skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compare how much money google can make off ads in a month to $15. You’re paying for way, way, way more than just removing ads and it’s obvious
Drives home the point that leverage is really everything, and having some way to push back against a boss really matters.
you know what i don't understand? how many people chafe at the idea that violent video games create violent people? when i was a kid that was the hot-button tech issue. no one puts any stock in that right? because it's an inversion of causality - violent people gravitate towards violent video games. and before video games we had parental advisory on rap albums. no one put any stock in that either. how is fb different? why isn't the onus on the consumer?
I’ll never understand why news media thinks it makes sense to compare the entire United States to individual European countries? We are 350 million people, among 50 states, all with their own autonomous governments making their own decisions. From the European perspective, states might as well be their own countries. I think if you want to compare policies, you should drill down to that level. Not lump the whole country as one. If not that, I think we should group all the numbers from the EU collectively for a more reasonable comparison.
> YouTube is dealing with two opposing issues, and is constantly doing its best to find a middle ground.

I agree with you that it's a really hard problem, but I don't see this as finding a middle ground. In reality, there are problems on both sides (people posting bad content, and bad actors taking on good content). What I expect from Google is a constantly improving process on making sure bad content is removed, and good content is not. It doesn't seem like Google's process is getting better - if anything it's just swinging back toward blocking content faster. I feel like there have been a few swings, such as back in 2011 when any background music or movie clip might mute or block your video, even when it's fair use, to a more open model a few years later, and now we're swinging back. What I would hope is that they improve over time. And yes, many times I think that involves actual people looking at things, which is expensive in terms of people as well as having to deal with tough content (mental health of those moderators being really tricky, just look at FB). But the amount of arbitrary and poorly worded emails about how you violated the TOS but won't say how. It's obvious that working with people is more expensive than not, and that seems to be what they are doing.

It's always a cat and mouse game, I guess. And Google has fought this type of thing before with trying to fight people gaming search ranking.

Now people arguing over what content should be allowed is obviously a more tricky, moral, problem. But between illegal content and people doing illegal acts like blackmail to valid creators seems pretty similar.
Netlify is awesome and I love their service, but it's not self hosted. In particular you have to pay lots of money to get logs.
I love that bear looks as good (if not better) on by blackberry passport (Sq display) as on my galaxy S9
In other news:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1264996588834996226?s=21
I think there's an extent where "clout" (depending on how you define that) makes sense.

Let's take Joe Rogan as an example, ignoring for now that he's going to Spotify next year. I'd imagine that what happened to this small YouTuber would be impossible to happen to Joe Rogan. He likely has the cell phone number of several people at YouTube. It could even be the case that his account is flagged in a way that only a high-level staffer can take certain actions. So many people are watching him that it'd be a huge problem for YouTube's audience if something were to happen to his channel in error.

It's good service to the YouTube community to give the most popular folks outsized attention. Not even talking PR here, though I'm sure that's just as powerful a force. Just in terms of "how quickly would the audience be affected." Obviously, there are limits to this and it would seriously hurt YouTube's brand if they were known as being bad for small creators.
Refusing to measure something doesn't make it not exist.
Full tweet:

"Not everyone in @ycombinator's latest batch could fundraise.

I was fortunate enough to invest in @coinbase @Amplitude_HQ & @benchling when none of them could raise their full seed rounds after YC.

@BoostVC is looking to write 2 $500k checks into YC companies from the last batch." - @AdamDraper
Cool, but what if you want the voltages to be exactly equal (while keeping no losses)? :)
And they give users incredible control over their data/privacy. Their privacy policy is fantastic[1].

On my dashboard I can:

- Enable/disable logs and decide whether logs include client IP address and domains

- Clear logs and set log retention period (as short as 1 hour and as long as 2 years)

- Select the country of the servers that store my logs to the US, EU, or Switzerland

I really hope to see more tech companies follow their lead.

[1] https://nextdns.io/privacy
It's happened multiple times on hn (given the large number of google peoples milling about).
I just tried repl.it. I don't like it, but am impressed you have access to a shell (ubuntu, bash).

I tried to delete Main.java, and it won't let you. Fine, so I just erase the whole text file. Then, I place two separate folders w/ src code in them. Code compiles fine, but still prints out "Hello, world!".

Buggy. If you use Main.java, you can still have several packages and it all works, but I don't like that. What I might do is erase Main.java, then you're forced to manually run your program from their bash shell ($ java MyClass). And then it works fine.

I also don't like they're on openJDK 11. All the nice stuff is in 12-14 (text blocks, switch expressions).
Premkumar Devanbu at UC Davis works in this area. I've taken his graduate course on the subject.
> I’d like to live in a world where businesses apologize and adjust their behavior when they make mistakes. I think it would be great if they’d do that regardless of internet mobs.

