skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey there, I'm working on a new discussion site after I couldn't find one that fit my desire a few years back (sqwok.im). Although I'm not familiar with the Slate Star Codex, my goal is to build a place where people from all walks can have meaningful discussion about any sort of topic. But in particular I'm interested in news, current events, science, tech, politics, history, etc.

One thing I'm doing from the start is removing voting entirely. The site is "conversation-first" meaning I plan to develop it entirely around the conversation, only adding new features if they enhance the conversation in some way.

I'm wondering if a site could be highly curated but not heavily moderated? Maybe a site that's open for anyone to post wouldn't necessarily attract the same crowd as one that was a curated collection from a known source?

Originally I started thinking about this when I worked in news media some years ago and witnessed the state of online commenting back then! Fun stuff.

Cheers!
There is no reason it could not. Those optimizations just have to be implemented.
Flang (the one merged into LLVM) is using MLIR, which has all the required code-gen abilities. That just leaves the cost modeling / deciding which optimizations/transformations to apply.
I'm making something like this, called stubdb, with indexes and value filters, backed by a file system of JSON files organised into directories of tables.

https://github.com/cris691/stubdb

The criticism of this project is helping me refine mine, for example,

lalaland1125 15 minutes ago

File renames are atomic. This is a solved problem:

1. Write your updates to a copy of the file.

2. Do an atomic rename of that copy to the original.

Even tho I already use sync file access everywhere, I think this idea could help.

I really enjoy this project.
In 1918, the death toll spiked once people stopped giving a shit about self isolation, refusing to wear masks, etc. This is the same shit different day.
That's about the only thing that makes sense I suppose.

Thanks for the link!
This is far from my area of expertise, so let me know if I'm incorrect anywhere. Here is how I imagine thing are:

Currently: application queries clipboard state and gets back some structured data. (quick googling confirmed this).

Proposed: application gets a message when CTRL-V is clicked along with the same data that currently gets returned when clipboard is queried.
If centrists and right-leaning moderates are leaving because outright racism is banned, I would hesitate to say the people leaving are centrists and right-leaning moderates.
In my previous job we hired someone in a "Senior Architect" position. They had extensive experience at a larger company, but there were red flags from the beginning (including the interview, where they got visibly upset and melodramatic when they were unable to finish the algorithmic problem we gave)

Working on anything related to design and architecture with them was a disaster. They preferred waterfall over agile, didn't take feedback very well, was obsequious towards leadership but toxic towards the team they led, and would terminate collaboration with someone if there was disagreement.

The soft skills for an architect are essential, and I think that includes excellent communication skills, documentation, and ability to take feedback and constructive criticism. Needless to say, the coworker I describe fit none of those criteria. It's been pure bliss not having to work with someone like that, and helped me better understand what to avoid in the path to becoming a legitimate software architect.
Yeah, that sounds about right. I think a major challenge is that it would require a lot of work by moderators, essentially equivalent to editors for news or magazines.
in this climate, you're best bet is to say nothing at all or pretend you care about bs social movements and put #blm in your bios. some dean for nurses, the IRONY, got fired for saying everyone's life matters whilst also supporting blm. its never enough for hese people

however, i sleep tight knowing that trump will get 4 more years.

https://campusreform.org/?ID=15157
The Constitution assumes a public space exists, otherwise if it was all private, there would be no point to any of the Bill of Rights, since private entities would/could override all of them. The internet is a land controlled entirely by private entities.
Microsoft has shown improvements over the past decade because it's not a monopoly anymore and has lost to Apple and Google.

Wait til they become dominant again and they'll be back to their old ways.
This article from the SignPost is much more informative:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
Could it be the apple clipboard.
Source? (Genuinely, could you link to an article comparing testing per 100k?)
You'd think that the paid tier would at least make the platform respect you and not waste your time. But no, LinkedIn will still waste your time with ads and dark patterns all over the place regardless of whether you pay or not.
Seriously? Employees don't like boss? So employees use every argument against boss?Including her actions while she is on leave? And thus boss does not deserve to be boss?

I'm losing my mind on the kind of sense this argument makes. No offense to you but the article is also along the same line. I don't get it.
Keyword to notice on my comment: "reported"

I was stating a fact that all this was already being reported on before quarantine and added a link with a date for more context. The lion thinks everyone is like him.
Yes. It's going to be hard-right misogynists and racists vs

... "hardcore not-hating-women and generally not caring too much about skin color, with extreme passion"?

Less sarcastic: You're equating "conservatism" with "racism and misogyny". And while I tend to agree with that, the reverse does not work: not hating women, for example, does not make one a communist.
this is the company that "upgraded" you to Windows 10 even though if you explictly closed the dialog nagging you to upgrade

nothing they do surprises me these days
Link for anyone looking: https://youtu.be/lrHFB2KP8fc?t=222

Moore: "If you were to talk directly to the kids at Columbine, the people in the community, what would you say to them if they were here right now?"

