skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google ads on desktops on Google’s site aren’t that bad. But, because of limited real estate, almost all ads on mobile devices are bad. Web page ads on other sites have gotten so annoying that the web is horrible without an ad blocker.

Strangely enough, ads in feeds like Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter don’t annoy me as much.

I also think the ads in the iOS App Store are horrible.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20014030
1. Companies are borrowing money and going into debt to buy their own stocks.
2. Some stock holders and insiders have huge holdings, a perfect supplier for the stocks to buy.
3. Stock volume exploded soon after trump was elected in the s&p 500 and the Dow. But a comparable surge in volume in the Russel 2000 and NASDAQ is not there.
4. As a result of the buying pressure, stocks rise, the market looks to rise in value.
5. Eventually money is not cheap to borrow any more.
6. More than 50% of the buying power suddenly stops.
No. Absolutely not. If the person is actually an incredible authority they will have no trouble making a compelling argument or providing strong evidence.

This is never confusing unless you lack objectivity.
All the time. I see dang smoothing things out like almost daily. You can also turn on “showdead” in your profile options, and maybe you’ll become more aware of it.
Posting on a website should be a right, not a privilege. Having trouble moderating so much content? Limit the amount of content that can be posted, and make users earn ranks to be able to post more (so there’s an incentive to play by the rules as to not lose the high-ranking account).

Speaking of standards of “asshole” being different between communities, well, the website should have a set of rules/guidelines defining what “asshole” means, and those who aren’t happy are free to go to a different website or make their own.
Your one plus has a terrible camera in low light. That is why people pay for pixel. Don't know why they do for Samsung or apple though.
It's honestly the only site (excepting certain subreddits) where after 10 years I still read the comments.
The value is a "Data Scientist" isn't that they know how to use a tool - it's that tell know why to use _that_ tool (technique) and not this other one.
Well assuming you aren't Chinese, it's not our place to get involved in their internal issues. But that doesn't mean we have to deal with people we don't like.

The USA at least is doing something which respects their sovereignty and reduces their power.
I like what he says here, but I note that this particular version of his blog doesn't have comments on it. My guess is that the site has changed since 2011.

He makes a really good point that there are lessons to be learned from, "disciplines like urban planning, zoning regulations, crowd control, effective and humane policing, and the simple practices it takes to stage an effective public event".

But I think what he's leaving out is hierarchy. In 2011, I think a "moderator class" and a "commenter class" was all you needed. But if you want people to treat each other well online, you need something more than that. There needs to be stakes. There needs to be value in building up your standing in the community, there needs to be something to be gained and lost in exchange for the community policing itself.

Right now, a community like Twitter has a sort of chaotic hierarchy. There is the average user, the influencer, the blue checkmark, and the Twitter employee/algorithm doing moderation. Who is answerable to who? How does one climb up the hierarchy? What value does a blue checkmark have in moderating an influencer? Can they? Are average users ultimately incentivized to be dicks in order to get the attention of influencers and blue checkmarks?

Maybe it's time for communities as big as Twitter to make some decisions about this and tame their userbase with more rigid and well-defined hierarchies.
I know this post is about Android versions but I recently launched a new service and have been watching user agents and I’ve been pleasantly surprised to see no matter the Android version, it’s almost always running Chrome 73/Firefox 66. I have a user running Android 5.5.1, another on some version of 4! Yet they’re on modern browsers. This isn’t true for anyone on an old iOS. Those users are stuck with old browsers, which is quite sad for the user and developer.
Hypocrisy is not a matter of opinion. The left accusing the liberals of hypocrisy should neither irk left nor right-wing audiences, so I declare this non-partisan too.
Maybe they're just targeting idle house-wives, and they happen to be often located in suburbia, but the suburban part is irrelevant?
This sounds like a very useful and safe service; thanks for providing it!
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That is their right, to make the service (not necessarily a website) limit the amount of content, require or not require registrations, have guidelines or not, to determine who gets to post. But if you do it badly, it can get obstructive.

If you have many different ones then you can see what is who like to post on what, I suppose.
ex.:

Can't see why you were downvoted?
>The model where Google provides a service and users pay for it is more efficient and more societally healthy than the model where Google provides a free service, a million companies pay to place ads on it, and pass the cost of their AdWords budget onto users who get a 'free' service.

That's cool and all, but people can't pay for it. These fees would add up quickly and you'd basically never go beyond your few webpages that you're paying for, because everything else costs money.

I probably would never have cared about the internet or anything related to computers, if websites had required people to pay. That would not have been an option for me or most people I knew growing up.
> I believe the problem comes from a conceptual mismatch of what a timezone object should be.

