skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been on Reddit for 5+ years now, and agree that it seems to have gotten worse over this period.

Do you think that the removal of the downvote capability solves this problem? What solutions are available?

I think the main issue is that Reddit has become more mainstream. My theory is that when a new website like reddit is created, the early adopters are typically more open-minded people by their very nature. Later as the platform is recognized as successful, the mainstream population joins. These mainstream users, less likely on average to accept new ideas than the initial early-adopter user base, then begins to drag the discussion into group-think.

My most pronounced experience with this phenomenon was with r/wallstreetbets. In the early days, it was actually a very interesting and unique community with rapidly evolving conversations. With the mass influx of new users in 2018 and 2019, the comment sections slowly shifted into parroting of the subs common phrases and group think. Now in 2020, you can almost predict the comment sections before you open it up.

Perhaps due to its lack of promotion and UI, HN has been more resistant to this shift, but is not immune.

My personal solution to this problem is to keep jumping to new platforms if an old one becomes too bias. When my favorite subreddits start hitting r/all, I begin looking for new ones that follow the same topics.
I understand that's the reason they give. I just don't believe them. At some point you have to assume good faith. Maybe that point is when the item in question has over a million users and a good rating.
It's weird how the sense is community that existed on forums just doesn't exist on Reddit. You just don't have the same connection to the other posters that you would on tight knit forums. You might as well not even have usernames.

It's a bit different on smaller, more focused subreddits, but not by much.

I used to think that Reddit was a better place to be than Twitter or Facebook, but now I'm not so sure. I've definitely had a harder time cutting it out of my life than those other two, even though I think it's had a pretty bad effect on my mental health.
Man, I just read through the memoir (it's a pretty engrossing read) and it's a ride. I really want a sequel though. Why/how did he end up back in academia? What do the other parties, e.g. Dawson, Margo, etc. think of these recollections? How far has he shifted his research? How different is it now that data science is such a pronounced field? I definitely feel like his tools anticipated stuff like Docker and data science tooling. Maybe he would have had better success in industry with these ideas.
Paralegal with U.S. Attorney's Office accused of tipping off Mexican drug cartel
Do parentheses make text invisible on this forum?
>The reasoning presented in this thread is pretty representative of the thought processes Damore laid out in his memo.

Logical, rational, built from facts. The thought process used by a Harvard grad, MIT research scientist.

>Which is pretty indicative of why he was fired.

"They hated him because he told the truth."
> Does the Bill of Rights give the police the right to arrest you for driving drunk?

Yes, actually. The Tenth Amendment does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_power_(United_States_co...

> In United States constitutional law, police power is the capacity of the states to regulate behavior and enforce order within their territory for the betterment of the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of their inhabitants.[1] Police power is defined in each jurisdiction by the legislative body, which determines the public purposes that need to be served by legislation.[2] Under the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the powers not delegated to the Federal Government are reserved to the states or to the people.
*> government can compel behavior for public health crises

You do recognize the difference between "government, acting according to established procedures with proper involvement by all branches of government" and "one single person, acting on emergency authority that was never intended to last this long", right?
That's the big question, isn't it? Obviously every mobile game is going to benefit from it, because it will save battery life. The greatest question related to this for me is how many games that couldn't be easily made before are now doable? I imagine that Total War style games will be much easier to make with Unity.
I am happy to see Deno v1.0 is out now. I like the ES modules support, TS first approach, top level async/await, etc. It compiles and caches the TS files, don't need additional setup to support TS right away.
I am not sure about not using the package.json though, I kinda like it as it is the central point to manage all dependencies in NodeJS projects.

Looking forward to playing with it more.
Yes. You are right. Vdom is useless.
Oh, ok. In my case some of my servers are over 20 years old, though I run less critical services on them. My newest machines is about 4 months old. My buddy in the rack next to me is a few servers from the same batch as my 20 year old ones. Obviously the most critical stuff runs on the newest hardware but when you’ve had a machine running uninterrupted for a decade or so why mess with it? Annualized cap ex + the op ex is negligible at this point.

As personal servers of course “critical“ is pretty idiosyncratic, though I have used them to start and host various companies overnthe years until it was worth giving them their “own” hardware and identity.

I admit the age of managing a rack full of servers in a colo has largely passed.
Those "people" are effectively corporations. They make their money off reddit.
The point is to consciously undo bad habits and build new, healthier ones, so that you don't need to think about it.
What are the other platforms you mention?
Idk if it's just me, but I feel that even r/geopolitics has begun to slide in the last few months.

