skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I opened this to see what "non-toy instance" might refer to. It does have a lot of videos. But the highest view count is just shy of 700, and of the hundreds of videos, only maybe a half-dozen have three-digit view counts. It seems like new videos are averaging <10 views. The same videos on YouTube seem to be averaging 6k-10k and the equivalent to the 700 view video has over 7 million views on YouTube.

I don't know what the threshold for "toy" versus "non-toy" is in terms of seriousness, but I do know that I uploaded a video for a professor of mine 5 or 6 years ago, it's a 20 minute video of an unimportant speech he gave with bad audio and it is not SEOed at all (no real search terms attached to it) and it has more views than the highest viewcount video on the instance.

I see one of two possible interpretations: The first is that given that you choose to upload to both YouTube and a PeerTube instance, no one will watch the PeerTube instance. So PeerTube is just an emergency hedge against something going south on YouTube. Insurance is good, but the premiums in terms of time might be a little high.

The second is that it's possible some of those YouTube people wouldn't watch the videos on PeerTube even if they were removed from YouTube. That's a harder problem to solve.

I guess I don't intend to undermine the nobility of the effort, just a natural skeptic when it comes to the feasibility of it going anywhere.
Posting like this breaks the site guidelines. Would you please read them? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

One reason that guideline exists is that unfair downvotes frequently get canceled by users who come along, see the situation, and make a corrective upvote. Meanwhile complaints like this linger on in the thread, inaccurate and off-topic—they don't garbage-collect themselves. As an example, I noticed your other comment and upvoted it before I saw this comment here. Similarly, other users have upvoted the GP.

As with any stochastic process, there is a lot of error and spillage with downvotes. There's no way to perfect it; you have to ask whether the system is better off with it than without it. Forcing comments wouldn't help, and posting complaints certainly doesn't help.
I would like to share my view as of an author of a JS UI framework. It largely depends on the project, but sometimes it can be very difficult to integrate many libraries to play nicely together. To build an admin web application with some data entry, a developer would need a set of standard widgets like inputs and menus, a nice data table implementation, form validation engine, a router and a state management library. For more serious applications charts may also be needed, multi-lingual support and some advanced widgets like maps, html editor, calendar, or diagrams. If each of those is a separate library with separate rules for styling, state management, selection, number and date formatting, context menus, tooltips, the project quickly becomes very very complex. If all things are integrated into a framework you get a sane development experience. There are always some sacrifices and some features may be missing, but frameworks usually cover 80-90% of all requirements. The problem is that requirements change and frameworks usually have hard time to catch up and preserve backward compatibility.
I don't understand the issue at all. Never in my life have I ever used @gmail.com email address, and never have I experienced even the slightest inconvenience caused by that decision.
Precious valuelessness: on the negative oil prices
Totally agree with your point, my comment was lacking the fact that I also have a very privileged upbringing compared to many Americans. I wasn't trying to speak down, but laterally. Tone is hard to convey online, but I can do better. :)
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That's not the only issue. Taking away the political content entirely, storing up all your greivances and airing them in a single document intended to attack the entire purpose of other teams was a stupid thing to do. I've seen people do the same thing with technical issues and it's just totally counter-productive.
Thanks, I'll have a look, sorry for the late reply
If you don’t care about the context the memo was written in you are just engaging in what I described. Essentially trying to veneer your preconceptions with the appearance of “science” and attempting to shift the burden of proof.
Loved this post!
Elon Musk says Tesla will sue 'irrational' Alameda County, relocate headquarters
That being OSS guarantees higher quality and safety than proprietary software, because unlike with proprietary software "with enough eyes all bugs are shallow, and anyone can fork or contribute."

The reality is popularity and budget are more relevant than licensing in that regard.
I have to mention, I do love how this looks! I'd be looking in using it as my daily driver for quick / short text edits and maybe small projects!

Since I really like the looks of it, in case you do need help with keeping it maintained, I would love to help! Feel free to contact me at contact@taigi100.com

Good luck and I hope it all goes well with this text editor!
> I disagree, I think people underestimate the social cost of uprooting your life, leaving all of your friends and families, and moving into an area that often has beliefs counter to your own

You mean how a lot of people do to move to SV in the first place?
I can't understand the amount of intrigue surrounding this. It's not some kind of mysterious alien pathogen; there are 6 other coronaviruses that infect humans, and hundreds that infect other animals. There have been numerous outbreaks in the past 20 years. They're very well researched. Still, I'm not holding my breath for a vaccine since these other diseases, like SARS and MERS, are several orders of magnitude more letha.

