skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like it! Every community could have their own "domain" and you could choose, at any time, which ones to visit and which to ignore and there would be a search engine to help find new communities for you.

(All jokes aside, I really love your idea of having different apps act like lenses or filters which give you different views of the same underlying ecosystem. That's the kind of conceptual novelty that's in short supply right now.)
I had used this for a while, the problem I had was that I change phones much more often than I change hardware keys, so I had to change every key on every site every year or so, which was too tedious.
Good thing they got rid of those pesky whites, so Haiti could thrive.
The fundamental problem here is that people discover things that make them angry. Platforms need to figure out how to prevent that, how to let open-minded people discover others who think differently, while keeping crybullies in a comfortable bubble.

For reddit, part of the problem is that everyone who isn't logged in sees the same frontpage, which means they see posts from these controversial subreddits and get angry. They should make it possible to subscribe to or block subreddits without making an account.
The overwhelming majority of terrorism in the United States is committed by right wing extremists.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/homegrown-...

The anti-gun, peace-loving left may not be the most polite online, but they emphatically are not as violent. Not by a long shot.

Anyone who tells you otherwise is either uninformed or lying through their teeth to push an agenda.
As soon as those metrics are exposed though, people will start hacking them by purchasing older accounts, etc.
Least bad was probably Mark Hurd. When I worked at HP Labs everyone hated Fiorina.
That's the PRO version. As flipbrad said, it doesn't appear to be available yet. At least I can't find how to purchase one.
> they migrated to thedonald.win

An individual can migrate a forum without any assistance. Not denying that The_Donald was a community, just saying that the migration of content is not evidence of the extent to which something is a community.

> And yet Reddit happily ignores vote brigading and other negative externalities from any subreddit that toes their party line, so it seems bizarre to single T_D out.

Except T_D literally was not singled out. CTH was also banned, along with approximately 2000 subreddits.

> "we're fishing for a made up reason that lets us boot you guys"

Reddit has listed "communities that promote hate" as a reason to ban subreddits for at least 5 years. Not sure how this is "fishing for a made up reason."
No it isn't comparable at all. Mask requirements are far less exploitable for other purposea than censorship. The far out worst case for abuse is considering an uncovered face public nudity.
Dirigible 5.0 – celebrating 5 years in open source with 5 killer features
Eclipse Dirigible 5.0 - celebrating 5 years in open source with 5 killer features:

- GraalVM’s GraalJS

- Chrome DevTools

- Xterm.js

- Monaco

- Git Support

- Graduation
I'd guess that double-standards are inevitable and desired when there is an armed conflict between nations.

If Indian government sees no harm in US apps whilst banning Chinese apps, this is the definition of diplomatic pressure. Asymmetry is the tool used to apply this pressure.

Your point is valid - we have no way to know Facebook algorithms and it is a blackbox, but this isn't supposed to be a symmetric comparison for aforementioned reasons.
Pull in serde and run a non incremental release build
I was going to move to Singapore in June. Rather than re-singing my lease, I bought a pickup and a camper. I only plan on doing RV life until October-ish, and then if the world is still on lockdown I'll find somewhere for the winter. Annoyingly all leases seem to be 1-year, and anything less has a crazy markup. I'm inclined to purchase some land, put up a steel kit building, and make it a home/shop space for the winter.
Russia is on the verge of a demographic collapse as the generation born after the fall of the soviet union comes of age. Their military which relies on huge manpower reserves will have a much smaller pool to draw upon, domestic consumption of consumer goods will shrink, and the costs of public welfare for the elderly is going to grow significantly relative to tax revenues. This demographic shift has already started, and its full effects will be felt this decade. Russia needs to make a lot of unreasonably bold plays right now while it still can if it is to secure its position in the coming years. Oil sales and advanced military technologies are not going to be super useful in the long run, but they reduce Russia's reliance on its large population which is the more imminent threat.

