skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The abstract says ..we present metrics from our large-scale deployment of CodeCompose that shows its impact on Meta's internal code authoring experience over a 15-day time window, where 4.5 million suggestions were made by CodeCompose. Quantitative metrics reveal that (i) CodeCompose has an acceptance rate of 22% across several languages, and (ii) 8% of the code typed by users of CodeCompose is through accepting code suggestions from CodeCompose. Qualitative feedback indicates an overwhelming 91.5% positive reception for CodeCompose.

In other terms, out of 4.5 million suggestions about 80% were off, yet there is 91% positive reception. That's 3.6 million rejected suggestions that potentially distracted programmers from doing their work. Yet users are happy. Is there a contradiction in these figures?
Tech is temporary, though. The reason salaries (and profits) are so high is because tech companies, when successful, displace whole industries and capture the revenue in a more labor-efficient way. But once the industry has been displaced, you don't need the software engineers anymore. Eventually the tech company becomes a dinosaur that the finance department milks for profits and share buybacks, and then gets replaced by a younger, hotter tech company.

If you ask 40+ year old software engineers, the biggest problem with the profession is the need to re-train every 5-10 years or face obsolescence. I'm in my early 40s, been doing this 20 years, and I've re-trained 4 times on new technology before finally switching into management. I just had an emergency medical procedure done. My surgeon graduated medical school in 1981, before I was born. He's able to learn one set of skills and then keep milking it for 40+ years.
I understand your situation - it's all of our lives too. Nobody that works for a living has had a raise compared to inflation, all of us have less than we ought to.

Tech is a terrible place to be employed right now - at least you will still have a job for the foreseeable future.

Plus, if your income is around the average eye surgeon salaries in the US (250k-300k according to some random website) - your income places you in the 97th percentile.

I'm not saying you should suck it up and deal with it - not at all, this is wrong and you feel the way you do for a reason. It isn't your fault anymore than it's someone's fault for getting stuck at a dead end job.

We are all in the same boat... except for those in super yachts.

The truth is simply that most people are far worse off than you. Except for the billionaires, we are all poor.
I was also confused, but I think their thesis statement is pretty enlightening:

> If we got nuked tomorrow, and Steam went down, anyone could have CSGO up and running in the Bunker LAN by next week. Years later when us smoothskins are rockin’ Power9 Rigs, we would also have the ability to recompile and port the game.

The lip service to "Open Source" and white-knighting is a little harsh, but I think this was made with honest intention. Someone wanted to make a thing and offer it to others in the spirit of open collaboration. Their wording is wrong, but their heart is in the right place.
OKAY. This is a step closer to my dream idea which I feel like should be possible but haven't figured out, and am curious if anyone has done anything like this:

I want to be able to wirelessly change the music on the "USB drive" in my car; i.e. the "drive" is actually an always-on computer, e.g. a Pi.

Change the music from the computer at home and be on my way?
Yeah, those boxes are meant for archive only and it shows. High latency, slow transfer, frequent maintenance downtime.

Not the SLA you're looking for
“Altruistic purposes”, what would those be? I’ve only seen him censor his opponents, spew bog standard far-right talking points and make poor product decisions. How is that “altruistic”?
OpenAI Employee: GPT-4 has been static since March - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36155267
artsjournal.com
AssaultCube was a pretty good foss CS clone, no idea if people still play it though.
There is a lot of regulation, but it focuses on not screwing minority shareholders to the benefit of majority ones, responsibilities of the board, and not lying to shareholders.

A dual-structure set of shares does not result in any of these problems, or prevent litigation and enforcement surrounding them.

What the regulation doesn't protect, and shouldn't protect people from, is investing in honest, but dumb companies. The metaverse play was obviously dumb three years ago.
Unfortunately there seems to be a bug on Ubuntu 22.04 for Arm that, when you configure the Pi for gadget mode and log in via VNC, X locks after a few minutes. Didn’t do this on 20.04.
Anyone can start an organisation and define "open source" the way they want.

The common way it is understood should probably be named "libre source" or something, because it means more than that the source is just out in the open.
No need to even install. Play right in the browser: https://play-cs.com.
I’d be surprised if any of the top five most expensive colos weren’t all targeting HFT or other financial services.
It has been in the FreeBSD ports collection since August 2021.
Being fungible does not imply that something does not have a serial number or identification number. For example US dollar bills are fungible but they have serial numbers.
Yep! C to B student in high school, granted, taking the tougher classes. Got better grades in college (Which I got into mainly because I scored well on the SAT and applied as a music major, then switched immediately after), and graduated with a (in hindsight) bullshit degree in applied science.

