skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Ask HN: How to deal with a messy codebase?
I recently joined a startup as a data scientist developer. I'm taking over a project that began a few months ago, but the main developer has left. The project is exciting, the team is great, and I really like the company.

The challenge is the messy codebase I have to work with. It's a mix of a somewhat organized library, random scripts, lots of Jupyter notebooks, and more. Nothing is automated; you have to run a notebook manually to generate training data!

Many developers -following the typical stereotype about devs- might suggest starting over from scratch, but I know that's not a good idea. It's not good technically since there's a lot of implicit knowledge hidden in the code, and it's not respectful to the previous work the team has done. However, expanding on the existing work is tough because of the disorganized code.

I'm unsure how to handle this. I don't want to insist on a complete redo, but I also can't be productive with the current state of the project. I thought about making small improvements and tackling technical issues, but it's hard to explain the value of this work, especially in my first few months.

What do you think? How would you approach this problem?
But do you really use ö much over ø?
I think it makes sense.

A blocklist will never block every script and snippet. AI, on the other hand, should be pretty efficient at detecting prompts to automate its removal.
The resistance to the idea of walkable cities often stems from a deeply ingrained cultural perception of personal vehicles as symbols of individual freedom and empowerment. In societies where cars are integral to the social fabric, any shift away from that can ignite concerns about loss of personal liberties. The ability to move freely in one's own vehicle is seen as not just a convenience, but as a safeguard against a potentially oppressive regime that might find it easier to control a population restricted to designated walkways or public transportation. The presence of personal vehicles allows for the rapid mobilization of people for protests, uprisings, or other forms of civil unrest, providing a decentralized form of power. Therefore, the skepticism around the transition to walkable cities isn't just about lifestyle adjustments; it taps into deeper fears about the erosion of individual freedoms and collective agency.
He received $28k from his father and $10k from his mother - in 1995 dollars that is not an insignificant amount of money. But, as far as I know, I agree that it feels false to paint him as someone who succeeded because of generational wealth.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/1/23895069/walter-isaacson-...
My understanding is that DALL-E 3 is supposed to reject attempts to mimic living artists. That would explain why the "Gary Larson" image doesn't resemble his style, but I'm surprised to see Spongebob being so on-model.

The improvements from previous models are impressive, but there still seems to be a lot of trouble properly matching actions to figures. I'm regularly seeing speech bubbles coming from the wrong characters (see the "blueberry" cartoon in this example). Overall, the best output still seems to be in the general realm of commercial art -- logos, simple figures, stock photo type images. I'm not seeing any huge improvements for narrative forms like comics.
Seattle-area game studio collective ProbablyMonsters lays off employees
Thank you James. I appreciate your suggestions.
- For the good news: Yes that seems like it bu only if I can get a job :)
- For the bad news: I did already start to look at ChatGPT and utilizing it in my projects. That was exactly my thought when I started using it, thinking all that technology it is going to make obsolete.
It's not in the highlights, but one of the things that excites me most is this: https://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.12.html#pep-669-low-i...

> PEP 669 defines a new API for profilers, debuggers, and other tools to monitor events in CPython. It covers a wide range of events, including calls, returns, lines, exceptions, jumps, and more. This means that you only pay for what you use, providing support for near-zero overhead debuggers and coverage tools. See sys.monitoring for details.

Low-overhead instrumentation opens up a whole bunch of interesting interactive use cases (i.e. Jupyter etc.), and as the author of one library that relies heavily on instrumentation (https://github.com/ipyflow/ipyflow), I'm very keen to explore the possibilities here.
The same things were being said in the 90s: college is too expensive, only wealthy families can afford it or you'll need to get a full ride scholarship (that's what I was guilted with during HS).

You're right though, about increased tuition, and it's easy loans that cannot be discharged that are one of the major culprits, but living on campus at a public university costs as much as my private tuition plus room/board did 20 years ago. Inflation adjusted, it's 55% of what I paid and starting engineering salaries are 250% higher than when I graduated (it makes me a little sick to see what college hires make ;-) ).

This isn't true for maybe 90% of the degrees a university offers. I would never suggest anyone take out a loan for a degree that wouldn't pay for itself with low risk. This includes degrees that are undervalued (teaching, for example).
That could be amended in an explicit contract or quit the union. Say you are very sick/old/whatever/dontcare and need some money and have not had a gig in 10 years? I am will to bet we see a few of those soon. Then soon after the rise of the 'scanned' actor with no such contract but one that gives away those likenesses. They will be bought in packs like game assets.
Show HN: Practice Interviews (Y Combinator Application, Data Structures)
I have built a realtime AI interviewer (with some latency). Free for use right now!
The interviewing module has a template based on which it prompts the user to answer next questions.
There are functions to generate feedback and insights.
I am still working on making this better. Feedback is appreciated.
Open to any more enhancements and feature requests!
Marx gave us a great vocabulary to talk about issues. They're good to know.

The trouble is that his solutions sound meaningful and profound. Alas he failed to account the fact that humans are not perfectly good.

