skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think discourse is hurt by quarantining r/the_donald. It has a tendency to show racist/misogynistic/conspiracy theorist memes and isn't really a good place at all for actual discourse.
Found my source: https://www.reddit.com/r/stopadvertising/comments/85vdwo/gro...

This source also shows T_D wasn't on the whitelist, since it was on of the subs being protested by /r/stopadvertising.
> By far the most engaged stuff is the most controversial where people begin to fight and attack each other.

Well, duh. If people are fighting they are definitely "engaged", but not in a good way. Defining that more engagement equals more success is what made social networks so toxic. The current state that more eyeballs equals more ad money needs to change.
10 fingers at 100Hz with 4bytes each is 4kBps or 32kbps so that's not really a problem for a self contained touch screen.

If you want raw data... then yes, you'll need 10Mbps or so.
I didn't think of this when I was doing instacart.

My main thing with that experience was incentives. On numerous occasions, the shipper would sub for an item 3-4x more expensive. Then they had that campaign for getting cash tips.

I ended up going shopping for myself again mainly because quality of the perishables.
If you want universes that run on alternate topologies taken seriously, I mean, like, the maximum level of serious possible, you want Greg Egan.

For instance, Greg Egan seriously considering the nature of 2+2 universe, that is, two space, two time dimensions: https://www.gregegan.net/DICHRONAUTS/DICHRONAUTS.html (Don't miss the interactive simulation: https://www.gregegan.net/DICHRONAUTS/02/Interactive.html )

He's got a few others, too.
I use firefox which I've locked down pretty hard. No site gets to run active content of any kind by default. No java, not even javascript. That and all the ad-blocking really limits likelihood of my getting infected from just an initial click, but even that isn't foolproof. IE once managed to let attackers get you just by viewing an image (CVE-2005-2308)
Hmmm... I think that the_donald is on its way to get banned. I wish I knew how much was real and what wasn't on that subreddit. I worry that the sentiment on that subreddit is genuine and by banning it we draw lines as to what is acceptable discourse that excludes a large segment of the population.

Of course I am not referring to the worst stuff on that subreddit, there is shit there, and much more than average, but if a sizeable part of the population has views like this is banning it really fair? I worry that banning public speech by a large segment of the population fractures the population that makes things even worse. And once fully separate it leads to even more echo chambering and divergent realities and more problems, not less.

But again that is assuming it is genuine and not trolls or foreign interference and it is truly sizable and not fringe.
I don't think you understood the previous paragraph; the view I'm espousing that Alexander laid out is universal and objective. It has nothing to do with culture, but everything to do with physical systems, it is a lens by which to measure the nature of order, or in other words, life itself as a universal quality of configurations of matter.

We are not sustainably increasing order on the planet Earth, and if current trends continue, we will see an incredible amount of life / order disappear into entropy. That's a fair prediction given current evidence. Your statement about my worldview is akin to saying 2 + 2 = 4 is not universal, never mind that that formalism is dependable in this universe. Maybe in some other universe 2 + 1 = 4, but not in this one.

You can disagree with the model that Alexander lays out, but the correctness of that sentiment has nothing to do with "20th century cultural angsty baggage".
Which language? Spanish doesn't.
I don't think there are many subreddits that praise and love law enforcement more than the_donald. They used a Media Matters hit piece to censor and contain one of the most popular subs, for purely partisan reasons.
At least in America, if a hotel bumps you, they have to legally provide you a room in another hotel of equal or greater value.

Worked out for me once during a trip to NYC where my hotel was full, but they sent me to a nicer hotel right over Times Square.
An overview of unikernels https://github.com/cetic/unikernels
"If I'm in highly populates area,the use of AR rifle can result in lots of collateral damage if not handled well."

Use hollow-point rounds instead of full metal jacket rounds to decrease penetration. But the problem is usually overstated anyway. See [1][2] below.

"It is also very impractical to carry, especially if your job is not in military or security."

