skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The effort is admirable, but I don't see this fixing the problem. An important part of the evaluation of academics is the reputation of the journals they publish in, and that reputation is primarily driven by the "impact" of their publications, in the worst cases measured by the Impact Factor [1]. Negative results usually just don't have what is understood as impact by evaluators. This means that there is little incentive to actually publish negative results here, and that those results will likely always be disproportionately outnumbered by selective results - unless the evaluation system changes.

In other words: I don't think scarcity of publication venues is the main reason few negative results get published.

(Disclosure: I'm involved with another project that hopes to alleviate the problem. [2])

[1] https://medium.com/flockademic/the-ridiculous-number-that-ca...

[2] https://medium.com/flockademic/why-replication-studies-are-n...
The post makes it sound as if Go being Google's language (not the community's) is a bad thing. I don't see where this sentiment is coming from as the strong opinions enforced by Go core devs is probably one of the defining features of Go.

As with many open source projects under benevolent dictatorship, this can result in streamlined and consistent features with long-term success.
Achievements and Rewards:
I try to setup some sub-goals over 2-3 weeks, which i'll try to achieve. If I'm successfully, I reward myself with something nice.
Programming Language for Game Development
For a lot of long term Sky subscribers (myself included) that £70 per month is a result of many years of small price hikes.

It's easy to say 'just ditch Sky', but when the hard disk inside your sky receiver is full of downloaded/recorded content that isn't available for free anywhere else (so you'd have to pay for it again), it's hard to actually break away from the service.

For those that aren't aware, the content that is stored on your Sky receiver is encrypted to the boxes serial number AND your viewing card. According to Sky, it's impossible to copy the content to another box (even as part of a Sky Q upgrade), let alone extract it for viewing on another platform.

Sky use this tactic to lock the customers in.
The concept of generics/parametric polymorphism has existed decades prior to that in languages like SML and proven to work rather well.
where do people get the idea that british were nice in India? They killed millions in WW2 famines alone (to fund the war campaign). The reprisals after 1857 mutiny is said to have killed 10 million Indians. Right there from two incidents you have 15 million deaths. British were much more save than the Nazis when it comes to genocide of "others", colonization, savagery etc. They get a free pass in the west as opposed to the Nazis simply because British killed Asians, Africans and Native Americans when Nazis killed fellow whites. This is pure racism.
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I don't have the stats to back this up, bit that all seems very niche. I have to imagine you get downvoted because people don't recognize these as real requirements. I needed not a single one of these. Ever.
That's again due to incompetence and not a fault of RPM. My own spec files build cleanly across both without any additional effort. It's not rocket science but insight.
£110/month to watch adverts? No thanks.
It's not about being careful (they are--but always with the baggage of backwards compatibility), it's about not having a soul.

Java has made a U-turn in adding streams and related functional features on top of a language that used to be strongly for OOP (actually defining the meaning of OOP for a generation of developers.)

These different paradigms together make for code that does not read the same no matter who writes it.

I love how Go code usually ends up being extremely similar, no matter who write is. (Actually, Kubernetes is a counter example for this: Go should have gone even further in forcing style.)

If you think that "all code reads the same" is detrimental to developers, you are conflating the idea of developer (problem solver) to that of coder (keyboard typist.)
You guys certainly have product market fit for the free articles (atleast using HN as a proxy) :)

Curious to see if the same reception is there for the paid content, especially given that the topics you cover have a lot of free articles and videos (e.g.: YC has an entire library of it).

Good luck!
And Cyprus. But Croatia is the only EU country not on the "roadmap list" of countries considered to join the program.
My previous job had an excessive amount of technical debt in it's core product. So much so that simple code changes that should have taken a few hours were now taking days, or in some extreme cases weeks. For example there were financial calculations that should have been confined to one class and treated like a black box, but over time bits of the calculation had spread out all over the application from the front end, the server layer and in to the DB. A simple change had a ripple effect on other parts of the application which made bug hunting and testing a slow and laborious process.

After much grumbling from the devs the CEO prepared a presentation where he told us technical debt was our friend. We had a choice to pay down the debt, or add new features. New feature would get us more customers, and more income, which would mean we could hire more developers to eventually pay down the debt. I felt it was a very wishfull thinking type of argument. We were having increasing numbers of outages due to the lack of a proper testing process in our CI pipeline and our DB was massively overloaded. Adding new feature was literally adding to our technical debt and increasing our risk of outages, something that wouldn't help get new customers.

My issue with the above argument is that the problem with debt isn't the amount or type, but the person holding the debt. A 30-something in a safe job (e.g. doctor) earning €100k a year can safely hold €300k of debt, so long as they are responsible and always strive to reduce the amount owed.

