skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adding private functions or fields requires changing the class declarations, which requires rebuilding any code that includes that class deckaration. It shouldn't be like that, especially for methods which shouldnt change anything about the class ABI.

Even worse, this dependency is transitive. Dependencies to allow defining these private methods an fields are exposed too, forcing inclusion of headers to all members of the class, even if it's only implementation details.
It's a shame that JS ecosystem is so sparse.

E.g. in Rust it's much more common to rely on existing "building blocks" like futures, tokio, syn, serde even just for basic bindings, favoring interoperability.
This is, in my view, one of the primary benefits of using your own domain for email.
With the recent NACS deals they have basically also become the charging network of choice in North America, which is certainly worth something.
Far ahead in what?
The author is way overselling how controversial Haidt's claim is.

- The effect of social media at a societal level isn't something that can tested experimentally. And like all non-experimental research, results depend heavily on modeling methodology (for example, the meta-analysis linked by the author is literally just a regression of facebook DAU on life satisfaction polls [1]). As a result there will NEVER a universal consensus, same as with most "macro" level studies in social sciences. If you wait for researchers to reach an agreement, you will wait forever.

- The most credible research I've seen on this is this quasi-experimental paper [2]. Since the timing of Facebook's rollout was staggered across schools, it can be used as a natural experiment. Schools should've seen declines in student mental health that correspond with the date of Facebook's rollout on their campus, which is indeed what happened.

- The effect of using social media at an individual level (as opposed to a societal level) IS known and it is very clearly negative. See [3] for an example.

- Most importantly, the fact is that mental health and suicide rates have been rising significantly since exactly when social media gained popularity (mid-to-late 2000s). The effect is global so you can't blame country-specfic policies. And the rise is most significant with demographics most exposed to social media (young people, especially girls). There's not a single other explanation that makes sense. Frankly, I think people are afraid to admit that social media is the problem because so many people are tech addicts and don't want to admit that their own addiction is part of the problem.

[1] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.221451

[2] https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20211218

[3] https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20190658
Xiaomi isn't dumping (yet), but BYD is, and US is already keenly aware of Chinese dumping of electric vehicles years ago, that's why US currently has the 25 percent tax on Chinese made autos that Trump started in 2018, and Biden has continued since [1]. And that has so far prevented BYD and its Chinese EV peers (90 makers so far, but looking like 2-3 bankruptcy each month) from entering US market. Republican lawmakers and Trump are also looking to apply a 100% tariffs [2]

Europe, the slow hare to US's rabbit, finally woke up in 2023, but just barely. They kicked off an inquiry into tariffs on Chinese EV vehicles in October 2023, and would take up to a year to finish [3]. These tariffs looks to be retroactive, as they have started requiring Chinese EV vehicles to be registered [4]. Europe, albeit slow witted, probably isn't going to willingly allow China to kill its own car industry, especially since China is actively helping Russia in attacking Europe.

[1] https://www.vox.com/climate/2024/3/4/24087919/biden-tariff-c...

[2] https://fortune.com/2024/03/16/trump-100-tariff-for-cars-mad...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-launches-anti-subsid...

[4] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/eu-moves-slap-retroactive-tar...
Thanks for the great notes!

Agree on all front re: the dictionary ergonomics. We'll look at smoothing that out (mobile is currently the blocker there, but everything is solvable :)

Re: visualizations, you make great points. Definitely something for us to mull over, and I do think some amount of this will make it into the game (at least behind an option, which defaults to on).

Thanks again!
Now explain that to my build system.

But even if you managed to do that, first compilation is still much slower than it should be, because anlot of headers have to be included (transitively) to allow even declaring these fields and methods.
Your friends have a point. Volkswagen to my knowledge isn't currently actively spreading conspiracy theories or boosting the voices of fascists.
Building the future.
So Tesla is not like other companies…that survived secular changes. Tesla demographics changed quite a bit in the past five years.
The disorder itself is not made up, which is clear from my comment where I stated that it's a relatively rare mental illness (therefore acknowledging it's real), but it becomes made up if an individual who doesn't have that disorder pretends to have it in order to appease a group or belong to a group, thinking having that disorder will raise their social clout.
Admittedly, adding a private member variable changes the object size and thus the ABI and thus requires recompilation of dependencies.

Thinking about that, is there any case in which private functions can end up in a vtable? In that case, it'd break ABI too.
I think the Sixth Floor Museum, formerly the Texas School Book Depository where JFK was shot from, is a must see. Also, love him or hate him, the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library is worth visiting too. My partner and I are slowly working to visit each presidential library in the US, they’re always interesting and informative.

