skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I very much doubt anyone from the time wants to talk about it, but there is substantial bad blood about Oracle and Ingres. I believe not all of this story is in the public domain, nor capable of being discussed without lawyers.
> You would really purchase something based on past experience with the company

Absolutely. Companies that make bullshit products very rarely get their act together, so why wouldn't brand loyalty be a thing when one encounters a quality product?

> after all the old models were pulled and this new line of WiFi connected dishwashers replaced them in 2023

That is news to me. If true my next dishwasher is going to be a Hobart from the used restaurant equipment shop up the way. Incidentally I just looked into it and Bosch claims that their HomeConnect enabled dishwashers function just fine with no internet connection, so there is that.
20% of people are infected with herpes. So yeah, definitely worth dealing with the common problems.
I get that now, but I'm diagnosed, too, with ADHD. Maybe that's why I forgot to mention that I'm in the same, exact boat.

I'm still a foot-tapper at nearly 60, with high blood pressure putting the kaibosh on Adderall, so I do the best I can with what I can.

Those are the techniques that I have found to work for me, but I wouldn't and didn't call any of them a miracle. No, this programmer's life is non-trivially difficult for we ADHD folks, friend.

I apologize for not making that clear, but I'm certainly not downplaying ADHD's reality or difficulty after having dealt with it for over 30 years.

And taking Adderall is not without its side-effects, so I wouldn't recommend either it or pharma-grade cannabis, because I'm not a doctor, and those things are dangerous. I only recommend the safest possible path. Besides, all my recommendations actually helped me get the most out of Adderall for the few years I had my prescription.

In my experience, there are no miraculous shortcuts, but those are the ways I have found help me tamp it down, after years and years of struggling with it, which has been daily for me with my passion for programming still going strong.
Show HN: Timematic/anytime – an layoutless Golang time.Time parser
Am I missing something? There is an agreement to give Colorado River water to Mexico and Mexico gives Rio Grande water to the US?

Mexico hasn't given the agreed water to the US and then they are shocked that the US isn't giving the water to Mexico?
I didn't say being evasive immediately after an incident (either to gather facts or put together a strategy) was specific to Trump, I said feigning ignorance including of material he has previously demonstrated awareness when he doesn't want to talk about something is a repeated pattern for Trump.

Those are distinct, though potentially overlapping, behavioral patterns.
For coding and other integrations people pay per token on api key, not subscription. Claude code costs few $ per task on your code - it gets expensive quite quickly.
There is a very nice library called Einops that makes it easier to work with einsum. See:

Descriptive Matrix Operations with Einops — https://www.kolaayonrinde.com/blog/2024/01/08/einops.html

Einops tutorial — https://einops.rocks/1-einops-basics/
No disagreement there, but once you are set on a mobile app, you are going to push for it to be used.

It all probably starts benign: let's push some notifications to customer's phones (already requires a server — ahem, a cloud — and a mobile app).

Then smart product managers realize that the app is not used by anyone, and they start thinking about "value add" with the app, and quickly, you are looking at removing things from the physical unit and putting them only in software.

A PM next: look, this release has increased usage of the app 10x!

Instead of them just doing the right thing and nixing the app — but who'd advocate for cutting their own job?
Knowing what malicious actors are capable of is important for protecting yourself against them.
I just came across this and shared it without much thought. I realize the title is controversial, and I don’t endorse offensive language. Just an interesting find in John Lennon’s history.
How many of them are dating?
Is it woo if I'm a diagnosed with ADHD, too, which I am?

I explain this more fully in my other comments in this thread.

This isn't woo, my friend; it's the advise of programmer who has been in the ADHD trenches for over 30 years. And it's the best advice I can give because it's the best set of advice that I wished I would have gotten those decades ago.
Modern technology enables us to cover part of our current energy needs with renewable sources. Absent a great technological regression, it is likely that eventually we will transition to a future where fossil fuels are no longer needed.

However, the question at hand is what would happened if we somehow did revert to pre-modern technology.

In that case, IMHO it would not be possible to reach again the industrial capacity that we have in the XXI century because the non-renewable resources that were required in the past have long been exhausted.

We might be able to catch up with the XVIII century though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromford_Mill
Related philosophical question - is a spreadsheet a database?

It's certainly a base for data and can be used to implement all core concepts of relational calculus but it isn't designed for such and doesn't do so with performance in mind. Conversely, filesystems are often implemented using B-trees as many RDBMSes are but aren't designed for many of the operations one might typically ascribe to a database.

Nomenclature is tricky... how does that saying about the two hardest problems in CS go again?
The point isn't demonstrating AGI, but rather demonstrating that AGI definitely hasn't been reached yet.
why not just use stripe
They are useful to reach Arc-N+1
No, it is not a typo. We were founded in 2004.
Yes, I have the same one and I'm surprised the switch to disable it's Internet connectivity was missed and instead everyone's raging about IOT. The app is able to establish a local connection to the dishwasher and it's one of the few that can do this.

