know."

You might be running a bad business.
I have been starting to wonder if this really is going to be a very packed WWDC. Between this announcement and the Final Cut Pro (and the other tool I don't remember now) announcement.
Are you sure the NHS is using it? GPT-4 means you're sending sensitive patient data to a 3rd party.
They're starting to get there with winget. It's not as comfortable as an actual linux package manager, but it seems to be on the right track.
> They aren't your friend, but they aren't your bosses friend either

To be clear, sometimes they are close friends with your boss. Sometimes they are also the corporate lawyer.

I've encountered this situation in the past.
> in sublime text?

Not sure if you're under the impression that he is using Sublime Text or we're looking at different editors. In the video from his second class, it looks like he is using a Jetbrains[0] product.

[0] https://www.jetbrains.com/
It is nonsense, but a VP (=very junior individual contributor) would never know.
Self-reflection increases self-awareness. When I'm anxious, I write. Just a first-person brief on whatever is on my mind.

I like doing it digitally because I tend to cut/paste things around to try and make sense of whatever it is that I'm ruminating on.

As far as tools go, I tend to write inside of Notion these days, as linking between journal articles is super handy when I want to see how my thoughts and feelings around a certain topic have matured over time.
Highly highly recommend listen to this lecture by Sebastien Bubeck (quoted in the nyt article), it's extremely interesting:

https://youtu.be/qbIk7-JPB2c
the difference is using tools vs building your own tools when you need to. the idea of these algorithms is not to memorize them but to understand how they are build and what goals they are trying to accomplish. understanding of the basic building blocks allows approaching and solving problems in a different light.
The story seems so nice, but maths and observations on Quattara basin don't add up.

First of all, climate around seas in deserted areas isn't much better than further in land. See the shores in Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Iran.

But let's suppose someone decides to build the pipe and extract energy. It means one has to build a 58 km pipe under the ground (which is doable, like Gothard base tunner in Switzerland).

Then, 4 issues remain:

1) you must treat the water coming in the pipes, because it's possible to clog the pipe, the turbine, etc.

2) what inclination do you need to get a reasonable discharge of water?

3) how much power one can extract from the flow? Rough estimates give me several megawatts per 10 m of elevation per 1 pipe of 10 m in diameter (this is the kind of size in new large-diameter tunnels). Seems like a lot of piping for not much power.

4) Erosion of the shores that may fill the basin up. This is what happens to natural lakes on plains.

And key issue here: the more you discharge through the pipe, the higher the level of water in the lake, the less energy you can extract.
Vietnam is very much it's own thing with a strained relationship with China, they're not a vassal state.

I think in retrospect, Communism was never as post nationalist as people pretended at the time, and was just "the available motivating ideology". Kind of like how all revolutionaries were Islamic State for a few years.
There are multiple factors causing the decline in bird population, but I'd like to focus on a single one: deforestation. Trees provide so many different functions for birds (as for other animals, and for humans too), both directly and indirectly: shelter, fruits, a cooling effect in summer, and most importantly, they act as an entire ecosystem for insects and caterpillars. You remove the tree, you remove the insects, and you remove caterpillars which are a staple food for baby birds.

So yeah, deforestation + pesticides = less birds, and will lead to a desertification of Europe in more than one sense. But even in the desert you can find here and there an oasis, a place full of life where birdsong is just as vigorous as ever. There are still many places across Europe where this is happening, many oases (plural?) that teem with life, and bring happiness to the heart. In fact, this is not so difficult to do, just bring back the trees and the biodiversity, then the insects will return, and when the insects are there, birds will return.

Build it and they will come.

It is high time we change our agricultural practices from destructive to regenerative. The techniques are already well known, and pioneering work in this field of regenerative practices have been going on for decades already - from Yeomans, Molisson, and Holmgren in Australia to Fukuoka in Japan and Goetsch in Brasil, the knowledge is there.

