skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN is a single unit. It doesn't have sub communities the way Reddit and Facebook do. So I think individual subreddits are a more similar basis of comparison than Reddit as a whole.

I personally mostly participate on Reddit in relatively small communities with, say, 20k subscribers or 80k subscribers or a lot less than that.

There are different mods for different Reddits. If you don't get along well with one Reddit, you can go elsewhere. There can be membership overlap but you aren't necessarily subject to the "I shot the sheriff" phenomenon where no amount of trying to behave and fit in is ever enough because one or more of the mods has it in for you.

I have been on the receiving end of that. Such experiences help shape my conceptualization of the problem space and how to define a "community unit."

LinkedIn seems to be akin to Facebook in how it works. Twitter is extremely different in how it gets organized. I don't think it compares at all to things like HN or Reddit.

I'm not really familiar with Pinterest or StackOverflow.
I live in the PNW. Every few days someone gets on nextdoor.com freaking out about having seen a coyote. My response is always the same. They were here long before humans were ever here and will still be here long after we are gone.
Not really. In fact, I doubt one could draw useful parallels between online and offline communities, they are two quite different beasts.
How do I update our YC application? We are pivoting to help with COVID-19.

Thanks.
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Only two are tagged "difficulty:easy", likely for good reason – when I contributed a few fixes a while back, I found it much more challenging than implementing a language syntax, an unrelated project which I was also doing at the same time.

It's really fun, though, and watching colleagues code and use the features of prettier that you built is a nice feeling – "I helped write that code for you!"
Woah, slow down there copper-top, workers are disposable too.
I looked at a SBA loan several years ago and it required a personal guarantee. Almost all small business loans require this.
> The ad credits will be available to small and medium businesses, who advertise ... since the beginning of 2019.

Why since the beginning of 2019? If I just started a business at beginning of 2020, wouldn't I need at least equal amount of help, if not more?
> The only data that we collect is your mobile number,

That's the definition of PII and will eventually be abused for purposes other than emergency contact.
Indeed. “Until” is originally a compound of “till” (prefixed), so “till” came first.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/until
How appropriate.
I thought the whole point of complaints about "sprawl" was that suburbs are bad and "urbs" are good. The suburbs are prime habitat for a lot of creatures including coyotes, especially because they don't have to worry about hunters.
There are several teams working on better privacy preserving functionality: https://github.com/covid-apps-tracker/tracing-apps.

What would be useful is a common standard for Bluetooth transmission so all these apps could talk to each other.
It doesn't use or load jQuery any longer,

however the dependency was still there ... Now I'm removing it.

In the beginning, there was only jQuery. .... Then, for a while, there was also Angular, and for a short while, a tiny bit Angular Dart (I got on the hype train?).

Then, there was a month removing all Angular things, and switching to React. And then ... Another month removing all jQuery things.

There's still a disabled way of laying out a discussion in 2D, using the full width of the screen (nice with a 30'' monitor :- )) and then, for horizontal scrolling, jQuery was used. But all this 2D stuff is disabled nowadays (I like the 2D layout but it's a rarely used power user feature and I was too short of time so had to disable it).

(The reason I removed jQuery, and use React only, was to improve performance — just parsing and executing the 30 kb min.js.gz jQuery bundle took maybe half a second? on mobile phones.)
> Would you suggest that we not have public health departments engage in contact tracing at all to combat the pandemic?

Why does this imply such invasive measures?
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Is the another cloud provider AWS? I could see tons of connection timeoutes between GCP & S3/Elasticsearch service.

Hope everything is resolved now for good.
If you are a grown adult, coyotes aren't that dangerous or scary.

They aren't very big. They will attack small pets and children that are alone, but they typically leave adult humans alone.

I used to go for six mile walks in the High Desert for exercise. I routinely ran into coyotes. They never bothered me.

I did tell my children to not go out alone at night. There had been two or three attacks on children in the previous five years.

I have a dog phobia due to things that happened when I was about four years old. I'm not similarly afraid of coyotes.

Of course, I wouldn't want to run into a large pack in the dark either. They can and will take down deer as a pack and did so sometimes within earshot of my tent when I was homeless.

