skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course not. And its arguable that Reddit is more like a crowded theatre and not a public place; thus hollering 'fire!' or trolling racistly not acceptable/safe.

But its also true we should hold even private organizations to some standard, and supporting free speech in principle is a core American value.

In the end I guess I'm on the side of "too little friction there; too likely to incide a riot" for these public forums. I come down on the side of some kind of moderator.
I like Elon Musk. A lot. But it's sick how it just became the new standard when referring to "genius" or worse "perfect being". He did not start Tesla. Ditto Solar City. Actually, I'd say he intentionally pushed out the former founder and CEO of Tesla. Read the story :-). He "only" started Space X.
I'll take a counter view here.

Ember shines best when building very UI rich, complex front end apps. Not apps that need to work on shitty connections or devices. Apps you would use from your office in NY or Toronto.

But the sad fact is that there just aren't that many frontend apps out there, relatively speaking. Ember is hard to learn because you need to learn a lot to get things done, and most people building something simple are lazy. By the time their project is a huge mess they're already locked in. Take HN for instance, the tech powering it is dead simple. It doesn't need to be giant frontend app.

Ember is a really solid framework that I love that is never going away, but it isn't for everyone and that is ok. Ember devs make a higher salary because they generally need to know more and the apps are more maintainable and generally run by pro dev shops, but it's not for everyone.

One thing I think that could really help Ember is a version of Rails or some other backend that required less mucking around to get everything working. It's such a chore to fully follow JSON API v1.1. But relation links and cursor based pagination are great with tools like Ember Data, so it's worth the effort.
Android is true Linux. The FSF wants people to use the term "GNU/Linux" for a reason.
It looks like within the past 8 months or so that Facebook has changed to format of their data dumps to not truncate messages, as their previous data dumps were previously structured as one giant messages.htm file which would be difficult to parse and seems like it had missing data for certain cases.
Seems offline atm. The archive.org version renders ok though:

https://web.archive.org/web/20171029180947/http://www.cleari...
How to Waste Money Properly – A Guide to Collecting Video Games
> Good news for us, though, is job security. The resulting complexity helps us, at least in one way.

I don't think I despise an incentive as much as this one, even if it is a natural side-effect, not intentional. It's the reason why large and top-heavy bureaucratic organizations end up being a net-negative as a result of their structure. Despite their well intentioned attempts at 'fixing' the bumps in the road that natural free flowing systems generate, with top-down control and extreme risk management.

Instead of fostering common-sense and individual talent, it creates incentives and attracts people who care more about the organization itself, and their position within it, rather than the outcomes and value creation for which the organization was originally created.
The request was for a reddit alternative, not an alt-right reddit
Can we remember to run this question every 6-12 months aka whoishiring?
I don't know if my interests shield me from bad subreddits but most of the one I glance at are fine, at worst they're just comatose but never toxic. I like reddit quite a bit, it has that weird organic value that overcome a lot of weirdness and subpar features.

Still old boards were .. much more home like than most of the web 2.0 ever dreamed of.
I am not sure that human genome edition is something I would consider "exciting". It adds a lot of ethical questions, I am thinking about the kind of uses "I want my child to have blue eyes" in particular.
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Note: Below are just my opinions. I don't think downvoting is justified. I'm completely right and downvoters are wrong, but anyway this thread asks for what we think.

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My opinion: (100.000000% guaranteed to be right in this case.)

It's obvious that general artificial intelligence will be a reality and surpass human cognition in every way, because our brains are a couple of pounds of meat running on less than a hundred watts, using biochemical pathways: no light-speed switching, about a six orders of magnitude slower. Meanwhile, our datacenters run in the gigahertz domain. (There are, however, about a hundred billion neurons in the human brain.)

Some people think a computer will never be able to do general cognition. They're idiots. It is like saying that nothing but a sack of meat will ever fly (i.e. that only a bird can, no human-made engine can) -- at a time when we have engines that are 1,000,000 times more powerful than birds' muscles. (I mean at the time that Lord Kelvin famously stated that heavier-than-air flight is impossible.)

Any task of human cognition that the sack of meat in a skull can do, a digital algorithm will be able to do, because the former is just slow, slow analog meat.

Granted the emotional part is a point of difficulty but higher mental functions seem pretty unrelated to emotions.

AI is like when people were saying heavier than air flight is impossible. Obviously it's possible. And it will rock and change the world. (Anyone who doesn't see it this way is stupid and wrong. They're just on the wrong side of history. They have zero vision for things that are completely obvious. It's not even debatable. It's a sack of meat in a skull doing slow analog operations 24/7 for 3 years before it can even read. The bar is not as high as people think.)
Eric S. Raymond's article is indeed interesting, but it doesn't contain a lot of real arguments. I find most of them to be anecdotes and they are not very convincing. The most convincing one is that people who are not proficient in C++ write code with horrible errors, and that is because the language contains so many subtle (and obvious) ways to shoot yourself in the head.

