skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're treating comments like a pariah because they might be wrong (i.e. not accurately describe what the code is doing) but that's just as true for the code itself: it may not be doing what it is actually intended to do.

In fact, there may be cases where the comment is correct (i.e. it describes what the code should do) but the code is wrong and doesn't actually do it correctly. Why should the comments take a back seat in that case?

In reality, comments and code are part of the whole system. There's nothing wrong with being suspicious of a comment's accuracy, but that doesn't mean comments aren't helpful. Part of development is keeping code and comments in sync. Yes, programming is hard.
Great Expectations and Datafold
If the tax base is too small for parks, it's also too small to pay for the street/road infrastructure, and that's being subsidized by people outside of the community. If a community can't afford basic infrastructure (which should include parks), it isn't zoned to be dense enough.
Just a single user, but I've found stripe to be stable and boring. Just how I like it!
Surely you can’t be serious.
Basics of Rationalist Discourse
I don't think that's how that works. It's evident by the fact that there are no school towns like there are college towns. Once the people earning the money move out, there is no taxes left to fund education. Unless we nationalize education, which is not going to happen (at least in America).
Some gateways offer a more decoupled concept-- you can have one API account, but set it up to route the transactions to different processor accounts based either on predefined rules or an API field during the individual transaction. The nice thing about this is that you can still use the gateway's client-side stuff (i. e. the "embedded form" that reduces your PCI compliance scope) and a single API for all transactions.

I'd think that would mitigate most of the risk, because then the gateway usually is a relatively neutral middleman-- the processors are more in contact with the actual money and more likely to be the true source of arbitrary and weird behaviour, so I can concur it makes sense to be less dependent on them.
>Imagine Erlang running in the Browser frontend and also on the Server backend. Everything would be uniform and clean and one would have a robust distributed system with all parameters taken care of by the "System" itself; [...]

That is a very compelling idea -- the idea of a language which supports concurrency natively -- such that a given source code base could be split up into "client" (web browser) and "server" (web server) components (and/or source code) easily, ideally automatically...

I think that is a very compelling idea, indeed!

This language might indeed be Erlang/OTP + Erlang(ERTS) + BEAM VM -- but it could conceivably be another language -- if that language was designed with the appropriate concurrency in mind: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concurrent_and_paralle...)

But that being said, Erlang/OTP+ERTS+BEAM VM -- definitely looks like it is worth further exploration!
In Germany this is known as "Kurzarbeit" (literal translation: short work). The company reduces the work hours of employees and the pay gets cut proportionally. The cut hours will be paid by the state at a rate of 60% (67% for workers with children, the rate is the same as unemployment).

So if a worker's hours get cut by 50%, they still get paid 80-83.5% of their wage. The company can choose to get the employees' pay back to 100% if they pay the difference, which sometimes happens if the hours are cut because there is not enough work and not because the company is in financial distress.

This helped quite a lot of companies to stay in business during COVID.
ROFL I can use that.

- Boss!

- ..yes?!

- I was reading a COBOL code base and got a brilliant idea--

- Say no more, you need a vacation. I am sorry, I have been too pushy. Take 3 weeks; just promise me one thing: no COBOL.
‘Tortured phrases’ give away fabricated research papers

Analysis reveals that strange turns of phrase may indicate foul play in science.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02134-0

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Twitter thread about an AI watermarking scheme: https://mobile.twitter.com/tomgoldsteincs/status/16182876960...

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Any particular high-entropy word choice contributes a small amount to the sensitivity, and we've dealt with %-plagiarized metrics for years. "Turnitin says 35%" is not going to get an automatic referral to academic affairs, but 70-100% probably will.
Leadership's income is much more closely tied to stock than their wages.
If we speak of specific capabilties: The F-22, F-15C/D/E/EX and F/A-18C/D/E/F are better at air superiority. The F-15E and -EX are better at ground attack. The A-10 is better at close air support. The F-16 (all its variants...) is on par with the F-35 on all counts except for stealth and STOVL.