A 20 year old working in a fast food joint on minimum wage, but holding €50k of debt is in serious danger. They aren't in a stable job and they aren't being responsible.

Some companies are like the doctor. They have debt, but are responsible and actively work to reduce it. Some are like the 20 year old who thinks that they can deal with it later, oblivious to the rising interest and danger they are putting themselves in.
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> At first I thought JASNH was more an art project than a serious journal. Now I'm not so sure

Perhaps it started out as such? Even if it did it represents a legitimate need, and if there is any field which could embrace an arts project and take it seriously it's the social sciences. I for one would be happy if they did!

(Thanks for the links!)
When my MBP Mid 2010 died, I bought a Samsung Chrome 3 with 4gig of RAM. It runs linux and 80% of the Android apps. And the battery lasts all day. I may never buy another computer.
You didn't exactly share your story, so we have to make stuff up ;)
Never really seen that in practice, code is "touched" but rewritten?
I read taneq's (admittedly sketchy) comment as suggesting that the Gandhian part of the Indian independence struggle was effective not because of its nonviolent tactics, but because of the relatively benign nature of British colonial governance.
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Funny how no other journal has called themselves Series of Highly Impressive Trends.
This seems incomplete.

Humans and most animals tend to naturally resist along a spectrum (sometimes referred to as the force continuum), and for most that spectrum will include violence at the extreme end.

Nonviolent civil resistance scales tends to scale more quickly because there is less at stake for the individual participants under most circumstances. But it's still resistance, and still an indicator that some percentage of the populace has less tolerance for provocation before things begin to turn violent. That's where i think at least some of the effectiveness of the nonviolent approach comes from...the threat of a lot more people turning violent.

About the only thing I would take away from this is that if I want to organize resistance, it might be more effective to spend time marketing it and scaling horizontally first than to flame out on a skirmish and scare possible supporters off. Once the tribe starts to grow, however, it becomes much easier to turn up the heat when necessary.

Also, no tiki torches.
I waiting for F# 'fsi'. It will boost usage of F# where python is used.
This has already been happening for years:

https://www.engadget.com/2014/10/22/technology-changed-produ...
Only Firefox supports extensions that provide an alternative interface to the tab bar. Alternative interfaces such as vertical tabs or tree tabs are very useful if you have many tabs open in a single window. Examples of these extensions:

• Tab Center Reborn – https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/tabcenter-reborn...

• Tree Style Tab – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

• Tree Tabs – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-tabs/
For me, odd things like inability to have a dark dock and titlebar and light windows. Using quickview on a file in Finder and then pressing shift-up used to select the file and the one above it, and then show a preview of the newly selected item. Now in Mojave they "fixed" it so that it shows the preview of the first file only, which is a colossal pain because now I can't filter through a giant list of photos to decide which ones to keep in an easy quick way. I have to look at each file individually.

I am sure I will think of some other annoyances. I've kept a 2012 MBP on Sierra, and love that machine far more, eg. keyboard is actually good and is quiet, real function keys, real ports as found on every other device in the universe, ability to use my audio interface, network ports etc etc
To an extent. Speed is an issue (might be fixed with WSL2). The other issue is that some parts are missing, i.e. systemd.

It gets you pretty far, but not all the way. I guess for most people in most cases its fine.
IIRC, Knuth made it famous (because TAOCP). Often with the naming of these things there is a misalignment with who discovered/published it first and who popularized it first.

(I personally think naming the algorithm after both is a good compromise)
Two other places where we should be rewarding boredom: finance, and politics. There's no reason why good, important work should be correlated with excitement or interest.
Like automatically refreshing materialized views, by which I mean when a base table is changed, the engine uses the definition of the materialized view to run triggers to update materialized view.
I have just created an online application and gaming website with html5
That sounds more like you downloaded it from some top google result site like download.com, cnet or some other sketchy site
I like a lot of these ideas. And eventually it seems like mobile devices is where it could go.

But before we are entirely reliant on mobile, we may be able to do a lot of it on our home computers over the regular internet using decentralized protocols.

But back to mobile, does anyone know of any open decentralized identity solutions that will run on a smartphone?
As long as they dont do away with the Touch Bar, I am not going to get one. People use machines with real keyboards for a reason. Ruining that experience by forcing a touch component onto a keyboard user is just absurd!
I lived in Bristol.

Even in my own little country of the Netherlands there are differences between regions, so I don't doubt that your experience in North England was better. I heard Scotland is a lot better too.
For a show that's famous for having a lot of strong female characters, the gender balance/screen time charts are ... interesting, to say the least. Admittedly fewer words can sometimes be more powerful (cf. Charles Dance's character Tywin Lanister) but the overall trend is nonetheless thought provoking.
Can you elaborate? In what ways, is modern Java a more pleasant experience compared to Go?
Please read 'High Output Management' by Andy Grove.

