skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I believe the underlying problem of platforms like StackOverflow, ticketing systems (in-house and public) and even CRMs is not really solvable. The problem is, the quality of an answer is actually not easy to determine. All the mechanisms we have are hacks, and better solutions would need more resources... which leads to skewed incentives, and ultimately to a "knwoledge" db thats actually not very good. People are incentiviszed to collect karma points, or whatever it is. But these metrics are not really resembling the quality of their work... Crowdsourcing this mechanisms via upvotes or whatever does also not really work, because quantity is not quality... As said, I believe this is a problem we can not solve.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." and what we have witnessed is magic.
This being HN, I'd love to hear from one of the many IRC channel mods who literally typed (I'd guess copy/pasted) this kind of text into their chat room topics and auto-responders.

If you're out there-- how does it feel to know that what you meant as a efficient course-correction for newcomers was instead a social shaming that cut so deep that the message you wrote is still burned verbatim into their memory after all these years?

To be clear, I'm taking OP's experience as a common case of IRC newbies at that time on many channels. I certainly experienced something like it (though I can't remember the exact text), and I've read many others post on HN about the same behavior from the IRC days.

Edit: clarifications
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41784591
> OpenBSD's positively Byzantine, labyrinthine partitioning

I believe this stems from its BSD Disklabel roots. Disks are divided into 'slices' under BSD, which are called 'partitions' under non-BSD, either MS-DOS style or EFI. This 'slice'/partition is then sub-divided into different lettered "sub-partitions".

And for historical reasons, the 'c' partition refers to .. I think the whole slice.
I approach it the same way as the things I build myself - testing and measuring.

Although if I’m truly honest with myself, even after many years of developing, the true cycle of me writing code is: over confidence, then shock it didn’t work 100% the first time, wondering if there is a bug in the compiler, and then reality setting in that of course the compiler is fine and I just made my 15th off-by-one error of the day :)
How much would you charge to fix a what someone calls "15 minute bug" in office to new corporate customer on other side of the city? Considering that you would also take care of all paper work involved such as generating invoices and paying taxes.
Speaking as a non-American. SpaceX just made one of the most significant technological leaps in the last decade. This is obviously hugely significant in many ways, including retaining the US military edge.

Yet the US administration hasn't congratulated SpaceX. Incredible.
Personally I consider that a benefit at least as often as not. In Nystromian terms, PHP functions are colorless, and that removes a whole kind of complexity (at the cost of, like you correctly point out, potential performance problems).
Use Stream.finished.

$ node -e "const { Stream } = require('stream'); s = process.stdout; s.write('@'.repeat(128 * 1024)); Stream.finished(s, () => { process.exit(0); })" | wc -c
131072

https://nodejs.org/api/stream.html#streamfinishedstream-opti...
Literally brought me to tears, watching that happen.
A utility promised to stop burning coal. Then Google and Meta came to town
"To block gamma rays completely, you need about 13.8 feet of water, 6.6 feet of concrete, or about 1.3 feet of lead."

https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radiation-basics#:~:text=Gamma....
“To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.”

Nasim Taleb said that in 2010, and you can find similar sentiments running back a long time. Sensationalism has been the name of the game all along.
It's the classical combo of poor budget and conflicting budgeting with aging infrastructure and bad management. DB was privatized 20, 30 years ago, but parts of the infrastructure is public property and managed by the state. So DB willingly let rot them until the state will start renewing, which does take ages of course. At the same time, DB also started saving significant money, because that's what private companies are doing, so they removed parts of the infrastructure, which later started harming the planing on a nationwide level. And on top of this, there are parts of the infrastructure which are literally up to 150 years old, but still in use for whatever reason.

Or in other words: classical underfunded, overused legacy system showing its age.
> Weight loss and metabolic improvements do not explain the longevity benefits of severe dietary restrictions.

The overlooked word is "Severe".

These studies either restrict a lot of calories (40% for one study in the article), or are fasting for long periods of time for the animal; Mice start dying without food after 2 days - you aren't going to see the same effect in humans by skipping breakfast.
There are definitely places where rail is awesome, a great example is New York to DC. Better than driving or flying by a mile.

But on a purely cost basis, rail is very expensive. It just more expensive for the government to build an operate rail than it is for them to build and operate roads. You’re right that part of it is because some of the cost is shouldered by the car owner. But, even in Europe, car ownership is very common outside of city centers. You can’t really expect there to be a rail station taking you from anywhere you want to go to anywhere else you wanna go unless you’re in an urban hub.
The power of Being (simply existing mindfully) as opposed to the Doing we feel compelled into.

