skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Experienced people don't necessarily point out bullshit though. Often times, we just keep quiet and watch the train wreck :)
Echo chambers obviously happen even on sites with larger userbases (follower groups on Twitter, particular subreddits, etc.).

I don't know if having walls built into the system helps or hurts. Or does nothing at all. Ultimately, I don't think it matters since people are going to organize into some form of group no matter what.
Because the PPU and other such sprite-based hardware bares no resemblance to a modern graphical pipeline?

It'd be more educational to just provide a framebuffer connected to a displayport controller and teach people software rendering.
Making the internet feel like home again would involve burning down Facebook and reanimating the corpse of NNTP.

Why yes, I do feel old and cranky today.
Try not to assault anyone in the stalls?

OK, the above is slightly tongue in cheek, I know, but this seems like a fairly weak "what if". We're primarily talking about confrontational incidents of conflict where there's issues of trust around accounts of events. The majority of these incidents will hopefully not take place during toilet breaks.
Does Canola Oil Harm Your Health?
Bubble? What bubble?
Did you know how many people are killed each year in Xinjiang? Because of what western media called "understandable opposition from oppressed descendants of the CCP", where the killed are all just innocent people?

OK tell me, what the hell the local government should do to stop the terrorism attack?!
More like a bulb.
new DE
True, but the question was about people who oppose gay marriage, not people who think gays should be exterminated.
new linux DE
The behaviour you describe is AFAIR illegal in Germany.
Bicycle lane is exactly that, just another lane. And it has right of way. If you need to turn, you wait until you're free to do it.
gold rush at its finest
Awesome technology update today
I've been to Portland, and I live in SOMA. SOMA and the Mission in SF are way worse than Portland. The article author has no idea how much more anarchy American progressives are capable of countenancing. SF is faaaaaar worse than Portland, and there really isn't any political backlash against city officials. The teenagers in the Bay Area call SOMA "pooptown". When I first came to learn of this nickname, I was about to protest as a resident, because I thought it was offensive and didn't reflect the neighborhood, with all its restaurants and fancy employers. But then I thought about it some more. And I remembered how on my first day at work in 2014, I stepped in human feces and tracked it over the office. And I thought these kids are visiting the neighborhood from other, cleaner suburbs. It makes sense that their primary impression of the neighborhood would be the large amount of human feces everywhere ... which would really stand out to them. As residents, we just walk around the poo, and don't think much about it.

Anyway, I have to agree, we do live in a crime-ridden, feces smeared neighborhood.

But there's a couple of positives too. First, the crime is almost all non-violent. And, second, the city cleans up the poo very quickly, if you call them.
I didn't really feel like the benefits of packages like Serverless and Apex were worth it for me, as they're not solving that big of a problem, and you'd replace it with lock-in to even less mature products. That said, the current lock-in is not that bad, just good to be aware of and keep an eye on.

I hope that the annoyances are temporary indeed, but that doesn't buy me anything today :) That said, I think for almost all my drawbacks it holds true that they're likely to grow less and less significant, so if serverless is not worth it for you today, it's still worth it to keep an eye on.

Edit: I should perhaps also link the shim that I'm using. It's slightly longer, also specific to my relatively loose configuration of API Gateway, and also simulates S3's client-side file upload functionality. As you can see, it's really not that bad: https://gitlab.com/Flockademic/Flockademic/blob/dev/app.ts
>I completely agree. What I'm was pushing back at is the blanket "ad revenue model is bad and ruining the net" espoused by my parent, as opposed to the more nuanced view presented by the article and their parent.

They're not entirely wrong, though. The ad revenue model is infeasible in my opinion first because the web doesn't provide a stable platform for it (can't guarantee viewership, can't reliably track engagement) and second because businesses approached the web unwilling or unable to apply any ethical standards to their advertising (as exist in other media) to the point that their ads are now often indistinguishable from malware.

Ad blocking on the web is really not much different than DVRs, or turning the radio volume down during ads, or any number of other ways users can avoid advertising by old media which don't directly affect revenue. But those media determine the value of advertising based on extrapolation by survey, using companies like Arbitron and Nielsen, so people tuning away don't actually matter. AFAIK, on the web, every impression matters and margins are razor thin, so the old media model breaks down when people choose to block ads, as they do in droves.

>Once it's more feasible for sites to load ads "natively" mixed with their own content, that will become more widespread and harder to block.

I think I've started to see this on Youtube. As a response to their widespread demonetization policies, content creators are starting to do more stand-up ads directly in their video, like the early days of television when they would sometimes just turn the camera around and talk about the sponsors for a few minutes. Oddly, I find that less annoying than commercial-style ads. It's often less intrusive, and can even be entertaining. As long as there's no deception involved, then I don't think it's a problem.

