skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I submit that you did not, in fact, "de-Google" your computer usage. Not entirely at least. You may have reduced your usage of a handful of their core services, but until you're running every device you use through a tunnel that completely filters out their entire IP space like this person[1], you haven't truly discovered just how deep they have their tendrils into your every day Internet usage (fonts, analytics, ads, GCP, etc).

[1] - https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-google-out-of-my-life-it-screwed-u...
What is Difficult Conversations about?
If this reading is too dense and you want a quick primer on multi-armed-bandit:

Imagine four slot machines. Each time you play, you choose one with a weighted probability, and the weight is how many times it won in the past.

So on your first play, you randomly select a machine. Now imagine that machine wins. It now has a probability of 1 vs the other three with 0. So you play it again. Now it loses. It now has a .5 probability, and the other ones have 0. Your next play will be a 50% chance of the same machine, and 50% chance of one of the others. You keep going this way and eventually you will pick the one that wins the most often most of the time, but sometimes you'll pick one of the others, just to make sure your probabilities are still correct.

How is this useful to a programmer? It's great for A/B tests. For example you come up with four different home pages, and then define success as clicking on the signup link. At first you randomly show a homepage to each visitor, but as you progress, you'll get one homepage that converts better than the others. You'll show that one most often, but sometimes show the other ones to give them a chance to "catch up", just in case your initial traffic happened to be biased.
/r/politics is fairly left-leaning by US standards, while The_Donald and /r/conservative are hardly about politics anymore. Furthermore, I'd say on a global scale /r/politics is pretty much dead middle, while subreddits like /r/latestagecapitalism represent the far left.

Frankly, Democrats are being pulled to the left by the progressives and Republicans went hard right years ago with the tea party, so the reason there's no middle-of-the-road discussion is because there isn't one anymore. Luxuries of a two-party system.
In the majority of cases, TLS for SMTP (delivery between MTAs) is still trivially downgradeable. So they could presumably downgrade and read SMTP traffic that's going between MTAs in Norway and MTAs outside Norway.
That's... not something I or anyone I know has ever experienced. Maybe they assume you could be weird for some other reason, and Instagram gives you a lifeline? But again noone I know without Instagram has had any issue dating.

I think it says a lot more about you and the people you're interested in, than the people who don't have Instagram.
thats crazy. yeah exactly. what do 230 people do there?
I think this book was suggested by Bill Gates.
Re: "Download the app!" gates, banners, etc. Medium does this too.

Why? What's the business reason? What does a native app provide the business that a mobile website doesn't?
The AMP pages with mobile app pop-up are the worst.

Especially as the cookie is broken so that you get the pop-up every single AMP visit.
To me this is like saying, "I'd like TV shows to all be shot live with no editing, and I'd like my books and news articles to be first drafts." I mean there's a place for those things (live theater or SNL, and poetry slams where stuff is improvised), but I certainly wouldn't want the majority of my media to be like that. Editing is more than just removing the ugly and emphasizing the beautiful. It's a way to clarify what point you're making.
Didn't they have like one or two developers just a few years ago? Or am I remembering this wrong?
For all the good and enjoyment I get out of Reddit, sometimes it seems like it's just various angry mobs that coalesce and split as needed to maximize the amount of angry voices present at any one time for any one topic.
I've been doing UI/UX for a long time. I scored about 6700.

Some of the stuff is objectively bad, but once you get into the hard territory... does it really matter if your users or even other designers can't perceive it after a couple of seconds?

I'm all for consistency in design, but considering how those extreme levels of UI _nitpickingness_ don't really affect the UX, I'd say this falls into overdesign.

UX is much more important than UI.
Same. I haven’t deleted my account but I haven’t browsed the site in over a month. I’m far more productive now.

I had started off by trying to unsubscribe from the subreddits that were mainly image based. This didn’t really make much difference as my sub list was already too saturated, and I would scroll further to find the quick attention satiation. Eventually I realized it wasn’t worth the trouble.

