skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, same. However, it is a pain to install on some systems because, for example, the Ubuntu package installs a debug build that puts a log text file (or similar, I forget the details) in $CWD everywhere you go. So you end up downloading a binary off Github, which feels dirty to me. And there are some other micro configuration tweaks I like to do.

I'm definitely going to compare this against micro.
FWIW, I recall Prime Now was geared towards making money back via "on-demand" alcohol sales. Drizly was one of the competitors in the market.

In a similar fashion, and as per how Amazon likes to operate, the functionality of Prime Now was then assimilated into Amazon.com itself.
Enter Elon Musk with Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, & Neuralink... he seems to have it figured out
Sorry, the first sentence is a mis-informing wording.

The `synchronized` pins the thread only when from within of the `synchronized` the program calls a blocking operation that would normally unmount the virtual thread, like blockingQueue.take() or similar. (Which is not a sane coding practice). It's because the unmounting, as it's implemented today, does not work well with synchronized.

It's better if people read JEP 444 than rely on forum comments, to avoid being misinformed.

Speaking of long-running - even without synchronized, a long running code keeps the native thread occupied, until some blocking operation is called. So an endless loop that does not call a virtual-thread-ready blocking operation will occupy the native thread forever.

Java virtual threads are a kind of cooperative multithreading - another virtual thread only gets chance to kick-in when some current virtual thread reaches specific blocking operations. In contrast to preemptive multi-threading with native threads.

So I agree with your conclusion. Virtual threads can not (yet?) be blindly used as a drop-in replacement of native threads for existing code. And the new code needs to take their specifics into account.

BTW, another method I discovered to block the native carrier thread that executes a virtual thread is to call blocking reading through FileInputStream, for example reading from the console. The FileInputStream does not implement virtual thread parking at all (yet?).
They're just telling you how you're coming across in these comments. You sound a tad resentful and like someone who maybe has a bit of chip on his shoulder with respect to more junior Java engineers. If that's how you want to come across (because you feel that's your authentic self, or feel you're telling it like it is), then no change is needed. If you feel that doesn't reflect who you truly are and you would like to come across differently, you may wish to course correct with how you present your Java dev years.

I'm not trying to criticize you. You don't sound like a bad person or anything. But you do sound a bit resentful and dismissive of more junior engineers and their desire to use Java frameworks.
CPUs are slow in comparison to GPUs for lots of tasks. Comparing a 10 year old CPU vs. a 4 year old GPU only make that comparison "more offensive." That said, you pair your R420 with something like a RTX A2000 and you'll have a much fairer fight.
Not necessarily?

There's nothing to say that you need to make a profit. If all the employees are paid a decent amount, all your other costs are covered, and there's revenue unspent, you could just reduce the prices a bit.

The idea that any enterprise needs to make a profit (let alone an endlessly increasing profit) is a destructive fallacy.
It's great feature that we don't need consider where authors locate
Maybe off-topic, but having recently repaired a cheap-ass toaster, maybe some insights:

When you get a cheap toaster, they will probably have a design flaw: when the toaster pops up, there will be arcing. This means that the toaster will only last a few years. My repair was in this section. The heat eventually desoldered the mains pad on the PCB. You can maybe repair it once and get another year out of it, after that the PCB will be very charred and brittle. The fact that the PCB gets toasted a little bit every time probably isn't great for your health either, so I think I wouldn't recommend repairing toasters with this flaw, unless you have some clever plan to get around this problem. My new toaster is a name-brand one. And I don't see any light when it pops up, so maybe it's fine. I've also seen other name-brand toasters that were only replaced because they got filthy -- due to improper maintenance I must add :p

My toaster was mostly made of metal that was bent into the shape of a toaster, plus plastic on the outside. To disassemble it, you have to use pliers to bend some interlocking metal bits into a different shape. That should be pretty cheap to manufacture! The pop-op logic was very simple, not even sure if it used a chip or not. If it did, probably nothing digital, maybe just a 555. Single-sided cheap circuit board.

I want the following functions: stop button, extra long button, short button, single slot operation.

Most people are probably comfortable with a toaster that just lets you adjust the duration. But if you add sensors that can reliably(!) detect how much browner your toast or bread has become compared to when it was inserted, go for it. If that sensor goes haywire after two years, then don't bother IMO. If you can add odor or smoke sensors that react when the toast is burnt, that might be nice too. (Course they might go off when you run the toaster for the first time to burn off the lubricant(?), so that may add some complexity)
Wait until you learn about Tunnock’s Tea Cakes.
Having personally also fucked up a silverblue install (featuring a DKMS kernel module I built to support my DSLR camera hdmi capture card) with proprietary nvidia drivers - and then let it sit on that partition long enough that my fedora version was too out of date to pull updates for; and as someone who builds CI pipelines in $DAYJOB: thank you so very very much.
I like to play a game called Overwatch that doesn’t have kernel level anti cheat, afaik, but I’ve never been able to get it running smoothly enough on Linux even with Nvidia closed source drivers.

