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option_greek··on Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases
A lot of this tracks but misses the variations in what the models in general are good for.
option_greek··on Microsoft Says Windows May Need Up to 8 Hours to Update
We do get update notifications in many linux distros as well. I guess the difference is how aggressive the windows updates are. Its like having a gun to the head if at all there give a choice in the first place. The fact that windows is still kicking around with these shitty ux practices says how low the desktop or laptop market must mean to companies these days.
option_greek··on Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs
Not specific to tesla but I guess the answer is in your question. Most likely all the current self driving efforts across board will fail till we have smart roads. A road that can help a vehicle self drive will ensure the complexity of self driving is reduced. And of course that might mean these roads will have to be human driver, pedestrian free.
option_greek··on Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy
How about something like an SLA for power?

Clearly, placing any country's energy security in the hands of ever changing climate (less winds and high cloud cover) or at the feet of dictators has to factor in some where.

option_greek··on Man found guilty of ‘grossly offensive’ tweet
And hire who?

Its not like the job is very appealing in current environment. The risk of either dying on job or getting imprisoned due to domestic disturbance calls gone wrong is very high. Not to mention, a lot of cops not showing up situation seem to be in line with the demands of general public who instead want to mental health workers to show up for handling a variety of scenarios.

option_greek··on Ask HN: At a peak of my dev career, I hate my life
Very well put. Not just tall/short but physical beauty in general tends to push or pull people with it in a particular direction (be it career/friendships/relationships). To think of it in another way, they are as much trapped with it as the person with bad looks whether they want it or not.

For many good looking people, its a big problem when the short span of these once awesome physical attributes start to reach its eventual decline. They don't have any self confidence and self worth not tied to their looks. And from then on a its a life long fight to keep looking the same through cosmetics or surgery.

option_greek··on Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia
Science is ever changing. After trying this out my self, I can say with confidence that current state of myopic management with glasses will be deemed as quackery on par with drinking crude oil to cure diseases in past centuries.

Near work imposed in schools and wearing glasses constantly is the reason for current myopia epidemic as can be evidenced by low myopia rates in schools following western curriculum that is more holistic in nature.

option_greek··on Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia
Checkout endmyopia for similar alternative therapy to glasses.
option_greek··on In Argentina, inflation is a way of life
Its not a distribution. Its a dilution. The rich gets richer as they have most of their savings and capital in form that is not taxable and also set to rise with markets and real estate. The poor and middle class have much smaller percentage of income working for them and not usually have access to high growth opportunities.
option_greek··on In Argentina, inflation is a way of life
> A financial device called Overnight, were you would convert your brazilian currency (had many names) into USD at night and then convert it back to BR on the next day

Who eats the loss from the fluctuations in this case? Any idea how the providers used to hedge against the risk.

option_greek··on Nvidia prepares to abandon $40B Arm bid
Wow that's an interesting read. So anyone who holds a rubber stamp of a company can steal the whole company? That's some screwed up legal system.
option_greek··on Web3 and crypto skepticism is growing and people are finally starting to listen
It's not a given that real estate has intrinsic value. Sure properties which are in high demand today will continue to do so tomorrow. But not all properties are like that. You can look at several foreclosed properties in 2008 bubble. Many continue to be in rundown state (both commercial and residential). Because the costs of renovation, taxes, utilities, insurances when included makes the property a losing proposition.
option_greek··on Web3 and crypto skepticism is growing and people are finally starting to listen
But then jury is out on whether there will ever be a bear market (or in other words will the central banks ever allow one). Also whether anything else (real estate, stocks or other assets) can survive it.
option_greek··on Ask HN: Gmail account security
Could be that IP Address/ISP reputation is also a factor for the variation in results.
option_greek··on Ask HN: Gmail account security
Use private mode exclusively. You will start getting into the captcha hell in a day or two.
option_greek··on Dude where's my coldstart?
So this serverless solution has a watchdog process always running and mapping requests to the correct process? It that more like a server than serverless? Will the next optimisation be launching one thread per request? In which case we are back to square one (:
option_greek··on WebAssembly: The New Kubernetes?
The ingress can be free with Nginx but not the inbound firewall rule that passes the traffic to Nginx. And 'coincidentally' it costs the same $ as using their load balancer which automatically has this rule applied.
option_greek··on WebAssembly: The New Kubernetes?
More and more it appears that k8s is designed to extract maximum value from the tenants of the cloud companies.

