skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One website that I think has nailed comment moderation is the website Tweakers.net. A Dutch tech website and forum.

On Tweakers you (as a user) can apply for mod rights and it allows you to rate each comment from -1 to +3.

+3 = must-read

+2 = informative

+1 = on-topic

0 = off topic

-1 = spam / insult

There's an alogrithm that gives your rating more weight if they (retroactively) allign with what the supermods (employees of the site) rate comments.

On Tweakers you almost never read insults and "and my axe" repititive comments because they are hidden by default, and the +2 and +3 comments automatically get places at the top.

This has so much over a simple +1 / -1 system. I wish more website would think about their comments systems and how they can achieve a good incentive and moderation structure for informative comments to be lifted up and unwanted ones down.

Tweakers is Dutch but to get an idea here's a news thread with a lot of comments:

https://tweakers.net/nieuws/166988/
Amazing, thanks! I was always annoyed when I used the address bar to search for a tab and it didn't show up.
Public transport emits far less per passenger.

Public transport and last mile delivery are actually ripe for hybridisation and electrification because they spend a lot of their time stopped.

As for long haul delivery—take the Tesla Semi and add a small diesel electric generator. Now it can go all day and still emit far less than regular trucks. This, not pure electric, is where disruption will happen.
It's classic google. Now that they are a monopoly, they don't have to compete for developer's attention. That's why I will never give a cent to Google Cloud, I know too well how it's going to end up if they ever become a major force in the cloud, I'm not going to invest anything with them and strongly suggest any business I work in to minimize their exposure to Google product. They all end up the same way.
How are English words made?
I'm mostly solving this issue with my 3-year old by playing with her all day (save for an hour or two of meetings) and then catching up on work at night, at the expense of a bunch of sleep.

I'm lucky that my software job is mostly conducive to this...
That video's amazing because the part of the UE5 demo I can't wrap my head around is where Nanite magically turns 1 billion triangles of source art to 20 million triangles of rendered art, per frame.

I was wondering about that too. My best guess is that they put the heavy geometry items in an acceleration data structure and then ray trace / cone trace these in a first pass to get the points where the camera rays intersect the geometry. Then generate triangles on the fly from these points in every frame. This would be quite similar in flavor to GigaVoxels [1] or the (IMO unjustly much hated) "Unlimited Detail" engine [2], except that instead of shading / visualising the intersections directly they just use it to generate triangles as another input to their overall pipeline.

If you look at the video closely all the heavy geometry items are static, i.e. they don't deform. This matches with a classic limitation of ray tracing as deformations invalidate the acceleration data structures used for making ray tracing efficient.

[1] http://gigavoxels.inrialpes.fr/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM6QkPsA2ds
Same. I've no idea how people with kids and others to keep happy are managing to squeeze in side projects.
Perhaps it is a group of people with a full time job?

Manipulating opinion is important these days. Mailing lists and Usenet were free, most web forums are subtly (or overtly) censored.
Elon Musk has a complex relationship with the AI community
Maybe we need an universal partial debt pardon.

We could burst the planet also and damage nature much faster than before, would be a lot of fun (for a short time).
Please don't compare the virus with a world war.

World wars are followed by a miraculous age of prosperity. Home are destroyed and can be rebuilt, tenant and landlord alike passed away. Rent is cheaper if not free in some places. All debts are forgiven and anyway the creditor is likely to be dead. Business that closed or lost their workforce can start over from scratch.

A virus is nothing like that. It gives no boost to the economy. It doesn't make more homes available or make rent cheaper. Debts continue to accrue with interest while there are no revenues coming in.
Some of us are more autonomous than others.

Some are more collective.
You can commit your node_modules folder into your repository if you'd like.
cross eyes to the syntax....confused:

-is this a crossover between C and Pascal?
The Donald broke rule after rule for years. Similar rule-breaking caused other subs to be shut down. But The Donald was treated with kid gloves. Given only reprimands until finally the quarantine order came down. But the quarantine didn't stop anyone's "free speech". T_D kept on with their schtick until the sub's mods thought it was time to cash in. They closed posting down and redirected people to their forum on a new URL.

On Reddit, and elsewhere, there's no shortage of people loudly proclaiming their love of the President. Sure, Trump isn't very popular on Reddit as a whole and posts involving him will be voted down when they show up outside of the usual echo chambers. But the posts and comments are still there. As well as being a constant presence on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Political speech in the US is far from being censored in any way.
I miss my friends and family. Jobs is pretty low on my list right now.
> If I say "I feel so embarrassed I could literally die", I am using literally in its proper sense, but hyperbolically.

I'd rather say they were using "literally" as a meaningless intensifier. But here's the thing: We already have loads of intensifiers. But we don't have very many ways of saying, "I'm not speaking hyperbolically, this actually happened."