Mods are typically great though. They seem to try very hard to keep the discussion academic.
Key export can be done out of band technically. Doesn’t even have to be through API requests from app.
One fun way to evaluate potential applicants for working on a C/C++/Fortran compiler backend is to ask them about Fortran. If they say that they appreciate how it makes it easier to optimize things, then you're probably talking to an experienced engineer.
How did they "grossly violate legal precedent?" Nobody challenged the governor's order, they challenged the authority of the health services secretary to extend the order. Conservative judicial interpretation of the constitution is that power not explicitly granted by congress is not lawful. Even though I'm not a conservative, I'm glad that opinion won.
It’s not your personal data. It’s Google’s log of requests made to and carried out by Google’s servers. It’s not covered by the literal text of the fourth amendment—which, as you correctly paraphrased, applies to one’s own person and property. The fourth amendment was also never understood at the time it was written to apply to third party business records, which is what your search history is. (While we didn’t have search engines in 1789, we had all sorts of commercial businesses, from banks to accountants to merchants, who kept sensitive customer records. Indeed, for at least 400 years, such records have been obtainable in civil suits with just a subpoena.)

I think it would be a good idea to require a warrant in such cases. But it’s not a 4th amendment issue.
I did Ruby since 2011, and tried Elixir in December 2019. I really hated the verbose syntax compared to Ruby, which has a comparatively simple syntax. The next thing I hated in Elixir was the boiler plate for GenServers and having to deal with pids and named processes. However, this weekend, I rewrote about 2k lines of sloppy elixir that I hastily copy pasted, and condensed it down to around 700-800 lines in a few hours with barely any effort. It was easy because it's just functions calling functions. I guess I'm kind of a believer now. Besides that, Phoenix channels are very performant, which makes me think I might switch from Ruby to Phoenix permanently.

Try sticking through it.
> Those are all correlated with my race, but there are also white people who lack them.

No true Scotsman again. The counter examples do not negate the overwhelming influence of the causes to which the trend is attributed.
Now that you mention it, it does sound like an adversarial network!
> When our actions can harm others, the government absolutely has the right—and the obligation—to step in.

No. When our actions have harmed others, then the government has the right to step in--because we delegated that power to them.

But the government does not have the right to step in just because some government official things our actions "can" harm others. That's not their call to make. We are adult human beings and don't need keepers or nannies. We make our own choices, and if those choices do harm others, we take the consequences. But if they don't, the government needs to leave us alone.
I appreciate the correct use of travesty.
(and I agree with all of your points.)
But I wouldn't be preemptively barred from turning my burner on in the first place, which is my point.
Not OP but hackernews has been kind of my alternative. Think I've been spending too much time here as of late..
This is a really neat discovery. For those in the western US there is a pretty accessible sauropod trackway in Grand Staircase National Monument at a place called Twenty Mile Wash that is well worth checking out.
something similar to [0]. a little example of breaking work into small pieces (without schedule estimates) is here [1].

0. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10/26/evidence-based-sch...

1. https://github.com/andy-goryachev/PasswordSafe/blob/master/F...
Are you sure you aren't being polluted by this article? https://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html

> Besides, the determined Real Programmer can write Fortran programs in any language.
I'm not sure I get your point, yes that permission was overreaching but they fixed that and were still rejected and left in limbo without Google's system giving them enough specific information to reliably mitigate whatever it is the system did not like.
I have the opposite problem I can sit and focus for hours and hours this causes me health issues as sometimes I forget to take care of myself
Do they e.g. stop you from transferring it to a new wallet, and then to a forbidden address? or rather, how many edges does the money have to traverse before it's no longer under their monitoring?
I think a part of this is how forum members tend to populate avatar/signature/location/etc and the interface shows it prominently. On reddit you just see a username and occasionally some flair, so you rarely even realize that what you're reading was written by someone you've read from before.
Yes it ought to. Unfortunately the current logic seems to be (approximately) that by voluntarily using a third party system the data is no longer your personal property.

The obvious issue with this is that (for example) it seems to treat a Google Docs spreadsheet differently than one stored locally. The way the law is currently worded simply isn't sufficient (IMO) now that the internet exists.
I'm not following this comment. Is it because the intersectionality of players includes lower-income people, children, and those struggling with addiction?
I agree that this likely wouldn't have passed even with Bernie since McConnell can easily whip a vote to switch.

That being said, this puts Bernie's incompetence at politicking in the spotlight. Any half decent politician would've been able to deflect, Murray is a perfect example of how easy it is.
Have you tried telling the salesperson?
/r/EthTrader tried this with Donuts a while ago and it led to a community split to /r/EthFinance from all of the drama. Adding a monetary reward for comments and posts really skews the incentives of the community members who choose to participate. When you tie things like this to governance (your coins affect your vote weight on the polls) it really creates a perverse incentive for commercial products to come in and create astroturfing content to farm coins.

