skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even more concerning than using downvote as a disagree button is flagging as a disagree button. It's happened to me many times where my good-faith comments have been flagged due to advocating a minority position (specifically, that the COVID-19 lockdown is harmful, just to give context) and I have/had to e-mail Dang to get a human to look at the flagged comments and determine if they were actually violating a guideline.
Still drives traffic to the rest of the site.
> could have written yourself

This. Is a divide between programmers. Some are thrilled by this. Others, like me, see the power and flexibilty and front disagree it can be good. But their day to day problems are not lacking the most expressive, efficient Lang. Its communication, process, deadlines, change, domain knowledge, etc.

I didn't and don't want to invest my limited mental power in learning and keeping up with all about compiler Lang design CS theory. I want to use a language people much smarter and experienced with compiler and language design and theory have made for me. I want to build a program using the domain specific knowledge I've invested in. Not build program to write other programs..
> Intel has never been able to deliver on the low power side.

Yes they have. It's why we have 10+ hour thin & light laptops. The quad-core i5 in a macbook air runs at 10W, that's comparable per-core power draw to an A13.

Controlling the CPU will give Apple more controls to tune total-package power, particularly on the GPU / display side of things, but CPU compute efficiency isn't going to be radically different, and that's not going to translate into significant battery life differences, either, since the display, radios, etc... all vastly drown out low-utilization CPU power draw numbers.
Have it mined optically in space and then molded/vacuum deposited/3-d printed up there into (passive) lifting bodies of appropriate proportions out of comb like structures, put a jetpack for steering onto it which brings it down into the atmosphere in a controlled way, detach that (reusable) jetpack before burning up, reroute to some orbiting space dock for refueling.

Meanwhile, have a massive golden glider splashing down into the ocean somewhere near a cost, and have it towed by tug-boats towards the smelters, forges, metal works, catalyst producers, whatever...
> It is going to be highly radioactive at some point (when it's in use), so it does need shielding for that point.

We can use two things as shielding - propellant and distance. For the first, we would want to make sure we don't use all the propellant with the reactor running hot, but decrease power output as we run out of propellant. As for distance, we may want to add a foldable structure between the propulsion section and the habitable section that would be extended to its full length prior to starting the nuclear reactor.
normally notable but doesnt nyt win boatloads of those every year? what made this one stand out for you?
The question is do they hold the same standard for Chinese politics and Chinese corporations? If not, then why the double standard?
At the beginning of StackOverflow there was a very strong opinion held by the founders, particularly Jeff Atwood, that the longevity of a site was determined by the signal to noise ratio. The emphasis at the outset was to eliminate as much noise as possible. Automated systems were put in place that went way too far, in my opinion. The whole Chat system was put into place to get comments off the main pages. Even though Jeff Atwood hasn't been at the company for years, the philosophy still seems very entrenched.
Well sure, they get to do whatever they want, you're right. It's their community they're moderating. We agree.

That wasn't what I was asking-however.
I'm not sure why you think the web is less parseable now. HTML5 is well described and it's easy to get a compliant HTML5 parser for whatever language. Back in the day, people were just doing regex.

There's a separate issue that a lot of stuff requires JS, but the JS mostly just calls JSON endpoints, so that's easy to scrape. The tricky thing is scraping ASPX sites that jump through a bunch of hoops instead of having a simple backend API.
I assume there will be plenty of co-working spaces at least in cities. But, at least so long as the company has an office you could go into, I wouldn't expect they'd reimburse you for it. Some companies will do this but, in my experience, it's only if there is no company office in a city.
Freedom of speech is only about whether what you say can be used against you for government persecution (other than admitting to a crime to an officer of the law).

Therefore, I don't think we can say that posts and replies on the websites hosted by private companies can be considered protected speech.

That said, treating upvotes and downvotes in the same way as the text in a post or reply is a pretty bad idea IMHO.
Having a huge population doesn't help much. I am from India and I can say that the current state of the country is not good. There are some good initiatives such as the Digital India initiative and some good advancements on the Fintech scene but the country is not in the best state right now. At least, not positioned for remarkable growth like China had in the past few decades.
Fair. Although it's also non-rival. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivalry_(economics)
Digg dug their own grave with the sweeping changes that drove everyone to reddit.
Yes, we're close enough to Earth that it has a lot more affect on us than the Sun. And the Earth has a magnetic shield. Etc.

The Tsar Bomba did not destroy all life on the planet, did it? A simple solar flare is 5 to 10 magnitudes larger. Yes, small changes, but small changes that don't belong.

We are close enough to the Sun that even if that were detectable at the scale of the cosmos, the distance between the Earth and the Sun is a rounding error at the scales we are talking about.

