skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's your point of comparison? C and C++ are all entirely unsafe. At least with Rust you can pinpoint the parts that need scrutiny.
Is HN a healthy online community?

Yes

The moderation scheme makes it harder to troll, so you actually have to come up with some clever insights in order to troll effectively. Though, when people need to back up their comments, the quality improves. Articles/links that are voted up are often interesting or insightful.

On the other hand, participants are still somewhat married to preconcieved ideas, so moderations and comments are sometimes shallow and predictable. It's still hard to come through, though better grounds for free-thinking than many other forums. Humour is often lost here.
Forget about CS degree, I once worked with a CS postdoc, now a professor at a top US university, who prided himself of never having written a program.
Make it a habit to look at both the title and the full URL before clicking on any search result.

I believe that anyone can learn to recognize SEO traps by their URL pattern.

If, let’s say, I’m looking for a new pair of headphones, I’d probably follow a link that says _Review: the best headphones in 2020_ with an URL of `reviewhub[.]com/best-2020-headphones`.

But I’m not going to follow a link that says _Best headphones xanax_ with an URL of `arizonabakery[.]com/_php/xyzs13mvfpw`.
The absolute numbers aren't that interesting; you need those numbers as a percentage of the total people in that demographic.
Isn't this all the sort of stuff that freedesktop.org is supposed to fix?
> Now, win10 again requires to be hacked right out of the box just to work.

Or, to rephrase that (from Microsoft's—and most IT departments'—perspective): Windows now works, as once again users with broken workflows are now forced into fiddly sub-optimal patterns for using the OS, which are more work to maintain than just correcting their workflow. (And IT departments are empowered to not even allow these fiddly sub-optimal patterns through GPOs, allowing them to force users to immediately rectify their workflows.)

Microsoft is trying to be the teacher that slaps your hand with a ruler when you look down at the keyboard instead of touch-typing. Except, instead of touch-typing, they're trying to force people to use (and build) software in a way that makes restarting their computer irrelevant, by e.g. making long-running jobs checkpoint their work and resume from the last checkpoint after a restart.
How to Use VMware VApp in a VSphere Environment: Short Walkthrough
More to the point, it's better to post links that are viewable by the full audience, where possible.
I was not required to sign in to anything to download and use this app, either on iOS or the website. Please clarify?
It's all relative... Having participated in many online communities starting from back in dial-up BBSes and message networks, it's as healthy as any I've experienced.

I don't remember how I got into HN... I stay because I happen to appreciate the comments, often I get more from the comment system than the actual articles. There are a lot of people with diverse technical knowledge and insight.

It's far from perfect, but it's still healthier in that you get a relatively diverse set of topics and opinions on those topics in a mostly rational discussion. There are some subjects that will see an unbalanced level of moderation based more on opinion than hard fact, that said it's still better than most.

I think the only area that tends to really flow emotional is when the topic of politics comes up. People are very tribal in terms of what they believe and support and will up/down-vote instinctively, regardless of merit. It tends to cut in every direction. I would love to see counts of up and down votes on a given post, as I'm sure there are many that while they are -2 to +2 have seen many votes in both directions...

All in all, I think the moderators are relatively fair in their disposition of the rules such that they are, and in general fosters discussion in good faith. I've seen many opposing views discussed at length, and don't recall anything that went over the line (calls for violence or personal assault), with minimal ad hominem.
Except when used in a SaaS. GPL won’t give you any control there.
Build a type safe React App with ReasonML, Part 1
With the economics of the tar sands, the entire province has been doing the equivalent of margin trading, to make ends meet, for the past two decades. Tiny swings in price either bring a moderate windfall, or utter ruin.

It's not a great way to run your economy.
I consider those the more political posts, and pretty much any of those is guaranteed to be bad because modern society's political discourse is miserably bad. One thing I think is good about HN is that if you can filter those out, it becomes a pretty good place. My experience on twitter is that it is basically impossible to filter out the political stuff (I tried many things, its too hard). That, to me, makes it a lot less healthy.
Not just windows 95 and 98 and it would have to be something buried in the OS for a 32 bit counter going to zero to freeze the system.

"Microsoft server crash nearly causes 800-plane pile-up"

https://www.techworld.com/news/tech-innovation/microsoft-ser...
Have also used Joplin. Although used this more as a personal wiki, e.g. relatively long-form notes. I would read it on mobile but rarely edit. Agree the sync there is 'clunky'.

Microsoft OneNote is quite nice.

But what I actually use most is all the Google products: Keep, Docs and Sheets. So, native app on my phone and then browser based on the laptop.
I don't think there's a good connect sink for GCS available under a non commercial license
If you had the money, they would probably consider moving the ballast around...
They might have to eventually do the divergence if Oracle wins it's lawsuit against Google.

