skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reddit’s letter to the forum mods:

https://i.imgur.com/lX83eZV.png
Getting treated for coronavirus could cost more than $3k
You didn't even mention the worst aspect of the upvote policy which is that when they warn you not to upvote content that goes against their content policy they don't tell you what you upvoted that was found to infringe it. You have to try to guess what you did wrong I guess?
Ah, thanks for the clarification! English isnt my first language.
Really appreciate it! As a quick comment, we work with a physician network that has physicians licensed in all 50 states and they review the medical information of all of our patients. This way we don't put the burden on our users.
I can't believe you wasted all that meat through euthanization... what do you think they make Soylent from?
The difference between macOS and iOS isn't about discoverability (although, in one important area macOS far more discoverable that iOS: multi-tasking). The problem with iPadOS is that since all the expert controls are hidden, and there's no such thing as shortcuts or right-clicking on iPadOS, it means doing anything useful with iPadOS requires using many slow gestures in succession.

macOS, with a combination of Bash, AppleScripts, and system-wide third-party utilities like Keyboard Maestro and LaunchBar, provides extraordinarily efficient ways to do powerful things, whereas doing anything on iPadOS is like being stuck in quicksand. Just the minutia of navigating the OS with only Apple's provided gestures is so slow and clumsy that I wouldn't bother to do anything complicated with it. It just takes so much effort, it's exhausting. So neither OS is great at discoverability, but only one OS can be used efficiently by a proficient user.

I'll say it again and again: The measure of a platform is not how easy it is to use for it's weakest users, it's what it's more proficient users are able to accomplish with it. Until Apple takes proficient users seriously, iPadOS will be nothing but a side dish, because no one will use it to make anything that anyone else would ever want to emulate.

[0]: https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/

[1]: https://obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html
Being selfish and well intentioned are not incompatible, as long as being selfish includes the well being of those you care about and those you care about includes many people.

The many people bit is problematic due to our brain's make-up.
Reddit’s platform, Reddit’s rules. I get to pick and choose who I let yell from my front yard too, but the sidewalk is mostly fair game.
> Users now can be (and have been) banned for upvoting posts in quarantined subreddits

I've heard this thrown around, but I thought it was for upvoting posts that are later removed for violating Reddit's rules - not just upvoting any posts on quarantined subreddits.

I can't figure out if this is the case, though, here is what Reddit said, I think:

> Users who consistently upvote policy-breaking content within quarantined communities will receive automated warnings, followed by further consequences like a temporary or permanent suspension.
Aaron Swartz must be rolling in his grave.
Disturbing? I don't think so. I subscribe to the_donald because I want to keep up with what the nutters are saying. Yesterday I reported a post where they had photshopped out the dots in the " i "s in all of Mike Bloomberg's ads and replaced them with the star of david. That's just yesterday. And just one post that caught my eye. And it was one of the top posts of the day with thousands and thousands of votes and hundreds of comments. What's actually disturbing is the view that subreddit affords into the minds of 20-30% of the country.

The_donald has always been breaking the rules. The only reason it isn't banned is because reddit doesn't want the bad press of deleting it outright, even by their own rules it should have been nuked ages ago.

Finally, this isn't even touching the level of silent censorship that happens on hacker news to maintain its quality so its a really funny place to take a stand on it. If reddit is disturbing to you then man, you should be horrified by this place. Funny how HN is such a great place for discourse -- wonder how that happened.

edit: since a ne'er-do-well has accused me of lying here's a screenshot of the post. But I want to make it clear, this is one example out of an infinity of examples. I am illustrating that the_donald will not follow the rules and that's why this is happening: https://i.imgur.com/NHN1Mhx.png
It's far more active than I would have imagined from this sort of splinter forum. Though it's also the height of T_D drama which lights the perfect fire under a splinter forum.
And ci integration; which runs automated tests; which must pass to release package/docker image/whatever; which is required for deploying new version for your system etc. The whole thing is as distributed as business of a guy selling hot dogs on the street.
That stackshare site won't let me view content without creating an account.

So that's a downvote from me, please try to find a source that doesn't require you register an account.
Too bad the post office wasn't aware of space-filling curves when they started assigning regions :)
There are paid promotional situations. That doesn't mean that everything is a paid promotional appearance. Sometimes the product just makes sense in the situation.

e.g. BMW occasionally sponsors their vehicle to be in a premium film (e.g. Mission Impossible), often doing in-kind marketing agreements. Yet there are many films where BMW vehicles appear with no sponsorship whatsoever because it's logically a good candidate for the car in the situation/conveys the right image. Ford Crown Vics were every film cop car despite Ford's lack of involvement with that. And iPhones appear in a lot of situations where the most likely real-world phone would be an iPhone.

