skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on the aforementioned hypotheses, I think it’s reasonable to posit that a three letter agency has concluded that since 8chan has become “internet famous”, it’s unfettered yet monitored existence is now worse in aggregate than pushing its members further underground.

Whereas foreign terrorists are always worth monitoring.
CAPTCHA is a divisive topic on HN, so you'll get a lot of people suggesting it's vital, and a lot saying it just isn't, depending on their own experiences.

"You probably don't need ReCAPTCHA" [0] is an article discussing techniques that has had decent discussion [1] on HN before.

[0] https://kevv.net/you-probably-dont-need-recaptcha/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20158386
> So navigating the city with a personal car seemed completely impractical.

YMMV, I spent my last 2 holidays in Italy with my car and went pretty much everywhere, including the old town of Siena, the center of Florence, Lucca by car. Italy is exceptionally car-friendly, but some tourists seem to be afraid to go.
Is polynomial space something to assume every time traveler has?

Even ones without a TARDIS?
Monetary policy has many, unrelated effects on the economy. Even if China were able to point to obvious, incontrovertible humanitarian reasons for its currency decision I’m sure the US would still be unkind. It seems that at the end of the day only realpolitik prevails.
Of course your attitude will change if you find out your colleague is a dibber dobber.
Yes they are prethrine based. I've never found the plug-in types to be too effective. But I probably wouldn't detect a 30 or 50% reduction.

Get mesh screens! I never understood why they're non-existen in Europe (and probably other places). Or a mosquito net over the bed?
Yup, just to add onto this, software like Meshmixer will automate most of this for you. It's still possible to get voids where resin will pool depending on your model, but there's not a whole lot of manual effort involved these days.
Wow AI. is so cool. Never knew about it.
> And obviously America will be able to make these products despite having about 0 unemployment

That's what's called entrepreneurship. People will get rich making these products that are in sudden demand.
You'd be surprised what a couple degree difference can feel like.
In Queensland we turn the AC to only 3 degrees below the outside temp and it feels way colder inside.
On a hierarchy of software engineering discourse
Rumours are pointing towards September for a 16" MBP with a new design and new keyboard. Hopefully that does happen, my 2013 MBP could use an upgrade also
I am visiting Montréal on holdiday today with my family. Old Montreal by the waterfront was a wonderful pedestrian experience. I recently read that they had proposed a highway in the same area back in the 60s. What fools we were.
Not sure if your question regards the US only, but this is how cities in the Netherlands became bike and pedestrian-friendly starting in the 70s, by removing a lot of roads.
Perl 6 is a great language to learn if your goal is to become a more all-around versed programmer. It has constructs from every major family of programming languages and some features that I've never seen in any other language (NFG strings, operator overloading/declaration with precedence, whatever-code (Lisp has a similar construct), slangs, etc.)

But if you want to learn a programming language that you'll use in your day-to-day job, then unless your day-to-day job is fairly unusual, you won't be using Perl 6. It's fairly slow, very light on surrounding modules unless you want to call out to a Perl 5 compatibility layer and in many modern areas none of the Perl variants have a significant footprint (machine learning comes to mind).

Don't get me wrong. I love the language and program in it daily, but not for work. I write Perl 6 code because I enjoy thinking in highly abstract ways using whatever programming paradigm comes to hand. I write JavaScript, Python, Bash and rarely Java for work.
Switzerland has access to SEPA, I believe, as a member of the European Free Trade Association. I don't think it's widely accepted.
> One crash out of 3000 isn't that bad

It is actually very bad. Amazon ships ~2M packages per day by one estimates. Assume only 10% of these gets drone delivered. This would translate to 66 crashes each day. If only 10% of these crashes happen on people, it would be 6 people randomly getting killed each day.
how is "obvious thing ... with a laser diode" any different than "obvious thing ... with a computer"?
> 8chan is (probably) already strongly monitored due to the proliferation of child porn throughout the site.

