skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feels like longer but the date is always changing just recently back in 2018 the plan under the Trump admin was to halt funding in 2025 [0], in 2008 the planned date was 2016 [1]. It seems like the decommissioning is always planned for the next administration to deal with.

With anything space in particular I don't hold my breath for anything planned beyond the current administration unless it's something fairly small like a rover or satellite [-1] because every administration comes in and wants to have their own project be the one so they "reevaluate" and "reassess" the plans to make them more or less grandiose as suits their current economic stance.

[-1] They're usually small enough they can get a nice big cash infusion right up front so there's a sunk cost to keep funding where plans are relatively cheap.

[0] https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/05/20/nasa-wrestles-with-wha...

[1] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-581T/h... ^F "planned decommissioning in fiscal year 2016."
> If anything I'd say algorithms and math continue to be the core of programming.

I disagree; I think the core of programming is analyzing things people want and expressing solutions to those wants clearly, unambiguously, and in a way that is easy to change in the future. I'd say algorithms and math are a very small part of this work.
This should be the top comment, sad to see HN mods deleting this instead of arguing with it on its facts.

As it stands, the top comments are all "Oh wow, cool!" which is exactly the reaponse you are cautioning against.
The Angus Reid Institute have some recent poll results related to this.

Agree vs Disagree: "It's time to end restrictions and let people self-isolate if they're at risk"

54% responded agree or strongly agree during the Jan 27-28 polling period. This is up from 40% during the Jan 7-12 period.

https://angusreid.org/omicron-incidence-restrictions/
I see from another comment that you’re in OR. That explains why you think freeway limits are too low. :-)

(The joke here is that OR’s speed limit on highways is typically 10mph below that of other PNW states, even in the “least populated county in the U. S.)
I never noticed this, and now it seems obvioous: superpower inflation. Thanks!
Who said I didn’t notice it? ;)
> We pre-train our model on selected public GitHub code and fine-tune it on our relatively small competitive programming dataset.

But since the code was 'selected' you don't know if your code was used. However, they seem to have used Python and C++, so my code is probably not part of it.
It can be really tempting to think about research progression on a "linear" timescale but more often than not it eventually ends up following an "exponential" curve because of technical debt. And there appears to be a _lot_ of techniques used here which we don't fully understand.

I wouldn't be surprised if a specifically engineered system ten years from now wins an ICPC gold medal but I'm pretty sure that a general purpose specification -> code synthesizer that would actually threaten software engineering would require us to settle a lot of technical debts first -- especially in the area of verifying code/text generation using large language models.
but it only proves his point
Also makes for a smoother ride for other passengers in the car.
That’s kind of silly. They haven’t used Garamond for 20 years, and when they did it was a highly tweaked version. (Apple Garamond is very condensed, for one).

But that said, I think the point the author is trying to make is more about drafting in a font that makes you feel good about your writing. If Garamond doesn’t do it for you, don’t use Garamond.
My main issue with TypeScript is the errors or warning in vscode are always awful

edit: I am used to working with Java in Eclipse where the type warnings make much more sense
> but most countries make progress in key cultural areas through the democratic process.

I don't think that is true, especially for the SEA region they are in.
> One of the things I like about competitive programming and the like is just getting to implement a clearly articulated problem

English versions of Codeforces problems may be well-defined but they are often very badly articulated and easy to misunderstand as a human reader. I still can't understand how they got AI to be able to generate plausible solutions from these problem statements.
> Reading from a pointer could be from L1 cache, or it could be from a pci-e card attached to another socket.

The fun one is TLB (translation lookaside buffers) and the virtual memory system.

Today's AMD core's have more L3 cache than what the TLB can handle with 4k-pages. You need to enable 2MB hugepages or 1GB hugepages to even access L3 cache at full speeds in practice...

EDIT: Milan-X has 96MB L3 cache per CCX. 4kB-pages would require 24,000 (24-thousand) TLB-entries. IIRC, Milan only has 2000-TLB-entries. Hurraaahhhhhh....

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CPUs are devilishly complicated. It makes optimization "fun". Apparently, running "memcpy" requires Ph.D levels of study before you can "memcpy" at full speeds these days.
I use Dokku for all my toy or side projects. Super easy to set up on a Digital Ocean droplet, and depending on the size of your droplet and the memory footprint of your app, you can deploy and run many apps on the same server.
So if my fiancee, who is part native, says it's okay to make and sell native-style dream catchers, I can just ignore your friends when you say it's not okay?
Cool study that involves thirty four individuals and no underlying reason why this is occurring...
Any time I am reading a new book, I use Calibre to change the font to EB Garamond [0] before moving it to my e-reader.

