skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> can we even call that science?

The amazing thing is that it all works out in the end and science is still making (quite a lot of) progress.

That's also the reason why we shouldn't spend all of our time and money checking and replicating things just to make sure noone publishes fraudulent/shoddy results. (We should probably spend a little more time and money on that, but not as much more as some people here seem to suggest).

Most research is in retrospect useless nonsense. It's just impossible to tell in advance. There is no point in checking and replicating all of it. Results that are useful or important will be checked and replicated eventually. If they turn out to be wrong (which is still quite rare), a lot of effort is wasted. However, again, that's rare.

If the fraud/quality issues get worse (different from "featuring more frequently and prominently in the news"), eventually additional checks start to make sense and be worth it overall. I think quite a lot of progress is happening here already, with open data, code, pre-registration of studies, better statistical methods, etc, becoming more common.

I think a major issue is the idea that "papers are the incontestable scientific truth". Some people seem to think that's the goal, or that it used to be the case and fraud is changing that now, however, this was never the case and it's not at all the point of publishing research. I think a major gain would be to separate in the public perception the concepts, understanding and reputations of science vs. scientific publishing.
Umm...If you ship firmware today, sure it _can_ be updated, but almost nobody does update firmware, so yeah, that shit has to work when it ships.

Also, I've never been at a place that tested FW patches as well as full releases, so...do you _really_ want to install somebody else's random FW patch? I don't unless I have some known problem with a fix in the release notes...
I don't know about CTA, but Greyhound absolutely will not tolerate it.

I can either use Trailways or a two hour drive to Aurora Metra from where I live (I've grown to prefer Aurora). When Trailways stops at the Napierville Metra, the driver commonly says that anyone who enters the bar at the station will not reboard the bus.

Aurora is also absolutely superior when I need to use O'Hare.
Dang, what an ass.
I’m glad for this, bus companies have been fighting train development for decades to prop up their garbage service. Hopefully if they get broken up and sold for parts we can have sensible public transit in this country which doesn’t rely on roads and sitting in traffic.
Browser Defaults – Learning Web Design
SpaceX is the first word of both the headline and article?

Personally I was glad they omitted the obligatory clickbait mention of his name, but yeah it is a little conspicuous how they only show this restraint on the good news...
I don't think that such scenarios would fall under any sort of long-tail thinking, since the chance of having N waves converge at a point decays exponentially in terms of N, whereas the height/energy/damages/etc. increase polynomially at most. This means we can place finite (and not very large) 50th, 90th, 99th, etc. percentiles on the heights of combined waves, assuming we can accurately predict the height distribution of a single wave.

As a related thought experiment, suppose I jump down from a 5-foot ledge and land on the ground, sending a wave of pressure through it. In principle, I could be walking down the street, when a similar wave of pressure comes up through the ground and launches me 5 feet in the air. Yet the vibrations in the ground are normally so dispersed that such a ground wave will never occur in anyone's lifetime (outside of an earthquake, of course).
3) #!/bin/dash
When I need to write shell scripts, it's because I need portability, so I write POSIX shell scripts. If I can compromise on portability anyway, I jump right past Bash to a more sane general purpose language, like Python.
Because Linux is a kernel and doesn't have a standardized userland to link against.

Check out IndyGreg's portable Python builds. They're used by Rye and uv.

https://gregoryszorc.com/docs/python-build-standalone/main/
This is a matter of perspective. The mission is what you call it.

Sure, it’s not a “rescue”, it’s just an “unplanned itinerary change to another vessel”.

Also, they’re not “marooned”, they’re “getting an extended work opportunity”.
Is that why it's named "Automattic", because the founder's name is "Matt"? Cute.