The only thing the F-35 has a decisive advantage in is STOVL capability. Everything else is compromised to achieve the "one plane fits all" vision; the F-35 is a jack of all trades, master of none.
Handling state (especially long-term) is really a struggle for LLMs right now. This issue should become easier to work with as context windows scale up in the next couple years (or months, who knows!).
Even outside of tech hubs, the distribution of where those workers end up is pretty different from the the distribution of where they were raised. Not many of my classmates from rural Wisconsin ended up in the Bay Area or New York, but many moved to Chicago or Minneapolis, and of those still in Wisconsin, almost all of those with white-collar jobs are in Milwaukee or Madison. Lots of cities and even many college towns in "flyover country" are doing just fine, but the brain drain from towns with less to offer is very real.

I imagine my hometown would be a very different place if people didn't have to leave to get decent jobs. Though of course there are plenty of other good reasons to leave.
> I noticed that Spotify would consistently "rabbithole" me into the same ~150 songs

I’ve noticed Apple Music doing this too. It used to not do it: discovered some wonderful music by saying “Play some music” and it would suggest new songs

Now, same small set of songs. Is there a way to force it to change? Like a different prompt
On normal headphones probably not.

But with a decent DAC/Amplifier it's very easy to hear the benefits of lossless especially with well mastered sources at higher qualities e.g. 24-bit/192kHz.
He's also a sentimental softie, but I had to be around him a while before noticing this.

Edit: I take your point about capitalism, but sometimes optimization is suboptimal. That is, sometimes narrow self-interest ends up limiting you, and sometimes going against self-interest (as currently perceived) leads to greater outcomes—like navigating through a narrow waterway and ending up in an ocean.

This is what happened with YC. The YC founders (not just PG) did things that the rest of the industry thought were dumb. For example, if the founders of a startup wanted to get acquihired, YC would say "great, do what you think best", where other investors would say "over my dead body" because they weren't making money on the deal. YC's attorneys in those days would send the paperwork back because they thought there must be some mistake.

It turned out that optimizing for founders optimized for YC as well, but this was not obvious at the time. Why did pg and YC do that? it wasn't because they were "good capitalists". It was because of the kind of people they were and the ideas they thought were cool. That turned out to be massively more profitable than being a ruthless capitalist would have. So in the end it gets a bit hard to draw these distinctions. Sometimes being a good capitalist makes you a worse capitalist!
I mean look at new york the houses are still expensive despite the high rises
Rails guy turned rustacean here. If I have a piece of code that looks gnarly, I'll write a comment above it explaining what it does. Elegance != readability always. This can often happen with complicated map/filter/etc chains (both in ruby and in rust!) that are compact but are complicated enough that your eyes glaze over when you read them. Anything eye-glaze-over-ey is probably worth a comment in my opinion.

Other times to comment include when there is some sort of dirty hack, TODO annotations, etc.
The thing is about a space economy IMO:

1) getting enough stuff out of Earth's gravity well

2) getting a reasonably self-sufficient population for survival and manufacturing of survival goods

But once you get there, the lack of a big gravity well makes this a lot easier. Low-G or zero-G is a lot easier to move stuff around at the small scales. How much could I lift on the moon?

I'm torn between a moon base and doing enough near-earth asteroid captures to build a space hab. Political support would probably be behind the moon base first, but a space hab built from captured asteroids might be cheaper.

Anyway, once you get a big enough base in space and some manufacturing, build a couple orion pulse nuclear ships, or some nuclear thermal equivalent to hop around the solar system quickly. Then we can probably start mining high value asteroids.

Then Mars and Venus start making sense.

Maybe we can find a closer brown dwarf than Proxima.

THEN, we can go for some nearby stars.
I’m a fan of comments, but in this case I would reach for an enum with descriptively-named members, e.g. HTTPStatus.TOO_MANY_REQUESTS
Forgive what may be a contrarian position but why is this even a role in a corporation?