It's generally unsafe to assume counter-intuitive moves are irrational.
Let's calm down in the comments with assumptions about what people's relationships with their parents look like. E.g., some people's parents get in the way of dating, some don't. Some would be happy to see you again, some wouldn't. Some have room to take you, some don't! Talk about your own experience.

My experience is that my parents live in a national COVID hotspot so... yeah no. Also moving while we're in a pandemic ain't fun--I'm moving in with a SO.
The ban makes perfect sense when you add the current India-China conflict and PRC's National Intelligence Law into the mix.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/beijings-new-national-intelligen...
I don't think the "caving" framing was about how the decision maker thinks about it, more about how one side or another sees it as "caving".

Life is full of dilemmas like that where it's not possible to make everyone happy, but content moderation is full of dilemmas where, no matter what you choose, a few very unhappy ones will hound you to the ends of the earth.
Wouldn't each community have their own userbase? So brigaders would need to make new accounts to execute the attack. Maybe a hill/gate could be introduced for new accounts to rate-limit the influx?
Most people simply haven't learned the hygiene yet.

It can be as simple as showing them to open incognito for specific searches or topics, or to install a trusted tracker blocking extension like ublock origin and set it up for them.

Managing app location privileges is a big one too, iOS is really good about nagging for background location permissions and I appreciate that a lot, but a lot of people don't realize if you give Facebook or another app "while using", you can bet money it will use it whenever you open the app.

https://business.financialpost.com/technology/tim-hortons-ap... The Tim Hortons app logged this guy's location 2,700 times in 5 months. He didn't find out until the iOS 13 background location warning.

https://cdn.iphoneincanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ios...

People care, most of them just aren't as literate as the typical HN user so they either don't have a clue what's really happening, or simply throw their hands up in the air.
I believe this way of thinking is an (ocidental?) cultural bias
- "god gave you talent", "you're the chosen one", "your fate is sealed".

In other cultures (Korea/Japan, at least?) it seems it's more common to attribute success to hard work and mentoring and less on innate abilities. You can't walk into a dojo and just tell the sensei "Mom said I'm very talented - please give me a black belt", you have to put in the work like everybody else.

I wonder how much that shapes people's perception of what they can do, motivation, etc.
Can an error be compensated by the number of satellites?
I think what every programmer should know is probably only 4 words:

They're approximations. Use accordingly.
I don't have a question, but those books made a big impression on me. I have the three juggling balls from the book at my desk. They're wonderful whenever I need a quick break.
I don't know how common it was, but I found this in the first comment section I looked:

> Could it be the Chosenbergs? Although a small group, they seem to control the majority of US record labels, as well as the news outlets, the pharmaceutical companies, the bank institutions, the pornography industry, the entertainment industry, ect.

(9 points, replying to "I wonder who runs these record labels?" which was setting up that reply)

https://web.archive.org/web/20200620202415/https://old.reddi...
'Genius' would be the wrong word.

She was lucky to be hired at EBay, but growing a small company into $8B in revenues is a highly credible act that validates a certain set of qualifications that are essentially rare.

Nobody really knows what the next big thing is going to be, but some people are strong in some areas. They theoretically make a good team on paper. But it's hard to know what the reality is.

He is content oriented, she is operations oriented, I'm not sure if anyone was behind the end-to-end experience.
Domain-driven design
Evolutionary architecture
Ship it!
Everything by Michael feathers
If we started taking gdpr more seriously, the apps basically ban themselves!
Nice. Same for me on the mom cooking lol. It really is next level. Did you move out of NYC?
Not having a package manager for your language means you're back to CMake and the "FindBoost", "FindCuda", "FindMKL", scripts that always fail for one reason or the other.

It encourages reinventing the wheel instead of standing on the shoulder of giants. For smaller languages having everyone implement a JSON parsing library because there is no dependency management would be a significant hurdle that might kill off the language before it's even started.

