skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the reason I actually "favourite" threads such as this one. The comments help me find alternatives to try out. There was an Ask HN, "Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?'[0]. I commented that I search HN for different subjects and read through the comments. This is probably better than searching Google for minimal CSS.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23202850
But then, why not have this be defined by the client?

I think I would like to see more websites entirely devoid of css, together with an evolving ecosystem of browser-side theme-like css rulesets to style and layout sites based on the page's semantics and everyone's unique preferences, like we style our desktops and terminals.

But that's just my cloud cuckoo land, right?
Excel still has localized syntax, I think.
> Using the user's Steam language is a more sensible starting point for most users than "Everyone gets English". That just completely ignores 80% of the world's population.

I'm pretty sure much more than 20% of the world's population is fluent in English. It's the language of the western world and the global economy, after all.

> As for the quality of the translation, the solution for that is for developers to make better translations.

Like the market ever cared about distributed failures like these. Every studio uses a different translation group, they can't really verify the final product, and the translators will happily save money doing shoddy work. Not to mention, the workflow isn't usually optimized for correct translations. To do this right, you'd have to have the translation team play through the entire game at least once to understand the whole picture, and only then have them work together on translating the text and audio. No single-pass translations, and no dividing the work between multiple people that don't talk to each other. I.e. more expensive. At the same time, the studio will get 90% of the profit (which happens at the point of sale, not at the completion of the experience) with a shitty translation anyway.
Not that I'm aware of, but Tornado is a great async web framework. We use MongoDB and an ODM called umongo (that uses Motor for async, pymongo-like connections). I'm not sure what good async ORMs are available.
Software Build Pipeline = the Finest Hacker Target
Chetty’s work lumps together a lot of different people with very different circumstances. An Asian American born in the bottom 20% has a 25% chance of ending up in the top 20%: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/27/upshot/make-y.... Hispanic men born in lowest 20% have a 15% chance of ending up in the top 20%. That’s a high level of mobility. But black men raised in the bottom 20%, the chances of rising to the top are just 7%.

If you compare the US to for example Denmark, you can see that the lack of opportunity is concentrated in the bottom 20%. That is to say, income mobility is similar between the countries for people in the lower middle class, but not at the very bottom: https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/01/05/economic-mo...

The various data taken together strongly suggests something else is at work rather than the economic system itself. Poor Asians, poor Hispanics, and poor blacks face the same economic system. For them to have vastly different outcomes in terms of economic mobility, the explanation is likely to be something apart from the economic system. What is billed as a matter of economic mobility may well turn out to be more of a story about the criminal justice system, systemic racism, the lasting effects of segregation, etc.
I've seen a clip of someone posting other random words that did not seem at all like harassment/insults/racist, and they were deleted too.

Also, my video was of me playing with a synthesizer, so I'm not sure how my comment was anyway related to the video or China.

Edit: the comment wasn't deleted when it China was changed to Taiwan
I think this method is called a "shadow ban" on Reddit. You can see your comment on the sub only when logged in.
Or use something that's already opensource
That’s just a matter of perspective :)
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Even if the first part were true - this part may not be...

> ...absolute majority will stop playing tricks.
These are insults, trolling terms.

It sounds like Youtube now has filters against harassment in order to keep things a minimum civil (rather than being involved in a pro-China conspiracy...)

There is plenty of material highly critical of China and its government on Youtube.
*looks confused at this while living in Switzerland as a foreigner.
Indeed. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_value_theorem
You're making a common mistake seen in these discussions by creating a tautology by defining "hitting on" as always a gross violation of hospitality. Or something that obviously makes someone uncomfortable.

Let's not forget that hitting on someone is a continuum that ranges from flirtatious banter that you can enjoy with anyone to one's twisted idea of what hitting on someone entails that makes all their guests uncomfortable. Like asking "wanna fuck?"

Yes, hitting on someone in a way that makes them uncomfortable does make them uncomfortable and makes you a bad host. But I worry that you have an unhealthy understanding of flirting if you don't think it's something you or anyone can do without making someone else uncomfortable.
We pay devs worse because software is a complete aftertought, and the guys who produce it therefore are not seen as adding much value, if any. Meanwhile, the "software is eating the world" memo is almost 10 years old yet nobody this side of the pond got it.

Fix this mindset (good luck!), which is the real issue, and dev wages will correct themselves too.
Or that soldiers aren't trained well enough in SECOPS that they won't give away base details just to track their own fitness.

