skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the approach is bizarre. How will replacing 1/2 of T_D mods with new management solve anything? What is the goal? I would really like to understand what is going on in the room when these ideas are presented.

T_D is a cesspool. It's not the only cesspool on Reddit. It is a special cesspool with special attention and solutions that are tricky, especially in an election year. At some point, big tech companies are going to have to articulate their role (wanted or not) in tweaking society.
In this instance, a pandemic. There are many other scenarios where even if you have drinkable tap water under normal circumstances, disaster might render that useless.

I drink bottled/filtered only due to negative side effects (for me personally, most don’t have any) of drinking chlorinated water, so simply increasing my input buffer is really straightforward.
The fact that you’ve sold things doesn’t mean you understand my argument. You’re sure good at convincing yourself though — good day!
If I were in jail I'd love to play Runescape. It's pretty much the only time I'd actually enjoy Runescape.
Conspiracy theories are not considered valuable commentary here on HN, so ironically you may find your post flagged and remove by the community due to violating of this forum’s user and mod expectations.
Yes, that's true, I only care about actual damage to the environment. I do not care about curtailing actions that don't particularly harm it, and I would resist attempts to force people to curtail those actions just to make other people feel good.

It is not clear to me if you are advocating for everyone to not use plastic bags. If you choose to do net very-slight harm to the environment to take a stand against some thing you find aesthetically displeasing, that's find by me, because we're talking negligible values on all sides here. No sarcasm; I truly have no objection. We all tend to spend much greater on things much sillier. And you're putting your skin in the game, at your expense. No sweat.

If you are advocating that everybody should do so, that is at the very least questionable, though, and downright wrong at the government level. If the government is going to decide that environmental damage is a concern it has, which is fine, then at the very least they could use those powers to actually help the environment, rather than helping some particular people's sense of aesthetics, and their sense of aesthetics at other people's actions no less, while failing at their stated goals.
Just like apples and oranges can be compared as foods (and fruits), bespoke vs. reused solutions can be compared so software. The reused parts are of higher quality than their corresponding bespoke implementations and can be composed to accomplish the same task as well as many others. It's a powerful lesson.
I have been observing something similar recently, but related to other technologies. People claiming they are good at Excel, but can't do a vlookup or a pivot table. People using 5% of the power of an IDE. People not realizing that if they are able to use a web-based tool at work, they could (probably) also access it remotely.

And these are just the things I have noticed in the past week.

We utilize just a tiny percentage of options that are available to us, barely enough to get the basics of out tasks done. But we are completely oblivious that there are probably better/hidden/power tools available in the software we are already using that could help us achieve our tasks much more efficiently.

Interestingly, most people probably don't care about it, or are so oblivious of their lack of knowledge that they don't even search for better ways to do things.

It's hard to blame thought. Improving this state requires a mentality of continuous active learning, where you don't just wait for someone to show you how to do your task better, but to constantly expand your knowledge into areas you don't even think you need to improve. However, most of us usually have "better things to do" than reading software manuals.
Oh, I were not aware. I don't have a reddit account and can't even get into the subreddit without one.
I don't know that uMatrix will be supported any time soon, but you can turn uBlock Origin into Advanced mode and get much of the same functionality that way.
How big a security risk is it, really? Firefox Mobile apparently has a 0.66% usage share, which is lower than desktop Linux, and desktop Linux anecdotally is pretty much a non-target for malware authors. I, for my part, blocked my FF Mobile autoupdates upon reading this and am not going to lose a lot of sleep over the possibility that some malicious website would choose to target me over the Chrome/Safari users.

(I would also suspect, without concrete evidence, that an average default mobile browser user has more valuable data on their phone - Firefox seems like the browser of choice for the same sort of refuseniks who would still do most of their online banking and what-not on PC only rather than installing their bank's app)
In response to this action the most upvoted thread was mocking WWII holocaust victims.

The sub got quarantined for numerous rule breaking actions including racism, doxing (inc. Reddit and Imgur employees), sexism, harassment of other subs, and violent threats.

The only way to believe that this has anything to do with supporting a political candidate is simply to ignore all the actual content and posters on that sub.
Tencent invested in reddit's series D financing round in 2019. Can't figure out what % they "own", but OP implying full ownership is not entirely correct.

Edit: and looks like OP edited their comment to clarify.
To be fair, while I agree that vaping is with current evidence probably better than smoking, given the relative novelty of vaping and lag in cancer I think we won’t know if there is a risk of lung cancer with any certainty for a decade or more (unless anyone can point out some evidence otherwise which I’d be grateful for).
What is really happening is reddit is just taking over all the most popular subreddits. They want to control the main vibe of the site. Understandable for a corporation but not in line with the original idea of the founders.
That's it. I give up programming and going back to Barista.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/11/18216134/reddit-tencent-i...

