skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the OP - you have immediately lost the linkage between the lines of code and the problem description - maybe you put a reference to the lines / modeule in the ticket but really, why bother.

You could do "TODO fix the foobar because flange see Ticket 1234" (and I have a todoinator to automate that but I think a ticket should be more meaty than a todo but perhaps I am fooling myself
> much do you know about personal freedoms in ancient Egypt that you can argue this quote is false?

It has been called the first command economy [1][2].

[1] https://resources.saylor.org/wwwresources/archived/site/wp-c...

[2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=318&v=DiG0LomEptE&...
Some things can’t be done right now. Maybe the implementation depends on something else that isn’t done yet (perhaps by someone else). And maybe I know exactly where I need to do the work. Then a todo in the comment with a ticket id is better than just a ticket with a completely informal hyperlink to the place in the code where the comment would have been.
the kinetic weapons are almost certainly already in geo
I have been to India and found the traffic terrifying. I can't imagine what it must be like to learn in a big Indian city!
Because every time society figures out how much they depend on Oil, they'd rather go back to it than impoverish themselves
I would not call BTC a ponzi, but it is indeed true that BTC‘s value is not derived from debt.
Glad you liked SkiFree. I actually got the EXE directly from the authors website as he gives it out for free now. It runs via http://www.boxedwine.org/ which can run all sorts of Windows EXE's. I have a similar childhood story of messing with old games, but mine was Doom which is why I gave it some credit on the desktop of my site.
What is Kosher?

- The animal must be slaughtered by a shochet — a person trained and certified to butcher animals according to Jewish laws.

- The shochet kills the animal with a quick, deep stroke across the throat with a sharp knife.

Why is this barbaric activity is still allowed in 2022?
There are a bunch of commercial EVs in Europe, eg. Renault is building small electric delivery vans, and Mercedes has the e-Vito van.

I think the reason why there's little commercial interest in EVs is that the vehicles are extremely expensive up front, and just make no sense from a financial perspective.
Show HN: Create Groups for Mastodon
Hi all, I've had trouble adapting to Mastodon because your server is equated with your identity, but lots of servers are topic-oriented. To solve for that, I created this as a way to implement groups.

You create an account and then whoever follows that account can @message them and then the account automatically boosts the original post.

https://github.com/michaelcpuckett/ap-groups

For context, first I built a mostly-working ActivityPub server in TypeScript/Node.js. I haven't quite figured out what to do as far as the client, but this seemed like a quick and easy solve for the groups issue.

https://github.com/michaelcpuckett/activitypub-core
I think this could be a really helpful tool. Whenever I find myself having a compulsion (check my phone, order fast food, skip the gym) I try my best to make myself wait 10-15 minutes (depending on the circumstances) and most of the time I’m no longer interested because I’m thinking more clearly. Very much applies to shopping as well. Do I really need a new laptop? Let’s see how I feel next week, there’s always another sale.
Let me make this point stronger (im drunk): we just put two rocks together to get free energy (1000 to 1000000 times more energy than other sources) and after 100 years we are still not able to use this. I have no words.
Theoretically, inexpensive international transfer of value (e.g. for citizens of low-wealth countries working abroad sending money back home)

Assuming the sender/recipient's countries don't outlaw it or regulate it into parity with traditional banking.

And only really uniquely useful if the sender/recipient doesn't already use the hawala system.
he had some twitter thread two years ago where he was talking about betting five times [what the gambler’s formulation of the kelly criterion would suggest], which is bug fuck insane and would’ve had me shorting him immediately if i’d been aware of it and could’ve figured out how to short him. he was 100% going to zero and it wasn’t even going to take long.

might’ve even happened at that point and he was just stealing customer money to cover it up.

not that i’d expect journalists to have been able to work it out; anybody who can understand kelly’s paper is making more money some place else.
The software and nav? Really? Actually operating the non-driving features of a Tesla is an exercise in every-changing frustration. Want to see if your seat heater is on? It used to be on the screen all the time, but now it's buried. Want to find a radio station or streaming station? It moves around on a regular basis and always takes several taps.

