skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reddit played a big part in the 2016 USA elections that crowned Trump. Reddit had to change its front page algorithm to avoid having Trump content near the top of the page for almost the whole time. The subreddit in question organized itself to mass-upvote certain posts at certain times, and Reddit wasn't prepared for such massive, non-organic influence.

I wonder how big of a part the Russian bots and trolls played. I'd love to read an in-depth book about it.
Yeah thank god.

Even if it's uglier, I much prefer the experience of using old website than the React redesign.

Not because it's a single-page app, but because it's slower and has many usability problems.
Data Science Themes and Conferences per Pacoid
It amazes me the kind of sheer incompetency their product team has demonstrated over the past 2-3 years. (Edit - as pointed out in replies to this post, this is an unfair characterization fueled by my recent frustrations with the direction the site is going. I don't think it is unreasonable to point out that reddit is failing the expectations of their users, but I don't doubt for a minute that the individuals working at reddit are very talented)

10 years ago when reddit would go down, you rooted for them as the underdog to figure it out. Now when it happens, it's just sad. They still can't even handle the kind of traffic that the super bowl brings them. They've had years to figure this out.

What has the focus been if not stabilizing their infrastructure? It appears to be the introduction of a single page application that feels clunky, conceals ads better, and implements all kinds of dark UX patterns.

Meanwhile, there are still bugs that have existed for years that still aren't fixed. There's even a redirect loop that you can get stuck in during authentication in certain scenarios that will completely break the site and bring you back to the same page until your session expires. It's been there for at least a year now.

Reddit has gone full digg v4

EDIT: After thinking about this more, I'm not sure that reddit going full digg v4 means that they'll share the same outcome as digg. The internet now seems to be a small set of companies so entrenched in their position due to swallowing mass amount of users and raising enough funds to optimize all the various little corners that can be optimized. Reddit might not actually be dead, but as they continue to optimize the weird and cool ways that people used to use the site, I know it will be for me.
But for the other versions the key word is overlap. Since a part of the UUID is some location based number (like the MAC), there would be no overlap, even if the distribution is completely non uniform.
I thoroughly encourage everyone to learn more about Tarrare on the This Paranormal Life podcast!

https://soundcloud.com/thisparanormallife/044-tarrare-the-ma...
New dinosaur species discovered in Patagonia
> Left alone, our economies will rapidly approach 100% renewable energy due to price alone.

This is a fallacy. Just because renewables in most places are net positive on price today at ~5% market penetration, there's no guarantee that they will remain cheaper than fossil fuels once you start having to pay for grid-scale energy storage. We might well end up with a 30% renewables, 70% fossil fuels situation as the outcome of market forces alone. Furthermore, it's not the total cost of energy from e.g. solar vs. coal power that affects the decision to shut down prematurely a coal powerplant. It's only when the total cost of energy from solar becomes less than the marginal cost of coal power that market forces will shut down the coal powerplant. This means market forces alone will take a very long time to transition towards the future equilibrium.
I am looking for a book that will help me talk about abstract topics. Have you any suggestions?
Don't fuck with banks or corporations. Who do you think laws are there to protect? Average people??

Bahahahaha
Show HN: McCulloch and Pitts Neural Net Simulator
Mutual Aid by Kropotkin

Was brought up in a very toxicly pop-libertarian household, and it really opened my eyes to how much all of nature (including human culture more specifically) depends on working together towards common goals.
Thanks for mentioning Bulhakow. This is my all time most favourite book.

I mean, come on, the devil himself vs the communist party of Russia, sprinkled with loads of humour. What else do you need?
>They could have funded 150 startups for 10 years

This round is 150-300mln. How do you fund 150 startups for 10 years with 2mln per startup?
Twitter is the absolute worst of all of them, though. Of all of the platforms, it creates the greatest incentives for antisocial behavior, prioritizing shouting, content-less attention-whoring-for-clicks over everything else.

If you want to be an "influencer" on twitter (which most folks seem to want to be), you just shout the most outrageous things you can to try to cast a wider net.
It seems like their big problem is monetization. They're probably reluctant to monetize too aggressively given past experience with companies like Digg, where the users saw the system turning against them and fled.

Somehow Facebook managed to do it, but you still hear grumbling about how big of a mess the news feed is and people searching for something that can replace it.
"Baghavad gita" and "A new kind of science"
She did the same thing with Earthsea:

>The fantasy tradition I was writing in came from Northern Europe, which is why it was about white people. I’m white, but not European. My people could be any color I liked, and I like red and brown and black. I was a little wily about my color scheme. I figured some white kids (the books were published for “young adults”) might not identify straight off with a brown kid, so I kind of eased the information about skin color in by degrees—hoping that the reader would get “into Ged’s skin” and only then discover it wasn’t a white one.
Sadly I feel like Reddit has become like a Facebook news feed.