Think of all the words that, etymologically speaking, should mean "this actually happened", but in fact don't mean anything anymore: really, truly, definitely, and so on. The reason they didn't say "I feel so embarrassed, I really could die" is that "really" has lost its strength from overuse; now they've moved on and are trying to do the same thing to "literally".

"Literally" is my (figurative) line in the sand: This far and no farther. Language is defined by its speakers: I'm an English speaker, and so I get to vote on how the language is used. As such, I will continue to make fun of people who say "I could literally die" as long as it is possible, and I encourage everyone to do the same.
Having your certificate signed one time or three times or a hundred times doesn’t really change the dynamics of the problem at all. Without an authority you put the burden of authentication on the user (no matter what ceremony they use). This fact alone makes it a generally useless approach to PKI. The only thing the web of trust does is allow you to share that burden with a select number of people that you actually know and trust. If you try to extend the perimeter of the web beyond that, it just becomes a web of horribly misplaced trust. Reframing it as a web of reputation doesn’t change anything either.
> I mean, how do you expect not to generate a bunch of weird cognitive dissonance in people when you snap their focus back and forth

Note that it's the media who amplify the real "signal" to the dumbed-down messages. The more accurate message were "we are entering the epidemics unprepared, please don't try to buy the mask as even the doctors don't have enough of them."

But then the people would rightfully ask "hasn't somebody actually been dearly paid to make sure that there are enough masks, especially since it was known that some event like this is extremely probable" etc.

And note that those that amplify them aren't the experts. When, for example, some virologist who regularly comes in contact with even deadlier viruses says, from his experience, that "thin masks don't work" it's because for his use case (being regularly exposed) they indeed completely don't work -- he'd die if he'd use them. However, an epidemiologist, considering the possible reduction of infection rate, would not give the same answer, but he was not in the media at all then!

The media are dumb when amplifying, but the media are also guided by their own agendas, and that is what also must be recognized.

And of course, "We've always been at war with Eastasia":

https://blog.erratasec.com/2016/02/weve-always-been-at-war-w...

So yes, intentionally making the population dumb can give exactly the results we see. Unfortunately there are indeed people who do have such agendas, for various reasons. Some are very rich, and do this for decades. And even organize with others who share their views (actual conspiracies, but don't call them so). And some individuals even admit their agendas. The producer of Ancient Aliens, for example, is intentionally against science:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/21/style/ancient-aliens.html

“It’s really a show about looking for God. Science would have you believe we are the result of nothing more than a chance assemblage of matter. The real truth is we don’t know.”

The questions posed by the ancient astronaut theorists, however far-fetched, serve a rare purpose, according to Mr. Burns: “It allows the audience to wonder. And very few things on television do that.”"

In short, people are actually being intentionally misinformed, people actually "feel" that, but the misdirection often still works. Look, shiny UFO lizards. And bleach. And hydroxychloro..whatever. And some other country is guilty. And it's used from both left and right! During the Nobel peace-prize winner's presidency "happened" both the Libya and Syria wars, or whatever, we've always been at war with Eastasia. And against drugs. No, we aren't doing this because there are biggest oil reserves, escalating during the pandemic, we just do our war on drugs. And you are just Fake News, shut up.

That's what we get.
macOS is also just really different from Linux... it is madness to me that people run so much code on their local laptops and then expect it to work in production <- and I say this both as someone who long felt t was ridiculous to do that at all and now as someone who started doing it myself, got addicted, and just found a serious bug in libwebrtc of all things that only manifests on Linux.
Is the type system at least as rich (or richer) than TypeScript's?

Can I do stuff like `Partial<T>`, `Omit<T, K>` intersection types, etc? Is structural typing the "default"?
We did this, and it really works! (Turned gray)
Right, but now the situation is give and take. You want me to do work on my personal device? Maybe I'm willing to bring that to the table. You want me to install your spyware on it... not so much.
Many have already pointed out numerous ways in which you might not actually be more environmentally friendly, so I'll refrain from that. Even if you assume your "exclusively" electric car doesn't pollute more, it still pollutes one way or another. Furthermore, perhaps you buck the trend, but every Tesla owning "person" I know also does an insane amount of travel both in the name of business and pleasure, releasing a ton or more of CO2 for each transatlantic trip. Rich smug people who drive Teslas probably pollute far more than some dude in the countryside with a gas guzzling pickup, at least he only drives it around in his small town and doesn't fly anywhere almost ever.

Its probably best we all try to get off our holier than thou horses and acknowledge that we all are slaves to our wants and want a comfortable lives. Perhaps then we might be able to have a productive conversation on how to truly save this planet (as if the planet needs saving rather than ourselves).
The levels of absolute dogshit thinking that goes into what's described in the OP is astounding.

