skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
georgemonck isn't banned. What made you think he was?

In terms of HN moderation, please remember two things: (1) one user's bad behavior does not justify another's breaking the guidelines (a.k.a. two wrongs don't make a right), and (2) HN moderators don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted, so consistent moderation isn't possible–we just don't have the resources. If you see a bad comment go unmoderated, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it.
BBC R&D testing next gen video codecs AV1 and VVC
I agree with the second point emphatically. I enjoy that the barrier to entry with places like IRC are higher because it's directly correlated with the quality of discussion, in my experience at least.

Regarding the other points, we may well look back at things like Myspace as Halcyon days of somewhat pure Social Media usage. It's a pity we can't still have a social media platform that isn't mined to hell for analytics, ads and GPS stalking but it seems that the tide is turning and people in the Western world are getting over the hype cycle and caring less about being a part of it. Tellingly I had cause to listen to a focus group this week that had privacy concerns about Facebook; before then I assumed it was only the HN crowd who thought that! I look forward to the next 5 years in tech but if I were to lay odds, I wouldn't bet on Facebook weathering well.
It reminds me of the “why we switched from Mongo to X” or “why we switched from Ruby to Y” trends some years ago.

I saw Clojure become popular long before it was ready for the limelight: it definitely wasn’t pragmatism driving it. It was a fetish for syntax and paradigm.
That’s probably true (though I’m not sure we’re any more intelligent than any other internet community). My point was just that we shouldn’t mistake homogeny for tolerance of opposing views.
The login form usually sends the password in cleartext and it's then hashed on the server-side prior to comparing it to the hash stored in the database.

So they can just determine the password's strength at the time when the user is logging in
I program Rust, I sometimes work on projects that benefit from GPU acceleration.

The in Rust in the title therefore catches my eye because it could solve some of my problems, depending on how it is implemented.
“Why are people willing to pay so much money for something that reduces their happiness? One possibility is that social media acts like an addictive drug — in fact, the people Allcott et al. paid to deactivate Facebook ended up using it less after the experiment was over. But another possibility is that people use services like Facebook because they’re compelled by motivations other than the pursuit of happiness.”

This is a good point.
I'm fine with Uber costing the same as a regular taxi. Riding in a taxi is a garbage experience compared to uber. Drivers making excuses not to take you after learning your destination, rude drivers, drivers who have no clue how to navigate, drivers who pretend the card machine is broken, or try to take you on winding routes to increase the fare.

Despite all the supposed downsides of ridesharing, it continues to be immensely more popular than the traditional taxi service even as the price gap closes. Because the traditional taxi service is a garbage rent seeking incumbent that needs to die for the good of all.

I catch cabs or ridesharing on a daily basis for work, and cabs are just fucking awful compared to ridesharing.
Sure, but HN readers are smart enough to read words with more than one meaning.
Some things should not require an IDE? Powershell is a shell so it should be easy to type, no?
There is a barrier to entry: building a network of drivers.

If there is no drives, nobody will buy a ride over your app, drivers will then not install it because nobody is buying rides.
Identity of the Second Contender for the Authorship of BTC White Paper–Revealed
I've used it. I'm amazed at the intuitive UI and usage. I want to continue to use it because it's so beautiful open- source big data platform.
It didn't point out any issues... it just made the unsubstantiated claim that a cryonics patient has no chance of ever being revived.

It IS physically possible to revive cryonics patients--as in the laws of physics would permit it, even if we don't have anything near the technology required, yet. This isn't a bold claim but rather a statement of fact with respect to information preservation of the vitrification process, and long-term storage at cryogenic temperatures, both of which are well studied in the context of things like organ donor preservation.

So if you're claiming that cryonics has "a snowball's chance in hell" of working, then I presume that either you are (1) ignorant of the science, or (2) making some sort of statement about long-term storage prospects or the credibility of the organizations involved.

But neither you nor the grandparent actually made any specific claims.
I think I'm out of the loop... can someone fill me in on relevant NPM drama? Are they monetizing successfully? Unsuccessfully? Unethically?
The claim that women conform to the formal dress code more than men is bollocks. A woman can turn up in a dress, often quite a lot higher than the knee, use bright colors, wear high heels or high boots, expose shoulders at will and still be regarded as a conformist. For men even dropping the tie in politics for example can be damaging! So the claim only holds if you ignore the female dress code being so much more flexible than man’s.
In general we can't, because neither users nor moderators are in a position to judge bad medical advice.
There are genuine medical experts on HN, but they only pop up occasionally.
Using a single cloud provider with a multiple region setup won't protect you from some issues in their networking infrastructure, as the subject of this thread supposedly shows.