Manson: "I wouldn't say a single word to them, I would listen to what they have to say. And that's what no one did."

Regardless of who he was talking about, this is an amazing response from someone who had been vilified for the events that had happened.
That's an intentional misrepresentation of what I wrote.
Having his real name linked to the gathering place and intellectual support he provided for eugenicists is beneficial to his patients, since it lets them see just who it is they’re really going to for treatment.
> the corollary is that every time someone claims that something... is racist, then it actually transforms it into something racist.

This sounds like something out of a Borges story. Final scene narrated in the few remaining words designated as not harmful.
> institutions built solely for racist motives and the subjugation of another race

you think that racism and racial subjugation were the PRIMARY motives for National Socialists?
That impression, at least with respect to politics, is in my view because HN readers have an extraordinarily narrow range of education and are therefore generally uninformed about politics, history, philosophy, or the arts. They can't effectively engage in serious discussions on those topics without descending into chaos from their general state of intellectual disarray.
What makes me sad is it's not even necessary. I have complete confidence Microsoft can turn chromium into a better Chrome than Google can. It would be easy - integrate a real ad blocker. It's something Google would never do but makes no difference to Microsoft.
This was posted here about a month an half ago. Unfortunately, this article causes comment sections to erupt into flames. I find it problematic since it spreads misinformation about economics as a profession.

Economist Russ Roberts does a great job addressing most of the points in this article [0].

Although Hayek and Friedman may have been intellectually very interesting, I have a hard time believing they had much influence on the trajectory of public policy (at least, not nearly as much as OP's article implies).

Speaking anecdotally, I studied economics in my undergrad, and I never encountered Friedman or Hayek in my curriculum. In fact, I can count the number of students I met familiar with their ideas with one hand.

[0] https://medium.com/@russroberts/the-economist-as-scapegoat-9...
I regularly see thoughtful disagreement on issues on Hacker News on a range of topics, even privacy and the ethics of tech. (That's not to say it's unbiased or that I don't share that bias—I do want to recognize that.)
What is a 3%er? Is it like a 1%er but... less rich? What does it take to qualify as a 3%er?
For those wondering (I was), 1488 in the username is a white supremacy reference.

https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/1488
I have to say that the web in its early days never had this level of politically correct moderation or witch-hunting acts until YouTube, Facebook and Twitter rose in popularity and were used beyond their intended purpose; as tools used to dox and cancel opponents. Fast-forward to 2020, it has gotten too far and out of control.

One could say that social media has definitely accelerated this nonsense to new heights, taking everyone who disagrees with the PC-crowd underground.
> In Go you have to "manually" defer a file.Close() call -- vs. the destructor getting automatically called in C++ (it even gets automatically called when a containing object is destructed, if it's a member, and so on). Go's version doesn't seem very "automatic" to me.

To clarify this one point, Go allows you to attach a destructor (finalizer) to an object, but since the language is garbage collected, there’s no guarantee of when the destructor will be called, if ever, since disabling the garbage collector is entirely possible, even if not advisable.

The File object will Close the file when the Finalizer runs, since the standard library attaches a finalizer to it, but you should defer the Close to deterministically ensure that the file is closed when you expect it to be closed, and to free that OS resource of a file handle as soon as possible, since some OSes limit how many you can have at a given time. Finalizers also won’t be run when the program exits, which is fine for most things, but you’ll want to have ensured any buffers were flushed before then, and defer can guarantee that.

Languages like Rust and C++ have deterministic destruction at the end of a given scope thanks to RAII, so it makes sense for them to lean more heavily on destructors there.

Java File*Stream objects should have “close()” called on them, from what I’m seeing on a Google search, so this doesn’t seem to be a surprising pattern for a garbage collected language. I know in Python you’re encouraged to use a “with” block to ensure that file objects get closed.

https://golang.org/pkg/runtime/#SetFinalizer
[citation needed]

> The point is that RuPaul’s Drag Race is RuPaul’s show, and we don’t get to scream and cry and throw tantrums until he changes his own show.

Wow, this article literally doesn't understand what free speech is.

Aaaand it more horseshoe theory of politics, references the quillette, and says they're now libertarian. Nothing of value here.
You're storing all of your password in one location. Behind just one password.

What's the point in password manager, if all you need is one time auth - and you're in!
>what would having this space solve?