> some significant percentage of the population is going to have a negative impact

Is there any evidence at all that this is some kind of feature of this disease? It's even starting to look like most people who become infected never even develop the associated disease.
I've spent a lot of my career thinking about this and bouncing between low-paying and high-paying jobs. In the end, it's hard to ignore the fact that society as a whole is "commanding" us to work at the highest-paying jobs available to us (keeping in mind that some remuneration is non-monetary).

I respect people who take low-paying jobs when they don't have to. In many ways, they're donating money to society, and that's pretty damn cool of them to be doing it.
Respectfully, these are just your suppositions, unless you have some evidence to the contrary. In every case I cited, there is no scientific consensus about what’s actually happening.

I’m not sure why people can’t seem to fathom that we are still very early in our understanding and experience of this disease, no matter how dramatic its consequences thus far. There’s no way to accelerate things through false confidence or other forms of denialism.
On a small project of mine this sped up tests from about 10 seconds to 4 seconds. At work it sped up our suite from about 8 minutes to 4 minutes.

Both suites are almost exclusively component tests, with relatively complex components. Ymmv.
> We have very good data on outcomes

Not long-term outcomes. (And even short-term our data is not "very good" because we still have no idea what the actual infection rate is.)
But all three of those IDW people you cite are Jewish! It's no surprise they wouldn't support BDS.
A combination of animal studies, observation of recovered patients, and some studies directly on the antibodies recovered patients produce. In the US at least, public health authorities have consistently said from the start that there's substantial long-lasting immunity.
I seem to find myself in the minority, but I don't think distill.pub is a particularly ideal model for publicizing research.

distill.pub heavily favors fancy and interactive visualization over actually meaningful research content. This is not to say that the research publicized on distill.pub is not meaningful, but that it is biased to research that can have fancy visualizations. So you end up seeing a lot of tweakable plots, image-augmentations, and attention weights visualizations. It is also further biased towards research groups that have the resources to create a range of D3 plots with sliders, carved out of actual research time.

For instance, I don't think BERT could ever make it into a distill.pub post. Despite completely upending the NLP field over the last 2 years, it has no fancy plots, multi-headed self-attention is too messy to visualize, and its setup is dead simple. You could maybe have one gif explaining how masked language modeling works. The best presentation of the significance of BERT is "here is a table of results showing BERT handily beating every other hand-tweaked implementation for every non-generation NLP task we could find with a dead-simple fine-tuning regime, and all it had was masked language modeling."

To give another exmaple: I think it's one of the reasons why a lot of junior researchers spend time trying to extract structure from attention and self-attention mechanisms. As someone who's spent some time looking into this topic, you'll find a ton of one-off analysis papers, and next to no insights that actually inform the field (other than super-trivial observations like "tokens tend to attend to themselves and adjacent tokens).
This is a cool ask HN. Here are some things I do for frontend programming.

Things I like to use:

- org-mode for structured note taking (debug sessions, wip tasks, architecture, rubber ducking, other team details, scratch buffer is like a giant clipboard manager, used to use notes for tracking time on tasks and starting + ending the day too but now only do if there's a crunch)

- isolated testing envs where I can test apps

- automated e2e tests via Sauce Labs + WebDriver with emails for catching regressions

- adding APM tools like email alerts when prod goes funky

- quokka + wallaby.js + personal development setup for interactive programming (yes proprietary but super helpful)

- personal scripts for automating work (little stuff like: run triage steps while debugging, control tools that have bad UIs, add git hooks so I don't do as much dumb stuff, etc.)

- using code formatting like prettier, stylelint, eslint (other teams contribute code to us so breaking their work locally saves us time in the PR later)

- pay attention to where you get stuck, optimize

- pay attention to what you burn large amounts of time on, optimize

- lots of little debugging things like look for adjacent problems after finding a new issue (9 debugging rules book is a good starter)

- thinking about Rich Hickey talks (lol)

- get unstructured time everyday to just hang out with other developers on your team and talk about issues or new tools to try out (favorite part of my work). Other people are really smart and come up with good ideas!

Things I want to get:

- source maps for all frontend scripts pulled in only for my browser, works for all envs at work

- full source code search across the company at work (large group, thousands of projects)

- automated a11y and performance tests to catch regressions early

- automating small code changes across hundreds of projects

- somehow get rid of webpack's complexity (pipe dream, yeah right)

Edit: list formatting whitespace
That's a good point that we are experiencing exceptional circumstances. Many people can't handle being home this long on their own, children aside. However the zoo, playgrounds, museums, play dates and family are all systems for offloading the burden of one's children onto something external.
> Personally, I don't want to live in a country where unelected officials can unilaterally make decisions that shut down the economy and kill my business and life's work.

