skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An app to list, filter and randomise all Oscar movies from the last 90 years
https://www.oscarlist.com

Use advanced filters to browse lists like:

Best International Film Winners sorted by IMDB Rating

Best Motion Picture nominated films sorted by Rotten Tomatoes Rating

Best Motion Picture nominated films with most number of nominations

Best Comedy winning films sorted by IMDB Rating

Meryl Streep Best & Supporting Actress nominated films sorted by IMDB rating

Nominated films by David Fincher, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsesse

Or if you don't want to decide, get a random movie instead: https://www.oscarlist.com/random
> The area around Chernobyl is very green and many animals live there. Things survive..

Only if you're talking about Putin's Little Green Men, in which case most were last seen heading to their deathbed in Belarus after having exposed themselves to deadly levels radiation after occupying the area and trenching it, to the total dismay of local Ukrainians and Plant workers!

Life does indeed find a way, but not in the way most think.

> In a way radioactivity is one of the easiest contaminants to deal...

What an absurd statement, if that were the case you'd go live and work in Fukushima and take advantage of all the open area and low cost real estate, and all the plentiful food that comes from that region.

Radiation to this day still hasn't been cleaned up in Chernobyl, which happened almost 40 years ago, and an Evacuation Zone is still in place.

And by the way their is an ongoing fire in the area as we speak that is cause for concern [0].

0: https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-cris...
That's not great. I just recommended a paid version to a friend.
Indeed.

Writing assembly also needs a big up-front investment, but I'm not sure how many have every considered it to be a good friendship. :)
It seems to have confused some people, we also got some remarks in that direction on IRC and on Mastodon. I hope my answer cleared it up a bit.
I did not expect to see my old chess clubs president from a small town in England pop up on the front page of HN!
Unfortunately, you can shout "this is a scam" from the hilltops and people won't listen.
YC invested in Coinbase in 2012. I suspect the success of that investment gave them (false?) confidence in their ability to navigate the crypto landscape in 2022.
That makes a lot of sense! Thanks
Ask HK: good blogging platforms for developers?
I was surprised to see that HN considers dev.to, and in some cases, Medium as platforms for spammers.[1] For me fact that HN flags this sites means that I should stay away from them. Am I right?

Which blogging platform would be a good choice for developers? GitHub pages, selfhosted solution, WordPress.com, https://hashnode.com?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27108910
Sometimes, boring good.
The countries resisting remote work
There are more coincidencies on the German wikipedia page of the manufacturer. ( company was requested to make a smallpox vaccine).
It's a tough world and companies must survive somehow.
Kinda disappointed that the web version of the book isn't available anymore.
I’m a big fan of frozen blueberries. They last much longer, you don’t need to wash or examine them, and if you mix them in plain (sugar free) yoghurt you’ve got almost instant blueberry fro yo.
Google should be ashamed. Just cancel an app without a possibility to actually appeal to the person.

Maybe in this case, Google didn't act in bad faith, but having such a system in place has a method.

It's something every developer should have in mind before deciding to develop anything on Google platform.
Fraud logically can't be part of the mechanism of a ponzi scheme itself. A ponzi scheme is any financial scheme where old investors are paid exclusively by new investors, and without new investments the system doesn't generate any income at all. There are many different variations.

Lying about source of potential gains concerns marketing of it - which is something external and done by humans, and not part of the internal distribution of money flows. How can an algorithm itself commit fraud? It can't.
It's sad that such projects got into YC, when it was easy to tell that Luna/Terra was a ponzi. I looked at it earlier, and stayed away due to these red flags.

Blockchains themselves have a bright future though as a technology which is truly fantastic and keeps innovating rapidly. Right now, with all the negative press, it may be easy to dismiss it, but it will come back as a trustless computing platform that the world needs.