Get an AR-15 "pistol". [3] You should be able to fit one in a decent-sized backpack. Some of them have barrels as short as 7 inches. If that's still too big, separate the upper and lower receivers. You'll just have to spend a good 30 seconds reassembling the weapon before loading a magazine.

"but just realistically what kind of potential attackers one would expect to stop with it?"

Looters attempting to destroy your business and livelihood, for example [4]. And that's not a problem restricted to the US; violent looters are a worldwide problem. Rural farmers being lynched for ethnic or economic reasons in Africa would probably love to have a semi-automatic weapon to even their odds against numerous attackers armed with (presumably) edged weapons or pistols. [5][6]
The perpetual problem we see with gun control advocates is that they extrapolate from their experience living in metropolitan areas with far higher law-enforcement densities, push for laws that affect EVERYONE, and then end up depriving people in rural areas from the tools they actually NEED to be responsible for their own safety and security.

[1]https://www.outdoorhub.com/stories/2013/11/04/ar-15-appropri...
[2]http://preparedgunowners.com/2016/07/14/why-high-powered-5-5...
[3]https://www.pewpewtactical.com/best-ar-15-pistols/
[4]https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/koreatown-twenty-six-years...
[5]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_farm_attacks
[6]https://www.newsweek.com/zimbabwe-land-robert-mugabe-white-f...
Maybe they knew it would undermine any anti-Google privacy stance Mozilla would later take when people noticed GA's inclusion in various Mozilla pages
Announcement: Flair, Rule Tweaks, and Two New Mods
Yeah, the fact that it's not a single frame but, in fact, like 1 to 3 seconds to switch resolutions is absolutely insane. Trying to watch a PC bios boot on my new-ish monitor is an exercise in frustration—it spends more time off than on!
Firefox Will Give You a Fake Browsing History to Fool Advertisers
Reddit is composed of tens of thousands of subreddits, and relies on volunteer moderators to police them. For a single subreddit to demand at least one admin intervention a day is absurd.
TD cant be directly tother subs due to the volume of fake/bot accounts
Aberdeen Bay Wind Farm Uses Radar in ‘World First’ Bird Study
>What exactly is the US supposed to do?

We're the richest country in the world and we're denying them soap and toothbrushes, items that cost pennies in bulk. It's not about money or resource allocation, it's about cruelty.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/21/detained-mi...
I’ve been able to do that for a while. Are they advertising the outcome of an AB test? I’d love to be able to explain why, like I can per video.
In my experience when Reddit banned the more toxic subreddits many of the other subreddits I actually did frequent became better. I think the people who would be in those subreddits are already there and when there are bans in subreddits some of the people leave and the community is better for it.
Or they could stop recommending strawman alt-right content when watching anything remotely leftist
> Aside: anyone else notice how hard it is to actually use a screensaver these days. Linux desktops have removed it from in the box mode, and windows has totally obscured it away from you.

And rightfully so. Now that we have moved to display technologies which are not affected by burn-in, what's the point? All they do is waste energy.
That's because Hebrew died out for over a thousand years and is now a revived dead language. The lack of a vulgar dialect prevented it from changing, similar to how Latin has not changed since native vulgar speakers died out (or rather, their dialects became so distinct that they are now considered different languages e.g. Romanian).
Have you tried searching reddit for threads about a current event, only to find pages of results of vitriolic/psychotic ("trolling!") /r/The_Donald posts? I'm pretty tired of it and I hope they ban that sub and similar ones. I couldn't care less about the political aspect, it's the 4chan lulz crap that has to go. From reddit's point of view these users are parasites, who basically deface the website in an attempt to control it. That's their M.O., good riddance.
> when in actuality they are just contrarian and go for the counter culture underdog side

I'm not sure why you think this is better.

> the more people will rebel and fall into the arms of conservatives

So they're not actually "conservative", but they will be? Sure. Unless of course, that already happened, and they actually are.
Our bodies are made to pronounce a ton of sounds we both can't hear and speak as adults.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/accents-are-fo...
From what I understand, the computer will (and should) reject the acceleration attempt in favor of the brake.

