skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The phrase "don't feed the trolls" is well-intentioned but it's difficult to scale the message when so many people are online

I think this is similar to the economics of spam: the cost of spamming is so low that even if a small fraction of a percent respond and convert, it's still profitable to spam.

People who troll are just looking to rile people up. All they need is one or two people to respond (out of hundreds or thousands or more). Even someone who knows better will occasionally be triggered enough to respond to a troll.
That area also has lots of Bitcoin mining operations. All of society is at risk over here.
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IANAL but this seems a reasonable interpretation to me. So stick to not disparaging your affiliation with GS (or their endorsement of you) and you should be in the clear. Say what you like about GS themselves.
What the collapse of Wirecard means for crypto
NSFL
> Some of them have suggested BreadnRoses.net, which advertises supporting an open community and being inviting to all.

It does?

> B+R is a community-owned space that seeks to foster solidarity between people from all backgrounds that share a common character. We reject policies of social dominance, Neo-liberalism, patriarchy, the gender binary, white supremacy, and other social ills espoused by capitalism. We support worker/union/trans rights, empowering those without a voice, and each other.

> Do not advocate for obvious bad shit like landlords/cops/capitalism/etc. This is a leftist space.

Sounds like they're quite explicit about what things they're non-open/inviting about.

Their attitude sounds like D&D/C-SPAM turned up to 11. Even as a Bernie-loving social democrat, I'd have to say 'pass'.
The examples are cute and gave me a "graphing calculator game" vibe :)
The bigger problem I feel is with this:

> On the plus side, there is a large and well-curated open source collection of syntax definitions

Whenever I tried to get Java highlighting updated in GitHub for “var” my issue is closed minutes later by people who don’t work at GitHub telling me to open an issue with some random unpaid TextMate / Sublime repo.

Really the overall problem is not owning the front end. It means you can’t do things like fix syntax highlighting, at least as important to programming as high performance word wrap.
Well, currently Lemmy does not even have a working federated implementation. Maybe it's too early to guess?

> For instance, what would we gain if we decided to turn HN into a Lemmy federated service?

It doesn't have to be a "Lemmy" Service. But let's pretend that dang decides to implement ActivityPub for HN. What would we get? Some guesses:

- Less people trying to game/break HN. There is great value in gaming HN now because of its centralization. If HN is just one in a place with a bigger number of actors, I would guess the incentive to game it would be reduced.

- Easier to have cross-pollination of ideas. There is an overlap between some subreddits, HN, lobste.rs, etc. Now, we can accept these services are big enough that there is always some cross-posting. What about the other topics that are HN-worthy (gratifies one's intellectual curiosity) but are under-represented elsewhere?

- More room for dissenting/non-status quo views. With ActivityPub, your client could easily allow you to subscribe to an account. So let's say that I want to see whatever more controversial people post - e.g, idlewords. With HN, I need to either stalk him or hope that the echo chamber has decided on his favor on a given day.

Granted, I think is highly unlikely that dang or YC would have any interest in doing something like that. They would be giving away control of the conversation and the risks are unknown for very little benefit. But is it really our job to be concerned about this? I'd rather have more people and more actors sharing this control than having to trust entities that become too big to fail.
I used to make screen captures of my Apple ][ monitor using Glow-In-The-Dark Silly Putty.

It took a minute or so to capture the image, but then it was like Kai Power Goo in non-Newtonian hardware!

https://www.macworld.com/article/3005783/an-ode-to-kais-powe...
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Wow, this would be ideal for me to write loadtests in! In broad strokes, I just want to spin up N threads making request after request, in an event loop with basic tracking. Is there a JSON or Network library available yet?
I love artificial constraints like this. Really forces you to innovate
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I think it is because far-right is far less palatable than far-left.

Consider two possible statements:

1. Hitler wasn't that bad.

2. Stalin wasn't that bad.

I think, for most people, the first provokes a much more extreme reaction. Both were objectively terrible human beings, but defending Hitler is seen as far more extreme than defending Stalin.

This has two effects:

Firstly, far-right people are continually kicked out of communities. Far-left people are not. So any new unmoderated community is going to attract these "refugees"

Secondly, nobody notices or cares when a community goes far-left. But its far more noticeable when a community goes far-right.
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Note that they were bought by Akamai last year. I wouldn't count on the Krypton apps staying around, at least not in their current incarnation. A fork could survive, though.
Because it isn't about protecting yourself from harm, it's about attacking people you hate.
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Dick Cheney mask photo trends under ‘#RealMenWearMasks’
Rep. Liz Cheney set her father’s name trending on Twitter when she posted a message supporting the wearing of face masks.