ISPs/websites in the US are required to proactively report child abuse to NCMEC, so they don’t need to be “strongly monitored” unless of course they’re not complying.
I can't speak to the intent. Upton Sinclair's Jungle was a socialist manifesto that accidentally missed America's heart and hit her gut instead.

What I can say is approximately 100% of material that gets popular is simply the retelling of something like 7 archetypal stories that our human minds resonate with. Watch Moana and Wreck it Ralph, they're the same story: the
Resurrection of the Spirit of the Father. Watch Harry Potter and LOTR and the 5th Element, they're the same story as David and Goliath: the Overcoming the Impossible. Death Note and Faust are the same story: the Pact with the Devil.

I could go on.
Presumably they have a supervised model that they've trained on all their labeled data so far (possibly pooled across clients). They'd use this to estimate labels for their data, and then have humans correct it. They're basically doing the standard supervised data training loop.

If I had to guess, the long term plan probably is to move up the stack and sell the models to their clients.
> why shouldn't we burn 8chan to the ground?

Because it's pointless? People that have feelings and drives that make them do heinous things won't stop having them, and won't stop seeking others having them and discussing them. They'd just publish their manifests on other places. There are tons of public places. Let's say next psycho creates a Github account and publishes the next psychotic rant as Github repo. Now we have to burn Github to the ground? Or only if there are three such psychos that know how to set up a Github account?

> The point is that some opinions are just wrong.

True enough. The problem here is that somehow you think you can always tell which ones, and that you will wield the power to do it. The experience shows neither are true - you probably hold lots of wrong opinions without knowing it, and the power to exclude wrong opinions from polite society probably will be not in your hands. The best way to check every law would be "what if my worst enemy was in charge of implementing it?". If you're still OK with it - then it's a good law. Otherwise you're assuming Powers That Be would always agree with you - and that's a dangerous thing to assume.
80% of the other FAANG companies is at least double what most developers make, right, at mid career?

https://www.levels.fyi/SE/Amazon/Google/Facebook

has Amazon at 116K, Google we 123K and Facebook at 112K, just cash for all three, not including bonus or stock, for entry level employees.

Paying Chinese employees Chinese wages, but in America, would be both hella illegal and very obvious.
Yep, even with no swap whatsoever, performance is completely trashed (talking even the mouse lags for 30+ seconds at a time) for like a solid 5+ minutes before the oomkiller triggers, with swap, you might as well just reboot because the system will take perhaps an hour to start responding.

Linux is completely useless with ram that is almost full in a way that OSX and windows absolutely are not.
Is this supposed to be a counter argument to what I wrote? As if I wasn't aware of those stories?

Many of those (the ones who still do relevant work themselves) are hardly elites -- rather small change (e.g. Torvalds).

And the elite rest did their personal inventing before they become elites (Jobs or Ellison, for example, didn't do much inventing as billionaires).

Afterwards the inventing (when they were not actively stifling innovation, like Oracle and MS) was done by their employees...
Clinical trials are not true repeatable, scientific experiments. They're really just controlled studies which are the best that can be done in the absence of the possibility of a controlled experiment. In psychology, this however is just the tip of an iceberg of problems with such research being unscientific.
https://ballotpedia.org/Transgender_bathroom_access_laws_in_...

QED.
This is totally ridiculous. Every major political issue in the USA has been injected with a “protected” group so any criticism can be silenced as it now fits the criteria for hate speech.
> Compare that to retail banks which charge upwards of $35 for a "next-day ACH".

Is that still common? None of my banks / credit unions charges for incoming or outgoing ACH transfers.
Also see 3d printed aluminum casting molds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVgPM1ojyLw
This is fantastic. I've been wanting to make some custom liquor bottles. One step closer :)
tl;dr a software debouncer for Apple's obviously defective hardware.
Look at the phones designed for rectal concealment, called "Beat the BOSS" phones. They're super tiny and optimized for battery life too.
I should like to turn down an offer from AWS but first they'll need to extend one.

