skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's so common that I was shocked to briefly work at a successful company with maybe 100 engineers and a code base that followed no consistent architectural rules and principal engineers that had never heard of the things listed in the article.

I won't name and shame, but I shudder at the thought of all that organically-grown spaghetti.
https://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2689610
>One could even craft a virus that is targeting a certain behavioral anomaly like sociopathy, if its genetically clearly identify-able.

It isn't, and I'd be surprised if it ever could be. There will always be statistical correlations (especially when looking at multiple genes in combination) but you can't conclude what a person's brain and mind are like just from their genome.
The large staffs you speak of are made of individual people. They can't mind meld.
I feel you're missing my point.

The point isn't that I'm in fine fettle -- I'm well-aware that I'm lonely -- the point is that there are a lot of people who are in the situation I am in and this machine feels like a friend.

That's a staggeringly powerful new political tool.
Also, PC users who prefer the (classic) Windows UI over macOS.
It was a while ago, but if I recall I ended up having to sign up several times, the post failed to be created for some reason and something else. There was a captcha involved I think.

I don’t remember the specifics, but I do remember coming away from it with a feeling of “wow, that was an atrocious experience. I wonder what the drop off rate is”
When was the last time you tried Linux? I just replaced my entire computer (CPU, motherboard, GPU, etc) and my Debian (bookworm) installation booted with zero issues. No need to reinstall anything.

I certainly remember fighting with xorg.conf settings, graphics drivers, and kernel modules in the past. I haven't had to deal with troubles like that in nearly 10 years though.
It's the opposite, really. The radio term was a pejorative, as the professionals saw the amateurs as ham-fisted.
Why wouldn't you? The other poster hasn't even said which regex engine or which tool they're measuring.

PCRE is absolutely a competitor to Rust's regex crate and it makes sense to compare them.

If all you're doing is measuring the time it takes to find `foo` or `\w+_foo`, then the specific regex engine being used is just an implementation detail.

I'm not saying that using --pcre2 is wrong. It is certainly a useful comparison. But using the default regex engine when the task is "measure a grep" is certainly not wrong either.
Is the escapement running at the same rate?

Absolutely. Modern fake Rolexes can only be told apart from a real one by an expert examining it with a loupe. And 8 tick pr second isn't that hard to replicate. Several ETA and Sellita calibers do it as well.
I can understand why you might be skeptical. However, I have learned over the years as a developer investigating update issues that the constraints placed upon the update process to ensure compatibility and resiliency are complex.

The nature of the process used for most Feature Updates requires user data and preference migration and transfer. Notably, an entirely new installation of Windows is created and then existing user data and preferences are migrated or transferred as appropriate. There a variety of good reasons for this from a technical standpoint, but it has certain complexity and performance trade offs so is only used for certain types of updates.

Other types of updates use an in-place upgrade methodology that doesn’t require user data and preference migration but has certain characteristics that make it currently less suitable for major feature updates.

Thanks!
Yep, taking short visual breaks fairly often is what did it for me. One thing I did was install bird feeders just outside a window of my office (WFH), which gives me a reason to glance away from the screen at a longer focal distance. Also, birds are neat, so that's fun.
The UK police are incredibly under-resourced because of austerity. They barely investigate most crimes.
I'm fairly sure all this "why isn't SBF in handcuffs already" stuff is just innuendo meant to make people like HNers have less faith in their government.

I'd be very surprised if there isn't stuff happening on the matter of FTX in DoJ.
My master's thesis ended up being basically studying a lot of the basic material characteristics of about a 50:50 alloy of nickel and aluminum. (This article is about an alloy with a significant mix of three elements as part of a class of materials that combine even more in significant quantities.)

My thesis advisor was trying to find out ways to present this class of alloys from becoming brittle when heated. The research never really produced good results though and he ended being mostly focused on studying (water) ice.
It depends on your view on the program. If your goal is to produce graduates who are successful in the workforce you'd be doing them a grave disservice by having them use FOSS (e.g. a Linux-based OS).
> Lots of people saying that SQLite is super high quality

I think the point most of those folks are making, is that SQLite is good enough where most developers think "Psh, I will use [HEAVIER DB SYSTEM THAT SLOWS OVERALL DEVELOPMENT TIME]" even if it is a better long term solution.

It's about bikeshedding, SQLite really is good enough for most projects and its a shame it still has such negative connotations.
they ought to be, though not all people have the integrity.
It would be easier for GitHub to not show those files by default.
Eric Barone & his one-person game studio has made $300M revenue in 6yrs
Sounds about right, most forum software is buggy and fails, but those failures don't get sent to the maintainers. It just waits until someone whom knows the maintainers says "uhhh it's broke.".
Microsoft has not a lot of interest in home power users. They need windows for business customers. And the majority of home users just keep the default system their PC came with. So if a few home users switch to Linux they probably won’t care at all.
The original title is too long and I assume op thought the findings can be extended to all science anyway.