But most of the web isn't video, so I think paywalls or some kind of subscription service will probably work, although I suspect a lot of sites dying for lack of revenue is going to be inevitable. Of course, companies could always just see the web as one more media format and not put all of their eggs in that particular basket.
Do labor unions have an extremely combative relationship with business in Europe, and have they been traditionally associated with city/state corruption and criminal families? If not, I'd say there are cultural differences here that can't be simply explained by 'unions are big'
A tulip of our times...

History never repeats but it rhymes

For people who missed out on the .com bubble don’t miss this out. It’s a good time to experience what a bubble looks like so you can detect one in the future...

Remember this buffet quote
It’s better to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful
Researchers Made Google's Image Recognition AI Mistake a Rifle for a Helicopter
It is important to consider the lives of the homeless, but if mass homelessness is causing societal disruption to the point that economic development stops and causes bright flight and capital flight, wouldn't that just amplify homelessness in the long run?
the "odd movement" isn't something a car driver has to deal with at all. As a driver you turn right, and after completing the turn you're faced with a cycle path where a simple look to the right will be plenty to check for cyclists. It's basically splitting a complex intersection into two simpler intersections.
All of your given examples are false equivalencies, as they assume that the desire to control the disenfranchised groups is the same as the real harm done to the disenfranchised group as a result of being controlled.

A person can change beliefs about how you should treat gay people. A gay person cannot change their homosexuality to accommodate anti-gay people, and trying actively harms them.

" As long as my opinions do not measurably affect my behaviour within a specific community, then it is not relevant."

I am arguing that, in fact, opinions supporting the disenfranchisement of minorities affects the behavior of a specific community. Please see my previous example that someone who believes black people are inherently violent is more likely to view a black coworker asserting that a technical spec is stupid differently than a white coworker doing the same. Also see my previous example that a person who believes women are less capable in code is more likely to overlook achievements of their women coworkers.

I don't understand what you mean by my logic excluded other groups, and then you lumped in inherent traits (race, sexuality) with beliefs about how governments should form (communism). Race, sexuality, and gender are not leanings or passions. They are things that people cannot change about themselves, things that they cannot avoid the brunt of any oppressive belief or behavior regarding.
Oh interesting, thanks for that. It puts up a bit of a barrier to entry... ooh, and suddenly things look a little bit complicated, as you have to manage your collateral levels optimally to get a good score and be an attractive storage option.
I guess the cynic in me finds it predictable that most Agile shops (at least IME) would be doing Scrum and not something like Kanban, even though it largely works against the supposed core values of Agile.
New York City operates on an 84 billion dollar budget. The beast is not starving.
We don't even see this kind of stuff in a regular bubble. I think this is something new, either Bubble 2.0 or The New Dawn.

I lived through the IT bubble and it mostly went unnoticed among me, my friends and family. Literally everyone talks about Bitcoin though. I'm seriously thinking this is a first for humanity and the consequences will be extreme regardless of crash or paradigm shift. It's one for the history books for sure.
The only reason this made any news is because it's tied to blockchain. Penny type stocks do this pump and dump scheme all the time with whatever is hot. Biotech was big for awhile, then pot, and now blockchain (and I'm sure I missed a few in there).
(Effective) opposition to gay marriage has real consequences though too. Just less serious ones.
>Can someone explain this difference? Is it just anti-union propaganda that makes them look bad in the US?

Nobody does propaganda quite as well as Americans.
Armies of chickens today would be something like ARM server chips, which have been touted for a long time but have perpetually stalled out precisely because replacing one powerful core with a dozen weak cores doesn't work. Even for commodity tasks, but especially when you throw the need for interconnect scalability into the mix.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that a large system is implicitly using weaker processors. They're as powerful as we can make them, some tasks just need a lot of them.
I think this is a great point.

As I put in a different comment, people are naturally going to organize into groups no matter what. You also can't realistically expose yourself to everything (nor would you want to). So there has to be something that decides what you're going to see.

At the end of the day, as faulty as they are, I'd rather have individuals deciding for themselves what they want to see rather than profit-oriented groups that thrive on the misery of their users.
When I first read the title I thought, "How did an Onion article make it to the front page of HN?"
"Never heard of the term 'rickrolling" before." - one of the comments on the page.

The fact that there are college students that haven't heard the term rickrolling before makes me feel super old.
No, it is an issue. In any case, a new signal system would allow the subway to recover from a sick passenger much quicker, and allow it to run many more trains per hour than it currently does, which would cover many sins. The decrepit signals are a far bigger issue, and a far more solvable one (how do you solve sick passengers?)
What you are saying is very different than the person’s comments I was referring to.