I don’t think I’m obsessed with gaming but it is a hobby and if I have to boot into Windows to play, so be it.
Ni-63 is pure beta emitter. Peak electron energy ~66keV, average energy 17 keV. Decay product is not active, so no chain of different radiations.
This is the first I’ve heard of psilocybin (psychedelics?) affecting women in a unique way.
This problem is not going to go away so easily. Numerous core Java classes (like BufferedInputStream) use synchronized. I count 1600+ usages in java.base. The blocking issue means it's _much_ easier to accidentally run into this, rather than waving it away as an unlikely edge case.

I personally ran into this Using the built in com.sun webserver, with a virtual thread executor. My VPS only has two CPUs which means the FJP that virtual threads run on only have 2 active threads at a time. I ran into this hang when some of the connection hung, blocking any further requests from being processed.
I don't think Elon cares about those profiles. The more activities the better
my 2012 ford edge has this built in

https://www.ford.com/support/how-tos/keys-and-locks/mykey/my...
>I'm sure I'm missing some things

Manufacturing tooling and test jigs

A quality management system

Support and RMA systems

PLM software although you could probably get away with excel for a while

> UL certification / FCC

A lot of other certs if you want to sell into overseas markets... Luckily the US market is pretty big
The article mentions a few reasons, but I believe the most important reason is the fact that they can reduce the average salary they pay by doing this.

A new hire will obviously seek the market average, so there is not much you can do about that. However, existing employees will not renegotiate their salaries every month, so the company will end up paying less than the market average per person. If the company raises everyone's salaries to align with the market average, they will be paying substantially more.
reliable test strips, for the interested:

https://dancesafe.org/product/fentanyl-test-strips-pack-of-1...
Does anyone have any issues that a quantum computer may solve
I am quite impressed with what I hear this technology can accomplish. And I have coding for a little bit with it as well on IBM's platform. Does anyone have any issues that may want solving that they would be willing to pay for with this technology?
Awesome trend!

> Rather than using an off-the-shelf forum platform, like vBulletin or phpBB, we decided to create our own forum using Strapi as a headless CMS.

So, they did no research on actual modern forum software. Got it.
Lichee Console 4A – RISC-V mini laptop: Review, benchmarks and early issues
First tests of RISC-V laptop reveal a number of software and hardware issues, but show a path to freedom.
Or they interview regularly to stay in the game and know their value.
In my household for the last 20 years, it is made from pumpkin. First from sweet pumpkins we would pick up every year at the Halloween pumpkin patch that we as a family tradition would take our daughter too. Now it is made from ones grown in our own garden. They are simple to grow. Pick them, roast them, purée them and freeze until needed. We also make a lovely spicy Indian style pumpkin soup from the purée. The pie is quite different from any store purchased pie and well worth it.
I worked at a small aircraft company and one of the oldtimers told me lawsuits almost sank the company multiple times. As human transport, people WILL die in your product. Whether it's your fault or theirs, the lawsuits are a huge amount of money and no less important than the engineering quality. And so the company got lawyers and even a lawyer for president, not an engineer, and is still doing really well.
I have a theory that anything that takes permanent, visible-realestate in the household has someone of a niche for people wanting tastefully designed things. In essence, things that do not appear "disposable" as so many kitchen appliances do. People pay extra for designer hot water pots. However purely aesthetic upgrade products will need serious work to maintain differentiation.

Dyson is a more glaring example (fans, vacuums, hair dryers), albeit with expensively achieved differentiation on engineering and manufacturing quality.
They’re also known to use a ton of water, be extremely inefficient, and destroy your clothing much faster than a modern washer. Fetishizing “the good old simple times” isn’t going to get us to better products.
The reason US manufacturing excellence doesn't make sense is because we let it rot.

We don't have cities like Shenzhen, where everything you need to get a product to market is within same-day courier range. I understand this was a feature of the old "hardware-centric" Silicon Valley, and it made fast iterations on new products a lot more viable. I wonder if we could even build a hub like that today, with property speculators and NIMBYism blocking anything short of grabbing a cornfield in Iowa and declaring it our new national manufacturing centrepiece.