Downtown Dallas doesn’t seem to stay open as late at night as I’d like. A lot of bars and restaurants are closed by nine.
Tesla has no competition. Cars is a small part of what they do.
Technical debt is an invisible $1.52T problem
Care to theorize why that is?

Sure - it's because Indian people coming from India represent the top cut of a workforce that has an extremely high level of engineering training.

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

1.5 million engineering degrees conferred in the year 2021 in India.

Compare that with more than an order of magnitude fewer awarded in the US:

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cta/undergrad-deg...

But do consider the following statistics: 30% of Fortune 500 CEOs are Indian, and one third of all Silicon Valley engineers.

First of all, I'm pretty sure that number is NOT 30%. I want a citation.

Second - English has been taught to generations of primary school students throughout India. English is the language of business. It makes sense that business people with a good grasp of English make it to the top levels of business in Silicon Valley, which almost exclusively transacts in English. I know that English was not widely taught in China (maybe things have changed) - because China wasn't ruled by the British for almost 100 years. As for the engineers, see above stats - there is an enormous talent pool to filter the best from.

It seems like you had some experiences where you observed what appeared to be preference for Indian candidates. Maybe some of those observations were of an Indian person selecting another highly-qualified Indian person for a job. I don't know. Maybe it's also preferential treatment in some cases. I don't know.

Just because you think something is happening, doesn't mean you get to grab a hold of an Indian person and shake them down for a confession. I can make any number of generalizations about your race of people, and demand your justification. But I don't, because I try not to be a shitty person.

You want an honest discussion, there it is. The world is a lot more complex than you think it is. Indian-Americans are not sitting here committing transgressions against you. They are smarter, more educated, and more qualified than the typical American STEM graduate. Step up your game or find a different career with less-qualified people to compete with.
Sheez. And brainwashing, apparently.
https://archive.ph/5taMT
California is the one state where this argument might have a chance, because both Meta and Snapchat are there and maybe some of the users Meta talked into this are too. However I wouldn't put the chance anywhere near 100%:

https://www.kelleydrye.com/viewpoints/blogs/commlaw-monitor/...

Also another article I read says the CIPA has a civil statute $5,000 per violation, so if you're Meta, who cares. Not exactly the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Youth suicide rates are going up, I think that's quite objectively measurable.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db471.pdf

Not proof that social media is behind it of course.
Nice! We've had this on the list for a while so this is great validation for building it :)
The point of FOSS licenses is keeping code free and open-source, not compensating anyone.
Me too! Can I have an invite?
"Quantity has a quality all of its own." - Stalin

The more you have when things kick off, the more you can afford to burn up while learning combat skills.

There is no country on Earth who has major peer-to-peer combat skills. (The Russians are learning, they have two years of learning under their belts so far.)
That is the direction that Swift went: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals...
Well I don't know what you mean by secular changes. I can't speak to what has changed in the last 5 years as far as staff. But they still seem to be planning big and thinking the same way. They are the slow giant.
I too have noticed Google home's voice recognition has declined, but can't understand how the technology could become worse.
> Perhaps you didn't catch my comment's assertions. I stated the model and approximate values I'd be willing pay

No I understood it perfectly, it is just absurd. You lack power, leverage, or influence over Google so the only lever you have to make a better deal is by offering more money than you are currently to get the terms you'd like.
There is, power windows in cars have had it for over 20+ years or so, for safety, so kids/dogs don't strangle themselves with the windows.

It's a 1 cent shunt used for monitoring the current consumption of the motor. If the current spikes, it means something jammed it(or it reached the top/bottom) and the microcontroller will cut power to the window lifting motor.

Maybe Tesla can look into that cutting edge tech once they wrap up humanoid robots.
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All the Pain an unclear future of the mainframe is IBM's fault. Its insanely closed ecosystem, from hardwar do software. No one other than IBM has access to it. Seems to me that going further not even IBM team will know how to manage.

Once market builds an interesting compelling offer to mainframe, enterprises will leave IBM as fast as possible.
Every time I hear one of you haters, I think the same thing, fyi. The difference is I think about things when they come out and you have your mind set on hating.
There's https://lobste.rs
Note that the "<<" operator for std::cout is not related to the language itself but related to the standard library.
> You won't find the answers you need by doing a post-mortem.

It's really the only opportunity since if you had the answers beforehand perhaps the person would not have been "let go".

If your point is that post mortems aren't that great, I agree. It's like debugging a crash dump rather than a live process. But sometimes the core dump is all you have.
Seems naive. It's a life-threatening journey to the top, to the limits of endurance. Making rules about what you should or shouldn't do up there seems petty.

And of course there's no enforcement. Nobody up there to know what you did or didn't do. A fine? It can cost $100,000 to make the attempt. Who literally gives a shit about a fine? Even a thousand dollars, it's insignificant.