I wonder if the folks at MariaDb have taken that into account and planned accordingly? Calling themselves a drop-in replacement in my mind screams "we replicate their api's" which afaik is at the very heart of the aforementioned lawsuit.
Mods didn't touch that submission. Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but I suppose it was a combination of (1) users who felt it wasn't a substantive article and (2) users who are fatigued by the controversy around cryptocurrency. That controversy is many years old by now, has been discussed to death, and leads to poor-quality generic discussion (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). In case it helps, articles that are favorable about cryptocurrency get an even more hostile reception, especially anything reminiscent of the crypto-hype of 8-10 years ago.

This doesn't mean that articles on the topic can't do well on HN. It just means that the bar for substantiveness is high.
Couple of thoughts:

- I think we need to know a LOT more about the sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of every test that's being deployed right now. I am 100% willing to believe that "testing negative and then positive" means "you have a pretty low viral load and our tests suck more than we're willing to admit out loud right now".

- I think we need to be very clear that there are two kinds of tests: "you have an active SARS-CoV-2 infection right now, and also "you have once had a SARS-CoV-2 infection in the semi-recent past". One tells you who needs care, one tells you who is at least temporarily immune we hope.
the problem isn't the fast-food, but the health of the fast food. proper comparison would be trying to stop eating fast food by only having healthy food around the house.
> South Korea is basically an island, conducted serendipitous did large scale pandemic drill in December, has a compliant population with mandatory civil service and memory of recent authoritarian government, can mobilize techno-authoritarian surveillance.

And they didn't even try to shutdown churches, bars and clubs, while churches consistently have been the largest sources of mass infection. And your may also want to know that literally every single media has been criticizing every single action taken by the government. What an authoritarian government.

> Which loops back to S.Korea, why so eager to trust their numbers. Their politics is fairly corrupt.

They earned their trust by reporting 7000 cases, taking the risks of huge political disadvantages. All the other first world countries were reluctant on doing that due to the exact opposite motivations. And unless you have some ideas on the modern political landscapes in S.K., I would recommend not to inconsiderately speak up a such fairly strong opinion.
While I agree that mocking people for self-learning is atrocious, I don't understand why in the same breath, you felt compelled to mock a university based education.

Some people thrive in the bootcamp scene, while others enjoy the structure of a university. Both can be great tools for self-learning (I am thinking specifically of the resources a large university can provide, like media and electronics labs for creative projects that involve expensive cameras, 3D printers, etc), and both can be misused. University based education does not have to be ancient.
My experience with google hangouts over the years has been that it's a poorly made product. It does work "ok" for 1-1 but the video quality would frequently drop or not connect at all. Zoom just "works".
The Earth in Minecraft, 1:1 scale
Articles are automatically taken down after they're flagged enough. Plenty of articles critical of cryptocurrencies have been posted here. It's most likely people just thought the article was blogspam.
I made a fully offline voice assistant on a Raspberry Pi with Pocket Sphinx and Festival Lite glued together with Python. Performance wasn’t great but it was a fun project nonetheless.
Yup, there was definitely a reason to consider Secor before 2017. Part of the reason I'm familiar with Secor in the first place.

Just to be clear, there are dozens of Kafka Connect Sinks and Sources, and finding Kafka Connect Sinks for other blob storage solutions should be easy. If you can't the KC framework makes it pretty easy to develop your own.
Shoot, I didnt realize that quote was attibuted to Rahm. I fucking hate that guy.

Also - its really disturbing that a few years ago, Apple created an update where you cant turn off wifi or bluetooth - you can now only "pause it"

But there has not been a look into proving that it is actually OFF when your little soft icon is grey...
tl;dr they claim a "false tradeoff" because risking the death of people is just evil. The article is deeply flawed, because it assumes the vulnerable will be saved by draconian measures. In reality, they will simply get the virus later, when they want to see the sunlight again.
You've posted twice on this thread, and both comments contained that link. That's getting very close to spamming.
>the entire province has been doing the equivalent of margin trading, to make ends meet, for the past two decades. Tiny swings in price either bring a big windfall, or utter ruin.

>It's not a great way to run your economy.

Sure, but what other way do they have to run their economy? Without monumental government effort to keep prices stable grain (and grain derived products) isn't much better.
My pet peeve with nearly all maps showing this data is that they are on geographical maps. A virus spread is only a weakly geographical phenomenon - most infections happen through human-to-human contact so it makes more sense to show on a population-weighted cartogram. Has anyone made a map like that? A great example is the 538 hexagonal-tile electoral college map: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/

or one of these population-weighted projections of different areas:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8284655.stm
One theory of security is that you can't ever be truly secure; but you can make it difficult/expensive for your security to be violated. If you lock the door, someone can always break a window, but that creates more noise and therefore more risk, making an intruder more likely to seek a softer target. A ten-foot wall can be breached, but it will likely dissuade anyone without an eleven-foot ladder.