HN is different though, there’s far less clickbait and no thumbnails. I regularly read articles that I feel teach me about important or very interesting topics. It’s pretty rare that I would read an article in full from Reddit. HN comments are often filled with valuable insights that I think will benefit me in the future, and jokes are fairly uncommon. I’ve been more and more frustrated with the low effort Reddit jokes over time.

Sure, the concept is the same between the two sites, but I think my frame of mind is very different when I browse either site. I don’t see myself needing to cut HN out as I did Reddit because it doesn’t have the same effect. HN is meat and veggies and Reddit is candy. Or a dopamine drip.
I will often scope google searches for product reviews or food/recipe/diet/fitness knowledge to reddit. This is not the sole research I do but it does tend to be pretty high quality data.

I would not be surprised if Reddit is an ML/AI dataset gold mine.
Yep, I remember they even turned off the comments on their blog for that post. I have never seen a more arrogant, scammy company than them in this vertical.
I've always thought that the day they crossed the line was when they arbitrarily changed which subreddits were default, removing some (such as /r/atheism) with no real reason. At the very early days of reddit, discussing atheism positively was still kind of unusual in the news. Then, over time, it became a very popular position and advocacy case especially among developers, and new users found the stridency and repetition of the subreddit annoying. I think they ultimately took the decision to remove a default subreddit that supported a community that is in general still one of the most hated in the US and in the world, just in order to appeal to new users outside of the hacker culture demographic that reddit started in.
Max, would you be willing to evaluate Reddit alternatives? One is https://notabug.io/ after the Aaron Swarz quote, has seen hypergrowth since it started a few months ago using our P2P tech.
Even the data is encrypted is worth to save for the future. They will be able to access when they have the key or when some quantum computing breaks it.
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan.

It changed the way I see the world, how to have a sceptical mind and not only how but why one should question.

And also, it shows to me that, if you don't have a answer for something, doesn't mean that it can not be true. It's just that you don't know. And for a lot of things, this is the correct and only answer that we can have now.
A Microkernel Written in Rust: Porting the Unix-Like Redox OS to Armv8 [pdf]
Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius.

Bottom line: judge your success in life by how well you make your decisions, not by your outcome. You have full control of your decisions, and often no control at all over their results.
Would help if they dumped the AMP pages too. Landing there results in a useless "not logged in" and "partial content" page. AMP is just a terrible fit for Reddit pages.
The forthcoming Series D round is said to be led by Chinese tech giant Tencent.

150-300mln is probably small amount for Tencent and they are not looking for a quick return, I guess.
I'm proud to be longtime colleagues and friends with several of these singers. They are truly amazing artists.
By "natural", I mean according to the laws of physics, and all higher-order laws or principles which arise from them (basically, everything else). So, yes, narrow, but no, not. What we call "nature" is largely a fiction, a story that we impose on the universe (the "natural world") to help us navigate our place in it and understand it in abstract ways. Humans occupy a strange place, in that we are manifestations of "natural laws" (physics, chemistry, biology, psychology), but at the same time, able to understand and rationalize about our own existence and place in that world in ways that most (all?) other animals are not.
I think suicide (vs. self-sacrifice, which is an entirely different thing) is a very human (or human-like) phenomenon, and can only arise from a high-level consciousness which can rationally/emotionally think in terms of "Is living my life worth the cost I am paying (in emotional or physical terms)?". No "less conscious" living thing would ever make that kind of calculation, because they will always follow their instincts to survive as a default (again, differentiating between sacrificing oneself for a goal vs. ending ones' own suffering on purpose). Not saying that it's impossible that "nature" has enabled such a mechanism in a species (though it would violate the "selfish gene" principle), but I don't see it.
SEEKING WORK - Remote, World - Backend / DevOps
---

