skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I submit to you, a subreddit I've found in the past week that is absolutely horrifying, and I think stands quite counter to the "variety of opinions" model you put forth.

I'm not familiar with that subreddit, but I think I'm familiar with the mindset you are describing. Nothing in your description seems to set it apart from the "variety of opinions" model the GP proposed. Other than your feeling that these ideas are "beyond the pale"[1] what exactly differentiates this subreddit from being a group of people whose ideas you disagree with?

These people follow an anonymous online poster named "Q" who posts vague, short posts on some other site

I thought the comments by Occams-shaving-cream in this thread was a good take on Q: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/82qpk5/in_case_.... He suggests that Q is essentially a marketing team within Trump's campaign, casting out ideas and seeing what resonates with potential voters. He hypothesizes that it may not have started this way, but given the obvious utility of having such a mechanism, it likely has become such by now.

I don't have an answer, but surely there must be a level of fomenting anger and general mob action that deserves some sort of modulation/regulation.

Maybe, but it seems possible that attempts to censor discussion may paradoxically fan the flames. Given a group of paranoid conspiracy theorists who believe that the "powers that be" want to silence them, "modulation" seems equally likely to make them believe even more fervently that there are powers who do not want certain knowledge to be known. And they're right! The difference would seem to be only that they believe this knowledge is truth, and you believe it is a dangerous lie. Public discussion seems like the best way we have of resolving this dispute. Trying to stamp out an idea like this seems more likely to produce violence than to prevent it.

[1] Did you know that this phrase originally meant "outside the reach of English law": https://englishhistoryauthors.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-origi...
Minorities and women are subject to nonstop violent comments.

God help you if you are a moderator and a member of a popular community and known as member of one of those groups.

And its even worse if you are a mod, a minority member, AND a mod of a minority community.

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The best way to think of social media/reddit is a beautiful cleave sort process.

People form a community, and then they have to deal with attackers or outsiders. Eventually a drama even occurs and people get expelled.

These people who are expelled form their own community and this process continues ad infinitum.

On top of it, some people will independently create subs just to target you, or create subs that inadvertently target you (from the old forum days - nazi forums would actively harass Jewish forums.)
This is awesome! Do you have plans to integrate with canvas.js?
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I mean, kind of the point is to tell people who demand CoC's to piss off. So... sort of?
> Poisoning a conversation is a thing. And if you've participated in online discussions I don't see how you can honestly say it doesn't exist.

"Poisioning a conversation" is a bad metaphor that conflates two different things which do exist, but need to be dealt with in two different ways:

1. Baiting: trying to say something horrible to anger people for their own entertainment. The proper response to this is simply to ignore it: if you aren't entertaining the baiter gets bored.

2. People saying things they actually believe, even when those things are genuinely terrible. Responding to these people prevents their beliefs from going unchallenged, and is the only way we can possibly hope to change those beliefs.

If it were just group 1, you could just ban those people and that would be fine. But the problem with that is that sometimes people are actually in group 2, and engaging those people and correcting them is part of arriving at shared values in a functioning society. The tendency to accuse people who are genuinely expressing their (awful) opinions of simply baiting so that you can ban them is problematic for open discussion.

> Sometimes you just have to shut the trolls up so you can talk about what you want to talk about.

Contrary to what you're saying, I think it's very possible to have conversations about what you want to talk about while letting these people say what they want: isn't this what comment trees exist for? On Reddit and HN, person A and person B want to have a conversation, person C can say whatever they want, and it doesn't affect the continuity of A and B's conversation as long as A and B respond directly to each other's posts, and not to C's posts. Every platform I know of supports private messages.

Underlying what you're saying is an assumption I'd like you to reconsider: why is it that you think that a public conversation in a forum where anyone can respond should only be about what you want it to be about?
I think I am with Musk on this form of transportation. Much too loud for even a small number of people to use them without high noise pollution in any urban area. Helicopters and planes are bad enough and they are quite rare. Even existing freeways are quite noisy. Bring on the tunnels. Unless we can get some kind of anti-gravity or super noise cancellation, I hope these flying cars don't become popular.
If the one-time pad were public somewhere, how hard would it be to find it? Say, if it were indexed by Google?
I just don’t think saying “people shouldn’t let themselves be bothered” is at all a viable solution. Automated troll detection is clearly a hard problem, but I’m not convinced it’s unsolveable. Whereas getting people to not be bothered is, unless people start living forever and have no offspring, by its very nature a commitment without end.
Are there any robust results about the potential long term health effects of artificial sweeteners yet? Last time I looked I had a hard time finding conclusive takeaways.
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Great! Sorry for the harsh tone, it's good that you're working on it.
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Humans Prospered During What Should Have Been a Devastating Volcanic Winter
Presumably after you mix up the cube, you can put it in the machine in any orientation, can’t you?
Newly-released DoD video purportedly shows Navy pilot's encounter with UFO
The only consequence you should get for being a dick should be people realizing it and not taking you seriously. IMO, that's one of the things you shouldn't really outsource, unless you want someone else to pretty much decide everything for you.
Only 8 months ago they were showing just this little sit-on multi copter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54ASH0kMSCM

