skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most modern language models seem to do that to an extent. Even github's co-pilot sort of does this (with code instead of books). The models can even synthesize, which starts getting really impressive. Check out Flamingo from Google, which is a VLM (vision-language model). There, it can answer questions about the content of new images and even incorporate new information.
The Lancet article TFA is based upon:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...
This kind of thing wouls never be a problem in the first place if social network stopped shoving in your face content from people you dont follow.

The are de facto acting as publishers because of that.
The struggle I had with reverse mode felt comparable to my struggle with coding up union find (for which mutation is crucial for its efficiency).
I would have paid extra for subtitles when I saw Tenet at IMAX. The audio mix made it extremely difficult to follow.
Any good resources you can recommend that would show me “the beaten path” for e.g. a todo list where users can selectively share items, or join teams - just a step or two more than the usual “every user gets their own data only”.
And is that desirable?
In the end, we all will end up as a smear on the surface of a white dwarf.

The goal of eternal preservation will sadly fail.
I like these.

Can you expand on the terms the world is malleable and also what do you mean by Incentives are powerful?
I know what you mean, but it really does pick up later, and all the threads laid in that case end up getting tied together later. The payoff is great at the end :)
> So they're complaining on the internet about not getting free stuff fast enough.

This is a very weird take.

Visual Studio isn't free for professional use. Xcode is free, but publishing for macOS/iOS is not. Both tools exists to serve platforms owned by the first and third largest companies in the world by market cap. Microsoft and Apple don't spend tens of millions of dollars a year on employee salaries for these tools out of the goodness of their heart.

In any case, the issue isn't with the toolchains. The issue is the C++ committee created a specification that has turned out to be problematic. Your next response may be to join the committee and fix it from the inside! Google tried that and rage quit to create Carbon. Sutter hasn't quit, but I think Carbon and Cppfront getting announced the same summer is not an accident.
> Volokh is a conservative attorney who is intellectually aligned with the 5th circuit judges who wrote this opinion.

Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA, uniquely qualified to weigh in on first amendment law, wrote a column on first amendment and speech issues for the Washington Post for years, and frankly, I imagine would be pretty disappointed (but not surprised, in these illiberal times), to be written off as a “conservative attorney” when he’s consistently espoused libertarian views over the decades.

On top of which, he hasn’t actually weighed in on this ruling yet, and may very well take umbrage with the decision!

His blog at reason did, in fact, post a guest article arguing that the ruling falls afoul of the takings clause.

> Orin Kerr, a conservative attorney and notable Federalist Society backer

You just disqualified Volokh for being a “conservative attorney”.

Now you’re citing a conservative attorney whose opinion suits your argument?

That’s not arguing logically or in good faith, even putting aside the fact that your claims regarding Volokh are a fabrication.
> You could setup your CI to only recompile what's changed, so you wouldn't be waiting for anything else than what you've changed.

What’s it like having CI pipelines that aren’t trash? I’m stuck with the awful choice of CI tool my work has made, and there’s not a lot I can do about that.
If you read about the author, one of her roles is "activist". I think she worked some activism into the article there.
Ask Parler
A lot of these are interesting:

https://webring.xxiivv.com
> People can quit Uber/Lyft whenever. Indentured servitude cannot be quit.

same thing really if you have no other option to earn rent and food.

And them using it as opportunity to pay low (after you include car deprecation/fuel/repairs might be even at/below minimal wage level) means you can't just do your 40 hours/week to support yourself.
MyPy doesn't require everything to be type-hinted. It's fine to sprinkle in hints where you want them.
While we are here, it's 2022, did you know you can make your software send email from addresses that can also receive emails back? This whole "donotreply" business really should have died in the 90s. You want people to reply to your automated emails that make no sense! It is the crucial context!
> So it’s only after you are a certain size that the government

We have all sorts of laws that only apply to large companies yes.

For example, a random example would be anti-trust laws. Literally they only start applying if you have a large enough effect on the market.

It is an established precedent in many parts of the law.

And similarly, common carrier laws haven't been that controversial. Parties from all sides of the political spectrum support our existing common carrier laws.
Have you used magit?

If there's a better one out there than magit's, I want to know.
That's actually close to another very important point. Most movies come with a 5.1 mix nowadays, and people watch them on a stereo system. Most players use a very simple formula when converting 5.1 to stereo, something like say Lout = 1/2 Lin + 1/3 SLin, Rout = 1/2 Rin + 1/3 SRin, and leave out the center channel completely. This is also done inside of TVs etc. The center channel gets dropped completely! And sometimes dialogue is only in the center channel - not all of it, but there are some lines every now and then that just only ever come out of the center channel. Those are lost.
"Social media companies are censoring people they don't like"

This is ridiculous. No one is banned for their opinions on tax policy. No one is banned for their opinions on abortion. People (including the former POTUS) were removed for inciting violence, for fomenting harassment campaigns, and for racism/transphobia/other forms of bigotry.
You mean like youtube making it premium not to see ads?
I loved this paper when it came out, but as far as I know, the author never actually implemented his proposal.
> If you are having to treat powerful people differently, you need to look hard at the place you are in and the kind of class divide it promotes. It's fucking 2022.

