skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes it's not hard to spot the fake code if you take some time, I scored 10/10 on the first try. The GPT-2 code definitely 'looks real' but it doesn't make any sense most of the time, using unitialized variables, computing things but not using them, almost random comments that have no relation to the code, etc. The only snippets where I had to guess where those that just repeated many variations of the same thing as if they were machine-generated from some other input data (which sometimes makes sense to do in a 'real' project).

What I found more worrying is how terrible some of the real code was :D
I work on the Firebase team and have been working on the Firebase Emulator Suite for the past year or so. We really want every Firebase developer to be able to run their app locally and offline, although I'll be the first to admit there are rough edges.

If you or anyone else wants to discuss this more and give us some specific feedback on what went wrong, please reach out:

* https://groups.google.com/g/firebase-talk - our mailing list, good for open-ended discussion
* https://github.com/firebase/firebase-tools - GitHub repo for the Firebase CLI and emulators if you have specific bugs to report.

Or if you want to reach me personally I'm samstern@google.com, always happy to chat 1:1 about this stuff.
It would be interesting to know if all inhaled steroids for asthmatics had a similar effect, or only this particular one. The steroid mentioned in this article is actually an older one, there are newer and more effective steroids that are often prescribed now. I wonder if they all work similarly in helping Covid patients.

It would also be curious to know if people who are already taking the steroids have possible benefits for Covid illness, or if its main benefit is if it started at the onset of illness.
My dad still has many in his loft as my secondary school chucked them out late 90s and we took them. They were even considered old rubbish when I was in middle school; that school had 1 Archimedes that sat forlornly in the corner.

I was using it in the early 90s when everyone else was playing on their Sega and early PCs. We were poor so had to make do with very last-generation tech. I enjoyed playing games on it and then got a programming book (Advanced Programming Techniques for the BBC Micro my Jim McGregor and Alan Watt - I bought a copy recently) from my school library as a teenager with thoughts of writing a game, when Pentiums IIs were appearing... the folly. I did my homework on its word processor and printed it out with a deafening Epson, which looked pretty rubbish compared to my contempory's Encarta-pictured-studded inkjet printouts with WordArt. Oh well.

As it turned out, the programming book was very interesting and had all manner of stuff in it I didn't understand like 3D programming methods with maths I didn't understand, but I did design my own glyph and animate it walking across the screen after designing it on grid paper.

My dad still has all the disk drives, second processor, A, B, B+ and Master units in his loft along with a series of Cub monitors. And various eeproms like Speech, View etc, and an AMX mouse. Even had an Integrex colour inkjet which I managed to get some output from (very quiet), but that went to the bin some years ago. I think he has all the manuals too.

Really fond of the Beeb as it served me well and introduced me to programming despite the inadequacies of the keybord. Will have to grab a Master from him. I certainly do miss the instant start-up time...

I ended up doing my paper round as a teenager and spending the money on PC Plus and Micromart in the hope of buying a PC but had to do with ones school threw out again, so I was languishing on a 486 DX2 when PIIIs and Celerons were around, but I don't regret it. Introduced me to Linux RedHat 6.2 and many more exciting computer journeys.
Great idea.
One question - what pain point is this solving?

As a GitLab, GitLab Pipeline and Docker user I don't find running pipelines that slow to run or initiate
Unfortunately disabling swap doesn't really fix the problem you're talking about -- Linux will just grind to a halt trashing the page cache instead.
Just reminded me of this video of G-LOC https://youtu.be/s0Xgff1NsL0
Ray Dalio on Meditation
I’ve written UIs for various platforms/targets including “UI frameworks” for a games engine and wow you’re not wrong. Made me beg to build web UIs again.
> the web was simpler and so we had many different engines

I would argue it was more complex, trying to get something moderately advanced to render the same between many browsers became a massive chore compared to today.
Internet sleuths solve secret message on Perseverance rover's Mars parachute
Or you can use $2 in a year and give the remaining $8 to the C-level executives.
That's what I call kernel hacking.
I think this is great:

> The only way to recognize — and then bridge — the gulf of understanding between you and people using your tool is to observe their struggles and talk to them. It’s amazing how quickly glaring flaws are revealed this way. Answering questions on Stack Overflow (or GitHub, Twitter, Slack, or wherever else) is not a selfless act of altruism; it’s a chance to learn, to find where people struggle and hear their perspective. Each question is an opportunity to help one individual, but that question can also inspire a tutorial, an example, or even a feature that prevents others from hitting the same issue.

What I love about being a front-end engineer is seeing how people use what I build, which almost always brings up "obvious" issues and improvements that weren't so obvious when you're working on it yourself.

Now that I'm mostly building developer tooling, this gets even better: not only are the users like me so I can empathise with them better, but I know where they're going with their questions and observe them "in the wild", and easily figure out what help they need without needing to set up specific UX research sessions.

But this primarily gets fun if you use it as a way to scale up your support. Which means it's important to keep the following in mind:

> But there’s also a limit. As one person, you can’t help everyone. And you can’t make everyone happy because your tool is only a tiny part of their life. Don’t make that your goal: focus on learning and broadening your perspective. If it stops being constructive for you, then stop. Period. And don’t feel bad!
Stroustrup´s idea is quite clear defined on "Design and Evolution of C++" book, everything else is WG21 own work.

> Maybe for C++, Rust, D and Haskell one might open up a "Team-Category" in the best language designer competition and C++ would indeed get a very favorable mention for starting out from a bad state and trying their best at lifting the language to a better place.

I doubt many C fervor users are jumping of joy for what WG14 has done since C89.
The fastest growing ecommerce companies in the UK
What American Values?
If it is indeed http://frys.com/, the message is up now.
The whole point of the article is that, the issue with the SLS is that its not one single argument that explains everything. Its about a whole history of bad in terms of government processes on a government program like that.
Nim, in particular, has rather terse but elegant ways to package abstractions so that use is "obviously" locally scoped.

Just as one example (more fully elaborated here [1]), there is no pointer arithmetic by default, but one can write a tiny little template to add those operators and then invoke it in a local scope like:

...surrounding code...
ptrMath:
let address = base + offset
...surrounding code...

In this way many different & arbitrary "generally unsafe but also sometimes very convenient" constructs can still be used at an author's discretion, but be used in a way to make a reader (perhaps) pay better attention in a way that is more specific than some "generically 'unsafe'" block.

This is, of course, just the tip of a meta-programming iceberg.

[1] https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/1188#7366
LN not having data on-chain imposes severe constraints that make LN inherently more centralized and less secure than zkRollups.

If you're really set on payment/state channel networks like the Lightning Network (Bitcoin), Raiden (Ethereum) or Connext (Ethereum), you can put them, ON A ZK-ROLLUP!

You get a 100X scalability boost, without increasing the block size, which makes payment/state channel opens/closes a couple orders magnitude lower, which massively increases a payment channel user's options and improves the functionality of the payment channel network. ZkRollups also reduce the cost of on-chain payments which lets a user switch to on-chain for an application that the zkRollup-based PCN is ill-suited.

All-in-all, reducing the cost of on-chain transactions, as zkRollups do, have significant advantages, so there is absolutely no reason to not adopt them.

And Liquid is a centralized sidechain dependent for its security on trusted third parties, and completely incomparable to zkRollups, which have 100% of the security of the mainnet and are only reliant on 51% of the hashrate being honest for security.
Actually - I sort of want to work in defense for a few years to find out, that and the sheer amount of tech in a modern missile (the fact that they would likely be used is why I didn't apply) - I reckon most the algorithms here are basically finely tuned signal processing and other non-"AI" processes.