[0]: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/EB+Garamond
I think the really interesting counterpart to this is the anime One Punch Man. The main character, Saitama, can defeat any opponent, typically with one punch. It's the title for a reason; you know he'll always win, and it'll be disappointingly easy pretty much all of the time.

The point of the series is that you can take such an uninteresting overpowered character, in a superheroes vs supervillains setting, and still end up with an interesting plot. Of course none of the plot hinges on the question of whether Saitama will be powerful enough to win, that'd be stupidly bad writing.

Mainstream US superhero movies are mostly plots about whether their equivalent of Saitama will win. The action & graphics are the point, the plot is an afterthought.
"First of all, remind yourself that users love settings."

[Citation needed]

Just like for any UX debate: _it depends_. The level of customization needed depends on the type of app, the type of user, the type of use case.
Not sure you read all my comment, but Singapore explicitly excludes many of its residents in its worst living conditions from official tallies.
It's possible the strength could reduce microplastics?
If they send a small aircraft onto your territory you shouldn't light it up with all your SAMs and take it down, because that will allow them to locate your SAMs for SEAD.
You are making very big assumptions here. Think about it, what if the universe is a dynamical system? There would never be any truth only systems which work or are broken according to some set of criteria. Moreover, which systems work would also be a function of their context/environment. Nothing would ever be revealed because dynamical systems can always change (also see problem of induction). Things just work or don‘t work according to your interpretation. I would recommend to look up Pragmatism as a philosophy that elaborates on this line of thinking. It‘s quite enlightening and puts a lot of things we are talking about today into perspective.
Link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.13925.pdf
I think, this is the patent

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/patent/US-2021002426-A1
That’s exactly my reaction, what about cars and phones and ordinary people? Politicians care are farmers, babies, and little old ladies because it gets people going, but the bigger issue is right to repair in general. It’s great that farmers would be able to fix tractors, but if the senate carves out this exception it could weaken the overall right to repair argument. Are there any broader bills being considered by the senate?
We don’t consciously notice it. But it may make the film worse because we subconsciously notice something wrong, or because the actors don’t act as well without the real props and setting to help them.
because practical applications of such works are usually several decades away. A bad medical study can kill people today. There's not a lot of incentive to check nor complain about consequences far into the future.
The 2nd Amendment says the government can’t infringe your right to possess arms. It does not say that it’s legal for you to use your arms against others to make a point.

“Digital arms” are legal to possess in the U.S. as far as I know. Again, that is not the same thing as legalizing any use of them.
While I agree, the person I initially responded to has, in the past, asserted that they made it and that it is not a joke. They've remained committed to it for a couple years now and have, at times, misled or attempted to mislead people into thinking it was a serious effort. So when I catch them trying to do it again, I call them out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29081047

It seems that they are either ludicrously committed to the joke, or have convinced themselves that it's a serious effort despite all evidence to the contrary.
Yes, they have been trying to create 'sufficiently formal human readable text' to spec out projects; not detailed enough to execute by a computer but formal and precise enough so humans know exactly what they are getting. That still doesn't work at all and that is between humans. If the specs are clear enough, the act of programming is already mostly not the issue, however, they never are. I am looking forward to ML helping me writing boring code (which CoPilot already does, but again, that's not really where time/energy is spent anyway) and protect against security issues, scalability issues and all kinds of bugs (it could rewrite algo's it knows; it could recommend libraries that I should use instead of the crap I rolled myself etc).
It's been almost 20 years since I compiled linux, but it was kind of like that. You would choose the features you needed and ignore the rest. Other compiled applications generally have options you can pass to make to enable certain features. Python readline comes to mind.

It would be interesting if we had a similar system for GUI applications. The interface would need to be generated to only show features that are included
> was "Une Hacker Originale" by forming a worker's union in a (nominally) Communist state

nah he was just a puppet/poster boy for a good story. The real reason why communism fail in Poland were:

- coup d'etat by deep state. General Kiszczak did an excellent job. System has changed without a bloody revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czes%C5%82aw_Kiszczak
- communism was inefficient. Trading barier made it worse. As a result Soviet Union was weak and didn't have enough influence to keep the system stable.
- Kissinger managed to convince China to counter Soviet Union. In 1969 they had to throw and enormous resources at the border.
> This requires transparency on the part of Tesla

Good fucking luck, that's going to be harder than pulling Elon's teeth out.

Telsa has regularly lied about how well the system works, and will continue to do so unless we strong arm some independent verification on them.

And good luck getting that to happen. Governments roll onto their backs for Musk like it's the second coming of christ.

