skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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

Since we all know we're talking about The_Donald, I'll just mention them specifically. Alexa traffic data considers Reddit the #6 website in the US -- they are huge, and their major actions will be noticed. If they ban their top pro-Trump community, Fox News will be talking about it later that day. Reddit execs will be answering questions in front of the US Senate a week later. Phrases like "election interference" will be thrown around. Nobody wants that.

So instead they do it subtly: quarantine The_Donald, which means they don't show up in site-wide lists, can't be accessed through the mobile app, and can't be indexed by search engines. This stems their growth. Later, start replacing their moderators. Eventually you've taken it over and shut it down, and they leave. Now if Tucker Carlson wants to tell his audience about it, he has to explain to a bunch of 60-somethings what a "forum moderator" is. Not happening.

Honestly, I think what they did worked out best for everyone. Reddit is happy to be rid of them, and they're happy with their new website, TheDonald.win. Everybody wins.
I guess so. Seeder would need to send us a lightning invoice, and after we make a payment we'd repeat the request with a proof of payment and the seeder would send us the next chunk of data. AFAIK Bittorrent protocols are quite extensible, and adding such metadata should be possible. However, this (paid torrent seeding) only makes economic sense if all seeders demand payment, and then the cheapest ones will be winning, driving prices close to zero.

Nice idea anyways, great to see people experimenting in the space!
"Oh this resturant looks cool, let's check the menu before going in"

"Find it on Maps... No website link"

"K, open a browser... new tab... let's search by name"

"No.. Not the one in Oralando"

"No.. Not the band"

"Ah, this looks correct"

"Oh god, it's using flash"

Versus

"Tap"

"Pay with Apply Pay"
Are App Clips Apples “answer” to PWAs?

Semi-installed Apps with more privileges than a website, requiring the usual iOS dev workflow with a paid plan of course (seems like App Clips are part of a regular App, so you have to write a regular app anyway). Oh and it supports Apple Pay and Login.

I’m convinced that this is another sign that PWAs are never going to be really capable on iOS.
You’re lying.
I remember Cyrix as just releasing Intel compatible/clone chips, am I misremembering something?
'Draw into any text field and OCR it' is another instance of bikeshedding but I can't help but feel impressed by it.
There's something amusing about a blog post announcing the fastest computer in the world being unable to serve up web requests in under 10 seconds.

(When I wrote this comment, I was seeing 500 status code errors when trying to load the page)
I much prefer Facebook's relatively laissez faire approach instead of Twitter's politically biased approach where hateful things are allowed as long as they are from the left side of the political spectrum.

Drawing the line on what is hate speech is a hard enough problem already, and companies like Google, Twitter don't even try to be impartial, their execs have clearly taken a side. Add to that the weird times we're living in and how people's fundamental moral ideas have diverted so much in the last 10 years, and you have a perfect disaster.

Facebook's approach is less harmful than the alternative right now.
Of course, reparations could not be on the basis of race. Many white people too have very low generational wealth. Race is not the only privilege. I think doing reparations in the form of a wealth tax and possibly inheritance tax combined with strong social programs focused on underserved communities would be functionally identical to reparations in reducing generational wealth inequities while also fixing other problems and not causing the issues you described.
As an early user of KNL, I don't get the "GPU" bit. KNL runs normal x86_64 code and doesn't look that much different to the AMD Interlagos systems I once used apart from the memory architecture.
Exactly, it's a switch from "we are people who code, no bullshit" to "we <3 people who code" with the cute marketing-compatible techish <3.

> Or maybe it means their new organization is less than the value of three people who code.

I chuckled :)
This is an absolutely great idea - I'll get on it
Quarantined subreddits are analogous to downweighting a particular Facebook post in the FB algorithm: both are a form of "soft" moderation stopping short of outright censorship.

Banning users who vote for Reddit's arbitrarily-defined objectionable content is a bridge even further than mere censorship. Particularly because the users are voting for the content before they know Reddit has defined it as objectionable, by definition, because once Reddit has made that determination, the original post is removed.

> There's nothing wrong with Reddit not wanting to facilitate and provide a platform for that sort of content, though.

The counterarguments to this have been presented so many times on HN.

The most fundamental problem is that there is a motte-and-bailey going on with these defenses of censorship: in theory, Reddit and others are censoring far-right hateful domestic terrorists. In reality, they are also censoring qualified medical professionals from opining on COVID in a manner contrary to the WHO, or people who are not actual climate denialists, but who merely question the precision of particular climate models.

