skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Like, in the real world, even if one will never actually implement a fully-fledged programming language, you're still probably going to have to parse things sometimes.

That is definitely true, but in practice there isn't much to say about it, because sophisticated parsers turn out not to be particularly important; it works out better overall to design simple grammars, and then the parsing is easy.

- If you're a beginner, you'll write a recursive descent parser, because that's the simplest technique, and it lets you focus on your project instead of a new, unfamiliar tool.

- If you're writing a domain-specific language, or a config format, or something of that nature, you'll use whichever parser generator integrates most conveniently into your workflow, and you'll design your grammar around whatever its manual tells you to do.

- If you're writing a full-scale language compiler, you'll go back to recursive descent, because that offers the easiest way to recover from errors and report informative messages. Maybe you'll throw in precedence-climbing for operators.

> I would love a book that goes into detail about different parsing techniques and considers best practices and patterns and tradeoffs/design considerations -- would pay good money for that

I would also read such a book, but it would be more of a book about parser generators than a book about parsers.
Sure, but big tech pay is comprised substantially of RSUs (like 20-80% of total comp in most cases), which are liquid, and those prices do swing quite a bit which dramatically impacts your take-home. There are tons of people who joined Meta in 2021 who are still making substantially less than the figures their offer letters, while some who joined in 2022 who are now making 7 figures based on the stock appreciation over the last half. At the end of the day, big tech gives you the highest floor, plus solid upside.

This is arguably a lot more interesting than ISOs or private RSUs, where you might have more upside, but dramatically more downside as well, including many scenarios where the equity is effectively worth zero.
I do think if we were having this conversation about an explicitly community-owned forum or fanfic hosting service -- ie, a scenario where it's obvious that the community is behind the decision -- my reaction would likely be very different. I'm broadly pretty sympathetic to a forum saying, "we're doing this for us, not for a VC firm."

SO in specific though is an interesting site in that the value proposition of the site was very heavily based on this information being freely available and uncontrolled. I think they're in a position where it's much less appropriate for the site owners to try an clamp down on AI scraping.

If there is a strong movement from the SO community to change that, I'm not aware of it, but who knows, maybe I'm out of the loop.

Off the top of my head, another example of the distinction I'm getting at would be something like Wikipedia -- if the Wikipedia owners started trying to outright block site backups my immediate response would be, "well wait a second, that was not the deal we all made around this site, we signed up to help the Wikimedia foundation build an Open encyclopedia, even if that means it gets pulled into an AI dataset. We specifically didn't want the Wikimedia foundation to have the power to decide what usage of this data they would allow or deny."
Definitely some people were put off by the ideological bent to it. I found it slightly grating (and I'm a center-left type), but I could have excused it if there was anything else to the films. The first one seemed promising if finished, but the rest were just sloppy.

In other words, it's not like an unwoke version of those films would have been good. Like, they resorted to bringing Palpatine back. That's not being fixed by changing Finn's race, Rey's gender, or that one chick's hair color or whatever else people are upset about who stole the Picard Maneuver.

Every popular movie gets leveled with some criticism about its politics. But just like most of my computing tools, I really care more about whether they work than whether the company posts a logo I agree or disagree with.

Here the second two especially were just trash movies that put the elements of the universe in a blender.
I've been using Redact. Does anyone know the difference between Shreddit and Redact?
I sympathize with your family’s hurt. Is this case equivalent? DuPont did the dumping into the well water.

3M manufactured a non-stick coating used by thousands of companies on thousands of different products. What is the end game here? They never produce teflon again and industries like biomedical suffer?
I also open short lived anonymous accounts. I just sign up using a temporary more or less anonymous mail address (lots of sites that offer this), input a bogus birth date to be able to see all posts, recreate my subscriptions and multireddits and I’m good to go for another 6 months.
Not sure SW was ever about anything but style and setting. A constant science fiction Gulliver's Travels with new people, civilizations, institutions cropping up rapid-fire.

Any attempt to rein that in would ossify, fossilize the franchise. It's not about some particular famous characters or planets. It's about constantly seeing new stuff.
Andor was good. It didn't need Star Was as its universe, but it is perhaps the best Star Wars anything in the last two decades.
And yet, you still get 'I hate society and I'm going to shoot up a school/mall/movie theatre/parade/nightclub' terracts on the regular.

It is strange that intersection of 'I'm angry at stuff and want to make people pay', and 'I own guns and I'm going to use them' seems to consistently result in rage and violence against society at large, rather than bad actors in particular.

It's almost as if there's a kind of slant to the propaganda that pushes people into those buckets. Not a lot of unhinged, violent anti-3M/Purdue/Kaiser/DuPont rhetoric on the *chans and in the Q-sphere...
fwiw, I get this just as much with remote, but it's a chat message.

