skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Make $300K A year

You make it sound easy! How do I do that outside of not just SF, but the US?
I debated against socialism / expanding government in a thread about UBI or something similar. I was told by a mod that my comments were deleted and that they were "tedious" and "idealogical flamebait".

When I complained about his moderation by saying this:

>A moderator just a hair left of your current moderation approach on the authoritarianism scale would "flag and remove" PG's entire recent article about income inequality with a note calling it "tedious ideological posturing."

For that comment, my entire six-year account was banned and I was told to email ycombinator to have it restored.

When I emailed to have my account restored, I was told this:

>We're happy to unban accounts when people give us reason to believe that they won't repeat the things that led us to ban them. In your case it's a little less clear what that reason might be, since you've expressed how much you dislike a bunch of things about HN, our moderation, and me. But if there's something we could do to help you have a change of heart about those things, let me know.

So basically, since I complained about his moderation, he took it personally, and only if I was willing to revoke my criticism of his moderation could I be unbanned..? I was never able to get clarification on what exactly needed to happen for me to get unbanned. The gist was, if you argue consistently in favor of free-market approaches to anything economic, you will be accused of "tedious idealogical flamebait" and eventually be banned.

Take it for what it's worth, but I was never what you would call toxic by any standard definition, and those were my results.
Sorry for being a technical pedant but .uk is a ccltd, there are alternatives to .co.uk like .nhs.uk .gov.uk etc
I'm with you. I feel like Keybase are the only people actually innovating on "usable cryptography", except maybe Signal?

Just needs a bit more polish.
> If you can, I'd encourage you to find the care providers you need.

FWIW, it took a few years but I finally found a doctor I'm happy with. But I'm also lucky enough to live in a major US city.
Ah, that clarifies somewhat.

The framing feels odd to me. If I'm rehearsing as if I were going to speak my thoughts, I'm concerned with trying to communicate. I'm trying different turns of phrase, levels of detail, and organizational strategies.

The descriptions I've seen so far make me think people who "hear" the voice loosely subdivide into groups who feel like they're talking to themselves and hear the voice, people who feel like they are listening to their own voice speak, and people who feel like they're listening to third-party narrator(s).

When I'm thinking through something lingually, I'm phrasing out the initial problem, phrasing through what I know about it and testing its rigor with counter-points and what-ifs and does-it-help-tos. Language isn't the focus, just the medium.

It's like working something out in a notebook or text document, minus the pen/paper or keyboard/screen. It's also like talking to myself, without the judgmental glances. It isn't as effective--it doesn't scale up to thorny/sprawling problems as well--as vocalizing or taking notes (or both).
Aeromedical Biological Containment System
The world does not operate on definitions.
A quantum of solid: A glass nanoparticle in the quantum regime
In the paper they hypothesize:

> Due to the presence of gp120 motifs in 2019-nCoV spike glycoprotein at its binding domain, we propose that these motif insertions could have provided an enhanced affinity towards host cell receptors. Further, this structural change might have also increased the range of host cells that 2019-nCoV can infect.
Encourage people to participate in physical social gatherings that center around non-political issues, like hobbies.

I think there is a lot more to this than many people think.

If more people participated in hobbies, then they would spend less time on the internet. The time they do spend would be more targeted and focused instead of mindlessly scrolling and scrolling and getting baited and agitated.

They would also form communities, as you suggest, with common interests and get to know people better. It's basic socialization.

Part of the problem is that for some reason there is a notion that everything has to be a business today. There's a Fidelity Investments TV commercial running right now where a daughter says to her retired mother, "Did you paint this [painting]? You know you can sell these!" And a business is born. Why? Why can't she just enjoy painting for painting's sake. For her own enjoyment? Why is money what decides if something is valid or not?

I encourage people to start hobbies. And be bad at them. Be terrible at reading, stamp collecting, woodworking, gardening, model railroading, brewing, or whatever. Do it because you like it. If you happen to be good at it, great! If all of your carrots die, that's OK, too. You got to spend quality time with yourself, which is more important than all the carrot sales you could possibly make.
A big problem with giving hate mongers a platform is that they do not return the courtesy.

Try posting a well-written and well-thought-out criticism of Trump on /r/thedonald and see how many seconds it takes before the post is taken down and you are banned. They are not interested in disagreement, tolerance and diversity. They are only interested in having a platform to spew their hate from.
There are two forms of toxicity. This is vitally important to understand before suggesting any solution.

* single user - evidenced by harassment, trolling, attacks

* group - evidenced by an echo chamber, which is typically present from down votes drastically outnumbering replies or replies suggesting silencing or solicitations for recruitment

Both forms are equally toxic, but they are not equally recognizable or distinguishable. An example a lone attacker is typically repulsive and starts out as a bold violator to most users in a well moderated environment and so they rarely attract supporting attention from other users.