Location: Rhode Island

Willing to relocate: not for the next 4 months

Technologies: Django, Kubernetes, Docker, Spinnaker, JenkinsX for GitOps, AWS Lambda, Node, GeoDjango Postgresql, PostGIS, Redis, Celery, RabbitMQ, Sentry, SourcePawn, EFK, ELK

Latest Open Source Project: https://thicc.io

Latest Startup: https://metoo.io

Résumé/CV: https://aldenjenkins.com

Email: please use my serverless contact form on aldenjenkins.com

What's unique about me is my outlook on life: My desire to learn to love, and my love for learning. I try to raise the collective consciousness by understanding and mastering life holistically one day at a time.

I love you... yes you! :)
They've spent the last year fudging their metrics with the new design to make this happen. The infinite scroll and image first post layout has ruined the quality of the content.
Just a quick sanity check:

1. machine going bad causes data to get corrupted. oh no!

2. can still check the fiddly number with `git log`. whew!

3. grab a clone from $untrustable_cloud and put it on another machine

4. check the fiddly number of the clone with `git log` or whatever. It's the same as the other fiddly number. Hurrah!

5. run `git fsck`. no problems.

6. Keep working as if nothing had happened

Same/similar process for Pijul?
I highly recommend using flexible-freeze if you run Postgres in production - does not take very much effort to set up and almost certainly will help you avoid issues with txnid wraparound:

https://github.com/pgexperts/flexible-freeze

It just runs `VACUUM FREEZE` when you schedule it (usually daily), starting with the tables closest to hitting a wraparound.
Leave subreddits that are just as lousy with shills as Twitter, there are subs for a decent political conversation (at least, as decent as is possible in 2019).
McKinsey & Company | NY, CHI, ATL, SF, DC, TOR, PHL | Full Time, Onsite

Digital @ McKinsey brings together the best of the firm's capabilities to help our clients use digital technology to transform their businesses. You'll join a global team working on everything from IT modernization & strategy to agile, cloud, cyber security, and digital transformation. You'll typically work on projects across all industries and functions and will be fully integrated with the rest of our global firm. You'll also work with colleagues from across McKinsey to help our clients deliver breakthrough products, experiences, and businesses both on technical and non-technical topics.

Product Engineering @ McKinsey: https://mck.co/2VG9Id3
Tech Lead: https://mck.co/2VNeSUp
Software Architect: https://mck.co/2UD1P6A
Travel: 80% (Mon-Thurs)

Thanks for looking!
Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
Not to mention developing the immune system.

They always go for the dirtiest thing in the room. Acquire and share.
That is you, and is your right. Some people are more concerned about space and don't care about looks, other care about looks over space. There are thousands of other considerations, and for the most part this is a continuum with many in between choices and trade offs that each makes.
> > Isn't TCP already versioned ?

> I was curious about this, so I looked it up, and I don't think it is. IP is certainly versioned (IPv4 vs. IPv6), but looking at the list of protocol numbers[0], I only see one entry for TCP. And I don't see anything that looks obviously like 'TCPv2'.

Currently there is only a single TCP, it didn't need new version, because it has options mechanism to add additional information as needed. If it would need to be redesigned a new protocol would be created and a new protocol number would be allocated. Kind of like what happened with ICMP and ICMPv6.
I used to keep up with it out of an unspecified sense of civic duty. But this didn’t result in any sort of action—-indeed the distraction and hours of time lost scrolling resulted in me not fulfilling my responsibilities to those close to me.

> I have to do things in response to the news

I would like to know what this consists of.

Is this in terms of needing to protest against things?
Needing to switch suppliers of medications?
> I'm struggling to understand the purpose of sharding if you can't pull a node offline and replace it while you deal with the wraparound.

This is not usually the purpose of sharding though. Having a replica of each node or each block of data (and a good failover system) is what would allow you to pull a node offline with no impact. Though it's worth pointing out, even if they had a replica of the node in this case, the replica would probably experience XID wraparound at the same time so that probably wouldn't help.

