skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, based on 11 years of using Reddit, these things support good online conversations. I'm of the strong opinion that social media platforms should put less emphasis on general content aggregation (think of reddit's "front page of the internet) and they should put more emphasis on communities and specific topics. Twitter improved after it let you follow topics in addition to people, because topics usually provide more reasonable, more natural starting points for discussion than viral content does.

Here's my list of the best ingredients to facilitate good online discussions:

- Smaller, niche communities that allow people to talk about common interests instead of just scrolling through shallow, forgettable, crowd-pleasing posts
- A voting system that lets better comments get more visibility
- A website design that prioritizes discussion over pure content aggregation, which does things like providing moderation tools
- A good headline for the discussion to start with. The starting point matters a lot. It helps when there is strong discouragement of editorialized and sensationalized titles. Good discussions usually don't result from a post featuring a provocative or polarizing photo or meme. A discussion is more likely to be good if it starts with a neutral title or an open question.
- It's better when there is complete transparency and openness about exactly what is allowed or not allowed, encouraged or discouraged, and what gets you banned. People care more about a community when the rules are enforced fairly and predictably. Otherwise they get resentful.
Having worked at a publisher specializing in hardbacks, acid free paper (so it doesn’t yellow), and sewn bindings. I can tell you that maintaining quality is hard in an ever shrinking industry. In the US there’s been a huge consolidation of printers and binderies that have driven not only the costs up, but the run sizes needed to even do business with them unless you’re a major publisher.

It’s sad, because there are a lot of people out there interested in providing high quality books, but what little money was there has been nearly erased in the last 20 years.

The place I worked was a family run shop for over 30 years and was only 5 people total. We watched our costs and expenses, but doing business with Amazon or their shrinking and consolidating competitors was painful at best. Combined with the consolidation on the on the production side, we had to slow our output dramatically. The company still around, putting out great books, but not at the same scale they could be doing it and that’s everyone’s loss.
> region where electricity is free

That's your problem right there. You either need floating prices or strict regulation to prevent misallocation of resources.
Simple answers are, because people still buy them and they can charge more.
The published AppCDS + Clojure results show a much smaller speedup and require a higher degree of customization int he build. Like 1.5s -> 0.5s for AppCDS+AOT vs 1.5s -> 0.005s for Graal. And you can just use the clj or leiningen native-image plugins/templates. The minuses of Graal include some compatibility snags and being an Oracle product.
I live in a post-Soviet country that has many of the issues described in the statement too. We have the highest suicide rate in Europe (after Russia), and basically everyone knows of at least a handful of people who have died either directly or indirectly due to alcohol.

Earlier this year my father-in-law died due to alcohol. He had been out drinking and the next morning his family found him asleep on the floor downstairs. They assumed he was just drunk (he was still breathing at this point) so left him, and when they came back in the evening he was still there, but no longer breathing. His death was put down to heart failure as he had known heart problems (no post-mortem was done), but if it wasn't for the alcohol something would have been done. So even the statistics that associate deaths due to alcohol are too low.

Last year the government brought in laws to limit the hours alcohol could be sold in shops (8pm Monday - Saturday and 3pm on Sunday and holidays) and the drinking age was raised to 20, and of course it was met with plenty of public outcry. Most people refuse to admit that alcohol is such a big problem for socieity, even when it is staring them in the face.
Some of these groups are decades old. For them, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who was there for the whole history of the group and kept them all. Also, yahoo was often a headache, dropping emails to individuals - you'd have to go to the website to read them. And furthermore, there is a lot more than emails stored on the platform: files/images/links/calendars/databases ...

To add to all this, it's not an individual project. Most people done' have technical competence. They need someone to help. That's what the Archive Team has been trying to offer (if not for Verizon).
DigitalOcean Droplet bandwidth is pro-rated, you don't get the full pool when you create the Droplet, you get it over the course of the Droplet running across 28 days.
The author of the article is called Yifan Xie. I don't think it's anti-china propaganda.
Part of the payoff of automation is not just time saved, but uniformity of results. Everybody makes errors when constructing reports by hand, and most of them are never even discovered, unless you start writing programs to check them.

Also, doing things quickly and easily can have all sorts of benefits, like allowing you to adjust to the unexpected.

Edit:
Someone already said much the same thing. Oh well.
If I take your statement at face value, it would appear that all the levels of abstraction we have introduced have made life worse?
Electricity in this area is currently free:

> The problem reportedly persists in the Svaneti region where electricity is free due to harsh living conditions. Free electricity has drawn quite a lot of enterprises and the area has developed into a Bitcoin mining economy that is also “patronised by high-ranking officials” according to locals quoted by Kommersant daily. The locals face frequent power outages.