I wonder how long they've been working on Cora
Same. I ended up buying the Thinkpad 25th anniversary edition, which got me the classic keyboard and reasonably new guts. They're still available if you want, although the DPI isn't as high as you'd like.

https://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-t-se...
This might help, somewhat, but it also leads to other hacks -- account farming to increase the number of votes on user has, say, or creating voting brigades.

My view on moderation systems is that you need to think very carefully about what the intended result of the moderation system is.

My read: that moderation is used to gather information about quality. And you've got to consider whether or not the contributed signal is actually useful or accurate information. The case of accurate-but-unpopular posts or comments being downvoted (or incorrect-but-popular upvoted) is a frequently encountered one. One possible view is that rather than gathering all available input, the inputs be considered relative to actual value.

If you're sick with some rare condition, or have some specialised piece of equipment that needs repair, you're far better off going to the specific expert(s) within a field for advice than asking randomly across the population (assuming that expertise is itself merited, which raises ... other interesting questions, the history of both medicine and engineering having some interesting examples).

Generally, crowdsourcing should be better than no information, but is not assured to be better than a sufficiently qualified expert opinion. Which means that if you do get such experts offering their opinion, you'd prefer those.

There's also the raw voting and ranking problem, the question of dimensions of assessment (e.g., accuracy, quality, readability, humour, etc.), which might want to be considered.

It's a complex, but not intractable, field.
One of the problems with rewarding optimization is that at the time of game design, the designers don't know how well the problems can be solved. They'd have difficulty balancing it, and there would end up being arbitrary cutoffs for "optimized enough."
So no signed binaries? The signature portion will obviously not be reproducible by anyone but the original signer. I believe that is all the App Store process does, sign with a key issued by Apple, but it might be more complex.
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They stopped because it was too hot, 180 Celsius.

The rock was more like plastic than rock.
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Speaking of radical TV from 1967, this was pretty radical, and still worth watching:

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/this_is_marshall_mcluhan

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9404250
If you own all the copyrights to the source of the app you are linking on Github, then you can release it on the Appstore effectively under a different license for that version. If you don't own all the code, then are possibly violating someone else's license.
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Elon Musk invents the bus stop
I agree with you on this as a lifelong musician and improvisor. It isn't the math of grammar we think about when conversing to convey meaning and style. We think about what we want to say and how we want to say it. We listen and build something together just like we do in conversation. There is a kind of obsession among some jazz players with spirituality though, it is true. If you are the sort of person who likes that kind of thing, you probably like prose writing like this as well. You certainly don't need to analyze all mathematical relations and artifacts to improvise masterfully. In my experience, the more time a player focuses on this type of thing, the less energy they put into actually having something to express. Or perhaps it has something to do with a fear that they will find they have nothing to say, so they avoid that challenge by making technique and mathematical-theoretical relationships the focus of their practice. The only composer I can think of who managed to be obsessed with the math of things while actually using them to create a unique language through which he expessed ideas,style, and narrative was Messaien. (in his modes studies and bird calls) I do understand why many jazz musicians reached for spirituality and really complex mathematical relationships in modes of improvisation:it's because they were not granted the legitamacy and respect they deserve (and craved, many of them, like Monk, for example) from so-called arbiters of "high culture". If what they were doing could be serious and difficult and inscrutable except with hours and hours of thinky labor, they felt it might elevate them.Of course this was totally not needed and what they (monk especially) were creating had a laguage and history of its own that was in many ways more innovative and culturally relevant than that what they sought to be included with. Of course that's easy to say now.It must have been frustrating, like for Ornette.
They say getting into Google is a lot more tough than getting into Harvard.