System package manager are a pain to deal with as a developer, when adding CI to my projects I'd rather deal with the language package manager, that works on Windows, MacOS, Linux rather than brew + msys2/pacman + apt-get and some C/C++ dependencies are just unavailable (looking at you recent BLAS/Lapack on Windows)

It also significantly streamline the documentation. Any step you add to your git clone or foo install is an extra hurdle for package adoption.

Lastly the language community needs is often at odds with the system administrator needs. You can't expect the distro package manager to deal with every single packages in the R community for example which allow you to analyze in a slightly different but niche way. This was examplified by the recent Haskell package management in Archlinux rant (link dead but was here: https://dixonary.co.uk/blog/haskell/cabal-2020)

Now I'm not saying that system package managers are bad, I go out of my way to integrate all the Data Science libraries I use in my system: https://github.com/mratsim/arch-Data-Science, but that's because here I take my sysadmin/end-user/package consumer hat.
The only option they have is to do what they did or just not sell in China - I would prefer the second but I also don’t have billions of dollars to make from selling there
Michael Moore’s Generous Gift to the Oil Companies
Are there any reddit alternatives with minimal political discussion that at the same time is not just for a narrow topic?
I don't see a problem with banning Spyware regardless of the country of origin.
It had no strong differentiator and it had a stupid name. As a consumer I just dismissed it as soon as I first heard it mentioned. It seems I wasn't the only one!
> The average user, especially women,

It consistently amazes me that people deny the possibility that women enjoy pornography. On the contrary, a large amount, possibly even the majority, of pornography on reddit is posted and created by women. Some of them do so to make money, but a lot do it simply because they enjoy it.

Many women enjoy (for lack of a better word) gore, horror, and shock content too.

> does not enjoy having their boundaries pushed

Again to the contrary, the majority of people, especially young people, actively seek to have their boundaries pushed to one degree or another.
The motor could easily be that strong, depending on how many pounds loading the desk is rated for. My standing desk is an expensive model but it's rated for 600 pounds.
You'll see the same attitude to the US from the rest of the world too
Yup. US should have partnered with India as the largest functioning democracy. But that was 50 years back. Last 6 years though, there is a clear challenge to democracy from right wing and fascist groups. Eerily similar to what happened in pre-Nazi Germany. This decade will tell us if democracy will survive.

Uncritical alliance or support will only strengthen the anti-democratic forces. The govt is very interested in stoking anger against an external force (china) to divert serious failures in handling covid crisis. It had adopted the same strategy using pakistan or muslims as the bogey man several times in the recent past.
The question mark at the end was new.
I couldn’t really think of a username when I signed up and this is the first thing that came to mind. I’m willing to change it to something else.
Ubiquitous web midi support would enable a new and better round of patch management and sharing collaboration around music hardware. It's a shame it won't come to safari. For example see elk-herd for managing the Elektron digitakt.
Wait... they did what? I didn't realize they had such a terrible idea at the core of their business....

> Every show (and ad) is filmed and edited in both portrait and landscape. Creators upload two video files and a separate audio file, which are then synced and streamed simultaneously to your phone, so the video instantly switches when you rotate the device.

I already dread getting the sides chopped off my movies due to aspect ratio confusion, are they seriously offering a platform where I'm always missing out on one half of the footage? Maybe it's the ol' OCD kicking in, but I imagine constantly switching back and forth to try to figure out the 'right' angle to look at a scene from. It seems deeply unpleasant.
Oddest thing is that many groups deemed a majority are not if one looks at a global scale. It really seems the terms majority/minority are selectively defined as needed to target certain groups.
> You certainly won't hear it from any left-leaning MPs or in Labour constituency meetings. And if that weren't true, recordings would be all over the media.