There seem to be two commonly understood meanings of timezone which are confused in UIs and APIs: a geographical area which follows a particular winter and summertime regime over the year; and a particular offset from UTC like GMT or BST. I've seen a lot of bad design rooted in this confusion.
And you have to abide by those unjust rules because... ?
There are 'okay' LED streetlights and there are 'bad' LED streetlights. Most of Phoenix's new streetlights are three LEDs pointed down. It seems like some of these use ~5000K leds (daylight / blue-white), while the others use ~2700K (much closer to incandescent). Some of the 2700K-ish streetlights lights I've looked at recently have different power output - a dimmer one was 'okay', the others were uncomfortable to be in the vicinity of.

All of Phoenix's new lights have no diffusion effect - they just have three LED chips pointed down. I commented on a recent submission about the invention of the frosted light bulb [0], which were more popular than the previous bulbs because it diffused the light generated by the filament.

Another LED streetlight model I've noticed (not in Phoenix) has a much more diffuse effect, because it has dozens of LEDs poined in different directions. That intersection, while inferior to the previous amber LPS bulbs, wasn't an active hazard, just mildly annoying.

Flagstaff, Arizona has some amber LED streetlights. They're too intense (too bright), but they're not painful to be in the presence of, as long as I don't look directly at the amber LEDs.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19474110
I do keep it on, because I want to see all messages even if most people hate it. Fortunately, they do not delete the messages permanently in such case, unlike some others do. (I also use custom CSS so that no messages are grey; all of them are black. If I can, I would also want to change the sort order of messages so that it is based on time (perhaps, of the most recent nested reply) rather than karma (if that is what is done; it doesn't seem to be sorted by time).)
> IMO this is a phenomenon exacerbated by venture capital.

Not just VCs. It's a whole mafia gang consisting of tech reporters and founders also. They all have their vested interests - reporters want new stories and founders want funding and growth.

Slack, VR, AR - they all went through this cycle. Sometimes, it's a bit annoying.
To me the trade of is build a wind farm in a couple of years to replace that coal fired power station, or build a nuclear power station in a couple of decades to replace it.

From a cost perspective wind is cheaper, it's in place years earlier, both those thing then lead to over sizing it for when the winds weak, but then you've got masses of cheap electricity when the wind blows, lets make hydrogen, or some other inefficient but good enough electric storage medium. By now that nuclear power station is probably built, but it can't compete against wind when the winds blowing, and it still has to compete against the hydrogen power plant when it's not.

We've seen countless times how 'good enough' wins in tech. I'm saying wind and some (however crappy) storage medium is good enough. Yes its JavaScript rather than Smalltalk or Lisp, yes essays could be written about how X is better, but it works, and if it doesn't there are a dozen lower cost, lower risk, quicker things to try than building a nuclear power station.
The median includes recruited athletes and legacies. It’s effectively useless as a measure.
My wallet is annoyed.

And as I replied to another comment, that is only one example among many.

I could write about Java 12 support, audio API, the constant changes in background processes, the multiple reboots on the UI framework, how NDK is handled and plenty others.
I think it depends on the website you're wanting to run..

I was part of a now-dead "threaded message board", which had a somewhat cliquey view of what should/shouldn't be posted. In the evening when the moderators were away, the discussion became more interesting as it strayed off-topic.

Eventually the community wanted 'to fork' so I decided to build something myself. I'm not IT trained, so first version was PL/SQL on Oracle - all I knew. v2 was the product of me buying an O'Reilly PHP/MySQL book (I still have 'platypus' somewhere).

People came.

First few years were a mess. The more technically literate people used to hack me for fun - but then would confess and provide security tips.

As the mood took me I'd add features, and then if they became troublesome fixed/killed them.

The odd person would arrive and cause trouble, and I'd have fun working out how to make them stop.
(correlate logins with emails, password, IPs, browser fingerprints etc). Then maybe experiment with hiding troll-posts from the other users, whilst displaying it to the troll, who thought they'd been ignored - etc etc.
Or maybe auto-embed some very dodgy zero-sized images in their feed, if I know they were going through a company/university proxy.

After a while it just all got quiet and relatively happy, and it's been puttering along since 2003.

It's currently got over 9 Million posts, a load of marriages and children - and a few deaths with some 'best-of posts' for the departed.

I'm fully aware this isn't impressive as a potential unicorn, but I feel there's a bazillion other little sites, like mine, happily puttering along out there that are overlooked.
Potential building value, but real land value. "This might be near something someday" != "This is already near the city center".
Yes, they take flagging privileges away. Happened to me (shadow-flagging, my flags made no difference anymore – but my flagging privileges seem to have been restored in the meantime), of course without merit. ;-)

I'm also flummoxed by some flags.

Like my election results submissions just a few minutes ago. Yes, it's not final, but projections are very accurate, and every major news outlet is reporting those.

