skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why? who cares? do you not know how to skim and skip irrelevant text?

Ignoring inflammatory content can be more taxing to people than you pretend, and moderators and flagging are too slow to act. It's not the end of the world, but it's annoying enough that I would consider alternative services.

A forum is nothing without its users, and a forum that puts its users first shouldn't irritate its users with off-putting content without good reason.

> you could think of any number of ways to vet comments.

Alright, I was just checking whether you had any new ideas, and it seems that you do not.

> you're wrong that there are fewer submissions to arxiv

HN receives at least twice as many submissions per month, and an order of magnitude more comments. This makes the arXiv a very poor analogy for HN.

> you're also wrong that it's moderated

From [0] (see also, [1]):

> All submissions are subject to a moderation process that verifies material is appropriate and topical. Material that contains offensive language, non-scientific content, or is plagiarized may be removed.

Looks a lot like they have moderation to me.

> i also don't understand how heavy moderation is a counterpoint

If you already heavily filter by quality, then the order in which posts are presented obviously becomes much less important.

> yc is one of the most successful vcs in the world - they can't afford moderators?

HN does have an excellent moderation team. They just aren't anywhere near as stringent as the arXiv, on quality, on politeness, or on any number of other characteristics.

If HN was as heavily moderated as the arXiv, then they wouldn't need a voting system either. It'd be a much colder place, though, which is probably why they don't do that.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/help/submit

[1]: https://arxiv.org/help/moderation
4) change DNS settings in router to use the pi-hole.

Although I agree, it's not terribly complex to follow the steps. Lack of time to fiddle with self-managing a device seems like it could be a bigger limiter.
Have a look at https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hofmod-cli

It makes framing out advanced Golang CLIs a breeze

*(creator)
The best tool to read with is a pencil.
I assume her assistant does the obsessing for her.
I don't get it. There seems to be a sentiment in these comments that older → ill-suited; ill-suited being the actual reason why the anecdote about Excel is noteworthy. WordStar on DOS is a word processor. It's old and uncool, sure, but it's not ill-suited for the task in the way that Excel is.

Someone below mentions that Excel is probably an "upgrade" from a typewriter. What. Sure, Excel has undo and arbitrary text insertion, but so does Photoshop. Ask yourself if Photoshop would be an upgrade from a typewriter just because it's newer. At some point, the impedance mismatch wrt the actual task it was conceived for is so great that it will dominate any equation related to suitability for a particular purpose. So even the most recent version of Excel is still more ill-suited for writing than things actually made for writing, like typewriters and old word processors.
You could literally make the same argument about in person voting. How hard is it to get a fake id ? How about hacking ballot machines ? How about compromised ballot counters ? Yet, there is this weird focus on mailed ballots, which really should be default in a 21st century democracy. Trump is arguing in bad faith
I know I might be the weirdo here for browsing 4chon, but for the last few months I have seen a huge incursion of "PRC-affiliated"... "contributions"... and not only to high traffic and high turnover boards but even to niche ones. On boards using flags, these "contributions" come mainly from Canada, USA, and France.

Although I am secretly grateful for this spam, as it cut down my time spent there from 3-4 hours a week to 3-4 hours a month, it's still disconcerting as they are highly organized and apparently take huge pleasure in bludgeoning seals and other harmless creatures. Heck, I am amazed that the boards were clean even after the US Elections, the shutdown of 8chon and other such events.
This is Not Normal
Which company uses that business model and has a size comparable to Facebook?
It doesn't have to be much. I still vividly recall my discovery of what happened when you repeatedly clicked on the same soldier in Warcraft: Orcs & Humans[1].