I live with my family on a small piece of land where we work to increase biodiversity and to reforest. Every year, birdsong gets louder and louder. I know it's possible and my garden is proof. Build it and they will come.
What a sweet site! I will learn how to music for later india gaming usage, this is very fun and useful website, thanks!
>China invade Taiwan and TSMC management blows up the factories to prevent them from falling into Chinese hands.
Can you put the chemical name in your title?
yes the blockchain is what gaming needs to make it more fun.

I think gaming stopped being fun (for me) when i played breath of the wild, which was arguably a fun game, but actually its a microtransaction game without microtransactions. Your weapons run out. You are constantly grinding to cook random things so that you can be warm or cold or whatever. You are unlocking all the towers with puzzles. None of it is bad, it was in fact quite fun to play. But it didn't really feel like a game with a narrative that was someone's vision of an epic story. It felt kind of like what the game suggests throughout, link is trapped in a simulation run by some ancient computer that nobody controls any longer. And what is strange about all this is that it was designed with the same principle as the original zelda game, that you are simply out exploring in the backyard or in the forest except its a bit more fantastically real then your imagination was as a kid.

Maybe i just moved on from games and the blockchain is the real solution. I have no idea.
The human brain works around a lot of limiting biological functions. The necessary architecture to fully mimic a human brain on a computer might not look anything like the actual human brain.

That said, there are 8B+ of us and counting so unless there is magic involved, I don't see why we couldn't do a "1:1" replica of it (maybe far) in the future.
Don’t forget the the sounds (crickets at night etc.)!
For a more nuanced view on the Egypt project in particular check the wiki page [0]

Short version is it sounds uneconomical for power generation. Hard to believe but reading between the lines it feels like despite all the “free” hydroelectric you’re looking at immense construction difficulties

You know your projects heading for the drawer when you propose using 100 atomic bombs to dig the tunnel

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project

PS I’d love for this project to work. The main thing I could not really find supporting evidence for is “water will fill with life”. Just like… you could be constantly desalinating (and now have a brine problem) and still not really have a great ecosystem form I feel like? But I don’t understand this.
Why not? I don’t know much about the topic, but I’ve wondered about it.
They'd still protest that they're open to criticism of course. There were, if anything, more idiotic mind games centered around enforcing power structures. There was a rigid implied racial hierarchy too.

You're asking for a geographical location or a company where humans dont act human. I dont think it exists.
Schwab, and they are pushing it hard.
I always thought the key to getting clear ice was to boil the water first so the oxygen goes out of solution.
Most plugin UIs are extremely simple compared to a DAW, and have the nice property that most of the time they aren't visible.
My voice is my passport.
I was thinking it would be fun just to have Siri use a Personal Voice, but your idea is better! And it could just offer to make your Personal Voice data available along with your Contact picture.
I am not talking about competitiveness. I am talking about wasting a year with non-degree coursework and saddling students with tens of thousands of dollars of debt because of it. Coursework that no employer cares about one bit. Coursework that should be covered in high school, preparing young adults for the world --even if they don't go to college.

Are we sitting here pretending that all is well with our system of education? I would find that disturbing.
I'd argue that if people are forced to work in fast food at all, typically part time, without benefits, and almost no regularity to plan their lives around, and where the training materials explicitly suggest that the employees use state benefits, it is indicative of a structural advantage on the part of the employer.
Well that's just disappointing:

> Greater then [an error occurred while processing this directive] Pages requested since December 28, 1999
The Apple eco-system is essentially a mini-country
Which I agree with. I'm definitely not advocating that people take this stuff. Only pointing out that it's not completely obvious that it's harmful.
>Also, “life begins at conception,” or at another very early stage, isn’t a Christian innovation. That’s the belief in Shia Islam.

This is a lie ("In Shia Islam, abortion is "forbidden after implantation of the fertilised ovum.", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_abortion). I guess it never occurred to you why even the Sharia countries are not as extreme on abortion as Christian ones.

>Certain Sunni schools also prohibit abortion at any stage.