"Reddit gets a $150 million investment from Tencent and users are posting memes to mock the deal"
Exactly, this kind of microoptimization often becomes worse due to other logical fallacies like sunk-cost and confirmation-bias which can cause the societal costs of addressing the "small thing" to snowball.

We would likely be better off if we put all focus into the big things and completely ignored the small things.
The actual difference is that certain ideologies attract people who think the ends justify the means or find transgression itself attractive and amusing; these qualities in the right combination lead to communities that will inevitably break the rules and undo themselves.
reddit is a shit-hole echo chamber
Perl's big win for one-liners is braces syntax. Interestingly, there are already projects to add braces syntax[1].

Two of the three Perl features are also Python features, namely -m to run a module and -c to run code on the command line.

Regarding Perl being a better shell, there are modules like `doit` and `invoke` that make Python far better than perl for managing jobs, precisely because they make forking off jobs super easy.

But now that you mention it... I want to write a module to make python one-liners easy.

[1]: https://pypi.org/project/brackets/
> As with others before, the author fails to grasp that this is an apples to oranges comparison.

I think comparing apples to oranges would be comparing Knuth as a programmer to Spinellis (the author of the blog post) as a programmer; they obviously have different approaches to programming, which one can't compare without bringing in some externally imposed value judgements.

The post itself isn't a comparison at all: it says "this task, which was claimed to be very difficult using only a certain set of tools, is actually easier than one would expect even when restricted to those tools." (OK, I guess 'easier' is a comparison, technically, but only to expectations.) This says nothing about the quality of Knuth, or of Spinellis, or of the ideologies of tool use and tool creation; it says only that the existing Unix toolkit is very rich, much more so than some might expect.
Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) shut down for 'technical halt' as markets sell off
But you still can't change tabs with a swipe like in Chrome, and to be honest it's the only thing keeping me from switching to FF
Yes, if a user can be banned for repeatedly upvoting posts that encourage brigading or actual violence, I don’t see why users who repeatedly upvote the same content shouldn’t be included. Either there are rules which have meaningful sanctions or there aren’t.
It is one of the largest subreddits and it deals with a highly charged topic (politics) so naturally it draws in all the trolls.
> The reused parts are of higher quality than their corresponding bespoke implementations ….

I think that stating this as an inevitable and uncontested fact might be pushing the point.
And that's fair. I should've done a better job differentiating between the official word and the word of random Redditors that have a vested interest in making themselves look better. I have to assume the actual implementation will look for like the former than the latter.
When the presence of the contagion is the risk, absolute numbers communicate a lot. Relative counts are less meaningful right now.

The majority of meaningful information received from such a chart right now is the presence or absence of the virus. Secondary is the number of cases to indicate the stage of spread (e.g. 1 suggests maybe an outlier, 2-10 suggests early stages of contact spreading, etc).

Communicating information with an inherently exponential growth rate is just entirely different beast.
In civilized countries you are still payed if you are ordered into medically necessary quarantine. And you can not be fired for it either.
acme could be seen as a word processor in the unix model. It's easy to pipe text to composable commands.

I can put the Levenshtein perl one-liner in the blue bar and middle click it to get the distance of two highlighted words.
It's a shame there's no standard contextual key one can hold that overlays all the keyboard shortcuts, swipes, clicks, scrolls, etc that are available in the currently displayed UI. Ideally, every window that has hidden UI stuff would have a little indicator in the corner that means "hey, there's something weird you can do here, hold down the 'explain-o-tron 3000 key' to get a hint".

While one can argue that UIs should be immediately understandable, it doesn't seem possible to pull off such a feat in many cases. Keyboard shortcuts are particularly problematic, as an always-visible list would take up too much space in most cases.
There should be enough pixels for each minute of a day.
My impression 20 years ago was that Ruby is an interesting mix between Perl and Python. In principle there is little that differentiates Perl and Ruby in terms of how maintainable or not their code can be.

However the Ruby ecosystem wound up with a lot of modules contributed by people who had just moved to it from languages like Java. They overreacted to their new found freedom. The result is that between a poor testing story and questionable practices like "monkeypatching" (literally modules overwriting random methods in other modules) the Ruby ecosystem wound up with a lot of nasty gotchas. (There is a lot of, "f you load module A then B, it works, but module B then A and it doesn't.")

Yes, Ruby programmers get up in arms when you say that they have a poor testing story. But ask them whether by default they have actually run unit tests for everything installed on their system, and they have not. Ask them if they could run unit tests and they think they can. But those who I have watched try have found out the hard way how many unit tests were only written for the original author to run in the original environment, and can't easily be run in an automated way. By contrast the default for CPAN is that every module has had its unit tests run on every system it is installed in, and automated smoke tests ensure that modules have had their tests run on a wide variety of operating systems and versions of Perl.