~5 years after college, I learned to code, and it's been a passion since. 7 years after college, I started a path I am still on to become proficient at math and science. I am still on that path. I"m 37, and am in a coffee shop reading a paper about interpretations of electron charge distribution. At home, I am coding general relativity and chemistry sims. I had no interested in this sort of thing while I was in school, and if I'd pursued them, I almost surely would have failed out.

I have a well-rounded math*+science+engineering background and knowledge base now, but it was almost entirely from self-study.

Good luck!

*Math in terms of the sort you'd need for science or engineering. I think the abstract stuff may be beyond me forever, in the way functional programming is. I think you need a certain level or type of intelligence for that.*
You've brought up Snowden twice but I'm unfamiliar anything Snowden revealed about the relationship between the Washington Post and the government. Can you expand on this point, ideally with some specifics?

Usually when people talk about the CIA being involved with American media, it's in relation to things like Operation Mockingbird, but as far as I know Snowden didn't reveal anything about programs like that. Snowden revealed things like the existence of PRISM, and the Washington Post (along with The Guardian) was one of the first newspapers to publish such revelations.
This has got to be the pettiest gripes I have heard in a while. It's already built, you literally just extract and run:

https://github.com/wader/fq/releases/tag/v0.6.0
As I get older, my vision gets worse. Even with decent(?) eye-glasses, I don't see the screen quite as clearly as when I was younger.

I should probably invest a little time in determining what maximum screen resolution actually matters to me at various distances.
I agree, but the question of ethics is always predicated on whatever basis you are using to evaluate
> and divide each square in two in a non-periodic way.

That doesn't actually sound simple. Can you provide an example of how you would do that?
it says one of the leakers was arrested? is there a source for this?
> ..the news isn't going to claim that without evidence.

You are joking, right? Or maybe your definition for "evidence" includes circular references, because that is what you get when "the news" is functionally captured but the government/uniparty.
I did this as it's the only way to make the site even barely usable. Then I asked myself, why even bother? Why give Musk traffic? I don't use Twitter anymore (after 10+ years) and can't say I miss it at all.
FWIW, like many others here I rolled my own RSS reader; but mostly to REMOVE features, not to add them.

Namely, I think one of the worst "features" in RSS readers is "tracking whether or not you've read every single little thing with numbers," so I wrote mine to just leave all that out and give me the top 20 or so of the day. If I miss anything, SO WHAT.

https://gitlab.com/jrm4/mahrss
Time to ditch Fedora and migrate to Arch, I guess.
> Fedora has a Flatpak repository that is separate from FlatHub.

Yeah, it sounded a bit like this, but with all those comments here and LWN I started to get confused myself.

And I definitively could have just looked it up so appreciate it all the more that you cleared it up to me, many thanks!
Guess you should just check all your secrets into source control. That would be easier too.
It didn't truly cut most humans out of the loop. The one near my house still had 2 delivery drivers because the pizza vehicle was permanently parked down a side street. They were only saving the cost of the third, pizza cooking employee and the capital expenses of the robot truck probably outweighed that single minimum wage several times over.

Their MVP was simply missing any key differentiators from established competitors except for the terrible pricing.
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There's some core moves like the "French drop" and "double lift" and "pass" that are well out of the bag right now, and tons and tons of youtube videos on how to do them.
Yes indeed, seems like I got a bit confused myself here, thanks!
UK mental health charities handed sensitive data to Facebook for targeted ads
In this case, workers intentionally waited until they'd filled up all the trucks with concrete to go on strike, so that the concrete would harden in and destroy the trucks. The company was able to clear the trucks to save them, at the cost of all the concrete.

Wonder how the author here would feel about surgeons going on strike scheduled intentionally after beginning open heart surgery on a loved one?
We could skip all the issues we have with DNSSEC using just the same technology and security model that TLS+WebPKI has. It is called using DNS over TLS and talking directly with the authoritative server rather than using caching resolver. With no (non-local)caching you don't have any caching invalidation for keys which is one of the major problems in deploying dnssec.

Severs talking to servers do have a bit different handling of errors than browsers. A browser can ask the users if they want to ignore the error, but with a server the answer need to be to close the connection. If the certificate for the DoT server is broken then the domain goes down, just as a TLS+WebPKI SaaS service will break with broken certificates. The impact however will be just as major as with dnssec errors.

