skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I would like to see is a way to build charters and algorithmicly enforced governments, and then fork communities when divide exceeds concensus. What I mean by this is a subreddit where you can choose how votes are tallied, and instead of a fiefdom, becomes an open source template for other communities who can inherit the historical record.

When you create the community, it gives you a mad libs style page, where you can choose if you are a democracy, republic, autocracy, a mix of them. Vote weighting, whos votes count for what things, vote prediction and extrapolation. Conditions and Voteing for changing the charter rules, votes for how content gets posted, votes for leadership boards and mastheads. The ability for editors to strengthen or amplify certain voices or voters in a community.
If you could seed a community with "role model voters" and then use the other voters who vote like them to extrapolate how they would vote on stories they havent seen. There is this common misunderstanding in the word that votes are only used as votes, and not as a signal to indirectly form a decision.

Every AI feed I've ever used (prismatic being one that comes to mind) buckles under popular vapid content rising above. Extremely strictly moderated feeds do exist tho: https://aldaily.com https://longform.org/ https://longreads.com/ I just wish there was a way for a group of strangers, who arent math experts, could spin up a collaborative feed reader (something that autoingests rss/twitter), and through their collective upvotes posts it to a more static page. Counterparties did something like that with Percolate.com and was able to still use the product once it pivoted markets. https://www.techmeme.com, https://www.mediagazer.com and https://www.memeorandum.com/ do the same thing. But those were all close knit teams that knew each other, their underlying tools arent accessible to spin up your own. I'm sure these tools exist for newsrooms, with the abundance of modern CRMs coming to maturity, a place to chat and edit before things get published. But they arent built for strangers to create community together.

It would make sense for these communities to more resemble Wikis with more static content, instead of the endless feed first. /r/personalfinance wiki being the front page, and the feed being something on the side powering new content to add to it.

Id really like to see something that combines reddit, git, fandom/wikia, techmeme, rtings.com, slant.co, kit.co into a collaborative consumer reports, wirecutter, or metacritic, rotten tomatoes. A place for people to gather to build consensus around something in a more structured way than wikipedia, and then publish it. Places like https://letterboxd.com succeed in some ways, but only through the existence of a shared culture and keeping to a specific topic.

There could also be an element of customizability for the end user. A metacritic or rotten tomatoes where you can weight certain critics votes, or a wirecutter where you can express your preferences for certain traits and then have it output a ranking list. Not completely dissimilar to rtings.com's magic tv ranker.
Good. But really, why did this take this long?

It should be relatively easy to identify the bad actors here and I don't mean the spammers, I mean the telcos that make this possible, deliberately so, by essentially "laundering" spam calls.

My response to picking up a number is to answer the call and say nothing. Auto-dial systems will route the call to a person when they get a "live" response. I don't know the criteria but I'm pretty sure it's them detecting noise on the call (which could be voicemail).

A human calling will wonder what is happening and fill the silence by saying something. A machine will not.

I hang up within 6 seconds of this in the hopes that it affects some metric somewhere of this being a low-quality or spam call. I don't know if it does. I think I read somewhere once that it did. I could be wrong.

If a real human is on the other end and does say nothing in this window, they'll generally just call right back. You get the exact same number again then this time I'll answer it.

It is nice to filter contacts vs non-contacts but there are too many things on non-contacts. Businesses you deal with, primarily.

In the email world where obviously spam is a huge problem zombie relays that allow this (which I believe is the primary source?) can get blacklisted. Why don't telcos who do this also get blacklisted? Or at least identified? This isn't AT&T or Verizon. It's the little telcos that connect to them.

But is this all too little too late? I think we've discovered over the last 20 years that we're all pretty much over open networks. It's all opt-in now with the likes of Whatsapp, FB Messenger and so forth.

Oh and while we're at it, can we get rid of this stupid exemption to robocalling restrictions for political campaigning? It's defended as "political free speech". To me, this is nonsensical. Free speech doesn't mean that I should be forced to listen to it.

EDIT: Found an example [1] of the bad actors I'm talking about.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/31/21117477/justice-departme...
Gotta read the whole thing

> When baking, you generally want a starter that is 75-80% hydration vs the 50% used during initially growing it. All this means is that after baking for the day or if you’re just feeding the starter daily to maintain it, you take the 10% of yesterday’s starter and add it to a mix of 100g of flour and 75g of water.

I’m describing two different parts of the process. 50% hydration is for growing the starter from scratch. 75% is for maintenance and baking.
What am I missing here? I plant blueberries and blackberries and getting a pint at a time takes 5-10 minutes
Bury chicken wire or another metal mesh under a raised bed.
What’s the purpose of “owning messaging?” All of the popular messaging companies make money via advertising.