At least the nav is decent these days. It used to be comically poor. Although the "heads up display" is essentially absent on the 3 and Y.
Destroying "civilian" airports, bridges, ports, transformers, water towers etc infrastructure is sort of standard practice in war though -- I doubt the states actually waging war are willing to consider those war crimes.
If I have a website that does not require SSL, I don't need an SSL cert.
I don't need a screaming firefox window blaring "ThIs SiTe MaY Be InSecUrE" because IRC back in the days you shared links without https. Why does a .jpg need SSL?

IRC is a dead feature. Until someone creates a drag-dropable image uploader to the client, IRC is dead. You can add as many features as you wish to the server, but without a client, there is no connection to hyperspace.
> I've met parents who were saying 'we have digital kids'

Never heard this. Very interesting.

To your point, I agree. I am curious if there's been an official term coined for this... is it actually "digital kid?" I am curious if there will end up being a stigma applied to whatever it is as a sort of natural course-correction, or if it becomes the "norm." Humans love labels and their connotation.

PS: Hats off to you and the other parents in this thread with similar understanding.
That's horrible, I'm so sorry. I can't imagine a more discouraging turn of events
> Genuinely curious, what do you need a 700sqm house for? Do you have a very large family, and/or hobbies that require a lot of space?

Entertaining guests, large extended family, having enough space for both a pool table and a ping-pong table indoors, nice to have dedicated study (came in handy during pandemic), bedrooms are very generous so get used for more than sleeping (e.g. MiL's b/room has all her hobbies in it, jigsaw tables, crafts, etc).

People watch TV and kids play games, and they never disturb each other.

Large space is a component of standard of living; when I talk to people who've never lived in a large space, they can't imagine how their life would be improved by a large space.

Asking people "Why do you need a large house?" is like asking people "why do you need an SUV?[1]"

[1] The SUV is, IIRC, the most popular class of car sold in many countries (excluding commercial vehicles). People like nice things. I like nice houses.
What an honest, transparent message. Kudos.
Looks like you've since been upvoted, but try not to read too much into stuff like this. HN is usually decent on upvoted/downvotes, but honestly sometimes your comment just gets read first by that one random person who doesn't like it, or touches on something that a couple people disagree with. All you can do is move on. As long as you try to keep your commentary constructive, the stray randomly downvotes comment won't affect you much in the long run.
I installed a wall mount TV 3 years ago. The holes in the bracket and stuff didn't line up with the overall wall dimensions nor the studs. It was about 1.5" off center and about 1/8" lower on one end.

I just got around to installing a better bracket so it's centered and level.
When I saw this page a few years back I had an idea for a project. I want to create the lowest-latency typing terminal I possibly can, using an FPGA and an LED array. My initial results suggest that I can drive a 64x32 pixel LED array at 4.88kHz, for a roughly 0.2ms latency.

For the next step I want to make it capable of injecting artificial latency, and then do A/B testing to determine (1) the smallest amount of latency I can reliably perceive, and (2) the smallest amount of latency that actually bothers me.

This idea was also inspired by this work from Microsoft Research, where they do a similar experiment with touch screens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4
It had that effect in France and Japan.
> What lead?

Do you think current production is the best they have?

I don’t.

The current production battery is most likely the most cost-efficient in terms of getting them into cars at the volume required, but I imagine that this could change very quickly if deemed necessary.
Ask HN: What happens tech industry in pro-longed high interest rate environment?
The modern 'tech' industry (i.e. companies that primarily sell software based services), has grown and thrived in a sub 7% fed fund rate environment (which we are fast approaching and will likely need to surpass to fight inflation).

Presumably this worked because many tech based businesses were seen as massive high risk bets that were unproven. VCs were the primary source of funds and many relied heavily on leverage upstream.

