skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s pretty good depending on what you are doing. With Python and JS/TS, the last checkpoint for training datasets really matters. These api’s for no reason at all to me, rot incredibly fast, so the code it generates was valid in September 2020, but now it is almost completely incompatible.

I was raised with (80s/90s); never break the public api unless you have to and make a migration path if you do; now it is ‘let’s definitely break the public api, with any minor version change and just waste everyone’s life fixing it, we don’t care’. And gpt doesn’t know this. It usually does make up code that’s close to correct and relatively easy to fix though, but you need to know how to read the docs and not panic that actually everything is spitting errors.

If you ask it for C, Java or vanilla js it fares better but there you suffer from the memory window; now with 16k tokens, we are seeing massive improvements. The api deprecation (read; we just throw away or change without warning) issue remains and is a huge issue; I cannot even see how they would properly fix that in LLMs. They are going to have outdated versions in their search space; how do they know to ignore them? And next to that there are the hallucinations.
you would therefore not object to a PR which added

if randf32() < P { panic }

to the beginning of every function in your code base, if P was sufficiently small?
I really thought this was missing in the article. I understand that it's about the situation in the US, but at the very least a comparative analysis could've been made how the US regulatory environment differs from others around the world.
Just to play devil’s advocate:

How is this different from a corporate email retention policy that auto-deletes emails older than 6 months?

I mean, sure, you can be required to override the policy under certain circumstances (e.g. when notified of an upcoming lawsuit), but what if the only person capable of doing that is being held under arrest? (Or just cannot be contacted)

My intuition is that, in the United States, it would be a 5th amendment violation to require an arrestee proactively disclose the existence of such a kill switch.
Do sub interpreters actually work with c extensions? I get the extension API has long supported it. However, I wonder if in practice extensions rely on process global state to stash information.

If so, sub interpreters invite all kinds of nasty bugs. Keep in mind that porting the most popular extensions is an easy exercise so the more interesting question is how this hidden majority of extensions fares.
This thing runs full linux and requires 3.3V, 2000mA (max). A badge is probably not the best use case.
I am wondering why people seem to think it's so great for this. It's fine for I guess boiler plate code construction but totally falls over when I give it e.g. complicated Rust borrow checker problems. And if you tell it a mistake it's made, it just buries itself deeper branching off into spirals of more and more incorrent solutions.

To me, it's like a junior developer I have to coach constantly.
Except the whole "kicking him down the stairs" bit isn't true. Richard Kaczynski, probably the foremost Crowley biography, has to address this about once a month on twitter.
How did you get the commands to the bot?

I've only seen one-way (email-to-SMS); is there a way to do the reverse, too?
> The intern in my office today has never heard of GitHub.

This genuinely made me feel a sliver of hope for the next generation.
I am going to base my determination of this on their Quantum System 2 presentation this fall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQjKUN8PORM
> the point of using a different layout/structure for storage vs the UI layer?

By way of example, I'll point to the classic example of a New User form UI: that UI will need 2 password inputs (one for the password, the other for the "confirm password") - but your User object/schema/DB-table won't have two separate string password fields - it'll have a single binary/byte[] salted-password-hash field, and you certainly must never show that in the UI.

As for your (reasonable!) concerns about having to write-out repetitive types/models that all share similar (though hardly ever identical) data/fields/shape: I agree it's tedious, but that's what we have scaffolding-tools for (granted, I often end-up having to write my own scaffolding and templaying tools...), so for a simple CRUD application just design your database and have the scaffolding tools take care of the rest, including stubbing-out a functional UI (and this is why Ruby-on-Rails was huge when it first came out: it took-away all of the drudgery in CRUD web-applications - but then all the other frameworks/platforms improved their scaffolding-stories and RoR is certainly less attractive in comparison now.

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Oh, and of course, ChatGPT et al. is also incredibly effective at scaffolding entire solutions from scratch, e.g. from last month: https://bit.kevinslin.com/p/leveraging-gpt-4-to-automate-the
FWIW I agree.

Anyways, I think it's wrong that the White House attempted to discredit and aggressively remove the content under false pretenses.

At the same time, I think it's important to recognize that the content can be real AND a foreign intelligence campaign at the same time. Russia tried to interfere with the 2017 French election by dumping hacked information[0]; in my opinion, they learned from that failure and realized they needed to launder future leaks so they werent transparently hostile foreign interference. Enter the Hunter Biden laptop.

[0] https://www.csis.org/analysis/successfully-countering-russia...
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No? Why would you need to know the address? Also, that is not even true on reddit: you don't need to know whether it is /r/startrek or star_trek or trekkies or whatever; you just search, done.
Can Italians Understand Latin?
30 years is far too low. Most homes built in the US will easily make it 70 years.