[1]: https://youtu.be/qPN-x7rST58?t=15.
Stating things nakedly, using the assumptions and perspective of the big guy, can be a powerful rhetorical style when advocating for the little guy. See any of Chomsky's political writing as an example.
You can try it yourself - comment 五毛 on any youtube video and it will be deleted in a few seconds.
These ideas apply mainly to nonfiction and maybe literary fiction, if one is so inclined. For other kinds of fiction, keeping notes is distracting and detracts from enjoyment of the text.
>"Blog platform Avg. page size

Medium ~4mb

Blogger ~1mb

Wordpress ~4mb

Ghost ~3mb

Bear ~5kb (yep)"

There is definitely something to be said with respect to how bloaty many blogging packages are these days...

Actually, come to think of it, that would be a great name for a new blogging service... call it "bloaty" or "bloatly" or something like that...<g>.

It could also refer to the fact that with most blogs, the signal to noise ratio of the words comprising the articles is similarly bloated, as well... so "bloatly" would be a great name! That'll be my next Y Combinator submission for summer 2020!

"Bloatly"!

I can picture my future company's Y Combinator interview:

YC Staff: "So what does your piece of software do?"

Us: "It's a blogging platform, the very first HAAS (Hot-Air-As-a-Service) platform out there... <g> Great for politicians and salespeople! 1.21 Gigabytes of useless JavaScript per page... the Internet will end before you successfully download any page!"

YC: "So what do you call it?"

Us: "We call it Bloatly -- now give us our $150,000 check!" <g>

(Kidding, obviously! <g>)
One of my favourite channels. When he did semi-dayly uploads from his schoolbus coversion he was mostly unscripted but he still had that low-key understated humor going.
OSX only, but GitUp is the only GUI got tool I have used that feels like it actually is helpful for a git workflow. I _really_ wish it worked on Linux, but it's basically not possible without an entire rewrite.

https://github.com/git-up/GitUp
> I think it is unethical to hide research when it could save lives

Why are you assuming the US is hiding research?

Are you aware that there are protocols in medical research against premature release of information as it will taint the results (placebo effects etc)?

There are blackout periods etc. just to make sure that the analysis is valid and not tainted.

Also a lot of research has lag time. Experiments can take a lot of time.

You are also assuming that China is hacking to release information for the greater good. You are discounting the following:

1) Hacking to corrupt results and data.

2) Hacking to patent possible cures first.

3) Getting to a cure first to use as leverage over countries. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/us/politics/coronavirus-c...
No one here is even considering a nation state working to change the outcome of an election. A spy network might get away with it.
NextDNS is nice and easy to use for us, a family -- non-technical spouse, two kids with access to devices for schools, 'games & stuff'. I ran Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi 3 for about a year and it is one of the best ever there. I wanted something simple and something I can just clicky-click.

Been testing NextDNS for quite a while and I like it. Will continue as long as it serves what I'm looking for.

On a different note, unlike most of us, my wife and kids are worried that they can no longer see those 'interesting and useful' ads. They go on to those ads, spend long minutes browsing from one to the other, propelled by ads. My kids discovers 'these amazing games' via the ads. It is a different world out there.
20,000 leagues under the sea style!
Results don't add up for me.

Fast.com: 620 Mbps Down, 650 Mbps Up, DFW/ATL

Dslreports: 889 Mbps down, 944 Mbps Up, LAX/IAH

Ookla: 919 Mbps down, 934 Mbps Up, DFW/Richardson

Speed.cloudflare.com: 118 Mbps down, DFW/Arlington (closest)

I then tried to run the speed test from cURL by sending a GET to the same URLs this test uses, but it seems that I can't ask for anything larger than a 100MB payload. This is unusual since other speed tests allow you to download/upload up to 1GB in each direction.

I'm wondering if this speed test should use larger files for fast connections.
I love readwise. Having the Pocket integration is super helpful as well.

They also have a full json dump that I periodically put into my notes git repo for grepping.
Seems odd that it doesn't work on Firefox in that case, as Jitsi meet works on Firefox. I wonder what they've done / added that lead to dropping support for Firefox.