There's a tendency to think that everything that isn't completely ab initio like machine learning is bad or inelegant - I often fall for this trap myself, but to just get the job done you can get a very long way with "dumb" algorithms and a practically infinite budget.
I ran into some value setters which simply logged their parameters but did not store them. Hah! obviously GPT2, not understanding that a setter should, well, set.

Wrong, of course. Now maybe the human concerned was far down some inheritance tree and simply wanted to document misuse of a deliberately limited class but assert()ing would have been too punitive. Or may it was indeed "right form but no substance", but authored by an SWE.
For an opposing view, listen to George Carlin - Euphemisms.
I think Spotify insist on using 10% of my drive. I can’t configure it as far as I know (any more). The only solution that I know of is `rm -rf <cache>`.
Fines I agree with, thought I suspect jail would make things worse.

Not just because jail is a health risk all by itself, but because compliance with the law depends on people collectively agreeing that the law is just, and excessive punishment does the opposite (or so I hear).
> I should not need to keep a close eye on Mozilla

That is a bit hyperbolic. You see a feature in the browser you don't like, you can turn it off. Not really a 'close eye' issue to me.

> I should not need to fight my browser.

This also is hyperbolic, switching a single option is fighting with a browser?
I ran across an interesting factoid a while back where a line was drawn between the Amiga CD32 and PS2 - that somehow Sony picked up where Commodore left off but I’ve been unable to find a reference since and I’m certain at this stage I’ve got the names and dates mixed up ... anyone heard anything like this?
Why, managing all this money is hard work! /s
Is there an equivalent to market diversity that could show the health of different markets?
if anything it's more damning of toddlers, whom many of the current generation will have the "turn it off and on again" hard reset hard-coded into their early minds, not only surpassing their parents' technical troubleshooting but also their buggy device's first tier support's
City Lights is such a special place. A bookstore that really makes you want to read, and somewhere you can find a book you'd never find otherwise. I love that they stayed open late at night too, every time I got dinner in North Beach or Chinatown I'd make a stop at City Lights after and invariably leave with 2-3 books.

His legacy goes far beyond the store, of course, but I'll always be thankful for that place.
Madness. I would hope that it's still a troll but it's not like we haven't seen people do the same thing for all kinds of get rich quick schemes past and present.
Trying to value the potential non existence of the environment using money as a measurement seems to rapidly become incoherent:

assume there's no environment. ok, so human life can no longer be supported on earth. So there's no one to trade with to exchange money for useful goods and services like oxygen and radiation shielding. The value of money is obviously zero in the limit where the environment no longer exists.

Can the analogy be adapted to measure the lifecycle cost of running an ISS terms of physical resources. E.g. what's the minimum size that a self sufficient earth bound country would have to be in order to throw off enough surplus labour and resources to launch and maintain an artificial ISS habitat for 6 people? Would a hypothetical self sufficient New Zealand with 5 million people suffice?

Here's an attempt:

Apparently ISS cost $100b over 10 years. Call it $10b / year. World GDP is around $90t / year. So ISS costs 1/9000th of world GDP. Under extreme conditions, a human nation can direct maybe 1/3 of national GDP to external government projects (e.g. WW2 total war scenario). So maybe we could have a society of 3 * 1/9000 = 1/3000 of world GDP that could sustain itself and an artificial ISS ecosystem for 6 people.

1/3000 of earth human population is about 2.5 million people say.

So a healthy resource rich earth environment + labour of country of 2.5 million people under total war rationing conditions could sustain artificial ISS environment able to support 6 people.
Design decisions behind Kafka's performance
I’m ok with the language used. It’s more of a theme throughout the article that I’m concerned about. Palm oil in cow feed can impact the dairy industry and it can impact the properties of the product; I want to understand both types of impacts.
Not GP but presumably because of scope creep, disagreement about what the original extent was to be that was paid for all in one.