The problem with mass surveillance is not that the NSA/etc can breach anyone they want; that's effectively always been true. It's that it's cheap to breach everyone, by default, all the time. Taking reasonable precautions such that you can't have your data swept up cheaply, instead requiring targeted human effort and/or a court order, does create a deterrent, and helps counteract the current imbalance of power between TLAs and We The People.
"Those of us who are 70 plus, we’ll take care of ourselves. But don’t sacrifice the country." - Dan Patrick, Lt. Governor of Texas.[1]

Last week, #BoomerRemover was just a Twitter meme. Now it's becoming policy.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-lt-gov-dan-patric...
My hope is that people don't lose sight of the long term in spite of the short term suffering we may experience. You can only surrender your rights once, the effects of losing those rights will last forever. How many movements would have been impossible if a local government could spy on everyone to break it up before it even begins? I'm thankful we didn't have the same technology we have now during the civil rights movement, for example.

I sincerely hope for your swift recovery.
Good question. Kafka is cheaper for things that don't need to go into redshift, and there's a fair amount of engineering effort that would go in to switching those existing systems over.
> self-assured personalities who think themselves experts on topics far outside their expertise

Or, put another way, computer programmers ;-). Sure there are plenty of other people who armchair quarterback, but there's just enough truth to this that I wonder if programmers are a little more prone to it. Like we think everything can be solved with an algorithm, and since we're pretty good with algorithms, we can solve any problem in the world.
Ok, so in the end, what are you really using IPFS for here? You might as well gone with Netlify and ask people to do `wget --mirror` and you would have built exactly the same thing, albeit not on experimental technology, am I right?
There is a book about it :P!
The FDA did not ban doctors from using checklists.

They shut down a specific study of checklists that didn't get informed consent.

This article asserts that that was the wrong call, but your claim that the FDA has banned them is incorrect. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/opinion/30gawande.html
Yes, the government is working on exactly this. The president is planning to open the economy on Easter Sunday, which day he says there will be "packed churches."

Those are the pox parties.
That, or the brightener particles are making it through the nozzle, but the nozzle diameter is too fine for the highlighter pigment particles themselves.
Lies that changed football history
Code Generation Framework with Go and Cuelang
Sorry you did not like the typesetting. It is hard to have an opinionated design and appeal to everyone. Happy you found a way to read it anyway. Also don't forget to wash your mouth, acid is bad for the teeth.
Step 1: minimize or remove social media from phone. Only keep messenger apps.

Step 2: remove all apps and games that require you to use it daily for some sort of reward.

Step 3: eliminate any or all notifications save for messages, email, phone, or automated alerts for particular things (like slickdeals or stocks).

Step 4: treat your phone as a tool, not an entertainment machine.
This looks great. I like how it is setup and I find the value it offers to be swell.

I will however complain that I shouldn't have to recaptcha myself if I took the time to enter my email address, find the email, and click confirm for it. What benefit is there to recaptcha-ing that?

My complaint is in hopes that they will remove that recaptcha for other users who happen to like their privacy and don't let their browser sell everything to mailchimp.

Edit: I will correct myself in that it looks like they may not have a choice according to https://mailchimp.com/help/about-recaptcha-for-signup-forms/
Seconding both ReSpeaker and Rhasspy/voice2json, I've been having great luck with that combo. The docs and example code for ReSpeaker are great, very easy to work with.
> Go limits the number of available abstractions

Again, it doesn't, as abstractions are not built from syntax of the language but from the indirections developers create with the syntax provided. I agree that the abstractions the standard library provides are smaller than in other languages, but outside of that, anyone can create their own abstractions (as it should be).
> This is going to be a disaster for the Canadian petro-provinces.

If the pitch stays in the ground it'll be good for the environment which ultimately is good for people too. Just on longer time horizons.
If I see Cato economist talking for the first 5 minutes I immediately suspect I am not getting a very balanced view.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute

Continuing with wikipedia:
Sweden is a competitive and highly liberalized, open market economy. The vast majority of Swedish enterprises are privately owned and market-oriented, combined with a strong welfare state involving transfer payments involving up to three-fifths of GDP.[27][28] In 2014 the percent of national wealth owned by the government was 24%.[29]

So again this is not the Soviet type of socialism(which I've lived through) but strong welfare state is definitely part of Sweden.
No prob... That is true. I used to do some work on VAXes and they were very reliable.
I'm not sure where I gave the impression of being ok with what zoom is doing, but I'm not. I'm saying this is the expected course given the incentives we as a society have established for companies.

