skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For example, is there any revenue generated from people visiting users' profiles on HN? But there is revenue from ads on Facebook and Instagram profiles that millions subscribe to. There is no "subscription" like cult on this forum (afaik). I do not see content based on whether user has high points or not. Unlike social media, where people with more followers get more visibility. So I think the scoring vs followers is not really comparable.

I use adblocker so I do not see ads on HN. Correct me if this is different from your experience.

I can imagine, as you point out, the impact on "social life" for users with real/pseudo real names. Back in the day forums were used for anonymous discussions when you would not trust strangers on the internet. I guess now the opposite is trending.
I don't know if it qualifies as censorship. Facebook or other social media platforms aren't public spaces, they are private.

You can remove whatever you want from your own private platform. If president trump want to say something that is removed from these platform I'm sure he can host his own blog.

If you're going to use a social media platform, you have to obey by the rules of that platform. It's not censorship. He's still free to say whatever he wants, just not on that platform.
A lot of people would if he can satisfactorily answer the question "How much are you paying?"
He's taking on job uncertainty during a pandemic where SWEs are getting laid off left and right. In the long run will he get paid the same or more? Possibly. But I'd guess he's not the only person who thinks this way within FB and a lot of employees aren't going to do this. There is a legit cost here.
I am not a fan of Zuckerberg, but a dictatorship is necessarily illegitimate. A legitimate non-democratic rule may be unfair and perverse, but it’s not the same as a dictatorship.
> there just isn't a UI for it

Exactly, the marketing/communication/sales people need those bits in a UI, they need tools to analyze those bits easily, mark them for specific analyzes and to share reports.
no place is perfect, but if we compare to say ccp us is still orders of magnitude better
This is why I liked Twitter's action (weird to say). They didn't hide the tweets, they just added context to say "hey, this is wrong according to actual studies" and to warn users of violent rhetoric. I know some will make the slippery slope argument, but I'm glad Twitter did something to take a stand against one of the most high-profile members of our society spreading misinformation, hate, and vitriol.
One of the best features of Signal, and one that massively helps adoption with the less tech-savvy crowd, is that you can set it as the default SMS app on Android, and it then uses Signal for contacts with Signal.

If you can't tell if a contact has Signal, it would have to default to SMS - and when sending a Signal message (to either a phone number, or in the future, a non-phone identifier), there'd be no way to tell if you're sending it to someone with Signal, or sending it into the void.

Maybe that's a trade-off you'd be willing to make, I don't think it's cut-and-dry though.
Some more on Wanda Coleman. I'm not very familiar with her work, but this post has caused me to look closer. Ty!

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/wanda-coleman
Marketing. Just what I look for in a keyboard.
Just a warning about trackballs: I love them and have used them almost exclusively for probably 25 years. A few years ago I started getting “trackball thumb”. So I advise switching up among various different trackball geometries. (I also use the Lenovo pointing-stick keyboards in the mix. )
Artificial Kidneys Are a Step Closer with This New Tech
Seems like it's sorted now? It resolves for me

$ dig gitbook.com a @8.8.8.8 +short
104.18.9.111
104.18.8.111
>The president has made it clear that despite voting by mail himself multiple times, he does not support wide expansion of the practice.

If we take off our hate-goggles here, this really isn't the gotchya that journalists want you to think it is. One can be qualified to legally vote by mail and do so while also claiming that overall the system is broken.
I'm deeply suspicious of this, not only because Huawei seems to have a lot of Chinese government influence, but because it's from a corporate entity. Corporate entities appear to not be able to refrain from making things centralized for the purposes of obtaining monopoly rents.

Informed by this fact of wanting to be a rent seeker, one can guess that Huawei would want big dollar for a copy of the standard, and maybe a small license fee for every client. I'd also bet money that there'd be a large license fee to run a server, and that there's a protocol-level division between "server" and "client", something that just doesn't exist in TCP or IP. It's possible to centralize control by means of "Intellectual Property" law and standards organization, just as it's possible to centralize control with built-in kill switches.

Oh, yeah: I used to think (in 1990-2000 timeframe) that maybe Microsoft would be the corporate entity to try to pull this sort of thing off. I often speculated about "MSTCP" being the thing to put the Internet's genie back in the bottle. I was wrong about that.
Regen does pretty well in my Tesla Model 3. I definitely get energy back. Tesla also did a reworking of regen software (in the motor controllers) in 2019 that boosted the fleet's low-speed regen capabilities all the way down to a stop. So it definitely is capturing energy. Also relevant is this great video about using a pickup truck to charge a Tesla, by towing it. They then compare how much energy the Tesla got from the pickup truck, and how much energy the pickup truck burns towing the Tesla. Watch for the very surprising conclusion!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaGVoB4Zn-Y
Very nice work, I'd like to see the result not with books, but with programming languages.