Messaging needs a network effect. The other alternative besides advertising is charging customers. Can you point to one successful platform that has a network effect and charges customers?
> It's madness. The government should provide these things, and employers should focus on whatever it is they do best -- not being a healthcare provider.

The startup I worked for in Italy had about 40 people by the time I left.

They dedicated ZERO person hours to anything health care related. No insurance, no administration, nothing.

Italy has plenty of other obstacles for startups of course, so that in and of itself didn't make it easier to do one there - but what a nice thing for a business to be able to ignore.
heh, that's true, the whole web graph could fit on a floppy
That really made the rounds but anyone who has done it knows it's nonsense.

Fresh bread can take as little as 20 minutes of work and tastes amazing.

The only valid complaint is it doesn't last long.
The web wasn't mob-like at all in the beginning. Most of the content was created by reasonably educated people who were publishing because of passion, not profit or other motives.
It used to work well for Reddit, but now you can't trust the date filter. Something changed less than a year ago.
Ironically, 2008 caused banks to be very resilient to events like this one. Now banks are not allowed to keep large positions in their own name and should be basically neutral to whatever happens on the market. Banks are supposed to earn their living on services provided.

What this means for banks is they are doing excellent business right now.

The only significant problem is counterparty risk. As banks are basically insurers in case of some contracts they take the risk that the counterparty will default on their obligation. As large number of parties default this creates an amount of loss. But banks have also regulations to control the amount of possible loss so it is not going to be easy for any bank to bankrupt just because large number of companies go out of business.
The latest-gen Goldwing has a fancy non-touch screen, stereo, CarPlay, GPS, Bluetooth, dual-clutch transmission w/ automatic mode. Screens are invading all segments of motorcycles with varying degrees of functionality.
There's something in HIPAA saying how the provider is to contact you? Over which channels?
I'm sceptical. I get texts from my dentist and in-app notification from doctor.
No it's not. It's only available if you bought it before it changed hands and providers, as I did.

Supposedly they're still fixing bugs from the new weather provider before it's made public, but it hasn't been updated in ten months. I doubt it will be improved anymore, and I don't really use it much since the new provider is mediocre at best.
> Bezos isn't any different than anyone else here, really. Maybe someone will get to him to be kind

I just can't help but think that this is an incredibly naive model of how corporations function.

I'm not saying I disagree with the premise but I do think it would be incredibly helpful to the people pushing for this to give off a greater sense of how multi billion dollar corporations function. It just really can't be that simple.
Gives a whole new meaning to that Green Day song
So you switched to an Android device that runs proprietary Google Play Services and proprietary Samsung bloatware....
“Processing large amounts of data” is one of the reasons in the page
They are agreeing to work there because the alternative would be the streets/moving back with parents/enlisting in the army.

They are agreeing to work an essential front line job most likely without health insurance, which means that they will have to purchase health insurance off of the state or federal exchange which may or may not be a garbage high deductible plan with a $2-5k deductible. What will most likely happen is that the same workers if not offered insurance from their employers will just forgot insurance and hope/pray that they don’t get sick. In which case for a mild Covid case (80%mild in the younger adult workers that typically occupy these jobs) then they come to work sick and infect the whole place workers and customers both.

I remember in Seattle checking out at a Trader Joe’s in January in Seattle and the checker looking like absolute death and obviously had a cough but was still working, understandably some people have rent to pay but to suggest this isn’t happening everywhere that doesn’t at least offer decent insurance/hmo coverage would be nuts.

The solution is at the very least to force decent health insurance for all retail workers, or emergency subsidies for all grocery workers health insurance until Covid is over.
Every day they stray further from BSD's light
Read. Books.

I recommend Stand on Zanzibar, which I am currently rereading.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_on_Zanzibar
I am the co-maintainer of an OpenSource project called AwesomeWM. I took down our wiki years ago due to:

* Constant vandalism

* Dubious user created content rendering computer non functional

* Trolling edits to cause breakages to people copy/pasting shell commands

* SPAM

* Maintaining the wiki

Before that we forced users to log-in for edits, then forced moderator approvals for everything, then forced moderator approval for new account. Then gave up and retired the Wiki.

So no, wiki are not free content. They are a pain, especially when your community tend to have many trolls/hostile individuals like the gaming community. It's not "downright lies" all the time.
Glad to see this here. I used to work at Kontena, the original creators of Lens, and it’s nice to see some of their products live on. The quality of code and UX was top notch, the container orchestration / k8s space is just rough to compete in commercially.
I should probably elaborate on what I mean about "lazy UI". For a touchscreen UI, the thinking seems to be that they view this is something they can fix later with an update because a touch screen is an updatable blank canvas. The effect of that is you end up skimping on UI design because it's "optional".