That and the fact that now so many comments keep getting deleted and posts locked makes me wonder who the target audience is these days.

Also the overzealous moderators are annoying.
Their mobile website has also started literally animating the "get the app" button; every minute or so, the button pulses for a bit in a deliberate (and in my case, consistently successful) attempt to make your attention move to the button they want you to click instead of the content you want to read.

The reddit community is great, but the company seems to not care about their users at all.
'A Little Life' by Hanya Yanagihara
and
'In Order to 'Live' by Yeonmi Park
genuine question. is reddit good place to advertise a B2B software? my startup offers B2B warehousing/ecommerce solution and I never thought about reddit in that way even if I visit its front page daily.
Why Apple Is Patenting Swift Features, Even Though It's Open Source
If you enjoyed Marcus Aurelius, you'd probably enjoy reading Seneca.

"On The Shortness of Life"[1] is my favorite work of his, though there are many other gems among his letters.

[1] - https://tripinsurancestore.com/4/on-the-shortness-of-life.pd...
I have an Espar diesel forced air heater and a Coleman RV rooftop AC. I can run the AC off my alternator when driving, off shore power, or a generator.

I've put over 20k miles on it. My home area is Austin, TX but I've traveled to the northeast a few times and to New Mexico. I'll be heading west again soon.
I'm pulling these numbers out of a hat, but I would wager users with rooted Android devices are below 1% of the mobile user base, and probably below 0.1% of the total user base including desktop.
At least Let's Encrypt has made certificates easier than ever to add and update. Installation of a self-updating certificate takes less than 10 minutes on many server setups.
Two tiny books by Stephen Wolfram (Actually transcribed lectures):

- "Computation and the Future of the Human Condition"
- "On the Quest for Computable Knowledge"

And by extension his proper book - "A new kind of science". The two above books might require you have at least played with (and enjoy) cellular automata to latch on to the concepts he is talking about with enthusiasm.

These tiny books in combination with some other similar books and ideas transformed the way I think about the world, physically, biologically, technologically - all from the perspective of computation - in terms of computational reducibility, kolmogorov complexity, emergence and entropy (RE maxwells demon - the meaning of life? more like the universal property resulting in the emergence of life like patterns and fluctuations in energy and matter)... sorry all a bit vauge, but difficult to articulate succinctly, read the (very short) books and maybe you will latch on to the same train of thought, it was mentally transformative for me.
I'm really amazed they still let the old mobile interface work for the most part. Just add ".compact" to any URL and browse almost annoyance free (newer features like video don't work, but that's not too surprising).
Partita for Eight Voices [0] is one of the most remarkable choral pieces I've ever heard. Got a chance to hear it performed live by Roomful of Teeth and was mesmerized the entire time.

[0] https://open.spotify.com/album/4LHSzEQPF6Iw20BGppFk31
That was beyond unacceptable because it didn't show the comment as have been edited with an asterisks. Which means they have and use special admin powers at will.

The only issue to Reddit it seems was that he was caught doing it.
Also, by extending the time for copyrights again and again, they're eliminating the possibility of adaptation and remixing, which can fuel creativity and more the culture forward.

But, hey, Mickey MAY be in the public domain 2024!
ref: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/a-whole-years-wo...
I viewed this as a red flag too until I landed at a company where the unlimited vacation policy was sincere. It was actually a great experience.

At risk of sounding like a management consultant, it was very much a matter of corporate culture. People at upper levels took vacation regularly and actively encouraged their reports to do so. One-on-ones often included asking about recent and planned time off, and "none, none" produced real pressure to use the policy. The lack of set days did save money when people left, which probably helped it stick around, but I think the initial adoption of 'unlimited' instead of some generous allowance was basically just a matter of not wanting to formally track vacation time. (One other significant point, especially for tech: there wasn't an expectation of having grand plans, and people who weren't taking time off would even be reminded that they didn't need any "good reason" to do so. I've definitely heard of places where taking a month off to hike the Andes is fine, but taking two days to catch up on sleep and errands is frowned on.)

I still don't take "unlimited vacation" seriously when I see companies advertise it; I'd want an account of the real policy, minimally from Glassdoor reviews or preferably from an employee I knew. But I almost never see US companies advertise 20+ days of paid vacation as a starting allowance, so if the goal is to maximize time off I suspect searching for 'real' unlimited might still be the best bet.
I'm sure this was all done above-board (i.e. in compliance with the local wage laws)
Good point. Especially as we move towards digital distribution.

Film reels required manufacturing, assembly, installing, and operation, even if the content was already paid for.

Digital video? Revenue goes directly to the owner, minus some capital costs, but critically almost no labor cost.
Only if you set the keepalive option, such as:

int yes = 1;
setsockopt(s, SOL_SOCKET, SO_KEEPALIVE, &yes, sizeof(yes));

Most servers (Xserver, imapd, sshd) set it.
We moved off Mandrill back in 2016 when they changed their TOS effective immediately for one of their major use cases (sending newsletters).