One can be blunt without displaying a trashy attitude, and it doesn’t take that much effort. Most people tell me that I am the most blunt person they know in that I will give some of the most honest observations whether they are uncomfortable or not. I also have a reputation of being one of the nicest people many people know, never needing to put down one group of people to appease another, probably one of the biggest engineering productivity killers one can create (negative politics, cliques, etc.). Engineers often will vent to me (coworkers, teammates, people from various programming communities, etc.), and I lend a sympathetic ear to all, which in turn builds trust, comraderie, and helps use my knowledge & experiences to help guide responses & resolutions to situations generating stress to a healthy outcome for all.

It shouldn’t take much effort to treat each person with respect & humanity - if it does, one should look inwards at maybe something being wrong with oneself than to other people, and work on culling out the toxic attitude.
Is this the result of algorithm trading?
The first part is a separate issue, that of forgiveness and redemption, and if they should be allowed in a society. The second part is about if judgements about smaller issues should spread beyond their original contexts.

I think for most people, the lines are determined by the magnitude of the crime, but where those lines lie is a personal and communal preference. At what point is an injustice so great that it cannot be overlooked even in different contexts? And at what point is it so great that it cannot ever be redeemed in thr future?
Noted and updated! Thanks for the tip.
I am not sure how you were able to communicate if you could not write or speak directions, but I am impressed! I don't think it wasn't possible to do before Uber in general, just for my case.
How does the brain become inflamed in the first place? Couldn't find that in their write-up.
Yes, but that’s not relevant to the conversation at hand. No one is saying it’s reasonable to have a CEO who has announced a campaign to eradicate all homosexuality, in an official or unofficial capacity. They’re saying that, when not so extreme as violence, and not expressed in an official capacity, privately held controversial opinions shouldn’t be used to assess an employee’s eligibility for a job.
Noticed I said Peaceful Collaboration.

What part of "people should be exterminated" is peaceful to you?

"people should be exterminated" largely happens when people stop collaboration, isolate themselves from "the others" in a mono-culture of extremism.
The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

(attributed to John M. Keynes)
Oh yeah, we need a purely unfiltered web to prevent echo chambers forming! Let's see what that turns out like—oh that's right, 4chan. (Do we really need more 4chans?)

It looks like even with an unfiltered world, echo chambers still evolve. It's the nature of communities.
As long as my opinions do not measurably affect my behaviour within a specific community, then it is not relevant.

The point is that people's opinions always affect their behaviour (very often unconsciously).
How is this relevant? How does this fact invalidate any of what the article stated?
"It's different this time!" - Someone in every bubble.
Did satirists just give up? This can't be real life.
Do you have a good source for levels of individual liberty by country? Would be pretty cool to see how some places stack up
When I lived in Amsterdam, the police always had campaigns at the start of winter to enforce bike lights. For a few days, police at major intersections would first remind and then fine cyclists who didn't have lights or whose batteries had gone flat over the summer. Very visible and hard to avoid. By the end of that week, nearly everyone was properly illuminated for the winter.
>> less experienced devs will (on the average) cause more bugs and worse code structure - in the long run this causes a ton of extra work.

In the last five years or so, I've done contract work at several large corporations. In every single one, they didn't care about defects or code structure. They just wanted to ship an application in a very short period of time.

When I asked about the same thing you pointed out, the response was the same, "We don't care about defects once it's released, and we don't care what the code looks like. It needs to work well for our end users, nothing else. Besides, in 6 months, we're going to redesign and rebuild it anyways."

It just seems nobody cares about long term maintenance, and likewise, they don't care much about the code or the amount of defects that code is generating. Pretty maddening when you think about it. Nobody cares about quality anymore.
It's written by an Ayn Randian conservative think tank, so I wouldn't be that surprised by the tone.
> Your comment assumes that relocation 1) is bad, and 2) is the only step being taken to fight homelessness.

Relocation does not solve the problem, it simply moves it. Yes, technically, mass-relocation of homeless could solve Portland's homeless problem, but it simply shifts the burden somewhere else.

Second, the article specifically mentions the mayor's inaction to utilize the police and to enforce a ban on tent cities. It doesn't talk about shelters, mental health facilities, drug rehab, or counseling.
Overblown hyperbolic statements don't advance your cause. I believe everyone should have the right to join a union, but the payroll of the MTA is very high with over 21,000 employees making upwards of $100,000 [1] in a recent year. This level of payroll hurts the MTA's ability to fund other priorities. I'm not saying mismanagement and misplaced funding don't contribute too, but that's a lot of 6-figure workers.

1: https://nypost.com/2015/07/16/heres-why-your-subway-fare-kee...
Libuv supports windows and in some ways only exists because windows support is needed; on Unix/Linux where Node started, libev was sufficient; libuv was created to facilitate the windows port of node - though it is now standing in its own right.
Many big channels show black screens with the sound on if you are using adblockplus, but who cares about such channels?!
The Ageless VR Blockchain Company!
I have never seen a theorem prover applied to even basic 100-year-old results in Algebraic Number Theory. I think you underestimate the difficulty in translating a mathematical idea into a format a computer program can understand.
You can recognize that you're biased and still be biased.
The foliage on the horizon looks like video-game flat sprites to me, with heavy blur to make up for lack of detail.