A good quarter of the world is not without millions of people who died when his solutions were forced on them at gunpoint.
Ignoring the hyperbole in the title (polio was pretty bad), the article itself claims that 17% of people have a high fear of developing long-term symptoms post-COVID. Now, assume one of those gets COVID, how much does every negative symptom or feeling trigger that fear? And how depressing and debilitating would that fear make you?

There are certainly long term impacts of COVID, like any viral infection. And people suffering from long-COVID, whether psychosomatic or not, deserve our care, respect, and support. But fear-mongering titles and articles aren't helping, and in fact could be exacerbating a psychological contagion.
Recent and related:

CLEAR led a flyer carrying ammo under a false name to TSA, sparking probe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36910372 - July 2023 (93 comments)

Also:

Big change for some CLEAR users: TSA will soon require you to show ID - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36828361 - July 2023 (22 comments)

CLEAR is a pox on America’s airports - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34081156 - Dec 2022 (94 comments)
Have a look at https://metrist.io/

(I’ve been meaning to try it out but haven’t yet.)
A company offers you an $80k salary for a new position, you counter offer with $100k, and they say they'll call you back. A couple days later they call and you both agree to $95k.

Is that you "fighting the good fight with skills the market doesn't value as much as you thought?"

Or is it negotiating to find the true market value that you are willing to accept and the company is willing to pay for your skills?
Voices aren't unique or under copyright.

I understand her grief over this, but I also understand why people are pursuing this technology. It could be revolutionary in media generation.
Why would a person be less effective if he works same 8 standard hours per day?
I mean, not great to mean I can't call my parents up and talk to them, eh?
If copyright law doesn’t take a massive leap forward in the next year, AI is going throw a wrench in our entire economy. The creative humans that trained these models deserve attribution, compensation, and royalties.

The ongoing AI era is reminding me a lot of early Uber/AirBnB - these companies grew faster than local laws could keep up, and now we have millions of gig workers without insurance and housing crises in most major cities. We need to hit the breaks on this tech so it can be deployed safely.
Millions of new cars are sold yearly in the US. It's a huge market. It's also a huge country, with some long distances between some cities.

Assuming charging is available at most gas stations on US highways, it's still not attractive to most people to have to wait 30 minutes (or whatever) for a fast charge to allow them to continue their journey.

Norway might be a good use case, but currently the US is not a good use case (except in town). So US buyers will still need one gasoline car for road trips.

Personally I'd prefer passenger train infrastructure over millions of electric cars. Equal or more cars is, as the article notes, still a bad thing.
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Prompt: "illustration of orbital nuclear explosion, planet earth in the background, shockwave, epic, super nintendo style pixel art"

"Unsafe image content detected. Your image generations are not displayed because we detected unsafe content in the images based on our content policy. Please try creating again with another prompt."

Sigh, safety is so annoying.
I am really confused about the modern meaning of "conspiracy theory" because hyper-urbanism and reduction or outlawing personal travel for middle class people are open progressive policy goals.
Despite that, Notion actually does work okay in unstable/briefly offline connectivity situations. It syncs changes when it reconnects.
Ask HN: Good zero-to-hero resources/repos on LLM training and inference?
I'm looking on resources to learn more about training, refinement and deployment of large language models.
Anyone else using crnk with Spring Boot?
Working on some old stuff that uses katharsis (which hasn't been touched since 2017). Trying to switch to crnk, but crnk doesn't (yet) support Spring Boot 3. It's still stuck on javax imports instead of jakarta.

Anyone else out there facing issues when it comes to katharsis/crnk and Spring Boot?

Take a look at PR here for attempt to get crnk to support Spring Boot 3 and use jakarta imports.
I always thought it was based on Captain Picard's iconic facepalm, i.e

https://blog.trekcore.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/facepal...
"department of legitimacy" sounds like the most dystopian BS I have ever heard of. I always thought legitimacy in democracy came through the support of the people which is gained through serving them and their interests. This new form of "democracy" where the elites have all the answers and knows what is best for everyone is the newest form of authoritarianism, IMO.

There is no Legitimation Crisis. That phenomenon is a result of society healing itself from the scourge of all authoritarians.
Under this framework, all labor saving devices should be thrown out. Guess we'd go back to the days of 90% or whatever of the population being employed in agriculture.
Try to use less all-caps?

> OH COME OFF IT. There is not a Government on this planet that wants to get rid of cash.

It is a real civil rights concern:

- https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/say-no-cashless...

- https://www.bundesbank.de/resource/blob/710118/6bab368611007...

These aren't exactly cryptobros.

> Tokens minted of the same pieces, tokens minted by people who aren't the artist, tokens minted of work from DECEASED artists, name it, it was made, it was sold and is probably still being traded today.

Not really. Copy-minting did happen extensively, but it's more like phishing emails trying to get someone to click. No one really minted or traded these tokens. There were one or two projects based on stolen artworks that had a modicum of traction, but none that I know that is relevant today.

Feel free to proof your point by citing examples if you think you can.

> No, you can't. Because the thing they sold had no value, because they didn't own it. They sold you a receipt for a purchase of a thing that isn't real. Therefore, no court is gonna do shit.

