MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by motorest | 2025-04-17 06:16:15+00:00
> Good architecture plans help.

This is they key answer right here.

LLMs are great at interpolating and extrapolating based on context. Interpolating is far less error-prone. The problem with interpolating is that you need to start with accurate points so that interpolating between them leads to expected and relatively accurate estimates.

What we are seeing is the result of developers being oblivious to higher-level aspects of coding, such as software architecture, proper naming conventions, disciplined choice of dependencies and dependency management, and even best practices. Even basic requirements-gathering.

Their own personal experience is limited to diving into existing code bases and patching them here and there. They often screw up the existing software architecture because their lack of insight and awareness leads them to post PRs that get the job done at the expense of polluting the whole codebase into an unmanageable mess.

So these developers crack open an LLM and prompt it to generate code. They use their insights and personal experience to guide their prompts. Their experience reflects what they do on a daily basis. The LLMs of course generate code from their prompts, and the result is underwhelming. Garbage-in, garbage-out.

It's the LLMs fault, right? All the vibe coders out there showcasing good results must be frauds.

The telltale sign of how poor these developers are is how they dump the responsibility of they failing to get LLMs to generate acceptable results on the models not being good enough. The same models that are proven effective at creating whole projects from scratch at their hands are incapable of the smallest changes. It's weird how that sounds, right? If only the models were better... Better at what? At navigating through your input to achieve things that others already achieve? That's certainly the model's fault, isn't it?

A bad workman always blames his tools.
by toast0 | 2025-04-17 06:16:30+00:00
Like others said, uptime for a registrar barely matters. For an important domain, I don't want anything to change, and if the registrar is down, nothing will change, so that's good.

What MarkMonitor can provide is things like facilitating RegistryLock, which makes it even harder for changes to be made. And account reps that know what's going on. I hate working with account reps, but if they're knowledgable and easy to work with, it's ok.

They do some trademark monitoring (thus the name), if you want to get your own related app taken down from Google Play :p (I'm not bitter, it was amusing). And presence services if you need to hold a domain in a weird location that wants a presence, they can probably arrange it, which is handy at times.

I'd love to know more details on this incident, MarkMonitor had a bulletproof reputation as a registrar that won't fuck up. Godaddy doesn't, but then I didn't realize they had taken over the contract for .us
by jrapdx3 | 2025-04-17 06:16:56+00:00
I remember when Fry's opened in the Portland, OR area (actually ~15 miles south). It occupied the former Incredible Universe site. We considered it a notable upgrade.

Fry's was like a museum of common and obscure electronic parts, devices and strangely miscellaneous stuff (mundane office supplies, home appliance accessories, etc.). It was definitely the go to place for computer building blocks and related supplies.

It was amazing what could be found there. One really great thing was relay racks and all kinds of shelves and attachments for them. Too good to pass up I bought one. It was used in my office (for webserver and LAN) and still houses my home server.

Like everywhere else Fry's closed unceremoniously. I guess the chain couldn't withstand the growing online competition and waning interest in desktop machines. Too bad they had to go, now and then it would be so convenient if neighborhood purveyors of "exotic" electronics were still around.
by adev_ | 2025-04-17 06:17:54+00:00
> No, the problem for a language server is incremental performance, not batch performance

"When something is fast enough, people start to use it differently" - Linus Torvalds.

Make your parser able to parse the current file at 30FPS and you do not need incremental parsing anymore nor error recovery. That is probably part of the idea here.
by benbridle | 2025-04-17 06:18:26+00:00
I wholeheartedly agree with using "0o" as the octal prefix, I've never been a fan of "0". I've jut implemented this feature and released it in v2.2.0, you can grab it from the project page. Thanks for the suggestion!

I'm not too sure I understand what you're describing with non-Unicode text. Torque doesn't have a built-in concept of bytes, instead each character is treated as an integer with the value being the Unicode code point of that character (using decimal we have 65 for 'A', 955 for 'λ', 129302 for 'robot emoji', etc). It's up to the programmer to choose how to pack the character (integer) into a sequence of bits. Code points are different to encodings like UTF-8 or UTF-16, which define how a code point (integer) is packed down into one or more bytes.