How true is that?
Nice to see a local East Lansing boy (Page) behind this project;<).

I know the engineers would throw a fit but I'd find a way to add a parachute to this craft similar to Cirrus. As of 2016 the parachute has saved 131 lives.

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2016/july/24/ho...
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Markle Trees are a good data structure whenever you want to securely represent an ordered set very compactly, with fairly compact proofs of set membership.

If you're stuck with an architecture that depends on certificate revocation lists, I think Micali's representation of the CRL is both efficient and secure. On the other hand, blacklists (such as certificate revocation lists) are generally easier to exploit than whitelists (such as the published lists used in certificate transparency).

I think we all would have been better off with an infrastructure that mandated certificate transparency, where a Merkle Tree of all valid certificates was published periodically by each Certificate Authority. In other words, keep a cryptographically verifiable whitelist instead of a cryptographically verifiable blacklist. For scalability, you'd want to have the published list be a Merkle Tree root of valid certificates, plus a signed tree hash of a Bloom filter of all of the certificates revoked in (say) the past month. From a signed Merkle Tree root, each site can create a compact proof of validity for its certificate of log(N) size. Using the signed Bloom filter, the site can keep reusing that proof for (say) a month. You'd want the Bloom filter to use a keyed hash function so that a collision in one publishing wouldn't be likely to keep colliding for the whole month.
Personally, I think the causality here is flipped.

People by default will be excited about stuff that's "good news". But the community is pretty big, so there will usually be a set of people that see an issue, and comment on it.

So in the end many things coming through will be negative or cynical. The fact that people tend not to just comment "neat" but will write the paragraphs of research saying how X is wrong doesn't help in the impressions. But for things like research papers, most people tend to just comment on the contents.

I think the reason so few companies on HN have this reputation is because many of these companies are problematic. Google is the symbol of ad networks. Facebook does a bunch of privacy-busting stuff. Amazon exploits many workers on the lower end and it's not certain that their monopoly will be benificial in the future.

If anything I think it's an indictment on the kind of company that succeeds in SV (and, well, capitalism). I think we all remember old "do no evil" Google financing a bunch of awesome stuff. And when they turned out to be like every other company.... well that sucks.

Inversely loads of smaller businesses tend to get a lot of good press on this website, because people can see the passion and the "not about quarterly revenue" attitude.
Speak for yourself. Trump acts almost entirely on impulse which is close enough to random.

In fact, he described his own thought processes perfectly in the quote: "I don't stand by anything." [1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/05/...
I would think there is a bit of a difference when the vehicle can convert from a car to a train by just merging into an existing stream of traffic in seconds. Multi model is nothing like that. Unloading a ship to a train takes days and unloading a train to trucks is also a full day activity.

"subways that run on roads".

Not sure what you mean here. Underground tunnels that have trains that have rubber tires instead of tracks like the Paris RER? Or trolley cars on rails that come out of the underground(the subway) and then run on the surface (a trolley).

The closest I've seen to the Musk idea is in Seattle where the buses go underground in downtown, but can go on the road network everywhere else.
Heinz mayonnaise, at least where I live (outside of the US) contains an ungodly amount of sugar, it is the second ingredient, and makes it properly disgusting.
Okay but what does one actually do to make the community more 'diverse and welcoming'? What is preventing a particular person from contributing to the project?

Are contributions currently being rejected based on personal traits?

I think the answer to this question would help me a lot in understanding any of this.
It's weird that this pull request was never accepted by gifsicle.

https://github.com/kohler/gifsicle/pull/16

Also check out his other high-quality GIF encoder project https://gif.ski/

Older HN submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15730018
In my opinion, it is not the mission of universities to prepare students for jobs. Universities are research institutions that prepare students for research. That's why all professors have to do research. Vocational schools exist for the purpose of job training. Big companies can also train their own workers.
There are many axes along which a community can be non-inclusive. I will always remember being made fun of in #gentoo for using Haskell. (Although I can not argue with the general guidance to install Gentoo.)

Once you see that worthy men can be made to feel unwelcome, merely due to their choice of programming language, it makes one wonder if other worthy people do not feel unwelcome when they are treated dismissively in some other way, as by by referring to every one as “men” indifferently.
Thought Java ME stands for Java Micro Edition
Where can I get a full PDF version of this book?

Really wanna read this!

