skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it really is amazing how much damage fuckwits appointed to run businesses can do to said businesses and the wider culture.

vice was terrible in some ways and groundbreaking in others, but shutting the entire thing down (and rumours persist, deleting the entire fucking website) is just ridiculous.
That the mind compresses oft-repeated experiences makes more sense than this math-as-psychology nonsense.

Notice how when you have to wait for an hour, you’re bored, time seems to pass slowly, yet for those last ten minutes time passes more quickly because there’s only 1/6 hours le— yeah exactly, no, that doesn’t happen. The whole hour passes slowly because that whole fraction theory is bunk.
This isn't substantive, but it bugged me:

> I'm not asking for milliseconds! Just please at least get it to less than a second.

What do we measure "less than a second" times in?
Very nice when they are good but in my experience, somewhat like an avocado, they tend to turn extremely quickly and once they are on the way out, they are _not good_
I am trying journaling as well but most days I don't know what to write...most days I'm not really doing special things, I have no special feelings.

These days are enjoyable because I like my work and love my family, but I don't get further than "went to work, afterwards cooked <some meal> and played <some game> with <one of my kids>, in the evening <watched some movie / read some book>"...

What are you journaling on a daily basis?
Someone else with the same opinion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdf7ByipGW0
LPT: For searching, set the date to 2022 or earlier to avoid AI-written articles
Oh, agreed, it's hard to neglect a good combination! I definitely rotate pens and inks over time, with the general rule that broader nibs and brighter inks are for headings, and finer nibs with more muted inks are for the bulk of the text. I had a problem with ink drying up when I had too many pens going at once, and I cut back :)
I asked this question as "Ask HN" here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39524660
I've been in the same camp, mostly against BPA (and it's analogs) and PFAS. It's amazing how casually they are used in consumer products, even by brands who carry marketing that is nauseatingly "save-the-earth-happy-healthy-eating".

Another one is nitrites in processed meat. All the fancy "health conscious" brands proudly state "NO NITRITES!", but then those ass hats put in a bunch of celery salt...which is just nitrites with a different name.

Note: For anyone curious, trader joes actually does sell a bacon with no nitrites of any form. First and only time I have seen it.
Ask HN: Transitioning from web development to data engineering / AI work
Hi everyone,

I've been a software engineer working primarily on CRUDy web software for about 10 years now. I do like the work but I have been interested in data engineering for some time now, but haven't have an opportunity to work on a project which utilizes it and thus have no real sense of the landscape. It also seems like there is a big demand for these skills with all of these "AI" companies popping up.

I was wondering if anyone has made this sort of career transition and has any tips, or general starting points/guides/courses that I can begin to teach myself the fundamentals.

Thanks!
You owe yourself more self-respect. You're probably in the 0.1% of
people who could make a difference.
>"God I just wish one executive had the balls to say, "yeah we're culling 8% of our staff largely randomly because we estimated our dead weight is greater than that." It would at least treat employees as adults that can have adult conversations and take bad news."

Employees could see things for what those are. Spelling it out will not make any difference for them. For executive statement like this could be reason to join that terminated crowd.
This is an absolute foot-cannon. Are we going to have to re-learn all the lessons of XSS filter evasion prevention?
Like joining a huge HOA, no?
My 2 cents: it's a bad idea because it's hard to test / debug.

C++ template / overload resolution involves some very convoluted logic. And it can take some work to even notice if / how it went differently than a programmer expected.

Programmers typically have logging, interactive debugging, etc. to investigate complicated algorithms like this. But (almost?) no C++ compiler provides such tooling for investigating the behavior of this algorithm.

IMHO it's an area where C++ tooling could serious use improvement.
(1) is nonsense (and literally not needed to explain this phenomenon) but (2) is true.
Let’s be honest here: how many workplaces would allow a random engineer to broadcast a gender critical rant on their internal network?

