skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The amount of propaganda is damaging my experience here. Not unlike Facebook and other platforms, HN seems to resist discussing how its platform is being abused and how it damages user experience; users are forbidden from discussing it publicly (in fact, I hope this comment is on the ok side of the guidelines, as I'm not accusing anyone in particular). I'm confident that HN works on the issue, so perhaps my difficulty is with a lack of transparency (again, similar to Facebook) - we have no idea what is being done; we're in the dark. We can't trust that the content we see is in good faith; it's a constant frustration and struggle to read, and most of my time is spent on noise. Propaganda is the worst content; it's noise to the signal and it's worse than noise because it manipulates HN users; we also now know, if it wasn't clear before, that it's a danger to free, democratic society - which is not something abstract, but something that happens right here on HN.

The pattern I see, so often that it's predictable and a source of frustration: 1. It's easy to stay beneath the moderators' radar by sounding 'reasonable' (in fact, on other topics, that's an explicitly taught strategy to white supremacists [0], it's a well-established technique of propaganda going back decades if not centuries, and I expect that professional astroturfers in any domain have the same skills); 2. the astroturfers almost always appear; I expected to see many pro-China comments appear here, including from purported Kenyans / East Africans (I certainly wouldn't say all are propaganda, but the pattern over many discussions seems clear enough that it's predictable); 3. on issues about which few HN users have knowledge or expertise, such as this one, there aren't even many people who can rebut the astroturfers; it's one-sided.

EDIT: Major revisions; apologies to anyone who read an earlier draft.

[0] ... he presented himself as polite, articulate and interested in cultural politics, and though his views are abhorrent, he stated them all so laconically you might forget that he actually believes in the concept of a white ethnostate. And that’s the point: The genius of the new far right, if we could call it “genius,” has been their steadfast determination to blend into the larger fabric of society to such an extent that perhaps the only way you might see them as a problem is if you actually want to see them at all.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/magazine/FBI-charlottesvi...
More commonly for postproduction fixes (think stunts and inserting talent likeness, relighting/reframing a shot, inserting reflections when CG-ing the background of a window etc.…) so you can fix sequences without having to recall talent which can produce availability delays and additional expense beyond what it takes to fix digitally.
They do filter the malacious traffic if you use their loadbalancer.
Loadbalancer is shared across the user accounts, so amazon has to stop the ddos.

They've very effective network level ddos detector/filtering
I want to see an analysis that turns the $60 million into price per play. how many times a person with a Casette/CD would listen to it over the life of the medium. radio deals and how many people heard it on the radio each deal. What other avenues are there? Commercials?
$60,000,000/(2018-1994+1)/(25 days before Christmas) = $96,000 for each day in leading up to Christmas
And what are the current numbers for listening share? What percentage is spotify compared to radio, tv, youtube, itunes, owned media?
Also curious about how to compare the value for owning the cd,digital copy, etc. v. listening on spotify? A cd is $10? which would give me only a month of Spotify? But then expand that to my entire media collection and then I wonder where it breaks even--10% of my time?

Current Spotify premium user because I like the curated playlists
"... and renting the music."

That is not a correct interpretation of the first-sale doctrine. Someone who purchased a cassette, CD, etc. has the legal right to, among other things, rent the medium to others. For example, if I want to start a cassette tape rental company I can buy cassette tapes and rent them to the public, without seeking permission from the copyright holder of the music or other content on those tapes.

(Some exceptions apply, like the Record Rental Amendment of 1984.)
> On the other hand, at what point do we accept that we have different viewpoints and live and let live?

Keep in mind that some of those viewpoints are "we live, others get eradicated".
The costs for fiat exchanges, payment gateways, etc etc, do not scale like that. Only the mining difficulty does.
Some ideas for 2019
If you put some contact information in your profile I'd love to share with you a funny anecdote related to your comment. (Being of a purely humorous and whimsical nature, I'll respectfully decline from sharing it here as it doesn't fit the guidelines of HN.)
”of no value” :) ?
Is it the open source project Elasticsearch that you're worried about or the company?

For a long time I've been shocked about the large amount of venture money that goes to companies that are involved with trendy open source projects that just don't have a moat.

For instance I've heavily used Elasticsearch as have many other without ever paying money to Elasticsearch the company. Similarly, companies like Pivotal, Cloudera, Hortonworks, Continuum Analytics, etc. just seem to be a scam. So long as they are trendy some companies will think that they have to pay them money, until they realize that they don't.
Adding new person to project and team member knowledgeable about project helping somebody else with a task are two very different things.
One does not simply use a payment processor directly. Stripe and PayPal both deplatformed within a week the Patreon alternative that the guy went to after being kicked off Patreon (SubscribeStar). Hatreon was also deplatformed by their payment processor, as noted below. In another recent instance, MasterCard demanded that Patreon kick off another person for political reasons [1]. Social network Gab is now accepting USD payments only by mailed check for their premium tier. Of course, the pioneer modern instance of being financially deplatformed was Wikileaks, who was deplatformed by both Visa and MasterCard for political reasons. I've gained a new respect for Bitcoin from this incident. If you can't digitally send USD to another person to do legal things, USD has a problem.

