jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As far as I can see, there are two tar pits that Digg and now Reddit are stuck in:

1. Lack of focus and quality:

In my experience, users frequent a site because it has quality content and they leave when the quality of the content declines. Digg and more recently Reddit, are experiencing a loss of focus and quality and as a result are losing their initial users. Digg’s quality is so bad it is now pointless to read and much to my chagrin, Reddit seems to be following suit.

Reddit seems to be drowning in a rising tide of noobs. Apparently, there aren’t enough old users around to down-vote the crap posted by the noobal hoard. From a quick read of comments, it seems many long-time users are angry and feel disenfranchised. It’s because of this that those users whose content made Digg and Reddit popular in the first place are now leaving those sites and taking their great ideas with them.

2. No troll guards:

Nothing poisons an online community quicker than a few nasty trolls. Another one of the reasons that I’m pulling away from Reddit is because it is getting mean. Both the links that are posted and the article forums are being destroyed by trolls stomping around unchecked. I hope Reddit can fix this problem. If not, I’m going to stop spending my time there.

The impression that I get, Paul, is that your goal is to make this YC News a start-up news site and a community of potential founders; not simply another social news site. The only way that I can see to maintain quality content and to filter out the trolls is to institute some form of moderation. Straight democracy leads to anarchy; that’s why I think a news site needs to be a republic.

I don’t think, by any stretch of the imagination, that Slashdot is perfect, but they do have a system where moderators are selected from heavy and moderate users on a rotating basis. The system filters out new and spam accounts and gives preference to high karma users. It seems to keep the trolls in check. It also encourages people to take more ownership and to participate in the community.

Slashdot’s FAQ explains their moderation system here:
http://slashdot.org/faq/com-mod.shtml#cm520

There is also a brief discussion of their anti-troll rules here:
http://slashdot.org/faq/com-mod.shtml#cm2000

Thanks for setting up the site. It scratches an itch that I’ve had for a while.
I did consider tokenising the inputs, and probably will. The only reason not to have done so yet was that this was a no-brainer in terms of getting something working just to see if produced something useful.

I'm using neato for the layout. Graph layout is hard, and in some cases unsolved. I'm using this for rough visualisation, then I'll write code to find true clusters.
My point is that by this point I'd expected more from the human race than a series of input and output interactions :(
IE6 was the standard. It is not longer the standard because it was written in 2001. Bash IE6 all you like, normally I would join in but make sure its a valid point.
There are several studies out there showing why multitasking at any level is a bad idea. If it doesn't work on a personal level then it probably won't work on a corporate level.
I'm not sure how that context changes the sentence. If you're saying Gruber is referring to those critics in particular (rather than all critics, or critics in general), he should have started his sentence with "These iPhone critics..." Or, to add context to my test sentences:

"John Smith weighs in at an astounding 350 pounds, but that's not hard to understand. Americans rarely get any exercise."

The second sentence still means what it meant before.
IE9 will support the full html5 spec. Download it and try it.
The whole concept of the "great idea" is skewered brilliantly by the Windows 7 ads. We all get a good chuckle watching someone tell us straight faced that, just because they thought of something that could have been better about Windows, they can now take credit for it after Microsoft successfully implemented it in Windows 7.

Could be useful as a reference the next time someone has a business idea that he "just needs a tech guy to implement."
I think a post is needed because I'd just be rambling crazy mutterings right now. The only thing I like in PHP is associative arrays, just about everything else is wrong. If you want a quick throwaway script PHP is fine but if you want any level of decently sized and maintainable system PHP is not your friend.
I've actually got GW-BASIC running on DOSBOX on my home computer. Every now and again I get nostalgic and fire up one of the ASCII graphics video games or text adventures I wrote when I was a teenager.
Some really pretty stuff here!
He'd been on that quixotic quest for three years? For some reason, I have a hard time believing it.

When the first sentence is not credible, what does that say about the rest?
these days its where the money is when it comes to hosting. Im ok with being in the people business that relates to hosting.
The problems I have with frameworks are bloat and that they force you to work in the way that the creator of the framework has visioned, if you find a framework that fits you than you should consider yourself lucky and in that case you'd better use it to your advantage. I advice you to stick with PHP for web development opposed to other languages, in itself it would not matter which language you use, but PHP has always been focused on web programming and has resolved most underlying problems dealing with that web programming, I personally also find it one of the most productive languages not much different from C in the compiled world. I think the best option is to slowly create your own framework (PHP Classes) so it fits your way of thinking and problem solving best.
I can't believe no one has mentioned Ken Robinson's talk yet!

