skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big/default subs are fast becoming outright mainstream trash on reddit. Fortunately like small businesses in the economy the smaller subs are holding the whole show together.

This is a positive change -- that one user account had too much power over too many subs. I refuse to believe money wasn't becoming involved.

Size breeds skepticism and the GallowBoob account (whomever was using it) just got too big.
Because they've been getting a pass for years and it's painful to give up something that you've been doing. Oh, wait, you're telling me that's not a valid reason?
And when someone posts OC, a photo, for example, to a small subreddit or at a low-trafficked time of day and a "karmawhore" screenshots the photo and posts it to several highly trafficked subreddits would you consider those upvotes organic or manipulated?

It's my understanding that this is a common tactic used by people who are "karma farming" on an account. I can certainly understand how the karmawhore feels the upvotes are organic but I can also see how the owner of the original content would very much consider those upvotes manipulated.

And when a karmawhore lifts content and uses a title that insinuates it's their content ("My Dog Spike Doing Funny Thing"), I think the fuzzy line between organic and manipulated feels a little less fuzzy and lot more manipulated. Not just for the content owner, but for the content consumers as well. I think there's some expectation, at least some of the time, that an "organic" OP will interact with commenters and provide more detail in response to questions and it can be disappointing when you come across an interesting post only to realize that isn't the case because OP is just looking to maximize eyeballs & upvotes.
One of my posts to r/Portland was incorrectly removed with the excuse "not related to Portland." in reality it was related however the post was contentious and I was prevented from re-posting. The moderator didn't even pretend to acknowledge a genuine rule that was broken, just simply told me not to post it. After I complained I was muted from contacting the mods.

Not to blame you but this is the kind of BS that makes me uninterested in the Reddit community, and uninterested in Portland in general, rife with cancel culture.
There's also 3-D Secure, which e.g. UK banks have implemented. This is a solved problem with sane solutions, just like chip&pin, and not using cheques.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_Secure
It seems the one of the fundamental problems leading to this situation is that reddit moderation is unpaid yet requires large amounts of time. So anyone who becomes a 'big' moderator has to monetize their efforts externally, leading to communities being suspicious of the motives of any big moderator.
> The restriction is essentially equivalent to the government murdering large numbers of its citizens.

Removing the restriction would be equivalent to the government murdering large numbers of different citizens.
The Way to Develop Your Team Isn't Feedback
My go-to solution for fault-tolerant message queues is nsq (https://nsq.io/). nsq works differently from most other message queues in that it's supposed to be run in a distributed fashion, i.e. one nsqd running wherever messages are produced. That way you have a lightweight and fast local message queue that you can push messages to and not worry about network connectivity. You can use nsqlookupd to find the distributed nsqd that hold the topic you want to subscribe to, or you can run an additional nsq-to-nsq process to push messages from one broker to the next. It's a really great and very mature and stable piece of software. I'd say the only downside to using nsq is that you have to invest a little more in monitoring and you have to make sure that network connectivity between your consumer and each nsqd that carries a certain topic is possible.
They specify they support PNG and JPEG, the two most common format. Why is it their fault that Apple made HEVC the default?
It does when talking about companies whose offices provide perks that potentially improve quality of life, productivity, happiness, etc. The decision between working at home and working in an empty warehouse is different than home and the brand new offices of companies like Stripe, Dropbox, and many others.
Or just act one on here.. Car accidents happen all the time and rarely does the person who caused it think they were going to cause it. If you had lost people to an idiotic driver in your life maybe you'd see things my way.
> (desktop) Safari never re-encodes an image when uploading a file.

Not really: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23261216

Images are converted if you select from Photos (instead of the filesystem).
I'd try to explain them something more concrete, like A/B testing. There are some nice articles written by patio11:

* "Why You Don't A/B Test... And How You Can Start This August" https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/why_you_d... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6161552 | 119 points | Aug 5, 2013 | 56 comments)

* "Dispatches From The A/B Testing Trenches" https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/ab_testin... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12540590 | 166 points | Sept 20, 2016 | 46 comments)

Also, a good Mythbuster marathon may be helpful, but it is more difficult to explain as a business activity.
> This could also be explained by user expectations for software rising but quality of Microsoft code remaining constant.

I disagree. Evidence that supports MS code quality dropping includes a significant amount of users hanging on to Windows 7 with their cold dead hands even post years of MS marketing, arm twisting, GWX updates, and EOLing Windows 7, with users paying for ESUs via Ask Woody vendors and/or that 0patch tool.

