skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Back in the day, questions were all valid. It was the way devs should work. If you posted an identical question, so what? Who did it hurt?

That was never the case; duplicates were around back in the day as well.

The idea is to build a long-term repository of useful questions, and millions of duplicate questions if not helpful for that. If I answered question X with great detail and lots of context then I really don't want to do that every month, so, you mark it as a duplicate, and in principle everyone wins with this.

I'm not saying the process always works brilliantly in practice and I agree there are too many curmudgeons around and that sometimes questions get closed as duplicates too fast, but the basic idea of it is fine.
Every time I have to build a UI in canvas, I yearn for all the conveniences CSS and the DOM provide. Do people even realise how much trouble it is to make text wrap within a given space?
I wasn't familiar with Reddit when Digg sold out; I just remember the exodus, and the topics on Reddit seemed tech-centric enough. Then over time there were more and more posts showing up on the front page with titles like, "This little guy followed me home," about puppies and whatnot.

I didn't even know what subReddits were; but now that I do, I'm baffled as to where the former Digg people were posting and why I managed to see mostly their traffic for days or weeks on Reddit without making any effort to go into a tech sub.

That was the old Reddit design, so maybe there was something fundamentally different about it.
The fact that our economies are pulling through a near-total shutdown relatively unscathed except moderate inflation (so far) is actually a phenomenal positive argument for fiat currency.

And it’s another good demonstration of the top-to-bottom uselessness of a deflationary currency.

The thing about competition is that no one needs to pretend or believe anything. If Bitcoin were competitive then it’d be competitive. It’s not, because it’s not.
Martian Time in Hare
r/Programming just joined the blackout. Now my homepage is mostly porn and politics.

Let's see what will happen in few days.
>eliminate all but the highest-price Apple products in Amazon's online store

This is illegal? What law is it then? Anti-Trust usually refers to monopolies rather than working with retail companies for the display case... Anyway, if it isnt, its just another way Apple shows its dominance as the best in Marketing.

Even if someone can't find the product they want, they have felt the effect of Veblen goods. "Wow Apple is so expensive, this surely will let people know I have a good job."

If you are a consumer buying a Veblen good, don't you want this? Don't you want other people to perceive Apple only has expensive products? If you go off-site and get a used phone, you still are part of the Apple in-group, and people think you/your parents have a great job.
Yes? Think of a few requirements, open an editor and try it out in code. Compile, put in front of users or colleagues, get suggestions, repeat. No docs necessary whatsoever. Half the world works like this.
I live in Moscow. There's plenty of Americans and other Westerners visiting here regularly for business or tourism with no problems. Just don't try to smuggle any weed in, Americans keep getting into trouble for that.
Before there was FARK, or any of these Web 2.0 popular content aggregators there was The Temple of The Screaming Electron.
Ask HN: Asking for trouble, give me a problem to solve
Hi!

It is what it says on the tin: give me a problem to solve and I'll try to solve it.

I'm an tech founder/product developer on a break from full time work (more about me https://sonnet.io) and I'm looking for a small project to pick up for the next few weeks, perhaps months. I love building small, user-focused apps/libraries/toys.

What problems am I looking for?

My personal interests are: privacy, healthcare, mental health, publishing... But I'm mostly problem- and tech-agnostic as long as there's real user value in my work.
(feel free to check my projects and articles for more context.)

How am I going to work on this?

I'll start with the 2/2/2 rule: 2 hours to spike and see if it's feasible, 2 days to test with the first user, 2 weeks to deliver a beta.
Some problems require more time to work on and that's ok -- I'm not married to any methodology, I'm happy to adapt.

PS. I'm not asking for job offers here. I'm looking for project ideas.
You'd expect manufacturing costs to go down.
> More sites will split off and use the old.reddit.com code base.

How? Its not open source. And its just a frontend. How would people split it off?
Doesn't disabling 'recommendations' under account settings help?
In short: externalities

Novel concept for many still, it appears.
Trouble with every update.

When you install it, it works, but upgrading and migrations don't work, so you're stuck with an inaccessible database of bookmarks.

I was very disappointed.
> There are so many nuance to a problem that the approach of "one question - one answer" is simply naïve.

Yet I have marked hundreds of questions as duplicate which was often welcomed by the person who asked the question, so clearly it's not fundamentally broken, even though there is some friction at times.
You can get access to the playground (Jupiter notebook with Mojo kernel): https://docs.modular.com/mojo/get-started.html

My access was approved within one hour.
iOS 17 supports pwa notifications, so it's pretty much exclusively ads at this point
Are you familiar with a world war that started because of a wrong turn?
You have to be kidding me.
Australia, Canada and New Zealand all have more expensive housing than the UK in price to income ratio [1]. NZ has been above the UK's current ratio since at least 2017 [2]. So unfortunately this might continue getting worse for a while.