When you Are who you are, you will Do what you do, and likely find greater success because it comes from who you are, not what someone is telling you to do…
For places like NYC, Chicago, Boston, yeah. And we see rail in those locations. We do not see rail in towns and suburbs around those areas. In Atlanta, for example, MARTA exists, but NIMBY policies in Northern suburban counties keep it from expanding. This is especially bad considering more people live in those counties than in the city proper. Further, even if one could get sign-off, the cost to acquire the property required would be incredibly costly. Land prices are historically high, and after acquisition would need to be cleared and then rail would need to be laid. Unless the USA wants to get rid of compensation for imminent domain seizure, I don’t know how this kind of rail development would ever be done.
Well after Bush and his comrades Dick and Colon (nee Cheney; Powell), we had the TEA PARTY MOVEMENTS whose thesis was very simple: "politicians, as people, they suck, 400 million are suffering for their aggrandizing shittiness, lets get some people in there to fuck some shit up". And so they did, and they did. And this become the new norm. And now DC had been made even further ugly and toxic. Then Trump appeared, and he basically said the same exact thing as the tea party movement "Draiiinnn the Swap!!", and now - yes - even more ugly and toxic.

All of these has been fueled by social media, which to reduce some of the complexities, determined that "if we divide and polarize american politics we make boatloads of money"
Back when we were on ARPANET, when using the network for business like that could lead to direct reprimands.

Back before the start of the Eternal September.

Back before there were masses.
That's a smart idea I didn't think of.

I've been arguing with Copilot back and forth where it gave me a half-working solution that seemed overly complicated but since I was new to the tech used, I couldn't say what exactly was wrong. After a couple of hours, I googled the background and trust my instinct and was able to simplify the code.

At that situation, where I iteratively improved the solution by telling Copilot things seem to complicated and this or that isn't working. That led the LLM to actually come back with better ideas. I kept asking myself why something like you propose isn't baked into the system.
BBSs were a huge part of my life in the 90s. I wanted teenagers of today to be able to feel the same thrill of socializing like we did back then. BBSs are not as good as the Internet, obviously, but there are no full fidelity replacements for BBSs nowadays - if you were there, you get it.
This will probably come down to your perspective and experience.

The function is written in Go, but this is not relevant, because it does not use any Go-specific constructs. This is solely about the algorithm that is implemented.

I don't understand the function provided, so I would need some comments to have a chance to parse it. That said, I feel I am an experienced programmer, so I would not fault ChatGPT for being confused with this function.

Perhaps you find understanding this class of algorithm - doing bit manipulation in a loop - relatively easy, or even trivial. It would make sense if you expect an LLM to breeze through this task if that were the case.

Today, a computer is able to work with natural language, and even perform useful tasks with it. It can write and understand surprisingly complex code, and sometimes it works. Many different types of people of various professions have been able to incorporate it into their workflows with impressive results.

I think it lacks perspective to scoff at LLMs if they can't understand this function right now. That said, as other people have pointed out, it probably gets half points on this function already.
What billwear said first is true. Also, what is the endpoint of oversimplification?

It’s okay if you’re waiting for the comic book edition, but I don’t think it’s on the horizon.
If I tell you that the air is clear, and you respond "That applies to all air on earth", you've provided no additional information.

If I tell you that humans are generally between zero and 120 years of age, and you respond "That applies to most humans", you've provided no additional information.

If I tell you "most comments on HN are well-written and thoughtfully constructed" and you respond "That doesn't apply to yours", you've provided some additional information.
I'm not really familiar with that technology space, but if you take that as true, is your argument something like:

- We don't have limitless CPU cycles

- Thus we need to split things into sub-problems

If so that might still be amenable to the bitter lesson, where Sutton is saying human heuristics will always lose out to computational methods at scale.

Meaning something like:

- We split up the thought to vision problem into N sub-problems based on some heuristic.

- We develop a method which works with our CPU cycle constraint (it isn't some probe -> CPU interface). Perhaps it uses our voice or something as a proxy for our thoughts, and some composition of models.

Sutton would say:

Yeah that's fine, but if we had the limitless CPU cycles/adequate technology, the solution of probe -> CPU would be better than what we develop.
TeX has three actively-maintained engines, and there are a lot of folk putting work into improving LaTeX and its ecosystem. So effort is going into LaTeX, including performance, right now. Probably someone committed a perf improvement today, or in the last week.

There are problems with TeX which can't be fixed, problems which Typst is directly addressing. I wish them all success. I will never understand the attitude which holds that because some established system exists, nothing in the same category of program should ever be written. Let people cook.

I do understand Rust fatigue but the swipe here is uncalled for. This isn't a "rewrite it in Rust", it's a new language which happens to be implemented in Rust, and y'know what? Good choice frankly. There are tasks where "fast enough" isn't a meaningful concept, and compiling raw documents into a finished form is one of those tasks.

TeX and LaTeX aren't going anywhere, and Typst has years of work ahead of it to ever offer a comparable richness of capability. If it incrementally replaces the use of LaTeX over time, that will be because it earned it.

