skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I loved Usenet before the mixture of web forums and spam killed it... we need something like this again - decentralised platforms without decentralised community.
It's certainly less stable and ubiquitous than Perl. These days I'd rather be on Python (better libs, doesn't spook colleagues, very common on Linux boxes), but it's not an unreasonable position.
I wonder if some kind of discord server aggregator will become a thing soon, something one can add their server and invite link to so people know it exists. That plus a forum thread only setup might make it a viable replacement for a bit.
The problem was that almost nobody was saying the source 'might' have been a lab leak - they were saying that the source was 'definitely' a lab leak and then usually adding that Fauci sponsored gain of function research into viruses and then into conspiracy theory land.

Most of us were open to the idea of a lab leak but the disinformation was so hard around the topic that sensible people had to push back and the loser was the legitimate 'theory' that a lab leak was a possible source.

This is still a theory btw and not proven.
Very much so, insofar as code written a few years ago probably doesn’t work anymore. Some of that comes down to libraries not being careful about versioning, but a lot of it is the language itself making seemingly random changes in direction every few years.

10 years ago: range
5 years ago: xrange
Today: range again, LOL!

I don’t know of any tech companies using Python for anything serious anymore, except data/ML analysis, which is usually not too much code. If you make me rewrite the thing, it’s getting rewrote in Go or Rust, not Python again.
N-Tier Architecture Was a Mistake
In that regards, I actually agree with you. It's been the better part of a decade since I saw a talk by a colleague I immensely respect arguing against it, and I think it's value (whether it caused this outbreak or not) is speculative at best.

But I should not that not all viral engineering is gain of function, and while it gets a lot of attention, even in laboratory virology is relatively rare.
The current "AI" is probably somewhat useful in many cases. Mostly producing content that does not need to be perfect. Or even correct. And it can already do it. You could already get text from one model and then few images from an other. And spam the made content online.

Now valuation hype is big question. Will there be moats? Or will it be commodity technology? And maybe server farms will make some money and everyone else marginal profit?
I fully agree. Money is not free anymore, and investors want to see a path-to-profitablity. No one wants to dump millions into a possible profitable idea.
Just ignore every post related to this subject and you'll be fine? If some people want to discuss it just let them, there is enough space on the site after all.
We're in a similarish situation. We decided to accept spending a bit of time on the documentation every time some JIRA ticket requires us to work on an undocumented section of code.

Not everything requires a lot of documentation, we have a lot of essentially glorified input dialogs, but we do try to write down what it is, and especially any logic and config settings that affect that logic.

One thing I've used before with success and which we've also introduced was two new fields in JIRA, "requires documentation update" and "documentation updated", to aid not forgetting to update documentation when adding or changing code.
I'm a fairly heavy Reddit user and I've been musing on what I would lose if Reddit shut down. I came to the conclusion that /r/nfl and /r/knitting were far and away the leaders (and in fact otherwise it might be a net positive as I wasn't scrolling through rubbish for hours). There isn't another form of sports coverage that is as rapid and universal (I paid for The Athletic for a while and that was decent), and the knitting subreddit is constantly giving me project ideas and things to learn.
I'm sorry, no. Berlusconi was in many ways a precursor, and had a lot in common with Trump, but not remotely as dangerous as Trump.
Ok, but their performance characteristics are pretty different.
Also: https://7bits.nl/projects/pamenv-dsakeys/pamenv-dsakeys.html
The discussion around steam engines is generally that coal mines were the appropriate place because early steam engines were very bad and there wasn’t good transport so they could only really go in places with a plentiful local supply of coal. (There is also a requirement that coal be in sufficient demand for the steam engines to be worth it. To some extent, the bad transport meant that a lot of the price of coal was in the transport so the price of the coal for the steam engine was lower as it didn’t include that transport).

I don’t really think chip making is much like that. I wouldn’t say that chip making was the first industry to be automated by computers either.
I believe you. And good for you. Now take that thought that made you unsubscribe from their default sub one step further and reevaluate if it's worth supporting such a company in any form.
Lazy answer to lazy question: https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html
> "[...] we are crushing ourselves with the accumulated complexity we’ve piled on top of bad foundations [...]"

The same could be said about plain HTML/CSS though. I think the author is correct overall and I don't really see improvement on the horizon. WebAssembly, while great that it exists, can morph browsers into some poor mans virtual operating system and this can lead to a less open web.

We already see more closed Platforms like Discord. I use it too, the product is completely fine, but it sucks in information that isn't availble on the open net if you don't go through the platform. Some communities exclusively use it and they get little discoverability through web searches. Sure, this isn't really related to Javascript/Webassembly, just a development I fear will increase and which could be accelerated with different approaches to languages.