The Wyoming Republican shared a photo of former Vice President Dick Cheney on social media Friday, in an effort to get people to wear a mask to protect from the coronavirus.
Indeed. Names have to be under the control of the person whose name it is, with only the bare minimum of legibility and offensiveness constraints. This allows for all the usual business of changing unloved names, stage names, Romanisation of names (by choice!) and change of name gender.
Yeah, if I remember right the first block is the root of the master table, listing all the other tables. (Name, schema, root block id.)
As it says in the article, it’s the question. But a clue is that to even ponder the question, there has to be something. If there really was nothing, you wouldn’t have noticed.
They may well be worse than celebrities (though I don't see the large value generated there either, tbh; they are getting paid for advertising effectiveness), but even those are a small fraction of the economy.
I'm the opposite. I'm all for switching to most metric units but there's nothing appealing to me about Celsius. I can't think of one instance in my life where knowing that the boiling point of water is a particular temperature was useful. Every time I've boiled water it has been without the assistance of a thermometer. The freezing point has been somewhat more useful since ice can be a safety hazard and is part of typical weather in many parts of the world. Even then, there are many other variables involved that make the exact temperature of 32 or 0 worthless since ice on the sidewalk or pavement isn't going to form at exactly that temperature.
I don't think that there's an equivalency between the advocacy for the genocide of black people, Jews, trans people, etc and opposing someone for their political beliefs.

Perhaps there'd be more legitimacy in a comparison to the vitriol on the left against billionaires and cops, but these are positions of power, not identity groups one is born into. All revolutionaries of all political persuasions will oppose those in positions of power currently.
> didnt become cancerous

Ultimately any platform big enough becomes cancerous unless it has sponsors who are willing to fund the platform without turning a profit, like HN is funded by ycombinator (though notice how over time there are more and more hiring advertisements for ycombinator companies).

The bigger a platform becomes, the more expensive it becomes to maintain; the people who were volunteers at first have to either monetize to be able to continue supporting the platform, or they have to sell the company to someone who can support it.

Once money is brought into the equation, a community starts to slowly deteriorate, as money slowly starts taking over all aspects of the platform, which is nothing more than human nature.
Smart people use their brain to avoid conflict and end up kind of weak in that context. They don't stand their ground. Typically the lean left.

Far-right definitely stand their ground, and can easily go unfazed by logical arguments.

Dicks fuck pussies. We need assholes to shit on the dicks.
That's just the nature of discussion basically anywhere. Every person and group have lines that you're not allowed to cross, and when people cross them you just get unproductive blow-ups, and someone or some sub-group will leave.

If you tried to herd state socialists/tankies and anarcho-capitalists/voluntarists into the same discussion space, they're so violently opposed they'd just be constantly screaming epithets at each other. That's not a useful thing.

Not to mention even when you have ideologically-aligned folks, some people are just anti-social dickwads who will constantly pick fights or argue in bad faith. I don't understand some people's seeming obsession with defending this kind of person, Some people just suck and everyone else is better off if they're not around. A private space is under no obligation to tolerate a poster who adamantly refuses to get along.
I think the lesson might just to move on from sites whenever they get too big and cancerous.
That’s definitely how they would usually be referenced but when it’s crunch time and you’re firing emails back and forth trying to hammer out the details that tends to fall by the wayside. Especially on mobile. And 99% of the time it’s clear enough. 2(B) or 2B doesn’t leave much room for confusion but oh man did those missing parens on the O cause us a lot of confusion about version control.
Not sure I agree that a computer without touch is broken,
since I have managed to use one for 30+ years without a
touchscreen.

This.

I am all in for new stuff and innovation etc.

But this whole "throw away your perfectly functioning hardware because there's a new kid in the block is annoying.
I know Sunday is traditionally Hacker News Fun Day, but (a) it's not yet reliably Sunday everywhere, and (b) this is perhaps pushing the boundaries a bit far.

God help me though - I read it anyway. And perhaps that's all that counts.
Configuration is an API, not an SDK
It’s funny that the super-American icon of the car has switched but that this hasn’t caused everyone else to switch. My image of America is a parent and child working on their car together in their garage. Would have thought that would have gotten everyone into metric over the last few decades.
I'd expect Estonia to be very surprised and alarmed if it was on their side, given that there are no nuclear power stations or weapons in Estonia.
Not as bigoted?

Large swaths of the Left don't hate:

- men?

- whites?

- straight people?

- conservatives?

- police?

- people who live in rural parts of the country?

There may be a ton of rationalizations for those rather bigoted perspectives, but it doesn't make them any less bigoted.

Heck, the white supremacists have a whole bunch of rationalizations of their own. Does that make theirs okay?