To fix this, use "the process". Create a ticket for the job for this person and if they want the job done right now, get them to up to priority themselves (presumably with their and your managers' approval).
Turkish citizens' personal data offered online after government site hacked
I’m surprised people say they would buy Apollo — I would prefer to try to convince Christian Selig to join my new company.
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> You could wonder around and find a super powerful artifact

If that's true they got rid of this in later elder scrolls games. One of the reasons I abandoned Skyrim before finishing was because the loot leveled with you. You could walk across the world and find a secret cave, yet all the chests therein contain crap. So I had virtually no incentive to explore knowing the loot was randomly generated based on my current level.

Compare to FromSoftware games like Dark Souls where you can run halfway across the world and find super rare and powerful items.
That's ignorant, I own thousands of both Marvel and DC comics from the 90s and 2000s.
One of the first things the Rowboat does after coming out of his princess Aurora sleep is to dissolve democracy and replace it with a military dictatorship because he gets sick of free people not just following his opinion. This happens in the plague war trilogy by the way, and don’t worry, it’s not a major spoiler in any way. I guess some people can paint that as a good thing, but I think that for most people its pretty evil. It also plays a small part, however, with the bigger points of sarcasm and critical tone moving on to things like organised religion, fake news and manipulation of hearts and minds.

I do agree that some, maybe even most, of the sarcasm targeting Reaganism that was the foundation for the lore back in the 80ies is weaker in the new official lore. But I think that is just because the current writers are moving on to make fun of more modern things like the anti-intellectuals you see on the far-right today. I do think they are much more successful with that in Age or Sigmar than in 40K, but I don’t think they are writing the imperium to be the good guys either. Sure some people will see “humans” as the good guys, and sure, a lot of the anti-fascism is going to be lost on some people, but it honestly always has been.
Reddit is a really, really, really good system for connecting people who have a niche interest. You can still do forums and so forth for those things, but discoverability isn't nearly as good. It's been co-opted by venture capital and is becoming less so, but right now it's a great community unmatched elsewhere on the internet in it's scale and quality.
It’s certainly a cop-out if you use such a segmentation to argue that things are peaceful.
Awesome, I really wanted something like this. I have a lot of reddit posts and it would be neat to cringe at my younger self.
The big problem I’ve found is a lot of “cheap” things that have usb c don’t support PD. I have some hair clippers, a flashlight, some wireless ear buds and a semi expensive electric screw driver (from Lidl!) that have usb c but only charge with a usb a to c cables. It is infuriating.
I'd suggest adding a demo video. Needing to sign up and then needing to add an OpenAI key before seeing how it works and what it does was a dealbreaker for me.
Interestingly, the wikipedia article for papaver somniferum includes the op version of the story, linking to op as a source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaver_somniferum#History
I knew the Disney trilogy was bad, when fans started saying the prequel trilogy was like Shakespeare compared to the Disney Star wars.

It's crystal clear progressive propaganda over took good decision making.
The 'force is female' marketing was incredibly dumb and alienating to my young sons, who would have been the perfect target for Star Wars type stuff.
The 'force is for everyone' would have been so much better.

Then ruining the legacy of Luke, Han, and Leia was the final touches on destroying the brand.
Even Mark Hamill was so surprised by the direction Luke Skywalker took that he had to justify the performance to himself by claiming he played another character named "Jake Skywalker."
https://comicbook.com/starwars/news/star-wars-the-last-jedi-...

The Mandalorian is another example of suddenly pushing progressive politics by switching main characters in the later seasons, where it's clear the audience just wanted a cowboy in space series. (I didn't watch it, but my Husband did)
ah yes, Unibus!
Commenters seem upset that the reason the movies suck is that they are somehow ideological, probably "woke".

This puts the cart before the horse. What do you expect to get when the whole context of the article is about how Disney could milk more money using some acquired intellectual property? The endless sequels are meant to make money, not be good movies with creative new ideas - those are risky. Whatever wokeness you find in the movies is just a calculated attempt at mass appeal.
Does this also unlink the comments from your profile?

I see that the README mentions a distinction between edits and deletions. But it’s not super clear without examining the code.

From what I’ve seen, only mods can permanently delete comments which also removes them from your profile. If you delete a comment, then it’s still visible in your profile. If you edit a comment to be blank, then the blank comment is visible in your profile.
Loss leader for Disney+

They are purposely taking a hit on box office sales, to drive Disney+ subscriptions.

Turning Red, Soul, and Luca were all movies that dropped on Disney+ the same day they hit theaters.