[1] https://twitter.com/Patreon/status/1029551216886341634
From the context, it seems he was using the words because he knew they were offensive. Also maybe that excuse works for ESL Europeans, but I'm not very convinced it works for somebody who's British.
G comes before Y alphabetically

That's irrelevant. There's a comment I made on a discussion about this a while ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17059958

It's sad that most people seem to put the blame on everything else except the developer --- who was simply not exercising any common sense nor thinking critically. There's a very good reason to how the format specifiers were assigned, and anyone who doesn't notice the pattern (and surprising deviations from it) has no one to blame but his/herself.
Seems like many went to SubscribeStar, more because Patreon pulled a Tumblr and purged the adult content than political reasons.
What investment scam can you not say this about?

People in boiler room operations pumping up bogus pharmaceuticals --- for example --- aren't themselves drug researchers and can, of course, tell themselves that they worked not on a scam, but on a product that didn't in the end worked out and simply turned out to be a bad investment.
50 cent army.

It’s interesting that HN is showing up on the PRCs radar.
There is a reason that it became common practice for an introduction to give a broad overview of the topic. It seriously detracts from the writing when the first paragraph plunges you into deep background, and you don't get a hint as to the supposed topic until halfway through.
Typical HN. Hiding comments the admins don't agree with.
studies have shown that our circadian rhythms persist even when completely hidden from any trace of light whatsoever.

They have physiological effects. Lowering of core temperature, for one.
Just because one form of free speech is enshrined in The First Amendment, doesn't mean that other forms aren't also good.
Also took far longer than 15 minutes to build her brand and audience to the point where she's releasing celebrity holiday albums that anybody cares to listen to instead of fading into obscurity. But for the lack of a holiday album, Limp Bizkit might still be with us.

That said, holiday albums are just a ploy to net royalties in perpetuity-- you're guaranteed airtime and income once a year for as long as Christmas and copyright law exist. Nobody should expect to be making bank on long-tail efforts.
That's interesting. To be fair, I've for sure been speaking from intuition alone. I'm interested to look more into the real science of it. I'm sure there is a default mode we are prone to just based on being human. My main point is that it is that our chronotype is pliable. We can shape it and mold it it we want to.

The article is suggesting there is a natural progression correlated with age, that shifts from advanced -> delayed -> back to advanced. This does not help convince me against my hypothesis that cronotype is fluid and not static.
What is HN's take on MBTI? Apparently, there are entire communities on reddit dedicated to each personality type. If you go through them there's actually a pattern between people subscribed to MBTI subreddit which makes me think that MBTI to some extent is valid and not like astrology.
Yeah! tots. I have a similar illustration made: https://github.com/asgan/noether/blob/master/noether.png
The image was a SVG made with Sketch or Illustrator.
Ahh! Thanks for the clarification.

I feel old :)
> younger/better

Or, a bit earlier (star wars?), not-dead versions of themselves.
It was really the other way around. Early manned spaceflight programs were mainly based on military missile technology. Later civilian developments of heavy lift liquid fueled rockets were useless for delivering nuclear weapons.
In this particular case Carl Benjamin claims to be anti-nazi. His language, while shockingly offensive, wasn't calling for anybody to be eradicated.
We'll just file this under "comments that won't age well"
I know some of the applicants who participate in creating the assets: https://github.com/asgan/noether/blob/master/noether.png
This is a great comment. Honestly love the nuanced take, far too rare.
The only point I would respectfully ad is that I'm not sure if we can enforce decentralization. Many markets, like payment services (like Visa, Paypal), tend towards a few large companies. Personally, I think the first amendment is an example where we as a society (at least in the US) said that people's freedom of expression trumps people's freedom from discomfort. I'd apply the same standard to corporations. That said, I'm also still torn about whether it is right to impose that view on corporations. In a perfect world, I agree that enough decentralization that no single group can censor people's views is the best solution.
I find it INCREDIBLY difficult to wake from sleep. As do many others, apparently.

Getting enough sleep is a first step, but we know most people do not -- so very few are in the great position you are to treat it as a 100% conscious choice to snooze or not to snooze.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments or snark here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Most of the book sales mentioned in the article are for fiction books which don't have the issues you describe.
William Sealy Gosset, who developed the t-distribution, published under the name 'Student' since his employer (the Guinness Brewery) wouldn't let him publish under his real name.
It's opinions like this that cause first day downloads for new games like Red Dead Redemption 2 to be 55GBs.