EDIT: Yep - https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/19/automattic-tc1-origin/
I don't think that's a factor. The ISS is anything but lonely. Astronauts have internet up there and are regularly in touch with their family. I think it's also reasonable to say they know what they're getting into when they go up, so physical separation is unlikely to affect astronauts as badly as the general population. Many of these people are ex-military and have regularly been on long deployments away from home.
Yes. You're expecting too much. Generative AI models don't "understand" your problem, they don't even "understand" how to program. They're just fitting whatever data they've seen to your input.
What Happened to WishTender and why did it get shut down by Stripe?
Interesting, my impression of him from his interviews was the opposite, while I didn't follow him closely, I felt from the first time I heard him speak that FTX would turn out to be yet another crypto-scam/disaster.
> have no interest in the time

Setting the bottom couple of bytes to zero achieves this, while maintaining nearly universal consistency with all other events in time that might need to be related with a packing of bits. People do it because it's what's being used at nearly every other level of the stack.
Connect libraries are 100% compatible with gRPC - in many cases, they implement the gRPC spec more faithfully than the core libraries themselves: https://buf.build/blog/grpc-conformance-deep-dive

TLDR: there should be no migration cost.
As a non-USian who has worked in the banking industry I find it hard to understand how such a technically advanced nation is so backwards with respect to modernising its payment infrastructure. Around 5% of all non-cash retail transactions in the US are cheques/checks. [0]

Here in Australia use of cheques comprises only 0.2% of such transactions, and the government plans to eliminate all use of cheques by 2030. [1]

[0] https://www.atlantafed.org/-/media/documents/banking/consume...

[1] https://ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/jim-chalmers-202...
They said the same “50 years to go” thing in the 70s. Yes, of course the naturally occurring supply is finite. But we don’t know where the limit is.
Best thing to do in the future is to get an American Express card that has return protection and extended warranty.

Return it if you can, otherwise wait for the one year warranty to expire and do a claim with them.
First Amendment Limits on AI Liability
"Rescue" conveys a much more negative situation than "unplanned itinerary change where the astronauts are safe and which they are happy about because they get to spend more time in space".
I suspect you are not aligned with me. I am saying that lower-class people, on average, have behavior that middle-class people don't want to be exposed to. Look at some of the stories in this thread.
Generally, you split the company and the real estate. Then you force the company pay rent on the real estate. Then you jack the rental rates to extract the cash out of the company. Then you put the company into bankruptcy. Then you walk off with the real estate.

Anything with old real estate is subject to this. Massachusetts had a similar issue with selling off a bunch of the old Catholic hospitals. The company bought the hospitals, extracted the real estate, and now they're closing all the hospitals. Oops.
It’s concatenation.
> if you have a lot of workloads on that node and those cores are busy. Your single threaded throughout can become quite compromised as a result.

While yes this can cause a slowdown, wouldn't it still happen if each container thought it had a single core?
They are critical because of the lack of practical alternative means. There is no train rail system that reach the same level of coverage. Even if you forget about the price and time, there isn't a usually route using rail system for most A-B points.
Politicians like to make things personal! The last major pandemic originated in China, which illicited a lot of political hay about China, named the disease after old things that people used to call Chinese people, and generally did their level best to make people of Asian descent feel welcome and celebrated. I'm just wondering if the same politicians have that kinda love for Missouri. Ya know what I mean?
Brings to mind that 1984 video of Stanley Kubrick discussing the quality of computer manuals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlsZoZLlwC8

Today it's hard enough getting OEMs to explain what their features do to anyone smaller than an OS vendor, much less how they work.
You might be interested in this app to try it for yourself:

https://github.com/nisargnp/DeadReckoning

I read a paper some time ago which suggested that mobile devices are still nowhere near good enough to use this e.g. for navigation around a shopping mall.
Smirk: Game-Making for the Phone
The ZFS ARC cache tries to keep a balance between most frequently and least recently used data. Also, by default, ZFS ARC only fills out to a maximum of about half the available RAM. You can change that at runtime (by writing the size in bytes to

/sys/module/zfs/parameters/zfs_arc_max

or setting the module e.g. in

/etc/modporbe.d/zfs.conf

to something like this

options zfs zfs_arc_max=<size in bytes>

). But be careful, as the ZFS ARC does not play that nice with the OOM killer.
Meaning: Someone will politicize the outbreak. This will involve coming up with some pernicious label to promote their agenda.