It's the first time I've heard of this role in any firm. Employees at big corps like this usually get good private medical - is this not sufficient?
Gear 360 community maintains apps and FW's years after Samsung abandonment
>carrier landings for the Navy (F-22 cannot),

A naval variant capable of carrier landings of the F-22 was considered by the US Navy but was ultimately not adopted. The airframe is definitely capable of it, if given sufficient military and political will.
The relevant law here isn't patent law. It is copyright and trademark law. If you memorize a famous (recent) painting and recreate that as closely as you can, is it copyright violation or a transformative derivative work? I guess it depends on your process, intent, and fidelity. Oh, and on local laws.
I don't think he's really telling others what to do; I think he's writing about what he's figured out for himself, and then stripping it down to a minimal expression. The minimalism—a kind of intellectual optimization—matters more to him than how people react.

The "sharing with other humans" aspects is an interesting point though, because the way that pg strips things down to minimal expression involves stripping out the signals that make people feel they're being shared with. I wrote about this point 15 years ago (a horrible thing to say, but I'll link to it nonetheless): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=143575.
I live in Tokyo, in a central area (nearish to Shibuya). It's dense, but quiet, safe, and surprisingly not that crowded. There's a few children's play areas within a 2 minute walk. There's numerous parks around me, including dog runs.

The anti-density crowd can't imagine allowing well planned towns and cities to exist in the US.
What if anything is known about Elon’s private crypto holdings? Wondering if it is possible he’s traded the pump and dump cycles he’s caused?
School quality is one of the most important criteria people use when deciding where to buy a house.
Reminds me of the poet Charles Bernstein's list of poetic experiments [1]. Specifically:

> Substitution (2): "7 up or down." Take a poem or other, possibly well‑known, text and substitute another word for every noun, adjective, adverb, and verb; determine the substitute word by looking up the index word in the dictionary and going 7 up or down, or one more, until you get a syntactically suitable replacement.

[1] https://writing.upenn.edu/bernstein/experiments.html
Stable was mummified, Testing was musty, and Unstable had the opposite problem and was named Sid for a reason.

Ubuntu used to fit between Testing and Sid.
Cyborg convergence is basically a guarantee barring destruction of the species, I'd think. Especially once the billionaires get a taste for cybernetic life extension.
What is testcontainer? Reading the first page I don't understand what benefits it buys me:

> Testcontainers for .NET is a library to support tests with throwaway instances of Docker containers for all compatible .NET Standard versions. The library is built on top of the .NET Docker remote API and provides a lightweight implementation to support your test environment in all circumstances.

Edit: Ok, example helps. https://dotnet.testcontainers.org/examples/aspnet/

I can declare docker infrastructure from my code, right?
Thanks for the advice, yeah I'd like to add guided journaling modules and some optional prompts. Just knowing where to get started helps a lot with journaling
Interesting, haven't heard this approach before.
Alameda liquidators get liquidated on Aave as they try to consolidate funds
Strunk & White gets negative comments. But I was handed a copy when I started my first job out of college, and I found some elements of it quite valuable. Perhaps most of all, to review what you have written and remove words that don't really add anything.

Tightened-up prose really does make the world a better place :)
It's so disheartening to see news like this. I just recently switched to Spotify to try it as my primary music service for the first time, and it has such a fundamental flaw with multiple devices not being supported that it feels like a prank. My family using my home devices interrupts my laptop music and they won't even allow me to pay to fix it, I would need to create a whole new account that doesn't have all my saved settings. My friend who has used spotify a long time said he made a new account in his dog's name to get around this. Really??? On top of that, the radio is still only built for basic short term listeners because it only plays the top 50 songs over and over, even in niche genres like symphonic power metal (as opposed to, say, electronic music as a whole). It's disheartening because our world economy somehow perpetuates so much of the wrong things that are trivial to fix if one genuinely asks "is this a good experience?"
#TL;DR

Seeing as ChatGPT is being used to generate pronouncements/articles/assignments where it's been given nothing about the actual situation/news/subject, perhaps it's time we instituted a flag ...