Hoping zoom and other companies prioritize the public good over profits is foolish, and the solution is to align profits with the public good.
There are individuals who on their own can get all the education they need from free public resources. These are the people who can get a college degree's worth of education out of a public library on their own.

They represent an infinitesimal minority of the population. Most people, even people with CS degrees lack that discipline. At least the CS degree forces them to learn some fundamentals so that they can potentially understand what they're looking at and learn on the job, and demonstrates at least a moderate interest in the subject as a vocation.

In my experience most people who graduate from bootcamps (in general, some are better than others) are all about getting a job as soon as possible. They're expecting a 6 figure salary within a year, and are willing/able to put in 70+ hour weeks for a few months to get there. Not knocking that perspective, but they'll lack a lot of background outside of their very specific niche and will likely be less adaptable, particularly on any highly technical subjects where some level of theory is required.

IMO the wave of "Software Engineering" degrees that are trickling out into the universities are probably the ideal. Full 4 year accredited degree that focuses on practical software development and less on the theory and mathematics. Let the CS-degrees focus on research/academics in the fashion of schools of Arts and Science and leave the Engineering to the Engineering schools.
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I think political discussion is one of the few areas where things get really off-balance in terms of merit of an idea vs moderation in general. Just guessing that the users are likely around 60% left leaning with about half of those hard left, less liberal.. and the other 40% split with libertarian-right and center-right republican.

Conservative opinions will usually see a -1 to -2 down out of course... likewise the opposite for left-leaning opinions. I can only speculate as to total votes in either direction though.

Being classically liberal/libertarian, I can only speak to my own opinions on this as where I stand is often in contrast to established left/right tribes.

-- edit

I've seen this comment go up/down several times already, kind of making the point.
I feel like people are just listing generically good ideas for social atmosphere, but to me an entire collection of those things does not amount to health -- things like warmth, empathy, forgiveness, etc.

One of the things I notice about Hacker News is that it wants things. It wants all sorts of things. There's clash but there's also recognizable consensus on want. What I also see is that HN won't get what they want, and I don't believe they're any closer to effectively organizing to get what they want, whether it's unions or racially fair hiring or a different scheme in how money works.

HN is not effective, and that is why I view them as unhealthy. HN wants things and it shall not have them. You can put warmth and love in that package, but it's still impotent.
Google is helping small businesses by providing Ad credits? Of all things a small business may need, Google thinks Ads are the solution? The response to this crisis has my cynicism and disdain for our system growing every day.
Favorite line from the article:
"In terms of those who retested positive, the official party line is that they have not been proven to be infectious. That is not the same as saying they are not infectious," one of the Wuhan doctors who tested positive twice told NPR [...] "If they really are not infectious," the doctor said, "then there would be no need to take them back to the hospitals again."

So why are the asymptomatic cases required to quarantine under medical observation for 14 days but not counted?
Here's my anecdote: I've lived in three different countries in my life and, despite seeing a doctor when needed, I have never even so much as seen a medical bill in any of them, let alone had to pay one.
http://archive.is/tfWyx
Reddit is much more social. What I mean is people just post whatever whenever, and a lot of times it's bullshit. You wouldn't know unless you're knowledgeable about that topic/domain, and even then actual experts can be downvoted if what they say goes against that subreddit's hivemind. Each subreddit has a hivemind that you need to be aware of. The few exceptions are subreddits that are moderated with an iron fist: /r/AskHistorians, and to a lesser degree, /r/neutralpolitics. I think everyone being anonymous is a big factor. Source: I've used reddit under various anonymous handles since 2012.

I've only been using HN for ~3 years now (lurking, mostly) but I've noticed that a lot more people use their real names and identities. I would think that helps towards not spouting bullshit without resources. (but controversial threads, e.g. highly political ones, tend to throw that out the window). Lobste.rs has the concept of "hats" that are given to specific people, and they can wear them to answer something in a specific capacity. [0] I wish HN had something like that. HN is moderated enough that I think a system like that could work.

Other things about HN:

1) There are no thumbnails or image links, just links to articles or similar. Reddit suffers from images being allowed, because images take a few seconds to process and upvote, versus a longer article. Reddit is very good for sharing memes and cat pictures, but not so good for lengthy articles. Tild.es [1] is how reddit would be if it were text only (and orders of magnitude smaller). Picture and joke/meme replies also completely derail threads.

2) HN is highly focused and consistently moderated (in my opinion). At times more controversial discussion happens with political news, but it generally is focused on business / research / technology news, etc. Reddit is a mishmash of subreddits and each one is moderated differently (usually very minimally).

With HN's culture I usually feel no need to comment on something unless I have experience with that or it's something I'm interested in.

[0]: https://lobste.rs/hats

[1]: https://tildes.net/