People get fired for less than that. Damore was, and rightly so.
The title could stand to be de-corporatized. Sony laid off 8% globally or about 900 people.
Top of the line displays, not one but two advanced CPUs one of which is brand new, a smorgasbord of sensors…
Love the post-breach obligtory free year subscription to Experian monitoring...
This is the real problem with Boeing. The MCAS design fiasco and the door plug falling off were not isolated incidents, but symptoms of broader issues. I can only wonder what remaining hidden flaws aircraft currently in the air may have, and what they might cause in the future. Recently I had the option to fly on either 737MAX or 20 year old A319, and chose the latter option simply because I have more faith in safety culture at Airbus.
500k subs and a very low level of actual views...
> As far as know the amount of poor people in the usa is also way higher than in Europe. If we take that into account i'd say that Europe is doing just fine.

Citation needed. No, Europe is not doing just fine. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/americans-are-generally-richer...
It's open-source Heroku Dataclips (one of my favorite products ever)!

I haven't used Blazer, but I have followed and love the idea behind this project.

If folks have used it here, I'd love to hear from them.
"Or was it the benchmark results?"

Yes. More power means more options in the game.

But I did not decided to switch yet, I need to see how it performs. But for this I have to implement a basic version.
Speaking of Elm, what is the state of that project? Development seems to have slowed down significantly.
Now, if only we can do something about the absolutely endemic heat desert effect we've created by caking our country in massive black asphalt parking lots and 6-lane freeways.

Nope, can't examine that. Parking lots are peak human design. The most logical design solution for our species.
This is when you split the company's civilian aircraft operations into two companies.
> It is rather challenging to get wealthy with a culture that bans half the population from working for religious reasons.

It's going be interesting to see if countries with a below replacement birth rate will continue to economically outperform long-term. Although per-capita they should continue to prosper.
Periodic Face-to-Face
React is awesome.
I'm just done with these new movie type games. TLOU was great and new on PS3.
They hold 12 megatons of dry carbon. Kinda opposite of climate change!
Pay for what I use works for airline seats and reserved compute/storage resources.

I have no control over how much traffic my public sites get. There is zero value in me signing up for a service which charges me based on traffic if I can’t control the maximum they’ll charge me. Would you sign up for an infinite bill?
The stock market is not a requirement of capitalism. Nor is it a requirement for management to be beholden to shareholders in the short term. It's a culture problem. Apple for example, gives two shits about shareholder short/medium term concerns about sinking billions into the Apple Car and Apple Vision Pro that may take a very very long time to become profitable (if ever.)
They could have had more than one Oompa Loompa.

See Twitter link below.
Funding FOSS projects has been a challenge; donations help, but not enough. I believe that FOSS maintainers can gain financial independence and sustain their projects by "selling" supply-chain security assurance to consumers on software contents, packaging, etc. I'm building a marketplace that would enable this. I'm looking for FOSS devs to signup/provide feedback.
Probably a combination of people flagging and lots of comments. If you want to know for sure, use the Contact link in the footer to email the mods.
Sometimes I wish there was a site like "C++ for API-using dummies" which focused on explaining these fancy new features to someone like me who's probably going to encounter them in header files, but won't be actively writing code with these features.

Don't get me wrong. This article was very helpful because now, when I eventually see auto&& ...x in a function declaration, I'm hopefully going to remember that the feature is called "parameter packs", and will find this article again with a search if I can't remember what it means.

But realistically, I'm not clever enough to write code that makes use of the various implementation specifics discussed here (stuff like "init-capture packs" that let you efficiently capture a parameter pack into a lambda, and dozens of other similar cases). Having a summary article that omits all that would be more readable for me.

I've had this same feeling about most C++ features lately like coroutines and concepts. Authors take great pains to explain how I might write a library that uses coroutines, but as an app developer I'm never going to do that — I'll be using somebody else's higher-level library because that's how it works in companies with these modern C++ codebases. OTOH, that also means it's hard to write generic documentation from the user point of view because it's often so tied to specific libraries.
What are you arguing against? This is an experiential thing. Or phenomenological. Evidence? This is just something that people often report. No one cares if there are counter-examples. That doesn’t make it less true for those that experience it.
That's bonkers.