I myself moved to Windows 8.1 and from there am hem-hawing on whether to use KDE Neon or Linux mint XFCE and just leaving behind Windows except for the air-gapped Windows 7 VM I will no doubt need for things like Anime Studio. I will not allow Windows 10 (outside work devices) on my home network.

(Maybe for Centaurus aka Courier Jr...but I'll put it on the guest wifi and make a bunch of throwaway accounts for it. )
Friendly reminder FreeCiv is free forever--albeit with less glam
It will also drive down wages across the board long term.
The ground is softening. Something is shifting in Antarctica’s McMurdo Valleys
The proof-of-work for Bitcoin is leading 0's in SHA-256 sums.

It doesn't make money, it's just a simple way of proving you did an approximate unit of work.
I've been running RabbitMQ for >8 years in production, once even in a fleet of 180 buses where every bus had an instance of rabbitmq running locally.

Never had a single issue in all those years.

But, I must admit that running a HA cluster is something that I've never tried, it sounds complicated and scary once you start digging through the docs.

All my deployments have been to bare metal Ubuntu and Debian machines with durable Qs and messages.

If you need to use transactions, they are really slow, couple of orders of magnitude slower compared to regular AMQP usage.
Partially. For a drill or screwdriver or other tool where the battery is integral to the tool's case, you don't really want some dangling field-fabricated adapter flopping around while you're trying to work.
Who doesn't test their upload forms with common flows like uploading an iPhone photo?

Sounds to be like the college board contracted this out to the lowest bidder.
Sure, and turns out you don't even need the accept attribute (see edit). They're doing something funny.
Ok, we've changed the URL from https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/498781-car... to what appears to be the original source and appears not to autoplay a video.
how about pgBouncer for connection pooling? I know it's more operational overhead, but is that still not good enough for your use case?
How to scale developer marketing, from Ryan Carlson, Okta CMO
many things will change. Traffic, real estate prices, salaries.
We are creating in that space. You can say it is a "Clubhouse for sub-communities / Reddit". https://voicehub.app/
Find or create another community.

There are basically two scenarios here. One, a lot of people agree with you — in which case you should be able to appeal the decision or splinter off successfully. Two, most people disagree with you — in which case the mod is probably right, or at the very least you're simply not welcome in the community.

Let's also not forget that we're talking about violence in response to moderation decisions. So even if that's their response, it's still not okay to e.g. threaten them.
I have only skim read the linked documents but what aspect specifically do you feel is being under-reported?
I kayak in the ocean and have been seeing more whales and dolphins near shore than usual. My layman's theory is that it's due to fewer whale watching boats bothering them - I can hear those boats from miles away.
They did. Unfortunately, they isolated all the innovation in the Alpha Centauri / Beyond Earth / Starship line.
I've been experimenting with a side project: www.glancereport.com, which pulls the top headline from a variety of news sources. You can also sort these headlines by neutral, progressive, or conservative sources.

I'm still learning how to play with Python and Redis, and it's not perfect, but would love feedback.
> Someday the Internet will be filled with programs flooding the Internet with increasingly sophisticated malformed information

We've been there for a while now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7dfJ1lZ13g
Indeed, early game is hard because barbarians spawn repeatedly and out tech you. They only spawn from camps, so once you expand your area of influence it's less a problem but you need some way of dealing with spearmen early to really clear them out.

The way it the barbarians work though is somewhat clever: they send out scouts, and it seems like until their scout spots your city they won't spawn attackers. So you're incentivized to harass their scouts early on at least, but it's not really explained in any fashion beyond perhaps a visual ding.

After that the AI is so bad that you've basically won once the barbs are no longer threatening. I got back into civ 6 last month after a two year break and had forgotten this dynamic and kept starting over when the barbs felt overwhelming and killed a slinger or captured a cheeky unprotected settler.
Oh, I've seen a few videos of that. Does look interesting.
Why? Is more than one store client a bridge too far?

Would Steam have been preferred?
> So yeah, I could buy a big house Georgia but... why would I want to?

Because living in a big city with lot of options for food (and maybe other enjoyable and interesting things) give you decision fatigue?
Motorist fatalities are down. Pedestrian fatalities have doubled since 2010. (I think that year is right...).
Show HN: Remote Work Policy Tracker by Company
> you could assign AI governors to handle the city for you, but they were all so bad at their jobs that I could never being myself to use them

Perhaps this is most accurate to real life! It’s often tough to delegate tasks and watch them done less effectively. But it’s the only way to scale...
It's difficult because game-devs rely heavily on good reviews. Even if you revoke a key that you know for a fact has been stolen (or bought and charged back on CC), if it has been resold there is a very good chance that the new buyer will leave you a bad review. It's a lose-lose really.
Powerful Tactics for Pinpoint Focus
Barbs don't have a speed bonus AFAIK, but the terrain impacts movement significantly. So, if they are 'getting away from you' it's not because their barbs, it's because their unit has more movement and isn't moving through trees, or over hills/rivers.
Managed mixed teams before. Best of luck to FB management on getting things right.

