skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found there are a couple biases that people have, and scripting is viewed as not-real-programming. I thought maybe because there's no binaries, no compiling, but python seems to get a pass.

I recall another bias from the past regarding windows administration. People looked down on windows administration as a real job, I believe because it was gui-based and "anyone can use a gui".

On the other hand, I have also seen a lot of people hamstring themselves.

One friend I knew was exceptional at math and actually quite a proficient fortran programmer. He had a lot of experience, but he was just missing a few key concepts. For example, some function with tricky arguments, he would just call it a bunch of times in a row instead of figuring out how to use a loop.

Or people who hunt and peck, have been doing it for decades, know exactly where all the keys are, but only want to use their index fingers to type.

I think there are some people who are SO CLOSE, but lack a few bridges to fluency or independence or something similar. Sort of frustrating to see from the outside.
I'm saying the intelligence factor doesn't matter. Only the utility factor. Today LLMs are incredibly useful and every few months there appears to be bigger and bigger leaps.

Analyzing whether or not LLMs have intelligence is missing the forest from the trees. This technology is emerging in a capitalist society that is hyper optimized to adopt useful things at the expense of almost everything else. If the utility/price point gets hit for a problem, it will replace it regardless of if it is intelligent or not.
Do you expect others to do every little thing for you? You don't need a manual. The filing forms are right there on your county court website. Learning how to deal with this stuff on your own is part of becoming an adult in the real world. Sometimes you have to expend a little time and effort.
Yes, man, for 20+ years you are peddling some politically favored theory, supposedly doing experimental studies (by 2013 already getting at least $3.75M dollars in grants - https://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/09/apf-grant ), and you have no idea that your theory is total BS until suddenly somebody else failed to reproduce yours and/or similar studies, and that is exactly when political climate is changing 180. It isn't a science, it is an ideology department serving whatever political regime is in power at any given moment.
Reverse Engineering – Lesson 1: x86 Course (Part 1: Goals)
Request: When I use NewPipe, I can drop a YT URL into the search bar, which then treats it just like an address, more or less immediately playing the video

This would be nice to see in GreyJay.

Edit: Oh never mind! I just took the update, and it is in the can now!

You guys rock. Thank you.
> Software development seemed rapid and exciting until about Halo or Half Life 2, then it was shallow but shiny press releases for 15 years

The transition seems to map well to the point where engines got sophisticated enough, that highly dedicated high-schoolers couldn't keep up. Until then, people would routinely make hobby game engines (for games they'd then never finish) that were MVPs of what the game industry had a year or three earlier. I.e. close enough to compete on visuals with top photorealistic games of a given year - but more importantly, this was a time where you could do cool nerdy shit to impress your friends and community.

Then Unreal and Unity came out, with a business model that killed the motivation to write your own engine from scratch (except for purely educational purposes), we got more games, more progress, but the excitement was gone.

Maybe it's just a spurious correlation, but it seems to track with:

> and only became so again when OpenAI's InstructGPT was demonstrated.

Which is again, if you exclude training SOTA models - which is still mostly out of reach for anyone but a few entities on the planet - the time where anyone can do something cool that doesn't have a better market alternative yet, and any dedicated high-schooler can make truly impressive and useful work, outpacing commercial and academic work based on pure motivation and focus alone (it's easier when you're not being distracted by bullshit incentives like user growth or making VCs happy or churning out publications, farming citations).

It's, once again, a time of dreams, where anyone with some technical interest and a bit of free time can make the future happen in front of their eyes.
A progression of projects that comes to mind:

1) CI and IAC that deploy a web app running in a container

2) Add horizontal scaling and load balancer

3) Add long running tasks / scheduled task support

4) Deploys will likely break long running tasks. Implement blue/green or rolling deploys or some other sort of advanced deployment scheme

5) Implement rollbacks
Is INT 2fH the DOS equivalent of PATH? What a bizarre mechanism, I've read it 2 times and I have no idea what it's saying lol:

http://vitaly_filatov.tripod.com/ng/asm/asm_011.16.html
Nice! I don't use Spotify but the Apple Health ones are really cool :)

FYI it doesn't seem to work on macOS, it lets you install it from the Mac App Store and step through the onboarding but it seems like it doesn't have the Health data API you're using. It doesn't request access to anything and just carries on, then "get started" doesn't do anything.