Imagine that you're processing confidential customer data and you use something like https://hubstaff.com to take screenshots randomly. You're literally uploading PII to some professional spyware provider that works on a freemium model.
India is Feudalism masquerading as Democracy;
Anyone who keeps many tabs open and is a keyboard centric user, how can they use chrome?
In Firefox, when I press ctrl-tab, it takes me to the most recent tab. In Chrome, this takes me to the next tab.

I'd expect chrome to have an option to change this, but no, you need add-ons, and those just offer other hotkeys.

Nowadays, I keep my tabs open in, if I need another identity (like my work-related account in a cloud provider), I use opera. Chrome is only for: any site that only works in chrome + debugging my own web development activity
Unfortunately the real way to be an "interruptible programmer" is

a) be self-employed, i.e. be your own boss
b) have the kind of good work hygiene

This advice is worthless for 95% of programmers contending with interruptions, which are urgent (or putatively urgent) things from the people who pay us and cannot be ignored.
This isn't something vague or hard like OCR, voice-recognition or image classification.

It's a finite list of app permissions.

Unless it's a random number generator that just says yes/no but can't tell you why -- is just as valid of a non-excuse for using the entirely wrong solution to a problem, and surprise the solution doesn't work very well.
> my imagination sprung to life to fill in the gaps

That's pretty much exactly what I've said for years about 8-bit and 16-bit graphics when I was younger - there was so much more invested imagination back then, necessarily. The last time I experienced this in a 'contemporary' game was when Minecraft came out.

I'm in awe of the tech demo here, but bluntly I'd rather see all those billions of polygons being used for actual game-relevant elements, not just mostly background eye candy.

Not complaining though!
WHO warns coronavirus ‘may never go away’, may become endemic
Thank you for the suggestion, I didn't know about the Brier score. It does indeed look very appropriate for the author page.
Plus a Github repository of companies that kowtow to China's interests from a previous discussion here on HN:

https://github.com/caffeine-overload/bandinchina
Effective Detection of Sleep-in-Atomic-Context Bugs in the Linux Kernel
Federal office would include all citizens, whether or not naturally born, aged 25+ (minimum House qualifications).
Dammit. I’m telecommuting with LogMeIn and last week Outlook’s email search bar inexplicably moved to the top of the screen. And yesterday one of my monitors was just a black screen. After logging out and back in the problem went away. After reading this post, I’m more nervous.

Hey Microsoft! Think you can take a break on non-security updates?

/panic rant
Can you write and rewrite them over and over again thousands of times a second though without damaging them?
Back in school I remember my most effective drive to learning was my desire to develop video games. It reinforced physics, vector math, and systems design.

I've been working slowly towards a nebulous design I have for a quantum puzzle game, that maybe I can help myself and others develop the intuition needed in this budding field.

Nothing to show for it, but it's a long road I'm a few steps down, and I'm enjoying the scenery.
I have been working on a no-code website creator tool during this time. https://myquicksite.com, lets you convert your Google Sheet into a website. Its still in beta stage, need to hear feedback and improve.
Americans' Commitment to Social Distancing Is Eroding
Who is this for? I don't see anyone who can use it. If you have less than 10 tabs you don't need to group them, and if you have more than 10 you will spend your time having them in the good group.

And at the end what is the benefit oh having groups?
Show HN: Babbly – point the camera and learn a language
Ex Amazon here: the development in Amazon is very different than many other companies. There is no Docker and every small change is deployed on test stages using a CD system. Most tests and experiments are done on servers.
Firefox containers finally "clicked" for me and that's what I use for identities now. I have my personal container, work container, and work-login-as-admin container. It's great. I can open a twitter link as my work twitter or personal twitter with a right-click.
I think the daily briefings are good. It's not just a politician talking; it's a politician flanked by two scientists or public health experts. The politician explains what is going on and the experts explain why, with data. This is the first time in my life I can remember politicians so publicly deferring to experts with evidence.
> I'm not sure why people have seized on Sweden as doing it right

Sweden is one of the countries that have enacted the least strict measures, it's an outlier in strategy, and has therefore attracted a lot of attention from people wishing to use it as an example while arguing for their own strategy.

According to the lockdown aficionados, Sweden is a zombie wasteland whose officials are gleefully sacrificing the elderly, while the nation's youth is cavorting on the streets spreading the virus indiscriminately, and in two weeks the death rate is going to spike, just you wait! Therefore, lockdowns are a necessity!

According to the lockdown skeptics, Sweden is a bastion of freedom and liberty where it's business as usual, not a single restaurant or bar closed, all schools are open, and the streets are full of people enjoying life like normal. Sweden has a death rate similar to many European countries, therefore lockdowns are completely unnecessary!

The truth is of course that both of these viewpoints are wrong, and most importantly, you can't assume that applying Sweden's strategy anywhere else would get the same results. But that doesn't stop people from cherrypicking exactly the stats they like in order to argue for the strategy they like.

