skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the difference between broadcast and point to point.

On Facebook I can make a post and all my friends see it. They can make a post and I will see it.

As nice as it would be, I just don't have the time to have a one on one conversation with every one of my friends and update them on all the goings on in my life. And they don't either.

I even have data on this. I had a friend who was Facebook. She would post updates there, and then when we had lunch, I was all caught up and we could talk about stuff that's just relevant to the two of us. Then she deleted her FB account. So we shifted to texting more, but when we got together most of the time was spent having her tell me about the stuff she'd already had to tell everyone else.

She got so frustrated repeating her stories over and over to her friends that she signed up for another Facebook account, so she could go back to the broadcast method.

Facebook serves a valid purpose. There are many friends who I only get to see once every year or every few years in person, but I see on Facebook all the time. When we get together we don't have to spend time catching each other up, and can instead enjoy the time we have together to be in the moment and talk about what is happening right then.
"If their work was being distributed for free (SQL server, Windows), software developers would make much less money and would be up in arms here."

Most of us are paid based on the value we provide to employers by the capabilities we provide through software, not based on the value of the software itself. (Trading software for money is a relatively niche market in the industry. Enterprise software for the win! :-)) Most of the software I write isn't distributed at all; that which is distributed is available for free.
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Given the video evidence we've seen over the last week that most of the "riots" are in fact police riots, yes, it's time to disarm them.
That's two examples, literally the first two hits of an obvious search. Officials are acknowledging that these are wrongful arrests, why can't you?

There's 110 cases mentioned in this article. Instead of demanding that we spoon-feed you evidence, please continue looking into the evidence. Because there's tons of it and you know how to find it.

> The first one is concerning, but the incident appears to be resolved now (?).

Sure. Call it resolved. That does not mean that it didn't happen the way that it's being described.

> Again, this does not support the implication of the title, that police picked journalists intentionally...

This is a really weird point to get hung up on, given that the title of the original article is "U.S. police have attacked journalists more than 120 times since May 28". Where does it say "intentional"? I can't decide if this is a strawman or goalpost shifting, but either way your approach to this conversation is odious.
> I believe when the community gets this sort of deeply inaccurate reflection of itself, it encourages a "why bother" sentiment

Tbh though, on some topics, "why bother" is accurate. You can write a comment that is controversial, but it will be heavily downvoted and flagged, so indeed: why bother?

The Overton Window on HN isn't as large as it appears, but it's generally accepted that you can say what you want as long as it's within these narrow limits.

What you're saying about the shock value of encountering different opinions for the first time is probably true (for some more so than others, I believe), but it doesn't change the issue that, on controversial topics, actually engaging the outraged and offering a different point of view does not seem useful. After a bunch of unspoken "fuck you" flags, "why bother" is what's keeping the site civil. If people are emotional and cannot be reached by words, don't try to talk to them unless you want to fight them. "Why bother" is deescalation.
Rents rise as high as the market can sustain.

If everyone can sustain higher prices, rent will go up.

Thus taxpayers just funded a windfall for landlords.

Also, please don’t assume you know my beliefs regarding the free market.
Are you stuck with the interface for the user? Based on what I saw with python and postgres the latest and greatest seems to be:

yourthing_custom = yourthing.withPackages(ps: [ps.plugin1 ps.plugin2 ] )

Or are you stuck with how to implement it?
We played pengaloo a lot. Its a matching game. We just work together to find the matching eggs. The kids enjoy the thrill of checking the eggs as well as the cute characters.
No violence, no property destruction, a permit (if required for shutting down streets).
What would happen to a car in a lead bunker over the course of a billion years?
I don't think it's necessarily cynical, though it can be deployed by cynics.

Part of the reason virtue signaling feels wrong is because it's cheap advocacy with no skin in the game, yet those who commit it feel like they've done something. Now, is this really so bad? I read a quote in Stratechery that resonated:

--

"The first problem of being a society of talk, not action, is the inability to even consider hard work as a solution;

The second is a blindness to the real trade-offs at play.

The third, though, is the most sinister of all: if talk is all that matters, then policing talk becomes an end to itself."

--

In this case, it wasn't virtue signalling. He paid the price to stand by his conviction. We may agree or disagree with his position, but we must surely honor his commitment to it.
Doesn't this already happen with social security, i.e. we know the effects of scammers?
Sorry but it's not so simple. If you follow that line of logic, should an owner of a restaurant be able to discriminate (race, sexual orientation, national origin, etc.) against customers, based on their "personal values"? This line of thought leads right back to the era of segregation.
The About page says it's just for Machine Learning papers.
I was replying to the parent comment above mine stating that Google came late to the browser game just as they did with the search game and if part of what initially made Google appealing was that they were simple and faster than other search engines, that is true when Chrome was introduced as well. Google explicitly marketed Chrome speed as a selling point. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCgQDjiotG0
Death cultists don't care.