Okay, great, so we're in agreement.

The incentives applied by dissatisfied customers aren't about getting companies to apologize: it's about getting them to behave in a manner such that they don't have to apologize. If you want to discuss whether there are better strategies that dissatisfied customers might employ, that's something I'd be happy to discuss.

If you actually want businesses to apologize and adjust their behavior as you claim, then it makes sense to look at how customers can make that happen.

Point being: if your goal is to actually help people harmed by corporations, calling those people "internet mobs" who "ragequit" and then analyzing whether it's profitable to apologize to them is a pretty strange way of communicating that goal.
It's not self hosted.
I think that one key issue is that the students are confusing addition with the more general concept of considering two things together.
Paid-for Facebook would be a viable business if it wasn't competing with free-facebook. It's not ignoring economics to think that Facebook is causing significant negative externalities that ought to be priced or regulated to allow more ethical alternatives to thrive.
I absolutely love Netlify.
How to Think Better About Risk
I would convert the datasets to .csv (.parquet if needed), rent EC2 instance and load it with pandas. In my opinion you should thrive to have dataset in memory if possible - you will benefit from great iteration speeds on tweaking of your model.
Minimum doesn't matter, the only question is if it's more profitable than the current approach. Facebook makes $9/user/quarter. That's every user no matter how little they use the site.

The issue however is that the users advertisers care about are the ones with disposable income. The users most likely to opt out of ads are the ones with disposable income. Thus the marginal cost to Facebook from such users is significantly more than $9/quarter.
yesterday, in fact, I saw a post from a family member that I really wanted to read, I started but was interrupted. When I had a chance to focus again, I re-opened the FB app and the post was nowhere to be seen, scrolled up, scrolled down, it was gone. I had to search for my family member to find it again. Super frustrating, and makes you wonder what FB decided you didn't need to see (which I guess is the point of this whole thread)...
in the first case, you're merely abstaining.

In the case you describe, you're passing judgement on the other person.

People who pass judgement on other people are unlikely to be much fun to talk to at dinner parties.
> I am sure FB can build a financial model around a freemium offering if they wanted to.

They probably could. As they could also charge you a premium and then profit two times on top of you — with your fee and then by selling your data to third parties. Why? Because who would know that was happening? Corporations have no moral compass dictating their actions. The bottom line being what's best for investors.
Another thing I just remembered. The British have a great love for volunteering. I had a friend who moved to St Albans due to work and volunteered at the de Havilland air craft museum and got good friends of all age groups in the area from that and got to help out on restoring planes.
To be honest, I'd happily pay for YT Premium if Google didn't use my data to personalise other results and content on the internet. I personally stop using products/services that dictate what content is deemed "suitable" for my consumption. I'll happily be served adverts so long as I'm not getting manipulated.
You people want less government, but you also want more. Which is it, guys?

You could say this about any divisive issue if you lump all sides together.
and more importantly should diet mountain dew be called "lemon flavored carbonated beverage" or "lemon flavored sugar-free carbonated beverage"?
Don't forget languages written in the form of a bitmap :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language#...
Coast, Machine Names, Sun, and Microsoft
> our economy has weathered this better than anywhere in the world, and we will likely come out of this crisis even stronger, with even more global power, than we went in

Incredibly optimistic and I don't see the evidence for it. The US economy isn't out of the storm yet. Bear Sterns fell in March 2008 and the US economy kept "whistling past the graveyard" until September before it fell off a cliff after the smoke had somewhat cleared. Let's check back in 3-5 months. The only national institution in the US that didn't take a perception hit so far is the Federal Reserve, but that's because it threw $8+ trillion at the problem and made big promises early (too soon to tell if that massive injection will be problematic).

I see a national USA government who chose not to take a significant role in either helping the states (and never told the states that this would be the policy) or other nations (as we normally do during every natural disaster and health epidemic since WW2). I don't think I am alone in that view.

S Korea and Italy (yes, that Italy) sent PPE to assist other countries early in the first wave while the US federal government was intercepting shipments which were legally purchased by (entities in) other countries and diverting them to a federal government stockpile (not the states where civilians needed them).

It's worth looking at how well S Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore reacted to the outbreak. Their emergency health systems acted as if it didn't matter if "China lied" or not and set up useful policies and procedures just in case the disease made it there.

China has started to donate the medical equipment (PPE, ventilators) they didn't need to use after the first wave and they are sending medical staff around the world to assist other countries. The US is exporting some hastily-made ventilators, but it's not yet clear if that will make a difference in the perceptions other nations have of our response.