But I agree that Amazon's recruiting is hot garbage, they even spam your inbox with surveys requesting feedback while they already ghosted you in the interview process because they have decided to not continue!
McDonald’s has been in China since the late 90s, there was even a couple of Starbucks when I visited in late 1999! 94 is sort of what I see as the cutoff between old and new China.
Makes me think of having to debounce button input reads on Arduino.

Also, can't you do the same thing in System Preferences->Keyboard->Delay Until Repeat?
Roblox is overwhelmingly populated with kids. Much more so than Minecraft from what I've seen. The one big advantage it has over Minecraft is that it's easier to play together with friends from school. The kids all exchange their Roblox handles and put them on their seemingly enormous friends lists.
> Yet around the world this solution has largely failed

That's a cynic's worldview and it's one that I totally reject. Take your pessimism to a hole in the ground and wither yourself away there. Let those of us invested in the progress and future of humanity get on with our work.
How do you mean? If the Fed creates new money and buys bonds with it, the Fed can continue to hold them forever (really just until they mature) if it wants to. Then the Fed is more or less part of the government, so when the bond matures the Fed takes the bond to the treasury which gives it cash, then it gives the cash back to the treasury. It's like the bond evaporates into nothing when it matures while the Fed is holding it.

If the Fed theoretically bought all the bonds then it could obviously no longer increase the money supply by buying bonds, but we're a long way from that, and even then the Fed could still create new money and give it directly to the treasury to spend in lieu of collecting taxes. Or in the utopia where buying all outstanding government debt and funding the entire federal budget out of new money still hasn't caused the desired amount of inflation, to use to enact a negative income tax.
- If Google removed Amazon from search results, then that would be anti-competitive behavior.

- If Apple banned the Amazon app from iTunes, then that would be anti-competitive behavior.

You can still access Amazon in all these situations at amazon.com, and just like with the chromecast and Apple TV, whether or not there is access somewhere is irrelevant to the nature of the behavior being anti-competitive. Amazon was being anti-competitive by banning competing devices on it's - platform.
Having large numbers of drones in the sky, where any failure has the potential to drop a large weight on a person seems like a show stopper. Or just crashing onto a house or car and causing damage is going to get annoying for the community real fast. I doubt drones can be made as reliable as aeroplanes at anything like a realistic price.
Elixir. Are you running your tests in parallel in the same process?
https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom has worked well for me in the past.
Can you set it to only allow people with score < 0.5?

No, I'm not joking.
Do you use Nvidia products on Linux? Reading "love" and "Nvidia" in the same sentence feels a little bit odd because the general sentiment for Nvidia on the Linux community is "don't touch it with a 10 foot pole". If I remember correctly Torvalds himself named it the worst hardware company they had to deal with.
> Your disk LED will be flashing
incessantly (I'm not entirely sure why).

The VM is basically paging all clean pages in and out constantly as their tasks become runnable. A pretty standard case of thrashing.
A slightly more populous island in the north lands:

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/us/22ice.html
PSPACE[0] is a computational complexity class, not about topology ("larger on the inside").

Any timemachine that produces self-consistent timelines (arrives at a fixed point after a finite amount of iterations) can be used to solve problems in PSPACE.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSPACE [1] https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/ctc.pdf
Apple replaced my keyboard for free (two week turnaround)... but the Apple tech also suggested I purchase the $13 Ghostcover keyboard cover [1] for the new one to prevent future problems. I did and... it's actually amazing and doesn't get in the way of typing at all. Seriously can't even notice it's there in terms of touch, and its texture feels the same as the original keys.

Should Apple make a keyboard less prone to problems from debris? Yes, of course. But in the meantime, is a $13 keyboard cover a good idea to fix a $1,300+ machine? Also Yes. A minor inconvenience to have to buy, but at least it fixes it for good... and I've never seen it mentioned on HN before so thought I'd share in case it helps others.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N20RZXB
Delay until repeat is how long it waits before it starts repeating a key _while the key remains pressed_. Debounce is about turning multiple presses into a single press.
If those things are creatures like tigers, living in isolated environments, yes.