It's all a trick. Spicer is a liberal mole trying to undermine the administration.

Fake.

News.
Increased teaching responsibilities for TAs definitely happens at universities, especially for larger courses where TAs divide a large class into smaller sections. This seemed to be the case for OP and is all the more expected given that he was head TA.
Police overreach is a real problem, but writing about how Racism isn't the root of the problem and posting it right now is pretty tone deaf.
the norm for police is slightly above minimum wage starting out

Is it? I hear ads on the radio for Portland Police in my state (which is not Oregon) and it says pay starts at $74,000/year plus a long list of benefits.

Is $35/hour the minimum page in Portland now?
> This enforces a "developers-must-own-and-continue-to-own-a-domain". Not saying that's bad

I'll come out and say it's bad... but also much better than the current situation. So as a compromise I'm all for it!
Do you agree that police have the right to declare a gathering unlawful and can clear the area?
That's a pipedream, the fuel costs (and pollution) alone make that impossible in any sustainable way.
I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. The way I understood his argument is that it would remove all the existing social aids such as unemployment benefits, food stamps etc and replace all of those with UBI. This means that everyone would get 1000$ a month. 1000$ a month is MORE than what you would get with food stamps etc so the "poor" are coming out of this ahead.

1000$ a month was chosen because you are supposed to be able to live with that amount. I would expect to be extra allowances for children etc.

There is no such thing as "at the expense of the poor" here. Everybody gets it. If you are middle class it comes out directly out of your taxes anyway. It is a minimum income that should help you decide to start a new career or create a small company for example, now that you know that whatever happens you will always get 1000$ a month.
A straw man is misrepresenting an argument so that it's easier to counter. I don't think this is a straw man, I just think it's a poor analogy.

The difference between same–sex marriage and what Trump is doing is that same–sex marriage affects no one except for those getting married. No one is being forced to have a same–sex marriage or go to a same–sex wedding. "Forcing your views on us" means "we don't want to live in a society where this is permitted, even if I am never personally affected by it."

Trump, on the other hand, has posted propaganda about voter suppression and incited violence. This absolutely affects other people. It's not neutral to unaffiliated parties at all — how many protesters will be hurt because Trump has openly called for violence against them?
WhatsApp doesn't carry ads (yet), does it? How does using WhatsApp support Facebook? [Serious question... I'm trying not to support Facebook, but do use WhatsApp.]
His responses will have ramifications for the Facebook investors, including himself. Also, for his very public image.
According to Wikipedia's separate article for plastic bullets, they were developed to be less lethal than rubber (no citations for it though). IMHO, this could teach a useful lesson, that even the ones intended to harm less can be made harmful to the point of deadliness. I think it depends on the (ab)user, even dihydrogen monoxide is deadly when abused.

Just wanted to "[point] out some consideration that hadn't previously been mentioned" and "[give a tiny bit] more information about the topic" (https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.) :/
> what matters is what the term used to mean 75 years ago?

You got it backwards.

The only definition from that page that is not related to some extremist marxist/anarchist movement is this article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fascism

And even that one uses the logo of the Antifaschistische Aktion. None of the other historic Antifascist movements described in that article are in any way relevant today.

Today, "Antifa" is synonymous with "Antifaschistische Aktion".
according to the blog post, alt-svc enables invisible onion services, which have been supported "for years". this new release enables "Onion Location", which is apparently presented in the address bar.
When the riots where in a different continent nobody gave a shit, did they?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre

There were no convictions for any of the charges related to violence. There were decades of silence about the terror, violence, and losses of this event. The riot was largely omitted from local, state, and national histories: "The Tulsa race riot of 1921 was rarely mentioned in history books, classrooms or even in private. Blacks and whites alike grew into middle age unaware of what had taken place." It was not recognized in the Tulsa Tribune feature of "Fifteen Years Ago Today" or "Twenty-five Years Ago Today". A 2017 report detailing the history of the Tulsa Fire Department from 1897 until the date of publication makes no mention of the 1921 fire.
Step 1: Make an amazing game with gestures

Step 2: ???

Step 3: Profit!

