skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As other said I use copilot or similar for scaffolding/boilerplate code. But you are right, reading almost correct code that you are unfamiliar with is much more demanding than fixing stuff I got wrong to begin with.
> It's a bit sad that our initial expectation, that software would be like mathematics, where you can keep building on previous results no matter if they were from last year or last millennia, didn't work out.

If you think that, you haven't seen some of my dependencies.
Not true. "Disposable" vapes use commodity li-ion cells, of the same basic type that you'd find in a cellphone, a laptop or an EV. They probably aren't the best quality, but there's nothing unusual about the chemistry or packaging. Li-ion cells are the preferred chemistry because of the very high discharge rate - alkaline or primary lithium cells just can't deliver enough current. The cell is perfectly capable of being recharged, but some people prefer the convenience of a disposable device and manufacturers are quite happy to respond to that demand.

It's wasteful, I don't particularly approve of it, I expect to see a lot of jurisdiction ban disposable vapes, but nor do I think it's particularly egregious or meaningfully impacting on the commodity price of lithium carbonate.

https://hackaday.com/2022/05/05/2022-hackaday-prize-disposab...
Oh man this is the opposite of my experience!

Copilot has replaced almost all of the annoying tedious stuff, especially stuff like writing (simple) SQL queries.

“Parse this json and put the fields into the database where they belong” is a fantastic use case for copilot writing SQL.

(Yes I’m sure there’s an ORM plugin or some middleware I could write, but in an MVP, or a mock-up, that’s too much pre optimization)
It has been possible to re-purpose such additional refresh cycles as an additional Rowhammer attack vector, see https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity22/presentat...
And, indeed, makes for some rather interesting follow up questions...

* Is this genuinely just a different way of processing rewards?

* Do low SES children not understand that money is a reward?

* Is there a capability gap at playing games? Or different responses to games themselves?

I don't think it makes intuitive sense that limited rewards leads to a lower response, so my guess is low SES children probably have a different relationship with money. My observation has been, in a weird but important way, that only a subset of high SES families seem to treat money as a desirable thing. Most people seem to have a what I see as a complex love-hate-contempt relationship with money. There isn't conclusive evidence in the article though.
Correlation isn't causation. The highest risk factor of Long Covid is probably frequency of hearing about it from social media. Much like Fibromyalgia.
It’s not always clear to everyone that there’s something they don’t know!
There are some unique things on aliexpress. amazon basics is just clone stuff.
Ask HN: What is the best way to learn a new language?
Is using a flashcard app like Anki the best way? Duolingo? Memrise? etc

For context, I was thinking of learning either Spanish, Dutch or Arabic
Oh, my mistake for assuming familiarity! Data Science in this case.
This is a python wrapper around apple’s vision framework. If you’re concerned about speed and/or don’t want python, then interacting directly with the vision framework is an option.
Well, a LOT of crypto investor are limited means and the least likely to be able to afford to lose it. Sure they shouldn’t have risked their life savings, but they aren’t getting ahead in normal ways so they hooked onto this rocket, and FTX was considered safe and above board for a long time.

There are real mental and physical impact to loss of majority of your wealth, which can lead to homelessness, exhaustion from working more to cover shortfalls, marital strife, abuse, suicide.

Considering this wasn’t just insiders like high net worth investors angel investing, but everyday people, yeah it hurts a lot of people in real ways. Probably a lot more than the Madoff crowd for example.
I'm not sure why you're attracting downvotes for correctly stating that the way law works in the UK is very different than the way it works in continental Europe. The UK is a common law country, like the US, while many EU nations use civil law systems.

