skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The one and I think only time I hit the front page (after a couple years of submissions) was a title that was extremely dry -- just the name of my project, without trying to say what it was (other than what is conveyed by the name). And had a 10 second elevator pitch as the intro paragraph on the page.

My conclusion is that if you can think of a click bait title, think of the complete polar opposite of click bait, and that is more likely to be looked at.
> This works as long as that next shiny thing is something that brings value/money

Yep, I know that all too well. Took about 4-5 years after high school (and dropping out of several colleges) before I found some sort of traction in my life, otherwise I was just swinging and missing, so to speak, over and over learning new things that often didn't materialize in any substantial progress. Then the shiny new thing was starting a business, which failed, I became homeless for a few months, worked food delivery to get back on my feet, then the shiny new thing for ~1-2 months was marketing, which as it turns out I really needed, now I'm working for a good company.

Another component to all this is probably that I'm just used to the ups and downs at this point and have learned to compensate for them reasonably well enough.
I would love to see ~ "Factorio - 524 RPM base, trains only no drones" on a resume

Or heck, even completing either Angels or SpaceEx mods show a serious amount of dedication, "self-starter-ness" and competence in reading documentation. I've put 5000+ hours in and fell off spaceex in the green space science - so much depth.
IQ has no skew by definition. That said, I think there are a number of IQ boosting mutations and innate mathematical aptitude is likely correlated to possession of one or more of these rare(ish) mutations.
> It's technically correct

That doesn't prevent it from being misleading. Both vaccinated and unvaccinated people can get and transmit the virus in the same sense that both I and Sidney Crosby can play hockey.

That failure to acknowledge anything besides "complete prevention" v. "not complete prevention", as if to imply that vaccination is entirely useless for preventing infection and transmission, is why people - myself included - are downvoting the above comment. To assert that vaccinated people can transmit COVID without providing the necessary context re: actual probability of that happening relative to unvaccinated persons is to lie by omission.
Get Ruby working on your Mac with a single command
Great idea, there are so many games that would actually be played with even a basic co-op support like this. It's okay it's just an overlay with no shared-game state, still really fun!
It's still alive! Yes.

For Linux users who don't want to run the .py install script... The Linux binaries are hiding inside the MacOS .app dir, you can run them in-place without installation, e.g after unzipping, the 64bit GL2 one can be run with:

./ysflight64_gl2.app/Contents/Resources/ysflight64_gl2
"Unlike many other communities, HN is still relevant and moderated enough that spammy behavior is almost always caught and punished."

:)
I didn't know what this was referring to, but after a little bit of digging: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
The biters do make refactoring a bit more tricky. Got to at least keep base defenses up and running. That could be seen as the equivalent of keeping existing users happy.
Hahah yeah ; I did a lot of hosting then and everyone insisted on register_globals. I still run stuff for clients that depends on it to this day.

And maybe the rails perf was comparable to the larger pho frameworks in some cases, but php was really much easier to scale in our experience. We hosted millions of sites and the python/ruby ones were generally dramas when they got serious (for that time) traffic.
That the mRNA vaccines have killed tens of thousands of people in the US, and that they'll render people infertile.

He's presented ivermectin as a miracle drug that is "something like 100% effective" at preventing CoVID-19, and said that people should take it instead of getting vaccinated.

In other words, he's an obvious crank who is giving extremely dangerous medical advice to a very large audience.
I have this feeling often, but I still go back to games. To see any fruits of my efforts doing real programming would take days or weeks at this point, and I want to do something that more or less immediately rewards me for my efforts.
Like Time or Sports Illustrated or Newsweek, it was a highly-respected, widely-read magazine for decades. And it was led by Malcolm Forbes, who was a minor celebrity for being wealthy, sort of like Richard Branson.
Those aren't competitors to Twitter. You have to realize that social media is an umbrella for multiple services that barely compete with each other.

Youtube = long form video clips, how to / knowledge resource

TikTok = short form video clips, successor to vine

Snapchat = direct video messages, ephemeral talking

Facebook = contact book, classifieds

Instagram = living photo album

LinkedIn = living resume

Pinterest = living recipe / idea book

GitHub = living portfolio, giant forum of repos

Twitter = communication medium, broadcasts

The main FUTURE competitor to Twitter I think is Mastodon. Gab, Truth Social, and a few other services are built upon it. Eventually when a platform comes along with the interface and the will of the people generates a network effect like MySpace to Facebook, Twitter will be done.
> Finally, there’s moon shining right at you and all kinds of sounds coming from the forest around you.