Heck, I’ve seen many trailer houses that are in decent shape and >30 years old.
I don’t think god can stop it now, not disney, not the lawyers, not even the communists.

Your best hope is LLM’s in the current state aren’t enough, and we need to wait for another algorithmic leap or a lot more computational power improvements before we get to human level.
In an n-dimensional space, an infinite n-1-dimensional thing is a hyperplane. Or put more simply: it's something that divides the space in two. In 1 dimension that's a point, in 2 dimensions it's a line, in 3 dimensions it's a plane (hence the name), for more dimensions we just call it a hyperplane.

Now there are various ways to define which hyperplane you speak about. The easiest to reason about is to give a couple points that are on the hyperplane (1 point defines a point, a line can be defined by any two points on that line, a plane by three points on that plane etc.). A slightly weirder but equally useful way is to say "it's orthogonal to this line, and intersects this point". That's easy to reason about in three dimensions, but apparently works in higher dimensions as well.
It discounts what you're liable to run into once you start disassembling things on old bikes, really. Sometimes you discover that a previous owner or mechanic thought red Loctite belonged on the screws holding the four carburetors together[^0], and your afternoon now involves a torch and chasing threads in old aluminum carburetor bodies. Sometimes you find that the bike was last touched in an era before anyone knew what a JIS screwdriver was, and every fastener is nearly stripped. Sometimes it's not even the bike, but that the last supply for a part is some shop in Maine that just happened to hold one for two decades.

My last encounter with a VFR750 involved a heat gun and a pry-bar to remove the carburetors, they're no joke.

[^0]: I love my GS1000G, but this wasn't my favorite part of getting it roadworthy.
The Texas "book ban" you posted is not a ban at all. Removing a pornographic book from a school library is not banning it.

They are still available at public libraries, book stores, online, and literally anywhere else one obtains books.

Here's a picture of inside one of the "banned" books: https://theiowastandard.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/6.jpg

Why do you want this to be shown to children?
Clearly not all drugs are bad, we use most of them in medicine.

What if eliminating addictive personality from society was beneficial to humanity as a species? No easier way than legalizing all drugs and letting people filter.
I was speaking to a lead dev today. He said he thought the biggest risk AI poised was to junior devs. He currently gives specs to junior devs who do the work and then he reviews it. He thinks it's nearly possible to give the specs to AI, it does the work, he reviews it. So maybe no more need for junior devs. He thinks this is especially possible when AI has access to your whole framework and product.
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
Intel launches quantum silicon chip that opens door to next-gen computing
Semiconductor giant Intel has launched a 12-qubit quantum-dot silicon chip in a major move towards one day realising mass production of the first commercial quantum computer.

Walk into many quantum-computing laboratories today and scientists across the board – whether they are at tech giants like IBM, Google and Microsoft, or start-ups spun off from universities – will show you how quantum bits, also known as “qubits”, are being cooled to very cold temperatures in giant “fridges”, which are hooked up to hundreds of wires and huge machines.

But it is this huge amount of wires that ”freak out” Intel, according to Mr Pillarisetty.

Intel’s Tunnel Falls 12-qubit quantum dot silicon chip has 62 pins on the chip. The idea is to have as few pins as possible.
Because it's incredibly rich in fats, proteins, starches and a host of micro-nutrients. The seed especially is a nutrition bomb, and lots of animals love to eat cannabis. As the article makes clear, these are leftover scraps that would otherwise probably be composted, so why not try to convert it into eggs and meat?

I hope it works!
I'm also slow. It is also okay.

I have met many, many brilliant engineers. They fly real fast and really far. The funny thing about it is that they tend to crash and burn sometimes too. Sometimes they even break orbit, but even then, someone has to stabilize that orbit from time to time.

Life takes all kinds of people. Folks who are willing to simplify things while ignoring fads are just as useful as those who jump into the unknown of new technologies.

What you think of as a weakness you need to compensate for so you can get work done is what other employers will consider an asset because you refuse to add complexity where it is unwarranted. What you call "slow" others might call wisdom.