So, I mean, don't be stupidly cavalier, but lone coyotes are known to not be particularly dangerous to adult humans.
Instead of having Kyle & Jeremiah elaborate on it in this thread, which will quickly disappear into the aether, probably better to elaborate on it in your wiki. PureOS’s main customer base are techies and hackers who will be very curious about security, and a thorough writeup on it could be a strong selling point.
For many people, the criteria by which to judge VC software might be quality of audio and video, ability to deal with low bandwidth, and the ability to run a functional meeting with it. In fact, for many people, while installing an application might be a one-time pain, if it offers better service in some way, it's probably seen as a benefit, not a drawback.

We have Hangouts Meet free at work, available for every single meeting with a single click. Zoom is also quietly available, but we're disincentivized to use it, because the company has to pay extra. We have to jump through hoops to get access. Yet since the COVID WFH revolution, Zoom is becoming more and more widespread. Because, as a VC solution, it just works, and works noticeably better than Hangouts Meet.
Their branding sucks. Their website / landing page sucks. Their UX / UI sucks. I like the technology behind it though. I'll try to contact someone to see whether I can work for them (with them) for free, or as a volunteer (UI / UX / Web & Product Designer). They deserve better. There's a chance!
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I did too, and it turns out a lot of the claims are either made up (the literature doesn't support the claims, or doesn't seem to exist at all!), potentially harmful or misleading (modified plots to suit the narrative).

In hindsight some of the claims are just weird, like saying you can measure the effect of one bad night's sleep months down the line.

On the whole it got people talking about sleep, which isn't a bad thing. But, the peer review (see sibling posts) only looked at one chapter I think, so God knows what else is wrong.

I don't think anyone is doubting that you should probably get a bit more sleep, try not to blast blue lights in your face and get into a routine. Standard sleep hygiene stuff.
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> This is much better than tracking people via facial and video recognition captured with near-omnipresent camera feeds.

Yea, but it's much worse than non-shitty suggestions. Obviously if you pick the shittiest option anything will look good.
More is good, but the NIH alone is already spending $2.8 billion/year on Alzheimer's research https://www.alz.org/get-involved-now/advocate/research-fundi... and that's not including spending from other government agencies (both US and international), charities, or pharma companies.
This type of response is another example of the typical unhealthy responses you get on this forum. People express an opinion and others immediately demand that they show concrete evidence for their opinion. It's like dealing with children who are learning about logic for the first time:

Child A: I like Batman!

Child B: Prove that Batman is better than all the other super heroes!
I agree, but it's not obvious that courts would agree, and lawsuits are expensive even if you win. The legal liability worries are still there, alas.
It's an example of fallacious thinking, "if it's not 100% effective, that means it's 0% effective".
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That's entirely possible. But sapience isn't necessarily adaptive. Ancient humans combined sapience with other traits like endurance, dexterity, overhand throwing ability, and social instincts to carve out an ecological niche long enough to reap the benefits of culture. Removing any one of those factors would have made prehistoric humans unviable.

If I was going to bet on non-human sapience, though, I'd go with crows. Intelligence seems to be most effective if you combine it with social instincts to create culture. Crows do this already.
I didn't say they were authoritarian government but a large segment of SK population grew up under SK dictatorship which has implications on compliance. Same with Taiwan, Singapore is still single party dictatorship etc. I'm well aware of the domestic SK reaction (negative) around alleged mishandling of the response which is just extra incentive to manipulate test data. Cho Kuk was 6 months ago. Record high unemployment since GFC. Nothing about this administration suggest it's not above fixing stats on top of overall high testing rate especially with the high stakes of underperforming. Almost every SK president has been mired in corruption scandals, many were imprisoned for shady dealings. Why would this be any different?

Yeah, they could have found a working formula, but they could also be lying like other first world countries that we know are under reporting deaths via recatorigzation of likely covid deaths to other deaths to depress the impact. SK corruption and transparency index is comparable to France and Italy who already acknowledged doing so. Add the geopolitical layer of western media trying to grasp at any alternative strategy that doesn't involve Chinese style lockdown. Very few reports even mentions SK contact tracing is closer to Chinese techno-authoritarian techniques than not, which ultimately makes SK response not a useful model for these countries until they get desperate. Which is my main point, media is fixating on SK testing and contact tracing when latter is not possible in many first world countries.
We don't actually have a free market, though. Free markets don't exist in the real world, only the "perfectly spherical cow in a frictionless vacuum" world of economic models.
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In my experience it has better reliability and quality, to the point where I haven't had to worry about it.
Do you mean things like 'Nice!', 'lol', 'Amazing', 'nice I'm going to try this out this weekend', etc?