Tell me you've never been in a remote area without telling me you've never been in a remote area. If you go somewhere truly far from any developed city (I first experienced it in rural China) you will often find at night that it is BLACK. Can't see your hand right in front of your face BLACK. I remember someone starting a blow torch to work on a car in the middle of the night and it was like a rave the light show was so intense against how deep the darkness was.
Yeah, but the questions were not about whether one has symptoms or struggles with some:

"I have a concentration and/or memory disorder (e.g. ADHD)"

"I have autism / an autism spectrum disorder (e.g. Asperger's)"
The factorio dev team are such fantastic software engineers, I wonder if this was an emergent feature of building what they want or if there was actually intentionality in making this a common takeaway from playing the game.

If you haven't, read their blog! It's a master class in release notes and development communication.
I agree that it's chump change. Many startups provide a $100/month budget for "whatever" self tech expenses that can be spent on things like games, etc. This isn't groundbreaking by any means. Still cool that they do it though.

Now comping employees for after-hours time spent playing factario -- now that would be groundbreaking haha
VOIP has been ruined by the crooks (including the crooked extended warranty people who spam my phone from a different fake number almost every day); it was broken as designed.
There is psDoom [1] to manage *nix processes in Doom.
There is Dockercraft [2] to manage docker containers in Minecraft.
Managing AWS in Factorio seems like next logical step!

[1] http://psdoom.sourceforge.net
[2] https://github.com/docker/dockercraft
is there a training data browser with a search engine somewhere for gpt-3?
What a shame. Would love if they left.
What do y'all use for back end integration testing? (Services, Parallelism)
There's many unit testing libraries like mocha and jest but there do not seem to be many for integration testing. To be clear, I mean integrating disparate backend modules together. For example, the extremely common case of testing a bunch of lambda functions on AWS.

To be fair, there is a lot of overlap. They both need an assertion library, great debugging features for when tests fail, various hooks for setup and teardown, and some way to control the execution flow of tests.

It is the last feature where unit testing libraries refuse to play ball. Integration tests oftentimes require a partial order and can be represented as a DAG: certain tests are dependent on other tests before they can run but where possible, parallelism should be employed (for performance reasons). This Github issue refers to my problem but the maintainers completely misunderstand the use case [0]. Mocha has mocha-steps[1] but its a total order and everything is run serially.

Is this not a common use case? Are people okay with the performance of running integration test suites serially? Do people just invest in unit tests more and leave integration tests to some script some guy made way back "but it works?"

Seems crazy to me that popular libraries don't let you declare a partial order for your tests or declare arbitrary dependencies.

[0]: https://github.com/facebook/jest/issues/5823
[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/mocha-steps
I'd also like to add that Google has atrocious customer service. In fact, the help forums are often just volunteers who don't even have the power to relay information to an actual support engineer. I recall seeing a few submissions here on HN about paying customers of Google's services getting banned or flagged by some algorithm by accident and then having no way whatsoever to actually get the situation straightened out. They even contacted Sales and those employees had no way of sending a ticket to anyone inside google capable of helping them.

So I sense some of the anger is due to google's reputation in this regard.
You don't even have to modify it. If you are a person that thinks going and leaving a fork would be cool, and also thinks staying and sending a fork would be cool, the job is done.
> But still the bulk of the price was in distribution.

As I understand (largely from contact a while ago from insiders in the TTRPG industry), for print runs of the sizes many non-mass-market books get (which is still going to effect ebooks of similar market sizes the same way) fixed costs like editing, layout, etc. take a lot (layout especially in things that aren't just plain text.)
Google should simply have paid, in-person support for these issues. Cuts off the spam merchants, while still letting Joe Average create an account with their usual phone number once they've been verified as an actual person. That's got to have some value, even to Google themselves.
It'll format it as monospace, and typically in a format that's easier to recognize as being code.

IIRC you can do that by gating code like this:

'''
code goes here
'''

in markdown, but it's been a while.

(The spaces are necessary for HN markup, but not the markdown formatting).
Sure, but none of that is an excuse to not provide students with worked problems or solutions for at least some of the problems they are given, after they have worked them.

> The connection to the pandemic seems clear, but how exactly?

Does it? If by clear you mean "relating to the anecdote you shared at the top of your comment", then sure - but that is far from my standard for "clear," at least.
Sentences that embed even simple numerical things such as

“What was the 3rd letter of the 46th word in this conversation?”

Would take a human many seconds at minimum, but could be answered instantly by an AI.

A more interesting question may be to constrain the test to something akin to postal correspondence, where there is a significant delay between messages.

I think it could still be solved, though. Arbitrarily complicated numerical tasks can be conceived.

For instance, the AI sends correspondence:

“I have demonstrated proof of my identity by rewriting the children’s story ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ such that it still rhymes and retains the original plot, but every sentence has an md5 digest that ends with the byte 0x42”

Composing such a text would take much, much longer for a human, whereas an AI could just brute force through all the possibilities until it finds one that works.
The original data is here:
https://www.jasonsanford.com/blog/2019/12/sff2020-the-state-...

