skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’ve been commenting on a tweet by Edward Niedermeyer. The guy who created a site called “Tesla Death Watch” back in 2008.

These downvotes have got nothing to do with you or with what you pointed out. Just some people here with sour grapes.
Which unfortunately doesn't work properly on Firefox (spaces are removed).
Uhm, I don't know what insanely rich middle eastern country you're from but in most of the world teenagers do not generally drive Teslas!!
Having a paper published can take a very very long time, a year is quite short and 6 months is basically the minimum wait. My last paper has taken 2 years to be accepted from the first time I submitted it, despite it being largely the same as the initial submission, accepted as part of my thesis over a year ago, and having several citations. It is very frustrating, and it also means that easier (and less original) work is easier to publish.
> number of votes (at indexing time? Reading the chat message time?)

At the time it was read from the server, which in most cases is when the sender hit send.
> Am I a bad person if I keep pretending for a couple of years until she finishes her studies, gets a good job and then break up?

I’m no relationship expert, but I’m sure she wouldn’t appreciate finding out her life the past X years has been a lie.

The sooner the better, as bad as it sounds.
>> AlphaCode ranked within the top 54% in real-world programming competitions,
an advancement that demonstrates the potential of deep learning models for tasks
that require critical thinking.

Critical thinking? Oh, wow. That sounds amazing!

Let's read further on...

>> At evaluation time, we create a massive amount of C++ and Python programs for
each problem, orders of magnitude larger than previous work. Then we filter,
cluster, and rerank those solutions to a small set of 10 candidate programs that
we submit for external assessment.

Ah. That doesn't sound like "critical thinking", or any thinking. It sounds like
massive brute-force guessing.

A quick look at the arxiv preprint linked from the article reveals that the
"massive" amount of prorgams generated is in the millions (see Section 4.4).
These are "filtered" by testing them against program input-output (I/O) examples
given in the problem descriptions. This "filtering" still leaves a few thousands
of candidate programs that are further reduced by clustering to "only" 10 (which
are finally submitted).

So it's a generate-and-test approach rather than anything to do with reasoning
(as claimed elsewhere in the article) let alone "thinking". But why do such
massive numbers of programs need to be generated? And why are there still
thousands of candidate programs left after "filtering" on I/O examples?

The reason is that the generation step is constrained by the natural-language
problem descriptions, but those are not enough to generate appropriate
solutions because the generating language model doesn't understand what the
problem descriptions mean; so the system must generate millions of solutions
hoping to "get lucky". Most of those don't pass the I/O tests so they must be
discarded. But there are only very few I/O tests for each problem so there are
many programs that can pass them, and still not satisfy the problem spec. In the
end, clustering is needed to reduce the overwhelming number of pretty much
randomly generated programs to a small number. This is a method of generating
programs that's not much more precise than drawing numbers at random from a hat.

Inevitably, the results don't seem to be particularly accurate, hence the
evaluation against programs written by participants in coding competitions,
which is not any objective measure of program correctness. Table 10 on the arxiv
preprint lists results on a more formal benchmar, the APPS dataset, where it's
clear that the results are extremely poor (the best performing AlphaCode variant
solves 20% of the "introductory" level problems, though outperforming earlier
approaches).

Overall, pretty underwhelming and a bit surpirsing to see such lackluster
results from DeepMind.
"Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap." - V.I. Arnold
+1 on this. I expect some kind of flashing ad or pop up, where that expectation itself is a distraction. It's rare that it's not a website I'm reading on mobile.

The state of the internet. Sigh.
I love settings, browsing the settings screen gives me a feeling about how mighty a software is. Software without settings is usually very shallow, only supporting a handful of usecases. But in the modern SaaS world, they still want to charge 5 bucks per month. No thanks.
Well, I tend to sigh a lot when reading some sites on my phone…
Down 25% or so, currently. Would you buy at this point? Why or why not?
I’d suggest telling her as you explained it here, hell, show her this post.
My recommendation:

Take some time off and really unplug.