Sharding usually means partitioning the data so that different data goes to different nodes. In this case that's consistent with 20% of outbound emails being affected if 1 of the 5 shards is down.

There are definitely some red flags with their usage though, like ideally only 20% of inbound emails and events would be affected as well but they said almost all of them are. And ideally you couldn't get into a situation to begin with where you have one shard getting way more writes than everything else. And of course ideally you're monitoring XIDs and can respond enough in advance. I'd be interested to read a more detailed writeup, though based on some of the comments here about their lack of transparency it seems unlikely that one will be released.
I could easily see 100 engineers split between operations, front-end/back-end/mobile, DBA, etc. I could see a dozen each of marketing, HR (moderation + community management), project/product/team management, and C-level. The rest could easily be sales.

Sure you could argue you don't need 100 engineers for that, but if you factor in on-call rotations and how they're constantly refactoring everything...
That book also gave us the term "meme" which, in its original form, is way more interesting than "animated GIFs spread on social media."
Reddit is basically Usenet 2.0, this time with moderation!

The same rules apply. The bigger the community the lower the signal-to-noise ratio. Also, the more political or religious the community the more strident the users will be. The echo chamber effect is huge.

The biggest difference is that Reddit mostly has spam under control, something the Usenet could never claim. Also, it's much less efficient under the hood, but the world has tons of bandwidth now so nobody cares. Plus as far as I know nobody posts binaries to Reddit by UUencoding them and splitting them across hundreds or thousands of posts--torrents are much less hassle.
You forgot to divide by 12. It's $1.9m/month for staffing assuming average annual all-in comp of $100k and 230 headcount.
It's remarkable this isn't the subject of discussion ever. I'm not saying this would lead to anything productive, but at the same time, it's at the absolute core of the problem.
HTTP/2 accounted for 66.88% of TLS connections to Cloudflare's edge a year ago.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/deprecating-spdy/
Thank you! Moon mail looks interesting. Will check them out in detail later as to what they're using.
1491, and 1493 by Charles C. Mann. These books completely changed my worldview about the scale and complexity of human development in the Americas before European contact. They also opened my eyes to how much older globalization is than we normally think.
On the other hand software engineering job in US pays a lot so you can do a (relatively) quicker home run to financial independence if you don't fall into consumerism.
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Streams of Living Water by Richard Foster

Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
I occasionally see offers like that, and all it does is make me think there's a catch that makes it almost impossible to redeem.

After reading the comments here, I could be wrong.
I think it has to do with analytics but maybe someone else knows more.
I'm speaking more about hypothetical new lights in the USA, Germany, or elsewhere in the world.
>I am spending more time on HN though...

Same boat. Twitter as well.

Snipped reddit, went to twitter. Snipped twitter, came to here. Seems I just can't get enough of "talking with people on the internet."

GF says I should try to find a book club. She's probably right.
Default Windows 10 comes with preinstalled video games, much less a store. Discord already has subscriptions, at some point I see them selling a version with enterprise features.
Theory of Harmony, by Schoenberg

The book takes music theory as its subject, but explores perception, culture, the meaning of art, innovation, and other related ideas in its lengthy footnotes and tangents. It shows a world of practical considerations that go into art, which many would assume is primarily subjective.

Schoenberg is known as a composer for exploring atonality, and for having many students who became important composers.
I welcomed that change. They had handpicked a few left-leaning subs like that one. I also remember there was one about feminism. I believe that was a bad idea, to position themselves like that. Maybe it was a good idea when reddit was a niche website. Now, as far as I know, they simply have an algorithm that shows the most popular posts of all subs, except a few ones that are banned (like the popular the_donald, a sub for supporters of Donald Trump). I'm not saying that I like the idea of a blacklist or that it is the best solution, but it's better than a whitelist.
It's still bad. They should cookie the choice so it doesn't always pop up every time.
Worth adding that when HTTP/3 arrives, HTTP/1 doesn't go away. I imagine that HTTP/1 will never go away exactly for the reasons why people like it.
Didn't know they had anything since their debut album of 2012. Will have to catch up.
Generally not - contractors (their main business) order enough for a house but then on the last day call in 2 sheets of plywood because they didn't estimate something right.
Metrics, ads, notifications, install base.
On what grounds should an unrelated party (furyg3) force their will on two voluntarily trading parties, blocking their (presumably mutually beneficial, since voluntary) transaction?