[1] https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/rankings_by_count...
[2] https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/rankings_by_count...
I'm not even sure if it's 3PA only feature but there's option to hide all posts that you've read (or scrolled past). After finding that feature now i want it everywhere there's infinite scroll because yeah otherwise it's unusable.
"The Bitcoin Standard" and his associated money collection during this period. Personally I think he got shafted on some trade or something similar and lost his crypto and is yelling at everyone now. Poor guy.
It's because the majority of Westerners, especially Americans, have at best a comic-like understanding of "strange" countries like Russia.
I think your hypothesis is underrated. For sure part of the argument is to get around ad-blockers but people underestimate both the level of dysfunction and just how awful some people in powerful positions are.
“I’m not depressed because of the data, I’m depressed because other people aren’t depressed”

Wish these people could get a grip on themselves. Living in a constant state of depression because you’re scared of the future climate is the definition of putting the cart before the horse.
(I don't understand why sibling comment was downvoted so much with no comment.)
Contrasting opinion, it's a terrible strategy. Limiting the entire ecoystem of devs on your platform to features that have not only shipped but stabilized over 5 years prior on other platforms is nonsensical. Compare to MSFT, which is frankly ahead of the curve when it comes to compiler feature support, and even has the entire STL open sourced.
> the very simplicity of ASCII can make unicode difficult to grasp.

Somewhat related: I hate "smart" "quotes". I find myself editing them into plain old << " >> and << ' >>.

If you want to use "smart" quotes to add semantic meaning to text - as in "this is a quote" - then you should be using markup to do the job. Stop abusing non-ASCII typography so you can pretend to write "semantic" material that you think will impress all the cool kids that know structured documentation.

Who else remembers that great Perl script, "The Demoronizer" ?
In my experience Scala is one of the most intuitive and coherent languages out there. Very hard to beat in those regards.

A tiny language with only a few, but powerful, features which can be used as building blocks to express even the most advanced patterns.

The problem are just the people "holding it wrong".

If you try to use it as Java++ Scala will be more cumbersome than Kotlin.

If you try to use it as Haskell this will become very painful quite quickly.

You need to use it as Scala… This means you need to embrace its features and philosophy. Just use the best parts of OOP and FP together!
That's a false dichotomy. A soul-destroying commute is also available!
>It is installed by default everywhere. I don’t need administrative privileges to deploy Perl code almost anywhere. That is extremely empowering.

Not true anymore. FreeBSD dropped it from base.

>With a great amount of discipline, Perl scripts can be successfully scaled up into large, complex systems.

History shows different. Perl was never designed for this.

>I can be confident that a Perl script I write today will run unaltered 10 years from now, modulo external collaborators.

I concur. I also have 10-ish lines perl scripts running on my systems since 10-ish years, doing exactly what it was written to do. And if the data protocol changes I will just drop 10-ish lines of code and write new 10-ish lines of weird looking, compact and efficient code. I never care understanding my code. If i ever read it again it's just to have a "wow, what does this even do" moment at my own code. For me, write-only is a feature.

>Perl can be used nearly as a shell replacement for very quick scripting.

Yet there is no generally available shell (like Bash or zsh) written in Perl. This is a weird thing I'm still trying to cope with in 2023. It may be because the term "shell replacement" is used wrong. Did you mean "shell programming"?

>Perl has a small set of core syntax and is very extensible and flexible in adopting new paradigms.

... I don't know. 27 years later, I still like to flex my reptilian brain reading perlsyn manpage. I like to think of perl syntax as a set of loose rules which you can bend to your liking. And the things you can come out with... oh, boy.

Perl is good tool for coming up with a solution really quick. And most of the times, you will just keep running that code for ten-ish years to come.
Also, Perl is more of a philosophy than a programming language, like Forth is.

Its biggest disadvantage was the community itself. They just kept using it wrong, over and over, trying to serve the greed of a corporate world. The proof of this is Perl 6, the community rewrite of Perl. Looks cool. Won't use it. I think that's why it's now mostly referred to as "raku" instead of "Perl 6". It's not a Perl.
iOS 17 isn’t out yet.
He was a prime minister. He owned the most successful soccer team in Italy. He owns several Italian TV channels.

This isn't a dude over there with bad opinions. This is someone powerful who used their power to make the lives of a lot of people worse.
Last time I tried, v1, the setup process was very complicated.

V2 then was even more complicated and undocumented.

Has that improved?
I too am tantilised by the idea of social media, and most of the newsmedia, going out like a light overnight.