Further, digestion ceases at some altitude. No poop. Do you fine them for that?

"Sorry, my poop bags fell down a crevasse."
Mini-Gemini: Mining the Potential of Multi-Modality Vision Language Models
The paper introduces Mini-Gemini, a framework aimed at enhancing Vision Language Models (VLMs) to close the performance gap with advanced models like GPT-4 and Gemini. It focuses on improving visual tokens resolution, creating high-quality datasets for better image comprehension, and expanding VLMs' operational scope. Mini-Gemini supports a range of large language models and has shown superior performance in zero-shot benchmarks. The code and models are publicly available.
There are active efforts at IBM to market generative AI to rewrite mainframe code (COBOL->Java). Orgs are desperate for cheap mainframe folks to bridge the gap until they get off of mainframes while most of this skilled workforce is retiring, but the comp and work arrangement quality is likely subpar for a job orgs are actively attempting to eliminate. If you’re close to retirement and have the skills, it’s a fine way to ride into the sunset, but if you’re younger, run away. It’s a trap.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx-code-assistant-4z/1.1?to...

(Have had to sit in meetings on this topic)
This doesn't make much sense, unless you live in an "antiquated" county. As an immigrant who got married shortly after arrival in the US, all the driver's license required for name discrepancies was the marriage certificate.
I'm guessing not just teenagers. Every day on Twitter, I see posts like [this](https://twitter.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/17741956933237925...) by accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers that are indistinguishable from schizophrenic ideation. These consist of extremely idiosyncratic delusions that, thanks purely to social media, find a community of believers who can reassure each other that no, they're not crazy, they're not alone, they're just the fortunate ones who've escaped the Matrix, etc. whereas in the past, their beliefs would have been penalized by the sane peers around them.
As a former P-series/AIX specialist, I can say that the pay is not as good as a decent linux job, and the career growth potential is very low. Your career options are basically to maintain legacy systems until they can figure out how to migrate it all to linux.

And if you get laid off (happens a lot at IBM lately), your career prospects are to either wait for someone to retire/die or learn linux.

No matter how important they say maintaining the legacy systems is, the pay is low enough to easily convince people to take any other IT career path.
> I couldn't fix 5 computers a day, and they often came back with problems.

Totally possible they were sabotaging your work. Good riddance!
With North America slowing working toward a common EV plug and CCS winning the charging standard war, North American EV charging will become more like Europe. Charge any brand of EV on any brand of charging network, just as nature intended. No more vendor lock in.
How does being selectively private work for deductions made by connecting several dots?

e.g.

1. Buying several pregnancy tests

2. Missing several periods in your menstruation tracking app

3. GPS data for having traveled to an OB/GYN

4. GPS data for having traveled to a planned parenthood
Good ideas, will check out the queens gambit game :)
Not as bumpy as Project Orion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
That building was the old Brach's Candy factory. I used to pass it on the Metra daily.
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I apologize, but I’m not sure I understand what point you’re making here?

It seems like such a strange comment- surely there is a gulf of difference between a commercial robot that will be interacted with by a few trained factory workers and something which is sold to everyday people and on public streets right?

Can you elaborate more on the comparison you’re trying to draw?

I am trying to take it in good faith, but I’m genuinely at a loss trying to understand what you’re going for.
When did society previously embrace difference?
Magic User Interface (MUI) is still the primary toolkit on MorphOS, in addition to being the go-to toolkit for many newer Amiga programs as well.

When it was released in 1993, it was very modern. Object-oriented, scalable layout, simple to program, themeable and very customiseable. I wouldn't be surprised if the developers of Qt, Gtk and SwiftUI would reveal that they would have taken inspiration from it.

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

http://www.sasg.com/mui/
Project website - https://mini-gemini.github.io/
Code and Models - https://github.com/dvlab-research/MiniGemini
People will continue to call you out in this way because when asked "what do you think they do better" you replied with some handwaving nonsense. If you replied with some specific points, ideally quantifiable and backed by data, you would get quite a different response.
> You don't have to give your employer a bank account number

As a Norwegian that sounds so alien. They couldn't do anything but deposit money, so why wouldn't you?
There was the whole diesel-gate thing with volkswagen which was pretty shadey.
Increased self-efficacy can reduce procrastination
But you would break the name! C++ would be a syntax error!

I mean, there are people that already think that...
I've been wrestling with this for years as well. I hope with these guidelines being published / transparent by the big 3, things behave consistently.
And yet in another comment, you agreed with "someone who identifies outside of the gender binary has a mental disorder"

what?
I disagree with this: those who have come through an engineering pathway can be brought up to understand business. Those who have come through business tend to only see engineering as a bunch of propeller hats.
> Pursuit of happiness includes having the right to try running a business and making it successful.