I've seen that recommendation to 'get away from hourly' a lot too (I don't freelance) but I think that means (certainly doesn't have to mean) get away from charging for time entirely. Many professions (e.g. architects, solicitors, accountants, tax advisors) charge for time. I think the suggestion is usually to move from hourly to daily/weekly, some larger unit of time that's a more appropriate block for building software, allowing that 'thinking time' where you sort of did something else ('afk') but were working, since it's just part of the day.
Is it untrue? This is history of the power structures of abrahamic religions. All 3 abrahamic religions are a history of inflicting unimaginable cruelty on others.

This article itself is about the holiest of holies poisoning others to protect himself.
Maybe the classics are classics because of the time they were written in and you KNOW this as a reader. If you read a classic with a new cover, new title, and believe it's from a contemporary author, it might be garbage.

Also: less books and fewer authors in the past, so some books bubble to the top and are considered a classic for several reasons. Many people read them. Nowadays, everything is more fragmented, which can be a good thing.
I'm afraid Editor doesn't load in Safari. I get a 403 when loading the editor.
It used the MOS 6502 CPU, which was also used for the Apple I, Apple II, the Commodores and Atari and Nintendo (NES, SNES) game consoles!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWqBmmPQP40

http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html

https://eater.net/6502
No problem, this is another article on the subject I'd bookmarked:

https://www.ussc.edu.au/analysis/the-reserve-currency-myth-t...
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-6-previ...
> Why can't more kids get into STEM fields?

Because not everyone is predisposed to be a programmer, engineer or statistician. Not everyone can become a whitecollar worker. This is reality of the world we live in, no amount of though experiments will change that.

What you are really doing is blaming victims of a system set against those people.

Our society should be built so those people can have decent lives too. Ie minimum wage should provide you with above poverty life. Currently in some cities 3 minimum wages are barely that.

I am not talking about giving poor people money for palm beach holidays twice a year. Working in McD should be enough to pay for an small apartment bills and food and sending you kids to school.

What current situation created is that middle class has to subsidize the social welfare for working class people - WORKING people. Ie middle class pays part of wages of minimum-wage workers because they are in poverty while holding a full time job(s).
Me too. but I only read scifi/fantasy
Have you considered developing one?
My reading there is that "in dairy" means not in the dairy products, but in the dairy industry.
Personally with Github Actions, I do find myself pushing 2, 3 or 4 times just getting the pipeline working because I always mess something up, either I've messed up a command or the environment isn't what I expected etc. There's act[0] for github which I should use more often to solve this, but I usually forget

[0]: https://github.com/nektos/act
Hi Lalita,

Great work! You're definitely solving a very interesting problem touched by many, both on the supply and demand side.
Your comment wasn't a substantial discussion on this point it was just a bigoted quip.
Same-day shopping, returns, being able to look at things, and talk to people count for something too.

I can't count the number of times when I bought a motherboard, and didn't realize my old AT power supply no longer worked with an ATX motherboard, or some other random standard, connector, or form factor changed. You can ask an employee "Will these five parts make a computer?" and get an answer, or even configure one up on their web site.

Plus, sometimes there are defective parts. You buy a part that doesn't work. You plug together motherboard, RAM, CPU, and power supply, hit the power switch, and very little happens, with no real way to debug. I won't say that's easy or seamless with Microcenter, but if you have five parts from Newegg and Amazon, you're basically SOL.

And if you forgot something -- and I've never built a computer where I didn't forget something -- you can pick it up. All the little things are just easier. Building a PC requires a ton of screws, cables, and adapters. I've never had the right set come with parts. Sometimes, the motherboard, case, and peripheral will all come with the same $0.50 part (Yay! I have two extra I don't need), or none will.

With COVID19, I've missed Microcenter; they don't do curbside pickup, and generally have avoided taking any sorts of basic safety measures. It's odd.
NO NEW FEATURES was indeed marketing. There were many new features.

However, as your list shows, the vast majority of those features were under the hood improvements that had little to no user interface changes.