"What can be done" is: sell electricity at market rate, and rebate the proceeds to the residents in the area. The economic situation will be effectively the same, but bitcoin miners won't be able to freeload electricity.
India, rating DOWNGRADED from ‘obstructed’ to ‘repressed’- CIVICUS
Larry Page is the same wrt his high school here in East Lansing, MI. Very few people in the community are even aware one of the Google founders is from here. It’s odd, I don’t get it.
What makes this even worse is how Chrome now hides “https“ in the URL box until after you click the box, so when you double click “www” to rapidly select and replace it, the first click shifts the “www” eight characters to the right and the double click highlights “https” instead and you are sent to a broken link like “old://www.reddit.com” and need to go back and try again.
Increasing demand for renewable energy - thrashing our planet ?
Sounds like alarmism to me. Imho the electric cars (unless is a Tesla with high miles per charging) can't compete with regular cars for now
It didn't take long at all for me after verification. Although I have sometimes randomly gotten that error message. Interestingly, sometimes it actually had joined the group anyway. The site has been a little glitchy off and on, but it's working for me right now.
I have a hempcrete extension on my house in Sydney. It's not load-bearing but it very effectively insulates. It's packed into formwork so there's no gaps or seams. This is in a city with mostly terrible thermally-performing buildings so, combined with double glazed windows (also rare in residential in Australia) we have an amazing house thermally. Regularly 10 degrees cooler than outside in Summer and the reverse in Winter.

We originally were going to use another high-performance technical product to achieve the same. The cost ended up about the same. Hempcrete has higher labour costs and the technical product cost more but went up much quicker.
In a similar vein the H&K G11 also had ambitious objectives and was shock-full of clever ideas, however such beasts make the KISS principle (rather decisive for a weapon) difficult to follow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGKcvM2Hh4g
Relating to spinning spherical projectiles, some airsoft guns impart backspin on the spherical plastic pellets they fire to flatten their trajectory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hop-up_(airsoft)
A lot of people apparently didn't get notified. The platform regularly lost emails. (Fifteen years of being on it, such problems were not irregular.) Also, they did offer an export tool, but the results were/are incomplete.

I'll add that some group owners/moderators have not even been able to log into their groups. Yahoo was doing something with needing a yahoo email to get in as admin, even when a non-yahoo email was associated with the account. Those people that lost access to their yahoo email account have been totally SOL.
That relationship work you're talking about has some side effects that might be desirable, such as making you a better person.
November 1st? That's barely a month ago. The Vogons broadcast to the world what they were doing just before they did it, too.
Mark it inaccessible and write the new data over it in the next write cycle.
My previous (and admittedly cheeky) reply was flagged. I just want to still make it known that another, unrelated post purporting to display the names was removed, and how insultingly hypocritical the effort to keep them private is, when considering Page's efforts to make the personal information of every person reading this comment, and the personal information of the loved ones of every person reading this comment, available to the highest bidder.

Unless Page divests of his wealth before passing it on to his children (in any form - education, etc.), they will have the influence and opportunity that that wealth embodies. It's absolutely in the public interest to at least know who they are.

Flipping the script: I'd like to know what interest HN's readers and moderation have in censoring their identities.
> The wealthy are also pouring money into lobbying and PACs to hold onto their power and influence. Is that productive use of capital? Well, it is for them!

a) The amount of money spent there is actually quite low, considering the wealth of the people involved, and the presumptive benefits.

b) So what? My point isn't to argue about where the benefits flow. My point is that the capital is being re-invested (politicians receiving bribes have the same two choices: spend money or invest it).

> I don't care that they invest, I don't care that they buy stock. Regular people would buy stock and give to charity too, if they could. This level of wealth concentration is toxic to our society, full stop.

You could be right. But what does that have to do with QE or this thread? And even ignoring that, exactly what is the mechanism by which wealth inequality destroys society? People make claims like this a lot. But they never actually trace it out. It's just taken as a given that it's a bad thing.

> You have to look at not just what things look like, but also what things could look like, if we didn't have so much power concentrated among so few, with so little oversight.

I'm not really sure what this means. Where is the power concentrated, exactly? Do you think that the Koch brothers have substantial unaccountable power? My guess is that they don't think so. Everything they do is scrutinized, and we certainly don't have the kind of economy they want. If there is so much unaccountable power, it doesn't seem to be doing them much good.
Yes, and the article (sort-of) mentions that, but also a few additional reasons I wouldn't necessarily thought of.
He did go back to the fruit commune ;)
Hundreds of reddit employees have full access to your reddit account, why do you care if one more person does?
>Are there other stories of people who had one fortune and went on to make another?