I am biased, as we chose to build in that domain but proud that we're developing actual new tech for smart contracts... YC, you can still accept us in the next batch :)
Those non plastic straws are just horrible, EU ban is just punishing customers.
Show HN: Coin Arber – Crypto Arbitrage Engine
When I run out of ideas, I copy.
Show HN: How to Develop Apache APISIX with Gitpod?
Looks really good for a secondary dashboard kind of thing but $1799 (plus import tax on top) is about 5x more than I'd consider for a 25" specialist monitor. Let's hope they can start getting the prices down.
Parts of the EU maybe, my perspective is mostly limited to Germany and Switzerland.
fly.io is a solution but I don't know what the problem is. I can think of it like more dynamic CDN that can have more compute capacity (deploy whatever backed by SQLite/Postgres) to serve customers right way far more instantly.

Most applications and bigger chunk of them, are transactional and enterprise software is all about consistency and accuracy.

Nevertheless, I think its a great engineering fiat in and of itself anyway and hence gets discussed often probably could be the explanation.
> Yikes; half a meg of code!

It's plausible that the lib you checked is the output from the project's default build target (zstd), which "(...) includes dictionary builder, benchmark, and supports decompression of legacy zstd formats"

https://github.com/facebook/zstd/tree/dev/programs

The project also provides another build target, zstd-small, which is "CLI optimized for minimal size; no dictionary builder, no benchmark, and no support for legacy zstd formats"

Also, take a look at what exactly is bundled with the binary. Odds are you're looking at a lib that statically links optional stuff that makes no sense shipping, let alone on an embedded target.
I'm completely uninitiated to this topic but I'll give it a shot from what I've read in this and the parent comment: It seems like there's some denial about the past/roots of Libera, in this blog post. The "acceptance" phase is yet to come.
The problem is that the "game" parts are not very good; even outright shit, especially if you compare it to Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale.

It more than makes up for that in atmosphere and writing, but many players are expecting to, well, play a game, not read a novel, which is entirely fair.

Tides of Numeria suffered from the same issue.
> shows amazing tech skills, and talks when prompted to, I mean, will you reject this person in favour of a less stronger candidate just because that weaker candidate was more outgoing?

If they are the opposite, they will not ask questions (but instead make assumptions) and refuse to admit when they're wrong. Yes I would absolutely reject such a person regardless of technical skills, I would even fire them.

These people can have a very negative influence on the culture and turn it into a competition of ego instead of actually understanding and solving problems, which is also stopping everyone else on the team as well from actually solving problems, because this person will act as a huge blocker. Technical ability doesn't help you at all if you are insisting on solving the wrong problem.

> But in technical interviews? Just solve the thing.

Yes sure, but the issue is that there is no non-technical part.
I agree. Just like nuclear waste, the copyright shall last forever.
well take a look at this for example https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19620516/
Yup, another case of the Monopoly of Google.
It seems like a combination of HN "top of mind" (ie that HN users submit articles on things they're currently reading/researching), social "top of mind" (ie that people write blog posts on things their peer group is talking about), and a side effect of HN positional age-decay.

If there aren't new and different articles to fill the HN front page, then there has to be something.

And that something ends up being a base layer of blogs about "current stuff".
Maude, eh?
There really isn't. I'm deep in the crypto hole and have a whole bunch of close friends in private telegram groups scouring for opportunities. And collectively, we've only been down outside of a few lucky plays and/or airdrops (like the BAYC $APE airdrop).

Which is precisely why you see dApp usage numbers crater. Check out OpenSea's daily volume on Dune.xyz as an example - down to $30M/day from consistent $150M/day even a month ago.
IRC has inspired most major chat protocols, even as much as they've deviated. The fact that there are major networks with tens of thousands and hundreds of users that are running with minimal funding is a testimony to the protocol and the communities around them.
It actually looks like a cheap Chinese oscilloscope that I once bought :)
> Google has not pushed anything relevant to the user space for many, many years.

