skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I felt like this a few times - but was too afraid to ask at the risk of being down voted/banned. (I have been going through a bad patch mentally, so trying not to get scathing remarks. If anyone feeling offended by my views, I apologize in advance) My sentiment echoes with that statement you made about HN evolving into what Reddit was once few years back. Let us hope we can always steer back to quality discussions & keep things on topic. Frankly, HN is my refuge from the polarized social media (and hopefully for several other fellow members)
The End of Night, by Paul Bogard, is a really enjoyable read on this topic. Touches on humanity's relationship with light, both pros and cons, without being dismissive, condescending, or patronizing.
Contributing patches for these issues would allow you to have free (as in beer) access to sourcehut. I know it's a trite message, but it's open source, you can make it better instead of histrionically "not getting past how bad it is".
In that case I'd use:

1. PDFSegmenter (in the notebook) - extract the images of the text (yup, it does images too)
2. An OCR Executor [0][1] from Jina Hub [2] to extract the text from the images
3. Actually splice the text chunks together to be what you'd expect - that's the tricky part. Even text splitting over pages can be tricky to reassemble properly. PDFs are a pain the butt frankly.

[0] https://hub.jina.ai/executor/78yp7etm

[1] https://hub.jina.ai/executor/w4p7905v

[2] https://hub.jina.ai
> The researchers used genetic engineering to express a special heat-sensitive ion channel in neurons that cause flies to partially spread their wings, a common mating gesture. The researchers then injected magnetic nanoparticles that could be heated with an applied magnetic field.

The title somewhat obscures the part where the flies are genetically modified, and require injected nano particles to function as described.

Still fascinating.
Most child abuse is happening inside families. The whole thing of child protection is to protect kids against parents/caregivers who either neglect them or abuse them.
Because of the potential upside.

If your potential market is “all aging people”, that’s a pretty big market. Even better when you realize that as people are older, they have more money, so the market you’re targeting tends to have more money to spend on medical expenses.

Now, couple that with a highly competitive landscape where the first to market will capture the vast majority of that market and you can see how some steps might get skipped.

Finally, if we did have random results in clinical trials, if you had 20 companies running a trial, you could expect at one of them to randomly have a positive trial (p <= 0.05). So you could have “promising” results for a small trial that would only fail once you had a larger number of participants.

The market incentives and potential for lost opportunities were probably enough to justify a larger risk for some companies.
Mind explaining what this is?
Why not develop Zig to include OOP?
As a city-dweller whose main practical problems with cars are around pedestrian and cyclist safety, noise pollution, and the hostility of car-centric infrastructure to human life in general, this sounds a lot like "you'll take what we give you and be happy about it."
It's a copy of the front page, but it uses the old algorithm and only counts votes from user accounts that are older than 2008-02-13. See here, for example: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#hacker...
This entire comment chain surely must be satire.
> Just move out of that shithole berlin and than reevaluate.

:) get your point and love it. As someone born and raised in Berlin the decision is everything but easy. Love-hate-relationship I'd say. But if we leave, we also want to escape the current, very heated "social mood", which makes Germany not an option. But SAP is actually quite a good hint. Thanks!
Come on over to Greece and take a break.
That would be a feat of engineering. Not astronomy
Many of these things are indeed true problems. But they miss the big one: C++ is just plain unsafe. Applications written in C++ that process untrusted input are serious security risks. The industry needs a path a future where no C++ code is processing untrusted input. Rust is (mostly) safe, but the path to shift gazillions of lines of C++ to safe Rust is painful.
Okay, sorry, not an expert on this.

Why do you think someone posted the dashboard link that was already shared over a year ago? Is ERCOT having issues this month? What is the cause of the issues?

I am legitimately asking. I don't know, so that's the only recent link I was able to find.
Determining if an HTTP request was sent as beacon/keepalive
The only company stanning I've seen here, has revolved around Musk (owned companies) and Apple.

Maybe the occasional Google stanning - but they are much more polarized these days.
Interesting, thanks. And would Wireguard be transparent to DPI?
Whether people read the guidelines and whether they follow them are different things. Sorta like with speed limits.... people can be well aware of them, but if they aren't enforced, only some subset are going to obey them. And that subset gets smaller when they see tons of people zooming past them.

That said dang does an admirable job.
Getting eaten alive may be a small price to pay for passing on your genes
> Lockdowns have zero chances of working and were dumb from day one. We got played by China

"Bickering about some imprecisely passed-around details doesn't seem to have any benefit at this point."

I mean, maybe there was an effect as you say, and then just maybe that was done by them on purpose, but then the interesting bit would be to prove the hypothesis as well as you can. It would be better if even you at least said "I find this suspicious", over leaving it to the reader to feel like he has to agree or something. This kind of talking is heating up a discussion, for what benefit?
Mazda is doing the exact same thing. When my wife and I purchased our CX-5 that was an option and we said "hell no" even though it gets to -30 F in the winter in the Upper Midwest.

