skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not asking to be excused, I'm asking for something actionable. What can we do to make HN better that we're not already doing? Your answer appears to be: nothing, unless we made it less open and smaller.

The idea that large public internet forums inevitably degrade has been the default understanding of internet forums since before PG started HN—in fact he started HN as an experiment in escaping that fate (https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html). So another way of putting this is that you think HN's experiment has failed. That's fine, but I cling to a different view for the time being; out of cognitive dissonance if nothing else, since I spend days and nights working on it.

The guideline about flagging egregious comments is there to prevent obviously awful comments from generating off-topic, repetitive flamewars. If a comment like that is flagged and downvoted, that is challenging it. It means the community has rejected it. Better still, it minimizes its influence by stopping it at the root. Responding by pouring fuel on the flames is what causes it to expand and grow. Since you refer to not feeding trolls, you obviously know this. Beyond that, I'd have to see specific examples.

Since I don't know what semi-private controlled forums you're referring to and can't look at the criticisms of HN people are making there, it's impossible for me to evaluate them. That's a pity, because we might be missing opportunities for improvement. But the fact that they're starkly negative doesn't say much by itself. Smaller communities always have a negative view of larger communities—that's how community identity gets created. And cohesive communities always have a negative view of non-cohesive communities, because divisive topics inevitably produce responses that fall outside their acceptable spectrum. Sharing an acceptable spectrum is part of what makes a community cohesive. We don't have that on HN, certainly as a function of size, and probably also for other reasons.
Or the telephone network
What do everyone use for feed reader !? My old phone used to have a built in feed reader. And my old browser also used to have a feed reader. Looked on Google play and there where very little to choose from. Thinking of creating my own feed reader ... Or have "blogging" moved over to "Youtubing" and the occasional podcast !?
It's also worth checking out his research: https://twitter.com/chazfirestone/status/1109105677006487552
Pretty useful.
Is there any way to create collection here in HN? I want to remember this for later
good point. I haven't quite gone that far, but it's on the trello board for consideration ;)
I'd like to mod my Tesla Model 3 to remove that huge screen and put the screen on the dashboard in a smaller screen behind the steering wheel, and the controls on the steering wheel itself. Maybe even with a reflective visual off the windshield close to the dashboard so the driver doesn't have to take their eyes off the road.

The research for this hasn't yielded much since I can't alter the UI at all.
> Most super popular games these days have a short skill ceiling and an accessible skill floor; encouraging getting good isn't a major focus of design.

What games are you thinking about where this applies?

Many of the most popular games with which I'm familiar (Overwatch, PUBG, Starcraft II, DotA, League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, etc.) seem to have very high skill ceilings. That is, high-level competitive players in those games are way better than the average gamer.

I think a big way these games bring in players/stay current is by having a very active esports scene -- which only really works when you have "pro" quality players.

With the exception of time-gated achievement games (most MMOs, for example), the trend I see is a low barrier-to-entry but a very high skill ceiling.

One tactic that seems pretty common is to get people in-game quickly (f2p), teach them the core gameplay mechanics, then make it a very time-consuming grind to achieve the highest levels of play.
They scored a 96. There is exactly one issue, and it’s esoteric in my opinion.
And monkeys might come flying out of my butt except in our post enlightenment world we need facts, observations, and reasoned evidence to support claims. Molten salt reactors have so far proven extremely difficult to build and operate and tend to leak molten salt. Fast reactors are mostly not a thing at this point. Making complex technologies work means not only overcoming technical challenges but doing so in a way that constrains both costs and risks which so far has proven to be extremely difficult.
Neither of which had any connection to racism until hard core racists started using it. 'Trolling' isn't an excuse once a certain level of awareness exists. The Christchurch shooter was making the OK sign in court during his arraignment to signal to his frens on 8ch, to their great delight; yet here you are pretending it is all just a media panic and that there is no particular correlation with the far-right, just because there didn't used to be.
> Is there any reason to use getopt over flag in Go?

