skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Platforms like Reddit and Discord get along alright with limited automated moderation combined with a federated mod structure

Reddit is constantly criticized for the effects of its moderation policies, both in how arbitrary they can seem, and how they allowed genuinely law-breaking content to stay up at the discretion of those "volunteer" moderators. They are practically constantly in the news.

(Discord exclusively has invite-only communities, so it's a totally apples-to-oranges comparison)

While I would say that reddit's behavior is at least somewhat preferable to the topic of discussion, claiming it's without a similar level of criticism just means you don't actually use the platform.

It's also worth pointing out that what others have voiced regarding AI, that such a strategy just serves to deflect blame from the company, is just as true when relying on community volunteers. I suspect that the main reason that they don't make the front page of HN specifically is because "human makes a bad decision" is several orders of magnitude less interesting to this site than "AI makes a bad decision", regardless of the relative social harm.
So instead of the customer finding the dev (as on Fiverr), here it's the other way around. Interesting. Lines up conceptually with the StackOverflow model of Q and A.

Also, understood about the different use case.
Fungal taxonomy is especially interesting.

Some argue that latin binomials should be abandoned, see "Against the naming of fungi":

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funbio.2013.05.007
I once applied for a job at medium-sized startup, passed their phone screen, take home assignment and onsite, and then had a meeting with the CTO where I was told that they have had problems with ex-Googlers before, and then was rejected after that conversation.
I enjoy writing with the Pilot Kakuno fountain pen. It's a budget pen made in japan, you can install a CON-70 converter and use any ink you want. It's light and comfortable to write with, unlike some of the heavier pens out there.

I think it would be a good choice for someone who wants to get into fountain pens but has a tight budget (especially when you get addicted and want to buy a bunch more).
How do they work with modern things in a dead language? I doubt Latin has a word for computer or the Internet. Do they have some team that creates new words?
Most of the time, liability for defective software should be civil liability in tort or contract. In most cases where something bad has occurred involving software, it’s going to be hard for the developers of the software to have the sort of mental state and unattenuated causal connection with the occurred harm that we typically require for criminal liability for reckless conduct.

I’m not saying it can’t happen, but it would be very unusual circumstances, especially since there’s usually an operator of the software sitting between the developer and the person harmed by the software.
Minidisc compression wasn't lossless. I'm pretty sure CD rips on computers existed before then.
Chelpark brings fond memories. They had a peculiar color, and it looked beautiful on paper.

Of course, Bril was the workhorse.
I'd like to know how they cut/released the tether, and if there's any fallback in case 1st release attempt fails. The entire mission is fucked if the tether release failed, or if the sky crane tries to fly away while still tethered.
Surprisingly accurate. There are dozens of custom fountain pen makers online now, but the wait times only increase from what they used to be a few years ago.
Easier in that I don't have to force my team to use a static analysis tool just so people don't silently ignore errors.

CI works, but I have to set it up. For every project. And fix anything that was not developed with golangci-lint.
LibHunt – trending GitHub projects by number of mentions on HN and Reddit
I'm an engineer on the code intelligence team at Sourcegraph.

We've been busy building out true precise code intelligence/navigation support, but we also have a mode for zero-configuration code navigation based on text search, universal-ctags, and hand-rolled regular expressions (which works surprisingly well!). Tree-sitter would definitely give better results than our current ctags-based approach. It's been catching our attention more and more lately, and we have plans to use it to upgrade our out-of-the-box, instant code navigation experience.

It's not the exact right fit for our primary goals though, since it's designed around being extremely fast while editing and robust against errors. Sourcegraph is only used for navigating committed code, so we're leveraging formats like LSIF to generate complete semantic graphs of codebases and their entire dependency tree. That'll enable a lot of features that are out of reach for tree-sitter, but is a lot harder to get working out of the box and it's a much bigger technical investment.

It's very interesting to see the topological space that houses these solutions fill out. Every tool has its own set of unique trade-offs and fall somewhere on these spectrums:

- fast vs slow

- precise vs imprecise

- zero-configuration vs configuration required

We've visited a few islands in this space but still very curious to see what other islands can be discovered. We're especially excited about tools and formats like tree-sitter and LSIF around which a large and supportive community can grow so that all the products we love and rely on as developers can all make forward progress.
> Given the high correlation between COVID# cases (or %Positive) and hospitalizations, why not just use COVID# and "gain" 2 weeks of information?

Because it is not given and - if given - is not reassuringly close to 1. Correlation is positive, alright. But if you calculate hospitalization as percentage of cases, even adjusting for a lag, it is far from constant. Eg in Canada this ratio was 6x time higher in the first wave than in the second. It strongly depends on testing policies and hospital admission criteria.
In some countries you'd have to include it in your tax reports of your are using this method.
An additional thing to take care of
I do sadly have the opposite experience - "Yes, we are contractually obligated to give you data about every batch and everything we did with it - what do you mean excels with schema that differs day to day is not enough?"

