skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heirloom computing where I am cto does this using transpilers with 100% automated transpilation. Using LLMs for an entirely deterministic domain borders on the insane. This is just marketing bs but we get asked about it and what our plan is to counter it all the time. Explaining that using Gen-ai and LLMs for what is a well understood compiler/transpiler problem that is already solved just seems to be too difficult for some people to understand.
Very open ended question that requires clarification. Interviewing is about asking questions too.
Along the same lines, the below filters will do flawed but decent-ish job of hiding comments from specific commentators if you have to regularly resist the urge to get into arguments with people.

news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing.comtr:has-text(/(example_user_one)|(example_user_two)/)
news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing.comtr:has-text(/(example_user_one)|(example_user_two)/) + tr.athing.comtr:not(:has(.ind img[width="0"]))

They're imperfect because of how HN generates its HTML, so it will occasionally clobber replies that are alongside hidden comments as well or won't perfectly remove the entire thread. That tends to be somewhat rare I think, but worth being aware of.

I've complained about HN's HTML in the past, but it really is quite badly set up for parsing or styling; using a full-on table column for indentation is a kind of wild hack that makes it difficult to parse replies. But the filter still mostly works, because replies in these situations usually end up being back-and-forth with the same person. So tackling a comment and its immediate reply often ends up correctly hiding the entire thread.

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> This rule isn't perfect as it only removes the title line and keeps the number of comments

Happily this can be fixed, just use an adjacent sibling selector(https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Next-siblin...) and duplicate your initial filter:

news.ycombinator.com##table:not(.fatitem) tr > td.title:has-text(/web3|crypto/):nth-ancestor(1)
news.ycombinator.com##table:not(.fatitem) tr > td.title:has-text(/web3|crypto/):nth-ancestor(1) + tr

It's probably overkill, but you can also add a 3rd instance to get rid of the spacing gap.

news.ycombinator.com##table:not(.fatitem) tr > td.title:has-text(/web3|crypto/):nth-ancestor(1) + tr + tr.spacer

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I'm a fan of these kind of low-change filters for sites, I think it's something Ublock Origin can be really helpful for since a lot of people already have it installed and trust it.

But especially given HN's DOM makes this harder to do, I would also suggest that if you're looking at doing much more extensive modifications you're probably going to end up building a webextension or piping the site into another application using RSS or something.

But uBO filters are a pretty great accessible middle-ground.
I had to patch the Universal CRT (2021)
> Occasionally I turn up in spam when I email someone I haven't before

Just proved my point.
Sorry about that, it's desktop too and I have no idea why. I tried to force line breaks but to no avail.

If anyone knows how to fix I'd be grateful to know.
What's the context of this? Placing travelers in dangerous scenarios?
It is interesting how my mind is constantly looking for conflicts in any bit of information I read online. While reading the two emails, I was expecting that Fauci will give an ironic answer to Zuckerberg, or some kind of conflict will be revealed.

Maybe it is because my brain created a reflex of picking up information based on emotions. If there isn’t any drama, why to look at, kind of news mindset. Do you ever feel the same?
Does NASA and their contractors have any true believers in leadership positions?

The complexity and safety concerns have been pointed out multiple times. I stopped paying attention because this program appears to be on bureaucratic autopilot. Government contractors deliver parts, without control or accountability about the performance of the entire system. The complexity indicates that Artemis will get cancelled once it fails to achieve goals. I hope nobody dies.

The top engineering talent of the U.S. is not in this program. Poor engineering leadership is inevitable. Artemis looks like a jobs program.
"tubular" really brings back memories of slightly incompatible mp3 encoders and decoders. Some combinations produced this short and distinct tone on sharp transitions in sound, I wasn't sure what was the cause but I suspect this has something to do with VBR.

Thanks!
awesome work - im amazed by what folks are putting out for free these days. Kudos to you :)
I agree - there would be tremendous value in taking the 1960s approach, keeping it simple, and optimizing with modern electronics.