And to dispute a common misnomer, it is entirely within fair use to show brand logos presuming you aren't maligning the product in some way. There is absolutely nothing stopping you from showing a villain with an iPhone presuming you don't pretend the phone is a bomb or something, beyond Apple objecting to giving you free products.

So why do films/shows sometimes occlude the brand? Usually because someone else paid them to show their brand and they don't want brand confusion.

As an aside, elsewhere someone mentioned a show saying "promotional considerations provided by Apple". That specifically means free product, and excludes monetary sponsorship.
Sure. But selective enforcement of rules on a platform undermines its value as a platform.
I can't say the behavior of its participants and moderators is all that shocking. If you venerate someone famous for breaking rules, shattering norms, and thumbing his nose at the delicate sensibilities of others, what are the odds you are going to be careful with "community guidelines" and such? And what are the odds you'll meekly accept your dethronement by "insiders", the reddit "deep state"? I don't expect this to unfold gracefully or be over any time soon.
That's an incredibly charitable description.

First, Trump lost the popular vote by millions.

Second, T_D has been a source of posts that incite violence, harass other users and general racism/homophobia
If you plan to use an android phone for a long time (>2 years as manufacturer very rarely push updates beyond year 2), you should at least try to purchase a phone with active community support. For example, LineageOS wiki provide a list of such devices here: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
What?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications
You say this as if the members of r/the_donald are just regular ol' folks just talkin' about their candidate. This was/is one of the most rule-breaking subreddits on the entire website, which has only survived until this day due to preferential treatment. Subreddits have been completely banned for much, much less.
Great write up from J Kenji Lopez! Thanks for sharing link.
Value to whom? Reddit has decided that they do not value the users being deplatfomed. Any value you receive from the platform as a user is a byproduct.

Pool funds for VMs and fire up phpBB or IRC if unhappy with the platforms available.
Shocks, frictions, and inequality in US business cycles
Out of curiosity, would they be preferable because of pricing or simply because it fits your needs better?
Misleading summation.

Reddit will ban users for upvoting RULE BREAKING posts on quarantined subreddits. In other words, they're going to ban the people posting rule breaking content and also people promoting it via upvotes (after warnings/repeat behaviour/etc).

To let others know about this without including the RULE BREAKING part is misleading.
The party line at Apple is that right click (and everything in there) is for power users only, and that you should be able to do everything a user reasonably needs with only one button. I think this is a reasonable approach, but it seems that it's breaking peoples' ability to transition from user to power user.

The other Finder issues, however... well, it's become clear that Finder has become simpler and simpler in an attempt to make the computers more accessible.

Did you know: you can turn scrolbars on by default? A lot of common macos/finder complaints can be addressed by toggling settings, but it'd be nice if there was a single "pro mode" button, or something.
Each post on the forum has an forced-visible explanation of what content should be flagged. Reddit was careful to remove plausible deniability as an excuse before taking more drastic steps.
Very much appreciate the advice!
In most cases, that would be overengineering, but it is an entirely plausible solution if you happen to have a case where you need to allow the user to enter things like angle brackets, and for some reason you cannot escape them.
Don't Do This, Don't Give Me Hope
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Perhaps they want to save face?

Elections and the Olympics are coming up.
> As opposed to corporate bureaucracies?

Corporate bureaucracies can absolutely be just as terrible. But the problem isn't that a bureaucracy exists, it's that there is a law requiring the approval of a specific bureaucracy.

If a corporate bureaucracy is slow and inefficient, that sucks, but it creates an opportunity for somebody else to be less slow and less inefficient. If a government bureaucracy is slow and inefficient, can you start your own and go into competition with them?
My Unix philosophy to showing people what a web-based 'ls' command looks like is this:

$ import fs && import util && comstr --nowrap ls | pretty | less

(Works here: https://dev.lotw.xyz/shell.os)
That's not true. It's plastered all over not to brigade. NP links are required to prevent it. Ironically T_D deals with brigading from other subs all the time.

The mods at T_D have followed every rule to the tee. Other subs are not expected to control all of their users, but at least to enforce the site rules, T_D mods have done this. I haven't seen any evidence otherwise. Guilty until proven innocent if we want to use the fairest judgement standard.
Original Meme: https://www.reddit.com/user/timmehthekid/comments/faik4i/y_d...
> a session key which was itself encrypted using Public Key cryptography based on the public key in the certificate

This all depends on the ciphersuite used by the client and server. In TLS 1.2 some ciphersuites use forward-secret methods (typically "DHE" and "ECDHE"), and some don't.

In TLS 1.3 you always get the benefits that you mention, but in TLS 1.2 and earlier you sometimes get them. :-)
..and "hacker" "news" continues to march towards conflating anecdotes with general trends/statistics.