I have personally tried to advocate a bit that people should give up public/shared revolvers. The delay in response time in modern machines quite minor, and in term of loading a web page or sending a email, a few milliseconds here and there doesn't really have a large impact. My argument for that has primarily been about privacy and security (no insecure path between stub and resolver), but I have not considered in the past the major benefit of removing caching in terms of stability.
Mostly no. Foreign doctors can't legally practice medicine on US patients. Those third-world doctors are mostly used for things like insurance case review. Some radiologists also perform interventional procedures, which requires being physically present (at least until teleoperated surgical robots become common).
The nix store in of itself should be highly compressible. Here's the output of "compsize -x /nix/store" on my BTRFS root with compress-force=zstd:6

Processed 974464 files, 327323 regular extents (751261 refs), 598287 inline.
Type Perc Disk Usage Uncompressed Referenced
TOTAL 40% 11G 28G 60G
none 100% 2.7G 2.7G 6.2G
zstd 34% 8.9G 25G 54G

Nix also supports automatic deduplication using hardlinks which I have enabled in this case.
So, Yes. You need to read beyond a portion of a Wikipedia page and more about the general response and backlash against works of art subsequent to the very early days of the 16th century. It

Initial acceptance gave way to offended sensibilities as as those sensibilities changed. Censorship and fig leaves resulted. If such things interest you, search out information about about the history of art and its reception after the early days of the 1500’s, much of which was directly influenced by the Church’s views on aesthetic propriety.

You certainly cannot just cite its initial commission and placement and stop there, not without being wrong in a way that is easily avoidable.

As such my original claim stands: the statue was censored shortly after its creation. It was the beginning of a movement that formally culminated in a decree by the a few decades earlier that codified the that common practice of censorship into mandated Church procedures. So I’m just a few years after it’s creation, the statue of David placed as-is in front a a home would have been the subject of local outrage.
Stereotypically, surgeons are the doc bros.
The numbers certainly are low enough not to drive up rents, or create significant demand for fancy coffee shops or any other business.

> In 2022, 2,305 temporary residence permits for Mexico City were granted to U.S. citizens

Mexico City metro area has 21 million people. And who can say what percentage of those 2.3k are digital nomads. Because you also have expats.

> Extrapolating from its user base, Nomad List projects that there are currently about 7.600 remote workers in Medellín

Leaving aside this is a gross estimation - 7.6k remote workers in a metro area of 3.7 million. Are all the 7.6k digital nomads or can they be local remote workers?
Frazer-Nash shows feasibility of space solar power – Frazer-Nash Consultancy
Interesting. I'm an entrepreneur too and the key thing here is people. Less people working = less purchasing power = less money available = less money in our pockets. See how that works? Everyone is going to be impacted and no amount of automation from our part will solve that.
Interviewing practices are little better than folklore.

Has anyone figured out how to do this? Like reproducible experiments, formalisms, checklists...?

Last time I got good, actionable advice was from Journey of the Software Professional by Luke Hohmann. Covered stuff like self-selecting teams, assemblying a team with complimentary skills, and so on.

Or maybe there's some secret manual for interviewing as hazing and torture? Like the CIA's simple sabotage field manual?
You traverse the squares in a spiral pattern starting from a central one. Then each square is divided vertically or horizontally according to the binary digits of pi (or whatever).
I built a news digest for myself after I couldn't find a good yahoo news digest alternative. It's a once a day feed of 6-10 stories. Simple and quick enough to keep myself informed.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quill-news-digest/id1669557131
Hillary Clinton got millions more votes than the talk show host - more votes than any losing candidate in history - and the margin between them was split almost exactly 50/50. The narrative that she lost because she was "intensely disliked" or unpopular (except among the right, who were never going to vote for her anyway) is simply incorrect.

>too much bad press about things like her emails.

>Comey

Wikileaks and Comey reopening the email inquiry did obvious damage to her campaign, I don't know why you would imply that's not a legitimate complaint on her part. You could say she didn't do damage control well enough, sure, but there's a reason the only thing anyone remembers about her campaign comes from conspiracy theories about her emails and the DNC hack, and nothing to do with her actual platform.

>Americans who had voted for Obama suddenly turned into deplorable, low-information bigots

What? She said that about a subset of Trump voters who would never vote for Obama. And time has proven her correct.
- https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news
- https://www.academia.edu/
- https://www.linkedin.com/feed/
- https://theconversation.com/us
- https://ground.news/
- https://sumi.news/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
- https://lobste.rs/
I'm sure most of us agree with you on the original issue here but please don't fulminate or call names on HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

You may not owe billionaire types better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sure anyone can, but OSI is the organization that popularized the term in the first place and its definition is widely followed, so there's no need to make such point in this particular case.
> the idea of sending around point-in-time snapshots of documents feels horrifying

The idea that Google has every startup’s term sheet, plans, budgets, is really strange to me. USA can so easily spy on every other country’s data.

Am I the last dinosaur? Are all the other concerns dead?
Should We Beam Energy Down from a Satellite?
I had a tortured academic path - collected all the letters in high school and university. Despite this I was able to get into a good law school, where the format was a much better fit (which I could elaborate on if you want) and I did excellent. In the real world I’ve done alright for myself.