For some reason, klyrs thinks this is an interesting basis for a conversation. I am self-aware enough to understand that my own comment breaks HN guidelines.
Right, I think it's a limitation of deep learning. Transformers and gigantic leaps in scaling have allowed AI models to reach impressive capabilities, but at its core it's limited by its training data. This is not how actual intelligence works. People don't need terabytes of information to learn how to communicate and reason.

For this reason the current AI trend will have a bigger impact on creative tasks, rather than critical technical ones. It's already great for generating art quickly, at least for the concepting phase, and other creative assets that can afford to be generic. Solving technical problems, on the other hand, requires reasoning beyond what can be extracted from training data.

We'll need a new paradigm of AI in order to have a chance at creating models that properly reason. Even without detail knowledge of the brain, we can safely speculate that the reason and language areas are extremely efficient compare to cutting edge LLMs, which means there are algorithms more complex and efficient than simple artificial neural connections that just sum weights with a bias.
The Gay Haskell discord server has a channel for dependent types. There is also a discord server for Type Theory Forall, a podcast.
what is your native language?
This finding bewilders me, because my copilot (I use Sourcegraph’s Cody) has become an essential part of my dev productivity toolset. Being able to get answers to questions that would normally break me out of flow mode by simply Option + C’ing to open up a New Chat has been a productivity boost for me. Getting it to give me little snippets of code that I can use helps keep me in flow mode. Getting it to do a first pass on function comments, which I then edit, has made it much easier to get over the activation energy barrier that usually holds me back from doing full commenting.

I can’t say if the bug count is higher or not. Maybe it is higher in terms of total number of bugs I write throughout my coding session. But if bug count goes up 10% then the speed with which I fix those bugs and get to a final edit of my code is 30% or 40% faster, so the bug count is not the right metric.

Maybe the differentiator is that I am a solo-dev for all this work, and so the negative effects of the copilot are only experienced by me. If I were in a 10 person team, the bugs and the weird out of context code snippets would be magnified by the 9 other people, and the negative effects would be strong. But I don’t know.
There's no reason buses need to be terrible. Intercity bus service in Mexico is practically luxurious, with big reclining seats that you can actually sleep in and thick curtains that close. In the U.S., there was a startup offering overnight trips between Los Angeles and San Francisco with sleeping pods. They shut down at the beginning of the pandemic, but imagine how nice it would be to wake up at your destination refreshed instead of fighting through LAX at dawn and squeezing into a 737 for one of those "cheap" flights.

I often take Amtrak from Portland to Seattle instead of flying. Theoretically it is a short flight vs a four hour train trip, but consider that the train station is centrally located on both ends, and you can enjoy the decadent spaciousness of even a coach seat on Amtrak, while breathing nice fresh sea level air the entire time, and Amtrak wins easily.
I don't like discussing action items during incident reviews
https://lwn.net/Articles/812767/

https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-time

I'm continually impressed by Debian. My Debian systems are pretty boring, so maybe it's to be expected, but as an end-user neither the /usr merge or time64 transition broke anything for me, and I'm using Testing.
Plant-Based Myths Busted
How do you define "can do" ? Would answering correctly 9 out of 10 questions correctly for a type of question (like give directions knowing a map) mean it "can do" or that it "can't do" ?

Considering it works for so many cases, I think it is naturally to point out the examples where it does not work - to better understand the limit.