If they are creatures that live all around the environment and play into special roles, then no. E.g. http://sos-bees.org/situation/
Yeah, any time I end up in that situation I just hold the power button and prey to the journaling gods. It's a serious issue, I'm extremely glad it looks like there's actually some progress on fixing it.
Was going to mention this as well. Vice deliberately misrepresenting the point of his memo and explicitly mentioning that it's "unscientific". Well no sh, it's a memo. I wonder if there's an agenda there?
This is with swap disabled.
The 1st Amendment was developed in a time when there was no such conceivable thing as an anonymous forum of people that encouraged each other to kill crowds of civilians at random with machine guns, leading to such killings actually being carried out, repeatedly.

The idea that "the answer to bad speech is more speech" breaks down in such a situation. There is no amount of "more speech" that can fix what's wrong with 8chan, because there's no way for mass condemnation to have any effect on it. It only serves to feed the trolls. And when the trolls are fed, the killings become more likely.

If you've got a better solution than deplatforming, I'd like to hear it. I'm certainly a free speech advocate in the abstract. But it's increasingly difficult to ignore that anonymous online communities are threatening to undercut the basic premises on which free speech as an ideal stands.
There are also no cars on Bald Head Island, in southeast North Carolina. There's not even a bridge to the island from the mainland... all access is via boat or ferry (unless you're a really good swimmer).
I wonder who the primary audience is intended to be? I would think future societies at the point these sites could be lost (thousands of years per the article's suggested readability) to common knowledge would have tech to scan/detect such sites. Though its always possible for things to regress as a result of some disaster.
Apple Will Provide Special iPhones for Hackers to Test and Offer Mac Bug Bounty
There's an opposite line of logic to the disposal of nuclear waste that projects such as these don't seriously consider:

Bury it in such a way that any hypothetical future primitive neo-civilisation can't detect it and can't dig it up - for better or for worse.

Instead of drawing attention to the dump of strange rocks that make neolithic humans sick, why not make it so unobtrusive that any enterprising future miners don't discover the waste dump in the first place?

We have the technology to survey geological formations for exploitable minerals. Why not instead survey for both the lack of exploitable minerals AND a long-term stable environment, then bury the small volume of high-reactivity waste that we've produced so far in a tiny shaft with a tortuous access route?

It's a lot easier to get humans to ignore something for 10,000 years than to make them pay attention to a warning sign.
Linux absolutely, positively, requires a decent chunk of free memory because the kernel's algorithms simply do not work and in my 15+ years of Linux experience they NEVER worked. If Linux starts thrashing, and it does so easily, then the box takes what surely is an uncomputable amount of time to recover.

One way to make relatively sure that this is always the case is to use a userspace daemon like earlyoom.

Though to stay fair all desktop OS'es behave badly when put under memory pressure, it's just that Linux is an order of magnitude or so worse.
Does the time until oomkiller change dramatically on spinning metal versus SATA SSD versus NVMe, in a swap-off scenario?
No it's not, and you still have a burden of a proof on your shoulders. It probably is, indeed, kept up by some degree of anti-competitive practices but it's still not a monopoly but a member of what you call oligopoly, providing a lot of cheap stuff in every of its areas of competition.

I'd like to point out as well that sanctions (not necessarily well-deserved) against Amazon will just destroy some workplaces, mostly lower-qualified ones, which will cause quite a bit of a problem.
Somehow, 22% of Angelenos travel to work without a car. That's not as good as San Francisco, but it's a lot better than, say, Nashville.
Would you say the same thing if Cloudflare and several ISPs all unilaterally decided to stop hosting democratic party websites?