Without low rates the VC based funding model will need to change, and companies may need to seek funding from more traditional sources where revenue matters much more upfront. This might mean premature optimization on business models leading to more moderate growth and less of a focus on hypergrowth and global scale.

Does this mean the hypergrowth era is over?
For me I can’t even say I’m using it to escape negative thoughts, it’s just a compulsion. I pull my phone out and scroll when I pee. Yep, apparently I can’t even have 1 minute of downtime without my hand automatically reaching for my pocket.
An indictment is just an accusation. A court would need to decide if she was guilty or innocent on the medical fraud charges, no?
Sure, some links to get you started:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/pristine-untou...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1311432

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Os-ujelkgw
>> It may cost over $100 million to build a production-quality tool capable of synthesizing code reliably, and nobody has tried that quite yet.

$100 million is nothing tbh.
> I see a Forth reference about once per month on HN but nothing in developer-specific forums, so I have to assume Forth is dead.

Depends on your definition of dead |1].

> Is there some use case that only Forth can satisfy?

Interactive programming with really low resources, or the advantage of having an interpreter that you can tune and adapt at will.

[1] https://forth-standard.org/
In paragraph 2:

> ...VCs are working to inflate new bubbles around other, much-hyped technologies, such as the Metaverse and Web3, which is a part of the wider excitement around blockchain technologies.

That made me give up on the article.
It's the same paper, it was just accepted to pnas/(published on the website).
People rent servers at liteserver and vultr and pay for cheats on engineowning and donate to cock.li with btc.

So, uh, it just works?
Kite rejected me for a position years ago which motivated me to go raise $1M from the NSF to research AI-based dev tools before I moved on to Microsoft.

They seemed like a really cool team, I wish them the best.
Thanks glad you liked it! It's actually not a port but is running on DOS via https://js-dos.com/, same as Doom and Jazz Jackrabbit. I actually have my 8 favorite Shareware games on my website which can all be played.

https://dustinbrett.com/?app=FileExplorer&url=/Users/Public/...
I use all sorts of computers for personal and professional use. I don’t want to install discord on all those clients.

The point is more about the possibilities which have been severely muted with chat apps like discord.
> it fell short of the 10× improvement required to break through because today’s state of the art for ML on code is not good enough. You can see this in Github Copilot, which is built by Github in collaboration with Open AI. As of late 2022, Copilot has a number of issues preventing it from being widely adopted.

True, AI assisted coding does not deliver 10x. But as a user of another AI assistant, I feel that it gives me ~1.25x to ~2x improvement for the keyboard typing when I code. And that is respectable too :) AI for me currently allows me to tab complete some things that previously an IDE on its own was not able to.
> The largest issue is that state-of-the-art models don’t understand the structure of code, such as non-local context.

Depending on how local he's talking, this isn't really true of Copilot. In my experience it will use context all the way up to the top of the file, even in very long files. And at least the Rust version even seems to look at the imports—if you have a use declaration it will actually correctly build and use structs in other files regardless of whether you've yet used them in the current file.
Same vibe in medicine. Doctors and medical researchers carry a great weight of authority. Some medical treatments can be mainstream for years, before research finally self-corrects. Lobotomy, opioids, and more.

“It’s a perfectly safe and normal procedure”.
In an ideal (and therefore unrealistic) world, it would be done by the UX designer/dev equivalent counterparts of the ones developing these open source softwares.

Why do low level engineers work freely on FOSS but designers or UX devs don't is the question.
You can just run QuickJS (without std lib) as a separate process running as an unprivileged user with seccomp rules.

WASM probably doesn't add much there.
Haha thanks! I'm glad to hear someone consider it badass. :-)
I travel frequently in small and large groups. AirBnb is usually cheaper when traveling in a large group, when you need multiple bedrooms and shared spaces. Hotels are usually cheaper when traveling in small groups (3-4 people).

