skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've specced out a decentralized reddit alternative a little bit, but have too many side projects. Someone please take this and build it. Let me know if you try, would love to spectate and advise on development.

The key is there shouldn't be a globally consistent front page. Sorting should be done on an individual basis. Upvotes boost signal signal to peers and downvotes squelch. By propagating content scores transitively through the network proportionally to trust scores, users can moderate their own feeds by voting and managing their friend list.

Users have a peer list, containing a list of server/users on it. Each peer has a user-managed 'trust weighting'. Each user has a list of "good content" (ideally hash identified for content addressability), with each item having a score based on that user's votes and votes from peers, weighted by that users trust in that peer.

Periodically, your server contacts all of your peers, and asks them for their good content list. The scores from peers are multiplied by your own trust weight for that peer, and you build a personal "good content" list that merges the lists from each of your peers together (and drops insufficient scores).

You are presented with a score-descending-sorted page of content. Whenever you upvote something, it increases your score weight for that content as well as the trust weight for each peer who sent you the recommendation, and vice versa for downvotes. Votes are transmitted to peers as a crypto signature of the content hash, but when retransmitted to peer-of-peer, they only see the intermediary's aggregated and trust weighted merged scores.

The specifics of the algorithms on how you calculate and adjust weights can be configurable by each individual user, the protocol only cares that peers are able to produce some kind of score list.

Dividing content into topics is a bit trickier, could just label content with tags. I think it may be preferable for each user to have multiple topic focused 'personalities' that are basically distinct user accounts with unique peer lists and votes. In that way, I could follow Dave-gardening without having to follow Dave-sports.

For this example I'm using 1 user per server for simplicity, though not required. All users could be on same server, which is probably best for MVP to avoid implementing p2p networking stuff until validated.
clang-cl seems promising: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html#clang-cl
In the US, you generally need to pay with both your money and your time. I've waited three months for an appointment with a specialist, had them only tell me to go to another specialist, and paid for the privilege.
They'd have them retarget to what's popular post-acquisition in my concept. Especially among their paying customers. Keep adding languages or just useful things for it to look for.
Alternative discussion on the same subject matter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21008930
You're gonna make fun of people for being healthy and rich? I think you just self-owned.
I've heard them described as a very thin ribbon, in which case it would be (thousands of tons of) material wafting down like paper, not a heavy cable slamming into the ground and crushing buildings. I don't know if that describes the standard design, or just one particular one.
So when we look at a "primate family tree coloured based on sweating ability" …?

https://www.filthymonkeymen.com/2018/05/08/humans-sweat-like...
Be wary of the "the far right does it therefore everyone else who does it is far right" fallacy. In particular, when a fact checker says that they need to do something about <conservative political movements>, _even though I personally dislike those political movements_, I know that they're probably biased.
I am bot really sure what you are defending here. Unlimited means without limits. 22gb is a limit. I am glad 12gb is enough for you but its not for many.
Not yet, but we are working on it =)
The videos are of real aircraft recorded through a FLIR pod. When zoomed out far enough the aircraft simply look like fuzzy ovals as demonstrated in this video https://youtu.be/jWjpnCKcj8M?t=136

For some reason people in the military and government are trolling the public, perhaps as part of a campaign to discredit news agencies.
Sounds like Aether[1]. In contrast to the Usenet, it is peer-to-peer, instead of federated. It does also have moderation, voting, and a pretty UI – things that are arguably missing in the Usenet. (And it doesn't use blockchain.)

[1]: https://getaether.net/
Planes have blinking lights, right? These had none of those. They moved around in a non-linear fashion at will, they were intelligently operated. One of them disappeared in a flash...

All the people there with me ruled out all the logical possibilities too, most of them were skeptics (including myself) before we saw them. We still joke about the ordeal when we see each other.
Are you truly certain it is just to simplify the UI? I am not sure for Swedish, but I do know that US films subtitled in Japanese often have different licensing arrangements than the unsubtitled version.

For the same inscrutable reasons that the film industry insists on schemes like DVD region locking, they are also generally against making a single version of a movie with all subtitles available.
No. If it was, the tutorial would be focused on authoritative DNS providers, at least in part.
trashbat
Something strange is happening to Greenland's ice sheet
You save an awful lot of time when you know have an idea of what's going to be slow up front.

I've spent so much time trying to chase down bugs caused by junior programmers because something that worked fine with 100 rows in db, slows to a crawl when we move a feature out of beta and we suddenly have 1000 rows.

If they had some idea that the query they were writing was O(n^3) they could have done a quick estimate and saved us all the trouble.
> The big question in the municipality as network layer only is how do companies actually compete?