Invest in a hobby/activity outside of work that makes you happy. For me it's lifting weights. I wasn't always that way - a doctor recommended that I do that in my mid-20s when I was going through serious burnout, bad diet, poor sleep and stress. It helped me having that outside outlet.
Can someone help me understand what actually happened here? As far as I can gather, the comment in the code wasn't a lie, but the overall system was complicated enough that there was a way for the thing-that-shouldn't-happen to happen anyway. So the docs weren't wrong, but there was a bug in the code that led to incorrect behavior that deviated from the docs.

Or am I misunderstanding something?
I've started leaving my phone on silent and sitting on my kitchen table while I'm working. Just having it within arms reach at my desk has become too much at times. The lack of focus wasn't nearly this bad at the beginning of the pandemic for me.
True, I trust brew as well, I was wondering about package downloads.

you can install vlc via brew?

edit: I meant vlc not vnc
Thus the hacker refrain, "lies, damned lies, and comments", for which oddly I'm unable to find any examples despite having seen it recited several times over the years. In fact, I believe I came across that rephrasing before learning of Twain's famous original. I always found it a more pithy justification for why source code comments should only explain why, not how or what.
"The mission of the Amazon Developer Platform team is to accelerate Amazon.com shopping experience development via empowering and delighting developers."

Ugh. I hate that everything has to be delightful now.
Not sure how much cooling is needed in the Netherlands. I know UK houses generally do not have AC.
Handling your first dead Hetzner hard drive
Pressure vessels. Big ones.
I've never verified anything either. fail.
Mostly because it's more work to manually remove a bunch of spurious robotically added statuses (which look bad, because you're either down more than customers are noticing or your detection is flawed) than it is to manually add and remove real ones.
Depending on your local laws, she may be entitled to alimony (IANAL!).

Advice from an internet rando: you only get one life.

If you deeply regret the marriage and have for a long time (which is what it sounds like), end it.

Find a lawyer or mediator and work through the painful situation in as compassionate a manner as you can. Be prepared for some breakage in your family, friendships and life, but IMO you shouldn't stay in a situation that makes you miserable.
I wonder if the fixity of location provided by printed materials is a significant factor in increased retention. I noticed that I often remember what part of a page I read something on. With a web page, no such "information location structure" exists: the flow of the text changes based on the device and configuration, and instead of discrete pages there's just one big one.

The act of turning a page may also serve some function: the visual content is "refreshed", the patterns on the page are brand new and stimulating. Perhaps the memory for each page is "chunked" in a way that a write to long term storage occurs on pageflip. If so, then infinite scrolling would lead to "buffer overflows".

Another thought about scrolling: I also wonder if the movement of the eyes "across" a page is more stimulating and ergonomic than keeping them in one place, which in my experience gets rather tiring.
In Australia (I left 15 years ago) it was stated that you were required to drive at the _maximum_ speed that met the conditions:

- not exceeding posted speed limit

- appropriate for environmental conditions

- your ability to safely control the vehicle

And failure to do so could be fined.
That is misinformation. Did you even listen to the above linked explanation by infectious disease expert Dr. Monica Gandhi?

Reinfections are meaningless. What matters is severity of symptoms. Infection by earlier variants gives most recovered patients durable cellular immunity against Omicron.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01700-x
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Show HN: I've built a tool for musicians using modular gear
Hello HN,
not many will know what this tool is about, but it's launch day and I always dreamed of posting on HN. Let's start!

This is a tool for people using eurorack gear. For synth people. What is cool about my tool is that I show the signal flow with a graph. Here's the official press text:

After a decade of stagnation in this space we are excited to present patcher.xyz: the modern way to manage everything modular.

It’s a tool for professionals, enthusiasts, and casual wigglers.

Novadays artists must develop their own means of taking notes, often on paper, since there is no common format for sharing ideas. Although there is nothing wrong with that, we believe we have found a better way.