Recently, I have noticed hosts charging significant cleaning fees and also keeping a chores list, which can range from starting the dishwasher (understandable) to removing the sheets from the bed, keeping the used towels in the laundry area, etc, taking out the trash, etc.

Moreover, if you don't finish any chores, the hosts have the power to rate you poorly. AirBnb does not help even when hosts leave misleading reviews.
Condolences to the Kite team. But, congratulations, too - you have some of the highest value engineering experience in the world. I'm sure you'll land somewhere great; try and take some time off if you can afford it!

Mulling over business models, and noticing the 'devs won't pay' narrative in the blog post, it's interesting to see the existing business models in AI; basically they seem to be:

* API-driven cloud calls (this is a way to get high value out of your existing cluster if you're AWS, MS, etc.)

* Platform play + possible eventual lock-in: OpenAI/Microsoft

* Subscription service for very specific needs (Grammarly, writing support)

I wonder if engineers would pay $9.99/month (or even $49.99/month) for a 'grammar checker for PRs' - essentially: "Avoid embarrassing bugs before you commit". That is, I wonder if Kite could have been successfully sold as the third tier - sub service for something very specific.

I guess if it's a good idea, someone could pull the Kite repos and launch it -- but my guess is there may be a market in there.
I don’t know if there’s much to broadly learn here.

I will say that it reflects very positively for Shopify: I can imagine plenty of companies downplaying the issue or trying to duck the payout by saying “not our code!” In that sense, this is one of the few bug bounty posts that leaves a company looking good.
Thank you for open sourcing your startup. I’m sorry it didn’t work out. I think you deserve a big congratulations for being the first to really go after this problem. It’s a correct problem — it’s a big market and the solution will come eventually — I’m just sorry it turned out to be too gnarly to solve for you right now! I would have loved for it to have worked out better.

I agree that Kite didn’t deliver the 10x. I was an early user and tried hard to use it but didn’t find the benefit compelling enough to drop into my workflows, but it was very exciting.

I’m sure I speak for all of HackerNews when I wish you the best for whatever is next for the team.

Also, what are you good folks doing next?
> We failed to build a business because our product did not monetize, and it took too long to figure that out.

This is the one-sentence summary about why the business failed, but it's kind of a strange way of putting it.

I am dead sure that there were plenty of advisers along the way who told the company's executives that its monetization plan was weak and unlikely to succeed. But everyone assumes that they'll be the exceptional case.

"It took too long to figure that out" makes it seem like the most likely scenario wasn't staring them in the face the whole time.
Profit, privacy and online safety: What's at stake with Twitter verification
No Tesla has a HUD.

The rest of your comment is subjective IMHO. Granted Tesla have the most responsive in-car system, I know many people who refuse to buy one if a comparable car with an actual instrument cluster and any form of physical buttons exist.

Especially with CarPlay and Android Auto in the mix, many cars offer better experiences than Tesla when coupled with a phone.

Tesla’s UI isn’t what makes them dominate the market, it’s their price and first mover advantage. They dominate the market in spite of their UI , not because of it.
Would you be ok with a friend getting mad at you for not texting them back fast enough? What about wanting to go to counseling with you to discuss why you have been arguing more recently?

Yes 100% the reason why I need and love my friends is because those relationships do not have the weight of expectation that other relationships do.
I also tend to stare at the mouth of the person I’m talking to!

Which, I think, makes it look like I’m looking at their chest because the women I talk to almost invariably adjust their shirt in a way that suggests they’ve become uncomfortable (because they think I’m looking at their chest)
Your color scheme is almost completely unreadable.
One last reminder that they once hijacked several open-source repos to inject advertisements for their service into the codebases.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14836653
This is why I use FIXME exclusively and always include a constructive description of what needs to be fixed. I sweep through the code before a commit to resolve easy FIXMEs and minimize what ends up in the repository.
Haven't read the paper yet but given relevance to what I'm doing atm it's high on my list.