Although I guess depending on how your own infrastructure is setup, even a multi cloud provider setup won't save you from a network outage like the current Google cloud one.
Yeah, in middle management here... it's pretty much playing Malcolm in the middle. Also totally true on the "shit goes wrong it's all your fault" point.
I find it hard to believe that this will be contained to Australia and China.

Australia certainly deserves what it gets (my home country) given its attitude towards debt and housing, but I think the contagion is real.
"Uber's success has been based on two unsustainable tactics: subsidizing fares and exploiting drivers"

Considering Uber loses a billion dollars a quarter, I think the only people that are being 'exploited' are investors. Investor money is going straight to drivers and riders.
This. Cabs that are not part of Uber, they just wont agree to take you. I still dont know these drivers rationale behind denying the ride. I understand its their prerogative to refuse a ride, but they do it so often which makes me wonder, how are they making money by refusing rides again and again.
If you have 2 memory less processes with positive outcomes which depend on each other. For example: An exponential decay where decay rates are exponentially distributed. In this process decay times will be power law distributed.
I don't think Australia is technically in recession.
The moderation here goes far beyond "nudges".
> > but it feels like there are better ways of dealing with IED's than what we're curgently doing.

> Filtration camps?

Reading briefly about the filtration camps, I couldn't find anything IED related. Could you elaborate?
In my country, a taxi driver is legally required to drive you to your destination unless it exceeds reasonable distances (around 50km, which far above what anyone would use a taxi for here). Drivers with broken cashier machines or taxameters aren't allowed to take passengers, especially a broken taxameter might mean that passenger will pay a very much reduced fare. Most of them have GPS, and if they don't they can be liable for excess distance travelled.

Most taxi services here have excellent apps themselves and are cheaper than what Uber offered while they were allowed to operate (they are not just a glorified taxi service since non-taxi drivers aren't allowed on their service).
I was a student for most of the 90s (6 year MSc). But I was also working part-time. So I guess a little of both. Still remember it all pretty vividly 20+ years later. Not having any money to buy food for weeks on end especially (subsisted on eggs, potatoes, and pickles). I also remember converting all my ruble denominated savings into dollars on a whim 2 weeks before the 1998 default. That was a major coup for me: before the default USD/RUR was about 6, after - about 21, and most prices were revised upward correspondingly. Imagine losing 2/3rds of your money in the span of a few days for no fault of your own, just because the oligarchs are picking the rotting corpse of your country clean and can't be bothered to pay taxes (some of which would normally go to service the debts).

People still remember all of this. That's why Putin is so popular: he is widely credited (and rightly so) with pulling Russia from the brink of disintegration. I always voted for anyone but Putin, though: can't stand vote rigging, and he rigs every single election, even though he doesn't need to: he'd be elected by quite a margin anyway.
All parts of the system should be copied (if you decided to build multi-cloud system), not just some of them.
> Will activating SMS two factor allow homeland security to find my online accounts from my phone number?

Yes. It’s naive to think otherwise. And I wouldn’t be surprised if they can even login into your online account with 2FA enabled with SMS.
Taxis had artificially restricted supply. I think you're forgetting how expensive taxis were.

https://www.theawl.com/2012/07/how-much-more-do-taxi-fares-c...

2012 $2.50 first 1/5 mi. $2.50 per mile. $0.50 per 1 min.

uberX 2019 (without counting inflation - ~10% since 2012):
Per Minute: $0.66
Per Mile: $1.46
Minimum Fare: $7.19

Taxis are competitive for very short trips, but 3+ miles they're almost double (175%)!
Wouldn't this also have prevented Uber and others from getting started?

I believe there may be a missing element here, namely marketing.
I don't know I agree with you there.

The platform used for discussion certainly has a large impact on the way people interact, and the culture that grows around it.

I'm open to arguments that Reddit is better or worse than most, but for my own view, I think the majority of subreddits are not a good place to be interacting with and in general have poor discussion quality and a fair bit of bullying - which I think is largely because of the nature of the downvote/upvote system and comment chains/weighting reddit has in place.

I personally think that reducing his particular gripe down to saying it's "a broader issue" isn't useful for narrowing down specific problems with particular methods of discourse.
So, for some companies, failing over between providers is actually viable and planned for in advance. But it is known in advance that it is time consuming and requires human effort.

The other case is really soft failures for multi-region companies. We degrade gracefully, but once that happens, the question becomes what other stuff can you bring back online. For example, this outage did not impact our infrastructure in GCP Frankfurt, however, it prevented internal traffic in GCP from reaching AWS in Virginia because we peer with GCP there. Also couldn't access the Google cloud API to fall back to VPN over public internet. In other cases, you might realize that your failover works, but timeouts are tuned poorly under the specific circumstances, or that disabling some feature brings the remainder of the product back online.