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`pydockenv` has been completely ported to `golang`. This makes the installation much easier since it doesn't have any Python dependency, hence no conflicts during installation outside of a virtual environment.

Currently it has to be installed with `pip`, so Python is required to install it. Once different ways for installing it (package mangers, package in GH, etc.) are provided, Python itself won't be a dependency (you'll be able to run Python environments without having Python installed).

Having `pydockenv` written in non-Python makes also the development itself easier since no meta usage of `pydockenv` is needed.
Haha, nah, it was more the general idea. An amalgam of sci-fi. Greg Egan had a story where an advanced civ sends a gram-sized slug into the gas giant of a solar system, which bootstraps to machinery that 3d prints people and machinery, which is a plausible enough inspiration that I can give it here. Just remove the implausible 'nobody just decides to go bacteria-mode' aspect from Egan's far-future stories.
Survivorship bias applies when the survivors are visible and the losers are not, but this thread is full of losers, projecting their loss on everyone that survived and deeming these dumb luck anomalies.

Since it was very hard to lose money with cryptocurrency even if you tried, you had years where it was a good idea to invest. Who should you listen to? The one that got rich with a better scheme than buy and hold? or the one who sat on the side lines for years, made zero profit, and now holds a grudge at missing such a good investment?

Poor people should not go into real estate. There is enough for everyone. If you'd put some of your wealth into Euro, in the past months alone, you'd have made enough to buy a small apartment when the bubble bursts.
> The far-right, on the other hand, I think is a lot more tolerant of at least the notion that "other" speech exists. They'll insult you, make fun, etc., but the compulsion to censor others is far less frequent.

The right thinks explicit "censorship", which happens via the community or site owner, is bad.

Implicit "censorship", however, which happens when the targets of racism/sexism/homophobia/transphobia[0] leave the site, is just fine.

[0] or their allies or people who don't want to be surrounded by assholes.
All the auditors are a joke and the entire culture around the Big 4 auditors and the way its seen as a path to groom finance leaders is gross and shockingly wasteful. I've never worked with an auditor or consultant at a Big 4 that didn't seem like they were either being massively overpaid, didn't know what they were talking about, taking shortcuts, or just going through the motions of whatever was done in a previous audit. I don't think they are worth their salt. They have no investment to what they are doing because worst case scenario they screw things up and they get shuffled to another another client. I would rather do the work by myself or with a contractor. I've also seen execs at tech companies hiring consultants/auditors from companies where their spouse works or even oversees the practice, it just seems like a lot of companies don't question spending on consultants, but I've seen multiple times where we were billed for work we did ourselves and they tried to take credit or were just running down the clock on a contract and expecting their hours to be extended at the end of the contract period.
It was probably meant as a learning exercise. And for me it is that implementation details of the KV/heap layer with some meaningful transactional properties seem more interesting than how to build SQL/whatever database on top of that, which in comparison looks like mostly obvious but tedious SMOP.
Does it have touch to authorise (doesn't seem to support that), or is it just going to send on all of one's currently-loaded SSH keys whenever one connects with -A (seems to)?

> You can configure your key so that they require Touch ID (or Watch) authentication before they're accessed.

That, to me, would be a key thing to want to have: something that tells me "hey, Terminal just wanted to access your Github key. Is that okay?"

If I'm git pushing, that's fine. If I just connected to a random server... that's not okay. What is that trying to do? Deny.
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There are many call recorders, from ones that activate the speaker and record through the mic to others that activate a threeway call and record that way.

The one I prefer is one which taps into the audio at the core level and captures the stream -> https://callrecorder.skvalex.com/get
The rest of the stack so far:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23638624

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23611347

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23573386

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23598824

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438323

This, from a year ago, reads interestingly now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19737344
I'd rather work with this than Enterprise Java.

At least the logic is all there and you only need to scroll to see it, instead of jumping around between a dozen or more different files.

Math-heavy code tends to look dense to those who are accustomed to more "mundane" LOB type applications.
Reddit didn't shut them down, the mods of r/t_d set it to only approved posters and nobody is approved.
A brand new site doesn't have many features yet. The more features you add the slower it'll get.
I don't have any opinion on Rust but reading about microservices, JSON and IPC in the context of a high-performance editor did make me raise an eyebrow.
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Read the page before advertising your ignorance of it.
I perused Ezio's website, and found three B&W monitors they currently sell, their "GX" series. Looking at the specs, the thing that stands out to me is that they're really bright: 1,200 cd/m^2 for the GX240 and GX340, and a whopping 2,500 cd/m^2 for the GX560 ! I bet these monitors are brighter than equivalently-backlit color displays from not having a Bayer filter in front.