We've completely ceded on education, and that was realistically where we could have competed. We could never match the labour prices of China or Viet Nam, but we could offer better trained workers. Our schools are a disaster, and it feels like we've completely lost a focus on competitiveness. It was only a few years ago, we were very fixated about being beaten in test scores, but now the focus has been lost to social battles (scares over LGBTQ+ content) which suck all the oxygen out of the room when people want to ask about actual student achievement.

We don't have the right backing for moonshot inventions. The way we lost solar panels to the PRC should be a freaking embarrassment. We knew for 40 years that people are going to want these things. Moreover, it was a new technology-- you didn't need to fight with entrenched players that didn't want to retool (like EVs)-- all you needed was a stream of seed capital and friendly loans to make sure people built here first.

This might be helped with some more government intervention-- strong industrial development finance products with a VC-esque mentality of "90% of them will fail, but a few will pay off 50-fold". The state is a good backer here, because they can take the "50-fold" in forms other than raw stock appreciation, like "securing an industrial edge for our country."
Best toaster I've ever owned is a no-name I bought for about $20 at Lowes when they had them in stock for Christmas season. It makes perfect toast, and does a great job on bagles also.
I'd hop on if it was kitchen storage. Kitchens are getting smaller, the appliance list is getting longer but the only storage you get is a few drawers and a stupid cabinet.
I'm sure they could do that, but when users start getting scammed and losing data, they are not going to remember that they clicked through and allowed the app to install. Neither is the tech media, who will no doubt make a huge deal out of "Apple's broken garden" or something like that.
It doesn't balance things out; it just makes them incomparable. It also depends on how mature the product is.
> query rewrite/rejection approach was never going to work properly, and only properly parameterised queries were correct

...what do you mean by "rewrite/rejection"?

If rewrite means "escaping strings using the database function designed for that purpose", then that approach works just fine. It's not comparable to rejection at all.

If they were making their own version, then the underlying problem is that they were making their own version. Parameterised queries are lovely but they are not the only option.
Will Apple brick the O2 sensors in their existing watches?
First time I heard a about this and am a bit disappointed that it’s not a tool for [name redacted] at all.
> That was dangerous enough, but at 200-400C carbon [tetrachloride] also reacts with water to form phosgene gas

It sounds scary and serves as a good clickbait, but in reality it was not a big deal. This reaction is not quick, and if you have a fire that can burn at 300C while there's a significant amount of water vapor, then phosgene is not your biggest worry. And of course, liquid water from firefighting won't be hot enough.

Now, don't try to weld stuff that has been recently cleaned with brake cleaner fluid. That WILL produce enough phosgene to poison you.
I mean this any process that you suggest is a set of algorithms. It would seem logically strange to suggest that when a method is not within the set of algorithms it will not work, but as soon as any method is used that repeats "wrong answers more often and the correct answers less often, and does so with some amount of increasing time delta" it will work equally well with other methods.

I would suspect if this does appear to be the case that there probably is an optimal algorithm to start with but that all methods chosen here decrease in utility if you stay with the same variables (repetition frequency of wrong answers, repetition frequency of correct answers, time delta) for too long, the same way there are beneficial exercise methods for getting specific results when starting out that need to be varied if you want to keep getting results in that area without a decrease in the quality of the results.
That's a possibility right now, with or without iOS sideloading. Nothing stops Facebook or WhatsApp from bypassing Apple's native guidelines and force their evil, expensive anticonsumer practices down user's throat on the web or competing platforms.
I bought a bunch cheap HP 40Gbps NICs [0] when they were $13 but need PCI-E risers to make them fit a full height slot. Work fine in pfSense & Fedora.

[0] https://www.ebay.com/itm/333682185870
It could have been part of her job:

> Rivers Cofield also notes that the dress – although beautiful and fancy to our modern eyes – was not exactly what someone would wear to a ball. It was more like the ‘business casual’ of the day, and to her that does indicate it might have been worn to work.

> Chan has also documented that a number of women worked as clerical staff at the Washington, D.C. offices for the Army Signal Service in the 1880s.

https://www.noaa.gov/heritage/stories/cryptogram-in-silk-dre...
i feel like 99% of the time, the entire content is loaded, and then theres extra stuff to hide it. takes a few inspectes and deletes. but its there
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My intro to programming was "Getting Started with Extended Color BASIC" for the Coco 2.

Another favorite book was Turbo Pascal DiskTutor.

My C++ book was C++ How to Program.
I doubt a bootstrapped company has the finances to afford lawyers to tie it up for years. That's a lawyer's wet dream of a case being extended for years. The billing on a case like that alone could make someone a partner.