Additionally, you have people on standby to get everything back in order as soon as possible when the provider recover. Also, you may need to bring more of your support team online to deal with increased support calls during the outage.
Drivers are not exactly emotionally attached to Uber, you will be surprised how often they have multiple apps. I regularly see cars with at least two of Uber, Taxify, Ola signs in Sydney.
My guess would be that in addition to the viscosity, it preemptively compensates for the thermal expansion of the oil, since on your wrist will likely be warmer than room temperature.

Here is another detailed liquid-filled watch guide [0], which talks more about handling thermal expansion, where rather than using an air bubble, he opts for some sort of foam ring. Another person recommends Flourinert with foam rather than mineral oil [1].

[0]: https://www.christopherwardforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=496...

[1]: https://forums.watchuseek.com/f21/liquid-filled-citizen-6540...
Most Java JSON libraries can, but then you usually end up having to deserialise to a Map<String, Object> and then have to do casts when using the values, so people tend to use deserialising to POJOs to remove the manual casting - even if all it does is shift the runtime type checking from the code consuming the map to the code deserialising it.

Also, using POJOs can lead to more readable type signatures - it's easier to determine what the method getBooks of the Author POJO that returns List<Book> is about than a Map<String, Object> that has a List<Map<String, Object>> mapped to the key "books".

Bit of an impedance mismatch between a serialisation format from a dynamically typed language and a statically typed language.
While I’m actually that guy who tweaks DL hyperparameters, this is an excellent advice. These are the things I’d be looking for in a DS candidate.
I think there are several issues.

1. Our understanding of the brain is poor, and I think that will be necessary to have good machine decoding. In principal, a machine learning algorithm does not need to know how the brain works to make an accurate decoding prediction, but I suspect understanding will be needed to help construct and constrain machine learning models learn to deal with the myriad of mental states, intentions, emotions, etc that can occur. While we can train classifiers better than chance to identify whether one or another item is observed, remembered, etc, these training are quite constrained to a type of information or class. I imagine those classifiers are hopeless when you start performing another activity or mental state, and the machine would need to recognize the new state and apply different decoders.

Second, yes there is too much noise in most available methods (EG, fMRI, MEG) and the information is not dense enough (spatial, temporal resolution) and not specific enough to the type of activity (excitation, inhibition, chemical diffusion, etc). Electrodes have done cool things, but I suspect that even millions of wires would not provide enough information and types of information to provide a full fledged brain interface.

However, I'll admit, tech is moving so fast...
Ask HN: How do you manage bank account/credit card for single member LLC
Hi HN,

I'm starting my business and doing single member LLC. I do some consulting and software as a service. I have married and have kid so this's the reason I need LLC to protect my family.

How do hacker news user usually manage bank account/credit card?

Do I have to register for business bank account/business credit card? I'm asking because I just try with my bank and they rejected me despite being a customer for 5 years and have great credit score.

But they have no problem to give me another personal credit card. So I don't know if I can just use that credit card for my LLC?
In my country, the driver is also legally required to drive you to your destination. It doesn't stop them from making random excuses like 'oh sorry my gps is broken'. That is an actual excuse I got from not one but two cab drivers in a row when travelling between offices in the city.
Investors presumably know the risks involved. On the other hand, many drivers are inexperienced and do not know the full cost of driving for Uber (vehicle depreciation and increased liability).
Why wouldn't drivers install it, when it costs them nothing? And then if they're at the end of an uber ride and a notification for the other service pops up, they can take that.
I started using Reddit around the same time (actually 9 years ago!) and I feel the same way about it now.

Recently, I've gone totally cold-turkey on the platform. Where as previously I had been posting daily for 9 years!
'French' is more a culture than a genetic diaspora (i.e. though most French people might have some genetic 'closeness' that distinguishes them from other groups, one does not need that genetic approximation to be French)

And it's perfectly reasonably to say someone is 'not very French'.

I lived in France, I speak French fluently, and could 'get by' as a French person, but it would be fair to say that I am 'not very French'.

I think Fuzzy logic, as a perspective, maybe should be appreciated.

I can be 'a little this and a little that, and mostly some other thing' - it makes sense to describe many things as such.

Though pragmatically, when it comes down to numbers ... it may simply look a lot like probability.
In a way, everyone's being exploited except the rider. The drivers are barely making minimum wage once all expenses are factored in, the investors money is being set ablaze. The riders, on the other hand, get to enjoy taxi-like service for about half what it costs to deliver.
Eh, a big part of it is the karma system and upvotes / downvotes.

They work great for things like "how do I fix this problem" or "recommend X", but it is a terrible format for political discussion / anything remotely controversial.

It has a very noticeable polarizing effect in those cases.
Curious: does anyone actively sell stocks in this situation - even if it's in a retirement portfolio you'd presumably not touch for a long time? I've sold some in the last few weeks though I know the general advice is not really to do anything.
Sadly, that second "modern" home no longer seems available on Amazon.
One man's "helpful additional features" are another man's feature bloat. Specialization vs. Universality and all that.