I didn't/wouldn' claim we would hear it from left-leaning MPs.
Could you expand on objectively what you experienced that you felt was hate?
... You think the Google/Facebook/The US government aren't insidious agencies?
I stayed in my apartment but negotiated a concession from my landlord to lower the effective annual rent.
A less common, but I'm seeing more frequent tacit are user accounts where they delete their posts after X time so the account looks like it has been around, but you've no idea where / what was posted.

Those users almost always head down the rabbit hole after a few posts....
All they need is a directive from the CCP. PRC even has a 'National Intelligence law' in place for that:

https://www.lawfareblog.com/beijings-new-national-intelligen...
Admins tell the moderators how to act, and remove mods when they don't comply. Most content is effectively invisible unless it's heavily upvoted, so mods only really need to act on a small subset of posts. Some subreddits are moderated pretty heavily, while others remain mostly user-driven.
Why the immediate ad hominem? Do you have specific grievances with the referenced blog post?
Part of the communist ideology is they mix up equality of outcome and equality of opportunity. If you optimise for the former, you end up with everyone being just as poor as one another, hence the link.

This is my understanding at least.
> The two major theories of public choice -- Median Voter theory[1] (political parties take positions that appeal to the median voter) and Investment theory of Party Competition[2] (parties take positions most beneficial to their donors), both assume emotions (irrationality) of voters to be small. In the current political climate -- while it seems that the explanatory power of emotions seems to have gone up, it isn't clear why.

I read an interesting political science piece[1] about the fall of professional (i.e. corrupt) politicians and the rise of amateur (i.e. ideological) politicians.

The claim is largely that voters started to care more about politicians implementing their favorite policies than being the recipient of trickle-down graft. They started choosing zealots who (at least seem to) have uncompromising stances on issues which won't change later in their term for some reason. Needless to say, these sorts of politicians don't tend to be the moderate, nuanced type.

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1. I wish I could find it, but it's lost in the mists of the internet.
Technically 2000 subs, 200 established "communities."
Safari has been my primary browser for a few years now. Nothing beats the performance on macOS and no other tech giant is going to respect and fight for your privacy the way Apple does.
Ford pauses US social media advertising, calls for hate speech to be eradicated
The problem with Quibi is that they never saw that initial bump. They went straight from launch to the trough.
That's the point. Other communities are worse than TD and go reprimanded. And it's not just communities like TD; people are canceled, terminated, etc for completely not racist offenses such as "making an OK symbol by accident" or "standing next to a woman who wrongly suggested a minority person was vandalizing a store" or "citing a prominent Black academic's research on nonviolent-vs-violent protests" or "publishing an interview wherein a Black man says that he wishes there was more concern for crime problems in predominately Black communities", or "publishing an op ed from a US senator that expresses a viewpoint shared by more than 50% of the US public", or etc. Meanwhile people can go on years-long racist tirades on Twitter and be promoted into the NYT or say things like "literally all members of $RACE are irredeemably evil" in a book and hit the top of the Amazon and NYT best-sellers list and get diversity consulting gigs all over the country. There aren't words to describe how far beyond parody these double standards have become.

EDIT: That's a lot of downvotes. I'd be really interested to hear what specifically people disagree with. Do you contest my assertion that a double standard exists? Or maybe you don't agree with my negative characterization of TD? Or do you contest that the implication that double standards (in general or this one in particular) is morally wrong? Let's talk about it (leave the downvotes by all means, but let's have a productive discussion).
I know (and in fact use) non-standard apps for Facebook and Reddit (they are superior IMO), does TikTok contain one?
The first Quibi ad I saw had a British person saying "So Americans call a jiffy a Quibi? Huh." For an American who had literally never heard of the service before, that come across as incredibly pretentious.