#TL;GPT

... too long, mindless fill generated by ChatGPT.
The magic source of Contiki is IMHO the use of protothreads as a lightweight concurrency system. Protothreads can also be used to implement synchronous programming models - like this one: https://github.com/frameworklabs/proto_activities
> I also don't fully understand the dividend investor mindset

That interesting, because I don't understand the mindset of investors who are just trading stocks like baseball cards. They don't seem to care what the company actually produce, just that the numbers tell them that the stock can sell for a little more next year.

Divided makes a lot of sense, because it keeps yielding money, for the same initial investment. So it's just extra money, but it's money you can actually spend. Sure you pay taxes on the divided, but you still hold the stock and can sell that at a late time.

Honestly I feel that it problems are the companies that never pay divided. The investors then depend on buy-backs or trading to recover their investment. This has created investors that do not care about the companies they invest in. The companies can go broke tomorrow and that's fine, as long as they can sell their stocks before it happens.
It's covered in Russian Patent No. 2,526,478 "Method and Device of Microwave Electromagnetic Impact at Trespasser"

"The technical result is achieved by the fact that it is proposed to use directional radiation modulated by amplitude of the microwave electromagnetic waves. The impact on the intruder is due to the occurrence of painful mechanical thermoelastic phenomena in individual elements of the human auditory apparatus at their resonant frequencies"

https://patents.google.com/patent/RU2526478C2/en

http://www.gbppr.net/mil/havana
As an avid viewer of both, YouTube needs to figure out how to stop showing the same shorts over and over again. TikTok has this mostly figured out.
You two both shouldn't generalize but change perspective at times (:
Yes, seeing now that he does have a lot of self-awareness around this which helps provide context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=143606

It's very insightful to get to share different perspectives in these ways. Thanks for being so open
> This obviously is a financial loss for the economy

it's not, because the money that was otherwise spent (wasted) can now be deployed else where.

Otherwise, why not increase the GDP and economy, by periodically just breaking every window? The replacement is gonna cause huge growth!
Grounding Language Models to Images for Multimodal Generation
Moving goalposts? Crypto is and always has been about self custody, from the very beginning.
Thanks! I was just looking for it because it was relevant to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34607336.

Oh and it's astonishing that anybody remembers that.
>"Contiki provides multitasking and a built-in Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP stack), yet needs only about 10 kilobytes of random-access memory (RAM) and 30 kilobytes of read-only memory (ROM). [1] A full system, including a graphical user interface, needs about 30 kilobytes of RAM.[5]"

Nice!
Ya, not sure how they do not get your point… regardless of that fact, it is a completely uninspired design and it’s not hard to imagine this is some stock Tailwind UI component. Yes, they are wrong, but this isn’t some revolutionary stuff here. Let’s call a spade a spade.
No. Employees are neither VCs, nor credit institutions, nor social benefactors, nor non-profit, nor pro-bono volunteers. They work for a wage – And, yes, first hired that joined the ranks of executives with a vetted interest in the company (e.g. stock options) are already something other. Paying the wage is an obligation, if the employers want the work to be provided. Risks – and the associated rewards - are primarily with the investors. A work culture that shifts the risks onto workers has to be rethought.
I bought a shaker of Nu-Salt after the previous mention of potassium a month ago[1]

I use it instead of table salt to season food. (But still use conventional salt in cooking). The first time I used a bit too much, and everything tasted... off. Since then I've backed off, and it's ok.