If you want to assemble 7-bit ASCII text, one byte per character, you define a macro that packs each character value into the lower 7 bits of an 8-bit byte. If the string contains a non-ASCII character, the character value will be too large to fit into the field and an error will be displayed.

%ASCII:c #0ccc_cccc ; ASCII:"This is a string."

Assembling ISO-8859-1 text would be similar, but would involve remapping the characters above 0x7F like this:

%BYTE:n #nnnn_nnnn ; %ISO-8859-1:c ?[c 0x7F <=] BYTE:c ?[c '¡' ==] BYTE:0xA1 ?[c '¢' ==] BYTE:0xA2 ?[c '£' ==] BYTE:0xA3 ; ISO-8859-1:"£190.00"

UTF-8 being a variable-width encoding requires a more complicated macro arrangement (you can see an example here [0]). But the key point is that strings aren't treated as byte sequences, they're just character/integer sequences until they get baked down into a byte encoding.

Please let me know if that doesn't answer your suggestion, I'm keen to understand your use-case.

[0] https://benbridle.com/projects/torque/manual-v2.2.0.html#usi...
by DannyBee | 2025-04-17 06:18:42+00:00
Lawyer here - the true consitutional crisis will likely come when the judge holds someone in criminal contempt, and trump pardons them.

There is some unfortunate precedent that allows this. At the time, the ruling was not really that consequential, but obviously, much more so now.

My general view is that pardon power was not really intended to extend to things which are fundamental to the function of another co-equal branch. It was meant to be federal crimes. In the end, Madison/et al felt that impeachment would suffice to protect from pardon abuse.

Contempt of this kind is not really a federal crime - it was considered part of the inherent powers of a court, but there is a statute that now covers it (18 USC 401), so it is unfortunately considered a federal crime and thus pardonable.

So when trump gets pissed off or whatever and pardons whoever gets held in contempt, that's when it's basically a crisis. Because at that point it just means they don't actually have to care. They will just abuse this legal loophole and declare that everything is actually okay, and they have done nothing wrong.

There are other ways, of course, it may become one, but that one seems the most likely path to me at the moment.
by fabian2k | 2025-04-17 06:19:45+00:00
Kennedy already knows the answer, this is just a pretense to justify his unscientific views. No real scientific research on a topic like this can be done on that insane timeline (until September). And of course he put a well-known crank in charge of that study.

They'll blame vaccines, and maybe some other random environmental factors that fit their existing worldview.
by ruszki | 2025-04-17 06:19:47+00:00
Do you mean daily mix playlists? From the first 20 songs 17 are something which I added to my library, or listen them regularly. The rest of the 3 songs? 2 of them are from artists whom I listen to regularly. 1 clearly new song.

I have very similar rate with “daytime mix”.

So which one do you mean? “Discover weekly” and ”release radar” have new songs, yeah. But “radios” are like the previously mentioned playlists.
by n4r9 | 2025-04-17 06:20:21+00:00
RFK Jr is a crank, misinformation peddler, and conspiracy theorist as well-documented and referenced on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr .

So this needs a big pinch of salt. Especially as the "vaccines cause autism" crowd is a base of his.

> "One of the things that I think we need to move away from today is this ideology that the autism prevalence increases — the relentless increases — are simply artifacts of better diagnoses, better recognition or changing diagnostic criteria,”

If I remember rightly, doesn't this explain the effect at least partly? The question is how much of an effect is there after this is taken into account. I'm guessing we don't have a solid answer to that - if RFK's funding leads to one then that's a silver lining I guess. Nevertheless, is it a leap to go from there to environmental effects like vaccines and toxins? What if it's the amount of screen time, social media, or changes to education that are causing autism?

> Kennedy also claimed most autism cases are severe before citing a statistic from the report that said 25 percent of children with autism are nonverbal.