Exactly as any defender of free speech would have predicted, these mechanisms are enacted on the pretext of defending against a bogeyman, but are actually used in practice to impose ideological uniformity and suppress legitimate dissent.
If I'm a small business owner and I buy billboard space from a guy (Jimmy) who also sells billboard space to advertisers who publish racist/sexist content, is it unreasonable for me to spend my money elsewhere until Jimmy quits his bs? What if Jimmy freely sends mailers too, to anyone who asks, and I want him to not send mailers if they are racist? If I was in that position and you told me you had a problem with what I was doing, I would tell you to get off my lawn.
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Please don't post like this. If you see a [dead] post that shouldn't be dead, you should vouch for it by clicking on its timestamp, then clicking 'vouch' at the top of its page. There's a small karma threshold (> 30) before vouch links appear.

Cases like this are precisely why the vouch feature exists, and other users have applied it to the comment, so now yours is false as well as off topic.

In particularly significant cases, you can email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll take care of it.
Also, being the first doesnt mean you necessarilly win: smaller node size will give poorer wafer yields, giving Intel time to milk older node processes while playing catchup with TSMC.
Thanks a lot for taking your time to write this down for me. Will definitely try my best to follow them.
A triple A game isn't viable on PC alone nowadays, it has to release on console and hence has to account for what modern (both PC and console) players expect. You're claiming to be a fan of this niche but haven't played any of the major releases in it from the past 10 years (Dishonored 1 & 2 + Prey), if you haven't played those games as a fan of the genre then what chance does the genre have? These were big games, marketed well by a major publisher (Bethesda).

As for genres, your point about only x number of games becoming a success is taken, but I guess my counter to that is, if you become a success in the shooter genre the upside is 10x or 100x what it would be for an immersive sim because the market for fps is much much bigger than those for immersive sims.
Hi, thanks for this great project.

Connect Four was used as a demonstration. I presume this is because it's much easier/cheaper to train a Connect Four AI, compared to Go?
That's probably true, but people who just look at popular post and aren't engaged in anything aren't really part of any community either, unless we expand community to literally mean anybody that's visiting the site, at which point it becomes somewhat meaningless because it's too homogeneous again.

Terms that have no distinctive power have little value, so while I'd certainly consider them "users", I wouldn't consider them part of the community, much like a tourist staying in a village for a weekend isn't a part of the village's community.
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Is there anything like this? I'm starting to find my first 3 or 4 results are always paywalled.
It's an interesting question. The more fuel you send up there, the longer it'll last, but also the more mass you'll be wasting by constantly having to carry it around. I suspect that it would not be practical to bring along enough nuclear fuel to make many Earth->Mars round-trips on every one of those round trips.

Land-based nuclear power plants, for what it's worth, are refueled every ~1.5 years. Nuclear-powered aircraft carriers go two decades, but they're not concerned about carrying around lots of extra mass.

Practically speaking I don't think you could refuel a nuclear-powered spacecraft in space. This is a very hard operation to do and everything involved is extremely radioactive. I don't think it could reasonably be done, either by robots or by people. Not until we have entire shipyards in space like we do on Earth, anyway. It takes 3 years to refuel a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, that's how complicated the reactor tear-down process is (and you do need to tear the reactor down to replace the fuel).
What's wrong with that, though? That's the essence of a lot of business - I take something with a certain amount of value to you and find a way to make it more valuable to someone else, then I capture the value I added along the way. The guy who sells flour to the baker isn't getting cheated because the baker can sell the flour for more than he pays for it once he puts it into a cake.
Next in "Are we getting trolled?": they're doing an entire segment on AirPods.
> the people I'm listening to have to be careful not to say ,,COVID-19'', because their revenue would drop to 0

I don't understand what you meant by this. As in, everyone's tired of hearing about it?
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Does anyone else feel like Apple is pushing China a lot more this year?

I know they’re such a big and important country for corporate success, but it honestly feels like they’re pandering to Chinese consumers.
>Crime has dropped by around half over the last 40-50 years so why are there so many people in prison now?

I can think of one reason ... high incarceration rates lead to lower crime.

I'm being facetious, but I suspect that has something to do with it. There are other factors no doubt. Freakonomics claims abortion was partially responsible, I read somewhere video games are partially responsible (i.e. incentive to stay home instead of going out). I've also read that higher lead levels in air and water in the past may be responsible for higher crime rates, etc.

I'm sure there are a lot of factors that explain the lower crime-rate.

The problem for you is that cops aren't responsible for the crime rate. They are called to deal with it.

>Plus with how fucked up the prison system is in the US.

You don't actually think the vast majority of people in State or Federal prisons are actually innocent do you? (Because they aren't). Another myth is that there is some huge proportion of inmates serving time for non-violent drug offences and drug possession - that's not true either. Almost nobody goes to prison for simple drug possession or low-level drug offences (prisons are too full for that). Those chargers are usually pleaded down from more serious violent charges.