I think this is a neat experiment and it will be fun to watch what happens but I'm skeptical that this moves the subreddits in a positive direction.
Why are you lying about this? Do you have an agenda?
are you saying “login screen exposed to web means it’s compromised”
The VP would never even vote in an override.

51 is the minimum for a Senate quorum [1] (the VP isn't a member and wouldn't count) and you need 2/3s of members present after the Senate is quorate to vote for an override. The vote itself has to be quorate since it will require a roll call to establish the count. There are a lot of procedural rules+hurdles. You don't just need 2/3s of 100.

[1] https://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/quorum.htm
It's the wrong word then. The etymology of privilege:

Middle English: via Old French from Latin privilegium ‘bill or law affecting an individual’, from privus ‘private’ + lex, leg- ‘law’.

In fact, in France privilèges have been abolished during the revolution.
And it's not just the wrong word, it's kind of opposite; privilege generally meant the benefit of a minority, but here it's used to describe when the majority benefits, because they are the majority.
Explaining Solutions to Physical Reasoning Tasks Using AI
Hard to quantify, but neither Firefox nor Chrome were compromised at Pwn2Own this year. The sandbox architectures are very similar now. Chrome's still ahead in having a slightly tighter sandbox and already shipping process-per-site, while Mozilla is working hard to catch up on those. Firefox gets a slight advantage from using Rust in some places instead of C++. I'd say Firefox security is still behind Chrome but in practice not by "a lot".
> We won't recover until 2022

Even if the lockdowns in the US ended today, there won't be a recovery for at least 2 generations.

Although the FAANG companies can weather a lockdown, virtually no other businesses can shutdown while still paying rent without bankruptcy.

For those unfamiliar with business, here's some examples of the slim margins and huge overheads outside the FAANG bubble:

- Major grocery stores typically make 1% of gross. One percent.

- Large car dealerships typically employ 500 people and finance their "floorplan" (inventory) with short-term loans.

- Large restaurants typically have 100 staff.

When you throw a wrench into their cash flow, those owners decide maybe the time is right for retirement.

A similar thing happens in the accounting field.

Periodically the IRS makes major changes, and the older generation of accountants says "enough", and moves to Florida.
Does this work with HDCP?
> Fred Brooks and Jerry Weinberg pretty much nailed down all the essential issues in IT project and personnel management more than 30 years ago; yet, amazingly, the problems haven’t all gone away! There is a profound lack of professional and institutional memory in IT;

Brooks also used his analysis to give a solution -- which (AFAICT) nobody has ever implemented. The problem isn't lack of 'memory'. His ideas weren't adopted even when they were new. It's amazing that after 45 years we're still pointing to this book as a must-read which correctly explained the problems of our industry, yet managers universally ignore the chapters which explain what to do instead. I don't see that happening in other fields.

> almost everyone who writes about IT project/personnel management (myself included) is looking for new ways to cast or explain the core issues in a touching hope that maybe this time someone will actually listen and fix them.

Good luck with that. Brooks' book is sitting on every manager's desk in the world, and he couldn't get them to read and follow it. Another blog isn't going to help. Things are only going to change when the industry has a "come-to-Jesus moment" -- like if software starts killing people and the government steps in and says "hey maybe you should all be required to adopt NASA's methodologies".
There's something about having a public political decision that turns it into combat in front of an audience instead of a collaboration between two partners trying to better their situation.
Being good to yourself doesn't have to be a priority list. It can be more like a jigsaw puzzle. It doesn't matter where you start.
> If people are actually going to make an effort to kick people out to cement their position

If the only reason is to cement their position then sure, but there are good reasons to limit the number of admins. The more admins, the more attack vectors for serious social engineering, the harder change control is, the longer meetings go for, the harder it is to make necessary change, etc. etc.

I think if somebody cares enough to become an admin and shows they care about the users then I don't mind them getting a power trip out of it. It's the "admins" that got there because they know the boss, or because they convinced somebody they should have access because their job-title entitles them to it that you need to look out for.
A plausible plan for actually solving the root problem, namely a realistic strategy for mass testing, contact tracing, and non-voluntary quarantine; or a functional vaccine. Right now we have neither, so getting people back out simply puts us back into the same situation we were in before initiating the lockdown.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescr...

Edit: Apparently the functionality already exists as of 3.7. The update in 3.9 was to add it to ternary operations as well
> The government has the right to require your children to have vaccines before they go to school

Only if the school is run by the government. The government has no right to enforce vaccination on children who go to private schools or are home schooled.

In other words, the government's right in this case stems from owning the school, not from a general right to micromanage every aspect of people's lives.

