skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m sorry you and your friend dealt with that.

It’s not just geo subs that have this problem. A friend of mine who mods a number of comedy subs (of all things) showed me his mod mail that appeared to indicate systematic brigading from far right discord servers.

They post extremist content in a bid to get the sub banned, and if it fails, they escalate harassment campaigns on the moderators
It rarely organized in a way that cross many timezones.

For the same team, it is at most 3 hour difference, I would say.
I seriously don’t know why people believe this will work and unlock the latent poet or artist within the average joe. As far as I have read most experiments have had mixed results, and we don’t really know what the full impact will be if implemented in a nation of 350MM people. My suspicion is in a couple years people will notice that housing, food, and transportation has gone up commensurate with their “basic income”. Then we will find ourselves in a vicious battle to justify raising or lowering it every couple years. And forget about ever putting the genie back into the bottle. The risks are huge.
WordPress itself.
Actually, that's the funny thing: drivers don't kill drivers. Not even collisions kill drivers. It's just that some people, post-collision, have their heart stop. So really, if you think about it, their own heart killed them. We should mark them all as suicides, honestly.
Can you show her how to use voice commands for emergencies? I don’t use them, but they may be something helpful.
> The .net framework only got a json serializer recently.

What do you mean by recently? I am not a .net user, but this seems quite basic.
Anybody else really turned off by the unnecessary amount of internet access in these new CLI tools? It's not just telemetry. Some tools will just access the internet even when they don't need to (my favourite is checking for a new version with every command). I like the CLI because it is so minimal and transparent (compared to GUI). But that seems to be changing these days.
>That's why the Home edition of Windows went down from $239 with Vista to $199 with Windows 7

One thing you're omitting: windows xp home was only $199, just like with windows 7. vista seems to be an outlier in terms of prices.

Also, all the prices you've listed are for the full version (ie. not upgrade). The upgrade prices are much lower, and are in line with the current price for windows 10, which does not have separate pricing for upgrade vs full. You can still interpret this as a price drop, but most people get their computers through OEMs, and so aren't paying retail prices. I suspect people who build their own PCs also tend to not buy legitimate licenses. Also, AFAIK the checks for the "upgrade" version aren't particularly rigorous. You could install a pirated copy first, leave it activated, then do a clean install, and it wouldn't complain about the licensing.
I think you’re confusing credentials with education.

While education may also be in a questionable state this year, it is a different issue than not being able to submit the answers on an exam.
Maybe for common formats, but that assumes the file was correctly named to start with. It also assumes there's a trivial or reasonable conversion between formats. What happens if I rename a CAD file to MP3?

The failure of engineering was clearly with the test authors - they should have been validating their inputs.
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In a "determining what's true about Covid" sense, he isn't the leader on Covid. He pays experts to take that leadership.

It's my general impression that if Gates says something about Covid, he's just repeating what experts said.
I can assure you that it's not worse. There are only two or three distributions that are credible at the corporate level, and they are far more similar than the major Unix wars platforms.
Arch is far from minimal. It literally ships systemd, and all kernel options enabled. Not to mention glibc, and a shitton of other crap...
I would take living in Boulder or Fort Collins over San Francisco for half the salary anytime!
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Personally, I would not move somewhere with half the cost of living if I'm getting half the pay. At higher incomes (ex: senior level FAANG engineers and up) you don't spend a lot of your income (stock + salary), you save a good chunk of it (as long as you haven't had major lifestyle inflation issues, you should be saving a lot). This means that it's more important to find a balance between pay and cost of living where you can maximize saving. It's why I prefer Seattle to SF. SF pays a little more, but the cost of living greatly increases. Seattle is much more expensive then many other places you could live, but then I'd be saving a lot less due to pay drops. There is of course quality of life that has to be brought into the equation, which is more about personal preferences and what makes you happy, so I won't get into that part, but $1M on a house in one location vs. $300k for Atlanta is not the deal breaker at higher pay (btw, those are Seattle price ranges, $1M will not get you much of a house in the Bay Area from what I've seen).
These high-quality engineers and researchers have moved from all around the world to be in SV, it's not like they love to live in SF, LA, NYC or even in the US. They would easily work from their homes and close to their families in their countries, even with half of their current compensation.

The effects of such decisions are going to be immense; people in the developed countries still live in a bubble thinking they are not going to be affected, but things will probably change dramatically the next couple of years.
> Moderators think that moderators are the thin green line protecting the ordinary users from a handful of bad actors, letting them live in blissful ignorance of the awful things that are happening.