In the working world the best jobs are not at all like school - you make your own projects, there is no defined right answer, and there is room for lots of different types of people. Very different from school, where it is highly structured, in the box thinking, with very inbred processes.

My number one tip would be to work really hard in the beginning to get yourself into a place and position where you can be creative and shine. You may not land there in your first job, so bite the bullet and break out of it as soon as you can.
For reference, large scale studies have indicated that infertility rates have plateaued from 1995 to 2019 [1]. Studies from years prior to 1995 indicated that fertility rates were actually _declining_ up until 1995.

I've noticed a pretty common trend of assuming low fertility rates are automatically related to infertility rates, especially in discussions here on HN. The fundamental issue with low fertility is really just that less couples are starting families, and those that are starting families are having closer to 1-3 children instead of 4-7 like in times past (independent of infertility issues).

[1] - https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/...
MSI reveals first USB4 expansion card, delivering 100W through USB-C
I'm with you. Zume would have had a better chance if they refunded $440 million of that investment money, then spent the last $10 million to buy a few trucks and hire human beings to make the pizzas.
Valve has been relatively permissive regarding open-sourcing and liberally licensing some of its properties under the right conditions. See its push for SteamOS and allowing Black Mesa to be sold for profit. However, it might have been a good idea to contact them about this before hosting modified stolen property, even if it was with good intentions. I've got a feeling that this repo won't last too long.
There's part of me that considers driving the hate machine that is Twitter into the ground and general irrelevance an altruistic purpose.

The world would be better off without Twitter, until they can figure out how to separate the hate machine from its useful purposes in a sustainable way.
Yeah, you can't do that in a conventional kitchen oven, but you can buy home kit, gas or wood fired, or even electric, that can hit the target of going over 450C / 850 F.

e.g. models here https://ooni.com/ or here https://www.gozney.com/pages/home-pizza-ovens
Show HN: SVG to CSS data url converter with minimal output size
Not exactly a mind blowing tool — but I use tools like this all the time, and none of them (as far as I can tell) have output that is as minimal as it could be. Maybe someone will find it useful.

- only encodes necessary characters
- changes attribute quotes to single quotes
- lowercases percent-encoding hex pairs
- swaps hex colors to their shorter named equivalents
- adds xlmns attribute if missing
- removes useless whitespace

If anyone spots any missing optimizations. do let me know.
This site is no longer solar powered for now
Interesting. Everyone will be the same under this new era. This sounds awfully like communism to me, hehe.
Tip: Try Phind next time, which does have access to the internet.
if you are only every gonna use critical damping, you can do something like:

function crit_response(dt,pos,vel,rate)
local dissipation = math.exp(-dt*rate)
local disspatePos = pos*dissiptation
local disspateVel = vel*dissiptation
local posCarried = 1 + dt*rate
local velCarried = 1 - dt*rate
local posFromVel = dt
local velFromPos = -dt*rate*rate
local newpos = posCarried*dissipatePos + posFromVel*dissipateVel
local newvel = velFromPos*dissipatePos + velCarried*dissipateVel
return newpos , newvel
end

(intentionally verbose for self-didactic purposes to show how you can actually split the dissipation step into its own loop out from the elastic calculation, meaning that you can use this as a more accurate initial guess in numeric simulations compared to just constant-acceleration approximations)
Patterns and Practices in the Creation, Rise, and Fall of Platforms
Around 400 Grail Patients Mistakenly Told They Might Have Cancer
That's not the right framing. What are the specific things about any of those that warrant infringing someone's free speech rights? I mean you posted them twice in this discussion so apparently are ok with people reading them.
What you can do is read a paper that’s relevant to your problem (let‘s say QR code perspective correction), and then dig through the references. Good papers usually have plenty of good references.
I ignore any blue check from google as that just means they’ve paid google. Most of my spam nowadays is from “legitimate” companies (today I got a “happy pride month” email from Walmart even though I’ve unsubscribed dozens of times).

I think for people who fall for email scams the behavior change is to ignore all emails and training them to trust some stupid blue check mark is not good.
Which part is the horrible part? The --help and --version options? The printing of diagnostics to standard output? Or the INI file configuration file?
Neat but of course 16 minute latency.

What are the leading theories for "subspace communication" and how plausible in the next 100 years?

Maybe quantum entanglement is the best bet, a simple binary device always spitting out 1/0 and some decoder attached on the receiving end while something able to manipulate it on the remote.
The thinner the pizza, the faster it cooks!
Take everything they tell you with a grain of salt, especially things like "the decision was made and cannot be reversed". It's possible that in the course of interviewing you they realized that they needed a person with a different set of skills than what they originally thought they needed and so decided to change course with that position. Could be any number of reasons though really.
The volunteers who maintain thousands of other packages?