skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and that's best case because it assumes that these are normal populations with normal a-hole distributions, but all acting in good faith--even the a-holes, as much as they can. By that I mean that these are people with genuinely held ideas, some of whom aren't the nicest IRL, and so are just expressing their beliefs "as best they know how".

Instead, we know that there's been great effort to purposely troll and manufacture dissent for political and other purposes. It's really just coming into view as a sustained, organized, and scaled effort but, looking at the tactics on display, it's easy to believe that it's likely been going on much longer.

So, this trashing of the Internet has been deliberate and effective. Hence, the wastelands that YouTube comments, Twitter, FB, et. al. have become.

So what we've now got is weird, but certainly not fun.
Only for those on a post-paid plan. I'm on a pre-paid plan that they'll have to pry out of my cold, dead fingers ($30/month, unlimited data+text) which doesn't receive it, unfortunately.
Exactly this:

> Maintainers experience pressure to continue developing their project to keep up with users, issues and feature requests. The more popular the project, the more value is being created on top of their software, and the higher the pressure. Because maintainers are often required to work on their projects in their spare time, working around a full-time job, it’s easy to burn out and stop working on the project altogether.
No, it isn't.

The whole point of democracy is to canvas opinion.

If you influence opinion on an industrial scale using significant sums of cash that aren't available to most citizens, that's not true democracy - that's you buying power with money.
Would you then agree that the interactions that burn stars also produce a form of consciousness?
Understanding Nil in Go (2016)
Is that really meaningful when a single photo will have far more data than most JS payloads?

Judging it by KB of data just doesn't make sense, unless you apply it to everything. And then it would show on pretty much every site.
How to Approach Algorithm Interviews Without Panicking
When I am feeling creative, I need a medium that allows me to keep up the momentum. Coding requires too much thought for my creative process in a visual medium (for exmaple).
It's almost as if NY has a huge financial industry that lobbies an otherwise liberal government.
What we learned building 200 support teams
Thank you for teaching me this. It seems there are a whole bunch `!gm search term` will access google maps for instance.
IPv6 Node Requirements
So we're so fed up with the "modern web" that we've resorted to reviving Microsoft FrontPage?

Hang on, lemme eat my own foot.
>As long as it is done through non-structural means, convincing people not to vote is a perfectly reasonable persuasion technique

What if it is done fraudulently? For example, lying to people about when/where to vote or lying about your opponent's positions. That doesn't seem like a reasonable technique to me.
Distributing apps signed with an enterprise certificate to users is against the rules.
I would have thought it obvious that if need an online service to access something, then you are eventually going lose access to that something when the service inevitably closes down.

Also in the context of ROMs (and other pre-internet games) I do contest the general thesis that piracy is the only road for preservation. You don't need to distribute ROMs to the public to preserve them. Put them in a museum if you want and they could be preserved perfectly fine without needing to resort to piratism.
I was on the internet in the mid-90's (I was 15 in 95 which I think is the year I got on the net, I'd been on BBS's for about 5-6 years before that) and it did used to be much more weird as a percentage of sites than now (though the number of sites was tiny).

As the grownups came along and commercialised everything a lot of that went away and back then if you wanted to say something online you had to learn HTML and what FTP was as a minimum.

So things were weird because quite a few early adopters were not techies by nature.

It's different now.

It's one of the reasons I don't use facebook, instagram, snap etc, they just don't stick for me.

I do use twitter but that is because it's a nice way to follow projects and programmers I admire so it has some utility to me.

I was an early user of reddit but since the redesign (on the back of cleaning up the community) the trend towards just another social network (EDIT: speaking of which https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19039571) is pretty clear at this point, it's utility is going down as is the quality of the average posts in the subreddit's I cared about.

HN has been fairly consistent since I join over the last 5 years, a testament to the effectiveness of decent moderation.

It used to be I checked HN after reddit but that switched over the last year or two.
I'm consistently amazed how well Google and Facebook are at staying up. They're two services that I don't think I've really experienced a broad outage. Of course with Facebook's data designs, there's sometimes quirkiness as a result, but it's rarely completely off for me.

Google, I think I've only really noticed it offline once in the past 10 years or so. Not complaining at all.
As a power user I’d appreciate having those individual granular controls. Maybe for non power users, have a reasonable default threshold determined by the browser for each of those parameters, and give them a single off control to let a particular tab “run wild”.

Unlike most of the commenters here, I agree this is a problem that needs to be solved by browsers. JavaScript blockers work but are unnecessarily big hammers.
I think maybe your opinions on this are largely influenced by movies and not materials the government actually releases.