Is this a trick question? It guarantees that any marginalized people has access to communicate easily and freely to the general public, and it cannot be denied by anyone.
I think it's quite some difference between seeing an ad for a browser on a site (but still requiring that the user clicks on it, downloads, installs it and uses it) and getting it deployed automatically as part of the normal Windows update procedure without the user doing anything. This it's not comparable to the Chrome ads on Google properties but it is comparable to Android coming with Chrome if you want.
I think you're misreading the comment? He isn't judging poor people. He is criticizing a system where you only get UBI if you don't work (i.e. not UBI). Such a system means that lower skilled workers actually gain nothing from working.

That is a shitty situation to be in. Most people want to feel like they are contributing. And they absolutely do contribute through their roles, even if they are also "making someone else money". They should be rewarded on top of the "bare-minimum existence" for doing so.

I don't see at all how you can jump from "I don't support people getting paid more to not work than to work" to "the only path to righteousness is through a lifetime of toil".
The problem is the dark patterns used to trick less technical users into accidentally setting Edge as their default browser.

It’s the same kind of scummy behavior that dodgy websites use to set themselves as your homepage, or change your default search engine.
Yes, since roses can be grown almost anywhere, and they are 100s of replacement for a rose.
Your metaphor would be better if white nationalists hadn't actually adopted it as a sign to identify each other.

Yes, it started as a joke/hoax. Then they started doing it sincerely.
Ask HN: Is there any way to avoid setting a Signal pin?
Signal has stopped letting iOS or Android users into the app unless they set up a pin and turn on the new backup / account recovery features.

Is there any way to opt-out? I don’t see an option in the app. At the very least, I’d like to access my old messages.
> they still can’t read from the clipboard

Incorrect; the API is here [0].

[0]: https://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/#dom-clipboard-read

It is at least supposed to be hidden behind a permission. What's the default for that permission though? I sure hope Google^H^H^H^H^H^HMicrosoft^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsome evildoer doesn't find a way to override your permission setting. A reset of configuration data after an automatic update might do the trick...

> And your [8] seems to be about the user deciding to paste unsafe content — totally different issue, isn’t it?

Perhaps you are right. I won't claim to fully understand how tty programs work. However:

* `emacs` documentation describes an ability to interact with the user's system clipboard [1].

* `tmux` integrates with the user's system clipboard [2].

* `mosh` apparently caches the user's system clipboard [3].

* `vim` has special registers to represent the user's system clipboard [4] [5].

If the system is using dbus (nearly every Linux based OS), it's pretty easy to do. Here's a python script using GTK to do so [6]. A high level overview of the clipboard is described in the freedesktop specification [7].

I think it's really unfortunate that desktop and CLI software is so insecure.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Cl...

[2]: https://superuser.com/a/1336764

[3]: https://superuser.com/a/1336764

[4]: https://vi.stackexchange.com/a/96

[5]: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Accessing_the_system_clipboard

[6]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21337063/1111557

[7]: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/clipboards-spec/clipb...
I feel like a copy/paste permission would be useless and the notification is 100x better.

Most people would click "accept" on the permission and never think about it. "Oh of course I need the ability to copy/paste on tiktok, how else will I paste 90sMusicChallenge in the search bar?"
It doesn't have a particularly obscure rationale: it's a game of chicken with the NYT to pressure them not to publish his real name. He's decreased the benefit to them by making the article an irrelevancy if they do publish it, and made it costly as an action by making lots of people upset at the NYT if they do publish it.
The potential of this sort of malicious behaviour always makes me nervous when I have to copy a password from password managers (generally I'll rely on Autofill, but when Autofill fails I have to copy my 128+ character passwords).
I decided to quit at the beginning of the quarantine.

The first couple days were annoying, but tolerable. Just a general tiredness. The for days 5 to 8, I probably clocked in 12 to 14 hours of sleep a day.

I was drinking 3 or so grande/venti coffees a day.
I think the controversy was not so much about the "not posting about a social cause" but about what she did post, i.e. the pursuit of a vendetta against a journalist who first exposed her behavior.
Yes, and I believe that's consistent with my point. It generally fits your bias, so in your view the range of discussion seems comfortable and optimal. That's precisely what I'm saying.

So, for example, I could make an anticapitalist statement, or say something about how I don't think Paul Graham (or some other HN prophet) has ever uttered a philosophically novel or interesting idea, and I'd be downvoted to hell because dissent on those topics is verboten.
Your site looks interesting, I'm checking it out now.

I agree that reddit-style voting systems are problematic. In particular, I think there needs to be a way to separate votes that mean "I agree/disagree" from votes that mean "this is high/low quality". Old slashdot had something like this.

