skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually a really good list.

The "big problems" being solved in tech right now are mostly just people fiddling around with tooling and business models. I wish more of us would dig into these kinds of opportunities... things with a profound possibility to change civilization for the better.

I think there's a lot of skepticism about that kind of endeavor, because there are so many 20 year olds who think they are going to "change the world" without either understanding the world, or really having the deep seated motivation required to see such a project through hell.

But the fact that the area is blanketed in charlatans doesn't mean the underlying concept—looking deep into our future and try to accelerate big difficult changes—is flawed.

It's just the people best suited to do it—with the skepticism, experience, and skin in the game—tend to write it off as a silly idea. Maybe they need to do more drugs.

I'm actively working on #2 and #3, which I think are probably the same problem in different forms, but I think my efforts in the area would be well characterized as "hampered by mental illness". Not to say I won't get there, but maybe you have to be a little crazy to try.
The point is if an average user wants to post something that doesnt fit in a community they know of they have a place to post it. It reallg sucks to try to post something and have the stupid moderators shut it down for violating one of their dozens of rules.

It also can give more power from moderators back to yhe people who are providing the content. Moderators provide a good service to the community but they are way too powerful/influential as is
Israeli intelligence.
I don't think it's possible to get browser extensions on an old iOS device.
737 is one of the most successful aircraft of all time. Why Boeing still makes them? Because customers still buy them.
True; and yet, it feels like there is much low-hanging fruit left in filesystens that are just built for specific vertically-integrated use-cases. A NAS hardware-appliance company, for example, could likely pull off something similar to what Apple did, and to great benefit.
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The big reason many other networks failed, is because no one else was on them? Prove that as the cause, as opposed to them sucking as the reason. MySpace & Friendster were already very substantial when Facebook came along and destroyed them, because they were horrible services.

The better question is, why would you need or want to regulate it as a natural monopoly? Specifically: to accomplish what?

Let me give you some examples.

1) To force FB to open up, allowing other social networks to openly ride on its network / social data (the broadband one pipe lots of delivery companies premise). Ok, now you're begging for a radical increase in abuse of personal data. And you're going to need some new (or expanded existing) bureaucracy agency to manage it all, which will open up new government abuses without a doubt (happens every time; and said agency will radically slow down innovation, which also happens every single time). Some obnoxious SNEA - Social Network Enforcement Agency - will get created, and that'll be the end of any innovation in social media; if you give the Feds an inch of new power, they'll take a thousand miles.

Besides, you can already replicate your social network onto other platforms by allowing FB apps to access your list of friends. Most people don't care because there simply are not that many highly compelling social concepts to explore that are worth the effort to maintain/use. There will never be large numbers of compelling social offerings; there inherently can't be as people have finite time, the hurdle to acquire it is very high. It's work/effort to maintain these networks for the end user, they do not want to have to upkeep it all.

2) To enforce higher standards on privacy. Well, we can already pass legislation to do that comprehensively across all media platforms, if it makes sense. It'd be ridiculous to regulate one platform for that purpose.

3) To limit various corporate abuses by FB (Instagram/Snapchat, ala Internet Explorer/Netscape). Well, we already have anti-trust laws for that and thousands of other laws & regulations and numerous giant three letter enforcement agencies.

Meanwhile, while the argument is being made for regulating Facebook as a natural monopoly, the next technology paradigm is being born somewhere to make them far less relevant. That process has been repeating itself for 60 years or so now, requiring very little actual regulation by the government.
This placement/voting pattern is not abnormal, IME - particularly as different child comments are left.
you realize NYT is having record profits? because they are doing real journalism? And you also realize pewdiepie actually did make crude anti-semitic jokes? yes, WSJ over-reacted but he wasn't guiltless. Writing Holocaust/Hitler jokes isn't funny and shouldn't be tolerated.
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Catalan is not a local dialect—its a distinct language just like French, Italian, or Portuguese. There as many differences between Catalan and Castellano (which is literally "Spanish", no need for quotes there) as there are between Swedish and Norwegian, or Spanish and Portuguese.
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"at least 20%"... so at most 100%?
Except that gmail is an ever bigger influence on email...
> tech refresh

I like its low tech interface, as I like the HN simple, modest, low-key interface.
I hear you.
Maybe that wasn't a good attempt of an example how about this https://github.com/julienetie/hypertext#3-case-create-html-e...

Currently aside from JSX and things like mustache some devs are using h https://github.com/snabbdom/snabbdom#inline-example and Cycle has a syntax not far off from what I'm proposing http://widdersh.in/tricycle/ .
But the syntax is not actually the big deal, the biggest benefit is the complete separation of logic from semantics.