What they seem to be doing is a code rewrite while adding features.
TeamCity is even worse than Jenkins. Jenkins randomly breaks and you can eventually fix it, or kludge some kind of workaround. TeamCity randomly breaks and you call support and they can't fix it.
Does anyone know of an SMTP server which is easily usable with Caddy? I find tinkering with certificates quite bothersome, and I won't give up Caddy as I already host a bunch of apps with it.
I agree. The similarities between the two are striking.
No, it's not an affordability issue and you're not getting something for nothing. First, you assign your Medicare benefit over to a corporation who then covers your health care costs at their discretion. Then you'll pay your Part B premium ($174.70/mo) out of your Social Security benefit. So you will have the magical illusion of a $0.00/mo premium and the insurance company then makes a substantial profit to boot.

I spend about $300/mo for A+B+G+D. My OOP max is the $240 Part B deductible (except for drugs but I only take a statin). That will go up over time, Community Pricing. I have no preauthorizations, no copays, no coinsurance.

And generally no paperwork. When I went to my UCSF PCP for a sprained MCL, I made an appointment a few days later. I showed up and said who I was. A few minutes later I saw the doc. After that I walked out. The wallet stayed in the pants and I didn't fill out a single form. A colonoscopy had a little paperwork, disclosures and actual ID. I watch the billing on MyChart, but it's a spectator rather than participatory sport. It's UCSF vs Medicare and it settles in a month or so.

A+B+G+D is by far the best health insurance I've had in my life.
I still think that if your productivity is seriously impacted by chatGPT, you are easily replaceable as a programmer.
Literally everything should be opt-in by default, no matter what silicon valley says.
> Those organizing efforts culminated in a February 2022 demand letter from 43 community members to local, state and federal officials about the conditions in the neighborhood. Chief among the demands were stormwater and wastewater sewer systems, green stormwater infrastructure and enforcement against illegal dumping and vehicle abandonment.

That sounds like a lot of expensive infrastructure to cater to 50 people (many of whom are squatters or homeless, it implies?). Maybe it would make more sense to condemn the area, and turn it into a large park intended for flooding. The NYC area as a whole is going to need much more flood capacity in the future, if projections are right, and this place has nothing of note and sounds like it's already 90% of the way there (to being both a park and a flood zone), whether you like it or not.
Thank you, I really like it! It's a very clever way to get LLMs deployed, and with Cosmopolitan, I don't need to point people to different downloads for the same LLM. Excellent job.
That is unknown, as people at FAANG in the US have a comparable quality of life as those in Western Europe, because the things people tout as European advantages like free healthcare and long paid vacations, FAANG workers in the US essentially already have. They are getting paid much more for a similar standard of living, which in turn decreases their retirement age, if they so choose.
Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines to Combine
Did I understand correctly that the native code was compiled without optimization? Meaning “-O0”?
It's perfectly viable as a MVP. WebAssembly plugins for Helix had been proposed many times but without an actual implementation being worked on.
Super interesting. We've been working on slow-wave enhancement over the last 3 years (increasing synchronous firing of neurons which are the slow-waves mentioned in the article).

We've only looked at doing this during sleep. I'll reach out to epilepsy researchers to see if there may be any benefit to our work in this space.

Or if anyone here knows more, please reach out. Email in profile.
When things grow, they change, often becoming worse from their “old” users point of view. So, why would you want it to grow, as opposed to staying the way you like it?
Good video, many good points.

"Focus on the mission"

What's the mission? We're "returning to the Moon" - what does it mean? Boots on the regolith? I somehow doubt that. USA did that half a century ago, we're supposed to go farther. What's the mission this time?

We're going to the Moon for a more serious, longer exploration this time, right? That's the mission, right? So, we want more people at the same time on the Moon, we want more payloads, we want longer duration stays on the surface - in fact, we state that we want to establish a permanent "outpost", to use it for exploration and future uses and as a basis of something - some Moon-based station even bigger and better. Right?

What options do we have now? Especially - do we have good options to do that now given that we plan to land in about 2 years?