...

The last step being computationally expensive kinda puts lower bound on latency of streaming replication from CDC, especially if you're trying to do it at scale and can't fine-tune each individual table partitioning.

Boy, how do I wish all data was incremental events.
Well, after over 20.000 years we don't really have a "the way" of taking notes on paper either... Note taking styles tend to be highly dependent on context and personal style...
When the parachute deployed all of a sudden it felt like mars is not so alien anymore, there is wind pushing against the parachute you can see the curvature of mars, there is sun, dust and all... Love this video compared to images.
He was an ex-googler, so I'm sure only some combination of c, go, and java would have sufficed.

Php 7.2+ is great for a lot of saas products and is super fast now. and mysql 8 is rock solid and battle tested in a lot of production systems.

Starting over, I would consider PostgreSQL because it has some nifty features. But now that mysql has added json support, I am less inclined and I see a lot of complaints about performance and scaling that I don't think is as much of an issue with mysql. There isn't a whole lot more out there for relational databases (that doesn't cost a ton). And not using a relational database for most saas systems is just crazy talk.
Not sure what you're alleging here. Is the suggestion that they're editing contrarian comments to be offensive so people flag/downvote them? Frankly, that seems like an ass-backwards way to go about suppressing dissent.

To be clear, if that commenter had been commenting in good faith, in detail, with actual citations and without profanity, or not using an account created expressly to make that comment, I think they'd have a fine chance to be visible (or at least not flagged).
Isn't it less risk to take a partially effective vaccine though rather than to go without one? What's the risk calculation that would compel someone to not take any vaccine?
That's surprising for me - my memory of it was that ball points were just plain safer as a 3rd / 4th grade kid using them.

Fountain pens on the other hand were expensive, messy (they can leak in your pocket, you have to refill them with ink, the nibs might need replacing) and just plain hard to use in general.

I think I got my first fountain pen in high school - one of those landmark dad / son moment along with things like learning how to shave etc.
GP is incredibly "concrete":

>...any kind of marketplace or platform but with community governance and no rents, decentralized exchanges, global-by-default payments, highly interoperable and efficient financial infrastructure...

As seen in various forms here:
https://ethereum.org/en/dapps/

I can only guess that you are not familiar with the technical jargon.

Your pleading strikes me as potentially disingenuous, but I will speak earnestly in spite of that.

You will or (will not) be a "crypto fan" after you've absorbed enough technical literature to make your own judgement about what is happening. If you have the time, I recommend starting with the Bitcoin and Ethereum whitepapers.
Tchami, w/o a doubt. Check out the other artists on his label CONFESSIONS too
I'm not sure that answers my question; C++ also uses a state machine.

Most of the post is concerned with the compiler<->library interface - where Rust uses Generator, GeneratorState, Pin, etc. Is there something fundamentally different about the design here?
The first half of this is a complaint that public policy discussions are meant to be public, rather than rubber-stamping decisions made by insiders behind closed doors. I am not inspired.
Very surprised this is not trending on YT.
This isn't some small percentage of people this is 3 - 8% [1] of people hospitalized! Despite not finding data for people not hospitalized many report suffering from and being hospitalized for failures of the pulmonary, endocrine, and digestive system.

Sometimes people have strokes from sneezing.

See I can make generalizing statements about bullshit too.

[1]: https://annalsofintensivecare.springeropen.com/articles/10.1...
I ran into that in real life.

I had a plumbing problem in my house. I had a sink that was randomly filling up with clear cool water. When I used the sink it worked fine. Now I'm pretty handy, but I had no idea what was causing that to happen.

So I called a plumber. I showed him the problem, and he immediately knew the cause. The condensation drain line for my AC ran to that sink. He suggested snaking the drain. He was there 10 minutes but that fixed the problem. He charged me $175 which was his minimum. I gladly paid it. I didn't view it as paying $175 for the fix, I viewed it as paying $175 for his expertise.
I go on French electro kicks every now and then.

Feels like I'm giving away the secret sauce here but try French 79, Kid Francescoli, Sébastien Tellier, L'Impératrice, or Isaac Delusion.
https://phys.org/news/2021-02-birds-massive-magnetic-migrate...
I'd argue that it's one of the best live albums of all time.

These songs transcend what I'd consider mashups, it's like they treated all of their olds songs as samples, rebuilding entirely new songs out of them. It took some of the more obscure songs and made them "whole"; take Steam Machine, which in of itself wasn't that great of a song...a bit boring if you will. Combined with Too Long and it's now a song full of energy and tempo.

