skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the street shootout in Heat (1995) is one of cinema's greatest scenes. It's the audio that makes it incredible - the guns echoing off the buildings. And Val Kilmer, Sizemore and De Niro trying to run carrying large bags of cash - greed vs survival.
I would definitely suggest Prague, Czech Republic.

The city is beautiful. Climate is great. Low taxation (especially if you're self-employed). Cost of living is way better than in Germany. Quality of food, healthcare and public services is also very good.

Also, if you don't like the leftist policies, you'll love Czech Republic.
Coin flip doesn’t require a new tech stack. That seems like a positive.

Though coins are less common pocket fillings than they used to be. Risk of relying on legacy technology? Easy enough to virtualize, relatively well. Can also substitute in other objects or techniques fairly quickly. Small effort to lift and shift to picking a card or drawing a straw. Probably not a concern.
Change in Classification of CC0
This sounds odd to me.

Is there no planning flow where you work/have worked? I understand giving developers freedom to build, but some sort of oversight by someone with a view of everything that's going on is also necessary.

Typically there are entire planning exercises that happen before stuff even hits a JIRA board.

These are usually conducted by Product Managers, Project Managers, analysts, and often in startups the CEO themselves.

The fact that people are off building features willy nilly sounds like it would contribute to messy code base.

Knowing what's next helps plan the work on the developer side as well which also minimizes the blast radius.
Okay, let's do a fair comparison, let's compare to the last Monday of July in 2015 to see what the top stories were then:

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2015-07-27

Is that so much different to now?

99 comments on the #2 story, the launch of Ethereum. (This surprised me, I had no idea of that date).

On politics:

The permissibility of political content is a change I've not enjoyed.

There's always been a US-centric approach to flagging, with US-politics getting a "pass" to the "no general news" rule if it's deemed important enough to the US audience. I've not enjoyed the fact that while a post about the elections in any other country would get flagged and hidden would be mass upvoted under the notion it's "important".

But I can accept this is a US site for a largely US audience.

But even taking that into account, generally politics hasn't been previously as allowed as much as it seems to be now.
I call this "copy-paste-copy-paste-refactor": don't factor or abstract out a routine before the third time it's implemented. Until then you don't know what the actual commonalities among the uses will be, or if the callers will have so many special cases that the routine isn't really that reusable.
This is sort of funny, because one of the differences I can see is that this post is not on the frontpage of the "Classic" site right now.. How did you get here? :)

And yes, if someone can elucidate what HN Classic is, that would be cool. I assume it uses some older ranking algorithm that has since been swapped out?
Kube-monkey: an implementation of Netflix's Chaos Monkey for Kubernetes clusters
> Copyright also seems to be going fine.

Unless copyright terms get shorter, they are not "fine". Even the status quo is not "fine".

Life+50 years (or more) is ridiculously long:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright...

If an artist can't re-coup their costs in, say, thirty years, they are bad at business side of things and should get out of the way to allow other creative people to build on their work.

The novel Nightmare Alley was published in 1946, and the author died in 1962:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_Alley_(novel)

There's no reason why it should (AFAICT) still be under copyright such that royalties need to be paid to, e.g., turn it into a movie:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_Alley_(2021_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unincorporated_Man would like a word.

Speaking only for myself: Why the fuck would I take on a loan I can never repay?
ML is a bit different because if the authors provide sufficient data, then any fraud is trivially obvious on replication and if they don't provide sufficient data, then that is a reasonable criticism on its own without having to go into motives.

However, in other areas where you have "real world" experiments, you don't even expect the experiments to replicate - two clinical trials on different sets of patients won't necessarily yield the same results, and different results when repeating a biological experiment does not necessarily imply fraud; we know that in this domain (unlike ML) we sometimes do have unknown confounders that experiments don't control for.
> Still, there are some industries where, for now at least, micro-subscriptions seem to be a distant dream. You’d be hard-pressed to find a major publisher that will let you pay to read just a single news article

That is not subscriptions, that is microtransactions and it has been attempted many such as Blendle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blendle that ended up pivoting to subscriptions. Microstransactions are the opposite of predictable revenue. They just don't work for the publisher side.
For me, it is 100% to do with cult-like followings, and their subsequent brigading of any topic even remotely relevant to them.