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_...

Brilliant (and funny) talk about how schools suck the creativity out of students, but also how this doesn't have to be the case. My favorite TED Talk of all time.
You could use the client side database support in Chrome/Safari to save local copies of code and allow stuff to be loaded back into the environment of the current page.
My first thought was "PYTHON!"

But then, we have an ongoing transition to 3.0, and it turns out the turtle module from 2.6 is "an extended reimplementation" that is "(nearly) 100% compatible" with the prior version included in 2.5. This is probably not a problem for textbooks being written today, but it does make me wonder how durable an actual source code listing in any 'modern' language would be. How long would the average code listing remain usable?
As someone who enjoys technology and liberty this is a very disturbing development. We do not have a well diversified portfolio of options of tools and platforms for communication due to corporations monopolizing and conspiring together to concentrate power.

I do not imagine that this will end positively.
It's probably more accurate to say that a some of the protesters were prepared to commit acts of violence towards those in the Capitol building, some had no interest in violence, and others had no explicit plans but were caught up by mob mentality.
That depends on what case the C is in. Many self-identifying conservatives do not believe in anything close to a free-market, or freedom in general.
Lack of empathy to how we got here is the biggest problem.
Parler made very few attempts to actually moderate their content, at least from what I've seen. That tweet, however, has already been removed. https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1347119992462970880
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https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...
I have no computers or books or even lights in my bedroom, that way I force myself to sleep.

Anyway, insomnia is like an illness, I can't sleep more than 6 hours.

Also, getting a super-confortable bed helped a lot!
Wasn't this essentially the reason why IBM's PC and it's open architecture would never work?
While I agree with the observations, I think this is not a good definition of company culture.

A company culture is the set of prevailing ethics within an organization which determines things like work ethic; attitudes towards change; levels of internal cooperation vs internal competition; treatment of customers, competitors, and suppliers; valuation of individuals' attributes; etc.

Company culture can be perceived by outsiders, but it doesn't rely on what others say or whether you are doing Good or not. It exists even in the absence of those things.
At this point, for europe it might just be a better idea to let the TGV network grow outwards from France.

I doubt that would solve the problem where political wrangling is the issue. I especially can't see the Germans allowing the French to build and run their trains and lines. ;)

The ICE has run to Vienna for a while now, and Austria's ÖBB recently started their high-ish-speed "Railjet" [1] service (vmax currently 200km/h, due to increase to 230). Both suffer from the same network problems as Germany - trains pass through far too many smaller towns; old tracks. Plus there's the additional difficulty of the Austrian geography. The Vienna-Munich/Frankfurt route runs through one of the flattest parts of Austria, much of the rest of the country is covered in mountains.

They are building bypasses (mainly colossal tunnels, as "flat" around here still is pretty hilly) but it takes decades and consumes a phenomenal amount of taxpayer money.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railjet
Wow. I couldn't disagree more. Having plumbing like MVC and ORM built-in increases speed and means less code to maintain. The selection of which one (i happen to like Django) may be a toss up, but there is huge value in a server-side framework.
Is that because you haven't tried redis or because you haven't tried mongo?
Here's a question: is there any place for value in science??

The researcher who is the focus of the article doesn't seem to think so. I've read a few books suggesting that that is exactly what science could use. What do you think?
Well, consider a "Core Wars" game. The players program their entities using an interpreted language but the game overall is in Javascript, Objective C, or C++. That's the kind of thing they're talking about. It's minor in the sense of interactions with the API, but it may seem major in another sense that programming entities is the purpose of the game.
With regard to maturity, Fargo is one week into development. I'm not even sure if its just a quick hack to show off an idea or if it will become a production language. Certainly I have a lot to learn about compilers and VMs before that happens.
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It's a symptom of a bigger underlying problem. We no longer have a full circle of smart capable people that would achieve economic success independently, then raise their kids, teach them their ways and let the next generation achieve their own success by starting their own wave of companies.