The problem is but you loose a very valuable thing: the ability to use any keyboard. You won't be able to pair program. You'll be very slow when using your mother's computer. The ability to use any keyboard is more valuable than increasing your WPS.
This would be fine in America. But that’s not what we’d do. Instead, someone would file a lawsuit to count the “invalid” envelopes that were discarded because the outer envelope wasn’t sealed properly. And they’d do it only in Democratic-leaning counties, where the Democrat could expect to get more votes from counting the invalid envelopes than the Republican.

(This is, in fact, almost exactly the trick Gore tried to pull in 2000, except it was counting invalid paper ballots only in counties that had gone in his favor.)
I know I'm being cynical, but I'm not sure anyone understands these things. If the top scientists from well-funded teams came up with estimates that were so wildly off, I'm not sure why we have any hope of getting these things right.

We need a better philosophical explanation. If you ask me, the biggest issue is that they assume that it just spreads kind of randomly. That doesn't seem to be what happened with COVID-19. It flourished in some parts and limped along in others. We have theories about subways or air pollution but none are very well correlated.

And then there's Farr's law which doesn't match these models very well.
Why would a they need an outspoken Dev with 1 year of total work experience to kick butt?
The Cybertruck strikes me as a way to scale up materials/technology used at SpaceX to bring down their cost for SpaceX. It very much strikes me as a niche product like the Chevy SSR and not meant to be mainstream like a GMC Sierra or Ford F-150.
> There are still many ways for banks to make money

Can you name one?
It is not. Breaking windows does not provide a legal justification for deadly force.

If he said "When the looting starts people committing crimes will be arrested" we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Did you read the article? It specifically mentions that the Polish office has workers from India, Chile and Italy
Property can be replaced. People cannot. In my state it is illegal to protect property with deadly force. They have to threaten your life before you can shoot.
One viral video sparked a black birding movement online
I agree, then the way to read and update state with dependency tracing in solid seems meeting the sweet spot of the s-js and elm/react style.
This reply frustrated me to the core. This isn't a parenting website. The advice you gave is a parenting one, and bad, at that. The story could have just been concocted for the benefit of understanding the urgency of the situation.
You should probably read this: https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/04/your-statement-is-10...
It'll make you a little wiser.
As to why your reply frustrated me? I think the internet is overwhelmed by [...] trying to draw lines where no limit should really be required (please note that I'm referring to your comment, not to the request for any sort of protection on Virus Cafe...).
The problem wasn't that he/she gave the ipad/iphone to the daughter, but the lack of security on the site. Better people than us said this is actually illegal, so you see, you're slightly out of line.
I wanted to somehow say you're right, but irrelevant. But you aren't even right. Even a 6 yearold should have access to an iphone or an ipad, CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET, as it were.
The situation forks: 1 - enable parenting rights on the device
...which would mean that if I just want my kid to experience the iphone for 5 minutes I have to enable a feature that afterwards I need to disable... (this forks again, about 3 ways)
2 - buy one especially for the kid
...I don't even want to start... (this actually forks in volumes and volumes of pros and cons)

So let's just stick to the real problem here:
I (and when I say I, I mean a forty smthg yearold) was on the verge of clicking Yes to the question whether I allow Virus-Cafe to use my mic and cam. The pop-up pops up exactly where the pop-up for notifications appears, and as I usually block notifications from websites, I almost clicked No by default. In the very last second did I read the actual text on the pop-up. GDPR is really a thing and, as I mentioned previously, it is illegal to just pop that up. Some information should precede the question. (Forks again, let's not go into it.)

I do apologize both for the length of the reply and for its aggressiveness (if you chose to consider it aggressive).
'Justice' is our 2018 Word of the Year
You're right about information being lost at the edges, but I do wonder if that leaves a region in the center of the image that's got enough information to be recognisable. There's one way to check, I guess...

Also I can't help but wonder, in a case like this where you've got the rest of the image, whether the pixels around the border of the blurred region are useful. There's going to be a probability that they're a similar colour to the outer ring of pixels that got blurred, and that might give you enough to start working inwards.
Giving AI Common Sense
I've been using Transferwise for quite a while, never had any issues with them. The transfers are quick, fees are low, exchange rates are fair.
Never trust a founder who claims that extraordinary work effort is the key; they stand to reap the rewards while the costs accumulate downwards. You have to have significant equity (not options) before the risk/reward works out in your favor.
I've not heard of enpass.io. What are the strengths and are there well researched reviews / security evaluations?
Curious if there's a Vim version of org-roam?
Just for my own edification, is the problem market size?