The result is that random Ruby module X is generally less likely to be dependable than random Perl module Y. Which in turn means that in my experience significant Ruby code bases written by competent programmers top out at smaller than Perl, with worse maintenance stories.

That doesn't discount the fact that there has been a tremendous amount of unmaintainable Perl written by incompetent programmers. (Particularly during the wild dot com days.) But "maintainable" is NOT something that Ruby has a good story to tell about.
Outlook tech support phone number and 1(877)342-4448
Outlook for iOS and Android: Personalize how you do things

The new year brought a range of updates to Outlook for iOS and Android that further empowered busy professionals in both the work and personal landscape. With the new Office mobile app integrating your content creation experience, Outlook Mobile continues to deliver capabilities that help you stay connected, organized, and in what matters.

Last year Microsoft completed a roll out of shared mailboxes in Outlook for iOS and Android that enables customers to manage communications and calendars from their mobile devices for shared resources, such as human resources or help desk support mailboxes. But one major scenario was missing; Customers, especially those who are assistants or representatives and want to send email or accept calendar invitations on behalf of someone else, cannot do so while working on their phone or tablet.

We are now expanding the ability for customers to get someone else's items from their mobile device in a secure and manageable way. Those who have been allowed full access to the mailboxes of others in their organization will be able to do so from Outlook for iOS and Android. Once you have been granted permission as a delegate, you can only add a mailbox to your Outlook mobile app. We began a roll out to support Delegate mailboxes in mid-February with the goal of enabling all Office 365 customers by the end of March.

Whether you're creating an email on behalf of someone or producing a thoughtful personal message, using formatting tools that underline your ideas and key points can be effective. Give your email structure with lists, emphasize with bold / underline / italic fonts and titles or add informative links to content on the web to help make your messages impress and easier to read. With additional formatting functionality in Outlook for iOS, creating or answering emails on your iPhone or iPad is as effective as making them on the big screen.
The value of the free iPhones or whatever is not $0. So if you are trying to argue they don't pay anything, this seems like splitting hairs.
Is that a macOS thing, or just a conceptual problem with keyboard shortcuts?

IMHO macOS does a pretty decent job of discoverability for shortcuts as they’ll be listed there in the menu.

edit: originally I doubted whether Windows does this or not. It does! Somehow I missed this despite using Windows every day...
He didn't make it to the final question: how would you re-find an open window of some app and bring it to front as active window?
AHA, I see, yes. Thanks for that.
Not to imply this functionality is complex, but really the most important thing for me are the lists:

I _love_ that I can take a book I enjoyed, see it's on a list of "Best Magic Systems", and note what was rated even better for its magic system

A simple method of discovery for me

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/871.Most_Interesting_Mag...

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8497.Aliens_First_Contac...
>If the content that people are upvoting is bad enough to get banned over shouldn't it just be removed from the site and not left up to upvote?

Honeypot.
You're shocked that there are people who support liberty as a concept and they are anti-China as a result?
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Really tasteless, given the actual number of Indian Hindu nationalists currently physically using sticks to beat and kill Muslims, given how that's the context of the current thread. Those people should be deplatformed and jailed. They hate other people an plan violence against them. Should be a really simple moderation decision and really simple adminisgrative decision to report them and provide their user data to law enforcement.
I think the logical conclusion of your argument is that people in cities should not undertake any preparedness measures. I do not subscribe to that belief, and think it is an abdication of responsibility. It’s much more likely that I will need water/food due to supply interruptions than I will need water/food due to supply interruptions and also be subject to marauding gangs of thieves.

Also, where I live in the winter, it is normal to have a non-trivial amount of weapons in one’s own home, and something like 50% of homes do, despite being a reasonably big city by local standards.

I envision places like that to remain a lot calmer and more civilized longer than most other urban centers, where the means to keep order is a lot more centralized, and probably the first to abandon their posts in times of extreme crisis such as you allude to.
You may try linking to the content next time.
Julia is actually initially had OpenMP backed parallelism (ParallelAccelerator.jl), but they're moving away from OpenMP towards a novel and native task parallelism framework more inspired by things like Cilk[0].

[0] https://julialang.org/blog/2019/07/multithreading/
Hehe yeah sorry that's what I meant, that they have announced that they are pulling out.
If things are mispriced, the trade is going to happen. There is absolutely no way it could not.