Its parser follows the POSIX utility syntax guidelines and behaves like most POSIX tools. The flag parser on the other hand is simpler, but can lead to some surprises if you are used to getopt-like parsing.
What state? Look in to asking/applying for a pardon if it really was just possession.
I don't think it matters, right? Since arbitrarily large integers are not things that occur in the physical world.
Please remove the watermark for a tweet?
I took a couple days off when my children are born, but as any dad/husband knows, after mom is set up at home and extended family visit and leave, there isn't much to do. I was bored after a few days so didn't mind working. Baby eats, poops, and naps. Dad gets in the way. :)
Here's a BBC radio documentary from 2005 on the Lincolnshire Poacher

https://youtu.be/Wvr6o7fBcTY
This case reminds me a bit about the US embassy in Moscow, where the US let the Soviet provide them with premade concrete pieces for the construction [1]. The idea was that it would be enough to inspect them to detect if any bugs had been inserted.

This plan didn't work out in the embassy case, but I'm not any kind of expert on electronics, so maybe the lessons learned doesn't translate exactly to the PCB situation.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/15/world/the-bugged-embassy-...
I find your narrative plausible, but I wish I had good quantitative data about the generalizations / trends you mention.

Otherwise it's hard to decide how much weight to give your generalizations.
Ugh, you're preaching to the choir. I wasn't trying to make a point about the equality operator, I was trying to make a point about x and y being completely different. I must be really bad at communicating with people.
And everyone seems to use blue colors in car displays. They leave color aftereffects when you look displays and then quickly trough windshield. Especially in the dark.
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Reminds me of Battlestar Galactica first episode, except with terrestrial jets instead of battlestars and vipers.
You have fallen for it and they are laughing at you for that.

They? You are the one asserting other HN posters making a reasonable observation have 'fallen for it'.
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We'll soon find out. China is reportedly spending quite a lot of money trying out LFTR reactors.
For my own uses the combinations of markdown and pandoc feels very satisfying.

Pandoc allows me to pick and choose what parts of LaTeX I want to use and I can otherwise write in plain text/markdown.
Yes, YC funds many companies from India. The way to get funding from Y Combinator is to apply at https://www.ycombinator.com/apply
How to Teach Binary
Allington often uses Markdown, which he describes as more “lightweight” than LaTeX, because the formatting commands are more straightforward. [...] That said, some journals and conferences don’t accept documents in Markdown format.

Having used LaTeX a lot since I started studying, I nowadays also prefer Markdown because LaTeX often feels like an overkill. There are many great Markdown Editors out there for quick note taking. And when things get more academic, I like to use VSCode with PandocCiter (https://github.com/notZaki/PandocCiter) to manage the sources. Also, it's easy to convert the Markdown docs to LaTeX or Word if needed.
I guess that I am not a professional developer, apparently.
Usually they get propped into leadership positions when they have a track record of getting others to "dream more, do more, become more".

Engineers as a breed usually run to mgmt/blame mgmt when they can't get their brethren to do things. So when an engineer shows up, who can get other engineers to follow, then that's one special unicorn you take care off, protect and support.
Related: North Korea has a secret diplomacy network which transmits messages from Pyongyang to North Korea embassies worldwide. Radio hobbyists have successfully reverse-engineered its modem and protocol. This is quite unusual, we don't know the internal workings of any similar systems used by other governments, so reading about the North Korean system can give us a idea about what a typical, sophisticated shortwave digital communication system used by a government might look like.

Another fascinating fact is the system sometimes transmits cleartext messages! The system allows two types of messages to be sent. The first type is fully encrypted normal messages, but one can also send "chat" messages, which allows the operators of two systems to communicate about their working schedule, system maintenance, etc, and they are unencrypted plaintext, which revealed a lot of about the internal of this system. Opsec failure? They should really just use a hardcoded symmetric key for this purpose...

Network Structure:

* The North Korean diplomatic shortwave network follows a forwarding tree structure, as they limit contacts between their stations to hops of usually no more than 5000 kilometers. Pyongyang sits at the root at the tree structure, as ultimate origin or recipient of all messages between it and embassies. Messages from Pyongyang are transmitted and relayed by North Korean embassies across the world, hop by hop along each branch of the distribution tree, until they are received by their final recipients. Messages from embassies are relayed and forwarded back to Pyongyang in the reverse way.

http://priyom.org/diplomatic-stations/north-korea/network

Protocol:

* North Korean diplomatic communications utilize a proprietary ARQ modem of unknown name, unofficially known as DPRK-ARQ. The modem is based on BFSK bursts transmitted in lower sideband mode. There are two possible waveforms: 600Bd/600Hz as the default, and 1200Bd/600Hz as an option.

A complete protocol analysis is given by: http://priyom.org/diplomatic-stations/north-korea/dprk-arq-p...