The basic mechanisms of UK law are more similar to US law than to French law. The actual laws on the books are probably the other way around, though.
Koch's postulate's can't work on viruses, that's not how viruses work. How do you propagate an obligate parasite in a pure culture? Mycobacterium leprae (the cause of leprosy) fails Koch's postulates as well, because of the same "pure culture" issue. Plaque assays clearly show viruses exist and they are self controlling due to the dilution of the original sample and their ability to still work when the virus is cloned.
The keys on the keyboard you press to go forward, left, back, and right in many games. It's an often more ergonomic alternative to the arrow keys.

| W |
| A | S | D |
Yeah, at the time it was pretty widely known that this was the case (I don't recall whether it was in the description specifically). There's no revelation or admission that suddenly occurred this week.
Nope. The wrong abstraction is too risky vs. having no abstraction. AI can let us move towards an abstraction-free mode of coding. In the future you’ll tell the AI “add a 60 second cache to every source of X data” and it’ll scour your source code for matching code and you’ll review the diffs. C programmers would review LLVM IR diffs. Web devs will review whatever compilation target they’re using.

We use high level languages because they improve reading comprehension and save us time when writing. Having a copilot take on a major role allows us to fundamentally rethink programming.
That's my understanding too --- a combination of RICO and deindustrialization.
I would rather get cards that are really well designed ___as cards__ (which chat gpt will do better than me given the time I want to spend) even if there is some loss of "value" from not breaking the material into cards myself, because I will make it up on the back end by studying the cards more, and having cards that are more correctly designed for optimal study. Who cares if I did the work of breaking the material into cards myself if it results in shitty cards that aren't good study aids and thus you never use.
yeah, you have it completely consistent.

My point is that one can have a lot of C++ working at scale. Reading code is very important part of large scale projects. Dropping debug builds is a reasonable tradeoff.
Yeah, I've been chasing that for a while. I've traced it to subnormal float handling. Here's the scenario: if you multiply the 32 bit float float 1 x 2^-127 by 1/8, you can't get 1x2^-130 because 130 isn't representable in a 8 bit exponent. On the CPU or a modern GPU, this is special cased to result in a "subnormal" float: .125 x 2^-127. However, this adds a ton of extra complexitity to the FPU. Old GPUs just gave up and say "It's zero." WebGL standardized on the old GPU behavior, so a modern GPU running webgl sets a flag to behave like the old GPUs.

I'm representing complex numbers as (real_mantissa + i * imag_mantissa) * 2^exp where real_mantissa and imag_mantissa are themselves 32 bit floats, and I can reduce the frequency of the colored rings in my shader by keeping the mantissas around ~1000 instead of ~1 (and reducing the exponent to keep the value the same) so that they are less likely to go subnormal, but I can't seem to get rid of the colored rings entirely.

I don't actually know the pathway through the code from subnormal underflow -> colored rings, but if you run a CUDA renderer with the same algorithm, the rings appear when you set the flag for "round subnormal floats to zero."
I find in my usage that creating a card can take several minutes (5-10 for a hard card) but reviewing them takes a few seconds per occurrence. To reach the initial creation time would take me decades of reviews.

That said, I still make all my cards myself and some cards are trivial. For the trivial cards, review time can outweigh creation time. But trivial cards take seconds.

Crafting effective prompts is important to getting the value out of an SRS. That sometimes is the bull of the "work". Not the review.
And BigCorporate bought everything out. Moms and pops and dons couldn’t compete.
I'm waiting for the EU to ban these fucking things already. That and disposable power banks. Yes, you read that right.

Selling consumer devices with Li-Ion batteries that are designed to not be rechargeable, should be banned altogether.
> In a world where AI can read our codebase, ingest a prompt, and quickly output "correct" if not clean and concise code, and then be able to iterate on code with more prompt, do we need all the same patterns we used to adopt when humans were painstakingly writing every line of code?

That world does not exist, so currently this line of thinking is academic.

Perhaps it will exist in the future, but it's far from a certainty if that will come to pass, and unclear on what kind of time-frame. Personally I'm quite skeptical any of us will see it within our lifetimes.
Does anyone know of a card set for FAA pilot's license? Seems like a near-ideal use...
My experience is similar. This week I created a few DBT models and Co-Pilot saved a *ton* of keystrokes on the YML portion.

