skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll rephrase what I think you're saying, as I think it's a valid point:

Given that we already have the ability to make lightweight HTML-based web-pages, and we also already have a variety of lightweight alternative markup languages to choose from, what's the point of picking one particular subset of HTML and giving it a brand-name? The real goal should be to encourage web developers to make better, more lightweight websites, and/or to encourage use of lightweight alternative markup technologies (to better support very simple browser solutions).

Again I think it's a fair point.

Another related point: the Gemini project seems to be capable of automatic conversion to HTML. Any such project should make this ability a priority. If you then go ahead and use that, you get an HTML subset 'for free', as the generated HTML files will be lightweight and use few HTML features.

We do this today with Markdown. HackerNews won't let me generate a <blink> tag, but we're allowed <i> tags.
Probably not, but my reddit account of 10+ years have been shadowbanned too with no explanation. As a Digg immigrant, I can't wait to migrate away to the next reddit.
The biggest hit against reddit is that every large sub has to resort to weekly discussion posts/tagging every post so people can filter, simply because of the way subreddits are forced to be laid out.

A normal forum will have different sections to discuss everything even mildly related to the overarching topic, and a number of areas to talk about things not related to the topic. But Reddit doesn't have those features, so subs have to resort to these half measures or allow multiple daily posts about the same 5 topics.
I've replaced all my cups (except the first!) throughout the day with chicory/barley coffee and it's been going well. Lots of folks hate the stuff, but I rather enjoy it.
No, not all users andrew. Pay the users that create content that gets popular, not people just for existing. Creating a data trail is not valuable IP.

I m actually surprised at the amount of content that people give away to these platforms, even here.

A major reason is that there is no legal mechanism for users to directly pay other users. Things like brave attention token are steps in the right direction
This is great, I had a friend in college who talked this way about reading and it always felt to me like someone saying they don't like to use their eyes to see... Like how do you even have an opinion about reading? It's just a thing that we can do, like breathing... Whether I enjoy a certain reading session depends on what I'm reading, but reading itself is value-neutral.
If it didn't provide value, no one would be using it.
One of engge (open source engine to run Thimbleweed Park) issues is already open to implement Dinky support https://github.com/scemino/engge/issues/132 . Help wanted!
The genius of the nuclear lightbulb design is the irrotational vortex of neon gas that contains the plasma - this design separates the hot stuff from any solid materials that might melt. This vortex provides the pressure required to reach criticality and separates the plasma from the single crystal beryllium oxide walls, which in turn separates the neon vortex from the reaction mass (hydrogen gas seeded with tungsten nanoparticles when used as a rocket engine and water when used as a power plant). At that temperature, the plasma emits most of its energy as a black body radiator and the SC BeO walls are designed to pass through all of that radiation. The constant flow of neon cools down the entire system.

Like I said, UAC actually built functional prototypes that went just short of using fissile material. The non-nuclear parts of the design were validated experimentally. The only remaining theoretical parts are precise control of the fission reaction, which they didn't have the computational power for back then, and long term operation/maintenance, since imperfections in the SC beryllium oxide degrade the container and cause it to melt down eventually. There were plans to demonstrate a slow neutron plasma, which would significantly reduce material degradation, but they never got to it before Nixon canceled the Mars program.
I am wondering if contributing to a 529 plan still makes sense given where things are going.
Results from studies that used an antipsychotic across the board would not be generalizeable to traditional experiences. At that point, why use L in the first place if older, faster acting substances are available. Mescaline and psilocybine have been used in spiritual and therapeutic settings for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Where is the interest in L coming from, if not ease of slipping it past customs and other law enforcement?
On the one hand, I can understand them not wanting to be a platform for content they do not like (find offensive, believe legally dangerous, &c). On the other hand, presence of porn and nazis is an indicator of a healthy community — banning these things leads to decline in other areas (see Tumblr). You can’t have partial freedom of speech.

At least the porn is still there.

The problem with ‘social’ sites is that they allow cross-contamination between the seedy bits, and r/woodworking and the like.

The open web — with separately hosted forums — is a lot better, but less convenient. I hope to see a solution sometime, but the odds are not good.
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Maybe if we had a functioning welfare state, the government would be encouraged to respond to a pandemic appropriately so as not to overwhelm its resources. Scandinavia seems to be doing better than the US at the moment.

As it stands, it looks like the US is using its lack of a social floor to force people back to work under unsafe conditions, regardless of whether that’s rational or necessary, which will result in masses of unnecessary injuries and deaths.
I find such broad sweeping projections about population growth, big population numbers = more power, “eclipsing USA” and further conclusions emanating from this kind of line of thinking making zero sense.

Nobody has a clue on how population growth is going to be in next 30 yrs for both China and India. Its too dynamic and impossible to forecast, let alone make broad sweeping action items to advocate for.
There may be quality reasons for this (source: I work in a company that produces clothes).

There are typically two factors that are used to critique clothing production, ethics and quality. Ethically production in China is fairly easy to do well assuming you're not objecting wholesale to giving money to the Chinese economy. Working conditions are normally fine and can be great.

In terms of quality, China is pretty good for a number of types of clothing. I don't know about activewear as we don't produce any, but for many categories at many price points they're basically as good as anywhere else. There are categories where they're not, regardless of how much you pay. I have a feeling that suits might have been one of these but not certain.

For very high end clothing, production in Europe, particularly Italy, is a good sign. For anything else there's no reason why China can't compete on quality for most categories.
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> Abusive content is not acceptable on Reddit nor is engaging with it.

This is such a fail for Reddit. If the content isn't allowed on the site, it's on Reddit to remove it. The existence of the content on the site implies Reddit's approval of the content, so engaging with that content is a wholly innocent act.
Everybody talks about online mobs and trolls but what happens when the entire workforce is online?

How vicious can one (mob) be against another co-worker when you can't phisically see him to calibrate what's really going on and the reaction to what you do?
Before covid, being able to work from home once in a while was something of a perk. After a few months of fully remote it is now a hard requirement for me, a significant chunk of my work time has to be able to be home office, or I'm walking away.
"Reddit admins are not a cohesive group of people."

What does that mean? They are all paid employees of the same company, they have leadership, common goals, and accountability up the chain.

Is that part of the /s or commentary within the post?
"through at least the end of July"

at least

As in, they're starting here, and they'll continue if they don't see action.

Patagonia is privately held and they seem like an organization that would follow principals over profits, in general.

This is a clearer message to Facebook than an outright loss. Facebook now has to say "We lost this month, are we willing to lose next month? And the month after?" as opposed to "Well, we lost the revenue, no use crying over spilled milk".
It's partially true. You can't sell most of your personal information. E.g., when your name, face, and weight end up in somebody's dataset it'll be because of the "free" social fitness app you used rather than because you were able to directly connect with anyone who cared about that data and work out a reasonable price.
Web3Torrent FAQ: https://www.notion.so/web3Torrent-FAQ-9f384d9dbadc4828aa81e1...
I imagine the mods have a fairly finely tuned sense of which threads will turn into a shitstorm and don't give a fuck about pre-emptively killing them.

How do we feel about pre-emptive moderation? Is it warranted? Is it warranted every time? Only certain topics?
The long tail of reddit is the same as forums. I'm subscribed a bunch of niche subreddits for products I own, projects, etc and it's just like forums except with a measure of consistency and features that I appreciate. These communities are self-policed the same as any other forum.

The problem with reddit isn't technical, it's human. A large group of people will ruin literally anything.
It's wishful thinking to believe India can compete with China on the world stage. China can pivot on a dime, whereas you can flatter an Indian by describing their country as "organized chaos". Comparing the responses to COVID-19 should be indicative.

As somewhat of an metric, I'll let you look up the smallest semiconductor node India can produce natively.
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Anyone drinks coffee because they like it?

Every time a coffee related subject comes up on HN, it seem that the majority is drinking it like a drug. Aren't there people that drink it because they like it?

I like coffee. I don't drink it for waking up. Coffee is also my hobby. I search for good green beans, I roast it, I heavily invest in good equipment (grinders and espresso machines) and always chasing the elusive perfect shot of espresso.
It kind of makes me sad that the majority of the people view it as a drug and consume it as a drug.
I think quarantined subreddits play the same role as "NSFW" tagging on posts: They're not banned, but it improves the user experience to not see them by accident.
I don't follow them enough to personally have an opinion on if they warranted that treatment or not, but did follow enough to know it really couldn't have been most posts. So really can't argue with you on the validity of the banning.

but... that if the fraction of bad posts lead to mass suspensions on CTH then I'd say it is a creepy/not-good direction for Reddit.
In addition to the privacy aspect, it probably helps reduce the travel distance of any particles that one exhales
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My wife has brought fish into my go-to selection. She bakes or pan-sears salmon or tuna.
Probably the highest combo for speed and tasty.
Not optimized for cost obviously.

salt+pepper+olive oil+lemon juice, fish on parchment paper in a cast iron pan, bake for 10-15 minutes or until flaky, depending on fish mass

active time - 1 minute?
Can someone provide more information on the 1-month recovery from caffeine induced anxiety? In my experience and from what I've read online, caffeine withdrawal typically lasts 1 or 2 weeks.

I recently quit drinking coffee hoping I could stop grinding my teeth in the night. It hasn't helped yet, but I quit only about 3 weeks ago.

An aside, grinding your teeth in the night is very problematic because it's not something you can directly resolve unless you get a mouth guard. Trying to pinpoint stressors in my life has been an arduous process.
Yeah. It s like advertising to poor countries because CPMs are lower there
There is a marijuana related subreddit that is geo-banned from Canadian IPs.

Reddit just says “This content has been restricted in your country in response to a legal request.

Geoblocked in Canada due to General legal request”

Is there any way to push Reddit to disclose who sent the request?

I’d love to followup with that agency, but we have a lot of police services in Canada, if it was one.
Don't create a brand new account and then start playing gotcha games here. Put your best information and argument up front instead of making crap claims and then jumping on people who invest time in refuting them.

We personally investigated the story in 2009. I have seen the report. I served as a national Ron Paul campaign person and currently work within the IC and international law enforcement.

You're just a rookie here so lose the attitude and read the guidelines.
Doesn't work at all on my custom-generated sitemap.xml which is valid and accepted by search engines. Worse than that, it displays a bogus diagram rather than an error.
Podcasts already have premium versions without ads.

Video streaming (and music streaming though not as much anymore) also have premium versions without ads.

I think people are willing to pay for an "ad-free" experience on some services and still see ads elsewhere.
Hi HN! I'm Anthony and I just wanted to show you what myself and my friend James have worked on over lockdown! VPN services and platforms alike are all about trust, and UH VPN attempts to find a balance between leaving you in control of your data by controlling the servers, and making it quick and convenient to manage by providing a central management platform.

A bit of context about us; James and I are two computer science graduates that have started our own company working predominantly with network security. During lockdown we realised that the custom solutions we have made for our clients were things that we would have like to play about with during our degree, so we polished them up and have published them into a complete package, UH VPN!

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Very interested to hear how people find it!
You could use MPI and OpenMP. I got my start building an 10megabit ethernet cluster of 6 machines for $15K (this would have been back in ~2000). It only scaled about 4X using 6 machines, but that was still good enough/cheap enough to replace a bunch of more expensive SGIs, Suns, and HP machines.

Where the bottleneck is depends entirely on many details of the computations you wanted to run. IN many cases, you can get trivial embarassing parallelism if you can break your problem into N parts and there doesn't need to be any real communication between the processors running the distinct parts. In that case, memory bandwidth and clock rate are the bottleneck. but if you're running something like ML training with tight coupling, then the throughput and latency of the network can definitely be a problem.
COVID? Not a lot. But normal office work? Just a little bit of privacy. Enough so that casually glancing at what someone else is doing is discouraged. But also, not enough so that communication is too discouraged.
To the extent that a site like Reddit tries to police content and decide what's "hateful" content versus just mildly offensive, etc, the platform becomes less valuable to me.

These policy changes have driven me off of Reddit. Not because I was part of any quarantined "communities" but just because I see where things are going.

Reddit used to actually believe in the ideal of free speech, full stop. That stopped being true quite some time ago.

> I hope most people on HN don't agree with the train of thought that websites have no duty to their fellow man to not normalize hate speech.

I suspect that most agree with your statement, but to speak for myself, I am very skeptical of labelling something as hate speech. It starts out with banning "legitimate" hate speech ("ethnic group X is secretly controlling everything and must be purged") and quickly morphs into something like "you said all lives matter which is associated with opposition to black lives matter which over the long-run is part of a system of oppression and therefore we're going to ban you". If it's not clear, these are arbitrary examples that I just made up but I think the way Reddit is going it's quite clear that we're moving towards that.
Imagine if Apple were to announce a Mac utilise the exact same chip. A powerful high TDP CPU will be great fit for Apple, while they continue to focus on low power and energy efficiency for their mainstream product.
Jup, Curriculum definitely has to be changed towards allowing more people to do that kind of stuff, also financial aid.

I did work 8h per week through roughly all my time at uni. My grades sucked, tough. And some people had to work more to get enough money. I actually had enough help from my parents to need to work, but I liked the extra cash and experience.

Helps that uni in Germany is basically free.
Yes that's right. They won't ban you for having non-terrible opinions, but they'll downvote you into non-existence. I tried participating in voat for a couple of days before leaving forever.
Will check them out! Thanks for sharing.
How is it censored? There is a comment on that post with 5000 upvotes.
From the article: "At least one major advertising agency, 360i, has advised clients to support the boycott, the Wall Street Journal first reported."

I've rarely seen ad agencies actually recommend reducing spend. I think this might turn into something bigger.
As a foreigner, and frequent traveler to the US for some 20 years, find it hard to believe it is still present in any other way than marginally at the US's institutions. Can you point me to some examples?
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I think they just want to have their cake and eat it too, so to speak, like everyone else.

For some people free speech is like riding the train: when you reach your stop, you get off.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transsexual

The second paragraph has four sources that cite some transexuals rejecting the label of transgender, so language-policing others based on your personal preferences is quite inappropriate here.
Agreed! That still doesn't mean Collective Punishment is ethical

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_punishment
Well hopefully you don't have vicious mobs at your workplace.
The population factor is a very interesting observation.
I think this is missing India's point of view of the situation. India has always been wary of being very close to the US or other Western powers because of history. During the Cold War India was closer to the Russians. If the US wants to improve relations with India, it needs to recognize that India will likely remain independent (another pole in a multi-polar world)
There is a whole subreddit about this topic however.

https://www.reddit.com/r/detrans/
The difference is that people who bought an iPhone know full well that there is only one App Store.

I doubt anyone would willingly buy a car when they knew upfront that it was only able to drive to xyz.

In my opinion, the people making the case for changes to the App Store are either A) developers with an economic incentive or B) Individuals who want an iPhone but also want Android-esque control of their device.
Cool idea, prison is also cheaper and easier to get into.
Demographics is not destiny, if it were true, Pakistan would be more powerful than Russia.

How you organize your society matters much more, Japan/SK has fraction of the global population, and somehow maintain their economic importance.

India has all the problems of a democracy without much of the benefit. It's more likely that India becomes a CCP style country than stays a democracy.

If India was so great it's smaller immediate neighbor wouldn't be so hostile towards it, and friendly to CCP.

CCP was able to organize G77, so they have the numbers on their side, it's just that poor people don't have a voice, China is providing hard power to the masses of humanity against the interests of G7.

It's a major shift in world power, whether G7 likes it or not.

I am no fan of CCP, nor is CCP a fan of how they do things ! but its the world we live in, where the state department can just overthrow the govt of a major country if it likes, you need the use of hard power to survive.
It’s a good way to encourage any user at all to leave.
This was exactly my experience too! I wanted to separate out the game narrative from the actual history when I played something like the campaigns in Age of Empires II, and it drove a ton of history reading.
So it goes when you take that chinese money.
I don't think "reddit is dead", but I do think the relatively intelligent and interesting userbase that was there ~10 years ago has been almost entirely displaced by clickbait and propaganda targeted at the now mostly middlingly-intelligent read-only userbase.

This almost inevitably happens when a site gets popular enough. There are only so many intelligent people actively posting on the internet, and it's impossible to have a site with 100,000 users (let alone the >400,000,000 of Reddit) with a high fraction of them providing good content.

Certainly the heavy-handed censorship of the Reddit administration is a disincentive for people who are interested in topics at the edges of the overton window (i.e. most of the interesting people online).
> If I count right that puts them at 96th between Santa Clara, CA and Boise, ID

First, you're only looking at cities. Lots of the US population does not live in cities.

Second, even just looking at cities, do you know how many cities there are in the US? (A lot more than 96.)

All this is telling you is that, as far as crime rates go, the US is basically two countries: certain large cities (high crime rate) and everywhere else (low crime rate).
The people on HN, especially those who use Facebook regularly, are worth on average _significanty_ more than $17 to the company per year.

It’s hard to remember, the average person makes $X,000 globally and Facebook has a huge % of the planet on their platform.

HN users make in the upper echelon of wages, and are comfortable with their computers and online shopping.
It is illegal when the product makes serious health claims not backed by scientific research. The more insidious cases of this relate to cancer or covid 'cures'.
Probably they profit from horrible communities and lose on some, and there are no clear distinction between the two, so they started to quarantine less profitable ones to stigmatize before banning them.

They’re profiting off anger so “old” ones being angry has no downsides.
Reddit isn't even remotely anonymous. Pseudonymous at best. Anonymous forums are completely incompatible with user identity centric moderation mechanisms (Karma, Gold, rep etc...)

Once you assign usernames and attach any type of value counter to an account, you've effectively dumped true anonymity out the window due to essentially creating a pseudonymic marketplace.

People may think "How pseudonymous do you need to be?" In today's world? Very. Especially given the propensity for deplatforming and reputation based social warfare.
Until you can stream touch, smell, taste, vision and sound in a way that can pass the turing test, streaming is a cave painting if the university is a CD.
It was removed from the front page; therefore culling any more engagement with the post.

See the following comment
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/h9ctho/serious_a...