Just one example: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/are-nfts-property-stol...
Oh no, how dare conspiracy theorists see an attempt to ban gas stoves as... an attempt to ban gas stoves?
The writers got basically everything they asked for.
There's a growing sentiment among the youth that I'm calling Luddism-Nouveau.

My brother is a public school teacher and he's telling me that the kids really like talking about Ted Kaczynski...

All of this to say; your opinion, while cynical, is not unique.

I don't agree with any of it, by the way. I like that we have modern medicine.
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>> “That electricity has got to come from somewhere. It’s not going to come from solar farms and wind turbines,” he said.

>Maybe not today. But in time, I see no reason why most of it can't come from renewable sources.

If only a certain state near Kansas, say a "Cowboy" state, hadn't worked so hard to deny tax breaks to renewables that they readily gave to coal and gas. If only that policy hadn't so completely changed the economics of planned wind projects that the companies planning them hadn't canceled them, taking thousands of jobs away during the midst of a national recession and mini-bust. Then they could be selling wind energy to an EV factory in Kansas. Instead, it delayed the industry by a decade or more, and now easy customers like this have to push for coal production.

More "we'll burn our grandchildren for warmth if it costs less right now" bullshit from Wyoming's landed wealthy. I love that place, but man, the people in it are a major reason I don't live there anymore.
Leave it to amerikans

None of the people named in the story are American.

The article is about members of the UK government including the PM reacting to an idea proposed by "Carlos Moreno, a French urban designer and professor at Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris."

Jordan Peterson (a Canadian) is also mentioned as a supporter of the conspiracy theory.

I can see why you jumped to your incorrect assumption, but it is wrong.
Links in windows are a thing, but not well known. I must have been using Windows for close to 20 years before I realized they were in there.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/hard-...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrat...
Git has much more explicit conflict resolution though, which covers a lot of the risks involved
Thanks for the suggestion. I did go to several networking events but did not yield any positive results. Maybe more specific meet-ups could be more helpful. I will try a few in the coming days.
The Making of the Burger King Games – Documentary [video]
It’s Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
One of the particularly interesting parts about this computer is that it comes quite a significant amount of time after valve/tube-based computer systems, and in fact some time after the first prototype transistor computers. It was made by Fujitsu, who at the time produced telephone switches, so reused a lot of telephone switching equipment, including a crossbar-switch-based main memory.

Numbers are stored in floating point, with 8 decimal digits in the mantissa and 2 in the exponent, encoded in an interesting bi-quinary representation (for each decimal digit, this uses five bits to represent a unary 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, then a single bit to represent +0 or +5) with 69 bit words. Instructions use a 72 bit word length.
I'd been informed of this after being caught up in the block myself yesterday, as noted in another Fediverse thread that's looking for cases of abuse in HN's moderation:

<https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/111161109931108606>

I frequently browse HN unauthenticated, both from a tablet I'm desperately trying to keep from becoming a timesuck itself (somewhat unsuccessfully), and when doing quick checks and searched on HN (something I do a lot) from a private/incognito browser session.

It's also useful to verify issues, such as I had with a submission of mine yesterday which was itself autokilled based on the domain. I'd posted an archive of the original URL from a now-dead site, using the archived version which includes the comments (Internet Archive's Wayback Machine does not, for some reason): <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37732186>

Dang quickly undid the kill, but I couldn't actually validate it myself given the botnet mitigations.

(And the post has done much better than I'd expected.)

I'd forgotten the self-service IP unbanning option, though putting that outside HN's protected IP space (or at least in a different one) might be helpful.
I know, actually, but any place relying very strongly on formalised communication over dynamic approaches tends to underperform anyway (and militaries relearn that every so often), so all this stuff will resolve itself over time anyway. The non-social crowd will lose out, just give it time.

Btw., depending on country and situation, nuclear missile submarines can actually have wide latitude on decisions.
… except there is evidence from those making the accusation? You can see, for example, the Wikipedia article for RFK Jr., and it's well-sourced from there that he's a proponent of "vaccines cause autism".

Yet this article attempts to frame it as if that were incorrect, while carefully avoiding framing that directly and clearly; and we've seen this tactic time and again from people who want to push misinformation. The OP is replete with the red flags of disingenuous debate.

Take the other example the article gives: Musk has retweeted conspiracy theory and pushed misinformation on multiple occasions. Cf. the tweets about Sen. Pelosi's husband. The Texas mall shooter. Vaccination views. How many examples have to grab the media's attention when they happen for it to not need constant sourcing in every debate?

I'd entertain a debate on whether pressuring companies to pull ads on sleazy platforms for the purpose of killing the platform is a good thing or not … but the OP isn't it.
Oh hey, the useless (except for leetcode) language got an update. Yay, maybe more people try to write boring business logic without type safety. Can't wait.
what is the tuition if you are over 25? I think it is still about 800 CHF. This is extremely cheap.

Compare to MIT which is about $40,000 a semester, with the average student after financial aid paying $20,000, and is in Cambridge, a city where rents are about as bad as Zurich (although most students live in MIT dorms). if MIT failed out 50% of their class with $40-80k in debt, this could not be tolerated.