skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to read these things, because it feels so foreign to me. I started web dev around 2003 (stopped maybe 2010-2011), it involved a empty HTML file, perhaps only the few basic elements copied in, some hand crafted CSS, hand crafted JavaScript, a few ifs for Internet Explorers of the days, it was pretty manual, but one knew all the bits and pieces of the code.

Given how much I spent doing things this way, I'm quite reluctant to building JavaScript, let alone CSS (though preprocessing first came to CSS, if my mind serves me right). I find the write-test-update loop to be much tighter for frontend work, so I'm quite fond of the old ways of doing things (and all my side projects look the same way as they did back in the early 2000s), but I understand that modern build tools are getting more and more performant. Not as performant as "Save" though :-)
A recursive application of Y-combinator to itself seems appropriate? :-)
I Tried Hiding from Silicon Valley in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets
That bad experience with overnight was entirely due to their new busted-ass call center where after arguing with a voice-response robot you get to argue with an outsourced human-robot who's only ability is to tell you everything they can't do. The local terminal called me back and took care of the problem, but that level of service won't persist behind a hostile front-line phone system.

That call center isn't all that new, IIRC you've never been able to call the depot directly. The only reason you got resolution from a local employee is that their own metrics would look bad if your package went missing (and you reported it).
I am not saying Deng's approach is bad. I am just trying say that we shouldn't forget that a huge truck of China GDP comes from the exploitation of the workers.

Now that the level of inequality has reached the moon, I am curious to see what they will do next. Especially in the age automation and increasing trade war tender, manufacturing WILL leave China. Many in the US blame the rise Trump on the lost blue collar jobs. Imagine the same situation in China, but with majority of population being blue collar worker.

Let's also not forget about corruption in China. It is true that elimination of porvery is an important goal set by the central state. But how the local official achieve their target KPI is abhorrent, e.g. forcing low income family out of the city, manipulate the definition of poverty etc.
No that doesn't make any sense. If you can fit two 200W systems in the same space as a single big 200W system then using less physical space increases the cooling requirements and the power density might become high enough to warrant exotic cooling solutions like immersion cooling.
For what it's worth, my only interaction with dang was being gently chided for a slightly glib dismissal at the top of a comment I made. The phrasing I used is very common (and treated as harmless) where I was brought up in Yorkshire. But he was right; without the benefit of that context it came over as rude. I've been a bit more careful since.

Thanks, dang. A triumph of moderation.
Partly due to a virtuous circle; the community downvotes the more obvious ones into invisibility, and persistent trolls get banned, and the discussions are curated to select less fertile topics, and the controversy-ometer pushes flamewars off the front page.

The moderators here are very good at doing work upfront to save themselves work later, by making the site infertile ground for troublemakers.
Airbus confirmed that SQLite is being used in the flight software for the A350 XWB family of aircraft. SQLite is written in C.
I write software for in cockpit ipad apps - they are becoming more and more integral to the workload of pilots, everything from route planning, guidance, checklists, manifests and ordering fuel.

There was actually an incident posted on HN a while ago where IIRC an ipad did a software update or similar at a critical moment, and caused complications bad enough to get an incident report published on some aviation agency's website.
Unlike traditional swap, Android's Memory Manager kills inactive processes to free up memory
Can Britain’s Top Bookseller Save Barnes and Noble?
> But would you ever go and look at his repo?

No. But if someone else checked the repo, I'd be interested. That said the media would be less likely to publish 'this young man took a photo of a black hole'.

> Also as has repeatedly been said, she always said it was a team effort.

Yep. Also mentioned in my comment you're replying to.

I think of this conflict as 'developers versus the media' - the media having pushed the narrative of 'a young woman who took a photo of a black hole'.

The media (who like to remove their own influence from discussions) have turned it into 'sexist developers vs young female scientist'. They've been very successful at doing that, yet again, because, well, they're the media. It's easy to shape a story when you control all outlets deemed noteworthy enough to cite.
I don't know what you mean by "suspicious." I'm part of a ton of other forums and communities, and over time almost all of them have devolved into complete and utter dogshit, just an endless stream of memes and screenshots of Twitter posts. The communities that remain successful either have total strict moderation or a "shitposts" section where all of the garbage ends up, but even then the quarantine zone ends up sucking up a lot of the forum energy. I think it's best to just not have it at all.
The Secret History of 'Easter Eggs'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics

This is where 'cyber' comes from. It's not "stupid".
Who likes a forum they find unreasonable? That's hardly "suspicious", it's a statement about taste.
SIOP was a plan though - originally it didn't even have any conditionality:

"During the briefings, Marine Corps commandant David Shoup (the service with the most marginal nuclear responsibilities) saw a chart that showed that the initial attack would kill tens of millions of Chinese. At the closing meeting, General Shoup asked General Power what would happen if Beijing was not fighting; was there an option to leave Chinese targets out of the attack plan? Power was reported to have said that he hoped no one would think of that "because it would really screw up the plan"--that is, the plan was supposed to be executed as a whole. Apparently Shoup then observed that "any plan that kills millions of Chinese when it isn't even their war is not a good plan. This is not the American way."
Thanks. I think you missed some rather critical bits in your comment: that such an already extreme cyclist might produce more gases than the most efficient gasoline powered vehicles. It's quite misleading when you don't mention that, since then people think of the average car to compare against.
Is it just Strict moderation or Members with a common goal of making this place a good / fair place?
I thought it was a Chinese name
Agriculture, land misuse also driving climate change, U.N. report warns
Fake Rice
Congratulations to "paulmd" for getting a flagged comment cited in The New Yorker!

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13094354 is the comment, which I find entirely reasonable but obviously people disagreed, or at least it was considered off-topic)
Glad you asked. My solution allows for anonymous rooms, but "solution 2" does not. To be anonymous, just post ordinary text to the room using K. To be identified, post your text, your signature all encrypted with K.
One great improvement of UI for HN, don't ask me how often I fat fingered before.
I hadn’t heard of that. Thanks. Sounds like a nice alternative working arrangement while still maintaining a sane corporate structure. Plus a way better voluntary option that centralizing everything and ruining it with forced gov policies applied to everyone which are usually employed to reach similar goals.
Medium has good content behind an increasingly infuriating presentation. Mechanically it's the opposite of HN, but for various reasons (reach, possibility of reimbursment) people do write some quality content there.
That's been my experience too. It's the only online forum where the style of moderation has made me think twice about what I said.
> “There’s often a strong wish to solve these contentious problems by changing the software, and, to the extent that we’ve tried things like that, we haven’t found it to work.“

Software might be eating the world, I don't think people will eat software anytime soon.

It's a good reminder that we can't solve all problems by just throwing some code at it. Unfortunately ...
I think he was answering your question rather than emphasizing anything.
Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level
In court, under oath is my guess? How does the electorate of a country get their own government to give a truthful answer? Unfortunately there isn't many ways to really get a straight answer from anyone these days. You can sue someone for something at which point there is something at stake, until then nobody has a reason to be honest if it could hurt their career/business/{insert whatever thing here}. :/
I can just confirm what others are saying here - Java is great for the development of robust and reliable software. If you need even lower memory usage, you can compile the Java app with a GraalVM to a native image.
Running OwnCloud in Kubernetes with Rook Ceph Storage – Step by Step
To rein in global warming, healthy forests and sustainable diets are key, U.N
I think both combine to form a culture.

(In your HN settings, you'll see there's the ability to see deleted posts and shadowbanned users, and if you turn that on you'll see that most posts have a load a crazy people and trolls posting on them that the mods have cleaned up.)
To Slow Global Warming, U.N. Warns Agriculture Must Change
Bit of both. The moderation is necessary for keeping the community whole when we get influxes of trolls or redditors.
You might like Tildes. Here's their blog and docs which describe what Tildes is about.

https://blog.tildes.net/

https://docs.tildes.net/

You may also like Lobste.rs https://lobste.rs/
I'm interested in getting into security. Can you give any insight on what you're looking for in candidates?
Why not native LibreOffice? Does MS Office from 10 years ago offer something that LibreOffice doesn't?
I wouldn’t call it strict at all. He’s actually way more liberal about stuff than most over-bearing Reddit mods who think it’s their job to be editors of their own private newspaper rather than helping only when there’s no other option.

This is why dang is so good at what he does as it draws a difficult balance.
I've been enjoying the "Against the Rules" podcast [1] hosted by Michael Lewis [2]. It's related to moderation so I'll post it here.

The show is series of stories/reports on the work of refereeing fairness in different parts of life. With views into how those referees are changing, and in some cases, outright disappearing.

Fascinating stuff from an author who really knows how to tell an engaging story about a potentially dry topic. (Moneyball, The Big Short, Liar's Poker, etc.)

[1] https://atrpodcast.com/

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/776.Michael_Lewis
This beautiful project began as Ketrina Yim's Master's thesis:

http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/techreports/ucb/text/E...

and continue with the help of many great students:

http://csillustrated.berkeley.edu/artists.php
So, would a vulnerability in WebGL/WebGPU mean a shader on 3D web app can read all my disks? Neat.
I think the issue there is that 8chan didn't seem to do anything about the nastier elements of /pol/. As Prince said, they only took that decision because they felt 8chan were ignoring the problem, which I think is a real one. I'm conflicted about this issue, as any sane person should be, but on balance it felt like the right decision.
Does the name of your university start with an "R"? ;)
As described in the earlier article [1], in the original BitBlt implementations the blitter loop was generated on the fly based on a template and executed as a subroutine. Looks like the opcode mini-language was meant to be straightforward to translate into machine code.

