skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a lot of room for AI in the commit process. In particular, I’d love a CI check that docs haven’t gone stale. A big issue with investing in thorough docs is that the systems they document can easily drift away from them.
> Why do you think there is any reason for progress to stop?

I described you reasons: jun developer has proven abilities to learn reasoning and context. and chat gpt does not have proven abilities to learn to reason.
> Eric Schmidt is busy trying to fix Pentagon software development,

That could actually play to his advantage if he really wants to be CEO again, it is my belief that in the current geo-security climate all the big US tech companies will become more and more entangled with the MIC (transforming it into a MIC+tech thing, in a way).

But I suspect that at this point Schmidt is trying to play the big political cards. Maybe he wants to become the new government-appointed tech Tsar in case that job will be created at some point? (I personally think that it will be created).
Need to take this all the way. Should be a dynamic service that annotates your already existing commit log whenever it's queried. Your "commit messages" would get better over time as the AI improved. Leave the statically persisted commit messages to the humans.
Grow weary (tired of) and grow wary (suspicious of/concerned about) are different things though. Irregardless is a modification of the already useful regardless. I'm not sure how they're comparable.
https://archive.ph/YwBBB
Well, India has 200million Muslims.

No civil war yet.

There have been altercations between Hindus and Muslims. There’s no reason to believe it would be significantly worse if you doubled the number of Muslims in India, especially when you consider that a lot of the Hindu-Muslim divisions were sown as a result of partition itself, which was an incredibly divisive and bloody affair.

Further, a larger Muslim population would also have reduced political power of the Hindu fascists as well and lack of funding through Pakistan and increased Democratic power would have led to less political disaffection in the extremist Muslim side.
Which makes it an excellent opportunity to undercut competitors by a hundred bucks.
Oh, when I was younger I was mesmerized by watching all of the little squares in the defrag tool change color and move around. It was like someone tidying your room for you!
Agree, areas where correctness can be sub 90%. When a BA is making business docs, do they want creativity in querying factual data for a report they are creating? How tempting is it to not just use it for "creative" tasks?
Severe sanctions should be applied to any country or individual attempting to develop autonomous weapons. Additionally, the "Mark of Death" should be applied to any technologist working on autonomous weapons. They should be outcast from society, given no support. Hardware manufacturers should not work with them, cloud computing companies shouldn't work with them. All it takes is for us as a profession to decide we don't want to destroy the world. Yes, there will be some people who try, but they won't be able to achieve this without the support of hundreds of thousands of people.

People in the tech community like to pretend like this is impossible, but very few people want to be social and professional outcasts. We have yet to see a lab-designed virus kill off humanity, despite it being theoretically possible to create.
Ask HN: Good Landing Page Tool for Rails Site?
Hi all. I have a rails site that mostly does what I want it to do for core business/user stuff but am thinking of adding a really idiot proof CMS solution so people on the team can make quick landing pages for marketing campaigns, email blasts, etc.

Everyone seems to like Webflow for no code quick sites like this right? Is that a good choice to bolt on to a rails site or am I missing something obvious?
Because our neural pathways are all overstimulated to the point of being fried and we need to turn things up to 11 to feel anything at all
2022/2/13 -Michigan State University Shooting Public Safety Radio Communications
No. This is absolutely false. I don't think anyone who hasn't been inside of Google can possibly understand how "differently" (one might even say "Googley") dysfunctional it is.
I've been one of those purist native-first guys, but as of late I brought up a custom GUI app in question of days with XAML studio and winUI gallery (0 background), piloted with Powershell (in Notepad++), and it does the trick. happy to enter WPF and .net, almost by accident.
I think people are too soon to make judgements. Zuck going all in on the metaverse might be one of the most brilliant and daring business moves of recent history, or it might be a poorly implemented dream of chasing Apple.

Google being 'second mover' to AI Chat might be the smart play, or it might be terrible.

I'm very surprised even here people aren't realizing we don't know how this plays out yet.
There was a decent trillogy from Ian McDonald that featured a massive solar furnace that slowly circumnavigated the moon to keep in direct sun light that produced the metal for the colonies across the moon.
avoid being sensationalist?

The Chinese spy-on-the-weather balloon debacle is the textbook definition of sensational yellow journalism. NYT has had constant front-page coverage of it.
Update. I took the new office and it was everything i dreamt it could be!
Yes, that is one of the things people voted for, repeatedly, and were adamant they understood and wanted...
I stabilized it - somewhat: https://youtu.be/FBFVpSf_Qgk
SS United States, the fastest passenger liner ever built
My past few jobs have all been 100% gsuite, I don’t think Office is the same monopoly it used to be
Last time I was negative to the idea. This time I’m conditionally positive: if I find myself in a project that mandates a structured style that I don’t like, like “conventional commits”, then it would be nice if a program could at least deal with the structured part on my behalf.
With a 2.5 second ping time from the Earth to Moon, data centers seem to me like a limited proposition. Sure, there are some use cases that could tolerate it, but many that can’t, and even where tolerating it is technically possible, it’s annoying enough (e.g. it’s hard to use SSH with that kind of latency) that there’d need to be significant cost savings for anyone to use it. But the cost would depend not just on the cost of raw materials but also the enormous cost of creating the fabs. On Earth that can be amortized with equally enormous production volume; that might be harder on the Moon…
GitHub's Copilot AI for Business now available for $19/month
This is a low-effort article trying to use politics as a click-bait title.