I'm shocked at how much weight I've lost (approximately 20 pounds, but I am morbidly obese)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34072801
> no taxes left to fund education

which is why it's really a stupid policy decision to fund schooling via local taxation. There should be federally funded schools.
Anker admits compromised security of Eufy cameras
McCulloch-Pitts Neuron: Logical Calculus of Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity [pdf]
This year is the 80th birthday of McCulloch-Pitts neuron, a simple model with far reaching impact.
I found the pricing surprisingly reasonable (not affiliated)
A significant fraction of world GDP is spent on financial services selling trust. It is not obvious that a world with trustless self-custody crypto would be more expensive than traditional finance.
Had an amusing result: This tool replaced the word "at" with "atomic number 85" in a sentence I provided, since At is the symbol for Astatine. You weren't kidding when you said simple!
you need to sign up for your own key
Derek Sivers – Reading the Bible start to finish
Put 10 economists in a room and you'll get 11 opinions.
Snowflake data warehouse date range based joins 45x speedup
This is the challenge with working in the semiconductor industry - you really are captive to <5 employers who have access to the billion dollar fabs and if they are all cutting staff then you have to take what you can get - unlike the SW/SAAS type companies where you just need an AWS account and a really good idea and good sales team.

Also it is highly likely TSMC pays much less than Intel's process/fab side of the house and works its process/fab teams a lot harder.
excellent voice yes but the voices here are superior
5% would be insane if inflation weren't 7%. However, cutting salaries to keep the dividend whole is insane.
> a sacrifice I have to make

and you should never be making a sacrifice for someone else, without enough monetary compensation.

The only sacrifice one should make is for enrolling in the armed services.
My wife and I got married later in life, and we do not have kids, nor will we ever have kids.

I don't regret it. I think I would have been a horrible dad. Only now, as I am in my 50s, do I feel like I might become a person who could have been a good dad, if I had known then what I know now.

So, my kids who were never born, and society at large, are probably better off that my wife and I have never had kids.

Hell, given what's happening in the world today, I think maybe my non-existent kids may also be better off never having been born.
Or it could just be a press release for Canadian consumption
You’re spreading disinformation.
I don't have "past my entry". Can't writing(泣)
You might wanna validate your back propogation *or the final cost against a hand written very small network to see what went wrong
But if we are talking about a NAS, hopefully you also have SSD caching which should reduce a lot the workload on your disks.
I have also bought a dehumidifier fo this purpose, this year. It works great. It uses less energy than I would need to keep the room dry by heating. For insulation I use thermal clothes and thus can significantly lower the room temperature with respect to the standard 20°C-21°C that people have around here.
Yeah, non-GAAP is basically, "we've decided to account for certain things differently because the standard accounting rules would be misleading in our business." Companies could abuse non-GAAP reporting, but there's nothing particularly unusual or nefarious about reporting non-GAAP numbers along with the required GAAP numbers, or treating the former as the more accurate representation of reality.
They already are laying people off. The reason why they're instituting the cuts is because they can't bleed critical talent, so instead they're betting on said talent staying even after a pay cut.
I think you're right that people very much do those things but I think pg does them a lot less than others. The 'publish anonymously' experiment would indeed be interesting in this case. I'd bet on pg!
And if it was a major investor and close friend, who promised some benefits to Musk if TSLA was to accept BTC? Good luck proving the connection.
Ive seen this happen a few times lately, but it was occurring on an app that I was actively developing. It was perplexing because I knew the app wasn’t actually polling for location. It didn’t even have background location capabilities; I could attach a debugger and confirm.

Only by resetting the device could I clear the system location alarm. I can eventually reproduce the issue again after a few force quits of the app.

It’s a UI bug in iOS. The app was unlikely doing anything malicious.
Flow fields scale infinitely better than A* pathfinding, can be cached with areas/portals configured, etc.

(Hi tigerworks, bornemix here from the CT forums)
As many SV companies follow the 'bossism' trend and treat workers worse, who is taking the opportunity to attract the more dyanamic, motivated workers who want something better?
I don't really see how this can work out.

Intel already has low wages relative to the US software industry and since the work requires a high level of general capability, and often a PhD, for Intel to get top people to build competitive processors should require substantially higher wages than are common in the US software industry and other industries which someone who could easily get a chemistry/solid-state physics/etc. PhD could easily choose instead.