David Duffield, Eli Broad,
According to who? The OPCW? The UN? All of these organizations are compromised.

Per Wikipedia:

It was argued by The Guardian's columnist George Monbiot that Director-General José Bustani was being forced out by the U.S. government, despite the convention insisting the OPCW "shall not seek or receive instructions from any government"; the US had tried to persuade Brazil to recall Bustani. Monbiot wrote that the U.S. had tried other measures, although the convention also indicates that states should "not seek to influence" staff.

...

The removal was subsequently determined to be improper by an Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization and consequently Bustani was awarded €50,000 in moral damages, his pay for the remainder of his second term, and his legal costs
You're right no one is doing anything evil. I'm glad you realize that, because a lot of folks get hung up on morality and forget to process the actual concrete situation before their eyes.

Tuvalu isn't the International Space Station. If a population of 10,000 people have to import food and water, then their state has failed and it's time to wake up and start doing some accounting and maybe ask for help to stabilize the situation. Note when I say stabilize, I don't mean the medical definition where a patient can simultaneously be "stable" and also teetering on the edge of death, I mean true stability, like a bar of gold sitting at the bottom of a hill.

No one is doing anything evil. Despite that there are still a lot of problems with how basic needs like food and water are met in Tuvalu and solving those problems is going to be expensive and politically/socially very complicated. My cousin in Aotearoa burned his brother's house down because he didn't want to share gravel from his quarry. You think these men would share food with eachother if everything went off? Or water? There are tons of little blood feuds like that out here that would go off if it suddenly turned out there were no more boats coming.

Until the neocolonial period, there were massive land thefts in the pacific. A lot of the best land for fishing and farming was taken and converted to resorts and suburbs by people who have incorrectly taken the resources of wealthy nations for granted. In order to achieve stability, a lot of people have to move, buildings need to be cleared, ecosystems need to be restored. It all costs money, and it's only going to become more expensive as the situation develops over the next ten years.

I'm glad you see all states as blameless in this situation, because the work required to investigate and assign blame is a huge waste of time and resources. The facts are that there is a massive food and water crisis brewing in the pacific ocean; there are local actions which can help to stabilize communities in anticipation of said crisis; there are also measures that foreign stateses can take to reduce their emissions and such efforts could help avert or mitigate what will most certainly be a very wet and deadly refugee crisis.
I had a lot of fun playing the game. I think this game shows us how interesting AI technology will become in the 2020s. It’s open ended but somewhat incoherent right now, but I think we’ll figure out how to update this kind of technology to have an open ended yet internally consistent world by the end of the 2020s.
Firstly, I want to thank you for your politeness. HN can lack basic understanding.

"Board meeting" was probably the wrong choice of words. I have in my career been a part of the kind of meeting I describe, but they weren't actual board meetings, I suppose.

I do agree that Reddit probably thinks their mobile app experience is better. The reason I don't think they have a good excuse is because their mobile site is a prime example of self-sabotage. If they actually wanted people to use it, they would have had just about any redditor tell them that the experience is crap and that it should be fixed. Instead, it comes off like they're intentionally making the web experience bad(or at least neglecting it) in order to convince people to install the mobile app. The way their little popup that they frequently show at the bottom of the screen presents itself even suggests that the native app is the proper way to view Reddit. It's bollocks because Reddit is completely text and image centric; if the web can't do its fundamental job to display those two things, then may God have mercy on our souls.

Don't get me wrong, because I don't think that those in charge at Reddit are doing this things out of ill intent. A bunch of people with good will can convince each other of bad ideas, especially the further removed they are from the front lines of engineering.
>Are there other stories of people who had one fortune and went on to make another?

Musk, several times over.
Surely Elon Musk?
“So, I got censored by tiktok_us”
Okay. Thank you for the confirmation.
And those "quiet Australians" who conveniently support the status quo :)
Surprise Volcanic Explosion Rocks New Zealand's White Island
How can I recognise services that intend to live forever? Meetup used to have reports and mailing lists but it went to a sinking company and is now a pointless SPA which doesnt let Firefox log in. I know a group that acquired several competing products, and they missed a crucial innovation which the indies had for a while.
Surely a sample size of two anecdotes is sufficient evidence.
O(n^2), again, now in WMI
Every KwH spent on useless calculations could be better spent heating a home, lighting a room, smelting some ore, or literally anything productive.
Good points... And I commend you for staying on topic with that last paragraph.

Literally all of the warning lights are blinking (due to intentional neglect and corruption across the board), but the micro-lending bastion is safe for now.

