skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My thought is it's because how HN was designed. It doesn't display images and videos, not even for the ads. Also the reply notification is minimal. When you got a reply, HN doesn't use a great effort to notify you. When you don't notice reply that much, you wouldn't reply to the troll that much. Replying to the troll doesn't yield any good outcome for you because troll just want to troll and not intended for a good argument.

In old Japanese 2ch forum, there used to be a saying "Ignore trolls" and if a person behaving bad, they were said, "Be ROM(Read-Only-Member) half an year." It was a wise word.

Also, the number of users is quite small compared to... say, Reddit.
I’m not sure it’s fair to characterise a change in circumstances as severe as what we’ve just been through, and the results of remote work, as a v0.9 beta. MVP feels fairer, and even that feels like a stretch for a lot of places.
IBM PC BASIC can be emulated through https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcbasic/ PC-BASIC to run classic BASIC programs.
A lot of the world still have to use RHEL 6b etc and don't have these tools available
This kind of message to employees doesn’t tend to go over well. I saw it at another company and the person in question had to walk back on the remarks.

Business doesn’t happen in isolation. Political and societal externalities are a part of it, this fact is right there in the first chapters of my introductory MBA textbooks.

Right now, the amount of general unrest has ticked up across the country, and believe it or not that includes unrest among gainfully employed professionals. Pretending you’re not a part of it is tone-deaf.

A good company will address external issues intelligently and use them as an opportunity to inspire and motivate employees, not scold them.

The CEO here is treating their employees like they’re being illogical entitled babies: an incredibly misguided response with no perceivable upside.

Not only that, he’s telling his employees that they’re on a sinking ship!

I tell you what, hire me to be your CEO and I can not do that for half the price!

The other takeaway of this article: I’m actually shocked to find out that New Relic loses money! The product is not cheap!
India is supposed to be an example. Families with extensive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagir holdings under the Mughals were apparently relatively easily convinced that their possibly de facto but definitely not de jure hereditary estates would be better protected under John Company, whose officers had grown up assuming de jure hereditary estate transmission.
I had no idea that you could still buy sassafras commercially, let alone that you could put it in things and sell those things commercially. The main constituent of sassafras oil, safrole, is 1. a direct precursor of MDMA, and 2. has most of the same effects, though less powerfully.

Original-recipe "root beers" and "sarsaparillas" used to contain sassafras oil; and it was the sassafras oil that lent them a lot of their unique flavor (and "uplifting quality" as a patent medicine, in an era when cocaine was a thing you'd find in a soda.)

The modern interpretations of both drinks, though—even from indie brewers going for authenticity—always exclude the sassafras oil. Much to the detriment of the flavor-profile of the drink: they're like decaf coffee with no replacement bitterant!

I always assumed that sassafras oil had just become a controlled substance in most countries. But maybe it was just the US where it's controlled, and nobody had been bothering to try to brew "authentic original-recipe root beer/sarsaparilla" anywhere else until now? (It would make sense, seeing as those drinks weren't really a thing anywhere other than North America, and so it's only really the US and Canada where people would show much interest.)

Good on this brewer for having enough faith in the Canadian indie beer market to brew something that very likely can't be exported to the US. Maybe it'll draw some US tourists to come north to try it, though!
GA Agency – Boutique digital marketing agency
How can you just tell it’s making money? Can you elaborate please?
This is amazing. Must have been a lot of work to make!
The modern word is "moral panic", and it's used just as effectively to destroy rivals as it was in times of old. The only difference is that we don't kill the losers anymore, but rather imprison, harass, fire, and bankrupt them. Anytime there's a moral shift (good or bad), there's an opportunity to co-opt it in order to remove rivals, and it works very nicely because all you need to do is sow seeds of doubt about someone if they happen to be in a vulnerable group, and then let the mob do the rest:

- Witch trials

- Reign of Terror

- Utah

- Lynch Mobs

- Prohibition

- Kristallnacht

- Wartime relocations

- The red scare

- The Dungeons & Dragons scare

- The war on drugs

- The war on terror

- The pedophile scare

- #metoo

- BLM

It's unfortunate about the last two because a lot of good came of them, but one must not let a moral shift go to waste.
It's OK to support Donald Trump.
First party cookie storage of identifier provided by ad network; Tracking of individuals via various fingerprinting techniques, IP address, screen size, CSS, UserAgent etc.
Real estate agents hate him!
You bring up an interesting point - if AMP hosting is the same as a CDN, then why do companies use both solutions? "Because they appear the same" doesn't mean they are the same.

AMP requires that you consume other Google products, which requires that additional JS is loaded. When your mobile site doesn't use AMP, Google limits SEO rankings your mobile site can have. Google AMP requires your pages meet Google's Content Policies or they won't host them.