I don't expect everyone to like it but I don't think it's horrible or difficult to look at when used in a real project.
Btw, there are a number of ways to write that expression depending on the complexity of the function

Short syntax:

Enum.map [1,2,3], &(&1 * &1)

Long syntax:

Enum.map [1,2,3], (fn num ->
num * num
end)

Or even:

square_me = &(&1 * &1)
Enum.map [1,2,3], square_me

square_me_too = fn(num) -> num * num end
Enum.map [1,2,3], square_me_too

Defining a function separately (e.g. even in another module) and referencing it:

def square(num) do
num * num
end

def doing_something() do
...

Enum.map [1,2,3], &square/1
Enum.map [1,2,3], &SomeOtherModule.square/1

...
end
I wonder what affect 30+ years of "free tree" programs that various states and environmental clubs run for arbor day and such has had. Growing up in the midwest/great plains, ever year in elementary school we were given trees to take home and plant for arbor day. Little sticks, maybe a foot long with a small handful of roots, wrapped in damp paper towels to survive the trip home.

Someone says "oh, white oaks grow alright across the entire state, and their acorns are a good food source for the local wildlife" and they send out a few thousand of them for arbor day via elementary schools.

Some of them even survive. 30+ years later, those trees have dropped millions of acorns, most of which feed squirrels and deer or rot away, but some turn into trees.

Rinse and repeat every year. Seems like you could, over the course of nearly 40 years, unintentionally shift the population of a tree species.
The various Illumos distributions routinely upstream their changes into the master Illumos repository ( https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate). I know that ZFS on Linux (https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs) routinely integrates those changes, as well as making some of its own and I believe pushing them upstream to Illumos. When I've looked at FreeBSD commit logs, they too are pulling in ZFS changes from Illumos on a frequent basis (but I know less about any independent development and upstreaming).

My strong impression is that the ZFS code base is a sufficiently big and tangled thing that no one wants it to fragment. With bug-fixes and improvements happening in Illumos, ZoL and FreeBSD both want to be able to incorporate them on a regular basis and to push their own changes upstream to reduce the maintenance burden of carrying those changes.
Actually I am yet to find a CI system that allows the TFS workflow of preventing checkins if the unit tests fail.

All the other ones I know require creating scripts that will manage branches and merges into the main branch.

On TFS I select a check box and go off doing something else.
Just embrace being a consumer. You're already doing it a lot and probably enjoy it in some way. If producing was really that important to you, well, then you'd be doing it.

There's nothing wrong with just consuming. It's how most people live and odds are that you're not that different.

I'm a proud consumer and non-producer (outside of work).
Nice rating man, good job. I know how hard that is.
Wonderful library , one of its own kind .
The command-line interface is what I loved about darcs. Too bad it never got the mind share because of early performance problems.
Just looking to be a dick today? They built a city by hand without heavy equipment or government because they had no choice. Recognizing their resolve doesn't have to be praise.
Aye - energy drinks were mine. I ended up almost ruining my body by the time I was 30, so that I could have the energy to pursue all of these side projects that I felt like I "had to" work on.

I think side projects are good, particularly if you're passionate about said project. But don't ruin yourself for the sake of them! You can't experience the benefits of your labor if you're dead.

I hope that younger people can learn from my example. When I was young, I felt invincible: I wasn't seeing how the things I was consuming to keep going were harming me in real, material, and permanent ways.

I'm not saying don't work on side projects, but if you have to abuse a substance (even legal ones) to burn that candle, please think about your future and give yourself a more sustainable timeline.
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I found the plot a bit odd also. But I don't consult designers for mathematical problems. The text communicated to me that contribution and value are not directly proportional.

The "quantity" of contribution is measured on an emotional scale. It's how the individual feels about the impact of their effort. This is different than the value of their effort. For example, someone telling a joke, the value stays the same, x% laugh at it. But if the joke were to go viral and tens of thousands of people laugh, the contribution is increased (making more people laugh). But the value is the same. The audience had x% chance of laughing.

A different example is the original Star Trek. The value of showing fictional technologies like videoconferencing and cell phones was very low. It was part entertainment value and mostly expedited storytelling. But the contribution to human society is hugely significant, just by prompting people to action, to pursue the development of such tech, and also by helping people visualize how such tech would simplify things and make time spent more productive.
I've read just about everything by Le Carré, including, of course, The Honourable Schoolboy. I might check out Steinhauer. I think I read something by him, but can't remember what.
The name Mastodon is bad. Doesn't say anything about what the site does. Compare Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat....
I am the opposite, I like shush-merge although I understand and empathize with your view.

My usage is to commit very frequently, like whenever I make a non-trivial fix or small refactor, or when something that touches several files compiles cleanly, or passes a unit test. This is several commits per day. It's practically every file save (if you remember filesystems with explicit version support). So my commit history is very noisy.