As the article notes, it's a sleight of hand to conflate "nonverbal" with severe. Presumably there are nonverbal people without autism. Moreover, does the cited study account for selection bias in autism severity?
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-04-17 06:21:06+00:00
Hopefully that doesn't happen as not everyone who uses a .io is a tech company. I've been using a .io domain for my personal email for something like a decade now, when I just thought "oh that's a cool TLD" and had no idea it was even a country TLD. I don't much relish the idea of getting soaked for money to stick it to the man when I haven't done anything morally wrong.
by mocules | 2025-04-17 06:21:15+00:00
There's an argument that America is fundamentally broken at this point. By fundamentally, I mean value wise the country is splitting apart. Trump is the saviour for half the country and the devil for the other half. It's basically taken less than a hundred years, even after riding on the back of world war 2 and hegemony, to bring the country back to the great depression. The trade wars for me are just another desperate attempt by the country to point blame elsewhere.

House prices are at an all time high. Cost of living is becoming unbearable. So, $25 dollar menial jobs are scoffed at, because of inflation. Inflation is due to out of control printing/spending and government debt. Debt is due to big government, capitalist greed and oligarchy. Capitalist greed is due to economies of scale when offshoring. Oligarchy and big government is due to an entrenched lobby system. Lobby system is due to the cost of electioneering and bad decisions by successive governments.

It goes on and on.

Root cause: Systemic rot. Diagnosis: Failing empire Prognosis: UK (if the fall is managed)
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-17 06:24:11+00:00
> Lawyer here - the true consitutional crisis will likely come when the judge holds someone in criminal contempt, and trump pardons them.

This already happened in Melendres v. Arpaio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon_of_Joe_Arpaio

On August 25, 2017, President Donald Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio for criminal contempt of court, a misdemeanor.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-04-17 06:24:21+00:00
Because people want to make money and spend it. An investment firm can found and fund a university, but the owners don't get the money they put in back out.

Plus, why bother with a school? If you want to donate your money, there are far more fun tax exempt organizations to run participate in, like most Yacht clubs or fraternal associations.
by djmips | 2025-04-17 06:24:37+00:00
Here's a deep cut https://web.archive.org/web/20070128050622/https://www.resea...

Regarding using the Taylor series: "The problems lie in the approximation error. If you graph the absolute error of this function you find that it is very accurate for small angles around the origin of the Taylor expansion but the error increases almost exponentially away from x=0. Truncating the series later will decrease the error but is not only is more costly and opens you to more danger of numerical error, but each additional term is another load/multiply-accumulate in your program. We need good accuracy across the whole range and we need it using as few terms as possible."

...

Minimax Polynomials

"The method used to find these polynomial approximations is called the Remez Exchange Algorithm."

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by fzeroracer | 2025-04-17 06:24:49+00:00
The fact remains that every single American should be opposed to this. If the admin can freely deport someone who was here legally and with proper papers and ignore their habeas corpus rights then there is nothing stopping them from doing so to US citizens. Once you accept that rights no longer matter, you are giving up your own rights and the rights of your fellow Americans.

This is THE line in the sand. Either you agree that people have rights afforded to them by the constitution or you are a fascist. And there is no mincing words on this.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-17 06:25:04+00:00
What are “http packets”? [Spoiler: there is no such thing]

http is an application-layer protocol. The PDU for http is “data”. http is stream-based due to being built on TCP, where the PDU is a “segment”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model#Layer_7:_Application...
by magic_hamster | 2025-04-17 06:25:28+00:00
For me it was never an alternative because I don't use Spotify at all.

For streaming I use Soma FM almost exclusively, everything else I curate myself.

I never had a problem discovering more music through good old forums and more recently, LLMs. Trying out their recommendations is a fun exercise on its own as some songs they recommend will be totally obscure, but mostly they are on point.
by wickedsight | 2025-04-17 06:26:01+00:00
> this freakout about autism seems overblown to me.