I think the US has lost significant soft power as we failed to provide the worldwide leadership we have since we became a superpower and China stood up to fill in the vacuum for very low cost to them.
It's sort of funny to me that this is how RPGs worked for ages but then voice actors came along the horizon narrowed somewhat.
Same with Hans Zimmer. Useless.

However Tom Morello’s was cool. Both technical and nerdy as well as inspirational. And I’m not a big Rage against the machine fan or anything.
They could post a free teaser in YouTube with a link to their main platform.
This misses the point. Facebook refuses to look inwardly or mess with their core moneymaker, regardless of how it affects people. Noone is ever going to sip from the firehose just like we'll never again get a simple view of friend's posts sorted by creation date.

I think the real problem is Facebook's need to be such a large company. They brought this on themselves trying to take over the world. Maybe they need a Bell-style breakup
This is correct. Had a friend in PR who did this sort of thing. They have money and time, and local news stations do not.

It's probably not so bad when the piece is on the wonders of asparagus and why you should eat more.
I'd forgotten how good that is.
Recovering and Replaying Garmin Voice Instructions
The right course of action is to stop using Facebook. That's it, very simple. people here being polarized is exactly what Facebook wants. Current facebook users are akin to opioid addicts... probably found some relief from whatever social pain they were feeling that now they have accepted selling their privacy for their fix.

I would say I can't wait for the day that Facebook is gone but it will be a long time considering the amount of insecure and unintelligent people that need a platform like that to avoid ever being challenged in the real world.
The rapid pace of change present in the javascript ecosystem (and related developments like Typescript, coffeescript, etc) definitely make it hard to grasp. What might have been relevant years ago may no longer be relevant.

If its hard for people who already have a background in programming and some basic computer knowledge to learn and pick up, I can't imagine how hard it would be for someone with no experience.

The moment you go beyond making a simple website like you might learn in a beginner javascript class (using just basic javascript embedded in an HTML document) you become pretty lost
But is the SI system ambiguous? I almost never have to think about prefix v unit, it is always quite clear. Of course, strange combinations can occur (MNm - Meganewtonmeter as an example perhaps), but even those are unambiguous on second thought.

Collisions seem to be most prevalent in "IT" units or for improper SI usage. But maybe the latter is really the reason for the former in this case: if people separated SI and other units properly for IT units, it seems to be it would also be perfectly fine (but like me, a lot of people seem to have no idea of the correct definitions).
Cute. But really, eating oneself into a miserable pain-ridden old age is not comparable to healthy eating and exercise in moderation? Sounds like sour grapes to me.
Show HN: The new Oat++ version 1.1.0 is released
What happens when an immovable "anti-expert" zeitgeist meets an unstoppable "pro-celebrity" culture?
>Since ads are the primary way sites stay in business, they are obligated to fight against user agents or other intermediary systems.

Not all users hate ads in principle, just in practice. In theory, you'd be making the users select ads for relevance and not being annoying. But obviously, the site wants to show ads based on how much they're paying and "not being annoying" only factors in if pushes people off the site entirely.
Yeah... my eyebrows raised the first time I heard about this type of thing. Someone I know was in a news segment shot and produced by some company I had never heard of before (I don't recall the name). They said it would be on the news. The segment was produced, and when I asked where it was going to air, they said "50-60 local news stations around the country" and I was baffled... don't local news stations just produce their own news? No, not all of it.

There are companies like Sinclair and Scripps that produce and purchase news segments, and then run them in their own markets, and sometimes these companies will literally BUY news from companies that the news is about! And those companies, sometimes marketing or PR companies, are telling their own stories. It's "white label news". I guess the equivalent is what we call "advertorials" online?
Lockdown only made corona crisis worse, claim experts – ISRAEL21c
The #if does more than just text and tokens, it has an expression grammar (constant-expression). It's implementation-defined whether the following two produce the same value:

#if 'z' - 'a' == 25
if ('z' - 'a' == 25)

Another difference is all constants are typed as intmax_t and uintmax_t, not the usual C types. Yes, it does have types.

This difference in behavior from C expressions is not necessary.
Yeah, it feels like this can be expanded to explain a lot of things about nationalism and tribalism. And, perhaps a path to move people out of the narrow confines of that way of thinking.
Calculus and analysis condensed in 200 symbols
Roads are designed for a certain amount of "axle weight" [1] which basically means to carry a heavier load you need to add more axles to distribute the load.

I would guess electric cars are still negligible in that metric, though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_axle_weight_rating
Ask HN: The Future Is Villages
1. Self sustaining ‘bubble’ economies that are networked with bigger bubble clusters.

2. The future is villages with population of 10000 people.

3. That’s 40 communities of 250 people each. 250 is close to the Dunbar number.

4. Ten bubble villages can share resources like hospitals and schools and law enforcement and fire stations..power grids and essential services etc.