On the other hand, removing the later part as the previous submission did makes the title sound overly presumptuous, imo.
This functionality is really meant for situations where you do stuff like validate a struct for completeness (part of checking user input, often) and return a list of errors instead of failing at the first error. It's kinda a godsend for the kind of application I write.
Iona and Peter Opie
that regards form, which indeed is not a part of the institution.
Yup! That is such a major improvement. I just wish there was a way to start sessions with 1 index. The inconsistency drives me nuts!
Ask HN: Interesting movies that explore AI?
Curious to hear of any movies you've seen that explore AI concepts? Fiction or non-fiction, it's interesting to think about potential future ideas that may not be possible today. Some I have enjoyed:

Her (2013) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/

Transcendence (2014) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2209764/

Ex Machina (2014) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752/
I was appliance shopping recently and it seems like the most expensive appliances are often not the best. If you just want to cook, you're usually better off with a good LG or GE oven than with a Viking, which test notoriously poorly. Same with many consumer products - a Honda or Toyota will be more reliable with more convenience features than a BMW or Rolls Royce; a Chicco or Britax carseat is often safer, more comfortable, and more convenient than a Peg Perego; a Samsung or Apple smartwatch has a lot more features than a Rolex. A good rule of thumb I've had for getting good consumer products is to buy the high end of the mass market; don't skimp on budget items, but also don't buy products that are priced so the average person can't afford them.

Makes sense economically. Mass market manufacturers can amortize their R&D and quality control over many more units than luxury brands. The point of the luxury brand is explicitly countersignaling, showing that you can afford to spend more money on an inferior product.
I thought the same.

Perhaps he should engage listeners and find out why, what, etc.? They're consuming the product. Also, try to get feedback from one-and-done listeners.

Moi? I don't have time or interest in casual chat and then get to the end with nothing taken away. I can't invest time unless I'm confident I'll at least breakeven.
You misunderstand the impact of silent RAM errors; when the data is corrupted in RAM then written to disk you have persistent, unrecoverable data corruption. Your backups are also corrupt and no common HA mechanism will even detect the failure unless it causes a crash.
This sort of memory corruption happens in the real world and is often written off as software bugs.
Usually closer to $5k but yes. I had coworkers who did this all the time.

To be fair - these guys love riding. So, ride what you enjoy.
Edited my comment to say “the employee” instead of “your employee”.

Either way, this thread really isn’t a very good look for you or the person you’re responding to.

Sometimes not engaging is better than engaging. (And here is when I myself will stop engaging…)
Nim [0] feels like it ticks a lot of those boxes. Although it has Options I do not think the machinery is as robust as Rust where that feels like a foundational core of the language.

[0] https://nim-lang.org/
This is an old thing they've been doing almost a decade now [0]. It's still around now [1]. You probably never because you either use Safari as your web browser or use it enough for the pop up to not trigger. I don't really get why you think this is unbelievable when Apple will regularly try to get you to use Apple Music, iCloud, etc. Why not Safari?

[0] https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/how-to-osx-try-safari-promotion....

[1] https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/TRYTHENEWSAFARI.html
The only reason SMS spam exists is that it's legal. Why is it so, if not for lobbying?
Oh you could do what I’m talking about in C, no problem. By console and keyboard only, what I mean is that this is a game done in the shell with a REPL using printf() and scanf(), it was not graphical or anything. The programming problems weren’t about game programming, it was just design a little data structure to hold the board state, implement valid move checking, detect win/lose states. Really simple stuff, I guarantee it wouldn’t be hard for you.

Re: ridiculous C++isms and embedded C, I’ve been in the same spot for my entire career. After learning C++ in college, I joined a CG film company that had banned C++ (dumb story) so I learned how to write object oriented C. Working in console games after that, we weren’t allowed to use any built-in memory management or exceptions or a current compiler, so very restricted C++. (And the worst bug I ever fixed was when someone tried to get clever with their C++ copy constructor.) These days I use CUDA, which is also technically C++ but basically C.
Hell, somehow my brain is still stuck in the 90s, where $30k would get you a very nice car indeed. I was a teenager then, so perhaps I'm anchored there because it's when I first started getting interested in things like that, and first started driving. (Gas was also 92 cents per gallon for a bit while I was in high school, oof.)

My family also always only bought used cars (and I continued this practice), so I guess that further skewed my conception of car cost downward. I only just bought my first new car recently, and I still haven't really adjusted to the reality of both what current prices are like, and how much more expensive a new car is.
Definitely not. Many things are designed to prevent accidents and are not secure against attacks, even in the data landscape.
You can be illiterate and still have an excellent grasp of language and participate in a dialectical argument with the AI to arrive at a solution.

