skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
_I'd prefer if HN was unmoderated._

That is very interesting. You do not seem naïve, so I infer you you are well aware of the social dynamics at play in an unmoderated forum.

On such a site, if I say that attacking Mr. Dash for being an asshole itself is an ad hominem, somebody is going to say, "STFU, Nigger!"

A bunch of other people, whether because they're racists, or just enjoy the spectacle, will upvote that comment and downvote me to obscurity.

Somebody else will say, "Incorrect. He's not a nigger, he's a mulatto."

A third person will play along as the straight man. "What's the difference?"

The reply will come by swift rickshaw: "About twelve dollars in confederate scrip," and will get upvotes galore.

A follow-up will say, "Nigger, mulatto, whatever, they're all going to the ovens if they won't relocate out of the white settlements."

Communities that stop moderating quickly become toxic, because even the smallest amount of toxicity drives un-toxic people away, and attracts toxic people, and without anything to stop it, the trend accelerates, until the site is dumpster fire.

And it's not just the comments. People would get away with positing all sorts of political and social stuff, "because unmoderated." Many of the people who come here for the tech would leave, because this would no longer be tech-heavy.

The "truthiness" of the front page would slide rapidly as the site becomes an echo chamber, until it would be unrecognizable as Hacker News in anything except name.

I presume you know that, so I also presume that what you mean is, you prefer a site where we would never have this conversation, because I would no longer be here.

In fact, nobody would have this conversation, because everybody here would be united in their contempt of Mr. Dash, anyone like him, and anyone who doesn't immediately denounce anything he says on the basis of him saying it.

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I am tempted to indulge in a little fallacious reasoning myself and say that what you want is not a "True Hacker News," because it would quickly become a completely different site with different people, talking about different things, in a completely different tone of voice.

But perhaps I am wrong, and what you want is all the same people, talking about the same things, but without anybody getting banned or any posts being killed.

If so... I don't think that is a stable state. Moderation is a local maxima, dumpster fire is another local maxima, and everything in between eventually gets pulled to one of the two stable states.
Too funny, but sooo TRUE!! What has the world come to, or better yet, what have we allowed?
In 2017 Seattle added ~8700 new houses.

Average household size in Seattle in 2 people. Figure it is probably under 2 on average for people moving to the city.

So Seattle is under-building 2k-4k houses (conservatively! 10k worst case) per year, and has been for quite some time now.

Of course prices are going up and people are being priced out.
SAST tools take a lot of work to get up and running. If you're just running them out of the box, you're probably doing it wrong.
A sibling repo to collect anonymised datasets would be superb. Or does that exist already?
I don't think that we're prepared at all for how much, and from how little, machine learning might be able to deduce about us. Combined with how our behavior is tracked in high resolution by Facebook, Google, and the rest, we're heading straight for the kind of future depicted in films like Gattaca, but they won't even need to test your DNA for it. Just upload a short video of your friend/employee/kid to videotherapist.ai and find out if they're more likely to be an arsonist or a physicist!
So forbes now has a freaking video in the corner that I can't close? WTF?
The author seems to be arguing that each additional unit of new housing draws in an additional laborer. The professional worker brings personal equity to the city as an investment into the housing market. Their presence improves the local professional market and increases demand for housing. This attracts another worker. The demand for the housing increases while unsatiated by the original increase in supply.

It's a situation where the means of dealing with supply will lead to an increase in demand.

Although, based on this, I think low income housing would have a more positive impact than going nuts with high end developments.
Accusations? They sold networking equipment with accompanying Cisco manuals. Ha.

Big picture, is the world better off with Huawei’s rise? It depends on your perspective.

If you care about the global environment, Huawei’s costs are so low because they do not have to satisfy environmental standards as they do in the west... That is the basis of most cost differentials outside of labor supply/demand.
Nice - this is exactly how vested interests would put it - in very convincing economic terms that are hard for anyone to argue with. That's my point exactly.
> the alternative would be to make it illegal to own housing you don't live in

In such a world, how would anyone find a rental to live in? There are benefits to being able to rent in many different life situations.
Nothing if you don’t care about AVX workloads you can get a 9900K and set it to 5.0ghz with an AVX offset of 2 pretty much out of the box.

Unless the KS would guarantee a 5.3-5.4 all core OC I don’t see it being anything more than a PR release anyhow.