There are many others like it. What they mostly have in common is taking the best ingredients from the fringy Human After All and the glitzy Discovery, finding a very interesting common ground.
> To me you are copy-pasting emotional information I’ve already heard over and over. It’s a metaphor, not a prescription of literal behavior.

I don’t see what this adds except a vaguely insulting innuendo which applies equally to you and lowers trust. Also, it seems odd to me that you are reading emotion into what you call copy pasted economic theory.

I actually agree with a lot of what you are saying, except that I don’t think it reduces purely to information manipulation, and to a certain extent, that claim can result in a facile justification for one’s own attempts at manipulation.

It’s also just not clear how any of this is relevant to the topics at hand.

Isn’t your comment just a generic ‘the system is bad’ and ‘politics needs to change’ (agreed), and ‘it’s all a scam to keep the rich in power’ (partially agreed), we need to think differently (agreed). But with no additional content?
Do you only care about people if an event is statistically significant?
> The city had called on 13 civic organizations representing BIPOC and other marginalized communities. I was there on behalf of a nonprofit that services transgender and gender non-conforming folx.

It sounds like the author’s insane bullshit getting rejected is a good thing. The author is basically complaining that they can’t shyster their way into getting nonsense rammed through behind closed doors.
I can't believe you actually think CPI is flat when the cost of goods are rising across the board.

I guess this is why its so easy to control the markets. People don't even practice critical thinking and check for real world data.

Whatever we are told is what we hold!
Not really. They still have outbreaks and do lockdowns. I wouldn't call that "mostly back to normal". https://apnews.com/article/new-zealand-coronavirus-pandemic-...
(For those who didn't read all the way, the author suggests replacing overly rigid parliamentarian rules with Agile methodology)

Corporate ideation and decision making processes in general, and certainly this includes Agile, prioritize producing the best outcome with the least energy and don't place any intrinsic value on making sure that people are represented, so they are probably not the best fit for democratic governence.

For a discussion of why fluidity and informality in process can be problematic, the seminal essay is The Tyranny of Structurelessness (https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm).

It sounds like the structure that the city council committee is using here doesn't work. But the author is wrong to expect a truly inclusive democratic process to feel good. It goes against our nature as social beings, will be unpleasant, and require a ton of additional effort to get a similar quality result compared to a more natural process.
Exponential growth is a weird thing.

All these countries worked very hard at the start of the epidemic to bring it under control and were successful.

The state of Victoria in Australia is the best example of this. After initial elimination, it started to get out of control and so they entered a very strict 112 day lockdown until community transmission went to zero.

Since then most Australian states have done similar (but shorter) lockdowns, again until community transmission is zero.

When community transmission is very low (<100 cases) things like contact tracing work, communities support short lockdowns etc.

Once it gets out of control many control processes become useless, and exponential growth takes over.
I interpreted it to mean, "Remove the *s from code like this:"

/* This comment
* Should just be alphanumeric.
*/
He was going to receive it and now they're clawing it back
One of the reasons RROO survives is that it's a practical means to manage conflict within meetings, and, in theory, resolve issues with process. "Brainstorming", as he describes it, is a co-operative activity (I think so are the rest of the methods he mentions); not all meetings can be assumed to be co-operative affairs, especially over time and with access to people who don't share communal values.

When the Occupy movement was inhabiting public spaces, many of them featured regular general assemblies where they were careful to allow everyone a chance to address the crowd. At first it was a beautiful moment of participation by all; over time it became a haranguing session by the loudest and most long-winded--the quiet voices, the vulnerable voices, stopped attending and participating because the meetings became dominated by the domineering, as usually happens. And the organizers, eschewing rules and format, had no means to keep the assemblies to their original purpose, which basically dissolved.

Every community, every activity, needs some means of protecting its core so that it can continue, and if it doesn't come down to naked power, then it usually comes down to rules that provide continuity.
> Run inflation higher than interest rates to push down the nominal value of debt.

MMT [with apologies to The Matrix]: “Do not try and inflate away the fiscal deficit. That's impossible. Instead only try to realise the Truth... There is no debt, and no ‘fisc’.”

While you can preprogram spending and call it “debt” in MMT, you can't understand MMT from within the metaphor of the fisc, the limited public purse which must be filled by revenue and/or borrowing to enable spending.

MMT isn't really about how you use blunt-instrument monetary policy like fed target rates, it's about not needing the separation between sharp-tool “fiscal” and blunt-instrument monetary policy, because “fiscal” policy actually lacks fiscal constraints and has only monetary constraints, and therefore can and should be used instead of blunt-instrument monetary policy. While conventional economists tend to criticize the US for being overreliant on monetary policy because of Congressional failure to deploy fiscal stimulus in recent downturns, MMT dial that up to 11, viewing the divide between fiscally-constrained but more targetable policy and monetary policy which has no fiscal constraints as artificial and unnecessary, as the constraints actually applicable to either are the same and purely monetary.
Functional vs. OO: The Debate That Imprecise Language Destroyed
In spite of lots of grumbling and non-compliance in some regions, people have adapted to things they said weren't really conceivable last year. Yes, people have (generally) accepted extended temporary restrictions. That said, essentially no one is accepting this as a permanent condition and as people are vaccinated, I have a high level of confidence that people are not going to accept continued restrictions. You are, of course, welcome to do whatever works for you.