Functionally illiterate here means that there is a reduced reliance on reading, writing or on the end user's ability to understand the code produced.
Microsoft is not a singular coherent entity, it’s a pile of separate teams.
Wonder how many people who are treating all this seriously and talking in the comments about cars and watches as status symbols on another day would be shrieking about "woke virtue signalling".
Yes, many of the more expensive finishes are extremely cosmetic and have negative utility.

Stone backsplashes require frequent maintenance and special chemicals. If you don't stay on top of it, they are basically impossible to keep looking clean.

A lot of newer kitchens have wooden floors, which is insane.

I've seen kitchens with thin coated bright shiny copper/brass handles on everything which immediately tarnish and can never be maintained in new looking shape.

A lot of modern gas ranges are fairly hard to clean with lots of parts you have to remove, while a solid middle class electric glass countertop one is zero effort.

I once rented a place where the guy had wooden edges on the kitchen counters which of course aged poorly, plus a porcelain kitchen sink which immediately broke any glass wear that dropped even a couple inches while cleaning.. and was impossible to keep clean looking.
> How would you implement changes?

It's pretty easy: you add requirements to accepting federal grant money.
For what it's worth I think it's largely overcome the reputation of being a "toy" database.
>and for weather balloons (critical data for short-term weather forecasts

Why not use hydrogen for weather balloons?
A lost warrant card (the police badge in question) is a pretty huge deal apparently.

You are correct though that stolen phones are deemed low priority, the term used for it is "volume crime".

"Why don't the police use findmy" comes up nearly weekly on the /r/policeuk subreddit. Same answer every time - too inaccurate for a warrant, not enough priority to put the work in to develop further evidence to pursue a warrant.
I think I'll just sell it and get a used Macbook Air, they go for like $99 on Ebay now.

Every time in my life I have installed Linux with such high hopes and get annoyed by all the crap that doesn't work.
I’ve never understood where this meme came from of hoodie culture having some kind of disdain for suits. I enjoy a nice suit when the time calls for it! Say, a wedding or a holiday party.

The reason I prefer a hoodie to suit on a daily basis is that putting on a suit is kind of arduous and owning 20 well-fitting suits gets expensive. It has nothing to do with signaling or whatever. Hoodies are far more practical and comfortable! They’re a continuation of what I wore in high school and college, though sadly the skateboard logos have been replaced by tech company logos.

Anyway, if you want to wear a suit, that’s fine, just don’t expect it from me.
Back when the iPhone first came out, one of my friends got one. One day we ended up going out fishing on a boat with another guy and we all left our phones on the dock so they wouldn't get wet, and I signalled to my wife to pick them up. Apparently she didn't understand my hand gestures or whatever and left them there, and they disappeared. For the two junky flip phones there was a happy ending - someone dropped them in the window of a park ranger's truck - but the iPhone was never seen again.
Could you please give a reference to this anectode?
I could not find any on a quick google search.
Thank you.
What does that have anything to do with a browser extension that modifies the Github UI?
Third shift counterfeiting has been an endemic problem since the invention of the Gutenberg press. I collect old and rare books going back to the 1500s and printers have been doing it for half a millennia. Once the type is set up for a print run, there’s nothing preventing the printer from running a secret shift to print a bunch more copies just for themselves. They’ll usually use cheaper paper or binding so they’re just different enough from real first editions to be worthless but you won’t know it until it gets to appraisal unless you physically inspect the book yourself and know exactly what to look for.
“Heavier” and “lightweight” are such abstract terms in software.

If “heavier” just means more LoC — sure, there’s more complexity in more LoC but also more problems solved. There’s a reason people tend to use the latest Linux/macos/Windows as opposed to the very lightweight Apple II OS from 1978.

Defaulting to, say, Postgres doesn’t seem so bad to me. It solves more problems than SQLite and “lightweight” is not really a concrete benefit for SQLite. It’s at least one level removed from speaking to a real problem.
> Reporting it to a weird forum was also a horrible experience.

What was so “horrible”?

After you posted the bug, the second comment (and only 6-hours later) had a new release and fix.
Swappa shows that you can get much more. The current average sale price for a Macbook Air, M1, 256GB is $673 respectively. Compared to the $1000 MSRP you're getting about 67% back.

Note that Swappa takes a 3% cut, so the buyer would actually see around ~$650.

https://swappa.com/guide/macbook-air-2020-13/prices
Good thing that Turkey has plenty of imitation goods for cheap.
Virgin Islands (US territory) is on third place on murder rates, but I think it's artificially inflated compared to other places.
Everything I understand about ChatGPT
Welcome to the English language, where the grammar is made up and the words don't matter.
Is Ukraine NATO's spy hub in Eastern Europe?
> They owe you nothing, so if you want to figure something out, searching the web is your best chance.

