skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the site is designed to prioritize the content of a comment more than the identity of its author.

The site design is similar to HN on this front. I think that it is culture that separates the two instead.

> as comments become upvoted or downvoted based only on what's in that specific comment

This is desirable imo. It should not matter who makes a post but rather the quality of the post itself.

Regardless, I think that groupthink is an inherent problem of upvoting/downvoting and that this is the main cause of it. The best system that I have seen so far is the one that slashdot and its clones use.

> and not the overall identity of the author

This instead leads to personality cults, where for example tptacek's comment will get to the top regardless of its contents and bury superior comments by "irrelevant" users. Plus it is not like groupthink does not exist in HN either.

> it would be like starting an entirely new conversation with every single person you meet

I do not see what you mean by that. Repeating the same things? If so, I do not see how this would be the case. Rather, I think that being able to discuss with others and evaluate what they post in face value without letting your prejudice and opinion of the person itself get in the way is ideal.
As I mentioned in a thread earlier today, and at the urging of some friends, I am working on the 0.1 release of my personal programming language.

It is a language based on explicit parallel and sequential composition of expressions (very similar to the concatenative languages family) with an underlying categorical semantic/type theory based on Adjoint Logic (work by Pfenning, Reed,Pruiksma et al and work by Licata, Shulman, et al with the Simple Intutionisitic fragment replaced by a Dependently typed fragment (ala Krishnaswami) and all based on work in the ‘90s by Nick Benton).

I set myself a goal since I’m in lockdown of having a landing page with minimal compiler and hopefully a small web based playgraound published before July 1. I have really been enjoying the work I’m doing on this and hope everyone else is having a good time working on their stuff amidst all the external upheaval.
Supporting example: WE are making bubble teas with boba at home, takes about 10 mins and they are amazing and much cheaper and convenient than $5-6 that bubble tea places here charge.

Counter example: We basically rarely ordered delivery and preferred take-outs. However, due to the increased delivery usage recently we figured that since delivery costs are similar for a restaurant 5 miles or 15 miles out, we are getting food from restaurants further out than we would normally not go to as they were too much of a drive.
I habitually count from the little finger out to the thumb.

The 'one' sign, pinky out, is accomplished by locking the other three fingers with the thumb.

Then I sort of flick the other three fingers out, and extend the thumb for five. It's quite comfortable, and easier than going in the other direction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine_deficiency
Dispersion is no longer an issue but lower dispersion increases crosstalk so new subsea cables are high dispersion? High compared to early days when dispersion was a problem or just high compared to low dispersion cables which suffer from crosstalk? So there is the perfect amount of dispersion now?

It never occurred to me that fiber optic communication in glass actually used intensity to transmit bits. This sounds like AM radio albeit digital I guess the laser could be on or off. How long has it worked like that?

I always assumed it was like CDMA radio where like you say phase shifts correspond to a point in a constellation which represents more than 1 bit.
It is easy to talk about the proprietary practices done by NVidia, yet none of the other GPGU device makers that are on Khronos weren't able to offer a better experience.

So Khronos has 140 members, about 10 of them producing hardware, and they can't provide a proper developer experience, with software that looks like EE toolchains of the 90's.

The market has already exploded, and CUDA has won.
You wrong and you'll see
Steps:

1. remove your Picasa pictures at picasa.google.com

2. since the GDrive search will not help you searching for file sizes, you'll need to install a third-party tool, I suggest WinDirStat (https://windirstat.net/)

2.1. discover the files in GDrive folder with the most size and delete the ones you'll never actually going to need (be truthful to yourself here - if you never open a 1GB in the past 5 years, why do you think you'll open it in the next 5 years?