Having said that, US prison sentences are also an outlier, but that's a double-edged sword too. Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for sexual assault and rape (third degree). Having spent time abroad and having family all over the place, in most jurisdictions, he would not get any prison term or would be paroled within a short amount of time.

I see this dichotomy in American thinking all the time. There are calls to lower prison sentences, while at the same time accused individuals (who are usually unlikable - like Weinstein) have the same people calling for maximum sentences so those individuals spend years behind bars. Reducing prison sentences does necessarily imply murderers, rapists, child molesters, would be out in relatively short amount of time (10-15 years typically, if you compare to prison terms in countries like Canada for comparable offenses) - are you OK with that?
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I can only assume that either you are being sarcastic, or you haven't got a pension - because if you have I can tell you, your pension is being used to pay the winnings.
Are you referring to jhana?
Implying we need India to "defeat" China then going on to list all the reasons Chinese citizens are doing better than Indian citizens seems to completely invalidate your argument.
It's ironic that they require you to input "as many of your emails as possible" in order to fight on your behalf.

Fighting fire with fire, I guess? Seems wrong though...
Different countries have different laws regarding encryption and money
But the sub doesn't "exist" for months, no new posts

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/new/

There is a pinned mod message which leads you to the new site but that's entirely out of reddit
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(SVE isn't 512-bit SIMD like AVX512.)
I don't know what BLAS they're using, though I know they've long worked on their own, but BLIS has gained SVE support recently, for what it's worth.
This is an absurd argument that the far right is plying as if they have some constitutional right to push their hateful noise on every site.

The internet is open. If you disagree with Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, etc, there are alternatives. Of course when the hateful all congregate, the farce of their positions becomes too clear. They need the legitimacy of Twitter or Facebook to ply their nonsense.

As an aside, it's interesting that those far right sites are some of the most fervently moderated, "snowflake" sites. Even The_Donald on reddit was hysterical in its suppression of even a simple question on the truthfulness of some fake claim. Instant comment deletion and account ban. Gab's extreme assertions of their moderation policy are uproarious when compared to its creation (you know - "Twitter silenced right wing voices!")
You're forming a motte and bailey argument here... inside another motte and bailey argument.

Motte #1: doxxing, calls to murder specific individuals

Bailey #1: 'hate speech'.

And your bailey itself is a motte and bailey!

Motte #2: speech that incites violence or hate against a given group

Bailey #2: "All lives matter", "It's ok to be white" banned, "#killallmen", "all white people are racist" Ok.

It's always like this. I'd love a pro-censorship advocate to actually advocate what they want instead of endlessly cloaking it in these sorts of smokescreens and sneer labels. If 'hate speech' ever defended all people equally it wouldn't get so much pushback as a concept, but it was always a special protection for groups favored by those in power. Address that.
> they run ad campaigns for voting/saving public lands.

This is part of their brand building. Ppl buying their overpriced jackets are not just buying a jacket they are buying "good feelings". They cannot justify the price just on just the quality of the jacket, they have to bundle intangible in their price. Outdoorsy ppl want they outdoors saved, its a no brainer for outdoor company to support this.

Their customers dont' give a shit about muslims in Chinese camps so they don't "run ad campaigns for saving muslims".

Why are you attributing some noble intentions behind basic 101 business marketing. Its clearly not the case per what i said above.

> Does that mean it's ill intended?

yes. I call BS.
A good company isn't one that sacrifices profits for good causes, since such a company will go out of business eventually as more profitable companies outcompete it.

A good company is one that aligns its own profitability with good causes. Part of that includes understanding how to gain publicity for being a genuinely responsible company.
Ask HN: Do any open source companies hire Junior Engineers?
I find working with open source building things that benefit the wider community to be very exciting!

I like that you can interact with others who are passionate about the tool and help them to contribute as well.

However, I’d still like to have a company and their resources to support my growth as a developer.
Browse in incognito mode. It shouldn't give GA any tractable info. That's the easiest way without installing a browser plugin, but if you do a 2 second plugin search, you'll find many that block Google and the 1000's of other companies that are tracking you that you don't know about

This is completely a technical problem that can be solved in software
> It's more likely that the Indian Communist Party comes into power before 2030

The Communist parties of India (CPI and CPM) currently have 5 seats out of 543 in the 2019 national elections, down from 10 in 2014, 19 in 2009 and 53 in 2004. Do you spot a trend? And you think they are going to be in power in 10 years? You are way, way off the mark and you have little to no understanding of Indian politics.
People pay for private trackers? Every private tracker I have heard of is free to use. They handle the seeding motivation problem by having rules in place that require whatever level of seeding they feel is best for the community of the tracker. If you break those rules, you are kicked out. That seems to work fine without the need for micropayments.
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> When I see these breakdowns I think I’d pay $17 per year for Facebook without all of the ads and tracking and data mining and knowing I was just getting a good service optimized for its customers.

