skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing as you posted this comment twice, here's my reply again:

No. I hope this burns to read.

Software never improves because incompetence is the norm. Not because we didn't have a magical data collection unicorn available.

Competent software companies ran user panels, had decent quality control, didn't steamroll their communities, didn't market loudly over user dissent and certainly didn't shut down their issue tracking to even their top tier partners.

That was Microsoft 10 years ago. That is Microsoft today. But you know, Telemetry solves all these problems doesn't it? No.

The real answer to your question: ask and listen. People will gladly tell you. Do not just take the data otherwise you end up with a set of poorly selected metrics which do not represent user opinion and a lot of pissed off customers who don't want to or can't tell you due to legislation and data protection.

Edit: to back up my point, Microsoft closed down Connect with over 30 issues open from me and our account manager left to go and work for a competitor because he was fed up of dealing with that kind of shit and couldn't even get basic issues from a Gold partner actually escalated to anyone. We had a ticket open for 7 years against clickonce where IE9 broke it completely for about 15,000 users.

As for community steamrolling, this is a repeat of this one again: https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/6145

Edit 2: I have removed some irrelevant stuff. This story goes on forever. I have so many anecdotes from dealing with MSFT pre and post OSS glory that I concentrate all my effort on staying as far away as possible.
thanks so much for checking it out :)
Because the continued existence and quality of the subreddit brings value to them. It’s no different than volunteering. The fact that Reddit is for-profit doesn’t really enter into the equation.

I don’t get it for relationship subreddits because it’s so mentally exhausting but for fandoms and niche communities the experience is super cool.
thanks for the kudos!
Has she tried using a stylus? I wonder if grasping something alters her hand stability.
It's almost like they enjoy doing it for free.
I have done the same. Labview is confusing and destroys computers, old and new.

What I recall from the 90's was using DOS labview to make a control UI and it was pretty remarkable for it's time, clean and lightweight and easy to implement.

When I saw what it had turned into a couple years ago my jaw dropped.
Yes, your first sentence can easily be read as (I am only exaggerating slightly) “how can you be so stupid to ask the obvious?” Short form online communication is hard.
As I understand it, there's a slowly increasing supply of Loki, a private cryptocurrency. Basically, service nodes earn Loki for caching messages, and relaying traffic. I gather that's analogous to mining in Bitcoin etc.

Creating a new service node requires a providing a stake in Loki, which I believe currently costs on the order of $5000. And the only source is Loki held by existing service nodes. So arguably, as the creation rate for new service nodes increases, the price of the requisite Loki stake increases, perhaps supra linearly, or even exponentially.

There's also the issue that service nodes that behave maliciously lose all of their Loki, both the initial stake, and anything that they've earned.

I don't know specifics, however. So I don't know just how high the bar is for malicious service nodes.
I think it's more like a bunch more people from different backgrounds joined the site.
It just sucks when companies set out to exploit this human characteristic for profit

It is easy to make money off fear/hate than love/friendship. Racist people will always be racist, Nextdoor or not. It is just that sites like Nextdoor make it easier to vent and share their "feelings". If Nextdoor goes away, there will be 10 others to take its place unfortunately.
> I think it's incorrect to suggest that the "vast majority" of content is manipulated. You see the same names because they understand the game of karmawhoring.

What is the distinction between content manipulation and the game of karmawhoring? They seem more or less the same to me. I think I would consider SEO a form of content manipulation, for example.
If Gallowboob and friends are just helpful innocent people, why were were the calling-out comments, dozens upon dozens of them, deleted, and the people posting them banned?

If you're helpfully, innocently, looking after dozens of top subs, and people mention that and wonder what's going on, you don't censor them, you have flipping AMA about it!
Sorry, forgot to mention it. These are the numbers from Italy's Istituto Superiore di Sanità.
On the plus side, we got a new Cannonball Run record: 26 hours across the continent, which works out to an average of 107 mph including stops...

https://www.whichcar.com.au/news/the-cannonball-run-record-h...
Well its the insider build. The normal build doesn't require that
What are you getting out of this?

Not the OP, but most people just want to help a community that they are a part of and take a hand in making it better and helping members of the community.

You have to remember, this issue is played on pretty much every online community that has likely ever existed, in some form or another. Long before the term "social network" became used.
Thankfully the HN moderators are paid employees--I can't imagine doing that kind of work for free.
I have zero desire to go into an office. Ever.

Very happy WFH, and have.. on and off, for years. Sometimes self-employed.

Also like part time digital nomad-ing.