On iOS it works great though! One small thing I noticed is that after the onboarding it was showing the health visualisations as still requiring me to connect. After a few taps it updated and worked though.
I think you'd have to demonstrate that the forces on its motion were dominated by motion relative to the galactic centre more than other effects, to get there.
Sadly most tea bags do in fact contain plastic, and are not compostable. Compostable tea bags will almost definitely say they are compostable on the packaging. As a tea lover though, I recommend loose-leaf tea and using a metal infuser cage or basket! It tastes better, it's better for the environment, and it's better for you (no plastics). The only downside is slightly more cleanup and maintenance.
Well, you see, while the original comment says they could play at 5x speed, it does not say it plays at that speed well or play it beautifully. Any teacher or any student who learned piano for a while will tell you that this matters a lot, especially for classical music -- being able to accurately play at an even tempo with the correct dynamics and articulation is hard and is what differentiates a beginner/intermediate player from an advanced one. In fact, one mistake many students make is playing a piece too fast when they are not ready, and teachers really want students to practice very slowly.

My point is -- being able to zip a jacket is all about those subtle actions, and could actually be harder than "just" playing piano fast.
What? Is this what this is? Either this is a complete joke or we're missing something.

I've been doing similar stuff in Claude for months and it's not that impressive when you see how limited they really are when going non boilerplate.
Not saying this isn’t a scam, but on the phone number thing…

I sometimes leave my phone number off my CV, because

(a) I hate phone calls: the sound quality is shit and I have trouble understanding people. I much prefer zoom/teams/whatever

(b) I hate it when people (either hiring managers or recruiters) phone me while I’m in an interview… not handing out my phone number to all and sundry helps me avoid that

I’d really hate it if people interpreted “no phone number on CV” as meaning “probably a scammer” :-(
Agree with your assumption, but then I also know that developers often read recommendations and convert them into dogma, ignoring the specifics for when those recommendations should be applied.

Early in my career I taught programmers and I was horrified to come back to one client and find they followed my advice, but not where it applied meaning that what they did was actively harmful.

Ever since that, I realized when a developer makes a recommendation they need to be very explicit about when it applies otherwise they are doing more harm than good and hopefully someone will publicly challenge their recommendation to bring their unstated qualifications to light.
By far the greatest issue facing humanity today is wealth inequality.
To me the bigger question is why aren't these polyglot/universal build tools more widely adopted and adapted? Why are we still spending so much effort in developing and working around language-specific tools that inevitably fall short? You'd think that we'd be at least closing on converging to some common standard tool, but in reality I don't really see that happening right now. I realize that something like Bazel can seem very daunting right now, but how much of that is really inevitable and how much is it just missing libraries/tools/practices?

For me the most interesting aspect of these "new" build tools is not even the monorepo management or scalability, but just the convenience of having one common tool and also having more eyeballs to polish that one tool.
> about batteries is that they're a fire hazard.

yes, although they are statistically much safer than fridges, or combined washer driers. (unless you include cheap e-bikes or hoverboards...)

I don't have mine inside the house, its very much outside with a wooden lintel supporting a surprisingly sandy flower trough.

I also have micro inverters, because they are more efficient, and less fucking noisy. They are also, as you hint at, much safer. Partly because they are not switching ~400v DC but also because they don't need to handle as much power.
Let them send you to collections. So what. You can just dispute the debt with the credit bureaus and it won't appear on your reports.
oh crap. lol!
Purpose build robots are basically solved. Dishwashers, laundry machines, assembly robots, etc. the moat is a general purpose robot that can do what a human can do.
They can handle almost all weather except snow. Freeways are coming soon. From what I heard, San Francisco is way above average in terms of driving difficulty.
> It’s not practical to put a train station or bus stop at every corner.

Tell that to Dublin Bus. Some routes are more or less unusable due to ridiculously high numbers of stops; there’s one in particular near me which has 37 stops over about 4km.

There are large parts of the suburbs here where you’re never more than a couple hundred meters from a bus stop. The last mile is, for much of the city, just not a problem, though when taken to extremes it does make the routes very slow.
SUBST to this day is how you solve long file name problems. One drive for business can make a very long path if it uses your full business name. Windows has the api to let some apps apps save long sob folders, but not to let Explorer or powershell delete those folders.

You go on folder up and use subst to make a drive letter from which you can delete content.
The "clone the entire address space and then call exec" idiom is indeed wildly inefficient -- that's why the horror which is vfork was invented -- but I'm not convinced that putting everything which sits between fork and execve into io_uring (or, as a comment snarkily suggests, ebpf) is the solution. There's just too many things userland might want to do.

