skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude. “In rats” is such an easy cliche. Should we create an LLM to post it on every HN story regarding animal studies? Rats are a decent model. Would you prefer we test hypotheses on your body to get started instead? Let’s look at the experimental methods and develop better intuitions about what can reasonably hypothetically extrapolated to humans and what doesn’t instead of just saying “in rats.”
Well, for one, the image used in the field is not pornographic at all, it's a woman's face. Second, its been used for over 50 years. If this were really about showing porn in the office I think the old guard would've definitely put a stop to it. It's not about showing porn because the image is not porn. Finally, it is used primarily because it is technically fantastic for its use cases.
The Wikipedia article you linked does not back what you're saying..
Kotlin is a distinct language with new features that (I'm fairly sure) make it non-isomorphic to Java code though. But I can't speak on the others.
Looking at https://checkmyworking.com/cm-web-fonts/ with firefox on macos, it doesn't look like the kerning is quite right. In "consectetur" there is too much space between the 't' and 'e'.

I don't know enough about font formats, but is something lost when translating from metafont to ttf? Is there something specific about how TeX kerns fonts that hasn't been copied ^W ported to web browsers?
They can’t forge a chipped passport unless they somehow got hold of the private key for the country’s CSCA certificate.
Maybe. But also I've become a massive history nerd and I can't name a single period in the modern world without serious objective problems. There were wars and diseases and nasty politics and crises and injustices and environmental catastrophes aplenty. Our current slate is serious business, but not uniquely so.

Based on the evidence available to us, what the little doomscrolling box has done is drive us crazy and actually make it harder for societies to act on these problems.
The stage before what was shown may involve actual cutting/sawing and or cleavage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleavage_(crystal)

This allows you to preserve material for making multiple gems where grinding can only result in a single piece.
We have governments, which even in the face of budget crises and such tend to allocate enormous sums for "national security". Why not have them actually do something useful with that for once and do a manual line-by-line audit of all security-critical code that is underpinning our infrastructure?
In most US states the employer doesn’t need to provide a reason for dismissal. Whether they do or don’t you may sue your employer or file a complaint with the state oversight agency. In that lawsuit if you have persuasive evidence of discrimination (race, age, pregnancy, gender, etc) then you may win a large settlement or a judgment if it actually goes to trial. The company will provide evidence why they fired you for non-discriminatory reasons.
if/else isn't a problem. If the condition isn't dependent then update of unused branch doesn't matter
SemanticPDF- Drag, Drop, Semantic Search
Open source project, repository: https://github.com/Bklieger/Semantic
And no, the paywalled IBM Cloud LPARs are a joke.

The mainframe is not a special thing anymore, hasn't been since the late 90s. It's just a server box.

I work at a shop with a z/14. I would love it if we finished the last COBOL retirements and go back to the mainframe but this time to run container farms, fresh Go code, and use thr power to run way deeper matrices of tests that take days to run locally and cannot afford to run on AWS.
Not fitting in is not a mental illness. And this attitude is behind the prevalence of many mental illnesses today. We've gone from a society that embraced difference to one that claims to embrace difference while mandating sameness. TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, etc, are all toxic for this reason.
Article title: "Turkey's resurgent opposition knocks Erdogan in pivotal local elections"
Was that before or after he told you people were hypnotizing you through the TV and tried to sell you nutritionally complete frozen burritos?
I don't mean to be glib, but you are in denial. Nuclear war is more likely now than since the early cold war, China is ready to invade Taiwan, climate change is poised to weaken or complete disrupt the Gulf Stream, America is months away from electing an insurrectionist as president, buying a house is a pipe dream for most Americans...

How could you see that as a young person and not feel at least a little hopeless?
AMD has four 256-bit execution units, which are ganged into two 512-bit execution units.

Intel has only three 256-bit execution units, which are also ganged into two 512-bit execution units, by adding an extra 256-bit unit, which stays idle in 256-bit mode.

So the throughput for most register-register 512-bit operations is the same for Intel and AMD, except that AMD has a single FP64 multiplier vs. two FP64 multipliers on Intel and that the path to the L1 cache has double width on Intel (while AMD does one 512-bit load per cycle + one 512-bit store every other cycle, Intel can do two 512-bit loads from L1 + one store per cycle).
Private and Secure Cloud Storage in 2024
Wow weird. I've been there and l thought it was a really socialist country. Especially because the housing in Vienna seems very well regulated to avoid extreme prices.

But I didn't really discuss this topic with the coworkers I visited so clearly I was wrong :(
I personally found "The Neuroscience of Change" by Kelly McGonigal [1] most useful in becoming "unstuck". Essentially for myself it was being taken through the realization that life is change, how with every breath the trillions of cells in my body undergo substantive transformational change, that my self-delusion of being stuck became comical.