The trend toward turning products into subscriptions has been in flight for at least 20 years. It was bullshit when it started and it continues to be bullshit today.
Show HN: Blueboat – All-in-one, multi-tenant serverless JavaScript runtime
I have the unfortunate duty to inform you that you are incorrect in all your statements and assumptions
Yes, that's one of them. The author is Richard Stevens.
These trends have a long history.

Halsted's 'radical mastectomy' was similar. He had an incorrect theory of cancer (centrifugal spiral) that caused a lot of unnecessary harm, but it was not possible for people to push back against it because of his status in the community (iirc pushback eventually came from someone doing research in London where Halsted was less powerful). The emperor of all maladies is a great book about cancer generally which touches on this.

Mendel's peas are another example - breakthrough that went ignored for 40 years because Mendel was a nobody and biologists of the time had their own nonsense theories not backed by real empiricism.

Phlogiston, Elan Vital, etc. - a little different since they weren't even pretending to be empirically true. Just people making stuff up.

Falling into made up tribal nonsense is the default state of humanity - even for scientists, it's hard to think independently to overcome that. At least scientists are supposed to have that as a goal, but focusing on this difficulty and how we're all affected by it does lead to better thinking imo - at least it helps recognize these failures as they're happening more quickly.
I think that happens because that is what most patients want. They don't want to give up pizza and alcohol. Give me a magic pill instead so I can do what I want.
Climate and weather change are scientific facts, nothing to discuss about it as long as you are not a climate scientist and have other facts (I don't mean "alternative facts").

If you think, that nonsensical conspiracy theories should be regarded as an equal opinion to facts, then you won't be happy in many countries. Well, maybe in Russia.
I think you misunderstood my question.
The question was in regards to this sentence from the op:
> Calibre actually does horrible things to the HTML source that hides in each epub.
Interesting - that prevents one of the two cases.

Given fn(const Foo&) (or fn(Foo&)), your implementation would stop fn(move(x)) from compiling.

But given fn(Foo) and const Foo x, your implementation would still allow fn(move(x)) to compile and perform a copy.
To add to the thought experiment: If it were possible to isolate every single human being (and animal etc.) a considerable number of pathogens would die out.
The degree to which science has advanced since the Webb project started can't be understated either. We have a fundamentally better understanding of the technology available and what we even want to look at. Much better to simply move onto the next project, of which there are currently very many.
One side: "We should acknowledge trans people and let them live their lives"

Other side: "We should arrest or do violence to trans people, because they are abominations, groomers, and freaks"

You: "You both make good points, who could say? The right answer is probably between 'persecute' and 'not persecute'. I am enlightened."
Great Art Explained!! So good. I've really been loving that channel recently.
Chances are that a broken segment flying away will do massive damage to the telescope.
Quote the guidelines when they support you, bend them when they dont.
If I was joining Hacker News today and saw that in the guidelines, I would actually immediately laugh my head off and leave. It's a stupid argument - we're not, and don't talk about it, because we say we aren't, regardless to whether we are.

Edit: I know, that it is a semi-noob illusion as he says and people have said it for years. I've been here for years and actually feel an increasing decline (and I don't think I am alone - this is like the second time this question has been asked in a week) - but the argument is used to shut down conversation regarding HN's decline rather than just keep newcomers in check.
you keep using that word, "dog pilled"

I do not think it means what you think it means

https://incels.wiki/w/Dogpill
Don't blame VFX artists for bad CGI; blame terrible work conditions
It's pretty funny in context of the comment pg made on its release thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607285

I'd still agree.
As a former VFX industry developer, digital artist, and production supervisor this is far too true.
Well Nim also has `const` the difference is that `const` must be evaluated in compile time, but `let` is just to prevent reassignments, more info: https://nim-lang.org/docs/tut1.html#constants which is different than what JavaScript does.
I see your point, but I don't agree.

Don't tread on me/independence are broad American values.
"Screw Federal overreach" is a common American sentiment in many US states.

Texas Monthly echoed appreciation for a broadly acknowledged Texas-as-nation-state fantasy. This is different in direction than any other US state and feels troubling.
Anti-vax dating site left all its user data exposed
What’s the next project? Roman [1] doesn’t seem as groundbreaking as Webb was.

[1] https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/
> It was fairly common practice to pick up a house and move it to another plot nearby.

To me that sounded fishy but I looked it up and you seem to be right! https://www.brownstonedetectives.com/the-ancient-art-of-movi...
https://cryptome.org/

before wikileaks was wikileaks.
Yes :) If you register you'll get the link to watch when you want.