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=97995
Still... I wonder how many messages are reported per day. BTW, I don't get why you're being downvoted...
I thought it was just the annoyance of having the lefty/media point of view pushed hard. Whenever someone that isn't a white male achieves something, there's this push to let the whole world know that a "minority" has accomplished something.

It just comes off as a "In your face! Racist white people." I'm fairly certain that most sane folk could care less about the gender or colour of the person making progress for mankind.
Live View: Google Introduces Augmented Reality in Google Maps
If the hardware supports it, yes, but only with basically the same type of processor.
That's easy enough to explain...

First off, lying to office security carries fewer repercussions than lying to the police to get a crime number. The office security guys won't want to be party to someone else's vendetta (would you?)

Secondly - if you care enough to waste hours of your time filing a police report, then you must give a damn about your shiny-thing. If not... well you clearly don't care enough and it's not a problem, so goodbye.

Read that how you will...
Do you think some of the same content might make it to other publications, or will most of the writers stop producing Linux articles?
I hope we can invent new revenue models to support quality journalism! We need free as in freedom press which does not get paid through ads.

Sad to see Linux journal close down. It was a very good magazine!
And you are certain that all the "faulty sensors" that come up every now and then are actually mechanically faulty and not some bad actor sending garbage data apparently coming from that sensor to avionics?
> Are you going to ban people from giving opinions as to whether various investments are good or not?

We already do basically do that for legal and medical advice.
Sturgeon's Law says 90% of anything is crap.

Since anyone can write for medium, and anyone with an HN account can post medium links here, there are huge amounts of medium content. So we see a lot of that 90%, as well as the 10% that's useful.
See Strasbourg for an example of that. Center was left alone and 19th century building were built in a brand new neighboorhood.
If the western economies were truly trickle down, the bucket at the top would be empty by now. However, the source of the trickle has become more sealed over time, and thus the inequality gap grows.
Baby Amazons take on their American role model
If electric motor is anything like PC fan, than it should have bearing? My fans have either double ball bearing or sleeve bearing and last I heard there are also some maglev type of fans but I don't know if they are really maglev or they also have some kind of bearing. Will check later.
Three pitfalls to avoid in machine learning (2019)
“Perl” in the name “Perl 6” is confusing and irritating
The argument in the linked article, which I found compelling, is that by doing this you significantly raise the bar for participation. That cuts out the casual audience, reduces the audience size for these grandiose manifestos (which seems key to them being posted there), and sends a signal that this hateful content isn't generally acceptable. Of course there will always be truly horrible people but, on balance, I think the benefits outweigh the costs. As I said in another comment, I'm conflicted about this, as everyone should be, and will keep reading about the pros and cons. But at the moment I'm convinced that this was the right move.
There is a proposal for decentralized user accounts: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/915
Legally they have to, yes -- but BA's tactic for avoiding this is for all the desk staff to mysteriously go on an extended break when a delayed flight arrives...

You call the helpdesk to be told "speak to airport staff at the BA desk".

... see above. :)
To distribute the new K you would need to encrypt it for each of the N-1 users of the group. That's why we need trees.
congratulations, you are renting a managed cloud server.
The article mentions, China for the first part of 20th century, and before 1980s, isn't a stable country.

Qing government is overthrown at 1911, which follows by a loose governance of various warlords, and KMT merely reins the power to control them. Before stuff can get better, the Japanese invasion happens, drags China into even bigger misery well into 40s. Tens of millions people died in WWII. After WWII, the Chinese Civil War happens immediately between KMT and CCP, with CCP ascending to power after 4 years.

At this stage, China finally regains a strong central government as it usually does in its history. Unfortunately, Mao is an ideology fueled dictator, who knows nothing about economy development. So China missed the golden age of economy and technology development worldwide before 80s. When its leader finally comes to sense, the world is a far different place than they would want to admit, and China is way behind already and have so much to catch up.

After which, it does something right about itself. Cheap affordable, mass education offered to its populace. Student loan was unheard of in China (not sure it is still case nowadays). And freedom to do business is offered to its citizens, and they are encouraged to get rich by the party. CCP would like to claim all the credits, but in reality it is mix of everything, it does something right, but more like catalyst that starts something even beyond its own imagination, driven by the desire of one billion people to seek a more abundant life.

Yes, I think what really happens in China today is that it finally comes back at the world stage, not as a catch-up, but as a player, with its own pros and cons.