It's kind of a hard technical question, and many would be tempted - with pretty good arguments - to answer negatively to that. Apollo program didn't have this as a good option - it actually turned out to have a tragedy of Apollo-1 and "successful failure" of Apollo-13 to have man on the Moon within 1960-s, with 6 landings. Should we say today "no, we don't have that kind of the urgency today, and we do have much more elevated safety requirements, so we should do things differently than what we can accomplish in 2 years"?

Maybe it's a good idea to still try to work as if we have some urgency. That is, we don't know when to land - we choose the time ourselves - and, frankly, this time the mission isn't just land and come back, as it was before - so we could justify a schedule slip. But how big? How long we can shift our plans to the right? Maybe we should do a waterfall-ish style rethinking and replanning and have a good, rather realistic plan for a modest sub-goal - say, analog of Apollo-10, or even Apollo-11, with "just" landing - but in such a way that it would lead us not to Apollo-17 and "bye", but towards the desired Moon outpost?

I don't quite agree with Destin's skepticism regarding multiple launches to refuel on LEO. We didn't do that before, but we didn't do a lot of things before Apollo which are practically taken for granted today, like successful launches from Earth and successful dockings. It's an interesting technical problem to solve for SpaceX, and I do believe they'll have a working solution (I'd probably start thinking with expandable flexible displacement device, inflatable with some gases, in the tanks), but I don't think it will be a show-stopper for orbital refueling plans.

However what Starship HLS brings us - and what other proposed solutions for lunar landers seems not to - is that transition from "boot on the regolith" missions to "permanent outpost" state. Yes it's harder to get to in the first place, and it's likely we won't have Starship HLS on the Moon in ~2 years, but it's still a pretty good component of what we need to have missions which go beyond Apollo achievements. So it might make sense to keep developing Starship, and LEO refueling, and if other Moon lander options will come first - good, if not, we'll have a landing system which is capable to scale for a bigger missions worthy of our century.
An ad hominem is typically based on past actions and character. I know nothing of yours. It's just your argument itself that was shallow and insubstantive. You can take that personally, but it's not.

Is there another reason you were joking instead of just making your point?
UK here, called my phone company many many years ago and had them disable voicemail. It's now impossible to leave me a voicemail. It's fantastic. In all those years I've never (that I know of) missed an important call, people call back if they need to.
> A lot of optimizations can be baked into the generated wasm, but you still need to spend some time doing eg register allocation.

Such a shame WASM is a stack machine. If it wasn't we could have had fast, singlepass compilation with near native performance without any complex optimizing recompilers or multi level JITs.

(This is not speculation. I actually wrote a VM which executes code as fast as wasmtime but compiles 160 times faster and guarantees O(n) compilation.)
The idea that the cyber truck is 'bylletproof' is laughable. 3mm of stainless sheet does not start defying physics when you sprinkle Tesla marketing on it. Low energy pistol rounds designed for minimal penetration might be stopped but I wouldn't bet your life on it
Agree, maybe not disingenuous, but definitely hypocritical. And hypocrisy have edge cases that may not be so bad, like the one you cited. But all in all, hypocrisy stinks.

People that preach honesty and reliability (cause you know, that sounds reliable) but turn turn out to be anything but will lose esteem, taint anything and anyone they have been in contact with, and once again prove the need for reasonable suspicion and double checks when it comes to people who cite their lofty ethics -it might simply be a vehicle for unethical behavior.
All of these other factors you've mentioned do nothing to rule out age as a factor. These things aren't mutually exclusive.
I would hazard that depending on LLMs is worse.
I find it interesting that Arch is considered a gaming-focus Linux distro. Is that really the case? From my experience, I've see Arch as a general-purpose bleeding-edge distro.
Ask HN: Is the tangled web still worth reading?
Published in 2012. What about The web Application Hackers Handbook 2?
I wonder if the, probably accelerating, effect of relocating millions is included in their model.
Excellent points. And these hackable vehicles are powerful enough in the physical word to be "kinetic" weapons.