But, if you own a reasonably modern vehicle, try it :)
I'm still not very convinced that replying without liking is an indicator of negativity. Maybe in most cases, but definitely not all cases.

I don't use the like feature on the website at all and often comment on artwork saying how nice it is or whatever.
`subs` and `evalf` is simply not the right tool for float/double precision arithmetics. `subs` in particular is a general tool for symbolic substitutions, and it is not fair to expect it to be fast for numerics (although improvements would always be great). `evalf` provides high precision arithmetics (your RAM is the limit), so again, it is inherently slower than float math. One can argue that this should be documented better or that the tool should be able to guess the intent of the user, but otherwise I would say of course `subs` and `evalf` are slow when you use them for float math.
Observe the rinse-and-repeat patterns here:

1. Openly leftist media outlet [1] sensationalizes posts by a few users, and proclaims a non-sequitur - that the problem lies with the entire sub-reddit, instead of with a few users

2. SV tech company feigns umbrage, cowering behind the sensationalism of said media outlet, legitimizes their false claims and BANS the entire sub-reddit. Instead of banning the offending users.

3. Ecosystem of left leaning outlets (techcrunch et. al.) publish opinions in agreement with the actions, though similar actions from their preferred political faction (say for a few illegal posts by far-left activists on AOC subreddit) goes ignored and free of media amplification.

The frequency of the above steps happening has skyrocketed as the democratic presidential campaign gains steam. If you trained an AI on the above phenomenon, the internet would be rid of any speech not condoned by the left faction of the democratic party.

Techno-fascism is well and truly here.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/26/18759967/reddit-quarantin...
So it would be fascist to argue with someone that climate change is going to end the world in twelve years? I don't agree but if you apply the same logic to AOC then she's a fascist in your opinion.
> you need a great deal of insight to reach some form of truth

And even then, it's often a matter of perspective where both people's experiences tell them that their truth is the correct truth, while still holding opposing truths from one another.
The example is outdated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_%E1%BA%9E
I think another interesting market to come out of this is an easy place to find second-hand trustworthy unused shoes at prices lower than retail.

Take for instance these Nike Gyakusou Zoom Pegasus 35 ($200)
https://www.nike.com/t/gyakusou-zoom-pegasus-35-turbo-mens-s...

On StockX you could purchase them for 120$
https://stockx.com/nike-zoom-pegasus-35-turbo-gyakusou-fir?c...

I definitely do not think this was the intended use of StockX but I feel like this is an unique value proposition for bargain hunters.
Yes, I’ve experienced a lot of products with cuts in quality and volume in the past few years as input costs and labor costs are rising. Not saying Merrill is reducing quality, but things are in flux.
There are many things one could blame Steam for, but AFAIK this limitation has been removed years ago.
Naively I would have thought that there is another definition which goes along the lines that a process is ergodic if it looses memory of its starting conditions. But, maybe I’m mixing up things here.
> This has nothing to do with nationalism

A nation is just a larger tribe - people are more closely related to others in their own nation, than to those in foreign nations.
"I was just following orders" is an excuse that fell very out of favor last century.
This did not help in my case. I have 3 DisplayPort 1.2 monitors, and half of the open windows get still tossed around randomly when the monitors wake from sleep, or when the whole PC wakes from sleep.
I had written a jail for Windows a long long time ago - it was inspired by Unix's jail.

For an app you could configure what filesystem and registry access was allowed and you could redirect FS access.

Implemented it as a kernel driver that hooked into the relevant system calls. It was easier to do kernel dev back then (we are talking mid 2000's) - i havent touched windows kernel coding in years.

I wonder if Microsoft has implemented a jail for processes in recent versions of windows. Running browsers in a VM can be cumbersome.
I'd be happy if it would stop recommending I watch videos I have already watched all the way through.
Those subreddits tended to be very small and inactive in comparison. r/the_donald is one of the most active communities on the entire website.
The_donald is notoriously bot driven, the online user count is garbage.