Edit: I guess it's strategy, pushing more people to use Brave browser, rather than an actual limitation of the software.
Not really the point I’m making. Plenty of successful photographers have become successful by taking interesting photos, not by being a technical wizard of their camera.
Git is a powerful tool, but it's certainly not simple. It's unfortunate that a lot of programming courses add it in as a "here's a five-minute intro to git" sort of thing. As you have experienced, that really doesn't work.

Probably a better way would be to start without git and to have a chance to experience the agony that that entails. Thus motivated, one can appreciate that the hours (!) it will take to get going with git are actually worth the price.

Or, alternatively, you may decide to just stop with the phase of

myprogram.js

myprogram.js.old

myprogram.js.broken

myprogram.js.20200515

myprogam.js.works

myprogram.js.test

myprogram.js.merge-with-ellen

and so on. Lots of programmers still do this.
Future of Work Isn’t Fully Distributed or Remote
I want to use Dart for all of it. Recently Dart has a compiled version. Another project integrates this with AWS Lambda. Might be nice.
M$ will only open source things that don't make them their money, while at the same time, tricking developers that they care by appropriating the communities work and extracting as much value out of Linux for free as possible, for their own benefit. Providing second rate hybrids masquerading as innovations, is all they can really do, to keep people locked into Windows. I stayed on Windows desktop for 20 years even while using linux for servers, and just gave it up this year. Linux has its own problems but if I disagree with the status quo of programs, I can either switch to another distro, mod the open source code myself, or file a bug report so a real person actually does something about it. This is too little, too late, from Microsoft, and accepting it now will just lead to the demise of Linux.
One cool thing about NextDNS is that they also support the Handshake DNS protocol. It’s an alternative root DNS that supports new TLDs while maintaining compatibility with existing ICANN TLDs https://handshake.org
This is also why I'm never particularly concerned about somebody popular being kicked off a platform. The ability to quickly go from being unknown to having millions of views, distributed using somebody else's servers, paid for by somebody else's money, is unprecedented in human history. If Youtube and Facebook started banning people en masse, the degree of free speech in our society would at worst regress to about what it was in early 2000s, hardly a dystopia.
+1 for this. Use your library.
They are awesome.
You don't need to do that. I encountered bad sectors when copying Atari games as a kid. The copy program I was using wouldn't copy bad sectors, which meant that the protection was effective. But I realised you could use a sector editor to read bad sectors and more surprisingly, actually write them. So the solution was a full disk copy and then write a bad sector and you were done.
This kind of issue isnt that uncommon. I accidentally installed a program to my desktop folder one time. And the uninstall just deleted it and all my existing files. Windows didnt like that at all.
Not to mention that if they find a cure before the world they will mark it as "strategical advantage" and not shared because it's of "national interest." At least based on their past history.
Can you point to a site that has f150 shocks replacement information that it not commercial in nature? (no product sales/ads/newsletters/affiliate links) I am very curious and have a hard time finding one.
Jim Harbaugh, a very successful football coach, uses excel for everything.

https://floqast.com/blog/jim-harbaugh-microsoft-excel-fanati... and a funny interview about it https://twitter.com/barstoolbigcat/status/115845032170801561...
Republicans have a long history of voter fraud. Here's an example from North Carolina

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-caroli...

Based, on this, Republicans cannot be trusted to hold impartial elections
>> IMO, Google's profit per employee isn't an indicator of Google's obligation to increase its customer service headcount. Taken to it's logical conclusion, we should let poorly-performing companies off the hook for having awful customer service.

> That’s not the logical conclusion, that’s the inverse.