We wanted our patch ideas to be searchable, editable and easily-shareable. We needed an easier way to plan our racks, without creating a mess. We needed to be able to find awesome modules fitting our style and feel, without being lost in the ocean of different options.
We made it a reality.

patcher.xyz was built to provide a fast and enjoyable experience while bypassing the limitations of current offerings. Our vision is to build a platform to assist you in any part of your wiggling experience: from research, to planning, to buying or trading gear, to sharing your new ideas and music.
Actually its more an issue that other car companies don't publish their data for comparison.

On a dumb average tesla is way better, but it'd be more compelling if we could compare to new luxury brands with similar target markets
$256M in ETH stolen from cross-chain protocol Wormhole
I'd be extremely interested in other companies offering similar positions.
You're technically right, if a lot of people use this, the owner of ycombinator1.com will have a lot of info about who shares which URLs and could actually change the redirects to whatever they want.

That being said, it's probably not much of an attack surface given the transient nature of the links.
DarkPattern.games: Find Healthy Mobile Games
Helicopters flying at Mars may glow at dusk
Bubble App of the Day
This article is an pure speculation. The CIA report already said with great confidence that it is not caused by foreign country. The fact that didn't excluded it 100% is just that negative things are very hard to prove. And the reasons for Havana syndrome still are not known, nothing can 100% eliminated. But it is not very likely and the described reason is very much how conspiracy theorists argue.

Scientists say that such weapons are physically impossible (Scott Locklin blog). Rehashing old arguments ad nauseum could be just slow news day and serious journalists shouldn't write with so much bias.
This came up last time reduced hour workweeks were discussed: https://4dayweek.io/ (never used them, have no idea how effective it is).
Development is problem solving. Copilot will tell you how other people wrote a (for e.g.) database transaction, but it cannot tell you how to utilise the result. It cannot and, likely, will not every understand intention or goals. It cannot problem solve - only you and your cohort can.

Just read the latest reports on what is happening with IBM and Watson. That is a straight-forward use case, a simple classification goal with some decision support, and the real world has hit it like a steam train hitting a bowl of jelly.
It’s hard for me to over-emphasize what “economic development” means in the context of a third world country. When my dad was growing up in a village in Bangladesh, 1 out of 4 kids would die before age 5. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed during the independence war due to conflict between Urdu speaking Pakistanis and Bangla speaking Bangladeshis. To this day Hindus are fleeing Bangladesh to go back to India, and the Hindu population is under 10% now (compared to 30% in 1947 before Indian independence). The founder of the country was assassinated. His successor was overthrown in a coup. We left the country in 1989 during a military dictatorship. The current prime minister has thrown the opposition party leader in jail. The 10 richest Bangladeshis include both sons of both party leaders, who are nearly billionaires from corruption.

So caning people for public disorder? Well it’s relative. If an authoritarian government is what it takes to straighten out society and get it on the right track, it is what it is.

It’s not lost on me that the predecessors of the prosperous northeastern states were extremely repressive Puritan, Dutch, and Quaker communities.
Apparently, not a whole lot for image transfer and portability. But layering still gives you something at runtime if a single organization is using the same base image for all of its own containers. And, in practice, I think layer-level deduplication does still save on transfer costs. I'm not sure if this author just wasn't considering or realizing the state of where industry was heading, but with projects that are rebuilt on every commit, the change frequency of upper layers is still a lot greater than the rate of change on distro base images. They may be patched daily and you need to re-download the whole thing every day, but if you're building 40 times a day, that's still better than downloading 40 times a day. It's just a lot worse than we could be doing if we could only download diffs instead of the entire layer when a single bit changes.