Have you used troff lately? Probably not. Things change. And yet man pages are written in nroff to this day. Dr. Knuth wrote TeX because what existed at the time wasn't working for him. Typst likewise.
Generalisable how? The model completely hallucinates invalid input, it's not even high quality and required CSGO to work. What's the output you expect from this and what alternatives are there?
as someone who absolutely loves SE -- please don't.

the orbital and planetary mechanics kind of suck. They're meant to provide a decent 'arcade realism' for the sake of player/player interactions and pvp/pve.

if you want to experience fuel slosh/weight during a vertical ascent/descent go with kerbal. It models a lot of that stuff without mods -- and mods can make the model even more accurate.
My only experience with them was when I found a pretty serious security bug and noticed the company in question had a bounty with them. Opened an account on H1, reported the bug, got "not a serious issue", promptly closed the H1 account. If the company is incompetent or relying on an incompetent 3rd party bug bounty service provider, I won't deal with them. I don't need this in my life.

The company did fix the issue a few months later, so there's that.
The central issue for new typesetting methods, unlike most software projects, is that to represent a solution, not a new problem, they must seamlessly communicate with other similar environments. So I have to ask:

* Can Typist seamlessly export Latex?
* Can Typist seamlessly import Latex?

And I must link to the definitive XKCD cartoon on this topic: "Standards" https://xkcd.com/927/ .
So the whole purpose of it is to identify issues to be resolved.
For some reason his videos keep showing up when I watch Youtube Shorts even after I've clicked the various buttons which should suppress them. At some point, people started pointing out the problems in his argument, and he'd... post trolling videos with him responding. And the videos are just static snapshots of twitter exchanges.

Any sympathy I had for him disappeared when he started attacking folks making good points.
You are right they are already trying to slow SpaceX as much as possible. More people in their hands more people finding ways to decelerate SpaceX
https://x.com/SenBillNelson/status/1845461454977196294
Travels in Interiors Hyperreality
Yes already on that. I am revamping the whole system based on feedback I got. Originally I was getting the user to cover their own openai costs, and assistants, but I am working it into the cost of service instead now. Should have a new version up tonight/tomorrow! Thanks for testing I appreciate it!
It sounds like you are just starting to realize that there is a gigantic economic/civilization-level problem in USA aligned countries. The "incompetent CS Grad" stereotype has completely saturated the system and debased the entire profession, but this is only a symptom of a very deep failure that is directly attributable to corrupt political leadership. Political leaders are driven by money and they put optics before substance. They allowed the economy to be outsourced by failing to adopt a viable competitive strategy. That is why we only know how to build shopping apps, ad tech and product recommenders, and not commercial ships, hypersonic missiles, nuclear power plants, etc.
Even the revived AI journalist Brian Sewall thought so, as noted in TFA.
So how will this play out in the future? Once PE acquires all these businesses, squeezes all the life out of them, and runs it at aggressive prices, can any future small businesses pop up to compete against them? Or is everyone doomed to buying these services from PE companies with poor service?
The issue is a bit more than a year old.

Feel free to step up and close it. Complaining about it isn't going to add velocity to a new project.
Awesome achievement. Watched it with my sister at home and brought back memories from the 60s in front of the B&W TV watching some of the early amazing flights and landings.

Question for hackers: How does this reorient space programs world-wide? If I were a politician or technocrat in China, Russia, or the EU this would feel like an inverse and intense Sputnik moment — “holy sh—- we have to up our game!”
To answer this oversimplified question with a simple answer, the Space Shuttle couldn't be a more different vehicle than this one. It truly is a comparison between apples and oranges.

Let's start with the fact that it was designed in the 1970's. If you had a Cadillac DeVille from 1970 it would get 8-12 miles per gallon. Just the mere fact that the design is about 70 years old makes that vehicle too expensive to operate, and that's before we even start talking about other issues with the design (performance, safety, reliability, etc).
Audible laser?

Line of sight audio would be wonderful in a crowd.
Even easy job is probably going to take a few hours between scheduling overload, driving to and from the site, figuring out what needs to be done, and actually doing the work. Expensive? Possibly. But doesn’t seem out of bounds. How much would you charge to drive to an office to solve some problem even if it turned out to have an easy fix? I can’t imagine quoting much less than that.
This one seems way harder than the others which land on legs and on a relatively larger circular landing pad, this one needs to nail the tower and its arms.
You don't need to block gamma radiation completely to increase the electronics reliability :)

Maybe you could improve the system availability considerably by a bit of gamma radiation protection combined with some more parallelism of the components ..
Thanks. I should note that this is all well outside my scope of expertise.