AMP and CDN delivered pages are architected differently and Google imposes restrictions and requirements that don't exist in a CDN.
I dunno.

I think the solution space is extremely constrained.

What else is there for these devices other than some variation of rectangles and radii.

I swing the other way, I want more choices with greater variance.

If you want something rugged that won't fly out of your hand but also reasonably spec'd, your choices are limited.

Forget anything from Apple.

Ok, you can have a ruggedised case as a clip-on-around extra, but if you want a rugged case with bigger battery and a physical keyboard, forget it.

Today's designs are extremely limited, it's all just a scale of progressively more fragile until you're buying something that looks more like jewellery or a display-case item. Fine China even.

And! The goal posts keep moving. You look at new devices, find something you like and think "okay, I can probably afford a secondhand one of those from two years ago" - nope, doesn't exist.

And the same applies in reverse:

You like the device from two years ago, and are prepared to splurge on new: NOPE! They don't make that combination any more.

It's like a dystopian choose your own adventure.

You can choose from any of the following one bullshit option.

Maybe I'm just a malcontent.
> don't have to participate in this crap

It's a tempting Ponzi scheme.
That's not why Google (the corporation) wants this to happen. This is not about technical capabilities but about power.

They cannot be allowed to become the gatekeeper for the web.
It's very possible indeed.
You left off the second half of that tweet in your quote:

> but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!
wow, berkeley has a $70k online DS program??

Does your comment change re: stigma if OP was in fact talking about said berkeley degree?
https://fellowproducts.com/products/staggekg
There's a proof project taking place in the Lean theorem prover right now! I don't know whether the method is the same as that in the article (I'm pretty sure it's not).

https://leanprover-community.github.io/sphere-eversion/bluep...
> There are volumetric and weight-based ozs

That's a good point, the good old fluid ounce or "floz" as I would read it as a child. I did used to wonder who Floz was and what she'd done to deserve having her name in so many recipe books :)
maybe not witchcraft accusations per se, but im quite unsure how you can be aware of events occuring in the world right now and think that exploiting the current socioeconomic order to gain land and wealth is not done.
Negative feedback and dislike features can reduce engagement or drive people away, so social media platforms are incentivized to avoid such mechanisms.
I believe you might be misunderstanding the idea behind signed exchanges. To be clear, Signed Exchanges are how AMP should have worked all along.

example.com generates a content bundle and signs it. Google.com downloads the bundle and decides to mirror it from their domain. Your browser downloads the bundle from google.com, and verifies that the signature comes from example.com. Your browser is now confident that the content did originate from example.com, and so can freely say that the "canonical URL" for the content is example.com.

Malicious.org does the same thing, and the browser spots that malicious.org is blocked. At this point it doesn't matter if the content came from google.com, because the browser knows that the content is signed by malicious.org and so it originated from there.

Hope this helps clarify. Obviously blacklisting isn't a great security mechanism; my point is just that signed exchanges don't really open any NEW vectors for attack.
Many bottled beverages today are consumed largely because marketing convinces people they want yellow food coloring and brominated vegetable oil (Mountain Dew) as a source for sugar and caffeine. Other modern drinks are science-inspired products with b-vitamins and amino acids in addition to the old standby, caffeine. These provide the functional boost the old herbal beverages provided.

Before caffeine, amino acids, b-vitamins, et cetra, could be synthesized, humans got their performance-enhancing substances from plants: Kola, coffee, tea, coca leaf, etc.

I noticed this list of ingredients from the fine submission:

> The recipe calls for sassafras, sarsaparilla, hops, chamomile, cinnamon, ginger, green tea and molasses, said Belding. “I think it’s going to taste like a spicy root beer. [...]"

Wikipedia suggests most of these ingredients have properties beyond flavor:

Sassafras: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassafras#Traditional_medicina...

Sarsaparilla: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smilax_aristolochiifolia#Medic...

Chamomile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matricaria_chamomilla#Use_in_h...

Green tea (as a source of theanine & caffeine): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_tea#Theanine...

Cinnamon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon#Health-related_resear...

Ginger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger#Research

My comment on a previous submission on herbal beverages: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22958420
It's very different. And the difference lies in the URL bar. When you use a CDN, your visitors will still see your domain. With Amp, they see google.com.
Given how easy it is to create home made mask which is better then none, it is absurd.
Your friends sound like they probably believe that admission is a privilege - it's just that they also believe they deserve and have earned that privilege.
https://www.pscp.tv/w/1BRKjYOAEMpxw?t=3h34m3s
What will all those submissive publishers do once Google decides to monetize AMP by injecting their own ads with 0 revenue for the publisher?
>some property of the disease

it seems that only some share of people is susceptible to a given virus like covid, flu, etc. (for whatever reason, like some genetic characteristic or for example presence of antibodies from some other virus which happen to help here). Say for example half of the population, 50 out of 100. So once 20 people got it, there are 30 left to be infected while all the others - 70 - can't participate in the infection spread, and 70% is pretty close to herd immunity.