Your logic is misapplied. If Google's profit is an indicator of its customer service obligations, it is logically necessary that less-profitable companies have lower such obligations than more-profitable companies do. If they had higher obligations, Google's profitable status would indicate that it didn't have much in the way of customer service obligations. If they had equal obligations, then profit would not be an indicator.
Probably because the hardest part of a self driving car is the self driving part and not the car part.
The Unreal Engine demo was spectacular. The polygons pretty much become quite noise which made the scenery look almost too real in some cases ;)
Biased, but I think Replica's AI voice will help a lot of game devs in the future to come!
Are we talking about China or US?
Excel is great when you have a lot of small notes you need to reference and you need a quick and easy way to structure them. Write in an editor and then paste in Excel.
MS is so large, one hand doesn't know what any other division is doing, and their community interaction is horrible because they make more money when people are ill informed and just go with the flow. So even if 10% of the company is "new blood" and was pushing open source out the back door for the past 5 years, the upper management is just now catching on that "hey maybe they were right".
> In a highly competitive market prices tend toward marginal costs plus some small profit margin.

Competition in general tends to drive prices down, yes; but competition was not what the post I was responding to claimed "should" make prices go down. That post was claiming prices should go down simply because AWS is investing more resources in building capital as they scale up. That is not true.

> The fact their prices and profits have remained high for so long indicates lower competition, likely due to high barriers to entry from competitors and high switching costs for consumers.

It could, but it could also indicate that this market simply has not reached equilibrium yet. I don't think it's plausible to claim that AWS has no competition in this area, or that barriers to entry are high; there are a number of huge corporations investing a lot in this market, and plenty of smaller players gaining customers by presenting a simpler interface to an AWS back end (e.g., Heroku). Switching costs might be high, not just for AWS but for any provider in this market, simply because there is so little standardization in how infrastructure is specified and controlled. That would lengthen the time to reach a competitive equilibrium in this market.

It is worth remembering that for new technology markets, it can take a long time for a competitive equilibrium to be established. A good example is the automobile market; in the US, for example, it took many decades for car prices to be driven down to marginal cost and for all of the various market players to search out and capitalize on all the possible competitive efficiencies and strategies. Part of that was also that it took decades for the auto market in the US to become saturated, i.e., for most new car sales to be replacing old cars instead of getting a car to someone who had never owned a car before. I don't think the market for AWS-like services is anywhere close to saturated, which means we should not expect a competitive equilibrium; instead, we should expect exactly what we see, large market players trying to capture as much market share as possible during the growth period, just as major automakers did in the US during the growth period in the mid-20th century. Capturing market share in a growth period is a very different game from squeezing out efficiencies in a market near competitive equilibrium.
Amazon previously purchased Kiva for their warehouse robotics systems [1]. It's safe to assume that Amazon wants to extend that out to the delivery side as well.

1 - https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/ma-flashback-amazon-anno...
Does GDPR and other EU laws not protect you from your ISP also? I'm not sure how your home ISP is less trustworthy than your VPNs ISP if they're both in the EU (and if you arent, GDPR doesnt apply to you).
> how much of an effect would the additional CSRs have on the experience of Google's customers?

It would go up, probably quite a bit, and the profit would re-emerge but at a lower level per employee.

The real problem is that their scale (in terms of reach, money, customers, political leverage - you name it) is so large that a company could compete or out-compete on customer service and still wouldn't win a significant chunk of their business. That's why they don't need to hire more CSRs.
This is a start. It can even be done steganographically, embedded in the picture in a non-visual way, which is robust against compression and "social media laundering" (term of art for uploading then downloading from social media).

The problem is people just don't care. See "cheap fakes" like slowing down a video of Pelosi and claiming she's drunk. People actually believe that garbage. No amount of fancy math can fix that.
Good luck! Post again when you work out the kinks.
I'm not the best at this Linux foo, but wouldn't aliasing certain commands that you need be helpful?

I mean if your going to go through the hassle of looking up that certain command, might as well make it easier on future you to alias that foo while you have it fresh in you mind.
You personally make a many DNS queries as a full-blown ISP? The fact that your server does it's own caching may keep your query rate lower than others.