There has never been a when I kicked myself in the head for not having discovered the book earlier. My better part of 6 years moving into a hazily define leadership role which was a mix of de facto CTO, technical architect, product manager, product development, hands-on developer, people management, project management - had me running in a high-stress environment for ~ 6 years. I think a lot of mismatch of expectations, could have been avoided had I followed the lessons earlier.
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company whose verb has come to mean "to search" has employees who dislike search
It's a nice trick but for some people - like me - it doesn't work. The brain accepts the anticipated emotion on a conscious level, and then proceeds to ignore it.

(I have a fresh case of this just recently; I was procrastinating on a household chore for a week. I was fully aware that I'll feel great if I complete it, and I'll feel really bad if I keep on procrastinating. That awareness did nothing. It took a realization that my sidearm netbook is still powerful enough to play a TV show to motivate me to go and do the chore, under the guise that I can allow myself to watch the show then. 3 hours and 4 episodes later, a whole bunch of chores was done. And I kind of understand now why some people I know like playing TV shows when cooking or cleaning.)
Solidarity in Poland would be an outstanding example of successful non violent civil resistance that was a catalyst for a cascade of largely(but not entirely) non violent revolutions across Eastern Europe and Russia between 89-91.

It is also a successful example of external non-violent support as the CIA provided strictly non violent support in the form of cash, communication, printing, and copying equipment and supplies.

Largely shipped covertly via Swedish maritime cargo and other means.

The key learning point, especially for governments interested in interfering in the affairs of other countries, is that it requires a committed and motivated existing and self sustaining organisation.

In the case of Solidarity/Poland, CIA simply provided some additional momentum to what already existed.

Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan also provides considerable moral support and political capital to put the spotlight on the existent Solidarity.

Not only are non violent movements twice as successful(on average) than violent revolutions, but they are also more sustainable/resilient.

There was an excellent course run out of Harvard JFK School called “Leading Non-Violent Movements for Social Change”.

It was led by Srdja Popovic, founder of Otpor! that helped remove Milosevic fro. Power in Serbia.

Check out CANVAS: https://canvasopedia.org/

Great free resources.
No your intuition is still wrong. It would be almost 6 inches off the floor all the way round the earth.
I don't see how will ever be possible? There are just way way too many parameters to code an AI to do lateral movement or escalation once inside a system.

For example, even trying to exploit a famous vuln like dirtycow still often requires small tweaks to the exploit script in order to get it to work. There is no way an AI will be able to do that.

Though if you are talking about an "AI" that checks processes running, versions installed etc. and runs the appropriate exploits scripts metasploit already has that in the getsystem command. Though I wouldn't really consider that AI.

https://www.offensive-security.com/metasploit-unleashed/priv...
> used the Arch Linux packages, meaning I always had the latest ones.

This is provably false, as I can witness from my recent experience where Arch has 14 month old, long superseded, version of a package, while other Linux distros (including Manjaro, but also Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, openSuse, etc.) use the most/more recent version.

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> AFAIK, Manjaro is behind by like a month? In which case, why even bother with rolling release?

Even if this were true (and it isn't, see the sibling comment), I've seen responses like yours and I don't understand them.

Where would you draw the line when it comes to rolling? You say that one month behind is too long. Is 2 weeks ok? One week? 3 days? 1 day? 12 hours? Why does it even matter?

To answer you from my perspective:

I "bother" with Manjaro because I like the rolling distro philosophy, but I also value stability. If those two weeks of delay will bring me packages which are better tested and more stability overall - I'm all for it.

Oh and I don't even update as soon as an update hits the stable channel, I regularly decide to wait at least a day or two to see if others have any problems with the update.

For other people, who are more impatient (and more adventurous), Manjaro offers two other channels: testing and unstable.
Ring Sky, tell them you're leaving. They'll give you an offer. If you don't like it, go through with leaving.

They'll make you serve a 30 day notice period. Before that ends you'll get a better offer.

If you don't like that offer, actually leave. They'll send you an even better offer.