What size nuts do they pass through their engine? Every engine before it goes to space has to have a nut passed through the system? Like a 12mm "go into space" grade nut or a little itty bitty nut like I might find holding down a heat sink assembly in a 1998 vintage motherboard?

I'm off to the googles to find videos...
I was wondering about this as well. Maybe the filter isn't for dirt, but ice? (Water or solidified methane.)
It makes me wonder why they choose words like that. I suppose George Carlin‘s Soft Language summed it up decades ago, but PR people born after that set must have missed it.
How do you deal with no stability?

Do you have any sort of home base you can always go back to?
I journal ~daily since having kids. I feel the same way - it gives me peace knowing I can look back in time later and relive just a little what I was feeling today.
How to convince your CEO it's worth paying down tech debt
Classic MBA vs PhD problem? In some domains people refuse to hire PhDs because of analysis-paralysis; they prefer the stupid MBAs who will take risks that PhDs will never take. In other, they avoid MBAs like plague because they are shallow know nothing organisms that leach on revenues.
Reviews have remarked on it but I don’t think anyone I’ve seen have complained that it’s a problem. Its other features make up for the FOV shortfall. And lord knows it has other issues too that are probably more important than the FOV
Having factories and employing Americans != being American.
for gaming in particular:

https://www.ft.com/content/cc6bd66c-6341-4367-85cc-86d274102...

> Game over? Industry suffers slowdown after decades-long winning streak

> Sales growth in consoles and mobile apps hit as a darkening mood spreads across $200bn video games sector

> The $200bn video games industry is reckoning with its biggest slowdown in 30 years, as the huge growth driven by smartphone gaming and the latest generation of consoles reaches its limits.

> Hardware sales are slowing, with Sony cutting its forecast for PlayStation 5 sales this week. Consumer spending on mobile gaming declined last year, down 2 per cent to $107.3bn according to Data.ai, which forecasts low single-digit growth in 2024.
In New Jersey I have to let an attendant pump my gas. If I have a heart attack while he’s pumping gas, but I never explicitly say “please stop once it’s full” and he, innocently enough, takes the still-flowing gas hose and pops it into a sewer grate once my tank is full, you’d be hard-pressed to find a reasonable person agree that the attendant was throwing me a lifeline when he refunds me after I come back complaining about my $2k gas receipt.

This is a dumb analogy, but the point is there is very obviously a pattern in this payment process that is ripe for abuse. The question of whether or not you aim to be an abusive business, plucking every shady profit where you can put the onus on the customer to try to come get their money back is one that many companies are deciding, and many are erring in the direction of the dark pattern.

By not working to avoid this problem from the get go, there is an implication about how a company wants to make their profits.
A project involving Postgres/PostGIS raster tables https://postgis.net/workshops/postgis-intro/rasters.html Usually I only deal with geometries (polygons, vectors) so being able to merge rasters on top of each other, look at pixel values and joining rasters with other geometry data is new to me. When I look at help pages (stackoverflow) it's often people who work with satellite imagery data.
Lets say Japan's population keeps falling. It should be remembered that the demographic pyramid will be inverted, with mostly old people. In that case there would not be enough military aged persons to run an effective military. AI and robots could help, but any invaders would have AI and robots too.

Potentual invaders would not necessarily be another nation state. It could be roving groups of displacees who took up piracy and invasion.
See the Sea Peoples at the collapse of the Bronze Age.
>But the social aspect of the quest 2 seems really great for a 12 year old boy so far.

Plus the health benefits of standing and moving around instead of gaming hunched over the controller from the couch/bed.