As a moderator on another forum (not reddit), I disagree. Many of the moderation actions I take are visible to ordinary users, and that's on purpose. For community norms to be maintained, they have to be visibly enforced: enforcement is not just for the particular bad actor, but also for the ordinary users who genuinely want to respect community norms, so they know what the boundaries are (and therefore know how to respect them), and can see that people who violate those boundaries are dealt with (so they have confidence that the norms are meaningful).

> Ordinary users think the that moderators are power-mad bullies who ban and delete as they see fit, with no accountability.

Again, I disagree. If moderation actions are often visible, as above, ordinary users who genuinely want to respect community norms can see what is actually being enforced, and over time, if the moderators are doing a reasonable job, ordinary users will see that the pattern of enforcement reasonably matches the stated norms that are supposed to be enforced. Most ordinary users are reasonable and don't expect perfection, but they do expect consistency and reasonable judgment.

The biggest problem I see facing good moderation is that moderators can't be everywhere at once. One way to address that is to give ordinary users a way to report problematic posts, to bring them to the attention of the moderators. That also gives ordinary users another way to see how moderation is being done, because they can see what is or is not done in response to their reports.

There will always be some people who are never satisfied, and who will find something to complain about no matter what moderators do. But I don't think most ordinary users fall into that category.

Also, about "no accountability": ultimately, as a moderator, I'm accountable to the owner of the site. Similarly, the HN mods are ultimately accountable to the owners of HN. So the corresponding question for reddit would be, who owns reddit?
Months ago I opened an issue on GitHub asking them if we could get an option to disable / toggle telemetry at https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/5331.

It seemed reasonable considering VSCode is also a Microsoft product with an explicit telemetry option that you can opt out of.

Within 15 minutes the issue was closed and the idea of adding a telemetry option was dismissed by a contributor.

Kind of scary to use something so integral to your day to day as a developer is having that much data being sent out to Microsoft. It's partly why I stick with wsltty (which is equally as fast and has no telemetry).
I think this is the right answer. For me, I work in embedded and have to talk to lots of people with different backgrounds. Slack communication and even phone calls just don't work when you're trying to learn or explain something really complicated. I think a 1-3 days in the office (depending on what a company needs) would be awesome.
We don't have to wait, current average death analysis shows greatly increased deaths. The nyt had a piece on this.
Far too many technology decisions and implementations in post-secondaries are made by academic/bureaucrats who have no expertise or background in technology.

It's honestly one of the biggest conundrums facing academia.

Year by year, incoming students generally have a higher base level of digital literacy than their instructors, because academic institutions did not prioritize developing those skills 10-20 years ago and the proof is showing in the pandemic pudding.
Nobody is saying that a for-profit business absorbs all the value. Is your premise that if the community gains value from an action, then that action is justified no matter who else profits from it?
Even if it wasn't for this quarantine and the economic fallout, you'd think the tech bubble would have eventually popped in a natural market correction anyway, and those salaries would have fallen in the same way that getting 6-figure jobs for "knowing HTML" fell after the original dot-com bubble.
> he's not a valuable source of information because you don't know whether what he says is true or not

How do I know what anyone says is true? Why should I trust what you're saying about Sikora?

I should be able to watch a video on youtube and decide for myself because censorship is inimical to free thought.

You should take a moment to consider that most of the examples throughout history of censorship were carried out by decidedly bad people. Truth can stand on its own!
You've got it backwards. They aren't going to pay the Mobile Alabama employee a Bay Area salary. They will pay the Bay Area employee the Mobile Alabama salary and tell you you're welcome to live wherever you like. If you choose to live in the Bay Area, that's your problem. Pizza delivery drivers don't get to demand a higher wage just because they prefer to drive a lambo.
This might sounds trivial. But proprietary codecs are hard for commercial usage. They cost money. If it’s just uploading a file. Ok. But if the system designed to decode it in any way this might lead to more expensive system.

The codec “war” and Apple’s decision going with HEIC over opened source WebP is also to be questioned if portability of media is expected.
+100 to this. I’ve seen so many chem trails and 5g bs sprouted in my feed. Because this kind of content involves a lot of discussion, it gets pushed higher in my feed ;(
Have to agree with this guy here.. if you are doing Q/A testing and you notice that an iphone doesn't work by default, you have a problem.
As in humans, it’s also possible that they don’t all share the exact same motivation at the exact same time.
It seems a competitor like Dailymotion was able to survive on its own, bar YouTube competition. I m not sure its viable with it, but without google it seemed profitable.
I don't know much about it other than what I've learned through the struggle of trying to set up a cluster.