Can you give me an example of the kind of unclassified information these people should be prevented from sharing?
> just find a community today that shares those properties

How? I can't even search for shit anymore without being drowned in results that have nothing to do with what I searched for, but are kinda-sorta similar and get visited a lot more often.
Sounds quite similar to the way TV ratings are done - is this really such an issue? It's very much an opt in service designed to measure audiences.

Unlike hidden terms in privacy policies it's made quite clear what's going on here.
i'm intrigued by your comment(2) concerning declarative, idempotent roots. could you add more language to that?
A phrase that I read, and sums up my feelings went like "In the early 2000's, in the internet you went to places, but now you just go to the mall".

Many parts of the internet are weird and fun, but you gotta look for them. You need to decide to get past the over-designed mall, which is meant to capture your time to sell ads, and support your run of the mill mom-and-pop shops.
Great demo.

Not as good as the best ever though :-)

"Kefrens: The meaning of life is to become a legend"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jziQBWQxvok
Sites like Glitch assume that you already have a good grasp of tech/software engineering.

The big appeal of the early internet was that anyone could make something neat with simple HTML shenanigans, and learn to code by hacking the HTML templates to their needs. Many coders got their start by hacking Neopets storefronts. (there were actual coding puzzles on Neopets too for their events!)
So are estate taxes, gift taxes, etc. What about it? It isn’t what the article or we are talking about. It is disingenuous of you to now move the goal posts.
More specifically, I mean a Rust ring buffer data structure, implemented by using Crossbeam tooling, and sized to fit into CPU cache.

For readers who are interested: https://dzone.com/articles/ring-buffer-a-data-structure-behi...
Diderot’s Encyclopedia Challenged the King
Cryptocurrency Predictions for 2019
That can only happen when the minority of votes is small though. A large majority of votes eventually cannot be contained.
I'm not disputing that website developers do stupid shit all the time. We know that's true. I'm disputing that it's got something to do with React.

I've seen websites that are driven by vanilla JS that use 30MB images for backgrounds. I don't claim that's a reason to use a JS framework.
I would presume he still holds a controlling amount of the company shares, and thus the board. He would likely be able to dis-appoint the (cloud?) of co-CEOs at his pleasure.
Game development is super fun. Especially if you make one for android or ios and let your friends play it on their phones. Feels very rewarding. It's also quite challenging to get the feel of a game right. So there is lot's to learn as a programmer.
> An army of Stalkers should NEVER beat an army of Immortals.

That happens. Not often, but it happens. The size of the armies is the issue. They happened to both be large and the better your ability to track life and micro, the better your chances at winning with stalkers. There are replays with 5v2 immortal fights that they lose, right? I've seen blinkstalkers blink out between the immortal Rate of Fire recovery plenty...ok. It just happens the AI showcased the issue in a larger fight.

The game is still starcraft, it's just there's an obvious issue that needs to be worked on within the game (immortal blasts would disable special abilities from being toggled/used in a tiny aoe, is the obvious fix).

The hyperbole about it not being Starcraft is just wrong. Micro is part of starcraft.
This illegal use of enterprise certificates must have leaked. How big is Facebook, after all.
giftcards talk, money walks.
Feynman says yes, except at very low speeds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman_sprinkler
https://duckduckgo.com/bang

There's thousands of them

!w Wikipedia !hn Here :) !auk Amazon UK !so Stack Overflow
Google Feels the Brunt of GDPR Enforcement
The paradoxical nature is that being homeless and starving is horrifying but something humans have become accustomed to, and yet the idea of selling organs is embedded culturally as being shocking, even if the end result of being starving and homeless is relatively equivalent to being desperate enough to sell organs, so it's not allowed.

Also, how you mention as fact that money from selling organs won't prevent long term starvation and homelessness is surprising; you don't know that's the case one way or another but you're trying to pass off an opinion as fact. I can't argue either that it would help with a clear and definite metric, but the correlation of living conditions and money is clear. How real-life application of such legalization or organ selling, with quality of surgery and post-surgery care, legal predatory practices, and other factors are dealt with are potential problems, but those are issues that exist in all commercial domains.

I also never argued organ selling as a solution to a problem; as others mentioned, it is a potential band-aid to a problem that lies in wealth inequalities, but which I find interesting as a societal flashpoint that show how knee-jerk emotional responses can cause logical paradoxes.
As someone who grew up in rural Wisconsin, I can tell you that there has always been a streak of anti-intellectualism, but the past few years it has transformed into something even worse.