What's the punishment for having GPS tracking devices on a military base?

Bet they all love their free USB drives sent from a friend they forgot they had, too.

Hope they're epoxying the USB connections on their Win95 nuclear submarines.
Astounding possibilities of Big Data in the food industry
Common Knowledge: The Recursive Fabric of Collaboration
So what’s the problem? HN users always complain about Apple’s “walled garden” and how much better Android is because users can sideload apps.

(Note sarcasm)
I think our traditional answer was good enough. Trust the people to weigh a wide range of information and opinions. Delegate more detailed analysis and decision making to political representatives and independent institutions.

It's not like there wasn't any anti-scientific rubbish, hate speech and manipulation in book shops, newspapers and on TV. Entire countries used to be run by media barons (literally or effectively).

Regarding Covid specifically, I find it pretty ironic that free speech should be restricted to government officials by an oligopoly of US corporations while the head of the US government routinely spreads anti-scientific disinformation on that very subject (and on others).
I think the Cynic's razor is used more often on HN. Always attribute everything to malice. Simple as that. Best part is that you will look so clever doing it. So much cleverer than the naive-looking commenters who try pointing out reasonable explanations.

Remember - be cynical, be confident, farm that karma.
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You collect data, use it for marketing, then add it to your valuation. Says everything I need to know about your company.
Which Time Tracking Apps Take Screenshots of Your Laptop?
Except of course he only really provided examples of “gifted” people breaking through. I’m not gifted and have the college diploma to prove it - where does he think the ceiling should be for me I wonder?
Information Leaks Through Unsafe Pointer in Go (Part1)
Perhaps the lack of foreign graduate students willing to do high skilled labor for $12k/year will incentivize universities to begin to pay rational wages to graduate student researchers. Then American students might actually find it economically appealing to get graduate degrees.
The overall rule: most US military spending is utterly wasted to line the pockets of politicians and the military-industrial complex. It's not useful even for defending the country.

The exception: there will most likely be something useful coming out of a space program. May or may not be useful enough to offset the costs, but it's not going to be a complete waste.
Comments from someone who has them both: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23195007
perhaps useful to replace the wording "track down" with "identify"?
Day job. No time to explain more because...well, day job.
There Is No Evidence Lockdowns Saved Lives
Tangentially related: I've been on the hunt for a CSS framework/drop-in that approximates the style of the Dracula theme – Dark background with bright, happy, bold, cotton-candy colors.

Any suggestions?
Next year, you'll have protesters chained up outside of the CERN particle accelerators. Don't smash our particle friends!
>It looks anti-competitive

Why would google care at this point? Regulators world wide are basically useless. They might sue Google eventually and years later Google might settle for 1% of the profit they made as a result. So why would they ever care?
> This holds as long as an additional $1,000 made from foreign students does not, on average, result in admin salaries rising >$1,000. That would seem to be a pretty safe assumption, and I doubt anyone can come up with a plausible mechanism for why it should not be the case.

That's exactly what is happening, and the mechanism is simple. It's the original bundle and upsell model. It doesn't take terribly much imagination to consider why this might be the case:

- second largest purchase (maybe single largest purchase) most Americans now make in their life

- purchased when prefrontal cortices haven't fully developed (~18yo in most cases)

- sold as an "investment" to parents (you "need a bachelor's degree to get a good job")

- purchased as an investment by students (I want a career after college) but also as an "experience" (I need to party, mingle, socialize with the opposite sex for the only 4 year span of your life where I will ever experience actual freedom)

- financed with debt products guaranteed by the government

- .. but which often cannot be discharged in bankruptcy (!!)

Why wouldn't such a "product" balloon in breadth, depth and average cost given that it's an enormous industry? The US student debt market alone is ~$1.6T. To give a benchmark for comparison, the US mortgage market is $11T, and those consists of bonds securitized by assets.

> There's like five comments with this "huge salaries for administrators" theme. Is that some political party's talking point? Did it feature in some Netflix hit?

Your argument boils down to "I can't haven't researched any of the details here and I can't come up with any off the top of my head so it must be the result of ideological astroturfing." In doing so, you completely ignore one of most insidious modern forms of legalized debt slavery. Don't reduce and flatten arguments you don't agree with. It's not just wrong, but it conditions you into ignorance and against engaging in a basic investigation of the details.
Reviewing My Password Manager to Make Me More Secure
They picked a dumb name. As a Norwegian, I was under the impression that they've actually got a beta version of some supposed new site functionality for the longest time.
You may need to fire up Netscape to get this applet working.