The Quest kind of made me give up on PC gaming and pick this up instead.
Wired is the last people who'd know what the "last good place online" is.
China Surveillance Company Hacked
So, in other words, people today are late.
Getting paid to flip million dollar coins
FreeBSD 13.3-RC1 Improves WiFi Stability, Takes Care of Some Kernel Panics
It's probably a legacy of when the French were making all the maps for the area.
> being very careful when you drive

That helps, but there are more participants in traffic than just you.
Yes, not necessarily a financial success. Success or resource of any kind, taken widely. Prince Gautama did not share his inherited riches, instead he shared the information about the path to enlightenment. William Shakespeare was apparently tight with money, what he shared was his mastery of English language. Etc.
>- this is more a generic knock on EV but charging network being built out still. Charging on longer trips UX still feels like it’s not there yet

In the US, my experience has been that this really doesn't apply to Tesla. As other vehicles adopt the NACS I would imagine that would apply to others as well. Tesla has a great charging network.
New Vista Acquisition Corp.
https://github.com/robchahin/sso-wall-of-shame/pull/459
> I simply don't get the obbsession people have with data back ups for their private needs.

Once you get bitten you strangely get obsessive about it!

Around 2005 I had the working copy on the laptop's only HDD + two backup copies on separate HDDs. The events that unfolded were as follows (timeline and details editorialised as my memory is fuzzy, but you get the idea):

- On a weekend, my laptop crashed, hard. It was on Linux and something broke. Upon reboot it fsck'd for way longer than it should have, then it yelled loudly that it failed. I had some bootable live USB thing, but that Linux outright refused to mount it. A quick analysis/recovery attempt showed that the ext2 data structures were all messed up. The few files it managed to recover were either unimportant or a garbled mess. The disk was fine hardware-wise, but software failed and resulted in unrecoverable corruption.

- No worries! I had a - weekly - backup from a few days before (Thu) so worst case I lost Friday's work on my Master's thesis work. Annoying but I can manage. I plug in the drive and even before attempting to mount the device greets me with a defying clicketyckicetyclick. The disk is physically dead.

- I'm now anxiously looking at my last - monthly - backup drive, which, since the next one was due some time the following week, was almost a month old. I'll have to scramble to redo shit for my Master, but, at least, a decade of keepsakes and digitised paperwork would be fine, right? RIGHT?? I plug it in. I hear a faint puff of magic smoke. The disk does not power up. Something in the disk controller is dead somewhere, and it's the kind that is straight USB from the board, no SATA. The disk is not produced anymore, but I somehow manage to find a presumably identical one second hand, at least as far as the part number is concerned. I swap the boards, plug USB, the disk spins up but it's unable to read meaningful data. I notice there's a small "REV4" marking on the new board, the old one is "REV1". When looking closely, some components are slightly different. Of course the identical part number is a lie. The data is there but I have no means to read it. Not within my already stretched budget anyway.

I now make sure to backup on systems with vastly different failure modes.
My only guess on this entry is: Honda is targeting existing CR-V owners who want an EV, can deal with the price bump, and hopefully won't research the vehicle at all (since the badges are about the only thing produced by Honda).

The design of the Honda E is amazing. I love everything about it. The range, of course, is a show stopper. I think a slightly longer version of that car, with better range, would be awesome.
I've become really obsessed with 'Miyawaki Forests' lately - small, dense, urban forests which can reach a mature state in only a few years. I hope they start showing up everywhere. Fuck minimum parking requirements, where are the minimum forest requirements?
What point are you actually trying to make? That because some people might not want to create PWAs you think it is OK for Apple to break the existing functionality for everybody in order to flip the bird at the EU?
The answer to that question is the entire field of phylogenetics, especially computational phylogenetics [0]. Essentially, we sequenced a bunch of humans and neanderthals and the simplest explanation has certain genes evolving in the latter.

One thing we're very confident in is that anatomically modern humans (i.e. us) are not neanderthals.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_phylogenetics
Riders in the smog: how delivery riders content with rising pollution
I’m not sure that a long and painful life is preferable to shorter and happier life but if that’s your thing
…
I found out about this from twitter - weird how it's so buried on HN.
it's both I think.
Lack of sex -> porn -> bad habits -> lack of sex...