Message Format:

http://priyom.org/diplomatic-stations/north-korea/message-fo...
love it! i always wondered what happened to the good old blogroll
Yes, but it would behave like a wave. You could make a gravity sonar for planets with it.
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From the article:

>"If we could get more of them doing it, it would be great," he joked.

>Karisoke's Vecellio, though, said actively instructing the apes would be against the center's ethos.

>"No we can't teach them," she said. "We try as much as we can to not interfere with the gorillas. We don't want to affect their natural behavior."

I wonder if this "prime-directive" style rule might be something they consider changed - if there was a way to teach the gorillas to disabled various kinds of traps it seems that would be great.

On the other hand, I wonder what the side effects would be.. anyone?
Hmmm oh I suppose if I just exposed my feed reader's aggregated feed as an rss feed over a local http server, I could just point Openring at that! I might try to whip that together this afternoon! (I use newsboat in case anyone else is interested in such a thing.)
To do this, it somehow needs to gain the reputation of a publication but also not encourage people doing just frivolous research (at least not on their own dime).

But I think this kind of thing would be INSANELY useful. Especially if data was attached. (This could possibly help with the above problem because reputations develop).
I'm just trying to find a way to increase the s/n ratio to how HN used to be where the front and subsequent pages had so much interesting content not reported elsewhere. Not complaining everything evolves but different people want different things.
This is the key flaw in this article:

“The truth is that such questions are open to empirical study and it is possible for social science to study them scientifically.”

Here is someone proclaiming to be a scientist, and then throwing out proclamations of ‘truth’ not backed by evidence. Goedel proved logically that any axiomatic system of information exchange can have truths that are not provable.

It’s possible human culture and society is too diverse to make claims of ‘absolute truth’ about. A statistical mechanics approach to why this might be true is telling. The more entropic states available, the more potential outcomes. That is why physics studying single atom or molecules is more ‘understandable’ than sociologists studying 10^35 if them (humans being a cloud of atoms).
People misunderstand the concept of privilege.

You compare people from similar socio-economic backgrounds. You don't compare dissimilar groups.

Those women are being held back when you compare to their brothers.
For equations LaTeX is the best and most comprehensive syntax.

For normal text you can use some other markup that converts to LatTex when needed. Then you can add LaTeX packages or your own styles using LaTeX. LaTeX can be treated as intermediate representation. There are many tools for, graph, table, image editing and drawing that can emit LaTeX/TeX.
I don't always look at nicks.
The fully leveraged life of a luxury car:

1. Lease vehicle to some rich person for the first 3 years who will have few to no problems and return it to the dealership for the next new model once the lease ends.

2. Dump it on some middle-class person making an aspirational purchase as "certified pre-owned". The car starts to break down pretty much the day after it turns 3 since that's how it was designed. The owner will be forced to pay extreme repair bills if they go to the dealership or just live with things continuing to break as the car ages.

3. Once the car hits 6-8 years old it will get resold to the super shady "imports" used car dealership down the road from the original dealership who will then sell it to some poor person making an aspirational purchase on a 9 year loan with exorbitant interest. They will be forced by the high payments to either drive it into the ground or get it repossessed. If repossessed, repeat step 3.
Did I really?
Actually, I'm afraid this won't work (but I would be interested in seeing if you could write a patch for it). Openring is designed to only use up to one article from each feed, to keep the set of links diverse.
Pretty surprised to hear this to be honest, did your wife feel the same way? Any complications during the birth of afterwards?
Indeed. As I learned from a link posted to HN the other day, apparently there is a name for this tension between the accuracy and comprehensibility of models: Bonini's paradox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonini%27s_paradox
LaTeX feels ultimately like the wrong level of control. I'd either rather be simpler (Markdown) or have more control (CoNTeXt)

CoNText, for those unfamiliar, is a bit more modern...built to really take advantage of PDF features like full color and hyperlinks that LaTeX isn't as good at. Also much better control over figure placement, and is capable of things like sidebars that are somewhere between very fiddly to impossible in LaTeX.
interesting. opposition to "social justice" signals an opposition to fairness and equality, and theoretically should be rare.

i wonder if it's the strain of opposition that sees it as zero-sum and resists (i.e., "if things get fairer for the disadvantaged, then i, as an advantaged person, must necessarily lose something")?

or the strain that resists social normalization (e.g., i should be free to offend and belittle others)?

or something else?

even if everyone gains from growing the pie, the desire for relative status seems more powerful than our desire for fairness and equality unfortunately.
Hear, hear! I have been slowly evolving the way I structure my LaTeX documents and I still feel like it leaves much to be desired.