It needed some hand-holding in the early parts, but it was so satisfying to tab autocomplete entire blocks of descriptions and tests once it picked up context with my preferences.
>The mainly-Russia explanation is also too convenient on a number of counts. First, in this current era of anti-Russian sentiment, it offers the large number of people that were responsible for the widely panned Iraq invasion an "out" that is, just now, socially acceptable.

To be fair to them, the video they're referring to with Wesley Clark is from 15-ish years ago.
For me the real kicker from the HSCA is George Joannides:

> At the HSCA, Joannides had been specifically assigned to handle queries about the DRE and its relations with the CIA. The Agency had assured the committee that he had no connection whatsoever to the matters under investigation; that, in fact, he was merely an Agency lawyer and had not been “operational” in 1963. These assurances were self-evidently false. At one point, Joannides informed the committee that the identity of the DRE’s case officer at the time of the Kennedy assassination — Joannides himself — could not be determined.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/jfk-assassination-do...
Sudo has much more fine-grained abilities for more surgical use-cases, like giving users the ability to only execute certain commands as a certain user, with detailed logging and auditing. It has a pretty involved config file (the pdf docu for it is 80 pages long), a plugin system, a seperate log format and log server, etc

I also believe those use-cases aren't that common anymore since multi-user systems fell out of favor. There is an argument that most of us could use a vastly simpler tool instead to reduce the attack surface. But that tool wouldn't be sudo, because sudo is built around supporting all these use cases.
What I mean is, that you can use Wise.com as a gateway to buy bitcoin outside the USA [1]. But don't put this in the 'memo' of the transaction. Wise doesn't like bitcoin. Sorry about the 'woke tech bros' comment.

[1] https://bisq.wiki/TransferWise
> You avoid the two usual mistakes I see with current AI, either thinking it's already game over for us or that it's a nothing-burger.

This is always really surprising to me that it appears to be these two camps. Though what frustrates me is that if you suggest something in the middle people usually assume you're in the opposite camp than they are. It reminds me a lot of politics and I'm not sure why we're so resistant to nuance when our whole job is typically composed of nuance.

Though I'll point out, I think it is natural to complain about your juggling dog dropping balls or making mistakes on your taxes. That doesn't mean you aren't impressed. I think this response is increasingly common considering these dogs are sold as if they are super-human at these tasks. That's quite disappointing and our satisfaction is generally relative to expectations, not actual utility. If you think something is shit and it turns out to be just okay, you're happy and feel like you got a bargain. If you're expecting something to be great but it turns out to be just okay, you're upset and feel cheated. But these are different than saying the juggling dog is a useless pile of crap and will never be useful. I just want to make that clear, so we avoid my first paragraph.
Genes linked to autism, are associated with altered social behaviors in bonobos
The Caribbean has a history of slavery not unlike the U.S., so the fact that Caribbean immigrants are better off is genuinely interesting. Of course, institutional factors are the most likely difference; among other things, the British got rid of slavery a generation or so before the U.S. did, and there was no real equivalent there to the U.S. Civil War and failed Reconstruction. There are also cultural differences that will of course matter, but they're causally downstream of that basic stylized fact.
Seems like they are being slashdotted or whatever it's called these days.
The possibility of flipping bits in DRAM in a Rowhammer like fashion, was known in the DRAM industry since at least the 1990s (sorry, no reference handy), and Rowhammer-like access was used in DRAM quality testing.

As silicon density increased, the issue became more urgent.
You're right, it doesn't. But most of the books claims don't depend on a specific climate sensitivity. Climate Change is just one of the chapters. It also covers air pollution, deforestation, agriculture, biodiversity loss, ocean plastics and overfishing.