> Internet Explorer or Netscape: The Color Tool needs Apple's "Mac Runtime for Java"
I love Chart.js. Thank you kindly for your time and effort.
So far, no spike in coronavirus in places reopening, U.S. health secretary says
Several European government bodies are looking into/starting to transition to self-hosted Matrix servers. Further development on the protocol with government funding could very well happen.

France already started developing their own alternative: https://matrix.org/blog/2018/04/26/matrix-and-riot-confirmed...
The German government is trialing it already: https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Open-Source-Bundeswe...

Advancements are definitely being made, though because of the way governments operate I doubt we'll see their contributions be open sourced very soon. It's nice to know there are developments in the right direction, though.
This is such an absurd argument:

>We continue to support public-private partnerships for product development, and approaches such as non-exclusive voluntary licensing which promote affordable access for all while also providing incentives to create life-changing vaccines.

The researchers doing the actual work to create life-changing vaccines are clearly not driven by profit, nor do they actually get a share of that profit being salaried. The question is of a monetary incentive for funding the research in the first place. Seems to me that this is a strong argument for important research being done at state level since private companies won't do it without a profit incentive.
I mean, defining "censorship" is kind of difficult.

You've got a stream of data, in the form of text, that is being added to a database. It would be logical to apply a 'filter' of sorts because let's be honest, there are bad actors out there (remember penis enlargement/viagra for example).

More and more of these filters are being done automatically, based on models of previously removed comments. You could try this yourself, create a simple application that submits 1,000,000 comments per second, of all sorts of varieties including links and disguised motives and try to decide which stays and which goes. Analyze your results, do you have a platform where the comments are meaningful/useful? Are you more "liberal" in allowing comments to stay even if they are obvious spam/unwanted content because "muh free speech!"?

If you're lucky, you may end up with something half readable, and not completely overridden with bots or content that is absolute meaningless.

Imagine if hackernews or other content sites didn't have the same measures, awful content would over run the site and make it less attractive.

All sites need to have some form of moderation. As a result, sometimes, content is removed. Whether that's "malicious" to you depends on your worldview.

I appreciate that moderating a large platform is a thankless task, you have potentially millions of comments each and every day, no human could possibly handle that volume of information.

Reddit is the same, automoderator can "censor" users, without them even knowing, and allows regex based filters, which may not be perfect but at least allow obviously terrible content to be removed before it's posted.

Remember, the bad actors (some might say russian interference during an election is bad) will always be trying to "game the system", so you need to constantly adapt your filters to try and be one step ahead in a cat and mouse game.

Just some food for thought not everything is "censorship".
Back in the day, we didn't have 2GB of RAM total, much less just for a compiler!
In that context it’s the rules that define how you update the paper that give the symbols on the paper meaning. And in that context sad is both the symbols and system that gives those symbols meaning.

It’s the same situation as people playing a game of poker or go fish. The cards in their hands might be identical, but the game is what gives those cards meaning.
I'm quite concerned about WeWork. My office is in a WeWork and the building is 80% empty. Most companies used the flexible cancellation terms to move out in April or May. With office rents staying stable at best, I'm not sure how many buildings they will be able to sustain. I'd be quite sad to see them close as the experience is quite good.
Yes that's it exactly, thanks for naming the practice.

It should be banned, lol.
Comparing numbers between countries is kinda pointless at the moment, different countries report deaths differently.
I don't think we will get any meaningful numbers to compare for a long time, and then compare total mortalities over a couple of years and see if Covid-19 had any significant impact.
I think real time comparison, country to country or even region to region is completely pointless. But that is just my 5 cents.
You are never the same you from one moment to next, and the mind adapts to deal with this change. So I would think the mind would adapt when downloaded into a new body. Certainly, your point stands, in that the mind downloaded into a new body would not be the same you, but I would argue that it might be enough of you to maintain the sense of you.
You really trust the US court system to be impartial?

Should Apple/Google be forced to carry pornographic apps? White supremacists apps? Apps that invade people’s privacy? Which government should hold this responsibility? Should we have an international committee deciding this?
There is indeed a lot about the workings of minds that neither I nor anyone else knows, but I do not mistake my lack of knowledge for strong evidence that certain things cannot be so. That would be an example of what Dennett calls the philosopher's syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

It would be like a pre-Archimedean philosopher asserting that iron boats are impossible, because how could they float?
Maybe we need a power declaration of software as with dish washers. (No joke)
which flavor of markdown is this ?
i personally like https://igoradamenko.github.io/awsm.css/ which has a similar approach.
Well, to remove the final risk you can wear glasses and a dust mask.
The network HN grows isn’t yours, it’s YC’s. It grows their network of applicants and helps their network of funded companies reach new audiences of users and high quality technical employees via things like Launch HN and the featured hiring posts.