I would prefer either one without mixing. One shoe in one shoe out is a great way to make it extra hard to manage.
Verizon's 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) – Between the Hacks
I’m curious now, how is having 1 gun per citizen not some sort of barrier to hostile takeover/occupation?
Its not fine, but its also completely impossible for G2A and ebay to fully avoid, because both are marketplaces.

What matters is how they address it, and that is being completely ignored in these comments in favor of vague moralizing about the evils of consumer choice.
"...and rules that compel developers to meet labor and environmental standards that often exceed what’s required for luxury condominiums."

It's not just rules. Funding is competitive, and if you want a competitive bid you need to promise the world. Parking, green technologies, accessibility, community space, lots of amenities for residents, landscaping, not to mention the cost of ongoing compliance.

"Another is California’s labyrinthine financing process, which forces developers to navigate a dozen different funding programs controlled by five separate departments with authority divided between the governor and state treasurer."

Having worked in the industry for 10 years, I'd say this is an understatement. There's also federal, local and county regulations in addition to the multi-tentacled state system.
To chime in, I have a loved one with ALS. He cannot move his hands at all. Apple's Voice Control allows him to do almost everything he could want to do with his iPad and it has really opened up his world again.

Learning to navigate takes a little practice, but is fairly intuitive once you know the available commands.
If that's the criteria, America never started. That line was penned when Americans still kept other human beings as slaves.

The long arc of history of the US bends towards that phrase becoming more true, but there's still a long way to go for everyone to be demonstrably accepting of it.
The burden of testing is enormous and nobody wants to pay for it. I know plenty of companies that barely test at all. All except the Googles of the world miss stuff regularly.
FWIW, as is the norm, my experience is that it works brilliantly --as long as you stay within apple defaults.

As soon as I stray from golden path - text using anything but Apple MEssages, email using anything but apple mail, post using anything but safari, use/process with anything but Apple Photos - HEIC has been an absolute positive pain in my keister ;-(

Other people may have more luck; note that my work iPhone is an isolated island - my other devices are either Android, or Windows/Linux - which probably explains my troubles to a large degree. Apple's selling point has always been the well-integrated ecosystem so I understand I'm an outlier.
It certainly depends on seniority and experience, the more you have the easier it is to work on your own. You don't need much guidance anymore and you know what communication and planning is needed in advance, so you can do it in batches.
>If you spend 90% of your time dealing with really awful people, you will get messed up.

I try to remember this when interacting with law enforcement. If you have to call the police, you're having a bad day. If you're a police your job is dealing with everyone's bad day.
I'm cracking up reading this and hearing it with the monotone voice of the guy in the video.
So I'm not even sure in my Volt if the 12v battery even powers the accessories directly, because it's at the _back_ of the car, not up in the front by the accessories.

It's super handy for boosting other vehicles.
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Don't work for a company with 50k employees. Don't live in a big city.
This is fine. Humanity has been descending into materialism to develop intelligence for long time and is now crossing the midpoint. That's why there are so many "ends justify the means" types around us. Soon the humanity will start ascending back to finish the cycle and all those sociopaths will be gone.
It's a naive extension filter then passed off to a well implemented image conversion routine that the programmer just invoked in their script.

So you need to do some little dance to get around it. You can probably run full blown postscript programs on their server if you simply name it .jpg.

College board is a $1 billion/year "not for profit" with a million dollar CEO, there's no excuse for this.
Love dolphins!!
I get a pretty clean FPS for civ6 on a thinkpad, what are you doing wrong?
“Well played, Thing; you’re really on the ball!” - Raul Julia, as Gomez.
Considering the market share of iPhone in this demographic, it's inexcusable not to correct for this — even if you disagree with Apple's decision on this.
> Tourists are merely delivery vehicles for food

People say that about pets too, but those people usually don't own pets. Why can't animals have similar social instincts to humans? Maybe they just want to hang out too.
No, it's bears and butterflies all the way.
Nonsense. HKers and TW people welcome each other with open arms.
BPT twitter also did that "April Fools joke" where only verified black people were allowed to post there, so it's not a really a suprise that an overtly racist subreddit attracts racists.
Why do you think it has been a disaster for them, even in HK, they would play the long game, and likely do nothing drastic for years or even decades. The fact is even in HK protests, they have largely not intervened in any manner, and haven't tried to tackle in a violent manner.