3. Empty trash on GDrive online web application

4. search in GMail for messages larger than 1MB: "larger:1m" and delete the ones you think don't deserve staying in your folder

5. Go to GMail's trash bin and exclude them as well

6. Remove Google Chrome and install another browser, Firefox for instance, with all the needed plugins (uBlock, privacy stuff, etc)

7. Throw your Google Nest in a drawer away from you (now you won't be continuously surveilled)

8. End your Google Play subscriptions (specially GDrive)

9. Throw away your Android phone or wrap it with aluminium foil

10. Use DuckDuckGo as your main search engine (or any other web search you feel like it)

(oh, I just saw how dependent I WAS on Google!)
This is a verbatim rip from

https://www.gistreel.com/just-like-hiv-covid-19-may-never-go...

who, in turn, credits Al Jazeera as its source.
If you attack the number you might hit an innocent bystander whose number as been misused by the hacker.
1) Words can't adequately explain how little I care about Creative Cloud. I would really appreciate it if Adobe's stuff only ran on my machine when I was actually using one of the tools.

2) See above

3) Again, see above. I don't want anything to work in the background.
reddit.com/r/hailcorporate
i think this may be strongly correlated with the end of dialup and the rise of always-on internet, and then again in the rise of always-on-hand smartphone internet usage (and its pervasive push notification capacity), each stage raising the ground state of expected response times. speed then proceeded to kill everything in its way.
Responsive Website Design: The Comprehensive Guide (2020)
How to Scale Python on Every Major Cloud Provider
Hug of death? Archived at: https://web.archive.org/web/20200515044745/http://imj.ie/vit...
I've been building a tool to make it easier to upload chains of dependent PRs to github, https://github.com/jlebar/git-pr-chain

Works pretty well for me, but there are lots of ways it could be improved if anyone is interested in hacking on it with me.
> How long until internet companies decide that relatively small and litigious markets aren't worth their time and simply ignore laws like this?

Hasn't the same thing happened with respect to copyright in the other direction? Any online business with proper revenue already needs to abide by laws to take down copyrighted material, and the same arguments had been made when enforcement of them became a thing. I don't see that the burden with respect to hate speech is fundamentally different, arguably even lower.
We're not going to do that because it would lead to an explosion of bickering, nitpicking, and other low-value comments. You can't force people to do things like give good reasons.

The downvote system has its disadvantages to be sure, but HN would be far, far worse off without it. Anyone who thinks otherwise is underestimating the need for anti-dreck measures on the internet.

The key word in what you wrote is 'seeing'. You notice the cases you dislike, but the other ones in some sense go unseen:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... In other words you count the cost of the system but not its benefits. I don't mean you personally! we all do this. It's a cognitive bias that strongly (I mean extremely strongly) affects people's perceptions of HN.

In reality, the ability of this site to support your intention ("I come here primarily to read discussion and to provide my unfiltered critical thought") depends utterly on the downvotes, just as the body depends on its white blood cells.
IBM's purchase of Softlayer has to be one of the biggest contributors to AWS's success.

Softlayer clearly needed a change of direction / leadership, and I guess we'll never know, but i feel they (via IBM) took a left turn when they should have gone right. Instead of trying to become cloud, they should have doubled-down on baremetal. What they _really_ needed was a pricing page that didn't force you to go through sales and reflected the price that you'd eventually get (50% less than what they advertised).
Because Chess is a closed limited system with strict rules which you can easily emulate and with enough brute power might even be able to calculate all possible cases. Go probably less but still a closed system with strict rules. Those we can usually solve as technology improves.
Driving is an open endless system with no rules since people and nature might do any action at any time. That's why it is in a different level of difficulty.
The next level is to give a machine some emotions. Improving within the same level of difficulty is foreseeable, jumping to the next level is matter of faith, you need to believe a breakthrough will come, but it might not, ever.
try https://www.bytehub.dev/ for some cool react components
This is a verbatim copy from this forum posting from 5 years ago:

https://www.nairaland.com/2571623/windows-10-problems-soluti...
So, a couple of thoughts:

First, correlation does not prove causation. This kind of study is fairly common for medical stuff and it's not some double-blind study, so it's rather hard to draw firm conclusions.