Examples: Brands like Apple and Tesla. People like Elon Musk, Jordan Peterson, Donald Trump, and Joe Rogan. Diets like Veganism, Keto, Intermittent Fasting. Etc., Etc., Etc.. And that's before we even get into partisan politics.

It's not possible for people to be partial believers or skeptics or even show any sort of nuance with these groups. You're either all in or you're an idiot that should just go jump in front of a train. And threads are brigaded with this sort of bullshit, and dissenting opinions are suppressed with flagging and massive downvotes.

Compared to this, I have to chuckle at how mild and respectful the old hot-topic discussions were on things like copyleft vs permissive licensing. It's like comparing kindergarten tiffs with a supermax prison riot.
It’s pretty bad, dude. West Norway in November; sunrise at 08:40 and sunset at 16:10. 1.2 feet of rainfall on average. 20 days of rain on average, and 20 hours of sunlight. This is far south of the Arctic Circle!

Sure, it’s not a market of millions, but that wasn’t my point. If you’re prone to seasonal depression, you’ll want a daylight lamp. Thankfully, those are available!
There has been a lot of work on earth based telescopes (eg the 30 meter, giant Magellan, and some array based telescopes) that are going online in the next decade.
I think they'll be fine.

A squeezed upper middle class is good for the climate. Squeeze away, I say.
Yes, this is the way. In addition, often the internal and external representations of information will be different, in which case I normally prefer to keep any conversion or validation logic as close to the corresponding I/O as possible. Then all the internal computation logic only has to work with a clean and well-defined internal data model.
I ask myself this question every day. I'm pretty sure the answer is not to be slinging Javascript when I'm 40. Maybe I'll just buy a goat farm.
It is difficult to tell sometimes due to its religious backward compatibility, but C++ has been becoming significantly less complex over time. I have a large C++ code base (originally hundreds of thousands LoC) that I aggressively modernize, essentially rewriting it idiomatically in new versions of C++. It was originally written in C++0x/C++11, rewritten in C++17, and is currently being rewritten in C++20. You can barely tell the code bases are related beyond being functionally similar.

It is also important to separate C++ the language from its standard library.

As C++ the language has modernized, it has dramatically reduced the lines of code to express a given thing. And the more modern way of expressing the thing has stronger type safety, more flexibility, and better composability. Things that used to require a lot of template metaprogramming magic to pull off are now clean one-liners. Particularly in C++20, which is probably the biggest step-change since C++11, metaprogramming is simultaneously much more powerful and much more readable. A lot of code that used to be written is now metaprogrammed. Previous use cases that required C macros largely have native C++ equivalents at this point.

The major issue that makes C++ seem complex is the standard library, which was largely designed and written for legacy versions of C++. If you use the standard library heavily, it tends to want to be used in the style of C++ for which it was originally written. If you built a standard library for C++20 from first principles, it would look quite different from the one we have. Hence the proliferation of non-standard "standard" libraries for C++.
Hard disagree.

I dont like GDQuest, as he uses every fancy/advanced technique he knows in his free and paid courses, which means its very hard to understand whats going on.

Heartbeast only focusses on one concept at a time, which makes it easy to follow whats going on. People criticising Heartbeast are the same type of people who make fun of beginners programming tutorials "Lol, doesnt even use Kubernetes, deploying manually. Teaching bad practices lol"

GDquest makes a type 2 mistake (from my blog[0]) where he uses advanced techniques, more it seems to me to impress others rather than to help readers. I bought their courses, but couldn't finish any as I struggled to follow the 20+ concepts being taught at the same time.