It would be nice to see what, if anything, ever came of the ending tease. Something like git but also for binary files is what is called for. Arguably, ClearCase offered this exact feature 27 years ago, but being proprietary and expensive limited its adoption among modern web tooling.
First Portless Ultrabook
This doesn't seem a very generous description of Mochizuki's work. You don't "need" to study under him for a number of years and there's no evidence he's being obscurantist. The proof is long and has a lot of novel techniques he's invented, and he works primarily in Japanese. You can reasonably side with e.g. Scholze's interpretation without thinking Mochizuki is disingenuous or some kind of scammer.

He's considerably less esoteric than e.g. Grothendieck was even during his more "public" years.
> and possibly other shells?

Years ago--I don't if it's still the case--but the fish shell used ^ to redirect stderr.

EDIT: I remembered right:

https://web.archive.org/web/20111111003423/http://fishshell....

but it seems it's no longer the case:

fish> echo foo ^ bar
foo ^ bar

https://fishshell.com/docs/current/tutorial.html#pipes-and-r...
I know it is sort of cliché, but believe me when I tell you that therapy and counseling can completely change your life. If you are like me, you may think it might make a small difference, or may make things somewhat more tolerable, but I think this undersells the night and day difference it can make.
You won’t hear any arguments from me about that!
In the US it’s legally a max. I have seen — although rarely — entire lines of cars pulled over and ticketed for speeding on an interstate (limited access, multilane divided highway, max speed 65-70 mph (104-112 kph)) Driving too fast for conditions, is a different fine, so if it’s foggy and you’re going the posted limit, you could also get fined.

You can get ticketed for driving too slow, but I’ve never seen it. I’ve only seen a minimum speed posted on an interstate (45 mph (72 mph)), but conceivably you can get ticked anywhere for impeding the flow of traffic.
Show HN: Repo Tracker to follow updates in multiple GitHub repositories
I built this GitHub Repo Tracker with Nuxt 3 to track when Nuxt 3 and its modules are ready for production.

You can track multiple repositories on a single page and see how many commits, issues and PRs each of them had today, in the last 7 days and in the last 30 days.

More stats and slick charts coming soon, plus integration of GitLab and BitBucket.

Give it a spin:
https://repo-tracker.com
You can't escape google. I've seen even government websites require code from Google's servers. Just like if you choose to never sign up for facebook account they'll still create a secret profile for you and populate with every scrap of data they can learn about you from other facebook users as well as from data purchased from data brokers. We can choose to limit our direct participation with these companies (and that's a good idea) but you don't get to choose to opt out of them.
A more recent example is the Italian school of algebraic geometry, where it was discovered in the mid 20th century that many claimed proofs were faulty (and some “proven” results were incorrect).
For context, China banned phones in school due to this reason: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55902778
wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole - and for the same reason I won't own tobacco stocks.
I noticed this too. Other day the restaurant slipped me a QR code in my bag to just go direct through them and save money. I checked and it's about $1+ for each item on DD versus the restaurant.
That's not significantly different than how programming has worked for the last 40 years though. We slowly push certain types of decisions and tasks down into the tools we use, and what's left over is what we call 'programming'. It's cool, no doubt, but as long as companies need to hire 'prorammers', then it's not the huge thing we're all looking out over the horizon waiting for.
You can definitely trust comments on Hackernews more than other sources such as Reddit.
I wish I could use Garamond, but it’s not a “common” web font and its italics are dreadful, so I mostly adopted Georgia instead (with a fallback to whatever default serif the browser may have).
I wonder if there are people on WSB who will not directly register their shares just for the lulz. It'd be amazing if there weren't even just a few.
We tried ReScript 2 years ago at work when it was still in its infancy, and still named ReasonML. Besides many other gripes at the time, one of the biggest pain points was the lack of any async/await support, and a very cumbersome Promise wrapper.

Unfortunately, it looks like not much has changed[0], and you’re still forced into writing the equivalent of unwieldy Promise chains.

I ended up migrating us onto Typescript, which was a great move for us. The seamless interop with JavaScript combined with the massively active community makes it a no-brainer over other attempts at strongly-typed JS, IMO.