Second, I have no doubt Vitamin D plays an important role in immune function. It is one of the vitamins people with cystic fibrosis are typically deficient in and this is a population very prone to respiratory infections, among other things.
> If China marches into Taiwan, the U.S. will be left with no advanced-node manufacturing and it will have lost the technology race

Can you explain this? If China takes over Taiwan, couldn't the US just take over whatever TSMC plants exist in America?
Yes. Though gray code is a bit harder to work with directly for anything but counting up.
if you're using react then definitely checkout https://www.bytehub.dev/ for some cool react components
But 1000pm looks larger than 1nm. How about “-3 nm”?
Seems like the results in this blog post would be of interest.

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2741

Not so much in avoiding the halting problem while allowing complexity, but instead using it and actual runnable Turing machines to create ridiculously cool cases of unprovable truths.

For example a running Turing machine that only halts if it contradicts set theory.
This was one of the coolest tech that I have implemented!! We used it for authenticating public facing services in a voip application. It worked really well! I was a beginner and I barely understood the benefits. It was the tech leads who guided me to the finish. Such a rewarding experience!
Discover's secure web-based proxy service – Facebook Engineering
Taiwanese people probably wish to not be strategic in a China-US battle.

That only means the destruction of that island.
Sadly with OS upgrades that's often not possible. I suspect CS3 runs on Windows but with Apple's aggressive removing support for old features you can no longer run CS6 on MacOS AFAIK.
It's interesting to see that they had a notation for zero in that system.
China won't march into Taiwan until they can win a naval war with the US to keep the US from retaliating. And if China can do that, they won't have to march into Taiwan.

2050 Indo-pacific naval war is my prediction.
I was working on a side project before the quarantine. It's now my main project after I lost my job. The goal of my project is to provide an easy and fast way to create dashboards. The tool turns a JSON spec file into a dashboard. We're using React and Redwoodjs. They're fun tech stacks.

https://github.com/vidalab/vida

I made some dashboard examples from live data:

COVID Trend in the United States

https://vida.io/dashboards/ck9thqbxl00000umrd0u2pmdj

We're looking for collaborators. We want to turn this into a commercial product.
No, it might not be the cause but it is usually an indication of decline.
Ask HN: How to take a CLI app and put it on the web (client-side)
So let's say I have a statically linked x86_64 linux binary. It provides a REPL and that's it. What would be the easiest way to compile it to asm.js, emscripten, webassembly or whatever and deploy it. I basically want a process that takes the binary and spits out an html page that I can open that runs the app. I'm not a web dev and have no interest in being one. What's the absolute easiest way to make this happen?
This is not necessarily the case. I took it to mean that Google, Apple, and the govt all have employees, some of them rouge, just like subway.
> Never mind the civil unrest, the entire world would bail out of China.

That is not clear.. at all. Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand -- the non-US western allies -- have all known exactly what China's end goal is and have down jack diddly squat to put pressure on them.

The only thing preventing China from taking out Taiwan is the United States. Europe and the rest of the world is too cowardly to even do anything, which is really unfortunate.
Regardless off any opinions about Trump, the imposition of tarrifs and his incendiary rhetoric seem to be causing manufacturing operations to hedge their bets. So maybe a some higher skill jobs have shifted to the US (not sure if that really helps Trumps voter base), but Tesla smartly started operations in China.

Hard to speculate on the counterfactuals, but this increases redundancy, which can add new jobs, but the tarrifs can also rout other parts of the economy - and possibly impact Trump's own voter base more than others.
> "I always wondered, If you heard a robot speaking German, how would you know it was a robot? Hmm?"

Did you know that in German speaking countries we never hear Arnolds original voice?
He is dubbed by a German actor in all of his movies. So it remains a mystery...