> The government has the right to create anti-smoking laws

No, it doesn't. It was allowed to pass such laws because smokers had become obnoxious enough in insisting on their "right" to smoke everywhere (which didn't used to be the case--houses and other places once had special rooms for smoking, precisely because smokers had enough manners not to obtrude their activities on non-smokers) that non-smokers picked the lesser of two evils and allowed the government to overreach its power rather than have practically all public spaces be unlivable.
That's like when I keep saying "pharmacist" when I call Walgreens to get a prescription filled.
That link insists I install the app. I like switching between browser tabs, not apps.
As I understand it, "privilege" has nothing to do with income metrics and what have you. Privilege means that you can assume that society and all its mechanisms will work in your favor. Privilege means that if something horribly unfair happens to you, you can shout about it, and people will listen. Lacking privilege means that, when you shout about it, society will tell you to STFU. Having privilege means you can forget about having privilege. Lacking privilege means you need to constantly worry about losing it.

The reason that a majority of people in a country can be privileged is that, as the majority, they can forget that the minority exists. They can forget that they are the majority.

The minority can never, ever forget that they are the minority.
1 in 400 New Yorkers have died from this in the past 2 months. The flu doesn’t do that.
This is just backwards.

People in power should always have to justify their actions to us. Always. They should always be questioned. This (in theory) is how we ensure their power isn’t abused.

We should have privacy while they do not. A lack of privacy should be a cost to the power they’re entrusted with.

If it’s legal for them to sift through our lives while they refuse to be questioned, and they act insulted that we dare question their actions, we have gone off the rails.
"guts" meant the XUL implementing the Firefox UI. tialaramex is absolutely right about that, extensions had total access to that XUL/JS state, which is why changes to the Firefox UI inevitably broke extensions.
Decided to try it out and test what my last name would mean.

- Kandil

1. a member of a lower class.

"a Kandil priest might have been a man of the lowest class"

I am not sure what to feel
Nice, I deno about this.
I've never used npm or developed any javascript before but it sounds equally horrible.

Not decoupling the source of the package (i.e., the location of the repository whether it is on remote or local) and its usage in the language is a terrible idea.

from foo import bar
# foo should not be a URL. It should just be an identifier.
# The location of the library should not be mangled up in the code base.

Are we gonna search replace URL strings in the entire codebase because the source changed? Can someone tell me what is the upside of this approach because I cannot see a single one but many downsides.
> The purpose of the legislative representatives is to make judgement calls about which things have enough potential harm to warrant restriction.

That's what they currently claim, but it's not what they're supposed to be doing. We made a huge mistake when we allowed the government to morph from "enforce the minimum basic rules that are necessary to have a civil society" to "solve everything that anyone thinks is a problem".
Eh, not everything has to measured by how much money you accumulated.
When you think about it, it's like the phenomenon where cool places to travel get publicized in glossy magazines and turn into crowded tourist traps.
It created a hugely fractured open source ecosystem as well.
Study: Only 5% of Spanish Population has Covid-19 Antibodies [pdf]
... but you created the same No True Scotsman in the inverse, up thread?

Your definition of "white privilege" assumes a complete homogeneity of experience that is absolutely not the case. Do you actually believe that all white people experience life in the exact way you described?
I think his "incompetence at politicking" is what draws a lot of people to him (since he comes off as much more genuine and real), however it's a "live by the sword, die by the sword" situation. There have been a frustrating number of times where I felt a simple tweet could have saved a lot of bad optics.
Yeah, I think that's a big part of it. I think the other part is that discussions don't live for longer than a day or two. Things fall off the page and everyone moves on to the next posts. (Same deal here on HN of course.) With forums, you have long living threads where you engage in discussions with the same people for months or even years.
Why does this happen?
I just read the first half of it, and want to ditto how engrossing of a read it is.

I followed the path in his prologue: a BS/MS student with a lot of internships, which were mostly uninspiring but less uninspiring than school. Always vaguely disappointed that problems weren't "big" or "intellectual" enough (something I kind of look back on in shame). However, I took a different turn by getting very "in" to the engineering part of software in my last two years.

This led me to being purposefully selective with my last internship and eventual job search (optimizing for hard problems, interesting business models, and OSS/mature infrastructure), and I ended up very happily in industry, satisfying my intellectual curiosity at work and on the side.

And yet, I have always wondered what it would have been like to be a PhD student instead. From this narrative, it sounds very similar to being a junior engineer: you don't really know what's going on, and you're dependent on the graciousness and good will of more senior people to point you in the right direction, until you can build a compass of your own.

Thank you very much for this link, it's like gazing into another branch of the universe for me.