>India is trying to follow this example in and around Delhi. In 2021 it launched a pollution-control agency, called the Commission for Air Quality Management (caqm), with responsibility for a 55,000-square-km area, encompassing the capital and parts of Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh...Though many have criticised the CAQM’s pace of progress, the early results are promising.

That's about the only news in the article.

>South Asia’s filthy air

This is the tag associated with the article. When will these haughty sounding articles end, and when some article is written there is more substance to it. There isn't even an author attached to this article. This is one of the reasons these western publications have very low readability and confidence in non-western countries even though they do well in western countries (where quality of articles are much better).
The LBGTQ+ community is shooting themselves in the foot by over-representing in movies and tv shows. From what I understand there are some organization(s) in Hollywood that have gained substantial power that pressure film makers to include LBGTQ+ characters and couples.

But what has been the result? You can barely watch a single show these days without their agenda being forced to the fore of the story. I think there might be fewer heterosexual relationships now than not. It’s just too much and tiresome. But worse, it leading to a surge of anti-LGBTQ+ behavior by those who are less tolerant.
They're essentially unburning these materials - they're bound to oxygen when in the mineral, and they need to separate that out.
Generate love songs between characters in books with AI
Please read at least the first sentence of a comment before replying to it. Preferably all of it, though.
The title, if it’s not clear to you already.

It makes it sound like there’s a pollution warfare even though the article makes no justifications on how these countries are choking on each other’s pollution rather than their own. The article also talks about Nepal and Bhutan but the title has only Ind/Pak

it’s hard not to associate a nefarious reason especially because it is the economist

should have simply been “South Asia is choking in its pollution”
> barely-tech-literate people

I think this is a little unfair. I would not blame anyone for thinking that the part of the image they cropped is deleted. That's what the word means, that's what it looks like is happening, there's usually no warning that it's recoverable.

When you delete text it is really gone from the document, even though you can undo to get it back. It's totally reasonable to expect images to work the same way.
Telegram is a joke these days. Every update is about adding more cutesy crap to appeal to the emoji generation, rather than making it more secure or suitable for serious use.

I think they started out with good intentions to provide something that hit the middle ground between the likes of FB Messenger [popular but insecure] and Signal [secure but user-unfriendly]. But, somewhere along the way, they've decided to just concentrate on the cutesy junk and chase user numbers and the serious side of things is pretty much forgotten.
I've been noticing more and more ML projects such as hugging face adding support for JAX which makes Python have automatic differentiation which is a key feature of Julia.

https://github.com/google/jax
I guess it’s more like “companies forced to fix known flaw pointed out in viral TikTok trend” or something.
Honestly, agreed. The hate I see for teams on here is a little over the top. I just as annoyed with Slack day-to-day as I was with Teams when we were on that.
> but it is not a rigorous proof of any kind.

Such is the nature of early theories.
So in other words, no it’s ultimately not important if the idea is good, which Bard seems to be.

It seems more indicative of leadership quality that Google had this in their back pocket, ready to go shortly after someone else did the market validation for them.
That was an intentional failure to protect, because Reality Winner's biography was important for the story that much of the US government was trying to sell.

However don't trust... tools can't help but be good advice. There's no need to trust the Intercept on metadata existing.
Milwaukee vlogger's experience hanging out with car-stealing "Kia Boys:"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbTrLyqL_nw

Over 10,000 cars were stolen in Milwaukee in 2021. That's one stolen auto for every 60 Milwaukee residents, young and old.

South Korea's full of vulnerable Kia and Hyundai vehicles, yet doesn't have this problem of teenage serial car thieves. American social dysfunction is a big part of the equation that results in the numbers above.
I totally get why they wanted to do it - but I also found their integration into the UI off-putting. The patterns of listening to podcasts and songs are just so different and they offered little support on mixing the two (no separate queues, etc). It felt very half-baked from a UI / UX perspective.
The comment I was replying to seemed to be suggesting that both inexperience AND checklists are the problem. Checklists are never a bad thing.
> … hard to take seriously…

Even when we're shown "Benchmarks are a crock" ?

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

> Microbenchmarks are not a good replacement for system-level comparisons.