Is it the case that most people are in the middle, with not enough section 8 and luxury qualified people to go around? In my naiveté, I thought that there would be more section 8 people. (Of course, I also thought they would be worse than the middle income people. So I guess that shows how much I know about it.)

Anyway, if the majority of the market are those low-mid people, I mean, that's a problem. I was under the impression that those people normally bought houses they couldn't afford and so didn't negatively impact the rental market that much. (Again, maybe just a stereotype I had?)
Brandolini's Law
> Like most developed countries, absolute scores have slowly decreased over time. It's not clear why this is happening.

I teach in college. I was born early sixties. My daughter teaches math in high school. Recently I showed her my math books from my old high school. Her response: No way that my students could follow this.

Where I teach we have to give extra classes in basic math (I'm in STEM).

We're definitely sliding. Reading seems to be sliding worse even.

By the way, I don't think there is much of a correlation between how much a country spends on education and the quality of it.
I don't think that's true.

You can eat fast food once in a while and still be very healthy. They're not necessarily advocating for (metaphorically) shutting down all fast food restaurants, just making a point about over-consumption side effects.

At least that's how I read it.
Zuckerberg has been very principled on free speech and Facebook and society as a whole is better for it. I hope this FB employee is replaced with someone more grounded on liberal ideals of free speech, tolerance and openness.
If you wanted good customer support you shouldn't have gone with Google. There are plenty of other more reputable domain regrestrars.
Oh, sorry. I didnt realize you are super-duper smart. Maybe because your posts are anything but... Or maybe you're just being sarcastic and just not a very good writer... Either way, thanks for contributing. It really makes a difference.
Most large corporate environments don’t have the CEO as the sole controlling shareholder in the company.

While CEOs are powerful and have a lot of autonomy on day-to-day decision making they too are generally employees employed at the discretion of the board. The board itself exists and is populated by individuals at the pleasure of a diverse set of shareholders. There’s real accountability. That’s not the case at Facebook. Again not saying that’s good or bad but the model was no secret when people signed on.
That’s not true at all. The content is filtered out according to their algorithms. They ditched the “see everything your friends are doing” feed a long time ago. Even the group and friend suggestions are tailored.

https://about.fb.com/news/2018/01/news-feed-fyi-bringing-peo...
"Phrenology (from Ancient Greek φρήν (phrēn), meaning 'mind', and λόγος (logos), meaning 'knowledge') is a pseudoscience which involves the measurement of bumps on the skull to predict mental traits."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology
Thanks for the kind words. I don't think repl.it provides anymore social features than say GitHub does. How do you currently handle those concerns with regards to social coding on GitHub?
We need iron fertilization to strip CO2 from the atmosphere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization

And Stratospheric aerosol injection to prevent runaway warming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injectio...

I'm worried that we will just become too dumb to do this due to dysgenics and the impact of CO2 on mental performance:

https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2016/07/indoor-co2-du...
A public forum can also be common ground to disagree on.
Track Your Smartphone in 2D with JavaScript
X.25 is finally getting its day
the requirements seem strange "and" like they were written by a psychopath.
Typical silicon valley jerk who enjoy their bubble ignoring the 99,99% population, your days are numbered!
Author here, I was surprised not to find an LRU cache implementation in common libraries (STL, Boost), so I wanted to make my own.
This library is trying to make it easy to experiment with different backends (different maps, lists and so on). The fastest version is based on abseil's node_hash_set, inspired by Java's LinkedHashMap.
> as well as its fairly strange usage of a web view (actually the long-deprecated one…) for the main content

iMessage (at least on iOS) allows for arbitrary plugins to generate content for it, right? I presume it does that by having the plugin emit a web-component-like bit of HTML+CSS+JS, that is then embedded into the conversation for all participants, and which can be further rehydrated after initial rendering by just-in-time zero-installing the relevant iMessage plugin on recipient hosts.

(For anyone who is wondering why this would be necessary just to display some stickers: there are other kinds of iMessage plugins, e.g. games you can play inside the iMessage window, and not just the "you say something, IRC bot says something" kind of games, but full Canvas kind of games.)
Why wouldn't it work like it does in a car? If you've never driven an EV, then you might not know that there are three modes of acceleration: power from batteries, regen to batteries, and braking from kinetic. If you don't activate the braking from kinetic but you activate regen to batteries instead, then hydraulic is never activated.
> What do you do when people reject education itself as a matter of course or principle?

Shrug. Sometimes the wrong choices of others can't be helped.

> Fundamentally, if misinformation is more appealing and attractive than truths, how far can educational approaches go?

Well, based on approximately the last 1000 years of history, considering that we have an orbiting science lab 400km above the Earth and outdated superstitions seem to be waning worldwide, I would venture a preliminary guess that in the long run, truth will win out.

All of the other times we tried mass censorship, it ended very poorly, with millions upon millions of deaths.