That's the point. It's a distraction with no possible verifiable result. His supporters will see this on the news and say: "Wow, Kennedy is finally really doing something about that scary Autism stuff, he's great!"

At some point he can just misrepresent some existing research and blame microplastics (or something else) for autism and proudly talk about this in the media.
by John7878781 | 2025-04-17 06:26:39+00:00
The article isn't overly excited imo. It clearly states nothing has been proven for certainty, which is in alignment with what you're saying.

> Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet

> Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.

It's not fair to call it "trash"
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-04-17 06:27:19+00:00
By using strings of pearls on fishbones. To the effect of something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu

Or selectively breeding barnacles to make longlasting letters/symbols, or 'milking' their glue and put it on something to avoid being overgrown. Imagine an aquatic market for underwater fonts!1!!
by motorest | 2025-04-17 06:27:19+00:00
> That said, 100% pure vibe coding is, as far as I can tell, still very much BS.

I don't really agree. There's certainly a showboating factor, not to mention there is currently a goldrush to tap this movement to capitalize from it. However, I personally managed to create a fully functioning web app from scratch with Copilot+vs code using a mix of GPT4 and o1-mini. I'm talking about both backend and frontend, with basic auth in place. I am by no means a expert, but I did it in an afternoon. Call it BS, the the truth of the matter is that the app exists.
by viraptor | 2025-04-17 06:27:47+00:00
Maybe because they had a release hiatus for a bit. V1 was cool and had great ideas / interface, but needed some polish in practice (new models weren't well supported, it for in endless cycles, etc.) The explicit planning, server model, visible steps and a few other novel things were impressive though.

Hopefully the V2 will bring the polish and reliability.
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-17 06:27:50+00:00
> It's always seemed weird to me that the founding fathers designed this system without thinking what would happen in such a scenario.

The thing is, no political system is foolproof and free of issues. But the US and the UK are about the only major countries in the world that didn't experience a forced reboot of some sorts - wars, revolutions, secessions, whatever - that brought an update of the constitution and legal system with it. Everyone else, however, did and learned from the issues that they and other countries had experienced in the meantime.

By now, the US is running on the same system for over 238 years. Yes, there have been some updates and amendments, but the fundamental assumptions are still the same stuff from centuries past, when virtually instant, global communication and transport of goods and people wasn't even thinkable.
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by w0de0 | 2025-04-17 06:28:32+00:00
To the other respondent’s point about Noriega, a central american autocrat cannot “shakedown” the American government. The balance of force is entirely in the gringos’ favor - if they choose to use it. If Bukele refuses, it’s simply because this is what Trump wishes him to do. Bush I _invaded_ Panama to enforce a district court’s arrest warrant.
by latexr | 2025-04-17 06:28:34+00:00
> These behaviors are surprising. It seems that despite being incredibly powerful at solving math and coding tasks, o3 is not by default truthful about its capabilities.

It is only surprising to those who refuse to understand how LLMs work and continue to anthropomorphise them. There is no being “truthful” here, the model has no concept of right or wrong, true or false. It’s not “lying” to you, it’s spitting out text. It just so happens that sometimes that non-deterministic text aligns with reality, but you don’t really know when and neither does the model.
by goku12 | 2025-04-17 06:29:13+00:00
Issue tracking and PRs have good alternatives. Some dedicated solutions are frankly a lot better than GH - if only people didn't dislike discrete solutions.

On the other hand, network effects is a big problem - especially for open source projects. There isn't a good way to find projects that are scattered over thousands of small git hosts. There should be a project listing and search service (like freshmeat), but for hosted projects.
by dzaima | 2025-04-17 06:29:36+00:00
Here that can go both ways - SIMD parsing can allow handling arbitrary changes in reasonable time for files below like maybe 100MB (i.e. everything non-insane), whereas incremental parsing can allow handling small changes in truly-arbitrary-size files in microseconds. A trade-off between better average-case and worst-case time. (of course the ideal thing would be both, but that's even more non-trivial)
by p0d | 2025-04-17 06:29:40+00:00
My kids are hitting 30 now and I am adjusting to the change between being more of a coach than a teacher. They ask me questions about their work but mostly how to fix boilers and practical issues. I have pizza and walk with my son every week. It is in this place concerns are aired and discussed.