[1] https://www.soundstrue.com/products/the-neuroscience-of-chan...
> We have previously shown that surgery alone, or 3-days of HFD can each evoke sufficient neuroinflammation to cause memory deficits in aged, but not young rats.

The surgery + transition onto HFD seem to be more damaging than either one alone, which makes sense that doing two harmful things is worse than doing one harmful thing.
Developer in the Midwest. I was paid by paper check brought to my desk by the office manager from early-aughts until 2012 when they switched to direct deposit.
Sadly there aren't many. Most of the H1B's can't do the jobs either
Never a popular topic on HN, but I’ve been through some appalling diversity training as a white man that seems a-ok in the broader culture. I’ve left one high paying prominent fintech job over such nonsense.

Sadly, I feel this is the result - if we’re not going to be colorblind as a rule everyone is going to “wise up” (and I use the phrase loosely) and start attacking everyone else.
Just checked it out -- I love the emphasis on the journey, not the destination. The creator of that site evinces a lot of wisdom.

Thanks for the rec!
Like if the raw stone is elongated you probably don’t want to cut it into a square finished gem, something like an oval cut would have less waste. And instead of trying to decide on an exact size in advance (like, exactly 1 ct), the final gem is whatever it is when the cutting is finished, so if it’s a smidge over you don’t shave it down.
Yeah, I'm also curious how many total jobs this is.

And also what the pay is. These jobs are overall more important than the tens of thousands of random software engineers at FAANGs.

To solve the talent deficit, they could say "We pay like FAANG. And if you do serious work, we expect stable jobs and steady career progression for at least 20 more years." Fund it by investing some of the wealth where it needs to be invested.

(The hard part I see is holding companies to career progression, so they don't just bring in people at Google L4/L5 equivalent TC, but plan for those people to become less mobile to other employers due to mainframe skillsets, so easy to retain without normal tech growth in compensation over time.)
No doubt its training data contains a lot of IBM manuals, probably even some commercial books on relevant topics, maybe even the contents of some of the forums you mention – and all that could be enough to correctly answer your questions.

However, for languages like Python, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, Go, etc, it also contains untold millions of lines of code slurped from places like GitHub. Whereas, I really doubt it contains anywhere remotely near as much COBOL code, just because you look for COBOL code on GitHub public repos, you will find very little – the vast majority of COBOL code is in-house or vendor business software, and few seem to want to make that stuff public – and what COBOL code GitHub has is mostly toy exercises or ancient stuff, not examples of significant contemporary production code. The only way OpenAI is going to get a substantial quantity of that is if multiple private parties (such as banks) give them access to their COBOL code bases – not impossible, but absent some public info saying it has happened, it seems more likely it hasn't.

I expect GPT-4 (or any LLM) is not going to perform as well on complicated programming tasks for COBOL compared to other languages. For more mainstream languages, it has millions of examples to help it do a better job, for COBOL it likely doesn't.
I'm not a marine anything, but I'd assume that the control system Wikipedia mentions are
ballast tanks that need to reflect any change in load, load distribution and even wind load I'd guess. Sinking a little deeper won't do much to compensate increased load because the small surface area means little change in displacement per change in vertical position. Active trimming pumps.
Yea, I went with SoFi because they offered points for things like direct deposits and invites. But they scaled it back after a year or two. They even got me on a personal loan they said they'd give $1000 in free crypto for and never paid it out.
Found Peter Zeihan’s burner account ;)
How the Biden team thinks about a US-China 'competition' without end
"Law" (whatever that means to you) does not, in the main, protect you from the private consequences of your speech.

It turns out that when you say shitty things about your coworkers in ways themselves violative of the law, people have no obligation to keep you employed!

This is a lawsuit decrying the reality of finding-out post fuck-around.
there absolutely were deaths on the prior iteration of the same model aircraft from the same company, in two separate incidents, only 5-6 years ago:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Air_Flight_610

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_302

as OP said:

> I think the worry people have is that safety standards are slipping, when it comes to building airplanes, specifically Boeing building airplanes. This is not something that would be noticeable in an accident statistic while it is actually happening, yet it is an extremely serious matter for the safety of aviation in the future.
>I always wonder when an "epidemic" gets reported if things really have changed or if we just recognize it better.

Suicide and emergency room visits for suicide attempts among teenagers are also up, and also on exactly the same post-2010ish timeline.
You can do it, Asahi Linux has access to a binary blob of Rosetta, or something like this, IIRC.

The thing is I don’t really care. I was worried I’d need to run Windows or Linux X86. Turns out, I don’t. I only had to run Windows once for a few moments in the last 3 years since I had an Apple Silicon. Surprising, actually.
Also perhaps indirectly, H-1B LCA filings are public. TCS et al are consistently on top over many years.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39882455
Most of my personal issues aren't with C++ syntax as such (although it also has many problems). My main gripes are:

1. Very slow compilation.

2. Poor encapsulation, adding private functions requires recompiling all dependents, see (1).

3. Comically huge symbols make debugging much harder than it needs to be -- today gdb OOM'd my 16GB laptop when trying to form a backtrace of a typical QT application coredump.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem like cppfront can fix these issues. It may still be a worthwhile effort in other respects, of course.
It's a playboy shoot. She's nude.