That said I’m not even sure if the 9900KS doesn’t come with an AVX offset to begin with most higher end motherboards come with a 9900K 5.0 preset anyhow which sets the voltage to about 1.3-1.325 and an AVX offset of 3 it just yells at you that you need a good cooling solution and this is not guaranteed to work.
In theory, Intel
There is always a silver lining to authoritarianism.
I'm starting to believe that a fixing inequality will help the most. A $20 minimum wage and 70% tax rates on those earning more than $50k will end a lot problems. A job in SF, NYC will not look so great. People will move back to the mid-West because it'll make financial sense. Fewer immigrants would move to these high priced cities, the demand bubble would pop, and entrepreneurs will start companies all over the world instead of the Bay Area.
I think parent is referring (with accidental substitution) to the widely cited "Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19802482

Taken literally, there's no contradiction between housing being affordable and being a financial instrument.

But I think s/he meant the theme of that article, that housing can't be both a reliable investment we think of it as, and affordable. If you make it reliably affordable, like food, then you can still invest in its related instruments, but it's not a good idea, since e.g. corn futures are not expected to reliably appreciate in value.
How does building more of it ever make it more attractive as an investment?
> For example, about 20 million people tuned in to watch the first episode of the latest season of hit show Game of Thrones.

> It was one of the most-watched non-sporting events in TV history.

This is not even close to true.

Nearly 17 million people watched the Murder She Wrote finale in 1996. In the 1970s, each year, the highest rated episodes of All In The Family were consistently over 20 million. Seinfeld had 35 million once. 60 minutes has gone over 20 million many times.

Grace Under Fire, a mediocre sitcom most people here have never heard of, averaged about 20 million viewers for a full season in the mid 1990s.

I love when TV writers act like TV didn’t exist before The Sopranos.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_watched_televis...
DXC: We axed 10k staff, shut nine data centres, closed 4.6m sq ft of office spac
You would be paying (indirectly) the property tax even to live in a rental, so I don't think that you should count that as a home ownership cost (any more than you'd count cable, gas, or electric bills as ownership costs) if you are going to live in the property.
> In regards to only high end housing being built

In any case, someone moving into a high-end home means they left some other less high-end home available for someone else.
There are open source tools for CVE checking, which is a good start, there are also commercial alternatives like Whitesource. CSP headers can help. So is only using packages that are actively updated.
This short (6 minute) film talks about the work done by Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic workshop.

There's also this 8 minute audio: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p033jvrq

And this 43 minute Radio 3 programme: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b041y0tl
Pure scam in operation here, no one is actually paying over $1M for this piece of junk chock full of viruses.
No, that's what an incompetent and/or corrupt inspection regime buys you. Either the building complies with fire codes or it does not.
I don't agree that empathizing with other species is letting one's empathy run amok. I think there is a severe deficit of empathy in Western culture.
Maybe not shorting Netflix, but a long bet on Disney?
Foie gras is no more cruel than any other meat product.

This is another example of misrepresentation for dubious reasons, manufactured outrage.
I have an address on "cs.stanford.edu", from decades ago. I'm surprised that it's still turned on. Probably dates from when I was a visiting scholar in the 1990s and CS was a much smaller department.
It’s not a fair comparison. Let’s not forget - no commercials
Wow, cool, you're right. Just checked. Thanks :)
We Can’t Support Modifications to Texas’ Anti-Slapp Law
Reddit moderators are volunteers, it’s an unpaid position.
Dependabot is now free
The article addresses their status as animals just fine.

> Rats were declared a pest in 1950, making rat control mandatory.

Rats are a pest because they can survive all over the globe, and in transit, as an invasive species, and multiply quickly. Societies all around the world have independently discovered the need for pest control because of how much damage (including spreading disease) they cause and how difficult population control is, and a term for "pest" exists in multiple languages. There are places that treat them far less humanely, and places where non-pest animals are much less protected.
It's not about houses, it's about location: people pay for the right to live in a good location. If you want to lower prices, you need to increase to ability for people to life in certain locations: close to work, public amenities, close to outdoors, and sports facilities.
Not so convinced by this. The "evidence" he links to is an opinion piece, not an empirical paper. The anecdotal evidence of prices going up in Toronto despite supply increases is equally unconvincing. For all we know prices would have gone up much more without supply increases. And at the end of the piece he even admits that prices would go down if supply increases were truly large... Well then do it. Build a huge amount. In the case of SF, level SOMA and put up 20 story apartment blocks. What do we have to lose? It's not like SOMA is picturesque.
I may have changed some addition registry settings from the documents over at:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4073119/protect-aga...

According to the powershell app

PS> Get-SpeculationControlSettings

All mitigations are disabled. No need to do anything in BIOS.
Shoutout for calling himself a "path'ological reverse engineer"
I was forced out of my PhD program because of my religious opinions
The article author argues that more housing = more people = more powerful network = increased value of housing = increased willingness to pay = increased prices; and I think the author is concerned that the increased prices from network growth outpace, or at least keep pace, with decreased cost from increased stock. I don't think this is fundamentally at odds with supply and demand - one force is shifting the whole curve, while the other is moving the city along the curve.
USC’s penny-sized robotic bee
Multiple people here have said Metafilter in response to you. My experience is that it was a toxic, classist cesspit where open misandry was embraced as some kind of cheap substitute for feminism.