There's no need to pay full price for Sky once you're out of your first year's contract.
The late 1800s and early 1900s were notoriously terrible in UK and the literal shrinking and weakening of the population due to their diet is documented over time - and it was actually due to increasing trade, industrialization, and globalization. Beforehand things were much better. The expansion of available foods made things much worse.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672390/

> The fall in nutritional standards between 1880 and 1900 was so marked that the generations were visibly and progressively shrinking. In 1883 the infantry were forced to lower the minimum height for recruits from 5ft 6 inches to 5ft 3 inches. This was because most new recruits were now coming from an urban background instead of the traditional rural background (the 1881 census showed that over three-quarters of the population now lived in towns and cities). Factors such as a lack of sunlight in urban slums (which led to rickets due to Vitamin D deficiency) had already reduced the height of young male volunteers. Lack of sunlight, however, could not have been the sole critical factor in the next height reduction, a mere 18 years later. By this time, clean air legislation had markedly improved urban sunlight levels; but unfortunately, the supposed ‘improvements’ in dietary intake resulting from imported foods had had time to take effect on the 16–18 year old cohort. It might be expected that the infantry would be able to raise the minimum height requirement back to 5ft. 6 inches. Instead, they were forced to reduce it still further, to a mere 5ft. British officers, who were from the middle and upper classes and not yet exposed to more than the occasional treats of canned produce, were far better fed in terms of their intake of fresh foods and were now on average a full head taller than their malnourished and sickly men.

Times of famine were not extraordinarily rare. But I'd be very skeptical of the numbers you're providing. Famines where a lot of people start dying become revolutions and migrations. The Irish Potato Famine was a very exceptional famine in terms of numbers - but it wasn't that 25% of the population died, it's that 25% of the population died or left - there were about even numbers for both. The situation was also greatly worsened by the political situation, which did have major consequent political effects. Large famines are easier to track because of this.

I'm extremely skeptical of your numbers in general. Certainly people always starved: urbanites and social outcasts were at higher risk. What marginal increase are you declaring a famine? Even the 'severe' famine periodicity you mention seems very hard to support among any population groups and historical periods I know about. It's probably true in periods of extreme upset, but not in normal times, and in most stable societies food surpluses were stockpiled and preserved to hedge against such things.
> Maybe, like people, it makes more sense to tax them on revenue then on profit so they cannot invert to a cheaper jurisdiction?

Taxing on revenue as opposed to profits harms corporations that have a low margin, high turnover business (for example retailers)
I still see Apple making very, very good computers - which integrate with cars (made by others) - a much better scenario than Apple "re-inventing personal transportation".

It is an iron fist wrapped in a velvet glove. Never forget how much control is being lost by generations of people now, courtesy of the user-experience candy hit ..

User owns their computer, and user owns their data: this is not so great, all things considered, if we look at Apple and their compatriots from an angle.

There is still an effort to make open, honest computing platforms. At the moment, immense numbers of eyeballs are focused on their pocket-glass mirror. Honestly, there is something here which must be deconstructed, and it could happen with a new OS/platform ideology where Apple making cars would be an extremely poor future.
Personally I don't see the problem with having my content on physical media, such as Blu-Ray or UHD discs. Once I've bought it, it's mine, and no-one can take it away from me. I'll still be watching my favourite movies over and over again for years to come for a one time cost, and I don't have to worry about the streaming provider removing it from their platform.

I know I'm in a minority though, and at some point in the next decade, streaming services will be the ONLY place content is released, and the concept of owning physical media will be considered archaic.
PMF is nothing but a framework, a mental model, a bunch of heuristics rather than a magic bullet.

Yes, the ecosystem is constantly changing - but at any given moment in time, you have a specific product targeting a specific market. PMF is a framework to see if you're delivering on your promise to that market in that specific point in time. The corollary to PMF is that the market you've picked is big enough and/or growing.

PMF is not going to save you from external forces (the arrival of the internet in yesteryears or in more contemporary times, the SaaS-ification of everything) happening and neither does it claim to be. That would be an entire different topic ("Innovators Dilemma" - but even then you need to have PMF in the first place to even have that dilemma ;)
While unit tests may do very well in determining if an input produces an expected output, it only captures moment in time rather than a complete flow of actual events.

This shows author doesn't understand the difference between unit tests and functional (aka integration) tests. The entire point of a unit test is that it tests an isolated unit of code rather than a larger series of parts. That's so you can isolate a problem. Functional tests are just as important, but that doesn't invalidate the need for unit tests.

Also, "visual unit test" makes no sense.
FTA, it’s clear the author is talking about what they see as an impending issue:

> What carmakers are doing with the collected data isn’t clear. We know they use it to improve car performance and safety. And we know they have the ability to sell it to third parties they might choose. Indeed, Ford’s chief executive, Jim Hackett, has spoken in detail about the company’s plans to monetize car data.
2012 MBP here: 87.3% health (6900 mAH as designed, 6021 mAH now) on 871 cycles, 2533 days old. Pretty impressed with it really. I use this Mac a lot.
Only if there are major contributing developers who do not work for Google. Is that the case with Go?

If there are no major non-Google contributors to Go, then the fork may not be successful due to lack of familiarity with the code base.