I'm kinda glad now they forced the issue.

HN coverage of that event: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11203056
This is not that book. That's a great question though, I'd love an answer too.
> I wish slack was as little bloated as irc clients

LOL. Most people use mIRC on windows, tell me this is not bloated.
Aside from the other mentioned reasons, browsers can have ad blockers installed. The reddit mobile app ensures they can monetize.

[edit] now that I think of it, probably the same reason Twitch was pushing its desktop app.
>There's nothing wrong with that as a hypothesis.

Well it's not Popperian, so it is controversial in that regard.

I'm actually completely fine with the first part of your hypothesis ("With the following 'arms' for the bandit"). Since an n-armed bandit experiment is just a shorthand for n-1 vs everything else experiments.

However I'm a bit confused/concerned by the procedure for developing more arms. What kind of situation are you imagining where that's useful? (Like I'd really want to hear a concrete example of this style of hypothesis).
It's a happy memory now. Things shift and change. I satisfy my curiosity now thanks to that old and trusted friend slsk.
Really? I thought it was a fantastic reminder to users: they hold all the cards, and pretending otherwise is just diluting yourself.

If only other online platforms were that honest! Imagine Google sending out misleading gmails in your name, or Facebook mining your private messages for incriminating secrets and offering to "share" them with all your friends.

There's nothing technical preventing any of these kinds of abuses, and the sooner average users understand that, the sooner we'll have support for strong legal protections to rein in big tech companies.
Really wish they let people save a transcript.
Half of the anthropogenic CO2 has been emitted in the last 25 years, and emissions continue to accelerate.

We can pretend it isn't happening, we can ridicule older predictions for not being precise to the day or year, or we can acknowledge that study after study increases the weight of evidence. Evidence that makes abundantly clear we should have started doing something decades ago. Even the oil companies had their own internal predictions of severe climate change back in the 70s and 80s. Prediction is always going to be an imprecise science, but that does not invalidate it in the slightest.

Edit: The prediction you highlight still looks sound. "entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000". We didn't reverse the trend by 2000 and it still seems inevitable that the Maldives are on borrowed time.

http://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/history_legacy/keeling_curve_less...

https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
I think I get what you're saying, now. Sounds like more of a critique of North American/protestant work ethic coupled with our acclimating to convenience.

I think that's probably a whole other subject to be tackled.

Aristotle's core point above would be along the lines of:

Relaxation (in order to) -> Work (in order to) -> Leisure (the goal, for its own sake)

Leisure and relaxation being entirely different activities, or lack thereof.

Maybe think of leisure in this case being the activity of passion/deep interest or communal good or else that might not come in returns that pay for any other aspect of your life directly. Work being the activity (that you may well enjoy enough, or have interest in) that pays for everything and allows you time and/or resources for leisure. Relaxation is what helps you essentially stay sane and healthy in order to follow through with the rest.

So it seems like you aren't taking on peoples' ability for leisure, but NA society's values that prevent it [for most people].
I think there's an option in your account settings, you don't just click the "return to old site" banner, you have to toggle a setting.

Whenever I'm logged in it's always the old version. RES helps too!
If the service is writing code, I won't give them the work if they end up wanting a refund. If the service is something monthly, I'd only offer a guarantee on the first month. So I'd say it would still definitely work for freelancers/consultants. Jonathan Stark has a lot of material about this subject that covers more of the nuances.
I'm guessing the first order (a whole house!) was more than large enough to cover the cost of an extra free delivery though. This is about relationship management at that point, which won't be the same for a hobbyist only doing one smaller project.
Aren't the majority of users on iOS or unrooted android?
The Hummingbird as Warrior: Evolution of a Fierce and Furious Beak
The US Senate and the Presidential election processes are certainly not things to try to copy...

They can both lead to anti-democratic results. In fact the Presidential election process was originally designed purposely to avoid giving the people a direct and full say.

That being said, the EU already has something similar... the member countries represented equally by their governments.
There's quite a few poor in the Bay Area, or in the LA Basin, or in the East Coast megapolis. Some of them are within a day's march of Silicon Valley, or Beverly Hills, or Downtown Manhattan (though it might be more defensible against those not already on the island).

Just being "not in flyover country" isn't going to save the elites if the poor seriously rise.
With over 75% of their revenue reported to be software revenue (https://talkingbiznews.com/1/report-bloombergs-revenue-hit-1...), I'd call them a tech company. The public perception is focused on the news aspect because that's the most accessible part of their business.