No spam emails either.
I try to encourage newcomers to refractor the code into a form they understand, fix the problem and then undo that refactoring as much as possible. If they actually come up with a better abstraction I'm up for it.

Refactoring will give them the chance to see what the actually moving parts of code are.
Why are people going directly to your junior devs for feature requests?
Given that this is largely anecdotal, I’m inclined to think that you’re either seeing your personal tastes have grown and the board hasn’t changed, or we’re facing an “endless September” situation, where we’re being subjected to a broader set of posts from people who have a different background than the traditional HN poster. In either case it is not uncommon, and if you find it unbearable it may be time to find a smaller community.
There are new versions and C++ has had a lot more love recently than in the past, but a lot of valuable changes are made impossible by the committee because of compatibility concerns.
A quick Google shows that a Tesla supercharger installation is about $250k including the power grid infrastructure upgrades needed. The self contained hydrogen generator and fueling pump from H2 is about $2 million, but it's also interest free and can be paid over 30 years and the profits of it go to the operator, which isn't true of the Tesla superchargers.

Larger and more popular gas stations can do about half a million in revenue per month selling gas, which they only have about 2% margin on. Hydrogen has the electric cost eating into margins, but even then it should be pretty profitable and much much higher than 2%.

Although it's a big up front cost commitment, the economics definitely seem feasible if hydrogen fuel cell cars start getting more popular over the next decade or more.
Ted Gioia is a terrific author and music history & culture expert. He does a great job combining his background in business with his passion for music.

His book "Delta Blues" got me started on his writing and I've followed him for over 10 years now.
The word is not “Restart” it’s “continue” or “perpetuate”.

the “other side restarting it” doesn’t make sense because from the perspective of the other side it was already restarted.
Uh huh. And when the web server process crashes, how do you restart it?
Being married to your code/output is just another flaw typical for juniors. Put them on features that aren't critical or ensure they are made aware up front that their work may be rejected if it doesn't meet design expectations.
malta seemed like a really busy expensive hard to get around place with tourists last time i considered it. interested to hear from founders who have lived there for a few years at least.
Meanwhile it‘s still pure luck if you can open the calendar or if it will take 20s to open with all the days missing. (Windows 11, calendar from the taskbar clock) - Windows 11 just doesn‘t like to open menus from the taskbar it seems ;)
If what you say is true, I assume the main drivers would be an increase in users (possibly fleeing from Reddit which has well and truly turned into a cesspit) and the general polarisation of politics in the developed world.

It is worth bearing in mind that everything always seems like it was "better in my day". I'm not here that long myself (maybe I'm the problem!) but going back four or five years, HN was kind of known in some online circles for its poor takes on certain subjects.
> Strong luxury share – at 18% of sales – helps push the industry average price higher.

I bet people who would have otherwise bought cheaper options are buying whatever they can get. In years past many of these cars probably sat on the lot for a year and sold at a healthy discount.
That same logic works for toxic fumes and plastic.

The effects of 400ppm of CO2 are negligible on an individual basis, you get exposed to much worse in a closed room. There are also regions of the world which will be spared by global warming I'm sure, if one is fine removing themselves from civilization.
To be clear - I'm not saying women don't watch porn. What I'm saying is that porn creators mainly optimize their product for a male audience. I imagine porn made "by women for women" would look quite different.
Stephen King's On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
What’s the tl;dr? What does it say we should eat?
As someone who's been around for over 10 years, I agree with this. The quality feels about the same, and still some of the most civil discourse to be found on the internet
I think we can try to improve kinship and simultaneously strive for a more just world. They probably enhance each other.

The problem with nationalism is the effort stops once the circle encompasses 'your' people (or in the Ukraine/Russia conflict, forces those outside to accept they are on the inside).
Many people started using throwaway accounts because of fear of cancel culture. Once someone is using a throwaway its easier to troll now and then.
I had an account on Reddit /r/news get banned because I said we should suspend all international travel to China at the start of COVID.

This was when democrats were making apology tours telling everyone not to be afraid to go to Chinatown.

There were several months at the start of 2020 where the “progressive” authority would systematically attack you as racist for being worried about COVID.
This is doomed to fail b/c it uses semicolons. Why would you use semicolons in 2022?
Age of the Bacteriophage
I've been repeatedly flagged by @dang for fermenting flamewars. I am guilty as charged for some of them. However, it is infuriating because he leaves plenty of flamewars unchallenged. IMHO, if I had a criticism of him, I would argue his enforcement is inconsistent at best.
It's actually really great. In many cases P2P failed, because of lack of ways to transfer value, compared to centralized services. P2P + LN might be the way for P2P renaissance.

It's also a better and more correct way to use bitcoin just as money, and not as some kind of ownership token, which plagues the web3 scene. The core purpose of money is to be interoperable, to allow all kinds of goods and services to be traded in a common unit and payment network.
They've already weaponized the term "immunization debt" and are pushing it to attack researchers who are pointing out the exact same thing.