When I push back to a shared repo, I want the commit history to document what the change is; various false or partial paths are not enlightening (if I planned to follow strategy 'X', found it did work, and backed out and used algorithm 'Y' then that should go in the source as a comment, not in the metadata.

If my check ins were once a day I might not want to lose them. So I'm philosophically aligned with you, but my commits are so high frequency that the merge functions as a low-pass filter.
May also be a generational thing.

Facebook is pretty much where myspace was back in the day on the "hype cycle", where every aunt tillie and whatsnot is on there. Thus you see fewer and fewer young people being active on there, because they used to see Facebook as somewhere they could talk among themselves without parents and whatsnot peeking.
It's normal to cry when viewing something like this, but if you do suspect you may have mental health issues please please go to a doctor to have it checked out. You could be suffering for no good reason. In fact you may not realize the extent you are suffering until you start treatment and realize that you didn't have to feel that way.
NetApp have making good money with custom NAS boxes, complete with their own OS and filesystem, since 1993 or so.
One alternative to donating programming skills to other people's problems is to donate your time to teaching programming through organizations like Girl Develop It.
Apple allows anyone who follows the rules on the App Store.
I'm not too worried about this at this stage. But I agree with you
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This provides much better information!
I just want to say thank you all for your responses. You guys are amazing.
Fascinating that the organisms can remain viable in geo-preservation mode. When growing up in Vegas we used to go swimming in some of the side canyons the lake had filled. And once while swimming we found some gypsum crystals that were like 1:100th scale models of the ones in the cave (I think the largest were about 5" long and maybe an inch in diameter.) we carried a couple of home and for a fairly long time they sat as table decorations. I never even imagined they could have something inside of them like that. Definitely solid horror movie material :-)
Like "Microsoft <3 Linux" and "Microsoft <3 Open Source".

Except that Microsoft used to collect 2 billion dollars in patents from Linux based product vendors. They totally "<3" open source.
That's a misleading map. The majority of NCN routes are just ordinary roads. Just because somebody put a few signs up doesn't make them safer than other similar roads. They're often narrow, overgrown at the sides, and full of potholes. In most cases I'd rather cycle in urban areas. At least there the traffic is slower and more predictable. And the off-road routes are frequently impassible for all but mountain bikes because of mud.
We are using Phoenix and elixir in a small service. Loving it so far. Super fast and organized nicely.
I'll buy preferred convertible equity probably in addition to common stock, so that I'm both an investor and a founder
if (nth === 0n) when nth is never manipulated. Splendid example.
Might have been because of the hashtag, but yeah, it's a bit weird.
Apple stores and transfers all of the apps that make purchases and subscriptions. Trillions upon trillions of bytes.
Trump is doing arms deals with Saudi Arabia for the military industry, a part of the deep state, as we speak.
Yeah, I will say that I downvoted you. Your expectations (source code, that the results would be documented to your satisfaction after a trial of size N=1) seem unreasonable to me, to the extent that I personally think it is downvote worthy. I don't think, "where's the source code," contributes to the site, especially in situations where one would not reasonably expect to have access to it.

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I have definitely seen the pattern where something I say initially gets downvoted, or upvoted, then the reverse happens later. It seems at a minimum that there might be a difference between the populations of people who read a story soon after it's posted and long after it's posted. It wouldn't surprise me if different sorts of comments appeal to these different groups, and that's ignoring the content of replies.

Personally I would suggest not worrying about it too much, and doing your best to make comments that seem good to you. For a long time, I actually had a userscript that eliminated the fading style that gets applied to comments, and also hid karma and points. In some ways, that makes using the site a little less stressful, because you can worry a bit less about what others think.

Edit: this comment is a good example of one that initially received several upvotes, but is now negative. ;)
>There's an enormous amount of nuance involved to sustain a community that won't just devolve into a toxic waste dump that's poison for 99% of the people there.

Is it? I always admired the much-scoffed YouTube as the free-est place to talk on the internet. Where a vegan gay liberal from NY can discuss on the same video with a neo-con Mongolian and a 15-year old hipster from Sweden, an Israeli Jew, an Arab, and a black South African truck driver, and even agree and share experiences, and at worse you just get a few insults thrown and that's it.
The lack of JSON support seems odd. One of the primary use cases for big integers is parsing big integers from another language via an API.

The lack of automatic number coercion seems lazy. I would prefer number approximations and warnings. Do any other primatives throw errors for operators instead of performing type coercion?
I wonder what the frequency of caves like this might be, and how likely they are to ever be found. Are they typically indicated by some evidence or indicators on the surface, or might there be unthinkable quantities scattered all over the globe?
> I dare say that it's too late for even a good replacement to compete with facebook. Google tried while there was still time (and failed).