It has often been repeated that we should all aim toward separation of content and presentation and LaTeX has been highly touted in this area, yet I find it very difficult to achieve in practice. Far too often, I find some package-provided environment lacking and I need to manually add some extra space or what have you. Now my document has become tainted due to the introduction of explicit styling in the content file. It's now baked in at that location and is very difficult to update later.

How do I avoid doing this? It's not enough to say "go back and redefine that command/environment to make it work the way you want." LaTeX is a leaky abstraction.
Deprecated? Like, has Latex been updated since the www became a thing? The last standard was set 1994.
Same in my 2017 Audi - prevented a sure collision with a deer, and like you my foot was still moving towards the brake when the car stopped. Also, no false alarms in 35,000 miles.
> Every online service costs money to provide. [...] Since most people are unwilling to pay for online services, the way to cover these costs is by advertising to the users.

Why does it follow that we should be okay with privacy intrusions?

Companies don't have a right to their business model. If we as a society decide to limit how companies can collect and use our data, and it forces some to start charging their users or go out of business, that's okay! Just because that's a sustainable way to run a business right now doesn't mean it should be.
To be fair, lots of people (certainly I) think we took a series of wrong turns on the information superhighway in the 2000s, toward a dangerous level of centralization, so...maybe looking backward is good.
What does it mean for this to be functionally irrelevant? It fulfills its functional purpose regardless of whether it's popular or not.
TrustNote, A Decentralized, world’s top secure encrypted notes app
Google “tDcs” or “transcranial direct current stimulation” for more information. The US DoD used it to reduce the time needed to train snipers.
PET is by far the most common plastic, and it's not the most dangerous (to humans or the environment).
Faraday was first and foremost an experimentalist, and everything else followed from there. That alone is perhaps a significant difference with the kind of reasoning we were initially talking about.

Additionally, like you point out, others were able to build upon his work and use it to generate new hypotheses and draw new conclusions. That is a fundamental aspect of any good research; that it enables new activity and insights, often in ways not envisioned by the original researchers.

So if you want to say “consciousness can be described as a chaotic attractor”, then you need to say it in a way that lets others make novel predictions, invalidate previous conclusions and establish new ones, about the behavior of consciousness using the established and well understood toolbox of chaotic attractors.

My question was about whether the books had subsequently enabled such inquiries.
Depends on the market; I don't think it's that common in enterprise, for instance, to have Windows 10-using orgs with virtually no use of the default (Edge) browser, but large numbers of users with both IE and Chrome because of (legacy and modern) app demands.
That looks absolutely amazing. But I've always been an old style military Jeep looks fan.
How to Deal with Deadline Panic (2010)
> I wonder what will happen to all of the digital-only movies and tv shows being made today

Why do you feel digital media can't be preserved?

There are DVD renditions of old media. Cassettes were popular at one time only to be supplanted by newer technologies and it will be the same for current media formats.

To cite an example, I used to listen to cassette music while growing up and was hugely fond of them (Walkman, anybody?) That was then supplanted by digital mp3 players, and now streaming over the internet.

If something is worth preserving, newer technology will make sure it is!

That is just my opinion for you.
The better ones will alert you before you detonate anything, so having an agent can be useful for preventing less savvy users from getting infected with viruses last seen in 1992.
- acting like the ticket is done when it's pushed to code review (not taking review, QA, release, etc. into account). This implies a lot of miscommunication, think daily: "I'll finish this ticket today" -> ticket released 5 days later

- in case of communication, assuming that doing anything (usually one message in a convenient way - face to face, email, Slack) is the best they can do. No. In communication, you're actually responsible for the outcome.

- focusing on technical knowledge rather than soft skills (not to mention good sleep, diet and exercise)

- doing convenient job; not asking "What's important NOW?"
Are you familiar the second world war? I'm Italian, the town I'm from was a few hundred meters away from the gothic line. It was heavily bombed by the allies, the retiring nazis and local fascists blew up the bridges and rounded up people for labor camps, the hills around are marked by the graves of partisans. It's possible to stop this sort of thing earlier, with less violence, ideally only state sanctioned violence (since these people tend to commit crimes, as seen in this case).