How can you gauge the "success" based solely on box office sales, when Disney's strategy is using this content as a loss leader strategy to drive subscriptions to Disney+?
And the legend is that Warcraft was supposed to be digital Warhammer but they couldn't secure a license.
Warhammer 40,000 is the flagship game. If you’re looking to get started, Kill Team is a smaller model count game.

A new edition of 40K is out in the next few weeks. The core rules are a free download and the points for all the models will be free downloads too.
Construction is very cyclical. My wife's family owns a construction business and they knew a lot of guys like this, and then 2008 happened. Most of them lost everything. Wife's family almost did the same. Had to go bankrupt, but managed to dig back out.
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I think they are critical to making sure the communication path is open enough that you can "just schedule an hour together". Sometimes self-managed people get so disconnected from their boss that it can feel weird to call them up.

So have the weekly call. If it only takes 30 seconds to say, "Nothing this week", fine. But you have the habit established so that it is easy to talk when something does come up. And I've found that over time, it helps build a productive working relationship so you don't end up being a lone worker hiding in your corner, stagnating away.
> The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, often called the "bank bailout of 2008", was proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, passed by the 110th United States Congress, and signed into law by President George W. Bush.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilizati...

The bailouts to the banks were by Bush 2.
Hey, can you please stop posting unsubstantive and flamebait comments? We already had to ask you that (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34972773) and it's still mostly what your account is doing. We have to ban that sort of account. I don't want to ban you because you've also posted some fine comments - e.g. these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36234093

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36125818

but unfortunately we have to moderate by the bad things people post, not the good things. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I don't care either. One of the complaints about API restriction is that helpful bots will break, but honestly I find all of those bots annoying anyway.
If this was real, I wonder how much of the respondents had an IQ less than average.

Neurotoxic and other long-lasting chemical effects degrade intelligence. Hardly worth considering this if the only people to vote on it lacked the intelligence to critically evaluate it in the first place.

Heck even ingesting above 0.5 of flouride causes degradation and potentially brain damage in babies, cumulatively you might get 6 or above in a day as its put in everything. Science pretty clearly shows it doesn't impact tooth decay when ingested, its purely topical.

If you're being drugged knowingly or not, in a way that would impact your ability to evaluate that's a pretty big red flag for any study.

Interesting that flouridation is required in any city center above 200k people, with the primary reason being tooth decay. Side effects include lethargy and liver damage. I wonder what factor, if any, this might play in general obesity since liver damage can impact fat metabolism, normal carbon filters such as Brita don't filter this out, only bone filters do.
If we wanted to go entirely analog just simple CV/CC on the power source side (meaning "keep constant voltage up till max amps, then start dropping voltage) + MPPT-like controller on the sink is enough. That's easy enough to be done on off-the shelf chips.

>We can invent signalling strategies to communicate yes. EV chargers use HomePlug Green for example to commitcate. This could be consumerized & put into all devices, used to perform negotiations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePlug

I'm kinda surprised that's relatively rare approach, in-band communication like that saves 2 wires so would technically allow USB-C to get extra 20% power boost over same connector. I think I saw it used in some solar stuff to coordinated various devices of same manufacturer.
https://archive.is/NH534
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At these times, it's good to remember that PFAS will very likely kill more people than any terror attack so far. Among cancers, it is a known contributor to obesity and many other diseases.

We go to war over terror attacks. And for this, we probably won't even bankrupt 3M, nor DuPont.

To my mind, it brings into question what qualifies as terrorism. Is it not terrorism if many people die to push the stock price up when it's terrorism if many people die for some other selfish end?
Do you destroy your comments that have replies though?

If you do, that's a fairly nasty and thoughtless thing to do and I would strongly encourage you to revise your approach to commenting and/or privacy.
Dark Souls (released the same year as Skyrim) famously lets the player walk into high level zones mere seconds from the starting area. It's easier to find the cemetery than the path up to the proper first area.
Like I said, over a large enough area and with storage, it averages out. The wind will blow, and the shine. More transmission lines allow routing around failure points.

Also the 'cloudy day disaster of 2034' sounds a lot better than the 'spent fuel pool disaster of 2034'

https://www.science.org/content/article/spent-fuel-fire-us-s...
To some extend that's true, but it was always in service of the story. What's happening at Disney is just the opposite - they're randomly inserting ideological stuff which has no relation to the story or they're contorting stories in support of an ideological narrative.

And I don't care what your politics are, but when you insert politics into a story, your gonna alienate a major part of your audience OR you're going to the ruin the product experience of consuming TV. When people sit down to watch TV, they just want to relax and escape. Inserting politics, pulls people out of that and gets their blood pressure up. Who needs that?