I've found personally that generally speaking, my sex life/ability to meet and pursue relationships with women is somewhat inversely correlated with porn use, and hence generally avoid it :)
Yeah, there is a lot of hassle in some cases, it's really quite unfortunate that the laws don't protect individuals that want to do side work.
This assumes height is universal proxy for health. Marfan Syndrome will make you taller, but it doesn't mean you're more healthy.
I keep a daily journal, usually:

- “I could have handled X better by doing Y.”

- “Seeing A made me curious about B; maybe look into that.”

- “I really tried at K, but oof didn’t work out; let’s try L tomorrow!”

- “I did really good at P, Q, and R today — I’ll get a treat tomorrow and start on S.”

Mostly just internal monologue kinds of things, but there’s three benefits I’ve noticed:

- I don’t think about frustrations as much if I write them down.

- I am better at self-compassion when I externalize the monologue.

- I slowly adjust my monologue to reflect how I word it in writing, eg how I choose to frame things or what kinds of things I notice.
By all appearance it seems like Microsoft is exiting the console business. I wouldn’t be surprised if they pivoted to consolized PCs running Windows (Steam Deck like) which would get them out of the generational lifecycle, reduce software required.
In South Africa we refer to the papaya as pawpaw, I'm in England now, and here they just say papaya. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaya. This article mentions papaya as a separate fruit. Is there something missing?
I was more focused on the "terror" part. I would guess there's some line where a destructive act transitions from "attack" or "vandalism" to "terror".
Apparently HN has a "flamewar" detector. Perhaps this is the reason?

I found it referenced here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39230513
Why is Airbus not falling out of the sky?
booking.com in itself is a scam, so maybe one of their scam programs scammed themselves
Just wait until this guy hears about bacteria.
Thanks! Why would people be flagging, other than those working at Netlify? And lots of comments penalizes? I didn't know!
We're building so that you're (hopefully) both right:
- The focus is on code, especially macOS/iOS devs in Xcode.
- We want working together to feel as intuitive as Figma/Miro.
I am writing a screenplay. A comedy. The bad guy is inspired by Sam Altman.

I don't know if it qualifies as cool, but I'm more excited than when I was working on BI tools.
Why would the shareholders want to risk turning the company into a smoking hole in the ground and making their shares worthless?

That said I think it’s a bit suspicious when so much of the ownership is institutional investors who seem to just own each other, and appear to work against the very interest of maintaining and growing the value of the investment, which is what one would think being a shareholder is all about.
neither lol, they're both redirects to my server
Obsessing about ‘how we screwed up’ instead of actually working on making things better is a sign of clinical depression. FYI.
> There is actually a great issue thread on the Flutter GitHub that explains exactly why other solutions do not work correctly when compared to hooks [0]

Interesting. I assume you are referring to this comment in particular -> https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/51752#issuecomment... ?
Typically it happens when buddies are on the board.
Jetbrains's Code2Art
An expert system for diagnosing and treating heart disease
Explains why I found it so incredibly faux-deep…
I have a CRV but the price is for sure a showstopper all on its own before even looking at the range.

I paid 25k for what I have and it really felt like too much, and I regret it.

I can't imagine paying 50k. I mean, obviously a lot of people pay that and more. It just seems bananas that so many people evidently have so much disposable income to spend on cars. I don't understand it. But in this case, even the "EV" part doesn't make up the cost difference. I spend about $1500 a year on gas for that car. Maintenance is not really worth talking about - oil changes twice a year I do myself for about $30/ea, transmission fluid once every couple years at about $50, a couple $10 filters every now and then. It'd be maybe 15 years to make the EV cost difference even if electricity was free.

ed: it looks like non-EV CRVs have gone up about 5k in price since I bought. ugh.
> Why would the shareholders want to risk turning the company into a smoking hole in the ground and making their shares worthless?

Because they're getting out long before the stock craters.
Lead-Tainted Applesauce Sailed Through Gaps in Food-Safety System
https://github.com/JetBrains/origami