skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>mods won't ban or delete 1 off posts that don't get any traction

Janitors don't delete posts that they don't see or are not reported.

>I'm talking about pol, the #1 board on the site by activity.

/vg/ is neck and neck with /pol/, and that's only because /v/ was split into /v/ and /vg/.

And yeah, if you don't give any examples it's hard to take you seriously. The example you did give was egregiously OT, and in fact potentially thread-derailing. The fact that you saw that as an example of janitors being unfair puts your credibility into question. I showed that liberal opinions are allowed and even common on 4chan, which was your initial point. I don't browse /pol/ but I found liberal threads pretty easily here as well:

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OP:

>Calmly explain why pissing off these countries [in OP pic] will result in untold riches for the working class [countries are China, Canada and Mexico, in reference to Trump's tariffs]

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OP:

>Is Trump the last gasp of a dying empire?

>He's going hard, threatening every country in the world with huge tariffs and massive retaliation if they use currencies other than the US dollar. It's rather absurd. [post continues for another 3 paragraphs]

I don't think 4chan is necessarily a bastion of free speech. Twitter is probably more free in terms on what you can post now. However 4chan is nothing like Reddit, old twitter, YouTube etc. in terms of what you can post.
There are multiple reproducibility crises. The incentive structure is one of them, the other being the general challenge of reproducing results further "up the stack" in highly chaotic fields (the stack being physics -> chem -> bio -> psychology -> sociology, obviously nonexhaustive)

I actually find the reproducibility crisis you're mentioning to be both more problematic and to receive far less attention than the other. More problematic because it infects every form of science, even the harder/more fundamental sciences, and because it's way less clear how to fix it.

The reproducibility crisis near the top of the stack is just: "do more science and don't believe results until they've been replicated, refined, and matured."
Does reading HN count as self-improvement? I can't say how many "leads" in technology or ideas I've got by spending time on this site; and I'm sure I never would have quit my job to be a solo founder if not for the stories on this site. (Too soon to say whether the latter was a good idea or not!)
Jeff Dean responds to EDA industry about AlphaChip
> I think the OP would disagree or simply say those who want to be on the web can do it, It's relatively easy, your ambitions can be simple and that simplicity is more authentic than just sharing links from your profile on a Social Network.

I think this may be the pivotal point here: Social media drove everyone online, even without those interests and that sense of authenticity. I kept getting hung up on the idea that those people who are there only because of the simplicity and ease of use would never pivot to the effort of making their own websites. But I see your point now.

It'll be interesting to see how the new wave of social media (Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky) fares over the next few years.
about time for hdmi in.

but $150ish for a smbc... and that's before the markup from scalpers.
Yeah, as a resident of NY apple country (I'm ~20 minutes from Beak & Skiff, frequently voted one of the best orchards in the country), SnapDragon is the way to go.
> Image related is unfortunate. Not uncommon for jannies and mods in any website to use their power to self serve.

This isn't just a 1 off thing by rogue moderators is what I'm trying to point out. This is a constantly re-occurring thing. I also experienced the same issue multiple times until I got fed up with it and stopped posting there a few years ago.

Their main moderator had a goal to make 4chan politically aligned with his views. 4chan used to be free speech but it really isn't anymore.
Controlling AI's Growing Energy Needs
What makes a story high quality is more than it just being a series of accurate quotes.

It is where there is context and insights about the story.
It sounds like you're saying NixOS is unsuited for production just because it's still a bit niche. I think that's a false dichotomy.
> I would bet the majority of react sites and devs that use them are [n]ot building apps that require SPA or something like React. [edited to restore what I assume is the ended meaning]

On what basis do you bet this, though?

Sure, you see sites that bug you by being slow in contexts where you'd choose something else, but most devs are working on sites and apps that you will never see, because you're not the target demographic.

I don't have survey data one way or the other, but anecdotally everywhere I've worked on an SPA has been a clear case where trying to do it in backend+JQuery would have been a huge failure.
Even considering chatbot.js, it's still a small enough toy project to just barely get by without type safety. I don't consider a project "large" until it's in the 30K to 50K LOC at least, where it becomes impossible to literally remember where each use of any given variable is. Type Safety catches most typos at build time, and also allows ease of refactoring. Only these small projects can get by without type safety, but EVEN the small projects DO benefit from catching errors at build time. It's just a self-foot-shoot to find bugs at runtime instead of build time.
So, I had a emoji in my original post that indicates a joke around the trademark comment, and I didn't realize HN automatically strips those out.

I appreciate the clarification in this and the comments below, but yeah, it was meant to be tongue in cheek.
Semantic versioning?
Yeah that certainly seems hyperbolic. My opinion is that we need to do better in the future and consider our past when making current policy decisions. And in some cases I think we should proactively attempt to make amends.
I've got a mono->VGA cable for my STe, and it doesn't work with all LCD monitors. I've got a 4:3 1280x1024 display that (after tweaking display settings) resolves it to a pretty clean 1280x800 with a border at the bottom, but I tried it with a couple of displays a friend has and it seemed impossible to get it quite right. The output was very similar to the nasty screenshots shown here: monitor's pixel sampling always slightly out of sync. I wonder if it's the same phenomenon.

I vaguely remember 70 Hz and 72 Hz being VGA standards, so the ST's 71.25 Hz (or whatever it actually was) could be a bit of an oddity.

(The Nextstep output doesn't look that awesome either! Hard to say whether this is the converter or whether it's like that it source thouh.)
This article compares a strawberry picking machine killing all of humanity to increase strawberry fields with current corporations. This is stupid because corporations do have guardrails both internally and externally from society. All of the mega Silicon Valley corporations are not expanding by murdering people. Even in the ones that are expanding in ways that people question (social media), they are filled with humans who actually think they are doing the right thing.

Humans with morals are still very much in the decision chain and there is obviously a lot of debate about their morals, but them being there makes such a vast difference that the comparison to the strawberry AI is completely invalid. The strawberry AI isn’t even considering humans.

The article then builds on that false comparison for the rest of the article so there isn’t much to gain from the rest of it.

You can make the same lazy comparison to a completely socialist, centralized decision making by a government optimizing for a single metric (voter approvals, poverty levels, whatever). It has nothing to do with capitalism or the economic system.

TLDR; article says mega corps are the same as dangerous AI because they make optimizations in favor of profit that some people disagree with.
The Reverse Bank Robbery – Yotta Bank and the Problem with Fintech [video]
keep telling yourself your new fad career wasn't born out of channers love bots. but we both know the truth.
The reason that they do not look the same is that the order statistics are there presented for an exponential function, which has an unbounded upper range. When you do it on a uniform distribution with n variables, you get an n'th power and n'th root at the extremes, with varying lopsided normal-looking distributions in between.
> So China burns coal, to generate power, at huge heat and transmission loses, to power “clean” EV cars

That's one more on the climate change/EV bingo card.

No they burn coal to generate the electricity they were already using for everything they did before they started buying all these EVs.

Most of their new electricity generation in the past 3 years - when EV adoption has taken off - is from wind, solar, and hydro. [1]

> A gasoline engine, runs for a very long lifetime now, and then immediately becomes high value scrap that can be used and sold immediately. No dangerous batteries to deal with.

Right because all the dangerous byproducts in a gasoline car - the gasoline, various oils and lubricants - have already been used up and discarded into the environment. Gasoline cars have lead-acid batteries, and those are plenty dangerous and nasty. An EV battery goes into a recycling plant, just like an ICE car battery. The rest is equally high value scrap that can be used and sold immediately.

You probably think lithium extraction is bad for the environment too, right? While ignoring oil spills, methane leaks, and damage and water pollution from fracking?

1. So China burns coal, to generate power, at huge heat and transmission loses, to power “clean” EV cars
Who was claiming 3.4%?

Here's a study from March 2020: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7118348/

> Adjusting for delay from confirmation to death, we estimated case and infection fatality ratios (CFR, IFR) for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the Diamond Princess ship as 2.6% (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.89–6.7) and 1.3% (95% CI: 0.38–3.6), respectively. Comparing deaths on board with expected deaths based on naive CFR estimates from China, we estimated CFR and IFR in China to be 1.2% (95% CI: 0.3–2.7) and 0.6% (95% CI: 0.2–1.3), respectively.

Please provide specific, contemporaneous examples of the 3.4% estimate and evidence of it being "taken as gospel" and "driving the actual policy."
You can’t fix it. LLMs making things up is a consequence of what they are.

The blog post admits as much, because the “fix it” section is actually titled “How To Mitigate AI Hallucination?”

Mitigation makes some bad less severe. But that’s not fixing it.
Complex systems are complex?
We need both. Easier to hold a company liable when it's domestic.
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Happy to answer any questions!
Fittingly for this stack model, maths rarely (but not never!) has reproducibility issues.

https://xkcd.com/435/
I started Android development recently at work.

I will confidently back you up. I am a well-rounded programmer, and have used many languages and domains. Kotlin (in the Android SDK at least) is the most complicated, messiest, least-pleasant I've found. JS/Node is second place.

I'm reasonably confident it's not the Kotlin language itself I dislike, so much as the tooling associated with it, and the expected project structure.
I literally said the exact opposite. I don't care what language you use as long as it's type-safe.

Any language that lacks type-safety is completely inappropriate for large-scale projects. There's no seasoned developer on the planet who disagrees with that sentiment. None. Zilch. If some guy claims to be #1) decades experienced and #2) doesn't like type-safe languages, then he's lying about either #1 or #2 or both.
Bhutan is having some serious problems.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bhutan-emigration-crisis-60-min...
Math is brought up every damn time I bring up this stack! :D
> Would be really cool if there was a code snippet in Rust comparing/explaining the advantage over Java for each benefit.

Yeah, I thought about that. But the post kept and kept expanding in scope so I decided to instead hyperlink where I could.

> It's also not clear to me how `if let , while let , let-else` help (and how you'd use them)

All three of those are hyperlinks in the post.

> what an "ergonomic sum type" is

Here, I mean language support for defining and using sum types[1] without verbose code that doesn't reflect the programmer's intent well.

A typical sum type implementation in Java uses a sealed interface. You can't implement interfaces on "foreign" types that you don't control, like `boolean`. You often have to define extra wrapper classes that distract you when navigating the codebase and also hurt performance:

public sealed interface MutuallyExclusiveFlags permits FlagA, FlagB {}
public record FlagA(boolean value) implements MutuallyExclusiveFlags {}
public record FlagB(boolean value) implements MutuallyExclusiveFlags {}

Meanwhile, in Rust:

pub enum MutuallyExclusiveFlags {
FlagA(bool),
FlagB(bool),
}

No boilerplate, no extra types, no unnecessary performance cost. This whole object takes only 2 bytes of memory on the stack! [2]

I didn't go into detail on this, because the post isn't about introducing sum types.

> and how it helps with exceptions

The part about "exceptional flow" describes some cases where Result-based error handling is preferable to using exceptions. Language support for sum types is necessary to properly express Result values and the sets of possible error values inside.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_union

[2] https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
run it in a hook that runs before the commit is made
And who where it’s faster and more performant? Not Pinterest. Not Airbnb. Not X. Not the Amazon competitors he showed. Not even the flipping creators (Facebook) of the framework. You all keep blaming the specific companies for their sites but can’t ever seem to show us an actual performant and good example of react usage.
This just in, propellers still work.
> super expensive

cheaper than dealing with climate change

> finite uranium resources

we're not going to run out anytime soon, unlike oil

> no safe solution to store the waste

yes, there are

It's not the perfect solution for sure. But solar/wind/water isn't going to get us to where we need to be fast enough.

One day we'll figure our fusion and can shut down all our fission plants.
It seems a bit cultural, a bit practical, and maybe a bit political? Tesla is an American company and seems like it was selling cars. There's no one stopping them so I'm not sure the oil industry is entirely to blame.
Keep a look out for https://www.collinsfamilyorchards.com/ at your market, or try their CSA!
I was trying to point out an absolute, like consumption always being good, doesn't hold with widely different examples. After all, there is nuance when things are consumed.

Perhaps I should have phrased it differently.
I'm a bit skeptical because real source can be quite messy. Parsing C source code works because there are neither comments nor preprocessor directives to consider. You have clean input which you can map into an AST using well-defined rules. But source code you edit contain both comments and preprocessor directives. So a parser for structured editing has to acknowledge their existance and can't just ignore them, unlike a parser for a compiler. And that is hard because preprocessor directives and comments can show up almost anywhere. While comments are "mute", directives affect parsing:

#define FOO }
int main() {
FOO

"No one writes code like that!" Actually, they do, and mature C code-bases are full of such preprocessing magic.
Well one note is one thing - other thing is using open source libraries by devs.

No one has time to read the code in depth so it is also mostly reading tea leaves like „oh it has a lot of stars and a lot of downloads so it must be good”.

Don’t get me started on left pad ;)
Congrats on launch and your first Show HN.
I verified my email but still can’t post because of missing email verification. Clicking to resend verification gives me an error.

Also, implementing social sign-in lowers the bar for effort needed to try your service. Consider it.
USA is a free market. Everyone is authorized all the time to sell every safe product. The terms "gray market" and "authorized reseller" are linguistic manipulations which benefit manufacturers at the expense of everyone else in society.

I think Daye broke US law when they destroyed law-fully purchased products inside USA. I hope the inverter owners bring a class-action lawsuit against Daye in the US. The court could block the sale of the company's products in USA until they restore the inverters and pay restitution.
It sounds like an episode of Better Off Ted [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Off_Ted
Firefox seems to load it ok, if that helps.
Ionnandis didn't adjust for infection-death lag (which has big impact in the exponential infection increase part of the curve); his California IFR study was very flawed and undisclosed funded by the founder of Jet Blue.

His early influential paper before that was way off and said IFR might be even lower, around the common cold.

Around 0.5%-1.5% IFR without overwhelmed hospitals was the common scientific consensus very early on and was more right. Some treatment methods like proning and demonstrated effectiveness of steroids in a certain schedule helped drop things a good bit a few months in, around 30% if I remember.
The same issues are faced by anyone who works in a bullet proof vest.

Try selecting one: Wrap around gives better protection, at the expense if movement, weight, and a lack if airflow.

Side panels give better protection, at the expense on movement, weight, and a lack if airflow.

Trauma plates give better protection at the expense of...

You can armor someone like the LA Bank Robbery, but they can not fight.

The trade-offs are not easy to replicate because we are all made differently. A military can sculpt their warriors until they are all the same shape, but they lose other things.

Overweight cops especially have issues with the trade-offs in their body armor.
Not really know if this persons idea of discomfort, but I had to think about Kafkas quote: 'Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.'

Going over points of no return e.g. because you commit to certain decisions can be extremely uncomfortable and so many people will just push it off into the future, and so years can go to waste. Learning to spot that kind of discomfort in oneself (and reacting to it) can be extremely benefitial in avoid prolonging it.
Can you list the varieties that you know of to be problems? That at least gives a clue to which are less problematic.
Btw, USA has more accessible housing than EU. Food is also cheaper.