Such coming back should be regarded as the normal of the world order, but I guess it will have to earn the status before the rejection from the post cold war, western liberal order is significantly weakened or defeated.
Although being - sometimes wildly - at odds with many of the leanings, assumptions, and perceived biases underlying the generality of HN, and often not sharing editorial viewpoints as expressed by dang and sctb, I am consistently in awe and absolutely drooling fanboy adulation over the quality of the moderation and everything else which keep - miraculously - this site running, healthy, useful, and mostly spam-free. From over here in a very different set of values and mind: Thank you for all that.

As for the article: King Canute was a Danish and for a while English king. Never Swedish.
When you're looking at a page of 30 links, the signaling value of a domain is useful. Medium is a low-barrier place to publish, and has discovery built in, so it ends up attracting a lot of bad writing and promotional material. That, combined with the degraded reading experience, is why I am happy to judge a book by its cover in this case.
So, it should only be free if it's most valuable, if its just highly valuable it should be very expensive?

Perhaps people want to do something that changes the World for the better?
- clean up the taskbar by removing the default icon shortcuts and the giant search bar

- disable all desktop notifications

- install Chrome

- install Git Bash
Metaprogramming in JavaScript with Jscodeshift
I believe that Linux has all the tools to solve this in practice:

1. When you allocate memory, but do not write into it yet, those pages not mapped in RAM and thus don't occupy actual space.

2. When you're done with a specific page of memory, you can madvise(MADV_FREE) it, which means that the kernel can discard these pages from RAM and use it for caches and buffers. But you still hold on to the virtual memory allocation, so you can just start writing into the page again when you need more memory and the kernel will map it again.

If I understand all that correctly, you can have your allocator work in such a way that it keeps a large reserve of preallocated memory pages, but the corresponding amount of RAM can be used for caches and buffers when it doesn't need everything. An interesting question would be how that scenario appears in ps(1) and top(1), i.e. whether those MADV_FREE'd pages would count towards RSS.
> I don't know what you mean by "suspicious."

I mean that, maybe you should distrust your own judgement that "HN is the only reasonable discussion forum remaining on the internet". Perhaps other places have environments that you don't like but other people feel that they are "the only reasonable discussion forum remaining on the internet".

> I'm part of a ton of other forums and communities, and over time almost all of them have devolved into complete and utter dogshit, just an endless stream of memes and screenshots of Twitter posts.

In my experience this has a lot more to do with algorithmic instead of chronological ordering. Facebook for example, where a lot of communities have gone to die, is a context-destroying engine. Only memes and shitposts can survive. What is the point of writing something thoughtful if you don't know if anyone will even see it?

Otherwise, online communities have a lifetime. Before HN there was Slashdot and Kuro5hin. They were nice at some point, then devolved into shit. Same thing will happen to HN and everything else, of course.

> The communities that remain successful either have total strict moderation or a "shitposts" section where all of the garbage ends up, but even then the quarantine zone ends up sucking up a lot of the forum energy. I think it's best to just not have it at all.

My favorite community uses a completely different strategy: there are no moderators but it is relatively obscure. Shit posters come and go, nobody reacts, all is fine. It has been going on for more than two decades. I will not disclose it because I do not want to ruin it, but I bet lots of things like this exist. They don't make money nor are they advertising arms of money-making operations, so nobody really cares. No newspaper will ever write an editorial about them -- this is why they are so great!
I see what you're saying, and if these were small little online groups of, say, ten people, perhaps I'd agree. But one issue here is the audience size it gives people. Media guidelines (although they rarely follow them) say that you shouldn't publicise the names or images of people who commit these crimes, because that's a large part of what they want. The mainstream media are complicit in this too, and they should shoulder a good deal of the blame for that. Online forums are an easy target for the mainstream media because it means they don't have to examine their own part in the problem, but that doesn't mean the place where these events are initially publicised and encouraged shouldn't be tackled too.
This. Notice the little rivulet running down the left side of the lane in the first photo? Odds are that's either urine or sewage.
I'm of the opinion that it is best to err on the side of strictness. Once you make a reasonable exception, you open a precedent, and some people are very good at digging up and pointing out precedent.
Definitely the members IMO; a moderator can snipe out the occasional troll, but if all members are being pricks there's nothing that can be done about that. What you need is to maintain an atmosphere, a culture, etc. You need the community to call one another out and keep one another accountable. And you need to nip any broken windows in the bud - Reddit's comment threads often spiral out of control and into a spammy mess of memes and references for example, simply because that's part of their culture. It's harmless enough on Reddit, but if that happened on HN the comments section would diminish greatly in value.
Why is this on the front page? /s