For example —

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
On today's hardware, or on hardware of the time?

Things like word used to be much better in speed of the interface - it used to take fewer clicks to do stuff
For what it’s worth, I hate squashed commits. I can’t count the number of times that I wanted to know the source of one specific change, only to be redirected at a git diff with thousands of lines of changes.

Ridiculous. That defeats the point of source control, which is partly to aid future readers, not merely track changes.

I’m happy your workflow works nicely for you, but I hope the mindset goes away.

Personally, I think it’s important to force push over your “bad commit” when it happens. That way you don’t generate dozens of WIP commits, and there’s no need to squash. But sometimes WIP commits are fine to let through. They inform other devs about what you’re experimenting with.
I wish space companies would cooperate for the benefit of all humankind, so that we wouldn't need to reinvent the wheel every time. Competition is good, but waiting for the entire production line to be solved by a single company would delay our efforts by decades.

Let SpaceX focus on the rockets, and Blue Origin on bootstrapping a moon base.
As the saying goes, you’re holding it wrong.
I agree that the OP sounds very incorrect, but there is one thing that is notably different, and that would be web development. The classic ASP.NET and the modern ASP.NET Core are not compatible with each other, and have different development styles in some areas. But other than that, most code out there should work with both.
Genql – An SDK for Every GraphQL API
Yeah. DMA, Sponsored Access, SOR, (both sellside and buyside),dark pools, etc.

And this is just equities and listed derivatives (and the odd bond).

When you get on to FX and Fixed Income proper it all changes quite a bit as these tend to use a bifurcated market structure with CLOBs on the D2D side and quote-based markets on the D2C side. In all, a whole lot more complicated than a cash equities structure.
What they don't mention is how efficient the solar cells produced are. NASA's NIAC studied making solar cells in a similar manner and estimated they could produce solar cells with 6-9% efficiency[0]. Efficiency was limited due to impurities in the silicon they produced. They have made some pretty big improvements over the NIAC work by being able to produce cover glass, which the NIAC study didn't even consider.

Another big question is how much mass needs to be shipped up from earth to manufacturer solar cells. Dopants will still need to be shipped up as they cannot currently be obtained with this method, but the mass per area solar cell is practically nothing. More concerning are the electrodes for their electrolysis cell.

They are literally electrolyzing molten lava. Molten silicates are a very good solvent and the hot oxidizing environment of the anode is quite harsh. We do have materials which can withstand this environment, but how long will they last? How much power can the whole set up produce and would it be more than landing the setup's weight in solar cells?

Regardless this is still a major advance. Materials processing of this level suitable for the lunar environment has not been previously demonstrated.

[0]https://www.niac.usra.edu/files/library/meetings/annual/jun0...
The context of this discussion was a coding question: would you use LLMs as a coding assistant? In general, this method works for things where there's an objective desired result, which includes most coding applications.
As of a week ago, which was the last time I tested, ChatGPT still says 1023^2 is even about half the time.

ChatGPT is good at generating text that sounds smart. It is not smarter than most people you know.
what packages are you using?

I think I have DiffusionBee installed but I haven't updated it for months
I said if revenue was 2x with the profit margin being the same, the profits would be double. If your margin is 20%, would you rather have $10 in revenue ($2 profit) or $20 in revenue ($4 profit)?

So if their costs go up 20%, they increase prices by 20% to compensate, and they maintain the same margin, the profits are higher.
It sure does seem weird that something as fundamentally efficient as trains are supposedly so hard to run economically that treating workers properly just isn't economically feasible.

Of course it is feasible, but the transit corps are only interested in maximizing profit and the government backs them up. They could run these trains with 10x the crew, with full top-tier benefits, and still turn a sustainable profit. But right now these companies are being run as paperclip maximizers and merely sustainable profit isn't good enough for them.
There probably already is

250,000 gallons (if it was 10 cars and all 10 converted perfectly to HCl, and all of it went into the water supply) into a water table of, lets be conservative with 10 billion gallons, is 0.00002% concentration or .02ppm

Compare this to your stomach, which has an hydrochloric acid concentration of 5000ppm.

So yes, I would have no issue with it. All the water you drink mixes with a much higher concentration of HCl every time you drink it.

Like I said, their is a hysteria building around this and a total lack of nuance and understanding.
But doesn't provide layer 2 between networks. Think of devices that are hardcoded to communicate with broadcast or multicast with TTL of 1, you either need some active reflector, and cope with any perculiarities of the device, or you simply extend a single vlan between two routers (using vxlan or another solution)

I sometimes need to extend a system like this from one site to another. One is a calrec system (an audio mixer, I think it's the control traffic that needs to be sent), and I don't have enough access or time to see if I could build some kind of transparent proxy -- it won't work with multicast routing.