80% of software engineering is not about pushing but maintaining. I'm not the one who praises Google (far from that), but using "pushing anything relevant" as a metric is not correct imho.
> But despite how much I want to learn the fly.io platform – it has been a bit tricky for me wrap my head around a good use-case for this type of distributed hosting service.

The distributed features are there for when you need them – I don't think you have to use them. Or am I missing something?
Believe it or not… it’s on bitcoin. It’s fascinating watching a largely un-steared bitcoin attempt to scale.
Outhorse Your Email
Agree. Also recycling plastics was mostly a lie. I used to think that small triangular icon with a number in it on plastic containers meant it can be recycled as it looks almost exactly the same with the recycling icon. It turned out I was too naive. Those icons were actually called Resin Identification Code or RIC, which actually have nothing to do with recycling but rather to make you think it can be recycled. The dire fact is that it's uneconomical to recycle most of the plastics, especially those tiny plastic pieces, i.e. bottle caps. Since it's cost more by using recycled plastics, you would see some genius solution by exporting plastics to other countries like China. Now China has realized that and soon will the other countries. So the plastics waste exporting practice is about to come to its end. But before that, I don't see why they would stop using plastics as they are really cheap and versatile.
Are they actually being sued? The letter refers to a litigation hold - essentially demanding that all relevant materials be conserved. The letter further references "potential litigation" not pending litigation.
Oh, THAT Steve Blank? Not someone I expected to ever write about AI!
Well from a users perspective, for all intents and purposes it looked like you got everything sorted by the end of day 1. I vaguely recall some netsplits happening after that, but that's just part of the IRC experience on most networks.

Props on the smooth switchover. It could have hardly gone any better as far as I can see.
Anyone have a some tips on wanting to build intuition on wave-forms, electronics, and having fun with an oscilloscope? This was amazing to me:

How To Draw Mushrooms On An Oscilloscope With Sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtR63-ecUNo
> The pedant in me is slightly miffed by the very conscious use of that five-digit year notation (e.g., 02033) in the article (this being the home of that jarring monstrosity)

Yes its a bit of an affectation, and it does seem to annoy some people, but I do think it has some value as a subtle hint that "there is more after that". That observation by Danny Hillis:

"When I was a child, people used to talk about what would happen by the year 2000. For the next thirty years they kept talking about what would happen by the year 2000, and now no one mentions a future date at all." [1]

...is still pretty true. There is very little mention of the future that isn't either gadget-focussed or terrifying (ie the climate crisis). We just don't have any signifiers that people want to use. I'd like to be able to say that Long Now has had some influence regarding this, but sadly (outside of a smallish bubble) I don't think it has. At least they're trying though and doing interesting stuff, I guess.

(Disclosure: Long Now charter member fwiw)

[1] https://longnow.org/about/ (I removed the leading zeroes because I'm pretty sure they weren't in the original quote)
Not that I know of, just from personal experience. Grains kept in good condition have ridiculously long shelf life. And for commodity crops like grains, the scale of production is just so insane that it is not possible for it to be all consumed at a short time frame after it's harvested.

Also, agriculture produce's price fluctuates a lot. Farming has a long feedback time, so by the time you harvest, the state of the market is no longer the same. Anything that can be stockpiled will be stockpiled to wait for the right time. This is not normally done by the farmer themselves, but the traders. Then it's just FIFO, the oldest grains at the bottom of the silos will be taken out first.
It's not like you can't get the app on android anymore. You can download it right now from fdroid.
> Firefox no longer makes part of browser matrixes, and is mostly ignored by QA teams.

which is how a browser dies - when sites and apps stop checking whether they are complying with web standards using more than a single reference browser.