I wonder if the best solution lies somewhere in the vicinity of "fork but only copy a small part of the address space" -- rather than copying the entire address space as in fork (only to use a tiny portion and throw away the rest) or copying none of the address space as in vfork (the paging tables are shared between parent and child until exec) if we can identify what memory the child will need to access before calling _exit or exec (say, "the current function and its local variables") then we could create an address space with just a few paging tables entries.

Kind of like the "zygote" forking model (early in the main process lifetime, a zygote process gets forked off, and when the main process wants another worker it asks the zygote to fork one off) except that the "zygote" is more like an induced pluripotent stem cell, having been reverted from an adult state.
i didn't know you could do that! how does one volunteer to teach a course?
Let's see that Turing machines can approximate the execution of NN :) That's why there are issues related to numerical precision, but the contrary is also true indeed, NNs can discover and use similar techniques used by traditional algorithms. However: the two remain two different methods to do computations, and probably it's not just by chance that many things we can't do algorithmically, we can do with NNs, what I mean is that this is not just related to the fact that NNs discover complex algorithms via gradient descent, but also that the computational model of NNs is more adapt to solving certain tasks. So the inference algorithm of NNs (doing multiplications and other batch transformations) is just needed for standard computers to approximate the NN computational model. You can do this analogically, and nobody would claim much (maybe?) it's running an algorithm. Or that brains themselves are algorithms.
It seems like we're talking past each other. My main point, as stated in the parent response, is that there is a plausible future where energy prices, adjusted for inflation, could decline rather than continually increase.

Many here are relying on inductive reasoning, arguing that since this hasn't happened historically, it can't happen in the future. I'm presenting a counterpoint: with current technology and 20 years of advancement, this outcome is entirely possible.

To clarify, I'm not suggesting that mobile generators and solar panels would be free. Rather, the energy they generate could become effectively free. The current challenge is that centralized grids are often necessary because we can't store enough solar energy in batteries. However, with advancements in battery technology over the next 20 years, it could become possible to go completely grid-less. If that happens, we could see significantly lower energy prices—something we should remain as open to as the possibility of higher prices, all on an inflation-adjusted basis.
Since it’s a policy that Google’s advertisers have to agree to, it seems like it’s silent on whatever Google might do themselves?

(Yes, that’s contrary to the headline. That’s why I find it confusing.)
> It is a factor in why CRDT/OT posts and libraries get regularly upvoted on HN. A lot of us want a good, easy to use baseline. A lot of us are searching for that and/or thinking we can build that.

Do you have any views on the easiest way to do two-way syncing for a web app if you want to avoid relying on propriety services, or a complex niche framework? This comes up for me every few years and I'm always disappointed there isn't a no-brainer way yet to get a 80% good enough solution.
Yes they do. If you subscribe to Google One.

https://support.google.com/googleone/
I’m the author of this post! <3

Happy to answer any questions you might have, and love to hear feedback good and bad.
You could use a solar sail to project a satellite towards the sun.
Minicomputer at the time was considered a system that fits in a rack or three. Not something that requires a purpose built room with own mains, raised floor and AC.
> if anyone wants to shut off you but not them they need to come to your house and physically disconnect the line

I'm not in the UK, but I gather my utility can do a radio controlled disconnect (they may need to come onsite to reconnect). I would hope that wouldn't be used to enable a virtual brown out for customers of a particular energy marketplace, but I think it's a capability of many communicating meters.
They are often times grouped together because the people writing this blogs, articles, newspapers were never in a poly relation and have no clue about the topic they are writing (but of course they have an opinion without the experience and think it's ok to sell an opinion or morale piece as more than it is).
>Add last-mile and model for the real American population distribution. Not an imagined America where everyone lives on Manhattan.

Last I checked, Waymo also operates exclusively in urban areas.
Go pick up "The Molecular Biology of the Cell" and come back to me after a month of reading it, and then you will have learned perhaps 10% of the knowledge required to specialize in endocrinology.

Some things are just complex! Programming as a field is "complex" but compared to any actual scientific field it probably the simplest to learn, pick up and understand. There's a reason why Doctors and Lawyers are highly paid and take forever to train.

Techbros have already tried to reinvent the wheel in other fields — crypto payments and metamed come to mind. Metamed learned that "actually, medicine is really absurdly difficult and you can't just instantly automate the job of a doctor with Technology" the hard way, and crypto payments are learning "why financial infrastructure and regulation exists in the first place", the hard way (through losing billions of dollars over and over again through exploits and ponzi schemes). I suspect that soon techbros like you will try to invent the legal system from scratch and learn why laws and the legal system are that way, hopefully it won't be the hard way! (Through a revolution)
CFPB Sues America's Largest Banks for 'Allowing Fraud to Fester' on Zelle
I wish more people that are cheering him as a hero would at least acknowledge this difference. That people killing people because THEY feel they are guilty is a bad thing. That's what the law is for, and courts, and juries. If we devolve into vigilantism we are in trouble. Any perceived sleight will become a reason to celebrate cold blooded murder.