A front-end scripting language available in every browser is very, very useful. I think few new languages could replace it here, I don't know of any at least. And I think a lot of flexibility is lost if you begin to transpile anthing into Javascript. Granted, for large projects it is pretty much a requirement to do so at some point.
It's possible to send HDDs full of data to cloud services. Amazon even quotes Andrew S. Tanenbaum

https://aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/aws/send-us-that-data/

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001918654-Fi...
I actually think these kinds of people live a pretty unhappy life.
I don't have high hopes for Swing either.
We're coming full circle.
Yes. 200%.
The pipes are really very nice.

They are actually even nicer under Livebook: https://livebook.dev/

It can let you drag-drop reorder, enable/disable, steps in a pipeline: https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/blob/main/lib/liveb...

It is really wild.
fuck Silvio Berlusconi
source: io non mi sento italiano ma per fortuna purtroppo lo sono)
I don't get how one can have a single computer. The OS is hardly the only thing that can go wrong. I toss a cup of coffee in my laptop the other week. Just switch it off (the lack of a real switch or a plug is wildly annoying here) and leave it off for a good while. Playing with different OS's is also more fun if your life doesn't depend on everything working all of the time.
It was already pretty clear from the context as a new protocol wouldn't be widely used by musical devices anyway
They may even have time for thinking. And we all know that would be a catastrophe for the system!
As the other commenter said, I'd like to add an example because I think it's worth it adding this to the discussion given that you are angry about a death in your family.

Just imagine, there are - to pick an example - new cancer cases (or anything really) every single day. Therefore, the vaccination will coincide with the diagnosis perfectly for a pretty large number of people.

But as should be obvious, that is not because of the vaccine. For there to be no diseases exactly following vaccinations there would have to be a stop of all disease for a week or two for anyone getting vaccinated. Now that would be an outlier.

If you want to see if a disease cold be because of vaccination you would at the very least have to show that among those getting vaccinated statistically significantly more people get the disease than normal.

Just remember, normal life and normal things - including all kinds of diseases - go on all the time. Vaccinations take place in this context, not "outside the environment" (to use a quote from a famous sketch).
Or, just: MIDI 2.0 is a major overhaul to the widely-used MIDI protocol
Clearly an example of a parallel universe leaking into my own, can I come and live in yours? Please?
Ardour does support plug-ins.

VST as a format is platform dependent AFAIK. I think you can do something with WINE but other than that the authors of Ardour can't magically remake proprietary Windows VSTs in a compatible format.

As for your third point, I think Linux is improving in this area all the time. Ten years ago it was a black art. There's a lot you can do to set it up, but also a million different things that can be wrong and cause problems, so unfortunately you have to troubleshoot a specific setup.
Hence "feasible". I can also bring a knife roll through airports, as long as it's checked in. And if I'm on the road full-time I imagine I've got something else that I couldn't carry on anyway. Or I might consider the extra hassle of checking luggage in to be worth having my knives on me. I try to travel carry-on only as much as I can and I could definitely see myself preferring to bring my knives.
I wanted to like Python.
Every time I tried to use/learn it, the "program" I wanted to use had some issue.
The very first one (some 15 years ago) depended on mutually incompatible libraries so I had to spend time not only learning Python but fixing the libraries to work together.
Next one was a dlna server that managed to use up all 4GB RAM available on my NAS and make the whole system unusable.
Then there was a "compiler" that worked on all OS-es except that on Windows it would 100% not work due to some path string handling when starting a process. How do you even get to that point...that could have never worked on Windows and it's not like Windows is some marginal never used system so no testing was required.
Then I tried to write a simple script to transfer some emails via IMAP...and Python idea of supporting IMAP is for me to read the RFC and build the correct string to sent to IMAP server...WTF???? That is the assembler lever of "support" of something.
I did try to do that and then I ended up with multiple pages of something that looked like level of arcade game with climbing hills and cliffs of code where it was hard to tell if code was meant to end or if someone got bored of writing and just gave up.
I hate Python.
Stop spending so much money developing features that are useless for adding value to the site; stop hiring devs to create new 'resume' features like counter-productive reverse-blocking and hire devs to fix modding tools. Stop spending money hosting videos and multimedia when your core value is text conversations. Don't make stupid decisions like destroying your most popular features (the AMA subreddit, the secret santa) because you are stupid. Fire your CEO who is doing all of these things.