But why do so many projects depend on Zookeeper? What does it provide that couldn't be done through a embedded library? Seems like a lot of databases don't really need it. Is it worth the extra network dependency and operational complexity?
Oh good. Blocking him made reddit much more enjoyable.
SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft faces its biggest test
Colorado is the sweet spot if you don't require access to lakes or the ocean. I'm about ~$1850 for daycare and a nice house in Boulder is around $1mil. For a FAANG level engineer out here that's not much of a stretch at all.
He didn't say that at all

He alluded to how those systems being over-regulated and broken prevent the usual economic factors from working. E.g. if you don't allow people to build new houses in certain places then that makes it quite easy for housing prices to go up in those areas
My initial thought upon reading the title: 'what the hell is "blank reveal text"?'
Are Google, Amazon and Facebook selling ads to robots?

I'm pretty sure we are the product, not the customer.

Think about what that means... advertisers spend money to get in front of people based on the data they think is important for their business, right?

It's derived from all of our data, which we are not getting paid for. Do you think these companies would be worth trillions if they weren't profiting off data we give them for free?
I think if you are working for a Google / Facebook and getting a wage adjustment, the end result would be about even. If you drop from $400,000 to $300,000, but your rent goes down by $30,000 a year, and also your taxes go down from California rates then in the end things might even out give or take a few percent.

However, if the choice is between working for a local company and working for a high end bay area firm, then absolutely the best financial move is to move to SF/Seattle/NYC. Local companies here top out at $150,000 for a senior engineer, so if I can make $400,000 in a big city, then even with the higher cost of living, I still would come out way ahead living in SF.
The labor market is not as efficient as your one data point makes you think. At big corporations hundreds of millions are thrown around like paper. All you need is a large corporation, some intense groupthink, and some kickbacks and the company is going to be paying $1MM for a remote worker barely better than a recent graduate. With monetary persuasion people are able to make management buy into calling someone who is nothing a purple squirrel critical to the company.
It gives the appearance of working on Windows. If you change the file extension of a picture, you can still open it, so it may come from that experience.
I think that was the point. They are trying to show how that sort of logic is flawed.
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Probably another big chunk was neutral, so it may less than 50% not interested (which also isn't the same as against).
As a Brit; I'm a capitalist with a sprinkle of socialism.

I'm disappointing none of these tech companies are acknowledging the happiness that comes from camaraderie and togetherness. (Note: I don't have a family though)

I love the company of others; and the unpredictability of what my day has in store when I venture out my front door.

Everybody working from home for me sounds like one step closer towards a blander, lonelier, disengaged, dispassionate, oppressed workforce.
Windows 10 quietly got a built-in network sniffer, how to use
> ... Tailwind because you practically don't have to write any CSS.

Only until you want to apply a hover style change on a child element (ie: make that svg icon change color when you hover on the a tag that wraps it) and you discover that you need to write that css yourself.
Ask HN: Can I be required to change my resume format to comply with audit?
I feel like I'm going crazy here, but I don't have much professional experience so maybe this is commonplace.

I'm working as a jr developer at a startup in the healthcare space. Anyway, we were just audited by a big pharma company (I'm still not sure what this process entails, but it's required before we can do business with them). They flagged many of the employee resumes on file as "non-compliant", and we were all given a new resume template to copy our information into.

This seems crazy to me. Why should a client be able to dictate how I format my resume? Is this typical?
I do not understand this huge criticism against college board for this. My daughter took 5 AP exams this time and we got multiple remainders from her teachers and AP board that HEIC will not work.

Here is the relevant FAQ:
<quote>
Can student submit an HEIC file of a photo of their handwritten work?
Recent iPhones and iPads save photos as HEIC files. HEIC photo files can’t be submitted “as is” in the online exam. They must be converted to an accepted file format. Here are two ways students can do that:
Update their Apple device settings before the exam so that their photos will be saved as .jpeg files: Settings > Camera > Formats > Select “Most Compatible” OR
Resave the HEIC file as an accepted file format: the easiest way to convert an HEIC file is for students to email it to themselves using the iPhone or iPad Mail app. The attached image will automatically be converted to a JPEG.
</quote>

I guess we think it is too hard for an AP student to actually read and follow instructions.
Show HN: A simple open-source Android puzzle game
Hello HN!

I made a simple puzzle game for Android!
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.neamar.turnmeon

I built "Turn me on" as a tribute to the old games of before: back then, you didn't have to log in every day, you didn't have to invite three friends to play, you didn't have infinite progression, you didn't have to watch ads til kingdom come. The game would just build on top of a basic idea, and once you're done with the game, it wouldn't try to get you back at any cost every week.

This is a one time experience, kinda like an escape game.
See this game as digital detox: once you've finished the 43 levels, you're done. You can resume your work, or go back to your life, hopefully a little happier than before.

Turn me on is also open-source, and implemented in Flutter! If you're curious, you can visit https://github.com/Neamar/turn_me_on/

Feedback welcome!
The market dictates your price for the value you provide. You can't charge $1B/hour and get away with it. There is an optimal profit-maximizing price for your services, regardless of whether or not you acknowledge that fact. Yes, you can change more than this amount, but you will get fewer clients and be making less total profit as a result.