Hard buttons force your hand more. You have to think about what buttons you want and how they're going to work in a way you just don't have to with touch screens. So you're forced to do a level of UI/UX design that you're not with touch screens.
It's also a problem of company culture and career ladders. Fixing bugs and making a more stable product isn't going to line you up for a promotion - but some fancy new feature no one asked for will.
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Thank you for this.

I'm medically handicapped. For me, it allows me to work whenever I can manage to get my act together and it means when I go through long periods of being unable to work, I haven't been fired. I've just not earned anything recently, but I can go right back to work.

I had an account with whatever became Upwork. I never made money on it because you have to pitch for an assignment and compete with others. On Textbroker, I just choose something I think I can write. Done.

The other platform also only allowed me to do up to five assignments per month with a free account. To access more, I would need to pay a fee.

I was homeless at the time and I worked very erratically. There is no fee to have an author account with Textbroker. There is no minimum I must work or anything like that.

The flexibility is critical to my ability to make my life work and having some earned income that has gradually improved over time helped me grow healthier and get back into housing.

I know there are other services. But I don't chase my pay and I don't have to negotiate for work or pitch myself and these are huge advantages for me that help make it make sense.

Edit: And that's why I say Textbroker is nominally low paid work. Because it cuts out so much of the unpaid hours freelancers typically spend pitching their work, chasing their pay and even working for free when they can't successfully get the pay they were promised.

If you count those unpaid hours, actual hourly wage is lower for many other avenues than their nominally higher pay rates suggest. Textbroker pays better than it seems to most people.

That's a critical detail and I never know how to really get that point through to people.
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There are apps/plugins/filters that claim to recreate it, but like many other analog/digital comparisons, if you're rather used to looking at film grain with your naked eye or with a loupe, you will notice the difference.
older tesla’s pre 2017 have extremely laggy screens
M-x apropos tesseract
HN suffers from fanboy’ism just as much, if not more, than elsewhere. Though I’ll admit there’s many more critical comments as well.
Dark Skies was already a private company....
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I dare you to come up with a better name. This is great.
Are you suggesting that Apple bought Primesense because they wanted to kill the competition of USB RGBZ cameras?
It will be interesting to see what they fund and how much the companies fit the current environment. I'm guessing quite a lot of remote working tools. The one I really want is something that allows 'many to many' conversations. I haven't found a tool for social events that get above 5 people. Normally in real life groups dynamically break into smaller groups and it's hard to replicate that at a networking event or friends birthday or something. That would be powerful to prototype at the Tuesday night dinners as well. Someone's going to get funded with a tool that becomes a default networking tool for the batch and that will then see huge success from getting that group of early adopters using it.
Thanks for the comic relief of the day; sure needed it. I like your goofy sense of humor. Please keep doing fun stuff like this.
whatever you believe, all they want is for them to shutdown and clean, how hard is that?
Check out all the latest Garmin aviation equipment. Touch is here for critical systems including GPS systems used on instrument approaches. Super fun to reprogram in turbulence.
I wonder how much it would increase/decrease if we filtered out all blogging software.
I use this kind of blackboard system still when I can't avoid globals. The main thing it helps with I find is you still have to know the order of and when your systems are being setup.

Ran into so many bugs from people creating static instance globals and thinking it was good that they didn't have to care when systems were setup.

I hate create on access with a passion. For god sake just new the damn thing at the beginning of main if nowhen else.
"How dare you insinuate that my latest amateur radio transceiver firmware is capable of loading a working copy of Contra for the NES!"

-People who give me hope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBE-BQNaCh4
I had to decom a major wiki in a very large company not long ago. I can give you four reasons why these things happen, possibly without notice.

1) The wiki software and database have been abandoned for years. There is no maintenance and no further release.

2) It will stop working shortly. Like, it doesn't start on Ubuntu > 14 or current MySql at all.

3) It already stopped working and/or the content is already lost. Can be an accidental deletion or the 10 year old server passed away.

4) Security vulnerability. Remote code execution / SQL injection in the wiki software. That can't be fixed because point one.

I wrote a longer blog post on software death cycle in companies https://thehftguy.com/2019/12/10/why-products-are-shutdown-t...
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This is #1 reason why I still love my Toyota over Tesla. Physical buttons make a huge difference in driving experience.