My wife and I most definitely guided them through their childhood and youth. You wouldn't give a child a car with no training. We all learn from someone or some media. My family provided for me but were not very close and they taught me very little. The fact you are asking this question Michael shows me you will be a big help to your children.
by DarkCrusader2 | 2025-04-17 06:29:59+00:00
I moved away from Plex when they started shoving free B/C movies with lewd posters on my home page and made is very hard and confusing to remove (if removing it completely was even an option, I still don't know).

The whole reason I host plex is that I want an offline experience that I curate myself. The requirement for internet to authenticate and shoveling crapware in my face pushed me towards trying Jellyfin. The Jellyfin UI on TV and mobile is not as flashy and polished as Plex, but it is extremely functional and respects users choices.

Been a happy Jellyfin customer for years now though I only use it to organize and browse my library now. Actual playback is either MPV on PC or Kodi over NFS on TV. After trying many many players, these were the two I found best for respective platforms, nothing else even comes close.
by DidYaWipe | 2025-04-17 06:30:01+00:00
You might have been able to store the opcodes in strings, letting BASIC put them in memory somewhere and then getting the address.

A cool trick to move your player/missile graphics vertically in BASIC was to store the sprites in strings, point the sprite's starting memory to the address of the string, and then use string-copying routines in BASIC to move the sprite up & down (since they only had a horizontal-position register; vertically they were as tall as the screen, so you had to blit them to get vertical movement).
by kassner | 2025-04-17 06:30:17+00:00
The Mac Mini M4 can draw as little as 3W during video playback via HDMI, but all your energy savings will be offset by the price of storage.

There are plenty of old laptops that would be a great replacement, mine draws 8W at idle with 2x2TB SSDs: https://www.kassner.com.br/en/2023/05/16/reusing-old-hardwar...

I’m interested in the next generation: arm64 machines with 2xM.2 slots could do wonders as an idler.
by froh | 2025-04-17 06:30:20+00:00
yes! and the animation and flexibility is the point that's missed by most fellow commenters.

they enable a font to be parameterized in two dimensions: time and prosody, i.e. speech pattern.

so subtitles and learning materials can be animated to reflect the speech pattern (stressing words, rasing and falling pitch, volume overall, ...) and they can --- independently --- be animated to teach writing, by reading the example.

this is a curious novelty that allows experimenting with the representation of speech and I'm looking forward what will come out of it.
by recursivecaveat | 2025-04-17 06:30:22+00:00
I have no dog in this, but the sources I can find all say something like 25-30% non-verbal or minimally verbal. People seem to group them together, so I think 'minimally verbal' must be nearly as severe. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3869868/
by wintermutestwin | 2025-04-17 06:30:25+00:00
IMO using a streaming service’s recommendations is a way to filter out bands that labels aren’t promoting. The services have to be getting paid for pushing - right?

If everyone is this lazy about music discovery, then music suffers. I am not using “lazy” as a pejorative. There are people who just couldn’t be bothered and that’s fine. Music just isn’t that important to you. But if the people who deeply love music are corrupted by the ease and dopamine, it will deeply wound music as a whole.

My problem isn’t discovering new music, it is “discovering” my massive library. I love AM, but the fact that 3 of the five large icons taking up precious screen real estate are devoted to discovering music that Apple is paid to promote is infuriating.
by blurbleblurble | 2025-04-17 06:32:48+00:00
This man role plays as an idiot but for years he openly spoke of his belief that there isn't enough room for everyone on this planet.

I'm concerned that this may be the core value of many in this administration.

They act like climate change deniers and vaccine deniers etc but I don't think they're quite the kind of idiots they pretend to be. They're very ignorant yes... but in a sick, cunning way that the media fails to appreciate or take seriously.