For all the Austrians in the thread: Yes, I know he is Austrian an technically his accent is Austrian.
I am talking about the process before even starting to implement a task - architecture, designing and brainstorming. We used to do that on giant white boards with markers in our hands. It's not the same when using online diagram tools with trackpads as pens. It's slow, frustrating and not flexible. Ideal solution would be giant touch screens but that's not feasible.
It re-iterate what nikanj said, agreed. I have absolutely zero use for Creative Cloud. Wish I could run without it. Wish Photoshop and Lightroom would at most check for updates when run instead of some constant processes.
Yes.

Though I don't think anyone ever suggested the actor model (or Erlang) was doing C/C++ craziness.
Very cool project. I started taking notice at a lot of high end resorts at the things they do to make the environment relaxing. I came to believe that lighting was one of the biggest factors, with scent a close second. I am looking for dimmable recessed style leds to put in my home. I want to do quite a few more than usual so that each individual lamp can be dimmer. Have you come across any good quality led fixtures that are ready to install?
Gloomhaven.
Why there is no sort by rating like on Reddit? I’d prefer reading top comments, not random of 1600
That's awesome. Be sure to post back here when it's done!

I like the idea of "ages"! It's a way to keep it fresh without having to constantly come up with new content or whatever.
We've banned this account for obvious reasons spanning multiple threads. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
Since I read stuff in the internet every day and I forget the interesting stuff all the time, I started to record my "bookmarks": https://rumpelsepp.org/stuff/bookmarks.html
The narrative of American politicians, particularly President Trump, against Europeans has not manifested in the general public, especially in the tech industry. Americans and Europeans work together much in the same way, atleast in my personal experience and exposure to both continents. The tech industry is too smart to be manipulated by politicians.
Practically speaking, businesses that lack resources and interest are just going to adopt the most restrictive censorship that they find worthwhile for access to their market.

For example, Chinese services are still available beyond the firewall, just not catered to the average non-Chinese.

To the consumer, most don't care, for most purposes; c.f. TikTok's popularity.
One interesting take is that they have rights to stream sports highlights. This could be useful to Apple irrespective of how VR pans out.
Even the stupid ones slip through! It takes one smart cell to repeat 9/11. The way you catch them is by targeted surveillance not by dragnet collection of information. The IC does this all the time,they do a powergrab make noise about it, achieve nothing and retain their power. Look at wmds in iraq,torturing,drone bombing,mass surveillance.

Theatrics to make it look like they are doing enough. Truth is, if someone immigrated or gets radicalized without detectio, the IC is relying on them not having good opsec. Spying on everyone (instead of with a warrant) , E2EE subversion,and these silly laws won't give them additional capacity when the actual terrorists and mass shooters that slip through already have bad opsec,don't use mainstream platforms or E2EE
We've banned this account for obvious reasons spanning multiple threads. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

I'm sad to ban someone who's been here for 9 years and made many positive contributions, but the damage you did in the last 24 hours on HN is outrageous, and this has been a problem more than once in the past (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17791870).
You'd be surprised. I know companies paying $2000+ a month for Heroku and are still having performance problems with Rails.

(Then again, they have them with Phoenix as well but to a lesser extent.)
A truly valid problem. Myself i don’t like online communications with friends. It only makes me feel worse. it feels so incomplete and awkward. In person our convo is flowing much better
No TSMC plants exist in America right now.
Oddly, at the moment there are people on American streets demanding casualties in order to get the malls open again.

(Coronavirus death toll now larger than Vietnam)
You're conflating propaganda and recruitment with organization,coordination and communication.

How long did bin laden evade capture? 20-30 years? And did they catch him because he used the internet?
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Yahoo mail has a feature under Mailboxes, called "Disposable email address" that allows you to pretty much do the same. You choose a "base" name, and then you can create upto 500 disposable addresses of the form basename-keyword@yahoo.com - you can choose the "keyword" based on the site you're signing up for, the basename stays constant. All mails to the disposable address get delivered to your normal mailbox, but you can go and delete a disposable address or filter it to spam. Also, both the basename and keyword remain untraceable to your actual address (unlike gmail's + format that has your base email id embedded in it).