Also a really bizarre medical story, which should fit HN's mission very well. People flagged it without comment. I thought, okay, it sounds outlandish, maybe people thought it was fake. So I submitted a bit later the peer-reviewed article in a reputable medical journal. Flagged without comments again.
I'm European too and I really wish people from Europe didn't have an attitude like yours. Some parts of Europe are incredibly poor, but of course we have a much smaller homeless problem, because if you're truly without shelter then you simply die in winter.
Having worked at Twitter on abuse, I think that Twitter could do far more. They've gotten better, but it's still trivially easy to evade bans, the moderation decisions are frequently terrible, and there are a zillion other things wrong.

That said, I think an ad-funded global discussion is impossible. You can't do good user moderation with that little money (~$0.10 per user per day total revenue, with a tiny fraction of that going to abuse prevention). I think Twitter should allow people to create semi-private spaces, zones for discussion where users can be much more firm about moderation. It should also make collaborative blocking and muting much more effective.
Perhaps, and perhaps it is just a difference of how we internalize what "Moores Law" means. Granted when Gordon postulated it, he was strictly talking about numbers of transistors, and the implication was that transistors were a leading indicator of performance.

Since I lean more on the 'performance' side of things, that was the end of 'single thread performance scaling', or put another way, that was when the performance of a single core stopped doubling every 18 months or so. And everyone switched over to dealing with Amdahl's law instead.
Those services would still exist in other countries. They just wouldn't exist in the EU.
You're gonna get the "lots of progress in hardware part" back soon, even without Moore's law :|

...but you're likely not going to like it: will be a rain of exotic heterogeneous computing platforms first, with various ML/AI-accelerators all tailored to specific areas, at first used in IoT and mobile, then everywhere else. Thinks like NN-accelerators you now see in some mobile chips and "secondary chips" like T2s and what ever will become the dominant sources of computing power in systems, dwarfing the general-porpose-and-portable CPUs. And all software interacting with these will stop being portable in the way we know it, and as a result of network effects apps will no longer be portable across the many OS-flavours we'll have.

Second wave will be when ML gets to the point where it is heavily used to design hardware: you'll have an explosion of hardware architectures with non-(human-brain-comprehensible) instruction sets (plus maybe even with analog computing modules), to the point that compilers will likely not even be able to be coded by hand in "assembler", we'll need to have evolved compiler-generator-genrate-generators too etc.

Progress is coming back, and it will accelerate... just that it will not be the ape-brain-comprehensible kind of progress we knew before...
The IRS scam has been particularly interesting. A wave of them came through our area code, so I convinced a friend to let me talk to the scammers when it came to his phone. They had ${friend}'s name and address associated with the number, and got mad when I said (truthfully) "that's not me". I'm still curious what datasource they're using to match those three bits of information together...
> This post is more reasonable for smaller curated communities, but as we can see from, well, every large social website that exists currently, it can be difficult to scale. I'm curious what the other thinks the solution would be to an obvious example like Twitter.

One solution would be to not jam the entire world's conversations into a couple of gigantic, one-size-fits-all platforms.

You ask what solution would work for a platform like Twitter. Consider that the problem may simply be that Twitter exists at all.
I have "show dead" turned on and most of the time the same account posting dead comment after dead comment keeps it up for weeks.
The Broken Promise of the Internet
"You should have real humans dedicated to monitoring and responding to your community."

If you're a for-profit company, you have to pay them. At least minimum wage. See Hallissey v. America Online, Inc. They're employees.
Reddit is a conglomerate of them, not an interest specific forum itself
Multiple ideas.

The best one hands down was installing an ad blocker. Before that I had a few questions about "Is this thing saying I won an iPhone real? It seems to good to be true", now they don't even see it anymore.

The second is separate hardware for authentication. The bank login and wire transfer to an unknown account requires them to punch an 8 digit number on a card reader, and type back the result in the browser. This way, there can't be any full compromise.

Last one was education: snail mail scams were a thing in the past (I had no idea when they told me about it, which is quite humbling really). Draw the parallels: unless it's someone you know, they could be trying to take advantage of you.

So far it worked, no issues to report.
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> I feel like Anil Dash is pretty much the last person who should be talking about internet “assholes”.