This is why I am more interested in the dark fiber or conduit services. The major technical risk of municipal networks is that they will not keep up with new backhaul equipment innovations. Australia maintains a national "broadband" service which is haunted by stagnation, and while it is easy for people to say they simply didn't try hard enough, I think it's more likely that this risk is endemic to government-operated telecommunications infrastructure.

I would set the system up so that vendors can compete by installing better or more interesting routing infrastructure in the dark fiber network, or on their own fiber in rented conduit space. Possibly they could also offer edge computing, peering at substations, wireless services, private networks, and probably all sorts of things you or I have not thought of yet.

> Could they do any better on speed by getting better interconnects to the wider internet or is that also part of the community infrastructure?

They are empowered to do whatever makes sense, they could even do hard private networks if they wanted.
Security problems aren't interchangeable between languages, and C has a very particular set of concerns that don't translate.
Swiss banking history and the process they and their US customers have to go through are entirely unrelated. The US simply created these regulations because for some strange reason the US believes it somehow has the authority to collect every last penny on every single citizen regardless of residence and or if that person gets any value out of having said citizenship. Something the rest of the world obviously doesn’t agree with.
Is it companies, that would or should do it? Colleges and other publicly-funded entities are who did it the first time. Companies can only do what's profitable. (Or what they can convince investors will someday be profitable, but we can ignore that aberration in the long term.)
Lemmy is a federated alternative to Reddit: https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy

Edit: Check out the dev instance of Lemmy! https://dev.lemmy.ml/
The Brutalism Post, Part 2: What Brutalism Is Not
Have you tried Tmobile for international travel? I wonder how it compares. I belive it is cheaper than this plan.
Reminds me of .com bubble
Right. I've heard what actually happens is the bank does an investigation (which obviously costs them). One thing they'll want to figure out is if the account holder is trying to defraud them.

During this investigation the money is not available. And they do not guarantee it will be over quickly. This could result in all kinds of unpleasantness, including eviction, repossession, etc.
Facebook the company has 40,000 employees, but I'm willing to bet the total number of engineers working on facebook.com vs reddit.com isn't too different.
Call Waiting used to be a feature that you paid monthly for.

As was Caller ID, Three Way Calling, Busy Number Redial, etc.

It's amazing how much incumbent telcos nickled and dimed little features like this. I think it was a couple bucks a month to have that feature.
USAF: Our New Tanker Should Be Ready for War in 3 or 4 Years
I can try to explain this to you from a math perspective, if you want, but I need to know your math background. Are you familiar with the lambda calculus and its relationship to category theory?
I guess that is only the case for the HN bubble and a loud minority. Also, people are always complaining about UI changes. Personally, I prefer the re-design, even though it has a few flaws. The old design was awful.
> Swiss banks are in that position today because

uh no.

Every bank around the world is in that position today because of the FATCA treaty.
White-colored, orb-shaped. They moved around in a non-linear fashion at will, they were intelligently operated. One of them disappeared in a flash...

Strange thing was during encounter #2, they appeared in the spot in the sky 2 nights in a row.
This isn't as bad as the recent campaign by Rogers in Canada for their "infinite" package.

https://mobilesyrup.com/2019/06/13/rogers-unlimited-infinite...

Taking a page from Freedom Mobile, the new plans offer ‘unlimited’ data in that they don’t include data overage fees. Instead, once subscribers go over their monthly data allotment, Rogers caps their data speeds at 256Kbps until the start of their next billing cycle.

10GB full speed.
I used an astronomy app on my phone to verify the satellites, planets, stars, meteors part.

They moved around in a non-linear fashion at will, they were intelligently operated. One of them disappeared in a flash...
This definitely wasn't scheduled. Reddit does still do scheduled maintenance occasionally though (not often, usually only for something like a database version upgrade), and I think they're talking about that, not this specific incident.
Its probably a system for "jamming" FLIR sensors an allowing the attacker to project targets onto the system. The pilots were guinea pigs. Which is made more plausible by the fact that the USS Princeton asked the Nimitz pilots first if they were armed, and only after they informed the Princeton that they were not that they were given the orders to investigate. There probably was a real object -- since one was sighted but it was a drone with the advanced jamming equipment (that they didn't want to accidentally get shot down). It did not move at supersonic speed, but it projected an image onto the FLIR sensor which did. The submerged object was probably a submarine that the equipment was launched from.
I agree.

What makes IRC good is that it's a text-only chat with a wide range of highly configurable, blazing fast clients. Not supporting images, quoting or reactions could be considered a feature, since these distract from the actual conversation at hand (consider newbies clogging the conversation with screenshots, or 100 people adding reaction emojis to a message).
> These benchmarks indicate better protobuf performance [1].

We're exclusively talking about cold start performance here. Single, one-time object creation. Hence why JS syntax parse is the dominate factor and not execution performance. Those benchmarks are not that, they are hot performance. That's a completely different thing.