I used to use this earlier, but then I couldn't find the setting easily on their mobile web interface and got tired of either switching to the desktop version or waiting to get to a desktop to complete a signup. Nowadays, I just report spam if there's no unsubscribe option.
There should be like a $2M fine for releasing a weather balloon which is later determined to have caused a UFO sighting. Then maybe we will stand a chance at finding out what's what. (The article is not a weather balloon article but it mentions them in part)

(Also a historical peeve; props if you know the reference--if you're a colonel in the Air Force, and you think the UFOs _you yourself saw_ are "beyond us" and we should "quit worrying about it," then IMO you should have to take a "you don't get to decide that" course on the potential scientific benefits of investigating freakishly weird phenomena)
yup, via JSDoc.
Please consult a doctor before taking lamp form. You could easily reach toxic levels.
You are being downvoted but what happened with Crimea proves your point.
The first book I ever read from Neal was Cryptonomicon and I absolutely LOVED it. I think I heard about Van Eck phreaking at some point, heard it was in the book, and was intrigued. I read Snow Crash after and was blown away. It's so different from Cryptonomicon but the tangents are fantastic.

When I think about all the books I've read in my lifetime, Snow Crash has given me the coolest and most fun mental images out of all books. I'm 40+ years old, and when I'm stuck in traffic, I still think about latching on to cars in front of me and escaping the grid I'm sitting in.
There isn’t always a “side of the road” tho. (think tunnels, walls, Old Towns, busy city centres...)
> Did you consider building this on top of Chromium?

Currently, the Browser UI is actually just a PWA pointing to the nodejs instance and is reusing whatever rendering engine is available. I want to have a clean codebase, so everything is babelfree es2018 and will only run in edgium and safari 12+ (and chrome 70 or webkitgtk or webkitqt or firefox etc).

For mobile my plan is to bundle nodejs-mobile and just use a webview there, which is based on chakra (so it is JIT free and is technically allowed on iOS). For desktop I will probably unclutter servo modules and try to have a minimal fork that doesn’t have all the web apis I don’t want or need...but I’m not sure, as I’m not yet familiar enough with the servo codebase.

One thing is sure: I can’t create a competing rendering and layouting engine, so I gotta reuse an existing one.
Just broadcast the entire battle on the world stage and we shall watch the show. No human deaths, no civilian casualties, the whole battlefield would be completely remote controlled, streaming in a 128K VR extravaganza. I think the future of war sounds fun.
The final chapter of SICP builds a simple compiler.
Let me give you a different example. The main Indian subreddit r/india has been taken over by information warfare specialists and actually anything that does not match left leaning viewpoints are deleted. You can see all the power abuse chronicled on a subreddit called r/indiadiscussion. One mod is actually a Pakistani !

Shouldn't country subreddits be sacred ? Should'nt there be a due process to call out mod excesses, some kind of quasi legal means. Instead they continue their information warfare unabated banning anyone that goes against their viewpoints. They also actively browse people posting in other subreddits and ban them.
Taiwan is strategic to the US-China battle because it is strategic to China; if Taiwan reunites with China, China will have full access to the Pacific.
I seem to remember it is associated with type 1 diabetes as well.
Build software through "meeting in the middle". Define the front (user interface), define the back (data structures), and then progress towards the middle.

After all an interface is, by definition, where two things meet and interact. There are too many unknowns otherwise.
China doesn't need that technology very badly, if they can just stay making CPUs they'll be able to figure a GPU architecture eventually. Don't forget that Chinese Kirin CPUs have and will outcompete Qualcomm and Samsung.
It's Turtles all the way down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW9Fiu9IlA4
Isn't the U.S. the most highly developed retail environment with in excess of xxxx square feet of retail per person at a much higher rate than the U.K. or other developed countries?