I'm very happy with the app. If you didn't already fetch electricity prices, it can display them in the app and automatically delay washing until it's cheapest. The dishwasher can also be extended by downloading additional wash programs.

It seems to be well thought out. LGs app in comparison is absolute pants and has no option for local connectivity.
What's not quite correct?
ChatGPT is not the only type of AI Chatbot.

The role-playing chatbots like character.ai are more of a problem because people are forming emotional relationships with these "characters".
you could, but this article is about claude.
Out of curiosity, how long did 'ya spend on that blog post, the YouTube video, and various platforms reading/answering comments related to this experience?
Yes, it is. Please name a windows laptop with great speakers and mics.

It’s night and day.
The cycle from idea to product is a bit too long and too costly to materialize in energy sector. And that decides the speed of innovation.
As evident from the ungodly tax cuts they just gave to the wealthiest Americans.

> Oh, we are just so much in debt, we need to tighten our belts... With a 2.5 trillion dollar tax cut.
I agree that's the goal we as a community should steer to.

But on how we do that, my opinion seems to differ.

I postulate that it's hard (expensive) to do what you suggest: finding people to build that for every customer, while not increasing support costs is tricky today.

Just ensuring your personal computing device (a phone, laptop or server running home assistant) can see and talk to your device is a hard problem (which is why the go to solution is poke a hole in your router fw by pushing data to a server, and have mobile app only talk to the cloud).

Can we, as a software development community, come up with an approach that makes this easy to do for local first but remote enabled?
You can get her with

git blame
with a good hosted option (atlas).

From less than 2 weeks ago: "How MongoDB Atlas’s Forced Upgrades and Support Policies Drove Us to PostgreSQL" [0] -- TL;DR: MongoDB lost a $50K/yr Atlas contract due to the way they do things.

[0] https://medium.com/@inkwash_70850/how-mongodb-atlass-forced-...
Pascal (and most other Wirth languages) is better in most of these respects than C. Of course there are other flaws with Pascal (cf “Why Pascal is not my favorite programming language”), but it proves that C has a lot of accidental complexity in its design.
> (i.e. when I feel like the authors' arguments are too confident, or otherwise discourage the audience from thinking themselves about the arguments or conclusions)

The intention of the game is to analyze this and ask why the narrator is so confident and dogmatic and to see a layer underneath, it's not to take the narrator at face value.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say they dislike the manufactured hype.
Let me play the devil's advocate. How do you know that you are right and they are wrong. All along you both were on the same page and you are successful. May be they are right. But, in any case, it all depends on the contract you have. Legally binding crap takes precedence. The next best option is to to sell, may be 60 or 75% stake to the other co-founder. They have the right of first refusal rather than selling it to your competitor. In any case, be very friendly. If and when it goes south, they may need you to right the ship.
As always, you are the best judge of the situation.
The west is aging. Without migration supporting the elderly will be impossible at some point in the next 50 years.
I don’t think continuing this is a productive use of my time - you don’t seem to understand what I’m saying.

Have a good one.
Or just get lucky and end up with a Dr. Stone [1] :)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Stone
It is ignorant of history, law, politics and logic. Companies do not exist for that purpose. It isn't why they arose as a concept. It isn't why they are created today. It isn't why the law of companies exists today. It just has nothing to do with reality.

If you said that businesses should exist for the benefit of their staff as much as for the benefit of their proprietors it might make some sense as an opinion. But you said that companies (a specific type of legal structure) do in fact exist for the benefit of their employees (a specific class of contractual relationship), which is simply false.

If you want to make statements about how you think the world ought to be, then be my guest. If you want to lie about the state that the world is actually in, then you should be relieved when someone interprets your lie as mere ignorance.
Tech slump and trade war shrink the fortunes of the richest
All of the color values were collected over a long period (years) of collecting that I did for personal reasons. It was only recently I decided to publicly post them. I am sorry I did not keep specific details.
I have tried using it as a therapist for issues that are not sensitive and I think it's great. I won't use it for sensitive issues due to privacy concerns. I also have tried to use it as a personal trainer and coach and works great - so far.
Look up "CV dazzle" for the equivalent in the modern age, makeup effects to avoid facial detection / recognition.
Christians, as a whole, are fascists? News to me.
Initially I wrote "Hetzner Cloud", and then changed to "Hetzner Dedi Cloud", to emphasize that those are more performant VPSes. Shared cloud instances cost even less: €25/month for 16 cores.
A classic of nature writing finds constant renewal in the mountains
FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons
Damn it Bosch. They usually make great tools and appliances and it looks like they're instead following the path of "subscribe for the basic features" scams.