I'd happily see it take businesses whose model rely upon it with them - including this current approach to 'AI' and political campaigning.

Would it be the start of the world or the end?
I don't doubt that this happens. Mods are people and people make mistakes.

Though i also think it is in part that the Asker doesn't understand how to apply the answer to their issue rather than the answer not being relevant. In my experience a lot of people are unwilling or incapable of adapting an answer to their situation, which can be problematic in a place like SO that doesn't attempt to cater directly to individuals like that but rather to answer more generally.

I think issues like this contribute a lot to the dissatisfaction we see surrounding SO.
https://neocities.org: *exists*
Do this:

Scrape healthcare.gov for health insurance costs/max out of pocket

Scrape the hospital price database and match with each health insurance company.

Calculate the cost of labor and delivery for every insurance company and every hospital. (you likely can easily scale this to other procedures too)

Anyway, if you do this, you will save yourself a ton of money, and I'll even buy the rights to the software to open source it.
It's not just who owns the sites, the majority of the English discussion on the web seems to be very US centric (of course, they are the majority of the userbase). I think that's why you get Australians who seem to care more about the US election than our own, and every second conversation seems to have an American controversy slipped into it here. To no fault of the US, it's just an interesting state of affairs.

It's a big reason why I disengaged from Reddit and read selectively on HN. I don't dislike the US at all, and it still permeats through culture here regardles. I just don't think soaking in the latest US drama is great for your mental health or a good use of your time, unless you actually live there. It's one thing to stay informed but another to let yourself get invested in the daily controversies.
You are confusing structure and unaccountable power.

Having structure and roles is OK in a grassroot, horizontal movement.

> inserting a crazy and letting it go from there

A professional agitator with a covert political agenda is hardly a "crazy".
I'm using Linux as my solely desktop OS since over 20 years. (As it's the only usable OS)

At the same time I hate C and everything around it!

Both things go quite well hand in hand. You don't have to touch any C-madness most of the time. Even when you compile stuff yourself, like for example the Kernel, you almost never have to interact with C directly.

I would still prefer an OS written in Scala, but we don't have that at the moment. So I guess I will stick with Linux for the time being.
websites can do push notifications though now
Book Summary: Programming Pearls
Ok here is a lot to unpack.

1rst. Yes single use cocain in animals causes unusual neuroplasticity, we can prove it.
Citation:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2020.5898...
Favorite quotes:
"For the first time, it has been demonstrated that a single low dose of cocaine, which can cause no locomotor behavioral and brain metabolic changes, can induce structural damage."
"It is essential to alert the population even against the consumption of low doses of cocaine."

Changes are much more pronounced in long term exposed animals, please work through the publications originating from the grant for "Cocaine-induced neuroplasticity: a new role for TGF beta signaling"
Link:
https://grantome.com/grant/NIH/R01-DA037257-02

2nd. Memory is devilish complicated, but AFAIK the current state of knowledge is that short term memory ( which I normally would expect to be the main memory for a single incidence trial) is not due to anatomical changes in the actual neurons, but a complicated mix of neurotransmitters, spiking, vestibules etc.

So saying that every interaction leads to a measurable change in the brain matter is most probably wrong.

Please read:
https://molecularbrain.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/17...

To verify that.

So summarizing:
No not "Everything causes neural rewiring", and yes my sentence had quite a lot of content, but normally people stop listening when I start quoting studies in a conversation.
I'm not sure how to read your message exactly. If you mean the teenage warez leecher type who doesn't care about wider ramifications for the ecosystem, then sure, not high value. I would hesitate to put the protesters in this category wholesale.

Otherwise wealth correlates somehow with both caring about your interests, and caring about abstract causes, for different reasons and often not in the same people. This is why 1) businesses catering to affluent people are often more cautious about the cheapest tactics (even if they ultimately go for the same results), 2) there is so much public faux political idealism from companies.
Correct. “Dual licensing” means “The conditions in this license OR in that license applies”, not “The conditions in this license AND in that license applies”.
App? libavif provides avifenc--no need for anything beyond the command line.
Very nice post, thanks for sharing.
Most of the cost is in CPU/GPU/RAM.
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Canada’s wildfires are a reminder climate warriors have it all wrong
These are the ones that announced they're going dark.
We have a tech blog that has been on the HN front page several times in the past. We focus on writing in-depth technical articles about how we use Haskell, how we solve scaling issues, and about our open-source work.

You may find some inspiration there: https://www.channable.com/tech
How can you ever trust judicial system when even the top people got their position from the rotten people... Why would any of them bite the hand that got them their position and possibly in future a higher position. Everyone is corrupted and rotten.
Not to mention the resources/energy doing that compute would cost.
If the inflation is caused by consumer spend then yes raising interest rates is designed to stop people spending (broadly). The current inflation though is not caused by consumer spending.