The suspension of critical thinking that comes from ingesting information, sourced from anything tagged as "Republican", has left the Wisconsin people vulnerable to being taken advantage of.

I speak from experience and discussions with people I had last summer. For example, some didn't believe me when I told them that Foxconn had to put suicide nets around some of their factories. They believed Foxcon is this shining star of a company come to save them, because that was what they were told by Republican leaders.
> This is why I'm not a fan of Steam-type stores

A lot of games are multi-player. Even if the software existed, once the community dies it's not the same game. It's fine, nothing lasts forever. We use it, we enjoy it, and we move on to the next thing that's enjoyable. You can't go home again, but you can always find a new home.
I've found that most of those dev tutorials are either evangelicalism by other companies or high school/college students trying to sound smart. It's ego stroking either way.
Is Alexa working?
Well, certainly, nickel is toxic, like many metals. But OP's point was "toxic as hell" which seems simply wrong in any kind of context. I haven't seen evidence searching or here that nickel is more toxic than many commonly used metals and thus there seems like zero backing at all for worries about using some super strong nickel-based material. Indeed, nickel-based structural materials are used with some frequency.

Whether the material's good properties pan-out is another question, of course.
Oh, and he wound up in the hospital with a broken rib. Maybe he broke his own rib.

Chicago PD is investigating it as a hate crime. Maybe they're in on the conspiracy.

Or maybe you're imagining a lie because you can't accept that it is true.
I humbly submit that if you haven’t found fun and weird stuff on today’s Internet, you haven’t tried TikTok, or checking out subreddits outside of your bubble.
fiscal responsibility is something the Republicans have only operated on when not in power. The democrats were making fiscal responsibility noises while out of power [on a national level], if it continues at all it is only because there is a division of power.
Thanks for the kind words.

I think the only way we can make this promise is by doing what we're doing right now and not actually storing any email content.

I'm not sure the best way to prove that this is what we're doing, short of open sourcing the code, so I'm open to suggestions there!
I looked and couldn't find Skaven either. Purple Motion was in there through, so it was still good.
Democracies are supposed to represent everybody, and I don't think the GP would disagree. The things you cite as being consigned to the dust bin are all structural remedies -- changes to how elections are run with the intent of removing voters from the rolls and preventing people from voting.

Apathy-inducing speech is not that at all -- people have to make the choice to not vote; nothing is preventing them. Where there are things preventing them, we as a nation should be doing our utmost to remove those barriers. But not voting is a perfectly valid statement to make in a democracy. It can be a statement of lack of confidence in any of the candidates, or a statement of deferring to an electorate that you feel is more knowledgeable. For example, I will almost always abstain from voting for judgeships or DAs (I live in NYC); I have absolutely no means by which to judge the performance or resumes of these individuals except in very rare circumstances.
The Secret Life of HTTP(S) Calls in a Serverless World
I had never seen it. The API seems more complex to support consistency/performance tradeoffs. I'm not sure if it would work in my case as I definitely want writes to block if two threads are accessing the same entry. It also doesn't support concurrent writes so that would be a huge penalty.

It may very well be that my hack is actually a very reasonable way to go about this. If I need more concurrency I can just increase the number of bits of the hash and get more individual buckets. It does make me slightly uneasy that when two keys hash to the same prefix I end up with a pathological worst case when I should get perfect scaling instead because there's no actual contention.
The Danes have been working on walls to separate from Germany from at least the time of Charlemagne. Its called the Danevirke.
Why does the existing phone system allow for robo-generated numbers?
The bigger problem with reddit, in my experience, is that 95% of the comments on any given post are pure garbage filler. Joke chains as far as the eye can see.
AFAIK, time on page and how far down the article you scroll.
Oh man, and I just bought a bunch of stuff for my C64 to start developing games. Is the simplicity yet complexity of 8-bit coming back?
Scams are opt-in.
> That depends entirely on your connection, keeping in mind your connection might be from your phone, when you have very poor reception.

Even large payloads on slow connections can be worked around if you know what you are doing. If your site is well engineered to progressively enhance without disruption, it does not matter if JavaScript is being loaded in the background.
The hardware-assisted virtualization challenge: Mission Accomplished
Interesting questions. It makes me think of some things I read about how the brain integrates different sensory information into a seamless experience. I don't have a source for this, but the idea I remember is that nerve impulses from different sense organs arrive at different times due to the physical mechanism of propagation of the nerve signals. So the brain has to do a fair bit of post-processing to make our conscious experience seem fully integrated. That's why the sensation of touching our own finger and seeing ourselves touch the finger seem to correlate with the same moment in time. If our brains didn't do this, then things would seem all disjointed or perhaps entirely incoherent.

