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New comment by 100k in ""Poetry City": Iowa City, Iowa"

100k — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:04:42 +0000

If song lyrics count, Eleni Mandell's "Iowa City" is the poem that will always stick in my mind about that town.

  Girls, the boys don't cheat in Iowa City
  Iowa City nothing to do
  Now they're crisp and they're clean
  Iowa City
  Iowa Iowa
  Skies are blue
  
  Not so, Chicago
  Never, New York
  When you're off and you're looking for something
  What will you do?
  Where will you go?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_mpBLD6_V0

New comment by 100k in "Hunt for Red October 1990 (2016)"

100k — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 17:23:41 +0000

If you like this movie, I recommend Jamelle Bouie and John Ganz's podcast "Unclear and Present Danger" (the name is a riff on Clancy as well) which covers the political and military thrillers of the 1990s and how they dealt with the United States' changing place in the world after the end of the Cold War.

They have done two episodes on this movie:

https://jamellebouie.net/unclear-and-present-danger/2021/10/...

https://jamellebouie.net/unclear-and-present-danger/2022/10/...

New comment by 100k in "Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?"

100k — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:40:26 +0000

Seconded! This was my favorite talk at Strange Loop (including my own).

New comment by 100k in "My Last Column: Finding Hope in an Age of Resentment"

100k — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 19:08:57 +0000

As someone who was against the Iraq war, it's hard to express how important Paul Krugman's columns were to me at the time. It felt like the world had gone mad, but he provided an island of sanity. And he was right about the war.

I also appreciate Krugman's rediscovery of current music as an older person. It encouraged me to keep exploring.

My favorite Krugman moment is him visiting the White House after he won the Nobel Prize. This photo of him with Bush (who he'd been railing on for 8 solid years) is priceless: https://freakonomics.com/2008/11/bush-congratulates-krugman/

New comment by 100k in "Federal investigators probe Tether"

100k — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 21:03:09 +0000

Zeke Faux's Number Go Up (https://www.amazon.com/Number-Go-Up-Cryptos-Staggering/dp/05...) started as an investigation into Tether. He found some extremely suspect clues, but he wasn't able to crack it. Hopefully the feds are able to shed some light on it.

New comment by 100k in "Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game published"

100k — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 17:21:35 +0000

It's quite fun, I played a lot of it during the pandemic. It's sort of like Advance Wars, but when you lose you can choose to send one of your leveled up characters back in time, which lets you use them again in a new game.

New comment by 100k in "The Rust calling convention we deserve"

100k — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 00:53:58 +0000

Yes, you can use CGO to call Rust functions using extern "C" FFI. I gave a talk about how we use it for GitHub code search at RustConf 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYdlqhb267c) and afterwards I talked to some other folks (like 1Password) who are doing similar things.

It's not a lot of fun because moving types across the C interop boundary is tedious, but it is possible and allows code reuse.

New comment by 100k in "Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town"

100k — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 23:58:33 +0000

There's some interesting companies in this space.

https://gofourth.com/ - focusing on grid storage, uses graphite (carbon) and liquid tin for heat transfer

https://antoraenergy.com/ - industrial heat and electricity

https://rondo.com/ - industrial heat

You can find interviews with their founders on the Volts podcast.

New comment by 100k in "Standard Ebooks"

100k — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 19:19:02 +0000

I’m happy to see Standard Ebooks here! I’ve read their editions of Nostromo by Joseph Conrad and Vanity Fair by William Thackeray and the quality great. I recommend it if you’re interested in classic literature.

New comment by 100k in "Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?"

100k — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:06:47 +0000

Yes. The concepts apply to all programming languages. The exercises use multiple programming languages. For example, one exercise has you explore the Git source code (which is in C) to learn how to use a program's data structures to understand an unfamiliar codebase. Other examples have you find bugs in Python code or write Java.

New comment by 100k in "Lessons from building GitHub code search [video]"

100k — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 20:31:35 +0000

Yeah, we need to do better on the visibility of this for owners. And we're trying to scale the system so it's not a problem at all. In the meanwhile, you can ask support to index all the repos in your orgs and we can take care of it.

New comment by 100k in "Lessons from building GitHub code search [video]"

100k — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 18:55:51 +0000

I hear you, but we didn't break this for no reason. We rewrote our entire code search stack to support features it didn't before, like exact match, regular expressions, indexing forks, navigating to where methods are defined, not timing out constantly, etc. None of that was possible in the old system. Unfortunately, the architecture we chose to make the new features possible made some of the features of the old system difficult. We made the choice to focus on things we believe (more) users get (more) value out of.

New comment by 100k in "Lessons from building GitHub code search [video]"

100k — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 18:25:03 +0000

It refers to the geometric progression of bucket sizes used in the data structure.

New comment by 100k in "Lessons from building GitHub code search [video]"

100k — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 18:07:29 +0000

It means that we have a result limit. If a term matches in a lot of files, not all the hits will be shown.

New comment by 100k in "Lessons from building GitHub code search [video]"

100k — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:52:29 +0000

Tree-sitter is very cool! We use it to power semantic analysis for GitHub code search.

New comment by 100k in "Lessons from building GitHub code search [video]"

100k — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:51:03 +0000

For the repositories not in the index, we do show a message to try again later. For documents that have been excluded, we agree we need better visibility.

New comment by 100k in "Lessons from building GitHub code search [video]"

100k — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 15:59:36 +0000

(I gave this talk and work on code search.)

Sorry you've had a frustrating experience with the product. When we look into complaints about missing results, it's almost always one of two things. First, the repository is not indexed yet, but searching triggers indexing. Future searches work. Second, the files or the repo hit our documented limitations (https://docs.github.com/en/search-github/github-code-search/...). I think these limits are pretty reasonable, but we need to do a better job making it clear why content isn't in the index.

New comment by 100k in "Lessons from building GitHub code search [video]"

100k — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 07:52:37 +0000

Thanks for sharing, that's good feedback.

New comment by 100k in "Lessons from building GitHub code search [video]"

100k — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 07:51:21 +0000

We'll definitely blog about it (https://github.blog/). His handle is https://github.com/aneubeck (it's on the thank you slide of my talk btw)

New comment by 100k in "Lessons from building GitHub code search [video]"

100k — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 07:37:12 +0000

Please see my other comment about why this is difficult: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38638214