Contrarily, group attacks are typically benign, at first, but misery loves company. The negative attention grows on itself drawing in users with insecurities how tend to fear diversity. While group toxicity may start out benign the toxic nature of it becomes starkly apparent as it is allowed to fester resulting in comments that are direct and hostile attacks claiming justification of group support or agreement to a premise.

Toxic groups do occur on HN, but they are rarely able to grow wildly out of control in any measurable way because downvotes to any contribution are capped at -4. The only evidence of group attacks in an online environment like this are the quantity of down votes and the nature of the reply comments present.

It is my opinion toxic group behavior is a more serious concern and the lone wolf, because the lone wolf flamer is easier to identify. In many cases users have no idea they are contributing to group toxicity as conformance without explanation may feel natural. It's also serious because it is substantially harder to correct.

Either way the nature of toxic behavior is about attention whether it's to draw attention to a single user's contribution or to silence a disagreement.
I looked at Soverign at the time I was setting up private cloud on a $5 VPS (prgmr.com with 1.5 gb ram)

I went with YunoHost.

https://yunohost.org/#/apps

I initially tried sovereign, but once I figured out I had to pay for tarsnap backup service, and that it did not have ansible for nginx setup (I needed that experience for work stuff), I went with Yunohost.

Sofar I am happy with YunoHost and subscribed to send periodic donation to the project.

Overall, though, if you are working with ansible at work, or want to advance in devops field, learning ansible and contributing to Sovereign project would be a good path to take.
That's cool but arc is a form of GC.
I noticed this as well. Censorship...
Just because governments and mafias share that one characteristic doesn't mean they are the same. There is a whole lot more that governments provide to a society than collecting taxes.

Businesses also collect revenue, and if you don't pay them, harassment will also ensue, which you'd know if you've ever forgotten a payment and had a file sent to a collection agency, and ultimately to a civil court which is paid for by ... government. But that doesn't mean businesses are like mafias.

What distinguishes organized crime syndicates from governments and businesses is everything about them apart from "pay or be harassed" part, including but not limited to: the family-based structure and power inheritance model, the use of localized violence as coercion to payment (vs in exchange for services provided), and the lack of any transparent system of justice. Some governments (i.e. Saudi, North Korea) undoubtedly have more of those characteristics, but that doesn't mean that most governments are equivalent to organized crime syndicates.
Mildly surprising that we are not just using meters at this point.
Could easily be "mixed samples" on the other end instead of intentional leaks. You know how old lab equipment could be really useful in a live seafood market.
We've only had term limits on the executive since 1951.
Maybe this is naive, but I would assume if it was a bio-weapon it would be a lot more deadly.
It seems a bit tone-deaf to worry about drones when this could trigger severe food shortages.
Probably. I’ve never seen one that’s useable. Also BitBucket is quite terrible when compared to Github.
Agree with what has already been said (dont use company resources like a work laptop, dont work on it during typical work hours, dont build a product that might in any way compete with your employer, etc.)
As far as work contract goes, (I am NOT a lawyer, just based on experience), it's worth reading over and seeing what the language is around IP. Most states protect your right to build stuff on your own time (enables innovation, also you aren't the property of your company) making some more draconian contracts unenforceable. But it is always better to be proactive, rather than assuming a court battle will be unlikely because 1) who knows and 2) court is never cheap.
If you want to work on something and you are worried about the language in your contract, talk to your employer about the project and getting some form of written exception for it. Side projects generally make for more capable, satisfied employees, so if a company made a massive stink about literally owning anything you make anywhere in your life, I'd be very very wary, as that mindset is a scary sign.
This might sound mean because it is text, but it isn't, it's just answering your question. But the word (actually term) you're looking for is social justice warrior.
China is a signatory to the Biological Weapons Convention [1]. The US State Department regularly issues a compliance report about it (and other international agreements). Here [2] is how it summarized China's compliance in August 2019:

"Information indicates that the People’s Republic of China (China) engaged during the reporting period in biological activities with potential dual-use applications, which raises concerns regarding its compliance with the BWC. In addition, the United States does not have sufficient information to determine whether China eliminated its assessed biological warfare (BW) program, as required under Article II of the Convention."

(That's followed by some more details, which you can read about in [2].)

Given this ongoing scrutiny, it would be very surprising if a smoking gun that the PRC has in fact been developing bioweapons were just swept under the rug.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_Weapons_Convention

[2] https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Compliance-...
Something like "MLOps" maybe? https://towardsdatascience.com/the-rise-of-the-term-mlops-3b...