Username checks out...
A lot of people are going to groups.io, but I certainly wouldn't want to suggest anyone move to another centralized system. The best thing to do is probably just to get a VPS and install phpBB or something. For group owners, importing our Yahoo archives there is going to be the next task.
You could say Gates made 3 fortunes. The first was with BASIC on microcomputers, then it was DOS, and then 32 bit Windows.

While this was all with the same company, most microcomputer houses failed the transition to DOS, and the DOS powerhouses failed the transition to 32 bit machines.

Microsoft has since made another transition to the internet, one that many failed at.
Jack Dorsey.

Most of the PayPal mafia.
I was also surprised but then I read up on the rest of The comments from that account in this thread as well and think that it something like that might be justified.

I also read the rest of the comments linked as examples and some of them where obvious to me and some were not.

I'm not a native speaker though and I realize dang has a huge advantage there as well as access to see detailed voting statistics to see what riles people up.
Ya you're right, minorities are in a worse financial, social and wellness status because its their fault, or more fundamentally something is lesser about them. They should have be able to recover and even overcome majorities, despite the fact they couldn't own land in certain parts of the country until 1969. Typical.

And when that liberal rag, The Atlantic says:
[0]"The numbers are staggering: White Americans with a college degree are on average three times as wealthy as black Americans with the same credential, and in families whose head of the household is employed, white families have 10 times the wealth of black ones. One estimate on the conservative end suggested that this wealth gap could take two centuries to close."

...you should summarily that information as its clearly elites spreading fake news propaganda.

Here they go again:
[1] "Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy." What proof do you have???

Laws against discrimination are effective and equally enforced by an unbiased justice system. What is unequal is human potential. Why must we keep pretending it is?

[0]https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/07/black-...
[1]https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-cas...

Disclaimer: this is sarcasm.
I know this might sound like I'm joining the hype train but has there been new AI models for weather forecasting that NOAA uses? If so, how does it compare to the traditional models?
The fact that USSR was able to ramp up its industrial output, maybe not as high as USA but much higher than most other countries, refutes your point that private enterprise was not really needed for war effort. Because USSR, due to communism, had no private industry.
For your sake I hope you don’t learn the hard way.
`rm -rf /` is objectively free from Verizon's perspective.

Paying lawyers to examine the fine details and determine what liability may arise from publishing a database dump or the software that can view the dump's contents is not free.
In France the standard became de "livre de poche" edition, the "pocket-book". Fits well on shelves, kind of uniform format, softcover, so it is easier to read/transport, good paper quality.

I have grown with this being the standard and to me when I see US hardcover books at $50+ I don't understand it: it is bulky, hard to read in a cramped place like a subway (or toilets!) No two books are the same size or color and it is printed with so much spacing that it looks like kids books or the kind of dissertation formatting I used to do when the teacher asked for 20 pages and I only had 5 pages of material.
Interesting headline because it's totally accurate and there is nothing wrong with it but it still feels very misleading.

Does anyone know what the AP standard is for referencing the country VS the state of Georgia? Is this discouraged?
The article never claims that it's mystical...why do you say it's sensationalist?
Standardizing middleware. Stop calling it middlewares
Depending on how you measure it, it could be up to 4 fortunes:

Founding Apple.
Pixar.
NeXT?
Apple the second time.

I'm not sure if you'd count NeXT as a fortune, it looks like he got something a little under $40m in Apple shares, still not bad.
Why Kids Love Garbage Trucks
You need to give that knowledge time to spread. The vast majority of living adults learned in school that the DNA is fixed and the surrounding stuff is just junk. Eventually everyone will know about epigenetics but how else would you spread the information if not with articles like these.
The funny part here is that a college student should know how to keep a balanced ledger!

Yeah, but it turns out unpredictable ACH transaction delays made that harder than I had expected.
How long are epigenetic changes supposed to last? Do changes caused by trauma last longer than slower changes?
We can still read Fidonet messages decades after BBSs died. The power of decentralized networks.
Idk, I use Rust wherever I would use any other programming language, but I'm also a huge fan of the language in general. There's no need to limit it to "serious" applications
Tourists injured and missing after New Zealand volcano erupts
Oh, they can heat rooms/homes alright!
Reminder: MacBooks are made in China.

Would you really carry one around and flash your support for a Nazi government?
Maybe it can. It's called cavitation.
Also having to produce more solar panels and wind turbines to run miners is not good for the environment either.
Curious, do you find iBooks (Apple Books) on the iPad2 any faster at opening books or scrolling lists of books? Or is it about the same as the Kindle app?