Edit → Got it! The links there are PDFs to each chapter. I can download them individually and create a book :) Thanks all.
Honestly asking - surely this isn't something that the United States would seriously consider in this day and age, is it?
People attribute to malice what is best attributed to entropy

The old reddit, allowed actual pedophiles to describe their issues in ask reddit threads.

Theres even a dark ama where a relation which would make people ill, was discussed.

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Unfortunately what social media is exposing, is weaknesses in how human beings agglomerate.

If someone makes a forum for dead baby jokes - distasteful to many, but not harmful in private - it eventually attracts people who think that dead baby jokes are the norm.

Or in worse terms - a sub for making offcolor jokes soon gets overrun by people who think off color jokes are not a risque deviation from normal behavior, but is actually normal behavior.

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On top of this, the internet and social communities are extremely low on contextual information - which is critical for most people to understand a conversation in real life.

This means that the only way someone can know what you mean when you are being vague, is if you make an constant effort for tonal and idea accuracy in your comments.

Obviously this is challenging, leading to a cascade of misunderstandings, which only serve to polarize groups more.

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Theres a lot of research being done on how people behave online, and its just a grim picture.

How Community Feedback Shapes User Behavior (https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.1429)

The spreading of misinformation online( http://www.pnas.org/content/113/3/554.full)

The effect of the ban on hate subs on reddit (http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf)
This comment breaks the HN guidelines. Would you please read them and keep this kind of thing off this site in the future? We're hoping not to go up in flames like so much of the internet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The clear separation between information and entertainment is BRILLIANTLY said. Seems straightforward but it's really important. Why is Twitter, a cesspool of memes, rap, sports, and kardashians mostly used by kids under 25 the primary means of breaking stories? Why is so much news on there? Anytime profitability, entertainment, short attention spans and news all get entwined, the resulting outcome is clear.

Facebook, Reddit, twitter, Snapchat have all started for entertainment and switched to catchbyte reaction/outrage culture news and normal news has turned into a mess as well.

I say regulations wiping trending news feed off Facebook, twitter and Snapchat is a start. Perhaps funding to any group that meets set in stone criteria regardless of political affiliation gets some federal funding to make up for the cost of making real journalism. That journalism must be fact checked and we hold them accountable.

People are desensitized to everything now and when shocking news is made every 15 minutes and the world is so connected we become numb to so much and that is incredibly dangerous
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I just checked Hebei on iqicn.org, and it’s polution level is around 500. Twice the level of Beijing. Holy Molly.
I mean preparing for violent insurrection that they believe is about to be started by someone else. I don't think they are planning to start it. So many of the posts are alluding to events that are imminent. My fear is not that the logical progression of this group is a pre planned and executed terror attack of some kind, but that they are being radicalized, and are not far off from a mob of Manchurian candidates. Perhaps thats a very loaded and hyperbolic phrase, but consider this: imagine a hypothetical situation where Donald Trump resigns, or is impeached, or for whatever reason leaves office on a day other than Jan 20, 2021 or Jan 20, 2025. The mass demonstrations that would inevitably ensue would be powder kegs. I don't think its hyperbole to say that those protests could quickly devolve into mob violence on a large scale. This subreddit is essentially prepping people for that day, and like a doomsday cult, insinuating that the day is coming very soon.
Yep, thanks! The installation instructions is in the works. I might need to remove the "no manual needed" part :)
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Please don't respond to a hostile comment with another hostile comment. That just makes this place worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Okay, I guess in mathematical terms a better way to express the whole thing would be in terms of two hash functions:

h_leaf(leaf) which takes a leaf.

h_branch(branch_left, branch_right) which takes the two branches.

The important point being that one should not be able to find a leaf such that h_leaf(leaf) = h_branch(branch_left, branch_right) for any branch_left, branch_right.

Prefixes versus suffixes are just implementation details of the hash functions (i.e. h_leaf(x) = "\00" + sha256(x), h_branch(x,y) = "\01" + sha256(x + y) would also work).
Personal attacks are not allowed on HN, regardless of how wrong someone may be. Would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here?
What about electric propeller motors though? Aren’t they much quieter? If you could get the noise close to that of a glider then the only other pollution you’d have to worry about is visual.

Then we’d need to start investing in active cloaking methods :)
> Or we could do loans with repayment based on post-education income

The US already does this for federal loans, though it's not the default option, and the servicer (Navient) has been accused of actively steering borrowers away from the option, because it hurts the value of the loan-backed securities that Navient sells.
Reminds me of the art used in yoshi story. Awesome!