Companies that are WFH friendly tend to have less meeting waste and office culture time wasting. The last company I spent time at had a nice building but horrible amenities. The kitchens were swampy and busy, meeting rooms difficult to schedule, inaccessible VPs who were always in meetings, etc. because decisions took forever the workforce also spent a lot of time waiting, and the socializing was endless. I just find less of that when working for a company that has tuned away from that.
I more or less quit Reddit when I realized what kinds of traits moderation tends to select for: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/03/16/the-moderator-problem-how.... Perhaps you're an exception, or the exception, and, based on Reddit's growth, it seems that my preferences are minority ones.
I work all day, then start my second job. Optimizing my way to a 1k science per minute base. Good thing I upgraded my PC last year!
The idea being that you'd punish those users who generate most of the content for your platform? How does that make sense?
GNU/PONY, a weird Git based Linux distro
Shopify Goes Fully Remote
Shopify Goes Digital by Default
I've noticed that people are driving a lot faster on the emptier roads.
I'd gladly agree to negotiate a sale of my usage data, where I can set my price and they can decide if they'd like to buy it. Or better, I'll agree to send my telemetry data if they agree to send me their source code so I can see exactly what is being sent.
Using it in multiple projects: The software itself is great and provides great value.

Only pitfall are the available libs. Especially with the .NET implementation we had quite a lot of trouble. Its not following current .NET patterns and has strange quirks. Does anyone know a good alternative to the "official" one?
Judging from most moderators that are active it would appear to be a power thing for them.
Same way term limits make sense. Hit the ceiling, then you're done. Make room for someone else. Avoid stagnation.
Do you think there's a difference between coercing user feedback and incentivizing voluntary feedback?
Antibody studies from Spain and elsewhere show only ~5% of population of these 'hard-hit' nations has had the virus. This confirms a mortality rate of about 1% when the national epidemic has a bad first wave but limited medical system overwhelm, followed by a severe lockdown.

Best guess given herd immunity kicks in at about 85% of pop infected is about 260,000 deaths with a 1% mortality rate. With these figures 500,000 deaths is a 1.9% mortality rate - high but still possible.

contextualise everything with this 5% figure - the US, and everywhere else, is much closer to the beginning of this than to the end.
> This was extremely harmful to the overall mission of informing people and created a false balance between sides which are not equally valid. Today, this is almost universally seen as a failure of journalism.

So CNN should get to decide what is correct? Go fuck yourself, and learn how to think. If CNN's audiance can't make their own decisions then that is the fault of the audience not CNN. We don't need, and should abhor, "gatekeepers" of information.

Having two opposing sides is 100% the correct way to do journalism.
OP didn't really help by not sharing any details about his friend. It's friendly to assume that some skills might be monetized on these platforms.
Pokemon Go really did something new when it came out. I'm glad to see it's still relevant and pushing AR technology forward.
> FreeBSD is the next obvious choice since its ZFS implementation supposedly kicks ass

Wasn't FreeBSD rebasing onto ZfsOnLinux ?
- Forced upgrades from windows 7,8 to 10

- Uncontrollable automatic updates on Windows 10

- Forced reboots for updates even if the computer is in the middle of a long-running task

- Ruining of Windows search to the point it is basically unusable

- Removal of Paint and deprecation of the Snipping Tool

You know, just to name a few.
It’s no different than volunteering.

It's certainly volunteering in the synonymous sense of 'doing something for nothing because you can' but I feel this statement-left in the vacuous state of its own brevity-comes loaded with an unsaid implication that "volunteering" on Reddit is no different than "volunteering" in one's local community and I'm not sure it's that simple.
These people are powerful and get paid to further the agenda of their employers.
The server didn't work for me, not sure if it's a traffic issue or what.

I have at least 3 create-react-app and one next app running. I even ran a quick websocket server on port 3000 just to see but nada.
The country setting can be changed by the user. If one wanted to change their country to a GDPR respecting EU country, which should one choose? Does it matter?

https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-cha...
Super bad news about that: even if it didn't allow the `localhost` string, DNS rebinding allows the domain name of the site you visited to become 127.0.0.1.

The answer to why browsers allow connections to 127.0.0.1 from external sites is probably something like "legacy reasons".
Not kawaii, but good callout nonetheless. This is just what designs end up looking like when you consider 7 billion people your target audience and want to market to them all simultaneously. It's for everyone and also for no one; it's soulless garbage.
Yes, I would bet this accounts for the vast majority of the effect. Hard to test the theory, though. Maybe look at the driving records of the deceased, see whether the average number of past offenses was also higher.
Obfuscation tech (out-of-country) based proxy/vpn along with tor is a must.
Is the value of Reddit karma purely psychological? I know that you can sell accounts with high point values for significant sums of money, but I'm confused what the actual value is aside from the little dopamine rush you get when something is upvoted.
That's the opposite of the rule for CJK characters, right? For those, symbolically-same characters get the same codepoint regardless of semantics (language) or shape (glyph).
If it’s below market rate; sure, why not?
:-) good catch, the oldest legacy I knew from 8 was the "advanced appearance" menu, but they removed it in 10
Not even close.