If it makes you feel better, many of the wealthiest traders do in fact donate a lot of money to such causes.
I'm not saying absolute is necessarily better than rate. I'm saying that it's a choice that highlights different information.

there is no objective right answer, and it's about intent of the communicator. in this case, rate may very well be what the intent needs to be.
Why, are you accusing me of lying?
What's the conspiracy theory? Dude admitted it himself: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5frg1n/tifu_...
Thanks for making this. When you are zoomed out at the world level it's hard to differentiate UK with a few cases vs. Italy which has 300+ cases.
This has been the mantra since the first proprietary drivers for Linux. They still don't do it, so we can keep banging head against that wall, or try something else that would actually work.
‘We Are Desperate’ for More Immigrants
Advertising and free discussion do not mix, at all. It is not surprising this sort of thing is being done by a company whose true customers are their advertisers, not users. Internet companies who mess with user content to appease advertisers are going to learn soon enough that they can't serve both masters at least for anything anyone is very passionate about, like politics.

When I was a kid®, this sort content lived in web forums or newsgroups hosted by interested parties. You were unlikely to find any of it unless you went looking for it. It is probably best if it goes back to that.

Internet pro-tip: If you don't want to be beholden to reddit, YouTube, Twitter, etc. don't use them, it is really that simple.
The ct-policy link you gave and that section of RFC 6962 are about SCTs. The existence of the Signed Certificate Timestamp does not prove the certificate was actually logged, it just proves that the Log promises to log this certificate within the Maximum Merge Delay (24 hours in the case of the Web PKI). A log might in fact be lying or have suffered a grave technical problem.

Figuring out how best to have browsers check the logs are truly accurate while preserving user privacy (e.g. obviously if you call a log to ask "Did you log this certificate for clown-porn.example ?" it gives them a good idea about your taste in circus-related adult content which you probably don't want them to have) is an ongoing topic of research.

With SCT checks you're in very good shape already today - bad guys would need to compromise several distinct entities to successfully pull this off. It's just not quite "Fire and forget" safe yet.
What about a company partially owned by the Chinese using censorship as a means to interfere in the US election?
As someone with too many GIS degrees, I feel a level of cathartic release in reading this and thinking that laypersons might be able to improve their map making skills, avoiding some of the more serious cartographic gotchas. It was well-written. The beauty of the ubiquity and greatly-improved UX of modern GIS tools is that everyone can dive in to doing geospatial analysis and building static and dynamic maps. It also means people can accidentally author very misleading visualizations.

Despite this ESRI-backed article on the subject, I think the popular ESRI-driven map dashboard for Coronavirus[1] has a major flaw that violates the crux of this article. Dot density maps _MUST_ be set to scale relative to your map scale, or else you get nightmare scenarios like this one[2]. This is doubly true if the dots are varying in size (which I also think is a fundamentally terrible representation, because people suck at mentally comparing areas). If I were to modify it, I would probably use a choropleth-like representation. Keep the dots equally sized and colour them different shades of red. That way nobody's brain will mislead them into thinking "this larger circle means a larger area is all infected."

[1] https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...

[2] https://imgur.com/NPhEzk7
Well, at least I could contribute this feature myself someday, while many annoyances in Chrome I won't be ever able to fix :)
I wonder if that is an implicit admission that the government believes the Covid19 outbreak is there to stay for long enough to justify the expense. Or maybe 'just in case' to go after masked protestors ?
The actual policy as stated is if a user consistently upvotes policy violating content that is later removed in a quarantined sub they will be warned and banned if they continue. They are removing violating content it's just adding the fact that you shouldn't be upvoting this content because upvotes = higher visibility and support, it's supposed to mean 'this is good content.'
It just came out. Nobody is using it in prod yet.
> mercury etc. which are in the shot to make the immune system react

By mercury do you mean Thimerosal? It is a preservative, it is not an active ingredient of the vaccine.
Notice that I didn’t say anywhere that executives shouldn’t be paid more than workers. It’s a question of how much more. Right now executives make over 200 times more than an average worker, at a rate that’s increased more rapidly than workers wages. You can find a lot of economists who think this actually isn’t that great for the economy.

And yes, you can have a conversation of what value an exec brings vs the value generated by scientists inventing the products their selling. But the original point was that no one is coming after workers salaries — they’re not the ones making $15m a year.
Some of these are esoteric keyboard shortcuts for things that are possible to do in a less-undiscoverable way. Others, like right-clicking on the trackpad and scrolling without a visible scroll bar very quickly become second-nature when you start using a Mac, because it's impossible to navigate otherwise. Only the "Open With" case is really valid, because even the non-keyboard way of doing it (again, not mentioned in the article) is really fairly esoteric: [right-click] > "Get Info" > [select application for this file] > "Change All..." to apply to all files with this extension.
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Do you like the taste of non-sugared oat milk over almond, or is it mainly because of the health benefits?