It's not some hardcore thing, it's obviously not as inappropriate as the "CEO showing porn in a company meeting" example, but it 100% creates a "boy's club" type atmosphere.

There's this website I use a lot, called rawpixels.net (seems to be down now?). It's an excellent tool for peeking at raw picture data when I work on debugging video decoding stuff at work. However, the default loaded picture is the Lena picture. It feels inappropriate every time I open the website at work, in our open office space where my screen is visible. Because it clearly looks like a picture that's intended to be erotic/suggestive. And if it feels inappropriate to put up on my large screen at work, it's clearly not appropriate as the standard test image for a whole field.
I certainly got checks at internships in 1999-2000 and at a job I briefly held in 2001. I guess my first real-real job was 2006 and for sure I got checks for at least the first few months. It was a mild pain to do the (literal) paperwork for direct deposit, and a mild pain to receive checks (I'd categorize it as a major pain now, but you were running errands more often then and even at the bank for other crap), so laziness won for a while.
Those are some excellent links, thank you. For some reason (misremembering, probably) I had thought that the the limit of any Fermi gas at high density was a plasma but I appreciate the correction.
I imagine pasting into the JS console after inspecting the page?
The title is from CNBC's home page -- which is also the title in the title tag of the web page (and visible in tabs).

Further down the page, CNBC has a less specific title -- that "Tesla's awful quarter has Wall Street on edge ahead of delivery numbers"
So much current discussion [0] (1234 points, 1 day ago 764 comments), [1] (464 points, 1 day ago, 105 comments), [2] (493 points, 23 hours ago, 301 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39877267
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39878681
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39879710
It's a bog standard practice, actually, even if you look very far back to the ancient world. Having a single agency responsible for security of yourself and what you own is a bad idea because no matter how much you try ensure the loyalty of people in it, it's prone to, at the minimum, suppressing its own failures and magnifying its successes to make itself look better than it actually is, giving you a false sense of security. It is also the natural point from which to orchestrate a coup, which is something that can be used by your adversaries, but even without their involvement people working there eventually realize that they hold all the keys to the kingdom and there's little risk in them just taking over.

So rulers in all ages tended to create multiple different security apparatuses for themselves and their states, and often actively encouraged rivalries between them, even if that makes them less efficient.
Doing such a thing is entirely within the purview and capability set of an intelligence agency.
I think it's the worst for teenagers and kids, but what about everyone else! The famous quote "comparison is the thief of joy" is attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, and social media is essentially about constantly comparing yourself to others. I have yet to meet a single person who has taken an extended social media break (or given it up altogether) who hasn't reported a substantial improvement in their mental state and wellbeing.
Wow, I thought it was bad when I was in school and they tried pushing credit cards we didn't need on us. Now colleges are partnering with sportsbooks? That's terrible.
That seems like the only lever these companies have to pull to increase the stock price.
I wonder how this compares with Carbon -> C++ [0].

Carbon is (was?) a fantastic proposal, but not sure if it has lost steam since it was introduced or how well it is being adopted (be it inside Google or outside)?

Being able to incrementally/interchangeably use/call existing C++ code (and vice versa) seems like a great design choice (in Carbon) without having to introspect the actual generated code.

Not sure how easy it is to get the cppfront-generated C++ to bridge with existing C++ code (and vice versa)?

[0] https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang
> so please stop panicking

That is a very condescending reponse. Auditing the procedures and documenting the problems is not panicking. Such methodical analysis is largely the opposite of panicking.

You are looking at a very superficial trailing indicator, the number of accidents.

While that's an important consideration, it is not very useful in terms of predicting future events.

Given that we now know that procedures are not being followed and records are not being kept, this tells us that the quality standards have slipped abysmally. That does not result in more accidents in the short term, but largely guarantees them in the longer term.

Boeing is equivalent to a software company with a great track record of not having security vulnerabilities who decides to get rid of the entire security team since nothing is happening and then patting themselves on the back quarter after quarter for all the money they save. Of course, we know the quality will be slipping and slipping and by the time the first vulnerability is exploited a few years later the codebase will be so riddled with holes that there might be no way to recover.
Tell HN: if the comment was somehow offensive, feedback on the specifics of the transgression would help to improve matters.
I'm sorry to hear that you've had a bad experience with it, it does take a while to get used to. I guess there is still much UX work to be done there.
Some off us put our money where are belief in privacy lies. I built whole privacy business (check my bio if curious).