Most of the problems C++ has are coming from being backward-compatible with outdated language features, explicitly the C-subset. Even the problems with the toolchain are more less inherited from the C compile-link model and its use of the preprocessor as a "module" system.

If you use the language as intended, e.g. in the C++ core guidelines, you will se very nice language emerging which enables to write very efficient and elegant code, sometimes doing things that C cannot do, such as expression templates.
What is next? OS written in CSS?
Fly above Jupiter's terrifying north pole in new NASA video
Yup it's basically reddit for the alt-right and banned subs... not exactly the place most people want to be
Potential is worthless. We have Rust, we don't have what might have been produced had Rust not happened, and as far as I know, no one is working on that hypothetical product.
That's a bit of a tortured example: Boba Fett was highly popular, a named character, and was featured in literature and promotional materials. Mass Effect has no character remotely as iconic or well established as Boba Fett, much less a side character, much less "a different angle".

Star Was illustrates my point quite nicely: after a couple decades of world building they're already plumbing diminishing returns in one of the worlds largest and most popular IPs only one or two stories removed from their main narrative. I have high hopes for the Han Solo prequel, but Disney isn't putting money behind "alternative" Star Wars narratives until the nostalgia well is tapped, and even then they're going full-court on a trilogy.
What changed and made it so people couldn’t lie on the internet?
I'm at a point in life where technology doesn't concern me so much as human behavior and where we're collectively headed as a unique species in the cosmos.

Regarding convenience, comfort and entertainment, we are good enough — A person can get all sorts of luxury and services without ever leaving one's home — but technology that encourages us to treat each other better, feel better about ourselves, and removes barriers to physical and social mobility, is what really excites me anymore.
Earthing Mats & the research into our bioelectric chemistry. Where you work at a standup desk but stand on a mat that is grounded to the earth.

Also E-ink HDMI screens with fast refresh rate.

Edit: These downvotes remind me of how the greeks drowned Hipassus for talking about the existence of irrational numbers lol.
The social network I'd like to try is this:

* Funded by subscriptions.

* Free from ads.

* Since it is not ad dependent, yes, it can also provide a chronological timeline.

* Two post types supported: Text and Photo. Because sometimes a photo does tell a thousand words.

* Links to websites not supported in posts. Avoids viral proliferation of dumbed down politics, fake news, or stupid memes. If you want to get to the web or read the news, don't use a social network. They're here for you to be social. As in talk. Chat. Write things about your day. Ask others about their day. You get the picture. Being social.

* Shares or "retweets" not supported. Also to disrupt viral spreading of stuff that is almost never about socializing, and nowadays instead disturbingly often about wanting to be virally spread as a goal in itself.

* And finally... "Likes" not supported. You don't chat with friends at a café to get nods, right? You chat because you have something to say. If what you post is never commented on, yes, you can take it as a hint that you have little interesting to say. You can then choose to ignore that, or not. Comments, a will by others to interact, were always the true "like" anyway. If you write to be "liked", as many on Facebook do, you write for the wrong reasons, at least on a SOCIAL network.

Since it is funded by subscriptions, it ought to lift the quality by this fact alone. Less shitposting. I guess one might say I want a social network. I have yet to see one that is just a social network.
>with React, I'd spend the first couple of days just fiddling around with build scripts.

Yeah a long time ago now. Since July 2016 create-react-app has been available, there are many other scaffolding tools as well.

>Sure, there are now react boilerplates that do this, but there are too many out there to properly evaluate what to use.

Use the one provided by the creators, facebook.

Why not just make it a part of the framework?

React is small (ok, "small"), you can use it out of the box without any build scripts. It doesn't make sense to package it up.

And speaking as someone who's done React for a couple years now and had to port old rails codebases to api-only / react views... yuck, never again. Rails is cluncky and most of the devs I worked with didn't know how anything works 'under the hood'.
There is actually some sort of classification confidence regarding outputs. It's not a binary yes or no for output neurons regardless of what abstraction you've observed in whichever tensorflow or other high level API being used.
"Popularity is important if you want to hire developers" 15+ year vet here. I'd have to disagree. Popularity is important if you want to hire green developers. Not if you want good ones.
Since when did such a statement rely on hard emperical evidence?
Also seems to hinge on whether the participants "consider themselves" to be a night-owl. If the effect is there, you should be able to stratify by, say, regularly going to bed after 1am (or whatever). This doesn't seem to be that.
> That's also why nothing replaced a text-editor to code after all these years.

Have you ever used anything like Flash Designer? Because that was better than using a text editor for making flash programs. There are plenty of design tools in existence. It's just that the web ones never caught on in mass.
Smarter conversational AI. More applications just being plugins connected to your cloud AI instance. It's a revolution on user interfaces whose scope we're not even close to understanding.