It combats the notion that we aren't achieving anything regarding long term sustainability because we're unable to coordinate on a global scale, by showcasing that we are not only moving in the right direction in many areas, we're also accelerating.

If Hansen is right and we live in a world with very high climate sensitivity then it's not looking good, but I'd still prefer to live in a world were we make noticeable progress and fall short, than in one were we watch the world turn into an uninhabitable ball of death while doing nothing.
What if the inputs are twenty floats, and time-dependent?
it is entirely true - why would you doubt it?
That's true, though the stats screen will tell you how many suspended and buried cards you have. If I track that a few times a week I can usually tell when something has been suspended that I didn't suspend myself.
Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39067072
Fake Celebrity porn has been a thing for the longest time. In the 90s people used to airbrush the face/head of a celebrity onto the body of a nude model. Prior to that people used their imaginations.

What has changed since then? I guess technology now makes this easier, has fakes like this become more socially unacceptable?
> Most of an individual's intelligence is inherited from their parents

Note that heritability numbers are specific to a particular environment. E.g. if you have a more random environment with some kids exposed to lead poisoning, some to malnourishment and some to parasites you will get lower heritability figures.

Most studies on this are conducted in countries like Sweden and the USA on middle class populations.
> people with no output for years canned

Often I see this happen, and the result is the company loses out somehow. I think maybe metrics for “output” are wrong in many cases, and you’ve just canned someone who had a useful or even critical role you didn’t know about. A lot of people who are important to company operations are invisible!
The use of generative models will cause their own demise. At the end they will just produce pure noise.
Meet The company that sells your lost airplane luggage
> yet how many capitalist bosses really want you to do much other than implement their "vision?"

Most of them? Or, more accurately to my knowledge, most of the ones I've had. I mean, hell, even when I delivered pizza, they didn't really get all bent out of shape when I tried to do things differently as long as it was something vaguely towards the goal they wanted.

In my experience, unless someone is really hardwired for micro-management, people cool of and let you do things your way once you have a couple months at the place and have demonstrated some competence (this includes in some very traditionally corporate environments).
You're setting your kid up for a bright future, great parenting.
that's that shit i like
bad UI/UX? I saw windows 11 having a terrible UI and people still use it

hw support? what kind of hardware? first party support for gaming accessories is far from great, but unless you want to do macros on your gaming hardware with wayland, the rest for a regular user is pretty much fully covered
Bad UI. Everyone is trying to emulate Apple experience, and doing a pretty bad job at it.

If you aren't easy with the console, stick to Windows/Apple.
Because he didn't.
> directory traversal

The correct term is directory enumeration. Traversal usually means something about ../../
It's almost the opposite in 2024.
It can also be a rational response to a company that follows "management to rule". For example, I was once on a team where almost all of my time was spent coordinating with other teams and helping other developers instead of developing myself. When performance reviews rolled around I was told that none of that stuff mattered; only the number of tickets that I completed matter.

So I switched my focus to completing tickets. A few weeks later I overheard my manager complaining about a breaking change made by another team that I had previously been coordinating with: "Why is this happening so much? We didn't used to get surprised by these sorts of problems."
Well, most vendors argue with losses of around 1-2% of data per year if you read their specifications.

Losing a single bit is unacceptable for archival purposes, that's why I mentioned the importance of optical and magnetic backups as a redundancy.
In case anyone is wondering what Use Tax is, it's sales tax for purchases where sales tax was not paid by the seller. For example, if you live in Washington state, purchase a TV in Portland Oregon, and then bring it back to your home in Washington then you owe Use Tax.
50% of migrants can't find a job.

Our banks are publishing papers that for every 1% our population increases, home prices appreciate 3% above the target CPI of 2%; AFTER accounting for interest rates.

It's flat out a Ponzi Scheme. Our real wages are absolute CRAP.
Hehe, I felt this slightly a few times in the recent years.