There is no reason reddit can't be profitable if they did these things. They don't need 100,000,000 users watching videos to bring in ad revenue. They need 10,000,000 users generating good content that ends up as top google results and they can find clever ways to monetize product tie-ins, annual meetups (those were a thing in a lot of cities a while ago), events, merch, and subscriptions. It isn't rocket science. The top stockholders just have to be satisfied to be millionaires instead of billionaires.
You think people will start to teach chatgpt when it can't answer?
Indeed so, partition was only a fall back option if compliant government couldn't be installed, ala Marcos in the Philippines, Suharto in Indonesia etc.

US actually also wanted a United China, but didn't find it within themselves to indefinitely support Chiang Kai-shek (probably rightly from the US POV, Chiang was a China nationalist through and through and would not have been compliant to anyone) against the Reds, probably because it would have required using nuclear weapons on the mainland. Came close though, killing millions wasn't a problem, then or now
Some learn it, some don't. If your only goal is to get 100% of humanity to spend as much time as possible on your website, no matter if that's good for them or not, you need to make your app addicting even to people with no attention span.
Debian GNU/Hurd 2023
looking at the majority of comments here, I'd say it'll take more than a decade...

People just seem to blank out anything really bad done by "their team" (be it either orange man bad or clinton is a traitor).

I fear for the future of Human civilization
I’m betting it was none only but Ben Goodger. There’s no way you guys would have been coping that hard about it otherwise.
For many, Perl is great for system administration related tasks that are more than two or three pages of bash.
Corporations absolutely are able to use violence to enforce their rules, although just like public governments they have to be fairly large before they can start getting away with it. think security guards, railroad cops. etc.

And it is not an analogy, a corporation is not like a government, it is a government. Often what we think of a corporation is a for profit endeavor(but it does not have to be) but not all for profit endeavors are corporations. So what differentiates a corporation from other for profit endeavors. A corporation has license to exists and operate under it's under it's rules instead of existing and operating under a single person. a government.
> Successful announcements doesn't make an AI company, paying customers do.

Yep. Like a neural network powered search engine, right?

> In zero interest rates you can instead make investor hype your product so they increase the share price, but it doesn't work forever.

As this article points out, investors believe.
OP probably has the risk of slowly dying in his sleep without the machine as the brain is not getting enough oxygen.
Right. Not really the thinking of someone concerned with science, which is frustrating as a harm reductionist who has recognized that lack of serious logic and reason are the biggest enemy of the movement. It can begin to look like hedonism to the outsider otherwise

Also frustrating considering how bloated their staff seems to be and how much they seem to want to be viewed as scientific, and this is perhaps the most visible harm reduction org in the states.

https://dancesafe.org/dancesafe-national/
i think you wanted to post this for "hacksaw bob": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGhJyAYZj9o instead of the BMW review :)
Price Stability for Health Insurance, a Tale
Without CRC calculation you could just check which square correspond to which letter and possibly change the letter casing.
But with CRC it will leads to squares changing in the CRC area.
Weird, I'm getting ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH
on the archive.ph link in Chrome on Android via 4G.
> Reddit users are playing with fire

The users have nothing to lose. Worst case Huffman and his owners go ahead with smashing and burning the 3rd party moderation and commenting infrastructure - they would have done that even without protests. Would Huffman ban the people who contribute and moderate the discussions and police spam for free, and hire paid mods instead? A week ago I'd have said that not even he is that boneheaded...
Maybe Perl is stable cause its dead.
> 'don't worry about English, they'll learn that here at school, focus on their native tongues'.

My parents got the same advice after moving from eastern Europe to Germany and they ignored it. They did it because they recognized pretty fast how important it is to "appear German" otherwise you might be disadvantaged. If I had the choice myself I would not repeat the decision my parents made thirty years ago. I am convinced I would have learned German and Englisch without loosing my native language. Scrapping one language for another makes no sense for me.
> most confusing and intuitive

unintuitive, perhaps?
https://raindrop.io/

I like Raindrop. Developed by an indie dev, no ads and tracking, revenue comes from subscriptions.
> how would I properly iterate through Unicode?

Either you use a (big, complex) library like ICU or you just don't.
People have been thought for too long that strings are arrays of characters - they are not, they are array of bytes, and bytes may mean lots of things.
If you need to iterate or randomly access a string you should ask yourself why are you doing it. Any code that attempts to operate on codepoints will inevitably only ever work properly for ASCII. If that's fine for you (for instance, you want to match all text between a pair of <>) then you can probably work on raw bytes and UTF-8. If that's not the case, you need a library to handle the million different cases related to supporting RTL, invisible characters, pictograms, combinations, ...

Never use wchar_t, and even things like char16_t and char32_t have very few correct usecases to be honest (like implementing computing sizes, etc).

Even counting characters is broken, `wcslen(L"Salò")` may still be 4 or 5 depending on the current normalization form. The correct solution is to take strings as black boxes, array of bytes you only access through APIs (like binary data).