Your feelings may have tempted you into making this off-topic post. The linked essay concerns comment section protocols, not personalities.
Firefox has some sort of “profiles” thing, does it not? Can you change settings per profile?
It wasn't 'just' hype, but it was over-hyped. There are companies that have their act together from a data standpoint and can make use of data scientists, whatever that term actually means in the context of their organization, but most can't. So the companies who spun up a data science initiative but had no business doing so are now likely saying things like 'what do you mean we don't have the necessary data?' and 'what do you mean our data is a mess?' etc. and will quietly back off over time. Likewise, the companies who can take advantage of it will quietly do so. No different than the hype surrounding every other buzzword in tech... there is no silver bullet.
CFCs in the atmosphere are still dropping. (The news was that the rate at which CFCs disappear has slowed down a bit, and some are pointing at China for that.) I'd say the policy was pretty effective.
My point was that increases in efficiency is the only thing people will accept. Everything else will cause people to not accept it, berceuse their quality of life suffers as a result.
Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed: Ray Dalio
Where do you keep your cash reserves?
Hi! I’ve been curious about this for a while now, and have spent quite a bit of time reading research reports about it. After pouring through statistics and studies, I’ve decided to ask some entrepreneurs directly for input. So, here it goes. As an emerging business, where do you keep your cash reserves? In a bank savings account, in a money market fund, invested in equities (I imagine this is for larger businesses holding the reserves for longer periods of time), or somewhere else?
OP said "change the constitution and give the govt more power". It's clear that OP's point is to oppose things that erode freedom, not that the constitution represents perfection.
> If the person is actually an incredible authority they will have no trouble making a compelling argument or providing strong evidence.

This is false in many contexts.

For example with Chess, a super GM may tell you your move is bad because they have calculated a ton of possible continuations from your move and you end up in a losing endgame. If you can't follow their calculations and/or don't know enough endgame theory, you won't be able to tell if what they are saying is correct.

Similarly with say cryptography. If you don't understand enough about the field and state of the art. You may not be able to understand how some encryption might be able to be broken.
If I were playing chess in the park and Gary Kasporov walks by, sees a move that I'm about to make and says "that's a mistake, I'd recommend against that", then I'd be an idiot not to strongly reconsider my move, whether he explains himself or not. Sure, he makes mistakes, but Kasparov is an unimaginably better at chess than me and the chances that I make a mistake and don't see something that he does are much much greater. With chess though, it's hard to overate yourself because you can see exactly where you stand. With software engineering though, it's very easy to overestimate your abilities.
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Why don’t the US or someone just use government funding to set up some sort of distributed protocol that lets people talk
> I also think there's significant value in having some places that [...] serve as content-neutral platforms.

You may be right about the value of such places, and Anil Dash's prediction that such places will be full of assholes may right, too.
The twitter thread (and most of the discussion here) is focused on the optical impact of these satellites. As @watersb mentions in a reply[0] these satellites will likely have an impact on radio telescopes. I've found conflicting information on the frequency bands starlink will use, but all of them would put the emission in the 10s of GHz regime, which is in the middle of commonly used bands by current radio telescopes (e.g., the Very Large Array), future expansions of existing telesopes ("Band 1" for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array), and future radio telescopes (High-frequency Square Kilometer array, Next Generation Very Large Array). Surely these are outside of the "protected" radio frequency bands, but they may still affect the measurements made by the sensitive electronics of radio telescopes.

The linked twitter feed notes that 84 satellites would be in the sky at any time. I don't know how colimated their radio transmissions would be, but it's possible more of them would be "visible" in the radio, compared to the optical. So it could be a significant effect on radio astronomy.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20016619
Have them move all their account credentials to LastPass, and make sure every password is unique. Set up two factor auth on all bank, email, social, commerce accounts that allow it.
21 years ago was the first time I saw malware delivered over advertising on the web. 1998. I started blocking ads by manually managing my hosts file that day, for the most part I haven't look at ads since.

I'm still not sure why we're now basing our entire economy around advertising crap to people that they don't want or need, the web was ad free and worked great for many years before all this nonsense.

The fact that most all of the smart people in tech have been subsumed into ad tech is one of the most depressing things I could have possibly imagined 21 years ago. What a massive misuse of resources.
I expect that the vast majority of PC gamers keep Javascript enabled in their browsers.
This is a fairly classic ad hominem comment.

What difference does it make who makes this argument, if the argument itself is sound? On the other hand, if the man is 50% saint, 50% angel, and 50% genius, what difference would that make, if the argument itself was terrible?

Comments suggesting that he shouldn't make this argument do not actually address the argument itself. In the best case, they are a distraction from the subject being discussed.

In the worst case, they are a form of tone policing, which is a tactic for silencing sound arguments by complaining that they are not being made by the right people, or in the right way. Example:

A man murders another man. The police torture him into a confession. He complains about the torture. Is he the last person that should be complaining about violence? But if not him, who? Must we wait for the perfect angel of an innocent victim of police brutality, before we act on it?
Hacker News is a small niche site.
Perhaps the group is rotating rapidly in space, as it seems like other galaxies in the cluster are redshifted?
that’s because we are told if we want to be unbanned we have to keep posting dead comments and one day they’ll unban us if enough comments get approved