Same, but I also wouldn't want to live in a county whose officials are afraid to make decisions that are in the best interest of the people's health out of fear of the wrath of a billionaire and his followers.

If he wants to move the plant I have no problem with that, it's the way he's trying to use his position for outsized political pressure that I dislike.
If you value your time like that you might as well sleep 2h less and earn 400$ every night.

This is not a fair comparison because there are a lot of benefits of troubleshooting, most of them intangible. If you don't like it fine, just get a Linux "certified" laptop or a Mac.
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That's essentially the point I'm trying to make. People have only survived in prior times because they pay people to handle their children, in some form.
Ha right this is very meme worthy and often repeated here. Facebook has 10K engineers working on a site and all of that effort is wasted and represents a huge failure of effort.

Same thing for Twitter and all these other social media sites. How does Google have so many engineers yet so many failed products? It’s a narrow perspective to take on and a wrong one.

Actually the division of labour at large companies is impressive and it becomes apparent if you look at the amount of actual output from them.

These FAANG companies aren’t just building websites. They are managing larges amounts of complex infrastructure, because scaling the amount of engineers a company can have requires it.

They are designing incredibly complex products. Apple’s products are descriptively simple and don’t represent the amount of work required to get there.

They are maintaining and insane amount of code and ensuring it works reliably. It’s easy to point at the one day with the Google Maps SDK failure or the Facebook SDK failure while forgetting the many days there wasn’t one.

Lately they are investing in privacy and security, which is another huge effort that I think the public underestimates. It’s easy to ensure data is deleted in a database, but it’s a completely different problem to ensure that data is deleted across all your infrastructure and to ensure it stays that way while teams rapidly develop software.

Startups and smaller companies can compete with large behemoths because they are only focusing on one or two things (or should be). But when you focus on one thing you lose sight of how hard it is to focus on one thousand things.
Sidewalk Labs won’t be the last to play the coronavirus card
...built on extremely unethical grounds. 10000 engineers working on it are the symptom, not the cause.
What is it with people insisting on using something other than C? You don't know what I'm working on, yet you're insisting I operate completely differently?

It's so weird to me.
They to be about $25 and now they’re about 70, Thanks to price gouging
It's hard to put a concrete number on how long immunity lasts, because immunity isn't a binary process. All the experts I've seen discuss the issue have said we can expect recovered people won't catch it again this calendar year.
A good next study would to see if the study participants' decline reversed after being removed from the drugs.
> An engaged electorate [...] will probably get a highly effective - though perhaps mildly sociopathic - government.

> An apathetic electorate [...], well...

...will get a ineffective and massively sociopathic government.
A simple example:
"On the current political climate, political platforms are being built around being "anti-pc". With the past evidence we have about astroturfing campaigns it's possible that there are some paid posters even here on HN peddling political right wing propaganda."

I'm not saying anything false, but you can clearly see that this is not only a bad faith argument, but actually poisons the discussion, and still it can be argued that indeed we need to be wary about astroturfing and social network manipulations.

I wouldn't have fired Damore, but let's not kid ourselves by saying "we're simply stating facts". Mainly because that's not really the conversation, the tacit implication of "minorities who almost passed the bar", but letting them in anyway, is that the "bar" might be wrong, and that the company might be getting more results with this kind of hires than just measuring "mad hack skillz". Damore rightly points out that "without evidence this is just veiled (left) ideology" the point where he misses is that there has been at least attempts to get this evidence, we can discuss the results and even if they're valid (reproducibility crisis), but Damore just plain ignore's it. The only extension he has to offer about this point is:
"[7] Communism promised to be both morally and economically superior to capitalism, but every attempt became morally corrupt and an economic failure. As it became clear that the working class of the liberal democracies wasn’t going to overthrow their “capitalist oppressors,” the Marxist intellectuals transitioned from class warfare to gender and race politics. The core oppressor-oppressed dynamics remained, but now the oppressor is the “white, straight, cis-gendered patriarchy.”" which is just bullshit by the account of anyone who knows the basics and history of marxism or social science. So these are not even "facts", but youtube tier analysis.
> Scientifically, there is very little, if anything, that differs between a man and woman performing a job in tech.