Add to that the estimates that herd immunity for covid can be even less than half https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-07-02/... - that would explain the infection rate drop in NYC.
Rape is a serious and terrible crime. Did these kids rape someone? Are you actually confused about whether that should be over the line? If you have to create a strawman with the very first sentence than what's there to discuss?

There's a difference between reckless speech when young and vile criminal actions. I already said that admittance can be revoked but it's the standard of character and the filter of morality that I'm questioning.

I don't see how this solves anything when you're taking a few posts that apparently now overrule the entire admissions process which you said was for determining character. So what's the point of the process then? Was it inaccurate? What about when the definition of offensive changes in 6 months? What about those who have no social media but are truly bad?

I'm afraid all I see is the overreaction to a political climate and, at best, trying to treat a symptom than actually approaching anything representing real issues.
Having the developers of an existing code rewrite it using a much newer language & environment they master, with the existing code working rather adequately (but hard to extend and with mediocre performances)... is pleasant and useful.

Having a smaller and under pressure team of newcomers w/o any knowledge of the underlying concepts tackling a rewrite while trying to understand and fix a clunky existing code is an ordeal.
Gitqlite: Query Git Repositories with SQL
1 person muted you however am bring retaliation toward assumed 1 person.

As in, muting is "safe" in the sense that aggressive person is not getting information and thus can't treat your mute as you being hostile. And abusive people would see mute as unfair hostility and would retaliate.
"This can be the next governments problem"
The place I went, quite a few years ago, now estimates undergraduate total costs (per year) of $25K, 60% of which is room and meals. That is, total tuition and fees is around $10K.

I don't really see the point of pointing to total costs and saying "look how expensive college is". You need food and shelter anyway.
FTR, My country's government is completely inconsistent. After voting yes to reopen EU's borders to select countries without quarantine, it immediately made an order forbidding tourists from extra EU areas and forcing quarantine upon everyone entering.
Google has already effectively become the address bar - people go to google.com to go to any other website. Now they are just solidifying it so that you don't even remember the url of a website after a while.
And I think they're just chasing local maxima. Over the long term, they devolve and people leave.
> instantly somewhere else in a completely unknown area of that orbital.

Mr Einstein may have a few words to say about that.
I started out with Basic on a C64, patiently entering the programs from the back of the manual.

In 9th grade we had to choose a company for work practice. I chose Oki, since I figured printers were close enough to computers to be interesting.

Turns out the task was burning EPROMs, basically pushing a button once every five minutes. Luckily, the computer controlling the burner had QBasic installed. I remember some of the employees looking over my shoulder and oohing and aahing while I was making time pass by writing code.

Fast forward 30 years and here we are. Haven't touched Basic since then but I've written substantial amounts of code in most languages out there. Even created ten or so of my own.

As much as I respect the guy; when it comes to Basic, Dijkstra was wrong. You have to start somewhere.
Lots of book recommendations here already, so a complementary idea:

Is it possible where you are to have your teenager attend maths lectures at a university as an auditing student?
Time to share this post one more time:

How to fight back against Google AMP https://markosaric.com/google-amp/

And the original thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21712733
Boulder at least is relatively well to do and has close economic ties to Denver, a lot of other college towns would be economically worse off if college stayed close. Lafayette Indiana (Purdue) and Athens Ohio (OU) come to mind, although there are others.
Safety razors are great, and actually much cheaper and gives better shaves than cartridges.

Plus it's just fun to use.
Fair points, although to your last point, I wouldn't necessarily agree it solves the problem well. AMP makes some websites almost unusable (intentionally disables core functionality) and there's no way to disable AMP except manually re-typing the URL for every page. If its goal is just to serve a smaller page, it is a rough workaround with high costs IMO (often slower loading times, weird performance issues, disabled functionality, less open internet).

I appreciate that not everyone has fast data, but not having data speed to read a basic web page is really becoming the exception, not the norm. Data transmission is getting cheaper and faster and available in more remote places every year.

I wouldn't have a huge problem with AMP if I could opt out. Unfortunately I can't. So despite my blazing fast unlimited plan on a flagship device, I'm getting served crippled pages with degraded performance. It's like I own a Ferrari kitted out with all the extras and Google is saying "here have you tried out this cool bicycle? It has special pedals so you can't go too fast and we reconfigured the handlebars so you don't accidentally do something like steering! It even has a bell. Ting-ting, ting-ting! How cool is that?"