The general take-away, it seems, is that genre readers are mostly a bunch of freeloaders; and more of them need to pony up some cash to compensate editors and authors for the enjoyment they're providing.
One of my top gaming moments ever was launching the rocket in under 6 hours. I launched it at 5:59:40. Then I realized the "There is no spoon" achievement was for 7 hours (and it's now 8 hours after 1.0 launch).

Love this game.
I was curious about the importance of Forbes. It's been linked over 1,000 times on Hacker News: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Forbes
About 10k-100k based on 10m launch cost and 100 tonne capacity.
A common trick to get someone interested is to present something surprising. That surprise gets you attention that can be turned into understanding by explaining the mystery.

The hard part is guessing what would get you surprised enough.
Tried that after discussion with students, with the result that no one did homework and the learning outcome completely collapsed.
Yes, but then how would we get all the stories about going on to form a fortune 500 company or some other high achievement?

Because many of those seem to start with "nothing but a suitcase and the clothes on their back".
Shoutout to Satisfactory. I've seen many players that resonate with Dyson Sphere Program also enjoy Satisfactory. Not quite as in-depth as Factorio, but an amazingly, amazingly well designed game in both over experience and gameplay.
Yes. This is one of the core problems of FP style analysis of what's "wrong" with software development. Sometimes those people act like state is some sort of bad habit, like chewing tobacco. But the way they say to get rid of state really just hides it behind large state-management engines, like browsers and databases. It boils down to "state for thee but not for me". Well, great. But some of us have to deal with the fact that computers are often used to model the real world, which isn't a pure function.
sc-im works with csv too
> What I didn't realize at the time was the particular meaning of that term. His advice was well intended and accurate.

I had a similar experience - and while it was a blow to my confidence I’m happy that he didn’t tiptoe around it with feel-goodisms. What I was doing as a student, and what had ben successful so far, was not working and doing more of it or doing it harder wasn’t going to help.

Honestly leaving that program was the right thing to do, I probably shouldn’t have been in it, though I’m confident a few years later I would have been successful, but I lacked the maturity and mathematical sophistication to get it then.
To be fair seems like a backoff, but the problem is - nobody cares. Millions of man-hours saved a day. On a serious note - that market would be filled in a month...
Sure. What is my burden of proof exactly?
Yes, but I doubt you had write code to factor a quadratic equation because it's a solved problem and you have libs that will do it for you.

Imagine if you had been given an exercise of such a low level nature for every single topic you might touch in IT in the future. You would have had to code a function to do UTF8 decoding, JPEG rendering, TCP/IP error correction, font rasterization, ray tracing, PEG parsing, an USB driver, data diffing, model training, etc.

Also, you don't learn much about programming by creating a function to factor a quadratic equation. You seldom learn about types, side effects, algo complexity, or even about collections, iteration, branching, memory, debugging, etc.

You just learn to badly translate a very specific, narrow problem to the language you use.
> I'm always opposed to government funding the arts.

Even participatory theatrical work like the TSA?
I make video games, I don't play them no one does they aren't very fun but making them is a lot of fun.
It is nicer to use in that respect, but isn't it really just a copy of Ethereum with less security?
I recently redesigned my site using the IBM Plex font, if anyone wants to see how it looks in-use: https://eaton-works.com/
It is the term used in planetary science. Not understanding something doesn't mean clickbait
I love webassembly, it is going to change web much. There are so many things which were impossible/too slow, like image processing, Video processing. Now with webassembly that's all possible with good speed.

Coming to wasm for Android/other platforms. I believe you can already use native Go, rust without webassembly. Tailscale make Android, iOS app in Go. Atleast with that you multithreading and better performance.
Aren't those treated with varnishes and oil to prevent it from degrading?
> As a side note, I like Binance Smart Chain. It's an EVM compliant alternative to Ethereum except with proof of stake and much lower fees. It costs about $0.12 to call a smart contract. To someone like me who is interested in the technology of smart contracts and doesn't want to pay $40 to interact with a contract, this is a dream come true.

Right, it's a centralized clone of ethereum operated by Binance. If you're ok with centralization just fire up an EC2 instance. The free tier includes 750 hours per month.
>There's also the famous pact between Hitler

There's also the famous pact between Hitler and the Bush family.
I'm just curious about the logistics-- so are you allowed to just put a bench down at bus stops, legally? No one removes them?
This was fake news since day 1. There was never any source which pointed back to Facebook implying any such thing. Just tech bloggers/clickbait journalists doing what they do best.
Is factoring a quadratic equation supposed to be some example of some obscure math principle that is useless?

I feel like I'd be more on board if you said something like "compute an integral", etc. Factoring is just.... a single equation.
This post is meant to distract from the fact he operates these other Twitter and hackernews accounts.