I'm really not trying to cheer you up. I'm sharing facts from over a decade writing software being the "slow one".
Ancient humans traveled half world to Asia before main migration out of Africa
Those drugs are already banned. It doesn't prevent the abuse. The addicts will be there, if you see them or not. So the solution in Frankfurt is to connect with the addicts, and help them in some ways, to make it less bad for them, and thus in response make it less bad for society. Because Frankfurt was already worse in the past, far worse. And it became bad again in the last years because of the pandemia and a shift in politics, which should give an impression on how bad it will get without proper support.
Hence my comment about the US being what it likes to call a "failed state," which was promptly and thoroughly down-voted. :-)
> "we should think of each other as fellow servants of capital"

when capitalism wins the cold war and can say what it really thinks
This seems like it would be a violation of the registry's/ICANN's contract. Do you have more info on this?
I was looking at my Steam library and wishlist last night, in anticipation of the upcoming summer sale season (other storefronts have already begun their summer sales), and I was somewhat disappointed in myself. Even though I try to only buy games on sale, I think I'd likely save money overall by only buying (and finishing, if I'm enjoying them) games at full price when I'm ready to play them vs. speculatively buying games on sale.
Very good point - a huge chunk of the slowdown also comes from all the work around ensuring operational excellence. Monitoring, dashboards, testing, logging, CI. It's an incredible amount of labor to create production quality software on a continuous basis.
Maybe I did it wrong then. I tried syncing with Thunderbird some years back and it flipped everything to read.

Or maybe that was a POP sync. I don't even remember anymore.
"The carbs will need to be gone through, it’ll need new fork seals, new battery, new tires, probably new hydraulic lines, and who knows what else."

The parts for that these days would probably be over $500, and around here shop labor is $100/hr, so it would probably be more than $1000 today.
Is there a website where you can view chronologically interesting archaelogical finds? Like a timeline of what has popped up from the ground made by human hands?
For those who don't get the reference:

Afroman - Will You Help Me Repair My Door

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oponIfu5L3Y
I've heard that line a hundred times. But would it?

I value SETI and ideas behind it and even the line you just wrote. But would it?

The whole thing will just descend into a twisted conspiracy pit of nonsense within 48 hours.

_______

How long did governments know about it?

Have aliens been interbreeding with humans all this time?

Is Joe Biden a lizard crossbreed alien?

When do we get to nuke them?

________

This is the level of humanity that we currently display, or which shouts the loudest, or which we click on and ... eventually, slowly, but surely, listen to... or, at least, take account of in our political decisions.

I'm certain that any alien lifeforms out there are far more sensible and will just ... 'walk on by' ... as a human might in the presence of a tiny microbe resting on a discarded apple in the corner of a derelict building.
Most Americans supported the Iraq war. At the height of both Iraq and Afghanistan wars Bush was very popular. Many people would like to forget this.
The author also cites sailors Knox-Johnston and Moitessier. I learned about both here on HN and found their respective books bingeworthy.
void* (*identifier) (void*);

typedef struct
{
/* ... */
} my_struct_t;

static return_type
name_of_function (type *restrict argument)
{
int a, b, c;
/* body */
}

Just some examples of illegible syntax that's "standard" C. C is not a pretty language. It's small, but it's ugly as sin.
> Their argument is that the "sub interpreters" they are adding (each with its own GIL) will fulfil the same use cases of multithreaded code without a GIL, but they still have the overhead of encoding and passing data in the same way you have to with sub processors.

This is smart, though, because (even if it's not great) there's a lot of evidence that it works in practice. Specifically, this is almost exactly what JavaScript does with workers. It's not a great API and it's cumbersome to write code for, but it got implemented successfully and people use it successfully (and it didn't slow down the whole web).
If you are building application software like a web framework, panicking and then dealing with the issue using a global exception handler to return 500 is often the easiest. There was no point in littering the code with match Result => err return http.status500 like bad Go.
As an outsider, is panic() like assert()?
I'm a big fan of neat statistical analyses, but when I look at the archive site https://www.gharchive.org/ , the overwhelming feeling I have is "creeped out". Taking periodic snapshots of repositories and their issues and wikis sounds good, but do we really need a log of every time someone watches an issue, and every commit message being irrevocably set on public record? That level of details on individual activity seems to have little value outside of cyberstalking

I did have a look at the bottom of the page where prominent uses are listed, but nothing stands out as actually useful tbqh
Looks like it's based around the Rockchip RK3308 so it's likely not that bad. I'm sure this ships with some old patched vendor kernel but the SoC is already supported in mainline.

I've not gone through the other components but this probably doesn't take too much time to get to full mainline linux support.
BTW, US embassy staff was trying to negotiate peaceful meeting between opposition and Eltsin's team.
But "elected officials" tried to seize TV building with military force instead of discussions.

I don't see how US could be blamed for this.
With respect to EDP, AWS doesn't do "discounted negotiated rates", only discounts tied to specific committed spend levels (non-negotiated).
I just revived a car that’d been sitting way too long, just needed a new battery and an oil change (actually, it already ran OK, but I got the oil change just in case). Fuel injection is magic. So, what car stuff has taught me about the universe is… mistreat objects, they aren’t sentient, you just make them do what you want.