Speculations on why medical monitors might be that bright: they can probably be better read in brightly-lit medical settings, shine through overlays and negatives placed over them, and be more easily read by some patients with poor vision.

They also offer palettized grayscale: up to 1,024 tones from a palette of 16,369. I'm not sure how useful that is in practice, but is is a unique feature.

https://www.eizo.com/products/radiforce/gx240/

https://www.eizo.com/products/radiforce/gx340/

https://www.eizo.com/products/radiforce/gx560/
Make yourself intra-universally interesting enough that the alien construction management AI might instantiate a simulation of you from the cached info at some point. It's a strange sort of Darwinism, but it's all we've got.
That’s so much more work than just weighing it.
Brings up someone I read from an old crusty programmer, binary floating point is the wrong tool for most things. It's fine for scientific simulation work. But for everything else it causes no end of problems.
Speaking only of the US legal framework, hate speech is still free speech. Ignore speech you prefer not to consume instead of supporting the curtailment of rights.
How expensive is something like this?
At the point when you run:

TERM=vt102 LC_ALL=C COLUMNS=80 LINES=24 /bin/sh </dev/pts/10 >/dev/pts/10 2>/dev/pts/10

Can you run this instead?

TERM=vt102 LC_ALL=C COLUMNS=80 LINES=24 /sbin/agetty </dev/pts/10 >/dev/pts/10 2>/dev/pts/10
Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23638129
> If you're willing to ruin innocent lives to further your cause,

No, I am not "willing to ruin innocent lives". I regard these cases as deplorable but inevitable statistical anomalies being highlighted inappropriately.

> Are you keeping the score somewhere?

I suppose that in a broad sense, I am. I don't believe that innocent people are being unjustly ruined as racists for no reason en masse. I think there's a handful of these cases.

In contrast, consider the ridiculous incarceration rates for Black Americans: 1 in 3 Black men will spend time behind bars in their lifetimes, while the rate for all US men is 1 in 17. That's millions of lives ruined.

So I will get worked up for each one of these cases in isolation. But I'm not going to allocate my outrage disproportionately to the tiny minority while ignoring the vast majority.
This needs a larger comment, but the "intellectual right" has largely self-destructed, leaving the focus entirely on white supremacy, homophobia, anti-contraception, anti-abortion, global warming denial, and weird conspiracy theories in general.

It's pointless trying to be a "respectable" right wing intellectual because you have to spend all your time running around justifying the completely incoherent things that Trump is talking about.

Chicago school economics? You can have a discussion with that, and leave it civil. That doesn't work with the_donald.
This is a seriously good observation. To add to it: moderation is _the_ hard problem of discussion forums. A nine year old can write a discussion board in python, any five decent developers can write one that scales reasonably. Or, you know, copy an open source codebase. Way harder is getting any actual users, but even that’s nothing compared to community maintenance.

Saying you have no moderation is attractive to one crowd in particular (there are other people who theoretically favour it, but practically they’ll use a moderated forum anyway). So you get a quick numbers boost but you’ve now fundamentally limited your audience to people prepared to share head-space with that crowd.

Reddit, Facebook and Twitter got in early and got to spend a lot of time learning on the job. Unless you start small, you’re not going to get that luxury now.

(Please don’t take this as an endorsement of any particular moderation policy, in theory or practice. Most of them are kind of awful at times. But the problem is hard.)
> There are many jobs in Canada that can't exist because of how expensive it is to hire people (which coincides with how expensive it is to live in Toronto).

Couldn't it be said that those jobs are therefore not valuable enough to exist? Many jobs certainly are, and automation will obsolete many others. I guess we should be providing the basics for most people if we only need a fraction of the population for work though.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. This is common for payments companies where you have to fund another company's bank account or digital wallet or whatever they call it. Otherwise you have to open a bank account and that can be a painful process depending on the country. It's definitely more risky because the funds aren't in your name, but usually you protect yourself by only funding the minimal amount to fund operations for a few days at a time. Still not seeing how Wirecard could have lost the amount they did without some form of scam going on for a longer period of time or they were stealing customer funds to pay for corp expenses and they finally hit the point where they couldn't keep it going any longer.
You would need to set up the satellites in such a way that anyone receiving your message is viewing their orbits edge on. Your satellites would also have to be extremely large and fairly close to your host star. And there’d have to be no dust between your star and the receiver.

As a method to communicate with people you don’t know exist, it’s not very good because chances are they won’t be viewing your satellites edge on. For people you know are there, it’s needlessly complicated and expensive.

If you’re going to go to the trouble, you’d be better off making a Dyson swarm and cloaking your star completely. You’d get energy back and be just as detectable for a civilization that thought to compare visible and IR sources (which some Earth scientists have done, with negative results).