I can't help but think my solution to this would be, to start hand washing the dishes, out of pure spite.
I thought the explanation was that SHA1 collision attacks on git repositories weren’t feasible, not that we don’t care about people sneaking things into our git repositories.
Entity Framework with Linq is a huge time saver. But I started using records with EF instead of classes.
Nitpick: “Public” is misspelled as “pubic” in several of the captions on that page.
I've got a few Bosch appliances. I like the Bosch website where I can get spare parts [1]. When the door spring of my 15 years old dishwasher broke a couple of years ago, I went to the Bosch website, enters the model number and got an exploded view with all the parts. I ordered the spring and replaced it myself. A few minutes of work. Much faster than finding a repair guy with a free appointment slot. My Bosch washing machine has a WiFi label on it. Never connected it. Only using the buttons on the front panels. On the same website, you can get the instruction manual PDF, so I usually have a peek review in the manual of a device before buying. I don't know if that spare parts service is available everywhere but I have used it in 3 European country so far.

[1] https://www.bosch-home.com/de/produkte/ersatzteile
I would hazard to say that anything that can be queried in a way more efficient than a full scan is a database, or can be used as a database. A spreadsheet, a filesystem, a hash table (aka "KV store"), even a sorted list, like a library catalog.
Part of the problem is the misallocation of productivity. Let's face facts no one needs one more iPhone or whatever gadget but everyone needs good healthcare or whatever basic need. Our current economic system is geared towards providing what in essence are luxury goods, items that we don't need for a happy and healthy life. If our economic system would work towards making basics the priority we would be better off all over the world. That would mean that somehow producing food, or whatever basic need, for everyone would be way more economically attractive and entrepreneurs would create more companies in the food production realm rather than gadgets that ultimately end up in the trash polluting our environment.
LLMs on a PowerPC Mac
Good product for building interactive AI avatars?
Hey All! Has anyone found a good alternative to this? I would like to make synchronous conversation with avatars either through voice or chat: https://www.d-id.com/chat/
I figured you either were or would claim to be adhd.

I see lots of harmful "advice" pushed by supposed ADHD sufferers.

One time I saw an older ADHD sufferer trying to mentor a young person with ADHD by telling him to cut out preservatives and take up meditation.

Leafy Greens and Pay Attention are barely a step beyond vagina crystals and positive thinking, and its awesome that you think they worked for you, but people should be referred for proper medical treatment, always. Even if you add your other wins as supplementary options, it should never be seen to be something alternative to medicine.
Can you give some examples? Honestly interested
as a non-user, I'm not bound by their policies :3

also, don't they have an email masking option? i remember seeing some generated @github.com email in commit logs
I am from India and an US based MNC's HR reached back to me and asked me to put a photo, my permanent address, DoB, and passport number. And I did, because the other way was to not go through that interview and possibly being blacklisted by that company. It used to be a norm here (improving but not so much), what wasn't normal was an international MNC demanding that right in the beginning. We are often asked for alternate contact details - it's a field and they must as you fill it! I literally don't have anyone like that so I just add my secondary mobile number.
Sapphire is aluminium oxide. Not aluminium.
Can anyone explain where this blob of "assembly language" comes from? In practice, the author presumably with the desired output image and backed into this esoteric format, but I'm not following how.

What is considered an acceptable preprocessing or transformation? In the limit case, a static executable that computes nothing and outputs a constant, literal image probably violates the intention of the question.
Right, I'm just not sure how that interacts with the ellipticity of Earth's orbit and how stable those orbits are.

Suppose we go for 4 times Earth's orbital period, so about 1/8 of its orbital radius, where solar radiation is 64 times stronger than the 1.36kW/m² that we get above the atmosphere here, 87kW/m², corresponding to a blackbody temperature about 1100 K, at which point we might want to use semiconductors that are excellent insulators at Earth temperatures. (This would put a large dim yellow ball around the white sun we see in the sky, but for the moment let's assume that's OK.) This radius is about 19 gigameters, only 27 times the sun's own radius, and far inside Mercury's orbit. The area of the sphere is 4.4 × 10²¹ m², so if it's 10 microns thick (probably close to a minimum for an effective solar panel, since even metals get transparent this thin) it's 4.4 × 10¹⁶ m³, and so probably about 10¹⁷ tonnes, 10²⁰ kg. Mercury is 3000 times more massive, and our own Moon is 700 times more massive, so I wonder if the orbiting power satellites would perturb each other's orbits in a difficult-to-control way.
Reasonable perspective. I went back through the article and the content is more balanced than I initially would have guessed from the initial visualizations.

However, the much more assertive initial visualizations and the opening caption— “A chart illustrates that the longer people spend with ChatGPT, the likelier they are to report feelings of loneliness and other mental health risks” — convinced me not to continue reading.
How are any of these a useful path to asking an AI to cook dinner?