I'm sure they can refuse service to customers in certain cases.
>Democrats fight hard to make voting as easy as possible because they are supported by people who are not engaged politically and by people who aren’t invested enough to vote if it takes any effort at all.

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Fighting to increase voter turnout is infinitely preferable and authentic to the stated principles of the country than fighting to suppress voter turnout.
Even if software is open source, you can't steal it and claim you wrote it yourself.
I agree with this. I have a mildly addictive personality and found I had to block my newsfeed to keep myself (mostly) off facebook. I follow a couple of groups which are useful to me and basically nothing else.

I deleted all of my old posts to reduce the amount of content FB has to lure my friends into looking at ads. But because of the covid-19 pandemic I was using facebook again to keep in contact with people. Now that restrictions are eased in my country I can see people again, and have deleted my facebook posts.
This is a strange story. Did the company really believe there was a large market of people who "had to manipulate some data and write structured queries, but you didn't want to do it in Excel"? What was the actual incentive or opportunity that the product was meant to fill? Did anyone acknowledge the popularity of dBase, FoxPro, FileMaker (with Access coming soon)? What was the product failing to do for the 90% of customers who bought it then abandoned it, surely some common themes must have arisen via all her cold calls -- and why didn't they address those issues? On the other hand, Oracle compatibility and sync surely weren't trivial to build, how were these features not already a major part of the marketing strategy?
Seems overcooked in some places and undercooked in others. I of course prefer my own CLI template but so it goes: https://github.com/carlmjohnson/go-cli
For such a powerful power user, it seems that the author never had any JSON editors set up on his environment, removed the default keyboard shortcuts from Terminal, and couldn't figure out how to customize the context menu. Hmmmm.
“The more you tighten your grasp, the more star systems slip through your fingers.”

Censoring the point of view of others merely lends credence to their point of view. Unless you find a way to censor them completely, you will cause more and more people to lose faith in your ideals.
> It would still take me just as long to ramp up on the equivalent Oracle offerings

The claim isn't that better names help you ramp up faster. It's that they make it faster to figure out which service you need, or if a service is relevant to you. That said, per the point in my previous post, it's likely that if you can't even clearly describe or name your service, you can't write clear documentation either. I've found that's often the case.

> But thousands of people take the time to learn it.

I don't understand what argument you're making. Is it: Since some subset of people will invest time in learning technology even if it's complicated, therefore it doesn't matter if it's too complicated? If so, you'd have to show that the number of people using it wouldn't increase were it simpler, with clearer names, etc.

That seems unlikely. The whole ethos of many successful companies -- Stripe, Mailchimp come to mind -- is to differentiate themselves by simplifying. It matters to the vast majority of users, developers or otherwise.
There’s a few premises that are hard to get by, for one mass-testing vaccines defeats the purpose of the safety axis of trials. If we knew it was non-dangerous, then there wouldn’t be the need for small scale trials. Instead large scale trials could be done just to try efficacy, rather than both safety and efficacy.

Yes there’s a non-zero chance of death, but assuming you’re a part of the average population (assuming US or UK for example sake), then you’re more likely to die getting in a vehicle.

Personally I’m for vaccines, but I do not want to be the first 10k they try it on. I’m in good health, so I’ll wait months or longer if one where released in their hopeful expedited timeline. By nature of the pandemic, this is rushed, and the risk to reward ratio favors waiting a bit (for myself), given the low mortality rate for people with no preexisting conditions.

Further, I’m near a hot spot, so it’s highly likely I have the antibodies, given others in my household are less careful, and thus my exposure profile essentially equals the lowest common denominator.
> The Washington Examiner and Fox News have been burning their credibility on a daily basis.

Oh really? Name some things they lied about in the last 5 days.
Logical gymnastics in a vacuum of facts avails naught.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/07/long-racist...

https://rooseveltinstitute.org/quick-history-lesson-voter-di...

https://www.nuorigins.com/the-historical-pattern-of-black-vo...

http://werehistory.org/disenfranchisement/