I don't have any other examples at or above their size.
Personally I've found lots of quality discussion outside the usual places. /r/europe tends to have nice debates every now and then. I'm sure other regions or subjects have nice communities where people discuss things without insulting each other.
This is the whole point of globalization. Companies go and pay next to nothing for labor that would cost vastly more in developed nations. Ideally it gradually helps build up an economic system in the targeted nations at which point they move onto the next country where they can pay as little as possible and so on, again ideally gradually developing the entire world as you skip from nation to nation.

As a 'closer to home' example, IBM now has more employees in India than anywhere else. Here [1] are the Glassdoor figures for IBM India. The average compensation for a "software engineer" is $8390 per year - about $23 per day. If we assume an 8 hour work day that's less than $3/hour. Bump that up a bit because of time off/holidays and the average real compensation is going to be around $3.50 an hour. And that's for a software engineer at IBM in India, which is a 'less undeveloped' nation than many others. $1/hour for mindless tasks is already not looking so bad.

I'm not a fan of globalization, but for different reasons. It may be arguably exploitative of less developed areas, but it also has a negative affect on more developed nations as well. IBM can hire a dozen software engineers in India for the price of one graduate in e.g. America. There's a reason they're shifting their labor to India. This is completely fine, yet then they turn around and continue to rely on the US as the primary market for their products. E.g. in the case of Figure Eight they source their labor from the poorest places on this Earth and then turn around and sell the 'product' to Google, Facebook, Twitter, Mozilla, American Express, etc. [2]

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To clarify one thing, I do not think engaging in these practices is morally wrong. My objection is of a social/economic nature. I think these practices are a net negative on the countries where these companies' sell their product while sidestepping their labor standards and wages in creation of that product. In other words this is a practice I would engage in as an individual concerned for myself, but simultaneously lobby the government to work to curtail as an individual concerned for my nation.

[1] - https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/IBM-India-Salaries-EI_IE354...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_Eight_Inc.
Hello,

I saw this new post online on the Hacker News site today for App developers in particular full stack developers who have some knowledge in technologies such as Python, flask and Linux.

Well, I had completely forgot about viewing it and so I was checking out Hacker News job board today and a newer post for a full-time opening available at the US Securities & Exchange Commission for a Full stack/Python developer in the NYC area.

Well I'm someone who enjoys coding and learning with Python as far as learning purposes/hobbies go. Plus, I'm someone who has been going the self taught route trying to break into the IT field/Python Development world.

But, more than anything.. I'd looking to further learn and grow in my skills as far as Python development goes. I don't have much experience with Django Web development but feel I can learn and pick up on it as well as with any other technology requirements quickly.

After quickly reading your post on Hacker News I was encouraged and interested to reach out and contact you for more info.

So with that said, here I am..and I wanted to inquire to find out if this opening is available for those with years of experience? I had to ask because but I wasn't sure if you meant junior or for more seasoned developers.

Also, you have a contact number to learn more about this position or information on the things you require in regards to the nature of the job to increase one's chances to be a part of your startup team? Any help in this matter will be greatly appreciated. Thank you

If you like, please feel free to reach me at pydeveloper22@gmail.com

--K
I've been switching the "www" in "www.reddit.com" to "old" with good results.
Who's fault is that? They're trying to get you to use Chrome or the Reddit app to view the AMP links so I wasn't sure who to blame.
A LOT of people are put off by the name of the book. I would highly suggest you not judge Carnegie's book by it's cover. It is filled with brass-tacks advice and concrete examples of how to improve your own life and the lives of others around you. Though the title may seem 'manipulative', the book is anything but that. Consider the title as a marketing gimmick from 1933 and read the book nonetheless.
I would actually be OK with the new site design if it didn't tank performance and have some really weird caching issues where I have to refresh the page to see updates.
"Raising a huge round": spin to say that Tencent is buying a 10% stake.
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This is a depressing thread. :(
The George Long translation is available as a proofed and libre ebook at SE if anyone wants to read it: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/marcus-aurelius/meditation...
You should read the short story “Glacial” in “Galactic North” by Alastair Reynolds.
A lot of care was taken in the wording of the last IPCC report to communicate what findings have which level of confidence. The range is from 'virtually certain' to unsure, and yes, some parts are indeed not settled yet, but the main findings are more than sufficient to tell humanity that we need to act now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC_Fifth_Assessment_Report#C...

> Oh I definitely believe you on that, it's just that taking away rights from people to accomplish climate goals is not a zero-sum game and it needs to be treated with care and caution, not alarmism.

That is for the politicians to work out. The load must be balanced of course, but if we don't act fast everyone will suffer for it. Calm and fast would be best though.

edit: Oh and the recent report about the ozone hole had some good news: The ozone hole is closing and the gases that were not emitted due to the controls also saved us from ~0.4°C of warming. (If the 'business-as-usual' projections are right, but there is no way to check that.) Plus, these greenhouse gas concentrations go down over time. Much easier than CO2 and methane, but a first win!