That could be totally fine and rational since there are other utility-maximizing considerations for you like how much you want to work, the kind of work you do, the kind of clients you're willing to take on, etc., but that doesn't change the fact that you can't arbitrarily set your price and not expect a change in the amount of business you can conduct.

You may not be profit-maximizing, but companies certainly are, and as a result, they'll pay whatever rates the market allows them to.
I've never even heard of HEIC before, I'd probably make the same mistake.
I agree, they should add some kind of option to disable updates for pro users even if they warn you. For me, W10 has always given me an option to defer updates and let me pick a time. At work, we use WSUS to manage our machines and my W10 box regularly gets months of up-time. Crazily enough, we even have a W10 laptop (!) that does some critical stuff with a year and half of up-time. https://i.imgur.com/uRGmhTU.png
It is special not because of the quality of developers but because there are so many of them together in close proximity. It still remains to be seen whether the 100% remote experiment will work out or not as an industry standard, so let's not write the Silicon Valley obituaries just yet.
Product Building vs. Product Distribution
> Whenever in therapy it seems that I always try to argue against any advice given

You're not unique in that. There are a lot of patients that will fight against advice, tooth and nail. Sadly, we aren't very good at helping those people. That's part of why a lot of docs lead with meds and then therapy - the meds tend to get people into a position where they're more "oh, shit, I was thinking/feeling that?! That's not healthy!", so they're more open to what occurs in therapy.

But a decent therapist should focus on guiding your understanding, but eliciting "advice" from you to yourself, rather than providing their own. It's akin to motivational interviewing.
For some reason I expected this to just interact with some form of http API. After digging into the source code I discovered the author is using etaoin. This is a really neat use of the etaoin library for selenium bindings in Clojure.
I know this will be downvoted because people aren't really interested in solving the real problem.

We could fix the whole SF homeless population problem in the space of one parking lot. Just build micro apartments of 10'x10' feet. Make it 150' wide at the base: 15x15 = 225 x 40 stories = 9000 inhabitants. 100' feet might not be much, but it's a hella of a lot more space to live in than hong kong, where people barely get one bed.

And, with SF's enormous homeless budget of over 300 million, combined almost over 500m? there'd be more then enough funds to build as many of these buildings as we need.

The thing that stops these types of solution is rules, rules and more rules. We choose not to solve the homeless situation: it's a political choice.
Telemetry is also built into every web application you interact with. The lessons learned in this space are shifting to non-browser based applications it seems. Sucks.
IMHO:

The only thing wrong with SQL is that SELECT statements should begin with the FROM clause so that there could be better support for auto completion.
No more so than the 2008 stimulus checks. Both programs were non-universal and under both the number of dollars sent to eligible recipients depended on their incomes.
Agreed. My company builds text messaging tools and we recently had to add support for HEIC images. Not a huge deal, but we only had to do it at all because we started seeing a few errors with users messages where a HEIC image was being sent in from an iPhone and we didn't have support for that format. It turns out that iOS will send a JPEG when sending an MMS message to avoid this compatibility issue. Except, in the cases where iOS doesn't send the JPEG and instead sends the HEIC. I'm not entirely sure what causes this but it seems to happen occasionally.
Chile is an hour ahead of EST, and Argentina and Brazil are two hours ahead. Always wondered if they could serve as a good bridge between North American offices and Western Europe.
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Answering only your final question: the smoke of burning wood and coal for heat. Coal fire was the cause of the infamous London “pea souper” fogs, for instance. It’s hard to remember now but burning gasoline and natural gas were significant improvements in the levels of pollution (and other hygiene factors) in cities during the 20th century. Of course at that time the only air pollution people were thinking of was particulates.

Also it looks like Kathmandu is in a valley which can concentrate the issue so a smaller absolute amount of particulate pollution can have more impact than the same activity on a plain.

I also question the “living memory” assertion.
The living conditions are worst on average but if you're bringing in CS money then you can afford to live luxuriously in whichever country you choose and it would cost you less.
I guess they expect the big money in being either the host of all that or the trusted point linking hosts and clients.

I'm not looking forward to the future where Microsoft knows when I read which email and puts content (and later ads).
I admit I don't know much about the affordable housing efforts, but I don't know why anyone would put a lot of work into building affordable housing in Solana Beach.

https://goo.gl/maps/X1MN673Pwc57eS2C9

It's a tiny ( by CA standards ) town right on the beach and most non-service jobs are a crowded commute away. I don't object to having affordable housing everywhere, but if I wanted to build some in San Diego county, it's about the last place I would go.