Privacy is more than just "I have nothing to hide". It is difference between working democracy and swaying 2016 US elections towards unhinged lunatic.
under what circumstances does (2) hold? for vanilla methods it's no problem
Yeah, this is exactly how I do it except I don’t even bother to turn anything inside out. Just place the two “far” corners of the inner all the way into the corners of the cover, then grip the corners firmly and shake until everything finds its place. Easy.

The shaking also has the effect of fluffing up the down/feather filling nicely and distributing it evenly, which you should do once in a while if you have a non-synthetic duvet.

The rolling technique described in the article just seems ridiculous, way too much work!
Related:

The Smartphone Kids Are Not All Right

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39812623
Sorry to hear that. I find those kinds of trainings rather distasteful as well, and I'm not even white. I'm lucky I can ignore that kind of crap for the most part. Except when people start inventing nonsense to libel Indian people with.
did not notice those links
Why would you need to? Passports are not required to hire a person; most americans don’t even have one.
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC): Appeals
the PALISADE AND telluride are essentially the same vehicle as well.
> Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun said the standard version of the SU7 will sell for the equivalent of $30,408 in China, a price he acknowledged would mean the company is losing money on each sale

Isn't dumping banned by the WTO?
> Twitter is doing fantastic.

Reported yesterday [0] that it’s worth 73% less than when elon took over.

You absolutely may have a different definition of fantastic but what was once one of the largest social sites losing 3/4 of its value in 15 months is significant.

aside from actual financial analysts, my own personal anecdata has pretty much mirrored their analysis. i’ve gone back and gave it an honest try like 4 or 5 times and each time has been worse than the previous. it just reinforced why i (and more and more people) choose to spend our time in other places.

[0] https://fortune.com/2024/03/30/fidelity-x-stake-73-decline-s...
Just to make sure I understand what you're saying, someone who identifies outside of the gender binary has a mental disorder?
This was a response (in part!) to the HN questions posed on Cliff's original blog entry[0] -- hopefully it provided some answers! I would also be curious (and perhaps I should have phrased the title as a question?) how others have done this -- and specifically, what are some of the organizational idiosyncrasies (preferably of the positive variety?) that are outgrowths of a particular culture?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39837073
I dont always necessarily need or want the latest info. I find Reddit to be a good aggregator/filter that also acts as one of the walls against disinfo, i.e. some of the content never gets posted, or gets immediately debunked.

/r/credibledefense is my go-to
Not if you don't tell anyone about it. I think the bigger worry would be if it was declared abandoned property due to inactivity, but if you are making occasional withdrawals that might be OK.
Yes. It is. And most pub/sub or Observer architectures and design patterns have the "loop" thing solved just fine.

In fact, the GOF spend an entire paragraph on the problem of complex update semantics in "design Patterns" (1995) ch Observer p299.

So, while it is a real problem, it's one that has been solved (for at least 29 years)
The opposite of what I am saying is a popular meme like in the article we are discussing here.

Some recent research backing what I say:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/adhd-adde....

https://www.verywellhealth.com/taking-adderall-ritalin-witho...

You are welcome!
It’s fairly easy to point at things that have annoyed customers that they call features, like missing wheel stalks and poor autowipers
Trusting AI to get anything right is still a huge problem.
We are talking about data that spans over a decade, not a year.

Look at figure 1: https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2022/05/31/...
We bought a Palisade over Ford Explorer.

The trim we bought was nicer than a $5k more Explorer in every single way. Even paying $10k over MSRP puts them in line with the segment.
IBM could sell the future of the on premises z/xxx boxes as "datacenter in one rack"

Running x86 in z/VM has been a discussion for 25 years. Just fucking do it. Let people run whatever they want.

Just as people are excited about ARM for low-watt computing, make s390x just as exciting for people who want insane vertical resources but using the same dev tools that are used now for easy x86/ARM crossover.

But IBM culture has always been about overcharging a small and rich audience and now they are sitting around hocking their services cohosted thru AWS and everyone who has COBOL and 360ASM running are doing retirements with no plans to use the boxes after its all unloaded.
I spent the other day writing an archetype entity component system which made heavy use of template metaprogramming. I try to avoid this if possible, but it was an exercise in seeing how performant I could make it, and so I wanted to offload as much work as I could manage to compile time and avoid things like virtual dispatch. API similar to the basic parts of entt.

My take away from the exercise is that this is not a language for human beings. I was successful in writing it, but it was extremely difficult and frustrating. Part of the frustration is because conceptually what I wanted to accomplish was not difficult, but figuring out how to express it was a nightmare. I am not new to the language, I've been writing C++ since 2009, it was the first language I learned and I've spent nearly every day of my life since then writing at least some C++ code. Even so, I can't say that I truly understand this shit.

I'm hoping cpp2 brings us someplace closer to a language that mere mortals can understand. I don't want the next generation writing C++.