I'm not sure if that ad was targeted at Americans, at British, or at Americans who watch British stuff, but I can't imagine how it would come across well at any of those target audiences.
“Donnie Pump” a Presidential Press Conference Trading System
How does this ban actually get enforced? How are the apps blocked on devices which already have them installed?
To anyone reading, this is not true.
Ha maybe without the pandemic. But with the pandemic I would say up until 30 is completely fine... stacking mad guap
I made an observable notebook if anyone is interested in playing around with it: https://observablehq.com/@michals2/textures-js-sandbox
This is trivial to the point of tautology.
> You are arguing in bad faith.

I'm not. I also read and re-read it too.

One possible explanation could be that I'm not a native speaker.

However if anyone wrote: "I don't want to participate in spaces where atheistic colored globalists feel safe," I'd flag it instantly as I originally did with this before I unflagged it and asked instead because while I think some kind of nazi crap could write that I don't think that is what she means.

Edit: also I think it is bad for the conversation to state as fact that I argue in bad faith. If you'd be kind enough to rewrite that I'll also try to remove this edit.
I sympathize with this problem, but characterizing it as unique to CS is myopic IMO. Far from every "mature profession" is 9-5 in an office.
For the same reason people dont say x86 Macs. And it is not a CPU so you cant say Apple CPU. If you say Apple SoC not everyone knows what is a SoC. Apple Silicon is much easier to understand for vast majority of consumers, and the name includes everything fro CPU, GPU, NPU, Video Encoder. etc.

You may ask what happen when Wafer move away from Silicon.
Not me, but I've seen a lot of people moving in with their parents. In most cases, these are people fresh out of college, but some of them are in their late 30s or 40s.
Bravo. This is, IMHO, one of the biggest problems with the United States, we throw away our elders. In other countries, such as Russia, it is very common to have three or four generations living in the same home, with the elders providing much support for the family, such as cooking or running the quarter-acre garden in the back yard.

They really sold us on a bunch of crap last century with the "atomic" family and suburban keep up with the Jonses bull.
Good catch! Have read both books and mixed up the source...
Have you ever thought that maybe China shouldn't banned all foreign social media and messaging services in the first place? They literally divided the world by putting up a wall between themselves and the rest of the globe, the Great Firewall. Besides, the divide between China and the rest of the world has already happened on the ideological level.
On the privacy end of things, ads certainly aren't helping, but a pretty large number of even paid apps are happily vacuuming up data and sending them to the developer and often third parties (vendors of analytics/debugging platforms in particular). I tend to think of an app for most things as a loss of privacy and try to avoid using them when possible.
Recently unblocked.
haha, I do sound like a jackass when you put it that way
Facebook will label rule violations as Coke, Pepsi, Starbucks join ad “pause”
Yes I do. People should be treated equal regardless of race. All people should be individually judged and not infantilized or demonized because of their skin color. Everything else is deeply anti-humanist and leads to more suffering in pain down the road.
The Sino-Indian border dispute is one of the most frightening things going on right now. Two nuclear superpowers are fighting with "rods and swords"[1], restrained only by, well, restraint. Covid and police violence are bigger issues right now in my opinion, but a nuclear war could get worse than either one quite quickly.

That said, I'm glad to see this not getting much press coverage in the US. The political discourse here has shown a willingness to throw gasoline on any fire, and the last thing we need is our fearless leader weighing in on an already tense and dangerous situation.

[1] https://defencenewsofindia.com/ghatak-and-16-bihar-troops-to...
Summer update: Tech and the new normal
In my teens and early 20's, second-hand bookstores were a reliable go-to in the dating bag of tricks for me. The smell, the cramped quarters, the discussion - it was easier to give an air of sophistication and worldliness to impress your date. It always opened up the other person to confess their likes and dislikes, giving new ideas for future dates. Ah, fond memories from another time.
I have a rather large side project in Rust using cargo workspaces and compilation times do not bother me in the slightest, because I'm running incremental builds for everything.

On the other hand I tried introducing Rust for a small part of a larger ecosystem and the cold compile times were so bad we rewrote the functionality in C. It shaved minutes off our CI build times, which costs actual money.
Nah people can just program in Java again.