Donating money and volunteer hours are not the same as 24 hour care and responsibility for years on end.

They aren’t offsetting. You’re skipping the very hard work of it all, and justly, missing the reward too.
They collect and require your name and your actual home address (and they verify these) all as part of their required registration. What could be more PII than that? Seriously. What?
> There’s no escaping the fact that highly intelligent people willing to work harder than most people in this culture supported by a sufficiently developed industrial base will be formidable.

Will they be? China's "talent fade" is very much real, and thanks to the event of past few years is at all time high. Higher than at the previous peak around 2010-2012.

The fact that 2010-2012 "chicken run" worked so well for the generation of Chinese elites to exit before the change of power, and before Xi Jinping's mass crackdown only vindicates people trying to leave China now.

People who made money under Xi are afraid of:

1. Xi losing power, and a repeat of what has happened 10 years ago.

2. Xi keeping power, and coming back in force, and a repeat of what has happened 10 years ago.

> Given the cultural unity and the sheer size of population I would be shocked if we didn’t become a second rate power relative to them by 2050.

How much time doesn't matter if the general trend still keeps. It doesn't matter how much engineers, scientists, and billionaires China will produce if they will leave China for US, and help Western businesses complete against their home country.

Look, go to LinkedIn and find how many people with title "engineer" have Chinese sounding surnames working American multinationals. In some cases, it's up to 4 out of 5.

Moreover, I say that this process is self-reinforcing with a feedback loop: the higher the concentration of low wage workers is in China, the more attractive the labour market becomes for American multinationals hiring Chinese high end talent. The more money they do, the higher does the trade imbalance get, and more debt the US can issue.
Yes a lot of social media relies on cycling news and has the potential to slide in rumours that come out the 'other side' as fact. It's a flawed system, but it's worth watching the washing machine spin because a lot of great clean clothes come out from between all the suds and dirt.
I find it frustrating that stored procedures can't start and stop transactions. Without that ability, you can't really move application logic into the database.

[edit: Doh, I'm wrong. Sorry. I'll leave the comment here.]
My .02 cents. To me the arguments I read here around "but product improvement is hard so that justifies collecting the data" ring hollow. When your convenience at work is balanced against someones right to privacy, there's no middle ground. Privacy wins. You need active informed consent to phone home for reasons not related to the proper functioning of the application.

I wish most applications offered 3 boxes:

1) Don't send telemetry

2) Send data needed to catch bad rollouts (think SRE style status code and latency metrics).

3) Send anonymized data to help improve the product.

4) I want to be a beta tester/insider, you can capture my logs.
This is droll but I think it inadvertently makes a good point: we should be using more aids like syntax highlighting for natural language.

Natural language is at least as hard to understand as artificial programming languages, and humans have (reluctantly) regularly improved the syntax highlighting of natural languages, by adding consonants, spaces, scores of punctuation marks, cases, and variant typefaces. (Consider trying to read something like ancient Hebrew in the original, written without spaces, consonants, punctuation, or lower vs uppercase - never mind italics or bolds!) Why don't we add more? Surely we did not invent the ultimate way of writing English around 1500 AD?

The primary distinction seems to be that computer languages are regular enough to be machine-annotated. If you had to hand-typeset every line of code, syntax highlighting would be used only in the rarest of CS publications. (Sort of like color-coding in equations: incredibly useful pedagogically, but also so difficult to do in HTML or TeX on top of actually writing the equations that only the occasional enthusiast or particularly-determined teacher will bother.) Natural language is such a major challenge to annotate simply by part-of-speech that you need to be a linguist to do so reliably. So naturally, no one ever does, and anyone who might want to is deterred by the fact that no one else does so readers won't understand or like it. (Beginning programmers are often confused or distracted by syntax highlighting as well.)

However, when you look at the best grammar/style checkers, or deep learning results on parsing natural language, it seems plausible that they've gotten good enough that something useful could be done with them...
A lot of these reports make assumptions that the problem is due to speeding, but they don't contain any data about actual traffic speeds. I would like to see some evidence that the median and 85th percentile speed of traffic has gone up significantly before giving credence to claims that speeding has increased.
The annual dividend is around $1000. I wouldn’t call this UBI exactly.
Yes, FreeBSD will be switching to ZoL - https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2018-December...
It may feel very strange for someone in their late 80s, but for making calls, Siri could be the answer.
sounds like they are serious about making an interoperability layer between older programming constructs so you can run .net core code on older frameworks

am i missing something other than the politics?

admittedly this is pure speculation (TLDR... i mean... it's a corporate github repo with an unfathomable number of enormous minds contributing to it), but i would think something like .net core 1.1 would be the initial target

also... to head of the parenthisized joke above... i was also too lazy to research it more. i told my boss about it, though. he's smart... and in charge of how things like this impact my life
OK so yes the ISS docking sim is old news, but good lord do I love that UX. I really hope someone has modded it into Kerbal Space Program!
They made it impossible to opt out of telemetry unless you buy enterprise licenses and run a domain controller.