FSD should not be on the road without transparency. I don't want to get in car accidents because Musk wants to beta test crappy software.
NK trains up and operates hacking groups to generate income, not just to be unpleasant. So, guessing that would mean NK is renting out hacking services to China. Other ways to generate income from hacking is operating a ransomware gang, renting out botnets, and gathering banking passwords to use in draining accounts. We may assume they are involved in all of the above.
AWS Copilot is quite good in many respects, a bit like a reboot of AWS Beanstalk built on newer low level services, and has a good CLI/console dev experience if that floats your boat.
Hey I really enjoyed this one, really tough. I think an easy mode where you were still allowed to use the numbers that have been grayed out would be nice
There is a mirror at https://mystic.the-eye.eu/ that has been up for a long time.
You must have solid tech. :)
I'd love to work on this sort of stuff. I'm really passionate about correct software. Can I ask how you got into the field?
I think the implication is that these are North Korean hackers stationed in China, not that China is doing it on their behalf.
[This was a bunch of needless snark so I voluntarily removed it]

Update: Actually, I think you're right. I misrepresented my opinion as weakly held as though I was asking for a more authoritative source on the matter. So your response was appropriate and appreciated. I'm realizing now that I feel more strongly about it; like it wasn't just a matter of the theater having a bad projector.
Often apps don't have one app per platform, often it's just Mac or something. They get Electron so everyone can use it and then suddenly the Mac app has an equal number of users as Electron (or less) and then at that point justifying development becomes difficult.
Father of 5 with 3 yr old identical twins. Hopefully you’ve got family nearby to help, if not look around and lost on facebook nanny groups and look for a nanny who’s had twins. Makes a HUGE difference.
This isn't limited to software. Many don't know that cars indicate where this the fuel tank is. Or that seatbelts lock if you pull them all the way out.

Really, the list of hidden features on products is such that nobody has solved discovery. Affordances that work are ones that mimic already learned behaviors. But shared learning is not as universal as folks think it is.

Interactive systems that let you ask "what will this do?" Or "why did that happen?" Are very good. But even that is hard to work with sometimes. Consider how few folks use the apropos utility.
If enough users feel bothered by this i hope Google reconsiders.

Don't ever change a users opt-out preference, instead give them information so they can decide on their own.

But Google knows very well what happens if they do this - almost nobody will opt-in.
You could say that NZ, australia and china did something very different from the partial lockdowns in the west. they decided to eradicate the virus, while that was never the goal in europe/us
> I wish more people were exposed to a wider variety of types and patterns in music, there's a lot of great sounding music out there which breaks the usual mold played on radio stations

The 12 tone standard didn't just come out of nowhere, it is dominant for a reason. It developed throughout the entire existence of humanity. Think about it, currently the scientific consensus is that singing actually came before speaking. It's those 12 tones that create the best sounding melodies and harmonies. The greatest composers of all time used them. Maybe you're a guy who likes impro jazz (which coincidentally uses micro tones), but most people don't.
Underlying study is here. [1] Full disclosure, I co-wrote the piece for The Daily Beast [2] that originally suggested that Tesla's methodology was seriously flawed. I am not a Tesla-hater though — I just thought it was odd that the company was playing quite so fast and loose with their safety claims.

1: https://engrxiv.org/preprint/view/1973/3986

2: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-tesla-and-elon-musk-exagge...
This. That crap is significantly more disruptive and irritating that the actual paid ads in old-school free Opera (the largest feature-comparable browser when FF/Phoenix/Firebird first launched).
Beep beep.
That means thank you in my motherboard.
The thing about this is that solutions aren’t unique.

Ex: I tried 25-1-1 and was rejected.
Having driven a lot in central and eastern OR, the roads are a bit winding, and even on the interstate going through the blue mountains can be a bit seat of the pants. They probably just never saw the roads safe enough to raise the speed limit.
Podcast: CEO of Weaveworks on Weave GitOps and Career Journey
Are you controlling for things like, say, the age you were when you first saw a certain movie? It's kinda unfair to rank a brand new movie against the older movie that you watched a hundred times because it was one of the few VHS tapes at your house when you were growing up. There could be thousands of kids now watching that brand new movie hundreds of times on their iPads who are going to have similar attachments to that movie. Some of those kids will grow up to be filmmakers, movie critics, pop culture writers, etc.
Without even mentioning CGI, just modern digital color grading is wide open to abuse.

"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" was absolutely mangled by the director. The colors are really distorted and awful. It looks nothing like the other movies in the series. Worse, it is otherwise a good movie.
Sure, it’s a 150 year old theory of the mind, understanding it is mostly for historical and background purposes. My comment was mostly to give key search terms for anyone interested in diving deeper.
Bambi lost $200k USD (as a result of being released during WW2) in 1942 when it released[0], the equivalent of ~$3.4 Million USD today, so I'm sure they were cutting necessary costs. It only recouped the losses with subsequent re-releases, which had the benefit of access to the European market.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney#:~:text=The%20mili...
Considering the army is one of the research sponsors, it sounds like it would be a candidate for a component (backer/trauma pad) in body armor.
> Top bicycle athletes spend many hours learning how to pedal to minimize accelerations due to cyclic nature of pedaling.