5. Every bubble cluster grows what it can and manufactures what it can and trade with others.

6. Schools and jobs are mostly remote.

7. Autonomous transport systems are on two levels..over ground and under ground. Underground is intra city transport. Over ground is for inter city transport. Pavements also can be used for last mile deliveries.

8. Housing is high density surrounded by lots of open space. Ratio is 1:2.

9. Every bubble cluster village has a canal system. Food is produced in two ways..synthetic food vs more expensive ‘natural’ food. Produce is indoors as well as field grown.

10. Outside human habitation, autonomous Ag grows food in industrial Scale for grains, oil, dairy, spices, fodder and fiber.

10. Half the world’s land is set aside for habitat and allowed to rewild. Same with marine conservation and regeneration.

Ok. Thoughts?
Rating is back to 4.7 at this moment
IRS hasnt implemented more than 100 federal cybersecurity recommendations
i have communities that are centered around things i enjoy w/ 2-3-8 subs per community. it's pretty rad
If they could do $20k for the display, I would expect to see some usage (as their marketing materials state) in medical devices. Displays targeted for medical devices can be surprisingly expensive, Glasses 3d monitors, such as those used on upcoming surgical robots, are getting purchased around $12k from what I hear.
First of all, less divisive environment means you interact with people of different opinions which means that few interactions will be with exactly like-minded people.

Environments where all people tend to think exactly the same are typically extremist in some way, resulting from some kind of polarization process that eliminates people that don't express opinion at the extreme of spectrum. They are either removed forcibly or remove themselves when they get dissatisfied.

One way HN stays away from this polarization process is because of the discussion topics and the kind of person that typically enjoys these discussions. Staying away from mainstream politics, religion, etc. and focusing mainly on technological trivia means people of very different opinions can stay civilized discussing non-divisive topics.

Also it helps that extremist and uncivilized opinions tend to be quickly suppressed by the community thanks to vote-supported tradition. I have been reading HN from very close to start (even though I have created the account much further). I think the first users were much more VC/development oriented and as new users were coming they tend to observe and conform to the tradition.

(I red your piece. I think I figured it out. The users actually select themselves on HN though in a different way. The people who can't cope with diverse community can't find place for themselves, because there is no way to block diverse opinion, and in effect remove themselves from here and this is what allows HN to survive. The initial conditions were people who actually invited diverse opinion which allowed this equilibrium).
Why? He is an extremely successful author (whose success is not due to gimmicks but literally because of his books being read and loved by millions).

I'd love to learn from him.
from the stackoverflow topic titled:

"What are the historical reasons C languages have pre-increments and post-increments?":

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30429753/what-are-the-hi...

A quote from that topic:

>'Ritchie, The Development of the C Language:

"People often guess that they [ED. the increment and decrement operators] were created to use the auto-increment and auto-decrement address modes provided by the DEC PDP-11 on which C and Unix first became popular. This is historically impossible, since there was no PDP-11 when B was developed." The PDP-7 seems to have some features that might have played a role, albeit I don't think it's entirely clear from the document that they were the main reason for the existence of both prefix and postfix ++'<
I was not aware of this service before, but I’m very interested! The price seems very reasonable, and as you say, not managing a pi-hole device is very appealing. I have tried multiple times to setup pi-hole on a dev board on my home network, and could never get it to work properly so I gave up.
Yes, the fundamental problem is that this sort of thing has around the top of the threat list for academic computing facilities for 30 years or so (originally typically coming in to the UK from CERN). It's just that this is larger scale, possibly more automated (filching SSH keys), and has a higher profile. Despite that, the systems are normally not managed to counter the threat, running with known privilege escalations either through unpatched OS vulnerabilities or through something like the batch system. Don't trust them with anything sensitive, including credentials like typed passwords or SSH forwarding, yet people do. I have an existence proof that it doesn't have to be like that for HPC systems, even if you're not allowed system time -- in which case live patching of login node kernels is specifically necessary.

Incidentally, if attackers were looking for sensitive research results from this, I think it would have to be targeted with detailed knowledge about what specific researchers were doing; after all, it's difficult enough for a typical researcher to keep track of their own stuff, and it mostly won't have look-at-me names.
And the companion Snowball (https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/)
> Ranked next to Western European countries, the US ranks at the bottom of worst effected. The worst effected country is Belgium, followed by France, Italy, the UK, Sweden, and so on. As far as CFR, the US is about 1/3 or Belgium, and about 1/2 of the Netherlands.

The problem is that the numbers you cite aren't about response, they are about {affected population, environment, response}. Being lucky that the USA isn't as population-dense as Belgium (which is 10x the number of people per area of the USA) isn't a strategy, it's an environmental factor.
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