So we should expect the exploit market to include buyers for assassinations (of occupant or person on the street), extortion ("every hour that the Bitcoin aren't transferred, we will take over one of your customer's vehicles in an extremely tragic way, and later we will tell the news media that you declined to prevent it"), economic sabotage, market moving, terrorism, and warfare.
Or the editor mistakenly added "Vavel" to their autocorrect/spell-checker as the correct spelling, and hit 'Publish' without proof reading thoroughly.
Dev here: Actually the scores are all scored client-side! The 'transfer code' contains all of your past game data, encoded using Huffman encoding (into a base-64 string) to store it in as few characters as possible.
If your home connection is fast enough, just put a spare or cheap dedicated machine on your router and host everything yourself instead of in the cloud.
You can argue to NHTSA, sure. Good luck.

NHTSA forced Tesla to do a recall because the in-car computer allowed the owner to play custom audio on top of ("obscuring") the pedestrian warning tone.[0] If the in-car computer allowed them root access, NHTSA would have an aneurysm.

> as long as manufacturer doesn't provide a script or otherwise encourages you to `kill -9 safetyprocess` or something.

Doesn't matter.

Scripts will be circulating online within days. If Tesla doesn't stop it, now they're knowingly complicit. Headlines will feature sympathetic low-knowledge users who followed directions, reasoning that it's safe because "why would Tesla let me do it otherwise??" Fin.

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A rooted car is a nice dream, but it's just a dream. We'll never be allowed to sell a (fully) rooted car, just like we can't sell a fully-rooted (w baseband) phone. The Wild West is over folks! Last round's on me... :)

If we're very lucky, some manufacturer might give root access to a (heavily firewalled / air-gapped) media computer.

[0] https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2022/RCONL-22V235-2686.pdf
The problem is that HN will typically be the only place that will debunk these news stories and distill them into facts as opposed to sensationalism.

I am also surprised you put the Verge in there but not Ars. The latter having fallen down the cliff in recent years and not doing a lot of original reporting despite their budget.
My friend let me tell you the good news of an Autechre show.
yes. My weekends are mostly angst
I have a go service running on one instance 1vcpu and 0.5gb ram that can handle 5-7k rps. For like a couple bucks basically per month.

I use embedded db to serve as a disk cache and allocate 10gb ssd.
Elon Musk Tried to Sell Tesla to Apple
US cellular did too, but it's picked back up in the last month or so. So I'm guessing scammers figured out the system again.
Jenkins is the worst CI system except for all the others. Everything feels like a pile of hacks upon hacks, maintaining it is tedious and unrewarding, new functionality is always bolted on and undiscoverable. But every alternative implements the first 20% of features that provide 80% of the functionality and then never gets around to implementing the other 80% (and interestingly every attempt to "modernize" Jenkins, such as "Blue Ocean" or "Declarative Pipelines" as mentioned in the article, suffers from exactly the same problem).

I wish there was a nicer tool that worked. But there isn't.
saved me the 15 mins, thank u for the response.
best of luck on the startup dude <3
And thankfully the solution is almost always the same even after many years.
Also:

- Apollo simple with many redundancies, design for failure, culture of risk management (after Apollo 1)

- Artemis very complex, many unknowns, unanswered questions, poor communication
In fairness I imagine an LLM could maybe transpile to more idiomatic code. For example when you transpile FORTRAN to C you get a load of +1s and -1s everywhere to deal with FORTRAN's 1-based indexing. An LLM could avoid that.

But I agree, it doesn't make sense to risk bugs just for that.
Thanks! Was this originally a "just because" project, or do you expect it to offer some improvements or advantages over existing embeddable Schemes like Chibi (as you mentioned)?
I love the one that opens the charge port door. Use a $350 gadget with a chunk of time to set it up, or just rip it open with a screwdriver and pop it shut.
Need advice: concentrating on a single product as a founder
I have ADHD. I can’t focus my attention on one MVP. I go from one MVP to another. Should I just start a holding company?
Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9907176 Mirror of published version since bactra.org may not be loading for you: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...
Aren't they the same company that just bought Evernote out? I always wondered why they bought Evernote. Does anyone know?
> Now we can make an assumption that the int it's a finite number say u32, this means we can construct a binary tree with a depth of 32 with access time of O(32) therefore O(1) time and space.