Or, if you have time, contribute to some Open Source tool you use or like. It can help with differentiating.
I really thought this was going somewhere until I got to the punchline: the expectation that having online identity linked to real identity will reduce toxicity. Real names policies have already been tried by several huge social networks and don't seem to be having any impact.
Fixed! Thanks for the heads up.
Accusing someone who is trying to engage with you in good faith of creating strawmen also does not make a good argument.

Not everyone who has an allergic reaction to a vaccination is going to have medical documentation of that. Maybe their parents couldn't afford to take them back to the doctor for confirmation. Maybe they couldn't take the time off work. That happens, especially among the poor.

Or was the "strawman" the idea that people would be forced to be vaccinated? claytongulick said that Gov. Perry did exactly that; you responded by saying that he was lying about his position, but you never actually refuted any of his claims. Did Gov. Perry actually force people to be vaccinated? If so, that's not a strawman. (Requiring people to be vaccinated in order to attend school, when there are truancy laws on the books, counts as "forced" in my book.)

Look, I'm not an anti-vaxxer. I'm vaccinated, and so are my kids. I understand why herd immunity is important - especially so for you, but for everyone else, too. But when you call your opponents liars, it makes your side look bad, especially when they say something that at least appears reasonable. (At least you called him a liar based on his posting history, which gives unbiased observers a place to go to evaluate your claim.)
Not well, there are documented cases of locust swarms bringing down small planes, and causing emergencies on large planes.
I think square brackets are available in all (?) keyboard layouts, but they may not have dedicated keys.

On the Swedish layout, for example, [] are typed using Alt Gr (i.e. right alt) + 8/9. I know a few developers who use an English keyboard layout when programming, just to avoid contorting their hands for these awkward key combinations.
That is why moderation and balance are important. r/thedonald is an echo chamber lacking balance, and therefore lacking tolerance, diversity, and mutual respect.
Presumably it is on the Commission to decide that USB-C is to be the next standard, and only then will there be a proposal for a law. (We are not yet talking about a law.)
I'm ok with it as long as you come here and integrate, don't take welfare, and understand our Bill of Rights isn't a suggestion. We're done making "accommodations" on that stuff.
is 'orthodox c++' a thing? i feel like there is a joke somewhere there...
who's being tortured? assange? is this a joke?
> Do you know _why_ this uptick has happened? Does anyone?

I don't know but my take is that media makes more money if we get angry, and this anger-inducing style is permeating in the population.
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Users can press the “flag” button for content that is off-topic. I flagged this article because it is an unreviewed pre-print paper that has been rushed out by its authors, who clearly have not investigated any of the most obvious follow-up questions, such as “what is the probability of this occurring naturally?”
It's weird that the UN special rapporteur considers the process in a large, high-visibility, international legal case to be torture. His explanation of the torture Assange has suffered basically sems to sum up to massive anxiety brought about by the uncertainty of the process. That makes sense (the process is ill-defined and where the law draws lines here is up for debate), but by that definition isn't every prisoner awaiting their day in court on serious charges being "tortured?"
Pedantic but for clarity: CFPB is directed by a single person who serves for five years and cannot be terminated by the President except for cause, which is one of the reasons unaccountability is brought up. Folks often indicate they want a "commission" (similar to SEC or FDIC) instead of an agency with a single director.

All that said, yes, this panel of people making "recommendations" that are not laws but have the effect of law seems like a great recipe for selective enforcement based how large or small a company is and what they do, which is not going to do much to solve the bigger issue. Congress is not going to move at the speed of the internet / technology. I'm not sure if that's a named "rule" yet, but it should be.

Illegal communities will move. And similarly, conditional "safe harbor" to operate a website should not be a thing. These regs are easily avoided by operating in other countries which will just make the US even less involved and competitive in this space.
{} are certainly not punctuation you'd find in a newspaper, but [] are—those are editorial parenthetical markers! How do your journalists subtly make fun of their sources if they can't type "[sic]"‽
If a horrible weapon can be built, it will be built. And it is better to be the one building the weapon than the one at the mercy of those who built it.
Not to be confused with Oden (http://oden-lang.github.io/), a functional language which compiled to Go. May it rest in Valhalla!
Michael - firstly, kudos for sticking to your solo dev plans. Hiccups are part and parcel of the game. I like your Is This Keto app. And second, keep at it!
I see. I didn’t intend that to be a point that stands on its own, merely a partial explanation for why incumbents win so much.
> As someone who had a seven year account banned from YC previously for debating against socialism...

Did you win?
Seems more like an ad than an article.
Communication and language works on shared concepts and wording, which can be collected as a set of definitions. If we were to not do that, language and communication would not work very well, and with that there would be no foundation for sensible discourse. Or at least, that is what I have seen and experienced so far.
Communicating financial or medical lies can lead to repercussions. The same should be true for communicating false political information.
> While I don't disagree that many 30-year-old IT people know more about IT than politicians, politicians have to see what is good for the whole of society, not just what affects people in an IT bubble.