0. https://new.pythonforengineers.com/blog/the-problem-with-mos...
From the article:

<< Now Cassava is a story of their own, and I have frankly been steering clear of it, despite some requests. To me, it’s an excellent example of a biotech stock with a passionate (and often flat-out irrational) fan club.

I wonder if this is part of the issue. It is now something of a social club, where allegiance is to the clan. I initially wondered if it is the function of the internet, but the I remembered that various cliques existed way before that. Internet just put a spotlight on it.

The only real question is whether the current club can be reformed.
> we have non-destructive

I think you meant to say we don't have non-destructive?
I see your point, and if I understand you correctly, it is evidenced by the success of the Twitter/Tik-Tok/etc. recommendation algorithms.

I'm just not sure we need productive thoughts more that productive discussions, given that we will face more collective 'resource allocation problems' over the next decades.
Looks cool, but is this a solution in search of a problem?
I'm happy to hear that the overall perspective is relatable and sober although I can not agree on 'tidal wave' and 'apocalypse'. 'Antideluge' or 'negative tsunami', anyone?

You know, you could even blame Russia's current war on its declining population (their leader desperately trying to keep together the country and the people) but I know of another Great War that was fought under the pretense of having the right to expand b/c of a growing population (and they happened to have laid their eyes on the same stretches of fertile farmland). I do not believe in either, the reasons being in both cases largely unrelated to demographic growth or lack thereof. Given that this former event did cause stocks to take a plunge, well, that's what trouble and disorder give you, trouble and disorder. And that can have so many reasons that I'm not afraid of the shrinking population => economic setback linkage, even if and so far as it does have predictive value.
They define upper-middle as a household earning between 75k-127k. But, before that, they mention that a member of the upper-middle class, Mr. Yu, purchased a new home, a duplex, and an 8-unit apartment complex during the pandemic. Is there any wonder he’s getting squeezed? He’s trying to play outside of his league using other people’s money.

The real story is that the “upper middle class” played too fast and loose at the top of the longest bull market in decades and now reality is setting in.
> One other thing about most US locales, ...

And US school shootings to worry about
Ask HN: What do you think about a law that criminalizes faking and doctoring data for their research? Clearly we need greater punitive consequences for these types of behavior that's becoming an epidemic in research.
You will not be cancelled as long as you can back your claim. Like in everything in this world. The equivalence of cancelling in HN is of course downvoting to oblivion. We have that tool here as well. Controversial opinions are heard as long as they have backing or/and something important to add to the conversation.
> it feels as if the site has become a parody of itself

I feel with all the web3 hyperbole Silicon Valley itself has become a parody of its former self. To me HN has always had a delicate mix of hard tech (e.g. "here's how I used X new API") and startup buzz. The latter was always in danger of taking over the former once everyone realised how coveted the top spot of HN is for traffic. Combine that with tensions over what Silicon Valley even is today... and here we are.
You could be right. How much of the reported hospital overwhelm was due to children being admitted with primary Covid infection?
HN was never anything different than Reddit. The illusion that it is comes from people leaving Reddit looking for another online community that lines up with their interests, landing here, and saying, "ah, this place is my refuge from Reddit."

But fundamentally the established community is just as online, just as self protective, just as memey as any subreddit on a specialized topic.
Maybe I'm weird but a lot of my refactoring actually concretizes overly abstract code. It's easier to think about adding functionality to a block of code when you acknowledge that at the moment it only does 2 things, rather than using obscure wishy-washy language that implies it could do a dozen things.

Where I'm definitely weird is that I have a higher verbal score than your typical developer, and I'm not afraid to use a thesaurus to find a better word for something. Too often we end up recycling jargon in situations where they are not quite doing the same thing but nobody could be arsed to open thesaurus.com and find a word that telegraphs, "B is like A but is not actually A."
Adding on, the number of 'upgradable' platforms with no upgrades ever produced is quite large.