Obvious lie, ibid.

>Buddhist

Nope, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_abortion

>Same thing in Hinduism

Okay, so this one is not entirely wrong, just mostly wrong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism_and_abortion).

Once again: "life from conception" is a fringe view specific to Catholicism and borrowed by other extremist branches.
How many languages are supported?
East Germany has continued being economically weaker than the West, which would make them more prone to more radical ideologies in the absence of the prior far-left one. If anything, a historical gradualist Deng Xiaoping figure would mean acclimation and full development towards a finding a self-sufficient niche in a globalized market economy, not a wind down from hardline pro-Russian party apparatuses (who apparently were responsible for a post-unification far-right party?). Many dissatisfied East German youth would support the Euroscepticism of the AfD because they haven't experienced the full promises of prosperity from the collapse of the DDR and the victory of the West-led order.
is their calendar any good? i was looking at proton calendar, but it lacks a search function.

edit: tutanota calendar also lacks search, but at least they have it planned. proton haven't.
Uh! Good idea. Maybe it uses the camera to track your eyes. And it won't turn on if you tape the camera! That would sound on brand, right?

Edit: I mean, it may track you to say "you've not watched ads for the past 30 minutes"
That's what I was just thinking, same as people complaining in Scotland about heather and bracken. If you don't do anything proactive to plant native spieces and help them establish then you have to let nature do it however it wants to and it won't always look nice.

You also have to be much more strict about grazing. The problem with certain parts of the world is that you can sell all the land off to whomever and they can do whatever they want with it. 2M acres of grassland all eaten bare by sheep or cows? Yeah, no problem mate.
Maybe it’s relevant today because we have LLMs and speech interfaces, but it was relevant at the time because of the growing oppression of the Cold War.

The world grew beyond that, and cautiously welcomed Russia into the global economy, but much of that progress has been erased in a very short period of time.

It is alarming how quickly things can slide into authoritarianism. It can happen even as you celebrate your own success and prosperity. The story is just as relevant on /that/ point today as it is for anything to do with AI. If not more so.
Volatile doesn’t mean harmful byproducts can’t be left behind, though.
Go visit some of the top art academies around the world. There are still schools out there training people in the classical styles.

The fact that you can't really think of any artists or ever see their work out in the world kind of proves my points.
Jamster, Jambas international name, may ring a bell, though. :D
GitHub Archive
Wonder if it's "perfect" enough for that or if they'll add some sort of audio fingerprint (like the invisible dots on the printers).
> It never made sense to me to use hydrocarbon solvents in a food application

I get your point, but isn't this kind of a broad statement? After all, ethanol is a hydrocarbon solvent, and it's been used in food applications for a long time.
Just terrific. I remember a good number of those early examples. Also, the blog is great.

It's amazing to me that style and taste shine thru, regardless of the medium.

If there was just one thing I could change about myself, I'd get good taste. (I've tried. Believe me.) It just slays me when an artist like Goodchild can make art out of still life (for example) and all I get are pictures of rocks. How someone draws a bunch of squares just so to make art when all I can manage is a badly drawn grid.

That quan is beyond my ken. Not just out of reach. I honestly don't understand how someone like Goodchild sees the David within the slab of marble. There's no thru line, no amount of practice and experience, from my lack of taste to being able to create art. It's like I'm missing a language center, whatever language art has.

Ditto Goodchild's generative art experiments (via the blog). Just terrific.
Here is an example on how to do this using github.com/google/highway:
https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/zP7MYe9Yf

You write the code only once and do not have to worry about any #pragma/conditional compilation. Just copy-paste about a dozen lines of boilerplate, link with the Highway library, and done.