Joke aside, such game mechanics, albeit with cursor gesturing rather than hand gesturing, have been tried many times before. See Arx Fatalis, Black & White, etc. Jonathan Blow has a pre-Braid prototype about that as well that he shows in some detail in a talk he gave.

The reality is that sure, it sounds cool when you describe it like that, but there are many design issues to contend with:

- how does the player remember all these obscure symbols ?

- how do you deal with the frustration when a symbol isn't recognized? When it's confused by the system with another symbol?

Etc. On top of that, there is the fact that drawing squiggles to cast spells is not a game mechanic that is inherently extremely fun. Why are people going to the bother of doing that vs pressing a button?

It's all a lot of work to make it make sense, and there is little reason to believe that gesturing with your hands instead of your mouse would solve some of the more fundamental problems.
I can point you to some of the studies on calcium removal. [1] They don't create a well defined protocol, though doctors have formed their own. I take 600mcg K2 MK-7 and 200mcg of K2 MK-4. I alternate between Magnesium-lysinate-glycinate-chelate (bound to L-Lysine and L-Glycine) and Magnesium Citrate. Since I am listing papers I have to point out that I am not a doctor and this is not medical advise. This method has been working slowly for me and faster for others, likely due to epigenetic and environment factors. I take these things with fatty meals to allow D3 binding and absorption.

[1] - https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=si...
Show HN: A collaborative effort to collect information on contact tracing apps
It's definitely frustrating when advocates of this argument are those that benefit from the subject exerting effort keeping the system in-place. I feel it's an overreaction to broadly generalize "change the system from within" arguments to this extent though.
Then maybe he should run his Tweets by his staff before posting, so things like this that might be easily misinterpreted could be caught and clarified before they go out?

Look at another recent Tweet of his: "STRENGTH!" in response to someone else's Tweet. That other Tweet was from some QAnon conspiracy theorist referencing a QAnon thing about how Trump and military will soon be arresting and imprisoning or executing Democrats. QAnon follows took Trump's Tweet as confirming that this was going to start soon.

Maybe Trump didn't know what that other Tweet was referencing, and he didn't mean to encourage it. But he's the freaking PRESIDENT. His words automatically have a huge impact, and so the responsible thing to do would be to take care with them.
Here you go. https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/gv2ogk/news_ch...
Hi HN,

I'm the initiator of https://cov19tech.org. I've started to collect information on the variety of contact tracing / exposure notification being built across the world. The website itself is open source (https://github.com/Cov19tech/cov19tech), all the content is Creative Commons licensed and I'm hoping to get interested users to help collect information on this rapidly evolving area of the tech world. Right now the content on the site is fairly sparse - largely a table summarizing the approaches of about 30 different apps as well as a couple of more detailed write-ups on some of the apps in draft form. I'll be adding write-ups on each app in the coming days. This will hopefully give technically-inclined folks a way to understand and evaluate how these are being implemented across the world. I'd like to see if there is interest in having such a resource available, as well as see if there are people who would like to help out. Eventually, I'd like to start covering more than just contact tracing apps - and have sections on other technologies that are being applied to helping stop the spread of COVID-19.

Please do share any thoughts/comments/feedback you have!
So, the president can call for military action against American citizens, inside the borders of the United States, in direct contravention of US law (the Posse Comitatus Act), and that's okay? Because you're making it sound like that's totally okay, and I think that adds up to a tiny bit more than "someone posted something we did not like".

edit: 'oarabbus_ is right, as far as I can tell, about the Insurrection Act. Even if they weren't, I suppose it'd be foolish to imagine that the US presidency in 2020 is restrained by mere legislation, save to the extent to which it permits itself to be.
Because it doesn't work with tabs, someone else will have a different tab-width.
Do you agree that public officals can clarify comments that are misinterpreted and that we should take that clarification at face value.

Or do you think that all public officials should be held to the first impression of their statement forever?
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Two other perspectives:

- see it as a nod to activists everywhere

- think about the fact that a decentralized e2e encrypted network might actually be a good tool for people fighting oppression
I’m not going to spell it out for you because I don’t think you are interested in learning. If you really want to know the answer to this question, then go to a school in a poor black community. Visit their libraries, hospitals, and grocery stores. Then do the same for nearby white communities. Go do the work and educate yourself. Separate but equal is not equal.
Facebook employees - this is how you can speak truth to power. Publish those private group communications. Name and shame the officers encouraging violence against protestors. You know it is happening, and you have the power to expose these abuses by police, military, and other extremist groups that have taken over what used to be a highly respectable profession.
That's not always true, a UBI doesn't say anything about its funding mechanism. Some UBI proposals are indeed funded on tax revenues and thus revenue neutral.
>Obviously it's no one's fault. We should just accept things the way they are and change nothing.