The line isn't as clear when you generalize the action.
The let me astound you even more that there also exist such things as off-road vehicles, natural roads (think of countries like SA or AUS), and that .gov cannot just bomb all it's roads away in an instant, like they could stop all trains and most flights.
I wonder about the reason to depart from scissor switches (still seen on e.g. current Magic Keyboard and discontinued MacBook Air).

Those are quite more reliable. Mines have only fallen apart after 5 years of daily intense use.

A great thing of these keyboards is that travel is small, but not too small, making latency great compared to regular mechanical keyboards.
Is that right? Shouldn't the reinvestment involve a significant amount of capital expenditure which is not immediately deductible?
Just did this, space bar was double pressing. It took them two weeks including having to order the parts after they said they would be faster in changing them and would hold parts in stock— at at Apple store in the middle of NYC.

If I knew it would take this long I would probably just go with this if I really needed my laptop.
> So far it has worked very well for the US and China has been suffering. US has been able to create 6 million jobs with 2 million manufacturing jobs alone created since his election.

this is nonsense. in what sectors?
Yes and no. Let me give you an example: if 70% of Americans get $40K bonus per annum from the fed, it will lead to inflation. However, if the same amount of money (70% of 300M times $40K =8.4T) is given to ten billionaires, it won't lead to inflation.
I've called out hate speech on 4chan and 8chan many times before. I've gotten called an "SJW cuck" a lot, and others doubled-down in posting shit gleefully when they saw their shit "triggered the libs". That was the fun part to them. To someone like me who isn't there just to challenge people, it's exasperating. I gave up and they didn't.

I think certain site structures encourage different kinds of discussion. Imagine the most extreme possibility: a site that automatically hides posts that the majority would agree with after reading, and gives points to and highlights bombastic posts. You're not going to get good discussion out of this, no matter how much you try to convince people that it would be good for society if they visited this site and tried to challenge people there.

I think imageboards like 4chan and 8chan accidentally approximate this. They bump threads to the top on every reply, so threads that trigger flame wars are incentivized. The lack of names means no one will call you out if you flip-flop opinions, so you're free to flip-flop to whatever opinion will trigger the most people, which users will do in order to make successful threads.

After a few cycles of this, normal people ("normies") either leave or adapt themselves to fit in, so the remaining users have to amp up their ridiculousness to make threads that are bombastic to the new crowd. Users get used to having to make their opinions more extreme to get noticed. I think this then causes them to flock to threads that they can tell are bombastic to normies as a way to self-reaffirm their own tendency toward making bombastic threads. If you ever try to argue for the normie opinion on a subject, it "outs" yourself as someone who isn't a true user, as someone who isn't purposefully ratcheting their opinions up into offensiveness as the site encourages.

Years ago, I helped run a once-popular imageboard dedicated to a fandom, and its level of dysfunction was legendary. A big part of that probably came from the userbase's overlap with 4chan, but the way problems regularly cropped up in common interactions even in topics and groups of users with little 4chan overlap made me skeptical of the structure itself. It helped a lot being able to see which anonymous users made which posts and see how common it was for people to sock-puppet or radically re-work their opinions in their next thread.
Exactly this. I've worked for a company where Walmart was the largest retailer for their product (DVDs). They were constantly being beat up to lower their wholesale prices while also demanding a separate SKU with edited content. Amazon is no different in this case (except not demanding edited content).

Whenever I asked about this, they said you still had to provide product for sale wherever the customers were. The large retailers all want you to believe that you can make up for the lower price in vast quantities their store front provides.
Chris Collins would have been a better example instead of Pelosi.
You said we have mass shootings because we take things away from people. I'm just asking what was taken away from these mass shooters (Gilroy, El Paso, Dayton)?

Surely you can't mean 8chan being 'taken away', since the outage has only happened today, after these attacks.
He’s looking to buy a company / working in micro private equity. Well suited for it.
Thanks, but if it's over a 25-year time period, shouldn't we consider the price of an EV bought at the beginning of the time period, not the end?