That doesn't mean the right to inconvenience or potentially harm others in order for you to "pursue" something.

And also, corporations are legal entities. People are granted the right to pursue happiness, not corporations.

As for your other remarks, coming back to the predominant point: "Your right to swing your fist ends where my face begins."
In around 2015 or so, prior to social media, etc, there used to be a mainframe forum or two (perhaps they still exist) where a whole bunch of newbies from India used to hang out, to learn and grow their mainframe skills. It is the same time when there were stories floating around of mainframe veterans being let go. People have short term memory issues.
Also flywheels, and I'm not sure what the rocket analogue for that is.
People also do things like travel to and buy products from Germany without thinking about the actions of the previous people running that country.

One difference is that a man in the high castle is running Tesla today.

(...Not that I have a lot of love and goodwill for other industrialists in the general.)
The only winner here is the CEO.

And the whiz kid who launches the new and improved competitor. Every failure story like this is also a seed of opportunity.
It was when debugging a memory leak which occurred because I forgot to declare the base class destructor as virtual that I started to think C++ was a rather unfriendly language and not really designed to be easy to use.

Then a few years later I read the spec for std::launder that I realised C++ was not really designed to be understood.

It's a shame because it's actually a rather nice language in some ways. Here's hoping that this project or something similar takes off and separates the good bits from the bad.
I paid $488 in 2019 for a 14 day JR pass. In 2024, the same pass is $60 more. I wouldn't call that a dramatic increase, and still within the same magnitude of affordability?

https://www.jrpass.com/buy-the-japan-rail-pass-online
Not sure why you're being downvoted.

WinDirStat (which used to be my goto) took over 6 minutes and ate 625mb of ram.

TreeSize Free took over 30 seconds, I'm not sure how much ram as it doesn't report it. It also kept trying to upsell me.

WizTree took less than 8 seconds. What's wrong with it?

edit: 2tb nvme ssd, mostly full of rubbish, windows 10.
It's amazing how on the one side of things we've got OpenAI, Llama, Gemini, Mistral, etc making mind-blowing LLMs that feel truly like the future.

And at the same time we've got Siri, Alexa/Amazon Echo stuff, and Google Home stuff that already feels dated and is actively getting worse with each passing year.

Funny that these two things are happening at the same time.
I once took a meeting with a "founder" from HN in the feedback widget space who was supposedly interviewing to hire a senior engineer role. He went through the motions but was only interested in information. There was no job. Beware meeting bullshit artists you don't know, move too fast, and don't have the right paperwork.
Um... isn't that guaranteed? What would it mean for a private function to be virtual? It can't be overridden by a different implementation in a child class...
Yes, I prefer to download them and watch them using vlc, it's a much better experience than using the website.
They can forge a real one by providing enough forged identity documents and paying the right bribes. They don't need to suborn the private keys - Just the people who have "use" access to them.
It starts being less likely though. The plan was to make the expensive models fund the mass production. The cheap versions of 3 already happened, meanwhile other expensive brands got higher level driver assist, and other cheap brands got both lower cost and better quality of low end. They're months away from not being ahead at this point and there's nothing announced yet that could change it. What do you think they can keep executing on?

They still have the charging network, but that's due to everyone else failing more than them succeeding. At some point someone else will overtake them too.
The causality here (and the fact of the matter) is far more complex than it seems though - for example, each person's perception of what is going on is to a large degree a function of their culture and education, and those two attributes tend to get a free pass at least when it comes to oneself or the members of one's ingroups in all such discussions.

Our wonderful, purely well-intentioned politicians could do something about this dire "need for more critical thinking", and yet what do they do to fulfill that need, despite it being literally their responsibility.

https://search.usa.gov/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&affiliate=ed.go...

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_cow_(idiom)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_disinformation (what my comment "is")

For example: these terrible people you are referring to out there....are you sure they are as they seem (where did you learn these facts about their intentions from, etc), and that they are enemy number 1?
Even more importantly from a strictly business point of view, the CEO of VAG isn't telling his engineers to make the customer experience significantly worse to save $50 of parts on a $50k vehicle.
I'm being admittedly a little polemical, personally I'm freaked out by the future. But that aside, I'm curious to hear more about your argument. Are you saying worry about the future can't be causing this issue because scary stuff only started recently?
All companies and all individuals are part of building our single future and our future is hardly a Tesla dominated one.
Also, steering-by-wire is not exclusive to electric cars, it's common ICE's as well - so it's even more apalling to have catastrophic steering failure on a new car, it's not the bleeding edge of tech.