It’s not the only subreddit with large bot populations, I’m just saying it’s one of the more toxic influential ones.
You're not describing advertising, but rather search. Advertising applied to your situation would either mean that the size of your drawers were stored in some surveillance database to foresee your need for odd sizes, or more likely being repeatedly bombarded with ads for ones you can't use.
On the contrary. Deplatforming fascism works[1]. This removes a small number of tools that they use to recruit. It is step in the right direction.

1. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjbp9d/do-social-media-ba...
Has there been any serious thought / discussion about how the cat and mouse chase of the ads vs ad blockers is going to end?

It would be interesting to see where we are in ten years.
Curious would anyone like to learn about Toyota production system (lean manufacturing) implementation at Zenbooth factory in Berkeley, CA? We've thought about doing tours.
Implementation choices are just that. Arguments about whether the language does or does not have generics should refer to properties of the language, not properties of the compiler.
I must be missing something... Arxiv was already popular more than a decade before the copyright of the paper. Nonetheless, it is exciting to see how useful sympy already is to researchers.
Is there actual evidence of this? My experience is those in r/the_donald claim the numbers are artificially deflated by Reddit, and those on the other side claim r/the_donald is mostly bots. I suspect both views are wrong.
I had a CTO loan me "The Goal" after I came back from USENIX in Boston (2011) talking about devops and shite... Its a good read and gave context to the Phoenix project without being a spoiler...
To be fair we were told the immigration crisis was fake by the media until Trump story rating dips and immigration story rating spiked. Basically after the Muller report turned up nothing it went from full on media gas lighting to now front page on every outlet.
There's always Mathics, which is an open source implementation of (some) of Mathematica, using SymPy underneath: https://mathics.github.io/
I was under the assumption this was a reddit-wide rule tweak, however it is just a post from the subreddit "TrueReddit"
Censorship is a step in the direction of fascism. You have become what you hate most.
Errors are not lies. Disinformation is the latter. You should take everything with a grain of salt, but motivation is the critical distinction.
Edit: I had myself convinced that comments have a different ID space from submissions, but that obviously isn't true. I've partly rewritten to correct for an over-guess on how many new submissions there are each day.

I agree with your general suggestion, but just want to highlight that scale issues still make me think whatever finds traction on HN is a bit of a crapshoot.

It looks like there were over 10k posts (including comments) in the last day, and the list of submissions that spent time on the front page day yesterday has 84 posts. I don't how normal the last 2 days were, but by eyeball I'd guess around a quarter of the posts are comments on the day's front-page posts. This means there are probably a few thousand submissions that didn't get much if any traction.

Any time I look at the "New" page, I still end up finding several items that sound interesting enough to open. I see more than 10 that I'm tempted to click on right now. The current new page stretches back about 40 minutes, and only 10 of the 30 have more than 1 point (and only 1 has more than 10). Only 2 of the links I was tempted to click on have more than 1 point.

I suspect that there's vastly more interesting stuff posted to HN than its current dynamics are capable of identifying and signal-boosting. That's not bad, per se. It'd be an even worse time-sink if it were better at this task. But it does mean there are pitfalls using it as a model at an even larger scale and in other contexts.
I'd also appreciate if it went back to recommending videos similar to the current video I was on instead of having the same recommendations on every video now.
Would you please not post political flamebait, or any flamebait, to HN? We're trying for better than that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I'm dismayed to see that you've posted many unsubstantive comments recently. Could you please not do that? As I said, the hope is for this site to be a bit better than internet default. We can't do that if established users don't take care of it.
Solving Puzzles Cured My ‘Mommy Brain’
great name haha, I was not aware of this
Ask HN: Which headphones are you using?
I'm looking to get some high(er) quality headphones for everyday use.