;-)
I don't think that Facebook needs to address the fear in people from leaving Europe.
If nothing else, they've definitely heard feedback that people wouldn't mind at all if they left.

>But the simple reality is that Meta, like many other businesses, organisations and services, relies on data transfers between the EU and the US in order to operate our global services

Yeah.. The reality is you don't really have to transfer anything out of EU in order to keep your service running. Liars
that bluff failed spectacularly. How out of touch does management have to be to not realize FB needs europe a lot more than europe needs facebook?

the reaction in my circles has been almost universally "don't let the door hit your ass on the way out"
The way you frame it is only a problem if civil servants are not part of society and that people don't have an influence about what the government spends money on, that is: you don't live in some form a representative democracy. Clearly lots of people value the arts enough to want the government to be funding it. To frame it as some ivory tower conspiracy to get a free ride from the government seems a little disingenuous.

I don't necessarily disagree that there are business models that could support good quality content, or that UBI is a good way to keep arts alive; maybe we could have all three.
Distance divided by [time experienced by traveler]. GP is not saying that traveler went faster than light.
the CDC quite likely skews low, given the political ramifications. i've heard non-governmental estimates as high as 80% at this point. my expectation is that 2/3 of americans have had it, which is roughly borne out in my anecdotal experience, particularly since omicron. i think that's why we're seeing the mediopolitical machine starting to relent on covid policy in the past few weeks (that, and it's an election year).
A bit of a shameless plug here, but I'm a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University (Ph.D. in Software Engineering) and my thesis is on the resilience of microservice applications at scale. We've published a little bit on this topic, with some new work under submission currently, but I've put together a website that talks about a.) why doing this work as a student is very difficult due to the lack of open-source applications in this style and b.) proposed a new technique for addressing these problems.

It's called Filibuster:

https://filibuster.cloud/index.html

Example of testing a small Java application with Filibuster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhZLHpxQ7mI
Note that the contradictions you mention are _physical_ in nature; it is true that there are some functions that some bodies can perform that others cannot. Mathematics is not one of those things.
Not a book. But I'd recommend this website :- https://www.mathsisfun.com/ website. Everything is broken down into to smaller chunks. I stumble upon it when I was looking to revise my algebra concepts. But now I'm learning physics on it.
Twitter Problems?
Can’t seem to load threads on the official mobile client. Others report issues as well: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

Would be ironic if it was cache related in light of this post yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30295542
> It's capable of other languages as well, although not quite as fluent.

Haven't had a chance to play around with this one yet, but with the smaller GPT-J model, there's a clearly noticeable difference:

In English it'll happily generate reams of text that are – at least internally – quite coherent. Any absurdity and humour mostly only comes in because the text as a whole might only have a loose connection with reality as we know it.

In German on the other hand, it comparatively much more often produces gibberish at the individual sentence level, makes up nonsense words (although they are at least indeed German-sounding), etc. Somewhat interestingly it doesn't do too bad in terms of grammar and especially orthography, though, it just often fails to turn it into a fully coherent sentence.
I work with hardware so I’ve been hybrid-ish, going in to get equipment, working from the office for a few days, then going off and working from home for a couple weeks, rinse repeat.

I think that this style of hybrid works well. I go in and get reacclimated to the space, get a nice burst of work done over a week or two, then finishing touches and planning comes in the WFH weeks. But what I don’t like about this is that there’s a cost to changing spaces: I’m not at peak productivity until the third day after the move in either direction.

Management is pushing for 3 days a week hybrid, which I think is going to be a nightmare. It’s the worst of both worlds. Tuesday will become Monday, Thursday will become Friday, and Monday and Friday will be spent just queuing stuff up for next Wednesday.

I think hybrid is going to be a disaster for most companies unless they understand this and become a bit more imaginative and less prescriptive (“x days in the office per week”).
Major publishers still make most of their money through direct deals with advertisers, even publishers that use Google's ad server (Google Ad Manager, formerly DoubleClick for Publishers).

Auctions for remaining inventory, or for publishers who are too small to find it worthwhile to negotiate direct deals, seems to me like something that is here to stay, regardless of Google's involvement?

(Still speaking only for myself)
My two favourite starting words (SOARE and CLINT[0]) are tagged as invalid here, whereas they're valid in the original game. Literally unplayable /s

(Seriously - cool idea, nice execution!)

[0] https://blog.scubbo.org/posts/cheating-at-word-games-part-2/
You mean I got my hopes up for nothing?
How Texas is becoming a Bitcoin mining hub
IIRC, the possibility was raised in SEC filings
Reading Facebook's own reports? "“If a new transatlantic data transfer framework is not adopted and we are unable to continue to rely on SCCs (standard contractual clauses) or rely upon other alternative means of data transfers from Europe to the United States, we will likely be unable to offer a number of our most significant products and services, including Facebook and Instagram, in Europe."