> The year is only an argument on 90s daytime talk shows.

I'm not sure why you think it's an argument. When someone makes a statement, it's not automatically an argument.

In this case, that statement is a call to action. Take note that decades have passed and the culture has changed, which was articulated in the previous sentence.
Why do our devices not have an option to normalize audio (or something along those lines)?
Clearly you don't understand the situation. I will buy that AliExpress S-Video even though I already have one - which I can't find. And of course I will enjoy buying another one.
Thanks for taking the time to read and respond. I admit the second paragraph of my post was a bit aggressive and I was on the fence about posting it. I don't have a problem with you sharing your background but the parts I mentioned previously came off in a certain way to me.

I found your initial argument on dynamic arrays dismissive because you admitted you had never heard of it, then implied that they don't make sense as if to justify why you had never heard of them. I find that intellectually dishonest and it really ticked me off; it's just confirming one's own bias. I still find your argument a bit dismissive although we can agree to disagree. It's not a case of worthiness to be on a list of best algorithms or of fancy math derivations. They are widely used in practice, are O(1) for many operations, work well with caches, and are worth studying for that reason.

As for making a "good contribution of my own" by reviewing the course, I don't feel the need. It's a standard undergrad algorithms course of the kind that most CS students would take. I don't think there's any value in reviewing the syllabus when they all tend to cover the same material.

I'm probably won't reply again so (sincerely) have a good day. I realize you feel attacked but if you're going to opine on something then other people might opine on your opinion. You don't hesitate in your writing style so I didn't either. I just apologize if I made it too personal. I read some things that I couldn't let slide.
Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it?
I have to find a strategy to fix this development team without managing them directly. Here is an overview:

- this code generates more than 20 million dollars a year of revenue

- it runs on PHP

- it has been developed for 12 years directly on production with no source control ( hello index-new_2021-test-john_v2.php )

- it doesn't use composer or any dependency management. It's all require_once.

- it doesn't use any framework

- the routing is managed exclusively as rewrites in NGInX ( the NGInX config is around 10,000 lines )

- no code has ever been deleted. Things are just added . I gather the reason for that is because it was developed on production directly and deleting things is too risky.

- the database structure is the same mess, no migrations, etc... When adding a column, because of the volume of data, they add a new table with a join.

- JS and CSS is the same. Multiple versions of jQuery fighting each other depending on which page you are or even on the same page.

- no MVC pattern of course, or whatever pattern. No templating library. It's PHP 2003 style.

- In many places I see controllers like files making curl requests to its own rest API (via domain name, not localhost) doing oauth authorizations, etc... Just to get the menu items or list of products...

- no caching ( but there is memcached but only used for sessions ...)

- team is 3 people, quite junior. One backend, one front, one iOS/android. Resistance to change is huge.

- productivity is abysmal which is understandable. The mess is just too huge to be able to build anything.

This business unit has a pretty aggressive roadmap as management and HQ has no real understanding of these blockers. And post COVID, budget is really tight.

I know a full rewrite is necessary, but how to balance it?
Nice idea. Definitely "out of the box", in more ways that one.
The guy with speech impediment was on vacation when they named those
Please, an Apple TV feature that just automatically turns on Closed Captioning whenever you Skip Back 15 seconds.

I don't want to ask Siri every time.
I use a git GUI (Sourcetree) as a time saving tool to visualize the git repo, browse through commits to view changes, diff non adjacent commits or branches, etc. I have never used it to actually alter the state of my repo, all that is much easier on the command line for me. But TUI is woefully inadequate for getting the hang of even a moderately complex repo that I'm trying to understand.
> It's akin to writing a review of a film you've never seen and have no intention of seeing.

Even without seeing the movie, if comment A says the director X has a history of doing Y, someone who's not seen the film can still talk to director X's history with Y.

To discourage this, HN could provide a more complex rating system than simple up and down, like /. has. Then you could hide all comments rated "uninformed speculation".

Reading the primary source material itself isn't some back door to being insightful, either. See comments about the new California law regulating the Internet for minors. A charitable read of the words in the law sound fine. Unfortunately, that charitable reading isn't how the courts are going to approach the issue, so comments taking that charitable take aren't really worth reading either.
Me too. And it's a big reason I'm excited about Rust.
This discussion is specifically scoped to the legal system in the United States.