The biggest part: it'll make people better at asking sophisticated questions and understanding how important that is.

I think it'll be as big a shift change as the Internet was.
as what ?
It would be useful if you could add a LICENSE file in your repository.
I like the idea of using a color signal to show a changed value, with the change cascading to lower "digits". So, for instance, if the GB change, then so do MB, KB, and B. If GB and MB remains the same, then only KB and B will change.

Hard part would be how to do this over a long span of columns without the whole thing looking like a unicorn puked on the chart...
> I think there is a lot of tribalism in the js community and liking one framework

Judging by the fossil thread the other day, I'm guessing there is tribalism in any area that requires "investment" to learn/master. The "Git" tribe has a very strong band of loyal followers unwilling to see the merits of other VCSs, ditto for [insert favorite VCS] followers
Probably unnecessary nitpick, but here goes: the actual derogatory term is "Munter" rather than just simply the word "Munt".

For example, I saw [INSERT NAME HERE] and they were looking like a total Munter. when it is used in a derogatory sense I think it is more often used when talking about [INSERT APPROPRIATE PRONOUN FOR PERSON WITH VAGINA HERE], but as far as I'm aware it can be applied to both/all/neither/X sexes/genders/species.

ETA: This is my second edit because apparently I don't understand how HN works after all this time. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
Every school in Iowa has a lunch program, even the wealthiest. Its subsidized of course, but for everybody. True low income can get you a waiver, like many other government programs, but the lunch is available to all.

There is absolutely a limit on food.
I intend to give most of it to watsi.org to keep others out of coffins.
The problem I have is the lack of transparency. Google lets you download "all of your data". But it's nothing near the entirety of what they collect about you. It's insulting.

It's time we learn what they know about us. I want to know.
You could also, presumably, have supervision - not control the road, but control all road users. But that's equally impractical I think.
Convert them to Matrix. IMO, Whatsapp's privacy invasion has no place on this phone.
Evening people were at greater risk for certain health conditions, including diabetes, psychological disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, neurological disorders and respiratory conditions, the study found. But even after accounting for these conditions, the study still found that evening people had a slightly higher risk of dying during the study period, compared with morning people.

Translation: There's probably some more confounding variables they haven't found yet.
but then you have to use Angular. You pay performance penalties and as someone who learnt React before Angular, two way data binding doesn't make that much sense. ( i know angular 4 uses state based model, but then might as well use react at that point.)
Tracking Build/Compile Times in Xcode
And they do exist, they're just not widely used.
Unrelated, but it's fascinating to see an article from 2013 reference Andrew Auernheimer as a benign hacker. That's turned into a hell of a story on its own, huh.
I recommend you check out what a click farm looks like: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=click%20farm
Roller coasters and skydiving are exciting in a similar way.
70M is well within the scope of the historical record. The models don’t project it. Personally, I’m trusting what the data shows happened last time the atmosphere had this much carbon in it over what our models show. And the data isn’t pretty.
You can use the https://Lobste.rs codebase from https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters . Before I became the sysop of Lobsters I used it to start https://barnacl.es and the GitHub wiki has few more sister sites. Drop by #lobsters on Freenode if you need help getting it running.
I absolutely agree Google has a much wider ecosystem they cover: social media with google plus or whatever is left of it, video via YouTube, Images via google Photos, cloud infrastructure via Compute Engine, google work via G Suit, ISP via Google Fiber etc... All these have Term of Services with very broad language they can dragnet collect whatever they want. I don't mind sharing the information and I don't want the government involve and regulate how private entities work. But I also wouldn't mind having this companies put on the spot and have to explain how they handle the data they gather. How they handle ToS and/or Data breach. Facebook is a speck of dust compare to google.
“We believe in transparency, so an agreement that prevents public release of information for over a year is unacceptable.”

As noted in the article, the information being released includes blaming the victim and other PR spin. This doesn't serve the public or further highway safety; it further's Tesla's commercial goals.

If Tesla's withdrawal hampers the investigation, let's hope the agency uses its subpoena power to get the info it needs to determine the cause of the accident and what Tesla needs to do to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future.
Of the ten causes of inequality he lists, zero of them explain why Jeff Bezos or Larry Page or Mark Zuckerberg are so much richer than the rest of us. So here's another cause of inequality: that computers and the internet have made it easier to start a company that gets really big.

You might think someone proposing x as a cause of inequality would check it against lists of rich people to see if it explained why they were rich. But few people who write about inequality ever seem to do this.

I'm not sure why. Is it because they're far removed from the world of startups and don't understand how it works? Is it because they have pet theories they don't want to risk falsifying? In most cases I would guess a bit of both.