Either for commuting or traveling, but also for sitting at my desk and trying to deeply focus on something or casual music listening outside in the nature.

A friend told me to look for noise cancelling headphones as they are great for traveling and besides that to buy something from "the big brands" like Sony or Bose.

Not sure if that really helps in case something is broken, but I think they still have a name to lose and are eager to produce good quality.

I had a look at the "Bose QuietComfort 35" and they look good to me, on the other hand Sony has some for around 100 Euro ("Sony WH-CH700N") with noise cancellation, too. Not sure if double or triple the price for the Bose gets me a long way or if I should just buy new ones in a few years when the ones from Sony are broken down.

So: Which headphones does HN recommend for everyday use?
Don't we already have that with TCP and/or UDP ?
My first name starts with it. Owing to my accent, I have trouble pronouncing it.

Growing up in Israel, among "Arab Jews" who did not have this problem, I was reminded daily of the difficulty I have in pronouncing my own name.
Yes, it's more difficult to conceal a hammer in your rectum.
Incorrect. It’s an ordinary rdp and vnc client. The X1 is a total rip-off - it’s just an ordinary Bluetooth mouse - but jump and the x1 work really well.
First they came for the Trump supporters, but I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Trump supporter.
This is what happens. We keep abstracting away. It's amazing how far removed we are from machine code. It's even more amazing that something as simple as HTML was abstracted.
It is fine. This is part of the problem. The moment you talk about right, you label them as racists, abortion banning a-holes. While AOC's views, who even Democrats label a Socialist (with policies such as green deal, 70% tax rates on high income earners, free college etc.), is now centrist! I hope you realize how different our views are - in that we aren't even on the same page to start the conversation.

But of course, we should ban the right since they are racists and misogynists. And then we act surprised when Trump wins again.
I just flat out stopped using their recommendations a while ago. I only look at my subscriptions feed.
Speaking personally, I would know myself to be unqualified, but I'd assume that someone's software picked up the fact that my name is on a refereed economics paper that has been cited over 100x.

So I could have fallen for this. Not because I have an overinflated sense of my own importance. But because I have a healthy respect for the erroneous conclusions that can be reached by automated incompetence.
HN is about as balanced a site as you'll get (which isn't to say it's perfectly balanced). You just have to make your case substantively, no inflammatory stuff, etc. For instance I've seen reasonable debates with climate change skeptics here.
If you liquidate, you have to pay capital gains taxes.
Whether you got the last seat at a price point has nothing to do with odds of getting bumped. Also US airlines almost never forcibly bump passengers who meet check-in requirements, especially with the new max compensation limits.
No mention of "Variable Refresh Rate" which is now in HDMI 2.1. I'm really hoping once that's standardized it'll put an end to the Gsync/Freesync nonsense we're currently dealing with.
> whilst denying funding for these facilities

They're getting $775 per person per day. People are trying to donate goods and are getting turned back. It's not a resource issue.

> which is saying something coming from me considering how generally paranoid I am personally

You may be paranoid, but your paranoia is pointing in the wrong direction.

> There's no basis for it. None whatsoever.

We're in the middle of a discussion about thousands of children being abused and mistreated in government facilities. That right there is a basis for comparison. If you can't even see that, then you're willfully closing your eyes.
No he filed his new campaign the day s/after/of taking office.

> Trump began his reelection campaign unusually early for an incumbent President. He began spending for his reelection effort within weeks of his election, and officially filed his campaign with the Federal Election Commission on the day of his inauguration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2020_presidential...
thanks for the info, I just see that squiggly line all over that 'sine wave' looking thing on space-related scenes on a big screen.
It was on Morning Edition on OPB radio at around 7:45-8:10PT (Oregon Public Broadcasting, essentially a glove for NPR's hand). I wish I remembered more about the context.
I imagine teachers don't have the time to have this type of 1:1 interaction with the 25 students in their class. Seems like email/phone communication to the parents is reasonable here. Something like disciplinary action would have been bad though.