Heck, let's go even further. All the computers I've used have a fixed amount of memory, addressable by a u64, so I guess all my algorithms are constant time now.

I guess we've solved the interview, folks.
It makes perfect sense, especially given the goal stated just before:

> I wanted a solution without default configuration, which would permit to admins to easily build their own, based on well documented examples. Then, only the abstraction needed would be used.

This removes the neeed of reaction to consider things like ipv4/ipv6. Note also that ip is also just an example here - looks like there can be arbitrary patterns here. You could add patterns for MAC addresses, peer identifiers in p2p networks, domains for federating servers, etc.
"If an owner cuts their brake light wires to flee the cops"

Is this a tactic that people use to evade police? I can't really think of how this would be advantageous.
I have been using bufio.Scanner.Text() for reading my input files, but I suppose most of what I've done could use bufio.Scanner.Bytes().
Wouldn't this be a more complex version of an existing structure, the worker-owned cooperative?

https://www.usworker.coop/clinic/startups/

I think the difficulty for both those and your proposed structure is the difficulty of fundraising, when outside investors can't just invest capital without labor. There are lots of rich people and institutions with more money than time. And conversely, not every employee/potential co-owner would necessarily want equity in lieu of a stable salary.

It also gets into managerial complexity when co-ownership might also imply some degree of democratic decision-making because everyone is not only a worker but also an owner. It doesn't necessarily mean that everyone owns an equal share, but hiring and firing become more complex, and traditional company hirerachies may not be as common.

There are a few tech coops:

https://github.com/hng/tech-coops
To be fair, you can relay through those services to work around the delivery problem. It's still better than nothing since they now only see your outbound mail, but inbound mail processing & storage is still local & self-hosted.
“Arch is the most ‘Linux-like’ of the three”

Say what? Not sure how the other two are any less “Linux-like” than Arch. They’re all Linux, which is about as Linux-like as it gets.
Texas Man Bad -> Orange Man Bad -> Rocket Man Bad

American culture in the past 20 years in one line.
EA's Patent Pledge for Increasing Accessibility
>The embedded business logic. Within the 50-60 years of code there’s a ton a specific edge cases encoded for long forgotten business reasons.

Honestly, this should be the top comment in the thread.

The issue isn't COBOL being a hard language to learn or to translate to Java or not enough programmers or companies not being willing to pay people enough to work with it.

The issue is the 50 years worth of business logic, added incrementally, over the years, with no documentation, blended into the original source, for reasons no one still working there remembers, as you stated. It's IF-ELSE statements all the way down and no one wants to touch a single one of them for fear of breaking something whose conditions might not even manifest themselves for months or years with no real way of even regression testing it.
Why just the big tech companies? Quite a lot of smaller companies and startups have 4-6 step interview chains that burn just as much time. Although they're less commonly centered specifically around leetcode, they're often even more offensively stretched out and laborious.
I have seen video of it. It's 'bulletproof' for what they shot at it, which includes handgun, shotgun, and a tommy gun.

I wouldn't rely on it as an armored vehicle. If I want extra protection, then I would spend money on uparmoring it.
Yes, that's what sharing a file descriptor means.

You could have two file descriptors pointing to the same file (either by opening the same file or by duplicating the file descriptor with the dup syscall) and in that case the two file descriptors would have each their own file position
Especially since those weirdly conceived 'bulletproof' windows went out the window and it's just normal glass so much of the vehicle profile is entirely susceptible to small arms fire.
what is your realistic estimate for the capability of any non-corporate group to pick up maintenance of one of the open-source projects?

proprietary programming systems typically come with escrow agreements, providing access to the source code to customer e.g. if the vendor stops supporting the product. that wouldn't be materially different from another large corporate picking up e.g. llvm/clang if apple/google stop being interested.