Most people who write about increasing inequality seem to assume as an axiom that it's due to changes in policy, rather than changes in the world. But if you work your way down the Forbes 400, changes in the world are clearly a big factor. You could tax away 90% of Zuck's wealth, and he'd still be a billionaire.
> Do we allow a bunch of 6'5" mega-geniuses with blonde hair, blue eyes, and all the right genotypes to take over society?

We will. Quoting from https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/typos/

"What would a spelling-checked person, one with no genetic typos, be like? Since no such person has ever existed, we have to speculate. I figure that kind of guy would win the decathlon, steal your shirt and your girl -- and you still couldn't help liking him."
Bitcoin Breakout: Price Jumps $1K in 60 Minutes
https://dynamicland.org/
It's been figured out on the desktop.
This is also a comically bad time to release yet another social network, as you've pointed out with the current atmosphere surrounding Facebook.
Programming without programming. Seriously we are doing too much now to just perform glorified data entry.
3d printed houses and vertical farms. If these technologies get cheap enough, they will cover two of people's basic needs.
I am somehow disappointed that all the text on the website is not displayed using the font itself :p
I also look at places like Chili's, Applebees, and the low-midgrade sit downs.

Whenever you see a tablet on the table, that's their way of automating staff on various levels at a restaurant's level. They sell it as a way to play games tableside and to request server assistance...

In reality, its so they can hire even less servers, have push-demand by customers when they wanted waited on, and sell more stuff quicker. It's also a way for management to ascertain actual engagement levels along with sales data.

It's another case of short-sighted automation segmenting out under management in low end sit down restaurants. You certainly don't see high end restaurants engaging in these shenanigans... yet.

Our (wife and I) decision is we place them face-down off the table. We prefer to engage with humans, not a idiot-box upper management dictates.
Their website looks horrible.
https://youtu.be/T8G8tLsl_A4
There's no reason you can't have a 5/5 framework with huge community and support.

Tribalism leads to choosing between two hobbled solutions because it closes the door on teamwork across tribes. Ember has its flaws but their upgrade strategy is world class. Every maintainer of an open source project should at least be familiar; but how can that happen when ppl happily report they "have heard of Ember and would NOT use it"?
I've been starting work with Flutter over the past couple weeks. The tooling and general experience so far has been pretty nice, though it doesn't always "just work". The fact that flutter is so coupled to Cocoapods is a disappointment and it means your build system is dependent on Cocoapods not screwing up - quite a tall order. I already ran into an issue that required me to generate a new project, copy my source over to get a working app again, then inspect the source trees to see what went wrong. It turned out to be a Cocoapod symlink issue or something to that effect. Not entirely a Flutter issue but something to be wary of.

Some good points of Flutter so far:

* Hot reloading is fast, much easier to iterate on designs and experiments

* Plugins seem to be easy to make, they made an architecture that focuses on minimal boilerplate

* Being able to use async-await syntax on a whole UI view is a cool idea (like Android's onActivityResult() with much less typing involved). Push a view onto the navigation stack, let it collect input from the user, pop off the stack with a data structure representing the user input)

* Animations are easy

* Minimal opening of Xcode. Most days I can get by without ever opening it.

* Data flow architectures like the Elm Architecture or Redux are well supported

Some not-so-good points:

* Having null

* Material design is pushed way too hard - Cupertino widget documentation/examples are lacking

* Code generation needed for JSON parsing

* State for StatefulWidgets are generic over the Widget and not the other way around - I would have expected a StatefulWidget to be generic over a State e.g. `MyHomePage extends StatefulWidget<MyHomePageState>`

* Because of the previous point, the UI building function, build(), is usually on the State class and not the Widget class

* My relatively barebones app is around 33MB on iOS

Overall though I like it! Lots of good ideas and tooling. I one day want to create something with a similar architecture using a language like Rust instead of Dart, and native UI components instead of reimplementing the entirety of Android and iOS component behavior.
I'm pretty sure taxing by calorie density would make things better. There's no cost in doing that, it would just shift people to eat less calorie dense food like fruits, vegetables and leafy greens.

The main problem is that the current laws, taxes and infrastructure are heavily optimized to produce calorie dense foods. Another is that people like some of those foods on a regular basis in their diet, so they might complain.

I would say this would cost more in political points than in real money.
VR/AR, 3D printers, self-driving cars, the DragonBox Pyra.
Searching for the term “inbound marketing” should give you a good sense of the process. The website submitted for this thread is a textbook example of what you would create, as appropriate to your target client.
yours.org
There's a lot of art in the production of truly high tech engines. See for example China's difficulty creating a single crystal turbine blades for a turbo fan to use in it's J20 stealth fighter. They can of course use a lesser engine, but the capability of the fighter will be much less than its contemporaries.

Boeing is most likely buying access to the this art.