I find that for a quick capture/re-capture grabs, with no editing, STF adds too many extraneous clicks and interaction. Heck, even GifCam [1] is too UX heavy for back-to-back captures.

The whole point of Giffer is that you launch it, size it, press F1, press F1 again. Done. To re-record do F1/F1 again. That's it.

[1] http://blog.bahraniapps.com/gifcam/
Pretty sure that most people value their time and staying on the right side of the law more than a few dollars a month.
I heard that a good Kaggle profile is a data science equivalent to a good GitHub profile.

I haven’t tried it myself, and it looks more like smaller projects, but someone might find it interesting.

https://www.kaggle.com/
React SSR with Next.js #2. Prefetching the Data with GetInitialProps
That is true for Germany as well. However you can get credit points through the attendance of pharma sponsored conferences.

There's an initiative called MEZIS (Mein Essen zahle ich selbst - "I pay for my lunch myself") that wants to end this practice. https://mezis.de/
The only thing I can see being successful for them is JUMP. It's an awesome service, there's no better way to get around San Francisco -- and Seattle! I assume it's as effective in other cities too. On the other hand scaling and acceptance seem pretty far off.
I think drivers would jump simply to pursue a market realm with far fewer suppliers (initially, at least), knowing they can go back anytime, or toggle between sites in response to incentives.
Are you seriously complaining about having to pay for using their resources? I understand that you're surprised some things aren't covered in the free trial or free credit or whatever, but getting $300 free already sounded a little too good to be true (I heard about it from a friend and was dubious; at least in Europe, consumers are told not to enter deals that are too good to be true), you could at least have checked what you're actually getting.

I think it's weird to say you get credit in dollars and then not be able to spend it on everything. That's not how money works. But that's the way hosting providers work and afaik it's quite well known. Especially with a large sum of "free money", even if it's not well known, it was on you to check any small print.
Yeah, some countries had decent taxi services already; but many others do not, even in the EU, and you can build a quite profitable business just on those.
That's an excellent point.

So if you're going to have numerous identities, it's best to do it right. And maybe then not disclose them.

But still iffy, if you know that you'll likely be emigrating.
That doesn't follow. It's absolutely possible for drivers to be net losers.

Imagine than in some quarter Uber collected $3 billion of fares, received $5 billion in services from drivers, paid the drivers $4 billion, and made up the $1 billion shortfall with investment.

Obviously drivers are making the free decision to drive for Uber, but it's no more implausible to think that some are working on mistaken assumption or will come out behind in the end than to think the same of investors. (Actually, if anything, it's more plausible, given the disparity in information and resources between the average Uber investor and the average Uber driver.) And certainly it's clear that some drivers are not coming out ahead here once you take account vehicle deprecation, running costs, opportunity costs, etc.

I'm not saying that's true, but to suggest that a company that is losing money can't also be exploiting their suppliers or employees seems obviously wrong. :)
Not using App Store legal APIs anyway. But its not like they've let _that_ stop them in the past...
Great piece! For reference, here’s the comment thread the first time posted:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13562968
I was using/am using:

Plug 'tmhedberg/SimpylFold'
"Plug 'python-mode/python-mode', { 'branch': 'develop' }
"let g:pymode_python = 'python3'

... in different combinations. Deleting any char takes surprising amount of time, so much so that I usually mark block to delete instead of char by char even if it is three char block. Of course I may be using wrong plugins, however that's what I found that should be used in various articles online.
Every driver drives for every service in each city. There's no cost to them doing so. The only thing actually motivating them to stick to one service or another is Uber and Lyft have quota-based payouts promotions. Make your quota, get a bonus. Once they do, though, they're back at timesharing.
Rebuilding a City from the Eye of a Child
Australia is far from recession, but a global recession is as matter of time.

The only way that the economy "grows" indefinitely is if it regularly dips, and that is exactly how it has been working since WWII, with dips/recessions at 1975, 1982, 1991 and 2009.
> Don't think this has to do with Reddit so much as the way we interact with each other online, in general.

Having spent some (great) time in more traditional forums recently I think the algorithmic driven nature of reddit (and HN for that matter) along with it's centralization are the biggest contributors. The scoring systems have gamified online discussions to the point that you can't really have worthwhile discussions, most people with anything interesting to say (anything not mostly accepted by the group as a whole) will be punished by the algorithms, people with the most agreeable opinions will "win".

Being centralized and gamified is also the ideal environment for astroturfing, you can have a big effect for minimal investment. If someone clicks on a topic you can easily control what the first comment they see is, with more traditional forums it's first in best dressed and a lot of people will skip straight to the latest entries.