That's a strangely oppressive, i-know-best-what's-good-for-you position.
Facebook – Code for Cross-Lingual Language Model Pretraining
"Because people start off with nothing essentially"

I do not believe this. In a world without private property, everyone is entitled to the world's land. Everyone has everything available to them. People survive off the land. Eventually these people don't want to just survive, so they begin to do a single thing all day (hunting, gathering, eventually farming) They trade the output of their labor (their wages of berries, food) for other peoples output.

The introduction of private property allows for some people to collect rent on productivity, without actually being productive. Private property is a tax on productivity and rent will always consume any excess production value.

Progress drives poverty, as well as any inequality in wealth only increasing as time goes on in a positive feedback loop.

"While exploitation may be real presuming that management and capital contribute nothing is just plain not anchored in reality."

I don't believe this either. I believe any rent-seeking is adverse to progress towards eliminating poverty. I see it as a failure of society to allow for the upper class to enjoy greater pleasures as time goes on at the expense of those born poor.

We are all guests on a floating spaceship rocketing through space. The idea of inheritance has no place in a free market in my opinion, it should be taxed as income for the recipient. Inheritance is the vessel through which wage equality is growing larger, in my opinion.
About 5 years ago, Reddit hired a crypto guy, Ryan X Charles, to make something called "reddit notes"[0] that they could never explain[1]. He wasted his time re-implementing bitcoin in Javascript[2], and was eventually fired.[3]

I guess you could say they were already early pioneers of the "cryptocurrency scam flameout" pattern.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/redditnotes

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2014/12/19/reddit-notes/

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2uadvd/the_real_re...

[3] http://fortune.com/2015/01/30/reddit-notes-is-not-going-to-h...
You do realize that reddit owns Notabug, Inc, yeah?
You are incorrect. I can not speak for halal, but in Kosher slaughter minimizing pain IS a primary goal.

You have completely skipped the stringent rules about the knife in your summary, so perhaps you are just not aware of it.

The knife must be razor sharp - the slightest knick renders it unusable. The knife must be drawn in a single motion, any hesitation, or pressure, while cutting makes the animal not kosher. The location of the cut is precisely defined.

All of the above are there to minimize pain, because the knife is so sharp the animal doesn't feel the pain, any pressure on the wound would also trigger pain.

> or only on the first and last one (kosher)

This isn't correct. Only one blessing is said, and not saying the blessing does not render the animal not-kosher. The blessing is about the shochet, not the animal. This is different in Halal were the blessing is the primary thing that makes the animal halal.

> whether slaughter can be performed by any believer (halal) or only by a specific priest (kosher, only Sachets (a type of rabbi) can perform kosher slaughter)

The shochet is not a priest. Being a shochet is 100% about knowing what to do, and 0% about any kind of special status. Anyone can be a shochet, including women. And you do not need to be a Rabbi, you just need to be trained.

> bolt pistol

A captive bolt pistol has an unacceptable high failure rate. You can NOT consider them more humane than Kosher slaughter.
Likewise, been off for over a month (yay New Years) and my productivity has been significantly increased.

And I agree about HN, it's similar in system, but the content is very different. I'll look at the front page and maybe read 2 articles and their comments in full, and actually feel like I've learned something or it wasn't a complete waste of my time.

Gotta cut those dopamine drips. So many companies make their money figuring out how to hook you.