The rear of the truck is lit up in a way that is only achievable with flash, reflectors or other illumination tricks, but it is achievable.
We better pay attention to his "too far in claims" before it becomes too far in damage and deaths.
You could probably save on reusing the video footage of another parking lot, instead of using actors.
Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life
Page doesn't load... maybe they need a server...
I actually have one of these on my desk at work, showing the youngsters what we did "back in the day." I made it when I was in college in the 80s (yeah, I'm old fart).

My first version was built with the classic 556 timer chip - you can still find schematics of this on the web.

The one on my desk is my second version. I did the circuitry, taped out and etched the circuit board, and assembled it in a small box. I have long ago lost the schematic so I need to reverse engineer it.

Chips:

* 4049 inverter - used as a 6KHz oscillator and probably the photoresistor sensor buffer for gating.

* (2) 4020 2^14 dividers => divide by 2^28: 6000 / 2^28 =~ 12 hours

* Battery and jumper.

12 hours before activation time (say 3:00PM), you connect power with the jumper. Sometime in the evening, you visit the victim and leave the "present." In the middle of the night it activates.

I'm a much nicer person nowadays. ;-)
What is even the point of posting a paywalled article to a forum like this? Anyone who puts content behind a login does not wish it to be linked in an open forum. Period. If the WSJ wants their articles shared and discussed, they should build and maintain their own HN behind that paywall and keep it there.

Your suggestion of going via FB makes things even worse. Now there are two walls involved in keeping others out.

Or am supposed to keep a plethora of logins at hand just to participate in an open community?
Same here - I got my first issue about 4 months late, and then never received the 2nd one, then the 3rd magically showed up on time.
Those are interesting techniques. In my case I was in a foreign country and did not have a map or hotel reservation. I also did not know about local taxi companies. My visit was not exactly well-planned.
maybe you're in a different age group/peer group compared to when you lived thru the IT bubble?
someone else going thru the 2000s IT bubble may have said that too...
Why not? Even the most toxic echo chambers are a type of culture, just one many people here look down on.
I think this is likely not “small companies chasing a fad” but rather “penny stock promoters doing their usual thing: grab a listed entity for five figures then run a boiler room, citing the most recent successful boiler room.”
> Relocation does not solve the problem, it simply moves it.

Why didn't you argue against my point that the cost of living varies massively between regions? Why shouldn't we send homeless to a lower cost of living area?
There's a middle ground, and it's one we have to seek for ourselves. As someone who leans left, I enjoy reading the opinions of those leaning right (or Americans leaning left, which is still quite right for me as a European). This does give me a rather diverse worldview.

That said, there's also a lot of people I really don't care to hear about, because my time and attention is limited and the odds that they're going to be an enrichment of my world view is really low.

(Oh, and also: the only reason for me to downvote would be due to the remark about receiving downvotes. Next time, you might want to consider whether that remark adds to the conversation.)
Members of a community should be allowed to hate each other, so long as they can leave each other alone. Worst case, they might have to be separated, with other community members acting as intermediaries.

It is simply not practical to exclude a community member whenever they have a passionate disagreement with someone else, even if that topic is highly relevant to the community, because every two people are going to find something they disagree about.

Part of being a mature person is being able to work together with someone you'd rather not interact with, because you realize that in that moment, your interests are partially aligned.
Still waiting for the venomous cows to evolve in AUS...
> The Mozilla CEO fired for his personal donation in opposition to gay marriage.

He wasn't fired, he stepped down.
A large part of a Bloomberg terminal value is the status. It's not like the UX is what's blocking evolution of the terminal.
Gibbs sampling in very simple words
This one is crazier than the dot com bubble by far. I recently went around to lots of places and asked if anyone was actually using an ICO backed system. Crickets. People used the dot coms. Even most of the really bad ones had utility.

The housing bubble built actual houses. Even tulips grow.

This might be the first bubble with zero utility. Seems like the reductio ad absurdium of financial capitalism.

The irony is that many who started Bitcoin wanted to get away from the whole financial debt based bubble driven system. Bitcoin is becoming what it sought to escape.

I have used Bitcoin a few times to do actual transfers, but the bubble has ruined its utility.

Edit: yes there are some good ideas in the ICO space, but with a few exceptions most of the non-scam projects have been unable to actually ship working software that non-nerds can use. Even for those I don't know a single person using them for actual work or anything actually serious.
Yep, there is! Open the menu and click "Calendar".