In other words, it didn't actually empower women. It just tolerated women venting about how very, very angry they were at men and, to some degree, taking it out on male members in AskMe who dared to ask questions about their love life. One particularly ugly incident involved a man asking for support resources for himself to cope with his wife having been raped. He was basically told he was an asshole for asking.

I wrote a long reply with actual suggestions which was deleted by the mods as "tangential" and "not answering the question." I posted it to my blog, where he soon found it and private messaged me and thanked me profusely and told me how traumatic it had been to basically be told he was an asshole for seeking support, a comment that got favorited at least 70 times.

There are no perfect communities and a good community experience is partly up to you to craft for yourself. Some Reddits seem to be decent places with a sense of community. I've been on email lists that worked for me for a time.

Hacker News had a genuine sense of community when I first joined. It seems to have less of that these days, partly a product of scale. It's grown a lot and it's hard to keep a sense of community at scale.

Even in IRL communities, large cities rely more on formality to help make up for the inability to know everyone.

The human mind seems able to have a sense of community with a group of up to 150 people. I had access to information from an internal study of one community that suggested that only 20 percent of members were 'active' participants, either regularly or occasionally. Another ten percent participated once or rarely and the rest lurked. This seems to fit with what I have observed elsewhere.

So that means that about 750 accounts gets you about 150 active participants. Anything beyond that and you see challenges in fostering a sense of community.

I've long speculated that HN's leader board ought to be 150 names instead of 100 to help foster some sense of community here, but it's a completely untested hypothesis and not anything I feel strongly enough about to actively campaign for.
Huawei was number 2 ahead of Apple in Q1 2019[1].

[1]https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/3Fn1mqLMMpADLzTeJ0q6yoHShyY=...
I think human and other species are both need to live and be permitted to be sufficiently free in the world, but that it is valid to attack them for self defense or for food (not to be mandatory, but only permitted, if it is not endangered species), but not for other reason. There is over population, but over population is mainly the human over population I think, so that is the first thing to solve. However, I also think that you should protect yourself too, if is necessary to do so. Human is not (currently) a endangered species and should not be over protected compared with everyone else (but that does not mean it should be disregarded, either); however, you can protect your own children if needed to be (if you have any; I prefer to don't have any children, to avoid to contribute to such problem).
It would help somewhat but if a city is deciding how to zone a plot of land to best address the housing problem, smaller/cheaper units would be the more efficient route.

>> Right now if you make $120,000/yr in SF as an entry level software developer

SF's government doesn't care much about those making 100+/year. They are looking at a sea of homeless people. They need/want to address the lower end of the market, apartments for waiters and bus drivers.
Verdaccio is an incredible tool. We (https://sheetjs.com) use it in production for distributing node modules to customers.

Before verdaccio, we used to post tarballs that customers would download and use, but that became cumbersome. We looked into the official npmjs service, but their pricing model ($7/user/mo, sharing private modules requires all users to have a paid account) didn't make sense in a situation with many users downloading once a month. Verdaccio let us manage the distribution on a single $5/mo digital ocean droplet and it's been working very well. We post modules to a separate scope and users configure their npm clients to download from our registry for that specific scope.

It was the first time we came across an open source project where we could actually quantify the saving, and our contributions through their OC (https://opencollective.com/verdaccio) are a drop in the bucket compared to the savings.
With all due respect, you're wrong.

In AA there is celebration around milestones (first days, then months then years of sobriety) and there is some discussion of past drinking. You'll often see a lot of both in movies, newcomer meetings or early treatment.

But substance abusers are selfish so a core function of working an aa program aside from trying to help others quit (objectively using ones own experience to help another) is actively taking inventory of past and present resentments, fears and selfishness to determine "what was/is your role in X?" and then making an amend to correct the wrong.
Isn't there a point after market saturation where a large enough glut of luxury condos just causes their rent to be pushed down into the realm of affordability? (Not a Silicon Valley person, or aspirant).
It's probably not very useful to ask for too much, in a generic manner. My approach is to ask about what is not obvious or answerable by reading the privacy policy.

For example source of particular data point that I have not given myself (like phone number, etc.), and that is not publicly available.

Most of the answers to questions in the access request are usually available on the comapny's website already. And if you send generic sounding e-mail, you'll get a generic reply to read the privacy policy.
This truth v. fiction binary is common thinking but far too simplistic.

The idea that there is just a set of facts on one side of the fence and on the other is all the lies -- and the dumb hoi polloi just tends to always go for the "bad side"... This is just simplistic, unimaginative, unrealistic thinking.