I also would like to point out that there will be many libs/people on the left that will be up in arms about the courts using "novel" ways to prosecute him. This "unusual" method, etc... they'll rail against it.

Yet, they cheered using any novel method, unusual method, legal or illegal method to get Trump. Get him at any cost, they shouted.

Now they see the slippery slope that happens when justice isn't applied fairly and blindly.
The Sheppard line is real. It was constructed about 20 years ago. I have used it.
Thanks for the reply, I will give Grayjay a shot.

I think just letting the primary account specify creators/channels and then have a sub accounts with no ability to modify would be sufficient.

Im sure there are already all sorts of recommendation groups or sites, maybe just provide links to quality ones?
Question: Is there any way to induce randomness? Given two lists, instructions that say "Pick a random item from each list" consistently returns the same two items.
“Fun” fact: prions can survive an autoclave!
I am no botanist

But I think the DNA degrades over time

Mēh! What we do not understand about genetics matters more than what we do....

I am no botanist
it's absolutely stunning
Tutorials can't be Show HN's - take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

You can post this without the Show HN, though.
Offhand the only drug-like thing I remember from that series is the nutrition bars that had 0 calories that most of the school got addicted to. Or maybe the cheerleader that got bee pheromones and started controlling the rest of the students.

Aside - I just learned a month ago that there's an official followup miniseries that brought back several of the original actors, titled "Echoes", with hopefully more coming since it's called Season 1. Came out over 2022-2023: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHGrvCp5nsDJ1qSoKZEmm... (the trailers are at the bottom of the playlist)
1) if you don't exclusively have the private key (wallet), you don't own the crypto. if someone else gets the private key unwittingly, they now own the crypto

2) split cumulative funds into two wallets, a "hot" wallet and a "cold" wallet. keep the funds in the "hot" wallet to no more than for which total unintentional loss is tolerable. keep the private key to the "cold" wallet off any internet connected device except for the minimum duration required to transfer funds to the hot wallet.

3) print the recovery phrase for the cold wallet and store it in a physically secure location

4) if an ideally secure physical location is not possible, split risk across multiple "cold" wallets
Lots of people still don't quite understand their debit card. No way they're going to learn how private keys work.

Still might some sense as an institutional store of value though I guess.
couldn't find the syllabus

deploy something like cassandra and make a system that can update the kernel on the servers running the databases without downtime or losing data

or come up with some distrubuted blob store thing/cdn for world wide users

my whole career has been automating updates for software or operating systems lol
go through the list in every state and find every success medical procedure by every doctor and then compare that to the number from your laundry list and see where that gets you.

so some doctors fuck up? sure they do, I am sure you fucked up at your job tens if not hudreds of times. the mate that posted original comment singled out a single doctor
who turned out to be a monster. using that kind of parody I can single out hundreds of good doctors across every state in the country.

would I sue someone for medical malpractice if I deemed I was a victim of it? absolutely! I am not saying you do not have a right to sue if you feel like you a victim of medical malpractice, I took an issue with original comment which singled out a specific monster who slipped through many cracks to end up at some random hospital who is now somehow at fault that he is deep down a monster
Came here to post exactly this. Mainly for the sample of Jo'Bril, obviously.
Set boundaries. And gently, kindly, politely stick to them firmly.

Allow things that are not within your boundary to fail, and the people who are responsible for those things to also fail.

Document everything. Have a conversation with someone? Send an email with meeting notes to those involved.

Take a deep breath and realize that you cannot short circuit the learning process you're in with other people, even though the lesson is obvious to you.
Grayjay dev here. What you suggest you can already do in the Grayjay Android app. Support has not been added in the desktop app yet. Harbor is the app you can use to claim that you own a specific account and then you can configure for example which Merch to show. It supports the largest storefronts if you input an URL it will automatically scrape that specific page and cache the results. You can however also input a JSON.
There is a useful distinction between "wanting" and "attachment", but one usually turns into the other. Your mention of room temp superconductors is ironic since they have all been precisely attachment-driven frauds that start with wanting.
Good question. I haven't found this to be an issue yet, perhaps because of the infrequency with which resources are accessed.

With that said, I can't guarantee this is not an issue. There are a few feeds that return errors that I need to investigate.