Also note that IHME has up until recently been absolutely, fantastically, horribly wrong in their projections for Sweden. Like many other comparison sites, they're using the reporting dates for deaths instead of the actual death dates. If you want better data for Sweden, please check out this site instead: https://adamaltmejd.se/covid/
But for the cost of batteries, electric has already won. As soon as we can 10x the manufacturing volume of lithium ion cells, price per cell will plummet and private transport will shift to electric rapidly.

(Obviously that isn’t trivial.)
I've though about this a lot and the big problems in the way of this are state and loading time. The state is a problem because keeping a tab open is the only way to preserve most of its state (scrolling, forms, etc.) and the loading time to cold-load a page makes bookmarks much less appealing for things that are related to what I'm currently doing. After those two issues are fixed, the rest is just UI.

I think Edge has some pretty neat UI for this kind of thing with whatever that button on the top left of the tab bar is called, but I haven't actually used it much since everything else about Edge is a hot mess.

If we could somehow dump the whole tab state to disk and restore it later, that would basically solve both of the above problems. But looking at the memory footprint of modern browsers, I doubt that's practical.
Maybe, but some assets could have smaller sizes; instead of distributing a mesh with 500k vertex in LOD0 and various other LODs with less, you could distribute a single mesh with 50k vertex, then do some passes of catmull-clark subdivision on it during loading. Wouldn't work the statues and rocks seen in the demo, but good for weapons, cars etc.
If performance doesn't matter, why bother attempt such a complex change at all?
Kickstarter loses nearly 40 percent of its workforce after layoffs and buyouts
My colleagues and I have decided to publish Babbly Android app to help people make most out of the isolation by learning a new language.

Babbly is one of our side projects we have been developing for the past few months. Our team has a lot of expertise in Computer Vision and we have always wanted to test if in-the-cloud real-time inference is possible with AI. Babbly can process up to 5 pictures per second which demonstrates this approach is more than viable. The main advantages of the in-cloud model are seamless AI model updates, reduced battery consumption, and much lower restrictions on the model size which results in better accuracy.

The model was trained on ImageNet and OpenImages public datasets which are not perfect for this kind of computer vision task, so the accuracy is not stellar. We plan to work on this issue in the future :)

We realize this app doesn't offer much feature-wise, but we think any form of fun/knowledge can be helpful during this pandemic. And yeah, any kind of feedback is more than welcome :)
are there any regulatory hurdles to overcome doing this yourself, or if it passes a test (like in Ireland, we have the NCT) is it ok?
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Have you tried just sleeping, waking up, running, without the magnesium/vitD/melatonin/iris/flux/etc. People have managed these basic tasks fine without all these props for a very long time.
> I'd like some source material on your claim about freedoms

Let's start at the bottom then:

>> The other countries you speak about have already lost their rights, or never had them to begin with.

>and New Zealand is a tiny island, very easy to control

What you're saying here is basically: "even if you back it up with source material, I'm going to claim the US is more diverse/different so it doesn't really apply."

In other words, it's US exceptionalism both ways around, that is, circular reasoning. Why should anyone bother to try and have a good faith argument here?
I really like this project! It sort of feels like Kialo.com, I hope projects like this can support democracy in the age of information overload.
High unemployment periods should be used to build common infrastructure. Electricity, water, roads, rail, airports, etc.
Render and deliver are literally synonyms.
Well, you should benchmark on similar setups to what you will deploy on: benchmarking on "real servers" or "bare metal instances" is also going to be highly misinformative if you expect most of your deployments to be on virtualized hardware under KVM or Xen.
Creating Error Workflows in N8n
I Was a Teenage Conspiracy Theorist
Which concluded that the title here is misleading. The statement from Tesla is just a legal-speak that they don't know. ...but the reality is that if the state isn't allowing you to report to work, then you can continue to file and collect unemployment.
This project looks really cool to me.

I'm glad the link to the video is there, because my intuition about pronouncing the name was incorrect.

It looks like it could be "deeno" OR "denno", and I was pushed to the former by the presence of the dinosaur graphic. Isn't that old fashioned dinosaur on the Flinstones pronounced deeno? Anywho... good name overall: short, no collisions (i think?), and no strong baseline associations.

And only right this instant am I realizing that this is an anagram of node... oh my god i'm slow. Now it's a great name.
I’m not at all certain about the latter. They’re pretty consistent in ignoring users and providing shitty service.
What I would like, is Emacs/Vim-style buffers. When you don't have one open, it's completely invisible. When you want to switch to it, you perform an incremental search for its title. No need to hunt for things on the screen. A lot faster and a lot more tidy wrt what's currently visible on the screen. No distractions.
I don't think they are, in most cases. I worked from home in the before time, so in theory not much has changed. In practice I have three kids, and it's a struggle just to maintain my baseline productivity.
The first moon landing, they had 15 seconds of fuel remaining.