To expand on this: it's about maintaining a specific cadence (usually in the 100-110 RPM range). You don't change your cadence for the terrain; you maintain your cadence and change gears to match the terrain.
I just don't use Google or Alexa (devices from those ecosystems punch holes through my home gateway for a bunch of server-side glue that is extremely ill-advised, and a bigger risk than LAN security IMHO), moved most things (sensors, typically) to ZigBee, and reflashed everything I could with Tasmota.

It's extremely inconvenient to have IoT devices segregated from, say, TVs and media devices, especially if you rely on AirPlay or Chromecast to get audio around the place, so I just secure my Macs (and PCs) properly as if we were still traveling and visiting clients.

I keep tabs on Apple security bulletins (HomeKit has relatively few issues, and works mostly inside the LAN except if you're outside the house - it then switches to a variation of the old iCloud "back to my X" tunneling).
I think this is correct, but it's also what the article says between the lines.

A problem with a lot of movies these days is that they got this great new toy, CGI, and then they don't when to stop. Whether the CGI is good or bad, perhaps because you don't have to work around limitation you follow the formula that whenever you want to add some action or don't know what to say, or don't know how to get the main protagonist out of a sticky situtation, you just add a bunch of CGI, and solve it that way. It ends up spilling into lazy storytelling and lazy film making in general, as opposed to when you had to work along side limitations to tell a story.

I think to me this seems most evident in the Star Wars films, where as technology progressed, the lack of imagination in the creators when not forced became increasingly evident.
Fair enough, but you just listed three different tools, and you may have to go through all of them to find what's going on, and come out the other end just as lost.

I mean, I get it. I've written some stuff that screws the pooch performance-wise, and the solution isn't immediately clear. But with WP, and with enough installed plug-ins, the reason for the slowness may simply be "in order to work with WP, there is a lot of back-and-forth with the DB amongst all these plug-ins," and there ultimately isn't anything you can do about it.

WP is amazing that it does so much and works as well as it does, but let's not pretend it's not a bit of a faff sometimes.
Thanks, done and done. As I said over on my comment at the above link it is one of those features that if you have every had to use it you cant live without it. I hope I would never have to use it but need it to be there just in case we screwup!
This is timely... I just started building out an internal "chatops" solution that leans heavily on OnCall. Looks like I may be able to set that aside.

If this is implemented as cleanly as OnCall, I have high hopes. It isn't without bugs, but it's already miles ahead of solutions like Pager Duty (in my opinion).
>Oh no, the children!

Yeah dude, not sure where you are from but there are special traffic rules related to children , like how to drive around schools, school buses and children, because children are doing stupid things and schools are marked with special signs so the driver knows to pay more attention in this area.
Who is saying settings are a design failure? I've never heard of that before.
I agree with concerns about recyclability. I would also raise concerns about the renewability and/or toxicity of the base materials. If they are petroleum-based, this feels like a losing proposition.
People like to take a Faustian bargain so government regulations are required. Has been true for thousands of years.
We're finding that having settings has helped us siphon customers from our competition. Love sitting in on sales demos and hearing the prospect go, "You let me control that? Thank you!" or "I can chose my colors? I love it!" Delighting customers and users... that's where you want to be.
You can't work 2/3 of the hours of the day for more than short bursts. Just back it off and limit yourself to max 7 hours of work each day, and avoid anything code related for at least one day each week. See how you feel after a couple weeks of that. You're young and you can always dive back in, just try backing off some for some weeks and see how you feel.
I wouldn't want to be the one who tests this, jail is jail regardless if your right or wrong. Getting out of jail isn't as quick as you may think.
I am a computational biologists working with a group of colleagues to build an open-source community that hosts APIs for essential bioinformatics algorithms. We believe the progress in science could be accelerated, if tools like alphafold would not require 3 days of set-up to get working on your local compute infrastructure. Instead community members would host their algo and charge a small fee / token-tip to keep the API running. We are currently starting to build a community around it and would love to hear from folks with interest in bio-compute, docker, solidity, terraform and general frontend tasks.

Head over to labdao.com or join our discord here: https://discord.gg/labdao
GitHub Copilot is already available and it's surprisingly usable. Well, not in a "here's a description of a program and create everything from scratch", but it can already create simple functions by reading the comments or the function's signature.
Or maybe not automate destructive devices. Might be simpler and more responsible anyway, since equivalent harm can be had if your kids ask Siri to warm up the house...