Economy is also a large scale self adjusting optimizer, logistical neural network ?
The simplest is to only use packages from a distribution like Debian and run unattended-upgrades or equivalent for the security-updates repository. They usually fix vulnerabilities in less than a day.
"Despite gathering years of NSA-worthy surveillance on the philosophers, Hoover’s agents were never able to discern the ideological program of the French. “I can’t work out,” wrote one in a note in Sartre’s file, “if he’s pro-Communist or anti-Communist."

I feel the same.

Lévy often seems to be a manichean ideologue, but I found his Sartre book revealing:

"Levy depicts Sartre as a man who could succumb to the twentieth century’s catastrophic attraction to violence and the false messianism of its total political solutions, while also being one of the fiercest critics of its illusions and shortcomings."

https://bernard-henri-levy.com/en/book/sartre/
The common way people think about common law versus civil law is this:

-common law depends more on courts to make and refine legal decisions
-civil law relies more on regulators.

In civil law countries it's more common for the statutes (governing text) to be longer and go into great detail. In common law countries you see some extremely short laws - like the Sherman act in US Antitrust law is like 2 sentences long.

That's the common understanding. These days though both EU and US are converging a bit in their approach.
https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks?search=faa

No clue on quality.
Many positions are not actively hiring. I’ve been applying on linkedin and the same positions are reposted weekly for months on end, never getting taken down and never getting replies.

They’re cluttering up job boards because so few roles are available.
Unless they use the bits of DCOM where Wine's DCOM implementation isn't quite compatible with Microsoft's, which was the OP's point.
I've found that ChatGPT is very good at fine grained generation - you can get it to rewrite sentences and paragraphs with some examples and a general statement of style and it can produce extremely high quality output. Likewise, it can produce very high quality output when given a summary and asked to expand it into a short article, particularly when given areas to emphasize or things to note as it rewrites the content. The key is to prompt carefully and provide concrete examples in addition to referencing the style you want. That combined with keeping the bot on a fairly short leash can produce fantastic writing, you just need to inject the wit and unusually clever ideas yourself.
Note that while the cultures were outside the Space Station, they were in containers simulating the conditions of Mars, so it doesn't seem like they were in the vacuum of Space itself, unless I've missed something in the article?
>> I wish. But I guess if anyone has this perception at all, that's a sign of something working.

I meant the ones that escape the flagging to death. Those are relatively few, compared with my experience from other places on the 'net.
And what comes to McCarthy then he had every right to be extremely paranoid about the activities of Soviet Union in attempts to secretly influence American politics from the within. The work of American counter intelligence agencies is a clear proof of it.

Recommended read https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1996/04/14/w...
The value I found in my short trial of gpt3 was a bidirectional path finder.

Don't have me read 20 pages of docs just to integrate into a browser or a framework.. cutting the legwork essentially so I can keep my motivation and inspiration going.
I knew NH had no state sales tax, but it doesn't have any local sales tax either? Montana too.
> The premise of those studies is linear additive effects from each causal factor

I don't understand this. Why would you need linear additive effects to think that if identical twins are more similar than fraternal twins and half siblings are less similar than full siblings along some axis then there is probably a genetic component?
I'm happy that my mistakenly typed rm -rf / fail when I use my non root user (normal account) even though I also have root for when I do want to mess things up.
The answer is just the power of defaults nowadays, defaults are powerful and windows is pre-installed.

Nowadays the vast majority of the blocking issues are outdated and user friendly distributions are fine for non technical users.

Windows also regressed quite a bit in the last decade as well which definitely helps when comparing.
I tried to switch from my i3wm setup to a stock Ubuntu/GNOME and found it the same kind of unusable as Windows - GUI elements do not tell what they are about to do, implicit gestures (you have to google it to learn them), slow input latency. Quite a frustrating experience.
It's "a public API", not "an public API", because of the consonant rule.

I really worry that there are people out there who will anxiously mangle their company's data thinking what is being called AI, which doesn't exist yet, will save the day.