Just because one side's legal playbook says delay, the other side can equally try to speed things along. Underestimate opposing counsel at your own expense, especially when they are funded with deeper pockets than yours.
There's also scope for improvements. For one I want my toaster to be crumb and grease free in 10 seconds.
To be fair - coffee cake in the US is cake to have with coffee and doesn’t normally contain any coffee.

In the UK and EU, coffee cake is cake with coffee.

Likewise tea cakes in the US are cakes made with tea and tea cakes in UK and EU are cakes to have with tea. So…

Not a lie, just a Spider-Man meets Spider-Man moment when you learn you can actually make coffee cakes with coffee (or espresso) and you can make tea cakes with tea (I prefer oolong).
The American approach is just idiotic all around. It gives plenty of plausible “accident” explanation given crappy road designs and the lack of will to fix them.

I tell my kid that it will be the car’s fault if they hit you when you are walking out into the street behind some parked cars, but even if they pay some money you’ll still be dead. This is not just about cars being liable (like seriously, get rid of on street parking if you are going to have lots of cyclists and pedestrians on that busy through fare, Seattle sucks at this).
I had a previous boss who had a personal rule that he always wanted to only hire the best and would pay for it. If every hire didn't involve paying above band and having to get an exception the hire wasn't good enough. He fought and won every time.

This was a very big, very formal company. All rules are guidelines if you know how to request exceptions.
And they probably will.

The article says they'll have 5 times that, from solar alone, by 2026. What they almost certainly won't, there's nobody to buy that much energy and it's not enough time to create some industry that could use it.
People pay hundreds of dollars for toasters already. This is another entry in that market with a marketing angle of being made in the U.S.A. which is important to a lot of U.S. consumers.
I was an early employee at Whisper so I got to see many of the challenges in this space first hand. I can't speak to the specifics of Whisper leaving the market, but I can say generally that bringing a new piece of medical hardware to market is very hard for a startup to pull off.

In the early days you need to bring together a group of people with a diverse set of skills --- mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, firmware engineers, audio engineers, regulatory specialists, people with experience working with factories, along with ML engineers in our case. You need a lot more people to bring a product to market than if you're building another SaaS company. (And, of course, all your code is running on a chip that has to be small enough to fit behind their ear.) Then hardware startups also have a problem that they tend to have slower growth and lower margins than successful software startups. So later stage VCs are more inclined to invest in software startups.

Hearing aids are also unique in that they require a lot of tuning to get the audio to sound as natural as possible. There are dozens of algorithms that process different features of the audio, things like wind noise reduction and feedback cancellation, and some of them can be a bit finicky. Companies like Oticon or Widex have hundreds of engineers who have been tuning these algorithms for decades. (Another advantage the big guys have is that they can make custom silicon So if you want a top of the line hearing aid the bar is very high. Then until recently there were big barriers to entry on the sales side --- you weren't selling just to the customer, you were also selling to the audiologist, and many audiologists have incentives to (mostly) sell a single brand. This is less of a barrier now with the recent changes to allow hearing aids to be sold over-the-counter.

I do hope to see another startup give it a go because I still think there's room for disruption --- the big companies move a lot slower than a startup can, and the ODML space is developing very, very quickly. But it's not a project for the faint of heart.
This is a very short-term view. We know EVs are the future and Tesla is one of the leaders and there's no reason to think it won't continue to be.

We're in an EV downturn but it's only temporary. Long term it's probably good that people are voicing their EV complaints since it will force companies to come up with solutions to keep customers happy.
HR is an arm of corporate, yes. That being said, anytime personnel decisions come up, all I see is legal hedging that there have to be documented performance problems, policy violations, etc whatever. I think it is a significant stretch that HR is going to fire a previously acceptable manager because they advocated for an agreed upon hire.
And the only thing that seems to be ruining him is the pure software play (Twitter)
Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-existing open-source AI
Interesting. I just checked, and Mastodon feeds do seem to be emitting xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" <media:content> tags with image URLs. NetNewsWire doesn't attempt to render them at all. Other feeds using vanilla RSS with <img> tags in the <description> do render. Maybe it's just a client issue.

Edit: Yep, https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/issues/2538. My bad; not a Mastodon issue.
While the thing about unions is generally true in the European Union, universally it isn't. Take Hungary (where I am from) as an example. Trade unions there are practically non-existent. Most of them got destroyed by the state during the mismanaged adaptation of capitalism after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The ones remaining are a shadow at best (in terms of power) of what's there in Austria or Germany.

The rest I wholeheartedly agree with! (Waving from Vienna, oida!) My comment here is purely just for additional context. :)
Audio Time Stretching