> Not to mention end to end load time (which is probably what people are usually trying to optimize for) can be lower by reducing how much data needs to travel over the wire or radio.

Wire transfer size would need to be looked at differently. The JS code & JSON string are both also going to be compressed unless you're not using a compressed Content-Type for some reason.
I disagree with your false equivalency. IRC is akin to a cellphone without voicemail, as when your disconnected from the network (cellular or IRC) you just don't get communications.

Scrollback and voicemail can be useful, but a good chunk of the population does not want either, hence unread backscroll and unconfigured/full voicemail boxes being very common.
I would have left a very similar comment a few years ago. As you said, it's human nature to hold on to beliefs, especially when those beliefs strongly define their worldview. Read the wiki link -- it isn't just a video, and the sensor that took it is ~$3mm a pop.

I could direct you to find some links describing how many other "potentially life-friendly" systems are thought to exist in the galaxy, let alone the observable universe, and then do some math on the odds of us being the most advanced. Once receptive to the idea of there likely being at least one more-advanced space-faring civilization in our galaxy, then what? Should we blindly bow down to alien overlords whenever we can't explain something? No, but we should certainly investigate it with an open mind when there is credibility (e.g. the most advanced military on Earth releases a WTF video and sailor/pilot testimony) and the null hypothesis ("we are alone and this phenomena is something we can explain with existing science.") can't be proven.

In my case, I have some family anecdata which is worthless to you, but which I had dismissed until this video came out along with a similar one from the Chilean Navy, and I decided I lean toward these being intelligent phenomena not from this system. I consider most of the examples in the following video to be on the credible side, and I'm fascinated by the implications of it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaSY2Zc0goQ

It saddens me that science-oriented folks would shut themselves out from something so interesting (and statistically probable by mainstream estimates), but again, just human nature.
Not really a miracle. Reddit software is magnitudes simpler than Facebook.

Not to mention the quality is often sub-par. For example, many hate their mobile app with a passion and search field could as well just not exist when I tried.
How do these "spontaneous people" even access Twitter? Smells fishy...
Just wondering (sort of—I'm also slightly trying to point out that you're being a bit of an armchair Reddit ops person :)

What makes you think that the issue Reddit faced today would be fixed by rolling deploys?
There is a simple Python wrapper if you want to use it from your python project
https://pypi.org/project/jsonbox/
What I'm getting at is you can say whatever you want.
well World of Warcraft and other MMOs regularly have outages each week and sometimes more frequently. this isn't just for major content pushes either.

heck blizzard has authentication services outages too
No, you can increase user engagement of a shopping mall by turning it into a Mobius strip.

I don’t think most people know how to handle anything but an infinite scrolling page.
How do you differentiate from Octoparse?
The best quality of life upgrade you can make is eat less starch and enjoy non-sticky poop, fixing the root cause of the problem instead of its symptoms.
Pascal to C++ Converter
The most obvious is something like state department emergency assistance, but there's plenty of US government programs without a residency requirement.

For example: federal student aid doesn't require US residency.

https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/types/international

Also, the taxes that the US imposes on citizens overseas has some pretty significant exceptions. US citizens can deduct over $100,000 worth of their foreign-earned income and part of their housing expenses.
and I constantly see private sanitation companies driving on the wrong side of the road, picking up half the litter they should, and then speeding off

Anecdotes dont mean much
It's arguable that beings from another world actually exist although we now know that absent almost surely impossible ftl getting here would be a tremendous effort rendering the supposition that explorers are just popping in quite silly.

Far from improving the situation positing other dimensions which we have no proof exist, and beings that we have no proof even can exist seems to make the theory much weaker not stronger.
From my recollection, there were 3 or 4 different * codes. Separate codes to turn it on and off, and also to turn it on or off permanently or just for the duration of the next call.

I think at one point it was a value-added service, and you had to pay extra on your phone bill to enable it, but once it was enabled you could turn it on or off at will.

When I was a teenager (in the 1990s), our house had three phone lines. One was for voice calls, and it had call waiting turned on permanently. Another was for modems (first BBSes, then dial-up Internet), and had call waiting turned off permanently. A third was paid for by my Dad's employer, he used it for work calls, work faxes, and call up his work's modem bank to send/receive email, I don't know what he did with call waiting settings.

My Dad ordered three phone lines, but only had two pairs running in to the house. So they ran another cable, which I think had 12 pairs in it, but only three were ever connected. My Dad was smiling about how future-proof they made it. Nowadays, only one of those pairs is still active, and I expect within the next 1-2 years that pair will be turned off too. Analog POTS phone system being phased out in favour of VoIP (the Internet comes into the house over coax, not copper pair.)
Could this be the Russian nuclear-powered cruise missile?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9M730_Burevestnik
Who gets to decide who is a neo-nazi though?