And that’s what Apple meant by no new features. Their work in Snow Leopard was entirely focused on improving the underpinnings of Snow Leopard through both bug fixes and infrastructural changes.
I meant voluntary in the sense that the patient wants to be there and wants to be converted.

As opposed to the patient being physically forced to be there and having no desire to be converted.

I think the contextual factors, like what is causing the patient to want to be converted, are not relevant to how effective the therapy would be. This is not to say that those factors are not generally important, for other reasons.

I think it's important not to just assume everything that is being done for the wrong reasons, is ineffective. It can be mentally comforting to believe that consequences of malevolent actions are always negative, and that argument can also be used to create public support against those malevolent forces, but I think the fallacies that get built up over time from this kind of wishful thinking undermine the objective and scientific foundations of perception that society needs to collectively reason about and tackle its major challenges, which tend to be extremely complex and necessitate more than just compassion/good-intentions to solve.
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Ugh! --why do Telegram keep adding new 'features' whereby someone else gets to decide what data I have on my computer? It's the absolute antithesis of the privacy and security these services are supposed to be built around.
This is implicitly true, as much as people don't want to hear that journalists aren't saints. The incentive structure in place doesn't motivate the journalism indistry to rigorously cite or investigate sources. There's no more money in it for most publications, and no other regulatory pressure. Why would anyone believe that the first duty of a journalist today is to anything besides their publication? It's the same reason that we on HN complain about privacy violations, censorship, annoying web ads, Google AMP, scrolljacking, sticky headers, and yet we are the ones who implement all that crap. At the end of the day, we are being paid to make our companies money. Any idealism is a nice-to-have on the side, but rarely is it our delegated mission.
You are not wrong, but at least the C64 used the 6510 ( a variant ).
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>inadequacies of the keyboard

cough ZX-Spectrum cough
forwardemail.net : if you are a Fastmail user does it provide you any benefit? Fastmail already has a catch-all feature.
It does! The inspiration threads itself through the unkempt sideproject garden.
I dont know a solution to solve this all either. But I'm worried we make it worse with bad solutions.

Certainly you dont want to give these powerful people the tools to become more powerfully by implementing an authoritarian system against disinformation. Its rather obvious that if these powerful people can not circumvent that system they will become the system. If they can manipulate millions they sure can manipulate or replace the few "decision makers" too. Now you have powerful people spreading disinformation who also have the power to remove any critics simply by labeling it disinformation.
looks like swap... can u show

# vm_stat
# top -o faults

just 1.5Tb for my 2m old m1 mini.. xcode/firefox
> Given tantalum is a rare earth metal, it might be nice to replace it with a ceramic and maybe a 4 Ω resistor in series. I’d love any input here.

USB allows for 10uF of capacitance, and you don't seem to have an LDO on your board, so you don't need a minimum amount of ESR to maintain stability. I don't think there's any reason you can't just replace the tantalum with a ceramic?

> https://chadaustin.me/images/sculpt/pcbway-top.jpeg

This is shockingly bad. I was thinking of using PCBWay to assemble a run of a dozen or so PCBs, because JLCPCB is limited on solder mask color and part selection, but this has pretty firmly turned me away from that.
That CPU is still going strong. In fact, I'm currently building an assembler for the 6502 in Rust.

https://mos.datatra.sh
If US govt banned bitcoin and the exchange of it to USD, bitcoin will go to zero. And no one will be willing to defend it because it’s quite literally backed by nothing tangible or intangible.
> They include your parents’ income in your means test

I wonder what happens if your parents are wealthy and you're on good terms with them and not estranged... they just don't happen to want to fund your education.
Before and:After What are these CSS pseudo elements?
LinkedIn is horrendous - they could actually make it somewhat better by having two views "Colleagues" and "Recruiters" and never the two shall be in the same view.

It would make opening LinkedIn at least not wildly stressful!
Glassdoor should add a field for whether the company uses software like that.