Someone needs to write “Zen and the art of keeping my filesystem tidy” or “Zen and the art of keeping a rolling release distro up to date.”
Yeah you can be skeptical of the west without jumping straight into the deep end of Russian/Chinese imperialism apologia.
Game rendering loop using canvas and TypeScript
And even if it were double? Or triple? Still seems negligible given the impact and even the margin of profit per load.
Capital gains are taxable income in most jurisdictions.
250M / 40hrs / 60min / 60s ~= 1,737 rps. That over 20 machines is ~87 rps per machine.

Depending on a few factors, I rough out my backend Go stuff to handle between 1-5k rps per machine before we have real numbers.
Seems like something stripe should be pretty worried over
Sometimes going fast is the point, there's a certain peace of being so fast the world can't touch you.

Sometimes going slow is the point, and there's a certain peace of be able to view and interact with the world in that way.
> I’d still take HNSW over such approach

Why? Sorry, but your comment is not very insightful without more explanation, and the rest of your comment is just an advertisement for your (admittedly impressive looking) work.
> In other words, you couldn't defend your first response to my comment, so now you've got to pull the conspiracy card even though none of what I said necessarily implies conspiracy or points to anyone in particular.

You asked why would anabolic steroids, specifically, would be illegal if not because they make people look more masculine, muscular, and attractive according to you. Like that would be the only reason: keeping people from looking more masculine, muscular, and sexier.

Anyway, I see your original comments have been deleted so that’s kinda moot and I have no interest in arguing about this further with you.
Listen to me. An opinion is not a meaningful contribution to this conversation. No one shares your exact perspective, by definition. Opinions are subjective, by definition. Stop replying unless you have something meaningful to add. Additional context, such as what was presented by the person you replied to, adds to the conversation. Sarcasm does not. "[I think] You are shitty" does not.
Good to hear they're providing a good dev experience. My only gripe at the time was more of a worry on whether the split was going to be worthwhile because the ML ecosystem is already so small, but I'm glad to hear the project has been effective for you.
Probably because they don't care?
it's because AMD drivers generate dead loop https://youtu.be/Mr0rWJhv9jU?t=320
Hmm... but intelligent people don't think they're that intelligent (Dunning–Kruger effect) :-)
Would be interested in comparing this to the used:new car purchase ratio of SFBA vs other areas, along with per capita income. Unfortunately the dataset doesn't seem (obviously) publicly available
What a waste of empty space, I have to scroll to find the information..
"If your badge has been hit by ransomware, see how to enter Safe mode."

What a world we live in...
Did you know that Coverity actively REMOVED checks for concurrency bugs?

It turns out that when the programmer doesn't understand what the tool says, managers believe the programmer and throw out the tool. Coverity was finding itself in situations where they were finding real bugs, and being punished for it by losing the sale. So they removed the checks for those bugs.

I'll revisit my opinion of multithreaded code when things like that stop happening. In the meantime there are models of how to run code on multiple threads that work well enough with different primitives. See Erlang, Go, and Rust for three of them. Also, if you squint sideways, microservices. (Though most people set up microservices in a way that makes debugging problematic. Topic for another day.)
It's turning out these may be more than just stories.

Whisteblowers just last week testified under oath to Congress and the Inspector General of recovered ET craft.

So either they're lying and going straight to jail, or there's truth to these accounts.

We can only wait and see.
Definitely - searching for bespoke shoes yields quite a fair number. Before the reddit blackout, /r/goodyearwelt was the place to discuss fine men's footwear across the price spectrum.

They tend to be dress shoes or workboots nearly exclusively, and as styles have changed, there's little growth in the industry.
Good idea, I've followed suit.
Hacker News needs a Dark Mode
Hackers like dark modes. Hacker News therefore should provide its users with a dark mode option. Maybe even automatically select it based on their browser preferences.

Note: Telling me to load up some browser extension to handle it is a bit silly as it requires me to implicitly trust the author of said extension which will see and have access to virtually everything on every website I enable it for.

All thoughts and criticisms of this statement are welcomed.

Viva la Dark Mode!
Even

https://archive.ph/atw1q

didn’t work correctly on the page, it just ceases to scroll after a point.
Callandor... The sword that is not a sword.
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This is just the -re vs -er difference in English spelling between British English and American English, dating back to Webster's reforms in the late 1700s. https://www.learnenglish.de/spelling/spellingrevser.html

Frankly, the -er is better based on actual English pronunciation rules. The -re ending comes from French and is less compatible with how most of the rest of English is pronounced.

And I can't say I've ever been confused by these two different meanings of the word. Can you even come up with an example sentence illustrating ambiguity here?
Do you expect that new /r/startrek mods will behave better?