In all seriousness, it is neat if it makes the web more useable for low-connectivity users, but maybe then limit AMP to those places (which are shrinking every year) and don't serve needlessly crippled pages when I'm standing in downtown Amsterdam or Hong Kong at the center of the internet, connected to blazing fast Wifi.
I was looking for a bedside alarm clock a few weeks back, and was prepared to spend serious money on it, but really there's not much and nothing of quality.

I got two clocks in the end: The Braun Digital (BNC008G), only meh, ugly display and a very weird user interface. You can literally turn the alarm off by accident easily when you turn on the backlight which seems like a blindingly obvious design flaw (this is for an item that self-proclaims "humanistic approach to design").

And the classic Casio TQ-140 which was incredibly cheap (£7 inc delivery). I'll likely keep buying the Casio every few years as the old ones break.
I tried to render a couple hundred thousand datapoints with Chart.js and it froze my browser. Will v3 make a meaningful difference? Don't get me wrong, I love chart.js. It's a great library.
It is ironic considering that 7 out of top 10 most used third party connections on websites are owned by Google.

So you can see why there must be some kind of internal struggle at Google. They understand the value of a faster web but they also cannot go after the main cause of the slow web. And this is how technology such as AMP gets invented and makes things worse.

https://markosaric.com/google-amp/
The assumption is that you can't see who muted you etc, which is already standard.

Those sort of people will get aggressive anyway when someone doesn't reply to their jabs. So you could use that to argue against any sort of mute feature in the first place.

The line has to be drawn somewhere and I think too many assume silence is assent, because many players are reluctant to speak up for fear of being targeted and this makes people feel that they have support for what they say. So have the game do it instead.
I just deleted my reddit account of 13 years.

Reddit has become overly toxic, and the premise of this article is definitely in effect on reddit. The trolls are winning over there.

HN was a sometimes-read for me, but now it's becoming a daily-read replacing reddit, because it's just less toxic here (I hope).
I read a recent article about witchcraft and it said that women were also persecuted for being independent and to resist Alisa the traditional patriachy.
The is the simultaneously the silliest and best solution to the problem I've seen.
I think they're calling him a crank because, among other things, he seems to believe supernatural beings built the Egyptian Sphinxes. Do you think we should study more carefully the question of whether humans created the Sphinxes?
Aquisition of Doubleclick, in my book, 2007, though Google ads preexisted that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoubleClick

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google#Advertising
Unless I'm missing something, the Amplituhedron is geometry over an abstract space and is just a clever way of simplifying calculations. Also, its proponents haven't yet been able to apply it to interactions that occur in our 3+1 spacetime, so far they've only applied it to toy models of physics.

Clever algebra is not what the Universe "does", and you'll find that 99.9% of the geometry or topology topics in theoretical physics are over abstract, high-dimensional spaces that are a couple of steps removed from the ordinary goings on at the particle interaction level.
> My mother who has severe issues maintaining her oxygen levels and has to be on oxygen while she sleeps wears a mask while she's out and about fine.

"It works for me" or whichever other anecdote is given to dismiss a valid complaint has never held any water and never will.

> If Japan can reach near ubiquitous levels of mask wearing without issues especially given their larger elderly population, I'm sure they'll be fine.

Masks aren't fun to wear, I was out in one yesterday in Japan and my wife, who is Japanese and has worn a mask long before this pandemic was a glint in a bat's eye, was complaining about being out of breath and uncomfortable.

They're well known for being uncomfortable even in the winter, and they have plenty of negatives beyond that.

Besides, if you saw the way people wore masks in Japan you'd never use it in an argument.
I wrote a toy (but working) implementation of the Bitcoin algorithm here: https://github.com/tlrobinson/tomcoin

The main logic is a few hundred lines of code: https://github.com/tlrobinson/tomcoin/blob/master/src/node.j...

A somewhat unique aspect is since it's written in JavaScript a node can run on the server or the browser, which makes for easy demos:

1. Open https://tomcoin.herokuapp.com/ and https://tomcoin1.herokuapp.com/ in two browser windows (the private key is stored in localStorage so using different domains ensures each gets a different wallet)

2. Click "Start Mining" on one or both nodes

3. Once you've mined some TomCoin (should just take a few seconds unless more people start mining) copy the public key from one node to the other's "publicKey" field, enter an amount, and click "Transfer"

4. Wait for another block to be mined and you should see the balances transfer

(There's no persistence so the chain will reset when all the Heroku nodes idle out and other nodes close)

(It also just uses WebSockets to connect to the instances on Heroku, or in theory other server instances people are running. I meant to implement WebRTC for P2P between browser nodes but never got around to it)
All of that being true, I would like to add that in pursuit of being rational and scientific, I would really like to know to what fraction of spread of virus is affected by any measure that we take (here: wearing masks, when we wear them or where we wear them). For me it's a matter of satisfying my scientific curiousity. Of course one shouldn't stop taking those measures seriously in that pursuit.
Did you mean to put this in a different thread?