Of course that's true, but most OSS devs would prefer broader usage to narrower usage.
Been looking for ten minutes now and I can't find how to differentiate between Azure customers and Microsoft official websites. Observations:

- the advertising domain is not bought by markmonitor whereas microsoft.com, office.com, and outlook.com all are. Maybe this advertising domain isn't an important enough brand or maybe some other reason. The DNS servers for all four domains are NS1-{0..99}.azure-dns.com, NS2-{0..99}.azure-dns.net, and two other TLDs for NS3 and NS4, and always in the same order

- IP space is all AS8068 and AS8075 (checking the same four domains)

- I tried duckduckgo for "how to differentiate between azure customers and microsoft ip space" but didn't find anyone asking that question anywhere. Probably bad phrasing on my part

- I tried looking for websites hosted by Azure to see if there is an IP space for customers by searching ddg for "powered by azure" and "hosted with azure" but I only get results from Microsoft themselves, random garbage, and things like "azure lessons" that aren't hosted with azure at all (heh)

I would also have expected this to be not-Microsoft-owned and a scam, but I'm failing to prove that hypothesis. That would mean Microsoft is not the company that I thought it was: I thought the difference between Facebook,Google and Microsoft,Apple is that some are in the business of manipulating people and others sell honest products (even if I have other issues with locked-down Apple devices, at least it's not adtech). Looking for revenue streams, I found <https://www.kamilfranek.com/assets/images/microsoft_revenue_...>. So not quite adtech but ads was the biggest growing product last year and has been growing for at least a decade (also based on other sources). Interesting.
The worst part is when these studies lead to policy changes.
> how or why is this sensible?

The whole objective here is personal learning and this advice would be wildly different for how to practice ML professionally. The approach is directly analogous to advising a beginner programmer to get better at programming by actually writing computer programs.

> Most of the cutting edge papers are trained on several $100k worth of GPU time

Its besides the point, but I said nothing about a requirement that the methods that you choose to implement and learn from having to be cutting edge. More to the point, unless we have a different definition for what "cutting edge" means, you're wrong that "most of the cutting edge papers" require high computational resources. If that were true it would be nearly impossible for the field to make progress at the pace it does. There is a plethora of research in purely algorithmic approaches which do not require massive compute resources, and in fact this is the most productive portion of research to learn from because there the focus is on theory and progress in how to conceptualize / frame ML problems. Works which amount to "we took method X and massively scaled it up" are (in my opinion) less intellectually interesting to someone seeking to grow their knowledge in ML (though the results may might be extremely impressive and impactful, and it may be intellectually very interesting for the working directly on that project).

> How can you be sure that your implementation is correct, if you can't train it (hence you can't run proper inference with a good model)?

This is like asking how you can be sure that you've correctly implemented a B tree if you haven't used it to serve a distributed database to 1 million users. The answer is small isolated tests.

One of the best ways to really test your knowledge of an ML algorithm is to design and write unit tests to assert it behaves correctly on trivial cases. You'll find bugs in your implementation, but you'll also be forced to think carefully about what the core characteristics of the algorithm are that must be asserted in order to convince yourself that its correct. Its a common beginner mistake in ML to just run/train your model and have that be the only test of its correctness. Its like deploying a web service with zero tests and letting "do I get X number of users" be the only test of your code's correctness. It sounds insane but its basically equivalent to what most beginners do in ML (my former self included).
Even putting aside the snarky tone, this does not feel like a good HN comment.

Firstly, they don't offer paid memberships yet, AFAIK?

But secondly, and more importantly: I'm over myself, but I'm not over this new technology.

ChatGPT will change the way people feel about their devices, and those new feelings are going to be very tempting to manipulate.

If something as year-200x as "social media" can upend democracy -- and it most certainly did -- then the very-2022 ChatGPT will throw it like pizza dough.

Control over these models is the single most important thing any political operator could accomplish.

The elections of the 2030s will be determined by data scientists.
My mail server occasionally receives mail from residential ISPs and it's literally always spam.

If people could be trusted to manage their mail server we wouldn't have this problem, but IoT crapware is still listening on port 23 till this very day and the manuals still state that you need to disable the firewall and forward all traffic to your shitty webcam for it to work. Reporting this abuse to the carrying ISPs is about as useless as shouting my complaints down the toilet.

Until both IoT production companies and individual consumers take responsibility for the awful internet created by these maliciously incompetent users and the laughably bad IoT devices they buy, I'm not removing this filter rule from my mail server.

I do usually get a notification that something hit quarantine so if it sounds important I can still see it, but I've never had to release mail banned for this reason so far.
A key point in the article:

>"...Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.”

>Hard work increases the likelihood of luck finding you, and hard work also prepares you for when it does.

You can't reliably produce luck, even by imitating people that are "lucky"; all you can do is increase the likelihood that you might capitalize on luck.