You need to connect your cluster to public Internet? No problem that's $x for each load balancer (whether its needed or not).

Ohh you are feeling the whole thing feels like a blackbox and difficult to debug or observe? No problem that is $x for data dog.

Gcp is the worst when it comes to setting up k8s with preemptive nodes. Thought you could get away with preemptive nodes? Not so fast, we restart all the nodes together at end of 24 hours period so that your multi node cluster will have zero availability for 5 minutes everyday. Or jump through hoops to killing your own nodes periodically to keep them all restarting at the same time.

option_greek··on Tricking PostgreSQL into using an insane, but faster, query plan
I'm not sure what value your harsh tone adds to your comment. Sharing experiences like this publicly benefits everyone. It obviously exposes blindspots in one's knowledge and it is expected that noone knows everything. That is the point of the. Comments functionality in HN. So that we can all share things that we know and absorb things we don't.

I personally enjoyed this article and learnt a few things from it. I learnt a few things from your comment too but it would have been better without all the harsh words.

option_greek··on It takes $420k per year to run Lichess
I guess that's a literal interpretation but the OP's comparison serves the same purpose. It's sad that he has an edit option where he can clarify/correct to phrase it differently if he chooses to but continues to have it stay the same.
option_greek··on India's richest man pouring $80B into green energy, including new ventures
Because its not easy to get fuel for nuclear reactors as there is an ever lasting cloud on India's nuclear status.

Existing reactors also run on partial capacity due to lack of fuel. What little is produced in the country has to be rationed between defence and electricity generation.

option_greek··on Rust in 2022
I continue to be surprised by this despite logging some good number of Rust hours. Cargo run and it just works as expected even with complicated data sharing code etc.

Of course most of the work gets done by the compiler safe guarding and guiding during development. People make noise about lifetimes etc but once you are ready to pay the penalty of Arc (and in most cases if you are using lifetimes you are already on the verge of using Arc). Same with using cloning as needed. End of the day, these incur a predictable and acceptable performance penalty than many other languages do while providing good safety.

option_greek··on What NPM should do to stop a new colors attack
There should be a reputation score for new releases on npm with scores from beta users who are part of the community. Sounds similar to app store but more community controlled.

In general, there should be a risk assessment score on npm for each package sourced automatically from different criteria like how many maintainers are there in a project, ownership changes etc.

Also, making the new package available only to few % of random users would have limited the impact.

Overall this pull with complete trust is just asking for trouble.

And yeah, this developer needs to be committed to a facility for his own good (if this doesn't qualify him for that then I don't know what will).

option_greek··on Ask HN: I’m starting a new job and things feel off. Am I overreacting?
The flags sound real and its lucky for you they are showing up early. I would suggest to talk to someone in the inside through your network (may be from another team). If that chat doesn't seem to go well, then definitely back off this offer and start interviewing again.
option_greek··on Bitcoin mining is being banned in countries across the globe
Wow that's insane. They should start with banning power hungry data centers whose whole purpose is to serve ads first.
option_greek··on Upwork asking me for a $12.5k refund as the client was using someone else’s card
Upwork is a shitty and unethical company. Their website sucks and app doubly so. They make a lot money but have the worst product.

So next time, any one on HN thinks about writing yet another todo app, think about disrupting freelancing industry and upwork. It won't be cool and won't make HN top page most likely but it will most likely be a product and monitory success.

option_greek··on Mozilla's call for cryptocurrency donations angers founder
How do we know puppy killers aren't donating money already using traditional means?
option_greek··on The Coverage of Theranos Is Utter Bullshit (2015)
You mean not aging really well? Just compare rise in gold prices in last 10 years to equities or commodities or real estate or crypto.
option_greek··on Databases in 2021: A Year in Review
You can always use an ORM which provides better usability for developers. End of the day rdbms model is suited for a wide variety of workloads and there are several other factors in play while choosing a good db including eco system, cloud vendor support, migrations, performance etc.
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