That got me thinking: if our brain constructs that portion of reality, perhaps it actually constructs the entire conscious experience of reality down to the minutest detail. So we're never "directly" experiencing reality but only our brain's constructed (and evolved) representation of it. Perhaps that is the explanation for why the universe appears to have four dimensions in our day to day experience: because that's the most advantageous representation of reality by some evolutionary metric. So the process of biological evolution has crafted the brain and the brain crafts the experience of reality which includes all the rules of logic, laws of physics, and perceived physical phenomena.

You could go out on a limb and perhaps even say that this explains how advances in pure mathematics often turn out to have some use in physics and vice versa; because mathematics (logic) and perceived physical processes are both rooted in the structure of the brain and are therefore rather intertwined even though the physical world appears to be separate from the mental world.

These ideas seem remotely similar on some level to what Dr. Tegmark is proposing: that the observer (or, the evolved observer as I'm saying) plays a much more significant role in the structure of the universe than anyone has admitted up to this point.
Inscribed Square Problem
Haha interesting indeed :)
Yeah what's the exact text that says that?

Besides this isn't portrayed as an apple terms mismatch story it clearly reads as another pearl clutching privacy panic clickbait.
To me, this functions as a giveaway. If I see the first six digits match my number, I'm confident it's not legitimate. (I decline any number I don't recognize anyway, but in this case I'm a pinch more confident it's spam.)
> does a privacy maximalist mentality needs to be imposed on everyone?

I see you follow Google closely; close enough to know that privacy concerns have hardly impeded its growth and dominance. Same with all other major tech companies.

Does a privacy minimalist mentality need to be imposed on everyone? (I'm asking rhetorically. In either form, it's not a substantial argument: it's a strawman. Privacy isn't a measurable quantity, and each person or community cares about protecting or revealing different things.)

Edit: Q.E.D. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19039593
> "Hmmm... Wait? Isn't the future supposed to be OLED? This doesn't make any business sense for them????"

There's at least some life left in LCD. CES had some pretty interesting stuff like a TV that took a black and white 1080p panel and used it as the backlight for a 4k panel giving it really good contrast.
Because the majority of people are not fun and weird. Every fringe thing that becomes mainstream inevitably drifts toward the mean in one way or another.
I wonder how well a literal candlestick model would work - as in literally acting like a diviner watching candles melt and trying to map something from it. Given how much is up to chance and comingled variables (how the market performs correlated to temperature for instance could make it technically correct if epistemologically utter stupid) it may wind up ironically better than random chance. Still not something to stake your life savings on.
What's very interesting and frightening to me is the mental health version of this dynamic.

Someone with anorexia or another illness that destabilizes your perspective may find support in an online community. But they can also seek out and find communities that catalyze the destabilization.
Real world experience indicates those assurances mean jack squat exactly as soon as the corporation needs them to.

They have enough paid devil’s advocates arguing for them disingenuously; no need to spread their propaganda for free!
That's just the kind of person Lauda is.

He was severely burned in a Formula 1 race at the Nurburgring, and despite still suffering badly scarred lungs and weeping wounds he was back in the seat before the end of the season and only lost the championship that year because he refused to go out in the pouring rain to race the Japanese Grand Prix as he decided it would have been foolhardy.
Microsoft announces record earnings on strong cloud growth
> and overnight the entire industry will be dead.

And nothing of value will be lost. Unfortunately the perpetrators will find a new channel.
Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17690852
I think the concept of "supervenience" would be helpful here. So the rules that govern the rocks you mentioned should ultimately depend on the rules that govern the particles the rocks are made out of. The rules that govern the air also depend on the same rules that govern the particles the rocks are made out of, however it seems to be that rocks and air have pretty meaningfully different rules that they follow. There are definable sets of rules that emerge out of other sets of rules.

" X is said to supervene on Y if and only if some difference in Y is necessary for any difference in X to be possible. Equivalently, X is said to supervene on Y if and only if X cannot vary unless Y varies."
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervenience
I read this as: "class of netizens who use iphone, targeted by scandal or bad actor" poignantly titled 'Karma.'
'Passionate' is not the adjective I would use to describe my feelings towards technology.
What do you mean that consciousness cannot be measured? We can perceive it and talk about it, can't we? Chamlers says that the reason we talk about having qualia has nothing to do, causally, with our experience of qualia but I think we can dismiss that idea out of hand. So by asking people questions about their experiences and getting large enough sample sizes we have a means to conduct a quantitative and scientific investigation of consciousness.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3971003/