Trust in your fellow human beings. You can't have a society without trust. Most people are not malicious, nor are they exceedingly dumb. Let people read.

If you're worried about people not knowing the things they need to know, or being mislead by wrong or bad information, I encourage you to write a book, or make a website. Hell, I'll even help you set it up, for free, if you need assistance doing so.
seems like there is more discussion here though :/
In some aspects, smartphones have become toys. Scrolling through reddit/facebook/twitter doesn't really make it worth having a smartphone, since those are all dumb activities.

However there are certain features that a smartphone gives which I wouldn't give up. Navigation with google maps, being able to do banking services on the go with my bank's app, being able to review flashcards with the Anki app, having my railcard/tesco clubcard/nectar card on my phone and never losing it, being able to check any important emails, checking the news if something breaking happens and I need to know instantly.

Heck, we praise Apple for bringing services like calling an ambulance for you if your pulse shows a certain pattern matching a heart attack (via the apple watch), and we also praise smartphones for actions like alerting people for emergencies like a terrorist attack or issuing weather warnings. I wouldn't give up any of those features just to have a dumb nokia phone with a week-long battery life.

Highly recommend you check out this: https://www.blloc.com/
A big difference is that photo IDs in those countries are consistent and free, and in the case of Germany compulsory. US state IDs are all over the place in terms of issuing requirements and ease of obtainment, and there are in practice a lot of people that don’t have them (on the order of 10% of voting-age citizens).
There's a little more going here. GM derives 50%+ of it's income from China at this point. In China the wealthy commonly ride around in vans w/ a servant driving. This work is intended for that market.
Then we are at odds, because I happen to believe in that particular right.. not a privilege. Holding an unpopular opinion is about as American as it can get.

My position may be immoral from your perspective, but your imposition on my right to be an asshole is immoral to me.

So you have a choice. Either work with me.. a person, who is somewhat sympathetic to your claims, or go the zealot route of 'it cannot abide'.
Agreed, but you can't legally get some without convincing another human to give it to you, and that human is on high alert for watching for someone who might abuse it - which is exactly the person who would benefit most from legality/availability of safer alternatives, but to that person it is illegal. That's why they turn to the black market.
Are there widespread cases of fraudulent harvesting? Cases of harvesters telling people how to vote? Is there anything stopping Republicans and Libertarians from running ballot harvesting operations to turn out the vote in districts where they have popular support?
Denmark has had 100 deaths per million and neighboring Swedish region Scania has had 139 deaths per million (1.4 million population). The death rate of just the regions of Zealand and Copenhagen is 170 per million (2.6 million population). The same strategy has been in place in Stockholm and Scania, so why is the death rate not higher everywhere in Sweden?

Maybe leaving schools, stores and restaurants open is not what's behind the high number of deaths in predominantly Stockholm, but something else, like how the elder care homes are managed. It doesn't seem fair to point to Sweden's high death numbers when Stockholm is a big outlier that skews the average. In most other parts of Sweden the people are doing fine, without lockdown.
This is actually hilarious to read. Part of me thinks that this is all part of a sick joke/experiment to see how willing are people to apply.

If my perspective employer showed me a requirement list like that, I would honestly just show them the finger and make fun of them.
I've seen a lot of hiring managers miss out on great candidates because they assume that someone laid off probably wasn't a top performer ("if they were, the company would have found a way to keep them"). Of course, reality is great people do get laid off when companies draw really broad lines like "everyone hired within the past year" or "the entire division of X". Or sometimes it's just being on the wrong side of your manager, director, or whoever is making the decision. Hell, sometimes it's "all the people who we felt were at risk of leaving in the next few months anyway".

But the other reason companies in the US do this is to shield against liability. If you are terminated, you could later claim wrongful termination. While if you resign, it's much harder.
Nothing to worry about, same news for 30 years ...
Yeah this feels very American Beauty, rose-tinted glasses. Kevin Spacey goes to work in a drive thru stress-free because he doesn't care about the job or need the money and is sick of responsibilities. Same thing here. Except we needed that job and had to be responsible because we didn't want to make $5.25/hr or have terrible shifts.

You're only there for 2 weeks, you know you're only there for 2 weeks and everyone knows you're not going to get the terrible end of the stick unless they're specifically going out of their way.

I delivered a lot of different food in high school and it honestly was one of the worst jobs of my career, I'd much rather work in retail or clean pools. All of my income went into gas and repairing my car. If I got a tip it was a few bucks and back then we had the 30 minute delivery thing that caused so many drivers to get into wrecks I'm pretty sure it was eventually banned or made illegal (or they all just dropped it).
I think your comment reflects more on the poor state of GUI frameworks and desktop environments than any intrinsic virtue of terminal based UIs.