Old Microsoft software had a simple toggle switch for this.

By default, windows 10 lets Microsoft engineers remotely log into your box and browse your filesystem. They say they only use it for diagnostic purposes, but I don’t see how that could be true unless they’re in violation of US law, which compels them to give the same access to law enforcement.

I’m not sure if you can opt out of that (or whether the opt out would survive a warrant).

I switched away from windows over this sort of thing. There were dozens of other objectionable things they were caught doing, and efforts to build windows 10 “decrappifiers” made it clear they were adding new telemetry every month, and laundering the data through sock puppet domains.
These people don't just control the big subreddits. r/programming is controlled by spez for example. Not that he would have a problem with just changing the Reddit database manually anyways.
looks like governments really enjoy stripping us of our liberties once our attention is directed somewhere else - be it terrorist attacks or global pandemics. we shouldn't lose sight of what's important to us or else the people in power will take it away!
I don't think that we can judge whether that's an exception without going through a lot of data, esp. since different neighborhoods aren't likely to be at all consistent, esp with age and regional differences. I used to see a lot of cases of old racist neighbors jumping to conclusions or confabulating a bigoted story from a few inconclusive pieces of evidence that mostly amounted to "a black person is present in our neighborhood so they're probably a criminal." I don't look at NextDoor anymore.
Star or thumbs up these issues if you want ESNI to be prioritized more:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=908132

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/7482
The issue he was "outed" over (concerning alleged control of a significant portion of reddit by a small number of users) was discussed here previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23173018
I have only done a bit of it in technology and innovation, so not sure beyond those categories.
Given the recent "boom" of MQTT, anyone use RabbitMQ for MQTT clients? Any benefits of using it that way over using MQTT-only brokers?
there’s a difference between being remote and knowing most coworkers are in one location and time zone and being remote first and having everyone in multiple time zones. I assume most who choose to be “remote” will stay in the US, but if “remote first” ends up being a dozen time zones there is no advantage to that at all, in fact it just becomes a massive scheduling headache.
The Uncensored Library – using Minecraft to bypass internet censorship
> there's little consistency between types and orders of arguments in the base functions of the language

This is an inheritance from C. Most of these functions are present in libc and the bound libraries (e.g. libcurl), with the same arguments. 20something years ago, this was a big selling point to me, because I didn't have to re-learn the functions, just use the function and forget about malloc()/free()...
Agreed 100% with this. TCL is a super cool language IMO. It's mature, unixy, and has minimal external dependencies. The ecosystem is stable and slow moving. I would encourage anybody to try it out!

The syntax takes some adjustment because it's not lval/rval-based, which is maybe why it's not so widely used now. But if you want a language that's more robust than shell and more minimal than Python, consider TCL for your next project.
My experience is that you learn how to work around bugs and crashes because they won't get fixed and you need to get your work done.
There are tons of examples of how 4chan routinely traced down individuals based on little evidence.

For more recent examples see bellingcat.com it's amazing how far you can go with just open sources and a lot of determination. It also helps to have multiple people do the searching, if like a 100 people would trawl through your posting history here they could probably create a pretty detailed profile of you.

For example, on my hackernews profile I link to my mastodon handle. If you would go through my mastodon posting history you would see that I occasionally post links to YouTube music videos I like, I also occasionally post comments under YouTube videos under my real name. If you took all videos I've ever posted to mastodon in like a 2-year period, and compared the comments you could probably find out what my real name is. It would take some hours of menial work, but it's pretty straightforward.
I'm looking for the best DB for a serverless backend (cloud functions).

Typically the problem with RDBMS is that it's very expensive to handle thousands of concurrent connections. NoSQL doesn't have that issue. For example FaunaDB is designed for serverless and has no practical connection limits, Mongo Atlas gives you 500 concurrent connections on the free tier [1], etc.

In comparison Postgres on Heroku only gives you 500 connections on the most expensive plans. Even the $50 per month Postgres plan only gives you 50 concurrent connections.

[1] https://docs.atlas.mongodb.com/reference/atlas-limits/
> and our productivity tools are starting to look like Animal Crossing.

bada-bing!
Power tripping is very addictive.
It's very hard to survey with precision the exact state of a body of rich text. I don't even like using rich text editors for prose, for this reason. HTML/Markdown are the closest thing we have to "rich text that's explicit and precise", but at that point you're back to plain text with special machine-readable syntaxes. And who wants to write out explicit formatting directives solely so that formatting can then drive program behavior?