> I would not, I'd rather they target me with personalized ads like they are doing now. I hate paying for things, and I imagine neither would 99% of users.

I will never understand the mind of a typical social media user(s), as I'd rather not use it and save myself the damage on my psyche and mental health as well as leaking personal information I'd rather not be in the hands of the very companies building the Panopticon.

Other than the supposed potential dating benefits, having an actual active social life I don't get the appeal as I probably say I meet too many people for my own good, what can you say really is worth it that you can't do with text/email? The digital life that was sold to us as an amazing replacement is actually proving to be really sad as COVID has shown and is perhaps one of the reasons I can comprehend why people are out there violating it as its proven to be an incredibly undesirable and lonely experience.
I think your ADHD prevents you from writing coherently. Jesus Christ that was hard to parse and I’m still not sure what you tried to convey.
Ok, I'll bite. Have you looked at who actually owns NBA teams? It's mostly a bunch of white dudes[1]. So discriminating against the NBA as an organization would be discriminating against a bunch of white guys. Nobody is boycotting the individual employees here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_NBA#...
In short, you're claiming that some races or genders are inherently more capable than others, independent of all 'nurture' factors? If so, you're wrong, but feel free to clarify what "hundred years of psychometric research" you're referring to.
To negate market advantage created by investment and monopoly practices; HFT is front running, front running damages the economy, but more importantly it damages me because I can't do it and therefore it is just being done to me.
> If people are volunteering that information

Given the articles and comments I've read in the past year, I don't think a lot of people are exactly thrilled with the exchange.

Outside of HN I think there's some feeling of unfairness to see so much money being made off "our data", for better or worse. It's complicated because the data isn't worth much until it's processed and analyzed, and that's where much of the value-add is. But nonetheless unfairness is a very strong emotion.
Widgets can be very useful if you set them up correctly. For example I am checking our KPIs daily with a single swipe.

Shameless plug, I've recently made an app for this, to create custom widgets: https://www.wowidget.com/
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Ten years ago I would have said, "No censorship. Turn on the firehose of information, and let me choose what's 'acceptable' and what's not."

No more.

That presumes some sort of equal playing field and a meritocracy of ideas.

That's clearly not the case. The reality is that good-faith content takes more effort than bad-faith content.

The 2016 US Election in particular showed us what happens when a platform takes a "hands off" approach - platforms become absolutely saturated with false, hateful information... much of it produced by large and even state-level organizations.

It's not just evident when it comes to political content.

Craigslist. Amazon. Etc. None of these platforms work with a completely laissez-faire approach on behalf of the platform owners. To think otherwise is utterly naive.

Platforms need to curate. There's no other way. Yes, this means we will need to place trust in those platforms and monitor their curation. Platforms will, in turn, have an obligation to be transparent w.r.t. how they curate.
There was a musical made of this in the 90s. I saw it at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Didn't make me as nervous as reading the account of the spiral passageway barely able to fit a human.
If you are a static maps user, I'd like your opinion on my free alternative
> they should also disclose their bias

This isn't a practical idea. People aren't always aware of their own biases and critics are also inclined to see bias even when there is none. There is no practical way to determine bias levels.

> Reddit is very happy to claim they are unbiased, neutral, hate free.

Are they? Can you point to an example of such a claim?

> But some preferred subreddits will ban people for heaving wrong gender or wrong race

Subbredits are run by users.

> They also tolerate hate speech, incitement to violence or even advocacy for genocide , if it matches their ideology.

Reddit would say they don't tolerate those things, you say they do, how do we determine who is right?
Kind of defeats the purpose. If you can bail you don't have to figure it out.
“Pandering” by supporting their needs?

Yes, I suppose if that’s your definition of pandering, they’ve been prioritizing China for a few years now.
I don't. I'm not sure what the reason is. I generally only post nerd stuff in r/sysadmin or r/networking. Oh well.
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> You don't have a democracy when the state controls all the TV media.

Please share some data points when you make such tall claims. India sure does has Fox and Breitbart equivalent of its own. But that doesn't imply that the state controls 'all the media'.
I did not get the same impression
There have been a couple horror/adventure films about people in tight caves. I will never watch these.
Why not?

I have done this for 10+ years and it's still working flawlessly, I don't see a reason to add more complexity to something that is working fine for my needs. I don't have to change config often, maybe once a year or so.