Let's not delude ourselves, most lawmakers are not pinnacles of wisdom. They're not looking out for the best outcomes for society in the long term. They're partisans controlled by whomever pays them the most.
This is what I am waiting for, anxiously too I will ad. How long before we see the first heat wave kill a million people? Or drought kill several hundred thousand people in a weeks time. Last year South Africa almost ran out of water. I really think it will only be then that we realize the extent of our dire situation and start really acting. What would our government do if there were 5 million people lined up at the border? Would they shoot them down? I don’t like to fear monger but the world is a rough place. It is also unclear to me how we will handle this as it happens.

Edit: right after writing this the very next HN article I come across is massive locust swarms threatening crops in Africa. Scary
Yes they are BUT it's my understanding those HIV drugs had already been used against SARS and found helpful in an anecdotal way. So it would be an obvious first go-to drug.
Who cares? You can't verify a server's claim that its software was actually compiled from some specific source code, so this could be a valid criticism of any service.
Show HN: Launched My First SaaS Product in a Month: Fastcomments.com
https://fastcomments.com

So, getting feedback like this is super scary and I procrastinated for probably a week longer than I should have - but no more! FastComments is launched and ready to use.

I thought of the project while I was on vacation, and started coding I think around Dec 27th. I wanted to write about my month long stint abroad and was planning on creating a new blog for just that kind of content and decided I was going to embed comments into the blog. After doing some digging about Disqus I thought it was a good opportunity to build an alternative.

FastComments is a fast, privacy-focused embedded comment solution. This means you can create a little snippet that'll add a comment thread to any static page. Currently it weighs in at 6.6kb gzipped. Data migration is completely self service and you can seamlessly migrate from what I consider my top three competitors (Disqus, Muut, Commento). Commento is actually pretty nice and will be fun competing with it.

You can read about all the nerdy stuff here: https://blog.winricklabs.com/(1-24-2020)-how-fastcomments-was-built.html

Addressing the elephant in the room - the website design - a lot of designers have given me feedback already. The problem is I want the design to reflect the product/service: fast, simple, and to the point. So while I'm open to feedback - that's the goal! :)

I was employed during most of this time so this is a side project. I am between jobs this week so that helped a lot in getting it ready.

I'm winding down development a bit now and focusing on marketing while transitioning my development time to launching my next set of projects (watch.ly, and building a couple games).

Anyways I know the community here is really awesome and I know I'll get some good feedback. Thanks.
... and maybe I'll get around to writing that blog post I originally intended to write... :)
HIV drugs were used on SARS over a decade ago.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15144898

It shouldn't be surprising that this new virus that is related to SARS can also be treated by HIV antiviral drugs.
That's hilarious. That sounds like such an important job, brain drain is heavily damaging to companies and can destroy work when people don't know how to continue what the previous individual was doing.
So what will happen?
Facebook will lose ability to deploy encryption and move servers overseas?
Unlikely to affect non US internet users, unless my phone suddenly looses ability to use encryption.
Personally, I agree with Jon in that he is not too bothered about being the "winner" with regarding to his language. He wants a tool that can help him actually solve problems he has. And he wants to make sure that his tool is good before releasing it to the public. Releasing a product before it is done is can of worms in itself, not to mention the problems related to open source software itself. So it is entirely respectable for why Jon has not been as opened up his language to the public yet.

I created Odin for the very same reason that I wanted a tool that made me more productive and helped me solve the problems that I actually have. Even if Odin only benefited myself, I would class that as a success, but it has been helping so many people create amazing things.
>who clearly have not investigated any of the most obvious follow-up questions, such as “what is the probability of this occurring naturally?”

If it's true then the cause is an entirely different question.
Is it really not UB to attempt to modify RO things? Typically (on major implementations, e.g. GNU/Linux or MSVC/Windows) it will crash, and I don't think it is allowed to crash on non-UB things?
CEO of Shopify, Tobi Lutke Joins TLO and Artosis to Talk about StarCraft
I'm not sure I understand this attitude. There is a specific lifestyle he is trying to achieve and the is working towards being successful at reaching it. At what point does it stop being "playing" and become just living? Do you have to be miserable at a 9-5 job to be considered serious by society?
The article does mention that companies could argue they took "reasonable steps" if they refuse to follow the best practices. If they choose that route and win whatever court battle that follows, it'd essentially neuter this law. So there would at least a way out but it's risky.
How long would it take for any other scientists to confirm or deny this?
World's First Classical Chinese Programming Language
I don't know, there's still a lot of dialogue about healing crystals and essential oils out there.