Intel should at least make prototype 'upgrades' from previous generarions to show it's feasible. Or at least from a current core series and a current atom series.
IDK seems most lawyers covering this are saying that bots are a stretch for MAE, unless the bots somehow suddenly start to impact Twitter's revenues ...
Prioritize functional testing over unit testing, which penalizes refactoring.
If you mean the contrast with the title, it doesn’t look to me like he demolished anything, more that the title is the hook more than the point.

The body of the article makes a careful distinction between “social responsibility of business” [nonsensical per the argument as I read it], “social responsibility of a business” [dubiously meaningful, more of a category error—same one as “corporations are afforded human rights”, funnily enough], “social responsibility of a business executive” [as far as their employment is concerned, advancing the aims of the owners, generically profit], and “social responsibility of a business owner” [same as for any other natural person, might entail establishing or funding a business to advance their goals].

ETA: Anyhow, my point was not whether or to which extent I agree with Friedman’s headline or article, it was that the quoted sentence seems like a generic argument against charities, which is neither economic-progressive (“left”) nor WSJ’s traditional economic-liberal (“right”), it’s just bizarre.
A short story, and a boring game in my case. =)
Extreme heat exposure worsens child malnutrition
Completely agree with you on all points and that is why their work will never gain mass adoption. Even DoH struggles to be adopted in corporate and restricted environments.

Everyone wants to start a protocol but no one wants to maintain the network. They want it to run itself. They don't want to separate centralization of authority from centralization of platform/network. The former lets you circumvent blocks if removed and the latter avoids registry's, payments, corporate run internet,etc... you can't have your cake and eat it too.
I think it looks devastating. The people who run the thing think it's fine. I'll defer to the people who run the thing. See ThisIsMyAltFace's comment.
Pretty good actually, a Terry Nation show as I recall (the guy who invented the Daleks). Attempts to take the subject seriously and realistically (no zombies or daleks), with reasonable success.
I wouldn't worry too much, they were expecting them (albeit this was a biggie). The L2 point it's at means there shouldn't be too much that collects around there, gravity wise, but it will happen again.
Wasn't HSV also implicated in Alzheimer's. Seeing most of the world is infected with cold sores I wonder if we should question this research too?
I'm not against stand-ups per se, just against daily stand-ups. Currently I'm in a team which does three a week. That's at least tolerable, but if it was up to me, I'd opt for once a week. Daily made me feel that I had no agency over my work, that everything to the tiniest detail needed to be negotiated with someone, most often the manager. Less agency means lower engagement in work. At least for me. I do know that there is plenty of other people who are different.
One of my friends had to buy a new (to him) car out of necessity. He decided to buy the only new car on the lot. He was bragging. Great deal.

Here’s the catch.. it requires premium. He didn’t know that. The dealer made sure not to volunteer any extra info. He’s keeping those miles low.
Yea, the climate has me concerned if i need to buy. My current is a 2014 Toyota Prius, bought new and drive little. I had wanted to get another 10 years out of it, but now i feel like i need to get another 10 years out of it. This climate is crazy.

I love this car though. $24k with no interest, been fully paid off for a long time - was a great buy and has been rock solid. I hope i can get a deal this good in the future..
> If an artist can't re-coup their costs in, say, thirty years, they are bad at business side of things and should get out of the way to allow other creative people to build on their work.

Can we get something straight? In vast majority of cases it's the massive content industry corporations that are doing the cost recouping here, not the artists themselves. Artists get tiny peanuts or even less if they weren't known enough to fight corporate lawyers of their own publisher.