Hopefully, chrome becomes like the IE of old, and a new "chrome" comes along to rescue the web.
Other submissions:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31431866

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31431530
Someone should write an AV scoring system. Measuring all the important components. Your AV score should be displayed alongside your name in meetings in order to shame people into improving their dreadful audio and video.
Bilberry is ~the only drug found to reduce myopia progression
> It's mind boggling that they are just now waking up

It's nothing unusual. Software engineering as a field moves at a glacial pace. I see two reasons for this: one is that people don't want to learn anything radically different from what they know already, so you need generational change for new ideas to have a chance to come to fruition. It's a 10-20 years cycle. Then the other reason is that we basically don't know what we're doing, and so some of the new ideas are terrible in practice, reinforcing the first reason. How long did it take for mainstream languages to start seeing `null` as a problem and getting Option types? Depending on who you ask, it'll be 20-30 years; Haskell and other MLs had it either from day 1 or after inventing monads and Maybe (I'm not sure here), and Haskell introduced monads in early '90s. So it's at least 20 years since then, and yet we still have NullPointerExceptions here and there...
Any thoughts about blogger.com from Google.

You could also use your own domain name, like I’ve newtechie.com for 10+ years, you don’t even need to worry about hosting haha
He won't be maintaining or supporting it anymore.
Raise chickens, grow your food, as you get tired of chickens, you can start selling them. The only way you have to live off $500, is if you are not doing anything.
The one thing that still makes me excited for this tech is web wallets and being able to pay/send money with them. If they are widely adopted, and a safe stablecoin (maybe even a CBDC) becomes the defacto transacting currency with quick on/off ramps, it would really change the way we pay for things online.

Like buying a monthly subscription for a tool like, say, Icy.tools, is so much faster when you can pay directly with metamask. No accounts, no logins, no credit card screens.

The catch, of course, is that for the tech to get adopted by the mainstream, you will need way more regulations and safeguards. Maybe KYC on wallets (which means creating accounts/logins), maybe the ability to reverse transactions to reduce fraud.

All of these regulations might introduce enough friction that the final experience doesn't differ much from current legacy systems.

But a built-in browser wallet that makes payments (including micropayments) easier is really needed. It's the only antidote to our current advertising dependent model of the web.
> And it all started out so nice.

road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Anyone else read Oryx and Crake?
It's difficult not to assume some kind of hidden "anti-privacy apps" agenda when seeing things like this.

Even more difficult to test this given Google continues to violate their obligation for transparency.
If our plan is to turn it into gas and CO2, why not burn it and get some energy out of it first? Degrading plastic sitting out in nature would be good because it removes plastic from the environment, but degrading the plastic in landfills removes carbon from the landfill, which can be capped and contained, and moves it into the air where carbon sequestering takes even more energy.
The author has every right to stop accepting the uncalled for abuse from users and drop development and support. I hope he can direct his attention to things that give him joy instead.
As a reminder, Java supports binaries just fine with GraalVM
You can still get it from f-droid (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.faircode.email/).

It still works great even if there is no further development. I much prefer it to the K-9 email client.

The main thing I love is that it blocks all images by default whilst still keeping the email readable.
Embedding these chips is neither difficult nor expensively high-tech, and verification isn't performed by the cheesemaker: why shouldn't small establishments participate in the program?