You are 1 American, not all Americans. Just because you don't know anyone doesn't mean there isn't anyone.
Only except our media has absolutely no interest in promoting actual positive change, sadly...
I wish people would stop treating “coronavirus” and COVID-19 (or SARS-CoV-19) as synonyms. They are not. There are many more coronaviruses.
I would argue that that’s true for most reddit users. The US House has rules for decorum in the political arena where people take turns speaking. Should we try to recreate that for the politics subreddit?
Which company is that? Wikipedia says they're independent with the majority shareholder being a New York company called Advance Publications
It's Pavlovian conditioning- you don't issue the corrective measure until the subject performs the undesirable behavior.
There's more to a practical language ABI than stack and vtable layout. If you write idiomatic C++, this means passing objects from the standard library around. If different compilers use different implementations of the standard library that aren't layout-compatible, things break.
There are plenty of startups giving this a shot. There's a huge amount of money in being the first to develop a test or vaccine. Just look at the unbelievable growth in $CODX, $NVAX, $GILD, $MRNA, over the past week.

A quick Google shows:

Feb 16 - Israel races to find solutions for coronavirus [0]

Feb 17 - Corporate Japan rushes to devise quick coronavirus tests [1]

Feb 25 - Nanotechnology Startup Develops Quick-response Lateral-flow Test for Coronavirus [2]

Feb 26 - Biotech company Moderna says its coronavirus vaccine is ready for first tests [3]

Feb 26 - Novavax to Begin Clinical Testing of Coronavirus Vaccine by Late Spring [4]

Feb 27 - Drug companies race to test coronavirus vaccines

[0] https://www.israel21c.org/israel-races-to-find-solutions-for...

[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Corporate-Japa...

[2] https://statnano.com/news/67501/Nanotechnology-Startup-Devel...

[3] https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/25/business/moderna-coronavirus-...

[4] https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/02/26/novavax-plans-clin...

[5] https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/27/investing/coronavirus-vaccine...
If tested I have to assume the patient will be charged for it, which depending on their insurance could easily be a cost of thousands of dollars if they are in a hospital or ER. We are going to experience a situation where sick people don't get tested and continue to infect others because health care is too expensive. The cost of health care is very much going to exacerbate this situation.

Administration officials just refused to commit to making a tax payer funded vaccine affordable.

This is what end game capitalism in health care looks like.
The product placement is quite deliberate and to be expected, even though Apple probably thought it was clever and subliminal e.g. if you are an iPhone owner, and use the default note/tri-tone/chord ringtones, you will be reaching for your phone at least once during The Morning Show.

On a slight tangent, in my opinion, the best recent representation of phones and villians, was is in the now cancelled show: Ray Donovan; you can spot everything from old school fliphones, Blackberry's, Lumia, iPhones et al. in it's seven series trajectory. Furthermore, somebody on that show is also a watch-nut and likes cars!
They're not killing it. Preview/Fenix is essentially a complete re-write of the mobile browser, and they just haven't added all of the extension hooks back into the new version yet.
> Sign in required

>This page may contain erotic or adult imagery. You'll need to sign in if you still want to view it.

Fuck that.
This is just false. Humans touch their mouths and noses all of the time. The mask makes you less likely to touch your lips or nostrils.
Oh interesting. I thought it was a Conde Nast company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit says it's headquartered in San Francisco and owned by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications which is headquartered in NYC. Where do the Chinese come into play?
Very cool! However, I don't see why this has to be so specific for Linux from when by judging from the libraries used it can be also compiled for MingW, macOS, Free/Open/NetBSD, QNX and even surprising Haiku.

But a very interesting project nevertheless.
So glad to see this service exist. While Shkreli is out jacking up prices for rare disease drugs, you guys are making help more accessible by providing doctors trained to order these tests, running the tests at certified labs, and being super transparent with data sharing.

Cheering for you to succeed!
Reddit is the new digg.
Many physical pentesters have gotten into places where they didn't have requisite deep domain knowledge because they can research particulars or just rely on regular social engineering. If someone is able to breach a prison without the deep domain knowledge, then it's not actually that important. It's good for demonstrating the damage an insider threat could pose. This article doesn't have a comparison engagement with someone lacking domain knowledge though.

I don't think the industry is tripping over themselves to get talent in any aspect. It just isn't what I've encountered. None of my prior domain knowledge counted (what little there is). Only certs and recent activity.
I’m biased, I used to work at GDS.

The lack of a ‘login’ button is a huge issue IMHO, but the main blocker to it isn’t the tech teams, its at the ministerial/senior civil service level.

The problem isn’t the button itself but the infrastructure behind it. I.e. it requires a single database of users (i.e. a national register of citizens).