Disclosure: I am the main author; happy to discuss.
Sounds plausible. Also due to the news yesterday that Apple uses 90% of TSMC‘s 3nm space in 2023 [1]. Whereas everyone is talking about a recession, Apple seems to see opportunities. Or maybe they just had too much cash on hand. Also possible.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35947339
Sure, but there's a fundamental difference between christianity in culture and promoting female genital mutilation or denying reproductive rights.
"Y.T.’s mom decides to spend between fourteen and fifteen minutes reading the
memo. It’s better for younger workers to spend too long, to show that
they’re careful, not cocky. It’s better for older workers to go a little
fast, to show good management potential. She’s pushing forty. She scans
through the memo, hitting the Page Down button at reasonably regular
intervals, occasionally paging back up to pretend to reread some earlier
section. The computer is going to notice all this. It approves of
rereading. It’s a small thing, but over a decade or so this stuff really
shows up on your work-habits summary."
Hard disagree on that. The image of aligning your toes with a starting line is what makes sense. By contrast, while you may use a line to pull something behind you, it's never the line itself that you're towing.
Ask HN: How to create an explainer video? Any recommended tool?
I do this most nights just before bed.

I do this because I have really strong automatic negative thoughts, and always have. These can be really harmful to general flourishing, in particular by disrupting sleep and undermining self-confidence.

I don't really read these back. Rather, the writing itself is a kind of practice which aids processing of difficult emotions.

When I'm having difficult feelings, putting negative thoughts down in writing "gets them out of my head" which means I can let go of them, in turn easing the difficult feelings associated with them.

When I'm having positive feelings, putting a description of them down in writing forces me to notice them more than I would otherwise, which in turn inflates them.

Creating a balance of positive feelings to negative thoughts is one of the ways to take negative thoughts under control and manage them. What fires together wires together. Spiralling rumination is a seriously harmful thing to do to your own brain. Journalling is one way I manage this.
Improved my life, no. Am I glad I do it, absolutely. I've got a shit memory for one thing - so it lets me keep a log of my reading, my watching, my listening and my meditative practice.

I use Obsidian. Amazing. Couldn't recommend it more.
This tutorial comes up every couple years and it's got a pretty elegant UI and presentation. It seems to be a perennial HN favorite.

But I got a free copy of Ableton (not Ableton Live IIRC) with an interface I bought and Holy cow if Ableton isn't the most painful and disgusting UI I've seen in a while.

It took me about 2 seconds to get the interface working correctly in Garage Band. I literally gave up after an hour of trying to get Ableton working correctly. There were like 1000 buttons and one of them had a default value that made the interface not work right or the audio not get routed into the track. IIRC I got it to the point the audio was coming into ableton and it looked like it was working but then nothing ended up in the recorded track.

I play guitar as a hobby.. I have no time do put up with something like ableton, I want absolute minimal time spent futzing with a DAW and maximum time with my hands on the actual guitar.

This was all on top of me being a software engineer (which maybe made me less tolerant of figuring out the UI) and my interface coming with a long series of video tutorials on how to get Ableton working with the interface. Meanwhile again, got it working in about 2 seconds without looking at the help in Garage Band.

A lot of the differentiating features don't matter that much, micing my amp and using my pedalboard/amp sounds better than the synthetic sounds in the DAWs unless I spent a bunch more money.

Ableton reminds me of "configuration over convention" or something. Or ancient MS/IBM software where the user has to figure out 1000 options to get anything working.
This is a pattern they have gotten into in the last few years. Announce accessibility features a few weeks before WWDC. I think it’s so they don’t have to spend time on important features for the target demographic knowing that they will get swamped out by all the major OS features in the news cycle.
(GitHub) Copilot doesn’t work if profanity exists
I've done some spectrogram stuff in the past, and the bottleneck (eg in JUCE where you'd want to do this kind of thing) is in the path rendering. It's pretty cheap to compute a big FFT, even throwing it on separate thread if you care enough for that. Rendering an anti-aliased path that looks decent on a small display panel with the basic vector path tools however isn't great.

Not saying it can't be done, because people do it. But making something that compares to the latest/greatest and is fast isn't obvious.
But that's more on the 'communications' side rather than general monitoring of the worker (if the mouse is moving, etc)