I'm not sure what you mean by "highly curated but not heavily moderated". I see curation as an extreme form of moderation, essentially operating from a whitelist model as opposed to a blacklist model like most/all sites have now.
Taxpayers should have owned the businesses they bailed out. We gave these banks low interest loans when their only alternative was insolvency. What a crappy bargain! Taxpayers should have owned the banks, helped them recover, and then sold them for huge profits.

What’s JP Morgan worth today? That’s a start in calculating how much was stolen from taxpayers.
> Unfortunately there is little room for nuanced discussion anywhere.

That's exactly what drove me to build my own vision for a discussion site! I wanted a place where people could have rigorous discussion about news or other topics with no hassle. I didn't use SSC, and from what I've gathered it was focused on long-form blogging(?), but for sqwok the aim is low-friction, open, simple, live discussion. Definitely open for feedback! https://sqwok.im
I wonder if there's a regional component to it. This might be yet another one of those cases where trying to say anything about America as a thing is nonsense.
When you share a Trip with Tripit, or add a traveller, you enter their registration email. blahblah@gmail.com or something.
‘Covid Parties’ Are Not a Thing
This is a very uneducated point of view, that ignores the facts in my prior comment.

In a liquidity crunch, perfectly solvent and functional companies can go bankrupt. ...and indeed those that had balance sheets hopelessly underwater DID go bankrupt (ie Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, as well as dozens of other smaller banks).

The fact that the government was able to extend LOANS to other banks is not a "gift" at all, because those loans were paid back with significant interest.

Do you understand, the taxpayer profited from the Wall Street loans of 2008.

Allowing solvent but illiquid companies to go bankrupt is needless economic destruction that serves zero purpose - and the fact that they survived despite having to pay back the gov't loans with interest is evidence of that.
In my mind, that's an internal Chinese matter.

I don't want to devalue your experience, but Anglo powers have a terrible record of "colonialism for their own good", "we'll be greeted as liberators", etc.
Yes... just don't set it. I do have the annoying reminder but the app works anyway. I have restored from a previous Signal backup, maybe that matters.
If you have built a program in any other language I would say rewrite that program in GO. The benefit being you already solved the the domain logic of the program the only thing you need to focus on is writing/learning GO.

If this is your first programming language or attempt to learn to program I would say to just pick a small but simple app/program and just go ahead and build it. Don't spend too much time on reading articles or video tutorials just get your hands dirty as soon as possible.
It is very much still a monopoly for operating systems on personal computers (desktop and laptop). It's just that mobile phones have eaten a lot of the personal computer market so their overall power over people's lives has decreased because of that but it's still very significant.
Yes, I think the major challenge would be incentivizing quality moderators, who are essentially doing the job of an publication editor.
I hope people realise this sooner rather than later. No matter which side of the political spectrum you are on, it is clear that PC culture is making the world a worse place for everybody.

Telling people which causes they must publicly support or else be assumed an enemy? Does that ring any bells? I swear there's another regime in human history that made you hang flags outside your house to show your clear support. This comparison is made to death so I won't name it, but the similarities - despite accusations flying in the other direction constantly - are constantly increasing.

Removing TV shows from Netflix because somebody covered their face in black paint, with no regard for context or what was being made fun of it? (hint: it wasn't black people).

"Cancelling" somebody's career because their daughter said something that might be deemed racist? "Cancelling" somebody because they said something 10 years ago that might be racist? Absurd.

I honestly think our society is getting soft. You cannot disagree with somebody without them immediately deciding whether or not they can publicly shame you or if you broke any laws in the process of hurting them. Comedy is getting less and less funny, debate is increasingly meaningless because you have to tip-toe around everything. We are making society blander and less diverse in the name of diversity.

Diversity at all costs: except diversity of opinion.
I learned some things! Thank you. :)
I like that idea too. I wonder if people would be willing to pay for something like this. Maybe pay for a premium account that can comment, but everyone can browse.

This raises the barrier to entry already, and the money raised can go towards paying full time moderators / curators.
That’s just a less direct way of giving the money to individuals, with the benefit that it facilitates preserving pre-pandemic formal economic relations. The money is still ending up in the pockets of the workers.
> If you think fear from COVID-19 would not have crippled the economy, well, maybe we’ll get the opportunity to see if that’s true in some localities.

Two reasons to believe fear of the virus would not have, by itself, crippled the economy:

1. If people were that afraid they would have been sheltering in place before the government ordered them to do so, but they were not doing that, and they only started doing that when the government ordered them to.

2. The behavior of people after the lockdowns ended.
A 1950s proposal to nuke Alaska (2015)
QI is purely about civil suits.
Contractor Mindset vs. Homeowner Mindset
Because escape analysis isn't as powerful as it might seem. Indirect calls in particular can cause objects to be marked as possibly escaping, which matters a lot in languages like Java where most calls are virtual.
Against Creeping Adversarialism