"Poor artists recouping their life work" is a nice PR message from publisher corporations to defend status quo though.
Also, see this comment from 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607789

I think we can pretty safely say that 13 years in, the transformation hasn't finished yet. So it's totally okay to discuss this (as clearly shown by this thread being on the front page), but if you want to make that argument, you should probably have more data points than a gut feeling.
If anything, I think websites have more uptime these days than they were 10 years ago. Remember the "this website is under maintenance" banners of the bygone era, anyone?
Why wouldn't a city use an independent appraiser to vet those numbers?
I think you’re on to something. A colleague got into a car accident and ended up spending way more than he needed to on a luxury car he didn’t want.

He has 4 kids. Getting a minivan or suv is difficult unless you are patient or can buy the “Elite Super Touring Edition with Gold Sprinkles”. Car companies are adverting incentives for ordering cars, so I think this is the new normal. They’ve learned from Tesla’s shenanigans that you can get away with anything.
How? They aren't getting revenue until they can sell a drug that has passed clinical trials, and no clinical trials have been successful for Alzheimer's.
I ran into the same issue on a work computer and running the commands on this page solved it for me:

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/windows-10-start-menu-not-...
Yeah, but I think the problem is not really in the web of trust but in the incentive for researchers. If we are still stuck in this publish or perish trend, even if we replace those publishers with journals based on 'open communities', this kind of things will still happen. However, if we abandon the use of such indices (H-index, citation count, whatever), what should we use to evaluate grant applications? Sales pitch like startups asking for VC money?

I don't know, I think the system is problematic but I can't really think of something else that is feasible.
Zero, but only one of those demos actually touched production.
Wow, this post really took off! If anyone wants to read some of my blog posts on building PDF search engines (and the pain, torment and anguish that it causes) read:

- https://medium.com/jina-ai/building-an-ai-powered-pdf-search...

- https://medium.com/jina-ai/search-pdfs-with-ai-and-python-pa...

- https://medium.com/jina-ai/search-pdfs-with-ai-and-python-pa...
saw it in theaters for the first time last night. the gunshots are so loud and it’s amazing
that being said, I feel like there's going to be a ton of datasets to be mined for some time. When I was a summer intern in ~2000, they were still writing papers out of Viking data from the '70s
Nick Naylor: Cigarettes in space?

Jeff Megall: It's the final frontier, Nick.

Nick Naylor: But wouldn't they blow up in an all oxygen environment?

Jeff Megall: Probably. But it's an easy fix. One line of dialogue. 'Thank God we invented the... you know, whatever device.'
This is an improvement over the status quo, which is that fraud exists, hurts patients, and continues to exist.
To be explicit, one problem with Bitcoin's energy use is that it has the potential to consume any excess energy-producing capacity that we free up by making technology more energy efficient. It could use any fossil fuel-powered energy production that otherwise might be obsoleted by green energy sources. Bitcoin and other PoW blockchains add a strong financial incentive to use all available energy production capacity to its limit. Certainly it is difficult to imagine the market encouraging e.g. carbon capture when the same unit of energy could be used to mine Bitcoin instead for more "profit". (Not that I think carbon capture is likely to make much of a difference, given that simply not releasing greenhouse gases in the first place is always more efficient.)

If energy efficiency and green energy sources will not suffice to reduce our burning of fossil fuels, due in part to Bitcoin and its ilk, then the only way to avoid climate catastrophe would be simply doing less, a.k.a. degrowth. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to imagine what the typical cryptocurrency advocate thinks of degrowth. (But that would interfere with the numbers going up!)

In short, Bitcoin is a major roadblock to any response to the climate crisis, using any strategy.
Perl faded away because there was an alternative (Python) and it was not a kitchen sink. For C++, there's no alternative at all. People have to bear with it.
It has. The records were set in 1991 and 1988 (men's and women's), and haven't budged.

It's remarkable, given the way other fields have continued to set new records. And nobody has a really good answer why, but it doesn't seem nefarious. It just seems that amazing records got set by an extraordinary athlete on a perfect day and nobody has managed to put that combination together again.
The process is not working as intended.

16 years to detect and correct major fraud in the field? That's simply inexcusable, and a sign that things are definitely not working properly.