Instead, through low interest rate, overinflated stock market and lack of antitrust oversight, most of our economy is controlled by the corporations. And they don't want an ambitious well-raised kid to get a good education and disrupt their business. They want to import talented and well-educated people from other cultures, so they will fulfill their corporate roles, but will have a poor shot at building enough network locally to start competing for their own market share. And the racial card is played as an argument to keep their kids' ambitions down.

As a first-generation immigrant, I find it very disturbing. I worked hard throughout most of my life and it has brought me happiness, and I don't think it's unethical for me to want to help my kids walk the same path. Moreover, I wish more and more parents, regardless of their race, would adopt my approach. But instead of creating additional opportunities for others, the recent activism is all about destroying the opportunities for those who may threaten the corporate hegemony. As for myself, I find it more and more lucrative to move back to Eastern Europe, now that I know how to run a business and don't depend on anyone. I hear a lot of similar sentiment among the Chinese community. I wonder what long-term effect will it have on the U.S. economy.
>Why would you divert chips that could be powering GeForce GPUs into mining cards and then also disabling the ability to mine on your gaming cards?

The current cryptomining chips are actually based on Turing (RTX 2000), not Ampere (RTX 3000).

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-repurposes-turing-s...
One belief I hold is that I can become proficient in any skill if I put the hours in. While maybe not 100% true in every case, it certainly helps more to think this way than to not.

I first became really convinced of this idea while studying Japanese using Anki. I've been doing that for over two years now, and have reached a comfortable level of comprehension. No plans to stop soon.

I've also started learning the violin recently. It's nice to be able to look at my other skills and realize that if I just put in the hours, I can become as good in this, even though I'm terrible right now.
I can think of three ways of thinking about the term "strongly typed" once you realize it doesn't mean "statically typed".

1) It's meaningless--it's almost impossible to produce a real ranking of languages on the strength of their types.

2) These dynamic languages are all unityped because they're not statically typed. The fact that runtime tags won't allow certain operations to succeed has nothing to do with types.

3) Strongly typed is a rough and ready way of saying you don't do many implicit conversions.

I sympathize with (1). (2) is accurate, but really a terminological point. There's clearly a phenomenon to talk about, even if "typed" is the wrong word. I also sympathize with (3).

Python does far fewer implicit conversions than PHP, JavaScript or Perl. It even doesn't do at least one that Java does. So people often say Python is strongly, but dynamically typed. It's a real aspect of the language that you can view as a plus or minus.
Real images, but a different technology.
IT's not a monetary issue, really.

It's about the wasted time dealing with a parking space.

The companies that don't provide parking often locate in places where you spend an hour a day, in aggregate, dealing with parking one way or another-- looking for a space, walking to the building from the space, etc.
That's an excellent point. The $84/year tier also allows users to keep an app always on without needing a second dyno, which used to be the requirement to prevent apps from sleeping.
Is that Android with Hardware Acceleration? It's incredibly smooth animation for an Android.
Well the where can also matter in a much different way. For example if I am providing for a solution for wi fi in rural areas of Northern India, there is nothing I can do from banglore.
Go for the tablet using ONLY native Objective C. Don't use PhoneGap.

It will be a good learning experience, you will be able to instantly test the code, and there are no two ways about it. Few hacks or tricky stuff. It's a pretty straightforward platform.

Also, you can easily earn money with this, and the money is purely passive. No server administration, etc. You can finish it, put it in the store and run off for the next year.

Also, you learn about memory management and device constraints.

If you want something even more interesting, consider a use-case like using a tablet to control some hardware (like a lightbulb).
Hmm, interesting. My monitor (Samsung P2770) has a menu option to enable grayscale, which I have just switched on. I am not sure that I could use this permanently but it does seem to be easier on the eyes. The icon in my taskbar that is currently flashing away is certainly less distracting.

However... my vim colour scheme is now useless, and I am about to review some mockups from a web designer, so this might be a short experiment.
I am kind of baffeled that you can actually do that though, I had assumed it would give the state too much work to do.
Nakamura's been the main GM willing to at least publicly enter that arena.