What is screwing Americans - healthcare and urge to buy things people don't need.
I love his science fiction but he was wrong on AI in 2017 and is even more wrong on today.
The discomfort needs to be alleviated by learning a new language. E.g. moving to the country where the language is spoken, as an extreme example.
Unlike your parent, I don't use an IDE at all, I write Rust in just a plain vim, no language server, I don't even bother with syntax highlighting.

Still, I'd say that actually the distinction that's aggravating you is almost entirely that Rust won't compile a lot of code that's nonsense, whereas in C++ that code compiles - it's still nonsense, but it compiled anyway. I think that's just plainly worse.
It's entirely cultural and political.
A lot has been learned. Unfortunately, people still make mistakes and hardware will continue to have security vulnerabilities.
People in the USA are just trying to figure out how to pay their bills. This USA rhetoric is really tired. Nope, most people are actually poor as fuck.
Looking at your homepage, I can’t figure out what your product is or who is for. I’m assuming it is t for me. Am I suppose to know that a digital sales room is?
A lifetime of dirty browser hacks is suddenly flooding back. Kids these days will never appreciate what we had to go through to make a page render anywhere near consistently in different browsers.

Tricks like crafting css that only some browsers could parse.

height/**/: 300px;

Or the insane sliding doors technique we used to get rounded corners.

https://alistapart.com/article/slidingdoors/

The mystery script we included to get alpha support in images.

https://git.twinhelix.com/cgit/iepngfix/tree/iepngfix.htc

The fact that select inputs were rendered by the OS so you had to find them all and hide them when you opened a modal so they didn’t sit on top of your content.

The desire to support custom files that drive us into swapping all the text for blocks of Flash after the page loaded.

It was almost better than the 20 level deep nested table layouts full of shims we had to do.
You think if elections could be bought they would all have been by this point, no?
Something like harassment maybe? Either there is an official redundancy plan and that would make sense, but otherwise it is quite the proof that the work is not in question but like a personal vendetta. Or that the director was trying to defame you by attempting to ruin your reputation with a conspiracy?
I'm always keeping an eye out for an old Volvo, they've been ahead of the game on safety for decades.

I don't know when they first introduced side airbags, but in general I'd be very happy with a late 80s or 90s Volvo sedan or wagon, especially a diesel (mainly for reliability and ease of working on).
It's meant for B2B sales, teams can generate good looking sales rooms and share them with their target customer and track everything they do on the page.

The idea is that it's supposed to help deals avoid dying through endless email chains where its hard to tell what to do next.
Wow, I didn't pay attention to that!
Diesel basically being the same as Postgres SQL is an awesome feature. I'd much rather than then an abstracted query language which is difficult to understand.
I suspect running a small search engine creates a built-in advantage, because the SEO experts won't be trying to manipulate your results.
They bought that though.
[An ad for Marvel Funko Pops appears, skippable in 5... 4... 3...]
We need data engineering benchmarks for LLMs
I don't think I've seen more than 8-bit monitors before mid-2010-s, except for some DICOM-specialized grayscale monitors.

> Even today, it's trivial on a Mac to e.g. connect a monitor and export its color profile into an ICC file

And you can use the ICC profiles in Wayland: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ICC_profiles#Wayland This capability has existed for a long time.

The protocols being merged allow _each_ _application_ to work within its own color profile, including more-than-8-bit colors, exposing this information to the composer. The composer can then dynamically translate the color formats, according to the output capabilities.

So if you move a window from an HDR-capable external screen to a laptop's crappy LCD, you'll get reasonable image, instead of a black window (or a washed out image).
Thanks for your feedback. I just tested with another account, it works for me. You didn't receive the email? Normally you can resend a second email 5 minutes after the first mail. When checking, you have to reconnect. Tell me if this is corrected. I will look at this more closely.
These kind of things will stop when they start getting treated as malicious attacks (similar to ransomware), i.e. the perpetrators become wanted people and if caught, see significant jail time.

This goes both for the malicious bricking of normal consumer devices, and attacks on critical infrastructure like this, except of course the punishment for the latter should be correspondingly more severe.