In the case of an Electron app disk space might not matter as much, but it's absolutely worth optimizing in 2018, at least because not everyone has high speed connections (e.g. in Germany, a lot of infrastructure is built around DSL, which obviously doesn't get great speeds).
At what price does oil enter a death spiral, where it is best to just never use oil for anything ever again?
Watch all four parts and FFT would be no longer a mystery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAsM30MAHLg
Isn't qt webkit what the infamous pgAdmin 4 used to use?
shivers
Well, you just do it first? If you made the video, then you should register the hash before uploading it anywhere at all.
Last I checked, Hatreon didn't ban people for this sort of thing. Let him go there with his basement-dwelling buddies; that's literally what it's for.

It's the capitalist way: if some private company doesn't want your business, go to another company. If there isn't one, make one. It's all perfectly free-market compatible, and well in keeping with the Internet's ethos of letting anyone set up shop.
No you don't. Rolling logs as a linear bearing for launching boats, with people carrying the logs to the front from the back as the boat passes over, almost certainly preceded the wheel.
Great. Self-aggrandizing tech-cultists utilized collective effort for creating shit tons of already outdated hardware to increase ephemeral “value numbers” that only exists in a database (net worth).

The tech world has jumped the shark. It’s now producing fart pipes and spinner rims to justify investment, rather than truly useful invention.
This study shows why people fall for fake online profiles
Picasso might own the right to make copies of it, but Picasso wouldn't own the actual portrait.
I would say both the company and the project. They seem to go hand-in-hand.

Their business model is to allow free access to a limited version of their product -- which admittedly is good enough for many to use in production.

And if these companies stop getting revenue for the premium product, then I worry it's goodbye to substantial progress on open source version.
If you've branded yourself as being politically incorrect, isn't this the kind of conflict and publicity you strive to achieve?

I'm getting a little tired of people who've made a career saying what you "can't say on TV" and then pretending to be surprised when their content gets pulled.
It's based on talking to people and watching them change their opinion though time.

It may be completely off due to sampling bias, but I don't think there is any source out there with better confidence, as I have never seen anybody doing a serious poll of the subject.

EDIT: Well, in reply to your edit, how did you search for that research? All I can see is trash news about some huge investment coming from China to Brazil in the future or how the next Brazilian president is a xenophobe that will reject money from anywhere. I still haven't seen any serious handle of the subject, by researchers or the press.
Why does hn love to hate Bitcoin so much?
I would add that it aids criminals. Devious minds will adapt and work around such invasive laws. (excluding lazy criminals of course) The average person will not even research this. The end result will be petabytes of citizen data sitting on some government servers or amazon S3 buckets that will end up on the black market.
Thank you for posting this.

Talking about Nazis or not, I don't really think this is defensible. It comes off like some kind of intra-nazi scuffle.

> "White people are meant to be respectful... you guys can't act like white people"

This is a racist statement. I dont want to call him a racist, because "racist" should be a descriptor of actions and not an identity. Instead, he sounds like someone who has little remorse for making racist statements.
Maybe not. We might be shocked that people in Europe in the past got tortured or executed for heresy and apostasy, but we're not really confused by it: if your words undermine the creeds that hold up the power structure, you are punished. It's not complicated.
Does this one really count? It's common knowledge that this was developed by NSA's TAO along with Israel.

EDIT: although I do agree, I remember first reading about Stuxnet when it was first discovered, before evidence of its origin was known, and being absolutely fascinated
It's also worth considering that the Alt-Right has been deliberately working to get more popular moderate figures like Sargon kicked off of mainstream platforms, so they'll be forced to move (and bring their audiences) to Alt-Right platforms: https://twitter.com/crislopezg/status/969225740540678145
People vastly overestimate the profitability of attacking a crypto network.

There are tons and tons of much smaller coins, that can be attacked for very cheap, and yet attacks are still very rare.

IMO, this is because double spends just aren't a very good idea. If you tried to steal money from an exchange, everyone would know it was you doing the attack, and then they wouldn't accept your money in the future, or maybe you'd just go to jail instead.

Also, the network is not static. If there is lots of hashpower sitting unused, maybe that hashpower would turn in to defend against an attack.

More people have something to lose from a successful attack, and thus could be motivated to defend when an attack happens.
I'd like to propose a counter to the "military==evil" argument. Specifically

> "I believe that non-violent methods of conflict resolution provide the only methods for protecting our country against the deadly threats we face in the long run. "

Western free society is a hierarchical entity, much like a tech stack. While in tech, the lowest foundation layer is hardware, it is "security" for civil society. The fact is that the rest of society completely collapses if people, companies, and civil structure cease to be secure. History, statistics & a scientific analysis of conflict provides strong evidence for the reliance on military might for building layers of civilization over it.