If only someone invented a tactile touchscreen, i.e it would bulge where user can interact. like dynamic braille. Material design where different elevation levels are literally popping out of screen at different levels.
My experience (beyond Zoom) is with WebEx, Hangouts, and Teams. Zoom has a better UI for large meetings, and the audio quality is significantly improved. We just switched recently from WebEx to Zoom at the office and it's been refreshing. A few days ago was the last time I tried to use Teams, but the "only four people on the screen at a time" limitation was a no-go for our family's virtual gathering. Everyone was much happier with Zoom's video grid, and we noticed that the audio was significantly improved -- in particular how it handles multiple people trying to talk at the same time.
I agree with this! I mean, it's Hacker News after all, not "yet another Covid-19 article shoehorned in from Techcrunch" News !
Skype meeting is just 1 url and no software or sign up, so that's even easier.
Well, the description of this bug is not generally reproducible, so whatever is causing it, it's not as simple as using a high port with a server name.

I tested this specifically on a number of servers that I run with port numbers > 10000, using /usr/bin/ssh on macOS 10.15.4, with and without IP addresses. Nothing broke for me.
If people submit the code to do this I'm supportive. Feel free to ping me on Twitter when you have the code.
The point of washing for a relatively long duration is to to make an excuse not to do cursory or no washing at all.

Part of the technique is a distraction to justify the duration.

And yes, to try to cut down by a few orders of magnitude.
hey nikolas! Svelte's Sapper generates its own @sapper modules I believe. https://github.com/sveltejs/sapper/
Yes because it allows me to do the following things:

1. Sideload apps that my government has decided they don't like and want banned.

2. Use real firefox to support diversity on the web

3. Use open audio codecs like FLAC without tying myself in knots

It's not perfect but in the respects that really matter it's a lot more free.
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Was just on a Zoom call with 656 participants, it it was remarkably better than any other solutions we've tried in the past.
Mulch, right. Or black plastic film? So I've read. Oh wait, that's for weeds.. Dang, how do I kill the bugs
python is type-safe if you use python3 and avoid the dynamic parts of the language using a linter.
Not with my health conditions.

If you look at the average freshman class, well over 50% have some medical condition.

Sorry if that’s nitpicky, but a really large number of young people just don’t qualify.

Also, the military isn’t really in the right of passage business anymore.
>The legal status of shrink wrap contracts in the US is somewhat unclear.
But isn't WhatsApp already encrypted? Or is this encryption on top of encryption?
Well, time to change location privacy setting from "Always" to "Never".
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Altavista was early. If you were on in 1996, that was only 5 years after the “birth” of the web. Before spiders, things were organized like Gopher. There were directories you could look up. Some pages kept archives of links.

Web crawlers were introduced in 1993. At that point, gopher probably had more content. Remember WAIS? All the libraries liked that protocol. Encarta was still selling like hot cakes.
Gosh darn it! Now that I learned that it used to exist, I wish I could use it now to help my kids learn how web pages work!
Only if there's enough demand for the content to overcome severe inconvenience.

Which means Netflix with its exclusive titles does require approved devices. But a random internet website is not likely to be in position to demand too much.
Seismic activity at a low level is triggered by much smaller forces. A small shock like a truck can cause two pieces of rock that are in tension to move against each other, causing a tremor.

Same way as water can be overheated or supercooled when there is no trigger present, impurity or shock that will localize the start of reaction, the Earth crust can store a little bit of extra energy when there is not enough trigger.

This is only temporary effect, after some time the level will come back even without increase in human activity.

When human activity is restored what you can expect is seismic activity above normal levels, for some time until the stored energy is dissipated.
> you need to stack more context into the search input which is strictly worse since you can already do that in Google if you need to put a finer point on your search

Hum, not exactly. Google will ignore extra context that doesn't match your profile. People coped very well when it didn't.
> I have had situations where it was not allowed to move a computer monitor from one cube to another - that had to be done by a union employee

Can you explain to me where this is a union thing? Like I'd honestly like you to point out and explain your logic why this is specifically because of a union.

The reason why I bring this up is because I have encountered the same issues at my prior jobs which were non-union. Literally the exact same issue, where I was not allowed to move a computer monitor because it had to be done by another department after submitting a formal request.

I feel like people tend to blame unions for everything and yet I see the exact same shit people blame unions for at my non-union jobs. Is that because of an invisible union? Is there something I'm missing?
In the 90s and 2000s, cars had too many buttons and knobs. And
car reviewers started using that as a criterion to judge the dashboard. So less became better. OCD!
You have to ensure a channel that doesn’t gratuitously leak. Email took a very long time to be accepted, especially after things like hotmail and especially gmail arrived.

This is why fax is still so common in medicine and law (in law there’s also a belief that a fax confirmation says it’s been delivered, if not read, while email is considered less reliable / more easily deniable.
The async on embedded work was mostly sponsored by Ferrous (dedicating Jonas and Jorge’s time to work on the bulk of it), but I know they both put a significant amount of personal effort into that work as well.
It's also nutritionally dense, if I recall correctly. Iceberg lettuce, not so much.
That's a fair point. I did say it's my place to be grateful, not to carp (but I did also carp).