Appreciate this. We are effectively in the Sun's atmosphere. The entire solar system is. Scale matters.
This sounds stressful. I'm sorry you are not in an environment where you can take your time and ask these important questions.

Keep going. Your questions are reasonable and relevant. Understanding the "why" of what you are doing is crucial. It may seem like a hopeless effort but it will get easier. The better you understand a problem the better you will be able to solve it. It may be slow in the beginning but your confidence will build over time and people will begin to appreciate your thoughtful questions.

You sound like a curious person. I'm reminded of the most curious person I've read, Richard Feynman. He relentlessly asked questions and sought true understanding at a fundamental level. If you haven't read his book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!", you should. It's wonderfully entertaining and will perhaps encourage you to keep asking your questions.
You won't lose much by not playing the first one. It's more tedious than the second installment, so I would try them in reverse order just for this reason.
These sites rely on network effect, which become prominent after a certain threshold of users join the site. If they reach critical mass, they will suck in the rest of the extreme-right, then the republicans then slowly everyone, because people like controversy and will seek to go where they can have it.

Reddit is clearly a leftwing site now in ways that it wasnt when it started (when libertarian was the dominant ethos). All their "common word" reddits, such as news, politics, technology science are purely leftist echo chambers by now. The few rightwing corners left are already isolated and ready to make the move. In fact they may even decide they should jump ship. What better time for /r/t_d to go somewhere else than now, when people's interest is intensely focused in elections and they can easily rally all their users to follow them. Wherever they go, more people of other persuasions will follow, because people love telling other people that they are wrong on the internet.

The question is if those other competitors can stand the traffic and whether they give the features to moderators that reddit does.
Anonymous relative to Facebook and all the other social media sites. Sure, having user accounts is not completely anonymous, but it is good enough for 99% of people.
No, it's not. I think what happens is that if you take a national average and compare it's still higher, but not overly so. But there is variability in those numbers. Atlanta has a murder rate of 17 per 100k vs 2 per 100k for Toronto, and 0.5 per 100k for Oslo.

>but in the US the crime is WAY deadlier due to all of the guns. Canada is somewhere in the middle.

That doesn't matter. Cops don't set gun policy. They have to deal with it. Just as cops don't cause vagrancy in cities like LA and San Fran (which usually results from mental illness and/or drug addiction), but they still have to deal with it (because those cities and states won't).
That depends on how much you value the free market as a means to an end versus an end in itself. Machine learning meta-models aren't very valuable by themselves, and raw personal data isn't valuable by itself, but their union creates a huge surplus of value. If you value the free market then any allocation of that surplus that happens in practice is a good allocation. If you don't, then it makes sense to look at properties you would like such an allocation to have and try to find a way to distribute the profits to meet your criteria.

As an example, the Shapley value in simpler, similar scenarios would allocate half the profits to whomever trained the model and distribute the other half equally among those individuals whose data was used (or equivalently, it would treat every interaction between the model-maker and a data-provider as splitting the profits 50/50). Actually calculating the Shapley value for something as nonlinear as the hypothetical profits from a trained model on various data subsets seems...problematic...but splitting some percentage of the profits equally among the participants won't be too far off the mark.
I really like that they started streaming it on youtube so I can play it on my chromecast
The font in my terminal is Jetbrains Mono.

It replaced Input. I loved how you can configure important characters and height spacing in Input to your preference.

If I want something quirky, with a personality, but not so strong as to be off putting, then I reach for Fantasque Sans Mono.
[Member of the statechannels.org team here.]

Not directly. State channels are similar to lightning, but there's a key difference:

* in lightning each payment is routed through the network independently, requiring participation from the intermediary nodes

* in a state channel the intermediary nodes are used to establish a channel and then the payments are direct

The upshot is that in state channels, once the connection is established, the payments are truly peer-to-peer, and don't need any interaction with a third party.

We use this property in Web3Torrent, as the payments are sent directly peer-to-peer on top of the webtorrent messaging layer. This wouldn't be possible with lightning, though you could probably find another way to accomplish something similar.
FastMail is adding IAP to their app. They stated that Apple has asked them to, and that it was on their long-term roadmap.

https://twitter.com/Fastmail/status/1273800222989324288?s=20
> $17/yr in annual revenue per user

Revenue per user is a very misleading way to evaluate the value when talking about a hyper-global operation. It is as useful as averaging the global price of a loaf of bread, which would be priced as $2-3 in the US but a few cents in a third world country. This is very applicable to ad revenue because ultimately ads are capturing the pricing levels of real economy, and bulk of the facebook users are not from high GDP nations.

> Your entire data load might be worth $100 a year

This is a very simplistic way to think about data. In fact, calling it data itself is misleading. Because it all boils down to how the data is operationalized and made into information and knowledge about you when the business is interacting with you. Same demographic data is worth separately for selling you ads, driving product development to increase usage, price discriminating against you while buying airplane tickets, selling you insurance, influencing your vote etc.

Another way data is not a static, lifeless entity is something people often forget, it is the power of an SQL join. Joining table-a and table-b yields information neither of the tables had alone. So there will always be more a potential of rendering the existing data more valuable (more information yielding) by joining it with a marginal amount of new data.

In sum, data doesn't have a static value, and I don't think we have seen the end of ways it could be utilized against users yet.

> It doesn't work.

To my knowledge, we don't have empirical data that shows it doesn't yet.
what bad behavior? providing a 6mo heads up that you don't need to come back is pretty reasonable. while you are at criticizing these companies, do know that a lot of smaller companies are requiring their employees to come to work in lots of places.
That’s called profitability.
I think there's a category error here around 'choice'.

Who is choosing? I can walk into a store and look around without making a commitment to buy a product. I may leave realizing that there is nothing for me here. I chose not to become a customer. Or I chose to be a customer and there was a ritual exchanging of gifts and information which is relatively clear to all parties.

Websites don't work that way. I can't 'browse' without them already tracking me. I haven't agreed to anything yet. The transition happens without my awareness. It's predatory.
How does this work? I pressed the Create Sitemap button and it brought me to an unrelated page. Where's the input field to put my URL in?
People are free to buy a Patagonia jacket and sew their company logo to it. Patagonia, on the other hand, is free to protect their brand which - if the comments in this thread are any indication - is a big part of their competitive advantage.
I haven't done any maths or research on that, but did you take global numbers or boil down to market. I assume users in "Western" countries bring more than other parts of the world. Or is my assumption wrong?
Do you think that every post and comment on Reddit is pre-approved by an employee before it becomes visible?
I'm a daily redditor. On Saturday I logged into reddit and found "Your account has been permanently suspended from Reddit." across the top banner. The mod message says I was permanently suspended for repeated violations of the content policy.

The last time I posted ANYTHING on reddit was 21 days ago when I commented on a Schwarzenegger post and said I'd love for him to be president. I appealed it and haven't heard anything.
Not really, I've no experience with e-ink displays, if I was to do it, I'd hunt for an older-generation large-size e-book reader and try to hack the firmware a bit.

I have two Kobo readers that are 5+ years old, the small one, I cracked open and found that the Linux OS was on a normal SD card in a normal socket, so I removed it and flashed it to a bigger card, I think one of those should be easy(ish) to hack :)
An alternative I somehow never hear discussed in these threads is railguns.

How practical is using railguns for launch compared to nuclear thermal propulsion and the other alternatives discussed here?

At the very least, it seems to be much safer than something that risks nuclear fallout.
Let’s say you took all the stolen iPads in the United States and put them in a pile. How big would that pile be in comparison to this one if activation lock didn’t exist?

I might even ask what percentage of these iPads could have simply been stolen from the original owner? They’re all locked right?

By piling up all these devices together the waste looks bad. But millions of iPads are sold every year - if activation lock deters even a small percentage of thefts that’s a huge pile.

And, frankly, “children in need” can afford tablets. Just not fancy luxury Apple ones. A brand new kindle fire from 2019 costs $50. I’m sure twenty bucks can get you a used functioning tablet that can run apps.

To be clear, I’m not defending Apple’s stance on repairs and how they treat third party shops, I just don’t consider that issue related to the activation lock feature, which as a customer is highly desired.
Also, Participation of women in the economy is super low. This needs to be improved.
Couldn't a few artists and level designers in 1995-2000 crank out a whole lot more finished products than ones in 2015-2020 though? Seems like you need entire teams to make one level in modern games.
But India is still a Semi Slavery society. The untouchables, anyone? The Hindu caste/social grouping system tells millions of people that they are contaminated and their fate is doomed upon birth. This is the most powerful racist/slavery/brain-washing machine that the human being has ever made, no?

It is so hard to believe such brutal system still exist in human society. Yet, the country enforcing this claims to be the best friend of the west. Well, actually if you think about the BLM moment in western countries, it starts to make some sense...
>Lots of the US population does not live in cities.

Where do you think these police abuses (and subsequent protests) are coming from? Pretty much exclusively from cities.
Without section 230 protection it would be impossible for the site to stay open, so in effect you're saying sites that moderate user content should be shut down. Does that seem like an accurate interpretation of your position?
Subreddits can be unwanted by Reddit, but otherwise non-toxic.
The sense I get is in general, people worry about the average case, not the worst-case scenario, when it comes to privacy.

... and honestly, that might be the correct risk assessment for the average person. The worst-case scenario only happens to a few people.
From Canadian IPs? It is legal here now, so that is odd.
I’d say 2004:

- Half Life 2. I recently started playing it again (for catharsis, when DC was under military occupation a few weeks ago—drones, helicopters, gas-masked cops and all), and woo boy is that game still jaw-dropping to me. Plus, games built on its engine, like TF2 and L4D2, are still popular.

- World of Warcraft. I never got into this game at the time (was still a recovering EverQuest addict), but sometimes I pop on the free edition and level a character to 20. It’s still the largest MMO by player base.

- Also: Knights of the Old Republic II, The Sims 2 (best Sims imo), Metal Gear Solid 3, Halo 2, Metroid Prime 2
Top-tier companies that use Elixir programming language
What connects Pepsi, Spotify and Discord? They all use Elixir in their tech stack. Why is Elixir so attractive to the top-tier companies in the world?
America has a very easy answer to reducing the death rate, but that it cannot or will not take: get rid of the guns. Get them out of the criminal hands, get them out of non-criminal hands, and get them out of cop hands.

You’re right that the 90s `crime bills` didn’t come out of nowhere. But they didn’t come out of a “we need to make our communities safer” perspective (that was merely the sales pitch)—because they increased criminal penalties on acts that generally affect low-income and minority “criminals”. They _built_ the problems we have today. The whole idea of a “super predator” was as much a racist invention as Ronald Reagan’s “welfare queens in Cadillacs”.

Civil Forfeiture and RICO sounded like a great idea when it was to be used against white-collar beneficiaries of criminal enterprises. Except that’s not how it got used, and so cops in all jurisdictions started rolling up money from regular citizens just like a regular protection racket, except without the protection. It was _meant_ to be used against the cartels, but instead it got used as an income booster.

What made communities safer? It _wasn’t_ giving cops and prosecutors more powers. Reinvestment in those communities. Education. Treatment for trauma. Those things _all_ made far more difference in making communities safer than any single power given to cops since the 90s. Those things just destroyed some of the communities even more. Cities are _safer_ when you have people spending money in them and living there. Suburbs and exurbs and white flight made downtowns more dangerous by taking all of the money out of the cities and leaving people in desperate straits. Reurbanization and gentrification reversed the trends (although gentrification has its own problems).

Related to the use of aggregate numbers, read the Pew link. It talks about the rural/urban variability and about local perception of crime (people believe that there’s more crime across America, but most do not believe that there’s more crime in _their_ area).
Founding a business doesn’t necessarily make you rich.
> people are moving out of cities because they are expensive

Some, yes. Others because they want the space. I am SO glad I am not living in an apartment. I'm really enjoying my garden, not having to hear my neighbors, etc.

> suburbs are super cheap everywhere except SFBA

I wish!!! (Portland suburb dweller here)
Forcing payment for the data will make some of these business model not work, and I'm all for that. It's not about users receiving a few dollars, it's companies having to pay all them.
> Replacing universities with a netflix-esque experience may seem attractive to students, but is doomed to fail to train students

To be honest, for very mathematical subjects the lectures are almost useless. Exercises and practicing is what gives insights, determines the grades and tells which part of the lecture is actually important.

I'd be curious how it is in other subjects, like literature or history. But I assume without writing texts, one doesn't get very far there either.
Netgear router models risk full takeover due to unpatched
OP hopes digg goes away. I point out that it is a good site.

Where did I lose you?
Is it that far beyond her understanding though? It's as simple as saying:

"No, it's like someone's taken a picture of the world and you're looking at it."
> They even came up with the concept of quarantined subreddits. I honestly can't think of a single honest reason for them existing. Once you've deemed a community so harmful that you don't want people accidentally stumbling into it, why go out of your way to allow it to exist behind a curtain, instead of just outright banning it (unless you want to support it discreetly).

Reddit came up with quarantining specifically to suppress /r/The_Donald. It had nothing to do with cleaning up the site and everything to do with advancing a political agenda.

Now they're just stuck with a pretense and a set of rules that were never intended to be enforced fairly, and a user-base that (quite rightly) sees the rules as being arbitrarily enforced.
How to Pitch Investors and Get Funded
It might make a little sense for Emergency Rooms to have in response to the "bad trips" that result in people calling an ambulance.

But I think the primary reason they would want to develop this would be to encourage LSD to be used as a therapy drug. A lot of people would be more comfortable experimenting in a controlled/legal setting if they new they had an off switch in case anything went wrong.
>I don't understand why you would even publicize this. Just stop counting those users' votes, if that's what you want to do?

Those user's votes don't matter, scaring the userbase into narrowing their overton windows of acceptable reddit voting is what matters.

More broadly Reddit wants to be seen as taking action. The incentive structure facing that company rewards loudly making a slight improvement to the site over quietly making a huge improvement.