I've heard Jordan Peterson and Steven Pinker called neo-nazis.

Maybe you're a neo-nazi. Since neo-nazis always deny being neo-nazis, then your denials are further proof that you are a neo-nazi. B&
How do you know they were intelligently operated?
But why would anybody NOT want a smart TV? /s
Each outbound link on reddit is tracked, similar to how Google tracks users clicking on SERPs. This can be tied back to a user to build profile on your interests, in addition to sub-reddits you subscribe to etc. which can be valuable if combined with other demographic data about you.

I dont know if they started selling this data directly. Last I spoke to ad people there, they had plans to build out their own tracking and analytics infrastructure, to improve things like geo-targeted ads, as their capabilities were lacking signficiantly.
I wonder what this will do to the "AREA 51 RAID" planned for September 20th. Weird times we live in.
If we have planes that can do that, I'm a bit proud and I feel happy that all those tax dollars falling into black budget holes have been doing something interesting. Personally I doubt it. The performance of that thing (assuming it is really a physical craft) is ludicrous.
Ocean ecosystems are as different as terrestrial ecosystems. There are forests, and deserts also. Life is patched and not always easy to found.
This sounds similar to what we saw. I want to know as well but I don't think it was a laser in our case. I could be wrong though, I'm okay with it being a mystery for now.

They moved around in a non-linear fashion at will, they were intelligently operated. One of them disappeared in a flash...

Strange thing was during encounter #2, they appeared in the spot in the sky 2 nights in a row.

It's easy to dismiss these encounters as nothing and it's also easy to just jump to wild conclusions. I asked here to see if others have seen something like this and I got my answer, I'm not the only one. It's good that both of our encounters were in California too, where some of these leaked videos are from as well.
"typically"? I think you mean "always". This notion of it being an equal relationship in both directions is ridiculous.
> From a swiss point of view it was/is pretty much: The US is pressuring us too much, we'll have to give up banking secrecy, but only for foreigners.

Exactly, this is also what neighboring Austria did a few years ago.

It is nice that Switzerland takes the attention for "banking secrecy" because other countries that have it in law get to fly under the radar.

As always, people that have better reading comprehension skills get their advantage.
What about a third option, it's a visual artifact on the FLIR recording?
That's interesting, but wasn't there also at least one visual sighting accompanying this FLIR stuff?
You're right. One single sentence with the poop emoji used and the mention of used needles. No wonder I missed it.
That was also a decade ago.
Of course learning one languages improves your abilities to pick up other languages but the university curriculum is definitely geared more towards continuing your education or a career in academia/research. I feel like I would have gotten more valuable knowledge/skills from just going to a bootcamp in addition to saving a lot more time and money.
So they're both bad. My point is that not only do people litter, the normal trash-handling process is also failing.
I switched to a static site gen and a git repo. I lost the ability to preview. Sure, if I'm at home I can run the build script, launch a simple server, navigate to the page on localhost but it's a long way from say wordpress (previous solution) where it was a much nicer experience to preview.

Adding images into a post was also nicer. Just drag and drop instead of copy into folder, check into git, manaully type urls like it is now.

I use a private repo on github so at least I can add something without having to be at my computer but still no preview or nice UI.

Any static generators have well designed solutions for this?
Our understanding of physics is still primitive compared to Type I, Type II, and Type III civilizations. Be humble.
Of course you can if you know enough to identify those things. If you had never seen a helicopter before you could still differentiate it from a fixed-wing aeroplane.
In a marketing context it never meant that, same as "satisfaction guaranteed" doesn't mean what you expect. It really means "product has a fixed price with vendor defined service level" vs "defined service level and variable price according to usage". "Unmetered" might be a reasonable shorthand.
What's wrong with that? That's how you'd typically take off from a carrier. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterburner#/media/File:FA18_o...

As long as you don't exceed the max speed for the gear, no problem.
Very broadly speaking this is what KYC (know your customer) regulation is for which not only deals with the party in business with the financial institutions but also more importantly with the beneficiary of whatever entity this is.
So in your example the bank would be under the obligation to ask prior to establishing any business relationship with the shell corporation where does the money come from and where do any gains etc. go to.

However if the controller does not do his or her job properly or gets coerced by either the client or the asset manager to enter false or incomplete information this regulation is obviously not very effective and requires regular auditing by the authority (in the case of Switzerland FINMA which is the equivalent of the FTC)

There are much better and most importantly legal ways to “optimize taxes” than a simple shell corp. Some of these “corporate constructs” or however you want to call it use loopholes “double Irish with a dutch sandwich” is one of the most notorious ones.