I'm not saying that, you'd want to find out why the warrant was high risk or deserved a SWAT response. Someone made that call, and it may not have been SWAT themselves. And you should take actions to ensure it doesn't happen again and hold them accountable. If you find abuse of power, you need to get rid of that person.

The key theme here is that you usually don't get all of the details about why things happened. Sometimes it's honest mistakes. Sometimes it's abuse of power. Sometimes there's miscommunication.
Omg really how was your experience working on stealth aircraft
Some has to do with the police tactic of breaking up protests by lining up in riot gear and marching towards a crowd advancing and then clearing the area in front of them with tear gas. (the example of this was breaking up an after-curfew protest in Minneapolis in front of a police station, the night after a different station had burned to the ground). Their goal seemed to be to disburse the crowd and arrest a few people as possible.

The next night their tactics changed, for the better, a similar after-curfew protest group was warned, given time, and everybody remaining was encircled by a close knit line of police and every single person was arrested. The second tactic had a much better outcome, it seemed.

There were reporters stationed on the outskirts of the crowd but between the crowd and police, and I saw some of them get teargassed. In that case it had more to do with wind and proximity than being targeted. Much different than police actively going after reporters, but sources like this one don't seem to differentiate between collateral damage from proximity and direct targeting of media teams.

Also, police in gas masks, partially for tear gas protection, partially for covid protection, facing crowd who at times have attacked police, they can't see very well, they are under enormous amounts of stress, and few of them have experience doing anything like this... if you pull back from the blame, talking about rights and duties, and just focus for a minute on the humanity... ask yourself how are these people going to fail? You'd probably come up with a lot of the ways the police indeed are failing. Now in the same context think of how those failures could be reduced without thinking about blame... and it's hard. It's a hard problem.

Just like failures in a tech stack and a team of programmers, blame is not the path to solving problems. You don't go find the guy who wrote the bug and shout at him or send him to jail or fire him or string him up in the public square, you write unit tests, you write post-mortems, you make backups, you make new monitors... in short you find the sources of problems, you investigate them, and you solve them. That sort of thought about failure needs to happen more in software, and it needs to happen more in the rest of life too. Recognizing failures, having empathy for those who fail, realizing the source of those failures is systematic, and working on systematic solutions.
Ask HN: Tips to Reduce Docker Image Sizes
What are some of the most common and advanced tips to reduce docker image sizes? For Rails app, for python app. For docker images in general?
AT&T exempts HBO Max from data caps but still limits your Netflix use
Also important to not ignore the "reward" half of risk vs reward. Sure, I could never get in a car again and be loads safer, statistically. But am I really willing to give up that convenience?

The real point is not taking unnecessary risks, not just avoiding all risk in life.
Definitely an under-appreciated tool. Very useful for one-off tasks that would take a fair bit longer to code in something like python.
Am I considered cynical if I believe the actual motivation for leaving these posts up are financial?

What I mean is that the amount of clicks and interaction they generate can't be pocket-change I think.
Hahah i can relate to you
But there are some interesting projects at the bank too
This is very cool!
I'm thinking the depth data that is captured is of higher resolution. Is that true? Was this limited by the API? Or a limitation of the browser?

Super cool to see this depth data IRL.
> "But when was the last time we had this level of protest in support of a minority group?"

so injustice doesn't matter when it's just minorities, only when some (presumably white) people "support" them?

> "What they’re arguing is that it changes which injustices are visible."

...to him. the injustices are painfully apparent to the population affected.

look, all things being equal, it's better that he's now startled out of ignorance by a tragic and now-sensationalized video of someone's death, but sorry, that's not the central mechanism of change here.
I think the problem is the select enforcement of the ever-changing rules and not applying them equally across the board, which is getting blatantly obvious on twitter, reddit, etc. There are hundreds of examples, probably more, of tweets promoting violence being allowed to stay up, unaltered. Here's just one simple example of a tweet from a reporter directly violating Twitters policies and inciting violence telling people to "burn that shit down, burn it all down" and being allowed to stay up: https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1267127192330346500

Please look at the Presidents original tweet that got labeled and logically compare it to that one and justify why one should be labeled and the other stay up unscathed.

Of course this same journalist quickly changed his tune when they came to his own upper-income gated neighborhood (2nd pic in above tweet) and started calling them "animals."
There have been several threads covering this in the past week or so.
True
But now tech has changed alot