If you, as a US individual, express the opinion that "I do not like post with unique ID X on platform Y because of reasons a,b,c", that would be protected speech. A moderation feed would be equivalent to a series of such statements.

If other users decide to subscribe to your moderation feed, and have matching posts automatically hidden, that would specifically be the choice of that individual user, and not a private company.

One of the greatest scams governments around the world have managed to pull is making "free speech" a politically partisan issue. There are two sides to it though, but it's not conservative vs. liberal, it's the common people vs. governments and corporations.
Seems easily solved by twitter recalculating their number of users by subtracting the bots, leaving the total users around 49 million and change.
One of my daughters and I have the BRCA1 mutation
Death cord!
Speaking of captioning, why the expletive deleted do I have to turn on captions every single time I enter a meeting in Google Meet, Teams, Zoom (which makes it really hard to get captions), Slack Huddle (which I’m not sure if it has captions or not now because the last time I was in one I couldn’t find a setting to turn it on), BlueJeans, etc.? I’m signed into every single one of these and using a dedicated app in many cases and yet every single one forgets that I always need captions. In contrast, all the video streaming services that I use don’t require me to turn on captioning after the first time.
I agree. This is poignant indeed.

In general over time communication has become far lower cost and more ephemeral. The richness of the faxes back and forth, or handwritten letters from even earlier eras - in contrast with your average SMS message is interesting to think about.

Faxes and paper letter existed on paper. How many of us expect to be able to find emails or SMSes from 40-50 years ago?

If we could only write one SMS/txt to a person a day, and they responded in 24 hours -- how would that shape our conversations?

Does any one expect to be able to get anything out of FB 30 years from now :) ?

So much to think about.
I see what he's going for, with the function signature separated from the identifier, it might improve readability. My initial reaction is I don't love it, but it's not that bad.
> I do this. I can parse what is happening on screen and read the captions in a fraction of the time the thing actually plays out, then I got a few seconds to do something else. Usually I would be reading HN or something while I tune out the video for a few seconds, before glancing at it again to catch the next bit.

That kind of context switching really does sound terrible to me. In my case, I speed up the content itself by 3 to 5x speed so that I can process more information at once and any boring bits are basically sped through. It's helped me retain a lot more information than simply watching at 1x speed.
tig is better
I'm in my 30s and I use subtitles for everything because I don't have the absolute best hearing and I was an anime fan growing up so it never felt weird. Doesn't the Wall Street Journal have better things to be doing other than trying to make a false generational divide over subtitles?

Like seriously, this kind of needless naval gazing from a supposedly serious outlet just frustrates me so much.
Their whois also provides a form to contact them.

https://whois-webform.markmonitor.com/whois/meetup.com
How many people here would be able to fully digest a 113 page legal decision even if they did read it? There are some lawyers here. But most people are not. It is not reasonable to tell people there is a barrier to commenting unless they are fully educated in all details of the topic. It is probably better to see what people have to say, and point them to clarifying information if you see them speaking from incorrect information. You also always have the downvote option, and even the option to flag if comments are particularly problematic.

That being said, I find it particularly ironic that in the context of this specific court case, your suggested fix to the problem is to ban certain content.
There's been a tendency in the art world in the last 50 years or so to defend every work and dismiss any criticism as someone not knowing what they are talking about or being a philistine. Yet it is also widely accepted that the entire field of visual arts has been in a malaise for quite some time.

There are failures in every walk of life, yet no one in the art world can accept that a work of art can be a failure. I think this mentality is partly responsible for the general decline in the public perception of modern art.

I've seen enough, I don't need to see anymore to tell you it's bad.
What GP is talking about isn't always a high five, so slap hands is a better phrase. See here for example: https://youtu.be/T9chSovkDkA?t=34
Exceptional engineers I've come across unilaterally don't use smart/unique/whatever_ptr. A common theme is that they employ allocation strategies that avoid the need for 'micro' memory management in favor of 'macro' management strategies. Allocating large blocks of memory at a time and freeing it all at once is one specific example.
Does it have more than 50m “users” (I guess this means registered accounts)?
Are there actual medically diagnosed levels for this disorder? I would think that for this disorder, you'd need at least ten levels. It would be instructive to see them spelled out with perhaps a dozen bullet points per level. I am of the opinion that photos would not help. They can only capture a snapshot and don't reflect something like a 200 day moving average.

I would also be interested in knowing where I sit on that ten point scale.
You and I would likely throw those glass shards away but I doubt any archeologist would.

My concern is about how we stop such 'vandalism' in the first instance (especially so culturally significant objects such as those found by Howard Carter). We might do so initially, say for several hundred years, with current strategies with minimal loss but I think over several millennia our systems would fall apart.