This needs doing, but politicians come out in hives because it involves setting up a system similar to national ID cards (politically difficult). Senior civil servants dislike it because its a question of which department owns it, if its GDS its the cabinet office, and that means the Home Office, DWP, HMRC surrendering some control (i.e. being increasingly dependent on external systems), which is something departments seem to dislike.

It’d save millions (billions probably) in the long run, but there isn’t the political will to do it. It would need an influential cabinet minister to push it through and would take 3-5 years to get properly embedded.
The above comment amounts to aggressive trolling.

Anyone who googles "TeX" or "LaTeX" can easily see that it isn't so much wrong as it is too incoherent to have a truth value; LaTeX is an embedded domain-specific language implemented in, and used from, the TeX language, the interpreter for which was the topic of discussion. So it makes no more sense to talk about people using LaTeX without TeX than to talk about people using Rails without Ruby.

It's unfortunate that my shorter correction to this troll comment has been flagged, forcing me to write this longer and less courteous rebuttal.
It's been active for months. They knew Reddit was moving in this direction over a year ago and then when they got quarantined last summer they sped up development and released it. T_D had close to 1 million members, so it's a big population of users.
What is the main thesis of the particular video?

It is that the spread of the British Empire spread Western democratic norms.

This particular facet is well-supported by the facts. I agree that it fails to be sufficiently critical of the British. However, it falls well within the Overton Window and any claim that this particular video is incendiary, or that it is sufficiently wrong that it should be discouraged for people to watch it, is absurd.

To the degree that History departments want to tell a moral narrative, they need to be a lot more careful than a youtube channel, I agree. I remember my British History professor in college implied that any Republicans taking courses at a state-supported university are hypocrites, so I'm well-aware of the ideological leanings of the ivory tower. If it came down to it, I'd prefer a left-leaning history department to a right-leaning one, just for the fact that you can (typically) squeeze more nuanced narratives out of the (typically) increased moral relativism of the left. It's a pretty slight preference though, subject to the tradeoff that a bleeding-heart professor still has enough assertiveness to admit to moral failings across all sorts of different cultures.

Regarding objective facts of a video- they remain true on the ground. Regarding the moral narrative- I see no reason to hold the rest of the world's commentariat to the same standard of preference as a history department. I would also remark that PragerU has the merit of making it's moral leanings obvious enough that you don't have to guess at their direction of bias, in contrast to other presenters who may be willfully disguising their revisionism.

Perhaps it's easier to discern the truth when you give competitors on all sides of the moral landscape a fair fight.
We should have just called it SARS 2
We're also stocking up on booze, weed, and meth, if that makes it seem less weird.
> Was it really necessary to use the word "shitcoins"?

Yes.

> but resorting to such childish naming only ends up hurting your point.

Well, I'm not wrong.
"...what it gives you..."

Right there is the flaw. It's not "you", it's "any programmer who ever works with this system, now or any time in the future.
It looks pretty interesting but unfortunately I'm unable to run the demo, getting a crash in glDrawElements which is sort of outside of my scope to address. As a side note the debug symbols flag doesn't get passed to individual C files so the binary ends up without debugging symbols (as a workaround I moved the -g3 flag to CC variable instead).
I'm trying to figure out which projection they're using for this, any idea?
HN thread from yesterday on this very topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22425593
It's been the official website of the T_D subreddit for awhile now.

This is not the first wave of drama T_D mods have dealt with. They've dealt with quarantines, post-editing, brigading, and ranking algorithm changes, that's why they have a site already and are using it as a primary platform as opposed to a backup (although the subreddit still has a much larger user base, the content is fresher on the main site).

Also, half of America approves of Trump's job, it's not crazy to think that there's a large amount of traffic, they have to go somewhere online.
This is at the end of a long long line of trying to find some way to deal with one of the more unruly subreddits on the site that's been the source of loads of brigading, vote manipulation [0], and doxxing. If a community can't behave after 4 years of warnings and increasing controls at some point Reddit had to do something, this is short of just banning everyone and nuking the community which they're well within their rights to do.

[0] At one point td was basically the only thing on r/all because they found out that by upvoting everything and stickying posts to get upvoted they could spam the rest of the site.
https://www.endurosat.com/cubesat-store/cubesat-communicatio...

Am i reading this correctly?? the x-band cubesat transmitter is the cost of a Telsa???
I'm curious about the dramatically increased mortality rate with diabetes. Given America's situation, especially with insulin prices at a perverse high, that could be catastrophic.
"Owned" is a bit generous. But Tencent has a financial investment in reddit.

> In February 2019, Chinese company Tencent invested $150 million into Reddit as part of its Series D.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit