skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, but if that calculus were true, tube sites (which display viewing figures) would be dominated by amateur content and they're not.

That's not a logical conclusion, so no. The market demonstrates a clear preferences for free content, that's what tube sites show; that professional content is popular when free does not demonstrate that professional content matters more than free content. That professional are having such a hard time making money in fact demonstrates the opposite, the market cares more about free than about quality. As long as people are willing to make free porn, which they are, professionals will always struggle to make money. The same is true of much art, music is another example of exactly this phenomenon.
Nihilism may be too extreme, but we need to discern what parts of society are man-made (laws, ethics, morality...all principles that we generally converge and agree on to be civilized and orderly) vs. objective reality.

Calling laws, ethics, and morality absolute or divine truths only serves our own ego. It’s dangerous and misleading when religion defines human constructs as truths, since they are only characteristics of our society.

We definitely should acknowledge who we are, that’s why the study of human psychology and human nature are fascinating. We should also take a third-person view of the world and deeply analyze actual, natural phenomena.
Total.
There's always been propaganda and toxic levels of tribalism. The question we should be asking ourselves, is how have the uncommon societies where principles and rule of law have won out functioned?

People having parochial, uninformed opinions isn't new.
Isn’t that the only point of twitter? It seems like the 24 hour version of the 2 minutes of hate.
That’s what I said, though. It will copy-on-write memory pages and files.
Yeah, he posted a blog post about Antarctica a few days ago: https://idlewords.com/2018/12/gluten_free_antarctica.htm
Nicotine helps witu stress and feel calmer. Why do you compare it to heroin? I mean seriously,is JUUL more harmful than fastfood?
Do you mean fewer bugs, or less severe bugs (or some other non-count metric other than severity)?
Didn't understand one part... How come the architecture skills only apply to banks?
Ask HN: ARM Based Single Board Computer with M.2 Support for Small Server
I am looking for a small ARM based single board computer with at least one but preferably 2 M.2 sockets for SSD drives. I want to make a super small, RAID1 capable, portable server. Does such a thing exist?
College isn't a requirement for a career in software... at least not in North America. Although I'm sure you know that by now.
I love watching HN pull apart children's disagreements.
I dunno about that. I've used ggplot2 a bit and also seen what our best data guys do in Tableau. It really depends on what you want to do. With Tableau, you drag in a pretty big dataset and then you have a bazillion ways to change the chart, sort, group... etc. The charts that ggplot2 give off just seem aesthetically unpleasing. I'm not saying R doesn't have its place and isn't fantastic/free/open source, but that doesn't make Tableau terrible.
I cancelled my subscription last year after similar problems with full text search.

I did get a download of my data, albeit it took a while, after requesting it from my settings page.

I've never had a reply to any of my emails to him. Alhough I did eventually get a reply on twitter, which said "Sorry for the terrible support" But then I heard nothing more, and got no replies to further emails either.

I think he's too busy being a celebrity. And it's a shame because he was kind of a figure head for independents doing a good job, and I was a bit of an evangelist. Oh well.
Until the last year or so, I really felt like Pinboard was a model for how an online service should be run. Maciej's strong advocacy for privacy and ethical business models are the reason I was comfortable paying for another five years of archiving upfront - I made my account in 2011 and until now had never seen a reason to jump ship.

Nowadays, though, self-hosting is much more workable than it used to be and I feel more confident that I can manage my own data safely... or maybe I've just realized I'm not confident that anybody else can.
Indeed.

I mean, based on available evidence, the answer is clearly ~100%. And the same if you replace "nominee for Supreme Court" with "huge and hugely contentious notoriety". Also, if it occurred ~30 years ago, I suspect that most victims would have pretty much forgotten about it. Until they got reminded by seeing him in the news.
A Facebook account which is accessed only via web browser with third-party cookies and notifications disabled is not the worst thing. It essentially becomes just another website.

What is the worst thing though, it's installing one of the Facebook's apps on your smartphone. Because then you basically give up the entire private data of your day-to-day life.

(I imagine, very few people have actually seen the full permission list of Facebook for Android, which includes almost every single possible one.)
I'm not sure why relegating destructive tendencies to virtual worlds is a bad thing. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that humans have innate proclivity to violence. The percentage of men who die violently (as in, at the hands of other humans) is around 25%. This is compared to ~2% in the 20th century, and even less today. Many mammals' forms of play function as preparation for violence (either capturing play, or evading from it). There's strong reason to suggest that humans innately find violence entertaining and compelling - at least some forms of violence.

The fact that we've managed to relegate this behavior to the virtual world, rather than the real one, seems to be a good thing to me.
Current activity on GitHub, eg:

https://github.com/gsa/datagov-deploy

https://github.com/ViderumGlobal/datagov-ckan-cloud-provisio...
For us mere, mortal humans, there is https://www.diybookscanner.org/
Ok,pleae explain to me why smoking marijuana and legalizing it so awesome but Vaping is terrible. Or am I missing something? Marijuna legalization is celebrated but I see vaping ads equating it to Cigarettes.
Yes! My primary reason for my deleting FB was that it was a waste of time. The privacy issues were there from the beginning. I never doubted our data wasn't used in all kinds of unsavory ways but this is the cost of having a "free" social network. What else did anyone expect? What really surprised me was how addicting FB is and how it changed the way almost everyone interacts with each other. Facebook's biggest crime is deliberately addicting its users, especially young people. If for nothing else, I hope MZ gets a subpoena for that.
Or they could just turn up the escalator speed a bit. A mere 10% speed increase would probably make a big difference, but I suppose there are almost certainly regulations on how fast an escalator can run.
Not effectively. From what I've read, JS lacks SIMD support which makes Numpy-like vectorizations unachievable. Would be nice though...
If a game offers a play mode but nobody does it, does it really exist?
This! Curious.
That was Abyss, not Siege, right?

They were so ahead of their time with pretty much everything. Abyss was cool and all, but do you remember Santa's Slay?
Pretty much every team I've worked as an IC or manager has had this problem. By "problem", I mean that pull requests take more time and more cycles of communication to review and merge than is ideal, which means things get shipped slower. I think the problem is actually pretty universal.
Or I might do nothing like most people do and fail to understand that I'm not talking to a reasonable human being but a human fixated on doing wrong for all the wrong reasons, such lack of action is one of the things that allowed Trump from being a joke to being on charge of the biggest military in the world.
Deleted in 2008. I was quite addicted to it which was my main motivation for deleting it, though I'm glad to not be on the platform for different reasons now.
No, I didn’t delete my account. But I have reduced my exposure quite a bit over time (I want using it much in the first place) and I find it more peaceful to stay away. There’s too much negativity, too many black and white arguments, too much chest thumping, too much narcissism, too less empathy...almost every negative human quality one can imagine is magnified a thousand times on these platforms (to the extent of my observations).

Yet, as someone who deeply cares about privacy (and strongly despises Facebook) but is also involved in some causes where connecting with other people (many strangers) helps, I use Facebook only for those purposes.

I don’t post anything personal, though Facebook would have my number because of all the other people uploading their address books to it. I use Facebook as a focused tool, and not to kill time by scrolling and clicking/tapping and watching videos that are ultimately wasteful in every way. Luckily, I don’t have a big social circle that’s only on Facebook, and if there are events that are only on Facebook, I don’t mind missing those. People who need to connect can always email me or call me.

Network effects aside, the user experience is very important. Without that, there’s no hope of making people try something else and having them stick with it. After all, many people have moved from Orkut to Friendster to MySpace to Facebook to Instagram to Snapchat and then back and what not. Anything that wants to replace Facebook should invent a new paradigm for communication and connection and/or should come as a complete replacement (“batteries included”).
>That’s the thing about UO... nobody was the hero, everyone was just trying to survive and thrive in their own way; whether that meant crawling the dungeons as a warrior, bard, tamed, or caster; terrorizing those same dungeons as a player-killer out to strip the dungeon crawlers of all their loot and gear; or, spending your days baking bread or running your own player shopping mall, your only limitation was your effort and imagination. The idea that you could stake out your own small part of this vibrant world, right down to building a house in the limited land space available; or making your name as an accomplished crafter who people sought out for their superior crafted equipment, it was so fascinating to me.

This is absolute magic to me. Wow. It sounds like an absolute dream. It is my opinion that the possibilities of a shared, persistent, virtual world were never fully realised. The description you make: of a fantasy world, persistent, vast, "real" (as in, internally consistent and fair), a world you can live in... modern MMOs offer absolutely none of that. It's a shame.

It speaks volumes that probably the best realisations of the MMO were... Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies, maybe Everquest? Maybe even some primitive MUDs and, oddly enough, a couple Minecraft servers. Instead we're stuck with WoW (and its clones), which was an excellent game in its own right, but it wasn't a true MMO in the sense above described.
You know what happens when people dig into the closet, pull out the skeletons, and try to initiate some chit chat about how it's time to feel bad about some collective crime committed 100 years ago by people who aren't even my direct ancestors?

I go find some cool people to hang out with, and have fun with them, ignore you, and try to live and enjoy my life instead.

It doesn't matter your background, who your parents were/are/aren't.

Some people are about living in the now, looking forward, and not dwelling on sob stories. All the best people aren't whining about some archeological find that shows that dead people from last century were mean.

People these days really aren't up against a whole lot of boogie men, and there's PLENTY of room to steer clear of the tough guy piece of shit psychos that try to cause harm. Shit was so much worse forty years ago, but hey, now?

Now, it really isn't that bad anymore. And not because of some ultra-vigilant two minute hate, WRT the super villains of millennial politics.

The news is fucking full of shit. You walk the streets, and on a daily basis, the world is almost nothing like the headlines.

Make no mistake, there's some really bad shit going down in certain parts of the world. Drug violence is some of the worst shit ever captured on a cell phone. People being mutilated alive in ways that would make a medieval executioner blush. Sectarian violence is pretty rough stuff too. People captured and decapitated with det cord ( ...slightly more palatable way to die than drug violence to be honest). And throughout it all opiods killing more people than HIV ever did.

And no attention in the news is ever paid to what fans those flames. But endless, endless debates about political bugaboos that will never go away.

So, unless you're solving real problems, that affect real people, right now, today, I've got no time for you.
Vue.js

Also trying out Rubymine w/ vim emulation to replace SpaceVim (which I found too heavy and unpredictable). First time not using (Neo)Vim in 8yrs.
Angular.

Have been a full stack dev for years and always had an itch to move towards front end. Converted .net site into angular/.net core stack in 2 months, angular has been blowing my mind. Its such a huge upgrade to entire front end framework, I absolutely love it.
Seconded. Please take my warm hearted congratulations. Addiction is a horrible enemy.
It's not really a throwaway, take a look at the account profile-- it's been around a few years, and has a decent bit of karma. It's about as much of a throwaway as yours, or mine for that matter-- not throwaway, but no reference to our real world identity either
I've tried since I didn't want to accept their escape hatch when GDPR came and thus couldn't use their services anyway. Unfortunately they apparently drag out the deletion process so I haven't successfully deleted it as of yet.

It's actually worked out quite OK, I'm relying on a few friends updating me on what happens in some group chats right now but a lot of friends has already moved over to alternative chat platforms like Telegram, Signal, etc.

I haven't missed other parts of facebook like groups and events at all which is nice and I've never used IG or WhatsApp.
That picks up immediately after a post from a couple years ago. https://idlewords.com/2016/05/shuffleboard_at_mcmurdo.htm
Hm.. Am I reading this correctly?

https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db/blob/master/GUIDE.md#acc...

Currently, the only access mode is read-write? So as soon as you move beyond the use-case of private, single-client data (eg: browser storage) everyone involved can read and write data?
> 'YouTube': ['POST', 'https://www.youtube.com', {'action_logout': '1'}]

Didn't knew it was post possible to `js` fire a post on a third party website.
Start here: https://www.hackerboards.com/search.php?q=&ram_min=&cpu_spee...
Sadness is the response to a tragic event, not how we address it. I said that we can address it by being practical and seeing what caused the event and how to prevent it in the future.

In terms of the human who experienced the tragic event, yes they are probably traumatized and will have to reflect on it.

In your second paragraph, all you’ve described is a coping mechanism, which makes total sense because humans are social creatures.
>players preferred "a CRPG where other people happen to be playing" than "a virtual world"

I'm absolutely stealing this. It summarises how I feel about modern MMOs vs the endless possibilities of a shared, persistent, virtual world that I think were never truly realised. (see my other post)
Der Spiegel to Press Charges Against Reporter Who Made Up Articles
“act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law”

Kant
No no no. As French is the correct English locution
No, both of these are peer to peer applications
For $250 you can get the Cuisnart steam convection oven, far more versatile than either the Breville or June. Proofing and cooking bread with the steam makes a large difference, and you can steam cook roulades like they do in commercial kitchens.

We don’t use our large oven for much of anything anymore.
> I’m no longer plagued by the political and social ideas of the uneducated on a regular basis.

My condolences. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
In fairness (though I agree sociopathy is probably more prevalent than we know) this could also just be the same dynamic as seen in the Stanford prison experiments.[0] Let someone take on a role, such as villain, and they live up (or down as the case may be) to that label.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
"Easy enough" - only if your default way of thinking is "all my friends are facebook friends".

That's plain lazy thinking, it's completely giving up on your privacy-aware friends because Zuckerberg makes doing that so so easy. What a surprise.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/23/world/europe/germany-der-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/21/german-repo...
Liberals have a tendency to focus on legal frameworks and equality before the law while ignoring the material conditions and the lived experiences of black people.

In some sense, it's trivially true that legal equality means things are "better", but there's plenty of empirical evidence that suggests that material gains won by the civil rights movement have regressed significantly.

For example, in many places, schools are more segregated than they've been since the 60s [1]. Further, the housing crisis erased gains in black wealth back to levels of the 80s and 90s [2].

This is too large a subject to get into in an HN comment, but if you're curious, I'd highly suggest reading Michelle Alexander's excellent book The New Jim Crow[3], which focuses particularly on incarceration.

[1]: https://www.vox.com/2018/3/5/17080218/school-segregation-get...
[2]: https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017...
[3]: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/ctp/The_New_Jim_Crow.pdf
I was thinking of saying the same thing about item 2. It goes along with my book recommendation from the book recommendation thread: The Obesity Code, by Jason Fung M.D. (And/or his Aetiology of Obesity YouTube videos.) For one thing it made me realize why my original "scientific" (I thought) plan for weight loss by counting calories compared to what FitBit thought my calorie expenditure was didn't actually work. For one thing, I didn't know that if you're eating insulinogenic foods (which isn't the same as high glycemic foods), eating frequent, small meals, your energy expenditure actually can decrease. That's something those BMR calculators don't consider at all. But if you are fasting, it actually goes up.

Ah, I see you are also familiar with the snake diet guy. He's a bit out there sometimes. (Last weekend he did a live video of eating several pounds of raw beef.) Where he is aligned with Jason Fung, I can get behind him.
YouTube king PewDiePie faces a challenger from the streets of Delhi
You may not need this, but I replaced the Safari ext with https://github.com/spamwax/alfred-pinboard-rs

Requires Alfred, which I think is fairly common!
It was a lot of fun. The problem was more of a culture clash. You had a mix of RPers, CRPGers, and more standard gamers excited for PVP possibilities.

There were plenty of people in the first two camps who were into PVP, that wasn't a problem for most folks. It was the constant griefing, dealing with bug exploiting goons, being teabagged by people named things like AzZBlaSTA which really wore people down.

I ran with a very PVP oriented crowd. My experience was that 100% of them who describe the game in the specific ways the GP did were what caused the average player to throw up their hands and look for a much more controlled world. It's not that these were bad people per se, they were just playing a very different game than the rest of us and the two sides were never really going to get along.
The data suggests what it carefully chooses to suggest.

Here's a list of top 50 cities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b... It does not include Baton Rouge, Chula Vista, Chandler, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Fort Wayne, etc.

You can sort of see why - without Chula Vista, Chandler, Stockton, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Toledo or Raleigh this thesis https://www.crpe.org/examples/six becomes much more muted.

It also measures public schools exclusively, ignoring the fact that urban communities are predominant attractors of private and charter schools - their business model makes less sense in suburbs or rural environment.
Sure - but it just enables the behaviour of selling out your entire social circle to Zuckerburg.

I know we've lost that fight - but it doesn't mean it's not worth resisting.
Not sure I understand, sorry. In what way is this video relevant? It seems to suggest that spread of anger is always a bad thing, so are you suggesting that we should dismiss the concerns of angry people?
>Long story short IMO all these "battery-based electrical vehicles", ferry, plane etc included are simple stupid engineering games or marketing moves until we found an affordable way to store electricity enough

Correct, but you failed (intentionally?) to note that now we have. More specifically, every year the proportion of the totality of vehicles becomes a logical target for elctrification grows larger. Would you really dispute that?

>consider that we can use alcohol and methane for car and small vehicle power in general, they produce both far less pollutants than petrol/diesel fuel.

The day has passed when that would be better option than electrification.

>In the meantime people should consider in terms of pollution how many emissions they can produce building modern, small, insulated homes (reducing both steel usage that it's a real problem today since we are really start to fall short and HVAC/heating power consumption)

Why can't we do both?
This post is alive
BACKRONYM Act: Banning Acronym Cleverness Keeping Representatives Occupied Nutting Your Mom Act

(struggled with the NYM so gave up and went with something childish...)
Installed this out of curiosity, then returned to my usual firefox. Had to re-opt-out-of the sponsored stories again.

As somebody who donates to Mozilla, I wish there was a paid version of firefox that removed that sort of thing.
Hey, I appreciate your response, and share in your sentiment that responses on this subject can be very depressing. But I do think we as a society are trending towards equality.

As much as the internet is supposed to connect us, subjects like these can be very divisive because the internet tends remove the human element from the discussion. We're much more likely to go on a political rant on Facebook than we ever would directly to our family, for instance.

This subject requires real human connection. It requires understanding our fellow citizens and understanding what they go through.

As a personal anecdote, I also used to be homophobic and very ignorant of racism in America. I feel awful about some of the things I've said. But then I began working for a company out in San Francisco, and a few of my coworkers were gay, and a couple people were going through sex reassignment. I became friends with them, and they shared numerous stories that really helped me see how uninformed I'd been. Obviously this is my personal experience, but I'm hopeful that as more and more people feel safe to come out, that the people around them will have similar experiences as me.
This Supreme Court Murder Case Could Completely Change Tribal Sovereignty in OK
No. I have a few online businesses and Facebook is critical to driving traffic. It's not a stretch to say I would not have a viable business without the ability to advertise on Facebook proper. Even Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest...none of these have ever driven a single sale, but I've gotten plenty off Facebook.