Why are there people with hammer and sickle in their handles suddenly claiming expertise and calling researchers nazis ?
Doesn't mean it ain't true. I've been on HN since about 2013 and people have been claiming its reddit since I joined.
Finding Flaws in FileWave MDM
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proposed_space_obser...
An absolute ton of the cost of this was down to the extremely precise manufacturing required to make it. Some of that would be reduced now that they've made it once, but we're still talking about one-off components here. It won't be an order of magnitude.

One thing I am curious about is how many spare parts were produced - in small scale high precision manufacturing like this there's often multiples of components produced, with only the highest spec components shipped out. What could we cobble together with the rejects and leftovers? And what would that give us, results wise?
Sure sure. But they either die or fall in line very quickly. Fiction always makes these out to seem like very powerful entities.
How does that work though? Does the government need to regulate what we can talk about? Who determines who is "Credible"?

>The guy saying 'sell your home to buy BTC' is one such person.

Almost nobody did that though. Which means 99.99999999% of people saw that to be bad advice and acted accordingly. For the handful who decided it was a great idea, that's on them. We don't need to regulate the speech of everyone to protect the biggest idiots from themselves.
> impacted the culture and aesthetic within the firearms enthusiast community.

And then he makes the leap of presuming that an aesthetic within the enthusiast community is driving a surge in mass murder. Frankly, the opposite seems more likely to me: that the shift in manufacturer focus is meeting a rising demand created by a fracturing society.
I did indeed misunderstand. I'm sorry :)
That particular figure is from a referenced paper by a R. G. Poulos (at al), whose data comes from self-reporting.

"This paper examines self-reported prospectively collected data from 2038 adult transport and recreational cyclists from New South Wales (Australia) to determine exposure-based incident crash and injury rates."

That's just silly nonsense.
Mainly those that are already having trouble feeding their populations. For example in Africa and Middle-East many countries are in trouble with the effects of the Russian invasion. I can only imagine what will happen in these parts of the world if climate change really starts to disrupt farming.

Of course this is just one way to look at the issue. If we look at resource consumption then worst offenders are elsewhere. After all, even current population levels could be sustained if nobody consumed more than the minimum they really need, food was distributed equally and green energy was dominant.
AI-Generated Street Transformations
Could somebody objectively measure the "reddit-ness" of this site? I think it's listed in the rules because nobody can so any complaint about turning into reddit is flatly subjective opinion.
I was recently on a tiny island in Puerto Rico and noticed they had changed all their streetlights to red. It turns out they were confusing turtle hatchlings. The hatchlings would normally follow the moonlight out to sea but were being confused by the streetlights and would end up dying after going the wrong direction away from the water. Apparently the red light is not as visible to them so they don't get confused.

I don't know if red light would help with light pollution, but I do sometimes wonder if streetlights could be hooked to motion sensors and only turn on when there are people or vehicles approaching. There are so many towns where most of the time the streetlights are completely useless. I have seen this work in offices with motion sensors for each room or zone that turn the lights off automatically when nobody is around. I would think the sensors would pay for themselves in electricity savings over several years.
> What is it with people trying to quantify and categorize art?

What is it with people leaving controversial rhetorical comments?

It spawns discussion. Which really, is the whole point of art.
Rust doesn't have pointer arithmetic in the same way that C and C++ do. All you can do with pointers in rust is offset them.
> are these pictures a sort of representative of what we could see with our eyes

The JWST sees in infrared. Our eyes don’t. This makes it not representative of what we would see with our eyes.
Yes, they plan the year in advance. All submissions for time are based on anonymous proposals too so there's no bias in selection, plus they're open to the public so amateur astronomers that have the skill to be able to write such a proposal, can get time on it, just the same as any other instituion.
I mean, $50/day for vacation for multiple people is hardly expensive. I think most people can afford that.
> the edgy hot takes, probable astroturfing, and political content.

The more popular and more well-established a site is, the more likely it will be targeted for such. That's sadly inevitable. And evident here.
I know that being a tourist in Canary Islands is fun but is it a good country for a German to move to permanently? Does it have the kind of infrastructure and healthcare Germany has?
The farmers situation is unsustainable if they have to be parasitic off of the rest of the country.

At some point they will have to peel the band aid off.

The people who live in S.D. are what's important.

There's plenty of other states with favorable climates to grow crops in.
Fiji and Mauritius sound great for you, as do Trinidad and Tobago

French Polynesia (English probs though)

Dominican Republic is easiest for Visa

British dependencies/territories in the Caribbean?

You could get an answer by doing some basic research...
Eye-catching graphics and cool soundtrack

What about a real product?
Lobsters was also reddit-ified years ago. It recreated the vibe of "old" HN for a while, but it didn't last.