Not to mention that practically, I did not see anything proving that it will always "be able" to do something . Yes, it works most of the times for many things, but it's important to remember it can (randomly?) fail and we don't seem to be able to fix that (humans do that too, but having computers fail randomly is something new). Other software lets say a numerical solver or a compiler, are more stable and predictable (and if they don't work there is a clear bug-fix that can be implemented).
So if you ride a ferry on a regular basis (which I'm sure at least a handful of HN folks do) - if that ferry breaks down before the return trip, when you catch the next ferry is that a "rescue mission", or are you just catching the next ferry? Replace ferry with bus, car, taxi, airplane, your transportation mode of choice.

Calling this a rescue is, to OPs point, just dramatizing the situation for clicks. In pretty much any other circumstance, it wouldn't even make the news.
Many festival goers charges same amount months after event
Thank you Elon!
Roblox is shaking in their boots
Coming Alive: Letters of Oliver Sacks
I don't know what that means.

I get paid every fortnight. Not weekly. That's the metric.
https://archive.ph/1EuxT
Or you can drive if it the Delta hub is too much trouble.
Nice look! The corresponding repo appears to be https://github.com/siddhartha77/os9
"Let’s consider a trivial example:

struct {
int a;
time_t b;
int c;
};

With 32-bit time_t, the offset of c is 8. With the 64-bit type, it’s 12."

Surely it's 16 not 12, as b needs to be 64-bit aligned, so padding is added between a and b? Which also kind of makes the point the author is trying to make stronger.
RPM Fusion does not give me uncrippled crypto libraries. It’s caused by their paranoia about export restrictions, not patents.
Only when you're on the ground in the first place. Otherwise, you have a circular problem: past a certain point your IMU needs a gravity map to remain accurate, else the drift from variations in gravity is larger than the drift in your sensor. And you need to know where you are and how you're moving to measure gravity.
Making the stable boundary be C headers is insane!

It means that there's not actually any sort of ABI, only a C source API.
Tesla's have been hacked multiple times in the past as well.
They kinda are:

https://viewpointproducts.com/products/?gad_source=1&gclid=C...
They assume you'll get the hint, eventually.
For sufficiently accurate IMUs, like the ones found in ICBMs, you need a gravity map because otherwise the variations in gravity cause your position estimate to drift
It never occurred to me before that chatbot randomness might have the same reward structure as a slot machine, but apparently it does. OpenAI got you to spend all your credits on seven attempts at this one problem. I'm not saying you're addicted, but I wonder about the people who absolutely gush over it.
In the long term, with the distances in space, the former of the two probably isn't a single species, so the scenario isn't really "a multi-planet species", it's "multiple single-planet species with a common ancestor".
Anyone else reading this and being quite happy that they're not working at this scale?
You are leaving out the tiny detail that compared to a ferry there are very limited opportunities to catch the next ferry. If a ferry breaks down you aren’t stuck in the island for 8 months. You could charter a boat, get a helicopter, go for a swim.

Significant unexpected planning and spending have to go into getting them a different ride home.

It’s closer to your car breaking down in a remote area. Would a tow truck be a rescue? I would think so.
Brain detects patterns in the everyday: without conscious thought
The OMI Manifesto: Diagnosis of Myocardial Infarction Beyond ST-Elevation
Wasn't the last British owned semiconductor factory in the UK sold to Chinese investors within the last year it so.

The last steel furnace closing too?
The $15 makes this pretty hard to scale too. The link someone posted was $0.05/request. I'd love to see how/where you can get this data in bulk from a primary source.
Mine was asking me to check in with my sister for a while. This seemed to follow a prolonged period of me texting or calling her on the way home from work. The check-in reminders started after I stopped regularly contacting her at that time.

More recently those reminders have become less frequent and more generic i.e. check in with “someone”. Admittedly I’ve been using my travel time to catch up on messages and responding to people.

Not sure what the feature is intended to achieve (perhaps a hat-tip to better mental health through regular contact with friends/family?). I have no idea how/whether it can be turned off without blanket disabling Siri suggestions.
"crappy tablet instead of physical knobs,…"

What happened to the field of ergonomics? Why is the modern/digital world so disconnected from the human form and the way people actually work and use things?