[0] https://rescript-lang.org/docs/manual/latest/promise
Notice how much they are being hurt by apples ios policies. (Growth in revenue drops from 37 to 20 - corresponding to some 20 b pr year)

Tells you why Google is paying Apple and how much Apple potentially could extract.
FB went all in on Metaverse reminded me of Google between 2007-2012 when they mobilized the whole company and invested heavily around social with OpenSocial, Google Circle etc. Google eventually realized that's not their core strength and moved on, let's see what will FB do.
Windows has a NUMA API[1] to help with these things. For pinning a thread you can for example use the SetThreadSelectedCpuSetMasks call[2] from what I can gather.

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/nu...

[2]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processth...
Japanese Publishers Sue Cloudflare
Because incidents involving these programs are very small. At the moment there are very few Teslas on the road in comparison to other car companies. There would statistically only be a handful at most of such accidents. But give it a few years until there are 10x or 20x as many teslas on the road. Then the class actions will start. That is if, like here, Tesla hasn't already recalled all such vehicles.
It doesn't though. The internet (along with anonymity) is a tool. You can't ban hammers because you can beat someone's brains out with them because we also need them to build homes, tear down walls, and hold down papers.
Right isn’t this just spontaneous “patriotic Russian hackers” but with Americans.
It becomes less rewarding because of the effort wasted. Making the same settings changes over and over is not enjoyable. But saying that modern software disrespects user settings is a very good way to put it as well.

It should be easier than ever to maintain settings; the tooling is so much better now.
The parts of CS that are the most math-like (which include fundamental algorithms) don't have a replication crisis, but the ones that are the most social-science like probably do, or would. I would bet large sums of money that a lot of the literature on stuff like "does OOP lead to better code", "does IDE syntax highlighting lead to fewer bugs" etc. would fail to replicate if anyone bothered trying.

The thing is, the general sense I get is that people in CS already have so little confidence in these results that it's not even considered worth the time to try and refute them. Which doesn't exactly speak well of the field!
A Historic Bridge Must Be Dismantled to Get Jeff Bezos' $540M Yacht Out of Dock
Nursing Home Slumlord Manifesto
What's kept me from trying this stuff out is a few interrelated factors:

1) There's no possible way setting up and managing this stuff manually is going to be worth it if it only controls a couple things.

2) Doing enough to overcome point 1 seems to begin with "step 1: spend lots of money and time to replace tons of stuff that already works completely OK" and/or a bunch of research (I've used enough AirBnB IoT "actuate the existing deadbolt" add-ons to know that a bunch of them are time-wasting crap that barely works, plus I've never seen one that didn't look bad)

3) Taking a "just do it as you replace things" approach still results in spending more money (IoT will be more expensive than dumb, just about every time), plus lots of things will probably never need to be replaced while I own this house, plus that means potentially years before I hit any kind of reasonable pay-off period.

4) I have a feeling I could solve several of the problems faster and cheaper with a dumb approach of low-voltage LEDs hooked to the right things and run to the right places, or outlet timers, or whatever, if I were so inclined—which I'm clearly not, because I haven't.

Every time I get the urge, I think back to that automation effort/payoff chart from XKCD and then... don't, because I can't see how I'll ever get on the good side of the line. Doubly so if any part of it can't go years without any kind of attention or maintenance related to the IoT aspect of it.

[EDIT] The calculation would change if I enjoyed that kind of thing as a hobby, of course.
Why is it news that someone is quitting using a known carcinogen? There are lots of us that have quit drinking but didn't feel the need to tell the world.
A simple raytracer is also a good step in that list.
And is that strength enough to put vacuum airships back on the menu?
Why isn’t Microsoft counted in the FAANG? Isn’t Microsoft and Apple neck and neck for worlds most valuable companies?
Wrt branches, GPUs want spatial locality, and CPUs want temporal locality :)