And I’d call a comment a form of socializing. Who knows? A maybe one of your comments here put the seed in someone’s head to launch a new startup. That seems like the kind of socializing YC would be interested in fostering to me.
I commend you for your personal ambition, but sometimes getting a different perspective can be a good thing. Your complaint basically is that you are having a hard time getting a VC investment for your (otherwise perfectly fine) running business that feeds a lot of mouths and - while not making a fortune - makes money.

On a certain level that's akin to a tenured professor with a perfectly fine University career complaining he has little chance of ever being awarded the Nobel Prize.

Ambition is great, but do not let it cloud your sense of pride in your achievements. If you're not content being 90th percentile, what gives you confidence you'd be happier being 99.9th percentile?
Care to elaborate?! I'm honestly interested.
As someone who has traveled and lived abroad the past 10 years, please, never ever use physical location to set the language. Yes, never ever. Why assume everyone at an internet cafe speaks the same language as determined by its physical location? Why assume either person involved in this borrowed tablet situation speaks the predominant language of wherever they happen to be physically at that moment, like a business trip, or vacation? What about VPN's? Use a cookie and Accept-Language, and provide a menu of language choices where each choice is in that language, e.g. Español not Spanish.
China’s Xi backs WHO-led review of Covid-19 outbreak, aid for developing world
What ever happened to holding people and organizations responsible for the stuff they do/make?
>But the question is how do you sustain yourself while working fulltime on building/maintaining open source software

I sometimes feel opensource collaborative projects only exists thanks to alcohol, but single-person projects thanks to boredom or scratching itch.
When I open https://newcss.net/ the header is already broken using Chrome... That's kinda sad
Easy Data Validation for Your Python Projects with Pydantic
There are fences (shady stores) in shady locations that will buy booze, baby formula/diapers, and over the counter medicine like daily Anti-acids. If you order liquor or wines that people sing/rap about you can find a place to sell it.

The scammers just need to find a fence which is pretty easy if you know where to look. They’ll even tell you what is the best stuff to get.
Grubhub Could Still Be Charging a Fee When a Customer Calls a Restaurant
You seem completely disconnected form the problem(s).
Let me break it down for you:

Your company makes money off in app purchases of clothing for digital pets.

In Academia money comes from working hard and receiving limited federal grants.

Presidents, Provosts, Athletic Directors and other "administration" take HALF the grant money. They do not use this money for research. They build palaces and wear fancy clothes and attend rich people parties and other flashy events.

Imagine if I, someone who has never programmed a digital in-app purchase, took half of your paycheck and used to to flaunt my opulence? That is essentially the problem.
> GCHQ has been in bed with NSA for far too long and it's disgusting

See:

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

But also:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/nsa-scandal-reki...

"Germans, still outraged by NSA spying, learn their country may have helped (2015)"
I'm not even sure your argument here is in good faith, but I'll take one more shot at it.

Holding a 4-year bachelors degree puts you in about the top 1/3rd in academic outcomes (meaning you personally are 50/50 to be in the top 1/6th).

It's not for me nor anyone else to define your ceiling, but I would expect based on the limited data presented and, to the extent that academics is a predictor of outcome, that your outcome would be quite likely to be above the average. That you're engaged on news.yc is another generally positively correlated term I would think.
64GB RAM is borderline reasonable today. Why not jump to that?
Overcast has a web player.
Here in Canada we should do away with our import controls on dairy as well. Advocates say it has to do with dairy quality standards, but that body of laws is completely separate from the one that institutes "supply management".
I imagine that most companies would use Redimo on their web servers. In that case, the GPL wouldn't require them to do anything, so they could always use the software for free. Even the AGPL wouldn't help much, because it would only require companies to open source software that directly extends or modifies Redimo. MongoDB dropped their use of AGPL for exactly that reason.

Have you considered using the Parity Public License and selling private licenses through License Zero? https://paritylicense.com/ https://licensezero.com/
I've had amazon deliveries where it appears the whole family was in the car. Kind of heart breaking to think that a family of 4 has to drive around so I can get my AA batteries same day. We need drone deliveries.