People certainly didn't permanently hide out before there were vaccinations against diseases like cholera.
I got interested in programming partly because of ZZTOOP, the built-in programming language that you could use to give interesting behavior to objects in the game.
I’m familiar with it as being ethically relativist (no universal eternal ethics) and arguing that man needs to be ruled to live in peace.

Would you recommend spending a couple of weeks on it? If so, are there translations to modern English, or is the original easy to understand for us in this century?
Switching languages is THE most efficient way to refactor a messy codebase.

The past color the idea that a language switch is a waste of time, because in the past the choice of languages was from worse to bad or for same to same-ish.

But MODERN languages have something that make this compelling: Actual good practiques baked in the language, as defaults.

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So, if a codebase is in trouble you can:

- Try to refactor it with "better" idioms...

but if this is not the norm in the language/ecosystem you depend in discipline, and that have proved to fail at scale.

- Change to "shinny lang" where do the right thing is the default...

And now if the developers try to do wrong, them will fight against the current.

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Switch to Go is a great way to solve a project with concurrency issues: Go is good at that, and make a compelling case of build good concurrency apps. Similar if switch to Elixir/Erlang.

The case of Rust is similar: it make the "best" practiques the default, and very painful to do wrong (and sometimes to do right, but this is not the focus here :) ).

So, a language switch is the ultimate clean up for a project.

I have done several in the past (I'm contractor) and let me tell you: Any codebase I get is in deeeeeep trouble.

The best results have been a language switch, when I move from "bad" to "better". Just the fact the new language have something that is truly better make the move great.

Now, the opposite is true: If you are switching and NOT because the new language have that something that is truly in need or worse, is a language with the need of a LOT of discipline (like C, PHP, JS,...) then yeah, is doomed...
The insight mission, which landed in 2018 has failed to stick a thermometer in the ground over the last 2 years.

A human with a rock/hammer could have accomplished the same thing in an hour, conservatively a day at most.
This is a deliberately obtuse reading of the author's intent. Read further:

> And not only have I written bad code. My friends have written bad code. My colleagues have written bad code. Our mentors have written bad code. The code that all of our code depends on was written by someone who wrote bad code. Bad code is everywhere.

The author's point is not that everyone writes bad code at some point, ever, which is trivially true as you pointed out. They're saying that our code is bad now, we just don't know it yet.

I like to say: Nobody will hate my code as much as myself in 6 months.
Electric passenger aircraft are not and will never be viable, but I would sure like to see super lightweight electric sustainer motors for gliders. Paired with regenerative braking and/or solar cells on the wings you could probably keep a glider in the air indefinitely.
And do you have numbers to back up excitement of devs vs their productivity?

It seems like everyone is just applying their subjective view. Which is fine. Just don't assume your equation works for everyone and every business.
> you can bet your sweet ass that I would be A. monitoring the wholesale price B. switching off my main breaker the moment the price went above $X.

On that note, a "smart" breaker that could do that monitoring for you and start cutting non-essential (and eventually "essential") circuits as prices exceed user-configured thresholds (perhaps integrated with a household UPS) could probably sell like gangbusters in places like Texas.
Were they really ever together? Did they actually even exist?
* Flavien Berger (Mars balnéaire , Leviathan,888888 and many more )

* L'Impératrice - ( A View to a Kill, many others )

* Busy P ( Il fait chaud - Busy P Remix by Corine )
Ask HN: How to Prevent Texans from Freezing?
Interesting, I don’t remember Bril. I had only used Chelpark.
I'm pretty sure quite a few of the parts are standard, but you can't import the whole gun into the US, so you have to make a receiver and put it back together, as well as make parts you can't get.
Thank you for the info, which I'll gladly share with friends and family that are sufferers. What determines when the user has achieved relief and can stop the drops treatment? What data or tests allows Wyndly to know if a user has achieved relief in 2, 3 or 5 years?
If I may ask a question: how would I use a memory hardened algorithm on a server if the server ram can't scale infinitely? It seems to me that a few concurrent user logins would effectively DOS the server for any reasonable configuration of argon2
Because we're comparing vaccinated people right now to unvaccinated people right now. Herd immunity and seasonality would affect both groups equally.
The very same. He has one less viewer in me after this bit of news.