Though the raw amounts of water in subducted seafloor are apparently immense. Something which really hadn't occurred to me until recently.
Here’s a video from a farther vantage point that gives a better perspective on the landing process:

https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1845444890764644694
To the author : I find your article really insightful. I want to read more but I realize this article is not on your homepage. There might be more stuff that you have written and is unlisted. How can i find it all.
With respect to car servicing, I'm getting a deja vu feeling. Like smartphones have made it almost impossible to get a phone repaired by third party companies, car makers are making it very hard to get their cars serviced anywhere other than their dealerships where they can overcharge everything. With so much (unnecessary?) technology in the cars these days, it's easy for them to slap more conditions on the owners and lock in services for years.
That’s what I tried, but there was an issue with another account, not under my name, sharing my email for some reason. I got stuck in a loop of customer service reps escalating, saying no, having to reopen, and generally not solving the issue.

After about a year of receiving someone else’s account emails, and trying to get it corrected, I realized that I didn’t want them anywhere near my money and escalated to the regulators.

When I tried to close my account they refused since there was still an account (not mine) associated with my email.

Thanks for letting me know about the close account button. I already knew there was a happy path, I was pointing out that PayPal doesn’t have a good customer facing process for issues that can’t be solved normally.
> I have little respect for when people complain that just coming into an office will affect their mental health outcomes.

I have shovelled many tons of chicken shit. I have also felt the stress of my screw-up jeopardizing a multi-million dollar contract the company depends on.

There are many many advantages to a tech job. But shovelling chicken shit is better for your mental health.
What we need are new antitrust laws, not only to breakup or tax megacorps, but also to breakup consolidation of control from investment firms (private equity but also others). Without this, there is no real fair playing field for competition.
Which capabilities are being shown off here? The ability to take an already existing world-model and take lots of compute to have a worse, less correct model?
> It seems entirely appropriate to refer to the 6502's Zero Page as "registers" given that 1) it barely has any others,

Enough to write any program, mind.

> and 2) the very fundamental for modern software base+offset addressing mode exists only using two zero page bytes as the base.

Correction: base indirect + offset.
I don't think lucid dreaming is a requirement for this. Whenever I dream my environment morphs into another one, scene by scene, things I try to get details from, like the content of a text, refuse to show clearly enough to extract any meaningful information from it, no matter what I try.
What counts?

The current head NASA admin (a political appointee) did it a few hours ago and it's retweeted on the official @NASA account.

(not linking as peer comment already did)
How would giving Ukraine nuclear warheads solve anything?
Dying of BBS and XMODEM fame sounds painful.

Can dang or another mod move the parenthetical modifier?
Easily 10 bpm and if it gets more intense around 150 bpm levels it is over 25 bpm. The watch is lower most of the time or delayed by 10 seconds at least. This is consistent with the 3 different brands I used. I just use the watch as a "your heart is getting faster" notification.
As much as I love the sentiment, these sorts of pieces (written or verbal) always contain contradictions, usually important ones relative to the claims.
Or off the CPU regardless, mind.
Yes I encounter that too but for things in just the last few months with o1

It is really difficult if you need project flags and configurations to make things work, instead of just code

Github issues gets crawled, where many of these frameworks have their community
I read the article and still don’t get it. Anyone want ELI5?
There has been some kind of beef between Elon Musk and the Biden administration even before Musk's public right-wing turn. For example Biden has given speeches praising US EV vehicle manufacturers and not mentioning Tesla but mentioning all their competitors.
> Keep in mind Vandenburg has been a military rocket launch site for decades.

Not one of which ever returned to base with a sonic boom.

I assure you, the folks who tried to kill goats via mental powers and staring at them have required weirder tests than the seal.
Tell HN: I'm in a terrible Google Maps experiment on iOS
For the past few weeks, I’ve been part of an experiment group for Google Maps on iOS. The main visible change is that the “X” to close a place view has moved from the search bar to the view itself.

This update has made the app borderline unusable:

- Layers icon disappeared (can’t look at satellite view, etc). Sometimes it reappears but doesn’t trigger any action.

- Selecting places on the map often does not update the place view (tapping on restaurant B after viewing restaurant A, but still showing details about restaurant A)

- Performance is at least 2x worse (on an iPhone 15 Pro). The app becomes totally unusable when the phone is in Low Power Mode.

- Saved pins (eg. Favorites) often do not appear or take a while to appear.

I’ve tried reporting feedback multiple times and haven’t heard a response. This is on the latest version of iOS. Others I’ve talked to do not have this enabled, so I’m guessing this is all fallout from an experiment.

Has anyone else been gated into this?
Completely irrelevant, considering my private residence is not a corporation and doesn't generate anywhere near the same revenue. Nor does the "bug" involve having several months of context on how an IT system operates.

Nor does it entail the same amount of liability in case something goes wrong. The failure mode for running a cable is...there's no cable connecting the 2 points.