(At present, we consider those objects to be of great importance, in two millennia values might be entirely different.)
Fully agreed - it's not a generational thing at all. They're just continuing the "nolan bad" meme that's been going around in double force since tenet came out. Watch them make another article about subtitles focusing on nolan soon enough, it's coming for sure.
I mean, are chainsaws unsafe? "Hoping" the government will ban it seems like a poor solution.
Modern sound engineers seem to expect that I own several thousand dollars of high-end sound equipment capable of reproducing the full dynamic range they've sculpted. It's super annoying.
This fails even basic scrutiny. They can diversify the feed sources by volume.
It seems you really don't know what hoarding is. It is not having too little space, it is feeling anxiety throwing stuff away.

This is an accurate picture of a hoarder's horde: https://i.imgur.com/Gw9pfd7.jpg, https://i.imgur.com/Dh1JYc9.jpg.

From this post: https://old.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/x887...

See how there is a layer of trash on the floor such that you can't even see the bare floor.

Thankfully the OP in this post cleaned it up after significant support from Reddit, but generally, the people who live like they did have more than enough space.
Big win for free speech.
Whenever I'm watching a modern movie, sticking a compressor on the audio is a must. Open VLC settings, search for "compressor". It's programmer UI, but it does exactly what it says.
> Which aspect of reality?

All aspects. Reality itself.

> And when you say “positive”, from whose perspective or within which frame are you defining it?

All of them. Reality itself.
It's "Fulfilled By Amazon", not sold by Amazon. The first one I see:

Ships from Amazon
Sold by Linmuns

Linmuns is some fly-by-night company registration that can just be disposed of if it gets in any trouble.

That said, even enforcement and regulation can only do so much. In the US, the big-box hardware stores (HD/Lowes) sell a large number of non-tamper-resistant outlets, despite TR being mandated in most applications by the 2008(!) NEC. The hardware stores don't care because they aren't the ones actually installing them (and there are some allowed uses of non-TR outlets, such as behind a fridge or in the ceiling), consumers don't care because it's cheaper and they aren't getting their work inspected anyway, they just want to fix the outlet their grandson broke or whatever.
Cleaning fees are usually required by state and local authorities that provide a level of service found in hotels. Clean basins, wash towels, sweep floors, empty garbage.

If the guest decides to leave a ton of dishes in the sink and throw up on the floor, my cleaner needs to work harder than what she gets paid for so I pay her more. I hand that cost down to the dirty guest.
Super convenient if you happen to know exactly what you’re doing and why it’s a bad idea (but necessary). Otherwise, lives up to the name.
Cheap hack for most setups is to boost the center speaker. Usually that’s just used for dialogue.
The sooner we transition, the sooner we’ll be able to become vastly wealthier: the GDP growth rate is highly correlated with the growth rate of energy consumption. The growth rate of energy consumption has been declining since around 1970, hence the decline in the GDP growth rate. This is because it’s ever more difficult to extract ever more energy from fossil sources. Once we transition to renewables, the GDP growth rate will rise as our ability to increase energy consumption rises, until some point of saturation far in the future.

One way to think about this is to consider that a hypothetical objector might ask the same question of an advocate of a planned, civilization wide transition from wood burning to coal burning. And the coal advocate would be right to make the same argument as above.
Yeah broadly speaking there are two classes of customer:

1) ones who want to talk to a human as soon as something goes wrong

2) ones who try literally everything possible to avoid talking to a human, and only reach out when there is absolutely no programmatic exit from whatever weird edge case they are in

If you make the experience good for (2), you spend an enormous amount of money on (1). If you cut down on the wasted money for (1) (ie, the people whom automated phone trees actually help), you make life miserable for (2).

There's no automatic way to differentiate the two types... yet. But I can dream.
I disagree, I have a harder time paying attention to people speaking than reading. Reading is faster, much faster than waiting for people finish a sentence.

Then again, maybe you're right, I don't process auditory language and when I was in university, I skipped classes to instead read the textbook back to back without a teacher distracting me by yammering around.
1. The concept of "no-code" seems important but is not mentioned on the website.

2. There is no example of a use case. Statements like "We push your data as an API to any server or app you wish" are too vague.

3. You should not link from your website to a suspended Twitter account (digitalmelife).

4. You should not misspell your own company name "Tim Retkoceri ... acting as zebrass CEO."

5. There is some concrete information about your team online elsewhere but you don't mention it, e.g., "Tim Retkoceri ... Former Sales Director of the strategic AWS-Partner in Germany. Prior startup founder and extensive experience in digitalizing the largest Real Estate companies in EMEA."

6. It seems odd that you have several specific pricing tiers and yet all someone can do is join a wait list.

7. There are other minor mistakes at various places on the website, e.g., "encrypted and savely stored" ==> "encrypted and safely stored"