On an overseas store shelf the alternative is between real Parmigiano-Reggiano (if the experimentation is successful, with a chip) and counterfeit shit, not between different cheesemakers of the consortium (who, if they care, adopt their own trademarks and branding for particularly good cheese at premium prices).
36 steps?
High APR = High Total Value Locked (TVL) = Potential to steal someone's money = Attract crypto investments
I'm in the UK and live in a student area and it's a huge issue. There are some times of day where the Wifi speeds drop massively (I assume interference and madly swapping channels) - but wired stays constant.
I would wager the amount of android users who even know what fdroid is, is < 5%, if not much lower. Getting flagged as spyware or booted from the Play Store effectively destroys any project that relies on funding.
My job destroyed my mental health, my ability to enjoy hobbies, my read capacity and ironically my productivity. I used to do all kind of stuff outside my job (programming, making music, designing analog amplifiers...) all gone just to make some ppl richer and no benefit for this society, maybe harming it.
So I guess no, I don't find it fulfilling.
I really appreciate the rate of optimizations going on in .NET, I feel like openjdk focus less on optimizing codegen and intrinsics (although it does it well compared to other languages).
I even speculate C# will reach a point where it will be faster than real world C++ code in many cases. One reason being that GCC/LLVM have mostly stalled performance wise, with only ~1% increment per years (except in very specific cases), and the JIT model should be superior IMHO, I don't understand why JITs can't have a long AOT passe just like LLVM and switch to runtime JIT opts/deopts only if it is superior. This will happen, the question is when?
Made me chuckle this morning.
I feel like you're severely overestimating how much inspection is actually done by customs for consumer imports. I've imported dozens if not hundreds of similar products/devices that could be dangerous if you don't know what you're doing and are certainly missing any required certification and never had so much as a peep other than the occasional request for an invoice so they could charge import fees.

Also in this case if you scroll down to the spec sheet the mains voltage measurements are done with a x10 probe, meaning you'd only get ~23 volts out. Obviously that won't prevent user error from leaving the probe at x1, but at that point the device would most likely destroy itself before you can even touch it anyways.
> it just takes months

So does learning a language enough to claim to know it.

As Bruce Eckel once said, programming is like learning to navigate a room blind. You won't learn till you've bumped into every wall and piece of furniture.
Wow I don’t envy the team tasked with making this happen.

It’s been a long time coming. It’s unfortunate to learn there isn’t more progress towards this end already. I was looking for news from Unity about a migration as soon as Microsoft announced .NET 5 as the successor to both .NET Core and .NET Framework.

Nevertheless, better late than never. Here’s hoping they don’t run into too much internal resistance, as I’m sure they will be stepping on the toes of literally every other team at Unity until they get this done.
I mostly agree with you. But I still find IRC very useful. My main gripe is that there are few IRC clients that suite my tastes.
> That being said, calling these platforms "ponzis" isn't correct, the most you can say is that they were front ends for a ponzi. It would be like setting up a front-end to receive investments, and then depositing the money with Madoff. I'm not saying that it is a legitimate business, just not a ponzi.

Something like this happened with Madoff in a very similar manner to what you describe.

Madoff was a board member on one the schools at Yeshiva University. J. Ezra Merkin was on Yeshiva University's investment committee. Merkin funneled some of the University's money directly into his own fund which turned out to be 100% invested in Madoff.

Now, in some ways this is an even bigger ethical breach. lets say Merkin didn't know that Madoff was sketchy, why does he have to use his fund as a middle man for the University's funds when Madoff is on the board so he presumably can invest the funds directly with Madoff. The only reason is to skim off the top. For others, who didn't have an entry into Madoff's funds themselves, perhaps the middleman has value (assuming the middleman really believes in the underlying investment, if they are just there to skim off the top, the I would say they are not fundamentally different than ponzi themselves, as they are just pulling a Sgt Shultz, "I see nothing, I hear nothing, I know nothing")
Those negative price stories have been around for years but the last time I checked, they still weren't because we had 100% renewables, which people assume to be the case. There's someone paying that negative price and it's generally fossil producers.

(Technically, a 100% renewable grid could go negative I'd there were separate subsidies, but as soon as renewable goes below that level it would just be shut off rather than pay money to generate.)
Google are vile. Decisions like this should always be appealable to an independent tribunal, the way that employment disputes are.

I'd go so far as to suggest that app developers are de facto employees, on that note: a recent ruling in the UK against Uber suggests that those who rely on such platforms are entitled to protections. I'd suggest that could apply here, too.
Correct. The difference is that 4.7/4.8 came preinstalled on win10 for years now. It can be uninstalled so you can't really rely on it, but... 99% of the time it works. If not, you tell the customer to install it.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/migration-...