It's because they're devoid of any actual content and uninteresting to every other reader. I agree they might feel nice to the OP in the case of 'Show HNs', but in those cases there's probably another way to reach out (and the higher effort will make it more meaningful).

(I could've sworn there was a point in the guidelines on this even using similar language - 'devoid', 'content' - but there doesn't seem to be now. Perhaps I've just read someone commenting something similar a few times!)
I didn't know YC had so many resources and topics in general. This looks like a pretty well laid out interface for that. If you don't mind, what did the categorization process look like?
Every part of it, with no exceptions. It's a website where you register an account and interact with the other accounts socially.

Contrast Netflix, where you consume fixed content, or Amazon, where you buy things.
Seems AWS, connection to gmail's smtp relay also started timing out.
Ah, yes, the same crowd that wonders why people won't write native Mac Apps but then rarely acknowledges the documentation is utterly lacking in significant places.

I say this as someone who writes those apps.
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That's a cool exaggerated example, but it's common knowledge that restaurants everywhere are currently struggling. The ID request is the only part I'd personally be outraged by.
Presumably not.
Turing's Cathedral is fantastic. The most enjoyable computer science history book I've read. Highly recommended.
It’s not that they hurt the eyes for me as much as they introduce tons of micro delays and extra keystrokes when editing. For instance, any “X to end of line” (cut, copy, etc), you now need to think about what the destination is and whether you should include the semi, change the selection, go back and delete the semi later, etc.

It sounds slight, but it really builds up over time. Once you get used to “powerediting” without them it’s hard to go back.
Do his strategic decisions appear to be good and in line with what you'd be doing to do?

If so, stop worrying. If not, your problem isn't to do with job title and responsibility mismatch.
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I am trying to build something similar and I was wondering if there are any legal issues with showing content from the source website into mine, in your case for example the content is the user's comments.

In this page https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/ under the
Intellectual Property Rights is written:

Except as expressly authorized by Y Combinator, you agree not to modify, copy, frame, scrape, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on the Site or the Site Content, in whole or in part, except that the foregoing does not apply to your own User Content (as defined below) that you legally upload to the Site.

I really wonder if I need to ask for permission from each website about showing some text from their website into mine?
That isn't what I was asking. I asked, why now. What about this instance in time has prompted this? Also, I was talking about Wikipedia. Please do not move the goalposts on me.

I guess the Socratic method isn't going to work here.

Bluntly put, some folks are full Ministry-of-Truthing away at Wikipedia to help justify their attempts at erasure of the "Wuhan flu," China connection. That's why it is happening now. "See, we don't call it the 'Spanish flu,' so why should we call it ..."

It's terribly skeezy.
Just wait until the mountain lions and brown bears start prowling around looking for snacks :-)

For folks further out into the 'human/wildlife interface' as the Forest Service calls it (or the 'cafeteria' as I call it) sightings of all wildlife is up. Some friends who retired out in Brentwood[1] (not the LA neighborhood, the town outside of Livermore CA) They now have nearly continual deer presence and multiple daily sightings of Coyote and Fox around mid-morning and dusk. They have heard mountain lions but haven't seen one yet, and no bears so far.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Brentwood,+CA+94513/@37.90...
I think the term "news" is being stretched here..
I really don't like this guys writing style.
It's nontrivial.

Check out ZCTA crosswalk in US census.
Isn't this the epitome of causation vs correlation? I'm not saying masks don't help, but this site doesn't say or link to why masks are the way.

For example, Japan has over double the population of SK, yet SK has ~9x more cases. Yet both are "high mask-wearing culture".

And of course, China, which is "medium", breaks this model heavily. Masks didn't help. Lockdowns helped.
Is there any code in Firefox (as of 2020) that comes from Netscape Navigator?
I don't think the issue went away because anyone conspired to bury it. I think the issue went away because, on average, Americans are comfortable with the arrangement that the intelligence agencies have broad power to dragnet data. They either don't get that these tools could be used against them by unethical government agents or they know that possibility exists but they trust the checks and balances against it and think the risk is outweighed by the benefit to law enforcement and the national intelligence community in managing the international threat of global terrorist activity (which, itself, leverages modern communications tools to communicate rapidly, move rapidlt, hide from law enforcement and military powers, etc.).