Even a cluster of the most brutally "true" of facts can be so readily misconstrued and misapplied and result and motivate terrible consequences. Anyone who claims to have the truth might be holding on to a few axioms resembling facts -- but they will always be applying their own visceral interpretation of what should be done with those facts.

So when the hoi polloi favors fiction over facts, it's less for any of the reasons mentioned here which incidentally are all rooted in the (frankly, dumb) idea that the hoi polloi is dumb. They're not. They look past the trivial truth of small, static 'facts' and are looking at the bigger picture which requires metaphor and right-hemispheric perception, etc.
Headsup for those managing Windows 10 boxen: Microsoft has tweaked patching rul
Ash HN: How do you monitor success/failure of your overnight backups?
In our company we have several servers that we are backing up regularly. All backups are copied on a single machine and from there they are copied off-site.

Depending on the server and data type backups are sometimes database dumps (or wal files) or just filesystem rsyncs, or just tar archives of a directory - mostly overnight backups but for some databases we make hourly dumps. At present moment I occasionally check that each backup directory on backup machine contains the latest (today's) archive files. Ideally, I would like to have an automated system that checks each of the predefined directories on a backup machine for today's files and if they are missing (which means that the backup failed) to send some kind of alarm. Is there a solution of that kind or if not, what are your strategies for ensuring that backup is running without failures?
> Is it possible to minimize storage with solar? No. It doesn't generate at night, that requires an enormous amount of energy storage to overcome, pure solar is a fail.

A grid dominated by solar means power at night will cost 2-3 times day time rates. And demand for it will drop sharply.
Highlighting passages doesn’t aid my memory, but speaking them does
How is this even art? We literally have dozens of similar laptops with all those viruses.
After jacking up the rent at every opportunity and ejecting one after another of my neighbors over the last ~decade, the landlord of the buildings next door (12 or 15 apartments altogether) sold the properties to an investment firm that boarded them all up and has been keeping them empty for about a year and allowing trash and demolition rubble to pile up. As the price continues to rise they are running out the clock to get permission to restructure the properties as condos and sell at a hefty profit.

Meanwhile the buildings lie empty while poor people live in tents in the park across the street. They do a much better job of keeping the little park clean than the property-rights-fetishizing assholes that are holding perfectly good housing off the market and trashing most of my block.
Reads like what's missing is all the quality of life tools and polish that developers rely on daily.

Unix hating, or Unix environment hating, is an uphill battle these days. Nowadays every major desktop and most phones have, or can have, some kind of Unix or Unix-like shell.

It's a bit like hating C. I'll probably still be writing C in ten years. I'm not so certain about _any other language_.
What if I keep stealing your car, non-violently?
I would hope that my parents could tell me from another caller :-)
I am unashamed to say that I'm a "human supremacist". I believe that humans are at the top of the food chain for a good reason. If it's necessary to choose, human life should generally always be prioritized over that of other animals. I feel that letting rats thrive rather than removing them to fix sanitation problems is morally wrong. Of course ideally there would be some humane solution like moving them elsewhere, but that's not always feasible.
I'm also confident that human overpopulation is a myth, and that all the problems attributed to that would be better fixed by technological improvements instead of somehow reducing the population. Fun fact: the entire population of the world could fit into Texas, and it would still have a population density less than NYC.
What you just described, minus YouTube is $40 a month. That’s really not that difficult for a lot of people, compared to how much cable use to cost, plus add ons. I already pay for Hulu, Netflix, and HBO, and I don’t mind paying another $7 for Disney+

Content isn’t free, and makers deserve to get paid.

Edit with sourcing:
64% of households making less than $15k have cable.
https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/data/2001/applia...

The lowest cable packages across the country are $22.57
https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/05/cut-your-ca...

Signing up for Hulu and Disney+ will give you all the content you’re looking for in the same price envelope sub $15k households are already willing to pay.
Why not loop through different streaming services through the year? Have only a single subscription at a time. The friction to sign up for a streaming service is minimal compared to getting a new cable connection. Of course, this would require that one be willing to wait to watch the latest episode of a show.
After countless majestic infections in his laptop, restricting my dad to only using a large iPad pro (with a keyboard) has saved me countless hours of maintenance.
They often have call back numbers from what I have heard.
> And it is known that Huawei made a castling move few months ago by switching licensing from ARM UK to ARM China

Do you have a reference for this?
That’s literally what Apple TV’s strategy is
One thing I didn't realize till I talked to someone who works in IT procurement for a populous county in KC was that they can capitalize buying servers, and finance via bonds, vs. using cloud providers, which comes out of their operational budget.
Let's try it and see.