It is also high time we get rid of obsolete concepts like case sensivity - it just doesn't work at all outside of regional code pages (try doing `"ciao".toUpperCase().equals("CIAO")` in Java with locale tr_TR.UTF-8 and look what happens).
Programming language police, pull over.
> Reddit is definitely a YC story, and so is HN. But Reddit isn't HN's story. It's one of many.

That is true, but emotional/historical connections changes how people feel about things, even though it might not be "how it ought to be". Reddit is closer to YC and therefore closer to HN, no matter how independent HN should be from YC.
The Central Dogma of molecular biology is that DNA makes RNA, and RNA makes protein. This doesn't explicitly state that there's a 1:1 dependency between these things, but it kind of implies it. This paper describes a discovery that in Octopuses, sufficiently low temperatures trigger modification of the RNA before it's used as a template for protein production. The paper identifies cases where this results in modification to a protein involved in microtubule transport and a protein involved in ion transport in synapses, both plausible scenarios where you may want different properties in different thermodynamic situations.

This is both very neat and very irritating! It's a lovely result where there's apparent demonstration of a complex mechanism producing an intuitive result, but it's also another case where just having the DNA sequence doesn't tell you what's actually happening in the cell. Biology is complicated.
Vector databases explained. [ AI infrastructure basics ]
Reddit management seem to be living in a bubble (as corporate managers often do). Inside the Reddit bubble, disgruntled users are a vocal minority who don't matter, Reddit -- not its users -- created the content that keeps the eyeballs coming back, apps are more convenient than websites, we own the user experience, we are leaving money on the table if we don't mine and sell more personal information, we have no competition, our barrier to entry is infinitely high, and our IPO will be the greatest IPO ever.

Either that or they know all the above is bullshit and they're just hoping they can cash out with FU money before the ship sinks.
You are tasked with writing a binary tree, and you pick car and cdr ... A key-value tuple-space... Complex numbers...

The point is they are 'wrong' in every context. For LISt Processing, they should probably default to something to do with lists.

And caaar et al are a fine example of why I completely skipped common lisp in favour of newer lisp-likes. Perhaps it happens to all languages eventually, people add a convenience here, an shortcut there, and a doodad here, and before long you have an impenetrable thicket.

And these things seem convenient, but they are a huge extra cognitive load, and impose a further learning cost even to practicing experts who have to keep up with the latest doodads.
Better yet, make it so each independent company only gets one trademark and companies owned by another get none.

The entire purpose of trademarks is to protect consumers. Being able to use them to mislead consumers is the opposite of that.
Yet here we are in the comments.
How about a fortune 300 company I consulted for that uses python pretty much exclusively for the deployment processes of their 200+ web/cloud apps? Some of those apps have 1 VM plus a DB and a dozen users. Some have environments that cost £30k a month and 5k users. Python is the only language used for CI/CD. Plus power shell for stuff that needs windows server.

70% is python 2, 30% written/rewritten recently is python 3.
I completely agree, when he did that is was pretty funny (but a little pathetic he didn't dare to ban these users or this sub, either for money or political reasons).

Users reacted poorly and "shocked" site wide somehow that an admin could exerts admin right and edit database which as a sysadmin made me laugh a lot because I get occasional similar ones from our users when we do admin stuff.
What he means is that when renewable energy output is high, you can turn on the mining facilities to absorb the excess and turn it off when there is no excess. In this case it helps with load balancing. The ledger is irrelevant here.
>You must have
experience designing and building large and complex (yet maintainable)
systems, and you should be able to do so in about one-third the time
that most competent people think possible.

I wonder if working nights and weekends was a bonus? What's wrong with being competent and putting out a reasonable amount of work and not being overworked and under pressure?
Re-using CSS for the wrong HTML with Sass
It wasn’t until 2013 that Cubans could more freely leave: https://havana-guide.com/can-cubans-leave-cubaall-you-need-t...

Your post implies that Cubans suddenly weren’t allowed to leave Cuba after the US asked. That’s not the case.
Indeed. They could go with an anthology of seasons style show, however, if Mike Judge is up for it. New start ups with new seasons, with the occasional throwbacks perhaps.
I wonder what product manager is going to put this api pricing decision on their resume? No one will own this one.
Berlusconi was said to have had ties to organized crime, going back to his time as a real estate lawyer.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/04/silvio-berlusc...
CCDetect-LSP: Language and IDE agnostic real-time duplicate code detection
Generative AI in Qt
in the best case mods remove spam and illegal content, and beyond leave the community alone to do its thing. unfortunately typical reddit mods feel compelled to do all kinds of other things, like they're on a mission from god.