9/11 was an avoidable attack and a failure of information analysis; the information needed to stop it existed but had not been consolidated. A lot of Americans are extremely disinterested in bring attacked that way again, even 20 years later.
That's pretty neat. So you are controlling imessage software on a physical device? You haven't had control synchronization problems or stability issues?
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Totally agree. And it’s also very easy to forget the context/why for any given decision, which makes it really hard to chain together a series of decisions to figure out how you got where you are...
Raising funds for a distressed business using their trademarks and branding without their consent is pretty shitty. A substantial part of business is just in branding and controlling that branding.
This is known as Horseshoe Theory, and it's a pretty lame model of political ideology.¹ In reality, most people can't be placed on a single dimension that accurately captures their political identity. Most political scientists prefer at least a biaxial spectrum, comprising of the left/right axis and another major axis like libertarian/authoritarian.²

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum
Does Google Takeout https://takeout.google.com/?pli=1 work in this cases? And does GDPR can be applied in this cases?
Even gold can disappear quickly if a run starts on your currency.
Will do! Do you have contact info somewhere? Twitter?
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Pick a lat/long, and you can map between. Or find the centroid of the zip code and map accordingly. Or you might consider unions between the geometry objects. Qgis3 has a lot of great packages for this.
A good history of early British computing is Programmed Inequality. Gets at why that country squandered its WW2-era computing lead (spoiler alert: sexism was part of it). https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/programmed-inequality
Here is a growing list of 30+ papers that back up the efficacy of masks: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HLrm0pqBN_5bdyysOeoOBX4p...
Correct, I was speaking more in the context of Ebolavirus itself. As you pointed out, Johnson suggested naming it after the river in the 70s – but every Ebola species named (the last one in the early 2010s) still had a local name attached.
It appears that purchasing oil right now for the SPR was portrayed as a "bailout for big oil" so it was left out of the recent legislation.
And both have situation under control compared to Italy or Spain. Even if they're literally next door to China and were exposed much earlier.
> Hell is full of good intentions.

Hell is full of 15% to GoFundMe without disclosure, and requiring multiple pieces of PII to opt-out.
This is perhaps my favorite blog post to ever just “happen upon”.

I don’t have the time to write up as much as I might like, but it’s safe to safe I enjoyed every dimension of what made this project awesome.
That's true, but I think the point is: people will witness first-hand how reducing pollution and emissions leads to much better environment in the span of weeks.

I also hope that there will be some dip in relevant global climate measurements, so there will be something to point to and say: "here's direct empirical evidence that climate change is man-made and that reducing emissions helps mitigate it".
Well if you know they are infected, and are worried they might be infectious, _why not count them_ after all they _are_ occupying a bed.
Now jQuery is gone (see my other reply just nearby, in this same comments tree).

Actually, when I was starting with React, then for a while Talkyard did use both jQuery and React on the same pages (not a good idea, I agree). I was careful to avoid the bugs you have in mind from happening, so that wasn't a problem,

however, loading & using both libs wasn't good for performance — just parsing and executing the 30 kb min.js.gz jQuery bundle took maybe half a second? a second? on mobile phones, back at the time (2.5 years ago).
Interviews aren't just about talent and ability. Some fairly abstract concepts are important too.

How the individual fits within the team is vital. You might have one of the smartest people on the planet but if they can't effectively communicate or understand and work within the cultural norms of the team you're going to have a problem.

These norms and practices vary and shift between teams, countries, and even within the same team over time.

For example hiring a Linus Torvalds for an intermediate, client facing, political position, is probably going to have poor results.

These are difficult things to test for and are as much a decider of job performance as raw knowledge and technical experience.
Those aren't highly opionated default formatters though. The JavaScript community seems to have settled on Prettier as the go-to formatter, but not everyone uses it, and even Prettier had to add a bunch of options for certain things that will always be highly personal. Stuff like trailing commas, tabs vs spaces (and how many spaces‽), line lengths, and semicolons.
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some that I read and recommend:

- Turing's cathedral

- Hackers: heroes of the computer revolution

- masters of doom (game dev history more than cs)