Thst wasn't the argument made. The argument wasn't about job performance, but job preference.
In the past, division has been over real issues. Today its over nothing.
As rossdavidh correctly pointed out, if we don't get a vaccine soon (which we probably won't), then herd immunity is virtually the only way out anyway. Even if it turns out there are long term health problems, that doesn't really change that calculus. Very few people can completely isolate themselves indefinitely (remember, the virus doesn't just magically not spread in supermarkets), and if everyone did that, most of us would starve and the few who didn't starve would inherit a post-civilization ruin.
Some friends and I took a holiday to NYC a few years ago, calling it "Project Königsberg" as we attempted to travel all public transport entry and exits to Manhattan without duplication, over the course of 3 days. I was glad not to be involved in its planning, but very happy to participate!
I got thrown out for counting once, I was in Biloxi MS. The manager struck up a conversation with another player while he was watching me. The count was really high, I made a huge bet and he went ballistic. He was cursing and telling me to never come back and that he was sending my picture to all the other casinos. The other players were shocked, especially the guy he was talking to. I said this is how they treat people that know how to play. 2 securities guards followed me to cash out and to my car. one of them looked like jeff Foxworthy. I was planning to go back in a disguise but the next week Katrina came and completely destroyed the place.
Related from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19684342
You've missed what his comment was about, it's not that the things vs people dichotomy doesn't exist. It's that it has no relation to engineering. Architecture is just as much things over people as engineering, Architecture is balaanced, engineering isn't. The problem is that in reality, you can do engineering from a people first approach or from a things first approach, and in reality, only one of those approaches will get you through university and into Google.
What's the difference between price gouging and price increases due to shortages?
Both AWS and GCP excel over Azure. Many organizations are strong armed into using Azure as part of their Enterprise Agreements (EA) as part of Microsoft's predatory tactics (they haven't changed one bit) I couldn't imagine someone choosing to use Azure if given a choice.
In case it wasn't clear I don't actually think DV is the fundamentally the consequence of the victims action.
> I've reviewed for high-status journals have said explicitly in instructions to reviewers (and I'm only weakly paraphrasing) "don't evaluate the methodological integrity or integrity of the conclusions, only evaluate how popular this is likely to be."

(Academic mathematician here)

I'm curious, how do they get away with this?

In mathematics, it's common and perfectly acceptable to turn down requests to review a paper. (You're not supposed to turn down all of them.) When I've done so, because I've already taken on too many reviewing assignments at one time, I've never gotten pushback from journal editors.

If some journal editor asked me to review a paper, and gave me instructions along the lines that you described, then I'd just tell them "I'm very sorry, but I'm unusually busy at the moment."
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Yep. The only time you can join a table mid-game at most casinos is at tables you wouldn’t want to join anyways: $5-15 minimum bets (important because the lower the minimum bet, the lower the spread you can bet before check play gets called), unfavorable rules (no surrender, no double after split, etc) and a large number of decks.
Really cool project! At what point in the development did you start to use lite as your editor to develop it? I'm sure that was a fun milestone to hit.
IANAL and just asking.
Assuming the Casino sits on private land, I guess they can handcuff you if they “think” you are a danger to their property and that measure is “adequate”.
Very impressive.

Font Rendering does not seem to be as crisp as needed for a text editor. (on Windows at least)

I know Sublime is using DirectWrite to render fonts on Win32, this might be something to explore. Also, TrueType with subpixel antialiasing should give good results but might need some tweaking.

I'll follow this project and I might use it as my main editor once it is more mature :)
This is not in anyway true and I’m not sure why you’re suggesting it is. Dr. Deborah Birx has said expressly that we don’t know the duration of immunity and initial reviews suggest immunity might not last as long as we’d hoped:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/27/1000569/how-long...
I remember aluminum and particularly aluminum hydroxide as a heartburn drug was linked to dementia before. Nothing happened, because proofing causation seems close too impossible ruling out other confounders. I wonder without understanding all of the reasoning if this is any different? Can you prove sth. without an intervention?
We are talking specifically about the front-end, it was already successful in 2012 with basic AJAX and vanilla JS.
Ha, to encourage more reading, naturally! But I'll bite, and flesh out the premise a little more - like the Uber example, in Manna the story begins with software being used to micromanage the employees in fast food joints, through their headsets. It tracks their locations, and walks them through the steps of doing any tasks it predicts will require attention wherever they happen to be - in the restroom? Does the trash need to be emptied y/n? If yes, step one, remove bag and tie closed... etc. Making robots capable of doing all those different tasks would be hard, but making a system to tell low-paid humans to do them is not so difficult.
Most games except adventures and text adventures have a worse script (lit wise) than any average episode of X-Files/The Outer Limits and so on.

Heck, Half Life looks like a -mediocre- episode of The Outer Limits.
If one assumes that the beam feeding the drone is not a cylinder, but more of a cone with a Gaussian profile, then technology could get built which detects the source and the target of the beam. So no matter how much you stealth the drone, you'd have to deal with that new problem.
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As I've discussed elsewhere, there is indeed evidence to the contrary.

There's also no way to decelerate things through false humility. We're in an urgent crisis, so we must make decisions now based on whatever evidence is available; there's no position of safety we can retreat to while waiting to learn more.