Modern electronics is rife with this shitty ergonomics, it's everywhere—from rotten screen GUIs (or GUIs that change with every release—witness Microsoft Windows) to pushbutton volume controls with little or no tactile feedback instead of proper rotary potentiometers, and so on.

I know in many instances it's cheaper but a rotary potentiometer is cheaper than a screen. A rotary knob for a volume control is much easier to use—and much safer too when used in a vehicle.

I've come to the conclusion that designers of digital electronics simply don't know enough about analog electronics and or analog interfaces to design the stuff, it seems the word 'analog' has been stricken from their vocabulary, and or they're too timid to attempt such designs. Perhaps they're frightened of being criticized by colleagues who are even more stupid than they are.

What else can it be? The human hand is exquisitely designed to rotate a knob (evolution suggests we humans evolved thus to twist fruit off trees).

Same issue with pushbutton switches, without decent tactile feedback one's never sure if the function has been completed. Gamers use proper mechanical switch keyboards because they can achieve much, much greater speed and precision than they can with this crappy 'lifeless' stuff.

The modern electronic junk is just so much harder to use, product design has actually gone backwards. The ergonomics of old-fashioned radios and HiFis were perfect in this regard with their rotary potentiometers and clunky switchs.

If you are a designer of this junk and reading this then shame on you! Ask yourself why the hell are you so incompetent that you cannot give users designs that they both want and are easy to use.
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That services layer reminds be of a big, fancy, distributed Varnish Cache... they don't mention caching and they chose the word coalesce so I assume it doesn't do much actual caching. But made me think of Varnish's "grace mode" and it's use to prevent the thundering herd problem (which is where I first heard of 'request coalescing') https://varnish-cache.org/docs/6.1/users-guide/vcl-grace.htm...

Also love to see consistent hashing come up again and again. It's a great piece of duct tape that has proven useful in many similar situations. If you know where something should be then you know where everything is gonna come look for it!
> Where it will be hell is running Nix-built packages on a non-NixOS system with non-ABI-compatible glibc.

This isn't a thing. Nix-built binaries all each use the hardcoded glibc they were built with. You can have any number of glibc's simultaneously in use.
Nuclear seems to have worked out well for France over the last 50 years.
#!/usr/bin/env dash

I mean, if we're targeting portability...
Until you realize that some of the expressions in [[ are evaluated as arithmetic expression which has some surprises around array subscript and command substitution.

In short, because the following works despite quoting and will execute the echos

a=(); x='a[$(echo >&2 what; echo 0)]'; [[ 'x' -eq 0 ]]

I'm back to use the single [ for the arithmetic binary operators.
Has less purchasing power ever resulted in less children? Would you happen to have a source?
What Is Occlusion Myocardial Infarction (OMI)
I agree that calling it a rescue is a bit much, but this is hardly a case of missing a bus or ferry and catching the next one.

If you missed a ferry, expecting to be away from your family for a week, only to find you are stuck on a desolate island for 8+ months you would probably feel like you were being rescued.
This is for you, @Pickletickler9000, and everyone else who has bought a pre-built PC. You can build your own PC. It is very easy and you can build them in all kinds of shapes and sizes. It is also much less expensive. The sky is the limit for $2700. Take the money and build something to your specs so you can go back to your video editing gig.

All of these blow what you had out of the water.

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildmeapc/comments/1b599jy/the_abs...
High-grade accelerometers (of any kind) are still subject to export restrictions, especially ones which can handle the G-forces in missiles.
True. I think a switch which could do for example PCIe 5.0 on the host side and 3.0 on the device side would be sufficient for many cases, as one lane of 5.0 can serve all four lanes of a 3.0 NMVe.
But I realize we probably won't see that.

Perhaps it will be realized with higher PCIe versions, given how tight signalling margins will get. But the big guys have money to throw at this so yeah...