Also, raising rates disproportionally hurts the lower classes… like everything else unfortunately.
It doesn't right now, but it's debatable whether it should or should not.

E.g. if you are able to produce a method or substance to produce heroin like effects in people without tolerance build up, should people be allowed to consume that?
Much easier said than done. Try to actually do that. A good start would be IDS.TXT I've linked above; this gives about 500 approximately atomic characters to start with [1]. Now extend this to the entirety of Ideographic Variation Database [2], which tries to solve the most cited problems with Han unification. And then add some kind of semantic annotation as you've suggested (I have no idea, maybe you have a better idea).

[1] 123 components that are already encoded, 121 components ({01}, ...) that are partial characters, ~123 "unpresentable" components (？), and ~115 "minor" variations (〾) that may require additional components or two.

[2] https://unicode.org/ivd/
For all the Americans using this tool, be sure to kneecap your household income. Particularly software engineers, as a typical entry level salary can be around 45k. In London.
If you base your social conduct entirely on what's legal and illegal, you'll become a pariah very fast.

Spez is the perfect example of this. His editing of the comments cemented his reputation as corrupt and stupid, and from then on everything he communicated towards the community received a much stronger backlash than it otherwise would have, regardless of how unpopular the decision actually was.
Solving Undefined Behavior in Factories with constinit from C++20
People are buying BTC with €$ and cashing out in €$.

But interesting that someone still remembers what BTC was supposed to be. Everyone's denying the Satoshi white paper ever happened these days.
True, but Python "annotations" (we call them decorators) are a different beast and very easy to understand and examine.
Well, the exact code is as follows:

$hexip = sprintf("%02X%02X%02X%02X",split('\.',$ip));
system ("cd <REDACTED_PATH>; ln -fs $boothd $hexip");

That's all.

I think, in this case, perl being hard to understand is the joke itself.
> why do they need to IPO if they raised so much money

Venture capital funds are for a limited time - e.g. five years. At the end of the time, the fund is liquidated - the companies are either sold, or closed down.

They can sell to another round of VC funding, sell to a competitor (who wants to "acquihire" the team), or by IPO.
There is tentative evidence that COVID vaccines may rarely trigger onset of ALS in susceptible individuals - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10035647/

It is possible you are right and it was just a coincidence - but it is also possible that the vaccine was the trigger for ALS to develop. We don’t have enough evidence yet to confidently say
And I hope the person went with the equity ownership and did not settle for a 10% higher salary instead.
Imagine if each subreddit was a separate forum with a separate account.

People are lazy and want everything in the same place.

Also it's not 1998 any more. Running a forum is a full time job. Need to handle DMCA takedowns, deal with illegal content, think about ways to monetise the site and so on. It's much harder than simply moderating a subreddit.
I just don't think soaking in the latest US drama is great for your mental health or a good use of your time, unless you actually live there.

It's not good if you live here either.
I agree with much of what you wrote, except that if you don't think business have ALWAYS been running on the principle of "make money and disregard external costs to society/environment/human well-being", that's just rose colored lenses. Even in the pre-USSR-collapse heyday you're referring to, look no further than the tobacco industry. They literally killed people because it was profitable.

I think the problems we're seeing today is that the government is just not doing its job (or more charitably, not moving fast enough to keep up) in regulating the industries _before_ the damage is done. And before the entrenched interests of the resulting megabillionaires can just pay the govt to look away for as long as they can milk this cow.
Compare Automatic1111 and this article, and you wouldn't know they were talking about the same thing.

What does Automatic1111/SD community not have focus on? Seems like its the leader in AI art, an order of magnitude better than the competition who is closed.

Whatever focus the OP is talking about, didn't make video to video, txt to video, controlnet, etc... Closed source looks like they google image first, then diffuse, giving something that barely matches the prompt. 'Focus'
Only if you define "the maximum" as a 14 year old narcissist boy's fantasies.

He didn't really get to know the joys of adventure or a loving relationship. By all accounts, his life was actually pretty empty, a hole he tried to fill with material objects and anonymous sex.
> The government will try their best to keep housing pegged

Pegged to what?
If you are upset about an interaction between a CEO of a company and a customer of the company, as in this thread, then yes that is the kind of thing we have laws for.

In the other examples there are other levels of "government" that have "regulations" that are more official than nothing that you could lobby. You could get GitHub to change the ToS to require CoC, or Twitter to ban certain kinds of things artists don't like, rather than just be personally mean to other users on the site about it.