I think using pre-NNUE Stockfish is partly because the classic Stockfish evaluation function has a lot of human knowledge explicitly built in in already interpretable ways, making it a good contrast for comparison.
Apple and Google to Serve as Gatekeepers and Beneficiaries of $8 Twitter Blue
Absolutely. That said, the bigger effect is actually from geysers since almost every house has one whereas batteries are not as widely spread. As the power comes back on the geyser will suddenly draw substantially since the temp will have fallen during the scheduled cut.

Accordingly there have been big govt. subsidies for geyser timers to put on your DB and solar geysers to try reduce this effect. Big information campaigns about not running the geyser all the time etc.

The consequences can be substantial, the city electricity depts. have to continually deal with substations and local transformers blowing up (literally, in an explosion, I've seen the aftermath!) because of the demand surges. Some areas are exempted from the scheduled cuts in my city to preserve older infrastructure.

Additionally, insurance companies report big spikes in claims from devices being damaged due to the unstable power as it reconnects. In my house everything is behind varying levels of surge protection, and interestingly I actually have SA made surge plugs that don't pass power through for the first 5 minutes after powering back on. This way my fridge compressor won't be damaged by unstable power (e.g. sudden substantially lower voltage, or a surge) as the scheduled cut ends.
A lady JUST went to prison for making almost this same identical claim.
It might still be a valid test, because PowerShell needs to have a bunch of code in the stack between the keypress event and the call into the console API that actually displays the character. Among other things, the entire command line is getting lexically parsed every time you press a key.
While this maybe true for FAANG and other tech giants, it is unfortunately still a lot of money for most startups that are working their way to IPO.

Tbh even at tech giants that make tens of billions of dollars, a $100 million investment is likely a lot, I'm guessing this sort of investment will require sign-off by CEO or at least VP level along with a solid business plan.
I hate living in my tiny house (2019)
You don't even have to understand the derivation to apply the Kelly criterion.
Pretty challenging to do vibrato w/ momentary switches (discrete). For vibrato you need something like flexforce pressure sensors[1].

[1] https://www.tekscan.com/flexiforce-load-force-sensors-and-sy...
Our air and water are hugely cleaner than they were when the environmental movement started. I’m guessing you are too young to remember.
Is there a maximum duration of eye contact (after which things get awkward)?
I read the title and thought the article was going to be about that exacty photo :)
He's completely neglected the energy costs of pumping all that water uphill, which I think may be significant.

If we take that 876 million cubic metres of water from his example and pump it to, say, lake mead (also in his example), the total change in gravtiatonal energy is

m = 876 10^6 m3 water = 876 10^9 kg

g = 9.81

h = 375m lake mead

mgh = 3.22 10^ 15 J = 895 GWh

If my calculations are correct, the energy cost of pumping the water exceeds the cost of desalination by far. Now obviously IRL all that water wouldn't go to lake mead but a back of the envelope calculation shows that the water pumping costs shouldn’t be ignored.

It would probably be better to use desal for providing coastal cities with 100% of their water and simply reducing the amount that we pull out of the rivers in the first place
Cool, I hadn't heard of that specific method possibly, but it seems self explanatory. I've always liked breaking down problems into smaller parts, so maybe that has helped me in several areas of life. My home office is full of walls of post it notes of plans for my life and my side projects.
Have you considered the possibility that were it not for 'environmentalism' as a movement, things could have been a whole lot worse? We are not exactly in a great spot, but events like River Fires[1] seem a little less common these days partially thanks to some level of awareness of the issues.

[1]https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Cuyahoga_River_Fire
System linking IMO came of age even earlier, in the PS2. The original PS2 hardware could system link over 4 pin FireWire (I-Link in Sony speak or whatever they branded it). Late generation ps2 hardware dropped the FireWire port.

Connecting two PS2s via FireWire/I link, two multi-taps and two big tvs for 8 player time splitters 2 is an all time favourite memory of mines.

Memory is fuzzy, but I think Gran Turismo 3 also could do this.