Google hasn't had a great track record with these things in general. The problem with a lot of Facebook alternatives is that they make a somewhat better Facebook and then hope everyone will switch over. Of course that's going to fail. Sites that succeed have reasons for people to use them even if there aren't mass migrations.

We know that people have a need for social sites other than Facebook. Slack's been successful, so has Discourse. Heck, meetup.com is still going even though by a naive understanding of things Facebook should have subsumed it (it has a much smaller base, and you need to pay something like $140 a year if you want to start a group). A Facebook alternative will eventually catch on, but it's not going to be a site that starts out by trying to mimic Facebook with a few extra bells and whistles attached.
You have to initiate the rate though you can inquire about their budget.

I wouldn't charge separate rates. As soon as you do this, you open yourself up to needless bickering about how much of your time was spent on x vs y. It becomes complicated to separate sessions that are programming intertwined with technical discussion.
It's not about profits, it's about power and control. For decades, even centuries, a few news outlets have been able to control the flow of public discourse. They controlled the Overton Window.

The NYT has lost a lot of control of the Overton Window, for better or worse.
Which direction is the zeitgeist blowing? From my perspective, it seems that there is a real and ongoing erosion of local communities (labor, religious, or otherwise) that are replaced, often times, by a shallow virtual existence. It does not have to be a religion in the conventional sense, just something that attempts to give meaning to the meaningless.
what the hell does "only explains at least 20%" mean?
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Ya the ban on mixing stood out for me too. Javascript and many of its frameworks are too opinionated these days (attempting to govern the way users code) even though that's inherently not in their purview.

Also I didn't see anything about the internal format of these numbers. Normally this shouldn't be a concern, but could affect memory usage.

Giving this proposal a vote of no confidence, even though the need for arbitrary precision is high.
The goal here is to do something constructive with my free time, hone my skills, network, give back to my community, etc.

Good points about disclosures, intellectual property, and never ending support. Makes me a bit weary.
Gopher strikes me as something of a file explorer for the net.
The problem as I see it is when metaprogramming is used laterally or vertically. If code at a higher scope changes code at a lower scope, this makes a lot more sense than the arbitrary and profane directions of mutability that Ruby allows. So, like all things in Ruby, it's a matter of how the tool is used.

To metaprogramming! The cause of -- and solution to -- all of life's problems.
Well, we don't actually know if the device itself is even effective. The placebo effect has a very large effect in Parkinson's treatments due to it being caused by low dopamine (and dopamine is released when you are excited about something).
Also, excessive promotional campaigns can eat into the reputations of the people and brands involved, or even cause a broader loss of trust. For example, Geoff Keighley will probably be forever known as the Dorito Pope because of his over-the-top product placement for Mountain Dew and Doritos, and every video game article, review, Let's Play or shout-out that is seen as excessively positive attracts rumours that the person was paid or otherwise rewarded for doing it.
Yeah, it's unfortunate what happened with Voat. Eventually what happened to Digg will happen to Reddit. Even now people are questioning things like the new profiles and the direction Reddit is taking. I agree, and I've even thought about writing an alternative platform, but I'm worried about the exact same thing with Voat happening.
Thought you'd like to know that my employer blocks sourceforge by policy but let's GitHub through though they're both code sharing platforms. You'll have to change perceptions at the corp level too.
I think the ethical aspect of this is interesting.

Are you allowed to experiment on your own cells? How will this interact with various laws regarding human experimentation.
There's a -- before the nth. Did you miss that?
$99 a year is about as close to free as you can.

And I know exactly what it's about. No one is getting "tips" without providing services or content through the app.
Look up Alpha Shapes.
Interesting, I have syringomyelia (cavity in the spine that presses on the spinal cord), I'm lucky in that on the scale of "I'm fucked" to "I'm asymptomatic" I'm far closer to the latter but one of the side effects is decreased nerve acuity, worse some days than others.
Please don't spark flamewars like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Poorly constructed dwellings got lots of people killed during the 2010 earthquake. It might be bad news to see recovery take shape as structures built without paying attention to safety codes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Haiti_earthquake
The Daily Mail providing better information than the BBC, I never would've guess it.
Not much to add to the wide variety of insightful comments here, but if you'd like an American comparison, Madrid would be more NYC (busy, finance, big co's HQs, cultural offer) and Barcelona would be California (sea, weather, hotter startup scene, more laid back).

Both are awesome and whatever you choose you can't go wrong.
That's just sad.
it's a tool in the toolbox - just occasionally it can give a really elegant solution to something that would otherwise be spaghetti

like many other features on the fringe of a language it's important to understand when it's appropriate to use

also - there are few better buzzes writing code than doing something neat, skinny and appropriate with those Ruby features