See 2008's Rybka vs. Nakamura [0] for some background
and the more recent Rybka+Nakamura vs. Stockfish[1]. In his computer enhanced form he's affectionately referred to as "Rybkamura"

[0] - http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/nakamura-defeats-ryb...
[1] - http://www.chess.com/news/stockfish-outlasts-nakamura-3634
Unity is currently working to make Unity compatible with .NET 6 / CoreCLR, but they don't yet have a release date for that yet. The progress is being tracked in this megathread:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-future-net-development...
Used Git with Unity for over 10 years. What problems have you run into?

LFS is of course a must. No one should be diffing audio files via text haha!
Africans until the early seventeenth century arrived as indentured servants. This occasionally comes up in the lineage of guests on the PBS show Finding Your Roots.

Indentured servants from Europe plus political deportations might have outnumbered Africans. I’ve heard this is true at least in the Caribbean. In my family, our origin could be Scotland or Ireland; both populations were called Irish at the time.
Institutional investors like Vanguard usually just confirm the board in whatever the board is doing. They effectively do NOT "own" the company in a way that would involve them making decisions on it.

Sometimes they pass questions on to the shareholders of the funds, which everyone ignores.
You likely caught grey-text flu because TFA doesn't mention the word "censorship" at all. Perhaps you're on the wrong thread?
> But it does not stop your contractual obligation to pay.

Can't you Americans just send a certified letter informing a business of your intent to cancel and asking them to send you a final bill (if any) to settle payments within a specified time limit? That should cover you legally?
Cloudflare could easily be gamed if they did some passive SNI for that hostname and boosted internet speeds for 15 seconds. But maybe they'll make it a cdn-cgi endpoint+randomize the endpoint to random customers' sites at some point in the future if they discover ISPs doing this.
"cab drivers complaining that Uber has destroyed their *business*" is code for taxi medallion holder.

If they were the typical taxi driver, they would say job.
Censorship and deplatforming are ways of making the competition shut up. If someone has a different opinion than you do, they should have free speech to say it. Within reason of course, nobody wants Nazis or Pedophiles to spread their opinions because they are obscene.

This is why Musk is trying to buy out Twitter, and he is trolling them with his wealth.

Don't forget removal from the APP Store or blocked by proxies.

Information still wants to be free, not stifled by tyrants just for being different opinions than the shareholders have.

Remember there is a reason why people want to root their phone, they want the freedom to install any app they wish to install. The more it gets locked down, the more people are going to find ways to unlock it.

Instead of deplatforming and censorship, ratings should be used instead for people to decide what they are going to read.
This explains the basics. The "action" attribute of your form tag tells the form where to send the data.
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp
Regarding your final anecdote - heroin is actually dirt cheap to produce. It's the illegal nature and all the externalities involved that seem to make it so expensive for users. We should probably just allow people to buy pure doses of known quantity at drug stores. We'd largely solve overdoses and addict poverty/petty crime that way, I think.
Would it make sense to skip AVIF and add JPEG XL instead or wait for WebP2? JPEG XL and WebP2 have better image features, such as progressive loading.
This Old House made a great video on the subject of using box fans with filters:

https://youtu.be/aw7fUMhNov8

I've been using the design they showed in the video, but I will definitely try this duct-fan method, saving electricity is always a bonus.
Yeah, let's deregulate the potentially most dangerous source of energy generation on the planet. What could go wrong?

I wish we could generate energy with anti-intellectualism. We'd have all the environmental issues figured out by now.
Plus, trains (and cars and planes and buses and taxis and limos and horse buggies and ... and ...) are generally under the control of an entity with a sense of self-preservation, and actually cares about getting home tonight. Contrasted with an auto-auto, which will cheerfully drive into a wall when you least expect it.
s/literally/likely
I definitely appreciate this. Your point reminds me of what Beeple once said about art and creative work:

"Looking at creativity as something that’s much less precious will help you stick with it long-term. Along with that, people around you will be a lot more supportive if you’re a bit more flexible and a bit less douchey about it. Like you’re not so pretentious in terms of, 'I’m an artist, I need to blah blah blah.' If you take it down a notch and just look at it as something you have to do today, just like taking a dump or eating supper, then it will be more sustainable in the long run."

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/3/21046790/beeple-mike-winke...