It is disingenuous to state, as the author has, that this is fully and completely achievable without a military, or use of force. It is also appalling, that while the author's day job is rooted in evidence, science & peer-review, those principles have been ignored in deriving his "truths" about civil society.

What we should be concerned about is the misuse of military power. The way the US is setup, military/executive branch are a lot more accountable to it's citizens than other structures of governance. It allows law-makers (who represent the electorate) to tweak or check abuse and while this may NOT be perfect, it certainly forms the foundation for betterment.
I think there's something to Kant's first formulation of the Categorical Imperative:

Act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law.

Edit: to address a common confusion: this has nothing to do with imposing a rule on others. This formulation only says that you ought to act in conformance with rules that you would want all others to act by as well.
How do you cash out on this kind of attack if by your own actions you're crashing the value of the coin?
> In Paris I once saw an original print of Marie Curie's book on radioactivity, where her name is given as "Mme Pierre Curie". This probably shows how difficult it was even then to get something published under your own name as a woman

Nothing to do with publishing difficulties at all. It was simply the way a married French woman would be addressed at the time - as "Madame [husband's full name]", eg Michelle Obama would be "Mme Barack Obama". (It's still in use in more formal / old-fashioned contexts.) The reader would understand that the author of the book was Pierre Curie's wife, rather than him.
Ex-tech worker finds higher calling than coding, opens Silicon Valley church
But do you think that the total number of grad students is a measure of good? If so, it makes sense to get funding for them by any means necessary.

But if not, there is an amount of unethical, unacceptable funding which trumps the good of the grad students it provides for.

Couldn’t some other professor take the available funding, and support those additional students?
But surely then they wouldn't be immune to claims that their evidence wasn't a high-fidelity fabrication as well?
> "MasterCard demanded that Patreon kick off another person for political reasons."

If true that's disturbing. At a certain point you have to wonder if we're getting close to the spirit of Marsh v. Alabama (e.g the constitutionality of restricting speech in towns that are privately owned by corporations.)
May I ask if this insight is why you left? What do you work on now?
I think you're right, many things tend toward centralization, large networks and infrastructure (and sometimes difficult-to-solve problems) being among them.

I personally "feel" (because I can't really form a hardened ideology around it) that the closer things get to infrastructure, the more neutral they should be. In other words, the more difficult it is to spin up a competitor to Company A, the more Company A should actively work to not censor or shape messages or ideas.

I also agree we cannot enforce decentralization. My hope is that one day, we can see the benefits of it as a people and collectively decide to go that route without coercion of any kind. Wishful thinking, probably =]. That won't stop me from trying to convince others of the benefits, though.
Caffeine has a half-life of 6 hours.
* Gitlab and CI
* Sonar basic static analysis
* Maven
* one-jar, then use jdeb to package it up, scp to a freight server for debian repo hosting
* TICK Stack for prod monitoring
* Graylog for log keeping
Our favorite (and least favorite) tech of 2018
I don't know if it's centralisation so much as personification. Patreon wants to be a a friendly brand, part of people's self-image. And having chosen this, perhaps they can't afford to live and let live.

It's very difficult to imagine Bell Telephone (in their 100% monopoly days I mean) feeling responsible for what people discuss on their wires, or feeling a need to deny (say) pornographers service so that its other customers wouldn't feel tainted. Or Visa likewise today -- it's understood that other people will use the same plastic to pay for things you morally disapprove of, just as they could use cash. But it's positioned as a neutral carrier, and nobody cares (I think).
Hehe,

I want a Deno Lambda runtime :D
So would you agree with a new black listing in Hollywood for example?
One thing I thing that is worth considering regarding whether or not to accept DoD funding is what kind of research/end goal it supports. Many research projects seek to improve the precision of lethal actions or the quality of intelligence that informs those actions ie In WWII if the only blunt tool you had hit the enemy was carpet bombing their cities that contained production facilities or government officials, then that's what we did, but with the advent of precision-guided munitions we have the opportunity to limit civilian collateral when striking targets. Similarly, if there was a technology that allowed us to see through walls to see if armed bad guys were on the other side, we could avoid pre-emptively clearing the room with a flash-bang or grenade when it instead housed a family. Certainly, most weapons can be turned into tools of malfeasance, so we shouldn't assume that any advancement will result in lowering the human cost of conflict, but if you accept that violence will happen whether or participate in it or not, some may choose to add scientific knowledge that could make that violence more humane/limited.
oh man... I found these kind of dates dealing with MARC21 records. It's a problem as enforces us to duplicate data and use some complex replaces on SQL when we need to do queries by date.
> more buyers than sellers lead to rising prices and more sellers than buyers lead to falling prices

That's not how any of this works. Every share bought is a share sold by some counterparty. Buyers and sellers are always in equilibrium.