OTOH see how protests in Delhi have turned out over another draconian law. On the day Trump himself was in Delhi in Feb 2020, more than 10 people got killed in violence.
wow, that resource looks really fantastic.

also want to add: a good CSS thing to learn right now is the CSS grid. you can hammer out the blocking layout of your pages so quickly with a grid.

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/
Its pretty hard to get to that point unless you undergo a serious sudden change in volume.
I firmly believe that the only way an online forum, particularly an anonymous one with free signups can remain relatively civil is very heavy handed moderation. This is not a free speech zone (it's a privately owned space), and the only way to prevent bad actors is to be very liberal in applying heavy moderation.

If a few "medium" actors get banned by accident, that's the price to pay for the rest of us getting to enjoy discussing tech without dealing with a toxic cesspool.
Reminded me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult.
The same logic can be applied to humans.

“I don’t believe parents actually love their children and vice-versa. Parents are merely delivery vehicles of food for children. Children are delivery vehicles of future care for parents. Humans are probably projecting their fantasies about themselves being fundamentally better than they are in reality.”

We don’t directly perceive that dolphins project their fantasies about humans, but like with our fellow humans, it doesn’t mean they aren’t doing that.
The bullshit and nimbyism in California is truly breathtaking.

That happened in the wealthy San Diego County enclave of Solana Beach, where the Pearl was cut from 18 apartments to 10 and its approval required an underground garage with 53 parking spots.
Only if you consider the government responsible for the choices people make, which I do not.
Why to open a office anywhere if you can just hire remote ? Why to have a hub in Vancouver or Raleigh etc when you can hire from anywhere ?
Inline styles can't include media queries so if you want your styling to be responsive (which you probably want) you are going to need to write some CSS in a file and not have it inline.
> Postfix has much more functionality out of the box so the comparison isn't really fair.

But that's kind of the point. 20 years worth of feature accumulation is 20 years worth of additional attack surface, which is a liability if all you need is what qmail does.
All software breaks at some point. If you're dealing with this scale of load, it's mandatory to perform synthetic load testing to validate, otherwise you're just guessing what the breakage threshold will be.
I can think of MANY projects I've worked on (and currently working on) where other people are frankly a distraction, and I just need to focus on implementing a few features on my own. But you then need to coordinate a lot in person to figure our the next steps.

I think this set up provides much of the benefit of remote (greater flexibility in personal life commitments) while retaining the necessary components that many often cite for why remote isn't a good option (no face to face meetings). The point however is that it's not supposed to replace either in person or fully remote, but find more choices firms have in their staffing configurations. More choice means there will be greater market fit for both job seekers and employers.
"Facebook will reduce the pay of workers who move to less expensive areas."

Personally, this is a deal breaker for me. I don't want to get paid less for doing the same amount of work. In a remote world, deciding where to live should be a personal decision of how one spends their income. Facebook doesn't pay employees less because they decided to drive an expensive car to work.

Facebook, along with all other tech companies, make crazy amounts of revenue per employee. The pay reductions will be a rounding error on the company's budget. Why not keep salaries the same and get the absolute best talent in every market across the world?
We changed the URL but you can find the video via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23261711.
Try Stellaris, it is also a grand strategy game about empire building and diplomacy and wars... etc but I love the part that it is all real time, no turn base. And even better: I can pause the game and make a lot of commands, then unpause to see it runs. And able to increase or decrease the game speed.

And this game is on sale on steam very often. It was free last week though.
> Pearl was cut from 18 apartments to 10 and its approval required an underground garage with 53 parking spots.

How did it ever get here? Requiring more than 2 parking spots per apartment is insane.... especially for "affordable housing".
RapidAPI raises $25M more to expand its API marketplace
"Our system broke, you're screwed now, sorry" is never an acceptable answer. Do they really not have anyone who knows how to get stuff done?

1. Take the files and figure out what to do with them so they can be read. This isn't a hard problem.

2. Ask everyone affected to email you the photo or a new photo of the documents. We'll just take it on trust that you do so honestly because there's no way you would've seen this coming.
Understandable concerns. Around me at least it costs about $7000 all in for the improvements for a single parking spot in the city. 2-bike lockers cost about $1000 and take up a fraction of the space.
Indeed, I'll have to work to soften my tone next time. Appreciated! And here I thought I was doing well by not just using the LSP acronym lol.