We already know many tasks that most humans can do relatively easily, yet most people don’t expect AI to be able to do them for years to come (for instance, L5 self-driving). ARC-AGI appears to be going in the opposite direction - can these models pass tests that are difficult for the average person to pass.

These benchmarks are interesting in that they show increasing capabilities of the models. But they seem to be far less useful at determining AGI than the simple benchmarks we’ve had all along (can these models do everyday tasks that a human can do?).
To Win Trust and Admiration, Fix Your Microphone
Pure anecdote here but: I own three different external HDD hard drives, all bought at different times (one of them bought used and formatted, so I don't even know how old it really is) that have all been mine since more than 10 years ago. I still use them all and they all still work fine. Obviously I also have everything on them backed up to a cloud regularly, but so far, they've been perfectly reasonable in their speed, quiet and not too warm (the opposites of these three being red flags for near failure in my experience)

I also own a secondary work/careless travel laptop that's from 2005 and that I've owned since buying it used in 2012. It too works fine, though I did have to change its hard drive once.
a nuanced point indeed.

and we agree a kernel executing write_rando_stuff_to_rando_places out of the blue would be unsafe?

do we also agree registers to be auch random places?

then we're good
> We shall not copy everything from America.

You should copy not needing photos on CVs. Doing so introduces an unacceptable risk of bias.
Does sharing first authorship on a paper carry a penalty? What the research says
>With a good Dependecy Injection system (and bad ones abound), requesting a service instance is just as simple as referencing a static class.

DI in .NET is very good and you can access an object with ease with DI. Still, why use it? It's another layer between the caller and calee. Creating objects and resolving those through DI takes some CPU cycles without any major added benefits and your code becomes more complex so more things can go wrong.
Anyone work on AI at Apple?

Has not using Nvidia hardware hurt AI development @ Apple?
Tho I get how it must feel like that sometimes to TWese people, to me this sounds too much of "Hide your strength, bide your time" deception, too much convincing about the supposed weakness of Taiwan, at a time when it clearly has strengths. If TWese had an advantage from this they wouldn't want to show it, probably. I'm asking as I'm curious to know what they might be using it for and if it's real.

Not saying there's no truth to your telling of it as Taiwan as the 'victim of the world', and exploited from all sides, but that also sounds too extreme. The blame pointing also verges into "don't suspect us, we are a victim, we can do no wrong" zero-responsibility thinking that if not carefully handled can serve to simply mask wrongs done there, such as the Ko debacle for instance.

On the whole I think your practical grounding in what's in TW's interests is probably correct and aligned with how many practical people think there. Funny second order effect of the US "request" for TSMC treasure stateside, is how this short-term win for the US will likely only push the TWese toward CN more so.

Tho perhaps this is still aligned with US calculation of TW as a pawn, whose loyalty or not was never really valued, nor even expected long term, history being what it is.

I agree TW is playing in a game that's not so much about it, but about the other, "bigger" players - but I'm just genuinely wondering how is TW planning to use this to its advantage, at a time when the world is trying to beat a path to its door, and it is clearly positioned at the nexus of great power competition along multiple axes: AI, politics and strategic land. The question is sincere, tho I get it's not strategic for any revelations. They are clearly interested in power despite their humble appearance, else they never would have created such in-demand economies and played the dual game as they have. I hope to see some thinking about Taiwanese reckonings on this, beyond the somewhat simplistic "TW is universal victim" muddy thinking.

I appreciate how you brought my attention to that side of it, as well as the practical implications of the negative sides of TSM corp's success, thank you! Important question: "TW got the game to this point, what's their play now and why?"

I am not TWese but I am curious about the happenings there. I think it's important what happens in Taiwan's story - not just because it's a bit of a barometer of and prism for the China-US relationship, but also for its own journey! :)
They are actively doing everything they can to throw America into the trash, set it on fire, and then setup a fascist state to “put out the fire”
The lack of a single direction is a really good point. In my mind I was thinking more from the perspective of tempering evocative headlines. But my rule also lacks quite a bit of nuance
Maybe there is, maybe there isn't.

I mean, we all know what people say they want and what they'll do when/if they buy something may be two totally different things.

And: creating a dishwasher (or $appliance) that does its actual job good enough to be worth buying isn't something that can be hacked up in a weekend or two.

Edit to add: maybe - as Bosch pretty much has figured out how to make good diswhasheres - it'd be easier and more approachable to hack, rip out, replace the control electronics. Chances are this is going to work on more model than the one...
I have computers from the 60s to this year and my experience is quite different; newer hardware breaks faster & is harder to repair. Everything I have from the 70s and 80s is all simply working without fail (if something is broken, it's usually just soldering a capacitor or 2); most from the mid 00s to now is broken and often not repairable. I'm talking 1000s of machines. A good exception are thinkpads from around 2010 (with the nice keyboards); they seem unbreakable.