I do however have enough time to create a layer2 network between two nics. I tend to use mikrotiks for that, create an eoip tunnel (GRE with proprietary addons to cope with fragmentation) between the two endpoints and pop the interface in a bridge with a physical port, and move on.
Except that are actually able to kill people who come too close. If they just orbit around from a distance I'm sure we wouldn't be able to take them down. Not so sure about it if they actually enter our atmosphere
>maybe it's just me.

Nope, here with the same problem and I don't treat L2TP/IPSec as an easier to configure and reliable.
Weird comment about masks not working for vinyl chloride. Whilst it’s true that a particulate filtering mask (N95) isn’t enough, you can definitely get some protection from an organic vapour cartridge fitted to a reusable respirator. See https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/19...
> When we look back in 3 months we will wonder why we thought LLM/GPT type queries will replace search in all forms.

I really hope so. LLM for search seems like a big leap right now. It isn't even really search but just a UI change for interacting with the underlying search engine. The caveats being that the people who actually think and create don't gain the clicks that they would get today (with the accompanying ad revenue) and there are no citations.

I really hope more companies realize that LLM for Wikimedia sites would be a vastly superior application of the technology. Could you imagine the impact this application would have given the sheer amount of knowledge and data that is on these sites? Learning and teaching would be changed from virtually the ground up. IMO, this is the killer app and not general search. Given the extreme verbosity and general un-readability of many technical pages on Wikipedia, a LLM that can summarize and answer questions correctly is a huge paradigm shift. Oh,don't know what the Second Law of Thermodynamics is? Here you go. In whatever length of text you want. Want to know how this relates to Information Theory? Okay, here's a primer on that. The internet can once more become a place that people come to for learning rather than being fed total crap by an algorithm.

I do have to commend Satya Nadella though. He and Microsoft know exactly what they are doing. They know Google and Sundar Pichai are on the backfoot and they really are making them "dance". Bing + ChatGPT isn't really scalable right now. Riding the hype wave and putting pressure on Google hoping they make poor decisions based on short-minded thinking is the best thing they can do right now. Looks like it's working out well for them.
Interesting comment
[Languages like Rust] do help you to write more features with fewer bugs, but they are not of much help when you need to squeeze the very last flop from the hardware you rent.

I do think that Rust helps you squeeze out that last 1% of performance over C++. Because instead of spending all day finding that one line of code where an unsafe threaded memory access leads to a race condition bug, I can spend more time performance profiling and optimizing the hot spots.
From what I know all of this originated in Milwaukee with the original "Kia Boyz"[0]. It's been going on there for years - to the point where I've seen wedding invitations that explicitly state not to bring a Kia/Hyundai to Milwaukee. Additionally, car rental companies will not rent Kia/Hyundai anywhere near Milwaukee.

As is the case with most car thefts they are an absolute menace to the streets. "Drive it like it's stolen" is a very real thing[1][2].

Warning - discussion on this topic gets especially racist very quickly so as usual ignore the comments. Seriously, don't even look.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbTrLyqL_nw

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdilXqQaQZU

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VJhLJsBs74
I was under the impression that immobilizers had been required on all new vehicles for a long time, maybe since around 2000? Maybe the requirement didn't define how well they have to work.

Edit: It appears Canada started requiring them in 2007 but the US has only recently started writing the requirements that would align the US with Canada on issues related to vehicle theft.
Performance-Aware Programming Series
The author says that he's not a product manager and doesn't have a particular insight. As a PM, I can share how I think:

The main question is "does it matter?" The answer depends case by case.

For example, if I am the PM for TurboTax Premier desktop software, I know that it's latent - but it probably doesn't matter in a way that deserves prioritization. Sure, my clients would like for the forms to load faster, but they care infinitely more about the scope of tax situations we cover, and the correctness of calculation. A person uses my product a few hours per year, so even if there's an accumulated minute of form refresh latency, it's just not that impactful. What that means is - if I have an "extra developer", I am going to direct them towards product scope and correctness, not latency.

On the other hand, something like VSCODE (an example the article mentions), speed is part of the value proposition. As a developer, I need to quickly change text, quickly look up a reference, quickly switch files, etc. If things are sluggish, it isn't just frustrating but limits my ability to do development work. So a user of a slow IDE would be very motivated to seek alternatives, since they basically live in the IDE. As a PM, I would absolutely invest in performance if it was making my product actually less useful.

It's like anything else, investment has a tradeoff. Chances are, whatever car you drive could have a faster 0-60 speed and in isolation, that would be great. But are you willing to pay 10x for the car? Are you willing to give up the seats and the trunk to make it happen? So your car may not have the best 0-60, but if it's an affordable family minivan that's probably the right call.
The approach they develop likely doesn't work on Mars. They rely on the ambient high vacuum environment of the Moon as part of the silicon purification step and likely for deposition of the solar cells. Mars is not high vacuum.