We don't need a "very special episode of.." every week.
I wonder what it would look like on kdb+?
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My hope is that they just haven't gotten around to them yet. As for the NYT... see my other comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36261024
Was it ? My husband was a huge Star Wars fan, and didn't say anything about it.
I might get it for him.
So are you being paid to comment? It amazes me how many people are motivated without profit to insist that nobody is motivated by anything other than profit.

Obviously funding is needed: funding which already comes from government in many cases. It's just that now that research funding gets handed to execs who then use the data to make more money, and only have to use the data to help people if it happens to coincide with their business strategy. Having the data public just means that the people working on it are motivated more by helping people and less by acquiring data to leverage for profit, which is a feature not a bug.
I don't see where in this address they actually address the real concerns (eg: the mismatch between Apollo's statement and Reddit's).
I went from being a lifelong fan, especially of the EU, to not caring at all. I’m now a Trekkie.
Money doesn't happen to us, we happen to money.
> Using NNTP would be a bit of a step backwards in some ways,

Which ways do you have in mind?
The subjective, aka “point of perspective.”

Part of this interpretation given is narrative storytelling. There is certainly an embodiment, an identity, and a subjective experience, however the symbolic and “self referential” part is fraught with illusions.
Stan Lee didn't de-prioritize telling a compelling narrative.
https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Entscheid...

Translation using Deepl:

Leasts
on the Judgment of the First Senate of February 22, 2011
- 1 BvR 699/06 -
Mixed-economy enterprises controlled by the public sector in private-law form are subject to a direct fundamental-rights obligation in the same way as wholly state-owned public enterprises organized in private-law forms.
It's mostly a modern day graffiti covered bathroom wall, but it's also unfortunately got some good knowledge trapped in it, from between the collapse of forums and the rise of Discord respectively as primary niche hobby gathering places.
> It's unfortunate we are seeing all of these data platforms get locked off

Are there any AGPL-like licenses that address this?
Would love to have this as a default first comment in HN (with recognizable marking of course).
Acrylamide in Tea Products :

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282465357_Acrylamid...
The average upvote count for comments here is 5, anecdotally. On reddit it can be in the dozens, even hundreds depending on subreddit. My abandoned reddit account I had for 2 years had 39k karma, and I wasn't obsessed.
Honestly, they probably weren't. My experience in Iceland around 8 years ago was very similar to that. I actually took a step back because it was too easy, and skeeved me out a bit.
Sort of like how the second half of The Wall album by Pink Floyd isn't supposed to endorse national socialism, but Roger Waters was recently investigated for inciting hatred, so...ya know.
If I buy a candy bar from a bankrupt chocolate company I don't inherit any liability from the candy bar.

"Breaking up" a company by selling its assets and distributing the profits to creditors absolutely does vanish the liability.
That was my first thought. Until Beauty and the Beast all animated features were “fully painted”.

It seems like they’re trying to make a distinction in their technique, but I’m not sure it really matters.
there's enough cheap parts floating around now that offer standalone conversion from USB-PD to raw DC voltage. if customers are preferring USB connections, OEMs will find a way to implement it.

something like this is no more difficult to implement than a barrel plug https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005315614647.html
https://chat.openai.com/share/39580cd0-b5b2-4bec-89d4-09297c...

“[…] 5. Perceived Irrelevance or Lack of Relevance: Depending on the context of the Hacker News post, copy-pasting AI-generated content might be seen as irrelevant or not contributing to the topic at hand. This can be frustrating for users who are looking for meaningful and relevant insights from other community members.”
Why would building it require running it? It's just software. There can be a separate installation of it per community. Like WordPress, or any old phpBB forum.

> The people who want to run a reddit, shouldn't.

The people who want to run something that's like Reddit.com, shouldn't, sure.

I don't see why e.g. a YouTube content creator shouldn't be able to have "a Reddit" (i.e. a single-subreddit installation of Reddit) in the same sense that they have "a blog" or "a Discord." The whole point there is that it's a cult of personality, so the moderation incentives align with the user expectations.

I also don't see why a community like /r/AskHistorians wouldn't be excellent at running "a Reddit" of their own. (In fact, that would be much better than currently, as they could run a very heavily modified fork of Reddit that uses a moderation queue for comments; requires that toplevel comments on posts are either follow-up questions [according to some LLM] or come from verified historian accounts; allows questions to be merged; etc. ...Hey, wait, that's just StackExchange!)

Also, did you know that LessWrong.com used to be "a Reddit"? That is, it was a single-subreddit fork — I believe the only one ever allowed, as some one-off gesture — of the proprietary Reddit codebase. It worked pretty okay for that community! (Though it never received updates from "upstream", so it code-rotted, which is most of the reason they moved away from it. This wouldn't happen in an open-source Reddit project.)